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Trading Post is a supercharged game of information gathering, haggling and building trust - an excellent icebreaker or conference interlude. The 'trading post' in question is the wild and lawless town of Dodge City in the 1860s - a time of great opportunity, and yet where disaster awaits the unwary and the ill-informed. The game takes place over 4 years. Each year commences with teams trading and ends with them returning to returning to their respective wagons for a payout on certain goods. Here families share knowledge. As the game progresses, teams develop relationships with other teams and share gained knowledge.
Possibly our most versatile activity, it can be played by 12 to 800 people during a conference, pre-dinner, or after dinner. It is particularly successful as an event that will break down barriers and unite groups while reinforcing the key principles of negotiating.
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A quick and clever activity where teams negotiate and trade to maximise their returns. Although this is a competitive exercise, the most successful teams are those that collaborate with others to build win-win outcomes while at the same time focussing on their own bottom line results. During a review process, winning strategies are shared and pertinent learnings are applied to the workplace.


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After months of wrenching upheaval in financial markets, the system hasn't self-destructed but it also hasn't stabilized.
What will it take?
With the nation now very likely in a recession, that's become an important question not just for bankers and policymakers, but for everyday workers and consumers.
Many signposts will mark the path forward, economists say, but they cite two crucial steps policymakers must make. First: Ensure that the current uncertainty about the value of houses is resolved, which will also help investors discover the now-uncertain value of mortgage-linked investments. Second: Prevent chaos from engulfing the financial system while that housing adjustment is taking place.
Unfortunately, the first step may take a while – many more months – and the second will continue to tax policymakers during that time.
Still, several recent signs are encouraging, including the apparent determination by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to move creatively and decisively when market jam-ups occur. He and his team are also lowering interest rates, including a move Tuesday that dropped the so-called federal funds rate from 3 percent to 2.25 percent.
"Bernanke's doing everything he can to end it," says Brian Horrigan, chief economist at Loomis Sayles, a Boston mutual fund manager. But "he can't miraculously change a bad asset to a good asset."
Experts differ widely on how far advanced the current financial crisis is. Some say it could last several more years, while others say the stock market may be near bottom now.
A sure indicator, Mr. Horrigan says, will be when "vultures" – aggressive, bottom-fishing investors – start moving in to buy investments that have tanked in the hands of others. In the current crisis, those investments include packages of debt that include subprime mortgages.
"That's how crises come to an end," Horrigan says. "Someone starts buying."
This is why home prices are so important. Buying of homes or of mortgage securities can best rebound on confidence that prices are near a bottom.
"The [economic] downturn was triggered by the bursting of a housing bubble," says Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning Washington think tank. "As long as home prices have a way to go, it's hard to see much light at the end of the tunnel."
He cites a forecast of home prices shared by a number of analysts: "Home prices are down 10 percent, and probably have another 10 percent to go. By that very simple measure, you could argue we are halfway through the tunnel."
A key question is if policy intervention will hasten the process – or prolong it.
The argument for intervention is that the market is in such chaos now that home prices could fall too far. A wave of foreclosures is adding to an already large inventory of homes for sale. And in a vicious cycle, the further home prices fall, the more people may default on their loans.
Some analysts say the end of the crisis will be near when Congress takes some new action to stem the foreclosure tide. This could be structured, supporters say, so that it is not a bailout for lenders or borrowers – and so that it allows home prices to fall to a new equilibrium.
"I like many aspects of this Barney Frank plan," Mr. Bernstein says, referring to a bill proposed by the US Democratic congressman from Massachusetts. "That's a potentially good way of accelerating price discovery," as well as preventing some foreclosures.
But others worry that intervention will only slow the housing market correction. "It would be a terrible idea for the government to intervene in the housing market," says Michael Cosgrove, who publishes the EconoClast newsletter in Dallas.
He says that financial markets have already processed much of the bad news. And he says that even if housing prices haven't bottomed out, by later this year "the economy can turn around."
Whether he's right or not, some recent signs are encouraging:
• The vultures are circling, and in some cases starting to buy. Wilbur Ross, a billionaire who has invested in ailing Rust Belt firms, has turned his attention to financial-sector opportunities. He moved this week to buy Option One, a mortgage division of H&R Block.
• Institutions are moving to raise capital as a cushion against potential losses. For example, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, enterprises that underwrite mortgage loans with government oversight, are close to such a step, according to a Reuters report. Their action would help ensure that home loans continue to be made during tough times.
• The collapse of the investment house Bear Stearns over the weekend is good news in one sense. The implosion – caused by a run by worried customers – signals that investors are moving to sift chaff from wheat. In this climate, bad home loans and other financial "toxic waste" will rise to the surface to be purged.
• The federal intervention Sunday to keep Bear Stearns out of bankruptcy is also good news, analysts say. It involved a forced merger of Bear into JPMorgan Chase, not a bailout. The action prevented wider chaos that could have rippled out to the many firms that deal with Bear – and the whole economy.
Some economists say the financial mess is big enough that it will require even more mop-up efforts by bank regulators at insolvent firms.
As the economy worsens, the bad-loan problems are spreading from mortgages to other forms of credit, for one thing.
The better the economy does, the smaller the cleanup.
In interviews Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson noted that rebate checks for taxpayers – part of an economic stimulus package – will arrive starting May 2. "We need to keep our capital markets stable, functioning well," Mr. Paulson told NBC.


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One Movie, 12 Directors/
By Shruti Ganguly
Collaborative features are in the air. Friday we glimpsed the end of auteur culture with Audrey Ewell's post on the documentary The 99 Percent Film. What happens though when the collaborative film is an omnibus narrative? Are twelve more auteurs born into the world?
How are we going to navigate this new future of team-based filmmaking? What are the Best Practices we have to put in place. Producer Shruti Ganguly shares some lessons she's learned from working on James Franco's latest concoction.
Collaboration is synonymous with filmmaking and one can often find quotations from filmmakers and writers regarding this aspect – David Mamet describes filmmaking "as a collaborative process. Bend over" while Coppola "[likes] to say that collaboration is the sex of art because you take from everyone you're working with." Often collaboration occurs between directors, producers and their creative heads, but what happens when one feature film is crafted together by 12 different directors, where characters overlap, stories integrate, and themes repeat? This opportunity arose in a Tisch 3rd-year Directing class that James Franco was teaching this fall. Each of the 12 students selected a poem to adapt from Tar, a collection of poetry by Pulitzer prize-winning poet, C.K. Williams, and then the short film scripts were brought together to create, Tar, the feature film.
