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A Forum for Vigorous Debate, Cornerstone of Democracy
[For the journal (guidelines, focus, etc.), go to www.theamericandissident.org ].
Encouraged censorship and self-censorship seem to have become popular in America today. Those who censor others, not just self, tend to favor the term "moderate," as opposed to "censor" and "moderation" to "censorship." But that doesn't change what they do. They still act as Little Caesars or Big Brother protectors of the thin-skinned. Democracy, however, demands a tough populace, not so easily offended. On this blog, and to buck the trend of censorship, banning, and ostracizing, comments are NEVER "moderated." Rarely (almost NEVER) do the targets of these blog entries respond in an effort to defend themselves with cogent counter-argumentation. This blog is testimony to how little academics, poets, critics, newspaper editors, cartoonists, political hacks, cultural council apparatchiks, librarians et al appreciate VIGOROUS DEBATE, cornerstone of democracy. Clearly, far too many of them could likely prosper just fine in places like communist China and Cuba or Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Russia.
More P. Maudit cartoons (and essays) at Global Free Press: http://www.globalfreepress.org
Friday, March 6, 2009
Nikki Giovanni
—P. Maudit
Dear Pen Staff (Michael Roberts, Executive Director; M. Mark, Editor Pen America; Caro Llewellyn, PEN World Voices Festival Director; Stacy Leigh, Readers & Writers and Open Book Director; Anna Kushner, Freedom to Write Coordinator; Sarah Hoffman, Freedom to Write Associate; David Haglund, Managing Editor, PEN America; Alena Graedon, Executive Assistant; Nick Burd, Literary Awards Program Manager; Linda Morgan, Development Director; Larry Siems, Freedom to Write and International Programs Director; Stefanie Simons, Readers & Writers Associate; Jackson Taylor, Prison Writing Program Director; Elizabeth Weinstein, Public Programs Associate; Michael Welch, Planning and Finance Director):
Having just read an article by Chinese dissident Ma Jian, I thought of you and decided to write in the hope that perhaps one of you would actually respond… and not simply in the polite bureaucratic sense, as in an out of office autoreply. [Of course, not one of them would ever respond!]
"There is little need for literary censors these days," noted Ma Jian, regarding China. "The writers have learnt to do a proficient job of censoring themselves." With that regard, how not to think of America and her proficient self-censoring poets and writers? Why did PEN America seem to avoid that egregious reality? By pointing almost always to injustice abroad, it seemed to be acting as a propaganda arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It possessed a Freedom to Write and International Programs Director, but not a Freedom to Write and National Programs Director.
Last August, I wrote Pen New England, which chose not to respond. In vain, I'd brought to its attention the fact that here in Massachusetts, as a highly critical dissident author and publisher, I had been ostracized and was being punished. The Concord Cultural Council, for example, enacted—because of me—a new provision excluding from public funding any proposal it subjectively deemed to be of a "political nature." The Massachusetts Cultural Council simply refused to respond to my questions. For example, why did it fund Agni, which was published by Boston University, a private institution with over one-billion dollars in its endowment fund, while refusing to accord any monies at all to The American Dissident, the journal I publish?
Also, in America, as I'm sure PEN was aware, writers could indeed be arrested and incarcerated. For example, I was arrested and incarcerated in Concord for a day, yet all I'd done was speak freely (www.theamericandissident.org/WaldenPondStateReservation.htm). Surely, other American writers, not of the "internationaly acclaimed" variety, had much more serious tales to divulge. Sadly, Pen of New England didn't seem to give a damn about mine. What about PEN America?
On another—though really always the same—matter, as a rare dissident poet at the Festival International de la Poesie de Trois-Rivieres (Quebec) in 2001, I was highly critical of that festival's management and had not been invited back since. Management oddly, or perhaps not, prohibited debate during the festival, while invited poets, both Canadian and international, lamely acquiesced. In the context of its Pen segment, I was even invited as a known dissident to read a translation of a Kenule Saro-Wiwa poem I'd prepared. Needless to say, I'd end up sending a complaint to Pen Quebec, which simply did not respond. In 2004, I mentioned this to Pen America, which responded with hollow empathy: "In general, we at the PEN America Center have no involvment [sic] with events that take place in Canada. It sounds like your experience has been unfortuanate [sic]."
