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The value of getting your student or students out of the confines of the classroom cannot be underestimated. Trips and visits not only improve the student teacher relationship, but they are brilliant for teaching a language. You’re ahead as a teacher in every way. The visit should be tailored to the interests of the student – in which case they’ll be involved 100% in the ‘lesson’.

Teaching only happens when you’ve got the student’s attention and they want to learn. My last student turned out to be very interested in historic buildings – we live near Salisbury Cathedral, and so there’s a golden teaching opportunity ‘on tap’. So we left the classroom and visited Salisbury Cathedral. It’s got the tallest spire in the UK, at 123 metres. They started building it in 1220, and topped off the spire by 1330.

We heard the choir practicing during our visit. We read signs, graves and memorials – there’s one of the original copies of the Magna Carta on view at the Cathedral too. A small aside: the Magna Carta room was closed when we got there – I resolve to PLAN these visits better next time! During the visit we walked and talked at the student’s pace and to his agenda. Words were learned and questions asked (by both of us!).

The Cathedral would be suitable for any level of language ability, from teaching numbers, dates and comparatives (oldest, tallest and so on) to British history and even spiritual discussions. Having enjoyed that visit, we also went to Winchester Cathedral: older than Salisbury, and the longest in Europe. Jane Austen is buried there. More questions, more topics for discussion – and all about something that fascinates the student. When fascinated, the brain is clearly engaged: and when the brain’s engaged, then learning happens! I’ve got two great Cathedrals, what have you got that you can use with your students? Think about it!

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Isn’t it funny how things from the past just pop into your head for no apparent reason.
The other day, I was on my seventeenth time of telling my son to turn down his stereo before my teeth wiggled loose and I was reminded of my own father.
The rules as they apply to fathers are much different now. Fathers have lost most of the things that they once held dear.
I sat down and came up with a list.

1. Swearing – When I was growing up, my dad was the only one in the house that was allowed to use swear words. I considered this a right of passage into manhood. So one day, I used a word that I had heard my dad use when he busted his knuckles working on the car. My attempt at becoming a man was met with a bar of soap and several more swear words from my dad.
Not only am I not the only one in my house to swear, but my kids know words that I have never even heard of.

2. The Newspaper – In my early days, the newspaper was an item that was strictly off limits. Even though it was delivered at twelve noon, it would sit unread and untouched on the coffee table until my dad arrived home. Only after he had read the entire paper, clipped out any articles he wished to keep and told my mother to keep the car windows rolled up the next day because they were calling for rain was anyone else allowed to touch it.

This only strengthened my resolve to read the paper before my dad got to it. After all, something that was that well guarded must be fun and exciting. I was, to say the least, sadly mistaken. The paper was full of stories of war and tragedy that happened mostly in places I have never heard of and could not pronounce.

Today, the paper is public domain for the first person who gets their hands on it. By the time I get to it (I only read the comics which are always your safest bet to stave off complete depression) it has been clipped, snipped, refolded and crumbled and the part I wish to read always ends up on the bottom of a bird cage where I have to fight a surly parakeet to catch a glimpse of Garfield.

3. The Chair – All furniture in my childhood home was public seating with the exception of the recliner, also known as “Dad’s Chair.”

This piece of furniture was the most coveted in the entire house. Besides being the only comfortable place to sit, beside it sat the telephone and remote control. For all intents and purposes, it was a throne. From this throne, my dad dispensed fatherly wisdom, handed out sentences for crimes committed that day, and controlled television programming.

While seated in this chair, my dad gave me “the talk”, yelled at the television when the Chicago Cubs made a bad play, and dispensed comfort when my best friend died.

Today, I have a chair, a wonderful creation of the reclining type. Sadly, I have only sat in it once, which was the day I picked it out at the store.

Since my chair came into the house, it has been claimed by everyone but me. Most days, the cat can be seen licking itself in areas best left unlicked, perched proudly in my chair. One day I will reclaim my chair, when the children are gone and the cat has finally over stayed its welcome. But will I be too old to enjoy it?

4. Napping – My dad is the champion of napping. If napping ever became an Olympic sport, he would surely claim the gold.

I have always believed that you could set your watch by my dad’s naps. Everyday he would arrive home, sit down in his chair, read the paper, and then fall asleep. It never changed in all the years I lived at home.

