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Some philosophers, faced with the difficulty of making true statements about the world, have concluded that truth is a matter of logical coherence rather than correspondence with the facts. Soros rejects this solution. He adopts what might be called a loose version of the correspondence theory of truth: reality does in the end impose some limit on what can be truthfully believed, but there is plenty of play for "reflexivity," or interaction between subject and object, and therefore for the gestation and persistence of false beliefs. Because reflexivity is a fact, our knowledge of the social world is inherently fallible: all our beliefs about what will happen are contingent on their impact on people's minds and behavior. Soros's epistemology clearly has some resemblance to pragmatism, the doctrine that what is true is what works—if only for a time. A more direct influence is Karl Popper. Popper did not believe that hypotheses could be verified by the facts, but he did think they could be falsified by them. Soros's concept of "fertile fallacies," which are only subject to correction after the fact, is very much in the Popperian mold.
Soros claims that in his concepts of reflexivity and fallibility are to be found the clues to much of what "goes wrong" in human affairs. Flawed thinking, precisely because it cannot be readily corrected, can take on the character of self-fulfilling prophecy. Only abject failure—a collapse in the market—reveals the character of the flaw. Trend-following behavior explains how prices of shares and currencies can deviate for long periods from their "fundamental" values. Soros writes: "In my days of actively managing money, I used to get particularly excited when I picked up the scent of an initially self-reinforcing but eventually self-defeating thesis. My mouth would water as if I were one of Pavlov's dogs." Soros attributes his success to his private understanding that all his hypotheses were flawed. "I liked to invest in flawed hypotheses that had a chance of becoming generally accepted, provided I knew their flaws. This approach allowed me to sell in time."
Social and political life, no less than financial trading, is riddled with flawed hypotheses that persist long past the time when reality should have shown them up to be fraudulent. Social science, he writes, is a compendium of flawed thinking disguised as scientific understanding. "In social, political, and economic matters, theories can be effective without being valid. Although alchemy failed as science, social science can succeed as alchemy." In the tradition of logical positivism, he proposes "depriving the social sciences of their scientific status," though he does not suggest how this is to be done. Vicious ideologies masquerading as scientific—Soviet-style Marxism is the obvious example—can cause societies to depart wholesale from "fundamental" decencies. Soros's main argument for the open society is that competition in ideas, while not necessarily leading to truth as John Stuart Mill thought it would, can impose a provisional character on all thought, outlawing dogmatism and allowing "never-ending improvement" through modest experimentation. This is a powerful argument against state monopoly of education, though one which we almost never hear nowadays.
It is easy to see why Soros regards the new classical economics with disdain, for it rules out by assumption both reflexivity and fallibility. As the Swedish economist Axel Leijonhufvud has written of this kind of theory, market participants "know all that they can know and need to know in order to deduce all utility-relevant consequences of alternative courses of action."3 Only genuinely unforeseeable events can cause present forecasts to go wrong. The main policy implication of this approach is that systematic Keynesian stabilization policy, by which government intervenes to moderate the effects of the business cycle, is redundant at best, distorting at worst.
Soros states his disagreement forcefully. "Expectations cannot be rational when they relate to something that it is contingent on itself." Rational expectations theory treats financial markets as passive reflections of "fundamental" facts, such as company performance; whereas, Soros argues, the participants (within limits) make markets what they want them to be. He concedes that "markets often seem to anticipate the future correctly. This is not because events conform to rational expectations, however, but because expectations can influence the so-called fundamentals that they are supposed to discount." The new classical economics asserts that markets are nearly always right. Soros believes that they are nearly always wrong, but "have the capacity to validate themselves—up to a point." The Internet boom, recently busted, is an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy in which trend-following behavior pushed prices away from equilibrium, which he defines as "the state in which there is a correspondence between expectations and outcomes."
Soros does not reject the notion of equilibrium—without it, we could not say whether a process is tending away from or toward it—but insists that equilibrium is the limiting, not general, case. Most of the time markets are in "dynamic disequilibrium." Specifically, "self-reinforcing but eventually self-defeating processes are endemic in financial markets." When a reflexive hypothesis has established itself, market stability must be preserved by public policy interventions. He proposes to base economics on "irreversible evolutionary processes and the design of nonlinear models to represent them," a tall order on which he does not elaborate.
In his attacks on new classical economics, Soros can be criticized for confusing an intellectual project (what conditions would need to be satisfied for perfectly efficient markets to exist) with an account of how markets actually work. Nevertheless, he should not be chastised too harshly for this. Most new classical economists do seem to believe that their models correspond to important features of reality; and this belief gives them a bias against government intervention.
One interesting reflection arises. A great deal of modern economics is based on the accommodation of the discipline to the demands of mathematics. Models based on dynamic disequilibrium or nonlinearity such as those suggested by Soros are intractable to mathematical formulation. Without the postulate of general equilibrium there is no solution to the system of simultaneous equations which economics needs to prove that markets allocate resources efficiently. That is why economics has been uncomfortable with attempts to model economies as sequences of events occurring in historical time—which is what they are. There is a nice irony here. The more "formal" economics becomes, the more it has to treat reality as a purely logical construction. When it looks on the market system and finds it good, its admiring gaze is actually directed at its own handiwork. Fortunately, when it comes to giving policy advice, most economists' common sense overcomes their mathematics.
