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Spring 2016 Commencement Ceremony
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Graduation will be held on the Academic Quad
RAIN PLAN: Nelson Field House
- 8:30 a.m. — College of Business, College of Education
- 12:30 p.m. — College of Science and Technology
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The Lindsay Lohan-Centered Biz Model Drives Ungaro Into Closing Madison Ave. Store
Emanuel Ungaro, the once high-end line of the Paris-based designer who sold his name and company in 2005, made headlines last year for electing Lindsay Lohan as its full-time muse and, improbably, artistic designer. (The company even fired a designer who refused to learn from the wisdom of the Lohan.) The line, under Lohan… let's say it suffered? ("The collection was such a failure that we could not believe they kept her on," is how fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone put it.) And now, the business is making drastic financial arrangements-closing their Madison Avenue shop, according to a staff member.
A very nice voicemail left by a Madison Avenue Ungaro staffer for a customer yesterday, inviting the customer up to the store, broke the news.
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One of my first Copic colored pieces. The Jing series has cool artwork, and I had to do MasterGear, one of the coolest villains. And of course Sherry, his fox.
Sherry is such a great fox. I really like her attitude. :3 And Master Gear is a great villain, too.
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JING!!! Wahh, "Time is Money" ^_~ Heheh. I haven't seen any Mastergear fanart before. Hehehe. soo cool and you did this with copic marker @@@?
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Chesapeake and shareholders have butted heads before
Chesapeake Energy Corp. has dealt with disgruntled shareholders before.
The Oklahoma City company, founded in 1989 by Aubrey McClendon and Tom Ward with a $50,000 investment, has grown into the nation's second-largest producer of natural gas — trailing only corporate behemoth ExxonMobil Corp.
Chesapeake's remarkable expansion during the past two decades has been anything but a smooth rise. In public appearances, McClendon sometimes thanks longtime shareholders for staying with the company through difficult times.
"He doesn't hide the fact that he is a big risk-taker," said Jake Dollarhide, a Tulsa money manager who bought Chesapeake shares during one of those past tough times. Dollarhide, CEO of Longbow Asset Management, said many shareholders support McClendon's autonomy and penchant for risk.
"There's a core group of longtime shareholders who are saying if this is news to you, then you really haven't been paying attention," he said. "That's the wildcatter's spirit."
Potential conflicts
Revelations by Reuters about McClendon operating a hedge fund and taking out huge loans using his stake in company wells as collateral again have roused some shareholders, with at least 11 lawsuits filed in the wake of those disclosures. The company's largest investor last week notified regulators that it will be taking a more active role in the company's matters.
Tulsa money manager Fred Russell said shareholders deserve more accountability from Chesapeake's directors.
"When you have a situation like Chesapeake, you have the most cynical exploitation of public shareholders in today's publicly traded markets," said Russell, whose Fredric E. Russell Investment Management Co. holds no Chesapeake stock.
Chesapeake has reacted to the latest controversies, stripping McClendon of his role as chairman of the company, a post he has held since co-founding the firm more than two decades ago. The board of directors also will halt an executive perk that allows McClendon to personally invest in every well the company drills.
The SEC has launched an informal inquiry, and the IRS is examining the well participation program.
Bruce Day, director of securities litigation for Crowe & Dunlevy and a former administrator of the Oklahoma Securities Department, said the SEC inquiry is a "long way" from a full-blown investigation.
Day, who once served in SEC's enforcement division, said the agency likely is reacting to the recent Reuters reports.
"There's a long process ahead. That's the takeaway," Day said.
Shareholder anger
In 1997, just four years after Chesapeake became publicly traded, more than a dozen shareholder lawsuits were filed against the company when the stock nose-dived on reports of disappointing drilling results in Louisiana.
The suing shareholders claimed Chesapeake stock prices remained artificially high because company officials improperly withheld information about the drilling results. (The lawsuits were consolidated and, in 2000, dismissed.) McClendon promised to reverse the company's fortunes.
"We do not anticipate, nor will we tolerate, continued erosion in the value of this company," he said in August 1997. "We will sell the company before we will allow that to occur."
Oil and gas prices dropped in 1998, forcing Chesapeake to take write-downs in the value of its properties, contributing to a net loss for the year of $934 million. At mid-1998, Chesapeake's board authorized management to explore alternatives for the company, including the potential for a sale or merger.
However, with Chesapeake shares falling to less than $1 in 1999, the company successfully pivoted to boost its focus on natural gas production and on Oklahoma assets, and added strategic acquisitions to its business plan.
That corporate makeover, combined with a rebound in natural gas prices amid the firm's shale gas discoveries, sent the fortunes of Chesapeake and its shareholders soaring. By mid-2008, the stock topped $66.
Another price drop
Soon after Chesapeake shares reached new heights, natural gas prices, along with much of the global economy, collapsed. In late 2008, McClendon was forced to sell nearly all of his extensive Chesapeake stock holdings to pay for loans he had taken to buy the stock.
The board, months later, awarded McClendon a $75 million bonus, and paid him $12 million for a map collection he owned that adorned Chesapeake offices. McClendon later agreed to buy back the map collection to settle a shareholder lawsuit.
Chesapeake's 2009 shareholder meeting prompted strong words from a few shareholders, including Jan Fersing of Fort Worth, Texas, who verbally confronted McClendon.
"After your embarrassing losses, but with a carefully picked and extremely well-compensated board of directors, Chesapeake shareholder funds were partially used to cover your losses," Fersing said.
McClendon responded forcefully.
"I'm sorry that you find me as egocentric and greedy," McClendon said. "But I'll tell you there's not a harder working guy out there who thinks every day about how to create shareholder value. And I'm dedicated to that. I've been dedicated to it for 20 years. And as long as this board is willing to employ me, that's what I'll be dedicated to for the next 20 years."
Most of the more than 200 shareholders in the room applauded him.
T. Boone Pickens recently tweeted that he likes McClendon's willingness to invest heavily in his own company.
"Hard to be an entrepreneur if you don't have skin in the game, and Aubrey always has skin in the game," Pickens wrote.
In the past two years, Chesapeake has implemented new corporate governance measures and created the position of lead independent director on its board. Most recently, the board said it would hire an independent director with no previous ties to the company to serve as its new chairman.
Running the company
Dollarhide said recent Chesapeake deals have reduced debt and moved the company to a more balanced production of oil and natural gas, just as the company promised last year.
"I think they'll make the right moves," he said. "This is just a distraction right now, keeping them from running an energy company."
McClendon, in a conference call last week with analysts, apologized to investors for the recent distractions.
Day, whose law firm does not represent Chesapeake, said Chesapeake leaders probably should be more concerned about the firm's operations than the current "media frenzy."
"Regardless of how good the management is, they have trouble coping with commodity prices which they have no control over," Day said. "They've been extraordinarily successful in gathering a great natural gas base. I wish Chesapeake only the best. It's extremely important to the well-being of this state and this city."


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Collection of former misfits jelled perfectly and have No. 1 CSUSM on verge of greatness in NAIA tournament
Bobby Macias is from Thousand Oaks, the city once voted the safest in the United States. De'End Parker is from the Fillmore District of San Francisco. Most of his friends are dead.
