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The real minimum wage is zero.
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
Charity Liberals Money People
Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Isolation Reality
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Meetings People
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Attention Facts Mistakes Vision Will
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Caring Liberals Time Vision Visions
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Bureaucracy Doctors Government Hospitals People
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Civilization Effect
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Class Students Technology
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
Americans Jobs Wages Want
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Blame Culture Praise World
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
History Past World
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
People Time Waste Will Work
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Exercise Free speech Numbers People Property Rights
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
America Population Promise Radical states United
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
Country Global warming Tomorrow Weather
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Complexity March People Science Technology
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Fact Ideas Order Work
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Freedom Government People Road Saying
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Feeling Thinking
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
America Fate People Slavery Today
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Country Democrats Republicans Women
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Battle Civilization
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
Information Knowledge Money Society
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Ignorance Knowledge
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Being Decisions People Wrong
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Care Help Liberals People Want
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Diversity Republicans Time
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Nothing Will
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Economics First Politics Want
Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.
American Jobs Sales World
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Failure Socialism
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Capitalism Gender Race
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Help May Power Society
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Budgets Goal Government Tax
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Liberal Play Radical Rules Today Years
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Civilization Force
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
State Welfare
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Facts Theories Visions
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Baseball Football
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Failure People Trust
Profession: Economist
Birth Date: 30th Jul, 1930
Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and social theorist who is currently Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of high school and served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He received a bachelor's degree, graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1958 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1959. In 1968, he earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago.
Sowell has served on the faculties of several universities, including Cornell University and University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked for think tanks such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He writes from a libertarian conservative perspective, advocating supply-side economics. Sowell has written more than thirty books (a number of which have been reprinted in revised editions), and his work has been widely anthologized. He is a National Humanities Medal recipient for innovative scholarship which incorporated history, economics and political science.
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With more than 4 months left, 2016 in Chicago nears last year's gun violence level
Chicago police officers work on the scene where three officers were shot in the 3700 block of West Polk Street on March 14 in the Homan Square neighborhood of Chicago.
By Alexandra Chachkevitch | Chicago Tribune
Another violent weekend in Chicago left seven people dead and at least 49 others wounded, including a young girl shot in the wrist while attending a vigil for a 14-year-old boy killed early Sunday in Austin.
So far this year, more than 2,700 people have been shot in Chicago, according to data kept by the Tribune. All of last year there were 2,988 shooting victims.
The number of homicides through this year's first eight months is around 460, nearly 30 killings shy of the total for all of 2015.
The most violent stretch of this past weekend was from Saturday afternoon through early Sunday, when at least 26 people were shot, four of them fatally.
One of those killed was 14-year-old Malik Causey. He was shot to death around 4 a.m. in the 5500 block of West North Avenue in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. He died less than a mile from his home in the 1300 block of North Menard Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Two people were killed and at least 13 others were wounded Sunday afternoon and evening, including a girl shot in the wrist as she attended a vigil for the 14-year-old in the 1600 block of North Major Avenue in Austin.
Family gave her age as 7, but police said she was 8.
Another person was killed and at least 13 people were wounded in shootings from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning.
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After years of work in a business, it can be quite profitable to sell it. Being acquired by a larger company is something that many hope for. The process of selling a business is rarely a simple one, however. Federal and New York laws govern the areas of mergers, acquisitions, negotiations and securities exchanges, and they must be followed for the transaction to have legal effect.
How Do I Sell a Business?
Obviously, the initial step in selling a business is to either receive an offer or solicit one. In Waverly, purchase agents do more than simply find buyers. They also lend advice about which offers are worthwhile to consider. Deciding the correct value for the rights you are selling is critical in this process. To do this, financial statements must be updated and prepared to comply with New York and Federal law. Finally, an agreement will be reached in the form of a written contract. All parties should review the contract to ensure that it reflects a complete understanding of what the parties have agreed.
What Will I Give Up in the Business?
The sale of a business is simply the transfer of a right known as "control". The party with control of a business directs its operations and may use the business property as it sees fit. The buyer of a business in Waverly may be interested only in control of the business, and other rights within the company may not be as important. Buyers are typically looking for the cheapest route to control, and this may allow the seller to retain other rights such as the right to future earnings. Negotiations during the sales process are essential, and they should be used as an opportunity to voice fully each party's intentions and concerns.
New York law places certain requirements on parties selling a business. Making the sale run properly and smoothly is much easier with the advice of a local lawyer practicing in Waverly.
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Two local companies receive sizeable grants from NOHFC
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L-R: SF Brush and Contracting president André Larcher, past-president (retiring) Gerry Larcher, Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry Greg Rickford, SFBC general manager Monique Robitaille and Timiskaming-Cochrane PC candidate Bill Foy attend a funding announcement for two local companies on March 25.
Ontario's Minister of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry (MNDNRF), Greg Rickford, was in town Friday, March 25, to announce funding of $460K through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) to two West Nipissing businesses. Sturgeon Falls Brush and Contracting (SFBC) received $400K to purchase new equipment to assist in diversifying their operations, while Best Blasting Mats received $61,333 to upgrade its facility and purchase new equipment to introduce three new product lines.
The announcement was made at the headquarters of Sturgeon Falls Brush and Contracting in Sturgeon Falls, with general manager Monique Robitaille welcoming everyone. "As a small forestry and harvesting sector, we are proud to have such recognition… We decided to fill out an NOHFC application to help finance the newer equipment to be more efficient at what we do best." She noted that the new efficiencies will reduce fuel consumption and help maintain a viable operation. SFBC specializes in land clearing.
President André Larcher, who represents the third generation in the family business, thanked Minister Rickford and the NOHFC for "believing in our goals and direction", helping in "replacing the older equipment with state-of-the-art technologies which will allow us to become environmentally friendly, efficient, competitive, but most of all safe. We will save half a million dollars annually and our operations of harvesting will be able to do 70,000 cubic metres of sustainable forest per year." He also hinted that further news is coming in the near future.
Minister Rickford, who hails from Kenora-Rainy River, took the opportunity to introduce William Foy, PC candidate for Timiskaming-Cochrane, and proceeded to describe his party's vision for the economy of northern Ontario. "Of the 3 biggest expansion areas in Ontario, top three are in northern Ontario – Claybelt included… 13 million people in 200,000 square km of land in the province depend on 1 million of us in 800,000 kilometres in the great republic of northern Ontario: forestry, mining or agriculture… We have been in such an extraordinary opportunity to be integrated into the southern Ontario supply chain."
He spoke to the party's market development strategy; "From exploration to electric energies and everything in between, northern Ontario is going to move beyond resource extraction activities." Rickford noted that the global strife in Ukraine is having impact and does hold opportunity for this area to play an important role. "Nobody is going to be buying birch hardwood plywood from Russia, so Cochrane is in an enviable position. It's unfortunate that what is going on in Ukraine is bringing this to light." He said that many jurisdictions, including the USA, are looking towards northern Ontario to fulfill their needs.


