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Association of Research on Nonprofits and Voluntary Action
The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) is an international, interdisciplinary membership organization. This list was established as an international electronic forum for anyone using or interested in nonprofit organizations, voluntary action or philanthropy, to facilitate the rapid sharing of concerns, interests, problems and solutions among interested scholars and practitioners.
Board Cafe
A newsletter for members of nonprofit boards of directors. Subscribe by sending a blank email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Nonprofit Quarterly
The Nonprofit Quarterly is a unique print magazine that leaders count on to provide them with values based management information and proven practices. Each issue focuses on a theme of critical importance and provides you with the cutting edge, relevant and useful information you need to manage more effectively and advance your mission. In addition the magazine offers a fee monthly newsletter.
TechSoup is a comprehensive source of technology information just for nonprofit organizations. TechSoup identifies and hosts multiple listservs and forms focused toward information technology for nonprofits. Including the NPTalk Discussion List which is focused on how nonprofit organizations utilize information technologies in their public policy activities. Look under "Talk to tech community" and "Find tools and resources".
Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers
The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers was established in 1980 as a national coalition of nonprofit organizations sharing an vested interest in nonprofit postal policy. The Alliance is the primary representative of nonprofit mailers before the Postal Rate Commission, at the United States Postal Service's (USPS) Headquarters, and on Capitol Hill.
Association of Research on Nonprofits and Voluntary Action
The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) is an international, interdisciplinary membership organization. Our members include scholars and nonprofit leaders fostering the creation, application and dissemination of research on voluntary action, nonprofit organizations, philanthropy and civil society.
Association of Fund-Raising Distributors & Suppliers
The Association of Fund-Raising Distributors & Suppliers (AFRDS) is an international association devoted exclusively to the product fundraising industry. Its more than 650 member companies manufacture, supply and/or distribute products that are re-sold by not-for-profit organizations for fundraising purposes.
Association of Fundraising Professionals
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents 25,000 members in 163 chapters in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, working to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education, and certification programs.
Board Source (formally the National Center for Nonprofit Boards)
The premier resource for practical information, tools and best practices, training, and leadership development for board members of nonprofit organizations worldwide. Through our highly acclaimed programs and services, BoardSource enables organizations to fulfill their missions by helping build strong and effective nonprofit boards.
Charity Village
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Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
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Foundation Center
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This non-profit on-line service based in Cupertino, Cal., links and provides electronic-communication assistance to approximately 5,000 public-interest and human-service organizations. Also provides daily and weekly updates on news of information to social-service groups and links to other World-Wide Web sites designed for non-profit groups.
Operated by the Internet Nonprofit Center, a Brooklyn, N.Y., non-profit organization, this site provides information useful to nonprofits arranged by subject, including start-up and management issues, fund raising, marketing, and volunteers.
Imagine Canada
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Independent Sector
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National Center for Family Philanthropy
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Children's Progress brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 91 Designs von 32 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Educational software company, Children's Progress (http://www.childrensprogress.com) is looking for a completely new, fresh Web 2.0 logo based on a tree theme. The logo will be used on our website, in printed materials (brochures, business cards, etc) and in our software products. We'll provide feedback to help you know whether you're on the right track!!
Children's Progress
Our current logo is outdated. We're redesigning our look and feel, including our website. A slightly updated site in progress is here: http://cp.grafx-girl.com/ but please don't feel constrained by this look or color scheme! It's in transition and can be changed.
We're looking for a new logo (text + graphics), conveying 3 central themes: 1) PROGRESS/GROWTH 2) MODERN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY and 3) FRESH/INNOVATIVE APPROACH. We definitely want to use a tree with individual leaves as the main visual element. We have multiple products in development and would like to think of each of the tree's leaves as a separate product and the tree as our company. 10 leaves is sufficient, but more is ok. We've started working on concepts in-house, so you have 2 options:
1. Work based on our concept:
See sketches here: www.childrensprogress.com/about-us/LogoConcepts.htm . You can think of the computer mouse as a seed out of which the tree grows (technology drives growth/progress). You can also think of other ways to combine those themes.
2. Design something completely different that uses a tree with separate leaves as the main visual element.
We try to help young students (ages 3-8) succeed academically and developmentally. We make computer software products and sell them to schools to help teachers measure student knowledge through fun computer activities. We then create detailed reports for teachers to help them understand how students are doing and what they can do to help each student progress.
Easy to use for students and teachers, quick/immediate information, clear and simple, every child can make progress, fun, fresh/innovative approach to education.
- Vector art in AI CS# format and also a JPEG version
- Sans serif font
- Simple, contemporary, innovative, Web 2.0 look
- Vibrant and lively
- Must have a tree with individual leaves
- Image should work with and without company name
- NOT an old storybook look
- NOT too childish (we're trying to appeal to school administrators and teachers, not to the kids)
- NOT too technical-looking
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.

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L.A. Sports Arena 4-18-1987I was at this show. It was my first U2 show. I was 18 years old. This was one of the best shows I have ever seen in my life. A special aspect for me was that Lone Justice was the opening act. That band, of course, was headed by the amazing Maria McKee. I bought both a U2 and Lone Justice T-Shirt that night. Here was the set list by U2 that night: 1. Where The Streets Have No Name 2. I Will Follow 3. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Exodus) 4. MLK 5. The Unforgettable Fire 6. Bullet The Blue Sky 7. Running To Stand Still 8. Exit (Gloria by Them) 9. In God's Country 10. Sunday Bloody Sunday 11. Maggie's Farm (School's Out/Cold Turkey) 12. Bad (Ruby Tuesday/Sympathy For The Devil) 13. October 14. New Year's Day 15. Pride (In The Name Of Love) Encore: 16. With Or Without You (Shine Like Stars/Love Will Tear Us Apart) 17. Gloria 18. People Get Ready 19. 40 Such an amazing show! --Doah


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Introducing: Alexander Robert Bradford...
Monday, September 26th, 2005
Alexander was born exactly at 39 weeks on Wednesday August 10th 2005, at 9:39 AM.
He was 7 pounds 8.4 ounces, 19 and ½ inches long.
