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On to Jacmel
Jacmel, a seaside town famous for its crafts, is a three hour drive south across the mountains. At the side of the road are chickens, donkeys and the occasional stray dog, behind them banks of vegetables in stalls; overhead, blue, purple, pink, and orange flowers, and, beyond, ranks of mountains marching off toward the horizon.
Visiting Notre Dame de la Guadeloupe
Before we leave for the countryside we visit classrooms at Notre Dame de la Guadeloupe where our Haitian team is currently leading workshops. After workshops, which take place in classrooms, have been offered to all 700 students, we'll begin 10-week-long small mind-body groups for all the kids, and the teachers and administrators as well.
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Our Haiti Team, Bill Clinton, and More
With me in Haiti is Kathleen deLaski, a former journalist and AOL executive, whose father Don has made possible everything we've done in Haiti. Since Don's death a year ago, she has headed up the family foundation, and now wants to experience firsthand the program that Don so generously and lovingly funded. Her daughter, Catherine Grubb, who is studying neuroscience, is with us, as are Lee-Ann Gallarano, who manages our Global Trauma Relief program, and Laura Milstein, our Development Director. It's Laura's first trip to Haiti, as well as Kathleen and Catherine's. Linda Metayer, the psychologist who leads our Haiti program, has organized our visit.
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Coming Together to Heal
The terrible deaths of school children and those who care for them in Connecticut are bound to touch all of our children and, indeed, all of us. I've learned, over 15 years of work with populations traumatized by violence and natural disaster, that we must pay attention to whole populations as well as to the people most affected. All of us, certainly those who have lost family members and all of those living in Newtown need a way to come together to share their grief and anger, bewilderment, and, yes, despair. And they need, as well, ways to help them to deal with the fear and mistrust, the rage and the emotional numbing, that may persist along with the grief and the loss.
Day Five: Images of Our Time Together
So much happens to all of us in the Jacmel training as we go deeper, become more aware, take chances, and connect over five days.
Our faculty faces fears of not performing well, of not sleeping at night, and of missing what is muffled in translation. We take the chance of feeling our uncertainty of daily supervision and are gratified that our colleagues have at least as much compassion for us as we feel for those we are helping.
The interns are stars, setting examples of emotional risk taking and taking care of business: filling in where the translator is a bit off, pointing out what faculty may have missed, and making sure, as if they have invited all of us into their own homes, that we are well cared for in lines at lunch, during the lectures, and at the beginning and end of each day.
I see the participants grow more receptive each day, feel them more engaged with every exercise we do. Men and women who have never heard of, let alone participated in, psychotherapy are exquisitely sensitive to each others' complex feelings and thoughts, and us. Often without words, old and young, farmers as well as physicians, create a climate of acceptance in which everyone–and I really do mean everyone–seems to feel safe.
The suspicion and rancor among religious groups–Catholics, Protestants, Vodoun Healers—is palpable in the early days. Though the saying has it that Haiti is 80% Christian and 100% Vodoun, some of the Christians seem quite fearful. "Who are these Vodoun people?" They ask with uneasily politeness. By the last day, after having sat in the same small groups, most of them seem at ease. "We are just people" says Clement, who heads the Jacmel Vodoun Healers Association. "I feel like these people are my family," and the nuns in their habits and scripture-quoting-Protestants nod their heads.
Nature is so important. In drawing after drawing on the final day, the restoration of hope is symbolized by new trees, green and blue where there was, on the first day, only brown.
If it is possible, community is even more important. The final day's drawings of the goal each participant would hope to reach are crowded with family, friends, and neighbors. When the groups come to the front of the grande salle to receive their certificates of completion, they sing songs to their leader and intern, and to themselves, and they call themselves "family".
Already on the first evening many of the participants are sharing what they've learned with children, spouses, and parents. On the fifth and last day, they are, without being asked, pledging to take "CMBM," this work, to their schools, churches, clinics, and to everyone in their communities. Linda has to slow them down a bit. "Sharing with your friends and family is good, but you need to practice much more. You are just learning. When we have the Advanced Training in November we will teach you how to lead groups."
