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by Joshua Maloni
The Village of Lewiston Board of Trustees will review recommendations related to closing Center Street (for festivals or large-scale events) at its 6 p.m. work session on Monday.
In September, Mayor Terry Collesano formed an ad hoc committee to review how, when and why the village's main thoroughfare is closed. The panel wasted little time in drafting a letter that suggests the creation of an all-encompassing event application and event/procedure form.
"It seemed like there was no set application form or process to get approval" to close Center Street, said Rick Haight. The Lewiston Advisory Committee chairman and proprietor of Advanced Design Group is one of five members on the ad hoc committee, alongside Village of Lewiston Police Commissioner Al Soluri, Chamber of Commerce President Jennifer Pauly, Lewiston Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1 Chief Kevin Macaulay and Fourth Street resident Pat Walker.
"It seemed like different entities weren't involved," Haight said, emphasizing the ad hoc committee's event application specifically calls for input from the Lewiston police and fire departments, as well as the chamber, local businesses and residents. The goal is to make sure all parties affected by Center Street's closing have a say on the matter, Haight said, and to hopefully get all groups on the same page.
Collesano said the ad hoc committee "obviously did their homework." He said "a lot of things were already in place" in regard to communicating with the chamber and first responders on previous festival applications, but he noted his ad hoc committee "had a lot of good points."
The mayor acknowledged there is some discontent from local retailers on the way in which Center Street is closed - in particular, some organizations "possibly haven't been following through with the businesses" in terms of preventing an outline of where outside vendors will be located on the street and in proximity to the village's merchants.
Procedurally, the ad hoc committee's event application process would work thusly: Organization A seeks to close Center Street for a festival or large-scale event in 2012. The group would be charged a small fee to submit a preliminary request to the Village Board. Trustees would share the plan (including date/time, layout and number of vendors/performers) with the first responders. Following that conversation, and pending any changes, the application and event form would then be submitted by Feb. 28 to the chamber, which would disseminate the information to local businesses and check for any date/time conflicts. Trustees could then vote on the street closing and, if they consent, notify the public of the festival's particulars.
Collesano said the ad hoc committee did a "bang-up job." But, "now it's up to the Village Board to weigh all these considerations" and make a final Center Street closing determination.


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Who Should Coach Team USA?
Wednesday, the last gold medal coach, and current Duke head coach Mike Krzyzweski announced he is stepping down from coaching team USA at the Olympics.
Krzyzweski has been team USA's coach since 2005 and has an outstanding 62-1 record, two gold medals at the 2010 and 2012 Olympics, and one gold medal at the 2010 World Championships.
Now, the question shifts to who will coach team USA in the 2016 Olympics?
If USA Basketball Chairman Jerry Colangelo wants to stick with college coaches, then he should look at Kentucky head coach John Calipari.
Calipari led Kentucky to an NCAA championship last year, and briefly has some NBA experience after coaching New Jersey from 1996 to 1999. Calipari didn't have the best luck, going 26-56 his debut season, then making playoffs and winning 43 games his second year before being fired his third season after starting 3-17.
He was going to coach the Dominican Republic National Team in the Olympics, but pulled out at the last second.
If the next team USA coach isn't in college, than there are plenty of NBA coaches that could handle the job as well.
A bright, young coach that may be perfect for the job may be the Miami Heat's head coach Erik Spoelstra. Spoelstra is 235-132 with an NBA championship and has coached three of the game's best players, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh.
The Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers may also be a good selection to the job, as he has played and coached in the NBA. Rivers has coached since 1999, and has won a NBA championship with the Celtics, and has a 576-460 record.
The last coach that may be the best fit is longtime San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich. He's been with the Spurs since 1996 and has won four NBA championships, and is 892-412 in his NBA career.
A name to mention may be Phil Jackson. That's if, of course the basketball coaching legend wants to come out of retirement.
The only thing we do know is that the next coach of team USA will have a lot of talent to work with in 2016.

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Marvin Goodfriend Nominated for Fed Board of Governors
Marvin Goodfriend Nominated for Fed Board of Governors
President Donald Trump has nominated Carnegie Mellon University professor Marvin Goodfriend to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
We reported back in June that Goodfriend was likely to be nominated. As a governor, Goodfriend leaves much to desired.
He has criticized the use of QE, but, as Bloomberg notes,
Goodfriend thought the impact of QE was questionable, at best. Instead he made a case for an even more unorthodox idea: negative interest rates. He conceded, however, that a sustained policy of negative rates might require abolishing paper currency, a step that would likely prove unpopular.
In other words, Goodfriend has problems with the radical policy of QE. The solution? The ultra-radical policy of negative interest rates.
As Tho Bishop has pointed out, multiple vacancies on the Fed board gives Donald Tump the opportunity to drastically move the Fed in a new direction. So far, though, we're just looking at more of the same.
Here's Bob Murphy on "The Nuttiness of Negative Interest Rates."
The Federal Government Can't Centrally Plan Immigration Any More than It Can Centrally Plan Society
Immigration has featured prominently in the news ever since Donald Trump first announced his presidential candidacy and inveighed against Mexican immigrants and the crime they supposedly brought with them.
However, with the recent revelation that the federal government has separated over 2,300 children from their parents, immigration has again dominated the news, and with good reason: these actions were arbitrarily cruel and unnecessary.
Reasonable people can disagree about immigration policy, and the issue as a whole is not as simple as either side would like to portray. Specifically, concerns about the impact of immigration on American culture are often not given enough consideration by many people in favor of a more open immigration system.
However, conservatives favoring restrictions because of concerns about cultural change must then explain why they are willing to abandon core conservative principles like voluntary community, and why they believe that the U.S. government should centrally plan the culture of our society.
One of the core conservative insights stressed by both Edmund Burke and Friedrich Hayek is, in the words of political theorist Linda Raeder , that "social order appears as a product of the interplay of historically evolved institutions, habit and custom, objective law, and impersonal social forces." In their time, both Burke and Hayek opposed efforts to reengineer society through central planning, whether by French Jacobins, Russian communists, or American and European democratic socialists, precisely because such efforts necessarily suffered from an inability to take into account the vast amount of local knowledge required for successful planning.
Hayek called this the knowledge problem, and wrote that
this is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.
A core component of conservatism is the rejection of central planning. As conservative luminary Russell Kirk's eighth principle of conservatism says "conservatives uphold voluntary community, quite as they oppose involuntary collectivism." Conservatives, especially those concerned with the cultural effects of immigration, should explore and embrace ways of decentralizing the power of immigration away from the federal government to the state, or, even more ideally, the county level.
With over 320 million people in the U.S., it is nonsensical to think that one uniform immigration policy is sufficient to address the circumstances and needs of everyone in every place. Decentralizing the issue allows for every state to experiment to see what works best for them.
While such a radical idea may seem untenable in our current political climate, it is not infeasible in the long run, and it provides a ripe opportunity for conservative scholarship on the issue on many fronts.
On the judicial front, some legal scholars contest the idea that the federal government even has any legitimate authority over immigration at all. This is a view, which, if widely adopted, would certainly make implementing plans for decentralization much easier. Fox News' Andrew Napolitano, the network's senior judicial analyst, has said that "the Constitution itself — from which all federal powers derive — does not delegate to the federal government power over immigration, only over naturalization."
Similarly, George Mason law professor Ilya Somin has argued that "the Naturalization Clause does not create a power to prevent foreigners from entering the country. It merely allows Congress to set conditions for the grant of citizenship." Elsewhere he has contested the idea that Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 of the Constitution permits federal regulation of immigration under the auspices of the concept of The Laws of Nations. While such views are not currently widespread, merely discussing them helps to move the ball forward.
On the level of practical implementation, the Cato Institute has a white paper exploring the possibility of establishing a state-based visa system modeled on similar systems currently in place in both Canada and Australia. The proposed system would have the benefit of allowing labor to flow into those parts of the countries where it is needed and kept away from parts without a labor shortage or that don't desire immigrants, as well as allowing for states to implement their own policies concerning welfare eligibility. This system would also create incentives so that immigrants stay in their sponsoring states by making it part of their legal residency requirements, which would alleviate fears that immigrants in New York would immediately start to flood into Pennsylvania, or vice versa.
