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Leander Club is recognised the world over for its extraordinary achievements, having won more Olympic and World championship gold medals than any other club, and home to rowing heroes and to the champions of tomorrow.
Leander's members enjoy a very socially active club that encourages good fellowship, celebrates success and values its heritage, stretching back to its formation in 1818.
Leander Club is home to champions past, present and future. Our Members have won more Olympic medals than any other single-sport Club in the world.
Our young high-potential oarsmen and women enjoy state-of-the-art facilities and world class coaching. Do you have what it takes?
Leander Club Membership brings many benefits. Members enjoy Clubhouse hospitality seven days a week.
The Clubhouse also provides a privileged base for Henley Royal Regatta and there is an active program of Club and campaign events throughout the year.
You don't have to be a rower to apply to join us as a Club Member.
Commercial partners engage with Leander Club and our International and Academy athletes for brand and relationship-building purposes.
As our story to 2018 and Leander's Bicentenary unfolds, partners and other corporate clients are enjoying opportunities to entertain customers at Henley Royal Regatta and campaign events, or to row with our athletes.
Over the past 50 years Leander has steadily changed its membership from being almost exclusively Oxbridge to now being a Club with membership drawn from clubs and universities from all over the UK and from all around the world. Women first became Full Members of the Club in 1997 and are now fully integrated within the Club
The basic requirements for Full Membership have traditionally been "Good fellowship and excellence in the rowing, sculling, coxing or coaching of high performance in fine racing boats." However, the Committee can also admit Full Members based on their services to rowing.
One important message is that individuals do not have to be invited to join the Club - anyone with the right qualifications is welcome to apply - you just need a proposer and a seconder.
Leander Club has excellent conference venue facilities. The Regatta-Room has fast WiFi and the latest in AV technology.
Leander Club Limited (trading as Leander Club®) A company registered in England and WalesCompany Number 09983188Registered Office:Leander ClubHenley-on-ThamesOxfordshireRG9 2LP


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Duffy's Double-A club record highlights KC's farm
KANSAS CITY -- Danny Duffy set a Double-A Northwest Arkansas record with 13 strikeouts Wednesday night in a 4-3 loss to Tulsa. Duffy, pitching for the Naturals while Triple-A Omaha is on its All-Star break, threw 5 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on four hits and a walk.
Right-hander Kelvin Herrera followed Duffy in the game, pitching a scoreless eighth with two strikeouts. Kansas City also optioned Herrera to Double-A during the Omaha's break, but recalled him Thursday for his third big league stint this season. He went 3-5 with a 5.20 ERA in 29 appearances over his two previous stays with the Royals.
• Left-hander Chris Dwyer represented Omaha in the Triple-A All-Star Game on Wednesday and stranded an inherited runner in the second inning, recording one out. Dwyer and the Pacific Coast League lost, 4-3, to the International League.
• Double-A center fielder Brett Eibner was named the Texas League Offensive Player of the Week for July 7-14. He went 12-for-27 with three doubles, three homers, a triple, five RBIs and six runs scored in six games during that time.
• Right-hander Kyle Zimmer took home Pitcher of the Week honors for Class A Wilmington. He went 2-0 with a 1.64 ERA, allowing two runs on six hits and one walk, striking out 23 batters in 11 innings.

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Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf's U.S. Open and the Olympics, plus NCAA Final Four connections, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown
It might seem easy to ignore the football rumblings at the University of Redlands, an NCAA Division 3 program that doesn't offer athletic scholarships, nor plays in such places as Tuscaloosa, South Bend or the Los Angeles Coliseum, or attracts ESPN College Game Day staff during their Big Game against, say, Whittier College.
Ignoring them, however, would be a mistake.
Check the sidelines for the guys that have coached at Redlands. Some major careers have been launched.
Mike Maynard, the Bulldogs' head coach since 1988, might be responsible for priming these guys.
It's underscored by a recent move of former Bulldog defensive coordinator Ed Lamb (1998-2000 at Redlands), who left as Southern Utah University's head coach in Cedar City to take the assistant head coaching job at Brigham Young University – about four hours north on I-15.
Maynard, not exactly shockingly, refers to most of his assistant coaches with words and phrases like "tireless worker," "intuitive," "patient," "demanding," "great communicator," "structured and thorough," "relentless drive," "relates well to players," and "passion for excellence" – the usual high praise.
At Redlands, they got plenty of training in recruiting, game-planning, scouting and going through rigorous preparations – not to mention the games.
Lamb didn't just show up at SUU before plopping up to Provo. One of his first stops after Redlands was landing a coaching gig at the Univ. San Diego with Jim Harbaugh as head coach. It's the same Harbaugh who led the 49ers to the 2012 Super Bowl while later surfacing at Michigan.
Longtime Bulldog coach Ken Miller, who left Redlands in 2000, the onetime Bulldog and Yucaipa High head coach (way back in the 1970s), retired after helping coach two Canadian Football League teams – Saskatchewan Rough Riders and Toronto Argonauts – win three Grey Cup championships.
He didn't stay retired long. Miller's now working for the CFL Montreal Alouettes.
Since Greg Hudson left Redlands (1991-92), he was defensive coordinator at Purdue, Minnesota, assistant head coach at national powerhouse Florida State (Jimbo Fisher, head coach) and a former defensive assistant coach at Notre Dame when legendary Lou Holtz was top man.
