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- Affirmation supports LGBTQ/SSA Mormons and their families, friends and Church leaders in seeking to live healthy and productive lives consistent with their faith or heritage.
- We provide a loving, inclusive community for all LGBTQ/SSA people, and those who love them, regardless of how they identify in their sexual orientation, gender identity, or faith.
- Fomentamos la espiritualidad y empoderamos a los mormones LGBTQ / SSA para que hagan contribuciones valiosas dentro y fuera de la Iglesia.
- We organize local gatherings and international conferences, provide informational resources, and work for dialogue within the Church.
Affirmation Purpose (Mission) Statement
From the founding Affirmation Charter
Affirmation does charter itself for the purpose and position herein stated, as a charitable, service, educational and religious oriented association:
As members and friends of the gay and lesbian community, it is our intention to work for the understanding and acceptance of gays and lesbians as full, equal and worthy persons within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and society, and to help them realize and affirm self-worth.
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons is a welcoming community and welcomes all persons regardless of sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Affirmation supports and encourages its members by assisting them in dealing with the Church, their families, employers, work associates and social contacts. The association offers its members strength and support in solving personal problems through mutual acceptance and fellowship.
The association is organized to:
- Encourage spirituality, prayer and the practice of all Christ-like and charitable behavior in the recognition of members as whole and complete children of God.
- Provide support for people experiencing difficulty reconciling their sexual orientation with traditional Mormon beliefs and other belief systems about homosexuality.
- Provide a forum for communication and education for members and leaders of the Church and our peers concerning homosexuality.
- Provide support and opportunity for social interaction, intellectual development, emotional stability and cultural exposure with those of similar heritage and background.
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I recently heard from Mr. Ed Conrad, a retired Pennsylvania news reporter and long time resident of Shenandoah Penn. an area only a couple of miles away from Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania coal mining operations.
Mr. Conrad's discoveries were among those that first got me interested in the "ooparts" phenomenon. The items he has found embedded in Carboniferous materials like coal, anthracite and slate are according to modern geology, 290 million to a billion years old. The femur pictured here and now available on EBAY must have come from an individual just over 8 feet tall–and it is a part of the rock!
The objects Mr. Conrad has found near his home over the years have made him a controversial figure on the internet and has made him a marked man. He did receive some early scientific support but because of his finds, his assertions about them and now a scientific report supporting his claims he has been banned from TalkOrigins (an evolution website) and is being ignored by the science establishment.
As I understand Ed's position, he accepts the current paradigm's dating system which would mean that man is 300 million to a billion years old. Here at s8int.com, we believe that these types of rocks, including coal, all formed within the last several thousand years. A recent Blog post Here recalled an article from 1876 where miners and scientists watched anthracite coal form in a long pipe inside a coal mine in only four months.
For those of you who want to argue that maybe or definitely it is not human–that doesn't matter; if it's a primate bone its still 200 hundred million plus years too early for current evolutionary theory.
Lin Liangtai from Taiwan eventually contacted Mr. Conrad and performed a number of scientific analyses on twenty or more objects.
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A Study on a Carboniferous Human Femur Fossil
Last updated: Feb. 8, 2010
By Lin Liangtai
Mr. Ed Conrad, the discoverer of the subject material, has claimed he has found thousands of "fossils" in the Mahanoy City and Shenandoah region of Pennsylvania, USA. Before this study, the author has studied over 20 different specimens of those "fossils" and found they are all animal fossils, including a petrified human calvarium, well preserved down to the microscopic level.
The subject material was still partially embedded in an immense piece of slate in the Carboniferous rock layer when it was first photographed. The author found it was a fossil because it contained Haversian canals, which are found only in animals' compact bones.
It belonged to a mammal because it possessed plentiful remains of scarlet, round, anucleate and concave cells, which were red blood cells found only in mammals. It is a fossilized human femur bone because it displays the following features: (1) It is nearly straight, round and quite slender; (2) Its maximum length is estimated to be 52 centimeters while its mid-shaft is 3.3 centimeters in diameter; (3) Its mid-shaft diameter is less than 6.36% of its maximum length. Only human femur bones match all above features. The author has searched various fossil records and data banks, but found no other mammals, extinct or extant, possessed a bone that meets all the three features at the same time. So, it was a femur of a Carboniferous mammal with a human calvarium.
The author found on the internet a photograph showing an object claimed to be a Carboniferous human femur fossil embedded in slate near Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. As the discoverer of the object did not present detailed evidences for his claim, the author contacted the discoverer and asked for a specimen of the object in order to examine it in details.
Photo:Right. Annotated femur photo. Click to enlarge.
The discoverer sent one half of the object to the author by post for study (Fig.1-2-2). Before this study, the discoverer has claimed to have discovered thousands of Carboniferous animal –some human–fossils in the same area in the past 28 years (note 1). The author has studied over 20 different specimens of those objects and found they are all animal fossils, including a petrified human calvarium ( Article 1) (note 2), all preserved down to the microscopic level (Fig. 0-1, Fig. 0-2).
Material and Methods
(A) Material found in situ
The object (Fig.1-1-1)was discovered in situ by Mr. Ed Conrad, who had lived in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA for over 30 years. He discovered the subject material over 20 years ago in the suburb of Mahanoy City ( Note 3, Fig. 5-1-3), a few kilometers from Shenandoah, where he lived. When he first discovered the "femur fossil", it was still partially embedded in a rock, which he claimed had been dumped there by a coal mining company during surface-mining operations.
He took three pictures of the object before removing it from the surrounding rock. A veteran Pennsylvania policeman, who is a polygraph expert, conducted three polygraph examinations on its discoverer and issued three examination reports (Fig.8-4-1, Fig.8-4-2, Note 2).The reports prove the discoverer showed "no deception" when asked if he found the majority of the questioned objects in the Mahanoy City/Shenandoah region (note 4).
The discoverer couldn't have been confused about the location where he discovered thousands of fossils, as he lived within two miles of the location and passed by the location for thousands of times.
Mr. Ed Conrad advised the author in writing that the object was 17.5 inches long while still embedded in rock.To demonstrate its length, he put a measuring tape and a 16-inch educational model of human femur beside the object before he took the three pictures of the object. According to the geological map published by the Pennsylvania state government, the area around Shenandoah and Mahanoy City is situated on the rock layer of the Carboniferous age.
