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Experiments suggest that during treatment with vitamin K antagonists (VKA) the activity of coagulation factors (F) II and X better reflect anticoagulation than does FVII. Based on this a new prothrombin time based monitoring test (Fiix-PT) has been invented which is only sensitive to FII and FX. The Fiix-PT can be converted to INR ("Fiix-INR").
The investigators hypothesize that the Fiix-PT may reflect anticoagulation and the antithrombotic effect of VKA as accurately or better than the current PT based tests do (INR based on PT or P&P). The protocol describes a prospective randomized double-blind trial that will be conducted at the Landspitali Anticoagulation Management Center (AMC).
The objective of the protocol is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Fiix-INR as a monitoring test compared to the current PT based assays (INR) used to monitor patients treated with VKA to prevent thromboembolism. The investigators will randomize 1200 clients of the AMC into two identically sized monitoring groups, Fiix-INR (test group) and INR (control group).
The clinical endpoints to be studied include efficacy (arterial and venous thromboembolic event rate) and safety (bleeding events). Additionally, surrogate convenience endpoints will be studied such as test frequency and time within target range.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Thromboembolism Arterial Venous |
Device: Fiix prothrombin time |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Clinical Outcome During Warfarin Anticoagulation Monitored With "Fiix-INR" Compared to Standard Monitoring With INR.A Prospective Randomized Double-blinded Trial. |
- Thromboembolic events [ Time Frame: 1200 patients years of observation time, 18 months on average for each participant ]
7.2.2 Primary Efficacy criteria
The following definitions will be applied by the IAC to confirm a suspected episode of symptomatic recurrent TE:
Venous thromboembolism (VTE).
- All objectively diagnosed VTE (by imaging technology or autopsy) will be included
- Superficial thromboses will not be included
Arterial thromboembolism (ATE)
- All objectively confirmed ATE (by imaging techniques, surgically, autopsy, EKG etc) will be included
- Transient ischemic attacks of any kind (TIA´s, RIND´s) will be included
- Major hemorrhage [ Time Frame: 1200 patient years of observation, 18 months on average for each study participant ]
7.2.3 Safety outcome criteria The principal safety outcome is clinically relevant bleeding (i.e., major bleeding and clinically relevant non-major bleeding).
Additional safety outcomes include all deaths and other vascular events. 184.108.40.206 Bleeding definitions All suspected bleedings will be reported and will be classified by the IAC as major, clinically relevant non-major, trivial, or no bleeding.
Major bleeding see ISTH criteria JTH 2005;3:692-4
- Monitoring test frequency and time spent within target range [ Time Frame: 1200 patients years of observation ]
We will compare the following in the test group and the control group:
i. Total number of tests per treatment year ii. Dose adjustment frequency (interval or number of dose adjustments during observation period) iii. Percent tests within treatment range over observation period iv. Percent time within target range (TTR) over observation period
Enrollment: | 1156 |
Study Start Date: | March 2012 |
Study Completion Date: | February 2014 |
Primary Completion Date: | February 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Fiix PT (Fiix-INR) monitoring and dosing of warfarin
The modified prothrombin time, sensitive only to factor II and X activity, will be used to monitor and dose warfarin.
Device: Fiix prothrombin time
The Fiix prothrombin time (or Stuart-prothrombin time) is a new modification of the currently used prothrombin times. The Fiix PT as opposed to PT is sensitive to the activity of coagulation factors II and X only whereas the PT is sensitive to factors I, II, V, VII and X.
Active Comparator: PT (INR) monitoring and dosing of warfarin
The prothrombin time, sensitive to factors II, VII and X activity, will be used to monitor and dose warfarin.
Device: Fiix prothrombin time
The Fiix prothrombin time (or Stuart-prothrombin time) is a new modification of the currently used prothrombin times. The Fiix PT as opposed to PT is sensitive to the activity of coagulation factors II and X only whereas the PT is sensitive to factors I, II, V, VII and X.
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- age 18 or over,
- INR treatment goal of 2-3,
- ability to sign informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- nursing home patients
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01565239
Iceland | |
Landspitali University Hospital | |
Reykjavik, N.a., Iceland, 101 |
Principal Investigator: | Pall T. Onundarson, M.D. | Landspitali and University of Iceland, Faculty of Medicine |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Pall T. Onundarson, M.D., Professor of Hematology, Head of Hematology Laboratory and Coagulation Disorders, Landspitali University Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01565239 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Landspitali-1 |
Study First Received: | March 22, 2012 |
Last Updated: | September 8, 2014 |
Keywords provided by Landspitali University Hospital:
Warfarin Monitoring prothrombin time |
Fiix prothrombin time international normalized ratio (INR) new test |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Thromboembolism Embolism and Thrombosis Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Warfarin |
Thrombin Anticoagulants Hemostatics Coagulants |
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- Capture and process satellite-generated data reliably
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- Efficient management of a dynamic system that grows more than five terabytes a day
- Accessible global weather and climate data
Off Florida's Gulf Coast, scientists are diving into a sea of data. They're tracking tiny Atlantic bluefin tuna larvae, and their parents, to better protect and monitor the environmentally delicate and highly migratory fish.
