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UGLY, YOU'RE PRETTY: We learn, when we're young, that "ugly" as a concept is something to be avoided (while simultaneously learning that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"). Of course the necessity of avoiding whatever is deemed "ugly" is complete nonsense, if we go with the ol' "eye of the beholder" chestnut, as we should. It's all a matter of perspective and taste, in short, and for some people, ugly is something to aspire to, perhaps nowhere more so than the Sonoma-Marin Fair. The summertime extravaganza is known for rides, yes, and the requisite fried foods, but the annual World's Ugliest Dog competition is the one that makes the worldwide headlines. And how could it not? A bevy of barkers boasting extra-long tongues and patchy hair and snaggle teeth and sweet faces parade for glory and prizes, and cameras around the world capture their canine-cute spirit. Anyone with an unusual pup -- and that's most pup owners, we'll wager -- kind of dreams of seeing their furry one take the crown in Petaluma each June. Much glory, much love, much ugly awesomeness. Is this your year? Entries are now open, ugly dog lovers.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The fair is set to glitter again in Petaluma from June 18 through 22. The World's Ugliest Dog competition is on that Friday, June 20, and there are rules to know (and vaccinations to submit). Top prize? Oh, just a trophy and $1,500 clams. Good stuff for just being a little weird in the appearance department. Plus, if your pooch wins? He or she'll be front page news the following day. It's too tempting to resist, and it proves, again, our thesis: "Ugly," or whatever a person considers as ugly, is beautiful.


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Presented before the Houston Chapter, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants -June 1974
Internal control is a concept so basic to the practice of accounting, both from an original accounting standpoint and from the standpoint of the auditor, that by the time the accountant has earned certification he has read or heard most of what he needs to know about the subject. However, because of this very basic nature of internal control, we may too often take what we do and know for granted. For this reason it is worthwhile to stop and reconsider the basics of internal control—what it is, what we do with respect to it and why we do it.
To begin with, let us go to Statement on Auditing Standards No. 1, which, incidentally, is today pretty much the bible for auditing standards. SAS No. 1, section 320 tells us that "Internal control comprises the plan of organization and all of the coordinate measures adopted within a business to safeguard its assets, check the accuracy and reliability of its accounting data, promote operational efficiency and encourage adherence to prescribed managerial policies."
This is a rather broad definition and includes practically everything that an organization does to insure that it functions according to the wishes of its owners—i.e., efficiently and, in the case of a commercial, "for-profit" business, profitably.
SAS No. 1 goes on to point out two types of internal controls: administrative controls and accounting controls. Administrative controls include organization planning, productivity or performance monitoring, sales goals and incentives, personnel and pay policies, budgets, forecasts—all the management tools used to insure the proper, efficient and profitable operations of the business. These controls are important to us because they result in management authorization for the transactions of the business.
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Lou Gianacopolos was a little worried about how his team would react after their big win over Staples, so he posed them a simple question.
What was the most difficult stretch ahead of them?
Gianacopolos expected someone to point at upcoming games against Glastonbury, Newington, or Farmington. He expected to hear someone talk about the postseason, but nobody jumped at the coach's trick question.
"They said that it was the next two weeks because these are the teams that are going into it with nothing to lose, while we have everything to lose," said the coach. "The boys came up with that, and it made me really happy. Sometimes it's easy to sit back after a big win and coast through the rest of the season. They didn't do that."
The Knights improved to 4-0 with two more lopsided wins last week. First, they dispatched a rebuilding Fermi team, 25-8, 25-13, 25-17. Then, they swept pasts Maloney, 27-7, 25-14, 25-19. Both provided special tests for the Southington squad.
Win at Fermi
Nick Powell scored nine kills in just two games on the floor. Alex Zajda collected 23 assists. Kevin Casserino anchored the defense with eight digs.
On Monday, April 8, Gianacopolos shuffled 15 players into his varsity lineup, so nobody amassed too many statistics. But that wasn't what he was looking for in the 3-0 win. It was a good chance to test his team's depth.
"We went through all three lineups. Our starters played the first game. Our back-ups played the second game, and our younger sophomores played the third game," said the coach. "I saw a progression in small errors, but the scores were pretty consistent."
Maloney at home
On Wednesday, the Knights faced a different challenge. For two games, they were tasked with keeping the ball away from Maloney hitter Gilberto Ramos. In the third game, Gianacopolos turned on the green light.
"We knew that Maloney has one really good player, so it was pretty simple," he said. "We served our spots, and we kept the ball away from him… Now we know that, if we hit our spots, we can keep them out of system even if they have one good player that can do a lot of damage to us."
Powell finished with 10 kills, and Chris Sherwill added seven kills with three aces. Jeff Kolb collected five blocks, and Zajda had 27 assists. Nine players combined for 26 digs.


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SEATTLE -- The Seattle Mariners will be flying the rainbow flag on Sunday during their game against the Chicago Cubs.
A group called Seattle Out & Proud says the Mariners will be the first Major League Baseball team to publicly fly the gay pride flag. But Mariners spokeswoman Rebecca Hale says she cannot confirm that.
The team has gotten a handful of comments about its plans, which were publicized by the group organizing Seattle's gay pride parade on Sunday.
Hale says the Mariners are flying the rainbow flag at Safeco Field as a reflection of their place in the community.


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Here's Batman, the Riddler and Mr. Freeze jumping around in a LEGO version of a zoetrope, a device from the Victorian-era that quickly spinned pictures to animate them. This one uses a turntable and synchronized LED flashes to produce the stroboscopic effect that creates the illusion of moving figures. The author, who is going to feature it at Maker Faire, got his inspiration from this absolutely stunning, large-scale zoetrope that Pixar built for an exhibition at New York's MOMA:
I want the Pixar one, badly, but I wouldn't say no to his home-made zoetrope here. Much humble, but equally charming.
You can get all the details of the construction in his site. [LEGO 3D Zoetrope and VNOG via MAKE]


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Snapshots from Portland Cocktail Week 2011
Wow, what a week. Highlights of Portland Cocktail Week included Pernod-Ricard's Welcome to Cocktail Week party, which was attended by the biggest names in the spirits business and was an absolute blast. Saturday's highlight was a battle between bartenders and cocktail-making robots—that's right. Cocktail making robots. (Though I disagree with the judges, who picked the robots as the better drink-makers.) Another high point was PDXCW's sister event, the Great American Distillers Fest, which was an opportunity to taste many wonderful craft distilled spirits, many of which are not normally available for purchase in the state of Oregon, plus lots of seminars and two cocktail competitions.
Many cocktails and countless spirits flowed throughout the week, too many to try them all, but here are a few of drinks I enjoyed most during Portland Cocktail Week, plus a few shots of Portland's (and the country's) top bartenders at work.
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Day 24: ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prize Pack
I've got some bad news. I'm running out of even remotely clever ways of introducing these giveaways. The good news? We're still giving away TWO devices today. For day 24 of the 25 Days of Tegra, we're giving away a Transformer with dock, a Samsung Captivate Glide, and a couple of other goodies direct from the hands of tiny elves. To enter to win today simply leave a comment below.
The Prize: ASUS Eee Pad Transformer with dock, Samsung Captivate Glide, Jawbone Jambox, $25 AmEx Giftcard
Highlights of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer include a 10.1 inch IPS LCD display, dual-core 1 GHz Tegra 2 processor, 1 GB RAM, 5 MP rear camera, 1.2 MP front camera, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, and includes the QWERTY keyboard accessory. Like all Tegra devices, this thing comes preloaded with the Tegra Zone for access to a bunch of today's most awesome titles.
Highlights of the Captivate Glide include a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 8GB of internal storage, 8MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, a full QWERTY keyboard, 8.02.11 b/g/n/ WiFi connectivity, and runs on the AT&T network.
