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UAH'S Joint Undergraduate Master's Program (JUMP):
UAH's Joint Undergraduate Master's Program (JUMP) allows undergraduate students to study at the graduate level. By taking graduate courses in your senior year you could reduce the time taken to get a graduate (MS or MA) degree.
Benefits for you:
- No entrance exam!
- Double count undergrad classes for grad degree!
- Pay undergrad tuition for grad classes taken as a JUMP student!
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- Apply any time before your last semester.
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- For admission to JUMP, students must meet overall GPA requirements* of the college. GPA includes all transfer coursework.
- Only courses taken at UAH and listed on JUMP application are eligible.
- Students must receive a B in each JUMP course for it to count towards graduate degree.
- Students must maintain minimum overall GPA throughout JUMP program until graduation.
- All coursework must be completed within six years of taking first JUMP class.
- Students are considered undergraduate students until all requirements for undergraduate degree are met.
- Students cannot hold a GTA, GRA, or graduate scholarship or fellowship until undergraduate degree is completed.
- If a change is made to initial JUMP application both a JUMP change form and a change to student's undergraduate Program of Study (POS) must be submitted for approval.
- If student's GPA upon graduation is less than the required minimum, the student does not receive admission to the graduate degree program automatically. Student must apply to the graduate school with admission test score and graduate application. Courses will be counted as if the student had been a non-degree seeking graduate student.
- Email Graduate School when you submit your application for undergraduate graduation.
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04.11.06 — 10.12.06 'I will not leave you comfortless', Rachael Matthews
- Iain Andrews, 'Mythopoeia' £20
- Wieland Payer, 'Anderswelten' £25
- Henrietta Simson and Esther Teichmann, 'Lulled into Believing' £10
- Esther Teichmann, 'Silently Mirrored' £10
- Eames Demetrios, 'Discover Kymaerica' £10
- Jasper Deane, 'Colour Research: 1980 - 2006' £10
- Helga Steppan, 'Belongings Apart' £14
- Wieland Payer, Temple VII, Edition of 20 £750
- Wieland Payer, Temple VI, Edition of 20 £750
- Wieland Payer, Temple V, Edition of 20 £750
- Wieland Payer, Temple IV, Edition of 20 £750
- Wieland Payer, Temple III, Edition of 15 £750
- Wieland Payer, Temple II, Edition of 15 £750
- Wieland Payer, Temple I, Edition of 15 £750
- Larissa Nowicki, 'Meaning Obscured', Edition of 15 £800
- Larissa Nowicki, 'What You Don't See at First (on the surface)', Edition of 25 £600
- Larissa Nowicki, 'What You Don't See at First (behind the surface)', Edition of 25 £600
- Ryan Ras, 'Sorry' Artist's Book £275
- Ryan Ras, 'A Country History' £275
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Black' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, White (Landscape)' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Green' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Pink' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Blue' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Orange' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Brown' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Grey' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Purple' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Yellow' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Red' £500
- Helga Steppan, 'See Through - All my things, Miscellaneous' £500
- Motala & Vadstena Tidning Magazine features Helga Steppan October 2013
- Martin Jenner from 'A KIck Up The Arts' comments on Iain Andrews' first London solo exhibition, 'Il Teatro dei Leviatano'.
- Winsor & Newton comment on Iain Andrews 'Interpreting Old Masters with Acrylics'
- Fetish Form review Wieland Payer's solo exhibition at Man&Eve
- Art and Christianity's Phil Baines reviews 'On the (im)possibility of a pure praise poem'
- Linda Petersson from 'Länstidningen Östersund' reviews Helga Steppan's latest works
- Christer Jarlås from 'Östersunds-Posten' reviews Helga Steppan's new works
- Man&Eve included in London Art Blog Top 10 list for Frieze Week 2013
- One Stop Arts reviews 'Yard Sale Project', August 2013
- Paul Carey Kent reviews 'On the (im)possibility of a pure praise poem'
- Elephant Magazine - Alex Virji's solo show 'Entropical Paradise' at Man&Eve 2013
- Ocula Review - Art13: Setting the precedent by Stephanie Bailey
- Lucy Newman Cleeve - Man&Eve on Lower Marsh
- 'Raindrops - British conceptual artist Alistair McClymont manipulates the elements with his display at Raleigh's Contemporary Art Museum' By David Menconi, News Observer
- 'Expanding into July', review of James Brooks 'The Information Exchange' by Paul Carey Kent for 'Paul's Art World' and Saatchi online magazine
- 'ART: Diving into its pool @ PULSE' by Frank Exposito, Lookbooks
- 'Inside PULSE New York' by Alana Chloe Esposito, Artlog
- 'Sales Report: Pulse New York Keeps on Ticking With Affordable Work and Adventurous First-Time Collectors' by Alanna Martinez, Chloe Wyma, ArtInfo
- 'Pulse Art Fair Preview: Neon, Hyper, and Life-sized' by Marina Garcia-Vasquez
- Spoonfed, Tom Jeffreys keeps you up to date with all the comings and goings of Frieze Week 2011
- Iain Andrews, front cover and review in a-n Magazine, by Stephanie Moran, May 2011
- Artists to watch - Iain Andrews, A Kick up the Arts, April 2011
- Alex Virji RISE interview in Dazed Digital, Maksymilian Fus Mickiewicz
- Review of Alex Virji's work in 'Young London', Gabriel Coxhead, Timeout London, 20.06.11
- 'The Great Process — Sam Messenger, the Grid and the Vortex' by Matthew Poirier
- Sam Messenger included in Marina Cashdan's Top 10 Emerging Artists of 2011, Huffington Post
- Dig Down in Time review by MurmurArt
- Review of Alex Virji, 'Variations on a Theme' in 'Turps Banana', 2010, by Fin Cullum
- Saatchi Online review by Paul Carey-Kent of 'The Borrowed Loop'
- Ben Long featured in Image Interiors July-August 2010
- Don't Panic Magazine, 'The Borrowed Loop', by Izzy Elstob
- travelogue - ARTHK10, 30 May 2010
- Keep it Unreal: Esther Teichmann's "Drinking Air", nowness.com
- Mythic Environments: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios by Kevin Buist, Art21 Blog
- DISCOVER KYMAERICA by Michael A. Elliott, Believermag
- Dazed Digital, 'Lulled into Believing' Esther Teichmann and Henrietta Simson explore the nature of belief and the space that exists between fiction and reality, by John-Paul Pryor
- Esther Teichmann and Henrietta Simson, 'Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week', Guardian Online, Skye Sherwin
- Dazed & Confused, 'Inner Landscapes', Esther Teichmann and Henrietta Simson by Mimi Haddon
- 'Is Ben's brass design a winner?', BBC Lancashire
- The Guardian Guide, 'Sarah Bridgland, London', Exhibition Previews, 13.06.09 — 19.06.09
- 'DIY Fairytale Voices, Sarah Bridgland' New York Arts Magazine, Summer 2009
- Ben Long 'Crown Jewels', The Times Literary Supplement, 'Freelance' commentary by Hugo Williams, 02.05.09
- Timeout London, 'In The Studio - Ben Long', 30.04.09.
