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Is there an alternative to LTE-U/LAA that won't tick everyone off?
by Monica Alleven |
Given how much the industry has discussed LTE in unlicensed spectrum during the past several months or so, some stakeholders might have gotten the impression that all the questions have been asked and answered, thank you very much. But that's not the case.
From all indications--not the least of which is the FCC's public notice seeking industry input--the debate is alive and well. Understandably, the Wi-Fi community is concerned that there is insufficient information about how LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U) and Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) protocols will manage coexistence with Wi-Fi and other devices that use unlicensed spectrum. Wi-Fi, while not the only user of unlicensed spectrum, accounts for a pretty big percentage of it, and the Wi-Fi community is worried that LTE won't be as "polite" as Wi-Fi, which employs to a listen-before-talk (LBT) etiquette.
Carriers like T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) insist that work to date suggests both LTE-U and LAA can provide valuable supplemental capacity to carrier networks without threatening existing unlicensed technologies such as Wi-Fi. To hear Verizon (NYSE: VZ) tell it, LTE-U has a spectrum-sensing capability to identify open frequencies--channels not occupied by other unlicensed users. Its "adaptive duty cycle" also allows it to take turns with other users.
By way of background, LTE-U is the version of LTE unlicensed that was proposed in 2013 by Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), according to a Senza Fili Consulting report that was filed in the FCC's LTE-U/LAA proceeding. LTE-U relies on 3GPP Release 10-12 functionality, with specifications defined by the LTE-U Forum, which was established by Verizon in collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), Ericsson, LG, Qualcomm Technologies and Samsung. While it's the first version of LTE unlicensed to be available in commercial deployments, it does not employ a listen-before-talk mechanism. For that reason, LTE-U can only be used in markets where regulation doesn't require LBT, including the U.S., Korea, China and India.
LAA is the version of LTE unlicensed that 3GPP is standardizing in Release 13 and it supports LBT, in addition to carrier aggregation. "In the long term, we expect operators and vendors worldwide to support LAA-LTE because it provides a globally harmonized solution that leads to better scalability and choice among equipment and device vendors," Senza Fili said in its report.
But there's another option that doesn't get discussed nearly as much. Ruckus Wireless has posited that LTE + Wi-Fi Link Aggregation (LWA) could be much more palatable to the broader industry due to its use of 802.11 at the Physical (PHY) and Medium Access Control (MAC) layers. LWA is said to achieve similar results to LTE-U and LAA-LTE.
Senza Fili notes that LWA is being standardized as well by 3GPP and it gives mobile operators a way to use unlicensed bands that is well integrated within their network. With LWA, mobile operators use Wi-Fi for access, with Wi-Fi transmission integrated in the cellular RAN. The RAN manages the traffic and all signaling goes through LTE in a licensed channel.
The main advantage of LWA is it requires little intervention in existing networks and devices. In LWA, Wi-Fi is used only for the downlink, with LTE carrying all the uplink traffic and optionally, downlink traffic as well.
At the Small Cells World event in London earlier this month, the workshop titled "Small Cells and License Exempt Spectrum: Carrier Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Calling and LAA" proved to be its most successful workshop event to date, according to the Small Cell Forum. It created "productive debate" over the merits of LAA, LTE-U and LWA. Significant discussions are expected over the next few Small Cell Forum plenary sessions, starting with the meeting in September in Rome, according to the forum.
All of this is to say it ain't over yet. Surely, representatives from all sides of the issue--those with a stake in licensed spectrum and those solely focused on unlicensed, as well as those who dabble in both--are passionate about their stances and are not going to easily budge. The FCC should be commended for opening the LTE-U/LAA proceeding, giving vendors and operators a chance to lay out their concerns in public, as well as see what their peers are saying. Interested stakeholders from all sides are capable of having healthy disagreements and discourse. Or put another way: Sometimes the right thing to do is listen before talk.--Monica
Monica Alleven
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Trek Alumni Offer Alternative Truths
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A seminal moment for cinema. A watershed moment for the morning after pill
Roy Budd’s Phantom Returns
Taxonomy 1: Feature
Posted December 5, 2018 by Paula Hammond - Features Editor
· Roy Budd’s score to Rupert Julian’s 1925 silent film version of The Phantom at the Opera for one-night only at the Barbican 18 March 2019.
· Only the second ever performance of one of the late all-time great British musicians, Roy Budd’s finest work.
· All the funds raised from the production will go to helping rid the world of polio.
In the summer of 1993 renowned composer and jazz pianist Roy Budd’s score for Rupert Julian’s classic 1920s silent film The Phantom of the Opera was to set be performed in London. Then he had a brain haemorrhage. Nearly a quarter of a century later his widow, Sylvia, fulfilled his dream and Budd’s masterpiece score to the 1925 Phantom of the Opera was performed at the London Coliseum on 08 October 2017, featuring the 77-piece orchestra. The performance received a resoundingly positive response from critics and audience alike.
Today the producers are delighted to announce that another one-off performance of Roy Budd’s masterpiece will be performed at the Barbican on 18 March 2019—the very same venue it was originally meant to be screened at 25 years ago. It will once again be performed by the magnificent Docklands Sinfonia orchestra and led by Conductor Spencer Down. Since its formation, the orchestra has enjoyed incredible success with performances at Buckingham Palace for the Queen and with world-renowned classical artists such as Alison Balsom, Leonard Elschenbroich and Elin Manahan-Thomas.
The Phantom of the Opera represents the apex of the career of a man who not only bought the last surviving 35mm negative of the film he adored since the age of 11, but who made his debut at the Coliseum aged 6 and went on to compose the score of the seminal 1971 gangster movie Get Carter, starring Michael Caine. The music budget was a mere £450, but Budd, along with a bassist and a percussionist, recorded a spine-tingling harpsichord motif which is now iconic. Among more than 50 other films scored by Budd were Paper Tiger, The Sea Wolves, Who Dares Wins and the 1971 version of Kidnapped.
Adapted from Gaston Leroux’s gothic novel, Rupert Julian’s The Phantom of the Opera tells the twisted tale of a mysterious recluse (Lon Chaney) who tutors a soprano at Paris’s Palais Garnier opera house while hiding a nocturnal penchant for chandelier-related slaughter. The film has been digitised and very subtle colour added throughout, with one critic noting last year that the restored film is a work of art.
As for the music, to call last year’s rendition a triumph is an understatement. Budd’s score was played with perfect timing and huge energy, intensifying the audience’s connection to a film which remains as unsettling and emotive as ever. This is a truly unique and original spectacle that is not to be missed.
Producer Nick Hocart says; “I am excited to work with Spencer Down and Dockland Sinfonia again, and to be presenting Roy’s work in the Barbican where it was due to premiere 25 years ago is history in the making.”
All the proceeds from the production will be going to the Rotary Club Foundation UK; specifically, the Purple for Polio initiative. Furthermore, for every pound raised, the Gates Foundation will donate a further two pounds, whilst producers Sylvia Budd and Nick Hocart are waiving production fees and donating their time for this event.
Eve Conway, Vice-Chairman of Rotary International’s End Polio Now: Countdown to History Campaign Committee, says: “We are on the brink of making history by eradicating only the second human disease ever after smallpox. There have been just 27 cases of wild poliovirus worldwide this year in two countries: 19 in Afghanistan and eight in Pakistan. This compares to a thousand cases of polio a day in 125 countries when Rotary started our campaign to rid the world of polio in 1985. With our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we have reduced cases by 99.99 per cent. We need to finish the job and end polio now and forever and this means continuing to raise awareness and funds for immunisation campaigns in at-risk areas, as well as routine immunisation. That is why the proceeds from this event are so vital to help make sure we achieve a polio-free world”.
Roy Budd’s Phantom of the Opera is sponsored by Wine Bourse, Ignition Law and Sylwia Romaniuk Couture whose support to the event will enable maximum funds to be generated for the charity”.
“Forget Lloyd Webber: Roy Budd’s original Phantom of the Opera music is finally unmasked” (The Daily Telegraph)
Tickets prices from £29-39.00 plus booking fees.
£10 Young Barbican (no booking fees).
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/roy-budds-phantom-of-the-opera
Barbican, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS.
Dates: 18 March 2019.
Time: 7.30pm .
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Animal Rights - A Perspective on the Hunting Debate
James Legge FAITH Magazine January-February 2004
What is our Relationship with Creation?
The question of animal rights is an important one, and is becoming more so. There is a whole range of issues to which Christians must give serious thought; the use of animals for scientific research, for instance, also methods of animal husbandry and how wild mammal populations are to be managed, whether by hunting or other methods. What should man’s relationship be with the rest of creation? What rights, if any, should animals have and what duty of care does mankind have? These are all crucial questions that touch upon the very core of Christian belief, namely that man is created in the image and likeness of God and was redeemed by the death of His Son. Our Lord Himself assures us of our unique worth: “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yetyour heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”(Mt 6: 26). These two facts have direct consequences for this current discussion in that they demand an understanding of what it is that makes us like God and therefore something more than simply another animal and what this means for us in our relationship with the rest of the created order. The Christian view of creation is essentially anthropocentric but it is not simply about man’s dominion over nature; it must also involve the question of his stewardship.
Why does man have a unique place in creation? Put most simply it is because we share key attributes with the creator and are called to an eternal destiny. St Thomas Aquinas, after Aristotle, identifies three key characteristics of the human soul; that we enjoy rational powers of memory, will and intellect. We have the power to distinguish good from evil and to make choices for which we can be held accountable. Without such a view sin, redemption and judgement would be incomprehensible. What purpose would the Incarnation have served? Even if we believed that animals had immortal souls, as the German theologian E. Drewermann argues, there is no evidence to suggest that animals enjoy these powers to any degree that would allow the attribution of free will – thus they cannot haveresponsibilities, which are the corollary of rights nor can they be held morally accountable. Animals are governed by instinct, while man has that capacity of will and intellect to override instinct.
The Moral Distrinction Between Man and Animals
We are moral beings as well as social creatures, and in this way the good of society can come before that of the individual, but not at the expense of the absolute rights and dignity of the individual human person. If one animal kills another in the natural struggle for survival this is not considered murder; it is survival of the fittest, the animal cannot be found guilty of an offence. However, if a man kills another in the same struggle he is a murderer. The very concept of society governed by laws that draw upon moral principles, and not simply principles of natural law or instinct, is clear evidence of the distinction between human beings and animals. If you destroy this fundamental distinction between humans and animals and equate the two absolutely the freedom of the individualbecomes subject to an ‘animal’ conception of society. The rejection of a God-based understanding leads to a philosophical understanding of rights that can become the justification for an attack on individual freedom and the fundamentals of a Christian society. The Animal Rights movement that so strongly opposes hunting, for example, fails to make this key philosophical and theological distinction. As such, it distorts the right relationship between us and the rest of creation. This will be discussed in some detail below. It is a dangerous error to separate rights from responsibilities. However, the peculiar dignity and rights that belong to man also imply that he has a responsibility to care for the created world; it is the privilege of our humanity and the accountability for our actionsthat means that our duty of care towards other creatures is all the more significant. It is a duty not just based on utilitarian considerations but also upon an understanding of moral responsibility before God.
Man the Guardian of the Environment
The Church holds that mankind acts as the guardian of the environment, responsible for the environment for future generations. This view is not incompatible with the traditional anthropocentric understanding; instead, the responsibility and duty of care that goes with man’s pre-eminence in creation is emphasised. In 1950 H.H. Pope Pius XII said: “The animal kingdom merits respect and consideration on the part of man.” Pope Paul VI in 1966 declared that: “Laws which punish those who mistreat animals or use brutal methods against them are in perfect harmony with Catholic morality and enjoy the support of the Church”. The current Holy Father has called for respect for all non-human creatures and in 1990 spoke of the need for “peace with the whole of creation.”
Until the 19th century, attitudes to animals were essentially governed by an anthropocentric view of the world in which man held the pre-eminent position. This conception of the created order stemmed largely from the Judeo-Christian understanding of the world drawn from the Old Testament in which man’s dominion is proclaimed as is his distinctness from the beasts of the earth. God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth” (Gen 1: 26) and again God said to Noah: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, andupon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man’s brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image” (Gen 9: 1-6). The anthropocentric view is also to be found in the thought of Enlightenment thinkers such as Spinoza (1631-1677), Montesquieu (1689-1755) and Descartes (1596-1650) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Descartes,for example, adopted an extreme position; an animal was only a machine, a sort of automaton, which could not suffer. It would, however, be wrong to characterise the belief in the ‘lordship’ of man over creation as having only negative consequences for man’s relationship with the world. On the contrary it stimulated the development of science and led to great progress. From this belief in man’s dominion came the ‘duty’ or motivation for man to understand, govern and control his environment using his powers of reason.
The Influence of Jeremy Bentham
One of the first thinkers to argue that man had explicit obligations towards animals was the British philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). Bentham is the father of the doctrine of moral utilitarianism, in which the finality of existence lay in the maximisation of pleasure and the minimisation of pain – the greatest good for the greatest number. In other words the morality of an action is to be judged not by reference to the divine law but to the purpose served by that action. The judgement from being objectively based becomes one that is subjectively based. By virtue of the principle of universality he included within this number all sensible beings so that, in contrast to Descartes, animals are considered capable of suffering and of being happy. Bentham argued that “thequestion was not: Could they reason? Could they speak? But: Were they able to suffer?”
One of the implications of the moral utilitarianism of Bentham is that the sacrifice of an individual man or animal is permissible if it is capable of improving the level of happiness of man as a whole which is to be understood as the greatest happiness for the greatest number. In a similar way the contemporary Australian thinker, P Singer does not hesitate in attacking the sacredness of life; in his eyes nothing forbids the killing of “biological human beings who are not persons”. He justifies not only abortion, but also euthanasia of the very sick, while at the same time arguing that the death of ‘higher’ animals should be prohibited: “The life of a chimpanzee, a dog, or a pig is of greater value than that of a severely retarded human baby, or an old senile person” - just as an unwantedor sick animal may be put down, so with a human life. This extreme view is forbidden from being taught in Germany because this utilitarian and ‘rights of nature’ approach were the ideological foundations of the horrors associated with the Nazi regime. Man is stripped of his innate higher dignity and subject to the needs of society as a whole, which is governed, by principles of natural selection. Man is equated to an animal and as such, while animals may benefit from that attainment of rights, in distorting the order of creation man becomes subject to the same forces as animals in a struggle for existence.
An extension of this moral utilitarianism of Bentham is found in the philosophy of the contemporary American philosopher Regan who proposes a theory of animal rights based on the postulation that animals share, as of right, the rights of man. He argues that animals cannot be the subject of legal ownership, or the object of exploitation of any kind. As such he condemns hunting, animal experimentation and animal husbandry. These ideas are similar to those of thinkers like Singer, who while supporting abortion espouses not just vegetarianism, but veganism – abstaining from the use of all animal products such as milk, eggs, wool, leather etc.
'Animal Ethics' Applied to Human Society
Part of the ethic of the ‘rights of nature’ is based upon an identification of human societies as being no more than animal groups and thus it legitimates the application of the principle of survival of the fittest to human beings. The application of such a principle to human communities can, in some cases, lead to the acceptance of eugenics, totalitarianism, racism and ethnic purification. In Belgium one far right party rejects the idea that the nation should be governed by parties and a parliament advocating instead rule by the “natural elite”. Regan, Singer, Drewermann and other thinkers who wholly reject the anthropocentric view and who consider that the human species is simply one among many use expressions such as “man and other animals” or “non-human animals”.
It may seem ironic at first sight that the most elaborate legislation ever passed on the subject of the protection of animals was the Tierschutzgestetz passed in Nazi Germany in 1933. This 180 page document reflected Hitler’s own personal beliefs inspired by the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) for whom man and animals are identical in substance because they shared in common the will to live, the ability to experience suffering, an ability to perceive the world around them and an intuitive conception of self. The new law covered both domestic and wild animals, those of use to man and also pest species, and endowed animals with intrinsic rights on the basis of a fundamental identification between man and animals. Hitler’s ethic of the ‘rights of nature’ revealed not only hisconcern for animals but also formed the basis of his totalitarian ideals – human beings being stripped of a status distinct from animals were therefore subject to the principles governing the animal world, not the moral imperatives of a Christian society which expresses the distinction between man and animals and which prohibits the elimination of individual rights and personal dignity even for the good of the whole. According to the Christian view it would be unacceptable to kill the old or disabled because they may be a perceived burden on society. It is the absence of this fundamental distinction, which underpins totalitarian regimes.
The Domestic Contract between Man and Animals
Perhaps a more realistic and acceptable approach to the relationship between man and animals is that of the ‘domestic contract’ proposed by C&R Larrere. According to this view the domestication of animals implies a contract between man and animals involving an exchange of services and mutual obligations. Animals provide man with meat, milk, leather, transport etc and man in return provides nourishment, protection from predators, shelter etc. This approach is inspired by older works such as those by Adam Smith (1723-1790), Montaigne (1533-1592) and even Lucretius (98-55BC) who in his work De Rerum Natura wrote that animals receive the care of man “as the price of their services”.
C&R Larrere argue that there is not an equality between man and domestic animals but a reciprocal relationship; the contract imposes on man the requirement not to mistreat animals prior to their death. Beasts are considered as subsidiary members of the human community; their relationship with man is of course hierarchical and unequal, but the contract enables both man and animals to fulfil their proper functions. This analysis does not, however, wholly address the problem of the management of wild animals. Where then does this leave hunting?
Is Hunting Cruel?
On 22nd September hundreds of thousands will come to London for a Liberty and Livelihood March motivated principally by opposition to a ban on hunting with dogs. The current attempt to make hunting a criminal offence has acted as a catalyst bringing together many who are deeply troubled by the problems facing rural Britain and its communities and industries. All those on the march will not simply be there because of their concern for the countryside or for their passionate love of hunting, but because they believe that people should have the right to hunt. Those who oppose hunting say that there can be no right to do something that is inherently cruel, a position with which no one could disagree, including all those involved in hunting. Those who hunt, or support hunting, do so becausethey do not accept that it is cruel - it does not involve the infliction of unnecessary suffering. The moral principle being applied is that in man’s relations with other creatures it is wrong to intentionally inflict unnecessary suffering. Yet quarry species need to be managed and part of that management involves the death of animals. Many of us enjoy watching nature at work on our televisions; we watch animals hunting and the beauty of creation even if we derive no pleasure from the actual killing of one animal by another.
We do however think of it as natural. Those who hunt derive pleasure from not just watching passively but from partaking in this natural process. Mankind uses and refines a natural mechanism and uses it to ensure a proper balance of animal populations. The pleasure is derived from being part of that natural environment, not passively from the armchair but actively and responsibly in the great outdoors. Hunting is a natural, selective and humane way of managing the environment. It also nurtures an understanding and respect between those hunting and the quarry. It is for this reason that the deer herds of the West Country are the finest in Europe.
No Licence to Kill Indiscriminately
Does this mean that mankind has a right to do what he likes with animals? Of course not. Mankind has no right to inflict unnecessary suffering on any of God’s creatures or to abuse his environment. If hunting inflicted unnecessary suffering then it would indeed be wrong for man as a moral creature, with free will, to partake in such an activity. However, the case against hunting has not been made. Nearly four hundred vets, members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons reject the idea that hunting is cruel. Indeed they are of the opinion that: “hunting by hounds is the most natural and humane way of controlling the population of all four quarry species, fox, deer, hare and mink, in the countryside. Humane, since at all times the wild animal remains in its natural environment and therelatively short period of physiological stress that may be suffered in the final phase of the hunt, followed by the almost instantaneous kill is not only acceptable but is the preferred method of culling a wild animal.
Hunting produces no wounded survivors. Hunting is the only method of culling that selectively maintains the health and vigour of a species and which allows the quarry species respite during the breeding season. Hunting is environmentally friendly not only to the quarry species but to other wildlife.” Many clergy of all denominations hunt and support hunting. The evidence in favour of hunting is extensive but there is a more important point at stake—and that is liberty.
A World Turned Upside Down
In the world around us we see the manifestation of God and His wonders but we enjoy a unique position in that order, and have a duty towards, and responsibility for, God’s creation of which we are a part. We must play an active rôle in managing what is now in large part an environment shaped by man. The Animal Rights movement that so strongly opposes hunting distorts the right relationship between us and the rest of creation. In denying man his distinct dignity and misapplying the concept of rights to animals the freedom of the individual is threatened. Abortion, euthanasia are to be permitted but the use by man of a natural mechanism for pest control is considered so morally objectionable that people should be criminalised while the slaughter of the unborn goes on. Modern reproductivescience is closer than most people realise to the eugenics of the 1930’s – the designer baby phenomenon. How did we reach this paradoxical situation? We reached it by losing a proper understanding of what it is to be human, and where rights and responsibilities belong. Human beings have inalienable rights by virtue of our created natures, animals have rights because they are a part of God’s creation and man is accountable for his stewardship of them. They cannot however, have rights in the same sense or to the same degree.
Therefore, if hunting is not cruel, if what would replace hunting as a means of population control could be no better, then there is no conflict between a love and respect for creation and hunting. To ban it, with all the adverse implications this would have for animal welfare and for rural communities and conservation, would be profoundly illiberal and wrong. Once we start banning things simply because we don’t like them, or the idea of them, or simply do not understand them, then as a society all our rights and freedoms are at stake. The combination of prejudice with false, atheistic philosophical principles has led before to the horrors of totalitarianism.
It is not an exaggeration to suggest that a ban on hunting is a threat to all our freedoms, but a greater threat still is the victory it would represent for a powerful philosophy that destroys a proper understanding of what it is to be a human being and of our duty towards each other and the rest of creation. Catholics have a duty to oppose human cruelty in all its forms but also to defend the rights of the human person – the faith gives us the right balance between human rights and animal rights; extreme animal rights philosophies destroy that balance and they do so to society’s detriment as history has already shown.
St Francis of Assisi and St Hubert - Pray for Us
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Stats & Services
Financial Crimes Report 2010-2011
crimestats
Financial Crimes Report to the Public
Fiscal Years 2010-2011
(October 1, 2009 – September 30, 2011)
Overview and Priorities: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigates matters relating to fraud, theft, or embezzlement occurring within or against the national and international financial community. These crimes are characterized by deceit, concealment, or violation of trust and are not dependent upon the application or threat of physical force or violence. Such acts are committed by individuals and organizations to obtain personal or business advantage. The FBI focuses its financial crimes investigations on such criminal activities as corporate fraud, securities and commodities fraud, health care fraud, financial institution fraud, mortgage fraud, insurance fraud, mass marketing fraud, and money laundering. These are the identified priority crime problem areas of the Financial Crimes Section (FCS) of the FBI.
Mission: The mission of the FCS is to oversee the investigation of financial fraud and to facilitate the forfeiture of assets from those engaging in federal crimes.
In fiscal years (FY) 2010-2011, the FCS was comprised of the Asset Forfeiture/Money Laundering Unit (AF/MLU), the Economic Crimes Unit (ECU), the Health Care Fraud Unit (HCFU), the Forensic Accountant Unit (FAU), the Financial Institution Fraud Unit (FIFU), and the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC).
The ECU is responsible for significant frauds targeted against individuals, businesses, and industries, to include corporate fraud, insurance fraud (non-health care-related), securities and commodities fraud (e.g., investment fraud schemes such as Ponzi, pyramid, and advanced fee schemes and securities market manipulation schemes), and mass marketing fraud.
The HCFU oversees investigations targeting individuals and/or organizations who are defrauding public and private health care systems. Areas investigated under the HCFU include billing for services not rendered, billing for a higher reimbursable service than performed (upcoding), performing unnecessary services, kickbacks, unbundling of tests and services to generate higher fees, durable medical equipment (DME) fraud, pharmaceutical drug diversion, outpatient surgery fraud, and Internet pharmacy sales.
The mission of the FIFU is to identify, target, disrupt, and dismantle criminal organizations and individuals who engage in fraud schemes which impact financial institutions, particularly in the areas of mortgage fraud and bank failures.
The mission of the AF/MLU as it relates to financial institution fraud (FIF) is to identify, target, disrupt, and dismantle criminal organizations and individuals through the strategic use of asset forfeiture; and to ensure that field offices employ the money laundering violation in all investigations, where appropriate, to assist in the disruption and/or dismantlement of criminal enterprises.
The AF/MLU also has responsibilities for the management of the Forfeiture Support Project (FSP) in Calverton, Maryland. The FSP supports the forfeiture component of all major FBI investigations through data entry and analysis of financial documents, forensic accounting, and tracing assets subject to forfeiture.
The FAU was established in March 2009 to support all FBI investigative matters requiring a forensic financial investigation. The FAU provides oversight of the forensic accountant (FoA) and financial analyst (FA) programs, ensuring that the FBI’s financial investigative needs and priorities are continuously addressed. Key to the FAU’s mission is developing, managing, and enhancing the FoA and FA programs to ensure that FBI financial investigative matters are expedited with the high level of expertise required in an increasingly complex global financial system.
The FIC is a proactive data exploitation unit within the FCS, created in September 2009. It is staffed with a cadre of intelligence analysts (IA) and staff operations specialists (SOS). The FIC provides tactical analysis of financial intelligence datasets and databases by using evolving technology and data exploitation techniques to create targeting packages to identify or enhance the most egregious criminal enterprise investigations. The FIC has established liaison efforts with other government and private agencies to effectively address criminal threats through cooperative efforts. These partnerships will identify additional data sources to be exploited, thereby increasing information sharing with our partners. Although the FIC’s primary mission is to identify criminal threats, a secondary mission is to enhance ongoing investigations which involve large numbers of subjects connected to investigations in multiple field offices.
White-Collar Crime (WCC) National Priorities: Based upon FBI field office threat strategies and directives established by the president, the attorney general, the Director, and the Criminal Investigative Division (CID), the following national priorities for the WCC program (WCCP) have been established: public corruption, corporate fraud/securities fraud (to include Ponzi schemes), health care fraud, FIF (to include bank failures and mortgage fraud), insurance fraud, money laundering, and mass marketing fraud.
Although public corruption is a national priority within the WCCP, it will not be addressed in this report. Each section of this report provides an overview, statistical accomplishments, and case examples of the identified priority crime problems specifically addressed by the FCS. Where appropriate, suggestions are made in order to protect the public from being victimized by fraudulent activity.
As the lead agency investigating corporate fraud, the FBI has focused its efforts on cases which involve accounting schemes, self-dealing by corporate executives, and obstruction of justice. The majority of corporate fraud cases pursued by the FBI involve accounting schemes designed to deceive investors, auditors, and analysts about the true financial condition of a corporation or business entity. Through the manipulation of financial data, the share price, or other valuation measurements of a corporation, financial performance may remain artificially inflated based on fictitious performance indicators provided to the investing public. In addition to significant financial losses to investors, corporate fraud has the potential to cause immeasurable damage to the U.S. economy and investor confidence.
While the number of cases involving the falsification of financial information remains relatively stable, the FBI has observed an increase in the number of insider trading cases. Insider trading has been a continuous threat to the fair and orderly operation of the U.S. financial markets and has robbed the investing public of some degree of trust that markets operate fairly. The dissemination of material, non-public information, commonly referred to as insider information, has also caused irreparable harm to victim institutions whose employees illegally pass privileged corporate information. The FBI has worked extensively with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to target the widespread problem of insider trading which has plagued the fair and orderly operation of the securities markets.
Additionally, corporate fraud matters involving self-dealing by corporate executives, particularly utilizing companies to perpetrate large-scale, high-yield fraud schemes, continue to be an issue of concern. Traditionally, Ponzi schemes were perpetrated by individuals or small groups within a community environment. However, the current financial crisis resulted in the exposure of several large Ponzi schemes (e.g. Petters Worldwide investigation) perpetrated not on an individual community level, but on a corporate national level by executives of what were once considered legitimate companies.
The FBI continues to address corporate fraud cases—specifically involving subprime lending institutions, brokerage houses, home-building firms, hedge funds, and financial institutions—as a result of the financial crisis partly caused by the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the fall of 2007. As a result of the current financial crisis, trillions of dollars in shareholder value were lost, several prominent companies went out of business, several prominent banks failed, and the federal government provided over a trillion dollars in relief to keep other companies from failing.
A subprime mortgage lender is a business that lends to borrowers who do not qualify for loans from mainstream lenders. Once the subprime loans have been issued, they are bundled and sold as securities—a process known as securitization. Fraud has been identified throughout the loan process, which commences with the borrower providing false information to the mortgage broker and/or lender. The next layer of potential fraud— the corporate fraud—occurs with the banks, brokerage houses, and other financial institutions that package loans through the securitization process. As the housing market declined, subprime lenders have been forced to buy back a number of nonperforming loans. Many of these subprime lenders have relied on a continuous increase in real estate values to allow the borrowers to refinance or sell their properties before going into default. However, based on the sales slowdown in the housing market, loan defaults increased, the secondary market for subprime securities dwindled, and the securities lost value. As a result, publicly traded stocks dramatically decreased in value as financial institutions realized large losses due to the subprime securities they held or insured, resulting in financial difficulties and bankruptcies. After experiencing a dramatic rise in cases during FY 2009, the number of investigations pertaining to the subprime industry has remained relatively stable during the last two years.
As publicly traded companies suffered financial difficulties due to subprime market losses, analyses of company financials have identified instances of false accounting entries and fraudulently inflated assets and revenues. Investigations have determined that several of these companies manipulated their reported loan portfolio risks and used various accounting schemes to inflate their financial reports. Additionally, before these companies’ stocks rapidly declined in value, executives with insider information sold their equity positions and profited illegally. The FBI continues to coordinate with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the SEC, and other U.S. law enforcement and regulatory agencies to identify and address possible corporate fraud.
Corporate fraud remains one of the highest priorities in CID. At the end of FY 2011, 726 corporate fraud cases were being pursued by FBI field offices throughout the United States, several of which involved losses to public investors that individually exceed $1 billion.
Corporate fraud investigations involve the following activities:
Falsification of financial information of public and private corporations, including:
False accounting entries and/or misrepresentations of financial condition;
Fraudulent trades designed to inflate profit or hide losses; and
Illicit transactions designed to evade regulatory oversight.
Self-dealing by corporate insiders, including:
Insider trading—trading based on material, non-public information—including, but not limited to:
Corporate insiders leaking proprietary information;
Attorneys involved in merger and acquisition negotiations leaking info;
Matchmaking firms facilitating information leaks;
Traders profiting or avoiding losses through trading; and
Payoffs or bribes in exchange for leaked information.
Kickbacks;
Misuse of corporate property for personal gain; and
Individual tax violations related to self-dealing.
Obstruction of justice designed to conceal any of the above-noted types of criminal conduct, particularly when the obstruction impedes the inquiries of the SEC, other regulatory agencies, and/or law enforcement agencies.
The FBI has formed partnerships with numerous agencies to capitalize on its expertise in specific areas such as securities, tax, pensions, energy, and commodities. The FBI has placed greater emphasis on investigating allegations of these frauds by working closely with the SEC, Financial Industry Regulation Authority (FINRA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of Labor, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), among others. In September 2010, the FBI executed a memorandum of understanding with the SEC and placed a supervisory special agent within the SEC’s Office of Market Intelligence in order to facilitate cooperation in a variety of financial investigations. This assignment has facilitated case referrals between both agencies. In addition, the FBI is an active member of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (FFETF) created by Presidential Executive Order in November 2009. As reflected in the statistical accomplishments of the FBI, the cooperative and multiagency investigative approach has resulted in highly successful prosecutions.
The FBI has also worked with numerous organizations in the private industry to increase public awareness about combating corporate fraud, including the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. These organizations have been able to provide referrals for expert witnesses and other technical assistance regarding accounting and securities issues. In addition, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and Dun & Bradstreet have been able to provide significant background information on subject individuals and/or subject companies to further investigative efforts.
Overall Accomplishments
During FY 2011, cases pursued by the FBI resulted in 242 indictments/informations and 241 convictions of corporate criminals. Numerous cases are pending plea agreements and trials. During FY 2011, the FBI secured $2.4 billion in restitution orders and $16.1 million in fines from corporate criminals. The chart below reflects corporate fraud pending cases from FY 2007 through FY 2011.
Beazer Homes (Charlotte): A subprime-related corporate fraud investigation conducted by the Charlotte Field Office recently culminated in the trial conviction of the former chief accounting officer of Beazer Homes USA (Beazer). Executives at Beazer, a former Fortune 500 company located in Charlotte, North Carolina, encouraged the use of false information to finance and sell homes and to manipulate corporate earnings to meet specific goals. This manipulation of earnings, referred to as cookie jar accounting, allowed Beazer to reduce its net income during strong financial periods and provide it with excess balances and reserves, allowing it to “smooth earnings” during times of underperformance. On July 1, 2009, Beazer entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) acknowledging corporate culpability in this complex fraud scheme. As part of the DPA, Beazer agreed to pay restitution of $50 million and continued to cooperate with the government’s criminal investigation of former Beazer executives. On October 28, 2011, Michael Rand, the former chief accounting officer of Beazer, was convicted on seven of 11 counts after a three-week trial. Sentencing is planned for 2012.
Colonial Bank and Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (Washington, D.C.): Another notable success was the sentencing of multiple executives from Colonial Bank and Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW). The Washington Field Office investigated a subprime-related conspiracy committed by senior executives at Colonial Bank and TBW, a major U.S. mortgage originator, who conducted a several-billion-dollar accounting fraud through back-dating of loans and the creation of fictitious loans which inflated loan asset values. Additionally, Colonial Bank fraudulently sought to acquire $553 million in TARP funds, which was prevented by the FBI in conjunction with the SIGTARP. In August 2009, TBW closed after it could no longer issue government-backed loans. In August 2009, the Alabama State Banking Department closed Colonial Bank due to liquidity problems. The failure of Colonial Bank represents the sixth- largest bank failure since the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Colonial Bank’s former senior vice president, Cathy Kissick, and TBW chief executive officer Paul Allen pled guilty and, in June 2011, were sentenced to eight years and 40 months in prison, respectively. In April 2011, after a 10-day trial, a jury found former TBW chairman Lee Farkas guilty on 14 counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, and securities fraud. Farkas was later sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment.
Galleon Group (New York): The New York Field Office conducted multiple investigations into insider trading. Targets of this investigation included Wall Street analysts and insiders, lawyers, hedge fund analysts and traders, company insiders, and professional consulting firms. Insiders from corporations such as McKinsey & Company, International Business Machines, Advanced Micro Devices, and Goldman Sachs have been charged for the unauthorized release of proprietary corporate information. The most prominent individual convicted in the investigation to date is Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the $7 billion Galleon Group hedge fund. Mr. Rajaratnam was convicted in May 2011 by a federal jury on all 14 counts he faced pertaining to his insider trading activity and was subsequently sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment. This investigation has shown the FBI’s propensity to use all tools available at its discretion, including Title IIIs, to combat financial crimes. As of September 30, 2011, 48 convictions have been obtained in this wide-ranging FBI probe into illicit insider trading activity on Wall Street and in the boardrooms across the United States.
Securities and Commodities Fraud
The continued uncertainty and volatility of today’s financial markets could be measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average movement from 12,681 on July 22, 2011, to 10,655 on October 3, 2011. As a result of such tumultuous markets, the FBI witnessed a steady rise in securities and commodities frauds as investors sought alternative investment opportunities. With the development of new schemes and trends—such as securities market manipulation via cyber intrusion, the increase in commodities fraud, the continued rise of Ponzi schemes, and foreign-based reverse merger market manipulation schemes—securities and commodities fraud is on the rise. Since 2008, securities and commodities fraud investigations have increased by 52 percent, and the FBI currently has over 1,800 pending investigations. During this period, the losses associated with these types of schemes have increased to billions of dollars. The losses are associated with depreciative market value of businesses, reduced or nonexistent return on investments, and legal and investigative costs. The victims of securities and commodities frauds include individual investors, financial institutions, public and private companies, government entities, pension funds, and retirement funds.
The continuing integration of global capital markets has created unprecedented opportunities for U.S. businesses to access capital and investors to diversify their portfolios. Whether through individual brokerage accounts, college savings plans, or retirement accounts (e.g. 401k plans), more and more Americans are choosing to invest in the U.S. securities and commodities markets. This growth has led to a corresponding growth in the amount of fraud and misconduct seen in these markets. The creation of complex investment vehicles and the tremendous increase in the amount of money being invested have created greater opportunities for individuals and businesses to perpetrate fraudulent investment schemes. The recent financial crisis led to the identification of numerous investment fraud schemes, many of which were Ponzi schemes. The number of investment frauds continues to grow as investors remain susceptible in the current uncertainty of the global economy. The securities and commodities frauds being investigated include market manipulation, investment frauds, and miscellaneous matters such as broker embezzlement. In response to this growing threat, the FBI has increased the number of agents addressing it by 61 percent, an increase of approximately 91 agents since 2008.
Additionally, the FBI works closely with various governmental and private entities to investigate and prevent fraudulent activity in the financial markets. In an effort to optimize workforce needs, many FBI field offices operate task forces and working groups with other law enforcement and regulatory agencies. These agencies include the SEC, U.S. Attorney’s Offices (USAO), CFTC, FINRA, USPIS, and the IRS, among others, serving as force multipliers to more effectively address the securities and commodities fraud threat. Nationally, the FBI participates in several working groups and task forces such as the FFETF. The FFETF was established by President Obama to coordinate the efforts of the DOJ at all levels of government to disrupt and dismantle significant large-scale criminal enterprises.
Valuable partnerships have been instrumental in orchestrating national financial crimes takedowns, or “sweeps,” during the last few years. By coordinating fraud cases into a nationwide takedown, the FBI and its partners have raised public awareness of its enforcement efforts and deterred future fraud. Operation Broken Trust (OBT) was a multi-agency national initiative which coordinated the efforts of government agencies against various securities fraud threats. OBT featured criminal, civil, and community outreach components. The sweep targeted individuals and companies who engaged in criminal and civil securities fraud which occurred sometime from August 16, 2010 through December 1, 2010. For the criminal component coordinated by the FBI, this included arrests, complaints, informations/indictments, convictions, sentences, and seizures/forfeitures. The focus of the sweep was schemes to defraud individual investors, affinity fraud, prime bank fraud, commodities frauds, and market manipulation cases such as “pump and dump” schemes.
On December 6, 2010, the FFETF-Securities Fraud Working Group held a national press conference to announce the conclusion of OBT. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gave remarks on behalf of DOJ. In coordination with the national press conference, local press conferences were held across the country by U.S. attorneys participating in the operation. The operation involved 343 criminal defendants nationwide and more than 120,000 victims with losses attributable to alleged criminal activity of more than $8 billion.
The following are the most prevalent types of securities and commodities fraud:
Investment Fraud: These schemes, sometimes referred to as high yield investment fraud, involve the illegal sale or purported sale of financial instruments. Financial instruments are defined broadly as any contract that gives rise to a financial asset of one entity and a financial liability or equity instrument to another entity. These instruments can be a tradable asset of any kind, to include registered securities and commodities and unregistered securities (e.g. a simple promissory note between the fraudster and his/her victim investors). Schemes take on many forms, and perpetrators quickly alter schemes as they are thwarted by law enforcement. The typical investment fraud schemes are characterized by offers of low- or no-risk investments, guaranteed returns, overly consistent returns, complex strategies, or unregistered securities. These schemes often seek to victimize affinity groups—such as groups with a common religion or ethnicity—to utilize the common interests to build trust to effectively operate the investment fraud against them. The perpetrators range from professional investment advisers and hedge funds to those trusted and interacted with daily, such as a neighbor or sports coach. The fraudster’s ability to foster trust makes these schemes so successful, and investors should use scrutiny and gather as much information as possible before entering into any new investment opportunities. Investors can find background information on registered investment advisers at www.sec.gov and registered brokers and brokerage firms at www.finra.org. The following are additional definitions of the most common investment fraud scheme variations:
Ponzi Schemes: A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors. Ponzi schemes often share common characteristics, such as offering overly consistent returns, unregistered investments, high returns with little or no risk, or secretive or complex strategies. This arrangement gives investors the impression there is a legitimate, money-making enterprise behind the subject’s story, but in reality, unwitting investors are the only source of funding.
Affinity Fraud: Perpetrators of affinity fraud take advantage of the tendency of people to trust others with whom they share similarities—such as religion or ethnic identity—to gain their trust and money.
Pyramid Schemes: In pyramid schemes, as in Ponzi schemes, money collected from new participants is paid to earlier participants. In pyramid schemes, however, participants receive commissions for recruiting new participants into the scheme.
Prime Bank Investment Fraud: In these schemes, perpetrators claim to have access to a secret trading program endorsed by large financial institutions such as the Federal Reserve Bank, Treasury Department, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, etc. Perpetrators often claim the unusually high rates of return and low risk are the result of a worldwide “secret” exchange open only to the world’s largest financial institutions. Victims are often drawn into prime bank investment frauds because the criminals use sophisticated terms, legal-looking documents, and claim the investments are insured against loss.
Advance Fee Fraud: Advance fee schemes require victims to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing much larger gains. Not all advance fee schemes are investment frauds. In those that are, however, victims are told that in order to have the opportunity to be an investor (in an initial offering of a promising security, investment or commodity, etc.), the victim must first send funds to cover taxes or processing fees, etc.
Promissory Notes: These are generally short-term debt instruments issued by little-known or nonexistent companies. The notes typically promise high returns with little or no risk and are typically not registered as securities with the appropriate regulatory agency.
Commodities Fraud: Commodities fraud is the sale or purported sale of a commodity through illegal means. Commodities are raw materials or semi-finished goods that are relatively uniform in nature and are sold on an exchange (e.g., gold, pork bellies, orange juice, and coffee). Most commodities frauds involve illicit marketing or trading in commodities futures or options. Perpetrators often offer investment opportunities in the commodities markets that falsely promise high rates of return with little or no risk. Two common types of commodities investment frauds include:
Foreign Currency Exchange (Forex) Fraud: The perpetrators of Forex frauds entice individuals into investing in the spot foreign currency market through false claims and high-pressure sales tactics. Foreign currency firms that engage in this type of fraud invest client funds into the Forex market—not with the intent to conduct a profitable trade for the client, but merely to “churn” the client’s account. Churning creates large commission charges benefiting the trading firm. In other Forex frauds, the perpetrator creates artificial account statements that reflect purported investments when, in reality, no such investments have been made. Instead, the money has been diverted for the perpetrator’s personal use.
Precious Metals Fraud: These fraud schemes offer investment opportunities in metals commodities such as rare earth, gold, and silver. The perpetrators of precious metals frauds entice individuals into investing in the commodity through false claims and high-pressure sales tactics. Oftentimes in these frauds, the perpetrators create artificial account statements that reflect purported investments when, in reality, no such investments have been made. Instead, the money has been diverted for the perpetrators’ personal use.
Market Manipulation: These schemes, commonly referred to as “pump-and-dumps,” are effected by creating artificial buying pressure for a targeted security, generally a low-trading volume issuer in the over-the-counter securities market that is largely controlled by the fraud perpetrators. This artificially increased trading volume has the effect of artificially increasing the price of the targeted security (i.e., the “pump”), which is rapidly sold off into the inflated market for the security by the fraud perpetrators (i.e., the “dump”). These actions result in illicit gains to the perpetrators and losses to innocent third-party investors. Typically, the increased trading volume is generated by inducing unwitting investors to purchase shares of the targeted security through false or deceptive sales practices and/or public information releases.
A modern variation on these schemes involves largely foreign-based computer criminals gaining unauthorized access and intruding into the online brokerage accounts of unsuspecting victims in the United States. These intruded victim accounts are then used to engage in coordinated online purchases of the targeted security to affect manipulation while the fraud perpetrators sell their preexisting holdings in the targeted security into the inflated market.
Broker Embezzlement: These schemes involve illicit and unauthorized actions by brokers to steal directly from their clients. Such schemes may be facilitated by the forging of client documents, doctoring of account statements, unauthorized trading/funds transfer activities, or other conduct in breach of the broker’s fiduciary responsibilities to the victim client.
Late-Day Trading: These schemes involve the illicit purchase and sale of securities after regular market hours. Such trading is restricted in order to prevent individuals from profiting on market-moving information which is released after the close of regular trading. Unscrupulous traders attempt to illegally exploit such opportunities by buying or selling securities at the market close price, secure in the knowledge that the market-moving information will generate illicit profits at the opening of trading on the following day.
As of the end of FY 2011, the FBI was investigating 1,846 cases of securities and commodities fraud and had recorded 520 indictments/informations and 394 convictions against this criminal threat. Additional notable accomplishments in FY 2011 include: $8.8 billion in restitution orders; $36 million in recoveries; $113 million in fines; and $751 million in forfeitures. The chart below reflects securities and commodities fraud pending cases from FY 2007 through FY 2011.
Joseph Blimline, Provident Royalties (Dallas): This investigation centered on Joseph Blimline, who orchestrated one of North Texas’ largest oil and gas investment Ponzi schemes, defrauding 7,700 investors of over $485 million. Beginning in 2006, Blimline and others involved at Provident Royalties made false representations and failed to disclose other material facts to their investors. The investors were not told that Blimeline had received millions of dollars in unsecured loans and had been previously charged with securities fraud. Blimline issued approximately 20 oil and gas offerings, raising over several hundred million dollars from investors. Blimline used a significant amount of the money raised in these offerings to purchase oil and gas assets from earlier offerings and to pay dividends to earlier investors to facilitate the scheme. On August 31, 2010, Blimline pled guilty to an information. Blimline is awaiting sentencing in January 2012.
A&O Entities (Richmond): A&O originally sold fractionalized, no-risk interests in life insurance policies, primarily to elderly investors, with promised rates of return from 9-15 percent. A&O bank accounts were under the control of the owners of A&O, who diverted more than $50 million for their personal benefit. On September 27, 2011, co-conspirator Chris Allmendinger was sentenced to 45 years’ imprisonment for his role in the scheme. On September 28, 2011, Adley Adulwahab was sentenced to 60 years’ imprisonment, which is the second-longest white-collar criminal sentence in the history of the Eastern District of Virginia. As of September 30, 2011, seven subjects have been sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from three years to 60 years for their roles in this Ponzi scheme, which bilked more than 800 investors out of more than $100 million. This case was investigated jointly with the Virginia Financial and Securities Fraud Task Force.
Nicholas Cosmo (New York): Nicholas Cosmo was the owner and president of Agape World, Inc. and Agape Merchant Advance LLC (AMA). Cosmo, through Agape and AMA, solicited money from investors purportedly to provide bridge loans to companies. Cosmo and his sales force promised investors returns of 12 to 15 percent per month. The investor funds were ultimately used to pay Cosmo’s personal expenses, pay back previous investors, and speculate in future contracts. In April 2009, Nicholas Cosmo was indicted on charges of mail fraud in connection with operating a several-hundred-million-dollar Ponzi scheme. On October 14, 2011, Cosmo was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was also ordered to pay $179 million in restitution to more than 4,000 victims and agreed to an asset forfeiture judgment in the amount of $409,305,000 as part of his sentence.
The FBI’s mission in health care fraud (HCF) is to oversee the FBI’s HCF initiatives by providing national guidance and assistance to support HCF investigations targeting individuals and organizations who are defrauding the public and private health care systems. The FBI works closely with its federal, state, and local law enforcement partners; the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); and other government and privately sponsored program participants to address vulnerabilities, fraud, and abuse.
All health care programs are subject to fraud; however, Medicare and Medicaid programs are the most visible. Estimates of fraudulent billings to health care programs, both public and private, are estimated between 3 and 10 percent of total health care expenditures. The fraud schemes are not specific to any area, but they are found throughout the entire country. The schemes target large health care programs, public and private, as well as beneficiaries. Certain schemes tend to be worked more often in certain geographical areas, and certain ethnic or national groups tend to also employ the same fraud schemes. The fraud schemes have, over time, become more sophisticated and complex and are now being perpetrated by more organized crime groups.
Emerging Trends and Projections: HCF is expected to continue to rise as people live longer. This increase will produce a greater demand for Medicare benefits. As a result, it is expected that the utilization of long- and short-term care facilities such as skilled nursing, assisted living, and hospice services will expand substantially in the future. Additionally, fraudulent billings and medically unnecessary services billed to health care insurers are prevalent throughout the country. These activities are becoming increasingly complex and can be perpetrated by corporate-driven schemes and systematic abuse by providers.
The most recent CMS statistical estimates project that total health care expenditures are estimated to total $2.4 trillion, representing 14 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). By the year 2016, CMS estimates total health care spending to exceed $4.14 trillion, representing 19.6 percent of the GDP.
With health care expenditures consistently increasing, it is especially important to coordinate all investigative efforts to combat fraud within the health care system. The FBI is the primary investigative agency in the fight against HCF and has jurisdiction over both the federal and private insurance programs. With more than $1 trillion being spent in the private sector on health care and its related services, the FBI’s efforts are crucial to the success of the overall program. The FBI leverages its resources in both the private and public arenas through investigative partnerships with agencies such as the Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Drug Enforcement Administration, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Office of Personnel Management, IRS-CID, and various state and local agencies. On the private side, the FBI is actively involved with national groups such as the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), as well as many other professional and grassroots efforts to expose and investigate fraud within the system.
Collaboration: In furtherance of the FBI’s efforts to combat HCF in the United States, the FBI participates in various initiatives with federal, state, and local agencies. At the Headquarters level, the FBI participates in a senior level working group which includes the CMS, DOJ, HHS-OIG, and other agencies to identify and assess health care industry vulnerabilities and make recommendations to protect the industry and the public through a coordinated effort. At the Headquarters level, the FBI is also involved in coordination meetings at the DOJ which include various DOJ components involved in the fight against HCF. National-level liaison is also maintained with federal law enforcement agencies, the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and other partners.
Throughout the country, FBI field offices participate in HCF working groups which involve law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, regulatory agencies, and health insurance industry professionals to identify the various crime problems involving HCF. The FBI develops national and local initiatives when large-scale fraud is detected, which may involve participation by several FBI field offices and other law enforcement agencies.
During the past year, the FBI continued to identify and analyze industry fraud trends through input from private and public health care program experts. Present areas of concern include DME; hospital fraud; physician fraud; home health agencies; beneficiary-sharing; chiropractic, pain management, and associated drug diversion; physical therapists; prescription drugs; multidisciplinary fraud; and identity theft which involves physician identifiers used to fraudulently bill government and private insurance programs.
As part of our national strategy to address HCF, the FBI cooperates with the DOJ and the various USAOs throughout the country to pursue offenders through parallel criminal and civil remedies. These cases typically target large-scale medical providers, such as hospitals and corporations, who engage in criminal activity and commit fraud against the government which undermines the credibility of the health care system. As a result, a great deal of emphasis is placed on recovering the illegal proceeds through seizure and forfeiture proceedings as well as substantial civil settlements. Upon the successful conviction of HCF offenders, the FBI provides assistance to various regulatory and state agencies, which may seek exclusion of convicted medical providers from further participation in the Medicare and Medicaid health care systems.
Data Mining Techniques: The FBI and the health care industry continue to expand their technology and intelligence assessments through the use of sophisticated data-mining techniques to identify patterns of fraud, systemic weaknesses, and aberrant billing activity.
In 2005, the FCS developed the Electronic Bank Records Initiative (EBRI). The EBRI was implemented to identify and develop a process for obtaining electronic (digital format) records from financial institutions. Historically, financial institutions have provided paper copies of records to law enforcement when they receive a subpoena from the government. These records are generally maintained by the banks in an electronic format. The time it takes the financial institution to make the copies of the records and for the investigative agencies to return the paper copies back to an electronic format for financial analysis creates a severe negative effect on the timeliness, effectiveness, and efficiency of investigations. In an effort to increase the efficiency of the process, a subpoena attachment was developed by the DOJ, FBI, and IRS-CID for the production of electronic records instead of paper copies. The development included significant coordination with the financial institutions and their associations. The subpoena attachment was not based upon new or expanded laws, regulations, or rules. The attachment is merely meant to standardize and clarify the requests for electronic records according to the current federal rules of criminal and civil procedure. In general terms, if a financial institution maintains records electronically, the requesting agency would be seeking to obtain the records electronically. In addition, the scope of the records requested has not changed due to the subpoena attachment, with the exception of seeking the records electronically.
The subpoena attachment was disseminated to FBI offices, IRS offices, and throughout the DOJ in November 2007. The goal of the DOJ, FBI, and IRS-CID is to inform and prepare financial institutions and their respective agencies for the use and response to the subpoena attachment. This includes working with financial institutions during the transition period in coordinating the requests and associated responses to subpoenas. In addition, it is anticipated the EBRI will greatly increase the efficiency of the financial records production process and provide significant costs savings to both the government and private industry.
Through FY 2011, 2,690 cases investigated by the FBI resulted in 1,676 informations/indictments and 736 convictions of HCF criminals. It should be noted that numerous cases are pending plea agreements and trials. The following notable statistical accomplishments are reflective in FY 2011 for HCF: $1.2 billion in restitutions; $1 billion in fines; $96 million in seizures; $320 million in civil restitution; and over $1 billion in civil settlements. The chart below reflects HCF pending cases from FY 2007 through FY 2011.
Glaxosmithkline (GSK) (San Juan): Drugs manufactured at the GSK plant located in Cidra, Puerto Rico were not safe and/or effective and, therefore, claims for payment of prescription drugs made by GSK to Medicare, state Medicaid programs, and other state and federal purchasers of prescription drugs were false or fraudulent. GSK is accused of distributing reject drug product to the U.S. market and submitting false claims for drug products that were not safe and/or effective. Drugs affected include, but are not limited to, Avandamet, Coreg, Bactroban, Abreva, Cimetidine, and Kytril. GSK allegedly lied to the FDA in order to conceal those violations. GSK’s violations of current good manufacturing practices include, but are not limited to, product mix-ups; inadequate investigation of out-of-specification results detected during laboratory testing; inadequate process validation and equipment calibration; and substandard quality and control of the plant’s water systems, resulting in microbial contamination of drug products. On December 26, 2010, GSK pled guilty to charges relating to the manufacture and distribution of certain adulterated drugs. A $600 million civil settlement under the False Claims Act was agreed upon in addition to $150 million in criminal fines and forfeiture.
American Therapeutic Corporation (Miami): This matter was initiated by a civil qui tam filed unsealed by a relator. The investigation into American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC) addressed an identified threat of community mental health center fraud within South Florida. ATC has been identified as the largest community medical health center (CMHC) in Florida, and its owners and operators of facilities have submitted approximately $205 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, with approximately $85 million being reimbursed. ATC owners allegedly have been engaged in widespread fraud and have paid kickbacks to assisted living facilities in order to recruit patients for unnecessary group therapy programs and partial hospitalization programs. This investigation has brought greater awareness to the fraud and abuse of CMHCs within South Florida. Payments to ATC have been suspended, thereby protecting the federal trust fund for Medicare. On September 16, 2011, owner Lawrence Duran was sentenced to 50 years in prison and restitution of $87,533,863. On September 19, 2011, owner Marianella Valera was sentenced to 35 years in prison and restitution of $87,533,863. Over 20 defendants were indicted and arrested as part of the investigation, which was worked jointly by FBI Miami and HHS-OIG, along with trial attorneys from DOJ.
Health Care Fraud Schemes
HCF is carried out by many segments of the health care system using various methods. Some of the most prevalent schemes include:
Billing for Services not Rendered: These schemes can have several meanings and could include any of the following:
No medical service of any kind was rendered.
The service was not rendered as described in the claim for payment.
The service was previously billed and the claim had been paid.
Upcoding of Services: This type of scheme involves a billing practice where the health care provider submits a bill using a procedure code that yields a higher payment than the code for the service that was truly rendered. The upcoding of services varies according to the provider type. Examples of service upcoding include:
A routine, follow-up doctor’s office visit being billed as an initial or comprehensive office visit.
Group therapy being billed as individual therapy.
Unilateral procedures being billed as bilateral procedures.
30-minute sessions being billed as 50+ minute sessions.
Upcoding of Items: A medical supplier is upcoding when, for example, the supplier delivers to the patient a basic, manually propelled wheelchair, but bills the patient’s health insurance plan for a more expensive motorized version of the wheelchair.
Duplicate Claims: A duplicate claim usually involves a certain item or service for which two claims are filed. In this scheme, an exact copy of the claim is not filed a second time; rather, the provider usually changes a portion, most often the date of service on the claim, so that the health insurer will not realize the claim is a duplicate. In other words, the exact claim is not filed twice, but one service is billed two times, in an attempt to be paid twice for one service.
Unbundling: This is the practice of submitting bills in a fragmented fashion in order to maximize the reimbursement for various tests or procedures that are required to be billed together at a reduced cost. For example, clinical laboratory tests may be ordered individually, or in a “panel” (i.e., a lipid panel, an arthritis panel, a hepatitis panel). Billing tests within each panel as though they were done individually on subsequent days is an example of unbundling.
Excessive Services: These schemes typically involve the provision of medical services or items which are in excess of the patient’s actual needs. Examples of excessive services include:
A medical supply company delivering and billing for 30 wound care kits per week for a nursing home patient who only requires a change of dressings once per day.
Daily medical office visits conducted and billed for when monthly office visits would be more than adequate.
Medically Unnecessary Services: A service is medically unnecessary and may give rise to a fraudulent scheme when the service is not justified by the patient’s medical condition or diagnosis. For example, a claim for payment for an electrocardiogram test may be fraudulent if the patient has no conditions, complaints, or factors which would necessitate the test.
Kickbacks: A health care provider or other person engages in an illegal kickback scheme when he or she offers, solicits, pays, or accepts money, or something of value, in exchange for the referral of a patient for health care services that may be paid for by Medicare or Medicaid. A laboratory owner and doctor each violate the Anti-Kickback Statute when the laboratory owner pays the doctor $50 for each Medicare patient a doctor sends to the laboratory for testing. Although kickbacks are often paid in cash based on a percentage of the amount paid by Medicare or Medicaid for a service, kickbacks may take other forms such as jewelry, free paid vacations, or other valuable items.
Health Care Fraud Prevention Measures
HCF is not a victimless crime. It increases health care costs for everyone. It is as dangerous as identity theft. Fraud has left many thousands of people injured. Participation in HCF is a crime.
Keeping America’s health system free from fraud requires active participation from each of us. The large number of patients, treatments, and complex billing practices attracts criminals skilled in victimizing innocent people by committing fraud.
What is Health Care Fraud?
Altered or fabricated medical bills and other documents.
Excessive or unnecessary treatments.
Billing schemes, such as:
charging for a service more expensive than the one provided.
charging for services that were not provided.
duplicate charges.
False or exaggerated medical disability.
Collecting on multiple policies for the same illness or injury.
Tips to Protect Yourself Against Health Care Fraud
Protect your health insurance information card like a credit card.
Beware of free services—is it too good to be true?
Review your medical bills, such as your “explanation of benefits,” after receiving health care services. Check to ensure the dates and services are correct to ensure you get what you paid for.
If you suspect HCF, contact your insurance company. You can also contact your local FBI field office and/or the local Department of HHS-OIG Office.
Mortgage Fraud
The mission of the Financial Institution Fraud Unit (FIFU) is to oversee the investigation of financial industry fraud schemes perpetrated by individuals, as well as criminal organizations, which target our nation’s financial institutions.
The FIFU protects the public’s interest by educating individuals and businesses about pervasive financial industry fraud schemes; working closely with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; and maintaining liaison contacts with our regulatory and industry partners. In addition, the FIFU obtains relevant intelligence data to prepare proactive strategies to neutralize current and emerging financial threats. The FIFU has oversight responsibilities of the mortgage fraud, financial institution fraud, credit card fraud, and bankruptcy fraud subprograms.
In 2011, mortgage loan originations were at their lowest levels since 2001. This can be partially attributed to tighter underwriting standards following the financial crisis. This decrease in loan originations has resulted in a corresponding decrease in new loan origination fraud investigations. Foreclosures and delinquencies, on the other hand, have skyrocketed over the past few years, with a corresponding increase in mortgage fraud schemes aimed at distressed homeowners. For the first time in recent history, distressed homeowner fraud has displaced loan origination fraud as the number one mortgage fraud threat in many offices. Though the FBI considers loan origination fraud to be the most egregious type of mortgage fraud because of the high dollar losses attendant therewith, the FBI has now adapted its focus to include other new and emerging schemes.
Mortgage fraud schemes employ some type of material misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission relating to a real estate transaction which is relied on by one or more parties to the transaction These schemes include:
Foreclosure rescue schemes
Loan modification schemes
Illegal property flipping
Builder bailout/condo conversion
Equity skimming
Silent second
Home equity conversion mortgage
Air loans
Mortgage fraud is a part of the FIF subprogram within the FBI’s WCCP. The FBI investigates mortgage fraud in two distinct areas: fraud for profit and fraud for housing. Those who commit mortgage fraud for profit are often industry insiders using their specialized knowledge or authority to commit or facilitate the fraud. Current investigations and widespread reporting indicate a high percentage of mortgage fraud involves collusion by industry insiders, such as bank officers, appraisers, mortgage brokers, attorneys, loan originators, and other professionals engaged in the industry. Fraud for housing typically represents illegal actions conducted solely by the borrower, who is motivated to acquire and maintain ownership of a house under false pretenses such as misrepresented income and asset information on a loan application.
One of the ways the FBI becomes aware of mortgage fraud is through the analysis of suspicious activity reports (SARs), which are filed by federally insured financial institutions. Mortgage fraud SARs have increased from 6,936 in FY 2003 to 93,508 in FY 2011. These SARs provide valuable intelligence in mortgage fraud trends and can lead to the initiation of mortgage fraud cases as well as the enhancement of current FBI investigations.
Note: Of those SARs that report a dollar loss, approximately 82 percent do not contain a dollar loss amount.
FBI Response: With elevated levels of mortgage fraud, the FBI has continued to dedicate significant resources to the threat. The FBI has increased the number of agents who investigate mortgage fraud cases from 120 special agents in FY 2007 to 325 special agents in FY 2011. FBI pending mortgage fraud cases have increased from 1,199 in FY 2007 to 2,691 in FY 2011, with a peak of 3,129 in FY 2010.
The FBI employs advanced and/or sophisticated investigative techniques, such as undercover operations and wiretaps, which result in the collection of valuable evidence and provide an opportunity to apprehend criminals in the commission of their crimes. This ultimately reduces the losses to individuals and financial institutions. The FBI has also instituted several intelligence initiatives to support mortgage fraud investigations and has improved law enforcement and industry relationships. The FBI has established methodology to proactively identify potential mortgage fraud targets using tactical analysis coupled with advanced statistical correlations and computer technologies.
In September 2009, the FBI established the FIC to provide tactical analysis of intelligence datasets and financial databases. The FIC uses evolving technology and data exploitation techniques to create targeting packages to identify the most egregious criminal enterprises and to enhance current criminal investigations. The FIC has worked jointly with the FIFU to assist the field offices by creating mortgage fraud targeting packages.
The FBI continues to enhance liaison partnerships within the mortgage industry and law enforcement to promote mortgage fraud awareness and share intelligence. As part of the effort to address mortgage fraud, the FBI continues to support 25 mortgage fraud task forces and 67 working groups. The FBI also participates in the DOJ National Mortgage Fraud and National Bank Fraud Working Groups, as well as the FFETF. The FFETF’s mission is to enhance the government’s effectiveness in sharing information to help prevent and combat financial fraud. FBI personnel routinely participate in various mortgage industry conferences and seminars, including those sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Collaborative educational efforts are ongoing to raise public awareness of mortgage fraud schemes through the publication of the annual Mortgage Fraud Report and this report, and through the dissemination of information jointly or between various industry and consumer organizations. Analytic products are routinely distributed to a wide audience, including public and private sector industry partners, the intelligence community, and other federal, state, and local law enforcement partners.
In June 2010, Operation Stolen Dreams was the largest collective enforcement effort ever brought to bear in confronting mortgage fraud. This FIFU-led initiative involved 1,517 criminal defendants nationwide, who were allegedly responsible for more than $3 billion in losses. Additionally, the operation resulted in 191 civil enforcement actions and the recovery of more than $196 million.
The FBI remains committed to its responsibility to aggressively investigate mortgage fraud, as well as engage with the mortgage industry in identifying fraud trends and educating the public. To maximize current resources, the FBI is relying on intelligence collection and analysis to identify emerging trends and egregious offenders and strong relationships with law enforcement and regulatory agency partners to disrupt and dismantle the criminal organizations and individuals engaging in these fraud schemes.
Through FY 2011, FBI investigations resulted in 1,223 informations and indictments and 1,082 convictions of mortgage fraud criminals. The following notable statistical accomplishments are reflective in FY 2011 for mortgage fraud: $1.38 billion in restitutions; $116.3 million in fines; seizures valued at $15.7 million; and $7.33 million in forfeitures.
Luis Belevan, The Guardian Group, LLC (Phoenix): Luis Belevan pled guilty in federal court to conspiring to commit wire fraud and mail fraud during the period of 2009 to 2010. Belevan and his co-conspirator were charged with defrauding at least 1,800 local distressed homeowners out of a $1,595 upfront fee for bogus promises of assistance in avoiding home foreclosure. Belevan used false promises on the company’s website to convince consumers that it could help them save their home if the homeowner paid an upfront fee. The homeowners were never helped, and they were scammed out of their hard-earned money. Belevan generated almost $3 million in funds in just nine months, which he and others used for personal expenses and for other failed ventures.
Howard Shmuckler, The Shmuckler Group (Washington, D.C.): From 2009 to 2010, Howard Shmuckler owned and operated a mortgage-rescue business known as The Shmuckler Group (TSG), which claimed to be the “largest, most successful group of professionals…coming together to help home owners keep their homes in a manageable and affordable manner.” Operating his business at various times in McLean and Vienna, Virginia, Shmuckler is accused of misrepresenting that TSG had a success rate of 97 percent and falsely portraying himself as an attorney licensed in Virginia. Based on these false representations, clients paid fees ranging from $2,500 to $25,000 to modify the terms of their mortgages. Shmuckler was indicted and is awaiting trial, currently scheduled for early 2012. This case was jointly investigated by the FBI, FDIC-OIG, and SIGTARP.
Carl Cole; David Crisp (Sacramento): In January 2011, a 56-count indictment was returned against 10 subjects for their roles in a large-scale loan origination scheme. The scheme included approximately 140 fraudulent mortgage transactions on 108 properties with loans totaling $142 million. This investigation was initiated in December 2006. Carl Cole and David Crisp, partners in Crisp and Cole Real Estate (CCRE), utilized CCRE to orchestrate an extensive loan origination mortgage fraud scheme. The scheme involved several mortgage brokers, appraisers, realtors, loan officers, certified public accountants, bank/financial institution employees, straw buyers, title companies, and builders.
Mortgage Fraud Schemes and Trends
Foreclosure Rescue Schemes: The perpetrators identify homeowners who are in foreclosure or at risk of defaulting on their mortgage loan. The perpetrators then mislead the homeowners into believing they can save their homes by transferring the deed or putting the property in the name of an investor. The perpetrators profit by selling the property to an investor or straw borrower, creating equity using a fraudulent appraisal, and stealing the seller proceeds or fees paid by the homeowners. The homeowners are sometimes told they can pay rent for at least a year and repurchase the property once their credit has been reestablished. However, the perpetrators fail to make the mortgage payments and usually the property goes into foreclosure.
Loan Modification Schemes: Scammers purport to assist homeowners who are delinquent in their mortgage payments and are on the verge of losing their home by offering to renegotiate the terms of the homeowners’ loan with the lender. The scammers, however, demand large fees up front and often negotiate unfavorable terms for the clients, or do not negotiate at all. Usually, the homeowners ultimately lose their homes. This scheme is similar to a foreclosure rescue scam.
Illegal Property Flipping: Property is purchased, falsely appraised at a higher value, and then quickly sold. What makes property flipping illegal is that the appraisal information is fraudulent. The schemes typically involve one or more of the following: fraudulent appraisals; falsified loan documentation; inflated buyer income; or kickbacks to buyers, investors, property/loan brokers, appraisers, and title company employees.
Builder Bailout/Condo Conversion: Builders facing rising inventory and declining demand for newly constructed homes employ bailout schemes to offset losses. Builders find buyers who obtain loans for the properties. The buyers then allow the properties to go into foreclosure. In a condo-conversion scheme, apartment complexes purchased by developers during a housing boom are converted into condos. When the market declines, developers have excess inventory of units. Developers recruit straw buyers with cash-back incentives and inflate the value of the condos to obtain a larger sales price at closing. In addition to failing to disclose the cash-back incentives to the lender, the straw buyers’ income and asset information are often inflated in order for them to qualify for properties that they otherwise would be ineligible or unqualified to purchase.
Equity Skimming: An investor may use a straw buyer, false income documents, and false credit reports to obtain a mortgage loan in the straw buyer’s name. Subsequent to closing, the straw buyer signs the property over to the investor in a quit claim deed, which relinquishes all rights to the property and provides no guaranty to title. The investor does not make any mortgage payments and rents the property until foreclosure takes place several months later.
Silent Second: The buyer of a property borrows the down payment from the seller through the issuance of a nondisclosed second mortgage. The primary lender believes the borrower has invested his own money in the down payment, when in fact, it is borrowed. The second mortgage may not be recorded to further conceal its status from the primary lender.
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM): A HECM is a reverse mortgage loan product insured by the Federal Housing Administration to borrowers who are 62 years or older, own their own property (or have a small mortgage balance), occupy the property as their primary residence, and participate in HECM counseling. It provides homeowners access to equity in their homes, usually in a lump sum payment. Perpetrators recruit seniors through local churches, investment seminars, and television, radio, billboard, and mailer advertisements. The scammers then obtain a HECM in the name of the recruited homeowner to convert equity in the homes into cash. The scammers keep the cash and pay a fee to the senior citizen or take the full amount unbeknownst to the senior citizen. No loan payment or repayment is required until the borrower no longer uses the house as a primary residence. In the scheme, the appraisals on the home are vastly inflated and the lender does not detect the fraud until the homeowner dies and the true value of the property is discovered.
Commercial Real Estate Loans: Owners of distressed commercial real estate obtain financing by creating bogus leases and using these fake leases to exaggerate the building’s profitability, thus inflating their appraisal values using the income method approach. These false leases and appraisals trick lenders into extending loans to the owner. As cash flows are restricted to the borrower, property repairs are neglected. By the time the commercial loans are in default, the lender is oftentimes left with dilapidated and unusable or difficult-to-rent commercial property. Many of the methods of committing mortgage fraud that are found in residential real estate are also present in commercial loan fraud.
Air Loans: This is a nonexistent property loan where there is usually no collateral. Air loans involve brokers who invent borrowers and properties, establish accounts for payments, and maintain custodial accounts for escrows. They may establish an office with a bank of telephones, each one used as the fake employer, appraiser, credit agency, etc., to fraudulently deceive creditors who attempt to verify information on loan applications.
For additional information regarding mortgage fraud schemes and trends, please see the FBI Annual Mortgage Fraud Report which can be found at http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/mortgage-fraud-2010.
Mortgage Fraud Prevention Measures
Tips to Protect Yourself Against Mortgage Fraud
Get referrals for real estate and mortgage professionals. Check the licenses of the industry professionals with state, county, or city regulatory agencies.
An outrageous promise of extraordinary profit in a short period of time signals a problem.
Be wary of strangers and unsolicited contacts, as well as high-pressure sales techniques.
Look at written information, to include recent comparable sales in the area and other documents such as tax assessments to verify the value of the property.
Understand what you are signing. If you do not understand, re-read the documents or seek assistance from an attorney or third party who represents your interest.
Review the title history of the home you are anticipating to purchase to determine if the property has been sold multiple times within a short period. It could mean that this property has been “flipped,” and the value falsely inflated.
Know and understand the terms of your mortgage. Check your personal information against the information as listed on the loan documents to ensure it is accurate and complete.
Never sign any loan documents that contain “blanks.” This leaves you vulnerable to fraud.
Check out the tips on the MBA website at for additional advice on avoiding mortgage fraud.
Tips to Protect Yourself Against Mortgage Debt Elimination Schemes
Be aware of e-mails or web-based advertisements that promote the elimination of mortgage loans, credit card, and other debts while requesting an up-front fee to prepare documents to satisfy the debt. The documents are typically entitled Declaration of Voidance, Bond for Discharge of Debt, Bill of Exchange, Due Bill, Redemption Certificate, or other similar variations. These documents do not achieve what they purport.
There is no easy method to relieve your debts.
Borrowers may end up paying thousands of dollars in fees without the elimination or reduction of any debt.
Tips to Protect Yourself Against Foreclosure Fraud Schemes
Be aware of offers to “save” homeowners who are at risk of defaulting on loans, or whose houses are already in foreclosure.
Seek a qualified credit counselor or attorney to assist.
Do not pay advanced fees for promised services.
Financial Institution Fraud
FIF investigations are among the most demanding, difficult, and time-consuming cases undertaken by law enforcement in the area of white-collar crime. Other than mortgage fraud, areas of primary investigative interest relative to FIF include insider fraud (embezzlement and misapplication), check fraud, counterfeit negotiable instruments, check kiting, and fraud contributing to the failure of financial institutions.
With the onset of the U.S. housing crisis that began in 2007, as well as the global financial crisis, mortgage fraud became a primary focus of the FIFU. Although resources were shifted to combat mortgage fraud, the FBI continues to address other fraud schemes that impact our financial institutions. FIF investigations related to emerging technologies and computer-related banking are taking on added significance among the nation’s financial institutions.
The FBI continues to concentrate its efforts on organized criminal groups involved in FIF. These groups are often involved in the sale and distribution of stolen and counterfeit corporate checks, money orders, payroll checks, credit and debit cards, U.S. Treasury checks, and currency. Furthermore, the groups involved in check and loan fraud schemes are often involved in illegal money laundering activities in an effort to conceal their illegal proceeds. The FBI often utilizes asset forfeiture statutes to seize and forfeit the proceeds of criminal activity.
The FBI, USPIS, and the IRS conduct criminal FIF investigations with the goal of disrupting and dismantling organized fraud rings, as well as addressing individuals who continue to manipulate internal controls either alone or in collusion with others. The FBI strongly supports joint investigations to effectively utilize limited resources while strengthening investigations by tapping into each agency’s expertise. Federal agencies work with state and local law enforcement, regulators, and the financial institution industry to combat this crime problem.
The FBI fosters relationships and partnerships within the banking industry to promote FIF awareness. To raise awareness and increase accessibility to investigative personnel, the FBI has designated points of contact with relevant groups including the National Bank Fraud Working Group, local bank fraud working groups, and SAR working groups across the nation. Included among these working groups are federal, state, and local law enforcement partners; regulatory industry representatives; and banking industry representatives.
During FY 2011, cases pursued by the FBI resulted in 521 informations and indictments, and 429 convictions of FIF criminals. The following are notable statistical accomplishments in FY 2011 for FIF: $1.38 billion in restitutions; $116.3 million in fines; and seizures valued at $15.7 million. The chart below reflects pending FIF cases from FY 2007 through FY 2011.
Anthony Raguz (Cleveland): On September 27, 2011, Anthony Raguz, the former chief operating officer of the St. Paul Croatian Federal Credit Union (FCU), pleaded guilty to six counts, including bank fraud, money laundering, and bank bribery, for his role in one of the largest credit union failures in American history. Raguz issued more than 1,000 fraudulent loans totaling more than $70 million to over 300 account holders in the Albanian and Croatian communities near Cleveland from 2000 to 2010. He accepted more than $1 million worth of bribes, kickbacks, and gifts in exchange for the fraudulent loans. Raguz is one of 16 people charged for their roles in the credit union’s collapse. The failure of St. Paul Croatian FCU resulted in a $170 million loss to the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.
Gary Foster (New York): Gary Foster, a former vice president in Citigroup’s treasury finance department, pleaded guilty on September 6, 2011, to bank fraud stemming from his embezzlement of more than $22 million from Citigroup. Between September 2003 and June 2011, Foster first transferred money from various Citigroup accounts to Citigroup’s cash account and then wired the money to his personal bank account at another bank. Foster concealed his thefts by making various false accounting entries to create the appearance that the cash account was in balance and by placing a fraudulent contract or deal number in the reference line of the wire transfer instructions to give the appearance the wire transfers were actually in support of an existing Citigroup contract. Foster used the money to buy real estate and luxury automobiles, including a Ferrari and a Maserati.
William T. Hernandez (Louisville): On September 20, 2011, William T. Hernandez was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay $453,819 in restitution for embezzling money from elderly customers. Between October 2006 and June 2010, Hernandez, who was an investment banker employed by PNC Investments at the time, transferred money from investment accounts maintained with PNC Investments. Hernandez deposited the money into a PNC account, then issued cashier’s checks for his personal benefit and gain. Hernandez pleaded guilty on June 21, 2011, to two counts of bank fraud.
Financial Institution Failures
The FBI began to track the number of financial institution failure investigations in February 1986. A total of 157 banks failed in 2010, and 85 have failed since January 1, 2011, with the total number reaching 410 closures since 2007. Last year saw the highest number of bank failures since 1992, when 181 institutions closed. By comparison, over 1,000 banks failed between 1987 and 1992, and more than 9,000 failed during the Great Depression, between 1930 and 1933.
In addition, there are currently 865 U.S. banks on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) “problem list” as of June 30, 2011. Problem banks account for about 11 percent of all banking institutions. As of October 2011, there were 7,433 FDIC-insured banking institutions with FDIC-insured deposits of almost $9.8 trillion and assets totaling over $13.6 trillion. Of these institutions, about 4,600 are regulated by the FDIC and the remainder are supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve. In addition, the National Credit Union Administration is charged with supervising the 7,239 active federally insured credit unions.
The vast majority of the failed banks have closed as a result of market conditions (e.g., devalued properties) associated with the current financial crisis. Their solvency is usually compromised because of unsafe and unsound banking practices and inappropriate risk management tied to heavy concentration of commercial real estate and acquisition, development, and construction loans. The catalyst for the failure has been the economic climate and not criminal activity. Upon closer inspection of the loan portfolios, however, some level of fraud is usually uncovered in many of the loans.
One of the outcomes of the financial crisis that began in 2007 was the failure of the largest number of U.S. banks since the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. As a result of the nature of this financial crisis, bank failure investigations have been opened at the FBI under a myriad of classifications, such as mortgage fraud, corporate fraud, and bank fraud. Of the 1,719 pending FIF investigations, only 49 cases, or about 2.85 percent, involve criminal activity related to a failed federally insured financial institution.
Donna Shebetich (Pittsburgh): On October 6, 2010, Donna Shebetich was indicted on five counts of filing false call reports to the FDIC. Shebetich, a former vice president, director, and loan officer at Metropolitan Savings Bank, underreported millions of dollars in delinquent mortgages shortly before the Pittsburgh bank failed and its deposits were taken over by another bank. Shebetich filed five false quarterly reports with the FDIC. In the last report filed in November 2006, three months before the bank failed, she listed $0 in delinquent mortgages, when the bank really had more than $7 million in loans at least 30 days overdue. The bank had roughly $15.8 million in assets in that quarter.
Elexa Manos (Pittsburgh): On June 6, 2011, Elexa Manos pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud in connection with a scheme to steal $4 million from the Dwelling House Savings & Loan, a historic African-American financial institution founded in the 1890s, causing it to fail. Beginning in about 2006, Manos stumbled upon and then exploited weaknesses in the internal controls of the savings and loan’s Automated Clearing House (ACH) system. Manos and other individuals she recruited, including her son, withdrew funds from 13 savings accounts via ACH debits or withdrawals. The transactions were fraudulent because the accounts did not have sufficient funds available to cover the amounts being withdrawn, causing the bank to use all of its capital reserves to absorb the losses. The funds were used to pay various vendors and creditors, as well as to fund electronic PayPal accounts. Manos was sentenced to 150 months’ incarceration and ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution.
