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When Durango hosts a fundraiser for three local Winter Olympic hopefuls, guess who shows up?
Other Olympians, thats who.
And national champions, world champions champions at every level, at every age, in a multitude of sports and a variety of businesses.
In a town like this, there are so many inspiring people, Durango Olympic biathlete Lanny Barnes said as she gazed across the benefit crowd gathered in the basement of the Irish Embassy Pub on Friday night.
There was three-time mountain bike Olympian Todd Wells.
Not far away stood cycling legend, national and world champion Ned Overend.
On the other side of the room, three-time Olympic Nordic skier Mike Elliott of Durango chatted with Craig Ward of Aspen, a former U.S. Ski Team racer, and Dolph Kuss of Durango, yet another former Olympic skier.
These are inspiring people, Barnes said. Not only great athletes but people who work hard in their jobs and make this town what it is.
She said she and twin sister Tracy, both 29, draw inspiration from their Durango hometown that continues to line up support for their international biathlon careers.
The daughters of Deborah and Thad Barnes of Durango both have experienced the Olympics 2006 and 2010. Both want to experience the Olympics again 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
The Friday-night fundraiser, sponsored by the Durango Nordic community, was established to help the training efforts of the Barnes twins and Durango Nordic ski racer Tad Elliott, who also is bidding for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team for 2014.
The support we have back here at home just pushes us that much harder, Lanny Barnes said. That support ... motivates us. I think the people in this room sum it up.
We dont look at this as just a group of supporters. These people are family to us.
The long months of international travel for their sport can be daunting.
But just knowing youre inspiring people back home ... it pushes you to do your best, said Lanny Barnes, the older of the twins by 5 minutes.
Tracy and I have always been about doing this for the people around us.
In another corner of the Embassy, Tad Elliott talked about the vital support Durango provides for his cross country racing endeavors and his dream of racing for the United States in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The Durango High School graduate and former Durango Nordic racer scored his first World Cup Nordic points last season, when he also won his third U.S. national title.
Elliott, the son of Mike and Nancy Elliott, also won the prestigious American Birkebeiner ski marathon last winter.
It feels like well be racing at home all year, said Elliott, who left Sunday morning on a four-flight trip to Finland where the U.S. skiers will have a training base above the Arctic Circle.
After racing in Finland, Sweden and Finland again, Elliott said hell be back home.
We have World Cups in (North America) this year. I can come home and train in Durango, he said of the World Cup races set for Canmore, near Banff, in Canada.
Elliott spent the skiing offseason as a professional mountain bike racer with the Durango-based Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Sweet Elite team. A former junior national mountain bike champion, Elliott finished sixth at the U.S. Mountain Bike Nationals in Sun Valley, Idaho.
He also spent extensive time training in Park City, Utah, with the U.S. Ski Team staff and coaches, including Nordic coach Jason Cork, a former Durango Nordic coach.
Jasons my coach again now, Elliott said. He was my coach here in Durango (as a junior).
He said the strength room work in Park City over the summer helped significantly.
I havent gotten much bigger, but Ive gotten a lot stronger, said Elliott, and he cant wait for the new racing season to begin.
But first, he personally thanked everyone who attended the Olympic fundraiser in downtown Durango. The event, he said, will help him make a push for Sochi.
Besides, the gathering was fun.
Elliotts close pals on the U.S. Ski Team, Noah Hoffman and Michael Ward of Aspen, drove down to Durango to attend the fundraiser along with their parents and return the favor. A similar fundraiser was held earlier this week in Aspen, with the Durango crew on hand for support.
Were all in this together, said Craig Ward, Michaels dad. Its not an Aspen thing or a Durango thing or a Vail thing. We came down here to show our support. As you can see, theres nothing better than supporting your local kids.


