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Self-reliance and sustainability in the 21st century.
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We're spending the week getting ready to open the Hostel. Airing out mattresses and blankets, wiping kitchen counters and rehearsing the check-in procedure. Our home won't just be our home anymore, but a place for many to rest, eat and enjoy themselves.
Working at home can be done in many ways and have a lot of different meanings. As I've mentioned before Dennis and I do leave once in a while to go and make money elsewhere, but we prefer to spend our days together, at home, and produce what we need right here. For most people the word homesteading means just that; to meet basic needs at home for example by growing food, keeping some animals, harvesting wood etc. For me, homesteading means to not have a great need for money in the first place. It also means that the money one does need is being made by utilizing the land, as in our case, running the Hostel. We use the land as an attractive place for our guests to come to; to provide their water, the fuel for the outdoor fire, trails for their hikes and grow food for their dinners.
Meeting our needs at home, from the land, comes with the effect that we can reap the benefits, and multiply them. We could go off and make $2000 building a shed for someone, but when we stay at home and build a hut for the Hostel that building can make the same money year after year. It will also give us other benefits, like further experience in timber framing, a chance to train others and an opportunity to try out various building techniques that paid work won't allow for. Time invested in the gardens won't only pay back with produce worth the equivalent of several month's pay every year, but will add to the beauty of the farm, once again provide training for others and a unique experience for our guests, seeing how the dinner food was grown.
The freedom to stay at home and set our own schedule does come with challenges. To work and live in the same place means you're confronted with the work all the time, whether it's the successes or the failures or the unfinished projects. We're achievers, both Dennis and I. We love what we're doing and enjoy the hard work, traits I think most homesteaders share. I also think most of us share the experience of how easy it is to take on too much. It's all so fun and exciting and we choose to improve and expand and add to and it's hard sometimes, to balance our ambitions with how much work that feasibly can be carried out in a certain time. It's a learning curve for us, to be ok with the pace it all happens in. And to choose not to expand or add to when we already have what we need.
But at the end, the choice of staying at home is easy. Believe me, I've tried many other ways. 40 h working week, hours of commuting, sitting in an office, getting laid off when times got hard, employed when they needed another part in the machinery. I don't like driving and burning fossil fuels. I don't want to work anywhere if it means being bound to someone else 's schedule, their whims of keeping me employed, a customers ability to pay and otherwise not being fully in control over the work I'm asked to perform. I want to spend the majority of my waking time in connection to the land I reside on and with the person I love. Home is where the heart is and that's where I want to be too.
Anneli blogs for MOTHER EARTH NEWS about her insights and ideas from a handmade, DIY-everything homestead and hostel on Deer Isle, Maine.
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* This post is continued from My Precious Princess – The Miniature Schnauzer: Part #1 & Part #2.
During the balance of my cancer treatments, Precious was constantly in my arms or on my lap…
I even took her to my oncology appointments and she would sleep under my sheet with her "bony" during my Herceptin treatments.
People didn't even realize I had a dog with me…She was so good and quiet!
As my feet and ankles are arthritic and walking is difficult even with my canes, my little Precious has become accustomed to the noise of the canes and wheelchair, and finds comfort close to her human mom, as I find comfort in her presence too!
She is such a beautiful and special dog, who fills my world with joy and love…truly a "Precious" gift.
I cannot foresee a time when I would ever, willingly, be without 1 or 2 (or 3 or 4 or 5) terriers. They are each so very unique and endearing. Life is wonderful and fulfilling with them around!
As I sit here in my living room, nursing my painful joints, my little Precious is standing at the window on her hind legs, with her forepaws on the windowsill, watching the squirrels and birds in the back yard, and looking like she is anticipating the coming of Spring, and her 2nd birthday.
My little Precious Princess will be receiving her own, special little dog bed soon.
She is my darling "Precious Princess"!!!
I would emphatically recommend a miniature schnauzer or any other terrier dog to anyone looking for a companion animal.
Be prepared to fall hopelessly captivated & in LOVE!
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The 12th annual Women in Business Symposium, being held on Thursday, May 19, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, has selected this year's keynote speakers. Both are powerful presenters and critically acclaimed, award-winning women who have inspired many throughout their illustrious careers.
This year's theme is "Sharing the Power of 'So What's Next?!'" Many women take on so much in their daily lives and still face each day with an internal strength and forward-looking attitude of "So What's Next?! I can handle it!" Rita Kahn will address the attendees with "So What?!, Do It Anyway, Lady!" for the times when those same strong women hesitate or allow challenging times to slow them down. Kahn is a nationally recognized columnist, TV hostess, Distinguished Toastmaster and professional speaker. She uses lots of humor and outrageous personal inspirational stories that make her audience realize that "you can do it, too!"
And as we look to "So What's Next?!" on a daily basis, life and work can sometimes become stressful. Judy Carter will give attendees the keys to ""Getting What You Want Before you Forget What It Is! Carter quips, "You're not in a difficult marriage, it's comedy material," and "You don't have the boss from hell, it's a heckler." Through her unique approach of delivering big laughs with a big message, she uses the "power of the punch line" to connect with audiences and help them take a different view of the stressful and difficult events in their lives. Carter, who has been featured on "Oprah," is one of America's top motivational humorists, international speaker, author of the best-selling books "The Comedy Bible" and "Standup Comedy," and comedy workshop trainer.
The Women in Business Symposium, produced by Sheila McDonnell, is the only local event of its kind… its intention is to provide a fun and stimulating day for businesswomen to refresh their business passions and make new contacts. Event admission is $95 if registered before May 13. Registration, sponsorship and exhibit information is available at


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So why didn't Marine Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright get the nod to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs?
Gen. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was the odds on favorite to be tapped for the top uniformed military job, when President Barack Obama abruptly shifted and named Army Gen. Martin Dempsey to the position.
In a roundtable with reporters, Defense Secretary Robert Gates vehemently denied reports that Gen. Cartwright's nomination was scuttled because of controversy within the Pentagon over the vice chairman's role in the debate over the Afghanistan surge. Mr. Gates said bluntly that most of the reporting on why Gen. Cartwright was passed over was "garbage."
