text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Arab Soap Dramas and Voodoo Jews Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Arab Soap Dramas and Voodoo Jews Goto page 1, 2 Next Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message sundubumanJoined: 04 Feb 2003Location: seoul Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:15 am Post subject: Arab Soap Dramas and Voodoo Jews Voodoo Antisemitism in Saudi Arabia Journey with us now to the bizarre world of Middle Eastern soap operas, won't you? Today, courtesy of MEMRI TV, we have clips from a show titled "Stories from Before the Verses Came Down." Produced in Jordan and aired on Saudi Arabia's Iqra TV in February 2005, this soap opera chronicles the schemes of the Elders of Zion as they plot to destroy Muhammad. Today's episode is a freakish blend of voodoo and antisemitism, along with a bit of classic blood libel, as the evil Jewish sorcerers (wearing gigantic Star of David medallions and laughing maniacally, to help identify them) conspire to get rid of the upstart Muhammad by stealing some of his hair with the help of a Jewish servant boy, making a voodoo doll out of dough (we never see the doll because representations of Muhammad are forbidden), and piercing it with eleven needles. Yes, really. Back to top sundubumanJoined: 04 Feb 2003Location: seoul Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:17 am Post subject: here's an excerpt. you can watch at memri Voodoo Jews Pierce a "Dough Muhammad" with Needles in Jordanian-Produced Soap Opera The following are excerpts from the Jordanian-produced soap opera "Stories from before the Verses Came Down", which aired on Iqra TV during February 2005. Labid: Great sage, I see you have joined forces with Satan and his sorcery. Huyay: I am willing to bow before him and even worship him if he gets rid of this Muhammad for me. Labid: Relax, Abu Safiya, Relax. You've got what you wanted. No one can resist or reject my spells. Huyay: I want to see, Labid Ibn Al-A'sam. Let my see it with my eyes, not just with words. Labid: When Labid promises, he delivers. Kinana: We hope so, Labid. We hope so. Labid: Bring me a lock of Muhammad's hair, and make me a statue in the shape of Muhammad out of dough. Take this comb and get Muhammad to use it. Huyay: Dough we have, since food is abundant in Jewish homes. But how can we get the hair, Kinana? Kinana: This is where our hypocrites play a role – or our young Jewish boys. They will comb him with this comb and bring us his hair. Huyay: You are right. Now I remember – we have a young Jewish boy who works for Muhammad. He is a smart boy. Kinana: Let him bring us the hair. Labid: Off you go. Finish your work. Huyay: Get on with it, Ibn Al-A'sam. We've got what you asked for. Kinana: Here is the comb with Muhammad's lock of hair. We kept it safe. This box contains the statue in the shape of Muhammad. Labid: Well done. Well done, Jews. Now you've fallen into our hands, Muhammad. Now that you are in the hands of the Jews, we shall see whether there's a god protecting you. Kinana: What are you going to do, holy man? Labid: What will I do? You will see what I'll do. Muhammad will regret the day his mother gave birth to him. Huyay: Can a Muslim fall into the hands of Jews and survive?! Kinana: You don't have to teach us who we are, uncle. Labid: This is what I have in store for him. These are eleven needles. This needle goes into his heart. Huyay: Ouch! You hurt me in the heart! Labid: This one goes in his right eye. This one goes into his left eye. This one goes into his liver. And this one goes into his leg. Kinana, bring me the comb and the lock of hair. We should thread each hair through a needle and then tie them in a knot with this string here. Now we have eleven knots. Kinana: Could you explain what you did, so we can understand? Labid: I've appointed a demon to protect each knot. I have gathered them from all corners of the earth. Huyay: And how will this help, Labid? Labid: If Muhammad is a sorcerer, he will know we cast a spell on him. He might be able to untie one or two knots, but no more. Kinana: And if he unties them all? Labid: It is impossible with sorcery. Impossible! Kinana: Why? Labid: Because I will bury it myself in an abandoned Jewish well called Be'er Dharwan. Huyay: Well done, Labid Al-A'sam. Labid: Where are you going, Jews? Kinana: Anything else, Labid? Labid: The most important thing – the dinars. The dinars for my work, Jews. Huyay: We thought you were giving it as a present to the God of Moses. Labid But I deserve it more than the God of Moses. Huyay: By God! If I did not know the strength of your spells and powers, you wouldn't have seen a single dinar from me. Kinana: Uncle, I think that the greatest demons are afraid of you, because they can learn from you. Huyay: I want to see the results of your actions, Labid. Labid: You will hear and see them, Huyay. Back to top mithridatesJoined: 03 Mar 2003Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:29 am Post subject: Is your opinion just as strong regarding Cowboys and Indians movies? The only thing worse than this drama you've brought up is one dramatizing what you've done after nearly wiping out an entire race. Back to top sundubumanJoined: 04 Feb 2003Location: seoul Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:47 am Post subject: WTF?? The idiotarians on this board are funny. Mein Kampf is a best-seller in most Arab countries. Recently Palestinian TV aired a sermon by a cleric calling for the destruction of the Jews. And Arab TV constantly broadcasts such dramas designed to incite hatred towards Jews and Israel. And when the next generation of young Arabs straps on bombs and blows up Jews, you'll probably be able to twist your intellect and contort your conscience so that you'll be able to lay blame on Israel. Back to top sundubumanJoined: 04 Feb 2003Location: seoul Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:49 am Post subject: and again, Mithridates, you exhibit the leftist's typical need to find moral equivalancy (anti-semitic shows DESIGNED to incite hatred EQUALS Comboy and Indian movies)....why not have some tea with Irene "gitmo+gulag" Khan. The solution to problems is just so easy if you can simply yin and yang yourself into a moral equivalent stupor of stupidity. Back to top mithridatesJoined: 03 Mar 2003Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:53 am Post subject: Sorry, I'm not on the left. The only time I've ever voted was conservative. Also, I plan to live in Israel for a few years in the future, my best friend in junior high was a jew who lived on a kibbutz for a few years, and I plan to learn Hebrew as soon as I'm able to. Satisfied? Back to top dogbertJoined: 29 Jan 2003Location: Killbox 90210 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:10 am Post subject: You know, when I see sundubuman's co-ethnics let their sideburns grow long and curly, wrap paper boxes on their heads and bob back and forth before a brick wall while crying, I think that's just as bizarre. Back to top sundubumanJoined: 04 Feb 2003Location: seoul Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:25 am Post subject: mithridates wrote: Sorry, I'm not on the left. The only time I've ever voted was conservative. Also, I plan to live in Israel for a few years in the future, my best friend in junior high was a jew who lived on a kibbutz for a few years, and I plan to learn Hebrew as soon as I'm able to. Satisfied? well then, you should be extra concerned then about the hate TV broadcast in the Arab world. For you might become of victim of such hate. Question to Dogbert.... if Germany were to broadcast such openly anti-semitic fantasies (vooddoo dolls of Muhammad??) would you be concerned?? Or do you not expect much of Arab broadcaster??? How about KKK programming in Alabama???? anti-Korean dramas in Japan??? Back to top mithridatesJoined: 03 Mar 2003Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:35 am Post subject: I am concerned, actually. I told the kids at the hagwon downstairs today that I didn't approve of their Japanese-killing game they were playing on the computer, and I would tell any Arab in one of those countries the same thing if they were having fun watching a tv show that portrayed Jews that way. On the other hand, I don't see it as a mark of civilization or lack thereof, which is why I pointed out that we enjoy tv shows and movies that are just as bad. The only difference is that the natives portrayed in those western movies have almost all been wiped out and don't really have much of a voice left to oppose them. That's what makes them easy to ignore. Back to top jaganath69Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject: Yep, Saudis I have met have been very anti-semitic. I always tell them what I think of their ranting and walk away. Back to top mithridatesJoined: 03 Mar 2003Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject: All the funnier considering the fact that Arabs are semitic. Back to top Leslie CheswyckJoined: 31 May 2003Location: University of Western Chile Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject: mithridates wrote: All the funnier considering the fact that Arabs are semitic. Not to get yer goat, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism The term anti-Semitism has normally referred to prejudice towards Jews alone, and this was formerly the only use of this word for more than a century. It does not traditionally refer to prejudice toward other people who speak Semitic languages (e.g. Arabs or Assyrians). Bernard Lewis says that "Anti-Semitism has never anywhere been concerned with anyone but Jews."[1] (http://middleeastinfo.org/library/lewis_antisemitism.html) However, in recent decades some people have argued that the term should be extended to include prejudice against Arabs, since Arabic is a Semitic language; these arguments are commonly made in the context of accusations of Arab anti-Semitism. Though this usage has not been widely adopted, one example is this October 16/17, 2004 statement by Ralph Nader in Counterpunch: "There is, as you always ignore, aggressive anti-Semitism against defenseless Arabs in many places in the world..."