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The Libre Initiative
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This article is part of the Center for Media & Democracy's spotlight on front groups and corporate spin.
The Libre Initiative is a conservative non-profit 501(c)(4) organization targeting Latino voters. According to the group's website, "LIBRE's mission is to increase economic freedom and prosperity by promoting free enterprise, responsibility and a more constitutionally limited government." The group has received several million dollars in funding from organizations linked to the Koch brothers. The Libre Initiative was launched by the group's current executive director Daniel Garza, a former White House staffer under George W. Bush.[1]
The Libre Initiative has an affiliated 501(c)(3) group, the Libre Initiative Institute, also headed by Garza.[2]
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- 1 2016 Election Campaign and Expansion
- 2 2014 Election Campaign
- 3 Ties to the Koch Brothers
- 4 Positions
- 5 Criticism
- 6 Personnel
- 7 Funding
- 8 Contact Information
- 9 Resources and References
2016 Election Campaign and Expansion
The Associated Press reported on January 26, 2015 that "the political machine backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch on Monday told its allies that spending across its conservative network would approach $1 billion ahead of 2016's elections." It explained that this funding is planned to come through Freedom Partners, "the central hub for the Koch-backed network that includes groups like the activist-recruiting Americans for Prosperity, the millennial-targeting Generation Opportunity and the Hispanic-wooing Libre Initiative."[3]
The Libre Initiative plans to expand to Wisconsin and North Carolina in 2015 and increase its staff by about 30 percent ahead of 2016, Daniel Garza told Politico after the 2015 Koch summit.[4]
2014 Election Campaign
Ramping Up Outreach to Latino Voters
Libre Initiative Executive Director Daniel Garza told the media that he expected the Republican Party to increase outreach to Latinos during the 2014 election cycle.[5] According to Politico, the "Koch-backed" LIBRE Initiative planned to hire field directors in Colorado and Texas for the 2014 midterm elections, as well as a coalitions coordinator and a "West Coast youth projects manager."[6]
Garza has reportedly been called on to advise Republicans on outreach to Latino communities as a result of his work leading the Libre Initiative.[5]
Along with advertising and policy campaigning, the Libre Initiative has pledged to engage in social service outreach to its target audience of Latino communities. For example, Executive Director Daniel Garza stated that the Libre Initiative would offer a free GED course in 2014.[7]
Daniel Garza and other Libre staff regularly publish op-ed pieces in outlets across the country, including Fox News Latino,[8] NBC Latino,[9] the Press of Atlantic City,[10] the San Antonio Express,[11] the Las Vegas Journal Review,[12] and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.[13]
Ads Attack Supporters of Health Care Reform
The Libre Initiative spent $1.4 million in early 2014 on Spanish- and English-language ads attacking four House Democrats in Arizona, Florida, and Texas for their support of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).[14] Starting January 16, 2014, the group spent half a million dollars for two weeks of television ads attacking Texas Democrat Rep. Pete Gallego for supporting the ACA.[7] Libre spent another $700,000 on ads against Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) and Rep. Ron Barber (D-AZ) in April 2014.[15] Along with Rep. Joe Garcia (D-FL), also the target of Libre's attack ads,[16] Gallego, Kirkpatrick, and Barber all represent districts with large Latino populations.
As a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, the Libre Initiative is not required to disclose its funding sources or complete detailed reports of its campaign spending. Full reports of 2014 election year spending may not be available until 2015.[14]
Ties to the Koch Brothers
The Libre Initiative reported $2.15 million in revenue for 2011[17] and $4.97 million in revenue for 2012.[18] The forms available to the public do not list the source(s) of that income.
According to IRS documents filed by Freedom Partners and the TC4 Trust, the Libre Initiative appears to have received at least $3.8 million in grant funding from those two organizations between July 2011 and October 2012, including $693,000 from the TC4 Trust[19] and $3,112,000 from Freedom Partners.[20] These donations were received by TDNA, LLC, which according to the Libre Initiative's IRS filing is controlled by the Libre Initiative Trust.[18]
Daniel Garza was listed as a Koch Palm Springs Seminar attendee in February 2014.
When fundraising for The Libre Initiative in 2011, the group's CEO Daniel Garza told iWatch News that he had approached "representatives of the Koch family."[21] Garza did not confirm that the organization received funds from the Koch brothers' network, but "[t]wo GOP operatives familiar with the initiative say Garza told them he has already secured commitments for about $1 million -- including funds from Koch family interests," as reported by the Center for Public Integrity.[21] The New York Times reported that in 2013, the Koch network was expected to expand financing for the Libre Initiative.[22]
Despite being officially non-partisan, the Libre Initiative holds conservative positions that are largely in line with the Republican Party, including support for tax cuts, ending the Affordable Care Act, and expanding charter schools.
"Pro-Market" Immigration Reform
The Libre Initiative "Estamos Contigo" ("We are with you") campaign calls for free market reforms to US immigration law. Garza has stated that Libre spent almost $1 million in 2012 advocating for its vision of immigration reform.[7] According to its website, the Libre Initiative supports immigration reform with "a streamlined, market-based and employment-driven policy."[23] Its "Statement of Principles" calls for unlimited worker visas, including for foreign-born STEM workers, as well as for children of undocumented immigrants to have access to college educations.
At a 2013 CPAC panel on immigration, Garza stated that he did not think an immigration reform bill should include a path to citizenship, as it would not be "politically viable."[24] The Washington Post reported Garza as saying that "[w]hat illegal immigrants really want above all is 'permanencia — the certainty that you won't be deported tomorrow,' said Garza. 'At least let's get legality, get the authority to work and to provide for our children. I think that's where the compromise is going to be.'"[24]
Opposition to the Affordable Care Act
The Libre Initiative claims that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased the cost of healthcare. Its website specifically highlights Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and Texas as states where "the painful impact of Obamacare," the ACA, is being felt.[25] All five states happen to be states with sizable Latino populations that are likely battlegrounds for key 2014 elections.