James S. Gordon MD, a psychiatrist, is the author of Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression and the Founder, Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC, and Dean of the College of Mind-Body Medicine with Saybrook University.
Amazing Graces: Days Two, Three and Four
The Missing Twin: Part Two
For two years whenever the teacher closes her eyes to sleep or rest she sees "only all darkness." After a while of doing Soft Belly, it changes. By the second day she is "seeing colors" and pronounces herself "very satisfied." That first night she returned home and, just as we had done in the training, she shook and danced with her surviving son. The next night, after we had used imagery, she tells him to "close your eyes and say what you see." "A house and a sailboat," he tells her. She is amazed. This is exactly what she had drawn in the picture of how she would be without her biggest problem. On the third day she tells her group, "My smile is back." She brings her son to a party and we kid around and dance a bit. Her smile lights up the restaurant.
Then, on the fourth day, when I give my talk on Trauma and Transformation she finds herself, like so many others, remembering and crying. "I am afraid the crying will never stop," she confides. That she will never again locate the smile which has so remarkably reappeared. Toni tells her that smiles and sorrows can live alongside one another in the same person, that she felt that way when she did our training after Katrina destroyed so much in her own state. She and I and our whole team have seen it in Kosovo, Israel, and Gaza, and indeed everywhere we've gone.
When people are frozen in shock and grief all the emotions are deadened. As our work unfolds, they recover what they have lost. Years ago, I remember teenage Kosovan girls in a refugee camp in Macedonia. When they shook and danced the tears they had held back finally came, tears for the loss of fathers and brothers dead, imprisoned, or fighting. Only after they cried could they laugh with the ordinary joy of girls.
On the fourth night, the teacher returns. She is going to partage, to share, everything she is learning with her husband.
James S. Gordon MD, a psychiatrist, is the author of Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression and the Founder, Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC, and Dean of the College of Mind-Body Medicine with Saybrook University.
Amazing Graces: Days Two, Three, and Four
The Missing Twin: Part One
The loss of life here in Jacmel is far less than in Port-au-Prince but the burden is still heavy. There are of course the ordinary deaths that come with age, and the losses of younger people cut down by accident, sudden illness, or murder. And in the background for everyone in this coastal city, and all the surrounding communities, as well as in Port-au-Prince, is the tide of losses that came with the January 2010 earthquake. The deaths of children seem the hardest to bear.
Toni, a clinical social worker from Baton Rouge, tells me about a woman in her group–a school teacher. Her six-year-old twin sons were buried under the rubble with their father. He struggled to carry both out, but one fell under a collapsing ceiling. The father suffered a serious head injury as he carried the first boy to safety. Still, he returned to dig frantically for the fallen twin, but to no avail. By the time he reached him, his second son was no longer moving or breathing. Two years later the family is still frozen in grief. The surviving twin is furious. "Why are you alive?" he shouts, when family tension rises, at his father. "And why is my brother not? He should be alive, and you dead." Toni and I both suspect that the boy feels guilty that he could as easily be angry at himself.
After her son died, his mother "lost my smile. When I smile now," she goes on, "it feels"–and here she grimaces, all teeth–"like this."
James S. Gordon MD, a psychiatrist, is the author of Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression and the Founder, Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC, and Dean of the College of Mind-Body Medicine with Saybrook University.
Amazing Graces: Days Two and Three
By the second day there are actually 135 participants-almost 180 of us altogether. The ones who didn't come to the opening are present and others from the waiting list have found a way. There are thirteen in most of our small groups.
One of the remarkable things about our trainings is how often people who at first seem utterly closed down—walled off with indifference and suspicion, sunken beneath sorrow—suddenly come alive, sharing what they have not spoken of before; discovering new worlds of feelings, possibilities, hope.
The soft belly meditation invites calm and acceptance. The drawings play to the imagination, sometimes revealing solutions to problems that have seemed intractable. Shaking and dancing loosens most of us up. And the experiences that follow in the large and small groups provoke wonder.
