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France Entrepreneurs Flee From Hollande Wealth Rejection
Jeremie Le Febvre, the 30-year-old founder of private equity marketing-services firm TBG Capital Advisors, plans to move to Singapore from Paris this year.
Not because of President-elect Francois Hollande's pledge to boost taxes; rather for what Hollande's victory says about how wealth is viewed in France, the entrepreneur said.
"What's really driving my departure is the fact that I don't share the values that emerged during the election, the rejection of ambition and success," he said in an interview. "It's part of France's difficult relationship with money, but it has reached a new level. Even if it's utopian, I need to believe for me and my descendants that the sky is the limit."
France, the fifth-richest country and home to some of the world's wealthiest people, including LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA Chief Executive Officer Bernard Arnault, doesn't celebrate its affluent. Hollande, a Socialist who once said "I don't like the rich," and who plans to slap a 75 percent tax on income of more than 1 million euros ($1.29 million), reinforces the sentiment that in France to be rich is not glorious.
"Hollande is using the 75 percent tax as a symbol to convey certain values through stigmatization," Le Febvre said.
Hollande's rhetoric against wealth and finance is prompting some in France to consider leaving, and European rivals are welcoming them. "Bienvenue a Londres," or welcome to London, Mayor Boris Johnson quipped in January. Switzerland and Belgium have been just as warm.
Looking to Move
Julien Berckmans, a real estate agent at Brussels-based Best Home Consult, took five calls from French citizens seeking to buy property in the Belgian capital after Hollande defeated President Nicolas Sarkozy on May 6.
"They had come and visited houses in the previous weeks, telling us their decision depended on the outcome of the presidential election," Berckmans said. "They called on the morning after to say they were serious about moving."
Berckmans said there's been a steady flow of house hunters in areas such as Ixelles and Uccle -- near the French school.
Abdallah Chatila, a Geneva-based realtor who specializes in properties worth more than 3 million euros, said he received several enquiries from lawyers on behalf of French clients.
"It's difficult to determine, but we'll know in the next three months how many are willing to confirm," he said.
Hollande's millionaire tax announcement during this year's election campaign triggered a 30 percent spike in searches from France for prime properties in wealthy London neighborhoods such as South Kensington and Chelsea, according to real estate agent Knight Frank LLP.
'Anti-Money Rhetoric'
"Seen from abroad, France is the last country where an entrepreneur wants to go," Marc Simoncini, the founder of French dating site Meetic.com, said in an interview on BFM TV yesterday. "I don't know of any British person who's come to set up a business in France. But I know plenty of young French people who've gone to London to do that."
The attacks on the moneyed class intensified during the presidential race, leaving entrepreneurs and other wealth creators feeling like pariahs, said Michel Collet, a tax lawyer at Paris-based law firm CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre.
"The rich are fed up with being stigmatized," he said. "Beyond the expectation of higher taxes, another important reason why our clients say they want to move abroad is that the negative perception of wealth has mounted in the past weeks."
The attitude toward business and wealth creators is driving people away, said Diane Segalen, founder of Segalen & Associes, an executive search firm specializing in top management and board members.
Brain Drain
"It's not only for people who don't want to be taxed 75 percent, but people who want to be in a country where they think they can do business," she said. "They want to be in a country where there's stability in taxes and labor laws, and where they aren't at risk when they try to set up a business."
Talent and skills will go where they are welcome, she said.
Private equity executive Bertrand Meunier moved to London this month to join Luxembourg-based buyout firm CVC Capital Partners Ltd. Christophe Florin, former chief operating officer of Paris-based Axa Private Equity, is joining Abu Dhabi's Investment Authority. Meunier didn't respond to calls for comment, while Florin declined to comment.
The trickle out began even before the election campaign. The number of French people fleeing high taxes rose to more than 1,000 a year between 2009 and 2011, according to estimates by Segalen. It was 384 in 2001, government figures show.
Sarkozy Tax Cap
Collet said he noticed increasing expatriation-related queries about a year ago, when Sarkozy started increasing taxes and ended a concession that capped all taxes at 50 percent of income. The so-called tax shield had been one of Sarkozy's first measures after being elected president in 2007.
About 1.6 million French citizens were registered in French consulates abroad as of Dec. 31, a 6 percent increase from 2010, beating both the 2.3 percent rise the previous year and the 3 percent average annual increase in the French population living overseas, according to the Ministry of International Affairs.
The U.K. had an 8.5 percent jump, while Switzerland and Belgium recorded 7.3 percent and 8.1 percent gains respectively. The surge is partly explained by the 2012 vote, which generally boosts registrations, the ministry said.
Still, although most of the people aren't tax exiles, for those fleeing stifling fiscal rules, the decision to move is disruptive and not taken lightly, Collet said. The destination depends on what phase of their lives they are in, he said.
'Indecent Wealth'
"If they're relatively young and have some assets, they're usually tempted to move to the U.K. or the U.S. to develop their business," Collet said. "Typically, they tend to retire in Switzerland because there is no estate tax, and to move to Belgium when they're looking to sell assets with no taxes on their gains."
Hollande's 75 percent levy on high earners would come on top of his proposal to create a tax rate of 45 percent for people making 150,000 euros or more.
He has also said he would increase the wealth tax and stop tax incentives put in place by Sarkozy to lure London bankers back home.
"What I don't accept is indecent wealth, compensation that has no relation to talent, intelligence or effort," Hollande said on Feb. 27 on French television channel TF1.
While Hollande is raising taxes, France's neighbor, the U.K., is cutting the 50 percent tax rate for annual income above 150,000 pounds ($242,500) to 45 percent from April. Its top capital-gains rate is 28 percent and there's no wealth tax.
Welcome in London
Hollande's millionaire levy would hit between 10,000 and 20,000 households, according to estimates by the tax-collectors' union, SNUI. It needs to be approved by France's constitutional council, which may find it confiscatory, according to Collet.
Meetic founder Simoncini, who, with 16 other high earners, signed a letter vowing to pay more taxes, was among the few people in France to openly criticize Hollande's plan.
"I don't approve of this measure," Simoncini wrote in a column published by weekly magazine Nouvel Observateur on March 5. "It would affect only a few dozen chief executive officers with unusual compensation while sending a calamitous signal to the world. How could we possibly attract people to set up businesses, create, invest and succeed in a country that would be in effect the most taxed in the world?"
Simoncini wrote that his wealth tax would amount to 100 times his current salary because most of his fortune is invested in small businesses that don't yet generate income for him.
On the other side of the Channel, Conservative London Mayor Johnson laid out the welcome carpet.
"This is the global capital of finance," he said. "It's on your doorstep and if your own president does not want the jobs, the opportunities and the economic growth that you generate, we do."
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THE same drifting log had caught up with our kayaks again. It was sometime during our third day on the Mississippi River, or was it the fourth day, or the second or fifth? I'd lost myself again in a silent reverie, allowing my kayak to spin lazily along the great river's western shoreline, like a bright yellow leaf with some kind of exotic beetle in a life vest perched in the middle of it.
The current turned the bow first toward the unbroken line of trees and the muddy banks covered with mysterious animal tracks. Then to the downriver view, with my son's kayak similarly gyrating a hundred yards ahead, beneath the limestone bluffs of the Missouri shore. Then across the nearly mile-wide glassy black river to the line of hazy sky and thin band of flat green on the far side that looked more like an Amazon shore than Illinois. Countless swallows dipped and dived. How much time had passed on this particular spiral drift? A half-hour? A million years? Who knew? Who cared? "Peace, like a river," goes the old hymn.
The Mississippi is full of driftwood, large and small, but I thought I recognized the log passing by in the current of the main channel, 75 yards away, because its stumpy branch sticking up aft and a smaller one forward had reminded me of the George Caleb Bingham painting of a fur trader and his cat in a flatboat. Now it had somehow found a sweet line of lesser resistance and was cruising in mid-river right past me, as if it were late for a board meeting down in Memphis or Baton Rouge.
I dug in with my paddle. "Come on," I said as I passed both son and log, "let's put some muscle into it for a while." With surprisingly little effort, barely more than letting the weight of the paddle fall into the water on either side, a sea kayak can be kept fairly ripping along in the Mississippi current at a very satisfying seven miles an hour. In no time the fur trading log was far behind us and we were speeding on toward ... toward ... toward ...
The truth is, my 15-year-old son and I didn't have specific destinations in mind on this kayaking trip in June. We hadn't come to the Mississippi to prove or conquer anything. We just came to see what the most storied river in America had to offer a couple of supplicants with plastic boats and a week and a half with which to play.
We put in a few miles south of St. Louis but we didn't know precisely how far we were going to go down the Father of Waters. We didn't know whether we were going to camp every night on islands and sandbars, or stay in the small towns along the way. We didn't know whether we were going to paddle hard to put miles under the hull or drift along like Huck (him?) and Jim (me?). It didn't matter. The point was to experience the Mississippi from water level.
