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Update on OykholOykhol is married and the loving mother of four children. She is a very kind woman who sells at the central market. Oykhol has been selling sweets for the past 15 years, and has a wide assortment of products such as raisins, cookies, sugar, chocolate, caramels, peanuts, and other types of sweets and dried fruits. She hopes for your help and generosity.
Previous Loan DetailsOykhol K. is 43 years old. She is married and the loving mother of 4 children. She started her own business 13 years ago because her husband's salary was not enough for their family expenses. Oykhol is a market entrepreneur from Shahrituz, Tajikistan. She runs a stall selling candies and swe... More from Oykhol's previous loan »
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About IMON InternationalIMON International (IMON) is a micro-deposit organization in Tajikistan that provides entrepreneurs with access to high quality financial products and services, including business loans, agriculture loans, consumer loans and micro-leases. Aiming to alleviate poverty, the organization helps unbanked individuals establish businesses in different sectors, including manufacturing, agriculture and service. Kiva lenders' funds will help the organization to expand its outreach to even more entrepreneurs, farmers and traders in Tajikistan.
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Generally there won't be any problems when piloting your way across Gotham City, but just as you get into the zone, you turn a corner and the camera jerks to a different view, and you are reminded that you are only playing a game. I would recommend Batman: Dark Tomorrow as a good game to rent, but unless you have a lot of time on your hands, most likely you won't make it extremely far before you are forced to return it.
Mich persönlich störte vor allem die Kameraführung, da außer mit einem Blick durch das Nachtsichtgerät oder beim Anvisieren der Gegner mit einem Batarang die Perspektive nicht geändert werden kann. Möglicherweise hatten die Entwickler auch die Absicht, wie etwa bei Resident Evil, die Spannung dadurch zu steigern. Der Spaßfaktor leidet darunter allerdings ungemein. Dass auch der zweite Teil technisch nicht überzeugen kann, ist mir vollkommen unverständlich, da der Release dieses Spiels immer wieder verschoben wurde. Die Entwickler hatten wirklich mehr als genügend Zeit gehabt, um die restlichen technischen Fehler auszumerzen.
Wir hatten so viel Hoffnung, aber Kemcos Action-Adventure kann sich im Fazit nur durch eine bombastische Präsentation knapp über die 50%-Marke retten. Leider nur für absolute Batman-Liebhaber mit viel Geduld und Nerven zu empfehlen.
In short, Batman: Dark Tomorrow is designed to appeal to hardcore Batman fans who will trudge through all the flaws in search of the fantastic story. If seeing our masked hero confront his greatest foes in an arduous trek through Arkham Asylum doesn't get your blood pumping, stay far away. Dark Tomorrow brings plenty of good ideas to the table, but without its superb presentation, it's just a miserably failed experiment in realistic physics and ambiguous mission design.
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Where to begin? My instinctual inclination is to come out swinging, describing in excruciating detail the numerous travesties laden throughout every square inch of this brutal car-wreck of a game entitled Batman: Dark Tomorrow. But I'm not going to do that. I will say this though, I feel as if developer Kemco hates me. Why else would they conspire to create a game that portrays my favorite DC character in such an unflattering and downright retarded light, the likes of which have never before been witnessed? Screw it, this is the worst Batman game ever made, and god help you should you be unfortunate enough to somehow come into possession of it. God help us all.
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Batman: Dark Tomorrow was an important title for Kemco to establish itself as a legitimate publisher of A-list titles. If this is the fruit of the company's efforts, they should have been content with releasing just another Top Gear game or perhaps dusted off Kid Clown's giant red shoes for another run. Instead players are graced with yet another superhero game destined for the bargain bin.
Batman: Dark Tomorrow was first shown as a GameCube-exclusive title at E3 2001, and it suffered a number of delays along the way. Now that the game is finally available, it's pretty safe to say that everyone concerned would have been better off if it had been delayed even longer. Die-hard Batman fans might enjoy the story behind the game, but the actual experience of playing Batman: Dark Tomorrow is so awful that avoiding the game altogether is the best course of action.
Après avoir pollué la Xbox, Dark Tomorrow vient tourmenter les batfans sur GameCube. Quelle déception, Batman ne méritait pas ça. Si récemment Spider-Man a su nous étonner, Kemco nous signe là l'une des plus abominables adaptation de comics depuis le Superman de la N64 et ce n'est pas la présence de quelques super vilains fameux qui changera la donne. Hop, poubelle.
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Some people will wear this titles shortcomings like a badge of honor, the videogame equivalent of an "I played Batman: Dark Tomorrow and lived to tell about it" T-shirt. Others will be willing to endure its flaws in order to experience the quality story. However, it is hard to imagine the majority of gamers fighting past more then the first few levels before searching for brighter tomorrows.
Batman Dark Tomorrow est disponible sur tous les supports pour que tout le monde profite de ce hit. Kemco arrive à transcender son magnifique Universal Studios en faisant aussi bien voire pire. Décidement ni sur N64 ni sur GC, Batman ne parviendra à trouver sa place au soleil.
The crappiness of the game is apparent from the get go, and I would suggest spending your hard earned money on any game but this one, because I wouldn't even suggest this game to my most hated enemy, or even the most hardcore of Batman fans. If you do purchase this game, then I only have one alternative for you other than suicide. Check yourself into a mental institution and hopefully all those "happy" drugs will beat some sense into your peanut sized brain.
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The beginning of the game showcases the finest of craftsmanship within its pre-rendered cinematics, orchestrated score, and attention to recreating the details from the comic book series. Unfortunately, once gameplay commences, Dark Tomorrow shows just how dark it can be. Saying that it's mostly unplayable almost seems like too kind of a gesture. The action that unfolds is so incomprehensible and littered with bugs that you can't help but wonder if your GameCube or television is on the fritz.
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He split last season between the Red Sox and Chicago White Sox, who traded for him on 24 June for Brent Lillibridge and Zach Stewart.
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MG Siegler of TechCrunch says that not only is Amazon really building a tablet, he's tried it out and he loves it. The story goes that Amazon will...
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I found one at the local LBS and immediately loved it. Or at least found it was a "no pain" solution.
