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Basically they are the same dog. However, I have heard that the difference could be the actual size of the Poodle the Maltese is crossed with. The Maltipoo is a Maltese and a Toy Poodle; while the Moodle is a Maltese and a Miniature Poodle. But, really, the Maltese/Poodle cross can be called either or.5/6/2015 12:39:00 PM
If her ears are not down by the time she is 12 weeks old, then I would question the pedigree of the puppy. I would contact the person with whom you got the puppy from and if they have had other litters before, ask for references to see if this happened to anyone else. I would also DNA test your dog. You can buy Doggy DNA tests from your vet, online or through companies that do the DNA testing.4/6/2015 5:01:50 PM
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In general, you want your adult dog to be able to stand, turn around and spread out a little in his/her crate. So whether you are getting a plastic or wire crate will depend on size. Most crates have a designated size of dogs it will fit on the label to help an owner or pre-owner to find which size of crate is best for their dog when he/she is an adult.8/1/2014 6:33:19 PM
Are Maltipoos good with children?2/8/2015 5:18:45 PM
Professional breeders should be in their breed long before they even start to have their first litter. Research is what is best in this situation, but even then, depending on what you are wanting to do with the dog will depend when she is ready to breed. First, she must prove herself worthy of breeding through tests and trails, such as obedience, confirmation, ect. Once she is titled, and over a year old, then she should be ready. But taking your dog to the vet and getting the okay from them is also something you should do. Your vet will be able to determine with a quick examination if your dog has the correct confirmation and should or should not be bred.5/27/2014 9:47:25 AM
The average litter size is 3 - 4 pups per litter. It can be more and can be less.7/11/2014 5:24:07 PM
It is time for a vet visit. Right away!7/11/2014 5:26:18 PM
The Malti-Poo is a mixed breed dog. They can not be registered. For a dog to be registered, it has to be a pure-bred dog. The Malti-Poo is a mixed breed dog.7/11/2014 5:27:04 PM
It is time for a vet visit. It could be allergies or poor nutrition.7/11/2014 5:28:26 PM
He could be getting his adult coat4/7/2015 2:10:11 PM
You can get flea shampoo to bathe him in. Then vacuum the house several times and throw the bag out. Wash all bedding, clothing, and sheets in hot hot water.7/11/2014 5:30:21 PM
It is time for a vet visit. It could be a rash, allergies or even flea's.7/11/2014 5:30:46 PM
This is not play. This is your dog trying to play but not knowing how to interact with children. Separate your dog from the children when she does that. As well, contact your positive reinforcement trainer to set up a class.7/11/2014 5:32:02 PM
No, the Malti-Poo doesn't have upright ears like a German Shepherd Dog.7/11/2014 5:33:04 PM
The article says that Malti-Poo's are not good watch dogs, but mine is. He barks at every noise and constantly protects the
back yard from any critter that might enter.12/17/2014 9:00:50 AM
A grain-free, high quality puppy food is the best thing to feed your dog. Some brands to look at are Acana, Origjn, Taste of the Wild, Life Mates, Now and Go! You can also look up the recipe "Satin Balls" to add to his food.7/11/2014 5:33:58 PM
Does your Chi-Maltipoo have a name?2/8/2015 5:21:31 PM
No, there is no name for your dog other then a mutt. If you wanted to tell people what your pup is, he is a "Maltese/Yorkie/Poodle cross".7/11/2014 5:34:57 PM
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You should take your malti poo to the vet and have her checked, she might be sick.9/1/2012 6:34:12 PM
You should ask the person you got her from what food they normally feed her. Some dogs can be picky on what they eat especially if they only eat the same thing their whole life9/3/2012 12:25:59 AM
put some chicken broth on top of his food, that helps for sure5/11/2015 7:46:56 AM
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Dogs are just like humans. Each has his/her own personality. Does she have enough toys? Does she has a lot of human interaction? They are social animals. 8/26/2012 11:33:04 PM
Your Maltipoo needs a playmate, taken to the dog park, get toys and be in touch with children. Outdoor activities help a lot.9/1/2012 6:36:01 PM
Did your maltipoo receive alot of human interaction when she was younger?9/3/2012 12:27:27 AM
Our Maltipoo doesn't like many dogs. If a dog is high energy she runs and if it doesn't leave her alone she will try to attack it. She loves cats, but its hard to find a cat that loves her we are trying. She likes older people, again low energy. She doesn't love kids but will let them pet her if I'm walking her. She has lots of toys and love.9/6/2012 8:40:20 PM
It flopped back down all on it's own :) who knows... I'm a new malitpoo owner. 8/17/2012 12:23:17 PM
That could be a sign of worms/parasites. Take your Maltipoo to the vet for a check up.9/1/2012 6:36:44 PM
It's one way of breeding maltipoos, though first generation breeding seems to be preferred. Just be aware that this puppy will probably exhibit more maltese characteristics than poodle.8/30/2012 3:22:28 PM
Yes, it's pretty normal and poodles with Maltipoo's are also bred, it depends on which trait you are more attracted to and as long as you are happy that's all it matters.9/1/2012 6:37:57 PM
When I had my RESCUED maltipoo spayed, they removed 7 retained baby teeth. I had the surgery done at a local animal shelter by a reputable veterinarian. He only charged $50 to remove all 7 retained teeth.8/19/2012 5:33:00 PM
At the time of spaying/neutering, it should only cost an extra small fee (from $50 to $150) but that depends on the vet fees, it should be recommended ONLY if your Maltipoo is having issues with his/her teeth development. Otherwise they are naturally replaced by the adult ones.9/1/2012 6:40:22 PM
I have a 7 month female maltipoo. She was recently spayed and during her operation, the vet also took out her baby teeth. Her mouth healed in just a few days and she's been doing a lot less teething and chewing. Definitely worth it. The best of luck to you and your pup!12/12/2013 1:57:14 AM
I have a 7 month female maltipoo. She was recently spayed and during her operation, the vet also took out her baby teeth. Her mouth healed in just a few days and she's been doing a lot less teething and chewing. Definitely worth it. The best of luck to you and your pup!12/12/2013 1:58:17 AM
No, you are not a good candidate for any puppy with your schedule. It's not fair to the animal and you're asking for behavioral problems.8/19/2012 5:34:23 PM
Maltipoos love human interaction and your schedule will not give them this. You should wait until you have less work hours, this will be horrible for your dog9/3/2012 12:29:12 AM
I have a Maltipoo and she stays in a dog playpen while I am at work 8hrs. She addapted just fine after a weekend and 3 1/2 days. She is the best puppy..5/27/2015 8:04:40 PM
Yes your maltipoo is probably still teething. My maltipoo is almost 1-1/2 years old too, and he still likes to bite. Don't worry, he should start to stop doing that gradually like my dog.7/17/2012 3:09:02 PM
You should have your maltipoo checked by a vet. She may be in pain. You probably purchased a puppy mill dog from a pet store. These behavioral problems usually surface between a year and 2 years in puppy mill dogs.8/19/2012 5:36:03 PM
frontline is a really good one and you can use it on a maltipoo.. :)7/15/2012 12:55:19 PM
Yes you can give a malti poo a bath at 7 wks old. We start bathing our pups at 1 wk old.. if you use a shampoo that is not strong you can wash them once a wk if needed..7/15/2012 12:56:32 PM
Make sure you are using shampoos and conditioners made for dogs. Do NOT use shampoo made for humans.
