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|August 19, 2010 10:15:20 PM UTC
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Being a huge ratt fan my whole life I am very depressed after reading the latest stephen pearcy interview on noisecreep. Many bands would kill for the amount of support ratt fans give this band and to have a huge album as good as infestation at this point in there career is almost unbelievable. Bobby should never have released his book until the band was completly over. The single Eat me up alive without a question should have been the first single and has now been released on radio which should help sell more albums. Lost weekend for some reson is not being played live and that is a huge mistake . That is a great song and people need to hear that one. What I have a hard time understanding is the amount of time and effort it must have taken to make this record and also to get this band back together. You guys have come to far to quit on this tour and on this record. You may never get this chance again to do this at this level. You guys need to have a meeting right away and fix this problem. All I ever read is the problems are complex. I think it is simple . You have fans out there that love your music and a great album to support. Find a way to get along and stop cutting each other down. Each member of this band is equally important to this bands success.
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|August 19, 2010 11:32:03 PM UTC
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damn straight!
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|August 25, 2010 3:21:58 AM UTC
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hell yeah
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Rob fray
|August 28, 2010 7:37:31 PM UTC
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I see that I am not the only Ratt fan that is blown away by hearing things are going sideways in the ratt camp again.just after they release their best album in 25 years , i havent read a single negative article about investation. other 80s bands release new material and its sucks. motley crue, Guns and Roses , I could go on and on. Ratts Investation is the best release by any of the Los Angeles bands in years . tell me I am wrong. and now things are blowing up again only 4 months after its release just sucks. sorry but i had to rant.
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|August 28, 2010 10:48:58 PM UTC
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What is going on?? What exactly did Blotzer say that has everyone so upset??
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|August 29, 2010 11:09:21 PM UTC
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These problems go way back to the 80's. I dont think any of them were ever really resolved. Definately Bobby's book should have come out at a later date and he does bash quite a few people, but thats rock and roll!! It is truly a shame that they are going to call it quits so soon. I have heard that they need a break. Maybe so, but all the negativity does not help. I feel no matter how bad it is within a band, we as fans shouldnt even be hearing any of it. We the fans have made them the stars they are today. Without us, well, enough said....They play great music, and we still enjoy it.
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|August 30, 2010 12:06:11 AM UTC
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Chrissy, what do U mean they're going to call it quits?? When?? They're not cancelling the tour right?
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|August 30, 2010 8:48:23 PM UTC
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I'm not sure they said they're officially breaking up. Sounds like they're taking a "break" after the tour ends. Pearcy mentioned this in a recent interview. I take it as a good sign that things aren't so bad that they had to end the tour. I really hope they get it together and are able to take a couple months off and then get back out there with another album and tour in the spring. What we fans have going for us in that the album sold well and the tour did well, so hopefully that motivates them to stay with it.
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|August 30, 2010 9:04:17 PM UTC
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How many copies of Infestation have they sold and what's the avg. attendance at their concerts?
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You see, I'm now working on this part of the article about Pluto/Mercury, and my mind, whether I like it or not, has gone there. We all have those things within us that seem to rear out of our own dark side, only to try to commandeer our own thought processes. This is what it feels like, with Pluto on (natal) Mercury.
As soon as I shifted my focus to Pluto on Mercury, I ended up there. Its a wasteland, a place where no one ever wants to visit. This stuff won't let you rest, until you get some kind of perspective on it, which I'm doing right now, hoping that writing about this will help me release it.Purging Toxins
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After finally settling on the adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" as his next project, Baz Luhrmann is now set to take the production to his hometown of Sydney, Australia, where lensing in 3D (yes, 3D!) will begin this August.
ABC reports that Luhrmann has "brushed off" the novel's iconic New York setting as a shooting location and will bring the production to Fox Studios in Sydney, the same facilities which have housed such major films as "The Matrix" trilogy, the "Star Wars" prequels and, of course, Luhrmann's own "Moulin Rouge!" and "Australia." Furthermore, after earlier workshopping in the stereoscopic format, 'Gatsby' will also evidently find Luhrmann leading the first ever live-action 3D film made in the state of New South Wales, trumping George Miller's new "Mad Max" film which was presumably set to take that mantle before it was significantly delayed -- both are being backed by Warner Bros.