One problem with the noseless seat is that you lose a little extra balance. This requires more effort from the upper body. One side effect is that you really should NEVER take both hands off the bars. You might get away with this on the traditional seat, but it is very tricky on a noseless seat. I think another side effect is that the arms, shoulders, wrists take a little more abuse...
Anyway, I am looking into buying another bike, maybe a Bianchi Volpe. Just wondering if anyone out there uses a touring-type bike with this type seat. I did see in Bicycling magainze couple of months ago a story about an ecologist type who was touring California - Argentina. When I saw his picture, noticed that he was doing the touring on an Easy Seat.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., November 21, 2010 -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a medical imaging technology used to image organs and soft tissues, may hold the key to improving the efficiency of jet engines, according to Lt. Colonel Michael Benson, a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.
In only a few hours, an MRI collects as much three-dimensional data on flow and mixing as conventional methods that take two or more years of intensive measurement. This promises to slash the time needed to develop and test new designs that improve efficiency and performance, promising energy savings.
Benson is using MRI's to improve jet engine efficiency -- work he describes today at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting in Long Beach, CA. The technique could also provide insights into other fluid mixing problems, ranging from combustion to the flow of oil through porous rock in a well.
Benson's study is one of the first to use an MRI to gather flow data. The technique was pioneered by Stanford researchers Christopher Elkins and John Eaton who used it to study coral colonies and turbine blades. Eaton suggested that Benson, currently in the Army, use the technique to analyze the mixing of hot combustion and cooling gases in jet turbines.
Jet engines are more efficient when they run hotter. In fact, the blades just downstream of the engine's combustor run very close to their melting point. To maximize efficiency, the trailing edges of these blades are razor thin.
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Would You Lie About Your Address to Give Your Kids a Better Education?
If you could access better schools for your kids by giving the address of a friend or relative, would you? When your zip code often determines the quality of your local schools, parents across the nation have risked jail time for doing just that. As Al Jazeera America reports, "More and more, high-performing school districts are cracking down on boundary hoppers and hiring a kind of suburban border patrol—private detectives equipped with high-tech tools—to sniff out education thieves."


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Over the last half century, cities have gone from bastions of familialism — places where families were raised and prospered — to practically childless, or so Joel Kotkin and Ali Modarres at City Journal Magazine claim.
"Families abandoned cities for the suburbs, driven away by policies that failed to keep streets safe, allowed decent schools to decline, and made living spaces unaffordable. Even the partial rebirth of American cities since then hasn't been enough to lure families back," they claim. The collapse of urbanization in the latter half of the 20th century in favor of suburbanization has led the once family-friendly cities to become almost entirely void of families, being replaced by singles and childless couples.
"The much-ballyhooed and self-celebrating 'creative class' — a demographic group that includes not only single professionals but also well-heeled childless couples, empty nesters, and college students — occupies much of the urban space once filled by families. Increasingly, our great American cities, from New York and Chicago to Los Angeles and Seattle, are evolving into playgrounds for the rich, traps for the poor, and way stations for the ambitious young en route eventually to less congested places."
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Day: April 27, 2012
Another reminder America's most racist big city isn't in the South
When I heard a black NHL player's game-winning goal was greeted by a torrent of racist tweets it wasn't hard to guess which city's team lost.
Par for the course for Boston, where racist sports fans have always felt at home.
Sport and race always has been a combustible pairing in Boston. In the 1970s, when Russell was coaching the NBA's Seattle Supersonics, he said that as an African-American he'd rather be a lamp post in Seattle than the mayor of Boston.
Perhaps reflecting the racial attitudes of owner Tom Yawkey, the Red Sox were the last major league team to sign a black player (Pumpsie Green, in 1959). Years earlier, the team held a tryout at Fenway Park for Jackie Robinson and other black players, a charade designed to placate a liberal member of the city council. …
Darnell McDonald, an African-American outfielder in his third year with the Red Sox, said: "I've had the n-word written on my car, in Boston. It's individuals, man. Racism is everywhere; I'm not just going to say Boston. It's just unfortunate that people are that ignorant."
He's right, it's not just Boston. But somehow Beantown always manages to find its way into any conversation involving racism and sports.
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The estimated $948 million pricetag for a retractable roof stadium for the Atlanta Falcons would probably prove to be significantly low, experts say, adding to questions about how the facility would be paid for.
Two professors who study stadium deals said estimates are generally low to make such projects palatable to governments and the public.
"One of the real rules in these analyses is they always underestimate cost," said J.C. Bradbury, chairman of the Health, Physical Education, and Sport Science department at Kennesaw State University.
"When they say it will cost $900 million, I'm thinking, 'How much over a billion is it really going to be? '"
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We are a performance facility, right? In our ongoing attempt to develop our best version of ourselves it is necessary to do the things we don't want to do.
Take today's WOD for example. At first glance, it is easy to say, "Oh row 5000m! I am going to skip it b/c…" You can put in whatever reason you like. I would venture to guess that whatever reason you place in that sentence. That is the EXACT reason you do need to be here on this day.
I was happy to hit this workout under the instruction of Coach Mickey. He did a great job of prepping us in the drilling the movements and then getting our bodies and mind prepared for the task.
I grew up a power athlete. My sports were wrestling and football. Short bouts of intense work followed by rest. More so in football than wrestling but you get the point. Training sessions like today are what I have been focusing on to improve my overall fitness.
I hope next time you wake up and see that WOD and remark that you are going to skip the workout because of X, Y, Z…don't! Come in and get better.
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New year, NEW YOU!
Hello Friends!
I am excited to announce that I will be providing Weekend Workshops, starting this Feb! Date, time, and cost will be posted soon! A quick description: it will be 3 – 4 hours depending on the head count. We will be practicing techniques, forms, and balance/stability on many exercises, including Olympic lifting, Gymnastics, and endurance. We will be performing drills for the movement, as well as mobility poses for every exercise. You absolutely WILL be doing a couple WODs during this workshop, come on now, its Coach Jen…don't forget there will always be a surprise, well maybe……
Lets start this year off being MINDFUL, aware of your body, your mind, and soul.
This is not easy to do, but it can absolutely be DONE! Practice brings perfection, and the greatest part of Mobility isn't just physical awareness. Connecting with you body in a positive way will give you time, and experience to enjoy life in a different light. So, start this year with an effort of forcing yourself to commit to Mobility.