Also Malti poo's tend to scratch alot. Use an anti itch shampoo or spray with Lavender. This will soothe the itching, keep the skin in tack and will calm the dog a bit due to the Lavender. 11/3/2012 10:16:38 AM
Our Maltipoo had a hard time pooping one morning, when she was about 9 weeks old. I gave her some apple juice, about 1/4 cup which she drank few sips at a time, Then I gave some raisins time to time, (about 2 or 3 at a time). She was fine by the end of the day. Now time to time i give her couple of raisins, just because she loves it. 9/22/2013 4:28:15 PM
My maltipoo is 4 months old I freeze baby carrots, its a cold soothing treat for his teething stage or just a healthy treat depending on you dogs age7/13/2012 9:27:02 PM
Gogs are carnivores - vegetables don't really break down in their short digestive systems. It's a waste of vegetables and isn't really doing anything for the dog.8/19/2012 5:38:07 PM
I think you are wrong there about vegetables for Maltipoo's. They do like baby carrots, banana, pear slices without the core, blueberries and also mango. Use these as treats when training your Maltipoo.5/20/2015 8:45:50 AM
I sell puppies to New York and Minnesota all the time. It snows a lot there and maltipoo's do very well.. but get them some booties.. :)7/15/2012 12:57:40 PM
I purchased booties for my Maltese but she will not wear them. The pet shop suggested a wax made specifically for small dogs. You rub the wax on the paw pads which will help the pads from becoming too cold or frostbitten. And the dog can't shake it off like they can a bootie.11/3/2012 10:20:16 AM
I'm a breeder and retired my maltipoo's at 6 yrs.
is she missing teeth? puppys do that.5/24/2012 5:49:13 PM
Of course she can. On Amazon there is a book called-A dogs diet diabetes and digestion that I recommend.6/5/2012 6:30:15 PM
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I have a matipoo also he is 8Weeks I give him PURINA PUPPY CHOW SOFT AND CHEWY. I add a little water to it to get it
Really soft and them smash it up wit a spoon...He loves it and has stool formed poopoo and pees regularly. This is also the same food they were given him when I got him,,,,,try PURINA,,,,HOPE THIS HELPS3/4/2012 8:55:07 AM
Take your maltipoo ASAP. Any pup should be taken for physical within first 48 hrs to ensure health.3/7/2012 4:25:24 AM
All food changes should be made slowly. Start by feeding her what the breeder was feeding her then start by adding a few pellets from the food you want to change her to eventually. Gradually over several weeks increase your food and decrease breeder's food. We just got a Maltipoo also and this is working for her. Best to see a vet within 48-72 hours of bringing her home. Good luck4/25/2012 2:13:43 PM
My Maltipoo was the same way but she also went into diabetic shock during the night. We had to put a thing of sugar water in her play area for the first two weeks. She is now fine but can only tolerate certain foods. The one she prefers is the IAMS smart puppy. I was told they have a hard time when they change scenery so you have to treat them as you would a new born and once they get adjusted they are spunky little furballs!4/27/2012 3:16:23 PM
Take your pup in ASAP! It could be a liver shunt. 5/3/2012 1:18:55 PM
Maltipoo puppies should not be given water straight from the tap, it should be filtered water.5/20/2015 8:54:50 AM
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Vol. 17 , No. 05
The Five Temptations of a Leader
Since Claremont McKenna's slogan is "Leaders in the Making," it is not surprising that its graduates become presidents and CEOs of companies after graduation. Patrick Lencioni is one such leader. He is the founder and president of The Table Group management consulting firm. He returns to campus to speak about the subject in his best-selling business fiction, The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable (1998).
Lencioni has been speaking, consulting, and writing about topics related to leadership, change, and corporate culture since founding his company in 1997. While coaching and consulting to CEOs and other executives, he observed fundamental behavioral patterns among his clients, which later formed the basis of his leadership theories.
In addition to The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable, Lencioni recently published his second book, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive (2000). Furthermore, he has a third book forthcoming-spring of 2002-on how to build teamwork and eliminate organizational politics. In addition to his writing and consulting, Lencioni is a frequent public speaker. He has delivered keynote addresses to audiences that include Novell, Arthur Andersen, Chase Capital, Elan Pharmaceuticals, TEC Worldwide, Canada's Top 40 Under 40, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Avnet, Inc., Lucas Digital, and Young Entrepreneurs' Organization.
Prior to establishing The Table Group, Lencioni worked at Bain & Company, Oracle Corporation, and Sybase, where he was Vice President of Organizational Development. He is on numerous advisory boards, and sits on the National Board of Directors for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Lencioni's Athenaeum appearance is sponsored by the Kravis Leadership Institute as a precursor to the Kravis-deRoulet Conference in February. The topic this year is "Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations." While Patrick Lencioni is not primarily in the nonprofit arena, some of his remarks will include transferability of organizational leadership strategies and capabilities from the for-profit to the nonprofit sectors.
Please join us for this interesting Athenaeum lecture by one of CMC's distinguished alumni.
International Research Roundtable
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2001 12:15 p.m.
In conjunction with International Week events being held across the country, the Athenaeum is hosting a luncheon featuring several CMC faculty members who will share their experiences and perspectives on working and conducting research outside the United States. Students in particular are warmly invited to attend the luncheon, listen to professors' comments on research abroad, and engage in a discussion of international research issues. The faculty members speaking at the luncheon will be Dean William Ascher, Dean of the Faculty and professor of government; Professor Asuman Aksoy of mathematics; Professor Edward Haley of government; Professor Manfred Keil of economics; Professor Arthur Rosenbaum of history; Professor Marc Massoud of accounting; and Professor Roderic Camp of government. Please join us for what promises to be a lively and informative discussion of value to students and faculty across disciplines.
Lunch is served at 11:45 a.m.
The panel discussion will begin at 12:15 p.m.
Understanding Juries
Juries have been praised for their wisdom and ridiculed for their stupidity. Because we entrust juries with some of our most difficult and important decisions, juries are magnets for controversy. It is only in the past forty years that social scientists have subjected the jury to systematic study.
Shari Seidman Diamond-professor of law and psychology at Northwestern University Law School and senior research fellow at the American Bar Association-is one of the world's leading jury researchers. She has served as president of the American Psychology-Law Society and editor of Law and Society Review. Diamond has also served as an advisor to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Center for State Courts, and the annual Judging Science Program for judges at Duke University. She is currently completing a book on juries, Understanding Juries, with political scientist Jonathan Casper and is in the midst of an unprecedented study of actual jury deliberations in civil cases with psychologist Neil Vidmar.
During her Athenaeum talk, Professor Diamond will reveal what researchers have learned about jury decision-making: the tensions between rationality and bias, the role of expertise, the value of group decision-making, and the strengths and weaknesses of the American jury system.
Shari Diamond's talk is part of the continuing Athenaeum series in Psychology and Law.
Europe Invents the Rich East: The Late Medieval Romancer's Contribution
Too often, the study of literature in American colleges and universities is divided into three separate categories: British, American, and "other." To gain a richer understanding of the field of literature, however, and to appreciate our most immediate literary heritage from a global perspective, one must study the literatures of the world. The field of comparative literature, therefore, is an ever expanding discipline and more essential than ever before in the liberal arts curriculum. The literature (as opposed to "English") department at Claremont McKenna recognizes the centrality of this rich and necessary discipline for the education of future world leaders.
Professor Michael Murrin, the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in the Humanities and a Professor of comparative literature, English, and divinity at the University of Chicago, understands the value of comparative studies across the disciples of literature, history, philosophy and religion, and art. Murrin's current project, "Romance and Asian Trade in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe," is a study of the growth of middle class culture and its interest in the literary genre of aristocratic heroic narrative. This work also examines the simultaneous development of trade across Asia and its effect on Epic and Romance literature. Exploring the Medieval and Early Modern imagination and attitudes toward Asia, his study also demonstrates how these early cultural accomplishments still affect Western understandings of the region today.
Murrin's research has taken him all over the globe. For his current project he has made recent journeys to Tibet, India, and Nepal. Previous research-related travels have taken him all over western Europe. He has just finished a semester teaching University of Chicago students in London. In addition, his alumni tours are famous both in and outside of the University of Chicago community. Some examples of these tours include a reenactment of Odysseus' voyage to Ithaca; a tour of Normandy, France, highlighting the architecture of the medieval Normans and the Normandy invasions in World War II; and a retracing of the early medieval Viking travels in Scandinavia and the British Isles. Murrin has supplemented his international travels and comparative research by learning, speaking, and working in a myriad of languages, including ancient Greek and Latin, Persian, Old and modern French, Medieval and modern German, Provencal (or Old Occitan), Italian, Old English and Old Norse.