Libre Initiative staff, including Daniel Garza, have published op-ed pieces in newspapers across the country claiming that the ACA is particularly bad for Latinos. In the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on February 6, 2014, for example, Garza wrote that "Obamacare will simply be too expensive for many Hispanics" and suggested that its "expensive mandates and regulations" would reduce access to Hispanic doctors. He further claimed that the law will be disproportionately costly to Latino communities due to its "over-reliance on the young."[26] Garza published a "nearly identical" column in the San Antonio Express News.[27]
The Libre Initiative released a series of videos as part of the "Share the Dream" campaign in January 2014, around the same time as Libre's anti-Obamacare attack ads. The videos show "personal stories of Hispanic success in the United States."[7] The campaign included digital and social media as well as broadcast ads, which were to be shown in television markets in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Miami, Florida; Phoenix, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; and San Antonio, Texas.[28]
Latinos Support the Affordable Care Act
The Libre Initiative's position on the ACA contradicts majority opinion among Latinos, who largely support the law. The El Paso Times reported:
- "Garza claims to be speaking in the interest of Hispanics, but in opposing Obamacare, he's flying in the face of Hispanic opinion, said Matt A. Barreto[,] a political scientist at the University of Washington. Barreto directs the Washington Poll and studies political participation by minorities. 'There's overwhelming support for a government role in health care among Hispanics -- it's probably the highest of any group,' Barreto said Friday. 'It's also the group with the greatest percentage of uninsured. They have the most to benefit from health care reform.'"[27]
Libre Represents the Interests of the Rich
As reported by Reuters, "[t]he Arizona Democratic Party has blasted Libre as a "fake Latino advocacy organization," and other party officials say the group is doing the bidding of its wealthy donors, who are paying for a blitz of ads against Democrats in the midterm elections."[14] The El Paso Times reported that Texas Democrats were similarly skeptical about whether Libre represented the interests of the Latino community:
- "The Democratic official who heads up Texas' Mexican American Legislative Caucus said that he applauds any group that wants to serve the Hispanic community, but Libre's Koch ties raise questions. 'It certainly is suspicious,' said state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio. 'The Koch brothers are certainly no fans of the Affordable Care Act. Quite frankly, that's unfortunate for Texas Latinos that the Koch-funded group holds itself out as wanting to work on behalf of Hispanics, but yet it opposes an issue where half of the uninsured are Hispanics. That doesn't serve the issue of wanting to help the Hispanic community.'"[27]
The El Paso Times also asked political scientist Matt Barreto "if the Libre Initiative is a Hispanic twist on the tea party groups. 'I would say that it's definitely something to get people to vote against their own interests,' he said. 'I don't know if it's the same sort of rhetoric as the tea party -- the name calling and the divisiveness -- but they're definitely trying to get people to vote against their self-interests.'"[27]
According to a January 2014 report by Yahoo News, "LIBRE's staff is comprised of veteran conservative Hispanic operatives, including National Strategic Director Jose Mallea, formerly the campaign manager for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio; Policy Director Jorge Lima, once an adviser to former Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno; and Chief of Staff Andeliz Castillo, who led outreach to Hispanic media for the Republican National Committee during the 2008 presidential election. The 35-member staff is spread out among eight states, with plans to expand to a dozen by year's end. LIBRE has brought on Rachel Campos-Duffy, a writer and wife of Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, who both made their public debut in the 1990s as characters on MTV's 'The Real World.'"[7]
- Daniel Garza - Executive Director
- Garza's total compensation in 2012 was $187,404.[18]
- Andeliz Castillo - Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff
- Jose Mallea - National Strategic Director
- Mallea's total compensation in 2012 was $120,540.[18]
- John Méndez - Director of Faith Initiatives
- Michael L. Barrera - National Coalitions and Entrepreneurship Director
- Barrera's total compensation in 2012 was $117,540.[18]
- Brian Faughnan - Interim Communications Director
- Judy Pino - Marketing Director
- Mario J. Beovides - National Field Director
- Rachel Campos-Duffy - National Spokesperson[29]
According to its 2011 and 2012 tax filings, nearly all of the Libre Initiative's revenue was funneled through TDNA, LLC, a disregarded entity controlled by Libre.
Core Financials
For the period July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013.
- Total Revenue: $4,970,938
- $4,960,000 of this revenue was reported as the income of TDNA, LLC.
- Total Expenses: $3,925,033
- Net Assets: $2,097,119
For the period July 6, 2011-June 30, 2012.
- Total Revenue: $2,146,190
- $2,145,000 of this revenue was reported as the income of TDNA, LLC.
- Total Expenses: $1,094,976
- Net Assets: $1,051,214
Libre Initiative Institute
For the period December 1, 2012-November 30, 2013.
- Total Revenue: $971,763
- Total Expenses: $4,301
- Net Assets: $982,267
Contact Information
The Libre Initiative
3805 Plantation Grove Blvd., Suite #51
Mission, TX 78572
Phone: (956) 519-4200
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: http://www.thelibreinitiative.com/
The Libre Initiative Institute, Inc.
1320 North Courthouse Rd.
Arlington, VA 22201
Web: http://libreinstitute.org
Twitter: @thinkLIBRE
Resources and References
Related SourceWatch Resources
- Koch Brothers
- Koch Family Foundations
- Americans for Prosperity
- Freedom Partners
- Cato Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- Koch Universities
- Koch Network
- Knowledge and Progress Fund
- American Encore
- DonorsTrust
- Donors Capital
- 60 Plus
- Generation Opportunity
- ↑ Peter H. Stone, New Koch Brothers Group Revamps Billionaires' Dark Money Operation, Huffington Post, April 26, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Libre Initiative Institute, 2012 IRS form 990, organizational tax filing, October 15, 2014.
- ↑ Budget for Koch-backed network: almost $1 billion for 2016, Associated Press, January 28, 2015.
- ↑ Kenneth P. Vogel and Tarini Parti, Koch donors give Marco Rubio early nod, Politico, January 28, 2015.