Now, this was not dozing, but full on snoozing. Once he was asleep, there was nothing that would arouse him except my mother calling dinner.

It was amazing, truly it was. He slept with two children in the house. I used to chase my brother around with a running chain saw, trying to convince him to let me clip his toenails, and dad slept on. It is my theory that the house could have been on fire and as long as his chair or remote were not in danger, he would not wake up.

These days, the words father and nap don’t mix. It was not until recently that I attempted to take part in the napping ritual, but thus far, I have failed.

As soon as I close my eyes, my sons swing into action. One will grab a knife and start calling the cat; while the other turns his stereo up so loud that only a Lear jet engine parked next to your ear can drown it out.

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Apple’s ipod has been long dominating the digital media player market. And why not; ipod has been far superior in performance and features when compared to its rivals. But Microsoft is set to change this by coming out with their own media player named zune, which will debut to the world on November 14, 2006. The product will be available for exactly the same price $249 as the 30GB ipod.

Here I’ll list a few key differences between zune and ipod. Below are the list of features supported by zune and not Ipod.

1. Preloaded Audio and video
2. Built in FM tuner
3. Zune to Zune sharing by Wi-Fi wireless (social networking)
4. Custom background
5. Landscape video

With all the exciting and promising features, Microsoft will definitely take a big chunk of media player market form apple, but how much only time will tell.

But the real question is which device is right for YOU? Let’s look at the specs of the system, the features and services we know about. We’re going to be comparing the 30GB iPod to the 30GB Zune, since they are closest in price, storage, and battery life.

OS Support - Winner: iPod
Zune only supports Windows. iPod, on the other hand, supports both Windows and Mac.

WiFi Connectivity - Winner: Zune
The current iPod features no Wi-fi connectivity whatsoever, Zune, however, is 802.11g Wifi enabled, and features a slew of sharing and broadcasting features.

Content - Winner: N/A
Right now the iPod, through iTunes, has thousands of songs, hundreds of TV shows, dozens of movies, and a handful of games to download for the device. As of this writing we still don’t know what all the Zune Marketplace will hold for Zune owners. But as we know, iPod has some preloaded music and videos.

Storage - Winner: iPod
iPod has 30GB, 60GB, 80GB, while at present Zune has only 30GB product.

Screen - Winner: Zune
iPod features a 2.5 inch diagonal screen, while the Zune has a slightly larger 3.0 inch diagonal screen.

FM Radio Capability - Winner: Zune
Zune comes with a built-in FM tuner. If you want to listen to radio on your iPod, you have to buy an accessory.

Music purchasing - Winner: Zune
With iTunes, if you want to buy music, it will cost you .99 cents per song, or you can purchase by the album. But with Zune Marketplace, You could subscribe to the marketplace for $14.99 a month with unlimited downloads for that month. You can also go for individual downloads. Purchase up to 50 songs (4000 Microsoft Points) with $50. Once you purchase Points, you can browse and purchase songs or albums through the Zune Marketplace for 79 Microsoft Points per track (roughly 99 cents). Microsoft Points, the coin for the Zune Marketplace realm, is a universal system that works across borders, including Xbox Live Marketplace and other Microsoft properties.

Does that mean the Zune is your best buy this holiday season?

That depends. If the Zune wireless music sharing is appealing to you, and you’re a Windows user, then Zune is probably your best choice. If you’re not interested in the Wifi and FM tuner, you will definetly want to look at the iPod.

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As high school students (and college) many of us seize our boredom by exploring the unknown or the haunted. Since it’s illegal and cops flock to the grounds of many of the abandoned sites we explore, I won’t endorse the idea of ghost hunting. However, for all you thrill seekers who are less than satisfied with normal Halloween rituals, let it be known that New York and New Jersey are prime turf for hauntings and abandoned buildings. Being to Kings Park in New York and the Purgatory House in New Jersey (both of which are populated with tons of Police), I must say both are quite creepy especially Kings Park. If you don’t believe in the paranormal, after going to Kings Park I guarantee you will (but you can get in trouble for trespassing). Anyway, if you must check out this site of New York “Haunted Places”- don’t worry there aren’t any hay rides or commercial places on there.

