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Lihua Increases Smelter Output To Address Increasing Copper Anode Demand In China
DANYANG, China , Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lihua International, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIWA) ("Lihua" or the "Company"), a leading Chinese developer, designer, and manufacturer of low cost, high quality alternatives to pure copper products, including refined copper products and superfine and magnet wire, as well as copper clad aluminum ("CCA") wire, today announced that, as of August 31, 2012, production on its second and third copper anode smelters had reached over 2,800 metric tons per month. This is an increase of approximately 60% over approximately 1,800 metric tons in July and more than 180% over 1,000 metric tons in June. Based on this ramp, the Company expects production to ramp up to be near designed capacity of 50,000 metric tons on an annualized basis by the end of September.
"We are proud of the progress we have made since launching the smelters in June, as we have achieved a steady ramp in output despite the intense summer heat in Jiangsu Province that typically forces production slowdowns in July and August. Industry demand for our copper anode products has continued to grow, and we are working to reach maximum capacity on these smelters as quickly as possible," said Mr. Jianhua Zhu, Lihua's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Based on customer indications, demand for our copper anode product will remain strong through the remainder of the year, and as such, we are confident on our production and sales outlooks for the new smelters. In addition, we are on track to launch our new CCA cable and wire products next year, opening a new and sizeable market for us in an area that presents great opportunity for growth and success."
The Company is continuing to develop its 30-acre campus in Danyang, China. To date, Lihua has completed construction on eight factory units, with work underway on an office building, employee dormitories and a research and development center. Based on current construction plans, the Company expects to complete the construction of the remainder of the site in 2013.The latest new plant site and construction progress pictures are accessible via the investor relations section of the Company's website at http://lihuaintl.com/About_Us/Our_Facility.html. About Lihua International, Inc. Lihua, through its two wholly owned subsidiaries, Lihua Electron and Lihua Copper, is a leading value-added manufacturer of copper replacement products for China's rapidly growing copper wire and copper replacement product market. Lihua is one of the first vertically integrated companies in China to develop, design and manufacture lower cost, high quality alternatives to pure copper magnet wire and pure copper alternative products. Lihua's products include CCA and refined copper products. Current product offerings include CCA and pure copper wire, copper rod and copper anode. Except for CCA wire, all other products are produced from recycled scrap copper. Lihua's products are sold in China either directly to manufacturers or through distributors in the wire and cable industries and manufacturers in a wide variety of industries including the consumer electronics, white goods, automotive, utility, telecommunications and specialty cable industries. Lihua's corporate and manufacturing headquarters are located in the heart of China's copper industry in Danyang, Jiangsu Province. For more information, visit: http://www.lihuaintl.com.
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Is my pet dead or missing?!
I got this black and white dog at the store and he was there for a few weeks in my house, but when I came back to check on my game one day the dog was gone! I looked everywhere on the screen, but no luck! Could it have possibly died? But then I was thinking, if it died, wouldn't the game have told me? FYI, not real pet in my life.
Answer from: jellybelly546
I thought my pet died but he turned up. good luck on finding the dog:).
Answer from: Dragonfly 137
I don't think that's possible. I think its only a bug, so you might wanna wait it out. Good luck finding it! :)
Answer from: InnocentAngel
Try using a water/food bowl, it helped me get my cat back
Answer from: Wildflower724
Thanks, I did try using the water/food bowl but it didn't come back. I guess I'll just get a new one. . .
Answer from: spellinbeechamp
That happened to all my pets, ( i have everyone of them ) as InnocentAngel said food/water bowl what i did to my snowy white kitty when she got lost was i go the plants, ( usually where they hide ) and dragged my finger all around in the plants and then you will find your pet because you can carry them around with your finger
Answer from: silverkey23
Hmmm i think he ran out, get lots a food bowls place them everywhere,(every room, near the plants, inside at front gate, back dock/patio) now fill them up, wait for a day
Answer from: Randomgirl54321
I found that if you tap your pet a lot they whin then go hide in the tree's they usually don't come back out until they are called for food. I wonder why they do that though.