- ↑ Kenneth Vogel, "Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity plans $125 million spending spree," Politico, May 9, 2014.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Chris Moody, "Koch-affiliated group ramps up Hispanic outreach," Yahoo News, January 17, 2014.
- ↑ Daniel Garza, "Storm Clouds Over Venezuela, While U.S. Government Remains Largely Silent," Fox News Latino, May 9, 2014.
- ↑ Rachel Campos-Duffy, "Desperate Latina Eva Longoria doesn't speak for me," NBC Latino, November 5, 2012.
- ↑ Daniel Garza, "Obamacare is particularly problematic for Hispanics," Press of Atlantic City, January 31, 2014.
- ↑ Daniel Garza, "Obamacare makes situation worse for Hispanics," San Antonio Express, January 31, 2014.
- ↑ Ronald Najarro, "It's time to restore value of work, not welfare," Las Vegas Journal Review, September 9, 2013.
- ↑ Daniel Garza, "Obamacare's headache for Hispanic community," Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 6, 2014.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Andy Sullivan, "Koch-Backed Group Uses Soft Touch In Recruiting Hispanics," Reuters, April 22, 2014.
- ↑ Joe Ferguson, "CD1/CD2 Watch: New ad target Barber, Kirkpatrick over their support for Obamacare," Arizona Daily Star, April 3, 2014.
- ↑ The Libre Initiative, "The Accountability Project," organizational project website, accessed May 28, 2014.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Libre Initiative, 2011 IRS Form 990, organizational annual IRS filing, May 10, 2013.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 Libre Initiative, 2012 IRS form 990, organizational annual IRS filing, May 14, 2014.
- ↑ TC4 Trust, "2011 IRS Form 990," organizational annual IRS filing, May 14, 2013.
- ↑ Freedom Partners, "2011 IRS Form 990," organizational annual IRS filing, September 16, 2013.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Peter H. Stone, New GOP campaign is aimed at Hispanics, Center for Public Integrity, September 22, 2011.
- ↑ Nicholas Confessore, Koch Brothers Plan More Political Involvement for Their Conservative Network, New York Times, April 30, 2013.
- ↑ The Libre Initiative, "Statement of Principles on Immigration Reform," organizational website, accessed May 28, 2014.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Suzy Khimm, "CPAC panel: No, illegal immigrants don't need a path to citizenship," Washington Post, March 14, 2013.
- ↑ The Libre Initiative, "The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Hispanics," accessed May 28, 2014.
- ↑ Daniel Garza, "Obamacare's headache for Hispanic community," Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 6, 2014.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 Marty Schladen, "Libre Initiative targets Obama's Affordable Care Act," El Paso Times, February 9, 2014.
- ↑ The Libre Initiative, "LIBRE's "Share the Dream" Campaign Highlights the American Dream," January 6, 2014.
- ↑ Libre Initiative, Libre Team, organizational website, accessed June 2, 2014.


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TUCSON, Ariz. – No. 35 Arizona (16-3, 5-2 Pac-12) completed the sweep of ranked opponents Saturday after defeating No. 73 Colorado, 5-2.
The Wildcats are a perfect 12-0 at home this season.
"I'm happy with today's win," said Head Coach Vicky Maes. "Being undefeated at home in this stage of the game, being 16-3 and beating two solid conference opponents is great. It is great going into next week."
Arizona's doubles marked yet another Saturday afternoon. The Cats are now 16-0 when winning the doubles point.
Seniors Susan McRann and Akilah James dominated on court three. The two outmatched Colorado's Nuria Omeno-Ruiz and Dhany Quevedo taking the win, 8-2. The pair are now 8-2 since being united.
Senior Lacey Smyth and sophomore Shayne Austin defeated Colorado's Carla Manzi Tenorio and Winde Janssens 8-5, clinching the doubles point.
Singles action started off with several close sets.
After a good match in doubles, Austin took to singles winning her match with ease 6-1, 6-1. Austin was the first singles match win of the day for the Cats.
Smyth earned another hard fought win. She won in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, defeating Colorado's Julyette Steur.
Freshmen Lauren Marker improved to a 15-1 record tying for the team lead with Senior Kim Stubbe, after a victory over Colorado's Nuria Ormeno Ruiz, 6-4, 7-5.
Markers' victory clinched the match for the Cats.
James battled back in her match after dropping the first set. She earned the fifth point for Arizona by winning, 6-8, 6-1, 10-8.
"I'm a little bit disappointed in the way we lost sets today," said Maes. "When you play a team like Colorado that is hungry and ready to go, you can't just think it is going to be an easy day. I told the girls yesterday it was going to be a battle and felt some weren't ready to battle. We need be ready to go in terms of going out and being ready to play their game."
The Cats will travel next week to play UCLA on Friday, April 11 and USC on Saturday April 12.
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Singles competition
1. Smyth, Lacey (ARIZ) def. Steur, Julyette (COLO) 6-4, 6-3
2. Janssens, Winde (COLO) def. Stubbe, Kim (ARIZ) 7-6 (13-11), 1-6, 10-7
3. Marker, Lauren (ARIZ) def. Ormeno Ruiz, Nuria (COLO) 6-4, 7-5
4. James, Akilah (ARIZ) def. Manzi Tenorio, Carla (COLO) 6-8, 6-1, 10-8
5. Austin, Shayne (ARIZ) def. Tiefel, Ashley (COLO) 6-1, 6-1
6. Quevedo, Dhany (COLO) def. Oldham, Laura (ARIZ) 7-6 (7-2), 2-6, 10-6
Doubles competition
1. Steur, Julyette/Tiefel, Ashley (COLO) vs. Stubbe, Kim/Marker, Lauren (ARIZ) no result
2. Smyth, Lacey/Austin, Shayne (ARIZ) def. Manzi Tenorio, Carla/Janssens, Winde (COLO) 8-5
3. James, Akilah/Mc Rann, Susan (ARIZ) def. Ormeno Ruiz, Nuria/Quevedo, Dhany (COLO) 8-2


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People who have been following the startling incident involving young Victoria Wilcher will be glad to hear that KFC apologized to the scarred girl asked to leave one of their chain restaurants recently. In fact, according to the Associated Press via People on Monday, KFC is also giving the girl's family a substantial amount of money to be used toward her medical bills.
