text: The United States Department of Agriculture wiki last edited by jloneblackheart on 03/31/13 08:35PM View full history OriginThe United States Department of Agriculture got its start in 1839 as the Agricultural Division of the Patent Office. At this time its duties were mostly restricted to collecting and distributing new varieties of seed and collecting agricultural information for the use of the government. In 1849 the Agricultural Division's parent organization, the Patent Office, was moved under the control of the Department of the Interior. Repeated requests from inside the Division led, on May 15th, 1862, to the creation of the USDA by President Abraham Lincoln. At the time of its creation it did not have Cabinet status.Team EvolutionBy the 1880s, US citizens had begun to lobby for the USDA to be granted a place in the Cabinet. 1887 saw the first attempt by the House of Representatives to pass a bill to raise it to Cabinet status, though as the Department of Agriculture and Labor. The attachment of Labor to the bill, however, sparked complaints from farmers, and the bill was dropped. On February 9th, 1889 the bill to raise the Department of Agriculture to the Cabinet was finally signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.In 1914 the USDA was involved in expanding extant agriculture experiment stations, which existed in each state. These stations were expanded by the Smith-Lever Act to educate the public in each state about agriculture, home economics and other issues central to their lives. During the Great Depression of the 1930s the USDA was heavily involved in aiding small farmers keep afloat in the treacherous economic waters, as well as ensuring that food continued to be produced in the United States. They were also involved in the education of youths living in rural areas.Since the early days of its existence, and into the 1990s, the USDA had been the target of allegations of racism. These allegations have claimed that the USDA refused to support African-American farmers, denying them loans and access to the other services offered to white farmers by the Department. This came to a head in 1999, when a class action lawsuit, Pigford v. Glickman, was launched against the USDA. The lawsuit was settled out of court, and to date the USDA has paid almost US$1 billion to African-American farmers who were denied loans or otherwise affected by the racist policies. A similar lawsuit was launched in 2004, but failed after the plaintiff was unable to demonstrate standing.Currently the USDA is involved in issues of food production and distribution throughout the States, as well as providing nutritional information through the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. It is also involved in the production of food for international sale, or for distribution to developing countries, often through USAID or some other charitable organization.OrganizationCurrently, the USDA is headquartered at 1301 Independence Avenue in Washington, DC. It is administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, and currently employs around 106,000 people. It has an estimated budget of around US$132.3 billion


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Wife to (08/03), Mom to (10/05) and (11/09).
But besides that fact for some reason not knowing something as simple as the sex of a baby really makes me nervous and scared. I'm the type that has everything planned out for the next ten years. I can handle change if it pops up, but I like to have things planned out so I know the general direction I'm headed in. Plus I hate and when I say hate, I mean loathe surprises. I don't know why exactly, but I really dislike surprises even relatively good surprises. I guess I'm strange that way.
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It is so fun keeping it a surprise! With dd, Dh announced, "It's a boy!" when she popped out. After a few minutes, I looked between her legs and agreed it was a boy. Thank goodness our midwife still had her head on straight and corrected us that we had a girl! Fun times!!
We are waiting to find out the sex of this one. We did find out with both my boys, but since this is probably our last, we decided to wait. I thought I might try to find out, but I'm 38 wks pregnant now and don't see it happening now. I can't wait to find out on the big day.
This time I don't much care whether we know or not. If we need a u/s and can tell, we'll find out. If we don't, we won't.
Mama to Kayleigh (6), Ethan (4), Norah (1), & Charlotte coming 11.09
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"So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." - Jack Layton
The dr doing the us put the gender in a sealed envalope and within days, I was holding that up to the light trying to figure out what it said. I thought it was girl and I was right. I HATE waiting!!
I'll see what dh says this time.
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On the eve of celebrating our independence and freedom in the United States, a man in Iran faces death for being a Christian. In the last few days, the Supreme Court in Qom, Iran upheld the death sentence of Youcef Nadarkhani for converting from Islam to Christianity. His death sentence could be carried out any day.
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani of the Church of Iran denomination was arrested in his home city of Rasht on October 13, 2009, while attempting to register his church. He was arrested because he allegedly questioned the Muslim monopoly on the religious instruction of children in Iran.
Pastor Nadarkhani merely spoke out against an Iranian policy that requires all children, regardless of their faith, to be taught Islamic teachings. When he pointed out that the Iranian constitution grants freedom of religion, local police demanded that he appear before a political tribunal where he was arrested and imprisoned – his charge, unlawful apostasy and evangelism to Muslims.
An Iranian court convicted him and sentenced him to death in 2010. On June 28, 2011, the Supreme Court in the Shia holy city of Qom, Iran upheld the apostasy conviction and death sentence. We know the Iranian regime often enacts death sentences without advance notice to prisoners' families.