The Old Man, of course, was rolling on toward New Orleans, but we had no intention of going even a tenth that far. All we knew for certain was that we were headed toward that next corner there, and then around it to whatever lay beyond. With our holds full of power bars and instant oatmeal, we were hoping for sunshine but ready for rain.
Having no strict plan in place did not mean no planning was done, of course. With about 2,300 miles of river to choose from, we had to decide which section to paddle. We settled on the stretch just below St. Louis, in part because above St. Louis the Army Corps of Engineers has bottled up the river with locks and dams that stretch all the way to Minneapolis, making it more of a series of extremely pretty lakes than a rolling river.
What's more, Missouri and Illinois are where, in a 190-mile stretch, the three great tributaries of the Mississippi come together. The Missouri, the Upper Mississippi and the Ohio can each lay some claim to being the true source of the mighty lower river of myth and mud: the roughly 1,300-mile Upper Mississippi, the river of the Great North Woods, has the historical claim to the name, but the Missouri, the "river of the West," is, at more than 2,000 miles, the longest of the three by far.
The 980-mile Ohio, meanwhile, the line between slave and free and more recently the corroding keel of the industrial heartland, brings more water to the party than the other two combined. So we chose the stretch from St. Louis downriver to Cairo, Ill., where the Ohio comes in.
For weeks before our departure I amused myself plotting waypoints into my little hand-held GPS unit. I selected likely stopovers from topographical maps, looked up satellite photos and downloaded navigational charts. I cut and pasted and Googled, creating a personal guide with likely campsites and historical places to visit. Then, a few days before we were set to leave (driving from the East Coast), I called Hoppies Marina in Imperial, Mo., where I hoped we could park the car while we were on the river.
"This is Hoppie," said a friendly male voice belonging to Charles Hopkins. "I suppose it would be fine to leave your truck here," he said. "But, you know, that river is up. It's just about at flood in St. Louis right now, and the Corps says it will be at flood tomorrow."
Flood? Blithely assuming that by mid-June the river would be down in its summer mode, I had not even bothered to check the Corps of Engineers Web site that gives daily water levels. A quick check confirmed that the reading at St. Louis was 29 feet and rising toward flood level, 30 feet. The "technical" flood level does not mean water in the streets of river towns, but Mr. Hopkins explained that it did mean that all the pretty sandbars and campsites I had scoped out online would be underwater.
It meant as well that the current would be swifter and angrier about the countless submerged rock groins, jetties and other "improvements" constructed by the Corps of Engineers to keep the lower river navigable. It meant, in Mr. Hopkins's opinion, that we shouldn't be getting on the river in human-powered boats. "You want that reading at around 15 feet in St. Louis," he advised. "That's when the rock dikes come out of the water."
We delayed our departure a few days and then did some exploring on land. In Davenport, Iowa, we ate krautdogs and watched the Quad Cities River Bandits play their Clinton, Iowa, rivals, the LumberKings, before a nearly sold-out home crowd. With the river as a backdrop, Modern Woodmen Park is arguably the prettiest modernized ballpark in all of professional baseball. "We don't have to look retro," says the team owner, David Heller. "Our ballpark was built in 1931 with W.P.A. funds. We are retro."
We made the Mark Twain pilgrimage to Hannibal, Mo., where we saw and genuflected at "the house," "the fence," "the cave" and "the cabin." Our favorite part was the homemade root beer and biscuits with gravy at the Mark Twain Family Restaurant.
By the time we got to St. Louis, the river was at 19 feet and dropping. We gave it one more day, going first to the astonishing Gateway Arch, which, like the moonshots of the era when it was built, leaves one wondering whether it is the technical or the political achievement that seems the more improbable by today's standards. The architect, Eero Saarinen, supposedly wanted to build a monument that would last a thousand years.
In the afternoon we drove across the river and headed to Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville, Ill., to see what was left of a city of mounds built a thousand years ago by members of what archaeologists call the Mississippian Culture. Their city was larger than London at the time and was (and still is) dominated by Monks Mound, a terraced earthwork comparable in volume to the Great Pyramid of Giza. For a long time, the Cahokia Mounds were essentially ignored, and many of them were flattened for farming and development, but now there's an impressive visitors' center. We walked the ancient plazas mostly in silence, trying to imagine them full of people.
AT last the morning came when we put the kayaks in the river at Hoppies and pointed them downstream. Hoppies is a classic sort of place: a house, a barn, a boat shop, a couple of outbuildings, a ramp and a dock where you're more likely to find friendly guys working on their own well-traveled boats than a line of gleaming fiberglass trophies with bad puns for names. Hoppie and his wife, Fern, are usually around, talking or lending a hand. And, of course, there's the river, brown and beautiful, rolling by without a care.
Human-powered trips walking, hiking, paddling or cycling usually begin with a warm-up period hours or days of getting into the rhythm of the trip, letting go of where you came from, falling into the vibe. But that is not the case with launching a small boat on the Mississippi.
As soon as you are in the water, you know immediately that you belong to the river. It commands every sense. There's the sound a truly big river makes not loud, but nonetheless vast and soothing, more like a wind over grasses than a waterfall. There is an odor to the river as well, vaguely sweet and earthy, though oddly more like the sea than like a mountain lake. In no time Hoppies was lost far behind us, as if removed not just geographically, but in time as well. We were away.
Three sounds regularly punctuated the background music. One was the occasional wail of freight trains along tracks parallel to the river on the Missouri side. The arrival of trains is said to have been a death knell for the era of fabulous steamboats, but their songs today are neither unpleasant nor particularly lonesome; with miles of river bank on both sides undisturbed by houses or other signs of human impact, the occasional passing trains seemed to be friendly, if oblivious, fellow travelers.
The same could be said for the barges that ply the river in both directions, emitting a low, diesel roar and loaded with grain, gravel, giant rocks, oil and other commodities. Visions of these football-field-sized beasts swamping and slap-chopping our tiny boats had cost me sleep in the weeks leading up to our trip, and I certainly would not advise playing chicken with one in a fog, or traveling around a bend in mid-channel. But without diminishing the importance of vigilance and common nautical sense, there is nothing in their wakes to alarm a moderately experienced sea kayaker.
The most common sound is the surprisingly loud complaining of the river when it drops over and around the various contrivances of the engineers. It seemed to us that an Army Corps reading of 17 to 19 feet at St. Louis was actually better for paddlers than 15 feet, because the higher water covers the miscellaneous rock works, giving the visual impression of a free river. What's more, once a paddler is comfortable with the current, the quickening drop, followed by the clot of whirlpools and eddies, creates interludes of adrenaline, which is to say fun.
The higher water also assured us that the chutes and sloughs that pass behind and around the various islands would have adequate water for passage, and it was along those narrower passages though they were often big enough to be important rivers in any other part of the country that we occasionally spotted deer, beaver, small water snakes, large herons and birds of prey. We looked for, but never saw, the coyotes we heard howling at night, sometimes closer to our campsites than we might have liked.
One afternoon we surprised a local family out catfishing; they were the only other recreationists we saw on the entire voyage. "Hey, come on over," they called out from their campsite, a cluster of wall tents hidden almost entirely in the woods. "We got fresh fish frying and cold beer." A very good combo indeed.
We might have seen more wildlife had we gotten up with the dawn and paddled till dusk, but we chose instead to read into the nights by the lights of our headlamps and sleep late; whether this was the influence of my teenage companion or the lull of the river I can't say. We also might have covered more miles, but we stuck to our plan of no plan and dawdled with abandon.
On the Missouri side of the river we stopped once to check whether a dark spot in the bluff was the opening to a cave it was not. We stopped another time to take a close look at a long row of boxcars on a siding. I will neither confirm nor deny that we climbed a ladder and ran along the top of the cars, high over the Mississippi, jumping from car to car, pretending to be Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine in "Emperor of the North Pole."
On the Illinois side, we stashed our kayaks partway up One Mile Race Creek and walked along the levee about a mile to Fort de Chartres. Constructed in the 1750s and now fully restored, the fort was the military and administrative center for what was the breadbasket of French Colonial activity in North America. A few weeks before we arrived, the fort had been stuffed to the turrets with "living historians" dressed up as fur traders, native trappers and French infantry come for the annual jamboree, but when we got there it was deserted, except for the friendly woman in the gift shop who sold us ice-cold Sprites and told us about her technique in the tomahawk-throwing competitions.
"Pretty much everyone around here throws a little," she told us.
Ducking out of there, we headed down the river to Ste. Genevieve, where we again stashed the kayaks in the woods and walked into town. We checked into a hotel, took hot showers, ate big steaks followed by enormous bowls of homemade ice cream, slept in beds and watched ball on television, but we were otherwise very well behaved for a couple of boatmen just in off the river.
Once a rival to St. Louis as the most important French community between New Orleans and the Great Lakes, Ste. Genevieve is a remarkably well-preserved town of historic houses, antiques shops and art galleries. Like virtually all of the towns we visited, however, it appeared to be highly detached from the river that was its original reason for existence: except for a sign showing historic flood levels, you might not know you were in a river town.
