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After argument, the court, on July 28, 1896, entered judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $11,646.67 and costs. From that judgment a writ of error from the United States circuit court of appeals for the First circuit was sued out, and by that court the judgment of the trial court was on March 5, 1897, affirmed. 33 U. S. App. 747, 24 C. C. A. 444, and 79 Fed. 51. From the judgment of the circuit court of appeals a writ of error was allowed to this court.
Frank S. Streeter, for plaintiff in error.
John G. Carlisle and John W. Kern, for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice SHIRAS, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.
The questions presented for our consideration in this case are whether one national bank can lawfully acquire and held the stock of another as an investment, and, if not, whether, in the case of such an actual purchase, the bank is estopped to deny its liability, as an apparent stockholder, for an assessment on such stock ordered by the comptroller of the currency.
By section 5136 of the Revised Statutes a national banking association is authorized 'to exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers and agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other evidences of indebtedness; by receiving deposits; by buying and selling exchange, coin and bullion; by loaning money on personal security; and by obtaining, issuing and circulating notes according to the provisions of this title.'
In construing this provision, it was said by this court in [174 U.S. 364, 367] First Nat. Bank of Charlotte v. National Exch. Bank of Baltimore, 92 U.S. 122 , that 'dealing in stocks is not expressly prohibited, but such prohibition is implied from the failure to grant the power. In the honest exercise of the power to compromise a doubtful debt owing to a bank, it can hardly be doubted that stocks may be accepted in payment and satisfaction, with a view to their subsequent sale or conversion into money, so as to make good or reduce an anticipated loss. Such a transaction would not amount to a dealing in stocks.'
And in the recent case of Bank v. Kennedy, 167 U.S. 362 , 17 Sup. Ct. 831, it was said to be 'settled that the United States statutes relative to national banks constitute the measure of the authority of such corporations, and that they cannot rightfully exercise any powers except those expressly granted, or which are incidental to carrying on the business for which they are established. No express power to acquire the stock of another corporation is conferred upon a national bank, but it has been held that, as incidental to the power to loan money on personal security, a bank may, in the usual course of doing such business, accept stock of another corporation as collateral, and by the enforcement of its rights as pledgee it may become the owner of the collateral, and be subject to liability as other stockholders. So, also, a national bank may be conceded to possess the incidental power of accepting in good faith stock of another corporation as security for a previous indebtedness. It is clear, however, that a national bank does not possess the power to deal in stocks. The prohibition is implied from the failure to grant the power.'
Accordingly it was held in that case that a provision of the laws of the state of California which declared a liability on the part of stockholders to pay the debts of a savings bank, in proportion to the amount of stock held by each, could not be enforced against a national bank, in whose name stood shares of stock in a savings bank; it being admitted that the stock of the savings bank had not been taken as security, and that the transaction by which the stock was placed in the name of the national bank was one not in the course of the business of banking, for which the bank was organized. [174 U.S. 364, 368] It is suggested by the learned circuit judge, in his opinion overruling a petition for a rehearing in the circuit court of appeals, that the question considered in the case of Bank v. Kennedy was the liability of a national bank as a stockholder in a state savings bank, while the question in the present case is as to its liability as a stockholder in another national bank, and that, therefore, it does not follow, beyond question, that the decision in the former case is decisive of the present one. 50 U. S. App. 178, 27 C. C. A. 679, and 82 Fed. 301.
No reason is given by the learned judge in support of the solidity of such a distinction, and none occurs to us. Indeed, we think that the reasons which disqualify a national bank from investing its money in the stock of another corporation are quite as obvious when that other corporation is a national bank as in the case of other corporation. The investment by national banks of their surplus funds in other national banks, situated, perhaps, in distant states, as in the present case, is plainly against the meaning and policy of the statutes from which they derive their powers, and evil consequences would be certain to ensue if such a course of conduct were countenanced as lawful. Thus, it is enacted in section 5146 that 'every director must, during his whole term of service, be a citizen of the United States, and at least three-fourths of the directors must have resided in the state, territory or district in which the association is located for at least one year immediately preceding their election, and must be residents therein during their continuance in office.'
One of the evident purposes of this enactment is to confine the management of each bank to persons who live in the neighborhood, and who may for that reason be supposed to know the trustworthiness of those who are to be appointed officers of the bank, and the character and financial ability of those who may seek to borrow its money. But if the funds of a bank in New Hampshire, instead of being retained in the custody and management of its Directors, are invested in the stock of a bank in Indiana, the policy of this wholesome provision of the statute would be frustrated. The property of the local stockholders, so far as thus invested, would not be [174 U.S. 364, 369] managed by directors of their own selection, but by distant and unknown persons. Nother evil that might result, if large and wealthy banks were permitted to buy and hold the capital stock of other banks, would be that in that way the banking capital of a community might be concentrated in one concern, and business men be deprived of the advantages that attend competition between banks. Such accumulation of capital would be in disregard of the policy of the national banking law, as seen in its numerous provisions regulating the amount of the capital stock, and the methods to be pursued in increasing or reducing it. The smaller banks in such a case would be in fact, though not in form, branches of the larger one.
Section 5201 may also be referred to as indicating the policy of this legislation. It is in the following terms:
This provision forbidding a national bank to own and hold shares of its own capital stock would, in effect, be defeated, if one national bank were permitted to own and hold a controlling interest in the capital stock of another.
Without pursuing this branch of the subject further, we are satisfied to express our conclusion, upon principle and authority, that the plaintiff in error, as a national banking association, had no power or authority to purchase with its surplus funds, as an investment, and hold as such, shares of stock in the Indianapolis National Bank of Indianapolis.
The remaining question for our determination is whether the First National Bank of Concord, having, as a matter of fact, but without authority of law, purchased and held as an investment shares of stock in the Indianapolis National Bank, [174 U.S. 364, 370] can protect itself from a suit by the receiver of the latter brought to enforce the stockholders' liability arising under an assessment by the comptroller of the currency by alleging the unlawfulness of its own action.
This question has been so recently answered by decisions of this court that it will be sufficient, for our present purpose, to cite those decisions, without undertaking to fortify the reasoning and conclusions therein reached.
In Central Transp. Co. v. Pullman's Palace-Car Co., 139 U.S. 24 , 11 Sup. Ct. 478, after an examination of the authorities, the conclusion was thus stated by Mr. Justice Gray:
The principles thus asserted were directly applied in the case of Bank v. Kennedy, 167 U.S. 367 , 17 Sup. Ct. 833, where the question and the answer were thus stated by Mr. Justice White:
There is then quoted a passage from the decision of the court in McCormick v. Bank, 165 U.S. 549 , 17 Sup. Ct. 436, as follows:
The conclusion reached was thus expressed:
In the present case it is sought to escape the force of these decisions by the contention that the liability of the stockholder in a national bank to respond to an assessment in case of insolvency is not contractual, but satutory.
