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This Sunday night, the MLB Network will be broadcasting "Holy Land Hardball," a documentary about baseball in Israel, at 10 PM.
It is the story of the founding of the Israel Baseball League, and the film was made by Brett Rapkin, who I had the pleasure of working with on "Impossible to Forget: The Story of the '67 Boston Red Sox."
And one of the driving forces behind the founding of the league was Dan Duquette, the former general manager of the Red Sox from 1994-2002. Kevin Youkilis, as well as former MLB players Art Shamsky, Ken Holtzman and Ron Blomberg make appearances in the documentary.
The founding of the league was the dream of a Boston businessman named Larry Baras, and in 2007, it came true. He had a lot of obstacles to overcome. Here's the trailer from the film:
I haven't seen the film yet, but I look forward to checking it out. I love the last line on the trailer of "Holy Land Hardball": "It only took 5,767 years."
Thursday, January 07, 2010
For Your Viewing Pleasure
3 comments:
- SoSock said...
Hey man, I put this comment on FB first. Figured I'd copy it here -
This is something that came to my attention through our rabbi's office. He included a link to the documentary in our newsletter a few months ago. I think it's pretty damn awesome.
Unfortunately there is no denying that baseball is not prominent in the Jewish culture. There is only the one temple in our town so just about every Jewish youngster that plays baseball in any of the 6 Little Leagues in our county is a member. Yet in a typical year there are no more than 3 or 4 kids that play ball at our temple of 400 or so families. But we're working on it, we have a softball team now, and this story is a welcome sign to me, being the baseball devotee that I am. - 11:15 PM
- The Omnipotent Q said...
Hope you enjoy watching the documentary, Tim. Let me know what you think afterwards. I'll be watching Sunday, too.
- Peter N said...
As will I. Thanks John.


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©2000 Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D.; (P)2000 Simon & Schuster, Inc., All Rights Reserved, SOUND IDEAS is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.
I'm a mom. I have drama in my life. I don't want books with the F-bomb, nor graphic violence. I read for fun and to bring my family together. I read for reducing stress levels. We have never had a television in our home and our children are now mid twenties to 19. We listen together and look for belly-wrenching laughter. So what is it like to live without a TV? Awesomely educational and inspirational. Each new book is a marvel.
"Very enjoyable!"
I have listened to this audio and enjoyed it a lot. I will pre-warn other listeners that a lot of numbers are given in this volume and it may be more helpful to have a paper copy at hand. The statistics are given throughout and this can sometimes be confusing. I advise other listeners to slow down their thinking and really listen to the words. Don't multi-task while listening to this tome, you'll miss the good stuff.
Multi-millionaires don't spend their money, they save it. They look for opportunities to get more for their dollar than just trying to appear rich.
The number of multi-millionaires that have been in their homes for just a few short years are very few, most have lived in the same place for 10+ years. Being wealthy isn't about how much a person paid for their car, but about which car to drive for an over-all cost per mile.
A good book to make a person think. If the statistics bother you, pick up a paper copy to read along.
"Paradigm Change."
Focuses on the behavior and thus making a compelling case for personal money management.
i am slowly changing my attitude towards money and it's working.
"No Millionaire Next Door"
Do not go into this book expecting it to be as good as _The Millionaire Next Door_ (which this author co-wrote). It isn't. This book is a mess and isn't even sure what it is about. Feels like everyone was so eager to follow up the smash hit as quickly as possible that they forgot all about editing. There are some interesting (and useful) new tidbits on the habits of those who have accumulated wealth, e.g., what kind of house and neighborhood does the typical millionaire live in, but most of this volume is spent moralizing about the American education system. This is where the book becomes schizo. One the one hand it shows that most of those who have gone on to become millionaires did not do well on standardized tests, and therefore did not go on to grad or pro schools, or even college (except doctors and lawyers, obviously, but most of those aren't millionaires). But then on the other hand it decries those who discourage those students who score poorly on such tests from going on to higher education, e.g., relating the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But I am left asking why this is something to bemoan. The author seems to accept that the tests are fairly accurate predictors of academic performance, so if future millionaires don't and won't do well in these settings (for whatever reasons), why not let them go and do what they do best (and better than most) as quickly as possible? And as for MLK, why is he in this book? Did he become a millionaire? Save your money (better yet, invest it in a good mutual), and go check the first book out from the library and read it again.
"The Millionaire Next Door is the better choice"
I've listened to both The Millionaire Next Door, and The Millionaire Mind. If you've read one, you've gotten most of the content expressed in both books, and don't need the other, and the Millionaire Next Door was the better choice because the content was much more translatable. This book seemed like it was a lot of the think positive and you'll reach your goals, which I found to be patronizing and out of touch at times. It was an interesting listen, but not a very practical application to real life.
"Like football commentary"
Once, while listening to Monday Night Football, I heard the announcer state that a certain team was in trouble because "only 50%" of teams in that situation had ever recovered from such a point deficit/yard loss/injury etc. Such statistics are nonsense because the announcer could have just as easily said that the team had a great shot because a full 50% of teams in the same situation had turned things around.
Dr. Stanely does the same here. He takes a statistic and shoves it at you without telling the whole story. On several occassions he spoke of how a percentage of his survey takers reported activity X was important to their success. The percentage would be less than 50%. Dr. Stanley, however, would not bother to explain how the majority accomplished their success without performing activity X.
Dr. Stanley also contradicts himself at many points in the book. In one chapter, he explains that integrity is absolutely key to success. If you want to be a millionaire in one generation, you should make it a point to be honest with everyone. A chapter later, Dr. Stanley holds up a man as an example of the type of success he's talking about. This man beat the odds by becoming a top executive in the carpet business without having completed college, let alone graduating from a top ranked school. How did he do it? Dr. Stanley makes a point of the fact that the man had a special gift for sales. He also mentions, hurriedly and in passing, that the man LIED to his company about his education level. He informed this company on his application and in his interview that he was a college graduate. Hardly a man of integrity but undoubtedly successful. Dr. Stanley does not elaborate how one example reconciles with the other.
This book was a waste of time. Nothing is here that isn't common sense (work hard, love your job, invest wisely) or that isn't contradicted later (be honest, unless it pays to lie). Give this one a pass.
"Interesting Information"
This is one of many books that makes becoming wealthy seem accessible to anyone. It focuses on common characteristics of millionaires that wouldn't be obvious to the average person, like the importance of choosing a good mate or the kind of furniture the wealthy buy. It also discusses more likely topics like how to choose a house wisely. The book is redundant at times, but the messages are interesting and sink in. However, this book does not really deal with how to make money in the first place.
"It is about time"
I was very impressed with this book. At first, I too was somewhat skeptical, thinking it might be another one of those gee-whiz books. However, Dr. Stanley did his research and in eloquent language, blows the cover on the wealth myth. So many people in America are either trying to be the Jones or catch up with them, that we are spending our way to poverty and financial bondage. Stanley sheds important light on the truth about wealth and those who know how to acquire it and keep it. I recommend this book to anyone that is serious about true prosperity.
