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December 13, 2015
Truffle Football CupcakesPosted in : Recipes on by : Beckie Tags: cakes
3 ounces white candy coating, coarsely chopped, divided
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
2/3 cup crushed granola cereal with oats and honey
6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
2 tablespoons shortening
2 cans (16 ounces each) vanilla frosting, divided
Green paste food coloring
36 cupcakes of your choice
In a microwave, melt white candy coating at 70% power for 1 minute; stir. Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, stirring until smooth. Stir in peanut butter until smooth. Add the confectioners' sugar, vanilla and cereal. Chill for 2-3 hours or until easy to handle.
Shape into 1-in. balls; form each ball into football shape and set aside. In a microwave, melt chocolate and shortening; stir until smooth. Dip footballs in chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Place on a wire rack over waxed paper; let stand until set, about 30 minutes.
Pipe frosting laces onto footballs. Tint remaining frosting green. Using a #233 or #234 tip, pipe grass over cupcakes. Just before serving, insert a toothpick into each football. Insert toothpick into cupcake to position football. Yield: 3 dozen.


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1. The Duke of Norfolk declares: "William is his father all over again—what he wants, he gets" (page 257). Do you agree with Lord Norfolk's assessment? Why or why not?
2. Elizabeth tells William that she can always be trusted to put England's good before her own personal interests (page 367). Are her actions in England's best interest? Do you agree with her assessment of her motives, or is she serving her own personal interests? Had William not murdered Robert Dudley and confined Elizabeth to the Tower, do you think she would still consider William's death and her own ascension to be in England's best interest? What are Elizabeth's defining characteristics that make her a more desirable monarch than William?
3. Discuss the theme of loyalty in this book. William and Elizabeth often are faced with choices related to balancing loyalty to their family versus loyalty to their country's interests. Minuette and Dominic are forced to choose between loyalty to each other and their own personal happiness and loyalty to their life-long friends and personal senses of honor and duty. What choices would you have made in their positions? Which character do you consider to be the most loyal?
4. On page 278, Minuette asks herself: "Am I whore, or am I savior?" What do you think of her bargain with William? Are her actions disloyal to Dominic? What would you have done in her position? Does Minuette's history with William and the fact that her heart, "so long twined with William in friendship, would demand its share of [that] hour" (page 278) color your opinion of her actions? Why do you think Minuette later refuses to make a similar bargain with William in exchange for Dominic's life?
5. After William had all-but announced his engagement to Minuette, was there any reaction he could have had to the news of her secret wedding and miscarriage (short of labeling her a traitor) that would have enabled him to save face at court? How could he have reacted differently without becoming a laughing stock in England and abroad? Considering how much he fought for the right to marry her (with his council and foreign ambassadors pushing for a strategic marriage) was his reaction reasonable in the context of the time? How would you react if similarly betrayed by a close friend?
6. On page 224, Minuette asks herself "At what point could pain have been avoided?" How would you answer this question? Was there a moment at which Minuette could have acted differently in order to spare William's pride and feelings? If so, what should she have done?
7. At one point, the Duke of Norfolk tells Dominic "You were a traitor the moment you took [Minuette] from [William]" (page 261). Do you agree? Was Dominic a traitor? If so, at what point did his actions become treasonous? If not, what label would you give his choice to deceive the King?
8. What do you make of Minuette's refusal to tell William the last lie that could have granted herself and Dominic safety? Considering they had been lying for a year, why do you think she chose the moment before they were scheduled to flee to come clean?
9. William had to make several difficult decisions regarding the lives of family members, significantly his half-sister Mary and his uncle George Boleyn; how do you think those decisions impacted him? Did they pave the way for his later decisions to convict Dominic and Minuette of treason, and to imprison his sister? What would you do if a family member or close friend posed a serious threat to your position, success, and happiness, personally or professionally? What if the threat were to your country?
10. How have the various relationships between the four central characters evolved over the course of the series? Compare the William in The Boleyn King to the one who rides to battle the Duke of Norfolk in The Boleyn Reckoning. How has his leadership style changed over the course of his reign? To what do you attribute these changes?
11. Is it possible for royalty to have true friendships, or is William right in thinking otherwise? Is it necessary for those in power to have an attitude toward mistrust? If so, can friendships exist anyway, or is perfect trust required for true friendship? What is your reaction to William's decision to execute Mary Tudor? Was this the right choice for his government? What about for him on a personal level?
12. What is your reaction to William's decision to execute Mary Tudor? Was this the right choice for his government? What about for him on a personal level?
13. What impact (if any) did the death of Jane and the loss of his son have on William?

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On February 5, the Energize America Educational Institute (EAEI) launched a public-awareness program titled Energize America (EA). One of the program's goals is to bring together energy users, utilities, energy service companies, manufacturers, financing sources, and environmental and governmental agencies in order to facilitate the implementation of energy-efficient projects.
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Masaaki Yuasa's "Kick-Heart"
Lastest News
Meet the Staff
Here is a little video that was put together to introduce you to the four main staff working on this project.
NEW Paypal Account (Updated Oct 26th)
We now have a Paypal account setup for backers who don't wish to use a credit card. If you have already made a pledge on Kickstarter, then we kindly ask that you do not switch over to Paypal since that might risk lowering our total funds raised on Kickstarter. The money collected from Paypal will be added to the total funds collected for the project, and will also be counted toward the stretch goals. If we reach a stretch goal with our combined Kickstarter and Paypal funds, then we will notify everyone that we have achieved our stretch goal.
既にキックスターターで募金して下さった方以外の、 クレジットカードをお持ちでない方のためにペイパル口座を開設いたしました。 ペイパルで集まった資金は全てキックスターターのファンドへ移行されます。キックスターターとペイパルの合計額は、その都度みな様に御報告させて頂きますので、引き続き宜しくお願い致します。
NEW Stretch Goals (Updated Oct 26th)
- 175k = Spanish Subtitles, +2 minutes (Total: 12 minutes)
- 200k = English Dub, with help from Richard Epcar, the voice of Batou in the English dub of the Ghost in the Shell Films/Series. LA Premiere Screening and Party sponsored by Titmouse Animation Studios (date to be announced).
- 225k = 3-5 minute animated Oorutaichi music video directed by Masaaki Yuasa
- 400k = +30 minutes of extended animation (total length 40 minutes)
- 1 Million = Kick-heart Feature Film
NEW Reward Upgrades (Updated Oct 12)
Based on user feedback we have upgraded many of our awards with physical items. Items such as:
- Japanese Poster
- Postcard
- Soundtrack OST
International Customers
We will cover the shipping as part of the reward. At your discretion, you may add extra money to your pledge to help with shipping if you want to do so.
DRM & Region Free
Our digital downloads will be DRM free and our Blu-ray and DVD's will be region free.
Recent Updates
Oct 12th, 2012 -French Subtitles Announced! We are happy to announce that our Blu-ray Disk will now come with French subtitles! [ Article ]
Oct 8th, 2012 - HD Updgrade! Based on user feedback, we have increased the resolution of our digital downloads. Thanks again for your support of this project!
- [ The Monkey Flip ] - 480p upgraded to 720p
- [ The Pumphandle Drop ] and above - 720p upgraded to 1080p
Danny Choo Interviews Ishikawa
Mamoru Oshii Interview
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The Story
Kick-Heart is a love story between Romeo, a successful pro-wrestler, and Juliet, a nun who lives a secret double-life as a female pro-wrestler. Romeo's secret is that he enjoys taking a beating in the ring, while Juliet feels invigorated when facing her opponents as a wrestler. When the two meet in the ring, the fireworks fly. Their story is set in the colorful backdrop of the professional wrestling world. Will Juliet reveal her true identity to the one she loves? Will Romeo be able to share his secret to the world?
The film is directed by one of Japan's most innovative and original animation directors, Masaaki Yuasa.
Why Kickstarter?
During the mid 80's and 90's Japanese animation directors, such as Mamoru Oshii, pioneered a new era of animation. Their films inspired animation fans around the world, including many well known Hollywood film directors.