In addition to the pair of devices, you'll get a Jawbone Jambox speaker, a ridiculously loud Bluetooth speaker in a tiny, sexy package. We'll also toss in a $25 AmEx giftcard to get you started in the Tegra Zone with a couple of the best tablet games around.
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Cameron University faculty members Dr. Ronna Vanderslice, Kelly D. McClure and Dr. E. Ann Nalley have been recognized by StateStats.org and OnlineSchoolsOklahoma.com. The two sites sought to identify post-secondary educators who have been awarded recently for excellence in the classroom, on campus and/or in the community.
Vanderslice and McClure were named to the list of Top 20 Education Professors in Oklahoma, and Nalley was named to the list of Top 20 Women Professors in Oklahoma.
Vanderslice, Dean of the School of Education and Behavioral Sciences and McCasland Foundation Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership, joined the Cameron faculty as Project Director for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in June 2006. She was named Dean of the School of Education and Behavioral Sciences in July 2007. She has served as the Board Chair of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services since 2010. Additional service includes appointment to the Teacher Competency Review Panel by the State Department of Education and the Oklahoma State Regents Minority Teacher Recruitment Center Advisory Committee. She is the recipient of the 2010 Jane Morse Service Award from the Oklahoma Association of Colleges for Teacher Preparation.
McClure, an instructor in the Department of Education, joined the Cameron faculty in 2004 and teaches courses relevant to the use of technology in education. In 2012, he received Cameron's Award for Excellence and Innovation in Instructional Technology Integration, which recognizes outstanding and sustained contributions in the use of instructional technology to increase student learning. He is a two-time recipient of the Tuck and Anna Pittman Endowed Lectureship for Technology Education as well as the Herb and Dorothy Pittman Carter Endowed Lectureship in Education. McClure is a member of the Oklahoma Technology Association, Educause and the International Society for Technology in Education.
Nalley, Professor of Chemistry and Clarence E. Page Endowed Chair in Math and Science Education, has served the students of Cameron University for more than 40 years. Earlier this year, she was named a Fellow of the DaVinci Institute and also received Cameron's Partner of Choice Award. In December 2012, she was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also the recipient of Cameron's highest service honor, the Distinguished Service Award, and was inducted into the Cameron University Alumni Association's Faculty Hall of Fame in 1996 and into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2009, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. In 1999, Nalley was named the Oklahoma Education Association Higher Education Science Teacher of the Year.
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President Barack Obama issued an ultimatum Friday to Congressional leaders to present him with a plan to avoid a government default just moments after Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pulled out of debt talks yet again over an impasse on revenues.
Obama has summoned Boehner, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to the White House for an 11 a.m. Saturday meeting in a scrambled effort to find a way to clear a bill through Congress that would extend the debt ceiling through 2013 before the Treasury's Aug. 2 deadline.
But it clearly hasn't, and won't, be easy. And time is running out. Even top Republican aides conceded that Congressional leaders will need to come up with a framework to present to their Conferences by Monday in order to have enough space to gin up support and go through the procedural red tape required to raise the nation's debt limit.
All parties Friday — especially the president — demonstrated a new level of frustration at yet another impasse. Boehner cited revenues as the root of the second collapse of talks between him and Obama, while Obama asked of Republicans in aggravation, "Can they say yes to anything?"
"We have run out of time," Obama said, noting that he "expects answers" Saturday from the leaders. "They are going to have to explain to me how it is that we are going to avoid default."
Obama was particularly harsh on House Republicans, saying they have "left [him] at the altar a couple times" and that he believes he offered them "an extraordinarily fair deal."
Both Democratic and Republican sources confirmed Friday that the ongoing talks between Boehner and Obama would have resulted in $3 trillion to $3.5 trillion in savings over 10 years, $300 billion in Medicare cuts, $125 billion in Medicaid reform and substantial Social Security reform.
But the GOP was telling a different story, with the Speaker insisting that Obama "refused to get serious" about entitlement spending. Boehner said the president had "demanded $400 billion more" in the form of raising taxes on businesses that create jobs, and "that's the bottom line." He again likened negotiations with Obama to speaking with "Jell-o" and accused the White House of "moving the goal post."
Republican aides said that the administration had insisted on a higher revenue threshold — "They pulled back after the 'gang of six' plan was unveiled," said one GOP aide of the White House — and a "dialed-back" approach to dealing with Social Security.
In a reprise of his late Saturday evening pullout from talks two weeks ago, Boehner suddenly announced Friday evening he was again walking away from debt limit negotiations, distributing a letter to his Members and calling Obama and both Senate leaders to inform them of his decision.
After a week of reported momentum, Boehner said talks with Obama were not nearly as productive as would have been necessary to strike a sweeping deal.
"A deal was never reached, and was never really close," Boehner wrote in a "Dear Colleague" letter distributed Friday evening to his Conference. "The president is emphatic that taxes have to be raised."
"The president is adamant that we cannot make fundamental changes to our entitlement programs," Boehner's letter continued. "For these reasons I have decided to end discussions with the White House and begin conversations with the leaders of the Senate in an effort to find a path forward."
Boehner phoned Obama around 5:30 p.m. to inform him he was stepping away from the talks. In his briefing with reporters, Obama said he "couldn't get a phone call returned" all day from the Speaker.
A White House official told Roll Call that Obama had tried twice to reach Boehner — once Thursday night and again during the day Friday. The president's message was that the group was "very close" to a deal and that he was "open" to an agreement, the official said.
The official also said that one sticking point was over Obama's health care law, with Republicans wanting to write in a repeal of the individual mandate, something that Obama believed was a "totally extraneous" issue and a "non-starter."
Boehner's characterization that the president was unwilling to budge on entitlements, however, did not seem to jive with the numbers released by both sides about changes Obama had put on the table for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. And an aide close to the "gang of six," pushed back immediately on the Republican charge that the dynamics of the group had altered the conversation. "Boehner has been briefed on this from the start and knew what was coming on Tuesday and what to expect with the Gang," the aide said, citing constant conversations between the Republican leader and close friend Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) since April.
Boehner had been working since last week with the Obama administration, beginning with a meeting last Friday with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House Chief of Staff William Daley, to close in on a "grand bargain" worth $3 trillion to $3.5 trillion, GOP aides said.
GOP aides said that Boehner and the White House were settling on a tax reform revenue ceiling of $36.2 trillion over 10 years, with agreement on principals attached to the reform in the individual side in three rates, with the top rate being less than it was in 2011. The aides indicated that the White House then wanted a "higher revenue target, not a ceiling" after Tuesday's unveiling of the bipartisan gang of six plan, which included higher revenues than being negotiated and had been garnering GOP support.
Another sticking point had been the trigger to raise the debt ceiling for a second time, as the framework being negotiated was a "two-step process" that would extend the debt ceiling through February or March, leaving "requisite time" for committees to work on legislation to generate more deficit reduction, according to the aides. The first step would have raised the limit, imposed discretionary caps and installed a reconciliation-like process between the two chambers. Republican aides say Obama did not want the second date alone to be the "default position" trigger, so both sides sought to create an "equal political position."
The Democrats would have gotten a de-coupling of the Bush Era tax cuts, making more permanent the breaks for the middle class and the Republicans asked for a repeal of the individual mandate provision in Obama's health care law in the case that the two sides failed to hold up their end of the deficit reduction bargain in the future, aides said.
Now the Ohio Republican, still tethered by a conservative caucus with many Members unwilling to raise the debt limit under any circumstance, will begin work with McConnell and Reid to try to find an acceptable way to extend the nation's credit. McConnell and Reid met in the Minority Leader's office earlier Friday and have been working on a so-called Plan B for weeks in the event that a larger deal cannot be reached.