Bobby Macias stands 5-feet-10, shoots left-handed and can't count the number of scholarship offers he received out of high school ... because there weren't any. De'End Parker is a 6-6 righty who would find a new envelope in the mail every day.
When basketball practice started last fall, the two point guards would go at each other like Ali and Frazier, topping it off with verbal jabs that would move weaker men to tears. One day, it got so heated that Parker felt compelled to isolate Macias — give him a personal message that he would not soon forget.
"Hey Bobby," said Parker, right hand extended. "You know it's all love, right?"
Of course it is. These two are way too alike for it not to be.
But this story isn't about Parker and Macias. It's about the Cal State San Marcos men's basketball team and a roster culled from the sports world's swap meet. It's about a collection of misfits that became the top-ranked NAIA squad in the country despite not having a gym — a third-year program ready to vie for a national title this week in Kansas City, Mo.
But to understand the pinball nature of these players' paths, to get an idea of the turbulence endured before their arrival in North County, it might be best to gaze through the eyes of Macias and Parker. So let's get to know them. And since Parker is the starter, we'll begin with De'End.
De'End Parker
First things first: Yes, De'End is his real name. Not much to it, really. He was the seventh child of a drug-addicted mother who, upon his birth, declared him the last of her offspring.
Parker hated his name growing up. It was a magnet for ridicule in a neighborhood where being noticed for anything could wind up getting you killed. But these days he embraces it. As a 23-year-old playing on his fourth college basketball team, he sees it as "a cool way to get into my story."
Parker, you see, shouldn't be here right now. Children born to junkies don't typically ascend to heights with any kind of a view. Parker heard stories about how his mother used to leave him under a truck during his toddler days while she would go into the house and "do what she needed to do for money."
Clearly drugs had hijacked her judgment, but to her credit, she scrounged up enough lucidity one day to make a choice that saved De'End — she gave him away to her friend Carmen Johnson to raise as a son of her own.
Oh, Carmen Johnson. Hear her name while playing word-association and the first thing you'd shout is hallelujah. The church-going, God-fearing angel of a woman has raised 13 foster children, and that doesn't include the kids who would lodge at her home for a few weeks between families.
Johnson provided Parker with stability and structure. She enrolled him in schools as far away from the gang culture as possible in hopes of getting him to adulthood alive.
It wasn't a foolproof plan, of course. A gang-banger once shot at Parker moments after he stepped off the bus on the way home from school. None of the bullets hit, but if you're wondering what the shooter's motivation was, you're not alone.
"There was no reason for him to be after me," Parker said. "But you have to understand — you don't have to be in it. It's all around you. If you're just seen talking to somebody someone else doesn't like, you can become a target."


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AznJerzyGirl NA 2LoL....And thanx for that lil' shout out in your neohome.
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AznJerzyGirl NA 2Hey! I've seen you around the HM:FoMT Discussion Board, so I thought I should sign your guest book (obviously.) Plus, you signed mine, so I figured I'd do the same. Also thank you for rating my neohome a 5!
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Ok so now i know the difference and I am curious......
If you are having or had a c section what did you or will you have, a spinal or epi? Did you chose or you doctor? Why?
Ok so now i know the difference and I am curious......
If you are having or had a c section what did you or will you have, a spinal or epi? Did you chose or you doctor? Why?
Mommy to Zachary (11yr), Cameron (8 yr), and Caliana Alexa (Jan 19, 2009)
I am pretty sure it will be a spinal. But I don't think I am given a choice. If I were to be given a choice I would choose the spinal also. This will be my 4th c/s and I have had both, but I prefer the spinal over the epi hands down. When I had the epi I wasn't numb completely on one side but never had that issue with the spinal.
Why did you prefer the spinal? Both of them scare the heck out of me...needle phobia.
I am opting for the spinal as well. I've heard it works better and that there are less side effects as it wears off.
Mommy to Kaitlyn*01-15-09 & Kyleigh*01-28-11
My DD's are 2 years, 13 days, 7 hrs, and 20 min apart.
Proudly Breastfeeding And Raising 2!!!!
Also with my last c/s the med. they gave me in the spinal was called Duramorph (sp?) and it was wonderfull!!! When the spinal wore off I was completely pain free. I hope I will be getting that again, lol. The only bad effect I had from it was itching (from the morphine in it) which they gave me benedryl for and helped tons!!!
with my ds, I had epidural for the emergency c-section, but it did not work like it should have, and I ended up needing general anesthesia- I could feel them cutting!! With this one (which I'm still really hoping for VBAC, but the section is scheduled for friday if LO is a no-show) The doc said spinal this time, I didn't really get a choice, but that's ok with me.
Mama to Dean 1/4/07 and Ty 1/9/09
My doctor said we're during an epidural because it can stay in longer (until they remove the catheter 24 hrs later) and I can get pain meds directly in there. HTH.
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I had a spinal....you regain feeling alot sooner! I loved it!!! And didn't feel a thing. I agree with the PP, the meds they put in it to make you pain-free after it wears off does cause alot of itching, but nothing Benadryl won't stop.
I remember the awful itching from my epi....horrible. I hated the fact that i was so totally numb from the waist down that i couldn't even move my toes. I would like the feeling to come back faster and just start taking regular oral pain meds. I think I am going to ask my doctor about the spinal and see what his opinion is. Sounds like it may be a better choice for me.
Mommy to Zachary (11yr), Cameron (8 yr), and Caliana Alexa (Jan 19, 2009)
Get a duramorph spinal! It lasts about 24 hours! That is what I had last time and what I am getting this time.
Mel - Mommy to Analese Kristin (5-2-06) & Mariele Kara (1-20-09)
Wife to Lee (9-5-99)
I have been given an epi with both of my previous births. I agree with the PPs, Duramorph is wonderful. I had it in my epi with my YDD and it was much better then the first. (My first epi didn't work very well--I could feel the stitching at the end!). The Duramorph made me itch, but I was given Benadryl, so not a big deal. I assume I will be getting an epi this time as well. I will be asking for Duramorph though!
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Photo by Tiffany Ran Yesterday, Kevin Burzell laid out the variants of the Hokkien Mee, a classic noodle dish in Southeast Asia . Today, he
Photo by Tiffany RanYesterday, Kevin Burzell laid out the variants of the Hokkien Mee, a classic noodle dish in Southeast Asia. Today, he introduces another classic dish, the Hakka Mee, served up with Kedai Makan's handmade noodles. "Most noodle dishes in Southeast Asian are usually inspired from a Chinese dish, but especially in Malaysia. It's inspired by a Chinese dish and given a Malay and Indian twist. Most of the stalls, especially in Malaysia are ran by a Chinese," said Kevin Burzell. "Malaysian food in general is a melting pot of Southeast Asia. So it makes sense for this white American to come in and learn it, and have some fun with it, to stick with some tradition at times and some other times, to make up some of our own dishes."
Hakka Mee
Feeds 4 hungry people
500 grams high gluten flour
2 large eggs
150 milliliters water
1 teaspoon of oil
1 punch of salt
Knead dough until it comes together. Rest for 1 1/2 hour, then knead for a further 15 minutes very hard and vigorously. Rest for another 15 minutes, then roll out to desired thickness and cut out to about ¾ of an inch wide by 8 inches long.