Below are some photos of our sweet little boy.
My Projects
The entrance to our place a.k.a. the project from hell.
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My favorites
It's my favorite! Creative, fun and always new. This site inspired the creation of Bianca's Corner.
Also, her wedding web site (not longer available) inspired our own wedding web site. Check out the work of the talented Kristin Sanchez @ Kristin Sanchez Design. She has once again re-designed Magnificent Bliss.
This is one of my favorite web logs. Lopie's journal displays the most wonderful and beautiful illustrations. Check it out and I'm sure it will become one of your favorite sites.
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Rosa Pomar *Portuguese
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WebStrikeSolutions hosting company
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Missing in action...
Sunday, July 24th, 2005
I haven't been around for the last 2 months, so in case you were wondering where was I - two words can sum it up "bed rest".
I am 36 and a half weeks pregnant as of today, but fort the last 9 weeks I have been confined to my bed (mostly my couch) and my home. I called it house arrest.
At 27 and a half weeks I was diagnosed with high risk of pre-term labor, basically the doctors thought that 9 weeks ago I could have had the baby within the next week or two.
At the end of May, after expending the first week in bed-rest working from my couch (mostly doing team management, prioritization, analysis, many conference calls and many long work related phone calls) we ended up canceling my trip to New Jersey and another trip to Maine. I ended up spending Memorial Day in the hospital (at 28 and a half weeks) with even higher risk of pre-term labor. It was my first overnight stay in the hospital since I was a child.
But all that was 2 months ago and thanks to a lot of rest, God's mercy and blessings, and without a doubt all my mom's prayers I made it to the big 32 weeks milestone. Each week the doctor will say "you made it one more week, that is great if you can only make it to 34 weeks the baby will be in good shape". Then, I finally made it to 34 weeks and last week I hit the high mark of 36 weeks - which is fantastic.
My personal goal has always been 37 weeks which is consider full term and will allow us to take the baby home with us without going to the NICU, granting everything goes well during delivery (which we really hope and are praying for).
My bed rest was fully modified at 32 weeks allowing me to sit for longer periods of time and allowing me to work 100% full time but still from home and finally using my work-computer and not just the phone, but there is a catch, since I am not allow to do house chores I end up working from 8 to 9 hours a day (or even more) as I try to catch up with 4 weeks of very little work from my couch and more than 600 e-mails.
This experience has made me appreciate even more the people I work with, they made it so much easier and bearable for me, we even had meetings in my house since I could not drive or got to the office at the beginning of my bed-rest.
I feel that all these years of work have paid off, and even though no place is ever perfect I could not have picked better people to work with or to work for. They even put together a shower for me last week, it was my first time in the office in 2 months and it was great to see everyone. They were all so nice and generous, I feel very lucky and fortunate to work with such nice people.
The bed rest experience was very, very hard during the first 3 days, I felt physically fine and I really did not fully understand the risk and severity of my condition; I could not bare the thought of not going to work (can you believe it?), I have worked straight up for several companies since 1992 (a year before I finished college) - and I had so much pending stuff and so much to do at the office that I kept thinking "if only I could just go to the office for one day I should be able to leave everything in order", blissful thinking that never happened. The following week I had to stay in the hospital overnight and finally my urge of going back to work took second place, I understood I needed to take care of myself and the baby and just let got and rest. I think it was a sign from above, for many months before this experience I kept trying to break the vicious cycle of working 10 to 12 hours a day and getting home really, really late, trying to balance my work and personal life. Finally I had not other choice - I had to let go, and 9 weeks later I am still trying and learning and doing much better. I'm trying to learn to be fine by just doing what I can each day, and not trying to do absolutely everything each day. At 32 weeks my work computer was setup at home and the rest is history - every now and then I work 10 hours days, but at least it is not every day and I am home when Darren comes in.
I am back, but not sure for how long - the baby is now due any day and after six sonograms we still don't know the sex (which made it very hard for us pick up a theme for the baby's room). The nursery is not setup yet, but it is finally in the process of being painted this weekend, the crib has finally being refinished (after 2 long months, 3 coats of polyurethane and being sanded 4 times) - today we picked up mattress for the crib and the nursery bedding.
A few weeks ago we were able to take the child birth and infant care classes at the hospital, so now we have an idea of what to expect at delivery and when the baby gets home. We took a few seminars about car-seats and house safety in general and we even picked up our car-seat and had our car cleaned and vacuumed. Two weeks from now we'll take an infant CPR and safety class at the hospital and hopefully we'll have all the basic things we need. I ordered a few outfits online while I was confined to the house and within the last 2 weeks we have picked up a few essential things that the baby will need during the first month.
I don't know when I'll have some photos of my humongous belly, the house/nursery progress and the baby's room, but hopefully it will be some day soon.
Thanks for stopping by...I'll see you online.
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020 8523 7913
Age Ranges: From 3 years to 11 years
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Alpha Preparatory School is located in a church in Walthamstow. It is an independent school for boys and girls aged…
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Buttock Implants
Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body.
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What are Buttock Implants?
Buttock implants are a specific form of buttock augmentation. During surgery, artificial buttock implants are inserted in order to improve the look and shape of the bottom. Buttock implants, or butt implants, are popular with women and men who want a shapelier, fuller bottom. Many people who have lost weight choose buttock implants to add volume to their behind, although extra skin from weight loss may also need to be removed. Buttock implants can improve self-confidence and result in an enhanced appearance.
What are the types of Buttock Implants?
The most common buttock implant procedures are as follows:
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Weekend Snow Chances
Powdery Snow Means Slippery Roads
Sparkly snow overnight amounted to about 3" over Walworth County with most other locations between 1 and 2". The light, powdery nature of the snow along with cold temps makes area roadways slippery. Allow extra time for travel during the light snow periods. The snow earlier today was the first in a series of Alberta Clipper systems that will bring light snow every 24-36 hour over the next several days.
We're warming to the upper teens to day with much lighter winds. Another Clipper dives by late tonight and this one looks more like flurries with just a dust of accumulation. Highs tomorrow hold in the upper teens-it will be windier for Sunday as well.