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Will PUBG Mobile be banned? All you need to know
There are reports that the government is considering a ban on another 275 apps. Unfortunately for PUBG Mobile fans, the online multiplayer game is believed to be part of this list of 275 apps
BusinessToday.In | August 3, 2020 | Updated 11:28 IST
PUBG Mobile fans are in for rough days as the government is considering a ban on the online multiplayer battle royale game. After the government banned 59 Chinese apps on June 29, it announced on Monday that 47 more Chinese apps have also been banned. These apps are mostly clones of the previously banned apps such as CamScanner. However, there are reports that the government is considering a ban on another 275 apps. Unfortunately for PUBG Mobile fans, the online multiplayer game is believed to be part of this list of 275 apps.
PUBG or PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is one of the most popular mobile games to have come out in the last few years. It is particularly popular in India where the game has been downloaded 175 million times.
However, there is stil confusion around the origin of the app. Many believe that it is a South Korean mobile game while some claim it is Chinese. Let's look at the facts.
Is PUBG a Chinese product?
PUBG was developed by a South Korean video game company called Bluehole. It was officially released in 2017 and quickly became the most popular mobile gaming app across the world. Soon after China's largest multinational conglomerate Tencent bought a considerable stake (11.5%) in the popular game and later even developed a mobile version of the game.
Difference between PUBG and PUBG Mobile
Like many other online multiplayer games, PUBG is available on both PC and mobile phones/tablets.
The mobile phone version of the game is called PUBG Mobile. The PC version of the game was created by Bluehole alone while PUBG Mobile was developed by Bluehole in partnership with Tencent Games, a subsidiary of Tencent. BlueHole has complete ownership of the PC version of the game.
Tencent is the official publisher of PUBG Mobile. They had launched it for the global markets back in 2018 and it became an instant sensation. To say that the game is a Chinese product would not be factual.
Privacy Policy of PUBG Mobile
According to PUBG's official privacy policy, the game has servers in India where the data of the Indian users get stored. The company has servers in China. Aside from India and China, the company also has servers in the US and Singapore. The question here arises whether data of Indian users is being stored on Chinese servers. The company has maintained that such is not the case.
Third-party data sharing policy
According to PUBG Mobile, the company is free to share user data with any of its third-party apps. The terms and conditions of the game allow the company to share user data with third-party apps but it also takes responsibility that personal information of the users will not be disclosed by its third-party apps.
Till now, there have been no reports of misuse of user data by PUBG Mobile. However, parents across the world have been complaining that their children have been spending too much time on the app and have even demanded that the game should be banned. Pakistan had banned the app for this exact reason on July 1 but the ban was soon lifted following a court order.
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Following concerns about the use of mesh as part of the surgical treatment of vaginal prolapse and urinary incontinence, a Senate Inquiry into the number of women in Australia who have had transvaginal mesh implants and related matters was held. The report on its findings was released on 28 March 2018. ACT Health has incorporated the findings and recommendations of this report into our response.
On 30 November 2017, the Therapeutic Goods Administration removed a number of mesh products whose sole use is the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse via transvaginal implantation from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods. The TGA has established a Transvaginal (urogynaecological) surgical mesh hub webpage for consumers.
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) has developed a number of guidance documents for patients, clinicians and for health service organisations. More information can be found here.
The ACT Health response:
Contact process (complete):
In 2018, ACT Health sent letters to all women who had been identified as having undergone surgery or treatment of this type at both Canberra Hospital and Calvary Public Hospital, within the past 20 years, to notify them of the issue and the options available to them if they were concerned.
Review process (complete):
Women from the contact process who had concerns have been reviewed at both the Canberra Hospital and Calvary Public Hospital Gynaecology Outpatient Departments.
Ongoing use of TGA approved mesh 'tapes', 'slings' or 'hammocks' used for Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) by doctors credentialed to perform the procedures.
ACT Pelvic Mesh Service
Canberra Health Services has established a dedicated multidisciplinary team-based service for ACT women experiencing complications that may be related to pelvic mesh. The team includes dedicated medical, nursing, pelvic physiotherapy and pain psychology staff.
Inclusion criteria, woman or person:
Who underwent surgery for transvaginal mesh (TVM) in the ACT and are experiencing mesh related complications such as mesh erosion, pelvic pain, painful sex, abnormal vaginal bleeding and recurrent infections
Who underwent surgery for TVM outside the ACT but now resides in the ACT
Requesting/requiring review as part of the contact process conducted in the ACT who received a letter from an ACT health service in regards to having had a mesh procedure (letters sent 2018/19)
Referrals for women who reside in areas surrounding the ACT will be considered (if travel to Sydney would be problematic).
NB. Transvaginal mesh includes polypropylene mesh used for pelvic organ prolapse and 'slings', 'tapes' or 'hammocks' used to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Includes prospective SUI procedures using transvaginal mesh.
Women who had transvaginal mesh related surgery in a state or territory outside of the ACT and who reside outside the ACT.
Women who underwent surgery for pelvic organ prolapse or urinary incontinence but did not have transvaginal mesh or tape implanted during their surgery.
Abdominal mesh
Accessing the service - Referrals should be addressed to 'Dr Roopendra Banerji – Pelvic Mesh Clinic' at the Gynaecology Outpatient Department at the Canberra Hospital. Fax referrals to (02) 5124 3834 (Gynaecology Outpatient Department, Centenary Hospital for Women and Children, Canberra Health Services).
Enquires: Phone: 5124 7474 (Admin support).Email: Meshreview@act.gov.au
General Practitioners are requested to include in their referral background information about the mesh procedure undertaken, surgeon and hospital (if known) and the current concerns or complications (e.g. erosion, infection, bleeding, pain). Please also include any investigations or information on related procedures.
NB. All patients requiring further investigation for potential mesh removal will be referred to the Urogynaecology Service at Westmead Hospital, Sydney.
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Contradictory Headlines, Pt 1: GFW Marketplace Closing
16th August 2013 / 2:00PM
Games For Windows Live – Microsoft's heinous piece of burdenware that dragged down even the best of games – hasn't been much of A Thing for a while, but some vestiges remain. Like the human appendix and pretty much every part of a platypus, however, they don't really serve a purpose anymore. So the Games For Windows marketplace, which you may remember from such hits as that time they halfheartedly turned it into a Steam clone and that other time it got vomited back into existence by an Xbox? Come next week, it's history.
Fittingly, given Microsoft's apparent commitment to the service, the marketplace's death knell came with neither a bang nor a whimper. I'm not even sure if dogs could hear it.
"As part of the upcoming Xbox 360 system update, Microsoft Points will be retired, and the Xbox.com PC marketplace will be closed as of August 22, 2013. We encourage you to spend your Microsoft Points balance prior to this change. Although you will not be able to purchase new games, you can continue to enjoy previously purchased content by downloading them through the Games for Windows LIVE client software as usual."
So GFWL will continue to exist, which is a bummer – but also a fairly inconsequential one these days. That said, there have been rumblings that a couple of its best-loved victims, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den and Batman: Arkham City, are about to remove their GFWL requirements. So everybody wins.