- Larissa Nowicki, 'Illiterature' at Arena 1 Gallery, Culture Monster, Los Angeles Times, March 2009
- Ben Long Scaffolding Sculpture, Grafik Annual, 2008
- Esther Teichmann, 'Mythologies', Qvest Edition No.34, October 2008
- Michael Whittle, 'Dark Ages', Amelia's Magazine
- Esther Teichman, 'London's 40 Best Artists', Timeout, 21.10.08
- Esther Teichmann, 'Be Contemporary', October 2008
- Helga Steppan, 'Consume Peckham', ArtArtArt Issue 3, October 08, Faye Nicholson
- Ben Long, 'ART WORK', Wallpaper 05.09.08
- Ben Long, Art World - Issue 6 - August/September 2008
- Eames Demetrios, 'Discover Kymaerica: theatre or performance art?', Metro
- Esther Teichmann, 'An Impossible Place', Source, Summer 2008
- Anticipation, 'Saatchi after Saatchi', The Times - Saturday Magazine, 2008
- Anticipation, 'Kay Saatchi: Aunty to the student art scene', Times Online, 2008
- Blitzkrieg Bop, 'Is painting back on the scene?' Guardian Blog, 2008
- 'Solo Project Strikes Out on Its Own', ArtInfo, 2008
- Ben Long, 'Stag Do', Grafik Magazine, June 2008
- Ben Long, 'Stag Scaffolding Sculpture', The Times, The Knowledge, Image of the Week
- Esther Teichmann, 'Lautlose Bildstucke ', BNN Karsruhe, Germany, May 2008
- Ben Long, 'Join the Land of the Free', Metro, April 2008
- Esther Teichmann, 'BLIMEY!: New Photography in Britain ', Art Review, May 2008
- Brighid Lowe, Art World, April 2008
- Esther Teichmann, 'Esther Teichmann', Bedeutung, Spring 2008
- 'The master builder: BEN LONG', Dazed & Confused, April 2008
- 'Walls Have Ears', Exhibition of the week, Spoonfed
- Ben Long, Grafik Magazine, Special Report Art, February 2008
- Ryan Ras, 'Mea Culpa', Guardian Guide, Pick of the week
- Ryan Ras, 'Mea Culpa', Flavorpill
- 'Paper-thin worlds', Blueprint, December 2007
- 'Be long a part' by Helga Steppan at Man&Eve Gallery, 'Grafik Magazine', December 2007
- 'Paper-thin worlds', Flavorpill
- Esther Teichmann, 'Phantasie Fotostudio', 032c, Winter 2007/08
- 'Halfway House', Editor Art Review, BBC Collective
- Frieze, Zoo, Year_07 and Bridge Art Fair 2007, Ivar Hagendoorn
- Preview Year_07 Art Projects, Undo.net
- Esther Teichmann, 'Silently Mirrored', Mother of invention, British Journal Photography
- Esther Teichmann, 'Silently Mirrored', Dazed & Confused
- Exhibition of the week, Esther Teichmann 'Silently Mirrored', TimeOut London
- Daring Stuff
- Helga Steppan 'Be long a part', Creative Review, SEEN Reviews, Pick of the Month, August 2007
- 'Whistle Stop', Sebastian Mary catches the bus to Kymaerica
- Eames Demetrios, 'Welcome to Kymaerica', UPstreet LONDON, 2007
- 'You Know Who You Are', review of 'Replicas' by Nada Serafimovski, David Gleeson
- Esther Teichmann, 'Viscosity', Photographie – Hyères, April 2006
20.09.15Man&Eve Projects at The Manchester Contemporary 2015
11.12.13Sophie Clements will be showing 'The Sun Cinema Experience' as part of Madeira Micro International Film Festival
07.11.13Sophie Clements at the 7th annual Contemporary Istanbul 2013
02.11.13Sophie Clements features in Art:I:Curate
02.11.13November LAST FRIDAYS at Man&Eve
17.10.13Alex Virji featured in new publication '100 London Artists' selected by Edward Lucie-Smith and Zavier Eliis
17.10.13Iain Andrews participating in 'PROJECT 04: Tip of the Iceberg: Art from Up North' at Contemporary Art Society, London
15.10.13Opening of new commissioned work for The Town Hall in Motala by Helga Steppan at Motala Culture Night 2013
15.10.13Helga Steppan in group exhibition 'Shop Show' at the Form / Design Centre, Sweden.
15.10.13Michael Whittle presents his solo show 'Pattern Recognition' in Kyoto.
15.10.13Michael Whittle in collaboration at Zuiun-an Art Project Space, Kyoto.
15.10.13Sophie Clements nominated for the Marler Art Prize 2013, Germany
08.10.13Sophie Clements in touring exhibition 'The Sound of Art', Oslo
08.10.13Alistair McClymont group exhibition 'Wie eine zweite Natur' extended until January 2014
05.10.13October LAST FRIDAYS at Man&Eve
27.08.13James Brook's solo exhibition at Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris
27.08.13Sophie Clements in the group show 'An Unnatural Theatre' at AID&ABET, Cambridge
27.08.13Helga Steppan presents her solo show 'Kaleidoscopia', Sweden
07.08.13Man&Eve at the Manchester Contemporary, 26 - 29th September 2013
02.07.13James Brooks group show at Trinity Contemporary
01.07.13Alistair McClymont and Sophie Clements residency and exhibition at Islington Mill, Salford
01.07.13James Brooks' group show 'Data' at the Contemporary Art Society
27.06.13Larissa Nowicki in 'Remix: Selections from the ICC' at the Katonah Museum of Art
21.06.13Iain Andrews and Wieland Payer in 'Beautiful Things' group exhibition, Albert Dock, Liverpool
21.06.13James Brooks forthcoming 'Land Observations' performances at B-Sides Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland and Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse, France
20.06.13Wieland Payer in 'Summer of Paper', a group exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Köln
13.06.13Man&Eve at The Lloyds Club, London
10.06.13Alistair McClymont shortlisted as part of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2013
05.06.13Alistair McClymont in Ars Electronica group exhibition, Berlin
20.05.13Sophie Clements in 'Handles Suspended in times of Sustainability', Milan
09.05.13Man&Eve participating in 'New British 2013' at Lloyds Club, London
03.05.13James Brooks' group show at Galerie Martina Detterer
02.05.13Michael Whittle at the 1st Annual Collectors' Contemporary Collaboration, Hong Kong Arts Centre
06.04.13Helga Steppan's two person show with Conny Karlsson Lundgren at Gothenburg Museum of Art
21.03.13James Brooks - 'Give Me Five' group show, Staedel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
11.02.13James Brooks - 'Reporter' solo show at Platform-A Gallery
31.01.13Alistair McClymont - 'Everything we are capable of seeing', solo show at CAM Raleigh
29.01.13Man&Eve at Art13 London, 1st - 3rd March 2013
04.12.12Sophie Clements - 'Artificial Garden', group show at Seoul Museum of Art
17.10.12CAS event - Iain Andrews artist talk, 25.10.12. 18:30 - 20:30
17.10.12Mark Dean, 'Scorpio Rising 2' film screening 26.10.12
17.10.12Alistair McClymont in 'Radical DIY' talk at ArtsCatalyst 30.10.12
25.09.12Man&Eve at the Manchester Contemporary 27 - 30 September 2012
25.09.12Iain Andrews solo exhibition 'Mythopoeia' at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery
17.09.12Larissa Nowicki in "Remix: Selections from the International Collage Centre" touring exhibition and catalogue
13.09.12Sophie Clements - 'I Wish This Was a Song: Music In Contemporary Art', group show at National Museum of Contemporary Art
07.09.12James Brooks at Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris until October 27, 2012
02.09.12Wieland Payer shortlisted for Young Masters Art Prize
03.08.12Alistair McClymont chosen to be part of '100 Curators 100 Days' on Saatchi Online
03.08.12Alistair McClymont in 'Blue Skies Festival' at Dundee Contemporary Arts
24.07.12Iain Andrews nominated for Northern Art Prize 2013
02.05.12Man&Eve at Pulse New York 3.5.12 - 6.5.12
07.04.12Larissa Nowicki in 'Material Measure: Use and Reinvention of Maps', The Institute Library New Haven
04.04.12Helga Steppan in 'Made-in-Sacy' at Europe House
23.03.12Alex Virji in inaugural exhibition at Block 336
12.01.12Ben Long WORDS Scaffolding Sculpture at Selfridges
04.12.11Larissa Nowicki wins the 2011 Pulse Prize
17.11.11Man&Eve at Pulse Miami 01.12.11 - 04.12.11
21.09.11Man&Eve at the Manchester Contemporary, 27.10.11 - 30.10.11
01.09.11Iain Andrews shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011
24.08.11Larissa Nowicki awarded residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
01.08.11Man&Eve at art:gwangju, 31.08.11 - 04.09.11
13.04.11Man&Eve at ART HK 11, 26.05.11 — 29.05.11
16.03.11Sam Messenger in "Now WHAT?" at Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, 15.12.10 — 13.03.11
16.03.11Sam Messenger included in Marina Cashdan's 'Top Ten Emerging Artists of 2011', Huffington Post
04.02.11Helga Steppan solo exhibition, 'The Lines Between Us', UNDERresidens BUS, Stockholm, 04.02.11 — 19.02.11
16.01.11Ben Long in 'Modern British Sculpture' at Gimpel Fils, 20.01.11 — 05.03.11
17.11.10Work by Henrietta Simson and Michael Whittle included in BFAMI annual auction
20.10.10Henrietta Simson in 'With These Walls We Are Shaped', Wolstenholme Creative Space, Liverpool Biennial 2010
30.09.10Man&Eve at Manchester Contemporary, 2010
29.09.10'Drinking Air' Esther Teichmann's Solo Exhibition at Severed Head, Dublin
14.09.10Sarah Bridgland in 'The Jolly (Good) Show' at Collyer Bristow Gallery
20.08.10Helga Steppan in 'Parallelistic l'imitation' solo exhibition at Château de Sacy, France
06.08.10Larissa Nowicki in 'Illiterature', Chico, California
28.07.10Esther Teichmann, New website launched
28.07.10Esther Teichmann in 'Mythologies' solo exhibition at Severed Head, Dublin
22.07.10Esther Teichmann in 'Regarding Painting', Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
18.06.10Henrietta Simson in 'Shelf', Whitstable Satellite, Whitstable Biennale, 2010