I'd also asked how I might become a PEN member, so that I could help bring to light the rampant, though often subtle, censorship existent in America, thanks to its army of obsequious writers, academics, and other luminaries. PEN responded thusly: "Regrading [sic] your query about joining PEN, currently membership is by nomination (either internal or external) and is entirely voluntary." Well, that didn't sound very democratic at all.
Being a harsh critic of poets, writers, editors and academics in America, I now found myself unable to find full-time employment as a professor of English. When employed at American colleges and universities, I tended to "go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways" (Emerson). For that, I now found myself at the end of the line. On another note, the Academy of American Poets, sponsor of National Poetry Month, censored and banned me from participating in its forums a year and a half ago. With that regard, I'd contacted each of its tenured-professor chancellors, each of whom evidently favored censorship (www.theamericandissident.org/AcademyAmericanPoets.htm). More recently, InsideHigherEd.com censored my comments.
Finally, Ma Jian wrote: "A savvy young Chinese writer who spoke in London recently was asked about his views on the Tiananmen massacre. He said with a self-satisfied smirk that he was asleep in bed when it took place, and that he never joined the marches because he found them exhausting. There is a word in Chinese that describes this attitude: xiaosa. It means imperturbable, detached, nonchalant. This carefree denial of the meaningful role of an artist in society is a blight that inflicts great numbers of China's unofficial cultural elite."
Again, how not to think of America and her OFFICIAL cultural elite (e.g., multimillionaire Toni Morrison), funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and promoted by, amongst others, the Library of Congress and Academy of American Poets? Hopefully, Ma Jian would become aware of the hypocrisy here in America before some American university ended up purchasing his soul. Indeed, American universites were quite adept at the art of soul purchasing. Think of Beatniks Ginsberg and Snyder, as well as dissident foreigners Yevtushenko, Wole Soyinka, and Dennis Brutis. As for Nikki Giovanni, another PEN-favored writer, she made a blatantly racist statement, though of PC variety, that "Black students will inevitably run into some white classmates who are troubling because they often say stupid things, ask stupid questions and expect an answer." I challenged her on it. She remained silent.
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- mather said...
The quotes from the chinaman were great, or is that a racist word? Giovanni has always bored me, have you ever read her books? Black and hip, white and hip, okydoke, and black students never ask stupid questions.
- March 6, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- mather said...
It's boring when you restate the same injustices all the time, which have been well documented. Your point is well taken, however. I think of how Raymond Carver, who I like a lot, was accepted like a sacred child into the academic world, but Bukowski was not. Why? Many of their stories seem almost to be written by the same person, but one was hated and one was adored.
- March 6, 2009 at 8:35 AM
- G. Tod Slone said...
No, I haven't read Giovanni. She gave me no reason at all (via inspiring words of wisdom) to do so.
If it's boring that I state the same injustices, then I shall have to find some new ones for you. Just the same, those injustices I refer to never did have resolutions, which is why they are always present. They also will always seek to illustrate points made.
Carver admired Bukowski and wrote a poem or two about him. I used to like Carver, but then found his stories got all too predictable and he was never critical of the bourgeois hand that fed him. Bukowski on the other hand could be quite quite critical. Bukowski was not entirely rejected by Academe. Locklin, a lifer academic, embraced him. He is on the Academy of American Poets website and in a number of the academic literary anthologies. That story of rejection has become a myth today. Carver seemed to write just like Andre Dubus. There was a kind of formula involved to the writing. It became his money vein to always write in the same manner. That kind of thing serves to stultify writers and artists.
- March 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM
- G. Tod Slone said...
Regarding my repetitive injustices, Bukowski could, as you well know, be the most repetitive of persons regarding his sexcapades and horse races. That is why I no longer read his books with delight. Instead, I race through them looking for the one or two poems out of 200 that might be of interest.
- March 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM
- mather said...
Yes, once you read Carver's stories they become predictable. Once you read anyone's stories they become predictable. I think there is that one poem by Carver about a party where Bukowski was threatening to throw people out of a window. You Don't Know What Love Is...? It was obvious that Carver admired him, yes. But, Carver received guggenhiems and other awards that Bukowski didn't. Yes, Locklin is an academic, ok, but Carver was a regular in the god damned New Yorker for christ sake.
Don't know Andre Dubus, I'll look him up.
- March 6, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- mather said...
Yes, Bukowski repeated himself endlessly, I too find most of it boring. The early two or three books were the ones that did it for me.