The Pennsylvania state government's geological unit also confirmed in writing to the author that fossils discovered in those areas are all 307 (+/- 5) million years old. Figures 1-1-1 to 1-1-4 show the object was partially embedded in the rock. This point was supported by visual examination of the object's surfaces, as the object's under-ground surface had turned into black coal while its above-ground surface did not turn into black coal (Figure 1-3-2).
Material received for study:
The specimen received by the author measures 22 centimeter long and 3.3 centimeter in diameter at the mid-shaft (Fig. 5-2-3, Fig. 2-3-5). The author had the specimen that he received from the discoverer cut at the mid-shaft for the specimen's transverse section by Mr. Liang at the Department of Geology, National Taiwan University. The transverse section was further cut into two equal parts and ground into two thin sections (Fig. 2-4-1), which were then covered with glass slides for viewing under light microscopes. The two thin sections are never stained with chemicals to change their original colors. Later, the specimen was cut again transversely at mid-shaft and another sample was obtained for viewing with Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The SEM sample was ground and coated with a thin layer of wax as required for SEM viewing. For orientation purpose, the SEM sample was marked by the author with a felt pen and a diamond-tipped pen. The SEM sample and the two thin sections were variously viewed with a stereomicroscope, a digital microscope, a transmitted-light microscope, and SEM (Hitachi S3400).
Images were captured with a camera (Canon EOS 350D), SEM (Hitachi S3400), or a digital microscope itself. Finally, the specimen was sent to Alberta Research Council (in Canada) for three-dimensional scanning with their Computed-Tomography imaging system. All figures mentioned in this article are displayed and explained in an on-line album at: this location
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I've seen that many underfloor heating mats (the electric ones) specify the need for tile or stone floor and I'm wondering if it will work as efficiently under a solid oak floor? (or any wood floor for that matter)
Also what will be the difference between 100, 150, and 200 w/m2 in the heating mat? What is usually used in alounge?


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With the cooperation of partner marriage agencies that are located in Belarus, Moldavia, Russia and the Ukraine, we offer men from Canada a true opportunity to meet single Russian women who are seeking a good and decent man to share love and to become life partners. Eastern European girls are not only very beautiful, moreover, they believe in the traditional family values, something that is becoming more and more difficult to find for many men from Canada.
Another aspect that makes these women so attractive is that they love their husband with an unconditional love. In other words, their love is not conditional or proportionate to the couple's financial situation, to material goods, trips etc. Of course, as everybody, they like the nice things of life but if the couple is going through some difficult financial times due to a loss of job, career reorganisation etc., Russian women are known to be compliant, hard workers and perseverant. However, they expect that love, understanding and respect always remain present.
Canada and Russia certainly share many similarities. To begin with, and it should me mentioned, they are the two strongest nations in hockey and of course, many of us remember the 1972 Canada-USSR Series. Beyond National sports, Canada and Russia share similar climates and similar flora and fauna as well. Socially, again, both systems are alike on several aspects among which healthcare, education and many other social services that offered freely to the population by the Government. As far as business and industry, of course, they were enormous differences some time ago, but Russia is nowadays more and more opening the access to free enterprises.
Generally speaking, Russian and Ukrainian women adapt very well to Canada. They learn English and French in a baffling way compared to our ability to learn Russian. Certainly, our lifestyle is somewhat different from theirs. To begin with, of course, they are not used with our freedom of expression. They take a while to get used to it, but they learn to appreciate it and enjoy it. Generally speaking, there is also quite a gap in the level of lifestyle and luxury, meaning that in Canada, a majority of adults have their own car, our residences are filled with luxury furniture and appliances, we have more than interesting salaries and do our shopping in superstores that offer just about anything that is available on the planet, the whole at very good prices versus our income. In short, we live in a world of abundance. Of course, they appreciate it and enjoy it, but in a general way, they keep this notion of austerity and the need to not waste, that is anchored in their nature.
Many men from Canada get married with women from Russia or the Ukraine. Among the reasons that can explain this phenomenon, there is certainly the fact that Russian and Ukrainian women are generally quite beautiful, not to say stunning. There are not so many overweight people in these countries and women aren't exception, at the opposite, the vast majority of them have a healthy weight. Moreover, according to the last Russian census, there are approximately 10 million more women than men in Russia and former USSR countries. Therefore, there is a lack of available men and women are in constant competition to get the attention of one of the single men who could be interested in a serious relationship. They must be quite attractive, on a daily basis. They are very feminine and it is normal for them to routinely dress in an elegant way, not just for occasions.
Another reason, and not the least, that makes it so Canada men are attracted to Russian and Ukrainian girls, is the fact that they believe in the traditional family values. These values that make it so life priorities are the couple and the family. Certainly, they are generally well-educated and have all the tools to develop their personal career, and many do so with success. However, the couple and the family remain the priority. In other terms, if their husband earns enough to cover the financial needs of the family, they don't feel the absolute need to assert themselves professionally and acquire financial independency. Which is a rare mark of trust nowadays and is also part of the foundations of a traditional family.
Russian women are generally not much demanding toward their husband. More precisely, they are not much demanding toward accessory needs and material needs, but they are very attentive to loyalty, understanding, faithfulness and mutual respect. They are known to not abandon the couple during the difficult times and they will remain a loyal partner for their man, as long as he deserves it. And to deserve it, it is not a question to have the nicest house on the street, or to have expensive cars or to offer them luxury items but it is a question of loving them, to be loved, to be faithful and to be a good family leader.
If you believe that one of these beautiful Russian or Ukrainian women could someday be your lovely wife, but you have doubts towards the feasibility of the project, let us reassure you that you can succeed and find happiness!
Born in Canada an having lived in Canada all my life, I (Alain Lalonde) found myself single at the age of 44. I spent some time alone and then decided to begin the process of finding a life partner. I am the quiet style. I don't go out to bars, I don't have friends with who I share activities on a regular basis, in short, I take care of my son one week out of two and I work extra hours the other week. I have no interest for one night adventures and I want to meet a woman with who I will be able to develop a relationship that, I truly hope, will last many years and to never have to seek a life partner again in my life.
As we all do, I first relied on destiny. Maybe that by chance, I would meet an interesting woman while shopping, going out with friends or simply while taking a walk …but months go by and I remain single. I then register on local dating sites. There are thousands of women who display profiles that seems quite interesting. I truly believe that I will be able to find my life partner this way. In the following year, I meet over 30 women with who I previously corresponded by email and talked over the phone and we both felt a mutual interest. For reasons that I still cannot explain up to this day, not a single meeting was a success. There was always something wrong. Whether I lived too close or too far from her, whether I was too much into sports or not enough …in brief, I probably was not enough charismatic. Well, that's me: not such a good salesman but a good deliveryman. In other words: I'm a small talker but I do things. Obviously, this was not an asset to convince the women I met.