Robert E. Maloney, Jr. (Atlanta): On June 22, 2011, Robert E. Maloney, Jr., was indicted in a multi-million-dollar fraud and money laundering conspiracy. This superseding indictment charged Maloney and two former top officers of First City Bank (FCB) of Stockbridge, Georgia with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and related crimes in connection with misconduct at FCB in the years before the bank’s seizure by state and federal authorities on March 20, 2009. Maloney assisted Mark Connor, the former bank president, and Clayton Coe, a senior lending officer, with massive insider dealing and fraud that preceded the bank’s failure. The dollar loss from the fraudulent activity caused FCB to fail and was a contributing factor in the failure of several other Georgia banks.
Insurance Fraud
The U.S. insurance industry consists of thousands of companies and collects nearly $1 trillion in premiums each year. The size of the industry, unfortunately, makes it a prime target for criminal activity. The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (CAIF) estimates that the cost of fraud in the industry is as high as $80 billion each year. This cost is passed on to consumers in the form of higher premiums.
The FBI continues to identify the most prevalent schemes and the top echelon criminals defrauding the insurance industry in an effort to reduce insurance fraud. The FBI works closely with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the NICB, the CAIF, as well as state fraud bureaus, state insurance regulators, and other federal agencies to combat insurance fraud. In addition, the FBI is a member of the International Association of Insurance Fraud Agencies, an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to maintain an international presence to address insurance and insurance-related financial crimes on a global basis.
With the cooperation of the insurance industry, through referrals from industry liaison and other law enforcement agencies, the FBI continues to target the individuals and organizations committing insurance fraud. The FBI continues to initiate and conduct traditional investigations as well as utilize sophisticated techniques, to include undercover investigations, to apprehend the fraudsters. Currently, the FBI is focusing a majority of its resources relating to insurance fraud on the following schemes:
Premium Diversion/Unauthorized Entities: The most common type of fraud involves insurance agents and brokers diverting policyholder premiums for their own benefit. There are a growing number of unauthorized and unregistered entities engaged in the sale of insurance-related products. As the insurance industry becomes open to foreign players, regulation becomes more difficult. Additionally, exponentially rising insurance costs in certain areas (i.e., terrorism insurance, directors’/officers’ insurance, and corporations) increase the possibility for this type of fraud.
Insurance-Related Corporate Fraud: Although corporate fraud is not unique to any particular industry, there have been instances involving insurance companies caught in the web of these schemes. The temptations for fraud within the insurance industry can be greater during periods of financial downturns. Insurance companies hold customer premiums, which are forbidden from operational use by the company. However, when funding is needed, unscrupulous executives invade the premium accounts in order to pay corporate expenses. This leads to financial statement fraud because the company is required to “cover its tracks” to conceal the improper utilization of customer premium funds.
Viatical Settlement Fraud: A viatical settlement is a discounted, pre-death sale of an existing life insurance policy on the life of a person known to have a terminal condition. The parties to a viatical settlement include the insured party, insurance agent/broker, insurance company, viatical company/broker, and the investor. Viatical settlement fraud occurs when misrepresentations are made on the insurance policy applications, in effect hiding the fact that the party applying for a policy has already been diagnosed with a terminal condition. Additionally, fraud occurs when misrepresentations are made to the investors by the viatical companies about life expectancies of insured parties and guaranteed high rates of return.
Workers’ Compensation Fraud: The Professional Employer Organization (PEO) industry operates chiefly to provide workers’ compensation insurance coverage to small businesses by pooling businesses together to obtain reasonable rates. Workers’ compensation insurance accounts for as much as 46 percent of small business owners’ general operating expenses. Due to this, small business owners have an incentive to shop workers’ compensation insurance on a regular basis. This has made it ripe for entities that purport to provide workers’ compensation insurance to enter the marketplace, offer reduced premium rates, and misappropriate funds without providing insurance. The focus of these investigations is on allegations that numerous entities within the PEO industry are selling unauthorized and non-admitted workers’ compensation coverage to businesses across the United States. This insurance fraud scheme has left injured and deceased victims without workers’ compensation coverage to pay their medical bills.
Disaster Fraud: When a disaster occurs, there are often individuals who seek to profit via false claims of damages. Additionally, there are also non-insurance-related disaster frauds as many organizations and individuals solicit contributions for the victims of the disaster. Most of the organizations and individuals involved are legitimate; however, there are some who are not. Victims may be approached through unsolicited e-mails asking for donations to a legitimate-sounding organization. The schemer will instruct the victim to send a donation via a money transfer.
Following the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, billions of dollars in federal disaster relief poured into the Gulf Coast region. In order to screen, de-conflict, and refer reports of fraud to law enforcement, DOJ established the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) for individuals to report suspected fraud related to any type of disaster relief. The FBI and the NCDF have established a 24-hour hotline that the public can contact in order to report suspected scams and/or fraud associated with disaster relief such as the BP oil spill relief effort. The public can report suspicious activity by telephone at (866) 720-5721 or by e-mail at disaster@leo.gov.
Staged Auto Accidents: Perpetrators of staged auto accidents will either stage an accident with co-conspirators or maneuver innocent motorists into accidents. Although the resulting property damage may be small, the perpetrators make large—and illegal—claims for fake injuries and property damage. This type of fraud results in higher insurance premiums for all drivers. In some cases, innocent victims have been killed or injured in a staged auto accident gone wrong.
Property Insurance Fraud: Perpetrators of property insurance fraud seek to obtain payment that is higher than the value of the property damaged or destroyed, or intentionally destroy property that could not be sold. Common examples include arson, scuttling of boats, and the ditching of vehicles in lakes or canals.
During FY 2011, 140 cases investigated by the FBI resulted in 19 indictments/informations, 13 arrests, and 21 convictions of insurance fraud criminals. In addition, the FBI obtained $87.6 million in restitutions in FY 2011 for insurance fraud. Although the FBI has focused its efforts on higher priority WCC matters, insurance fraud investigations continue to be important and are often addressed utilizing liaison efforts in conjunction with other federal, state, and local law enforcement. The chart below reflects insurance fraud pending cases from FY 2007 through FY 2011.
Significant Case
Ronald Allen (Newark): On July 26, 2011, Ronald Allen was sentenced to 70 months in prison for diverting policyholder premiums for his own benefit. Allen, along with a number of co-conspirators, sold insurance liability policies to high-risk business such as restaurants and bars. Premiums were diverted and legitimate insurance policies were never issued. A number of businesses that thought they had insurance had claims filed against them. It could cost the businesses millions of dollars to cover claims that they thought were covered by the fictitious insurance policies. The aforementioned premium diversion insurance fraud is the most common type of insurance fraud that is reported to the FBI.
Mass Marketing Fraud
Mass marketing fraud is a general term for frauds which exploit mass-communication media, such as telemarketing, mass mailings, and the Internet. Since the 1930s, mass marketing has been a widely accepted and exercised practice. Advances in telecommunications and financial services technologies have further served to spur growth in mass marketing, both for legitimate business purposes as well as for the perpetration of consumer frauds. They share a common theme: the use of false and/or deceptive representations to induce potential victims to make advance fee-type payments to fraud perpetrators. Although there are no comprehensive statistics on the subject, it is estimated mass marketing frauds victimize millions of Americans each year and generate losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The following is a brief description of some of the key concepts and schemes associated with the mass marketing/advance fee fraud crime problem.
Advance Fee Fraud: This category of fraud encompasses a broad variety of schemes which are designed to induce their victims into remitting upfront payments in exchange for the promise of goods, services, and/or prizes. Some of the most prevalent schemes being encountered are the following:
Nigerian Letter Fraud: Victims are contacted regarding substantial sums of money held in foreign accounts and are requested to pay various fees to secure their transfer to the United States in exchange for a portion of the total proceeds. Alternatively, victims are asked to act as a U.S. agent in securing the release of such funds and are provided with counterfeit instruments which are to be cashed in order to pay any required fees, only to discover they must reimburse their financial institution for cashing a counterfeit instrument. A variation of this fraud involves the use of fraudulent websites which have been created to resemble website pages of legitimate financial institutions to enhance the scheme’s credibility and swindle greater amounts of money from victims. The victims are directed to open accounts at the fictitious banks’ websites into which the perpetrators transfer the victims’ funds. Victims cannot withdraw or transfer the funds when they log on to the fictitious bank websites and are prompted to pay additional taxes or fees before the funds can be released. The funds are never released.
Foreign Lottery/Sweepstakes Fraud: Victims are informed they have won a substantial prize in a foreign drawing, but must remit payment for various taxes/fees to receive their winnings. Alternatively, victims are provided with counterfeit instruments, representing a portion of the winnings, which are to be cashed in order to pay the required fees, only to discover they must reimburse their financial institution for cashing a counterfeit instrument.
Overpayment Fraud: Victims who have advertised some item for sale are contacted by buyers who remit counterfeit instruments, in excess of the purchase price, for payment. The victims are told to cash the payments, deduct any expenses, and return or forward the excess funds to an individual identified by the buyer, only to discover they must reimburse their financial institution for cashing a counterfeit instrument.
Recovery/Impersonation Schemes: Victims are contacted by perpetrators posing as law enforcement officers, government employees, or lawyers to inform victims that the persons responsible for the original fraud schemes have been arrested or successfully sued and their bank accounts have been seized. The victims are told the seized money is going to be returned to the victims, but the victims must first pay fees for processing and administrative services. Recovery pitches often target victims many months or years after the original fraud schemes.
The predominantly transnational nature of the mass marketing fraud crime problem presents significant impediments to effective investigation by any single agency or national jurisdiction. Typically, victims will reside in one or more countries, perpetrators will operate from another, and the financial/money services infrastructure of numerous additional countries are utilized for the rapid movement and laundering of funds. For these reasons, the FBI is uniquely positioned to assist in the investigation of these frauds through its network of legal attaché (legat) offices located in over 60 U.S. Embassies around the world. By leveraging its global presence and network of liaison contacts, the FBI has successfully cooperated with other domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies to combat, disrupt, and dismantle international mass marketing fraud groups. The FBI participates in the International Mass Marketing Fraud Working Group (IMMFWG), a multi-agency working group established to facilitate the multi-national exchange of information and intelligence, the coordination of cross-border operational matters, and the enhancement of public awareness of international mass marketing fraud schemes. The current membership of the IMMFWG consists of law enforcement, regulatory, and consumer protection agencies from seven countries, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Despite the best interagency enforcement efforts to combat mass marketing fraud, the FBI remains cognizant of the fact that the only enduring remedy for this crime problem lies in consumer education and fraud prevention programs. Toward this end, the FBI has not only produced its own mass marketing fraud prevention materials, but coordinates on other public information efforts with the DOJ, FTC, and the USPIS, among others. The FBI also supports a consumer fraud prevention website in conjunction with the USPIS which can be located on the web at: Additionally, further information on mass marketing fraud schemes can be found at www.fbi.gov, www.ftc.gov, www.ic3.gov, and www.stopfraud.gov.
As of the end of FY 2011, the FBI was investigating 96 cases of mass marketing fraud and, during FY 2011, recorded multiple indictments and convictions. Although the FBI has focused its efforts on higher-priority financial crime matters, mass marketing fraud investigations continue to be addressed utilizing liaison efforts in conjunction with other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and the IMMFWG. The chart below reflects mass marketing fraud pending cases from FY 2007 through FY 2011.
Foreign Lottery/Sweepstakes Fraud (New York): This investigation centered on the activities of Israel-based telemarketing con men that pitched winnings in an international lottery sweepstakes primarily to elderly American victims. The victims were informed they won the lottery, but first had to send over payment to cover taxes and fees to have the money released and sent to their account. However, there was no lottery and the perpetrators would just keep the funds for personal use and continue to try to solicit victims for additional fees and taxes to release their alleged winnings. A total of nine subjects were charged, and seven of the subjects, all Israeli nationals, were extradited to the United States and sentenced to prison terms that ranged from 33 months to nine years. This is the largest number of Israeli citizens ever extradited to a foreign country in a single case. This investigation was extremely successful in large part due to the FBI’s continued use of sophisticated investigative techniques to address financial crimes and the outstanding cooperation and assistance provided by the Tel Aviv Fraud Division of the Israel National Police. Total victim losses were approximately $2 million.
Foreign Lottery/Sweepstakes Fraud (Los Angeles): This investigation centered on the activities of Vancouver, Canada-based telemarketing businesses that pitched European prize bonds to primarily elderly Americans. These companies promised victims that their money would be pooled and used to purchase lottery tickets, that the victims had a very good chance of winning money, or that the victims had actually won a large sum of money. Fraudsters also told victims their money would buy a bond and their investments were guaranteed, meaning they could obtain refunds of their initial investments after a short period of time. However, the victims’ money was never used to provide any benefit to victims, and none of the victims ever received any substantial payment from the fraudulent companies. Approximately 4,500 individuals, mostly elderly, were victimized by this scheme. The main subject was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to repay victims $4.76 million. This case was investigated by FBI Los Angeles, in conjunction with the USPIS, FTC, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Foreign Lottery/Sweepstakes Fraud (Los Angeles): This investigation centered on the activities of several lottery companies based in London, England. Using phone calls, letters, and e-mails, subjects contacted potential victims, telling them they had won a lottery prize. However, to collect the winnings, victims had to call telemarketers in Spain or England, who told the victims they had to pay taxes or other fees to receive prizes that never materialized. Approximately 52 victims, primarily elderly, were defrauded out of more than $2.7 million. Victims were from around the world, including the United States and the United Arab Emirates. The main subject was sentenced to 14 years in prison This case was investigated by FBI Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Police Service in London.
Tips to Protect Yourself Against Mass Marketing Fraud
Things You Should Do:
Insist on learning the full name, address, and contact information for any company soliciting your business, personal information, or assistance.
Insist that all solicitors send materials to you in writing so that you are able to study the full details of the offer, as well as any guarantees and/or refund policies.
Research all solicitors through the Better Business Bureau, state attorney general’s office, and/or consumer protection service in the state or city where the company is located.
Prior to making any significant financial decisions, consult a family member, friend, your attorney, accountant, and/or other trusted advisor for an objective opinion.
To stop receiving telephone solicitations, instruct solicitors to delete your contact information from all call lists and register with the FTC’s “Do Not Call” Registry.
Report suspicious telemarketing calls, mail solicitations, or advertisements to the FTC at 1‑877‑FTC‑HELP or online at http://www.ftc.gov.
Things You Should NOT Do:
Do not make any payments to either secure a prize or improve your chances of winning a prize.
Do not be intimidated into making hasty financial decisions by high-pressure sales tactics.
Do not provide anyone with your sensitive personal or financial information unless:
it is to an entity whose legitimacy is personally known to you, and
you personally initiated the contact with the entity.
Do not send funds via wire or electronic money transfer services unless:
Do not deposit checks and wire back any fees using the check proceeds until the checks have fully cleared. It is common for a fraudster to send a check to victims with a requirement that a portion of the check be returned to the fraudster (e.g. wire back taxes on winnings using part of the check or wiring back excess amount received for something you were selling).
Do not be lured by offers that are simply too good to be true...they almost certainly are.
Asset Forfeiture/Money Laundering
The mission of the Asset Forfeiture/Money Laundering Unit (AF/MLU) is to promote the strategic use of asset forfeiture and to ensure field offices employ the money laundering violation in all investigations, where appropriate, to disrupt and/or dismantle criminal enterprises. The asset forfeiture and money laundering process identifies, targets, disrupts, and dismantles criminal and terrorist organizations and individuals engaged in fraud schemes which target our nation’s financial infrastructure.
The implementation of the asset forfeiture process to criminal investigations provides law enforcement with the opportunity to deprive wrongdoers of the proceeds of their crimes, recover property that may be used to compensate victims, and deter future criminal activity. The asset forfeiture process can destroy the financial infrastructure of criminal enterprises, return funds to victims of large-scale fraud, and share forfeited property with state and local law enforcement agencies.
The AF program and the ML program provide support to all FBI investigative programs, to include the international and domestic terrorism programs.
The DOJ defines money laundering in the following manner:
“Money laundering is the process by which criminals conceal or disguise the proceeds of their crimes or convert those proceeds into goods and services. It allows criminals to infuse their illegal money into the stream of commerce, thus corrupting financial institutions and the money supply, thereby giving criminals unwarranted economic power.”
The FBI maintains a proactive approach when investigating money laundering. After identifying a specified unlawful activity that generates illicit proceeds, a parallel financial investigation is conducted in order to locate the proceeds and prove their connection to the underlying crime.
The FBI’s AF program is one of the most successful in all of law enforcement. In the WCCP, the bulk of the monies seized are returned to victims of the frauds that generated them. This is unique to the FBI and some other agencies. Most people associate the seizure and forfeiture of assets with narcotics trafficking. Although the FBI does seize assets from drug dealers and other criminals, the WCCP is the largest contributor to the FBI’s forfeiture program.
Through FY 2011, 303 cases investigated by the FBI resulted in 37 indictments and 45 convictions of money laundering fraud criminals. For FY 2011, the following money laundering accomplishments were achieved for the WCCP: $18.4 million in restitutions; $809,414 in recoveries; and $983,536 in fines. The chart below reflects pending money laundering cases from FY 2007 through FY 2011
Barclays (New York): On August 16, 2010, Barclays Bank entered into a deferred prosecution agreement waiving indictment and the filing of a two-count criminal information charging violations of Title 50, United States Code (USC), Section 1705, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Title 50, USC, Section 5 & 16, Trading With the Enemy Act (TWEA). Under IEEPA and TWEA, it is a crime to willfully violate or attempt to violate any regulation issued under the act, including those related to Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan, and Burma. The IEEPA and TWEA regulations are administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). This investigation resulted in the forfeiture of $298 million.
Credit Suisse (New York): On December 16, 2009, Credit Suisse entered into a deferred prosecution agreement waiving indictment and the filing of a one-count criminal information in violation of Title 50, USC, Section 1705, the IEEPA. The violations relate to transactions Credit Suisse illegally conducted on behalf of customers from Iran, Sudan, and other countries sanctioned in programs administered by the Department of the Treasury’s OFAC. This investigation resulted in the forfeiture of $536 million, which was the largest forfeiture ever received for this type of violation.
Forensic Accountant Program
The Forensic Accountant Unit (FAU) was established in March 2009 to support all FBI investigative matters requiring a forensic financial investigation. The FAU provides oversight of the forensic accountant (FoA) and financial analyst (FA) programs, ensuring that the FBI’s financial investigative needs and priorities are continuously addressed. Key to the FAU’s mission is developing, managing, and enhancing the FoA and FA programs, to ensure that FBI financial investigative matters are expedited with the high-level of expertise required in an increasingly complex global financial system.
The forensic accountant program (FAP) is the culmination of years of effort to advance and professionalize the FBI’s financial investigative capabilities. The FoA position was developed to attract and retain top-tier accounting professionals who possess the ability to conduct complex and thorough forensic financial investigations. The FBI’s FoAs are expected to testify as expert witnesses in judicial proceedings after completing the financial investigative portion of complex investigations.
The mission of the FAU is to support all FBI investigative matters requiring a forensic financial investigation and to ensure the FBI’s financial investigative priorities are continually addressed. The FAU seeks to provide the highest caliber of financial investigative work product and support as well as contributing to the FBI’s intelligence cycle. The FAU continues to develop and implement a rigorous training curriculum and is collaborating with an array of public and private organizations in an effort to cultivate a workforce that provides superior results both in the field offices and at FBI Headquarters.
Forensic Accountant Support Team: The Forensic Accountant Support Team (FAST) is stationed within the FAU, enabling the FBI to quickly respond to significant, high-profile investigations and augment field office resources to notably advance an investigation. This professional support workforce is an asset to all FBI investigative programs and enables the FBI to more efficiently and effectively conduct complex investigations requiring a thorough forensic financial review. The seven members of the FAST have worked a number of priority investigations during FY 2011 across a variety of investigative matters.
Forensic Accountant Core Training Session Training Course: The Forensic Accountant Core Training Session (FACTS) is a rigorous, comprehensive introductory program of instruction designed to increase an FoA’s proficiency in the critical areas necessary to conduct a financial investigation. This extensive course develops the FoA’s aptitude and knowledge in handling a financial investigation according to pertinent rules and regulations across a wide variety of subject matters. The material covered focuses primarily on providing an overview of FBI programs and systems, financial investigative topics and techniques, resources available to develop an investigation, legal training, and expert witness-testifying techniques. During FY 2011, the FAU held three courses with a total of 128 graduates.
BankScan Initiative: BankScan is an in-house-created software application which translates physical bank and credit card statements into an electronic medium, thus dramatically decreasing the time-consuming data-entry process. In FY 2011, the FAU provided BankScan training to three FACTS classes, three field offices, and the Terrorism Financing Operations Section at FBI Headquarters. Each field office was supplied with the necessary software and equipment to implement the BankScan project. Since its implementation, the FBI has benefited through an exponential increase in financial investigative efficiency and productivity. Through the third quarter of FY 2011, an estimated 4,270 days (11.7 years) of time has been saved by using BankScan.
Electronic Subpoena Production: The Electronic Subpoena Production initiative represents a joint undertaking of the FBI’s CID, DOJ’s Criminal Division Fraud Section, and the IRS. Electronic Subpoena Production requires financial institutions to digitally produce account data stored electronically by relying on existing Rule 17 of the federal rules of criminal procedure and the updated Federal Reserve Regulation S (effective January 1, 2010). When used in conjunction with BankScan, the introduction of this new process will substantially increase the efficiency and effectiveness of FBI forensic financial investigations.
Financial Analyst Conversion: In FY 2011, the FAU began the second phase of the selective conversion process to transition qualified FAs to the FAP to provide the FBI’s investigative programs with the highest caliber of financial investigative work product and support. This effort ensures only those individuals satisfying the FoA requirements convert to the FAP. The second phase of the conversion will be completed during the early part of FY 2012.
Financial Investigative Report: The FAU deployed the Financial Investigative Report (FIR) template in FY 2011. The purpose of the FIR is to provide FAs and FoAs a standardized organizational tool that consistently presents financial investigative analysis, notes, and details to case agents (CAs) and assistant U.S. attorneys (AUSAs). The intended result is to create high-quality, uniform reporting that meets or exceeds the standards set by the Ca, AUSA, and the FAP.
The FAP provided substantial support to the following major cases:
Fair Finance: Timothy Durham, James Cochran, and Rick Snow were indicted and charged with wire fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit securities fraud for allegedly committing a scheme to defraud the investors of Fair Finance. Fair Finance was a privately-held niche lender that specialized in account receivables management and financing consumer installment sales contracts. It is alleged in the indictment that over the last several years, Durham, Cochran, and Snow used Fair Finance investor money to finance other business operations and lifestyle expenditures, unbeknownst to investors. There are over 5,000 victim-investors totaling approximately $200 million in loss. Trial is scheduled for June 2012.
Galleon Group: Raj Rajaratnam was recently found guilty in Manhattan by a jury in federal court of conspiracy and securities fraud crimes stemming from his involvement in the largest hedge fund insider trading scheme in history. Rajaratnam was the Managing Member of Galleon Management, LLC (“Galleon”), the General Partner of Galleon Management, L.P., and a portfolio manager for Galleon Technology Offshore, Ltd., and certain accounts of Galleon Diversified Fund, Ltd. He was convicted on all 14 counts after an eight-week trial and sentenced to 11 years’ incarceration.
American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC): Lawrence Duran, Marianella Valera, and others pled guilty to their roles in a scheme to submit more than $200 million of fraudulent claims to Medicare. The scheme was orchestrated by the above owners and operators of American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC); its management company, Medlink Professional Management Group Inc.; and the American Sleep Institute (ASI). ATC’s owners and operators paid kickbacks to owners and operators of assisted living facilities and halfway houses and to patient brokers in exchange for delivering ineligible patients to ATC and ASI. Throughout the course of the ATC and ASI conspiracy, millions of dollars in kickbacks were paid in exchange for Medicare beneficiaries who did not qualify for partial hospitalization program services. Lawrence Duran was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in the Medicare fraud scheme and was ordered to pay more than $87 million in restitution, jointly and severally with the co-defendants. Duran’s sentence is the longest prison sentence ever imposed in a Medicare Fraud Strike Force case. Marianella Valera was sentenced to 35 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution. Margarita Acevedo, a cooperating witness, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison and was ordered to pay $72.7 million in restitution. Alan Gumer, MD; Adrianna Mejia; James Edwards; Joseph Valdes; and Nelson Fernandez also pled guilty to their roles in the fraud scheme, but have yet to be sentenced. Sentencing for these individuals is scheduled for January 2012.
Financial Intelligence Center
The Financial Intelligence Center (FIC) is a proactive data exploitation unit within the FCS, created in September 2009. It is staffed with a cadre of intelligence analysts (IA) and staff operations specialists (SOS). The FIC’s mission is to provide tactical analysis of financial intelligence datasets and databases by using evolving technology and data exploitation techniques; identify potential criminal enterprises; and enhance investigations. Additionally, the FIC has established liaison relationships with other government and regulatory agencies to identify additional data sources to disrupt and dismantle criminal enterprises and others and increase information sharing. The FIC supports the following WCC subprograms:
Financial institution fraud (including mortgage fraud)
Securities/commodities fraud
Fraud against government
Money laundering and other crimes
The FIC reviews large datasets to identify potential new targets for investigation (see examples below). Once a potential target is identified, the FIC conducts research using various internal databases and a myriad of external databases such as Lexis Nexis, Dun & Bradstreet, CLEAR, and Public Access to Court Electronic Records; and data provided by other agencies including the SEC, HHS, FINRA, and the DOJ. The information is then organized using Excel spreadsheets and link chart analyses to “connect the dots” of all the key players. The results of the research and analysis are then summarized and referred to the appropriate field office in the form of a targeting package for their discretion in opening an investigation.
Securities and Futures SAR Review Project: Analysts who support the securities/commodities fraud program review securities and futures SARs using defined parameters to identify potential subjects. They then perform preliminary research to determine if the subjects are valid targets to disseminate to the appropriate FBI field office.
Public Corruption Economic Stimulus Project: Analysts who support the public corruption and fraud against the government programs research the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding distribution to identify vulnerabilities for fraud and prepare targeting packages to disseminate to the appropriate FBI field offices for review and potential case initiation.
Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team Project: Analysts who support the HCF program work with HHS-OIG in collaborative data sharing to identify providers of medical equipment and services engaged in HCF. The FIC performs a detailed analysis of the identified providers and formulates a targeting package that is presented to the applicable field office for review and potential case initiation.
Health Care Fraud SAR Review Project: Analysts who support the HCF program review SARs to identify physicians engaged in HCF. The FIC performs a detailed analysis of the potential physicians and formulates a targeting package that is presented to the applicable field office for review and potential case initiation.
Commercial Real Estate Loan SAR Project: Analysts who support the FIF subprogram review SARs that reference commercial real estate loans to identify potential targets. After further research, targeting packages are disseminated to the appropriate FBI field offices for review and potential case initiation.
FDIC Referrals Initiative: Analysts who support the FIF subprogram, in conjunction with the FIFU, conduct reviews of the FDIC’s failed loans issued by various lending institutions to identify current indicators of potential fraudulent activity. The data collected from the loan files is compared to various databases to identify subjects worthy of targeting packages. Once the targeting packages are prepared, they are presented to the applicable field offices for review and potential case initiation.
Money Laundering National SAR Review Project: Analysts who support the ML program use this initiative, sponsored by the DOJ, to target money laundering activity with an international nexus. Analysts utilize multi-agency resources to review SARs that have the potential for case initiation. The FIC performs a detailed analysis of the potential cases and formulates a targeting package that is presented to the applicable field office for review and potential case initiation.
AF/MLU
CAIF
EBRI
FFETF
FIFU
HCFU
HECM
HHS-OIG
IEEPA
IMMFWG
NCDF
NHCAA
NICB
OBT
SIGTARP
TBW
TWEA
USAO
USPIS
WCCP
Asset Forfeiture/Money Laundering Unit
Agape Merchant Advance, LLC
Assistant United States Attorney
Case Agent
Commodities Futures Trading Commission
Criminal Investigative Division
Community Medical Health Center
Deferred Prosecution Agreement
Electronic Bank Records Initiative
Economic Crimes Unit
Forensic Accountant Core Training Session
Forensic Accountant Support Team
Forensic Accountant Unit
First City Bank
Financial Crimes Section
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force
Financial Institution Fraud Unit
Financial Industry Regulation Authority
Financial Investigative Report
Forensic Accountant
Forfeiture Support Project
Health Care Fraud Unit
Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General
International Emergency Economic Powers Act
International Mass Marketing Fraud Working Group
Legal Attaché
National Center for Disaster Fraud
National Health Care Anti‑Fraud Association
National Insurance Crime Bureau
Operation Broken Trust
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Professional Employer Organization
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program
Staff Operations Specialist
Taylor, Bean & Whitaker
Trading With the Enemy Act
U.S. Attorney’s Office
U.S. Postal Inspection Service
White-Collar Crime Program
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Brexit and English Language Teaching
English Teaching Professional, July, 2016
So it’s happened. The British public have voted in the referendum and a 52% majority of voters have voted in favour of Britain leaving the EU.
A week on, and most of the British ELT folk I know (whether living in the UK or abroad) are still trying to come to terms with the fact that Britain has voted to leave.
After all, we English Language Teaching professionals deal with non-British clients and students on a daily basis. Some of us educate immigrants, while some of us are immigrants ourselves, lucky enough to get jobs teaching English in foreign lands.
For many of us, the freedom of movement in the EU has been life-changing. It has given us the opportunity to learn about the world, and even build a life outside the UK. So the solidarity we feel with Europe and the empathy we feel for the Europeans living in the UK is understandable.
But of course, for some of us, our fear of Brexit isn’t simply confined to feelings of fraternity, compassion and love for our neighbours.
For those of us who are teaching English in Britain, more than 60% of the approximately 535,000 students who come to us annually to study English are from EU member states (English UK Student Statistics Report 2015). And for those of us working at UK universities, we know that EU students generate £3.7 billion a year for the British economy and create over 34,000 jobs.
A week before the referendum, English UK polled its members, and found that 77% of their member schools predicted that leaving the EU would be ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’ for business.
In the same article, Steve Phillips, chair of English UK, recognised that some member schools thought that the possibility of the sterling pound falling could make the UK more attractive for students who were deciding whether or not to learn English in the UK, although he maintained that remaining in the EU was the best option for UK ELT.
And as we know, the dramatic fall of the sterling pound as a reaction to the referendum result saw the pound plummeting from a pre-referendum 1.31 against the Euro to a persistent 1.19 a week after.
Some training institutes like this one and this one were quick to remind European clients and students that the freedom of movement we enjoy is still in place for at least another two years, and in the meantime, clients can take advantage of the weak pound to sign up for effectively cheaper courses.
An ELT colleague who chose to remain anonymous shared with me the fact that her school had already seen a huge increase in their summer bookings since the start of this week and that they were having trouble hiring teachers to take the extra classes.
In this article in a journal aimed at professionals in international education, representatives of European agencies in charge of sending students to the UK agreed that the currency exchange rate could be the deciding factor for clients choosing between Ireland, Malta, and the UK, but warns that this is only a short-term effect. In the long term, they still expect this move to be bad for UK schools.
So, in what way can exiting the EU affect the business of schools in the UK?
Whether our clients are European businessmen who have at the last minute decided to come to the UK for a week of intensive training, or European students who intend to spend a year studying English and taking on part-time jobs for the full-immersion experience, any restrictions on the freedom of movement of our European students would mean more hassle and more bureaucracy for the agencies and the clients, and this is likely to lead to them choosing to study English in Ireland or Malta.
At the time of publishing, Article 50 has yet to be invoked, but it has already been suggested that if Britain wants to remain in Europe’s single market, she has to continue accepting workers and immigrants from the EU. European Union leaders have insisted that the four freedoms central to EU unity are indivisible: the freedom of movement of people, goods, services and finances.
So it is very possible that the freedom to travel to the UK and to work in the UK is maintained even in the event that Britain leaves the EU.
But is this the only long-term effect of Brexit on our industry?
While the EU funds a lot of research and many jobs at British universities, it also funds programmes like Erasmus+ that in turn funds students who want to take language courses in the UK, as well as teachers on teacher training courses. An exit from the EU would certainly see a drop in such funding, and as a result, a decline in students who are dependent on such funding.
Then there is of course the less measurable but just as impactful psychological effect that Brexit may have on our potential students. The anger against immigrants seemed to dominate the “LEAVE” campaign and was arguably the main reason many chose to vote for Britain to leave the EU. Essentially, the majority of Brits voting to leave was a clear rejection of the EU (and its members).
So what might Europeans think of Britain now? When they think of the average Brit, would they still think of the Hugh Grant lookalike, polite, accommodating and charming citizen of the world? Or has their impression of the British changed? How would this affect their motivation to come to the UK for a language course?
Schools and organisations like the British Council are quick to issue statements after the referendum to reassure clients and business partners of their commitment to their relationships with their European neighbours and their belief in the strength of intercultural collaborations.
Naturally, Brexit also calls into question the role that English plays in Europe as the language of business, trade and education. On Monday, four days after the referendum, a senior MEP announced that English will no longer be an official language in the EU when Britain leaves.
Currently, each EU member state nominates one language as their official language. As Britain had identified English as their official language, the Republic of Ireland listed Irish and Malta Maltese as their EU nominated official language. This is however not to say that English is not an official language in these countries.
On Tuesday, Ireland quickly issued a statement to counter the one made about English as EU’s official language, stating that rules governing the use of languages in the EU are subject to a unanimous vote, including Ireland’s.
As suggested in this article, English currently dominates amongst the three working languages of the EU, and seeing that many countries use English as their second language, the role of English as the lingua franca (the medium of communication between non-native speakers of English) in Europe is unlikely to be shaken.
There are many reasons as to why English has cemented its position as the world’s lingua franca, some of which concern the economic dominance of the USA and the impact of Hollywood and American/English pop music. And Britain’s exit from the EU is unlikely to change the English language’s position as the global language of business, trade and education.
In fact, if anything, the “ownership” of the English language will truly shift from belonging to the British to belonging to anyone who chooses to use it as their tool for international communication. After all, the very definition of “lingua franca” suggests that English is a language used when a non-native speaker is communicating with another non-native speaker of a different mother tongue, often with no native speakers present.
Perhaps, then, in order to adjust to market needs and stay competitive, ELT professionals and English schools in Britain will have to start focusing on the teaching of English as a tool for international communication. Previous assumptions that students learn English so as to live in the UK, talk to the English, and work with the English, need to be seriously reconsidered. And perhaps the teaching of English culture that so often goes hand in hand with the teaching of the English language needs to be reevaluated.
Of course, these are things to deliberate upon whether or not the UK actually leaves the EU.
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NASA analyzes short-lived Bay of Bengal cyclone
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
VIDEO: The GPM core observatory satellite had a good view of tropical cyclone 04B's remnants on Dec. 10 at 10:57 a.m. EST (1557 UTC). This view (looking toward the northeast) showed... view more
Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce
NASA analyzed the rainfall generated by short-lived Tropical Cyclone 04B that formed and faded over a day in the Bay of Bengal.
A substantial area of the Northern Indian Ocean was recently covered with cloudiness and rain showers as a large tropical low pressure area moved over the warm waters of the Bay of Bengal. After being closely monitored for over a week, the tropical disturbance intensified briefly to tropical storm force in the northern Bay of Bengal. It was labeled tropical cyclone 04B on December 9, 2017. The weak system produced moderate to heavy rainfall along northeastern India's Bay of Bengal coastline, moved over southern Bangladesh and dissipated over northwestern Burma.
At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a rainfall accumulation analysis was created on 04B. It was derived from NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals data (IMERG).
NASA's GPM or Global Precipitation Measurement mission satellite provides information on precipitation from its orbit in space. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA. GPM also utilizes a constellation of other satellites to provide a global analysis of precipitation that are used in the IMERG calculation.
At NASA Goddard, an animation of IMERG rainfall accumulation total estimates showed the progression of rainfall through the Bay of Bengal for the period from December 4 to 11, 2017. Those IMERG rainfall estimates showed that the heaviest rainfall occurred in the Bay of Bengal well to the east of India's coast. A total of more than 508 mm (20 inches) of rain was analyzed in the Bay of Bengal as the tropical disturbance moved slowly through the area.
The analysis also showed rainfall accumulation caused by tropical cyclone Ockhi.
The GPM core observatory satellite had a good view of tropical cyclone 04B's remnants on Dec. 10 at 10:57 a.m. EST (1557 UTC). Data collected by GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) instruments showed than heavy rain was only occurring in a small cluster of storms over southeastern Bangladesh. GPM's radar (DPR Ku band) found rain falling at more than 70 mm (2.75 inches) per hour in one storm.
GPM's radar (DPR Ku band) data were used in a close-up 3-D view of rainfall within the few remnants of tropical cyclone 04B. This view (looking toward the northeast) showed that storm tops were reaching heights greater than 11.5 km (7.1 miles) in a small cluster of energetic storms.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued the final bulletin on Tropical Cyclone 04B on Dec. 9 at 4 a.m. EST (0900 UTC). At that time Tropical cyclone 04B was located near 18.8 degrees north latitude and 86.8 degrees east longitude, about 245 miles south-southwest of Kolkata, India. 04B had maximum sustained winds near 35 knots (40 mph/62 kph) and weakening quickly under vertical wind shear.
Tropical Cyclone 04B dissipated before making landfall.
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$1.85 million grant supports scientist's study of tooth decay in young HIV patients
IMAGE: Vincent Richards started in marine biology research before shifting to disease and medicine. view more
Credit: David Hillerby
CLEMSON, South Carolina - Much of the research concerning the human microbiome focuses on the gut and the influence that diet and nutrition have on the microbes residing in our digestive systems. Fewer studies consider the bacteria and fungi that live in our mouths, and even fewer look specifically at the oral microbiome's role in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) - until now.
Vincent Richards, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Clemson University, has received a $1.85 million R-01 grant from the National Institute of Health National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to study the association between tooth decay and HIV infection in a population of children from Nigeria.
The study comes after preliminary results indicated a higher incidence of tooth decay, officially known as dental caries, in HIV-positive children whose immune systems are compromised by the virus. Partnered with the finding that the distribution of microbes in the gut microbiome is altered by HIV infection, Richards' study intends to characterize the microbes living in the mouth that might be contributing to the decay.
"The plaque that accumulates on the surface of your teeth is a very complicated microbial community," Richards said. "In some of my previous papers, we looked at teeth in progressive stages of caries, from a completely healthy tooth to a full blown, big cavity. What we saw was that the species changed and that you do indeed have some bacteria that are associated with health and some with disease."
For example, a species known as Streptococcus mutans will feed on the sugars in our diet and release acid in response. The acid excreted dissolves the enamel of the teeth, inviting cavities to take root. Other species of bacteria, such as Streptococcus sanguinis, are the "good guys" that work to counteract the effects of S. mutans by raising the pH at the tooth surface.
Studies suggest this propensity for tooth decay is only heightened in HIV-infected individuals, prompting Richards to collaborate with researchers from Nigeria, the site of the world's second largest HIV epidemic.
"My main collaborator is a Nigerian national named Modupe Coker, and if you want someone who's passionate about this, it's her. She's a dentist by training who also does genetic research and she's been working in Nigeria for a long time," Richards said.
Coker will collect plaque samples and cheek swabs and also gather information on diet and white blood cell counts from children enrolled in the study at a teaching hospital in Nigeria. The samples will then be sent back to Richards' lab at Clemson University for analysis.
Richards and his lab members, including postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, will utilize the fast and inexpensive methods of high-throughput genetic sequencing to detail which microbial species are prevalent in the plaque samples. These analyses will also measure gene expression of the microbes to determine how HIV infection influences what proteins are being synthesized and how those proteins are affecting the metabolic pathways involved in tooth decay.
The end product, Richards said, will be a personalized approach to oral health that could mitigate the risk of tooth decay, not just for HIV-infected children, but for everyone.
"One of the future directions of this study is that we will be able to overlay the child's genetic makeup, the microbiome data we've got and other info on diet and white blood cell counts, so that when you go to the doctor, they can say, 'You're this genotype and you've got this microbiome and you're also HIV-infected, which means you're highly predisposed to caries - so you better go for your dental checkup; you really can't let it go,' " Richards said.
The results could improve prevention and intervention strategies by creating oral therapies that disrupt bacteria's ability to form plaque on the tooth's surface. Information from the study will also help researchers understand the interplay between adaptive immunity - the strategic immune response that prompts the immune system to build resistance against specific pathogens - and the development of caries.
Personalized medicine, Richards said, will be an integral component of these strategies that he hopes will translate into an improved quality of life for children suffering with HIV infections.
Richards' study is supported by a five-year R-01 grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, titled "Oral Microbiomes and Dental Caries in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infected Population." The researchers are wholly responsible for the content of this study, of which the funder had no input.
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After 13 miscarriages, woman gives birth to 'miracle' baby
A British woman who endured 13 miscarriages over the course of a decade is celebrating the arrival of her "miracle" baby.
Laura Worsley, 35, has chronic histiocytic intervillositis and antiphospholipid syndrome, also known as "sticky blood syndrome,” according to TV station WTVT. The disorders lead to repeated miscarriages.
But thanks to doctors at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, she was able to give birth to a baby girl named Ivy with the help of steroid treatments.
The hospital is considered a world leader in miscarriage research.
Ivy was born early, WTVT says, and weighed just 1 pound, 7 ounces. After 11 weeks in the hospital, she was finally allowed to come home.
“Even now, nine months on, I can't believe she's actually mine," Worsley told the TV station. “I cannot thank the research and the maternity teams at University Hospital enough, they have helped me to have the baby I always dreamt of. It feels like all of my Christmases have come at once. It's so important to be able to make a difference for anyone else going through what I went through."
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NYC Businesses Sound Off on Bloomberg’s Sugar Ban
By Kate Rogers Published September 18, 2012 FOXBusiness
Tonic Bar in Times Square just received a shipment of 20 oz. cups from Pepsi for its bar and restaurant. But manager Randolph Hernandez said, thanks to Mayor Bloomberg’s sugar-ban initiative, the cups are going to be on their way back to the beverage giant soon.
“We will send them back and ask Pepsi to send us cups that are the proper size,” Hernandez said.
Last week, Bloomberg’s controversial ban on the sale of sugary soft drinks larger than 16 oz. in all New York City restaurants, stadiums, arenas and movie theaters was backed by a city health panel in a 9-0 vote. These businesses have six months to comply with the new regulations, or face $200 fines for each violation, according to the Department of Health.
Hernandez said that during the day, about 85% of the beverages sold at Tonic are soft drinks. At night, this switches to about 50%. The ban will push the business to likely lower its cost for soft drinks from $3 for 20 oz. to $2 for 16 oz., he said.
“It’s not a real profit center for us,” he said.
The law itself may have received a ton of negative backlash; however, Hernandez said it’s not a bad idea for the short-term.
“Unfortunately, it’s the only way people will become conscious about [the issue],” he said.
Others aren’t on board with Hernandez. Filippo Rapa, manager of the World Famous Little Italy Pizzeria in Midtown, said that while the ban won’t impact his particular business, he is against the move.
“I think there are more important things to worry about than what people eat and drink and how much of it,” he said.
While the pizzeria has already started to comply with the regulation, he said he has no doubt that those who want more soda will just buy two 16 oz. drinks.
The Café Manhattan in Midtown started to comply with the regulation before it was even approved, according to manager Julio Andrade. However, he doesn’t think the ban is good for the business environment in the city.
“I think it’s very bad for business, and a lot of businesses are going to be hurt,” Andrade said. “I am 100% positive that people will just buy two drinks now.”
Two months ago, the café went from selling 32 oz. drinks to only 16 oz. and under.
Rizan Wahid, manager of the TSQ Brassiere, said the largest size drink the restaurant has is only 16 oz., so the business is currently in compliance with Bloomberg’s initiative. However, he believes other businesses will lose money due to the ban. But, in the end it may not be a bad thing.
“For health reasons though, it’s good, because so many kids are overweight,” Wahid said.
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As Embassies Reopen, Firms Look to Cuba for Expansion
By Marissa Piazzola Published July 19, 2015 Latin AmericaFOXBusiness
U.S. business excited about opportunities in Cuba?
Maverick Pac National Co-Chair Morgan Ortagus and Recon Capital Partners CIO Kevin Kelly on the future of Cuba now that the U.S. has opened full diplomatic relations with the country.
The opening of the U.S. and Cuban embassies Monday further indicates that the two nations are on the path to normalized relations. Several U.S. companies aren’t wasting any time and are already making a push into the Cuban market.
A Tale of Two Embassies
The United States’ diplomatic outpost in Havana, called an interests section, is in the same building that served as its embassy until 1961. It was during that year when President Eisenhower broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba amid tensions with Fidel Castro’s regime.
According to the New York Times, Obama administration officials believe they do not need Congress to approve new money for the building.
It is unclear at this time who will be the new ambassador to Cuba, though Diplomat Jeffrey DeLaurentis is currently in charge of the interests section and holds the technical rank of ambassador. DeLaurentis has served as a deputy assistant secretary of state in the United Nations and as the political-economic section chief in Havana.
U.S. relations enriching Castro’s family, not Cuba?
How does opening relations with Cuba benefit U.S.?
On the Cuban side, an interests section exists in the Adams Morgan section of Washington, D.C. The country announced in May that its banking services for that office had been restored, which were needed prior to reopening the embassy.
“Re-establishing top level diplomatic representation is a solid step signaling that negotiations based on engagement rather than isolation have been so far productive,” said IHS Country Risk Senior Analyst Diego Moya-Ocampos.
Setting Sail for Cuba
Several major U.S. corporations see improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba as a major opportunity to expand into a new market. Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL) recently received U.S. approval to operate cruises to Cuba.
Tara Russell, president of Carnival’s fathom brand told FOXBusiness.com that she does not foresee any issues with receiving approval from the Cuban government.
“Having already received U.S. approval will help us move more quickly on the Cuban side,” said Russell.
Fathom operates social impact cruises, which it says provide “the opportunity to build community with like-minded travelers, become immersed in another culture, and work alongside its people…”
Part of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s decision to allow licensed travel companies to transport approved travelers to Cuba requires that they engage in educational and cultural exchanges with the Cuban people.
Fathom will operate seven-day cruises from Miami to the Dominican Republic beginning in April 2016. In May, voyages to the Dominican and Cuba will be offered on a regular basis.
“We know there is strong demand from travelers who want to immerse themselves in Cuban culture, so this is a historic opportunity for us to enable more people to experience Cuban society,” said Arnold Donald, President and CEO of Carnival Corporation.
The social impact cruises to Cuba are already being sold on fathom’s website, though the deposit is fully refundable.
Russell says between now and when the ship sets sail, fathom will work to immerse itself in the Cuban culture and figure out what the priorities of the residents there are. She says they have been actively involved in the Dominican Republic for 10 years doing just that.
“It’s important that we don’t make assumptions about Cuba or cookie cutter our missions,” said Russell.
While Carnival is the most visibly invested company in Cuban expansion, others have expressed interest in business endeavors within the country.
Hilton (NYSE:HLT) Worldwide’s Director of Corporate Communications in the Caribbean and Latin America Karla Visconti said they welcome new opportunities to continue their growth, “including Cuba if an agreement is reached with the U.S.”
Insurance giant Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is also looking to possibly expand in Cuba, as previously reported by FOX Business Network’s Charlie Gasparino. Greenberg, CEO of Starr International, met with senior level Cuban government officials back in June and has said that the company is monitoring possible insurance opportunities.
While the opening of the American and Cuban Embassies is a step in the right direction, significant constraints are still in place. A trade embargo and other key sanctions will likely remain until 2018, when incumbent President Raúl Castro is expected to step down. At that time, Congress may be able to lift the U.S. embargo on Cuba.
“Economic and potential political change in Cuba will continue to be gradual and at a pace at which the Cuban ruling establishment feels comfortable, but strong trade and investment incentives will be a driver to enable reform,” said Moya-Ocampos.
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Kathak Gurus
Achchan Maharaj
Jagannath Maharaj, popularly known as Achchan Maharaj was the eldest among the three sons of Kalika Prasad, the other two being Luchchu Mahaiaj and Shambhu Maharaj. Really speaking, he was the only brother, who received knowledge direct from his father as well as from his uncle Bindadin. When Bindadin and Kalika Prasad died, Achchan took up the responsibility of training his two brothers, Luchchu Maharaj and Shambhu Maharaj. He (Achchan) was a court dancer of several states of North India, and served for a long time at Raigarh. Though being bulky, he was very agile with his nimble footwork, and was a master of gracefully and beautifully expressing the various sentiments. He was an expert of both Nritta and Bhava. With his death on 20th May 1960 the Lucknow Gharana truly lost its foremost representative. He was survived by his son, Birju Mabaraj, a chip of the old block.
Bindadin Maharaj
Bindadin Maharaj was born in 1830. He was the originator of his Gharana, popularly and widely known as Lucknow Gharana. He together with his brother Kalika Prasad, brought a renaissance in Kathak and raised it to a high level of polished and extremely stylized dance. He was born in Handia Tehsil in Allahabad district where his father Durga Prasad used to live. Durga Prasad had three sons Bindadin and Kalika Prasad were own brothers. Bindadin had no children, whereas Kalika Prasad had three sons – Achchan Maharaj, Luchchu Maharaj and Shambhu Mahaiaj. Bindadin gave the utmost training to his nephew Achchan Maharaj. Bindadin, in his own turn, was trained by his father and uncle Thakur Prasad. He started taking lessons in dancing from the age of nine and practiced only “Tig Da Dig Dig” for three years, regularly practicing for twelve a day. It is said that once as a mere boy he had discussions regarding Tala, with the Pakhawaj wizard Kudau Singh in the court of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. Thakur Prasad was an employee at that time at the court. He was very much perturbed on the behavior of Bindadin and was afraid of any kind of humiliation in the court. On one side there was 12 year old Bindadin and on the other the Pakhawaj-king Kudau Singh praying to God. Thakur Prasad asked Bindadin to stand up for his performance.. Everyone was surprised to witness the dexterity of Bindadin and acknowledged that Bindadin was much more in form than Kudau Singh. Nawab Sahab was so pleased that he presented Bindadin with enormous wealth. On attaining maturity Bindadin Maharaj became very famous for his art and also earned an appreciable amount of money. He was also an expert in singing and composing Thumri, and the reputed Thumri singers of those days, Gauhai Jaan, Zohra Bai and others, were his disciples. It is said that he composed about 1500 new types of Thumri. He was a man of character and used to lead a simple life. Due to the First War of Independence he went out of Lucknow for some time with Thakur Prasad. Thereafter he went to Nepal and from there to Bhopal and was warmly welcomed at both the places. He was not only acclaimed as a great dancer at these places, but also received a large amount of riches as gifts. He was a devotee of Lord Krishna. His portrait shows that at the time of dancing he used to put on Achkan, Churidar and Dupalli cap. He died in 1918.
Birju Maharaj
Brijmohan Maharaj, popularly and affectionately called Birju Maharaj, the doyen of Kathak dance, is the son of Achchan Maharaj. He was trained in his early life by his father, but lost him at the age of only ten. Thereafter be received training from his two uncles, viz , Luchchu Maharaj and Shambhu Maharaj. Birju is the worthy son of the worthy father. He gave his first public performance at Dehra Dun at the age of seven, and was highly acclaimed by the dance-connoisseurs.
He is not only an accomplished dancer of the first order and brought a revolution in Kathak by composing new types of Tukras, Parana, ballets and other compositions, and bringing novelty in presentation, but also an expert Thumii singer, a Pakhawaj, Tabla and Nus player.
He had settled down at New Delhi. He accepted a job as a dance teacher at Sangit Bharati at New Delhi. He composed ballets, like Phag Lila, Kumar Samabhavam, Govardhan Lila, Malati Madhav, Shan-E-Awadh etc with his uncle, which were highly appreciated by the public. He is a master of both Nritya and Nritta, and is quite adept in practically demonstrating them. He had traveled extensively and has presented his art with great success, Any music conference of all-India level seems lonely without the talented Birju Maharaj. At present he is a teacher at the Kathak Kendra of New Delhi. He is now the torch-bearer of the Kalika-Bindadin Gharana. He is very social and simple in habits. He holds the view that Kathak dance has deep-rooted relationship with human life and there are individual and special characteristic features of Bhava, Gat, Laya, Tala, and Ahhinaya in this art. Accordingly, he endeavors to make a harmonical synchronization of them.
He composed the music and also lend his voice for two dance sequences in the film ‘Shatranj Ke Khiladi’, directed by Satyajit Ray. He also gave music in the films such as Devdas (2002), Gadar (2001), and Dil To Pagal Hai (1997).
This accomplished dancer, singer,musician won many awards including Padma Vibhushan (1986), Sangeet Natak Akademi award, Kalidas Samman and the Lata Mangeshkar Puraskar in 2002. This torchbearer of Lucknow Gharana has been conferred the honorary Doctorate degrees by the Banaras Hindu University and the Khairagarh University.
Chiranji Lal
Chiranji Lal was the second son of Hanuman Prasad of Jaipur. He was trained in the technique of Kathak of Jaipur Ghaiana by his father at Jaipur and later on by Bindadin Mahaiaj at Lucknow. He worked for some time in the states of Udaipur and Raigarh, and stayed for long at Delhi teaching Kathak at the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya. On the death of his younger brother he began to give training in Kathak to the four sons of his brother.
Damayanti Joshi
Where art rises above skill and virtuosity, the name of Damayanti Joshi, a leading exponent of Kathak occurs to the lovers of Indian dance. She was born in 1932 at Mumbai and started dancing very early in life. As child she was trained in Kathak. She has danced in China, Japan, Sudan, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Greece, and for the United Nations troops at Gaza. She has been to GDR, Poland and Russia, Nepal and the above mentioned countries as a member of the Govt of India’s Cultural Delegation. Apart from all this, she had undertaken a highly successful tour of UK, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary and the continent of Europe. In 1969 she had been to Afghanistan as a member of the Prime Minister’s Delegation and in the same year had performed at the Gandhi Darshan Exhibition at Delhi. She was the only dancer from Bombay to perform at UNCTAD II. She has performed for the visiting dignitaries, such as the Presidents of Russia, Philippines, Indonesia, Poland, Mexico, Laos, China, Yugoslavia to name a few and at international conferences and festivals like the I.L.O., Parliamentary Delegation, Ambassadors, World Agricultural Festival, International Medical, Bankers Conference and many others.
She has also given commendable performances before their Majesties of Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Spain etc. She started her dancing career in All-India Music Conferences. She made mark for her Tala aspect, and also in Nritya, and was acknowledged as the best exhibitor of the Ashta Nayikas, which came to be known as a solo ballet. She studied and choreographed the sculptures at Khajuraho for her solo ballet on the SURASUNDARI in Kathak technique. She also choreographed Dhrupad, Khayal, Thumris, Trivat, Taraua and Chaturang in Kathak, and was the first Kathak dancer to do it. At a tender age Damayanti travelled along with Menaka all over India, South East Asian countries, including Burma, Malaya, Singapore etc. throughout undivided India, Sri Lanka etc. She had her early training from Sita Ram Prasad and later from Achchan Maharaj, Luchchu Maharaj and Shambhu Maharaj. In Jaipur Gharana she had training from Hira Lal. Besides Kathak she has also learnt the other three classical schools, viz, Bharat Natyam, Kathakali and Manipuri from the respective stalwarts, and performed them at many places. Her honors among many, include Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi’s Award for Kathak (1968), Padmashree (1970), titles such as Nritya Bhushan, Nritya Sharada, Nritya Vilas etc. Photo and account in Encyclopedia Brittanica (Latest Edition). She is mainly featured in the documentary on Kathak in 1973 by film division, Govt of India and another film entitled Damayanti Joshi in 1974. In the early morning hours of Sunday, September 19, 2004, Damayanti Joshi, breathed her last.
Gauri Shankar
Gauri Shankar hailed from Bikaner. He had his early training from his father and uncle, Devi Lal and Shiv Lai respectively. He also took lessons from Sunder Prasad. He earned fame after giving his dexterous performance at the Allahabad University All-India Music Conference in 1934, and since then entered in the profession of dancing. He joined Madame Menaks’s party in 1936 and performed at the International Dance Olympiad at Berlin, touting the whole of Europe with her. He was awarded one of the highest prizes at the Olympiad. On the return of the party to India in 1938, Gauri Shankar left the troupe and joined the Shanti Niketan at Bolepur, working with Rabindranath Tagore. He left Shantiniketan after a short while and toured the country on his own giving numerous dance performances. He joined Menaka again in 1942 and remained with her for about a year, when the party was disbanded. Gauri Shankar then opened his school at Bombay, known as Pracheen Nritya Niketan. He trained hundreds of pupils and composed certain ballets in Kathak technique
Gopi Krishna
Gopi Krishna today is one of the most outstanding exponents of the Banaras Gharana of Kathak. His performances are marked by individualistic interpretation, showmanship uncanny tempo and imaginative temperament. Born at Calcutta, on August 22, 1934, Gopi Krishna was brought up by his maternal grandfather, the late Pandit Sukndev Maharaj, who was a noted maestro of the particular Banaras Gharana of Kathak style of dance. Gopi was the son of Tara, a noted singer and eldest daughter of Sukhdev Maharaj. He had his early schooling in Bombay.
Although he started dancing naturally from the age of four, the training began under his maternal grandfather in Calcutta at the age of 11. Panditji was not only his mentor but also his guiding spirit. Gopi Krishna’s training under the great master therefore meant strict discipline and arduous practice for seven to eight hours a day. He also took training from Shambhu Maharaj, and does not believe blindly following any tradition,
Gopi Krishna also learnt Bharat Natyam from Guru Mahalingam Pillai and Govind Raj Pillai from the school of Sri Raj Rajeshwari Bharat Natya Kala Mandir. His main interest is in the use of classical dancing in Indian films. His first film success came with “Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje”, a full length film by V. Shantaram. Gopi Krishna was only 17 then, but his role in the celebrated film gave to classical dancing a new status and new dimension. The film was a landmark in the history of India’s dancing and cinema, for it showed how classical dancing when properly used by film makers, would yield rich dividends. The film brought him fame all over the country. At 32, was the recipient of many distinctions and honors. He was awarded the titles of Natraj at the age of 15 at All-Bengal Music Conference, and in 1966 the Prayag Sangit Samiti Allahabad, honored him with the distinction of Nritya Samra.
He toured East Africa and Western countries. He has been directing dances for the films, besides his own performances in them. His dance direction carries a unique, individualistic touch. Equally significant is his contribution in the field of choreography. He has composed a number of solo dance ballets. He is first to divide the continuous Kathak style repertoire into distinctive items, which practice is now followed by other exponents of Kathak.
He gives a brilliant demonstration of the same rhythm in three percussion instruments, namely, Tabla, Pakhawaj and Chanda.
Hazari Lal
Hazari Lal of Bikaner, was a famous dancer of Jaipur Gharana. His father, Hanumantram, was a reputed Sarangi player, and his brother, Satya Narian, was a renowned Tabla player. Hazaii Lal received his training from both of them, viz , his father and brother, and thereafter became the disciple of Shiv Lal, a great exponent of Jaipur Gharana of Kathak. He also had intensive training from Sundar Prasad, and earned fame within a short period of time. As a result, he was invited to perform at the royal Darbars of many states including Raigarh, Gridhar and Puruna. He was a teacher for three years at Bhathkhande Sangit Vidyapith, Lucknow and also a chief Kathak dance teacher at Meerut Sangeet Samaj College.
Jagannath Prasad
Resident of Bikaner State, Jagannath Prasad received his training in Kathak dance for a long time from Chunni Lal and Gopal of Janki Prasad Gharana and also for some time from Nathu Lal of Gwalior Darbar. Jaganath Prasad spent a long time at Benaras, and was also in the courts of Nepal and Indore. He was a very religious man and his expositions brilliantly expressed the devotional aspect towards Lord Krishna. He composed a number of Kavitas and certain Angas of dancing. He died in 1946 at the age of 64. His son Radha Krishna is a dance teacher at Pilani Birla College.
Jai Kunwari
Jai Kunwari was the daughter of Jai Jai, the pillar of Jaipur Gharana. She was trained in the art by her father, and for a number of years she was second to none in the field of Kathak. Her forte was pure Nritta, and she was extremely proficient in Laya-kari. She was acclaimed everywhere she performed, specially in the music conferences of the country. The death of her father was a great shock to her and since then she gradually left the dance field. For a few years she was in the staff of the Beni Vidya Bithi, Calcutta as a dance-teacher. She died in 1973.
Jai Lal
Jai Lal Misra (1885-1949), the doyen of Jaipur Gharana, was first appointed as court dancer of Jaipur state, followed by Jodhpur, Ramgarh, Sikri and Maihar. He was for some time in the court of Nepal as well. He stayed at Raigarh for about eight years, and taught Kartik and Kalyan. Besides a talented expert of Kathak dance, he was also proficient musician and an acknowledged, experienced and qualified Tabla and Pakhawaj player, He got his training from his father Chuni Lal and uncle Durga Prasad. He spent the last three years of his life as a Kathak dance and teacher teacher at Calcutta in Bani Vidya Bithi. His son Ram Gopal stepped into his shoes after his death in the same school and turned out many promising pupils. Ram Gopal died in 1979. Tai Lal’s daughter Jai Kunwari also became famous as a Kathak dancer of Jaipur Gharana. Ram Gopal and Jai Kunwari were from different mothers.
Jhande Khan
Jhande Khan, being the son of the famous vocalist Naththu Khan, was brought up in the musical atmosphere from his childhood. After eighteen years of strenuous training in vocal music, he was appointed as a court musician at Rampur, at the age of 23. At that time Hamid AH Khan was the Nawab of Rampur. At that time Bindadin and Kalika Prasad came to the Rampur Darbar and gave their performance. The entire Darbar was spell bound on witnessing their performance. These two brothers also attracted the young vocalist of about 30 by his superb performance. Jhande Khan bacame their disciple and learnt from them for eleven years the art of Kathak dance. In this way, he became well versed both in vocal music and Kathak dance. He was also appointed court dancer of Nepal, in the court of Rana Birchandra Shamsher and remained there for about six years. There he was highly honored and his services were regarded commendable by the Rana.
Kalika Prasad
The Kathak maestro Achchan Maharaj’s father and guru Kalika Prasad was a resident of Banaras. While his brother Bindadin was a court dancer of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Kalika Prasad preferred to reside at Benaras and propagate the Kathak style of dancing and Thumri singing of his Gharana from that place. Both these brothers were responsible for promoting Kathak to a high pedestal of art and aesthetic. Besides dancing Kalika Prasad was an expert singer, especially he had profound knowledge of Thumri. He was an expert in Abhinaya – expressing the emotions in the Thumri songs, and in exhibiting the tenderness and Shringara Rasa. Many famous female Thumri singers of that time were his disciples. Kalika Prasad was a simple and social individual and was never proud of his achievements. He had a life of austerity. He had three sons – Achchan Maharaj, Baijnath Prasad (Luchchu Maharaj) and Shambhu Maharaj.
Kartik Ram and Kalyan Das
These two dancers cannot be separated and their lives should be studied jointly. They were brought up and encouraged by the Raja of Raigrah, who made arrangements for teaching them music, and went so far as to appoint the two Kathak dance wizards, Achchan Maharaj and Jai Lal to train them up in dancing. When the Raja was living, these two dancers were in great form and there were very few dancers, even among the hereditary professionals, who could compete with them, at least in Tayyari. Both of them virtually retired from the field of dancing after the death of their patron – the Raja. They are still living in Raigarh.
Krishan Kumar is the foremost representative of Janki Das Gharana. He is the son of Pt, Gopal and nephew of Hanuman Prasad, both outstanding dancers of their school. He was trained by Hanuman Prasad and Ashiq Hussain. He opened a school at Bareilly in 1947, and in addition to his duties and responsibilities as a teacher, he toured several parts of India giving performances of Kathak. In 1958 he came to Delhi to work in the ballet Maloti Madhav, produced by Bharatiya Kala Kendra. Here he came in contact with Shambhu Maharaj and started taking training from him of Lucknow Gharana. Accordingly, Krishan Kumar received a scholarship for the purpose from the Ministry of Culture. He is very amiable in nature and has occupied a stable position among the accomplished dancers of the present day.
Kundan Lal
Kudan Lal, an exponent of the Jaipur Gharana of Kathak was trained by his uncle, the noted representative of the same Gharana of Narayan Prasad. Kundan Lal accompanied Narain Prasad at Raigarh. After this he toured Bihar and Madhya Pradesh for five years, and gave performances wherever he went. Thereafter he remained at Bombay for 15 years and use to teach dancing there. He had film artistes also as his disciples among whom special mention should be made of Paro, Swarnalata and Javeen. He was the Kathak instructor in the Dance Department of Baroda University from 1923.
Luchchu Maharaj
Baijnath Prasad, affectionately called Luchchu, as he was very naughty in his boyhood, was the second son of Kalika Prasad. In his early days he was trained by his father and on his death by his elder brother Achchan Maharaj. He started giving public performances from ten years of age and continued to do so till he was about 60. He preferred to stay at Bombay, where he lived for a long time and started his school of dancing by the name of “Nutan Nritya Niketan”. He composed a number of ballets in Kathak technique. A few ballets he composed for Menaka. He trained his daughter Kaushalya, among others, who became famous as a dancer at one time. He won the Sangeet Natak Akademy, New Delhi award for Kathak dance in 1957. Luchchu Maharaj also earned fame as a cinema-dance and music director in the film world. He worked in the same capacity, among others, in Mahal, Kale Badal, Tamasha, Ghar Ki Laaj and Shikwa, Some of his dance compositions, such as Bharaliya Kisan, Gandhi Ki Amar Kahani, Madya Nishedh etc., became very popular. Besides Kathak he had fair knowledge of other dance styles as well.
Maya Rao
Maya Rao is the only female dancer from South India who has mastered Kathak of both the Gharanas of Lucknow and Jaipur, being the chief disciple of Shambhu Maharaj and Sundar Piasad. She belongs to Bangalore and had her early training from Sohan Lal of Jaipur, who was then at Bangalore. While still a student in 1946, she started a school of dancing and became the founder-director of the Natya Sarswathi Art Centre at Bangalore, and this was probably the first institution of South India to provide intensive training in Kathak. After qualifying for the honors degree in Literature, Maya Rao went to Jaipur and for two years received training in Kathak from the best teachers available there. Soon after she was awarded a Government of India Cultural Scholarship in Kathak, and began her further training under Shambhu Maharaj at New Delhi. Shambhu Mahaiaj found in her very diligent and promising pupil, and he had on more than one occasion admitted that he had trained her to an extent to which he had not trained any other pupil in his whole career. Maya Rao also has rare distinction of having danced duets with her Guru, Shambhu Maharaj. She was Director-in charge of the preparatory Dance Section of the Bharatiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi, and carried out certain researches both in Kathak and ballet. She was the Government of India’s nominee for the award of Soviet scholarship of choreography. She is the first Indian with Post-Graduate Certificate in choreography of the State Institute of Theatre Arts, Moscow. She has had over twenty years of experience as a dance, choreographer and teacher. She has over fifty ballets to her credit presented to appreciative audiences all over India and abroad. She has the unique distinction of being the chief consultant for the choreography of the famous ballet Shakuntala and Drama Ramayan, and has trained several young aspirants in the art from India and abroad. She is the Founder-Director of the Natya Institute of Choreography, New Delhi, established in 1964 with the help of the Government of India. Proficient in classical and folk-dance traditions of India and Shri Lanka, she had used these in the choreography of her ballets.
Mohan Lal was the son of Hanuman Prasad of Jaipur and was the eldest among the three brothers, the other two being Chiranji Lal and Narayan Prasad. He learnt the Jaipur technique from his father and went to Lucknow. He was a disciple of Bindadin Maharaj for some time. Thereafter he went on giving demonstrations at many places in the country, including Baroda, Raigarh, Indore, Gidhnaur etc., and then settled down at Jaipur as the court-dancer. He stayed for sometime at Bombay and then went to Delhi, where he stayed for a considerable length of time giving training to his disciples. From Delhi he again went to Khairagad, and started teaching Kathak at Sangit Vidyalaya.
Narayan Prasad
Narayan Prasad was born at Jaipur in 1908 in the famous Gharana of Hari Prasad-Hanuman Prasad. Narayan Prasad’s father was Hanuman Prasad and Hari Prasad was the elder brother of Hanuman Prasad. Hari Prasad was dance-teacher at the “Gunjan Khana” of Jaipur. Narayan Prasad’s training in Kathak dance began at the age of eight from his said uncle and father and from the age of twelve he started appearing before the public as a boy-dancer and a prodigy. Narayan Prasad’s two elder brothers, Mohan Lal and Chiranji Lal, were then engaged as teachers of Pakhawaj and singing of dance. Narayan Prasad became famous in a short time after successfully demonstrating his art in many music conferences. He was adept in “Shringar”, and was honoured with the title of “Nrityatharya.” by Gandharva Mahavidyalaya at Belgaum on 8th December 1958. He had about seven hundred students of caliber, many of whom earned wide reputation. After teaching for twelve years at Delhi he died there on 12th December 1958. Among his six children, Chand and Swraj are reputed dance-artistes.
Rani Karna
Rani Karna was born on March 11, 1939 in Hyderabad (Sind, now in West Pakistan). She graduated with Honors in Botany from Delhi University in 1958. She is a disciple of eminent Gurus, such as Birju Maharaj, Sundar Prasad in Kathak and Kelu Charan Mahapatro in Odissi. She has also studied Russian and Sanskrit. She learnt dance with passion and developed it with an unusual sense of aesthetic adventure. She is known to have considerably developed the dimensions of Kathak. She is Nritya Vhhmad in Kathak from Gandharva Mahavidyalya under the guidance of Narayan Prasad and was the recipient of the Government of India Cultural Scholarship to learn both the Gharanas of Kathak i.e. Jaipur and Lucknow. She had also training in Manipuri and Bharat Natyam. She is the recipient of President’s Gold Medal in Shankar’s Dance Competition at Delhi (1955), first prize in Kathak in inter-University Youth Festival consecutively for three years, “Order of the Queen” from her Majesty the Queen of Laos (1964), and Sangit Varadhi from Bharatya Kala Kendra, New Delhi (1977). She has trained up many students in Kathak and Odissi. She has given dance recitals at numerous places in the country, and her performances abroad, as participant of the Government of India Cultural Delegations include Afghanistan, Pakistan, USSR, East Asian Countries, Sikkim, Nepal, United Kingdom, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland and France.
Roshan Kumari
Roshan Kumari, the daughter of the noted Tabla and Pakhawaj player Fakir Mohammad and famous play back singer Zohra Jan of Ambala, who was working in the films at Bombay for a long time. In this way, Roshan Kumari was brought up in a musical atmosphere. She had training in Kathak first from K.S. Moray and thereafter from Sundar Prasad. In order to understand the technique of the art of Bharat Natyam and not with an idea of giving Bharat Natyam programmes, she learnt the art from Govindraj Pillai of Bombay and Mahalingam Pilial. She has presented her performances with high approbation at numerous music conferences throughout the country, and has presented her art for important dignitaries, who have, from time to time come to India from various foreign countries. She is also a TV artist. She has also danced in a number of Hindi and Bengali films, including “Jhansi Ki Rani”, “Mirza Galib”, “Waris”, “Basant Bahar” and “Jalsaghar”.
Shambhu Maharaj
Shambhu Maharaj was the youngest of the three famous brothers, the other two being Achchan Maharaj and Luchchu Maharaj, all of whom were the sons of Kalika Prasad and nephews of Bindadin Maharaj. Shambhu received training in his early days from Bindadin and thereafter from his elder brother Achchan Maharaj. Besides concentrating on dancing Shambhu Mahaiaj also learnt classical Hindustani music, especially the Thumri-Anga, which he mastered under the guidance of Rahimuddin Khan, younger brother of the prominent exponent of Thumri of that time Moizuddin Khan. As he was proficient in both dancing and Thumri he could show his merit in Nritya and Nritta with great excellence, and hence occupied a unique position among the top notchers of dancing. He won numerous awards and titles, among them, Nirtya Samrat was bestowed upon him at the music conference at Dehra Dun, Abhinaya Chaktavarti at Madras and Padmashri by the Indian Government. He was also the recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, award. True to the ideals of his Gharana, Shambhu Maharaj excelled in Bhava and revived to a great extent the use of Ashtapadis, and of certain Thumris and Bhajans and other Nritya pieces in Kathak. Among his innumerable disciples, a great number of them feature as prominent Kathak dance exponents of the present day. He endeavored hard to restore Kathak dance as the pure Natwari Nritya in its pristine glory and prestige. He was the Head of the Dance Department of Bharatiya Kala Kendra from 1955. He died suddenly of heart failure on 4th November 1970. Shambhu Maharaj was the father or four children, among whom two died in their childhood, leaving the other two alive viz , a son Krishna Mohan Nath, and a daughter Remeshwari.
Shiv Lal
Shiv Lal was a life long devotee of Kathak of which he was a veteran. He originally hailed from Rajasthan but early in his life, after getting some training from Gurus there, went to Lucknow, where he was enlisted as one of the promising disciples by Bindadin Maharaj. He then served as a dancer in the states of Mysore and Nepal. He was a teacher of Kathak dance for some time at Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Bombay. He then went back to his native place Sujangarh.
Sitara Devi
Sitara Devi was the daughter of Pt Sukhdev Maharaj, the pioneer of Banaras Gharana of Kathak dance. She was born at Calcutta. Besides her father she started taking training from Achchan Maharaj and thereafter from Shambhu Maharaj when she was twelve. She is also well-versed in other classical forms, viz, Bharat Natyam and Manipuri. She has also earned fame in film world and participated in the dancing roles of a number of movies. She has given dance demonstrations in many foreign countries and for her the westerners took keen interest in Indian dancing. She singly performs the entire Ramayana. Her other two sisters are Alakananda and Tara, Alakananda was also a reputed dancer, but left dancing just after her marriage.
Sitaram Prasad
Sitaram Prasad was a disciple of Bindadin Maharaj and a contemporary of Achchan Maharaj. He served as a court dancer at Raigarh and also in Nepal. He came to Bombay in the year 1935 and settled there. He trained many artists there, among whom a few film stars also featured including Menaka, Zubeda and Manorama.
Sohan Lal
Sohal Lal was also an exponent of Jaipur Gharana like Jai Lal. He was the pupil of Jail Lal, Sunder Prasad and Devi Lal. Being trained by those stalwarts he became an accomplished artist and imparted dance lessons to a number of disciples at Bombay and Calcutta who earned great reputation. He was also adept in vocal music and Tabla. Among his well known disciples are Bela Arnak, Jharna Saha, Sunalim Den, Lila Desai and Ramdhan (a dance teacher at Ludhiana).
Sundar Lal
Sundar Lal of Sujangarh, Rajasthan, was the son of the famous Tabla player Satya Narain, and received his training from the great masters of Jaipur Gharana, such as Shiv Narain, Jagannath, Sunder Prasad, Hazari Lal, Gauri Shankar and others. His demonstrations were marked by polish, technical efficiency, ease, grace and charm. Besides being an eminent Kathak dancer, he was also an able teacher. He worked as a teacher at Bombay, Meerut and Delhi. He earned a name also as a Tabla player and used to give demonstrations from the All India Radio. He is also a composer and has a number of Kathak Kavita and Toras to his credit. He is working as a dance teacher in the Dance Department of the Baroda University.
Sundar Prasad
Sundar Prasad, younger brother of the pillar of Jaipur Gharana Jai Lal, had his early training in Kathak from his father Chuni Lal and his uncle Durga Prasad and thereafter from his brother Jai Lal. In his very boyhood he was taken to Lucknow, where he was trained by Bindadin himself. Thus he was well-versed in both the Gharanas. Accordingly, he synchronized the good elements of both the Gharanas, and transferred them to his disciples, who, in their own turn, provided a harmonious blending of them in exhibitions. Sundar Piasad entered in the profession of dancing when he was about 20, and since then he gave innumerable performances throughout the country. He was not only a successful dancer, but also a reputed teacher, and taught many pupils, among whom a few are in the forefront. He opened his own school of Kathak dance in Bombay which he called Maharaj Bindadin School of Kathak and used to impart training for about thirty years. From Bombay he went to Madras and from there to Delhi. He was honoured by the Sangeet Natak Akadmi in 1959 with the Award for Kathak Dance for his life-long service in this field and later received its fellowship. He was also the recipient of Padmashri from the Government. Though he became flabby in his middle age, still he could give demonstration with agility and profound skill. He was appointed a teacher at Bharatiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi. He died on 29th may 1970.
Rupali deshpande says
Awesome information .very useful
trickygurlsim says
fantastic notes ……………… useful for kathak school project works …………….
Mrinal Jawalekar says
Thanks for the information . It helped me a lot for my Kathak exam.
Thanks again !
Thanks for the information. It helped me a lot for my Kathak written exam. Only I had to do was to translate it into Marathi.
Please include the information of Pandit Hanuman Prasad and Hariprasad
Sampada Pillai says
Nicely compiled and presented systematically. However you have missed out on one of the greatest exponent, a Sangeet Natak Academi Awardee – Late Pandita Dr. Rohini Bhate. Her work in Kathak is so immense that one cant just ignore it. I am not saying this as I am her disciple. But if you spend some time in knowing about her I am sure you will realize that you need to include her name too.
Anand Sirur says
Unfortunately, Guru Pt. Mohanrao Kallianpurkar is not included in your list. He was the student of Sundar Prasad and Achchan Maharaj and the Kathak guru in the erstwhile Marris College of Music in Lucknow presently, the Bhatkhand College of Music, Lucknow, where he was the Director and also Dean of the Dance section. He was responsible in preparing a syllabus for a five year university dance course. He was the recipient of the Rashtrapati Award, Fellowship of Sangeet Natak Academy Award and many more. Some of his noted students are Smt. Rohini Bhate, Purnima Pande Padma Sharma amongst many others.
Nitin Jog says
I will include information about them soon. Thank you.
Karaamen Olaasinh says
Wonderful to learn about all the great Kathak Gurus!
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Gen Con Chooses Charity Partners for 2018 Convention
Second Helpings and The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund Selected
INDIANAPOLIS (March 16, 2018) Gen Con, the longest running game convention in North America, has chosen Second Helpings and The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund as its Official Charity Partners for 2018. In the past, the convention officially collaborated with one philanthropic organization each year. As part of this agreement, both organizations will receive the 2018 proceeds from Gen Con’s longstanding charity events, including an auction, a balloon sculpture, and the popular “Cardhalla,” a giant destruction of card structures.
“By featuring both of these deserving groups we hope to bring awareness to charities in both the Indianapolis and greater gaming communities,” said David Hoppe, president of Gen Con. “The generosity of Gen Con attendees has made a huge difference for charity partners in the past and we’re looking forward to supporting Second Helpings and The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund in reaching their fundraising goals.”
Gen Con, which celebrated its 50th convention in 2017, has taken place in Indianapolis since 2003. During its time in Indy Gen Con has raised more than $260,000 for local charity partners.
“As Second Helpings celebrates our 20th anniversary we are delighted to partner with Gen Con as an Official Charity Partner,” said Katie Prine, senior director of philanthropy at Second Helpings. “Like Gen Con, we recognize the power in bringing a community together around a passion. Whether you are interested in hunger relief, fighting food waste, or eliminating poverty through culinary job training, we are working on all three. Second Helpings staff and volunteers are excited to welcome Gen Con 2018 attendees to Indianapolis this August, and we extend our gratitude to all attendees for joining the fight against hunger in Central Indiana.”