18.06.10Henrietta Simson shortlisted for John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, 2010
11.06.10Michael Whittle in 'Flatland — A Romance of many directions' at APT Gallery, Deptford, London
02.06.10Esther Teichmann book signing at Self Publish, Be Happy Weekend, The Photographers Gallery, London
21.05.10Man&Eve at ART HK 10
20.05.10Esther Teichmann - Talk and Q & A at Redeye, Manchester, 26th May 2010
12.05.10Henrietta Simson in 'Cities Methodologies 2010', Slade Research Centre, UCL, London
05.05.10Esther Teichmann in group show at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
05.05.10Ben Long in 'Heart of Glass' at 20 Hoxton Square Projects
05.05.10Ben Long in 'Material Worlds' at F. E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
28.01.10Man&Eve relocating to a new venue
14.01.10Man&Eve at VOLTA NY, 2010
14.01.10Sam Messenger in 'If You Could Collaborate' at A Foundation Gallery, Rochelle School, 15 — 24 January 2010
13.12.09Man&Eve Christmas and New Year opening times
14.11.09Michael Whittle in 'Workshop of Hereafter', curated by Andrea Gregson at Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, 25th Nov — 18th Dec 09
03.11.09Man&Eve at NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach 2009
14.08.09Ben Long 'Brass Bandstand' shortlisted for Artists Taking the Lead commission
25.07.09Esther Teichmann solo exhibition 'Mythologies' at Field36 gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
22.07.09Henrietta Simson in 'spaces/places/senses/places/senses/spaces' at The Visual Arts Centre, Portsmouth, Virginia
18.07.09Michael Whittle awarded Japanese Government Monbusho Scholarship
07.05.09Esther Teichmann in 'The Space Between Us' at The Crypt, St Pancras Church, London N1
20.02.09Man&Eve presents Michael Whittle at CIGE Beijing 'International Solo Shows'
20.02.09Ben Long's 'Horse Scaffolding Sculpture' at the Economist Plaza
09.02.09Sam Messenger in '40 Artists - 80 Drawings' at The Drawing Gallery
01.02.09Larissa Nowicki in group exhibition 'Illiterature' at Frumkin Gallery in Los Angeles
26.01.09Esther Teichmann nominated for KLM Huf Award
05.01.09Henrietta Simson in 'the voice and nothing more' at the Slade Research Centre
28.11.08Larissa Nowicki in group exhibition '8 1/2 x 11 / A4' at James Fuentes Gallery, NYC
28.11.08Helga Steppan nominated for IPG / Terry Neill Award 2008
14.11.08Esther Teichmann selected for inclusion in the Artsway Open 08
31.10.08Henrietta Simson,'Lost Narratives' at The Slade Research Centre, November 2008
22.10.08Esther Teichmann named in Timeout's 'London's 40 best artists under 40' by Helen Sumpter and Ossian Ward
30.09.08Larissa Nowicki in group exhibition 'Illiterature' at LIMN Gallery in San Fransisco
02.09.08Sarah Bridgland featured in new Black Dog publication 'Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art'
01.09.08Sarah Bridgland in '10: The Chris Orr Years 1998 — 2008' at the Royal College of Art
01.09.08Helga Steppan in 'Art in the Car Park', Liverpool Biennial 2008
01.09.08Sarah Bridgland in 'Material Worlds' at Barts Gallery
18.08.08Larissa Nowicki selected for the RISD New York Alumni Biennial 2008
07.07.08Helga Steppan in 'Consume Peckham' as part of 'I love Peckham' Summer Festival
30.06.08Eames Demetrios at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
15.06.08Sam Messenger in 'You Silently (Two): Image-Object-Text' at The Courtauld Institute of Art, curated by Dawn Ades and Marina Warner
01.06.08Michael Whittle at Gallery NV in Seoul, Korea
30.05.08Esther Teichmann nominated for Sovereign European Art Prize
16.05.08Helga Steppan receives and Honorable Mention in the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award 2008
09.05.08Esther Teichmann included in ANTICIPATION at Selfridges, London, 26th June - 3rd August
08.05.08Man&Eve at The Solo Project, Basel, 2 — 8th June 2008
07.05.08Sarah Bridgland in Summer exhibition at Knoedler Project Space, New York, June 19th — August 1st
06.05.08Ben Long - Stag Scaffolding Sculpture at the Elephant & Castle - Extended throughout August
06.05.08Esther Teichmann selected for New Contemporaries 2008
01.05.08Helga Steppan: Residency at the Nordic Artists' Centre, Norway
23.04.08Man&Eve screening at Brixton Ritzy as part of Picturehouse Artspace series
16.04.08Man&Eve at NEXT art fair, Chicago
15.04.08Esther Teichmann solo exhibition at Galerie Karlheinz Meyer in Karlsruhe, Germany
31.03.08Esther Teichmann included in 'In Our World. New Photography in Britain' exhibition at Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
18.03.08Michael Whittle at the Sferra Building in Kyoto, Japan
16.03.08Sam Messenger in 'Blink, Cut + Repeat' at The Courtauld Institute of Art
18.02.08Helga Steppan 'See Through: All my things' at The Royal London Hospital
02.02.08Helga Steppan included in group exhibition at James Harris Gallery, Seattle
11.10.07Ben Long in 'Drawn Apart East', a group show by Day+Gluckman Curatorial Partnership
10.10.07Eames Demetrios new film 'A Gathering of Elephants'
09.10.07Man&Eve at Year_07 art projects
09.10.07Man&Eve at Aqua Wynwood Miami 2007
07.10.07ArtFacts Preview of Year_07
06.10.07Helga Steppan awarded The Magenta Foundation Prize
15.08.07'Phantasie Fotostudio: The Esthacus Teichwynd Photos' at Gallery Giti Nourbakhsch
01.08.07'The Region of Unlikeness' at Bank Gallery, Los Angeles
25.05.19Alex Virji, 'Entropical Paradise'
The artist-knitter Rachael Matthews creates work in response to rites of passage and storytelling. She previously organised the Completely Knitted Wedding, with the Cast Off Knitting Club at Battersea Pump House Gallery, as part of an exhibition called Ceremony.
In this new exhibition, her knitting patterns become a form of diary in which decisions are cast and then unravelled in response to events in her life. As Rachael weaves her own story together with archetypal narratives, beliefs and superstitions, fantastic worlds are crocheted and coutured into being.
A knitted stork makes its home in a nest of needles and fails to deliver a child. Invading American crayfish are clothed in miniature jumpers with traditional British patterns; their claws flailing, it is uncertain whether they represent comfort or destruction. Crocheted caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies but cannot fly away. The jumper that Rachael knits for the sailor she loves symbolises much more than the offer of comfort on a remote river bank.
Each object contains a story which has been knitted together with humour and honesty and leaves you hoping for a happy ending.

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Smart Social Media Policy for Healthcare
April 16, 2012
By: Heather Boerner
In California, a hospital employee posts a patient's chart to Facebook and makes fun of the patient for seeking STD treatment and birth control.
In Rhode Island, an ER doctor, distraught over the death of a patient, shares that she's heartbroken, switching the patient's gender and how she died to protect her identity.
In Wisconsin, an ultrasound tech posts that she's thrilled that one of her patients is having triplets.
These stories demonstrate the use of social media in the workplace. And all three are violations of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that could nab their employers up to a $50,000 fine.
HIPAA Rules in a Social Media World
""Breaching patient confidentiality is a total no-go, and it has less to do with HIPAA than our standards," said Will Weider, vice president and CIO of Wisconsin-based Ministry Health Care and Affinity Health System. "At this point, I don't know that there are many grey areas."
Indeed, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and other social media platforms have transformed the way hospitals market themselves and how patients find them.
But when healthcare workers recklessly tweet, post to Facebook and share patients' private health issues online, it not only violates HIPAA, it also hurts the healthcare industry's ability to attract and retain patients.
A clearly laid out social media policy can ward against such snafus. Yet only about 20 percent of hospital systems currently have a social media presence, with a larger proportion operating under general social media policies.
Weider's policy, which is considered by some to be one of the most forward-thinking in the industry, went online in 2009.
What that means, says David Harlow, principal of The Harlow Group, a Boston-based health care law and consulting firm, is that social media-naive healthcare groups may think a simple ban is preferable to having actual social media guidelines in place.
"That doesn't work really well because people just use Facebook or Twitter on their smartphones," said Harlow, who blogs at HealthBlawg. "They can snap a picture and post something inappropriate maybe even more easily from their phone than they can from a desktop computer."
Social media in the workplace requires clear expectations and policies. Here's what every social media policy for healthcare organizations should include.