Undoubtedly the obligation is declared by the statute to attach to the ownership of the stock, and in that sense may be said to be statutory. But as the ownership of the stock, in most cases, arises from the voluntary act of the stockholder, he must be regarded as having agreed or contracted to be subject to the obligation.
However, whether, in the case of persons sui juris, this liability is to be regarded as a contractual incident to the ownership of the stock, or as a statutory obligation, does not seem to present a practical question in the present case.
If the previous reasoning be sound, whereby the conclusion was reached that, by reason of the limitations and provisions of the national banking statutes, it is not competent for an association organized thereunder to take upon itself, for investment, ownership of such stock, no intention can be reasonably imputed to congress to subject the stockholders and creditors thereof, for whose protection those limitations and provisions were designed, to the same liability by reason of a void act on the part of the officers of the bank as would have resulted from a lawful act.
It is argued on behalf of the receiver that the object of the statute was to afford a speedy and effective remedy to the creditors of a failed bank, and that this object would be defeated in a great many cases if the comptroller were obliged to inquire into the validity of all the contracts by [174 U.S. 364, 373] which the registered shareholders acquired their respective shares.
The force of this objection is not apparent. It is doubtless within the scope of the comptroller's duty, when informed by the reports of the bank that such an investment has been made, to direct that it be at once disposed of; but the comptroller's act in ordering an assessment, while conclusive as to the necessity for making it, involves no judgment by him as to the judicial rights of parties to be affected. While he, of course, assumes that there are stockholders to respond to his order, it is not is function to inquire or determine what, if any, stockholders are exempted.
The judgment of the circuit court of appeals is reversed. The judgment of the circuit court is also reversed, and the cause is remanded to that court with directions to enter a judgment in conformity with this opinion.
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[305 U.S. 61, 62] Mr. Thornton Hardie, of El Paso, Tex., for petitioners.
Messrs. Homer S. Cummings, Atty. Gen., and Golden W. Bell, Asst. Sol. Gen., for respondent.
Mr. Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.
We are to decide whether the petitioners may maintain an action to recover from a collector of internal revenue sums paid by them as taxes assessed under the Bankhead Cotton Act. 1
During the crop year 1934-1935 the petitioner were engaged in growing cotton and produced a quantity in excess of the allotment for which, under the terms of the Act, they were entitled to obtain tax exemption certificates. Petitioners delivered the excess cotton to Santo Tomas Gin Company, which ginned it and filed returns with the respondent, as collector, showing a tax of some $13,000 due on the ginning. The respondent, as directed by the Act, assessed the tax against the gin company. The latter refused to deliver the cotton to the petitioners until [305 U.S. 61, 63] the tax was paid, and to obtain their cotton the petitioners, in November 1934 and January 1935, paid the tax to the respondent. March 6, 1935 they presented a claim for refund, which was rejected by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue August 22, 1935. Suit was brought against the respondent May 5, 1936, to recover the amount paid with interest, the petitioners alleging that the Bankhead Act was unconstitutional. This the answer denied, and set up the further defense that, under the Act, the petitioners were not liable for the tax, any payment they had made was in discharge of a liability imposed by the Act on the gin company, and, consequently, they were not entitled to maintain the action.
The District Court, a jury having been waived, held that the Act was unconstitutional, that the petitioners could maintain the action, and gave judgment for them. The Circuit Court of Appeals refused to pass upon the constitutional question, as it was of opinion that the trial court erred in sustaining the petitioners' standing, and reversed the judgment. 2 On account of the importance of the case we granted certiorari, 304 U.S. 552 , 58 S.Ct. 943, limited, however, to the question whether the petitioners were the proper parties to maintain the action.
Section 20(b) of the Bankhead Act3 stated the conditions upon which a proceeding might be maintained for the recovery of any sum alleged to have been erroneously or illegally assessed or collected under its terms. The Act was repealed February 10, 1936,4 prior to the institution of the instant action. The petitioners were therefore remitted for recovery of the sum demanded to R.S. 3226, as amended by the Act of June 6, 1932, 1103(a).5 As thereby required, they timely filed a claim for refund, [305 U.S. 61, 64] which was denied, and timely brought their action. Under this section it is unnecessary to plead or prove that the tax was paid under protest or its collection was accomplished by duress.
The sole question for decision is whether the petitioners voluntarily paid someone's else tax. If they did they may not maintain the action. 6
The respondent insists that, by the terms of the Act, the tax is imposed upon the ginner and not upon the producer. The petitioners, on the other hand, point to the provisions of the Act which make the levy of the tax dependent upon the vote of cotton producers and not upon any act of the ginners; which base exemptions from the tax upon the time, manner, and character of production and not upon the time, manner, or character of ginning; which grant exemptions to producers, not to ginners; which condition exemptions upon the producers meeting certain conditions and limitations; and which fix quotas for exemptions to producers. They say Congress never intended the ginner should bear the tax since the Act provides that he is to be reimbursed up to twenty-five cents per bale for additional expense incurred by him in connection with the administration of the Act. They assert that the respondent's contention that the tax is upon the ginning of the cotton is negatived by the fact that it is not assessed upon all cotton ginned regardless of the amount produced by the owner of the particular farm, and that it amounts per bale to approximately five times the amount of the customary charge for ginning. They call especial attention to those sections of the Act which impose a lien for the tax upon the [305 U.S. 61, 65] cotton if it is removed from the gin, forbid transportation of the cotton- the producers' property,-beyond the county where produced except for storage, and prohibit opening of the bale or sale of the cotton until the tax shall have been paid. They say it is obvious the statute made the ginner a convenient collecting agent to enforce payment of the tax and that the purpose was to force the farmer to pay by prohibiting his use of his excess cotton unless and until he paid; and the latter is, therefore, entitled to maintain an action for the refund of the tax if it was illegally collected.
We hold that the petitioner are entitled to maintain the action. The purpose of the Bankhead Act was to restrict the production of cotton and, to that end, to levy a heavy tax in respect of that produced in excess of the farmer's quota. The tax bore no relation to the ginning of cotton. On the contrary, it was intended to fall, and the Act attempted to make it fall, upon the producers. The assessment of the tax against the ginner was intended to immobilize the cotton in his possession until the producer should liquidate the tax. This is evident from the provisions which impose a lien upon the cotton for the amount of the tax upon removal of it from the gin without payment of the tax and while permitting it to be stored by the producer, forbid the opening of a bale or the sale of it until the tax liability shall have been discharged. Plainly the purpose was that if the ginner should release the cotton to the producer while the tax remained unpaid the lien upon it would insure payment by the producer.