It is my own view that some kind of sponsorship system, in which citizens post a bond or surety and are liable for the good conduct of the immigrants they sponsor, is a good way of aligning incentives for all parties concerned. As writer Chris Calton has pointed out , blanket immigration restrictions not only affect foreigners, but also affect American citizens who wish to interact in both economic and social ways with these potential immigrants. If people want more immigrants, then it makes sense that they should be willing to internalize any potential externalities, whether it be potential welfare dependence or crime.
Such an incentive structure offers a compromise between those who are enthusiastic about immigration and those opposed. Sponsorship programs in one form or another have been suggested by people across the political spectrum, such as Matthew La Corte and David Bier at the Niskanen Center, law professor Eric Posner and economist Glen Weyl , and Arc contributor and Mises Institute writer Tho Bishop .
Developing a decentralized framework should be a starting point for any view of immigration policy that takes essential conservative views about the fundamental nature of society seriously. Any true conservative would be up in arms over the idea that the government can somehow centrally plan widget production, yet many are willing to cede the idea that the government can somehow successfully centrally plan the makeup of society itself, which is much more complex than any industry.
It is time to take conservative principles seriously and begin the development of a truly decentralized approach to immigration.
Jeff Deist on the Accad and Koka Healthcare Podcast
The Accad and Koka Report, hosted by two MDs, focuses on free-market approaches to medicine and health.
Drs. Michel Accad and Anish Koka recently hosted Mises Institute president Jeff Deist for a no-holds barred look at how Congress, the medical establishment, and lobbyists work together to make healthcare anything but free. Watch the interview here.
Sheriff Tries to Clean Up Government
78 Million Americans Now Live in States with Legal Recreational Marijuana
Advocates for marijuana legalization won another victory this year as voters in Michigan voted to approve legalization of recreational marijuana in last week's election.
This comes only a month after Canada finalized its legalization of recreational marijuana, making it only the second country where the national government has legalized nationwide recreational use.
Nevertheless, with the addition of Michigan to the eight other states that have legalized recreational marijuana (not counting the District of Columbia), 78 million Americans now live in jurisdictions where it's been legalized.
Were these states to form their own country, it would be the nineteenth largest country in the world — larger than the United Kingdom and France.
This new reality has already made itself felt in federal policy.
In 2017, Congress voted to deny the Justice Department funds to enforce federal laws against medicinal marijuana.
And when now-outgoing US Attorney General Sessions announced plans to crack down on marijuana use that had already been legalized at the state level, he received bipartisan opposition in Congress. Not even republicans in Congress from pro-legalization states want anything to do with a ratcheting up of the Drug War.
Also pending in Washington is the "Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) Act" which, is essentially a "states' rights" bill supported by both parties in the name of reining in the drug war. Its purpose is to recognize what the Tenth Amendment already makes clear: that the federal government has no authority to dictate to states as to what people can eat or smoke.
One shouldn't expect many politicians to apply this philosophy across the board, although recognizing the importance of decentralization in the Drug War is a good first step.
Trump has suggested he will support the bill.
Illinois and New Hampshire may be next on the list for legalization, perhaps in 2020.
The New Bob Murphy Podcast Interview with Jeff Deist
An Easy Alternative to the Brexit Agreement
Prime Minister May says that she has reached an agreement with the European Union.
The agreement is 585 pages long. Every time politicians vote to implement a 600-page document that was written by high-level bureaucrats, the liberties of the citizens of that nation decline. The devil is in the details, and there are a lot of details for the devil to get into.
She got it through her cabinet. Now she has to get it through Parliament, which is going to be a challenge. The pro-Brexit people hate conciliation, and the Remainers don't want to agree to anything remotely like Brexit.
She was never a big fan of Brexit. She is going along with the whole thing grudgingly. She has stalled an agreement for almost 2 years.
If Parliament won't vote for her agreement, then Britain will depart from the EU on March 29. It's automatic.
I have a solution. Parliament does not have to accept any agreement. No agreement is necessary.
Here is my Brexit solution. Parliament votes for this law.
Her Majesty's government adopts a policy of zero tariffs and zero import quotas, beginning tomorrow.
That's it? That's it!
There would be no negotiations with foreign countries. There would be nothing to negotiate.
If exporters located in EU countries want to sell something to the Brits, good for them. If there are Brits who like the products and accept them, good for them.
Tariffs are simply sales taxes on imported goods. Anytime a government cuts taxes, that is positive.
Revenues to the government would fall. This is also good.
Import quotas don't generate any revenues. There shouldn't be any import quotas.
Would trade go up between buyers in Great Britain and sellers in the European Union? You bet it would. Everybody likes to be able to sell at a discount, and, overnight, exporters to Great Britain would find that their goods now sell at a discount. No sales taxes are tacked onto the goods.
Would this be good for British buyers? Of course. Who wants to pay sales taxes?
Would financial companies leave Great Britain? No. Why should they? All of a sudden, the whole world would want to sell goods to residents of Great Britain. The doors would be open wide. If it's good for trade, it's good for finance.
If Great Britain did this, its economy would not sink. Other countries in the European Union would figure out that the benefits of staying inside the EU don't compensate for the liabilities associated with the surrender of national sovereignty. Anyway, a substantial minority of voters in those countries would figure this out. All it would take would be a policy of zero tariffs. In other words, all it would take would be a reduction of taxes. "We're outta here!"
No nation needs to sign a 500-page agreement in order to leave the EU profitably. It simply leaves the EU, abolishes tariffs and quotas, and starts trading.
Come one, come all! Let's make a deal!
This article originally appeared here at GaryNorth.com.
A Trump-Pelosi Budget Deal is a Recipe for the Worst Kind of Tax Increase
The most disturbing outcome of the recent mid-term election isn't that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be a Member of Congress. I actually look forward to that because of the humor value.
Instead, with the Democrats now controlling the House of Representatives, I'm more worried about Donald Trump getting tricked into a "budget summit" that inevitably would produce a deal with higher taxes and more spending. Just in case you think I'm being paranoid, here are some excerpts from a recent Politico report.
The dust has barely settled on the midterm elections, yet tax talk is already in the air thanks to President Donald Trump signaling openness to higher taxes, at least for some. …Trump said he'd be open to making an "adjustment" to recent corporate and upper-income tax cuts… Those off-the-cuff comments are sure to spark concerns among Republican leaders… Trump also suggested he could find common ground with Democrats on health care and infrastructure.
To be fair, Trump was only talking about higher taxes as an offset to a new middle-class tax package, but Democrats realize that getting Trump to acquiesce to a net tax hike would be of great political value.
And I fear they will be successful in any fiscal negotiations. Just look at how Trump got rolled on spending earlier this year (and that orgy of new spending took place when Democrats were in the minority).
I fear a deal in part because I object to higher taxes. But also because it's quite likely that we'll get the worst kind of tax hikes – i.e., class-warfare increases in tax rates on work, saving, investment, and entrepreneurship.
The political dynamic of budget deals is rather straightforward. So long as the debate is whether to raise taxes or not, the anti-tax crowd has the advantage since most Americans don't want to give more of their money to politicians.
But if both parties agree with the notion that taxes should increase, then most Americans will — for reasons of self defense — want higher taxes on the rich (with "rich" defined as "making more money than me"). And those are the tax increases that do the most damage.
Interestingly, even economists from the International Monetary Fund agree with me about the negative consequences of higher tax rates. Here's the abstract of a recent study.
This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of tax changes during fiscal consolidations. We build a new narrative dataset of tax changes during fiscal consolidation years, containing detailed information on the expected revenue impact, motivation, and announcement and implementation dates of nearly 2,500 tax measures across 10 OECD countries. We analyze the macroeconomic impact of tax changes, distinguishing between tax rate and tax base changes, and further separating between changes in personal income, corporate income, and value added tax. Our results suggest that base broadening during fiscal consolidations leads to smaller output and employment declines compared to rate hikes, even when distinguishing between tax types.
Here's a bit of the theory from the report.
Tax-based fiscal consolidations are generally associated with large output declines, but their composition can matter. In particular, policy advice often assumes that measures to broaden the tax base by reducing exemptions and deductions are less harmful to economic activity during austerity. …base broadening often tends to make taxation across sectors, firms, or activities more homogeneous, contrary to rate increases. This helps re-allocate resources to those projects with the highest pre-tax return, thereby improving economic efficiency.
By the way, "base broadening" is the term for when politicians collect more revenue by repealing or limiting deductions, exemptions, exclusions, credits, and other tax preferences ("tax reform" is the term for when politicians repeal or limit preferences and use the money to finance lower tax rates).