"Best recruiter," said Maynard, referring to Hudson, "anywhere."
Ejiro Evero (2010 at Redlands) surfaced as a quality control coach with the Green Bay Packers after spending five seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.
That included the 2012 season, the year when S.F. played in the Super Bowl. The onetime Bulldog assistant came to Los Angeles last season to coach the Rams' safeties.
Keith Carter (2007-2008 at Redlands) showed up as a line coach with the Atlanta Falcons. In 2017, he helped construct a line that blocked for QB Matt Ryan in the Falcons' quest for a Super Bowl championship.
Carter's the grandson, incidentally, of NFL Hall of Famer Gino Marchetti. These days, Carter's coaching running backs with the Tennessee Titans – after 13 seasons.
If a question about why Redlands was unable to retain such coaching talent, well, just think about it.
There are no major radio or TV contracts, no network deals, no huge sponsorships that rain in major dollars in the Bulldog football world. No, Maynard got these guys when they were trying to make their football bones, hoping to learn the coaching craft in an environment created for teaching and coaching.
Their "pay," was largely a two-year assistanceship while they got their Masters degrees, coaching on the side. Maynard grabbed them when the price was right. He lost them when they got good enough to get better paying jobs.
Note the fact that most coaches' stays lasted two seasons – the normal amount of time needed to get a Masters degree.
Part of "grabbing" those guys is this: Handfuls of applicants come in each year seeking a spot. Maynard, who looks awfully impressive in casting these guys, has to sift through all applicants.
There are former Bulldog assistants having shown up at Colorado, Virginia, Miami, Brigham Young, Arkansas State, Northern Arizona, Univ. San Diego, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Southern University, plus the Ivy League – and the NFL.
Garret Tujague (1996-97 at Redlands), an offensive line coach at Brigham Young University left Provo to follow Bronco Mendenhall upon taking the head coaching position at Virginia.
On Tujague, said Maynard, "is the kind of guy that is fired up when he's sleeping."
Even a partial list of the "connections" that these onetime Redlands assistant coaches have made is staggering.
Names like Holtz and Fisher, Harbaugh and Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry, Sean McVey and Wade Phillips in Los Angeles, an NFL Hall of Famer like Marchetti, plus coaching an offensive line that protected Ryan en route to a Super Bowl.
Those were multiple Redlands connections.


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Sugar Rush: Chewy Chocolate Sunflower Cookie from Body and Soul Bakery
Your daily dose of something sweet.
For a lot of people, the word "vegan" conjures up negative thoughts when it comes to sweets. But I think that's an outdated perspective. These days, many of New York City's top restaurants now offer vegan desserts with just as much "wow" factor as their dairy-containing counterparts. And some high-end vegan sweets are hard to even identify as being dairy-free.
Every dessert deserves to be judged on its own merits, free from any prejudices or preconceived notions. The Vegan Chewy Chocolate Sunflower Cookie ($2.75) from Body and Soul Bakery lives up to its name—it is both very chewy and highly chocolatey.
The deep chocolate flavor comes from copious amounts of cocoa powder, enough to give the cookie a nearly black appearance. The chewiness is best described in terms of the cookie's flexibility. The cookie is easily bendable but not easily breakable. If you held it by the very edge, it would not droop or break off.
A generous coating of sunflower seeds adds some texture and contributes to the feeling (true or not) that you are eating something healthy instead of a chocolate cookie.
Body and Soul Bakery
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A new industry group has unintentionally thrown light on the business interests that underlie debates over U.S. spectrum policy.
The group, calling itself WifiForward, says it will work to expand the amount of unlicensed spectrum, which can be used by Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee radios for streaming video, talking to your smartphone, home heating/cooling sensors and a host of other uses.
Its membership consists of cable companies, their equipment suppliers, consumer electronics business groups and retailers, specialized "advocacy" (or lobbying) groups, and technology companies including Microsoft and Google. (A complete list is available on the group's website.) Notable by their absence are other broadband companies, both wireline and wireless carriers such as AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, and other network operators.
WifiForward unveiled itself this week, with the self-appointed mission of "working to alleviate the Wi-Fi spectrum crunch and to support making Wi-Fi even better by finding more unlicensed spectrum."
"WifiForward's mission is to educate all of those groups [consumers, policymakers, representatives of non-tech industries, and the media] and draw the connections very clearly between unlicensed spectrum with innovation, investment and job growth," according to a spokeswoman, via email. "We'll do that by being the voice for unlicensed technologies and telling the stories of these technologies in use across all industries."
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"The coalition will not file in proceedings at the Commission, nor lobby members of Congress directly," according to the email.