Well, except those of you with unspent Microsoft Points. But hey, you can still use them on, um, full-price versions of games you already own. Or, er, the largely defunct Age of Empires Online. See? Options. Glass half-full! Positivity!
OK yeah, Microsoft really doesn't give a shit about PC at all anymore, does it? But wait, I have heard a resounding blast from RPS' patented News Horn that suggests the exact opposite. How strange. More very, very soon.
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Schools have been ideological battlegrounds in the past. In the coronavirus crisis, they are again
Written by Chris Wallace, Visiting Fellow, School of History, ANU., Australian National University
Conflict between the federal and state governments broke into the open yesterday when Education Minister Dan Tehan attacked, and later apologised to, a premier over a sensitive element of the coronavirus pandemic's management: school education.
The episode saw Tehan strenuously criticise Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews over his government's refusal to allow face-to-face teaching for all students to resume in the state's schools.
Tehan's attack not only breached Prime Minister Scott Morrison's advice so far in the pandemic that Australians should follow their premiers' advice, but also, embarrassingly, came as the Victorian government announced that a Melbourne teacher had tested positive to COVID-19, with the resulting closure of the Meadowglen Primary School.
Schools should be peaceful sites for the education and development of our children – at least, that's the ideal. For the past half-century, they have instead often been flashpoints for philosophical and political struggles that capitalise on the ferocious passion of parents wanting what's best for their children.
Tehan's intervention yesterday was a miscalculated escalation of the campaign the Morrison government began last week to pressure reluctant state governments to resume face-to-face teaching in government schools. It is something only the states can authorise, since they have constitutional authority over school education.
The Morrison government is also using its spending power in the private system to pressure private schools to do the same.
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Federal health advisers say face-to-face teaching is safe, judging on balance that its educational benefit outweighs what so far appears to be a modest health risk for most children. However, the resumption of face-to-face teaching is not merely a matter of teachers and children in classrooms. It's also a trigger for mass people movement at a time the lockdown has not completed its job.
As Andrews said last week:
The vast majority of people know and understand that a million kids, from the Catholic, government and independent sector, roaming around Victoria going to and from school, tens of thousands of teachers, hundreds of thousands of parents doing drop-offs and pick-ups – that's hardly staying at home, is it? It's hardly consistent with doing anything other than spreading the virus.
The stand-off is the result of a steady shift over five decades in the pattern of school funding in Australia. Cheryl Saunders, emeritus professor of law at the University of Melbourne, argues it has led to a "bizarre division between the governance arrangements for public and private schools that … is now becoming unsustainable".
She believes the conflict between the public health regulations being laid down by state governments to contain the spread of COVID-19, and the grant conditions being laid down by the Morrison government to pressure private schools back to face-to-face teaching, is ripe for a constitutional legal challenge.
Historically in Australia, government funding only went to free and secular public schools. The federal government, lacking constitutional responsibility for school education, did not fund them at all.
Conservative prime minister Robert Menzies broke with that tradition in 1964, initiating "state aid" for non-government schools. Two years later, at Gough Whitlam's instigation, the Labor opposition changed its policy in that direction too.
Demographic as well as political factors drove this change. The post-war baby boom triggered a rapid expansion in school numbers that state governments, along with the Catholic school system, struggled to finance. Overcrowding and under-resourcing were rife.
Federal governments of both political persuasions sent money to the states for schools in the form of "tied grants", with conditions attached. State governments were not compelled to accept the conditions attached to the grants, but if they did not, the money could be withheld. This system of tied grants over time vastly expanded federal spending on schools, but it did not change the federal government's position from one of influence to one of authority over them.
There was also a profound difference between the Coalition and Labor approach to school funding. Coalition governments explicitly, and over time aggressively, favoured private schools. In contrast, Labor adopted a "needs-based" approach, allocating funding according to student need, irrespective of whether a school was government or private.
Liberal prime minister John Howard lavishly expanded private school spending. The dramatic growth in religious schools under his government, from Christian fundamentalist through to traditional Islamic schools, hastened the fragmentation of the Australian school system. Despite declining religious faith in Australia overall, taxpayers subsidise one of the highest concentrations of religious schools of any country in the developed world.
Once established, bloated federal spending on private schools has proved hard to unwind by the occasional Labor politician brave enough to propose even relatively modest changes to it. For example, Mark Latham proposed when Labor opposition leader to redistribute money from the richest private schools to needy government and non-government schools. With the LNP in power federally for 18 of the past 24 years, the pattern of massive federal private school spending has been cemented into the budget.
The Morrison government's inability to direct schools to resume face-to-face teaching at this point in its management of the COVID-19 pandemic underlines its relative powerlessness, despite its massive spending on them. Saunders' warning about the constitutional fragility of the government's manipulation of grants to non-government schools to force the issue should give it pause for thought.
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The contemporary history of the coronavirus crisis shows the premiers' cautious approach overall has in any case been correct to date.
The decision in March of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Daniel Andrews to get out in front of the federal government's foot-dragging over a lockdown gave Morrison little choice but to pivot behind the two biggest states on the issue.
The premiers' informally coordinated action spurred a shift in federal stance that undoubtedly saved many lives. It also saved the Morrison government from the political embarrassment of what in retrospect was clearly a catastrophic crisis management misstep in the making.
The premiers may well be right, too, about holding off a bit longer on the resumption of face-to-face teaching at this point in the coronavirus curve.
Authors: Chris Wallace, Visiting Fellow, School of History, ANU., Australian National University
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10 Must-Read Biographies And Memoirs Of Famous New Yorkers
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It is no secret that New York City has played a particular role in nurturing some of history's most iconic movers and shakers. Global influence has been an integral part of its landscape, and the city's culture would be nothing without the individuals who possess it. We profile ten must-read biographies and memoirs of some of New York's most prominent figures.
The Powerbroker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
Robert Moses was arguably the most powerful man in New York City for four decades. In addition to his contributions of thousands of acres of public parks, hundreds of miles of roads, seven bridges, the UN Headquarters, and Lincoln Center, he at one time held so many government positions that without him, the city would have ceased to function. He often used this influence to bully mayors into fulfilling his wishes —many of which solidified the race and class segregation among New York's neighborhoods. The Powerbroker is as much a story about power and its destructive nature as it is about the famous urban planner who physically shaped the city we know today. Though the book is a 1,300-page commitment, it's so compelling that you won't be able to put it down.
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
This scrupulously researched biography digs beneath the surface of Malcolm X's many personas, providing the most complete picture of the fiercely passionate activist to date. Malcolm X is presented as a complex and reflective figure who was a master of reinvention. Marable debunks some popular assumptions such as the exaggerated criminal activity of his youth (presented in his autobiography to make the narrative of his transformation more powerful), and he looks more deeply into Malcom X's split with the Nation of Islam and the facts around his assassination. Malcolm X's more controversial and contradictory qualities are discussed while chronicling what remained constant: his search for truth in his political and spiritual life.