Murrin is the author of three books: History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic (1994), The Allegorical Epic (1980), and The Veil of Allegory (1969). For his many achievements as a scholar and teacher, Murrin has received awards from the Howard K. Wilett Foundation, the University of Chicago Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, and major research fellowships from the Melton and Guggenheim Foundations.
Murrin received his A.B. from the College of St. Thomas in Minnesota and went on to earn his A.M. and Ph.D. at Yale University.
Please join us at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum for what promises to be an interesting evening of comparative literature and art slides with Professor Michael Murrin.
Where Do We Go From Here?
As the United States embarks on its sweeping war against international terrorism, finds new allies and cements relationships with old ones in the wake of the September 11 tragedy, it becomes both timely and important to assess the future direction of U.S. foreign policy.
In his Athenaeum address, Dr. Anthony Lake will analyze how the war is conducted and the implications and effects it may have on the way the U.S. will approach the world in the future. He is currently Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Chairman of INTELLIBRIDGE, an information services company. He served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1993-1997, under the Clinton Administration, and was Five College Professor of International Relations at Amherst and Mount Holyoke colleges from 1981-1992.
Lake received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard University, read international economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and received his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 1962, he joined the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer with assignments in Vietnam and as Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969-70). He returned to the State Department in 1977 to serve as Director of Policy Planning for President Carter until 1981.
In addition to having written several books, including 6 Nightmares (2000), Somoza Falling (1989), Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (coauthored) (1984) and The "Tar Baby" Option: American Foreign Policy Toward Southern Rhodesia (1976), he edited After the Wars (1990). He also served as contributing editor of Legacy of Vietnam: The War, American Society, and the Future of U.S. Foreign Polity (1976).
Dr. Lake's lecture is sponsored by The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.
The Politics of Medicare
How did our Medicare program originate-when no other nation had a public health insurance program for the elderly? What changes and continuities have marked the program since its introduction in 1967? Theodore Marmor, Yale professor and author of The Politics of Medicare (1972), will explore these issues leading up to the current struggles over prescription drugs, managed care, and patient rights.
Marmor is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Yale School of Management, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral program in Health Policy. His research interests lie in the politics of the contemporary welfare state in the US and in other OECD nations. A prolific author, Marmor has published eleven books, more than one hundred articles, and frequent op-ed articles in newspapers like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Marmor began his public career as a special assistant to Wilbur Cohen, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (the precursor to today's Department of Health and Human Services). His foray into academia was marked by positions at Minnesota's School of Public Affairs (as Associate Dean), at the University of Chicago, and at Yale, where he headed the Center for Health Services before taking on his current positions. At the same time, Marmor has been very much involved in politics himself. He served on President Carter's Commission, was a senior social policy advisor to Walter Mondale's presidential campaign, and frequently testifies before Congress on medical reform and welfare issues. Marmor is an emeritus fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Marmor takes health care quite personally: he plays squash daily (having won the 1998 national championship for those over 55 years), pursues fly fishing, and fervently believes in having a glass of wine a day-preferably if its from among his own vast collection.
Professor Marmor's lecture at the Athenaeum is the last in the series Health Care: New Realities.
The Athenaeum serves as a gathering place where ideas, inquiry, and fellowship bring students, faculty, staff, other scholars, and nationally prominent speakers together. Attendance at any event may be limited to persons associated with CMC, to people who signed up for the dinner, or to the maximum number of people allowed by fire regulations. On some occasions the speaker may address the group in another forum or the College may set up a video feed to handle an overflow crowd. All programs at the Athenaeum are filmed. Individuals attending should understand that their image might appear on the videotape. House rules and common courtesy prohibit disruptive actions inside the building during an Athenaeum-sponsored program. Time allowing, there will be a period set aside for questions. Students will have priority during this portion of the program. The Athenaeum has a dress code for dinner. Business attire is preferred-no shorts, jeans, or t-shirts.
Spring Semester Highlights
Diane Halpern, professor of psychology, CMC, and director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Ann Crittendon, author of The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued (2001)
Barbara Schneider, professor of sociology, University of Chicago, co-chair of the Chicago Center on Working Families
William Tuttle, professor of history, University of Kansas, author of Daddy's Gone to War (1993)
Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology, Stanford University, author of A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (2001)
Laurie Garrett, journalist, author of The Coming Plague (1994) and The Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000)
Robert Hare, professor of psychology, University of British Columbia, "Psychopaths and Their Nature: Some Clues From Cognitive Neuroscience"
David Sedaris, humorist, author of Naked (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Stuart Eizenstat, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and chief negotiator of the reparations agreement signed by Germans, Austrians, and French for reparations to slave enforced laborers
Leszek Kolakowski, philosopher and historian of philosophy, Universities of Chicago and Oxford, Podlich Distinguished Visitor
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"I Don't Know, Personally, That I Would Wish It On a Kid" — Youngest Female Tony Winner Reflects
In 1991, Daisy Eagan became the youngest female actress to accept a Tony Award, winning for her performance in The Secret Garden. She shares what it was like to win theatre's highest honor at age 11.
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Despite having her own reality TV show and eight beautiful kids, America's most famous mom, Kate Gosselin, has been left 'sad and lonely' with no real friends that she can confide in.
That's the heartbreaking conclusion of someone close to the celebrity mother who spoke out to RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview.
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"The truth is Kate is really sad and lonely with few true friends," the associate said.
When she's not looking after her kids or filming Kate Plus 8, the perfectionist mom-of-eight is regularly photographed going to the nail spa, popping into the tanning salon or even traveling to New York, where she is known to get her hair done.
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What's more, she has a dedicated routine routine of going on grueling jogs to relieve stress and keep herself in tip-top condition.
"Even her kids have noticed that their mom is sometimes too tired to play with them when the cameras are not rolling," the source said.
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"Her bodyguard Steve Neild is the closest person to her, but he's married with two kids of his own.
"Steve lives in the basement of her home and he accompanies Kate everywhere, but they strongly deny that there is anything going on between them despite the fact that they have taken trips to Alaska and to Mexico together."
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The insider told RadarOnline.com the salt-and-pepper haired Neild is Kate's only confidante.
Said the source: "Apart from Steve she does not have many true friends to confide in or just go out and have fun with while she does not have the best relationship with her family either."
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Even locals in the neighborhood have become judgmental, the source added.
"They don't think greatly of her and she is not popular at the local stores, post office or car wash, because she cannot win people over and comes across as cold and aloof," the acquaintance said.
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"Kate just finds it hard to be friendly towards people and is very domineering – at the moment she is pre-occupied with looking her best and keeping-up appearances."
But it's not all her own doing.
As the source said, "Kate's life revolves around her kids and the reality show… when have you ever seen Kate photographed having fun on a girls' night out?
"The paparazzi are camped outside her home a lot of the time and often she will just not go out which is sad for her kids too.
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"Kate has money coming in but nobody to share it with – having her own reality show has come with a price for her but ultimately that was her own choice."
After her bitter divorce from her reality husband Jon, the former nurse forged ahead with her own reality show even battling in the courts with him over her rights to do Kate Plus 8 on the TLC network.
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While he enjoyed a string of high profile affairs and has been dating pretty Pennsylvania local Ellen Ross since the Spring, there have been no reported romances for Kate.
Kate – who has polarized millions of American women – always claimed that it was financially necessary for both her and her brood to do the new reality show, despite her husband's claims that it was potentially detrimental to the children.
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She recently told Entertainment Tonight: "My kids would fall apart if we didn't."