Regine tells me about one of the leaders of the regional police. He came to early morning yoga and scoffed, "I thought we were talking about taking care of people. This is sports." The drawings seemed, at first, ridiculous. "This is child's play." He stays and later in the day she sees him sitting quietly in meditation, laughing as he shakes and dances. He's back the next day and the day after.
The drawings of a young woman whose face is filled with rage evolve from cramped stick figures–she is fighting with her parents–to a full bodied woman standing apart from them looking at the horizon. When she does the safe place imagery she sees herself "playing hide and seek with my friends having fun as I did when I was a girl." And then–and a smile cracks her stern face–"flying free."
I do Mindful Eating in the large group: a third of a banana for each participant. Almost two hundred people feel, smell, taste, and slowly chew. A fit man in his 50's comes to the front of the room. "I have tended banana trees since I was a child. I know everything about the fruit and the tree and the soil and the bugs that come around. I sell bananas and give them away to the poor and have done so for many years. I eat them every day. And yet, I have to tell you, this is the first time I have truly eaten a banana." The room swells with laughter as everyone gets the message: It really is possible to come to any experience, including eating an everyday banana, with an open mind and an open heart, as if for the first time.
James S. Gordon MD, a psychiatrist, is the author of Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression and the Founder, Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC, and Dean of the College of Mind-Body Medicine with Saybrook University.
Day One of the Training
The view from Soeurs Salesiennes school where we are doing our training opens out to the sea of Haiti's south coast. Nuns glide quietly over the grounds and little girls in white blouses and blue jumpers with beribboned hair skip hand in hand.
We are working in a school because no hotel in Jacmel can accommodate our crew-120 trainees plus 40 international faculty, interns, interpreters and staff. We need separate rooms for each of a dozen small groups as well as the grande salle for all 160. Many of the students are on vacation for Carnival and the Sisters who run the school have generously made it available to us.
Meanwhile, Carnival made it almost impossible for us to find any hotel rooms. And those we have are fraught with complications-not enough beds, no water, absent or erratic air conditioning in 90 degree heat, etc. Minor inconveniences really, but reminders of the much greater hardships that almost all Haitians have to endure. The fact that we are able to have the training at all makes me so grateful for all the efforts of Linda Metayer, our Haitian program director, and LeeAnn, Jesse, and Wilguens, our US & Haitian administrative team.
Usual first day confusion and chaos-90 out of 120 doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, teachers, priests, nuns, and voodoo healers show up. "Oh, did it begin today?" wonder some of the absent ones whom Linda and Regine, one of our interns, called. "We will be there later" they say, and indeed most of them appear.
There are nine in my small group (more tomorrow I am sure) plus Regine, who also teaches yoga each morning, and Marc my interpreter. There's a wonderful young pediatrician who supervises 40 professionals in the public hospital in Jacmel. She has been in one of Linda's workshops and comes to our training like a hungry woman to a feast. "Everything" she says "I want to bring everything I am learning to my team." There are nurses and teachers, the directrice of the regional chapter of the Croix Rouge, a sister who is a school principle, and some people with less formal education who are committed to helping those who continue to suffer from the earthquake and its aftermath. The middle-aged farmer who is helping in the schools and seems to be the head of his local mountain village concludes the first group; "If we had had these techniques before or even just after the earthquake we would have been less victims."
James S. Gordon MD, a psychiatrist, is the author of Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression and the Founder, Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC, and Dean of the College of Mind-Body Medicine with Saybrook University.
Haiti Snapshot: A Guest Blog by Mark Silverberg, volunteer photographer
Mark Silverberg is a welcome guest blogger. He is an Ohio businessman who read about our work in Gaza (in the NY Times) and got in touch. "I want to volunteer and help," he said. "I can take pictures." He came with us to Haiti–we saw the pictures, felt Mark's heart, and now he is a dear part of our team. He sent us this account of his time in the tent camps.
Enjoy his story.
