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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

First of all, I've always understood that Mark Twain coined the phrase that serves as the title of this post. Not so. Apparently , Twain popularized it's use in the United States, but even in his original usage in "Chapters from My Autobiography" he attributes the quote to Benjamin Disraeli. So there, I learned something today. I love statistics as regards NBA basketball. There is much subjectivity...

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It's 1974 all over again

Mark Twain said history doesn't repeat itself - but it often rhymes. What would Twain say about this example of deja vu'Canada has had a minority government for more than two years. Parliament is becoming an increasingly ugly place. The stock markets in the U.S. and Britain have entered a ''bear'' phase while the Canadian market is doing somewhat better. Recession and stagflation talk is in the air....

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No. 8

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain." Mark Twain MP3: DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano DOWNLOAD MP3: Shitdisco - 72 Virgins ( Bloody Beetroots Remix) DOWNLOAD MP3: The Delgados - Mr Blue Sky ( E.L.O. Cover) DOWNLOAD MP3: Kaleef - Golden Brown DOWNLOAD MP3: Adam Kesher - Local Girl ( Fisher Preyes Remix) DOWNLOAD MP3: Gentlemen...

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Mentoring Around the Diamond

Education: The path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. -- Mark Twain To continue the series on mentoring, I'm going to following the MBB Model of the four bases in sequence and retain their individual meaning. In this case, however, it's going to be focused on mentoring and coaching, in Baseball and on why you should follow Baseball's lead in your own management. First base in the Management...

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Inventing Anti-Gambling Statistics

Mark Twain famously said there were three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Perhaps we can add a fourth kind: statistics that are outright lies. Jacob Sollum documents a whopper of a lie from Rep. Spencer Bauchus (R-AL) in his arguments for banning online gambling. Speaking against the bill, Alabama Rep. Spencer Bachus, the committee's ranking Republican, explained that the Unlawful...

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The Decline That Never Happens

Many declinists begin to measure the start of America’s fall from eminence from 1945, when it is typically assumed that U.S. power was unequalled in the world and could only diminish. The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” once wrote Mark Twain. “Greatly exaggerated” also described the repeated, periodic predictions of American decline. Indeed, [...]

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A thought on innovators

"A man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea succeeds." - Mark Twain

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UNR team digs for artifacts at Virginia City

When he wasn't writing stories for the Territorial Enterprise under his new pen name of Mark Twain, Sam Clemens did a little digging in the dirt around Virginia City in search of silver.

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Jerusalem: God's Own WiFi Hotspot

Just so you should know: where to get the best WiFi Internet signal when visiting Jerusalem: http://www.jerusalemite.net/modules/article_files/get_attached_file.php?article=501&file=8 If only Mark Twain knew...

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Iowa Defense Alliance: Thinking For A Change

One of my favorite books, “Thinking For A Change”, by John C. Maxwell, has this short but powerful paragraph: “Mark Twain said, “We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it- not like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. [...]

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Keep track of money, make life simpler

Mark Twain has often been quoted as saying — “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

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Cook County Jail -Mike Quigley Feeding Fitzy MacArthur Leftovers?

The Uriah Heep of Cook County Politics, Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley gamely pumps his stumpy legs ever upward. Like Mark Twain's Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ,* Cook County can count on Quigley to climb under any door jamb, if the height of the transom above the doors of power are inaccessible, to height and ethics challenge Mike, with the help of mighty clever friends in the...

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The Innocents Abroad

On weekends, the Reader's Almanac takes a break by offering some brief notable events: 1869: Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad is published. B orn: Francis Petrarch, biographer, Arezza, Tuscany, 1304; Augustin Daly, playwright, theatrical manager, Plymouth, N.C., 1838; Erik Karlfeldt, poet, Folkärna, Sweden, 1864; Thomas Berger, comic novelist, short-story writer, playwright, Cincinnati, 1924; Nelson...

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Mark Twain to Appear at Taylor Creek: July 24

On Thursday July 24 at 7:00 pm MacAvoy Layne will once again perform as that Wild Humorist of the Western Slope, Mark Twain. This one-man show portraying Mark Twain's adventures out west will take place at the Lake of the Sky Amphitheater, located at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center. The program is good old-fashioned family entertainment, with stories for the kiddies, humor for the adults and words...

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Paterno always seems to navigate game's changing waters

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Joe Paterno has his own take on Mark Twain's 'Life on the Mississippi' and the challenge a riverboat captain faces trying to navigate the waters of a mighty river. For Paterno, it's a little bit like coaching college football.

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Free Speech Lives at Your Public Library

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Oscar Wilde once wrote that there are no good or bad books; "books are either tedious or charming." In an age where book banning and censorship occur with shocking regularity, it is not only nice to know—it’s essential to know that libraries provide access to controversial materials. In fact, they do not simply shelve such items, they even celebrate them every year for a week in September at a nationwide