Both Comcast and Time Warner are members of Wi-FiForward. Both have aggressive Wi-Fi offerings, in part to compete with the wireline and wireless telco carriers. Comcast offers subscribers access to over 500,000 hotspots nationwide, can pay for hourly, daily or weekly Wi-Fi passes. Time Warner offers subscribers free access to over 200,000 hotspots, its own and those of partners.A
But WiFiForward seems to be preaching to the already-converted, as there's little evidence of a debate about the virtues of expanding the unlicensed spectrum. Over a year ago, then-FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that the agency would work quickly to add 195MHz of spectrum for Wi-Fi in the 5GHz band, increasing the available capacity by 35 percent. According to Genachowski, the action is needed because Wi-Fi faces a likely spectrum crunch, analogous to the much-discussed cellular spectrum crunch. Current FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler reiterated that commitment last month.A
Another spectrum bonanza opened by the FCC, the so-called white spaces of unused TV signals, is already being explored in pilot networks springing up in the U.S. and around the world. A typical example is a recent network deployed at West Virginia University. [See "Better than TV! White spaces bring wireless bonanza to West Virginia"] Wi-Fi clients connect to an access point, which then interfaces with a white spaces radio, in effect piggybacking on the white spaces spectrum. Eventually, radio chips will let clients directly access these bands.
WifiForward says that consumers, among others, are ignorant of or at least don't fully appreciate the importance and value of unlicensed spectrum. Yet in one of its infographics it cites Cisco data (presumably the company's annual Visual Networking Index) to the effect that "by 2017 Wi-Fi devices will power a majority of all Internet traffic." In fact, that actually reveals how keenly aware end users are about the value of Wi-Fi connectivity and data rates.
In briefly covering the WifiForward unveiling, Wall Street Journal reporters Ryan Knutson and Shalini Ramachandran suggest that the massive LTE investments by the telcos now make Wi-Fi networks much less valuable. AT&T and T-Mobile have been aggressive in the past in rolling out Wi-Fi hotspots in part to offload some data traffic from overtaxed 3G networks in urban areas.
But now, the Journal story says, ubiquitous Wi-Fi "could erode carriers' revenue growth" needed to pay for the LTE build-out.
Yet AT&T will be a major player in a large-scale Hotspot 2.0 demonstration network later this month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Hotspot 2.0 is an industry specification that lets a subscriber of one network connect to Wi-Fi hotspots from other service providers, and be authenticated for secure network access. AT&T, Cisco and Accuris Networks will be working with 10 other network operators in the onsite network. Subscribers with compatible phones will automatically authenticate to the Wi-Fi network when they walk into the venue, as they did with the local cellular network after landing in Spain.
"As far as I know, AT&T hasn't changed their view of Wi-Fi offload," says Ton Brand, senior director of marketing and industry development for the Wireless Broadband Alliance, an industry trade group that's been actively promoting Hotspot 2.0 and what it calls the "Next Generation Hotspot" for public Wi-Fi. A "They're still doing [Hotspot 2.0] roaming agreements and still expanding their [Wi-Fi] footprint." The WBA's AT&T representative is currently chairman of the WBA.
"Users find public Wi-Fi that is sometimes good and sometimes, to be frank, crap," Brand says. The WBA has created a set of guidelines to define a consistent, high quality end-user "carrier Wi-Fi" experience that can be replicated across carrier offerings, and embraced by other standards-setting groups.
"It's not a zero-sum game between cellular connectivity and Wi-Fi connectivity," says Mark Lowenstein, managing director for Mobile Ecosystem, a wireless consulting firm, and editor of the "Lens on Wireless" monthly newsletter.
Both have been advancing in just the last few years, giving mobile carriers new options and new flexibility in handling data demand, he says. While Wi-Fi can be an option for offloading, today better distributed antenna systems (DAS) let carriers extend high capacity 3G and 4G/LTE signals throughout buildings as well as big venues like stadiums, malls, train stations and airports. In hotels and conference venues with older Wi-Fi infrastructures, LTE can actually offer superior performance, according to Lowenstein.
Future versions of LTE will support better integration of Wi-Fi radios in cellular base stations, he says, while Hotspot 2.0 with its attendant roaming agreements among operators will create eventually a more "cellular-like" Wi-Fi experience.
"This will become a very hot and debated issue over the coming months as all these carriers figure out how to rationalize the two technologies," says David Callisch, vice president, corporate marketing for Ruckus Wireless, a WLAN vendor that does a lot of business with network operators deploying Wi-Fi services. "But for the most part, they see them as complementary. Even with the big investments in LTE by the mobile operators, it still won't be enough. Despite the higher data speeds that LTE brings, it won't satisfy the growth in data traffic that is exponential."
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for Network World.Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnwcoxnwwEmail: email@example.com
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FAMU Hazing Case: Friends, family to remember Robert Champion one year after death
(AP) DECATUR, Ga. - The family of a Florida A&M drum major who died a year ago after being beaten during a hazing ritual plan a candlelight vigil on Monday to mark the anniversary.
PICTURES: Florida A&M University hazing scandal
Authorities have charged more than a dozen fellow band members in Robert Champion's death. Champion's family, who lives in Georgia, was recently offered a $300,000 settlement from the school. Their attorney has called the offer "substantively low."
In their lawsuit, Champion's parents contend university officials didn't take action to stop hazing, though a dean proposed suspending the famed "Marching 100" band just days before their son died.
Ten FAMU band members face felony hazing charges in the case while two
others face misdemeanor counts. The first defendant, Brian Jones, 23,
was sentenced on Oct. 22 to six months of community control, two years' probation and 200 hours of community service.
A family spokesman says the vigil for Robert Champion will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Decatur, Ga.