The scheme of the Act sets the case apart from any to which our attention has been called arising under other taxing acts. The collector was part of the machinery for compelling the farmer to pay the tax, for immobilizing the cotton and making it unusable until the assess [305 U.S. 61, 66] ment he had made against the ginner was satisfied by payment of the tax. Whether or not the tax was imposed upon the petitioners, they are, according to accepted principles, entitled to recover unless they were volunteers, which they plainly were not because they paid the tax under duress of goods.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings in conformity with this opinion.
Mr. Justice REED took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
[ Footnote 1 ] Act of April 21, 1934, c. 157, 48 Stat. 598, 7 U.S.C.A. 701 et seq.
[ Footnote 2 ] Vidal v. Stahmann Farms, 10 Cir., 93 F.2d 902.
[ Footnote 3 ] 48 Stat. 606.
[ Footnote 4 ] 49 Stat. 1106, 7 U.S.C.A. 701 et seq.
[ Footnote 5 ] 47 Stat. 169, 286, U.S.C. Tit. 26, 1672-1673, 26 U.S.C.A. 1672-1673.
[ Footnote 6 ] Compare Wourdack v. Becker, 8 Cir., 55 F.2d 840; Clift & Goodrich v. United States, 2 Cir., 56 F.2d 751; Ohio Locomotive Crane Co. v. Denman, 6 Cir., 73 F.2d 408; Central Aguirre Sugar Co. v. United States, Ct.Cl., 2 F. Supp. 538; Combined Industries, Inc., v. United States, Ct.Cl., 15 F.Supp. 349.
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The Magic Flute
Sun, 21. Apr 2024, 16:00
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Mixing Viennese folk theatre, Masonic mystery and fairy tale, this opera is probably the most performed in the German-speaking world and, in Günter Krämer's colourful, highly visual production, a favourite with our audiences ... Conductor: Dominic Limburg / Giulio Cilona; Director: Günter Krämer; With Tobias Kehrer / Patrick Guetti / Ante Jerkunica, Matthew Newlin / Attilio Glaser / Kieran Carrel, Hye-Young Moon, Sua Jo / Siobhan Stagg / Lilit Davtyan, Flurina Stucki / Maria Motolygina, Karis Tucker / Annika Schlicht / Arianna Manganello / Irene Roberts, Lauren Decker, Lilit Davtyan / Hyejin Lee / Meechot Marrero, Philipp Jekal / Artur Garbas, Burkhard Ulrich / Gideon Poppe, Ya-Chung Huang a. o. a
Prince Tamino is menaced by a wild dragon. At the last moment he is saved by three mysterious women, who have been sent by the Queen of the Night. When the bird catcher Papageno appears and boasts of his heroic deed as dragon slayer, the three ladies punish him. They present the Prince with a picture of Pamina, the Queen's daughter, who has been imprisoned by Sarastro, Regent of the Sun Temple. Tamino falls in love with her. The Queen appears in person and orders him to join forces with Papageno to save Pamina. They give Tamino a magic flute for protection and the reluctant Pagageno receives a glockenspiel of magical chimes. Led by three boys, the two heroes begin their journey to Sarastro's castle. Tamino is twice prevented from entering by the gatekeepers. At the third attempt they inform him that Sarastro is nothing like the cruel tyrant that the Queen of the Night has made him out to be. Papageno finds Pamina and tries to escape with her. He is able to stall her guard Monostatos with the help of the chimes, but the appearance of Sarastro puts an end to all attempts to flee. Papageno, Pamina and Tamino are compelled to stay in Sarastro's temple and submit to a series of life-threatening trials. First of all they have to learn to be silent, which is especially difficult for Papageno. When an old woman passes, Papageno cannot restrain himself and asks her what her name is. She disappears in a clap of thunder. Papageno consoles himself with the food that is so miraculously served to them. Tamino keeps silent, playing on his flute. Pamina appears, in deep despair that Tamino is no longer talking to her. Her mother has already entreated her in vain to murder Sarastro. When she decides to end her life the three boys seize her dagger and lead her to Tamino. Protected by the flute, both of them pass the ordeals of fire and water, and have now successfully completed all the trials. Meanwhile Papageno, in his great loneliness, conjures up the old woman again and promises to marry her, »if there's nothing better to be had«. All of a sudden she is transformed into a beautiful young girl, but their time has not yet come and she is taken from him again. In his despair he decides to end his life, but the three boys remind him of the magic chimes. Their tinkling brings back Papagena, and the reunion sets them both dreaming of a happy future together. The other pair is happy, too: Tamino and Pamina are inducted into the Society of the Enlightened, which celebrates the ideals of Nature, Wisdom and Reason. Only for the Queen of the Night does the story take a turn for the worse: when she attempts to enter the temple along with her entourage she is devoured by the spirits of darkness.
Mozart's MAGIC FLUTE is the most frequently performed opera in the German-speaking world. This variegated masterpiece straddling Viennese popular theatre, fairytale, myth and the mystery of freemasonry is a puzzle even today: did Mozart and his librettist Schikaneder switch fronts in mid-stream, changing allegiance from the Queen of the Night to Sarastro? Should one not distrust the holier-than-thou world of the priests and an ideology that divides the world into good and evil? Are there not traces, even, of discrepancies between text and music, as many a Mozart expert has suggested? Whatever the facts of the matter, it is the music that smooths the contradictions of the plot, elevating them to a worldly realism. The music does not denounce the characters but rather confers on the conflicts an existential dimension. Without this dimension the opera would come across as an irrational fairytale.
Opera in two actsLibretto by Emanuel SchikanederFirst performed on 30. September, 1791 in ViennaPremiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 24. September, 1991
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7 iOS Games to Make the Wait for XCOM: Enemy Unknown Easier
Posted by Rob Rich on June 7th, 2013
Even with the iOS release of XCom: Enemy Unknown rapidly approaching, some may find the wait unbearable. Playing the original release on Mac, PC, 360, or PS3 is certainly an option but if you're specifically looking to fill the gap on your iOS device (or simply want to play something similar on the go) then today's your lucky day. We've got a list of seven different iOS titles that ought to scratch that itch until Firaxis makes it official. Keep in mind they don't all offer the same exact X-Com experience, but they do all evoke a similar feel for various reasons.
Aliens versus Humans is definitely the list's most faithful to the early X-Com series. Skyrangers and Interceptors are MIA but there's still plenty of that good old back-and-forth between base management and turn-based firefights. New technologies such as advanced weapons and armors can be researched and produced and soldiers can acquire marginal improvements if they survive a number of missions, too. It's the closest thing to playing UFO Defense on your iOS device that you're likely going to find for a good long while.