Answer from: rainbow5
No your pet i s not dead i had 3 pets for 6 generations so far and non have died. this did happen with my kitten a few times. it was just hiding. just so u know inoccentAngel is right. i used that trick and it worked each time. hope i helped:)
Answer from: Fluffy
This once happened to me just open the decorate tab and go all around your house (and outside) trying to get your pet back into decor. Then exit out of the game and go back in. When you go back in open the decorate tab and place him in the house. It should show up. If not contact Last Day Of Work. Hope this helped! :) -fluffy
Answer from: ) vf2 4 real
It left to go to the neighbors house. The animals run away like the people, when you praise them too much, so they went to the neighbors house. Btw if you get two kids to hide and an adult gets a rare collectable the neighbors will invite you over and eventually you get their fully furnished house, also this is one of the easter eggs (cool surprises) in vf2. But theyll come back, oh and they only go to one specific spot, the right corner area.
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On the April 28th episode of Discovery's MythBusters, Adam and Jamie enlist test subjects to test two pain myths: can women handle more pain than […] Read the full post.
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I remember reading a book about the French resistance in WWII, and they mentioned at one point that during interrigations the women usually held up under torture longer than the men.
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…silly boy….maybe 50 years ago.
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sighs… do you guys wanna know how painful childbirth can be, its easy, just take your bottom lip, and pullet over your face COVERING your head,,,, thats all you need to know how painful it is.
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i man try to push a baby or babies threw his penis.i have my first birth with my daughter all natrual with no drugs labored for 26 hours and pushed one hour straight .she weighed 7 pound three once 22 inches long then.2 year latter twins boys 7 pounds each.then twins girls 11 months latter .my husband passed five kidney stones natrually he said extremly painfull.he said that was his male childbirth moment,i coached him threw the pain he keep the kidney stones in jar and name him after our kids.jada,brett,beau.april,georgia.he told me thank god you have babies in the family.i amalso expecting our sixth child a boy name ryder at any day now.
this makes me laugh at everybody saying "see women handle pain better!" First off mythbusters is not where you should be getting your facts. Second it varies among people but a few studies suggest that men handle pain better. There is a reason that historically men are the ones doing dangerous and difficult jobs. Also there is a reason martial artists are usually males, that involves a lot of pain. Also with as much as American women scream during labor they cant use that as an example of handling pain. lol Japanese women laugh at Americans for that, Japanese women frown upon screaming like that.
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I think women are made to handle pain differently than men, but that's something that can't be proven. And I think that's because women give childbirth. And that would be a nerve thing that got adjusted do to evolution. Nature could have adjusted women for the reason of childbirth. I've heard plenty of women say that they would rather give birth again before having another toothache. And I will say that a toothache is the worse pain I have felt. Shots on the palm of my hand or on the bottom of my feet is next for me. The shots was worse than the actual break of the bones… I have NEVER cried in pain until the toothache though. That is one pain that keeps me from doing anything! I can work thru and with any other pain. And keep me away from shots that have to go on the bottom of my feet or the palm of my hands…
Lmao how funny I just did this test after reading in a book that men can tolorate pain longer.
Women are more able to get piercings than men, that's why they don't balk at piercing their tongue as much as guys do.
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Throw a shovel and hardhat and woman's and way and tell them to work 6 days a week, 12 hour days. They'll be sprinting back to that home with pigtails and a full "stomach" after a week. And seriously can you acutally test men that ACTUALLY do physical labor for a living. Men that don't work in the sun don't build pain tolerance and I bet some of these Women have had children, so they can tolerate pain much better then these White mechanics that don't do real work.
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I asked my dentist whether men or women handled root canal better and he said they were about the same. You can't talk about childbirth anyway because men don't have babies, it's not a logical comparison. You have to compare things that they both do. Women scream during childbirth which is the definition of not handling pain.
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Take that feminist !
That's not science… anyone know about GIRK2 ?
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I asked my dentist who could handle the pain of root canal better, men or women, and she said there is no difference. It makes sense. If men could not handle pain as well, they would use more novocaine for men.
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This doesn't clear up any myths, this only suggests that you had luck on your side (basically). I, like other intelligent beings on the planet, like to see adequate tests that confirm something that is actually up for question.
Seems biased, as women have (on average) higher percentage of body-fat. You'll notice that the bigger men did better (Examples of who beat the clock). Since fat is an insulator, it's reducing the rate of heat loss. This is a poor test and a biased study, which favors the fat.
