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Hi, I found a ship manifest that I believed to be Anna Faiazza coming to the United States everything matches except that she indicates that she is going to visit her bridegroom Berardo DiGiacomo. Oral history suggests they were married in the US.
Is it possible that bridegroom was used to mean fiance? Or does bridegroom mean husband?
Anna Faiazza left her home of Giulianova, Province of Teramo, Italy with $25 and traveled to Naples to board the sailing ship Guiseppe Verde on 6 Dec 1919 headed on her first trip to the America. The ship manifest indicates the her native language is Italian and that she is able to read and write. Anna paid her own passage leaving her father Salazza Faiazza behind in Giulianova to join her BRIDEGROOM Beradio DiGiacomo residing at 39th Street, Washington, D.C. Guiseppe Verdi arrived at Ellis Island on Dec 24, 1919.
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Most of the action took place on the hard, sandy and rock-strewn field, but Elliott's step-granddaughter, Avery Archer, 3, spent most of her time in the dugout with her plastic animal collection. Her brother, Kaleb Archer, 7, made the most of his last day of summer ball-playing by staying on the field to bat, field, run and pitch as many times as time would allow.
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The problem asks to perform an ANOVA test to determine whether logging affects the mean count of individual trees in a plot of land. To analyze the data, first perform a cursory glance at the data to see any notable differences in tree count between groups. Check the conditions for ANOVA and then perform a one-way ANOVA to conclusively determine the effect of logging on count of trees.
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Re "Airport, ACLU tussle over ads" (Our Region, July 21): The decision of Sacramento International Airport to not run the informational ads of the California Endowment regarding denial of health care coverage for undocumented immigrants is unjust and deplorable. As a longtime resident of Sacramento and a frequent user of the airport, I applaud the endowment for its efforts to provide factual statements on behalf of those who make considerable economic contributions to our region and state, yet are denied access to health care coverage.
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Which is scarier: a maniac in an orange ski mask wielding a hunting knife - or Jon Bon Jovi as a journalism teacher? Cry_Wolf gives us both, and though Bon Jovi is livin' on a prayer if he thinks he's an actor, the movie is a find.
A clever teen thriller with intricate plotting, deft characterizations, sharp ensemble performances and a darkly ironic twist at the end.
The low splatter quotient may not be enough to quell the blood lust of slasher fans, but several neat plot twists - and a surprise ending - make Cry Wolf a cut above the rest.
First-time screenwriters Jeff Wadlow and Beau Bauman prove more adept at staging mind games than creating chills and thrills for the audience.
A cut above the usual level of slasher films, with its overly convoluted plot enhanced by an impressive level of cinematic style. It also places a greater emphasis on surprising plot twists than gore.
But clichéd rapid-fire editing and cheap-looking digital-image manipulation drain away every ounce of atmosphere, and overexplanation blows what could have been a darkly ambiguous ending.
Director Jeff Wadlow and his co-writer/producer Beau Bauman throw in a couple of gripping sequences, especially one set in a library sub-basement with an energy-saving lighting system, but for a film that's essentially one big logic problem, there's an unfortunate absence of logic to the way its characters behave.
Cry_Wolf is underscored with idiot adolescent excitement (and gets extra absurdist points for casting Jon Bon Jovi as an educator).
A second-rate slasher, but it shows the odd bit of directorial promise and a great deal of ambition.
Cry Wolf is one of those movies that's rated PG-13 not because the producers wanted to get the broadest audience possible, but because no one 17 or older would be sucker enough to fall for it.
This was a better movie back when it was called "Gossip" . . . oh, wait, no -- that one sucked too.
Despite an ambitious script from Wadlow and Beau Bauman, it's extremely difficult to care, seeing as how these tropes have already been recycled enough to make Greenpeace proud.