Time is of the essence, and the ACLJ is doing everything within its power to help save Pastor Nadarkhani. We have sent letters to the U.S. State Department, the Iranian Mission at the United Nations, members of the U.S. Congress, and other foreign leaders demanding Pastor Nadarkhani's release.
Our letter states:
Imposing the death penalty for changing religion blatantly violates one of the most fundamental of all human rights. The right to freedom of religion is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Iran has pledged to uphold. Moreover, this fundamental right is enshrined in Iran's Constitution. Article 23 of the Iranian Constitution provides that the "investigation of individuals' beliefs is forbidden, and no one may be molested or taken to task simply for holding a certain belief."
As we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence here in America, we must remember the blessings of our freedoms and fight for those who are suffering under religious persecution – and even death – around the world. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
We will continue working to secure the release of Pastor Nadarkhani and all those like him who are facing the ultimate penalty for their faith in brutal dictatorships around the world.
UPDATE 7.4.2011: Supreme Court remands case to the local trial court – death sentence still pending if Youcef doesn't recant his faith.
UPDATE 7.7.2011: The U.S. State Department has issued a release urging Iran to respect Pastor Nadarkhani's fundamental right to freedom of religion and to vacate the court order requiring him to recant his Christian faith or face execution. You can read the entire statement here.
One of the most puzzling aspects of America's relationship with Iran is the reality that — by rhetoric and conduct — the United States acts as if it fears Iran, while Iran behaves as if it has nothing to fear from the U.S. Iran commits repeated acts of war against the U.S., unlawfully holds our...
In the days leading up to the nuclear negotiation deadline on November 24th, both the U.S. Congress and the United Nations are taking a firm stance against Iran's violation of human rights. As the Washington Free Beacon reports : The United Nations late Tuesday voted to condemn Iranian human rights...
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Anarcho-punk zine: PunkWay #8, 2013Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/06/2014 - 04:32.
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Pleasure Power Comix Part C (takes on police abuse topic on gays) (3 pdf files attached)Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/13/2013 - 00:03.
This zine includes articles of actual abuses by police, published in the marginalized gay press (the magazine that the text portions, in which my art was in, is now defunct).
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People and Planet Before ProfitsSubmitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/06/2013 - 04:19.
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From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism 1985-1995 by Ward ChurchillSubmitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 17:16.
From a Native Son is the Capstone Collection of his most important and unflinching essays, which explore the themes of genocide in the Americas, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo. read more »
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Pussy RIot: Closing StatementsSubmitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 21:29.
Pussy Riot is a feminist punk rock collective in Russia. On Feb. 21st, 2012, at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral several members donned neon-colored balaclavas and colorful clothing and performed "Virgin Mary, Redeem us of Putin" criticizing the cooperation of some representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church with Putin's authoritarian regime. read more »
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Pussy Riot is a feminist punk rock collective in Russia. On Feb. 21st, 2012, at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral several members donned neon-colored balaclavas and colorful clothing and performed "Virgin Mary, Redeem us of Putin" criticizing the cooperation of some representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church with Putin's authoritarian regime. read more »
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Faking capitalism: communication, hacking and information disruption in order to attack the immaterial dimension of productionSubmitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 02:00.
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Public Record ContrabandSubmitted by Anonymous on Sun, 09/02/2012 - 05:41.
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Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill ReaderSubmitted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/15/2012 - 07:21.
Ward Churchill is one of the most vocal, incisive, and respected writers on American Indian issues. Acts of Rebellion brings together his most important writings on indigenism from the past two decades, covering basic American Indian concerns from land issues to the American Indian Movement, from government repression to their history of genocide. read more »
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We Are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of 2008 (Edited by A.G. Schwarz, Tasos Sagris, and Void Network)Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 22:48.
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Full Unemployment Cinema: News from Ideological AntiquitySubmitted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/26/2012 - 12:30.
This pamphlet was made to accompany a cinema screening of Alexander Kluge's News from Ideological Antiquity in May 2012 at a squatted space in South London. The pamphlet and screening are part of the Full Unemployment Cinema 2011-2012 programme. We've put the whole series of small pamphlets up here.
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"You can do it. We can help." "More saving. More doing." These are slogans of the Home Depot home improvement company, but I think they may apply to the state tax consulting industry as well.
"DIY" or "Do It Yourself" has become a popular home improvement network (I think a spin-off of HGTV). Shows such as, House Crashers, Yard Crashers, etc. come to your house and re-do your yard or house, but you do alot of the work while they direct and support you with a lot of additional workers, etc. It is a coordinated team effort. Does this approach sound similar to how you use outside consultants?
I know some companies may hire outside consultants and totally hand-it off to them to do. They don't have the expertise in-house and/or don't have the time to spend on the issue. That is why they are hiring outside consultants.