For the rest of you who don’t want to spend mischief night in the back of a cop car and alas the real reason I was supposed to write this article, a top ten scary movies list. I used to be really into horror movies, but if you don’t agree with my choices please don’t send hate mail. In an attempt to please everyone, I made myself sick (at times) from watching some inhumane movies just so this list would carry both great horror movies and classically disturbing films as well. Either way, good luck falling asleep. Enjoy!

“The Last House on the Left” (1972): I find realistic movies scarier than sci-fi/monster movies. I was forced to watch this movie (by my Mom) at the ripe age of 13. It shows what the sickos in the world will do to young, attractive girls. In short, don’t buy drugs from strangers or you might end up in a ditch somewhere.

“IT” (1990): Although the clown doll in Poltergeist was scary, IT brings the popular clown-phobia to surface in all of us. It is a little outdated and may not scare the crap out of you but it left its mark on me.

“Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” (1986): Based on Henry Lee Lucas the serial killer, this movie is almost unbearable because it’s based on a true story. Maybe I’m a coward but if I were you I wouldn’t watch it alone.

“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (2003): I was definitely thrown off by this remake. With Seventh Heaven (the obnoxiously over-acted show) star Jessica Biel I expected the acting to be bad to mediocre but was pleasantly surprised (and scared).

“Cannibal Holocaust” (1980): More creepy and demented than scary, this movie might just make you sick. Sadism, masochism and bestiality are only the bare bones of what really happens in this movie. Try it if you can stomach it.

“Suspiria” (1977): One of the better horror movies I have ever seen in terms of storyline and originality. I am usually not a fan of any movie made pre-1980 but you can count on this movie to scare the crap out of you without boring you to death.

“The Exorcist” (1973): Probably the best horror movie of all time. It never gets old and always manages to surprise me. Poor Linda Blair was typecast to all hell after it but she played her part perfectly.

“Blue Velvet” (1986): Well it’s no secret that David Lynch is effed up in the head and Blue Velvet surely proves that theory to be more than opinion but a universal truth. It’s best to be open-minded when watching this movie because it’s surely distinct from most other movies you will ever see. Disturbing and awkward, yes but distinct as well.

“The Hills Have Eyes” (2006): I absolutely had to include this movie on the list. I hated it more than any other movie I had seen and actually shut it off a few times. This movie takes no prisoners and the heroes are unlikely. Creepy, disgusting, violent and unbearable (if you’re into that kind of thing).

“Faces of Death” (1978): This movie has variations of creepy from eating monkey brains to cult initiations. I felt it deserved a place on the list because of the uproar it caused; being banned in 46 countries.

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In life, there is no such thing as a free lunch, but amazingly one can watch free movies. Free movies are those movies that are made for free distribution or have entered the public domain. Sometimes free movies may be downloaded from the Internet, which may be done legally or illegally.

Initially, this business started with free movie clips. Movie clips may be screened in a theatre before or after a full-length feature or advertised on certain sites on the Internet, but technology has changed. Movie players can now be downloaded free of charge over the Internet, including the Apple Quick Time Player, The Windows Media Player and The Real Media Player.

Such software can be used to play free movies from the Internet. There are hundreds of sites that offer movies for a small fee. Why spend a fortune on movie tickets when one can watch their favorite movies at a fraction of the price from the comfort of your personal computer? Film directories like Scour and Ifilm are like virtual multiplexes. The advent of free movie sites have made online movie watching a popular activity.

A good place to down load free movies is at ibiblio.org and archive.org. Both these sites have a growing collection of public domain movies that can be easily downloaded. It is legal to down load these movies as their copyrights have expired and hence they are in the public domain. An example is the classic Frank Capra film, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life”, which was termed as a free movie in the public domain for the last several years since its copyright had not been renewed.

Some of the popular free movie sites are Watch Free Movies Online, Shared Movies, Free Movies Now, Movie Download World, 123 Movie Download, Cinema Download, Netbroadcaster.com, and Singingfish. Some low fees sites include CinemaNow.com and Movie Flix.com. Downloading a movie with a broadband connection requires only a few minutes. The flipside to the free movie phenomenon is that it has made movie piracy easy.