The real object of Soros's attack is "market fundamentalism." His undiscriminating attack on economics is driven by his mistaken belief that most economists support laissez faire, whereas this dogma is a political abuse of economic theory and many economists don't subscribe to it. Once he is off his hobbyhorse, his arguments become more convincing. Market fundamentalism, he charges, ignores the fact that markets are unstable, that market values undermine social values, and that there are great inequalities between rich and poor. Above all, it diverts attention from the need to develop global institutions with the ability to regulate the activities and tame the power of global capital. In the absence of such countervailing powers, market fundamentalism can produce, in reaction to its excesses, a relapse into barbarism, as happened earlier this century in Russia and Germany.
Again, it is important to realize where Soros is coming from. As an important player himself in the global marketplace, he is impatient with academic disquisitions on the beauties of the "invisible hand." He supports the market economy not because it invariably produces good results, but because it allows freedom of choice. As an uprooted product of Central Europe, who seems to be at home everywhere and nowhere, he brings to the analysis of markets a tragic historical sense which is largely lacking in Anglo-American thought. There was a more or less liberal global economy early in this century. No one expected it to give way to the era of horrors and tyrannies that opened in 1914. As one looks back, it is easy enough to see that its political and institutional counterparts—competing imperialisms, autocratic rule in some of the major powers—were inimical to its survival. In 1929–1930, the lack of effective international "circuit breakers"—cooperation to make credit available, for example—allowed a Great Depression to develop which completed the ruin of the global economy of that time.
It is precisely this tragic sense which made the postwar German and Austrian liberals (including Friedrich Hayek) devote so much attention to the question of the institutional underpinnings of a free market order. Soros is in this tradition. His open society occupies a "precarious middle ground" threatened with authoritarian control on the one hand and disintegration on the other. To keep it open, political intervention is needed to maintain stability, protect the social sphere, and reduce inequality. The trouble, he suggests, is that we have a global market economy but not a global political system. A huge disparity has arisen between the economic and political organization of the world.
Soros presents today's global economy as an "abstract" empire of money, more global in its coverage than any previous empire, dominated by a "center" of developed nations which provides the capital and technology used by the regions at the "periphery." As he warms to his theme, the money economy develops the features of a giant killer shark crunching up in its massive jaws values, morals, communities, families, family businesses, nation-states, and the undeveloped world as it scours the world in search of its nourishment—profits. It rampaged through East Asia and Russia in 1997 and 1998 like a bubonic plague, with the International Monetary Fund in feeble pursuit. As a reformed predator himself, Soros may be expected to know what he is talking about. But the acute reader will detect a typical Soros strategy: that of proclaiming a flawed hypothesis in order to start a trend. Only this time the aim is not to make a killing by selling short, but to promote the cause of the open society and the institutions he believes are needed to support it.
Even a reader unpersuaded by Soros's relentlessly gloomy outlook may recognize its correspondence with at least three aspects of contemporary reality. The first is what Soros calls the "asymmetry in the treatment of lenders and borrowers." Every financial crisis is preceded by an unsustainable expansion of credit. As happened in Thailand and other Asian countries in 1996, foreign investors fall over themselves to lend money to countries they know little about because everyone else is lending money to them. But when the crunch comes, extensive protections exist for creditors, but no comparable arrangements for the relief of debtors. Keynes had the same thought in mind when he wrote that, under the classic international gold standard system, adjustment was "compulsory for the debtor and voluntary for the creditor."4 Creditors are protected against default and can anyway decline to go on lending; debtors have to pay and adjust their economies to the burden of paying. In a crisis, the IMF's role has hitherto been to facilitate repayment of debt, not to offer the relief to debtors that exists in national bankruptcy codes.
There is hard logic in this. The collapse of the Western banking system would do far more damage to the world economy as a whole than the harm inflicted on the economies of the peripheral debtor countries. This does not make the global system smell any sweeter; and it is a powerful incentive for peripheral countries to reintroduce controls over the inflow of capital, particularly short-term capital which can go out as quickly as it comes in.
Secondly, it may well be that structural changes have made the market economies of Western countries less stable, even if more efficient, than they were. Publicly traded corporations have much more power to mobilize capital than the private or family businesses they are replacing; but this comes with a cost. Soros points to the increasing domination of economic life by professional fund managers whose sole purpose is to maximize relative profits over a short period, thus encouraging herd behavior. He sees a new source of instability in the explosive growth, especially in the United States, of share ownership through mutual funds, which have largely replaced personal savings. Any sustained decline in the stock market would, as people buy less, have a devastating effect on consumption, and hence on output. Here Soros points to the so-called "wealth effect," by which people who find themselves with increased net assets acquire an excessive idea of their ability to consume more and can therefore bring about a large drop in consumption when it becomes clear that their wealth is less than they thought it was. He might have added that, particularly in Europe, the privatization of important industries previously owned by the state has removed a built-in barrier to the decline of investment in a slump since government-owned industries can draw on public funds to keep going. In short, there may be a trade-off between efficiency and stability.
