NYC Junto Newsletter – July 19, 2011

Contents
* NEW Junto meeting Aug. 4
* NEW upcoming speakers
* Visit NYCjunto.com
* NEW Marsha Enright suggests thoughts on education
* NEW Robert Bidinotto, Junto speaker, has written a thriller
* NEW TIA Daily in RealClearMarkets.com every Friday
* NEW "The Philosophical Practitioner" by Larry Abrams
* NEW "Atlas Shrugged" film trilogy still alive
* NEW Regulators can take 2 years of Wall Street exec pay
* NEW New York City Ayn Rand Meetup July 31
* Ayn Rand walking tours
* Junto on Facebook
* NYCjunto-discuss list
* About this newsletter
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Junto is a group that shares information
and discusses current issues...
plus presents speakers to talk with us:

Gary Jason
    businessman, writer and philosophy teacher
    "School choice: Why it's needed and its current prospects" 

Thursday, August 4

Admission Free        No reservation necessary
* We'll socialize from 7:00pm.
* The meeting begins at ABOUT 7:30pm with
    a discussion of current issues and events.
* The featured speaker is introduced at ABOUT 8:00pm.
* The meeting will continue to ABOUT 10:00pm.

General Society Library,
20 West 44th Street, bet. 5th and 6th Aves., NYC
near the Grand Central Terminal

Subway: 4, 5, 6, S to Grand Central -- 42nd St.
    or
    B, D, F, 7 to 42nd Street -- Sixth Ave. at Bryant Park
    or
    A, C, E, N, Q, R, S, 1, 2, 3 to Times Square -- 42nd St.
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M42, M98, M101, M102, M104, Q32
Train: MTA Metro-North Railroad to Grand Central
Car: Some private parking facilities in the area. Parking on
    side streets is metered, limited to specific days and times.

Please note:
    Junto is not the usual sort of meeting with a long speech
followed by Q & A. Junto's invited speakers give a short
presentation and are challenged to defend their assertions.
    Discussions are intense, but polite. Participation by all
attendees is highly encouraged.
    Junto meets on the first Thursday of every month, at the
General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street, NYC,
between 5th and 6th Aves., near Grand Central Terminal
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Gary Jason's been a philosophy instructor for thirty years.
    He teaches critical thinking, logic and business ethics. He's
adjunct philosophy prof. California State U., Fullerton.
    Gary owns the small telecom agency Global Access Telecom.
    He's author of several books, including "Critical Thinking:
Developing and Effective Worldview", "Introduction to Logic"
and "The Logic of Discovery".
    He's published about 500 academic and trade articles,
book reviews, movie reviews, opinion editorials and other
short opinion pieces.
    Gary's working on an anthology of his trade pieces
"Dangerous Thoughts: Selected Writings on Contemporary
Issues". It should out by the end of this year.
    Bachelors both of physics and of philosophy, UCLA;
M.A. and Ph.D. philosophy with emphasis in the history and
philosophy of science, UCLA; M.S. computer science,
Kansas State U.
    He was born in Pittsburgh, grew up in Los Angeles. He lives
in San Clemente, CA.
    Read his articles...
academic: tiny.cc/xrs57
trade: tiny.cc/885ny
and at Liberty Magazine: tiny.cc/6jpde
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Come to Junto, meet the upcoming speakers:
* Sept. 1, Richard Epstein's writings go from the common-law
    subjects of property, contracts and torts to constitutional law
    and economics.  tiny.cc/RichEpstein
* Oct. 6, Janine R. Wedel, prof. public policy, George Mason U.
    "Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers
    Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market"
    Her talk will be based on her book of the same title:
    tiny.cc/xrs57
    Learn about her at: JanineWedel.info
* Nov. 3, Kathryn Schultz, author "Being Wrong". What it
    means to be in error. Why people tend to assume they're
    right about most everything. Error is a fundamental human
    condition and should be celebrated.
    BeingWrongBook.com/author
* Dec. 1, David Friedman, prof. law, Santa Clara U., Liberty
    magazine contributing editor, anarcho-capitalist
    davidDFriedman.com
* Jan. 5, 2012, Ilana Mercer, "Lessons for America from
    Post-Apartheid South Africa" bit.ly/MercerBook
    bit.ly/MercerColumn
* Feb. 2, 2012, Ayn Rand's 107th birthday celebration. Speaker
    Donald Luskin market commentator. His subject will be
    announced later. He co-wrote "I am John Galt: Today's
    Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous
    Parasites Destroying It." It introduces you to real-life titans
    who've lived their lives like Rand's fictional heroes and the
    malefactors who've lived like her fictional villains: Steve Jobs
    as Howard Roark, Paul Krugman as Ellsworth Toohey,
    John Allison as John Galt, Bill Gates as Henry Rearden
    and Barney Frank as Wesley Mouch, etc.
        Watch Donald on a short video on Amazon: tiny.cc/uv2eb