Challenge yourself to plan your week and attend as many classes as possible, and go to every mobility workshop. What I want EVERYONE to do is be truly willing to do this challenge. Write down what you feel within your body and mind the first class that you take. Then a month later, write down how you feel, where you feel differences, and what you need to continue working on. IF you are doing the Whole Life Challenge, combine it with the Mobility. Write down what you feel at the start of the Whole Life Challenge, about food intake, works outs, and mobility.
IF you have ANY questions PLEASE email me: [email protected]
Obstacles and trials are not a reason to give up, but challenge to improve ourselves. Our pain is not an excuse to back out, but an inspiration to move on.
"If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth." -Dodinsky
Love, Peace, Happiness –
Coach Jen
30 Jun 2014
I Hear Voices…
"It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit."— William J. Clinton
Ricky "501" never quit this morning while attacking 80# DB snatches and 30″ box jumps
Tomorrow morning I am submitting the Pre-Order for CFB board shorts from Via Privé/VPX. If you want to try on a pair at the front desk you may do so, be sure to put your size on the sheet with the shorts.
23 Jun 2014
Motivated Monday
"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."
-Henry Drummond
We are ramping up into our last full week of June! It is amazing how fast each month goes by. As the temperature is finally getting warmer, its time to keep pushing your fitness. Get after your weaknesses and turn them into strengths. Perform the common, uncommonly well.
As I was coaching this weekend, I began wondering if you all would be interested in an in-house throwdown. I think it would be a ton of run. Give everyone a chance to put their fitness to test in a slightly different environment. It would be free, include a few sponsors with take aways, and a chance to hang out with each other for an extended amount of time.
What do you think? Are you game?
Post to comments.
16 Jun 2014
Motivated Monday
"To get to the next level your spirit has to be stretched. Don't be discouraged by the growing pains. Promotion is a process."— Thema Davis
09 Jun 2014
Monday Motivation
"Never be afraid to act. You never know how far away you are from your goal — sometimes just reaching out and putting in a little bit of effort can be enough. And, even if it's not — you tried, and that's far better than just sitting and waiting for a chance to present itself. If you want to achieve something you have to act, you have to take risks and you have to believe in yourself."
– Author Unknown
That is such a powerful quote. There are millions of people that sit and do nothing each and every day. They dream about the life they want. The job they want. The house they want. Yet, they still never do anything to get there.
What are you looking to achieve? Do you want to get your first muscle up? Have you been researching online how to do so and then developing the skills and strength necessary to perform one? Daily? How bad do you want it?
Maybe there is a position open at work that will be promotion and opportunity to challenge yourself and bring in reward. Are you studying the craft necessary to win the job and be wildly successful at it? Why not?
02 Jun 2014
"The greatest adaptation in CrossFit is of the mind." -Greg Glassman
CrossFit is so physical. We push our bodies to the limit. Everyday we ask more of ourselves. We hit the WOD, some strength before or after, practice some skills, then mobilize and feed our bodies so we can come back in and do it all over again. This is what CrossFit is between 3-6 days per week.
Read that quote again by CrossFit Founder Greg Glassman. How powerful and true it is. He first made that statement while he was still running the CrossFit Level 1 Seminars around 2004. He and Greg Amundson (CrossFit Amundson, CrossFit Goal Setting, and Santa Cruz Original Firebreather) were observing seminar participants attempt muscle ups. Two males went up for the first attempt ever. Male 1 nailed it. He came down and his buddies were all congratulating him. He responded with humility I knew that I could do it. Meanwhile, Male 2 failed and as his buddies came to offer condolences, he stated that it was ok and that he knew he wouldn't do it.
You see, you will achieve what you believe. Of course you need to have the appropriate skills and strength. That being a given, your mind will determine the rest.
25 May 2014
Memorial Day Murph!
Tomorrow at 9am we will participate in the Memorial Day "Murph". While you are putting forth your best effort, remember his, this excerpt is from the website www.murphmovie.com:
On June 28, 2005, Lt. Murphy was the officer-in-charge of a four-man SEAL element in support of Operation Red Wing tasked with finding key anti-coalition militia commander near Asadabad, Afghanistan. Shortly after inserting into the objective area, the SEALs were spotted by three goat herders who were initially detained and then released. It is believed the goat herders immediately reported the SEALs' presence to Taliban fighters.
A fierce gun battle ensued on the steep face of the mountain between the SEALs and a much larger enemy force. Despite the intensity of the firefight and suffering grave gunshot wounds himself, Murphy is credited with risking his own life to save the lives of his teammates. Murphy, intent on making contact with headquarters, but realizing this would be impossible in the extreme terrain where they were fighting, unhesitatingly and with complete disregard for his own life moved into the open, where he could gain a better position to transmit a call to get help for his men.
Moving away from the protective mountain rocks, he knowingly exposed himself to increased enemy gunfire. This deliberate and heroic act deprived him of cover and made him a target for the enemy. While continuing to be fired upon, Murphy made contact with the SOF Quick Reaction Force at Bagram Air Base and requested assistance. He calmly provided his unit's location and the size of the enemy force while requesting immediate support for his team. At one point, he was shot in the back causing him to drop the transmitter. Murphy picked it back up, completed the call and continued firing at the enemy who was closing in. Severely wounded, Lt. Murphy returned to his cover position with his men and continued the battle.
As a result of Murphy's call, an MH-47 Chinook helicopter, with eight additional SEALs and eight Army Night Stalkers aboard, was sent in as part of the QRF to extract the four embattled SEALs. As the Chinook drew nearer to the fight, a rocket-propelled grenade hit the helicopter, causing it to crash and killing all 16 men aboard.
On the ground and nearly out of ammunition, the four SEALs, continued to fight. By the end of a two-hour gunfight that careened through the hills and over cliffs, Murphy, Gunner's Mate 2nd Class (SEAL) Danny Dietz and Sonar Technician 2nd Class (SEAL) Matthew Axelson had fallen. An estimated 35 Taliban were also dead. The fourth SEAL, Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (SEAL) Marcus Luttrell, was blasted over a ridge by a rocket-propelled grenade and knocked unconscious. Though severely wounded, the fourth SEAL and sole survivor, Luttrell, was able to evade the enemy for nearly a day; after which local nationals came to his aide, carrying him to a nearby village where they kept him for three more days. Luttrell was rescued by U.S. Forces on July 2, 2005.