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Nov 7, 2013Despite some errors, performances that fall short and a weak direction, Cry Wolf compensates all this, revealing itself a very intelligentDespite some errors, performances that fall short and a weak direction, Cry Wolf compensates all this, revealing itself a very intelligent film, makes you stay for a few minutes with his chin fallen.… Full Review »
Nov 26, 2011It doesnt really get interesting until the final half hour but it was a pretty good half hour. It was an ok horror film. Solid acting by theIt doesnt really get interesting until the final half hour but it was a pretty good half hour. It was an ok horror film. Solid acting by the cast and it had an interesting twist at the end, I enjoyed it but only the last half hour or so.… Full Review »
JewelsJan 16, 2010After reading many other reviews for this movie, it's apparent that this movie suffers from poor marketing. It is not a horror movie or After reading many other reviews for this movie, it's apparent that this movie suffers from poor marketing. It is not a horror movie or your generic slasher; it is more a conservative thriller with an intricate and convoluted plot that keeps your mind on edge even more so than the characters themselves. It may have what some consider a seemingly stereotypical ensemble whom utilise current technology as a platform for communication and interaction, but those aspects, along with the expectation of an intense bloody murder-filled horror, are the red herrings of alleged negativity spouted by many reviewers. Focusing on Jon Bon Jovi for any reason other than his character or capabilities as an actor does a further disservice to the underrated quality of the film's presentation. Whilst it may have its technical flaws and a lack of any real suspense, it is a solid movie deserving of merit.… Full Review »


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Longer than a rain-interrupted Third Day at Lords, the Canadian Grand Prix was the undoubted race of the season: the only time Vettel came under any pressure, and the only time he made an error. It gives us all hope for the 2012 season. Hats of to the now estranged Brundle and Coulthard team for the longest commentary of the year.
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Rael: 'The Catholic Church Should Be Denied Sovereign State Status and Be Recognized as a Dangerous, Criminal Organization'
LAS VEGAS, April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In a statement released today, the Raelian Movement has asked all governments worldwide to cease recognizing the Vatican as a sovereign state.
"For the past ten years, Rael and members of the International Raelian Movement have repeatedly exposed the crimes of the Catholic clergy," explained Ricky Roehr, the Raelian Movement's (www.rael.org) North American leader. "But the Vatican has always enjoyed immunity from being legally prosecuted – and even from being investigated for almost anything because of its recognition as a sovereign state. It's more than time for the Vatican and senior officers of the Church to be officially – and legally – investigated for pedophilia cover ups and other crimes against humanity."
Roehr noted that the 110 acres of the Vatican shelter 800 people who have full diplomatic immunity, even for pedophilia, and that this territory is recognized enough to be granted Observer Status at the United Nations. And he pointed out that at the request of the Vatican, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now the pontiff), was granted immunity from prosecution in the United States by George Bush while he was still in office.
"It's disturbing to realize that although my country didn't hesitate to occupy a sovereign state like Iraq for a crime it didn't commit, it still recognizes the sovereignty of a piece of land in the middle of Rome led by a man who has repeatedly denied assistance to abused children," Roehr said. "We hope Richard Dawkins' attempt to have him prosecuted in the United Kingdom will be successful, but we know that the Vatican's recognition as a sovereign state has been the key for all the Catholic criminals to be granted immunity."
Roehr added that in 2001, Raelians set up a nonprofit association in Europe called NOPEDO to draw public attention to the coverups. NOPEDO was promptly sued by the Church in Europe and was even condemned for helping victims expose pedophile priests. The case is now under appeal. In 2003, Raelians filed an urgent appeal with the United Nations, but that appeal has gone unanswered.
"It's appalling how the world – Catholic or not – can let the Vatican avoid legal action for pedophilia and other criminal acts and let it influence governments to sue those who denounce its crimes," Roehr said. "Maybe the public feels that to attack the Church would be attacking God. First, there is no God – but for those who do believe in God, do they really think God would want the crimes of pedophilia and the spreading of AIDS, et cetera, to be carried out in His name? Please, think!"
Roehr said Raelians have always suggested that members of any religion apostatize (officially depart) from that religion if it doesn't respect the right to be gay, use birth control, be pro-abortion or make any other lifestyle choice. Raelians also lead campaigns asking that all religious scriptures and teachings be reviewed by a Human Rights Committee for the purpose of removing all parts that fail to respect these basic rights.