[2] (http://www.counterpunch.org/nader10162004.html) Some question the usefulness of applying the term more generally to all semitic groups on the basis that there are few instances of prejudice against both Arabs and Jews to the exclusion of other races or nationalities, and in fact many more instances of antagonism between Jews and Arabs than of a specific bias against both groups together. Lewis writes "the term Semite has no meaning as applied to groups as heterogeneous as the Arabs or Jews." And, as has been pointed out by Neil J. Kressel, "In any event, nothing is gained from applying the anti-Semitism label to anti-Arab discrimination, abhorrent in its own right, except to confuse matters and take attention away from anti-Jewish hostility" [3] (http://www.ainsof.com/urgent.htm). James Zogby argues, however, that both Arabs and Jews have been subject to the same prejudice and uniformly treated by Western society as alien and hostile, viewed as prone to conspiracy, and seen as usurpers of Western wealth and threats to Western civilization. Zogby draws parallels between political cartoons depicting Jews as the fat grotesque banker and Arabs as the obese oil sheik. He argues that efforts to counter anti-Semitism must be broadened to include the "other anti-Semitism" so that the same outrage displayed toward anti-Jewish bigotry will occur for anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotypes. [4] (http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj9811&article=981112) Despite the use of the prefix "anti," the terms Semitic and Anti-Semitic are not antonyms. To avoid the confusion of the misnomer, many scholars on the subject (such as Emil Fackenheim of the Hebrew University) now favor the unhyphenated term antisemitism. Yehuda Bauer articulated this view in his writings and lectures: (the term) "Antisemitism, especially in its hyphenated spelling, is inane nonsense, because there is no Semitism that you can be anti to." [5] (http://humwww.ucsc.edu/jewishstudies/docs/YBauerLecture.pdf), also in his A History of the Holocaust, p.52) An alternative term, "Judeophobia", stands for fear or irrational hatred of Jews. It was invented by Leon Pinsker and first appeared in his 1882 pamphlet Autoemancipation (text). As a professional physician, Pinsker preferred the medical term because he was convinced that pathological, irrational phobia may explain this ancient hatred: "Judeophobia is a variety of demonopathy... this ghost is not disembodied like other ghosts but partakes of flesh and blood, must endure pain inflicted by the fearful mob who imagines itself endangered... To sum up then, to the living the Jew is a corpse, to the native a foreigner, to the homesteader a vagrant, to the proprietary a beggar, to the poor an exploiter and a millionaire, to the patriot a man without a country, for all a hated rival." Back to top mithridatesJoined: 03 Mar 2003Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject: Yeah, it's one of those words that doesn't mean exactly what it should. Kind of like marriage, depending on the country. Doesn't that come from the Latin word for husband? I heard once that the word 'cleave' is the only word in our language that has two meanings, diametrically opposite each other. Back to top turtlepi1Joined: 15 Jun 2004Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject: And oddly enough, being "anti-Christian" or "anti-'Jewish'" goes against Islam. The Qur'an identifies these as special people. Another reason why a secular threat (Bush, Britain and Israel) end up overcoming religious dogma. Back to top bigverneJoined: 12 May 2004 Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 2:17 am Post subject: Quote: being "anti-Christian" or "anti-'Jewish'" goes against Islam. Whether being 'anti-Christian' or 'anti-Jewish' goes against Islam depends which part of the Koran you choose to quote. Unfortunately, the verses of the Koran that were revealed to Mohammed at a later date, 'abrogate' the earlier verses, and these later verses are far more violent, intolerant and discriminatory than earlier ones. Quote: The Qur'an identifies these as special people. Only in respect that they are spared the fate of idolaters such as Hindus and Bhuddists, who face a choice of conversion or death. Moreover, they are not accorded equal rights in Islamic law, but a subservient existence of dhimmitude, whereby they may not practice their faith publicly, must pay a special tax (jizya), and even wear special marks on their clothes to differentiate them from muslims. Now what does that remind you of? 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The Lipscomb Lady Bisons volleyball team placed two players on the 2006 Atlantic Sun All-Tournament Team. Senior opposite hitter Lindsey Rutherford from Hendersonville, Tenn., and senior libero Ann Mullins from Nashville were both voted to the squad by the conference coaches and Sports Information Directors.
During tournament play, Rutherford recorded 27 kills with only 6 errors in 51 attempts for an attack percentage of .412. She also had 16 digs. Mullins was credited with 42 digs.
Rutherford's accomplishments this season include:
•Atlantic Sun All-Tournament Team
•All-Atlantic Sun Conference First Team
•Two-time Atlantic Sun Player of the Week
•All-Tournament Team at Magic City/Music City Invitational Tournament
•Only second player in school history to break 1,000 marks in both kills and digs.
•3-year captain
Mullins, a senior with another year of eligibility remaining, had the following accomplishments:
•Atlantic Sun All-Tournament Team
•All-Atlantic Sun Conference First Team
•All-Tournament selection at Magic City/Music City Tournament
•Ranked 11th nationally in NCAA Division I in digs with 6.16 per game
•Leads Atlantic Sun in digs with 647, an average of 6.16 per game
•Holds school record for digs, all-time
In the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament, the Lady Bisons beat Mercer 30-26, 30-23, and 30-21 in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, Lipscomb lost to eventual tournament champion Belmont 30-26, 30-23, and 30-24. The Lady Bisons finished the season with a record of 14-17.
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The Texas Rangers released OF Ruben Sierra Jr. from the team's minor league camp Wednesday, March 28. The team also cut P Cody Evans, P Jorge Marban, P John Meloan, 1B Clark Murphy, OF Efrain Nunez, OF Kendall Radcliffe, INF Jonathan Roof, OF Orlando Sandoval and P Fabian Williamson.
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Critics say Bass Pro owner builds stores with taxpayer helpBy SETH LUBOVE
Bloomberg News
June 15. 2013 3:17AM
The Bass Pro Shops store in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., is little more than an hour's drive from Santa Monica, a West Coast enclave known for its anti-gun rallies and vegetarian cafes.
It might as well be on another planet. In this 180,000-square-foot, cathedral-like structure, shoppers can buy a Remington Varmint Rifle - $569.99 with a $50 rebate - grab a National Rifle Association flier by the door vilifying the state's Sen. Dianne Feinstein for her effort to ban assault weapons, or order a 12-ounce New York strip steak from the adjoining restaurant.
The architect of this shooter's paradise is John "Johnny" Morris, a media-shy Missourian who became a billionaire stitching together shopping outlets for multiple outdoor sports and adding a touch of entertainment to the mix, often using local taxpayer funds to expand his empire.
"It had been a very fragmented market, with a lot of independent retail shops catering to firearms, hunting and fishing," said Sean Naughton, a vice president and senior research analyst who covers the consumer sector for Minneapolis-based Piper Jaffray Cos. "All these categories that consumers like to do, but there wasn't a national chain."
Since founding Bass Pro Shops in 1972 in his father's Springfield, Mo., liquor store, Morris has expanded to 58 superstores, with 20 more on the horizon, including one in Hooksett expected to open in November. The company makes a variety of fishing boats and house apparel brands, and controls a chain of full-service restaurants inside the stores.
He broadened the entertainment offerings with Uncle Buck's Fishbowl & Grill ocean-themed bowling alleys, named after a beloved uncle whose moniker also adorns a house brand of candy and jerky scattered along the aisles.
According to a November 2012 report by Moody's Investors Service, Bass Pro has annual sales of at least $2.6 billion. Morris, 65, owns the majority of the closely held company, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings, after buying back a 28.5 percent stake from private equity firm J.W. Childs Associates in 2004 and a 13 percent stake from Gaylord Entertainment Co. three years later.
Bass Pro Shops is worth at least $2.6 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, based on the average enterprise value-to-earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and enterprise value-to-sales multiples of two publicly traded peers: Cabela's Inc., which offers an almost identical selection and store format, and Coraopolis, Pa.-based Dick's Sporting Goods Inc., which is entering the fishing and hunting business with Field & Stream branded stores.
Enterprise value is defined as market capitalization plus total debt minus cash. Morris has never appeared on an international wealth ranking, and has a net worth of at least $2.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
"Bass Pro Shops could only have happened in America - the home of the free enterprise system that rewards things like hard work, value, innovation and genuine friendly service," the billionaire said in a hand-written note sent to Bloomberg News. "Being included on your list is not my favorite thing, but then again things could be worse."
The company disputed its valuation.
"Bass Pro's financials are and always have been private," the company said in written responses to questions. "Any valuation of the company by outsiders is nothing more than speculation from people with no first-hand knowledge of Bass Pro Shops."