By his undaunted courage, intrepid fighting spirit and inspirational devotion to his men in the face of certain death, Lt. Murphy was able to relay the position of his unit, an act that ultimately led to the rescue of Luttrell and the recovery of the remains of the three who were killed in the battle.
The plan is to also screen Murph: The Protector on the TV while cranking out the WOD. See you all there!
20 Apr 2014
Light The Fire!
24 Mar 2014
Follow Your Passion
"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our PASSION here at CrossFit Boston is to change the lives of our members in a holistic way. Its more than just a WOD. Its a lifestyle. Its a way of thinking and approaching each and every decision. Taking what you learn in the one hour you spend in the gym and applying it to the other 23 hours outside of the gym.
We believe the physical enables the mental, which enables the emotional, which ultimately enables the spiritual. I am not referring to religion when I refer to spiritual but more so of how one perceives his/her ability's when they physically train his/herself to the margins.
Knocking down barriers.
Kicking in doors.
Refusing to settle for mediocrity.
One of us has the opportunity to truly follow HER PASSION. Coach Tina will be moving on at the end of this month to train with kids full time. She has the opportunity of her dreams to work with disenfranchised youths within the City of Boston and cannot say no.
If you have spent any time with Coach Tina, it is obvious how much she enjoys training young adults and children. She is great at it and she will do a knockout job in becoming a catalyst of change in the physical culture of our younger generation.
We wish her nothing but the best! Be sure to give her a hug this week while you are in the gym. She will always be a part of CrossFit Boston and welcome to visit as often as her schedule permits.


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Calling Growth-RX from Bhelliom Enterprises an [tag-tec]hgh[/tag-tec] enhancer is like putting lipstick on a pig. This stuff is crap so please go read another review.
If you must know why this is a scam product we can start with the ingredients.
Humanatropin 593 MG
Other Ingredients: Stearic Acid, Magnesium Sterate, Solutab, Ditab, Avicel, L-Ornithine, L-Arginine, L-Lysine, L-Glycine, L-Glutamine, OKG, GTF Chromium
What the hell is "Humanatropin"? When you give a fake name to an ingredient you are supposed to also actually tell people what it is made of. Not here.
The company website alludes to containing homeopathic hgh, a bull crap line on its own. However, homeopathic hgh is measured in terms of potencies not milligrams. ( see homeopathic hgh explained).
Other ingredients are supposed to be listed in the order of largest amount to smallest. So what they are telling us is that their product contains more of the materials that hold the tablets together than amino acids.
The written words say this product contains Citrulline Malate but it is not listed on the label. The company website does not bother to provide a list of ingredients.
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Boston, Mass. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new iPhone application in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to engage health care practitioners and the general public in issues of drug safety and real-time pharmacovigilance. The application, "MedWatcher," allows users to track the latest drug safety updates provided by official alerts from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as news from informal channels such as the media. It also enables users to report information about drug side effects and view reports of adverse events submitted to the application by patients and physicians.
Designed as an easy-to-use tool to enhance and support ongoing drug safety efforts, MedWatcher incorporates information about thousands of medications listed in FDA databases and enables users to customize the app based on their medications of interest. As drugs are selected in the app, users are able to view alerts that have been generated by the FDA, create news feeds about a particular drug, and set preferences to receive future alerts and news about those medications. Users are also able to see reviews by patients and providers, and may choose to submit a review as a patient/clinician themselves about adverse events they, or their patient, may have experienced.
"Traditional voluntary drug safety surveillance is limited by substantial under-reporting," said John Brownstein, PhD, director of the Computational Epidemiology Group within the Informatics Program at Children's Hospital Boston (CHIP), who co-led the development of the application with Clark Freifeld, research software developer at CHIP, and Nabarun Dasgupta, PhD student at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. "High profile failures to detect safety problems during the pre-approval period have brought new intense scrutiny on the drug approval process and underscore the need for additional methodolo
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Supporters of traditional marriage are outraged over a California judge's efforts to bring television cameras into court next week to cover a trial challenging Proposition 8, California's initiative against gay marriage.
Judge Vaughn R. Walker, chief judge of the Northern District of California, proposed a last-minute revision of the court's rules that would allow television coverage of the trial. Those who want to comment have until Friday, and the trial begins Monday.
Attorneys for Proposition 8 backers said television coverage would expose their witnesses to further harassment and intimidation. Backers of Proposition 8 were targeted for harassment in the months after the initiative's passage in November 2008. Some donors received threatening e-mails, letters and phone calls, while churches and businesses were singled out for boycotts and protests.
Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, which campaigned for Proposition 8 but isn't a party to the case, said he is worried about the safety of witnesses, who could include contributors, campaign staff and volunteers.
"The question is really whether Judge Walker can put people on the stand where they can be threatened," said Mr. Brown. "It's a question of people's safety."
A hearing on the matter is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday in San Francisco, said David Madden, a spokesman for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
He said the rules and parameters for any televised coverage were under discussion, including decisions on how many cameras to allow, where to place the cameras, and whose cameras would be permitted in the courtroom.
"We're trying to work this all out," said Mr. Madden. "We want to make sure people know we're being very cautious about this."
The court ordinarily bans television, radio and photography, but the Judicial Council of the 9th Circuit announced Dec. 17 that it approved on an experimental basis "the limited use of cameras in federal courts within the system."
"We hope that being able to see and hear what transpires in the courtroom will lead to a better public understanding of our judicial processes and enhanced confidence in the rule of law," said 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. "The experiment is designed to help us find the right balance between the public's right to access to the courts and the parties' right to a fair and dignified proceeding."
Since 1991, the 9th Circuit has allowed some television and radio broadcasting of oral arguments with the approval of the judges hearing the case, according to a statement issued by the court.
Those backing cameras in the courtroom include a consortium of media outlets as well as gay rights groups. The Courage Campaign on Tuesday sent an alert asking its members to sign a petition in favor of television coverage.
"The case presents issues that are very important to the public, and will affect millions of people," said Rick Jacobs, chairman of the Courage Campaign, a group that advocates gay marriage. "However, if the case is not televised, only a tiny fraction will ever be able to watch the trial in person.