"a great book to learn to live economically & well"
this book & the Millianaire next door are terific books to help you learn to live better and wealthier
" NEW Mindset! "
Whole NEW MINDSET! I loved it! Relatively by nature! #Francina# :-) Great Book to READ!
"Un Audiolibro utile e ben fatto"
Molto interessante e molto ben documentato, un ottimo lavoro. L'ho ascoltato con estremo interesse. Ok
"Excellent work"
This is a fascinating insight into the Millionaire mind, this is the kind of book that you need to know. It can get a little heavy going at times but take it in smaller chunks and you will learn a lot. I have listened to this many times since downloading it.
"Goes Into Great Detail"
I have just finished listening to The Millionaire Mind. It goes into great detail of how the millionaire mind thinks. I am aspiring to become a millionairess and this audio book this absolutely perfect for grea inspiration and guidance. This book has become my mentor!
"Excelent work based on real survey data"
Audio book allows you to listen while driving a car or doing other things, but for this book I also purchased a paper version so I could listen to it and read along to gain maximums concentration. it is that good!
"information to concider"
Useful informatiom thats worth to know and probably helpful to consider when doing certaine types of decissions.
"Useful insight into the mindset of millionaires"
Good narration contributes to keeping this book interesting throughout. Like all long audiobooks, it does tend to get a bit repetitive towards the end but in general, this is a thorough examination of how millionaires think about and spend their money as well as how they earn it. I'm sure most people could take a lot from this book and the simple examples given seem obvious once you know about them.
"Excellent insights and research findings"
Super book. Real good insights into the lives of the millionaires from spending habits to priorities to wives personalities. Lots to learn from this if you want to be a millionaire. All starts from within.


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Maryland's football players are disappointed about their freefall in the bowl selection process.
So is coach Ralph Friedgen.
And so, especially, are Maryland fans.
So while Friedgen makes the argument fans need to show up to demonstrate there is support for his program, there's another take that needs to be offered up.
No one seems to be making it, though.
Let's suppose fans were willing to buy a roundtrip flight to Orlando (minimum $200), spend two nights around Disney (another $200), buy a ticket (most are $65 a pop, though some outside each school's ticket allotment are as cheap as $25), get around town somehow (go ahead and check out the rental car rates during that week) and buy a couple nice meals. That doesn't even account for things like parking at the airport and other travel incidentals.
That's a lot of numbers to toss around. How about a very conservative estimate of $550 for one person and $825 for two people to make that trip.
Meanwhile, at the Military Bowl, the best tickets are $90 (a bit pricey, and more on that in a bit) and upper bowl seats at $55. Parking is $20. One local fan could do that game in $75 plus concessions, while a couple could make it work for $130.
(There are $25 tickets available, but those don't appear to be included in Maryland's allotment. Crafty.)
The point is, if someone was willing to invest $550 or more (granted, for a nice getaway), why wouldn't they be willing to plunk down less than 15 percent of that for another game?
Sure, there are some obvious reasons. It will probably be cold, and that's valid. RFK Stadium is an architectural relic from a time cities believed seven-story cereal bowls could suit all their needs, though it's not unfair to describe the Florida Citrus Bowl as a Depression-era erector set. Facing a 6-6 team of any lineage doesn't generally feel like a great way to end a season.
But it's pretty clear economic reasons send Maryland reeling down the pecking order. And a rational economic argument --- if you would have been willing to pay seven times as much for another trip, why wouldn't you buy a ticket to this game --- probably should be considered.
That said, it's understandable why there might be some backlash to spending money on a pricey bowl:
Pick | School | Game | Tix |
1. | Virginia Tech |
Orange | $195/$160/$150/$135/$95/$65 |
2. | Florida State |
Chick-Fil-A | $80 |
3. | N.C. State |
Champs Sports |
$65 |
4. | Miami | Sun | $60/$50/$40/$30 |
5. | Clemson | Meineke Car Care |
$95/$75/$40 |
6. | North Carolina |
Music City |
$80/$60/$39 |
7. | Georgia Tech |
Independence | $47/$37/$14 |
8. | Maryland | Military | $90/$55 |
9. | Boston College |
Fight Hunger |
$75/$50 |
(It should be noted Georgia Tech is selling half of its 10,000-seat allotment for $14; the other prices for the Independence Bowl are general public rates).
In any case, the best seats available as part of the school's ticket allotment are higher for Maryland than most of the other ACC fan bases. Sitting in the upper deck won't set Terps fans back as much as supporters of other teams in other venues.
Regardless of whether the Military Bowl tickets are costlier than they should be, Maryland is only going to do better in bowl selection in the future if it wins really big or its fans buy tickets now. And if they were willing to book flights and buy hotel rooms for a mini-vacation, it isn't unrealistic for Maryland to plead with those fans to spend a lot less money to provide the program a bump despite the general disappointment of playing in a cold-weather venue.


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- Sewing makes littles people very hungry... have lots of healthy snack breaks. Berry picking work well, too.
- Crafting and sewing need to be balanced with a good deal physical activity to guarantee focus- swinging, tag, jump rope, hula hoops, swimming, and badminton are all great bets in the summer.
- Dolls and stuffed animals are wonderful teaching tools. Make them mini versions (we made skirts) of something that will be made larger next.
- Some children want their hands held as they learn new things, others insist on a "hands off"approach and want to figured it out themselves. Determine who you've got in your group early on so that you can meet their needs.
- No matter what, 5 young and fairly new sewers will still need all of your attention almost every second of the day. Have alternate independent crafts and activities to entice them while they wait their turn. Yarn (finger knitting) watercolors, clay, paper and markers, duct tape (the craze for our second summer in a row).
- Teach older children new skills first, and then partner them up with younger ones.
- There can never be too much positive feedback. Praise good listening. Praise good safety skills. Praise kind words of encouragement to other sewers.
- End the week with an open house/gallery... a sew and tell for all of the parents. Have your stitchers model any clothing and serve lemonade.
Friday, July 12, 2013
It was a full and extremely creative week around here. Running a sewing camp for girls was a completely new experience for me. It was truly a melding of all of the things I've ever done. But even though plenty came naturally, I still felt like a newbie at times. Here's a few things that I learned and will repeat:
Project list: lavender stuffed softies, tyvek zipper pouches (yes a 7 year old can insert a zipper!), skirts of all sizes, tote bags and purses.
Here's to girl power!
Above all... trust their abilities and believe in their vision... and then they will do the same!
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Oh Maya the photo of the girls "in full swing" is so wonderful. Bliss. And then all they have MADE! So beautiful. It looks like a huge success, which absolutely does not surprise me. There just couldn't be a better teacher than you for this. Makes me think back to the circus week you made some years back. Love your ideas.
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PnP-X IP Bus Enumerator won't start, if the following system components are stopped or disabled:
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"The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank"
Jonathan Raban
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
Will Rogers
"Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers."
Tom Peters
"For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted."