While we tarried in Ste. Genevieve, and the tiny towns of Tower Rock and Herculaneum, and spent a day hiking the bluffs at Trail of Tears State Park, and the better part of another day goofing around trying to catch fish, the river was rising. By the time we left Trail of Tears, the best camping sandbars were gone and the river was up in the trees in many places; the word was it was still coming up. When we got to Cape Girardeau, which has a wall to keep the river out of the town, it was no longer as much fun, and I took a Greyhound bus back up to St. Louis to get our car.
"What are you so worried about?" said my son as I hemmed and hawed and generally second-guessed our decision to get off the river a few days early. "We thought we might do 150 miles of the Mississippi," he said, "and we did about 105. No one else we know has even done that."
He was right, of course. But later that day we drove down to Cairo, a town that doesn't look as if it's been hit by the recession; it looks as if it's been hit by a bomb (think Jimmy Carter in the South Bronx in 1977).
We sneaked into the seemingly abandoned and overgrown Fort Defiance Park and stood at the tip, where the massive Ohio River coming in from the East makes the Mississippi look more like the nephew of waters than the patriarch. It's a surprisingly peaceful confluence of giants one seemingly clear and dark, the other chalky with mud. We stood there until we worried that someone might break into our lonely car, loaded with our kayaks, up in the parking lot.
"I'll be back," I thought as we turned and jogged back. "There's more drifting to do."
The Army Corps of Engineers posts Mississippi River levels at a variety of locations (mvs-wc.mvs.usace.army.mil/dresriv.html) and also has downloadable navigational charts (www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/NIC2/mrcharts.cfm).
Hoppies Marina is across the tracks at the end of a road in Imperial, Mo. (6018 Windsor Harbor Lane; 636-467-6154), but you should call ahead and make sure there's room by the barn if you plan to leave a car there. The owners may not quote you an official fee, but a reasonable traveler will give something in return for the privilege of launching and parking at the marina.
While traveling on the river, you can camp anywhere that isn't posted as private property. On the stretch between St. Louis and Cairo, Ill., the sandbars that form at the ends of islands are often good spots. Because mud is a fact of life on the Mississippi even on top of sand campers should take plastic tarps for ground cloths and plenty of fresh water.
There are public campsites at Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site (4372 Park Road, Ellis Grove, Ill.; 618-859-3741; www.illinoishistory.gov/hs/fort_kaskaskia.htm) and at Trail of Tears State Park (429 Moccasin Springs, Jackson, Mo.; 573-290-5268; www.mostateparks.com/trailoftears.htm).
The Hotel Ste. Genevieve (Main and Merchant Streets, Ste. Genevieve, Mo.; 573-883-3562) is a serviceable place that didn't question our arrival in water sandals. Doubles from $55. At the nearby Inn St. Gemme Beauvais (78 North Main Street, also in Ste. Genevieve; 573-883-5744; www.bbhost.com/innstgemme/), doubles start at $89.
The Anvil Saloon (46 South Third Street, Ste. Genevieve; 573-883-7323) has been restoring river travelers since 1855. The Anvil steak (ribeye) comes with memorable onion rings for $18.95.


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• The game will be broadcast live on ESPN2, as well as streamed on wireless devices with the WatchESPN app. Eamon McAnaney will provide the play-by-play, while the analysis will come from Paul Carcaterra.
• The Terps, who received an at-large bid, are making their 36th NCAA Tournament appearance, the second most of any school in NCAA history, while Cornell, which earned an at-large bid out of the Ivy League, is making its 25th appearance in the NCAA tournament.
• The winner of the Maryland/Cornell game will take on the winner of the No. 3 seed Ohio State (12-3)/Towson (10-7) game on Saturday, May 18 at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium. The Buckeyes and Tigers play in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday, May 12 at 3 p.m.
• Maryland finished the regular season with a 10-3 mark following its 18-6 victory over Colgate. Senior Kevin Cooper leads the Terps in points and assists with 40 and 21, respectively. Junior Mike Chanenchuk took over the team lead in goals with his three vs. Colgate and now has 22 for the season. Four other Terps have scored double-digit goals. Senior Owen Blye has 21, sophomore Jay Carlson has 20, while Jake Bernhardt and John Haus have 16 apiece. Defensively, junior Niko Amato has stopped 61.2 percent of the shots put on goal by opponents, which is second among starting goalies in the NCAA tournament field, and has a 7.42 goals-against average, which is third-best in the tournament field. Sophomore faceoff man Charlie Raffaleads the team with 72 groundballs, while senior Jesse Bernhardt leads the team with 20 caused turnovers.
• The Big Red come into the 2013 tournament with an overall mark of 12-3 after dropping a 13-12 decision in overtime to Princeton in the Ivy League semifinals on May 2. Senior attackman Rob Pannell, who was the 2011 Tewaaraton Award winner, leads Cornell with 80 points on 36 goals and a team-best 44 assists. Senior attackman Steve Mock has a team-best 48 goals to go along with nine assists. The Raiders main man at the faceoff X is junior Doug Tesoriero, who is winning .586 percent of his draw this season with a team-best 99 groundballs. Senior goalie AJ Fiore has started all 15 games for the Big Red and has a 8.69 goals-against average this season.
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10 … Since 2002 Maryland has won 101 of the 110 games in which the Terps have scored 10 or more goals for a .918 winning percentage.
9 … Maryland is 119-26 in games since 2002 when it allows nine goals or less, for an .821 winning percentage.
8 … Niko Amato has a .577 save percentage in eight career NCAA tournament games.
7 … Kevin Cooper has seven career goals in NCAA tournament play.
6 … Maryland is 3-3 in six games as the No. 6 seed in the NCAA tournament.
5 … Owen Blye had five points on a goal and four assists in last season's first round tournament win at Lehigh.
4 … Only four Division I teams have a current streal of winning 10 or more games in a season for at least five seasons. Maryland leads that list with 11-straight 10+ win seasons.
3 … Andrew "Buggs" Combs had three goals in the last meeting between Maryland and Cornell – an 8-7 Terrapin win in 2000.t
2 … Maryland and Cornell are two of the six programs in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse that have at least 700 wins all-time.
1 … Only one program – Maryland – has earned a bid in every NCAA tournament since the field expanded to 16 in 2003.
Coaching Match-Up
• John Tillman is in his sixth season as a head coach, and third with the Terps, with a 54-33 career record for a 62.1 winning percentage. Tillman is 34-14 (.708) as Maryland's head coach. He had a 20-19 record in three seasons as the head coach at Harvard.
• Cornell's Ben DeLuca is in his third season as a head coach and has a 35-10 (.778) record, all with the Big Red.
Tillman In The NCAA Tournament
• The meeting with Cornell will be John Tillman's ninth NCAA tournament game as a head coach.
• Maryland's 10-9 victory at No. 7 seed Lehigh on May 13, 2012 made Tillman 2-0 in first round games. He improved to 2-0 in quarterfinals as well with an 11-5 win over No. 2 seed Johns Hopkins on May 19, 2012. He then improved to 2-0 in semifinals with the 16-10 win over No. 3 Duke on May 26, 2012. Overall, Tillman is 6-2 in NCAA tournament games.
• The win over Hopkins in the 2012 quarters made Tillman the only coach in NCAA history to guide two unseeded teams to back-to-back appearances in the Final Four.
• Maryland's run to the 2011 NCAA title game gave Tillman his first four NCAA tournament games as a head coach. He had a 3-1 record after the Terps defeated No. 8 seed UNC in the first round on May 15, No. 1 seed Syracuse on May 22 and No. 5 seed Duke on May 28 before losing to No. 7 seed Virginia.
• As an assistant coach, Tillman helped guide Navy to four consecutive NCAA tournaments from 2004-07, including a run to the 2004 championship game.
Maryland's 36th Time In The NCAA Tournament
All-Time NCAA Tournament Results
• Maryland is making its 36th overall NCAA Tournament appearance in 2012. The Terps have played in the second-most tournaments since the event began in 1971. Only Hopkins has played in more with 41 appearances. Virginia is third all-time with 35 NCAA appearances.
• The Terps have captured two NCAA championships, 1973 and 1975.
Maryland's 11th-Straight Trip To The Tournament
• This season marks Maryland's 11th-straight appearance in the NCAA tournament, which is the longest active streak in Division I men's lacrosse. The Terps are the only program to appear in every NCAA tournament since the field was expanded to 16 teams in 2003.
Maryland's Record In The NCAA Tournament
• The Terps have won the fourth-most Division I NCAA Tournament games, compiling a 48-33 overall record in 81 games. Only Johns Hopkins (67-32) and Syracuse (59-21) have won more Division I tournament games. Virginia (48-30) is tied with the Terps.
• Maryland is seventh by percentage (.593) among all teams ever to play in the tournament. Only Syracuse (59-21, .738), Princeton (30-14, .682), Johns Hopkins (67-32, .677), Duke (24-15, .615) and Virginia (48-30, .615) are ahead of the Terps.