"Some of the negative things that have been reported as influencing the decision, for example the Afghan piece, are completely wrong," Mr. Gates said.
During the White House 2009 Afghanistan review, Gen. Cartwright presented the White House with alternative military strategies, including options that required fewer troops than Gen. Stanley McChrystal, then the top commander in Afghanistan, had recommended.
Mr. Gates said he would not disclose his recommendation to President Obama. Although it has been widely reported that Mr. Gates did not support Gen. Cartwright's elevation, he praised the general effusively on Thursday.
"Hoss Cartwright is one of the finest officers I have ever worked with," Mr. Gates said. "I've enjoyed working with him for four years and consider him a friend."
Nevertheless, Gen. Dempsey's nomination had a last-minute feel, given that he had only recently taken over as the top Army officer.
Mr. Gates said he had spoken to the president about the importance of creating a national security team. He said over the last two years there has been "cohesiveness" between the CIA director, the Pentagon chief, the chairman and other national security officials.
Continuing a strong sense of teamwork between the new Defense secretary and new chairman were uppermost in his mind as he made his recommendations to Mr. Obama about who to pick to lead the Joint Chiefs, Mr. Gates said.
"So foremost in my mind was … how do we sustain the teamwork that has been so critical." Mr. Gates said. "That has everything to do with relationships."
Officials close to Gen. Cartwright have dismissed the critique that the vice chairman was not a team player. The officials have arguing that on a range of issues, from developing a comprehensive cyber strategy to the planning for the raid on Osama bin Laden Gen. Cartwright has proven time and again that he can work closely with others.
But some defense officials have criticized Gen. Cartwright, saying he does not consult widely enough or share his thinking with other top officials. These officials said that they had no problem with Gen. Cartwright offering alternative strategies for Afghanistan, but said he did not do enough to inform other military officials about his recommendations before he made them.
Mr. Gates did not say so explicitly, but his comments suggested he did was in the camp that worried that the vice chairman was not a team player.


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Are Libertarians Unusually Selfish?
Some excerpts from Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (which is once again in stock at Amazon). [Please excuse the inconsistent capitalization of "left". That's because I'm grabbing text from different pre-publication versions.]
First, a pervasive criticism:
Many critics believe that libertarians are unusually selfish people. They think libertarians are opposed to helping others. They regard libertarianism as a defense of selfishness.
Another iteration:
Critics often say that libertarianism is just an attempt to rationalize greed and selfishness. For instance, the conservative Michael Gersen, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, asserts that people turn to libertarianism during late adolescence because adolescents are egoistical and self-centered.
I respond, to start, that at base libertarians are no different from others. Some egalitarians are pompous jerks, the kind of people who will say to grad students, "Oh, you want to go to dinner with me? Let's go to this expensive NYC restaurant, and you students can foot the bill in exchange for the privilege." (Yes, I'm referring to a real person, but I won't say whom.) Some are kind and loving people. Some socialists are callous and cruel. Others are generous and warm. Same with libertarians.
Are there systematic differences? Jonathan Haidt's work show us some differences in people's expressed attitudes, but we don't know much about their behavior. (Also, many people whom I would classify as libertarian in this book–such as Jason Brennan–Haidt classifies as liberal.)
In principle, social scientists could study whether people of some ideologies tend to be more selfish than others. As far as I know, no one has done so. So, if we ask whether libertarians are more selfish than others, the answer is that we do not know, and we do not have any reason to think they are.
We might try to make such estimates by seeing whether libertarians donate more to charity. And, in fact, some social scientific work indicates that support for free markets is positively correlated with more charitable giving, even once you control for religious giving. Does that prove libertarians are actually less selfish?
…it's tempting to conclude free market supporters are thus more selfless and benevolent than socialists and members of the left. After all, donating to charity costs real wealth. If I give thousands to charity, that's a vacation I don't take. In contrast, to advocate or vote for a welfare state with high tax rates costs me nothing. Suppose a left-liberal votes for a candidate who promises to triple her taxes and give the proceeds to the poor. Her vote has almost zero chance of changing her actual tax rates. (The left should be thus careful in accusing libertarians of selfishness.)
However, we should not rush to this conclusion. Perhaps the left gives less because they believe private charity does not work. On their behalf, we might say: If you refuse to throw money at what you regard as bad medicine, this does not show you are indifferent to the disease.
See how nice I am to the Left? If you give less, it might not be because you care less. It might instead be because you think that giving doesn't work. That's the charitable thing to say. But charity goes both ways here.
… libertarians often criticize institutions the left believes help the poor. For instance, libertarians often criticize the welfare state. To the left, this comes across as callous indifference to the plight of the poor. Yet most libertarians criticize the welfare state because they believe the welfare state hurts the poor more than it helps them. If libertarians refuse to throw money at what they regard as bad medicine, this does not show they are indifferent to the disease.
There's a difference in strategy here.
When members of the left want government to help people, they often seek to have government do so in the most direct way: through handouts. Libertarians argue the best way to help the poor is indirect. Left-liberals say, "Let's help the poor by giving them health insurance." Libertarians say, "Let's help by creating background conditions that generate so much wealth that no one needs a handout." Left-liberals say, "Let's give the poor free food." Libertarians say, "Let's create background conditions that make the poor rich so they can buy their own food."
Why are we so suspicious of others' motives? That's only natural:
Psychologists have shown that most of us are biased to believe that people who hold political views contrary to ours must be stupid, irrational, and evil. It is no surprise that members of the left tend to think libertarians are selfish. They regard their own political beliefs as the only sensible expression of benevolence. They thus conclude libertarians must be selfish and cold-hearted.
It cuts both ways.
Libertarians are also suspicious of the left. Libertarians do not take it for granted that social democrats are benevolent or concerned for social justice. From the libertarian point of view, whenever the Left has power—and it frequently does—it seems all too eager to grant special favors to elite financiers, corporations, and special interests. Worse, many on the Left oppose free immigration. To libertarians, this makes the Left's expression concern for the poor seem disingenuous.
And, of course, talk is cheap.