Complete coverage of the Florida A&M hazing case on Crimesider


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I've been a Witch since 1985, but I've always had a strong Thelemic (Aleister Crowley) component to my beliefs and practise, mainly because two of my most influential magickal instructors, David Mattichak and Barrington Sherman, were inclined that way. I'm also quite partial to Anton La Vey – unpopular as he is, but then again I'm partial to many things, especially Pagan Reconstructionism, the attempt to practise historically-accurate ancient pagan religions. Frankly, I have so many interests in the realm of paganism, witchcraft, magick and the occult that I have to rotate them every so often so they all get a turn.
In 1993, while still a member of CAW, I also became a member of the Melbourne-based "Wizards of Oz" which was a sub-branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and over the next few years I underwent initiation into several of the degrees within the Order. During the late 90s I became very involved in formulating an Australian approach to Paganism, primarily concentrating on the traditional Wheel of the Year and how it did, or did not, gel with the Australian seasons (see here and here). I also published a chapter on this, "The Sabbats" in Practising the Witch's Craft. (ed.) Douglas Ezzy (Allen and Unwin, 2003). Then in 1999 I started working for WitchCraft Magazine. I'd kept going to festivals such as Mount Franklin through the 90s, and us CAW-OTO members and friends used to host a huge annual Samhain party in late April (southern hemisphere!), which still happens thanks to Philippe Duquesnoy, although I haven't been for over a decade. In the early 2000's I got jack of the Pagan social scene – not Paganism itself, just the constant intrigues in the scene – and became a hermit, although that didn't last for long and by the mid 2000s I was back in the OTO (albeit a different incarnation thereof) to do more initiations. I stayed with them for perhaps two years, and then went back to being an antisocial misanthrope – although I was still writing and conversing with Pagans both in Australia and overseas. I also went back to university in 2004 and, while still identifying as a Pagan and a Witch, my focus, both magickal and mundane, has increasingly been upon my research.
|Tully (right) the tapestry weaver
|Tully excavating in the Middle East
This kind of topic is really classified as "Reception Studies" – how the ancient world is received, utilised, and expressed by later movements, groups, or individuals, rather than archaeology per se. Although in regards to my thesis it did incorporate aspects of the history of the discipline of Egyptology as well. Reception Studies is huge in Classics, but less so in archaeology, at least at my university. Anyway, I adore this topic, and certainly will get back to it. I'm also quite partial to romantic Hellenism, the romanticisation of ancient Greece, particularly by people such as the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) – I'm going to get onto that when I have time. In this regard I am mainly interested in how the past is utilised for self-aggrandisment, for creating a romantic, authoritive persona. This is something contemporary Pagans do too, not all of them, but certainly some, and I'm very interested in that.
I must say however, that when I first encountered the academic study of Paganism – which, as I mentioned above, was via Chas Clifton's Nature Religions email list, and from there the scholars who at that time were researching contemporary Paganism – I did get the impression that they were very uncritical about modern Paganism and a bit on the idealistic, promoting-Paganism side of things. In fact it did not seem OK to be critical about Paganism, although people certainly were – but not critical enough in my opinion. I certainly agree with Davidsen that "A normative construction of the essence of contemporary Paganism" is prevalent in the academic study of Paganism and that "The ideal of what Paganism ought to be according to certain Pagan intellectuals is presented as how real or pure Paganism is." I've certainly encountered a reasonable amount of naïve idealism from academics-turned-Pagan who have a particular idea of how Paganism "is" and, because they have clout and credibility deriving from their academic status, are able to present their view to a pretty receptive audience, whether that be through lectures at a university, publications, or media interviews and thus formulate a "Paganism" that they like the idea of, rather than as it really is. I certainly think that Paganism itself needs to be analysed more critically, as well as the academic scholarship thereof, so I think Davidsen's article is useful in this regard.
Well, there are these gold rings and stone seals from Minoan Crete (some are from mainland Greece but in Minoan style) dating to the Neopalatial period, 1750–1450 BCE, that depict images in which figures interact with trees in what has been interpreted as a religious manner. Influenced by the biblical text, and later on by Ugaritic texts, such scenes have been suggested to depict worshippers and a tree goddess, such as the Hebrew Asherah or the Egyptian Hathor – and this might be correct. There are no texts to confirm this however as the Minoan script, Linear A, is not translated, and while Linear B used later on Crete is known to be a form of Greek, it doesn't really tell us that much about religion. Also, these rings are tiny and one needs to ask whether such scenes depicted thereon are accurate renditions of something that happened in the real world, or rather, are highly edited "signs". From the beginning of research into these images at the start of the 20th century, the iconography has been used to propose and speculate about corresponding physical sites within the landscape of Crete and the rituals that occurred there. There has not been much rigorous work done in the way of matching, or eliminating, actual cult sites in regard to the iconography however – in the case of Minoan Crete, these sites would be peak sanctuaries, rural sanctuaries, sacred caves, and urban cult sites. Yes, people have studied this, but in a rather cursory manner.
EDW: Thank you for taking the time out to talk with Albion Calling today, Caroline, and good luck with your doctoral thesis!


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10 years is quite a long time for a band to be together. Parts & Labor reach that milestone very soon, in January next year in fact. So, with that, they've released a message letting us know their future plans. Read below for more:
Dear friends,
This January, Parts & Labor turns 10 years old. We're planning a string of celebratory shows, in which we play selected material from all of our full length albums, leading up to a big 10th anniversary blow out on February 24th, 2012.