Hunters 2 shares quite a few key similarities with early X-Com games, but it's not a 1:1 likeness. Many key elements are here; such as hidden enemy movement, soldiers that level up and learn new skills individually, customizable loadouts, and needing to keep an eye on action points (i.e. Time Units). That said it's also its own game with an emphasis on combat over management, daily missions to complete for extra credits in addition to the campaign, and a much smaller (but elite) team to control that prevent the stages from overstaying their welcome.
Tactical Soldier - Undead Rising is another close comparison to the older X-Com series. It's zombies instead of aliens, and it's all about the skirmishes with little in the form of resource management, but it's definitely rocking that tactical vibe. Stylistically it's very reminiscent of getting a squad of rookies killed before they even step off the Skyranger, and there's a big focus on each soldier progressing individually with better stats and abilities.
Battle for Wesnoth might use orcs and elves instead of aliens and space marines, but it still manages to capture some of that classic X-Com magic. Mostly it's because your soldiers can be leveled up individually and sport their own names, but it's also just a very rewarding strategy game. One with a ridiculous amount of campaigns to play through and factions to control.
Frozen Synapse doesn't require any base management. It doesn't have named soldiers that can individually tweaked. There aren't any aliens. And yet, most missions in this simultaneous turn-based strategy game feel quite a bit like X-Com. Your soldiers are just as susceptible to bullets are your enemies, and losing even one can have a huge impact on your strategy and chances for success. There's also the added intensity of planning each move, right down to the little details like which direction a soldier will aim. That in itself isn't so nerve-wracking but having to decide what to do without knowing what your opponent is planning (and vice-versa) can be just as harrowing as being down to your last rookie and knowing that final (you hope) Sectoid is close by.
Star Command is a bit similar to Frozen Synapse in that its strategy is more reactionary. Rather than trying to lure enemies to key positions you need to think fast and get your crew out of harms way while simultaneously trying to avoid getting your ship scrapped and trying to blast your opponent's vessel. There's nothing turn-based about it but the combat can be every bit as lethal and death is just as permanent. Of course it's possible to reload an earlier game in order to save a downed crew member, but that sort of goes against the spirit of it all.
Rebuild might appear to be the least X-com-like game at first glance, but it's actually just as valid as every other title on this list. Instead of capturing the feeling of a desperate struggle to keep your squad alive, it captures the feeling of a desperate struggle to plan ahead and manage resources well enough to prevent total annihilation. In essence it's more like the Geoscape than the battlefield. Carefully taking control of various buildings, divvying out salvaged weapons and clothing, and assigning roles that best fit each survivor's skillset are all essential to not ending up like every pocket of humanity always does in a George Romero movie.


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Scott Nelson to deliver spring Tack Faculty Lecture on April 17
As a writer of historical non-fiction, Scott Nelson's star has been on a steady rise since 2007. As a guest on radio and television, his commentary has proven entertaining and insightful.
William & Mary's Legum Professor of History, Nelson will deliver the spring Tack Faculty Lecture on April 17 at 7 p.m. at the Kimball Theatre. The event is free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register online.
The topic of Nelson's upcoming lecture, "The World That Panics Made," comes from his latest book, A Nation of Deadbeats: an Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters, which was chosen by Bloomberg Business News as one of its "favorite books of 2012."
The 2008 economic meltdown was just the latest in a long line of financial crashes "caused by Americans' knack for embracing complex credit schemes to meet a ravenous hunger for capital," Nelson writes in the book.
He goes on to profile similar disasters in 1792, 1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929. All resulted, he says, in European lenders
wondering, "if Americans would honor their financial promises, or was America simply a nation of deadbeats."
In its review, the New York Journal of Books called Nelson's book "exceptionally readable. ... (Nelson) has painstakingly extracted the sensational details from the mucky ore of the history of financial crises in the U.S., welding them together ... well worth reading -- particularly as it is larded with entertaining characters and powerful citations."
The acclaim for Deadbeats follows that accorded to Nelson's Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of An American Legend. Released in 2007, the book won three major awards, including the Merle Curti Award for best book in American social history.
The Tack Faculty Lecture Series originated in spring 2012 with Biology Professor John Swaddle. He was succeeded by John Morreall of religious studies and Chuck Bailey of geology and, last fall, Debbie Steinberg of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
A generous commitment by Martha '78 and Carl Tack '78 established the Tack Faculty Lecture Series at William & Mary. The commitment creates an endowment for the series and speakers, who are William & Mary faculty members and will receive stipends for their presentations.


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Let's say someone has gotten a little sassy at your family's holiday gathering. Or maybe it's New Year's, and not everyone is getting in the spirit. Here's how to break a beer bottle so it turns into a weapon — using science!
Perhaps others are more used to drunken bar fights than I am, but I always had a problem with that scene in which someone breaks the end of a beer bottle off by smashing it against a counter. Taking a random piece of glass and smashing it against a random object seemed, to me, a quick way to cut up your own hand and leave the arena whimpering. Fortunately, it seems there is an easier way.
Take an open beer bottle — filled to within two inches of the top with liquid — firmly by the neck. (Apparently, the neck can shatter as well. Maybe wrap a bar rag around the neck first.) Hold it in front of you. Then thwap it hard with the heel of your free hand. The bottom should neatly break off of the bottle, leaving a long weapon with a jagged side that you can brandish while screaming, "You want a piece of me? You want a piece of me, huh? You don't call the lightning if you don't wanna face the thunder!" You can also scream something else. I don't want to limit your bar-brawl banter.
How do you get this neat result? When you thwap the bottle on top, the bottle leaps downwards. The liquid (beer? water? urine?) inside doesn't make the same leap. It lags behind, and so a void opens up at the bottom of the bottle. This isn't air sneaking into the bottom of the bottle, it's an extreme drop in pressure between liquid and glass. The void then collapses, fast. This means the water doesn't just fall back into place, but hits the bottom of the bottle with a great deal of force, breaking out the bottom of the bottle. And voila — you have just the thing you need to cause holiday mayhem.
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Seminar on MRV and Carbon Markets:
A Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) / Global Forum on Environment Event
Organised by OECD and IEA
28–29 March 2011, OECD Conference Centre, Paris
This Seminar stimulated dialogue between governments and (non-governmental) experts from a wide range of countries and key organisations on aspects of carbon markets and measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of action on climate change. Given the outcome of Cancún, this Forum offered a timely opportunity to discuss what needs to be reported, and how, in an international context, as well as to consider how to advance the effective use of carbon markets in the implementation of climate policy. The active participation of 150 delegates -- representing 45 countries, of which 12 non-member countries, UNFCCC Secretariat, World Bank, and business and industry -- helped ensure a broad discussion of issues, relevant both globally and domestically. Annotated agenda. Summary Report & List of participants.