Pork topping
6 oz fine ground pork
6 oz course ground pork
1 tablespoon grated and pounded ginger paste
1/2 tablespoon pounded garlic paste
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1/2 tablespoon fish sauce
2 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
A pinch of white pepper
Combine pork with everything and cook in a wok or large saute pan until meat is tender for about 8-10 minutes. Add 1 to 1/12 cups water and adjust with more soy sauce and or fish sauce.
Add 4 cups blanched bean sprouts.
Cook noodles in boiling salted water for 2 minutes.
Place noodles on top of blanched sprouts, Pork on top of noodles, garnish with chopped scallion, pickled chilies, sambal, and black vinegar.
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The Dow Jones industrial average offers rally-and-retreat trading opportunities between 16,000 points and 18,290, chart analysis shows. » Read More
Samsung Electronics,world's top maker of memory chips and flat screen TVs, reported record quarterly results on Friday, giving its shares a nice boost.
But whether the results were going to be good, bad or indifferent, the stock was always going to continue it's uptrend, based on analysis of its stock chart.
The reason for this is the stock's inherent steady existing trend behavior.
When the bears are right, it could sometimes mean a great opportunity for the bulls. This seems to be the case for Goldman bulls, at least according to technical analysis.
Shares of General Electric have had a good run in recent months, tracking the overall uptrend on Wall Street. The stock was up 19.6% in the first quarter, with much of the increase coming in the last month, when the stock surged from $15.90 to $18.20, a possible signal of confidence by investors.
A check of its weekly stock chart suggest the company will continue to see gains going forward.
There are two important factors which suggest the earnings release will confirm the existing trend behavior in GE. The first is the pattern of price behavior and the second is the pattern of trend strength. (GE is the parent company of CNBC.)
One of the most dangerous market myths is that the market always rises over time.
Believers in this myth would trot out historical charts that have been reconstructed from the middle of the 18th century. And sure enough, the long term trend marches inexorably upwards. Even drammatic market crashes like that of 1929, 1987 and the tech wreck of 2000 all become just little blips in this overall magical rising trend.
To many investors, this underscores the buy-and-hold strategy. Just buy-and-hold and the market will bring you a windfall eventually. Right?
Wrong. Unfortunately, this is a pure myth and simply untrue.
The truth is that it's market index always rises, and not the market. The market index rises because the index only includes winners. This is called survivor-bias. The components of the index change on a regular basis, when market conditions warrant.
The Australia's S&P ASX 200 index, for example, is rebalanced every quarter by Standard and Poors' who compiles the index. Just in the last quarter, three stocks were dropped from the index because they were the worst performers. They were replaced by three others which were better performers.
When losers are dropped and winners added, it's no wonder that the market (index) always rises. Even blue chip stocks can be cut out from the list if they fail to perform. Too bad if you happen to own them and plan to keep them for the long haul.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei Average has hitting 18-month highs in recent days, prompting market analysts to predict that the index would breach the 12,000 mark by the end of this month.
The short-term gyrations of Portuguese tinkering, Irish blarney, Italian bluster, Greek debt and the care-free Spanish (PIIGS) have a cumulative impact of the euro-dollar relationship.
The weekly euro-dollar chart gives a better view of the strategic perspective. Against this chart we must also balance the degree to which the greenback's strength, as shown on the U.S. dollar index, is increasing the pressure on the euro as distinct from pressure applied by the Euro zone PIIGS.
A simple analysis of the Euro-Dollar chart has these features.
Oil prices are poised to rise higher, but be ready to stomach volatility. An analysis of the its weekly chart shows the development of a broad upward sloping trading channel , in chart speak, which confirms this trend.
Oil prices, like most markets, rebounded strongly last year, in tandem with the global economic recovery. Towards the middle of 2009, however, while other key markets began to lose momentum and develop a trading band pattern, oil continued with its upwards climb within a trading channel.
There are several important features in its chart which underscores the commodity's bullish trend.
Cathay Pacific's posted its best six-month profit in two years on Wednesday, sending its shares up more than 3 percent.
While it's easy to attribute the Hong Kong flagship carrier's recent stock gains to its improving earnings, a closer look at the firm's stock chart shows a broad cruising pattern that's unlikey to be significantly altered by earnings releases.
Markets start to incorporate news when it's just rumor and the information is quickly built into the price behavior.
This makes stock prices best summary of all the information that is known, guessed at, speculated about and suspected. However, this doesn't mean the price is absolutely 'correct' as it combines intelligence and ignorance, both of which are not always in equal measure.
Which, in a roundabout way, brings us back our chart focus of this week: Hong Kong-listed HSBC. The chart shows four technical features, all of which anticipated the bank's disappointing earnings report on Monday.
In the world of stock analysis, fundamental and technical analysis are on completely opposite sides of the spectrum.
Fundamental analysis is a method of evaluating securities by attempting to measure the intrinsic value of a stock, which means the study of everything from the overall economy and industry conditions to the financial condition and management of companies.
Daryl Guppy is an independent technical analyst who appears frequently on CNBC Asia.


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Google revamps iOS search app
Google's gone gesture-happy with a big revamp of its search app for the iPhone and iPad.
Previously known as Google Mobile App, the new and improved Google Search still offers quick ways to forage through the Web with your thumbs, voice, or camera. But new gestures bring flexibility to your search and the app's interface: you can now swipe to the right to filter your search results for types of data like images, news, and discussions. A downward swipe will bring you back to the main search area with access to voice search and Google Goggles.
If you use other Google iOS apps, such as Google Voice or Google Translate, a large Apps button at the bottom of the main search area will let you quickly find and switch to those, as well as provide direct access some of Google's Web services, like Google Reader or Gmail. You can rearrange and customize which apps appear in this list.
Google says it also made improvements other parts of the app, including Search with My Location, Gmail's unread count, and more. The Google Goggles feature also now supports the iPhone 3G and iPod touch (Google is unspecific about which iPod touch, but I believe Google means the fourth-generation model, since Goggles requires a camera). And for those who find themselves confused by the new layout, Google even provides a handy help overlay to assist users in discovering all the features.
Google Search is available now in the App Store for the usual price of Google products. It's a universal app that requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Freshmen Beanies No More: New AU Traditions Revive Nostalgia, Stir Pride
AU traditions have come a long way.
From a shift in the colors that invoke university pride to the wearing of freshman beanies, the AU experience, rich in ceremony and symbolism, has seen a variety of changes. These days, "as far as 'traditional' traditions go, we're a little short," says Tara Lang, director of Alumni Programs. But this was not always the case.
AU logos today brandish red, white, and blue, but before they fully embraced their patriotic ascription, the Eagles used to win in blue and orange. In the 1960s, this adaptive spirit led AU to be a trendsetter, but such malleability sometimes made it easy to forget the school's long history.
Hoping to reclaim a bit of the nostalgia that those traditions stir in students and alumni alike, the new convocation ceremony planned for the incoming students of the Class of 2013 aims to write a new chapter in AU history that will forge ahead while not forgetting the lessons of its past.
In many ways, AU's early traditions possessed the challenge and good humor of fraternity pledging -- but without the choice of opting in. From 1927 to 1932, the Gosling Court, presided over by elected upperclassman, enforced the rules and created a sense of tradition and pride.