The Napster experience of music piracy is threatening the motion picture industry in what is known as the Wrapster phenomenon. Microsoft’s new operating system will have strong anti-movie -piracy features to prevent illegal downloads.

There are a lot of sites on the market offering free downloads. The burden is on the customer to determine whether the movie is a legal or pirated copy. Sometimes, claims on the Internet maybe false. Most DVD’s cannot be downloaded from the net without paying a fee. Only those movies released into the public domain such as when a director has not sought a copyright can be actually downloaded free of cost.

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The publication of the sixth edition of Dispatx Art Collective, which coincides with a complete redesign of the website, continues the practice of bringing together exciting original works from a diverse group of contributors. Curating and developing works from poets, photographers, painters and writers, for this edition we once again present an extremely diverse set of responses to the notion of Improvised Maps. These works include a dozen projects developed online over the last five months and seven additional submissions.The Improvised Maps theme has a particular relevance for the work of Dispatx. Notions of connectivity, exploration and interpretation have strong correlates in the approach of the website, where public interaction with both ongoing and completed works serves to promote creative inquiry on collective, collaborative and individual scales. The theme also associates strongly with the creative method - the organising process that translates creative vision to creative product - the visibility of which is so important to what we do.

Each published project relates to the Improvised Maps theme in different ways, and there are similarities in approach and form between many of them. All projects demonstrate a methodological relation to the theme, some having made this relation more pronounced. By constructing a work using base materials over which the author had limited control, both Karen O’Rourke’s Eavesdroplets and Lawrence Frith’s Verso-Recto demonstrated improvisational techniques inherent in any creative practice in an exaggerated manner. The title of Frith’s piece suggested a method that is, from the outset, back-to front, or at least interchangeable in its direction. Any initial emphasis on contrivance in method in these projects eventually made the manoeuvrability and adaptability of the artists that more apparent. In effectively forcing correlations between sources, piecing a puzzle together, these two projects relate to (LIS) by Miguel Aguirre Vega. The artist’s process was based on the classification and publication of objects that formed part of his experience in the Portuguese capital. In the final presentation he shows us his attempt to organise his recollections in order to recreate step by step his first and last impressions of this distant, almost alien city.

A similar approach of retrospective rearrangement was employed by Denis Masi in Stories. By making considered alterations to a series of photographic triptychs, ultimately opening up sub-triptychs, Denis was able to coordinate subtle reformulations of deceptively simple compositions. The complexities of the images were gradually fine-tuned until more and more layers of narrative potential emerged, intentionally playing with our natural inclination to read into such sequentially suggestive images. This expansion of sequential order, and the references to cinematic freeze frames, forms a central part of another work exploring the construction and dismantling of an event. Christine Rusche’s Snatch, a photographic account of the brief existence of an installation - a room drawing that creates a kind of imploding landscape, a conflagration between planes and vectors, the virtual and the actual - supplies obtuse, almost poetic captions to the stages of this strangely hallucinatory overlaying of ‘impossible’ perspectives. It further reinforces the concepts of narrative mapping emphasised in Denis Masi’s project.

Metron 06 is a project that, in addition to exploring ideas of orientation and measurement, documented a residency period in a city art gallery. This external activity presented the artists Diane Jones-Parry and Annabel Ralphs with a ‘partner’ space with its own parallel approach based on an entirely different register of method and presentation. Also exploring this notion of method registers, Santiago Roncagliolo’s Honestidad Brutal (Brutal Honesty) presents a narrative essay that reflects on the effects that blogging can have on a writer’s style. The essay becomes an account of how the writer’s established working practice was disrupted by factors made visible through his blogging practice.

The collaboration of Enrique Vila-Matas, Suicidios Ejemplares (Exemplary Suicides), is a powerful synthesis that reflects not only aspects of the Improvised Maps theme, but also one of the motifs of his work - the different maps that can be extracted from a city, the routes, the points that become references. We can observe the expanded development of this concept in Eli Goldstein and Kjersti Wikstrøm’s Transcendence. This project used the resources of a socialised internet offered by Dispatx in an exhaustive manner. The artists, each located in a different city, used the site as a bridge for collaborative work, relating also to other artists working on the Improvised Maps theme and taking full advantage of public interaction and commentary. The project constructed matrices of personal location using a large series of references, constituting place through psycho-cartographic asides and unifying dispersed designs of two vibrant cities through preconceptions, perceptions, images and scale models of the place itself. It is clear that what is demonstrated is that the improvised is closed when information is organized and the connections within it become evident. When browsing through this project, one can get a sense of a labyrinthine city, a metropolis constructed from the personal experience of each of the artists from fragments of Berlin and New York.