We are at the beginning of the summer of 2006 and I decide to go spend some time on a North Carolina beach with my son to spend quality time together and to fill up with energy. On the second day, while body surfing, I meet a very nice couple, composed of an American man and a Russian woman. They are both very sympathetic and his wife is quite charming. In fact, she is the kind of woman that I dream of: she is gorgeous, calm, intelligent, in good shape and always smiling. To my amazement, I learn that they met through a dating site that specializes at introducing single Russian women who are looking for a life partner from abroad.
You guess that upon returning from my vacation, I did not lose time at finding sites offering services to meet Russian women. I also did a lot of reading about Russian women dating sites, about Russia itself and, of course, about what characterizes Russian women. I was delighted on all aspects and decided to begin the steps to find myself a life partner in Russia. Again, lots of profiles were displayed, but a major difference was that these women were not looking for an activity partner but rather for a life partner. Furthermore, the majority of them were absolutely beautiful.
To make a long story short, I developed a relationship with Yuliya during a couple months. Then, I went to meet her where she lived, in Grodno, Belarus. Our first meeting was pleasant and we both felt like meeting again. There were no fireworks, but a good chemistry and a real interest that was growing daily. When I left Grodno, we both knew that this was not the last time we saw each other. After I got back to Canada, we kept corresponding by emails, we talked over the phone and kept meeting on Skype. Each day, we both felt more and more like seeing each other again. In the following months, we spent a week together after which we then knew that we both had found our life partner. A few months later, we got married and began the immigration process. Three months later, Yuliya got her visa to join me in Canada. I then traveled to join her and spend time with her parents and of course, reassure them that I would take good care of their charming daughter.
Each year, thousands of men from Canada and other countries, travel to Belarus, Moldavia, Russia and the Ukraine to meet beautiful Russian women or Ukrainian women who are looking for a serious and caring men to be life partners. Many come back very happy since the met a charming woman with whom they develop a relationship leading to marriage. These women are not only gorgeous, they offer the qualities that are very much sought by men who wish to share a family life.
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As expected, "The Twilight Saga: Toothy Caesarean Section" set the box office on fire this past weekend, nabbing the fifth best opening of all time and ensuring Kristen Stewart a lifetime supply of bangle bracelets and faded t-shirts. The movie also had an incredible per-theater average (impressive given that it opened on over 4,000 screens) and has already out-earned its $110 million budget. Take a look at its dominance for yourself (figures via Box Office Mojo).
1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - $139.5M
2. Happy Feet Two - $22.0M
3. Immortals - $12.3M
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4. Jack and Jill - $12.0M
5. Puss In Boots - $10.7M
. Tower Heist - $5.9M
7. J. Edgar - $11.5M
8. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - $2.9M
9. In Time - $1.7M
10. The Descendants - $1.2M
But this is "Twilight" we're talking about, which means that the inevitable critical drubbing hurt its standing in our little arbitrary movie formula. And just who is the cocky young upstart who has stolen the spotlight from Tyler Lautner and his abnormally thick neck? Why, it's that dapper ladyhound George Clooney, whose "The Descendants" played on a grand total of 29 screens (or .007% of the screens from "Breaking Dawn") and still grossed over a million bucks. That's an average of over $42K per screen, and it's why you're about to see it zoom to the top of our rankings.
1. The Descendants - 1,957
2. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - 91
3. Paranormal Activity 3 - 56
4. Puss In Boots - 54
5. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - 34
6. Tower Heist - 31 7. (tie) J. Edgar - 24 7. (tie) Immortals - 24
9. In Time - 4
10. (tie) Happy Feet Two - 1
10. (tie) Jack and Jill - 1
Despite its second place finish, it seems that "Happy Feet Two" is a substantial flop because of its $135 million budget and tepid reviews, perhaps signaling that the long reign of penguin-based films is at an end. Between this and "Mr. Popper's Penguins," it had been a terrible year for penguin futures. Soon, they will be sold for meat. Anyway, expect Clooney's film to have a long run on our chart as it expands to more theaters. It's perhaps the best-reviewed movie of 2011, and it wouldn't shock me if it became the one to beat at Oscar time. Lord knows Alexander Payne deserves the recognition.


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Since this is our first column and it is late in the year, it is a good time to meet with your tax advisor to review your gains and losses for 2011.
Those of you who turned 70½ years old in tax year 2011, please remember you must satisfy your 2011 Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) by April 1, 2012 for all your IRA accounts. Thereafter, you must satisfy the RMD by December 31 each year. We suggest you consult with a tax advisor as to whether or not you should receive the 2011 RMD by December 30, 2011 to avoid receiving two RMD's in 2012.
Year-end is a good time to review your beneficiaries listed on your IRA accounts. Wills and trusts should also be reviewed anytime there are changes to the family estate; and also, when there are changes regarding tax and estate laws.
The United States equity market is still feeling the adverse effects of being part of the global economy. Although this contagion has created challenges and frustration for investors, it has also presented opportunities. When you consider the market bottoms of October 2002, March 2009 and the "Flash Crash" of May 2010, it is easy to understand investor frustration. The goal of our monthly column is to give you a better understanding of the global markets and provide you with information that will help you to make decisions regarding your investment strategy.
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Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Chorizo and Cabbage Soup
Orce Serrano Hams are a very special cured meat business based in Orce, Andalucia. But rather than them being Spanish born and bred, the owners behind Orce Serrano Hams are thoroughbred Geordies, just like yours truly. Iain and Gayle did what we all dream of but dare not to do several years back when they packed up from the frozen north and left for foreign shores to follow a little dream.
They are now producing their own amazing Spanish hams such as the famous Serrano, as well as salchichon, pancetta, morcilla, and a full range of chorizo sausages of varying heat. Oh, and they run a nice little Blog full of authentic Spanish recipes. Their food is incredible and as a huge fan of chorizo, their own version is streets ahead of anything that I have tasted. The Orce Fire Chorizo is packed with intense paprika and cayenne heat. Rather that slice it and eat it as a tapas with a cold beer, I thought I would use it in a rustic soup, packed full of garlic, smoked paprika and crunchy cabbage and of course, chorizo sausage.
I want to congratulate Iain and Gayle for doing something that I'm sure most of us only wish we could do. They have taken risks to follow a passion and a dream and by the looks of the reviews I have seen, it is going places. Thanks for the samples and I hope that my soup does their special food justice.