…if I publically advocate a welfare state, people will tend to assume I am a loving and kind person. I can feel good about myself, even if I haven't actually done anything to help anyone. It is cheap and easy for me to advocate having people fed. I get to enjoy the warm glow of benevolence at no cost to myself.
One point you don't touch on there is that there is a strain of libertarian thought that actually does advocate selfishness. Ayn Rand is, of course, salient in that regard; but it occurs in some people who do not seem to be Randians.
Adolescents may indeed be egoistic. But they are also in the process of learning to take control of their own lives. That may be an alternative explanation of why libertarianism appeals to adolescents (if, indeed, it does – which seems doubtful, since most adolescents with an interest in politics seem to be Marxists of some kind).
Hi Danny, yeah, I didn't mention her here. In the book, though, I discuss Rand at some length, in part as a response to the question, "Do libertarians believe everyone should be selfish?"
Sean II
Given how much time and effort they spend trying to win the approval of others by conforming to the norms of their peer group, adolescents are definitely not selfish in the sense intended by Rand. Even the young Objectivists one encounters on campus seem to be merely putting it on as a strategy to get themselves noticed.
Standard disclaimer: Rand said some crazy, nasty, nutty things (dexedrine will do that to you if you keep at it long enough). But one thing for which she deserves much more credit, is crafting a definition of selfishness that rises far above the grubby, self-destructive solipsism of the teenage dirtbag.
Most adolescents are Peter Keatings at heart. If they think Rand is validating them as they are (and many do seem to think that), well…the joke's on them.
Whether people advocating a more libertarian order are more or less selfish than "leftists" and others advocating other organizing principles is one question.
Whether a libertarian order would make people more or less selfish is a different question. Are freer people more selfish? Is "every man for himself" the natural impulse of men unyoked by an egalitarian master? Does "egalitarian master" even make sense?
"From the libertarian point of view, whenever the Left has power—and it frequently does—it seems all too eager to grant special favors to elite financiers, corporations, and special interests. Worse, many on the Left oppose free immigration. …"
Great job showing the hypocrisy of Democratic pols, but I don't know very many Leftists who expouse either one of those actions.
On a different note, please, show me where I can read about Libertarian solutions to poverty and it's resultant adverse effects. I agree that if I am honest, I'll gladly accept whatever will result in a better outcome.
I'm not sure who qualifies as a Leftist these days, and I don't much care, but as a libertarian, I've always felt more "left wing" than "right wing", for what it's worth, which isn't much.
The principal libertarian solution to poverty is an opportunity to exploit a comparative advantage through specialization and trade in a free market. To understand why people, even people with relatively little education and other advantages, have comparative advantages to exploit, start with David Ricardo.
Beyond specialization and trade, libertarians like David Beito discuss mutual aid societies and fraternal organizations. A mutual aid society is not a charity, with the poor dependent upon the generosity rich. It's more like an insurance pool. Insecurity is a characteristic of the free society, so free people will join insurance pools.
"Every man for himself" does not well describe the state of nature either, not remotely. Hume's war of all against all is nonsense biologically. Hume obviously never observed a herd of gazelles or even a pride of lions.
people turn to libertarianism during late adolescence because adolescents are egoistical and self-centered.
Adolescents tend to be students and students tend to be in favor of socialism especially in regards to schooling. Adolescents tend to earn less and be less sure of their own ability to take care of themselves which is another reason that they tend to be for more Government programs. In the middle part of life people tend to for less government spending. Late in life people tend to be for less government spending on everything except SS and Medicare and fro more spending on SS and Medicare.
These show that people tend to be selfish at every age. It just manifests differently.
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It depends on what you mean by selfish. Do you mean selfishness as a personality trait or selfishness as a political or moral principal? If it's the former, then no, there's no evidence, not even anectodal, that would suggest libertarians are especially selfish.
As you point out, however, talk is cheap and many people hold some form of principled belief in selfishness or selflessness. For many progressives, it is important to appear to be selfless (by holding the appropriate political opinions, for instance) even if that appearance isn't matched by any great degree of personal generosity. Likewise, you may have someone who bloviates ad naseum about looters and moochers, but who would give his neighbor the shirt from his back if there were a need.
I have noticed no strong correlation between these two modes of selfish/selflessness. In fact, the relationship could well be inverted. Perhaps the personally selfish often feel a strong need to disguise themeselves behind the appropriately selfless political viewpoint. And simarlarly, perhaps the personally selfless adopt an outwardly Randian bluster as a sort of defense mechanism. That's all speculation, of course.
Self-awareness is often misperceived as selfishness or self-centeredness.
There is no general "Libertarian " persona.
It is the viewpoints that are Libertarian .
Viewpoints do not necessarily bespeak a persona .
It is quite possible that most of those who hold (particularly those who have formed) Libertarian views may have a higher degree of self-awareness .
However, we have to accept that there is no accounting for misperceptions.
Often, it is pointless to attempt to correct them.
Many critics believe that libertarians are unusually selfish people. Yeah, so what? If it turned out that Einstein was a really nasty person in his personal life (and there is at least some truth to this), do we therefore discard General Relativity. This is literally a stupid, ad hominem argument; but you cannot refute a political philosophy by attacking the character of those who hold it.
Sean II
The parts where all or most libertarians need to come clean in re selfishness are:
1) The knowledge aspect. We definitely believe people know best how to care of themselves, even if we disagree about whether that's their main moral purpose in life. Most of us also believe people turn into idiots or worse the minute they start trying to manage each other's lives. If that is not a type of selfishness, I don't know what is.
2) The economic aspect. Every time we talk about the power and the importance of incentives, we're saying that people are reliably moved by self-interest. To the extent that we accept this a basic fact of human behavior, we are also accepting it as morally unobjectionable. Our opponents are ready to use force (with few limits) to over-turn the verdict of incentives. We usually aren't. That must mean we are advocating a type of selfishness, or at least tolerating it (at what others believe to be an intolerable cost).
The more explicit positions like self-ownership or Randian egoism are plenty controversial around here, but those points seem very widely shared by libertarians of all stripes.
Actually, I reject both (1) and (2).
It seems to me false that people know best how to care of themselves. People often seek advice on that topic, and probably all of us offer some people advice on that topic from time to time. What I would say is that people are entitled to take care of themselves and are thus entitled to ask for advice or to accept advice when offered.