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Friday, 23 July 2010
The Avengers #3 review
Not so much, as it turns out. This month blasts aplenty, but no useful bits of information, are exchanged by the Avengers and the newcomers. The heroes banter inanely (quelle surprise), Apocalypse makes a few vaguely threatening comments, a couple of lackeys manage a 'Master' but the fight seems to be going nowhere.
Finally, we have this moment (click to enlarge): Ah, right. It is indeed a meaningless fight, padding the issue out. Shouldn't team geniuses Spider-Man and Iron Man have cottoned on too? Probably not, given there's no real deduction involved on Logan's part, just a vague feeling. And the most excitement the latter pair see is when Spidey saves a falling, de-armoured Tony Stark with his webbing (hurrah, two pages filled, no imagination necessary).
The last few pages see Marvel Boy (now renamed Protector or Defender or Dulldude or somesuch) rebuild his just-destroyed time machine when two more refugees from the timestream, Killraven and Devil Dinosaur, appear.
Never mind the heroes, it's the reader who's truly in time travel hell, with a bad case of deja vu. You could skip this comic and be no worse off in terms of keeping up with what story there is - the issue admits the skirmish is pointless. Marvel hasn't even bothered with an issue-specific cover - Kang, the Maestro and Future Spider-Person are all absent from the issue.
This was going to be my make or break issue, after two months of disappointing story and below-par artwork. While far from their best, the visuals from John Romita Jr and Klaus Janson are improved on previous issues (although having recently been replaced by a Skrull, it seems there's now some sweaty crone impersonating Spider-Woman).
But the script has deteriorated. Nice guy that writer Brian Bendis is, traditional Avengering just isn't his forte - the grandiose stories with mad, characterisation-filled fights that serve the plot ... they're not here. New Avengers, as was, was tailored to his strengths - character banter, conspiracies, 'street-level' heroes. I thank him for at least trying to please old school/fart fans such as me with the likes of this latest book, and Mighty Avengers before it, but it's time to step away. Hand this latest reboot over to a Dan Slott, Jeff Parker or Paul Tobin, someone more keyed into the Roy Thomas/Kurt Busiek Avengers school.
Until then, I'm dropping this comic. It isn't working.
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But there's punching! And frankly, I'll take punching over stuttering talking any day of the week! I mean, last issue we had all that repeated dialogue, this time we have Thor repeatedly busting heads.ReplyDelete
It isn't my "dream" Avengers comic, but it's closer than it was.
As an Avengers fiend, I can't really leave anyways, I guess. :)
Oops, hope that review read OK - I was doing my last pass-through, checking it in situ, when your comment came in.ReplyDelete
Anyway, it's great you enjoyed the comic. I'm delighted with Avengers Academy, so that's staying on the buy list. I'm just about to read New Avengers #2 ...
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Waitaminnit. Kang? (I check out the wall outside the home office.) Nope, there it is: my page of artwork from Avengers #143, page 31. (31 pages in a comic???) Immortus has just arranged that Rama-Tut and Kang never existed, and he now doesn't as well, since they're all the same person. So I ask again: Kang?ReplyDelete
With the Red Hulk joining in issue #7, I doubt it will get any better.ReplyDelete
Has anyone muttered '...the hell?' yet?ReplyDelete
I usually like Romita Jr. especially when paired with Janson, but here, I think the material they're given just doesn't inspire page after page of interesting and challenging visuals (and, yes, what IS up with Spider-Crone? has she gone back to her 80s wig-wearing days, as well?)
Unfortunately, Bendis isn't going anywhere. For a long, long, long time.
Carol, Kang's been back loads since then. I'm not sure I ever saw how they explained him being back ... I may have to re-read the actually-rather-splendid Avengers Forever maxi-series.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the warning, Marvelboy!
And Craig, has Bendis said he's staying, and staying? Oh dearie me.
Craig, Spidey says 'What the hell?'ReplyDelete
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Certain foods can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's and keep your brain sharp in general. NY1's Jill Urban filed the following report.
We've all heard the expression you are what you eat, and that is especially true when it comes to taking care of your brain.
Dr. Richard Isaacson is the director of the Alzheimer's Prevention and Treatment Program at NY Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.
"The food that a person eats absolutely has an impact on their cognition or memory and thinking skills both early on in their lives and the type of dietary patterns that they follow as well as later on in life too," says Isaacson.