"By televising the trial, the public will be able to see for themselves the arguments and evidence presented by both sides, and will therefore have more confidence in the outcome of the trial," he said.
Meanwhile, opponents of same-sex marriage point out that the experimental use of cameras was intended initially for low-profile cases, while the Proposition 8 trial has generated huge media interest.


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Recently BDSI has made important personnel additions in preparation for commercialization of BUNAVAIL in 2014. In July, BDSI announced the hiring of Adrian Hepner, MD, as Vice President of Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs. Dr. Hepner joined BDSI with over twenty years of experience in U.S. and international clinical research. More recently, in October, BDSI strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Ernest De Paolantonio as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. De Paolantonio is an experienced industry veteran of over 35 years and has been involved in numerous product launches at GlaxoSmithKline, Watson, Columbia Laboratories, and most recently, CorePharma.
"We are pleased with all of our third quarter accomplishments and particularly excited that the NDA for BUNAVAIL has been accepted for review, and we look forward to working with the FDA toward approval next year," said Dr. Mark A. Sirgo, President and Chief Executive Officer of BDSI. "The opioid dependence market continues to grow, and we believe that caregivers and patients are eager to see alternatives to the currently available therapies. We are actively exploring all aspects of our commercial plans for BUNAVAIL and expect to have additional details early next year."
"We also look forward beginning in early 2014 to the results from our two Phase 3 pivotal trials from the BEMA Buprenorphine program for chronic pain," continued Dr. Sirgo. "Importantly, the completion of each of these trials is associated with a guaranteed milestone payment from our commercial partner Endo. The recent interim analyses on these two trials enhance our confidence
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Annual Washington Post Bucket Event 2010
Riders braved the rain today as they exited the bike trial to cross... News PhotoHorizontal,Human Interest,Hyattsville,Rhode Island,Riding,USA,Washington DCPhotographer The Washington PostCollection: The Washington Post 2013 The Washington PostHYATTSVILLE, MD - MARCH 12: Riders braved the rain today as they exited the bike trial to cross Rhode Island Ave. in Hyattsville en route to the Capitol. A group of 26 riders biked from Newtown, CT to Washington, D.C. for a rally in support of gun control legislation. At a stop in College Park, MD they were joined by 3 riders from a team honoring the Virginia Tech shooting victims. Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images


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Yes, unfortunately. Always have been but more so after my ex husband cheated on me numerous times.
Sometimes I can be. I have "days" usually when I'm PMSing. But generally no. I'm a very confidant person.
No. I think I am very confident, I have came out of my shell since high school when I was shy and self conscious.
I never use to be, but some things have caused me to become that way at times. It is finally getting better though and I hope it never returns....not a happy place and I am me and love me and don't need to compare myself to anyone period!


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Chapter 1*
Human exposure to pollutants in the air, water, soil and food-whether in the form of short-term, high-level, or long-term, low-level exposure-is a major contributor to increased morbidity and mortality. However, the disease burden attributable to these exposures is not known with any degree of certainty because levels of general environmental pollution fluctuate greatly, methods for analysing the relationships are incompletely developed, and the quality of available data is generally poor. Precise measures of the association between pollution levels and health outcomes are therefore rare. Exposure to environmental pollution is also usually involuntary. People may be unaware of this and/or its possible effects; as a result they may exert little control over their risk of exposure. Biological and chemical agents in the environment are nevertheless responsible for the premature death or disablement of millions of people worldwide every year (WHO, 1992). It has recently been estimated that almost one quarter of the global burden of disease is attributable to environmental factors (WHO, 1997). This estimate, which is based on published data (Murray and Lopez, 1996), was made by attributing an environmental causal fraction to each disease category with a known environmental link. The ability to link health and environmental data, and thereby to determine the relationship between levels of exposure and health effects, is clearly vital to control exposure and protect health. Decision-makers need information on the health effects attributable to environmental pollution in order to assess the implications of their decisions, to compare the potential effects of different decisions and choices, and to develop effective prevention strategies.
Standards and guidelines against which to assess levels of environmental pollution are now widely available. For example, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed environmental quality guidelines for various pollutants in the air (WHO, 1987), drinking-water (WHO, 1993),
*This chapter was prepared by C. Corvalán, T. Kjellström, G. Zielhuis and D. Briggs


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Remember when I got an ice cream maker for my birthday last year and it was pretty much the most amazing thing ever? I made sorbet and ice cream and even more sorbet. Well, the much-used summer appliance has been dormant for a few months thanks to the chilly temperatures. But I pulled it out…
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I am technically kinda sorta Catholic. But not really. That being said, I am intimately familiar with the concept of Lent. While I've never latched onto the religious meaning behind it, I've always appreciated the concept of abstaining from something in order to strengthen your spirit. I think it's a good reminder of the power of the human will and the fragility of our luxuries. We get so wrapped up in having the latest iPhone (guilty) or those new pair. . .
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The top 20 viral ads of January
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Your child is about to embark on a life-changing experience, where they will have the opportunity to meet new friends, explore potential careers, gain leadership skills, and accomplish hands-on conservation work that will have a lasting impact on the planet.
September came and went very quickly. The River Town Outreach Corps has been out in the field quite a lot this month maintaining trails and helping out at events. We spent a day clearing low hanging branches, removing trees of heaven, and picking up trash along the Greene River Trail between Fredericktown and Rices Landing.Read more


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PumpPod fitness regimes for iPod video
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PumpPod for iPod
PumpPod, a personal training program, is now available for the iPod. Also compatible with the Treo, Tungston, Zire, iPAQ and other image-ready handheld devices, PumpPod provides consumers of varying fitness levels and needs with step-by-step workout instructions and color images to ensure proper form and execution. PumpPod is a collection of over 40 workouts (i.e. total body, abs and core, yoga, Pilates, etc.) in JPEG- formatted images that can be downloaded to a photo-ready handheld device and played while you listen to music. The PumpPod Individual Trainers come in four categories-- TotallyPumped, Pumped2Go, PumpedforLife, and PumpedMama- ranging in price from $20-30 each, with packages available.
The TotallyPumped exercises target all the major muscle groups including legs, chest, back, arms, abs and more. Levels 1, 2 and 3 cost $20 each (4-6 week program for each level), or all three levels can be purchased as a $50 package.