Clipper #3 arrives late Sunday night and will likely impact the Monday morning commute with light snow. Another 1-3" of snow is possible by Monday morning.
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The Propaq® MD is an ultra-lightweight, airworthy monitor/defibrillator that provides advanced monitoring capabilities, including full Masimo® Rainbow® SET technology.
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Porsche liked to talk about the V10 from the Carerra GT coming from a cancelled endurance racing program, but it has roots even deeper than that.
What appears in the Carerra GT as a 5.7 liter V10 started life in 1992 as a 3.5 liter V10 intended for the Footwork F1 team. That V10 was to replace the underperforming V12 Porsche had made for Footwork before. The whole project got cancelled.
In 1999 the engine was stroked and slightly bored up to 5.0 and 5.5 liters for the also-cancelled 9R3 LMP1 program.
The 5.5 liter version got brought onto the road in 2004, sorta-kinda making the run between the two most prestigious race series there are.
There's only one other engine in a road car that began as a race engine in both F1 and endurance racing: the Ferrari Dino V6. Can you think of any?
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Trattoria Pallotta Vicolo della Volta Pinta n. 3 (Map)
Telephone +39-075-812649
Telephone +39-075-8155273
Hotel Pallotta Via San Rufino n. 6 (Map)
Telephone +39-075-812307
Mob. +39-3334156478
How to Get There
By Train
The station in Assisi is about 4 kilometres from the historic centre. You can take the taxi, bus or ask, when you get there, about the availability of our car (Stefano 333-4156478).
The bus (LINEA C) comes about every 30 minutes. The most convenient stop is at the end of the line, in Piazza Matteotti.
Head towards the centre. After having passed the Duomo (Church of San Rufino), you will find immediately the street where the hotel is.
To know exactly the times of the bus, follow this link: http://188.8.131.52/orari/urbani_minori/html/MAS0C.htm
By Plane
The international airport of Umbria is 11 kilometres from Assisi but there are no direct connections with the city.
You can take a TAXI (€ 25), hire a car or ask, when you arrive, about the availability of our car (Stefano 333-4156478).
By Car
Having arrived in Assisi head towards the centre. Despite traffic restrictions, temporary stopping of cars by visitors travelling to their hotels is permitted. After this, it will be necessary to park in the appropriate car parks.
There are two possibilities:
-Paid public parking (€ 10 or 12 per day)
-Free parking within the historic centre.
It is not far, just three minutes or so by foot. We will show you the way when you arrive.
Our advice, if you don't have many bags, is to park directly at Piazza Matteotti and come to the hotel by foot (about 300 metres)
Hotel: Via San Ruffino n. 6, Assisi (PG), Italy - 075 812 307
Trattoria: Vicolo della Volta Pinta n. 3, Assisi (PG) Italy - 075 812 649


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Stuart Kozola, MathWorks
In this webinar we will present an example workflow for researching, implementing and testing an automated trading strategy. You will learn how MATLAB® and add-on products can be used for data gathering, preparation and visualization, model development, backtesting, calibration, integration with existing systems and ultimately deployment.
We look at each of the parts in this process and see how MATLAB provides a single platform that allows the efficient solution of all parts of this problem.
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View example code from this webinar.
About the Presenter: Stuart Kozola is a product manager at MathWorks and focuses on MATLAB® and add-on products for computational finance. Prior to joining MathWorks in 2006, Stuart worked at Pratt & Whitney (United Technologies) as a design engineer working on combustion systems for gas turbine engines. Stuart earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wyoming, M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
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One of the most talked about plays over the weekend was the decision by referee Allen Chapman to not issue a red card to Tally Hall when he took down Galaxy forward Jose Villareal in the 24th minute of Sunday's 1-0 Dynamo win.
Galaxy players and coaches were not shy about their displeasure. Head coach Bruce Arena told reporters after the match: "I think in most cases that is a red card, but to not even give a card...if they give a yellow card you can understand that, maybe, but it is remarkable he didn't give a card on the play."
So why didn't Chapman issue a red card on the play? According to MLSsoccer.com senior editor Simon Borg, Chapman made the correct call because Villarreal's touch around Hall took him away from the goal and not toward it. Borg also pointed out that Dynamo defender Bobby Boswell had recovered and was in position to protect the net had Villarreal gotten around Hall, meaning that the Dynamo goalkeeper was not the last man on the play.
ESPN broadcaster Adrian Healy, who called the play-by-play for Sunday's match agreed with Borg and had this to say on Twitter (FYI DOGSO stands for Denial of a Goal Scoring Opportunity):
Why wasn't Tally Hall sent off? Cos it didn't satisfy 2 of 4 D's of DOGSO. Direction, & no.of Defs. Has to be ALL 4 for red. #LAG #HOU— Adrian Healey (@AdrianHealey) May 7, 2013
So what do you say Dynamo fans? Do you think the referee made the correct call on Sunday? Would you have given Hall a yellow card? Let us know in the comments section below!


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Chase Headley may have spring fever as well as a fractured thumb.
Or maybe, just maybe, he's witnessed enough bad to know what good is. Maybe he's heard enough discouragement to recognize genuine expectation. Maybe he's seen enough bare to appreciate when the cupboard is stocked with just enough provisions.
"If there had to be an injury to somebody since I've been here, this is the year," Headley said on Saturday. "… We are as deep as we've been, one to eight."
Even if you don't buy into his thesis, you have to take your good news with a splash of relativity when you're talking about this team.
The Padres begin the 2013 season Monday against the Mets without Headley in the lineup. A fractured tip of his thumb means the team's best player will be forced to only watch as his team plays the first 2½ weeks of the season.
But, hey, Carlos Quentin is healthy and so far only one pitcher will require Tommy John surgery!
It is difficult to justify picking the Padres higher than third in the NL West, but their relative health, stability and experience are definite reasons to at least believe they'll be better.
It was clear talking to Headley on Saturday before the team's final exhibition game that he has taken hard the reality he will miss Opening Day for the first time in his six years in the big leagues. But Headley went through the requisite process to arrive at his current acceptance. He is a thoughtful man, and there is a perspective gained in that.