Anyhow, here are some of the findings from the IMF study on the overall impact of tax increases.
The chart on the right shows that higher taxes lead to less economic output, which certainly is consistent with academic research.
And the chart on the left shows the revenue impact declining over time, presumably because of the Laffer Curve (further confirming that tax hikes are bad even if they generate some revenue).
But the main purpose of the study is to review the impact of different types of tax increases. Here's what the authors found.
Our key finding is that tax base changes during consolidations appear to have a smaller impact on output and employment than tax rate changes of a similar size. We find a statistically significant one-year cumulative tax rate multiplier of about 1.2, rising to about 1.6 after two years. By contrast, the cumulative tax base multiplier is only 0.3 after one year, and 0.4 after two years, and these estimates are not statistically significant.
And here's the chart comparing the very harmful impact of higher rates (on the left) with the relatively benign effect of base changes (on the right).
For what it's worth, the economic people in the Trump administration almost certainly understand that there shouldn't be any tax increases. Moreover, they almost certainly agree with the findings from the IMF report that class-warfare-style tax increases do the most damage.
Sadly, politicians generally ignore advice from economists. So I fear that Trump's spending splurge has set the stage for tax hikes. And I fear that he will acquiesce to very damaging tax hikes.
All of which will lead to predictably bad results.
P.S. A columnist for the New York Times accidentally admitted that the only budget summit that actually led to a balanced budget was the 1997 that lowered taxes.
Originally published at International Liberty
President Trump's Iran Policy – Is It 'Normal'?
It's not often that US Government officials are honest when they talk about our foreign policy. The unprovoked 2003 attack on Iraq was called a "liberation." The 2011 US-led destruction of Libya was a "humanitarian intervention." And so on.
So, in a way, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was refreshingly honest last week when, speaking about newly-imposed US sanctions, he told the BBC that the Iranian leadership "has to make a decision that they want their people to eat." It was an honest admission that new US sanctions are designed to starve Iranians unless the Iranian leadership accepts US demands.
His statement also reveals the lengths to which the neocons are willing to go to get their "regime change" in Iran. Just like then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said it was "worth it" that half a million Iraqi children died because of our sanctions on that country, Pompeo is letting us know that a few million dead Iranians is also "worth it" if the government in Tehran can be overthrown.
The US Secretary of State has demanded that Iran "act like a normal country" or the US would continue its pressure until Iran's economy crumbles. How twisted is US foreign policy that Washington considers it "normal" to impose sanctions specifically designed to make life miserable – or worse – for civilians!
Is it normal to threaten millions of people with starvation if their leaders refuse to bow down to US demands? Is the neoconservative obsession with regime change "normal" behavior? Is training and arming al-Qaeda in Syria to overthrow Assad "normal" behavior? If so, then perhaps Washington's neocons have a point. As Iran is not imposing sanctions, is not invading its neighbors, is not threatening to starve millions of Americans unless Washington is "regime-changed," perhaps Iran is not acting "normal."
So what is normal?
The continued Saudi genocide in Yemen does not bother Washington a bit. In fact, Saudi aggression in Yemen is viewed as just another opportunity to strike out at Iran. By making phony claims that Yemen's Houthis are "Iran-backed," the US government justifies literally handing the Saudis the bombs to drop on Yemeni school busses while claiming it is fighting Iranian-backed terrorism! Is that "normal"?
Millions of Yemenis face starvation after three years of Saudi attacks have destroyed the economy and a Saudi blockade prohibits aid from reaching the suffering victims, but Secretary Pompeo recently blamed Yemeni starvation on, you guessed it: Iran!
And in a shocking display of cynicism, the US government is reportedly considering listing Yemen's Houthis as a "terrorist" organization for the "crime" of fighting back against Saudi (and US) aggression. Labeling the Yemeni resistance a "terrorist" organization would effectively "legalize" the ongoing Saudi destruction of Yemen, as it could be justified as just another battle in the "war on terror." It would also falsely identify the real culprits in the Yemen tragedy as Iran, which is repeatedly and falsely called the "number one sponsor of terrorism" by Pompeo and the rest of the Trump Administration neocons.
So yes, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told one wicked truth last week. But before he demands that countries like Iran start acting "normal" or face starvation, perhaps he should look in the mirror. Are Pompeo and the neocons "normal"? I don't think so.
Woodrow Wilson Made Democracy Unsafe for the World
This week is the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson's speech to Congress seeking a declaration of war against Germany. Many people celebrate this centenary of America's emergence as a world power. But, when the Trump administration is bombing or rattling sabers at half a dozen nations while many Democrats clamor to fight Russia, it is worth reviewing World War One's high hopes and dire results.
Wilson was narrowly re-elected in 1916 based on a campaign slogan, "He kept us out of war." But Wilson had massively violated neutrality by providing armaments and money to the Allied powers that had been fighting Germany since 1914. In his war speech to Congress, Wilson hailed the U.S. government as "one of the champions of the rights of mankind" and proclaimed that "the world must be made safe for democracy."
American soldiers fought bravely and helped turn the tide on the Western Front in late 1918. But the cost was far higher than Americans anticipated. More than a hundred thousand American soldiers died in the third bloodiest war in U.S. history. Another half million Americans perished from the Spanish flu epidemic spurred and spread by the war.
In his speech to Congress, Wilson declared, "We have no quarrel with the German people" and feel "sympathy and friendship" towards them. But his administration speedily commenced demonizing the "Huns." One Army recruiting poster portrayed German troops as an ape ravaging a half-naked damsel beneath an appeal to "Destroy this mad brute."
Read the full article at USA Today.
Gustave de Molinari's Short-Lived Flirtation with the Socialists
Some of the French economists centered around the Journal des Economistes were elected officials. For example, Louis Wolowski was elected to the Assemblée Constitutionelle in 1848;1 so was juge de Paix Frédéric Bastiat. Decades earlier, Jean-Baptiste Say and Benjamin Constant were famously defending Classical Economics in the Tribunat where they opposed Napoleon Bonaparte. Bonaparte returned the favor and expelled both of them in 1804 and 1802 respectively.2
Unlike the aforementioned economists, Gustave De Molinari never was a politician himself. However, this does not mean that he never ran for office. He had briefly attempt to join the ranks of the liberal party in 1859.
Left or Right?
In his 1864 book review of De Molinari's Cours d'économie politique, Lord Acton points out the turbid relationship between the Liegeois-born economist and the Liberal Party: "[In] 1848, he returned to his own country, and finished his course of political economy at the Musée d'Industrie of Brussels, where, we believe, he has not been altogether well treated by the Liberal ministry. This gives a personal significance to his protest against the nomenclature of the two parties, which falsely implies that the one comprises all that is religious, and the other all that loves liberty, in Belgium".3
Indeed, De Molinari wasn't the keenest on political demarcations; in earlier writings, he had presented the fluidity between the nomenclature of liberal, religious, and even socialist party structures. Historian Roderick T. Long pointed out that De Molinari favored a collaboration with the French socialist party.4 According to him, both economists and socialists favored the same principles. In his Lettre aux socialistes (1848), the anonymous author (later identified as De Molinari) stressed that both economists and socialists favored a society in which justice was prevalent for every individual member. However, both groups used a different methodology. Economists thought of liberty and freedom as the necessary means to reach said goal, as history has shown them time and time again. Socialists, on the other hand, used statist recipes with taxes.
Blanc VS Coquelin
One place Molinari clashed with the socialists, however, and thus distinguished himself as a true supporter of laissez-faire, was in his opinions on banking.
While living in Paris, De Molinari must have read his friend Charles Coquelin's research on banks. Coquelin defended a free-market approach on banking; he preached the concept that the government should have no involvement in the role of banking. Rather, banks should be left alone. After empirical research on business cycles, Coquelin concluded that banking crises were the result of privileged monopolies and governmental regulation.5
Journalist and socialist Charles Potvin, however, opposed this vision: "Mr. De Molinari views align with the following principle. Legal persons should have the opportunity to gather themselves without governmental intervention. The role of the government should be limited to registration instead of active participation, isn't it Mr. De Molinari? (Mr. De Molinari nods in agreement). If we follow Mr. De Molinari's vision, wouldn't priests and bankers run Belgium?6
Potvin's opinion on banking changed over time — whilst always remaining in the realm of radical socialism. In his biography, historian Christophe De Spiegeleer argues that Potvin shows appreciation for the works of PJ Proudhon in his essays (Du Gouvernement de soi-même, La Banque Sociale).7 Proudhon proposes "la Banque du Peuple"; a company in which the people (ipse facto: the poorest individuals within a society) could borrow a lump sum of money without paying an extra fee. The poorest individuals were shareholders as well.8 Potvin praised these "mutualistic companies" in his magnum opus Du Gouvernement de Soi-Même (1877).