We hiked to three tent camps on the side of a mountain today, Thursday morning. Hot as heck. What I saw cannot be described– 13,000 people live in one camp alone. The pictures and videos only begin to tell the story. We were given a tour through the camps by the residents who are elected to help coordinate running the camps, so a school and homes were opened to us. The camp organizers kept introducing us to people and children with problems and asking us how they can help them. We suggested they apply to take the CMBM training. [Note: if this is your first time to the blog, you can read other posts about CMBM's Haiti trainings to help Haitian caregivers help these kids & families]. The visit was a very humbling experience.
An extraordinary experience on Friday morning. I went to the Champ de Mars tent camp across the street from where the CMBM training program was held at to take printed pictures to the kids and families I photographed during the CMBM training in December 2010. Laurent Sheineder helped me find all of the kids and adults in the pictures. They were very surprised to see their pictures and of course posed for many more! They told Laurent and I that of all of the people who had taken their pictures I am the only one to bring them copies. I think they must feel invisible.
Then at lunchtime the organizers of another nonprofit, Zanmi Lakay (ZM) from Oakland, CA picked me up and we went to Cite Soleil. It's the worst slum in the poorest city in the hemisphere. And we weren't in the BAD part of the slum. This was big time scary.
ZM organizes basic needs (food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education) for homeless children in Port au Prince. Before the earthquake they had a home and facilities for many children, but the earthquake destroyed the house so the kids are spread out in three clusters in Cite Soleil and Jacmel. The kids also receive documentary photography cameras and training in their care so they can document their lives, tell their stories and express their hopes and aspirations. There have been 5 gallery shows across the US (SF, NYC, DC, Florida) to raise awareness and funds. The kids' pictures are sold to benefit the organization that helps care for them.
So I was able to be at the first gallery show in Port au Prince, at a cyber cafe in Cite Soleil today. Forget what you think about a cyber cafe. Small, dark, a few folding chairs – but still a space for their pictures, which were taped to the wall with packaging tape. The original location where the show was to open had too many shootings, so it had to move to this new location.
The kids got to see their pictures on the wall, to hear about the gallery shows in the US and the great reviews they got, received certificates for completion of their photography training–I donated items and foodstuffs from CMBM faculty and staff. They asked me to speak, and I told them about teaching photography to kids their age in a poor inner-city Cleveland neighborhood nearly 40 years ago. I encouraged them to continue using photography to express themselves and to clarify their dream, since their dream will keep them going through hard times. It was a gift to be present for the recognition of their struggles and accomplishments.
After leaving Haiti the memories of those two days kept echoing in my mind. I recalled that when I was leaving the school in the mountainside tent camp on Thursday, one of the kids said repeatedly, "We are waiting for you,"–meaning, "waiting for you to return." On the following day when I brought the pictures to the kids and families in the Champ de Mars tent camp, their reaction was often puzzlement. I later realized it was because their expectation was for people to not come back, to not remember them or be touched by what they saw; to return to their normal lives, unmoved and unchanged.
I hope I'm not that person.


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You understand the concept of wholesale shopping, right?
If you don't, it's pretty much buying a product in bulk as opposed to buying it one piece at a time. What this usually does is it lessens the value of each individual item because you're buying so many of them at once. Sounds simple enough, yes?
Well, we happened to come across an eBay page of someone who just may have taken the idea of wholesale shopping to a new level. What he's selling is a twelve car collection of Jaguar XKEs whose models range from 1961-1974. The only thing is, he's selling them as a lot of twelve – meaning, you either buy all of them, or you don't buy anything at all.
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According to the owner, most of the cars are complete and that he's throwing in some extra body and mechanical parts as part of the whole package. In addition to that, most of the cars also have their registration and titles so you'll be assured that they're not the smuggled type.
We really don't know what to make of this because we rarely come across someone who owns that many Jaguars. Plus, by looking at the photos, those XKEs aren't exactly the freshly-restored type. Normally, items that are usually bought wholesale range from food, clothes or personal and bath products, not Jaguar XKEs. In any case, he's selling all of them for $200,000 and if you happen to be interested, then you have just about a week to make a bid for those 12 XKEs.
For a specific list of models of all 12 Jaguars, you can check out the seller's eBay page.