Bass Pro's critics complain about the company's practice of accepting municipal subsidies to build megastores in their communities, often with the understanding they would create jobs or increase tax revenue. (Such subsidies were not a factor in Bass Pro Shops coming to Hooksett. The retailer plans to move into the vacant Lowe's building off of Exit 10.)
The Public Accountability Initiative, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based research group, estimated in a 2010 report that Bass Pro-anchored retail projects had won more than $500 million in taxpayer subsidies.
Another watchdog group, the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity, based in Alexandria, Va., estimated in August 2012 that Bass Pro and its closest competitor, Sidney, Neb.-based Cabela's, received or were promised more than $2.2 billion from taxpayers over the prior 15 years.
"Far from being surefire, Disney World-type attractions, Bass Pro stores often fail to spur growth and do not produce outsize economic advantages for the cities that subsidize their arrival," the Public Accountability Initiative said in its report.
"For more than 40 years, Bass Pro and our team members have worked in partnership with the communities where we have stores to create jobs, grow the tax base, increase tourism and support local charitable causes," Morris said in a statement sent by Dan McGinn, a company spokesman. "We believe in old fashioned values and we work hard to be good community partners."
Bass Pro was sued in 2011 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which accused the company of discrimination against blacks and Hispanics in its hiring. While Morris isn't named as a defendant, he's accused in the complaint of condoning the hiring practices.
According to the third amended complaint filed in federal court in Houston on April 15, out of 14,374 employees hired during the EEOC's administrative investigation, only 995, or 6.9 percent, were black. Only 8.4 percent, or 1,207, were Hispanic. Its investigation period ranged from 2005 to 2009, although it varied for certain stores.
The company denied the allegations in its formal answer to the EEOC's complaint, and accused the agency of trying to coerce it into a settlement, according to a letter from Bass Pro's attorneys filed in May as part of the case exhibits.
"The company forcefully denies the allegations by the EEOC," Bass Pro said in its statement to Bloomberg News.
In contrast to the EEOC's portrayal of him, Morris comes across in rare print interviews and fishing videos on the company's website as folksy and avuncular, often dressed as if he'd just come off the dock with a stringer of Bluegills.
Morris graduated from Springfield's Drury College in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in business and economics. He got into retailing when the local discount store wouldn't stock the lures and other angling gear he needed for his attempt at becoming a professional bass fisherman. He rented a U-Haul trailer, stocked up on $10,000 of equipment, and persuaded his father to let him convert an 8-foot-by-8-foot section of the family's Brown Derby liquor store into a tackle shop.
Morris branched into mail-order catalogs in 1974, catering to fishermen who wanted to restock their tackle boxes when they returned home from the nearby Ozarks. Four years later, he introduced the Bass Tracker - fully rigged, ready-to-fish aluminum boats, complete with motors and trailers. His Tracker Marine Group now owns brands that include Nitro, Sun Tracker pontoons, Tahoe, and Mako saltwater boats, all sold inside Bass Pro stores.
The billionaire's idea for a supersized store came in 1981, after buying a building with 80,000 square feet of retail space - barely half the size of his typical outlet today. He didn't know what to do with the extra space until a visit to the Freeport, Maine, headquarters store of retailer L.L. Bean, which inspired him to add aquariums, mounted-trophy collections, waterfalls and other curiosities.
"The difference between Bass Pro and other traditional retailers is the destination aspect," said Kristina Koltunicki, a credit analyst at Standard & Poor's. "It's really a family event. There's an entertainment aspect to it."
Morris has attracted critics since at least 2002, when municipalities, taking note of Bass Pro's value as a destination and source of sales-tax revenue, began offering him - or the developers building his stores - incentives to locate in their area. In 2006, a smaller competitor, St. Paul, Minn.-based Gander Mountain Co., initiated a public campaign against the subsidies used to lure Bass Pro and Cabela's.
In Buffalo, Bass Pro was poised to receive subsidies of $35 million to build a store in Canal Side, a 20-acre historic area, according to the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. After nine years of talks, the company pulled out in July 2010, following the Public Accountability Initiative report and a lawsuit filed against the company and municipal agencies by a group of citizens complaining about the subsidies.
"It's sort of funny because they had had a lot of success in the local media in getting their story out," said Kevin Connor, director of the Public Accountability Initiative.
Bass Pro said in its statement to Bloomberg News that because of "development challenges," it gave up after spending $1 million in a good faith effort to locate in Buffalo.
The criticism was revived this year in Florida's Hillsborough County, where commissioners debated whether to spend $6.25 million on road improvements to attract a Bass Pro store to Brandon. They approved the deal in February, despite complaints by small businesses that a larger competitor was being subsidized by the government.
"There have been a number of false and misleading reports, which the company believes were promoted to some extent by competitors, regarding public support for projects where Bass Pro stores are included," Bass Pro said in its statement. The company said its stores contribute to the creation of jobs, increased sales taxes and property values.
The incentives debate is of little concern to shoppers at the Rancho Cucamonga Bass Pro, an outlet that, along with the building's landlord, will collect municipal payments of as much as $1.1 million a year, according to city financial documents. The company said it pays "multimillion dollars" in annual rent, and made a "substantial" investment to open the store.
On a recent weekend day in May, diners dive into breaded alligator and the Bass Pro Burger at the 11,090-square-foot Islamorada Fish Company Restaurant, while gazing at an 11,000 gallon saltwater aquarium behind the bar.
Inside the cavernous main store, visitors gawk at separate 35-foot and 24-foot waterfalls that splash into a 24,000-gallon aquarium stocked with bass and local fish, all surrounded by stuffed mule deer, coyotes, black bears, Desert Big Horn sheep and other taxidermic trophies.
For hunters, there's the gun counter on the second floor, where they can pick up a Beretta A400 Xtreme shotgun or a box of Hornady Zombie Max Certified Zombie Handgun Ammunition.
And for shoppers who get hungry, Morris even provides a fudge shop, featuring chewy praline, coconut bon bon, rocky road and other confections.
It's all a sweet deal for Johnny Morris.


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Family:Big sister Acacia, baby brother Jackson, Mom Shannon and Dad
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Tip for Living Small with Kids: The motto, "keep only what you know to be useful and what you believe to be beautiful" is very important when designing small spaces... this is especially true when it comes to toys. I am a big time believer in less is more.
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What was one of the biggest challenges you faced in putting together this room? 1. We rent and didn't want to paint the walls.
2. We needed the guest bed and Acacia's big girl bed to have matching duvet covers. I bought two twin size ones and sewed hers to fit.
3. This room was for a 2 year old girly girl, a 4 month old baby boy, and a guest room when our family visits.
4. We were on a VERY tight budget (... like don't spend any money if possible). The crib was given to us, the changing table was a goodwill find, the wheat field picture was taken by a friend of mine, the awesome wheat duvet covers are from Ikea, I've had the trunk since college, the bench/chest was a gift, and the barn nightlight was an ebay score, I painted the tree mural to copy the one in the bedding using old wall paint.
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Stephen J. Gaies, director, UNI Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, 319-273-3870, firstname.lastname@example.com
Lindsay Cunningham, Office of University Relations, 319-273-6728, firstname.lastname@example.com
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – The University of Northern Iowa's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education (CHGE) will sponsor the traveling exhibit "Who Am I? Young Minds Forced to Choose," at the Stephen Hempstead High School Media Center in Dubuque, located at 3715 Pennsylvania Ave. The exhibit will be on display from Monday, March 19, through Friday, March 30.
"Who Am I? Young Minds Forced to Choose" tells the compelling true story of young Jehovah's Witnesses who were quickly thrust into a political firestorm of Nazi propaganda. Against the tide of coercion and terror, these youths took a firm stand of conscience, oftentimes facing severe reprisals, despite their age. The exhibit, designed by the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, is an effective tool to assist educators on how to address contemporary student issues, such as bullying, gang prevention and prejudice.
"We are proud to be sponsoring and to have Rod Library hosting this exhibit and are confident it will have the same positive effects that other schools and libraries have seen in young people to understand and respond to challenges facing their generation," said Stephen J. Gaies, director of the CHGE. "We anticipate that UNI students, as well as members of the public, will be inspired by these accounts, that they will view as positive role models the young Jehovah's Witnesses who resisted the persecution of the Nazi regime, and that most of all, they will see the value of standing up for what they believe."
It will continue traveling to other Iowa schools through the end of April 2012. For viewing information, contact the Stephen Hempstead High School at 563-552-5200.
For more information about the exhibit or the UNI Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, contact Stephen Gaies, director of the CHGE, at 319-273-3870 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Information is also available at www.uni.edu/chge.