To help locate the fish, which can grow to more than 1,500 pounds, researchers turn to Mitchell A. Roffer, president of Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service. He taps the systems that capture the world's climate and weather data, including the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System, or CLASS.
With CLASS , which has ocean and weather data ranging from temperatures and currents to sea color, Roffer can better forecast where bluefin are spawning, oil spills are spreading and ships should be moving.
"CLASS is a valuable system, providing data that helps us better understand the effects of environmental conditions," Roffer says. As a forecaster and researcher supporting NASA, NOAA, fishing, and oil-and-gas industry research projects, Roffer has accessed this data for decades.
Storing a world of data
CSC works with NOAA's data, too. First supporting the predecessor to CLASS , CSC helped develop CLASS and now helps ensure that the system, which acts as an extremely big, interactive electronic library, can process and store satellite data and respond to requests from users such as Roffer.
Some users, especially those focused on climate research, want to dig into the past. The CLASS team continually works to ensure that the system's archive, which includes hundreds of millions of environmental observations dating back to the mid-1970s, is available and will last into the next century.
"Just as today's scientists and researchers revisit historical weather data and run new models, future generations will want to run models on this era's weather, a great deal of which is on CLASS ," says Kern Witcher, NOAA CLASS project manager.
As the CLASS team members work to ensure the data's longevity, they also strive to improve the system's performance. "A big challenge is throughput," Witcher says. "We're getting to a point where in the next decade we'll be ingesting 35 terabytes of data a day."
CLASS receives data generated by numerous geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites. One in particular, launched last October, required NOAA to supercharge the ability of CLASS to manage the increased amounts of data it would be receiving.
Now circling the Earth every 102 minutes, the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite collects data at a resolution of 25 meters per pixel, providing a fourfold improvement in quality over older instruments. With those instruments, CLASS was capturing about 300 gigabytes of data a day. When Suomi NPP went live, CLASS added five terabytes to its daily diet.
"That first day was like a rollercoaster — it started very slowly and then went extremely fast," recalls Constantino Cremidis, CSC CLASS project manager. "At the beginning, it was quite a ride."
Protecting data integrity
Besides helping CLASS store and manage its data, another goal is making the CLASS data easily accessible to the public. "Of course, when a user wants months of data and there are multi-terabytes of data a day, this is a difficult challenge to meet," Cremidis says.
About 500 users and organizations around the world tap CLASS for climate science and research, or for data for the financial, agricultural and oceanographic industries.
The requests are diverse, the data demands are substantial, and the data is irreplaceable. To meet these challenges, CSC helped NOAA create an innovative architecture that would better protect and manage the CLASS data. As part of the architecture, they built two mirroring systems, located in two different U.S. states that simultaneously receive and store CLASS data.
"Everyone copies their data, but not at this level," Cremidis says. "We keep the two systems online and available at all times."
"The system has become almost like a living organism," Witcher adds. "We have so many things happening with it. It's always evolving, moving, shifting and dynamically changing."
Change for every part of the CLASS system seems a constant. CSC supported the system's predecessor at a time when few used the Internet. Today the CLASS team is exploring how it can improve its use of social media to better meet user needs, while preparing for the next jump in data.
JENNY MANGELSDORF is a writer for CSC's digital marketing team.


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i think it's quite nice! the lowercase seems a bit too tight in places, esp the right side of the o, but in many other places as well. i think the lettershaps you're questioning are just fine, but i found the u a bit ambiguous i stopped reading when i came to it because i couldn't decide if it was a u or an en. The S seems wonky, something just not quite right about it. overall it feels very nice though, keep up the good work!
I like it... a very nice flow to the lettering... would be nice to have some alternates for when there are double letters, to make it look less 'digital'... however, if i could write like that, i'd probably not bother with digital :-)
Not bad, Jess! Paul is right about spacing. The 's' is just fine, just needs more room. Especially apparent in the 'ss' pair.
unfortunately respacing a connecting script usually means redrawing the characters :(
But the 's' doesn't connect on the right side, and doesn't need to. "Jackson" looks fine, for instance, and will still with a little more space after the 's'.