• The Terps have captured two titles. Only eight other schools have ever won the NCAA Championship: Syracuse (10), Johns Hopkins (9), Princeton (6), North Carolina (4), Virginia (5), Cornell (3), Duke (1) and Loyola (1).
The Terps As The No. 6 Seed
• This marks the fourth time that Maryland has been named the No. 6 seed in the NCAA tournament. The Terps were previously a No. 6 seed in 1983, 1992 and 2000. The Terps have a 3-3 record as the No. 6 seed.
• In 1983, Maryland topped No. 3 seed Virginia in the first round, which was also the quarterfinals, by a 13-4 score. The Terps then lost to No. 2 seed Syracuse in the semifinals, 12-5.
• In 1992, beat Duke, 13-11, in the first round, but lost to No. 3 seed Princeton, 11-10, in the quarters.
• The 2000 tournament was also a 1-1 finish for the Terps with a first round victory over Hofstra, 14-12, and a 10-7 loss in the quarters to No. 3 seed Princeton.
Series History vs. Cornell
• Maryland holds an 13-2 edge in the all-time series against Cornell, which dates to 1929. The Terps have won the last eight meetings including an 11-6 decision at Byrd Stadium on March 20, 1999, which is the last time these two storied programs have played in College Park.
• The only two losses to the Big Red came in NCAA Championship games. Cornell beat Maryland 12-6 in the 1971 final and topped the Terps 16-13 in 1976, in overtime.
• Chris Malone's goal with 7:09 left in the fourth quarter proved to be the difference in Maryland's 8-7 win over Cornell on March 18, 2000 at the Big Red's Schoellkopf Field. Andrew "Buggs" Combs had a hat trick to lead the Terps, which also got two goals and two assists from Marcus LaChapelle. First team All-American goalie Pat McGinnis made 10 saves for the Terps.
• The 1999 game in College Park saw the Terps race out to a 7-0 lead in the first quarter en route to an 11-6 victory. Brian Zeller had five goals and an assist to lead Maryland, while Andrew "Buggs" Combs had four points on three goals and an assist.
• The last time these two teams met in the NCAA tournament was the 1976 NCAA title game in Providence, R.I. Both teams cruised into the finals with Maryland, the No. 1 seed, defeating Navy, 22-11, and Cornell, the No. 2 seed, topping Johns Hopkins, 13-5. It was the first NCAA title game contested by two undefeated teams.
The Terps held a 7-2 lead at the half over the Big Red, but Cornell outscored Maryland 6-2 in the third to make it a one-goal game going into the fourth. The Terps took an early 10-8 lead in the fourth, but the Big Red ripped off the next four tallies to take a 12-10 lead. Maryland managed to pull to within a goal and then got one to go at the buzzer to tie it up and send the game into overtime.
Maryland freshman Terry Kimball scored the first goal in OT, but there was no sudden victory back then. Cornell then scored four-straight goals to claim the title with a 16-13 win. Ten different Terps scored in the game, including two from Frank Urso and John Lamon, but Cornell legend Mike French tied the then-NCAA tournament single-game scoring record with seven goals in the championship game.
Get To 10 And Win
• One axiom of lacrosse is that if you score 10 goals or more your chances of winning are pretty good. Well, a look at the results since 2002 shows that when Maryland scores 10 or more goals there's not just a pretty good chance the Terrapins will win; it's an almost certainty. Since 2002 Maryland has won 101 of the 110 games in which the Terps have scored 10 or more goals for a .918 winning percentage.
• Maryland scored 10, but fell at North Carolina, 11-10, on March 24, 2012 and again came out on the losing end, despite scoring 11 in a 13-11 loss at Colgate on May 5, 2012. The Terps scored 11 vs. Johns Hopkins on April 16, 2011, but the Blue Jays won the game in overtime, 12-11. On April 3 of last season the Terps lost to No. 1 Virginia by a final of 11-10, giving Maryland its only loss when scoring 10 or more goals in 2010. In 2009 the Terps lost to Georgetown, 13-10 on Feb. 21 and lost again when scoring 10 in the ACC Semifinals in a 16-10 defeat at North Carolina. Prior to that, Maryland had not lost when scoring 10 or more goals since dropping an 11-10 decision to Virginia in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament in Durham, N.C. The Terrapins got to 10 goals in the 100th game against Johns Hopkins, but the Blue Jays took the game 14-10. Virginia is the only team to beat the Terps twice when allowing 10 or more goals. The Wahoos did it first in 2002 with another 11-10 decision.
Holding Opponents To Single-Digits
• The Terps have been extremely impressive (winning 91.8 percent of its games since 2002) when it scores 10 or more goals, they have been nearly as impressive when holding opponents to less than 10 goals during that span.
• Since 2002 Maryland is 119-26 in games, for a .821 winning percentage, when it has held opponents under 10 goals. The Terps have played 193 total games since 2002. Maryland has held opponents to nine goals or less 75.1 percent of the time.
Shooting Tells The Story
• The difference between winning and losing for Maryland this season is simple – when the Terps shoot well they win. As it turns out 30% is the magic number for the Terps this season. Maryland is 10-3 on the year and has shot 30% or better in seven of its 10 victories and under that mark in each of its three defeats.
W- Mount St. Mary's: 23 goals, 46 shots = 50.0%
W- at Hartford: 16 goals, 51 shots = 31.4%
W- at Loyola: 12 goals, 36 shots = 33.3%
W- at Duke: 16 goals, 29 shots = 55.2%
W- Stony Brook: 13 goals, 30 shots = 43.3%
W- at Villanova: 10 goals, 26 shots = 38.5%
L- North Carolina: 8 goals, 37 shots = 21.6%
W- at Virginia: 9 goals, 32 shots = 28.1%
W- at Navy: 11 goals, 40 shots = 27.5%
L-Johns Hopkins: 4 hoals, 36 shots = 11.1%
W- Yale, 8 goals, 29 shots = 27.6%
L- vs. Virginia: 6 goals, 25 shots = 24.0%
W- Colgate: 18 goals, 27 shots = 48.6%
• Since 2005 the Terps are a remarkable 62-4 (.939) when shooting 30% or better in a game. The only four losses were: 13-10 to Georgetown in 2009 (the Terps shot 10 of 30 for 33.3% vs. the Hoyas), 11-10 to No. 1 Virginia on April 3, 2010 (10 of 33 for 30.3%), 12-11 in overtime on April 16, 2011 to No. 3 Johns Hopkins (11 of 28 for 39.3%) and 13-11 at Colgate on May 5, 2012 (11 of 31 for 35.5%).
• If 30% is the benchmark, then 40% shooting is in a class all to itself and Maryland has shot 40% or better in 15 games since the start of the 2008 season. Out of those 14 games, Maryland shot 50% or better in four of them.
Consecutive 10-Win Seasons
• Maryland's 18-6 win over the Colgate on May 4, 2013 extended the Terps' streak of double-digit win seasons to 11, which is the longest active streak in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse. (Special thanks to Patrick Stevens of the D1scource.com).
• There are only four programs with a current streak of at least five-straight 10-win seasons:
Maryland (11): 2013 (10-3), 2012 (12-6), 2011 (13-5), 2010 (12-4), 2009 (10-7), 2008 (10-6), 2007 (10-6), 2006 (12-5), 2005 (11-6), 2004 (13-3), 2003 (12-4)
Notre Dame (8): 2013 (10-3), 2012 (13-3), 2011 (11-3), 2010 (10-7), 2009 (15-1), 2008 (14-3), 2007 (11-4), 2006 (10-5)
Duke (7): 2013 (12-5), 2012 (15-5) 2011 (14-6), 2010 (16-4), 2009 (15-4), 2008 (18-2), 2007 ( 17-3)
North Carolina (5): 2013 (12-3), 2012 (11-6), 2011 (10-6), 2010 (13-3), 2009 (12-6)
• Cornell's string of seven-straight 10+ win seasons came to an end in 2012 with a 9-4 final mark. Virginia's streak of eight-consecutive seasons with 10+ wins ended in 2013 with a 7-8 record, while Siena saw its run of six 10-win seasons end with an 8-9 mark this season.
Three Terps Earn All-ACC Honors
• Maryland placed three players on the 2013 All-ACC Men's Lacrosse Team, which was announced on April 24 by the Atlantic Coast Conference. Junior goalieNiko Amato made the team for the third-straight season, while senior long poleJesse Bernhardtand senior midfielderJohn Hausare two-time honorees.
• All four ACC men's programs are represented on the annual All-ACC team, which was determined by a vote of the four head coaches. Maryland's three honorees were the tied by Duke and Virginia, which each also had three selections, while North Carolina had two players make the team. .
Three Terps Named To Tewaaraton Watch List
• Senior midfielders Jesse Bernhardt and John Haus are joined by junior goalie Niko Amato on the 2013 Tewaaraton Award Watch List. The Terrapin trio are three of 92 selections on the Watch List.