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Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday By Donald Clarke
Though Billie Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, is the best-known story of the iconic artist's life, Wishing on the Moon serves as a thorough and accurate biography. Granted access to a large collection of interviews with people connected to Billie Holiday throughout her life, Clarke tells the story of a woman beat down by racism, sexism, and drug addiction until her untimely death. He sought to present her a hero as opposed to a troubled victim. While he falls short of this goal, he writes with a great deal of empathy and provides a critical review of her work and its place in both the pop and jazz world.
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The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
Socialist, pacifist, organizer, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Dorothy Day was a spiritual and political force to be reckoned with. A journalist by trade, she documented many events of people working in solidarity to create a more just society. The Long Loneliness, written in 1952, delves deep into Day's active inner world. She was constantly reflecting on the principals of her religion and using this inspiration to transform both herself and society. With the significant moments of her life as the backdrop — her childhood, her first job as a journalist with the New York Call, her imprisonment for demonstrating with women suffragists, her daughter's birth, her founding the Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin — The Long Loneliness is a deeply personal and engrossing story of one of the great social activists of the 20th century.
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
Whether you revere or revile him, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the man of steamships and railroads, was an undeniable force. From his humble beginnings on Staten Island to his reign as what T.J. Stiles calls 'an unelected king that never pretended to rule for his people,' his biography is as much a story of American economic history as it is of Vanderbilt's life. He lived through the early formative years of the United States, from 20 years after the nation's birth through the Civil War, and this book covers this history as well as his competition with John D. Rockefeller. Some would argue that he is the man responsible for our current version of American capitalism, including corporate consolidation and the widening chasm between the rich and the poor. Whether or not you agree with his ideas, his story is enlightening and remains relevant to contemporary society.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 1: 1884-1933 by Blanche Weisen Cook
The first in a set of three volumes documenting Eleanor Roosevelt's life, Blanche Weisen Cook tells the story of a First Lady who redefined the role, publicly disagreeing with her husband's policies and working tirelessly on behalf of the people. Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 1 covers the early years of Roosevelt's life and the influences of her aristocratic family, which was ravaged by alcoholism and tragedy. Learn of the difficulties of her marriage, and follow her all the way until she reaches the White House. A woman who strove to fight against racism and advance opportunities for women and workers, Mrs. Roosevelt, a powerful and often misunderstood American figure, is demystified in Cook's volumes.
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Zami, a New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Zami is a study in truth-telling. In what the publisher calls a 'biomythography, combining elements of history, biography and myth', the prose reflects Audre Lorde's poetic prowess (she was New York's Poet Laureate from 1991-1993), while her characters serve as metaphors for the truths she uncovered in her life. The stories of women who shaped her give the reader a glimpse into lesbian life in the West Village during the McCarthy Era in the 1950s – what feels like a distant past to many of us growing up less than 50 years later. Lorde's world was one where difference was assumed more than it was actually investigated. The result is her story which is firmly rooted in, as well as gracefully transcendent of, her multiple identities as a black lesbian writer. It is a tale of love, loneliness and self-definition that is not to be missed.
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Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
More than ten years before the runaway success of the Broadway play written in the president's name, there was an over 800-page biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Hamilton was a man who grew from a young orphan into a central political figure. A rival of Thomas Jefferson, he was known for his propensity for conflict, which ultimately got him killed in a seemingly baseless duel with Aaron Burr. Chernow extends a sympathetic eye, though, reminding us that Hamilton lived during a time of vicious political attacks. He was also an outspoken abolitionist, a believer of meritocracy, and composed some of George Washington's key correspondence. We also get to see his softer, private side: that of a gentle and loving father.
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James Baldwin, A Biography by David Leeming
James Baldwin was born in Harlem in 1924. He famously fled New York and headed to Paris in 1948, fearing that he wouldn't survive the racism of his home country. A prolific writer, his fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry chronicle life amidst the backdrop of tumultuous social times. His searing intellect and beautiful prose made him one of the greatest American authors of all times. David Leeming chronicles Baldwin's life in this biography, a respectful and loving portrait of a man who made you believe that no matter the depth of the struggle, you had the strength and resilience to survive it. Though this is not the first biography of Baldwin, it reads as the most true.
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My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
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Unusual Events Need an Unusual Response!
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Text: Luke 1:46-56 Mary's Outburst
Question of the Day: How do believers, like Jesus' mother, Mary, give an outburst of praise when God does something spectacular?
Mary had just gone through a time of a much unexpected event and a very unusual happening, and her head must have been spinning. After her encounter with the angel, Gabriel (which would make anyone tremble with fear), she needed to get away and think things through and get her mind around this event, so she had packed up and went to visit her relative, Elizabeth, who herself had gone through a very unusual event herself in being pregnant after she was an old lady, but who also would know how to help her through this time of trial. She may have told Joseph about her encounter with Gabriel, the Holy Spirit coming on her, and now, according to the word of the angel, she was pregnant with the Messiah, but we aren't told anything about that happening.
So now here she was ready to enter the house of Elizabeth, and as she did, the baby in Elizabeth's womb literally jumped and gave a vicious kick. Elizabeth, being "filled with the Holy Spirit" then blessed Mary and exclaimed "blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!" Then she quizzed Mary as to "why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoke to her from the Lord."
Joseph hadn't had his dream from the angel of the Lord yet (according to Matthew's account), and their potential marriage hadn't taken place, but here was a woman of great faith who believed the word of the Lord for a most unusual happening to her body! So how did she respond? It was at that point Mary gave this offering of praise to the Lord: "My whole inner being delights in magnifying the Lord, and my spirit soars rejoicing in God my Savior since he has looked with favor on the humble estate of His servant. From this day on all generations will call me "richly blessed by God" because God has done great things for me and has made His holy name to be magnified greatly.
"He has proven His mercy toward those who hold Him in high respect and reverence generation after generation; He has shown His powerful arm time and again; He has time and again scattered the proud because of the thoughts of their hearts; He has brought down mighty kings from their lofty position and He has lifted up those who are humble and meek; the rich He has sent away empty; He has come to the aid of Israel again and again by remembering His merciful lovingkindness that He has promised to Abraham and to his descendants forever."
Then we are told that Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three months and then returned to her home. It would take some time for the dust to settle on this spectacular event; so, was she ready to go ahead with her plans to marry Joseph so Jesus would be raised by a godly man? How would he ever come to terms with her pregnancy? Her mind and her world must have been swirling around her as she made that journey (all alone according to the record) back to her home and to Joseph—her beloved husband-to-be. Yet here is the point: she had responded correctly in faith and acceptance, she knew that God would work out all the details of her swirling cyclonic life at this point, and she had given an outburst of praise to God that is still with us 2000+ years later inspiring us to bring praise to God—no matter what has just happened.
Prayer: O God, may an outburst of praise to You come from our lives when events take an unusual twist and our lives are in a swirl. Teach our faith to be as strong as Mary's was when You show Yourself mighty on our behalf.
Practical Hint: Prepare your heart in faith for unusual happenings—as you never know what God is up to tomorrow in your life!


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A Moment of Truth for Obama: Will He Replace His Bribed Economic Advisors?