The outrageous incident came to light via the Victoria's Victories Facebook page. The little girl was attacked by dogs in April when she was visiting her grandfather. She had bites all over, but her face was most severely impacted by the attack. She lost her right eye and she had a broken lower and upper jaw, cheek bones and eye socket. She's gone through surgeries already, but there is a lot more she faces. At this point Wilcher also has a feeding tube and is receiving therapy.
That is an awful lot for a family to handle as it is, and then it seems an employee at a Jackson, Miss. KFC added insult to injury. The young girl supposedly was asked to leave because her scars scared others at the restaurant. The story spread quickly online, with people outraged on little Victoria's behalf.
Though the company is still investigating just what happened, KFC apologized to the scarred girl asked to leave the Jackson location. They say that "this kind of hurtful and disrespectful action would not be tolerated by KFC." They have also said that they are committed to helping Victoria's family, and they are making a donation of $30,000 to help with her huge medical bills. It seems they have committed the money to the family regardless of what their internal investigation regarding the incident uncovers.
It seems that Victoria was with her grandmother Kelly Mullins at the time of the alleged incident. They had been at a doctor's appointment, and stopped at KFC afterwards. Mullins ordered some mashed potatoes for the little girl, hoping it was something she could eat. A short time later, an employee allegedly approached her and said they had to leave, as other customers were upset by how Victoria looked.
The family has indicated that the medical bills are substantial in part because the insurance company is not covering many of the things transpiring in this case. The family has put together a GoFundMe page that is garnering a lot of attention now. Luckily there is a lot of support for this little girl as she goes through these struggles, and people are outraged at what the restaurant employee is said to have done.
Many will be following the story even though KFC has apologized to the scarred girl asked to leave, hoping that the restaurant steps up to ensure any other issues like this are handled differently. Many shake their heads, though, wondering about the customers who supposedly complained as well. Here's hoping little Victoria Wilcher recovers from the heartbreaking attack and isn't further subjected to such heartless comments in the future.


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The striker will walk out at the Emirates Stadium as a Premier League winner but the Red Devils boss doesn't think the game has any extra pertinence for the DutchmanManchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has stated that he is "not really bothered" by the hype surrounding the return of Robin van Persie to former club Arsenal on Sunday.
The Netherlands striker returns to the Emirates Stadium for the first time since he joined the Red Devils for £24 million last summer.
United captured their 20th Premier League title on Monday and Arsenal will give the newly-crowned champions a guard of honour, but the manager doesn't see Van Persie's return as anything other than a normal fixture.
|Robin van Persie is 40/1 with bet365 to score a hat-trick against Arsenal
"There was some booing of him at Old Trafford [in the corresponding fixture] but that's modern society.
"Robin showed in his celebrations how much winning the league meant to him."
Arsenal are fighting hard for a Champions League spot and could do with a good result on Sunday, but Sir Alex has warned the Gunners he will still be playing his best XI despite having already wrapped up the title.
"We have a few bumps and bruises from the other night but it is hopefully nothing serious and I expect to have a strong side on Sunday," he added.
"Having won the league, there's always a danger of falling into the trap of 'it's all over and we can relax' and enjoy ourselves but I think we've got a duty to other clubs who are chasing Champions League places.
"Also, the rivalry we've had with Arsenal and then Chelsea over the years does put an edge to these games anyway so hopefully we'll represent ourselves in the right way."


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Eric Alexander: Estatť
Eric Alexander (tenor sax)
The Second Milestone (Milestone 9315-2)
Eric Alexander (tenor sax), Harold Mabern (piano), Peter Washington (bass),
Joe Farnsworth (drums).
Composed by Bruno Martino and Bruno Brighetti.
Recorded: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Dec. 2000
Rating: 94/100 (learn more)
In listening to Alexander's The First Milestone and The Second Milestone CDs as they first appeared in 2000 and 2001, you could sense that the saxophonist was blossoming into a complete player, both technically and emotionally. The driving up-tempo hard bopper was now becoming a compelling ballad interpreter as well, and his primary George Coleman and Dexter Gordon influences had been fully absorbed and transformed into an unmistakably individual style.
The confident and expressive manner in which Alexander performs the beautiful and deceptively spare "Estatť" is a sure sign of his then new-found maturity. Sounding somewhat like Stan Getz in his lilting intro, Alexander introduces the theme with a more distinctive, sensuous tone. He exudes both a calmness and a total commitment to the melody at hand, limning it with grace and perceptiveness. In his solo, Alexander brings more of a bluesy flavor to bare, and while some of his phrases resemble those of Getz, the swaggering modus operandi of Stanley Turrentine is also recalled. But in the end, as he fluidly revisits the theme and concludes with a swirling, breathy coda, you are left admiring Eric Alexander, young mainstream tenor master. No more, no less.
Reviewer: Scott Albin
Tags: 2000s jazz · estate · tenor sax
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The existence of the Haar measure is a beautiful result that has a lot of applications. For example, one can prove using the Haar measure that the category of representations of a compact Lie group is semi-simple. Do you know any other nice applications of the Haar measure?
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This may be an easy question, but I am just not sure so I am asking the community.
Suppose I have a wide-sense (second order) stationary (WSS) continuous random process with autocorrelation function $\mathcal{R}(\tau)$ such that it's square-integrable: $\int_{\mathbb{R}}|\mathcal{R}(\tau)|^2d\tau<\infty$.
I am interested in the discrete observations of this process. Suppose I am sampling it with some period $T_s$. Is the discrete autocorrelation function $R[i]=\mathcal{R}(iT_s)$ square-summable in that case, that is, is the following statement true?
Seems to me that it should be, but I can't prove it (maybe because it is not).


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Google has an official policy against one form of arbitrage and generally seems to do a good job enforcing it. However, a new twist on an old strategy appears to fall outside the purview of that policy and it could be driving up your click costs.