The importance of incentives is not necessarily connected with self-interest (though it usually is). For example, some credit cards and savings accounts offer as an incentive to potential customers that the bank will make donations to some charity in proportion to money spent or saved. Now, of course, you can say that this appeals to self-interest too, in the sense that the customers must have in interest in helping the charity. But such an interest is not egoistic, and it is self-interest as egoism that we are talking about here.
Sean II
I urge you to reflect on that. Point 1) is just a natural consequence of taking the calculation problem seriously. Life is a complex business, full of costs, benefits, trade-offs, etc. The only person who is consistently in a position to understand the trade-offs in your account is you (and of course that would include understanding when it might be advantageous to seek advice, and when it might not).
But let's say you gave control of your life over to some supremely clever computer, programmed to maximize utility. In individual cases it might well make better trades than you would make for yourself, but in the long run it will prove ignorant, because it lacks whole categories of information about you, and it's easy to imagine how bizarre and ugly the results might become. Probably the machine would fix on whatever variables it could measure, to the exclusion of everything that is intangible, subjectively meaningful in your life.
Now all day long, you've got some Kubrickian voice whispering in your ear. "Danny, you know you're not allowed to eat that sausage." "Put the book down, Danny; it's time to begin your cardio." "Danny, that woman may be attractive and exciting, but I've decided the risk of future drama and tension are not worth any pleasure you might experience tonight." And when you choose to ignore that objection and demand your car keys anyway…you get the inevitable "I can't do that, Danny."
You see what I'm getting at? It's not that the computer is indifferent to you or cruel or evil or anything like that. It simply doesn't see the upside of these apparently foolish choices, and it cannot understand the benefits that come from your so-called bad decisions. That knowledge belongs to you alone.
My contention that it is false that people know best how to take care of themselves does not entail that there is someone else who knows best how to run their lives for them. We are all pretty ignorant and very fallible concerning what is best for ourselves. But we are all even more ignorant and fallible concerning what is best for someone else. Still, we can all learn from each other.
Consider a college leaver seeking careers advice. He might have little idea of what career would suit him. So he talks to a careers advisor who gets him to answer a questionnaire designed to identify his abilities and inclinations. The advisor then feeds the completed questionnaire into a computer which matches the info about the kid with an analysis of skills and inclinations usually possessed by people who are successful in different lines of business. The upshot is a prioritised list of suggestions of career options. As a consequence, the kid has a better idea, possibly a much better idea, of what sort of occupation will suit him. But the next step is up to him: pick one, suck it and see; then change course if necessary.
Suppose the kid fancies a girl at his new place of work but is not sure about how to go about it (this not being college any more). He gets some advice from some of his colleagues or friends. He would not go back to the careers advisor for that information.
The recognition that we do not know what is best for us but have to find out, usually by trial and error (but using information from knowledgeable people to reduce the costs of experimentation) gives no grounds for paternalism or socialism.
Sean II
All "knows best" really requires in this context is "knows better than anyone else". It doesn't have to mean "knows much" and it certainly doesn't mean "decides wisely".
When you say "we are all ignorant and fallible…but we are even more ignorant and fallible concerning what is good for someone else" you are making my original point, exactly as I intended it.
So if you concede that people are better at making their own decisions (including when to take advice) than they are at making decisions for each other, what remains in dispute? How can you resist the conclusion that libertarianism entails at least that degree of "selfishness" as one of its key features?
And if you do resist that conclusion, then where is the line between libertarians and everyone else?
By definition, non-libertarians really do believe that people are better off when certain decisions are made for them and enforced against their will. The left tends to believe this in economic matters, the right in moral matters, with plenty of overlap. Both hold to the conviction that people are dangerous idiots when making their own choices, while still believing that, somehow, certain select people (or collectives) become capable of great wisdom when making choices for other people.
Are there libertarians who don't believe that? If so, where do they live, and how are they getting along with the rowdy bunch of untrue Scotsman who must also reside there?
As you point out, my claim in the first paragraph of my previous post, that "we are all even more ignorant and fallible concerning what is best for someone else," contradicts the point I was trying to make. Let me take that sentence back. Here is what I should have said.
1. People do not always know best how to take care of themselves. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't.
2. In general, people do not know how best to run the whole life of another person (for the benefit of that other person). That is what I should have said last time.
3. It is often the case that someone else knows better than a person himself what that person should do with regard to a particular aspect of his life.
4. From the fact that A knows better than B what B should do with regard to X it does not follow that A should decide what B does in that regard. But it would be kind of A to let B know what A thinks. It is then up to B to decide what to do on the basis of that advice, other information and his own inclinations.
I think there is not much difference between us here. But there is some. I deny that the agent always knows best what is best for himself. I also (and therefore) think it is a mistake to build an argument for liberty upon that assumption, as some libertarians do.
Sean II
I would never say an agent "always" knows anything about anything.
But you make it sound like even-money whether a person is better off making his own decisions or having them made by others. "Sometimes they do….sometimes they don't… often someone else knows better" in particular cases. I wonder if you can mean that in quite the way it comes across.
Perhaps you would agree with this:
A) In general, a person will know more about his own life than he does about anyone else's.
B) Knowledge is a necessary though not a sufficient condition for reliably making good decisions.
C) Therefore, a person will generally be better positioned to make his own decisions, and he will generally do a better job of it than anyone else.
I think that every normal person is entitled to make his own decisions. 'Normal' is meant to exclude only people with some kinds of mental disabilities. That, I take it, is the libertarian claim.
I think that, on the whole, normal people are better off making decisions for themselves. But this is not a straightforward issue. First, 'on the whole' is a numerical thing: there will be a proportion of tragic lives due to mistaken choices. Second, in relation to a specific individual, 'on the whole' means over a lifetime, not in every decision. Third, 'on the whole' takes into account the fact that even a decision that is bad in welfare terms is still a good for the agent in that it was his own decision. For a normal person there is great value in making decisions for oneself, even if they turn out to be bad decisions, because it means that one is functioning AS a person. This paragraph gives the rationale for the libertarian claim made in the preceding paragraph.