• The Tewaaraton Award annually honors the top male and top female college lacrosse player in the United States. The selection committees are made up of top collegiate coaches and are appointed annually by The Tewaaraton Foundation. Committees will make additions to these lists as the season progresses and athletes earn a spot along side these elite players. The lists will be narrowed to 25 men's and women's nominees in late April. In mid-May, five men's and five women's finalists will be announced. These finalists will be invited to Washington, D.C. for the 13th annual Tewaaraton Award Ceremony, May 30 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.
Bernhardt Named Senior CLASS Finalist
· Maryland senior long pole Jesse Bernhardt was named one of the 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award. Fan voting consists of one-third of the final total to determine the winner, so click on the graphic to vote for Jesse. Fans can vote once per day per device, so come back every day to cast your vote for Jesse.
The 700 Club
· Maryland's 15-6 victory over Penn on April 14, 2009 was the program's 700th victory in 84 seasons of varsity men's lacrosse. The Terps join Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Navy and Army as the only programs with 700 or more Division I wins.
· Two things that make Maryland's accomplishment all the more impressive is that the Terps reached the 700-win plateau in just their 84th season. Only Syracuse reached win No. 700 in as few seasons, but it took the Orange 53 more games than Maryland. In fact, Maryland needed only 940 games to reach 700 wins and only Johns Hopkins needed fewer games (932) to hit the historic number, but the Blue Jays did so in their 105th season.
Terps' 88th Season Of Lacrosse
• The Terps boast an all-time record of 747-252-4 (.747), dating back to the first varsity team in 1924 (a team was not fielded in 1944 and 1945 due to World War II). Maryland has finished every one of its previous 87 seasons with a .500 or better record, including last season when the Terps went 12-6. The program reached the 700-win milestone with a 15-6 victory over Penn on April 14, 2009 at Ludwig Field.
• During the decade of the 2000s, Maryland went 111-49 for a .694 win percentage, making it the winningest decade in Terrapin lacrosse history. In the decade of the 1990s, Maryland posted a 95-47 record. The .669 winning percentage matched Maryland's win percentage of the 1980s when the Terps went 83-41 and also compiled a .669 win percentage. So far, Maryland is 25-9 in the 2010's for a .735 winning percentage.
Terps On ESPNU
• Maryland has had 46 games on ESPNU since 2006. Maryland is 26-21 (.553) all-time in games broadcast on ESPNU.
• The Terps are scheduled to play four games (at Duke (W, 16-7), at Virginia (W, 9-7), vs. Johns Hopkins (L, 4-7) and vs. Virginia (L, 6-13) in the ACC tournament semifinals) on ESPNU in 2013.
Going Purple
· Once again this season, the Terps will be wearing purple "MY" stickers, to show their support for the fight against pancreatic cancer, which touched everyone in the Maryland lacrosse familywith the passing of Maria Young on April 17, 2011.
· This past fall the Terps, Maryland alums and family and friends came together for the inaugural Forever Young Walk/Run for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness. More on Ms. Young and her amazing story can be found here: Forever Young.
· If you're interested in more information about the Lustgarten Foundation, including how to make a donation, click here to visit the foundation's website. You can also get more information on pancreatic cancer at CurePC.org.
In case you're wondering here are some facts about pancreatic cancer from the American Cancer Society:
· More than 43,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer present each year
· There are more than 36,000 deaths from pancreatic cancer each year
· The lifetime risk of having pancreatic cancer is about 1 in 71.
· The risk is about the same for both men and women.
Going Gray
· Maryland players will also be wearing gray stickers with the number 42 in honor of Zack Wholley's father, John, who passed away from brain cancer on August 28, 2011.
· If you're interested in more information, please visit the National Brain Tumor Society website.
In case you're wondering here are some facts about brain and spinal cord tumors from the American Cancer Society:
· About 22,910 malignant tumors of the brain or spinal cord (12,630 in males and 10,280 in females) will be diagnosed. These numbers would likely be much higher if benign tumors were also included.
· About 13,700 people (7,720 males and 5,980 females) will die from these tumors.
· Overall, the chance that a person will develop a malignant tumor of the brain or spinal cord in his or her lifetime is about one in 150 for a man and one in 185 for a woman.
Going Teal
• Maryland players will also be wearing teal stickers in honor of Andrew Walsh's mother, Gia, who was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
· If you're interested in more information, please visit the Ovarian Cancer Institute website.
Here are some facts about ovarian cancer from the American Cancer Society and the Ovarian Cancer Institute:
· Ovarian cancer is the ninth most common cancer among women, excluding non-melanoma skin cancers.
· Ovarian cancer will strike over 20,000 women this year.
· It ranks fifth in cancer deaths among women, accounting for more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system.
· Ovarian cancer accounts for about 3% of all cancers in women. A woman's risk of getting ovarian cancer during her lifetime is about 1 in 71.
· Currently, there are no effective means of early detection.
· Only 25% of cases are diagnosed early before the cancer has spread to the pelvic region. For these women, the 5-year survival rate is 90%.
Going Periwinkle
• Maryland players are also be wearing periwinkle stickers in honor of Terp alum Terry Kimball, who passed away on April 19 after a sixth-month battle with stomach cancer.
• Kimball lettered for the Terps from 1976-79 and helped Maryland accumulate a 36-7 record during his four seasons in College Park. Twice during his time with the Terrapins, the team reached the NCAA championship game and captured the ACC championship all four seasons. He totaled 108 points during his career as a Terp, including a 1978 season that saw him lead the team with 41 goals, which at the time was the third highest single-season total in Maryland history and is still the 11th-best single-season any Terp has recorded. He is also one of only seven Terps on record to score at least seven goals in a single game when he had seven goals vs. Brown in 1978.
· If you're interested in more information, please visit the National Cancer Institute's website.
Maryland In Season Openers
• Maryland has an 84-3-1 (.960) lifetime record in season openers dating back to the 1924 season. The Terps have won their last 19 openers and 26 of the last 27, with the only loss coming to Duke in 1993, when they fell to Duke 9-5 on March 6.
• After losing their 1925 opener to Yale, 5-3, the Terps went on to win 40 consecutive season openers from 1926 through 1967. The streak was broken when Maryland tied Princeton, 6-6, in the 1968 opener. Following the deadlock, Maryland went on to win its next 14 openers, giving the Terps a 54-0-1 record over a 57-year span (Maryland did not field a team in 1944 and 1945 due to World War II.)
20 Straight in Season Openers
• After beating Mount St. Mary's to open the 2013 season the Terps have an 20-game winning streak in season openers. Five of those wins came against Villanova (1994-98) and the last nine over Denver, Mount St. Mary's (twice), Air Force, Hobart, Duke, Georgetown (four times), Bellarmine (twice), Presbyterian, Detroit Mercy and Hartford. Over the 20-year stretch, Maryland outscored its foes 290-105 (an average score of 14.5-5.3) in those games.
• The Terps have not allowed more than seven goals to any opponent in a season opener over the last 20 years. Maryland has not allowed an opponent to score 10 or more goals in a season opener since Syracuse beat the Terps, 16-13 on March 9, 1983.
A Family Affair
· Many school's refer to their sports programs as families, but the Maryland men's lacrosse program is truely a family affair. Since 2002, the Terps have had 13 sets of brothers, including three on this season's roster, don the red and black together for at least one season.
Harry & Thomas Alford: 2004-05-06-07
Jake & Jesse Bernhardt: 2010-11-12-13
Justin & Owen Blye: 2009-10-11
Brian & Kevin Cooper: 2011-12-13
Billy & Bobby Gribbin: 2012-13
Brendan & Ian Healy: 2003-04-05
Bryn & Curtis Holmes: 2010
Bryn & Travis Holmes: 2007
Dan & Mike LaMonica: 2002
Chris & Willy Passavia: 2002-03
Brian & Michael Phipps: 2007
Max & Xander Ritz: 2005-06
Mark & Michael White: 2008-09-10-11
Five Taken In MLL Draft
• Led by senior long pole Jesse Bernhardt, a record-tying five Maryland men's lacrosse student-athletes were chosen in the 2013 Major League Lacrosse collegiate draft.
• Bernhardt was chosen fourth overall by the Chesapeake Bayhawks, becoming the second-highest Terrapin ever drafted in the MLL (Joe Walters, first overall selection in 2006). He is just the seventh Maryland player to be taken in the first round, joining Lee Zink (2004, 5th), Chris Passavia (2004, 6th), Walters, Bill McGlone (2006, 5th), Ray Megill (2007, 9th) and Joe Cinosky (2008, 9th).
• Senior midfielder John Haus was the next Terrapin off the board, going to the Hamilton Nationals in the second round with the 15th overall selection. Haus was followed by senior midfielder Kevin Cooper, who went to the Bayhawks with the 16th overall pick.
• The Denver Outlaws, which already has three Terps on its roster (Zink, Jeremy Sieverts and Drew Snider), were then next MLL squad to take a Maryland player, selecting senior midfielder Landon Carr with the 23rd overall selection.
• The fifth Terp to be selected was senior attackman Owen Blye with the very next pick by the Charlotte Hounds.