Recently in Japan, its been very difficult for the next generation of innovators to create more artistically driven projects-- mainly because of the economic situation in Japan. Most of the focus has been put on creating projects that carry less risk-- such as remakes of older animation projects or well-known established properties.
So we had an idea: What if we use Kickstarter as a platform to connect the fans across the globe who want to see cutting-edge animation, with highly skilled anime directors? By using crowdfunding to help support and promote these talented directors, we can enable them to push the boundaries of anime to inspire others to innovate alongside them.
This is a bit of an experiment for us, and we are trying to see if is possible to make these types of artistically driven films with the help of crowd-funding. If this goes well, we would definitely like to pursue more projects like this in the future.
About the Film
Kick-Heart will be a 2D animated short film that will be approximately 10 minutes in length and will be written and directed by Masaaki Yuasa. This film has just recently completed pre-production and layout.
During the campaign, we will be providing live updates during production and backers will get exclusive access to:
- Production Artwork
- Storyboards
- Production blogs
- Interviews with Production I.G staff
The Goal
Our goal is raise a minimum of $150,000 for this project. After the film is completed, we plan on submitting it to film festivals around the world. Anything raised above our minimum goal will go directly into the production of Kick-heart.
Here is how we intend to use the funds raised:
- Increase the quality of animation
- Increase the overall duration of the animation
- Help offset the current production costs
- Manufacturing costs for backers rewards (Blu-ray,Print materials etc)
- Digital distribution costs for backers downloading the film
- Festival submission fees
Pre-production Artwork
Below are some samples of the artwork created for this film:
Color Script
Character Designs
© 2012 Masaaki Yuasa, Production I.G
Background Designs
The Team
Masaaki Yuasa, Director
Masaaki Yuasa has been involved in many notable projects such as Crayon Shin-chan, Hakkenden, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Samurai Champloo, leading up to his directorial debut with Mind Game. His animation is cherished by the people who are familiar with his work and his style of animation is unlike anything being made. His work plays with themes of slapstick comedy and human drama.His drawings at first glance may look unrefined, but this intentional style becomes very dynamic and expressive when they are brought to life using hand-drawn Japanese animation.
Mamoru Oshii, Project Consultant
Mamoru Oshii, is considered one of Japan's most famous and influential directors. He has written and directed such films as Patlabor 2, Ghost in the Shell, Avalon, Innocence and The Sky Crawlers and is known as a pioneer in the Japanese animation industry. He has received and been nominated for numerous awards, including the prestigous Palme d'Or and Golden Lion. Oshii-san has graciously offered to help advise and consult on the film.
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, CEO Production I.G
Ishikawa founded Production I.G with popular character designer Takayuki Goto in 1987. The company has since produced a number of acclaimed feature films, OVA (original video animation), TV shows, and video games. Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, and Blood: The Last Vampire, have earned critical acclaim in Japan and all around the world. Innocence, directed by Mamoru Oshii in 2004, has been the first Japanese animation feature ever to compete for the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes.
Director, Animator : Masaaki Yuasa
Project Consultant : Mamoru Oshii
Character Designer, Animator : Michio Mihara
Color Coordinator, Animator : Eunyoung Choi
Background Artist : Kevin Aymeric
Music: Oorutaichi
Animation Production : Production I.G
Please help us Kickstart Kick Heart and show your support!
"Kick Heart" raconte l'histoire d'amour improbable d'un catcheur et d'une nonne. Le film est réalisé par Masaaki Yuasa au studio Production I.G sous la forme d'un court-métrage d'animation 2D de 10 minutes.
Pourquoi Kickstarter ?
La situation économique japonaise actuelle bride la création dans l'animation, favorisant les remakes et les franchises. En recourant au crowdfunding, nous souhaitons financer des oeuvres audacieuses et originales, faisant appel à la créativité des artistes les plus talentueux de l'animation japonaise.
Pour notre premier projet "Kick Heart", nous souhaitons réunir 150,000 dollars afin de financer le projet, voir allonger la durée du film. L'appel aux fonds servira également à promouvoir le film à l'étranger, notamment en festivals.
Durant notre campagne, nous donneront accès aux participants à un suivi de la production ainsi que contenus exclusifs tels que des artworks, storyboards, et interviews du staff.
L'équipe :
Masaaki Yuasa, (Réalisateur)
Masaaki Yuasa a travaillé sur de nombreux oeuvres majeures comme Crayon Shin-chan, Hakkenden, Mes voisins les Yamadas, ou Samurai Champloo avant de devenir réalisateur sur Mind Game. Son univers est un mélange de comédie décalée et de drame, dans un style graphique unique.
Mamoru Oshii, (Consultant de projet)
Mamoru Oshii a écrit et réalisé des films comme Patlabor 2, Ghost in the Shell, Avalon, Innocence et The Sky Crawlers. Il a été nommé à Cannes pour la Palme d'Or, et à Venise pour le Lion d'Or.
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (PDG de Production I.G)Mr Ishikawa a fondé en 1987 le studio Production I.G où sont nés des films comme Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh, ou Blood: The Last Vampire.
キックスターターにおける当該プロジェクトの目標額は150,000ドルです。作品完成後、世界中の映画祭に出品する予定です。課金は、amazon.comのアカウントを通じたクレジット決済になっています。amazon.com でアカウントを持っていない方は、新規に登録をしていただく必要があります。10月30日の目標期限までに上記目標額に到達した場合、その時点で課金が発生する仕組みです。
・支援者への謝礼(Blu-ray Disc、印刷物等)の制作費
監督・作画: 湯浅政明
監修: 押井守
カラーコーディネート・作画:Eunyoung Choi
美術: Kevin Aymeric
Risks and challenges
Production I.G is a reputable studio that has been making animation for over 25 years. We are very confident that we will be able to deliver this animated film within our time estimation.
We feel that there is a low risk associated with this project. Sometimes productions get delayed due to unforeseen issues, such as story or design changes. Although we don't anticipate any delays, we would be sure to keep all backers informed of such delays and provide new time estimates for completion.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Funding period
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Fagbenle will compete for a spot on Great Britain's 2012 Olympic Team (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard women's basketball rising sophomore Temi Fagbenle has been named to Great Britain's preliminary roster for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Great Britain, as host, has received an automatic qualification to this year's Olympic women's basketball competition. The tournament is set to begin on Saturday, July 28 and will run through Sunday, Aug. 12. All games will be played at the newly built Basketball Arena and the North Greenwich Arena.
Fagbenle will begin the team's first training camp on May 5 with 19 other Olympic hopefuls. Four other current U.S. collegiate players join her on the roster; Dominique Allen and Georgia Jones of Oral Roberts, Florida's Azania Stewart and Stanford's Bonnie Samuelson.
Great Britain's final Olympic 12-player roster will be announced on Friday, June 22.
Fagbenle came to Camrbridge this past fall as the program's first-ever McDonald's All-American after concluding an incredibly successful high school career. She was ranked 13th overall in the Class of 2011 by ESPN HoopGurlz, and was the fifth ranked forward on the list. She led Great Britain's U18 National Team to the 2010 Women's European Championship, and was named Great Britain's U18 Player of the Year as a result. As a senior at Blair Academy, she was named the New Jersey Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior after guiding her team to the state and MAPL championships . After sitting a year in residency, Fagbenle will enter the 2012-13 season as a sophomore at Harvard.


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Off the bench and down the hallway to the lockerroom, here come the Buffalo Sabres, a 1-0 lead on the board and the fans for once actually cheering after 40 minutes. Over the railing above the walkway spill four arms covered to practically their fingertips in the bright red sleeves of their oversized third jerseys. Arms swing, hands wave, fingers wiggle, anything to get the attention of the players below. The Sabres' helmets are only three feet away, but it might as well be three miles.
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December has been a busy month for Financial Crime conferences.
No sooner has one event finished, than another is clamouring for your attention. Events you '…have to…' attend, programmes you '…must not miss…', workshops where you will learn '…how to protect yourself…'
And the lists of speakers. Chairman of this august body, President of so and so Corporation, Secretary General of that policy-making institution, Director of yet another Government Agency.