By way of background:
Not surprisingly, Lawrence Summers is convinced that he deserved every penny of the $8 million that Wall Street firms paid him last year. And why shouldn't he be cut in on the loot from the loopholes in the toxic derivatives market that he pushed into law when he was Bill Clinton's treasury secretary? No one has been more persistently effective in paving the way for the financial swindles that enriched the titans of finance while impoverishing the rest of the world than the man who is now the top economic adviser to President Obama.
It is especially disturbing that Summers got most of the $8 million from a major hedge fund at a time when such totally unregulated rich-guys-only investment clubs stand to make the most off the Obama administration's plan for saving the banks. The scheme, as announced by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, a Summers protégé, is to clean up the toxic holdings of the banks using taxpayer money and then turn them over to hedge funds that will risk little of their own capital. At least the banks are somewhat government-regulated, which cannot be said of the hedge funds, thanks to Summers.
It was Summers, as much as anyone, who in the Clinton years prevented the regulation of the hedge funds that are at the center of the explosion of the derivatives bubble, and the fact that D.E. Shaw, a leading hedge fund, paid the Obama adviser $5.2 million last year does suggest a serious conflict of interest. That sum is what Summers raked in for a part-time gig, in addition to the $2.77 million he received for 40 speaking engagements, largely before banks and investment firms....
Summers was a top adviser to the Democratic presidential candidate last year, and that might have enhanced his speaking fees, which seem to have a base rate of $67,500, the amount he received on each of two occasions when he appeared at Lehman Brothers before that company went bankrupt. Lehman had purchased a 20 percent stake in D.E. Shaw while Summers was employed by the hedge fund, and it would be interesting to know if the subject of the overlapping business came up during Summers' visit to Lehman.
Lehman was only one on an impressive list of top financial firms that consulted Summers during a troubled period. Goldman Sachs was so interested in his thoughts that it paid him more than $200,000 for two talks, even though it soon needed $12 billion in taxpayer bailout funds. Citigroup, which has been going through hard times, managed only a $54,000 fee for a Summers rap. Merrill Lynch could pony up only a scant $45,000 for a Summers appearance last Nov. 12, but that was at a point when Merrill was in deep trouble, with the government arranging its sale. Summers, anticipating an appointment in the administration of the newly elected Obama and perhaps wanting to avoid any embarrassment the fee might bring, decided to turn over the $45,000 to a charity.
Why was someone as compromised as Summers made the White House's point man overseeing $2.86 trillion in bailout funds to the financial moguls whom he had enabled in creating this mess and many of whom had benefited him financially? Will no congressional panel ever quiz Summers about his grand theory that the derivatives market required no government supervision because, as he testified to a Senate subcommittee in July of 1998: "The parties to these kinds of contracts are largely sophisticated financial institutions that would appear to be eminently capable of protecting themselves from fraud and counterparty insolvencies. … "
The very same executives that Summers had previously assured us could be trusted without any regulation. Why should we now trust Summers any more than we trust them?....If this was happening in a Republican administration, scores of Democrats in Congress would be all over it, asking tough questions about what exactly did Summers do to earn all that money from the D.E. Shaw hedge fund. As it is, with their silence they are complicit in this emerging scandal of the banking bailout.


A closer look at the Democrats' Iowa Poll results
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Horse race rank: No. 1
Support: 45 percent, up from 42 percent
It's time for a woman to be president, 80 percent of likely caucusgoers say — and 42 percent feel strongly about it.
The former U.S. secretary of state faces a deep deficit with younger voters, but makes up for it with older voters, who make up a bigger portion of the Democratic electorate.
Clinton captures 65 percent of caucusgoers age 65 and older, while Sanders gets only 27 percent.
Far more high-income voters prefer Clinton: 57 percent of those with an income of $100,000 or more pick her; 28 percent choose Sanders.
And Clinton wins with 60 percent of caucusgoers who think the system works reasonably well for those who work hard to get ahead, although two-thirds of the Democratic electorate think the system is rigged.
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Her favorability rating is 81 percent, right behind Sanders at 82 percent. Eighty-six percent have positive feelings about former President Bill Clinton, and 90 percent about President Barack Obama.
Asked if they'd be enthusiastic if she becomes the nominee, 73 percent said yes –— and 53 percent are "very" enthusiastic.
The candidate who would be the oldest president in history upon election fares very well with the youngest Democratic voters in Iowa. Among those under 35, 63 percent give the Vermont U.S. senator their support, and just 27 percent back Clinton.
First-time caucusgoers prefer Sanders (53 percent) over Clinton (34 percent). But this group makes up a relatively small portion of the caucus electorate.
Among voters who think the system is rigged against all but the very rich and powerful, Sanders wins with 50 percent, compared with Clinton's 39 percent.
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He also has an advantage with men: He leads by 5 points. But Clinton overrides that with a 10-point lead with women — and a majority of the Democratic caucus electorate is female.
Those without a religious affiliation like Sanders better (67 percent), while 27 percent back Clinton.
Sanders wins with independents, 55 percent to 30 percent.
Liberals go for Sanders (51 percent) over Clinton (41 percent).
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Aug 1, 2020 - Sports
Cardinals-Brewers game postponed again
Jacob Knutson
Daniel Ponce de Leon delivering a pitch on July 29 against the Minnesota Twins. Photo: Hannah Foslien/Getty Images
Saturday's Cardinals-Brewers game in Milwaukee was postponed for a second day in a row after one St. Louis player and three team staffers tested positive for the coronavirus, the New York Times and Washington Post report.
Why it matters: So far, its Major League Baseball's 16th postponement of its 2020 season and adds to existing doubts that the season can continue amid the pandemic.
The state of play: The St. Louis Cardinals announced that at least two players tested positive for the virus, requiring the delay of the Cardinals-Brewers scheduled for Friday night.
The team tested its players prior to the Cardinals-Twins game on July 29 in Minneapolis.
The big picture: The Cardinals are the second team to experience an outbreak less than two weeks into the 2020 season.
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How the election could change sports
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The outcome of the 2020 election will greatly impact the sports world. And through its efforts to increase voter turnout, the sports world could greatly impact the outcome of the 2020 election.
Where it stands: College sports are off. The NCAA is requiring that all Division I programs give their student athletes the day off from sports today, an idea that was first introduced in June by Georgia Tech assistant basketball coach Eric Reveno.


Is Cam New England's Stairway to 7?
There are only a few free agent signings in the last 20 years of sport (Lebron James to the Heat, Barry Bonds to the Giants, Shaq to the Lakers, A-Rod to the Rangers, Rice to the Raiders) that rival what I believe will become the most impactful signing in the history of the NFL … Cam Newton coming to the New England Patriots.
There have been a few blockbuster free agent signings over the last 20 years … Lebron James to the Miami Heat may very well top the list.
The storylines are endless.
You have probably the most dominant franchise in the history of modern sport in the Pats, seemingly abruptly halted with a wild card weekend defeat followed by the departure of their fearless leader and greatest of all time, Tom Brady.
Never once in the history of the NFL has a team lost a league MVP and acquired a league MVP in the same offseason.
There is now a QB race in New England between two former Auburn Tigers who couldn't be any more different.