"It's easy to kind of get down on yourself, get down on the circumstances surrounding the team," Headley said. "… But it's been kind of neat to stand back and step away from it and see the way guys go about their business."
In addition to liking the way the Padres hit during spring training, what Headley has seen and heard is a group of players that like each other, work well together and finally know what it takes to battle through the ups and downs of a season.
He sometimes asks questions of younger players just to hear their answers. Whatever the response, he furthers the conversation. He believes the progress is substantial.
Yonder Alonso is illustrative of some of the difference between the start of the 2012 season and now. Going into his second major-league campaign, Alonso hit .300 with five home runs over the spring's final 14 games. That he started the spring four-for-29 and ended the way he did may indicate nothing, or it may be that he learned from a rookie season that refined a young team and ultimately showed them they could actually win on a consistent basis.
"A lot of guys, we were going into a brick wall," Alonso said. "We had no idea how hard it was going to hit us. The initial two or three months, we didn't know how to get through it or around it or over it. Once we overcame that obstacle, we just got better."
We all know the story, the Padres were decimated by injury and found themselves with the majors' second-worst record (27-49) after 76 games. They got healthy, got some experience and finished by winning 49 of their final 86 games.
They bring back many of the same players that got hot in the second half and feel like the group is not just a year wiser but a year closer.
"Everyone is pulling on the same rope at the beginning of the season," Quentin said.
The veteran of eight seasons quickly acknowledged that really is not a unique thought among the 30 MLB clubs.
"Everyone says they're there," he said.
Yes, the instinct is to block out all the rays of sunshine. Optimism, after all, is cheaper than cotton candy at ballparks this time of year – and not quite as fulfilling.
"I'm an optimist," Bud Black said after failing to bite on several attempts to lead him to predictions of how the Padres would fare this season. "But I'm also a realist."
Much appreciated, Bud.
The Padres manager was not forecasting any doom for his outspent band, just conveying the fact we won't know until we know.
Thing about the Padres, especially minus the National League's Gold Glove and Silver Slugger winner at third base, is that every missed opportunity is magnified.
All the clichés about the importance of executing on the bases and at the plate and throwing strikes and playing catch are especially true of a team starting Cody Ransom (career .220 hitter) in Headley's place and hoping hard that Nick Hundley can rebound and Alonso can blossom and Jason Marquis can hold up and Tyson Ross can be Darren Balsley's latest reclamation project and, well, on and on ...
"There's not a lot of margin for error early," Headley agreed. "… Hopefully we can keep our head above water in April and give ourselves a chance. We don't want to be playing meaningless games again in May."
Most people, it seems, would be surprised if they make it to July with anything remotely on the line. Personally, I don't see any reason to care at all if you can't believe in possibilities in April. To that end, I say they'll be relevant until mid-August.
No conversation about the start of the season goes very long without mention of Headley's absence. But it's not with a tone of dread, which might mean something.
"A lot of people have a lot of confidence in our clubhouse," Headley said. "That's different than where we've been at times in the past."
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Generally, the Phillies will score runs and the heroes will come from the offense.
Last night, the pitchers shared the hero crown….Kyle Kendrick, Geoff Geary, J. C. Romero, Tom Gordon, Brett Myers and Clay Condrey allowed one unearned run in the extra-inning win that pulled the Phillies to within .5 of the wild card leading Padres.
For Romero, Gordon and Myers, it marked five consecutive games, generally unheard of, especially at this time of the season. Myers said it best, "I don't have time to be tired."
Pitching coach Rich Dubee pointed out that Gordon and Myers each missed time during the season because of injuries. As a result, they may be stringer now.
Rest comes tomorrow, the team's first day off since September 6. The half-game difference the Phillies face in the East and wild card race goes away tomorrow because the Mets host the Nationals and the Padres travel to San Francisco.
Before tomorrow, there is today, a 12:05 p.m. game in RFK Stadium, the last baseball game in the old place. Cole Hamels makes his second start since coming off the DL. Chances are the bullpen will be called on again. As Myers also said, "If the bell rings, I'll answer it."
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I'm not buying season tickets next year unless the Phillies get rid of Mesa, Alfonseca and CHARLIE MANUEL!
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Making an NBA All-Star Game before your 21st birthday is no easy task, but Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving specializes in making the difficult look routine. He was at it again on Saturday night, delivering a 99-98 win over the Raptors in Toronto with a last-second, game-winning three-pointer.
With the Raptors leading the Cavaliers 98-96 with 13 seconds remaining in regulation, Irving brought the ball up the court, milking the clock for a final shot. Raptors forward Alan Anderson gave Irving some room to work, perhaps expecting a drive to the hoop to force overtime. The cushion was more than enough to convince Irving to simply raise up from deep, and he pulled the trigger on a three-pointer from two steps behind the arc, burying the shot with just 0.7 remaining in regulation. The Raptors could not get off a shot on the ensuing possession.
Irving finished with a game-high 32 points, five assists, four rebounds and one steal in 38 minutes. Amir Johnson led the Raptors with 18 points and 12 rebounds.
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Why should faith have primacy over reason?
By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Sep 13, 2013
In my review of Fr. Martin Tripole's excellent book, Church in Crisis (Church in Crisis: What is wrong? Why? Can we fix it? How?), I mentioned that I would return to his insight that we must reunite faith and reason. In fact, to escape the current crisis in the Church (and, to be sure, in Western civilization as a whole), we must stop viewing faith as subordinate to reason, and instead restore the primacy of faith over reason.
The most important single text on this subject is Pope John Paul II's 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason), though it is not necessary to parse the encyclical to gain a basic grasp of the problem. In the Catholic tradition which formed Western civilization, faith and reason have worked together in a powerful and dynamic relationship, but the very dynamism of this relationship presupposes the primacy of faith. I wish to explain why.
It is not as if faith is to be embraced without reason. Saint Peter counseled Christians from the beginning that they must be always ready with a reason for the hope that is in them (cf. 1 Pet 3:15). It would be not only unproductive but extremely foolish to embrace a "faith" that is irrational, that will not withstand a serious examination of the grounds of one's belief. But the modern world goes very far wrong when it equates the irrational with the super-rational. The most important questions of life typically yield only partially or not at all to reason. Human reason is a limited tool.