The Reid-McConnell framework would raise the debt ceiling in a series of three votes through the 2012 elections, ask the president to make suggestions for cuts and establish a joint commission to produce a report by the end of the calendar year on a larger plan to tackle the debt. House Republicans have expressed reservations that the plan cedes too much power to Obama by giving him the primary responsibility in raising the debt ceiling, and GOP leadership has been quietly meeting for much of the week to work out options of their own. Meanwhile, Senators on both sides of the aisle have indicated an openness to move forward with the plan.
The Senate has adjourned for the weekend, but leaders could begin the process of bringing a bill to the floor as soon as it reopens, though House Republican aides would not say that they have the votes to move the Reid-McConnell framework through their chamber. House Democratic aides, however, seemed to indicate their bosses were lining up behind the deal.
In his brief session with reporters Friday night, Obama was asked if he was confident the group would strike a deal.
"Yes," he said, because, "I cannot believe that Congress would end up being that irresponsible that they would not send a package that avoids a self-inflicted wound to the economy at a time when things are so difficult."
Christina Bellantoni contributed to this report.


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Matt Roberts is one of two freshmen in the top 10 of the ladder for the Crimson (Gil Talbot).
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The No. 3 Harvard men's squash team finishes Ivy League play by visiting Brown Thursday night and hosting Yale Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.
Last Time Out
The Crimson entertained Columbia, Cornell and MIT over the weekend and sent all three home with losses. Harvard topped Columbia, 8-1, as No. 1 Ali Farag bested Ramit Tandon, 8-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-5, in a rematch of last year's CSA Individual Championship match. Six of the other seven Crimson victors swept his respective match. On Sunday, Harvard edged Cornell, 6-3, by winning the top two and bottom two positions and splitting the middle five. In the showdown against the Engineers, the Crimson cruised, winning all nine contests by 3-0 margins.
Related Article: Harvard Men's Squash Beats Cornell, 6-3, and Blanks MIT, 9-0
Related Article: No. 3 Men's Squash Tops Columbia, 8-1
About No. 3 Harvard
After winning the three matches over the weekend, the Crimson is 13-1 overall and 4-1 in the Ivy League. Four players are tied for the team lead in victories with nine. Tommy Mullaney is 9-0, and Matt Roberts, Brandon McLaughlin and Sam Goldberg are all 9-1. Ali Farag and Jason Michas sit one win back, holding identical 8-0 marks. As a team, Harvard is 111-16 in individually.
About No. 18 Brown (Team Page)
The Bears sit at 7-8 overall and 0-5 in conference play entering today's contest. Brown lost to Princeton, Yale and Cornell, 9-0, Columbia, 8-1, and Penn, 6-3, in conference play.
Series History Against the Bears
Brown has never beaten Harvard, falling in all 21 matches between the two schools. The Crimson has swept 19 of the 21 meetings, including the last four.
About No. 4 Yale (Team Page)
The Bulldogs are 10-2 overall and 4-1 in Ivy League action. Yale's only two losses have come to two of the three teams ranked ahead of them in the polls, dropping a 7-2 decision to Trinity and a 6-3 one to Princeton. Harvard and Yale met at the Ivy League scrimmages earlier this year with the Crimson pulling out a 5-4 win.
All-Time Record vs. the Bulldogs
Since the teams first met in 1925, Harvard has won 71 of 92 all-time meetings. The Bulldogs edged the Crimson in the last matchup between the programs Feb. 12, 2012, 5-4. The Crimson's last win came Nov. 11, 2011, a 5-4 victory in New Haven, Conn.
Zeroing In
Harvard swept its first three opponents of the season for the 21st time in program history before finally losing a match to No. 6 Rochester. The three consecutive sweeps to begin a year is the longest streak since Harvard swept the first four matches of 2006-07. Harvard's program record for consecutive shutouts to begin a season is six, which it did it 2004-05, 1991-92 and 1972-73. The program record for shutouts in a season is 12, set by the 1991-92 team and equaled by the 1994-95 squad. Thus far, Harvard has swept nine of its 14 opponents.
Coach's View
Assistant coach Luke Hammond is now blogging to give fans an inside perspective of the Harvard men's and women's squash teams. The blog will be periodically updated throughout the season, recapping the latest results and highlighting other interesting tidbits about the squad.
Related Link: Harvard Squash Blog
Undefeated Ali
Junior Ali Farag is a perfect 24-0 in his Harvard squash career. The Egypt native went 16-0 last season, including an 11-0 mark at the No. 1 position, en route to the individual CSA title and is off to a 8-0 start this year.
Leading the Way
Mike Way, The Gregory Lee '87 and Russell Ball '88 Endowed Coach for Squash at Harvard University, returns for his third season at the helm of the Crimson. In just over two seasons, his teams have posted a combined 38-11 mark, including a 16-4 record last year. Both of his assistants, Reg Schonborn and Luke Hammond, are back for 2012-13, as well.
Up Next
Harvard concludes the regular season against Trinity Tuesday at 6 p.m.


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(Reuters) - Labor union membership as a percentage of the U.S. work force stabilized at 11.3 percent in 2013 after several years of declines, government figures showed on Friday.
In an era of diminished power for unions in the economy, the Labor Department reported that there were 14.5 million union members last year, about level with 2012.
By comparison, in 1983, the first year for which the department published comparable data, union membership was 20.1 percent, with 17.7 million U.S. union workers.
Union membership in the private sector grew slightly in 2013 to 6.7 percent from 6.6 percent. This was offset by a drop in the percentage of public-sector employees belonging to unions to 35.3 percent in 2013 from 35.9 percent in 2012, data showed.
A major political clash over public-sector unions unfolded in Wisconsin, which imposed new restrictions on public-sector unions in 2011. The limits were blocked by the courts for part of 2012, but an impact was apparent.
Union representation among Wisconsin's public-sector employees, including union members and workers who do not pay union dues but still enjoy union contract pay and benefits, dropped to 37.6 percent in 2013 from 53.4 percent in 2011.
The latest U.S. data suggest, "the erosion of public sector union coverage reflects the new anti-collective bargaining policies implemented in several states," said Lawrence Mishel, president of the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
In the private sector, utilities had the highest union membership at 25.6 percent, followed by transportation and warehousing at 19.6 percent.
In the public sector, local government employees, including teachers, police officers and firefighters, reported the highest union membership at 40.8 percent, said the department.
Workers in education, training, library and protective service reported higher union membership than other fields, about 35.3 percent each, according to government data.
The states that reported the most growth across all sectors and fields included Alabama, Nebraska, Tennessee, Kentucky, New York, Illinois and Wisconsin.
States with steep declines in membership included Louisiana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Montana and Texas.
The Center for Union Facts, which criticizes unions, attributed the slight uptick in private-sector representation to the labor movement's response to the defeat of proposed legislation that would have eased the unionization process.
"While this uptick is by no means a tectonic shift in the long-term trend of waning union membership, it certainly is something employers should pay attention to going forward," said J. Justin Wilson, the center's managing director.
Black workers had the highest union membership rate in 2013, at 13.6 percent, followed by whites, at 11 percent, and Asians, at 9.4 percent, according to the Labor Department data.
Male workers reported a union membership rate of 11.9 percent and women a rate of 10.5 percent in 2013, the department said.
Young workers were less likely to belong to a union than older people. Just 4.2 percent of workers 16 to 24 years old were union members, compared with 14 percent of those aged 45 to 54.
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It's the holiday season and millions of us are cybershopping from our homes rather than facing the overwhelming crowds and traffic. But do you know how to shop online safely? There can be risks, but there are precautions you can take. Learn more by joining financial crime detectives from the Police Department at 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 17, with your questions and concerns about online shopping and conducting safe online financial transactions.