"Through our campaigns, we've received lots of support showing that the public has had enough of these spiritual puppets," said Roehr. "If the Vatican is a state, it's only because of the leftover power it still wields in the world. Less than 500 years ago, it burned its critics at the stake, but it still maintains far more influence than any religion should have over governments and populations. The Pope and other Catholic officials now shown to have covered up many cases of pedophilia cannot be prosecuted because they've been granted diplomatic immunity. What is more important – the rights of a child, which they so loudly tout when it comes to abortion – or the Church's reputation and so-called infallibility? The more that is uncovered around the world by victims, investigators and attorneys like Jon Levy [www.vaticanbankclaims.com], the more people will discover that the Vatican should be prosecuted, not protected. It starts by denying it sovereignty and recognizing its criminal practices."
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Cheryl Cole may have been Cher Lloyd's mentor on The X Factor, but it looks like Cher's winning the global domination race.
The pair notoriously had a post-show bust-up, when Cher went on a rant about Cheryl's singing' and basically said she didn't need X Factor to "make it big" (except she's signed to Simon Cowell's label... so make of that what you will).
But Cher's sort of proven her point today, overtaking Cheryl on Twitter by over 40,000 followers.
Today Cher reached 3,597,617, while Cheryl's follower count was only up to 3,557,574.
The pair haven't been pals since Cher claimed Cheryl over uses auto-tune, causing Chezza to hit back on Twitter, replying: "Be careful who you kick on your way up. They kick you twice as hard on your way back down.. #unappreciationisugly."
The 29-year-old went on to say that she was "disappointed" in 19-year-old Cher's quip after all her hard work during The X Factor in 2010.
Cheryl said: "She's new. She needs to learn a lot. I went through hell to get her on that programme.
"Everyone says stuff at the beginning of their career that they will learn to regret. Maybe I didn't teach her as well as I thought I had."
[ Related article: Cheryl Cole's back tattoo branded 'tacky' by the British public, ouch ]
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Cher later apologised in that 'sort-of-saying-sorry-but-not-really' kind of way, by telling Daybreak: "Sorry to her if she found it offensive."
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The Last of the Doughboys
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Richard Rubin talks about finding and interviewing living American World War I veterans, aged 101 to 113, to capture their life stories before they died. The Last of the Doughboys is his decade-long odyssey to recover the stories of a forgotten generation and their experience in the Great War
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Enjoyed this interview. Worthy topic. Good chemistry between the interesting, gracious guest and Mr. Lopate.
"Honor the dead, heal the wounded, stop the wars."
( http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/27/mother_of_iraq_veteran_who_committed )
With only 2 black veterans to interview, there's no way to know how typical their experiences in the war or after were.
One of the best depictions of WW1 was done in the old series "Upstairs Downstairs" which I just saw only recently. The whole 3rd or 4th season was devoted to it. Really excellent.
My great-uncle, Will Crawford, was a doughboy. He died almost over 50 years ago.
WWI begets WWII - mostly due to European greed -- which gives us the Baby Boom which at least in part is stressing our own healthcare and social insurance systems.
When does this global BS end?
I read a biography of Lou Gehrig when I was a child, & I remember it said he was bullied, & maybe even beaten up, when he was in school because of his German ancestry.
Can you ask Mr. Rubin did he try and interview German WW1 veterans? If not, why? Thank you.
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Ike Davis rebounded after a slow start to his 2012 season to show us his power potential with 32 jacks Ike Davis had a first half to forget in 2012. But he rebounded in the second half to produce high end power numbers. Ike became the first Met player to reach the 30 home run mark since Carlos Delgado jacked 38, and David Wright hit 33 in 2008. Davis displayed the kind of power you hope to get from a future clean up hitter. Ike will turn 26 just before opening day in 2013, and will enter a year where he will be counted on heavily to provide power and run production. Was what we saw from him in 2012 his ceiling, or is there more power to come from the Ike man? I have said all along that Davis has 30 home run power. I believed all along that he could potentially be our cleanup hitter of the future. I wasn't sold on it, but he had the potential to do it. His home runs are not cheap ones by any means. When he gets the barrel on the ball, it travels a long way. So the question is, Does D...