> The S seems wonky, something just not quite right about it.
Could that be because of the very thin spine?
I understand that the tool dictates the shapes in this case, but maybe if the weight would be on the spine a bit more, it might look better.
I think most writing tools put the weight on the 'ears' of the S (because of the angle), so to speak, and that historically speaking, the weight was shifted to the spine, to balance the shape. Or am I mistaken?
Thanks everyone for the advice and compliments! Here's a new sample with loosened up spacing and also the reworked S and u. I also reshaped the s and made a few other minor changes.
Jess Latham
this is really terrific. i especially enjoy the "y" and "g," and i'm usually a bit uneasy with the "x" in connecting scripts, but yours works well. i know you'll continue to noodle with it for a bit yet, but great job so far.
much better already! the dl combo seems a bit tight still, it could actually be the left side of the l that's doing it. also the right side of the s seems a bit tight still.
I like this very much. It has a nice loose flow, but still looks a bit tight - you could easily make the lead-outs a bit longer to get more inter-character space. For a more authentic handwritten look you could also introduce many two or three character ligatures in OpenType, (especially duplicate characters together), and also have some replacement end characters without the long lead-out stroke.
Nick Cooke
Thanks Chuck, Paul and Nick! : )
I'm having a spacing dilemma. Everything looks ok to me except the double s combination. Would it be a bad idea to use kerning to move them away from each other instead of how a kern normally works? Here's an example of how that looks with the double s kern:
Jess Latham
jess, the ss looks better to me, but even the sh looks tight to me. the s could probably use a bit more air to the right. (or it could be the h that's problem, but i'm guessing the s)
This is a lot of fun.
At small sizes the exit stroke on the s (the little half loop) is a little flat. Or maybe I should say it is sharp. And the terminus on the e seems flat, perhaps the t as well. I assume you're working on alternates?
This is fun. (I know I said that already but I couldn't help writing it again.)
I'm not sure I'd add more space to the right of the s unless you are just talking about the pair.
Thanks Tiffany! Yes, I will have alternates. Here's an example of an alternate G and endings.
This is a really nice type. Is this typeface completed? and if so, is it available for purchase?
I agree..very nice indeed. Very relaxed look..can even imagine it selling Green tea already:P
I'm new to this thread but the face is beautiful and your work on the kern pairs really perfected it. This is a look that's needed right now. It's a med-heavy script but smooth and easy on the eyes. And it's always fun to find alternates in a typeface, shows craftmanship. Very nice work.


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Ge's Money Machine
Tim SmartSears. ITT. Xerox. Westinghouse. All proud names of Corporate America that rushed eagerly into the promised land of financial services in the 1980s. Lured by tantalizing returns, they amassed large positions in real estate lending, consumer finance, and corporate buyouts. Now, battered by severe losses, those adventurers are retreating, anxious to limit exposures and get back to their basic businesses.
Except for General Electric Co. The maker of jet engines, light bulbs, and home appliances is enjoying incredible benefits from its finance arm. During the recent recession, when GE's more cyclical businesses stalled, GE Capital Services Inc., formerly GE Financial Services, was a veritable money machine. In five years, the unit's assets have more than doubled, to $155 billion. GE Capital is now the engine driving its parent's profits: Its share of GE's earnings surged from one-fifth to one-third. Unlike its hapless competitors, GE Capital handily overcame losses in real estate and leveraged buyouts, posting record earnings of $1.5 billion in 1992.
The global scope of GE Capital today is a far cry from its humble beginnings in the Depression, when GE's credit operation got its start financing refrigerators. Its portfolio of nearly two dozen discrete businesses extends to almost every corner of the world of finance. GE Capital provided a $100 million loan for the recapitalization of the Six Flags amusement park chain and reinsured the performance bond for Toronto's Skydome. It has issued 65 million credit cards to customers of retailers, including R. H. Macy & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co. It owns and operates the nation's second-largest reinsurer, Employers Reinsurance Corp. Its auto-leasing fleet, No. 1 in the U. S., is growing at a 15% annual clip. It is the world's largest lessor of oceangoing shipping containers and the largest private mortgage insurer. It has been one of the most aggressive purchasers of troubled property seized from banks and thrifts. And it owns a large Wall Street brokerage, Kidder, Peabody & Co.
While other companies' financial arms are pulling back, GE Capital is expanding rapidly. It snapped up $5 billion in new assets last year alone. And it's off to a fast start in 1993. In January, it bought the $3.2 billion annuity and mutual fund business of GNA Corp. from Weyerhaeuser Co. for $525 million as a way to expand into peddling investments to aging baby boomers. Its bargain hunters have been scrutinizing the books at troubled Westinghouse Credit Corp. and eyeing the $2.25 billion real estate portfolio of First Chicago Corp.