Finally, Soros is right in his view that "economic and political arrangements are out of kilter." Nation-states have lost many of their economic functions without anyone else inheriting them. The result is a failure of political leaders and legislators to take action, which is the more dangerous since nation-states remain the basic units of political life. We may have in the IMF, the WTO, the IBRD, the UN, the EU, NATO, and so on embryos of world or regional government; but they are very far from replacing nation-states since they lack democratic legitimacy, the essential requirement for the exercise of state power. The international system may thus lack the ability to nip dangerous trends as they emerge, in economics or politics.
The last section of Soros's book, ostensibly about constructing or strengthening circuit breakers, is disappointing, consisting as it does of recycled generalities, delivered in the imperative mode. We need, he writes, a global central bank and other international financial institutions "whose explicit mission it is to keep financial markets on an even keel." Transfers of resources from rich to very poor countries should be handled by the World Bank, renamed the World Development Agency and equipped with extra discretionary resources. The World Trade Organization should provide incentives for poorer members to conform to labor and environmental standards. The political engine for securing all this should be an "Open Society Alliance" headed by the United States and the European Union. This would foster the development of open societies in the world and establish rules and institutions governing the behavior of states toward their citizens and to each other. NATO would apparently be its military arm but NATO should also become a Partnership for Prosperity. The United States must learn to act multilaterally, not bilaterally. The General Assembly of the United Nations should be converted from a talking shop to more like a "legislature making laws for our global society." And so on.
All the hard questions raised by these proposals are skirted. To give just one example, Soros recognizes that an international rule of law needs international consent. Otherwise it would be an instance of the "strong lording it over the weak." Yet he endorses NATO's military intervention in Kosovo (although disliking the way it was done), which breached the UN Charter, and was opposed by Russia, China, India, and most other countries in the world. Like other apologists for this action he refuses to recognize that the "international community" is not confined to the countries of NATO, and that in some cases an attitude of "live and let live" is a necessary condition of global peace, which in turn is a necessary condition of a global economy.
A good book on the international system needed to support the "open society" remains to be written. In economic affairs it would need to make up its mind on three questions. Is a global economy with exchange rates free to float and capital free to roam likely to be more or less stable than one with fixed exchange rates and capital controls? How much instability can societies stand? How much control of the internal affairs of poor countries do aid donors need to have to make the aid effective? In political affairs, the hard questions are: Does the United States have the will to be the world's policeman? And on what terms acceptable to themselves can Russia and China be integrated into the international community? George Soros deserves credit for directing our minds to these questions.
In "Mr. Keynes and the Moderns," in The Impact of Keynes on Economics in the 20th Century, edited by Luigi L. Pasinetti and Bertram Schefold (Edward Elgar, 1999), p. 18.↩
In "Post-War Currency Policy," September 8, 1941, reproduced in The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, edited by Donald Moggridge, Vol. 25 (Macmillan/Cambridge University Press, 1980), p. 28.↩
In "Mr. Keynes and the Moderns," in The Impact of Keynes on Economics in the 20th Century, edited by Luigi L. Pasinetti and Bertram Schefold (Edward Elgar, 1999), p. 18.↩
In "Post-War Currency Policy," September 8, 1941, reproduced in The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, edited by Donald Moggridge, Vol. 25 (Macmillan/Cambridge University Press, 1980), p. 28.↩


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LL: What has it been like to work with and get to know Michael J. Fox through all of this? Brian Grant: He's a very busy individual as far as his time. He's pulled everywhere; he's the godfather of Parkinson's. The one time I got to spend time with him was so valuable. I was able to look at that and be encouraged to live as normal a life as possible. Yahoo! Sports
LL: At this point in time, how many people recognize you first and foremost as an ex-basketball player compared to those who recognize you as a figure in the fight against Parkinson's? BG: Here in Portland, I'm always going to be recognized as Brian Grant the basketball player. But outside of Portland, I'm looked at as the guy who works with Michael J. Fox who also has Parkinson's. It's definitely a legacy I want to leave, as someone who led the fight against Parkinson's the same way Michael J. Fox did. Yahoo! Sports
Remember that bitter rivalry between Trail Blazers forward Brian Grant and Utah Jazz legend Karl Malone? The face-to-face "talk" that escalated during Game 5 of the 1999 Western Conference semifinals? It took a fundraiser benefiting Grant's fight against Parkinson's disease, a two-day fishing trip to Alaska and years to mend, but it's finally a thing of the past. Want proof? Check out this nice video the Blazers have released on their youtube channel: Oregonian
Bitter rivals during their playing days, Brian Grant and Karl Malone's relationship changed forever during a two-day fishing trip to Alaska. YouTube
After a widely successful year of program development and planning for the future, Brian Grant — one of the nation's most prominent Parkinson's patients — is eager to reveal the details at the fourth annual Shake It Till We Make It gala Saturday night at the Moda Center. The sold-out event, featuring headliners R&B singer Brian McKnight and comedian/actor Bill Bellamy, is the key fundraising arm of the Brian Grant Foundation, which has finally found its footing in the battle against Parkinson's disease. Oregonian
The foundation already has 2,000 participants in its programs and anticipates that number to swell to 6,000 by the end of 2014. And, if Grant has his way, that will only be a drop in the bucket. The goal is to take the focus on emotional and mental support and the programs, including the boot camp and wellness retreat, and spread them nationwide. "We're ready to take this on the road," Grant said. "We're making a difference in Portland. It's time to make a difference everywhere." Oregonian
"Life is good, man," Grant said. "When I was first diagnosed, it was tough. I was going through a divorce and there were so many negative things going on. But this just shows that things can get better. Just because you have a disease or come down with something like Parkinson's, you can still live an excellent life. I'm very happy right now." Oregonian