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Good afternoon; thanks for joining us. My name is Tom Polhemus and I'm an investigator with the financial crimes section for the FCPD. Our unit receives more than 4,400 calls for service concerning financial crimes/fraud every year. I'm happy to be here to answer your questions, especially on how to prevent being victimized.
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How important is it to purchase items from major retailers like Amazon as opposed to smaller websites? I found some good Christmas deals on sites I hadn't heard of, but I passed them up because I wasn't sure I could trust them with my information.
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Online transactions are extremely safe if you use reputable banks and merchants (Sears, LL Bean, etc.). If you use eBay or some unknown web site (Joe's Widgets) you may be putting your money at risk. eBay is a reputable company, however, you are not dealing with them; you are dealing through them with a total stranger. Like you tell your children; don't deal with strangers online. Another safety tip would be that you need to carefully type in the site that you want. If you mis-spell the site, you could very well be re-directed to a fraudulent site that will appear to be a legitimate site.
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What is phishing?
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Phishing is when you receive an email that looks like it's come from a company that you shop with, or bank that you conduct business with, and they ask you to click on link they provide and subsequently request that you verify account information or personal data. It is important to remember that NO legitimate business would ever ask you to verify anything like that. If you receive one of these emails, asking you to click on the link they provide, delete it and go to that bank or company's real web site. If they were looking for you in this email, there would be a notation on their site indicating this. A common phishing email appears to come from PayPal; people respond to this and subsequently give away their user ids and passwords. It turns into an account take-over where the "bad guys" assume the identity of the PayPal account holder and have people send him/her payments directly. Be careful.
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Where can you buy protective sleeves to secure your credit cards from being read by unauthorized people? What is the proper term for that product?
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This applies to cards that have RFID tags on them. (a small symbol located on the face of the card) You can conduct a search for RFID and retailers that sell the protective sleeve will pop up. Most credit cards/bank cards have the magnetic strip. Crooks can skim this stripe from the back, then re-encode a different credit card with your mag stripe and this becomes your credit card. This is extremely common; it frequently happens at restaurants and more & more at ATMs where your stripe and pin number are stolen. The only real protection against this scam is to closely monitor your account activity. As consumers, we are protected by regulation E. If we notify the bank or financial institution within 60 days of receiving your statement or two days upon discovering the fraud, the bank will close the account and issue you credit. The people that lose money are those that do not review the statement when it arrives in the mail or that do not watch their account activity online. Online monitoring of your accounts is a great way to stay pro-active and it's early fraud detection.
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How do you know if a website is safe to buy from? Are there ways to verify a website's validity and merchant status?
Tom Polhemus
Use a reputable merchant. (Sears, LL Bean, etc.) Do not use a fly-by-night website. EBay and PayPal are good companies, for example, but you are not dealing with them; you are dealing through them and with a total stranger.
Anonymous User
If you are buying from a site that does not have the https designation, is it still safe to use your credit card?
Tom Polhemus
No. It needs to have that "s" on there.
What is the VA law regarding asking to see/write down DL # on personal checks, at local retailers.
Can I be denied of purchasing an item, if I do not want to show a clerk my private ID information.
Tom Polhemus
If you give someone a check, you must provide ID. What they are NOT allowed to write down on your check is a credit card number. Recording an i.d. of the customer protects the merchant in case of "bad" check. Yes, you can be denied.
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I understand that there are one-time use credit cards that work only once or work only at one website. Do these significantly help reduce fraud and which credit card companies have them -- I know Discover does because I use that one. But I haven't seen similar ones from VISA or MasterCard.
Are there other features that Credit Card companies have that will significantly reduce a credit card being used fraudulently by other people at other sites?
Tom Polhemus
You can get one time use cards for online purchases, however there are already safeguards in place, regulation E, which says if there is fraud on your debit/credit card and you notify your financial institution of this fraud in a timely fashion which is 60 days upon receiving your statement or two days upon discovering the fraud, the bank will issue you credit. When a charge is disputed with the bank, they send a chargeback notice to the online merchant, debit the merchant account in the amount of the fraud and issue credit to the account holder. It is the online merchant's responsibility to match up billing and shipping addresses and ensure that the charges are authorized. So, in answer to your question, use your existing card and monitor the statement closely.
I've noticed some people sign the back of their credit card and some people put "show ID". Does it matter what I do?
Tom Polhemus
You can write ask for ID on the back of your card if you want, however, the fine print in your credit card agreement says that you will sign the back of your card. Most places don't seem to check the back of the card anyway. When you received your card, you agreed to sign it, plus if your card is stolen and the crook signs the back of it, the signature on the card will match the receipt. In short; sign your card.
Anonymous User
Aside from shopping from reputable merchants and ensuring that the site has the https designation, what other safeguards or precautions can I take to ensure I shop online safely???
Tom Polhemus
Even reputable merchants CAN have their sites hacked into; compromising customer account numbers. High profile cases recently in the news include well known merchants such as DSW and Amazon being hacked. Fortunately, these reputable companies caught the problem and alerted their customers quickly. The protection for the consumer is that if you dispute a fraud charge on your account, the bank will put the money back into your account.
Anonymous User
My credit card info was stolen a few weeks ago and it was a nightmare to get the charges reimbursed. What should I do if it happens again? Who all should I contact?
Tom Polhemus
Sorry to hear this; but you're not alone. People's credit cards are frequently compromised. We suggest that you call the bank immediately; dispute the charge; close the account; get a police report (from us) and bank will credit your account. It's the law. If this happens again, contact the police and get a report number to furnish your bank with the affidavit of fraud.
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Thank you for joining us today. If you are a victim of a financial crime get a police report and send it to your financial institution with an affidavit of fraud. You can contact the Finaicial Crimes Section during business hours at 703.246.7830 or after hours at 246.7800. Leave a message and an Investigator will call you back as soon as possible. It may take a few days. Also, look for our new Financial Crimes section of the PD web site coming soon (www.fairfaxcounty.gov/police). Have a pleasant holiday & safe shopping.
