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How ThinkFun's Head of Inventor Relations, Tanya Thompson, is Changing the World Through Play
Recently, ThinkFun's Head of Inventor Relations, Tanya Thompson, had the amazing opportunity to speak at July Catalyst Week in Las Vegas. Her talk is a fantastic overview of how ThinkFun's mission of "Changing the world through play" inspired her to move out of her comfort zone as a teacher, and into the world of business.
In the video, Tanya also touches on how she found Dan Shapiro's Kickstarter campaign for Robot Turtles, and she teases the upcoming collaboration with Philip Sheppard, a world-class cellist. This collaboration is especially exciting because the resulting product will allow children to compose and play with music. Intriguing, huh?
Check out the video to hear more about Tanya and details on what 2015 has in store for ThinkFunners. Oh, and let us know what you think – We'd love to hear from you!
Gravity Maze is Here!
Gravity Maze is the follow-up to our much beloved Laser Maze game, and we've been pouring love and attention into it for well over a year. It was very important to us to get all the details just right. It's here, I've been playing it, and it's just what we intended.
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One theme I am starting to hear again and again is that Gravity Maze reminds people of classic marble races. We've even begun posting some homemade marble runs to our social channels to support all the nostalgia. Our version has more of a bite to it though. Gravity maze is not just any marble run or logic puzzle—it's a complete, hands-on, playful, open-ended STEM engineering experience. We made the game to encourage the usage of visual perception, creativity, and deduction to find single solutions to 60 challenges ranging from beginner to expert. That said, it's ultimately an immersive and tactile physical experience. Just as we're targeting the digital natives of Gen Z (and younger) with Gravity Maze, we're also hearkening back to the old Erector Set, that classic builder-based engineering toy from the 1950's.
Who Helped Us Make Gravity Maze
So how did Gravity Maze get so awesome? Enter Wei-Hwa Huang, world puzzle champion and design master, and a good friend. Working with inventor Oliver Morris and a team of ThinkFun experts, Wei-Hwa breathed his magic into the maze challenges and into the underlying system architecture. So take note: When Andrea and I launched ThinkFun in 1985, we said that our mission was to translate the best ideas of the wackiest geniuses into simple puzzles and games to be played by all the boys and girls of the world. I think we nailed this mission with Gravity Maze!
Join us in Building our own Collection of Marble Runs on ThinkFun.com!
Throughout the Fall and Holiday season we'll be building a growing collection of YouTube, Vine, and Instagram videos of our customers playing Gravity Maze on our site. The objective: To salute the old school marble runs with a new school logic game twist! We'll be updating our progress regularly, so please check back in early and often. If you want to create your own Vine video and have us feature it, send us an email. I just did it…it's easy!
Here is my own first shot at this project. What do you think? Is this the seed of a good idea? Could you do better? Then shoot us a video!
Until next time,
Reflections on: ThinkFun and Robot Turtles in the Media
I'm extremely excited to share that we've been popping up a lot in the media lately, so things have been kind of hectic—but in the best way possible. So without seeming overly self involved (*ahem*), I would like to share a few of the more interesting news items here, and then add some supplemental info about one of the articles. I can't help it– I'm proud of our games! And I'm thrilled that they all seem to touch on the theme of igniting the mind through play. Sound familiar? It should—it's our mission.
Swish in The Atlantic
On July 16, The Atlantic published the article How Family Game Night Makes Kids Into Better Students. The author, Jessica Lahey spotlighted our game Swish, and its benefits for kids with impulse control and working memory deficits.
Within the article, Lahey consulted with Dr. Bill Hudenko, child psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, who elaborated on which executive function skills Swish can most benefit:
Children with executive functioning deficits often struggle with the heavy working memory demands of mentally rotating the cards and sequentially identifying additional card matches. This game also is particularly helpful for developing an appropriate balance between impulse control and increasing processing speed as the child is trying to be the first to identify a "swish."