However, in his exchange with De Molinari, Charles Potvin outs himself as a disciple of socialist Louis Blanc. According to Blanc, the involvement of a government in the realm of banking was of the utmost importance. According to Potvin, spontaneous order and liberty would lead to anarchy in Belgium! For this particular reason, Louis Blanc claimed it necessary to seek government intervention and lift up the competition, in favor of a single, nationalized bank.9
"Pourquoi j'ai retiré ma candidature"
In a pamphlet (Pourquoi j'ai retiré ma candidature), written a couple of days after the fulminations of Potvin against Molinari, De Molinari announced the renunciation of his candidacy. In 1855, however, he had already predicted his fate within the party. In an article "Dialogue entre un électeur et un candidat," he criticized uninformed vocal minorities that forsake their own responsibilities. In the fictional dialogue, the voter expects politicians to take care of everything; protectionism, warfare, parish relief funds, subsidizing religion, ... To which the politician responds whether the voter would favor higher taxes. How would we fund these services? To which the voter responds: "How should I know? That's up to you and that is why we elected you!"10
- 1. RAMBAUD, Jules, l'oeuvre économique de L. Wolowski, Paris, L. Larose & Forcel, 1882, 9-29.
- 2. MINART, Gérard, Entrepreneur et esprit d'entreprise. L'avant-gardisme de Jean-Baptiste SAY, Paris, l'Harmattan, 2013, 158-159.
- 3. ACTON, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, "Review of Gustave de Molinari's Course of Political Economy (1855)", The Home and Foreign Review, 4, 1864, 313.
- 4. LONG, Roderick T., "Rothbard's "Left and Right": Forty Years Later", Mises Institute, 2006.
- 5. MALBRANQUE, Benoît, "Réformer les banques: les propositions originales de C. Coquelin", Laissons Faire, 1, 2013, 20-24; DE NOUVION, Georges, Charles Coquelin. Sa vie et ses travaux, Paris, Institut Coppet, 2017 [1908], 24-25.
- 6. "M[onsieur] De Molinari proclame ce principe: les personnes civiles ont le droit de se constituer sans l'intervention de l'Etat. [...] La personne civile vient au monde, et l'Etat enregistre [...], n'est ce pas M[onsieur de] Molinari? (De Molinari fait un signe d'approbation). La Belgique ne serait-il pas exposée à une double invasion de moines et des banquiers?""Après l'autel le coffre-fort", Le Bien Public, 6 juni 1859.
- 7. DE SPIEGELEER, Een blauwe progressist. Charles Potvin (1818-1902) en het liberaal-sociale denken van zijn generatie, Gand/Brussels, Liberaal Archief, 2011.
- 8. PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph, "Banque du peuple: déclaration", Le Peuple, 1849, 1-13.
- 9. CHARRUAUD, Benoît, Louis Blanc, la république au service du Socialisme, Unpublished PhD, Université Strasbourg III. Robert Schuman, 2008, 50.
- 10. Cela vous regarde. Nous ne vous nommons pas pour autre chose" DE MOLINARI, Gustave, "Dialogue entre un électeur et un candidat", l'Economiste belge, 1855, 1.


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I feel much better than being an artist in the world than a marketer in world. I need to keep art and creativity in my life daily. A good friend of mine recently said that we to practice living spontaneously because spontaneity is like a muscle you need to stretch or when you try to have spontaneity, you break or it doesn't feel good. I love that thought.
I think creativity and art is something you also need to do daily-- and there are SO many ways to do it.
I do other creative things as well as writing including a little photography and graphic design. In fact, I'm actually entering a few photos in a local arts festival this month. I'll share them after festival.
Some of you know I'm doing a series of photos called "Have Typewriter, Will Travel," where I take my typewriter to interesting places and photograph it.
Here are a few photographs I've taken over the last month...
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|This is from my beach series where I photograph what I find after a walk to the beach.
|Early beach walk with Mini Haystack Rock
|Two Bald Eagles
|Sky for Susan
|You Are An Acceptable Amount of Threat
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Who owns the land? Only the land knows. We mortals are passersby, and our lives are but a brief moment in the great span of time and space. We are born, we live out our lives, and most of us do the best we can with it, but the wind is forever, and the rivers flow forever to the sea, and all the seasons of the weathers will come and go after we are gone. But the Earth endures, the Earth is eternal" - Earl Hamner
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Nicole Kidman Honored at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Nicole Kidman picks up the top honor during the 2011 Santa Barbara International Film Festival held at the Arlington Theater on Saturday (February 5) in Santa Barbara, California.
The 43-year-old Aussie actress received the Cinema Vanguard Award, which honors someone who takes artistic risks and has made a significant contribution to film.
Nic said, "I suppose that's in my blood. I don't even see it as taking a risk, I just see it as staying true to my heart and instinct."
FYI: Nicole wore a Nina Ricci dress, Pierre Hardy shoes, Fred Leighton earrings, and a Prada clutch.


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This type of vertical photography is used mostly for mapping projects, surveys, forestry and timber estimating, flood risk assessment, studies of coastal erosion or any situation where the aerial photography must cover large areas of land. If you are after a one-off overhead image of a single site or sites in different geographic locations our near overhead aerial photography service will probably suit your needs and be more economical.
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IT Management Slideshow: Why Your CEO, CFO are Losing Sleep
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 09-23-2010
CEOs and CFOs are most concerned about the impact of increasing taxes, regulation and legislation on your organization's revenues, according to a recent survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The upshot: CIOs will need to align their own IT spending/oversight plans with the cautious perspectives of their CEOs and CFOs. Experts have declared that the recession "officially" ended last year, but the economy is hardly out of the woods yet. C-level executives present a mixed picture when it comes to business prospects for the next 12 months, according to the "Private Company Trendsetter Barometer," based on a 2Q 2010 survey of some 250 CEOs and CFOs by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Optimism is declining even as many are anticipating that revenues will increase. The majority of those surveyed say they plan to hire. Yet, only a minority have capital expenditure increases planned. "Although we continue to emerge from the downturn, political and economic uncertainty may linger for some time," says Ken Esch, a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers' Private Company Services practice. "That uncertainty isn't keeping companies from pursuing growth opportunities. But it does reinforce the need to carefully manage against ongoing market and regulatory risks." Here are some of the key findings by PwC.
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A home office is more than just a room with a desk and chair; ideally it cultivates an atmosphere conducive to work and concentration. Different work styles call for different work spaces.
Some people need isolation, some want to gaze out at nature for inspiration. Some just need a spot to do the bills that doesn't take up too much room.
A home's office can serve many functions—it can be used for reading, as a studio for art or a writer's retreat, as a study, or a den, as a crafting room or a homework spot for the kids.
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The Effingham County Industrial Development Authority unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding this morning with Medient Studios Inc., for a $90 million movie studio that will create more than 1,200 jobs.
Click here to see a slideshow of the studio's past films.
Manu Kumaran, chairman and CEO of Medient, said he wants to revamp the film industry, creating full-time, permanent jobs harkening back to the days when film studios dominated the industry.
The campus, on the IDA's I-16 property, will be environmentally friendly, with no carbon-producing vehicles and with health care, day care and schooling for workers and their families.
Medient is a publicly listed company OTCQB:MDNT, www.medient.com. It is a global film production and distribution company with a strong presence in India and North America.
Kumaran said Effingham beat New York and Pennsylvania for the project, and in Georgia, beat Savannah and Atlanta.
He said good weather was a main draw, as was the lifestyle that the Savannah area affords. He said the business has to be in an attractive, safe place where employees will want to live.
This will be the company's first film studios.
The company's movies include "Yellow," "Garp" and the horror/sci-fi film "Storage 24."