Orce Chorizo and Cabbage Soup
Feeds 4
2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, sliced thin
3 garlic cloves, sliced
2 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
2 sticks of celery, sliced
4 small chorizo sausages or 1 large (I used hot, any will do), sliced
1 tbsp smoked paprika
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 litre chicken or ham stock
1 cabbage, halved, cored and sliced thin
Salt and pepper
1 - Heat the olive oil in a large pan and add the onion. Cook until softened then add the garlic, potatoes, carrots, celery and half of the chorizo. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring.
2 - Stir in the paprika, tomato pureee and red wine vinegar and cook for 1 minute, then pour over the stock. Bring to the boil then simmer and cook for 15 minutes.
3 - Stir in the cabbage then simmer for 10 minutes so that the cabbage still retains some bite. Taste for seasoning.
4 - To finish, fry off the remaining chorizo in a little olive oil until golden and drain. Serve the soup in bowls topped with the crisp chorizo and some crusty bread.
8 comments:
- Christine said...
I love orce serrano hams. You are truly correct. Thanks for sharing this recipe. Will try it.
- 6 April 2010 at 10:37
- Amanda at Little Foodies said...
Lovely to hear of fellow Geordies living the dream! Especially in my favourite part of Spain.
Hope you're all well David.
Also you're so right I have been a tad slack on the old blog. May start again soon. xx
- 6 April 2010 at 11:06
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
This soip does their ham justice and more David.
- 7 April 2010 at 15:39
- Unknown said...
A feel good story. Not all hams need pease-pudding ;)
- 8 April 2010 at 14:03
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Useful heads-up on a new producer, David - thank you. And what a delicious way of using the chorizo... Think I might try that with kale, too.
- 11 April 2010 at 11:53
- Jan said...
Well done Iain and Gayle, and well done you too, David, this soup sounds utterly delish.
- 13 April 2010 at 21:02
- Chef Jeena said...
Fabulous recipe David it sounds wonderful and the picture is mouth watering.
- 28 April 2010 at 09:30
- The Kitchen Buzz said...
This looks great. I'd like to be a follower. I can't find the prompt. How do I follow (what do I click on?). thanks.
- 27 August 2010 at 08:39
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When the financial crisis struck in 2008, many economists took comfort in at least one aspect of the situation: the best possible person, Ben Bernanke, was in place as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Bernanke was and is a fine economist. More than that, before joining the Fed, he wrote extensively, in academic studies of both the Great Depression and modern Japan, about the exact problems he would confront at the end of 2008. He argued forcefully for an aggressive response, castigating the Bank of Japan, the Fed's counterpart, for its passivity. Presumably, the Fed under his leadership would be different.
Instead, while the Fed went to great lengths to rescue the financial system, it has done far less to rescue workers. The U.S. economy remains deeply depressed, with long-term unemployment in particular still disastrously high, a point Bernanke himself has recently emphasized. Yet the Fed isn't taking strong action to rectify the situation.
The Bernanke Conundrum — the divergence between what Professor Bernanke advocated and what Chairman Bernanke has actually done — can be reconciled in a few possible ways. Maybe Professor Bernanke was wrong, and there's nothing more a policy maker in this situation can do. Maybe politics are the impediment, and Chairman Bernanke has been forced to hide his inner professor. Or maybe the onetime academic has been assimilated by the Fed Borg and turned into a conventional central banker. Whichever account you prefer, however, the fact is that the Fed isn't doing the job many economists expected it to do, and a result is mass suffering for American workers.
What the Fed Can Do
The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate: price stability and maximum employment. It normally tries to meet these goals by moving short-term interest rates, which it can do by adding to or subtracting from bank reserves. If the economy is weak and inflation is low, the Fed cuts rates; this makes borrowing attractive, stimulates private spending and, if all goes well, leads to economic recovery. If the economy is strong and inflation is a threat, the Fed raises rates; this discourages borrowing and spending, and the economy cools off.
Right now, the Fed believes that it's facing a weak economy and subdued inflation, a situation in which it would ordinarily cut interest rates. The problem is that rates can't be cut further. When the recession began in 2007, the Fed started slashing short-term interest rates until November 2008, when they bottomed out near zero, where they remain to this day. And that was as far as the Fed could go, because (some narrow technical exceptions aside) interest rates can't go lower. Investors won't buy bonds if they can get a better return simply by putting a bunch of $100 bills in a safe. In other words, the Fed hit what's known in economic jargon as the zero lower bound (or, alternatively, became stuck in a liquidity trap). The tool the Fed usually fights recessions with had reached the limits of its usefulness.
That doesn't mean the Fed was out of options. Not according to the work of a number of economists, anyway, among them a prominent Princeton professor by the name of Ben Bernanke. As noted above, Bernanke was among the economists who took notice, back in the 1990s, of the troubles afflicting Japan — a huge real estate bubble that left behind a legacy of high private-sector debt when it burst and a central bank up against the zero lower bound.
The woes confronting the United States today aren't identical to those faced by Japan. For one thing, Japanese inflation wasn't just low; by the end of the 1990s, Japan was actually suffering chronic deflation. For another, Japan's slump was never as terrible as ours; unemployment, in particular, never became the scourge it has become here. Still, Japan provided an example of how an advanced modern economy could seemingly be caught in an economic trap.
In a hard-hitting 2000 paper titled "Japanese Monetary Policy: A Case of Self-Induced Paralysis?" Bernanke declared that "far from being powerless, the Bank of Japan could achieve a great deal if it were willing to abandon its excessive caution and its defensive response to criticism." He proceeded to lay out a number of actions the Bank of Japan could take. And he called on Japanese policy makers to act like F.D.R. and do whatever it took: "Japan is not in a Great Depression by any means, but its economy has operated below potential for nearly a decade. Nor is it by any means clear that recovery is imminent. Policy options exist that could greatly reduce these losses. Why isn't more happening? To this outsider, at least, Japanese monetary policy seems paralyzed, with a paralysis that is largely self-induced. Most striking is the apparent unwillingness of the monetary authorities to experiment, to try anything that isn't absolutely guaranteed to work. Perhaps it's time for some Rooseveltian resolve in Japan."
Bernanke had some specific proposals that could serve as advice for the Fed today. One set of options would have it take a larger role in financial markets. Short-term interest rates may be zero, unable to go lower, but longer-term rates aren't. So the Fed, which typically buys only short-term U.S. government debt, could expand its portfolio, buying long-term government debt, bonds backed by home mortgages and so on, in an effort to drive down the interest rates on these assets. This is the strategy that has come to be known, unhelpfully, as quantitative easing.