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Once upon a time Boots and Dora were invited to a fairytale fiesta at a castle. But there was an anti-party witch who put a spell on the castle!
Explore with Dora every day on Nick Jr.
Dora and Boots are so excited to go to the fiesta at the castle and your child will have a ball playing this fairytale game. A meddling witch casts a spell on three little pigs, the seven dwarfs, and Jack and the beanstalk. That mean old witch also makes the castle float away on a cloud to the moon! Using the mouse, your preschooler can undo the witch's spells and help everyone get to the party at the castle. There might even be a surprise guest. This game has one level.
Parent Tip: This is a great do-together game. Read the story with your preschooler as he plays along.
Help Dora kick, run and block her way to the Big Cup soccer game!
Love is in the air, but Dora and Boots need to find that missing Valentine
Gather up your cowboys & cowgirls & let them saddle up for Dora's big horse race
Play with your favorite Nick Jr. songs--speed 'em up and add new sounds!
Dora's on a musical mission to get to the rockin' party at Benny's barn!
Swiper needs your child's help to get off Santa's Naughty List!
Dora needs your child's help to rescue King Unicornio!
Your kids will love helping Dora craft her ice skating routine!
Kids learn manners and colors while trying to make Dora's friend dance
Come on in and explore all the rooms in Dora's house!
Roll with Dora and Boots on their adventure to open Skate Park!
This high-flying adventure is out of this world!
Count with Dora and Perrito on their search for the puppies!
Kids help Dora retrieve the magic wand and turn Boots back into a monkey!
Travel through Alphabet Forest gathering letters with Dora and Boots!
Find the missing books from Story Castle and rescue the famous Don Quixote!
Kids can uncover countless surprises in this multi-world adventure game!
The animals are counting on you!
Help Swiper use his swiping skills to do a good deed!
Dora and Boots need help getting back home in time for Dora's big party!
Help Dora balance-beam walk, trampoline jump, & swing her way to the big show!
Go on a tour of Dora's house and find surprises through every door!
Where is Isa hiding? Follow the flowers to show Dora the way!
Kids help Dora save the Crystal Kingdom from the greedy king!
Help Dora vacuum the garbage on the beach so she can turn into a mermaid!
Help Dora explore the sea and get Maribel the mermaid back home!
Ahoy, mateys! It's a big pirate party & Swiper swiped a trove of treasures!
Kids help Dora be a GREAT big sister by playing with the twins!
"All aboard!" says Dora. "We're going to the carnival in the big city!"
Dora has on her dancing shoes & needs your kids' help to pick her dance moves!
Spy it up with the Fresh Beat Band of Spies in a race through the museum!
The team needs your help! Round up the bad guys and get your own Umi Cops badge!
Love is in the air, but Dora and Boots need to find that missing Valentine
Kids help catch cookies to bring to the Mouse King's holiday bash!
Swiper needs your child's help to get off Santa's Naughty List!
Kids use shapes skills to build racing vehicles & help catch the Shape Bandit!
Come on in and explore all the rooms in Dora's house!
Join the team on their flag-collecting Grand Prix mission!
Roll with Dora and Boots on their adventure to open Skate Park!
How many nuts can Peter and his pals catch? Play now to find out!
Dive in and help collect treats for Bubble Puppy!
Speed down the beach to the ferry with Team Umizoomi's supercharged friend
Find 6 action-packed math adventures in one umirrific game
Peter and his pals need help collecting fruits & veggies before it gets dark!
Collect super power shapes, avoid obstacles & speed past Dump Truck to win!
The animals are counting on you!
Help Dora balance-beam walk, trampoline jump, & swing her way to the big show!
Take off with the team! Speed by obstacles & robots in a race to the finish line
Kids help Dora save the Crystal Kingdom from the greedy king!
"All aboard!" says Dora. "We're going to the carnival in the big city!"
Hop aboard the train and uncover clues in all three cities!
Toys, toys, everywhere! Max needs help marching them into the toy chest
Dora needs your preschooler's help to get Tico and Boots to school!
Kids join the Team in saving the Purple Monkey from a skyscraper!
It's Doodle time! Can you help Blue guess what Doodle is drawing?
Shapes and patterns make for high-flying fun!
Kids assemble their own Umizoomi vehicle with Geo's super shapes
Kids enter Diego's world of shapes, colors, & animals in this arctic adventure
An apple a day makes for colorful play!
Meet animals big and small and help Dora take care of them all!


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Learning how to properly massage your infant is a wonderful way to lessen stress in both yourself and your baby and it enhances bonding. Touch conveys nurturing and love, and massage can help parents become more aware of their baby's nonverbal cues.
The benefits of infant massage include, improving baby's sleep, lessening tension, fussiness, irritability and can often aid baby's digestion providing relief from gas and colic.
Join our infant massage therapist for this educational and informative four week class. This class is open to parents and their newborns and infants who are not yet crawling. Participants should wear comfortable clothing and bring a pillow or cushion to sit on the floor. Also, please bring two pillows and a blanket for baby. The class meets for four sessions.
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Chess Tactics
Roman shows you how to recognize and improve your combinational play, certainly one of the very most important skills in chess. This 2-volume series will help you become that very thing that most chess players fear the most: a tactical monster capable of swinging the balance of the position at any move. The first volume covers thematic combinations, intuition, pattern recognition, most unusual combinations, and combinations in the opening in the Caro-Kann, Dutch and Grunfeld. Volume 2 looks at multiple thematic combinations in the Nimzo Indian, unexpected tactical shots in the Scotch, thematic counter combinations in the Ruy Lopez, complex combination in the English, unusual endgame tactics and combinations and quiet tactical moves.
Complete Roman's Improve your Combinational Preparation and Tactical Skills : Volumes 14 & 15 (2 DVDs)
As the famous saying goes 'Chess is 99% tactics.' What are chess tactics? Tactics are maneuvers that take advantage of short-term opportunities, often (but not necessarily) involving combinations or sacrifices. In this DVD, Susan will introduce the most common tactical elements in chess.
WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - VOLUME 3 - Essential Chess Tactics and Combinations
On this DVD, Dr. Kopec focuses on various kinds of mating patterns and combinations, including: stock sacrifices, combinations to secure material gain, hanging pieces, and much, much more! Tactics are classified into a number of well-defined categories, including: checks, pins, skewers, double-attacks, overloads, undermining, X-rays, etc. Finally, the presenter examines Bobby Fischer's "Game of the Century" and a fantastic game by Mikhail Tal.
KOPEC DVD - How to Visualize Chess Combinations - Millennium Edition
With Roman's help, you will have the ability to recognize tactical themes, patterns and combinations, enabling you to use them to win your own games. Roman will guide you through a variety of different themes, mating nets and opening sacrifices that will materialize out of nowhere.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 14 - Improve your Combinational Preparation and Tactical Skills - PART 1
With Roman's help, you will have the ability to recognize tactical themes, patterns and combinations, enabling you to use them to win your own games. Roman will guide you through a variety of different themes, mating nets and opening sacrifices that will materialize out of nowhere.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 15 - Improve your Combinational Preparation and Tactical Skills - PART 2
Tactical ability is a prerequisite in all phases of the game. In the opening when development is in its early stages, one slip can be instantly fatal. In the middlegame, there is a myriad of tactical devices available to the well-practiced player in order to carry out the successful prosecution of his or her initiative. In the endgame, tactical solutions require concrete and accurate calculation.
Improve Your Chess DVD Series - Tactics: The Opening, Middlegame & Endgame
On this DVD, Roman will bring to you 13 of the most incredible tactical endgames ever. Some of these tactical shockers will come out of nowhere demonstrating that regardless how bad a position may look, there still may be a hidden win or saving draw. Enlightened by these examples, you will be able to apply these ideas to your own games.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 46 - Most Incredible Tactics and Combinations Ever in the Endgame
Tactics and Combinations are the essentials of every chess game and are easier to find when you know and recognize tactical themes such as example mate in 3, pins, forks etc. On this DVD Roman explains how to find tactics and combinations over the board by recognizing weakness in your opponents position and with logical thinking you will be able to exploit these weakness.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 52 - Finding Tactical Solutions in Overwhelming Positions
This dvd will help you the next time you are sitting across from your opponent and not sure what your next move is. You will gain confidence by learning about strategy and ideas to look for to create a plan. A plan may consist of a Pawn Minority attack, controlling the center or just improving your pieces.
FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 85 - Essential Chess Tactics Easily Explained
On this DVD, Roman will take you step by step on how to get better at tactics. Starting with pattern recognition, themes and tactics taken from Roman's opening repertoire.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 108 - Strategy Behind Learning Tactics Easily Explained
As a beginner, you can't afford to miss mate in one or two moves if you want to improve. This course addresses that problem. The huge number of exercises presented makes it an excellent tool, even for stronger players.
Chess Tactics - Level 1
For club players. The program includes 224 theoretical tactical weapons and 291 practical exercises, which are classified by tactical methods and motifs. In each theme exercises are given in order of rising difficulty to help in the learning process.
Chess Tactics - Level 2
Chess Tactics Level 3 is designed for players with a USCF rating of 1600 to 2100. It is a fundamental training program on chess tactics.
Chess Tactics - Level 3
This fundamental Russian-authored program on chess tactics revs up your game with more than 4,000 easy-to-follow training examples and exercises, classified by over 100 tactical methods and motifs.
Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
Despite the fact that many books have been written on tactics in chess, many players still find it extremely difficult to recognize tactical patterns and calculate ensuing lines. With this disk the author not only gives a large number of examples of the most different kind, trying to cover as many ideas as possible, but also suggests a method which will greatly help you to see various tactical motives and systemize your calculation.
Path to Tactical Strength - Rustam Kasimdzhanov
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Pocket CT-ART is the first training program on chess tactics for Pocket PC. Now on your Pocket PC you can solve chess combinations and improve your chess skills. The material was chosen for a wide variety of player strengths from beginner to advanced players.
Pocket CT-ART
The author, well-known coach Ivaschenko, has been working at this chess material for over 20 years and many experts consider his handbook to be the best for beginners.
Pocket Chess Tactics for Beginners
Pocket Chess Combinations is the training program on chess combinations for Pocket PC. The material is developed by the prominent chess coach Sergey Ivashchenko and aimed at intermediate players.
Pocket Chess Combinations
Rustam Kasimdzhanov explains tactics in the most amazingly simple way. In his opinion there are only three elements which are really important and which therefore decide most games: "pins", "double attacks" and "back rank weaknesses".
Power of Tactics - Rustam Kasimdzhanov
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Finally a new and improved version of the legendary CT-ART has been released! CT-ART is an indispensable training tool for intermediate players.
This training program is designed for beginning chess players, those that have a basic understanding of the game of Chess.
Chess Tactics - LEVEL 1
For club players. The program includes 224 theoretical tactical weapons and 291 practical exercises, classified by tactical methods and motifs. In each theme exercises are given in order of rising difficulty to help in the learning process.
Chess Tactics - LEVEL 2
Chess Tactics Level 3 is designed for players with a USCF rating of 1600 to 2100. It is a fundamental training program on chess tactics.
Chess Tactics - LEVEL 3
If you are a beginner, it is necessary for you to study simple tactical methods and learn how to employ them!
Elementary Chess Combinations
Combinations for Club players is an indispensable training tool for club players. Improve your play by solving exercises with Combinations. Its ease of use let's you focus on what matters most: your improvement.
Chess Combinations for Club Players
This training program is designed for teaching children, either in groups with a teacher or at home guided by parents.
Chess Tactics for Beginners - VOLUME 2.0
The course will be useful for the chess players who practice Open Games on either white or black sides.
Chess Tactics in Open Games
Chess Combinations Encyclopedia is a fundamental program on chess tactics including more than 4000 training examples and exercises classified by more than 100 tactical methods and motifs.
Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
The Magic of Chess Tactics DVD helps to develop these qualities and hereto offers a multitude of highly interesting, thoroughly analyzed examples as well as detailed explanations and exercises.
Magic of Tactics - Meyer & Muller
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On this DVD, Grandmaster Daniel King demonstrates typical tactical patterns, shows how strong players use their tactical awareness and puts your tactical abilities to the test.
POWER PLAY - Test Your Tactics - Daniel King - VOLUME 14
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Tactical motifs, themes, and techniques are among the core concepts explained in the present DVD
TACTICS - From Basics to Brilliance - Valeri Lilov - VOLUME 1
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This DVD covers important sections of this field and helps to understand in depth the proper handling of (unexpected) tactics in certain cases.
CHESS EXPERTISE STEP BY STEP - Unexpected Tactics - Efstratios Grivas - VOLUME 1
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In this volume, you will find lectures on combinations with bishops and knights, rooks and the queen, as well as typical combinations based on the interaction of pieces.
TACTICS - From Basics to Brilliance - Valeri Lilov - VOLUME 2
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Here we go again: do you want to improve your chess fast right now? In this more advanced DVD on tactics, FM Valeri Lilov relies on his innovative approach to teaching tactics and ventures into the more complex tactical themes that arise on the board when a fleeting combination of certain motifs and patterns happens to be lurking in the position. Obviously, it's not easy to spot these evanescent moments in a hurried and tense tournament game, but Valeri is here to open your eyes and help you spot these gems in your position right away! Prepare for an amazing outpouring of astonishing ideas and beautiful combinations because the Bulgarian author has prepared the ultimate selection of the most intricate tactical problems along with their witty solutions. Topics start from "the hole in the fianchetto" and go as far as "the seventh rank." But that's not all we get! How about a combination juggling from a "decoy into a pin?" You will find everything you didn't find in other tactics books, all in one place, because it is now put together just for you! Enjoy FM Valeri Lilov's training once again and get your tactics to the next level now! Video running time: 4 hours Video sample System requirements Pentium-Processor at 300 Mhz or higher, 64 MB RAM, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, DVD drive, mouse, soundcard
TACTICS - From Basics to Brilliance - Valeri Lilov - VOLUME 3
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Program include two courses: Chess Tactics for Club and Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players.
Chess Tactics for Club and Intermediate Players
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October 15, 2012
Vol. 28 , No. 03
Good West Bad West
The "decline of the West" is commonly considered inexorable, even inevitable given the "rise of the rest", especially China. Bill Emmott respectfully disagrees. The causes of decline and the prospects for the future lie in our hands, not China's, in our willingness to restore the things that made the West great. That is what he has concluded in his new book Good Italy, Bad Italy (2012) and forthcoming film "Girlfriend in a Coma" about the 20-year crisis in a country that was the fount of western civilization and once Europe's entrepreneurial dynamo.
Bill Emmott is a British writer about global politics and economics, who was editor-in-chief of The Economist from 1993 until 2006. Best known for his prescient books about Japan (The Sun Also Sets, 1989) and about Asia (Rivals: How the Power Struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next Decade, 2008), he has also written a much-admired treatise on global history and economics called "20:21 Vision--20th-century lessons for the 21st century" (2003). Thanks to a long battle at The Economist with Silvio Berlusconi, he has recently turned his attention to Italy and to the travails of western democracies in the face of corporate power and entrenched interests.
Bill Emmott's Athenaeum lecture is sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.
The Subjects of the Constitution
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
Two centuries after Marbury v. Madison, there remains a deep confusion about quite what a court is reviewing when it engages in judicial review. Conventional wisdom has it that judicial review is the review of certain legal objects: statutes, regulations. But strictly speaking, this is not quite right. The Constitution prohibits not objects but actions. Judicial review is the review of such actions. And actions require actors: verbs require subjects. So before judicial review focuses on verbs, let alone objects, it should begin at the beginning, with subjects. Every constitutional inquiry should begin with a basic question that has been almost universally overlooked. The fundamental question, from which all else follows, is the who question: who has violated the Constitution?