"I've never been tempted myself. It's really just something that's got to grab you. I'm more of a mountain boy than an ice slider."
Colin Jackson
"The calls keep coming but at the moment there is nothing that really tempts me, ... I was tempted when Fulham offered me the director of football last year."
Chris Kamara
"It's come down to where if you got no way to pay the bills, you get tempted to do something illegally."
Brian Edwards
"the most tempting drug to come along in decades."
David Dinges
"A fantasy of mine is to be tempted by the devil with a miraculous machine, a machine that could be hooked up to my brain and instantly produce finished art from the images in my mind. I'm sure it's the devil who'd have such a device, because it would devour the artistic soul, or half of it anyway."
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New Joint Venture, to be named "PGT Healthcare," has the potential to reach double-digit sales growth and $4 billion in sales towards end-of-decade
CINCINNATI & JERUSALEM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) today announced the creation of a new partnership and joint venture (JV) in consumer health care. The JV, to be named PGT Healthcare, will be headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and will operate in essentially all markets outside of North America. The partnership between P&G and Teva will also develop new brands for the North American market.
PGT Healthcare, a new model in the industry, will focus on best-in-class development and state-of-the-art commercialization of branded OTC medicines. The JV will bring together each company's complementary capabilities and existing over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. As a result, PGT Healthcare expects to accelerate growth for its parent companies and compete for leadership in the fast-growing, $200 billion consumer health care industry. The partnership will start from a solid base of approximately $1.3 billion in annual sales with the potential to grow to $4 billion in annual sales towards the end of the decade.
"This unique and transformational partnership creates one of the broadest and deepest OTC product portfolios and geographic footprints in the industry," said Shlomo Yanai, Teva's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Each company's leading brands will experience tremendous growth by combining our strengths. We will be better together."
Combined Capabilities for Faster Growth
PGT Healthcare blends both companies' core strengths and capabilities to facilitate rapid expansion into new countries and categories. P&G and Teva believe the combination of each company's strengths positions the JV well for double-digit sales growth - ahead of the market and beyond what each company alone was expecting to deliver.
"P&G's partnership with Teva creates a combined set of capabilities that is unmatched in the industry, " said Bob McDonald, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of P&G. "Starting today our combined consumer health care business will now offer more branded OTC products to more consumers in more parts of the world."
Entry into More Markets, More Categories
To begin accelerating growth immediately, and to reach the potential $4 billion in annual sales towards the end of the decade, with continuous strong growth beyond, the companies plan to:
PGT Healthcare will be led by a management team comprised of experienced senior leaders from both companies, including CEO Briain de Buitleir from P&G, and COO Eli Shani from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. A supervisory board representing both parent companies will govern the venture. Tom Finn, P&G's President of Global Health Care, will be chairman of this supervisory board.
In connection with the formation of this JV, P&G has sold its OTC plants in Greensboro, North Carolina (Vicks production) and Phoenix, Arizona (Metamucil production) and transferred the employees of both plants to Teva. As part of the partnership, Teva will be the manufacturer and supplier for the PGT Healthcare business and P&G's North American OTC business.
About Procter & Gamble
P&G touches and improves the lives of about 4.4 billion people around the world with its portfolio of trusted, quality brands. The Company's leadership brands include Pampers®, Tide®, Ariel®, Always®, Whisper®, Pantene®, Mach3®, Bounty®, Dawn®, Fairy®, Gain®, Pringles®, Charmin®, Downy®, Lenor®, Iams®, Crest®, Oral-B®, Duracell®, Olay®, Head & Shoulders®, Wella®, Gillette®, Braun®, Fusion®, Ace®, Febreze®, and Ambi Pur®. With operations in about 80 countries, P&G brands are available in more than 180 countries worldwide. Please visit http://www.pg.com for the latest news and in-depth information about P&G and its brands.
About Teva
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) is a leading global pharmaceutical company, committed to increasing access to high-quality healthcare by developing, producing and marketing affordable generic drugs as well as innovative and specialty pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Headquartered in Israel, Teva is the world's largest generic drug maker, with a global product portfolio of more than 1,300 molecules and a direct presence in about 60 countries. Teva's branded businesses focus on CNS, oncology, pain, respiratory and women's health therapeutic areas as well as biologics. Teva currently employs approximately 45,000 people around the world and reached $16.1 billion in net sales in 2010.
P&G Forward-Looking Statements
All statements, other than statements of historical fact included in this release or presentation, are forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on financial data, market assumptions and business plans available only as of the time the statements are made, which may become out of date or incomplete. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other factors. Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and investors must recognize that events could differ significantly from our expectations. In addition to the risks and uncertainties noted in this release or presentation, there are certain factors that could cause actual results for any quarter or annual period to differ materially from those anticipated by some of the statements made. These include: (1) the ability to achieve business plans, including growing existing sales and volume profitably despite high levels of competitive activity and an increasing volatile economic environment, especially with respect to the product categories and geographical markets (including developing markets) in which the Company has chosen to focus; (2) the ability to successfully manage ongoing acquisition, divestiture and joint venture activities to achieve the cost and growth synergies in accordance with the stated goals of these transactions without impacting the delivery of base business objectives; (3) the ability to successfully manage ongoing organizational changes designed to support our growth strategies, while successfully identifying, developing and retaining key employees, especially in key growth markets where the depth of skilled employees is limited; (4) the ability to manage and maintain key customer relationships; (5) the ability to maintain key manufacturing and supply sources (including sole supplier and plant manufacturing sources); (6) the ability to successfully manage regulatory, tax and legal requirements and matters (including product liability, patent, intellectual property, and tax policy), and to resolve pending matters within current estimates; (7) the ability to resolve the pending competition law inquiries in Europe within current estimates; (8) the ability to successfully implement, achieve and sustain cost improvement plans in manufacturing and overhead areas, including the Company's outsourcing projects; (9) the ability to successfully manage currency (including currency issues in certain countries, such as Venezuela, China and India), debt, interest rate and commodity cost exposures and significant credit or liquidity issues; (10) the ability to manage continued global political and/or economic uncertainty and disruptions, especially in the Company's significant geographical markets, due to terrorist and other hostile activities or natural disasters (including the civil unrest in the Middle East and the Japan earthquake and tsunami) and/or disruptions to credit markets resulting from a global, regional or national credit crisis; (11) the ability to successfully manage competitive factors, including prices, promotional incentives and trade terms for products; (12) the ability to obtain patents and respond to technological advances attained by competitors and patents granted to competitors; (13) the ability to successfully manage increases in the prices of raw materials used to make the Company's products; (14) the ability to develop effective sales, advertising and marketing programs; (15) the ability to stay on the leading edge of innovation, maintain a positive reputation on our brands and ensure trademark protection; and (16) the ability to rely on and maintain key information technology systems (including Company and third-party systems) and the security over such systems and the data contained therein. For additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from those projected herein, please refer to our most recent 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K reports.