An interpretation of mapping in relation to the cataloguing of material, broadly reflecting on the notion of historical archives and their implications for recorded history, is observed in Royalties_naturalistas | Archive_Gay by Cristián Gomez Moya. The resultant distillation of this research, holographic images of Chilean flora and fauna, function like new icons that symbolise the amplitude of the existing archive - to represent the representation of a country and a culture. Investigating a specific event from new perspectives, or through previously unconnected sources, formed a important part of Wildfire by Andrea Brady. From significant background research, the author presents a long poem, remarkable in its use of imagery and language, which also provides a platform from which the reader is able to access the interconnected material that formed the basis of its composition.

Presented as a possible area of investigation when the theme was announced, correlation has been explored in two music-based projects, Fluence by Dominic Lash and David Stent and Recording Exchange by Jeff Thompson, either in any correspondence between score and sound or between specific instructions and free interpretation. Though both projects worked with groups of improvising musicians, Recording Exchange initially developed as a mail-art project that charted unseen intervals in order to use them as the basis for a musical performance in New York. The scores were the output of paper recording devices, much like magnetic tape - the carbon paper acting like the particles of iron oxide. The performance of this piece in a gallery space has clear parallels with Metron 06, where, in collaboration with some of the musicians involved with Fluence, specific pieces of music were performed in the exhibition space. In Fluence, the contrast between precise instructions and a free reading of the projected graphs produced an interesting tension between immediate, ephemeral interpretations of the lines and the notion that one must to be able to ‘read’ the same information in some way in order to respond.

In Lie of the Land, John Goto interprets the theme of Improvised Maps using a process of seamless and informal juxtaposition, referencing the technology of Google Earth. Satellite imagery and political comment strike a balance with personal reflection and wry humour. On a completely different scale - moving from images of outer space to inner, cellular space - is Daniel Canogar’s Intimate Mappings. The work consists of an installation that displays magnifications of the body, spaces so internalised and abstracted that we ourselves cannot recognize them even when they are presented on perceptible scale. Using a kaleidoscope of microscopic forms, colours and textures related to the human reproductive system, the work contrasts a shared biology with notions of privacy.

Icy Cold, a short narrative by Barbara Rosenthal, describes a journey in which it is difficult to reconstruct the situation of the protagonist. The story does provide a mental map, a spirituality generated by the rhythm of the writing as much as by the imagery it describes. Palabras_, a web-based project developed by Sharon Daniel and a group of collaborators, relates back to Transcendence in its recognition of the possibilities of the internet for collaborative work on an international scale. The project explores the ways in which the tools of socialized internet can be helpful in establishing both online and offline communities. Another project using the internet is NYSoundmap, developed by, amongst others, Andrea Polli, Michelle Nagai and Andrea Callard. The project focuses on the sound world of New York City and works to develop diverse forms of participation within the local community in order to establish an organic, evolving sonorous map of the city.

The nineteen projects included in this edition constitute a metamap of the Improvised Maps theme. The projects have been organised using a number of improvised forms and share a number of references to specific notions highlighted in the theme. These points give us some indication of a general trajectory to the edition. The organization of the projects also functions as another way of analysing concepts such as archiving and cataloguing, which can be clearly observed in this text. The level of collaboration in this edition has been more visible than in previous issues and has operated on diverse levels. The artists have shown a great capacity to absorb the processes of others over a period of intensive development, including the contributions made by visitors in comments and suggestions, providing viewpoints and interpretations that otherwise may not have occurred to the artists.

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There are three types of casino card games — Poker, Black Jack and Baccarat. These games are played in almost every casino around the world. Though, some people play for leisure, there are those who gamble and bet. There are different types of Poker, Black Jack, and Baccarat. The card games played in casinos usually involve a lot of money on bets and the stakes are high.