As one of the producers on the project, I often describe Tar as the love child of Paris, Je T'aime (working with multiple directors on a common theme), I'm Not There (different impressions of the protagonist as seen through various stages in his life) with Tree of Life (our primary aesthetic reference), with the production schedule of TV – where directors worked with the same cast and crew, crafting 'episodes' or scenes.
Based on our experience, and given that we will be doing this class again in the spring, with new directors and new material (another Tisch 3rd-year Directing class), these are some of my takeaways when it comes to collaborating in this way:
Set the tone early on: Directors will have their own interpretations of similar material, and this of course, is what makes their own storytelling styles unique, but it is important that for projects that belong to a 'whole' that everyone agrees on a certain tone. This enables everyone to set off in the right direction from the first step. In the case of Tar, James, provided the students with visual and story references. The suggested viewing included Tree of Life, Hunger, Who's That Knocking at My Door, Au Hasard Balthazar and Stranger Than Paradise.
Be familiar with each other's material: In class and online, we provided feedback to each other regarding the treatments and the scripts. Not only was this input helpful to each director in his or her development process, it also allowed everyone to know the direction their peers were moving towards, and in turn, how their piece fit into the overall project. It is important to also have these discussions in person – that's when we could provide feedback in the best way, as opposed to our initial online conversations.
Establish themes: In the development process, resounding themes (visual, story and character) came up – from the protagonist's issues with women and mortality, American capitalism and destruction, to images of airplanes, windows, lips and masks. By discussing these together, directors were then conscious of how to incorporate these elements into their own stories.
Form an overall creative team: Instead of each piece having its own DP, producer, art department and so on, which would probably dissect the film further as well as become a bigger financial strain, we established a creative team that could aesthetically connect the films together. We had two DPs (also Tisch students) who each filmed 5-6 projects, one main production and costume design team, who established the worlds of the films (and in turn hired their crews for the projects) and two line producers who were assigned to each DP and their slate of films. On Tar, we had Team Pedro and Team Bruce named after the DPs and our classmates, Pedro Gomez Millan and Bruce Thierry Cheung, respectively. Each team ended up having its own way of functioning and scheduling, and given the very demanding actor and academic schedules, this allowed us to have a parallel and simultaneous shooting schedule. Essentially we shot most of Tar within two weeks, where each film has 2 full days of shooting.
Communicate: This is the most basic and important aspect of collaboration but it is still the hardest to follow. On Tar, we created a Google group, so questions and ideas were shared in a forum, encouraging people to be on the same page, and also be aware of general concerns. And even then, there tended to be some confusion at times. But at least together, answers were found.
Give each piece its independence: While being aware of the bigger picture, it is also important, especially for a project like this one, to allow each film to have its own breathing room – where something unique and special from the director's own style is upheld and celebrated. Else why have multiple directors craft a feature film? Now in the post-production process, each director is responsible for putting together his or her own film initially, and then we will have a supervising editor who will look at all the pieces together and connect them.
Set a timeline: It was important for certain deadlines to be met – whether it was turning in a new draft or providing feedback to finishing and viewing test shoots. (James asked each director to film and edit a complete test of their scripts, which we then viewed and critiqued. And this proved very helpful when it came to reworking scripts and stories). For the most part, the directors turned in their material and ideas in a timely way, which enabled us to move through the semester and consequently shoot the film when we had planned. Missing or not following deadlines could have proven detrimental to Tar, given that each piece was so closely related to one another.
Be flexible, embrace change: Coming off of our 2nd-year films, where we managed every single aspect of our short films, we found ourselves in situations we couldn't necessarily control – Shooting in a locations that worked within the budget better, to switching Day for Night, given an actor's availability, to cutting out entire scenes last minute if, in collaborating with the actors, we felt that a beat could be achieved within another scene. While this was also a new style of working for many, and at times frustrating, it also was liberating – to make the best of a situation, and then trust the performers to do the rest.
This class and film was an experiment. It was challenging as we were creating something in a way that had never been done before, especially within an academic system. But after wrapping principal photography, it has been infinitely rewarding and as we begin our post-production process, I am certain we will create a beautiful movie together – one that stars James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Michelle Williams, Henry Hopper, Zach Braff, and Bruce Campbell, filmed in and around Detroit, Michigan.
Shruti Ganguly is currently enrolled in NYU's dual-degree program in film production, where she will receive an M.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business, with a focus on Social Innovation and Entertainment/Media/Technology. Before starting at NYU, Shruti was a producer at NYLON Magazine, heading their TV department. Shruti continues to direct and produce music and fashion videos, while running an cinema advocacy group, EchoChamber, she co-founded with her producing partner Smriti Mundhra.


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Heh, it's like an ink blot test. What do YOU see?*
Thanks and belated birthday greetings go to Amy C., who suffers from having a birthday between Christmas and New Years. Like many kids growing up with such a birth date, she never had a birthday cake of her very own. So last week, after years of waiting for someone else to buy her a cake, she decided to go out and just get it herself. [standing and applauding] Plus, she ALSO bought this cake - with no intention of eating it - solely to share with us here on Cake Wrecks. Now that's a Wreckporter.
Amy, you just keep wreckin' on with your bad self. And thanks for the reminder that life's too darn short to not buy your own birthday cake. Live it up this year, my friend, and enjoy that cake.
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Champagne's culture clash lets the little guys sparkle
Thirst By Jon Bonné
Champagne's culture clash has gotten complicated.
Once, the balance of power sat with the big brands that dominate liquor store shelves and spend big dollars tapping, say, Karl Lagerfeld to finesse their aesthetics.
On the other side were little guys, usually grower-producers who made their own Champagnes in tiny quantities and rarely had more of a marketing budget than a sign on the side of their cellars.
A decade ago, the market for grower Champagnes, identified by the tiny "RM" in their official producer code, hovered around 1.6 percent of the Champagne sent to the United States. It's telling that growers now occupy nearly 4 percent of the overall market, according to the Champagne Bureau, with the sector growing 37 percent in just the past year.