Zero Tolerance
Everything from posting a picture of an ER waiting room — where a victim of domestic violence could be sitting — to mentioning anything that identifies a patient, including their condition, prognosis or, as described above, how many kids they are going to have, has the potential to violate HIPAA rules.
"It's inappropriate to even acknowledge that someone is receiving care here," said Weider. A patient's medical experience is their own to share and not something employees should ever disclose, especially on something like Twitter.
Never Anonymous
Next, explain to staff that no matter how well you try to camouflage a patient's identity in order to share a story online, you're likely to fail.
"We're literally doubling the amount of data available online every couple of days," said Harlow. "Something that's de-identified today will not be de-identified next week. That's why people who blog about patient stories really need to come up with fictitious patients or composites, rather than basing their posts on actual patient histories."
Never Private
"What's a private network?" asked Ed Bennett, a social media expert who also works with the University of Maryland Medical Center and sits on the advisory board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media.
"What if you only have three Facebook friends in your group? What about 300 or 3,000? At some point, you cross the threshold."
Since people can retweet, share and pass along whatever someone writes on a social network, your social media policy must communicate that whatever employees type into a keyboard is public — and, with online caches, permanent.
"The way we approach it is lovingly, the way you would with a family member," said Weider. "When staff tweet about their work, they can assume it is being read by our patients and their fellow employees."
Keep It Respectful
Patients should never see staff tweeting or updating their Facebook status. "There's never a time when you want to be looking at Facebook in front of a patient," said Weider. "That's never perceived as a positive thing. But on breaks and away from a patient, it's fine."
Keep It Alive
Finally, it's not enough just to have a social media policy, said Harlow. You have to train and periodically remind staff of it.
Weider's Affinity Health System did an initial in-service on its policy and addresses social media in the workplace in annual employee refreshers.
Harlow suggests revisiting the policy and offering staff refreshers every six months, as well as including your social media policy in employee onboarding sessions.
"You want the policy to be really alive among the staff," said Harlow.
Pay Off
Once you have a social media policy that works to keep patient information secure, you get a surprising result, said Weider.
"There's a huge potential benefit for our organization," he said. "I wanted to attract tech-savvy employees who know how to leverage this technology. I didn't want a policy that would scare away the workforce I try to attract."
Even better, says Weider, is that, "People love working here, and they share the things happening at the hospital and clinic on social media."


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Tuxedo residents could be getting a Dollar General store, following a recommendation Tuesday by the county's Technical Review Committee to rezone a parcel of land from residential to commercial.
The committee unanimously recommended approval of a request by Westside Village Property LLC to rezone 1.42 acres of vacant land on Old U.S. Highway 25, across from the future Tuxedo Park, from Residential Two Rural to Local Commercial Conditional.
The committee also approved a major site plan for the property, which is owned by Kenneth and Brenda Allen. The proposed store will require a driveway permit from the N.C. Department of Transportation, a septic permit, and erosion and sediment control measures.
Commissioner Tommy Thompson, one of five partners in Westside Village, said Tuesday he will recuse himself from any vote on the rezoning if it passes the planning board and goes before the Board of Commissioners for final approval.
Thompson said he wants everyone to know of his involvement in the project up front, to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
"Yes, if we can get a Dollar General store in there, whatever they pay for rent, I'm going to benefit from that," he said, adding that he's just one of five business partners and "not the one running the show."
Westside Village Manager Dennis Dorn spoke on behalf of the applicant at the meeting, though Thompson did want to make sure his involvement was publicly disclosed. Other Westside officers include Tim North, Knox Beddingfield, and Forest Lee Thomas.
Thompson said Westside Village Property LLC "put a binder on this piece of property, contingent on Dollar General putting in a store down there. It means that if they don't want to go, we're not going to build a store. But we also can't do it if the land isn't rezoned."
Interim Planning Director Autumn Radcliff said county staff is recommending a conditional zoning for the property because of the project's size and because the Green River, Tuxedo and Zirconia area is currently developing a community plan to guide future growth.
Based on community input from GRTZ residents, the proposed community plan would designate the area in question as best suited for local commercial uses, which could include retail stores. But the planning board and commissioners haven't approved the plan yet.
In May, commissioners turned down another rezoning request that would have paved the way for a Dollar General store in Horse Shoe based on that community's concerns about traffic safety and commercial uses in their rural neighborhood.
Unlike that decision, Thompson said the Tuxedo rezoning doesn't involve placing the store's driveway near a major intersection. Moreover, he said Tuxedo has lost many of its local retail stores and could benefit from shopping options closer by.
The Henderson County Planning Board will take up Westside Village's rezoning request at its Nov. 21 meeting. Radcliff said the property will be posted with signs prior to that meeting.
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Tuxedo residents could be getting a Dollar General store, following a recommendation Tuesday by the county's Technical Review Committee to rezone a parcel of land from residential to commercial.


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Testimony of Fritz Streckewald, Acting Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs,
Social Security Administration, before the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security
May 10, 2001
Mr. Chairman, Congressman Matsui, members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me here today to talk to you on a variety of issues that affect Social Security programs. I want to discuss some recent improvements we have made to strengthen our representative payee program as well as some legislative changes the subcommittee has considered that would improve protections for beneficiaries with payees. Additionally, I want to provide our perspective on legislative proposals that would:
- Require States to report death information to SSA in a more timely manner; and
- Apply the current Supplemental Security Income (SSI) fugitive felon provisions to the Old Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance (OASDI) program.
The Social Security Administration places great importance on our role as stewards of the OASDI and SSI programs and in ensuring that only those who are entitled to benefits receive them for any given month. The public's trust in the Social Security program is vitally important to us. Because of the importance of this trust, we have devoted significant resources and attention to strengthening and maintaining the integrity of the Social Security program; $1 out of every $4 in SSA's administrative budget is dedicated to program stewardship and program integrity.
Representative Payments
SSA is deeply committed to protecting the 6.5 million Social Security and SSI beneficiaries who are paid $30 billion per year through representative payees. Our goal is to select the most qualified individual or organization to serve as representative payee. All payees are investigated before being selected. If an interested family member or friend cannot be found (or willing to serve), SSA will ask a qualified organization willing to perform the duties of representative payee.
When appointed, all payees receive information on their responsibilities and duties as payees. Further, to provide additional support for organizational payees, we recently revised a publication (Guide for Organizational Payees) that we developed and sent last year to all organizational payees. The newly revised version will be distributed in June and will also be available on our web site. When a suitable payee has been appointed, we also provide the beneficiary with information explaining why they have a payee, how we selected their payee, what to do if they want to appeal our selection of payee, what they should expect of their payee and what they should tell their payee.
Once selected, all payees must maintain records of the beneficiary's income and expenses. SSA requires annual accounting of all of the benefits received and how they were spent for every beneficiary. If this information is not received or is incomplete, we follow up with the payee. If SSA has cause to believe that an organization is not using benefits properly, we have an additional review procedure that focuses on the organization's records and includes contact with the beneficiary and staff of the organization, as well as vendors.
We believe this oversight process works well; misuse of funds occurs in less than one-hundredth of one percent of all cases. However, we are constantly seeking ways to improve the process.
Monitoring Initiatives
Last year, we described to you our plans for improving safeguards for our most vulnerable beneficiaries-those who need assistance from a representative payee. We have made great strides towards implementing those representative payee program improvements. Let me briefly describe our initiatives and then provide you with the status.Triennial Onsite Reviews of all Fee-for-Service and Volume Payees
We have begun a review of the approximately 825 fee-for-service representative payees on a triennial cycle. We are also performing triennial reviews of all organizational payees serving 100 or more beneficiaries, which we refer to as "volume" payees, and of all individual payees serving 20 or more beneficiaries. This review includes an assessment of the payee's record keeping, and we interview a sample of beneficiaries in order to assess whether their needs are being met. Expenses may be corroborated with providers of services. In addition, we contact vendors to ensure that beneficiaries' bills are being paid. Over the last year, approximately 540 of these reviews have been conducted. While the incidence of misuse found has been minimal, we have found problems with commingling of funds and incorrect titling of accounts. We have taken corrective actions in those cases.Annual Verification of Bonding or Licensing
Currently, in order to collect a fee from a beneficiary's check, the non-governmental fee-for-service organization must be either licensed or bonded to serve as representative payee. This is a statutory requirement. Beginning in June 2000, we began an annual re-certification of these organizations to ensure the bonding or licensing requirement continues to be met. To date, we have completed 693 re-certifications of the 825 fee-for-service payees.