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When Norwich City keeper John Ruddy palmed a Nikica Jelavic effort across the six-yard box, it took a moment to realise who had driven the ball home to put Everton 2-1 up at Carrow Road.
But as he wheeled away in celebration, Seamus Coleman had justified his manager's instincts to push him higher up the pitch from his right-back berth.
Unfortunately Everton couldn't hold on to the advantage Coleman's goal had given them, with Ricky Van Wolfswinkel nodding in a late leveller.
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"The gaffer told me after the first half to get a bit more forward in the second," he explained. "I think the keeper made a save and thankfully it broke to me. I just made sure I kept my head down and ensured it went in.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd <7011.T> said on Monday it is considering building a wind turbine plant in the United States, and will a make final decision after seeing how demand recovers.
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FIND THE PEA: A slew of emails over the past two days have come in from activists on Maui, the Big Island and Kaua`i with a subject line of "Bad Bill Alert" regarding a hearing for HB2433, scheduled for tomorrow at 9 a.m..
Simply put, according to it's purpose the bill, if passed, "(e)xempts from county approval state department of transportation development and construction of highways and airports".
But while some of the emails were partially accurate, overall they were confusing and incomplete.
According to the bill itself:
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all structures and improvements to land to be used for state or county highway purposes:
(1) May be planned, designed, and constructed by the appropriate state or county department without the approval of county agencies;
(2) Shall be exempt from any county permitting requirements; and
(3) Shall be exempt from any county agencies' special management area permitting requirements.
It also similarly exempts airports.
Let's start with some debunking. First of all the bill would not, as some said, exempt the Harbors Division because harbors are the one area that is already exempted from county permitting That includes exemption from the Shoreline Management Area (SMA) permits for which the counties are responsible, as PNN exclusively and extensively reported in the fall of 2007 during the Hawai`i Superferry (HSf) debacle.
This bill- which is similar to ones that have been introduced every session of the legislature in recent years- would grant the same exemption to airports and this year adds on state highways, something that Kaua`i Representative Mina Morita told PNN at the time she opposed but feared would someday pass.
At the time we tried to find out why there was no SMA permit for the Superferry and our queries wound their way from the unreturned phone calls to the Kaua`i Planning Department all the way up to Mike Formby the head of the Harbors Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) who informed us of and cited the exemption.
But the problem is that the state has no right to trump the federal Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) which requires the states to protect the shorelines.
As we wrote in a November of 2007 investigative report:
Formby has repeatedly refused, in writing, to answer repeated requests for required documentation of compliance with the federal Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA). Rather, has refused to answer or discuss any issues of federal law.
When asked for the documentation of state compliance with various processes required by federal law, Formby, an attorney, has refused to provide documentation for compliance. He also refused to discuss and legal issues relating to any federal regulations
He has cited a state law exempting harbors from compliance all county permits, including Shoreline Management Area (SMA) permitting which though federal law is issued at the local level- in Hawai`i at the county level.
The state is in effect playing a shell game in which they have given the responsibility for enforcing the CZMA- imposed upon it by the federal government and which they can't legislate their way out of- to the counties under one shell and under another they have exempted harbors from county permitting which they can legislate.
Neat trick, eh?
So with all the legal actions at the time why didn't anyone file suit in federal court based on the lack of enforcement of the CZMA in order to stop the HSf until the counties issued SMA permits?
That became PNN's $64,000 question at the time. Turns out it would have cost even more than $64,000- and another set of attorneys- to open another suit, especially in federal court where Maui attorneys who were fighting the infamous HSf "EIS" case had already lost an earlier unrelated round.
Although a small group of concerned Kaua`i citizens contacted a prominent CZMA attorney in San Francisco and tried to secure funding for a federal challenge to the exemption, the lion's share of the legal fund contributions for fighting the HSf were being directed toward the EIS case on Maui and the federal suit was never filed.
We're pretty sure the legislature is counting on the fact that they've been exempting harbors from the SMA for years without a challenge to say they can also exempt airports and now highway projects given their Superferry-proven penchant for the Minotaur behavior of "doing what's wrong as long as they can".