They are all there, with their speeches carefully crafted by their staff; their fulsome platitudes carefully honed to reflect the latest edition of Government policy; their timid, middle-of-the-road, '…on the one hand this but on the other hand that…' response to the present statistics of fraud and financial crime; their smug acceptance that despite their almost universal lack of domain knowledge or expertise in dealing with real crime, and with one eye, carefully on the look-out for the next advisory panel post or Quango appointment, that their words will be taken as gospel;.
Please don't misunderstand me, I am not an opponent of the conference circuit. On the contrary, I believe that sometimes, just sometimes it is possible to hear a speaker of real experience, and domain knowledge, who truly manages to make a difference and raise the level of the debate. You can usually tell these individuals because they are most often someone, man or woman, not sponsored by any government or quasi-government agency, they don't work for the Big 4 Consultancies, they most often run their own successful businesses, have excellent websites and they don't need to advertise. They can clearly be seen to 'walk the talk', and they let their experience and their knowledge do the talking.
Others, most often Government ministers or senor civil servants, clearly demonstrate their paucity of knowledge and lack of experience by their incomprehensible statements, and their criminologically-illiterate policy initiatives.
But when it comes to dealing with fraud, financial crime and money laundering, the talk circuit has become the place to be, Vance Packard was right after all, the medium has truly become the message!
Twenty years ago, I published my first book entitled 'Fraud In The City – Too Good To Be True'.
The book set out to examine the causes of fraud and financial crime within the financial investment environment, and attempted to take a look at what ought to happen, once the UK Government's policies for regulatory change, then grouped together under the generic title of 'The Big Bang', had begun to take effect.
As a fraud detective at New Scotland Yard, I had witnessed at first hand the dramatic changes that had been engineered inside the financial investment network, following the polices of the then Thatcher Government, and the drive towards financial de-regulation.
My colleagues and I had watched, helplessly, as a tidal wave of fraudsters, con-men, financial snake-oil salesmen, and assorted ne'er do wells, all masquerading under the title of 'financial advisors', washed up on the shores of the City of London.
They brought with them a wide range of tactics and techniques, some clever, some not so clever, some downright dumb, but all designed to part the unwitting investor from his cash as quickly, and as efficiently as possible.
We monitored them while they routinely trooped in and out of a small group of solicitor's offices, on their way to a few chosen accounting practices, stopping off on the way to buy a collection of carefully prepared, off the shelf companies, provided by a select team of company formation agents, who could also help them with access to prestige address, fully serviced offices in the City of London or the West End.
Get off the plane at Heathrow at 10.00am and you could be in business at 3.00pm, and many were, complete with letter-heads, invoices, telephone and fax communications and a sweet-voiced girl answering a bank of phones with your own company's number!
In the 1980's London became the fraud capital of Europe!
We told our management about them, but most of them were men who had spent their early police careers dealing with an altogether different kind of fraud, (long-firm fraud, carbon-paper fraud, telephone directory fraud, etc, etc, almost entirely unheard of today), and who didn't really want to understand that the financial and political environment had changed. To do so would have meant getting out of a comfort zone which didn't really require very much effort to get through the working day, and would have meant learning a whole range of new tricks.
No, far safer to stick to tried and trusted methods of inertia and bad practice, and report the matter to the Department of Trade and Industry, who might, if they could be bothered, get round to investigating the company some day, for the offence of fraudulent trading. So bad did the reputation of the Investigations Branch of the DTI become that they became universally known as the Department of Timidity and Incompetence.
We did have meetings with the DTI, to see if we could engineer change and introduce some motivation within their midst, but we were told that there was really little they could do, and anyway, the new regime of financial regulation would pave the way for a brand new, bright tomorrow, in which such criminal actors would receive their just deserts.
All the time, German, Swiss, Italian, Dutch, American and British con-men, cemented their hold over the OTC share-traded market, and the British investor lost his shirt, along with foreign investors who had been inveigled to put money into Britain's booming new investment environment.
We begged the Director of Public Prosecutions for help. We urged him to give us the right to arrest and charge for theft and false accounting in carefully selected cases. To one DPP's perpetual shame, he responded, '…Why should the British tax-payer be concerned if a load of Germans are ripping off another load of Germans, is it really our business…' When we pointed out that these criminals were successfully sending a series of hugely damaging messages about the British market, he shrugged his shoulders, and said it really wasn't his problem.
So, we went out and arrested them anyway. We didn't ask for permission from our management, because we knew it wouldn't be forthcoming. We didn't ask for permission from the DTI because we knew we would never get a response. We didn't ask the DPP before charging those we nicked, we just did our job in the same way as if we had chanced upon a gang of bank robbers or lorry hi-jackers.
When we interviewed them, they glibly told us that the reason they came to London to run their rip-off companies was because they knew that the British prosecutors would not go after them. This time the DPP was shamed into charging them, and eventually, after a long trial they were convicted and imprisoned, the trial judge expressing his great concern that such cases could be going unpunished in the London market.
But it was a Phyrric victory, because after that case, we were forbidden to act in the same way again, and instructed that all such cases should be referred to the DTI and the DPP in future before any action was taken.
Later, we watched impotently as the findings of the Roskill Commission on Fraud Trials were re-engineered by the lawyers and civil servants in the Attorney General's Office and other Government law departments, and emerged as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which proceeded successfully to downgrade the role of the detectives and promote the role of the civilians, so that now, fraud investigations and trials were run by people with no knowledge of criminal behaviour whatsoever, while the detectives were kept in a separate part of the building, and not allowed to undertake their traditional roles in the management of fraud investigations.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the conviction figures plummeted and the public rapidly lost confidence in the Government's ability to manage the problem.
The Financial Services Act introduced a regime of regulatory overkill, which put more and more powers into the hands of a wide range of untried and untested civilians, and loaded the financial sector with rule books and regulatory dictat, but failed to truly provide the atmosphere necessary to enable entrepreneurial financial business to flourish, while really keeping the bad guys out of the business. Scandal followed scandal, and the poor old investor continued to lose money.
So bad did the problem become that when the Government was finally forced to throw in the towel and admit that the private occupational pensions market had become a scandal of overwhelming proportions, they had to find a new phrase to define the problem. Wary of calling it institutionalized fraud, which is what it was, they chose to call it 'mis-selling', a phrase which carried no stigma for the government's inability to protect investors, and introduced a hitherto-unheard of concept to British criminal jurisprudence.
Money laundering became the next big shibboleth, and we were told that by adopting a dubious US concept of 'following the money', we would finally strike at the heart of the criminal enterprise. Directives, regulations, and proposals for legislation poured from the inexhaustible source of the EU Commission. More and more rule books were written and introduced.
A small number of advisory practices emerged, desperately trying to bring some judgement and order into the madness, trying to share wisdom and sense in what was rapidly becoming a regulatory free-for-all. To them, we must be eternally grateful, because they stood like small beams of light in a very dark world indeed. But still the regulatory monster grew and grew, and more and more unqualified people emerged from the shadows to hold down posts of significant importance. The conference circuit boomed, the talk shops proliferated. If you needed to find a senior policeman urgently, it was pointless ringing Scotland Yard or Wood Street. They were all busily talking to PowerPoint slides in smart London hotels!
Major new agencies were headed up by those who had never before investigated so much as a shoplifting case, and those who knew better, but who had the temerity to say so, stood by, while others, who talked the arcane language of the New Labour regime, were preferred, in place of men and women of real, hands on, practical experience.
The market for Fraud and Financial crime is alive and well, and making a great deal of money. Every year the problem gets bigger and bigger, and the big consultancies charge bigger and bigger fees to tell inexperienced management what they ought to know, if they were any good at their jobs.