Lessons from History
As a matter of historical record, the response of those who are too proud to submit themselves to any sort of god is to define as non-existent whatever is beyond reason. Thus the modern world has progressively fallen into the conviction that there is no non-material reality, which means that all religious conviction is really nothing but sentiment, which lacks any objective basis. But clearly a being which is purely material can never prove the non-existence of the spiritual, and in fact man's sense that he is a combination of the spiritual and the material—that he has important aspirations beyond the material, and that his happiness is bound up with non-material questions of ultimate meaning—has, over time, led to a substantial body of rational argument in favor of the spiritual. I note in passing that such argument would be utterly impossible unless, in fact, man did have a spiritual dimension.
In contrast, the assumption that there is no such thing as the spiritual is completely gratuitous—a misguided choice to close the mind to the full scope of reality. This assumption also tends to close us off from the wide variety of ways in which the human person comes to conviction. We moderns tend to take one of two positions—or even both at the same time, in different compartments of our lives. On the one hand, we insist that nothing can be known except through reason; and on the other, we have so much experience with conflicting arguments that we despair of reason and assume (within whatever limits are fashionable at the time) that people ought to be free to think and do whatever they want. Thus do the purely rational invariably end up as slaves to their own pride and passions.
The most important study of how the human person acquires conviction—and the most important defense of that peculiarly human process against mere rationalism—is Blessed John Henry Newman's Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent. Suffice it to say that experience, testimony, authority, reason, explanatory power, and a certain sense of fitness all (among other things) lead to our convictions, and a broad combination of considerations and reflections secure those convictions. As human persons, of course, we are fallible. We can make errors no matter how we proceed. But this method is natural to us, and is far more reliable than pure reason, which very frequently leads us astray—as a million ongoing arguments demonstrate daily. The point here is that the human person was designed to perceive things whole, not just under their scientific or even their rational aspects, and when we rule out anything but one form of reasoning based on material evidence, we truncate not only our response to reality but our very conception of reality itself.
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Newman judged that the most powerful argument for God was found in the conscience of each person, our innate sense that there is a difference between good and evil, and that we live under a judgment based on how we choose. This presupposes not only a law but a lawgiver and a judge. And if this Judge (who can only be God) really does care about how we act (as conscience tells us), then it is unreasonable to suppose that He would not communicate His will more clearly to us through some Revelation. The most basic task of human life, therefore, is to seek that Revelation, verify it, and draw from it the meaning of life.
Or, as Pope John Paul put it in Fides et Ratio:
It is unthinkable that a search so deeply rooted in human nature would be completely vain and useless. The capacity to search for truth and to pose questions itself implies the rudiments of a response. Human beings would not even begin to search for something of which they knew nothing or for something which they thought was wholly beyond them. Only the sense that they can arrive at an answer leads them to take the first step. This is what normally happens in scientific research. When scientists, following their intuition, set out in search of the logical and verifiable explanation of a phenomenon, they are confident from the first that they will find an answer, and they do not give up in the face of setbacks. They do not judge their original intuition useless simply because they have not reached their goal; rightly enough they will say that they have not yet found a satisfactory answer.
The same must be equally true of the search for truth when it comes to the ultimate questions. The thirst for truth is so rooted in the human heart that to be obliged to ignore it would cast our existence into jeopardy. Everyday life shows well enough how each one of us is preoccupied by the pressure of a few fundamental questions and how in the soul of each of us there is at least an outline of the answers. One reason why the truth of these answers convinces is that they are no different in substance from the answers to which many others have come. To be sure, not every truth to which we come has the same value. But the sum of the results achieved confirms that in principle the human being can arrive at the truth. [#29]
The human person who is open to a revelation and seeks to discern it will come to the conviction that he has found an authentic revelation through a variety of means. His decision to embrace it must be rationally defensible, even if he himself is not yet able to mount that defense, but he will not necessarily proceed by any strict method of rational analysis. At some point he will embrace it as certain based on the confluence of a wide variety of evidence, including (as I mentioned) personal experience, testimony, authority, reason, explanatory power, and a certain sense of fitness. It is at this point that he is said to put his faith in it. And my main point in this particular essay is that once a person has come to faith, it is faith that must have the primacy in the relationship between faith and reason.
Reasons for the Primacy of Faith
This does not mean that reason cannot be used to purify faith, to clarify our understanding of the Revelation on which faith is based, to strip away our personal inconsistencies in embracing it, to draw related conclusions from it, to challenge and solidify its grounds or even to demonstrate that the grounds are inadequate. Not for nothing is Catholic theology described as "faith seeking understanding". But it does mean that only when faith has the primacy is human perception (including human reason) opened effectively to all of reality.
I say "effectively" because there are so many aspects of reality which reason cannot penetrate without assistance. Reason can, of course, conclude that God necessarily exists, that the human person is a created being, and that we must have souls—even immortal souls. But reason can know next to nothing about God and His purposes, and only a little about our own ends and our own happiness. In contrast, the very purpose of the Revelation we so rightly expect must be to shed light on precisely these things. Thus only faith can effectively leap over the barriers to truth which have been more or less deliberately erected in the so-called modern age. For only the fool says in his heart that there is no God (Ps 14:1; Ps 53:1).
Moreover, faith can do more by its primacy than simply open us to all of reality. It can also correct the inevitable tendency of reason to degenerate into relativism. This is one thing that we moderns should be able to appreciate more than those in many other ages. Simply by emphasizing reason to the exclusion of all else, we have found that arguments never cease, that nothing can ever be settled, that progress on questions of human worth and human meaning and human morality grinds to a halt, and that in the end we can affirm nothing except through the exercise of power. But faith, which is accepted on the authority of God revealing, is the most certain of all forms of knowledge. When it has primacy in its relationship with reason, it can correct the wrong turns that reason sometimes takes, and unify human study around fixed principles which keep our quest for knowledge on track.