Robot Turtles (and the history of ThinkFun) in Wired
Then, last week on Thursday, the Twittersphere really blew up with mentions of ThinkFun when Wired published this article, The 75-Year Saga Behind a Game That Teaches Preschoolers to Code, by Cade Metz. The title does a fantastic job of surfacing the major themes of the article: My family's tech-centric lineage, and our vision of Robot Turtles as the hero product in the evolution of gameplay as a technique for teaching the fundamentals of code. I touched on what Robot Turtles can teach children in my first post on this blog. If I've piqued your interest at all so far, please do take a minute to read the Wired article. It's very thorough and entertaining.
How we've changed the game
As Cade Metz points out in the Wired article, we acquired Robot Turtles from Dan Shapiro. But we didn't stop evolving the product, and this is where the supplemental info I alluded to in the intro begins…I'd like to unbox this topic a bit further.
Of course, once we acquired Robot Turtles we made changes to enhance game play with new instructions, clearer graphics, more durable cards, bug tiles instead of cards, and a sturdy box for better storage. But that was just the beginning. ThinkFun has made Robot Turtles a flagship product in its support for Kids and Coding. We've added several dimensions to the game and our thinking. I want to touch on some of these upgrades:
• Programming as Storytelling: Using our "Adventure Quest" generator, parents and kids can submit board presets and stories that make being a Turtle Master kid more fun than ever. We also include some board presets to spark your imagination.
• Using Programming To Model Parent-Child Interaction: In our instruction manual, we use our teaching experience to help families make the most of time together with Robot Turtles by providing kids instructions about programming and parents instructions on how to execute their kids commands in a fun, engaging way.
• Community Interaction: We evaluate submissions and post the best for use to the Quest Library.
• Kids & Coding Resource: We've aggregated an amazing list of people with products, programs, gatherings and more to make sure that Robot Turtles is just the beginning of your child's introduction to coding.
• Partnership program: Recognizing that the employers of tomorrow want the children of today to have these skills, ThinkFun is actively donating games and activities to partners. Contact us if you're interested.
So now I'll put the question to you, our community: Where would you like to see game enhancements and extensions? Please tweet us @Thinkfun or email us at email@example.com with your feedback. We're listening!
Greetings and Salutations From SmartPlay's New Author
Hello World! This is my debut post on the SmartPlay.com blog, so I figured I'd take a moment to introduce myself, share a little bit about what inspires me, and set some intentions about what you can expect from my posts moving forward.
A Little About Me
Some of you may know me as the CEO and Co-Founder of Thinkfun, the world's leader in addictively fun games that build 21st century thinking skills through play. But I'm guessing that most of you may not know WHY I got into the game industry.
My lovely and inspiring wife, Andrea Barthello, and I founded ThinkFun on a dream. We wanted to change the world by translating the brilliant ideas of the craziest mathematicians, engineers and inventors into simple toys that could be appreciated by children of all ages. This was way back in 1985, and our name back then was BinaryArts (see our throwback photo that accompanies this post for visual aid).
In 2003, we changed our name from Binary Arts to ThinkFun and updated our mission to focus on the learning-through-play perspective. But not that much has changed since then. We still want to change the world, we just want to do it through play.
Lately, what I'm really enjoying is just how organically our newest games support some of the forward-thinking philosophies and curricula of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and STEAM (Science & Technology interpreted through Engineering & the Arts, all based in Mathematical elements) communities. If you don't know much about these organizations yet, take a look at this video from Georgette Yakman, Founder/Teacher of STEAM.
A Little About Robot Turtles
So how does ThinkFun pay off our claim to ignite minds through play? Let's take Robot Turtles as an example. The game sneakily teaches programming fundamentals to kids ages 3 and up and is the perfect expression of ThinkFun's mission.
Robot Turtles players learn how to break one big problem into small steps, to think ahead, to work backwards, to look for patterns and to keep trying to fix their "bugs."
Playing is a lot like coding because:
• When a child lays down her cards, she is writing code.
• When a child rearranges his cards to fix what didn't work, he is debugging.
• When a child discusses her strategy, she is commenting her code.
• When a child asks a parent to move the Turtle, he is running a program.
• When a child plays a Function Frog, she is executing a subroutine or a function.
I want to dive deeper into the mechanics here, but I'll just share this 20 second video on how to play Robot Turtles instead, and wait until next week's post to unpack the topic further.
A Little About What to Expect as the Blog Evolves
I plan on writing about once a week from now on, focusing on my take on the whacky world of creativity, problem solving and any general out-of-the-box thinking. I REALLY want to hear from you all as time goes on. What do you want to hear more about? What should I shut up about?