Pumped2Go contains two workouts, each with 12 exercises that target the legs, chest, back, arms, abs and more, using only the furniture and items commonly found in hotel rooms (i.e. suitcase, water bottles, bed, etc.). Pumped2Go costs $20 for two total body workouts.
PumpedforLife is the complete body conditioning trainer from PumpPod. Combining the fundamentals found in strength training, yoga, and cardio, this training program is intended to help the user build strength, lose weight, gain endurance, improve heart health and increase flexibility. The workouts alternate from week to week so that the user's body is constantly challenged with new workouts. PumpedforLife trainers cost $60 for a Level 1, $64 for Level 2, and $70 for Level 3. All trainers are based on a 6-day workout for 4-8 weeks.
PumpedMama trainer is designed to get mothers back into the gym and help them achieve a tighter, more toned physique-- the body they had before they became moms. PumpedMama consists of three progressive levels, each containing three different workouts with 8-11 exercises each (or approximately 30 exercises per level). The trainer targets problem areas that moms want to focus on like the stomach, thighs, hips and under the arm. Mothers can start PumpedMama four weeks after their pregnancy. As with any workout program, new mothers should check with their physician before heading back to the gym. Levels 1, 2 and 3 cost $20 each for a 4-6 week program, or $50 for a combined level, 12-18 week program.


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I said at the beginning of last year that I would bet any amount of money that not an ounce of iron ore would be sold from the DSO project in 2012. Not an ounce was sold. Looking at the lack of progress on the project I will re-assert that not an ounce of iron ore will be sold from the DSO project in 2013.
Just look at the facts. The dome still isn't anywhere near done. Rail construction hasn't begun. There is no port facility in place until mid-2014, when the new multi-user dock at Pointe Noire is scheduled to be completed.
Watch the progress of the dome and you'll have a good sense of how the DSO project is moving. Target completion date for the dome has shifted from Q4 2011 to Q2 2012 to Q4 2012, and now it's looking like Q2 2013.


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The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies enhances CMC's mission to educate leading minds by providing opportunities for research, study, and experience in art, literature, history, philosophy and other fields as a means to understand and develop the power and use of the imagination.
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A Poetry Reading with Henri Cole
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Henri Cole has published nine collections of poetry, including Middle Earth, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He has received many awards for his work, including the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lenore Marshall Award. His most recent collection, Nothing to Declare, was published by last spring. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College.
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Bluffton, SC (WVLT/AP) - Authorities say a man arrested in South Carolina for bank robbery may have robbed up to 40 banks in several states, including Tennessee and Kentucky, before being captured.
FBI agents say 43-year-old William Cobb was taken into custody Friday near his home in Cottageville, South Carolina.
Two weeks ago, officers searched his vehicle and found three wigs, two baseball caps, two fake mustaches and make-up.
Cobb also has two missing fingers, matching the description of a suspect the FBI wanted in connection with several bank robberies.
Right now, Cobb is only charged with a robbery at a Bluffton, South Carolina, bank, but more charges are expected to be filed.
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Deadly rhetoric
The US gun lobby claims that guns save lives and keep us safe from criminals – what do social scientists say?
Southern brew
A second hurricane is battering New Orleans, this time it is an HIV catastrophe whipped up by prejudice and poverty
Farming the apocalypse
When my life came crashing down I took shelter on my farm, surviving with 11th-century tools like the sickle and scythe
Younger Christians may be ditching doctrines of fire and brimstone – but will Christianity ever get rid of hell entirely?
Stoop stories
My black friends call it Murderland. My white friends call it Charm City, a town of trendy cafés. I just call it home
What is a dude?
How the strange history of the 'dude' helps throw a light on why the West still feels like the real America
Talk the talk
A push for English to be the official language of the US has both a dark history and a regressive vision for the future
Burning like a mountain
Fire has come roaring back into America's West after a century of attempted extirpation. Can our land take the wild heat?
The fire burns yet
Native American peoples are still here and still caring for their land. Can their conquerors say the same?


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Faculty DirectoryMark C. Hersam
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC)
Contact2220 Campus Drive
Cook Hall 2036; Office - Cook 1017A
Evanston, IL 60208
Email Mark Hersam
Materials Science and Engineering
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL
M.Phil. Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL
Research Interests
Nanomaterials for Electronics, Sensing, and Energy
The Hersam Research Group applies the fundamental paradigm of materials science and engineering (i.e., the development of structure-property-processing-performance relationships) to hybrid hard and soft materials at the nanometer length scale. In many cases, the objective is to apply organic molecules to inorganic substrates in an effort to increase the functionality of the resulting hybrid system (e.g., silicon-based molecular electronics and graphene-based sensing). In other instances, an experimental technique that was originally developed for inorganic materials is adapted for the study of organic or biological systems (e.g., probing ion channels and organic photovoltaic devices using conductive atomic force microscopy).
This highly interdisciplinary research is enabled by a sophisticated suite of instrumentation including ultra-high vacuum (UHV) scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and additional equipment for studying the electrical and optical properties of materials.
Ongoing research projects range from fundamental studies (e.g., single molecule spectroscopy with UHV STM) to applied technology development (e.g., optimization of carbon nanotube and graphene materials for electronic and optical devices).
Overall, this research has wide impact in the fields of information technology, energy technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology.
Significant Recognition
- MacArthur Fellowship, 2014
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2014
- ACS Arthur K. Doolittle Award in Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, 2013
- APS Fellow, 2012
- MRS Fellow, 2012
- SPIE Fellow, 2012
- AVS Fellow, 2012
- Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, 2010
- SES Research Young Investigator Award, Electrochemical Society, 2010
- Teacher of the Year Award, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2009
- Teacher of the Year Award, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University 2007
- Young Alumni Achievement Award, ECE Department, UIUC, 2007
- AVS Peter Mark Award, 2006
- TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award, 2006
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2005
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2005
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2005
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2005
- Teacher of the Year in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2003
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2002
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, 2001
- IBM Distinguished Fellowship, 1999
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1997
- British Marshall Scholarship, 1996
Selected Publications
J. Kang, J.-W. T. Seo, D. Alducin, A. Ponce, M. J. Yacaman, and M. C. Hersam, "Thickness sorting of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides via copolymer-assisted density gradient ultracentrifugation," Nature Communications, 5, 5478 (2014).