In contrast, when reason is given primacy in the continual interaction between faith and reason, all of the self-evident dangers of modernity emerge: the tendency to make man rather than God the measure of all things; the refusal to accept the reality of anything human reason cannot penetrate; the splintering of the ultimate unity of all branches of study; the tendency to settle for information instead of meaning; the erosion of common principles; the frustration of constant disagreement; the resulting descent into chronic doubt, relativism and despair; and even the paradoxical rise of superstition, ideology and fanaticism.
Other Factors
It is telling that Fr. Tripole proposes as the second point of his solution to the crisis of the Church that we must restore the unity of the Church in Christ. He quite properly begins by explaining that the source of the Church's unity is found in the Eucharist: The real body of Christ forms the mystical body of Christ. But he also understands that the primacy of Faith must be at work here as well. The success of the mission of the Church depends almost completely on its unity. Disunity splinters and undermines not only the clarity of the message and the mission effort itself but even the credibility of those who properly and fully represent the Church. After all, if even Catholics cannot agree among themselves (or, in a wider sphere, even Christians), why should anyone pay attention to the truth claims implicit in the primacy of faith?
In addition to grace and love, the unity of the Church demands intellectual fidelity—intellectual faithfulness. No religion can foster a deep intellectual unity without both a clear Revelation and an authority principle to interpret that Revelation. The Church has that principle in the successors of Peter, who are the chief servants of unity. When Catholics fall prey to the primacy of reason, they judge the content of Revelation and the Magisterium itself according to their own lights. When they accept the primacy of faith, they take advantage of Revelation and the Magisterium to guide their reason in matters which reason cannot fathom on its own. Restoring the primacy of faith, therefore, is the first and most important intellectual step toward the unity of the Church and the effectiveness of Christian mission.
Once we are in the realm of Christian faith, of course, we are not speaking simply of an intellectual commitment. Faith is a supernatural gift which is given to the person as a theological virtue in the soul. We believe with Divine power, and we must recall here that man has not only more but higher ways to know than through reason alone.
However, to step back from more lofty considerations, what we are discussing primarily in this essay is faith in God according to a Revelation which can actually withstand serious human scrutiny, including rational scrutiny. There is no question of falling into a facile credulity, unworthy of the dignity of a being who possesses not only will but intellect. Faith and reason go hand-in-hand in both the human mind and the human soul. But for man to be open to all of reality, for man to be fully himself, faith in Christ, experienced through the unity and the mission of His Church, must have the primacy.
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Excellent and timely article,Jeff. "Thus the modern world has progressively fallen into the conviction that there is no non-material reality, which means that all religious conviction is really nothing but sentiment, which lacks any objective basis." Quite right. We might also add that it could be argued that on the same basis the capacity of a human being to reason also lacks an objective basis. Thus science itself must also be an illusion, as Nietzsche finally argues, leading to nihilism.


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Everybody is happy for Melissa McCarthy. After years on TV shows (Gilmore Girls, Mike & Molly) and small parts in movies (she's great in John August's The Nines), she broke through with Bridesmaids, getting an Oscar nomination in the process. She's a really funny lady who's ridiculously effervescent, and it's high time her profile got raised. The only problem with McCarthy's breakthrough is that in Bridesmaids she was the shrill, obnoxious character—amusing but also really broad. In her first big role since that film, she's essentially playing another version of that character, to much less winning effect. Identity Thief is so bad that I hope it doesn't prematurely squash people's enthusiasm for her.
In the movie, Jason Bateman plays the usual Jason Bateman character, Sandy Patterson, a responsible, buttoned-down Denver businessman who doesn't get much respect from his boss (Jon Favreau) but is still hoping for a promotion to support his growing family. But when Sandy leaves the company for a better gig, his cushy new V.P. title is threatened because local police think he's another Sandy Patterson (McCarthy), a loud, brash woman (real name Diana) living in Florida who has racked up tons of credit-card debt and stolen his identity. Given a week to clear his name—this seems nonstandard—Sandy travels to Florida to confront this woman and convince her to go back to Colorado with him to explain the whole situation.
Identity Thief is the latest odd-couple-go-on-the-road-together comedy, and it will test your patience for two very likable performers made constantly unlikable by this film. Bateman does put-upon as well as anyone, so obviously he's put in endless situations where McCarthy is utterly jerky and rude. That's meant to set off comic sparks—watch out for those sparks!—but director Seth Gordon (King of Kong, Horrible Bosses) confuses screaming with comedy, which is even more annoying because of how obvious this movie's strategy is. You see, because Sandy is clearly such a good guy and Diana is clearly such a tacky, white-trash shopaholic, we're eventually going to learn that, really, Diana isn't such a bad person: She's just misunderstood. Which would be fine if she'd been a funny horrible person beforehand.
The movie isn't even clever enough to make its central conceit interesting. How is Diana so good at being an identity thief? Apparently, she calls people, pretends to be their credit card companies, and gets their social security numbers. That's about it. (For people who found the setup of Compliance ludicrous, good luck with this movie.) Identity Thief goes out of its way to suggest that she's a sociopath, but we don't really see it: She's mostly just Megan from Bridesmaids with worse makeup. And then when the film decides to try showing some heart and make Diana a little more human—which, I swear to god, involves a high-end fashion makeover—it doesn't make sense that Sandy would begin to sympathize with her because, again, she's supposedly a sociopath. The movie wants us to see her as a total nutjob until it decides, no wait, she's really very nice.
Identity Thief doesn't make much sense on any level. Sandy's new boss (who knows him really well) won't hire him back unless he meets Diana in person? We have to have not one but two different groups of gun-toting bad guys chasing after Diana? The movie even tries to work in some lame 99-percenter populism once Sandy begins to see the wisdom in screwing over certain kinds of people and stealing their identities. Everything feels thrown together with a desperate hope that, maybe just maybe, the more frantic and busy everything seems, the funnier it'll be.