NUTS AND BOLTS. GE Capital is pushing ahead globally, too. It bought Harrods' credit-card portfolio and Barclays Bank's auto-loan business last year. It picked up Avis Lease's $1 billion European auto-fleet business and a 3% stake in Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya. And in December, it launched a joint venture with Malaysia's UMW Corp. to provide financial services.
What is GE Capital's edge? One is its association with GE, which allows it to borrow money cheaply, typically around 6% in 1992, thanks to GE's AAA credit rating. But most important is a culture that successfully blends an entrepreneurial spirit with the hard-driving and intensely competitive focus of its parent. That translates into an obsession with performance, an ability to shift strategies rapidly to take advantage of change, an appetite for risk-taking and dealmaking, and an engineer's yen to run operations, not just write a check to finance them. GE Capital has a manufacturing mind-set that views money as a raw material to be machined into a service that can be marked up and sold for a profit.
GE Capital's culture, indeed, is the antithesis of the plodding, risk-averse attitude that pervades most banks. GE Capital, for instance, is eager to seize a deadbeat's assets and run them--better. "We don't want to be commodity providers of money," says Chief Executive Gary C. Wendt. "I just think we have a different attitude because we're part of an operating company."
HIGH EXPECTATIONS. It is Wendt, 50, a professionally trained engineer, who sets the style at GE Capital's utilitarian headquarters in Stamford, Conn. He displays a thinly disguised contempt for his banking competitors. "We can't earn the same kinds of returns that banks do, otherwise GE won't keep us around," says Wendt, a devotee of the tough management style of his boss, GE Chairman and CEO John F. Welch Jr. As one of General Electric's 13 businesses, GE Capital is expected to rack up an average 20% return on equity, a target that vastly eclipses the banks' average of 13%. To do so, GE Capital relies on its diverse operations. The company makes money in a variety of ways: fees from leasing activities, premiums from insurance operations, interest income from lending, and investment returns from real estate deals.
Wendt sets a high bar for his managers to reach, and they, in turn, demand the same of their subordinates. "Life is staying one step ahead of the posse--that's what I tell my managers," says Edward D. Stewart, one of three executive vice-presidents who report to Wendt. And what of those who can't cut it in such a supercharged atmosphere? Stewart's half-joking response is the baseball umpire's jerked thumb: Yer out.
How long can GE's money machine keep rolling? Some observers have predicted for years that its relentless drive for growth would lead it to make mistakes. Indeed, in 1992 it wrote off $1.25 billion in bad loans and other failed dealings, down a little from $1.3 billion in 1991 but far above the $800 million posted in 1990. There are plenty of potential pitfalls. The global airline recession could leave it with scores of unleasable airplanes, or the ever-chancy insurance market could sideswipe Employers Re. Its ability to acquire bargain-basement assets from troubled competitors will be lessened as the economy recovers, forcing it to rely even more on squeezing extra profits from existing assets.
Further, as the company focuses more of its expansion efforts overseas, it could fall prey to the vagaries of foreign economies. Still, most GE Capital watchers remain convinced that its enormous breadth and skilled management will keep it humming with the slick efficiency of a GE turbine. Marvels Lawrence Connell, chief of the Hartford-based Society For Savings and a former regulator: "They're the major finance company in the country right now."
More than any other factor, GE Capital reached that position with a singular focus on performance. Its managers can expect--and must meet--stiff standards that are set by Wendt. One key is to outwit competitors by moving faster, buying cheaper, and servicing customers quicker. Another is dealing with problems the minute they crop up. The overall goal is to get the business to grow at a double-digit annual rate. "There's an absolute obsession with growth," says James A. Parke, GE Capital's senior vice-president for finance.
'800-POUND GORILLA.' Business managers gather four times a year for face-to-face meetings with Wendt and the other top executives. At these so-called "war games," three-year strategies are laid out. Operating plans for the current year are checked and adjusted, if need be. Business development staffs within the individual units are constantly searching for new opportunities. Ideas bubble up from the bottom: potential acquisitions often surface first among salespeople in the field. "There's this natural drive to find something new to do, to take advantage of the competition, to build your business," says Dennis J. Nayden, an executive vice-president.
At the moment, its competitors have almost ceded the field to GE Capital. Banks, fearful of regulators, don't want to lend. Insurers, afraid of runs from policyholders, are adding reserves to offset deteriorating real estate portfolios. And industrial companies with finance arms, pressured by irate shareholders, are returning to their core businesses. GE Capital is using this environment to gobble up assets from weakened rivals and expand its reach. "They're one of the few buyers when everybody else is selling," says analyst George Fraise of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. "GE does this better than anyone else."