Teva Forward-Looking Statement
This release contains forward-looking statements, which express the current beliefs and expectations of management. Such statements are based on management's current beliefs and expectations and involve a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause our future results, performance or achievements to differ significantly from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include risks relating to: the ability of the partnership and the partners to achieve expected results and expectations regarding growth of the partnership's revenues and its share in the OTC market, the partnership's ability to successfully develop and commercialize additional pharmaceutical products and to register existing pharmaceutical products in additional territories, the introduction of competing products, the partnership's ability to identify new markets for its products, the ability of P&G and Teva to effectively utilize their respective strengths and to maximize their respective advantages with respect to the operation of the partnership, the extent to which any manufacturing or quality control problems damage our reputation for high quality production or our ability to supply products, the effects of competition on sales of the partnership's products, the impact of continuing consolidation of our distributors and customers, the ability to identify, consummate and successfully integrate recent and future acquisitions, interruptions in supply chain or problems with information technology systems that adversely affect complex manufacturing processes and supply processes, any failures to comply with any regulatory requirements, exposure to currency fluctuations and restrictions as well as credit risks, adverse effects of political or economical instability, major hostilities or acts of terrorism on our significant worldwide operations, increased government scrutiny in both the U.S. and Europe of our agreements with brand companies, dependence on the effectiveness of the partners' trademarks, patents and other protections intellectual properties related to the partnership's products, the ability to achieve expected results through R&D and marketing efforts, the difficulty of predicting U.S. Food and Drug Administration, European Medicines Agency and other regulatory authority approvals, potentially significant impairments of intangible assets and goodwill, potential increases in tax liabilities resulting from challenges to our intercompany arrangements and the arrangements between Teva companies and the partnership, our potential exposure to product liability claims, the termination or expiration of governmental programs or tax benefits, current economic conditions, any failure to retain key personnel or to attract additional executive and managerial talent, environmental risks and other factors that are discussed in our Annual Report on Form 20-F and other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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President Obama Gave Speaker Boehner the Debt Ceiling to Play With in 2010 Disclaimer: This forum rules like the moderators and contributors. And here we are again! It started in 2010. The Bush tax cuts were about to expire. There was leverage to negotiate a debt ceiling raise or to just let them expire. How do I know there was leverage? I know Republicans like tax cuts for the rich, and there was a deal for the purpose of extending them with Republican votes. It passed with those Republican votes, which led to this whole thing because there was no debt ceiling raise included. Maybe others are unaware of this? I don't know. It doesn't matter though; the uninformed shouldn't dictate fantasy as reality in a reality based community. This is the actual reality and why we are worried about a global financial calamity with regard to a possible political default on the public debt, which is a choice and otherwise impossible for a sovereign currency issuer. Obama on the Debt Limit — December 2010 Q Mr. President, thank you. How do these negotiations affect negotiations or talks with Republicans about raising the debt limit? Because it would seem that they have a significant amount of leverage over the White House now, going in. Was there ever any attempt by the White House to include raising the debt limit as a part of this package? THE PRESIDENT: When you say it would seem they'll have a significant amount of leverage over the White House, what do you mean? Q Just in the sense that they'll say essentially we're not going to raise the — we're not going to agree to it unless the White House is able to or willing to agree to significant spending cuts across the board that probably go deeper and further than what you're willing to do. I mean, what leverage would you have – THE PRESIDENT: Look, here's my expectation — and I'll take John Boehner at his word — that nobody, Democrat or Republican, is willing to see the full faith and credit of the United States government collapse, that that would not be a good thing to happen. And so I think that there will be significant discussions about the debt limit vote. That's something that nobody ever likes to vote on. But once John Boehner is sworn in as Speaker, then he's going to have responsibilities to govern. You can't just stand on the sidelines and be a bomb thrower. You know, we on the left knew what this would lead to. You don't trust John Boehner with the full faith in credit of the United States unless one is completely clueless or an economic nihilist. The resulting signs we are starting to see of a financial panic in response to the prospects of a default on top of the ongoing depression, the jobs crisis, the continuing climate and ecological crisis all converging into one huge Epochal crisis, point to a special kind of disdain for the public that all our elected leaders have for us. I mean, we have enough problems without adding to them through a self induced global financial then economic crisis caused by the President's pursuit of a deficit terrorist grand bargain whether through incompetence or outright corruption. Topic: Economy 3 Read more about President Obama Gave Speaker Boehner the Debt Ceiling to Play With in 20104 commentsLog in to post comments
Grover Norquist is Winning Thanks to a Debt Ceiling Crisis Every Few Months That's right. I don't know in what world some people are living in, but they should pay attention. Yes they should actually pay attention to what Grover Norquist is saying and how much these stupid debt ceiling crisis I predicted are playing into his hands. (h/t Addison) Norquist: Republicans Should Hold Federal Government Hostage Every Month And so this constant state of crisis and delayed/short term appropriations are going to be official soon. House passes short-term debt limit deal The Republican-led House today passed a bill to "suspend" the nation's debt limit until May, which if passed by the Senate and signed into law, would stave off for a few months the risk of letting the U.S. government default on its loans. {.......} House Democrats, meanwhile, grumbled that the short-term bill amounts to political gimmickry that keeps Washington in crisis mode. {.......} "The premise here is pretty simple," House Speaker John Boehner said on the House floor. "It says there should be no long-term increase in the debt limit until there's a long term plan to deal with the fiscal crisis that faces our country. Every hardworking taxpayer in America knows that they have to do a budget. Every hardworking taxpayer understands that you can't continue to spend money that you don't have." {........} House Democrats also complained that the bill prolonged the debate over the debt limit rather than solving it. "The good news is that our Republican colleagues finally realized that America should pay its bills and dropped their condition that that be matched by cuts," Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said in a news conference. "The bad news is they've decided that America only needs to pay its bills for three more months." Yes, even when that 3 month suspension becomes a raise only every few months more down the line it won't be close to normal standard procedure as some have tried to claim. This is true for a number of reasons; past raises of debt ceilings were never crisis showdowns and always were routine until Obama put them on the table as something to be negotiated. So given the completely different context comparing past debt ceiling raises to now I needn't go any further, but I will. What happened in 2011 was unprecedented and we are still dealing with the fallout right here and right now. It almost happened to former President Bill Clinton in the 90s but even Jonathan Chait admits Clinton was much more politically savvy in dealing with it than Obama so it was averted. Topic: Economy 3 Read more about Grover Norquist is Winning Thanks to a Debt Ceiling Crisis Every Few Months18 commentsLog in to post comments


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The 2012 National SCRABBLE Championship will take place on August 11-15, 2012 at the Royal Pacific Resort in Orlando, FL. Further details will be posted here as they become available.
Online registration is now available; a list of registered players is also available. If you're in a hurry to register now, you can just click on the link above; the rest of this section describes in detail the various terms and conditions of registration, most of which are discussed on the registration form.
Registration opened on December 1, 2011. It will close on August 1, 2012, after which players will only be accepted if they do not make a division odd.
If there is sufficient demand this year, there may for the first time be a separate division of players playing using the Collins lexicon. Because of the uncertain demand and its effect on the logistics of the tournament, there will be unusually strict conditions placed on registration in this division.