While watching Identity Thief, I was thinking about just how hard it is to make a road movie in a time when most people fly everywhere. (Like with modern-day horror movies, which need to keep establishing that their characters are out of cellphone range, road movies often have to invent reasons why the characters must drive.) And with its dumb mixture of action, comedy and occasional sentimentality, Identity Thief made me think back to Due Date, another film with almost exactly the same setup. I suddenly realized that McCarthy is basically playing the Zach Galifianakis role: the overbearing dolt we're meant to find adorable deep down. Galifianakis was another comic who deserved his eventual mainstream breakthrough. But then he just kept playing variations of off-putting weirdos until it became his shtick. I don't want that to happen to McCarthy. (The trailer for her next film, The Heat, doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.) There are about 10 minutes in this movie where you get to see McCarthy's natural charisma and sweetness shine, and paired with Bateman's it's pretty enjoyable. But it disappears too quickly. What's the point of discovering new stars if Hollywood is going to stick them in the same old crap?
Grade: C-.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It's one of the most lasting images from the NCAA basketball tournament.A buzzer-beating two-handed dunk by muscular forward Lorenzo Charles gives heavy underdog North Carolina State a stunning national championship game win in 1983 versus powerhouse Houston — known as Phi Slamma Jamma. Wolfpack coach Jim Valvano spills onto the court, scrambling for someone to hug.
Charles, 47, the hero from that memorable game, was killed Monday when an empty bus he was driving for Elite Coach crashed along Interstate 40 in Raleigh, said general manager Brad Jackson.
Charles grabbed Dereck Whittenburg's 30-foot shot and dunked it to give the Wolfpack the 54-52 win over the Cougars, led by stars Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon. It was N.C. State's second national title and gave Charles a place in school history.
Whittenburg was despondent when discussing his teammate and friend with The Associated Press.
"It's just an awful day," Whittenburg said. "An awful, awful day."
That game in Albuquerque, N.M., capped an improbable run to the championship. N.C. State entered the NCAA tournament with a 17-10 record, having beaten Virginia to win the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament and an automatic berth into the national field. No one expected much.
"It's still kind of amazing to me that … people are still talking about it," Charles said in an excerpt from his comments about the championship game on his N.C. State Web page. "I remember when (it) first happened, I figured I would have my 15 minutes of fame and that would be it. Here we are and it is still a conversational piece. I don't really think that was the only great Final Four finish that has been played since then, but for some reason people just single out that game and talk about it. Maybe because it was such a David and Goliath thing."
Police released little about the one-vehicle crash that took Charles' life. Video shows the windshield broken out with tree limbs sticking through the window frame. The rear wheels of the bus were on an embankment, leaving the right front tire elevated from the road.
Charles finished his college career two years after the championship win with 1,535 total points — 15th on the school's scoring list — and his .575 shooting percentage in 1985 remains a school record for seniors.
In the 1983 run, Charles hit two free throws with 23 seconds left in the West Regional finals against the Cavaliers to give the Wolfpack a 63-62 win and the spot in the Final Four.
Their semifinal win over Georgia sent them to the matchup with the Cougars.
Michael Young, director of basketball operations at Houston, was a member of the team that let a national championship slip away. He told KRIV-TV in Houston that he had never quite gotten over Charles' heroics.
"For him to dunk the ball at that moment to win the game, it was one of the most heartbreaking moments I have ever felt in my whole career," Young said. "20-eight years later, it's still with me. Every day somebody asks me about it. I thought I was going to get away with it today and then you called me. I'm very sorry to hear what happened."
Valvano also became famous for his emotional burst onto the court afterward, running around almost in disbelief. Jimmy V died in 1993 after a very public fight with cancer.
N.C. State retired Charles' No. 43 jersey in 2008, the 25th anniversary of the championship.
Current coach Mark Gottfried said his staff had just gotten acquainted with Charles and was saddened to hear the news.
"He holds a special place in Wolfpack history and in the hearts of generations of fans," Gottfried said in a statement. "We just reconnected with him last week and our staff was stunned to hear this terrible news."
ACC Commissioner John Swofford said Charles' play had an uplifting effect.
"As a former player, he made us believe in the amazing and all of us in the ACC send out our thoughts and prayers to his entire family," Swofford said in a statement.
Charles played one season in the NBA, averaging 3.4 points in 36 games with the Atlanta Hawks in 1985-86, and played internationally and in the Continental Basketball Association until 1999.
A message left on a phone listed to Charles wasn't immediately returned Monday night.
Thurl Bailey, one of Charles' teammates on the championship team, said it's tough to accept that the player who made the game-winning dunk is gone.
"But I heard someone say, I was talking to them on the phone about this, that Jimmy V finally found somebody to hug," Bailey told WRAL-TV.
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DETROIT -- With the Tigers' offense stalled, scoring zero runs over the last 17 innings, manager Jim Leyland is hoping Jhonny Peralta can give the team a boost. Peralta will start in left field in Game 3 of the American League Division Series against the A's on Monday (1 p.m. ET, MLB Network).
After a three-run first inning in Game 1, the Tigers are 10-for-58 (.172) with no extra-base hits and 16 strikeouts.
"I'm going to play Peralta tomorrow," Leyland said Sunday, "maybe to try to get another extra base ‑‑ a bat in the lineup, because we've got to try to score some runs, obviously."
Peralta will be playing in his first game at Comerica Park following his 50-game suspension due to his involvement in the Biogenesis investigation. In his only at-bat of the postseason, Peralta pinch-hit in the ninth inning during Game 1, and hit a flyout to right.
Peralta made three starts in the final regular-season series against the Marlins, going 3-for-12 with a double and an RBI. Those three games are also the shortstop-turned-left fielder's only defensive game experience in the outfield.
"You're still taking a little bit of a chance, because, defensively, you don't know what's going to happen," Leyland said. "But there comes a point where you might have to give up something to get something. So I'm just hoping that maybe he can knock in a couple of runs and we can get a lead and maybe get him out of there later in the game."
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Finland's Fonal Records has, for many years, been a record label difficult to ignore – especially if you are concerned with experimental Nordic music which operates in the periphery. Their catalogue includes some of that country's finest releases of recent times, with an emphasis which falls regularly on the irresistibly strange. Yet there is little which is experimental for its own sake and rendered musically incomprehensible. Unsurprisingly, this continues in 2012 with Jukka Herva, alias Barry Andrewsin Disko, making what could be one of the label's strongest records of the year.
