In 1972 Scheer received a PhD from the University of Hamburg with the thesis " Kosten-und kapazitätsorientierte Ersatzpolitik bei stochastisch ausfallenden Produktionsanlagen ".

Scheer received 56, 731 votes and lost the election to Mr. Tunney.

On June 4, 2010 Scheer was awarded with the Design Science Lifetime Achievement Award at the University of St. Gallen.

* Scheer playing the saxophone at ProcessWorld conference 2010 in Berlin

Since February 2010 IDS Scheer is part of the Software AG Group.

In the October 1, 2010, episode of the radio show " Left, Right and Center ", Scheer, a self-described Liberal, expressed support for Rand Paul, son of former Libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul, in his bid for the 2011-2016 Kentucky Senate seat.

On April 30, 2010, Heggie premiered his most recent opera, Moby-Dick ( libretto by Gene Scheer ) at The Dallas Opera, with tenors Ben Heppner as Captain Ahab and Stephen Costello as Greenhorn ( Ishmael ).

In 2010, Riggle and comedian Paul Scheer wrote and starred together in a series of sketches called " Designated Driver " for the first season of the HBO sketch comedy program Funny or Die Presents.

On June 2, 2011, Conservative Andrew Scheer ( Regina — Qu ' Appelle ) was elected Speaker, defeating the following MPs over the course of six ballots: New Democrat Denise Savoie ( Victoria ( electoral district )) and Conservatives Dean Allison ( Niagara West — Glanbrook ), Barry Devolin ( Haliburton — Kawartha Lakes — Brock ), Ed Holder ( London West ), Lee Richardson ( Calgary Centre ), Bruce Stanton ( Simcoe North ), and Merv Tweed ( Brandon — Souris ).

Robert Scheer was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City.

In 1962 in Berkeley, California, Scheer along with David Horowitz, Maurice Zeitlin, Phil Roos, and Sol Stern founded Root and Branch: A Radical Quarterly, one of the first campus New Left journals.

Scheer lost, but won over 45 % of the vote ( and carried Berkeley ), a strong showing against an incumbent that demonstrated the rising strength of New Left Sixties radicalism.

After several years freelancing for magazines, including New Times and Playboy, Scheer joined the Los Angeles Times in 1976 as a reporter.

The book was published again by Little, Brown in 1962, in an edition edited by George F. Scheer ( ISBN 0-915992-10-8 ) under the title Private Yankee Doodle ; as well as appearing as a volume in Series I of The New York Times ' Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution in 1968.

After dates in New York and Boston in March 2008, the group traveled to Faust Studio, Scheer, Germany to record a new album for Jochen Irmler's Klangbad label.

A tumultuous 2002 ended with Hornets moving to New Orleans, and the Checkers on the verge of being sold again and potentially moved ( Woolridge and Shinn eventually forced out an ECHL team in New Orleans ), Sabates once again teamed with Carl Scheer to purchase the Charlotte Checkers.

Scheer was born in Huntington, New York.

In 1995, Scheer became a member of New York City's longest running Off-Broadway comedy show, Chicago City Limits.

In 2003 Scheer was awarded the Philip Morris Research Prize and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Scheer and his son were creative script consultants on the Oliver Stone film Nixon, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay.

Robert Scheer is editor-in-chief of the news website Truthdig, which is a four-time recipient of the Webby Award for best political blog and winner of multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Los Angeles Press Club.

Scheer was the 1998 honoree of the Shelter Partnership, an organization of Los Angeles downtown businesses as well as the recipient of the USC School of Social Work's Los Amigos Award.

In 1981, Captain Herrick and journalist Robert Scheer re-examined Herrick's ship's log and determined that the first torpedo report from August 4, which Herrick had maintained had occurred — the " apparent ambush "— was in fact unfounded.

The call sign Columbia for the CSM came from Julian Scheer, the NASA Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs.

Following his graduation from the Naval School, Scheer embarked on a six month long special training program for gunnery, torpedo warfare, and infantry training.

After his return to Germany in 1886, Scheer took part in torpedo training aboard, from January to May 1888.

Scheer reported from Cambodia, China, North Korea, Russia, Latin America and the Middle East ( including the Six-Day War ), as well as on national security matters in the United States.

Scheer has interviewed every president from Richard Nixon through Bill Clinton.

" Scheer has profiled politicians from Californians Jerry Brown and Willie Brown to Washington insiders like Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, as well as entertainment figures like actor Tom Cruise.

" that the paper's owner, the Tribune Company, currently owns a newspaper and a television station in the same market, which is illegal, and may have fired Scheer in an attempt to make it easier to obtain a waiver permitting the dual ownership from the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ).

Lillian had seven grandchildren — Chris Miller, Joanna Miller, Tamara Scheer, Jennifer Miller-Goff, Walter Elias Disney Miller, Ronald Miller and Patrick Miller — from her daughter Diane and son-in-law Ronald Miller, and three grandchildren — Victoria Brown, Brad Lund and Michelle Lund — from her daughter Sharon.

He was a member of the Naval Staff led by Admiral Reinhard Scheer from August 1918.

Excerpts from the speeches by Lynd, Wildavsky, Scheer, Potter, Krassner, Parris, Spock, Stone and Arnoni were released the following year as an LP by Folkways Records, FD5765.

Scheer plays Trent Hauser, an elite government operative who protects San Diego from terrorism.

The Society of Professional Journalists awarded Scheer the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi award for his column.

* Edna Scheer, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player

Also in the 1990s, he established The Charlotte Professional Sports Team, Inc, along with Hornets executive Carl Scheer, and his NASCAR driver, Kyle Petty, and his father Richard, which returned professional hockey to Charlotte for the first time since 1977, when the ECHL placed an expansion franchise in Charlotte for 1993.

Cooder's critically acclaimed new album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, released on August 30, 2011, contains politically charged songs such as " No Banker Left Behind " which was inspired by a Robert Scheer column.

His successor as presiding officer of the House of Commons, Andrew Scheer, was elected on June 2, 2011.

Riggle, Scheer and Rob Huebel wrote and starred in a new series of sketches called " Death Hunt ", which appeared on the show's second season in 2011.

He remains Dean of the House and presided over the Commons when it chose Andrew Scheer to be Milliken's successor as speaker on June 2, 2011.