Isaacson also says your diet can actually delay cognitive decline and reduce your risk for Alzheimer's Disease.
It's all about reducing insulin spikes, usually caused by bad carbohydrates.
"So repeated insulin spikes over time leads to brain aging and inflammation of the brain, so the goal would be to have more good carbohydrates rather than bad carbohydrates. Bad carbohydrates like white pastas, white breads, high fructose corn syrup and lots of white sugars—as opposed to good carbohydrates that don't cause the insulin to spike as much," Isaacson says.
Good carbohydrates include things like fruits and vegetables. In fact, one study found that eating a half a cup of blueberries and strawberries at least twice a week could delay cognitive impairment by two years.
In general, he says the Mediterranean style diet can have the most benefit for Alzheimer's risk reduction.
"Mediterranean style means plant-based foods, lean meats, green, leafy vegetables, healthy fat...olive oil in moderation, wine in moderation."
Other brain healthy foods include Omega-3 Fatty Acids, dark cocoa powder and low fat dairy. Some research also suggests caffeine earlier in the day may also delay the onset of Alzheimer's.
Alzheimer's Disease can begin in the brain 20-30 years before the first sign of memory loss, so changing habits now can have a big impact later.
"The earlier you start the better. There is no magic anything that can prevent, reverse or cure Alzheimer's Disease, but you are what you heat when it comes to brain health. It's that simple. And everyone has control of their brain outcomes. You can absolutely make one little change today and have a much better likelihood of success in the future," Isaacson says.
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Surprisingly, the abolition of a federal agency that many Americans have never heard of has become a cause celebre in certain political circles. It is all the more astonishing, considering that the Export-Import Bank requires no tax dollars. Indeed, it actually makes money for the government. The bank's renewable charter, first set in 1945, is due to expire Sept. 30, so Congress must act or Ex-Im will have to wind down.
The bank extends direct loans, loan guarantees and credit insurance to companies and other entities outside the U.S. to buy American goods and services—including commercial airplanes, business and general aviation aircraft, satellites and launch services, engines, parts and maintenance. Aerospace companies are the largest group of beneficiaries. In fact, by dollar value, 65% of the $27.3 billion in long-term guarantees the bank made last year were for the sale of just one company's aircraft. So it is no wonder that Ex-Im is sometimes referred to derisively as "Boeing's bank."
Hence a big part of the criticism: that Ex-Im subsidizes a small group of businesses that know how to wield clout in Washington, that government bureaucrats are picking winners and losers in the marketplace. Closely related is the criticism that when Washington tries to help one industry (aerospace), it can end up hurting another (airlines), since the latter's foreign competitors get loans for equipment at lower rates. Better to end "corporate welfare" entirely, this reasoning goes.
We are sympathetic to the desire to let free markets reign and keep governments from distorting them, but we find this reasoning faulty on two grounds. First, even if every government were to end export subsidies, there would likely still be gaps in financing that the private market could not fill. No serious observer of global trade makes the case that private credit markets are perfect. (To find problems with that theory, one has to look no further into history than 2008-09, when global credit markets froze.) Rather, the Ex-Im critics worth listening to argue that government-backed lending causes more problems than it solves. They say the benefits in job stimulation at home and economic development abroad are exaggerated and outweighed by unintended consequences.
There is certainly room for improvement in how the bank works. Its flaws need not be fatal, however. What is more, some arguments against Ex-Im are spurious. For example, there is hand-wringing about Ex-Im's $114 billion portfolio being backed, ultimately, by U.S. tax dollars. Still, the bank has a default rate of just 0.211%, and under current law, hitting just a 2% rate would trigger a requirement that the bank develop a plan to reduce its risk.
Our second and more important reason for rejecting the argument of the free market ideologues is that the Ex-Im bank must be considered in its international context, not in some theoretical vacuum. All told, 60 nations have export credit agencies. The ECAs of major industrialized countries like the U.S., Germany, France and the U.K. are governed by rules set by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), while those of nations like Russia, India and China play by their own rules.