Other companies are more "Do It Your-selfers" or "DIYs." They like to do things themselves and use consultants as an add-on or supplement on an as-needed basis. However, if you have ever watched Yard Crashers or House Crashers, you may notice that having these outside experts come to the house shaves projects and YEARS off the homeowner's to-do list. Meaning, the homeowner may have never completed the project without the help of these outside experts. The homeowner also may have never thought of the ideas (i.e., landscaping plan, remodeling plan, the placement, the fixtures, etc.) for their house or yard.
Therefore, when asking yourself, what kind of person or company am I? Am I a DIY or do I want to hand-it off? Also ask yourself, what could I be missing? Are there ideas and expertise that I could utilize to not only save my company money, but create a more tax-efficient structure?
Trust me. I am a DIY. I like doing things myself. However, even I have had to learn that I don't always know everything (shocker, I know). Others can help with their ideas and expertise.
Just remember, you can always do some things yourself, you just don't have to go it ALL alone.
Truly, in the SALT world, "you can do it," and "we can help" do seem to apply. SALT consultants can provide "more saving and more doing."
What kind of company are you? How do you prefer to work with outside consultants, and why?
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It's really that simple, people. And since ATI is prevalent in the market right now, GPU PhysX is as good as dead. You'll have a title here or there that may use it for a few "ah, neat-o" effects that get tired after a few minutes and that's about it. Developers simply aren't going to delegate resources to something that won't be leveraged by everyone. As they shouldn't.
If I were Nvidia, I would probably try to do the same thing by keeping GPU PhysX in my hands, but they cannot win this game as long as ATI is a player in the industry. And it doesn't look as if that's changing any time soon.
Open standard is the only way to go at this point.
ATi isn't "prevalent in the market now" - they lost some of their second place desktop market share in Q4 2009.
As for what devs "will" do, given that many games are still in development, and several have launched, I guess they don't care as much about it being proprietary as you do Xion.
Here's the difference: NVIDIA has the dev relations and resources to make things like PhysX a reality.
The staff at ATi probably spend their weekends scouring parking lots and ditches for aluminum cans and deposit bottles to cash in for their "Let's get hardware accelerated physics in one game so we can say we have this" project.
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Middle School Music
Middle School Music has a variety of studies.
– Sixth grade learns about the exciting and diverse music of the Twentieth Century.
– Seventh grade studies music from various world cultures.
– Eighth grade learns about Western Music from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.
There is an elective band and choir at this level as well.
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Students may elect to study music in the High School by joining the choir or the band. In choir, the students prepare music of various eras, genres, styles and cultures for concerts and festivals as well as learn about the progress of music from the Middle Ages to the present.
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Electronic design automation (EDA) is the category of tools for designing and producing electronic systems ranging from printed circuit boards (PCBs) to integrated circuits. This is sometimes referred to as ECAD (electronic computer-aided design) or just CAD. (Printed circuit boards and wire wrap both contain specialized discussions of the EDA used for those.)
This article describes EDA specifically for electronics, and concentrates on EDA used for designing integrated circuits. The segment of the industry that must use EDA are chip designers at semiconductor companies. Large chips are too complex to design by hand.
By the mid-70s, developers were starting to automate the design, and not just the drafting. The first placement and routing (Place and route) tools were developed. The proceedings of the Design Automation Conference cover much of this era.
The next era began more or less with the publication of "Introduction to VLSI Systems" by Carver Mead and Lynn Conway in 1980. This groundbreaking text advocated chip design with programming languages that compiled to silicon. The immediate result was a hundredfold increase in the complexity of the chips that could be designed, with improved access to design verification tools that used logic simulation. Often the chips were not just easier to lay out, but more correct as well, because their designs could be simulated more thoroughly before construction.
The earliest EDA tools were produced academically, and were in the public domain. One of the most famous was the "Berkeley VLSI Tools Tarball", a set of UNIX utilities used to design early VLSI systems. Still widely used is the Espresso heuristic logic minimizer and Magic.
Another crucial development was the formation of MOSIS, a consortium of universities and fabricators that developed an inexpensive way to train student chip designers by producing real integrated circuits. The basic idea was to use reliable, low-cost, relatively low-technology IC processes, and pack a large number of projects per wafer, with just a few copies of each projects' chips. Cooperating fabricators either donated the processed wafers, or sold them at cost, seeing the program as helpful to their own long-term growth.
1981 marks the beginning of EDA as an industry. For many years, the larger electronic companies, such as Hewlett Packard, Tektronix, and Intel, had pursued EDA internally. In 1981, managers and developers spun out of these companies to concentrate on EDA as a business. Daisy Systems, Mentor Graphics, and Valid Logic Systems were all founded around this time, and collectively referred to as DMV. Within a few years there were many companies specializing in EDA, each with a slightly different emphasis.