For those fee-for-service payees that are bonded, there is no requirement that specifies the minimum amount of the bond that would be paid in the event of misuse (e.g., $600 of coverage for each beneficiary). However, we are drafting a regulation that will give guidance on the level of bonding needed by fee-for-service organizations. We anticipate publishing this regulation in early 2002.A 6-Month Review for All Newly Appointed Fee-for-Service Payees
Beginning with fee-for-service payees newly appointed in January 2000, we began site visits 6 months after their initial appointment as payee. This visit ensures that they fully understand their duties and responsibilities, and are on the right track with respect to record keeping and reporting. We focus on their accounting procedures so that they are able to account for beneficiaries' funds as well as comply with our requests for review. To date, 17 visits have been made for those fee-for-service payees newly appointed since January 2000.Random Reviews of Volume and Fee-for-Service Payees
Each year SSA will conduct a random sample of 30 percent of volume payees and fee-for-service payees that have not already been selected for review. Of the cases selected, we will review a sample of beneficiary records for compliance with our policies and procedures. We issued instructions needed to implement this initiative in December 2000, and this program began this Spring.
In addition, we continue to monitor for "trigger" events. That is, we conduct reviews of payees in response to third-party reports of misuse, complaints from vendors of failure to receive payment, and similar reports. Over the last year, we have done 26 reviews due to trigger events.We believe that our expanded onsite review program will:
- protect vulnerable beneficiaries by quickly reacting to questionable indications;
- deter payee misconduct;
- provide a strong oversight message to payees;
- ensure that fee-for-service payees continue to be qualified under the law; and
- establish good lines of communication and promote good payee practices.
Contracts Relating to Monitoring Initiatives and Background Checks
We are currently developing a contract proposal for an independent audit firm to review the revised monitoring process and offer suggestions for improvement. This includes a review of instructional materials as well as onsite review processes. The contractor will provide a report with any recommendations for corrective changes as deemed appropriate. We expect to obtain bids by this Summer and start the audit in the Fall of 2001.
We are also in the process of awarding a contract to obtain the assistance of an expert consultant to explore options available for criminal and credit background checks for fee-for-service payee organizations. This effort is consistent with OIG's suggestion that we put more emphasis on the selection of our representative payees. Contractor bids were due by April 16 and we expect to award the contract by early June. We expect the contractor to complete its work in about 6 months and hope to have a final report of recommendations by the end of the year.
Demonstration Project
We have undertaken a demonstration project to obtain expert assistance in our onsite reviews in two regions. We have contracted with an accounting and management firm to provide support to our review teams when they conduct site reviews. This support will continue through September 2001. The purpose of this demonstration is to assess the value of using contractors with expertise in accounting practices to assist the SSA teams in conducting the site reviews. To date, the contractor has assisted our field review teams in 35 site reviews in our Chicago and Philadelphia Regional Office areas, and is on schedule under the terms of the contract. While no misuse of benefits was found in these reviews, they revealed record keeping problems and that some of the organizational payees have a weak financial position. We will continue to monitor these payees.
Recruitment and Education Campaign
We have new projects either well underway or completed to help our field offices recruit and educate new and existing organizational payees. As previously noted, we revised our "Guide for Organizational Representative Payees" and we expect distribution by June. This booklet provides guidelines and suggestions to assist organizations in understanding the principles of the representative payment program and their responsibilities.
We have produced a training video which can by used by the field offices when training organizational payees. Both the video and the guide will become part of a "training kit" which includes a lesson plan for training organizational payees, a power point presentation, and CDs. We plan to release this kit to our regions in June. These educational products will assist our field offices when providing training for organizational payees and also serve as tools for payees to refer to when questions arise or when the organizational payee has staffing changes.
Changes to Representative Payee System and Related Systems
The Representative Payee System (RPS) is an integral part of the representative payee application process as well as a centralized computer file containing information about individuals and organizations providing representative payment services and the beneficiaries that they serve. While there have been some problems with the RPS, especially with regard to the way the RPS interacts with other SSA systems, it has been useful for investigating fraud, suitability of payee applicants, and identifying trends.The RPS contains a number of investigative features, for example, the RPS:
- Automatically verifies the representative payee's Social Security number against SSA's Numident file;
- automatically checks the database for a history of misuse/fraud;
- does not permit the selection of a person convicted of a violation under section 208 or Section 1632 of the Social Security Act (penalties for fraud) to serve as payee.
The RPS is our most effective investigative tool in assisting our field office employees in making appropriate representative payee selections. While the RPS provides many benefits, it needs to be strengthened. An internal systems workgroup undertook a comprehensive review of the RPS and related systems and developed a project that includes a number of improvements to the RPS and the accounting processes. The project will result in:
- A redesign of the accounting systems,
- additional systems' support for an expanded monitoring process, and
- a comparison of databases to assure payee suitability.
We plan to implement improvements for both the RPS and the accounting processes in three phases. The improvements will provide additional information for use in determining the suitability of the payee, additional information for use in monitoring payee performance, and additional control and consistency of the Title II and Title XVI accounting processes. For the RPS, the first phase, targeted for implementation at the end of 2001, will involve database record clean-ups (including the updating of the RPS to reflect terminated benefit records involving prior payees) and the collection of additional data for fee-for-service payees (e.g., license or bonding information such as the amount of the bond and expiration dates). The next phase, targeted to begin towards the end of 2002, will develop and/or improve several alert processes and provide additional representative payee data. The final phase will be a complete redesign of our current accounting process. The timing of that redesign depends on the completion of Phases 1 and 2 and the availability of resources.
By the fall of 2001, we also expect the RPS to contain additional information needed to assist the expanded monitoring program. For example, we plan to store the date of our site visit, the date and reason why an organization is no longer authorized to charge a fee and information regarding bonding and licensing of the organization. We will have the capability of updating the information and storing it. This will provide a historical record on each of the fee-for-service organizations.
We recognize that administrative actions alone are not sufficient to address all of the issues and concerns that have been identified with our representative payee program. Last year the Ways and Means Committee adopted H.R. 4857, a bill that would strengthen our recovery of misused funds by payees and, more importantly, restore misused funds to our beneficiaries.
Currently, when any payee has been determined to have misused an individual's benefits, SSA can reissue the benefits only in cases where there has been negligent failure on our part to investigate or monitor the payee. In virtually all other cases, the individual loses his or her funds unless SSA or the beneficiary can obtain restitution of the misused benefits from the payee. Additionally, SSA can seek restitution only through a civil action if the representative payee refuses to return the misused funds.
To facilitate restitution of misused funds to beneficiaries, provisions contained in H.R. 4857 would require SSA to reissue benefit payments (including any respective fees for fee-for-service payees) in all cases when an organizational payee is found to have misused a beneficiary's funds, without either a finding of negligence on SSA's part or restitution from the organizational payee. Requiring re-issuance of such misused benefit payments, including any fees that were deducted from the beneficiary's benefit, would provide important protection to the most vulnerable of beneficiaries-those who have no family or friends willing or able to be a payee.
Such authority would enable us to restore benefits that have been misused by an organizational representative payee, thereby reducing the hardship that can be caused by such a loss. SSA would, through all available avenues of legal recourse, continue to seek restitution of the misused funds from the former representative payee.
In addition to this change, provisions such as those found in H.R. 4857 would provide increased safeguards for beneficiaries with representative payees. Although SSA does not have a formal position on these provisions, they would:
- Require non-governmental fee-for-service organizational payees to be bonded and licensed, provided that licensing is available under State or local law. (The requirement under current law is bonding or licensing.) State licensing provides some oversight by the State into the organization's business practices, and bonding provides some assurance that a surety company has investigated the organization and approved it for the level of risk associated with the bond. The proceeds from redeemed bonds would reduce the costs to the program when re-issuing benefits in cases of representative payee misuse.
- Require SSA to conduct periodic onsite reviews of all non-governmental fee-for-service representative payees, any other organization serving 50 or more beneficiaries, and individual payees serving 15 or more beneficiaries.
- Provide that when an organization has been found to have misused an individual's benefits, the organization shall not qualify for the fee from that individual's benefits for months the payee misused the funds. Requiring payees to return the fees charged for periods of misuse is reasonable because the payee was clearly not properly performing the service for which the fee was paid. Permitting the organization to retain the fees is tantamount to rewarding the payee for violating his or her responsibility to use the benefits for the individual's current and future needs.
- Provide that misused benefits (including any respective representative payee fees) would be treated as an overpayment to the organizational or individual representative payee and, therefore, subject to current SSA overpayment recovery authority. Although SSA has been given expanded authority in the recovery of overpayments (such as tax refund offset, referral to contract collection agencies, notifying credit bureaus, and administrative offset of future federal benefit/payments), these tools cannot be used to recoup benefits misused by a representative payee. Providing that benefits misused by any representative payee would be an overpayment to the payee would provide SSA with additional means for recouping the misused payments.