"I have had, in the past two years, this strong sense that this battle is won. And it really is a strong destabilizing emotion for me," says importer Terry Theise, this country's most vocal advocate for small Champagne.
Destabilizing because, after years of lambasting Big Champagne for its industrial ways, Theise's message has sunk in. Now he speaks less of growers and more of "Champagnes with a point of view," a term I find very useful.
For it has become evident that if you're serious about Champagne in this country, you're focused on the little guys. Not that Champagne doesn't still telegraph status - the era of Jay-Z's Cristal-ization still lingers in mind - but big houses no longer dominate the conversation.
"With Champagne," Theise says. "I feel like we made our point."
It is a glorious time to be a Champagne lover. Even the large houses, which exported 15.6 million bottles to the United States last year, are taking a more serious tack after a foolhardy attempt to squeeze the market for the millennium, which was followed by a decade of boom and bust.
While they're hardly worrying about being drowned out by the little guys, suddenly they have to reconsider a centuries-long strategy of pimping brands as the only thing that matters.
Champagne as wine
I'd argue, then, that we've moved into a third wave of Champagne - beyond grower versus big house. At last we're starting to seriously evaluate Champagne as a wine.
The growers deserve credit for this. But don't discount the role of smaller houses like Jacquesson, Philipponnat or even tiny Diebolt-Vallois. While they grow much of their own fruit, family politics or pragmatism have prompted them to become negociants.
Champagne hounds now discuss the nuances terroir and winemaking in a way unheard of a decade ago. Consider the popularity of the southern Aube region. Long a second-class citizen in Champagne's hierarchy, it has become a laboratory for innovation. New producers like Cedric Bouchard and Dosnon & Lepage are crafting wines full of personality. (I'll look at the Aube in more detail next week.)
Similarly, tiny growers like Bereche & Fils in Ludes or Chartogne-Taillet in Merfy, two obscure corners of the Montagne de Reims, or Marie-Noelle Ledru and Jean Vesselle, in more prestigious towns like Ambonnay and Bouzy, turn out wines that frame a completely different side of Champagne.
Vesselle's Oeil de Perdrix, a salmon-colored wine that's not quite rosé, is an homage to the winemaking of the past. Alexandre Chartogne of Chartogne-Taillet now crafts most of his wines from individual vineyards and is experimenting with concrete eggs for fermentation.
And Champagne's innovators want to keep questioning the norms. Anselme Selosse, who more than anyone else may have reintroduced the concept of Champagne as a serious wine, has looked beyond his famed solera-like system of aging to unveil a series of single-vintage, single-village bottles. (See the video at sfg.ly/skNs0B.)
Small-scale terroir
Small-scale terroir is suddenly a factor in a region that long prided itself on the commodity nature of its grape trade. If it once was a side note, used mostly to advance high-dollar bottles like Krug's Clos de Mesnil or Salon, a sense of place is now visible in wines from producers like Leclerc Briant or Vouette & Sorbee. It's no surprise both are farming biodynamically, as was Selosse.
But the biggest change from a decade ago is that what you might call influencers - top sommeliers and retail buyers - are only marginally focused on the grandes marques of yore. It is virtually impossible to create a serious wine list without including small producers.
This isn't to dismiss momentous big-house wines like Bollinger's Grand Année or Pol Roger's Cuvee Winston Churchill, bottles made with extraordinary finesse. But the economics of prestige have their limits.
And it's hard to maintain prestige at the table when Dom Perignon also shows up at Costco. For $140 per bottle, you could nearly have two bottles of Grand Cellier d'Or from Laurent Champs' Vilmart, essentially the Krug of the grower set. Meantime Krug's Clos d'Ambonnay, at around $2,600 per bottle, is less a highlight of Ambonnay's terroir than Krug's ambition.
Even among larger houses, there are signals that place matters. Louis Roederer's wines have grown more finessed as the historic Reims house has taken control of most of its own vineyard sources. Duval-Leroy's vintage Clos des Bouveries highlights Chardonnay from a single parcel in Vertus. At around $65, it's a compromise between largesse and small-scale focus.
That said, there are limits to artisanship in an industry that has long chosen image over substance.
"I see a risk in splitting the production of Champagne in little pieces," Richard Geoffroy, chef de cave for Moet & Chandon's Dom Perignon, told me last year. "What would be good for Burgundy wouldn't be good for Champagne."
Farming, dosage
Yet even Geoffroy was willing to speak in more detail about Dom's raw materials - Chardonnay from Mesnil, powerful Pinot Noir from Ay. Better farming, he acknowledged, would allow Moet to become "more precise in the understanding of the terroirs of Champagne."
And Moet winemaker Benoit Gouez detailed this year how the house, which makes some 30 million bottles each year, was quietly reducing the dosage (added sugar) used to finish its Champagnes, making them crisper and more refined.
In the past five years, this push for nuance has become a bright line between Champenois who are truly serious about their wines, and those who just hope to sell a beverage. And a showdown over dosage is likely to come in the forthcoming wines based on the ripe 2009 vintage; too much sugar will be a fail.
Indeed, vintage matters more than ever - even for nonvintage bottles - which is why more producers are adding disgorgement dates to their bottles so customers can identify a wine's age.
These dates clash with a key assertion of big-time Champagne: that nonvintage wines never change. In a dramatic reversal, Krug recently announced that it would place disgorgement dates on its nonvintage Grand Cuvee.
What comes next? More wines like Jacquesson's new single-vineyard line, which highlights parcels like Corne Bautray in Dizy. (If only it were more reasonably priced.) More young winemakers like Jerome Prevost, inspired by Selosse and showcasing the beauty of often overlooked Pinot Meunier from his site in Gueux.
In short, we are witnessing a definitive split between the old Champagne, governed by habit and fear of change, and the new Champagne, which hinges on the quest for authenticity. This new Champagne may never be in the majority, but it's increasingly dominating the conversation.
The result is a diversity of Champagne like we've never seen.
A mixed case: 9 Champagnes from little guys ...