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation, based in Karben, Germany, began in 2002 and is dedicated to the history and story of Jehovah's Witnesses during World War II, who also suffered intense persecution and reprisals by the Nazis because of their religious stand. The foundation fosters understanding and education worldwide of the experience of Jehovah's Witnesses during that time, and highlights how their strong faith helped them to endure, even though they had the ability to seek relief by signing a declaration recanting their beliefs. For more information, visit www.alst.org.


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Located in Illinois. A scant 45 minutes from Chicago, it's still possible (and a frequent night-long activity) to whine about having nothing to do. The world's largest collection of country-club goers and stuck up teens. Within a three-mile radius, one has ample oppurtunity to drive around and buy an overpriced mediocre coffee and somehow get arrested while doing it. Home of Glenbard West highschool, (which holds a record of the most stairs to climb while traveling from class to class) as well as the much less snobby and much less talked about Glenbard South High Scool. "Downtown" Glen Ellyn is home to some of the most hardcore partiers in the state.
The rich girl is angry with mother because she will not lend her 70 dollars for her weekend expenses.
by Yea April 25, 2005
A town where you can find some of the most retarded drivers in the U.S, all of them on cell phones. While the majority of the town is wealthy, there are a few non-wealthy un-incorporated areas labeled by Glen Ellyn kids as "Bufu".
"Where do you live?"
"I live in un-incorporated Glen Ellyn"
"Whats that"
"Its near Lombard"
"Oooooh, you live in Bufu"
"I live in un-incorporated Glen Ellyn"
"Whats that"
"Its near Lombard"
"Oooooh, you live in Bufu"
by Shniff May 07, 2005
Glen Ellyn is the most BORING town to be in. unless you are a druggie, emo, or a "Glen Ellyn Rebel" AKA skater, then life here sucks. The high school Glenbard West, has too many stairs and in debt because the parents of kids in Glen Ellyn rather pay for the Coach purses for their daughters rather than the few extra tax dollars.
Ugh. i moved to Glen Ellyn a few years ago from Chicago and Oak Park and lemme just say: it's a tad different. no excitement.
by KateDUB May 04, 2005
buy the domain for your pet site
Glen Ellyn true is a snobby rich subarnite town, and yeah the cops are kind of crazy and yell at people because they walk around in the streets but who knows, there are some crazy emo kids here though, but then preps are in control and glenbard West now has no money, so i recommend you don't move here.
me: I'm moving to Glen Ellyn
woman: Wow did you get alot of money Glen Ellyn is soo expensive
me: ohh well.. my house is pretty small...
woman: Wow did you get alot of money Glen Ellyn is soo expensive
me: ohh well.. my house is pretty small...
by hmm... guess who?! May 03, 2005
i live in glen ellyn and must say 90% of the people here are totally spoiled and stuck up. there are a few exception though like me and my gf. the best part about glen ellyn is just walking around cant get you arrested. trust me i know. GH!
by Mr.Dan May 02, 2005


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March Madness: Using Game Theory to Win the Office Pool
Of the tens of millions of people who will exchange about $2.5 billion during March Madness, only a few will know any game theory. But those few will be rewarded with more than their share of the pool.
It's just two weeks until Selection Sunday, the official kickoff to March Madness. Throughout the United States, no office work is performed the following Monday and Tuesday, only fevered activity filling out bracket selections in office pools.
This activity is illegal everywhere except Montana and Vermont, and even in those states many versions violate the letter of state or federal law, not to mention the rules in most employee handbooks.
On the other hand, as far as I know, only Rick Neuheisel has suffered significant penalties for participating in a March Madness bracket pool, and only North Carolina seems seriously interested in stamping them out. The last seems odd since North Carolina schools have won two of the last three and nine of the last 30 tournaments, so you'd expect the state to be good-natured about things.
On Tuesday, March 13, all eyes turn to Blackburn Court in Dayton, Ohio, for the opening games of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament. The University of Dayton is a friendly Catholic University, in Middle America in all of the good ways and none of the bad. The place is basketball-crazy, and the outsiders who show up are basketball-crazy-squared.
Everything is arranged for the comfort and enjoyment of basketball fans, rather than the separation of those mental deviants from their money and the worship of fake celebrity. The eight teams competing are roughly the 61st to 68th best men's college teams in the country, which means you get high-quality and higher-spirited basketball, far from the corruptions of big-time college and professional sports.
The games are competitive and unpredictable - sport, not the sportainment business. I can't deny the excitement and pageantry of a Final Four game in a big city with the president in a box and a rock star/supermodel couple in the next row having their sightlines blocked by NBA hall-of-famers, with future NBA stars wrestling on the floor under the direction of $10-million-a-year coaches, but over the years I've had more fun, and tons more fun per dollar, at the First Four in Dayton.
Over the 20 days from March 13 to April 2, culminating in the championship game in the New Orleans Superdome, lots of basketball will be played. More important, tens of millions of people will exchange about $2.5 billion, mostly among friends and co-workers. Only a few of these people will know any game theory, but those people as a group will be rewarded with more than their share of the pool.
If none of this makes sense to you, here is a quick primer that contains all you need to know for this article. The NCAA Men's Basketball tournament is a single-elimination affair (one loss and you're out) that selects a champion from the 68 invited teams.
Since each game eliminates one team, that means there are 67 games. The tournament begins with the "First Four," four games among eight teams to reduce the number of teams to 64. Those 64 teams are divided into four "regionals" of 16 teams each, and the teams are "seeded" from 1 to 16 in each regional (the committee organizing all of this actually ranks the teams from 1 to 68, but only the seed within the regional is made public).
In the first round in each regional, the 1 seed plays 16, the 2 seed plays 15, and so on. In the second round, the winner of the 1/16 seed game plays the winner of the 8/9 seed game, the winner of the 2/15 seed game plays the winner of the 7/10 seed game, and so on until each regional has a single winner (four rounds). These four winners meet in the "Final Four" games, two rounds to determine a champion.
There are many ways to bet on these games, but by far the most popular is to fill out predictions for all 67 games before the first one is played. This is called a "bracket pool," and there are many online sites to take care of the bookkeeping for you.
There are also many scoring methods. The most popular is to award one point for every correct first round or First Four pick, two points for every correct second round pick, and so on up to six points for correctly picking the overall tournament winner. Another system, that used to be the most popular, is just to count the number of correct picks. I'm going to use the latter for examples in this piece, for simplicity. The same game theory principles apply to all versions.
An important feature is that you must pick the winner for each slot before the tournament begins. For example, suppose Baylor as the No. 3 seed in the East regional plays Oral Roberts as the No. 14 seed in the first round. The winner of this game will play the winner of the game between the No. 6 and No. 11 seeds, perhaps Florida.
Baylor would be a solid favorite in both games, perhaps an 80% chance against Oral Roberts and 70% over Florida, and about a 75% favorite in the second round game if Florida lost to the No. 11 seed, say Long Beach State. Therefore, you might pick Baylor to win both games.
Suppose, however, that the Golden Eagles of Oral Roberts put together a furious offensive performance anchored by Dominique Morrison's 40 points to edge Baylor in the first round. Your second-round pick of Baylor is now worthless, as are picks of Baylor in any later round. By itself, this isn't a big problem because most people will have picked Baylor in these two games, so you may not lose much ground.
But if you had taken a flyer and picked Baylor to win the regional, this single first-round loss would probably eliminate you from contention in any reasonably large pool because you lost not just the one point for the first round, but nine additional points for the second, third, and fourth rounds. On the other hand, someone who correctly picked Oral Roberts in the first round makes only one extra point. Correct picks only help a little, but key incorrect picks can hurt a lot.
OK, time for game theory. As you may recall from my earlier articles, game theory is the modeling of uncertainty as choices by rational actors, rather than random events like coin flips, or anything else. Game theory is just a model, as is probability theory and other alternatives. It is not reality. We use it if it helps us win more bracket pools, and not if it doesn't. Whether its assumptions are realistic is irrelevant, only whether it is a useful tool.
The first place we might apply game theory is to predict the outcomes of individual basketball games. Generally, game theory is useful when outcomes are not zero sum. For the most part basketball games are zero sum, one team wins and one team loses. However, that's not entirely true.
Coaches and players make systematic deviations from the strategies they should pursue if all they cared about was maximizing the chance of winning each game. For examples, coaches underuse three-point shots, and top players shoot too much.
If a team wins with a lot of three-point shots and a low shooting percentage, people think the coach is lucky and the players are good; while if a team wins through methodical, elaborate plays leading to lay-ups, people think the coach is a genius who has coaxed victory out of a bunch of plodders. Therefore, the coach's career interests are served by insisting on a playing style that maximizes the credit he gets rather than the team's chance of success. Similarly, top players will do better in the professional draft with good total statistics, like total points, than with good efficiency statistics, like field goal percentage; and individual statistics count more than team success.