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The SEC alleges that Pennsylvania resident Frank L. Pavlico III and Washington D.C. attorney Brynee K. Baylor offered investors risk-free returns of up to 20 times the original investment within as few as 45 days through the purported "lease" and "trading" of foreign bank instruments in highly complex transactions involving unidentified parties and secretive "trading platforms." However, the bank instruments and trading programs were entirely fictitious. Pavlico and Baylor provided investors with phony contracts and legal documents, digitally-created computer screen shots, and copies of fictitious foreign bank instruments as purported proof of the ongoing success of the transactions. Baylor and her law firm Baylor & Jackson P.L.L.C. acted as "counsel" for Pavlico's company The Milan Group, vouching for Pavlico and acting as an escrow agent that in reality was merely receiving and diverting the majority of investor funds.
"Pavlico and Baylor produced paperwork dotted with legal-sounding gibberish designed to deceive investors into believing this is a highly-sophisticated investment opportunity," said Stephen L. Cohen, Associate Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "This case is particularly egregious because attorneys hold a special position of trust, and Baylor and her law firm cloaked the Milan investment in the guise of licensed legal services to deceive investors and steal their money."
Prime bank schemes typically lure investors into believing they are being given an exclusive chance to participate in an international investing program involving complex financial instruments that generate astronomical profits. Promoters often stress secrecy as a key to the success of the investments, and explain away the lack of specificity by stating that the financial instruments are too technical and complicated for non-experts to understand.
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You might have heard it while watching the climax to an action-packed movie. You might have heard it in an elegant concert hall. You might have even heard it on The X Factor.
It's intense. It's powerful. And it will move you.
This is the music of Carmina Burana.
Seamless integration between sporadic bursts of energy, rhythm, and triumph, strung together by a haunting echo in the background define this style of music. And despite how startlingly demonic the music may sound, underneath it all, there is something still enchantingly reassuring about it.
Looking up to the lyrics to one of the more popular, well-known songs "O Fortuna," reassured me of this feeling. "…hateful life first oppresses, and then soothes as fancy takes it poverty and power, it melts them like ice." The music isn't meant to be malicious or intimidating...it's meant to be didactic. There's an enlightening truth behind the cyclical nature that defines fate. Carmina Burana's music is meant to serve as a vehicle for this message.
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The LA Times, New York Times and Sacramento Bee have all poked a little fun at Texas for this turn of events. And State Treasurer Bill Lockyer seemed to be enjoying Texas' bad news, telling the LA Times: "Someone just turned the lights on in the bar, and the sexiest state doesn't look so pretty anymore."
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Q. Social Services have been investigating myself and my children following reports made by my ex-partner's family. Even though these reports are not true, a care order has been mentioned. Could I please have more information on what this is?
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CO binding to hemoglobin is irreversible.
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Small animals (birds, mice, etc.) die more quickly because their hemoglobin binds CO more avidly than that of humans, thus they were used as alarms for CO in mines.
The fetus is protected from CO by the maternal body.
Good COHb measurements can be obtained one day to a week after a person leaves the site of the CO poisoning.
Breathing "clean" air for 2-3 hours will eliminate all CO from the body.
Breathing 100% oxygen for 20-30 minutes will eliminate all CO from the body.
Breathing (filter) masks protect the wearer from the inhalation of CO.
The skin, nail beds, etc. of people with CO poisoning are invariably red or pink in color.
Fever is a symptom of CO poisoning.
Nasal congestion, cough, and hoarseness are symptoms of CO.
The lungs are inflamed by low to moderate levels of CO and will show pathology on X-rays.
Symptom clusters involving prolonged headache, dizziness, nausea, and fatigue of the whole family should be blamed on viruses, bad food, or group craziness.
Everyone responds to CO in the same way, ie. show the same symptoms.
Treatment, Outcome
Inhalation of 100% oxygen from a re-breathing mask or from nasal prongs are recommended best immediate means of removing CO from the body.
Victims of CO poisoning should be released from medical care immediately following 1-2 hours of oxygen treatment, whether or not their symptoms have disappeared.
There is no need for repeat COHb measurements, psychometric tests, or other clinical tests following medical treatment for CO poisoning.