- March 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- mather said...
Your drawing is good, the kind of cancer-victim-look she has, droopy eyes, hair-falling-out, like a lot of your characters, seems to capture the mood. It's a style that seems to come from the subject itself: sick.
- March 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- G. Tod Slone said...
Actually Bukowski WAS a Guggenheim fellow! He drove around in a new BMW. Carver drove around in a jalopy. No matter. I'd done that toon five years ago or so. I'm now striving for more accuracy in the faces, so those whom I satirize can easily recognize themselves. I'll reread the blog, perhaps change things. I always do that. Sometimes I get too anxious and shoot something up that wasn't quite ready.
- March 6, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- mather said...
Well, I'm not a certified researcher, but to read Buk's and Carver's biographies you'd think just the opposite. I didn't know Buk got a guggenheim. But you're right: no matter. To me your faces are recognizable, the only time I don't recognize them is when I don't know them.
- March 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- G. Tod Slone said...
En fait, t'as eu ben raison. You're right. I cut the repetitive injustices down. See, I do and can listen and even effect changes due to the critique.
- March 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM
- mather said...
Giovanni's poems are messy, prosy piles of crap, the kind of stuff that the academy would laugh off if she wasn't such an efficient brown-noser, and negroid of course.
Any new word on your battle with Shaulis or is that over?
- March 8, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- G. Tod Slone said...
Shaulis has evaporated. He will likely not contact me again.
Yes, color is very important in the Academy! Having the correct diversity is far more important than truth. As mentioned, I've read probably well over 1000 job ads for English professors over the past years. Not once have I ever come across the word TRUTH. And almost always I've come across the word DIVERSITY. That's what the 60s hippies brought us: DIVERSE FALSITY.
It's your call. Again, I'm open to having you write a harsh criticism of The AD and me for next issue. There's still 2 months left before I send out to the printer's.
- March 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM
- mather said...
First I've heard of a critique of AD...Did I miss something?
- March 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- G. Tod Slone said...
That was probably the third time I made the proposal.
From: George Slone email@example.com
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:12:45 PM
Subject: The American Dissident
Send me a two-page resume of your endless harangue against me AND The American Dissident so I can publish it in next issue. Use as much of it as you can from your blog posts. If you choose not to, then I will have to create a compilation… and you just might not like the order of sentences chosen. I'll give you two full pages. Take your time. Thank you.
G. Tod
- March 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM
- mather said...
That was written a while ago, obviously you were still hot, and maybe you still are. I don't want to write something up like that. Go ahead and compile something if you want, I'm not ashamed of anything I wrote.
I've still got that "Shirt" critique waiting for you...
- March 12, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- G. Tod Slone said...
No, I'm not in the least angry and am happy we're both still "talking" to one another, though via this blog. I never was angry. You were angry, not I! Maybe I'll compile something then. It is time consuming to do that and nobody of course appreciates it. I did it with Ed. The "Shirt" as you know didn't do it for me.
- March 13, 2009 at 6:27 AM
- mather said...
I was joking about The Shirt...I was thinking of writing a critique of Thieves Jargon. If I wrote it would you be willing to look at it?
- March 13, 2009 at 7:03 AM
- G. Tod Slone said...
Yeah, I'd definitely be willing to look at it. BUT I don't want to battle over it, as we did with the "SHIRT"!
- March 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM
- mather said...
Ok, fair enough.
- March 13, 2009 at 6:33 PM
- Term Papers said...
I gotta hand it to whoever wrote this, you've really kept me updated! Now, let's just hope that I can come across another blog just as interesting :)
Term papers
- March 12, 2010 at 2:06 AM


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If I hadn't have been wounded, I'd never have me Katrina, so all things happen for a reason! She knows I have a passion for this, and I'm probaly not going to change!!!
This hobby is a great distraction...if things get to me or I can't sleep, I just grab an item and have a play with it, takes my mind off things!
I'm glad this has provided you an escape and enjoyment, I'm certain you deserve it. I think my wife might be slowly coming around. She knows my love of history and that her fighting it would be a losing battle. I make it a point that whenever she says she wants to buy something new or replace something in the house, I give her the thumbs up and never argue. She usually thinks I am up to no good beause of that. Boys will be boys. I never deny her the things she loves, so I hope she returns the favor.