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PowerColor HD3450 Review
With more and more HTPC and multimedia machines popping up, there is a greater need for graphics cards that support the features needed. Blu-Ray, HD DVD, and 1080p is in now for playing movies and streaming video. Older video cards either could not keep up with the resolution needed for crisp playback or were not powerful enough to offload the video processing from the CPU, causing choppy and degraded playback. ATI responded to these needs with a series of chipsets that are designed to play back high definition content with pristine clarity all while placing the majority of the load on the video processing unit instead of the CPU.
One of these new multimedia video cards is the PowerColor HD3450 256MB Graphics Card. The HD3450 is a PCI Express 2.0 video card that offers Microsoft DirectX 10.1 and ATI Avivo HD technology for the best playback possible. It's nice to see high end technologies also included on a mainstream video card. One of the main features of the PowerColor HD3450 is the ability to run in a Hybrid Crossfire capability with an AMD 7-Series motherboard. This allows the integrated graphics from the motherboard and the HD3450 to run as one, increasing performance for gaming and multimedia and making it affordable to everyone from the novice to the enthusiast. This is one technology new to the market aimed at bringing better graphics power at affordable prices. So how well does this technology work? We will have to see.
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When the PowerColor HD3450 arrived at my door, I thought I had a new game to play until I looked closer at the box. I like how PowerColor packaged the card in a smaller box that supported the card and protected it not in an oversized package stuffed with fillers. The front of the packaging has the PowerColor mascot on it with the main features and specs lined up in an un-obstructed view. The back expands on those specification and features giving the possible buyer the exact information needed to make their buying decision.
Opening the box brings out the goodies. Included in the box are the PowerColor HD 3450 Graphics Card, A quick install guide, the driver CD and an S-video to composite video cable. The HD3450 comes enclosed in a bubble wrapping which keeps the card protected and from sliding around in the packaging. Just another level that PowerColor took to protect the valuables.
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Math Matters: Why Do I Need To Know This? originally appeared during the Spring 2006 semester as a half-hour program on WKU's campus cable system. Dr. Bruce Kessler, at that time Assistant Dean (now the Head of the Mathematics Department in WKU's Ogden College of Science & Engineering) and a WKU math professor, wrote and hosted the program, which focused on how the mathematics being taught in WKU's General Math, College Algebra, and Math for Elementary Teachers courses was and still is applied in the real world. The shows have since been segmented into roughly 8 minute vignettes that can be downloaded from this website and from iTunes U.
This program was produced by WKYU-PBS, using their studio and students in the production, and was supported by a Provost's Initiative for Excellence grant, the Ogden College of Science and Engineering, the Department of Mathematics, and Housing and Residence Life. For questions regarding the show, contact Bruce Kessler at email@example.com or at (270) 745-3651.
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The narrator sets out on a trip to Peru to try to discover more about an ancient Peruvian Manuscript that holds 9 Insights into the way the human race will evolve spiritually in the third millennium. The Manuscript is being suppressed by the Church and Government in Peru. Dogged by soldiers the American tourist moves on his adventure to discover in turn each of the Insights. More than an adventure this book is a guidebook to help you yourself discover...
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In this fourth book in the Insight Series we explore the 11th Insight. We synchronistically travel to Tibet to try and uncover the Secret of Shambhala. Dogged by Chinese agents the first person narrator tries to get to Shambhala a secret spiritual community in the mountains of Tibet. He is aided by dakini who help show him the way and on the journey is taught four extensions to our prayer energy. This important 11th Insight tells us of the growing spi...


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
This Island... Earth!
Ok, this is not exactly a science fiction illustration done for a mainstream magazine of the 50's - its an ad for a science fiction film that ran in a mainstream magazine from the 50's. So sue me.
I must confess that This Island... Earth! is a sci-fi classic I somehow missed seeing during my late teen - early twenties late night, post-party, semi-high, semi-asleep movie viewing days. Luckily they invented the internet in the meantime so finding a synopsis of the film was a snap.
And again thanks to the internet, a thorough look at illustrator Reynold Brown's career is also available, including a biography and examples of both his movie poster art and his fine art paintings.
As for the Reynolds piece above, I encourage you to take a look at it in my Flickr archives. Click the "All Sizes" tab to enjoy the details at full size.
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Thanks for that, Joe. And TI list member Neil Shapiro just emailed me with this link for those interested in learning more about the Reynold Brown documentary:ReplyDelete
Brown was the subject of an affectionate documentary made several years
ago called The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters. I saw it on a cable
channel here called AMC (American Movie Classics). You read more about
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Oh I don't think mattress was saying it was bad in a bad way, jack - sometimes really bad can be a good thing.ReplyDelete
I never saw This Island Earth, but for my personal example I would say the Star Trek episode where Kirk is hounded across a desert planet by a rubber-suited lizard man while he figures out how to build a primitive gun is my all time favourite bad/good sci-fi story!
Saw it for the first time when I was six years old and could not tear my eyes away. Even at that age I could tell it was just a guy in a modified scubadiver suit, but I was gripped with terror at that lizard dude's relentless pursuit of the exhausted and clearly weaker Kirk.
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Oh, I wasn't offended or anything like that. The movie was no classic, for sure, but it was miles beyond most MST 3000 fare. I loved the episode of Star Trek you mentioned (especially Kirk's wooden bazooka). The rubber suit monster from Star Trek that really scared me was the salt sucking beast from the very first episode.ReplyDelete


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Shortening courses suits most players to a tee
A little nudging is all it took for golfers at Cherry Hill Club to get behind "Tee It Forward."
"It seems to just take one round or friends encouraging them," said Aaron Pye, Cherry Hill's head golf professional, of convincing players – particularly the ego-driven male variety – that moving up to an appropriate set of tee boxes can be beneficial. "They get over that [ego] pretty quick."
A joint initiative from the PGA of America and United States Golf Association, "Tee It Forward" is the brainchild of Adams Golf founder Barney Adams. It aims to have golfers play courses from a set of tees more suited to their abilities.
The idea is golfers will enjoy the game more and speed up pace of play which, as one can attest if he or she has been stuck in a six-hour round, can be enjoyment in itself.
Moving up ideally means golfers will be able to hit more 6- or 7-irons into greens instead of hybrids or longer, harder-to-hit irons. That should lead to more birdie opportunities (and who doesn't like those?).
"We're trying to get people to have a better chance of hitting the green in regulation. That's the main purpose behind teeing it forward, is so guys aren't trying to get up and down every time for pars, that they do have a chance to get to the green," Pye said. "It just seems to make everyone a little bit happier on the golf course, having the chance to hit the green in regulation like courses are designed for, instead of having to go in with 3-woods and missing greens.
"A lot of guys and ladies don't hit it far enough. They're always going to have a full shot in. We've definitely found players are playing back too far and not having a chance to really enjoy the course where they should be playing."
And it's not just at Cherry Hill, the private Fort Erie club that has a membership that's about 85 percent Americans. Adams found that the average male amateur golfer with a double-digit handicap thinks he drives the ball 250 to 280 yards, when the actual average is 200 to 230.
That brought Adams to the conclusion that, for an amateur to hit the same club into the green that a professional does on a 7,300-yard course, he or she would have to play a course that measures 6,200 yards (see accompanying chart).
That doesn't mean courses need to create new tee boxes, since several of them have multiple options already in place. At Cherry Hill, for example, there are black (7,027 yards), blue (6,761), white, red and green tee markers.
The blacks are for championship-level players and the blues for single-digit handicappers, which means the vast majority of golfers shouldn't be stepping on those. The next part is where it gets tricky. The white tees, at 6,473 yards have traditionally been known as "men's" and the reds (5,862) as "women's," but Cherry Hill is trying to eliminate those distinctions.
Instead, the green tees (5,762) will be the forward tees, while the reds can be used for ladies, seniors or whoever else's style of play they fit best.
Pye said it wasn't as tough of a sell as might be expected.
"Guys saw the value in moving forward," he said. "It just took some time or some of their buddies to say, 'let's try the forward tees today' and players did enjoy it more. We were pretty encouraged by the participation of guys moving up a set of tees. Guys weren't reluctant."
Ego, it seems, is the only deterrent to Tee It Forward.
"The first year I took this job, having set up courses for tournaments for almost 40 years, our first event was the Senior Men's Stroke Play," said Tom Sprague, the executive director of the Buffalo District Golf Association. "I moved the Legends Flight, 75 years-plus, forward to the women's tee and the 65 years-plus to the senior tees.