The division will be contested only if there are at least 40 paid registrants as of May 4, 2012. If numbers fall short of that target, registered players have certain options that are discussed in detail here.
To play in the NSC, you must (1) be a NASPA member, and (2) have played in an officially sanctioned SCRABBLE tournament to earn an official tournament rating. If you live in the United States or Canada, that rating should be a NASPA rating; if you live elsewhere it may be a WESPA rating or other comparable national rating.
This year's Championship has four regular (OWL) divisions, split at (OWL) ratings of 1700, 1400 and 1100. Entry fees are $175 for Division 1 and $150 for Divisions 2–4. Unlimited play up will be permitted: anyone can play in Division 1, but for example only players rated below 1100 can play in Division 4. Unlike past years, the rating used for division placement will simply be your tournament rating as of August 1, 2012, not a peak rating.
In the unlikely event that a player's first rated tournament takes place between the end of the registration period and the beginning of the NSC, the rating that they earn at their first tournament will be considered their rating for division eligibility should they be accepted for late entry into the NSC.
There are no rating restrictions on playing in the CSW division.
The base entry fee for Division 1 and the Collins Division is $175; for Divisions 2–4, $150.
Youths, defined as those whose 18th birthday is after August 11, 2012, may pay $50 to play in any division.
The above fees will be increased by $50 after June 30, 2012. For example, a Division 1 player signing up on July 4, 2012 would pay $225.
Players accepted after the close of registration on August 1, 2012 must pay a $75 late penalty. For example, a youth signing up on August 10, 2012 would pay $175.
Players not staying at the host hotel for the duration of the event must also pay a commuter/facility fee of $50 (does not apply to those local to the Orlando area). Verification of status as a hotel guest will be performed at registration/check-in and throughout the event.
Fees payable are computed based on when (Central Time) funds are received in full. If you are not paying right away online at the moment when you register, please be sure to allow enough time for your mailed payment to reach us.
To change divisions after you have registered, please email the organizing committee at firstname.lastname@example.com. Division changes are subject to the following conditions:
If your rating rises above the limit for the division in which you registered, you will automatically be moved to the lowest division for which you qualify.
If you paid your tournament fees by credit card, any credit owing to you will be issued to your card; otherwise, we will mail a check to your membership address as shown in your member profile. No refunds will be issued after the refund deadlines described below.
If you register in one of the OWL divisions (1–4) and decide you need to cancel your registration, we will refund your entry fee (and commuter fee, if applicable), if you so request by August 1, 2012.
The situation in the possible CSW division is more complicated, and if you are not registered in the CSW division, you do not need to read the following section.
Because of uncertain demand for the CSW division, stricter rules apply concerning refunds. Please read this policy carefully, and email us if you have any questions. This section was changed significantly on January 3, 2012 to permit refunds in more situations, at the suggestion of Dave Koenig.
Until April 6, 2012: Refund requests and division change requests will be honored unconditionally.
From April 7 to May 6, 2012: If there are 40 or fewer paid registrants, your refund or division change request will remain pending until there are 41 paid registrants, or May 7, whichever comes first. If there are 41 or more paid registrants, we will honor refund or division change requests in the order in which they are received, provided they do not make the number of paid registrants drop below 40.
On May 6th, a decision will be made whether or not the CSW division will take place, based on whether or not there are 40 paid registrants; if the division is cancelled, paid registrants will be offered the following three choices: transfer to a TWL division (with $25 refund if switching to Division 2–4), credit toward a future NSC or similar event's entry fee, or refund less $10 handling fee.
From May 7 to July 31, 2012: As long as there are 41 or more paid registrants, we will honor refund or division change requests in the order in which they are received, provided they do not make the number of paid registrants drop below 40.
After August 1, 2012: Refunds and division changes are not permitted.
By registering for the NSC, you agree to abide by the NASPA Tournament Rules and Code of Conduct. In particular, some games at this tournament, probably the highest Division 1 board without a Gibsonized player, will be annotated live. If you refuse to play a designated game with annotation, you will forfeit it, and may at the director's discretion be assigned a spread penalty of −200 points.
A Minor Release and Consent form can be downloaded for players who have not reached the legal age of majority. It can be mailed with your registration or alone if you have paid online to Chris Cree. Alternatively, it can be signed by the accompanying parent or guardian at the NSC in Orlando.
Please read our player bulletin, and check it again for last-minute updates before you travel to the event.
The Championship Committee reserves the right to modify the above to account for unforeseen special circumstances.
Online hotel registration is available at the Royal Pacific website. Hotel rooms can also be booked by calling 866-360-7395 and mentioning that you are with the National Scrabble Championship 2012 Organization.
Group rates beginning at $175 per night plus tax are available (currently, taxes total 12.5%). Discount rates are also available on suites. Group rates are available from three days before the tournament to three days after the tournament. Rooms must be booked no later than 6:00 p.m. on July 18, 2012 to receive the group rate.
An extra person charge of $25.00 per person, per night applies for occupancy of a room by more than two persons. Children under 18 stay free in their parent's room using existing bedding. Roll-a-way beds are $25.00 per night.
Parking is available for $15 per car, per day for self parking, and $22 per car, per day for valet parking. 6.5% sales tax applies to both rates. Rates and tax subject to change.
Check-in time is 4:00 p.m. (earlier check-in will be accommodated based on availability). Check-out time is 11:00 a.m.
If you need a roommate and would like a listing here, please contact Dallas Johnson and specify your requirements: male, female or either, smoking or nonsmoking, etc. He will put a listing in this section. If you already have a room, please include in your email what nights your room is reserved. You can list your email address or phone number. Several people successfully found roommates for the NSC this way.
IMPORTANT: When you get your roommate or ride, please contact Dallas so he can remove your listing.
Sharon Freeman is looking for a female roommate (non smoking) to share a room at the host hotel. She has a reservation for a 2 bed room, checking in on Friday, Aug. 10 and checking out on Wednesday, Aug. 15. Contact her by email at email@example.com
Rebecca Owen is looking for 1 to 2 roommates to help defray expenses. Contact her by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 323-936-1667.
Gene Rawlins is looking for two roommates of either sex; non-smoking preferred. He has a room booked at the host hotel, checking in on Friday, Aug. 10 and checking out on Wednesday, Aug. 15. Contact him by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone/fax at 416-208-2007.
To play in the first round on Saturday morning, you must check in between 10:00 A.M. and 10:00 P.M. on Friday at the NSC check-in desks in the lobby outside the playing area. You may ask a friend to check in for you by proxy, if you cannot check in in person. If possible, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com to warn us in advance of proxy arrangements. If you check in by proxy, but do not show up to play, then neither you nor your proxy will be permitted to check in by proxy at future events. If you do not check in before the desks close at 10:00 P.M., you may join the championship in progress as soon as it is convenient for the pairings staff to add you back in; this may not take place before Sunday morning. No refund will be issued to latecomers.