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With graduation quickly approaching, I've found myself looking back on my college experience and wishing I had done more. In my five years at Kennesaw I've had lots of firsts, traveled to new places, took on leadership roles that I never imagined myself in, and became a completely different person. But during my first three(ish) years of school, I was in two very serious relationships where my life revolved around them. I missed out on a lot of opportunities during that time and completely lost who I was as a person.
As the summer before my senior year came to an end I realized that I hadn't done anything "worth while" and my tight knit group of friends was well, small. It didn't take long to decide that I was going to dedicate the last bit of my college career to myself. I was serious about staying single, branching out to meet new people, getting out of my comfort zone and forcing myself to experience new things. I was determined to say "yes" to any offer thrown my way and to make up for the past three years.
In the time since making that decision, my life has changed drastically. I've attended three music festivals, an insane amount of concerts, visited three new states, dyed my hair blonde, ran a 5K, went alum in my sorority, gained the greatest group of friends that I could have ever asked for, and sadly had to move out of the house that I'd shared with my two best friends for three years.
Even though it was very casual and short-lived, I may have failed at staying single just three months after starting this journey (yikes). But because of that relationship I was given one of my best friends, Jamie. And for that I am so thankful.
Loving how this "yes" lifestyle was going, I decided I wanted to do more. With the help of Jamo and a few other friends, I decided to make a summer bucket list of things that I wanted to accomplish before my last year of school began. The list started off very small but began to grow rapidly as time went on. I haven't been able to cross off very many things because life always seems to get in the way but the things I've been able to do have been fantastic. From this list I've learned that I'm insanely in love with yoga (especially bikram yoga), I eat way too much food and I don't go to enough museums.
Atlanta Bucket List*
- First Friday Artwalk at Marietta Square
- Virginia Highlands Summerfest
- Atlanta Summer Beer Fest
- Atlanta Street Food Festival
- Grant Park Summer Shade Festival
- Georgia Renaissance Festival
Atlanta Ice Cream Festival Decatur BBQ, Blues and Bluegrass Festival
- The Cork Pullers Beer, Wine and Spirits Tour
- Yellow Daisy Festival
- Hip-Hop Day Festival
- Whole Hawg Happenin' BBQ and Music Fest
- Tellus Science Museum
- High Museum of Art
- Go to a drive in movie
- Medieval Times
Walk the Atlanta Beltline
- Ride the Atlanta Street Car
Woodruff Park Reading Room
- Federal Reserve Bank Money Museum
- Governor's Mansion Tour
- Atlanta's Children Museum
- Anne Frank Museum
- Movies in Central Park
Summer Concert series at Park Tavern
- Historic Oakland Cemetery
- Dad's Garage
- Yacht Rock Revue
- Leon's Full Service
The Ivy
- Atlanta Roller Girls
- Flix on 5th
- The Republic
- Go to Ikea
- Treetop Quest
Watch the sunset on the Jackson street Bridge Krog Street Tunnel Ponce City Market Krog Street Market
- Atlanta History Museum
- Fernbank Museum of Natural Beauty
- Michael C Carlos Museum
Six Flags/White Water
- Sweet Auburn Curb Market
- Bellwood Quarry
- Morgan Falls Park
- Pullman Railyard
- Roswell Mill
- Snoopers Rock
King of Pops Yoga
Atlanta Food Truck Park
- Julianna's Crepes
Roswell Provisions Park Tavern
- Eclipse di Luna
- Twist
- Darwin's Burgers & Blues
- Nicola's Restaurant
- The Big Ketch
- Fox Brother's BBQ
Parish Barcelona
- Cypress Street Pint & Plate
- The Bookhouse Pub
- Noni's Bar & Deli
- Tap
- The Nook
Six Feet Under Pub & Fish House
- Leon's Full Service
- Midway Pub
- Canoe
- Heirloom's
- Le Petit Marche
Porter Beer Bar
- Mary Mac's
- Antico's
- South City Kitchen
- Ecco
- Two Urban Licks
- Pappadeaux
- The Iberian Pig
- The Earl
- Cafe Jonah
- Across the Street
- Diesel Filling Station
- Hi Five Diner
- R Thomas
- Apre Diem
- Argosy
- Carroll Street Cafe
- Top Flr
- Holeman & Finch Public House
Fellini's Pizza
- Sun In My Belly
- George's Bar & Restaurant
- Grindhouse
Woody's Cheesesteaks La Fonda Lantina