Following these performances, we're going to take an extended hiatus. We feel incredibly fortunate having had a decade of amazing experiences -- making records and new friends, performing with so many killer musicians and artists. But it's time for each of us to focus on personal projects for a while. We're all going to continue to make music through other endeavors.
We'd like to thank everyone who's supported us, bought our albums, seen us live, offered us a floor to sleep on. We love y'all. As a token of our esteem, we're giving away a final song called "No Nostalgia (featuring Todd Bailey and Where's The Party At)", which was recorded during the Receivers sessions, but suddenly seems all too prescient.
Love, Dan/BJ/Joe (Parts & Labor)
So yeah. Unfortunately all of the shows they play are in the USA. Fortunately, they are releasing a free mp3 of a track that was recorded during the Receivers sessions, aptly entitled 'No Nostalgia'. Get it from here.


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Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) is a state-based think tank and member of the State Policy Network. The Freedom Foundation describes itself as "an independent, non-profit educational and research organization that actively advocates the principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, economic freedom, and limited government."[1] Annette Meeks, former Deputy Chief of Staff for House Speaker Newt Gingrich, founded FFM in 2006 and currently serves as CEO.[2]
- 1 Global Warming
- 2 Ties to Redistricting Efforts
- 3 Ties to the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity
- 4 Core Financials
- 5 Personnel
- 6 Contact Information
- 7 Articles and resources
Global Warming
In 2009 the foundation was a co-sponsor of the Heartland Institute's 2009 conference for climate change skeptics.[3]
Ties to Redistricting Efforts
A report from the Alliance for a Better Minnesota cited stories from Minnesota Public Radio and Slate magazine indicating that FFM had ties to Minnesotans for Fair Redistricting. The group is a supposedly independent group working to redistrict Minnesota, but has known Republican bias. Although officially FFM denies any involvement with Minnesotans for Fair Redistricting, board member Chris Georgacas headed the group. Attorney Tony Trimble, another FFM board member, worked with the group's legal team and helped with the redistricting plans.<ref="report"/>
Ties to the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity
Freedom Foundation of Minnesota founded Minnesota Watchdog.[4] The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota was listed as a Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity "Watchdog Bureau".[5] The Franklin Center funds reporters in over 40 states.[6] Despite their non-partisan description, many of the websites funded by the Franklin Center have received criticism for their conservative bias.[7][8] On its website, the Franklin Center claims it "provides 10 percent of all daily reporting from state capitals nationwide."[9]
Franklin Center Funding
Franklin Center Director of Communications Michael Moroney told the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) in 2013 that the source of the Franklin Center's funding "is 100 percent anonymous." But 95 percent of its 2011 funding came from DonorsTrust, a spin-off of the Philanthropy Roundtable that functions as a large "donor-advised fund," cloaking the identity of donors to right-wing causes across the country (CPI did a review of Franklin's Internal Revenue Service records).[10] Mother Jones called DonorsTrust "the dark-money ATM of the conservative movement" in a February 2013 article.[11] Franklin received DonorTrust's second-largest donation in 2011.[10]
The Franklin Center also receives funding from the Wisconsin-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation,[12] a conservative grant-making organization.[13]
The Franklin Center was launched by the Chicago-based Sam Adams Alliance (SAM),[14] a 501(c)(3) devoted to pushing free-market ideals. SAM gets funding from the State Policy Network,[15] which is partially funded by the Claude R. Lambe Foundation.[16] Charles Koch, one of the billionaire brothers who co-own Koch Industries, sits on the board of this foundation.[17] SAM also receives funding from the Rodney Fund.
Core Financials
- Total Revenue: $319,165
- Total Expenses: $271,844
- Net Assets: $47,321
- Total Revenue: $350,628
- Total Expenses: $358,769
- Net Assets: -$6,375
- Total Revenue: $349,335
- Total Expenses: $373,622
- Net Assets: $1,766
- Total Revenue: $332,836
- Total Expenses: $348,951
- Net Assets: $26,053
- Total Revenue: $406,234
- Total Expenses: $368,220
- Net Assets: $42,168
- Total Revenue: $280,704
- Total Expenses: $468,104
- Net Assets: $5,932
- Total Revenue: $549,963
- Total Expenses: $335,375
- Net Assets: $193,332
As of August 2016:[24]
- Annette Meeks, CEO
Former Staff
- Jonathan Blake, Vice President
- Tom Steward, Investigative Director
Board of Directors
As of August 2016:[25]
- Jack Meeks
- Brian Sullivan
- Tony Trimble
- Steve Knuth
- Dirk Bak
- Annette Meeks
- Vin Weber
Former Directors
- Chris Georgacas
- Kristin Ostrander
Contact Information
Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Renaissance Square
520 Nicollet Mall, Suite 510
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Phone: 612-354-2160
Website: http://freedomfoundation.publishpath.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Articles and resources
Related SourceWatch Articles
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- International Conference on Climate Change (2008)
- International Conference on Climate Change (2009)
- Researching global warming skeptics
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- American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
- DonorsTrust
- Donors Capital Fund
- Koch Family Foundations
- Koch Industries
- Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity
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- Brendan Fischer, Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provisions to ALEC, PRWatch.org, May 2, 2012.