When you check in, you will be given an announcement sheet. This is to reduce the number of announcements that have to be made on Saturday morning, so that the event can get underway quickly. You are responsible for reading the announcements and schedule!
Here is an overview of events at the championship that have been booked so far. For full details, please consult the 2012 NSC Schedule as the event draws nearer.
If you are interested in donating prizes to events at the championship, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For information about sponsorship opportunities at the championship, please contact Chris Cree.
This section will be updated when the initial event budget is prepared.
For full details, see the prize table when it is published.
If there is a Collins division, half of the entry fees collected will be returned in its prize fund. If 40 players pay $175 each for a total of $7,000, the $3,500 prize fund will be paid out as follows: $1,500 (1st), $600 (2nd), $500 (3rd), $400 (class prize, middle third), $300 (class prize, bottom third), $200 (miscellaneous prizes, such as high game).
The NSC will be paired using tsh along the lines of past events. In each round, the top contenders are paired with each other, and everyone else is paired Swiss. These two groups, contenders and noncontenders, are paired with minimal repeats. For example, if there is no way to pair the contenders without at least one repeat, then they will be paired with one repeat.
The maximum number of contenders is 12 in Rounds 1-28, 8 in Round 29, 4 in Round 30 and 2 in Round 31. The contenders are further divided into a subgroup of leaders and non-leaders, if this can be done without increasing the number of required repeats while maintaining at least four players among the leaders. Leaders are paired by repeatedly having the top unpaired player play the lowest-ranked player that can catch up to them. Non-leaders are paired Swiss.
For further information about this pairing system, please refer to the section on Chew pairings in the tsh documentation. tsh configuration files for each division will be found at this website: Division 1, Division 2, Division 3 and Division 4.
Volunteers are needed to help prepare the playing room for the tournament.
Volunteers are needed to help with registration and check-in.
Tidy-people will help straighten up and dispose of trash at the end of their sessions.
We will need at least 10 laptops for adjudications. The laptops will need the latest version of ZYZZYVA. Please be sure the correct word list in operations and disable your screensaver in the playing area during games.
We need about 15 Clean and Pack volunteers to help collect and box NASPA tournament supplies to be shipped back to the storage facility after the awards ceremony on Wed., Aug. 15.
Following is a list of those who have volunteered, but do not yet have a specific assignment:
If you have a product to sell to SCRABBLE players, this is the place to do it. Hundreds of the most avid fans of the game will be in one place with money ready to spend at your table. To become an NSC vendor, print out, date and sign two (2) copies of the 2012 NSC Vendor Agreement and send both executed copies to Dallas Johnson, 4880 Heights Drive, Stow, OH 44224, along with the required payment for extra tables, if you wish to exhibit on more than one table.
If you have questions about becoming an NSC vendor, please contact Dallas Johnson.
Vendors whose Vendor Agreement has been received and approved by NASPA (with payment made, where applicable) are listed below:
This page will be updated as the event draws nearer. If you have urgent questions about the event, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Published on Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 14:26
THE threat of cancellation of the West Wight Fire Show has been averted, but it will be a scaled-down version.
Initially, there were fears Saturday's show, which has been months in planning, could be cancelled all together because Totland Recreation Ground was under water.
Instead, after consultations with police, a procession will leave St Saviour's School at 6pm, as planned, and follow a circular route — along St Saviours Rd, Weston Rd, Madeira Rd, Granville Road, Ward Rd, Broadway, Weston Rd — before returning to the school at around 7pm.
There, local children will enact the story of 'Thor's Revenge' a fantasy set on the Isle of Wight during the Danish Invasion of 897.
Alison Knapman, general manager of the New Carnival Company which has helped organise the event, said: "Unfortunately there won't be any fireworks or the 'fire' part of the show due to health and safety.
"But it should still be a great evening. We have around 80 local people in the show, including children who have helped make their own costumes, and we didn't want to let anyone down."
The Fat Samba Band will lead the procession.
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News coverage (finally) of the floods
Over the past several few days there have finally started to appear more complete news stories in the English language press related to the Deluge of 2011. The coverage may be related to an emergency appeal by the United Nations to raise disaster relief funds for El Salvador. The UN's assessment of the situation is to the point:
25 October 2011 –
United Nations aid agencies are ramping up their efforts to provide shelter, food and health care to El Salvador, which is facing one of the greatest disasters in its history as heavy rains continue to cause severe flooding across Central America.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported today that 56,000 people have been displaced and many are in need of water, food and sanitation. The agency also said there has been an increase in reported cases of flood-related illnesses such as diarrhoea, conjunctivitis, chicken pox, and dengue fever.
During a press briefing in Geneva, OCHA spokesperson Elisabeth Byrs said a $15.7 million joint flash appeal with the Government was launched today with the aim of assisting 300,000 people in the next six months.
OCHA estimates the overall number of affected people to be 1.2 million, but said this figure was constantly evolving.
The appeal will focus on providing shelter, drinking water, food and health services as well as actively monitoring the country's two principal volcanoes, as there is particular concern about possible mudslides and seismic movements in populated areas, including San Salvador, the capital.Following the UN appeal, Reuters AlertNet published an article about the need for aid dollars to prevent a food crisis in El Salvador.
The BBC had a story about the damages caused by the floods with a particular focus on the loss of food production.
IPS ran a piece titled Central America slowly learning the value of disaster prevention.
Bloomberg, like the Wall Street Journal, has only commented on the impact on coffee exports.
The Washington Post had an article titled D.C's Salvadoran community aiding flood victims.
The Christian Science Monitor ran my blog post from October 24.


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Volume 8, Issue 48: November 27, 2006
1) War Weariness
Although wars vary in motivation and outcome, they all share certain characteristics, as the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq illustrate: "In each case, the war moved through four stages: I, upper-echelon plotting; II, outbreak and early combat; III, sustained combat and strategic stalemate; and IV, cessation of combat and workable resolution," explains Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs in his latest op-ed.
Stage III always drags on for years, and it's at this stage that the public develops war weariness and begins to question the wisdom of having gone to war. Yet despite having second thoughts, the public is unable to get the government to disengage quickly: "Once the government goes to war," writes Higgs, "the public is simply stuck with it, because the public will not actually rebel against the government, and nothing short of rebellion can ensure an affirmative government response to the public's wishes."
Even electoral changes are unlikely to change the policy quickly, because the newly empowered politicians are as insulated from the pains of war as are the newly weakened ones. Writes Higgs: "So, in the wake of the recent elections, in which one faction of the War Party has displaced the other in control of Congress, we have scant grounds for expecting a great change of course in the conduct of the Iraq war. The Democrats have announced grand plans to fleece and bully the public in the greater service of the leading special-interest groups that helped to elect them, and the Republicans, eminently pleased to serve as the loyal not-so-opposed opposition, look forward to bipartisan cooperation in logrolling those splendid 1,500-page statutes in which every species of outrage and robbery is declared to be the law of the land. The war will certainly continue, at least for another two years and perhaps for another five or ten. And why not? Only the people at large -- those beyond the precincts of the ruling figures and their major supporters -- stand to lose, and who really gives a damn about them?"