In 1986, Verilog, a popular high-level design language, was first introduced as a hardware description language by Gateway. In 1987, the U.S. Department of Defense funded creation of VHDL as a specification language. Simulators quickly followed these introductions, permitting direct simulation of chip designs: executable specifications. In a few more years, back-ends were developed to perform logic synthesis.
Many of the EDA companies acquire small companies with software or other technology that can be adapted to their core business. Most of the market leaders are rather incestuous amalgamations of many smaller companies. This trend is helped by the tendency of software companies to design tools as accessories that fit naturally into a larger vendor's suite of programs (the "tool flow").
While early EDA focused on digital circuitry, many new tools incorporate analog design, and mixed systems. This is happening because there is now a trend to place entire electronic systems on a single chip.
Current digital flows are extremely modular (see Integrated circuit design, Design closure, and Design flow (EDA)). The front ends produce standardized design descriptions that compile into invocations of "cells,", without regard to the cell technology. Cells implement logic or other electronic functions using a particular integrated circuit technology. Fabricators generally provide libraries of components for their production processes, with simulation models that fit standard simulation tools. Analog EDA tools are much less modular, since many more functions are required, they interact more strongly, and the components are (in general) less ideal.
EDA is divided into many (sometimes overlapping) sub-areas. They mostly align with the path of manufacturing from design to mask generation. The following applies to chip/ASIC/FPGA construction but is very similar in character to the areas of printed circuit board design:
In 1981, Mentor Graphics was founded by managers from Tektronix, Daisy Systems was founded largely by developers from Intel, and Valid Logic Systems by designers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard. Meanwhile companies such as Calma and Zuken attempted to expand into the design, as well as the drafting, portion of the market.
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Cadence Design Systems was founded in the mid 1980s, specializing in physical IC design. Synopsys was founded about the same time frame to productize logic synthesis. Both have grown to be the largest full-line suppliers of EDA tools. Magma Design Automation was founded in 1997 to take advantage of the simplifications possible by building an IC design system from scratch.
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|John G. Schmitz
|Member of the California Senate
from the 34th district
|In office
|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 35th district
|In office
June 30, 1970 – January 3, 1973
|Preceded by
|James B. Utt
|Succeeded by
|Andrew J. Hinshaw
|Member of the California Senate
from the 34th district
|In office
|Personal details
|John George Schmitz
August 12, 1930
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|January 10, 2001 (aged 70)
Bethesda, Maryland
|Political party
|Republican, American Independent
|Mary E. Schmitz (née Suehr)
|Nine (Mary Kay Letourneau, John P. Schmitz, Joseph E. Schmitz and four others by Mary E. Schmitz; John George Stuckle and Eugenie Bostrom by Carla Stuckle)
|Alma mater
|Marquette University (B.A.); California State University, Long Beach (M.A.)
|U.S. Marine, community college professor, politician
|Roman Catholic
John George Schmitz (August 12, 1930 – January 10, 2001) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and California State Senate from Orange County, California. He was also a member of the John Birch Society. In 1972 he was the American Independent Party candidate for President of the United States.
Schmitz was notable for his extreme right-wing sympathies. By one measure, he was found to be the third most conservative member of Congress between 1937 and 2002[1] and the ultra-conservative John Birch Society, of which Schmitz was a longtime leader, later expelled him for extremist rhetoric.[2]
On October 25, 1971 Schmitz composed an introduction to the highly controversial book None Dare Call it Conspiracy written by Gary Allen with Larry Abraham.[3]
In 1982, after it was revealed—and Schmitz admitted—that he had engaged in an extra-marital affair and fathered two children with one of his former college students, Schmitz's career as a politician effectively ended, as did his wife Mary's as a conservative political commentator.
Schmitz did not support or seek custody of his children by his lover, Carla Stuckle. When she died in 1994 after a long battle with diabetes, the children were placed in the care of high-profile astrologer and psychic Jeane Dixon, who was a close friend of Schmitz's wife, Mary. After Dixon's death in 1997, Carla's children became wards of the state and went to an orphanage.
One of Schmitz's daughters with his wife Mary was Mary Kay Letourneau, who became the subject of much notoriety in the 1990s when she engaged in a sexual relationship with one of her 12-year-old male students. After she was released from prison (for statutory rape), Letourneau eventually married the student.
Two of Schmitz's other children, sons John and Joseph, have held prominent posts in Republican presidential administrations. Son Joseph Schmitz has also worked for the international security firm Blackwater USA.
Schmitz died in 2001 at the age of 70 from prostate cancer; the former Marine Colonel was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
Schmitz was born in Milwaukee. He obtained his B.S. degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1952 and an M.A. from California State University, Long Beach, in 1960. He served as a United States Marine Corps jet fighter and helicopter pilot from 1952 to 1960, and was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1960 to 1983.