According to the Google policy:
Google AdWords doesn't allow the promotion of websites that are designed for the sole or primary purpose of showing ads. This practice of promoting sites where the main purpose is to get users to click on ads is called arbitrage.
We've created this policy to help users get unique and useful information without obtrusive advertising.
But what if an outfit didn't need to send users to an intermediate page of ads in order to capitalize on the price difference between two clicks? What if a single click encapsulated both the buying low and selling high instantaneously, eliminating any risk in the arbitrage process? That's a pretty sweet deal, if you can get it.
And that's exactly the deal Shopping.com appears to be getting with Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs). We first noticed this around the time Google began the transition to power Google Shopping listings with PLAs. Our clients products were showing, but in some cases, rather than our normal URL, we saw clicks being channeled through a DealTime.com address (DealTime is now a service of Shopping.com, but was actually its predecessor. Both are owned by eBay.)
Essentially, they are taking product feeds provided to them for running listings on their service, turning around and using them for Google PLAs. In doing so, they are driving up CPCs for some of the exact same PLA clicks the advertiser would otherwise be generating for themselves. How?
These arbitrage opportunities can come up for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest factors is that advertisers can create much more precise product segments with PLAs versus the comparatively broad bidding categories on Shopping.com. So, we might be willing to pay Shopping.com a $0.40/click minimum for a given product category, but we know individual products within that category would be more profitable at a $0.30 bid, which we can do on Google with the flexibility of PLAs.
Shopping.com doesn't know our PLA bid, but they could simply decide to run every product in our feed as a PLA at $0.05 off our Shopping.com bid and see how many nickels they can collect in the process. In those cases where Shopping.com's PLA bid exceeds our own, they will beat our listing in the auction and, if they generate a click, take a nice percentage for themselves. Another concern for advertisers is that Shopping.com will not accurately or effectively leverage the promotional phrase option available for PLAs.
Now, one critical question is whether Shopping.com is actually providing a benefit to advertisers by giving them a second product listing they would otherwise not receive. In the screenshot above, we clearly see two listings for the same company, one provided by that company itself and one by Shopping.com. However, unlike standard AdWords text ads, there does not appear to be a hard limit to the number of product listings the same advertiser can have for one result. We have seen a number of cases where the same account triggered multiple PLAs for separate products on the SERP:
To their credit, Shopping.com has been very responsive when we have requested, on behalf of individual clients, that they cease this practice. Unfortunately, we don't manage the CSE relationships for all of our clients, so this issue, and the confusion and consternation it can raise, continues to pop up.


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April 17, 2002
National Press Club
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A New Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Anne O. Krueger
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Argentina and the IMF
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1. Ladies and Gentlemen: I am happy to be able to meet once again with the members of the National Press Club. This provides a good opportunity to preview the upcoming Spring Meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) and share with you key elements of the IMF's activities going forward
2. The IMFC agenda will be focused on four policy issues:
Ministers and Governors will also assess progress in the Fund's work with low-income countries in helping to fight world poverty.
Global outlook—cause for optimism
3. In April 2002 it is clear that September 11 did not pull down the global economy for long. This is mainly due to the leadership of the United States with its bold decisions to lower interest rates and to reduce taxes. A recovery is under way now in the United States and this is already beginning to have a positive impact on the economies in other regions. I think it is only fair now for me to pay off my bet with Paul O'Neill and treat him to dinner. His faith in a relatively early turnaround of the U.S. economy has prevailed over my more cautious assessment. And, of course I am happy about that.
The question mark is mainly how strong and durable the recovery in the United States will be. This relates in particular to uncertainties about company earnings with their implication for business investment, the volatility of the oil price and political uncertainties in the world, in particular related to the situation in the Middle East.
Shift Attention to the Underlying Imbalances
4. Such a situation does not call for frantic action. What is needed is vigilance and a firm policy hand to make the recovery robust and more dynamic. This means the main focus of policy must shift from short-term considerations to tackling decisively underlying problems. And, here, a main responsibility lies with the advanced economies.
5. For emerging markets and low-income countries, the worldwide slowdown in 2001 confirmed one important lesson: good policies pay off. Countries with sound fiscal and monetary policies and persistence with structural reforms have weathered the storm better than others and have demonstrated that it is possible to decouple from contagion. They should stay the course. All together, the global economy and the international financial system have demonstrated a remarkable resilience in 2001.
6. With all due modesty, it is fair to say that IMF has played a role in this. Our work to strengthen the global financial system has begun to bear fruit. And the fact that the membership of the IMF came together last November at a critical moment for the global economy was crucial. The Ottawa meeting of the IMFC emphasized a collaborative approach for the membership, the IMF itself, the World Bank, and other international institutions, that worked.
Better Globalization—More Balance Between Debt and Trade Expansion
7. But the crisis in Argentina and persistent vulnerabilities in a number of countries leave no room for complacency. Argentina in particular has shown that protracted external borrowing to finance public consumption, without generating sufficient external revenues, breeds disaster.
8. There is a more general point: the expansion of global capital markets needs to be better anchored in stronger trade integration and thus growth in debtor countries. The fact is, however, that since the late 1980s the degree of integration of developing countries as a group into global capital markets (measured by foreign assets and liabilities as a ratio to GDP) doubled, while trade openness (measured as the ratio of exports and imports to GDP) has increased relatively little with the important exception of Asia.
As highlighted by comparative analysis in the Fund's upcoming World Economic Outlook, overall Latin America's external vulnerability is higher than that of other emerging market countries. Why? Latin American emerging markets as a group are relatively more integrated into global capital markets. But, at the same time, they have not managed to raise the share of their exports in GDP in line with their increased external borrowing.
9. If we understand crisis prevention as tackling the causes of crises, we need to view this imbalance as a fundamental problem. I am deeply convinced that we need not less but more integration of economies to foster growth in the global economy, not least to fight world poverty. But if we do not manage a better balance between the opening of capital accounts and the expansion of trade, we may see a cyclical reoccurrence of financial crises.