These implications ripple through the most important and controversial doctrines of constitutional law, from the scope of the Commerce Clause to the reach of the First Amendment, from the meaning of equal protection to the content of privileges and immunities, from the nature of due process to the shape of abortion rights. And all of it derives from nothing more complicated than asking the right first question: who has violated the Constitution?
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz is a Professor of Law at Georgetown, where he teaches constitutional law and federal courts. He writes articles for the Harvard Law Review and the Stanford Law Review. He holds a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale University.
Rosenkranz is currently developing a new theory of constitutional interpretation and judicial review. The first installment, entitled The Subjects of the Constitution, was published in the Stanford Law Review in May of 2010, and it is already the single most downloaded article about constitutional interpretation, judicial review, and/or federal courts in the history of SSRN. The second installment, The Objects of the Constitution, was published in May of 2011, also in the Stanford Law Review. And the comprehensive version is forthcoming as a book by Oxford University Press.
Nicholas Rosenkranz's visit to CMC is sponsored by the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom.
Bach's "Musical Offering" for the Court of Frederick the Great: Selections from the Musical Offering, and Works by the King, C.P.E. Bach, and J.J. Quantz
PREETHI DE SILVA, fortepiano; director
STEPHEN SCHULTZ, baroque flute
SHANNON ZUSMAN, viola da gamba
M. ANNE RARDIN, baroque violin
Perhaps the most significant encounter between a monarch and a musician, which was recorded in a major city's newspaper (the Berlinerische Nachrichten of 11 May, 1747) and in newspapers in other German cities, is that between Frederick the Great (1712–86) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), which occurred on 7 and 8 May, 1747. Bach's unexpected arrival in Potsdam (on the outskirts of the Prussian capital of Berlin), was announced to the king when the latter was preparing for an evening performance in the City Palace. King Frederick immediately welcomed him, announcing to those assembled: "Gentlemen, old Bach has arrived." Going over to the fortepiano, he then played a musical theme, requesting Bach to improvise a fugue with six voices. Bach improvised one with three voices, preferring to invent a suitable theme himself for the more complex fugue scored for six voices.
Thus was sown the seed for the composition of the great multi-movement work, the Musical Offering (Musikalisches Opfer), BWV 1079, based on the "royal theme." Bach completed the work soon after returning home to Leipzig and commissioned it to be engraved with a dedication to Frederick II.
Con Gioia's concert presents selections from A Musical Offering, in a rare performance with fortepiano; a sonata for flute by the musically talented King Frederic II; and chamber music and solos by composers active at his court. The concert also commemorates the tercentenary of Frederic II.
Founded in 1982, Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble is based in Claremont and has performed widely through the U.S. Con Gioia, performing on period instruments and directed by Preethi de Silva from the fortepiano (the favored keyboard instrument at Frederick the Great's court), will feature acclaimed baroque flutist Stephen Schultz, with Anne Rardin on baroque violin and Shanon Zusman on viola da gamba.
Guest artist Stephen Schultz, is solo and Principal flutist with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Musica Angelica. A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Holland, has been recognized by the San Jose Mercury News as a musician who is "among the most flawless artists on the baroque flute."
Preethi de Silva has been acclaimed by London's Daily Telegraph as "an artist of great accomplishment and originality" and is an internationally known soloist and recording artist and emerita Professor of Music of Scripps College.
Known for their stylistically refined performances, M. Anne Rardin and Shanon Zusman can be heard regularly in concerts by local early music ensembles, including Musica Angelica. Rardin teaches baroque violin and the Collegium Musicum at Claremont Graduate University. Zusman specializes in instrumental music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Claremont Graduate University, Santa Monica College, and College of the Canyons.
The DREAM Act: Perspectives on its Social and Economic Impact
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
The California DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), signed into law in October 2011, will go into effect at the beginning of next year. The legislation provides access to state financial aid for unauthorized migrant youth. Similar immigration reform legislation has been introduced in many forms on the federal and state levels since 2001 but has rarely succeeded.
Proponents of California's version of the DREAM Act legislation maintain that it will have a positive effect on the economy by investing in the skill of our future workforce. Opponents argue that the legislation rewards and encourages illegal immigration and places an undue burden on the state. They contend that it is unfair to legal immigrant parents who have to pay full tuition. Others fear that it will encourage rampant fraud and growth in undocumented immigration, citing the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act as a historical example.
Join us as an elected representative, a Forbes columnist, and an immigration lawyer participate in a panel discussion about the DREAM Act and its implications for the economy, California, and the country.
Nassim Arzani received a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from California State University Fullerton. She later received a Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis in Organizational Management. She attended law school at Trinity International University as well as Tulane University Law School, where she graduated in the top 5% of her class. During her second year of law school, she served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Judge James Bar of the United States Bankruptcy Court. She further advanced her legal career by studying abroad in Paris and obtaining a Paris Institute Certificate in European Legal Studies from Sorbonne. Among her distinguished memberships are: the California Bar Association, the Riverside Bar Association, the San Bernardino Bar Association and the Los Angeles Bar Association.
Nick Schulz is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at AEI and editor-in-chief of American.com, AEI's online magazine focusing on business, economics, and public affairs. He writes the "Economics 2.0" column for Forbes.com where he analyzes technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. He is the co-author with Arnold Kling of From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities, and the Lasting Triumph Over Scarcity (2009). He has been published widely in newspapers and magazines around the country, including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Slate.
Looking Back and Thinking Ahead on Journalism, Objectivity and the Middle East: Reflections on Four Years as Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The New York Times
Ethan Bronner is a highly respected author and journalist for The New York Times. After graduating from Wesleyan University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, he worked at Reuters reporting from London, Madrid, Brussels and Jerusalem. He then worked at the Boston Globe as the paper's Supreme Court and legal affairs correspondent in Washington DC, then as its Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem.
In 1989, during his tenure at the Boston Globe, Bronner wrote his first book, Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America (1989). It explores the spark that fueled a month long political firestorm that ensued following President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. It was named one of the best 25 books of the year by The New York Public Library.
In 1997, Mr. Bronner joined The New York Times. Before becoming the paper's Jerusalem Bureau chief in 2008, he was the paper's deputy foreign editor, assistant editorial page editor, education editor, and national education correspondent. In May, 2012, he was named its national legal affairs correspondent.
Since he was named national legal correspondent, Bronner has covered the voter ID law controversies, gun violence, and of course the ACA ruling in June.
In his talk at the Athenaeum, Ethan Bronner will discuss his tenure as a correspondent in the Middle East, and what insights can be drawn between journalism and objective reporting on sensitive and complicated issues.
The Changing Media Landscape: How Social Media is Transforming News and Information
Have you heard of Barack Obama? Or maybe Facebook? Chris Hughes has quite a bit to do with the success of these two entities.
Chris Hughes began his career as a developer and entrepreneur of new media in 2004, when he co-founded Facebook with his Harvard roommates and served first as the site's spokesperson, then as leader of its product and user experience team. In 2007, he became Director of Online Organizing for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, where his success-generating grassroots support revolutionized the use of the Web as a political tool. Hughes helped Obama raise more than $500 million online from over two million donations.
Hughes currently serves as editor-in-chief and publisher of The New Republic, a renowned American magazine of politics and culture. Hughes may seem an unlikely champion of print magazines, but as a respected digital innovator he is well positioned to both defend and revolutionize traditional journalism.
In the face of increasingly urgent predictions of print media's demise, Hughes argues that social networking and the capabilities of the Internet can help develop high-quality journalism and make it more accessible than ever before. An ardent believer in the social role of journalism in society, Hughes purchased The New Republic in March 2012 to preserve the magazine's tradition of critical thinking and nuanced long-form analysis. Hughes is also an independent investor in technology and media companies, a member of the UNAIDS High-Level Commission on HIV Prevention, and a trustee of the Knight Foundation. He is a graduate of Harvard University.