Your (A) sounds true. But it is a bit amorphous. I know more about my life (i.e. what has happened) than anyone else does, though with CCTV all over the place it would be possible for someone else to know more about that than I do. But what we have been talking about is who knows more about what is best for a person in future. I think that people are generally ignorant about what is best for themselves in future. They have some ideas (often mistaken); and they have some information about what went well for them in the past (also often mistaken). As for the future, they have to make a guess and see how it turns out. It is quite possible that some other people will make a better guess. Sometimes we know a person better than he knows himself, in some respects. But the knowledge here is still fallible knowledge: no one knows anything for certain.
I don't know what your (B) means: the notion of 'reliably making good decisions' is not one that I would use. But knowledge is not necessary for making good decisions, because one can make a lucky guess. In fact, that is what a good decision is.
Your (C) comes close to my second paragraph, though I would probably not put the point in those terms.
Commenting on your response to Damien (below), I deny that libertarians need to be selfish or to advocate selfishness. Making one's own decisions does not entail always deciding in favour of oneself.
It is always a pleasure to debate with you, Sean.
Sean II
No, please…the pleasure is mine.
For me this one all comes down to a question of truth in advertising.
As libertarians we want people to have more control over their own lives. We understand they will often, though of course not always, use that control for action designed to benefit themselves. And we're cool with that. In fact we're enthusiastic about it. We think it will very likely lead to a better world, across the board.
Others hear us say that and react with disgust. If there's one thing that could unite catholics, muslims, socialists, neo-cons, and my nosy grandmother in a common cause, it's the fact they don't like the sound of that, one damn bit.
And when we come back with "oh, but you see it isn't selfishness because of something you can read about in Adam Smith or John Rawls…", they probably think we're full of shit. We look like we're trying to evade an obvious and natural consequence of policies that give a green light to self-directed and self-serving behavior.
I think they're right. And I think we should admit they're right, and not be the least bit ashamed to do so.
I still disagree. Of course, people should be permitted to act selfishly: they have a right to. But, while we all act selfishly some of the time, most people do not act selfishly all of the time. We know that from biology: 'selfish' genes do not make selfish people. But most of us also have an aversion to people who are wholly selfish, or even significantly more selfish than average (for which, again, there may be a biological explanation). And that means that to advertise libertarianism as promoting selfishness is not a good way of selling it.
Damien RS
"By definition, non-libertarians really do believe that people are better
off when certain decisions are made for them and enforced against their
will. The left tends to believe this in economic matters,"
Some economic regulations are paternalistic, but many aren't, aimed at limiting decisions that affect other people negatively, not decisions that affect oneself negatively. Externalities, for example. Others seek to ensure that accurate information is provided so that people *can* meaningfully decide for themselves; inspections, say, to deal with asymmetric information.
"people are dangerous idiots when making their own choices"
The tragedy of the commons and the prisoner's dilemma aren't about people being idiots; they're about rational individual choice being dangerous in some situations, due to the structure of those situations.
Sean II
Okay, I guess, but what of it? I certainly wasn't claiming paternalism is the only reason why Leftos support economic regulation. But it sure is a favorite of the fanboys on that side.
The question at hand is: are libertarians selfish? I say "Yes, of course. Let's not be foolish and try to deny that. We want people to control more of their own decisions than those meddling kids on the other two teams. How can we not be more selfish?"
As to the prisoner's dilemma and the tragedy of the commons, those are surely not libertarian problems – i.e., not problems that arise from people making their own free choices. If people followed our advice, neither problem would come up too often.
I mean, there's a reason why we don't call it "The Uncoerced Citizen's Dilemma" or "The Tragedy of the Privately Owned Farm".
The knowledge problem is a central planner's problem, not a problem of individuals. As a libertarian, I assume only that a central authority does not know and cannot know how best to care for everyone. This assumption does not imply that each individual knows best how to care for himself.
I may know better than my six year old child how to care for the child. My oncologist may know better than I how to treat my cancer, even if he doesn't know that I'd rather die a few years earlier than deplete my children's inheritance.
Barack Obama cannot know how best how to care for every six year old child and every cancer victim. A central, legislative committee can't either. Neither can an administrative bureaucracy.
Beyond very small groups, human interactions are too dynamic and complex for anyone to engineer, effectively to optimize the welfare of each individual or even to optimize some aggregate welfare.
Sean II
I think you'll find the knowledge problem applies quite literally here. I'm not suggesting an analogy or anything. I'm using the concept as is.
Anyone who tries to take control of another person's life IS a central planner, vis-a-vis that person. Anyone who tries to take control of another person's life must end up making decisions about costs he cannot calculate and benefits he does not understand.
The consequences of my choices are experienced subjectively, and only I know their weight (and not always too well). Anyone who tries to make my choices for me is in the same position, knowledge wise, as a purchasing manager at a shoe-lace factory in Nizhny Novgorod, 1937.
He doesn't know the price of things.
A parent is a child's central planner in your sense, but it doesn't follow that the child knows better than the parent what is best for the child. A paternalistic state exploits a rhetorical analogy to the parent/child relationship, but an actual parent/child relationship is not meaningfully similar to a state/subject relationship.
Sean II
Yes, a parent is a child's central planner, in that sense and in others. I take it for granted readers here will stipulate that kids and imbeciles make the exception to such rules. Forgive me for not saying "mentally competent adults" wherever I said "people" above.
That aside, I DO think the parent/child relationship is regrettably similar to the state/subject relationship in too many cases.
For me, being a libertarian includes feeling deeply troubled by the power parents have over their children. Especially here at BHL, where we're supposed to be so uniquely attentive to non-state forms of oppression, it seems important to reckon with the huge amount of misery, frustration, cruelty, and arbitrary power that children face at the hands of even well-meaning parents.
The trouble is, what other choice does one usually have? Removing a child from his blood-related "central planners" and placing him with a state agent even further removed from knowing or caring about him is likely to be worse, except in extreme cases of neglect or abuse.
So we're stuck with the family until something better comes along. But we should keep eyeing it with suspicion, you know, like Larry David does when he's trying to detect a lie.