The deal to bring 'Gatsby' to Australia's Harbour City was reportedly secured by the state's film investment fund as well as unnamed incentives which was no doubt a major attraction compared to typical through-the-roof taxes on New York productions. "This comes at a good time for the film industry," NSW premier Kristina Kenneally told THR. "Australia was thought to be losing international filmmaking due to the strong Aussie dollar – put simply, this is a big win."
Adapted for the screen by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce ("Romeo + Juliet," "Moulin Rouge!"), the film will star Tobey Maguire as protagonist/narrator Nick Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby for the iconic Fitzgerald tale -- which itself has been adapted several times before including a Jack Clayton version starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and Sam Waterston as the leading trio.
A no doubt extensive pre-production will kick off next month in preparation for lensing which is set to begin this August for 17 weeks. The 30 weeks after that, though, will be dedicated to post-production, bringing things well into 2012.
lizz | February 24, 2011 5:41 AM
for me, mulligan doesn't give out the "old money" vibe... maybe keira knightly or natalie portman?
Jonathan | February 22, 2011 9:25 AM
well...the 3D makes no sense at all, this is not Avatar.
I would have perferred a different actress for Daisy(Rachel McAdams anyone?) the choice of Leo for Gatsby has grown on me, I was originally thinking more of a Matt Damon or Ryan Gosling. Tobey is a decent choice for Nick, i was thinking more of a Adrien Brody or Joseph Gordon Levitt. I would really like to know who the supporing cast is going to be. I think if they nail the Tom, Jordan and espically Myrtle role it has a chance of being really good!
damn, i just wish i could cast this thing! haha.
IronBob | February 22, 2011 8:43 AM
Welcome to horrible.
Indiejesus | February 22, 2011 8:16 AM
I love the casting and I think Baz can catch the roaring twenties with a lot of style and jazz. But why 3D? Why do they consider gatsby a live action movie?
And is somebody seriously saying Topher Grace has more talent than Tobey? Topher is typecast character, he would ruin the movie. He should go back to TV and stay there cause nobody likes him.
Danielle | February 22, 2011 4:17 AM
I think Tobey is the perfect casting choice, while Topher would be good as well, but I think Tobey is better for more serious roles. I think it'll be great film. How can it not be with a cast like that?
W.J. | February 20, 2011 7:18 AM
Based on the novel, it's assumed Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are about the same age. It seems like miscasting to posit Mulligan as the love interest for DiCaprio. Add to that Luhrmann's history of melodrama, this looks like a bust. The Great Gatsby would seem like great fodder for a great film, but thus far no great film has been made of it and Luhrmann's production seems half-baked at best.
Paul | February 20, 2011 5:39 AM
Sounds like a pleasant curiosity. I've enjoyed all the Luhrmann films I've seen so far but I never saw Australia.
... Though it will be odd knowing The Great Gatsby 2012 won't have actually been shot on Long Island.
sp | February 20, 2011 5:05 AM
oh god, I agree wholeheartedly Baz can't stop himself. All his films are over-the-top circus shows , and it feels like someone hit me over my head with a sledgehammer . Luhrman doesn't know subtlety if it slapped him in his face.
Sorry, but this feels like Baz is putting together a high school production of a classic novel , with a cast sharing no chemistry.
Cde. | February 20, 2011 4:19 AM
"Gatsby' will also evidently find Luhrmann leading the first ever live-action 3D film made in Australia"
a | February 20, 2011 4:18 AM
Sam Waterson played Nick in the earlier film, not Bruce Dern (Tom Buchanon).
Trent | February 20, 2011 4:09 AM
Fuuck yeah dude. Everything about this sounds awesome, except for Tobey Maguire being in it. He totally takes me out of movies now. But Baz Luhrmann adapting my favorite book in 3D is the best movie news of the year
Michael. | February 20, 2011 3:59 AM
Pfft to you guys... this actually sounds pretty awesome.
Oh god! | February 20, 2011 3:44 AM
Can't wait to see how Luhrman is going to eff up this classic with his frenetic camera moves, quick ADD edits, OTT direction and actors overacting. Poor F. Scott must be rolling over right now.
ben | February 20, 2011 3:41 AM
Gatsby | February 20, 2011 2:46 AM
Upsetting to say the least, the worry of 3D too is that it won't just be gratuitious, it may be a feature that Baz wants to implement in the undoubtedly cheesy, melodramatic style to tell the story i.e really OTT visually.