• The five players selected ties the school record for most players taken in the MLL draft. The 2011 senior class also had five players taken – Brian Farrell, Brett Schmidt, Dan Burns, Grant Catalino and Ryan Young.
• Maryland's 2013 senior class also features redshirt senior midfielder Jake Bernhardt, who was selected by the Nationals with the 12th overall selection in the 2012 MLL collegiate draft.
2013 Team Captains
• Three players have been named team captains for the 2013 season. The trio, which was selected by a combination of team vote and coaches' input, consists of seniors Jake Bernhardt, Jesse Bernhardt and Owen Blye. All three return as team captains from the 2012 squad.


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Editor's note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report and co-host of a new CNN podcast "The Big Three" that looks at the top 3 stories of the week. Follow him on Twitter @deanofcomedy.
(CNN) -- If someone today argued for laws to legally bar interracial marriage that person would universally be labeled a bigot.
But in 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriage, 73% of Americans still supported them. Did that mean that more than 70% of Americans at that time were bigots? No. But there certainly came a time that you were one if you continued advocating for such discriminatory laws.
Are we at that point yet with gay marriage? Is it fair to label a person a bigot simply for arguing that marriage should only be between a man and a woman?
That's the first issue we discussed in Episode 2 of the new weekly CNN Radio podcast "The Big Three," co-hosted by CNN opinion contributors Margaret Hoover, John Avlon and myself. Each week we look at three big issues making news. (For those catching up, our first episode is here.)
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In the new episode, here are the three topics we chose to discuss/fight/yell/joke about:
1. Are you a bigot if you oppose gay marriage? Margaret Hoover raised the issue of whether we throw the word "bigot" around too quickly. She also posed the thought-provoking question: Would we would have called President Obama a bigot a year ago before he embraced marriage equality?
My response is "Yes" with an asterisk. The asterisk being that I won't yet call anyone who opposes marriage equality a bigot simply because they believe marriage should be between a man and woman. (If you demonize gays, than I will call you one now.) But in time, that label will be accurate for those who continue to advocate discrimination. John Avlon, being the centrist that he is, made a very fair point that this is a process and it will take time.
2. Representative Michele Bachmann being investigated by the Office of Congressional Ethics. Our own John Avlon broke this story in the Daily Beast on Monday. While I disagree with Bachmann on almost every issue, as a comedian I would hate to see her go. She is a less intellectual Sarah Palin, which equals comedy gold. But Margaret Hoover cites actual accomplishments by Bachmann in Congress as a member of the House Intelligence Committee. (I know, Bachmann serving on the Intelligence Committee is irony defined.) So will Bachmann be forced out of Congress, or will she remain in office much to the delight of a few people on the right -- and comedians everywhere?
3. Political Zombies. In the past, when politicians were caught in a scandal, they disappeared. But no longer. Today, our disgraced politicians are like "Jason" from the "Friday the 13th "movies. They just keep coming back. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford -- who had been caught sneaking away from his state to meet his mistress in South America -- is back and a favorite to win the Republican nomination for Congress in a special election next week. And last week it was disclosed that former Congressman Anthony Weiner -- of Twitter underwear photo fame -- spent more than $100,000 on polls to explore running for mayor of New York City. Are we such a forgiving people that they will succeed, as Margaret Hoover believes? Or is it all part of our reality show mentality that rewards fame, as John and I argued?
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Stating that the Securities and Exchange Commission's newly allowed hedge fund and private equity ad rule "sets in motion a much easier path for shady operators and outright crooks," Massachusetts Securities regulator William Galvin (left) announced Monday that he's setting up a new unit to monitor crowdfunding activity in the state.
The new unit, to be manned by securities division staff and attorneys, is dubbed the Internet Crowdfunding and Offerings Watch Department, "I-CROWD." It will monitor not only crowdfunding websites but also advertising of private placements under Regulation D's Rule 506.
"I do not begin to think that one state can monitor and police the Internet," Galvin said in a statement. "But I am going to take every proactive step I can to protect investors in the Commonwealth from those who would abuse the provisions of the JOBS Act."
For the benefit of all state securities regulators, the North American Securities Administrators Association established last December a task force on Internet fraud investigations to monitor crowdfunding and other Internet offerings. NASAA spokesman Bob Webster says that he's "not aware of any other individual states" besides Massachusetts that has created a separate crowdfunding unit.
As Galvin notes, the JOBS Act lifted the ban on businesses raising money by advertising private deals which means that hedge funds, private equity funds, angel investments, and other small businesses can advertise on the Internet, social media sites, television and any other outlet.
The JOBS Act, Galvin continued, "will also allow existing crowdfunding sites, such as Kickstarter, as well as other portals to raise equity by selling securities to average, unaccredited 'mom and pop' investors without having to fulfill prior federal and state registration or exemption requirements."
The JOBS Act, Galvin said, "may accomplish its intended purpose of allowing small businesses to raise capital and create jobs–and I hope it does," but it could also boost fraud.
The I-CROWD unit will:
- Assess the impact of changes in the laws and rules that apply to unregistered offerings;
- Gather data about the types and quantity of public advertising used for unregistered offerings;
- Track how issuers of securities use the new rules that allow general solicitation and advertising of non-public offerings;
- Monitor Portals raising money in the Commonwealth;
- Collect data about the types of offerings presented under the new rules;
- Compile information on how issuers verify whether investors are qualified to purchase such offerings and evaluating those procedures;
- Detect fraudulent offerings early, in order to protect investors; and
- Refer cases for enforcement action when potential fraud is detected.


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Oils ain't oils
How to get oil from rock? We explain shale oil and the process Linc Energy hopes to use to extract it from near Coober Pedy
SOUTH Australia is sitting on oil potentially worth more than $20 trillion, independent reports claim - enough to turn Australia into a self-sufficient fuel producer.
Brisbane company Linc Energy yesterday released two reports, based on drilling and seismic exploration, estimating the amount of oil in the as yet untapped Arckaringa Basin surrounding Coober Pedy ranging from 3.5 billion to 233 billion barrels of oil.
At the higher end, this would be "several times bigger than all of the oil in Australia", Linc managing director Peter Bond said.
This has the potential to turn Australia from an oil importer to an oil exporter.
"If it comes in the way the reports are suggesting, it could well and truly bring Australia back to (oil) self-sufficiency," Mr Bond said.
State Mineral Resources Development Minister Tom Koutsantonis said there were exciting times ahead for SA's resources industry.
"Shale gas and shale oil will be a key part to securing Australia's energy security now and into the future," he said.
Linc has hired Barclays Bank to find an investment partner for the next stage of the project, costing $150-$300 million.
The company aims to drill up to six horizontal wells to further confirm its figures, but Mr Bond is confident the region will be home to oil production.
The need to build another oil and gas hub, like the Santos production facility at Moomba, depends on the size of the discovery.
"If it really takes off, that's when you start to look at Moomba-type pipelines."
Mr Bond said there was the potential for a US-style "shale oil" boom in SA.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week the US could pass Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer this year, thanks to the shale oil explosion.
Shale oil extraction involves using new technologies to drill vertically and then horizontally for distances of more than one kilometre through shale rocks that contain oil.
The process was once prohibitively expensive but advances have created a new oil boom in the US.
Mr Koutsantonis said: "We have seen the hugely positive impact shale projects like Bakken and Eagle Ford have had on the US economy.
"There is still a long way to go, but investment in unconventional liquid projects in South Australia will accelerate as more and more companies such as Linc Energy and Altona prove up their resources."
Mr Bond said the potential in SA was "massive", but even at the lower end of estimates - about 3.5 billion barrels - it was still very large.
"If you look at the upper target, which is 103-233 billion barrels of oil, that's massive," he said.
"The opportunity of turning this into the next shale boom is very real.
"If the Arckaringa plays out the way we hope it will, and the way our independent reports have shown, it's one of the key prospective territories in the world at the moment." Mr Bond said each well could flow at 1000-2000 barrels per day.
"You put in 50 of them and that's a lot of oil," he said. "We have a very good idea that this will be an oil-producing asset."
Mr Bond said Linc had so far spent about $130 million in the Arckaringa Basin, drilling four deep wells and "a couple of dozen" shallower wells.
British company Altona Energy was scheduled to start drilling this month to discover more resources for a proposed coal to liquids and power project also in the Arckaringa Basin.
That project, which could cost up to $3 billion, would involve an open-cut coal mine and possibly a 560 megawatt power plant.
The Linc Energy reports, from consultants DeGolyer and McNaughton and Gustavson Associates, are available on the Australian Securities Exchange website.
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Best Practices for Users
These guidelines started as an etiquette list by users on the DOCLINE® Listserv and were compiled, evaluated and created by DOCLINE Coordinators at the Network of the National Library of Medicine to help facilitate the best use of this system by libraries. Keep in mind that many DOCLINE libraries have different policies regarding document delivery transactions and all libraries must be sensitive to the needs and policies of other libraries that they work with on a daily basis. This list has been shortened to just the basics on providing quality DOCLINE service.