Shortly after that, Grant was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a disorder of the brain that leads to shaking and difficulty with movement. The disease is best known for Muhammad Ali having it. "I've handled it well,'' said Grant, whose left hand was shaking when he spoke to reporters. "That's why I'm fanning myself (using a game program) because the tremor goes and builds up heat. I was diagnosed in '08, but I was having symptoms back in '06. I've had it for roughly seven years. But I still don't take meds. That's why I deal with that. Because once you start the meds, you can't get off of them. And they give you more problems sometimes than relief. But I'm doing good. My foundation is doing good.'' FOXSports Florida
During an interview, he spoke bravely about the future. As we talked, though, I could tell a wave of depression had sunk in. How could it not? Brian Grant — indestructible as a basketball player — was heading down a path he could never have dreamed of traveling. Four years later, Grant isn't cured of Parkinson's. His left hand, in particular, shakes. But I'm tickled to report that one of the most popular players in Trail Blazers history is making progress in a lot of areas. Portland Tribune
It was great to see so many of the Grant clan on hand, including Brian's parents, an aunt and cousin, and five of his six children. They beamed as they had their photo taken together on the red carpet, dreadlocked Brian smiling biggest of all. "My kids ... just seeing them come in here all dressy and looking at me and making fun of my hair ... they're proud of Dad," Grant told me. "I'm glad I'm here taking on this fight and I'm not sitting at home saying, 'Woe is me,' like I did for a little while." Grant said he is "feeling great. I have my bad days like anybody else, but for the most part, I'm there." Portland Tribune
Grant is trying to raise money for his charitable foundation, which gives money to support Parkinson's disease education and research. Grant, who was diagnosed with early on-set Parkinson's in 2008, has long been one of the most community-involved NBA players, and since his diagnosis he has worked tirelessly to help fight the disease which still has no known cure. His big event, "Shake It Till We Make It", will take place later this summer at the Rose Garden in Portland. NBA.com
Brian Grant hopes others afflicted with Parkinson's won't have to suffer in silence as Peterson did. On Sunday and Monday, the former Trail Blazers forward held his second annual Shake It Till We Make It fund-raising event. Organizers announced that this year's version had raised $500,000 to battle Parkinson's, helped by a $100,000 check a donor handed Grant at Sunday's dinner and gala at the Rose Garden. According to event organizers, the donation was made by the family of Vivian Longdon in her memory. Part of the proceeds will help the Brian Grant Foundation run a new website, poweringforward.org, where patients and caregivers can go for inspiration and information about the day-to-day challenges of living with Parkinson's. The disease is a brain disorder that saps a person's ability to control his movements, often resulting in uncontrollable shaking and tremors. Oregonian
"Until the cure is found, we all have to live and deal with Parkinson's each and every day," Grant said Monday at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, where celebrities and golfers who paid to play with them participated in the event's golf tournament. "We're just trying to create a place where Parkinson's patients, as well as caregivers, can come together as a community and share their experiences, and also be a place where those who are newly diagnosed can join into that and get help to make the transition from what we perceive as normal life into the Parkinson's world." Oregonian
Barkley, who as an employee of Turner Broadcasting was one of the few NBA-related attendees not covered by the gag order, gave countless interviews before teeing off Monday and reiterated his prediction that the 2011-12 season could be wiped out because of the lockout. He added, "I always pull for the players, but really, salaries have escalated." But on a beautiful, cloudless summer day, the labor situation seemed very much in the background. Instead, celebrities and golfers alike focused on having a fun day to benefit a serious illness, one that the man who rallied them together will deal with the rest of his life. "As long as Brian needs me, I'm going to keep coming here," Barkley said. Oregonian
The NBA lockout isn't really posing any challenges for Brian Grant's big fundraiser to fight Parkinson's Disease, despite widespread reports and Internet buzz. Last summer, a few NBA players lent Grant a hand in his "Shake It Till We Make It" gala dinner and golf tournament. This year, that won't be the case. CBSSports.com
When Brian (Grant) retired in 2007, he knew something was wrong with him because he felt a little tremor in one of his fingers. He tried to ignore the movement but as more time passed, he was overtaken by depression—the tremor was beginning to derail his retirement plans. With his basketball career over, Brian had planned on making a transition into broadcasting. He was very confident that he could succeed as a commentator, similar to Charles Barkley. "I had all these expectations and I was going to try out for TNT and CNN—I had the interviews all lined up," he says. "But it's hard to interview when your arm is shaking and you don't know what it is. As soon as I walked in they would have said 'Sorry, but we just can't have that on camera.' "At least that's what I thought. I missed out on a lot of TV interviews and getting to know the new Blazers because I didn't want them to see my hand tremor. In my mind I thought they would look at me like I was weak. Like something is wrong—he's broken." SLAM
Depression caught him by surprise. Brian had always been a positive and upbeat person. Immediately after leaving the game, he went through nine months of darkness. "The first eight months, I was in denial," he says. "I didn't want to believe I could be depressed. To me, depression was something that happened to people who are weak-minded. And I was wrong. It can happen to anybody. I'm talking about true depression. The kind that grips you and doesn't let you go." It put a major strain on his relationship with his wife Gina. "Nobody wants to live with someone who is depressed and in denial," he explains. "The more people that love you and tell you that they can help, the angrier you get at them. Like, 'I don't have a damn problem!' Finally, I went and got checked out and sure enough after 10 minutes, the doctor said, "Um, you're heavily depressed." SLAM
As he began to understand his condition, Brian realized that his depression was a result of Parkinson's. "They go hand-in-hand," he says. He began visiting with a psychiatrist three times a week. "It really helped," he says. "It's amazing when you can trust yourself inside to allow yourself to let it out to someone else. We as people have egos. As a basketball player, I definitely have an ego. To the point of 'I don't want to tell this person this. How can I trust you?' But when you do trust them, boom it all comes out. That is one of the biggest reliefs—when it comes out. You're not cured right then, but at least you can make sense of it and some of the answers make sense. Versus trying to tell your wife, cousin, best friend who might be like, 'Let's go fish and chill, that will clear it up.'" SLAM
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What's the world's largest concentration of mammals? Many people guess that it's one of the great herds—the wildebeest in the Serengeti, or caribou in the Arctic.