Romeo and Juliet is his only decent film as it was a great modern twist on Shakespeare, but I do not believe he will do the novel justice to how one pictures it when reading and how it should be (classy, beautiful, heartbreaking).
The only thing that does give me a dash of hope is the screenshot of Carey above, which looks right on the money, with just that in my mind forgetting Baz and the 3D woes I would be really excited.
jl | February 20, 2011 2:14 AM
@BradZuhl, only if the characters were cats ... So we purr on, paws against the best post, borne back ceaselessly into the past ...
But seriously, Tobey? What a horrible casting decision. Someone like Topher would fill the part ... and he has talent.
BradZuhl | February 20, 2011 2:00 AM
Are people going to really pay 18 or 20 bucks for a 3D Gatsby? This will be an interesting test to see if 3D is relevant for anything other than superhero's, animation and video game adaptations.
geha714 | February 20, 2011 12:22 AM
Looks like the video game was just the beginning...
Alex | February 20, 2011 12:11 AM
Tobey? No, thanks, I don't care is Leo's bff.


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The cost is currently the main obstacle to mass production, Stephens said. Fetal bovine serum, also used to make vaccines, costs about $250 per liter, with up to three fetuses required to produce each liter, according to a recent paper published in the journal Regenerative Medicine.
Any association with genetically modified foods is unwarranted, according to Post. "Cultured beef is normal beef," he said. "It consists of cow cells."
Scientists growing lab steaks say alternatives are needed to avoid depleting too much of the earth's resources as the world population increases and meat consumption grows. Cultured meat production uses up to 60 percent less energy, resulting in up to 95 percent lower greenhouse gas emissions and 98 percent lower land use compared with conventional production in Europe, according to a study conducted by Oxford University and University of Amsterdam researchers and funded by New Harvest, a non-profit cultured meat research group.
In Columbia, Mo., Andras Forgacs and his father Gabor are growing meat and leather using bioprinting, the 3-D assembly of tissues driven by computer-controlled processes.
"We've already been growing food with cultures to make beer, wine, yogurt," the younger Forgacs said at a TED talk in in Edinburgh in June. "It's clean, efficient and humane. Perhaps we are ready for something literally and figuratively more cultured."
It's too early to know whether the public is ready to adopt meat that comes from the lab, though so far there hasn't been much organized resistance from vegetarians or industrial producers. Acceptance of in-vitro fertilization could serve to gauge society's response to cultured beef, according to Stephens of Cardiff University.
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Prunella (plant)
|Prunella vulgaris (Common Self-heal)
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Prunella is a genus of seven species of herbaceous plants in the family Lamiaceae, also known as self-heals, heal-all, or allheal for their use in herbal medicine.
Most are native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but Prunella vulgaris (the Common Self-heal) is Holarctic in distribution, occurring in North America as well, and is a common lawn weed. Self-heals are low-growing plants, and thrive in moist wasteland and grass, spreading rapidly to cover the ground. They are members of the mint family and have the square stem common to mints.
Biological descriptions[edit]
The common name "self-heal" derives from the use of some species to treat a range of minor disorders. Self-heal can be grown from seed, or divide clumps in spring or autumn.
Traditional medicine[edit]
|Dried Prunella
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In the Pacific Northwest, its juice was used by the Quinault and the Quileute on boils.[citation needed] They also used the whole plant to treat cuts and inflammations.[citation needed] Ointments can be made by fixing the plant with grease. Dried Prunella (Chinese: 夏枯草) is used to make a herbal drink.
Food uses[edit]
The mildly bitter leaves are also good as salad greens. Prunella species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora albitarsella.
As a health supplement[edit]
Prunella vulgaris is also used as an ingredient in some bodybuilding supplements as for its antiestrogenic activity - for which an efficacy has been demonstrated only in mice.[1]
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While most of the traditional uses are clinically untested and of unknown efficacy, Prunella vulgaris has been shown to have pharmacological effects in vitro and in some animal models as an antioxidant, immune stimulant, viral replication inhibitor and an anti-inflammatory agent.[2][3][4][5][6][7] P. vulgaris and P. asiatica have shown some anti-(lung)cancer activity in vitro.[8]
- ^ Collins, NH; Lessey, EC; Dusell, CD; McDonnell, DP; Fowler, L; Palomino, WA; Illera, MJ; Yu, X et al. (2009). "Characterization of antiestrogenic activity of the Chinese herb, prunella vulgaris, using in vitro and in vivo (Mouse Xenograft) models". Biology of Reproduction 80 (2): 375–83. doi:10.1095/biolreprod.107.065375. PMC 2746405. PMID 18923163.