The information in your DOCLINE Serial Holdings, Institution Record, and Routing Tables guide all DOCLINE requests. DOCLINE will not perform at its best if the information in these three areas is incomplete or incorrect. If you are having difficulty with DOCLINE, remember that the NN/LM DOCLINE Coordination Office (NDCO) is only a phone call away at 410-706-4173. Here are some steps to ensure that DOCLINE will work optimally for you.
Serial Holdings
DOCLINE routes requests to libraries that have the correct material to fill the requests using Serial Holdings. Therefore, keeping accurate information in your Serial Holdings record is very important and will prevent libraries from receiving requests that they cannot fill. This maintenance is mandated in the National Networks of Libraries of Medicine Resource Sharing Plan.
Add titles in Serial Holdings only if your library can provide document delivery service for that title. Do not report any electronic serial holdings, including titles that are free online, unless you have a license to do so by the publisher.
Institutional Records
Your institution's record is seen by all other institutions that use DOCLINE. Keeping your record up to date gives other libraries accurate information about what you can offer them as a DOCLINE library. This includes methods of delivery, levels of service, membership in groups, charges, and contact information. Keeping your library's institutional information current is mandated in the Network of the National Library of Medicine Resource Sharing Plan.
Use caution when considering whether you want to be a library that fills "Rush" or "Urgent Patient Care" requests. Rush libraries must fill the request within one business day of receipting the request. Libraries that fill these requests should check for them at least two times each day. Urgent Patient Care requests must be filled within two hours after receipt; therefore, libraries that agree to fill Urgent Patent Care requests should be filling requests at least every two hours Monday through Friday.
Libraries are encouraged to include their service standards in the "Service Comments" field. For example, "same day service for requests received by 9am PST", or "1 day turn around." This will help libraries determine if they should include your library in their routing tables.
Routing Tables
Some DOCLINE users organize their routing tables by state, quick turnaround times, or specific formats of delivery. It is strongly recommended that you put libraries you trust most, or libraries that you have an agreement with, in your lower cells. Additionally, you may want to put the less expensive libraries in your earlier cells. If you should put a group in your routing table, put it in a routing cell by itself. It is not necessary to prefix libraries. Construct your routing tables carefully and then rely on them to route requests. For more information on how to best organize your routing tables, contact the National DOCLINE Coordination Office (NDCO) at 410-706-4173.
When to Contact a Borrowing Library
- When following up on a request, use the DOCLINE request number to refer to the request.
- Examine the article to see if it seems complete. If there are any discrepancies, contact the borrowing library.
- If a request is accidentally updated as "filled" when the lending library cannot supply it, the lending library should contact the borrowing library immediately so that they may resubmit their request.
- If a borrowing library consistently does something problematic, contact the borrowing library directly to discuss the problem. The borrowing library may be unaware of the problem, or may not realize that a standard procedure on their part makes work more difficult for other libraries.
When to Contact a Lending Library
- When following up on a request, always use the DOCLINE request number to refer to the request.
- If a lending library consistently does something problematic, contact the lending library directly about the problem. The lending library may be unaware of the problem or not realize that a standard procedure on their part makes work more difficult for other libraries.
Filling Requests
- When scanning or manually copying, make sure that all pages are included and in correct order. It is recommended that text documents be scanned at 300 dpi. Higher resolutions should be used for more sensitive pictures and graphics.
- Supply the DOCLINE request number when filling a request. This information can be included on a cover page or email. If sending electronically, put the DOCLINE request number in the subject line of the email.
- If a lending library cannot create a readable copy, reject the request and cite the reason as poor condition.
- As noted in the eligibility guidelines (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/doclineguidelines.html#nmresponsibilities), DOCLINE participants should log in daily to receipt and act upon requests. Staffing and volume of requests will dictate a library's reasonable average turnaround time. The time-sensitive rules for the re-routing of requests in DOCLINE exist as a safety net for situations when a library does not update an item within the maximum amount of time allowed.
- Make sure the patron name is correct whenever it is used. This could be difficult for people with unusual names.
- Fill in the manner requested by the borrower. This includes alternate delivery methods.
- When lending, make sure the item is updated as filled in the same manner it was actually filled. This may be difficult for ILLiad libraries.
- Mark an ILL request as "filled" only after it has actually been sent.
- If a request cannot be filled, update that record in DOCLINE as soon as possible so it can route on to other libraries. This is especially true for "Rush" requests.
Sending Requests
- For those libraries that store email addresses, make sure the articles are being sent to the correct email address and check the special messages for changes.
- When sending multiple requests to the same library, send them individually.
When Requesting an Article
According to the ALA Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States Explanatory Supplement at: http://www.ala.org/rusa/resources/guidelines/interlibraryloancode.htm, "The requesting library is responsible for complying with the provisions of Section 108(g)(2) Copyright Law and the Guidelines for the Proviso of Subsection 108(g)(2) prepared by the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (the CONTU Guidelines)."
Comply with your institution's patron privacy policies. For more information on patron privacy, refer to the ALA Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States Explanatory Supplement at: http://www.ala.org/rusa/resources/guidelines/interlibraryloancode.htm, sections 4.2 and 5.3.


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I'm going to be honest with you. This is one of the most fun videos you will watch this year.
Jared Montz, a former professional soccer player, has teammed up with the Nothing but Nets campaign to raise awareness for the need for malaria nets in Africa. According to the organization, a child dies of malaria every 60 seconds.
As part of the campaign, Montz visited MLS cities across the U.S. and filmed himself juggling in and around stadiums as well as with players on the various teams. In Houston, Mike Chabala, Bobby Boswell and Ricardo Clark joined Montz for his video. Check out the video below and click here to learn more about how you can juggle to save lives.


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This project consisted of developing the online presence and web store of Paul Coconut, a series of funny hooks from the great designers at Six Point Un. The site had to be bilingual (French/English) and offers a backend to quickly update products, inventory and follow up on orders.
I chose Wordpress as the backend system for the site, with a collection of plugins to offer multilingual support and e-commerce features. This solution provides quite a lot of flexibility for the layout, and incurs no monthly fees to run the online store and payment gateway.
The main challenge was to link together various plugins with custom code and other tweaks, in order to obtain an elegant presentation while offering a full multilingual webstore.
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Dr. Zayed Stresses the Importance of Funding for the U of M's Department of Family Medicine
Rahel Nardos, MD, MCR, and Damien Fair, PA-C, PhD, a married faculty duo are joining the University of Minnesota Medical School in different fields of medicine.Dr. Fair serves as the co-director of the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, and Dr. Nardos is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health and serves as a urogynecologist and director for Global Women's Health at the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility.
With reduced exposure to the operating room during the COVID-19 pandemic, simulated orthopedic training has helped fill in learning gaps for residents, including the department's James House, MD, Hand Skills Lectureship and Educational Workshop.


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Jimmy Buffett Doesn't Drink Margaritas or Smoke Weed Anymore
By Andrew Magnotta
February 9, 2018
The author of a song called "Margaritaville" and the owner of a successful chain of restaurants of the same name, literally isn't buying what he's selling.
In a recent New York Times profile, Jimmy Buffett revealed he doesn't drink margaritas anymore, he doesn't smoke weed and he barely eats carbohydrates at all.
"I don't do sugar anymore," he said. "No sugar and no carbs. Except on Sunday."
Buffett got his first delicious, greasy bite of success in the '70s, while he primarily a musician making charming albums about going on vacation and worrying about nothing but getting drunk and/or laid.
The singer's devoted fanbase could have supported him as a musician well into retirement, but Buffett saw more potential in himself and in his songs—and he wanted more than anything to be free of his onerous record contract obligations.
So he began diversifying: Buffett became a best-selling writer; he began producing films, TV shows and plays, and of course he's really milked "Margaritaville" and "Cheeseburger in Paradise" for all they're worth, opening successful restaurant chains named for each tune.
Buffett used music as a jumping off point for a unique career as an entrepreneur, selling an island lifestyle in every way he could think of. He's just not about that life anymore—at least not as much as his fans might assume.
Buffett admits he wrestles with the dichotomy between his blissful public persona and his shrewd career in business.
As an aspiring musicians, he told the Times he learned about the music industry in college. He saw early on how poorly the music business treated musicians and he strived for independence however he could get it.
"It was indentured servitude, and it still is," he said of the music industry.
Buffett couldn't get a record deal without giving up all of his publishing rights on his songs. So when "Margaritaville" became a hit in 1977, Buffett saw an opportunity to take control of his career in an unprecedented way.
Buffett's fans "wanted to go to the ocean," so he brought it to them at his shows, then at his restaurants, his books, his films and soon at a $1 billion retirement village he's building in Daytona Beach, Florida.
While the CEO will surely turn up at the village occasionally, it won't be for the party...unless it's a Sunday.
Buffett is touring again this summer. Get his tour dates here.
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You are required to get this helm to complete the Sinister Calling achievement, it:
- Can be contained in the Loot-Filled Pumpkin that drops once a day from the Headless Horseman.
- Can be contained in the Crudely Wrapped Gift which you obtain after the Stop the Fires quest.