The instruments used in the making here are varied and cluttered. It is categorically electronic music but looking at it that way misses what Kuka Siellä? really is. In many ways it is not vastly different from the Boom Boom EP which preceded it in 2011, but it is more a whole and less a selection of sketches and thoughts. It is also, on a basic level at least, more poppy.
The pace and atmosphere of some tracks are like musical drizzle – steady, slow and persistent. A misty, cold atmosphere pervades much of the record. 'Dreary' is a word with too many negative connotations to use here but sometimes a measure of lethargic misery is a worthwhile thing; like the rain, it can be cleansing. The low and droning vocals are fitting enough, with 'Yö seuraa yötä' waltzing sedately, making its four minutes 30 seem like an age. Similarly-effected vocals appear in 'Lampaita'; a song that could barely sound more characteristically Finnish, at least to a non-Finnish outsider like me.
That deliberate pace is certainly not 'what it's all about', though. The opening and title track has the air of a Gregorian chant for the twenty-first century electronic music fan. Its pedestrian speed is not representative of the record in general but it's a suitable and well-designed entry point to the world of Barry Andrewsin Disko. Like a good broth, Kuka Siellä? has its meatier moments, though few of them are at more than a canter. 'Pam Pam' is about the liveliest but it strays not from the overall dynamic of the album, doing the whole build-up-then-release thing pretty soundly. 'Viime Yönä' is another upbeat tract but one which is little but dreamy, as well as profoundly unsettling, partly due to a fairground after-closing style ambience which has the potential to put you on edge.
Then after the inertia, things are once again shaken into life. This pleasing sequence continues until track 6, the aforementioned 'Lampaita'. From here, things begin to vary and the sounds occasionally stray to delightful, in much contrast to the previous sullenness. What perfectly encapsulates Kuka Siellä? as a whole is its closing track, 'Kemijoki tulvii'. It has the dimensions of the entire album writ large and is split into three passages; from the meandering, acoustically strummed and atmospheric beginnings through a slow, bass-heavy middle and onto an end which gently tweets and flutters itself into non-existence, in much the same manner as it arrived. Again, a completeness in several senses.
The general pace and density – consistent with subtle changes – are what makes this record so absorbing and hard to exit. It's difficult to really distinguish constituent textural parts because the way the layering is often so congealed, even from the off. There are many things which in both senses of the word make this record. These elements do switch throughout, rising and falling in prominence; a high-register guitar line here, some mysterious and flattened vocals there, and a collection of synths, keyboards and electronic percussion pretty much everywhere you look.
It is difficult to convey just what it is that makes this first Barry Andrewsin Disko full-length so great, other than merely its existence. Perhaps it's because it gives an instantly familiar feel; a comforting and persistent presence. Maybe because it feels like it arrived fully formed. Everything in this fundamentally simple record is done totally without fuss and fanfare. That in itself is not enough to be celebrated, but the end result certainly is.
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If you've ever received an e-mail from someone asking you to help them claim a fortune, chances are that someone was in Nigeria. They hoped you were greedy and stupid enough to go along with their bogus offer.
Why Nigeria?
How did this African nation become scam central for the entire planet? I looked into that question and here's what I found:
Not all scams originate in Nigeria. They just seem to be more persistent there. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa (158,423,180 as of 2010). International population estimates say 65 percent of Nigeria's citizens live on less than $1 a day. If that isn't incentive for crime, nothing is. It's a "short con" that can be carried out cheaply with limited Internet access.
The Nigerian Scam, or the "419 Advanced Fee Fraud," as it's known to the Internet savy, came from the Nigerian criminal code for such a crime (419), according to Wikipedia.
The modern 419 scam originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined. During this chaotic time, several unemployed university students first used this scam, spawned from shady deals in the Nigerian oil sector.
It's very simplicity, someone willing to share part of a fortune for a large sum of money given by the victim, has made it a success.
Businessmen in the west had targets painted on their check books. The scam was so successful it grew wings and flew around the world. Greed, being what it is, assured these scammers of a long haul with a short scam.
The spread of e-mail and easy access to email-harvesting software significantly lowered the cost of sending scam messages. According to Insa Nolte, a lecturer of University of Birmingham's African Studies Department, "The availability of e-mail helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries."
During the 1900s, the Nigerian Scam spurred imitations from other locations in Africa, Philippines, Malaysia, Russia, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Here we are decades later and just about every American who owns a computer has been contacted by someone using the Nigerian Scam. The thing that gets me is the bad English used in the scam letters. It seems to me they should take more notice of such an important detail.
Then again, it's a formula that has worked for decades and scammers might be nervous about messing with success. The fact that practically any person, educated or not, can make money with very little effort using the Nigerian Scam, assures it's continuance.
For the record, the Nigerian Scam, also known as an "Advance-fee fraud" is similar to a much older scam known as the Spanish Prisoner Scam in which the trickster told the victim that a rich prisoner promised to share treasure with the victim in exchange for money to bribe prison guards.
An older version of this scam existed by the end of 18th century, and is called "the Letter From Jerusalem" by Eugène François Vidocq, in his memoirs. I point this out not only to show the evolution of the Nigerian Scam, but to prove that greed has always opened doors for those willing to use it for their personal advantage.
I think it's only fair to point out that not all Nigerians are criminals and the honest ones are probably fed up with the reputation their country has because of the scammers.
Disclaimer: this column is not a master's thesis on why Nigeria is "scam central" in today's world. I've only outlined why I think it is, based upon the facts presented. I have nothing against Nigerians. I do have an insatiable desire to explore why things are the way they are.
If you'd like to know more about the Nigerian Scam and others similar to it, I recommend going to Scambaiter at http://www.419eater.com/ There's a lot of good current information available there.
As It Stands, knowledge is power, and the more articles you read warning about internet scams, the safer you and your bank account will be.
Websites carrying this column:
1) All Voices – Mainstream News
2) Nigeria '70
4) Counter Fraud
5) Fraud Blog
7) News Blogged
9) Scam Central
10) Christian Money
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15) Neizer
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17) Crime Seen
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19) The Willits News
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