Chris Hughes' visit to CMC is jointly sponsored by the President's Distinguished Speaker Series, the Kravis Leadership Institute, and the Athenaeum.
Fissures in the Collective National Narrative and the Privatization of Memory in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
In a lecture focusing on the theme, Israel beyond the Media, Yaron Shemer examines new trends in Israeli cinema and situates them in the context of the broader cultural and sociopolitical developments Israel has witnessed in the last two decades. Thematically, contemporary films have been tackling issues such as homosexuality, domestic violence, life in the Ultra-Orthodox community, and migrant workers which, for the most part, had been absent in previous Israeli cinema. In contrast to films made in the past, these recent films steer away from grand narratives about Zionism and The Arab-Israeli conflict and their representations are not meant as metonyms for "Israeliness"; instead, they engage in stories of a rather smaller scale. Coinciding with these content-based developments are the aesthetic choices for which filmmakers opt, best illustrative of these is the preeminence of "I productions"—autobiographical documentary films in which filmmakers provide "first-person" stories about their most immediate surroundings. These personal and fragmented narratives are the cultural equivalent of the privatization trends that have swept Israel since the early 1990s and the rise of political parties which cater to ever smaller, narrowly defined constituencies.
Yaron Shemer is Levine/Sklut Fellow in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Israel Cultural Studies at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He earned his Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. His published articles focus on Mizrahi (oriental-Jewish) films and on terrorism in Middle Eastern cinema. His comprehensive book Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel is forthcoming (Spring 2013, U. of Michigan Press). Yaron Shemer has produced and directed films in Israel, Poland, and the United States, including Pilgrimage of Remembrance: The Jews of Poland (1991) and The Road to Peace: Israelis and Palestinians (1995).
Making Art in the Age of Rage: Does Online Hate Threaten the Creative Process?
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
Equal parts reporter, storyteller, and satirist, Meghan Daum has inspired controversy over a range of topics, including social politics, class warfare, and the semiotics of shag carpet. Meghan's work is included in dozens of college textbooks and anthologies, including The KGB Bar Reader (1998), Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times, and The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence (2001).
Meghan Daum is the author of Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House (2010), a personal chronicle of real estate addiction and obsessive fascination with houses, as well as the novel The Quality Life Report (2003) and the essay collection My Misspent Youth (2010). Since 2005 she has written a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times, which appears on the op-ed page every Thursday. She has contributed to public radio's Morning Edition, Marketplace and This American Life and has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, Vogue, Self, New York, Travel & Leisure, BlackBook, Harper's Bazaar, The Village Voice, and The New York Times Book Review.
A graduate of Vassar College and the MFA writing program at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Meghan has taught at several institutions, including California Institute for the Arts, where she was a visiting artist in 2004 and taught graduate nonfiction writing. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Alan Zarembo, and their sheepdog, Rex.
Meghan Daum's Athenaeum talk is sponsored by the Center for Writing and Public Discourse and the Academic Mentor Program, with funding from the Mellon Foundation.
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therealdeal wrote:CaCHooKa Man wrote:but stephen a smith said january
I f***ing knew they were all wrong. Everyone wanted to hope and wish that Dwight was going to miss time because this team is just that scary. Well f*** all you haters, Dwight is going to be back and ready WAY sooner than you expected.
Gotta love it when mods go gangsta
But yeah a lot of people I know who are Laker haters were playing the bad back card when we got Dwight. Just to try to rain on our parade. Hell even some members on this board were doing that. Can you imagine if he starts playing in the preseason and dominating from the get go? Run and hide motherf***ers


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Wayne Allen
Common Staff Writer
A celebration was held Thursday evening at the Scioto County Welcome Center celebrating the completion of the mural dedicated to the Portsmouth Public Library.
In April it was announced that Louisiana artist Robert Dafford would return to Portsmouth to create the mural.
One of the first places Portsmouth Murals President Robert Morton announced the addition of a new mural was to the Portsmouth Rotary Club.
"Robert has done quite a lot of study already because it's been in the works for a couple of years," Morton said.
At the time of the mural announcement, Portsmouth Library Director Paige Williams provided some history of the organization. She said philanthropist/industrialist Andrew Carnegie offered communities matching funds to help build a community library.
"The selection of the library for the mural was the idea of the Portsmouth Murals Committee. I think due impart to its history and beauty, it was decided the library needed its own mural," Williams said.
Williams then provided some history of the Portsmouth Public Library to those in attendance. "There has been a Portsmouth Library since 1879 when land was donated by the Portsmouth Board of Education at the corner of 5th and Court Streets. At the bottom of the mural you'll see a picture of that building; it was a little red building.
Portsmouth was growing by leaps and bounds at the time so a local historian decided we (Portsmouth) needed a much bigger library. He made a formal proposal to the Carnegie Corporation. As a result they gave Portsmouth a much larger donation than they typically gave. At the time the typical donation for a library was $10,000 to $30,000 and they gave Portsmouth $50,000. In today's dollars would equate to $1.36 million," Williams said.
She said there were 111 Carnegie Libraries built in Ohio. With 61 still operating as a library, including the Portsmouth Library.
Other speakers for the event included Morton and Dafford.
"The library mural is shown in one of the most propionate locations of all of the murals. I think the library has to be the heart of the community and that location is really the heart of all of our murals," Morton said.
During the event the group was able to connect to Dafford via Facetime. He was on another mural project in the south and paused to address the group about the process of developing the library mural.
According to www.portsmouthohiomurals.com, "The purpose of the floodwall mural project is to
create an outdoor art gallery depicting the last two centuries of the history of Portsmouth Ohio and the surrounding area. The section of floodwall included in the project is 20 feet high and extends for 2,090 feet along Front Street in the historic Boneyfiddle District of downtown Portsmouth. Painting began in 1993.
The floodwall mural project is an ongoing endeavor of Portsmouth Murals Inc., a non-profit, all-volunteer organization. Financial support is derived from public and foundation grants, fundraising events and most importantly, corporate and individual contributions.
For more information about the Portsmouth Murals visit, www.portsmouthohiomurals.com.
Wayne Allen may be reached at 740-353-1151, or email@example.com. For breaking news, follow Wayne on Twitter @WayneallenPDT.


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Office of Independent Education & Parental Choice
Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program FAQs
Definition and Eligibility
- What is the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program?
The Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program (FTC) was established in 2001 to provide an income tax credit for corporations that contribute money to nonprofit Scholarship-Funding Organizations (SFOs) that award scholarships to students from families with limited financial resources. In 2009, the program was expanded to provide credits against the insurance premium tax for contributions to eligible non-profit SFOs. In 2010, the program was expanded to provide tax credits against severance taxes on oil and gas production, self-accrued sales tax liabilities of direct pay permit holders, and alcoholic beverage taxes on beer, wine, and spirits. The purpose of the tax credit is to:
- Encourage private, voluntary contributions to nonprofit SFOs;
- Expand education opportunities for children from families that have limited financial resources; and
- Enable children to achieve a greater level of excellence in their education.
- Who is eligible for a scholarship from a nonprofit scholarship-funding organization under this program?
The Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program no longer requires prior year enrollment in a public school. For the 2014-2015 school year, a student is eligible for a scholarship from a nonprofit SFO through this program, if :
- the student is currently placed, or during the previous state fiscal year was placed, in foster care, OR
- the student qualifies for free or reduced-price school lunches under the National School Lunch Act or is on the direct certification list.
- What are my responsibilities as the parent of a Florida Tax Credit Scholarship recipient?
The parent of an eligible scholarship student must:
- Select an eligible private school and apply for the admission of his or her child;
- Inform the child's school district when the parent withdraws his or her child to attend an eligible private school within 15 days of that decision;
- Ensure the scholarship student remains in attendance throughout the school year unless excused by the school for illness or other good cause;
- Ensure that the student participating in the scholarship program takes the norm-referenced assessment offered by the private school.