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SCENE Alaska adventure Ed Martin's world has centered in St. Louis all his life. When he was in his mid-205 in 1968, he joined H&S with the prospect of a satisfying career as an accountant in his home city. Then he chanced upon an article about volun-teers who spend a year teaching and working with Eskimos in an Alaskan mission, and something clicked, some-thing akin to the spirit that moved our ancestors to seek a newer world. Ed completed a year at H&S, and then, to a chorus of good wishes from his St. Louis colleagues, he set off for Alaska. "It sounded adventurous and bizarre, and appealed to me," Ed said. He wrote recently from St. Mary's, Alaska, a town that began in the 1950s as a Jesuit mission settlement carved out of the isolated tundra 70 miles east of the Bering Sea and only 300 miles from the Arctic Circle. "Not knowing how I could be of service, but thinking that they might need warm bodies, I ap-plied." Ed soon found out how he could serve. Within two weeks of his arrival in August 1969, he worked as a carpenter, painter, porter and mainte-nance man, joining seventeen fellow volunteers in a race against time to fin-ish building a school dormitory before the school opened. Then, because of his background at H&S and degree from Washington University, he went over to teaching economics, general business, current events and history. Isolation is not only a geographic fact of life in St. Mary's, Ed has found, but a stumbling block to learning as well. His high school business students were utterly at a loss to understand their textbooks, which were written for high school students in the "lower 48." The Eskimo students' business experi-ence was limited to shopping at the trading post. They had never seen a check, had no conception of a depart-ment store or bank or insurance policy, 18 Ed said. So he took them on a field trip through built-up parts of St. Mary's (now rated in Alaska as a second-class city) where construction and electrifi-cation projects and Yukon River traffic vividly illustrated business activity to the youngsters. Among the projects is construction of an ice house, which sounds rather like the old joke about selling refriger-ators to Eskimos. However, summer temperatures reaching the 60s are too warm to preserve the locally caught salmon that are a staple of the town's economy. Beyond a certain point, though, St. Mary's lacks dynamic examples of busi-ness activity. It has no telephone, no television, no local papers, no AM-FM radio. News is available on short wave radio but, Ed said, after a few ear-piercing efforts to listen, "I am con-vinced it was made to be listened to only by sea gulls." Three commercial planes arrive and depart weekly. About six river barges lumber into the dock in a season, "but an amazing number of visitors do drop in and stay for a visit," Ed said—"Japanese fish buyers who he-came stranded because of the weather and National Geographic writers and photographers writing a story on the Yukon." Still, St. Mary's is isolated. But the other side of the coin of isolation is opportunity. There aren't many places in the United States where a man as young as Ed Martin would be called in to advise the city fathers on setting up their accounting system or to help the pastor in a neighboring town prepare his annual financial statement for the bishop. For that errand about 20 miles away, Ed "rode the back runners of a dog sled pulled by a ski-doo, the main means of ground transportation in the winter; dogs are fast going the way of the horse. Although there was wind and the temperature was zero I was very warm in a jacket, parka, two pairs of pants and flight pants. Winter has not been too severe. .." It was severe enough, though, that running water had to be limited to 4½. hours a day because the cistern hadn't filled before the spring froze. "Inconveniences are accepted," Ed said. "I haven't missed the telephone once, though I do miss the St. Louis Symphony and the theatre." A certain satisfaction accrues, how-ever, to a person who has survived sled travel across an Alaskan winter and coped with the privations of an
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Chris Gore Wears Our 'Survivor' T-Shirt On Attack Of The Show's 'DVDuesday' Segment!
Chris Gore has become our new best friend. You may remember that a couple weeks back he decided to review our Chuck Palahniuk documentary DVD "Postcards From The Future", during his 'DVDuesday' segment on G4's 'Attack of the Show.
After we posted about this, Chris then actually joined The Cult and left a comment on the news post. How awesome is this guy? To repay him for the plug, Mirka and I decided to send the dude a care package of ChuckPalahniuk.net goodies. And since Chris had mentioned that Survivor was his favorite Chuck Palahniuk book, we dropped one of our awesome Survivor Tshirts in with the package.
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Simsation necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
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The name 'Simsation' is a merge of two words 1) simulation and 2) sensation. These words describe the mission of our new business - using simulation to provide sensational experiences. The simulation aspect will be based primarily in the aviation field, with the possibility of expansion into other areas later on. Therefore we have chosen a generic (non-aviation) name and our corporate image needs to reflect this as well.
The business will provide a range of simulators for customers to experience the excitement and intensity of flying real aircraft. The simulators will be 'as real as it gets' and provide total immersion in the aircraft and its environment.
Our market is the general public who have an interest in simulation / aviation, aviation fans, and aviation professionals. Some customers will use the simulators for entertainment, others for professional development and flying training. Our image needs to be appropriate for this full range of customers. Note that we are *not* marketing to the teenage arcade-gamer market.
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Alleges: "Junk Justice†In Queens Mortgage Fraud Case
Records reviewed by The Black Star News show that Centex, the previous plaintiff of record, had actually originated a mortgage against the property in question on May 23, 2000 in a fraudulent closing during which a forged power of attorney purporting to be the property owner's, was used.
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On June 23, 2009 Justice Bernice D. Siegal, of State Supreme Court in Queens County stayed any additional proceedings with respect to foreclosure sale of a Queens property, where the owner, Sun-Ming Sheu, has accused a judge presiding over the case, Justice Joseph Golia, of bias in favor of the plaintiff.
(Please see: http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/5904/2009-07-29.html for background on the story).
The return date of the stay by Judge Siegal was July 8, 2009.
In a telephone interview today, Mitchell Kaufman, Judge Golia's law secretary said the judge had lifted the stay on July 8, on the first date of two hearings on the case, whose original caption was Centex Home Equity vs. Amy Cheng—there was a second hearing on July 15, whose purpose now makes no sense.
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company (the company substituted for Centex as plaintiff in 2008) has won a summary judgment to foreclose and sell the property.
Judge Golia issued the most recent judgment of foreclosure sale on April 7, 2009 and the foreclosure sale occurred on May 15, 2009.
Records reviewed by The Black Star News show that Centex, the previous plaintiff of record, had actually originated a mortgage against the property in question on May 23, 2000 in a fraudulent closing during which a forged power of attorney purporting to be the property owner's, was used.
Sheu claims that he was not informed that Judge Golia had lifted the stay signed by Justice Siegal. "This is an example of the same corruption I have suffered in this court for nine year now," Sheu says. "They did not inform me that the stay was lifted so I could not file another stay. I will file another one immediately. I hope the case can be removed from this judge."
State Supreme Court records, as well as on the Court's own website show no records indicating that Judge Golia had indeed vacated the June 23 stay.
In the telephone interview today, Kaufman reiterated that the June 23 stay by Judge Siegal, had been vacated by Judge Golia "on the first return date" of July 8, 2009.
Asked why there was no documentation of Judge Golia having vacated the June 23 stay, Kaufman said: "I don't know. The judge didn't write a decision to that effect. The judge issued an order. When a judge states something it's an order. I don't think it was ever reduced to writing. I would not be surprised if it's actually on the document," he said, adding, "If you go into the court file and get an order of the stay, the judge may have stricken the stay and signed the striking of the stay on that date or he may have just done it orally."
Asked whether transcripts from the hearing would document the judge having lifted the stay, Kaufman said, "No, not unless there was a reporter to record it."
When told that Sheu, who was present at the July hearing has no record of Judge Golia ever having lifted the stay, Kaufman said: "Well I know Sheu was present. I can't speak to his ability to recall. He may have forgotten; he may not have paid attention."
He added: "I honestly don't know. I did speak to the judge and the judge said he lifted it; he lifted the stay on the return date if the order to show cause."
As previously reported in The Black Star News, at the July 8, 2009 hearing, Judge Golia had set another hearing date for July 15, 2009, at which time Sheu was to produce cancelled checks for all payments he had made over the last nine years on the property, for taxes; insurance payments; and, utilities.
This reporter attended the July 15, 2009, hearing which was essentially a shouting match between Judge Golia and Sheu.
Sheu added: "Judge Golia never vacated the stay on July 8. Why would he have held a hearing on July 15?"
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Al Hirschfeld exhibition opens in NYC
NEW YORK -- A new exhibition on caricaturist Al Hirschfeld begins with a video of Whoopi Goldberg talking about his wicked sense of humor.
Goldberg tells how Hirschfeld embedded the word "NINA" 40 times into a poster of her 1984 one-woman Broadway show after she complained of not being able to find the signature trademark he began inserting into his line drawings after the birth of his daughter Nina in 1945.
"The Line King's Library" opens at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center on Thursday. The exhibition, on the 10th anniversary of Hirschfeld's death and 110 years since his birth, was compiled from the library's extensive collection of Hirschfeld material.
Hirschfeld, who died in 2003 at the age of 99, was celebrated for his linear calligraphic caricatures of theater, dance and film personalities. The drawings appeared on album covers, film posters, magazines and in The New York Times for 75 years.
Being "Hirschfelded" was "akin to getting a Tony award," said David Leopold, the show's guest curator and Hirschfeld's archivist for the last 13 years of the artist's life. "It meant you had arrived."