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David Mamet's The Secret Knowledge, an assault on liberal values and politics, should be viewed not as a polemic but as a yet-to-be-written play about his usual subjects: scams and hustlers
A book jacket photo dated 1977, from around the time playwright David Mamet first began to hit it big, shows him holding a cigarette and glasses gingerly in one hand. His other hand slides into the front pocket of his tight jeans; he wears a leather bomber jacket with the collar rakishly turned up, and a black turtleneck. Eyes sad and dark, skin smooth and white, he appears as the child of two figures he became obsessed with: the Tough Jew and the Scholar. You can imagine that even then Mamet might have been dreaming up the title of his most recent polemic, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture.
Critics on the left and right have given the book, an attack on big government and other staples of liberal thought published this month and now on the New York Times' best-seller list, too much weight. It's surprising to see a book by a playwright generate so much heated debate. But it was not surprising to see how the pundits focus primarily on being either for or against Mamet's book. The book itself is yet to be understood in the context in which it was written, namely as a stellar, if strange, incomplete piece of theater, a rehearsal for some future play.
Read literally, as a political polemic—the way most critics, including Christopher Hitchens, writing in theNew York Times Book Review, approached the book—The Secret Knowledge leaves a lot to be desired. From his first foray into conservative politics, a 2008 essay in the Village Voice titled "Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal," Mamet's opinion writing has seemed half-baked. (In 2006, Nextbook Press published Mamet's The Wicked Son, an attack on Israel-hating, tradition-denying liberal American Jews.) The writer whose characters famously do not say what they mean is ill at ease playing the writer saying what he means.
This is not to say that Mamet is disingenuous, or that he's playing with his ideological conversion only to convert again at some point in the future. But read The Secret Knowledge as a yet-to-be-written play, and it will make more sense.
Perhaps this sounds far-fetched, but ever since he appeared, in 1975, at Chicago's Goodman Theatre holding a play in his hand and announcing that he would put $5,000 in escrow while the director Gregory Mosher decided whether to produce it (the play was American Buffalo), Mamet has gravitated toward flamboyant monologues and ballsy turns. This knack is most evident, of course, in his famous plays—think of the "always be closing" speech from Glengarry Glen Ross—but it is more than an affectation. Watching Mamet's career as an artist, you get the sense that what he wants to do now, his major artistic quest, is to transfer some of that manic energy from the stage and into real life.
Mamet expressed something like this sentiment in the introduction to his 1985 collection of monologues and short plays, Goldberg Street. "Tradition has it," Mamet wrote, "that Shakespeare finished King Lear and handed it to Richard Burbage saying: 'You son-of-a-gun, I've finally written one you can't perform.' "
In the two decades since, it seems, Mamet has spent some time trying to turn from plays to polemics and turn his polemics into plays. He might have half succeeded with The Secret Knowledge.
Mamet's best work paints a portrait of a dense world, rich with the idioms of noir and the grit of 1970s Chicago streets. It's a world of con men and femmes-fatales who end up sticking their stilettos in your face, a world in which the good guys always get knifed in the back. Mamet made the grievance of the everyday person both mean-spirited and Aeschylean, both self-deluded and avuncular; such sleights of hand seem directly descended from Nathaniel West or cadged from hieroglyphs on the walls of some mid-century tomb shared by Hemingway and Patricia Highsmith.
The Secret Knowledge contains these themes, but abstracted. Instead of describing them from the inside, it prescribes cures and extols points of view. It fits with the rest of the Mamet canon in that it's about jive, about how Americans try to cheat each other and steal each other's essentials, be it real estate leads or American Buffalos or ideological validation or big ideas.
It's easy to imagine that the man who for so long tried to stick a needle into America's veins got tired. Or that the theater no longer seemed like enough. Mamet is hardly the only Jewish writer who migrated from trying to tell stories about life to screaming about its injustices from on high. The Secret Knowledge seems most interesting as an iteration of Mamet's evolving interest in mysteries, rites, and ciphers. In his early plays, like American Buffalo and A Life in the Theatre, he used parentheses to indicate that his characters were moving to "a more introspective regard." Maybe that's where he's headed now.
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The Walla Walla Symphony will present an informal concert for the whole family at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 in Cordiner Hall, Whitman College campus. The only admission price is a non-perishable food item per person.