Poker is played with a standard deck of 52 cards. A deck of cards consists of four suits, spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. Each suit has 13 cards. At times the game calls for more or less cards — the most common variation being the addition of wild cards such as jokers. Sometimes the ace might be the lowest rank card instead of the highest rank card. In some games, it may be both the lowest and the highest rank card. The joker is included in all combinations. The use of the joker depends on the type of the game. Any other card can also become the joker. The number of cards dealt depends on the game being played. In draw poker five cards are dealt, while in stud poker it may vary from five to seven. The other types of poker are Caribbean poker and Omaha Hi.

Black Jack or 21 originated from the French game called ‘Vingt-et-un.’ In American casinos, the rules are simplified but rigid. It is played with a pack of 52 cards. More often two different packs of cards are used. In the casinos, there are constant dealers. The dealer shuffles the cards and a player cuts the pack. Cards are dealt in the clockwise direction. Different methods of dealing are used depending on the stakes involved and the betting.

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I don’t normally like to drop names, but I learned the fine art of gambling by one of the most famous gamblers in the United States, a gentleman by the name of John Patrick. I met him about 20 years ago and have never forgotten him since. I’ve gone on to make a nice side living, besides my Internet marketing business, from going to Atlantic City and taking the casinos for a few bucks. I almost never lose because of the methods he taught me. I’m going to share some poker tips with you in this article that will apply to any game you play, whether it’s Texas Hold Em, or even just 5 card draw.

The first thing that John Patrick taught me, and I will never forget this as long as I live, is that there is no such thing as luck and you can’t beat the laws of probability. If you think I am wrong, try playing through a night of any casino game and see if you come home a winner when consistently trying to beat the odds. Trust me, it won’t happen.

Let me give you an example of what I mean by the laws of probability and not being able to beat the odds. Let’s take a game of 7 card stud. You get 2 cards down and 1 card up. Before you do anything at all, the first thing that you have to realize is that 42.86% of your hand has just been dealt to you. So if you look at your hole cards and you’re holding a 2 clubs and a 4 diamonds and your show card is a king of spades, you can right now get the thought out of your mind that you might draw another king or maybe even 2 and pull this hand out. This is a dead hand from the get go and you should fold up and wait for the next hand. Most people will not do this and simply play through and “hope” for luck. Like I said, there is no such thing as luck. If you get nothing else out of this article, you have to learn to recognize a dead hand in 7 card after your first 3 cards. If you’ve got a pair of aces in the hole, it still doesn’t mean you’ve got a sure thing, but at the very least, you’ve got a fighting chance and should hang in there.

Another tip I am going to leave you with, and you can take this to the bank, is never bluff unless you know for a fact that you can hide your tell. And trust me, everybody has a tell, whether it be scratching your nose when you have a bad hand or sitting up higher in your seat when you have a good hand. If you’re playing against good players, they’re going to read you like a cheap novel. Bad hands, fold. Good hands, stay in.

True story. I was playing Texas Hold Em against 4 very good players. I must have folded in at least 75% of the hands after the first 3 cards. I still ended up taking the whole pot. Why? Because I had patience and only bet when I knew I had a good chance of winning. The others around the table couldn’t figure out how I did it. It’s called discipline. Learn it, or find something else to do with your time unless you have money to throw away.

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Conventional wisdom contends that sports and entertainment wagers can’t be equated because, like apples and oranges, they’re two different things.

Somewhat strangely, though, considering the demographic groups to which many entertainment/political propositions are crafted to appeal, sports gamblers are their biggest bettors (although more than a few little old ladies from Pasadena eagerly await the Academy Awards every year).

If you don’t believe it, watch the frenzy on Internet gaming posting forums if Pinny takes down “American Idol” odds for even a few hours.

Teeney-boppers may comprise the target audience, but they’re not the ones dialing island sportsbooks.

“It’s difficult to compare entertainment props to our sports props,” a Bodog.com book manager said.

“Sports props are usually the interest of stats-crazy sports fanatics, whereas entertainment props are more directed toward water cooler bragging rights.

“People take personal pride in predicting Greg Oden’s points totals, but they’ll tell everyone they know if they correctly predicted the winner of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ or if they have placed a few dollars on who will father Britney’s next child (Bodog’s options include Bill Clinton, George Bush and, at 12/1, Hugh Hefner).”