Discussion Documents (final versions):
Welcoming remarks
Opening plenary: Cross-cutting issues in MRV and carbon markets
2a. Breakout session: MRV of finance
This breakout session explored how to best monitor and track long-term climate change financial commitments. It focused on how to build on existing UNFCCC reporting mechanisms to create a more comprehensive, reliable and transparent system to understand sources of finance.
Relevant final paper: "Monitoring and Tracking Long-Term Finance to Support Climate Action" by Barbara Buchner (CPI), Jessica Brown (ODI) and Jan Corfee-Morlot (OECD)
Facilitator: Diann Black-Layne, Ambassador and Chief Environment Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Housing and the Environment, Antigua and Barbuda
2b. Breakout session: International consultations and analysis (ICA)
This session explored what ICA could entail in the context of the outcomes from COP 16 in Cancún. It focused on how to design a facilitative process that enhances transparency of mitigation actions and their effects in developing countries.
Relevant draft document: "Key Issues Relating to International Consultations and Analysis" by Gregory Briner (OECD), Nina Campbell (IEA) and Jane Ellis (OECD)
Facilitator: Irene Suarez Perez, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica
3a. Breakout session: Establishing sectoral and national baselines
This session focused on issues involved in setting national and sectoral baselines. The definition and purposes of baselines were discussed, as well as their role in safeguarding environmental integrity and achieving ambitious mitigation goals.
Relevant draft document: "Setting National and Sectoral Baselines" by Andrew Prag (OECD) and Christa Clapp (OECD)
Facilitator: Pedro Martins Barata, Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Environment, Portugal
3b. Breakout session: Sub-national experiences with carbon markets
The aim of this session was to explore the successes and challenges of sub-national carbon market schemes (including cities, states, and regions).
Relevant document: "Cities and Carbon Market Finance: Taking Stock of Cities' Experience with Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) - Executive Summary" by Christa Clapp, Alexia Leseur, Oliver Sartor, Gregory Briner and Jan Corfee-Morlot, November 2010.
Facilitator: Jan Corfee-Morlot, Senior Climate Policy Analyst, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Development Division, OECD Environment Directorate
5a. Breakout session: National communications
This session explored how to enhance reporting on climate-related activities via national communications and biennial update reports to the UNFCCC, in order to fill information gaps, improve transparency and build trust between Parties.
Relevant finalised paper: "Frequent and Flexible: Options for Reporting Guidelines for Biennial Update Reports" by Jane Ellis (OECD), Gregory Briner (OECD), Sara Moarif (IEA) and Barbara Buchner (CPI).
Facilitator: Maurice LeFranc, Senior Advisor on International Climate Change, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), US
5b. Breakout session: Offsets, fragmented approaches and accounting
This session examined issues that may be encountered in accounting for offsets after 2012. Potential frameworks for international GHG accounting will be proposed, and the role different offset and crediting mechanisms may play within these frameworks will be discussed.
Relevant final paper: "Keeping Track: Options to Develop International Greenhouse Gas Unit Accounting After 2012" by Andrew Prag (OECD), André Aasrud (IEA) and Christina Hood (IEA)
Facilitator: Hugh Sealy, Energy and Sustainable Development Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Planning, Economy, Energy, Foreign Trade and Cooperatives, Grenada
6a. Breakout session: Market Readiness
This break-out session looked at the technical, policy and institutional building blocks needed to make new market mechanisms operational. It explored what kind of support for establishing market mechanisms is needed and how it can be provided most effectively.
Relevant paper: "Market Readiness: Building Blocks for Market Approaches" by André Aasrud (IEA), Richard Baron (IEA) and Katia Karousakis (OECD), OECD/IEA Information Paper, November 2010.
Facilitator: Maurits Blanson Henkemans, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Netherlands
6b. Breakout session: Smoothing the transition to emissions trading schemes
This session was designed to address stakeholder concerns when moving to an ETS, including competitiveness and distributional issues.
Relevant document: "Addressing International Competitiveness in a World of Non-Uniform Carbon Pricing: Lessons from a Decade of OECD Analysis", OECD Policy Brief, November 2010.
Facilitator: Russel Mills, Global Director of Energy and Climate Change, Dow Chemical, and Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC)
Related event: September 2011 Global Forum on Environment / Climate Change Expert Group Seminar on MRV and Carbon Markets
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Blind Chinese activist: The path from acupunture to legal eagle
Chen Guangcheng is a self-taught lawyer, who was supposed to be an acupuncturist, a traditional trade for the blind in China. But he started winning lawsuits, and won a popular following.
| Beijing
The blind, corn-country activist at the center of a diplomatic tussle between the US. and China did not set out to be a dissident. Chen Guangcheng taught himself law to defend the constitutional rights he saw trampled so often.
"'What do the authorities want me to do? Lead a protest in the streets? I don't want to do that,'" New York University law professor Jerome Cohen last year recounted Chen as telling him in a moment of frustration after a local court rejected one of his lawsuits.
While Chen never took to the streets, his supporters rallied in his defense when he was imprisoned on what they call fabricated charges and when he was later kept under house arrest and beaten. Ultimately they helped free Chen, seeing him as a symbol for human dignity and for the promise that the law could bring justice in a society seen as unfairly tipped toward the powerful.
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After Chen's surprising escape from his well-guarded rural home April 22 and into the protection of U.S. diplomats in Beijing, his fate is now being discussed in high-level negotiations. Both governments are trying to keep the case from overshadowing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's arrival Wednesday for annual talks on global hotspots and economic imbalances.
Chen's predicament — his improbable flight to hoped-for freedom — has thrilled the many Chinese who are savvy enough to get around Internet censorship to learn about it. And it has reaffirmed for his supporters the qualities they have long admired: Chen displays a determination for upholding the law while exuding a charisma that reassures those around him.
"He's just the most extraordinary person," said activist blogger He Peirong on Friday, four days after she picked up a bloodied Chen outside his village and sped toward Beijing and shortly before she was detained by police for helping him.
"He never gives up. He's very spirited, willful and optimistic," she said.
His principled steeliness was on display in a video statement recorded while he was in hiding last week. In it, he calmly catalogs the mistreatment of him, his wife, daughter and mother while under house arrest. He names the officials who took part in the abuse and then demands an investigation and the protection of his family members, whose whereabouts are not known.
"I also ask that the Chinese government safeguard the dignity of law and the interests of the people as well as guarantee the safety of my family members," said Chen.