I'll also reach out to some friends and colleagues to guest blog for me on these subjects from time to time, and I'll do some "Greatest Hits" posts that bundle up a few of the fantastic posts from my SmartPlay blog predecessor, Charlotte Fixler.
Robot Turtles + Imagination!
ThinkFun's newest game has inspired some very clever cartoons from a young Robot Turtles enthusiast – the imagination is clearly whizzing here, and I just had to share!
First up… turtles with amazing powers face off!
"Wind vs. Speed… Laser vs. Helicopter!"
This next story is about a four-eyed turtle… love this!
She waited and waited. She was cold.
She sat and sat…
Then, she knew she needed glasses.
The end.
And finally… a super speedy turtle race… on your marks, get set, GO!
Want to extend Robot Turtles for your own turtle enthusiast? Check out the online Adventure Quest generator tool and see how easy it is to create and share your own turtle-inspired adventures!
Here's an example of a great Quest already up in the online library… we can't wait to see what you create!
Why Our Education System Is So Stuck
For years I have been ranting about the American education system, how murky and ill prepared it is to consider new ideas. I gave a TEDx talk about this in 2012: one of my slides was a cartoon I had made to describe how profoundly confused the situation is.
Don't worry if you don't get this cartoon… you're not supposed to. The idea is that it's an enigma… something so ingrained you're not sure if you are allowed to think that you don't understand it.
The biggest thing gnawing at me the past few years has been the "HOW" question… this is such an important topic, how could things have gotten to be this way?
And so I was very happy to find the answer lurking inside an article in last Sunday's Washington Post, about Bill Gates and the new Common Core education standards.
Says Gates: "The funding, in general, of what works in education… is tiny. It's the lowest in this field than any field of human endeavor. … As a result, there is a paucity of information about methods of instruction that work."
So why is it that I've had these murky, queasy feelings about education? Because it turns out the American Education system has the lowest R&D funding of any field of human endeavor! This starts to make sense now.
OK then… with this post I've dug a little bit into what the problem is. Next look for some solution ideas.
And do read the Washington Post piece. It turns out that Gates is using his millions to rebuild the entire USA education system, makes for a fascinating and revealing read.
Robot Turtles: A Fun Way to Target Social Communication & Coding Skills
The following post is shared by speech-language pathologist Eric Sailers of Expressive Solutions, a company that develops apps for learners with special needs. In this post, originally posted here, he shares some phenomenal insight about the power of game play to target and support specific communications skills.
If you are looking for a fun way to target social communication skills, as well as beginning computer programming, Robot Turtles is a great new board game you can play with your students (with or without autism). Robot Turtles requires players to use simple commands to move their turtles to capture a jewel on the game board. When students give commands, they are replicating the process computer programmers use to give instructions for a computer to execute. Games, in general, provide opportunities for social communication; Robot Turtles in particular involves specific interactions between the game players that enable more opportunities for social communication. For students who show an interest in games and computers, playing Robot Turtles can be a highly engaging way to practice social communication.
During game play, it is easy to provide students with opportunities to practice five different social communication skills:
1) Perspective taking
As turtle masters, students take the perspective of their turtles on the game board in order to decide which way to move. If they were to take their own perspectives, players may not move in the intended direction; success in the game depends on the ability to make decisions based on a different perspective.
2) Turn taking
Students also actively take turns throughout the game. Not only do they have to wait for the other turtle masters to complete their turns, but students do not actually move their own game pieces. The adult overseeing the game, otherwise known as the turtle mover, is in charge of executing the moves on the game board based on student commands.
3) Eye contact and body language
Since turtle masters don't move their own pieces, they must clearly communicate their commands to the turtle mover. This offers a good opportunity to practice politely giving directions, as well as utilizing eye contact and body language to effectively communicate and acknowledge the turtle mover.
4) Following directions
In return, the turtle mover may communicate directions for the turtle masters to follow. The turtle mover also ensure players are aware of and adhere to the rules of the game.