- Cameli's in Little 5
- Flip Burger
Doggy Dogg
- Der Biergarten
Jeni's Ice Cream Jake's Ice Cream
- Sweet Treats
- The Daily Grind
- Ladybird Grove and Mess Hall
- West Egg
- Cooks and Soldiers
- The Cookie Studio
- Ria's Bluebird
- Bantam + Biddy
- Fry Guy Stand
- The Southern Gentleman
- Chattahoochee Coffee Company
- Dancing Goats Coffee Bar
- Amelie's French Bakery
- Folk Art
- Kale Me Crazy
- Sublime Doughnuts
- Alon's Bakery and Market
- Buttermilk Kitchen
- Fred's Meat and Bread
- Proof Bake Shop
- Mac McGee
- Bocado Burgers
- Victory Sandwich Bar
- Bone Garden Cantina
Sweet Auburn BBQ
- The Pig and The Pearl
- JCT Kitchen (Howell Mill)
- Delias chicken sausage stand
- Superica
- Second Self Beer Company (Fridays and Saturdays)
- Three Taverns Brewery (Fridays and Saturdays)
- Red Brick Brewery (Wed-Sunday)
- Orpheus Brewery (Thursday-Saturday)
Monday Night Brewery (Monday, Thursday, Saturday)
- Red Hare Brewery (Thursday-Saturday)
- Jekyll Brewery (Tuesday-Saturday)
- Blue Tarp Brewery (Friday and Saturday)
- Wild Heaven Craft Beers (Friday-Sunday)
SweetWater (Wednesday-Sunday) Reformation Brewery
- Burnt Hickery
- Southern Sky Brewing
*disclaimer: I can assure you that this list will continue to grow
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Faith Cormorand peered into the dense forest and shivered. She'd tried to tell her missionary uncle that their journey to the Northwest Territory was foolhardy, but he wouldn't hear of turning back. Now they were caught between the Indians and the British...and in the hands of merciless, cold-blooded Whip Martin. The fiercely handsome scout had found them in the woods and taken them on as his own personal responsibility. And, remembering the heat of his brazen caresses and searing kisses, Faith wondered just how personal Whip's interes in her was--and whether he'd take responsibility for her heart's pain as well as her body's pleasure.


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I spent my weekend in Newark, NJ.
To some that may not sound like a great weekend, but for me; it was great!
Symmetry Superstar, Nenita Aliermo, is back at work and it shows!
When I started my Product Training just about all the seats in the room were filled. I was feeling really good about that; off to a perfect start. However, within the next few minutes the meeting size doubled! Hotel staff had to be called to bring more chairs, then more chairs and finally; there was no more room for chairs! They packed the house!
Congratulations to all our hard working Business Partners!
A number of our leaders came up to me before or after the meeting to say that not only were they back at work and feeling excited but they sense an overall change in the air... a real excitement from everyone they meet and that the business is exploding. They are all looking forward to a FANTASTIC year with Symmetry!
I'm off again in the near future to do a tour through the Caribbean and after a few days at home I'll be going down South and then doing another round of meetings in the Midwest. Check the on-line calendar to see about meetings near you.
Keep up the great work!


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Jeremy Woolhouse at Live At Baker Street at Baker Street Studios
Baker Street Studios
Live At Baker Street
2A Florence St
Fri, March 22, 2013
Save Event
The Persistence of Dreaming : Solo Studio Concert
Baker St Studios, 2A Florence St Burwood
$45 includes drinks and refreshments
Bookings (03) 8683 9910 or liveatbakerstreet.com
info at http://www.jazzpiano.com.au
Live at Baker Street is a concert series presented in Baker St Studio's acoustically perfected 33 seat auditorium. The venue brings concert hall acoustics and jazz club intimacy together. This recital features The Persistence of Dreaming solo piano suite by local jazz pianist and composer Jeremy Woolhouse, recently released on CD.
With moods range from reflective to animated, driving to relaxed, The Persistence of Dreaming has thematic continuity and surprising diversity. Thoroughly engaging, the presentation takes the listener on a moving and evocative journey....
Jeremy Woolhouse uploaded this event on January 17, 2013
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We Are The Champions!!!
West University's Senior Division All-Stars won the World Series Saturday, defeating a team from California by9 to 7.