"They were livid. I was insulting them; it was too easy; they wouldn't have fun, etc. Well, of course, there was no change in scoring and they had a great time. I've never heard a word since."
Cherry Hill instituted Tee It Forward last season as a pilot program, and given its success is staying with it this year.
So is Transit Valley Country Club in East Amherst, which has added a fourth set of tees.
"We've stopped assigning genders to them," said Jeff Mietus, the director of player development at Transit Valley and also the head coach for the Niagara University men's golf team. "It was met with resistance, then we started to hear, 'those tees are fun.'
"The whole goal is to try and make golf fun again. One of the complaints is the game is too hard. This is one of the ways to fix that complaint."
Teeing it forward has become part of the culture at Transit Valley, so much so that Mietus will take beginning golfers and bypass the tees entirely.
"We take them out to the 150 [yard]- marker and have them play from there," he said. "It makes a lot of sense to do it."
The website playgolfamerica.com allows users to enter their zip code, and pulls up courses that participate in Tee It Forward within 30 miles.
According to the website, Tee It Forward had positive feedback in 2012, with 56 percent of golfers saying they played faster and are more likely to play more often, 83 percent saying they hit more lofted clubs into greens, 85 percent saying they had more fun and 93 percent saying they'd move up a tee box again.
Golfers worried about Tee It Forward messing with their handicap need not fret. The USGA's website, usga.org, has a section devoted to posting a score from an unrated set of tees, under "Handicapping FAQs."
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distance Yardages
275 yards 6,700-6,900
250 yards 6,200-6,400
225 yards 5,800-6,000
200 yards 5,200-5,400
175 yards 4,400-4,600
150 yards 3,500-3,700
125 yards 2,800-3,000
100 yards 2,100-2,300
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Los Angeles Sparks
After dropping the first game of the series on Thursday (Sept. 19), the Sparks rebounded and picked up a 82-73 road win in Phoenix on Saturday. The best-of-three series will be decided on Monday night at the Staples Center. The game will be played on ESPN2 at 10 p.m. (ET)
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The Dream dropped the first game of the series, but rebounded with a road win at Washington on Sunday to force the deciding Game 3. Arminitie Herrington came off the bench in both contests. She had 2 points in the first game of the series but rebounded with six points and seven rebounds in the road victory. Price-Herrington was named to the WNBA's All-Defensive First Team on Wednesday (Sept. 18). The Dream game will be played at 8 p.m. (ET) on NBATV.


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You really have to be duly impressed by Wokcano's commitment to offering something for (almost) everyone. It's the rare restaurant where you can dine on both hamachi with yuzu flavored soy sauce and honey walnut shrimp — both with a baked lobster and crab handroll, plus a double kung pao with both chicken and shrimp. The place is like two kitchens under one roof (and possibly more) for there's also grilled salmon, grilled Chilean sea bass, Korean style short ribs and pad Thai noodles, too.
What's more, it's all served in one of the most stylishly eclectic spaces around.
Wokcano Long Beach is dark and wood-lined, a bit like sitting inside a cigar box with slat window treatments, low lighting, an impressive bar and curious brickwork against one wall. It's very designerish; this is not a generic space, not even close. Like many of the occupants of The Promenade in Long Beach, it's a space that's easy to settle into and stay in for quite a while.
Some of the dishes are even as designerish as the setting. Take the spicy crabmeat tempura roll for instance. It's a lovely bit of edible art; a long line of well crisped rolls with a line of sauce right down the middle, resting on a bed of wasabi at one end, and pickled ginger at the other. Then consider the Rainbow Roll, which lives up to its name as it's a platter of many colors from the salmon, tuna, yellowtail, avocado and atop a California Roll.
It's probably a good idea to kick off an evening at Wokcano with one of the many exotic cocktails, reminiscent of the fruity drinks they make at Trader Vic's. They're drinks that go down far faster than you want them to, which is one reason it's good that the food at Wokcano emerges from the kitchen(s) and sushi bar at a reasonable pace. Order the edamame, and you already have a choice to make before it's rushed to you table: a simple edamame with sea salt, or a more complex spicy edamame with garlic and soy? In either case, you'll be squeezing beans out of their shell before you decide on what else to eat.
My daughter, who's rather mad for Brussels sprouts (we do live in a new world, when things like that can be said without irony or shame) insisted on the crispy sprouts with garlic. They were good, but a bit burnt. I went with the shishito peppers, which are always a fun game to play because you never know which ones will be spicy hot and which will be mild. (I've spoken to growers; no one can figure out the code.)
Before you even get to the sushi, the temptations are many. There are steamed chicken and shrimp wontons, fried or steamed chicken dumplings, crispy calamari (that could be crispier) and a snappy Peking duck wrap, a peppery hamachi collar. There's even something called Monkey Brain, which is a tempura avocado stuffed with spicy tuna and crabmeat, topped with sweet eel sauce. Putting aside the grimness of the name, my biggest critique is that avocado shouldn't be tempura fried — at least, not in my world. But the spicy tuna on crispy rice was a classic preparation of a classic dish, so all is forgiven.
And really, once you start ordering the assortment of Wokcano exotic rolls, the oddity of tempura avocado fades away and is replaced by the happiness of the aforementioned spicy crabmeat tempura roll. The oddest ingredient in that roll is the spiced mayo, but since Japanese cooking has adopted mayo as its own, I guess that's OK.
Less OK are the dishes that used cream cheese like the Philadelphia Roll, Smoky Sunset Roll, Black Pearl Roll and Crunchy Roll. Call me a Sushi Luddite, but I just don't get the presence of cream cheese in sushi rolls. It's like chocolate covered fried chicken — which as it happens, is what they do at a new downtown fastfoodery called ChocoChicken. But I digress.
If you weary of sushi rolls or at a table with variant tastes, there's spicy garlic shrimp, curry shrimp, spicy basil shrimp, sweet and sour pork, beef with broccoli, Mongolian beef, lemon chicken, orange chicken, some good thin Singapore-style noodles and garlic noodles that I'd probably like more if they weren't tossed with Parmesan.
What the chefs do well at Wokcano, they do well. But I do wish that on some dishes they'd just leave well enough alone.
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Kevin Kolb met with reporters after the Eagles announced signing the quarterback to a one-year extension that guarantees him $12.26 million over the next two seasons. Here is what Kolb said on the eve of his first mincamp as the Eagles starting quarterback (transcript provided by the Eagles):
Opening remarks:
"Let me first say, thanks to [chairman/CEO] Jeffrey Lurie and [president] Joe Banner, [general manager] Howie Roseman, coach [Andy] Reid and, of course, the big man above, God, for putting me in this position and letting this happen because without them, none of this would have been done. Of course my agent, Jeff Nalley, they worked hard to get this done. I think it's good timing and a lot of good things will come."
On the past month:
"It's been a good month. Named the starting quarterback, contract extension and, of course, the baby. So, it's been a whirlwind. I know there's a lot of responsibility and a lot of things to come with it, but I'm excited about it and looking forward to it."
On the importance of getting this deal done now before the start of mini-camp:
"It was important. We can put all this behind us now and look forward to the most important thing which is winning football games and getting prepared as possible with the guys that are out there."
On whether the expiring CBA is the reason that the extension is just one year:
"Yeah, it's an interesting time; just a way for us to bridge the gap. I want to be here long term, I think the Eagles want me to be here long term, but there's just really no way to get it done right now and this is a way for both sides to be happy and I am very happy."
On whether all the guaranteed money is a sign of respect:
"Absolutely. Of course they showed me that when they made the move and made me the starter. This reiterates that and I look forward to proving myself out there and proving their decision's correct."
On why he wanted to get a deal done:
"Well, again, just security. Just putting my family in a secure situation and getting it out of the way and knowing now that we can just go play. I think everybody will agree that this organization and these fans and this city, the most important thing is to win a Super Bowl. So we want to get as many distractions out of the way as possible and get on the road to getting there."
On whether things like this can be in the back of his mind if he went into the season without an extension:
"Well, I'm not sure. On the field, I think you do forget about it; it's in between that time. Again, you just don't want any distractions. I think that especially at the quarterback position, you want to be able to focus on the real things and what's most important and, again, that's winning football games."
On what it means to him personally with the team putting this much faith in him:
"It means a lot. I think the one thing that it tells me is I have a lot of work to do and you never want to let anybody down. You especially don't want to let somebody down whenever they have put that much faith in you and they've made those moves to make you the guy. That's a driven force for me and it gives me more energy and more emotion to go out there and make this thing right. That's my number one focus is going to get a Super Bowl and proving everybody right."