Last week, a senior manager at a major Big 4 firm told me that his firm would not look at any consulting project unless there was a minimum of ₤1 million in fees on the table. They wanted to hire a financial crime expert, but when asked to define his role I was told that all they really wanted was someone who had just been in a financial crime role in a major bank, and could tell them what policy his former employer was intending to undertake to meet the requirements of the risk-based approach to financial crime management. This information, I was told was priceless, because it would enable the consultancy to re-package the product and sell it again and again to the other major banks, who, in the race to the bottom to minimize their outlay on even more regulatory spending, do not want to spend a penny more or a penny less than their competitors.
It could be said that the market which surrounds the financial crime issue has now become too big to permit an answer to the financial crime conundrum, to be advanced. Too many peripheral businesses depend upon the crime figures growing in a nice exponential curve, simply to justify their continued existence.
There are ways in which these problems can be dealt with. There are solutions, and there are some answers. It will need a very brave financial crime manager to address these responses head on, because a lot of the answers are in reality, very mundane, and rather simple, but they work.
Sprinkling pixie dust on the lap-tops is not going to produce a new generation of IT-driven financial crime solutions. Spending millions of pounds on change-management procedures will not provide an answer.
In order to begin to provide answers, you need to provide education and training for staff so that they really do begin to understand the problem. To achieve this, you need to talk to people who understand how the criminals' minds work, and how they will behave in all the circumstances. You need to talk to men and women who have spent their careers dealing with professional criminals, and who know what motivates them and what does not.
We have to be willing to stand up to ministers and their juvenile advisers, with their promises of a new Jerusalem, and show them that their latest initiatives for tackling crime, while very headline grabbing, are just not going to work. We have to make them see that sometimes, blue-sky thinking, is just that, standing and looking at an empty horizon.
When Sir Charles Rowan and Sir Richard Mayne first developed the Metroplitan police on the instructions of Sir Robert Peel, they defined the concept which became the bedrock of policing policy in any country which subscribes to the theory of policing by consent. They understood that the biggest disincentive to crime is the likelihood of getting caught. That was as true in 1829 as it is today, nothing has changed. We won't prevent any more crime by taking the proceeds away from criminals, we will just guarantee more crimes being committed. Think about it!


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BALTIMORE (AP) Lamont Jones led the way with 23 points and David Laury pitched in his fifth double-double of the season as Iona topped Loyola (Md.) 79-71 in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action Sunday.
Jones entered fourth in the NCAA averaging 22.3 points per game and hit 11 of 12 free throws while upping his average.
Laury scored 10 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for his third consecutive double-double, and fourth straight game with double-digit rebounds.
The Gaels (14-7, 8-2) have won eight of their past nine games. The win was Iona's 300th in MAAC play, the most of any current conference member.
Dylon Cormier led the Greyhounds (15-7, 7-3) with 18 points.
Loyola moved the ball effectively, with R.J. Williams recording seven of the team's 18 assists. The Greyhounds made just 38.9 percent (28 of 72) of their shots, however, lagging behind Iona's efficient, 48.1-percent showing (26 of 54).


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If we are to judge by individual reactions of countries that responded to Kosovos declaration of independence, everybody has their own interests but what is missing from global media reports dedicated to the precedents and separatism is terrorism, which was a constituent factor in creating the worlds newest nation.
Great Serbia and Great Albania two sides of the same coin
The fate of the independent Kosovo is closely tied to the person and work by Hashim Thaci, who joined the Albanian political migration in Switzerland in the early nineties, where he founded the National Movement for Kosovo, the Marxist-Leninist political party whose only aim was to unite all of the regions where Albanians lived into one country, which in reality is nothing else besides copying the politics of Milosevics efforts to create the entity Greater Serbia on the regions of the former Yugoslavia.
In 1993, Thaci became a member of the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army), who according to BBC soon resorted to the most successful guerrilla movement in modern times and/or a terrorist organization that reveals to the world the direct connection between Al Qaeda and Albanians. Parallel with the foundation of the rebel guerrillas, Thaci (war name Snake) founded and organized the Drenica Group that soon rose as the dominant and best known criminal organization of the west-Balkans. It concerned itself with (and still does) weapons smuggling, heroin, cocaine and cigarettes, automobile theft, prostitution and other profitable jobs that are common for mafia groups. Drenica soon made connections with key organizations in Albania, the Czech Republic, and Macedonia, creating a large-scale criminal organization, which according to Can Karpats report, was sealed with a marriage between Thacis sister and Sejdij Bajrush, one of the most infamous leaders of the Albanian mafia.
One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter
The first terrorist act that was directly blamed on the current premier of independent Kosovo happened on May 25, 1993. This is when Thaci, together with Rafet Rama, Jakup Nuri, Sami Ljustku and Ilijaz Kadriju, attacked the Serbian police at the railway crossing Glogovac, about which the respected Janes Information Group reports. During the attack, two police officers were killed, and another five were injured.
In July 1997, the court in Pristina sentenced Thaci (in absence) to ten years in prison, because of which he, a members of the Drenica group hid in the forests. The legal prosecution of him was stopped in 1999 when Hashim was recognized as the political leader of the KLA.
Judging by newspaper reports, Thaci was not only unforgiving towards Kosovo Serbs, but towards mainstream Albanians as well. In June 1999, the New York Times published an article that accuses Hashim and two of his supporters for the murder of somebody that opposed Albanian nationalism. The author of the article Chris Hedges, at the time, interviewed Rifat Haxhijaj who lived with Thaci in Switzerland, who stated: When the war started (against the Serbian authorities), everybody wanted to be the boss. To get an idea of the kind of battle we are talking about, we only have to mention the murder of the Albanian reporter Alij Uka, a man that showed patriotism when Albanian nationalism/separatism is concerned. However, at the same time, he was a very harsh criticiser of people that were at the head of separatist currents. Uka was killed in his apartment in Tirana, and according to the words of former KLA members, that act was committed by his roommate at the time Hashim Thaci, in cooperation with the secret police that Albania happily placed at the disposal of the rebel leaders. The allegations were rejected by Thacis representative in Switzerland, Jasha Salih who said:
- These reports are incorrect. Neither Mr Thaci, nor anyone else in the KLA were not involved in these activities. Our only aim is independent Kosovo.
On the other hand there are the statements by Bujar Bukoshi, the former premier in Ibrahim Rogovs exiled cabinet, who said in Hashims rise:
- Cadavers have never been an obstacle to Thacis career.
The inconvenient truth about Albanian ethnic cleansing
The massacre in the village Racak was by far the bloodiest incident that served as a prelude to Kosovos war. An alleged murder is in question, with 45 Albanian civilians whose death was presented to the West as the Serbian revenge for the actions taken by the KLA against Serbian security forces. Yugoslavia then dropped all allegations, claiming that its forces were not responsible for the crime. However the same coalition led by the USA that recognized Kosovo have not backed away from their allegations, so the crime will remain on the conscience of the Serbs.
To make the historical line even more interesting, Thaci himself shocked the press, and then radio Voice of Russia who first published Hashims confession in March 2000. Hashim admitted that the KLA purposely demonised Serbia through its operations, provoking the military intervention of the West.
The Voice of Russia then cited Thaci who talked about a public secret, admitting that the KLA killed four police officers in the village Racak, with the intent of provoking action from the Serbian special forces. The Serbs did react, and the media immediately characterized it as a Serbian massacre of Albanian villagers, which was denied by Thaci himself, explaining that the bodies of KLA members were later found, which was later additionally analysed in great detail by the media.
Thaci talked about the idea of Greater Albania until 1998, when Albania met with the pyramid scheme which led to mass looting, which together with the war, homogenized the population in Kosovo. This caused Hashim to change to rhetoric, and start talking about the idea of independence for the region.
From a wanted terrorist to a loved premier
The KLA was on the list of the 100 most wanted and dangerous terrorist organizations in the world until 1998, when the US administration together with Bill Clinton, changed course and decided to support the guerrillas, by inaugurating Thaci as the spokesperson for Albanian interests in Kosovo.
This course was followed by George W. Bush, despite the link between the KLA and Al Qaeda that is well known to the intelligence community.