- Extend civil monetary penalty provisions to representative payees that misuse benefits. As it pertains to representative payees, this provision would allow SSA to impose administrative penalties and assessments against representative payees who misuse benefits. This would improve our ability to ensure that individuals who commit this type of fraud against SSA are penalized, even if such individuals are not prosecuted criminally.
- Disqualify an individual from serving as representative payee if he or she has been convicted of an offense resulting in more than one year of imprisonment, unless the Commissioner of Social Security determines such certification to be appropriate not withstanding such conviction.
- Provide authority to redirect Social Security benefits to field offices when the representative payee fails to provide an annual accounting of benefits. Notifying the payee of this possibility, and redirecting benefits to the field office, would provide an extremely effective tool for increasing the number of payees who return the annual accounting form, while providing the field offices the flexibility to take the most appropriate action in a particular case.
SSA supports the Subcommittee's efforts to provide increased safeguards for beneficiaries with representative payees and will work with the Subcommittee staff to bolster the other efforts SSA has initiated to help prevent misuse by payees.
Status of OIG Recommendations
In the mid-1990s, SSA requested the OIG to review and make recommendations to improve the representative payee program. We requested these reviews in order to better meet the needs of the changing demographics of our representative payee population.
OIG made several recommendations -- from how to select a representative payee to the kind of monitoring program needed. SSA evaluated the recommendations within the framework of our competing priorities and resource limitations. We have implemented several recommendations including:
- Issuing instructions to field offices to screen payees more thoroughly.
- Conduct periodic reviews of selected payees.
- Changing the focus of the current process from accounting to monitoring and compliance.
In addition, we have the following OIG recommendations in process:
- Develop an accounting form tailored to organizational payees.
- Expand our automated Representative Payment System.
- Improve the ability to retrieve accounting forms when they are needed for subsequent review.
Deceased Beneficiaries
Another important area I want to discuss is timely termination of benefits to deceased beneficiaries. We process over 2 million death reports annually. Our agency compiles and maintains a comprehensive database, the death master file (DMF), which contains death information. We receive reports from family members, funeral homes, all 50 States, the District of Columbia, some territories, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Health Care Financing Administration, the postal authority, financial institutions, and other sources. We independently verify reports from third parties (such as other government agencies) before we terminate benefits.
We are always looking for ways to strengthen and improve our death termination process and we are interested in ways to improve the timeliness with which we receive and process death reports. Last year you considered a proposal that would have required States to report death information to SSA within 30 days of when they receive it. Overpayments may occur when a spouse or a representative payee negotiates a check after the Social Security beneficiary has died, or when the benefit is electronically deposited into a joint or payee account. Timely reports of death help prevent such overpayments. We will continue to work with the subcommittee to explore ways to improve our death termination process.
SSA has identified ways to improve its death report processing. These improvements will be implemented through system enhancements, such as modifying the Death Alert, Control and Update System and, when completed, will strengthen the processes we use to terminate deceased beneficiaries' benefits.
Within the next two months, we will pilot a project on Electronic Death Registration under an agreement with the State of New Jersey. This project will enable us to cooperatively test a process designed to provide SSA with more accurate and up-to-date death data.
Fugitive Felons
Under current law, it is illegal for fugitive felons to collect SSI payments. A fugitive felon is an individual who is:
- fleeing to avoid prosecution for a crime which is a felony under the laws of the place from which a person flees;
- fleeing to avoid custody or confinement after conviction of a crime which is a felony under the laws of the place from which the person flees; or
- violating a condition of probation or parole imposed under Federal or State law.
Working with the IG on what we call the Fugitive Felon Project, we have identified over 22,000 fugitives receiving SSI during FY 1998-2000. Using information provided by SSA, the IG and other law enforcement agencies apprehended more than 2,800 of these fugitives. While the monetary savings have been significant, just as important, is the positive impact on public safety resulting from the apprehension of these individuals.
This Fugitive Felon Project utilizes a multi-faceted approach that requires extensive and cooperative efforts of many law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. SSA and our IG are actively involved in this project by identifying and taking action against fugitive felons collecting SSI payments.
This project identifies individuals who are prohibited under the law from receiving SSI benefits by conducting computer matches with available sources of warrant information, which include the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and the States. The NCIC is a major national repository for information on felons and other offenders. We also have signed agreements with the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI, giving us access to all federal warrants.
Unfortunately only about 30 percent of all outstanding warrants are reported to the NCIC because the reporting of such information is voluntary and selective. Eleven States report all of their warrants to the NCIC. These States are Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Arkansas, New Mexico, Kansas, and Missouri. The remaining 39 States report some, but not all warrant information to the NCIC.
In a joint effort to develop comprehensive sources of warrant information, SSA and the IG are actively pursuing matching agreements with those States that only provide some of their warrants to the NCIC. SSA currently has signed matching agreements with Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky, Nebraska, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington to obtain the additional warrant information that is not reported to the NCIC. In addition, we have agreements with four major metropolitan police departments, New York City, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Philadelphia.
Negotiating these individual State and local agreements is a major undertaking. We need to address State and local variations in records, incompatible formatting of data, privacy concerns, and the lack of State and local central reporting repositories. Our regional fugitive coordinators and field office staff are working to negotiate matching agreements with all State and local authorities. We expect to have negotiated matching agreements with all outstanding States within the year. Every effort is being made to automate the matching operations necessary to identify SSI recipients that have outstanding warrants.
One of the difficulties with such matches is that law enforcement agencies frequently do not have accurate identifying information for fleeing felons. Felons often use aliases and the law enforcement agency may not have an accurate Social Security Number (SSN). Therefore, their correct identification may be difficult. Unlike prisoners, fugitive felons are not incarcerated and may not have been convicted of a crime. For these reasons our matching operations are carefully designed to determine that the person being sought by law enforcement is the same individual receiving SSI. In order to protect individuals from unwarranted invasions of their privacy resulting from collections and use of information about them, all of our data matches and exchanges are done pursuant to agreements that comply with Privacy Act requirements, and we take security measures to limit access to the data.
When we obtain warrant information from the NCIC or from any other source, these records are first matched against SSA's files to verify identity information, such as name, date of birth, and SSN. Once the records are verified then a second match is conducted against our SSI recipient files to determine which of the fugitives are receiving SSI benefits. The results of the second match are then forwarded to the IG for processing. The two-step matching process performed by SSA takes four to ten days, from the time the warrant information is obtained from a participating federal, State or local agency until the information is forwarded to the IG.
The IG must conduct thorough investigations of the warrant information matches to ensure that the fugitive felon warrants are valid and that the appropriate individuals are brought to justice. The IG works with the FBI Information Technology Center (ITC) to verify that the felony, probation or parole violation warrant is active. The ITC provides the address information about each SSI recipient to the appropriate law enforcement agency so that they can apprehend the individual.
After action by the appropriate law enforcement agency, the IG refers their findings to SSA for appropriate action. SSA also provides feedback to the IG reflecting the actions taken and any overpayment that may have occurred.
Even though SSA is working to expand the number of matches through agreements with local authorities, much of the investigative process cannot be automated. Verification of warrant information requires direct contact with the local law enforcement personnel who issued the warrant. If the felon is no longer in the jurisdiction of the originating law enforcement agency, then additional contacts must be made with law enforcement personnel in the new jurisdiction in order to facilitate the fugitive's apprehension.
SSA needs to be very careful when reviewing warrants to make sure they are accurate, up-to-date, and that it pertains to the correct person. To arrest or to suspend benefits of the wrong individual would have severe consequences.
In their report dated August 2000, the IG recommended that SSA pursue legislation prohibiting payment of OASDI benefits to fugitive felons. That recommendation is worth exploring. We would be happy to work with the Subcommittee to develop a fugitive felon provision for the OASDI program.
SSA continues to strive to improve our programs through procedural and technology changes and by supporting and proposing legislative solutions. We are committed to our role as stewards of the trust funds. We look forward to working with this subcommittee to assure public confidence in our programs.


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Zurich Financial Services Group says its board plans to name Josef Ackermann as chairman and Tom de Swaan as vice chairman after its annual general meeting on March 29.
In a statement, the Zurich, Switzerland-based insurer says Ackermann, a citizen of Switzerland, will retire from his position as chairman of the management board of Deutsche Bank by the end of May. During this short transition period the vice chairman shall administer the board business.
Ackermann, 64, joined Schweizerische Kreditanstalt in 1977. He was named the firm's president in 1993.
In 1996, he joined the management board of Deutsche Bank, where he was responsible for the investment-banking division. In 2002, he became spokesman of the management board and chairman of the group executive committee. In 2006, he was appointed chairman of the management board.
Ackermann is a member of the supervisory board of Siemens AG (second deputy chairman), Germany; a non-executive member of the board of directors of Royal Dutch Shell plc, the Netherlands; and vice-chairman of the board of directors of Belenos Clean Power Holding Ltd, Biel, Switzerland.