Nevada gamers only allow betting on pure college and pro athletic competitions, along with car, buggy and four-legged creature racing, all things that don’t involve balloting.

No Oscars, no Emmys, no Grammys, no nothing — except boxing.

Go figure.

(Hmmm … could that sound of music be Sin City coffers jingling in anticipation of next month’s De La Hoya-Mayweather megamatch?

Word on the street is it will be Vegas’ biggest ring payday ever — bigger than than Frazier-Ali, Leonard-Hearns and the infamous Tyson-Holyfield biting bout a decade ago.)

Betting on politics — a “sport” in many minds, especially as it concerns American elections — is very popular, except in the USA, where wagering on voting is verboten.

The grapevine whispered that several high-profile US gamblers nevertheless supported themselves by strategically betting GW futures online in 2004.

This year, some Caribbean bet shops already have narrowed their 2008 US Presidential wagering fields to a trio of candidates (Olympic/The Greek) in each major party.

Others list lengthy candidate rosters (Gamblers Palace) or further have cut bait by reducing the proposition to whether Democrats or Republicans (CRIS) will prevail.

Hillary — but watch out for Barack! — and Rudy are current favorites.

The former New York City mayor appears to be the public choice in a showdown with the ex-First Lady, though polls indicate many people figure ticket headliners won’t be determined for another 10 or so months and that HRC might have a better shot at winning the nomination than a general election.

Be wary for now, however.

Some books try to hook the suckers with fishy lures, such as listing foreign-born California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger among GOP hopefuls or former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who already has withdrawn, among donkey prospects.

Actually, anything goes offshore: hurricanes, global warming, celebrity babies’ daddies, international-impact elections (British, French, Canadian, Australian), even America’s annual high school spelling bee.

The latest Don Imus potty-mouth incident that shook Earth has begat wide-ranging speculation about the shock jock’s future in a BetUS.com prop, which asks what’s in his currently snowy crystal ball.

Writing a tell-all bio is plus $2.00, while Imus landing a gig on “Today” is plus $150.00.

Other choices include becoming an Obama campaign coordinator, joining Howard Stern at Sirius, getting divorced and joining the staff of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.

Reality TV alone has spawned a galaxy of wagering propositions, beginning in the mid-1990s with “Survivor” and continuing into today with productions such as “The Apprentice,” “Big Brother” and “The Bachelor.”

Remember the brouhaha that ensued at Bodog.com when someone at CBS allegedly blabbed after taping about who won an early “Survivor?”

The “eye” made sure that didn’t happen again.

If you’re a “Sopranos” fan, check out Bodog.com’s “prop culture.”

“The Family” boasts more collective props than the New York Yankees.

Bodog.com captured worldwide intrigue with a prop that asked if Heather Mills, the estranged wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, would lose her prosthetic leg during taping of “Dancing with the Stars.”

She still was alive, leg attached, entering this week’s elimination.

Another wanted to know if an “American Idol” contestant would throw up on stage.

Just about every offshore bet shop has numbers on who will win this season’s series, described as a singing competition, and all favor Melinda Doolittle.

Likewise, they indicate Phil Stacey will be the next contestant to go, though prices on both props vary, illustrating once more the value of shopping around.

Ditto re: Sanjaya Malakar, the mop-haired teen from India who has startled observers with his staying power.

Now 5/2 at Bodog.com and plus $2.85 at CRIS, oddsmakers obviously have begun paying serious attention to the one-time bow-wow.

“‘The American Idol’ props have been extremely popular even amongst the most experienced gamblers,” the Bodog.com sportsbook source said.

“‘Idol’s’ popularity has reached into the stratosphere when you consider the fact you have the quitessential anti-Idol, Howard Stern, talking up the show and encouraging his listeners to vote.

“Of course Stern being Stern, he wants his listeners to vote for the worst ‘Idol’ contestant, which has helped keep both the performance and results show consistently at the top of the ratings pile.

“The nature of ‘American Idol’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ allows bettors a chance at a do over; if their initial pick is eliminated they can still pick one of the remaining hopefuls to win it all.”

Brian Gabrielle is a documented member of the Professional Handicappers League.
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