Another set of options involves trying to change expectations about future Fed policy. Right now, investors believe that the economy will eventually recover enough for the Fed to start raising rates again. Such expectations about future Fed plans, in turn, can have an important impact on the economy right now. In particular, beliefs about how long the Fed will wait before raising rates can have a major impact on expectations of future inflation. At the moment, investors assume that the Fed will raise rates enough to keep inflation from rising much above 2 percent. If the Fed were to raise its target for inflation — and if investors believed in the new target — expected inflation over the medium term, say the next 10 years, would be higher. Many economists, ranging from the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund to one of Mitt Romney's top economic advisers, have argued, as I have, that higher expected inflation would aid an economy up against the zero lower bound, because it would help persuade investors and businesses alike that sitting on cash is a bad idea. Bernanke endorsed the idea in his "Paralysis" paper, suggesting that the Bank of Japan declare "a target in the 3-to-4-percent range for inflation, to be maintained for a number of years."
So which of these steps has the Fed taken lately? Well, it has bought more than $2 trillion worth of long-term government debt and bonds of government-backed housing agencies. That sounds like a lot, but it's much less than most analysts think necessary to jump-start economic recovery. The Fed has also tried to influence market expectations about future policy, but only for the fairly near term, declaring that it doesn't expect to raise short-term rates until late 2014. What's more, Bernanke has ruled out more ambitious policies. In 2010, for example, he dismissed the notion of a higher inflation target for the United States, arguing that it would undermine confidence and the Fed's "hard-won inflation credibility."
In short, Chairman Bernanke's Fed has been much more passive than Professor Bernanke's writings would have led us to expect.
Can the Fed Do No More?
Some economists and Fed officials believe that the Fed has already done all it can or should — that, in particular, high unemployment is structural, that it can't be brought down simply by getting people to increase spending. They also warn that any further efforts by the Fed to boost the economy would simply drive up inflation instead. This is, however, a minority view both among economists and at the Fed.
Most stories about structural unemployment stress a perceived mismatch between the work force and employment opportunities: workers, so the story goes, either have the wrong skills or are in the wrong place. But as Bernanke pointed out in a recent speech, employment looks bad across the board: "The fact that labor demand appears weak in most industries and locations is suggestive of a general shortfall of aggregate demand rather than a worsening mismatch of skills and jobs." As a result, he declared, the data "do not support the view that structural factors are a major cause of the increase in unemployment during the most recent recession."
What about inflation? So-called headline inflation, a k a the Consumer Price Index, has fluctuated wildly — deflation during the worst of the recession, annualized inflation hitting a peak of almost 4 percent last September. These big swings are, however, driven mainly by fluctuations in the prices of raw materials, which Fed officials consider poor indicators of underlying inflationary pressures. They prefer, instead, to focus on measures like core inflation, which excludes volatile energy and food prices and which has remained fairly quiescent.
The Fed is right in this. Last year, many conservatives seized on rising headline inflation — driven mainly by increasing gasoline prices — as evidence of a looming inflation tsunami. Representative Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican, for example, pointed to rising prices of raw materials and said ominously, "There is nothing more insidious that a country can do to its citizens than debase its currency." Fed officials, however, steadfastly predicted that the inflation surge would soon ebb, and it did.
So the Fed doesn't think there are good reasons for high unemployment and isn't worried about inflation. Indeed, the minutes from the January meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy, revealed that a majority of members expected an eventual fall in unemployment to below 6 percent, with inflation remaining low.
Think about what this means in terms of the dual mandate. The Fed is supposed to pump up the economy when it's running too cold, with unemployment high and inflation low. That's where we are right now, in the Fed's own estimation. Yet the most recent minutes, from March, show Fed officials unwilling to take any further action to boost the economy.
Why won't the Fed do more?
Political Bullying
When Fed critics interpreted a brief escalation in raw-material prices as evidence of out-of-control inflation last year, it was unusual only because for once the critics had some actual inflation to talk about. Since 2008, the Fed has faced constant attacks over its supposed inflationary actions, whether or not the actual data indicate the existence of runaway inflation. Some attacks have even bordered on menace, most famously Rick Perry's warning that Bernanke would be treated "pretty ugly" if he visited Texas.
The effect must be somewhat intimidating. Recently N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard University — an adviser to Mitt Romney who himself briefly advocated raising the inflation target but went quiet after receiving intense criticism — put it succinctly: "If Chairman Bernanke ever suggested increasing inflation to, say, 4 percent, he would quickly return to being Professor Bernanke."
Maybe, then, Bernanke still wants higher inflation and other unconventional policies but knows that there's no point in pursuing or even advocating them. But there are two problems with this supposition. First, that's not the way the Fed is supposed to work. It's meant to be insulated from political pressure — so why would people so calmly accept the notion that it could be pressed to avoid doing what it thinks it should do? Second, Bernanke has gone out of his way to insist that his current position reflects an economic judgment, not political compromise — that it's all about preserving that "hard-won inflation credibility."
I suspect that the old Bernanke would have scoffed. He would have pointed out that the Fed could still keep inflation within bounds — that 4 percent inflation (which is what we actually had during the late years of the Reagan administration) need be no more unsettling than 2 percent inflation. He would also, I suspect, have argued that the risks of losing credibility pale beside the risks of inaction. Bear in mind, whenever someone invokes the specter of a return to '70s-style stagflation, when the economy is weak and inflation is high — a greatly overrated risk — that what we are going through now is much, much worse than anything that happened in the '70s. It takes a certain mind-set to worry more about a hypothetical loss of confidence than about the clear and present suffering of the unemployed — the mind-set, one might say, of a conventional central banker.
The Fed as Borg
Recently Laurence Ball of Johns Hopkins University made waves among monetary economists by looking through Fed minutes to determine how and when Ben Bernanke's views changed. According to Ball, Bernanke's big retreat from F.D.R.-like resolve happened way back in 2003, less than a year after he arrived at the Fed. That month, a Fed staff report rejected many of the ideas Bernanke previously supported — and ever since, Bernanke has spoken only of limited responses to the problem of the zero lower bound. What's puzzling about this apparent conversion is the fact that while Bernanke may have been a newbie at the Fed, he was a towering figure in his field. Why should he have taken his cues from a staff report?