GE Capital is a prime source of funds for troubled companies. Consider Volvo, whose financial troubles were starting to affect the Swedish company's ability to finance the leasing of its vehicles. In the U. S., Volvo's debt had been downgraded, hurting its ability to raise capital. Volvo's unhappy choice: try to please Wall Street by raising lease rates in a bid to expand revenue or soldier on, paying higher interest rates and lowering the profit it made. "We would have been pinched," acknowledges Volvo Car Finance President Michael T. Duke. Along came GE. With its ability to raise capital cheaply, GE Capital was able to structure a joint-venture deal that once again allows Volvo to compete with aggressive lease rates for its cars. "GE is clearly the 800-pound gorilla," says Duke. "They're the first guys you turn to."
BURNOUT INSURANCE. GE Capital is always prowling for new businesses to expand into. In the past, its Genstar shipping container leasing unit, along with other lessors, sold old containers to scrap merchants. Then one day, employees at a Genstar facility got the idea of reconditioning the containers for use as portable warehousing facilities at ports and industrial sites and as storage space for retailers' excess inventories. The business, called Instant Space, is now a global operation that has grown to the point where GE Capital is a regular buyer of containers from steamship lines.
Productivity is a key facet of GE Capital's drive for performance and is constantly being measured. "We have one-fifth the corporate overhead per asset that we had seven or eight years ago," brags Wendt. When Chrysler Credit Corp. ran a $500 million equipment-leasing business, it had 100 employees. GE Capital bought the operation but left behind all the people. GE Capital has a whole set of systems to boost productivity. Process mapping, the system by which managers can track how many steps it takes to perform a given task, is much in vogue.
So are such GE concepts as "workout," where employees confront managers over bureaucratic inefficiencies and suggest solutions. At GE Capital's auto-leasing business outside Chicago, says manager Sandra L. Derickson, employees get questions like: "How many credit apps can a credit manager process? How many dollars can a collector collect every month?"
Wendt appears to appreciate that this type-A environment can lead to burnout. So he doles out plenty of corporate benevolence in order to take the edge off. GE Capital's auto leasing operation, for instance, offers flexible working schedules and provides transportation to a local day-care center for mothers who bring their children to work. Workers sometimes receive $100 "management reward" checks for handling a difficult customer or solving a thorny problem.
HOLY NUMBERS. A crucial part of the productivity drive is that GE holiest of holies--numbers. GE Capital has a huge cadre of well-trained number-crunchers, many of them graduates of its parent's famed financial management programs. "We watch numbers like a hawk," says Executive Vice-President Stewart. "It's part of the GE culture. It doesn't take long to spot something that pops up out of trend."
GE Capital's number-crunching prowess has been especially helpful in its negotiations with troubled financial institutions eager to unload assets. In the past couple of years, GE Capi-tal has been a hungry acquirer of huge real estate portfolios from Resolution Trust Corp., the federal agency in charge of cleaning up the S&L quagmire. "They were very astute and well-informed buyers who were generally ahead of everybody else," says former RTC head L. William Seidman. By having the financial muscle to make bulk purchases, such as a $1 billion portfolio that included some Florida strip shopping centers, GE Capital can bag RTC property much more cheaply than the agency's going rate, which is 40 to 70 on the dollar. According to Lewis Goodkin, a Florida real estate expert, GE Capital grabbed some properties for 20 on the dollar.
The RTC deals also illustrate GE Capital's agility in taking advantage of market changes, another hallmark of its operating style. A decade ago, it was a major lender on commercial property deals, concentrating on existing buildings with good track records. Today's rotten real estate market has provided different opportunities. Even more active than it once was, GE Capital is buying up properties burdened by excessive debt loads. It can afford to refinance the buildings, manage them, and then await the turn in the property market cycle. Then, GE Capital plans to sell the buildings to institutional investors.
A look at the mix of businesses that make up GE Capital shows just how it continually shifts business focus to create a diversified portfolio in which thriving divisions more than offset faltering ones. In 1987, nearly one-fifth of GE Capital's $600 million profit came from leveraged buyouts, while leasing such things as truck trailers, shipping containers, and railcars produced only $25 million in earnings. Four years later, problems in LBO lending led GE Capital to take the $1.3 billion write-off. But it was the asset-management businesses, including leasing, that kicked in, yielding more than $300 million in income.
Patience also pays off. While the 1986 purchase of Kidder hasn't been the home run GE Capital envisioned, it finally has managed to redeem itself. After years of underperformance, it had a good 1992, with operating earnings of about $300 million. The unit, which has been for sale, at least is now a more desirable property.