This means that better trade opportunities for all and the expansion of trade must now become the centerpiece for a strategy to promote sustained global growth and truly shared prosperity. And in this context, I do think the advanced countries have again a main responsibility—in particular by opening up their markets and phasing out the multibillion dollar business of trade distorting subsidies. Essential is leadership to face and withstand special interests of some groups for the benefit of the broad majority of the people in both rich and poor countries. But equally ambitious should be the leaders in the developing countries in getting rid of barriers to trade among themselves.
Where does the IMF stand today?
10. The IMF is working on a broad reform agenda, learning from experience, and adapting to changes in the global economy. And I expect the IMF to learn even faster in the future thanks to the work of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO). And there is progress.
11. Learning from experience also leads us to be more humble. We must draw firmer conclusions from the fact that sound institutions and good governance are crucial for sustained growth and financial stability. That is, we have to be more realistic about what the Fund can influence by providing money. And we must bear in mind that to resolve homegrown problems no money in the world can substitute for self-responsibility and political unity in a society.
12. I am deeply concerned about the developments in Argentina and in particular the social hardship for a large part of the population. The Fund wants to help Argentina. As you know, an IMF mission has been in Buenos Aires for 10 days to explore how we can best do that. The mission will return overnight to take stock with Fund management and to report to the IMFC. Before leaving, the Fund's mission chief Anoop Singh will make a brief press statement this afternoon. Mr. Singh has told me on the phone that there is progress. The IMF is not asking for the impossible. But it is of fundamental importance that the federal government, the Congress and provincial governments face reality, pull together, and agree on an economic reform program which gives new trust to the Argentine people and to domestic and foreign investors. There is also agreement with the government that every effort must be made to help cushion the impact of the crisis on the poor. Here, the World Bank and the IDB have the lead in developing specific programs.
Strengthening Crisis Prevention and Resolution
13. A well-functioning market economy draws its strength and dynamism from competition. This is a continuous search for better results, better products, higher productivity. We have to accept that some degree of overshooting and correction will always be part of that process, if we want to preserve a system based on freedom of choice and self-responsibility. And there are limits to the ability to predict and thereby prevent crisis. Our objective can only be fewer and less severe crises.
14. The major vehicle to promote this objective is the IMF's surveillance. The Executive Board of the IMF recently began a major review of surveillance. There is agreement that further strengthening the effectiveness of surveillance has two main aspects: better policy advice and greater impact. From the Board discussion I draw the following conclusions:
15. Over the past couple of decades, international capital markets have become the most important source for capital flows to emerging markets. By the same token, private sector financing has become increasingly crucial for innovation and economic growth more generally. Adapting to these changes also means building a public-private-partnership between private financial institutions and public institutions such as the IMF. As part of this approach, the IMF has launched an informal but regular dialogue with the private sector and I am quite pleased about the way the Capital Markets Consultative Group has evolved. As a result, we have been able to engage constructively on issues such as investor relation programs in member countries and promoting standards and codes, including on corporate governance and accounting principles.
In this context, I encourage the private sector to come forward with more ideas on how to strengthen the self-correcting mechanisms of markets. Here I would include more effective self regulation and restraint to counter excessive risk taking and "creative" accounting.
16. For crisis resolution it is an indispensable principle that debtors and private creditors must bear the responsibility for the risks they take. But private financial institutions also—and rightly so—have asked for greater clarity and predictability about the decisions the IMF will take in a crisis as this should enable investors to price risks more adequately. Our current work program is directed in large measure at this. It is focused on three critical and interrelated areas:
It is clear that there is a gap in the current approach to crisis resolution which has to be closed. While more ambitious use of collective action clauses is desirable, I do not believe use of CACs alone would be sufficient. The proposal for a new Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) developed by Anne Krueger and Fund staff in my view is farsighted and will close this gap. Work remains to be done in these areas, but I hope that we will have found a broad consensus on the SDRM by the time of our Annual Meetings this Fall.
And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am happy to take your questions.


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It's up to George to help convince a roayal princess that Hundley, although very dignified, is just a regular dog of the people. Also: George's day goes from bad to worse. He spills a bowl of milk, gets caught in a torrential downpour, and just can't get past that seven square in hopscotch.
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Devadip Carlos Santana & Turiya Alice Coltrane: Angel of Air / Angel of Water
Angel of Air / Angel of Water
Carlos Santana (guitar) and Alice Coltrane (harp)
Illuminations (Columbia 483810 2)
Carlos Santana (guitar), Alice Coltrane (harp),
Jules Broussard (flute, sax), Tom Coster (electric piano), Dave Holland (bass), Jack DeJohnette (percussion).
Composed by Devadip Carlos Santana & Tom Coster; strings arranged by Turiya Alice Coltrane.
Recorded: unknown date; released September 1974
Rating: 92/100 (learn more)
At the time of this recording, Carlos Santana was using the spiritual name Devadip, given to him by his personal guru Sri Chinmoy. Alice Coltrane, John's widow, was also a seeker with a guru of her own. She changed her name to Turiyasangitananda. She later used a shorter version as a first name. Officially, the artists named on this album were Devadip Carlos Santana and Turiya Alice Coltrane.
In the 1970s, Santana's admiration for John Coltrane knew no bounds. This respect went beyond the music. Santana was, as many were in those days, "trying to find himself." Coltrane's spiritual path was of great interest to him. It is not so surprising that one day he would play music with someone who had a connection to the man, the music and the spirit.
Alice Coltrane played piano in her husband's last band. The avant-garde music Coltrane was playing toward the end of his life was very much in her bag. Some angry Coltrane fans blamed her for influencing this last and least popular direction. She responded by suggesting that nobody led John Coltrane anywhere, and that she was playing what he asked her to play.