I'm not deeply troubled by the power that parents have over their children, though I have memories of resenting this power as a child. Parental power over children is inevitable. I might as well be troubled by the sun's power. For all I know, a massive solar flare might destroy every electrical circuit tomorrow.
Parents can also abuse their children, but parents are not naturally inclined to abuse their children. The relationship between state and subject is more like the relationship between a lion and another lion invading his territory. Among lions in the state of nature, these invasions are not improper, but resistance to such invasions by established proprietors is the genesis of forcible propriety.
I also don't see this site focusing on non-state forms of oppression. Forms of oppression linked to forcible propriety are state forms of oppression. Property is not liberty. It is a more or less useful imposition. "Life, liberty and property" is a minarchist formulation of the rights of man. "Anarchist property" is incoherent.
In the libertarian sense, "freedom" is meaningful only within the bounds of propriety. I am subject to the law of Gravity, but this subjection is not oppressive. The only meaningful "freedom" in this sense is one man's freedom from rules that another man enforces.
What something better might come along? Children are somehow born with the knowledge of an adult? We somehow program a child's brain with all of this knowledge at birth? I shudder to think of the programmer's power over the child in this scenario.
Damien RS
Actually, Haidt *has* studied libertarians. http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/02/the-science-of-libertarian
"It will not surprise Reason readers that the
study found that libertarians show (1) stronger endorsement of
individual liberty as their foremost guiding principle and
correspondingly weaker endorsement of other moral principles, (2) a
relatively cerebral as opposed to emotional intellectual style, and
(3) lower interdependence and social relatedness."
"Libertarians scored slightly below conservatives on Harm and
slightly above on Fairness. This suggests that libertarians "are
therefore likely to be less responsive than liberals to moral
appeals from groups who claim to be victimized, oppressed, or
treated unfairly.""
the Big Five
Personality inventory, which is a broad measure of personality
traits, libertarians scored lower than conservatives and liberals
on Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Extraversion. According to
some researchers, low scores on Agreeableness indicate a lack of
compassion and a proud, competitive, and skeptical nature. On the
other hand, like conservatives, libertarians are not generally
Neurotic, tending to be more secure, hardy, and generally relaxed
even under stressful conditions. And like liberals, libertarians
scored high on Openness to New Experiences, indicating that they
have broad interests and are very imaginative."
"Libertarians are the
only group that scored higher on systemizing than on
empathizing—and they scored a lot higher"
"The utilitarian moral
calculus is the same—save five by killing one. In fact, the
researchers find that libertarians are more likely to resolve moral
dilemmas by applying this utilitarian calculus than are either
liberals or conservatives."
'On the
Different Types of Love scale, it turns out that libertarian
independence from others is associated with weaker feelings of love
than liberals or conservatives have for friends, family, romantic
partners, and generic others. The authors note that libertarians
also report slightly less satisfaction with life than do liberals
and conservatives. The researchers report that libertarians "score
high individualism, low on collectivism, and low on all other
traits that involved bonding with, loving, or feeling a sense of
common identity with others."'
The discussion would be improved by some actual examples of Libertairians being called "selfish," presumably by a person that has defined "selfish." Surely Gerson cannot the be the best exponent of this view if it is a view that needs to be defended against.
The initial post and most of the discussion would profit from
examples of "Many critics believe that libertarians are
unusually selfish people" Or "Critics often say
that libertarianism is just an attempt to rationalize greed and selfishness"
besides Gersen. If one wants to contradict a proposition, one should find the strongest articulation of it; these paraphrases
could be taken as "straw men."
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The libertarian proposal to create background conditions so that nobody needs a handout are by purely market means, demonstrably impossible. Plenty of wealth is created, but in a market society, sufficient amounts of it NEVER find its way to the bottom so that nobody needs a hand out. So for liberals the only explanations are total ignorance of history, or an ulterior motive on the part of libertarians.
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"Fascinating, informative, sometimes exhilarating, often painful, and quite impossible to summarise... This is a splendidly panoramic picture of our common European home, a book to read through and then to dip into frequently... I thoroughly recommend his book" — Allan Massie Literary Review "A broader travelling history of the whole of Europe's 20th century. As befits a journalist with an eye for bad news, he also has much more to say on its calamitous first half than on its more successful second half... Mr Mak tells this part of the story vividly and in great, gory detail, moving from grim fields of battle (Verdun, Stalingrad) to places of revolution (Petrograd, Berlin), and on to ghastly charnel-houses of death and destruction (Auschwitz, Dresden)" Economist "An ingenious geographical-chronological structure... It's impossible not to get drawn into this book" — Noel Malcolm Sunday Telegraph "The pace rarely slackens and every page sparkles with insight" Herald "In Europe is not so much a work of history, nor is it strictly a travelogue of the present; it is part of a growing genre that is sometimes referred to as the 'history of the present', but might just as well be the 'presence of the past'. It is undoubtedly a spectacular and beautifully crafted piece of such writing" — Isabella Thomas Sunday Times


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Soay is part of the extraordinary, remote St Kilda archipelago in the far Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Uninhabited Soay is a wild and idyllic home for hundreds of Soay sheep, a small and hardy rare breed of sheep that is native to the island. These Soay sheep survive around the highest sea-cliffs in the British Isles.
The spectacular St Kilda islands are 40 miles further out to sea than North Uist, which itself is remote from the mainland of Scotland. St Kilda's unique landscape is protected as a World Heritage Site.


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Feyenoord maintain perfect start
Feyenoord Rotterdam returned to the top of the Dutch Eredivisie after a 1-0 win at Heracles Almelo.
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On loan from Man City, Enes Unal scored a hat trick for Twente to lead his side over FC Groningen in the Dutch Eredivisie.
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PSV Eindhoven returned to the top of the Eredivise with a comfortable win at PEC Zwolle.
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ESPN FC's Alison Bender and Janusz Michallik assess the latest transfer rumours, including Wolves' interest in Mario Balotelli.
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Arsenal have sent young full-back Tafari Moore on loan to FC Utrecht for the rest of the season and is set to feature for the club's second team.