After leaving the Marines, Schmitz took a job as an instructor in philosophy and political science at Santa Ana College. He also became active in the John Birch Society. His views attracted the attention of wealthy Orange County conservatives such as fast-food magnate Carl Karcher, sporting goods heir Willard Voit and San Juan Capistrano rancher Tom Rogers. They helped him win election to the California Senate in 1964 from a district in Orange County. His views were very conservative even by the standards of Orange County. Schmitz once joked that he had joined the John Birch Society in order to court the moderate vote in Orange County. He opposed sex education in public schools, and believed citizens should be able to carry loaded guns in their cars. He was also very critical of the civil unrest that characterized the mid-1960s. He called the Watts riots of 1965 "a Communist operation," and a year later sponsored a bill, which failed to pass, to investigate the backgrounds of teachers suspected of Communist affiliations.[4] He also believed that state universities should be sold to private corporations as a curb against student protests.
He served in the state senate until 1970, when he won a special election to succeed the late James B. Utt in the House from California's 35th Congressional District. He won a full term in November.
When Richard Nixon, whose permanent residence at the time was in San Clemente—located in Schmitz' district— first went to China in 1972, Schmitz was asked if he supported President Nixon's going to China. Schmitz replied, "I didn't care that Nixon went to China, I was only upset that he came back." Nixon recruited Orange County Tax Assessor Andrew J. Hinshaw, a more moderate Republican, to run against Schmitz in the Republican primary for the renumbered 39th District. Hinshaw edged out Schmitz in the primary—the real contest in this heavily Republican district. Angry at Nixon's role in his defeat, Schmitz ran as the American Independent Party candidate for president in the 1972 election; Tom Anderson was his running mate. They received 1,100,868 votes for 1.42% of the total.[5] Schmitz's best showings were in the West—he received 9.30% of the vote in Idaho[6] (where he finished second in some counties, ahead of Democrat George McGovern[7]); 7.25% in Alaska;[8] 5.97% in Utah;[9] and between four and five percent in Oregon, Montana, and Washington.[10] He also received 4.95% of the vote in Louisiana.[11]
Schmitz won back his state senate seat in 1978, and subsequently named chairman of the Constitutional Amendments Committee.
In 1981, Schmitz—who was staunchly pro-life—chaired a committee hearing on abortion. Feminist attorney Gloria Allred testified at the hearing in support of the pro-choice position, and afterward sarcastically presented Schmitz with a black leather chastity belt. Schmitz's committee then issued a press release under the headline, "Senator Schmitz and His Committee Survive Attack of the Bulldykes", describing the hearing room as filled with "hard, Jewish and (arguably) female faces." Allred sued Schmitz for libel, claiming $10 million in damages, but settled for $20,000 and an apology. In his apology, Schmitz stated, "I have never considered her (Allred) to be ... a slick, butch lawyeress." Allred later appeared at a press conference called by Senator Schmitz regarding Mid-East issues, handed Schmitz a box of frogs and shouted, "A plague on the House of Schmitz!"[12]
The incident cost him his committee chairmanship and the John Birch Society stripped him of his membership for "extremism." Despite this, Schmitz announced plans to run for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 1982.
Early in 1982, John George Stuckle, an infant born on June 10, 1981, was treated at an Orange County hospital for an injured penis. A piece of hair was wrapped so tightly around the organ—"in a square knot," according to one doctor—that it was almost severed. The surgery went well and the baby suffered no permanent injury. However, the baby's mother, Carla Stuckle, a 43-year-old Swedish-born immigrant and longtime Republican volunteer, wasn't allowed to take John George home since some of the attending doctors were convinced the hair had been deliberately tied around his penis. Detectives threatened to arrest Carla and take John George away permanently unless she identified the father. Carla then identified Schmitz as John George's father.[13]
During a custody hearing, Schmitz acknowledged fathering John George out of wedlock. He was also the father of Carla's daughter, Eugenie. The admission effectively ended his political career, though he made a quixotic run for the 38th Congressional District in 1984. He was defeated by former Congressman Bob Dornan in the Republican primary 65% to 11%, with another candidate earning 24%. Dornan would go on to defeat Democratic incumbent Rep. Jerry Patterson in November.