However, the size of these deviations from optimal play is limited by the zero-sum considerations. A coach has to win, not lose, and that's more important than how he wins. A player has to please his coach to get playing time and the professional scouts to get drafted; and both mean trying to win, not just pile up stats. Thus we see the bias against three-point shots fading every year, and also the emphasis on total production rather than efficiency.
These sorts of game theory considerations matter in microscopic analyses of individual games and especially for proposition bets like the total number of three-point shots or whether a certain player will get a triple double. However, they don't matter enough to affect NCAA bracket picks because, as we shall see, individual game predictions are not the most important aspects to filling out a good bracket sheet.
The next place you might think to use game theory is in figuring out which bracket selections are likely to produce the most points. There are many different scoring systems. Some of them award selection of upsets; for example, by adding points for the seed of the winning team. In other systems, you have to pay more to select highly seeded teams. Some pools weight picks differently or put constraints on picks. Many pools ignore the First Four games. Some pools allow you to change picks after a team loses, or allow your picks to "inherit" slots (for example, if Oral Roberts beats Baylor in the first round and you picked Baylor in the second round, that pick would switch to a pick of Oral Roberts in the second round).
If the point of the contest were to maximize total expected points, any rule variation would have a big impact on strategy. But in most pools the goal is to have the most points, or among the top points if there are prizes for runners-up. Both pretty good scores and terrible scores get zero payout. While it's important to understand the scoring rules of your pool, it will not figure deeply in your selection analysis.
This is a difficult point to explain without mathematics, so I am going to try with an analogy. It's a bit involved; you have to pay careful attention. But it's worth it because it is the secret to gaining advantage in March Madness pools.
Suppose we had a contest to guess the location of the first baby born in the continental United States after the ball drops in Times Square at midnight, January 1, 2013. Each entrant guesses a location (latitude and longitude), and the guess closest to the baby's birthplace wins. Level-one thinking ignores what everyone else will do and just picks based on likelihood. In this case, this means picking the location of a large US maternity hospital.
Level-two thinking means assuming everyone else will do level-one thinking. Get a map of the US and mark your guess on it. Now draw a line between your guess and the largest maternity hospital. Draw a second line at right angles to that line intersecting at the midpoint between your guess and the hospital. Paint everything black on the map to the hospital size of that second line. Now do the same thing with other large maternity hospitals you think other people will pick.
When you're finished, the location you picked will be surrounded by an irregular shape made up of line segments, with everything outside of it black. If the first baby is born inside the nonblack region, you win. The key point is the baby need not be born anywhere near the location you picked. You don't care how many babies are born within a short distance of your pick; you care how many babies are born within the large (hopefully large, anyway) area for which your location is closer than any location picked by anyone else. The best level-two choice might be some nearly uninhabited region far from any major metropolitan area. You can win if the baby is born in any rural area, town, or small city within a large geographic area. The level-one thinkers can only win if the baby is born in their hospital, and even then they may have to share the prize with others.
Game theory goes one step further. Instead of assuming everyone else is a level-one thinker, it assumes everyone else thinks through infinite numbers of levels. Thus everyone will be selecting locations based on the number of babies born in the region that location will command, and everyone will know everyone else is selecting the same way.
The analogy to NCAA bracket picks is level-one thinkers will make selections that are likely to happen. As a game theory thinker, you realize that the likelihood of your picks being 100% correct is irrelevant. What matters is the total likelihood of all possible outcomes for which your bracket selections are the closest of anyone's in the pool.
The crudest level-one thinker will pick the higher-ranked team in every slot. The higher-ranked team wins about two-thirds of the time in the March Madness tournament, so the probability of getting all 67 games exactly correct this way is about two-thirds to the 67th or 1 in 628 billion, about the same chance of winning the 59/35 Powerball one week from one ticket and then dealing yourself five cards from a well-shuffled deck and getting a full house.
Actually, the chance of a zero-upset NCAA tournament is about 1 in 20 trillion due to the variation of individual game odds around two-thirds. That is like winning the Powerball then dealing a straight flush in one attempt. And if you make these selections, and use up many lifetimes of luck getting every game to go your way, you may well share the prize with others who did the same thing.
But unlike the person who picks only favorites, you don't have to get all or almost all of your picks right to win. In fact if everyone else in the pool makes safe selections, you will often win as long as more than half the slots are upsets. The probability of that is about 1 in 100; 34 or more upsets is far, far more likely than zero upsets (remember, we expect about 1/3 of the 67 slots to be upsets, or about 22 upsets, and 34 is closer to 22 than zero is).
"Upset" refers to a slot, not a game. In the example above, Baylor would be the favorite to win the second-round game. But if Oral Roberts beat Baylor in the first round, but then lost to Florida in the second round, the second-round game would not be an upset; Florida would have been the favored team. However, Florida as a second-round winner would still be an upset from a bracket perspective because Baylor was the favorite for the second-round winner slot.
Unfortunately, in pools with more than 100 people in them, there are likely to be enough savvy pickers that selecting all upsets will not be a winning strategy. You're also vulnerable to level-zero thinkers, people who pick lots of upsets not because they're smarter than everyone else, but because they're dumber. Maybe they have no idea who the favorites are, or even what probability means, or don't care about winning, or pick based on loyalties or team names or dreams or anything else.
So far we have figured out that it's not smart to pick all favorites, and it's not smart to pick all upsets. You undoubtedly knew those things before you started reading, but perhaps you had not thought through precisely why they are true. Now that we've discussed reasons, we are in a position to answer the question of how many upsets to select. Clearly it's related to the number of people in the pool. With only one other person, all favorites is the best choice. With a very large number of people you can only win with a lot of luck, meaning an unusual outcome, meaning a lot of upset picks.
There is one other important consideration, however, one that is less susceptible to mathematical analysis. Game theory can derive an exact solution on the assumption that everyone else is a game-theory optimal player. But that will be very far from the truth in most pools. Instead we are better off guessing how most other people will pick, rather than solving for their optimal strategies. We will also assume there are a few other savvy pickers -- you know better than I how many there are likely to be in your pool.
But don't be fooled by the basketball experts or even the sports betting experts. They're likely to waste effort on guessing individual game results. Also don't worry about most quantitative experts; they're likely to be modeling the bracket-game rules. Other than the few game theory thinkers in the world, the dangerous players will be the shrewd people with a lot of experience in these pools. They may not know why their strategy works, but it does work.
You are not in competition with these smart players. You are all trying to win money from the rest of the pool. To do it, you need to stay out of each other's way. I'm going to assume there is no collaboration involved. This means you will have to randomize your strategy in a way I will describe later.
Rather than approaching this from the top down, let's do it from the bottom up. Suppose you have filled in your entire form except for one game. That last game will only make a difference if the best other entrant in the pool has either the same score as you, or is up or down by exactly one point. That, in turn, likely means that most of your other picks are correct. This is important.
Suppose, for example, that you had picked Oral Roberts to beat Baylor and Florida to beat Long Beach State in the first round. Now you are considering whether to pick Florida in the second round. Without knowing who won the first round, you might think Florida has about a 40% chance of being the second-round winner. But assuming your first-round picks were correct, Florida has about a 75% chance of beating Oral Roberts. It's the latter probability that's more relevant, since if your first-round picks are incorrect, you're less likely to be in contention anyway.
If you knew you were one game behind the other player, you would want to pick the opposite of her pick, regardless of the odds of the game, since that's the only way to tie, which is the best you can do. If you knew you were one game ahead of the other player, you would want to pick the same as her, since that guarantees victory. Again, the game odds don't matter. If you knew you were tied with the other player, you would want to pick whichever outcome has higher probability, regardless of what she does.
In any reasonably large pool, the chance of you being one game behind the best other player has to be greater than your chance of being tied, and your chance of being tied has to be greater than your chance of being ahead. This is because there are lots of other players, so the best of them is likely better than you. Let's assume the chance is 60% than you're one game behind, 30% that you're tied, and 10% that you're one game ahead. Further, let's assume that you know the other player will pick the favorite for this slot.
If you also pick the favorite, you have a 30% chance of tying and a 10% chance of winning, for a total value of 30%/2 + 10% = 25%. If you pick the underdog, and the probability that the underdog wins is p, you tie if you're behind and win or ahead and lose. That probability is 60%*p + 10%*(1-p) = 10% + 50%*p. You win the pool if you're tied before the last game and your underdog pick wins. That probability is 30%*p. So your overall value is (10% + 50%*p)/2 + 30%*p = 5% + 55%*p. This is larger than 25% if p > 20%/55% = 36%. So in this case, you pick the underdog if it has at least 36% chance of winning, and the favorite otherwise.