Last year, approximately 60,000 people attended (turnstile attendance reached 207,979) Gen Con 50, and participated in over 19,000 ticketed events. The convention sold out for the first time in its 50-year history and is expecting to sell out again.
"The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund is thrilled to be this year's Gen Con charity partner,” said John Kaufeld, board member of The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund. “It's an honor to have our work celebrated by the people we serve."
Gen Con will return to Indianapolis on August 2 – 5. Badges are still available and can be purchased at gencon.com
About The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund
The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund was started in April, 2011, in memory of Jack Vasel, son of Tom Vasel. Tom is an influential voice in the board gaming hobby, and the community rallied around him in his time of need. Amazed by this generosity and kindness, Tom was determined to help others who might undergo similar tragedies. The Fund was formed to collect and distribute financial assistance to members of the public who are part of the gaming community and who have suffered personal hardship. It is our hope and prayer that the Jack Vasel Memorial Fund will provide Jack with a legacy to help out the entire gaming community.
About Second Helpings
Second Helpings, Inc. accepts donated perishable and overstocked food to prepare nutritious meals for thousands of hungry children and adults every day, and distributes them free of charge through local social service agencies in Greater Indianapolis. Second Helpings also trains unemployed and underemployed adults for meaningful careers in the culinary industry.
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Google wants to make Chrome extensions safer
Google today announced a number of upcoming changes to how Chrome will handle extensions that request a lot of permissions, as well as new requirements for developers who want to publish their extensions in the Chrome Web Store.
It’s no secret that no matter which browser you use, extensions are one of the main vectors that malicious developers use to gain access to your data. Over the years, Google has improved its ability to automatically detect malicious extensions before they ever make it into the store. The company also made quite a few changes to the browser itself to ensure that extensions can wreak havoc once they have been installed. Now, it’s taking this a bit further.
Starting with Chrome 70, users can restrict host access to their own custom list of sites. That’s important because, by default, most extensions can see and manipulate any website you go to. Whitelists are hard to maintain, though, so users can also opt to only provide an extension with access to the current page after a click.
“While host permissions have enabled thousands of powerful and creative extension use cases, they have also led to a broad range of misuse — both malicious and unintentional — because they allow extensions to automatically read and change data on websites,” Google explains in today’s announcement.
Any extensions that request what Google calls “powerful permissions” will now also be subject to a more extensive review process. In addition, Google will also take a closer look at extensions that use remotely hosted code (since that code could be changed at any time, after all).
As far as permissions go, Google also notes that in 2019, it’ll introduce new mechanisms and more narrowly scoped APIs that will reduce the need for broader permissions and that will give users more control over the access that they grant to their extensions. Starting in 2019, Google will also require two-factor authentication for access to Chrome Web Store developer accounts to make sure that a malicious actor can’t take over a developer’s account and publish a hacked extension.
While that change is still a few months out, starting today, developers are no longer allowed to publish extensions with obfuscated code. By default, obfuscated code isn’t a bad thing. Developers often use this method of scrambling their JavaScript source code to hide their code, which would otherwise be in clear text and easy to steal. That also makes it very hard to figure out what exactly the code does, and 70 percent of malicious extensions and those that try to circumvent Google’s policies use obfuscated code. Google will remove all existing extensions with obfuscated code in 90 days.
It’s worth noting that developers will still be allowed to minify their code to remove whitespace, comments and newlines, for example.
Source: TechCrunch
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Taylor Swift’s 'Out of the Woods' Music Video Leads the Industry in Artistic Integrity; What's Next?
By Mark Rollins ( [email protected] ) Jan 03, 2016 12:48 AM EST Comment
Taylor Swift ''Out of the Woods''
When it comes to making music videos, it would appear that Taylor Swift is now the leader of this art. Not only was her video for "Bad Blood" a definite homage and original take on action films with many cameos, but her recent video for "Out of the Woods" brings out all kinds of interesting fairy tale imagery.
IO9 calls Swift's new video "a better Fairy Tale movie than Maleficent and Mirror Mirror put together." They raise an interesting point as modern-day fairy tale movies like the ones they suggest along with Snow White and the Hunstman always attempt to put some dark spin on the source material. This is not to say that Grimm's Fairy Tales were not dark to begin with, but it certainly is a darker filmmaking trend that is a direct opposite to the original Disney fairy tale standard. Even Disney's recent live-action version of Cinderella had some serious darker elements to it, even though it avoided the two wicked stepsisters cutting their feet to fit into that glass slipper.
Taylor's Swift's video from "Out of the Woods" seems inspired by Disney's most recent musical film Into the Woods, which had the sisters from Cinderella cutting their feet. Like most music videos, the plot is put on the backburner in order to invoke more feeling and imagery. The video was directed by Joseph Kahn, who also directed the "Bad Blood" video.
The video shows Swift being attacked or perhaps even loved by some beanstalk, tree, or other fast-growing plant, and then finds her being chased by evil wolves, like Belle from Disney's animated classic Beauty and the Beast. From here, the scene goes from beach, to snowy mountain, to summer rocky terrain, to forest fire, as it appears that Swift's in-universe character cannot seem to control where she actually is and is transporting at random.
Yes, it is difficult to follow, and if there is some storyline here, it isn't obvious after one watch. There is some text reading "He Left Her, but She Found Herself", which might give the viewer a clue.
It is interesting to see that Taylor Swift, who is one of the hottest music stars now, really devotes a lot of time to make music videos, even in a post-MTV music video generation. In the days when MTV and music video started, it was Michael Jackson who really pioneered quality videos for his tracks "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller". These two artists have a definite artistic integrity that rules their videos, creating works that rival what is done in the cinema.
We have attached the video below so you can watch it for yourself, and feel free to leave your comments on it, as well as what you would like Taylor Swift to try next. Maybe her next video could tackle Star Wars. At this point, would anyone be surprised?
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Will ‘Zootopia’ Be the Next Hit Or Miss From the Mouse House? Release Date, New Trailer, Cast, and News.
By Mark Rollins ( [email protected] ) Feb 01, 2016 03:06 PM EST Comment
Zootopia is coming on March 4, 2016. Disney
It was a good and bad year for Disney in 2015 as their two films in cooperation with Pixar were hit and miss. Most agree that Inside Out was one of the best films of the year, with some saying it was their best film ever, but The Good Dinosaur is considered to be kind of a flop. There will be three computer-animated films from Disney in 2016, and it will begin with Zootopia. This is what is known about the film's Release Date, Cast, and News, as right now, there are a lot of doubts about whether Zootopia will be another success for the Mouse House.
The trailer for Zootopia (or as it is known in the UK, Zootropolis) looks pretty decent, and it can be viewed below. There was a previous trailer that simply introduced the audience to an anthropomorphic world. That is, a world where animals have human characteristics.
Very little of the plot was revealed on the first trailer, but it seemed to focus on a fox as the main character, who is caught by a rabbit police officer. The new trailer shows that the two of them are working together in some kind of cop/con partnership that is pretty common in films. Jason Bateman plays the sly fox Nick Wilde while Ginnifer Goodwin plays Judy Hopps the rabbit cop.
The two of them get into a lot of antics, meeting lots of literally colorful characters, in a world that looks like a pretty modern city, and well-animated one at that. The film has no shortage of voice talent and side characters, which is starting to be a staple for Disney animated films. The cast list includes Shakira, J.K.Simmons, Nate Torrence, Jenny Slate, Alan Tudyk, Raymond Persi, and much more.
Disney has had a lot of hits with its computer-animated films done outside of Pixar, such as Wreck-it Ralph and Frozen. The issue with this film is it feels like it is something that Disney has done before. In 2005, Disney released one of their CG films outside of Pixar with Chicken Little, which is considered to be a failure for the studio. Like Zootopia, Chicken Little also showed the audience to an anthropomorphic world where animals acted like humans, and yet would still have certain animal instincts. From what is seen on the trailer, practically all of the humor of Zootopia is based on this type of gag, which means that it could get old, very fast.
In short, the one-joke gags in Zootopia could mean that this film might not be the next success for Disney. Yet the proof is in the pudding for this one, and audiences will be the true judge once the film gets its release date on March 4, 2016.
This is not the only computer animated film that Disney animators will bring to audiences, as Moana, the story of an adventure in Hawaii, to be released on November 23, 2016. Also in the mix is Disney/Pixar's Finding Dory, the long-awaited sequel to Finding Nemo, due out on June 17, 2016.
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Home Destinations Asia Former Burmese Princes Works to Help Her People
Former Burmese Princes Works to Help Her People
By Janna Graber
Aching for Burma
A former princess helps those she left behind
For nine years, Inge Sargent was the wife of Shan prince Sao Kya Seng. Today, Sargent spends her time helping refugees who have fled Burma’s military
From her modest home near the foothills of Boulder, Colorado, Inge Sargent is waging a battle. It is not a war of weapons, but of words and empowerment. Sargent is struggling to help the oppressed people of the nation she was forced to leave behind.
The 69-year-old retired teacher is the former princess of the Shan State of Hsipaw in Burma. It is a life that Sargent never imagined she would live.
Growing up in her native Austria, Sargent spent her early years worrying about the strife that filled her own country. She was six years old when the Nazis marched through her village. Sargent saw her mother arrested three times, and watched as neighbors disappeared, never to return.
Times were tough after the war, and Sargent decided to study abroad. In 1952, she came to Colorado on a Fullbright Scholarship, and met the man who would change her life forever.
Sao Kya Seng, a handsome young man from Burma, was studying engineering and the American political system at the Colorado School of Mines. With his winning smile and thoughtful personality, Sargent was easily taken with him.
The two fell in love and married, later sailing to live in Burma. As they reached the port in Rangoon, Sargent noticed that hundreds of people had gathered on the dock. Others floated nearby in brightly colored boats, holding up welcome signs.
“There must be someone important on this ship,” Sargent remarked to her husband, who knew he must make a confession.
Sargent listened in shock as Sao told her who he really was — the prince of Hsipaw.
Today Sargent still laughs when she tells of her response, “I wish you would have told me! I would have worn a different dress!” she exclaimed at the time.
Although Sargent was hurt that Sao had hidden his identity, she understood his reasons, “First, he wanted to live a normal student life. Then later, he wanted to be sure I loved him for who he was, not what he was,” she says.
The bewildered bride soon grew used to royal life. She learned both the Shan and the Burmese languages, and the names of their 46 palace servants. The couple soon had two little girls, Mayari and Kennari.
Sao and Sargent were “working” leaders, and Sao established a mining company and salt mine. During his studies in America, Sao had come to appreciate freedom of speech and the idea that everyone is equal, says Sargent. He abolished the practice of servants kneeling before him, gave his rice fields away to the farmers that worked them, and introduced new farming methods.
Sargent became deeply involved in her adopted country, establishing a birthing clinic, teaching the villagers nutrition and setting up a trilingual school. For nine blissful years, Sargent and Sao lived a fairytale life.
But Sao’s talk of democracy angered the Burmese military. In 1962, while Sao was away attending parliament meetings, the military staged a coup under the leadership of General Ne Win. Sao was arrested and never seen again. Eventually, word came through acquaintances that he had been killed.
For two years, Sargent and her two daughters lived in a state of terror under house arrest. Finally, with the help of the Austrian Ambassador, Sargent and the girls were able to escape, carrying only three suitcases.
Sargent returned to Colorado, where she and Sao had once been so happy. As a single working mother, she determined to make a good home for her girls. She became a high school German teacher, and her daughters adapted to life in America. In 1968, the former princess married Howard (Tad) Sargent, who later adopted her girls.
“Tad encouraged me to write down my life experiences, and to confront my past,” Sargent says. Her story is written in her book, Twilight over Burma, My Life as a Shan Princess.
Writing the book stirred Sargent’s passion for the people of Burma. In 1999, the couple founded Burma Lifeline (www.burmalifeline.org), a non-profit agency dedicated to helping refugees who have fled the military regime, and are either in refugee camps or still hiding in the jungles of Burma.
Conditions under the authoritarian military government have not improved since those days. Once the biggest exporter of rice in Southeast Asia, Burma (now called Myanmar by the military government) is currently one of the poorest countries in the world.
“Burma once had one of the highest literacy rates, and a good health care system,” Sargent states, “Now it is one of the least developed countries.”
Ethnic minority groups such as the Shan, Akha and Karen make up 40 percent of the country’s 45 million population; yet they are systematically targeted for relocation and forced labor.
Nang Ying, a 30-year-old Shan woman, is just one example. “I was 16 when I was taken to do forced labor for the military,” she says, “We worked all day long. They gave us no food and water.”
Rape is a common occurrence, says Ying, who saw such violence first hand. A recent human rights report, “License to Rape,” documented 625 rapes by the Burmese military between 1996-2001. Twenty-five percent of the rapes resulted in death; 61 percent were gang rapes.
Such violence and forced labor continues, says Ying, who later escaped into Thailand. Now a leader in the Shan Women Action Network, a democratic grassroots effort to address the issues Shan women and children face, Nang finds support and leadership in Sargent, whose Burma Lifeline helps to finance the work.
Burma Lifeline also funds several Shan schools in refugee camps along the Thai border, and provides medical supplies to refugees.
“There are several million refugees hiding in Thailand and Bangladesh,” says Sargent, “Another five million are displaced inside Burma.”
“Our objective is to help these refugees survive their ordeal,” says Sargent, who was awarded a United Nations International Human Rights award in 2000 for her work. She spends her time lecturing on Burma, monitoring Internet communications regarding the situation there, and raising money for refugees — many of whom still call her the Shan “Royal Mother.”
Every penny raised goes to provide food, water, and medical care for these people, says Sargent. The help is distributed by her trusted Shan relatives, who know where to find the refugees and how to get them the help they need.
“I am connected to the Shan people of Burma,” says Sargent. “I’ve lived with them — and lost my heart there. How can I not help them? Someone has to help them.”
Photos Courtesy of Inge Sargent
Inge Sargent
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Roaring River dance bands
Looking for a band that will get your guests up and on their feet? GigMasters has a wide selection of Dance Bands that you can book for live performances at weddings, birthdays, clubs, and more. Bust a move and see who’s available for shows in the Roaring River, NC area.
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Top Dance Bands Near Roaring River, NC
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Tim Hall & Buffalo Country
Country Band from Hudson, NC (36 miles from Roaring River, NC)
This band is "Gigmaster's Super Group" from the best of musicians including a steel player to the best of vocals and harmonies. Tim Hall is a singer songwriter performing regularly in Nashville, at Lowes Motor Speedway,The Bowery in Myrtle Beach, going on their 6th consecutive year at Princeton University, going on their 2nd year hosting Hunsader Pumpkin Festival in Tampa Fl and some of the elite Country Clubs and Dance Halls of the South. This band comprised of veteran musicians who all know... (more)
The Mulligans
Cover Band from Winston Salem, NC (44 miles from Roaring River, NC)
THE MULLIGANS band is a variety band that can be hired as an acoustic duo or 4 piece band. Having preformed just over 1,000 times since 2008, we are sure to help make your event or special occasion a success! We specialize in providing the highest quality live music for private parties, wedding receptions, ceremonies, rehearsal dinners, as well as corporate events. Our show features a wide variety of music covering all styles and genres such as: Motown, Oldies, Country, Bluegrass, Classic... (more)
Variety Band from Winston Salem, NC (38 miles from Roaring River, NC)
Over 100 years of musical experience has come together to form this band. The Invaders have played all over NC (and surrounding states) offering Rock & Roll, Beach, Boogie, Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Classic, Southern Rock music to please everyone's musical tastes. Our goal is to get everyone up, dancing, moving & grooving and doing our best to make sure everyone has a good time. One of the most versatile bands around, The Invaders have experience playing everywhere from festivals to corp... (more)
The Tyler Millard Band
Rock Band from Oak Ridge, NC (56 miles from Roaring River, NC)
The Tyler Millard Band is comprised of 2 - 5 band members, depending upon the venue and budget. Tyler Millard had been performing by himself for two years when he met Kyle Vessa and Carl Heck. Millard was heavily influenced by 9o's alternative music and modern blues, while Vessa and Heck had played mostly southern rock. The result of these three coming together can best be described as a folk/blues mix. Adding in a keyboardist and a drummer has produced a very tight sound that will rock the... (more)
Breaking Point Band
Cover Band from Mooresville, NC (43 miles from Roaring River, NC)
" Rockin the Carolina's" Breaking Point Band- The Ultimate 70-80's Classic Rock experience! Taking you back in time and feel like a kid again! Featuring a unique cover song selection along with magical harmonies with a song list that will sure to get you singing or dancing along to your favorite classic Rock tunes. A lead guitarist, rhythm guitar, keyboard and depending on space, either a Cajon or full drum setup that will entertain you for any special event or venue Can play as a... (more)
Dance Band from Charlotte, NC (66 miles from Roaring River, NC)
The Company Band is one of the East Coast's premier bands known for its versatility and talented members. The Company Band is putting its own spin on the music industry by giving people a combination of music genres creating delectable sounds the ear can only imagine. These incredibly talented musicians all come from different musical backgrounds to form one of the most requested bands. They offer an eclectic blend of Motown, R&B, pop, current hits, dance classics, oldies, beach and jazz.... (more)
The Night Move Band
THE NIGHT MOVE BAND is a 5 piece multi-talented group (Lead Guitar, Bass Guitar, (2)Keyboards, and Drums) featuring 4 part vocal harmonies. All the members of the band have 20+ years of experience and have shared the stage with many national and regional musical acts. The band specializes in Dance Music featuring Beach, Motown, Funk, R&B, Rock, and Country. The Night Move Band enjoys playing Festivals, Weddings, Corporate Funtions, Country Clubs, Private Parties, or any place where people... (more)
Straight Fire
Do you want a typical run-of-the-mill band for your event, or do you want a smokin' band that is one of the hottest party bands in the nation? Straight Fire is one of the most highly sought-after party bands around and will set your event ON FIRE! What makes Straight Fire different from other groups? First, they have a full-time, A-List DJ IN THE BAND, spinning with the band during their live shows. A Straight Fire show offers continuous music through the evening, as our DJ takes over... (more)
Dance Band from Greensboro, NC (69 miles from Roaring River, NC)
Moxie is a high-energy, female-fronted band that plays a tasty selection of R&B, soul, funk, rock and beach music that everyone knows and loves. Moxie is the perfect band for weddings, corporate and private parties, festivals, and clubs – wherever the goal is to get people on their feet dancing and having a great time. These five veteran musicians are professional and easy to work with to meet the needs of the client and the event. Moxie's performance is family-friendly and packed with... (more)
Flashback, The Party Band
Variety Band from Charlotte, NC (68 miles from Roaring River, NC)
Since 1997, Flashback, the Party Band, has been instrumental in creating truly memorable celebrations throughout the Southeast. "Best band ever!" "Dance floor was packed all night!" "Did not want the night to end!" "Can't say enough, they made our reception a blast!" - are just a few of the quotes from the hundreds of superior reviews FlashBack has earned. Flashback takes you through decades of classics; from the best of Motown, Beach, and Disco, then all the way into Current Top... (more)
Jazz Revolution
Jazz Band from Charlotte, NC (75 miles from Roaring River, NC)
Jazz Revolution is an eclectic blend of jazz and soul music. The band is built from a six piece jazz ensemble playing the sounds of the classic standard jazz literature, classic R&B tunes, and progressive soul music. The members of this group come from various musical backgrounds including Jazz, Pop, Latin, Classical, and Funk and collectively, the members of Jazz Revolution have more than 100 years of performing experience. Jazz Revolution is not only a group of musicians but also a group... (more)
Queen City Band
No party is too big or too small for The Queen City Band. Performing most often as a 10-piece band with 4 amazing vocalists and a horn section, they can scale up to a 12-piece powerhouse to move an entire convention center of partygoers at a sparkling corporate gala or dial it back with a smaller lineup for an intimate evening wedding with 100 of your nearest and dearest. Their strength isn't just in their numbers. The members of Queen City have honed their craft onstage at countless... (more)
Jukebox Revolver
Cover Band from Greensboro, NC (69 miles from Roaring River, NC)
Jukebox Revolver is a performance-oriented, five-piece band with one goal in mind…..to make sure that you have a great time. They are based out of Greensboro, North Carolina and each member, with their diverse musical and geographical background, has come together to form a truly entertaining and mesmerizing show. From the full, in your face light show, to their crowd engaging and energetic stage presence, to their vocally led and brilliant harmonies, Jukebox Revolver has put together a... (more)
Hipshack
Variety Band from Matthews, NC (76 miles from Roaring River, NC)
Music that turns your event into the cool party guests will never forget. Take your event by storm with a rock'n'roll powerhouse performance from Hipshack! Hipshack delivers an appealing, high-powered show that gets your party hopping from the first crack of the snare drum to the very last power chord. From the moment they hit the stage, Hipshack is in charge and ready to satisfy your need to rock. Hipshack's tight 4-piece combo of skilled players turns an everyday party into a... (more)
Variety Band from Greensboro, NC (66 miles from Roaring River, NC)
Lucky Pocket is a dynamic five-piece band based out of Greensboro, NC that feeds on a diet of funk, soul, and rock. Their repertoire includes cover songs spanning from the sixties to modern day, as well as some catchy original material. Each member is a skilled professional with years of performing and education, resulting in high-level musicianship and a high-energy performance. Lucky Pocket has a vast repertoire of songs that span myriad styles and eras, guaranteeing a good time had by... (more)
Kids in America - The Totally 80s Tribute Band
Cover Band from Charlotte, NC (68 miles from Roaring River, NC)
Due to the huge success of "Kids in America" please look for our sister band on here called New Kids - SuperFly 90s Tribute Band. Its the same members as Kids in America and we're showing our love for 90s music as well. So now you can hire "Kids in America" or "New Kids" or even both as 2 separate shows! Ready to be blasted into the past? Kids in America is a ultra high-energy, power-packed, 6 piece band paying tribute to the totally awesome 1980s. From New Wave to pop, dance and rock,... (more)
The Herringbones
The Herringbones specialize in wedding receptions, corporate events, private parties, and outdoor concerts. We perform classic rock, Top 40, acoustic rock, oldies, beach, country, jazz, and party music from the last 50 years. The Herringbones play songs that you know and love. We also play original compositions if that suits the event. Our music: Perfect for dancing, listening, or bringing a party alive! Our goal: To make your event an absolute success by offering the best band available and... (more)
The Radio Sparks
The Radio Sparks formed in 2013 when a local promoter in the Greensboro area needed a group to play "live band karaoke" nights at a popular bar, and the trio has since become a popular party band for weddings and social events in the Southeast. Cameron, Will and Josh bring their collective experience in many popular cover bands in the Carolinas, their great friendship and a positive approach to their work to the Radio Sparks. Supporting and opening for national acts, they have toured the US... (more)
Swing On !
Swing Band from Greensboro, NC (62 miles from Roaring River, NC)
If you are looking for the perfect touch for your next event, step back in time with the lush sophisticated sounds of the Swing On ! Dance Orchestra. This unique 8 piece band brings you the Big Band sounds of the 30's, 40's and 50's---with familiar and very danceable arrangements. Swing, all types of Latin, Waltzes, Jumps, Polka and many more dance styles. Swing On ! is a favorite for Jewish Weddings--lots of Horas. Inside our eight piece group is a Fabulous six piece Dixieland Band,... (more)
Sahara Reggae Band
Reggae Band from Greensboro, NC (64 miles from Roaring River, NC)
Looking for a unique blend of Reggae and R&B rhythms? Sahara Reggae Band is your one stop shop for all your party needs. We are HOT and will have everyone up and moving! Sahara is versatile and we are reggae based but we mix in R&B,soca,a little hip hop,go-go,dancehall reggae,and roots reggae to keep you dancing.Our rhythms will satisfy your party needs with our smooth grooves and will enhance your festival/party atmosphere!We have been together since 2001 and we continue to entertain and... (more)
Uptown Party Band
UPTOWN PARTY BAND is a powerhouse 4 piece events band from Charlotte NC specializing in corporate events and weddings. As one of the most dynamic bands in the Southeast region, no other band around has a sound more exciting or a more diverse repertoire. Whether it's Motown, Classic Rock, Country, Funk or modern pop, we do it all. UPTOWN PARTY BAND can also adjust their performance to the needs of each individual client. Available for wedding receptions, private parties, Country Clubs, and... (more)
Redline The Band
Variety Band from Asheboro, NC (74 miles from Roaring River, NC)
"Redline Band" Redline was formed in 2005, however the roots of performing individually and together go back some 20 plus years. The original band, "Asphalt" played together in the 1980's and played large venues, such as the Triad Arena, Rockingham International Speedway, Numerous college campuses and etc. Opening for National Acts, working with people like Dr. Hook, Molly Hatchett etc. The band consisted of two of the members of the current band Redline. Mike and Greg broke away from... (more)
The L.A. Maybe
Variety Band from Rock Hill, SC (87 miles from Roaring River, NC)
The L.A. Maybe is a five-piece rock n' roll/variety band from Charlotte, North Carolina. With a non-stop show full of mega hits spanning the decades, The L.A. Maybe puts on an electrifying live show. Traveling with their own full, professional-grade sound system, The L.A. Maybe is able to take care of all your audio production needs as well. Your favorite songs are guaranteed to be a part of an ever-growing setlist comprised of artists like Bruno Mars, Guns N' Roses, Prince, Foo... (more)
PALEFACE
Original Band from Charlotte, NC (69 miles from Roaring River, NC)
A High energy & charismatic duo, (featuring prolific & influential songwriter Paleface & darling drummer Monica "Mo" Samalot), that has been charming audiences from coast to coast with their dynamic & interactive performances that get crowds in great spirits, dancing and singing along. Their eclectic sound is influenced by Rock N Roll, Folk, Blues, Americana, Pop and Punk music and features dynamic compositions, vocal harmonies, and acoustic instruments (mainly guitar & drums) combined with a... (more)
Threshold Party Band
THRESHOLD - "THE CAROLINAS' FAVORITE PARTY BAND!" "These guys were absolutely fantastic. Great sound, great vocals, and very professional. They kept the party rockin' the whole time and were very easy to work with. Some of the nicest guys I've met. I recommend them to absolutely anyone looking to have an upbeat good time!" - Max "Threshold was amazing! Jamie Lee was great to work with and so nice. My mom said people have been calling the house to tell her how great the band was. They... (more)
Alternate Take
There are few bands that have the skill and talent to play virtually any musical style effectively like Charlotte, North Carolina's Alternate Take. Alternate Take is a group of four talented musicians that have joined forces to make one of the most impressive bands on the east coast. Each member has played professionally for many years and educational backgrounds include music degrees and Masters degrees. Two of us are perfect pitch, and our rhythmic pocket is perfect for getting people to... (more)
The Dickens
The Dickens formed with one goal in mind: to create the ULTIMATE PARTY BAND for a new generation of music fans. These five veterans of the Southeastern music scene have joined forces to bring audiences the best party songs from the last two decades, along with the older classics everyone loves. For anyone who grew up in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, this is your music! The Dickens mix up classic R&B, classic and modern rock, 80s retro, reggae, old skool and current hip-hop, and everything in... (more)
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Seriously, Is Feeling Bad About Wanting a Boyfriend a Real Thing for You Kids Today?
My best friend once said she had decided to stop feeling guilty, just in case it was giving her forehead lines. Ha! But seriously, there's a lot of stuff women feel guilty about these days--mostly eating dessert, if you consult the world of stock photos. And to add to the discussion of guilt, there's an interesting article over at The Atlantic today by Leslie Bell, a sociologist and psychotherapist who claims that in her research on 20-something women, she has found that a lot of them really want meaningful relationships with men but that they feel guilty about wanting that. She says: Many express the same sentiment again and again: "Why do I, a young and highly educated woman in the 21st century, value relationships with men so highly?" To do so feels like a betrayal of themselves, of their education, and of their achievements. She also goes on to say that young women feel judged for being too relationship-oriented, by parents who warn them not to settle down too early, and by friends who encourage them to spend their youth exploring. Really? And here I just thought I was lucky to NOT get pressure from my parents to
Gena Kaufman
My best friend once said she had decided to stop feeling guilty, just in case it was giving her forehead lines. Ha! But seriously, there's a lot of stuff women feel guilty about these days--mostly eating dessert, if you consult the world of stock photos. And to add to the discussion of guilt, there's an interesting article over at The Atlantic today by Leslie Bell, a sociologist and psychotherapist who claims that in her research on 20-something women, she has found that a lot of them really want meaningful relationships with men but that they feel guilty about wanting that. She says:
*Many express the same sentiment again and again: "Why do I, a young and highly educated woman in the 21st century, value relationships with men so highly?" To do so feels like a betrayal of themselves, of their education, and of their achievements.*She also goes on to say that young women feel judged for being too relationship-oriented, by parents who warn them not to settle down too early, and by friends who encourage them to spend their youth exploring. Really? And here I just thought I was lucky to NOT get pressure from my parents to settle down, even as I passed my 20s and entered my 30s. I didn't realize it had gone the opposite way for younger women these days.
If that's really the case, I feel grateful that I've never felt like education and romance were mutually exclusive things I had to choose between. Maybe it's because I did spend most of my 20s in one relationship or another, so it felt like more of a given for me (at the time), or maybe it's because I grew up in the Midwest, where most of my high school and college friends settled down even earlier than I would have considered, but enjoying having a boyfriend didn't feel like an interference in my life. I've had a mild case of the boy-crazies since my first elementary school crush, but I also spent my 20s concentrating on my education and starting (and then completely changing) my career. It felt like there was plenty of room for both.
And I'm glad for that. Romance certainly isn't the only thing in life, but relationships with other people are really important to me (and I think to most people). That includes family, friends, and romantic partners. I don't feel guilty about wanting to have a close, fulfilling relationship with my family, even though at times, that can be at odds with my career ambitions. I just work on balancing the two. So why should I feel bad about wanting to do the same with a boyfriend? Sure, relationships may make life a little more complicated, but they also make it a lot more worth living, right?
Bell's ultimate point is not that women should revert to a stereotype of spending all their time pining for romance, but that women who want both professional success and a relationship are acknowledging the full range of their desires. And I agree. I'm glad that we're moving past the ridiculous stereotype that the only thing women care about is finding a guy, because that's lame and untrue, but it's OK if it's one of the things you care about. Feeling guilty about wanting a meaningful relationship is a waste of time and of your smooth 20-something foreheads. Trust me, my wrinkles and I know.
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Mourinho's former assistant Faria takes managerial role in Qatar
Al Duhail
After almost 20 years working alongside his compatriot, Faria is striking out on his own having left Man United at the end of 2017-18
Long-time Jose Mourinho collaborator Rui Faria has taken his first head coaching job with Qatar's Al Duhail, the club confirmed on Friday.
Faria, 43, left his assistant manager's job at Manchester United at the end of the 2017-18 season, ostensibly to pursue senior positions after almost two decades working as Mourinho's deputy.
And he will cut his teeth in the middle east after his arrival was revealed by the reigning Stars League champions.
"Al Duhail club management has contracted Portuguese coach Rui Faria to be the coach of the team in the upcoming period after many negotiations and great efforts made by the club management to obtain the coach despite the great European offers he had in the last period from a number of clubs that wanted to work with him, and also the great coaches who wanted to add him to their coaching staff," Al-Duhail confirmed in a statement published on the club's official website.
"The club will present its new coach to the media in a major press conference that will be announced in the upcoming two days."
Faria has been with Mourinho throughout his managerial career in a variety of capacities.
The Portuguese hired him as an assistant and fitness coach at Uniao Leiria in 2001, and he has since accompanied the Special One across Europe.
Mourinho took Faria with him to Porto, Chelsea, Inter, Real Madrid and lastly United, where the manager was relieved of his duties at the end of 2018.
Now Faria has the challenge of helping Al Duhail retain their league title, as he takes over from Tunisian Nabil Maaloul.
Al Duhail currently sit second in the Stars League, two points behind leaders Al-Sadd after 15 games of the 2018-19 season.
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Free State Stars sign Belgian striker Maxime Cosse
Free State Stars
Ea Lla Koto have boosted their attacking department, with the arrival of the 25-year-old Belgian-born striker
Free State Stars have confirmed the signing of Maxime Cosse on a 12-month contract from third tier Belgian club Patro Eisden Massmechelen.
“Cosse will sign a 12-month deal but we will probably sign another striker before the close of the January transfer window,” General Manager Rantsi Mokoena told Daily Sun.
The club earlier in the week released former Kaizer Chiefs striker Edward Manqele, who didn’t seem to fit in the plans of Luc Eymael.
Cosse’s signing comes on the back of his recommendation, and it’s the second Belgian forward the club has recruited after signing Andrea Fileccia, who is now at Maritzburg United in the 2014/15 season.
Stars have also confirmed the return of goalkeeper Thela Ngobeni, who they had on a season-long loan from Mamelodi Sundowns last season.
They will have him on another loan basis, with the option to purchase at the end of the season, and Mokoena is delighted to have him back.
“We’re thrilled to have Ngobeni back. He did a fantastic job last season but he won’t just walk into the side," he said
“He will have to fight for his place, as we have Ivorian Badra Sangare in goal at present. But having Ngobeni back is a huge boost,” Mokoena continued..
Former Orlando Pirates left back Patrick Phungwayo and coach Eymael had a fall-out before their 3-0 thumping by the Team of Choice.
Mokoena confirms they have since buried the hatchet and smoke the peace pipe, with Phungwayo signing a two-year contract extension.
“Disagreements happen all the time in all walks of life and football is no different," he said.
"Patrick and the coach had a falling out but that has been resolved and we are delighted that the defender has agreed to sign an extension to his contract that will keep him at the club for another two years,” Mokoena explained.
Following their weekend loss, Stars are placed fourth on the league standings with 28 points from 18 games, and boast a fearsome attack that’s brought home 19 goals.
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The Big Interview: Maritzburg United assistant coach Maahier Davids speaks to Goal
Yusuf Variava
Maritzburg United
Following the Team of Choice's success this season, Goal profiles the career of one half of the Davids duo that has taken the PSL by storm
Looking back on the 2017/18 season, it’s easy to get lost in the euphoria of Mamelodi Sundowns winning their eighth Premier Soccer League (PSL) title and overlooking the impressive achievements of others, after all no one truly remembers those who came second.
But perhaps there will be a change this time around, considering the role that smaller clubs such as Free State Stars and Maritzburg United have played.
While both teams are set to lock horns in the Nedbank Cup final, the Team of Choice’s move up the South African ranks in particular, has been nothing short of miraculous, albeit calculated.
Maritzburg is arguably one of South Africa’s smaller teams, who hail from the capital city of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, and while the city is rich in its history, the club though has never really threatened to be among the PSL’s big boys until this season.
It was only a few seasons ago when Maritzburg pulled off a great escape on the last day of the season to keep football alive in the City, but fast forward a few years later and under the mentorship of two of South Africa’s brightest young coaches the fortunes of the Farook Kadodia led football club has been turned around as they found themselves sailing in uncharted waters this season, registering a record breaking top four finish - the highest league placing in the club's short history.
At the beginning of the season, the Maritzburg chairman was lauded for finally giving former star player and assistant coach Fadlu Davids the head coaching job, but even then, no one could have predicted how the season would go.
But while Davids’ work has been highly impressive, it has certainly been a team effort. Next to Davids on the bench, he has the backing of a technical team with similar vision and goal, none more so than his very own brother Maahier, who is slowly building a strong reputation for himself as one of the rising coaches in South African football.
Maahier is the younger brother of the head coach, and while Fadlu has had the luck of cutting it in the ‘big leagues’ as a player, the unassuming Maahier has not shared the same experience. But this has only encouraged the younger Davids brother to work harder and find another avenue to reach the top of the football world, as he explains in an exclusive interview with Goal.
“I didn't make it as a professional football player and at the age of 23, 24 I could see that. I had some bad injuries I couldn't recover properly from it. I could see my body wasn't the same and I had ambitions like most players to be a professional football player to be (playing) at the highest level in South Africa, to play at the highest level in Europe and at that age, I started to realize that it’s not going to happen and instead of forcing it, I took another route and I decided I can start now I’m coaching now already and it will give me a head start. I can still be involved with the game and I can still do what I love, being on the football field even though it’s from a different capacity; that’s basically when I started out of course," Davids told Goal.
Maahier’s coaching career though, did not immediately start out at a professional level, but rather at school level where he would gain the necessary experience, before eventually going on to work in some of Cape Town’s most prestigious youth academies.
“I started out at schools, some private schools, just doing some coaching not knowing what I was doing, because one day I was a player and the next day I was a coach coaching kids, and then I got an opportunity to work at Santos under-11. I was working with, I think he's the assistant coach of Ubuntu now JP Farrugia. He welcomed me in and he said no come and help me out. I was there I think for a season... I’m not too sure. Then I got an opportunity to go back to Ajax where I was a youth player before and then I was assisting under-17 as assistant coach with Noel Cousins that’s basically where and how I got into coaching," he added.
Davids has certainly come a long way since then, not only in terms of his experience but qualifications too. Aside from doing the usual South African Football Association (Safa) courses, Davids has also studied through the famous former Barcelona and Dutch national team fitness guru Raymond Verheijen’s World Football Academy, as well as acquired a Uefa B licence. But it doesn’t stop there for the former Ajax youth coach, who will be jetting out to Europe to complete his Uefa A licence in the off-season.
Meanwhile, there is a popular saying that ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ but in the case of the Davids brothers, there seems to be an exception.
While admittedly, Maahier acknowledges that they do not agree on everything, for the most part, he reveals that they share a common goal, which is partly responsible for their success.
“Yeah, it’s a natural fit. I think we think quite similar in terms of our football philosophy and playing style and how we approach training, our thinking when it comes to planning training sessions, planning the season, planning individual periodization, team periodization,” he explained.
“You know it works out quite well. We don’t always agree on things, but we are able to put our differences aside and do what’s best for the team. Of course, we have an existing relationship but it’s professional now. It’s all about how can the team improve and how can we get better as a team so it’s been good so far,” he added.
Furthermore, Maahier may be an assistant coach but that certainly doesn’t mean he is only setting up cones for training drills. Rather, Maahier explains that due to Maritzburg having a small technical team, their roles are more varied.
“Look, we have a small technical team. So, my role is quite broad. I am involved with the training sessions, leading the training sessions everyday as with the video sessions, opposition analyses post-match analyses,” he said.
“I do a bit of everything it’s not really specific in terms of others only picking training. We really vary things up you know. At the end of the day I’m the only one who takes post-match analysis on the players you know they get used to a certain voice they get used to a certain style. So, we mix it up. I’m involved with coaching post and pre-match analysis, opposition analysis, the conditioning of the players as well. It’s a little bit of everything because we have a small technical team we have to have the capacity to do a little bit of everything,” he elaborated.
One important element that perhaps forced Maahier to work even harder to succeed was his lack of professional playing experience, but he admits that when you look at some of the top coaches doing the business overseas, being a former player is no longer becoming a prerequisite to succeed at the top.
“It’s changing now, it’s changing. The easiest example is Mourinho - he hasn't played at the highest level but he’s coaching the biggest club in the world. If we go to Germany now coach Domenico Tedesco of Schalke are all coaches who haven’t played at the highest level. So, the football world is changing,” he said.
“If you haven't played at the highest level, you probably work a little harder, because you have to be able to relate to the players to have to connect with them at a certain level if you played in the (Uefa) Champions League immediately you have that respect, but the problem is that if you played at the highest level and you are not able to relay your experience, if you can’t explain to players what exactly you are asking of them then it’s a problem,” Maahier noted.
“So, if you come from the other side then you're forced to think a little differently, you're forced to work a little bit harder, you're forced to relate to players on a different level because you know you have to take the hard hours you have to take a slower route to the top. So if you look at it from that side, you know it’s giving me that advantage and the next thing is as well because I started younger right now there’s still players who are older than me that I'm coaching with and there is players who are my age. So, you know I relate to them on the human side a little bit easier, whereas if I'm a 40, 50 years old with this new generation you can’t relate to them but now I can relate to the human. So, that makes it easier as well. So, on the one side there’s pros and there’s cons to being a professional and being a young coach coming in as well,” he continued.
When one looks at the coaching careers of both Fadlu and Maahier, there has been one common figure, and that has been former Maritzburg United coach Ernst Middendorp. It is common knowledge the role that the German-born tactician has played in Fadlu’s career, but Maahier too reveals that it was the former Kaizer Chiefs coach who actually gave him his break in the PSL.
“You know he is the one that gave me the opportunity in the PSL. He took me when I left Ajax after coaching for 4-5 years at Ajax, he was the one that said, 'no come jump straight into the PSL with Free State Stars'. So, you know I owe him a lot as well in terms of opportunity and the faith that he put in me and of course learning a lot with him at Free State stars, then again at Martizburg United,” Maahier revealed.
“It’s been valuable because he's coming now with decades and decades of coaching experience all over the world - in Asia, in Europe, in the Bundesliga, in South Africa, in Ghana. So, you can go to courses, you can read books, but to work with him on a daily basis, actually see how he plans sessions how he interacts with the staff, how he interacts with the players, how he handles pressure situations, how he handles situations where you know we are on a good run, you know that that was invaluable to me. I still speak to him regularly now, always getting advice just touching base and really a good help,” he continued.
Nonetheless, in spite of Maahier’s amazing rise he is keeping his feet firmly on the ground and when asked about his desire to make the ultimate jump to head coach, his response paid tribute to his strong values.
“At the moment I just want to learn as much as I can in the PSL, and my goal is also to get my pro license and go on as many courses as possible. There’s a lot more I can learn in terms of courses in terms of licenses and things like that, travel as much as I can and once I've got my (Uefa) Pro licence, I can start thinking about the head coach position or some other position from there,” he explained.
Lastly, following Maritzburg’s amazing run, Maahier stated that there was no secret behind their success, instead it was determination and hard work from everyone that saw them achieve above expectations.
“Hard work, there’s no [any other] secret. Hard work from myself, the technical team, the players. You know that’s what it comes down to. You don't put in the miles you're not going to get where you want to go and at the end of the day you know we can tell the players to play a certain way, certain game plan but if they don't run on the day, it’s not going to work if they don't buy into the plan,” he expressed.
“It’s a lot of hard work that the players put in everyday, they have to take a lot of the credit. And of course the support of the Maritzburg United management has been crucial. The Chairman has shown a lot of faith in the team and supported us from day one.” he concluded.
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The complete foodie guide to Abruzzo
by Great Italian Chefs 23 April 2018 23 April 2018
With the Apennine Mountains to the west and the Adriatic Sea to the east, Abruzzo is one of Italy’s most stunning regions. Still wild and unspoilt, its fantastic food reflects the simple agricultural practices that have shaped the area. Get to know more about this very pretty part of Italy.
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Almost half of Abruzzo is either a national park or a nature reserve, which helps paint a picture of just how untouched this part of Italy is. Whilst it is located in the centre of the country, most Italians see Abruzzo as part of southern Italy, and that is certainly reflected in its cuisine, which is often simple, traditional and makes the most of humble ingredients. Bordered by Le Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and Molise (which was part of Abruzzo until the 1970s) to the south, the region is split into four provinces: L’Aquila (the capital, which was hit by an earthquake in 2009); Teramo (famous for olive oil); Pescara and Chieti.
Abruzzo’s motto is ‘forte e gentile’ (strong and gentle), which is said to represent the people (known as Abruzzese) and the landscape. When it comes to the cuisine, the most iconic elements are the abundance of lamb and the use of chillies (dried or fresh, depending on the time of year) as a seasoning. But there’s much more to discover if you’re ever in the area – get to know the ingredients, produce, wines and famous dishes of the region and become an expert in the local cuisine.
The more hilly and mountainous parts of Abruzzo are full of sheep, which makes up a large part of the local diet
On the Adriatic coast fish plays a more important part, and you'll often see traboccho fishing piers along the shoreline
Ingredients and flavours
Abruzzo’s best lamb dishes
In Abruzzo the meat most consumed is lamb, as the mountainous parts of the region are full of sheep that lazily graze the wild meadows and pastures of the area. Many of Abruzzo’s most iconic dishes feature lamb, which is grilled, braised, roasted, fried and made into sauces for pasta.
Lamb is eaten with abandon further inland, but on the Abruzzese coast fish makes up the majority of the diet. Anchovies from Vasto are held in high regard, and all sorts of fresh fish and seafood are made into soupy stews, often flavoured with plenty of local white wine. Salt cod is also a popular ingredient, and along Abruzzo’s shores you’ll find traboccho; wooden pier-like structures with little shacks on the end. These unique buildings are traditionally used to fish from, and you'll usually find restaurants nearby that serve up simple, rustic, traditional seafood dishes to the locals.
Diavolino: Abruzzo’s chilli pepper
Many Italians might sprinkle grated cheese over their food just before eating, but in Abruzzo they’re just as likely to scatter chilli flakes, drizzle chilli oil or even snip thin slices of fresh chilli over the top instead. The Abruzzese love the warmth of chilli and diavolino – the local variety – can often be seen hung up outside doorways to dry.
Santucci’s legacy: the saffron plains of Abruzzo
It might not produce much of it, but the eight hectares of Abruzzo dedicated to saffron farming is famous throughout Italy. That’s because the flowers’ stems are picked by hand and gently toasted over an open fire, resulting in some of the highest quality saffron in the world. It used to be produced on a much larger scale, with the strands making their way to the richest families in Italy, who loved turning their food a golden colour with it as a show of wealth. Today, it can be bought in L’Aquila and the surrounding towns.
Liqueurs and wines
Abruzzo’s local amari and liqueurs
The Abruzzese have a longstanding tradition of making their own liqueurs and amari, filling bottles of alcohol with local ingredients to create a variety of digestifs. Many are very bitter and full of wild herbs, giving them a verdant green colour and strong taste, but there are also specialities like nocino, a green walnut liqueur.
The wines of Abruzzo are also famous, particularly Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, arguably the region’s most well-known. It’s also responsible for the amazing white wine Trebbiano d’Abruzzo, and the lesser-known Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo, a deep cherry-red rosé.
Abruzzo’s Teramo province has a reputation for producing some of the best olive oil in the whole country, and there’s even an olive oil museum in Loreto Aprutino, which is known for producing DOC-protected oil so good it’s called ‘liquid gold’. It’s often used to dress local dishes, or infused with the local chillies to create a distinctly Abruzzese product.
Along with Calabria to the south, Abruzzo is famous for liquorice, with records of liquorice production dating back to Roman times. The towns of Atri and Silvi in Teramo province are where you’ll find the most liquorice, often turned into a variety of sweets or sold in their natural stick form.
Famous dishes
Arrosticini
Arrosticini – Abruzzese lamb kebabs
These skewers of local lamb seasoned with nothing more than salt, pepper, olive oil and a little rosemary are cooked over special barbecues until just cooked and incredibly tender. They’re often served with pickles and a glass of local wine, making them the perfect al fresco feast at the height of the Italian summer.
Agnello cacio e ova
Agnello cacio e ova – lamb in cheese and egg sauce
A dish often cooked for Easter celebrations, this simple preparation of lamb braised in white wine is finished with a sauce of beaten egg and Pecorino cheese. The egg mixture is added right at the last minute, warmed through until just slightly set, then presented to the table. It uses a similar method to carbonara sauce, but with lamb instead of pasta and guanciale (cured pork cheek).
Pasta alla chitarra
Abruzzo is home to some of the best durum wheat in Italy, which is turned into dried pasta of all shapes and sizes. But the most famous local pasta is fresh, made with eggs and requires a special instrument to create it. Pasta alla chitarra roughly translates to ‘pasta of the guitar’, and was supposedly created when a chef passed sheets of fresh pasta through the strings of a guitar (or similar instrument). The result was something similar to tagliatelle, but more robust and firm. It’s often served with a lamb and pepper ragù.
Frittata di alici
Frittata di alici – anchovy frittata
by Valeria Necchio
Lamb is ubiquitous throughout Abruzzo’s inland mountainous areas, but the region’s coastline means there’s plenty of fish on the menu too. Vasto, on the southern coast, is famous for its anchovies, and this simple anchovy frittata is a celebration of the local delicacy. Fresh anchovies are combined with beaten eggs, chilli flakes and pecorino cheese, then gently fried until set.
Crespelle in brodo
This very traditional Abruzzese dish is a simple combination of wafer-thin crêpes and a clear chicken broth with plenty of cheese grated over the top. Its origins are unclear, but it has been a favourite in the region for decades. As with any simple traditional dish, the secret lies in the quality of ingredients, so it’s certainly worth making your own stock to ensure it has the right depth of flavour.
Confetti di Sulmona
One of Italy’s most famous traditional sweets first created in the fifteenth century, these pretty sugared almonds come in an array of colours and flavours and are often fashioned into flowers. The town of Sulmona is full of shops selling the local delicacy, and across the whole country little bags of them are often given at weddings, baptisms and anniversaries. The perfect souvenir when visiting Abruzzo.
Crostini alla chietina
Crostini alla Chietina – anchovy and caper crostin...
Crostini alla Chietina – anchovy and caper crostini
Abruzzo’s most famous antipasto come from Chieti, a town in the centre of Abruzzo. Slices of bread are dredged in egg and fried until crunchy and golden, then simply topped with anchovy fillets and capers. They’re incredibly addictive and beautifully crisp, making them the most popular part of an antipasti spread.
Scapece di Vasto
Despite growing some of the highest quality saffron in the world, Abruzzo’s traditional cuisine doesn’t contain much of it at all – probably because only the very wealthy could afford to use it in cooking. There is one dish however that makes the most of the spice’s heady, fragrant flavour – scapece di Vasto. From Abruzzo’s south coast, this fish dish involves taking a whole variety of shellfish and white fish (whatever’s been caught that day), dusting them in flour and frying until crisp and cooked through. The fried fish is then layered into a deep dish and drenched in white wine vinegar infused with saffron and plenty of the local white wine, Trebbiano. It’s left to marinate for around a week before being served with bread and good olive oil.
Bocconotti
These jam-filled pastries are often baked to celebrate whenever the harvest comes in, and local bakers use Abruzzo’s famous wheat and olive oil to create the shortcrust pastry. They’re filled with a local grape jam, made with the same grapes that go into the region’s Montepulciano wine, often accentuated with lemon zest, cinnamon, chocolate or almonds. It’s common to add a dash of a local liqueur into the mixture as well.
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Giving Streets, and Power, to the People
By Georg Maisser
Civil Society, Democracy, Elections, Grassroots, Green Parties, Referendum
For Maria Vassilakou, Green vice mayor of Vienna, it looked like a perfect idea: at the of 2013 the Austrian Greens scored more than 20% in regional elections in Salzburg due to their role in uncovering a couple of corruption and financial scandals. It was assumed this wave of success could be continued to the general election in autumn 2013 by realising a long overdue popular project: the most important and always congested shopping street of the capital should become a pedestrian area.
The planning was exhaustive and inclusive; it took more than two years. All interests had to be heard in advance to make this project an example of green communal competence. With the intention to offend nobody and to please as many as possible it was decided to have a combination between shared space and pedestrian zone.
Before starting any road works there would be a test run to evaluate and adjust if necessary. After a few months the population of the two adjacent districts should decide for or against the project in a referendum.
A lukewarm reception
“Chaos days on Mariahilferstrasse: 200 feared dead” was the headline of dietagespresse.at, an Austrian satirical website in the tradition of theonion.com. This grasped public opinion perfectly. The refusal of the bus drivers to use the red lane they themselves had claimed only days before was just one example of the collective hysteria. Only after a second bus driver (as a potential witness in the case of an accident) accompanied every bus crossing the few meters in the pedestrian zone, could traffic be continued. The fact that in Austria there are plenty examples of buses, tramways and bicycles circulating in pedestrian zones and that there was not a single incident in Mariahilferstraße from August 2013 to the referendum in the end of February 2014 couldn’t change the public perception of the potential danger.
Some tried to calm the adversaries by claiming that it was only a street they were fighting for. But those people didn’t grasp what this clash was really about.
It never was just about a street, it always was about our lives. For the proponents of the pedestrian zone it should be another important milestone on the way to a more liveable city, to a radical limitation of cars and a recapture of the streets by pedestrians, cyclists and last but not least by the children.
The ongoing urban transformation provides us with inspiring images from the New York Broadway to the banks of the Seine River in Paris to the dismantled urban highway in Seoul. Mariahilferstraße should be part of this global revolution.
The opponents know what we are going for, that we are about to take away their city from them. It’s the city they have come to peace with, a necessary burden on the way to their lifelong dream of a house in the countryside, a place of work. For them, leisure, joy and aspiration are elsewhere, always just one car ride away.
The unseen opponents
For us Greens it is hard to understand how there could even be a honest opposition: of course we want – and everybody should want – pedestrian zones, more trees, more public space, playgrounds and much, much less cars in the city.
But we forget that we have come only halfway from being avant-garde to the centre of the society.
When we actually find ourselves in a position of power we are confronted with all the other people out there: those we never meet and we totally forgot in our small green microcosm:
Those who never think about the scarcity of resources, climate change or a liveable city, or those who just choose to have different priorities. Those who are afraid of pedestrian zones and benches in public spaces because they see an anti-social menace in the people who use them.
The good news for the Greens: this is a generation gap. Car owners younger than forty are as clearly for the pedestrian zone as older people are against it, even if they don’t own a car.
But even if there is hope that eventually young people will create their own green city, it will be a bumpy ride, especially for the Greens. Our self-perception as a democratic grassroots movement was unperturbed as long as we were only the outspoken minority against the rulers. But it conflicts necessarily with our claim of being the driving force of the green transformation, because there we can’t wait to act until finally the majority has come around.
For the Viennese Greens this contradiction created confusion and doubts, but they were eventually overcome by activism. Nearly every citizen in the two districts was visited to explain the project, an unmatched sum of money was invested and… it was worth it in the end. 53% were in favour of the pedestrian zone.
But the narrow margin and the force of the resistance against the project have to be a wakeup call for the Greens: 12% was a respectable outcome for an opposition party in the last general election but for a governing party such a result would be a catastrophe. The green transformation needs a narrative able to summon and convince majorities and thus they can’t preach abstinence of joy, of cars, of pleasure, but they have to be narratives of gain and of abundance. An abundance of quality of life. And of a good life for all.
Beyond Majority Rule: Electoral Systems for Inclusive Politics Democracy
By Peter Emerson
Rethinking how we ask voters what they want could ensure representative government for all and help us create a collaborative political culture.
“A coalition is not a love match” – Interview with Ralf Fücks Politics
By Ralf Fücks
A discussion with Ralf Fücks, outgoing president of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, on the situation in Germany, coalitions with Merkel & the rise of the AfD.
Decision Making: Living in Sympathy with Our Human Environment Politics
No-one has the right to rule by force of arms, violence; and no one has the right to dominate others by force of numbers: majority voting. So how should the Greens in particular, and society in general, make democratic decisions?
Georg Maisser
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Israel arrests 100 Palestinians in first ten days of Ramadan: Rights group
Published in Middle East
A Palestinian human rights organization says it has documented the arrest of 100 Palestinians, including four women, by Israeli forces during the first ten days of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies said in a statement that the Israeli military stormed Palestinian areas across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds, raiding Palestinian homes and arresting dozens of civilians.
The center explained that the detainees included 18 minors, the youngest of whom was nine-year-old Mousa Ramadan. He was arrested at a military checkpoint in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), located 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Jerusalem al-Quds.
The detainees also included twin brothers Mohammed and Ahmed Abu Adi, 13, who were arrested after Israeli forces stormed their home in the town of Kafr Ni'ma, located northwest of Ramallah.
The center also documented the detention of seven journalists and human rights activists. They were arrested while covering the deportation of Palestinian farmers from their land in the Jordan Valley.
Moreover, five Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip were held during Ramadan, including three fishermen who were arrested as they were doing their job off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held at Israeli jails. Hundreds of the inmates have apparently been incarcerated under the practice of administrative detention, a policy under which Palestinian inmates are kept in Israeli detention facilities without trial or charge.
Some Palestinian prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to eleven years.
Palestinian inmates regularly stage hunger strikes in protest at the administrative detention policy and their harsh prison conditions in Israeli jails.
According to reports, at least 13 Palestinian lawmakers are currently imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities. Nine of them are being held without trial under administrative detention.
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Ninth Circuit Allows Immediate Appeal of Third-Party Discovery Order Involving Privilege
U.S. v. Krane, ___ F.3d ___, 2010 WL 4260978 (9th Cir. 2010)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that discovery orders adverse to the attorney-client privilege are immediately appealable when the subject materials are sought from a disinterested third party.
After two corporate officers were criminally indicted, the government sought to compel production of materials from the former law firm of the officers’ corporation. The corporation intervened, asserting that the materials were protected by the attorney-client privilege. The district court granted the government’s motion to compel. The corporation immediately appealed that order to the Ninth Circuit.
The Ninth Circuit held that it had jurisdiction to consider the appeal and concluded that an interlocutory appeal was not precluded by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2009 decision in Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter, ___ U.S. ___, 130 S.Ct. 599. In Mohawk Industries, the Supreme Court held that discovery orders adverse to the attorney-client privilege are not immediately appealable under the collateral order doctrine, which is one exception to the general rule that only final judgments are appealable.
The Ninth Circuit noted that a common option for immediately appealing discovery orders is to refuse to comply with them and to appeal the resulting contempt order. Building on that, the court noted another exception to the final judgment rule, articulated in Perlman v. United States, 247 U.S. 7 (1918). The Supreme Court held in Perlman that, because a disinterested third party (such as the law firm in this case) likely will produce materials rather than subject itself to a contempt order, a discovery order directed at privileged materials in that third party’s hands is immediately appealable. The Ninth Circuit held that this rule survives the Mohawk Industries decision because the Perlman rule is considered separately from the collateral order doctrine at issue in Mohawk Industries.
This opinion answers a question left open in Mohawk Industries and thereby limits the potential reach of that opinion in the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit recognized the need for immediate appealability in situations where a privilege holder is essentially powerless to otherwise avoid a discovery order when privileged materials are in the possession of a disinterested third party.
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BET Awards: 'Black Panther' Win, Childish Gambino's Impromptu Performance and 8 More Top Moments
2:22 PM 6/25/2018
by Sydney Odman
Meek Mill gave a powerful performance, John Legend honored real-life heroes, Snoop Dogg brought out his biggest hits and more from Sunday night's show.
Jamie Foxx (left) and Donald Glover
On Sunday night, the 2018 BET Awards returned to Microsoft Theater to honor the best in black entertainment. Hosted by Jamie Foxx, the star-studded event featured performances from R&B icons and newcomers alike, including Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, J.Cole, H.E.R and more. Big winners on the night included Black Panther, which was recognized for best movie and actor (Chadwick Boseman), and Kendrick Lamar, who won for best male hip-hop artist and album of the year.
Among the night's most memorable moments were a moving acceptance speech from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, an impromptu rendition of "This Is America" by Childish Gambino and a powerful performance by Meek Mill. Read on for more of the BET Awards' most noteworthy bits.
Childish Gambino's Impromptu Performance of 'This is America'
Jamie Foxx went off-script several times throughout the awards show, including when he unsuspectingly called Childish Gambino — also known as Donald Glover — to the stage.
"This young man, Childish Gambino, Donald Glover — singer, songwriter, philanthropist, movie star, overall badass. A true artist. I wanna acknowledge you," Foxx praised the Atlanta star.
"I really was not expecting to get up here," Glover laughed.
Foxx then prompted the rapper with the opening beats to his most recent single "This Is America," to which he proceeded to riff a few verses from the song.
Cops Interrupt Preshow During Live Broadcast
In the midst of a live broadcast, preshow hosts Terrence J and Cassie received a surprise interruption by security personnel.
During a preshow interview, a police officer appeared in front of the camera asking those involved in production to move. The abruptness of the event led viewers to wonder if the interruption had been staged.
Watch a clip of what happened in the tweet below:
Lol @CassieSuper @TerrenceJ & @TheRealTank interview got interrupted on live tv . #BETAwards pic.twitter.com/ok3SBOT7Yr
— B E A N Z | Thanos’ Personal Photographer . (@PhotosByBeanz) June 24, 2018
Meek Mill Pays Tribute to XXXTentacion in 'Stay Woke' Performance
Since his release from prison in April, Meek Mill has successfully returned to the rap scene — this time, utilizing his platform to push for criminal reform. The rapper hit the stage on Sunday night with similar intentions with the performance of his new song "Stay Woke."
Mill, donning a t-shirt bearing the faces of the late XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo, was joined onstage by Miguel, who is featured on the track. The performance heavily emphasized social issues of mass incarceration and police brutality.
Watch a clip of the performance below.
Black Panther Wins Best Movie and Ryan Coogler's Impactful Acceptance Speech
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Black Panther continued its reign in film and pop culture, winning best movie. Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler made their way to the stage to accept the award.
"I'm gonna go ahead and let my director take this one," Jordan said, introducing Coogler. "He don't like talking too much, but if it wasn't without him, we wouldn't have this movie."
Coogler went on to thank the audience, specifically "Black Twitter," for their support. The director also urged the audience to stay connected to their roots, emphasizing the importance of remembering the influence of Africans who came before them such as Patrice Lumumba and Jomo Kenyatta.
"The film is about our experience being African-Americans, and also trying to capture the experience of being African on this planet," Coogler said. "For us, it was about tapping into that voice that we always hear that tells us to be proud of who we are and proud of where we come from."
Watch the speech below.
SZA's Endearing Acceptance Speech for Best New Artist
After winning the award for best new artist, SZA won over the crowd with a joyous acceptance speech.
"I've never won anything in front of other people," the R&B singer said.
SZA is coming off a whirlwind of a year in which her debut studio album, Ctrl, premiered at No. 3 on the Billboard charts. She then went on to become the 2018 Grammy Awards' most nominated female performer.
Watch the singer's acceptance speech below.
The level of joy is contagious in @SZA's acceptance speech for Best New Artist at the #BETAwards. Congrats! pic.twitter.com/2YSJukFT4h
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Tiffany Haddish Wins for Best Actress
True to form, Tiffany Haddish hilariously accepted her win for best actress, while still managing to relay an inspiring message to kids watching at home.
"Guess what? You can achieve whatever it is you want in life, you just gotta believe in yourself," the actress expressed. "You can do anything!"
Haddish then gave a "special shoutout" to all her past boyfriends who didn't believe that she would make it in the industry.
Host Jamie Foxx Tributes Anita Baker as she receives Lifetime Achievement Award
R&B legend and eight-time Grammy winner Anita Baker was honored with BET's lifetime achievement award. Jamie Foxx, along with Ledisi, Yolanda Adams and Marsha Ambrosius, paid tribute to Baker by singing some of her classics. Foxx showed off his vocal chops and skills on the piano, while encouraging the audience to sing along with him to Baker's "Same Ole Love."
Watch a clip of the tribute below.
Snoop Dogg Closes the Show With Medley Performance
Rap icon Snoop Dogg performed a medley of some of his hit songs, including "Who Am I? (What's My Name?)" and "The Next Episode." The artist was then joined by Jamie Foxx and Tye Tribbett for a rendition of "Sunrise" and "You," backed by a gospel choir.
Watch the performance below.
Nicki Minaj Performs 'Rich Sex' and Newest Single 'Chun Li'
Nicki Minaj took to the BET stage for a high-energy performance of her latest single "Chun Li." The stage was decorated as a video game backdrop to Minaj's performance, which soon turned into a sultry affair with a rendition of "Rich Sex."
The female rapper finished it off, joined by 2 Chainz and Big Sean, performing "Big Bank."
Watch the performance here:
John Legend Honors 6 Humanitarian Heroes
Singer-songwriter John Legend honored six humanitarian heroes of the African-American community who demonstrated heroic bravery over the course of this past year.
"Typically, the BET Awards honors a celebrity humanitarian who has done something extraordinary for our world," Legend said. "But tonight, we want to honor a few of the individuals who have had the opportunity in their everyday lives to do something unexpected and impactful for our community."
Among the honorees were Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor Anthony Borges, Waffle House hero James Shaw Jr., 11-year old Naomi Wadler and more.
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March 18, 2019 1:30pm PT by Lindsay Weinberg
'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Cast Explains Why It Doesn't Matter If Midge Is a Good Mother
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"It's been eye-opening and frustrating that that has been one of the primary criticisms of this character," Rachel Brosnahan tells The Hollywood Reporter.
The cast of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is pushing back on an online debate about whether the titular 1950s comic is a good mother.
In the Amazon hit, housewife Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) pursues a career in stand-up comedy after splitting from her cheating husband Joel (Michael Zegen). Brosnahan told The Hollywood Reporter that Midge’s lack of focus on her two children is often criticized as “lazy writing” or a “plot hole.” The actress said there’s a double standard for female and male characters that should be corrected.
“It's been eye-opening and frustrating that that has been one of the primary criticisms of this character and of the show,” Brosnahan said on Friday, referring to a Twitter conversation last month. She compared Midge’s ambition to that of Mad Men’s Don Draper or Breaking Bad’s Walter White, yet their hands-off parenting style is simply a “character flaw.”
“I don't think she's winning parent of the year, but this hasn't been a conversation about many male characters who are the centers of their shows, who are also parents,” she told THR.
Brosnahan said critics need to take a closer look at why that is and “how we can begin to course correct,” because the show is “about a complex, driven, curious, flawed woman, who is at the center of her own story, who is trying to change her own narrative,” regardless of her parenting. (Her kids, Ethan and Esther, are often left with grandparents or a babysitter while Midge performs around New York).
Alex Borstein, who plays Midge’s manager, Susie, compared Midge’s situation to her own as a working mother. “I leave my children to come shoot on this show, and it doesn't mean I am a shitty mother. It doesn't mean I'm neglectful,” she told THR, adding that Mrs. Maisel is about comedy, not mothering.
“The bottom line for me, and I don't mean this in a reproductive sense only, but choice. It's about choice, and women have a myriad of choices to work, to not work, to raise children, to not raise children, to be in a heterosexual relationship, to be in a homosexual relationship, whatever the fuck you want,” Borstein said.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has raised several feminist debates in its two seasons about whether the show celebrates white feminism, subverts Jewish tropes with a “feminist twist” or even portrays Midge as a feminist hero at all. (Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and Brosnahan at PaleyFest on Friday discussed whether Midge identifies as a feminist.)
Other cast members weighed in on Midge’s motherhood on the PaleyFest red carpet. Kevin Pollak, who plays Joel’s father, told THR she's a great mother because she loves her children, while Zegen said she's not a good mom, attributing it to “just a product of the times.”
“We know now with the perspective of a modern time that a fulfilled woman and a woman who has ambition and talent is going to end up being the greatest kind of mother,” said Caroline Aaron, who portrays Joel’s mother. “She's not ditching, she's just trying to figure out a way to put both of her ambitions together.”
Tony Shalhoub, who plays Midge's father, maintained that she is doing the best she can, “because she's on a path that not a lot of women before her have gone on. And the key is, she's more than just a mother.” Marin Hinkle, who plays Midge's mother, added that the very conversation and balance is part of what makes the show interesting. “I love that Amy and Dan [Palladino] never let it be sort of clear-cut and black and white. And I think that's the truth about how mothering works,” the actress said.
Season three begins filming on Wednesday in New York, with no release date set. The show, whose first season won eight Emmys, has not yet been renewed for a fourth season.
Lindsay Weinberg
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With the outbreak of World War II the Australian government began to register all residents who it classified as “enemy aliens”, mainly German and Italian nationals. As the conflict escalated, internment camps were established to incarcerate not only Prisoners of War (PoWs), but also civilians considered to be a threat to the home front.
One of the most notorious episodes of wartime internment involved a group of people transported from the UK to Australia on the ship HMT (Hired Military Transport) Dunera. In July 1940, the Commonwealth government agreed to accept 6,000 internees from Britain. However, only one shipment was dispatched to Australia. On board the HMT Dunera were approximately 2,000 male German Jewish refugees aged between 16 and 45, most of whom had fled from Nazi occupied territories. Also on board were 200 Italian PoWs and 250 Nazis. They were all treated as enemy aliens, without distinction.
The voyage took 57 days. The conditions on board were appalling. Overcrowding, lack of hygiene and mistreatment by crew members was compounded by fear of torpedo attacks, the uncertainty of the destination, and the acute tensions between Jewish refugees and Nazi passengers.
Upon their arrival in Sydney, on 6 September 1940, the ‘Dunera Boys’ (as the Jewish passengers came to be known) were interned in Hay and Orange in New South Wales. Eventually, they were moved to Tatura, in Victoria.
The first arrivals to the Hay detention facility were 2036 German and Austrian Jewish refugees who had fled from the Nazis. They were mostly professionals who had escaped in fear of their lives. They were placed side by side with 451 German and Italian PoWs many of whom had been Nazi and fascist supporters.
While waiting for their release, the ‘Dunera Boys’ developed a rich cultural and intellectual program at the camp. In due course, the injustice of their predicament was realised, and they were permitted to return to Britain.
Initially considered a scandal, the story today is viewed as a significant chapter in the history of Jewish migration to Australia. Of the original 2,000 Dunera Boys, 900 chose to remain in Australia. Many served in the 8th Employment Company and in the defence forces of the Australian army. They became proud and loyal Australian citizens who made a significant contribution to emerging multicultural Australia. Some of them became leaders in their fields in the arts, the sciences, business and academia.
Dunera Boys reunion 1991,
Credit: National Library of Australia
The repatriation of the remaining PoWs took place in 1946. The camp was dismantled after the war ended.
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The following text is an edited and adapted version of an article written by John Berwick and published in the International Herald Tribune on October 10, 2008.
Pope Pius XII is one of the most controversial leaders of the World War II era. Yet he is controversial not because of what he did, but because of what he didn’t do.
Even though the Vatican was reliably informed about the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews and Jewish organisations begged him to speak out, the pope refused to publicly condemn the atrocities.
The controversy about the pope’s “silence” at first focused on his supposed motives. Many denounced Pius XII as antisemitic, as a leader who was more concerned about Vatican finances than the fate of Europe’s Jews. For many, he symbolizes a hypocritical and repressive institution willing to connive with Nazi murderers to secure its own survival.
On the other hand, some argue that the reasons for Pius XII’s refusal to back the Allied cause are well documented. As the spiritual leader of all Roman Catholics, he was convinced that his responsibility was to mediate, not participate in the conflict. Then, as the full horror of the Nazis’ crimes gradually unfolded, he was drawn into an agonizing dilemma.
As a spiritual leader whom millions looked upon for moral authority, he knew he had a responsibility to speak out. Yet he feared that a direct denunciation of the concentration camps would endanger more lives, especially ‘non-Aryan Catholics’.
The Nazis had also incarcerated thousands of Catholic priests, Poles as well as Germans, whose lives would have been endangered by a papal condemnation.
So Pius XII restricted his public utterances, making only general appeals to uphold traditional moral values. He relied on the fundamental decency of individuals to resist the Nazis as far as each person’s concrete circumstances allowed.
Since the publication of 12 volumes of documents from the Vatican archives between 1965 and 1985, questioning the motives for Pius XII’s ”silence” has died down and the debate has shifted more to speculation about what might have happened if the pope had decided to speak out more emphatically.
His critics argue that an encyclical might have saved Jewish lives. Whereas others point out that German Catholics didn’t need a papal announcement to tell them that the Nuremberg Laws contradicted Christian ethics. And even when Germany was losing the war on two fronts, the Nazis deployed much-needed resources to accomplish their terrible “Final Solution”. They viewed it as a major priority, so they were hardly likely to be deterred by a papal condemnation.
When this controversial pope has been understood in the complexity of his moral dilemma, a second more crucial question emerges: How was it possible that after centuries of Christianity in Europe, many practising Catholics actively collaborated in the Holocaust, and many more turned a blind eye to the suffering of their fellow human beings?
That was the real failure of the Church during the Holocaust. And it has not yet been adequately explained.
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In The News: New Anaheim Mayor Takes First Step To Keep Angels Baseball In Town
New Anaheim Mayor Takes First Step To Keep Angels Baseball In Town
URL: https://www.bisnow.com/orange-county/news/commercial-real-estate/new-anaheim-mayor-takes-first-step-to-keep-the-angels-in-town-96671
By: Joseph Pimentel, Bisnow Los Angeles
“The new mayor of Anaheim will ask the City Council Tuesday to consider a one-year stadium lease extension for the Los Angeles Angels.
Mayor Harry Sidhu, who was elected in November, said he recently met with Angels owner Arte Moreno and the two discussed ways to keep the team in Anaheim.
“From that meeting, it is clear the team’s priority is to stay in Anaheim, if we can work out a deal that benefits our residents, the city and the team,” Sidhu said in a news release. “We need a plan to make that happen, and we need time to make that happen.”
Angels owner Arte Moreno said his goal is to work with the new City Council and come up with an agreement to remain in Anaheim.
“After meeting with Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, we realized a one-year extension will give us adequate time to work collaboratively on a long-term relationship,” Moreno said in an email.
…Sidhu said an extension would be the first step toward negotiating a new, long-term lease for the Angels in Anaheim.
“This will give us time to find a deal that first benefits residents as well as the city and the team with a goal of keeping baseball in Anaheim for another 50 years or more,” Sidhu said.”
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The most spectacular Fourth of July fireworks in America
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The Fourth of July is not just a perfect excuse to have a picnic and bask in the sun on a day off work, it's also a day where you can see a spectacle in the sky. Oh yes, we're talking about fireworks. No summer is complete without a big Independence Day celebration, and no Independence Day celebration is complete without fireworks. And these 15 cities have the biggest, most dazzling pyrotechnic displays in the country. From a small town in Texas that becomes a must-visit destination every July to the most famous displays of fireworks in the world, these are fireworks displays worth traveling to this July Fourth.
Fair Saint Louis
Addison, Texas, transforms into Addison Kaboom Town on July 3. This charming small town (with a population of roughly 13,000) expands into a mass of half a million people who come to see the spectacle of fireworks and fun. Addison Kaboom Town features a party in Addison Circle Park with a carnival, live entertainment and an air show. Of course, the real show starts after dusk when the fireworks go off for 30 minutes, synchronized to music. Because Addison is such a tiny town, you can see the fireworks well from anywhere in the 4.4-mile radius.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
The fireworks in Atlantic City, New Jersey, easily rival the far more famous display in nearby New York City. It's estimated that 250,000 people gather on a 1-mile stretch to take in the show. The display runs for about 18 minutes, and the launching point - a platform in the Marina District - was selected to give all visitors the best view possible. The Atlantic City fireworks are so spectacular because of their location: alongside the beach and boardwalk. Nothing says summertime quite like a sky spectacular when you're on the ocean, after all.
The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular in Boston, Massachusetts, is aptly named. It really is a spectacle. In one of America's most historical cities, 500,000 visitors flock to the Charles River Esplanade to take in the sights and sounds of Independence Day. The Boston Pops orchestra plays a concert of classic American songs, including the "1812 Overture," complete with cannon fire. At the end of the show, the skies are lit up with a dazzling fireworks display.
Downtown Columbus, Ohio, hosts the Buckeye State's biggest fireworks display every July 3. Red, White & BOOM! is an all-day patriotic party with a parade, live music and a street festival featuring local food trucks and craft beer. But the real festivities are at 10 p.m., when over 400,000 people take in a massive fireworks display.
You don't just celebrate Independence Day in Denver, Colorado, you celebrate Independence Eve. Yes, the Third of July is the big holiday in the Mile High City. The annual Independence Eve Celebration in Civic Center Park features live music, food trucks, local craft beer and a light show - all for free. If that's not enough entertainment for you, the night concludes with an explosive finale of fireworks and a patriotic concert.
Lake Tahoe, California
Lake Tahoe in California is an amazing summer destination all on its own, but it really comes to life for the Fourth of July, when 125,000 visitors flock to the beach for a summertime spectacular. Lights on the Lake is a 25-minute fireworks display with stunning vantage points all around the water. For the absolute best views, take a boat out on the water, where you can see fireworks explode right above you and colorful reflections around you in the crystal-clear lake.
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Nashville, Tennessee, celebrates the Fourth of July the only way they know how; with a big ol' country music concert. Some of the genre's biggest stars come out for a show; 2019's performers include Brett Eldredge, Mac McAnally, Jessy Wilson and more. Let Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th, also features one of the biggest fireworks displays in the country. Over the course of a 25-minute show with an accompaniment by the Nashville Symphony, over 62,000 fireworks shells will be shot off. You need to see this show to believe its epic scale.
Donn Jones Photography
New Orleans, Louisiana, always knows how to throw a party, and Independence Day is no different. The Big Easy's Go 4th on the River celebration features dueling barges on the Mississippi River shooting off fireworks displays. No matter where you look and no matter where you are in the city, you're going to be taking in a magnificent sight.
The Annual Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks in New York, New York, are world-famous for a reason. They're ridiculous in both size and scope. Over 3 million people all across New York City see this show every year, which is returning to the East River after several years of being launched from the Hudson. More than 70,000 fireworks and effects will be launched around the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. A waterfall of fireworks will even spill out from the landmark itself, making this highly Instagrammable attraction even more picture-perfect.
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It's a bit of a rookie mistake to visit Orlando, Florida, hotspot Walt Disney World during a holiday week, but for the Fourth of July, you may just want to brave the crowds. The Magic Kingdom Park features a stunning, patriotic fireworks show, fittingly called "Disney's Celebrate America - A Fourth of July Concert in the Sky." Cinderella Castle is turned into the Stars and Stripes as massive fireworks displays paint the theme park red, white and blue. Luckily, seeing this show is one of the many things you can do at Disney World without a park ticket. Some of the best sights are at the Ticket and Transportation Center and Disney's Polynesian Resort.
David Roark/Walt Disney World
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, so you know this city knows how to celebrate the occasion right. The Philadelphia Museum of Art hosts the Wawa Welcome America fireworks show, which provides quite the stunning backdrop. The spectacle also features an all-American soundtrack provided by the United States Army Field Band and Chorus.
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The Big Bay Boom in San Diego, California, is big, indeed. Fireworks are launched from four barges in the San Diego Bay, so there are great views all around the city, both on land and in the water. About half a million people will take in the 18-minute show, which is timed to original musical compositions. This massive celebrations is one of the best things to do in California this summer.
St. Louis, Missouri, hosts an event dubbed "America's Biggest Birthday Party." Fair Saint Louis is a three-day festival complete with parades, Boeing air shows, performing dogs and concerts from the likes of Brett Young and the Flaming Lips. The highlight of this celebration, however, are the Edwards Jones Fireworks. On July 4, the city's famous Gateway Arch and the surrounding area are illuminated with tens of thousands of pounds of explosives.
Fair Saint Lewis
You can't find a more patriotic place to spend the Fourth of July than Washington, D.C. The nation's capital has A Capitol Fourth, with music from Carole King, Lindsey Sterling, Lee Brice and some of your children's favorite friends from "Sesame Street." The celebration on the National Mall also has a remarkable fireworks display. It doesn't get much more American than seeing an 18-minute celebration with a backdrop of the Washington Monument.
If you're a true history nerd, than you're going to want to go to Williamsburg, Virginia, for the Fourth of July. A truly remarkable fireworks display is set off behind the Governor's Palace at night, which is a truly charming sight. Beyond the fireworks, Colonial Williamsburg also features picnics with classic American foods, readings of the Declaration of Independence and performances from patriotic marching band Fife and Drum Corps. If you haven't been to Williamsburg, add it to your list of popular American tourist destinations you need to visit.
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Next segment of La. 1 elevation progressing
Xerxes WilsonStaff Writer
As state officials seek to rework the finances of the Leeville Bridge, the project's next phase to elevate La. 1 is beginning to take shape.
The bridge connects Leeville about 10 miles south of Golden Meadow to Port Fourchon on the Gulf.
Lafourche Parish officials say it is a vital link for trucks carrying supplies and equipment to the port, which generates significant tax revenue for the parish.