The biggest problem with the U.S.'s and Europe's ECAs is that in helping aerospace they harm some airlines. This serious shortcoming has been articulated most forcefully by Delta Air Lines in the U.S. and Lufthansa in Europe. Why should these airlines' own governments help Gulf carriers intent on besting them in competition for international traffic with cheaper financing for long-haul aircraft? It's one thing to help a struggling Third World carrier buy 737s or A320s, quite another to assist an oil-rich nation's flag carrier in getting cheaper 777s or A380s.
The U.S. has consistently pushed to reduce—or even eliminate—export subsidies globally. Ex-Im opponents seem to think the U.S. can accelerate the movement toward free and open markets by unilaterally disarming in the battle for international trade. It would be folly to act alone. Instead, Congress should reauthorize the bank but direct trade officials to work to amend the OECD's Aircraft Sector Understanding to disallow ECA financing of long-haul aircraft for airlines worthy of commercial credit.
In addition, Washington should act with European governments to get more nations to abide by OECD rules on export support. And they should work to further close the gap between commercial lending rates and those offered by ECAs, so government-backed loans are a last resort for borrowers, not the preferred mechanism to finance debt.
Refusing to participate in a flawed system is not the solution. Were Congress to simply shut down the Export-Import Bank, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs would be placed at risk. We believe in free trade and level playing fields. We don't believe in the tooth fairy and wishful thinking.


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Don Dion's Weekly ETF Blog Wrap
Yen Policy Makes Japan ETFs Even Riskier
Posted 11/30/2009 2:22 p.m. EST
Open discussion of quantitative easing in Japan signals that the government is serious about weakening the yen, and the collateral damage could be enormous.I warned of Japanese deflation and Japan ETFs earlier today, and the possibility of quantitative easing only reinforces the dire situation facing the nation. After 20 years of on-again, off-again deflation and mild economic growth, Japan is reaching its debt limit. Failed inflationary policies and deficit spending have reduced the country's flexibility and narrowed its range of action. "Demographic winter" has combined with those policies to deplete Japanese savings, to the point where there's risk of the savings rate going below zero. With currently low yields, Japan may need increased interest rates to attract foreign capital. Higher rates would likely push up the value of the yen and exacerbate the deflationary trend. Japan equity ETFs have done poorly this year, with iShares Japan (EWJ) down 1.7% year to date through Friday. Small gains for other ETFs, such as iShares Japan Small Cap (SCJ), are the result of a stronger yen. CurrencyShares Japanese Yen (FXY) has gained 3.9% this year, and WisdomTree Dreyfus Japanese Yen (JYF) has gained 4.8%. Even if the country is successful in combating deflation, it doesn't mean Japan is a buy. Japan's economic problems will keep equity prices from rallying too much, while the weakening yen erodes any gains. On top of what are likely to be tepid gains at best comes the risk that extreme measures could trigger extreme moves in the market. Japanese credit default swaps increased in price this autumn and signaled that the market is growing more concerned about debt levels. Previous quantitative easing also made the yen the choice of carry-traders and helped fuel the bubble and then burst of global markets in 2008. Investors may find it impossible to avoid the global effects of Japanese policy, but there's no need to increase exposure via Japan ETFs.
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Crispy neeps 'n' tatties cake
By Barney Desmazery
Cooking timePrep: 20 mins Cook: 1 hr
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 6 as a side dish
This Scottish take on a rösti goes well with game, duck breast or roast chicken
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- 8g
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- 1 large swede, peeled and cut into chunks
- 4 baking potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
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- sunflower oil, for greasing
- 8 thin slices pancetta
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Peel and cut 1 large swede into chips and toss with 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp thyme leaves and 50g finely grated Parmesan. Lay out flat in a roasting tin, dot with butter and roast at 220C/ 200C fan/gas 7 for about 40 mins, turning halfway through, until golden. Serves 4.
- Boil the swede and potatoes in salted water for about 20 mins until completely tender, then drain well. Return to the pan under a very low heat for a few mins to dry out. Off the heat, bash the veg into a chunky mash with half the butter, a touch of salt and lots of pepper.
- Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Grease an ovenproof frying pan with a splash of oil and line the pan with the pancetta so it meets in the middle (like the stripes on the Union Flag). Press the veg into the dish (you can get up to this stage up to a day ahead and keep in the fridge). Dot with the remaining butter, then bake for about 40 mins until crisp and golden. Remove from the oven, turn out onto a board and cut into wedges.