Ball emphasizes both the pressures of groupthink and Bernanke's shy personality. Without necessarily disagreeing, I'd point to a crucial difference between the policies Bernanke advocated in his pre-Fed days and the ones he has supported since 2003. His Fed-era policies aren't simply less ambitious than those of his academic era; just as important, Chairman Bernanke's policy menu, unlike Professor Bernanke's proposals, has been set up so that the Fed can't be blamed for failure.
Suppose, for example, that the Fed announces a higher inflation target. It might not work: markets might not consider the Fed's proclamations credible and believe instead that no matter what the Fed says now, it will return to its traditional focus on price stability. So an attempt to raise expected inflation could lead to an embarrassing failure. When buying government bonds, on the other hand, the Fed can always claim that the policy worked, even if the economy does poorly, because it can insist that things would have been even worse without its actions. So by retreating to a narrow definition of the Fed's role, Bernanke has also adopted a position that is much more comfortable for the Fed as an institution.
Back in 2000, Professor Bernanke warned against exactly this kind of retreat, harshly criticizing the Bank of Japan's unwillingness to "try anything that isn't absolutely guaranteed to work." But within a year of his arrival at the Fed, he seemed to have been assimilated by the Fed Borg, like Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in a famous "Star Trek" episode, converted into a half-robot servant of a hive-mind.
Bernanke may have pulled back from his earlier activism years ago, but given the scale of our economic catastrophe, he might well have returned to his earlier views if the political climate hadn't been so hostile. So I wouldn't fully discount the importance of right-wing bullying. As for his insistence that it's not about politics — could he really get away with saying, or even hinting, that pressure from the likes of Paul Ryan is keeping him from pursuing full employment?
My best guess is that the disappointing response of the Bernanke Fed represents the effects of both bullies and the Borg, a combination of political intimidation and the desire to make life easy for the Fed as an institution. Whatever the mix of these motives, the result is clear: faced with an economy still in desperate need of help, the Fed is unwilling to provide that help. And that, unfortunately, makes the Fed part of a broader problem.
Consider, if you will, the current state of our nation. Despite hints of economic progress, we're still in the midst of an immense disaster, in which unemployment and underemployment are devastating millions of American lives. And none of this need be happening! There has been no plague of locusts; we have not lost our technological know-how. Americans should be richer, not poorer, than they were five years ago. Yet economic policy across the board has become almost passive, has essentially accepted this disaster instead of trying to end it.
The Fed under Bernanke is by no means the worst sinner in this failure of intellect and will, and you can argue that Ben Bernanke has done a better job than anyone else who might have held his position. Yet the fact is, he has not done remotely enough. The Fed, under its eminent chairman, was supposed to be an important part of the solution to mass unemployment. That isn't happening.


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FREMONT — Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced charges today against two "callous con artists" who took thousands of dollars from dozens of struggling Northern California homeowners for foreclosure services never delivered.
"The housing crisis has been devastating for many Californians, and their pain has been sharpened by callous con artists like these," Brown said. "Their arraignment today serves as a warning to people trying to save their homes from foreclosure that there are fraudulent operators out there who will take their money but do nothing to help."
Angeline Lisa Lizarrago, 68, of Fremont and Michael Douglas Young, 67, of Los Gatos were scheduled to be arraigned today in Department 502 of the Hayward Hall of Justice on a 23 count complaint for felony fraud and theft they committed at their business, Avemos Financial Group, of Fremont.
If convicted, Lizarrago could face more than 15 years in prison. Young, a licensed real estate broker, faces up to 12 years.
The case was investigated and prosecuted jointly by the Attorney General and the Alameda County District Attorney.
From June 2008 to October 2009, Lizarrago and Young targeted Spanish-speaking homeowners as well as Southeast Asian immigrants, all desperate to save their homes.
People stood in line for hours to get into Avemos's waiting room, which was decorated with shrines to the Virgin Mary. Clients seeking help typically paid $1,500 initially. Lizarrago, the owner of Avenos, and Young, Avemos's general manager, promised they would take steps to stop banks from immediately foreclosing on their homes and renegotiate clients' loans to reflect their homes' current market value. Lizarrago and Young guaranteed a refund if they were unsuccessful. Many lost their homes in foreclosure and did not receive a refund.
Lizarrago also took advantage of the foreclosure crisis in another way. She told an 89-year-old man and his wife, who wanted to move away from Stockton, that she owned 51 properties, many of which had been foreclosed upon, and she could find them a home in Fremont. She asked for an up-front fee, which she promised to return with interest once the purchase was made. In a series of payments, the couple gave Lizarrago $25,000. She never found them a home, nor returned their money.
The criminal charges against Lizarrago and Young are based on 11 cases of fraud and theft, and prosecutors believe there are 50 more victims who haven't been identified yet. Anyone with information about the Avemos Financial Group or the defendants should call the Alameda County District Attorney's Office at 1-877-288-2882.
Lizarrago was moved to Alameda County jail from Chowchilla State Prison, where she was serving a two-year sentence for a prior real estate scam. Young was arrested September 30.
The California Department of Real Estate and the Fremont Police Department assisted in the investigation.
The Attorney General has fought to stop scammers and con artists from taking advantage of people during the housing crisis. He has sought court orders to shut down more than 30 fraudulent foreclosure-relief companies and has brought criminal charges and obtained lengthy prison sentences for dozens of other deceptive loan-modification consultants. For more information on the Attorney General's action against loan-modification fraud visit: http://ag.ca.gov/loanmod


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by Joyce Clapp
This Saturday it's October 11 again, so it's National Coming Out Day again.
Last year I rhapsodized about how much I love working for UNCG. And I still do. However, this year my brain isn't as much on sexuality as it is on gender, gender roles, and being gender non-conforming.
Currently, I'm teaching a face-to-face course on race, gender, and social class inequalities. These last couple of weeks in particular, we've been talking a lot about gender roles and sexuality, and how these two separate concepts are so intertwined in society. We live in a heteronormative society that takes its cues on how you're supposed to act in relationships from our gender roles. When you don't fit into either the gender or sexuality mold that society expects, you're left without a cultural scaffolding to guide your interactions with other people and in relationships. Additionally, sometimes other folks don't quite know what to say to you.
"So, who proposed?"
"I did, but she knew it was coming."