Freshman beanies, perhaps the most infamous of AU's early traditions, are a familiar sight to those who've stopped at the photos outside the bookstore. In the years between the two World Wars, new students adhered to a variety of rules outlined in the student handbook, from the mundane — girls wearing green socks — to the trying—wearing large cardboard name tags around their necks.
These days, green socks and beanies have gone the way of the dining hall dress code. Many students arrive to TDR in their pajamas, and few fondly recall a ceremonious entry to AU. But new traditions may help broker links between generations of alumni, and Tom Minar, vice president of Development and Alumni Relations, has made it his goal to create traditions in the interest of enlivening campus culture.
On August 21, a new convocation ceremony will begin with a breakfast on the quad for new students. From there, students will be led to Massachusetts Avenue by bagpipers around the recently-opened expansion of the Kogod School of Business, passing through the Glover Gate before the parade concludes at Bender Arena, where the hallways will be lined with faculty and staff greeting the incoming class.
"It was Tom's idea to infuse opening convocation with some new traditions," Lang says, "Starting with a freshman class march through Glover Gates into Bender Arena. Going through Glover Gates, the main entrance to campus, symbolically marks [the students'] official arrival at American University."
Bender Arena, too, proves a symbolic locale. In just a few years, the new students' campus experience will come full circle at their commencement, which is also held in the arena.
The goal of the ceremony is to add to students' sense of AU pride.
Lang agrees. "I absolutely think that the more meaningful campus traditions AU has, the more alumni will feel that fond connection back to the university and to campus."


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If all else fails…sue! That seems to be the direction far too many in this country take, and of course the lawyers that work for clients like this gal are happy as clams!
This story is absolutely ridiculous on it's face as far as I'm concerned…to top it off, this is another example of why we need tort reform as well. You can also bet she's going to want disability pay for the rest of her louse-bound life if she wins this case, which is exactly why I think she's pursuing this venue.
The bigger question is why in the world did this gal ever decide she wanted to teach for a profession if she really ever had a fear of kids, why didn't she choose some other profession? She has no one to blame but herself…period!
Here's the report, there is a link at the bottom for the full story. – This is via BizPac:
An Ohio school teacher resigned from her position and is now suing the school board for discriminating against her due to her extreme fear of children, according to an exclusive Cincinnati.com report.
Maria C. Waltherr-Willard, 61, who has taught Spanish and French for 35 years, now claims the Mariemont school district discriminated against her when they reassigned her from high school to junior high school classes, with knowledge that she suffers from pedophobia, a fear of young children.
Denise Smith Amos wrote in Cincinnati.com that according to her and her health care providers, "she experiences stress, anxiety, chest pains, vomiting, nightmares and higher than healthy blood pressure when she's around young children."
I can't dispute her condition, but I find her "I can't do my job, but you should pay me to do it anyway" claim just another one in a long line of frivolous claims that juries somehow find both logical and actionable.
It's right up there with the diminished capacity "Twinkie defense" that helped Dan White avoid a double murder rap in his 1979 San Francisco homicide trial.
It's just as asinine as the 1994 product liability lawsuit where a jury awarded Stella Liebeck $160,000 in compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages because McDonald's served her coffee that was too hot.
It's no wonder people hate lawyers.
Charles Dickens wrote in Oliver Twist, "If the law supposes that, the law is an ass – an idiot".
Shakespeare was a bit more direct. "The first thing we do," wrote the bard in Henry VI, is "kill all the lawyers."
People have hated lawyers for a good, long time.
Four months after Waltherr-Willard retired from her teaching position, she filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint, which the commission eventually dismissed.
She then filed a six-claim complaint in federal district court. On Wednesday, the judge assigned to her case dismissed three of those claims, all of which allege that the school district violated an implied contract to keep the plaintiff away from young children.
Maybe there's hope for civilization yet.
Here was some chatter about this as well.
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Christopher Wheeldon's Alice in Wonderland, premiered by the Royal Ballet last year.
I put in an order for the DVD after stumbling across a couple YouTube videos - since DD's studio will be doing an Alice in Wonderland ballet next year.
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text: News Edie Campbell Makes Her Vogue Cover Debut 06 March 2013 Ella Alexander Vogue cover, April 2013 Edie Campbell wears wool jacket with satin frill detail, from £1,600. Lace top, from £1,190. Both Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, at Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Selfridges. Hair: Paul Hanlon. Make-up: Diane Kendal. Fashion editor: Joe McKenna. Photographer: David Sims. Picture credit: David Sims EDIE CAMPBELL has landed her first ever Vogue cover. The 22-year-old British model, famed for her Sixties style, was photographed by David Sims for the April issue, which hits newsstands on Monday March 11."Vogue was the magazine that growing up that you really looked at," Campbell told us. "It has always been aspirational. It's such a farce that I'm on the cover. I remember looking at the Rosie Huntington-Whiteley March 2011 cover thinking, 'I want to look like that.' That hasn't happened yet, but here I am on the front of the magazine. It's bizarre and so flattering. I mean, why pick me? It's just ridiculous."Campbell - who has walked for numerous labels, from Chanel to Burberry - appears in the issue's All About Edie fashion story, styled by Joe McKenna, modelling spring's sharp suiting. She is represented by Viva London, an agency that also includes Natalia Vodianova and Raquel Zimmerman among its bookings list."It was like working with a dream team," said Campbell of the shoot. "Joe's styling really is the bomb. It felt like getting ready to go out when I was 17. You're listening to music, getting dressed up and all of a sudden your make-up looks really good and you feel so good. I'm sure that sounds like a bad comparison, but I mean it in the best way. It was an all-day fun day."Campbell has appeared in Vogue on several occasions - including in December's pop issue when she was given the arduous task of shooting with One Direction. Landing her debut cover though feels like somewhat of a milestone."This time, it felt more serious," she said. "Joe's styling is high-brow, which I quite like. That purist approach really appealed to me. It felt like the next step."The April issue of Vogue is available to buy from Monday March 11. Related Gallery Style File - Edie Campbell


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Travel & Leisure recently named New Orleans the nation's very best food city. In a similar survey, Food & Wine liked New Orleans too, but saved its highest honors for Paris. When Esquire chimed in last year, it put New York City atop its list.
So what defines a great food city? A patchwork of cuisines helps, as does a dining audience that's willing to spend. There ought to be fabulous fancy restaurants and wonderful dives. And there should be at least one signature dish.
Hajime Sato believes he's invented just such a dish for Seattle by frying burgers katsu-style and serving them on buns. It's difficult to establish a signature dish by decree, but I'm rooting for Sato. As I wrote in this week's review of Katsu Burger, he's created a terrific sandwich that Seattle should be proud to claim as its culinary seal.
Seattle has wonderful food, but it's short on signature dishes. The potential signature dishes I mentioned in my review - teriyaki and cream-cheese hot dogs - are largely unknown beyond the Pacific Northwest, which leads me to seriously question their signature status. In addition to being delicious, a true signature dish should be famous (think Chicago's deep-dish pizza); generic (Detroit's coney dogs); geographically-constrained (Cincinnati's five-way chili); affordable (Austin's breakfast tacos); omniseasonal (Maine's whoopie pies) and - ideally - reflective of a city's particular place in the world (Charleston's shrimp and grits) and history (New Orleans' po-boys.)