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MSU Response to FIRE President Greg Lukianoff, April 17, 2007
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MSU responds to group's criticism
March 20, 2007
Critics of an MSU's disciplinary program said they're confused by the university's response in reviewing the program. In February, MSU officials said the seminar was an optional punishment for students found violating a university regulation. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, said the Student Accountability in Community Seminar stifles students' constitutional rights and demanded the program's termination, prompting the university review. The accountability seminar was presented by officials from Student Life and MSU Safe Place at a 2002 Association of Student Judicial Affairs' International Conference, which FIRE's president, Greg Lukianoff, attended. "Every day they run the SAC […]» Read More
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The new year of 2007 has arrived—but at Michigan State University, it feels more like 1984. MSU students, be warned: Your school is engaged in a program of thought reform reminiscent of George Orwell's classic dystopia. The program is called Student Accountability in Community (SAC), and its lack of respect for the constitutional rights of MSU students is shocking. The program defines itself as an "early intervention" into the lives of MSU students who are observed using "power-and-control tactics" in their interactions with other students. Thought control program One example given at a seminar about the program explained that a […]» Read More
Orwellian dystopia at Michigan State
December 18, 2006
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." Justice Robert H. Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) The adage that universities are integral to our national health has been said so many times in so many venues it hardly needs repeating. Our young people file through the doors of the university and emerge citizens of our nation and productive […]» Read More
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EAST LANSING, Mich., May 3, 2007—After months of public pressure, Michigan State University (MSU) has ended its controversial Student Accountability in Community (SAC) program. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) urged MSU to end the SAC program because it forced students whose speech or behavior was deemed unacceptable to undergo ideological reeducation, or else face effective expulsion. "Until now, engaging in free speech at MSU could have resulted in mandatory pseudo-psychological counseling or the end of a student's academic career," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "We're overjoyed to learn that students no longer have to fear potentially ruinous […]» Read More
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April 5, 2007
Officials at a national First Amendment organization say they could list MSU as a place where constitutional speech isn't protected—unless the university responds satisfactorily to their demands. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, wants MSU to dismantle a disciplinary seminar it says stifles students' constitutional rights. The possible placement on the list "sounds to me like a threat," said Lee June, MSU's vice president for Student Affairs and Services. After the group's initial criticism of the Student Accountability in Community Seminar in February, June conducted a formal review. "We examine programs for their educational value and the […]» Read More
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March 29, 2007 Lee N. June Vice President for Student Affairs and Services Michigan State University 450 Administration Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1046 Sent via U.S. Mail and Facsimile (517-355-4670) Dear Vice President June: Thank you for your March 7 letter regarding the conclusions and findings of Michigan State University's (MSU's) internal review of the Student Accountability in Community (SAC) program. While we appreciate your attention to the important constitutional questions raised by the SAC program, your letter raises more questions concerning the SAC's continued operation than it answers. As a threshold matter, FIRE is disappointed to learn that MSU […]» Read More
MSU blocks free speech, group says
December 15, 2006
An independent watchdog group is demanding that Michigan State University end a program that counsels students for inappropriate remarks or actions, claiming the program violates the students' first amendment rights. MSU Vice President Lee June declined to comment on the accusation Thursday, saying the university is looking into the allegations. The program, called the Students for Accountability in Community seminar, is for "students who have intimidated, harassed or abused another community member on the basis of individual characteristics like race/ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation," according to the MSU Web site. Students pay $50 for the four-part seminar, plus $10 for […]» Read More
Michigan State University Engaged in Thought Reform
December 14, 2006
EAST LANSING, Mich., December 14, 2006—It may be almost 2007, but it feels more like "1984" at Michigan State University. The university's Student Accountability in Community Seminar (SAC) forces students whose speech or behavior is deemed unacceptable to undergo ideological reeducation at their own expense. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is challenging Michigan State to dismantle this unconstitutional program, which presents a profound threat to both freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. "Michigan State's SAC program is simply one of the most invasive attempts at reeducation that FIRE has ever seen, yet it has been allowed […]» Read More


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Suzanne Malveaux was in for Wolf Blitzer yesterday evening on CNN's "Situation Room" and the guests included Suzette Malveaux, her twin sister. Suzette is an associate law professor at Catholic University and she came on to discuss the Kagan nomination hearings.
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