Schmitz's affair also ended his wife Mary's career as a political commentator on television, where she advocated from the conservative position on the political roundtable debate show Free for All. (Before entering television, Mary had already become known as the "West Coast Phyllis Schlafly", having campaigned vigorously against Equal Rights Amendment.) He and Mary briefly separated over the affair but reconciled.[13]
Schmitz never financially supported nor helped raise his two children with Carla Stuckle. When the detective investigating the possible child abuse claim against Stuckle confronted Schmitz about fathering John George, Schmitz confirmed parentage and reportedly told the officer, "I do not and will not support him financially. It is her [Carla Stuckle's] responsibility to take care of him." Stuckle was not charged with any crime, and authorities returned John George to her care. Stuckle raised both John George and Eugenie on her own, working long hours at two different jobs. In 1994, when John George and Eugenie were 11 and 13 respectively, Carla Stuckle succumbed to complications from diabetes after a longtime battle against the disease. As Schmitz did not want custody, Mary Schmitz's close friend, high-profile astologer and psychic Jeane Dixon (whom both President Richard Nixon and Nancy Reagan consulted while they were each in the White House), took in the children. When Dixon died in 1997, the children became wards of the state and went to an orphanage.[13]
Schmitz died of prostate cancer at the age of 70 on January 10, 2001. Following a packed funeral service at the Ft. Meyer post chapel, was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
An obituary printed in the Institute for Historical Review's journal, the Journal of Historical Review, described Schmitz as a "good friend of the Institute for Historical Review ... Schmitz attended at least two IHR Conferences, and was a subscriber for many years to the IHR's Journal of Historical Review."[14]
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California's 45th congressional district special election, 1970
Note: All candidates ran in the same primary. Since no candidate won a majority, the top two finishers from both parties (Schmitz and Hartman) went to a runoff election.
California's 45th congressional district special election, 1970 (Runoff)
California's 45th congressional district election, 1970
California's 45th congressional district Republican primary election, 1972
1972 American Independent Party National Convention
United States presidential election, 1972
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|Preceded by
James B. Utt
|United States Representative for the 35th Congressional District of California
|Succeeded by
Glenn M. Anderson
|Party political offices
|Preceded by
George Wallace
|American Independent Party Presidential Candidate
1972 (3rd in popular vote)
|Succeeded by
Lester Maddox
Thomas J. Anderson
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The University of Iowa Collegiate Chapter, last year's Collegiate Chapter of the Year, continues to be very active. Its members presented a session at the Toronto Conference on using improvisation in piano lessons.
Iowa would like to acknowledge its students who participated in the national competitions in Toronto. Congratulations to Chelsea Wang, junior piano; Micah Wright, senior woodwind; and Deborah King, senior voice!
The 2007 Conference of the Nebraska MTA will take place in October at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Headliners will be pianist Anton Nel and pedagogue Samuel Holland. A new feature of this conference will be a play-a-thon at a nearby mall. After students have performed their programs for the MTNA Competitions or Nebraska Festivals, they may perform at this fundraiser for the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney. The planning of this conference has demonstrated the tremendous benefits of cooperation, not only with other musical groups but with other arts organizations.
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We are honored to present the work of six promising artists—Leslie Dreyer, Tanja Geis, Lee Lavy, Michelle Ott, Sofie Ramos, and Matt Smith Chavez—in the forty-fifth edition of the annual MFA exhibition. This year's presentation will be held at the Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley.
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March 2, 2015 - November 8, 2015
Artist and electroacoustic musician Tarek Atoui initiates and curates multidisciplinary interventions, concerts, performances, and workshops. He will be in residence at UC Berkeley in March, where he will work with art students to build instruments using 3D printers and other technologies. This collaboration will result in a series of concerts to be held in early November. As part of his residency, Atoui presents a lecture on March 9 at the David Brower Center exploring his recent interests creating instrumentation for the hearing impaired.
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Jeffrey Atwater
|Jeffrey Atwater
|Florida Chief Financial Officer
|In office
|January 4, 2011 - Present
|Term ends
|January 2019
|Years in position
|Alex Sink (D)
|Base salary
|Elections and appointments
|Last election
|November 2, 2010
|First elected
|November 2, 2010
|Next general
|November 4, 2014
|Campaign $
|Term limits
|Prior offices
|Florida State Senate
|2002 - 2010
|Florida House of Representatives
|2000 - 2002
|Vice Mayor of North Palm Beach, FL
|1993 - 2000
|University of Florida (1981)
|University of Florida (2002)
|Date of birth
|April 8, 1958
|Office website
|Personal website
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- 1 Biography
- 2 Political career
- 3 Elections
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- 7 See also
- 8 External links
- 9 References
The CFO's responsibilities generally overlap with those of a state treasurer or controller: he provides accounting, auditing and payroll services to the state, manages the state's finances and oversees receipt and disbursement of monies.[3]
Atwater began his political career in 1993 when he became vice mayor of North Palm Beach, Fla. Until that point, he had dedicated his career to community banking.[4]
Prior to assuming the role of Florida's CFO, Atwater was a state lawmaker. He served a single term in the state house, from 2000-2002, before ascending to the state senate, representing District 25. He remained there until 2010, serving as President of the Senate for his final two years in the seat.