- ^ Immune modulatory effects of Prunella vulgaris L. Int J Mol Med. 2005 Mar;15(3):491-6.
- ^ A polysaccharide fraction from medicinal herb Prunella vulgaris downregulates the expression of herpes simplex virus antigen in Vero cells. J Ethnopharmacol. 2004 Jul;93(1):63-8.
- ^ Phenolics-rich extracts from Silybum marianum and Prunella vulgaris reduce a high-sucrose diet induced oxidative stress in hereditary hypertriglyceridemic rats. Pharmacol Res. 2004 Aug;50(2):123-30.
- ^ Biological activities of Prunella vulgaris extract. Phytother Res. 2003 Nov;17(9):1082-7.
- ^ Anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory triterpenes from the herb of Prunella vulgaris. Planta Med. 2000 May;66(4):358-60.
- ^ Inhibition of immediate-type allergic reactions by Prunella vulgaris in a murine model. Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol. 2001 Aug;23(3):423-35.
- ^ Feng L, Jia XB, Jiang J, Zhu MM, Chen Y, Tan XB, Shi F"Combination of active components enhances the efficacy of Prunella in prevention and treatment of lung cancer." Molecules. 2010 Nov;15(11):7893-906


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The game might be out of reach but the Denver Broncos have enough left in the tank to make this one look a little better on the scoreboard.
Of course, good field position helped as Denver started as San Diego's 40.
Still, Kyle Orton had his best drive of the second half, completing all three of his passes, including a 13-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Lloyd to make it 35-14 with a little over 8 minutes left.
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It's all backwards. You're supposed to be more secure when you go on vacation by calling your local newspaper and canceling your subscription while your gone. LA County Sheriffs Deputies say it didn't work that way.
They've arrested four man who they say burglarized homes while LA Times subscribers were vacationing! Nicole Nishida with the Sheriffs Department says a machine repairman named Duane Van Tuinen stole vacation lists while in Time offices then passed them along to the three men who went into customer homes and took property. Stolen were such things as computers, musical instruments, collectible coins and swords among other things. Tuinen, she says, is a contractor.
Those three named by deputies in the burglaries are Randall Whitmore of LaVerne, Joshua Box of Arcadia and Edwin Valentine of Covina. Nishida says they were originally thought to have broken into 25 homes, but since the story of all of this has gotten out into the media that number has grown.
She says the Times has increased security of those lists to keep that from happening again. Nishida says the case broke last June during a simple traffic stop in which an officer found lists and stolen property. One thing led to another and now 4 men are in custody.
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(CNS) Four men suspected of being part of a burglary ring that targeted Los Angeles Times subscribers who had notified the newspaper to stop deliveries while they went on vacation were arrested, authorities announced today.
Investigators believe Duane Van Tuinen, 51, of Azusa, obtained the vacation lists and passed them on to a group of suspects, including Randall Whitmore, 43, of La Verne, Joshua Box, 43, of Arcadia, and Edwin Valentine, 52, of Covina, according to Nicole Nishida of the sheriff's department.
Whitmore, Box and Valentine have been arrested, Nishida said. Later, Deputy Mark Pope confirmed that Van Tuinen had also been arrested. Charges are pending against all four suspects, Nishida said.
Van Tuinen worked as an office machine repairman who was under contract to distributors of the Los Angeles Times to repair their office machines, Nishida said.
"Once inside the businesses, investigators believe that he repeatedly stole lists of Los Angeles Times newspaper subscribers who were on vacation,'' Nishida said. "Van Tuinen passed them on to the suspects, who carried out the burglaries. Van Tuinen would share in the stolen property and ultimately sell it for profit.''
