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October 26, 2010 -- from an email I received:

Dear Philip,

This email is to inform you of two days during November that we will be closed, the dates are: Please bare with us during these dates as no phone calls will be answered and no orders can be dispatched.
 * Wednesday 3rd November 2010
 * Thursday 4th November 2010

As the weather gets colder, I try not to bare much, especially while on the phone..

November 21, 2009 [can't resist: pick your favorite] 5. Sic! -- -- --- Isthmus Magazine of 30 October discussed a public Halloween bash, Marjorie Van Handel tells us. It wrote, "The desire to strut your Sexy Noun outfit can be powerful stuff." She wrote, "Most people prefer a Sexy Nun, except perhaps those wild and crazy English majors."

We've been here before, I think, but Charles Patrick felt that the London Free Press of Canada put it so pithily on 5 November: "All pregnant women urged to get shot".

Shirley Thayer feels that, on the evidence of this line from the Daily Beast of 15 November, the US Food and Drug Administration is taking a short-term view: "The FDA is asking nearly 30 similar <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">manufacturers to offer scientific proof that their products are <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">safe within the next 30 days."

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Child control, as practiced in Medford, Oregon: Seymour Collins <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">came across this reference in the Mail Tribune of 11 November: "If <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">you own guns and have children, it is important you store them in a <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">locked cabinet."

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">She must have been a busy seamstress, says Michael Grounds. The <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Advertiser (Bendigo, Victoria) wrote on 13 November: "A Malaysian <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">woman concealed half a kilogram of heroin in hundreds of buttons on <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">dresses during a flight to Perth, the Australian Federal Police <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">claim. It is alleged about 500 grams of heroin was sewed into 574 <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">buttons on 28 dresses."

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September 12, 2009


 * [[image:http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors//donkey.gif width="100" height="75" caption="WRONG:"]] || =ZERO-SUM GAIN= ||


 * [[image:http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors//owl.gif width="100" height="75" caption="RIGHT:"]] || =ZERO-SUM GAME= ||

The concept of a zero-sum game was developed first in game theory: what one side gains the other loses. When applied to economics it is often contrasted with a “win-win” situation in which both sides can make gains without anyone losing. People who are unaware of the phrase’s origins often mistakenly substitute “gain” for “game.”

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