Those criteria rule out the incredible dishes Seattle's talented chefs create with wild mushrooms and fiddlehead ferns: While they may capture the city's edible ethos, they're far too specific to compete for the signature title. And it's hard to argue that any dish made with salmon, oysters, mussels or halibut couldn't be replicated elsewhere in the region.
What I love about Katsu Burger's burgers is they deliver just about everything I expect from a signature dish. They're cheap, unique and emblematic of the city's cultural heritage. They're not yet widely available, but Sato isn't guarding a trademark. "People can copy me," he told me.
And people should. A signature dish isn't just a ploy to lure tourists: It's an anthem upon which local chefs can riff. It's a catalyst for civic unity, and an important statement of values. (And should you think I'm overstating the case, I'd wager you haven't asked anyone in Lexington, North Carolina about red slaw.) Every great food city needs one.
Read my full review of Katsu Burger here. And you'll find Joshua Huston's beautiful burger-and-fry pictures here.
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In Stride With Women Runners: Amby Burfoot Celebrates Their History In A New Book
Back in the Dark Ages when I was growing up, one of the worst insults an adolescent male could hurl at one of his buddies was, "You run like a girl!"
Normally I'm a too-much-is-never enough kind of guy who lives by the motto, "Nothing succeeds like excess."
Yet, sadly, I'm beginning to have second thoughts about snow.
Don't get me wrong – I'd rather live in Mogadishu, Somalia than Miami, Florida, and I'll take a blizzard over a heat wave any day. I've slept in snow caves, scaled mountains in minus-70 wind chills, hunkered down in bivvy sacks during furious whiteouts, been stuck for a week with two other guys in a two-man tent at 19,000 feet in the Andes, crossed glaciers in the Alps, trekked in the Himalayas, ventured onto the sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, been certified as an ice-climber, and every Jan. 1 for decades have plunged into the icy waters of Fishers Island Sound wearing just running shorts.
But I have to admit, this winter is testing my mettle.
It's not so much the incessant stoking of the wood stoves, which I've chronicled a couple weeks ago and won't belabor now. Nor is it the frigid blasts from polar vortexes that freeze you right down to the bone. Nor is it the ice that has turned every driveway, deck and walkway into a skating rink.
No, it's the %&*@!! shoveling.
The season's early storms were only somewhat annoying, producing fluffy flakes easily swept away with a broom.
This latest tempest, I don't have to tell you, has deposited rime-coated slush with the specific gravity of semi-hardened cement. Worse, it sticks to the shovel like Gorilla Glue.
A few months ago, flush from my triumph in a rake-vs.-leaf blower contest, I rashly conceived a similar competition, pitting me wielding a snow shovel against a friend with a snow blower. I've always denigrated those demonic machines that guzzle gas, make a racket and spray white clouds everywhere. A determined, efficient shoveler should get the job done faster, I believed.
Now, I'm not so sure.
I'm still willing to take on the challenge, but think I'll wait for a storm with fluffier flakes.
By the way, fellow purists (masochists?) needn't worry – I'm not about to buy a snow blower. For one thing we have a gravel driveway that doesn't lend itself to such machines (or, for that matter, to old-fashioned shovels).
A snow blower wouldn't work very well, either, on the dirt paths and stone steps leading to the wood sheds – these I dig out first, even before clearing the driveway.
But the worst job is shaking the snow off the net canopies covering my blueberry bushes and grape vines.
Maddeningly, the snow has been adhering to this netting instead of filtering through, creating heavy blankets that have pulled down support posts and crossbeams. So now I have to trudge up to the garden with a rake and knock the snow off, which can only be done from underneath. Newton's laws prevail, and the snow comes cascading down – in your face, on your head down your neck.
Next year, after the harvest, I think I'll remove the netting for the winter. Of course, that means I'll have to put it back up again the following spring – either that, or allow flocks of greedy birds to chow down on my fruit.
But I'm not worrying about that now. I'm thinking about the next storm due this weekend – and there's still more than a month of winter to come.
You know what? Enough moaning. Time to take a break and strap on snowshoes or cross-country skis. Enjoy it while you can.
Back in the Dark Ages when I was growing up, one of the worst insults an adolescent male could hurl at one of his buddies was, "You run like a girl!"
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Well, we've made it through another winter, though for snow and ice fans it was pretty pitiful – but we're not quite out of the woods when it comes to challenging hiking conditions.
OK, I get it. It's mating season, when all the furry, feathered and slimy critters are desperate for a little action, using the only pickup technique they know: make loud noises.
After having swum the 1.2-mile leg of Hawaii's Rohto Half-Ironman triathlon Dirk Vlieks of Mystic was 22 miles into the 56-mile bike section, already thinking ahead to the 13.1-mile run to the finish line, when he began to feel...
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Skunk cabbage and crocuses poking through the snow; almost two extra hours of daylight, a robin's chirp; the arrival of pitchers and catchers at baseball training camps – unmistakable signs of the approaching season abound, but as far...
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NEW YORK — Hal Gessner has been named exec producer of "CBS News Saturday Morning," the new two-hour weekend show bowing in mid-September.Gessner will shepherd the new show, which promises a blend of lifestyle and light news segments and will be co-anchored by current U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-N.Y.), who's leaving Congress this month to take the CBS post. Molinari's co-anchor will be named shortly. Gessner, most recently senior producer at CBS's "Coast to Coast" newsmag, also was a producer at the Eye web's "Street Stories" and "Face to Face with Connie Chung," and has worked at ABC's "Day One" and the FX cable network, where as an exec producer he created the "Home FX" daytime series.
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Marine veteran and California College of the Arts alumni Maximilian Uriarte is a bit of a legend in the Marine Corps community when it comes to telling the untold story of life in the Marines. In 2010 he started a comic strip called Terminal Lance, that candidly and humorously addressed many of the nuances of life as a junior enlisted Marine.
Posted on Monday, July 8, 2013 by Allison Byers
Posted on Monday, February 25, 2013 by Chris Bliss
Make room for Oscar on the mantelpiece! Pixar's Brave won Best Animated Feature at the 85th Annual Academy Awards held February 24 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Accepting the award was Director Mark Andrews, CCA Animation faculty member, and Brenda Chapman, codirector.
Posted on Monday, January 14, 2013 by Chris Bliss
Pixar's film Brave won Best Animated Feature at the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards, held January 13 in Beverly Hills. Accepting the award was Executive Producer Katherine Sarafian and Director Mark Andrews, CCA Animation faculty member.
The Golden Globe Awards are presented by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and honor the best in film and television.
Posted on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Lindsey Westbrook
A character concept for Fergus from the Pixar film Brave, by Steve Purcell
Steve Purcell (Interdisciplinary Fine Arts 1982) is a cartoonist, animator, director, game designer, and Eisner Award recipient. He works at Pixar, and was a writer and codirector of the 2012 feature film Brave.
While at CCA he contributed comic strips to the college newspaper, Spectrum, and these were the first public appearances of his characters known as Sam & Max Freelance Police, a duo of anthropomorphic animal vigilantes and private investigators who have subsequently enjoyed great success in comic, TV show, and game formats.