But no: To see even more mammals, you have to look to the sky. More specifically, head to a bat cave in the Texas Hill Country, between now and the end of summer.
At caves around Texas, Mexican free-tailed bats emerge nightly by the millions. Yes, millions. The biggest? Bracken Cave, owned by the excellent conservation organization Bat Conservation International, with an estimated 15 million bats. That's a lot of critters.
These are maternal roosts: females come here to have young. Come fall, they migrate south to Mexico.
Bats emerge en masse from caves, and within minutes they stretch out to the horizon. At a glance it resembles nothing so much as a thick cloud of smoke, swaying in the breeze.
Where there are large congregations of animals, of course, there's also congregations of predators to take advantage of the bounty. Hovering outside the caves are often a variety of raptors, ready to snatch a wayward bat.
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Tarleton's Strategic Plan
"As we embark on the development of a new university strategic plan, I am reminded that the 'first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.' To that end, this planning process will be an exercise in 'intelligent tinkering.' We will use our Tarleton spirit, our collective wisdom, and our dedication to the University to form a brighter future for Tarleton, this region, and the State, perhaps even the nation."
– President F. Dominic Dottavio
Strategic Plan 2020 Updates
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Leading Wesleyan to a close second-place team finish in the five-team Cardinal Invitatonal Sat.-Sun., Dec. 3-4, Rachel Hirsch '15 (top photo) and Roxy Capron '14 (bottom photo) placed first and second, respectively, in the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke to account for 111 of the Cardinals' 944.5 team points. Hamilton won the Invitational with 951 points, a mere 6.5 points ahead of Wesleyan. Wesleyan outpointed the Continentals in the pool by 50 points but 57 Hamilton points in diving, where the Cardinals had no entries, pushed Hamilton to the team title. The Cardinals outscored WPI, Trinity and Clark comfortably. Trinity will be Wesleyan's next dual-meet opponent with that coming up Fri., Dec. 9 in Hartford to close out the first semester activity.
Wesleyan had three other swimmers collect second-place points during the Invitational as Alyssa Savarino '14 was runner-up in the 50 free ; Rachel Cohn '13 placed second in the 400 IM ; and Angela Slevin '15 came in second in the 100 back.


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You can also head over to http://www.curse-gaming.com and see the items various groups have amassed from the test realm. This includes the pieces of the legendary caster item, and the Ashbringer (which is Epic). All in all, a pretty stunning list of stuff. When I spoke to the Blizzard guys at E3, they reiterated that the items in 1.11 were far above and beyond anything currently ingame, and that looks accurate.
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Are you guys on vacation or something!? Where are the new entries for today (5/25)? Please come back!


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Nikki is up to her old tricks again at Old Creamery Theatre in Amana
Through June 29, 2014 Nikki will be lending her comedic talents on The Old Creamery's Main Stage to the casts of the Neil Simon classic, The Sunshine Boys and a new favorite for the littlest theatre goers, How I Became a Pirate. Whether she's playing a chocolate gobbling registered nurse or a parrot-loving pirate with green teeth, Nikki has the audiences rolling in the aisles!
Mavis is back in "A Mighty Fortress is Our Basement" at Old Creamery Theatre in Amana, Iowa October 9 - November 9, 2014
After a five month national tour of "A Mighty Fortress is Our Basement, why stop the fun? If you didn't get a chance to follow the bus, join Nikki in Amana, Iowa at Old Creamery Theatrewhere audiences can hardly wait to see CBL 4!
National Tour of "Church Basement Ladies 4: A Mighty Fortress is Our Basement" with Troupe America -- January 11th - May 25th, 2014
Having just finished up a record breaking run of "Away in the Basement: A Church Basement Ladies Christmas" at Old Creamery Theatrein Amana, Iowa, Nikki doesn't even have a moment to put down her Mavis boots before hitting the road for a national tour of the fourth installment in the Church Basement Ladies saga, "A Mighty Fortress is Our Basement." Check out the troupe's schedule and join her on the road!