2004 Agrapart & Fils Mineral Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Extra Brut Champagne ($65, 12% alcohol): While this Avize house's nonvintage efforts seem to be getting sweeter, here's where it shows the austere, long-lived potential of Chardonnay grown on limestone. Like Chablis with bubbles, it's got bracing seashell and lemon pith aromas, with richer accents of macadamia nut and Vietnamese coffee that give extra richness. Keep an eye out for the new labels. (Importer: Beaune Imports)
NV Chartogne-Taillet Cuvee Sainte Anne Brut Champagne ($48, 12%): Chartogne's opulent wines keep gaining precision. While the latest release of this blend of several parcels, based on the 2007 vintage (disgorged in 2011) retains the same toasty, Chardonnay-driven richness, it's got great mineral focus. Here's the bottle to bridge the gap between fans of richer and leaner styles. (Importer: Terry Theise/Michael Skurnik Wines)
NV Bérèche et Fils Brut Reserve Champagne ($42, 12%): Pierre Bereche and his sons are showing the brilliance of great farming in Ludes, one of those quiet corners outside Reims. Their wines, with the added complexity of aging on cork, are rambunctious and savory. This opens with the aromas of a hippie bakery - the earthiness of levain. Green walnut, lilac, apricot and cranberry fruit round out its exotic side, as does a coppery mineral tang. (Importer: Valley View Wine Sales)
NV Diebolt-Vallois Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne ($56, 12.5%): Diebolt-Vallois is one of those little treasures of Champagne, a tiny house in Cramant that frames the amazing depth of Cote des Blancs Chardonnay. Luxurious, with classic hazelnut and brioche that complements apple fruit and a figgy richness. But Diebolt always shows a mineral precision to balance its opulence. That's where the Chardonnay mastery comes in. (Importer: Martine's Wines)
NV Gonet-Medeville Tradition Brut Premier Cru Champagne ($55, 12%): A rising-star partnership of husband-and-wife team Xavier Gonet (a Champagne scion) and Julie Medeville (of Sauternes' Chateau Gillette). With holdings in several areas, they're creating serious, dramatic wines. From a mix of Bisseuil, Trepail, Mareuil and Le Mesnil fruit, this opens with a chalky bite and low dosage (7 grams/liter). Smoky stone, tangerine, pear and key lime, with tart berry and watermelon accents and a dense, precise profile. Just the thing for oysters. Disgorged Sept. 2010. (Importer: Martine's Wines)
NV Jean Laurent Brut Rosé Champagne ($58, 12%): Laurent works in the south, in the Aube village of Celles-sur-Ource. This is Pinot Noir territory, and distinct flavors of raspberry, woodruff syrup and orange define this wine. Amid the ripe fruit, accents of wintergreen, bread dough, rye spice and chalk help round it out. This is muscular, fulfilling rosé Champagne. Disgorged May 2011. (Importer: Handpicked Selections)
NV Leclerc Briant La Ravinne Blanc de Noirs Brut Champagne ($40, 12%): This biodynamic house in Epernay specializes in single-parcel expressions, and the Ravinne goes even further: one grape - Pinot Meunier - from one site in Verneuil. It's fresh and heathery, with wild strawberry and orange peel. An initial austerity gives way to warm toast, sweet soy and chalk, with tremendous freshness. Expressive and a perfect start for a meal. (Importer: K&L Wine Merchants/Premier Wine Co.)
NV A. Margaine Extra Brut Champagne ($63, 12%): Margaine's wines show the steely side of Chardonnay in the more Pinot-dominant Montagne de Reims. From an old parcel in Villers-Marmery and based on the 2006 vintage, this is frothy and precise, with a lemon bite but enough ripe fruit flavors that the low dosage feels apropos. Disgorged July 2011. (Importer: Terry Theise/Michael Skurnik Wines)
NV Jean Vesselle Oeil de Perdrix Brut Champagne ($56, 12%): Delphine Vesselle has a way with the pure power of Bouzy Pinot Noir, and the Perdrix is her tribute to Champagnes of yore. It's not rosé; the name ("eye of the partridge") refers to that salmon tint of barely macerated Pinot. This is steely and leafy, with nectarine, persimmon and cranberry, wheat thin and fresh mint. It's a masterful framing of Pinot flavors, dense and complex. (Importer: North Berkeley Imports)
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NV Bollinger Special Cuvee Brut Champagne ($60, 12% alcohol): Give credit where credit is due. This Ay house has always been about muscle and drama; it's no surprise the "Ab Fab" girls couldn't resist. While Bolly still brings the muscle, this latest take is more precise and trim. More Daniel Craig than Roger Moore. A lot of almond and pastry from the time on yeast but also big, powerful Pinot Noir fruit - cherries, tangerine, chalk. (Importer: Terlato Wines International)
2005 Duval-Leroy Clos des Bouveries Brut Champagne ($65, 12.5%): Duval-Leroy is based in Vertus, on the Cote des Blancs, and their tribute to Vertus Chardonnay is impressively focused. A chalky edge gives depth to cranberry, dried currant, lemon rind and mineral flavors. In a vintage that has shown itself to be exceedingly tricky, here's a familiar name making a commitment to showing off its terroir - although D-L's impeccably balanced nonvintage brut ($35, 12%) is a lemon-accented winner, too. (Importer: Duval-Leroy Imports)
2006 Louis Roederer Brut Rosé Champagne ($70, 12%): Reims' Roederer has a style that often seems a bit shy, but it shines once you look past that subtlety. Based mostly on Pinot Noir from Cumieres with grand cru Chardonnay for the rest, this brims with a seamless mix of ripe tree fruit and deep black cherry flavors. Even with the ripe vintage, a pitch-perfect acidity will help this improve over the next seven or eight years. (Importer: Maisons Marques & Domaines)
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The Dodgers have bullpen problems and hitting with runners in scoring position problems and health in the rotation problems.
And one other little thing: They're a lousy defensive team.
This defensive trouble might come as a surprise. All three outfielders have won gold gloves. Adrian Gonzalez has won three at first base. Mark Ellis is superior at second base.
Yet 40 games into the season, there can't be any denying the Dodgers are having trouble consistently fielding the ball.
Only three teams in baseball have committed more than the Didgers' 30 errors. The Diamondbacks have committed only 12.
And it's not like any individual is responsible, like Dee Gordon has been playing shortstop all season and leading the league in errors.