One of Purcell's friends and fellow students at CCA was Mike Mignola (Illustration 1982), who went on to become the creator of Hellboy. They both studied under Vince Perez and Gary Ruddell. After graduation Purcell freelanced for Marvel Comics and spent some years at LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic before landing his current job at Pixar.
Purcell shared some insights about his career in the latest issue of CCA's Glance magazine:
Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 by Clay Walsh
CCA's Animation Program landed the #6 spot in "The Best Animation Programs in the West: Our Top 20 in the Western U.S. Region", published by Animation Career Review, an online resource for people aspiring for careers in animation and related fields.
Posted on Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Mitchell Schwarzer
Mitchell Schwarzer gives his introduction at the CCA faculty retreat
On February 4, 2012, the faculty at California College of the Arts gathered at the college's San Francisco campus for a retreat focused on the state of the arts across our many disciplines. In the morning, 25 short presentations offered insights into challenges and opportunities faced by practitioners and thinkers in recent times. The word aired most frequently was crisis: the crisis of the Great Recession; the crisis of Global Climate Change; the crisis of understanding and working within a discipline in our digital age.
Watch the video of all the presentations (91 minutes), shot and edited by Yoni Klein (Photography 2012)
The economic downturn has produced an economic squeeze within most of our disciplines. Art directors, as Alexis Mahrus remarks, have diminished roles in shaping an illustration. Smaller profit margins reduce the flexibility and time given over to experimentation. Branding and celebrity worship take up a larger slice of the creative pie. Some presenters, like Sue Redding of Industrial Design, see no problem in this conflation of art and business and, furthermore, dispute the notion of a crisis. Yet many presenters feel that the economic crisis is not only real but wielding dangerously asymmetrical impacts. Demand remains strong for high-end craft goods and blue-chip fine art. Some small nonprofits are struggling to survive. To Ignacio Valero of Critical Studies, the priority given over to luxury items can be attributed to the ongoing influence of classical economic policies that privilege individual decision making over collective social and natural needs. Likewise, Sandra Vivanco of Diversity Studies notes that economic inequalities have greatly worsened over the past few years, especially in the developing world. Contemporary society is forging a timeless, spaceless way of conducting business, a race for lucrative and short-term gains that concentrates investment more than ever in the hands of a few.
Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 by Clay Walsh
Congratulations to this year's juried R.A.W. Video (real artists at work) contest winners! The contest, open to all current CCA students, challenged contestants to create a two-minute (maximum) high-resolution digital film (including audio) with "In and Out of the Studio" as the required theme.
The goal was to encourage students to pick up their digital camcorders and highlight their community at CCA—whether in the classroom, studio, residence hall—or away from the college altogether. And the goal was definitely met several times over!
2011 R.A.W. Video Contest Winners
Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 by Chris Bliss
Renowned writer Ishmael Reed joins the MFA Program in Writing faculty
For additional information about CCA's 2011-12 faculty hiring, read the latest Academic Newsletter by Provost Mark Breitenberg.
New Full-Time Faculty
Posted on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by Simon Hodgson
Still from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (courtesy Tippett Studio)
As art director for the animation company Tippett Studio, CCA alumnus Nate Fredenburg (Printmaking 1993) speaks with authority when he assures all you art students out there: The time you're spending in foundation courses -- drawing, sculpting, painting, color theory -- is time well spent. "Back when I was a work-study student, one of my jobs was to call prospective students and explain to their parents the value of an arts education. At the time, I only had anecdotal evidence.
Posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 by Lindsey Westbrook
Andrew Lyndon is CCA's chair of Animation, a digital imaging and video instructor at Pixar Animation Studios, and now also a guest curator for the Oakland Museum of California, having organized the exhibition Pencil to Pixel at Oakland International Airport in winter 2010–11.


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Edwin R. Cunningham, 70, of Shelbyville died Friday, March 16, 2012, at his home after an extended illness.
Memorial services will be held at noon Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Steven Caine and Father Thomas Kalam officiating. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel.


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Best Trails in McMinnville
Cooper Mountain Nature Park
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Cooper Mountain Nature Park is a 2.7 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near Beaverton, OR that features beautiful wild flowers. The trail is good for all skill levels and primarily used for hiking, walking, trail running, and nature trips.
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Waterfalls of Oregon's Northern Coast Range
McMinnville, OR
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Cooper Mountain Nature Park
Beaverton, OR
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Waterfalls of Oregon's Northern Coast Range
Justin Churchill (211)
about 23 hours ago
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Great trails to an awesome waterfall. Just at the end of baker creek rd. North of McMinnville Oregon. About 70% up hill on the short hike to the falls.
Waterfalls of Oregon's Northern Coast Range
Michael Romasco (56)
10 months ago
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I live in McMinnville and just stumbled upon these falls a couple weekends ago. I've mountain biked in the hills for years and occasionally would come upon someone looking for some falls. Sadly i misinformed them that they didn't exist. Anyway, drive to end of Baker Creek Rd to end of pavement. Park your car there. Walk up road 1/8th mile to Charles Metsker Park. Walk around the park gate and up the entrance drive looking for a trail to the left. It comes back to the road further up. Continue on another trail to left further up road that takes you up and around pond. When you get to other side of pond look for trail that goes up the stream / river. This trail takes you to the falls. It is steep with exposure. Total out and back is about 2 miles. [Bikes not suitable or allowed (think fine/ticket) in Metsker Park] Enjoy
Waterfalls of Oregon's Northern Coast Range
Roger Anderson (62)
over 1 year ago
1 Completed 1 Reviews
Great, I just purchased this application and find it has a nice waterfall in downtown McMinnville. I am sure the Chamber of Commerce will be able to utilize it for tourism marketing very well. That is, once they locate it. Good thing there are a bunch of great places to get a drink right by this elusive water feature.
Waterfalls of Oregon's Northern Coast Range
Nick Wardell (90)
over 3 years ago
3 Completed 1 Reviews
This is weird and incorrect. I live in mcminnville and there is no trail or waterfall here at all. this location is actually the grainery disctric that has a great public market, something like 7 wineries and some great food carts { the best in my opinion is the Indian Cart}
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Asajj Ventress and Clones by miranaWatch
©2011-2016 mirana
Sith Asajj Ventress and some very screwed clones from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Ventress is not my fav character (that would be Ahsoka), but she is a lot of fun to draw. So are the clones, though a bit more tricky.
A stunning perspective!
She looks like a young Ezma, from Kuscos New School. Lol. Cool drawing.^^
yep thouse guys are dead
well there fucked
I always love seeing this illus because of your linework style and the poses/perspective you pulled off in it.
Yayz! Clones!
Asajj is awsome! Ahsoka is definatly right up there but Yoda is my fave Char
Nice perspecitve.
She's HOT!!!
I'm not sure that's what the clones think!
OMG! The view is simply stunning, amazing perspective! Really awesome poses, expressions and colours!
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- move Semaphore and BoundedSemaphore from coros to another module; deprecate coros
- fix BoundedSemaphore to behave like standard threading's BoundedSemaphore behaves:
raise ValueError if upper limit is reached instead of blocking.