Tibbits Opera House debut! Jeri Neal in "Dixie Swim Club" with Tibbits Opera House September 27—October 5
Nikki is incredibly excited to be making her Tibbits Opera House debut at the end of this month! Please visit tibbits.org to purchase tickets and for more information.
Aunt Eller in "Oklahoma," Sister Berthe in "The Sound of Music," and Mavis in "The Church Basement Ladies" with Jenny Wiley Theatre -- June 15th - August 10th 2013
Nikki's heads back to one of her favorite homes this summer! After completing another wonderful adventure in the Church Basement at Circa 21, Nikki will be heading back to Jenny Wiley Theatrein Prestonsburg, Kentucky to return to the very first Church Basement Ladies, as well as reprising two of her favorites: Sister Berthe in Sound of Music and Aunt Eller in Oklahoma!
PREMIERE Performance of "Church Basement Ladies 4: A Mighty Fortress is Our Basement" at Circa 21 -- March 15th - June 1st 2013
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February weddings don't have it easy. While its past the tail-end of the wedding peak season in the Philippines which is around December/January, it's the time of the year when prices of blossoms soar to all-time-high due to huge demand in time for Valentine's Day. And it's not just the prices that's the problem, the anxiety over the quality and quantity of stocks become also become major concern. The Dangwa Flower Market in Manila is so chaotic around this time that it feels like there's a mad fiesta!
With this in mind, we have invited some of the wedding industry's finest florists to participate in a fun challenge: to make a bridal bouquet without using any flowers. It sounds crazy but these floral artisans immediately agreed the moment we presented them the idea.
It is not our first time to involve suppliers in this kind of undertaking. In 2006, we asked the make-up artists for a Diva-to-Diva Makeover; and the designers, to sketch a Bridal Gown for P20k. In 2008, we had a Wedding Planners' Challenge: How Low Can You Go? wherein detailed budget breakdown of the most affordable wedding they could muster good for 100 guests. While the price quotes in these previous challenges may now be obsolete, the basic essence remains: that wedding professionals rise up to any challenge and deliver what is expected of them.
For our florists challenge, we asked Mimi+Karl to capture the images of the florists' unique creations. Their photography tandem are known for the beautiful shoots of wedding details so they were a shoo-in for a project like this. We set our sights for an afternoon shoot at Fernwood Gardens to serve an appropriate backdrop for our (un)floral subjects. On the day of the shoot, the table where all the bouquet were laid down practically looked like cornucopia were fruits and vegetables abound. Felt like harvest time!
Participating in this fun challenge are (in alphanumeric order): 7 Lily, 2171 Floral Creations, April & Karen Yu, Henry Pascual, Jun Hen, Robert Blancaflor, and Teddy Manuel. What they came up with are as colorful as conventional bridal bouquet, except these weren't conventional at all. Far from it, actually. We even saw some that would be a perfect accent for themed weddings.
Each of us in the shoot has our own favorite, but we are not telling. We'll let you decide.
Faux Fleur
bridal bouquet by: 7 Lily Flowers & Events
inspiration: the decadence and rich redness of a strawberry shortcake
materials used: strawberries, macopa (rose apple/bell fruit), & purple cabbage rose
florist's thoughts: We had to conceptualize the bouquet using a different medium such as fruits and vegetables. Given that these are still wedding bouquets, we still wanted a classic design and the challenge was not go overboard. We stayed with designs we could imagine real brides carrying.
bridal bouquet by: 2171 Floral Creations
inspiration: winter
materials used: apple, grapes, succulents, string beans, alugbati (malabar spinach) stems
florist's thoughts: We call this bouquet "Winter Circles of Love". It describes the various path of relationships in circles, but always ending in the center of it all, which is love.
The challenge for us is to make the arrangement look expensive without spending much. We made the fruits and vegetable blend not expecting what they really are.
bridal bouquet by: April & Karen Yu
inspiration: apple orchards
materials used: red gala apples, nito twigs, calamansi leaves, and dried filler
florist's thoughts: The arrangement is a handpicked, country-style, rustic bouquet. A sweet smelling bouquet that conjures memories of summer and apples in a basket.
bridal bouquet by: Henry Pascual
materials used: oregano, parsley, ajenjo (wormwood), alugbati (malabar spinach), and red grapes
bridal bouquet by: Jun Hen for Fleur de Facade
inspiration: Victorian inspired nosegay for its elegance and timeless beauty
materials used: fresh red cherries and succulents of various hybrids
florist's thoughts: Part of the challenge is making the look soft, and wiring and putting together the fruits and succulents.
bridal bouquet by: Robert Blancaflor for the Robert Blancaflor Group
materials used: broccoli flowers, cauliflower, green pepper (siling tagalog)
bouquet by: Teddy Manuel of Flowers & Events
inspiration: autumn harvest
materials used: mayana leaves, pasta, sponge gourd, dried lemons, rattan fruit, and eucalyptus leaves
florist's thoughts: To create a veggie & fruits bouquet, one needs to think of the aesthetics in terms of color, size and texture. I used miniature veggies so that the bouquet will be comfortable for the bride to hold. I intentionally avoided the "copacabana" or mixed salad look. I wanted the arrangement to still be feminine and elegant for a wedding.
astig ung 7 Lily Flowers & Events!! =) colorful and nice sa photos! =)
I love Teddy Manuel's work! Its elegant! Fab!
second choice - Jun Hen nosegay!
i like 7 lily flowers & events.. simple but elegant. i also love the odd color combination of red & purple. second choice would be teddy manuel's.