Detectives believe the suspects committed more than 25 burglaries in areas that included Hacienda Heights, Diamond Bar, Walnut and Chino Hills. The investigation led detectives to a West Covina storage locker; and on Thursday they seized hundreds of pieces of stolen property from dozens of residential burglaries, Nishida said. The property included collectible coins, collectible swords, musical instruments, computers and jewelry.
Detectives have found some of the victims and returned their property to them. They urged others to contact authorities. Detectives urged possible victims to contact them to retrieve their recovered property.
People who had placed themselves on the vacation list and whose residences were burglarized were urged to call Detective Jack Jordan at (562) 946-7893. Victims should be prepared to provide a police report number from their burglary and a description of the stolen items.
Nancy Sullivan, The Times vice president of communications, said the newspaper has made changes in its delivery policies since being made aware of the crimes. "We continuously review and upgrade our policies and systems to protect and best serve our customers,'' Sullivan said.
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The Old Town Museum is a modest operation that exists on donations and the generosity of volunteers. So when the time came to replace the building's wheelchair ramp, which was in terrible shape and no longer met accessibility standards, the museum board faced a tough financial decision.
"Building a new ramp was a big, expensive task for us, but it needed to be done," says Dick Eustis, the board's president.
Fortunately, help was just down the road, at the University of Maine. The student chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Associated General Contractors are always on the lookout for projects they can do as part of their community service mission. When they heard about the museum's need, they decided to donate their time and talent to the cause.
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Everybody looks forward to getting out of the kitchen once in a while.
One way to take a break is a visit to the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in downtown Sonoma, but be forewarned: The kitchen has found its way into the museum.
Fortunately, the museum's newest exhibit, "Kitchen Memories," opening Saturday (Sept. 7), won't require any work on your part. The exhibit features vintage kitchen utensils, recipes, restaurant menus, food labels and more from the private collection of Sonoma food and travel writer Kathleen Thompson Hill.
"Kathleen is a beloved figure in the community, known for her writing," said Kate Eilertsen, the museum's executive director. "And she has amassed all of these historical culinary tools."
Hill, who writes a column for the twice-weekly Sonoma Index-Tribune newspaper, has spent decades acquiring everything from 200-year-old English cheese graters to colorfully decorated cracker tins.
"I have 80 or 90 eggbeaters," Hill said. "I have one from 1886, made of glass, with a little metal whirligig on it."
There's a glass butter churn, a 1920 Sunbeam Mixmaster and a Betty Furness oven thermometer, named for the iconic 1950s actress, model and Westinghouse appliance pitchwoman.
"I spent a year researching every item," Hill said. "They'll all be labeled and catalogued, but I'm also going to have a 'What Is It?' section."
Visitors to the exhibit will be challenged to guess just what the mystery kitchen gadgets in that section were designed to do.
If this show seems a radical departure for an art museum exhibit, it helps to understand the adventurous attitude of the leadership at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.
"We have tried to do a wide variety of shows. A fundamental belief of mine is that art is not just a pretty picture hanging on a wall," said the museum's executive director, Kate Eilertsen.


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Ionela O. Hubbard is currently Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and CAM Curriculum Director at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California, where she teaches Integrative and Functional Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, Herbs and Dietary Supplements, and Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. She also developed and runs the LLUSOM Acupuncture and Chiropractic Clinical rotation and offers Senior Clinical and Didactic Electives. She maintains a private Integrative and Functional Medicine, Nutritional Counseling, and Acupuncture clinical practice in Loma Linda and Santa Ana, Orange County California.
She received her master degree in Oriental Medicine from the South Baylor University School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Anaheim, California in 1993. Before that, she attended the School of Medicine and Pharmacology in Iasi, Romania. Additionally, she has advanced clinical training through the Institute for Functional Medicine and The Center for Mind-Body Medicine. She received her Neuro-Endocrine-Immune Certification (NEI) from Neuroscience in 2011.
She founded the Center for Holistic Preventive Medicine in 1993, a multi-specialty medical group, where she maintained a private practice until October 2003, when she accepted her current position at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Also, she had been serving as a subject matter expert for two licensing boards, the California Acupuncture Board and the California Industrial Medical Council, since 1996 through 2005. Beginning 2005, Ionela Hubbard has been serving as Senior Editorial Board member for Natural Standard, a database providing information about complementary and alternative therapies. She is a frequent lecturer and consultant for medical groups, insurance companies, and patient support groups.