- Sara Jerving, Franklin Center: Right-Wing Funds State News Source, PRWatch.org, October 31, 2011.
- ↑ Heartland Institute, "International Conference on Climate Change: Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?", March 8-10, 2009, page 32.
- ↑ Alliance for a Better Minnesota, Who's in Charge: How Nationalized Corporate-Run Think Tanks Influence Minnesota Politics, organizational report, November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Heartland Institute, "Co-Sponsors", Heartland Institute website, March 5, 2009.
- ↑ Statehouse News Bureaus, Source Watch, accessed March 23, 2012
- ↑ Franklin Center, Watchdog.org, organizational document, May 2013, obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy June 2013.
- ↑ The Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, Think tank Journalism: The Future of Investigative Journalism, organizational website, accessed August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Rebekah Metzler, 'Watchdog' website puts a new spin on politics, The Portland Press Herald, October 2, 2010.
- ↑ Allison Kilkenny, The Koch Spider Web, Truthout, accessed August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Sara Jerving, Franklin Center: Right-Wing Funds State News Source, PRWatch.org, October 27, 2011.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Paul Abowd, Center for Public Integrity, Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states, organizational report, February 14, 2013.
- ↑ Andy Kroll, Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement, Mother Jones, February 5, 2013.
- ↑ Daniel Bice, Franklin Center boss wants apology from Democratic staffer, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 8, 2011.
- ↑ Bradley Foundation, The Bradley Foundation, organizational website, accessed August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Sam Adams Alliance, Sam Adams Alliance Media Kit, organizational PDF, accessed August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Media Matters Action Network, Sam Adams Alliance, Conservative Transparency website, accessed August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Media Matters Action Network. State Policy Network, Conservative Transparency website, accessed August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Media Matters Action Network, Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, Conservative Transparency website, accessed August 19, 2011.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, 2016 990, ProPublica, accessed Nov. 2, 2018
- ↑ Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, IRS Form 2014 990, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, August 6, 2015.
- ↑ Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, IRS Form 2013 990, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, August 15, 2014.
- ↑ Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, IRS Form 2012 990, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, November 15, 2013.
- ↑ Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, IRS form 990, 2010. GuideStar.
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- ↑ Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, Staff, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, 2016.
- ↑ Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, Board, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, 2016.
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- Wall Street Journal, The Spoils of the Republican State Conquest, December 9, 2016, archived by CMD here.
- DeSmog Blog, Stink Tanks: Historical Records Reveal State Policy Network Was Created by ALEC, December 9, 2013.
- The Guardian, State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax, December 5, 2013.
- Portland Press Herald, "Washington County residents have mixed reactions to plan to eliminate taxes," December 5, 2013.
- The Texas Observer, "The Money Behind the Fight to Undermine Medicaid," December 5, 2013.
- Media Matters, North Carolina Newspapers Largely Ignore Conservative Funding Of Sham Think Tanks, December 3, 2013.
- Shepherd Express, Masters of Manipulation: Right-wing Billionaires, Corporations and the Bradley Foundation Pay for Junk Studies that Prop up Their Agenda, November 27, 2013.
- "Moyers & Company," How a Shadowy Network of Corporate Front Groups Distorts the Marketplace of Ideas, November 19, 2013.
- MSNBC "Rachel Maddow Show," November 18, 2013.
- Free Speech TV "Ring of Fire," Facebook, Microsoft, AT&T and Others Supporting Right Wing Propaganda Machine, November 18, 2013.
- Topeka Capital-Journal, Trabert dismisses report tying KPI to Koch agenda, November 16, 2013.
- The New Yorker (Jane Mayer), Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?, November 15, 2013.
- Salon, Ted Cruz and Koch brothers embroiled in shadowy Tea Party scheme, November 15, 2013.
- St. Louis Business Journal, Beyond Sinquefield: Who else is funding the Show-Me Institute?, November 15, 2013.
- The Guardian, Facebook and Microsoft help fund rightwing lobby network, report finds, November 14, 2013.
- Huffington Post, Meet The Little-Known Network Pushing Ideas For Kochs, ALEC, November 14, 2013.
- CBS St. Louis, Show-Me Institute's Ties Questioned in New Report, November 14, 2013.
- Talking Points Memo, Florida Conservative Group Helping Muck Up Obamacare In Alaska, November 14, 2013.
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- Lawrence Journal-World, Reports released by progressive groups are critical of Kansas Policy Institute, November 13, 2013.
- Maine Insights, Report: Maine Heritage Policy Center's funding connection to Koch Brothers, November 13, 2013.
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- The Oregonian, Cascade Policy Institute benefits from secretive donor group but says it operates independently, November 13, 2013.
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- Greenpeace, Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group: State Policy Network (SPN), organizational resource.


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"With the evidence gathered so far - circumstantial, forensic and others - we are confident that we will be able to convict the accused," said Singh, who was flanked by Delhi Police top brass, including Commissioner of Police Neeraj Kumar.
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Kumar said there will be a crack down on chartered buses - one of which was used for the crime. So far 1,600 such vehicles have been impounded for violating various rules.
"The regime we would like to put in place will be very strict," he said.