The 40-year-old Chen is emblematic of a new breed of activists that the Communist Party finds threatening. Often from rural and working class families, these "rights defenders," as they are called, are unlike the students and intellectuals from the elite academies and major cities who led the Tiananmen Square democracy movement.
The backgrounds of these new activists have helped them tap into the simmering grievances about a rich-poor gap, farmland expropriations, corruption and unbridled official power that are fueling the 180,000 protests that experts estimate rock China every year.
Left blind by a fever while an infant, Chen eventually left his boyhood in Dongshigu village, amid the corn and peanut fields of Shandong province, to attend a school for the blind. Later while studying acupuncture and massage — traditional trades for the blind in China — at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, he taught himself law.
Even before graduating, he began championing the rights of the disabled and farmers in Dongshigu and surrounding areas. He petitioned officials to eliminate taxes on disabled farmers and collected signatures from farmers to shut down a polluting paper factory. His reputation soared after he successfully sued Beijing's subway operator to allow the blind to ride for free.
Profiles and reports in the national media followed.
"The courageous blind peasant defender of rights," the China Youth Daily, the newspaper of the Communist Youth League, called him in a 1994 article. "Thirty-three-year-old Chen Guangcheng is blind. But farmers from all over the area come to him to make decisions in any case of infringement or other disputes."
He went to the United States on a State Department program, during which he talked about his ambition to attend law school and met Cohen, the law professor who became a staunch advocate for Chen. "He is an extraordinary person with a charismatic personality," Cohen said in an interview in 2006. "You are moved by his emotion to try to improve the legal system and human rights."
His resolve was soon tested.
In 2005, Chen and his wife Yuan Weijing documented complaints about forced abortions and sterilization used to enforce a family planning campaign run by Linyi, the city that oversees Dongshigu. Among the cases were several women who said they were forced to have abortions within days of their due dates.
Officials often resort to such illegal measures to enforce policies that limit families to one or two children, fearing that they will otherwise fail to meet national population targets and derail their chances for promotion. An investigation by the national family planning commission later validated Chen's claims, and said that some local officials had been punished for their wrongdoing.
The affair set local leaders against Chen.
He and his family were confined to their home and repeatedly beaten by people he and his wife have said were hired by the local government. When activist lawyers from Beijing tried to see them, they too were beaten and chased away.
In 2006 he was put on trial and sentenced to four years in prison for "damaging property and organizing a mob to disturb traffic" — charges that apparently stemmed from the confrontation between supporters and those enforcing his house arrest.
After his release, he still wasn't free. His house arrest continued, enforced by surveillance cameras and teams of hired locals who guarded his house and the streets into the village. Activists, diplomats, foreign media and Hollywood actor Christian Bale all tried to break the security cordon only to be chased away.
Chen's video last week listed some of the indignities his family suffered: His six-year-old daughter is followed to school, her bag ransacked to make sure she's not carrying anything. The precaution seemed a response to Chen's daring. In February 2011 he surreptitiously recorded a video detailing his house arrest. "I have come out of a small jail and walked into a bigger jail," Chen said in the video.
His perseverance and mistreatment, however, spread Chen's reputation further. "America will continue to speak out and to press China when it censors bloggers and imprisons activists," Secretary of State Clinton said in a speech last year, "and when some, like Chen Guangcheng, are persecuted even after they are released."
Now in U.S. protection, Chen faces a dilemma. His supporters say he wants to stay in China and live with his family in safety, rather than go abroad. Yet it's far from certain Beijing is able or willing to guarantee their safety, unless they take U.S. sanctuary.
Chen also struck a measured note of defiance in last week's video message while asking Premier Wen Jiabao to investigate his family's treatment: "If anything more happens to my family, I will continue to pursue justice."
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SINGAPORE — Held back by the financial crisis in Europe, world trade will grow by a meager 2.5 percent this year, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Friday.
Reuters reports the WTO cut the 2012 estimate (originally set at 3.7 percent growth in April). "I see the risk more on the downside than the upside," WTO Director General Pascal Lamy told a news conference in Singapore. "What could be surprising is that you have a volume of trade that is lower than world growth."
The WTO also lowered its forecast for 2013 to 4.5 percent growth from 5.6 percent, reports AFP. Lamy said Europe's crisis explains much of the downward revision. "The main reason for growth slowing down is being of course Europe where growth is slowing. But not only Europe, we also know that US is lower than expected," said Lamy.
The news comes a day after Germany, Europe's largest economy, which has largely withstood the crisis, reported an expected rise in unemployment in 2013, Die Welt reports.


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Tamela Mann & Travis Greene Lead with Nine Nominations; Hezekiah Walker Receives Seven; Kirk Franklin Earns Six; Jekalyn Carr, Todd Dulaney, Shirley Caesar, Bri (Brianna Babineaux), Livre' & Enon Tabernacle Land Multiple Nominations
Erica Campbell & Anthony Brown to Co-Host Annual Salute to Gospel Music Premiering on TV One Sunday, April 9 at 7 p.m. ET
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Praise and worship breakthrough artist Travis Greene, and chart-topping soloist, Tamela Mann lead the nominations with nine each. Greene is having an amazing year, in the running for both Male Vocalist of the Year and Song of the Year, for his work on The Hill (RCA Inspiration). This inspirational psalmist is also nominated for CD of the Year, Contemporary Male Vocalist of the Year, Contemporary CD of the Year, and Praise and Worship CD of the Year.
Gospel superstar Tamela Mann joins Greene on the Stellar Awards nominee leader board, nominated this year for Artist of the Year, Albertina Walker Female Vocalist of the Year and Contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year, and she is also competing for CD of the Year, Producer of the Year, Song of the Year, and Traditional Female Vocalist of the Year.
With seven and six nominations respectively, veterans Hezekiah Walker and Kirk Franklin demonstrate their staying power in gospel music, recognized for Male Vocalist of the Year, Choir of the Year, Contemporary Choir of the Year and Contemporary Male of the Year for their projects Azusa The Next Generation 2: Better (Walker/EOne Music) and Losing My Religion (Franklin/RCA Records). Franklin also receives a nod for Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, CD of the Year, Producer of the Year and Contemporary CD of the Year.
Jekalyn Carr, nominated for Artist of the Year, and Todd Dulaney are in contention for Male Vocalist of the Year, CD of the Year and Contemporary CD of the Year. Other artists earning multiple nominations include newcomers, Bri (Brianna Babineaux), Livre', Enon Tabernacle and living legend Shirley Caesar.
Multiple Stellar Awards and Grammy Award-winning solo artist, nationally-syndicated radio host and television personality Erica Campbell joins multiple Stellar Award winner, songwriter and arranger Anthony Brown to co-host the 32nd Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards.