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The director of the writing center, Dr. Aimee Krall-Lanoue, was a writing tutor when she was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In that former capacity, she helped student tutors and basic writers work together to be successful in their composition class.
The Writing Center @ Concordia University Chicago is located in the basement of Klinck Memorial Library. To get to us, take the stairs immediately to the left of the library entrance, walk through the double doors and turn right. We are in the Academic Center for Excellence (ACE).
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|America starts filling out March Madness brackets
|Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:18 AM
By EDDIE PELLS
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Professor Michael Magazine is upending the logical world of math with a good dose of March Madness. Magazine teaches a new class called Bracketology at University of Cincinnati, the home of the 10th-seeded Bearcats, where 33 business students are spending the semester trying to make sense out of what can feel nonsensical at times — the art of filling out an NCAA tournament bracket. "The life lesson is that we make a lot of decisions that are the right decisions," Magazine says, "but the outcomes don't always come out the way we planned."
And that's why picking the NCAA tournament is so much fun. Magazine says that, yes, he's among the millions of Americans who take part in the country's largest office pool — where all you need is a pen, a copy of the bracket and $10 or $20 to get in on the action.
Real basketball knowledge? That's optional. Some people pick their favorite mascot, others go based on color, still others just throw darts at a board.
"I always tell people to ignore where they went to school," Magazine says. "But it's hard to do."
He teaches the course with a Cincinnati alum, Paul Bessire, who owns predictionmachine.com, a program that runs thousands of simulations to forecast likely winners of games. Armed with that, along with some mathematical models, Magazine and Bessire hold three sessions — handicapping, assembling brackets, filling out the brackets and seeing how everyone did. "It's a pass-fail class," Magazine says. Good thing because when it comes to March Madness, the numbers get a little crazy. According to the website bookofodds.com, if you fill out your bracket by picking the better-seeded team in every game, the odds of that bracket being perfect are more than 35 billion-1. Or, to put it another way, you have an 18 times better chance of being killed by a waterspout this year.
There are more than 9.2 quintillion combinations (a 9, followed by 18 zeroes) and even if you eliminate all those that have a No. 16 seed winning even a single game — which has never happened — you're still talking about enough paper to build a trail from the Earth to the moon more than 1 million times. Oh, and about eliminating those No. 16 seeds: Might think twice about that. This has been the most unpredictable college basketball season anyone can remember, including one stretch where the No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 changed for five straight weeks. Even in seasons that have seemed more "predictable," the NCAA tournament has become increasingly unstable over recent years. Butler, enrollment 4,500, has made the Final Four twice in the last three years. In 2011, little-known and even less-heralded VCU transformed itself from a No. 11 seed that barely got into the tournament into a Final Four team. Last year, two No. 15 teams won on the first Friday of the tournament. After the second upset, ESPN reported none of its 6.45 million bracket entries were perfect anymore. "We messed up some brackets! We messed up some brackets!" senior Kyle O'Quinn exclaimed last year after he led 15th-seeded Norfolk to an 86-84 upset over Missouri. Tom DeRosa, a former algebra teacher who now runs a website that provides teachers with everyday lessons for their own classes, says there is no mathematically surefire way to figure out which 15 or 16 might break through this year. But you can't completely ignore them, either.
"You look at the numbers and, yeah, it's a pretty good bet a 1, 2 or 3 seed is going to win the whole tournament," says DeRosa, whose March Madness lesson is being taught across America this week. "If you're making a bracket and you don't have any '1's in the Final Four or anywhere near the Final Four, you're probably not going to win your pool. But things get a lot more nuanced the more you read."
Speaking of nuance:
— Blue has been the school color of 24 of the 40 teams to make the Final Four during the last 10 years and the hue worn by the last nine national champions. — Of those 40 Final Four team mascots, 12 have been people (Spartan, Mountaineer, etc.), seven have been canines and five have been birds (mostly the mythical Jayhawk). There have been Warriors at the Final Four and a Gator or two. But the most ferocious — for those who like to pair the mascots off in cage matches — has been, by far, the Blue Devil.
— Las Vegas, which exists because of its ability to get math right, has No. 1 seed Louisville as a 9-2 favorite to win it all, followed by second-seeded Duke and Miami at 8-1. (Warning: Odds can be influenced by betting patterns, and Duke has one of the largest followings in the nation.)