While the Bad Bill Alert alerted us to the upcoming hearing in Morita's EEP Committee tomorrow they failed to report the current status of the bill which has already been heard and passed unanimously out of the Joe Souki's TRN Committee and in fact has passed second reading in the house with the referral to EEP.
Testimony for tomorrow's EEP hearing can be entered directly at the email testimony web site. When you get there, type in HB2433 in the box and click button that says "get latest hearing" and it will auto fill-in the info for you. Then type your name, email and address and enter your testimony. Click and submit.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Labels: 2010 State Legislature, CZMA, Hawai`i Superferry, Mina Morita, SMA
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uh oh andy, they've found you:)
- February 8, 2010 at 7:03 PM
- Andy Parx said...
Seems like I'm getting spammed lstely with this kind of stuff- Could be dangerous to click them on so I'm going to put up he thingy where you have to type in letters
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Let's look at some of the things Christian has done.
- Bought Ana ludicrously expensive books and refused to take them back
- Traced Ana's cell phone and followed her to a bar
- Taken Ana to his hotel room while she was intoxicated, where he removed her clothes and slept next to her
- Warned Ana that he is "dangerous" and that she should stay far away from him, and then proceeded to coerce her into sexual activity with him anyways
- Repeatedly physically cornered/restrained Ana in a sexual context without her consent
- Been incredibly reticent in explaining any of the above behavior to Ana
That is not a man I would trust. He's inconsistent, inconsiderate, and controlling. He seems to view others more as objects than as people. I'm obviously not qualified to perform a PCL-R, but Christian seems like a psychopath to me.
Nothing about him screams 'trustworthy'. Given Ana's natural suspiciousness and tendency towards anxiety, I'm surprised she hasn't fled in horror yet.


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A Global Store for Stocks (Without Mergers)
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The following speech was presented at the World Exchange Congress in Madrid on March 22, 2011. On March 23, the London Stock Exchange Group said at the Congress that it intended to create an International Board, that would allow stocks from five or six other countries be traded in London during normal trading hours.
So, every investment banker on earth is probably calling you hourly giving you all the sage advice about who you should acquire or perhaps who should acquire you, and I am going to leave all of the M&A talk to those investment bankers who we all love and admire so much.
What I want to talk about are the alternatives; what are the options that we have that are open to us where we don't have to necessarily just rely on an M & A strategy?
Not to say that that shouldn't be part of the strategy that you should consider, but there are certainly lots of other things that we can learn from what's happened in the most developed nations so that we can actually either stop or slow down the competition that's coming into our markets.
So the first thing I want to do is I want to talk about what are the two major drivers of competition, and if we understand those, then we are better able to do something about it.
The first and primary competition that comes in obviously is the one that siphons liquidity away from the incumbent exchanges.
This is the worst, nastiest type of competition, and unfortunately what happens is, and what we have seen from the developed nations where the competition has come in, is that it is generally the larger investment banks that come together and band together and have become quite efficient at siphoning off the liquidity from the incumbent exchanges, and they do it using pricing power.
So unfortunately what we have seen is that when competition comes in, obviously pricing power erodes, transaction fees can decline by 90% or more, market share can decline from wherever you are today – 95% - down to 50% in a very short period of time, and obviously your market share erodes as well.
Volume increases because trading costs decline, but unfortunately it doesn't compensate for the degradation of the margins and the pricing power that's left.
Now, what we have seen in the parts of the world where competition has come in is that I really believe that the incumbent exchanges have let it happen, and the good news is that we have seen it.
This book has already been written, certainly in the United States,
Canada and Europe and so now it is time for us to do something about it; to be able to react more proactively or to act more proactively to stem that from happening, because clearly if you do the same thing that the competitive exchanges, or the exchanges in competitive areas have done, and if you expect different results, that's one version of insanity, right; expecting different results doing the same thing.
Well, let's not do that. Let's think about things where we can actually pre-empt and stop the competition from coming in; let's be proactive.