Having an elevated bridge to the port is necessary because the old portion of La. 1 is steadily sinking into the surrounding wetlands, according to La. 1 Coalition Director Henri Boulet.
About 10 miles of La. 1 runs from the southern most levee to the Leeville Bridge and has not been elevated.
The next phase for La. 1 will see it raised from inside the levee protection of Golden Meadow to the existing bridge leading to Fourchon.
State officials expect to finalize the design contract in January for the first part of the new phase to begin.
That phase has been divided into three sections that will eventually connect to the existing bridge, Boulet said.
The first segment will split from La. 3235 in Golden Meadow and rise above the levee.
Boulet said the state is building the next three segments starting in Golden Meadow instead of at the existing bridge in Leeville because of the “end on” construction technique used to build the bridge.
This technique sees much of the bridge built from the bridge itself instead of with barges in the surrounding wetlands.
“It is probably cheaper to build it from barges,” Boulet said. “We agreed with the environmental groups that we would build it in the most environmentally friendly way we could.”
The first segment is about 3,400 feet long and will cost about $45 million, Boulet said.
Boulet said Gov. Bobby Jindal has agreed to include money for the segment in the state's capital outlay bill.
It will be up to local legislators to see that the money is approved over the three-year window organizers are requesting, Boulet said.
Boulet said it will take a year and a half to produce the plans for the segment.
There are two other segments to stretch the bridge to Leeville, which will cost about $275 million, Boulet said.
While design and fundraising for the new segment carries on, state officials are looking to refinance debt tied to the existing bridge, said Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, who chairs the board that oversees the bridge tollway.
Adley said state Department of Transportation and Development officials say it is necessary to refinance about $175 million in debt to avoid doubling tolls on the bridge.
Tolls are to be increased 20 percent in January.
A recent state audit pointed out deficiencies in the state's toll-collection system.
But those deficiencies are being corrected, and the bridge is collecting revenue at a rate on par with industry standards, Boulet said.
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What's new in my world.
Like a Moth — True Stories Told Live
When it was announced last year that The Moth would be coming to Madison I was ecstatic. I’ve been a longtime fan of The Moth Story Hour on public radio, and a few years ago I got to attend a Moth Story Slam in person, in New York City. (There are also books and a podcast, which are worth checking out.)
Basically The Moth is a storytelling extravaganza — the set up is that normal, everyday people are invited to come up to the mic to tell stories that are true, less than five minutes long, and performed without notes. You can sign up to tell a story around a specific theme, or you can hope to be pulled out of the audience to give it your best shot. It’s not stand-up. It’s not acting. It’s something that happened to you, that only you can talk about.
When done well, the performances are nothing short of astonishing. And even when the telling is average, the experience of hundreds of people gathering in a theater to listen to a lone person talking about an event in their life on a bare stage. . . that is an amazing moment of community and care and empathy. And it is rare. A throwback to our ancient ancestors talking around a fire late at night, it’s an intimate form of communication and it’s captivating. And for a theater person, it’s a great reminder that amazing stories can have a huge effect on an audience without sound cues, lighting, costumes, props or scenery. It’s really all about the story.
So Madison’s first Moth GrandSLAM on October 27th was an undeniable success. The Barrymore Theatre was packed with people—mostly older, white couples who probably make up the base of the WPR listening audience. The crowd was supportive. The judges — chosen from audience members — were fair. There were ten stories that had all previously been judged the winner of a smaller Moth gathering, and the resulting “cream of the crop” was diverse; some were funny, some were odd, some were horrendously sad. All addressing the theme “A Fish Out of Water,” they touched on issues of race, gender identity, immigration, loss, failures in communication, and compatibility. My hands-down favorite was a story told by Chicagoan Nestor “The Boss” Gomez, an immigrant from Guatemala, who talked about trying to learn English quickly as a kid so he and his brother could assimilate into their American neighborhood and American schools as fast as possible. And how renting movies in English from the video store, helped the boys transition to their new life, but not without some trepidation and sadness from their mother. It was a beautiful portrait of a really specific moment in time; happy and sad at once, personal and universal.
Kevin Lamar Willmott II also told a very compelling story about being an “other,” a half-black, half-Causcasian man in ultra liberal Madison, where racial aggressions ranged from micro to major, and frequently dealt with his hair. Danielle St. Louis told a bizarre and wonderful tale about dating a professional pot farmer, and feeling awkward on the fringes of the drug culture. They were very good. A few other storytellers had amazing moments but their stories needed some work structurally. A lot of them reminded me of the golden rules of writing a great 10-minute play, which I’ve been teaching at Edgewood High School this semester.
Make no mistake; creating and delivering an awe-inspiring short story, whether it’s in prose, spoken word, or short play form, is really difficult to nail. Here are some of the things my students and I have been discussing this fall, that apply to Moth stories. If anyone aspires to take their place behind the microphone in the future here is my advice:
1. Don’t be boring. Sounds easy enough. It’s not.
2. Grab the audience. Grab them by the collar in your first sentence. Get their attention and don’t let go. Gotta have a killer opening.
3. The dinosaur rule: start as close to the end of the story as you can.
4. The airplane rule: there’s got to be a journey.
5. The chocolate chip rule: only include the very best stuff. All chocolate chips — no room for cookie filler.
6. The cowboy rule: if I recognize your characters as archetypes, you’re going to have to work a lot harder to surprise me.
7. The “everyone’s pet dies” rule. Yes, everyone’s pet/mother/grandparent dies. That makes your story universal, but not interesting. Tell me something about it that’s extraordinary.
8. The twist. I don’t want to see the end of the story coming. Subvert my expectations.
9. The Hamlet rule. You’ve got to have a killer last line. Stick the landing.
10. Make it Matter. Why do I care? Are the stakes high enough? Is the conflict interesting enough? Why is it important that you tell me this now?
If it looks like I’ve got this all figured out, that’s not the truth. I wish all my writing adhered to these lofty goals, but it doesn’t. Not yet. I actually have a Moth story on my desktop that I wrote several years ago — it has a good beginning and a killer last line. It’s poignant and personal. But the truth is I haven’t had the guts to work on it. . . practicing it out loud and making sure it’s all chocolate chips and easy for the listener to follow. But now that I’ve seen some of the local competition, maybe I will. Maybe I’ll be inspired to head up to the microphone in 2018 and do my best to share a story that’s real and true, and means more than it sounds like at first.
In the meantime, maybe I’ll go to another Moth.
For more info, visit themoth.org.
Gwen Rice November 2, 2017
Dear Mr. Shakespeare. . . Can I call you Bill?
Finishing the Hat
Gwen Rice September 19, 2017
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Anna Duggar Reveals Baby No. 4's Gender; '19 Kids And Counting' Star Is Having A...? [VIDEO]
By Rebecka Schumann @RebeckaSchumann
(L to R) Mackynzie, Josh, Michael and Anna Duggar from TLC's "19 Kids and Counting." Photo: TLC
The Duggar family is about to get a little bit bigger. “19 Kids and Counting” stars Anna Duggar and her husband, Josh Duggar, are expecting their fourth child. Ahead of the reality star's summer due date, the couple revealed the gender of their new baby Monday.
So are they having a boy or a girl? In a gender reveal video on People.com, the couple used cupcakes — topped with yellow rubber duckies — to reveal the gender of their unborn child. The duo previously learned the child’s sex off camera during an ultrasound, but waited to film the big reveal on camera.
“If it's pink inside, it’s a girl. If it's blue inside, it’s a boy,” Anna explained.
After biting into a concoction from Georgetown Cupcake, Anna and Josh’s three children, Mackynzie, 5, Michael, 3, and Marcus, 1, discovered they would be welcoming a sister to their brood of five. Josh and Anna was previously rumored to be expecting twins.
“It’s a girl! Yay!” Anna, 26, said. “The pink frosting says it all.”
“We’re having a girl. And we’re really excited and we can’t wait,” Josh, 26, added. “Thanks so much for all the well wishes.”
As for the baby’s name, the duo said they’re not ready to share it with the world. “We are close to announcing the name, but haven’t yet,” Josh told People Magazine. As for it they will keep with the “M” theme, Josh teased they most likely will. “We are likely going down the same path, but we’ll just have to see," he said.
The gender reveal video comes on the heels of Josh’s recent tweet in which he stated that the Duggar family would be making a “big announcement” on Tuesday, March 3. It’s unknown if the gender reveal was the big announcement, or if another Duggar family update is in the works.
Catch up with Josh, Anna and the rest of the Duggars on “19 Kids and Counting.” New episodes air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST on TLC.
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Robert J. Kauffman
Bin Wang
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When Internet Companies Morph
This paper is included in the First Monday Special Issue: Commercial Applications of the Internet, published in July 2006. For author reflections on this paper, visit the Special Issue.
When Internet Companies Morph: Understanding Organizational Strategy Changes in the 'New' New Economy by Robert J. Kauffman, Tim Miller, and Bin Wang
The rapid ascent of the Internet economy funneled almost $US90 billion of venture capital money into Internet startups over a period of four years that roughly ended in mid-2000. An equally rapid bust in the cycle that year abruptly shut off funding and thrust remaining Internet companies into an unprecedented frenzy of adaptive strategic and organizational re-focusing behavior. In this article, we relate the findings of our study of this period of hyper-evolution and give a snapshot of the publicly reported "morphing" activities of 125 Internet companies, based on which we propose a profitability-driven typology of Internet firm repositioning behavior. The study provides academic researchers with an overview of industry strategic mutation patterns and provides executives with a process analysis for identifying and evaluating their own strategies in a way that is essential for success in the highly volatile Internet economy. We also offer our predictions on these strategies' efficacy in light of the current emphasis on business profitability and return on investment (ROI).
The Beginning of the 'New' New Economy
Strategic Morphing and Sustainable Advantage
New Results on Strategic Morphing in the Internet Firm Marketplace
Understanding Morphing Strategies
Evaluating the Mutation Strategies of Internet Companies
Learning From the Morphing Strategies of Internet Companies
The rapid ascent of the Internet economy followed by its equally rapid shakeout has set the stage for a period of business repositioning that is historic in both its scale and its speed. The now-failed magazine Industry Standard (www.industrystandard.com) reported that from 1998 through 2000 private investors, in an attempt to capitalize on what appeared to be record growth rates of the Internet, poured more than $US90 billion into an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 startups while public investors drove Internet IPOs to stratospheric price heights [1]. Operating on assumptions that companies needed to operate on "Internet time" and spend big to grab market share at the expense of profits, investors placed large rounds of funding in Internet companies and instructed them to spend it quickly. Short-term profitability and return on investment (ROI) seemed to be far from the minds of the market leaders.
However, by the end of the first quarter of 2000, it had become apparent that most Internet companies would not produce positive cash flow in the near term, if at all. On 20 March 2000, Barron's published a luridly illustrated cover story entitled: "Burning Up - Warning: Internet Companies Are Running Out of Cash (Fast)" (Willoughby, 2000). The article suggested that 51 of the 207 Internet companies that were studied could run out of cash in the next 12 months. Shortly after stock prices for Internet firms started to plunge (Schiffman, 2000) and by the end of the year had taken the NASDAQ to its worst annual loss in 29 years and effectively shut down the IPO market; see Figures 1, 2, and 3.
Figure 1: The Extended Plunge of the NASDAQ Following 20 March 2000.
Source: BigCharts.com, July 10, 2002 (www.bigcharts.com)
Figure 2: Number of IPO Issues, NASDAQ-Listed Stocks, 1999-2001.
Source: www.nasdaq.com
Figure 3: Value of IPO Issuance, NASDAQ-Listed Stocks, 1999-2001.
With IPO opportunities having largely shut down and market valuations for New Economy firms imploding, private equity investors abruptly closed their purses, leaving numerous Internet companies with shortfalls of operating cash and budgets that no longer matched their business ambitions in a rational market context. As a result, Internet companies abruptly began to curtail their spending, compounding the difficulties their peers were experiencing with raising money, since many Internet firms had been relying almost solely on the hype of the "digital Gold Rush" and the earlier market following that had built up.
These dramatic and sudden changes in the market climate forced many Internet companies into a period of readjustment to conserve cash, diversify their customer bases and more effectively focus on higher-return market niches. Those that have not been able to adapt to the tough market environment have been forced to exit, and the number of failed Internet companies now totals more than 800 firms, according to research reports by Webmergers.com (Webmergers, 2002).
In this study, we explore the spectrum of adaptive strategies employed by the Internet firms to cope with the economic slowdown in their sector, and the overall reorientation of market investors towards the 'new' New Economy. On the basis of our analysis of the strategic moves and business model reconfigurations of 125 electronic commerce-focused companies, as they have been reported in the major business and trade publications and through a variety of interviews conducted at Webmergers.com and the MIS Research Center at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota, we propose a process model for identifying and assessing Internet firm strategy "morphing" behavior. In addition, we also provide our thoughts on how likely different strategies will work out for these firms. The results from the current study can help academic researchers understand the diverse strategies Internet companies use to improve the sustainability of their competitive advantage in the context of fierce market competition. In addition, business professionals, especially managers of Internet-focused firms, can use our process model to evaluate the alternatives that remain available to them, so they can identify a strategy that generates higher payoffs.
We draw upon the literature on evolutionary game theory (Maynard Smith, 1982; Samuelson, 1998; Weibull, 1997) as the theoretical background of the current research. Evolutionary game theory tackles the dynamics of evolution in biological populations, and is motivated by such referent disciplines as population biology and genetics, as well as by economic analysis of markets and the firms that compete with them. Evolutionary game theory treats how individuals in a population learn through a trial-and-error process, and explains why certain species survive the process of natural selection in their competitive environments, while others do not.
Two prerequisites for the selection process are the limited resources that are available in the environment and the individual differences that occur among competing members of the population. The former determines that some individuals in the population will survive while others will become extinct. The latter indicates that there may be different capabilities for adaptation that occur within populations in a competitive environment. Together, they determine that only those that are the fittest will be able to survive. In the evolutionary process, individuals (and firms) can also learn by a process of trial and error which strategies they apply generate higher payoffs. Consequently, they can adjust their strategy in the competition with others and enhance their chances of survival.
We equate this organic view of market competition and natural selection among "species" to what we have been observing the last couple years in the competition and market shakeout among companies in the Internet economy. There are differences among Internet companies in aspects such as industry, products, customers served, management teams, market niche specificity, and capacity to continue raising capital. There are also differences among Internet companies in terms of the "ripeness" of the sector in which they compete. By ripeness, we mean the relative readiness of a market to accept a product or service. The limited numbers of customers, suppliers, and financial resources determine that only those companies that have been best positioned for the rough and tumble competition have been able to survive. Indeed, to continue our analogy: an Internet firm's adaptability to the 'new' New Economy is determined by its "competitive genetics." These include the unique value it provides to its customers, its relative costs compared to its competitors, the quality of its market niche relative to more traditional reintermediating firms, and its financial strength. A company that can stay on top of the competition in these aspects is in an advantageous position to its competitors and is more likely to succeed [2].
The trial-and-error learning process that evolutionary game theory suggests as a possible interpretation of the manner in which firms compete in the marketplace is crucial to our understanding of the strategy morphing behavior that we have seen many Internet companies firms engage in. Strategic mutation to the organizational business models of these firms occurs through purposeful, intentional changes that reflect a firm's adaptability to its marketplace in competition with other businesses. However, strategic mutation may also reflect almost random actions with organizational strategy (or at least some that are not very well conceived), permitting firms to observe the feedback that the market has to offer (in market share, revenue, funding capacity, etc.). Through this process, firms will come to realize which strategies will put them in an advantageous position with respect to competition with their rivals, access to capital markets and top notch human capital, and so on, and permit them to update their strategies accordingly.
GartnerG2 (www.gartnerg2.com), a research division of Gartner Group, proposed a strategy model that is similar to the process that we find analogous to the thinking that is associated with evolutionary game theory (Rountree, 2001). A firm exists in both external and internal environments, learning to acquire knowledge by scanning and sensing these environments. In addition, a firm also innovates and adapts, which allows it to further accumulate new knowledge. This constantly updated knowledge base further powers a firm through activities such as mutation and strategic change. Using this rough script of the process GartnerG2 depicts the rich process through which firms learn to achieve higher performance by mutation.
Evolutionary game theory provides a high level framework for understanding the Internet firm strategic morphing process. We next present the results of our case study analyses and propose a classification of strategic morphing behaviors that appears to characterize well what we have observed in the Internet company marketplace. Instead of focusing on the whole process as evolutionary game theory does, however, we take snapshots of the morphing behavior we observe when Internet companies change their strategies to achieve a better fit with the marketplace. It is worth noting that since our observation period is the early stages of the Internet firm strategic morphing process, our categorization of the morphing strategies is specific to firms in the early e-commerce life cycle. As e-commerce firms mature, the morphing we may observe might be different or less dramatic. However, as evolutionary game theory points out, mutations still occur as the competition in the marketplace goes on. Our discussion of the case study findings, and our classification of the observed morphing behaviors sets up our subsequent proposal for a framework that enables us to extend our interpretation from description to prediction, and to offer normative guidance to managers who are faced with problems with their firm's business model or organizational strategy that requires an evolutionary approach to increase the likelihood of firm survival.
This research is based on a set of industry and organizational mini-case studies that are drawn mainly from published articles in business and trade publications. Given the number of cases and the diversity of published sources from which we drew, we believe the results of this research provide a reasonably representative picture of the strategic mutations that characterize the Internet company market during the last couple years.
Research Method
Case study research is known to provide an excellent means for supporting the exploration for new theoretical perspectives on problems that are of interest to managers (Benbasat et al., 1987). In the earliest stages of the research process with respect to an issue or problem area that has not been studied to date, it is important for the researcher to ground himself or herself in the real world aspects of the problem to ensure that an appropriate understanding of the actual problems for research can be reached, and that the perspectives that are developed along the way add value to the stakeholders for the work.
Our research approach takes advantage of case study methods to develop an understanding of the strategy changes of Internet firms. The work does not involve survey methods, in that no questionnaires were mailed to corporate executives, nor were there any online opinion polling or consistent interviewing tactics that were applied to a targeted population of respondents. As such, the findings are not the result of a "random" survey. If we had taken this approach, then we would be reporting on many Internet companies that failed to be nimble or adaptive enough to sustain their place in the market, and are no longer in business today. This, of course, would not have been possible. Nor are our findings a by-product of many in-depth interviews. Indeed, for some of the firms that figure in our data set, it would have been difficult to carry out interviews with corporate leaders in times so difficult as those we have seen, since many potential respondents would have been "on the street" again, looking for new entrepreneurship opportunities where venture capital funding has remained available.
Instead, similar to Subramani and Walden (2001) who developed a database of articles on corporate announcements related to e-commerce, we built a database of several hundred articles that profile individual Internet companies or address the strategy changes of one or more firms in an industry cluster. Most of these articles were published in 2000 and 2001 in business or trade publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, Industry Standard, New York Times, and other similar publications. After initial rounds of reading the articles, we developed a set of potential categories that could be used to classify the various business model change strategies that were represented. Further refinement of the initial set of categories led us to assign each company that was represented in the data set to one or more of those categories. Since some of the firms made multiple changes and adjustments during the period of study, we assigned several companies to more than one category.
Morphing Strategies: A Five-Category Classification
We identify five broad categories of strategic morphing behavior that Internet companies have employed. They include changes in product and service offerings, changes in customers, adjusting pricing model, establishing offline presence, and other strategies. Table 1 provides a summary of the firms we examined in terms of these categories.
A majority of the repositioning strategies take the form of market and product offering changes. Some have shifted to the application service provider (ASP) pricing model. Market repositioning emphasizes the most profitable customers, either from B2C to B2B or upstream within the B2B sector. Expand or contract product and service offerings include both expansions and narrowing of offerings. To increase revenue, companies also make pricing model adjustments. Some have made adjustments to a fee-based model, for example, shifting from individual product pricing to bundle pricing, or waiving certain fees if a business volume criterion is met. In addition, some pure-play Internet companies in our sample also realized the importance of an offline presence, and expanded their business model to incorporate non-Internet-based operations to match their e-commerce capabilities. These strategies often take the form of e-commerce adjustments to the bricks-and-mortar model for business, enabling firms to penetrate the markets associated with the traditional media.
Table 1: Internet Firm Strategic Mutations, 2000-2001.
Description of Strategic Mutations Count Percent
Change Product/Service Offerings in Existing Markets
Shift to application service provider (ASP) business model 10 8
Expand product/service offerings 17 14
Refocus and narrow product/service offerings 17 14
Move Upstream to New Higher Quality Customers
Expand or shift from B2C to B2B 42 34
Expand or shift upward in B2B markets 12 10
Adjust Pricing Model
Make adjustments to the fee model 7 6
Pursuing Offline Presence
Adopt bricks & mortar strategies 9 7
Adopt traditional media model 11 9
Other 12 10
Total Number of Companies in Sample [3] 125
To what extent are these changes consistent across business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce? We define B2B firms as Internet companies that have other companies as their direct customers, and B2C Internet companies as those having consumers as their direct customers. This is similar to the definition Subramani and Walden (2001) used in classifying B2B vs. B2C e-commerce initiative announcements. It turns out that both the B2C and B2B sectors have used an upstream migration strategy in search of higher quality customers. The most common and most visible strategic direction change has been among B2C companies that have adopted what we call the "B2C2B morph," a strategy employed by 42 of the 95 companies in our sample. This approach typically involves a firm that was founded as a B2C e-commerce product or services provider, which then works towards broadening its target market into the B2B marketplace, which has been shown to be far richer in terms of potential revenues for the firm. Table 2 provides an illustrative breakdown of the various strategies for B2C and B2B Internet companies.
Table 2: Internet Firm Mutation Strategies By Sector, 2000-2001.
Description of Strategic Mutations B2C Firms B2B Firms
Count Percent Count Percent
Shift to application service provider (ASP) business model 0 0 10 29
Expand product/service offerings 7 8 10 29
Refocus and narrow product/service offerings 15 17 2 6
Move Upstream to New Higher-Quality Customers
Expand or shift from B2C to B2B 42 47 N/A N/A
Expand or shift upward in B2B markets N/A N/A 12 34
Make adjustments to the fee model 6 7 1 3
Adopt bricks & mortar strategies 6 7 3 9
Adopt traditional media model 11 12 0 0
Other 8 9 4 11
Total in Sample [4] 90 35
However, as Table 2 also demonstrates, a similar proportion of B2B companies - 12 of the 35 reviewed - also shifted their focus upstream, moving from one class of business customer toward better-heeled prospects in the Fortune 1000 or other larger enterprises with larger spending budgets for technology services. Overall, we found that B2C firms were more likely than B2B firms to tighten and refocus their offerings, in many cases to cut out low-margin products or focus on a niche, thereby reducing the enormous marketing costs involved in addressing broad consumer audiences.
In this section, we go into greater detail on these strategic moves and discuss their applications by the companies in our sample.
Adjusting Product Offerings for an Existing Customer Base
Many Internet companies have adjusted their product mix to renew revenues that have fallen off sharply since Spring 2000. Several online marketplaces and electronic exchanges moved from a transaction model to an ASP business model to provide private exchange services to an increasing number of businesses that desire such services. In addition, our case study evidence shows that about the same number of companies expanded or contracted and re-focused their product and service offerings. Expansionist strategies appear to have been designed to grow revenue-per-customer and to differentiate an Internet firm from its competitors by increasing the breadth of its product line. Product-focusing strategies, on the other hand typically stripped down the product line to core offerings in an attempt to eliminate low- or no-margin products, to stem the cash hemorrhage, differentiate the brand, and accelerate profitability.
Shifting to ASP Pricing.
While many companies moved upstream to tap enterprise dollars, a significant number of industry players, many of them in the B2B market exchange patch, shifted laterally. They attempted to sell their products or services using a subscription revenue model that is widely known as the applications service provider model. About eight percent of companies examined in our study adopted an ASP model or significantly expanded an existing set of ASP offerings during the 2000 to 2001 time frame. The applications that we observed ranged from consumer software to tools that enable businesses to better manage proprietary business relationships and multi-step supply chains. Another rapid and somewhat unanticipated shift, related to B2B marketplaces and exchanges, has occurred. The early high hopes for these public marketplaces rapidly dimmed in the face of intense competition and much slower-than-expected participation and implementation among stakeholder firms (Dai and Kauffman, 2002; Kauffman and Mohtadi, 2002). Instead, many Internet companies are now adjusting their focus to provide companies with private marketplaces tailored to their own operations and customers. David Perry, CEO of chemical exchange services provider, Ventro Corporation (www.ventro.com, now NexPrise Inc., www.nexprise.com), told ZDNet's eWeek magazine: "Every exchange is essentially a very specialized ASP anyway, so it makes sense for us to take the next step and offer some of the applications ourselves" (Fisher and McCright, 2001). In fact, AMR Research (Bermudez, 2001) predicted most of the commerce transacted over the Internet by 2005 will pass through a private exchange. While Internet company migration to application services points in of itself to possible market saturation in the ASP arena, there are still multiple market niches to be addressed. They include aviation, automotive, steel, metal, transportation and logistics optimization, and the life sciences.
Expanding Product and Service Offerings.
About 14 percent of the companies sampled were observed to have expanded their products or services, driving their business models and brands into new market categories and increasing the perceived breadth of their market coverage. In some cases, companies expanded their range of offerings to increase their revenues. For example, BusinessWeek reported that BlueLight (www.bluelight.com) increased its offerings to 250,000 items, up from 100,000 sale items, after its second launch in October 2000 (Lee, 2000). In April 2001, Bluelight.com relaunched its site again with a new floral delivery section, expanded selections in its specialty stores featuring brands such as Black & Decker, and provided more choices in the Martha Stewart Everyday store (Bluelight.com, 2001c). In other cases, Internet companies have attempted to introduce unique services or products to increase their strategic barriers to competitor entry in their market. As an example of the latter strategy, online music syndicator, Listen.com (www.listen.com) has been maneuvering to become a one-stop-shop for music offerings, acquiring Wired Planet (www.wiredplanet.com) in September 2000. The purpose of the acquisition was to integrate Listen.com's streaming audio technologies and personalization tools into its offerings for both distribution partners and customers. The combined technology assets of the firms will permit its distribution partner to have the tools to develop systems to support streaming entertainment that enable the adopters to customize them for use with their own audiences.
Narrowing Focus to Core or Niche Offerings.
While many Internet companies have been busy expanding their offerings, an equal number - about 14 percent of firms in our study - have concentrated their efforts on their core market or on a newly-emphasized niche. Buy.com (www.buy.com), for example, previously criticized for spreading itself too thin, began to increase its focus on its core market of technology and consumer electronics goods sales activities in January 2001 (Davis and Neel, 2001). BN.com (www.bn.com) likewise has shifted emphasis to more focus on content and has also transformed its nascent electronic book offerings early last year into a full-fledged electronic bookstore, which many expect to lead the new market. According to DSN Retailing Today (Craig, 2001), even Amazon.com (www.amazon.com) is working to refocus its core book business. Some observers predict that companies will find greater success in their core businesses. Indeed, there are no doubt many e-commerce firms that have not been able to extend themselves beyond their core business models with any real success, but still have the opportunity to make their core strategy profitable. In addition, a ten-year longitudinal study of more than 2,000 technology, service, and product companies in a variety of industries conducted by Bain & Company (www.bain.com) and reported in the book Profit from the Core: Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence (Zook and Allen, 2001) led to the conclusion that most growth strategies fail to deliver value - and may even destroy it. This occurs, according to the authors, primarily because the firms wrongly diversified from their core businesses, into new market areas that they failed to fully understand or be able to exploit at the same level of profitability.
Moving Upstream to Address a More Profitable Customer Base
By far, the most popular repositioning action involved a "flight to quality" in the customer base targeted. In the B2C sector, many companies cut back on their marketing expenditures and addressed deeper-pocketed business customers by extending or shifting their product and service offerings from consumers to business clients in what has become to be known popularly as the "B2C2B strategy." Companies that already targeted the B2B market in their product or service niche also tended to move upstream. The most typical switch in focus was away from the once-wealthy Internet companies to more established corporate names or the Fortune 1000 market.
B2C2B Strategies.
In the B2C arena, about 34 percent of the firms in our sample began selling their software or services to other companies instead of, or in addition to, consumers. This model evolved in response to the steep marketing costs required to reach broad consumer markets, slower-than-expected sales conversion rates, declining advertising revenues on Internet company Web sites and stiff competition. Some B2Cs, like group-buying site operator MobShop.com, switched from a pure B2C business model to licensing software in a B2C2B model. But when that failed to revive the firm's revenue stream, it began to sell its group-buying service directly to business users. In fact, we observed the B2C2B strategy being applied in multiple Internet sectors. They include content sites such as tech hub GirlGeek.com (www.girlgeek.com) and service companies such as online file-sharing ASP, Driveway Corporation (www.driveway.com). The B2C2B trend also has encompassed a variety of vertical sectors. For example, streaming-video entertainment sites such as Atom Films (www.atomfilms.com), IFILM (www.ifilm.com), MP3.com (www.mp3.com), BigStar Entertainment (www.bigstar.com, which recently suspended operations), Eveo.com (www.eveo.com), and now-defunct Quokka Sports veered towards business services, including corporate online videos and software licensing. Auction companies, eBay (www.ebay.com) and Homebid.com (www.homebid.com, now merged with HomeStore.com), and portal sites, Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) and China's Netease (www.netease.com) all reported plans to sell in-house technology or services to independent companies.
Moving Upstream Within B2B Markets.
As many B2C companies looked to the wholesale market for revenue source, so too did many B2B companies begin to turn away from their increasingly shaky Internet company customers to seek bigger, richer and more stable business customers. In fact, 10 percent of companies in our sample expanded or shifted their target business-markets upstream to enterprise or mainstream companies. For example, online banking systems provider Sanchez e-Profile (www.e-profile.com) moved beyond its "first wave" of clients to bigger corporate concerns, such as American Express (Roth, 2001). Again, we saw the flight to quality in several B2B sectors. In the professional services arena, for example, consulting groups, such as Concrete (Media), iXL Enterprises (www.ixl.com, now merged into Scient Corporation, www.scient.com), and the failed MarchFIRST, attempted to lessen their reliance on pure-play Internet companies to focus on helping traditional enterprises implement their Internet strategies. Third-party news aggregators and infrastructure vendors, iSyndicate (www.isyndicate.com, now YellowBrix.com, www.yellowbrix.com) and ScreamingMedia (www.screamingmedia.com), began aggressively targeting large enterprises with content products, such as Web portals and intranets. And e-commerce software providers, such as Interworld (www.interworld.com) and Vignette (www.vignette.com), steered away from serving smaller consumer Web sites to addressing large established Web properties and mainstream companies. Even companies that were not heavily exposed to Internet companies followed the "northward trail." For example, software providers like ASP aggregator, Jamcracker Inc. (www.jamcracker.com), began to migrate upstream from the small-to-midsize market to large companies.
Adjusting the Pricing Model
Another set of Internet companies developed new revenue models in an attempt to better monetize their existing customers. They made adjustments to the fee model that they used.
Adjusting Fee-Based Models for Enhanced Business Profitability.
Instead of repackaging content into traditional media formats, six percent of the Internet-only companies in our sample have radically adjusted their fee models. The most common action in this category is for providers of free content or services to incorporate or switch to a per-use or subscription-based fee model. This coincided with the abrupt drop-off in advertising rates and advertising volume, increasing the difficulties that some firms faced to earn a profit. For example, free-content providers Britannica.com (www.britannica.com) and the beleaguered Napster (www.napster.com) are pursuing plans to charge consumers for information or music, while others, such as PayMyBills.com (www.paymybills.com) and the Asian portal 21C (www.21c.com.cn) introduced new service fees. In the rare instance of TheStreet.com (www.street.com), the company experimented with a shift from fee-based content to mostly free content in an attempt to find the right revenue model.
Pursuing an Offline Presence
Many bricks-and-mortar enterprises are deploying Internet technologies to stay competitive. However, the real pressures in the marketplace are focused on former pure-play Internet companies that have now shifted their resources to explore how to leverage bricks-and-mortar capabilities to make their own business models more attractive, and target and better serve new customers. In some cases, the firms have even sought to retrofit their core businesses by de-emphasizing their Internet capabilities somewhat to distinguish themselves from other Internet market competitors. We have seen this occur in two prototypical forms. Let's consider each in greater detail.
Adopting Bricks-and-Mortar Strategies.
More than seven percent of Internet companies in this study have adopted some form of strategy involving physical real estate. One such company was BN.com. In early 2001, the company's interim CEO, Stephen Riggio, announced that the e-tailer would launch an aggressive cross-pollination strategy with its bricks-and-mortar book superstore counterpart, Barnes and Noble, Inc. "In 2001, we will execute our vision of uniting our retail stores and Web site," he told the New York Times (Hansell, 2001). "By mid-2001, every single Barnes and Noble store will have Internet Service Counters, enabling customers to place orders from titles and products listed on our Web site right in the store." Customers can also return their online orders to BN's stores (Patton, 2001). In addition, Internet portal Yahoo! briefly opened a shop in London last year for publicity, demonstrating, according to the Guardian, "a need for pure-plays to extend their presence beyond the Web" (Azeez, 2001). And e-tailers, such as women's workout clothier Lucy.com (www.lucy.com) and Gazoontite.com (www.gazoontite.com), actually closed their Internet stores to focus on bricks-and-mortar stores.
In addition, Minnesota-based employment and recruiting Web site, Techies.com (www.techies.com), nixed plans to build overseas operations and instead explored partnerships with online and bricks-and-mortar companies overseas. Techies.com's CEO, Dan Frawley, told Internet-based Business Wire (2001) that his moves were intended to utilize overseas partners' infrastructure and their customer relationships to increase the firm's service reach and decrease its operating costs. Still other observers contend that such convergence of offline and online models is inevitable and perhaps overdue. "We need ... [to] see the Internet for what it is," wrote Harvard Business School strategy professor Michael Porter, as "an enabling technology: a powerful set of tools that can be used, wisely or unwisely, in almost any industry and as part of almost any strategy" (Porter, 2001). Indeed, to judge from the actions of many Internet companies, the digital convergence that Porter speaks of is already occurring.
Adopting Traditional Media.
As the recent case of Yahoo!'s revenue shortfall illustrates, many advertising-sensitive Internet companies have faced a two-barreled assault: steep declines in advertising rates and a simultaneous collapse in spending by the Internet companies that had been purchasing the bulk of online advertising. To supplement lackluster ad revenues or broaden readership, news content sites such as Inside.com (www.inside.com), Space.com (www.space.com), Salon.com (www.salon.com) and Slate.com (www.slate.com) have either tested, offered or are considering offering print editions in the form of magazines (some have tried and abandoned this model, but we can't say which of the above are in that category) or, in some cases, printable newsletters. In addition, e-commerce sites such Confetti Network in Great Britain (www.confetti.co.uk), the failed Kozmo.com, and LastMinute.com (www.lastminute.com) launched catalogues or newspaper inserts to generate new sales, while a traditional television producer purchased the online digital entertainment assets of Icebox.com (www.icebox.com) to turn them into broadcast television programming.
Although the above categories reflect the most common adaptive strategies, Internet companies have deployed other maneuvers that may be of interest to other companies. Some other strategies include:
Leveraging Excess Capacity.
Several companies in our sample are now selling their excess operating capacity to their peers. For example, Amazon.com, which overbuilt its warehouse and related distribution network infrastructure in anticipation of higher-than-realized growth, has begun providing e-commerce services to Borders and other traditional retailers.
Entering an Entirely New Business.
A few Internet companies have diversified away from their old businesses into entirely new ones, motivated for the most part by a lack of market opportunities and cash. For example, Backflip Inc. (www.backflip.com) de-emphasized its original advertising-based Internet bookmarking Web site and spun off a new company, Intanda Inc. (www.intanda.com, which shared its board of directors with Backflip during 2001). Intanda's strategic thrust was in the wireless messaging application provider market, which bears no relationship to what the management team had been doing at Backflip. Another company, arts directory Culturefinder.com (www.culturefinder.com, whose Web operations were recently interrupted by the World Trade Center disaster), revealed plans to transform itself from a money-losing commercial venture to a non-profit organization in hopes of seeking financial support from philanthropic organizations, corporations and other donors.
However, another version of this approach that we have seen - the "dowry deal" - occurs for different reasons. In the past several years, we have seen Internet companies' stocks trade for less than it is worth in aggregate than the cash reserves that they hold. In a dowry deal, the primary basis for synergy for a marriage between two Internet companies is that one can provide cash. The cash-rich player with a weak business model seeks to find a cash-poor company that has a strong business model. In the deal, the buyer gets the business model, and the seller gets the cash in a deal that offers favorable terms. Webmerger.com's (2001) Web M&A Report illustrates:
"An example of this kind of business model morph is found in the case of one dowry deal that took place last week when E-Stamp Corporation [...], an e-shipping company with $19 million in cash, acquired a 50.1% majority of Learn2.com,, a growing, but cash-constrained e-learning company. Now, what does an e-learning company have in common with an e-postage company? Nothing. But what these companies did have in common was the need to put cash to good use. And E-Stamp had concluded that 'good use' did not include spending any more money on the shipping business. So E-Stamp is exiting its business and putting its cash to work in the e-learning sector" (Webmergers.com, 2001).
Earlier in this article, we reported on the range of approaches that Internet-focused firms have been applying in their strategic morphing process. But how effective will their maneuvers and adjustments be? Are Internet companies able to leverage these strategies to obtain sustainable competitive advantage in their markets? How can a company pinpoint the appropriate mutation strategies it should carry out, given the variety of possibilities? Does morphing under duress lead to a different likelihood of success than when the strategy adjustments are made with financial resources in hand? In this section, we propose a process analysis for mutation strategy evaluation. We emphasize the importance of finding strategic mutations that can provide a company with sources of sustainable competitive advantage over its competitors. We apply our proposed model to two Internet companies, Britannica.com and BlueLight.com, to illustrate the process analysis that we advocate. However, we also note that in the New Economy sector, the reality has been that many firms are forced to undertake "pain morphing" to be able to avoid bankruptcy. And so, the reader should recognize that our evaluations apply with special relevance to the recent developments in the marketplace, where scarcity of capital resources has put many Internet companies into panic model.
How should we as observers evaluate the effectiveness of the morphing strategies we observed in the electronic marketplace? We adapt an approach for evaluating Internet company strategic mutations on the basis of a more general decision framework proposed by Shaw (1990) to enhance organizational effectiveness in strategy selection among service industry firms. Shaw uses a multiple-module process to illustrate the steps a service firm should go through to identify the directions for its strategic change. In this analysis, the author asserts that a firm should first evaluate its status relative to its competition in the marketplace. Then it should identify the directions for change. Thereafter, the firm should finalize the implementation details of the strategy. In this section, we propose a similar process analysis through which we can evaluate various morphing strategies that an Internet firm may undertake in order to identify the most appropriate ones. This process analysis can also be used internally as Internet companies try to identify and select among different strategic mutations. See Figure 4.
Figure 4: A Process Analysis for the External Evaluation of Internet Firm Business Model Changes.
Source: Adapted from J.C. Shaw, The Service Focus: Developing Winning Game Plans for Service Companies. Homewood, Ill.: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1990.
The first question we need to answer is: What is the nature of the business? That is, which markets does the company serve and what is its primary value proposition to its customers? As Porter (2001) points out, delivering unique value to its customers is critical to an Internet company's long-term survivability. With a keen understanding of its business, a firm can direct its limited resources available toward the efforts that bear strategic significance. We expect this to be a critical step, even for Internet companies that are forced into "pain morphing" mode. Getting the answer to these questions right will be the basis for longer-term business strategy solutions.
After determining the answers to this starting question, the second step is to assess the Internet-focused firm's position in the marketplace in competitive terms. Who are the current and prospective competitors that may enter the Internet marketplace? Will they be other Internet companies, or will they be traditional firms that develop new Internet-focused strategies? In light of competition from these kinds of firms, what are the company's strengths and weaknesses compared to its rivals? Is it resistant to being disintermediated by other firms that can achieve direct links with the customer? Or is there another firm that can achieve a more effective product or service portfolio? Developing answers to some of these questions will help the company to prepare to identify directions in which to adjust its business model.
In the third step, we should try to pinpoint the focus of the Internet firm's intended business improvements. For this part of the process, we emphasize the importance of a forward-looking perspective. When the company's interest to morph its strategy is due to some form of duress, the emphasis on long-term positioning remains critical. In addition, the rate of change in the technology and Internet sector has been so rapid, that any assessment of process, product or service improvements must be made with a sense of what else is technologically possible in the near-term, market-wide. Thus, it is important for the company not only to examine the current market competition, but also to foresee future market trends and prepare itself early for the range of future challenges that are likely to arise. In this respect, considerations of the possibility of digital convergence, competitive threats that may be mounted by other firms that have the potential to mitigate the beneficial impacts of a firm's business improvements, are important.
After deciding on the general nature of the strategy changes to be made, the next step is to choose the set of actions that can take the firm there. At this stage, we should evaluate the efficacy of potential strategies and their possible outcomes in greater detail. Porter (2001) examined the recent turbulence in the electronic marketplace and called for a "return to fundamentals." He argued that a firm is more likely to benefit from adopting strategies that can lead to sustainable competitive advantage over its rivals. Porter also emphasized that Internet technologies were no different from the traditional technologies in this aspect. So an Internet company can only reap the benefits of an advanced technology if the technology puts it ahead in the competition with other businesses. As a result, we emphasize in our process analysis the importance of identifying potentially sustainable competitive advantages that can be achieved through strategic mutation. After scanning the spectrum of possibilities, a company should select among the business model and strategy changes that are most likely to provide it with sustainable competitive advantage over its competitors. In addition, the foregoing analysis may turn up other firm needs to acquire certain strategic necessities (Clemons and Kimbrough, 1986) that are critical for the firm to remain in the competition even if there is no sustainable competitive advantage that develops.
The final step related to evaluating strategic mutations is outcome evaluation. We can compare the intended strategic plan based on our process analysis with the actual plan the Internet company carried out. If they are the same and the market feedback is less than desirable, we need to identify possible reasons for the outcome, and what should be done to make further changes to the firm's strategy to be better able to deliver business value. If the actual and the recommended strategies are different and the strategy taken did not result in the expected outcome, the Internet firm might have selected the wrong strategic direction, wasting its resources in the process. More generally, we expect that this, like all strategic planning, should be an iterative process.
Next, we consider two examples of firms from the New Economy sector, Encyclopedia Britannica Online and BlueLight.com. We use them to illustrate how we can use our five-step process analysis to understand the efficacy of different strategy mutations.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
The reference king, Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., first launched a Web-based product, Encyclopedia Brittanica Online (www.eb.com), in 1994. The purpose of establishing Encyclopedia Britannica Online was to provide institutional and individual users with access to the complete content of the print edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (Disabatino, 2001). Since that time, Encyclopedia Britannica Online, which initially was developed as a subscription service, has reshaped its online strategy three times. Analyzing some of the strategic mutations to Britannica's business model on the Internet offers a useful illustration of the application of our evaluative process for strategic mutations.
Q1: What is the nature of the Internet firm's business?
The encyclopedia business has been traditionally targeted at the reference and educational market when only print editions were available. This market has exhibited consistent demand over time for encyclopedias with an extensive coverage of diverse topics and has not been very price-sensitive. As an authoritative reference publisher with a history of more than 200 years, Encyclopedia Britannica had a solid customer base of educational institutions such as schools and colleges. Enabled by advancements in information technology, encyclopedias that are now published on CD-ROM, DVD and the Internet have drastically reduced production costs and made inroads into the consumer market, which prefers satisfactory coverage at an affordable price.
Q2: Where does the Internet firm stand in its markets?
With the entrance of other companies into the digital reference market in late 1980s, especially Microsoft (which began to offer its own product bundled with its operating system), Encyclopedia Britannica experienced a significant drop in sales volume. The aggressive pricing of Microsoft's Encarta reference series attracted the consumer market and enabled Microsoft to obtain a significant market share. As a result, Encyclopedia Britannica was forced to redirect its revenue-generation efforts, and began to develop strength by building on its customer base in the educational market. It continues to face competitive weakness that it has yet to overcome in the consumer market.
Q3: Where should the Internet firm improve its position?
Encyclopedia Britannica's competitive advantage over Microsoft has lain in its institutional market. To maintain its success, it must continue to focus on this market to preserve its market leader position. In addition, to recapture its lost market share to Microsoft, Encyclopedia Britannica should develop another version of its contents on the Internet to cater to the demand of the consumer market.
Q4: What strategies should the Internet company take?
In developing two versions of its encyclopedia to meet the needs of the two markets, Encyclopedia Britannica should differentiate the two products. This way, the company will not be cannibalizing its sales in the institutional market by providing a much more affordable consumer version, and institutions will find that paying a higher subscription fee for the more extensive contents can be justified.
Q5: How should the Internet firm's implementation and outcome be evaluated?
In October 1999, Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. launched Britannica.com (www.britannica.com) as a separate corporate entity using an advertising-supported model with the aim of broadening its market beyond an institutional-heavy customer base. It offered the full text of the Encyclopedia Britannica free of charge, selling instead a high-end version supplemented with bonuses, including in-depth features and integrated searches. Within a couple of months, however, the Web site was repositioned by the firm as a portal, buttressing its reference data with free original content, as well as stock, news and sport information. The primary intent was to ramp up advertising sales (Useem, 1999). Now, as Internet ad dollars dwindle, the company is refocusing on its core business - reference content and education - and returning to a two-tiered pricing model with the some basic content free and the complete version for a subscription fee (Disabatino, 2001). In 2001, Britannica.com also launched a fee-based Web site called Britannica School (www.britannicaschool.com), which is especially packaged for students and teachers (Britannica.com, 2001).
Providing its entire content at Britannica.com for free endangered its competitive advantage in the educational market. With such content freely available on the Web, educational institutions find it more difficult to justify paying a high subscription fee. Moreover, the redirection toward a portal site also conflicted with the reference authority image that the company built up over the years. As Porter (2001) pointed out, competition based solely on price would only ignite a price war and was ultimately destructive. Instead, the key to success is to provide unique value to customers so that a firm can take advantage of their willingness-to-pay. In the case of Britannica, even if the advertising market were still strong, its decision to adopt a free pricing model still would not allow the company to build upon its strengths and sustain its competitive advantage in the educational market. Thus, compared to these strategies, Britannica's return to a subscription model and the launch of Britannica School are more in line with its core competencies and competitive advantages.
BlueLight.com
After its initial attempts to launch a Web site failed in 1998 and 1999, Kmart teamed up with Yahoo! and SOFTBANK Investment Capital and launched BlueLight.com (www.bluelight.com) in December 1999 (Davis, 2001; Kaufman, 1999). Later, BlueLight.com went though a couple of relaunches and a series of strategic mutations in trying to compete with Wal-Mart, Target, and their online sites.
BlueLight.com is the online shopping site for Kmart, which has competed as a discount retailer. It offers products in categories such as electronics, computer, home, jewelry and toys. BlueLight's value proposition to its customers has been the convenience of Internet shopping at a reasonable price. In addition, the company also offers the Martha Stewart product line, which is widely known to be available at Kmart.
BlueLight and Kmart's competition have come from their two rivals in the discount retailing sector, Wal-Mart and Target, and their respective online shopping sites. Over the years, Wal-Mart has built an image of a low-price leader and maintained a tight supply chain that has allowed it to minimize its operational costs. Target's focus has been on a somewhat more upscale consumer market. Even though it does not always post the lowest prices, Target provides shoppers with a nice shopping environment and more product variety. In contrast, Kmart has failed to portray a clear image to the consumers, though its strategy with BlueLight was intended to help the company differentiate itself.
Kmart failed to portray a distinct image to its customers and differentiate itself from Wal-Mart and Target. It has not had as efficient a supply chain as Wal-Mart, nor has it focused on developing a shopping environment to make itself more appealing to higher income consumers. However, Kmart and BlueLight's potential advantage could have come from exclusive merchandising arrangements, such as with the Martha Stewart product line and others (Gaffney, 2002). By building an image of a provider of high quality home furnishing merchandise, Bluelight.com could have been able to develop a loyal customer base, which could have been a source of sustainable competitive advantage.
Strategies that Bluelight.com can take include providing a direct link to its Martha Stewart department at its homepage, and make shopping in this department an easy and pleasant experience. To establish an image as a discount retailer with unique product offerings, Kmart and Bluelight also can launch cross-channel advertising campaigns to make consumers more aware of their exclusive merchandise. In addition, to improve the stickiness of the Web site, BlueLight can also provide helpful tips for home decoration such as "Martha Stewart Tip of the Day", which can also help the company to promote its product lines.
Gallanis (2000) reported that there were five key elements in BlueLight's strategic plan:
To build a customer base.At its inception, BlueLight provided free Internet services with the strategy to introduce its online site to its 30 million weekly bricks-and-mortar shoppers. Even though the service now is no longer free for unlimited Internet access, the company managed to sign up more than two million users in the process, rapidly establishing an installed base.
To provide an easy to use Web site with a variety of products.Following its official launch in Fall 2000, BlueLight redesigned its Web site in April 2001 to provide its customers with an easy-to-navigate interface, an enriched selection of products, and a variety of shopping assistance functions (Bluelight.com, 2001c).
To integrate its online and offline operations.In addition to putting its weekly circulars online and allowing its customers to return unwanted online purchases to its physical stores, Kmart installed online shopping kiosks in those locations to create synergies with the two channels (Bluelight.com, 2001a). This way, shoppers could place online orders for products that were not available in store. In addition, even though it was initially launched as a spin off of Kmart, BlueLight was brought back in-house at Kmart in July 2001 (Prior, 2001).
To develop brand loyalty programs.Using its "BlueLight Specials" in both channels, Kmart rewards its frequent shoppers with lower prices (BlueLight.com, 2001b). In late August 2001, the company also started migrating toward an everyday-low-price model, following its rival Wal-Mart. The firms called this scheme "BlueLight Always" pricing (Howell, 2001).
To establish strategic partnerships.Currently, BlueLight relies on Kmart for its merchandising, marketing and procurement (InfoWorld, 2001). Meanwhile, it has chosen to outsource substantially all of its technology, fulfillment and customer service functions through third-party providers. In 2000, BlueLight selected SubmitOrder.com (www.submitorder.com), to handle a range of its fulfillment-related services, including pick, pack and ship distribution services, customer service responses, and mail-in returns. However, in August 2001, it decided to switch vendors and transitioned to an e-infrastructure services partnership with Global Sports (www.globalsports.com) (Preston, 2001).
Now when we examine the strategies that BlueLight has employed, we see that even though they were intended to provide the firm with a competitive edge, there were few elements that made for sustainable advantage. For example, BlueLight's easy-to-use Web site and broad product selection are two strategic necessities for competition; they have not been sufficient to give BlueLight a competitive edge over its primary rivals, WalMart and Target, however. The synergy between the bricks-and-mortar channel and online stores could provide the company with a competitive advantage over pure-play online discount retailers, but not over Wal-Mart and Target, who also have had very strong offline presences. Instead, these strategies only provided the necessary conditions for BlueLight to compete in the digital marketplace.
To become a "great" online shopping site, BlueLight had to turn to other strategies that are sources of sustainable competitive advantage. A loyal customer base is one such example. By motivating its bricks-and-mortar shoppers to go online and by developing brand loyalty programs, BlueLight might have been able to enjoy a steady source of revenue from its repeat customers. In addition, the expansion of the Martha Stewart Everyday and the Disney stores at BlueLight.com (BlueLight.com, 2001c) had the potential to help the company to build a loyal customer base and differentiate itself from Wal-Mart and Target. Recent events have overtaken BlueLight's efforts to morph, however. Its parent, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 22 January 2002, and is currently undergoing a major business reorganization.
In the previous sections, we discussed the morphing strategies that Internet companies employ to achieve a better strategic fit with their highly competitive marketplaces. We also proposed a process analysis which can be used to evaluate these strategies. In this section, we offer our thoughts on the likelihood that these strategies will improve an Internet company's position in the competitive landscape.
During the early days of market hype around Internet firms, when financial capital could be easily extracted from the capital market, many entrepreneurs viewed the Digital Economy as a revolution and equated innovative ideas that were surfacing around new applications of IT with the potential for future success. With goals of growing scale size as quickly as possible and capturing a significant market share, many of these firms expanded without a sound game plan and made fraught-with-risk attempts to achieve a critical mass by pricing below their costs. We now know, of course, that most Internet companies were unable to sustain their operational growth and fast-burn cash consumption. Many turned to employ some of the morphing strategies we discussed earlier to improve their survivability. But, are these strategies likely to work out for them in the long run? Does strategic morphing change the overall likelihood of survival? If this is not the case generally, then what about in specific instances and with specific kinds of business model changes? Unfortunately, the answers are not so straightforward.
As Mahadevan (2000) pointed out, there are three elements to a business model: the value stream, the revenue stream, and the logistical stream. The value stream is the firm's value propositions to its customers. The revenue stream refers to the firm's source of income. The logistical stream emphasizes the channel management and product and services distribution aspects, and where the firm places itself along the supply chain. It is helpful to use an example to understand the relevance of these elements, as we think about the efficacy of business model changes.
Covisint: The Automotive Industry E-Procurement Specialist
We consider an Internet-based intermediary in B2B e-commerce, the automotive manufacturers' e-market, Covisint (www.covisint.com), as an example. Covisint's core value propositions for buyers include reduced search costs, possibly reduced prices due to aggregated demand in a single market, and an ability to control the general workings of the marketplace. Sellers, meanwhile, benefit from being hooked up in the focal market for automotive manufacturers' purchases, and also can take advantage of reduced search and operational costs, since interorganizational information systems standards are set for the marketplace. Its revenue stream as a captive, but third-party electronic markets operator materializes from the exchange of supply information and the demand for transactions services from buyers and suppliers. There probably is a high willingness-to-pay among participants for Covisint's services, since it aims to streamline supply chain operations beyond what was available before. The logistical stream in this context emphasizes the manner in which trade settlements and economic exchange are finalized, so that the appropriate goods are available for use in manufacturing operations where they are demanded.
Among the three streams, Mahadevan argued that value stream is the most important and it is crucial to a firm's long-term survivability. The reason is that a firm is only able to survive if it delivers value to its customers. Porter's (1985, 2001) theory of sustainable competitive advantage further informs us that a firm has to deliver unique value to its customers to survive, and companies doing business on the Internet are no exception. As a result, in trying to predict the efficacy of Internet companies' morphing strategies, we argue that the company has to have a value stream, i.e., a unique value proposition. Otherwise, no matter what strategies the company embarks on, it is not far away from failure. This appears to the case with Covisint, and other similar intra-industry e-markets that are built by a coalition of major firms in an industry that could not construct solutions of similar quality by themselves.
Flooz.com: Electronic Money for Affinity Marketing and Corporate Rewards Programs
Another interesting example that we have tracked is Flooz.com (www.flooz.com, now in bankruptcy), which has not enjoyed as much success as Covisint. Flooz.com started as a B2C online currency site. Bringing electronic money solutions to the Internet has proven to be a difficult business, as industry startups such as E-Cash Technologies (www.ecash.com, and the now-failed Digicash), iPin (www.ipin.com), Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer Corporation's Millicent (www.millicent.com) have shown. In Flooz.com's case, consumers could purchase "Flooz dollars," a form of electronic currency, and spend it at specific stores in a network of connected firms. The company's initial plan was to facilitate the use of Flooz dollars for gift giving. Even though Flooz.com kept working towards building Flooz dollars' acceptability at Internet stores, signing up online stores to accept proved to be difficult. At the height of the firm's presence on the Internet, Flooz.com's currency could be used at about 60 online stores, many of which were sites with relatively less traffic that were themselves looking for way to built a following. As a result, a consumer had a limited set of choices when she wanted to spend her Flooz dollars.
After experiencing difficulties in the consumer market, Flooz.com chose to morph its e-commerce strategy, turning to the corporate rewards market, thus moving upstream from B2C to B2C2B. A closer examination of Flooz.com's business model reveals that the company failed to provide a unique value proposition to customers on the corporate side. That marketplace, already crowded with brand-name corporate affinity marketing service providers, was no easier to compete in. As a result, it became clear that Flooz.com failed to offer a unique value proposition in any viable marketplace. The limited acceptance of the Flooz currency unrealistically constrained its value to consumers and other companies using Flooz as employee appreciation rewards. In addition, the cumbersome task of integrating Flooz as a method of payment and the commission Flooz.com charged also reduced online stores' incentives for accepting Flooz at their sites. With other forms of currency available, Flooz.com was not able to make additional headway, and filed for bankruptcy in August 2001 (Flooz.com, 2001). See Figure 5.
Figure 5: A Dead-End Morph: Flooz.com's Recent "New" Home Page on the Internet
Final Thoughts: On the Efficacy of Morphing Strategies
How likely is it that morphing strategies will work out for Internet companies that do deliver some sort of unique value? Under the current conditions of economic slowdown, strategies that help New Economy firms to improve their core businesses are the most likely to pay off. This is typically the case for traditional firms in times of recession. Thus, the focus will need to be on profitability and return on investments, instead of growth and critical mass as before. In fact, among the many Internet companies that have yet to achieve critical mass in the marketplace, probably those that focus on niche markets are most likely to benefit from strategies that help the companies to redefine their core business, reduce the number of their total product or service offerings, and focus on their operational support. These strategies will help Internet firms to sharpen their value propositions and improve profitability. Once they begin to achieve profitability, Internet companies can try out other strategies that involve expansion. But unlike before, the market will force them to do so with more of a blueprint. For the market leaders, product and service expansion strategies are likely to be more viable. However, we still recommend caution in executing these plans since they are often expensive and risky, and senior management can exert little control over changes in the economy that would lead to more favorable conditions for profitability.
Finally, we want to point out the importance of time as a key aspect of whether morphing strategies will succeed or fail. As we pointed out earlier, many of the companies that we have reviewed did not have the luxury of time to see their strategies mature. The market simply was changing too fast around them to afford them the time to see whether some of the original strategies they selected and other strategies they chose along the way that didn't work out as planned (e.g., BlueLight.com) could have worked given enough time.
In this research, we conducted case studies of 125 Internet companies and categorized their strategic moves. Even though market expansion strategies, such as expanding product offerings and penetrating into the bricks-and-mortar world, are present in the strategic moves taken by the Internet companies in our sample, the general trend is a change in the generic characteristics that relate to the bottom line. The new emphasis is business profitability and ROI. No longer do we see any "blind" market expansion strategies similar to what we observed prior to the tech stock value shift in the stock market in March 2000. With the market turndown, shifting demand in the economy, and ever more difficult access to the capital markets, the Internet-focused firms have had to slow down their "cash burn" rates and focus on the long-term survivability of their businesses. In evaluating their strategic mutations, we have emphasized the critical role of obtaining sustainable competitive advantage. An Internet company should focus its efforts on strategies that it can use to distinguish itself from its competitors, such as delivering unique value to its customers and building a loyal customer base.
The contributions of our research are twofold. First, based on our results, academic researchers can better understand the different strategies Internet companies have taken to adapt to fiercer market competition and the economic slowdown. Second, business professionals, especially Internet firm executives, can use our process analysis to both externally evaluate and internally identify directions for strategic mutation and the strategies that can be employed.
Robert J. Kauffman is Co-Director, MIS Research Center, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His doctorate is from Carnegie Mellon University, and he has held faculty positions at New York University and the University of Rochester. His research interests center on senior management issues in IS, organizational strategy and technology, e-commerce, and IT in various services industry contexts. His articles on IS and e-commerce issues have appeared in leading academic journals, and he was recognized four times recently with best-of-conference awards (WITS 1999, AMCIS 2000, ICIS 2000) for his work on strategic pricing in e-commerce and IT infrastructure investment decisionmaking.
E-mail: rkauffman@csom.umn.edu
Tim Miller is president of Webmergers.com, a hub for buyers and sellers of technology properties. Webmergers.com provides information, analysis and buyer-seller matching services for acquirers and sellers of Web properties and maintains a database of more than 3,000 technology M&A transactions. Prior to establishing Webmergers in 1999, Tim Miller spent five years as President of New Media Resources, a consulting firm to interactive media startups. Before starting New Media Resources, Miller spent five years in corporate development at Ziff Communications Co., assisting senior management in acquisitions research, strategic planning and development of online products. Before that, Miller studied interactive services in a fellowship at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at the Columbia University in New York. Miller has written a number of articles on interactive media, serves on the program committee of the MIT/Stanford Venture Laboratory and has chaired several national conferences on Internet M&A topics.
E-mail: tmiller@webmergers.com
Bin Wang is a third year doctoral student in Information and Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. She has a Master of Science in Retail Management from Purdue University, and is a past graduate of Renmin University in Beijing, China. Her research interests focus on electronic commerce, the analysis of electronic marketplaces and the new business models of the Internet, and the applications of theory and methods from marketing science and economics. Her empirical study of the performance of MobShop.com's group-buying mechanism was recognized as "best paper" in the Economics and Electronic Commerce Mini-Track at the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science in Maui, Hawaii in January 2001. Her work also has appeared in the Journal of Management Information Systems. Her most recent publication is "Bid Together, Buy Together: On the Efficacy of Group-Buying Models in Internet-Based Selling," In: P.B. Lowry, J.O. Cherrington, and R.R. Watson (editors). Handbook of Electronic Commerce in Business and Society. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 2002.
E-mail: bwang@csom.umn.edu
We would like to thank Hui Peng, Eric Walden and the corporate participants of the MIS Research Center Seminar for their helpful comments and suggestions on prior versions of this paper. The involvement and support of Webmergers.com has also been an important asset to this work, for which the University of Minnesota authors are grateful to have obtained.
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2. By the same token, this is made all the harder in a very "green" market. Consider the case of digital entertainment companies that faced such a market for their products. They ran into difficulties because broadband telecommunication capabilities failed to materialize in the marketplace. Thus, we view this as an issue of timing: both market timing and the amount of time the company has to meaningfully penetrate its marketplace before running out of cash.
3. Total firm count exceeds 125 and percentages sum to more than 100 percent because some companies deployed multiple strategies, and hence, are counted two or more times.
4. Some companies deployed multiple strategies; as a result, five were counted in both the B2B and B2C categories.
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DARPA Wants to Turn Sea Life Into a Giant Submarine Detection Network
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DARPA is embarking on an undersea submarine detection system so weird it may just work. The Pentagon’s research and development arm wants to learn the behaviors of undersea animals including fish, shrimp, and microscopic phytoplankton so it can use them to detect manned and unmanned submarines passing by. Such a network would enhance the U.S. military’s ability to detect even the quietest submarines.
Traditionally there are two methods to detect submarines at sea: active and passive sonar. Active sonar broadcasts pulses of sound into the water. When the pulses bounce back to the sender, they can be studied to locate possible enemy submarines. While effective, broadcasting sound underwater reveals the location of the friendly ship or sub to those around it. Passive sonar involves detecting sonar broadcasts or other noises made by enemy ships. While much safer for the searching ship, if a submarine is quiet enough it can’t easily be detected.
DARPA is now looking at a process that, although similar to passive sonar, could be a third way of detecting underwater vessels. The Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) program seeks to use sea life, including black bass, goliath groupers, and snapping shrimp, as a living underwater sensor network. Goliath groupers, for example, make booming barking sounds that can be felt as well as heard. If a passing submarine disturbs a grouper, causing it to bark, that vocalization could be picked up by an underwater listening post no matter how quiet the submarine is.
DARPA describes PALS as a “a four-year fundamental research program requiring contributions in the areas of biology, chemistry, physics, machine learning, analytics, oceanography, mechanical and electrical engineering, and weak signals detection.” DARPA is currently currently funding five teams to study the problem.
One team, led by Raytheon, is studying the use of snapping shrimp as a possible underwater sensor. Snapping shrimp snap their claws at super-fast speeds, creating a high-pressure cavitation bubble. The collapse of this bubble creates a loud snapping noise powerful enough to stun prey. Snapping shrimp also use the snapping noise to communicate with other shrimp, and large colonies of shrimp can create a cacaphony of snapping noises. During World War II, U.S. Navy submarines used the din of snapping shrimp colonies to avoid detection entering Japanese harbors.
Raytheon’s team, led by research scientist Alison Laferriere, told Popular Mechanics “[Raytheon] is developing a novel system to detect manned or unmanned underwater vehicles in coastal waters that will leverage the sounds made by organisms found naturally in the environment. The system will use the loud, impulsive sounds produced by snapping shrimp as sources of opportunity in a multi-static sonar system—detecting reflections of those sounds off of the underwater vehicle. To enhance performance and versatility, the system will also listen to the underwater soundscape (i.e., the sounds produced by all animals in the environment), utilizing machine-learning algorithms to detect changes in these sounds caused by the intrusion of an underwater vehicle.”
Using sea life to detect submarines is a novel idea. While passive sonar relies on sound emitted from submarines, sea life such as goliath groupers and snapping shrimp might be disturbed by the underwater pressure wave from a passing submarine or from a large shadow passing over them. As a sensor network sea life is naturally self-sustaining. On an individual level snapping shrimp are self-repairing, regenerating lost claws to become part of the network once again. Unlike dolphins and seals that have military jobs, fish and shrimp wouldn’t need to be trained—they’re just naturally reacting to stimuli that just happen to be potentially hostile undersea vehicles. And a network of sea life would cost taxpayers nothing.
Of course, all of this relies on viable numbers of sea life to keep them useful. The goliath grouper, for example, might be a great submarine detector but it is also critically endangered in the Atlantic waters it calls home. (Snapping shrimp are a lot more ubiquitous.) In the near future, overfishing and climate change could affect the Pentagon’s ability to detect hostile submarines.
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I think we have done enough damage to marine life as it is
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Just 3 wild Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoos (Cacatua sulphurea parvula) remain on Nusa Penida island. And all are female. The remaining birds live in the temple area of Sedihing village, which has a long history with the cockatoos. The village leader explained that there have been cockatoos in their village since the temple, and remembers his great grandfather telling him that there were about 20 cockatoos when he was a child. No one knows why the bird numbers have declined. The villagers are extremely proud of the birds and protect them. The village is very remote so it is unlikely that an outsider took them.
FNPF is working to restore the cockatoo numbers on Nusa Penida. In mid 2009, FNPF rehabilitated and released a male with the Governor of Bali. This bird quickly adapted to the social behaviour of the 3 wild females.
In December 2010, FNPF released another male. This bird had been hand reared, so we knew there would be challenges for it to be accepted. The bird has little experience or understanding of the social behaviour of associating with the other wild Cockatoos, and because of its period with humans, will find it more difficult to adapt to a wild population.
By February 2011, the older male had paired with one of the females and chick was hatched. Meanwhile, the younger male was beginning to mix with the group, but also spent much of its time in the village, close to the people. (The villagers love the bird and have named him Bayu, after FNPF’s founder).
In March 2011 the villagers reported the sad news that the older male and the chick had been killed, one by a Sea Eagle, the other they suspect by a snake.
On a visit to Sedihing village in May 2011, FNPF staff noted that the young male had now become much more accepted by the 3 wild females. So we hope that it will pair with one of them.
During 2010, The World Parrot Trust provided funds for FNPF to do more intensive monitoring of the Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoo at Sedihing village. We are fortunate because the residents are so pleased that the birds stay in their village, and one of the village leaders, Made Yama, is willing to do the monitoring for FNPF.
FNPF is also seeking assistance to bring more Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoos from certified breeders and animal rescue centres to Nusa Penida to be rehabilitated and released. Please contact us if you would like to help.
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HomePress ReleaseSaxophonist and Musical Humorist Daniel Bennett Tours Los Angeles
Saxophonist and Musical Humorist Daniel Bennett Tours Los Angeles
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New York saxophonist Daniel Bennett has been hailed as one of the most original and unpredictable musical voices of his generation. Daniel Bennett can be heard throughout the world performing his award-winning compositions on saxophone, flute, clarinet, and oboe. The Daniel Bennett Group plays their Los Angeles CD release concerts at the Burbank Library (110 Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, CA) on July 9th (6:30pm) and the Montecito Library (1469 E Valley Rd, Montecito, CA) on July 10th (5:30pm). The band is promoting their newest album, ‘We Are the Orchestra’ (Manhattan Daylight Media). The album was inspired by Daniel Bennett’s musical theater arrangements for ‘Whitman at the Whitney’ at the Whitney Museum in New York City. The music is a provocative mix of jazz, avant-pop, and American folk music. The UK Jazz Journal gave the album five stars. Daniel Bennett will be joined by renowned guitarist Nat Janoff and master percussionist Koko Bermejo on drums. The band recently played album release concerts at the Blue Note (NYC) and Herb Alpert’s Vibrato (LA). The Boston Globe describes Bennett’s music as “a mix of jazz, folk, and minimalism.” The trio was recently voted “Best New Jazz Group” in New York City Hot House Magazine. The Daniel Bennett Group has been featured in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, NPR, Indianapolis Public Radio, San Francisco Examiner, Miami Herald, St. Louis Public Radio and the Village Voice. The Village Voice raves, “saxophonist Daniel Bennett makes hay with an airy approach that’s buoyant enough to conjure notions of East African guitar riffs and Steve Reich’s pastoral repetition.” Time Out New York describes the music as, “hypnotic.” Daniel Bennett studied saxophone at the prestigious New England Conservatory in Boston. During his time in Boston, Bennett performed regularly with the Portland Symphony and the New Hampshire Festival Orchestra. Bennett also toured Italy and Switzerland with renowned Boston jazz ensemble, Musaner. In addition to leading his own band, Daniel Bennett performs in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater productions in New York City. Daniel Bennett recently composed the musical score for stage adaptations of ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Brave Smiles’ at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Manhattan. Daniel Bennett currently plays woodwinds in ‘Blank! The Musical,’ the first fully improvised Off-Broadway musical to launch on a national stage. The New York Times calls the show, “Witty, Likable and Ludicrous!” Daniel Bennett’s theatrical works have strongly influenced his eclectic sound and musical storytelling abilities as a bandleader.
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The Eastern Theatre encompassing the snow-capped peaks of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh towards the North, the jungle clad hill tracts of Nagaland Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and Meghalaya in the North-East and the alluvial fertile plains of Assam and Bengal, is a veritable conglomeration of flora and fauna in all its imaginable diversities. This is not only the most enticing and enchanting part of our country displaying nature's bounty at its best but also boasts of a wide diversity of cultures woven together by the underlying thread of nationalism. The abundance of natural resources coupled with the gracious and warm nature of the inhabitants makes the region uniquely different.
Headquarters of Eastern Command, occupying Fort William, the former seat and symbol of authority of the British Empire has an unparalleled aura not experienced by any other formation. The historic structures and edifices in and around the Fort, narrate the tales of trials and triumphs of the British Army and the post Independence Indian Army. The history of the region is replete with stories of uncanny heroic deeds of valour and sacrifice since the days of yore. The close proximity to a number of neighboring countries add significance to its strategic geopolitical position and standing.
In sharp contrast to the seemingly placid atmosphere, Eastern Command has remained heavily committed in active operations since its inception. Formations and units of the Command bore the brunt during the Chinese aggression in 1962 and were again in the forefront in 1971 Indo-Pak War, which changed the course of history of the subcontinent and installed India as an unchallenged regional power.
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Fantastic beasts and where he found them: Frans Post in Brazil
A cache of lost drawings document the Dutch artist’s South American encounters
Sat, Sep 1, 2018, 05:00
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Frans Post: View of Olinda, Brazil, 1662. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Curious Creatures at the National Gallery of Ireland centres on a recently identified group of drawings that expand and enhance our understanding of the work and world of the 17th-century Dutch artist Frans Post (1612-1680). Post’s reputation rests on his being the first European artist to experience and paint the landscape of Brazil, then largely a Portuguese colony.
Towards the end of October 1636, just short of his 24th birthday, Post set sail for Brazil as part of an expedition comprising the flagship Zutphen and four escort vessels. Post’s elder brother, the highly regarded architect Pieter Post, had worked on the residence of the Count of Nassau-Siegen, Johan Maurits, in The Hague. Maurits had just been appointed governor-general of a substantial region, dominated by the province of Pernambuco, in northeast Brazil. The Dutch West India Company had seized the land in 1630, and Maurits was charged with consolidating the Dutch colony and boosting the productivity of its lucrative sugar plantations. Maurits brought with him scientists and artists (including Post and Albert Eckhout) to explore and document this vast terrain and its inhabitants. The presumption is that Pieter’s endorsement won Frans his berth on this adventure.
Working from his drawings made on the spot, Post was able to make paintings that accurately described that distant world
Post’s specific assignment was to make topographical studies of the main civil and military locations in the Dutch-controlled territories. He set to the task with great energy and evident enthusiasm, in landscapes that sometimes seem to verge on the naive but are always exceptionally immediate and alert with the wonder of discovery. His term in Brazil was tied to Maurits’s tenure, which came to an end just 7½ years later. Relations between Maurits, who loved Brazil, and the company were strained from the first. Conceivably, that might have been because he was a (relatively) tolerant governor, encouraging of minorities and in favour of co-existence rather than repressive domination. But the sugar trade was a cruel industry dependent on the brutality of slave labour, and Maurits was by no means a humanitarian when it came to slavery.
In 1637 he dispatched a punitive expedition to the African Gold Coast, clashed with the Portuguese there and initiated Dutch involvement in the slave trade. Shockingly, more than 20,000 people, mainly from Angola and Guinea, were enslaved and brought to Brazil during his tenure.
He returned to Holland heavily laden with the fruits of research and a vast store of artefacts and specimens. They formed his Brazilian cabinet of curiosities – “taxidermy specimens, musical instruments, weapons and shells” – at his home in The Hague. That home, the Mauritshuis, is now celebrated as the Royal Picture Gallery, home to a stunning art collection. About 25 years after Maurits’s death in 1679, a fire at the Mauritshuis destroyed most of his cabinet of curiosities, but in his lifetime he had sold or gifted much of his collection of art and artefacts around Europe.
Post, meanwhile, had returned to his home city, Haarlem, and established himself there as an artist. This was during a time that became known as the Dutch Golden Age, and the art market, while competitive, was thriving as never before, with a whole new class of buyers, far removed from the traditional royal or ecclesiastical patrons. With his Brazilian experience, and as the first European artist to paint the Brazilian landscape, Post found a market among those who had, like him, spent time in Brazil and returned home. After the Portuguese won back control of the notionally Dutch territory in 1654, there was a great influx of returning colonists. Working from his drawings made on the spot, Post was able to make paintings that accurately described that distant world and, as his reputation grew, paintings that were less accurate but satisfyingly exotic. Brazil remained his principle subject matter for the rest of his life.
Frans Post: Capybara. Courtesy Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem
Frans Post: South American Tapir. Courtesy Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem
Frans Post: Crab-Eating Fox. Courtesy Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem
Frans Post: Southern Tamandua, or Lesser Anteater. Courtesy Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem
Frans Post: Neon Flying Squid. Courtesy Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem
Many of his Brazilian paintings are distributed throughout European galleries, including the National Gallery of Ireland, which has a fine example, Brazilian Landscape with a Sugar Mill. A notable feature of this painting and other of his Brazilian works is the veritable menagerie of animals deployed across the foreground. A good example of the menagerie is evident in another fine painting on loan from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, for the exhibition.
View of Olinda, Brazil was painted in 1662. In it, worshippers congregate outside a church to the left, an example of the Portuguese architecture Post admired. To the right, a group of Africans are depicted in a similar gathering. A memory of, and/or a nod to Maurits’s reputation for tolerance? It was, after all, 18 years on from Post’s return from Brazil. Again in the foreground is a collection of exotic animals. The close proximity of monkey, sloth, armadillo et al is blatantly implausible, but each is rendered with scrupulous regard for individual accuracy.
View of Olinda is noted for its elaborately carved frame; as curator Niamh McNally notes, it is the only known surviving contemporary frame on a Post painting. Now it is reasonable to surmise that the virtuoso woodcarving of the frame, an intricate composition of tropical flora and fauna, was made with reference to Post’s own drawings, made during his time in Brazil. There had long been speculation about the existence of such drawings, given the numerous detailed, accurate depictions of animals in the paintings.
Frans Post: exhibition curator Niamh MacNally with the National Gallery’s own painting by the artist, Brazilian Landscape, 1660s. Photograph: Chris Bellew/Fennell
Then the missing link, the drawings themselves, were finally found and identified by the curator of Image Collections at the Noord-Hollands Archief in Haarlem, Dr Alexander de Bruin. In 2013, during the course of an inventory of drawings in the archive, he came upon a cache of unsigned, exotic animal studies of high quality, 34 in all. He instinctively felt that they could be Post’s original studies. His hunch was confirmed when he compared the drawings with the animals that appear in Post’s paintings, and indeed on the carved wood frame of View of Olinda.
This is the first time paintings by Post will be seen in company with the drawings that served as his sources. In addition, MacNally has borrowed a number of exhibits from the nearby Natural History Museum, redirecting our attention to the fabulous and unlikely menageries of creatures that Post encountered and documented so faithfully in Brazil.
Curious Creatures: Frans Post & Brazil, The Print Gallery, National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square and Clare Street, Dublin, September 8th to December 9th nationalgallery.ie
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Passengers arriving at Punta Raisi Airport will be greeted by a modern, well-equipped, single terminal building. The airport houses all the necessary amenities that a passenger will find useful, from banking facilities to superb shops, bars and restaurants.
Those passengers who need to go through customs will find this department in Check-In Area B, on the first floor of the terminal building. Customs is open every day between the hours of 05:30 and 18:00.
Banking facilities at Punta Raisi Airport include a bank counter, cash machines and the Bureau de Change. The Banca Nuova can be found on the second floor of the terminal in the Departures Area, and it is open from Monday to Friday between the hours of 08:30 and 13:45, and from 15:05 to 16:20. It is closed on bank holidays. Cash machines of Banca Nuova are also in the Departures Area. Other cash machines include the Credito Siciliano in the Check-In B area, Unicredit in the departure hall, and Postamat in Check-In Area B on the first floor. The Bureau de Change is situated in Check-In Area A, and is open every day, except for Sundays and bank holidays, between the hours of 07:00 and 21:00.
Besides banking facilities, Punta Raisi Airport has a pharmacy, postal services and a First Aid Medical Service. First aid, if necessary, is provided for by qualified doctors and nurses from Croce Rossa Italiana.
For entertainment, passengers will find many quaint and interesting shops to browse. The Pasticceria Palazzolo sells typical Sicilian sweets and cakes, and the Sicilia Arte in the Check-In B area has a range of other Sicilian objects and souvenirs.
Property that is lost at the airport is held for the first 48 hours at the office of KSM Security. This office can be found on the second floor of the terminal, nearby the security control area. After 48 hours, any property that has not yet been collected will be stored at the ‘lost property warehouse’. Both of these areas can be contacted telephonically. Staff will then explain how the legitimate owners can reclaim their belongings.
In the unfortunate case where luggage is lost, the passenger concerned will need to make enquiries at the lost and found office of their airline. You will need to show them your ticket receipt and the luggage ticket of the lost bag. The office will then provide you with a copy of the loss report and a claim code. Once the luggage is found it can be delivered to an address provided by yourself, or you may collect it directly from the airport. The lost and found office of your airline will also assist you in the case where your luggage has been damaged. A damage complaint form will need to be completed.
Punta Raisi Airport does not have any hotels located specifically on the airport site, but there are many in the surrounding area. The hotels in the area often pick passengers up from the airport as well. This service should be arranged with the hotel providing your accommodation.
To leave Punta Raisi Airport, there are various transportation options. There are buses that travel every half hour to the Central train station, as well as, at less regular intervals, to other areas. Every hour there is also a train that runs from the airport train station to the Central train station. Of course, at a slightly higher price, there are many taxis available outside the Arrivals area. There are also plenty of reputable car hire services which have their counters on the first floor in the Arrivals Hall.