"War Weariness," Robert Higgs (11/26/06) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1856
DEPRESSION, WAR, AND COLD WAR, by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=65
Please join us in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, December 6, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for "Liberty and Leviathan: The 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Awards and an Evening with Robert Higgs." http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1856
2) The False Hope of Economic Sanctions
Economic sanctions rarely do much good, but from the standpoint of encouraging pro-freedom reforms, they often do much harm. Saddam Hussein's Iraq, apartheid-era South Africa, and Manuel Noriega's Panama are cases in point. Not only are the regimes that sanctions are meant to target able to redirect much of the resulting privations to weaker members of society, they also benefit from a "rally round the flag" effect that comes from blaming citizens' economic hardships on the government that has imposed the sanctions, according to Ivan Eland, director of the Independent Institute's Center on Peace & Liberty.
"Fidel Castro, despite the disastrous consequence of his centralization of the Cuban economy, has been able to blame poverty and economic stagnation on the coercive economic measures imposed by his powerful northern neighbor," writes Eland in his latest op-ed. "In other words, the Cuban people likely would have thrown out Castro long ago if the United States hadn't declared him 'enemy number one.'"
Nevertheless, economic sanctions are still proposed as a way to affect positive change -- or at least for their symbolic value. A case in point is Belarus, whose government has kept close ties to the Putin regime in neighboring Russia and has followed Russia in resisting the expansion of NATO in the region. Imposing sanctions even for their symbolic value might simply ensure that Belarus ruler Alexander Lukashenko, an authoritarian by any measure, will be the "Slavic Castro" for decades to come. What economic sanctions really symbolize is that their advocates understand little about sanctions' likely consequences.
"Economic Coercion Is Not an Effective Foreign Policy Tool," by Ivan Eland (11/27/06) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1858 "La coerción económica no es un instrumento eficaz de política exterior" http://www.elindependent.org/articulos/article.asp?id=1858
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed, by Ivan Eland http://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=54
"The Way Out of Iraq: Decentralizing the Iraqi Government," by Ivan Eland http://www.independent.org/store/policy_reports/detail.asp?id=16
Center on Peace & Liberty (Ivan Eland, Director) http://www.independent.org/research/copal/
3) Should Men Sit at the Back of the Airplane?
Boris Johnson, a member of the British parliament, received a surprising request from his British Airways flight attendant. Following company policy, she asked Johnson to move elsewhere because minors sat in the seats adjoining his.
"She retreated when he explained that the adjacent children were his own progeny," writes Independent Institute Research Fellow Wendy McElroy in her latest op-ed. "Johnson memorialized the experience in an article entitled 'Come off it, folks: how many paedophiles can there be?'"
The segregation of men from children, the open policy of Air New Zealand and Qantas as well British Airways, "seems rooted in little more than a dangerous tendency to paint men per se as predators," writes McElroy. To see the unfairness of it all, McElroy asks readers to consider the justified outrage that would result if seating policy were set on the basis of another irrelevant trait, race: "If an airline restricted the seating of blacks because the 2004 Bureau of Justice data states 'blacks [are] disproportionately represented among homicide victims and offenders,' there would be a backlash of rage. It would make no difference that the parent or loved one of a white passenger had requested the 'safety' measure."
Concludes McElroy: "Seating men as though they were sexual predators is a vicious and discriminatory practice that has no basis in fact or logic. Indeed, if the illogic of the policy were consistently spun out, it would mean 'women and children only' flights and the restricted seating of men at theaters or concerts."
"Segregating Children From Men," by Wendy McElroy (11/21/06) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1857
"Come off it, folks: how many paedophiles can there be?," by Boris Johnson (THE TELEGRAPH, 9/11/06) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/09/do0901.xml
LIBERTY FOR WOMEN: Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-first Century, ed. by Wendy McElroy http://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=43
4) Vargas Llosa on Milton Friedman
In his latest column for the Washington Post Writers Group, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, director of the Independent Institute's Center on Global Prosperity, discusses Friedman's reception in Latin America and Great Britain.
"When I was growing up, Milton Friedman was widely reviled in most of South America. He was seen as Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochets accomplice. In Britain, where I also spent part of my adolescent years, he was seen by leftists as an intellectual mentor of Margaret Thatchers effort to crush the little guy under the mastodon of big business. I started reading him, therefore, as novitiates might read erotic literature in a convent: with an irresistible sense of the forbidden."
Vargas Llosa then goes on to explain why many critics of Friedman were quick to misunderstand him. "As for Friedmans supposed espousal of big business to the detriment of the little guy, the truth was exactly the opposite," Vargas Llosa continues. "He understood that businesses prefer for governments to bend the rules in their favor rather than compete, and he wanted the little guy -- that is, the consumer, and not the legislator and his cronies in big business -- to determine success and failure in the marketplace. The expression 'free to choose' said it all: It was about expanding choice for the little guy. In those countries where Friedmans ideas triumphed, workers became shareowners, tenants in housing projects became proprietors, kids without college degrees became entrepreneurs and many a corporate giant came tumbling down, unable to withstand the daily choices of the common folk empowered by the separation between state and business."
"Milton Friedman," by Alvaro Vargas Llosa (11/22/06) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1855 Spanish Translation: http://www.elindependent.org/articulos/article.asp?id=1855
"The Legacy of Milton Friedman," by Alexander Tabarrok (11/18/06) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1852 Spanish Translation: http://www.elindependent.org/articulos/article.asp?id=1852
"Milton Friedman (1912-2006)," by David J. Theroux (11/18/06) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1853 Spanish Translation: http://www.elindependent.org/articulos/article.asp?id=1853
LIBERTY FOR LATIN AMERICA: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression, by Alvaro Vargas Llosa http://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=55
THE CHE GUEVARA MYTH, by Alvaro Vargas Llosa http://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=61
Center on Global Prosperity (Alvaro Vargas Llosa, director) http://www.independent.org/research/cogp/
El Independent: El Blog del Centro Para la Prosperidad Global de The Independent Institute http://independent.typepad.com


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The Greek Vegetarian blog was created in January of 2013, after my job as graphic designer and photographer at a university became redundant, leaving me at home to consider life as a freelancer... and perhaps blogger.
I know, I know. It's so cliched. Lost the job, bored at home, freelance gigs few and far between, start a blog.
But despite the millions of bloggers out there in our blog-saturated universe, I still think there's a tiny spot left for a blog about Greek vegetarian food (and besides, I really needed a place to keep me inspired about my passions for cooking and photography).
I'm Lisa, a Greek-Australian vegetarian based in Melbourne, and I love Greek food. I also love turning Greek meat-based dishes into yummy vegetarian ones, as well as coming up with my own variations of existing Greek vegetarian recipes.
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Cecil Fergerson, an art curator and activist who advocated for minority artists, got his first job right out of high school in a major museum. As a janitor.