The Dodgers with the most errors are actually Gonzalez and Kemp (four each).
Kemp and Carl Crawford have been particularly unpredictable in the outfield, capable of a dazzling play one moment and a miscue the next. Kemp hasn't reverted to his 2010 struggles, but his jumps and lines on balls have been highly inconsistent, as have Crawford's.
With Ellis still out at second, the Dodgers have been using Nick Punto and Skip Schumaker, both of whom have been reasonably effective. Still, the defense on the right side of the infield will take a step up when the reliable Ellis returns from his quad strain.
The left side of the infield started the year with Justin Sellers at shortstop in place of the injured Hanley Ramirez, specifically because of Sellers' strong glove. But he hit so poorly (.191) that when Ramirez was injured again the Dodgers went back to Gordon, who last year had 18 errors in only 79 games at shortstop.
And of course it's not just the errors, but the plays the defense makes and and the balls it gets to. It's Gordon dropping a double-play ball and getting only one out. It's Jordan Schafer's little blooper falling amongst Crawford, Kemp and Gordon on Friday night. It's bad jumps leading to singles, bad lines on balls leading to extra bases.
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A federal bankruptcy judge issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Dr. Arnold Klein in connection with an extravagant collection of artwork missing from the cosmetic dermatologist's oceanfront Laguna Beach house, which was sold last week for $7.1 million.
The warrant said the doctor, who filed for bankruptcy protection two years ago, failed to turn over the art from homes in Laguna and Palm Springs as required in the bankruptcy case. Klein also did not deliver a Ferrari 360 Spyder with the license plate "Got BTOX" that he had been ordered to take to an auto dealer in Newport Beach, the warrant alleged.
Klein's art collection includes two works by Pablo Picasso as well as by Claes Oldenburg and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which all had been in the Laguna Beach house, according to documents in the bankruptcy case. He also owned works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney, according to court records.
In issuing the arrest warrant, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Richard M. Neiter found Klein to be in contempt of court.
Klein's celebrity patients have included pop star Michael Jackson and actress Elizabeth Taylor. His home on Coast Highway in South Laguna sold as part of the bankruptcy case.
Klein filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2011. He listed $30.5 million in assets against $6.8 million in liabilities. He said he earned $2.5 million annually in each of the three preceding years from his medical practice.
Dubbed "the father of Botox," Klein helped develop a technique for injecting the wrinkle smoother and is credited with pioneering the procedure for lip augmentation in the early 1980s. His association with Michael Jackson has been the subject of numerous news and television reports. Klein's one-time nurse Debbie Rowe is the mother of Jackson's children, Prince and Paris.
A January 2012 report in the Los Angeles Times chronicled Klein's troubles in recent years, including a medical board investigation, lawsuits, poor health and the bankruptcy. In addition to the homes in Laguna and Palm Springs, the story said Klein had a $9 million house in Los Angeles.
His contemporary 3,572-square-foot house in Laguna Beach was listed at $12 million two years ago – far more than its recent sale for $7.1 million. The three-bedroom home has floor-to-ceiling views of the Pacific Ocean, including one from the shower in the master bathroom.
The top floor of the house is dedicated to the master bedroom suite, which includes a living area, solarium, a double-sided fireplace and built-in multi-media center. The kitchen is equipped with a Wolf stove, Sub-Zero refrigerator and dual ovens. The house has a wine cellar, gym and outdoor spa, along with direct access to the beach.
A listing once described the home as "designed for entertaining on a regal scale with uncompromising views and the highest levels of privacy." At street level, only a motor court with two garage doors can be seen beyond the property's gate.
The house was sold as part of the bankruptcy proceedings, according to Gregory Bingham of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, who co-listed the home with David McCulloch of the same firm. The buyer's agent was Sharon Katouli of Teles Properties.
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There's nothing more thrilling than expecting your first child. However, a new baby comes with a series of responsibilities - ensuring you have the proper clothing, furnishings and other necessities to keep your child happy and healthy.
One room you'll need to focus on adjusting for the sake of your child is his or her bedroom. Whether you have a nursery dedicated to the infant or you need to renovate an existing room, there are a few ways you can make sure the area is warm and inviting. Radiant floor heating, a cozy crib and changing table can all improve the comfort level of a nursery. Here are some additional tips on how enhance the decor and overall environment of your baby's space.
1. Make warmth a priority.
You don't want your baby to cry while his in her crib due to a lack of warmth! This means more work for you and less comfort for the entire family. Consider installing a floor heating system to ensure you and your little one never have to worry about catching a chill. Furthermore, this can keep you from dreading having to walk on cold floors in the middle of the night to take care of your baby.
2. Go neutral.
Whether you want to learn the gender of your baby ahead of time or you simply want to make the design process easier, Homedit.com recommends going neutral with your color choices. Beige, eggshell and chocolate brown can all make it easier to shop for furnishings and decor. Furthermore, they can create an elegant look with little effort. Choosing to go neutral can also prevent you from having to change the design drastically once your infant grows over time.
3. Keep it playful.
There's no better place for you to bring out your inner child than in your baby's nursery. Parents magazine recommends going playful with your decor to make the space beautiful as well as enjoyable for your little one. Consider picking a theme such as zoo animals or ocean creatures to make the room fun to design. Experiment with different textures and patterns to add visual interest to the space.
While it can be stressful to design a nursery if you've never done so before, taking these tips into account can make the process simpler. In the end, you'll forget that you're working on a project and feel more like you're expanding upon your design dreams.
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The annual HRE Wheels Open House has grown into one of the biggest supercar and sports car gatherings in Southern California. This year's event attracted over 500 cars ranging from Audi S4s to Bugatti Veyrons and over 1000 attendees from all over California and beyond. The HRE gathering is unique in that it isn't just about European supercars. Car fans from every different sub-culture come together to appreciate the car hobby and enjoy the automobile.
Every year HRE opens up its Vista, California-based headquarters to give its customers and fans an opportunity to learn about the forged wheel making process and see some of the most exotic cars in the world equipped with HRE's forged rollers. This year's marquee vehicle was a car that most consider to be one of coolest supercars ever built, the Ferrari F40. This particular F40 was rebuilt for Discovery Channel's Fast n' Loud TV show. Gas Monkey Garage teamed up with HRE to create a custom set of center locking C105 wheels for the car.