Thaci and his party reject all of these allegations.


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Jeter's decision to retire signals end of an era
NEW YORK (AP) — One by one, Derek Jeter watched them walk away.
His baseball brothers in pinstripes, the gang that grew up champions.
Bernie Williams was the first to go. Then, best buddy Jorge Posada. Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte said goodbye together just a few months ago.
And now, the last link to the latest run of New York Yankees dominance is ready to retire.
When the captain revealed Wednesday that 2014 will be his final season, it signaled the end of an era not only for the game's most successful franchise, but all of Major League Baseball.
Jeter and pals from Jimmy Key to Alex Rodriguez produced a generation of sustained success, nearly two decades worth of winning by one special group of players.
We may never see the likes of it again — in any sport.
"It has been an incredible honor having a front row seat for one of the great players of all time," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said in a statement. "Derek has been a winner every step of the way."
Jeter has led the Yankees to five World Series titles and seven American League pennants in 19 seasons. They won four championships in five years from 1996-2000, the last three in a row to become baseball's most recent dynasty.
Those are surely his favorite numbers — and surely his favorite memories, with Bernie and Mo and Andy and "Sado."
They were just kids then, really. Just kids beginning to build a legacy that included 17 playoff appearances in 18 years.
"Now it is time for the next chapter," Jeter wrote in announcing his decision with a long letter on his Facebook page.
Joe Girardi was the catcher on that 1996 team, the one that ended an 18-year title drought in the Bronx. Now, he manages the Yankees. And still, the 39-year-old Jeter is prepping to play shortstop after injuries wrecked his 2013 season.
"He is unquestionably one of the greatest Yankees ever," said Hal Steinbrenner, the club's managing general partner. "He has meant so much to fans, the organization, my father and our family. I'm glad we have this year to celebrate everything he has meant to us and all the great things he still stands to accomplish."
Of course, Jeter has racked up more than his share of individual achievements.
He ranks ninth on the career list with 3,316 hits, most in Yankees history. He owns a .312 lifetime batting average to go with 1,876 runs and 13 All-Star selections.
And then there are all those unforgettable moments he authored: The postseason homer aided by youngster Jeffrey Maier. The World Series shot that made him Mr. November. The home run for his 3,000th hit. The dive into the stands, the backhand flip in the playoffs, the eloquent speech to close old Yankee Stadium.
Few players have ever embraced the spotlight like Jeter. Few players have risen to the occasion so often.
He made it look so easy sometimes, especially under pressure.
"It was an honor and privilege to have Derek next to me for all those years. He made me a better player and a better person," Posada said in a statement. "I'm so proud of our friendship and I love him like a brother. Derek was a true champion and the greatest teammate I ever had."
But it's all that winning — with grace and dignity — that puts Jeter in the pantheon of Yankees greats. He's the 21st-century piece of a remarkable thread that stretches back, nearly uninterrupted, to Don Mattingly, Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth.
There is only one No. 2, and he'll surely be the last player ever to wear it for the Yankees. And one day soon, Jeter will join those exalted players in Cooperstown and Monument Park.
"He's right there. He's got to be one of those," said Mattingly, now manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson, meanwhile, tweeted out the date of the 2020 induction ceremonies — the first year Jeter could be enshrined — "for those booking early."
Jeter broke into the big leagues in 1995, the final season of Mattingly's stellar career with the Yankees.
"I saw him when he first showed for spring training. I always think about spring training when I think about him, just because he was this 17-year-old kid right out of high school who looked out of place. He was skinny, but he was tough. He's been winning since the day he got there," Mattingly said.
And now, Jeter will take his farewell tour around the majors, just as Rivera did last year.
"I'm so happy that Derek will get to go out on his terms — and his way," Williams said. "He was as special a teammate as any player could ever have. I'm blessed to have played with him. Yankees fans and baseball fans all over the world will have a lot to celebrate this season."
AP freelance writer Norm Frauenheim in Glendale, Ariz., contributed to this report.


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Sources said Monday afternoon that the youth who escaped Saturday from the New Beginnings Youth Center in Laurel, Md. -- embarrassing the $45 million juvenile facility that just opened on Friday -- finally was recaptured Monday.
The sources said the juvenile was found in northeast Washington by a youth rehabilitation department employee. The juvenile is now back in custody with D.C. Police.
The New Beginnings Youth Center in Laurel, Md., was described as an "anti-prison" in many of the warm and fuzzy stories written about it leading up to its opening on Friday. How apropos, because how can it be a prison if it can't keep the inmates inside.
On Saturday the kid escaped by scaling a fence. It appears officials knew that fencing would be a problem, according to the Washington Post. The old Oak Hill facility had razor wire on its fence, but that wasn't part of the new home. It turned out to be a bad move.
A day before the facility opened, Schiraldi and David Muhammad, chief of committed services, said they had brought in young men to try to scale the fences and made modifications based on what they observed. Schiraldi said he planned to place prickly shrubbery, possibly rose bushes, near the fence so inmates would not be tempted to flee.
Prickly shrubbery? Something tells us the kids in this facility have seen far worse in their lives than a little prickly shrubbery.
So after Saturday's escape, razor wire was added to the new facility's fence.
So much for the anti-prison.


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Barclays's hardware analyst Ben Reitzes today offers up the results of a survey of CIO buying intentions taken in April that showed the 100 individuals polled had generally higher expectations for spending in this first half of the year than what they expressed when queried in September.
Among beneficiaries, thinks Reitzes, are Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Ingram Micro (IM), CDW (CDW), Aruba Networks (ARUN), F5 Networks (FFIV), and Juniper Networks (JNPR), all of which are rated Overweight by Barclays.
"Spending intentions for the 1H of 2014 have improved since our prior survey this past September," writes Reitzes.
The views of U.S. and European CIOs suggest they are both shifting dollars to certain areas of priority:
The improvement in sentiment could be the result of an increase in budgets following several years of tightening, macro-economic stabilization and equipment refreshes as CIOs have been running existing assets at higher utilization rates. However, results of the survey also back recent data that points to spending shifts within IT – and the relative strength of software and data networking vs. traditional hardware. The other bright spot is that IT spending growth is expected to accelerate in the 2H14 in both the US and Europe, with European CIOs remaining even more optimistic than those in the US.
Specifically, 46% of respondents in the April survey expect to see IT
spending increases in 1H14, while 20% expect a decline in spending (34% expect no change). In our prior survey, 43% of respondents expected an increase in spending in the 1H14, while 27% expected a decline (30% expected flat). By region, in the United States, 43% of respondents expect to see growth in 1H14 with 22% expecting a decline (in September, 42% expected increases in spending and 29% expected declines).
Mind you, this was before the sell-off in the Nasdaq. Some areas of priority have changed, with less money going into servers and storage:
We note that many responses from the survey likely occurred before some of the recent volatility in the stock market. In terms of end markets within technology, application and infrastructure software as well as networking showed an improvement in sentiment vs. our prior survey. However, servers and storage noticeably down-ticked as well as IT services (however server spending growth improved). In terms of trends, security and cloud remain top of mind for CIOs, while trends such as the software-defined data center are also seeing traction (Big Data is losing traction). These emerging technologies should provide the foundation for IT spending decisions in the coming years – while secular threats in storage and servers should only continue to have an impact.
Here's a note on the methodology:
The Barclays Technology Team completed a survey of 100 CIOs representing the United States (65) and Europe (35) throughout March and April 2014. CIO survey respondents were represented by several industries, including manufacturing (21), financial services (18), technology (12), retail (10), communications (9), healthcare (7) and business services (7) among others. Respondents were made up of the following business size: 25% had revenue of greater than $10 billion; 57% of respondents had annual revenue of $500 million to $10 billion; 18% of respondents had revenue of less than $500.


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Forget waiting for Apple or Google to invent the future of television. IKEA has already beaten the two Silicon Valley titans to the punch -- or at least it hopes so.
The Swedish furniture-maker announced Tuesday that it will begin selling televisions at some its stores this year.