So the next major driver of competition is globalisation. So it is the globalisation of the competition, so these new venues come in and they are pan-regional competitors and we have got the mergers and the consolidations which are a global strategy, but we also have the globalisation of our customers and we have the globalisation of our customers' customer. Those are competitive issues that we have to take into account, and to think about what we can do to think beyond our borders. What can we do to attract more of those global assets and to help our customers, our domestic customers, to access the global parts of the world beyond our borders?
If we understand what that competition is about and understand there are these two key drivers, let's take those two key drivers and turn them into opportunities.
What can we do to create barriers of entry against the competition; that is either in our countries or coming into our countries, or about to come into our countries? What can we do to create new services that perhaps our competition cannot create? What can we do to create premium products? What can we do to create a global strategy without necessarily having to merge or be acquired?
What Liquidnet has done is we have created a network of close to 650 of the largest asset managers around the globe and they trade in 39 different countries around the world, and together, cumulatively they manage over $12.5 trillion-worth of equity investable assets, and the question is, again, what are you doing beyond your borders to attract more of that $12.5 trillion into your exchanges?
And you have to understand that the more expensive it is to trade, and of that $12.5 trillion there is over $2 trillion that is invested in global funds alone, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Now, $2 trillion is more than the capitalisations, the entire issuer capitalisations of many of the exchangers that are sitting in this room.
The more expensive it is for those investors to invest in your countries, the more friction there is, the less that they can invest. The more efficient you make your venues, the more of that investment capital you can attract and I will tell you that most of that $12.5 trillion today has always been invested in their back yards. But I think we can all agree, and the investors agree, that the back yard is not necessarily where the best returns are going to come from going forward.
So $12.5 trillion is opportunity. It is an opportunity to be able to attract, and then these investors are dying for places that they can put their money, best opportunities to get performance for their shareholders; anywhere around the world that they can invest, and the more efficient we make our venues the more of that $12.5 trillion can come into the country.
So let's just go back for a second and let's talk about the primary reasons why equity exchanges were founded in the first place. Equity exchanges were founded to be the focal point, the central point of capital formation within your countries to create a place where investors can come and provide money for start-ups, or provide expansion capital for existing businesses, and to provide an efficient venue for exchanging those shares between investors, to provide the liquidity.
When exchanges were founded, the only customer that they had were the individual investors and they were highly efficient for the individual investors, but let's understand the growth of the institutionally-managed sector.
The assets and the management for institutions have growth 40 times over the last 30 years, and it is a very short period of time, so if you think about 30 years ago – 1980 – the industry was a very small industry. Today, it is a massive industry and the question is, what have you done, or what can you do to make trading in your venues more efficient and safe for this new class of investor? These guys are the ones that are managing money now on behalf of the little guys.
So what can we do to actually attract those investors? Now, part of the reason for being is to attract more investment capital into your country and the more capital you can invest, or attract from the $12.5 trillion, the more trading will be on your venue. The more capital you can bring into the country, which is great for the country, and the more competition there will be for the shares that are traded on your exchange.
All really good things, and what we are talking about is really creating a new market structure, and it is only a new market structure to the capital markets business. The rest of the world has already created this kind of structure. Every other industry around the world has a wholesale market that sits alongside the retail market.
It would be absurd to think that the buyer for vegetables for a supermarket chain would go to the corner grocery to stock their shelves, yet this is what we are asking of every institution every time they trade on these venues.
As the institutional assets under management have been growing for these last 30 years, the average execution size, certainly in the last ten years, on exchanges around the world has been declining so the problem is only getting worse; the friction is getting greater, and it is becoming more inhospitable for these institutions to trade on these venues.
So this creates the opportunity, and in fact this is already happening. We have just announced a landmark deal with the Swiss Stock Exchange where in one single agreement we are addressing both of the major competitive drivers.
The first is that we are in the process of merging our liquidity pools, creating a larger liquidity pool and more efficiency for institutional trading in that market. We are creating more opportunities for our Members around the world to be able to invest safely and efficiently in Swiss stocks. We are creating that barrier to entry. We are creating a new service for the Swiss Stock Exchange to be able to offer that the competitors cannot. We are inviting more investment capital into the Swiss market. We are at the same time creating that global strategy, or enhancing that global strategy, by not only going outside of our borders to attract that $12.5 trillion-worth of capital, but also opening up opportunities for the Swiss Stock Exchange customers to be able to access 39 different institutional markets around the world that Liquidnet serves.