Passengers arriving at Punta Raisi Airport can expect a warm Mediterranean climate. The hottest months of the year are July, August and September, while the heaviest rainfall occurs during October, November and December. However, all year round, Palermo experiences moderate to warm temperatures. For more information on tourist attractions, passengers can make enquiries at the Tourist Information Office situated on the ground floor of the terminal building.
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AnatomyNeuroanatomyCerebellum and brainstem
Cerebellum Gross Anatomy
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There are over 206 bones in the human body that are interconnected by a myriad of ligaments. They provide support for over 650 skeletal muscles that facilitate the process of locomotion. While these skeletal muscles are mostly under the influence of the somatic nervous system, there are involuntary impulses that help in the maintenance of muscle tone, balance and posture.
These impulses are generated and regulated at the level of the cerebellum. In addition to the aforementioned tasks, the cerebellum is also responsible for the coordination of volitional activities such as the acrobatics performed while rushing to get dressed at 7:59 am for that 8:00 am anatomy class.
This article will be centred on the general structure and organization of the cerebellum and its blood supply.
Key facts about the cerebellum
Location Posterior cranial fossa
Superior: tentorium cerebelli, great cerebral vein, lingual gyrus
Anterior: brainstem, medullary vela, cerebral aqueduct, corpora quadrigemini, posterior cerebellomedullary cistern, foramen of Magendie, medulla oblongata, foramen magnum
Posterior & lateral: occipital bone, sigmoid sinus, occipital sinus, confluence of sinuses
Fissures Horizontal, posterolateral, postlunate, primary, retrotonsillar fissures
Lobes Anterior, posterior, flocculonodular lobes
Lobules
Central vermal: Lingula, Central, Culmen, Declive, Folium, Tuber, Pyramid, Uvula, Nodule ('Loving Caring Children Donate Food To Poor Unfed Needy')
Horizontal: quadrangular, simple, superior semilunar, inferior semilunar, biventer, cerebellar tonsils
Blood Supply Superior cerebellar, anterior inferior cerebellar, posterior inferior cerebellar arteries
Origin & Location
Posterior & Lateral
Lobes
Central Vermal Lobules
Horizontal Lobules
Cerebellar Peduncles
The cerebellum arises from the rhombencephalon or hindbrain. More specifically, it arises from the rhombic lips or alar plates (dorsal thickening of the neural tube that forms the sensory areas of the nervous system) of the metencephalon (spans between the pontine flexure and the rhombencephalic isthmus).
It is an ovoid structure that resides in the posterior cranial fossa, inferior to the tentorium cerebelli. It has an outer grey matter cortex and white matter internally.
As previously mentioned, the cerebellum is located in the posterior cranial fossa, inferior to the tentorium cerebelli. The great cerebral vein of Galen is located anterosuperior to the cerebellum. It continues into the straight sinus (in the midline of the tentorium cerebelli), which has a direct superior relation to the cerebellum. The lingual gyrus of the occipital lobe is also superior to the cerebellum.
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Anterior and superior views of the cerebellum.
There are several relevant anterior relations to the cerebellum. These include the brainstem, and superior and inferior medullary vela (s. velum), which covers the fourth ventricle. The distal end of the cerebral aqueduct of Sylvius, and the corpora quadrigemini and its respective cistern is anterosuperior with respect to the cerebellum
The posterior cerebellomedullary cistern, the foramen of Magendie, medulla oblongata and the foramen magnum are all located anteroinferiorly. It should also be noted that like the rest of the brain, the cerebellum is bathed in cerebrospinal fluid that enter the cisterns from the aforementioned foramen of Magendie and foramina of Luschka.
Posterior and lateral to the cerebellum are the occipital bone and its overlying layer of dura mater. The sigmoid sinuses are also found inferiorly, and the occipital sinus (if present) and the confluence of sinuses are both posteriorly related.
When viewed from the superior (tentorial) surface, it is easy to appreciate that the cerebellum has a central, vertically protruding structure that runs anteroposteriorly known as the superior vermis. The superior vermis commences at the anterior cerebellar notch, and then curves 180 degrees at the posterior cerebellar notch. It continues along the midline of the inferior (occipital) surface as the inferior vermis. Bilateral to the vermis (both superior and inferior) are the cerebellar hemispheres.
Overview of the cerebellum
There are several horizontal grooves along both surfaces of the cerebellum that give it a stratified appearance. However, some are more prominent than others and provide ideal demarcations for the lobes and lobules. One such groove is the horizontal fissure, which arcs around the cerebellum along its lateral and posterior margins to the point of the posterolateral fissure (inferior to the flocculonodular lobe).
Additionally, there is the postlunate fissure that arcs from left to right across the tentorial cerebellar surface. This is posterior to the primary fissure that forms the main demarcation between the anterior and posterior lobes. Both the primary and postlunate fissures continue along the inferior surface of the cerebellum. Finally, there is a retrotonsillar fissure that grooves behind each cerebellar tonsil.
There are three main lobes, nine lobules along the vermis, and five hemispheric lobules. The anterior lobe extends from the level of the cerebellar peduncles anteriorly and includes the anterior two-thirds of the superior vermis, along with the anterior third of each hemisphere. This lobe terminates at the primary fissure.
From this point posteriorly and laterally and continuing along the inferior surface to the posterolateral fissure is the larger posterior lobe. The smallest of the lobes is the flocculonodular lobe. It is a flattened lobe that lies between the posterolateral fissure (inferiorly) and the inferior medullary velum and the cerebellar peduncles (superiorly).
The vermal lobules are assigned Roman Numerals I – X. They can be better appreciated when the cerebellum is divided along the midline of the vermis. In this section, the cerebellum has a cauliflower appearance and the lobules are numbered in a clockwise manner, with the apex of the first lobule at the 10:00 position. The lobules can be better remembered with the aid of the following mnemonic: “Loving Caring Children Donate Food To Poor Unfed Needy”.
L – Lingula (I) [10:00]
C – Central lobule (II & III)
C – Culmen (IV & V) [11:00 – 1:00]
D – Declive (VI) [2:00]
F – Folium (VII A) [3:00]
T – Tuber (VII B) [4:00]
P – Pyramid (VIII) [5:00]
U – Uvula (IX) [7:00]
N – Nodule (X) [9:00]
Lobules I – V are a part of the anterior lobe along the superior vermis. Lobules VI – VII A are also along the superior vermis, but in the posterior lobe. Lobules VII B – IX are also in the posterior lobe but on the inferior vermis. Lobule X is on the inferior vermis, but is a part of the flocculonodular lobe. The entire vermis gains its afferents from the spinocerebellar tracts and sends its information to the fastigial nucleus.
In addition to the central vermal lobules, there are horizontal lobules that are also assigned Roman Numerals, but with the letter “H” before it, denoting it is a part of the hemispheres.
Quadrangular lobule (H IV – V) - It is located anterior to the primary fissure.
Simple lobule (H VI) - It is situated between the primary and the postlunate fissures.
Superior semilunar lobule (H VII A) - The region runs from the postlunate fissure to the horizontal fissure.
Inferior semilunar lobule (H VII B) - It continues from the horizontal fissure to the postlunate fissure on the inferior surface of the cerebellum.
Biventer lobule (H VIII) - Its border is formed by the retrotonsillar fissure (anteriorly) and the postlunate fissure on the inferior surface (posteriorly).
Cerebellar tonsils - They are a characteristic feature of the inferior surface of the posterior lobe. They are triangular structures that border the distal inferior vermis.
There are three foot processes that not only anchor the cerebellum to the brainstem, but also provide a pathway for neuronal tracts to travel to and from the cerebellum. These structures are the superior, middle and inferior cerebellar peduncles. The connections between the cerebellum and the respective parts of the brainstem are given below:
to midbrain: superior cerebellar peduncles
to pons: middle cerebellar peduncles
to medulla: inferior cerebellar peduncles
The superior cerebellar peduncle provides a pathway for nerve fibers of the cerebellar nuclei to leave for their destination in the thalamus and for the fastigial fibers to send information to the vestibular nuclei. Additionally, impulses enter the cerebellum by this pathway from the ventral spinocerebellar tract (proprioception), trigeminal nucleus and the locus coeruleus.
The middle cerebellar peduncle provides a pathway for afferent pontocerebellar fibers to enter the neocerebellum (bilateral to the paravermal zone, which is bilateral to the vermal zone).
Thirdly, the inferior cerebellar peduncle carries afferent and efferent fibers by two pathways. The first, which carries dorsal spinocerebellar, olivocerebellar and cuneocerebellar fibers, is the restiform body that carries only afferent fibers. The second is the juxtarestiform body that carries both afferent (vestibulocerebellar) and efferent (cerebellovestibular) fibers.
The vertebrobasilar system arises from the first part of the subclavian arteries and travels cranially through the transverse foramina of the upper six cervical vertebrae. The left and right vertebral arteries unite after they enter the cranial vault through the foramen magnum at the pontomedullary junction. Here it forms the basilar artery.
Three main branches provide vascular supply to the cerebellum, two of which arise from the basilar component of the system and one arises from each vertebral branch of the system.
The first branch from the basilar artery is the superior cerebellar artery. It arises bilaterally and inferior to CN III. It provides perfusion for the superior cerebellar region along with the superior medullary velum, pineal gland and pons.
The anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) arises inferior to CN VI at the pontomedullary junction at the proximal part of the basilar artery. It then courses posterolateral to supply the inferior and anterior cerebellar regions.
Thirdly, a posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) arises from each vertebral artery, just superior to the rootlet of CN XI. It provides arterial blood to the cerebellar nuclei and its inferior surface (including the vermis).
The cerebellum is a structure that arises from the rhombencephalon or hindbrain. It is located in the posterior cranial fossa inferior to the tentorium cerebelli.
It has a superior (tentorial) surface that houses the superior vermis and an inferior (occipital) surface for the inferior vermis.
There are several horizontal grooves along both surfaces of the cerebellum that give it a stratified appearance. The most prominent ones are the horizontal, posterolateral, postlunate, primary and retrotonsillar fissures. These fissures divide the cerebellum into three main lobes, which are the anterior, posterior and flocculonodular lobes.
In addition to the lobes, the cerebellar hemispheres consist of lobules. There are nine central vermal ones six horizontal ones.
The cerebellum is connected to the brainstem via three cerebellar peduncles (superior, middle and inferior). In addition to providing anchorage, these peduncles allow afferent and efferent nerve fibers and tracts to enter and leave the cerebellum.
The blood supply to the cerebellum is via three main branches of the basilar artery. These are the superior cerebellar, anterior inferior cerebellar and posterior inferior cerebellar arteries.
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Hansen, J., Koeppen, B., Netter, F., Craig, J. and Perkins, J. (2002). Atlas of Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology. Teterboro, N.J.: Icon Custom Communication, pp.11, 12, 14, 16.
Netter, F. (2014). Atlas of Human Anatomy. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders: Elsevier, pp.105, 107, 110, 114.
Snell, R. (2010). Clinical Neuroanatomy. 7th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, pp.431-433, 475-477.
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Charges filed in killing of St. Louis-area police officer
by: JIM SALTER, Associated Press
In this Nov. 17, 2003 photo, St. Louis Police officer Michael Langsdorf comforts a little girl who had just been dropped by her father from the third floor roof of a house after the house caught on fire in St. Louis. Langsdorf, a police officer responding to a bad check complaint at a food market, was shot and killed Sunday, June 23, 2019, near St. Louis. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man with a violent criminal history in North Carolina was charged Monday in the shooting death of a Missouri police officer, the immediate aftermath of which was livestreamed on Facebook.
Officer Michael Langsdorf of the North County Police Cooperative was killed Sunday afternoon in the St. Louis suburb of Wellston after responding to a call about someone trying to pass a bad check at a small market. Langsdorf was a 40-year-old father of two.
Bonette Kymbrelle Meeks, 26, was charged Monday with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, unlawful possession of a firearm and resisting arrest. Meeks is jailed without bond and does not yet have a listed attorney.
Assistant Police Chief Ron Martin said at a news conference that Meeks was unknown to his department but had several convictions in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area. He didn’t elaborate but said Meeks had an “extensive, extensive criminal history, and violent.”
Live video of the moments after the attack, showing the officer bleeding, was posted on Facebook by Kashina Harper, 34, a clerk at Clay’s Wellston Food Market Restaurant in the town of Wellston, where the fatal confrontation occurred. She apologized Monday, telling the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she doesn’t know why she did it.
“I regret it,” Harper said through tears. “I didn’t know the officer was going to die.”
Harper said she only began taking video of the officer on the ground after she called for help, using the radio near his belt.
Harper told the newspaper she has received death threats. Comments on her Facebook page on Monday were a mix of people angry with her and people defending her.
Martin said police acted to have the video removed, but declined to say if Harper took it down or if Facebook did. Phone calls seeking comment from Harper went unanswered.
The Post-Dispatch briefly provided a link to the video on its website, STLtoday.com, before deleting the link. The newspaper said Monday that posting the link was “bad news judgment,” and apologized to readers for doing so.
Martin fought back tears Monday as he discussed Langsdorf, his friend of two decades — the two of them previously worked together with the St. Louis Police Department. Martin was surrounded by more than a dozen police leaders from other jurisdictions, all wearing a black band over their badges.
“There is no such thing as a routine call,” Martin said. “This is the danger that police officers in this community face every day.”
It started out as a routine call Sunday about a man trying to pass a bad check.
Martin said video surveillance showed that Meeks, the man suspected of passing the check, and Langsdorf began to struggle near the counter. During the struggle Meeks pulled a gun from his waistband and shot the officer in the side of the head, leaving him dazed, Martin said.
Meeks was able to stand up and shot Langsdorf again, this time in the back of the neck, Martin said. The bullet went into the officer’s spinal cord and came out the front of the chest. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Meeks ran from the store with the gun and was captured a short time later, Martin said. The gun had not been reported stolen but police were still trying to determine how Meeks, a convicted felon, obtained it.
Langsdorf spent 17 years with St. Louis police before joining the cooperative just three months ago. The cooperative provides police service for seven communities in north St. Louis County.
The region’s tight-knit police community took the shooting hard. Officers lined up Sunday night and saluted as Langsdorf’s body was driven from Barnes-Jewish Hospital. St. Louis police said on Twitter that the loss of a police officer “breaks the hearts of first responders across the country. We pray for the family, friends, & colleagues of Officer Michael Langsdorf.”
Republican Gov. Mike Parson said on Twitter that Langsdorf died while “bravely carrying out his oath to serve.”
North County Police Cooperative Chief John Buchanan said Langsdorf, though with the department only a brief time, was a mentor to younger officers.
“When I first met him he said to me several times, ‘All I want to do is be a police officer and do police work,'” Buchanan said.
The Officer Down Memorial Page website, which tracks officer deaths across the country, said Langsdorf was the 59th police officer to die in the line of duty this year.
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Deutsche Bank employs about 2,000 people in Jacksonville at an office building and a campus along Gate Parkway.
Deutsche Bank cutting back in the U.S.
German bank shedding workers, but hasn’t said if any are in Jacksonville.
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Deutsche Bank has been a big economic win for Jacksonville over the past decade, growing into one of the city’s largest employers with about 2,000 jobs.
However, while the previous CEO touted Deutsche Bank’s growth in Jacksonville, new Chief Executive Christian Sewing last week announced intentions to cut back the German bank’s U.S. activities.
The company would not comment on how Sewing’s plan could impact Jacksonville, which is Deutsche Bank’s second-largest operations center after New York.
Bloomberg News, citing an unnamed source, reported Deutsche Bank fired 400 of its 10,300 U.S. workers last week and the cuts could eventually reach 1,000. It did not say which cities were impacted by the cuts.
Previous CEO John Cryan, on a visit to the offices in August 2016, said he expected continued growth in the Jacksonville operations, which opened in 2008.
However, Cryan was fired three weeks ago after three straight years of losses for Deutsche Bank on his watch, with Sewing promoted to replace him.
In a statement issued Thursday, Sewing said Deutsche Bank will need to cut costs to improve its finances.
“These cutbacks will be painful, but they are unfortunately unavoidable if we want to be sustainably profitable in the best interests of our bank, our clients and our investors,” he said.
Among the changes will be a bigger focus on Europe in the bank’s corporate finance division.
“We will reduce our commitment to sectors in the U.S. and Asia in which cross-border activity is limited,” he said.
Deutsche Bank also will reduce its U.S. securities business, he said.
“Given our results and our share price, it is our imperative to take tough decisions and ensure we implement them in a disciplined way,” Sewing said.
Landstar indicators are pointing up
Landstar System Inc., as expected, reported a big increase in first-quarter earnings.
The Jacksonville-based trucking company Wednesday reported earnings of $1.37 a share, up from 77 cents in the first quarter of 2017, with revenue jumping 35 percent to $1.048 billion.
The big increases were no surprise because Landstar updated its forecast for the quarter four weeks ago.
“Our 2018 first quarter financial performance was by far the best first quarter performance in Landstar history,” CEO Jim Gattoni said in the company’s conference call.
“In our view, the overall environment for Landstar is as strong as it has been in any point over the last two decades and Landstar is firing on all cylinders.”
Landstar is forecasting second-quarter earnings of $1.48 to $1.54 a share, up from 89 cents the previous year. Revenue is forecast between $1.115 billion to $1.165 billion.
Gattoni said Landstar is on track to pass $4 billion in revenue this year for the first time in its 30-year history. Revenue was about $3.6 billion last year.
Patriot reports loss amid rising revenue
Jacksonville’s other publicly traded trucking company, Patriot Transportation Holding Inc., reported a net loss of $188,000, or 6 cents a share, for its second quarter ended March 31.
Total revenue rose 2.1 percent to $28 million but excluding fuel surcharges passed on to customers, transportation revenue fell 1.2 percent to $25.4 million.
“Management is not pleased with the financial results from our business. We will continue to make the necessary improvements to our plan to improve bottom line results,” CEO Robert Sandlin said in Patriot’s conference call.
Patriot’s main business is transporting fuel products. Second-quarter results were impacted by insurance costs for two environmental spills, as well as increases in health insurance expenses.
Compensation costs also rose as Patriot, like other trucking companies, had to increase pay to deal with driver shortages.
“We continue to see high driver turnover, poor applicant flow and lower quality of applicants and we anticipate this challenge to continue for the foreseeable future,” Sandlin said.
Landstar operates differently from trucking companies like Patriot. Instead of employing drivers, Landstar contracts with drivers who own their own trucks to haul freight.
However, Gattoni acknowledged the driver shortage problem in Landstar’s conference call.
“You can bring all the trucks you want but with unemployment about 4 percent, where do the drivers come from?” he said.
So far, the driver issues are not affecting Landstar’s business, he said.
Ceridian IPO jumps at opening
Ceridian HCM Holding Inc. had a very successful initial public offering last week.
After saying it wanted to sell 21 million shares at $19 to $21 each, the human resources technology company’s stock offering was priced at $22. And when trading began Thursday on the New York stock exchange, the price jumped as high as $31.75.
Cannae Holdings Inc., the investment firm spun off from Fidelity National Financial, is a partner in Ceridian and will continue to own about 27 percent of the stock after the IPO, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
Ceridian trades under the ticker “CDAY.”
St. Joe reports operating loss
The St. Joe Co. reported first-quarter earnings of $700,000, or 1 cent a share, helped by investment gains.
However, excluding special items, the real estate development company had an operating loss of about $500,000 in the quarter.
Revenue rose by 47 percent to $19.9 million in the quarter.
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Dealing with Product Liability Down Under
Thomas DeMicco
[co-author: Bettina Sorbello]
Up to now, we have written about many different topics on this site that focus on how product liability issues are litigated in the United States. Through a collaborative effort with our friends at the Australia-based law firm DibbsBarker, we offer the first in a series of blog posts and articles about product liability and the management of litigation in Australia and how it differs from the way things are done in the United States.
A person who suffers injury or property damage from a product has the right to sue the manufacturer, designer or seller of that product, similar to the right of an injured party in the United States. While the Australian legal system shares many similarities with the U.S. legal system, the way in which product liability claims are resolved in Australia, in some respects, is very different from how product liability cases are handled in the U.S. courts.
The basic structure of the Australian Legal Courts System and the product liability laws in Australia are similar to the U.S. system, since product liability lawsuits are litigated in both the state and federal court systems.
Australia is a federation of state governments similar to the United States. In addition, Australia’s constitution establishes the federal system of government where powers are shared between the federal government (the Commonwealth) and the states and territories. The constitution provides the basis for law-making powers between the Commonwealth and states/territories. The head of state is the Governor General (the Queen’s representative in Australia) and parliament comprises two houses (the Senate and House of Representatives). Legislation relevant to product liability can be passed in both the federal and state jurisdictions, and the legal system is based on English Common Law. Australia has both a federal court system with each state and territory having its own, separate court hierarchy.
Product liability litigation is usually commenced in either the Federal Court of Australia or the District or Supreme Court in the relevant state. In the United States, a product liability lawsuit can only be commenced in a federal court if diversity of citizenship subject matter exists in the case – meaning the litigants are citizens of different states and the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000. In Australia, there is no such requirement for commencing the action in the federal court system. It is entirely up to the plaintiff where the action is filed – state or federal court. Also, product liability trials are generally heard only by a judge, although there are some circumstances in some state jurisdictions that allow some matters to be heard by a jury. If the matter is heard in the federal court, then it will be presided over by a judge only.
In Australia, the plaintiff’s theory of liability, or basis for the law suit, is referred to as a “cause of action,” as it is in the United States. A defendant’s liability for a product defect that causes an injury typically arises under one or more of the following theories of liability:
(a) Negligence
Common law negligence in Australia has been modified by tort reform by separate state legislation, which now provides that in order to establish negligence under a state’s civil liability legislation, a plaintiff in an action must prove that the defendant:
Owed the plaintiff a duty of care
Breached that duty of care
Caused the damage alleged by the plaintiff.
The Australian court will look at various issues to determine whether a defendant owed a duty to a plaintiff to determine:
Whether the risk was foreseeable
Whether the risk was not insignificant
If a reasonable person in the defendant’s position would have taken those precautions.
In a product liability context, this could involve a product manufacturer’s breach of a duty of care to consumers by failing to take appropriate steps to minimize the risk of personal injury or property damage caused by a defective or unsafe product.
There are a number of defenses to a common law negligence action, including:
Contributory negligence
Voluntary assumption of risk (for which definitions of obvious risk under the various pieces of legislation assist in proving that a defendant is not liable for harm suffered as a result of a plaintiff undertaking a dangerous recreational activity).
Damages that flow from a negligence action involve compensatory and non-compensatory damages. Personal injury damages have been modified by legislation in both the federal and state regimes. Such modifications include caps on past economic loss, injury scales for damages relating to pain and suffering, and thresholds for care. In the majority of Australian jurisdictions, punitive and exemplary damages are not available as a remedy in personal injury cases and are only rarely awarded in property damage cases.
(b) Breach of contract
Breach of contract could involve a contract for the supply of a particular product with conditions that the product meet certain standards, or make specific representations about the product, and provide for liability to be addressed in a specific way. Unlike in the United States, in Australia you can combine a cause of action seeking breach of contract and a breach of tortious duty in a personal injury action.
(c) Failure to comply with relevant sections of the Australian Consumer Law
The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) is found in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), which was previously the Trade Practices Act.
This legislation applies to all states and territories in Australia and establishes a “no fault regime” of strict liability for product liability. It provides a level of cohesion and consistency to both consumers and businesses/manufacturers regardless of where an action may arise within Australia.
The ACL has two main purposes:
To outline the various obligations that manufacturers and suppliers of goods have in relation to marketing, advertising, product safety, quality guarantees and product liability
To detail the causes of action that regulators, consumers and competitors have against manufacturers and suppliers when their conduct contravenes the legislation.
The ACL has a wider impact on manufacturers and suppliers in a number of areas, including:
Misleading or deceptive conduct or conduct that is likely to mislead or deceive
Unconscionable conduct
Unfair contract terms
Prohibiting false representations relating to the supply of goods
Liability for implied statutory guarantees in the supply of goods
Safety standards, bans, recalls, safety warning notices and notification obligations (including a notification period of just two days for a potential safety issue)
Liability for defective goods
Requirements for recall of products.
The last cause of action or theory of liability that can serve as a basis for a lawsuit against a seller or manufacturer of a product in Australia relates to a loss or damage suffered by a person as a result of a defective good. This includes actions against manufacturers where loss or damage was suffered as a result of:
Injuries sustained because of defective goods
Another individual sustaining injuries because of defective goods
Another good being destroyed or damaged because of defective goods
Land, a building or a fixture being destroyed or damaged because of defective goods.
Thus, defendants in Australian product liability litigation face a broader range of allegations than companies that are sued in the United States.
Our future posts will provide some insight into the different ways companies and their insurers can defend themselves in Australian product liability litigation. We invite our readers to submit their thoughts, questions or comments.
Contributing author Bettina Sorbello is an associate with the law firm DibbsBarker in Brisbane, Australia.
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Sterling Police Department investigates damaged…
Sterling Police Department investigates damaged vehicles
PUBLISHED: September 7, 2018 at 9:45 pm | UPDATED: May 8, 2019 at 12:55 pm
At 5:10 p.m. Duztin Ray Spelts, 29, of Sterling, was arrested in the 400 block of Main St. on three warrants out of Morgan County for failure to comply.
At 3:14 p.m. Ernesto Manuel Tolentino, 36, of Julesburg, was arrested in the 300 block of S. Third Ave. on a warrant out of Sterling Police Department for failure to appear.
At 11:29 a.m. police responded to the 200 block of Villa Vista St. for a report of theft. An Animas Vibe insulin pump, valued at $7,150, was stolen, and a door hinge and lock for storage shed was damaged.
At 12:41 a.m. police responded to Dominos, 1010 W. Main St., for a report of vandalism/damage to property. Two 5-foot by 6-foot windows, valued at $1600, were damaged.
At 10:50 p.m. Joseph M. Gallagher, 37, of Sterling, was issued a state summons at SPD for criminal mischief and theft.
At 10:58 p.m. Shelly Lynn Germany, 56, of Sterling, was arrested at SPD on a charge of violation of a protection order.
At 2:30 p.m. Zachary Robert Bishop, 24, of Goodland, Kan., while in the Logan County Jail, was served a warrant out of SPD for third degree assault, child abuse and domestic violence. Aug. 4
At 2:20 p.m. Kurt Douglas Dittler, 47, of Sterling, while at Logan County Jail, was issued a municipal summons for theft.
At 9:31 p.m. Julian Isaac Morales, 37, of Sterling, was arrested in the 400 block of Chestnut St. on a charge of violation of a protection order.
At 5:08 p.m. police responded to a report of theft. Approximately $153.45 was taken out of a debit account.
At 11:23 p.m. Brittany Shea Shurden, 28, of Sterling, was arrested in the 1100 block of N. Eighth St. on a warrant out of SPD for failure to appear.
At 9:29 a.m. police responded to the 400 block of Chestnut St. for a report of vandalism/damage to property. There was damage to the driver door of a 2012 Jeep Wrangler.
At 8:25 a.m. police responded to Mikes Storage, 802 S. 11th Ave., for a report of theft. A Connect Travel Trailer bumper pull, valued at $30,000, was stolen.
At 7:14 a.m. Kurt Douglas Dittler, 47, of Sterling, was arrested in the 1100 block of Kings Ct. on a warrant out of SPD for violation/revocation of bail bond and violation of a protection order.
At 3:17 p.m. Trevor Lee Austin Sauter, 24, of Fort Collins, was arrested in the 300 block of Delaware St. on a warrant out of Fort Collins for failure to comply and a warrant out of SPD for first degree burglary, assault in the third degree, harassment and domestic violence.
At 6:15 p.m. Ronald Andrew Decker, 56, of Sterling, was issued a municipal summons on Kochia Way for theft and trespassing.
At 7:44 p.m. police responded to the 500 block of Park St. for a report of vandalism/damage to property. The paint on the driver’s door of a 2010 Ford F150XLT was chipped and weather strip damaged; the passenger door of a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado had chipped paint and damaged weather strip; and the roof of a 2004 Audi Sedan had scratches near the back passenger door.
At 4:36 p.m. police responded to the overpass at 100 E. Chestnut St. for a report of theft. The driver side window of a 2016 Chrysler 200 was broken out, a pink Aldo purse containing $200 in cash, Omeprazole, a passport, driver’s license, checkbook and credit cards, valued at $340; a makeup bag containing miscellaneous makeup, valued at $250; and a brown and camo koala bag containing a checkbook and driver’s license, valued at $90, was stolen from the vehicle.
At 2:56 a.m. police responded to the 1100 block of Nottingham Ct. for a report of vandalism/damage to property. A windshield, rear car window and rear driver window was broken and two battery cables were cut.
At 7:20 p.m. police responded to Wal-Mart, 1510 W. Main St., for a report of theft. Unknown items in a shopping cart were stolen.
At 3:27 p.m. police responded to Applewood Mini Storage, 222 Hays Ave., for a report of theft. Miscellaneous items including clothing, books, pictures, toys, CDs and movies, two X-Box 360s, 500gb hard drive, valued at $360, and a metal coffee table with glass top, valued at $150, were stolen.
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French Jewish woman’s killer found unfit to stand trial in 2nd evaluation
The president of the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities protested the court’s decision.
A French Police Officer. (photo credit: BEN PRUCHNIE/GETTY IMAGES)
(JTA) — The suspect in the alleged murder of a Jewish physician in Paris was not responsible for his actions, a second psychiatric evaluation determined.
The president of the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities protested the court’s decision to revisit the issue of suitability to stand trial of Kobili Traore, which the court pursued on its own initiative and not at the request of his defense.
In January, Traore was determined to be fit to stand trial. He was placed in a psychiatric hospital for weeks after his arrest in the April 2017 killing of Sarah Halimi despite having no history of mental illness.
But a judge requested a second series of tests, which determined that the Malian immigrant was not able to stand trial, 20 Minutes reported Wednesday.
“We do not understand the determination and procrastination that consistently seeks to turn this killer into a demented person, when he is a murderer whose presumed detention doesn’t even hide his hateful anti-Semitism,” CRIF’s Francis Kalifat wrote.
A third evaluation will follow before the court finally reaches a decision.
Traore, 28, is accused of torturing and killing Halimi while shouting about Allah and subsequently throwing her off the balcony of her Paris apartment.
An aggravated element of a hate crime was added to Traore’s indictment following vocal protests by CRIF, which said that the omission of such charges may have part of a “cover up” by French authorities.
Witnesses said Traore called Halimi a “demon” as he was pummeling her. Halimi’s daughter said following the murder that Traore called her, the daughter, a “dirty Jewess” two years before the killing when they passed each other in the building.
Argentina’s nat. library opens first section on Holocaust and antisemitism
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Bankruptcy law allows debtors, who are unable or partially unable to pay outstanding debts, to rid themselves of these debts and obtain a fresh start. Both federal and state laws can affect a debtor seeking to file for bankruptcy, and an attorney can help you understand how state and federal bankruptcy laws apply to you.
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Bankruptcy lawyers offer legal advice and services during a financial crisis. In total, there are six different types of bankruptcy. For persons seeking debt relief, one option is Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which provides for liquidation of the debtor's non-exempt assets. Another popular option for individuals is Chapter 13, which allows for management and reduction of debt through payment plans. Corporations and partnerships filing for bankruptcy often choose to file under Chapter 11, which provides for supervised reorganization of the business.
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Mr. White serves as General Counsel of KDP. Mr. White plays a significant leadership role in guiding KDP and its affiliated partnerships through many complex transactions, including all facets of development of KDP’s projects ranging from formation of partnerships and other forms of equity participations and development vehicles, to site acquisition, financing, construction, leasing and asset disposition. He also spearheads the development of standard operating procedures for handling the legal aspects of the various real estate and business transactions on behalf of KDP and its affiliated partnerships.
Prior to co-founding KDP, Mr. White previously served on the executive leadership team of NRG as its General Counsel and as a partner. Prior to his time with NRG, Mr. White was a partner in the real estate practice group of Jackson Walker L.L.P. In addition to his contributions to KDP and its affiliated partnerships, Mr. White has distinguished himself outside of the confines of the office. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Dallas Bar Association (Real Property Section), the Dallas Association of Young Layers, and The Real Estate Council (TREC), and is a past member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). Mr. White was also a member of TREC’s 2006-2007 Associate Leadership Council class, NAIOP’s 2008-2009 Developing Leaders program, and the Leadership Dallas Class of 2012. Mr. White was also named a “Texas Super Lawyer – Rising Star” by Texas Monthly magazine in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013, an honor given to fewer than 3% of the lawyers in Texas under the age of 40.
Mr. White is also actively involved in serving the community. His civic and charitable activities include: Hearts & Hammers; Communities in Schools – Dallas Region; Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas; Habitat for Humanity; and Junior Achievement. Mr. White has also volunteered his time as an attorney ad litem in the Dallas Urban Land Bank Program, a cooperative effort among numerous stakeholders in the City of Dallas to convert vacant and abandoned lots in blighted neighborhoods into viable and affordable housing for residents. In addition, Mr. White has previously provided pro bono services for various community development organizations such as Builders of Hope CDC. Mr. White previously served on the Board of Directors of Downtown Dallas Inc., the leading advocate for the businesses, residents, employees, visitors, and cultural entertainment and educational institutions of Downtown Dallas. Mr. White holds a Juris Doctorate from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
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These are the staggering numbers behind Florence's wrath
<p>Mike Pollack searches for a drain in the yard of his flooded waterfront home a day after Hurricane Florence hit the area, on September 15, 2018 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least six deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. </p>
This nightmare called Tropical Storm Florence is far from over.
"Many people who think that the storm has missed them have yet to see its threat," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said. "This system is unloading epic amounts of rainfall -- in some places measured in feet, not inches."
Photos: Florence leaves path of destruction on coast of Carolinas
Here are the startling numbers behind Florence's wrath -- so far:
Officials report seven in North Carolina and one in South Carolina.
The latest two North Carolina deaths were linked to flash flooding and swift water on roads in Duplin County, the local sheriff's department said.
"Remember: Most storm deaths occur from drowning in fresh water, often in cars," Gov. Cooper said. "Don't drive across standing or moving water."
In South Carolina, a 61-year-old woman died Friday night when her car struck a tree that fell during the storm, state emergency officials said.
796,400-plus
That's just the number of customers without power in the Carolinas. The number of people who lost electricity is far greater since a single customer can represent an entire home.
About 760,200 of those customers are North Carolina; 36,200 are in South Carolina.
That's how hard the wind gusted in North Carolina's New River Inlet. Wilmington International Airport and Fort Macon suffered gusts of 105 mph, the National Weather Service said.
20,000 shelter evacuees
More than 20,000 people were staying in 157 emergency shelters in North Carolina on Saturday, Cooper said. "If those shelters fill up, we will establish more shelters."
Even if you live 150 miles out from the center of Florence, you could still feel tropical-storm-force winds -- which are 39 mph or greater.
30.58 inches (and counting)
That's the new North Carolina record for most rainfall from a single tropical system. It happened in the coastal town of Swansboro.
14,000 service members
The number of service members deployed include 7,500 from the US Coast Guard and 6,500 from the National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said. Another 2,900 active duty members are standing by.
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Latino Food Show
September 24-25, 2019 – Meadowlands Expo Center
Attendee Registration
Exibitors
Attendee Pass
YOU are invited to Exhibit at the 2019 Latino Food & Beverage Show, September 24-25, 2019!
The show is set to go on September 24-25, 2019, at the Meadowlands Expo Center in New Jersey. This is the sixth edition of the trade show.
The Latino Food & Beverage Trade Show convenes under one roof both domestic and international food & beverage producers. Foreign producers participate in the show to secure opportunities to open doors to the mainstream U.S. market, or grow their sales if already distributing products here. Local producers and distributors participate for two reasons, to solidify their presence on shelves, and to identify new products and seek new opportunities.
The U.S. Latino food and beverage market is close to $200 billion strong, and continues to grow at a minimum of four percent per year. Savvy marketers have come to understand Latinos of all generations–baby boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Gen Z– are smart and loyal consumers worth every penny invested in them.
Exhibitors are encourage to register early.
These are some of the quotes from participants in the 2018 show:
“I appreciate the fact we are celebrating our great food products—our own brands—this is the only show that does that”, said Nicolás Sprinter, an attendee who hails from Argentina.
Mary Kate Naatus, Dean of Business at Saint Peter’s University commented, “I attended with my colleague Scott Keller from Saint Peter’s University, and we absolutely loved it. We made many new friends and professional contacts, and I even tried eating grasshoppers. Congrats on a very successful event, and I would love to be involved in a future event”.
Julie Rodriguez, an attendee from the great state of Florida: “You need to bring the Latino Cuisine Show to Orlando, I will be most happy to work with you. This is great for our business people”.
We have a great 2019 show coming up, with a redesigned exhibit floor, excellent educational sessions, and dynamic culinary demonstrations. Register today!
Reserve your booth space now
Take Advantage of the Latino Food Show
Exhibit your best and guarantee the best!
Expose your product to an international audience.
Explore the hidden wonders of the Latino Cuisine.
Show Components
Culinary Demostrations
What’s New with E-commerce?
Josh Ray
Josh Ray will moderate an expert panel who will discuss the latest innovations in e-Commerce. Selling on Amazon? How about Jet.com, and Alibaba? Online grocery sales? What’s the next platform? How can independent grocers and bodegueros take advantage of e-Commerce?
Josh Ray is a veteran in the tech industry with a unique background in logistics, marketing, and entrepreneurship – three key areas to eCommerce success. He has a passion for helping small business owners and loves supporting independent grocers successfully launch, market, and operate online grocery programs”.
Start Creating your Own “Empanada for Success”
Aquiles Larrea
A workshop presented by noted columnist, CEO, Latino wealth advisor, and author Aquiles Larrea, Jr.
Mr. Larrea will tell you about what you need to start doing now, and who are the “right” professionals
you need to work with to take your business to the next level, towards its maximum potential.
The presentation is based on Mr. Larrea’s landmark book:
Your Money and You: The Ultimate Wealth Management Guide for Latino Entrepreneurs and Executives
This is an insightful workshop and introduction to what Aquiles can offer to business owners who want to be successful and want more from their businesses.
You will walk away with value-added ideas to take back and implement in your enterprise that same day!
Embracing new Technology to Help Your Store Prosper and Grow
Ray Steele
Independent, community grocers are facing a fast-changing world of store technology.
At the heart of a grocers’ ability to manage their inventory and purchasing is smart point of sale systems that are easy to install, supported by online customer service, and integrated with all the stores vendors catalogs, pricing and deals.
With the right tools in hand, and the support of people that can help transition stores to the next level of efficiency, store owners’ will gain needed knowledge and perspective on their store financial performance with information gained from mining the data stored in their own point of sale systems combined with integrated vendor data.
Ray Steele, long time educator and consultant to independent retailers, will host a panel discussion about the improvements in profitability that can be found when modern technology solutions are installed in independent community stores. Experts from EZB Solutions and Genius Central Systems, Inc., providers of affordable technology solutions to independent grocery stores for over 18 years, will participate in the panel.
Ray Steele is a senior executive with over 40 years in Supply Chain technology leadership, consulting, and customer service. His work in the Natural Products industry began in 2000, where he has spent time working with some of the most recognizable names in the industry including Tree of Life, KeHE, ECRS, Living Naturally / Genius Central, eCom, and more. Ray has been a featured speaker in many industry conferences and webinars, delivering complex technical information that is easy to understand and implement.
Update on The FDA’s Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA)
Dr. Dilcia Granville
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for assuring that foods sold in the United States are safe, wholesome and properly labeled. This applies to foods produced domestically, as well as foods from foreign countries. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) and the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act are the Federal laws governing food products under FDA’s jurisdiction.
The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA), which amended the FD&C Act requires most foods to bear nutrition labeling and requires food labels that bear nutrient content claims and certain health messages to comply with specific requirements. Although final regulations have been established and are reflected in this guidance, regulations are frequently changed. It is the responsibility for the food industry to remain current with the legal requirements for food labeling. All new regulations are published in the Federal Register (FR) prior to their effective date and compiled annually in Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
Dr. Dilcia Granville is the Senior Public Affairs for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She is also an accomplished author and inventor with over 28 years of experience in the field of disease prevention, public health, and education. She is fellow member of the New York Academy of Medicine. She is the president of Dip and See, LLC and the Latino Social Work Coalition; and Vice-president of the National Association of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Social Workers. Also, she is an Advisory Board for the American Diabetes Association, the Greater New York; and Chair of the Community Advisory Board of Northwell Health COPDs and the Diabetes PCORI Study.
She is an entrepreneur and invented the only Dip and See sugar indicator that measures sugar in beverages; and is the author of the book widely seek by entrepreneurs and inventors, “Invention: The New Currency of the 21st Century”.
Dr. Granville is the recipient of many Awards and she has been widely recognized for her outstanding contribution to the health and human services.
She received her Doctorate and Master degree from Adelphi University and her baccalaureate degree on Health Management from Queens College, New York.
Selling to Hispanic Millennials: Social Media and More
Vicky Llerena
The expert presenter will discuss who Gen Y (Millennials) are in terms of characteristics -demographic, market preferences, and purchasing habits. Ms. Llerena will also review how Millennials respond to traditional media with particular emphasis on Hispanic Millennials. She will then review social media strategies to target this subgroup of the market effectively and efficiently. Time will be allotted for questions from the audience.
You want to sell–or increase your sales-to Millennials? Cannot miss this session!
Vicky Llerena is the CEO of Social Vibes Media, a digital marketing agency focused on helping small businesses increase their brand presence. She brings with her over ten years of experience having worked at Univision WXTV-41 and PRNewswire. Vicky was named Top 25 Brand Builder by Leading Women Entrepreneur in 2017. She works with organizations, such as Rising Tide Capital, Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of NJ, Fownders, and Small Business Development Center to teach entrepreneurs how to obtain online customers through social media. Vicky was featured in NJBiz, Huffington Post, CEO Blog Nation, and many more media outlets.
Bodega Makeover: A New Opportunity for Bodegueros
Evelyn Brito
Ms. Evelyn Brito is currently the writer and executive producer of Bodega Makeover. This series is similar to the Extreme Makeover Home Edition, and is a docu-reality web series providing store improvements and healthy eating options for local neighborhoods. The host will meet with the business owner to discuss the issues the bodega is facing, act as a consultant and bring community health experts and designers in the process.
Bodega owners/Managers: Dot Not miss this!
WHEN: Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 10:00 a.m.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Bodega owners/Managers and those interested in opening any kind of convenience store.
Visit their website for more information: mybodegamakeover.com
Food Safety Certificate Class for Food Handlers
Professors at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center will present an interactive session which will allow time for instructors to answer questions from the audience, and encourage audience participation for exchange of “best practices” advice on successful implementation of these programs in a food processing environment.
Six Hours of Intensive Training, taught in both Spanish and English
WHEN: Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 9:30 a.m.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course is for anyone who handles food or oversees food handlers, or works in a food processing facility, especially FDA-inspected.
To Register, you can call Polly Pepper 856-459-1900 ext. 4521 or email her at pp559@njaes.rutgers.edu. You can also visit their website: foodinnovation.rutgers.edu.
The Latino cuisine is very diverse and very rich in talent.
Annually, the trade show features Culinary Demonstrations (“Showcooking”) by international celebrity chefs. In the past, we have invited chefs from Perú, Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.
In 2017, we had the participation of a major delegation from the Cuba Culinary Federation, led by Chef Eddy Fernández Monte, its president.
These demonstrations are a major feature of the event, and are attended by large audiences. The attendees pick up new recipes and tips on how to prepare a myriad of delicious and healthy dishes, from ceviche to paella.
Culinary Science students assist the invited chefs, gaining valuable experience and earning scholarships as part of their participation.
2018 Roster of Celebrity Chefs
Chef Diego Sanchez
Born in Peru on 1984, Diego moves to USA on 1999 where he discovers his passion at the age of 17 after helping his uncle in a restaurant for a week. I did it all Diego says ” from flipping burgers at Burger King to the finest restaurants in NYC”
Rising to the level of executive chef in the demanding restaurant circles of New York City is difficult. But rising through the ranks of restaurants such as Le Benardin, Astrid y Gaston, American Cut, Veritas and La Mar, Diego met that challenge and excelled as he developed his craft. Working hand in hand with internationally recognized chefs like Jean- Georges Vongerichten, Gaston Acurio, Marc Forgione, Eric Ripert and Craig Shelton expanded Diego’s range from his family heritage of Peruvian cooking greats to encompass other cuisines. Knowing that experience only can limit range, Diego attended the Art Institute of New York City and continues his professional development by taking part in workshops and classes.
Chef Christian Aranibar
A great representative of the rich Peruvian cuisine, Chef Aranibar has a long history of working a very prestigious culinary establishments in the U.S. and abroad. He was a manager with the Nikkei restaurant operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, assuming major responsibilities with the Melia and Hilton chains, running their F&B departments. He went on to further his gastronomic studies in Spain, and in New York he founded his own culinary consulting firm, Hospitality Solutions and Creators.
Amalia Moreno-Damgaard
Award-winning and bestselling author Amalia Moreno-Damgaard is a Guatemalan-American chef born and raised in Guatemala City.
Amalia is a Latin food and culture writer, recipe developer, cultural strategist, consultant and founder of Amalia, LLC, a business designed to help people develop a better understanding and appreciation of Latin cultures through healthy gourmet cuisine. She is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu and is currently writing her second book.
Her first book, Amalia’s Guatemalan Kitchen Gourmet Cuisine with a Cultural Flair, has won 9 international awards, including Best Foreign Cuisine Book USA by Gourmand World Cookbooks from Paris, France.
Amalia is a bilingual contributing writer for Guatemala’s Revue Magazine and Guatemala’s leading newspaper Siglo21, and for Latino American Today, a Twin Cities publication.Prior to this, Amalia had an executive career in international banking and earned a Masters in International Business and Culture from St. Louis University and also co-founded Women Entrepreneurs of Minnesota, a nonprofit in the Twin Cities that fosters women entrepreneurship through networking and education.
Visit her website at https://www.amaliallc.com
Chef Luis Battle
Recognized as one of the most important and influential contemporary Cuban cuisine experts, Chef Battle brings his considerable talents to our show.
He is Executive Chef at the award-wining La Calesa Restaurant in Old Havana, and is a member of the board of directors of the Federación Culinaria de Cuba.
Chef Battle is a fixture on Cuba’s TV food shows, and his famous vocalizations of Italian arias—while showcooking—makes for a very special educational and entertaining moment.
Cuban cuisine anyone? Do not miss this part of the show!
Chef Raúl Trasobrares
An experienced chef, master of the Cuban cuisine, Chef Trasobares graduated in 1989 from Cuba’ School of Hotel and Tourism Management, and soon started working his way at international kitchens at the most prestigious hotels in Havana.
In 2005 he completed his studies in culinary science and started his trajectory working as an expert culinary master of international dishes. In 2014, he moved to the United States, working as executive chefs at various establishments. He works both as a chef and as a consultant.
Currently, he’s the executive chef at La Trova Café, a quaint restaurant serving classical Cuban dishes with a modern flavor in North Bergen.
Exhibitors will have access to both international and domestic vendors; domestic producers meeting foreign buyers, international producers meeting U.S. buyers.
Face to face meetings could be pre-arranged to meet at the show’s venue, or we could provide basic information for you to make arrangements to visit local distributors. Please see attached Show Newsletter and Registration Business Roundtables/Ficha de Inscripción Para Ronda de Negocios.
In addition to formal meetings, you will be able to network with your professional colleagues during the show, and at the Latin Food & Wine Festival/Grand Reception which will be held Wednesday, September 19th at the premises. There is no additional cost to participate at this truly unique grand reception.
U.S.A., Canada, Asia, Africa Sales
Linda E. Pecsok
Email: latinofoodshow2@gmail.com
Spain/Europe, Central and South America Sales
Bill Colon
Skype: latinofoodshow1
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School Funding, Prop 123 and Latino Students’ Raw Deal
by Lacey & Larkin Frontera Fund
Written by Lacey & Larkin Frontera Fund
When it comes to school funding shortages in Arizona, Latinos are the largest and most vulnerable group of students. That’s bad news for everyone in the state.
When Arizona voters go to the polls on May 17 to cast their ballots on controversial Prop 123, they’ll be asking themselves, “How desperate are we for school funds?”
The proposition would divvy out $3.5 billion to K-12 schools over the next decade – a much-needed boost for a state that ranks 50th in the nation in education funding.
But the dollars would be raised by taking more money annually out of the state land trust, which is dedicated to education funding. The withdrawal rate would jump from 2.5 percent to 6.9 percent – likely faster than the fund can replenish itself.
It’s essentially like borrowing from your younger child’s college fund to pay for your first born’s tuition. If you can’t find a way to refill your nest egg, you’re going to have big problems in a few years. But if you desperately need dollars now, do you have a choice? And our students desperately need dollars.
In 2011, Arizona spent $8,806 per K-12 pupil (including all federal, state, and local monies), compared to the national average of $12,411 per pupil, putting it at 47th out of 50 states. In 2013, when ranked by state funding sources alone, Arizona was dead last in per pupil spending.
You can read about reasons to vote for Prop 123 here, reasons to reject it here, and a pro-con debate here.
Whatever happens, the group that will be most affected by school funding issues is Latino students.
In 2010, nearly 90 percent of Latinos age 25 and older had not completed a college degree.
“We have a trend,” said ASU’s Dr. David Garcia at a recent talk hosted by the Arizona Latino School Board Association. “More and more funding is moving away from the state level to local funding… and anytime you have local funding in Latino communities, you can count on that funding being inequitable.”
That’s because K-12 public schools are supported by a combination of federal dollars, state money, and local funds from the area’s property taxes, bonds and overrides, and families. And property values in majority Latino communities are lower – much, much lower.
Elementary school districts in communities with fewer Latinos can generate tax revenues from a property value base that is almost three times higher per pupil than the property value pool in Latino communities, according to Garcia’s soon-to-be-published study.
“The biggest battle we have in education is poverty. Communities in poverty are less stable, and it’s the instability that is most detrimental to students.”
The trend toward local funding also means schools sometimes ask parents to reach into their pockets to pay for extracurricular activities. In these cases, families in Latino neighborhoods are also disadvantaged because they typically earn lower incomes. In school districts with a high percentage of Latinos, 85 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, compared to 43 percent in other districts.
Schools in lower socio-economic districts get a larger slice of the state fund pie in an effort to make up for the property tax difference. Still, when you add state and local funds together, students in predominantly Latino districts receive $300 less per pupil than students in other districts.
Fortunately, federal funds compensate for the discrepancy. But even so, Latino schools must overcome greater challenges than other schools – with similar resources.
“The biggest battle we have in education is poverty,” Garcia says. “It is not the issue that students in poverty have less resources. The primary issue is that students in poverty, families in poverty, communities in poverty are less stable than other communities. And it’s the instability that is most detrimental to students in terms of completing their education.”
Students in Latino communities face a welter of other challenges. Many are English language learners. Most do not have parents who are savvy about navigating the American education system. If they and/or their parents are undocumented, they suffer the constant, stressful fear of deportation. Their immigration status and lack of funds may effectively prevent them from pursuing higher education.
But the success of Latino students is vital for everyone in Arizona – regardless of their ethnicity or political beliefs.
Latinos are the state’s fastest-growing group. But their average education level and income is substantially lower than those of whites. In 2010, nearly 90 percent of Latinos age 25 and older had not completed a college degree, compared with 69 percent of whites. By 2030, those numbers are not projected to change.
In today’s world, a college degree is becoming more and more essential – both for individuals and the economy they collectively create. If the state’s majority population makes less income, they spend less and contribute fewer taxes, which weakens economic growth and drains available public funds.
One study estimated that if Arizona could halve its number of Latino high school dropouts, those students would earn an extra $31 million annually and spend an extra $23 million a year.
To improve education, Arizona must implement high-quality early childhood programs across the board, and prioritize schools in Latino communities. It must ramp up the quality of schools and make coursework more rigorous. It must recognize that higher-need schools need more resources – both financial and human. It must improve the pipeline for Latino students going from high school to higher education.
Meanwhile, what can the public do to change the situation and improve Latino students’ chance for success?
“First and foremost,” Garcia says, “vote.”
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Trump could have tough time meeting his deportation threat
By Jill Colvin and Coleen Long | June 18, 2019 at 3:12 AM CDT - Updated June 18 at 10:42 PM
By COLLEEN LONG, JILL COLVIN and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump could have a tough time making good on his threat to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. But maybe that wasn't his point.
Trump's late-night messages Monday promised that starting next week his administration "will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States. They will be removed as fast as they come in."
That was a pronouncement likely to excite his political base just as he was formally announcing his reelection bid Tuesday night. It also scared immigrants in the U.S. illegally — and could deter others from coming.
But it came at a cost.
....long before they get to our Southern Border. Guatemala is getting ready to sign a Safe-Third Agreement. The only ones who won’t do anything are the Democrats in Congress. They must vote to get rid of the loopholes, and fix asylum! If so, Border Crisis will end quickly!
Trump blatantly exposed an upcoming enforcement operation, potentially jeopardizing the kind of sensitive effort that takes months to plan and relies on secrecy. The president's tweets put new, fresh demands on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency in charge of removals, which is already overwhelmed, lacking staff, funding and detention space for its current work. And any massive roundup that includes deportation of families would be sure to spark outrage.
The tweets suggested the start of Trump's reelection campaign is likely to have much in common with his 2016 announcement, when he accused Mexico of sending rapists to the United States and pledged to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. The rhetoric was widely denounced, yet the tough anti-immigration message struck a nerve with many Americans and ultimately helped carry Trump to victory.
At his rally Tuesday night in Orlando, Florida, he said millions of low-wage workers who come to the U.S. illegally are competing for opportunities against the most vulnerable Americans.
Trump also claimed that schoolchildren across the country are being threatened by MS-13 gang members and blame "Democratic policies." He said if Democratic officials "had to send their children to those overcrowded, overburdened schools, they would not tolerate it for one minute."
Trump's tough talk hasn't led to a drop in border crossings since he took office. The flow of Central American migrants has risen dramatically during his administration. He recently dropped a threat to slap tariffs on Mexico after the country agreed to step up immigration enforcement efforts.
The "millions" in his tweets referred to the more than 1 million people in the United States with final deportation orders, meaning a judge has decided they be deported, according to an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity to explain the president's tweets.
Pew Research Center has estimated there are about 10.5 million people in the U.S. illegally, with long-term residents outnumbering recent arrivals. The record for deportations over a full year is 419,384 in 2012, under the Obama administration.
Some in Trump's administration believe that decisive shows of force — like mass arrests — serve as deterrents, sending a message to those considering making the journey to the U.S. that it's not worth coming.
The new acting director of ICE, Mark Morgan, recently signaled a willingness to deport families during enforcement sweeps, though past Trump immigration officials hesitated over concerns about logistics and the public reaction.
U.S. officials with knowledge of the preparations say the operation wasn't imminent; it was to begin in the coming weeks and be nationwide. But ICE officials were not aware the president would make public sensitive law enforcement plans, and it's unclear whether the operation now will go off as planned.
Enforcement sweeps require months of planning. Officers work from recent addresses and don't have search warrants. Immigrants are not required to open their doors, and increasingly they don't. Officers generally capture about 30% to 40% of targets.
Plus, ICE needs travel paperwork from a home country to deport someone, so immigrants often end up detained at least temporarily waiting for a deportation flight. The adult population of detainees was 53,141 as of June 8, though the agency is only budgeted for 45,000. There were 1,662 in family detention, also at capacity, and one of the family detention centers is currently housing single adults.
Also, publicizing law enforcement operations can jeopardize officer safety and tip off potential deportees.
When Oakland, California, Mayor Libby Schaaf learned of an operation in Northern California and warned the immigrant community, Trump railed against the disclosure. He suggested prosecuting her for obstruction of justice. And the head of ICE at the time, Thomas Homan , said his agency could have arrested more people had she not warned them, calling it an "irresponsible decision."
Lawmakers from both parties raised concerns about Trump's plan. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said his threat of a "mass deportation dragnet is an act of utter malice and bigotry, designed solely to inject fear in our communities."
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, part of the GOP leadership, said, "I think our energy is better exerted, one, taking care of people at the border who need to be taken care of and, two, looking at securing the border as our principal obligation."
Immigrant advocacy groups across the country are already getting terrified phone calls from people worried about raids.
"People are always on edge," said Cesar Espinosa, executive director of the Houston advocacy group FIEL. "This obviously reinforces that fear and in a lot of cases it paralyzes people when they can't continue to live their daily lives."
Between 2009 and 2012, the Obama administration deported 1.6 million immigrants. About 2 million were deported during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration.
An effort to rapidly deport more than a million people is "a fantasy," said John Sandweg, a former ICE head under Obama.
"ICE is always working at 100 percent of its capacity. The president wants to create this illusion that he's let go of the reins that other administrations were holding but that's just not true."
ICE did not comment on Trump's tweets, but said in a statement it "will continue to conduct interior enforcement without exemption for those who are in violation of federal immigration law."
Associated Press writers Luis Alonso Lugo and Lisa Mascaro in Washington and Nomaan Merchant in Houston contributed to this report.
A man burst into an animation production studio in Kyoto and set it on fire early Thursday, killing one person, leaving 12 others presumed dead and a dozen possibly trapped inside.
Former Boston Red Sox infielder Elijah "Pumpsie" Green, the first black player on the last major league team to field one, has died. He was 85.
How to stay cool during summer’s relentless heat wave
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Zhiyuan Liu
A unified representation framework that bridges the gaps between data-driven language and symbol-based knowledge
Machines that truly understand language would be incredibly useful and natural language processing (NLP) is making this possible. NLP algorithms are typically based on machine learning algorithms, which process, analyze, and act on vast amounts of data. However, deep learning-based NLP still suffers from serious shortcomings including poor interpretability (the degree to which humans can understand), inferior scalability, and reduced robustness.
To address the challenges of semantic gaps and data sparsity in large-scale NLP, Zhiyuan Liu, an Associate Professor from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, has explored representation learning methods for multiple units of natural language, including words, phrases, sentences, documents, networks and knowledge. He has built implicit representations with low-dimensional embedding vectors and knowledge representation with structured knowledge graphs. By taking advantage of information fusion of implicit representation and inference power of knowledge representation, he built a unified representation framework that bridges the gaps in data-driven deep learning and symbol-based linguistics, as well as world knowledge. This framework can support knowledge-guided NLP and is especially important for those knowledge-rich tasks such as reading comprehension, question answering, and text generation.
Liu has accomplished a number of innovative achievements and published several academic papers in leading AI and NLP conferences and journals. Moreover, he has released many popular open source packages for NLP, such as the Chinese lexical analyzer THULAC, the knowledge representation learning package OpenKE, and the network representation learning package OpenNE, which have attracted more than 10 thousand stars on GitHub and are used by hundreds of institutions and companies.
Liu believes that there is great potential for NLP development in China, but there are still too few researchers who devote themselves to natural language processing. As a doctoral advisor in the NLP field, he wants to help talented young students develop an academic and professional interest in the area. “Natural language processing is key to the realization of artificial intelligence. Human language is also full of unknowns. I hope more young students can join in and we can explore it together,” he said.
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A Look at One of Mississauga's Most Influential Women
Although there are many occassions to celebrate women (International Women’s Day in March, Women’s History Month in Canada in October, Mother’s Day in May), few actually pay attention to the stories of historically important women all year round.
Mississauga has been fortunate enough to have been shaped by many incredible women (its long-standing and beloved mayor, Hazel McCallion, being one of its most recognizeable). But although we’ve all heard of McCallion, Bonnie Crombie, Silken Laumann and Fran Rider, not all of this us have heard of one particular Peel trailblazers—Helen Boorman Tucker (1904 -- 1998)
“As a woman, I have no country. My country is the whole world." - Helen Tucker
One of Peel's trailblazers was Helen Boorman Tucker (1904 -- 1998), a mother, teacher, and peace advocate who co-founded the Canadian group, Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), in 1960. Today, VOW still urges women and governments around the world to advocate for peace.
Tucker’s Contributions
The Texas-born Tucker moved to Canada in 1938 and soon settled in Port Credit, where she lived with her husband, William, and four children. She taught at the University of Toronto, offering the equivalent of an English as a Second Language speech communication course for European immigrants, some of whom were post-World War II refugees from European concentration camps.
Tucker supported the United Nation’s mandate. In 1948, she participated in a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) travel mission and then she led, or participated in, five subsequent missions. By the mid-1950s, she was president of the Toronto Women’s Section of the UN Association of Canada. In 1955, she arranged for former US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to speak at Toronto’s Massey Hall. Roosevelt, a UN delegate, helped to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Tucker introduced Roosevelt’s speech about universal human rights and considered this one of the stellar moments in her career.
Advocating for World Peace
At the height of the Cold War era, when Tucker co-founded VOW, people were concerned that the United States and Russia might have a nuclear war. VOW worked to promote peace and disarmament, and Tucker went on to organize international peace conferences and helped establish the Canadian Peace Research Institute.
She was involved in dozens of campaigns and organizations that focused on world peace and she corresponded with people from around the world, including those in China, Egypt, India, Japan, and the Netherlands. In 1966, she also co-founded the Canadian Chapter of the Registry of World Citizens, which promotes international peace. The Canadian branch is still based in Mississauga.
Women’s and children’s rights also became an important part of Tucker’s work in her later years. She became secretary of the National Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women in the 1970s and directed the International Year of the Child project in Mississauga in 1979. At age 85, she also attended the Grandmothers for Peace rally in Moscow.
Tucker’s records were donated to the Region of Peel Archives, where researchers can review them. The records include correspondence, diaries, subject files, photographs, speeches and notes, and family papers which reveal much about the life of one of Peel’s trailblazing women.
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Amazon is breaking a central promise of HQ2 by reportedly placing it in 2 different cities
Long Island City, Queens, is reportedly one of the locations Amazon has chosen for its HQ2.
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Amazon will split its second-headquarters project, known as HQ2, between two cities, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported on Monday.
The two cities Amazon is nearing a deal with are New York, in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, and Arlington, Virginia, in the Crystal City neighborhood, according to The Times.
Splitting HQ2 would break the whole idea of what it was intended to be: a second headquarters equaling the company's operations in Seattle.
Amazon has finally found its HQ2, and apparently its HQ3.
The company will split its second-headquarters project between two cities, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported on Monday.
Those lucky cities will be New York, in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, and Arlington, Virginia, in the Crystal City neighborhood, according to The Times.
It's a bit of curveball. On the website it created when it announced the HQ2 project, in September 2017, Amazon said the purpose was to create "a full equal to our current campus in Seattle."
Read more: Amazon is reportedly splitting HQ2 into 2 cities, which would prove the whole contest was a massive sham
With two locations splitting what the company has billed as a $5 billion investment and 50,000 new jobs, Amazon's initial promise would ring hollow. Neither would be anywhere close to equal to Seattle, where Amazon says it now has more than 40,000 employees and has made $3.7 billion in capital investment.
Effectively, it would mean that Amazon wouldn't have a true second headquarters — something that some critics have been claiming all along.
It may have something to do with Amazon's sensitivity to criticism that no one municipality could absorb the large impact of its HQ2 as proposed.
Splitting it into two could remove some objections from local leaders, but it would also take away some of the project's luster.
Less potential downside, in this case, also means less potential upside.
New York and Arlington reportedly will get Amazon, but they won't get HQ2. Nobody will.
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s. 12(1) words substituted by 2006 c. 43 Sch. 1 para. 77(a)
s. 12(2)(a) words substituted by 2006 c. 43 Sch. 1 para. 77(b)
Act words substituted by 2005 c. 4 Sch. 11 para. 6
Blanket Amendment words substituted by 2005 c. 4 Sch. 11 para. 1(2)
Blanket Amendment words substituted by 2005 c. 4 Sch. 11 para. 5
Act words substituted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 7(1) (2)
Blanket amendment words substituted by S.I. 2011/1043 art. 3 6
Pt. 4A inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 10
Pt. 5A inserted by 2008 c. 14 s. 119
s. 1(1A)(1B) substituted for s. 1(1A) by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(1)
s. 1(3)(g) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 2(1)
s. 1(3)(h)(i) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 3(1)(b)
s. 2(2)(aa) inserted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 2(b)
s. 2(2)(aa) word inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 2(a)
s. 2(4) inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 2(2)
s. 4(1)-(1D) substituted for s. 4(1)(2) by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 3(a)
s. 4(2)(ab)-(ae) inserted by S.I. 2007/1386 art. 2
s. 4(2)(af)-(ah) inserted by S.I. 2008/1037 art. 2
s. 4(4A) inserted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 3(d)
s. 5(3A) words substituted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 4(b)
s. 10A(1) words substituted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 2(2)
s. 10A(2) words substituted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(a)
s. 10A(2)(a) words omitted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(b)
s. 10A(3) omitted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 2(4)
s. 10B inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 4
s. 10B heading word omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 5(2)
s. 10B(A1) inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 5(3)
s. 10B(1) words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 5(4)(b)
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s. 14(4)-(7) inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 5
s. 14(4)(a) words inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 6(3)
s. 14A inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 8
s. 14A(1)(a) word substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 6(2)
s. 14A(1)(b) word substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 6(3)(b)
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s. 14A(1)(za) inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 7
s. 15A(2)(a)(b) substituted for words by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 8
s. 17(1)(a)(b)(ba)(c) substituted for s. 17(1)(a)-(c) by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 11(3)(b)
s. 17(2)(2A)(3) substituted for s. 17(2)(3) by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 11(4)
s. 17(4A) table words inserted by S.I. 2013/3036 reg. 2
s. 18A inserted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 10
s. 19(A1) inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 12(2)
s. 19(1)(aa) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 13(a)
s. 19A inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 14
s. 19A heading words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 13(2)
s. 19A(a) word substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 7(2)
s. 19A(b) word substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 7(3)(b)
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s. 19A(1)(za) inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 13(3)
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s. 21B(1)(e) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 15(2)(e)
s. 21B(1A)-(1C) inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 15(3)
s. 21B(2) substituted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 15(4)
s. 21B(3)(4) inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 15(5)
s. 21C(1) words inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 16(2)
s. 21C(2)(a) words substituted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 16(3)
s. 21C(2A)(2B) inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 16(4)
s. 29B(1A)(1B) inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 3(3)
s. 29B(2A)-(2C) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 9(2)
s. 29B(2A)(a) word substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 2
s. 29B(2D) inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 3(4)
s. 29B(3A) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 9(3)
s. 29D(1A) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 11
s. 29E(1)(d) (e) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 12(2)(b)
s. 29E(2)(e) (f) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 12(3)(b)
s. 29F(1)(d) (e) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 14(3)
s. 29F(1A)(a) words substituted by S.I. 2014/1887 Sch. 1 para. 1(2)
s. 29F(1A)(b) words substituted by S.I. 2014/1887 Sch. 1 para. 1(2)
s. 29G(1)(za) inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 15(2)
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s. 29G(2A) inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 4(2)
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s. 29J(2E) inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 5(2)
s. 29EA inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 13
s. 30(A1) inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 4(a)
s. 30(1)(aa) inserted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 11
s. 30(1)(aa) word inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 17(a)
s. 31(4B) inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 5(c)
s. 31(9)(c) and word inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 12(1)
s. 31A(1C) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 12(2)
s. 34(2)(ba) inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 7(c)(ii)
s. 34A(1A) inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 8(b)
s. 34B(1) s. 34B renumbered as s. 34B(1) by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 9
s. 34B(1) words inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 9(a)
s. 34B(2)(3) inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 9(b)
s. 34D(5) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 19
s. 34G(1) words substituted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 20(2)
s. 34H(2) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(2)
s. 34J omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 21
s. 34K omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 22
s. 34L(3) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 23
s. 35A(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 15(1)
s. 35A(6C)-(6E) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 15(4)
s. 35B(4) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 4(9)
s. 35B(4) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 4(11)
s. 35B(4)(a) words substituted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 5(a)
s. 35B(4)(b) words substituted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 5(a)
s. 35B(4)(c) words substituted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 5(a)
s. 35B(4)(d) words substituted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 5(b)
s. 35B(4)(e) words substituted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 5(d)
s. 35B(4)(g) words inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 9(2)
s. 35B(4)(da) inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 5(c)
s. 35B(4)(da) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 12(3)
s. 35C(2)(f)(g) inserted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 15 (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. It was due to come into force on the coming into force of s. 44(1) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c. 47), see art. 1(4). S. 44(1) was repealed without ever being in force on 10.9.2012 by 2012 c. 9, s. 75(6), Sch. 10 Pt. 5; S.I. 2012/2234, art. 2)
s. 35C(2)(da) inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 6(2)
s. 35C(6A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(3)
s. 35D(4A)(4B) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 5(7)
s. 35D(5)(d) and word words inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 5(8)(d)
s. 35D(9A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 5(12)
s. 35D(11)-(11B) substituted for s. 35D(11) by S.I. 2015/794 art. 5(14)
s. 35D(13)(14) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 5(16)
s. 35E(1A)(1B) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 5(18)
s. 35E(3A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(4)
s. 35E(5) inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 8(3)
s. 35E(5) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 5(17)(c)
s. 35CC(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 4(12)
s. 35CC(4)-(8) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 22(1)
s. 35ZA inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 4
s. 40(1B) inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 8(2)
s. 40(1B) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 24(2)
s. 40(4A) words inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 8(3)
s. 40(4A) words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 24(3)
s. 40(7A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 16(3)
s. 40A inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 11
s. 40A 40B inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 17(1)
s. 41(12) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(5)
s. 41A(A1) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 6(2)
s. 41A(A1) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 6(3)(a)
s. 41A(A1) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 6(3)(b)
s. 41A(3A)(3B) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 6(5)
s. 44B(1) words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 26(2)
s. 44B(2)(a) words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 26(3)(a)
s. 44B(2)(b) words omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 26(3)(b)
s. 44B(3) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 26(4)
s. 44B(11) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 23(e)
s. 44C substituted by S.I. 2014/1887 Sch. 1 para. 1(1)
s. 44C(11) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 27
s. 44BA inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 24
s. 45A(5)(d) applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 14 s. 120(5)
s. 45B(2)-(5) applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 14 s. 120(5)
s. 45B(3)(d) words substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 13(a)
s. 45B(3)(e) words substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 13(a)
s. 45B(6) omitted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 13(b)
s. 45C(1) applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 14 s. 120(5)
s. 46(2A)(a) words substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 14
s. 46(2A)(b) omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 28
s. 49A inserted by S.I. 2002/3135 art. 12(7)
s. 49B inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 28
s. 49B omitted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 29
s. 49B(2)(a) omitted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 15(a)
s. 49B(3) substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 15(b)
s. 49B(4) words substituted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 16
s. 49B(7) words inserted by 2018 c. 12 Sch. 19 para. 22
s. 51(3)(a) and word omitted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 17(b)
s. 51(3)(b) words omitted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 4
s. 52B inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 20
s. 55(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(12)
s. 55(1ZA) inserted by S.I. 2019/593 Sch. 1 para. 30(3)
s. 55(3)(4) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 29(c)
Sch. 1 para. 9B(4) inserted by 2018 c. 12 Sch. 19 para. 24(3)
Sch. 1 para. 15(1A) inserted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 21(6)(a)
Sch. 1 para. 23C inserted by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 21(8)
Sch. 1 para. 16(3A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 2(6)
Sch. 1 Pt. 3 para. 19F inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 2(4)
Sch. 1 para. 19G inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 3(3)
Sch. 1 para. 23D inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 4(4)
Sch. 1 para. 1A modified (temp.) by S.I. 2008/2556 art. 3
Sch. 1 para. 1A(4) omitted by 2012 c. 7 Sch. 20 para. 6(a)
Sch. 1 para. 9B(4) omitted by S.I. 2019/419 Sch. 3 para. 12(b)
Sch. 1 para. 16(1A) substituted for Sch. 1 para. 16(1)(2) by S.I. 2008/1774 Sch. 1 para. 21(7)
Sch. 1 para. 23C words inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 4(3)
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Sch. 1 para. 23(a)(c) words omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 4(1)(b)
Sch. 2A inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 32
Sch. 2A para. 5(2)(a)(iii)(iv) inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(3)(a)(ii)
Sch. 2A para. 5(2)(aa) inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(3)(b)
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Sch. 2A para. 5(3) words inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(3)(c)
Sch. 2A para. 8(6) words inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(5)
Sch. 2A para. 4(b) words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(2)(a)
Sch. 2A para. 4(b) words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(2)(b)
Sch. 2A para. 6(3) words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(4)(a)
Sch. 2A para. 6(3) words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 10(4)(b)
Sch. 3 para. 3(1A)(1B) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 33(4)(b)
Sch. 3 para. 4A 4B and cross-headings inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 33(5)
Sch. 3A para. 2(1)(aa)(ab) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 34(b)(i)
Sch. 3A para. 2(1)(fa)(fb) inserted by S.I. 2007/3101 reg. 34(b)(iii)
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Sch. 3A para. 4(7A)(7B) inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 17(7)(c)
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Sch. 3B para. 7(2)(c) and word inserted by S.I. 2008/3131 Sch. 1 para. 19(4)(b)(ii)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(1A) inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 23(8)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(3B)-(3G) inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 23(8)(e)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(5A) inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 23(8)(g)
Sch. 4 para. 10A inserted by 2008 c. 14 Sch. 7 para. 23(14)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(14) inserted by 2018 c. 12 Sch. 19 para. 25(4)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(10)-(12) inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 9(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5C inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 9(3)
Sch. 4 para. 10B inserted by S.I. 2014/1101 art. 9(6)
Sch. 4 para. 1(1)(aa) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(1)(c)
Sch. 4 para. 1(1B) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(8)
Sch. 4 para. 1(2F)(2G) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(9)
Sch. 4 para. 1(2ZA)(2ZB) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(2)
Sch. 4 para. 1(4A)-(4D) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(5)
Sch. 4 para. 1(4E)(4F) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(6)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 10(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(2B) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 10(4)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(3H) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(10)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(13) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(4)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(6)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(3A)-(3C) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(9)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(4A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 21(11)
Sch. 4 para. 7(1A) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 13(2)
Sch. 4 para. 7(1B)-(1D) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 13(3)
Sch. 4 para. 7A inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 14
Sch. 4 para. 8(2)(e) and word inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 24(1)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 8(6) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 24(2)
Sch. 4 para. 10A inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 12(14)
Sch. 4 para. 11(5) inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 17(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(14) omitted by S.I. 2019/419 Sch. 3 para. 13(b)
Sch. 4 para. 1(2A)-(2E) substituted for Sch. 4 para. 1(2A) by S.I. 2015/794 art. 9(1)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(2)-(2ZE) substituted for Sch. 4 para. 5A(2) by S.I. 2015/794 art. 10(3)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(3)-(3G) substituted for Sch. 4 para. 5A(3)(3A) by S.I. 2015/794 art. 10(5)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(11) word inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(3) word inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(8)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(10) word omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(1)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(2)(a)(b) word omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(7)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(3) word omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(8)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(1)(a)(ii) words inserted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(5)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(2)(a) words omitted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(7)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5A(12) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(3)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(1)(a)(ii) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(5)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(3)(a) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(8)(c)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(4) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(10)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(4)(b) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(10)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(5) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(11)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(7) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(13)(d)
Sch. 4 para. 5C(7)(c) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 11(13)(c)
Sch. 4 para. 10B(1) words substituted by S.I. 2015/794 art. 8(11)
Sch. 4A words added by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(6)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(2)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(5)(a)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(5)(b)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 11(2)
Sch. 4A words inserted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 11(3)(b)
Sch. 4A words substituted by 2018 c. 12 Sch. 19 para. 26(2)
Sch. 4A words substituted by S.I. 2010/234 Sch. 1 para. 18(3)
Sch. 4A words substituted by S.I. 2016/1030 reg. 11(3)(a)
Commencement Orders yet to be applied to the Medical Act 1983
Commencement Orders bringing legislation that affects this Act into force:
S.I. 2008/2556 art. 2 commences (S.I. 2008/1774)
S.I. 2009/1604 art. 2 commences (2005 c. 4)
S.I. 2010/478 art. 2 commences (S.I. 2010/234)
S.I. 2010/708 art. 1-14 commences (2008 c. 14)
12 Special provisions as to employment in health centres.U.K.
[F1(1)For the purposes of sections 10 and 11 above, “institution” includes a health centre if, and only if, it is a centre provided under sections 2 and 3 of the M1National Health Service Act 1977, section 36 of the M2National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, or Article 5 of the M3Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.
(2)Employment in such a centre shall not be treated as employment for the purposes of sections 10 and 11 above unless it is either—
(a)employment by a fully registered medical practitioner in the provision of [F2primary medical services under Part 1 of the National Health Service Act 1977 [F3, Part 1 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or Article 15B or]] F4... Part VI of the said Order of 1972; or
(b)employment in the provision of the services of specialists or other services provided for out-patients in a health centre provided as mentioned in subsection (1) above.
(3)The Education Committee may by regulations provide that the period of employment in a health centre which may be reckoned towards the completion of any of the periods mentioned in section 10(3)(a) above shall not exceed such period as may be specified in the regulations.
[F5(4)In making regulations under subsection (3) above, the Education Committee shall have regard to the requirements of article 23 of Diretive 93/16/EEC.]]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 12 repealed (19.7.2006 for specified purposes in accordance with art. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Medical Act 1983 (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendments Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1914), arts. 1(2)(b)(c)(3), 23
F2Words in s. 12(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2004) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), s. 199(1)(4), Sch. 11 para. 49; S.I. 2004/288, art. 5(2)(s) (as amended by S.I. 2004/866 and S.I. 2005/2925); S.I. 2004/480, art. 4(2)(w) (as amended by S.I. 2004/1019 and S.I. 2006/345)
F3Words in s. 12(2)(a) substituted (18.11.2004) by The Primary Medical Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3038), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 1(3) (with art. 3)
F4Words in s. 12(2)(a) omitted (1.4.2004) by virtue of The Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/957), art. 1, Sch. para. 4(3)(b)
F5S. 12(4) inserted (10.7.1996) by S.I. 1996/1591, reg. 7, Sch. 2 para. 4
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 12(2)(a) savings for effect of S.I. 2004/957, Sch. para. 4 (S.) (1.4.2004) by The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/163), arts. 1(1), 98
C2S. 12(2)(a) savings for effects of 2003 c. 43, Sch. 11 paras. 47-49 (E.S.N.I.) (1.4.2004) by The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/865), arts. 1(1), 111 (with art. 1(3))
M3S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14).
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GRAPHIC VIDEO: The devastating crash footage police want drivers using their phone at the wheel to see
HORRIFIC: The scene of the crash
Paul Fisher
Published: 13:31 Wednesday 12 July 2017
Police are urging drivers who continue to use their phones at the wheel to watch this devastating crash footage.
Warning: The video shows distressing video crash footage
The video shows 30-year-old Tomasz Kroker from Andover, Hampshire, smashing into a row of parked cars while scrolling through his phone on the motorway.
Tracy Houghton, 45, was killed in the crash along with her sons Ethan, 13, and Joshua, 11, and her partner’s daughter Aimee Goldsmith, 11. Kroker had been changing the music on his phone when he ploughed into the car with a court hearing back in October that he had barely looked at the road for almost a kilometre.
Police released the distressing footage after the crash in a bid to stop drivers using their phones at the wheel. They said they had worked with the family to produce the video clip to “highlight the potentially catastrophic consequences of using a mobile phone whilst driving.”
A campaign asking motorists “where do you keep yours?” is running alongside an enforcement campaign which started on Monday, July 10, targeting those committing mobile phone related driving offences.
JAILED: Tomasz Kroker.