This past December, I had the great pleasure of asking my now wife to marry me. She knew I was going to ask—in my world, you don't ask questions like that if you don't know the answer—but nonetheless, the evening of the proposal came and we were both incredibly nervous. I was proposing on campus (after all, it's gorgeous, my work at UNCG is a huge part of my life, and it seemed way nicer than in my living room with the dog and the roommate trying not to pay attention to what we were doing). Originally, I'd intended to ask her in front of Minerva, but my wife guessed that, so I fell back on my second favorite spot on campus: the round pavilion on the side of the School of Music Building.
She's currently living several states away while finishing her degree, so I'd promised her a bit of a campus tour. However, every time I stopped to tell her about something, she started getting more nervous (thinking that it was time), so we finally just wandered back to the School of Music. I'd had this great speech planned that zoomed out of my head as soon as it was time, and instead I just said "Lee, will you marry me?"
She said yes. We both sniffled. And then I asked her to ask me, and she did. And yes, I said yes.
(We both wore engagement rings. There was never any question.)
"I know, I know I shouldn't ask this… but when two women are out on a date, who pays?"
"Did you really just ask me that?"
So, after the proposal and traipsing around campus in the dark, we took our dressed-up selves out to an amazing seafood dinner (I paid, her being the "broke college kid" that she is), and all was right with the world. Which brings me to this: When you're out to eat, pay attention to the dynamics of the check drop. The check usually gets dropped in front of my (male) roommate; my card with my picture on it has gotten dropped in front of him, as well (and he has several inches more hair than I do). On the other hand, when my wife and I are out together, waitstaff approach the table, and then pause for a moment before carefully placing the check in the middle of the table.
"So, who cooks?"
"I do. I have a gluten intolerance and she's worried about poisoning me. And I like to cook. She does the dishes though."
This is not news to anyone who's in a same-sex relationship, but since folks don't know what to say sometimes, you get a lot of questions. Sometimes you get a lot of nosy questions. Sometimes folks are just curious. But all of the questions get back to gender roles; often folks have real trouble considering how you might structure a relationship with two women, two men, or two genderqueer folks. The woman cooks and the man sits in the living room with a beer, right? Feedback that I get from students in class lets me know that many students are being raised in homes with non-traditional gender roles; however, I've also heard really heartbreaking stories from female students about being expected to do all the heavy lifting in households where fathers and brothers were not doing their share. We may try to assert that we live in a post-racial society these days, but no one even tries to make that assertion about gender. We know better.
"So…who…you know…who's the guy?"
"Are you really asking this?"
"Yea, I guess I am."
I'm gonna let Mae Martin take this one for me…
See, there is no "guy" in the relationship; we're both just us. I cook. She does the dishes. Unless she needs to study, and then I do them. She mostly takes out the trash and recycling. Neither of us works on cars; we both have a little knowledge (her more so than me), but we don't like to do it and we're happy to pay other folks to do it.
She wears men's clothes all the time but is way more particular about her looks and painting her toenails than I am. I keep my hair short most of the time (I grew it out for the wedding, but right now it's high and tight), and wildly vary shaving my legs and painting my nails. There are mornings when my room resembles the clothing scene from The Great Gatsby, because nothing feels right—not men's clothes and not women's clothes, and while UNCG may be pretty laid back, I still can't go teach class in my pajamas.
She can drive anything on wheels (having driven trucks through Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom), but she prefers automatics because of a bum shoulder. I prefer to drive a stick. I kill the spiders (she's terrified of them), and she reaches the stuff on high shelves (being nearly a foot taller than I am). We're still working out a lot of this (see also: long distance marriage), but whenever we do work out something, it's because it's the solution that makes sense, not because society tells us that one of us is supposed to take out the trash or fold the clothes (answer: she's a lot better at that than I). Opposite sex couples have this process of negotiation to go through as well and often go for the "makes sense" solution, but they also have a lifetime of socialization and culture behind them as well (for better or worse).
Gender is in everything we do; our society eats and breaths gender in a way that we don't notice when we're in the middle of it. We still have terrible levels of inequality in our society (we're still discussing women's earnings as a percentage of men's, for example). And when we get down to people's lived experiences, the differences can become even more stark: ask Ben Barres, who was infamously told that his "sister's" work wasn't as good as his. (And we're not even getting into issues of violence or job discrimination against trans* people, or that some days, there just isn't a box for you on forms, because I don't have those emotional cycles today.)
"What did y'all do about last names?"
"Well, we had the same options any couple has, right? One person takes the other name, you hyphenate, you both keep your name…"
"Yea, I guess so. Huh."
The takeaway is that living sexuality and gender is sometimes super messy, but a lot of times it just is what it is; mostly we're just a normal old couple doing boring old couple things like work and walking the dog. As I'm fond of telling my students, no matter who is in the relationship, someone has to buy milk and someone has to walk the dog and someone has to grade papers. I'm just glad that I found my person that I want to buy milk with for the rest of my life.
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Mexico coach Miguel Herrera defended fans at the World Cup chanting a gay slur which is under investigation by FIFA.
- FIFA drops linesman after Mexico blunders
Herrera says Mexico fans shouting the slur as the rival team's goalkeeper takes a goal kick is not "serious."
"About the chants, we don't have anything to say, we are going to concentrate in working hard, that is what corresponds to us," Herrera said. "We support our fan base. They just do it to put pressure on the other goalkeeper.
"That chant was invented in the Mexican league by one team and all the Mexican fan base has adopted it, therefore I don't think it is something that serious.
"I think for us there is more important stuff to solve than a chant that is just an expression to put pressure on the other goalkeeper that has been taking place in Mexico since a long time ago."
Fare, the European fan-monitoring group, reported the chants at Mexico's 1-0 win over Cameroon in Natal. FIFA subsequently opened a disciplinary case against the Mexico federation, which is responsible for fan behaviour inside stadiums.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Brazil President Dilma Rousseff have pledged to use the World Cup as a platform to fight racism and discrimination.
The chant was also used during a Mexico-United States qualifying match for the 2004 Olympics.


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French photographer Jerome Delay has spent the past month photographing the unfolding conflict in Mali for the Associated Press. Here, LightBox presents a selection of his recent work along with his reflections on his time in-country:
When I took the Mali assignment a month ago, I knew it would be challenging. I wondered how, in an asymmetrical war (as the French brass likes to call it), I would photograph a pick-up full of Jihadists being taken out by a smart bomb dropped from a Mirage fighter jet in the middle of the desert. Remember rule number one in photography: be there!
Yet the speed of the ground deployment and its increasing intensity was a testimony to the fact that the Jihadists were not going to be flushed only from the sky — and this is where the frustration started. Despite countless requests from all news organizations to have access to the conflict, French forces (read: Paris politicians at the Ministry of Defense) had a media plan: they want to control everything. During an organized visit to Konna a week after it was "liberated," I felt I was being shown around by Libya's former ministry of information handlers. "Shoot this, not that!"