The front parking lot looked like something out of a kid's bedroom poster with every new model of Ferrari, a variety of Lamborghinis and even the "ChromeHearts" RAUH-Welt Begriff Porsche with a chrome wrap brought out by the folks from eGarage lining the lot.
HRE's latest Monoblok design, the Series P1 (a one piece version of its popular S1 three piece wheel), was previewed at the event and mounted on Lamborghini's gorgeous Aventador. Visitors also had a chance to check out a variety of vendors including Akrapovic, KW Suspension, Bilstein, Accuair, Falken Tire, Brembo, and Cobb as well as other HRE industry partners and local car dealerships.
"California is the epicenter of car culture and we're thrilled about how the turnout has grown over the past two years," said HRE President Alan Peltier. "The caliber of cars that came out on Saturday was impressive and it's a lot of fun for us to put on. We can't wait until next year."
The HRE prize raffle where fans had a chance to win a set of wheels from its new affordable FlowForm cast wheel line to a custom set of HRE's forged wheels and Falken Tires of their choosing. All proceeds from the raffle went to fund the Motor4Toys holiday charity event taking place in December.
The HRE Wheels Open House is truly a statement that the automotive industry and aftermarket car culture are alive and well in SoCal.
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A big thank you to everyone for coming to our second general staff meeting of the semester!
Incase you missed it, we gave away three t-shirts, two gift cards, and a pair of tix to 311! And don't worry, we have four more pairs that will be distributed throughout the week. Tune in and mention the give-away on our Facebook for a change to win!
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Letter, Thomas H. Webb to M. F. Conway
Author: Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins), 1801-1866
Date: May 15, 1858
Thomas H. Webb, secretary of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, wrote from Boston, Massachusetts to Martin F. Conway, general agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company in Kansas Territory. Webb expressed satisfaction that Conway appeared to be putting the company's affairs in Kansas Territory in order. But he described his "melancholy" over the poor management of the Company's business interests in the past.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: New England Emigrant Aid Company Collection, #624, Box 2, Folder 2
Item Number: 101379 Number of images: 4
Keywords: Conway, Martin Franklin; Emigrant aid companies; Mills and mill-work; New England Emigrant Aid Company; Webb, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1801-1866
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Imagine opening your wardrobe and knowing that you could wear anything you see in there. Forget your weekly rotation of "comfortable" outfits—now that you've gotten back to your original measurements, you can wear whatever you want! And the best part is you made this change in just 21 days! That's what we want for you. Here, we're even giving you a special discount to help you out:
Imagine for a moment what would happen if you went over to your wardrobe right now and changed into your favorite swimsuit. Imagine standing in front of your mirror and asking yourself, "Would I feel comfortable going to the beach like this?"
At this point, most people would say, "HAHA, NOPE!"!
We've all been guilty of it at some point—too much eating out, a few extra drinks here and there, taking time away from working out to "get my schedule under control"…
And suddenly there's an extra 5-7 kg that aren't supposed to be there!
This is the real reason why most women only wear 30% of their clothes: they're wearing the clothes they bought at their heaviest. No judging, we've all been there.
And MOST people have to suffer the pain and embarrassment of trying to pick out new clothes at the sizes they remember wearing before, only to make the ugly discovery that those numbers no longer apply to them.
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It's more profitable for the diet pill industry for you to "yo-yo" diet on their products without making a lasting change. It's more profitable for clothing stores if your sizes keep changing and you have to buy more clothes, even when you're happy with the ones you have already.
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When I came to Fit Body Boot Camp I lost over 20 pounds in 7 weeks for my wedding. I ended up losing a total of over twenty inches (6 inches in my waist) and my dress had to be taken in 4 times. I am glad I went to the Fit Body Boot Camp.
A year ago I said I wanted to wear a bikini again. I never would have imagined that I would get here with two small kids and a full-time job. Now I sleep better and have more energy too.
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Fit Body Boot Camp offers workout sessions throughout the week in the morning before work and school hours and in the evening after work and school hours. So we've got a workout time that will fit your schedule! And since the workouts are only 30 minutes long, you can be in and out in no time.
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Why use sync in your mobile app at all? You've got a lot on your plate already, from user experience to marketing. Why spend time to add another library to your app? The short answer: sync provides access to distributed data without the customary burden of network programming at every step of the way. If your application is making network calls to get and save user data, using a sync library like Couchbase Lite may cut down on your development time and frustration, while giving additional benefits like a snappier, more reliable user interface.
Sync means different things to different people. Probably the most widely known sync system is the Dropbox cloud service, which is used to synchronize and share files across many computers. As long as you have enough space to keep up with your Dropbox, it's a great way to share files with a team.
The difference between sync and ordinary cloud data storage, is that sync proactively brings data to the device, whereas cloud storage is typically accessed on a request-by-request basis. In Dropbox, you can edit and create new files, even when you are offline. When you reconnect any changes you made will sync to the cloud, and any new files will download. This means the user (and the application programmer) never have to worry about the current status of the network connection.
With database sync (like Couchbase Lite), mobile application developers can depend on having structured data available locally, rather than having to make individual network requests triggered by each user input action. So developers can focus on business logic, not network APIs.
The prime benefit of sync is this abstraction over the network layer, letting application developers interact with data regardless of network connection status. If this is the big benefit, what kind of apps should use sync?
* When user data (written content, drawings, game data, etc) needs to be available across devices and operating systems, with a minimum of server side coding.
* Users want to edit data when they are disconnected, and reconcile it with the system of record when they reconnect. (Airline pilots, resource extraction, delivery, health-care, etc.)
* Applications with complex data types (and simple data flows). If you're doing a turn-based word game with integrated messaging and a bunch of in-game analytics, sync can simplify things. Hope to have an example app for this use case soon.
* Content delivery like magazines etc. If you are delivering something like an HTML5 interactive magazine, sync can make it easy to add interactive content.
If you build apps like this and want to use sync, you need to ask yourself one question: "Can I predict which data matters for each user?"
Some apps it's pretty easy: in a game app, it's state of the games you are in, and user profile data for your opponents; in photo sharing, it's the recent photos from each of your friends; for a pilot, it's the data about today's flights.
