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Week 1 West Region Results.

Posted 12-03-2015 at 08:08 AM by chadgates
Updated 12-04-2015 at 08:51 AM by chadgates

When I simulate the games, I do a best 2 out of three format to eliminate the flukes. This still allows for upsets, but just not ridiculous ones.

* denotes Home Team

PAC

California defeats Fresno State* 47-7
Stanford* defeats San Jose State 40-7
UCLA* defeats Hawai'i 38-3
USC* defeats San Diego State 62-24
Arizona defeats Washington State* 40-34
Arizona State defeats Washington*...

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Midnight Special (2016), Jeff Nichols

Posted 12-03-2015 at 06:10 AM by oeccscclhjhn (I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.)

Midnight Special (2016), Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories (2007), Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012)).

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Public Schools - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Posted 12-02-2015 at 09:05 PM by kimmerthy

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Originally Posted by TerpGirl

We're planning our relocation and I'm hearing a lot of complaints about the public school systems throughout FL. The biggest complaint I've heard about "teaching for testing" but are there other issues. Our school system is very similar, so this isn't that a huge issue / surprise for me. Are there other major concerns I should be aware of?

I've also heard specifically that Palm Beach County schools are giving children at the elementary school level 4 - 5 hours of homework

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The Limitations of Ibn Ishaq's Sira

Posted 12-02-2015 at 08:39 PM by Continuum

[quote=Woodrow LI;42138379]The biggest arguement Muslims have about Ishaq is His book "Sirat Rasul Allah" While it is known Ishaq did write such a book, it was destroed. However one of his students tried to restore it from memory, that was also destroyed and Hisham tried to restore the students version from Memory. that is what remains. Hisham did admit he did embellish the book and used his imagination for what he forgot.

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Simulated 2015 CFB Season (alternate universe)

Posted 12-02-2015 at 11:51 AM by chadgates

Thought this would be fun, at least to me. Maybe others will also enjoy it.

What I've done is created an alternate universe where there are 8 super conferences aligned regionally. There will be an 11 game regular season, where each team will play the 7 teams in their division and then half of the teams in the opposite division. Then a conference championship week, and finally an eight team playoff consisting of those 8 conference winners.

The brackets will be similar to...

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