FIELDWORK. Moving quickly to deal with problems is also a GE Capital hallmark. In 1990, Vendor Financial Services, a unit that finances other manufacturers' equipment, was limping along--a low-growth outfit making less than $10 million on its $1 billion in assets. GE Capital tapped Thomas H. Mann, who had performed ably at GE Capital's mortgage-insurance operation, to beef up the business. Rather than battle rivals for the same share of the pie, Mann went after a much bigger potential market: equipment that manufacturers were financing themselves. "We cold-called them," he recalls. Since this area was not a profit center for the manufacturers, GE Capital argued that it could do the job better. Even Jack Welch volunteered his assistance, putting in a pitch with Eastman Kodak Co. executives to seal last year's $1 billion purchase of the financing portfolio for Kodak's office-equipment arm. In 1992, Mann's unit earned about $45 million on assets, which have more than tripled to $3.5 billion. But Mann's superiors aren't about to let him rest on his laurels. His income target this year is at least $60 million.
GE Capital is also performing a strategy about-face in corporate finance, where Stephen Berger, GE Capital's executive vice-president and the former executive director of the New York Port Authority, is trying to build a book of business in the post-LBO lending environment. The emphasis is on due diligence and not just dealmaking. "They spent days out in the field," says Linda J. Wachner, CEO of Warnaco Inc., for whom GE Capital led a syndicate that provided $350 million in term loans and revolving credit. "We have over 25 facilities, and they met with every member of senior management."
GE Capital's experience with its own soured loans has helped it exploit new business opportunities. It has moved into bankruptcy financing, a booming market created by busted LBOs. Last year, in one of its biggest deals, Berger's unit lent the department store chain Carter Hawley Hale Stores Inc. $225 million to finance its plan of reorganization from bankruptcy. GE Capital is even trying its hand at running the businesses of its former creditors. It now owns and operates Shoe Town, which it took over after store chain's loans went bad in 1991. "Our goal is to turn it around, improve the numbers, and then sell it," says Berger. "We are not going to be in the shoe business."
Dealing effectively with problem assets has helped GE Capital reduce the amount of its nonperforming and underperforming assets to $1.4 billion at yearend 1992, down from $2.2 billion at its peak in June, 1991. An example of its quick action philosphy: When Eastern Air Lines Inc. collapsed, GE Capital's Polaris Aircraft Leasing operation got stuck with a handful of Boeing 757s. Polaris executives discovered that USAir Inc. wanted some of the widebody planes but had McDonnell Douglas MD-80s leased from Polaris that it no longer needed. So GE released the 757s to USAir, taking the MD-80s back and leasing them in a new deal to a Chinese carrier.
SERVICE ON THE FLY. What helps GE Capital managers in situations like these is a deep reservoir of operational experience, some of it drawn from the ranks of parent GE. GE Capital has a team of more than 100 engineers who work on location at GE-financed industrial projects, such as power plants in Asia. In its commercial equipment financing unit, which leases more corporate aircraft than anyone else, many of the salespeople are licensed pilots. GE Capital's railcar leasing outfit even runs six wheel-repair shops around the country, giving it a big edge over competitors.
The drive to add value to assets, not just finance them, is ongoing. In a backroom office in Eden Prairie, Minn., 65 former auto and truck mechanics answer phone calls 24 hours a day from drivers of vehicles whose companies have leased vehicles from GE Capital. At the flick of a switch, a phone clerk can call up a computerized history of the vehicle and help diagnose a potential problem. With the information, the clerk can steer the driver to the nearest garage that can handle the defect. A GE Capital employee will even negotiate the lowest possible repair price.
In another part of the building, a handful of GE Capital employees will arrange to get the tags for any of its customers' vehicles, no matter what the state. Such services, for which GE Capital customers pay fees, are all part of a value-added approach to asset financing. "For every $1 in fee that they pay, we estimate we can save them $4 to $4.50," says auto-fleet chief Teresa M. LeGrand. Added features like tag delivery and auto service diagnosis helped the auto fleet unit, which barely broke even in 1987, turn an $80 million profit last year.
This may seem far removed from the glorified world of high finance. But it's all just part of a restless corporate culture that seems to thrive on continually shaking itself up. "Change," says CEO Wendt. "You make it an exciting thing rather than a threatening thing." So far, at least, the excitement at GE Capital has kept the potential threats at bay.