Jules Broussard's deeply somber flute opens "Angel of Air / Angel of Water," which consists of two parts that can be clearly distinguished. "Angel of Air" is more expressive. "Angel of Water" tends to be more pensive and cleansing. Alice Coltrane is responsible for the impressive string arrangement, providing a wide swath for Santana to do his best fusion ballad playing. Short, beautiful melodies are interspersed with Santana's trademark sustained single notes that must be written off the page because they are so long. It is interesting how these notes can sound so Latin when Santana plays pop music and so otherworldly cosmic when he plays the hymnal-like fusion heard here. Coltrane's harp appears mid-tune. Her playing provides more color than splash, but in context delivers an angelic message.
The orchestral ambience, spiritual overtones, collaborative success and the fusion-guitar anthem make this one of the more fulfilling jazz-rock performances of Santana's career. For some reason, it remains among his lesser-known accomplishments.
Reviewer: Walter Kolosky
Tags: 1970s jazz · fusion · guitar
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// Nov 30, 2008 at 02:42 AM
This song is so beautiful it brought a tear to my eye the first time i heard it. This song is it's own spiritual lesson. Close your eyes, and enjoy.


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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two bills that would make it more difficult for girls to receive an abortion without notifying their parents were among three abortion-related measures easily approved Tuesday by the Republican-controlled Oklahoma House.
The House voted for the bills to restrict the use of "judicial bypass," a procedure that allows those younger than 18 to seek a judge's permission to get an abortion without parental consent.
Anti-abortion advocates maintain Oklahoma's judicial bypass option is being exploited by abortion providers seeking out judges who routinely approve the practice, but abortion rights supporters say it is rarely used and necessary in cases where teenagers facing an unwanted pregnancy might face abuse from upset parents.
"Going into this chapter of law and putting these young women in further danger is not a good thing to do," said Rep. Jeannie McDaniel, D-Tulsa, who opposed all three measures. "What this does is complicate that process."
The first bill, by Rep. Rebecca Hamilton, would require parental notification in all cases, except for medical emergencies or if the girl was a victim of sexual or physical abuse by a parent. It passed 80-12.
"The reason I think this is a good bill is that we are dealing with human life here," said Hamilton, D-Oklahoma City. "It isn't because I don't have sympathy for women. … It's because an abortion kills a baby."
The second bill, by Rep. Randy Grau, R-Edmond, would require that judicial waivers be sought in the district where the minor resides and require parents to present a government-issued identification to establish the parent-child relationship. It passed 81-13. Grau said his change on the judicial bypass was designed to prevent young women seeking an abortion from "forum shopping" for judges willing to approve the waiver.
The final bill, approved on a 79-15 vote, adds more than two dozen questions that abortion providers must answer as part of a questionnaire gathered by the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Sean Roberts, R-Hominy, said his goal is to update the reporting requirements to reflect changes in abortion law and help state policymakers determine why abortions are sought. But opponents argued the measure is an attempt to intimidate and overburden abortion providers.
Rep. Emily Virgin, who opposed the bill, questioned why legislators think it's a good idea to meddle with doctors' ability to perform their work.
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I thought this article from the New York Times was interesting… and was thrilled to see they deemed Love, Actually a classic.
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The romance I want to see… and it's not 50SoG.
Anyone seen this romance featuring a love story between a pop star and the LA cop assigned to protect her? The initial reviews are strong. Slate.com writes:
Beyond the Lights, writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood's show-business romance about the slowly blossoming affair between an ascendant pop star and a down-to-earth L.A. cop, is as shamelessly soapy as movies come—but I challenge you not to slip on the soap bubbles and fall right in to this movie's invigorating bath. Onscreen love stories live and die on the connection between their leads, and as the troubled singer Noni Jean and her earnest protector-turned-paramour Kaz Nicol, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nate Parker all but spontaneously combust each time they look at each other.
It's got a 84% rating at Rotten Tomatoes which writes:
Thanks to smart direction and a powerhouse performance from Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Beyond the Lights transcends its formulaic storyline to deliver thoroughly entertaining drama.
It's been quite a while since I saw a good love story at the movies. I think the last one I loved was About Time. (One could argue that Gone Girl is a love story but I'm not going there.)
Do you plan to see this movie? What was the last great love story you saw at the cinema?
Is there any way for a woman to age in Hollywood?
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For her part, Ms. Zellweger says "I'm glad folks think I look different! I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows."
In Hollywood, women over 40 are almost always visually wrong in some way. Either they look too done, too old, too fat, too thin, too saggy, or too tight. There's a reason we all swoon over Helen Mirren. (She has confessed to considering plastic surgery but says she hasn't gone under the knife yet.) She looks impossibly beautiful at 69. Ms. Mirren, however, is a rarity. Most actresses over 40 are marginalized or consigned to dowdy roles.
What do you think about Ms. Zellweger's look?
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Gone Girl: Are you going?
I don't usually rush out and see films the day they are released. In fact, the last time I did that, I think it was for the IMAX version of the last Harry Potter film. So, yes, it's been a while.
That said, yesterday, right after lunch, my husband and I went to see Gone Girl, the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel. The book is, for me, a tour-de-force of writing. Ms. Flynn's vision of intimacy between two brilliant and deeply messed-up partners fascinates me.
The book has several jaw-dropping plot twists, as does the film, and, as I watched, I thought about what an utterly different experience seeing the film would be had I not read the book. (I was reminded of a similar experience with Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent.) I enjoyed the film which is faithful to the plot of the book but not completely true to the novel's vision of its protagonists, Amy and Nick.
Have you read Gone Girl? Do you plan to see the movie? (In the interest of suspense, please do not post spoilers in the comments.)
AAR at the Movies: Catching Fire
Friday night, my friend and I went to see the second instalment of Suzanne Collins's massive smash hit trilogy, adapted for the screens. I wasn't going to see it, honestly. I'd seen the first one, and there was something about seeing the physical and psychosocial trauma that hit me viscerally in a way that the books couldn't translate. Yes, I knew it was fiction, and yes, I knew what happened anyway. But I found the experience quite frightening, to be honest.