M. Gong, T. A. Shastry, Y. Xie, M. Bernardi, D. Jasion, K. A. Luck, T. J. Marks, J. C. Grossman, S. Ren, and M. C. Hersam, "Polychiral semiconducting carbon nanotube-fullerene solar cells," Nano Letters, 14, 5308 (2014).
E. B. Secor, S. Lim, H. Zhang, C. D. Frisbie, L. F. Francis, and M. C. Hersam, "Gravure printing of graphene for large-area flexible electronics," Advanced Materials, 26, 4533 (2014).
D. Jariwala, V. K. Sangwan, L. J. Lauhon, T. J. Marks, and M. C. Hersam, "Emerging device applications for semiconducting two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides," ACS Nano, 8, 1102 (2014).
J. M. P. Alaboson, C.-H. Sham, S. Kewalramani, J. D. Emery, J. E. Johns, A. Deshpande, T. Chien, M. J. Bedzyk, J. W. Elam, M. J. Pellin, and M. C. Hersam, "Templating sub-10 nm atomic layer deposited oxide nanostructures on graphene via one-dimensional organic self-assembled monolayers," Nano Letters, 13, 5763 (2013).
D. Jariwala, V. K. Sangwan, C.-C. Wu, P. L. Prabhumirashi, M. L. Geier, T. J. Marks, L. J. Lauhon, and M. C. Hersam, "Gate-tunable carbon nanotube-MoS2 heterojunction p-n diode," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, 18076 (2013).
M. L. Geier, P. L. Prabhumirashi, J. J. McMorrow, W. Xu, J.-W. T. Seo, K. Everaerts, C. H. Kim, T. J. Marks, and M. C. Hersam, "Subnanowatt carbon nanotube complementary logic enabled by threshold voltage control," Nano Letters, 13, 4810 (2013).
D. Jariwala, V. K. Sangwan, L. J. Lauhon, T. J. Marks, and M. C. Hersam, "Carbon nanomaterials for electronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and sensing," Chemical Society Reviews, 42, 2824 (2013).
J. E. Johns and M. C. Hersam, "Atomic covalent functionalization of graphene," Accounts of Chemical Research, 46, 77 (2013).
Md. Z. Hossain, J. E. Johns, K. H. Bevan, H. J. Karmel, Y. T. Liang, S. Yoshimoto, K. Mukai, T. Koitaya, J. Yoshinobu, M. Kawai, A. M. Lear, L. L. Kesmodel, S. L. Tait,and M. C. Hersam, "Chemically homogeneous and thermally reversible oxidation of epitaxial graphene," Nature Chemistry, 4, 305 (2012).


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"The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that BNY Mellon has agreed to pay $14.8 million to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by providing valuable student internships to family members of foreign government officials affiliated with a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund." [SEC press release, WSJ] The SEC said at least three offspring from influential families lacked "the requisite academic or professional credentials" for the internships and proved to be "less than exemplary employees." [Business Insider] While publicly shaming the bank, the commission did not see fit to name the foreign country involved. Similar probes on intern hiring have been aimed at other big financial institutions including J.P. Morgan, accused of hiring the children of Chinese officials [Reuters]
Posts Tagged 'Foreign Corrupt Practices Act'
DOJ closes FCPA investigation of drugmaker without filing charges
And it only took 11 years [WSJ] Related: never mind what DOJ's criminal fraud chief wrote, says Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch, we'll tighten screws further on FCPA [David Baumann]
Banking and finance roundup
- In banking and FCPA cases, targets of DOJ prosecution are disproportionately firms domiciled abroad, and other countries do notice that [Jesse Eisinger, NYT "DealBook"]
- "Los Angeles' Confused Suit against Mortgage Lenders" [Mark Calabria, Cato] Providence also using disparate impact suits in hopes of making banks pay for its housing failures [Funnell]
- Podcast discussion on Operation Chokepoint with Charles J. Cooper, Iain Murray, and Todd J. Zywicki [Federalist Society, earlier]
- New round of suits against banks based on ATMs' imperfect wheelchair accessibility [ABA Journal, earlier here]
- Walgreen's could save billions in taxes if it moved to Switzerland from U.S. Whose fault if anyone's is that? [Tax Foundation]
- "Left unmentioned: how fed regulation and trial lawyers deter banks from protecting themselves with overdraft fees." [@tedfrank on NYT report about banks' use of databases to turn down business from persons with records of overdrawing accounts, a practice that now itself is being targeted for regulation]
- Scheme to seize mortgages through eminent domain stalling as cities decline to come on board [Kevin Funnell]
Police and prosecution roundup
- Virginia Gov. McAuliffe vetoes bill expanding procedural rights for motorists facing camera tickets [The Newspaper]
- Attracting drug deals to town was money-making scheme for a Florida community's law enforcers [Radley Balko] "Civil Asset Forfeiture: The Biggest Little Racket in Nevada" [Jason Snead and Andrew Kloster, Heritage; related, Evan Bernick on Georgia and Texas; Balko forfeiture roundup; and update, reform in Minnesota]
- "Yes, it's time to get rid of regulatory agencies' paramilitary units" [Jason Pye, United Liberty]
- (Some of) what's wrong with "victim's rights" laws [Steve Chapman]
- A case study in overcriminalization: "Reforming the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" [Vikrant Reddy, Texas Public Policy Foundation] More: Overcriminalization in North Carolina [Jim Copland and Isaac Gorodetski, Manhattan Institute]
- "We emphatically reject the notion that due process of law permits the police to frame suspects." [Third Circuit in Halsey v. Pfeiffer, allowing Byron Halsey to sue police after being wrongly imprisoned for 19 years in double murder case; Newark Star-Ledger] What to do about ongoing epidemic of police "dropsy" and "testilying"? [Balko]
- Prince George's County, Maryland police announce in advance they're going to behave unethically over course of next week [Conor Friedersdorf] Update: police call off plan, claiming announcing it had value in deterring johns.