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Sanaa Lathan is a wonderful actress: fluid, emotionally accessible, easy on the eye, funny, unconventional in some of her responses, with the ability to create characters. She does not repeat herself. You also don't catch her working. If she had a "type" I would say: Leading Lady, Straight Up. She's in the Julia Roberts pantheon. She's not a character actress, she is born to be a romantic leading lady. She has that ineffable something that makes an audience invest in her happiness.
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Something New kind of came and went, barely making a ripple, which is a shame. It's a conventional romance, yet with the added interest of the potentially explosive (still) interracial theme, beautifully and sensitively portrayed, with details that feel like insider details. (The scene where Lathan and her new boyfriend, played by Simon Baker, get caught out in the rain and she freaks out about her hair is a particularly good example.) Something New does not re-invent the wheel (it tells the story of a workaholic serious woman, groomed by her family to be a success, who falls in love with her gardener). This is obviously an inversion of the typical rich-lady-falls-in-lust-with-the-help storyline, not to mention the fact that minorities are often used in these cliched storylines as objects of lust and agents of sexual freedom. Those with brown/black skin are seen, in the cliche, as somehow more "connected" to their sexuality and help the white woman/man loosen up. Condescending though this cliche may be, Something New acknowledges it, and also mocks it, by turning it inside out. Here, the woman is African-American, a nose-to-the-grindstone former debutante, who is surrounded by equally upwardly mobile African-Americans, and when the hot sweaty white gardener shows up, she is unprepared for her response to him.
And enlightened as we may be, interracial relationships still have the power to ruffle feathers, and Something New is special because it examines it wholly from an African-American point of view. It's a very honest film.
Sanaa Lathan is the kind of actress your heart goes out to. You want her to be happy. This is the kind of quality all great romantic female leads have – from Audrey Hepburn to Irene Dunne to Kate Winslet. You worry about these people a little bit – they don't seem self-sufficient, not completely anyway … and so your heart goes out to them, you hope for them, you invest. It's a rare kind of contract between an audience and an actress, and not all romantic female leads have it. I think it's somewhat intuitive … it's a thing that cannot be taught. Whether or not you agree with my choices of female romantic leads is not really the point. The point is that when you are an actress in a romantic film, and you are the lead, it is crucial that the audience want what you want, that they leap into the action (in their hearts) and root for you … as though it were a sports film. Sanaa Lathan has always had that, and I will look forward to seeing her work for years to come. I'd like to see her hit the big-time, although her last couple of years have been pretty damn spectacular, what with movies and a Broadway hit.
The character in Love and Basketball, a fiery-tempered tomboy, is nothing like the uptight, vaguely sad, and yet driven career woman she creates in Something New. Not the same person. It shows her range.
Her face, even with that faint scar on her right cheek, maybe even because of the scar, is made for the movies. It's a very beautiful face, but human, open, itself. Emotions are not strived for, or sought after by the actress, they are experienced. You don't catch her pushing. Ever. She goes through all the peaks and valleys of emotions in Something New. The scenework between Lathan and Baker is moving, surprising, and, at times, powerful. The script is intelligent, and treats both its characters with respect. This is a movie for grownups, about grownups.
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By kathy maskell
September 13, 2010
It's been quite a week at Craigslist. First a threatening letter from the U.S. Attorneys General, then the placement of an ominous "CENSORED" bar over the Adult Services section of their website, and now the complete removal of the Adult Services section (only in the U.S.—erotic/adult services are still active on Craigslist's international sites).
First, the bottom line. At the end of the day, I'm relieved that the world's most popular virtual brothel has been "voluntarily" shut down by Craigslist. (Did you know Craigslist gets more hits a day than Amazon.com? And yes, the Adult/Erotic services section was the most popular section of the site). However, I agree with the critics that the buck does not stop here. We can hardly lean back and gloat.
There has been much back and forth—and not a little division—about what impact these events will have on the anti-trafficking community's work to eliminate venues for trafficking for prostitution. There are activists on both sides—those who view this as a victory, and those who continue to believe that the elimination of the Adult Services section will make it more difficult for law enforcement to catch traffickers who sell women and children for sex.
In 2007, Love146 launched its Craigslist "Call to Action" Campaign, which urged Craigslist to to "better monitor its Erotic Services section" and proactively prevent the sale and trafficking of children for sexual services. While we were initially thrilled at their response to set up a credit card verification system, we ended up disappointed in Craigslist's overall attitude. They dragged their heels in the dirt and mostly chose to only respond to negative public pressure, rather than embracing the opportunity to be a web company who could truly help to lead the way in being a defender and abolitionist for victims of human trafficking.