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USA Today disclosed last week that the average family home in the US has 71 toys. 71?!? I can only remember having two when I was a child — a farm set and a train set. Admittedly, both had multiple pieces. But 71?
Actually, I can believe it. I always seem to be stepping on toys when I walk through our home. Even at our daughter's in Indianapolis, the living room floor is the favored spot for dumping toys. My wife always said that toys were things to drag from the bedroom and dump on the living room carpet, and then the kids go out and play with a stick.
It wasn't like this in Africa. Most children there had no toys, unless a family member had made one from a used car tire or an old cardboard box.
When we first moved to the US, I was fascinated by how different American children are from African children; not for the better, I might add. Too many American kids say bad things back to their parents and are more materialistic when it comes to getting things (toys and candy, mostly).
Part of the problem is television programs and commercials. Children put incredible pressure on parents to buy them everything they've seen on TV and advertisers know this. Credit cards enable parents to buy – few in Africa have CC's. One other factor I think all parents should think about – how many buy toys out of guilt? With very little time to devote to children, parents over-compensate by buying lots of things.
I think their offspring would prefer time with Mom and Dad. We didn't have lots of things growing up, but our mother was always there, thankfully.
One other thing we should be concerned about is not to encourage materialism or greed in our children and grandchildren. "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. " (Matthew 6:19-21).
It's no surprise that Jimmy Fallon and Meryl Streep criticized President-elect Donald Trump Sunday night at the Golden Globes.
Fallon even commented that the Globes are now the only place in America where the "popular vote" counts. Really? I wasn't asked to vote on the best movies of 2016.
The theater was full, as usual. Many of those seated threatened to leave the United States if Trump won the election. Canada seemed the preferred destination. But they were there at the Globes. Presumably they flew back for the evening!!! Or, perhaps, upon reflection, when they saw how much they would have to pay in taxes in Canada, they decided to stay in the United States.
These people are unreal. (Well, they are actors, after all.) They rake in the millions or hundreds of millions and spend more money on face-lifts and breast enhancements than Donald Trump will ever spend on the military. Their gowns alone cost more than the GNP's of many countries.
Meryl Streep is a good actress. So are some of the others in the audience. They should stick to acting and stay out of politics, before millions of their fans turn away from them in disgust.
There was also an element of hypocrisy when Meryl Streep, commenting on Donald Trump, warned that violence begets more violence. Hollywood has arguably done more to promote violence than Donald Trump or any other president could possibly do.
Diane and I have just been down to Indianapolis to see our eldest daughter, Alix, her husband, Mike, and their four children. It was an enjoyable and relaxing few days.
I was able to take our two granddaughters, Alyssa and Elena, to tour President Benjamin Harrison's home in downtown Indianapolis. It was well worth the time and money to tour the historic house. I am pleased to say that both girls asked intelligent and perceptive questions.
President Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States, in office from 1889 to 1893. He replaced Grover Cleveland and was succeeded by the same man, a Democrat. Harrison was a prime example of Churchill's later dictum: "If you're not a socialist (liberal) at 20 you've got no heart; if you're still a socialist at 30, you've got no head." He started out as a Whig but later became a Republican.
Historians do not rate his presidency very highly, but it's interesting to note that he was facing the same issues that confront President-elect Trump today. He raised tariffs on imports to help reduce the federal deficit and built up the navy which had been neglected since the Civil War. (Interestingly, the day we toured the home, a website revealed that, for the first time in decades, there were no US naval vessels on patrol anywhere in the world.)
President Harrison is remembered as the grandson of President William Henry Harrison, who was president for exactly one month. He gave a very long speech at his Inaugural in 1841, caught a cold which developed into pneumonia, and died. The two Harrisons are the only grandfather-grandson presidents in US history.
The second president also saw six states enter the Union during his four-year term, a record number under any chief executive.
It was sobering to note that the three-story home had no indoor plumbing!
It was an interesting visit and I recommend it if you are ever in Indianapolis.
On a different day I took the twins to McDonald's for an ice cream sundae, followed by a visit to Meijer, a huge grocery store that also sells toys. (The twins would probably describe it as a toy store that also sells groceries!)
When ordering ice cream for them, I asked for a hot tea for myself. The man taking the order responded with "Excuse me?" I repeated my request. He said he had never heard of it! (seriously!) So I asked for the manager and, again, repeated my request for a hot tea. He had at least heard of it. I added a request that the bag be put in the cup before the water as it tastes so much better that way. My order came five minutes later – a styrofoam cup with luke-warm water and a separate tea bag!
I'm pleased to say that Tim Horton's is moving south – they have now reached Ft Wayne. I think I will stay away from Indianapolis until they move the extra 120 miles! At least the Canadian franchise makes decent tea – just stay away from the donuts.
There was an interesting paragraph Monday morning from an Israeli paper:
"Religious Jews are more excited about Messiah's return than Christians are," Markell told WND. "Muslims are more anticipatory about their Mahdi's return than are Christians about Jesus's return. This shows the deplorable state of the church today that is 'majoring in minors.' They have their finance seminars and marriage conferences but have shoved the idea of the Lord's imminent return not just to the back burner, perhaps to the back yard." (WND)
The latest terrorist attack at Fort Lauderdale's airport is disturbing. It highlights the danger that ISIS is spreading beyond Islam to non-Muslims. The perpetrator of Friday's attack was an American born Hispanic. If ISIS spreads its influence to hispanics and other minorities in America, attacks like this will only become more common.