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Marsha Enright suggests thoughts on education
     This Junto speaker recommends two videos and the article
which explains why Montessori schools are great. The last two
don't mention Montessori, but they are about real learning.
* Video on Montessori, 5 minutes : bit.ly/MonteVideo
* Video "Changing Education Paradigms" 11 minutes:
    bit.ly/ChangeEd
* Article on a man's love of learning vs. bureaucracy. Joe Bast,
    pres. Heartland Inst.: bit.ly/LoveOfLearning, This last
    brought tears to my eyes.
Marsha Enright's school: CouncilOakMontessori.org and her
Foundation for the College of the U.S.: rifinst.org

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Robert Bidinotto, Junto speaker, has written a thriller
    "Hunter: A Thriller" draws heavily on his past investigative
writing about crime and the legal system.
    It's part spy mystery, part crime thriller, part romantic
suspense novel and deals with serious ideas.
    From 2005 to 2008 Robert was editor of the monthly
magazine "The New Individualist" at The Objectivist Center.
    From Amazon the paperback, e-book or a free sample:
amzn.to/lTVLOm.
    From Smashwords the e-book in a choice of ten e-formats or
a free sample: bit.ly/mPpIJa
    From Barnes & Noble the e-book: bit.ly/jDjSQI

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TIA Daily article on RealClearMarkets.com every Friday
     TIA Daily is an Objectivist e-publication, The Intellectual
Activist. Almost all articles are by Robert Tracinski.
    His first RealClearMarkets article was last month:
"Is Higher Ed Going the Way of Newspapers?"
    Read it at: tiny.cc/umc6a

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"The Philosophical Practitioner" by Larry Abrams
    Larry was often at Junto when he lived in NYC. His
mystery is about the Eric is a philosophical practitioner, a new
profession that emphasizes reason without slighting emotions.
    He has little money, a cat, confused clients, and an old
girlfriend, now rich and famous, who wants to get back
together with him.
   Meanwhile, a woman he's never seen before is trying to
kill him.
    It's available on Apple platforms, Nook and Kindle which is
text-to-speech enabled: tiny.cc/r523i 

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"Atlas Shrugged" film trilogy still alive
    From the L.A. Times: Producers of the Ayn Rand adaptation
will release "Part 1" of the series to home-entertainment
platforms this fall with 20th Century Fox.
    They expect to begin production on "Atlas Shrugged: Part 2"
this September. They plan to bring the new film to theaters
during the 2012 election season.
    All revenue from the release of "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" will
be used to finance "Atlas Shrugged: Part 2."
    The producers are paying for distribution by Fox of the film
on DVD, Blu-Ray, digital download and video on demand.
    Deals for TV and pay-TV airings are being negotiated.
Producers have a foreign sales agent to secure international
theatrical releases.
    Read the whole article at: tiny.cc/q8v27

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Regulators can take 2 years of Wall Street exec pay
    U.S. regulators will be able to take up to two years of
Wall Street executives' pay if they're found responsible for the
collapse of a major financial firm, under a rule approved on
July 6, 2011.
    The Dodd-Frank financial oversight law gives agencies this
power.
    Bankers have complained regulators were too vague in an
earlier proposal about what could trigger a clawback.
    The FDIC's final rule provided some relief by clarifying
"negligence" as the standard. The agency was careful to point
out that it was not using the more narrow standard of
"gross negligence."
    Read the complete Reuters article at: reut.rs/clawBack  