There may not be a more boisterous, off-the-field headache of a QB in the league in Cam Newton, coming into a more business-like team first environment in New England.
And on top of all this, you will have Bill Belichick who will be coaching a team for the first time in 20 years without Tom Brady, who will inevitably answer everyone's question by season's end … was it the Belichick system or the Goat TB12 responsible for the 6 rings?
Jarrett Stidham has only thrown 4 NFL passes and one of them was a pick 6. Compounded by the fact that he was a 4th round selection and is only 23 years old, many believe Stidham may not be ready. While others, especially close to the organization, maintain Stidham may very well still be the starter when the 20-21 season begins.
Why this is a great signing for the Patriots:
Jarett Stidham isn't ready to start. Stidham has thrown a total of 4 passes in the NFL, one of which was a "Pick-six" interception. By all accounts, the New England coaching staff is very high on Stidham, but coming in at 23 years old trying to replace the GOAT is a formidable task.
Cam Newton is an upgrade over Brian Hoyer. While Tom was the GOAT, he was not mobile whatsoever. Josh McDaniels and the offense are likely going to change things up quite a bit schematically with a more mobile QB leading the way. The positive about Hoyer was that he knew the Patriots system … but unfortunately for Hoyer, that system is likely changing now given the personnel.
Cam gives them the best chance to win this season. If healthy, Newton is undeniably the more talented QB (and it's not close). Cam was a former #1 Overall Pick, 3x Pro Bowler and a former MVP. Belichick is a win first type of coach, and Newton (again, if healthy) gives them the best chance to win this season.
Cam Newton was a National Champion and Heisman Trophy Winner at Auburn (coincidentally Stidham's same alma matter), as well as a NFL MVP and 3x Pro Bowler with the Carolina Panthers. If healthy, Newton will be the most talented QB ever to wear a Patriots uniform.
True QB competition this offseason. Many people thought the Pats were going to draft a QB in the draft and yet they held tight. Many thought they were going to make a move earlier in free agency for a guy like Jameis Winston. Competition breeds success and having two legitimate QBs in the mix will make them both better.
The Value was absolutely insane. Newton agreed to a one-year deal with a base of $1.05 mill, the minimum salary for a player with his amount of experience (9 years) in the league … and only half of that money is guaranteed. Now with all the incentives, Newton can earn an additional $5.75 million, creating a max value of the contract of $7.5 million. Low risk, high reward … it doesn't get any better than that.
Antonio Brown played in one game as a New England Patriot and cost them $9 million. Needless to say that was an investment did not pay the expected dividends.
The Patriots have a history of bringing in controversial, yet talented players over the years . Some have worked (Corey Dillon, Aquib Talib, Randy Moss) and some haven't (Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, Adalius Thomas and most notably and most recently Antonio Brown).
It's the most important position in all of sport. It has been the most dominant franchise in the history of sport. And now you have one of the most polarizing talents in the National Football League who has been handed the keys to replace the GOAT.
The Greatest Dynasty of All Time
A sports dynasty is defined very concisely as a "team or individual that dominates their sport or league for an extended length of time." Or more broadly defined by Merriam's Webster Dictionary "a powerful group that maintains its position for a considerable time."
The very nature of a dynasty evokes a physiological sense of envy. If you're looking up from the bottom, "they're cheaters!" … and if you're at the top looking down, "they hate us cuz they ain't us." This lofty term could not ring any more true than it does with what now can be considered as one of the greatest professional sports dynasties in the modern sports era … the New England Patriots.
Their story is one from a fairy tale … their star QB Drew Bledsoe going down against their hated rival (the New York Jets) in 2001, only for their 2nd year, 6th round draft pick QB Tom Brady to survive a snowstorm and invent the "Tuck Rule" against Oakland and go on to lead his team to their first ever Super Bowl win in 2001 as a -14 point underdog to the St Louis Rams. Since then, they have not had one losing season, they've won 15 divisional titles and played in 12 AFC Championship games, been to 7 Super Bowls, and are attempting to win their 5th Super Bowl title next Sunday. They've won 196 times (average of 13.75 wins per season) in the regular season since 2001 (next closest is the Colts with 166). In the playoffs, they have 24 victories (9 more than the next closest in the Steelers).
Brady celebrates after defeating Oakland. The birth of the "Tuck Rule" allowed the Pats to maintain the football on a critical drive, setting the stage for Adam Vinatieri and the Patriots to win their first ever Super Bowl Title.
Undoubtedly, there has been controversy … whether it was "Spygate" in 2007 where Head Coach Bill Belichick was disciplined by the league for videotaping the Jets' defensive coaches' signals from an unauthorized location, or it was "Deflategate" in 2015 where Tom Brady was accused of tampering with footballs in the AFC Title game against the Colts. $1 million dollar fines, loss of draft picks, and the suspension of their superstar players. Most recently, there was a rule change surrounding Belichick's deceptive offensive substitution methods which "unfairly" confused defenses. Oh and mixed in there, one of their star players was charged with murder and sentenced to life.
Before we digress any further, what this conversation should naturally lend itself to is the discussion of whether this Patriots franchise is truly the greatest dynasty in the history of sports or, perhaps more specifically, of the modern sports era?
Comparing dynasties is hard because you're not comparing apples to apples … and thus there is some wiggle room based on how you evaluate league structure, salary cap constraints, league competitiveness and a number of other variables relative to the number of titles won over a period of time.
Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs are probably the most comparable modern sports dynasty (5 Titles in 17 years from 1999-2014) to the New England Patriots.
Let's start with the NBA. You have the Boston Celtics who won 11 NBA Championships in the span of 13 years from 1957-69 led by Red Auerbach and Bill Russell. You have MJ's Chicago Bulls who won 6 titles in 8 years (1991 – 98). And most recently the San Antonio Spurs, who have taken 5 NBA Championships in the last 17 years ('99, '03, '05, '07 and '14) under Tim Duncan. The difference between basketball and football is there are 5 players playing at one time for a team versus 11 in football. Historically it has been a sport that has catered to superstars being able to carry their team and thus much easier to dominate, just ask Lebron, MJ, Russell or Magic.
Red Auerbach, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics won 11 NBA Championships in 13 years from 1957-1969.
The MLB of course belongs to the Bronx Bombers, where the New York Yankees rattled off 16 World Series from 1936-64 in what started with the rise of Joe DiMaggio and ended with the twilight of Mickey Mantle. The caveat here was there weren't any playoffs back then; rather, it was simply the team with the best record who went right to the World Series.
Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle and the New York Yankees won 16 World Series titles from 1936-64.
The NHL's best dynasty was the Montreal Canadians who won 16 Stanley Cup Finals from 1951-1979 … although at the time there were only 6 teams in the league and thus simply not comparable.
Two of the greatest dynasties in sports came from college basketball. John Wooden led the UCLA Bruins to 13 Final Four appearances and won 10 national titles from 1962-76, and on the women's side, Geno Aueriemma has led the UConn Lady Huskies to win 11 of the last 21 national championships. The Lady Huskies have been to nine straight Final Fours and have two separate win streaks of 90 or more games. While these are respectable in their own right, college athletics is simply not comparable to professional sports. The NCAA actually lends itself to "dynasties" by its very structure. There is no draft or salary cap, and so when a team wins a championship, they're able to attract the best recruits in the country and consequently you see "rich get richer" phenomena … look at John Calipari's Kentucky Wildcats and Nick Saban's Alabama Tide.