Other apps are harder to tell: an existing web app already using a relational database will take more work to get sync-ready, than an app already using JSON document storage. Or if your app has to run complex backend logic to validate each request, it might not be as easy to enable sync. Similarly, sync won't help for a user's initial search query on a topic… but if your app features saved searches, sync may be a good way to incrementally update result sets.
There is a big community using Couchbase sync technology. Join our mailing list to get to know us, or try this tutorial if you are ready to get started.


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Windows Registry XML
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Currently DFXML uses the RegXML standard to represent Registry entries.
See Also
There are several open source programs that use XML to represent the Windows Registry:
- registryasxml is a Windows GUI program that exports and imports section of the Windows Registry as XML-foramtted files.
- RegXML is also a Windows command-line utility that exports sections of the Windows Registry as XML-formatted files.
- hivexml is a command-line utility that is part of Red Hat's libguestfs that converts Registry hives to XML.
- Tracking Computer Use with the Windows® Registry Dataset, Doug White, NIST.
- The complete set of code and and a WiReD XML difference set for steganographic applications.
There is one commercial program that we have found:
- ComponentSource has a $195 .NET too that allows management, importing and exporting of the registry via XML.


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This is a very well designed, high quality new combat knife from Jesper Voxnaes and Boker. It's constructed from one solid piece of N690BO stainless steel with a beautiful stonewashed finish. The handle is contoured canvas Micarta with holes drilled through it allowing for the knife to be easily attached to a stick for a homemade spear. The clip point blade is an excellent tactical design that can also be pressed into hunting tasks with ease. Part of what makes a good fixed blade knife is having a good sheath and that's definitely the case for the Boker JTN. The black leather sheath is extremely well made, visually appealing, and durable. It's got a pouch on the front for extra survival gear and has Velcro and button attachments on the belt loop so the sheath can be put on and removed without having to undo your belt. A very nice knife from Boker that's built like a tank and available at www.knifecenter.com.
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Hi... I was not sure if something like the "Treasurer - Good Practices" is useful or not. Our pack has been doing well (though with an out-of-town treasurer), but we are going through troop issues with the treasurer. It caused me to think about what we've been doing and what needs improvement. Anyway, I'm not sure MeritBadge.Com is looking for articles such as "Treasurer - Good Practices". if you could let me know, that would guide whether I add or prune. :) User:PHilpisch Peter
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Heart of Hospice is starting a second Hood River bereavement group for adults. Grief support groups are often portrayed as being depressing, boring, or too much to bear. If that was what a support group was always like, however, few would stay very long. The truth is, support groups can be dynamic, supportive, and informative. Heart of Hospice offers three bereavement groups for adults. Two are in Hood River: an ongoing group held Tuesday mornings at Down Manor. A second group is held at the Springs at Mill Creek Monday afternoons in The Dalles. These grief support groups are open to all adult members in the community who are grieving the death of a loved one. Even if the participant's loved one was not served by Heart of Hospice, they are welcome to the support of this service. These weekly groups are led by Deb Lambo, MA, LMHC, a trained geriatric mental health specialist and director of bereavement services for Heart of Hospice. Bereavement support brings various people together who have had the common experience of loss. "Grief groups need not be depressing," Lambo said. "Participants can share with others their situation, feelings, memories, or concerns, and have them received and validated in a safe way. This helps individuals to realize not only that they are not alone, but there are ways through the pain and sorrow. " As a trained facilitator, Lambo assures that emotional safety is maintained, makes sure all attendees have enough time to speak if desired, and offers support. She also provides information regarding the grief process and other suggestions or resources to help group members with what they are experiencing. Times and locations: Mondays: 4 to 6 p.m., The Springs at Mill Creek, 1201 W. 10th St., The Dalles Tuesdays: 10 a.m. to noon, Down Manor, fourth floor, 1950 Sterling Place, Hood River.
Call Heart of Hospice at 541-386-1942 or 1-888-882-1942 for further information and locations.
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Bessemer City Middle eighth-grader Tobie Tate counted the number of tire rotations as a robot moved across the practice mat.
Bessemer City Middle eighth-grader Tobie Tate counted the number of tire rotations as a robot moved across the practice mat.
He and his Roaring Robotics Tigers teammates have to get the measurements just right so the robot can complete its missions of maneuvering and moving objects before the upcoming countywide robotics competition.
Last year, seven elementary schools had 12 robotics teams competing. This year, all elementary and middle schools have at least one team after the school system expanded the program.
The theme of this year�s robotics competition is senior living. Teams like the Roaring Robotics Tigers built a robot and researched how technology and robotics can improve the lives of the elderly.
The team took part in a summer camp to get acclimated with how to build a robot and use computer programming to tell it how to move.
The seven-member team is made up of Tate, eighth-graders Alec Greene, Chad Owensby, Jaydan Hush and Emily Pasour and seventh-graders Brandon Parker and Jakob Moss. They�ve been working hard to get ready for the upcoming RoboGaston competition where every middle and elementary school team will compete against each other.
Learning about robotics teaches students a lot of 21st century skills, said science teacher and robotics coach Becky Armburger. Students have to use a lot of math to calculate the computer programs. They also have to work as a team to create the robot, skit and presentation.
The senior living competition requires students to program the robot to do missions like move medicine, lifting weights and knocking over pins in bowling. All of the missions are things that a robot might be able to do to make life easier for the elderly.
The robot runs on batteries. A computer software program enables students to program the robot to move forward and backward, make turns and raise or lower any attachments.
The trial and error to get the robot to operate around the practice course has been the most challenging, Tate said. That�s because sometimes the measurements come close to the thousandths of a decimal.
The Roaring Robotics Tigers are putting the final touches on the presentation about �Holotek,� a kind of hologram that could be like a life-size butler to older people making meals, administer medicine and help with other special needs.
As the students ran through their presentation, science instructional specialist Tammy Mims jumped in with a hint.
�You need to have your presentation in your hand,� Mims said.
The team might not have the option of plugging in a laptop or some aspect of the digital presentation might not work at the RoboGaston competition, she said, so they need to have a back up plan.
The students will be facing off with some top notch Gaston County teams. Both Catawba Heights Elementary and Cramerton Middle were state finalists this year.