People who recover from CO poisoning are always completely normal.
Depression and personality change never result from CO poisoning.
CO exposure never produces brain damage unless there is a period of unconsciousness.
Low / moderate CO exposure cannot produce brain damage or significant changes in functional performance.
In environments containing CO, the levels of CO
, oxygen and other gases are unimportant in the degree of poisoning.
Physicians receive adequate training in the diagnosis and treatment of CO poisoning in medical school.
Physicians obtain adequate experience with CO poisoning in treating their patients.
Psychiatrists and neurologists are the best medical professionals of choice to determine the extent of CNS damage caused by CO.
High-tech imaging devices (CT, MR, SPECT) always shows areas of brain damage from CO poisoning, if it exists.
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The important investments made by Ocrim are the demonstration of its will to grow. Many are its activities all around the world - in particular, milling plants, feed mills, bio-ethanol plants, silos, cereal conveying lines and electrical installations; but the underlying factor in all this is the industrialisation - in other words the standardisation - of production processes in order to cut primary costs, thus offering competitive prices without jeopardising product quality.
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Most mental health clinics have suspect Medicare claims
A troubling new report on for-profit mental health centers reveals nearly all of those in Houston have problems with their Medicare claims, confirming many of the problems first reported by the Houston Chronicle nearly a year ago.
The report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, found that 13 of the 16 clinics in Houston - 81 percent - had "questionable" claims submitted to Medicare. These types of clinics, known as "community mental health centers," offer intense mental health therapy in an outpatient-setting, as an alternative to a mental health hospitalization.
After examining claims submitted to Medicare during 2009 and 2010, the agency noted several billing problems: clinics billing for services not needed, patients being sent long distances for treatment and the fact that patients were not being referred to the for-profit clinics by health care providers first.
The Houston Chronicle reported nearly a year ago how the amount of Medicare dollars flowing to two troubled sectors - private ambulances and mental health clinics - was steadily rising. The news organization's reports detailed how able-bodied Medicare enrollees were frequently being ferried by ambulances to clinics all over the Houston area.
'In bed together'
The Chronicle stories also pointed out how lax regulation of both sectors raised questions about the amount of fraud generated from both private ambulances and for-profit clinics.
"They are in bed together," Joseph Prekker, Houston's top agent for the U.S. Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General, told the Chronicle then, of EMS companies and for-profit mental health clinics.
Clinic investigations
In the last year, the owners of one clinic, Spectrum, have been indicted for health care fraud, the assistant administrator overseeing the outpatient clinic programs at Riverside General Hospital has pleaded guilty to health care fraud charges and federal investigations have continued into both Riverside and Westbury Community Hospital, which also bills Medicare for outpatient psychiatric care.
No indictments against Westbury have ever been filed.
Nationwide, for-profit mental health centers received $218.6 million for providing outpatient psychiatric treatment to 25,000 Medicare enrollees.
Lack of state licensing
Tuesday's federal report stated that contributing to the billing problems overall, was the fact that "90 percent of (clinics) with questionable billing were located in states that do not require CMHCs to be licensed or certified."
Texas is one of a handful of states that does not require the these types of clinics to be licensed. The others are Louisiana and Florida.
Although small in number, the Texas clinics alone generated more than $50 million in Medicare payments in 2010. Of the 23 clinics in Texas during the time period studied, 16 were in Houston.
State. Rep. Garnet Coleman, who is on the House Committee on Public Health, says he's willing to take a look at whether Texas should license clinics that offer outpatient care for the mentally ill.
'Should be explored'
"It's something I would certainly look into," he said. "I think it should be explored."
He cautioned, however, that the license fees generated would have to be enough to pay for real regulation.
"One of the things that happens is that states go in and regulate everything," Coleman said. "It has to be fiscally possible."


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Hands On with Nokia's 41-Megapixel Lumia 1020
The camera in Nokia's newest smartphone is pretty impressive, but it's important to remember it's a (Windows Phone 8) phone first -- not just a camera. AllThingsD's Lauren Goode reviews the Lumia 1020.