Statistics show that across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire men aged 21-50 are most likely to use their phone at the wheel with those aged 31 to 40 committing the most offences.
Across the three areas men have been responsible for 768 mobile phone related offences so far this year with women responsible for 155.
Overall the number of mobile phone related driving offences has reduced over the past three years from 2,413 in 2014 to 1,009 in 2016 . The consequences of using a mobile phone at the wheel can be fatal and the penalty for using a mobile phone at the wheel increased in March with motorists flouting the law now set to receive six points on their licence and a fine of up to £200
Chief Inspector Andy Piper of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Road Policing Unit said: “While it excellent news that motorists in the three counties are taking on board warnings about the dangers of using their mobile phone at the wheel we want to make sure everyone realises the dangers of being distracted while driving.
VICTIMS: Josh and Ethan Houghton.
“The best way drivers can ensure they are not distracted by their phones is to turn them on to silent or ‘do not disturb’ mode and to keep them out of sight.
“I look forward to hearing some of the innovative ways people have come up with to avoid being distracted by their phones while driving.”
In October 2016, Kroker was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment at Reading Crown Court for each count of death by dangerous driving and four years’ imprisonment for causing serious injury by dangerous driving. All of the sentences will run concurrently. He was also disqualified from driving for seven years.
End to free parking for electric cars at Leighton Buzzard train station
MISSED: Aimee Goldsmith.
Victim Tracy Houghton.
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Palmyra or Tadmor: oasis in the desert between Damascus and the Euphrates, important trade center, and capital of a semi-indepent state in the third century CE.
The ancient Near East has often been described as a fertile crescent: in the southwest we find the valley of the Nile, in the east we find Babylonia, and these two main areas are connected by rivers like the Euphrates, Orontes, and Jordan. As early as 5000 BCE, there was agriculture everywhere between the Zagros mountains in the east to the Nile in the west. At the end of the fourth millennium, the first cities were built. There was monumental architecture. There was trade.
Merchants traveled from Egypt to northern Syria, turned to the east, reached the Euphrates, and followed it downstream to Babylon. Or they migrated in the opposite direction: the Biblical book of Genesis describes how Abraham went from Ur in the deep southeast to Harran, and from there through Canaan, reaching even Egypt.
It was a long trip, but there was a shortcut. Someone coming from Babylon might, once he had reached the general area of Mari or Dura Europos (two cities on the Euphrates), turn directly to the west, through the desert, and reach Emesa or Damascus. There were several oases, where humans and mules could find water. The largest of these was halfway: at 250 kilometers from the Euphrates, 240 kilometers from Damascus, and 200 kilometers from Emesa, was Tadmor or Palmyra,note[The name is probably derived from a Semitic dhmr, “to guard”; if this is true, Tadmor means something like “watchtower”. Palmyra is a phonetic rendering of the same word in Latin, influenced by the word palma, "palm tree".] where a wadi and the Efqa-well facilitated agriculture and made this a desirable resting place for merchants.
Tadmor is mentioned in several very old texts. A cuneiform tablet from Kaneš in Anatolia mentions a man with an Assyrian name, Puzur-Ištar, who is also a tadmurim, “from Tadmor”. This text was written in about 1800 BCE, which suggests that Tadmor was already more than stopover on a caravan road: it was known outside Syria as well. A bit younger are two letters from the archives of Mari,note[Mari was destroyed in 1759 BCE, according to the Middle Chronology.] which refer to the arrival of Tadmorian envoys and the looting of the site by wandering nomads. From the thirteenth century is a reference to three visitors from the oasis, found on a tablet from Emar.
A dromedary, a merchant, and a soldier
With a length of about 500 kilometers, the desert route was never easy, but the domestication of the dromedary, in the tenth century BCE, made it less difficult: these animals can travel large distances without having to pause for drink. From now on, travelers from the Euphrates to the west needed only one stopover: Tadmor.
First Millennium
In 1110 BCE, the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I boasted:
I have crossed the Euphrates twenty-eight times, twice in one year, in pursuit of the Aramaeans. I brought about their defeat from the city Tadmor of the land Amurru … I brought their booty and possessions to my city Aššur.note[ANET 275.]
Aššurnasirpal II
This is the first reference to the Aramaeans, a nation that was to dominate Syria for the next couple of centuries, and was gradually subjected by the Assyrians. Kings like Aššurnasirpal II and Šalmaneser III were to finish the job in the ninth century. Their main road to “Amurru”, as they called Aramaean Syria, was along Nisibis, Edessa, and Karchemish, much to the north of Tadmor, which now disappears from our sources.
In the centuries after Tiglath-Pileser I, Assyria expanded from Iran to Egypt; Assyria collapsed; Babylonia reunited the Near East, collapsed, and was replaced by Persia; Alexander the Great subjected Persia and was succeeded by Seleucus I Nicator. We learn nothing about Tadmor. In Seleucus’ kingdom, the two main centers were Seleucia on the Tigris and Antioch, which were connected by the Euphrates valley. Because Tadmor was not situated on this important road, our sources continue to be silent.
Temple of Nabu, a Babylonian deity
Still, we’re not completely without knowledge. From texts that were written much later, and from archaeological objects from the Roman age, we can deduce that Tadmor was not isolated. There were all kinds of influences. Later generations would venerate Šamaš and Nabu, Babylonian gods representing the Sun and wisdom. In the temple of Ba’al, the Akitu festival was celebrated, another Babylonian borrowing. About half the Palmyrene names would be Arabic, which probably documents a gradual but substantial migration from the south to the north.
There is only one reference to Tadmor. The author of the Biblical book of Chronicles, writing at the end of the fourth century, informs his readers that king Solomon had "built Tadmor in the wilderness and all his store cities in Hamath".note[2 Chronicles 8.4.] Unfortunately, this is untrue. The author is adapting an earlier story, found in the book of Kings, where we read that Solomon "built Tamar in the wilderness of Judah".note[1 Kings 9.18.] The reference in Chronicles only proves that Tadmor was known as far away as Jerusalem.
Some of Palmyra's tower tombs
So, Tadmor was a stopover along a little used caravan road. Things started to change when the Seleucid Empire started to disintegrate. In 141 BCE, the Parthians conquered Iraq, more or less at the same time when the Jews became independent. Merchants from Parthian-ruled Babylonia who wanted to travel to Egypt or the Mediterranean, started to look for different routes: partly because they wanted to avoid the Seleucid-Parthian war zone, partly because Antioch was no longer as important as it had always been.
The oldest monuments of Tadmor, the temple tombs in the western valley, date back to this age. Soon, there would be many more monumental buildings.
This page was created in 2015; last modified on 17 October 2018.
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Scream if you want to go faster
By Rosie Baker 28 Sep 2011 5:40 pm
Whether fast fashion means throwaway trends or quick turnaround of product, one thing is for certain and that is that speed is key to the success of any high street fashion outlet. Slow and steady is not an option anymore.
In our cover story this week, we looked at Forever 21’s “extreme version” of fast fashion which sees the chain adding new products and lines to stores every single day.
This kind of hyper quick turnaround is becoming the norm, particularly at the value end of the fashion market.
Another fashion retailer pinning its success on the speed at which it can react to trends and develop its fashions is Internaçionale.
Despite being around in the UK for 30 years and having 150 stores, it remains a fairly unrecognised brand.
This is something that it hopes to change in the next three years, with ambitious plans to triple the size of the business and take on New Look.
The company fell into administration four years ago and is now preparing an assault on the UK high street having overhauled almost every aspect of its business.
The value fashion retailer sits comfortably alongside New Look, Primark and Forever 21’s youth demographic and in the past 12 to 18 months it has rebuilt its senior board, including a number of former New Look management including Anna Andrews as head of design and Claire Miles as head of buying, and former Peacocks head of e commerce Fiona Fairweather to lead the charge.
Andrews and Miles both believe that speed is the key to the success of Internaçionale, alongside improved quality and value messaging.
It now changes its window displays, which Marketing and PR manager Elaine Kennedy says are the company’s advertising, every two weeks, is quicker to respond to trends and is constantly updating stock in stores.
In its previous form, Internaçionale’s problem was that it just moved too slowly. It was behind all its rivals in terms of design, style, and fashion. It didn’t get on trend fashion in to stores quickly enough which meant that it had to sell a lot of its product on promotion.
Now that it has been dragged up to speed by the new management, it hopes to be able to take on the likes of New Look and Forever 21 as a destination for fashion, not as a discounter.
The fact that New Look has had a shaky few months, which has included less than impressive performance and the departure of both its group marketing director Joe Irons and chief marketing officer Nick Cross, makes it a particularly opportune moment for Internaçionale to be ramping up its activity.
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In Baltimore, a symbol of the holidays goes dim
Marketplace Contributor Dec 27, 2012
In Baltimore, a five-pointed star lit by dozens of light bulbs shines over a mill once operated by Bethlehem Steel. The star has been a holiday fixture for decades, but it will likely be extinguished for good once the holidays are over.
The star at Sparrows Point steel mill first rose in the late 70s, shining atop a massive blast furnace.
“It was a symbol of Christmas,” says Mike Lewis, a crane operator at the mill for 34 years. “If you were sitting on the right side of a plane making its final approach to BWI, that star was visible. It’s something that’s always been there.”
Sparrows Point was operated for most of its 120 years by Bethlehem Steel. At its height in the 1950s, it employed 30,000. But
earlier this year, the mill declared bankruptcy and was sold to a liquidation firm. 2,000 people lost their jobs.
The mill has been dark since spring, but current owner Hilco Trading decided to light the star anyway.
Mike Lewis figures it’s a gesture of solace. “You know I’m happy they lit the star, but, put that into the perspective of the annihilation of a plant and a lot of peoples’ livelihoods. I just almost think it’s like the vultures showing a little bit of mercy until a baby calf totally dies,” he says
This time next year, the furnace that the star sits on will likely be long gone.
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My Economy
A tale of two minimum wages
Paulina Velasco Jun 30, 2017
Protesters gathered at a rally for minimum wage in New York City.
We hear many sides to the minimum wage debate: The small business owners who are afraid they won’t make payroll if wages go up; the organizer advocating for higher wages for working families; the economist discussing if wages are keeping up with the cost of living.
But what about the people working minimum-wage jobs?
Marketplace Weekend reached out to farmers, restaurant workers, city employees and other people across the U.S. to find out what it’s like to earn minimum wage, (and not just at a summer job).
We spoke with two young women, both 21, in different parts of the country. Both support young children in one way or another. One earns minimum wage and the other earns close to it.
Tanya Harrell lives in Louisiana, which uses the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Harrell’s paid a little bit above that, $8 an hour, to work at a McDonald’s.
“I’m mostly supporting [my 3-year-old] child. I will work myself more than I am supposed to be worked, and I stress a little bit more when I can’t, you know, help myself a little bit more. And I’m always helping others. I have a grandmother that I have to take care of, and when she can’t get her medicine, I help her. And I can’t even afford to take care of my two little sisters that are in foster care. And that’s, like, the main reason of why I work so hard … I’m not going to say I like it. At the moment it’s not the best that I can do. But at the moment it’s just that I have to — not settle for it — but I have to deal with certain things. … The first thing I’m going to do is go back to school. When I finish that, it’s like I could defeat any test that comes my way.”
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Agadette Solis works at an IHOP in Los Angeles County, where the minimum wage is $10.50 an hour and going up to $12 on July 1st. She studies at the local community college when she can afford to enroll and supports her preschool-age brother and her 9-month-old sister.
“What it’s like to work on a minimum wage is constantly receiving harassment from customers who are belittling you, who don’t think that you can comprehend something simple. A lot of times, management doesn’t take the time to actually make you feel safe. It’s hard. It gets hard, and it’s super frustrating, because I have all these bills to pay. I have, you know, my two siblings to take care of. My main concern is them, regardless if they aren’t my children exactly. I love my job. I love talking to people and to customers, and it’s also hard at the same time. But even just like the little, you know, $1.50 raise … it does make a difference. “
To hear more from Harrell and Solis, click on the audio player above.
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MassVentures START Program RFP Opens Today, 3/1/16
March 1, 2016 /in News & Press /by James Chisholm
For MassVentures START (SBIR TARgeted Technologies) Program Stage I Grants
MassVentures hereby invites all Massachusetts companies that meet the new, expanded eligibility criteria set forth below to submit applications to its START program for Stage I grants.
What is START?
START is a program funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to assist Massachusetts companies that have received at least the equivalent of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) or Small Business Technology Transfer (“STTR”) grant to commercialize their technologies. The program was created to assist high growth companies that will expand employment opportunities, promote manufacturing and commercialization, and stimulate innovation across the Commonwealth.
Any Massachusetts company whose application to the program is not based on pharmaceutical, therapeutic or medical device technology and has received a Phase II SBIR.
We are pleased to announce that, for the first time, proposals based on clean energy, alternative energy and other energy technologies are eligible to apply for START.
There is no strict requirement about when the qualifying Phase II SBIR was received. However, if it was received prior to March 1, 2012, you should explain in your application why it remains commercially relevant today.
A “Massachusetts company” is one that conducts its research, development, manufacturing and commercialization primarily in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and for the purposes of this program commits to continuing to do so. It is expected that START funds will be spent primarily in Massachusetts.
A detailed description of the application process is located at https://www.mass-ventures.com/start-program/#tab-id-5
When is the Deadline for Applications?
The deadline for submitting applications is Monday, April 4, 2016, at 12:00 pm EST.
How Do I Get More Information?
Many of your questions will be answered on our website, https://www.mass-ventures.com/start-program/. Please make sure to review the full START section, including our Frequently Asked Questions page. If you have further questions after reviewing these pages, please contact the START Program Manager, John Fitzpatrick, at jfitzpatrick@mass-ventures.com. In addition, MassVentures will be conducting a conference call on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 2:00 pm at which potential applicants can ask us questions about the START Program and the Stage I application and selection process. The dial in information for that call is below:
When: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Call-in Info: Dial in #862-902-0240; Pin #7551599
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6th Circuit Denies En Banc Rehearing To Retirees Seeking Lifetime Health Benefits
CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a mandate on April 4 after denying Hoover Co. retirees’ petition for rehearing en banc of a divided panel ruling that the obligation to provide lifetime health care benefits promised in multiple collective bargaining agreements (CBA) ended when the last CBA ended (Joseph Zino, et al. v. Whirlpool Corp., et al., Nos. 17-3851, 17-3860, 6th Cir.).
Chevron Corp. Waives Right To Respond To High Court Fiduciary Duty Petition
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chevron Corp. on May 3 waived its right to respond to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by participants in its Employee Savings Investment Plan asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether a plaintiff alleging breach of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act can make a sufficient pleading with an allegation of a deficient decision-making process through inferences from facts known to the plaintiff (Charles E. White, Jr., et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al., No. 18-1271, U.S. Sup.).
Response Waived In Petition To U.S. High Court Over Successor Liability Finding
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) told the U.S. Supreme Court in an April 30 letter that it waives its right to respond to a petition for certiorari asking the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid Employee Retirement Income Security Act pension obligations (September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., No. 18-1265, U.S. Sup.).
1st Circuit Reinstates Challenge To ACA Contraception Rules
BOSTON — While the exact amount of Massachusetts’ alleged injury from rules granting expanded employers expanded exemptions to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACT) may not be known, it stands to reason that it is not zero and provides injury and standing, a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeal panel held May 2 (Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al., No. 18-1514, 1st Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 13293).
Insurance Classes Lay Out Proposed Remedies; Insurer Seeks Decertification
SAN FRANCISCO — A judge’s conclusion that an insurer violated the standards of care in denying coverage for intensive residential health care and substance abuse treatments requires changes to its business practices and court instruction on the processing of claims, plaintiffs in two Employee Retirement Income Security Act class actions told a federal judge in California on May 3. But in a motion seeking decertification of the class filed the same day, the insurer says the plaintiffs have not shown that common issues dominate the case (David and Natasha Wit, et al. v. United Behavioral Health, No. 14-02346, Gary Alexander, et al. v. United Behavioral Health, No. 14-5337, N.D. Calif.).
Government Appeals Finding That ACA Association Rule Violates ERISA
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Labor on May 1 appealed to the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a ruling invalidating a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) rule expanding the availability of association health plans that the court found did “violence” to the Employee Retirement Income Security (ERISA) definition of an employer (New York, et al. v. U.S. Department of Labor, et al., No. 19-5125, D.C. Cir.).
Judge Adopts Magistrate’s Report, Denies Dismissal Of ERISA Suit Against Aon Hewitt
OCALA, Fla. — A Florida federal judge on May 1 adopted a magistrate’s report that recommended denying Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting Inc.’s and Alight Solutions LLC’s motion to dismiss a not-for-profit corporation’s lawsuit alleging breach of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (Foundation Resolution Corp. v. Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting, Inc.,, et al., No: 18-458, M.D. Fla., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73143).
Disability Insurer Says High Court’s Review Is Not Warranted
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should deny a disability claimant’s petition for writ of certiorari because the questions presented by the claimant were not litigated in the lower courts and, therefore, are not suitable for the high court’s review, the insurer argues in a May 2 response brief (Timothy P. O’Leary v. Aetna Life Insurance Co., No. 18-1266, U.S. Sup.).
Plan Participant Entitled To Only Pro-Rated Share Of Retirement Benefits, Panel Says
NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 25 affirmed a district court’s ruling that a former employer is entitled to only a pro-rated share of his retirement benefits according to the terms of a deferred compensation agreement between the employee and employer (Daniel Verdier v. Thalle Construction Co. Inc., No. 18-868, 2nd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 13150).
Panel: UPenn Plan Participants May Pursue Fiduciary Breach Claims
PHILADELPHIA — A divided Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 2 reversed a Pennsylvania federal judge’s dismissal of allegations that the University of Pennsylvania breached its fiduciary duty when it charged excessive investment fees to 403(b) plan participants but agreed that allegations that the university engaged in prohibited transactions are inadequately pleaded (Jennifer Sweda, et al. v. University of Pennsylvania, et al., No. 17-3244, 3rd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 13284).
High Court Should Review Forum-Selection Clauses In ERISA Plans, Petitioner Says
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should grant a pension plan participant’s petition for writ of certiorari because the issue of whether private employee benefit plans can override the statutory venue choices that Congress made available to plan participants under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is one of national importance and one that has arisen numerous times in lower federal courts, the plan participant argues in an April 23 petition to the high court (Jeffrey A. Robertson v. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, et al., No. 18-1341, U.S. Sup.).
Judge Preliminarily Approves $3.5M Settlement With Brown University In ERISA Dispute
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island federal judge on April 15 granted plaintiffs’ unopposed motion for preliminarily approval of a $3.5 million settlement in their class action alleging that Brown University breached its fiduciary duty in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act in its management of its retirement plans (Diane G. Short, et al. v. Brown University, No. 17-318, D. R.I.).
3 Judges Recuse Themselves From Proton Beam Radiation Therapy ERISA Class Action
MIAMI — A third federal judge in Florida on April 30 recused himself from a class action accusing United Health Care Insurance Co. (UHC) of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when refusing to reimburse patients for proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) after another judge said in an April 29 order that it is “immoral and barbaric” to not reimburse prostate cancer patients for the treatment because it is not experimental and causes less collateral damage (Richard Cole, et al. v. United Health Care Insurance Co., No. 19-cv-21258, S.D. Fla.).
IBM Employees Say No Basis For High Court Review Of Duty-Of-Prudence Claim
WASHINGTON, D.C. — IBM employees on April 18 said there is no basis for the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari review of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision that they plausibly asserted a duty-of-prudence claim against the fiduciaries of an IBM employee stock option plan (ESOP) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al., No. 18-1165, U.S. Sup.).
Respondent: ERISA Dispute Not Ripe For High Court Review
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an April 29 opposition brief, a respondent told the U.S. Supreme Court it should deny a petition for certiorari that poses the question of whether the “actual knowledge” exception to the “generally applicable” six-year statute of limitations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act requires both knowledge that imprudent investment occurred and knowledge, at the time, that the investment was imprudent (Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al., v. Christopher Sulyma, et al., No. 18-1116, U.S. Sup.).
Panel: ERISA-Governed Life Insurance Policies Exclude Cause Of Death
CHICAGO — A reasonable person would interpret a man’s cause of death of autoerotic asphyxiation to be an “intentionally self-inflicted injury” under life insurance policies governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a majority of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held April 29, reversing a lower court (LeTran Tran v. Minnesota Life Insurance Co., No. 18-1723, 7th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 12895).
Judge Says More Facts Needed On Tribe’s ERISA Claims Against Blue Cross
BAY CITY, Mich. — A federal judge in Michigan on April 26 turned down an insurer’s request to dismiss on remand an Indian tribe’s claims that the insurer violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by failing to pay Medicare-like rates for hospital services under two health care plans, saying more factual development is needed at this stage of the litigation (Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, et al. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, No. 1:16-cv-10317, E.D. Mich., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70688).
Panel Affirms: Surviving Spouse Benefits Request Is Time-Barred
CINCINNATI — In an April 25 holding, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found that a plaintiff who failed to diligently pursue her claim for surviving-spouse benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is barred by the six-year statute of limitations in Tennessee for pursuing a contract claim (Joyce Ensley v. Charles Whobrey, et al., No. 18-5459, 6th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 12626).
Disability, Life Insurance Plan Not Exempt From ERISA, Federal Judge Says
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A disability and life insurance plan provided to employees of a public library is not exempt under the governmental agency exception in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because the library does not qualify as an agency of the government of New York City or the borough of Brooklyn, a New York federal judge said April 18 in denying the disability claimant’s motion to remand (Brian J. Skornick v. Principal Financial Group, et al., No. 18-4324, S.D. N.Y., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66124).
Judge Approves $9M Settlement For Prudential’s Failure To Make Lump Sum Payments
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on April 5 entered final approval of a $9 million settlement to resolve allegations that Prudential Insurance Company of America breached its fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when failing to make lump sum payments to beneficiaries (Clark R. Huffman, et al. v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, No. 10cv5135, E.D. Pa., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58667).
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5MinuteConsult
Copyright/Source: Wolters Kluwer
Access: Restricted to UNH users
Type: Handbooks
Provides clinicians and students quick information and targeted, evidence-based medical content on diseases, conditions, drugs, and more at the point-of-care.
60 Minutes: 1997-2014
Dates of coverage: 1997 - 2014
Copyright/Source: Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company
Type: Audio, Video & Images
Provides streaming video access to the 60 Minutes news show archive for the third and fourth decades of this long-running show, plus segments from the CBS News program Sunday Morning. Includes transcripts of the videos for ease of citation, and a citation export feature. Topics include international and national news, politics, women's studies, society and culture, and more.
Abstracts in Anthropology
Dates of coverage: 2001 - present
Full text: None; abstracts only
Copyright/Source: Baywood Publishing
Type: Articles
Several thousand abstracts, selected and classified, fully indexed by author and subject, provide a thorough coverage of anthropological scholarship in all its subfields: Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics.
Academic Search Ultimate
Full text: Some
Copyright/Source: EBSCO Industries, Inc.
Collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Full text: All
Concurrent Users: 3
Copyright/Source: The McGraw-Hill Companies
Type: Encyclopedias
A college-level encyclopedia of science and technology. Includes a science dictionary, an "In the News" section, and several features for undergraduate students: basic tables, study guides, and brief scientific biographies.
Mac Users - Use Safari with this database. There have been access problems with Internet Explorer.
Accessible Archives
Dates of coverage: Varies
Copyright/Source: Accessible Archives Inc
Type: Newspapers
Provides archived historical information, including Godey's Lady's Book: Parts I-III, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, and African American Newspapers: The 19th Century.
Copyright/Source: Association for Computing Machinery
Full text of all Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings. Includes bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full text for articles along with selected works published by affiliated organizations.
ACS Legacy Archives
Dates of coverage: 1879-1995
Copyright/Source: American Chemical Society
Type: Articles, Primary Sources
Full text searching and instant access to all titles, volumes, issues, and articles published by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The Archives enables researchers to understand historical discoveries that led to modern chemistry and influenced such fields as biology, physics, medicine, agriculture, and engineering.
ACS Publications
The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Copyright/Source: Accessible Archives, Inc.
Type: Newspapers, Primary Sources
Full-text/full-image pages containing early biographies, vital statistics, editorials and advertisements. Includes Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.
Copyright/Source: ProQuest LLC
Type: Articles, Dissertations & Theses
Primary information sources in agriculture and related fields and includes citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
Provides abstracts and citations to material in the agricultural and environmental sciences; includes scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Includes AGRICOLA and TOXLINE.
Copyright/Source: FAO
This United Nations database is produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization and indexes international agricultural publications. AGRIS complements AGRICOLA, but is more narrowly focused to food and nutrition. The multilingual database is free to all.
AGU - Wiley Online Library
Copyright/Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Type: Articles, Ebooks
Formerly known as the AGU Digital Library, the AGU - Wiley Online Library provides access to peer-reviewed scientific publications covering research in the Earth and space sciences.
AHFS Consumer Medication Information
Type: Collections
A source for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.
Copyright/Source: American Institute of Physics
Reports findings presented at many of the most important scientific meetings around the world. Published proceedings are valuable as topical status reports providing quick access to information before it appears in the traditional journal literature.
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
Dates of coverage: 1990+
Copyright/Source: Air University Library and Defense Technical Information Center
Subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English-language military and aeronautical periodicals.
Alternative Press Index
Copyright/Source: EBSCO
Bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to alternative sources of information.
Alternative Press Index Archive
Bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Companion to the Alternative Press Index.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
Copyright/Source: Readex
Funded by: PhD Enhancement Fund of the Vice President for Research and Public Service, President's Fund for Excellence, Graduate School, William L. Dunfey Endowment for the Study of History, Stuart Palmer Book Fund
Comprehensive digital archive that includes titles from all 50 states. Our subscription currently includes Series 1, 1690-1876, Series 2, 1758-1900, and Series 3, 1829-1922.
America: History and Life with Full Text
Copyright/Source: EBSCO Publishing
Index to sources on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes book and media reviews and citations to abstracts of dissertations as well as journal article citations.
Copyright/Source: New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS)
Type: Collections, Primary Sources
New England Historic Genealogical Society website, providing access to genealogical records spanning the US and beyond, including collections of early American records, and the largest searchable collection of published genealogical research journals and magazines. Content includes English, New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont), New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia materials.
Note: this resource is accessible only on workstations in Dimond Library; there is no wireless access.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 (1691-1820)
Presents over 500 titles. The content is available through EBSCO's Historical Digital Archive Viewer, which combines the experience of browsing and reading original sources with the convenience of keyword access, a variety of page views, note-taking capabilities, and numerous downloading options.
Presents over 1000 titles. The subject matter is broad in scope and includes agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.
American History in Video
Dates of coverage: 1600s to present
Copyright/Source: Alexander Street Press, LLC
Collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. Allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
American Men and Women of Science
Dates of coverage: 22nd ed. (2005) - present
Copyright/Source: Gale
Type: Ebooks, Encyclopedias
Respected biographical dictionary of the significant players in the physical, biological, and related sciences. Each edition includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists, providing birth date & place, field of specialty, education, professional and career information, awards, research information, addresses where available, and more.
American National Biography
Dates of coverage: 1600s - present
Copyright/Source: Oxford University Press
Profiles of more than 18,700 deceased men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the US. Search or browse by name or use Advanced Search (Search tab) to find people by occupation/realm of renown, gender, birth and/or death date, birthplace, and more.
All the articles originally included in the ANB Online were on biographical subjects who died before the end of 1995. Articles on important figures who have died since 1995 are being added in quarterly updates, but coverage of people in this category is not yet complete. If you cannot find an article on a subject, he or she may have died after 1995, or may be living.
Copyright/Source: American Society for Microbiology
The Society's journals cover the spectrum of microbiology, including coverage of both basic and clinical microbiology.
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Type: US Federal
Contains the legislative and executive documents of the first 14 US Congresses (about 6,300 documents). Arranged in ten subject such as Foreign Relations and Military Affairs and with full-text search capability, this is a rich resource in primary documents on wide-ranging aspects of early American history.
Americans at War
Copyright/Source: Thomson Gale
Explains how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life. This encyclopedia places major American conflicts -- from the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism -- in the context of cultural and social events and conditions on the homefront. Articles include biographies and topics such as civil liberties, media, politics, popular culture, religion, memory and national identity, civic celebrations and monumental art, the roles of women and minorities, veterans, and more.
Analytical Abstracts
Copyright/Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
Produced by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Offers comprehensive coverage of analytical chemistry information, allowing searching of analytes, matrices and by concept (techniques, physico-chemical parameters, instruments, etc.). Accessible via Analytical WebBase, this offers indexing of 230 journals, with full coverage of 50 journals, as well as selected books and other information.
Ancestry Library
Copyright/Source: Proquest
Type: Primary Sources
Genealogical research database providing information on more than 1 billion names and 3000 databases. Includes selected census records, birth, marriage and death, military, probate, and immigration and naturalization records as well as some genealogical newspapers and periodicals. Also included are guides to starting genealogical research and compiling a family history.
Anneé Philologique
Dates of coverage: Classical era
Copyright/Source: Brepols Publishers NV
Bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Covers a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics, including early Christian texts and patristics, Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy.
Annual Reviews Online
Copyright/Source: Annual Reviews
Offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical review articles written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
AnnualReports.com
Dates of coverage: Current Year
Copyright/Source: AnnualReports.com
Annual reports for many public companies. Search for a company alphabetically, by company name, by ticker symbol, by sector, or by industry.
Anthropological Literature (EBSCO)
Dates of coverage: 19th century - present
Copyright/Source: OCLC/Havard University via EBSCO Publishing
Indexes articles, reports, commentaries, and obituaries found in hundreds of journals and monographic series. International coverage includes social and cultural anthropology, Old and New World archaeology, physical anthropology and anthropological aspects of related subjects.
APA Handbook of Ethics in Psychology, Vol. 1-2
Copyright/Source: American Psychological Association
Investigates the complexities of ethical behavior in clinical, educational, experimental, forensic, health, and "tele-" psychology. Also discusses the teaching of ethics.
APA Handbook of Research Methods In Psychology, Vol. 1-3
Type: Ebooks, Handbooks
Features descriptions of many techniques that psychologists and others have developed to help them pursue a shared understanding of why humans think, feel, and behave the way they do.
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
Copyright/Source: The H.W. Wilson Company, licensed to EBSCO Publishing
Articles from both trade and professional society journals, in applied science and technology; including aeronautics; applied, optical, and neural computing; applied mathematics; artificial intelligence; atmospheric sciences; construction; energy resources; food science; information technology; marine and space technology, robotics, and several engineering areas, including automotive, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, industrial, and mechanical.
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
Type: Articles, Technical Reports
Premier reference in the field of aquatic resources including serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations, and limited distribution literature.
Includes: Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 2: Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-Living Resources, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Aquaculture Abstracts, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Marine Biotechnology Abstracts, and Oceanic Abstracts.
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources
Provides extensive coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic organisms for scientists involved in the cooperative management of the world's living aquatic resources. All aspects of marine, freshwater and brackish water organisms and environments are examined, including information on biology and ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources and related legal, policy and socioeconomic issues.
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 2: Ocean Technology, Policy, & Non-Living Resources
This subset of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts database concentrates on non-biologic scientific topics, such as physical oceanography and limnology, marine meteorology and climatology, geochemistry, marine geology and geophysics. In addition, it covers various types of marine technology used in both research and commerce. Finally, it deals with marine law and policy and with economics and commerce.
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality
Provides access to abstracts covering research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and estuaries.
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA): Aquaculture Abstracts
Provides aquaculture-related information on studies related to improving and augmenting aquatic yields. The records included provide comprehensive information on cultivating marine, freshwater and brackish water species.
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA): Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
Provides information on findings from investigations on increased production of seafood, in the development of new therapeutic drugs, in the engineering of microbes that digest and remove environmental and marine pollutants and in launching myriad ventures having immense economic benefit.
ARIBIB Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References
Dates of coverage: Ancient times to 2000
Copyright/Source: Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (Heidelberg)
Major index for all areas of astronomy and astrophysics, covering the international research literature. Includes biographical and historical references to the field. Types of sources indexed include journals, proceedings, books and reports. Refers to abstracts published in its printed counterparts, Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, 1969-2000, Astronomischer Jahresbericht, 1899-1968, and earlier bibliographies (see UNH Library Catalog for information on print holdings).
ARL Annual Salary Survey
Dates of coverage: 2005/2006 - present
Copyright/Source: Association of Research Libraries
Type: Statistics, Polls & Data Sets
Reports salaries for professional positions in the Association of Research Libraries' member libraries. These data are used to determine whether salaries are competitive, equitable across institutions and personal characteristics, and keeping up with inflation. The survey also tracks minority representation in ARL US libraries and reports separate data for health sciences and law libraries.
ARL Statistics
Describes the collections, staffing, expenditures (for both print and electronic materials), and service activities of the 125 Association of Research Libraries member libraries in the US and Canada.
Art Index
Index of articles from art periodicals published throughout the world. Source documents also include yearbooks, museum bulletins and reproductions of art works.
Art Index Retrospective
Index covering more than 55 years of art journalism from over 420 notable publications. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins as well as publications in French, Italian, German, and Dutch.
ARTFL Project
Dates of coverage: 12th - 20th centuries
Copyright/Source: University of Chicago Division of the Humanities
Type: Collections, Dictionaries
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language provides access to texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. Includes access to ARTFL-FRANTEXT, Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, French Women Writers, Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, Journal de Trévoux, Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database, Provençal Poetry, and Textes de Français Ancien.
Artifex Press
Copyright/Source: Artifex Press
Provides access to digitized art catalogs for various artists including Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Tim Hawkinson, Agnes Martin, Lucas Samaras, and James Siena. To access click "Institutional Login" button.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Copyright/Source: Thomson Reuters
The Web of Science accesses ISI citation databases covering thousands of scholarly journals from the Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. Especially useful is the Cited Reference Search, which finds newer articles citing to older, known items. For literary topics, limit search to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
To access Arts & Humanities Citation Index online, click "More Settings" and select Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) --1975-present
Copyright/Source: ARTstor Inc.
Digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Get help for ARTstor.
arXiv.org e-Print Archive
Copyright/Source: Cornell University
Provides open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
ASBC Methods of Analysis
Dates of coverage: 14th edition (continuously updated)
Copyright/Source: American Society of Brewing Chemists
Type: Standards
The American Society of Brewing Chemists disseminates scientific brewing knowledge, improves and expands methods of measurement, identifies and rapidly responds to industry technical concerns, and develops scientists for the brewing industry.
ASME Transaction Journals
Copyright/Source: ASME
Provides full text access to journals published by the ASME (founded as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers).
Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
Dates of coverage: Founded in 1997; online in 1998
Copyright/Source: The Association of Religion Data Archives
Type: Social Sciences and Health
Collection of hundreds of surveys, polls, and other data submitted by researchers interested in religion. Includes American and international collections.
ASTM Compass
Dates of coverage: Active Standards
Copyright/Source: ASTM
Formerly known as ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library. Provides access to industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. Covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.
The UNH Library also has the full set of ASTM standards in print for 2012. The print ASTM standards in the UNH Library are available at the Engineering, Math & Computer Science Library in Kingsbury Hall. See the UNH Library Catalog for call number and availability (title: Annual Book of ASTM Standards).
Astrophysics Data System
Dates of coverage: v.1 to present (Astronomy); 1975 to present (Physics)
Copyright/Source: Originating publishers
Type: Articles, Technical Reports, Dissertations & Theses
NASA project, provides indexes to research publications in astronomy and astrophysics/planetary sciences/solar physics; instrumentation; physics and geophysics; and the Los Alamos preprint server. Sources include journals, conference proceedings, NASA reports, and dissertations. Searching is by author, object name (astronomy), title, words in the abstract, or journal citation. Links to online abstracts and journal articles, and extensive set of scanned journal and proceedings papers. Also provides access to NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database) and SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data). Other functions include a table-of-contents service for over 20 journals, links to cited and citing articles, and scanned copies of selected books and observatory reports.
Dates of coverage: 1600's - 1990
Copyright/Source: Australian National University
Interpretative biographical articles on deceased (prior to 1991) people from every social group and sphere of endeavor who have made a significant contribution to the Australian nation. Entries range from 500 to 6,000 words.
Entries are currently being selected for people who died in 1991-2000.
BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
Copyright/Source: Operated by Bielefeld University Library
Search engine for academic open access web resources. Full text of about 70% of the indexed documents can be accessed.
Type: Dictionaries
Based on the 2006 English-language edition of Emmanuel Bénézit's Dictionary of Artists, this resource contains artist biographies, auction records, exhibition histories, museum listings, bibliographies, images of artists signatures and monograms, and links to external websites of research value.
Bibliography and Index of Micropaleontology
Copyright/Source: Micropaleontology Press
Access to publications in all fields of micropaleontology, the study of microscopic fossils; special features allow focus on fossil groups, range of dates, types of publications, GeoRef keywords.
Bibliography of the History of Art
Dates of coverage: 1975 to 2007
Copyright/Source: J. Paul Getty Trust & CNRS
Indexes and abstracts articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. This extensive and comprehensive index covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present.
Dates of coverage: Varies by publication
Copyright/Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library
Type: Articles, Collections
Consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections; BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life.
Biography in Context
Dates of coverage: All eras
Copyright/Source: Gale Group
Offers over 600,000 biographies spanning history and geography with over 50,000 new and/or updated biographies added annually. Content includes reference material, magazines, audio and video content, images, and links to screened, reliable websites. Can browse or search by name, occupation, nationality, etc. or by multiple criteria in Advanced Search.
Biological Abstracts
Concurrent Users: 10
Copyright/Source: Biological Abstracts, Inc., licensed to Thompson Scientific
Provides access to articles in biological and biomedical research journals, covering about 5,200 sources; long abstracts and indexing of scientific names and systematic categories are important features.
Biological Science Database
Includes Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources providing access to the extensive variety of biology’s cutting edge research, with applications to medicine, technology and the environment.
BioMedCentral Open Access
Copyright/Source: BioMed Central Ltd
Provides immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
BioOne Complete
Copyright/Source: BioOne through ProQuest
Aggregation of primary research in the fields of organismal biology, ecology, zoology, and environmental science; topics include global warming, stem cell research, and ecological and biodiversity conservation.
BIOSIS Citation Index
Provides access to Unique BIOSIS content that is critical to life sciences research with powerful citation indexing.
Biotechnology and BioEngineering Abstracts
Provides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental, and marine biology.
Birds of North America Online
Copyright/Source: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Provides coverage of the life histories of North America’s breeding birds. Contains image and video galleries showing plumages, behaviors, habitat, nests and eggs, as well as recordings of songs and calls of the species.
Book Citation Index: Science
Enhances the discovery and analysis capabilities of Web of Science by incorporating comprehensive book citation data in the sciences.
Book Review Digest Plus
Provides book reviews on a wide range of topics, from a variety of sources; many of the reviews are serious, academic works.
Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982
Provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction, from nearly eight decades (1908-1982) of H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest.
Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext)
Access in html format to this daily newspapers and a leading news source for Massachusetts. Searchable by keyword, type of articles, etc.
Boston Globe (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.
Boston Globe Digital Current
Dates of coverage: 1997-present
Access in HTML format to this daily newspapers and leading news source for Massachusetts. Also reports some New Hampshire news. Searchable by keyword, type of articles, etc.
Boston Globe Recent (ProQuest Digitized Newspapers)
Dates of coverage: 2008 - 3 months ago
The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable.
Copyright/Source: Missouri Botanical Garden
Freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
Copyright/Source: Bridgeman Copyright
The world's leading source of art images, representing museums, galleries, and artists throughout the world by providing a central source of fine art for image users. Every subject, concept, style and medium is represented, from the masterpieces of national museums to the hidden treasures of private collections. Fine art is just one of the sources of images; design antiques, maps, architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, anthropological artefacts and many others also feature in the collection.
Brill's New Pauly
Dates of coverage: second millennium BC to early medieval
Copyright/Source: Koninklijke Brill NV
A reference work for the ancient world. Fifteen volumes (Antiquity, 1-15) are devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity and cover more than two thousand years of history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe. Five volumes (Classical Tradition, I-V) are uniquely concerned with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship.
Brill's New Pauly. Supplements
Copyright/Source: 3rd millennium BC until the 15th century AD
Enriches the information from the encyclopedia with its exhaustive lists of names, dates and facts about the people who shaped the ancient world. Volume 1 : Chronologies of the Ancient World - Names, Dates and Dynasties; Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts; Volume 3 : Historical Atlas of the Ancient World; Volume 4 : The Reception of Myth and Mythology.
Built to compliment your searching needs, BrowZine allows you to browse, read, and follow many of the library’s scholarly journals via browser or from Android and iOS mobile devices.
Watch “Be Inspired with BrowZine” by Third Iron on Vimeo, to learn more about how BrowZine can enhance your research experience.
Business Cycle Indicators
Copyright/Source: The Conference Board Inc.
Type: Statistics, Polls & Data Sets, Business, Economics, and Finance
The Conference Board publishes leading, coincident, and lagging indexes designed to signal peaks and troughs in the business cycle for ten countries around the world.
Business Source Corporate
Combines information from over 2,500 full-text periodicals, a directory covering over 3 million companies, over 60,000 hand-selected Web links, and an image database of 10,000 images.
Offers access to peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business that spark discussion on future developments and changes in the business world.
Copyright/Source: CABI Publishing
Focuses on articles, books, and gray literature including agriculture, animal and veterinary sciences, environmental sciences, human health, food and nutrition, leisure and tourism, microbiology and parasitology, and plant sciences.
Cambridge Histories Online
Dates of coverage: UNH's access is for all volumes added through 2012
Copyright/Source: Cambridge University Press
Type: Collections, Ebooks
Provides coverage across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history. Each volume includes authoritative narrative accounts by specialists and extensive bibliographies. The subject categories containing the most volumes are regional history, general history (with its chronological series) and literary studies, but there are also several series on the history of religion, philosophy and economic history.
Caribbean Newspapers. Series 1, 1718-1876
Featuring more than 140 newspapers from 22 islands. Most published in the English language; some also in Spanish, French, and Danish. Useful for research on colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and related topics.
Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
Copyright/Source: Foundation Center
Contains citations for articles, books, videos, etc. on topics including philanthropy, foundations, the nonprofit sector, voluntarism, government policies and funding, as well as theory and philosophy.
Catalog of US Government Publications (CGP)
Dates of coverage: Comprehensive: 1976 - present; Selective: 1800 - 1975
Copyright/Source: US Government
Finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.
Chaucer Bibliography Online
Copyright/Source: University of Texas at San Antonio Library and The New Chaucer Society
Provides a complete and systematic bibliographic online search tool for scholarship on Geoffrey Chaucer, providing annotations or content summaries for all entries.
Copyright/Source: Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting
Type: Articles, State and Regional, US Federal
A comprehensive tax and accounting research database covering tax and accounting laws and news on the international, federal, state and local levels. Provides access to a variety of primary sources, analysis, journals, news, cases, and rulings.
Users may create a Checkpoint ID at http://www.checkpoint-registration.riag.com/schools . Must be done on campus using your UNH, not personal, email address. Works best with Firefox or Chrome.
ChemDraw Prime
Dates of coverage: N/A
Copyright/Source: PerkinElmer Inc.
The industry-standard software for chemical structure drawing that allows you to create stereochemically-correct structures from chemical names. Our site license permits UNH-credentialed users to install ChemDraw software on personal computers. To download ChemDraw software: users must enter their ChemDraw Login ID and Password then click 'Login' to start the download process. For assistance, contact Chemistry Library staff (chemistry.library@unh.edu).
Click here to register using your University of New Hampshire email address.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Dates of coverage: 15th-16th Editions
Copyright/Source: University of Chicago
Includes fully-searchable text with added features such as tools for editors, a quick citation guide, and searchable access to the Chicago Style Q&A, wherein University of Chicago Press manuscript editors answer readers' editorial style questions.
Christian Science Monitor Digital Current
Access in HTML format. CSM covers international and US news and features.
Christian Science Monitor (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright/Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The electronic version is made available within two business days after publication of the print edition, and may include information not available in the print edition.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Copyright/Source: Columbia University Press
Type: Primary Sources, Dissertations & Theses
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, CIAO publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, policy briefs and case studies by leading scholars.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) Complete
Copyright/Source: CINAHL Plus with Full Text Information Systems licensed to EBSCO Publishing
The definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature, with full text for more than 770 journals and indexing for more than 5000 journals. CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
12 concurrent users; for course or database instructional use please call 1-800-758-5995 and unlimited access will be granted for a limited time.
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Copyright/Source: Accessible Archives
A full-text, full-image collection of newspapers that includes eyewitness accounts and official reports of battles and events from the Civil War, advertisements, news articles and editorials.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Copyright/Source: The Cochrane Library, licensed to EBSCO Publishing
Includes details of published articles taken from bibliographic databases (notably MEDLINE and EMBASE), and other published and unpublished sources. Records include the title of the article, information on where it was published (bibliographic details) and, in many cases, a summary of the article.
Cochrane Clinical Answers
A physician-focused resource that provides answers to clinical questions.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
A leading journal and database for systematic reviews in health and medicine. A global and independent network of researchers, health professionals, and patients utilize rigorous methodologies to produce high quality, relevant, and up-to-date synthesized research evidence, protocols, editorials, and supplements.
Cochrane Methodology Register
A bibliography of publications that report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books, and conference proceedings, and the content is sourced from MEDLINE and hand searches. CMR contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies that could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews.
Copyright/Source: Adam Matthew Digital
Features all files of the Colonial Office 5 class at The National Archives, UK. It consists of the original correspondence between the Board of Trade and Secretaries of State and the English, later British, colonies in North America and the Caribbean.
Please note: Colonial America will be released in five modules: Module 1: Early Settlement, Expansion and Rivalries (2015); Module 2: Towards Revolution (2016); Module 3: The American Revolution (scheduled 2017); Module 4: Legislation and Politics in the Colonies (scheduled 2018); Module 5: Growth, Trade and Development (scheduled 2019).
Covers major journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource that encompasses the breadth of the communication discipline.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Dates of coverage: varies by journal title
Offers indexing and abstracts for over 400 journals, including full text for nearly 200 journals in areas related to communication and mass media.
Copyright/Source: Engineering Information Inc.
Index to 2,600 journals, conferences, and reports, with comprehensive coverage of engineering literature. Includes abstracts for 50% of entries. Offers personalized options, including saved queries and biweekly e-mail alerts. Corresponds to Engineering Index (for information on print holdings from 1884- see UNH Library Catalog).
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Dates of coverage: Classical Antiquity - Present
Copyright/Source: Charles Scribner's Sons
Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.
Comprehensive Clinical Psychology
Dates of coverage: Published 1998
Copyright/Source: Elsevier Science
Type: Ebooks
Information on the scientific status of clinical psychology and its subspecialties, theory, clinical techniques, history of the field, and current thinking about training, professional standards and practices, and socio-cultural factors in mental health and illness.
Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II
Copyright/Source: Elsevier
Builds on the classic Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry, published in 1987, and surveys new developments authoritatively, with an emphasis on current trends in biology, materials science and other areas of contemporary scientific interest.
Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry
Devoted to organic heterocyclic compounds in which at least one of the ring atoms is carbon, the others being considered the heteroatoms; carbon is still by far the most common ring atom in heterocyclic compounds. As the number and variety of heteroatoms in the ring increase there is a steady transition to the expanding domain of inorganic heterocyclic systems.
Comprehensive Organic Synthesis
Draws together the common themes that underlie the many apparently disparate areas of organic chemistry which underpin synthetic strategies, thus providing a comprehensive overview of this important discipline. The contributions have been organized to reflect the way in which synthetic chemists approach a problem. In terms of organic molecules, the work is divided into formation of carbon-carbon bonds, introduction of heteroatoms and heteroatom interconversions.
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry
A compendium of knowledge covering contemporary organometallic and carbon monoxide chemistry. In addition to reviewing the chemistry of the elements individually, it surveys the use of organometallic species in organic synthesis and in catalysis, especially of industrial utility.
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II
Conference Board Research Collection
A searchable collection of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, non-biased research includes studies of F500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM, and more.
Conference Papers Index
Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world; since 1995 emphasis has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences; pre-1995 material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.
Congressional Publications
Provides comprehensive indexing from 1789 for US legislative information, with much full text from mid-1990s .
**Added in 2017 is full text for Congressional hearings (1824-1979), committee prints and Congressional Research Service reports (1830-2003), and unpublished hearings (House: 1973-1982; Senate: 1985-1992).
Copyright/Source: United States Congress
Public policy briefs issued by the Congressional Research Service to inform members of Congress and their staff on subjects of current interest. Funded by taxpayer money and thus all in the public domain, these reports are nonpartisan and concise. Currently more than 3,300 reports are available, on topics such as Gas prices and US treatment of prisoners in Iraq.
Note: The information on this site is compiled and made available as a public service by the Government Documents Department at the University of North Texas Libraries. UNT does not make any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the information and is not responsible for any errors or omissions or for results obtained from the use of the information. Distribution of the information does not constitute such a warranty. Use of the information is the sole responsibility of the user.
Copyright/Source: Gale Cengage Learning
Contains current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors. You can easily search for an author by name, title of work, subject/genre, nationality, date and place of birth, honors, awards and much more.
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Dates of coverage: 17th century - 20th century
Copyright/Source: Cornell University Library
An electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.
Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs
A digitized collection of over 500 selected historical math monographs, made available in full text to the general public in accordance with the terms set forth in “Guidelines for Using Public Domain Text, Images, Audio and Video Reproduced from Cornell Digital Library Collections”
Copyright/Source: CQ Press
Contains original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news, providing in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published 44 times a year by CQ Press.
There is a limit of 10 concurrent users.
Copyright/Source: CREDO Reference
Type: Collections, Dictionaries, Ebooks, Encyclopedias
Online reference library that provides access to a selection of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Indexes over 400 journals from all areas of criminology and criminal justice and from around the world.
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Dates of coverage: 1976 - present (coverage varies by title)
Copyright/Source: SAGE Publications, Inc.
A subset of SAGE Journals.
Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body
Copyright/Source: ABC-CLIO
Collection of culturally informed essays on body parts provides context and weight to the pop culture and media focus on the body beautiful.
Current Chemical Reactions
Provides access to the latest synthetic methods reported in over 100 of the world's leading organic chemistry journals. Each reaction provides complete reaction diagrams,critical conditions, bibliographic data, and author abstracts.
Provides access to complete tables of content and bibliographic information from the world's leading scholarly journals and books.
Current Index to Statistics (CIS)
Copyright/Source: The American Statistical Association & the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes coverage, in most cases from 1974 to the present from 106 "core journals" (and pre-1974 coverage for a number of them), selected articles from about 900 additional journals, and about 8,000 books in statistics. Each year, the Extended Database is updated with an additional year of coverage.
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
Dates of coverage: 2004 -
Copyright/Source: Wiley and Sons Inc.
Funded by: W. Peter Hood '56 and Joan MacFarlane Hood '59 Endowed Fund for the University Library
Lab manual containing basic methods for DNA preparation and isolation, library screening, and sequencing along with more advanced procedures detailing DNA-protein interactions, yeast manipulation, and phosphorylation analyses.
Data Citation Index provides access to research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
Dates of coverage: 19th century to present
Copyright/Source: Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc.
Contains audio files of over 3700 CDs. DRAM includes 7500 compositions of classical music, folk music, opera, jazz, country music, early rhythm and blues, musical theater, experimental music, electronic music, early rock and Native American music from the United States.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Dates of coverage: Varies by title
Copyright/Source: Creative Commons, Some rights reserved
Type: Maps & Geospatial Data, Primary Sources
Focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of the Western Hemisphere, but covers other areas. Features innovative interfaces for searching by area and time range.
Type: Articles, Patents
Derwent Innovations Index merges patent information from Derwent World Patents Index with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. Users can conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering.
Dictionary of Inorganic & Organometallic Compounds
Dates of coverage: Current
Copyright/Source: Chapman & Hall/CRC
A structured database holding information on chemical substances. It includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. A free browser plug-in is available that allows you to draw and upload graphical structure queries.
Please click "Get the Plug-In" (on list to left of search screen) for instructions and download.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Dictionary of National Biography
Dates of coverage: 4th Century BC - 2002
An illustrated collection of more than 58,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. Offers a variety of browse and search options as well as themes (reference groups, reference lists, and feature essays on topical anniversaries.
Digital Einstein Papers
Copyright/Source: Princeton University Press
Provides open access to all volumes published to date of The Collected papers of Albert Einstein and covers the writings and correspondence of Albert Einstein.
Copyright/Source: DPLA
Type: Audio, Video & Images, Primary Sources
Offers a single point of access to millions of freely available digitized items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, maps, and more—from America’s libraries, archives, and museums. In addition to a standard search engine, the portal provides searching and access by timeline, map, format, or topic.
Digital Sanborn Maps
Copyright/Source: ProQuest, LLC; All copyright in the Sanborn Maps are held by Environmental Data Resources, Inc. or its affiliates
Access: Restricted to UNH users, Non-commercial use only
Sanborn Company's fire insurance maps of New Hampshire are valuable historical documents depicting the development of cities, towns, and neighborhoods; they show outlines of individual buildings, their use, and physical characteristics. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property.
Digitized Primary American History Resources
Copyright/Source: Rod Library University of Northern Iowa
Provides links to primary sources of American history, including historic documents, digital collections from universities and archives, presidential papers, photograph collections and documents from all American conflicts from the French & Indian Wars to Desert Storm.
Digitized World History Sources
Dates of coverage: Varies (Ancient History - Present )
Provides links to myriad primary sources of world history, searchable geographically, topically and chronologically. Also includes links to "landmark historic documents" as diverse as the Code of Hammurabi, the Magna Carta, the Manifesto of the Communist Party, and the Koran.
Dimensions - Research Knowledge System
Copyright/Source: UNH Research Development
Type: Articles, General
A linked research knowledge system that makes it easy to find and analyze the most relevant research information; uncover evidence of impact, reach and engagement; and gather insights to inform future research activity.
To access, go to https://app.dimensions.ai/
Log in with your UNH email address/UNH username and password
Directory of American Poets and Writers
Dates of coverage: Contemporary Authors
Copyright/Source: Poets & Writers, Inc.
Lists names, addresses, and publication credits for over 8,200 contemporary authors.
Copyright/Source: Open Access/Creative Commons
Multidisciplinary database of open access journals covering all scientific and scholarly subjects.
Dissertations & Theses @ UNH
Type: Dissertations & Theses
Gives access to the citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses graduate students have published through ProQuest Dissertation Publishing. In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available. In most cases, this will be graduate works published in 1997 forward.
Dissertations & Theses A&I
Includes citations back to 1861, abstracts back to 1980 and 24-page previews for all dissertations after 1997. Also includes the full-text of all UNH dissertations from 1997 onward, as well as full-text of all UNH Masters Theses from 2006 onward.
Dates of coverage: 5th ed., 2013
Copyright/Source: American Psychiatric Association
A classification of mental disorders with associated criteria designed to facilitate more reliable diagnoses of these disorders. PDFs of earlier DSM editions are available.
DynaMed Plus
An evidence-based point-of-care tool ideal for clinical settings. It contains concise summaries and detailed recommendations based on the most current evidence, as well as drug content, medication management, and IV compatibility information from Micromedex Standard Drug Information.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800)
Funded by: College of Liberal Arts, the Center for the Humanities, the University of New Hampshire Library.
Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Funded by: the College of Liberal Arts, the University of New Hampshire Library
With this series, research westward expansion, the development of American arts, the progression of American political thought and much more. In addition to books, broadsides and pamphlets, the collection includes published reports and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public. Additionally, a large number of state papers and early government materials chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation.
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922
Funded by: PhD Enhancement Fund of the Vice President for Research and Public Service,President's Fund for Excellence, Graduate School, William L. Dunfey Endowment for the Study of History, Stuart Palmer Book Fund
Digital archive that includes over 1,000 titles from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Our subscription currently includes Series 1, 1690-1876, Series 2, 1758-1900, and Series 3, 1829-1922.
Early English Books
Copyright/Source: ProQuest Information and Learning Company
Type: Collections, Ebooks, Primary Sources
Funded by: the James D. Merritt Memorial Book Fund
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
Formerly Ebrary Academic Complete; an online book collection that spans all academic subject areas. It includes books, reports, and other authoritative content from leading publishers.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Contains over 7000 books covering a wide range of topics.
A World-Wide Web-based system of periodical databases. It includes indexes to general, academic, and business periodicals, newspapers, and CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Corporate ResourceNet, EconLit, ERIC, PsycINFO (formerly PsycLit), Sociological Abstracts (formerly Sociofile), and SportDiscus. Some of the materials found in these databases are available in full-text format.
Offers a collection of full-text education journals, encompassing an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, and more. Covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
eHRAF (Human Relations Area Files) World Cultures
Copyright/Source: Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)
A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life, full-text, and fully-indexed, focusing on mostly pre-industrial cultures from around the world, and on North American immigrant groups.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online [ECCO]
Copyright/Source: Thompson Gale
Funded by: James D. Merritt Memorial Book Fund, Edmund G. Miller Library Fund, Gladys Brooks Fund for Books and Periodicals in the Humanities, Dunleavy Library Fund, Lucille Wengler Wheeler History Book Fund
Based on the English Short Title Catalogue, this resource provides full-text access to 150,000 English and foreign-language works published in the United Kingdom during the Eighteenth Century. Included are thousands of important works produced in the Americas. There are multiple, full-text searching options to gain access to the 33 million pages of books, sermons, pamphlets and broadsides. This truly multidisciplinary resource includes works in: history; the social sciences; the fine arts; medicine; science and technology; religion and philosophy; law; and literature and languages.
Type: Business, Economics, and Finance
Access wide incredible depth and breadth of financial analysis data. Eikon is a flexible, open platform that’s purpose-built for trade innovation and lets you connect with the world’s largest directory of verified financial professionals.
For log-in information, please contact the Business Librarian.
Elsevier Major Reference Works
Copyright/Source: Elsevier B.V.
Elsevier's reference titles on ScienceDirect are an authoritative source for building foundational knowledge in one's area of expertise and gaining interdisciplinary, comparative perspective in related or new areas.
Britannica Academic Edition combines the Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.
Copyright/Source: Encyclopaedia Iranica
The Encyclopaedia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences.
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Dates of coverage: 2nd ed.
Contains more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. More than 600 maps, charts, tables, photographs, illustrations and other visuals concisely illustrate key textual elements, and among other features making this scholarly work accessible, are entry-specific bibliographies to help guide further research.
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd. ed.
Sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live.
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed.
Dates of coverage: 3rd ed.
Includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century, attention to Muslim minorities all over the world, full attention to social science as well as humanistic perspectives.
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Dates of coverage: 2000, plus updates
Copyright/Source: Institute of Physics Publishing
Authoritative, encyclopedic coverage of astronomy and astrophysics, appropriate for college to post-graduate level. Includes 2,500 articles by eminent scientists, with personalization options, current news updates, and links to selected Web sites.
Dates of coverage: 2nd ed., 2003
This edition captures advances occurring in the etiology, prevention, and treatment of cancer, from basic science to clinical application. Entries cover a variety of aspects of cancer such as oncology, immunology, epidemiology, gene therapy, oncogenes/tumor suppressor genes, and pharmacology.
Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences
Summarizes recent advances in forest science techniques, and covers the basic information vital to comprehensive understanding of the important elements of forestry, relevant biology and ecology, different types of forestry (e.g. tropical forestry and dryland forestry), scientific names of trees and shrubs, and the applied, economic, and social aspects of forest management.
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
Copyright/Source: Sage Publications Inc.
Provides a "gender lens" on society by focusing on significant gender scholarship within commonly recognized areas of social research. Focuses on basic aspects of social life from the most individual (self and identity) to the most global (transnational economics and politics.)
Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
Alphabetical entries with bibliographies cover the scientific, political, and social aspects of nutrition including individual nutrients and foods, anatomy and physiology, nutritional therapy for diseases and conditions, nutrition education, religious customs, and folklore. Charts of weights and measures, nutritional allowances, and nutritional content of foods appear as appendices in each volume.
Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence
Covers all aspects of the problem of interpersonal violence.
Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture
Dates of coverage: prehistoric times - present
Spans prehistoric times to the present, and treats both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in detail. Entries represent an inclusive, cross-disciplinary approach, written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, politics, economics, the Irish and English languages and literatures, the visual arts and other fields.
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America
This resource provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States and includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same-sex institutions and AIDS. Features include a guide to archival sources, a chronology/timeline, a historical overview essay and a comprehensive index.
Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology
Copyright/Source: Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation.
Presents a thorough overview of the psychology of racial, ethnic, and minority issues in the United States, including contributions from social, developmental, methodological, clinical, industrial/organizational, and health, educational, school, and family psychology.
Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
A comprehensive resource on the science of the oceans. Includes contribution on the physical processes that drive the oceans as well as on ocean technology, law of the oceans, global programs, marine policy, the use of the oceans for food and energy, and the impact of pollution and climate changes.
Encyclopedia of Pest Management
Dates of coverage: 2004 Edition
Copyright/Source: Taylor & Francis
A reference work which includes information on contemporary pest management issues such as biotechnology, genetically modified foods, public health, soil science, GIS and GPS is included.
Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology
Dates of coverage: 3rd ed., 2001
Compendium of chemistry, molecular biology, mathematics, and engineering. This edition has an increased emphasis on information processing and biotechnology, reflecting the rapid growth of these areas.
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
Dates of coverage: 4th Edition
Copyright/Source: John Wiley and Sons
Type: Encyclopedias, Physical Sciences & Engineering
Provides access to articles addressing all areas of polymer science including polymers, plastics, fibers, biomaterials, elastomers, and polymerization processes.
Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy
Covers the major psychotherapies currently in practice as well as the classical approaches, identifies the scientific studies on the efficacy of the therapies, and reviews the theoretical basis of each therapy.
Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science
Provides comprehensive coverage of quaternary science, spanning the geography, biology, physics, and chemistry of the Earth. Examines the nature and causes of changes in the natural environment of the Earth over the last c. 2.6 million years.
Encyclopedia of Religion
Contains detailed, authoritative information on the entire range of topics related to religion and spiritual practice, including biographical profiles of major figures in religion and religious studies.
Encyclopedia of Social Measurement
Captures the data, techniques, theories, designs, applications, histories, and implications of assigning numerical values to social phenomena. Responding to growing demands for transdisciplinary descriptions of quantitative and qualitative techniques, measurement, sampling, and statistical methods, it will increase the proficiency of everyone who gathers and analyzes data. Covering all core social science disciplines, the 300+ articles of the Encyclopedia of Social Measurement not only present a comprehensive summary of observational frameworks and mathematical models, but also offer tools, background information, qualitative methods, and guidelines for structuring the research process.
Dates of coverage: Updated monthly
Copyright/Source: National Association of Social Workers Press and Oxford University Press
Reference tool for social workers on topics ranging from international issues to ethical standards. Revised and new articles are added monthly.
Encyclopedia of Soil Science
Copyright/Source: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Provides complete information on chemistry, analysis, and evaluation of soils and geography and focuses on agriculture development in the third world, particularly through research on sustainable management of natural resources, soil productivity and environmental quality. Offers tools to restore and reinvigorate highly compromised soil.
Encyclopedia of the Human Brain
Covering anatomy, physiology, neuropsychology, clinical neurology, neuropharmacology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and behavioral science.
Engineering Village
Web search interface for engineering information, including searches of Ei Compendex; engineering handbooks (not linked to data; use citation to look up reference at Library); the US Patent and Trademark Office web site; and TechStreet standards (not linked to full-text). Offers specialized options, including saved queries and biweekly e-mail alerts for Ei Compendex.
Copyright/Source: The British Library and ESTC/North America
Provides descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language--as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world. Coverage is from the beginnings of print to 1800 including all recorded English monographs.
Environment & Energy Publishing
Dates of coverage: 2007 to present
Copyright/Source: E&E Publishing, LLC
The leading source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. UNH's access is to ClimateWire, E&E Daily, Greenwire, E&ENews PM, and E&E Reports.
Environment Complete
Dates of coverage: Dates back over 100 years
Offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Copyright/Source: ProQuest, LLC
Provides abstracts and citations to material in the environmental sciences; includes scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, and government publications.
EPA Science Inventory
Copyright/Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Type: Technical Reports
Provides access to on-going and completed science activities and scientific and technical products, conducted by EPA and by universities and other research institutions through EPA-funded assistance agreements. For a broader search on EPA documents, please see our database entry for the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP).
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
Copyright/Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology; Syracuse University, licensed to EBSCO Publishing
Provides access to education literature and resources. The citation database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Essay and General Literature Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
A bibliographic database that cites essays, articles and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. It covers decades of essays, annuals, and serial publications that are otherwise all but inaccessible.
Essential Science Indicators (InCites)
Type: Social Sciences and Health, Natural Sciences
Compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data is based on journal article publication counts and citation data from Thomson Scientific databases.Determines the influential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in their field of study as well as emerging research areas that could impact their work.
Ethnographic Video Online
A comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior--more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. Covers every world region and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, and more.
ETHXWeb
Copyright/Source: Library & Information Services, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.
Focuses on citations to journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audio-visuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics.
Europa World
Copyright/Source: Routledge
Provides detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical, statistical and directory data available for over 250 countries and territories.
Europa World of Learning
Copyright/Source: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
A comprehensive international directory and guide to universities, museums and art galleries, libraries and archives, research institutes, and learned societies as well as their staff and officials. Includes higher education framework profiles for every country and essays covering the field of higher education around the world.
Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800)
Funded by: the College of Liberal Arts, the Center for the Humanities, the University of New Hampshire Library.
See Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800).
Evidence Analysis Library
Copyright/Source: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy)
Is a series of systematic reviews and evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines on topics of various disease conditions and other nutrition-related topics.
Family Studies Abstracts
Indexes articles on marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas from the most important journals in the discipline.
FAO Corporate Document Repository
Type: Articles, Statistics, Polls & Data Sets, Technical Reports
Consists of documents published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Its main goals are: the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; the elimination of poverty and the driving forward of economic and social progress for all; and the sustainable management and utilization of natural resources.
FAOSTAT
Type: General
A multilingual database containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in: production, trade, food-balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest and fishery products, agricultural machinery and population.
Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)
Dates of coverage: Varies by publication; earliest is 1781
Copyright/Source: Public domain, unless specified as otherwise
Type: US Federal, Business, Economics, and Finance
Digital access to historic policy documents and data related to US economic history and financial system, including the history of the Federal Reserve System.
Film & Television Literature Index
A bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
Film Index International
Dates of coverage: first silent movies - present
Copyright/Source: British Film Institute, Proquest Info & Learning Co.
An information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters - Film Index International provides truly international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries.
Film Literature Index 1976-2001
Copyright/Source: Trustees of the Indiana University
Indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews.
First Research Industry Profiles
Copyright/Source: Hoover's Inc.
Provides industry profiles covering over 1,000 industry segments, containing critical analysis, statistics, and forecasts.
Firstsearch Worldcat
Dates of coverage: NA
Copyright/Source: OCLC
Searches the OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries (generally academic, special, large public libraries, and library consortia). Can be searched by subject, title, author, keyword, or a variety of other access points. Materials found via WorldCat (and not in the UNH Library collection) can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan through the WorldCat interface.
Dates of coverage: Revolutionary War to recent
Copyright/Source: Fold3 by Ancestry
Social networking website centered around military records, including stories, photos, and personal documents of those who served. Users can view the records and can share their own stories and other content. Users can also combine their own documents with Fold3's records to create online memorials for those who served.
Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia
Introduces food culture from many countries and cultures around the world-including some from remote and unexpected peoples and places.
Dates of coverage: 1861 - 1977/1980
Copyright/Source: US State Department
Type: US Federal, Primary Sources
Presents the official documentary historical record of major US foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The United States Department of State Office of the Historian offers online index searching for documents by keyword as well as limited full-text searching through the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
Foundation Directory Online
Provides information on grantmakers and their grants, including foundations, corporate funders and giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the US Can also search recently awarded grants and recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF.
A world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.
Genetics and Ethics Database
Copyright/Source: Georgetown University
Focuses on citations to books, journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, news articles and audiovisuals relating to ethics and public policy issues in genetics.
GENEVESTIGATOR
Search engine for gene expression. It integrates manually curated public microarray and RNAseq experiments and visualizes gene expression across different biological contexts such as diseases, drugs, tissues, cancers, cell lines or genotypes.
UNH users must first register securely with their UNH IT ID credentials (email, password) at https://genevestigator.com/gv/user/registration.jsp in order to access the database
Geologic Guidebooks of North America
Copyright/Source: American Geosciences Institute
Consists of references to geologic field trip guidebooks of North America. Most of the guidebooks cited are from the period 1940-1988. A few are from earlier years. Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) volunteers have added many post-1988 guidebooks to the database. Beginning in 2002, new guidebooks will be added to GeoRef as part of the regular database production, and then added to the guidebook database from the GeoRef records.
Dates of coverage: North America: 17th century - present; World: 1933 - present.
Copyright/Source: American Geological Institute, licensed to ProQuest LLC
Provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. Contains over 3 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, theses and dissertations, conference papers, and reports, including all publications of the US Geological Survey.
Geoscience World
Copyright/Source: GeoScience World
A collection of peer-reviewed articles and other materials from high-impact journals in a broad range of geoscience areas, including publications of major professional societies such as the Geological Society of America, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Mineralogical Society of America, and Geological Society of London.
Global Competitiveness
Copyright/Source: World Economic Forum
Offers a structured, systematic and comprehensive approach to identifying and measuring the drivers of economic performance of more than 140 economies.
Global Newsstream
Type: Articles, Newspapers
Enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.
Global Trade Atlas
Copyright/Source: IHS Inc.
Provides access to merchandise trade data for more than 80 of the world’s major economies.
Godey's Lady's Book
Dates of coverage: 1830-1875; Parts I-III
The magazine was intended to entertain, inform, and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes & remedies, etc. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the piano forte. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine and contained extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and many other celebrated 19th century authors who regularly furnished the magazine with essays, poetry and short stories. The Lady's Book was also a vast reservoir of handsome illustrations, which included hand-colored fashion plates, mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts, and ultimately chromolithographs.
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites.
GovInfo.gov
Dates of coverage: 1793 - varies by publication
Copyright/Source: Public Domain Unless Otherwise Noted
Access full-text federal government publications from all three branches. Offers a user-friendly, modernized site that provides easy-to-use navigation with multiple ways to search or browse. Replaces FDsys.
Dates of coverage: Varies by dataset
Copyright/Source: See below for link to data disclaimer
The state GIS clearinghouse for geospatial data produced by state and federal agencies and other organizations. Requires specialized software for use of datasets. Use of data requires agreement to disclaimer
Green's Dictionary of Slang
Dates of coverage: Past 500 years
A 10.3 million-word collection of the impertinent, vile, censored, hip, witty, and fascinating slang words of the English language. Covering five centuries of innovation in all English-speaking regions of the world, the Dictionary is the most authoritative, scholarly approach to slang ever attempted. Over 100,000 words are defined; each word is authenticated by genuine and full-referenced citations of its use.
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
Copyright/Source: Oxford University Press. Grove is a registered trademark.
A scholarly art encyclopedia covering both Western and non-Western art and encompassing all aspects of visual culture. First published as the 34-volume Dictionary of Art edited by Jane Turner. Formerly known as the Grove Dictionary of Art online.
To access, please select Grove Art in the upper right hand search box.
Copyright/Source: Grove's Dictionaries, Inc.
Full text of the 29-volume print edition with cross-referencing and a network of web-links to musical sites around the world, including sound archives and illustrations.
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Dates of coverage: 2nd edition, 2003
Copyright/Source: Gale, Cengage Learning
The overall structure of this reference work is based on the classification of animals into naturally related groups, a discipline known as taxonomy or biosystematics. Taxonomy is the science through which various organisms are discovered, identified, described, named, classified and catalogued. It should be noted that in preparing this volume what might be termed a conservative approach was adopted, relying primarily on traditional animal classification schemes.
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Evolution
Dates of coverage: 2011
Covers evolution in detail and explores it from a scientific viewpoint. Includes comprehensive coverage of recent ideas and discoveries in the field of evolution. Presents information, research, and discoveries on a variety of topics related to evolutionary processes and mechanisms, discussing the origins of life on Earth, genetics, sexual selection, artificial selection, and other related topics.
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Extinction
This new supplement explores all aspects of extinctions and extinct life, featuring approximately 80 articles outlining major extinctions and related scientific areas. Entries are written by nationally renowned subject experts specializing in zoology, paleontology, and environmental science. Written for students and general researchers.
Copyright/Source: Library of Congress
An annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.
Dates of coverage: Varies by organization
Copyright/Source: Philanthropic Research, Inc.
Provides basic information about the operations and finances of nonprofit organizations, including access to IRS Form 990. To view some data, users must register for a free password.
Copyright/Source: Fundacion MAPFRE America
A bibliography of Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
HAPI Online - Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Copyright/Source: Copyright 1997 - 2011 UC Regents
Your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
Dates of coverage: c. 1000 - 2003
Copyright/Source: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Contains biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists, and instrument makers. Emphasizes classical and art music, but also gives attention to jazz and blues, rock and pop, and hymns and show tunes with care devoted to coverage of the twentieth century.
Harvard Business Publishing eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Provides teaching materials for management education.
Harvard Dictionary of Music
The essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music. It includes entries on all the styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East; descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background; and articles that reflect today's beat, including popular music, jazz, and rock.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Database has searchable full text for nearly 160 journals; abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications; thousands of essays from Clinical Reference Systems; over 1,000 health-related pamphlets; and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides access to scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines; also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, covering generic drug patient education sheets with thousands of brand names.
Copyright/Source: William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
Image-based legal research collection: law and law-related periodicals, Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, coverage of US Reports back to 1754, world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and more.
Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile
Copyright/Source: Scholarly Digital Editions
Believed to be the earliest extant copy of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and dates from soon after Chaucer's death in 1400.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Copyright/Source: EBSCO Industries, Inc
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.
Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
Dates of coverage: Varies by data series
Type: Government Information, US Federal, Statistics, Polls & Data Sets, General
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. This resource contains a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources that include over 37,000 data series -- three times more than in the previous edition -- and dozens of new topics, among them slavery, American Indians, and poverty. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The resource will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.
Note: To use the custom tables, users must register for an account. To register, click on the register link in the upper right corner of the page and complete the form.
History of the American Cinema Vol.1-10
Dates of coverage: 1800s - 1980s
Copyright/Source: Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation
This 10-volume series considers the film industry from its early roots in the 19th century through the 1980s. It examines the development of film and the film industry, analyzing both the genres, themes and technology that defined each decade and the political and economic background that gave rise to them.
Click on the view publications link to see all 10 volumes.
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH)
A core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines.
Homeland Security Digital Library
An open-source collection of over 107,800 documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a wide variety of sources including federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private entities.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 670,000 records. There is full text for more than 330 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. This comprehensive database combines the records of three renowned collections: Cornell University's former Hospitality database, Articles in Hospitality and Tourism (AHT), formerly co-produced by the Universities of Surrey and Oxford Brookes, and the Lodging, Restaurant & Tourism Index (LRTI), formerly produced by Purdue University.
Humanities Index Retrospective
Provides citations to articles covering a wide-range of humanities and interdisciplinary fields. The sources include core, scholarly English-language periodicals as well as a number of lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Among the subjects covered are: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary and Social Criticism, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology.
Copyright/Source: IBISWorld
Includes Industry Research Reports that provide key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, major industry participants; Industry Risk Rating Reports that determine how much risk an industry will face over the next 18 months by assessing the operating conditions for companies in the industry; Global Industry Reports that assess industry performance in key regions like Europe, the Middle East, Africa; and: Business Environment Reports that list key factors outside the control of an organization that determine the performance of the industry.
Copyright/Source: International Clinical Educators, Inc.
Provides educational materials, visual resources, and information for therapists, educators, and caregivers in the physical and occupational therapy field. Videos have actual patients and therapists in real life treatment settings. Stroke patients are just a fraction of the content; diagnoses include musculoskeletal, nervous system, mental and behavioral, respiratory, and pediatric disorders.
To access videos, go to https://www.icelearningcenter.com/library, scroll down and click on University of New Hampshire. You may then login with your UNH IT ID credentials.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research)
Dates of coverage: Varies by survey
Copyright/Source: ICPSR
Type: Statistics, Polls & Data Sets, Social Sciences and Health
This data archive acquires, processes, and provides access to social science data for research and instruction. ICPSR data cover many disciplines, including political science, sociology, history, economics, gerontology, demography, criminal justice, public health, education, law, and international relations.
Note: Users must register for an account. UNH users are eligible for direct downloading of all datasets. Set up ICPSR MyData login account by clicking on the link in the upper left corner of the page.
IEEE Xplore
Dates of coverage: Complete backfile to 1988, plus select content back to 1872
Copyright/Source: IEEE
A digital library providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive
Access the entire run of the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full color and every article and caption is full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations.
Copyright/Source: International Monetary Fund
Provides access to International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payment Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, and Direction of Trade Statistics.
View and download predefined data reports or create and share your own views of IMF data at: https://www.bookstore.imf.org/signup?ssortn=http://data.imf.org/
Index Chemicus
Provides access to chemical compound information, research data, trends, journals, and researchers. It offers full graphical summaries, important reaction diagrams, and complete bibliographic information.
Index Islamicus
An international bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. It covers their history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. It includes material published by Western orientalists, social scientists and Muslims writing in European languages. The file contains indexing for over 3,400 titles with coverage dating back to 1906.
Informed Librarian Online
Copyright/Source: Infosources Publishing
Current awareness service that provides monthly compilations of the most recent tables of contents and many full text articles from over 312 library science journals, magazines, and newsletters. View the list in subject collections.
INIS Collection
Copyright/Source: International Atomic Energy Agency
Provides a comprehensive information reference service for literature on the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. Contains bibliographic citations and abstracts for journal articles, research and development reports, conference papers, books, patents, theses, laws, regulations and standards.
INSPEC
Copyright/Source: IEE
The world's leading resource for coverage of research literature in physics, including astronomy and astrophysics. Its other subject strengths are electrical engineering; control, and computing, including information technology. International journals and conference proceedings are covered, with selected indexing of books and reports. This resource allows searching by specialized fields.
Inter-play: An On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals
Dates of coverage: late 19th century to present
Copyright/Source: Portland State University Library
Contains approximately 19,000 citations to plays in English- and foreign-language collections, anthologies, and periodicals published since the late 19th century. Separately published plays are not included. The collections, anthologies and periodicals can be searched in the UNH Library catalog to determine whether the Library has them.
International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology, 7 volumes and index (first electronic edition).
Copyright/Source: knovel
Type: Statistics, Polls & Data Sets, Natural Sciences
Offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties and is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Many tables have been "knovelized" to be interactive. The full text of the original print version is available in PDF format (full-text searchable), including the original index. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.
International Directory of Company Histories
Contains detailed information on more than 11,000 influential and emerging companies worldwide including: comprehensive background and history of a company, merger and acquisition activity over time, impact of particular sales and marketing campaigns, and the effectiveness of executive leadership.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Dates of coverage: 1st edition 2001
Describes the state of the art in all the fields encompassed within the social and behavioral sciences. Comprised of articles and bibliographic references, as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
Please note: UNH's access is to the 2001 1st edition, which you must select for full-text results when searching within the resource.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Encyclopedia covering the disciplines of sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, psychology and other fields.
International Medieval Bibliography
Dates of coverage: 300 - 1500
Copyright/Source: Brepols Publishers Online
Provides a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes worldwide. Disciplines include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies.