A Palestinian drove a truck into a group of soldiers in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four and injuring dozens. These truck (or lorry) attacks in France, Germany and Israel are also spreading.
We were with Alix and Mike over the New Year's weekend. Mike came across a quote, supposedly from Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, who wrote on the last day of 1916, in the middle of World War I: "1916 was cursed. The new year will surely be better." Those who know Russian history will be aware that the Czar abdicated in February of 1917, the country was plunged into civil war before the year ended and the royal family were all slaughtered. The "quote" was tweeted by Gary Kasparov, the famous Russian chess player who now lives in the United States. Whether it's true or not, it should make us think!


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"If you create a public scene or break any laws (such as sleeping in public or leaving the early-game hotel room naked), odds are you'll wind up arrested. Humorously, you get to play through your final days in a jail cell, choosing what your final meal is, what denomination of priest speaks to you before death and whether you die by lethal injection or firing squad just one more of the many things I loved about the writing in this game."
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Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is putting its Irvine drug manufacturing plant on the auction block as part of an effort to save $1.5 to $2 billion over the next four years, the company said Thursday.
"The Irvine facility has already seen much interest from a number of players who would be open to looking at this facility, taking a walk through it and potentially talking to us about it," Eyal Desheh, the company's chief financial officer, said in a teleconference with investors and analysts.
Teva's president and chief executive, Jeremy Levin, noted that the company is not selling its business in Irvine, just the physical plant. He said Teva has five other FDA-approved manufacturing sites, including one in Hungary that can take over production of the injectable medicines that it currently makes in Irvine.
The company is looking for a buyer "with a strategic long-term interest in the facility" that will manufacture for Teva until it can move the products to other locations, Levin said.
The Irvine plant has fallen on hard times in recent years, encountering some quality control problems that led to the temporary suspension of production and distribution, followed by layoffs. The factory currently employs about 400 people, roughly half the number who worked there in 2010. Teva had several rounds of layoffs, including the elimination of 70 jobs after discontinuing production of Propofol, the sedative administered to pop singer Michael Jackson shortly before his death.
"This is a plant that has had a lot of troubles, and they did a lot of work getting it back up to code," said Kevin Kedra, an equities analyst who covers Teva for Gabellli & Co. in Rye, New York. "It seems a bit unexpected (to sell it) given all the work they did." He said it might raise questions about Teva's continuing commitment to the injectables business, but Levin told analysts and investors that the company had a "complete commitment" to it.
Teva announced its decision to sell the Irvine facility on the same day that it released fourth-quarter financial results showing a sharp drop in revenue and net income. The company said it posted net income of $280 million in the fourth quarter of last year, a steep 44.6 percent drop from $505 million in the same quarter of 2011.
The company said its revenues were hit in the fourth quarter by the advent of a generic alternative to its blockbuster drug Provigil, used to treat certain sleep disorders. Kedra said Teva had sold $350 million worth of Provigil in the fourth quarter of 2011, and that much of that revenue dried up with the advent of a generic version in early 2012. Teva noted that other generic drugs had yielded "unusually high" sales in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2011, which were significantly lower a year later.
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Local photographer takes photos of Granite Mountain Hotshots
Nineteen firefighters were laid to rest Sunday.
Kristen Honig, a local photographer, said she's in shock due to a personal connection. She spent time with the Granite Mountain Hotshots, when they helped battle fires in New Mexico.
"This job is very dangerous and I think the families realize that but they help others," Honig said.
Honig documented the Granite Mountain Hotshots from the front lines during the Thompson Ridge fire that burned north of Jemez, N.M.
The crew saved historic cabins from going up in flames in the Valles Caldera.
"When the column collapsed, it brought the fire a lot closer that evening they really had to do it quickly," Honig said. "Especially in light of that, they did such a wonderful and professional job in terms of being able to save all of the structures."
A Granite Mountain squad boss escorted Honig.
"He really made sure that while we were out there he was ensuring my safety at all times," Honig said.
He showed her the skills of trade like the right way to cut down a tree. Honig spent one night documenting the elite hotshots.
She couldn't believe that her footage would be some of the last of the Granite Mountain firefighters.
"I hope that the photos and the video can give some comfort to the families and remind themselves of the character these individuals and sacrifices they have made for other people," Honig said.
Honig said she plans to meet with the family of the squad boss who escorted her. She wants to share stories and pictures of the sacrifices he made to help other people.


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Ellen Page Talks To Stephen Colbert About Coming Out
Ellen Page dropped by "The Colbert Report," and talked about her experience coming out at The Human Rights Campaign's "Time to Thrive" conference.
Ellen told Colbert that coming out was one of the most nerve-wracking moments of her life but at the same time she was thrilled to be at a place where she was ready to do it. She also said she was grateful for the support that she's received.
But Colbert thought Ellen should have waited to make the announcement that she was gay on his show to boost his ratings. He said it would be have been incredible. So... they tried for a do-over.
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ELLEN: "No... I'm gay."
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Ellen is now starring in the new film, "X-men: Days of Future Past," which hits theaters May 23.


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