It's now 2010, and Craigslist cannot feign ignorance of the facts: According to ECPAT-USA, approximately 100,000 U.S. children are forcefully engaged in prostitution or pornography each year. Additionally, the vast majority of the prostituted children in the U.S. are either runaways or abandoned children. Astonishingly, within the first 48 hours of being on the street, one in three children are lured into prostitution. Simply put, the Internet has become the new marketplace for trafficking in children. The child sex industry is growing even as fewer prostitutes work the streets. This is because of the anonymity, relative safety, ability to easily lie about age, and low cost of using the Internet to set up appointments and transactions. The Internet has also allowed child sex trafficking to expand not only in large cities, but into rural areas of the country.
The recent episode in the Craigslist controversy has helped to put the epidemic of human trafficking in the limelight again, and we should strike while the iron is hot. One response from Microsoft senior researcher Danah Boyd made the compelling statement that "we need to take this moment of visibility and embrace it, leverage it to create change, leverage it to help those who are victimized and lack the infrastructure to get help. What you see online should haunt you. But it should drive you to address the core problem by finding and helping victims, not looking for new ways to blindfold yourself." A noble rallying cry, to be sure.
Unfortunately, Ms. Boyd goes on to make a distinction between what she understands as consensual and non-consensual prostitution. She defends the so-called rights of "the low-end prostitutes who were using Craigslist to escape violent pimps. Keep in mind that occasionally getting beaten up by a scary john is often a whole lot more desirable for many than the regular physical, psychological and economic abuse they receive from their pimps." Is this the level of freedom that is worth fighting for? Should women and children who have been oppressed and marginalized by their socioeconomic status be forced to choose between occasional abuse vs. regular abuse?
There are many voices, even within the anti-trafficking movement, who would agree with Boyd, but I believe her oversight in withholding the dignity of real choice from "low-end prostitutes"—the women and children who are most vulnerable to victimization—makes for a bleak future. Instead, we should lift up those "low-end prostitutes" equally as victims, as people who most likely began being victimized and abused from when they were adolescents, and to affirm that trading one form of abuse for another is simply not good enough.
The Craigslist controversy has helped us understand the real issue is not that of dividing those who want to protect victims of exploitation from those who want to protect free speech. Instead, it's about understanding who are the exploited and who enables and allows that exploitation to happen. Craigslist's Adult Services section enabled exploitation. Trading on the false sense of an equalized playing field enabled by an otherwise brilliant website, it caused some of the most vulnerable to be trafficked and sold as slaves. As modern-day abolitionists, let's make sure we do not enable traffickers by settling for easy wins! We need to strive toward ever more creative solutions to eliminate human trafficking and address the aspects of our culture that enable the exploitation of women and children by collaborating with web companies, law enforcement, survivors and our own communities.
Kathy Maskell is the U.S. Prevention Advisor for Love146, an organization dedicated to ending child sex slavery and exploitation. This article originally appeared on Love146's blog. Used by permission.
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Mike, I volunteer with an anti-trafficking organization and am fully aware of CSEC and sex trafficking domestically and internationally. It is impossible not to sound like I'm defending Craigslist, and am sure they could do more screening and put more funding towards harm reduction, however this is not a Craigslist issue - this is an Internet issue. The reality is that there is a sex industry that is not being exploited or trafficked. If Craigslist and other sites are shutdown, women in particular will be put into more dangerous situations, will be in less control and will be forced onto the street where there will be increased violence, for example: Green River Killer.
I agree with cfpdx that "sex work" for many IS something done for survival.
But Esoteric Riff's point is also is very valid, why not another way of surviving? "McD's or the local department store"?
I guess the question is why would a woman "choose" this means of survival? Why commercial sex work? From what I have read, most commercial sex workers were abused as children (according to the Dreamcatcher Foundation, citing an article by Conte, it's as high at 95% of prostitutes being survivors of child sexual abuse). Stats I read about the percentage of women who want to leave prostitution, when asked, are all above 90%.
I think that the point Kathy makes about choosing your abuse makes more sense in this light.
Granted, a job at McDonald's or the dept. store has much better prospects for survival (i.e., fewer health risks). I think perhaps the thinking in the prostitute's mind is that it's not going to be enough to feed the family, but also, perhaps selling my body is easier money. And can I really get a job in this economy?
The problem is not even necessarily that jobs are not available in the workforce, but that many men and women entering the trafficking industry are not graduating high school in the first place. That puts severe limitations on what is available. Most were abused as children, and any sort of quote "relationship" they might maintain looks strikingly similar to that which they endured as a child. Combine that with the apathetic nature with which certain police forces treat the issue (i.e. my criminal justice professor called it "choosing your battles" when you utilize a pimp for information and allow him/her to continue their "business"), and you've got a complex issue indeed.