Furthermore, everything was designed from the start to make access virtually impossible. To get to Sevare, I had to bypass five Malian checkpoints, whose instructions were to turn back any and every journalist on the road. Thanks to Land Cruisers and GPS, we managed bypass them each time.
Though I was not going to the front, I still felt I had to tell the story somehow — the why's and the who's of the conflict, if not the how's. And like most modern-day conflicts (even those dating back 600 years), death and destruction seems to breed freely in the most spectacular scenery. Mali is a country of such beauty and warmth that every instant is a meaningful image and powerful story.
I am still waiting to go to the front. It is more than 200 miles from where I am, in Gao ... or is it? Last Sunday, Jihadists engaged African and French forces in a fierce gun battle less than a mile from here. I guess as we are entering stage two of this conflict, I might not have to go to the front after all. It might just come to me….
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Echodio to present at SXSW
A quick bit of background…
A few months ago, Niall Smart contacted us in relation to his new startup – and we did a post where he was looking for a co-founder for his stealth startup – Cloudsync
Niall hooked up with Vinny Glennon and Cormac Driver – and these guys were accepted to the world famous Y Combinator in San Francisco.
Cloudsync is now known as Echodio – and Niall pinged us over the weekend to let us know that they've been shortlisted by the SXSW music+film+interactive festival to present at SXSW Accelerator, their showcase for technology startups.
One of four finalists in the music category – picked from over 200 applications.
Best of luck to the lads – keep the Irish flag flying….
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1958 Graduates Tim and Sharon Ubben Commit $20 Million for Need-Based Financial Aid Endowment
February 4, 2013
President Brian W. Casey announced today that Timothy H. and Sharon W. Ubben, both 1958 graduates of DePauw, have committed a $20 million gift to the University's endowment to provide financial aid for DePauw students. The gift was formally accepted by the University's Board of Trustees, which met over the weekend.
"This gift further establishes the remarkable legacy that Tim and Sharon Ubben will leave on this campus," said Casey. "Their love for this University is clear and their willingness to support its future is humbling. I cannot fully express the depth of my gratitude for all that they do, and have done, for DePauw."
The Ubbens' commitment is the latest in a lengthy history of gifts that have provided the foundation for the University's significant commitment to supporting students, which began with the establishment of the Rector endowment and the Rector Scholars Program in 1919. Gifts such as these have made a DePauw education possible for generations of students who might not otherwise have been able to attend.
"This University has been a part of our lives for many years, and it is a privilege to be part of its future," said Tim Ubben. "Sharon and I have always believed that the opportunity to see the impact of your gift is one of the most rewarding experiences, which is why this gift means so much to both of us.
"We have been so impressed with the many DePauw students we have come to know over the years and we believe it is essential that we ensure that all well-qualified students have an opportunity to attend this university," added Ubben.
After graduating from DePauw, Timothy H. Ubben received his M.B.A. from Northwestern University and served in the U.S. Army while Sharon Williams Ubben taught school in Elkhart, Indiana, and Tampa, Florida.
Tim Ubben founded Lincoln Capital Management, a Chicago-based investment firm, in 1967. When he retired in 1999 as chairman, Lincoln had over $50 billion in assets under management. Sharon Ubben owned a tour company, Hearts Desire, from 1983 to 1990.
Over the years, the Ubbens have been active in the lives of their community and in supporting important causes, including their alma mater. Sharon Ubben served as director and president of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Auxiliary Board; as a trustee of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation; and as mentor for the Boys and Girls Club of Collier County, Florida. Tim Ubben has served on the national board of directors of the Posse Foundation since 2004, founded the Chicago Posse in 1999, and was honored as a "Posse Star" in 2009; as a director of the Boys and Girls Club of Collier County, Florida; and as director of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida. (above left: Sharon and Tim Ubben with Posse Foundation founder Debbie Bial)
The couple's many gifts to DePauw have established numerous endowed professorships, in addition to the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series.
Designed to "bring the world to Greencastle," the Ubben Series has brought nearly 100 programs to campus, featuring world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Shimon Peres, Benazir Bhutto and Tony Blair (to view a complete roster of Ubben Lecturers click here). Upcoming speakers include Carl Bernstein and Jane Goodall.
Tim Ubben co-chaired DePauw's Board of Trustees from 1998 to 2001 and continues his service as an advisory trustee; he was a member of the Alumni Association Board from 1983-87 and served as chair from 1985-87; chaired The Campaign for DePauw: Leadership for a New Century; was a member of the presidential search committee in 2007-08; and was awarded DePauw's Old Gold Goblet for "eminence in life's work and service to alma mater" in 1993. He is also the recipient of the Ernest T. Stewart Award for Alumni Volunteer Involvement, presented by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Sharon Ubben served on the Alumni Association Board from 1988-94.
In 2012, the Tim and Sharon Ubben were each awarded honorary Doctor of Public Service degrees (photo at left; video embedded below).Back


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By R Geoffrey Avery (rGeoffrey) from Philadelphia.pm Date: Friday, 2 September 2005 09:00
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5 minute talks by many different people.
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Following in the footsteps of Belfast last year the plan is to have two one hour sessions of Lightning Talks to start the day on September 1 and 2. This could give us as many as 22 talks.


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i used to reverse software in the past using tools like Ollydbg and so on.
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Amoeba has been teaming with Goldenvoice to present some shows in Los Angeles, and the latest is one I'm pretty excited about: locally bred garage-rockers The Growlers are playing The Fonda Theatre Dec. 28. The band's following has been steadily growing, following the release of two great, ramshackle records that strew together garage, surf and psych influences into a sound dubbed "beach goth." They have a new album due in early 2013 called Hung at Heart. They're joined on this date by another local band I love called Dirt Dress, a similarly surf-influenced band with more of a post-punk bent, as frontman Noah's vocals are reminiscent of Talking Heads' David Byrne, while the band's uneasy, angular way with a surf-rock track is anything but typical. Also appearing are The Abigails, who mine classic outlaw country for their analog-soaked lo-fi sound, as well as Sam Flax, whose sound is a blast of psyched out new wave-influenced lo-fi pop — this guy is seriously good, seek his stuff out.
Tickets for the show are $19, plus a $2 service fee. The show starts at 9:00 p.m., doors are at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are general admission, and it's all-ages.
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