The IKEA book tube won't be an ordinary television supplemented with confusing IKEA instructions. Instead the television will be an LED Internet-wired set complete with CD, DVD and Blu-ray players.
The box will come in one self-contained, self-assembled piece in four different sizes and three different colors.
The IKEA box, known as the UPPLEVA, the Swedish word for experience, will also have the ability to connect to iPods and other mobile devices.
It will begin selling in Sweden, France, Poland, Germany and Italy in June for $955. It will hit the rest of the world early next year.


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Novel coronavirus infection - update
22 May 2013 - The Ministry of Health in Tunisia has notified WHO of two laboratory-confirmed cases and a probable case of infection with the novel coronavirus (nCoV).
The two laboratory confirmed cases are a 34-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman. They are siblings. Both of them had mild respiratory illness and did not require hospitalization. Retrospective investigation into the cases revealed that the probable case, their father, 66 year old, became ill three days after returning from a visit to Qatar and Saudi Arabia on 3 May 2013. He was admitted to a hospital after developing acute respiratory disease. His condition deteriorated and he died on 10 May 2013. He had an underlying health condition. Initial laboratory tests conducted on the probable case tested negative for nCoV.
Further investigation into this outbreak is ongoing and close contacts of the family are being monitored for any unusual signs of illness. These are the first confirmed cases of infection with nCoV in Tunisia.
In Saudi Arabia, a patient earlier reported as part of the ongoing investigation into an outbreak that began in a health care facility since the beginning of April 2013, has died. To date, a total of 22 patients including 10 deaths have been reported from this outbreak in the Eastern part of Saudi Arabia. The government is conducting an ongoing investigation into the outbreak.
Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 43 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with nCoV, including 21 deaths. Several countries in the Middle East have been affected. They are Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Cases have also been reported by four additional countries: France, Germany, Tunisia and the United Kingdom. All of the cases have had a direct or indirect connection to the Middle East, including two cases with recent travel history from the UAE. In France and the United Kingdom, there has been limited local transmission among close contacts who had not been to the Middle East but had been in contact with a traveler who recently returned from the Middle East.
Based on the current situation and available information, WHO encourages all Member States to continue their surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and to carefully review any unusual patterns.
Health care providers are advised to maintain vigilance. Recent travelers returning from the Middle East who develop SARI should be tested for nCoV as advised in the current surveillance recommendations. Specimens from patients' lower respiratory tracts should be obtained for diagnosis where possible. Clinicians are reminded that nCoV infection should be considered even with atypical signs and symptoms, such as diarrhoea, particularly in patients who are immunocompromised.
Health care facilities are reminded of the importance of systematic implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC). Health care facilities that provide care for patients with suspected nCoV infection should take appropriate measures to decrease the risk of transmission of the virus to other patients, health care workers and visitors.
All Member States are reminded to promptly assess and notify WHO of any new case of infection with nCoV, along with information about potential exposures that may have resulted in infection and a description of the clinical course. Investigation into the source of exposure should promptly be initiated to identify the mode of exposure, so that further transmission of the virus can be prevented.
WHO does not advise special screening at points of entry with regard to this event nor does it currently recommend the application of any travel or trade restrictions.
WHO continues to closely monitor the situation.


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We're doing a fundraiser to help one of our kids to continue attending an English-speaking school. This includes raising money for this month, June 2012, through next June 2013. See below for details and a link.
Junior is a seventeen-year-old young man with a heart of gold. Most who have had the privilege of meeting him know within a few minutes that God has placed a special calling on his life. His heart for the Lord inspires both his peers and the spiritually mature. Many of the kids nicknamed him "Pastor Junior" because of his dedication and diligence to studying and preaching God's Word.
Although it is difficult to imagine, Junior used to beg on the streets of Delmas Blvd. in Port-au-Prince with many other young kids. He was ushered from the streets into living in the MDL Boys' Home through a friend's street ministry. Shortly after coming into the safely of MDL, his mother was murdered in Cite Soleil and then his father later passed away in the countryside. Today, Junior, this once timid child, boldly preaches the Gospel, having put his faith and hope in Christ more than four years ago. He often teaches at devotionals and even partnered with other children from MDL two summers ago in doing an evangelistic outreach for their extended family members and community in the village where they grew up.
Junior has long expressed his hope of becoming an evangelist. Ranch Church in Santa Ynez, California has expressed a desire to come alongside Junior's calling and financially support him at Calvary Chapel Bible College in Murrieta, California. Needing an American high-school equivalent education to apply, Junior is currently enrolled in an American school in Haiti called Morning Star Christian Academy. We are praying that more people would come alongside to support his tuition fees until he finishes in 2014. To help Junior to continue to prepare for the work God is calling him to do we need to raise $475.00 a month for tuition and lunch money. Please prayerfully consider whether you would like to become involved in helping Junior by committing to financially sponsor him for half a month's tuition, one month, or multiple months of school.
Please pray for Junior, that he would continue to thrive in every aspect of his life, and that he'd keep Christ at the center of everything he does. If you'd like to sponsor school for Junior, please click here and scroll to the bottom of the page for payment options.
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Art on a Whim hosts artist Chris Lundy
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From abstracting color and movement to realistically depicting the things that surround us, from expressing emotion through unique forms and shapes to making statements about the condition of the planet, art can symbolize many aspects of our world – and a great artist can achieve all of the above at the same time.
Chris Lundy is such an artist. He is adept capturing everything art can represent all at once. He is not afraid to wear his heart on his sleeve when he creates, and he backs up his love for his subjects with his wallet.
Much of Lundy's newest work depicts trees from around the world.
His show, which opens today at Art on a Whim gallery in Breckenridge and runs through Jan. 6, is a benefit for the World Land Trust. Lundy and the gallery will donate a portion each painting sale to the World Land Trust, with each purchase generating enough money to protect one acre of rainforest permanently.
Lundy works in a technique called Modern Illuminism. One of a handful of people in the world working in the style, he carries on a long tradition of reflecting light through painting.
Modern Illuminism traces its roots to the works of Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald and later to masters like Rembrandt and William Turner. With the advent of new materials, the technique is on the cutting edge of the art world. Lundy combines his appreciation for Modern Illuminism with a mastery of depth-creating materials and a natural-born ability to create, putting him at the forefront of emerging American artists.
Lundy decided he wanted to be a professional artist at age 20. He realized that in order to achieve his dream, he needed to find a niche, a way to truly set his work apart. After much experimentation, he discovered ways to combine materials with epoxy resins to give his works a three-dimensional, glass-like effect. His paintings are often confused with blown glass, sand, geodes or other naturally occurring materials that are manipulated into form on canvas. They achieve their reflective quality from layering color on top of shining color, with anywhere from one to 15 layers used in any given piece.
With his new tree series, Lundy cultivates his love of sculpting to incorporate layers of highly textured materials that provide three-dimensionality to the foreground of his canvas. The results are trees that literally pop off the canvas, resting on top of glistening backgrounds that reflect light back to the viewer. Each piece changes dramatically as the viewer's angle changes or the light in the room fluctuates, giving the appearance of watching the tree's surroundings change throughout the day.
Landscape artists often strive to create work that stands as a reminder of the pristine nature that we frequently overlook, their paintings capturing the earth as it is, and hopefully always will be. Lundy and Art on a Whim hope to communicate the importance of the planet's beauty and trees by supporting World Land Trust.
Since its foundation in 1989, World Land Trust has worked to purchase and restore key habitats around the world to protect their biodiversity. Once the organization purchases land, it establishes a preserve and a partnership with the local community to oversee it. To date, it has preserved over 500,000 acres of tropical rainforest and other threatened habitats. It costs approximately $120 to purchase one acre of land.
Lundy, whose work is a permanent fixture at Art on a Whim, will be at the gallery Friday through Sunday this weekend and next to show his newest work and meet gallery visitors.