Of course, we don't know all the probabilities above to solve each game exactly, but we don't need to. All we need to know is that in a pool where people heavily pick the favorites, we should pick all the underdogs above some minimum probability of winning. That is, we want the least surprising upsets; we want the underdogs in the closest games. We can set the probability threshold by considering the number of people in the pool. I use a rule of thumb that I want to win one time in the square root of the number of entrants, so one time in 10 in a pool of 100.
I further assume I win if more than half of my upset picks win. That works out to something like picking 40 upset slots, with an average chance for the underdog of about 40%. The sheet might look something like assuming the No. 3 through No. 8 seeds in each regional all lose in the first round, all the No. 2 seeds lose in the second round, but that every other game goes to the higher ranked team among those that compete.
However, there is one key assumption above that we have to relax. We assumed that the other player always picked the favorite in each game. In fact, most players pick some upsets, and are much more likely to pick close-game upsets than huge upsets (for example, no No. 16 team has ever beaten a No. 1 seed in 108 chances, so almost no one picks a No. 16 seed). What we really care about is not p, the probability of the underdog winning, but f*p where f is the chance that the other player picks the favorite (we assumed above that f=1, so only p mattered).
While we don't know what f is, we can sort the games into broad categories. In about one-third of games, the underdog has a 40% or better chance of winning, in about a third it has between 30% and 40%, and in a third it has less than 30%. In about one-third of the games, the favorite will be picked over 85% of the time, about a third it will be picked between 70% and 85%, and about a third under 70%. We want to pick our upsets that are first in both categories, but these are rare. If a game is reasonably even, a lot of people will tend to pick the underdog. So most of our upset picks will be top in one category and not bottom in the other.
A good choice is a game in which the favorite is a big, well-known school that has often been successful in the past, and the underdog is obscure but very competitive this year. Also look for favorites that are local or have national followings. Stay away from underdogs that have been tipped as potential Cinderellas, or were Cinderellas in the past few years, or are local or popular, or have a star player. However, you're going to need a lot of these games so you can't be too choosy. As long as the underdog has a decent chance and there is no obvious reason for nongame-theory players to pick it, you should add it to your set of choices.
While we don't know the brackets yet, some good underdog choices in 2012 are likely to be Drexel, Akron and Belmont - assuming that your office is not near any of these schools and it is not populated with their alumni. Avoid schools like New Mexico, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, West Virginia, Florida, and Cincinnati (that is, don't pick them to upset anyone, and pick them to be upset). Some good schools to pick to exit early are Florida State, Indiana, Louisville, Creighton, UNLV, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Connecticut, and Temple, especially if you work with their fans.
Some sleepers to pick for Sweet Sixteen or Elite Eight are Texas, Murray State, and Long Beach State. Kentucky is probably too good to bet against in any round unless your office is in Kentucky, in which case you might pick it to lose in round one and make every other game a favorite pick. But you need a large pool to make that profitable. Otherwise, there's not much difference between the likely No. 1 and 2 seeds, so picking the other three No. 2 seeds for the final four could be good strategy.
If there were no other sophisticated players in your pool, you would just select your upsets in order of attractiveness based on highest f (probability that others will select the favorite in this game) times p (probability that the underdog will win). However, you also want to put some distance between your picks and those of other smart people. Since there aren't many smart people (unless you work in an office full of them, in which case you're all going to get so rich that you don't need the money from winning the March Madness pool), don't work too hard on this. Also, you get some distance due to different estimates of the attractiveness of various games. Nevertheless, it makes sense to randomize a bit, put in a few marginally unattractive upsets and leave out a few marginally attractive ones.
I described a method above to set the total number of upsets. Pick a target probability of winning (I use one over the square root of the number of entrants) and pick enough upsets so that probability equals the chance of at least half of your upset picks winning. This will generally lead to far more upsets than most people pick, maybe 20 in a small pool (10 to 50 people), 40 in a medium-sized one (50 to 250), and 60 in a very large pool (more than 250). Remember that "upset" refers to slots, not games. So 60 upsets doesn't mean the underdog wins in 60 out of 67 games, but that the team occupying 60 out of the 67 slots is not the highest seed that can get to that slot.
For example, if you pick the No. 2 seed to win a regional, that is an upset pick, even though you may have the No. 2 seed playing the No. 4 seed in the regional final. Also, remember that all probabilities are estimated assuming that your other picks are correct, since unless most of them are correct, you're out of contention anyway.
There is one last secret to winning, the most important of all. Go to some games, if at all possible from where you live, and watch the rest with friends. Don't wait until the Final Four to get interested. Sure there's drama and great play at the end, but it's 10 times the pleasure if you've watched each team in four previous games and have come to know the players. The greatest thing about March Madness is someone who hasn't watched a minute of college basketball all year, or read a word about it, can experience the full measure of it over three weeks.
Oh, and win a little money from the people you work with, too.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The No. 70 Bulldogs rolled to a 6-1 victory over Army Sunday on the road to improve to 2-1 on the season. Yale won the doubles point and five of six singles matches to secure the victory.
Yale won all three doubles matches to win the doubles points. At No. 1 doubles, sophomore Joel Samaha and freshman Marc Powers won 8-4. Sophomore Erik Blumenkranz and junior Jordan Abergel won an 8-3 decision at No. 2 doubles. At the No. 3 doubles slot, freshmen John Huang and Daneiel Hoffman defeated their opponents 8-4.
In singles play, the Bulldogs won five matches in straight sets. Playing No. 1 singles, Powers rolled to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Lucero. Huang cruised to a 6-2, 7-6 victory at No. 2 singles. At the No. 4 singles slot, Hoffman defeated Holland 6-3, 6-4. Blumenkranz won in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 at No. 5 singles. Playing No. 6 singles, senior Matt Schimmel rolled to a 6-3, 6-1 win over Clark.
Next weekend, Yale will host the ECAC Indoor Championships at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center. In this tournament, the Bulldogs will have the opportunity to see how they stack up against Ivy League competition.
Complete Results
1. Samaha/Powers (Y) def. Lucero/Albornoz (A); 8-4
2. Blumenkranz/Abergel (Y) def. Johnson/Holland (A); 8-3
3. Huang/Hoffman (Y) def. Clark/Shelton
1. Powers (Y) def. Lucero (A); 6-1, 6-1
2. Huang (Y) def. Johnson (A); 6-2, 7-6
3. Albornoz (A) def. Samaha (Y); 4-6, 6-4, 10-6
4. Hoffman (Y) def. Holland (A); 6-3, 6-4
5. Blumenkranz (Y) def. Shelton (A); 6-1, 6-3
6. Schimmel (Y) def. Clark (A); 6-3,
Report Filed by Steven Horn '10, Yale Sports Publicity


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Most likely, you have a general idea what toxins are. We often hear things described as being "toxic," and we understand that this is bad, potentially damaging, and perhaps poisonous. Toxins can cause, worsen, or accelerate many health problems in people and pets. But many of the toxins that can profoundly affect our own and our pets' health are hidden, and we may be unknowingly contributing to the load of toxins we and our pets have in their bodies. While toxins are bad for us, they can be even more devastating to our pets for several reasons.
First, pets are generally much smaller than we are, with smaller organs of elimination (e.g., liver, kidneys, lungs). When exposed to toxins, their bodies have to work much harder than ours do to eliminate them. Second, pets have a shorter life span. They don't have the luxury of time that we have for their bodies to eliminate toxins as gradually. Also, our pets can't talk to us to let us know when something in their food or their environment is making them feel sick. They can't switch their own food or decide to stop using a household cleaner that irritates their sinuses or lungs. Since we control our pets' environment, they rely on us 100% to reduce toxins they encounter.
So what can you do to minimize the toxins in your pets' lives and help them eliminate the toxic load they have in their bodies? Before tackling the specifics of how to help your pet with detoxification, lets take a brief look at what toxins are, where they come from, and how they affect cats and dogs.
Toxin Tracking
Toxins get into your pet through several means. Some get into your pet through accidental ingestion. Outdoor toxins like weed killers, pesticides, automotive exhaust & motor oil, and chemical road or sidewalk de-icers get into our pets when they breathe them in, eat chemical-laden grass, lick dust or residue off their paws or fur, or absorb them through their paws. Other environmental toxins arrive the same way from cleaners, air fresheners, laundry products and other chemicals used in the household. More toxins can be directly ingested in your pet's drinking water, in commercial food and treats, and in the over-the-counter or prescription medications they take. And finally, some toxins (e.g., ammonia) are produced within your pet's body, either through their own metabolic processes or by microbial activity, most often bacteria and/or yeast in the GI tract.