Maestro Yaacov Bergman will conduct "The Three-Legged Monster" by Tzvi Avni, an adventure story about twin violins who search for a monster in the woods. The story is narrated by Kevin Loomer. Young area bass player Jake Willard will perform "Concerto for Double Bass" by Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi with the Symphony. "America the Beautiful" is also on the program.
Food items gathered in this event will be donated to local food banks. Dress is casual. The concert is sponsored by Key Technology, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Whitman College and the NAMM Foundation.
Willard is a freshman at Walla Walla Valley Academy and has been taking double bass lessons from Benjamin Gish for three years. He plays in the Con Brio Orchestra under Laura Trupp at Rogers School and in the Walla Walla Symphony Youth Orchestra under Gish. His other interests include playing electric and acoustic guitars, snow skiing, skateboarding and playing basketball. He has one older brother and three younger sisters.
Loomer has acted, directed and designed and built sets for more than 75 stage productions in a variety of theatrical venues.
Probably best known for his performances in the Walla Walla Community College Foundation's summer musicals, he has been featured as Luther Billis in "South Pacific," Albert Peterson in "Bye Bye Birdie" and Frank Butler in "Annie Get Your Gun." He currently teaches public speaking at WWCC and designs and builds sets for their theater arts department.
For more information, visit the symphony's Web site at www.wwsymphony.org or call the symphony office at 529-8020.
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It's a blue moon month for me over at The Cultural Gutter, and I get the honor of ushering in All Hallow's Eve, scary sci-fi style. Something Kinda Funky looks at the time Buck Rogers, Wilma, and Twiki faced off against a nefarious Space Count Orlok in the classic Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode, "Space Vampire."
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Mad Science and Martian Maidens
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy was Russia's less internationally known Tolstoy. While the one was writing thousand-page tomes about sad people losing things (pretty sure that's the plot of most Leo Tolstoy books) that would be forced upon generation after generation, the other Tolstoy was writing slick science fiction adventures like Aelita (1923, adapted into a movie a year later), Engineer Garin (1924), and Count Cagliostro, which American high school students did not get to read, since there was no time left after plodding through Anna Karenina — in which absolutely no one travels to Mars, builds a death ray, or practices alchemy. To be fair to Leo Tolstoy though, it's been twenty-six years since I read Anna Karenina, and all I really remember is a chapter where two rivals for the love of the title character retire to a nearby barn to try and outdo one another in feats of gymnastic prowess, and I may even be getting that wrong. In fact, I think much of what I remember of Anna Karenina is actually Great Expectations. I am, however, quite certain there was no death ray.
Cultural Gutter: The Gentleman Adventurer
I have a new Frolic Afield up on The Cultural Gutter: The Gentleman Adventurer takes a look at the BBC series Adam Adamant Lives! A swashbuckling Edwardian gentleman, quick with his cane-sword or a witty retort, is frozen in time and revived in swingin' sixties London, where accompanied by his go-go girl sidekick, he immediately resumes his life of adventure and crime-fighting. Yes, they truly did pull an entire plot right out of my mental wish list.
Cultural Gutter: A Halting Fire
My time has come. Another Frolic Afield over at the Cultural Gutter. A Halting Fire takes a look at the first season of Halt and Catch Fire, a show with subject matter — the micro-computing revolution of the early 1980s — near and dear to my heart. It's also about the unwillingness of so many modern television shows to commit to an emotion other than a sort of listless misery.
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Time for another Frolic Afield over at The Cultural Gutter, where I am writing Einstein and the Bearded Lady, about the Czech science fiction comedy I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (Zabil jsem Einsteina, panove) from 1970. The film asks the question, "What would men of the future be willing to risk to make sure women don't have too much body hair?" Silliness ensues.
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No Masterpiece Without Madness
Frolicking afield once again, for my monthly article over at The Cultural Gutter. "You Can't Make a Masterpiece Without Madness" takes a look at the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, the tale of how director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune never got made, and how that story of "failure" is oddly inspiring and uplifting.