5) Making comments
Throughout game play, students can be encouraged to make positive comments directed specifically to other turtle masters. For example, a student could say, "Nice move. I like how you did that!" when another player makes a good move in the game. In Robot Turtles, the goal is not to have one winner; all students keep playing until they achieve the goal for that specific level. Establishing a positive atmosphere where everyone is encouraged to be successful creates a great opportunity for modeling and practicing comments.
Robot Turtles can be played with children as young as four, all the way up to middle or high school. The game has several levels so it is easy to adapt game play based on student age and experience with the game. The upper levels of the game require sophisticated logic and analytical skills to complete the challenges, while the simple levels introduce children to basic logic. Either way, social communication skills can be targeted in various ways throughout the game.


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José Esquibel has a dream: to make screening for alcohol and substance abuse problems as routine as diabetes screening in every health care facility in Colorado. And the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) grant the state received from SAMHSA in 2006 is helping to make that dream a reality.
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A fourth former employee of the National Restaurant Association has come forward — this time publicly — to offer details of GOP presidential contender Herman Cain's pattern of sexual harassment during his tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
Sharon Bialek says Cain wanted sex in exchange for helping her find a new job after she was laid off from the association, groped her, reached for her crotch and tried to force her head into his crotch.
"I was surprised and shocked and I said, what are you doing? You know I have a boyfriend. This is not what I came here for," Bialek told a press conference Monday.
Cain's response: "You want a job, right?"
Bialek said the unwanted advances came at dinner after she came to Washington from Chicago to ask Cain's help in finding a new job.
The revelations are just the latest in a growing list of accusations of sexually-aggressive behavior by Cain towards women — not only at the restaurant association but throughout his business career.
Capitol Hill Blue has spoken to more than a dozen women who offer similar accounts of sexual harassment by Cain at NRA, Godfathers Pizza, Burger King and other employment venues.
"He's a sexual predator," says one woman, who asked not to be identified. "He's a monster."
Cain continues to maintain the allegations are part of a "smear campaign" engineered by his opponents for the GOP presidential nomination.
Bialek, however, says she is a registered Republican with no ax to grind. When she went ot Washington in 1007, Cain upgraded her hotel room to a suite without asking her fist and then began making advances at dinner.
"He suddenly reached over an dput his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals," she said. Then he tried to push her head towards his crotch, an obvious push for oral sex.
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I was very very surprised and very shocked, I want you, Mr. Cain, to come clean. Just admit what you did. Admit you were inappropriate to people. I implore you. Make this right.
The Cain campaign Monday issued its standard denial, saying "All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false. Mr. Cain has never harassed anyone."
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"Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that." –Bill Clinton, to a woman friend while he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford
Seemingly Mr. Cain never read Bill's admonition concerning the 'heady' responsibilities of having power not only as a CEO, but so too in his now lost bid for our highest office. / : |
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How many shoes have to drop before they dump this perv?!?
"Family Values" LOL!
Regret, shame, and remorse… three things that remind ordinary people that they are not sociopaths. Three things that Mr. Cain is sorely lacking.
So we've seen the Cain-Gingrich debate. How about a Ron Paul-Buddy Roemer debate? Call it "The Republican Sanity and Integrity Debate", and I guess Huntsman could come along too. I really haven't heard enough about his ideas to weigh his sanity.
Goin' on down the list:
Romney – two-faced corporate shill with experience downsizing companies for sale.
Perry – GWB Redux with twice the charm and half the brains. Scary.
Cain – Sexual predator, ex-Federal Reserve.
Bachmann – Manufactured in the same lab as Palin. Just listen to her words.
Gingrich – Sorely lacks likability, helped balance the budget while securing tax shelters for corporate and ultra-wealthy folks.
Ron Paul – not a member of the today's Republican party. Sometimes I disagree with him, but I still respect him.
Huntsman – who?
Gary Johnson – unexceptional, and I only know who he is because I live in his state.
Santorum – his name is synonymous with anal discharge.
The folks who weren't invited to the debates – there's a few. But with no facetime, they can't secure the nomination.
This is the best Republicans can do against a weak sitting president? It's the 2004 Democrats garnished with crazy talk. Pitiful.