The exhibition includes drafts, sketch books, journals and video of Hirschfeld and some of his most famous subjects talking about each other, including Arthur Miller, Carol Channing, Carol Burnett and Zero Mostel.
His 1970s series on Pulitzer Prize-winning plays and their authors on Broadway, including Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Miller's "Death of a Salesman," is also included.
Another highlight is a print so rare that even Hirschfeld didn't have -- an extraordinary lithograph of the dancer and choreographer Martha Graham in motion. Created in 1969, only one print was ever made.
Hirschfeld created some 10,000 drawings during his lifetime. About 70 are in the show in addition to more than 250 other works in slide shows and on iPads.
Choosing what material to include was like "saying we're going to make an exhibition from King Tut's tomb," Leopold said. "You know you're going to find gold in every drawer and every shelf and then you get to decide which gold is the best."
The exhibition also focuses on his influences, including Balinese shadow puppets that he saw while on a 10-month trip to the Indonesian island in 1932. A painter at the time, Hirschfeld noticed how the bright Balinese sun bleached out all the color.
"The shadows and light and dark lines he saw on the landscape were a very important part of his changing from watercolors to just line drawings," said Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, the artist's widow who also is president of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation.
The exhibition is a cross-section of his well-known theater drawings and lesser-known works, such as his early movie and advertising posters, she said, adding: "It's fun to look at the kind of work that you don't always associate with Al Hirschfeld."


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Harvard will look for its third straight win over Brown on Saturday (Gil Talbot).
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The Harvard men's lacrosse team will open Ivy League play this weekend as it travels to Brown Saturday, March 16 for a 7 p.m. meeting under the lights at Cliff Stevenson Field.
A live video stream will be available during Saturday's game through BrownBears.com by clicking here.
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Harry Krieger made 12 saves, including five in a flawless fourth quarter, to backstop the Harvard men's lacrosse team to a back-and-forth 8-6 win against Georgetown Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field Lacrosse Stadium.
Daniel Eipp scored to break a 5-5 tie in the third quarter and put Harvard ahead to stay. The junior previously set up the tying goal by Ryan Stevens and finished with three assists and a game-high four points. Peter Schwartz logged two goals and an assist for the Crimson, while Carl Zimmerman also scored twice.
Behind two goals each from Brian Casey and Reilly O'Connor, the Hoyas led three times. O'Connor's second tally brought Georgetown within a goal at 7-6 heading into the fourth quarter. Georgetown then outshot Harvard by a 9-6 margin in the final period, but Krieger would not yield a tying goal and Schwartz gave the Crimson a two-goal cushion in the final four minutes.
Scouting Brown
Brown is currently receiving votes in both the Nike/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and the USILA Div. I Coaches Poll. The Bears have won three straight games to improve to 3-1 overall, including a 17-9 victory over St. Joseph's this past Saturday.
Brown will enter play Saturday with one of the top rated defenses in the country. The Bears are ranked fifth in the NCAA in scoring defense (7.5), sixth in scoring margin (+4.25) and are 22nd in caused turnovers per game (8.0). On offense, Brown is averaging 11.75 gpg, the 13th best total in the nation, while winning 44.0 percent of face offs.
Sam Hurster has registered 14 points to lead the Bears attack with 11 goals and three assists. Henry Blynn has added six goals and five assists for 11 points while Nick Piroli has contributed three goals and six assists for nine points. Tommy Capone has taken the bulk of the face offs for Brown and has won 34-of-71 (47.9%).
Jack Kelly boasts the sixth best goals against average in the country at 7.16 and has a save percentage of 56.6 percent. Same Ford and Capone are collecting 4.75 ground balls and 4.5 ground balls per game, respectively, while Clay Del Prince has forced 1.5 turnovers per game.
Inside the Series
Harvard owns a 40-29 advantage in its all-time series with Brown which dates back to 1925. The Crimson and Bears have met each season since 1962 with Harvard winning the last two outings. The Crimson needed overtime to get the victory last season, as Jeff Cohen '12 found the back of the net for the game winner in the extra session, 10-9.
Up Next
Harvard will be back in action Tuesday, March 19 as it hosts Bryant at 7 p.m. at Soldiers Field Lacrosse Stadium.
Player of the Week
Goalkeeper Harry Krieger has been named the NEILA Player of the Week after recording 12 saves in Harvard's 8-6 win over Georgetown on Saturday. Krieger turned away five shots in a clean fourth quarter to preserve the victory after allowing just two goals in the first half. This marks the third NEILA Player of the Week honor of Krieger's career and the first for the Crimson since Daniel Eipp took home the honor on March 27 of last season.
Young Gun
Freshman Devin Dwyer has been in the starting lineup for each of the Crimson's games this season and currently leads the team in points with 12 (5g, 7a). Dwyer turned in a season-high six points in the team's win over Holy Cross with two goals and four assists, and added three points at Hofstra (2g, 1a).
Dwyer currently ranks fifth in the Ivy League and 25th in the NCAA in assists per game at 1.75.
Getting Defensive
Freshmen Robert Duvnjak has started three games for the Crimson on defense and ranks second in the NCAA with 3.33 caused turnovers per game. Duvnjak made his collegiate debut against UMass and registered four caused turnovers, then added four more as Harvard defeated Georgetown.
Duvnjak's 10 caused turnovers are eight more than any other member of the Crimson while his eight ground balls ranks second on the team.
White Hot
Senior Alex White registered a hat trick in each of the Crimson's first two games and is currently second on the team lead with 10 points (7g, 3a) from the midfield. White entered the season with 31 career points (19g, 12a) after having played in 41 of Harvard's 42 games over the previous three seasons.
Sharing the Wealth
12 different members of the Crimson have combined to score 35 goals this season. Alex White leads the way with seven scores on the year, while Daniel Eipp has added six. Devin Dwyer and Peter Schwartz have each added five.
Home Field Advantage
Harvard is 13-5 at home under Chris Wojcik '96, The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse. This includes a 6-3 mark in Harvard Stadium and a 7-2 record at Soldiers Field Lacrosse Stadium.
Hats Off
2013 Hat Tricks
Career Hat Tricks
CLASS Act
Jason Gonos has been named as one of 20 candidates for the 2013 Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition.
Gonos has anchored Harvard's defensive unit for the last three years, but even more impressive than his play on the field has been his work within the community. In November, he organized the Crimson's involvement in Lacrosse Mustache Madness which raised $6,979 for the HEADstrong Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the fight against blood cancer. Gonos has also spent time working with Happy Helpers for the Homeless in his home state of Maryland, helping to feed and clothe the homeless in Glen Burnie, Md.
To read Gonos' full Senior CLASS Award bio, click here.
In the Spotlight
The Crimson will play twice in front of a national television audience in 2013 beginning with its March 30 meeting with Duke. The game, which will be aired live on NBC Sports Network, will be played under the lights of Harvard Stadium at 7 p.m. The Crimson will also be featured on ESPNU when it takes the field at Princeton Friday, April 19 at 6 p.m.
Watch Live Online
Harvard has announced that for the first time ever, each of the Crimson's nine home games will be available either through live or on-demand streaming. Eight of the nine will streamed live through GoCrimson.com while the Crimson's nationally televised matchup with No. 13/14 Duke will be available for on-demand viewing shortly after its completion.
A full season pass can be purchased for $59.95 while single event subscriptions will be offered for $9.95. The full season pass will give fans access to each of the eight games streamed live as well as access to the on-demand archive for all nine home contests.
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CHUN Turns 40
Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, former Denver City Councilwoman Cathy Donohue and urban planner Bernie Jones are founders of Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods. Photo by Steve Peterson, Special to The Denver Post
In 1969, a group of young Capitol Hill residents dismayed by urban flight and civic indifference banded together to help bring new luster to the tarnished and neglected corner of Denver that they called home. They considered Capitol Hill the jewel of the center city and were determined to halt a whole bunch of things they saw as unacceptable intrusions to the quality of life they enjoyed, including one-way streets.