On being a part of something special here:
"It does feel very special. I don't think it's just because now I'm the starter, I think everybody can kind of sense that there's this united feeling between everybody. We're all kind of young and even though we haven't hit the field together yet as a core group, you can just kind of sense that, hey man, we have this energy that we're just going to go out there and prove a lot of people wrong. Again, we look forward to getting out there and starting to get to work tomorrow."
On what the last three weeks have been like for him:
"They've been a whirlwind, but it's been fun. Now that I'm back in the groove of being the starter and dealing with things and getting this out of the way, it feels right. Everything has felt right up to this point and I know that it will in the future. I'm very comfortable here, very comfortable in the city of Philadelphia and nobody is more excited than me and my wife for hopefully sticking around here for a long time."
On what has been going on since his recent child's birth:
"My travel schedule has been a little hectic. I'm basically here during the week working out with the guys and then I go back on the weekends to visit with the family and hang out with the girls. All that comes with a very good wife and a very patient wife and she's been that way. They say behind every good coach there's a great wife, but behind every good quarterback there's a great wife, as well."
On what he has done to get his teammates on the same page since he's been named the starting quarterback:
"Just this week in particular, we went out there and threw two different days and just kind of got our own collective thing together. It wasn't scheduled, we just did it together. Just trying to get as much chemistry right off the bat as we possibly can. I know there's going to be some cobwebs when we go out there tomorrow, but we want things to run as smoothly as possible. That's why we've been working together, that's why we've been lifting together. This offseason, again, is very important for those types of things and I think everybody has done a really good job of showing up and being around."
On whether he will have jitters tomorrow in mini-camp:
"I feel very confident right now. I feel like with a lot of the young guys they don't need jitters, they need somebody as a calming hand there. Even though I'm just going into my fourth year, I feel like I've been around as long as a lot of these guys. I look forward to helping them get lined up in the right situation and provide as much experience and knowledge about what we're trying to do as anybody else out there."
On whether he is expected to have a different feel in mini-camp tomorrow:
"It will be a different feel but, at the same time, it feels right. It feels right to be the starter, it feels comfortable being out there doing the different things, running the practices that we're running right now together. Of course, tomorrow, I know that it will feel right and get things going."
On what he feels will be expected of him:
"I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm trying to prove this organization right for making this move. I know there are a lot of expectations. When you get an extension and you get the starting quarterback position and the franchise, regardless of where you're at, there's a lot of pressure and responsibility. I understand all that, I'm preparing myself for that and look forward to the challenge."
On whether he feels like everyone will have their eyes on him:
"Not necessarily. I want things as much team-oriented as possible. I want all eyes on everybody, and that's what we're trying to mold together here with this group. I feel like, if it comes naturally, then there's really no pressure or second thought that needs to go into that. I don't let it weigh on me, I just do my thing and I do what I think is right and hopefully those are the things that are going to lead us to the Super Bowl."


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Corporal James Caton with the Missoula Police department said "at about 9 p.m. police received a report of an adult male who was seen spray-painting the walls of various businesses." Caton went on to say, "street crimes unit officer Mitch Lange observed the male suspect in the 400 block of South Higgins, where the male dropped the paint can just before being detained."
According to the Missoula County jail roster, Samuel Engler, 25, will appear before Judge Karen Orzech in Justice Court Wednesday afternoon on charges of both felony and misdemeanor criminal mischief. Engler's bail was set at $50,000.


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Chloe Moretz happily poses with her award while attending the 2014 Annual Saturn Awards held at The Castaway on Thursday (June 26) in Burbank, Calif.
The 17-year-old actress, who won Best Performance by a Younger Actor for her role in Carrie, was joined at the event by Teen Wolf actress Holland Roden, Joey King, Avan Jogia, and Vampire Diaries star Steven R. McQueen with his girlfriend Olivia Pickren.
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NHIAA Girls' Basketball Preview: BG, Bedford should be there againBy JOE DUBALL
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 06. 2017 11:25PM
Bishop Guertin's Aaliyah Forman, center, collides with Trinity players Margaux Lestage, left, and Niyadong Tour during the second half of the 2017 Hoops for the Troops basketball game at St. Anselm College Sunday. Bishop Guertin won, 63-15. (Mark Bolton/Union Leader File)
The Scoop: Girls' basketball
Players to watch: Amanda Lemire, senior, Pinkerton; Haleigh Shea, senior, Manchester Memorial; Brooke Kane, junior, Pinkerton; Mia Roy, senior, Bedford; Aly Fillion, senior, Bedford; Caroline Hoffer, senior, Bishop Guertin; Amanda DeAngelis, junior, Londonderry; Erin Carney, sophomore, Bishop Guertin; Maddy Haynes, junior, Trinity; Katrina Krenzer, junior, Dover; Anna Pafford, senior, Exeter; Hannah Driscoll, senior, Winnacunnet; Mel Presseau, senior, Manchester Memorial; Samantha Will, senior, Bishop Brady; Rebecca Wright, sophomore, Lebanon; Carly Huckins, junior, Merrimack Valley; Abbe Laurence, junior, Portsmouth; Mia Len, senior, Souhegan; Maddie McCorkle, sophomore, Hanover; Diana Schwarz, junior, Hanover; Lois Schwarz, junior, Hanover; Danielle Sirois, senior, Pelham; Kaleigh Walsh, senior, Windham; Sarah Doherty, senior, Bishop Brady; Kelly Walsh, sophomore, Goffstown; Abby Grandmaison, senior, Merrimack Valley; Ahna McCusker, senior, Coe-Brown; Lea Crompton, senior, Bow; Mariah Chamberlain, junior Conant; Zoey Luopa, senior, Fall Mountain; Megan Roy, junior, Kearsarge; Brooke Beaudet, senior, Gilford; Ashlee Dukette, junior, Newfound; Caitlyn Boucher, junior, Monadnock; Taylor Siewierski, senior, Colebrook; Katie Martineau, junior, Farmington; Lily Kinder, senior, Woodsville; Lindsay Towle, senior, Portsmouth Christian; Emilee Flanagan, junior, Nute.
Notable quote: "I think we surprised a lot of people last year. The types of games and situations we were put in got our girls believing they could compete with anybody. … A lot of it is belief and it has these girls thinking they're really close." - Manchester Memorial coach Greg Cotreau on the Crusaders' confidence coming into the season.
Key games: Bishop Brady at Pelham, Dec. 21; Sunapee at Colebrook, Dec. 22; Bishop Guertin at Bedford, Jan. 16; Monadnock at Conant, Jan. 26; Monadnock at Newfound, Jan. 31; Bishop Brady at Lebanon, Feb. 2; Lebanon at Hanover, Feb. 6; Memorial at Bedford, Feb. 9; Conant at Sanborn, Feb. 9; Pinkerton at Bedford, Feb. 16; Pinkerton at Bishop Guertin, Feb. 23.
As the games opens on Friday, there is a possibility that the 2017-2018 NHIAA Division I girls' basketball season may supply fans with a third chapter in what has become quite the rivalry between Bishop Guertin of Nashua and Bedford.
The Cardinals and Bulldogs have met in the D-I championship game each of the last two seasons, with each finale resulting in a title for Bishop Guertin. Additionally, one of the two has been involved in the title game in five of the last six seasons.
It's far from bold to predict the clubs may complete their trilogy come March, especially considering the returning talent for each team.
Defending champion Bishop Guertin has sharp-shooting senior Caroline Hoffer as its only returning upperclassman, but phenoms Erin Carney, Addison Smith, Hannah Muchemore and Aaliyah Forman are all back following bright freshman campaigns. However, key graduations like 2016-17 D-I Player of the Year Meghan Cramb put the focus and burden on the tested but youthful Cardinals.
BG's graduations may open the door for Sue Thomas' Bedford girls, who have 10 players back in the fold from last season. Among the notable returners is the starting guard tandem of Mia Roy and Aly Fillion.
"I'm only speaking for Bedford and our goal is to be there at the end of the season," Thomas said. "When we talk about the season, we talk about it right up until the last day."
The only thing changing in the Bedford system are some wrinkles to the offense, according to Thomas. Everything else will remain status quo for the Bulldogs.