The salary cap, the draft, numerous penalties (loss of draft picks, fines, suspensions), countless personnel changes … and through it all Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady have built, what should be considered the greatest sports dynasty of the modern era.
If you live outside New England you hate them – the star QB is a little too perfectly polished, he's a little too pretty, he has the supermodel wife, and has been accused of facilitating the deflation of footballs in one game; while the mastermind coach wears ragged hoodies, says absolutely nothing to the media, and has been accused of filming opposing coaches to gain a strategic advantage.
Love 'em or hate 'em, one cannot ignore the magnitude of what this New England Patriots team has accomplished over the last 16 years. An empire, a dictatorship, a dynasty … you can call them whatever you want. They win.
And while their diehard fan-base loves coining commandments like "Do your job", "In Belichick, We Trust" and "The GOAT" … if in fact this Patriots team does beat the Atlanta Falcons and Roger Goodell has to hand them their 5th Super Bowl trophy in 16 years next Sunday, there will be little doubt that this dynasty is the "Greatest of All Time."
How the NFL is Doing One Quarter into the 2015 Season
So what have we learned after the first quarter of the NFL season? Well first and foremost, the NFL continues its dominance amongst American professional sports as the premier league, not only in this country but also the world.
In 2014, the average NFL game drew 68,776 fans, more than 25,000 fans per game than the next-highest league (the German Bundesliga with 43,500). The English Premier League was third at 36,695 and Major League Baseball was fifth at 30,346. So far this year the NFL is right on par as last year at 68,000 fans a game in attendance per game.
In terms of television, the league continues to do extremely well. The opening game between the Patriots and the Steelers was the highest ever TV rating for an NFL opening game. The game tied the Vikings and Saints from 2010 with a 17.7 rating, which was up five percent from last season's opening tilt between the Packers and the Seahawks. Given all the media coverage surrounding Tom Brady and Commissioner Rodger Goodell's prior to the game, the record high TV ratings prove that scandal didn't drive fans from the NFL, rather, it brought them in.
Tom Brady and the New England Patriots unveiled their 2014 Super Bowl banner prior to the 2015 NFL season opener against the Pittsburg Steelers.
The NFL continued their tradition of playing games across the pond in London this past week when the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets played in the famous Wembley Stadium. This season's international NFL matchup was the second-fastest selling game in the eight year history of the professional football league's International Series. In fact, only the inaugural 2007 matchup that pitted the Dolphins against the New York Giants sold out quicker than this year's game. The tickets to the game ranged from $26.53 to $241.08 according to the NFL UK website as 90% of the ticket holders were reported to be from the UK. These have been extremely lucrative to the league, as last year's three matchups generated an estimated $30 million in revenue. This game was the first of three games to be held at Wembley Stadium this year, with the Bills playing the Jaguars on October 25th, and the Lions playing the Chiefs on November 1st . Both of these games are expected to sell out.
The Miami Dolphins played the New York Jets in front of a sold out Wembley Stadium in London, England in Week 4.
On the field there are still several, six to be exact, undefeated teams including the Bengals, Packers, Falcons, Panthers, Broncos and of course the Patariots. The New England Patriots Power Rating Index actually ranks this year's team even higher than the 2007 undefeated team. Perhaps the two biggest surprises of those 6 undefeated teams come from the same division, the NFL South with the Atlanta Falcons and the Carolina Panthers both remaining perfect through four games.
A big talking point among the sports gambling world is the amount of buzz around Draft Kings and Fan Duel. These two startup gambling sites have made a killing from fan to fan wagering surrounding NFL games. DraftKings, a $1.2 billion, Boston-based startup, has raised $375 million in venture capital funding from investors like MLB's venture arm, Melo7 Tech partners, the NHL, and Redpoint Ventures.
The two multi-billion dollar online sports gambling companies, Draft Kings and Fan Duel, have stolen the show with the amount of marketing dollars they've poured into the first quarter of the NFL season.
Since August 1, Draft Kings has spent $81 million on 22,000 ad spots, while Fan-Duel (another billion dollar fantasy sports startup), has spent $20 million on 7,500 advertisement airings according to the Wall Street Journal. The front-end heavy marketing strategy has paid off for DraftKings as they have grown their users from 3 million to 4.5 million over the course of the last month.
All the media coverage on the recent surge of both of these sports wagering startups has triggered lots of discussion of legislation changes and other policies being put in place. Both companies have temporarily banned employees from wagering on sports. Meanwhile, much state legislation has been discussed with politicians engaging in conversation about policies of banning online gambling.
Regardless, the NFL continues to soar as the world's most successful sports league across the vast majority of key performance indicators.


Knights vs Cape Cobras, 20th Match Prediction
Knights vs Cape Cobras, free match prediction
22 Apr 2019 | 18:00 | Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein
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Match abandoned without a ball being bowled (no toss)
Will the Knights get the chance to finish a game without it being washed out?
In the last ten games between the two sides, Cape Cobras have won on nine occasions
Knights are at the bottom of the points table and haven't won a single game this season
Cape Cobras' David Bedingham and Janneman Malan are in good form in the bat and among the leading run-getters this season
Venue: Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein
Toss: To Bat
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The Knights would be up against the Cape Cobras in the 20th game of the CSA T20 Challenge 2019. The two sides would play at the Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein. Cape Cobras lost their last game but look to be in good form with four wins in their six games this season. Knights are yet to open their account as they have suffered losses in three games with the remaining three being washed away by rain.
Knights have a bad record against the Cape Cobras and have lost nine out of the last ten games they have played. Knights would have to play out of their skins to win the next game against the Cape Cobras.
Knights Preview
It was again a washout for Petrus van Biljon's team in their last game against the Lions. They have had three such games this season and it is getting frustrating. The side has lost the other three games they have played and would be desperate for a win. Their last defeat was also against the Cape Cobras and they would be looking to settle scores.
In the last game Patrick Kruger did well with the bat and Raynard van Tonder also played a decent knock. But the side has been plagued by the poor form this season with most of the other batsmen not living up to the expectations. In the next game, the team would want to see good batting from Petrus van Biljon, Andries Gous, Ryan McLaren and Grant Mokoena.
Tshepo Ntuli and Shadley van Schalkwyk have done well in the bowling department. There has been good support from Ryan McLaren. The side would, however, depend on Gerald Coetzee and Ottniel Baartman to bowl tighter spells as the two have been leaking lot of runs in previous games.
Knights Predicted Playing XI:
Ryan McLaren, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Eddie Leie, Petrus van Biljon (c), Grant Mokoena, Tshepo Ntuli , Patrick Kruger, Andries Gous (wk), Ottniel Baartman, Raynard van Tonder, Gerald Coetzee
After a wonderful run that saw them win three back to back games Rory Kleinveldt's side went down against the Warriors in the last game. The skipper won't be too upset though as they fought well to lose the game by a small margin. They had won against the Knights earlier in the season and would look to repeat that success.