But the Roaring Robotics Team is feeling nervous, but self-assured about their chances going into the competition.
�(We feel) confident,� Tate said. We just know that we still have a lot to accomplish before we go,� Tate said.
You can reach reporter Amanda Memrick at 704-869-1839 or follow @AmandaMemrick on Twitter.
Want to go? RoboGASTON 2013 robotics competition with student teams from all elementary and middle schools will be held from 8:30 am. to 2:30 p.m. March 2 at East Gaston High, 1744 Lane Road, Mount Holly.


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Joseph partially stomped Lichtensteiger while he was on the ground, and it could have been worse if the better part of discretion didn't get to him as he was coming down with his foot. Joseph was penalized 15 yards, but that was mitigated by an offsetting penalty on the Redskins later in the fracas.
Joseph told USA Today after the game that Montgomery "kicked me in the nuts."
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Dr. Hospers (left) was born on June 9, 1918 in the historically rich town of Pella, Iowa, and after studying at Pella's Central College, earned advanced degrees from the University of Iowa and Columbia University, including a doctoral degree in philosophy. He conducted research in the fields of aesthetics, ethics, and other areas of philosophical inquiry, and he taught philosophy at Brooklyn College in New York and at California State University, Los Angeles, where for many years, he was chairman of the philosophy department. His doctoral dissertation, "Meaning and Truth in the Arts," became his first published book, which remained in print for 40 years, and his second book, Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, went through four editions and is still in print. This was followed by his book on ethics, Human Conduct, still in wide use, along with a considerable assortment of articles on aesthetics and epistemology (the study of knowledge) in various journals and anthologies.
In Dr. Hospers' earlier years, many in the nation as well as his own family saw governmet as an interference with freedom and prosperity. He remembered his grandmother voting regularly for the Democratic candidate while his great-grandmother (who lived to be more than 100) voted for the Republican candidate. One of his earliest political memories was of two of his uncles remarking on the Roosevelt landslide of 1936, "This will be the end of freedom in America."
While he taught at Brooklyn College, Hospers became involved in the then-nascent libertarian movement; then in 1960 he became acquainted with Ayn Rand, and began to meet with her at regular intervals to discuss various aspects of philosophy and world affairs. Hospers commented that Rand's magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, first opened his eyes to libertarian political thought, and he fondly recalled his first meeting with its author:
Aesthetically we were very much on the same wavelength, and my detailed praises, with the reasons for them, clearly pleased her enormously. I described to her the deepening sense of mystery as one gets into the book; and how well she revealed some details while withholding others. I described her way of dropping a hint in an early page, then picking up on it some hundreds of pages later. All this was obviously well known to her, the author, but she kept urging me to keep on. Above all, I admired the dramatic speeches, each spoken in the context of rising action and at the place where it wielded the maximum dramatic potency.
She told me to read Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson — which I did, within a few days — and she introduced me to Ludwig Von Mises, giving me copies of Socialism and Bureaucracy — uninsurable.
Rand and Hospers, however, would eventually separate over philosophical differences. According to Rand's biographer Barbara Branden, the two disagreed over issues of epistemology, and Rand broke with Hospers after he criticized her Harvard talk on "Art as Sense of Life" before the American Society of Aesthetics.
In 1968 Hospers became chairman of the philosophy department at CSU-Los Angeles, and in 1972 he was asked to run as the first presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, with Theodora "Tonie" Nathan as his running mate. While they received little more than 8,000 votes, their run served to establish the Libertarian Party, which would become the largest third party in the United States. Around the same time, he published his political credo, Libertarianism —A Political Philosophy for Tomorrow, and became editor of several publications — including Liberty magazine, The Monist, and The Personalist — which have long served the liberty movement and have been pivotal in the spread of free market, pro-freedom concepts.
Hospers' love of country and freedom is evident in the many issues he addressed in his voluminous writings; in several cases, however, his expressed opinions put him at odds with the bulk of the mainstream libertarian movement. Concerned with the tragic consequences of unrestrained illegal immigration from Mexico as well as Central America and elsewhere in recent years, he published in 1998 a principled, insightful, and utterly damning critique of the pro-open borders mentality espoused by many in the libertarian movement. In "Libertarian Arguments Against Open Borders," he refuted the view that humans have the unmitigated right to enter other nations at will:
The main obstacle that confronts the "open borders" policy is that many people enter the United States in order to collect the free benefits that it has to offer. When the new immigrants become a majority of the American population, will there be more, or less, devotion than there is now to the ideals of individual rights and limited government? Will the bureaucracy that is so corrupt in Mexico be any less so when it has migrated north of the border? Will there be less of a tendency than now to "live off the government"? Will the new immigrants help to stem the tide of taxes and regulations that now bid fair to bring the American republic to its knees? Shall the future of America rest on so slender a reed as this?
Also placing himself at odds with most libertarians, Hospers, near the end of his life, wrote extensively against the construction of a mosque at Ground Zero in New York City. He labeled it an affront against the culture and basic beliefs of Americans as a people, and warned that "it could provide the nails in the coffin of America, because it will inspire further attacks." He also eloquently stated that "[W]e, as free people, must first take our country back from the treachery of a purposefully planned diabolical national debt and an increasingly power-mad dictatorship metastasizing from Washington like a political cancer."
Hospers wrote passionately on the inherent dangers of democracy (rule by majority), defending the virtues of American republicanism (rule by law) and warning that democracy is alien to the principles of our Founders:
Democracy is simply government by the majority of a collective (or the majority of the representatives the voters have voted for). Their decisions may not accord with the needs or wishes of you as a individual at all. To the extent that they exert coercive power over your life, you are being governed by others.
Hospers eventually left the Libertarian Party, and became instrumental in forming the Republican Liberty Caucus, serving as a member of the organization's advisory board until his death — three days after his 93rd birthday. In 2002, an hour-long video about Hospers' life, work, and philosophy was released by the Liberty Fund of Indianapolis as part of its Classics of Liberty series.
Professor John Hospers will be remembered for his many philosophical and political contributions to the freedom movement, as well as for his undying devotion to the principles of constitutional government, the free market, and republicanism. America has lost one of her devoted sons — a true intellectual, patriot, and champion of liberty.


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