Don Jackson, Founder of the Stellar Awards and Chairman of Central City Productions, Inc. commented, "Our 2017 nominees represent the strongest group of Gospel artists and songs in our 32-year history of the Stellar Awards. This year's large number of artists who are first-time nominees is a positive testament to the new and upcoming artists in Gospel Music, as well as, a reflection of the tremendous growth of the Gospel Music Genre."
Mr. Jackson further stated, "The announcement of the 2017 nominees corresponds with the launch of www.stellartv.com, the first phase of the Stellar TV Cable Television Network, which will be officially introduced during the taping at the 32nd Annual Stellar Awards on March 25, 2017″.
The Stellar Awards show taping is open to the public, with ticket prices ranging from $50 – $200 at www.ticketmaster.com.
The Stellar Gospel Music Awards Pre-Show is scheduled for Friday, March 24 to showcase non-televised awards winners. Also, the Stellar Gospel Radio Awards & Showcase will be held on Saturday, March 25, honoring top radio stations and announcers serving urban gospel music audiences. Tickets for each event can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com.
Tamela Mann — 9 Total Nominations
Travis Greene — 9 Total Nominations
Hezekiah Walker — 7 Total Nominations
Jekalyn Carr — 5 Total Nominations
Todd Dulaney — 5 Total Nominations
Shirley Caesar — 4 Total Nominations
Bri (Brianna Babineaux) — 3 Total Nominations
Livre' — 3 Total Nominations
Enon Tabernacle — 3 Total Nominations
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Understanding the CoreView Operator Profile
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Getting Started with CoreView
- Configuration Overview
- Creating CoreView Tenant Administrators
- CoreView Operator Uses Cases & Dependencies
- Creating a License Pool
- Understanding Virtual Tenants
- "Send As" DNS Requirements for CoreAdoption Campaigns (Optional)
- How to enforce MFA on CoreView service accounts
- Creating a License Pool
- How to ensure security for CoreView service accounts
- Disabling MFA for CoreView service accounts
- Set Conditional Access to grant access only inside the CoreView data center
- Configuring
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Exchange Online
- How to check and analyze the Message Trace
- How To Configure Email Forwarding
- How to convert a Shared Mailbox to a User Mailbox
- How to convert a user mailbox to a shared mailbox in Exchange Online
- How to Create Microsoft 365 Groups for Improved Collaboration
- How To Create Shared Mailbox
- How To Create User Mailbox
- How To Grant Access To Mailbox
- How to List all the Mailboxes a User has access to in Microsoft 365
- How to remove delegates from Mailbox
- How to remove user access to Mailbox
- How to review and manage Exchange online mailbox permissions
- How to verify if a user has updated the Password
- Read Permission for Mailbox
- What are security groups and How to create it
- What is a Distribution Group and How to create it
- Exchange Online
- Custom Actions Library
- Getting Started with CoreHybrid
Knowledge Resources
Understanding CoreView - Quick Start Guides.
- CoreView Quick Start Guide Overview and Index - Tenant Admins
- CoreView Quick Start Guide Overview and Index - Operators
- Understanding CoreView Tenant Configuration – Management
- Understanding the CoreView Operator Profile
- Understanding CoreView Operator Roles (New UX)
- Understanding CoreView Operator Roles
- Understanding CoreView Operator Delegation
- Understanding CoreView - Report Column Filtering
- Understanding CoreView Tenant Configuration - V-Tenant User Filters
- Understanding CoreView Tenant Configuration - Portal Information
- Understanding CoreView Tenant Configuration Options
Troubleshooting Common Issues
- Unable to see OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange Data
- Remote Office 365 PowerShell session can Conflict CoreView Management Actions
- Why I cannot save the changes on existing License pool?
- Error when attempting to perform a Management Action
- Unable to modify the Assigned Licenses in my License Pool Report
- Enabling Permission for Endpoint Manager Actions
- How to enable permission for BitLocker keys report
Tenant Administration
- How to recreate Admins Read-only
- How to add an operator to the portal?
- How to enable and configure CoreView management session
- How to provide a consent to activate Azure AD Reports Feature and activate Partial Import?
- Tips & Tricks: Leverage Pivot Reports to Prototype License Pool Criteria Filter
- Tips & Tricks - How to manage email notifications for newly added Operators.
- Disable MFA from Read Only Service Accounts
- How To: Report on "Consumed Portal Licenses"
- How to Configure Allowed IP Addresses for CoreView Service Accounts
- Tips & Tricks: How to merge License Pools
- How to Use CoreView's Global Report Filters
- How to use the What If tool to check Azure AD conditional access policies
- How to Configure Allowed IP Addresses for CoreView Service Accounts
- How to Archive a Teams Group
- How to Restore a Teams Group
- On-demand Import for a Single Device in Endpoint Manager (Intune)
- Custom Actions using the Microsoft Graph API
- How to set up your tenant for the switch to Microsoft Graph API
- GraphAPI configuration: How to get Client ID and Client Secret
- How to provide consent to import exchange information
Reporting and Analytics
- How do I Check and Manage Calendar Permissions for a User?
- How CoreView can help you with your Microsoft 365 Chargeback Goals.
- New UX: Understanding the new License Centers
- Understanding the Savings Opportunities Dashboard
- Understanding the License Optimization center
- Understanding License Pool Snapshots report
- Understanding Call quality dashboard
- Understanding Call quality report
- Understanding User call quality report
- Understanding Teams groups activity report
- Understanding Teams Adoption Growth Report
- Understanding Endpoint Manager reports
- Understanding Teams dashboard
- Understanding Risky Users report
- Understanding Storage Dashboard
- Troubleshoot Active Users (License Usage) data
- Legacy Protocol Management
- Report Columns: Is active 30/60/90
- Quarantined Messages Report - Understanding The Reports
Managing and Administration
- Teams Voice: Direct Routing Support
- How to enable management function?
- Forward SMTP Address vs Forward Address management actions
- How to add the users in bulk while executing Users management actions?
- How to Create & Manage Custom Actions
- How to schedule a report to be sent automatically, and how to modify its scheduling options?
- How to schedule an alert report for the License Count
- Tips & Tricks – How to read and modify license pool report?
- Overview of CoreView Workflow
- How to delegate Workflow management using roles
- How to configure CoreView and ServiceNow integration
- How to Enable Multi Factor Authentication for Operators and Admins who Access the CoreView Portal
- How Can I Migrate from Group-Based Licenses to Direct Licenses Managed by CoreView?
