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Citizens’ Utility Board (CUB) » Center for Study of Responsive Law
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Center for Study of Responsive Law. Sign Up For Alerts. Citizens’ Utility Board (CUB). The Citizens’ Utility Board, or CUB, is a model approach for bringing together large numbers of diffuse consumers into a voluntary organization, which can then pursue a common citizen/consumer agenda in banking, insurance, housing or dozens of other arenas. I call it the “silicon chip” for the citizen movement because it is a low-cost, high versatility, powerfully effective device. How does a CUB work? The beauty of th...
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RSVP for The Actual Dance » Center for Study of Responsive Law
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Center for Study of Responsive Law. Sign Up For Alerts. Credit Suisse: Big Crimes Become Big Business. Tort Law: The Muscle of Justice →. RSVP for The Actual Dance. February 5, 2015. Samuel A. Simon’s autobiographical award-winning play about love and the caregivers journey. A Performance Sponsored by Ralph Nader and the Center for Study of Responsive Law. February 27, 2015. 2 – 4pm. The Carnegie Institution for Science. 1530 P St NW. Washington, DC 20005. Your Phone Number (required).
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Fact Check:Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids?: The Obsession with Scholarships
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Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids? Occasional comment by a softball dad about the direction of youth sports today. Tuesday, August 6, 2013. The Obsession with Scholarships. Our family has now completed its first full year of 12U travel softball—98 games, 26 weekends plus two week-long tournaments. This does not include weekends and school nights in which there were practices but no games. I did not keep track of expenses, though StatsDad. Spent $11,704 on three kids in 2011. The path...
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Fact Check:Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids?: There Are More Important Things in Life Than Softball
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Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids? Occasional comment by a softball dad about the direction of youth sports today. Tuesday, August 6, 2013. There Are More Important Things in Life Than Softball. Originally posted October 7, 2011, on Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog. To college, the risks of injury ( 1. Before even getting to that point, and the studies. Sports, of course, are not the only activity of youth in which a nearly 24/7 pressure-cooker atmosphere exists. Music, dance, and drama ...
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Fact Check:Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids?: More, More, More Does Not Mean Better
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Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids? Occasional comment by a softball dad about the direction of youth sports today. Wednesday, October 23, 2013. More, More, More Does Not Mean Better. Practices for recently retired John Gagliardi ( 1. The winningest college football coach ever, were no longer than ninety minutes a day. No tackling and his players wore shorts or sweats. In games, his quarterbacks called their own plays. John T. Reed. Besides, the 10,000-hour rule is an average. In ...
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Fact Check:Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids?: Stats
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Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids? Occasional comment by a softball dad about the direction of youth sports today. Some Expanded Stats on Softball Scholarships. 8226; Only 7.8% (29,670) of high school softball players (381,116) went on in 2012 to play college ball. 8226; The maximum number of scholarships available was 14,410, but nearly half (7,008) of those were for community college players. 8226; Thus, the maximum percentage of Division I scholarships available to those 1,121,744...
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Fact Check:Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids?: The Comparative Society
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Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids? Occasional comment by a softball dad about the direction of youth sports today. Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Originally posted March 22, 2013, on Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog. High school English teacher and poet, John Wooden ( 1. Also known as the highly successful, 27-year coach of UCLA basketball from 1948 to 1975, learned from his father that the key to success was never to compare oneself to others. Capitalism is a system of social cooperation where ev...
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Fact Check:Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids?: Yes, There Is Crying in Softball
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Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids? Occasional comment by a softball dad about the direction of youth sports today. Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Yes, There Is Crying in Softball. Originally posted January 14, 2011, on Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog. In youth sports these days, a favorite refrain from adults, especially male coaches, is “There’s no crying in . . . [name the sport].” The phrase, taken from the 1992 Tom Hanks movie A League of Their Own. Has even come into the vernacular. Real men...
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Fact Check:Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids?: Year-Round Single Sport Specialization: Not Good for Kids or Skill Development, Experts Say
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Is What We Are Doing in Youth Sports Good for the Kids? Occasional comment by a softball dad about the direction of youth sports today. Friday, May 9, 2014. Year-Round Single Sport Specialization: Not Good for Kids or Skill Development, Experts Say. More significant, contrary to what most youth coaches and parents seem to think, the year-round specialization does not produce better skill than that of those who take time off from the sport to rest and to learn, and compete in, other sports. The cause is o...
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Toys from Abusive Chinese Factories Bring No Holiday Cheer » Center for Study of Responsive Law
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Center for Study of Responsive Law. Sign Up For Alerts. Unsafe and Unnecessary Oil Trains Threaten 25 Million Americans. Credit Suisse: Big Crimes Become Big Business →. Toys from Abusive Chinese Factories Bring No Holiday Cheer. January 6, 2015. Here’s a question to ponder this Holiday season — what do toy brands like Barbie, Mickey Mouse and Thomas the Tank Engine have in common? The CLW report states:. Parents should consider the following harsh realities uncovered by CLW:. These are only some of the ...
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