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LA Dodgers in Game 7 11th innings with Yoshinobu Yamamoto as Dodgers pitcher. Yamamoto retires 8 Toronto Blue Jays batters. The night before he put in 96 pitches for 6 innings in Game 6. In Game 7 Yamamoto with no rest day pitches the next day 34 pitches for two and half decisive innings with the Dodgers ahead on a homer by Rojas to end the World Series with Dodgers 5 Toronto 4 in Game 7.

With 18 innings in Game 3 and 11 in Game 7 this World Series rates as one of the all time great classics of world baseball. It also shows the intuition of Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts in keeping 34 year old Rojas in the Game 6 and 7, and in bringing in Yamamoto in the final 3 innings after exhausting the entire Dodgers pitching rotation. From Game 3's 18 innings it was clear that if the game went on to extra innings the depth of the Dodgers team and the experience of it's manager would come into play to overturn any predictions. 

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George Washington is cited for his emphasis on preparedness and preparation for conflict as critical to preserve peace, or to defend America's role in the world as the first Republic based on a simple idea in the Declaration of Independence. Much of the war with Britain in the late1770's depended on the careful and many years of preparation done by Washington. Washington's diaries tell the story day by day of the preparations over years and the final months that won the war at Yorktown in 1781 that no one not the British were aware of- the logistics of moving the army from the south to the north, of equipment and training.  Roger Wicker, leading Republican on Senate Armed Services Committee has a plan- add $55 billion for defense in 2025, Add 357 ships for Navy and 340 fighters for Air Force by 2035. Do the $180 billion backlog for maintenance of the defense forces. Raise the military spending from 2.9% to 5% over 5-7 years as a parallel effort to investing in infrastructure and manufacturing at home. ...

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VW shows a loss of $1.77 billion for 2015 after taking a charge of $18 billion for recall of 11 million cars, and buyback of 500,000 cars in the U.S.

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The divisive nature of Italian politics was evident in the recent presidential election, says this report in The Times. Prime minister Mario Draghi still has 52% favorable rating in Italy down by 3% since the election, yet far above any other person in Italy by as much as 20 percentage points. The task of investing 191 billion euros in EU funding for infrastructure improvements and economic renewal are crucial for the future of Italy. His leadership remains vital in Italy in 2022 and 2023.

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Jada Yuan and the 52 Places Traveller in the NYT shows the National Parks ROute in Chile, No. 6 on the list.

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MacKenzie Scott who cofounded the early startup on books of Amazon with Jeff Bezos, and her foundation gift giving to the underprivileged, native Americans, Black Americans, and other causes by 2026. Scott's stake is $18 billion in Amazon in 2025. Data driven approach she adopted gets through 6490 organizations and narrows that down to 822, and comes up with 384 grant recipients, says the WSJ. No applications just a call and $20 million or $50 million is the approach she has taken and the money is given on trust no monitoring.

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The concerns that China was going to overtake the US and become the largest economy is a misconception of how countries have developed through industry and technology. Britain and the other countries of Europe, Germany and France, went through rapid development in the 1930's and 1960's then at some point after saturation were relatively stagnant. China for the first time in 250 years of the Industrial revolution began to develop rapidly and urbanize in the 1990's. China is at that same point of saturation and it's economy moving to relative stagnation with 4% annual growth in 2026-2030 and 2-3% annual growth beyond to 2047. India is taking place of China as parts of India (large states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra with population 500 million) can achieve 15-22% annual growth in 2026-2030. A quick idea of this can be seen here in the WSJ. China as a percentage of the global economy was 18.5% in 2021 and has since declined to 16.5% of the global economy in 2025. China was three fourth of the US economy when it peaked in 2021 and has since declined in 2025 to two thirds of the size of the US economy. As a percentage of the global economy China will go down to 12% over the next 5 years as India advances, and the population of US, Canada, Australia with their continental spaces continues to grow and with it GDP growth. This is validated from the Japanese experience of peaking at becoming 18% of the world economy by 1996 and then dropping by 2006 to about 11%, 2016 to 6% and 2025 to 4%. The combined effect is to reduce the size of China's economy as a percentage of the overall global economy at a point of time in the future 2030, 2040, 2050. Japan is a good example. There are other factors in play including technology and capital access as technology and capital shifts to other parts of the world where it can be better deployed and conditions are suited for rapid development as in India/Indonesia and in the US/Canada/Australia regions of 1.6 billion people and 450 million people from China (saturation overbuilding), the Middle East (wars and mismanagement). ...

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Susie Wiles 11 Vanity Fair Interviews December 2026- " the conspiracy theorist is JD Vance the "absolute right wing zealot" is Russell Vought and "the odd, odd duck" is Elon Musk. The president DJT is someone like Susie's dad Pat Summerall a legendary sportcaster. Susie she thinks she "knows big personalities" because of her experience with her father. What happens? Susie says she warned the president from everything that includes announcement of the tariffs that early in the Spring just after being elected when there were diagreements within the administration, just wait a bit she suggested, but that has not happened with decision after decision, including retribution for so called enemies. Susie says she doesn't blame the president from knowing how he weas treated. "Not me."

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Susie Wiles 11 Vanity Fair Interviews December 2026- " the conspiracy theorist is JD Vance the "absolute right wing zealot" is Russell Vought and "the odd, odd duck" is Elon Musk. The president DJT is someone like Susie's dad Pat Summerall a legendary sportcaster. Susie she thinks she "knows big personalities" because of her experience with her father. What happens? Susie says she warned the president from everything that includes announcement of the tariffs that early in the Spring just after being elected when there were diagreements within the administration, just wait a bit she suggested, but that has not happened with decision after decision, including retribution for so called enemies. Susie says she doesn't blame the president from knowing how he weas treated. "Not me."