7 Lily Flowers & Events is my top choice followed by my wedding florist, Teddy Manuel.
nice bouquets! love the one with chilis (what a spicy bride she will be)
+1 for 7 lily flowers!
grabe galing nga yong lily and yong teddy manuel. i think here, nakita natin sino yong more creative and original
love henry p's bouquet!
sweet and simple…oh and being a grape fan helps a lot!
I absolutely LOOOVE Teddy Manuel's creation!!! Very unique and full of life! The colors and textures used all meshed well.
to W@W and Mimi & Karl…again thank you for making part of the shoot … congratulations for the innovative ideas that we can share to our future bride and groom!
Very creative! Congratulations! Just shows that Pinoy's are soooo talented and resourceful. Let's have more of these.
oh wow these are all beautiful it's so hard to choose!! congrats to all the artists, nagutom ako…
All the bouquets were wonderful! I can't pick one as each bring with it a sentiment that would apply to a variety of wedding themes. The choices in materials were wonderful and showed much thought to a special event. The colours were foreign and yet very Filipino. What I would love to discover is a bride with a sense of adventure to actually use one (or more) for her real life wedding! The bouquets would be perfect for destination events.
worka of art! galing…
we vote for 7 Lily…
wonderful and artistic!
but i was expecting someone will use chocolates!
i've seen one actual wedding bouquet made of ferrero rocher and it look so fab. tastes so good as well.. hmmm yumyum!
7 Lily's my top pick. I like the bouquet by Teddy Manuel too!. Great shots Mimi+Karl!
..oh my, i so love 7 lily's bouquet..elegant and very creative..second is teddy manuel..job well done!
To W@W,
Thank you for allowing us a creative playground! We enjoyed this so much!!! More power to W@W!!!
We love teddy manuel's work! So very cute! i love the gourd pumpkins :0) Very autumn… Great job teddy!
Love the one with lollo rosso? berries and macopa!!! Very nice
wow…super cool
all are very beautiful…very artistic!
wow! now i'm hungry. My wedding is coming and I think I want this instead of the flower bouquet.
uniqeu bouquets like these will really make your wedding unforgettable ♥
Thanks to this particular page, I was able to get an "apple bouquet" for our wedding last December 8, 2011. You can check it out at this link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=476004053740&set=a.476002603740.254363.536383740&theater
nice idea! i'll recommend dis to my frnd who's about to get married dis dec. tnx for the post. =)
Thanks a lot for the ideas, beautiful.
How long beforehand can you make a veggie and fruit bouquet and how will you make it look nice up until the cermony?


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As we approach the four year anniversary of the tumultuous firing of the the teachers at Central Falls High School (CFHS), regarded nationally as a watershed event in the Obama administration's school reform efforts, we must once again consider the success or failure of what followed (and preceded). Progressives and ed reform skeptics are somewhat […]
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Imagine education activist groups from New Hampshire to Los Angeles gathering in one place. That's how you'd build a movement for real education reform. This weekend, over 1000 students, teachers, parents, researchers, and activists will assemble in Chicago for the fourth "Free Minds, Free People" conference to continue building the growing "education for liberation" movement. […]
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Deborah Gist has been doing her darnedest to ignore the Providence Student Union as of late. But before her annual "State of Education" speech tomorrow night at the State House, they will be giving the inaugural "State of the Student" speech there as well. "Students are the ones who actually experience the "State of Education" […]
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November brings many opportunities to remember the legacies entrusted to us.
Today we honor veterans – living and fallen – in Veteran's Day ceremonies that include a wreath laying ceremony in Memorial Gym at 11:11 a.m. followed by a Fallen Comrade remembrance.
These shared events bring us together to recognize those individuals who have served in the United States Armed Forces; and I want to specifically recognize those from our own University community -- our students, faculty and staff -- who have served or are now serving our nation. I'm proud, in particular, that our students who answer the call of duty carry out our legacy of leadership and citizenship to a remarkable degree.
Our University also is committed to honoring the service of members of the military through the power that education has to transform lives. We created our Operation Education Scholarship Program for those veterans who have been seriously injured in service since 9/11. This program is distinctive for its flexibility to provide educational support individually tailored to the educational needs of a permanently disabled veteran and/or spouse. It's also a program that we've been helping other colleges start on their campuses.
We also continue to invest in other legacies, which add to our understanding and the rich tapestry of our nation. For example, this week the Native American Student Center and the American Indian Studies Program presented "According to Coyote: Traditional Nez Perce Stories" that honored the history of one of the important Native peoples of this area.
We recognized individuals as well this week such as Carol Grupp who was honored as an Idaho Treasure by the University of Idaho Retirees' Association. This award recognizes living, retired U-Idaho faculty, staff or family members who in their retirement years have made significant achievements in leadership to the university. Carol is a stalwart former U-Idaho employee who retired after 25 years of service and then began serving the retirees and the broader university community.