They Were 11
They Were 11 is an interesting take on sci-fi anime from the eighties, and definitely a marked departure from the space operas overflowing from the previous decades and the wham-bam sci-fi actioners that defined the eighties. There is really only one action scene in the entire movie, and that's a pie fight. Yet despite the dearth of robots on roller skates shooting cannons at each other, They Were 11 is an engaging, tense, and engrossing piece of science fiction that makes you feel like it's action-packed even though it isn't. The basic premise was derived from an old Japanese story about a group of children at a playground who suddenly realize that there is one more child there than there should be. There's a good chance the extra kid, whichever one he may be, is some sort of monster.
Cultural Gutter: Where is All You Angels?
Back over at The Cultural Gutter for a Frolic Afield. Where is All You Angels? stared out as a jokey celebration of my favorite music video, Duran Duran's "Wild Boys." Things quickly spun out of control into an exploration of William S. Burroughs, LGBT rights, the mundanity of queer cinema, dayglo jockstraps, north Florida summers, and what a counter-culture loses when it wins its biggest battle. Also, we try to decipher just what the hell anyone was thinking when they made Arena.
Signale — Ein Weltraumabenteuer
Some years ago, a trio of colorful, contemplative, and sometimes a little bit absurd science fiction films from East German studio DEFA found their way onto home video in the United States. Of them, The Silent Star was the most beloved thanks to its combination of serious speculation and pop-art design, as well as the fact that it was familiar to many in its old dubbed and re-edited version, First Spaceship on Venus. In the Dust of the Stars was the most visually outrageous, combining the futurist aesthetic of the 1970s with the flared pleather jumpsuits and feathered mullets of the disco era. And Eolomea (which I reviewed as a guest writer for Die Danger Die Die Kill) was the most often ignored, with its more somber production design cribbed from Solaris and the message being less about the wonder and dangers of space travel and more about how boring and frustrating it can be. But even more ignored than Eolomea — so much so that it wasn't even included in the set — was DEFA's forgotten science fiction film, Signale — Ein Weltraumabenteuer.
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It has been estimated that half of American adults will have some form of gambling action on the Super Bowl, be it squares in an office pool, a legal bet made at a Las Vegas sports book or most likely an illegal bet made with an offshore sports book … or the guy down the block sitting outside the barber shop.
There are no official numbers on something like this, but it's safe to say that most Americans want some form of action on the game. If to you that means an office pool or betting on the coin flip, then please stop reading this column. But if you're one of the many who want to read one man's opinion of the point spread and total, then please read on.
This year's Super Bowl line has the New England Patriots a three-point favorite over the New York Giants with an over/under of 54 points for the total.
Personally, the Super Bowl is the last in a long string of bets I will make during a football season. Despite all the hype, I see it as just another wager. And in some years, I don't see it as a wager at all. I'm a hardened football bettor. I'm just as excited to cash a ticket on UNLV-Air Force when nobody's watching as I am the Super Bowl. Fortunately for you, I just so happen to have an opinion on this year's game that's worth backing with my own money.
That doesn't mean you should follow suit. You should use my thoughts and the thoughts of many others to help form your own opinion. I don't partake in the enjoyment of your winnings, nor do I feel the pain of your losses. So, do your own due diligence.
Last season, this newspaper asked me to write a Super Bowl prediction column with a gambling focus. I obliged, and laid out the reasons why, despite the strange line, I liked the Green Bay Packers to cover the number against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This season, today's Super Bowl prediction column marks the launch of a new directive by this newspaper to cover the gambling aspect of sports, horse racing and poker.
What better way to start than the Super Bowl?
What will have me involved in this game is the fact that perception does not match reality when it comes to the point spread. When posting a betting line, a sports book must consider which way the public will bet. It must also hang a number that will attract equal action on both sides so that the house can simply hang on to the "juice", or 10 percent tax it puts on all losing wager, thus ensuring a nice profit.
The problem with this year's point spread is that it's flat wrong. It's a very dangerous thing to often make such assertions about the numbers the expert odds makers set on a game. If you constantly think they are wrong, it will be you that's cleaned out. But sometimes they are forced to make lines that don't necessarily reflect the true difference in the two teams, but rather the difference in perception.