February 3 roundup
- "Class counsel in Facebook 'Sponsored Stories' case seeks to impose $32,000 appeal bond on class-action objectors" [Public Citizen, Center for Class Action Fairness]
- The best piece on bar fight litigation I've ever read [Burt Likko, Ordinary Gentlemen]
- Casino mogul Adelson campaigns to suppress online gaming; is your state attorney general among those who've signed on? [PPA, The Hill]
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): "Anyone who values the rule of law should be alarmed by the ADM enforcement action." [Mike Koehler]
- New FMCSA rules on length of workweek make life difficult for long-haul truckers [Betsy Morris, WSJ via Lee Habeeb and Mike Leven, National Review and more]
- "It takes a remarkable amount of nerve to cobble together publicly available facts, claim you've uncovered a fraud on the government, and file a lawsuit from which you could earn substantial financial benefits." [Richard Samp, WLF] Whistleblower-law lobby tries to get its business model established in West Virginia [W.V. Record]
- Pittsburgh readers, hope to see you tomorrow at Duquesne [law school Federalist Society]
Coming soon: Washington, D.C. starts investigating itself
"News crossed this weekend that U.S. bank JP Morgan is being investigated by U.S. regulators for hiring well-connected people in China. Specifically, the bank is said to be under investigation for hiring two bankers whose fathers ran big Chinese companies that later hired JP Morgan for several assignments." [Henry Blodget, Business Insider]
Using NSA spy data to go after…FCPA violators?
The implications are mind-boggling [Houston Chronicle/Connecticut Post via NACDL via Americans for Forfeiture Reform, earlier] On paper, NSA is supposed to turn over spy-collected data only if evidence of serious unrelated crime turns up while investigating terrorist threats or other specified matters. However, as Reuters shows in an important new investigation, in drug investigations (and probably other types as well) "law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin — not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges" Thus the common little white lie about how such-and-such was discovered "during a routine traffic stop," when in fact the traffic stop was intended to intercept something or someone known by previous investigation to be aboard the vehicle. With the origins of investigation routinely "phonied up" in this way, however, it becomes virtually impossible to know how many handoffs of spy information fall into gray areas beyond the clear intent of the authorizing law. [Julian Sanchez, Cato] Our coverage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is here; earlier on surveillance here.
August 2 roundup
- Radley Balko on a roll with harrowing, Louisiana-focused piece on misbehaving prosecutors and the system that protects them [HuffPo] "Former Cops Speak Out About Police Militarization" And a BBC interview (auto-plays video);
- Judge Alsup: pay-to-play allegations against Democratic Attorneys General Association, Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood, MSPERS won't derail class action [Courthouse News]
- "Smoker's Son Recovers $12.8M for Loss of Consortium" [NLJ]
- How easy is it to get a free federal cellphone (or two or three) without actually qualifying? [Jillian Kay Melchior, NR]
- "'Total'ly Milking the FCPA Cash Cow?" [Koehler, FCPA Professor]
- "The unfair attack on arbitration" [Hans von Spakovsky]
- How public interest litigators got 501(c)(3) charitable status [Scott Walter, Philanthropy Daily; related earlier]
Police and prosecution roundup
- Arkansas: "'Corruption of Blood' Amendment Withdrawn After House Supporter Is Reminded What Century It Is" [Above the Law]
- George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case heads for trial [TalkLeft, Doug Mataconis, and Richard Hornsby via Megan McArdle on evidentiary standards, earlier]
- Is New Hampshire citizens' group harassing town parking meter enforcers, or monitoring their work? [Union Leader, ABA Journal, Reason]
- New York politicos quarrel over Hank Greenberg suit, overbroad Martin Act is to blame [Bainbridge]
- Enforcement grabs higher-ups in Ralph Lauren Argentine customs bribery case [FCPA Professor, earlier]
- Who stole the tarts? "Mom has son arrested for stealing Pop-Tarts" [Lowering the Bar; Charlotte, N.C.] Tip from Georgia cops: avoid situations where you might have to cling to hood of moving car [same]
- "Omaha officers told: Don't interfere with citizens' right to record police activity" [Omaha World-Herald via @radleybalko ("Good work, Omaha.")]
You were wrong to pay out that money. Now disgorge it.
On Ralph Lauren's agreement with prosecutors to settle charges under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that its agents improperly bribed officials in Argentina to allow goods to move through trade channels: "Disgorge is a curious description. The $593,000 is the amount they paid out in bribes, not the amount they took in. Disgorge usually refers to the fruits of crime, but instead refers here to the perverse perspective of our government in keeping American corporations pure as the driven snow while minor warlords elsewhere demand their piece of the pie. Whether it's money in or out, gained or lost, or even neither existing nor realized, it's all money the government demands be disgorged." [Scott Greenfield] More on the case: Lawrence Cunningham, FCPA Professor.


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Introduction to Financial Technology
- Roy Freedman, Founder, Inductive Solutions; Adjunct Professor, Financial Engineering, Polytechnic University, NY
Primary audience: Primary textbook for students in technical schools, career education schools taking courses in Financial Technology, Clearing and Settlement of Financial Transactions, Risk Management systems. Supplemental textbook for students in courses in MIS (management of information systems) in finance; finance, financial engineering, and software engineering. Secondary audience: Professionals new to financial technology seeking a solid grounding and overview of the area.
Book information
- Published: April 2006
- Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
Approaching a new highly abstract and complex technical subject, especially as a student, has much in common with the mountaineer's approach to a mountain: both present a daunting challenge to be overcome at high cost of effort--we fear for our very survival. In "Introduction to Financial Technology", Roy Freedman proves himself a steadfast and expert guide right from the beginning of the journey. Like a trusty Sherpa, he does all the heavy lifting for us even in the ever-thinning air of our journey up the steep Himalayan slopes of the financial and technological abstractions of the modern discipline that is financial technology. All in all, I found Freedman's treatment of the financial application of computer algorithms and financial technology quite thorough and highly informative and well written. -- Raymond Nolting, Executive Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst, B-Trade Services L.L.C./Division of the Bank of New York "One would not expect a book on financial technology to be so...well...gripping. Freedman provides an interesting survey of the history of financial technology as well as the technological tools used today. This book is a must read for any true student of the market, especially as high technology becomes ever more pervasive in the analysis and operation of financial markets." -- Ben Van Vliet, Associate Director, M.S. Financial Markets, Center for Financial Markets, Illinois Institute of Technology