- Can be bought from Dorothy (Alliance) and Chub (Horde) for 150 Tricky Treats.
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Morning Shootaround — Sept. 29
Noah lands in New York | Rings for everyone | Mavs hope for big impact from Curry | Stockton to Kidd?
No. 1: Noah lands in New York — After missing the first few days of training camp for the birth of his daughter, Joakim Noah was finally able to participate in his first practice with his new team, the New York Knicks. And as ESPN.com reports, his new teammates are already raving about the emotional presence he brings to his new team…
"He brings a different dynamic to the court," Carmelo Anthony said after Noah's first practice with the New York Knicks. "Mentally, he pushes you; he forces you to compete at a high level every time on the basketball court. Everybody. Whether you're the 14th, 15th man on the team, or myself, or Derrick [Rose] or anybody else.
"Like, he pushes you to go out there and compete every play. If not, you're going to hear about. I think that's something we've been missing, this team needed, this organization needed and I like it. We like it."
The Knicks signed Noah to a four-year, $72 million deal over the summer, in part, because of his leadership qualities.
The Rose trade left a void at center, and Phil Jackson believes Noah can fill it as a backbone of the Knicks' defense. Only time will tell if Noah can provide elite rebounding, rim protection and pick-and-roll defense over the course of his contract.
But his intense nature — which has its own value on and off the court — was on display in his first training camp practice (Noah missed the first two days due to the birth of his daughter).
"If you're not on his team, you're an enemy," Anthony said. "I think that mentality, that's going to kind of trickle down to everybody else. It's a different mindset that you've got to have coming into the game, going into practice. Even in practice, if you're not on his team, if you're not on the blue or white team with him, you're an enemy. That keeps the competitive edge for everybody out there on the court."
The perfect scenario for the Knicks is Noah remaining healthy, productive and being an influential presence in the locker room. "Jo's [intensity] won't slow down as the year goes on. We hope that's contagious for the rest of our guys," Jeff Hornacek said.
Intangibles aside, there are some question marks for Noah coming into the season. He was limited to just 29 games last year due to a shoulder injury; some observers believe his game had slipped prior to the injury.
Chicago Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf added to that theory when he told the Chicago Tribune the following about Noah's departure:
"What we felt was it was time. We felt Joakim wasn't going to be a front-line guy anymore. I was pretty confident that Pau [Gasol] was going to leave. So it was important for us to get the center in [Robin] Lopez."
Noah was asked about the remarks on Wednesday and offered a measured response.
"It's alright. He's entitled to his opinion," Noah said. "I feel like I have no regrets about my time in Chicago. I gave it everything I had. To me, that's all that matters. I know that I did everything I could for that organization. I thought it was a little bit of a low blow, you know? But at the end of the day, I have nothing but respect for that organization. I'm just excited for this new chapter in my career."
No. 2: Rings for everyone — The Cleveland Cavaliers famously broke the city's 52-year championship dry spell by winning the 2016 NBA Finals. And Cavs ownership is rewarding not just the players on the team, but pretty much everyone involved with the franchise. According to Cleveland.com, more than 1,000 people will be receiving championship rings in The Land…
From LeBron James down to the guy who sold you a hot dog on a Wednesday night at The Q, the entire Cavaliers' family is getting a 2016 NBA championship ring.
Majority owner Dan Gilbert and his partners decided to present rings to more than 1,000 full and part-time employees throughout the Cavaliers and Quicken Loans Arena organization, employees who've been fitted for rings told cleveland.com.
A spokesman for the Cavs confirmed the information but declined to comment.
Of course, not every team employee will get the same, diamond crusted ring that's going to rest on the fingers of James, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love and other players from last season, but ticket takers, seat ushers, security guards, Cleveland police officers and all who work behind the scenes at home games will be able to say they won a ring. And they'll have proof.
The same goes for rings commemorating the Lake Erie Monsters' AHL Calder Cup victory from last season. Virtually all employees involved with Monsters' operations, including some who work for the Columbus Blue Jackets (the Monsters' NHL affiliate) will get rings.
Employees learned about the rings earlier this month at something called the "Spectaculars," a company-wide (Cavs, Monsters, Quicken Loans Arena) yearly meeting and employee-recognition event. The gesture extends to workers for Aramark, the contractor that supplies food-service workers for Cavs and Monsters home games.
A conservative cost for distributing rings to employees is more than $1 million.
The Cavs declined to say whether or not former coach David Blatt — who was fired in January — or former center Anderson Varejao (traded in February) were getting rings. But Gilbert is obviously in a mood to be inclusive.
Varejao, who played for the Warriors against the Cavs in the Finals, told reporters out West the Cavs had offered him a ring. Anderson, who played for Cleveland from 2004-16, said he was unsure if he would accept.
The Akron Beacon Journal reported that Blatt would get a ring, but both Gilbert (through a spokesman) and Cavs general manager David Griffin would not confirm the report.
No. 3: Mavs hope for big impact from Curry — The Dallas Mavericks made some big moves this summer, adding a couple of former Warriors in Harrison Barnes and Andrew Bogut. But they're hoping another new player with Golden State ties has an equally large impact. Seth Curry, brother of Stephen Curry, drew raves in last night's open scrimmage. And Dallas coach Rick Carlisle says it's not really fair to compare Seth to Steph…
Curry is an intriguing newcomer for the Mavericks. He can shoot. The bloodlines guarantee it. But he needs to do other things to prove he can be a contributor this season.
What he did in the open practice Wednesday before a nice crowd at American Airlines Center was have 15 points and a couple of assists. He hit 3-pointers when the defense left him. He has all the looks of a young scorer at the combo guard spot.
It's no surprise he can shoot. His father, Dell, and his brother are two of the best shooters in NBA history.
But the question remains: is it hard to be your own man when you have such strong ancestry?
"Not for me," he said. "I don't know how other people look at it, but I know my potential and that's what I base myself on, not what my brother does or what my dad did."
As for comparisons to his brother, coach Rick Carlisle said it's about letting Seth Curry be Seth Curry.
"Let's leave that alone," he said. "This kid is a terrific player in his own right. To me, it's a disservice to get into all that stuff. Let this kid be himself. He's unique in his own right."
No. 4: Stockton to Kidd? — As coach Jason Kidd works on changing the culture in Milwaukee and making the Bucks contenders, he called upon a fellow NBA legend for some help. Kidd asked legendary Jazz point guard John Stockton to spend a few days with the Bucks, bringing the top two assist-givers in NBA history together…
"If you want to help your guys at some of the positions, you find the best and I got very lucky John could join us these next couple days," Kidd said.
Stockton teamed with Karl Malone in Utah to form one of the top tandems in league history. The point guard played all 19 seasons with the Jazz and his team made the playoffs every year. Stockton was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
"He gave me a hard time for not saying he was a great athlete," Kidd said. "You're not (Russell) Westbrook or someone who is touching the top of the backboard.
"But you know how to play the game. Probably everyone counted him out, but him. Just running the show. We have Malcolm (Brogdon) and Delly (Matthew Dellavedova). I see like they have some of him. And I told him we have a pretty big point guard, too."
Asked if Stockton could help teach a few things to 6-11 point guard Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Bucks coach said, "We'll see.
"You talk about the best player at his position to be here. We're very lucky."
Kidd was one of the all-time greats at the position and played 19 seasons, so it's a point guard heaven at Bucks camp. Stockton and Kidd also rank 1-2 in steals.
"Very cool," Bucks forward Steve Novak of seeing Stockton on the sideline. "He's a legend. He's a Dream Team guy. He's one of the greatest players in NBA history.
"It's just awesome to have someone like that who you looked up to so much."
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: DeMarcus Cousins says he's "excited" about the Dave Joerger era in Sacramento … Tim Duncan showed up at Spurs practice as a spectator … Michael Kidd-Gilchrist says he spent the summer working on his shot … Darrell Arthur took less money to stay with the Denver Nuggets … Anthony Carter is back with the Heat, this time as a D-League assistant … NBA team owners continue buying esports teams …


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Bayer Filter
The pixels of the Bayer filter are arranged in a chequerboard pattern on the sensor. There are twice as many green as red and blue pixels in order to mimic the higher sensitivity of the human eye towards green light.
Due to the filter each pixel measures only one colour. The two remaining colours are estimated (interpolated) using the eight surrounding pixels. This technique is called Bayer demosaicing or Bayer to RGB Conversion.
The Bayer to RGB Conversion can be executed either in the camera itself, on the frame grabber, or on the host PC. For the camera, this conversion means a three times higher bandwidth for transfer and storage. For the host PC the conversion is usually very CPU intensive. A solution to such problems is the use of frame grabbers which perform the Bayer to RGB conversion in a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array).
An advantage of the Bayer filter method is the relatively low cost and the smaller size of the camera compared to three chip colour cameras, although the latter achieve greater colour fidelity and precision.
The filter inherited its name from its inventor Bryce E. Bayer who filed the patent for the method in the 1970s for the company Eastman Kodak.
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