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The minute bodies discovered in the vaccine lymph of calves by Van der Loeff still continues to puzzle investigators. Reasons for this are the repeated failures to find, even by improved methods of bacteriologic research, any specific micro-organism as a cause for variola and the difficulty in accounting for the vaccine bodies except as parasites. Foremost among those works maintaining their intrinsic somatic origin is that of Hückel ascribing them to a specific degeneration of the epithelial cells; prominent among the supporters of their parasitic nature is Guarnieri, who concluded, from a study of their morphology as they occur in the vesicles produced by vaccinating rabbits' corneas, that the vaccine bodies are protozoa.
Soon after the work of Guarnieri, L. Pfeiffer found them in the blood of both variolous and vaccinated people as free, swimming, nucleated bodies, one-fourth the size of a red corpuscle. These observations were soon confirmed by
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Online ticket seller StubHub is seeing a huge demand for Masters Tournament badges. (April 4, 2011 / WRDW-TV)
News 12 at 11 o'clock / Monday, April 4, 2011
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It's considered the hottest ticket in town, but for the past couple of years brokers say the demand for a Masters badge has been down. This year, brokers like StubHub say that's not the case.
As the crowd of patrons marched onto the course Monday, they were armed with cameras and badges, ready to be a part of golf history.
"It was spectacular," Lou Hoenig of New York said. "I have watched the Masters on television for 30 to 40 years and I felt like I was walking on the footsteps of many many years of golf history."
For the first time, Lou and Barbara, his wife of 53 years, watched the golfers in person.
"We are celebrating my wife's 75th birthday and I surprised her with a gift for the Masters," Lou said.
You would think a badge is Lou's birthday gift not Barbara's.
"It was not my birthday and it was some place I really wanted to go so we combined the two," Lou said.
But the trip for two from New York was for the love of the game, something StubHub says they're seeing in record numbers.
"It's one of those things that fans put on their bucket list and what we're seeing this year is that even up from last year and all previous years in StubHub history," Joellen Ferrer of StubHub said.
The most popular tickets, the Par 3 tournament, which are running around $600 and the 4-day tournament pass, averaging a whopping $3,500.
"They are paying that and that is higher than last year," Ferrer said. "Fans are realizing that they have more discretionary income."
But it's not just first time patron's like the Hoenig's this year, Ferrer said.
"We also are seeing a lot of people are coming on the corporate side and coming to different hospitality locations," she said.
StubHub said they saw the same type of demand increase during the Super Bowl earlier this year.


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BPC Rocket Blast-off launches high flyers thanks to clear skies
A rocket built and launched at the 2010 BPC Rocket Blast-off. (Photos by Raymond Minks)
This year's annual Rocket Blast-off saw clear skies and high-flying rockets. Seven kids built model rockets.
"Each and every child successfully launched their rockets to an altitude of about 300 feet," said Dr. Christopher Jones, BPC chemistry professor and event organizer.
"A wonderful set of college students from Dr. Jon Shuman's Freshman Year Experience course assisted the kids in constructing their rockets," added Dr. Jones.
These college students also built three large rockets that were launched as well. These impressive rockets soared to as high as 600 feet. This year, for the first time, all the rockets were recovered.
"We can thank God for giving us beautiful weather including calm winds," said Dr. Jones. "We look forward to next fall's Rocket Blast-off, which will mark the tenth anniversary of the event on the Brewton-Parker campus."
Brewton-Parker College is the only accredited, four-year Christian college in South Georgia.


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Hi Greg, first of all welcome to Eurobricks.
Hereby the answer to your question;
In the new format allready Alex :)
As you can see there is no XML, but the main reason for this is that I see no reason to create any. I only use XML for roads and tracks, to make sure they align properly.
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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Monday, Aug. 26, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- If you're looking for work, chances are you may have thought about a job as a mystery shopper. But before you take the next step, the biggest one is wiring money.
Emily Wynn says she has been unemployed and just wanted a job, and while her situation is bad, it could have been a whole lot worse.
"I am currently unemployed, so when this happened, I thought it was gonna be something," says Wynn.
She says she thought she found her dream job when she got a package in the mail.
"A very good opportunity of me being a secret shopper," says Wynn.
Inside the envelope was a letter with information about her secret shopping assignment and a large sum of money.
"It was a money order for $870. I said, 'Wow, wow this is very legitimate,'" says Wynn.
The letter instructed her to deposit the money order into her bank account and wire a portion, keeping $120 for herself.
Later Wynn says she checked her account and discovered it had been closed.
"I'm in disbelief. I'm shocked, I'm like I know I had money in my account. I couldn't believe it. I really couldn't believe it," says Wynn.
"A legitimate mystery shopper firm is not going to use Western Union," says Gigi Turner with Augusta's Better Business Bureau.
Turner says mystery shopper scams like this one often target those desperate for work.
"Unemployed people are more prone to become victims because they are in a situation where they need assistance and they need it quickly," says Turner.
Meanwhile, Wynn says losing what money she had in her account and not getting a job has been a devastating blow.
"Somebody would take advantage of somebody. It really, It really hurt my heart," says Wynn.
She says her bank account was closed before she ever got a chance to wire any money, which she says was the only fortunate thing in this situation.
To avoid being victimized by a secret shopper scam, avoid unsolicited emails. Also never deposit a check or money order from someone you don't know into your bank account and never pay up front for any job.


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More Trucks Hitting the Road, at Least for Navistar
When companies expand, one thing they tend to do is create demand for more trucks to move all that extra stuff around. Truck sales, as we mentioned here last week, are a useful indicator of economic activity, and the sluggish U.S. economy still isn't buying as many new trucks as it was before the recession.
So on that front, some moderately positive news about U.S. economic activity from truck maker Navistar today: In an SEC filing related to a $200 million debt offering, the company said it "secured nearly 5,900 Class 6-8 truck orders, making it the Company's highest order receipt month since December 2011."
Does Navistar's busy order book suggest a broader uptick for the truck business? In part, the company is taking back market share it lost to competitors after a gamble on engine technology failed to pay off.