International Newsstream
Provides information from the world's top news resources. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed; citations and abstracts are available for all articles.
International Plant Names Index
Copyright/Source: International Plant Names Index
A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies.
Intrafish. Aquaculture (Trial)
Copyright/Source: Nhst Global Publications AS
Access: Trial
Source of news, commodity prices, and analysis for the global aquaculture industry.
If this database is useful for your research, contact our Collection Management Librarian.
IPA Source
Copyright/Source: IPASource.com
The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Includes over 6300 texts including 1135 aria texts.
iPoll Databank
Type: General, Social Sciences and Health
Provides access to a collection of poll data; all US polling firms, broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. International datasets are available for immediate download.
Isabel Differential Diagnosis
Copyright/Source: Isabel Healthcare
Isabel is used to help construct or broaden a differential diagnosis. By entering the information normally captured in a patient workup, physicians are provided with a list of possible diagnoses to help them construct their thinking and assist with making an accurate final diagnosis quickly and easily at the point of care.
JCE Web Software
Copyright/Source: Division of Chemical Education, Inc. American Chemical Society
Software--and a lot more-- for learning chemistry! With over 100 titles on tap, JCE Software covers a broad spectrum of the chemistry curriculum, from high school to postgraduate.
Journal Citation Reports (InCites)
Offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals with quantifiable, statistical information derived from real data.
Supersedes Journal Citation Reports (ISI Web of Knowledge)
JoVE Biology
Copyright/Source: JoVE
A peer-reviewed scientific video journal that publishes biological, medical, chemical and physical research methods in video format. To help communicate complex laboratory techniques, JoVE Biology provides step-by-step protocols accompanied by videos that help in visualizing the procedures, often with commentary from the researchers.
Currently, UNH provides access to the Biology and Neuroscience sections only.
JoVE Neuroscience
A peer-reviewed scientific video journal that includes techniques from a wide variety of fields, focusing on those intended to lend insight into the structure, function, physiology and pathophysiology of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
Copyright/Source: JSTOR
Funded by: in part by the University of New Hampshire Graduate School
A digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources in a wide range of disciplines. Coverage is not designed for current material, thus it does not cover information from the most recent 2 to 5 years.
Kanopy Streaming Service
Copyright/Source: Content has been licensed to Kanopy by Kanopy’s licensors.
Partners with some of the world’s most creative filmmakers and respected distributors, offering tertiary institutions access to an ever-growing library of videos across diverse content areas like architecture, teacher education, health and safety, culture and politics in media, health studies and more.
knovel Critical Tables
Features tables of properties for commonly used chemical compounds in the physical properties tables. Tables in kCT include Basic Physical Properties of Inorganic Compounds, Basic Physical Properties of Organic Compounds, Critical Properties and Acentric Factor, Enthalpy of Formation, Enthalpy of Vaporization, Entropy of Formation, Entropy of Gas, Gibbs Energy of Formation, Heat Capacity of Gas, Helmholtz Energy of Formation, Internal Energy of Formation, Basic Physical Properties of Common Solvents, and Safety Properties of Common Solvents.
Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference
Covers topics such as the neurochemistry and neurobiology of learning at the cellular and synaptic levels, systems neurobiology, the study of animal capabilities such as homing, ethological and behavioristic analyses, mechanisms, psychology, and disorders of learning and memory in humans.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Copyright/Source: Springer-Verlag
Searchable full text of selected conference proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (1997-2017) and the SpringerLink Computer Science Ebook Collection (2005-2017) The full series is available in print (see UNH Library Catalog for holdings).
LGBT Life with Full Text
The definitive index to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. This database contains indexing,abstracts, and selected full text for more than 140 LGBT-specific core periodicals and over 290 LGBT-specific core books and reference works. LGBT Life provides comprehensive coverage of traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle, and regional publications, including The Advocate, Lesbian News, Washington Blade, Bay Area Reporter, etc. In addition, other source-types such as monographs and reference books as well as grey literature, including newsletters, case studies, speeches, etc. are represented.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Access: Non-commercial use only
Provides access to information about trends in the evolving field of library studies; covers subjects ranging from automation, censorship, government aid, public relations. and more.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Dates of coverage: Mid-1960s to present
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Literature Criticism Online
Online version of Gale’s Literature Criticism series, including: Contemporary Literary Criticism; Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism; Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Short Story Criticism; and Shakespearean Criticism.
Literature Online (LION)
A full-text resource of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Contains more than 350 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Provides access to both primary and secondary sources.
Literature Resource Center
Dates of coverage: Classical Antiquity to present
Includes all of Gale’s Contemporary Authors Online and selected content from the Gale sets Dictionary of Literary Biography and Literature Criticism Online, as well as other literature sources.
Provides access to classical Greek and Latin literature with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations.
Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext)
Access in HTML format to this daily newspaper and a leading source of news on Southern California, entertainment, movies, television, music, politics, business, health, sports, environment, real estate and other topics affecting California.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Los Angeles Times Digital Current
Los Angeles Times Recent (ProQuest Digitized Newspapers)
Making of America (Cornell)
Copyright/Source: MOA
Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The Making of America collection comprises the digitized pages of books and journals. This system allows you to view scanned images of the actual pages of the 19th century texts.
Making of America (Michigan)
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
MarketLine Advantage
Copyright/Source: MarketLine
Provides access to resources covering company, country, industry, and product intelligence as well as business strategies and news and opinion.
Provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags. Designed specifically for public libraries.
Copyright/Source: American Mathematical Society
Comprehensive indexing with reviews of research articles on pure and applied mathematics, including some statistics. Covers journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports. May be searched by author, keyword, Mathematics Subject Classification, subject, and source publication, among others. Corresponds to printed Mathematical Reviews, and Current Mathematical Publications.
Copyright/Source: National Library of Medicine, licensed to EBSCO Publishing
This database of health and biomedical literature draws from journals worldwide. All records are indexed with the National Libraries of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The majority of publications are scholarly journals, but it also contains some newspapers, magazines, and newsletters.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Descriptions and critical evaluations of commercially available tests and measures, from the ninth edition to the current edition of the yearbook.
Mergent Archives
Copyright/Source: Mergent Inc.
Provides access to an indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents, including digitized Moody's manuals, Ford Equity Research Reports, and annual and industry reports from a variety of international companies
Mergent Intellect
Copyright/Source: Mergent
Provides private company data on over 250 million privately held companies globally.
Mergent Online is an integration of various databases containing company information and documents. Moody's Industrial Manual and the EDGAR filings are included in this database along with Company Data Direct, both US and international. Mergent Online can create spreadsheet-ready financial formats and is updated continuously.
Methods in Enzymology
Dates of coverage: 1955 to current
Focuses on rapidly developing techniques in the field of enzymology, which includes the chemistry and mechanism of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, as well as the chemistry of the enzymes themselves.
The background information provided enables researchers to understand the principles underlying the methods; other helpful sections include comparisons of alternative methods giving the advantages and disadvantages of particular methods, guidance on avoiding potential pitfalls, and suggestions for troubleshooting.
Military & Government Collection
Offers current news through a collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs for all branches of the military and government.
MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography
Copyright/Source: Modern Language Association of America, EBSCO Publishing
The primary database for literature, MLA contains bibliographic records of scholarly research from more than 4,400 journals, books and book chapters, proceedings, and other formats. Covers research in literature, literary theory and criticism, language, dramatic arts, linguistics, and folklore.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. This information has been gathered by the MLA staff with the cooperation of MLA bibliographers and the editors represented in these listings.The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.
Moody's Manuals Online
Copyright/Source: Mergent, Inc.
Includes all content from Moody's Bank & Finance, Industrial, International, OTC Industrial, OTC Unlisted, Public Utility, and Transportation Manual. Click "Search Mergent WebReports" on right side of screen, then select manual and year from dropdowns on left.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Copyright/Source: Morningstar, Inc.
A comprehensive stock database that includes financial data on companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ®, and the American Stock Exchange; in-depth research reports on companies; data on mutual, closed-end, and exchange-traded funds; analysts' reports on funds; exclusive investment tools and engaging educational features, including interactive training on basic and advanced stock, fund, and portfolio techniques.
Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
The close of the first decade of the 21st century is an ideal time to reflect on the status of women in today's world. Women's situation in virtually every conceivable arena--from poetry to politics, education to economy--changed more dramatically in the last 100 years than in the preceding 1,000. And, especially since the turn of the millennium, as the pace of new technologies and new information continues to accelerate, so too has the apparent speed of that social and cultural evolution. It is therefore an apt historical moment to mark progress made in so many areas, while at the same time pondering the complex challenges that accompany change, and bearing in mind that change is not always or invariably for the better. This, in a nutshell, is what The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World is all about.
Combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles to provide an unparalleled learning environment for the teaching of music.
A Comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. This resource indexes international music periodicals for topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music, including book reviews, recording reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
Music Online : Jazz Music Library
Provides access to streaming jazz online; includes thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Music Online: American Music
Provides access to music from America's past. Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Music Online: Classical Music Library
Large multi-label database of classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of 142,000+ tracks includes recordings of music written from Gregorian chant to many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
Dates of coverage: Medieval - present
Comprehensive database of classical scores, representing the major composers output, spanning all genres and time periods from the Western classical canon.
Music Online: Contemporary World Music
Provides access to the sounds of all regions from every continent. Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music: Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Music Online: Listening Plus
Provides access to streaming audio-video collection supporting the teaching and research of music, covering all key musical genres.
Music Online: Popular Music Library
Contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks, and more.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
NACA Technical Reports Server (NACATRS)
Copyright/Source: None
NACA, the US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, operated from 1917-1958, when it became NASA. The NACATRS offers searching, browsing, and full-text of NACA reports covering NACA-sponsored aeronautical research and research on related topics such as meteorological and atmospheric conditions.
NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA)
Dates of coverage: Begun in 1970; coverage goes back to 15th century.
Copyright/Source: National Agricultural Library, USDA
Provides citations to agricultural literature.
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Dates of coverage: NASA info: 1958-present; Non-NASA info: Varies
Copyright/Source: NASA info: No copyright; Non-NASA info: Varies
The NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) provides students, educators, and the public with access to NASA's technical literature. NTRS also collects scientific and technical information from sites external to NASA to broaden the scope of information available to users. Almost a million references are indexed as of August, 2005. NTRS's Simple Search searches for NASA information only and its Advanced Search can search for NASA and non-NASA information. For NASA reports that are not fully available from NTRS, please check the UNH Library Catalog or contact the Library's Government Documents Department for information.
National Geologic Map Database
Dates of coverage: Varies by map
Copyright/Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Type: Maps & Geospatial Data
Provides access to maps and other spatially referenced data for geology, geophysics, marine geology, earth resources, hazards, geochemistry, geochronology, and paleontology. Includes links to other sources of topographic and related maps, other earth science databases, and additional Web resources related to geology.
National Science Library - National Research Council Canada
Copyright/Source: National Research Council Canada
Provides Canada’s innovation community with tools and services to access NRC and other Canadian research to support their discovery, innovation and commercialization activities.
National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
Type: US Federal, Technical Reports
NSCEP is the site for a wide variety of free EPA print and digital documents, including everything from pamphlets to research reports. For a narrower search of EPA-supported research, go to our database entry for the EPA Science Inventory.
Copyright/Source: Naxos Digital Services, Ltd
Provides nearly complete audio access to more than 92,210 CDs and over 1,100,000 tracks of primarily classical music, as well as some jazz and world/folk music Includes music notes, cover art, libretti from over 700 operas, and over 40,000 composer biographies.
NBER Working Papers
Copyright/Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER Working Papers are the primary method for the distribution of research carried out by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.
NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Copyright/Source: U.S. Govt.
Contains summaries of 170,000 publications including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims of crime.
Neue Deutsche Biographie
Dates of coverage: Early Middle Ages - Present
Copyright/Source: Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Includes more than 21,000 biographies of families and deceased persons with a close relation to the German language area who have had a significant impact on developments in scholarship, arts, technology, medicine, economics, politics or social life have been published.
Neue Pauly
A reference work for the ancient world. Fifteen volumes (Antiquity, 1-15) of Der Neue Pauly are devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity and cover more than two thousand years of history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe. Five volumes (Classical Tradition, I-V) are uniquely concerned with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship.
New Catholic Encylopedia
Dates of coverage: 2nd. ed.
A comprehensive resource covering all subjects related to Catholicism. Content is updated annually, assuring users the most current thinking about Catholicism. Written by scholars in partnership with the Catholic University of America, the encyclopedia's peer-reviewed articles are intended for both Catholics and those wanting to understand Catholicism.
New Hampshire State Publications Digital Library
Type: State and Regional
Access to full-text of official New Hampshire electronic-only publications from all state executive agencies such as Agriculture, Transportation and Office of the Governor as well as some legislative and judicial agencies. This database is updated monthly.
New York Times Digital Current
Access in HTML format to this daily newspapers and leading news source. Searchable by keyword, type of articles, etc.
New York Times Recent (ProQuest Digitized Newspapers)
New York Times with Index (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Dates of coverage: 1851-2014 (Index 1851-1993)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
Newspaper Source
Cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, selective full text for more than 330 regional U.S. newspapers, and full-text transcripts from sources such as CBS News, CNN, FOX News, NPR, etc.
Dates of coverage: 30 days ago - present
Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire.
Nexis Uni
Copyright/Source: LexisNexis
Provides access to news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Dates of coverage: variable
Copyright/Source: U.S. Government
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Dates of coverage: Colonial - 1950
Copyright/Source: Alexander Street Press, L.L.C.
Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, which can be browsed or searched in depth.
NUMDAM
Dates of coverage: Varies (19th-21st centuries)
Copyright/Source: Varies
In support of mathematical journals, the NUMDAM program offers free access to bibliographical data and articles of French mathematical journals and seminaires. The volumes from the start of the title have been retro-digitized; later volumes are in native digital form. Acess to bibliographical data is free, and the fulltext articles are accessible online after a given time ("moving wall") during which they are reserved for subscribers. Includes links to article entries in MathSciNet (MR) and Zentralblatt (Zbl).
Nutrition Care Manual
Copyright/Source: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (A.N.D.)
Provides research-based nutrition information and clinical tools for dietitians, dietetic technicians, and other health care professionals.
Oceanic Abstracts
Focuses on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment including marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
OECD Health Statistics
Copyright/Source: OECD
Offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries.
Dates of coverage: Ends with 2018
Type: Collections, International and Foreign
Online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, featuring its books, papers and statistics, and gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. Also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).
Copyright/Source: Varies by host institution
Portal to key historical map collections including British Library, Harvard University, New York Public Library and many others. Use for a broad search for historical maps.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the new solution features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
OSA Digital Library
Copyright/Source: Optical Society of America
Formerly Optics Infobase, is the Optical Society of America's online library for OSA flagship journals and for partnered and co-published journals. It contains recent proceedings from OSA conferences.
Includes access to papers presented at Topical Meetings but not Major Meetings. Major Meetings include CLEO (lasers), FiO (Frontiers in Optics; annual meeting), and OFC/NFOEC (fiber). Some CLEO and OFC/NFOEC papers may be available via IEEE Xplore
Oxford Art Online is the access point for Grove Art Online, a scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on musicology and ethnomusicology.
An illustrated collection of more than 58,000 biographies of the men and women who died before the year 2009 and who shaped all aspects of Britain's past – plus over 500 Theme articles on important groups and topical anniversaries
Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
Dates of coverage: Entire History of Seafaring
The Encyclopedia covers the entire history of seafaring, from ancient Egyptian shipbuilders to the nuclear submarines and supertankers of today. Over nine hundred articles written by leading historians examine all aspects of maritime history, including naval history, shipbuilding, biographies of major figures, navigation and scientific instrumentation, maritime art and literature, commerce and economics, and international law. Placing maritime affairs in their larger historical context, the Encyclopedia shows how seafaring has both reflected and influenced the major economic, cultural, military, and political developments in world history.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Copyright/Source: Oxford Univ. Press
Contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3), and recent online updates.
Type: Articles, Handbooks
Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in a particular field of study, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. The articles review the key issues and major debates, and provide an original argument for how those debates might evolve.
UNH's access is for the Oxford Handbooks Online Literature Collection 2014
Oxford History of Western Music Online
Provides an account of the evolution of Western classical music by musicologist Richard Taruskin, combining an emphasis on structure and form with discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, as well as describing how the context of each stylistic period influenced and directed compositional practices.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.
Type: Articles, Dictionaries
Offers access and cross-search of multiple music reference resources. With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music, which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles.
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International
Copyright/Source: Public Affairs Information Service, Inc., licensed to ProQuest LLC
Covers all subjects that bear on public affairs and public policy, including the policy-oriented literature of academic social sciences such as economics, finance, law, education, the military, political science, public administration, international law and relations. Indexes publications from and about all countries, governmental and non-governmental organizations at all levels.
Patent and Trademark Database (US): Federal government interface
Dates of coverage: 1790-present (patents); ca. 1890-present (trademarks)
Copyright/Source: None (US Government)
Type: Patents
The US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) site covers patent history, filing, and classification, with a complete database of US patents allowing full text searching of patents granted from 1976 to present; patents granted from 1790-1975 are searchable via classification. Patents can be viewed as images (TIF format). The USPTO site also offers links to some international patent databases. For trademarks, the USPTO site lets you search for active and inactive US trademarks, with words or numerical descriptors, providing online images of the trademarks, dating back to the late 19th century.
Patent and Trademark Database (US): Google interface
The US Patent & Trademark Office also partners with Google to allow powerful full text searching of all US patents, with PDF images and is highly recommended for first-time users of the patent database.
Copyright/Source: Most non-copyright from U.S. government sources or out-of-copyright historical maps
First place to look for contemporary or recent U.S. and non-U.S. maps. World-wide coverage, arranged geographically. Notable for CIA maps and topographic maps of non-U.S. locations.
Copyright/Source: The Trustees of Tufts College
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources covering the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
Philanthropic Studies Index
Copyright/Source: Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) Univ. Library
Locate information on voluntarism, nonprofit organizations, fundraising, and charitable giving. Since November of 2003, dissertations, working papers, and web sites are also included.
The Find It link in these records pertains to IUPUI holdings; check the UNH Library catalog for our holdings.
Philanthropy Resources Online
Dates of coverage: 19th & 20th century
Copyright/Source: Indiana University
A digital library of primary and secondary sources (books, journals, and pamphlets) that supports teaching and learning about philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.
Philosopher's Index
Copyright/Source: Philosopher's Information Center, licensed to EBSCO Publishing
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language
PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online
Copyright/Source: All rights reserved by The PhilPapers Foundation
A comprehensive index of philosophy books and articles. Offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums. Hosts the largest open access archive in philosophy.
Copyright/Source: PitchBook Data
Pitchbook features real time data to research and analyze companies, PE & VC deals, funds, investors, and service providers across the entire private investment lifecycle.
Pitchbook is available to authorized users of UNH (including full and part-time students, faculty, and staff). To access, users must log-in with their individual account username and password.
First-time users, proceed to register for a free account using your @unh.edu or @wildcats.unh.edu email address while on campus or connected remotely via VPN client.
Note: Users are limited to 10 downloads per day and 25 downloads per month. (1 download = 1 row of data on an Excel file). Accounts will automatically be reset annually on June 15. Contact Wendy Pothier, Business Librarian, for more information.
Plant Information Online
Copyright/Source: University of Minnesota Libraries
Provides indexes to 1,000 nursery catalogs and 150 horticultural magazines.
Copyright/Source: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden
Type: Natural Sciences
A working list of all known plant species; aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts). It does not include algae or fungi.
PLANTS Database
Copyright/Source: USDA
Type: Handbooks, Statistics, Polls & Data Sets, Natural Sciences
Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools.
Policy Archive
Copyright/Source: Varies by document
An archive of global, non-partisan public policy research from think tanks, universities, government organizations and foundations. Subjects include government, international relations, business, culture and religion, demographics, energy, health, human rights and much more. Created by the Center for Governmental Studies.
PolicyMap
Copyright/Source: PolicyMap
A US-National web-based Geographic Information System used to understand communities. It is a “GIS tool for non-GIS experts” for those who need to visualize large amounts of data quickly and easily, often down to the census tract or block group level. Included is an extensive data collection, with 15,000+ indicators used to understand communities, organized into general categories including demographics, income and spending, housing, lending activity, quality of life, economy, education, health, federal guidelines, and other analysis. In addition, students and faculty can easily upload and incorporate their data into and leverage it against the thousands of indicators already available.
Polling the Nations
Copyright/Source: ORS Publishing
Database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 500,000+ questions and responses, from 14,000+ surveys, conducted in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world.
Population Index
Copyright/Source: Office of Population Research, Princeton University
An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
PQDT (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses) Open
Provides full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
Dates of coverage: 1990 - present (varies with journal)
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas) contains the full-text of more than 100 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. The journals, which are indexed in HAPI Online - Hispanic American Periodicals Index, have articles in Spanish, English or Portuguese.
Copyright/Source: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
Full text of hundreds of journals in the humanities and social sciences. Ability to search for thousands of peer-reviewed digital books from over 65 major university presses and scholarly publishers (full text for most books isn’t available in our subscription).
Copyright/Source: Springer-Verlag, New York
An encyclopedia of microbiology, arranged in topical essays and taxonomic groups, topics include physiology, genetics, identification, culture, and biotechnology; organisms covered include various types of bacteria and the symbiotic relationships that involve bacteria.
Dates of coverage: Varies by database
Formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Internet Database Service. Provides online access to an extensive collection of full-text articles from journals across a wide range of subject areas.
Copyright/Source: American Psychological Association, licensed to EBSCO Industries, Inc.
Database of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
Dates of coverage: 1956 - Fall 2017
Contains full-text reviews of books in psychology and the social sciences, as well as professional videos and popular films from a psychological perspective. Reviews occasionally include comparative or retrospective book reviews.
Psychologists And Their Theories For Students
This resource provides coverage of major psychological theories and the people who developed them. An introductory essay provides an overview of the various schools of psychological thought, from behaviorism to Gestalt theory, introducing the basic history of the field. Detailed entries follow, explaining each individual theory in practical terms and exploring the historical impact of each. Entries conclude with a bibliography and further reading list.
Copyright/Source: American Psychological Association, licensed to EBSCO Publishing
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
Copyright/Source: Creative Commons Attribution License, except where noted
Publishes peer-reviewed open-access journals in scientific and medical literature.
Copyright/Source: None (U.S. government)
Provides access to articles in medical research journals and citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books; subject coverage includes medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care.
Reader's Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Dates of coverage: 1771 (Beilstein) - present
For chemistry, nanoscience, and related fields. Reaxys is based on the combined content of CrossFire Beilstein and Gmelin, and the Patent Chemistry Database (PCD). Reaxys contains experimental reaction and substance data extracted from the major organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry literature, plus linked literature references. Allows researchers to identify and combine selected reaction steps to generate synthesis strategies. Substance searching includes (sub-)structure, generic and R-group searching, molecular formula, name, etc. Indexes multi-step reactions. Provides indexing and links to U.S. and European chemical and life science patents.
Copyright/Source: InfoUSA
A reference directory that contains detailed information on nearly 12 million U.S. businesses.
Copyright/Source: RefWorks
An online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. All users must sign up for an individual account.
Regional Business News
Religious and Theological Abstracts
Copyright/Source: Religious and Theological Abstracts
Provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. Listing a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions. Provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.
Review of Particle Physics
Copyright/Source: The Regents of the University of California
Updated every two years by members of the international Particle Data Group (PDG), RPP is a full review of current knowledge in particle physics. It includes data as well as well as textual information. Sections are: Summary Tables and Conservation Laws, including best values of measured properties of well-established particles; Reviews, Tables, Plots: covering the Standard Model, QCD, statistics, collider parameters, particle detectors, and cosmology; and Particle Listings, including evaluated data and brief reviews of aspects of many given particles.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale) is a continuously updated bibliography of music literature that includes records in over 214 languages from 12,000 journals.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
An annotated index and guide to music manuscripts after 1600 (Series A/II) published by the RISM (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales). UNH's license limits access to a maximum of 1 concurrent user; for course or database instructional use please call 1-800-758-5995 and unlimited access will be granted for a limited time, as for a course.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Copyright/Source: Informa UK Limited
Provides full-text articles with current bibliographies on virtually every aspect of philosophy.
Copyright/Source: Safari Books Online and original publisher
Provides access to 1000's of technical books online. Content emphasizes computer programming, software and apps (including mobile apps) including business aspects. You can search the fulltext of all content by keyword, title, author and/or browse by category. Most Safari books may also be accessed via the UNH Library and BLC Worldcat catalogs (UNH copy only). Please log off after use, as access is limited to 15 concurrent users. If you log off and want to re-connect, use the Log In link to go to the Academic User log-in button. For extra content, such as a CD that was included in the print edition, check for an Extras tab on the book's entry page. Printing: individual pages only. Downloading: not available.
SAGE Journals
Copyright/Source: Sage Publications
Provides access to 485+ SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences. Searches may be limited to subsets of journals under each discipline by selecting Browse, then Journals by discipline.
Supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. Its library has over 1,000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by academics from across the social sciences. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method.
Copyright/Source: McGraw-Hill
Copyright/Source: Public domain/Fair use
Type: Articles, US Federal, Technical Reports
Gateway to information resources at government science agencies including science web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials.
Dates of coverage: 1995 - present for most titles
Offers journal articles and book chapters in the disciplines of physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
Scientific Style and Format Online
Dates of coverage: 8th edition, 2014
Copyright/Source: Council of Science Editors
Reference for all areas of scientific publishing in print or online; includes information on manuscript preparation and markup, sample correspondence, editorial office practices, and a citation quick guide.
SciFinder
Dates of coverage: 1907-present, plus selected earlier references
Copyright/Source: Chemical Abstracts Service
The Web interface for the world's foremost resource for chemical information, Chemical Abstracts. Indexes the literature of pure and applied chemistry and broadly related areas; searchable by text, such as author and research topic; plus chemical identifiers, structures, and reactions. Sources covered include journals, conference proceedings, patents, books, technical reports, and dissertations. Corresponds to the databases CAplus, CAS Registry, and CASREACT, and to the printed resource Chemical Abstracts.
Senses: A Comprehensive Reference
Copyright/Source: Elsevier BV
A reference work containing articles on the anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology of sensory organs; topics covered include the perception, psychophysics, and higher order processing of sensory information, as well as disorders and new diagnostic and treatment methods.
Shakespeare in Performance
Copyright/Source: Adam Matthew Digital 2016
Showcases rare and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally.
Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance (Trial)
Offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment. It documents over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programmes, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.
Please note that PDFs may not be downloaded during trial access.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
See Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819).
SMA: SportsMarketAnalytics
Dates of coverage: Some information goes back to 1993, but most from 1998 - present
Copyright/Source: SBRnet
Formerly known as SBRnet, SMA: SportsMarketAnalytics focuses on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. It provides updated resources featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry: sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship, and sports marketing.
Smithsonian Physical Tables (ninth revised edition)
Comprising 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data, the information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.
Social Science Citation Index
Copyright/Source: ISI
The Web of Science accesses ISI citation databases, which are multidisciplinary databases covering thousands of scholarly journals from the Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. After you perform a search, a list of the titles of the articles are returned. Click an article title to view the full record, which includes the title, author, bibliographic information, abstract, and more. From a full record, you can view lists of the article's references, articles that cite the article, or articles that are related to the article.
Social Work Abstracts
Copyright/Source: National Association of Social Workers, licensed to EBSCO Publishing
Contains indexing and abstracts from more than 850 social work and human services journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more. UNH's license limits access to a maximum of 4 concurrent users; for course or database instructional use please call 1-800-758-5995 and unlimited access will be granted for a limited time, as for a course.
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
SPEC Kits
Dates of coverage: SPEC Kits from 2006 to the present (SPEC Kit 292-) are available in ARL Digital Publications to UNH users. Online versions of SPEC Kits from 1973 through 2005 (SPEC Kit 1-291) are available through the HathiTrust.
Gathers information from Association of Research Libraries member institutions on current research library practices and policies.
Copyright/Source: International Society for Optical Engineering
Provides access to technical papers on optics and photonics through SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings.
SPORTDiscus
Copyright/Source: SIRC, licensed to EBSCO Publishing
Covers all aspects of sports including physical fitness, physical education, sports medicine, training, coaching, facilities, equipment, history of sport, and recreation. Indexes international periodicals in sports, education, and medicine. Created by the Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC).
Springer eBook Collection: Computer Science
Copyright/Source: Springer International Publishing AG
Searchable full text in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and the SpringerLink Computer Science eBook Collection.
Springer eBook Collection: Earth & Environmental Science
Encompasses mulitdisciplinary studies of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and pedosphere and humanity's interaction with them.
Standard and Poor's Net Advantage
Dates of coverage: present (with 3 year archive)
Copyright/Source: Standard & Poor's
Industry Surveys provides in-depth financial and business analysis of 52 major U.S. industries, including information about recent developments with forecasts of industry conditions and emerging trends. Users can view tables, charts, and graphs of key industry conditions and statistics along with textual analysis and commentary. Historical data is archived for 3 years.
Copyright/Source: Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University
A dynamic reference work covering all areas in the field of philosophy; evolving and adapting in response to new research. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.
Statista: The Statistics Portal
Copyright/Source: Statista GmbH
Type: General, Business, Economics, and Finance
Tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information.
Statistical Abstract of the US
Type: US Federal, Statistics, Polls & Data Sets, General
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the US.
Statistical Insight
Dates of coverage: Varies with publication.
Type: Statistics, Polls & Data Sets, General
Comprehensive access to statistical information from federal agencies, research organizations, international organizations, commercial publishers and associations. Provides abstracts of statistical publications and links to the full-text for selected publications.
Dates of coverage: 1914 but varies by series
Type: International and Foreign, Statistics, Polls & Data Sets, General
The official source for Canadian social and economic statistics offers searching of CANSIM, the key socioeconomic database, updated daily. Data on Canada’s census, government, trade, cultural resources, and other statistical programs is available.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
Copyright/Source: ITHAKA/JSTOR
Type: Articles, Collections, Primary Sources
Online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Includes a wide variety of scholarly materials ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. It focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Symptom Media: Mental Health Education & Training Film Library
Copyright/Source: Symptom Media
An online mental health education and training film library of mental health simulations providing viewers with training tools critical for symptom recognition. The films offer visual guideposts to better understand what a particular mental health diagnosis looks like and decreases the stigma for those facing psychological issues.
TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource)
Copyright/Source: Phoenix Bioinformatics Corporation
Provides access to genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Data available from TAIR includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community.
Theatre in Video: Volume 1
Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with online streaming video of more than 100 film documentaries, more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Users can select portions of videos and save them as playable clips.
ThermoLit
Copyright/Source: US Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the United States of America
Creates literature lists of thermodynamic and transport properties of molecular organic compounds for chemical systems of three components or less. NIST searches are required by certain journals; also useful for proposals and active research. Select system type, search for simple molecules, select the property to get report draft that can be used to make PDFs.
Thomas Register
Dates of coverage: present
Copyright/Source: Thomas Publishing Company
Thomas Register is a comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America. Users can search by product, company, or brand name through more than 72,000 product headings and more than 170,000 company listings.
Times Digital Archive
Search digital reproductions of articles and pages from The Times (London), including articles, editorials, and advertising. Variety of search options available including keyword, relevance, advanced, and browse by date.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Copyright/Source: Cengage Learning
Provides searchable access to the full text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902. It includes more than 300,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles.
Toxicology Abstracts
Dates of coverage: 1981 - current
Focused to meet the needs of toxicologists, covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues.
Indexes biomedical literature that covers toxic effects of drugs and other chemicals.
TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library)
Copyright/Source: Center for Research Libraries Global Network Initiative
Provides unrestricted access to digitized U.S. federal technical reports, primarily prior to 1976 but also later.
Treatise on Geochemistry
Provides a comprehensive, integrated summary of the present state of geochemistry. Deals with all the major subjects in the field, ranging from the chemistry of the solar system to environmental geochemistry.
Treatise on Geophysics
A comprehensive summary of the present state of geophysics, dealing with all major parts of Solid-Earth Geophysics, including a volume on the terrestrial planets and moons in our solar system.
TRID (Transportation Research International Documentation)
Copyright/Source: National Academy of Science (U.S.)
TRID, the world's largest transportation research database, includes nearly one million records, including references for journal articles, technical reports, conference proceedings and more. Comprehensively covers the research literature on all transport modes, with aspects including planning, finance, design/construction, materials, environmental issues, safety, human factors, operations. Not included: vehicle standards/specs, patents, military transport. TRID is produced by Transportation Research Board (U.S.) and is made up of the former TRIS database from TRB plus the International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database (from OECD partner countries).
TRIS (Transportation Research Information Service)
Copyright/Source: Transportation Research Board (U.S. National Academy of Science)
TRIS is a U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB) website featuring links to TRB databases and publications, as well as TRID, the comprehensive transportation research database formed by integrating the former TRIS database with the International Transport Research Documentation Database (see above). Please note: UNH currently subscribes to most TRB publications in print (search Library Catalog by publication title; ex. Transportation Research Record).
Ulrichsweb
Bibliographic and access information for over 300,000 serials. Entries provide ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.
UNH Digital Collections
Contains digital versions of books, letters, photographs, and other items from the collections of the University of New Hampshire Library. Focus is on the history of New Hampshire, its people, places, events, governance, and industries, including the history of UNH. Also contains historic books on a variety of topics such as science, music, poetry, and fly-fishing.
See Conditions of Use for copyright information.
Copyright/Source: Milne Special Collections and Archives
Includes citations to articles in University of New Hampshire newspapers and periodicals. Citations list article keywords, topic of article, title of article, date of publication, and serial title.
Union Leader e-Edition
Dates of coverage: Current month
Copyright/Source: Union Leader Corporation
The New Hampshire Union Leader is the daily newspaper of Manchester, the largest city in the state of New Hampshire.
Please note that the free e-edition is limited to access in Dimond Library only.
United Nations Official Documents (ODS)
Dates of coverage: 1993 - present, with older documents being added
Copyright/Source: United Nations
Type: International and Foreign
Includes official UN documents exclusive of sales publications, press releases, treaties, and Department of Public Information brochures. Also includes resolutions from various UN bodies from 1947- present. Searching is available in the official UN languages of Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection
Dates of coverage: 1800 - early 1900s
Copyright/Source: University of Michigan
The University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection is a growing library of books selected from the University of Michigan mathematics collection that have been digitized to improve access and to preserve the content of these books. All of the books in this collection were published in the 19th or early 20th century.
Copyright/Source: UpToDate, Inc.
An evidence-based knowledge system with content written and edited by a global community of physicians, world-renowned experts in their specialties. Includes more than 9,500 clinical topics across 20 specialties, including more than 8,500 graded treatment recommendations. Authors follow a rigorous editorial process, continually reviewing the content to ensure it is of the highest quality and based on the latest evidence. Also includes medical calculators and a drug and drug interaction database.
Urban Studies Abstracts
Bibliographic records and abstracts covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas, selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
US Congressional Serial Set Maps
Historic maps from over 14,000 volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Search for maps by location, subject, personal name, issuing agency, and date. Use to find maps published by many Federal agencies on a wide variety of topics. The searching feature in the Search Hints section gives detailed screen shots of each type of search. Serial Set maps FAQ
US Congressional Serial Set 1817-1994
Dates of coverage: 1817 - 1994, 15th-103rd Congress
A comprehensive digital edition of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, containing reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes. This resource enables researchers to explore U.S. history and culture in unprecedented depth and detail.
US Government Information via Marcive
Copyright/Source: Marcive
This Marcive subscription will end June 30, 2019 and is being replaced by the Catalog of US Government Publications (CGP), which is on the Databases list.
MarciveWeb DOCS Catalog indexes US Government documents. It corresponds to the official government index, the Monthly Catalog, and the Catalog of US Government Publications. Searches are offered in a variety of categories. Availability of documents at local U.S. depository libraries is a key feature.
US Newsstream
Dates of coverage: Varies by newspaper
Formerly National Newspapers Expanded, provides detailed indexing and access to articles, editorials, etc. in newspapers from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC as well as the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.
Vault: Career Intelligence
Copyright/Source: Vault.com Inc
Contains more than 80 career guides and employer profiles, continually updated "insider" information on over 3,000 companies and 70 industries including employee surveys on thousands of top employers, a collection of company-specific message boards for employees, and an extensive free job board with thousands of top job openings.
Users must create a login to access this resource.
Very Short Introductions: Arts & Humanities
Dates of coverage: Launched in 1995; varies by Introduction
Provides concise introductions to the arts and humanities covering a range of subject areas: history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more.
Violence & Abuse Abstracts
Indexes books and journals covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Wall Street Journal Digital Current: Eastern Edition Online
Copyright/Source: ProQuest-CSA LLC.
Access in HTML format to WSJ, which has extensive coverage of stock markets, finance, company news, investments and business-oriented news as well as in-depth features focusing on the national and world economy. Searchable by keyword, type of articles, etc.
Wall Street Journal Recent (ProQuest Digitized Newspapers)
Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Washington Post Digital Current
Washington Post Recent (ProQuest Digitized Newspapers)
Water Resources Abstracts
Provides access to technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.
Please note: Water Resources Abstracts is now part of Agricultural & Environmental Science Database. By default, your search will be limited to Water Resources Abstracts content only. Deselect the checkbox to expand your search and get more results.
Copyright/Source: Thomson Reuters (formerly Institute for Scientific Information-ISI)
Facilitates research-level interdisciplinary search. Use the Basic Search to locate articles in high-impact scholarly journals in science, social science, arts, and humanities. Use the unique Cited Reference search for articles that cite an article you already know of, so you can track citations forward in time.
WebCSD
Copyright/Source: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
WebCSD is the online web portal to the Cambridge Structural Database, the world repository of small-molecule crystal structures.
WestlawNext Campus Research
Copyright/Source: Thompson West
Is an online legal resource for law-related areas such as criminal justice, social work, business and education. This research tool features legal encyclopedias, court decisions, law reviews and journals, statutes, and more.
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Due to contractual agreements, WestLaw Campus users only have the option to print directly from Case Databases, American Law Reports (ALR), and American Jurisprudence.
Wharton Research Data Services
Copyright/Source: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
WRDS provides access to S&P Capital IQ, CRSP, NYSE, Thomson Reuters, Bureau van Dijk, Global Insight, OptionMetrics and other important business research databases.
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
Indexes articles which cover wildlife and wildlife management; uses scientific names of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals and is the best source for governmental publications, especially state publications, concerning wildlife issues.
Copyright/Source: Brown University
A full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Brown University Women Writers Project. It includes full transcriptions of more than 320 texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.
Women's Studies International
Women's Studies International, produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 871,000 records. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented including Women Studies Abstracts.
Copyright/Source: The World Bank Group
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources for more than 180 countries. Other databases provide information on external debt and financial flow data, governance issues, education, health, gender, and more. These can search in several languages.
World Heritage Sites: Africa
Online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Includes a wide variety of scholarly materials ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. It links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites.
World News Digest (Facts on File)
Copyright/Source: Facts On File News Services
Archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly, covering all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940. Enhances nearly seven decades of news from Facts On File World News Digest in print.
World Trade Atlas
Copyright/Source: Global Trade Information Services
The U.S. State Export Edition of the World Trade Atlas is the official source of State export data utilizing the Harmonized Schedule (HS). It was developed in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Census and contains up-to-date State data by origin of movement into the export market. The State Export edition is published monthly -- containing six years of monthly, year-to-date and calendar-year data.
Searches the OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries (generally academic, special, large public libraries, and library consortia). Can be searched by subject, title, author, keyword, or a variety of other access points. Materials found via WorldCat (and not in the UNH Library collection) can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan through the WorldCat interface.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Builds on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000.
Zoological Record
Database of animal biology; includes taxonomic references and register of animal names. Covers topics ranging from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.
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Peter Saunders
Blogs Wed May 21, 2014 - 12:31 pm EST
Therapists to offer sex change drugs to nine-year-olds
Children as young as nine are to be prescribed drugs which delay the onset of puberty as the first step towards a sex change operation (Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph).
Doctors at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust said a trial of the treatment on ‘gender dysphoria’ patients aged 12 to 14 had been successful and it could now be offered even earlier.
Monthly injections of the drugs, known as hypothalamic blockers, are used to slow the development of the children’s sexual organs by blocking the production of the hormones testosterone and oestrogen.
The rationale is that by delaying the onset of sexual maturation this gives more time for gender conflicted youngsters to decide whether they wish to embark on hormone treatment and surgery aimed at changing their gender.
Most people will be shocked at this news but it is actually a logical consequence of accepting four prior ideological presuppositions – that gender is a social construct, that personal autonomy should trump other considerations, that emotional suffering should be avoided at all costs and that technology should be used to achieve these ends.
There are obvious safety concerns - although the gender treatment is reversible, the long-term effects on brain development, bone growth and fertility have not yet been fully evaluated.
But safety considerations aside, using hormones to suppress puberty in transgender children is highly controversial, not least because of deep societal disagreements about the causes and nature of transsexuality and the effectiveness and appropriateness of transgender therapies per se. This means that therapists remain strongly divided about the best way of handling the issue.
Transgender people are born with the anatomy and physiology of one sex but believe that they belong to the opposite sex. Should therapy therefore be aimed at changing bodies (using hormones and surgery) to match a person’s beliefs or should it rather be aimed at helping people to adjust mentally to accepting the bodies they were born with? Even more fundamentally, is ‘gender dsyphoria’ a mental disorder or is it just a normal variant like eye or skin colour?
Up until recently ‘gender identity disorder’ was classified as a mental disorder (in the Psychiatric diagnostic inventory DSM-IV) but it has now been reclassified and renamed ‘gender dysphoria’ (in the DSM-V). This change was strongly ideologically driven and many psychologists and psychiatrists dispute the reclassification. They still see ‘gender identity disorder’ as a kind of body dysphoria, whereby a person has an unshakeable false belief that they are one sex when in fact they are the other. It has been likened to anorexia nervosa, where the affected individual is convinced she is fat whilst being grossly underweight.
Those who supported the reclassification however, take the view that gender identity is biologically fixed and determined and that it is harmful to affected individuals to deny them sex change therapy or to 'force' them to live with the body they were born with. Some even hold to the strongly postmodern view that gender, regardless of what one’s genes or hormones suggest, is simply a social construct, even a matter of choice. If you wish to appreciate how passionately these views are held, then try expressing a traditional understanding on twitter using the hashtag #lgbt!
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Is gender identity fixed as male or female or is it more of a spectrum or continuum? Can it change over time? How effective is therapy in changing the strength and orientation of one’s beliefs? How might suppression of puberty using hormonal treatment affect bone, brain and sexual development?
Research is still at an early stage with many of these questions and strong ideological convictions one way or the other mean that scientific objectivity about the real effects of sex change therapy may always be a matter of contention. It is perhaps not surprising that both opinion and research in this whole area is often driven by powerful ideological vested interests.
Complicating this is the fact that gender identity may change in an individual over time, and that it may be very difficult to predict the outcome of for any particular person. Some children are much more appropriately described as ‘gender nonconforming’ or ‘gender-fluid’ rather than transgender. In many others gender identity may change with time.
Toronto specialist Ken Zucker, who opposes the use of sex change therapies, claims that only about 12% of boys and girls with gender dysphoria will still have persistent dysphoria as adults. This fact alone should lead even the most committed supporters of early intervention to err strongly on the side of caution.
The CMF File ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ goes into the issue in more detail and also looks at biblical principles which can be applied.
The Bible teaches that human beings are created in God's image and of two sexes – male and female (Genesis 1:27). Jesus drew on this when he commented, 'haven't you read, that at the beginning the Creator “made them male and female”, and said, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh” (Matthew 19:4-5).
The Old Testament command 'you shall not commit adultery' also indicates that sexual intercourse should only occur within the framework of marriage (Exodus 20:14). Sex outside the marriage bond is wrong, whether with someone of the same or opposite sex (Leviticus 18:22, 20:10).
The ideal pattern for existence was spoilt at the Fall when mankind rebelled against God's rules. One consequence of this is that moral values, sexual patterns and also biology (genes and hormones) have become distorted.
The good news at the centre of Christianity is that Jesus, through his death and resurrection, gives people new life and power to change. On top of this, there will be a time in the future when all rebellion against God's plans will come to an end and a perfect relationship with God can be fully restored. This brings the hope that transsexual people may find support as they seek to live in ways that are honest to the way God made them, and open to God's ideals.
It's worth noting that the Bible regards celibacy as a high calling. Jesus was fully human and male, but never married nor had sexual intercourse. He also taught that marriage is not for everyone (Matthew 19:12). It is important to acknowledge this, as for some people, battling with gender conflict may be a life long process.
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UN expert says torture continues at Guantanamo Bay
US Department of Defence denies allegation, says there is no credible evidence to support it
Speaking of the prison during his electoral campaign, Donald Trump said he wanted to 'load it up with some bad dudes' (AFP)
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An independent UN human rights investigator said on Wednesday that he had information about an inmate being tortured at the US Guantanamo Bay detention facility, despite Washington banning "enhanced interrogation techniques" almost 10 years ago.
The US Department of Defence denied the allegation, saying there was no credible evidence to support it.
Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, said he had information that Ammar al-Baluchi - accused of being a co-conspirator in the 9/11 attacks on the United States - was being subjected to treatment that is banned under international law.
"His torture and ill-treatment are reported to continue," a statement from the UN human rights office said, without giving details of the source of Melzer's information.
"In addition to the long-term effects of past torture, noise and vibrations are reportedly still being used against him, resulting in constant sleep deprivation and related physical and mental disorders, for which he allegedly does not receive adequate medical attention," it said.
Major Ben Sakrisson, a Pentagon spokesman, said the allegation was not true.
"These claims have been investigated on multiple occasions in the past and no credible evidence has been found to substantiate his claims," he said.
The prison, which was opened by former President George W Bush to hold terrorism suspects captured overseas after the 11 September 2001 attacks has come to symbolise harsh detention practices that opened the United States to accusations of torture.
His successor Barack Obama ended the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" via executive order in January 2009, and reduced the inmate population to 41, but fell short of fulfilling his promise to close the jail.
President Donald Trump asked Congress earlier this year for funds to upgrade the jail, having said during his electoral campaign that he wanted to "load it up with some bad dudes".
Citing a 2014 Senate investigation, the UN statement said al-Baluchi reportedly suffered relentless torture for more than three years in CIA "black sites" before being moved to Guantanamo, where he has been in a severely restricted-access facility for more than a decade.
Al-Baluchi, a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani citizen also known as Abdul Aziz Ali, is the nephew and alleged co-conspirator of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
Melzer said the ban on torture and ill-treatment was one of the most fundamental norms of international law and could not be justified in any circumstances.
He called for the prosecution of US officials who may have carried out torture.
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No Problem With Religious Authorities on Women -Bloomberg
Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said he has no problem with the official religious authority on the issue of women driving.
The prince told Bloomberg the problem he’s "working to resolve is with those who distort the facts of the religious establishment so that women don’t get their complete rights granted them by Islam."
“We believe women have rights in Islam that they’ve yet to obtain,” he said in an interview on Thursday in Riyadh.
While women in Saudi Arabia are prohibited from driving and require approval from a male relative to travel outside the country, the government has taken gradual steps to open new opportunities for them. Under former King Abdullah, women started working at supermarkets, lingerie stores and other retail outlets. Women were also appointed to the king’s advisory body in 2013 and participated in municipal elections for the first time last year.
"I just want to remind the world that American women had to wait long to get their right to vote. So we need time," the prince said in an earlier interview last month. "We look at citizens in general and women are half of this society and we want it to be a productive half."
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Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the headquarters of Facebook on Wednesday and met with the tech giant’s founder and president, Mark Zuckerberg.
Biography of Mohammad bin Salman
Mohammad bin Salman Al Saudis the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, First deputy prime minister and the Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia. He is the First in line to the throne.
He removed the Ban of women driving in Saudi Arabia and gave them the power to vote in Local election. He also regulated the power of religious police and took away the power of arrest without warrant. .
Mohammad is one of the most honest and religious princes in the house of Saud. From his childhood, his leadership skill with intuitive perception made him a legend in his close circle. Prince Mohammed bin Salman received his school education at Riyadh, where he ranked among the top students upon graduation. He received his bachelor’s degree in law from King Saud University. He is enthusiastic about world's history and glorious past of human civilization.
August 31, 1985 Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is the son of King Salman from his third wife, Fahda bint Falah bin Sultan bin Hathleen1990 to 2008Educa…
Interview of Prince Mohammad bin salman - His vision for the future Saudi Arabia
The interview was conducted by Al Arabiya’s general manager and veteran TV journalist Turki al-Dakhil. The full transcript of the interview was translated into English and is available below: Turki Al-Dakhil: Dear brothers and sisters, may God's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. This is Turki Al-Dakhil, greetings, and welcome to this special interview from Al-Arabiya channel with the Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz. God bless you your Royal Highness. God bless you. Thank you your Royal Highness for choosing Al-Arabiya channel for carrying out your first interview. Prince Mohammed: God's peace be upon you. Al-Arabiya is a very important Arab platform, and the Saudis and Arabs watch this channel all the time. I believe that our message will be sent to the Saudis and the Arab world through this platform. Turki Al-Dakhil: God willing. Your Royal Highness, allow me to discuss with you today, in this interview, the vision that you adopted today in Sa…
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Australian Brett Lancaster of the Cervelo TestTeam took the overall lead after he crossed the finish line first in a time of 4 hours 38.48 minutes over the 109.5-mile course that began in Davis and took the riders through Napa Valley wine country, on a scenic ride along Lake Berryessa, across four rated climbs and into downtown Santa Rosa where crowds three deep lined the finish area on Third Street.
Most of the overall race contenders played it safe.
Zabriskie summed up the goals of the big favorites.
"We don't want to risk too much on a day like this," Zabriskie said. "We don't want to crash.
"We just want to be there at the finish in the same time as the main guys."
There was a momentary rumor that Lance Armstrong may have taken a tumble.
With a television blackout for most of the day, it was hard to know exactly what was happening on the course. But it was a false alarm.
RadioShack team director Johan Bruyneel made a driving error and maneuvered a team car with an Armstrong replacement bike into a tree limb. The bike was damaged, but Armstrong wasn't on it.
"The road was really slippery," Bruyneel said. "As a team, we didn't want to take much risk today."
As a team, RadioShack is where it wants to be, with five riders including Leipheimer (12th) and Armstrong (18th) in the top 25.
Garmin-Transition has four riders among the top 25 as well, with overall contenders Tom Danielson (13th) and Zabriskie (14th) among them.
Mark Cavendish, the stylish sprinter from HTC-Columbia who was the leader after Stage 1, had a tougher go of it. The 24-year-old had won Sunday's opening stage, but the punishing climbing sent him closer to the back of the pack than to the front on Monday and he finished in the last of the seven main groups and a whopping 17 minutes, 20 seconds behind the winner.
Lancaster, 30, credited four weeks of altitude training in Boulder, Colo., for his win Monday.
"I put in a lot of hard work there," he said. "But a win like this with a field like this is just incredible for me."
The forecast for Tuesday's 113.7-mile stage from San Francisco to Santa Cruz is better. No rain, partly cloudy, chance of sun.
It was on the stage into Santa Cruz last year when Leipheimer made a decisive move and took the lead for good. Bruyneel was giving away no hint of what to expect Tuesday, though.
"Not telling," he said.
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Nurse charged with being drunk while assisting in surgery
An eastern Pennsylvania nurse has been charged with crimes related to allegedly being drunk while assisting during a surgery.Nurse Richard J. Pieri, 59, of Drums, admitted to having between four and five beers at Mohegan Sun Pocono casino on the night of Feb. 4, Allentown'sMorning Call reported. He...
Man threatens to 'blow up' hospital, arrested for assault
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Man jumps to his death, causes hospital oxygen leak, street closures
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Firefighter receives ‘most extensive face transplant’
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Oliver Platt checks into Chicago Med
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Top US commander: We accidentally attacked hospital
Last weekend, U.S. forces accidentally attacked a hospital in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 22 people, the top commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday, according to a report from the New York Post.Gen. John F. Campbell told a Senate committee that Afghan forces...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 6:54am
Bronx man found dead after four days locked in hospital bathroom
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 6:48am
Manhole cover rips through floor of an MTA bus, injures woman
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Thursday, August 6, 2015 - 1:18pm
Fourth person died as result of Legionnaires' outbreak
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Sunday, August 2, 2015 - 10:04am
Robotic exoskeleton helps man walk again at Boston hospital
In another era, Cory Cook almost definitely would have spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.A diving accident in 2012 damaged the New Hampshire man’s spinal cord and left himparalyzed from the chest down.After nine months of training at an area hospital, though, Cook this week was looking...
Friday, July 24, 2015 - 2:33am
Study links hospitalizations to rise of fracking
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Mother and child killed in car crash on Wednesday
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South Korea PM postpones U.S. trip as two more die in MERS outbreak
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Six die as South Korea tackles outbreak of deadly MERS virus
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U.S. army sent live anthrax to bases in potentially deadly mistake
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Ecstasy could be used to ease anxiety of terminally ill
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While you were sleeping...
Good morningAirlines rushed to introduce a two-crew cockpit rule as serious depression was investigated astheAlps crash pilot's motivation.Apple'sTim Cook said he'llgive away his fortune, while theWhite House declared it would spend a fortune on itswar on superbugs. Meanwhile,Willie Nelson declared...
Apple CEO Tim Cook to give away his $785m fortune before he dies
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$1.2bn fund to stamp out superbugs and fight antibiotics resistance
Reuters –The White House is due to issue an ambitious plan to slow the growing and deadly problem of antibiotic resistance over the next five years, one that requires massive investments and policy changes from a broad array of U.S. government health agencies, according to a copy of the report...
Angelina Jolie in early menopause after surgery to remove ovaries
Reuters – Oscar-winning film star Angelina Jolie said she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer, the disease that killed her mother at the age of 56.The announcement in a New York Times column printed on Tuesday came nearly two years after the rights...
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'It's the biggest. It's the best. It's Bond. And beyond' in the TV spot campaign for Roger Moore's 1977 outing
James Bond movies have often relied on short television commercials, AKA TV spots, to promote the latest cinematic offerings. In a fresh take on their TV spot campaigns, Roger Moore - in character as James Bond - directly addresses the camera for "The Spy Who Loved Me". The first minute-long spot covers the ingredients of the Bond cocktail The other spots relied on a more traditional format opening with the iconic submarine pen set. The last variation uses models reading the script to camera.
"My name is Bond. James Bond. Since we first met, you've joined me on nine of my missions. My latest - and if I'm not careful - my last assignment, will take me to new heights of adventure, new depths of danger, and new areas of excitement. I will get to grips with my most formidable adversaries, be up against the most fascinating women, and handle some of the most fantastic equipment you've ever seen. It won't be easy, but every job has its rewards. In this case, it's the spy who loved me."
"He makes his most beautiful friends. And meets his most dangerous enemies. It's the biggest. It's the best. It's Bond. And Beyond."
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In these islands off South Carolina, you’ll find Gullah food cooked the way it was 150 years ago
By Adrienne Jordan
Thick bounties of Spanish moss hang from stately white oak trees blanketing the swampy St. Helena Island off the coast of South Carolina. St. Helena is one of the many islands that make up the Sea Islands in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida — an area from which Gullah people can trace their descendants back hundreds of years to West Africa.
“I didn’t know what the word ‘Gullah’ was growing up,” Sallie Ann Robinson, a Gullah descendent, said. “In the ’70s I started hearing it when boat tours started arriving on the island, and realized that we lived differently than many other people in the country,” she said.
40% of slaves coming into the mainland were shipped through the port of Charleston, and many of those slaves became known as the Gullah in South Carolina. Following the Civil War, black communities were established on the Sea Islands by freed slaves and the isolation of the islands helped preserve the West African culture of slaves’ descendants, keeping the arts, culture and cuisine strong for generations.
One of the ways that the Gullah culture is preserved is through Lowcountry cuisine. Lowcountry refers to a geographic area encompassing the South Carolina counties of Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper, and West African, English, French and Caribbean cuisines came together to create Lowcountry cuisine, based on rice and seafood found in this region. The isolation of the Sea Islands meant that the Gullah never depended on the U.S. government for provisions — everyone helped one another in a traditional African communal way. In fact, a bridge from Beaufort to St. Helena wasn’t built until 1927, so the Gullah people were dependent on living off of the fruits of the island: fish, crabs, shrimp, garden-grown vegetables and chicken.
A sampling from the Saturday Seafood menu at Momma Lou’s in St. Helena: fried catfish, mac and cheese and shrimp okra
St. Helena has one of the largest Gullah communities in the Lowcountry. One of the most lasting historic legacies of the Gullah is the 50-acre campus housing the Penn Center, which was one of the first schools for freed black slaves following Emancipation of slaves in 1862. The school offered both educational coursework and industrial subjects: There was instruction on how to milk cows and tend chickens, as well as a canning class to teach students how to preserve homegrown fruits and vegetables, according to Penn Center tour guide.
Self-sustainability is an important element of Gullah cooking. Robinson’s family lived off the land on another Sea Island, Daufuskie, which had no restaurants or stores. “We grew our own gardens for fresh vegetables, hunted in the woods and fished for seafood,” she said. “Despite the residents not having much wealth, no one went hungry. We came together in times of need and made do with the little that we did have and shared food. When I was an adult, people would come to the island and ask me, “Well what happens if you’re out of something and you needed supplies from the store?” Robinson said, “We are survivors and we only need what we can get from the earth.”
“We are survivors and we only need what we can get from the earth.” — Sallie Ann Robinson
At Gullah Grub on St. Helena, located in a beautiful late 19th century general store-turned-restaurant, chef Bill Green can trace his Gullah ancestry to the 1700s to Edward Green, a free farmer. He is still cooking in the classic way that his ancestors did: His menu highlights dishes like okra (which came from Africa), Southern LoCountry Crab Soup and shrimp gumbo.
Chef Bill Green outside his restaurant, Gullah Grub, on St. Helena Island
“Gullah cooking is about cooking by the seasons,” Green said. “We go with nature, which is easier for your body to handle. In the summer, the seasonal okra, beans and tomatoes help to build up your strength and body for the fall, and we didn’t eat pork and fat,” he said. “We’re coming into fall, so string beans, yams and greens begin to come into season.”
On Lady’s Island — five minutes from St. Helena island — Momma Lou’s is also focused on Gullah cooking traditions.“Gullah cooking is who I am, being raised in the Lowcountry it comes naturally,” chef and owner Stephanie Finn said. “I saw my grandmother cook food from my grandfather’s field: fresh okra, collards, sweet potatoes, snap beans and field peas. I never think of Lowcountry cooking as creating anything new, just passing down what I was taught.” She frequently has seafood like fried catfish, steamed crabs and shrimp and grits on her menu.
Chef Stephanie Finn at her restaurant, Momma Lou’s
Sherri Whitmore, who runs the Rent-a-Chef catering company out of St. Helena, said Lowcountry cuisine is comparable to farm-to-table food. “This concept is not new for the Gullah people of St. Helena Island or any of the other coastal Sea Islands: We ate what we grew and farm-raised,” she said. Some of the dishes that her catering company prepares today are stuffed collard greens, warm roasted sweet potato salad, speckled-butterbean succotash, chicken and sausage gumbo, shrimp gumbo, smoked chicken and other meats on the grill.
Food traditions hold a place of importance even after death. As you make your way across St. Helena, you will see many names like Middleton and Green marked on headstones in small, unpretentious graveyards. According to Seretha Tuttle-Wynn, who runs Gullah-N-Geechie Mahn Tours, there is a centuries-old burial practice of leaving items like pottery and shells on loved ones’ graves. But there is also a tradition of breaking the last plate the deceased ate off of and placing it on the grave site. It’s meant to be a symbol of that person still living on — another example of the way food is an intrinsic part of Gullah culture.
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Home » Blog » The Wonder Years: A Vicarious Experience (3-9-16)
It started and ended with a kiss. In between, more than 100 episodes of The Wonder Years aired on ABC from 1988 to 1993. It still remains high on my list of favorites. My friends and I were about the same age as the main characters and the show had a big impact on us as we moved through our teenage years. As I reflect on the show, I realize that we learned so much from the trials and tribulations of Kevin, Winnie, Paul, and their extended families and friends. Just think of the effect it could have on the young students encountered in today’s classrooms.
In the time spent over 15 years as a middle school educator, I had many conversations with a colleague of mine, Anne Ejnes, on the topic of using The Wonder Years television show as a basis for social and emotional small group discussions. In that time, I have presented and worked with the technique known as Cinematherapy, a medium that allows the viewers of a film to vicariously experience situations and resolutions in a secure, safe way. I summarize the process as simply, “seeing yourself in someone else.”
I was first made aware of Cinematherapy through a paper entitled Fostering the Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children Through the Guided Viewing Of Film by Thomas Hébert and Kristie Speirs Neumeister. It changed my perspective on young adolescents greatly, and I highly recommend checking it out. You can access a PowerPoint of my presentation more detailed look at the practice, “Cinematherapy and the Implications for Social and Emotional Development,” which focuses on the use of two young-adult films, Stand By Me and Explorers.
Until recently, The Wonder Years was not available on DVD, Video, syndication, or the Internet. Recently, Netflix began offering the entire series of the show through its streaming service. It is clear that each 30-minute episode could be used as a starting point for a host of discussions and activities. I invite you to collaborate in the development of an episode guide that could be used with students.
Visit Netflix and search for The Wonder Years. You can scroll through and read a synopsis of each episode or visit an annotated episode list online. Choose a specific episode to watch and take note of the title and episode number. Watch the episode once through to get a feel for the theme, and jot down any specific lines or dialogue. Watch the episode again and be ready to list any discussion questions you might ask of a group of your students (You will find examples in my PowerPoint).
I have found it helpful to watch the episode and pause it when I find a line or section of dialogue that I can use as a prompt for a larger discussion. It is also a good idea to mix specific questions about the characters first and then have the students relate it to their own experience. Organizing these by subject matter and/or theme helps greatly. Then, develop and write a guide that lists at least four activities that will assist in the student’s understanding. Here are some of my favorite go-to activities.
Write four journal entries as a character from the episode. Pick one main event to start from.
Write a monologue expressing the feelings of one of the characters.
Paint a picture that illustrates the feeling of one of the characters.
Along with a partner, create and act out a scene involving two of the main characters.
Find a popular song or poem that relates to each of the main characters. Provide the lyrics and explain why you chose it. Or, write your own.
Find photographs in magazines or the newspaper (or online) that you think one of the main characters might take, and arrange them in an album with captions. You can also take your own photos and use them as well.
When you are finished, please share your guide with me (jdanielian@nagc.org). Be sure to include your name, contact information, and The Wonder Years in the subject line.
Just as I, an adolescent in 1988, vicariously experienced life in the late 1960’s and came to understand my place in the oftentimes hectic and misunderstood teen years, so too can students today. I’m looking forward to your great ideas.
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We saw in the news a few weeks ago that Veritas Genetics is offering “the world’s first whole genome sequence for less than $1,000, including interpretation and genetic counseling”. At a price of $999, it’s pretty much the $1,000 full genome sequencing service everyone has been waiting for. When we first read this news we became seriously confused. Didn’t Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) already announce the $1,000 genome back on January 14, 2014 when they released their HiSeq X Ten machine that can deliver “full coverage human genomes for less than $1,000”? Then in September of last year, Veritas Genetics also made the claim that they would offer $1,000 genome testing for 5,000 members of the Human Genome Project. So what’s really behind this most recent press release about a $999 full genome sequencing offering? Let’s start with a bit of history first.
The first human genome ever to be sequenced cost $2.7 billion and was called the Human Genome Project (HGP) . The HGP was an international scientific research project which set about to identify and map all of the genes of the human genome. The project kicked off in 1990 and took 23 years to complete while incurring a cost of around $2.7 billion in 1991 dollars. It was from this project that the term “$1,000 genome” was coined and referred to the benchmark price point needed for full personal genome sequencing to become a routine and affordable healthcare procedure.
You can define the term “$1,000 genome” in two ways. The first is that full genome sequencing costs $1,000 to perform and to make a profit you would have to charge more. The second and perhaps widely understood definition from a retail consumers perspective is that anyone can have their genome sequenced for the price of $1,000 from a service provider who makes a profit from the transaction. This first definition was met by Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) in January 2014 when they announced their Hiseq 10:
The Hiseq 10 is a cluster of 10 HiSeq X sequencing machines that can operate over a period of 1 year performing volume sequencing which results in the price per genome sequenced to fall to $1,000. An article by Nature.com on this announcement elaborated on this “$1,000 cost” a bit more:
Flatley’s breakdown of projected HiSeq X Ten sequencing costs included the cost of reagents needed to run the machine ($797 per genome), the depreciated cost of the machine itself ($137 per genome), and the costs of paying technicians to run the machines and of preparing samples for sequencing ($55‒65 per genome). But it left out the overhead costs that academic centers must pay, such as the costs of electricity needed to run the machines.
This is why we have a fair number of companies offering full genome sequencing at a retail cost much higher than $1,000. In this article from late last year, a CNBC reporter talks about her experience of having a full genome sequencing performed by Illumina for a cost of $2,900. Illumina built the machines everyone else is using. If they can’t charge $1,000 using their own machines, it seems unlikely that others would be able to do so.
Now Veritas Genetics claims to be the first company to offer the illusive $1,000 full genome sequencing service and still make a profit on the transaction. One reason why people stood up and took notice of this announcement is because the person who co-founded Veritas Genetics, Dr. George Church, was one of the people who helped initiate the Human Genome Project back in 1984. As a Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, Dr. Church has co-founded 9 different companies including ones we’ve highlighted before like Joule, Editas, and Knome.
Veritas Genetics actually first broke the $1,000 genome barrier back in September of 2015 when in collaboration with the Personal Genome Project (PGP) at Harvard Medical School, made it possible for the PGP’s 5,000 participants to have their genome sequenced by Veritas at a cost of $1,000. Now they are offering this same sequencing service at a price point of $999 and calling it myGenome which is your fully sequenced genome available on your smart phone to take with you wherever you go:
Veritas Genetics isn’t the only company targeting the $1,000 genome. Another company we wrote about before, Human Longevity, wants to become the largest human genome sequencing center in the world, and bought twenty HiSeq X sequencing machines to achieve that goal with an output of nearly 40,000 genomes per year. Dr. George Church was quoted as saying he was skeptical about Veritas Genetics’ ability to deliver on this claims, and now it appears that he’s having a go at this himself.
If reading this article makes you want to go out now and get your own genome fully sequenced, you’ll have to get a doctor’s note first. You can then contact Veritas Genetics and order your test. Veritas will use a Illumina HiSeq X Ten system with an average coverage depth of 30X (that means it’s very accurate). The current turnaround time is 8-10 weeks upon receipt of a saliva sample, beginning when Veritas myGenome starts shipping at the end of March, 2016. Supplies are limited to 5,000 in 2016.
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Brazilian Football in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Americans call it soccer; it is called football in Brazil. It is the sport that ignites fiery passion in the hearts of Brazilians. Work in the country goes to a standstill during World Cup events. As it is all over the country, football is also the number one sport in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte.
Brazilian football is played by everyone from young kids to adults to elderly people. Just take a walk in/any park, beach or open area in the city and, chances are, you’ll see people playing football in Natal. Any free space where a goal can be set up is a Brazilian football arena. The game also comes with some disputes and arguments but, in the end, it’s all clean fun for the football players involved.
Brazilian Football Teams
Natal’s contribution to professional Brazil football is not that big. The more affluent teams from the south have better financing that enables them to find and train the best rookies, develop their game skills and, in due course, profit from them. Though Natal doesn’t create such a big wave in the Brazilian football scene, it does have has three professional clubs who have played at the Machadao footbalh stadium.
ABC Futebol Clube or ABC was founded on June 29, 1915. It is the oldest football clube in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. ABC has bagged the Série C in 2010. ABC Futebol Clube’s rival is America Futebol Clube, another Natal football team.
America Futebol Clube (or América de Natal) or simply América was founded on July 14, 1915. It is the only Potiguar club that has won a regional football match. It is also the only football team in the entire Rio Grande do Norte to win titles outside the state. In 1973, it was declared the undefeated champion of Taça Almir de Albuquerque which were participated by northern and north-eastern Brazilian football teams. América is also the only club from the state to qualify to compete in the Copa Conmebol, an international tournament, in 1998.
The Alecrim Futebol Clube, or simply Alecrim, was founded on August 15, 1915. One of the young founders was later to be Brazilian President, Cafe Filho. The team is a six-time Campeonato Potiguar winner. It has also participated in the Série A in 1986.
Nearly every Natalense is a die-hard fan of either ABC or América. Rio Grande do Norte’s state championship includes 10 contestants, with ABC and América as the standard-bearers. Most of the Brazilian football games were won by both teams.
Natal will get more public exposure in 2014 when it plays host to FIFA World Cup. Natal has been chosen as one of the 10 cities in Brazil to host this huge international sports event. Droves of foreign tourists, football fans and media people will gather in this city where new roads, hotels, infrastructures and tourist facilities have been constructed just for this event.
Machadão Stadium and Brazilian Football
State-owned Machadão was a very popular sports stadium in Natal. It was named after the engineer who supervised the construction. The stadium was inaugurated in 1972 under the name of Estadio Joao Claudio de Vasconcelos Machado. It would soon be referred to as the Machadão. The stadium has hosted some of the biggest Brazilian football matches in the Lagoa Nova neighbourhood.
A few years ago, a sad decision had to be made. For Natal to qualify as one of the 12 host cities for the FIFA World Cup 2014 games which was to be held in Brazil, the city needs a modern and more spacious sports venue. It was decided that both the Machadão and the nearby Humberto Nesi Sports Hall had to be completely torn down to make way for the new structure.
Currently being finished on this site is the Estadio das Dunas sports arena. It name means Stadium of the Dunes since the sand dunes are one of Natal’s biggest tourist attractions. The Brazilian football stadium’s bold undulating structural design is also a tribute to the famous dunes.
David Beckham’s Upcoming Football Academy in Natal
David Beckham, popular product endorser and one of the most famous sports celebrities in the world, has revealed his plans to put up a football academy in the city of Natal. He describes the forthcoming academy as one of the world’s best. During his visit, he said that the city of Natal is filled with great potentials because of its growing economy, tourism industry and real estate investments.
Beckham feels that the city is a great destination that will draw in many celebrities and football personalities. Beckham is planning a scholarship program geared towards Brazilian children that will that will dynamically work with schools in the region. His goal is for children to have access to on-site Brazilian football coaching and other first class facilities, which is similar to the way his academies in London and Los Angeles are being operated.
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Quinn Sullivan, 14-year-old blues whiz, talks Crossroads Festival
By Joe Bosso 2013-04-25T15:01:00.114Z Guitars
"Playing Madison Square Garden was the highlight of my life. I still can't believe it happened."
At 14, Quinn Sullivan has already wowed his blues heroes - and he's just getting started.
(Image credit: Chuck Lanza)
What were you doing when you were 14? Chances are you weren't playing with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Warren Haynes, Gary Clark Jr., Jimmie Vaughan and a dozen other blues greats at Madison Square Garden.
But that's exactly what middle-schooler Quinn Sullivan did last week when he helped close out the first night of Clapton's 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival for an all-hands-on-deck version of Joe Cocker's High Time We Went. Earlier in the evening, Sullivan joined Guy, his mentor since 2005, along with pedal steel master Robert Randolph for arena-razing readings of Damn Right I Got The Blues, Slippin' In and Let The Doorknob Hit Ya.
"Playing Madison Square Garden was the highlight of my life," Sullivan says. "I still can't believe it happened. I went from watching the Crossroads Festival DVD in 2004 to playing it last week. That's just crazy!"
Sullivan credits Guy with maneuvering his own spot on stage to include him in the proceedings. "From what I know, you have to be personally invited by Eric Clapton to play Crossroads," says Sullivan. "Buddy kind of worked things out to get me in. It's just one of the things he's done for me. I'm so indebted to him."
On 18 June, Sullivan releases his debut album, Getting There, a rascally and reverent collection of 12 original blues tunes that also features an assured take on Clapton's To Get Better In A Little While. And once classes let out for the summer, he'll hit the road with Guy for a US tour. It's pretty heady stuff for someone not even old enough to shave, and in the following interview, Sullivan talks about how he came to love the blues, his practice routine (or lack thereof) and what it's like to rub shoulders with key figures of the blues elite.
You got into the guitar at, what, three years old?
"Yeah, I was about three. My parents had a lot of music in the house - Grateful Dead, Beatles - and I grew up listening to it. They brought me to a lot of blues festivals and shows around here in New Bedford [Massachusetts], and I just loved the music. For me, the guitar stuck out. I can play a little drums, a little bass, a little keyboards, but the guitar felt special to me.
"I got my first guitar one Christmas, one of those little First Act models, and I just loved the feel of it. Everything about playing that guitar felt right to me."
At what point did it become more than that? For many people, playing the guitar, especially the blues, is a calling.
"That all hit me when I saw the Crossroads Festival DVD from 2004. Buddy Guy was incredible on that. He played Sweet Home Chicago, which was so good. He did his thing with Hubert Sumlin, Eric Clapton and Robert Cray and all those guys, and I really thought he was amazing. His style, his mannerism, his stage presence - it all struck me as being something really cool.
"At the time, I was listening to The Beatles - and they're still my favorite band of all time - and a lot of jam bands. I didn't know too much about the blues. Getting into it was a real eye-opening experience."
I have to think that listening to the blues set you apart from a lot of your friends at school. Did you feel like an outsider at times?
"Yeah, a little bit. My friends respect and think what I do is really cool, but they're not choosing this type of music - definitely not. They're into pop and rap, which I respect, but this is the music that I choose to play."
And, of course, you've grown up in an age of YouTube and singles replacing albums. A lot of kids your age don't even buy albums.
"Yeah, it's true - records aren't really available like they once were. A lot of kids my age download music, but they don't pay for it. That's not cool for the artist because, you know, they need to get a little of the commission. I wish it was the same as it was 25 years ago, where you could go to a record store and buy an album or CD. People still do it but not like they used to. There's so much new technology that you don't have to go anywhere."
Are you self-taught on the guitar? Did you take lessons?
"I started taking lessons when I was about five with a local guy. Between the ages of five and ten I was doing the lessons. The first song I wanted to learn was Blackbird by The Beatles. I told my teacher, 'Before I learn anything else, you have to show me Blackbird.'"
Sullivan backstage at the Apollo Theatre, NYC, with Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton, 2012. © Chuck Lanza
You went for one of the hard ones right off the bat.
[Laughs] "Yeah, I know! I just always liked the song, and I had to figure it out. My teacher was really great; he taught me all the major chords and a lot of licks. The rest of it I kind of did by myself. I listened to a lot of people, a lot of different guitar players, and tried to make it my own."
Did you woodshed for hours and hours? What's your practice routine like now?
"I really just played when I felt like it. I didn't feel like I had to practice scales for six hours a day or anything. I just pick up the guitar and play when I feel like it. I don't think it's good to force yourself to practice. It should feel good, not like work."
Your phrasing, vibrato and even your restraint belies your age. [Sullivan laughs] Would you say that you're a natural on the guitar?
"Almost… yeah. It's more of a listening thing; you have to listen to a lot of players and take in what they're doing. If you have a good handle on what you're doing on the guitar, it's easier to listen than to read. I guess I had an early jump on things because of when I started taking lessons."
Was your first good guitar a Strat?
"Yeah. I got a Strat when I was about eight or nine. My first guitar was that First Act guitar, an acoustic, and then I moved up to a Fender Squier - not a full-size Strat but something a little smaller. So I hooked up with Fender through Buddy, and they gave me a white American Standard Strat. I still have it. I got it signed by so many people: Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, all of these different people. And, of course, Buddy Guy. [Laughs] It's really, really cool."
How did you get hooked up with Buddy?
"He was playing at a theater in my hometown. I had no idea that I was going to play or meet him, but my dad made some arrangements with the people at the place for a little meet-and-greet thing. We went backstage, and I had my Fender with me. He was so cool. He signed my guitar, and then he asked me to play a few licks. I did some stuff, and then he said, 'You be ready when I call you.' That was pretty surreal.
"I walked on stage that night, played a couple of blues songs - it's still amazing to me. One of those incredible nights. Buddy has done so much for me. What a gracious man he is. He's one of the greatest guitarists in the history of music. It would be nice if the younger generation knew more about him."
Guys who have played in bands for 10 years are petrified the first time they play Madison Square Garden. What on earth was going through you mind last week?
"The only thing I was thinking was 'Don't mess up, Quinn.' [Laughs] Obviously, I had some nerves going - there's 20,000 people in the place. But I don't really get nervous before shows."
So who did you get to meet backstage? C'mon…
"I did meet Eric, but actually, I met him last year at the Apollo Theatre when Buddy invited me to play the tribute show to Hubert Sumlin. I got to shake Eric's hand then and we had a picture taken. It wasn't too much. This time, Eric shook my hand and said some things, but it was sort of loud, so I didn't hear everything.
"The finale at Crossroads... I got to play with 30 of my heroes; it was so crazy. At the end of the night, Clapton was hugging everyone and thanking them for being there. He hugged Buddy, and then Buddy gave me another introduction to him. I think Clapton said, 'Great to hear you play.' It was such a cool moment."
Sullivan on stage with Guy at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago, 2013. © Chuck Lanza
Besides Buddy, who else would you say has been an influence?
"There's so many. I'd say my top influences have been Eric Clapton, Buddy, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Frank Zappa -"
Zappa? Wow, that's interesting.
"Yeah, I like the jazz-fusion guys, all the people who stretch things. I also like David Gilmour, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck. Those guys really know what's going on with the guitar."
You know, most kids your age haven't heard of most of those people.
"Yeah, well… I don't know what to say. They should! [Laughs] I just love great music, great guitar players."
You have your own album coming out, you've played Madison Square Garden, you're touring with Buddy Guy - do you have any kind of normal teenage life?
"Oh, yeah. I hang out with my friends, try to normal kid stuff. Of course, I still go to school and everything. It's not good to build success up and let things go to your head. I always want to stay humble."
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Emerton: Our best win
Sydney FC star Brett Emerton is confident Saturday's crucial 2-1 win over the red-hot Perth Glory will be the catalyst for a late-season surge towards the Hyundai A-League finals series.
The stand-in skipper played a starring role in Saturday's victory, scoring the opening goal in the 54th minute and setting up Bruno Cazarine's 72nd-minute effort to secure a vital three points.
A delighted Emerton, who wore the captain's armband in the absence of suspended skipper Terry McFlynn, praised his team-mates' character after they reversed Sunday's disastrous 5-2 loss to Newcastle Jets.
"It's a fantastic win for us, the most important one of the season and in difficult times it was great to see that every player went out there tonight, no one went hiding, everybody showed and wanted the ball," a delighted Emerton said.
"I think apart from the win that was the most important thing, the players showed character and that's going to take us a long way hopefully for the rest of the season and hopefully into the finals."
Asked if the victory can act as a springboard for the seventh-placed Sky Blues in the final six games of the regular season, the former Blackburn stalwart replied: "Of course, I think if you look at Perth for example, last time we played them only four or five weeks ago we were sitting in a similar spot on the table and since then they've used that as a springboard to go on and string some wins together."
"Hopefully we can take a look at them and see what they've done and do a similar thing."
He added of his own performance in his return match from a hamstring injury: "I was happy and just happy to be back playing. I hated watching last week but I enjoyed the game out there tonight and hopefully the fans enjoyed it as well."