"Our pets' wild counterparts have very efficient toxin elimination systems that have developed over centuries to handle the natural toxins they encounter, but our domesticated pets are bombarded daily with an overwhelming number of toxins, most of which their bodies have not had enough evolutionary time to adapt to."
The Ill Effects of Toxins
In a healthy body, toxins are rounded up and eliminated quickly through the organs of elimination (liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, and skin). Our pets' wild counterparts have very efficient toxin elimination systems that have developed over centuries to handle the natural toxins they encounter, but our domesticated pets are bombarded daily with an overwhelming number of toxins, most of which their bodies have not had enough evolutionary time to adapt to. In the short run, our pets' bodies react to toxins as ours do - the immune system ramps up processes like inflammation, mucus production or diarrhea to help the immune system's army of cells resolve the problem and purge the offending "invaders" from the system.
When the body is overwhelmed with too many toxins, it is forced to store them until there is an opportunity to eliminate them at a better time. For many pets, the better time never arrives, and toxins can accumulate indefinitely, where over time they can cause symptoms like lethargy, fatigue, and/or proneness to infection. Ultimately toxic overload can impede the work of your pet's immune system to the point where cellular abnormalities like tumors and cysts may form, and other serious health conditions may develop as cells degrade and organ function is impaired.
The good news is that for most pets, their bodies are remarkably well-equipped to handle disease, eliminate a reasonable amount of toxins, and restore their own organs and body systems to health - with your help. When a natural diet with adequate nutrients, rest, exercise and joy are part of their daily experience, your pet may be capable of a level of health you never thought possible. Below are our suggestions, many of which can be found in these excellent books by top holistic veterinarians:
Fifteen Steps to Detox Your Pet
Keep in mind that as the body is eliminating toxins, it is not unusual for there to be a brief "healing crisis," in which a cat or dog may develop symptoms like a runny nose or changes in bowel function or appetite. Such symptoms should subside in a few days. As always, observe your pet closely when you administer any remedy, stop any remedy if symptoms develop that concern you, and consult with a holistic veterinarian for appropriate guidance. Please see our article, "
Remedies to Your Companion," for additional suggestions.
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In the 1950's, the living Marilyn Monroe seemed part kewpie doll, part vixen. In the feminist 70's and 80's, the dead Marilyn was seen as a victim of patriarchy, while the postfeminist 90's reinvented her as a not-so-dumb blonde who used her power shrewdly.
And the glamorous movie star, who once seemed frozen in place in Andy Warhol's 1960's silkscreens, has since been refrozen as a lost soul by Elton John's icky song "Candle in the Wind," with its saccharine opener, "Goodbye, Norma Jeane." When a life becomes so encrusted in myths that the person behind them can barely be glimpsed, critics start analyzing the myths.
That approach is put to eye-opening use in Sarah Churchwell's astute new overview of the shifting Monroe images, "The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe" (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, $26) and in Lucasta Miller's dazzling, engaging recent book, "The Bronte Myth," just published in paperback (Anchor Books, $15). As Ms. Miller points out, Charlotte and Emily Bronte were first known as the authors of the scandalous "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights," and their reputations have been sifted over endlessly since.
What these books get at is not some truer version of Monroe or the Brontes, but the distorting power and the social meaning of the myths themselves. Look at how glibly "Candle in the Wind" was refitted for Diana, Princess of Wales -- another lived-fast, died-young blonde -- and you can see the cookie-cutter nature of the imagery peeking through.
Studies of a person's cultural images have long been common in academic writing. But these recent books are jargon-free and meant for a mainstream audience, much like Janet Malcolm's "Silent Woman," her influential 1993 study of how Sylvia Plath's legend took hold.Continue reading the main story
And if it seems as if usual suspects like Plath, Monroe and the Brontes have formed some tragic pop-culture sorority (along with Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald) there is a reason so many myth-shrouded figures are women.
As each book reveals, their subjects' shifting images are projections of precise social moments. Because women's roles have changed so drastically over the last century, each cultural turn can create a dramatic new view of the subject's life. In charting the evolving images of the Brontes or Monroe, these books also become smart social histories.
Although Ms. Churchwell is an academic (an American who teaches at the University of East Anglia, in Britain), her book is terrifically common-sensical, exposing the circular logic and laughable sourcing of the many Monroe biographies. She counts more than 60 books, as well as 40 films, 20 plays, 10 novels and an opera. Most of them, she says, reinforce "what we believe not what we know."
Ms. Churchwell is especially perceptive about why Monroe was so disquieting in the 50's, when Playboy published titillating nude calendar photos she had posed for years before, yet called her "natural sex personified." She says, "America wanted Marilyn's open sexuality to seem natural and innocent, but couldn't quite convince itself that it was."
She points out a devastating similarity between Norman Mailer's fetishistic 1973 "Marilyn: A Biography" and Gloria Steinem's 1986 rescue mission, "Marilyn: Norma Jeane." One book sees her as a sex object and the other as a feminist object lesson, but both treat her condescendingly, as a vessel for the writers' own ideologies.
And she notes that the persistent Norma Jeane/Marilyn split is wrong-headed. The innocent Norma Jeane, the supposedly "true self" who became the Hollywood product Marilyn Monroe, is herself a mawkish stereotype.
Iconographies always imply their own biographical views, of course. Ms. Malcolm's book became a justification of Plath's much-attacked husband, Ted Hughes. And Ms. Churchwell's version of Monroe emerges long before an epilogue offers what she calls "my Marilyn." She sees Monroe not as a personal failure but as a professional success. That may be a useful corrective to the pre-feminist conclusion, which she defines as, "She was rejected sexually, and died," alone on a Saturday night. (The circumstances surrounding Monroe's fatal, probably accidental drug overdose at 36 remain murky, but many biographers dwell on their belief that Robert F. Kennedy had just broken off an affair with her.) Ms. Churchwell's rosy view ignores too much of Monroe's obvious confusion and unhappiness, but that doesn't mar the refreshing sense that her book has torn away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories.
Ms. Miller unveils the Brontes' with the same bracing clarity. And perhaps because she is a literary critic, her book also becomes a compelling plea to value Charlotte, Emily and Anne's work above their biographies. After all, in a world of shifting images their novels and poems are the enduring constants.
"The Bronte Myth" reminds us why "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" were once so shocking. In the 1840's, desire in women seemed disreputable even when described in romantic, metaphorical terms, as it was in the Brontes' work. Charlotte soon set out to prove that she and her sisters were respectable, and in presenting herself as a meek parson's daughter may have overplayed the martyrdom. Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell's 1857 "Life of Charlotte Bronte," published just two years after Charlotte's death and less than a decade after her sisters', created a gloomy, enduring melodrama that Ms. Miller wittily sums up as, "three lonely sisters playing out their tragic destiny on top of a windswept moor with a mad misanthrope father and doomed brother."
The shocking nature of the Brontes' novels quickly faded, but the overwrought images solidified, often conflating the writers' personalities with simplistic views of their heroines': Charlotte must be the proper Jane Eyre and Emily the wild woman roaming the heaths of Wuthering Heights (in her soul if not her actions). During the Victorian era, the prim Charlotte's popularity was highest among the sisters, but in the 20th century she lost ground to the rebellious Emily.
Meanwhile, Hollywood was doing its worst, ignoring Heathcliff's sadistic, vengeful side so he could become the romantic hero Laurence Olivier played in "Wuthering Heights" in 1939, and taming the willful Jane Eyre into the simpering governess played by Joan Fontaine in 1944.
No one paid much attention to poor Anne. As Ms. Miller points out, her novels are not artistically as great as her sisters' (though they are extraordinarily good), but in their time they were the most socially rebellious of all, especially "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," whose heroine runs away from her alcoholic tyrant of a husband.
Beyond their tragically early deaths, something more important unites the Brontes, Monroe and other legendary women: how easily their lives can be made to fit fairy tale motifs. Ms. Churchwell notes that Monroe has often been seen as Cinderella, Norma Jeane transformed into a movie-star princess, although she argues Monroe is more like Snow White encased in her glass coffin, a beautiful, desirable corpse. Ms. Miller points out that the Brontes are often linked to the three sisters motif running through fairy tales, "Macbeth" and beyond. All this mythmaking points toward a profound longing for what these books tell us we can never have: a coherent story about a life that answers all questions for all time, a goal as illusory as any fairy tale quest.Continue reading the main story


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Mayor's proposed Manchester city budget faces public hearing tonightBy BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 31. 2013 10:37PM
MANCHESTER - School spending advocates say they will make their case for more money for education when Mayor Ted Gatsas' proposed city budget faces a public hearing tonight.
The hearing before a joint meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and Board of School Committee is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Manchester Memorial High School.