And S&P are not optimistic about the truck market, or the company. In a note downgrading Navistar's credit rating to "CCC+" on Monday, the agency said demand for trucks looks shaky for the coming year:
Navistar cannot rely on a robust market in 2014-2015, either. While Standard & Poor's is not forecasting a decline in the overall truck market, neither can we rule out a slump in the medium term. The truck industry is historically cyclical and the anemic economic expectations for the U.S. would ordinarily have negative implications for both medium- and heavy-duty truck demand.
So Navistar's sales boost might not be something set to continue, particularly with the combined government shutdown and debt ceiling doubts hanging over the economy. But September's truck orders show there was a healthy spurt of economic activity — and they came in a month when construction spending, including both residential and commercial projects — hit its highest level since mid-2009.


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Despite the FTC's efforts at providing extensive guidance in this area, as well as aggressive enforcement efforts, there has been a lot of confusion about what kinds of "green" claims are permissible and what kinds will invite FTC scrutiny. Successful advisors to manufacturers, advertisers, and marketers need to understand the new guidance in order to advise their clients about the limits of acceptable green claims. Devote just 60 minutes to this teleconference to hear two leading attorneys in the consumer litigation, advertising and marketing areas explain what to do to help your client to make the most of permissible green claims.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Cape Central played half of Tuesday's boys basketball game at home without top players Scott Chestnutt and Ryan Delph due to foul trouble.
Already undermanned with power forward Mitch Craft out with an ankle injury, Central's (16-8) foul trouble was too much to overcome as state-ranked Charleston (21-3) avoided the foul bug and cruised to a 64-55 SEMO Conference win.
Despite an 11-2 run to open the game by the Blue Jays, the Tigers kept within striking distance of Charleston with a 10-5 run that pulled Central within five after one quarter. After losing Delph to his third foul with 6:26 left in the second quarter, the Tigers were dealt the fatal blow when Chestnutt picked up back-to-back fouls with 3:35 left in the half. After picking up a double-foul and matching double-technical in the first quarter, Chestnutt's two second-quarter fouls gave him four before halftime.
Central coach Derek McCord said playing against a strong team like Charleston, it's hard to recover after losing a top player so early.
"You want to be at full strength," he said.
With Chestnutt on the bench, the Blue Jays dominated the boards and built a 13-point lead late in the half. "That's when we want to go to the inside," Charleston coach Danny Farmer said. "His presence makes a difference." Central forward Corey Bowman, who replaced Chestnutt, said the Tigers simply didn't do a good enough job on the boards in Chestnutt's absence.
"We could have rebounded a little better," he said. "Boxing out kind of killed us."
Charleston built a 17-point lead early in the third quarter with Chestnutt watching from the bench. To stop the Blue Jay push, McCord went to Chestnutt with 3:35 left in the third quarter, a move that paid off immediately.
With Chestnutt back in, the Tigers cut the lead to 10 with a little over a minute left in the third, but the Tigers' momentum wouldn't last. Ashton Farmer's 3-pointer with less than a minute left put the Blue Jays back up 13, a lead they would maintain for most of the fourth quarter.
Although Charleston's lead proved insurmountable, Central continued to pressure the Blue Jays and outscored Charleston 22-18 in the final quarter.
McCord said Central is not the type of team to lay down. "Our kids showed a lot of character," he said. "We were undermanned, but we didn't quit."
Despite the loss, McCord pointed to many positives. Central was out-rebounded by only three and forced 15 turnovers, while only committing nine. Chestnutt finished with 13 points and 14 rebounds in little more than two quarters.
"Our kids realize we've made some strides this year," he said. "But we have a lot more work to do."
For Farmer and the Blue Jays, after picking up a grinding win over the Tigers they now will turn their attention to the Southeast Missourian No. 1 team, Poplar Bluff. The squads square off Friday night for the SEMO Conference title. "We feel great," Farmer said. "The Bluff game will be a real test."
The Tigers will host DeSoto in their final regular-season game Friday night. Win or lose, McCord said this team still has a lot of basketball ahead of them.
For the Tigers, Bowman finished with nine points and six rebounds. Will Johnson added 12 points and six rebounds. Kewain Gant had 14 points for Charleston and Farmer added 13.
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Poplar Bluff overcame a determined Notre Dame effort to defeat the visiting Bulldogs 76-65 Tuesday night in boys basketball.
The Mules improved to 21-2 and remained undefeated in SEMO Conference playing setting up a game with Charleston Friday night for the conference title.
Travis Siebert scored 26 points for the 17-7 Bulldogs, including 18 in the first half as Notre Dame trailed just 35-34. The Bulldogs were behind 59-56 entering the final period before the Mules pulled away.
Wayne Essner added 13 points for Notre Dame.
Tyler Hansbrough, a 6-foot-8 sophomore center, had 20 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Mules. Also scoring in double figures were Cheron Pearson with 17 points, Tony Webb with 13 and Desi Higgs with 10.
Notre Dame ends its regular season Friday night, visiting Perryville.
ZALMA -- Zalma ended its three-game losing streak and Leopold's four game winning streak with a home victory. Zalma (7-11) held a 10 point lead at halftime, but Leopold cut into the lead in the third quarter. The Wildcats trailed by only two at the start of the fourth but could only manage eight points.
Chad (14) and Curt (16) Wisemen combined for 30 points for Zalma. Nick Hartman had 16 and Jamie Mangrum added 13. Kevin Holzum led Leopold with 16 and Paul Hutchings added 11.
ESSEX - Zach Dill scored 13 of his game-high 35 points in the first quarter and Chad Wooldridge added 27 as the Bernie Mules improved to 10-11 on the year with a 76-41 defeat of the Richland Rebels Tuesday night.
According to Bernie coach Morris Karnes, it was "a game where we were able to push the ball a little more than we have in some other games. We got good defensive board work (26 as a team), which allowed us to get out and get some easy transition baskets, and good scoring from Zach Dill and Chad Wooldridge."
Wooldridge scored 12 points in the second period as the Mules took a 34-22 lead at the half.
Mike Harlan paced the Rebels with 20 points. The junior varsity Rebels defeated Bernie 42-24 to earn a split on the night as Blake Waters poured in 21 points. Britt Arnold led the Mules with nine points.


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