Coach Vitezslav Lavicka heaped praise on his marquee man but was equally delighted with the efforts of his entire squad.
"Look at the stats, he scored one and he set up the second one, he did a good performance but I have to say that all players on the park worked very hard tonight to get the result on the park and show our fans a good quality performance," the coach said.
"We kept the passion and played much better in defence as a team and of course we finally took our chances."
"Every win is important but you know how we lost the game last time against the Jets so it wasn't easy to pick up the players again."
"But we made some changes in the starting line-up and all players in the squad worked very hard before the game in training, so I'm happy because it was a great response from them."
"We knew that the last game when we played at home here against the Jets it wasn't good so this result, this performance was like a present for Sydney FC members and fans."
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About PEComa
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What is PEComa?
Perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) are ultra-rare carcinomas, representing a family of mesenchymal tumors arising from perivascular epithelioid cells (PECs) that surround the blood vessels. PEComas can occur in any part of the body, with most commonly in the abdominal cavity, pelvic region (uterus in women), and the gastrointestinal tract.
The most common types of PEComas are angiomyolipoma (AML) and lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), and clear cell sugar tumor (CCST). Less well-characterized PEComas of a variety of anatomic origins are called PEComa- not otherwise specified (PEComa-NOS).
What are the risk factors for PEComa?
A few risk factors for PEComa have been noted, including having tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), which is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous benign tumors in many parts of the body. TSC is caused by mutation of the TSC1 or TSC2 genes. Both these genes suppress tumor growth in the body by regulating cell growth through inhibition of a protein called mammalian target of rapamycin, or mTOR for short. When either the TSC1 or TSC2 gene is mutated (defective), the mTOR biological pathway is over activated and cell growth becomes abnormal.
While both males and females are affected, there is a strong female predominance of 6:1 ratio.
The onset of PEComas can range at any age (3-97 years), with the average age of diagnosis at 45 years.
Signs and Symptoms?
PEComa can have a myriad of features, its signs and symptoms depend on the size, location, and subtype of the tumor, and whether it is benign or malignant. Smaller tumors may not exhibit any symptoms, but larger tumors can affect the functioning of the organ that is involved. Malignant tumors that metastasized may show a variety of symptoms depending on the site of metastatic lesion.
How is PEComa diagnosed?
Upon suspected malignancy, radiologic imaging studies (including CTs, MRIs) can be used to identify affected regions, then a biopsy of the tumor is used to arrive to a definitive diagnosis.
How PEComa is treated?
Treatment depends on whether the PEComa is malignant or benign. Most PEComas are benign at diagnosis,and depending on their locations,maybe easily removed via surgery. However, there is a subset of aggressive PEComas, advanced malignant PEComas, that are either metastatic or locally advanced, for which surgery is not an option, and for which there are currently no approved therapies. Malignant tumors are currently treated with a blend of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and surgery.
The prognosis for patients with malignant disease is poor, with a median survival of 12-17 months after diagnosis of advanced disease. Therefore, the treatment for advanced PEComas represent a significant clinical need to improve therapeutic outcomes. The mTOR pathway, which is inhibited by TSC1-TSC2 complex, is frequently deregulated in PEComas, making it a promising target for treatment.
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The new building is located in the Oak Lawn area near the intersection of Cedar Springs and Inwood. Designed by I.M. Pei-trained architect James Langford, the 20,000-square-foot building will be an inspiring facility that is a visual beacon for the LGBTQ community and its allies.
This is more than concrete and bricks. It’s the heart of a community – creating a safe, empowering and welcoming space.
The new Center consolidates three facilities to host youth and senior programs, administration, event and meeting spaces, and more, all in one location. The Center will meet the ever-growing demand for its services with dignity.
ABOUT THE ARCHITECT
James Langford received his Bachelor in Architecture in 1979 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. After a year of interning with RTKL in Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. Langford went to work with I. M. Pei and Partners in New York City. Mr. Langford worked directly with Mr. Pei and Henry Cobb for over six years on such notable projects as the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas and Commerce Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After leaving I. M. Pei’s office, Mr. Langford later received his Master in Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
James E. Langford, Architects and Planners, L.L.C. was founded in 1989 after Mr. Langford returned to his native Dallas from New York. For the first three years of his practice, he was Assistant Professor of Technology at the University of North Texas (UNT). His research and lecturing at UNT was on 16th century Northern Italian Renaissance architecture that continued studies he began as a graduate student at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
His firm has designed a wide variety of projects from churches and residential buildings to research and development laboratories. Award winning projects include the All Saints Chapel at the Episcopal School of Dallas, the King of Glory Lutheran Church and Place des Vosges residential development in Dallas. The focus of the firm in the last few years has been sustainable design. Mr. Langford’s sustainable concepts have been incorporated in recent projects as the Harvard Residence, Resource Center and Northaven United Methodist Church, all in Dallas. These projects showcase sustainable features as innovative shading concepts, water recycling, use of local materials and form-active methods of construction.
Mr. Langford’s research and design concepts in sustainable design have also found their way into his Architectural and Structural Engineering and Building Technology courses in Civil and Environment Design at Southern Methodist University.
Mr. Langford is a member of the American Institute of Architects, Texas Society of Architects, and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He is the father of three children: Will, Lilly, and Carolyn.
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August News and Events
Posted on 31st August 2014 by Julie and David Thomson in General News.
August on The Somme
There have been many events to mark the Centenary of the outbreak of The First World War. Sunday 3rd August saw a re-enactment of the mobilisation of French troops in Albert. It was a very well attended event, with the rain adding to the poignancy of a dramatic day then and now. Commencing with the ringing of the bells of The Basilica, a group of re-enactors assembled in the rainswept plaza before walking to Albert station where they boarded a steam train as they did 100 years ago. A wonderfully staged event was recorded by French television and radio, a fitting tribute to those who left for War, many never to return. The Basilica now has a digital clock which records the number of days to the end of The War.
Sunday 10th August we attended a commemorative service in Pozieres to mark the anniversary of the death of composer George Butterworth. The event was attended by George Butterworth’s cousin Hugh and composers Stevie Wishart and Kriss Russman as well as Conductor, musician and biographer of Butterworth, Anthony Murphy. George Butterworth’s music was played, including The Banks of Green Willow, which has been adopted as musical remembrance for the unknown soldiers. The music can be found on You Tube and other archives. It is wonderful that George, who has no known grave, is remembered in this way. His music and early death is symbolic of the many lives snuffed out and the talent of a generation who had their future potential denied them.
The George Butterworth Memorial and members of Digger Cote 160 with Hugh Butterworth
On 13th August the Western Front Association marked the mobilisation of the British Expeditionary Force with events in London, Amiens and Arras. At Amiens Glisy airfield a service was held to mark the arrival of the first flights from the Royal Flying Corps into France. Unfortunately bad weather prevented a BE2 flying in but several Tiger Moths and a Crossley tender and staff car attended having been flown and driven from the UK. In the afternoon a commemorative service was held at Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery in Arras, where wreaths from each Regiment which formed the original BEF, were transported to Arras from London and will remain on the Great War Stone throughout September. It was a moving ceremony with the wonderful South Wales Male Voice Choir singing and various readings and tributes read by young WFA members. The Digger Cote 160 Society, based in Pozieres, attended both events in period costume which added to the unique occasion.
On 28th August, 2 unknown soldiers who have been found in recent months in the fields where they fell were reburied with honour. Although both British, there was nothing with their remains to identify them. One was buried in Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension and the other in Adelaide Cemetery near Villers Bretonneux. Unfortunately we did not attend either ceremony but guests Helen and George Antrichan attended and have allowed us to use the photo they took.
On 8th September in Albert French Cemetery the remains of French soldier Louis Joseph Le Heurt, of the 118e RI will be reburied. He died for France on 8 January 1915 in La Boisselle and his remains were discovered on 28 November 2013 by the La Boisselle Study Group as part of their archaeological work. We are hoping to attend the ceremony at which members of Louis Le Heurt’s family will be in attendance.
For those who have been to No.fifty6 you will know that we have a love of books! This month we were sent a copy of a new book about The Somme Campaign of 1916, which has been written by author and guest Andrew Rawson. It covers the summer and autumn events from 1st July through to November 1916 and is well researched and written. Entitled "The Somme Campaign" it is published by Pen and Sword Books.
We have many interesting guests to stay with us from so many nations. The unifying factor, no matter what nationality, is an interest in the events that happened here and a desire to ensure that those who gave so much are not forgotten. We share with our guests a desire to learn and take that learning and compassion to make the world a better place today.
jane says: 01 Sep at 11:25AM
So many commemorative events in August.
It is heartening to know that we will never forget those who fought and died in WW1.
It reminds me that I need to visit you all again next year.
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Vote Like Your Friends
Published Oct 20, 2010 at 1:47 PM | Updated at 7:39 AM PST on Feb 10, 2011
So you've had your informational voter ballot packet from the registrar's office for a few weeks now. Have you read it from cover to cover? It's doubtful many voters will.
But there is a website called Californiachoices.org which came out just before the primaries. It's a nonpartisan clearinghouse of information on ballot measures. And it's been updated to include a social media aspect, based on the conversations we have with our friends like : "Well, who are you voting for? " and "What do you think of the marijuana issue?" It allows you with one click to share your opinion on Facebook , MySpace, Twitter.
"Only about one-third of the people have encyclopedic knowledge, but most people rely on cues," says Thad Kousser, political science professor at UC San Diego. He says when it comes to politics we get our information informally from , first the people we trust, whether it be our friends or family, and secondly from the people who share similar interests.
California Choices also features and update on policy positions by 50 major organizations, from unions to non-profits to newspapers on how they stand. It's a collaboration of information from UC, CSU and Stanford.
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Life under ISIS led these Muslims to Christianity
"If heaven is made for ISIS and their belief," said one convert, "I would choose hell for myself instead of being again with them in the same place, even if it’s paradise."
Syrians gather outside the Church of the Brethren in Kobani, Syria.NBC News
Feb. 3, 2019, 9:42 AM UTC
By Yuliya Talmazan
Four years have passed since the Islamic State group's fighters were run out of Kobani, a strategic city on the Syrian-Turkish border, but the militants' violent and extreme interpretation of Islam has left some questioning their faith.
A new church is attracting converts. It is the first local Christian place of worship for decades.
“If ISIS represents Islam, I don’t want to be a Muslim anymore,” Farhad Jasim, 23, who attends the Church of the Brethren, told NBC News. “Their God is not my God.”
Religious conversions are rare and taboo in Syria, with those who abandon Islam often ostracized by their families and communities.
“Even under the Syrian regime before the revolution, it was strictly forbidden to change religion from Islam to Christianity or the opposite,” said Omar, 38, who serves as an administrator at the Protestant church. (He asked for his last name not to be revealed for safety reasons. The church's priest declined to be interviewed.)
“Changing your religion under ISIS wasn’t even imaginable. ISIS would kill you immediately,” he added.
While residents are still dealing with the emotional scars left by the brutality of ISIS, Omar says many people in Kobani have been open-minded about Christianity.
Omar reads the Bible at the Church of the Brethren in Kobani, Syria.NBC News
“Most of the brothers here converted or come to church as a result of what ISIS did to them and to their families,” he added. “No one is forced to convert. Our weapon is the prayer, the spreading of spirit of love, brotherhood and tolerance.”
Islamic leaders around the world have spoken against the extremists' ideology, accusing the ISIS militants of hijacking their religion.
In 2014, more than 100 Muslim scholars wrote an open letter to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi saying the militant group has “misinterpreted Islam into a religion of harshness, brutality, torture and murder.”
"I saw dead bodies of young men being thrown from high buildings for being gay."
Only 4.6 percent of Syrians are believed to be Christian, according to a report by the Aid to the Church in Need. The Catholic charity estimates that 700,000 Christians have fled the country since the civil war erupted in 2011, an exodus that has halved their proportion of the population.
Jasim, who works as a mechanic, converted to Christianity late last year.
He says he was jailed by ISIS for six months in early 2016 after the militants discovered he didn't know the basics of Islam. He says he was tortured in ISIS captivity and forced to read the Quran.
Farhad Jasim worships in the Church of the Brethren in Kobani, Syria.NBC News
“After I witnessed their brutality with my own eyes, I started to be skeptical about my belief,” Jasim said, anger rising in his voice.
After hearing about the Church of the Brethren — which opened in September and is part of a denomination with its origins in 18th-century Germany — Jasim decided to visit and see for himself what it was all about.
“It didn’t take me long to discover that Christianity was the religion I was searching for,” he said.
But walking away from Islam meant his relationship with his parents and other family members was over.
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Fighting back tears, Jasim says he hopes that his loved ones will not only one day forgive him for finding a new faith, but consider converting themselves.
Like Jasim, Firas also turned away from Islam after witnessing ISIS atrocities. He converted to Christianity around six months ago.
“ISIS members were terrorizing people and then going to the mosque to pray to Allah,” said Firas, 47, who is a farmer and asked for his last name not to be published for security reasons. “After their prayers, they would leave the mosque and terrorize people again.”
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Firas, his wife and their three daughters lived under ISIS in the countryside near Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria for two years.
Life under ISIS meant threatening and punishing anyone who was against the group's beliefs, he recalled.
Firas said he witnessed civilians being held inside cages on public streets on hot summer days during Ramadan because they were caught eating or drinking; Muslims are expected to fast from dawn until sunset during the holy month.
“I saw men and young teenagers being whipped on the streets because they were caught smoking. I saw dead bodies of young men being thrown from high buildings for being gay,” Firas said. “This was their Islam.”
Worshippers at the Church of the Brethren in Kobani, Syria.NBC News
Firas says that he has not turned against his old faith and that all of his relatives remain conservative Muslims. But the brutality he witnessed in the caliphate was too much to bear.
"If heaven is made for ISIS and their belief, I would choose hell for myself instead of being again with them in the same place, even if it’s paradise," he said.
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Yuliya Talmazan is a London-based journalist.
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New Mexico Oil Production Soars to a Record 250 Million Barrels in 2018
Victor Blanco | NewsWest9 | March 12, 2019
SANTA FE, NM (KWES) - New Mexico’s oil boom continues to reach new heights as recently-published data shows oil production reaching a record-high of 250 million barrels of oil in 2018.
The United States Energy Information Administration reports oil production climbed 46% from 2017 to 2018, surging 78 million barrels past the previous record of 171 million barrels set in 2017.
Ryan Flynn, executive director of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, believes the state’s oil and natural continues gas industry is the economic backbone of New Mexico.
“Record energy production is not only good for jobs and the communities where we produce oil and natural gas, it means important funding for our public schools and the entire state budget while protecting our environment and natural resources,” said Flynn.
Flnn continued to say leaders in New Mexico should focus on finding ways to safely continue the growth that is helping turn New Mexico around.
New Mexico natural gas production is also on upswing, coming in at a ten-year high of 1,488,471 million cubic feet for 2018 marketed production.
New Mexico last passed that figure in 2007, but still lags behind the all-time high of 1,695,595 Million Cubic Feet produced in 2000.
New Mexico is the third-largest oil producer in the United States, having cemented the position with rapidly increasing production in the Permian Basin.
New Mexico oil producers are showing no signs of slowing down, having also reached a monthly production milestone of 25.3 million barrels of oil in December.
Earlier this month, oil producers Chevron and Exxon Mobil announced higher production forecasts for their assets across the New Mexico-Texas Permian Basin.
Exxon Mobil said it plans to produce the equivalent of 1 million barrels of oil per day in the basin as soon as 2024, while Chevron expects to produce 600,000 barrels per day in the Permian by the end of 2020 and 900,000 barrels a day by the end of 2023.
Increased production has led to rapid growth for communities in southeast New Mexico, but it is also having an impact around the state and in the state capitol.
The New Mexico Tax Research Institute reports that New Mexico’s general fund and public schools are benefiting from considerable increases in oil and natural gas taxes and revenues.
Total industry contributions to the state in Fiscal Year 2018 totaled $2.2 billion, including $822 million in funding for public schools and nearly $241 million for the state’s universities, colleges, and other higher education institutions.
Data and rankings are compiled and produced by the United States Energy Information Administration, an independent agency within the United States Department of Energy.
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Construction Lien Act Reform: What it means for CIQS members
Author(s): Richard Wong, Jeff St. Aubin
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2017 edition of The Construction Economist, the official journal of the Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS).
The upcoming reform of the Construction Lien Act, expected to take effect in the coming months, will fundamentally alter the dynamics of the construction industry in Ontario. In our view, the two most important of these changes from the perspective of CIQS members will be the introduction of prompt payment requirements and an interim adjudication regime. Each of these areas will introduce new challenges for CIQS members to contend with, including by dramatically shortening payment cycles and altering the way in which disputes are handled, while also opening up exciting opportunities for those who best position themselves to assist clients in adapting to the new laws. For more information regarding the changes in the current draft of Bill 142, please visit our hub here. If you are interested in receiving a blacklined version of the Construction Lien Act overlaid with the changes proposed by Bill 142, please contact the writers directly by e-mail.
Reform of the Construction Lien Act
The last significant reform of the Ontario Construction Lien Act was in 1983, so the proposed changes represent the first, and quite possibly the last, major reform that many working in the construction industry will experience during their careers. Industry stakeholders, including the CIQS, participated in the Ministry’s consultation process and developed detailed submissions that shaped the issues under consideration.
Bill 142 passed first reading at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on May 31, 2017 and is currently in second reading as this Article goes to print. Before becoming law, Bill 142 will need to pass second and third readings, with modifications including those resulting from detailed committee review. In the meantime, associations representing various segments of the industry including owners, lenders, contractors, subcontractors, design professionals and others have been considering the implications of the current wording and reviewing and submitting comments for further consideration. While certain stakeholders have expressed concerns with elements of the Bill, we expect it to pass very quickly i.e. by the end of 2017 or early 2018 with any final changes. The corresponding regulations are also currently being developed and should be available for review shortly.
Mandatory Prompt Payment
Bill 142 proposes to introduce prompt payment requirements that will apply to payments made in the pyramid under construction contracts that are entered into after the amendments become law. The new prompt payment regime will require that an owner pay the invoiced amount no later than 28 days after receiving a “proper invoice” from a contractor. The requirement for prompt payment also flows down through the pyramid, as a contractor that receives full payment of a proper invoice must then pay each subcontractor within 7 days for that component of the subcontractor’s services and materials that were included in the contractor’s invoice.
The proper invoice will not be set by regulation, but will continue to be defined by the parties in the contract itself, although it must include certain basic information such as the description of services and materials and quantities where appropriate, as well as other information if prescribed by regulation. However, what is known and of particular note for CIQS members, Bill 142 specifically prohibits payment certification or the owner’s prior approval being a condition to the submission of a proper invoice and the starting of the 28 day clock.
Does this mean that payment certification will be less important for an owner? Certainly not. No owner is going to want to release payment simply because their time limit has run out in a situation where they are not reasonably satisfied that the work invoiced has in fact been completed properly. What it does mean is that payment certifiers will be expected to respond extremely quickly after a proper invoice is received.
The actual timeframe available to a payment certifier for the review of a proper invoice is significantly more compressed than the overall 28 day payment window for payment. An owner that wants to dispute an invoice must provide a notice of non-payment to the contractor within 14 days of having received the invoice, and this non-payment notice must set out the amount not being paid and all of the reasons for which payment is being denied. This means that the payment certifier will have to complete its assessment and provide the owner with accurate information for decision-making less than 14 days after the invoice is received.
The owner’s need for certainty, coupled with the tight timeframes of the prompt payment regime, will almost certainly translate into increased pressures on payment certifiers. Although the process of payment certification will not change in substance, the timeliness of its completion will become critical. Furthermore, Bill 142 makes no allowance for extra time in situations where payment certification is difficult or even practically impossible in these restricted timeframes. The balancing of competing demands, scheduling of work, and timeliness of reporting, all fall to be managed by the payment certifier and the owner. From our discussions with U.K. counsel on their experiences with similar prompt payment legislation having been adopted there about 20 years ago, it may be necessary for the owner and the payment certifier to develop new protocols and procedures in the contract to initiate some of the work towards certification in advance of the issuance of a contractor’s proper invoice, to provide a bit more time to analyze and respond in a more proactive manner.
While the U.K. certainly went through a number of teething issues as the industry tested the boundaries of the new legislation, it is now widely seen to be effective in efficiently dispensing rough justice and keeping funds moving. Therefore, the construction industry in Ontario will need to understand and adapt as quickly as possible, while looking to similar experiences in the U.K. for guidance where applicable. The prompt payment provisions also provide opportunity for CIQS members who can distinguish themselves through the provision of accurate and quick services, backed by an understanding of the new laws and the challenges faced by owners, to capitalize on these changes and provide even more value to their clients.
Interim Adjudication
Bill 142 also proposes to introduce a new statutory interim adjudication regime that will apply to all contracts and subcontracts in the private and public sectors entered into after the legislation becomes law. This regime will allow any party to a contract or subcontract to submit certain disputes to an adjudicator for resolution, even if the dispute is already subject to an ongoing arbitration or court action. The types of disputes that can be referred to interim adjudication are those related to the value of services and materials, payment (including unapproved and proposed change orders), notices of non-payment, set-off, the release of holdback, and any other matter that the parties agree to or may be prescribed by regulation.
Interim adjudication is intended to provide quick decisions to keep project funds flowing between the parties. As compared to traditional arbitration and court proceedings, interim adjudication will proceed at a blistering pace. After the adjudicator is selected (a process which is discussed further below), the party that initiated the adjudication has only 5 days to provide the adjudicator with the contract and any other documents on which that party intends to rely. After the adjudicator receives these documents, the entire adjudication must be completed and a decision rendered within 30 days, following which any late decision would be of no force or effect – a strong measure to ensure that the timelines are adhered to. Extensions are permitted, but only with the consent of the parties and the adjudicator.
The interim adjudication process is not intended to provide perfect decisions based on the fullness of time. The speed of the proceedings simply will not allow for the same depth of argument and decision making that would be achieved through an arbitration or a trial. Interim adjudication is also not final, as a party may continue to pursue the matter through a subsequent arbitration or a trial. What interim adjudication does achieve is the issuance of a quick decision that may require a party to make (or not make) a payment to another party. In those instances, the payment must be made within 10 days of the decision, failing which the contractor or subcontractor that should have received the payment may suspend work. This will ensure that interim adjudication keeps funds flowing, whereas traditional arbitration or court actions could take months or years to trigger a payment requirement.
The interim adjudication regime will introduce an entirely new way of dealing with construction disputes and it will almost certainly result in upheaval as the parties to construction contracts adjust to this new approach. However, experience in other countries including the U.K. has shown that parties can and will adapt, and in many cases such “interim” adjudication often settles the dispute in question, as parties decide to move on as opposed to revisiting those decisions.
For CIQS members, a particularly interesting aspect of the interim adjudication regime is the potential to serve as adjudicators. Bill 142 does not articulate who may serve as an adjudicator, but rather provides for the designation of an Authorized Nominating Authority, which will qualify persons as adjudicators, develop and oversee adjudicator training programs, appoint adjudicators, and maintain a public registry of adjudicators. The recommendations to the government prior to Bill 142 included that an adjudicator:
be a natural person free from conflict of interest;
possess at least 7 years of relevant working experience in the Ontario construction industry;
be good standing in a self-governing professional body, specifically including a quantity surveyor; and
have completed a standardized Ontario training course with continuing education requirements.
The recommendations also propose that eminently qualified individuals in key centres such as Ottawa, Toronto, London and Windsor be selected as an initial group of adjudicators until the training and qualification system is fully implemented.
However, we will need to await the issuance of the regulations and the creation of the Authorized Nominating Authority to confirm the exact requirements of an adjudicator. In other jurisdictions, particularly the U.K., quantity surveyors have served as adjudicators and those that are interested in Ontario should keep an eye on the appointment of the Authorized Nominating Authority and its approach to qualifying individuals as adjudicators for the public registry, and the government may designate the Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure as an interim authority. Designation as an adjudicator and inclusion on this registry is also critical, as Bill 142 requires that all adjudicators be selected from this registry, either by the parties or by the Authorized Nominating Authority if the parties cannot agree. Note however that in contrast to say a DRB (dispute review board), the adjudicator is prohibited from being appointed on a standing basis, and is selected only after the notice of dispute for a particular dispute has been issued, and for the particular issue at hand. In our view, the core skill sets required to serve as an effective adjudicator are expected to include solid understanding of the various issues in dispute in the construction industry in general, dispute resolution procedures and mechanisms, general legal and other principles, and decision writing.
Aside from the possibility of serving as adjudicators, CIQS members may also find opportunities in assisting their clients in dealing with the rapid speed of adjudication under the new regime. A client faced with an adjudication will only have a few weeks to compile all of the information that they need to respond and present their case. A team who can hit the ground running and work with these aggressive timeframes may make the difference between a favourable and unfavourable decision in the interim adjudication process.
Bill 142 will be a singular event for many in the construction industry, as it will represent a significant and immediate overhaul of legislation that is central to the day-to-day functioning of the administration of a construction project. The impact of these changes will be unavoidable, and from a legal perspective, we are already being asked - given the length of project delivery of large construction projects - to consider various issues and supplementary conditions and clauses that will best serve our clients before, during and after the transition. For CIQS members, the reform of the Construction Lien Act introduce additional challenges, but also holds the promise of new opportunities, and those who understand the coming changes and the specific needs of their clients will be an asset in helping to navigate these fast-moving waters.
Note: These comments are of a general nature, and only in relation to the draft of Bill 142 as of first reading, and are not intended to provide legal advice, as individual situations will differ and should be discussed with a lawyer.
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Notes on Manhattan Eruv Map:
1. On 111th Street, between Manhattan Avenue and the FDR Drive, only the south side of the street is in the eruv. Please Note: The intersection of 111th Street and Park Avenue is not included in the eruv.
2. The intersection of 111th Street and Park Avenue is not included in the eruv. When walking (and carrying) east or west on 111th Street, turn south on Park Avenue and cross at 110th Street.
3. On Cathedral Parkway, between Columbus and Manhattan Avenues, only the south side of the street is in the eruv. On Manhattan Avenue, between Cathedral Parkway and 111th Street, only the east side of the street is in the eruv.
4. On Amsterdam Avenue, between 126th (St. Mary’s Place) and 123rd Streets, only the west side of the street is in the eruv.
5. On 126th Street (St. Mary’s Place), between Amsterdam and Broadway, only the south side of street is in the eruv.
6. Riverside Park, on the east side of the West Side Highway from 72nd Street to 95th Street, is included in the eruv. Portions of Riverside Park west of the West Side Highway or north of 95th Street are not included.
7. On Tenth Avenue, between 56th and 58th Streets, only the east side of the street is in the eruv.
8. On West End Avenue, between 58th and 60th Streets, only the east side of the street is in the eruv.
9. On 58th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh (West End) Avenues, only the north side of the street is in the eruv.
10. On 56th Street, between Broadway and Tenth Avenue (Amsterdam), only the north side of the street is in the eruv.
11. On Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), between Bleecker and 55th Street, only the east side of the street is in the eruv (on the sidewalk between the lamppost and the building).
12. On Bleecker, between Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Mercer, only the north side of the street is in the eruv.
13. On Allen Street, between 1st Street and 2nd Street, only the west side of the street is in the eruv.
14. On Avenue A, between 2nd Street and 8th Street, only the west side of the street is in the eruv.
15. One can only access Tompkins Square Park from the north or west. The eruv zigzags up Avenue A until the western gate (intersection of St. Marks and Avenue A), at which point the eruv consists of the fence of the park. Coming from the South, the earliest one could cross Avenue A to access the park is St. Marks.
16. On Loisaida Avenue (Avenue C), between 11th Street and 13th Street, only the west side of the street is in the eruv.
17. All of Stuyvesant Town is in the eruv.
18. On 38th Street, between First and Second Avenues, only the south side of the street is in the eruv.
19. On Second Avenue, between 38th Street and 49th Street, only the west side of the street is in the eruv.
Note 12A
On Houston Between Mercer and Second Avenue only the north side of the street is in the eruv.
Note 12B
On Mercer, between Bleecker and Houston, only the east side of the street is in the eruv.
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Dougherty: Three edge rushers who could be too tempting for Packers to pass up
If you think his free-agency splurge means outside rusher isn’t still a draft priority for Packers GM Brian Gutekunst, think again.
Dougherty: Three edge rushers who could be too tempting for Packers to pass up If you think his free-agency splurge means outside rusher isn’t still a draft priority for Packers GM Brian Gutekunst, think again. Check out this story on packersnews.com: https://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/dougherty/2019/04/11/dougherty-trio-edge-rushers-who-could-tempt-packers-no-12/3438421002/
Pete Dougherty, Packers News Published 6:14 p.m. CT April 11, 2019 | Updated 9:05 p.m. CT April 19, 2019
About a month ago, Brian Gutekunst signed outside linebackers Za’Darius Smith and Preston Smith for a combined average of $29.5 million a year.
But if you think that means outside rusher isn’t still a draft priority for the Green Bay Packers general manager, think again.
For one, neither of the Smiths is a field-tilting rusher. Preston Smith has averaged 6.1 sacks a season in his four-year NFL career, and that’s without having missed a game. Za’Darius Smith has averaged 4.6 sacks in his four seasons though he’s coming off a career-high 8½ last year.
Gutekunst saw upside and good overall play when he signed them, but the Packers still don’t have a pass rusher offenses have to game plan around.
Second, the strength at the top of this year’s draft is defensive line in general and outside rushers in particular. There’s a real chance the best player on the board when the Packers pick at No. 12 will be an outside rusher.
Why would Gutekunst even think twice about taking one if he’s the best player on the board? You can’t have enough good pass rushers in this league, and there are always ways to get them all on the field. If Gutekunst can add a prospect with some thoroughbred qualities that the Packers’ lack at that position, he has to take it.
That said, it’s safe to say two edge rushers will be off the board before Gutekunst’s turn comes up: Ohio State’s Nick Bosa and Kentucky’s Josh Allen.
That leaves probably three others who would be viable at No. 12 and have any chance of being available: Mississippi State’s Montez Sweat, Michigan’s Rashan Gary and Florida State’s Brian Burns.
Following is a thumbnail look at all three based on recent conversations I’ve had with two NFL scouts and one defensive line coach in the league.
Montez Sweat of Mississippi State reacts after a tackle for loss against Louisville during the TaxSlayer Bowl on Dec. 30, 2017 in Jacksonville, Fla. (Photo: Getty Images)
Montez Sweat
After putting up 22 sacks the last two seasons followed by exceptional testing at the NFL scouting combine in February, he’s the least likely of the three to be on the board at No. 12.
“It’s going to be very close,” one of the scouts said.
Sweat, who ended up at Mississippi State after getting kicked off the team at Michigan State for marijuana use, has a prototypical build for an outside rusher (6-5 5/6, 260 pounds, 35 ¾-inch arms).
Then at the scouting combine he ran an all-time 40 (4.41 seconds) for a defensive end and had performances in the vertical (36 inches), three-cone drill (7.0 seconds) and short shuttle (4.29 seconds) that rank in the top 77th percentile or better for edge rushers dating to 1999, according to Mock Draftable.
Looking at Sweat’s sack numbers and 40 – that 40 time was no fluke, because his second try was only a hair slower at 4.45 seconds – you’d think he’s a top-five prospect. But he’s not.
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“I don’t make a lot of the ridiculous 40 time,” the other scout said. “He’s very straight line. (His 40) is incredibly impressive, don’t get me wrong. (But) if you watch the film you wouldn’t think that. He’s more of a power player. He’s got excellent arm length. That’s really how he wins his rushes, with length and power. If he’s got a free run on the back side against the run he does pretty well.”
Chances are Sweat won’t make it to 12, but if he does, could Gutekunst pass? You’d have to think not.
“(Sweat) is long, he’s athletic, and he can run,” one of the scouts said. “I think his upside is bigger than Bosa’s. … I think he’s a real guy.”
Rashan Gary
Michigan edge rusher Rashan Gary lines up against Western Michigan last September. (Photo: Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports)
One of the hardest top prospects to make sense of, because he looks and tests like a top rusher but doesn’t sack the quarterback like one.
In the junior entry’s final two seasons at Michigan he had only nine sacks total, including 3½ in nine games last year. The most recent outside rusher who had such little production in college but went on to a good rushing career in the NFL is Frank Clark, who never had more than five sacks in a season at Michigan but has had 32 sacks the past three years for Seattle and this offseason was tagged as the Seahawks’ franchise player.
“(Gary) looks like a good player, but how can you take this guy (high in the first round)?” the defensive line coach said. “I thought he must be a bad ass, but he had (3½) sacks (last year). If you haven’t ever sacked the quarterback in college you’re not going to be a big-time sacker in the NFL.
Still, Gary generally is regarded as a top talent.
He’s big for an outside rusher (6-4 3/8, 277 pounds), and his best position is a 4-3 end, not the 3-4 outside linebacker position he’d probably play for the Packers. Despite that size, though, his 40 (4.58 seconds) and vertical (38 inches) rank in the top 97th percentile of edge rushers at the combine since ’99, so he has elite traits in an oversized body.
“He’s a power player,” one of the scouts said. “He plays really hard. He’s good against the run, he’s explosive. He’s got stiff hips – if he’s doing a speed rush around the edge he can’t plant and turn real fluidly, which is why he struggles to finish some rushes at times. But he’s right up there with (Sweat and Burns). I don’t expect him to be there at 12, but you’d be happy if he was.”
Florida State defensive end Brian Burns looks on before a 2018 game against Virginia Tech. (Photo: AP)
He’s the only pure 3-4 outside linebacker of the three, so in that way he’s a better fit for the Packers’ scheme.
Burns played last season at close to 225 pounds, then built up to 249 pounds for the combine and still ran a fast (4.53) 40. He had 23 sacks in three seasons at Florida State, including 8½ in eight games as a freshman and 10 last year as a junior.
He’s a speed rusher with upside but from a school with a history of outside rushers who have underachieved in the NFL, including the Packers’ first-round pick (No. 10 overall) in 2001, Jamal Reynolds.
The defensive line coach rated Burns and Sweat as tied for the third-best edge rushers in this draft, behind Bosa and Allen. One of the scouts didn’t like Burns in the first round because of the Florida State bust factor; the other rated him just behind Sweat and Gary.
“I don’t think it’s too rich for (Burns) at 12,” the second scout said. “All these guys are real guys. Some of them are more polished, some of them are more potential. Bosa to me doesn’t have potential. He is exactly what he is, and he’s damn good, but he’s not getting better once he gets to the pro level. He’s not going to get any bigger. Some of these other guys have a chance to get bigger and learn more.”
This draft might not have the next Von Miller and Khalil Mack, but for quality prospects in the first half of the first round, the edge rushers probably rank as the best position.
It doesn’t mean they’ll all pan out. But it could mean one of them will get his shot in Green Bay.
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Stanford's victory over Arizona was satisfying in many ways
by Mark Soltau/Stanford Athletics
For walk-on running back Pat McFadden, Saturday night's 55-17 win against Arizona was the thrill of a lifetime. The junior from Sunfish Lake, Minn., received his first playing time in a Stanford uniform and rushed for 10 yards on three carries.
Afterward in the noisy Stanford locker room, he was mobbed by teammates, several shouting, "Speech! Speech! Speech!''
Pat McFadden
McFadden couldn't stop smiling.
"It was unreal," he said. "I'm in my third year now and you sit on the sidelines, and so many games I've dreamed of going in there. And then you finally get to go in with 10 of the guys you have been grinding with day in and day out and have a chance to prove yourself and to fight with your brothers, which is awesome."
McFadden said his heart raced when he got the call in the fourth quarter.
"They yelled my name and I ran out there and had to slow down for a little bit. It was such a cool experience," said McFadden, whose older brother Conor played at Stanford
The locker room reception capped his night.
"That goes to show the character of this team," he said. "They're as excited about us scoring the first touchdown as myself getting in for my first carry. It shows a lot about how much this team cares about each other."
Stopping the run
The Stanford defense knew the key to winning was stopping the Arizona running game. Coming into the game, the Wildcats led the Pac-12 Conference in rushing and running back Nick Wilson led the conference and had surpassed 100 yards in three-consecutive games.
The Cardinal limited Arizona to 118 yards and Wilson to 46. The unit also collected six tackles for loss.
"It's 11 guys doing their job," said defensive lineman Aziz Shittu, who had five tackles, two for loss, and one sack. "It's hard to beat that on defense. We really wanted to key in on that run to make sure they didn't rack up yards, because that's how they get their offense going."
Shittu and Brennan Scarlett were nicked up against Oregon State, but started against the Wildcats. When they went down, others stepped up.
"We love seeing guys just get out there and perform," he said. "When the next group goes in, there is no drop-off. We saw that last week."
Nice cameo by Chryst
Sophomore quarterback Keller Chryst came in for one play in the second quarter and handed off to sophomore running back Christian McCaffrey, then sprung him for a 25-yard gain around right end by leveling cornerback Cam Denson. McCaffrey was the first to congratulate Chryst, playfully slapping him several times.
"We put the play in this week and repped it a few times," said the 6-foot-5, 233-pound Chryst. "Never really full speed, so I was just going out there trying to do what I could do to kick out that corner and let Christian do his thing."
Chryst also ran for nine yards on a keeper in the third quarter and threw his first collegiate touchdown pass, a six-yarder to fifth-year senior Rollins Stallworth late in the fourth quarter.
"It was fun to get out on the field and finally get some actual game plays and get a drive or two going," said the former Palo Alto High standout. "A few third-down conversions that are good practice for me."
In addition, Chryst ran for a 33-yard touchdown that was nullified by a holding penalty.
"I got lucky," he said. "I don't think I ever had a run like that high school. Great blocking downfield. We didn't get that one but we ended up finishing the drive."
Running game shines
For the third-straight game, Stanford churned up big yardage on the ground. The Cardinal rushed for 314, led by McCaffrey with 156.
"We knew going into the season we had the talent to do this week in and week out," said senior offensive tackle Kyle Murphy. "It just boils down to execution. It's finally all coming together and the backs are getting in sync."
The Cardinal offense scored on its first eight possessions.
"That's a great feeling and takes a lot of pressure off our defense," Murphy said. "It gives us that in-game momentum that we really need and can feed off of. It's great to see all the running backs get touches and yards."
Sanders' big TD
For the second game in a row, senior running back Barry Sanders ran for a 65-yard touchdown.
"It was actually a play we put in at halftime," Sanders said. "We had practiced variations. I was just fortunate to be the one who ran it. The guys up front opened it up for me and I was just glad I was able to finish."
Sanders said one of the best parts of the win was seeing so many guys play and contribute.
"That's the goal every week, to have everyone play," he said. "That means we're doing something right. It's encouraging to see guys get reps that wouldn't otherwise. As brothers, we love to see that."
Good time for a bye
Stanford is idle next week and resumes play Oct. 15 in Thursday night home game against UCLA. Murphy said the bye is welcome.
"I think it's coming at a good time," he said. "We've got a few guys banged up, thankfully nothing too serious. It's going to be nice to get off our feet a little. The last three games have been physical matchups and we pounded the rock a lot. Next Saturday, we're going to be watching games and wishing we were out there, but we only have 10 days or so until we play UCLA, so it'll come quick."
He's catching on
Freshman wide receiver Trent Irwin caught four passes for 53 yards. He now has seven on the season and four have produced first downs on third down.
"I'm just going out there trying to help my team any way I can," said Irwin, a five-star recruit from Valencia (in Southern California), who set state records for career receptions (285) and receiving yards (5,268) and scored 61 touchdowns. "If they need me out there, I'll try to go in and make a big play."
Irwin has settled into his new environment on and off the field.
"It's a great place," he said. "The coaches here are great and the people here are unique. It's been a fun experience."
Now No. 16
Stanford climbed two spots to No. 16 in the new AP poll released Sunday. The Cardinal is the only team in Pac-12 play with a 3-0 record.
National leaders
Statistically, McCaffrey and senior inside linebacker Blake Martinez now lead the FBS in individual categories. McCaffrey is No. 1 in all-purpose yards, averaging 229.80 yards/game, 14th in rushing yards with 601 and 20th in yards/game at 120.2. Martinez is first in total tackles with 63 and averages 12.6/game.
Additionally, fifth-year senior quarterback Kevin Hogan ranks eighth in passing efficiency at 169.8 and 18th in completion percentage at .675. He has thrown nine touchdowns and only two interceptions.
Fifth-year senior running back Remound Wright tallied three touchdowns against Arizona and now has eight on the season, tied for 26th nationally.
Stanford, which led the conference in time of possession, dominated again, 37:19 to 22:41. The Cardinal didn't punt until the fourth quarter and kicked only once in the game. Stanford ranks fourth nationally (35:00) in time of possession . . . . Senior kicker Conrad Ukropina was 2-for-2 in field goals and has now converted 7-of-8 attempts this season . . . Neither team committed a turnover . . . Stanford women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer served as the honorary captain . . . Following the first quarter, the women's athletic program was honored for winning the 2014 Capital One Cup as the best in the country. Student-athletes from many sports gathered on the field to accept the award.
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HTC's Vive VR headset won't be out until April
The HTC Vive VR headset, which was expected to be available commercially in "limited quantities" by the end of 2015, has been pushed back to April of 2016. HTC announced the updated launch window on Facebook, where it said it remains "focused on delivering the very best experience possible for a consumer release."
"Since announcing the HTC Vive in March of this year we have focused on developing immersive content, refining both hardware design and user experience, and building relationships with new partners both inside and outside of the gaming industry," the message states. "In collaboration with Valve, we have been distributing the HTC Vive Developer Kits to developers and content creators, and are continuing to work with many other innovative companies to create content that spans gaming, entertainment, medical, education and retail."
The plan now is to release another 7000 Vive headsets to developers at the beginning of 2016, followed by "commercial availability" in April. Unfortunately, the statement doesn't clarify whether the delay will mean that a greater number of units will be available to the public when it launches. That doesn't strike me as overly likely, but I've emailed Valve for more information and will update if and when I hear more.
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Science|Rocks May Be Oldest on Earth, Scientists Say
Rocks May Be Oldest on Earth, Scientists Say
By KENNETH CHANG SEPT. 25, 2008
Some scientists say ancient bedrock found in Canada could turn out to be younger rock formed from much older remnants. Credit Jonathan O’Neil
A swath of bedrock in northern Quebec may be the oldest known piece of the earth’s crust.
In an article appearing in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, scientists report that portions of that bedrock are 4.28 billion years old, formed when the earth was less than 300 million years old.
“These rocks paint this picture of an early earth that looked pretty much like the modern earth,” said Richard W. Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and one of the authors of the paper.
Other scientists are intrigued, but not yet entirely convinced that the rocks are quite that old.
“There is a certain amount of healthy skepticism that needs to play a role here,” said Stephen J. Mojzsis, a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado. Dr. Mojzsis said the new research was well done, but that he thought these were younger sedimentary rocks, pressed together out of the remnants of earlier rocks that were indeed 4.28 billion years old.
“I hope that I’m wrong,” Dr. Mojzsis said. “If that happens, I believe there will be a land rush by geologists to northern Quebec.”
Researchers report that this rock is 4.28 billion years old and formed when the Earth was less than 300 million years old. Credit © Science/AAAS
At present, the oldest dated rocks are in the Canadian Northwest, at 4.03 billion years old. Geologists have also found older bits of the earth: tiny, zircon crystals as old as 4.36 billion years old, embedded within younger rocks in Western Australia. The age of the earth is more than 4.5 billion years.
Radioactive elements trapped within zircons provide precise ages, but Dr. Carlson and his collaborators at McGill University and the University of Quebec have not found any zircons in the Quebec bedrock. Instead, they determined the age of the rocks from the amounts of neodymium and samarium, two rare earth elements.
Dr. Carlson said the skeptics might be correct that the bedrock could be younger rocks formed out of older material. “The age is pretty certain,” he said. “The interpretation of the age is less certain.”
If the rocks are as old as claimed, the significance would be that “they’re not dramatically different from rocks you would find today in Japan or places like that,” Dr. Carlson said.
In fact, their chemical signature looks most similar to ocean floor that has been pulled under continents, Dr. Carlson said. That suggests that the process of plate tectonics, reshaping and moving continents, could have already started on the very early earth.
At the very least, the existence of solid rock 4.28 billion years ago would run counter to the traditional image of the young earth as a roiling cauldron of magma oceans, a view that is falling by the wayside among researchers as more geological data is unearthed.
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Washington|From Tiny Sect, Weighty Issue for Justices
From Tiny Sect, Weighty Issue for Justices
By ADAM LIPTAK NOV. 10, 2008
PLEASANT GROVE CITY, Utah — Across the street from City Hall here sits a small park with about a dozen donated buildings and objects — a wishing well, a millstone from the city’s first flour mill and an imposing red granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments.
Thirty miles to the north, in Salt Lake City, adherents of a religion called Summum gather in a wood and metal pyramid hard by Interstate 15 to meditate on their Seven Aphorisms, fortified by an alcoholic sacramental nectar they produce and surrounded by mummified animals.
In 2003, the president of the Summum church wrote to the mayor here with a proposal: the church wanted to erect a monument inscribed with the Seven Aphorisms in the city park, “similar in size and nature” to the one devoted to the Ten Commandments.
The city declined, a lawsuit followed and a federal appeals court ruled that the First Amendment required the city to display the Summum monument. The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in the case, which could produce the most important free speech decision of the term.
The justices will consider whether a public park open to some donations must accept others as well. In cases involving speeches and leaflets, the courts have generally said that public parks are public forums where the government cannot discriminate among speakers on the basis of what they propose to say. The question of how donated objects should be treated is, however, an open one.
Inside the pyramid, sitting on a comfortable white couch near a mummified Doberman named Butch, Ron Temu, a Summum counselor, said the two monuments would complement each other.
“They’ve put a basically Judeo-Christian religious text in the park, which we think is great, because people should be exposed to it,” Mr. Temu said. “But our principles should be exposed as well.”
Su Menu, the church’s president, agreed. “If you look at them side by side,” Ms. Menu said of the two monuments, “they really are saying similar things.”
The Third Commandment: “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
The Third Aphorism: “Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”
Michael W. Daniels, the mayor here, is not the vibrating sort.
Sitting with the city attorney in a conference room in City Hall, Mr. Daniels deftly drew several fine lines in explaining why the city could treat the two monuments differently.
Summum leaders, from left, Bernie Aua, Su Menu and Ron Temu, at their headquarters in Salt Lake City. Credit Tom Smart for The New York Times
Only donations concerning the city’s history are eligible for display in the park as a matter of longstanding policy, he said, and only when donated by groups with a long association with the city. The Fraternal Order of Eagles, a national civic organization, donated the Ten Commandments monument in 1971.
The donations, Mr. Daniels went on, are transformed when the city accepts them. “Monuments on government property become government speech,” he said.
Under the First Amendment, the government can generally say what it likes without giving equal time to opposing views; it has much less latitude to choose among private speakers.
Asked what the government is saying when it displays the Ten Commandments, Mr. Daniels talked about law and history. He did not mention religion.
Pressed a little, he retreated.
“The fact that we own the monument doesn’t mean that what is on the monument is something we are espousing, promoting, establishing, embracing,” Mr. Daniels said. “We’re looking at, Does it fit with the heritage of the people of this area?”
Brian M. Barnard, a lawyer for the Summum church, said the city’s distinctions were cooked up after the fact as a way to reject his client’s monument. The local chapter of the Eagles, Mr. Barnard added, had only been in town two years when it donated the Ten Commandments monument.
“We have a city that will allow one organization to put up its religious ideals and principles,” Mr. Barnard said. “When the next group comes along, they won’t allow it to put up its religious ideals and principles.”
Last year, the federal appeals court in Denver sided with the Summum church and ordered Pleasant Grove City to erect its monument.
Although the case appears to present questions under the First Amendment’s ban on government establishment of religion, the appeals court said the case was properly analyzed under the amendment’s free-speech protections. That distinguishes it from most cases concerning the display of nativity scenes and the like on government property.
The city, supported by more than 20 cities and states, along with the federal government, has told the Supreme Court that the upshot of affirming the appeals court decision would be to clutter public parks across the nation with offensive nonsense.
A town accepting a Sept. 11 memorial would also have to display a donated tribute to Al Qaeda, the briefs said. “Accepting a Statue of Liberty,” the city’s brief said, should not “compel a government to accept a Statue of Tyranny.”
A park monument in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, is inscribed with the Ten Commandments. Credit Tom Smart for The New York Times
The brief for the Summum church said the relevant dispute was much narrower. “The government,” it said, “may not take sides in a theological debate.”
Governments seeking to avoid accepting donations they do not want have several options, the Summum brief contended. They can choose to display nothing. They can speak in their own voice by creating or commissioning their own monuments. And they can adopt the messages conveyed by donated monuments as their own, but only if they do so expressly and unequivocally.
The Ten Commandments monument here stands in Pioneer Park, which pays tribute to the city’s frontier heritage, one that is mostly Mormon. The two sides differ about how best to honor that heritage.
Mayor Daniels said the monument broadly reflected local history. Mr. Barnard, the Summum lawyer, said the Ten Commandments did not play a central role in the Mormon faith. “If they wanted to quote from the Book of Mormon,” he said, “that would, at least, relate to the pioneers.”
“Mormons came to Utah because of religious persecution,” Mr. Barnard added. “The pioneer heritage in Utah has to be escape from persecution.”
The Summum church was founded in 1975, and it contains elements of Egyptian faiths and Gnostic Christianity. “Summum,” derived from the Latin, refers to the sum of all creation.
Followers of Summum believe that Moses received two sets of tablets on Mount Sinai and that the Ten Commandments were on the second set. The aphorisms were on the first one.
“When Moses came down from the mountain the first time, he brought the principles of creation,” Mr. Temu said. “But he saw the people weren’t ready for them, so he threw them on the ground and destroyed them.”
Summum’s founder, Corky Ra, says he learned the aphorisms during a series of telepathic encounters with divine beings he called Summa Individuals.
Mr. Barnard has represented the Summum church for many years. “They’re odd,” he said of his clients, with an affectionate smile. “They’re strange. They’re different.”
Bernie Aua, the church’s vice president, said the court case should not turn on how his religion was viewed.
“We have this thing called the Constitution,” Mr. Aua said. “The fact is, it’s a public park. And public parks are public.”
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: From Tiny Sect, A Weighty Issue For the Justices. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Opinion|The Great War’s Ominous Echoes
Op-Ed Contributor
The Great War’s Ominous Echoes
By Margaret MacMillan
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Oxford, England — Earlier this year, I was on holiday in Corsica and wandered into the church of a tiny hamlet in the hills where I found a memorial to the dead from World War I. Out of a population that can have been no more than 150, eight young men, bearing among them only three last names, had died in that conflict. Such lists can be found all over Europe, in great cities and in small villages. Similar memorials are spread around the globe, for the Great War, as it was known before 1940, also drew soldiers from Asia, Africa and North America.
World War I still haunts us, partly because of the sheer scale of the carnage — 10 million combatants killed and many more wounded. Countless civilians lost their lives, too, whether through military action, starvation or disease. Whole empires were destroyed and societies brutalized.
But there’s another reason the war continues to haunt us: we still cannot agree on why it happened. Was it caused by the overweening ambitions of some of the men in power at the time? Kaiser Wilhelm II and his ministers, for example, wanted a greater Germany with a global reach, so they challenged the naval supremacy of Britain. Or does the explanation lie in competing ideologies? National rivalries? Or in the sheer and seemingly unstoppable momentum of militarism? As an arms race accelerated, generals and admirals made plans that became ever more aggressive as well as rigid. Did that make an explosion inevitable?
Or would it never have happened had a random event in an Austro-Hungarian backwater not lit the fuse? In the second year of the conflagration that engulfed most of Europe, a bitter joke made the rounds: “Have you seen today’s headline? ‘Archduke Found Alive: War a Mistake.”’ That is the most dispiriting explanation of all — that the war was simply a blunder that could have been avoided.
The search for explanations began almost as soon as the guns opened fire in the summer of 1914 and has never stopped. The approaching centenary should make us reflect anew on our vulnerability to human error, sudden catastrophes, and sheer accident. History, in the saying attributed to Mark Twain, never repeats itself but it rhymes. We have good reason to glance over our shoulders even as we look ahead. If we cannot determine how one of the most momentous conflicts in history happened, how can we hope to avoid another such catastrophe in the future?
Though the era just before World War I, with its gas lighting and its horse-drawn carriages, seems very far-off, it is similar to ours — often unsettlingly so — in many ways. Globalization — which we tend to think of as a modern phenomenon, created by the spread of international businesses and investment, the growth of the Internet, and the widespread migration of peoples — was also characteristic of that era. Even remote parts of the world were being linked by new means of transportation, from railways to steamships, and communication, including the telephone, telegraph and wireless.
The decades leading up to 1914 were, as now, a period of dramatic shifts and upheavals, which those who experienced them thought of as unprecedented in speed and scale. New fields of commerce and manufacture were opening up, such as the rapidly expanding chemical and electrical industries. Einstein was developing his general theory of relativity; radical new ideas like psychoanalysis were finding a following; and the roots of the predatory ideologies of fascism and Soviet Communism were taking hold.
Globalization can have the paradoxical effect of fostering intense localism and nativism, frightening people into taking refuge in small like-minded groups. Globalization also makes possible the widespread transmission of radical ideologies and the bringing together of fanatics who will stop at nothing in their quest for the perfect society. In the period before World War I, anarchists and revolutionary Socialists across Europe and North America read the same works and had the same aim: to overthrow the existing social order. The young Serbs who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo were inspired by Nietzsche and Bakunin, just as their Russian and French counterparts were.
Terrorists from Calcutta to Buffalo imitated one another as they hurled bombs onto the floors of stock exchanges, blew up railway lines, and stabbed and shot those they saw as oppressors, whether the Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary or the president of the United States, William McKinley. Today, new technologies and social media platforms provide new rallying points for fanatics, enabling them to spread their messages to even wider audiences around the globe.
With our “war on terror,” we run the same risk of overestimating the power of a loose network of extremists, few in number. More dangerous may be our miscalculations about the significance of changes in warfare. A hundred years ago, most military planners and the civilian governments who watched from the sidelines got the nature of the coming war catastrophically wrong.
The great advances of Europe’s science and technology and the increasing output of its factories during its long period of peace had made going on the attack much more costly in casualties. The killing zone — the area that advancing soldiers had to cross in the face of deadly enemy fire — had expanded hugely, from 100 yards in the Napoleonic wars to over 1,000 yards by 1914. The rifles and machine guns they faced were firing faster and more accurately, and the artillery shells contained more devastating explosives. Soldiers attacking, no matter how brave, would suffer horrific losses, while defenders sat in the relative security of their trenches, behind sandbags and barbed wire.
A comparable mistake in our own time is the assumption that because of our advanced technology, we can deliver quick, focused and overpowering military actions — “surgical strikes” with drones and cruise missiles, “shock and awe” by carpet bombing and armored divisions — resulting in conflicts that will be short and limited in their impact, and victories that will be decisive. Increasingly, we are seeing asymmetrical wars between well-armed, organized forces on one side and low-level insurgencies on the other, which can spread across not just a region but a continent, or even the globe. Yet we are not seeing clear outcomes, partly because there is not one enemy but a shifting coalition of local warlords, religious warriors and other interested parties.
Think of Afghanistan or Syria, where local and international players are mingled and what constitutes victory is difficult to define. In such wars, those ordering military action must consider not just the combatants on the ground but the elusive yet critical factor of public opinion. Thanks to social media, every airstrike, artillery shell and cloud of poison gas that hits civilian targets is now filmed and tweeted around the world.
Globalization can heighten rivalries and fears between countries that one might otherwise expect to be friends. On the eve of World War I, Britain, the world’s greatest naval power, and Germany, the world’s greatest land power, were each other’s largest trading partners. British children played with toys, including lead soldiers, made in Germany, and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden resounded with the voices of German singers performing German operas. But all that did not translate into friendship.
Quite the contrary. With Germany cutting into Britain’s traditional markets and vying with it for colonies and power, the British felt threatened. As early as 1896, a best-selling British pamphlet, “Made in Germany,” painted an ominous picture: “A gigantic commercial State is arising to menace our prosperity, and contend with us for the trade of the world.” Many Germans held reciprocal views. When Kaiser Wilhelm and his naval secretary Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz built a deepwater navy to challenge British naval supremacy, the unease in Britain about Germany’s growing commercial and military power turned into something close to panic.
It is tempting — and sobering — to compare today’s relationship between China and America to that between Germany and England a century ago. Lulling ourselves into a false sense of safety, we say that countries that have McDonald’s will never fight one another. Yet the extraordinary growth in trade and investment between China and the United States since the 1980s has not served to allay mutual suspicions. At a time when the two countries are competing for markets, resources and influence from the Caribbean to Central Asia, China has become increasingly ready to translate its economic strength into military power.
Increased Chinese military spending and the buildup of its naval capacity suggest to many American strategists that China intends to challenge the United States as a Pacific power, and we are now seeing an arms race between the countries in that region. The Wall Street Journal has published authoritative reports that the Pentagon is preparing war plans against China — just in case.
Before 1914, the great powers talked of their honor. Today, Secretary of State John Kerry refers to America’s credibility or prestige. It amounts to much the same thing.
Once lines are drawn between nations, reaching across them becomes difficult. In the Europe of 1914, the growth of nationalist feeling — encouraged from above but rising from the grass roots where historians, linguists and folklorists were busy creating stories of ancient and eternal enmities — did much to cause ill will among nations who might otherwise have been friends. What Freud called the “narcissism of small differences” can lead to violence and death — a danger amplified if the greater powers choose to intervene as protectors of groups outside their own borders who share a religious or ethnic identity with them. Here, too, we can see ominous parallels between present and past.
Before World War I, Serbia financed and armed Serbs within the Austrian Empire, while both Russia and Austria stirred up the peoples along each other’s borders. In our time, Saudi Arabia backs Sunnis, and Sunni-majority states, around the world, while Iran has made itself the protector of Shiites, funding radical movements such as Hezbollah. The Middle East today bears a worrying resemblance to the Balkans then. A similar mix of toxic nationalisms threatens to draw in outside powers as the United States, Turkey, Russia and Iran all look to protect their interests and their clients. We must hope that Russia will have more control over the Damascus government to compel it to the negotiating table than it had over Serbia in 1914.
Like our predecessors a century ago, we assume that all-out war is something we no longer do. The French Socialist leader Jean Jaurès, a man of great wisdom who tried unsuccessfully to stanch the rise of militarism in the early years of the 20th century, understood this well. “Europe has been afflicted by so many crises for so many years,” he said on the eve of World War I, and “it has been put dangerously to the test so many times without war breaking out, that it has almost ceased to believe in the threat and is watching the further development of the interminable Balkan conflict with decreased attention and reduced disquiet.”
With different leadership, World War I might have been avoided. Europe in 1914 needed a Bismarck or a Churchill with the strength of character to stand up to pressure and the capacity to see the larger strategic picture. Instead, the key powers had weak, divided or distracted leaders. Today, America’s president faces a series of politicians in China who, like those in Germany a century ago, are deeply concerned that their nation be taken seriously. In Vladimir V. Putin, President Obama must deal with a Russian nationalist who is both wilier and stronger than the unfortunate Czar Nicholas II.
Mr. Obama, like Woodrow Wilson, is a great orator, capable of laying out his vision of the world and inspiring Americans. But like Wilson at the end of the 1914-18 war, Mr. Obama is dealing with a partisan and uncooperative Congress. Perhaps even more worrying, he may be in a position similar to that of the British prime minister in 1914, Herbert Asquith — presiding over a country so divided internally that it is unwilling or unable to play an active and constructive role in the world.
The United States on the eve of 2014 is still the world’s strongest power, but it is not as powerful as it once was. It has suffered military setbacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has had difficulty finding allies that will stand by it, as the Syrian crisis demonstrates. Uncomfortably aware that they have few reliable friends and many potential enemies, the Americans are now considering a return to a more isolationist policy. Is America reaching the end of its tether, as Britain did before it?
It may take a moment of real danger to force the major powers of this new world order to come together in coalitions able and willing to act. Instead of muddling along from one crisis to another, now is the time to think again about those dreadful lessons of a century ago — in the hope that our leaders, with our encouragement, will think about how they can work together to build a stable international order.
Margaret MacMillan is warden of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the author, most recently, of “The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914.” This article is adapted from The Brookings Essay, a series published by the Brookings Institution.
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U.S.|Must-Do for Florida’s Midterm Candidates: A Stop in Puerto Rico. Or Three.
Must-Do for Florida’s Midterm Candidates: A Stop in Puerto Rico. Or Three.
Senator Bill Nelson of Florida during a recent visit to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Holding political office in Florida increasingly requires trekking to the island, the former home of a growing number of Florida residents.CreditCreditErika P. Rodriguez for The New York Times
By Patricia Mazzei
CAROLINA, P.R. — Senator Bill Nelson of Florida stepped out of an official-looking S.U.V., briefcase in hand, ready to survey a still-unfinished public housing development funded by the federal government — not in his home state but more than 1,000 miles away, in Puerto Rico.
“¡Hola! Un placer,” — a pleasure, he said in Spanish, shaking the hands of the cadre of local officials greeting him under the stinging morning sun.
The purpose of Mr. Nelson’s visit was to inquire about the recovery from Hurricane Maria, specifically, where Washington continued to be deficient. With any luck, Mr. Nelson, a Democrat facing his toughest re-election race yet, might also grab a headline back home.
“Are you from the Sentinel?” Mr. Nelson asked a notebook-wielding journalist, referring to the weekly Spanish-language newspaper in Orlando, which had indeed sent a reporter. Mr. Nelson smiled.
Holding political office in Florida increasingly requires trekking to Puerto Rico, the former home of a growing number of Florida residents. More than a million Puerto Ricans already lived in the state before the hurricane, and another 56,000 joined them in the first six months after Maria, according to an estimate by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York.
Perhaps not all of them will stay, much less vote: Puerto Ricans have tended to cast ballots less reliably than other Florida Hispanics. But if they do — perhaps driven by the slow response to Hurricane Maria — they could emerge as a significant political force, and not just for Democrats. Though Puerto Ricans tend to lean left, many have also registered as Florida voters without party affiliation, giving Republicans an opening to make a play for their support. If Republicans are successful, they could grow their Hispanic conservative base beyond Cuban Americans.
In any case, the arrival of Puerto Ricans has not gone unnoticed in a state where premier election contests have routinely been decided by a single percentage point. The island’s recovery from Hurricane Maria has become an issue of critical concern in Florida, with candidates jostling to appear in touch with the state’s Puerto Rican diaspora.
This election season, it’s not just Mr. Nelson, who is facing a daunting Republican challenge from Gov. Rick Scott, vying for the Puerto Rican vote. Candidates down the ticket are also adopting the island’s cause.
State Representative David Richardson of Miami Beach, a Democratic candidate for Congress, this month spent 48 hours on what he called a “listening tour” of the island. He is running in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, which is nearly 72 percent Hispanic and largely Cuban-American. His campaign research, however, revealed that about 25,000 Puerto Ricans live in the district, he said, so Mr. Richardson felt a trip to the island was in order.
The leading contender in the Democratic primary field, Donna Shalala, posted a photograph on Twitter last month with Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz of San Juan, who became a sensation in the wake of the storm after she emotionally rebuked President Trump.
“What’s happening in South Florida is the Cuban-Americans are becoming a smaller demographic,” Mr. Richardson said in an interview. “Puerto Ricans are an important element of the district, and will have an important voice in the election.”
Lyvia Rodriguez, executive director of the ENLACE Caño Martín Peña Project, explained the problems with a clogged canal in San Juan during Mr. Nelson’s visit.CreditErika P. Rodriguez for The New York Times
Representative Darren Soto, a Democrat from Orlando who in 2016 became the first Puerto Rican elected to Congress from the state, said networking in Puerto Rico has become essential. “It shows you’re doing your job when you’re from Florida,” he said.
When he ran two years ago, Mr. Soto’s campaign bought advertising time on WAPA-TV in Puerto Rico, knowing it would also be seen in his district, where Hispanic cable packages include Puerto Rican programming. Mr. Soto, who now faces a primary challenge from former Representative Alan Grayson, did not rule out employing the same strategy this year.
But politicians would prefer it if reporters did not refer to their repeated excursions to the island as campaigning, thank you very much.
“This has nothing to do with the election,” Mr. Nelson insisted at the end of his daylong trip. It was his third since the hurricane, his office made sure to note.
Mr. Scott has notched five visits to the island since Maria, the latest one 11 days before the senator’s. Still, Mr. Scott’s campaign — which on April 28 emailed reporters photographs of the governor’s participation in a Puerto Rican festival in Orlando — characterized Mr. Nelson’s trip two weeks ago, and his subsequent Orlando airport news conference, as political opportunism.
Mr. Scott has bestowed much attention on Puerto Ricans since the storm, opening assistance centers in Florida for new arrivals, sending law enforcement officers to the island and, like Mr. Nelson, pushing for federal aid for Maria’s desperate victims. Mr. Scott’s campaign this week released a Spanish-language television ad in the Orlando and Tampa media markets highlighting his efforts.
“Rick Scott has been there. He has been present,” a woman identified as Jeannie Calderin says in the ad. “He has helped.”
For his efforts, Mr. Scott has reaped political rewards: This month, he secured the endorsement of Representative Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s nonvoting member of Congress and a Republican. He already had the backing of another Republican, Luis Rivera Marín, Puerto Rico’s lieutenant governor and secretary of state, who introduced the governor at his Senate campaign launch in Orlando. He called him a “good friend of Hispanics.”
Not to be outdone, Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico, a Democrat who has not formally endorsed in the race, introduced Mr. Nelson during his recent visit, alternately as a “friend,” a “great friend” and “the best friend Puerto Rico has.” Few mainland politicians are well known on the island. Mr. Nelson is not one of them.
In brief remarks, including some in halting Spanish, Mr. Nelson said it was unacceptable that thousands of electric utility customers, including a man he met in the town of Las Piedras, still did not have power more than seven months after the hurricane. “There is no excuse,” Mr. Nelson said.
Come Election Day, he said in an interview later, Puerto Ricans on the mainland will remember being treated “like second-class citizens.”
“They’re going to look at how Puerto Ricans have been treated by this administration,” he said. “I don’t think they’re going to be very happy.”
Mr. Nelson insisted that his visit to the island had “nothing to do with the election.” Mr. Nelson is facing a daunting challenge in the Senate race from Gov. Rick Scott.CreditErika P. Rodriguez for The New York Times
Puerto Ricans say they appreciate politicians’ interest in drawing attention to ongoing problems. But the locals also know some patience is required to explain Puerto Rico to outsiders.
At the housing project, Mr. Nelson seemed eager to learn how buildings and residents had survived the storm. But the development was new and uninhabited, so those questions were moot. “Are we going to see the squatters?” Mr. Nelson then asked an aide, who indicated that would be at a later stop, at a century-old neighborhood situated along the banks of a canal, now clogged.
To grow Puerto Ricans’ political influence, Mr. Rosselló has spearheaded the formation of a political nonprofit, Poder Puerto Rico, to try to increase the electoral participation of the mainland diaspora.
“Historically, Puerto Rican turnout over here has been very low, whereas in the island, it has been very high,” Mr. Rosselló said in an interview during a recent visit to New York. “We’re 5.6 million strong here in the United States, so we felt that there is a great opportunity to define elections.”
The problem, said Jorge Bonilla, a Puerto Rican and past Republican congressional candidate from Central Florida, is that Puerto Ricans on the mainland are more focused on rebuilding their lives than on taking sides in elections.
“They’re not worried about going to the polls,” said Mr. Bonilla, who left the Republican Party in October, in part over the Trump administration’s slow response to the hurricane, and is now registered without party affiliation. “They’re worried about getting a job. Democrats are overplaying their hand. Republicans are unsure what to do. Really, neither party knows how to engage Puerto Ricans.”
Puerto Ricans registered to vote in Florida without party affiliation are ineligible to vote in partisan primaries. They remain independent in part because the defining question of the island’s politics isn’t red or blue — it’s whether Puerto Rico should remain a commonwealth, become a state or seek independence.
Puerto Ricans most recently voted for statehood in nonbinding plebiscites in 2017, though the election had relatively low turnout.
During his recent tour, Mr. Richardson, the congressional candidate from Miami, said that until then, he hadn’t realized just how much the status question dominated island politics.
“In my district, people are not talking about those issues,” he said. “They’re talking about affordable housing. They’re talking about jobs. They’re talking about getting their kids in school.”
Mr. Rosselló is a statehood proponent. Mr. Scott endorsed statehood this month, and Mr. Nelson said during his trip that he would support statehood — if that’s what Puerto Ricans want.
“I should know better than to get involved in Puerto Rican politics,” he said.
Follow Patricia Mazzei on Twitter: @PatriciaMazzei.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 14 of the New York edition with the headline: Must for Florida Candidates: A Trip to Puerto Rico. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Health|Measles Outbreak Now at 880 Cases, With Fastest Growth Still in New York
Measles Outbreak Now at 880 Cases, With Fastest Growth Still in New York
Warming weather usually slows transmission of the virus, but it is not clear that this outbreak is fading, experts said.
Alexandria Taylor, a pharmacy student at the University of Pittsburgh, prepares a measles vaccination at a clinic earlier this month. Measles infections have now been reported in 24 states.CreditCreditSteph Chambers/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, via Associated Press
By Donald G. McNeil Jr.
There have now been 880 measles cases reported in this year’s outbreak, already the largest since 1994, federal health officials said on Monday.
An additional 41 cases were reported last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those, 30 were in New York State, which is having the country’s most intense outbreak, largely in Orthodox Jewish communities.
Most of those new cases were in New York City, and nine were in suburban Rockland County.
Cases have now been recorded in 24 states.
It is too early to tell whether the outbreak is slowing down, a C.D.C. spokesman said. In New York, transmission of the virus briefly appeared to slow in January, but then sped up in February.
An outbreak of geographically related cases is not considered to have ended until 42 days — two back-to-back 21-day incubation periods — have passed without a new case, the C.D.C. spokesman said.
Measles transmission tends to fade when warm summer weather arrives, other experts said. It is not clear whether that is because children are no longer gathered close together in school, because families spend less time indoors or because virus-laden droplets — like those containing influenza virus — stay airborne longer in cold, dry air than in warm, humid air.
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In the Pacific Northwest, which has been experiencing an outbreak unrelated to New York’s, immunization rates have jumped upward even on Vashon Island, Wash., which has long been known for its large number of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children.
Vashon, a haven for artists and organic farmers only 22 minutes from Seattle by ferry, has seen more parents accepting the vaccine for a combination of reasons, The Associated Press reported.
Many are worried about the outbreak, and some have taken advantage of efforts to make shots more available. Some residents are tired of the island’s reputation as the epicenter of vaccine rejection; the population is changing as wealthier commuters have moved in.
Vaccination rates among kindergartners in the island’s public schools rose to nearly 74 percent in 2018 from 56 percent in 2012, according to the county health department. That is still well below the 95 percent rate needed to assure that measles does not spread widely if it is introduced.
On May 10, Washington State got rid of the parental right to claim a “philosophical exemption” to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine for schoolchildren. The law takes effect in July.
Washington’s outbreak has not reached Vashon Island; it is centered in Clark County, which is on the Oregon border.
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Donald G. McNeil Jr. is a science reporter covering epidemics and diseases of the world’s poor. He joined The Times in 1976, and has reported from 60 countries.
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The Mom Stop: Traveling shoes run in my family
Lydia Seabol Avant More Content Now
There is a story in my family that, like a lot of stories from childhood, somehow get told over and over through the years. Apparently I was 3-years-old, riding in the backseat of my family’s Ford Escort on the way home from preschool, when I asked if my mother had a map of China. No, she replied, and said she wondered why I would need a map.
“What is the sea near Hong Kong?” I asked her next, as the story goes. My mom was shocked that, at 3-years-old, I even knew what Hong Kong was, let alone the fact that it was fronted by water.
My parents and grandparents later would point to this story as I developed a passion for travel as a kid. I went to Europe for the first time on a solo flight at age 14 and I traveled by rail across Norway and on a cruise to Denmark without adults. Later, after studying abroad in college, I had a map of the world up on the wall of my bedroom. Multicolored pins marked the places I had been, dotting much of Europe and the U.S., some of Mexico and Costa Rica, but red pins dotting the places I wanted to go but had yet to visit.
I’ve always had a love of travel, and of maps in particular.
I was reminded of this when, on a trip to Disney World last year, my then 2-year-old daughter carried around a theme-park map like it was an object of comfort, well creased and worn. Half the time she was holding the map upside down, but she would hold it up in front of her face as we walked regardless, seemingly deciding where to go. You could say she’s a chip off the old block.
Last weekend, while on a shopping trip with her grandmother, my daughter, now 3, relished in picking out her own clothes at the mall - a new experience for her. As the youngest child of three, most of her clothes are either hand-me-downs or bought from consignment. But as a special treat, my mother took her shopping. My youngest child bounced from one rack to another, shouting “I LUB DIS!” when she found an item she loved, or “THIS IS MY FABORITE!” (The letter V is still somewhat of a challenge for her.)
While surrounding herself with a pile of leggings imprinted with unicorns and butterflies, and T-shirts featuring words emblazoned in glitter, my preschooler dashed across the little girls clothing section and pointed excitedly up to a rack of shirts on display.
“It’s PARIS!” she exclaimed, pointing to the shirt that featured a drawing of the Eiffel Tower.
“I lub Paris,” she said. “You can go to Paris, and they have Paris food, and you can eat it and it’s really yummy,” she told us. “I want to go, but it costs a million dollars.”
My mom and I stood there in shock, staring at my bubbly preschooler as she went on and on about the capital city of France. I didn’t even know she knew that Paris was a place, let alone know that the Eiffel Tower was located there.
Sometimes you never know what is going to come out of a preschooler’s mouth, or where they learned the things they do. But that day at the mall, my daughter got her Paris shirt. And sometime, I’m going to make her some “Paris food,” and one day, maybe she’ll eventually go to Paris. Hopefully.
As far as Hong Kong, it’s still on my list.
Lydia Seabol Avant writes The Mom Stop for The Tuscaloosa News in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Reach her at lydia.seabolavant@tuscaloosanews.com.
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"[Lot of 2 - George Washington and General Nathanael Greene]",
Subject: Politics - United States
Period: 1900-1913 (circa)
These fine examples of mezzotint engraving were created and signed in pencil by S. Arlent Edwards. Born in England in 1862, S. Arlent Edwards studied art and architecture before becoming known for his mezzotint reproductions of well-known paintings. He moved to New York in 1890 to become a book illustrator and began to revive the art of single-print mezzotint engravings in color which had not been in use since the late eighteenth century. Edwards was known for inking and printing the plates on his own, and then only printing a limited number of copies before destroying each plate. This set of prints includes portraits of George Washington and General Nathanael Greene.
The first portrait shows George Washington with a figured curtain in the background, and is monogrammed with "SAE" and the date 1900 in the lower-right corner of the engraving. A rosette lies just below the engraving in the margin next to Arlent's signature in pencil. This mezzotint was copied from an original painting by Edward Savage from 1793, and was published by Jos. F. Sabin in New York.
The full-length portrait of Gen. Greene shows him prepared for battle with his troops in the background, and was made from an original painting by C.W. Peale, circa 1783. Green worked his way through the ranks to become Major General of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, and succeeded in becoming George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer. The Greene print is accompanied by a typewritten note from the J.J. Gillespie Company certifying that the print was a special edition of a private plate from 1913, from which only 50 impressions were made before the plate was destroyed in 1913.
George Washington: Very faint abrasion in upper-left corner. (A)<br> Nathanael Greene: Minor abrasion in the image and professional paper restoration in upper-left margin corner that does not distract. (B+)
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RAGE 2 Getting Post-Launch Support, But Developer Rejects Games-as-a-Service Label
RAGE 2 will be updated with fresh content following its debut next month, but the development team has rejected the idea of calling it a games-as-a-service title.
Speaking to GameSpot, id Software studio director Tim Willits confirmed that the developers will add “live events” on occasion to “keep people engaged as we can deliver them more content in the future.”
However, the game will not require an online connection, and players will, reportedly, not miss out by not participating in these activities. Willits emphasised that the development team does not see the post-launch support as falling into the category of games-as-a-service:
“It’s not like a subscription or a free-to-play game. But it will be supported,” he said.
Willits added that the goal with these updates will not be get more money from fans, but rather to show appreciation:
“If you’re gonna dedicate so much of your time, when there are so many other things to do, you want that commitment from the other side. So that’s what we are gonna try to do.”
The full interview delves into some of the background details of RAGE 2, including how the partnership with Avalanche Software has improved the game and how no form of level scaling will be present.
Recently, Willits also reiterated the story focus of the game. RAGE 2 is scheduled to launch on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on May 14.
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Home Open Access News Health & Social Care News The role of research in Canada for the future of ageing
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The role of research in Canada for the future of ageing
Dr Yves Joanette, Scientific Director at the CIHR Institute of Aging explores how Canada’s researchers are meeting the needs of an ageing population, now and in the future
The world’s population is ageing. The World Health Organization projects that the number of people of over 60 will double by 2050. Dr Margaret Chan, former Director General of WHO noted it is not enough that people are living longer lives, we need to ensure these extra years are healthy, meaningful and dignified.
As Scientific Director of CIHR’s Institute of Aging, I couldn’t agree more. We want to make sure that these extra years are functionally healthy, that older people continue to lead meaningful lives and that they are treated with the utmost dignity and respect.
In Canada, we reached a major demographic inversion in 2016. For the first time, the number of Canadians aged 65 and older surpassed the number of Canadians aged 14 and under. That trend is expected to continue with one in four Canadians expected to be aged 65 or over by 2036, thus bringing Canada among the super-aged countries.
The fastest growing segment of our senior population is the ‘oldest old’ – or people 85 years old and more, with centenarians being the most rapidly growing group.
This increased lifespan results from the excellent quality of life in Canada. It also results from access to high-quality healthcare and the success of our public health programmes. To adjust to this demographic change, it also means that we need to change our social programmes and attitudes towards older people.
In Canada, we have long anticipated this demographic change and from a research perspective, we have worked to establish the infrastructure needed to carry out collaborative research among researchers and institutions within Canada and internationally.
Our first step was to establish an Institute of Aging as part of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2000. I’ve had the privilege of serving as Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Aging since 2011 and our mission is to support research, to promote functionally healthy ageing and to address causes, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems and palliation for those complex health challenges that can be present in older individuals.
To provide critical data on the determinants of functionally healthy ageing, we fund the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). This cross-Canada research platform involves more than 50,000 Canadians, aged 45 to 85, who will be followed for 20 years. CLSA will provide data and biological samples for Canadian researchers to help identify the determinants of a functionally healthy ageing, from the most basic biological to the most social aspects, including work and retirement trajectories.
The CLSA team recently released a first baseline report. It represents the most comprehensive picture of the health of Canadians over age 45 ever produced. On the bright side, almost 90% of participants rated their health as good to excellent. At the same time, the report revealed potential challenges. Only 25% of participants reach recommended amounts of physical activity. 38% of participants reported having to provide care to others. And among retired participants, 25% reported health reasons as a factor in their decision to retire.
Finally, loneliness and social isolation, particularly among women, was identified as a concern. If we want to break down barriers that prevent older adults from continuing to work or otherwise lead fulfilling lives, we will also have to embrace new technologies in ways that will support the mobility and independence of older people.
As we look forward to the future, the Institute of Aging is committed to creating a world that supports health and wellness throughout the trajectory of ageing.
Overall, we want to celebrate and help older adults to participate fully in their communities and to contribute their skills and wisdom to their families, friends and fellow citizens.
Dr Yves Joanette
CIHR Institute of Aging
yves.joanette@umontreal.ca
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