Since Florida term limits disqualified him from seeking re-election in 2010, Atwater ran for state Chief Financial Officer, a post that would allow him to apply the knowledge of finance and banking he gained during his 25 years working in those industries.[5] He faced three opponents in November 2, 2010 general election, including Democrat Loranne Ausley, and won with 57.3 percent of the vote.
Atwater was considered a potential candidate for U.S. Senate, representing Florida. However, he announced that he would not be seeking the seat in April 2015.[6][7]
Atwater was Vice Mayor of the Village of North Palm Beach. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2002.
From 1994-1996, he was Chair/President/CEO of the Barnett Bank of Treasure Coast. He then worked as Chair/President/CEO of the Barnett Bank of Broward County from 1996 to 1998.[8]
Atwater holds a bachelor's degree in finance and a Master of Business Administration, both from the University of Florida.
- BA in Finance - University of Florida (1981)
- MBA - University of Florida (2002)
Political career
Florida Chief Financial Officer (2011-Present)
Atwater began his first term as Florida Chief Financial Officer on January 4, 2011. He won re-election on November 4, 2014.
Firing of Gerald Bailey
Gov. Rick Scott has attracted scrutiny, criticism within his own party and a lawsuit following his removal of state Department of Law Enforcement head Gerald Bailey on December 16, 2014. The governor's office first responded to questions about Bailey's removal on January 13, 2015, by indicating that the former department head made the decision to resign. On January 28, Scott stated that Bailey was asked to step down voluntarily and complied with the request. Scott's advisors told the press in early February that Bailey had been instructed to prepare his successor, Rick Swearingen, as his replacement for an undisclosed resignation date. Bailey, who had served in the office for eight years, refuted these differing stories by the Scott administration, noting that "when the governor's office gives you until 3 o'clock to resign, you're not working out anything with your successor." A Miami Herald profile of Scott advisor Melissa Sellers on February 7 indicated that Sellers pushed for Bailey's removal due to disagreements over Scott's discussions of law enforcement in his 2014 campaign.[9][10]
Criticism by cabinet members
The head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reports not only to the governor but three other constitutional officers: the Florida Attorney General, the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and the Florida Chief Financial Officer. All three offices are held by Republicans but Scott's fellow party members criticized his actions. Attorney General Pam Bondi has stated that she believes Bailey's removal was handled by Scott's staff without his knowledge and indicated that the state's "sunshine laws" might have been violated. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam offered pointed criticism of Scott's actions by suggesting that Scott worked behind the scenes to add an ally in the department. Putnam and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater raised these concerns at a February 5 meeting of the governor's cabinet, which led to revelations that aides were holding substantive policy discussions covered by state open-records laws.[11][12]
In their own words
- Pam Bondi: "We all knew there were going to be changes made in the upcoming months, but did I know that Jerry Bailey was going to be told he was fired and have his things packed up, his entire life as a career law enforcement officer in a cardboard box, and be told to be out of the office before the end of the day? Absolutely not. Nor do I believe the governor knew it."
- Adam Putnam: "At best, you would say that there was a great miscommunication, but we were misled as to the timing and the process of how that would be handled. . . . Jerry Bailey's a fine man. He served our state very well, and the way he was treated at the end of his distinguished career was shabby."
- Jeff Atwater: "I was not aware of any discontent. There was none between myself and the commissioner. I was not aware of any others. I was not aware of any other friction that existed. To that extent, I have to accept my share of responsibility."[11]
- Rick Scott: "Jerry Bailey was given the opportunity to step down. He did. He was given that opportunity, and then he waited until after Rick Swearingen was confirmed by the entire Cabinet and made his attacks. The attacks against me are absolutely untrue, and they're ridiculous."[11]
On February 3, 2015, the Florida Society of News Editors, the Associated Press and attorney Matthew Weidner filed a lawsuit against Scott, Putnam, Atwater and Bondi alleging violations of the state's open-records laws. The lawsuit argues that:
The governor violated the Sunshine Law by using conduits to engage in polling, discussions, communications and other exchanges with other members of the Cabinet regarding his unilateral decision to force the resignation of the FDLE commissioner and appoint a replacement without any notice to the public, without any opportunity for the public to attend, and without any minutes being taken. [13]
—Miami Herald, (2015) [14]