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While overseeing a hearing on the PRO-IP Act, a bill that might make statutory damages for copyright infringement even more obscene, Rep. Howard Berman, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, pondered out loud about other ridiculous copyright stuff he wants to do. Like make the DMCA an even more horrible piece of legislation by neutering its safe harbor provisions.Like the ones protecting ISPs from getting sued because no-no content whisks through their tubes and that basically form YouTube's lifeline. He also wants to consider making content filtering mandatory, like the insane whole-network one AT&T's thinking about firing up.
Needless to say, this would make Hollywood happier than fecal-eating pigs in shit—Viacom's been fighting YouTube's safe harbour claims in its ongoing lawsuit, for instance. If the safe harbour provisions were strung out, YouTube really would be blasted out of existence, along with any other site that puts up user-generated content. Not that any of that matters more than the almighty dollar to the studios. [Ars]


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'The Future of the Office?' was the title of an essay published in 1982 by George Nelson. Like the seminal American architect and designer, Vitra has dedicated itself to the very same question for many years and is now probing potential solutions in its new Workspace – an interactive presentation of innovative ideas, insights, projects and products on the themes of the workplace and public spaces.
The structure of the Vitra Workspace resembles a mosaic: product groups by Vitra are arranged together with Artek furniture in staged settings that demonstrate contemporary constellations for office interiors. The spatial concept is complemented by an independent workshop area and a material and reference library as well as a café and four installations on the office theme. The experimental project is located in a bright, expansive space on the first floor of the Gehry factory building on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein.
The Vitra Workspace functions as an interactive installation – dealers and customers are encouraged to test, combine, plan, learn and gain inspiration. The Workspace visualises modern working environments while simultaneously considering the office in the context of its historic origins and development – offering a unique perspective on the theme of the office. The concept was devised and executed by the London office of the Swedish architect and designer Pernilla Ohrstedt and the L.A.-based designer Jonathan Olivares. Ohrstedt is known for her work with interactive spaces and for her unconventional treatment of materials. Olivares concentrates on the interfaces between the disciplines of industrial, spatial and communication design. For the Vitra Workspace, the two designers collaborated to create a unified spatial choreography. The Workspace is a pioneering project. It is a showroom for the Vitra Office segment, but one that goes beyond mere showcasing – in terms of both the physical location and the underlying concept. Situated on an axis with the VitraHaus, the Vitra Design Museum, a Vitra factory and the Citizen Office, it forges links between design theory and practical office solutions, between a focused work atmosphere and the ever-changing dynamic of a public space.


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(Mar '01) Welfare Running Out / Shelters Full
About 71,400 New York families receiving welfare benefits will reach the five-year limit by the end of the year, reports the New York Times ("State's Poorest Facing Loss of US Aid"). Twenty-eight percent of them are working poor who put in an average of 30 hours a week at a job but still do not earn enough to lift their families out of poverty. Fifteen percent are disabled. The majority, about 59,000, live in New York City.
At the same time, homeless shelters have been filled to their highest capacity since the 1980's this winter, with the largest increases coming from women and children. Since the fall, 500 families eligible for domestic violence refuge were unable to be placed and were sent instead to the general Emergency Assistance Unit in the Bronx ("Hurting for Space, City's Domestic Violence Shelters Fall Short," New York Daily News).
The city responded to the shortage, and a court deadline about to expire, by promising to create 517 new units before next winter, including 100 new units available immediately ("City Agrees to Add Rooms for Homeless," New York Times).