The Super Bowl is a game for the masses. Vegas will see many tourists hit town this weekend ready to plunk down cash on the big game just to be a part of the party. Most of these people are not week-to-week bettors. Most of these people couldn't name any players in the game beside Tom Brady and Eli Manning. Oh, some might have seen that cute salsa-dancing receiver from the Giants … Victor Somethingorother. But that's the extent of their knowledge.
That's where we step in. The books have to make the Patriots a three-point simply due to the presence of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. The Patriots' recent history as one of the NFL's winningest franchises ever since the "Tuck Rule Game" win over the Raiders in 2002 DOES factor in this line because, right or wrong, it's part of pubic perception.
The reality of the Patriots, however, is that this has been a team in decline ever since the franchise peaked in 2007 when an undefeated regular season ended in defeat to the Giants in Super Bowl XLII.
In no year more than this one was the evidence of the Patriots' decline, especially on defense, so vividly apparent. The Pats own the league's worst defense. The Pats are a team that's been out-gained on the season by over 2,000 yards. The Pats are a team that entered the postseason having played just three playoff teams during the regular season and went 1-2 in those games.
The Giants are quite the opposite. New York hails from the much stronger NFC and the wins the Giants have been piling up over the past month is nothing short of spectacular, and it's eerily similar to what the Packers did last season.
Since Jan. 1, the Giants have beaten Dallas (a near-playoff team), Atlanta, Green Bay and San Francisco by a combined score of 112-53! It does not get anymore impressive than that.
Meanwhile, the Patriots' playoff road has been a home win over a Denver Broncos team that left its best game in Mile-High Stadium after upsetting the Steelers in the wildcard round, and a win over the Ravens that almost wasn't if receiver Lee Evans holds onto the ball a second longer.
Not only have the Giants been the hotter team with the better defense, they also beat the Patriots in New England back on Nov. 8. And in that game, the Giants were nowhere close to as healthy as they are now. Not to mention, receiver Victor Cruz had not emerged as the offensive threat he is now.
And now you have the Patriots possibly without top tight end Rob Gronkowski, who if he does play will be far from full strength.
So, again, why exactly are the Patriots favored? Brady and Belichick and the memory of seasons past. That's your answer. Obviously, both coach and QB could be enough for the Pats to win the game, cover the small point spread and nobody would be surprised. But a bet on the Giants gets you the hotter team with a better resume, an equally hot quarterback as Brady, the better defense and, oh yeah, an entire field goal in your pocket before the game even starts.
As for the over/under. The natural inclination would be to go "under" such a lofty number. But this is the new era NFL and we're not about to stand in the way of a rules system that makes quarterbacks un-hittable and receivers untouchable. Pass on the total and make the rooting quite simply a Giants win.
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NORWALK, Ohio -- Johnny Gray won his fourth Funny Car title of the year on Sunday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals.
Gray and Ron Capps drove their Dodge Chargers to identical times of 4.103 seconds in the championship round. But Gray posted the quicker reaction time to get the victory. Gray's Charger went 314.02 mph in the final round, compared to 314.09 for Capps in his 400th career start.
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I want to get into more template meta-programming. I know that SFINAE stands for "substitution failure is not an error." But can someone show me a good use for SFINAE?
Heres one example (from here):
In C++11 SFINAE tests have become much prettier. Here are a few examples of common uses:
Pick a function overload depending on traits
Using a so called type sink idiom you can do pretty arbitrary tests on a type like checking if it has a member and if that member is of a certain type
Here is a live example: http://ideone.com/dHhyHE I also recently wrote a whole section on SFINAE and tag dispatch in my blog (shameless plug but relevant) http://metaporky.blogspot.de/2014/08/part-7-static-dispatch-function.html
Note as of C++14 there is a std::void_t which is essentially the same as my TypeSink here.
Here's another (late) SFINAE example, based on Greg Rogers's answer:
In this way, you can check the
I like using
It can be quite useful. For example, i used it to check whether an initializer list collected using operator comma is no longer than a fixed size
The list is only accepted when M is smaller than N, which means that the initializer list has not too many elements.
The syntax
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In practice, i often find the ability to check conditions a useful ability.
Boost's enable_if library offers a nice clean interface for using SFINAE. One of my favorite usage examples is in the Boost.Iterator library. SFINAE is used to enable iterator type conversions.


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