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AAR at the Movies: Ender's Game
This Sunday, we headed to the movie theater to take in Ender's Game. Ender's Game is one of those books that I've always meant to read but never managed to get around to.* I really enjoyed the movie, and while I understand from reading various reviews that a bulk of the political intrigue that happens on the page has been cut from the film, I now feel no strong drive to read the book. Indeed, given the complexity of the story's science fiction aspects, I'm rather thankful that Hollywood provided visuals that my sci-fi-challenged brain would never have managed to make so cool. Continue reading
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Now that summer is officially over I am ready to call my favorite movie of the season, which would be (drum roll please) World War Z. Terrific pacing, strong acting and an interesting story line make this a must see of 2013.
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AAR at the Movies: Man of Steel
While I didn't stand on line at midnight Thursday to see Hollywood's latest Superman incarnation, Man of Steel, I was excited enough to drag my husband to a Friday night showing. This says much as going to the movies is often a frustrating experience because I find the general behavior of young movie-goers these days to be sorely lacking in good manners. Sitting in front of a group of teenage boys who think loudly using the "f" word is acceptable and talk to each other as if they are sharing a bucket of wings at BW3s is akin to torture for me. But I was willing to endure the packed theater because I do love me a good superhero movie.
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A free youth shooting and archery skills event is scheduled for Aug. 29 at the Glasgow Trap Club.
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Advantages and disadvantages of aloe vera, often do not have in mind when we use natural products as these can cause any undesirable reaction. The benefits of aloe vera are very numerous and not only have to do with skin care, because this plant has the most diverse applications.
Due to its rich composition, aloe vera has great anti-inflammatory and analgesic. The presence of amino acids, vitamins and minerals make it an excellent cleaner of the body and immune system enhancer. But before taking the aloe vera is good that you make sure no allergy to the sap, and if you're eating it, before I do see a doctor.
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The end is the beginning. This is what life has taught me thus far.
A couple of months ago, I had the honor of speaking at TEDxTempe.
A month prior to the talk, I was asked to present my "idea worth spreading" in a phone interview with the team. Inspiration for my idea arrived two hours before my interview. I was eating frozen yogurt with my daughters, when my youngest daughter climbed up on a low brick wall, arms extended like wings, balancing one tiny foot in front of the other as she sang,
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men,
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.
And there, in this nursery rhyme rested my story—I am Humpty Dumpty. The great fall was the beginning of my journey, my evolution of self. The story was just beginning as the king's men gave up.
What happened after Humpty was left broken, unfixable and damaged?
I've added some lines to Mother Goose's masterpiece.
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Humpty cried, Humpty screamed.
Humpty wallowed, and then-Humpty dreamed.
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Now, he could be anything he desired to be.
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Fall into fear.
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As a result of my nearly twenty years of curatorial experience as Curator of Paintings at the Yale Center for British Art, I like to emphasize in my classes a strong object-related approach which lends itself whenever possible to firsthand study in museums, private collections, and/or exhibitions. My primary concentration is on British Victorian art, on which I have published extensively on diverse topics such as Pre-Raphaelitism, the iconology of womanhood, male genius, sempstresses, and the Grosvenor Gallery. I equally enjoy teaching and advising in the field of American 19th-century art and often combine an interdisciplinary, Anglo-American perspective and encourage my students in this direction. My most recent research projects include those on fairy paintings, Victorian history pictures, images of emigration, and constructions of race and labor; I moreover continue my work on the huge subject of Victorian religious painting, a much neglected subject. Among the seminars I have taught recently are those entitled Representations of the Other in 19th-Century Art; Pre-Raphaelitism; The Gilded Age in Europe an America; The Body Politic; Death and Dying in Visual Culture; Bloomsbury Art and Artists; American Impressionism and its Regional Permutations; and Art Museums: History, Theory, and Practice. I have several talented graduate students working with me in these areas and exploring new topics. Most have already been chosen to present papers at various symposia and conferences, and some have published their work and won prestigious internships at the National Gallery of Art and elsewhere. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
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American and British painting, 1750-1950
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Women artists
Constructions of gender, race, and ethnicity
Feminist art and issues
19th-century critical reception and the art press
Northwestern art, 1880-1945
Art Museums: history, theory, practice
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:"The Pre-Raphaelization of the Modern Literary Heroine" in Breaking New Ground in Art History
"Aesthetes on Display: 'Not Masculine and Progressive but Reclusive and Retrospective'" in Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism
"From Thackeray to Stowe: British Constructions of Slavery during the American Civil War" in Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World
"Joseph Noel Paton's 'Bond and Free: Five Studies Illustrative of Slavery'" in Visual Resources
"Women and Children Last in Victorian Emigration Paintings" in Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era
"The Symbolist Debt to Pre-Raphaelitism" in Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism
"Painted Fictions: Commemorating the Everyday in Victorian Art" in Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection
"Winged Fantasies: constructions of childhood, innocence, adolescence, and sexuality in Victorian fairy painting" in Picturing Children
The Defining Moment: Victorian Narrative Painting
"Post-Raphaelite Visions: A Strangely Disordered Gaze" inCollecting the Pre-Raphaelites: The Anglo-American Enchantment
"The Unsettled Hearth: The Problematics of Women and Victorian Interiors" in Re-Framing the Pre-Raphaelites
"Seeing the Unseen: Faces in the Victorian Crowd" in The Victorian Visual Imagination
The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England (co-edited with Colleen Denney)
English Pre-Raphaelitism and its European Contexts (co-edited with Alicia Faxon)
James Smetham: Artist, Author, Pre-Raphaelite Associate
A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors (co-edited with Linda Peterson)
"Stereotyping Creativity: The Cult of Male Genius in Victorian Art" in Rewriting the Victorians
"Against the Norms: Pre-Raphaelite Challenges to Victorian Canons of Beauty" in The Huntington Library Quarterly
Pocket Cathedrals: Pre-Raphaelite Book Illustration(editor)
English Pre-Raphaelitism and its Reception in America in the 19th Century
Richard Redgrave (co-edited with Ronald Parkinson)
Images of Victorian Womanhood in English Art