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|Internal NecessityA Reader Tracing the Inner Logics of the Contemporary Art Field
Edited by Tirdad Zolghadr (Managing Editor and Curator Sommerakademie 2009), Claire Feeley, Bettina Malcomess, Judith Raum, and Erik Wenzel (Co-editors and Fellows Sommerakademie 2009)
Contributions by Sommerakademie Fellows 2009 (Gürsoy Dogtas, Claire Feeley, Linda Franke, Agnieszka Kurant, Bettina Malcomess, Mariangela Mendez Prencke, Uriel Orlow, Judith Raum, Shirana Shahbazi, Oraib Toukan, Ricardo Valentim, Erik Wenzel) with Ethan Breckenridge, Alice Creisher, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Bruce Hainley, Rahel Jaeggi, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Manuel Krebs, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Suhail Malik, Matthew Metzger, Ivor Powell, Hans Rudolf Reust, Victor Manuel Rodriguez, Maggie Taft, W.A.G.E., Eva Weinmayr
Internal Necessity was the topic of the Sommerakademie 2009, curated by Tirdad Zolghadr. One year on, we are pleased to present a corresponding publication, initiated and co-edited by the Fellows. The result is an independent reader that does not aim to merely document the academy 2009, but reflects and develops its topics in a rich diversity of visual and textual forms. Developed by the Fellows and invited guest contributors these include short essays and graphic designs as well as letters, image spreads and skype conversations. The volume argues for publications as sites of art production alongside studio practice and exhibition making. As a visual object with a particular aesthetic it reflects and continues the intensive dialogue of last year's academy.
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Yay! Bari J. is back with another adorable sewing pattern. After everything your sewing machine has done for you, isn't it time you surprise it with a chic evening cover-up with flirty pom-pom fringe?! You could not find a more perfect fabric collection for this sewing machine cover than Bari's magnifique Paris Apartment collection, her first for Lecien. Merci, Bari, for providing our Sew4Home friends with such a delightful free project, plus the chance for one lucky person to win a kit to make their own Paris Apartment sewing machine cover.
Paris Apartment is so lovely, we expect it will fly off fabric shop shelves. The prints all have French names relating to rooms in an apartment: La Salle de Couture, a sewing room with dress forms and flowers; or Le Salon, a living room full of chintz Louis chairs and graceful chandeliers. Lots of wonderful possibilities with these prints... totally stashworthy!
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The Ticking Euro Bomb How a Good Idea Became a Tragedy
The Greek crisis has revealed why the euro is the world's most dangerous currency. The euro was built on a foundation of debt and trickery, where economic principles were sacrificed to romantic political visions. The history of the common currency is the story of a good idea that turned into a tragedy of epic proportions. By SPIEGEL Staff.
This is Part 1 of SPIEGEL's recent cover story on the history of the common currency. Be sure and read Parts 2 and 3 as well. The remaining installment will be published in English on Friday.
Before Germany's Horst Reichenbach had even stepped off the plane in Athens, the Greeks knew who was coming. He had already been given various unflattering nicknames in the Greek media, including "Third Reichenbach" and "Horst Wessel" -- a reference to the Nazi activist of that name who was posthumously elevated to martyr status. The members of his 30-strong team, meanwhile, had been compared to Nazi regional leaders.
The taxi drivers at the airport were on strike, while hundreds stood in front of the parliament building, chanting their slogans. One protestor was wearing a T-shirt that read: "I don't need sex. The government fucks me every day." Within the first few hours, Horst Reichenbach realized that he had landed in a disaster area.
Reichenbach is the head of the task force the European Commission sent to Athens to provide what Brussels officials call "technical assistance" in the implementation of necessary reforms. For the Greek media, the task force is the advance guard of an invasion force, the bureaucrats that have arrived to transform beautiful Greece into a German colony.
Reichenbach describes his tasks as follows: restructure the tax system, streamline the administration, accelerate privatization, strengthen legal certainty, open up access to protected professions, restructure the energy and healthcare sector and remove structures that are hostile to investment. The effort, says Reichenbach, requires "thinking in terms of years instead of months." He was the vice-president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and had planned to retire at the end of December. But then he received a call from European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, who then dispatched Reichenbach on this mission impossible.
He is a middleman between two Europes, the north and the south. The euro was intended as a currency that would help Europe grow together, but the first major euro crisis is in fact pitting the north and the south, the deutschmark economy and the lira economy, against each other. To make matters worse, there are also two different speeds in Europe, with one part of Europe moving at the high-paced speed of financial markets and banks, while the other drags along at the speed of governments and parliaments. And then there is also the Europe of two versions of the truth. One is at home in Brussels, Berlin and Paris, in the centers of power, while the other resides in the living rooms and on the streets of European cities.
As admirable as it is for Reichenbach and his 30 nation-builders to be bringing order to Athens, no amount of reorganizing can simply do away with 350 billion ($473 billion) in government debt. How to cope with this debt without ruining the European project is the most pressing question of recent weeks. After 20 years of bad decisions, spineless reforms and postponed actions, it isn't the citizens but the markets that have forced united Europe into an endgame over the euro. How can this currency have a future? Is there a risk that Greece is only the first domino in a row that could end with Germany? Is the euro zone a faulty design?
A team of SPIEGEL reporters went to Brussels, Luxembourg, Athens, Berlin and elsewhere to find answers to these questions. They have reconstructed the rise and fall of a currency that can only survive if the mistakes that were made over two decades are corrected in the next few months.
Act I: The Birth of the Euro (1991 to 2001)
Why the mistakes that would later threaten the euro were already made in the foundation phase. How Greece and other countries cheated their way into the monetary union. Why the common currency is a trillion-euro bet made by politicians against the markets -- and one that they would ultimately lose.
The bold, visionary project of creating a common currency for different countries and populations cannot be understood without reminding ourselves that the Berlin Wall came down in the late 1980s, the world still felt that World War II was a relatively recent event, and that Europe was still discussing whether Germany could pose a threat again.
Jacques Delors was the president of the European Commission for 10 years, and he was the lead author of the Maastricht Treaty, which defined the basic features of the euro. Now Delors is forced to listen to the daily criticism of how illusory his vision of a common currency was. But if he had had his way completely, he says, Europe would have been far better equipped, would have a more uniform constitution, and would be centrally governed by a Commission whose work would not be constantly undermined in the European Council, which comprises the heads of state and government.
Delors always wanted to go further than the political elite he was dealing with. At the time -- unlike today, he says -- that elite was consistently filled with dedicated Europeans, people like then-French President Francois Mitterand, then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, then-Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and then-Portuguese Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva. But they too were not bold enough to integrate their countries to a degree that could count as true European coordination.
The Maastricht Treaty, which marked the establishment of the European Union when it was signed in 1992, made it all possible. It placed Europe on "three columns," the first of which was an economic column, complete with an "Economic and Monetary Union." The treaty provided the necessary legal framework, so that a common financial policy would have been conceivable, as would a coordinated fiscal and interest-rate policy. But the political will to fill out the Maastricht framework was missing.
The "United States of Europe" remained little more than a soundbite. And yet the introduction of the euro created a fait accompli that could no longer be rolled back. This European Big Bang, if you will, was to be followed by a process of evolution, during the course of which all the details were to be resolved.
Perhaps most importantly, the common currency was also a political symbol. Delors says that he always perceived Greece as being very far away, different and foreign. The country's acceptance into the euro zone happened much too early, he adds. But at the time, in the 1990s, politicians stood up in front of microphones and said that Europe was inconceivable without Athens, the "cradle of democracy." And Portugal, with its Carnation Revolution, also surely deserved to be part of the club. And the Irish, oppressed for so long by the British, had to be helped too. And who would have wanted to show Italy the door, merely because of its high unit labor costs and inflation rates?
And so, when the euro zone became a reality, elephants like Germany and France came together with mice like Portugal, Ireland and Luxembourg. Stable, prosperous countries of the north shared their common currency with shaky, underdeveloped countries of the south, mature industrialized nations joined forces with what were hardly more than developing countries. Strict Protestants mixed with sensual Catholics.