David Bedingham, Jason Smith and George Linde played well in the last game with the bat with Linde nearly taking them to victory. Hashim Amla's form is worrying but Janneman Malan has done well in the season. The side bats deep with Vernon Philander in the line-up and have the batting firepower to win the next game.
Bowling performance from the side was poor in the last game. Vernon Philander bowled a great spell to pick five wickets. Rory Kleinveldt has bowled well earlier in the season and would be looking to do well in the next game. Tladi Bokako and George Linde shall have to check the flow of runs in the next game for the side to restrict the Knights batsmen.
Hashim Amla, Janneman Malan, David Bedingham, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Jason Smith, Aviwe Mgijima, George Linde, Vernon Philander, Rory Kleinveldt (c), Nkululeko Serame, Tladi Bokako
There are predictions for light showers at Bloemfontein on the 22nd of April. The pitch is good for batting, though the bowlers get good assistance from the surface early on. Having seen rains for the last few days the pitch is expected to be on the slower side and a score around 150 should be competitive here.
Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein is a good ground for T20 cricket. The pitch offers early assistance to the bowlers but it eases out as the game progresses. The smaller size of the square boundaries also makes it a high scoring venue as the batsmen can hit the ball over the ropes easily.
It has been a good ground to put up a big score on the board. The smaller size of the ground helps in this cause. The side winning the toss would like to bat first on this surface and would be looking to put up a big score and defend it.
The sides are sitting on the opposite ends of the points table at the moment. While the Cape Cobras have done well so far to win four out of their six games including one against the Knights earlier the latter are yet to register their first win in the season and have looked in bad form. As form currently stands the Cape Cobras would be favorites to win the upcoming game.
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Marijuana Initiative Features Scientifically Accurate, Credible Messages
NIDA. (1995, August 1). Marijuana Initiative Features Scientifically Accurate, Credible Messages. Retrieved from https://archives.drugabuse.gov/news-events/nida-notes/1995/08/marijuana-initiative-features-scientifically-accurate-credible-messages
NIDA. "Marijuana Initiative Features Scientifically Accurate, Credible Messages." National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1 Aug. 1995, https://archives.drugabuse.gov/news-events/nida-notes/1995/08/marijuana-initiative-features-scientifically-accurate-credible-messages.
NIDA. Marijuana Initiative Features Scientifically Accurate, Credible Messages. National Institute on Drug Abuse website. https://archives.drugabuse.gov/news-events/nida-notes/1995/08/marijuana-initiative-features-scientifically-accurate-credible-messages. August 1, 1995.
NIDA's most recent Monitoring the Future survey of teenage drug use revealed truly alarming trends. The survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students found drug use increasing in virtually all categories of drugs and at all age levels. Most disturbing to me was the finding that, for the third year in a row, there was a significant increase in marijuana use among 8th grade students. Over the past 3 years, annual use of marijuana by 8th graders has nearly doubled. In 1994, 13 percent said they had smoked marijuana at least once during the previous year.
These are 8th graders - 13-year-olds.
The NIDA-sponsored survey also found that antidrug perceptions were deteriorating. Fewer students than before now believe smoking marijuana occasionally - or even regularly - is harmful to their health.
Unless we, as a Nation, do something to correct teens' perceptions and the trend toward increasing levels in the use of marijuana and other drugs, we're headed for serious problems. Marijuana is often the introduction to progressive drug use patterns. For more than 20 years, NIDA-funded long-range studies repeatedly have shown that children and teenagers who use tobacco, alcohol, and particularly marijuana are at increased risk of using other drugs.
When Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced the 1994 Monitoring the Future survey results last December, she called them an urgent warning of a disturbing trend in drug use among the country's adolescents. In response to this warning, she announced plans for the Secretary's Marijuana Use Prevention Initiative, a nationwide campaign to provide information to teens and parents that would counteract the drug-glamorizing messages our youth now receive from movies, TV, and pop music.
That Marijuana Initiative is now under way (see "NIDA Takes a Lead Role in National Marijuana Initiative"), and I am gratified that NIDA has been designated to play a key part in providing carefully crafted messages based on scientifically sound knowledge.
All of us involved in the campaign know it is critical that each of its messages be solidly based on scientific research findings. To be convincing to teenagers we must fully and honestly present the scientific evidence. And the information must be presented in ways that are readily understandable and convincing to adolescents and applicable to their world. This scientific documentation and communication are at the heart of NIDA's mission.
Media efforts, involving national TV networks and other print and broadcast media, will provide information on the dangers of marijuana use and how parents and children can address the problem in their homes, schools, and communities. The campaign is a joint effort in the Department of Health and Human Services involving the Office of the Secretary, NIDA, and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. The private sector is also involved, through the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, which makes available the communications expertise of major advertising agencies for public service campaigns against drug abuse.
NIDA has already prepared informational booklets for both parents and teens warning of the risks of marijuana use. Also in the works are a videotape, "Marijuana Use: What Parents Can Do," and a science-education series of materials for elementary school students.
The Marijuana Use Prevention Initiative will show young children, teenagers, and their parents that marijuana is a serious threat to the health and well-being of our youth. Too many parents - who may have themselves experimented with marijuana in their youth - often find it difficult to talk to their children about marijuana use or to lay out strict rules against its use.
But marijuana-use circumstances now are different from those remembered by today's parents. These parents should realize that today's children are starting marijuana use at a younger age and that more potent forms of the drug are now available. Parents need to understand that marijuana poses a serious threat to their children's vitality and potential. They need to tell their children not to use it.
The Initiative will show how marijuana is harmful by presenting the facts. Real-world scenarios based on scientific evidence will dramatize the risks involved with its use.
For example, many people don't realize the extent to which marijuana can interfere with the physical and mental skills needed to safely drive a car, increasing the risk of auto accidents. Youngsters often drink beer or other alcoholic drinks while smoking marijuana, which increases still further the risk of automobile accidents.
As NIDA has already shown in its continuing nationwide media campaign for young people, "Get High, Get Stupid, Get AIDS," the Marijuana Initiative will show teens, in the language and media formats that they relate to, the high-risk connection between drug use and the spread of AIDS.
The messages will show children and teenagers that if they begin to use marijuana they become vulnerable to impairments in thinking, speaking, listening effectively, problem solving, and forming concepts. They will graphically demonstrate that marijuana can cripple the skills and functions they need to achieve their full potential or even to get a job. They will feature research showing that students do not retain knowledge when they are high from smoking a joint and that their motivation and cognition may be altered by marijuana, hampering their ability to learn.
We know that drug abuse is closely tied to increasing rates of crime and violence, family disintegration and related childhood developmental barriers, and death and disease - including the spread of AIDS. In its myriad manifestations, drug abuse can rob young people of their chance for a happy, healthy life. That's why we are undertaking this Initiative that targets an early, formative aspect of drug abuse - marijuana use among children and teenagers.