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::Laughs:: We're in the same boat. After 2 1/2 months in the hospital, and coming home, the night we got our new apartment, we... eh... kinda started on another little dude. If I go to term, they'll be 13 months apart. That's not too bad- my mom had my sister and I 14 months apart. If I have Jake before June 2nd, I'll have Irish twins on my hands.
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UNDATED (WHBL) - Democrat Barack Obama became the third president in a row to win a second term – and Wisconsin continued its 28-year string of sending Democrats to the White House. With about 91-percent of the statewide vote counted, Obama had a five-point lead over Republican Mitt Romney in Wisconsin, 52-47 percent. Not even the presence of Janesville's Paul Ryan on the ticket helped the G-O-P, as it failed to win Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes for the seventh straight time. State Senate Republican Alberta Darling, who co-chaired the Romney campaign in Wisconsin, said her party was stunned. She said the G-O-P base was energized, and independents had been falling their way. But Darling said, "Maybe we were just not dealing with the real reality." A-P exit polls showed that Obama got his Wisconsin support from women, African-Americans, those under 40, college grads, and families making less than 50-thousand-dollars a year. Romney was preferred among Wisconsin men, voters in their 40's and over-65, Christians, and families making over 100-thousand. Other exit polls showed that independents were about split. Ryan landed on his feet, as he was easily re-elected to the First District House seat he's held for 14 years.
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The power of a brand to turn us into puppets.
I am a staunch individualist! I have never been one to follow trends, the crowd, or allow myself to be brainwashed by advertising. At least that's how I see myself. This makes the following story all that more interesting.
One morning in the recent past, I was to meet a friend for coffee early at Pete's Coffee. I got there a bit before my friend and was eager to get some strong coffee in me. We have a toddler and an infant at home and the lack of sleep has turned my wife and I into zombies who function on strong coffee. I approached the counter and ordered a tall latte with an extra shot of espresso. The barista looked funny at me and repeated my order back to me – "a medium latte with extra shot." I repeated back to him – "yes … a tall latte" He corrected me again, "you mean MEDIUM."
At this point my mind cleared up a bit and I realized, much to my amazement, that I was not at Starbucks but at Pete's. It must have felt insulting to the Pete's barista that I was confusing their establishment with the competition. I was slightly embarrassed and motivated to figure out what had just gone on.
The Psychologist in me figured things out. You see, extensive research in Behavioral Science has shown that many times we move around the world on auto pilot, driven by habit. For example, have you ever headed for place A, fell deep in thought about something, and ended up at place B, just because place B is the one you usually go to? A recent study reported by David Rock, shows that "humans are on autopilot nearly half of the time."
What had happened to me was that during one of my (sleep deprived) autopilot mode episodes, I was under the influence of a powerful brand – Starbucks. I had used the Starbucks lingo at Pete's Coffee! Moreover, this was the lingo that I had stubbornly refused to use during my first visits to Starbucks!
To me, that is an excellent example of how effective brands get under our skin – they pull he strings while we are asleep at the wheel … Scary?
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Oct 31 2012: You're onto something here Alex. I've had the same experience trying to adjust to the Starbucks lingo and culture. They force you to learn a new language. It reminds me of the Moonies indoctrination process where you are forced to hold hands and chant together with the group until eventually you crack and accept the invasion of your body space and the chanting takes hold. Starbucks is a club with a secret handshake. Costco is similar. Most stores are actually clubs with rewards for loyalty. We are tribal. We can be hypnotized. Humans are curious subjects. Autopilot seems about right.
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Liver Blood Tests (cont.)
Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD
Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.
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Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
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What is usually most helpful is serial testing of AST (SGOT) and ALT (SGPT) over time to determine whether the levels are increasing, remaining stable, or decreasing. For example, individuals undergoing treatment for chronic hepatitis C should be monitored with serial liver enzyme tests. Those responding to treatment will experience lowering of liver enzyme levels to normal or near normal levels. Those who develop relapse of hepatitis C after completion of treatment will usually develop abnormal liver enzyme levels again.
What about the other liver enzymes?
Aside from AST and ALT, there are other enzymes including alkaline phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase ("5 prime" nucleotidase), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) that are often used to detect for liver disease.
LDH is not specific to the liver and can be elevated in many diseases with inflammation in other tissues.
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How high should the top tax rate be?
Some economists say Americans making $3 million or more can handle a levy of up to 66% with no harm.