- If desired, request from the school district for the student to take the statewide assessment pursuant to s. 1008.22, F.S., and provide transportation to the test site designated by the district;
- Restrictively endorse the scholarship payment to the private school for deposit into the account of the private school.
Additional information related to the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program is available directly from Scholarship Funding Organizations
Scholarship Awards and Payments
- What is the maximum award amount of a Florida Tax Credit Scholarship?
The amount of the scholarship provided to any child for the 2014-2015 school year by all eligible nonprofit SFOs must not exceed the following limits:
- $5,272 for a scholarship awarded to a student for enrollment in an eligible private school; or
- $500 for a scholarship awarded to a student for enrollment in a Florida public school that is located outside the district in which the student resides.
- What types of expenses are covered by the scholarships?
Eligible nonprofit SFOs must provide scholarships, from eligible contributions, to qualified students for the following expenses:
- Tuition and fees for an eligible private school or
- Transportation to a Florida public school that is located outside the district in which the student resides.
- How is a scholarship payment made?
The payment will be made by check payable to the student's parent. If the parent chooses for his or her child to attend an eligible private school, the check must be mailed by the eligible SFO to the private school of the parent's choice, and the parent must restrictively endorse the check to the private school.
The SFO must ensure that the parent endorses the check to the private school of the parent's choice for deposit into the account of the private school.
Scholarship Funding Organizations
- What are eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations?
Eligible nonprofit SFOs are charitable organizations that are exempt from the federal income tax as defined in s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eligible nonprofit SFOs are required to meet the following criteria:
- Provide scholarships from eligible contributions to qualified students;
- Give priority to qualified students who received a scholarship from an eligible SFO during the previous year;
- Expend for annual or partial-year scholarships an amount equal to or greater than 75% of the net eligible contributions remaining after administrative expenses during the state fiscal year in which the contributions are collected;
- Provide a surety bond or letter of credit in an amount equal to 25 percent of the scholarship funds anticipated for each school year or $100,000, whichever is greater.
- May use up to 3% of eligible contributions for administrative expenses if the SFO has operated for the last 3 state fiscal years without negative financial findings; and
- Provide the Auditor General and the Department of Education with an annual financial and compliance audit of their accounts and records conducted by independent certified public accountants.
- Who is responsible for administering the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program?
The Department of Revenue (DOR), The Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco (DABT) of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and the Department of Education (DOE) cooperatively administer the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program.
The DOE is responsible for adopting rules necessary to determine the eligibility of SFOs and identifying students eligible to participate in the program. The DOE is also responsible for submitting annually, by March 15, a list of eligible SFOs to the DOR and the DABT.
The DOE must annually verify:
- The eligibility of nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations;
- The eligibility of private schools; and
- The eligibility of expenditures.
The DOR is responsible for adopting rules to administer the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program, including:
- Establishing application forms and procedures; and
- Governing the allocation of tax credits and carry forward credits for the program on a first-come, first-served basis.


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Kate Galichenko
November 25, 2013
Kate Galicheko is the Pfeiffer Female Athlete of the Week. At the Fall Frenzy hosted by Wingate, Galichenko posted top-10 finishes in the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard butterfly. She also finished 12th in the 200-yard butterfly and her 400-yard medley relay team posted a strong time 4:12.43 and erased nearly five seconds off their seed time.


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October 12, 2012
October 12, 2012 Length: 6:12
Philippians 1:27-2:4; Luke 9:12-18.
"I just wanted to thank you all at Ancient Faith Radio for your impressively professional and prayerfully evangelical output. I'm a Dominican friar (in simple vows) from Ireland, and I have few cultural connections with Eastern Orthodoxy, but I greatly appreciate the new insights into the Gospel that your podcasts provide me with. Bail ó Dhia ar an obair (God bless the work)!"


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NDW and TomTom cooperate to benchmark historical traffic data
Oct 25 2012
NDW and TomTom cooperate to benchmark historical traffic data
ITS World, Vienna, 25 October 2012 – TomTom presented the results of a benchmark study with the National Data Warehouse for Traffic Information (NDW) from the Netherlands at the annual ITS World Congress in Vienna. In the study, Dutch government body NDW and TomTom compared historical travel time data. The results demonstrate that TomTom and NDW data and technologies help government in analysing major traffic trends and identifying key bottlenecks.
TomTom's travel time data is collected from drivers who choose to anonymously share their journey information out of TomTom's more than 70 million customers. The key advantage of this GPS data, known as Floating Car Data, is that it is not limited to a fixed location or planned periods of observation. Instead, TomTom is able to monitor a car's whole journey, whenever it's out on the road.
NDW's data collection methods are highly suitable for analysing a specific area of the road, and detecting changes that occur minute by minute. NDW monitors the road network by way of a variety of roadside systems.
"It's great to have independent verifications that confirm the quality of our Floating Car Data", says Ralf-Peter Schäffer, Head of TomTom Traffic Product Unit. "The research proves that our data has real value for analysis and policy making."
"The aim of this study was to test the quality and potential uses of the different data sources available, so we can find the best methods for traffic analysis and management", says Marja van Strien, Director of NDW. "We know that by combining NDW data with TomTom's travel time information, we get traffic information that is of a higher quality and covers more of the road network. There is a clear benefit to collaborating in the future."
The study also shows that TomTom data can be useful in doing plausibility checks of travel times and detecting failures in the roadside equipment.
NDW also performs benchmark studies with other traffic information sourcing companies. These studies are conducted to determine the quality and possible uses of several other types of available data sources.


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Men's and Women's Swimming Compete at Carolinas Invite
October 18, 2013
GAFFNEY, S.C. - Behind three top-five finishes in the men's relay events and two top-five finishes in the women's relay events, the Pfeiffer University men's and women's swimming teams took second and third place respectively at the Carolinas Invite this evening. The Falcons also had 21 top-five finishes in the men's individual heats as well as eight top-five finishes in the women's individual heats.
The effort by the men's team was led by the freshman duo of Dima Turkin and Dmitry Kozlov. Turkin had first place finishes in the 50 yard backstroke and the 100 yard butterfly, and Kozlov tallied first place finishes in the 500 yard freestyle and the 100 yard IM. Turkin also contributed a second place finish in the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 53.63 seconds. Junior Matt Burns got in on the action with a second place finish of his own in the 50 yard breaststroke with a time of 27.56 seconds.
The showing by the women's team was as equally impressive, boasting a first place finish by sophomore Kate Galichenko in the 100 yard butterfly. Galichenko's time of 1:00.73 was almost three whole seconds faster than Converse's Laura Dixon who had to settle for second place in the event. Galichenko also picked up a second place finish in the 50 yard butterfly with a time of 27.97 seconds only four-tenths of a second slower than the first place finisher. The women's team also enjoyed solid contributions from sophomore Jessica Burgess who finished second in the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 1:03.74, and senior Jillian Kniffen who put up a third place finish of 1:03.55 in the 100 yard IM.
As a unit, the men's 200 yard freestyle relay team consisting of Turkin, Kozlov, Vali Kaufmann, and Ethan Garrison finished second with a time of 1:29.19. The women were not to be outdone however, opening the day's competition with a third place finish in the 200 yard medley relay. The women's relay team posted a time of 1:55.56 and consisted of Burgess, Kniffen, Galichenko, and Cydney Donnelly.
Both teams return to the pool on October 26, 2013 when they travel to Spartanburg, S.C. to take on rivals Converse and Lenoir-Rhyne.


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Learning more about caucuses, primaries
Iowa just had its Republican caucuses, while New Hampshire holds a primary next week. What's the difference? Editor Don Whitten takes a closer look at the process states go through to allocate delegates for candidates at the national conventions, including how things are done in Mississippi. (January 6, 2012, Page 4A)