"I try to play as many players and want them to be aggressive and get tired," Thomas said. "We're very deep. We lost five seniors and we still have good numbers off the bench."
Roy and Fillion will solidify the backcourt and ball facilitation, but the Bulldogs will be young after graduating bruising forwards Jenoyce Laniyan and Maddie Blake. Thomas feels the strength of her team might be in the frontcourt with forwards Clare Driscoll (6-foot-1), Amanda Jonas (5-foot-11) and Kendra Barnard (5-foot-11) taking the torch.
"They're going to surprise some people," said Thomas of the trio. "All three have taken their post games to the next level. They've really stepped up."
A team firmly entrenched as a candidate to spoil BG and Bedford's possible trilogy is Manchester Memorial. Greg Cotreau's Crusaders are the talk of Division I heading into the season as the second-year coach has a committed and talented group, which Memorial's program has lacked top to bottom in recent seasons. With such focus, the Crusaders can flip-flop between a set offense and improvisation, making them a threat to opposing defenses.
"The girls like the ability to create for themselves but when things weren't going well and they needed structure, it wasn't there." Cotreau said. "The system I've put in here gives them something to fall back on when things break down. We're still allowing them the freedom to take opportunities to create for each other by shifting defenses when they can, along with read-and-react situations."
Cotreau also did well keeping the team together in the offseason. The majority of Memorial's squad played on different AAU basketball but the Crusaders came back together for the Southern New Hampshire University girls' summer league and then the Merrimack Valley Girls' Fall Basketball league, which featured the likes of BG and top teams from Massachusetts.
Guard Haleigh Shea leads the Memorial pack. The senior already has the inside track to Player of the Year with elite offensive skills and the ability to guard almost any position on the defensive end.
"She's everything for us," said Cotreau of Shea. "You think of a superstar-type player as one to score all the points and put the team on her back. The word I'd use for Haleigh though is trust. She trusts her teammates enough to where she doesn't have to carry things and knows they'll make the right play.
"She's not selfish. If she sees a better shot for someone else, then she'll make that pass every time. She definitely gets more out of giving for others rather than doing for herself."
Mel Presseau, an outside-shooting threat, is one of many who will benefit from the attention that defenses give Shea. Seniors Sydney Robinson and Ashley Matheiu-LaFrance will also be important while Cotreau said to keep an eye on sophomores Jenessa Brunette and Lyric Grumblatt.
Pinkerton of Derry, a semifinalist last season, will also be a force to be reckoned with as Astros coach Lanni Buskey will again have the high-low duo of guard Amanda Lemire and forward Brooke Kane. Lemire, arguably the best ballhandler in the league, had her season end before the playoffs last year due to a fractured foot. Kane continued her development into one of the top post players in the division.
Merrimack is also a good bet to be in the mix. The Tomahawks were scheduled to lose just one senior from a well-balanced attack. Among the contributors for Merrimack coach Courtney Cheetham are Jenna Chambers, Jacoby Jolie and Sabrina Johnson.
Londonderry and Dover are teams to watch with the young squads poised to make good on surprising runs last season.
Division II
The Lebanon girls will defend their Division II crown with quite a different look to them. Between five graduations and the transfer of starting point guard Maddie Hastings to prep school, the Raiders are looking at just two returners from their regular eight-player rotation that led them to a 22-0 season.
"We're not the same group and we won't have the same style," Lebanon coach Tim Kehoe said. "We'll be young with some good sophomores coming up and one senior. We play a tough schedule early and are looking at some growing pains during the season, but I think we'll be a tough out in the tournament."
Kehoe will lean on All-State first teamer Becky Wright after the 6-foot-2 sophomore burst onto the scene last season with her post play. Anna Wolke is the other piece Kehoe is excited about following her solid playoff performance last season, which included a game-high 16 points in the championship.
Kehoe admitted the road to a repeat is tough, especially since he's working 10 minutes up the road from the likely D-II favorite in Hanover.
"I think Hanover is clearly the team to beat at this point," Kehoe said. "They were 15-3 last year without one of the Schwarz twins and they have pretty much everyone back. Everyone else in this league has lost something significant, so I don't think I can find somebody ready to challenge them."
Dan O'Rourke's Marauders indeed have both Schwarz sisters back in the mix. Lois Schwarz returned from a torn ACL at the tail end of last season while Diana Schwarz started at point guard. Like Wright at Lebanon, Hanover has big expectations for Maddie McCorkle's second season with the Marauders after a solid first impression last year. Forward Julia Golder rounds out what will be a strong crew for Hanover this year and beyond.
Merrimack Valley of Penacook should factor into the D-II equation. The Pride will rely on All-State selections Carly Huckins and Abi Grandmaison to help the club improve on their 12-win season last year. Former Winnisquam coach Bob McNutt will guide Merrimack Valley, taking over for the late Dave Huckins.
Pelham is another group primed to make noise. The Pythons lost the likes of Lilly Schlimon and Emily Bevens, but 6-foot-1 Danielle Sirois' presence alone puts the team back in the discussion of contenders. Joining Sirois as weapons for Pelham are Olivia Gagnon, Ava Owens and Caitlin Riordan.
Portsmouth's Abbe Laurence and Goffstown's Kelly Walsh, both all-state picks last season, are top players for their clubs, both of which will look to make a splash with plenty of new faces.
Division III
This might be the most undefined division in terms of contenders. The four teams that reached last year's D-III semifinals — champion Monadnock of Swanzey, Conant of Jaffrey, Newfound of Bristol and Prospect Mountain of Alton — each did so with senior-laden cores, leaving them all with somewhat clean slates as the season got underway last Friday.
Monadnock has proven early that it's ready to face the challenges of retaining its title. The Huskies showed as much by beating Conant in Tuesday's D-III title game rematch. Caitlyn Boucher, who scored a team-high 12 points for the Huskies Tuesday, is the lone starter back for Curt Dutilley. Abby May's shooting prowess shined in last year's championship game and will be a valuable asset for the Huskies, as will guard Gwen Simpson.
Despite Tuesday's loss, Conant isn't going to fall out of favor any time soon. Mariah Chamberlain's post play along with capable perimeter shooters around the arc should help the Orioles do plenty of damage and make a run at redemption.
Newfound, which rolled to a No. 1 seed with an 18-0 regular season last year, will be a team to look out for again as well. The Bears were arguably hit the hardest by graduations out of last year's semifinalists, but reigning D-III Player of the Year Ashlee Dukette appears ready to make up for losses. Dukette, a junior, scored 34 points to go along with 19 rebounds, four steals and four assists in last Friday's opening win against Belmont. The efforts of Dukette, along with senior off-guard Savanna Bony, will likely dictate the hopes of the Bears all season.
Sanborn of Kingston and Kearsarge of North Sutton, both 14-4 clubs a year ago, are worth keeping tabs on. Brian Gray heads into his second year leading the Indians, who grasped their longtime junior varsity coach's system quickly and should be able to follow it to further success this season. The Cougars have enough returners surrounding All-State selection Megan Roy to put them in the conversation.
Division IV
Like many other Division IV girls' sports, the league looks a lot different now that powerhouse Sunapee has had its prolific club disassembled.
The Lakers graduated D-IV Player of the Year Kate Frederick, Faith Larpenter, Sydney Clark, Mary Grzanna and Meghan Frederick. Losing your starting five from back-to-back championships is a tough pill to swallow, but then Sunapee lost head coach Tim LaTorra, who moved up to Division I with Concord. Sarah Larpenter now patrols the sidelines for the Lakers, who are mostly juniors, including Hannah Cooney and Kalleigh Durkee.
Northern teams that played second fiddle to Sunapee figure to reap benefits of the Lakers potentially falling back down to earth. Littleton is chief among those teams as Dale Prior was scheduled to lose just one player from a club that lost to Sunapee in the semifinals. Colebrook also will have a say up north as last year's runner-up Mohawks are led by Taylor Siewierski, who tallied a triple-double in Colebrook's season-opening win on Tuesday.
Down south, Newmarket and Epping are consistently in the conversation and this year is no different. The Mules are a year older under second-year coach Meghan Averill and figure to see good production from Paige Fowler and Reagan Jordan, who finished with 12 points and nine boards in Tuesday's opening win. The Blue Devils might be in a greater position of strength though with Ed Meade's entire roster back from a year ago, where Epping went 9-9 playing with mostly underclassmen.


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