No Lawyers in Family Court
Lawyers representing the poor in family and criminal court have been complaining for years about the low rates they receive from the state for their work. They have not had a fee raise in fifteen years, and New York State's rates for assigned counsel are lower than those in all states but one. In protest, many lawyers have stopped accepting new cases and, for the last month, there have been no lawyers to appoint in Family Court. The extent of the disaster can be seen in this report from Manhattan Family Court Judge, Judy Adams, in an op-ed in the Times ("A Daily Disaster for Children"): "A wheelchair-bound 13-year old girl with cerebral palsy sat at Laight Street (the processing office where children await foster home placements) for seven days and nights. Her indigent grandmother from whose home she has been removed, had no assigned attorney, so a hearing that might have sped the case up was delayed. (Because she was disabled, she needed a specialized placement.) The grandmother was unable to reach a caseworker to arrange a visit, so these two, who had never been separated since the girl's birth, had no contact with each other." After ignoring the issue for too long, Pataki and state legislators have promised increases for the the lawyers, but the money may not come through until next year.
New Prescription Fees
A new policy by the City's Health and Hospital's Corporation to exact a fee on prescription drugs sold at hospital pharmacies has been recently introduced and advocates for the poor are concerned that this will discourage poor patients from getting needed prescription drugs. According to a story in the New York Times ("City Hospitals Imposing Fees At Pharmacies"), the Health and Hospital's Corporation created the fee policy out of desperation for some income, and the policy does state that "no patient is to leave empty handed because of inability to pay." It also would not apply to emergency room or hospital stays or for those in prenatal or AIDS programs. Several patients have already reported being turned away, however, when they didn't have the $40 or $50 for their medications (the fee is $10 for each prescription). "It is too much money for me," one woman told the Times, when she was unable to pick up prescriptions for asthma and diabetes.
IRS After the Poor
Tax returns of the working poor make up almost half of all IRS audits, forty-four percent, while the audit rate for those earning $100,000 or more has dropped from about nine percent to one percent ("Auditing the Poor," New York Times.)
State Employees With Disabilities Can't Sue
States that discriminate against disabled employees of the state cannot be sued for damages under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision ("Justices Give the States Immunity From Suits by Disabled Workers," New York Times).
After months of deliberations, the court found that private lawsuits against the state under the 1990 federal disabilities law violates state immunity from prosecution without consent, as promised in the 11th Amendment of the constitution. The fact that equal protection against discrimination is also promised by the 14th Amendment was overruled in that disability discrimination, much like aging discrimination, seems to be low status in the high court's opinion, the kind of discrimination that some some even consider rational. In his ruling, Chief Justice William Reinquist said, "It is entirely rational and therefore constitutional for a state employer to conserve scarce financial resources by hiring employees who are able to use existing facilities" that do not require accommodation as stipulated under the ADA.
The ruling does not affect suits filed by employees in most businesses, only state employees, although the justification that conserving financial resources has a higher value than protecting against discrimination could conceivably be used again to further erode the law.
On the horizon, the court will be deciding whether to hear another claim of state immunity, this time challenging ADA provisions that require government agencies to make services accessible to people with disabilities, such as curb slits at crosswalks and accessible buses. According to Linda Greenhouse in the Times, "under the analysis the court applied [in this recent ruling], there is every reason to suppose that the justices will find the states immune from suit under this section as well as the employment section."
A recent Times editorial on the ruling ("The Court Usurps Congressional Power") chided the court for "expand[ing] it's own power at the expense of Congress's rightful constitutional authority to decide which new laws society requires."
One of the original drafters of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Chai R. Feldbaum, a Professor at Georgetown Law School, told the Times that "people with disabilities will be second-class citizens if the trend in the courts continues. I don't think this means the ADA as a law is in danger with regard to most employers and businesses," she said. "What it does portend poorly for is the rights of disabled people with regard to the states - in education, voting rights, mental health and other areas." ("Ruling on Disability Rights Called a Blow by Advocates").
Meanwhile, a lengthy review ("Getting States' Rights Right") of a new book on the doctrine of states' rights is in the March Atlantic Monthly, making a case that both conservatives and progressives have sought refuge in states' rights depending on the issues, which have ranged from using it to defend slavery and segregation to seeking protection from corporate exploitation.
Aging in Place-Without Proper Care?