The promises of the euro were recorded in the Maastricht Treaty. It was to be a currency that would make Europe strong in a competitive globalized world; that would bring the European economies closer together; that would oblige countries to limit their debts and deficits; that would guarantee that no country would be liable for the debts of another; and that would promote political unity.
And the details? Well, they would be ironed out later.
- Part 1: How a Good Idea Became a Tragedy
- Part 2: The Greeks Jump at the Opportunity
- Part 3: The Critics of the Euro


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Understanding the Foreclosure Process
Most people think that as soon as you receive a foreclosure notice, you've pretty much lost your home. This is simply not true. The foreclosure notice is the first step in a process that may take weeks or months to unfold. By understanding the foreclosure process, you can often gain more control over the outcome.
Receiving missed-payment notices
Although your bank expects to receive your monthly mortgage payment on or before the due date, it's probably set up to cut you some slack. Most banks offer a ten-day grace period. As long as the bank receives payment within ten days of the due date, you're okay. If the bank still hasn't received payment, then it sends you a missed-payment notice, typically stating that you need to send in your payment ASAP to avoid further action.
As long as you send in your payment, you may not suffer much at this point. You may be required to pay a late fee, and the late payment could negatively affect your credit rating, but the bank is probably not going to initiate foreclosure proceedings.
Receiving a notice of default
If your payment is 30 days late or more, the bank may send you a notice of default (NOD), essentially telling you to "pay up, or else." This NOD includes the property information, your name, the amount you're delinquent, the number of days that you're behind, and a statement indicating that you're in default under the terms of the note and the mortgage you signed when you purchased your home.
The notice may also briefly explain that if the default is not cured immediately, the bank will be forced to take further measures, including foreclosure. Some notices are not that friendly and are, in fact, just a very coarse statement that you're in default, the bank has elected to accelerate the mortgage and note, and you have x days to cure the default.
Getting the dreaded foreclosure notice
If you don't respond to your bank in a way that satisfies the bank, it eventually sends you a foreclosure notice, like the one shown here. The foreclosure notice informs you that the bank has initiated foreclosure proceedings and scheduled the sale of your home at auction. It also includes the amount you currently owe, the percentage interest, the name of your bank, and contact information for the bank's attorney.
Losing your home at a foreclosure sale
In some jurisdictions, the foreclosure sale is the end of the line — as soon as someone submits the winning bid (or nobody bids and the bank gets the property by default), you lose all rights to your home and either have to move out or be evicted. In states that have a redemption period following the sale, you have one more chance to buy back your property.
At the foreclosure auction, the bank sets an opening bid at an amount that covers the balance you owe on your mortgage plus any interest and penalties that have accrued prior to the sale. If nobody enters a bid in excess of that amount, the bank obtains the property by default. Otherwise, the property goes to the high bidder.
You may choose to attend a foreclosure auction in your area to experience the process for yourself. Contact your county's register of deeds and ask where the sales are held and the dates and times. If your home ends up on the auction block, attend the sale, so you can be sure that your house has been sold and you know who purchased it. This information can come in handy later if you have the resources to buy back your home or if something happened to delay the sale.


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Saturday, August 6, 2011
My Ideal Season of Who Do You Think You Are?
Melissa Gilbert - She played Laura for so many years on Little House on the Prairie. It would be fun to see if her background even remotely resembles the character she played.
Alicia Keys - She's an amazing singer from New York City. It would be interesting to find out if her roots are deep in NYC or from somewhere else.
Mark Harmon - The star of NCIS is what I consider to be one fine man. The son of a Heisman trophy winner and an actress/artist, it would be fun to see where his roots were planted before he was born in California.
Mariah Carey - Admittedly she seems a bit flighty but she has the most amazing voice. Her mother was a singer too. I wonder if there is a long history of singers in her ancestry.
Derek Jeter - Ok I'm a Red Sox fan but I've always liked Derek Jeter. I would like to know if anyone in his family history helped contribute to getting him where he is today.
Jason Varitek - Here's one for the Red Sox fans. Jason has always been one of my favorite players. With a name like Varitek he must have some Czech roots that should be explored.
Beyonce - She is larger than life and she seems to handle fame with such grace. It would be fascinating to learn if her background contributed to her success.
Jane Fonda - (I'm laughing at this one) This is in response to Susan's choice of Jane. I'm including Jane because of her New York roots. I have Fonda ancestors as well. Maybe the researchers on the show can help sort them out for me!
Yes, that would be the perfect season of Who Do You Think You Are? for me! What would your perfect season look like?
Thanks again Susan for such a great idea!
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Oh, I should have included George Clooney for the same reason as Mark Harmon :)ReplyDelete
Loved your list, Marian! RE: Mark Harmon - his sister, Kris, was married to Ricky Nelson, so there's a whole other family tree! I was going to include a sports figure in my list and Derek Jeter was the first who came to mind, but somehow, I got impatient and posted the blog first. At least he gets to be on your season!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 6, 2011 at 9:16 PM
I seem to recall the Harmons having Detroit-area connections. Well, wait, I think Kelly Harmon was married to John DeLorean for a while, in the late '70s, so maybe that's the only Detroit connection (or not...) --Julie MichutkaReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2011 at 9:39 AM
Pierce Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan...oh yeah, and Pierce Brosnan! No further clarification needed! And, just to be different...Ringo Starr!ReplyDelete
Fun post, Marian! Deb H.


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Black Friday Stokes Holiday Season Hopes
Early indications are giving retailers such as Macy's higher hopes for the 2012 holiday season. Andria Cheng reports on The News Hub.
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There are more than 12,700 homeless people in Orange County over the course of a year and there remains a dire need to provide emergency shelters for that population, according to a local nonprofit's analysis released Tuesday.
Santa Ana-based OC Partnership culled the data from its July report with the hopes it would be used by nonprofits, politicians and businesses to target the issue of chronic homelessness and help achieve the goals set by a 10-year plan drawn up by the county-based Commission to End Homelessness, composed of public officials, nonprofits and business leaders.
Scott Larson, executive director of HomeAid Orange County and a member of the commission, said the emergency shelters are critical to reducing the homeless numbers because "we don't have that first doorway to get people off the street."
Currently, there are only two seasonal emergency shelters that can house about 200 people each in Santa Ana and Fullerton at the California National Guard armories there. There are also a few small ones run by nonprofits that serve a few dozen people in pockets around the county. They are typically open between December and March.
Timothy Huynh, director of grant compliance at Mercy House, which operates the armories, said his group didn't have to turn anyone away last year. But having year-round emergency shelters would help the overall homeless population, he said.
"It's definitely something we need," Huynh said. "If we can tailor our services to meet the specific needs of each individual, we can move them toward a path that leads to them being in housing."
Larson said the commission is moving into the third year of the 10-year plan to end homelessness and that the numbers found in the current data will be a new baseline because they used different methods to obtain the information about how many homeless people there were. Before, the data showed 18,325 homeless in 2011 and 21,479 in 2009. But Larson said those numbers were simply extrapolations in some areas, whereas the current data was gathered through an unprecedented push by volunteers to go into areas and to do actual counts.
He said the 12,700 number would be the baseline number as a point of comparison for future reports.
The "2013 Orange County Homeless Count and Survey Report" also found on any given night there were 4,300 homeless people in Orange County – 40 percent of whom are unsheltered. The data also found 20 percent of the homeless population is chronically homeless – meaning they've been homeless four times in the past three years or for 12 months.
Of the homeless population, 480 are living with a severe mental illness. Larson also said the numbers don't include "couch surfers" – young people who sleep on a friend's couch – or those living in motels. He also said some people who live in cars are hard to count – though the 750 volunteers who did the counts were trained to look for vehicles that looked like they may house someone.
Karen Williams, president and chief executive of OC Partnership, said the report is useful for the nonprofits that access the $16 million in U.S. Housing and Urban Development money that flows to the county to fight homelessness. That money, she said, will be cut by as much as 10 percent due to sequestration cuts, and she also said if there is a government shutdown next week, it could affect timely disbursements of that money, which goes to assist homeless people.
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