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New York City Ayn Rand Meetup July 31
    Come join us that Sunday, 3:00pm.
As always, we'll talk about Ayn Rand, her works, Objectivist
life, challenges, options, associations and knowledge.
    Give and take, open to all, no charge, no reservations.
It's at The Midtown Restaurant, 155 East 55 St, between
3rd and Lexington Avenues, in Manhattan, free.
    Benny Pollack, Ayn Rand Meetup organizer says:"Join our
group of regular Objectivists for a lively discussion on topics
related to Ayn Rand and Objectivist philosophy in general.
    "Please join us. If you are already versed in the topic, want
to learn or just want to spend an intellectually stimulating
afternoon, please come. I hope to see you all there."
    The Ayn Rand Meetup is on the last Sunday of each month.
Learn more about it at: AynRand.meetup.com/8

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Ayn Rand walking tours
    Fred Cookinham has a set of two Rand tours.
* Tour one: "Atlas Shrugged Tour" from the Waldorf=Astoria
    to and through Grand Central Terminal.
* Tour two: "Ayn Rand's Park Avenue Tour" from Grand Central
    to Two Park Avenue.
        All Ayn Rand tours are related to both her life in NYC
and her writings about the city. 

* Tour one: "Atlas Shrugged Tour" 1-1/2 hour
11:00am, meet at SE corner Park Ave. and east 50th St.
See places Rand researched and fictionalized in the novel,
around and in Grand Central Terminal
Sat. July 23, Sun., July 24, Sat. Nov. 5, Sun. Nov. 6

* Tour two: "Ayn Rand's Park Avenue Tour" 1-1/2 hour
11:00am, meet at NE corner on east 42nd St. at Vanderbilt Ave.
Where Rand lived and held her salons. Where she learned about
architecture from Ely Jacques Kahn, in his own masterpiece
Art Deco building. Scenes from "Atlas Shrugged."
Sat. Oct. 1
plus
EVERY Wed. through Sept. 28.
6:00pm, meet at NE corner on east 42nd St. at Vanderbilt Ave.

"Skyscrapers of The Fountainhead" 2-1/2 hours
11:00am, meet at Number 1 Broadway, at Battery Place.
The changing styles in architecture -- from Beaux Arts to
Art Deco to International Style -- that form the background to
the story of Roark's struggle. Was Roark Wright? -- the real-life
models for Rand's characters.
Sat. Aug. 27, Sun. Aug. 28, Sat. Nov. 19, Sun. Nov. 20

"Ayn Rand on Broadway" 2-1/2 hours
11:00am, meet at NE corner of Broadway and west 49th St.
Skyscrapers, newspapers, Broadway & books. DeMille, Hellman
and where Alan Greenspan played sax. Where "The Night of
January 16th," "The Unconquered" and "Think Twice" were
produced. Isabel Paterson at the Herald Tribune. Patricia Neal,
the Shuberts, the Gershwins and of course more Art Deco.
Sat. Aug. 13, Sun. Aug. 14

"Ayn Rand's Fifth Avenue" 2-1/2 hours
11:00am, meet at the Columbus statue in Columbus Circle,
within the circle of fountains at Broadway and 59th St.
Art and architecture in the glamour shopping district of the
Twentieth Century world. Central Park So., Rockefeller Center,
the Stork Club and where Random House published "Atlas
Shrugged". Where Rand bought her paintings, clothes and
fancy dinners.
Sat., Sep. 24, Sun. Sep. 25

For a private tour by Fred Cookinham, some Saturdays, Sundays
and evenings are open. Call the phone number at the bottom of
InDepthWalkingTours.com
    Fred Cookinham's walking tours keep getting better,
because he never stops researching. He's often at Junto and
Ayn Rand Meetups.
    $20 per person, $15 for people 65 and older. Schedule,
directions, other NYC tours: InDepthWalkingTours.com

Highlights of previous years * Fred gave special "Ayn Rand
and Free Market Tour" for Mont Pelerin Society. * Hear Fred
give "Ayn Rand's Park Ave". on BBC's Radio 4 "The Right
Stuff" on their site. * His interview on "Hardfire" Ayn Rand
Revealed, at Amazon and other places. Answers questions on
Rand's life, loves, philosophy, works and influence.
    Differences between helping a person and sacrificing,
when's "volunteering" not voluntary? Fred's interviewer then
Chair Manhattan Libertarian Party, Joseph Dobrian.
    Watch part: bit.ly/ARfred 

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