Among other accomplishments, he is a visiting professor in finance at the London School of Economics and honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Tom de Swaan, 66, has been a member of the boards of Zurich Financial Services Ltd. and of Zurich Insurance Co. Ltd. since 2006. Since 2010 he has been a member of the board of Zurich Insurance plc and Zurich Life Assurance plc and also chairs the audit committees of those boards.
De Swaan, a Dutch citizen, joined De Nederlandsche Bank N.V. in 1972, and from 1986 until 1998 was a member of the governing board. In 1999, he became a member of the managing board and chief financial officer of ABN AMRO Bank, retiring in 2006, but continued as an advisor to the managing board until 2007.
He is active on a number of corporate boards and philanthropic organizations.


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Facebook's stock has been hammered since the company's IPO on May 18, including a hard hit when options trading began earlier this week. Like early buyers in Facebook Inc. common stock, many options traders are also likely smarting.
Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak & Co., points out that about 95% of all of Facebook's open call option positions — or, the right to buy the stock — are out of the money and if they expired today, would be worthless, he estimates. The majority of strike prices for call positions remain at $30 a share, with 58% of those set to expire in June. Facebook shares closed Thursday at $29.60.
The bearish take on Facebook comes from put options, or the right to sell a stock, at a strike price of $20 a share. Wilkinson said almost 7% of the put options are at that level.
Since going public at $38 a share, Facebook's stock is down 23%. Read latest on Facebook in tech stocks.
-- Rex Crum
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Ponder Elementary's third and fourth-grade students were treated to a round of applause and a pep rally to encourage them to do their best on the upcoming STAAR tests on May 14 & 15.
Many teachers worked long and hard to create a special event for Ponder students.
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For your morning douche chills! (You're welcome.) Fresh off his split with Katy Perry, singer/songwriter/foot-in-mouth womanizer John Mayer has announced that he'll be doing his first nationwide tour in three years, after a throat granuloma forced him to take a break from singing.
As he told Billboard: "The greatest gift I have in my life is the opportunity to play again, which is also the opportunity to dream again... My dreams were in escrow, but when I found out this thing in my throat had receded, the most exciting thing for me was having a second chance at a new life. My dreams have come true twice. That's really cool."
Before their split, Perry and Mayer were quite serious, which is rare for Mayer.
The timing is way too convenient here, so we can only assume that this will be a John Mayer Rebound Extravaganza 2013. Whether you find him repellant, would totally have sex with him, or find him repellant and would totally have sex with him anyway, just be aware that he will doubtlessly be scanning the crowd for his next dose of "sexual napalm."
Which brings me to the valuable list of provisions that every woman who may be attending a John Mayer concert in the near future should absolutely have on hand when the time comes.
- One (1) box of condoms. (Extremely important. It's John Mayer. Bag it up.)
- One (1) six-pack of craft beer (because obviously that's all he drinks).
- The names and numbers of the following four (4) emergency contacts: Local wildlife reserve, local fire station, a celebrity astrologist and a rabbi. Just in case.
- One (1) copy of any book by Walden, Bukowski or David Foster Wallace.
-Photographic evidence. Duh. If it's not on Instagram, it didn't happen.
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IUCN Marine Protected Area Summit issues strategy to counter escalating threats to the world's oceans
The Earth's oceans are being destroyed at a much faster rate than they are being protected, said the world's leading marine experts at the end of the IUCN Marine Protected Area Summit this week.
To save the oceans, participants urged governments, business and civil society to rapidly increase marine protected areas and to step up measures making marine environments more resistant to climate change.
The high seas – oceans beyond national jurisdiction – are particularly threatened: "Entire ecosystems in the high seas are being damaged and lost before we have even acted to protect them," says the summit's closing statement.
As a key solution, the summit proposed to rapidly increase protection of the oceans and connect marine protected areas through corridors. These 'marine corridors' would allow marine species to recover and migrate under changing sea temperatures and sea chemistry. Currently, only 1 percent of the oceans are protected, compared to over 12 percent of the Earth's land surface.
"Summit participants urge governments to establish marine protected area networks by 2012, and to protect at least 10% of oceans under nationaljurisdiction as decided under several legally binding agreements," said Dan Laffoley, Marine Vice Chair of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. "With the current pace of action, the targets will not be met."
Marine protected areas have been proven to allow threatened fish stocks to recover – and to increase the fishing yield in adjacent areas. In the Egyptian Red Sea, five years after the establishment of marine reserves, fishing has increased by 66 percent in neighbouring areas.
To make oceans more resistant to the impacts of climate change, other stress factors such as pollution and overfishing need to be kept away from marine ecosystems such as coral reefs, a major source of income and protein for millions of people worldwide.
"Climate change makes oceans warmer and more acidic, which causes corals to bleach and erodes their ability to build reef skeletons. But corals can adapt and survive if they are healthy and don't suffer from sedimentation or disruptive fishing practices," said Carl Gustaf Lundin, Head of IUCN's Marine Programme.
Better management of marine environments will also save mankind from accelerated climate change. Today, oceans are the world's largest carbon sink, absorbing around 50% of atmospheric CO² every year. However, continued discharges of carbon dioxide and poor marine management may turn oceans from a carbon sink into a major carbon source, releasing vast stores of carbon into the atmosphere, thus exacerbating climate change.
The IUCN Marine Protected Area Summit, organized by its World Commission on Protected Areas, brought together the world's leading marine experts from 10-12 April in Washington to develop a strategy for protecting oceans from increasing pressures such as climate change, ocean acidification and overfishing.
Notes to Editors
The IUCN Marine Protected Area Summit statement is available at: PDF
The Summit website:
For more information contact or to set up interviews please contact:
Valerie Higgins, mobile: +1 202-489-5718, email: [email protected]
Carolin Wahnbaeck, IUCN Media Relations Officer, Tel. +41 22 999 1027, Fax +41 22 999 0020, [email protected]
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The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
The World Conservation Union is the world's largest conservation network. The Union brings together 83 States, 110 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. The World Conservation Union is a multicultural, multilingual organisation with 1000 staff located in 62 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland. www.iucn.org
The World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) (web)
The World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is the world's leading network of protected area managers and specialists, with over 1,300 members in 140 countries. WCPA is one of the six voluntary Commissions of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and is administered by the Protected Areas Programme at the Union's headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. WCPA's mission is to promote the establishment and effective management of a worldwide representative network of terrestrial and marine protected areas, as an integral contribution to the IUCN mission. www.iucn.org/wcpa


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YORK, PA – The York College field hockey squad embarks on their 2013 with new leadership as Carly Zinn has assumed the roles of the Spartan program.
Zinn's Spartans will face a tough Capital Athletic Conference slate that features three NCAA Tournament teams from a year ago. The schedule also has a strong group of non-conference games including the season opening weekend at Kinsley Field.
The Green and White begins the season on August 30 against Randolph-Macon followed by a Sunday home game against McDaniel.
After a trip to Gettysburg to face a Bullets squad that went 12-5 last year, the Spartans return home for a three-game home stretch. York hosts Washington & Lee on September 7 followed by a game against Eastern Mennonite on September 12. The home stand concludes with a contest against Shenandoah on September 17.
York then heads to Lynchburg to face the Hornets. Lynchburg went 19-4 last season, won the ODAC, and advanced to the NCAA Division III Elite Eight.
The Spartans come back to York to host Elizabethtown as the Blue Jays, who finished 14-6 last year, look to avenge last year's 3-2 come-from-behind Spartan victory. A quick trip to Alvernia on October 1 precedes a visit from Mary Washington as the Spartans open up conference play against the Eagles who went 20-2 last year. Mary Washington won the CAC and advanced to the NCAA Division III Final Four.
The Green and White then heads to traditional national power Salisbury as York's first two league games will give them an immediate barometer on their standing in the CAC after two contests. The Spartans then go to Frostburg for another league game on October 15.
York hosts Wesley on October 19 before retuning to the road to face Juniata on October 22 follwed by a trip to Christopher Newport to face the Captains in a conference contest. CNU went 17-2 last year including a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
The regular season concludes on October 29 when the Spartans host St. Mary's on Senior Day.
The CAC tournament starts on November 3 with the semifinals being held on November 6. The championship game will be held on November 9 at the highest remaining seed.
Zinn knows the Spartans will be challenged by their schedule.
"Our schedule looks to be very competitive this season," says Zinn. "The CAC alone is filled with extremely competitive teams, but even out of conference games will provide tough match ups. We will not be handed any easy wins this season, and all will be toughly earned."
The Spartans' conference opponents combined to go 79-39 with three NCAA Tournament berths while the Green and White's non-conference schedule includes teams that won at a 55.2% clip in 2012.