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A $4.5 million grant has been awarded to school districts in Kentucky and Tennessee near Fort Campbell to help students in military families.
School administrators made the announcement Monday in Clarksville, Tennessee. Media reported the Department of Defense Education Activity grant will be split between the Clarksville-Montgomery County school district and the Christian County school district in Kentucky.
The money will go toward services and programs that will focus on aiding families to help students succeed in school. For instance, officials from both district said they plan to hire liaisons to help parents connect with schools and become more involved.
Students from military families make up more than 25 percent of the population at Clarksville-Montgomery schools while about 16 percent of students at Christian County schools come from military families.
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Harlingen, Texas, August 12, 2011: Congressional support for our nation's veterans and retired military personnel is becoming weaker with almost every election. Fewer and fewer members of Congress can boast records of military service. Where once a large segment of that body proudly ran for public office displaying military credentials, few who now campaign for office can identify themselves as having proudly worn the uniform of our country.
Many members of the military community have lamented that our younger veterans, those who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan, have been absent from engagement in our political process once they return home and remove their uniforms. In truth, it is clear that the newer veterans are seldom participants in any public function. Once they have returned from answering the nation's call to arms, they seem reluctant to answer any other appeal to serve.
Within the congregation of my own church, those who had served in the military used to be called forward and honored during significant national holidays. Veterans used to fill the front of the sanctuary. Today, the veterans only stand at their pews to be recognized and the numbers are sadly diminished. Most noticeable is young veterans are not found standing with that group of old heroes.
I cannot think of a single younger veteran who is a member of our Rotary. The younger veterans also seem reluctant to associate themselves with organizations such as the American Legion or the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Basically, they shy away from most group organizations. They just are not joiners.
Very few of these veterans can be identified as prominent or identifiable journalists or broadcasters. Once there was an abundance of former service members within the ranks of the media. Today they are missing from the ranks of supportive military writers.
Much of this can be attributed to the current military policy of embedding civilian media personnel within the ranks of active duty units. All too often these writers and broadcasters come to those units with the bias or prejudice of their employer media outlet. Still, they are given preference over the military correspondent. In past conflicts correspondents wearing their country's uniform provided substantial coverage of military actions and operations. Those writers and photographers honed their craft while serving under arms and carried those skills with them into the civilian media markets where they found employment. Few are making such transitions today.
If this country is maintain a strong defense it will require everyone who bares the name veteran to constantly hold watchful vigil over those in Washington who control the nation's purse strings. Veterans and military retirees are always targets of these so-called budget cutters, who view the veteran as expendable and really not a member of their particular voting constituency. These also see the 20 million people who served as a very small number that is not united...and they know that 10 million veterans of that number are more than 65 years of age and won't be around for many more elections. So, younger veterans are needed to answer the call of their country again.
These veterans are needed in the administration of their towns and cities. They are needed in organizational leadership. They are needed in the classrooms and on the college campuses. They are needed in media and public debate. Most of all we need them in elected office at every level of government. They are the people who know about leadership and accomplishing the mission. They know about organization. They know all those special traits that will allow them to be strong representatives of the American people.
Yes, our younger veterans still have some battles to fight...right here in the United States of America. We hope they will again answer the call.
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EPA Makes Public Comprehensive Info on US Chemical Use
EPA has released its 2012 Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) information on more than 7,600 chemicals in commerce. The CDR database contains comprehensive use and exposure information on the most widely used chemicals in the US. The CDR brings together information companies are now required to provide on chemicals used in children's and other consumer products, along with reports on commercial applications and industrial uses of chemicals. For the first time, EPA also required companies to substantiate confidentiality claims in order to ensure that as much information as possible is made available to the public. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/22372fbe760c424085257b0f00686b31!OpenDocument