Andrew Fieldhouse at The Fiscal Times put the nation's upper economic echelons on notice last week by letting them know they're not paying anything close to what economists feel is their fair share.
Amid stifled economic output, stagnant job growth, sequestration cuts, the expired payroll tax cuts, the stonewalling of the American Jobs Act and the gradual replacement of stimulus with European-style austerity, Fieldhouse says a dollar of government spending cuts will do four to seven times as much economic damage than an additional dollar of revenue collected from upper-income taxpayers.
Economists Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez estimate that a combined federal, state and local tax rate of 73% for the top tier would maximize revenue while minimizing damage to the rest of the economy. In a recently released paper, Fieldhouse says this implies that lawmakers could feasibly raise the federal income tax rate from 39.6% to roughly 66% before maxing out.
Unfortunately, this doesn't exactly work when the top threshold starts at $450,000. Fieldhouse points out that the top income tax rate of 91% from the 1950s, consistently referenced by tax advocates, worked only because it directly attacked skewed market distribution of income. In the 1950s, the threshold for that 91% tax rate was the equivalent of $3 million in 2012 dollars.
But why ratchet up the taxes on those making $3 million or more? Fieldhouse argues that the decline in that top tax rate over the last half century or so has had a statistically insignificant effect on economic growth. At the same time, it has had a profound effect on the concentration of wealth and imbalance in income in the U.S. during that time.
Although he acknowledges that "political realities stand in the way of optimal policy," he insists that such a hike would be the best way of hammering at the deficit while letting the greater economy heal.
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I'm all for making sure the rich pay their fair share of taxes, but no - this is too much. How is it fair for anyone to lose 73% of their income to federal & state taxes?
To some extent we should all be striving to be taxed at the top rate - to be as successful as possible in our chosen profession. Once you get to 73% taxes or 91% from the 50s what's the point in working any harder? I don't care if there are/were loopholes either - why encourage people to skirt the system? What's the point?
Too much of anything is a bad idea.
For such intelligent men (both economist are professors with UC Berkley roots and one is French, which may explain the love of taxes) this is a very limited, low brow method for reducing a government debt. First inflation (the more something cost, the more tax you pay on it) will be the largest unavoidable tax for all soon enough, off-shoring of wealth can't protect against inflation. Second the best thing the government could do to get the economy rolling is reduce the number of effective monopolies and duopolies in our economy. Create more competition, which leads to more hiring, more innovation and a larger tax base. Competition, it's where we start.
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Carrot-Raisin Quick Bread
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 60 minutes
Makes: 10 servings
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup toasted wheat germ
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup canned crushed pineapple in juice, lightly drained
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 2 cups grated carrot
- 1 cup golden raisins
- 1/2 cup extra-light olive oil
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray and lightly dust it with flour; set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine first 7 ingredients. Make a well in the center; set aside.
- In a bowl, combine remaining 5 ingredients. Pour mixture into well in dry ingredients and stir until mix is just moistened and batter is still slightly lumpy. Transfer into the loaf pan.
- Bake 60 to 70 minutes, or until top is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in pan on a rack, then remove from pan to cool completely.
Per serving: 326 calories, 5 g protein, 50 g carbohydrate, 12 g fat (2 g saturated), 2 g fiber.
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Pancakes!!! Use Soya milk, low sodium salt and an egg for the mix, fry in coconut oil and top with real fresh lemon juice and a little caster sugar ( a little can't hurt can it? ).2/14/2013 12:56:12 PM Report Abuse
Adjust the liquid and cook as a "pancake." Great for on-the-go breakfast. Thanks for the ideas; I'll try fixing my personal favorite recipes now.3/19/2012 12:06:26 AM Report Abuse
**wheat flour6/24/2010 11:29:14 AM Report Abuse
Some of us would rather eat the real sugar and exercise rather than fill our body with anything fake (think about what healthy REALLY means...)Also When flour would have made this recipe far too heavy. I of course switched the milk to skim (and could have omitted .25% -50% of the sugar) - but all around a great recipe!6/24/2010 11:28:47 AM Report Abuse
I would replace sugar with a sugar substutite.4/12/2010 12:12:00 PM Report Abuse
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