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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks Monday across Afghanistan to mark the start of their spring offensive, storming a government building in the east where attackers killed two police guards and five civilians, and striking a police checkpoint to the south and killing nine policemen.
Also Monday, rockets hit inside the grounds of the Kabul international airport but caused no damage. Rockets also struck the NATO base at Bagram, just north of the Afghan capital, causing minor damage, the alliance said.
This year's Taliban spring offensive comes at a sensitive time, against the backdrop of a key presidential election. Militants have also stepped up terror attacks to sow insecurity and weaken the government as international forces prepare to withdraw from the country by the end of this year.
Fewer than 30,000 U.S. troops remain on the ground in Afghanistan, the lowest number since the 2001 invasion. Last summer, Afghan security forces took full responsibility for the country's defense, making this Taliban spring offensive an important gauge of how well they will face insurgent attacks once international forces are gone.
Monday's attack on the provincial justice ministry building in the city of Jalalabad began around 9 a.m., just as employees were arriving for work, said Nangarhar provincial government spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai.
According to the spokesman and the provincial police chief, three attackers shot and killed the two police guards, broke into the ministry and took over the building. One of the attackers died when he detonated his explosives' vest inside the ministry, while the other two were killed by police, said Gen. Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, Nangarhar's police chief.
Security forces retook the building after a shootout with the Taliban, four and a half hours later. Inside, five civilians were found dead and seven others were wounded, Sherzad said. It was not immediately clear if the victims inside were all government employees and if more people had been in the building when it came under attack.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack in an email to reporters. He said the attack was retaliation for what he called harsh rulings by the justice ministry against the Taliban. Last week, the Taliban said they would launch their annual spring offensive on May 12.
In southern Helmand province — the Taliban heartland — insurgents killed nine policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in the Sangin district, district governor Sulaiman Shah Sarwani said.
Also on Monday, a rocket hit a market in the Siagred district of Parwan province north of Kabul, killing two civilians and wounding four. The Taliban also claimed responsibility for that attack.
Elsewhere in the east, groups of militants, including some on motorbikes, attacked police checkpoints on the outskirts of the city of Ghazni, killing three people and wounding eight, said the provincial governor, Mohammad Ali Ahmadi. Two women and a policeman were killed, while two policemen and six civilians, including three children, were wounded, Ahmadi added.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the Ghazni attack.
Elsewhere in Jalalabad, attackers targeted a police vehicle and detonated a roadside bomb, wounding six people, including two policemen.
In the capital, Kabul, two rockets fired from unknown location landed inside the perimeter of the city's international airport without causing any damage, Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said.
To the north of the city, four rockets struck the Bagram military airbase, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Kabul. The projectiles hit the Bagram Airfield around 3 a.m., resulting in minor damage to equipment and a building, said the international coalition.
In past years, the spring season has seen a significant upsurge in fighting between the Taliban and NATO forces and their local allies. This year, the Taliban named their offensive Khaybar, after the 629 A.D. Battle of Khaybar, when Muslims in present day Saudia Arabia attacked a Jewish settlement near the city of Medina.
In the presidential election, final results of the first round of voting, held April 5, are scheduled to be announced on Wednesday. The two top vote-getters are widely expected to face a runoff later this month.
Associated Press writers Amir Shah and Greg Keller in Kabul contributed to this report.


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When Game 1 of the Western Conference final here Sunday afternoon was nearly turned on its ear by a controversial goal/no goal call, we predicted a series titled "When Jonathans Collide" was certain to follow.
Cole: NHL deems goalies fair game
When Game 1 of the Western Conference final here Sunday afternoon was nearly turned on its ear by a controversial goal/no goal call, we predicted a series titled "When Jonathans Collide" was certain to follow.
Well, here's Episode 1. The plot is about the fine line between going to the net hard and burying the goalie. And it's about the giant grey gulf between burying the goalie and actually getting called for burying the goalie.
And it's about the National Hockey League's mystifying reluctance to submit the controversial goals arising from that giant grey gulf to automatic video review.
Two events tie this episode together: New York forward Chris Kreider's "accidental-on-purpose," skates-first slide into Carey Price in Game 1 of the Eastern final that evidently has put the Canadiens' goalie out for the rest of the series, and Chicago captain Jonathan Toews's steamrollering of L.A. goalie Jonathan Quick in Game 1 of the Western final.
No goal arose from either incident, although the latter involved a supposedly verboten conversation with the war room in Toronto before (or possibly after) the officials on the ice conferred and decided Toews's goal would not count, owing to "incidental contact" before the puck entered the net.
"Incidental" evidently covers everything from a mild bump to a four-car pileup.
The first event has ramped up emotions between the Habs and Rangers to heights never dreamt of between these playoff strangers.
The second seemed destined to send Chicago coach Joel Quenneville's blood pressure through the roof. But he was somewhat more philosophical Monday, the first of two off-days between games 1 and 2. Of course, his team won the opener 3-1. Every coach, he said, tells his forwards to go hard to the opponent's net, and every coach tells his defencemen to box out and prevent the other team's forwards from doing the same. So every coach is conflicted. True, said Kings' Darryl Sutter.
"I think always when your goalie gets hit, you're defending your goalie. As attacking players, you're telling your players to go to the net," Sutter said. "Such a fine line. If you look at the Montreal play, they're both right. If you look at our play last night, they're both right.
"One guy's trying to score, which is what we've tried to do ever since the game was first played, and the goalie's trying to stop the puck. I'm just glad we're (discussing whether) it was a goal or not a goal, I'm glad we're not talking about it today because our goalie was hurt. Not that their Jonathan was trying to run into our Jonathan, just the point that our goalie wasn't hurt."
Montreal wasn't so lucky on a collision that looked no more violent than Toews's headlong tumble over top of Quick.
Neither Kreider nor Toews received a penalty on the play. "The way the league is, the way it's called, it's something that you talk about a lot," said Quenneville. "But to say exactly how to prevent it …?" There may be no way to get the correct penalty call on every goalmouth collision, but on scoring plays, there's no excuse for not getting it right.
It's a technological development that began as "replay" on Hockey Night in Canada in 1955 and "instant replay" on CBS in 1963.
A half-century later, everybody's using it to help officials out. But not on controversial scoring plays involving contact with the goaltender, in hockey, because that would be … What would it be, exactly? "I'm really comfortable with the process the way it works now. Most of it does come from Toronto, unless it's a definitive call on the ice," said Sutter.
To take it a step further would be "to take it right out of the official's hands, which is not what I want, what anybody wants," the Kings coach said. "I mean, that was the intent of the two-referee system, give a little bit more power to the linesmen in situations like that, so they go and talk about it quick. That's what they did.
"You know, there was a lot of talk this past summer about throwing the flag. But our game is not stop, start. It's more on the fly. So the more that you pull those situations into it, the more it sort of spaces your game out. I'm not for that."
The general managers have been kicking around the idea of reviewing goaltender interference on scoring plays, but as of March's GM meetings, the consensus was "No appetite for it." It may happen yet.
But here is the thing: There are 5.5 goals scored in an average NHL game, of which maybe one or two on any given night are in the grey area of obstruction/contact/interference. So let's go big and say three times a game such a play occurs, (because maybe one goal is disallowed). Three times a night, probably not that many, play might be held up to get the call right.
Would that really be a major imposition? Would it destroy the flow of the game, or is the flow of the game already an inside joke, because three times per period it is interrupted for two-minute commercial breaks, during which the live viewers get an eyeful of Ice Girls? The rules on goalie obstruction/interference have been extensively rewritten since the days when the tip of Brett Hull's skate blade inside the goal crease caused the entire city of Buffalo to lose its mind in the 1999 Stanley Cup final.
The steamroller on Sunday got more consideration than the defenceman, L.A.'s Alec Martinez, who got a little overzealous trying to clear a convention around Quick and was handed the penalty that led to the Hawks' first goal.
Goalie interference is not a simple fix, but it is fixable.
Review every scoring play that's the least bit controversial.
Run a couple of commercials while the zebras are on the phone to Toronto, and cut out an equivalent number from the three mandated breaks per period.
Either that or give the referees more discretion to call it when a goaltender gets hit. Contact equals interference. It's rarely incidental and even more rarely accidental.
Call it, or let Toronto call it. Disallow the goal AND call the penalty, when warranted.
This episode is brought to you by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Goalies.
There will be sequels. Bet on it.
Cam Cole is a Postmedia News sports columnist


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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is fully accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) for all research involving the protection of patients. AAHRPP is a Washington, DC, based non-profit organization that uses voluntary, peer-driven, educational model to accredit institutions engaged in research involving human subjects.


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2014 Tour Down Under: Stage 4: Stage preview with Pat Jonker and Race Director Mike Turtur
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