That was just about the only work available to African Americans in 1948 at the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art. By the time the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had broken off as a separate entity in the early 1960s, he had fought his way up to the position of museum helper. He co-founded the influential Black Arts Council, and when he left the museum in 1985 it was as a curatorial assistant.
He went on to use the organizational skills he learned at the institution to create dozens of exhibitions at a wide range of venues, including community centers, parks, schools, churches, libraries and festivals, to expose works by artists of color to the public. He earned numerous awards and in 1998 was named by the city as a Living Cultural Treasure.
All this from a man who had no formal training in art.
Fergerson, 82, died Wednesday at the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center, according to his wife, Miriam. He had been in failing health for several years, she said, and had been admitted to the hospital in August with pneumonia.
"I think he changed the culture of Los Angeles," said Columbia University art historian Kellie Jones, who organized the highly regarded "Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980" exhibition at the Hammer Museum in 2011. "Not only by exhibiting African American artists, but by exposing young people to these artists. You'd take a kid to a museum before then, and I'm not saying it wasn't a valid experience, but it wasn't saying, 'You could be an artist.'
"Cecil changed that."
Fergerson was born outside the small town of Boley, Okla., on July 6, 1931. His parents came to Los Angeles in search of work when he was 7 and eventually settled in Watts, according to an extensive interview he did in 1990 for the "African-American Artists of Los Angeles" oral history project sponsored by UCLA.
Graduating from Jordan High School, he got a civil service job as a custodian in the museum in Exposition Park. At that point, he was not at all interested in the area that would eventually become his passion in life.
"Art really wasn't fascinating to me," he said in the oral history, "because you'd walk around there and all you'd see was all these portraits of white folks."
In 1953 his job was elevated to museum helper, which meant he worked to move and install artworks. He began developing an interest in art, especially because of an exhibition of French Impressionist paintings at the museum, and he began to extensively read about the topic and attend lectures.
It was the 1965 Watts riots that set him on a path of advocating for artists of color. "I began to ask myself how I could get involved in the aftermath of the rebellion," he said in the oral history. "I quickly observed the fact that there were going to be a lot of things that were visual programs that people were doing." In 1968, he and a fellow employee at the museum, Claude Booker, founded the Black Arts Council to press for more African American involvement in LACMA programming and the appointment of a black curator.
"The museum was slow to respond," admitted LACMA in an essay written for its 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art," so Fergerson and Booker took their cause to outside groups. They organized tours and exhibitions and conducted cultural programs for the annual Watts Summer Festival.
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"We called him 'The Godfather,'" said one of the artists he mentored, Michael Massenburg. Fergerson did not always choose works for his shows solely on the merit of the pieces, he said. "If you were serious about making art, if it was in your heart, he would not pass judgment.
"He had an open-door policy for anyone who wanted to truly express themselves."
In addition to his wife, Fergerson is survived by five children, nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
A public tribute to his life will be held Sept. 28 at 1 p.m. at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee, 10950 S. Central Ave., where the art gallery is named for Fergerson.


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Recovering from Religion is thrilled to have a diverse and talented group on board as our staff. Each staff member brings not only experience and skill, but a unique perspective on helping those who are dealing with the negative impact of religion in their everyday lives.
Gayle Jordan, Executive Director
Gayle is a former Southern Baptist who left the faith 10 years ago when her then-teenagers began asking questions she could not answer. Her research led her (and her children) into the light of reason and rationality. Years later, she still feels the effects, both positive and negative, of that dramatic shift in perspective and attitude. It is this sympathy and compassion that drives her to reach out to help others navigate the emotional and physical process involved in leaving one's faith.
Gayle is an attorney and former personal trainer. She lives on Freethought Farm in middle Tennessee, where she spends her days amongst her longhorns, goats, donkeys, chickens, and dogs. She blogs about life on the farm, endurance event training, and secularism at Happy. Healthy. Heathen.
Sarah Jane Wood - Hotline Project Director
Sarah Jane grew up in the Episcopal Church but explored several other religions and philosophies before finally leaving religion behind altogether. She has considered herself an agnostic atheist for most of a decade. She credits much of her atheism to her family's, friends', and church's openness to doubt and hard questions.
Sarah Jane holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and is currently pursuing a master's degree in counseling. She joined the Hotline Project before it launched and has worked on the Project as an agent, mentor, supervisor, and trainer. In addition to her work on the Hotline Project, Sarah Jane is a professional editor and research assistant.
Sarah Jane lives in Missoula, Montana with her husband, John, and their three cats, Toast, Mr. Gwen, and Black Cat. When she's not working, Sarah Jane loves to travel, scuba dive, and play video games.
Patrick Horst, Support Groups Director
Patrick was raised a preacher's kid whose background is Mennonite/Amish and pacifist. Now an atheist and a combat veteran, he just completed 12 years of service in the U.S. Army. He is a former missionary kid who speaks seven languages, including Italian, Spanish, German, Sicilian, Arabic, and Lebanese. He lives in Christian County, KY, where he is the father of two children he is raising with their Christian mother. He has a special soft spot for the challenges of families struggling over different belief systems.
Patrick decided to come out as an atheist in 2013 after his beloved six-year-old daughter came home from Sunday School and told him point-blank "You're going to Hell!" This heartbreaking moment forged his passion for building welcoming secular communities, so he could introduce his kids to some of the wonderful people who, just like their daddy, are good without a belief in God.
He also has a special heart for secular people who feel isolated in highly religious areas. Patrick is a co-founder of the annual Nashville Nones Convention ("NaNoCon"), which launched with 400 participants this past March. He is a Board member at Sunday Assembly Nashville, where he was a founding band member back in 2013. He is also a frequent speaker on New Humanism topics, including "Secular Values: The power of saying what you DO believe!"
Dr. Caleb Lack, Secular Therapy Project - Director
Caleb is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Practicum Coordinator in the Department of Psychology at the University of Central Oklahoma. A clinical psychologist licensed to practice in Oklahoma , Dr. Lack is the author of six books (including Critical Thinking, Science, & Pseudoscience: Why You Can't Trust Your Brain) and more than 40 scientific publications. In addition, Dr. Lack has presented nationwide and internationally at conferences on a variety of topics, including obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, paranormal belief and skepticism, innovative teaching and training methods, and more. He is on the editorial board of several scientific journals and a reviewer for both journals and granting agencies.
In addition to courses on his clinical and research specialties, Dr. Lack also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience. These recently culminated in an wiki as well as a series of documentaries on pseudoscience and superstition in Oklahoma. He writes the "Great Plains Skeptic" column on the Skeptic Ink Network, as well as presenting about skepticism and critical thinking frequently. Dr. Lack is also the founding advisor of the UCO Skeptics, a campus group dedicated to the application and promotion of reason and scientific skepticism in all areas of life.
A native Oklahoman, Dr. Lack grew up in the rural community of Mountain View, where his parents still reside and farm and ranch on land that has been owned by the family for close to 100 years. He currently resides in Edmond, Oklahoma with his beautiful wife and brilliant son on a wonderful little property called Freethought Farm.


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