When Pat Schroeder, who would be elected to Congress in 1973; Cathy Donohue, who in 1975 was elected to the Denver City Council; and Bernie Jones, assistant director of Colorado Center for Community Development and an associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Colorado Denver, started the grassroots Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods (CHUN) they knew they had a good thing going, but never dreamed it would reach the stature it has today.
It is Denver's largest registered neighborhood association, and is governed by a board of neighborhood delegates. An executive director, Roger Armstrong, has been hired and efforts by the extensive network of volunteers are augmented by about a small paid staff.
In 1974, CHUN assumed responsibility for producing what was then the Capitol Hill People's Fair, a neighborhood crafts festival that raised money for Urban Peak and the Center for the People of Capitol Hill. Today, both organizations are stand-alone nonprofits and the People's Fair is one of the largest events of its kind in the nation.
CHUN also has had a big hand in protecting such civic treasures as the Mayan, Bluebird and Ogden theaters; Temple Events Center, the Crawford Hill Mansion and the Humboldt Street Historic District.
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, CHUN put on a gala celebration at Denver Botanic Gardens. There was food, music by Hazel Miller and lots of reminiscing. Schroeder, Donohue and Jones (who now lives on Vancouver Island) were there, along with enough others to fill the DBG's Mitchell Hall.
CHUN's next big project is the Oct. 31 Boo & Brew, a family-oriented Halloween celebration that begins at 1 p.m. on E. Colfax Avenue between Fillmore and Monroe. Participants are asked to bring a nonperishable food item that will be distributed to the urban food banks operated by Denver Urban Ministries (DenUM) and Metro CareRing. The food drive will continue through December.
Joanne Davidson: 303-809-1314 or email@example.com


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GROTON -- Civilian police officers at the Naval Submarine Base say they spend so much time guarding the perimeter of the base, they're not enforcing state and federal laws within it.
Many officers, some of whom spent years working in municipal police departments, said things have to change to keep the people on the base safe. They describe a climate where drunken driving, speeding and other motor vehicle violations are tolerated.
Capt. Marc W. Denno, the commander of the base, and Patricia Adams, the director of security, say the officers are there to keep the submarines safe. If the subs aren't safe, the base has no reason to exist, Denno said.
"The security department is here for security. That is 90 percent of their job," he said, with public safety in the other 10 percent.
The officers have been at odds with their bosses for months over whether law enforcement should have a higher priority.
Interviews with current and former employees and Navy personnel, as well as documents obtained through the federal Freedom of Information Act or provided by employees, revealed that officers are expected to act more like guards than cops, and that the department has been experiencing a series of disciplinary issues, including the following:
--Fourteen sailors -- or about 10 percent of the staff at the time -- were implicated in drug activity in May and removed.
--Staff complained that the director, who has no law enforcement experience, set an informal tone by bringing her children and father to work and let Navy chiefs deal with problems however they saw fit.
--In September, a chief who was not in uniform grabbed a gun and ran to the main gate when he heard a suspect in a robbery was headed there. The chief was not mistaken for the suspect, but Adams admits he could have been.
--And while the stated mission is "force protection" -- security of the submarines -- someone nearly managed to get onto one during a drill this spring.
Morale reached such a low point that the union representing civilian officers, the National Association of Government Employees, Local R1-100, told Denno in a letter that the department was "on the verge of a crisis."
The union voted "no confidence" in Adams' ability to lead in May, and officers filed complaints with the Naval Inspector General.
The Inspector General found that some of their allegations of mismanagement and regulatory violations could be substantiated but redacted the recommendations for addressing them in the documents released to The Day.
A mix of civilian and military personnel
About 50 of the 120-person security force are civilians. The rest are Navy security specialists, from young sailors just out of training to the Navy chiefs and a lieutenant who help run the department.
Denno said they are not law enforcement officers, but rather, highly trained security personnel. The force is mixed civilian and military because the base does not have enough sailors to fill all the security jobs.
"We're fortunate a lot of our civilian force is retired police officers. They bring quite a bit of experience to the base in that area," he said.
Their mission is anti-terrorism, force protection and maintaining good order and discipline on the base.
Civilian officers are leaving the department at a rate of about 10 per year, about a 20 percent turnover. Robert Faulise, the union president and a base police officer, finds the number high, but Denno said he expected it to be higher since young veterans use the job as a stepping stone.
As a public safety operation, officers on the midnight shift used to park outside the main gate to observe approaching cars and look for signs of drunken driving.
A civilian supervisor who is not in the union said officers are no longer told to look for drunken drivers or enforce traffic laws, which he said is "ridiculous."
"How are we supposed to protect the community if we don't do that?" said the supervisor, who asked not to be named because he feared losing his job for criticizing the department.
The union has documented three cases in the past 18 months in which officers were told to allow vehicles lacking insurance or registration documents to leave the base and go out onto public roads, said Faulise.
Another employee complained to the safety office because he was worried someone would get hurt with many people speeding, talking on their cellphones while driving or not wearing seat belts.
After he did so, he said, he saw security officers use radar guns for one day on the lower base and write dozens of tickets. He said he hasn't seen that since.
"I've been on all kinds of bases and I've never heard of any base that doesn't enforce traffic violations," said the employee, who asked to remain anonymous.
Denno said the department does use detection devices for speeding, and drunken drivers will be pulled over and processed, but he leaves some discretion to the personnel at the gate.
Eight people were stopped on the base for driving under the influence in 2010, four in 2011 and three this year, according to statistics from the base.
The number of traffic citations dropped from about 1,050 in 2010 to roughly 700 in 2011, but then increased to nearly 1,200 this year.
"The ticket-writing, the enforcement of parking, the other side of the law enforcement aspect, they don't have time to focus on that," Adams said. "We get to do it some when we have the manning to do it, but our main priority and focus has to be force protection."
Adams said she tells officers to pull people over and tell them to slow down, but "you don't have to be a jerk and write a ticket."
'Black marks' against the department
Last spring, while the Naval Inspector General was investigating complaints by members of the security force, an individual posing as a contractor in an unannounced drill was let onto an area of the pier where he should not have been.
In the April drill, Adams said, the sentry at the fence let the person pass, and a crew member at the submarine walkway did not thoroughly question the individual. A third crew member stopped him at the entrance to the sub's hatch, she said.
Adams said the Navy had made security departments responsible for training the sentries, and no one in Groton knew about it. The department has since adopted the new training.
Denno said no unauthorized personnel have gotten onto submarines.
In May, 14 active-duty sailors assigned to security were charged with drug use, possession or distribution.
Four of the sailors, John W. Elder, James M. Gutierrez, Nicholas B. Duerson and Derrick A. Sanders, later pleaded guilty at courts-martial.
Duerson was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute methylone, wrongful use of methylone and marijuana, and other charges. He was sentenced to six years' confinement, forfeiture of pay, reduction in rate and a dishonorable discharge.
Sanders was found guilty of distributing ecstasy, methylone and marijuana, wrongful use of ecstasy, methylone and marijuana, and other charges. He was sentenced to five years' confinement, a fine, reduction in rate and a bad conduct discharge.
Elder and Gutierrez were both found guilty of wrongful use of methylone and other charges. Elder was sentenced to hard labor, restriction, a reprimand, forfeiture of pay and a bad conduct discharge. Gutierrez was sentenced to confinement for four months, reduction in rate and a bad conduct discharge. The other 10 were given non-judicial punishment and administrative separation from the Navy.
Denno held a meeting shortly after the incident for all enlisted sailors assigned to the base to discuss his expectations.