- "raise Timeout" means customizing exception with Timeout(exception=RuntimeError) no longer works
- grep for XXX and QQQ
- classes in gevent.core should not crash even if improperly used
- do not include the standard tests in greentest/; run the standard tests unchanged through monkey patcher
- initialize libevent in Hub.__init__()
- support multiple event_bases
- discourage direct use of gevent.core; put the needed methods back on Hub (timer, read_event, write_event)
- monkey patch asyncore too? (maybe patch select.poll, so asyncore would work)
- gevent.sleep(1000000000000000) returns immediatelly instead of raising an error like time.sleep() does
- streaming version of wsgi.WSGIHandler
- monkey should hold references and provide access to all the objects it replaced
- port to stackless
- figure out http server's tests failures on libevent2
- split WSGIServer into AsyncWSGIServer (that does not spawn greenlets) and WSGIServer (that does)
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Childhood Poverty, Government Failures, and the Need for Economic Liberty
Recorded: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Senior Vice President Mary Theroux is interviewed on radio station KOGO in San Diego to talk about the latest on California's Maximum Family Grant rule for families on welfare. She discusses the underlying reasons why children are born into poverty and the difficulty of breaking the cycle of poverty.
Experts: Mary L. G. TherouxType: RadioIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Culture/ Society, Economic Policy, Education, Family, Labor and Employment, Politics, Privatization, Race Issues, Regulation and Deregulation, Urban Issues, Welfare, Womens Issues
Randy Simmons | The True Costs of Green Energy
Recorded: Monday, April 27, 2015
Senior Fellow Randy Simmons joins WSVA radio's Mike Schikman to talk about the true costs of green energy including government funding and incentives for renewable energy.
Experts: Randy T SimmonsType: RadioIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Energy, Environment, Free Market Economics, Property Rights, Public Choice Theory, Regulation and Deregulation
Partitioning Iraq for Peace
Recorded: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, author of Partitioning for Peace, appeared on "Doug Stephan's Good Day" radio program. Eland talks about the state of terrorism in the Iraq and whether the US creates more of a problem with its intervention. He also discusses the question of how ISIS is different than other terror groups.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Freedom, History (International), Nationalism, Politics, Race Issues, Religion, Terrorism and National Crises
Civil Rights Are Too Important to Leave to Special-Interest Advocates
Recorded: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Research Fellow Jonathan Bean, author of Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader appeared on WORD radio to discuss Bean's recent Op-Ed about his experience on the Illinois State Advisory Committee on Civil Rights. On Martin Luther King Day, Bean says King's dream of a more just society is poorly served by ignoring viewpoints that disagree with our own.
Experts: Jonathan BeanType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Culture/ Society, Freedom, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Race Issues
Stephen P. Halbrook Discusses Nazi Gun Control on The Steve Malzberg Show
Recorded: Thursday, October 16, 2014
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and Enemies of the State appeared on the Steve Malzberg Show on NewsMax TV. Halbrook spoke about his recent book outlining the gun control methods employed by the Weimar Republic and the Nazi regime.
Experts: Stephen P. HalbrookType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Crime, Freedom, Government Power, Gun Control, History (International), Law Enforcement, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Race Issues
Jonathan Bean on The Bob Zadek Show
Recorded: Sunday, August 10, 2014
Research Fellow Jonathan Bean, author of Race and Liberty in America appeared on The Bob Zadek Show, a Libertarian talk show broadcast live on Talk 910 KKSF.
Experts: Jonathan BeanType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Free Market Economics, Freedom, History (U.S), Politics, Race Issues, Religion
Wendy McElroy on Violence Against Women on the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Radio Show
Recorded: Thursday, February 6, 2014
Research Fellow Wendy McElroy appeared on the Dr. Laura Schlessinger radio show. McElroy discusses the falsified research, or so-called advocacy research on such topics such as college rape and domestic violence. The results, she says, is hysteria on college campuses and demonization of black males. Flawed statistics from this research have been used in legislation such as the Violence Against Women Act, according to McElroy.
Experts: Wendy McElroyType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Law Enforcement, Race Issues
Robert Nelson on Environmentalism as Religion
Recorded: Monday, May 21, 2012
Senior Fellow Robert Nelson, author of The New Holy Wars talks about the the religious implications between church, state, and environmentalism with Anthony Gill on Research on Religion.
Experts: Robert H. NelsonType: RadioIssues: Culture/ Society, Environment, Religion


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(By Mani) Gold had the correct immediate reaction to the Fed's announcement of additional monthly purchases of Treasuries worth $45 billion to replace the 'Twist' program.
The yellow metal climbed to $1,723.40 Wednesday, the most expensive since Nov. 30. However, the rally didn't last long as a slow grind higher in gold was the most sensible reaction as the Quantitative Easing, or QE, premium is gradually priced into the commodity.
On Thursday, gold for December futures fell $21, or 1.28 percent, to $1,694.70 after the temptation to lock-in profits led to a gold sell off to a low of $1694.35 overnight. In addition, investors took a cautious stance as they are eyeing negotiations in Washington over a deal to avert the looming "fiscal cliff".
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"But despite the decline of as much as $25 in Asia, we don't think the sentiment towards gold has actually turned negative. The move was amplified by the fact that it occurred in Asia, where liquidity is typically an issue," UBS strategist Edel Tully said in a note to clients.
In addition, bargain hunters were quick to step in sub-$1700, with interest to pick up metal at these lower levels quite evident.
"Our flows indicate some reaction from physical buyers in India this morning, although nothing exceptional so far," Tully said.
Meanwhile, there is hardly any follow-through selling interest in early European hours, and participants are expected to hesitate inchasing the market lower after the Fed has essentially just doubled the pace of money- printing.
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There are two important positive elements for gold here. First, the fact that a balance sheet-neutral program is being replaced by outright asset purchases that expand the Fed's balance sheet is certainly a positive for gold. The second being the 6.5 percent unemployment rate threshold implies a 1.2 percent hurdle from the current level.
"With our economists calling for 7.5% by the end of 2013 and 6.7% by end-2014, loose monetary policy is set to remain in place for some time. Accommodative policy regimes, not only by the Fed but by other major central banks as well, provide gold with a strong underlying support," Tully noted.
There have been some bright spots in gold physical demand lately. In India, buying picked up towards the end of November through to the first week of December, as the rupee appreciated in anticipation of a parliamentary vote on foreign direct investments.
The appetite eased earlier this week, with local gold price's essentially flat, just off the recent lows. After a strong November, UBS index of physical flows to India indicate a 25 percent decline versus the same period in 2011, slightly better than the 30 percent drop earlier in the year.
Activity in China has picked up of late – volume on the SGE has been strong since last week, and that appears to be continuing. Physical demand has also been evident out of Europe in recent weeks, although volume is nothing particularly exciting and buying sporadic.
After subdued physical buying out of the US for most of the year, the US Mint reported very strong sales of gold coins last month due to the re-election of President Obama and the growing focus on the US fiscal cliff. However, December is usually the strongest month, but so far US Mint gold coin sales of 29 thousand ounces (koz) worth have had a slow start this year, following robust November volumes.
"Patches of strength in physical demand help somewhat, but the lack of sustainability and consistency means that the overall demand picture for 2012 is little changed. The risk, though, is that should these waves of strong buying continue towards year-end, albeit inconsistently, challenges to liquidity and availability during the holidays could mean a boost to premiums," Tully added.
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Streetcar Line
Fred Ain't Dead
The tortoise is set to lap the hares.