Using a mix of all this information is Glen Calhoun, the head of props for the national tour of the Broadway smash "Jersey Boys." On Monday, he was busy unloading nine trucks full of wardrobe and scenery, as the show moved from Norfolk, Va., to Houston. Not his only task of the day. "I've got to get our NCAA brackets set up," he said. "I'll be sure to squeeze that in."
More than 50 people are in the cast and crew; Calhoun figured at least half of them would take part.
"What's good about the March Madness pool is that anyone can get in there and do well," he said. "You can study up, and then it all falls apart. I remember one year when Wake Forest got me. Or you can just pick your favorite teams and that works sometimes."
Magazine insists that, yes, there is mathematical advice to follow, including some he picked up by reading Nate Silver, the blogger who picked the electoral college count in last year's presidential election nearly to the number.
Silver suggests that Nos. 8 and 9 seeds can sometimes be worse Sweet 16 picks than those seeded 10, 11 or 12 because the winner of an 8-9 matchup is all but destined to play a No. 1 in the next round. "I tell people, if you're going to pick upsets, do it in the 10, 11, 12, 13 range," Magazine said. It's OK to use your gut, Magazine says. But, he insists, it's folly to completely ignore the numbers. "Sometimes, you predict someone's better because in simulations, 80 percent of the time they win," he added. "Well, that means 20 percent of the time they lose. That's going to happen. That's been a useful lesson for students."
And, as any good math professor will remind you, being wrong doesn't always mean you were, well, wrong — even if the scoreboard says you were.
"It just means it didn't work out that time," Magazine closed.
Graduation rates improve for NCAA tournament teams: Overall graduation rates improved among players at schools in this year's men's NCAA basketball tournament and African-American players in particular did better, according to a study released Monday.
The annual report by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) shows African-American players' graduation success rate increased from 59 percent in 2012 to 65 percent this year, while white players' rates increased from 88 percent to 90 percent.
The overall graduation rates for programs in the tournament increased from 67 percent in 2012 to 70 percent.
Six out of the tournament's 68 teams have an APR score that falls below the NCAA's new 930 line, which could lead to future penalties. Those teams are Southern, James Madison, Saint Louis, New Mexico State, Oregon and Oklahoma State.
Richard Lapchick, the study's primary author, said the majority of the report contains good news.
Information was collected by the NCAA from member institutions for the study. The institute reviewed the 6-year graduation rates of each school's freshman class, or Graduation Success Rates, then calculated a four-class average or Academic Progress Rate. "In general, it's the most progress I've seen overall," Lapchick told The Associated Press. "To be specific, every facet that we consider, everyone on the team, all the graduation rates increased. The APR scores increased significantly over the past year. And the difference in rates between white and African-American players declined 3 percent, though that gap is still a major factor of concern."
There is a 25 percentage-point difference in the graduation gap between white and African-American players among tournament teams this year. Lapchick said more progress needs to be made in that area, though he noted the 65 percent graduation rate for African-American basketball players was significantly higher than the 38 percent for all male African-American college students.
Lapchick noted there were two major factors in the study's improving numbers: the NCAA's tightening academic rules and the recent involvement of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
"The fact that teams can lose scholarships has been an extremely strong deterrent. Everything has improved consistently and continues to improve," Lapchick said. "Arne Duncan got involved and that's also been very important. He was a student-athlete and the NCAA certainly doesn't want the federal government involved."
The APR was developed by the NCAA in 2004 as a means to improve graduation rates and is a 4-year rolling average of academic performance that takes into account academic eligibility and retention.
The NCAA recently voted to increase its APR cutoff line for Division I programs from 925 to 930, which is roughly equivalent to a 50 percent graduation rate. The new standard is being phased into the NCAA's average starting this year.
Ten schools were banned from this year's postseason — including 2011 national champion Connecticut.
Lapchick said the real threat of penalties has encouraged schools to watch graduation rates closely. This year's study showed that 79 percent of the teams (54 of 68) in this year's tournament have scores of 950 or more.
"We are doing better each year," Lapchick added. "The academic reforms instituted in the past have worked. We need to raise the bar and move toward 60 percent being the acceptable standard for the APR. Two thirds of this year's teams in the men's tournament are already there."


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