Later in July, a car drove in through the exit of the base, and the personnel at the main gate didn't react, Adams said. It turned out the driver had accidentally gone the wrong way.
A meeting was held in August to discuss these "black marks" against the department, she said.
Adams said she reviewed procedures, simplified some and replaced outdated radios so sentries could easily communicate. No one was disciplined, she added.
In September, the Naval Federal Credit Union was robbed and the suspect drove toward the base. Several current and former officers say an off-duty Navy chief in the security force who was on the base grabbed a gun and ran to the main gate.
Base security, New London and Groton Town police jointly captured a suspect in the outbound lane of the main gate. The chief, who was not in uniform, could have potentially been mistaken for the suspect, Adams said.
"Do I think we're doing the best we can with what we have to work with? Yes," she said. "But if the world was perfect and we had all this money, could we do better? Yes."
Director of security
The director of security position had been vacant or filled temporarily for at least seven years when Adams was hired in November 2010.
Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, which encompasses the Navy installations along the Eastern Seaboard, appointed her. Denno said he agreed with the choice.
Some of the department's issues can be attributed to frequent turnover in leadership, Denno said, adding that like security departments across the Navy, it has been under-resourced for about two years.
The region's Inspector General found that Adams was at least partly to blame, too.
The inspector's report faulted Adams for bringing her children and her father to work and driving an emergency vehicle without proper training. It exonerated her of falsifying time cards or tasking subordinates to care for her children.
The investigator noted that Adams did not recognize the perception that it was inappropriate to bring her children into work, and that doing so posed safety issues, potentially distracted her from her official duties and disrupted others.
These type of actions, the report said, "sets the tone for what is considered acceptable conduct for the entire department."
A chief, whose name was redacted in the report, was found to have abused his authority by using abusive language and intimidating subordinates on more than one occasion, the report said.
The investigator recommended a climate assessment to figure out why morale was so low.
Officer David Olson said Adams "tries" but lacks basic knowledge about the discipline it takes to command a department at a submarine base.
Adams said she is the first female leading the security department, which is predominantly male, and some of the officers don't like that.
Others, she said, question her lack of law enforcement experience. An expert in physical security, Adams previously worked for the Air Force. She said she focuses on management issues while the department's security officer oversees operations. Denno re-established the security officer position after the investigation.
Adams said in her previous jobs, the staff was like family and people often brought their kids into the office. In Groton, she said, she didn't "get the same vibe."
"There was a lot of 'us' and 'them' but not a lot of 'we,' and that's one of the things I wanted to see change," she said. "I wanted us to be more of a family. That's something I've been running into resistance on. They have to understand they're my extended family."
She said she never intentionally broke the rules and that her father was helping her paint her office. She said she provided a copy of records from her training to drive an emergency vehicle after the report.
Adams said she received a non-punitive "letter of requirement," describing what she must do to become a better leader.
Faulise said he wasn't sure why the findings focused on minor issues after officers told the investigator about all of the problems, from minimal time spent on law enforcement to poor training and low morale. He would like Adams to be replaced.
Turnover with the military supervisors has improved things somewhat, Faulise said.
"But the person in charge has to take responsibility, and we don't think that's being done," he said.
'The safest place and the most dangerous place'
Denno, the base commander, said he still has confidence in the department's "ability to carry out the mission."
He oversees the security operations but Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, headquartered in Norfolk, Va., has the final say on personnel decisions and the security department's budget.
It's a system with a built-in tension, said Sean Sullivan, a retired Navy captain who commanded the submarine base from 2004 to 2006. Sullivan said when he was in charge, he had the authority to make changes, but the region would have to pay for the personnel.
"When I said, 'Hey, we need more money for X or Y, they'd suggest if we changed our operations we wouldn't need that," Sullivan said. "You had this tension set up in the way the Navy set up the organization."
Starting Jan. 17, Denno said, the security department will become accountable to him. So, too, will the housing, fire, fleet and family services and morale, welfare and recreation departments.
Denno wants to implement additional field training, which the union requested.
"The biggest thing in general would be everywhere you see 'Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic' on the fire trucks or at the other departments that are now aligned to base, they will say they're part of Sub Base instead of Region," Denno said. "We have to change our internal messaging."
One officer who is new to the base but is a seasoned officer from a local police department, said he was baffled as he watched the events unfold over the past several months.
He said on a typical day, everything is fine. But he said he worries how a mismanaged and poorly trained department would respond in a serious incident.
The officer, who asked to remain anonymous, said, "This is the safest place and the most dangerous place I've ever worked in my life."


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IOM report recommends framework to evaluate science behind health claims for foods and drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should apply the same rigor to evaluating the science behind claims of foods' and nutritional supplements' health benefits as it devotes to assessing medication and medical technology approvals, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. There are no scientific grounds for using different standards of evidence when evaluating the health benefits of food ingredients and drugs given that both can have significant impacts on people's well-being, said the committee that wrote the report. It recommended a new framework the agency can use to consistently and transparently judge the appropriateness and validity of the scientific benchmarks used in studies that companies provide to support health and safety claims for their products.
Because it can be time-consuming and difficult to test products against actual clinical outcomes -- such as whether they cure or reduce the risk of a disease -- companies often conduct studies measuring effects on biomarkers, which are used as biological yardsticks or substitutes for clinical outcomes. For example, tumor size is used as a way to measure a cancer drug's effectiveness. Blood level of harmful cholesterol is often used as a biomarker for the risk of heart disease, and drug and food companies make claims about the heart health benefits of their products based on their ability to lower cholesterol levels, even if the products have not been shown to actually decrease heart disease.
FDA has been hampered in its ability to assess the proliferation of health claims being made by food and supplement manufacturers in part because it lacks a process broadly accepted across the regulatory, food, and medical communities to evaluate biomarkers as valid and appropriate measurements to substitute for clinical outcomes. The committee's proposed three-part framework gives the agency a way to consistently and rigorously assess the selection and use of biomarkers across the food, device, and drug areas.
In addition, the report calls on Congress to boost the agency's authority to require further studies of drugs and devices after they are approved if their approval is based on studies using biomarkers as surrogate clinical outcomes. And Congress should give FDA the authority to conduct studies of how well consumers understand food and supplement health claims and require manufacturers to make changes if needed to promote greater clarity.
"Many people naturally assume that the claims made for foods and nutritional supplements have the same degree of scientific grounding as those for medications, and this committee thinks that should in fact be the case," said committee chair John Ball, executive vice president, American Society for Clinical Pathology, Chicago. "Without changes in the way biomarkers are used and assessed, however, health care providers, regulators, and consumers will not be able to reliably collect or judge information to support claims."
The proposed framework entails validating that a biomarker can be accurately measured, ensuring that it is associated with the clinical outcome of concern, and confirming that it is appropriate for the proposed use. Committee members demonstrated the kinds of information and lessons the framework can provide by doing several case studies, looking at tumor size as a biomarker for cancer, blood level of beta-carotene as a surrogate for cancer and cardiovascular disease risk, and cholesterol level as an indicator of heart disease, among others.
The report calls for Congress to enhance FDA's abilities to study how health-related information can be communicated more effectively to consumers to help them better understand the science behind claims they see on packaging. The typical consumer is not aware that claims for food ingredients and supplements are often made based on studies using biomarkers instead of actual health outcomes, and that this introduces a measure of uncertainty.
FDA also needs the resources and authority to act on claims when they are found to cause confusion or to exceed regulatory limits. A report issued by Rep. Henry Waxman's office noted that FDA enforcement of food and supplement health claims declined by more than 50 percent from 2000 to 2005. However, recent actions by the FDA indicate it is engaging in heightened enforcement of food labeling, including health claims.
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