Memo to readers: With his superb performance in Wednesday's debate in Iowa, Fred Thompson has made a monkey out of me. By early afternoon on Tuesday, the column that appears below, one which posits that Thompson's presidential campaign might still find a way to win, was ready in exactly the form it appears here. But I thought the column would still remain exactly on target throughout the week, so (for various reasons) I aimed for a Friday release. At the time, I thought that until Thompson began his Iowa bus tour on Monday the 17th, my contention that he "ain't dead" yet would seem noteworthy for its boldness.
Then Thompson ruined it all by so clearly running away with the laurels in Wednesday's debate -- and in particularly Reaganesque fashion. Just as Reagan did at the famous Nashua, N.H. debate in 1980, Thompson used the unfairness of the debate moderator as a foil in a way that justly earned the candidate plaudits as a no-nonsense kind of guy. Now everybody is taking a second look at Thompson's chances. Deservedly so.
But of course a debate performance like that should not have been a surprise. As my column reports, pollster Frank Luntz said even before Wednesday's debates that Thompson was hitting his stride and connecting with audiences at earlier debates.
Anyway, without further ado (but with more commentary afterwards), here is my column as originally written -- in what I thought would seemed a fairly bold analysis, but which now seems unremarkable -- as an object lesson for those of us who think we understand political timing. Just as pundits, myself included, were having a high old time criticizing Sen. Thompson for the timing of his efforts in this campaign, he somehow succeeded in stealing a march on us. Maybe Good Ol' Fred knows what he is doing after all.
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Don't count out Fred Thompson for president just yet.
Two years ago, then-U.S. Sen. George Allen of Virginia was generally seen as the most likely Republican to emerge as the conservative consensus candidate for president in 2008. Today, he is intimately involved -- especially in making pitches to major donors -- with the candidacy of his former colleague Fred Thompson of Tennessee.
Detractors might say Allen's involvement is fitting, considering that Allen badly crashed in his own Senate re-election campaign, just as Thompson has been falling in the polls since his belated official announcement in September. But there's another way to look at it. Just as Allen was once thought to be the only candidate solid on all three legs of the conservative stool -- social, economic, and defense/foreign policy -- Thompson is now hoping that each of the other major candidates' apostasies in at least one of those areas will drag them down, one by one, until Thompson is the only contender left standing.
All along, Thompson's campaign has banked its hopes on what Allen calls "the integrity, the genuineness, the authenticity" of Thompson as the "consistent, commonsense conservative."
Pollster Frank Luntz says it still may work.
"He does well [in focus groups]," Luntz told me on Dec. 7. "He has an especially good opportunity still to do well in southern and border states where his laid-back style is not only appreciated but embraced. His best message is about immigration and anti-Washington spending. The way he communicates those things is very credible; people believe him."
Not that Luntz is predicting any particular victor. "Too many variables," he said. "States come [to the polls] too quickly. I have no pattern; I have seen too many candidates rise and fall."
But that's exactly Thompson's point. "You remember President Howard Dean, don't you?" he frequently asks, rhetorically, about the December campaign favorite four years ago who quickly flamed out.
Thompson could also remind people of how another conservative actor with a maddeningly languid early campaign pace, Ronald Reagan in 1979-80, allowed the elder George Bush to grab the "Big Mo"mentum from him -- before just a few weeks of earnest, person-to-person campaigning by Reagan stopped Bush cold.
The Thompson-Reagan comparison has been made far too often, but in one respect the likeness is valid: Just as Thompson appears to do today, Reagan had a notable tendency to coast along until seriously challenged. Reagan, though, could turn on his jets just in time for maximum impact. Can Thompson do likewise? Thompson plans a rigorous 15-day bus tour through Iowa before the caucuses there, and seems confident in his retail campaigning abilities.
But Thompson refuses to be hurried. He also refuses to change his stripes. In an exclusive interview Dec. 6, when asked whether he needs to make a new, big splash in order to recapture voters' imaginations, he insisted that "you should not expect dramatically different messages from me or dramatically different behavior from me.... I will not change what my message has been since 1994."
On substance, that message has just about everything to make the old Reagan coalition swoon. Tax cuts and simplification? Check. Record of fighting wasteful spending? Check. More money for the military? Check. Returning power to the states? Consistent votes against abortion? Support for solidly conservative judges? Almost-visceral support for Israel? Support for private gun rights? Check, check, check, check, and check.
In recent weeks, Thompson has added depth to those conservative bona fides. His series of detailed papers on defense, taxes, and Social Security have earned widespread praise from conservative outlets, including the Wall Street Journal's editorial page. On the politically risky issue of Social Security, Luntz says his focus groups show that Thompson uses effective language: "The way that he looks at it is that we have to protect our children from ourselves. It is an intergenerational approach and it is very popular among Republicans."
But what really animates Thompson is the battle against terrorism. On this topic, his obvious passion equals that of his friend John McCain. Indeed, it is difficult for an interviewer to get him off the subject.
"I understand the nature of the threat we are facing internationally in large part because of my service on the intelligence committee and my travel around the world meeting with foreign leaders," Thompson said. "Also, my service as chairman of the government affairs committee dealing with issues of nuclear proliferation, and finally on the international security advisory board for the State Department. Condoleezza Rice asked me to chair that board...."
Thompson was just getting started.
But he can't put that passion for a strong military posture into action if he doesn't first catch political fire again. Yet nothing can budge him from his belief, no matter what the polls say, that he is on the right course as the only candidate acceptable simultaneously to all facets of the old Reagan coalition while exhibiting none of the sharp edges that scare voters in the middle. It's the same sort of campaign George Allen seemed poised to run, the sort of campaign many thought would make Allen a solid winner until he forgot to focus first on being re-elected in Virginia.
"I think Republicans are going to want someone who can unify the Republicans and who can appeal to independent votes in November," Thompson said, leaving no doubt that he thinks only he can fill that bill. Meanwhile, Fred Thompson just keeps ambling along.
So there you have it. Even in noting Thompson's many strengths, I sort of hedged my bets. But here's the deal: As Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee savage each other about immigration, abortion, religion and everything else under the sun, Thompson just keeps plugging away while being poised to pick up the pieces. And as Huckabee finally receives the long-overdue scrutiny for his bad record on clemencies (see my colleague Philip Klein's excellent piece) and ethics (as reported most recently by NBC's Lisa Myers), the Arkansas governor's lead in Iowa is likely to fade. Now, just who is it, polls already were showing even before Wednesday's debate, who was the second choice of the largest percentage of Huckabee's tentative supporters? None other than Fred Thompson.
Amazing, isn't it, how much ground the solidly conservative Thompson can make up, just by ambling along?


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So much handcrafted local vodka...
Few American vodka producers actually do their own distilling, instead buying neutral grain spirits from large agricultural processors. But one of the few DIY-distillers is a newcomer, 45th Parallel Spirits, located just east of the Twin CIties in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Paul Werni founded of 45th Parallel Spirits with the help of his father and his long time friend Scott Davis, who owns Toast Wine Bar in Minneapolis. 45th Parallel's grain comes from one small farmer in the area, then fermented, distilled, blended, filtered, and bottled onsite. For a list of where to find 45th Parallel, click here.
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