Weidner and the other parties in the lawsuit want a state judge to clarify whether open-records laws were broken and force the Scott administration to be more transparent with their meetings. The February 3rd lawsuit coincided with a letter by First Amendment Foundation founder Barbara Petersen to Bondi requesting a special prosecutor to investigate the situation. Petersen objected to a potential investigation by state attorney Willie Meggs, who she noted has previously been a dinner guest at the governor's mansion. Meggs rejected a request by Weidner to investigate the Scott administration prior to the lawsuit.[14]
Florida State Senate (2002-2010)
Atwater served in the Florida State Senate from 2002-2010. He was President of the Senate from 2009-2010.[15]
Florida House of Representatives (2000-2002)
Atwater was a potential candidate in the 2016 election for the U.S. Senate, to represent Florida. He announced that he would not run for the seat in April 2015.[6][7]
Atwater ran for re-election as Florida Chief Financial Officer in the 2014 elections.[2] He was uncontested for the Republican nomination in the August 26 primary election and faced Democrat William Rankin in the general election on November 4, 2014.[16]
Atwater won election to the office of Chief Financial Officer in 2010. The filing deadline was June 18, 2010, and the primary election date was August 24, 2010.[17]
|Florida Chief Financial Officer, 2010
|Vote %
|Jeff Atwater
|Loranne Ausley
|No Party Affiliation
|Tom Stearns
|No Party Affiliation
|Ken Mazzie
|Total Votes
|Election Results via Florida Department of State
On November 4, 2008, Jeffrey Atwater won re-election to the 25th District Seat in the Florida State Senate, defeating Linda Bird (D) and Anthony Joseph Mauro (Green). Atwater raised $2,827,505 for his campaign, while Bird raised $129,198 and Mauro raised 2,540.[18]
|Florida State Senate, District 25, 2008
|Vote %
|Jeffrey Atwater Incumbent
|Linda Bird
|Anthony Joseph Mauro
|Total Votes
Campaign donors
Comprehensive donor information for Atwater is available dating back to 2000. Based on available campaign finance records, Atwater raised a total of $9,975,351 during that time period. This information was last updated on July 8, 2013.[19]
2008 and 2010
Ballotpedia collects information on campaign donors for each year in which a candidate or incumbent is running for election. The following table offers a breakdown of Jeff Atwater's donors each year.[20] Click [show] for more information.
|Jeff Atwater's Campaign Contributions
Florida Chief Financial Officer
Florida State Senate District 25
|Total Raised
|Total Raised by Opponents
|$2,290,594 (Democrat)
$15,974 (No party affiliation)
$6,565 ( No party affiliation)
|$129,198 (Democrat)
$2,540 (Green party)
|Top 5 contributors
|Florida Republican Party
|Florida Republican Party
|State of Florida
|Florida Association of Realtors
|Florida RV Trade Association
|Florida Retail Federation
|Florida Hospital Association
|Northport Health Services
|Florida Police Benevolent Association
|In-state donations
|Out-of-state donations
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Atwater and his wife, Carol Funkhouser, have four children.[8]
See also
External links
- Florida department of Financial Services
- Project Vote Smart Jeffrey Atwater candidate summary
- Project Vote Smart Jeffrey Atwater biography
- ↑ WCTV, "Atwater Sworn in as CFO," January 5, 2011 (dead link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sunshine State News, Jeff Atwater Can Use 2014 as a Springboard for Higher Office, July 30, 2013
- ↑ Florida Dept. of Financial Services, "About the Agency," accessed August 26, 2011
- ↑ Florida Dept. of Financial Services, "Meet the CFO," accessed August 26, 2011
- ↑ Florida CFO 2010
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Politico, "Florida surprise: Jeff Atwater won't run for Marco Rubio seat," April 11, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Daily KOS, "Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: A Rubio-less Florida Senate race starts out as a tossup," March 26, 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Project Vote Smart, "Jeffrey 'Jeff' H. Atwater's Biography," accessed August 20, 2013
- ↑ Tampa Bay Times, "Gov. Rick Scott's new version of FDLE ouster called 'absolutely untrue' by Gerald Bailey," February 2, 2015
- ↑ Miami Herald, "Meet Melissa Sellers, the power behind Gov. Rick Scott," February 7, 2015
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Tampa Bay Times, "Cabinet members step up attacks on Gov. Rick Scott over FDLE firing," January 28, 2015
- ↑ Miami Herald, "Cabinet members kept in dark on public discussions by their own aides," February 16, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributed to the original source.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Miami Herald, "Lawsuits alleges Gov. Rick Scott and Florida Cabinet violated Sunshine Law," February 4, 2015
- ↑ Jeff Atwater, "About Jeff," accessed August 22, 2012
- ↑ Florida Division of Elections, "Candidate Listing for 2014 General Election," accessed May 13, 2014
- ↑ Jeff Atwater for Chief Financial Officer 2010
- ↑ 2008 District 25 Election Results
- ↑ Follow the Money, "Career fundraising for Jeff Atwater," accessed July 8, 2013
- ↑ Follow the Money.org, "Home," accessed February 17, 2015
|Political offices
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|Florida Chief Financial Officer
2011 – Present
| Succeeded by
|Preceded by
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| Succeeded by
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