- Naming convention rules
- Custom Actions: Forbidden and Warning Values
- How to add users to Distribution Group in bulk using via CSV
- Not able to manage licenses error
- Using custom action json output as an input in the workflow
- Setting the Sensitivity Label on SharePoint as a Mandatory Field
- DistinguishedName vs OnPremisesDistinguishedName
- Understanding CoreView - Quick Start Guides.
- CoreView Product Manual
- Health Check
- Actions
Out-of-the-Box playbooks
- Introduction
- Overview
- Configuring predefined policies
- Edit policy settings: Set and monitor thresholds
- Edit remediation settings: Manual and automatic remediation
- Edit remediation settings: Configure attestation
- Remediation settings: Security & Identity policies
- Remediation settings: Teams Management policies
- Remediation settings: License Management policies
- Remediation settings: SharePoint & OneDrive Management policies
- Remediation settings: Exchange Management policies
- Out-of-the-Box playbooks
- Workflows
- Learning Platform
- Internal Customer Care Resources
- Archive
- PowerShell
- Webinars and Events
- CoreVoice
- Internal Support
An operator in CoreView is defined as any individual in your organization who may have reason to log into CoreView for any valid business or technical reason. Operator accounts are created and maintained only by CoreView Tenant Admins and each Operator Profile can be configured to support any desired level of delegation.
- Personal Info tab - Provides relevant information on an Operators Name, UPN, email account, as well as any assigned Roles.
- CoreView Skus tab – Allows a TenantAdmin to limit an Operators access only to specific products. Because access to CoreView features and functions can be better controlled using permissions, we do not recommend the use of this option.
- V-Tenants tab – Where you delegate to an Operator a previously created Virtual Tenants, which controls the scope of Office 365 data they can see.
- Permissions tab - Where you delegate to an Operator a previously created Permission, which controls the features to which they have access. Note: Operators can only be assigned one Permission at a time.
- License Pools tab - Where you delegate to an Operator one or more previously created License Pools, which controls and informs their ability to manage end user Office 365 licenses.


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After a decade of painstaking research, we have concluded that American firms are on average the best managed in the world. This is not what we — a group of European researchers — expected to find. But while Americans are bad at football (or soccer, as it's known as locally), they are the Brazilians of Management.
Over the past decade, a team from Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company, and Stanford has systematically surveyed global management. We have developed a tool to measure management practices across operational management, monitoring, targets, and people management. We scored each dimension on a range of practices to generate an overall management score, surveying over 10,000 firms in 20 countries. This has allowed us to create the first global database of management practices.
Here are some of our findings.
Well managed firms thrash their poorly managed competitors
First, not surprisingly, we find that organizations with better management massively outperform their disorganized competitors. They make more money, grow faster, have far higher stock market values, and survive for longer. (For details see our previous HBR blog post.)
The American Management Century
Second, when it comes to overall management, American firms outperform all others. This U.S. dominance occurs in the manufacturing, retail, and healthcare sectors (but interestingly, not in high schools). Japanese, German, and Swedish firms follow closely behind. In contrast, developing countries like Brazil, China, and India lag at the bottom of the management charts. Southern European countries like Portugal and Greece appear to have management practices barely better than those of most developing countries. In the middle stand countries like the UK, France, Italy, and Australia, which have reasonable but not brilliant management practices.
Bottom dwellers drive the rankings down
While the ranking of countries is certainly eye-catching, the real story lies within the countries. Almost 90% of the cross-country differences are driven by the size of the "tail" of really badly managed firms within each country. Countries like the U.S. that excel have hardly any badly managed firms, while those like India that have low average scores have a mass of very badly managed firms pulling down their averages.
Every country has some world-class firms
But while there are many of these extremely badly managed, every country also hosts some excellent firms. Even bottom-ranking India has dozens of firms that use world-class management practices. A key takeaway is that individual companies are not trapped by the national environments in which they operate — there are top performers in all countries surveyed. Conversely, being in a world-class environment like the U.S. does not guarantee success. Even in America, more than 15% of firms are so badly managed that they are worse than the average Chinese or Indian firm.
What is the secret sauce of management success?
One of the biggest drivers of these differences is variation in people management. American firms are ruthless at rapidly rewarding and promoting good employees and retraining or firing bad employees. The reasons are threefold.
- The U.S. has tougher levels of competition. Large and open U.S. markets generate the type of rapid management evolution that allows only the best-managed firms to survive.
- Human capital is important. America traditionally gets far more of its population into college than other nations.
- The U..S has more flexible labor markets. It is much easier to hire and fire employees.
Many developing-country firms, even while trying to implement new techniques like Lean Management, ignore the fact that labor is different from other "inputs." Many of the Chinese firms surveyed did not even employ managers who spoke the same language as the workers, relying on interpreters or basic sign-language for communication. As you can imagine, this does not lead to a feeling of mutual support between management and workers.
But the U.S. should not be complacent. Other countries equal or better the U.S. in some of the other areas of management we examined, such as careful monitoring, lean production, and sensible targets. The manufacturing prowess of Germany, which has helped it weather the recent downturn so well, is built upon such advantages. Furthermore, although Chinese management practices are well below U.S. standards, they showed the fastest improvement since 2006 of any country we have looked at.
Changing the ranks and reaping the rewards
What lessons emerge for others wanting to reach the top of the ranking?
The answer is not for all firms to be more American but rather to consider some of the practices U.S. firms — and especially U.S. multinationals — continually exhibit and implement. Across all countries, organizations that properly incentivize talented workers, whether through promotion, pay, or other rewards, outperform others. As best practices spread and firms continue to implement these techniques they will narrow the existing gaps, reaping huge growth and profitability gains.
Do you want to know where your firm would fall in the rankings? For more on our research agenda and related work, go to the World Management Survey, where you can also benchmark your own organization and determine where you fall within the ranks of your industry or nation.
Nicholas Bloom is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Rebecca Homkes is the Director of the Management Project and a Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Raffaella Sadun is Professor of Strategy at Harvard Business School. John Van Reenen is the Director of the Centre for Economic Performance and a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.


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Tickle his prostate with an egg beater. Awesome.
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Recipe by: The Vegetarian No-Cholesterol Family-Style Cookbook
Servings: 6
8 medium carrots, peeled and sliced
3 bananas, peeled and sliced
1/2 C orange juice OR 1/3 C orange juice and 2 Tbs lemon juice
1/2 C golden raisins
1 to 2 T minced fresh ginger (optional)
1/4 C sliced toasted almonds (optional)
Simmer sliced carrots in water until almost tender. Drain. Add bananas and juice and bring to a simmer again. Bananas will swell and then dissolve to form a sweet glaze. Just as carrots become cooked, add raisins and ginger. Stir to coat all ingredients and serve hot. Sprinkle with toasted almonds if desired.