The team is the first West U team to take home the championship trophy in the Senior Division World Series. They will be honored at a local parade on Sunday, August 30.
Led by power-hitters Michael Resnick and Cole Lankford, the West U team's success on the playing field was celebrated by local youngsters and grown-ups. They hollered, clapped and, occasionally, bit their nails.
As the WULL All-Star's 7-0 lead narrowed, the fans grew quietly nervous. But, as West U's boys of summer took to the field in a triumphant and joyous huddle, the fans were on their feet cheering.
At Skeeter's, West U Little Leaguer Matt O'Connor had one word as the Senior Division champs appeared on the big TV screen at Skeeter's Grill.
"Awesome," O'Connor said.
O'Connor was munching a hamburger while watching the championship game with his friend and teammate Jay Bhandari.
"It's a lifetime event for all these players, really," said Bob O'Connor, the youngster's dad. "It's really quite an accomplishment."
Nearby, at the Edloe Street Deli in West U, two big screens also drew a crowd of
youngsters who shared snacks or stared transfixed.
"A lot of my friends are on the seniors," said West U Little Leaguer Ian Gibaut. "It's amazing they've come so far."
West U City Councilman Steven Segal arrived at the Deli waving a green, vintage West U Little League pennant."It comes from when I was coaching my son," Segal said.
"I would have preferred that they say they're from West University Place, not the Houston Little League," Segal said.
Another big crowd gathered at the Rajin Cajun, to cheer and holler as the local boys of summer took home the championship.
West U's Little League All-Stars took home the championship trophy after wins over teams from Wisconsion, and international players from the Asia Pacific region, Italy and Aruba.
Team members flew to the World Series on a chartered jet, accompanied by some family members and friends.
Win or lose, the team will be honored with a parade when they get home.
"We are discussing a parade on Sunday, August 30, at about 2 p.m.," said West U City Manager Michael Ross. "Win or lose."
The parade will follow a route down University Boulevard from Annapolis to Paul Wallin Field, Ross said.
Ross noted that the West U All-Stars are playing international teams in the World Series.
"When Bellaire won it, (in 2000) they were only the U.S. champs," Ross said. "If these guys win, they will be the best in the world."
Team members traded their green-and-gold uniforms for the traditional blue-and-gray uniforms worn by the Southwest Champions during the World Series championship tournament.
The WULL team members include Davis Atkins, Stewart Cartwright, Luke Cone, Andrew Dunlap, Hugh Echols, Ryan Farney, Evan Fichter, Travis Gauntt, Harrison James, Joshua King, Matt Luna, Cole Lankford, Cameron Neal, Samuel Reid, Michael Resnick, Kevin Roy, and John Williamson.The Senior All Star team represents five area high schools including Episcopal High School, Lamar High School, St. John's School, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory School, and Westside High School.
West U baseball fan Joni Hruska Fichter said that the team dedicated their district, state and Southwest Championship to former coach Andrew Goldberg, who lost a battle with cancer 11 months ago. In an e-mail, Fichter suggested that Goldberg has become the youths' "Patron Saint of Baseball."
"They played their hearts out the entire season for the man they called Coach Goldy as he coached some of these boys from their start in Little League and assisted or managed every All-Star or Select Team from the time they were Pee Wees through last summer," Fichter wrote. "They each have their own way of honoring him and keeping his spirit alive…some have his name or a verse written on their cleats, some have his initials on the bill of their hat, and all carry him in their hearts all the time."
In a statement on the web-site, WULL president Greg Thompson "We could not be more proud and thankful that we have such a wonderful group of young men that are still excited to represent West University Little League and families that still encourage and enable them to do so."


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Leadership and Accountability
Leadership and Accountability
Executives, Boards, and Watchdogs
This chapter examines the internal and external actors who govern and police the actions of Christian nonprofits. These include nonprofit executives, governing boards, the Internal Revenue Service, and nonprofit watchdogs. Variations in internal governance structures are examined across different types of Christian nonprofits. The chapter concludes by analyzing the often controversial issue of executive compensation.
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It is a long standing belief that when oil prices are up the market is down, and vise versa.
Below we highlight the correlation of changes in the S&P 500 to changes in the price of oil, with oil prices plotted as well. Over the long term, since 1988, the correlation coefficient was positive 44% of the time, negative 56%, and averaged -0.05.