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Sirucek, originally from Shelby, Montana, graduated in general studies with minors in German and history. "My degree has been the key to my success in personal and professional growth . . . the study of history has made me a better person…" he said. "From a cultural history perspective, I understand that at the end of the day, all cultures have some basic things in common that we can all use to find some common ground. Pride in a cause, or the desire for respect, or as simple as a hope to improve themselves or their family's welfare motivates most people—and if I can identify with an individual or a group of people on some basic level, I have a chance at discussing any problem with the intent of resolution."
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We offer an interdisciplinary forum in which members of the academic community can explore the relationships between Christian theology, ethics, and practice, and the tradition of scholarship and teaching of the liberal arts within the university. We especially welcome presentations that are exploratory in nature and that raise broad questions about central areas of concern to the liberal arts classroom.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey, Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University, "The Place of Truth in the Liberal Arts."
Conference Theme: To what extent ought teachers in the liberal arts classroom seek to influence or alter their students' character and values? The perennial question has been raised most recently by Stanley Fish, who promotes a values-neutral classroom, whereas others, from Martha Nussbaum to Judith Butler, have promoted clear ethical and even political agendas in the classroom. The University of Mobile Forum on Christianity and the Liberal Arts wants to discuss the ways in which professors at Christian colleges and universities, as well as Christian faculty at secular institutions, are addressing this question.
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"Mindfulness Therapy is as good as antidepressant drugs." Read this CNN Health article by Elizabeth Landau.
You might also like to read this article about the efficacy of Online Therapy in the New York Times.
I also recommend you refer to webmd.com and the mayoclinic.com as well as mentalhealth.gov as good resources for your general health and mental health needs.
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"After 8 years, two therapists, many self-help books…..my hypochondria and OCD was worse than ever. I figured I would just have to live like this and deal with it. I put on a good show in front of people and cried alone. Then, I stumbled upon Peter's website. I figured this was my last attempt. Peter is kind, understanding, and patient. He helped guide me out of the dark and see the light. He is truly there to help. He never looks at his time during sessions. I would have to remind him that time is up. His rates are reasonable so everyone cam get proper therapy. He gave me practical tools to use to overcome my anxiety. He is always available via email for advice. He truly cares about the progress of his patients. Peter changed my life and gave me the chance to enjoy my life again. I am eternally grateful to him." – L.A., New York.
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Session Times: 8am, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm MST Colorado
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This Online Counseling Service for Individuals and Couples is available Worldwide via Skype.
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Come, peek
inside my classroom and witness its vast array of inefficiencies
Witness as
my students slave over long division and fraction addition with
hundred-year-old technologies, while those rectangular calculating
instruments are sitting forgotton on our dusty shelves. Soon the
teaching will begin as will the daydreaming, yet maybe I will play
foolish games today in order to keep my students' attention. After
all, is it not common to employ individuals who have a graduate
education to play computation bingo and other math games 180 days
a year? Surely no one devoid of six years of education is capable
of playing games like these, cloaked under the rubric of learning.
For the amount
of work I do my salary is more than sufficient but sometime this
week I may swing by the teacher lounge so that I can hear how dreadful
we educators have it. I am contracted to work 180 days a year for
nearly $40,000. After my two personal days and at least five sick
days I will only have worked 173 days. Of course, we must factor
in at least a week's worth of snow day cancellations or delays,
about six early release days, five assemblies, three field trips
and numerous teacher work days. All in all I probably work 160 days
a year for 40,000 dollars or roughly $31 dollars an hour (40,000/160days/8hours).
Yet, since my day only involves four one-hour classes of teaching,
lunch, study hall (shut up and read time) and planning period (listen
to radio time) my hourly figure should probably be adjusted upward.
Nevertheless, enough about me, on to my students
My typical
classroom consists of 15 average Joes, 3 gifted kids and 3 Forest
Gump's (thanks to no child left behind). The 3 gifted kids provide
copying opportunities to at least six average Joes who exploit them
to their fullest. In return, the gifted kids may be allowed to sit
at their lunch table or be picked to play football during gym or
recess. The Forrest Gump's provide plenty of laughing stock for
the rest of the class as well as add an outlier into the curriculum
pace. This works out well for them, for they get to pick their nose
while staring into space, have their emotions tested by their peers,
all so that they can sit in the same classroom under the label "normal."
Grading is
easy. No one is allowed a grade under 50 percent. So, you may do
half of your homework (50%), turn in your homework late (50%) or
not do your homework (50%). The same applies for quiz or test grades.
Therefore, a child need only do 10% of the work in a year in order
to receive a passing grade of 60%, though this is too much for some
and thus we must pay teachers additional money to teach them over
the summer. Yet, times are tough. This year our district didn't
possess the funding to pay teachers to teach summer school, so,
we just passed everyone!
My supervisors
are numerous and their oversight is always felt. I am frequently
observed by my principal, assistant principal, team lead, school
math dean, district math dean, state dean of mathematics, the instructional
specialist, and, on occasion, school board members and though they
all give me contradicting advice (more games, less games, etc.),
they truly only care about the end of the school year state test.
As long as a specific percentage of my kids pass their SOL test
(and it is my job to find out who those "golden kids"
are and to devote the majority of my attention to them) they are
This my friends
is the unearthly inefficient system of public schools.
14, 2009
Dyke [send him mail]
is a math teacher who hails free markets and freedom of choice.


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Can metformin, Avalide, lovastatin, glimepiride, or amlodipine cause a cough?
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