Gatsas and the school board are required by city charter to submit budgets that meet the city's tax cap spending limit.
The mayor's 2013-14 budget proposal allocates $138 million from taxes for municipal departments and $155.7 million for the Manchester School District.
School Superintendent Thomas Brennan has also sent a higher "school approval" budget of $159.5 million to aldermen.
That package is aimed at keeping school programs and staffing intact in light of rising costs.
"It is not enough," said Jim O'Connell, president of Citizens for Manchester Schools. "It will not get the schools to a place where they need to be."
O'Connell's group claims the school approval budget would merely keep the city from failing to meet the state's minimum standards for public schools.
"Nobody in the city has produced a budget that describes the amount of money needed to run the school system," O'Connell said. "It is completely ludicrous in a city like Manchester that no public representative has asked for the number that is how much we need to run the schools, rather than the minimum we need so that we will not be out of compliance."
O'Connell said the budgets don't consider the potential impact of negotiations with the Manchester Education Association on a new contract for city teachers.
"We worry about the reality," he said. "We will have another year of large reductions in force and reductions in offerings in our school district."
Manchester schools are expected to lose 23 teachers to retirement or resignation in June. The school approval budget would allow those positions to be filled, along with hiring 41 additional teachers.
Under the tax cap budget, the city would replace nine of the 23 teachers who are leaving; no new positions would be filled, according to Brennan.
The spending increase authorized under the tax cap for the 2013-14 fiscal year is 2.17 percent of last year's budget. The school approval budget would boost that to 4.67 percent.
Approved by the voters in 2009, the tax cap limits increases in city spending to the average increase in the cost of living over the three previous years, plus taxes from new construction through March 31.
Overriding the tax cap would require getting the votes of 10 aldermen - during an election year.
Citizens for Manchester Schools has federal tax status as a charitable organization, and is barred from becoming involved in electoral politics.
But O'Connell said individual members of the group may band together in a separate organization to take a role in next fall's city election.
"We may or may not pull the trigger on that, but we hope to be active in picking candidates to support and oppose," O'Connell said. "I could not see a circumstance where a serious candidate for the Board of Mayor and Aldermen or School Board would seek office and not have as their first priority a sense of urgency for the city's educational process."
The proposal is packaged with the mayor's proposal to borrow $2.8 million to pay for technology upgrades in city schools.
In the coming fiscal year, the city must absorb almost $5 million in costs shifted to the local property tax from the federal and state governments.
The state passed along $4 million in pension costs.
Expiration of federal grants used to hire police officers and firefighters means property taxes also must pay more than $800,000 to fund those positions.
Tonight's hearing was scheduled at Memorial High School because of the size of the crowd that attended last year's hearing.


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Political doctrine of constitutional law under which the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) are kept separate to prevent abuse of power. Also known as the system of checks and balances, each branch is given certain powers so as to check and balance the other branches.
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In the first chapter, we've already run into a question of word order. Number 18 is an English to Greek sentence. It is You ought not to praise me.
We've come up with:
Nōn mē dēbēs laudāre.
Nōn dēbēs mē laudāre.
Mē laudāre nōn dēbēs.
Are either of these possible? Is there a difference? Does it matter?
The text itself doesn't give an example of dēbeō with both a complementary verb and a direct object.
Any help would be appreciated.


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BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) — An SUV surged forward from a parking space into a small crowd waiting outside a Los Angeles-area ice cream parlor, killing a 73-year-old woman and leaving six people injured.
The sport utility vehicle, driven by an elderly man, rammed into people outside Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour on Friday night, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said. The restaurant is in Buena Park, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Witnesses said the SUV lurched forward, hitting a small fence and running into those sitting and standing between the vehicle and the restaurant.
"It looked like the guy put his foot on the gas pedal instead of the brake," Daniel Long, who was eating with his family inside, told KCAL-TV. "There were three people sitting on that bench — he just went straight into them and crushed them up against the window."
Television news reports showed a silver Suzuki XL7 halfway in a parking space in front of the building, with its front end shoved over the fence onto a walkway.
Orange County coroner's officials on Saturday identified the victim as Marisa Malin. She was sitting on a bench outside the restaurant when she was struck and became pinned beneath the SUV. She died at the hospital.
Five people were hospitalized; a sixth person was treated at the scene for minor injuries, Concialdi said. Malin's 13-year-old granddaughter was among the injured, Concialdi said.
The SUV driver and a female passenger were not hurt, police Cpl. Andy Luong said.
Police questioned the driver, who cooperated and was not immediately cited, Luong said.
"When he got out of the car, he seemed to be a little bewildered," Farrell's CEO Michael Fleming told the Orange County Register on Saturday. "He just had this look about him, like he knew he had done something."
The cause of the crash was under investigation.
Farrell's is a chain of restaurants with decorations designed to recall century-old ice cream parlors. Its website says servers dress in "pin-striped vests, old fashioned ties, and cane hats."


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Is it not immoral to force kids to go to school?
where they are more then likely to get humiliated,
physically and mentaly abused, and opressed? (the list can go on)
i do not know how it is in other countries - in israel there is a law that obliges everyone to send their children to school.
the answer is clear to me, but i want to hear other opinions.
i believe it is not moral - and that it is a systematic and legitimate violation of the basic human rights.


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Hello people!
How are you doing?
I have a question for you. Probably it's silly but I can't stop thinking about it! Lol
So here it is. I have seen a picture taken from Bruce Almighty that shows Jim (Bruce) with a futebol shirt and Jen(Grace) with some papers. It seems to me like they are watching futebol, probably Bruce's favourite team.
The problem is that I have the DVD of the movie and I cantt find that scene anywhere! It's not in the deleted scenes and it's not part of the movie. I wouldn't even know it existed unless they use the image in the back of the DVD and also I have seen it here.
Can anyone explain to me what the hell is happenning? Is it a scene of the movie that I totally miss out? I have seen the movie many times so I dont really believe that but still...Where's that photo from?
Thank you for you time and help
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REL 227 (EV, TH; 4th Sem Lang Req) Paganism: The Religions of Greece and Rome (1)
The Hellenistic era was a period of extraordinarily rich and diverse religious activity. Greek and Roman religious traditions met and mingled, Judaism was transformed by its encounter with the Hellenistic world, and Christianity was born. This course examines the religious life of the Hellenistic world, including the great temples and their gods, the imperial cult, local and family-oriented practices, magic, philosophy, mystery cults, Gnosticism, and more. Students should have basic familiarity with the history of Greece and Rome, 300 B.C.E. - 300 C.E.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Examining Values, Thinking Historically; Fourth Semester Language Requirement (Greek and Latin)
- Offering: Alternate Falls
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We have minions?! Why didn't I get one?
This legislation would bar damages and awards of attorney's fees to winning parties in Establishment Clause cases. It would, for the first time ever, single out one area protected by the First Amendment and prevent its full enforcement. This prohibition would apply to all Establishment Clause cases, including those involving illegal religious coercion of public school students or blatant discrimination against particular religions.
This means that even when we win in court, we would still have to pay for our costs. Without the threat of having to pay attorneys fees or damages, there is no reason for school districts or other government entities not to push the envelope and enact blatantly unconstitutional policies. Why wouldn't another school board with a similar mind set as that of the old Dover board try to require the teaching of intelligent design? The worst that could happen would be they'd have to stop. The ACLU and other groups like us would have to greatly reduce the number of cases we can take, if we don't receive attorneys fees for the cases we win. (Just for the record, the Dover case cost over $1 million to try.)
But the people this would most hurt would be our clients, often times people who have had to risk the censure of their community to stand up for their rights. (By the way, the American Legion has referred to our clients as "mascot plaintiffs." Tell that to Tammy Kitzmiller and company.)
The other side has repeatedly tried to frame this as the "anti-ACLU bill" or the "defund the ACLU bill." Here's what the bill's sponsor, Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) had to say:
"Because of PERA, Americans will have the opportunity to fight the systematic agenda of the ACLU and their minions to remove the vestiges of our religious heritage in this nation," Hostettler said in a written release after House passage. "Patriots will have their day in court."
Wow. Even more incredible is the disingenuous description of PERA Hostettler has on his website:
H.R. 2679, The Public Expression of Religion Act (PERA) is a bill inrtoduced [sic] by Congressman Hostettler that allows "establishment clause" cases to have the opportunity to be heard before a court of law.
PERA allows Americans to defend the symbols and expressions of our nation's rich religious heritage in the sunlight of a courtroom before a judge rather than being settled outside the boundaries of America's legal system
Last time I checked, these cases already had the chance to be tried in a court of law.
I have to end this post before my blood pressure shoots any higher.
Sara in Philly