Assisted Living, the housing alternative for elderly adults who no longer wish to live completely on their own, is a fast-growing industry. In New York State, 100 assisted living centers have appeared in the last ten years. Based on a widely appealing philosophy, "aging in place," the centers also apparently benefit from a relaxation of state regulations that govern adult homes, according to an article in The New York Times("Experiment in Assisted Living Exposes Confusion on Rules").
Alzheimer's patients that are normally moved into nursing homes when they required 24-hour care are being allowed to stay on in assisted living centers and one state regulator who objected has been barred from any further investigations of centers or adult homes run by Alterra, the company whose practices the regulator highlighted.
Cynthia Rudder, Director of the Nursing Home Community Coalition of New York State, told the Times she was not aware of the relaxed regulation "experiment" being sanctioned by the state. "We are in favor of aging in place," she said, but she found this situation to be "a betrayal of the public trust, as far as I'm concerned."
In 1999, Governor Pataki introduced a proposal to regulate the assisted living industry but it was not well received and soon died. Families are often against regulations that would force aging parents out of assisted living and into nursing homes. And politicians, too, appreciate keeping the elderly in facilities they themselves pay for as opposed to relying on nursing homes that the taxpayer pays for.
Charges of neglect in assisted living centers, however, have been surfacing, with reports of festoring bedsores, burns from hot water bottles, delays in calling an ambulance when a resident broke her leg, and letting one Alzheimer patient just wander off. Also of interest is just how the industry manages to remain above the law.
Local Scouts Want to Reform Anti-Gay Policy
The city council will give local New York City chapters of the Boy Scouts of America four months to appeal to the national office to change their policy of banning gays in the scouts. If they are not successful, as local chapters in Rhode Island and California have not been in earlier attempts, the council will go ahead with a ban on allowing government agencies to sponsor scout activities, such as the Explorer's program, operated by the police and correction departments in the city.
"We denounce the national policy; we do not think it is right," said Deryck A. Palmer, a lawyer and member of the New York City board of the Boy Scouts told the council committee, according to a story in the New York Times ("Local Scouting Board, Calling Gay Ban 'Stupid,' Urges End to National Policy").
"We would like to be an agent of change," Palmer said.
Contrary to the national policy, scouts and scout leaders are not ousted in New York City because of sexual orientation. However, council members argued that programs should not be sponsored by the city as long as the national organization discriminates.


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Bridge the gap between financial crime analytics and investigations
How to design fraud prevention programs with the investigative process in mind
By Patrick Craig, Partner in the Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, Compliance Technology for Financial Services, EY
Financial institutions increasingly use analytics to manage the scale and complexity of compliance with financial crime regulation. However, ongoing challenges across the industry, in conjunction with the increasing cost of compliance, mean it is important to design analytics with the investigative process in mind. If done effectively, this should avoid downstream operational bottlenecks and ensure a higher quality of feedback is captured, which enables more effective modeling of financial crime risk.
For financial crime controls to be effective and cost-efficient in today's environment, institutions need to leverage the power of analytics.
Developing financial crime analytics
The application and use of financial crime analytics is widespread, ranging from risk assessment and detection engines to investigative tools and reporting, allowing institutions to better quantify and categorize their risk exposure, assess the effectiveness of their financial crime programs, and detect and deter criminal behavior.
Unlike other analytical domains in the financial services industry, such as credit or fraud risk, modeling financial crime risk and suspicious behavior is often complicated by the lack of categorical outcomes. The effectiveness of such analytics is therefore inherently coupled to the due diligence and investigation processes that consume, process and disseminate the analytical output, commonly referred to as alerts or, more broadly, intelligence.
Investigations as analytics consumers
Despite the efficiencies and insight brought by analytics, the complexity and subtleties of financial crime mean that manual due diligence and investigation remains an essential component of a financial crime control framework. Investigation teams are one of the key consumers of analytics within a financial crime compliance program, responding to and processing alerts from detection engines and other forms of intelligence.
The effectiveness and efficiency of investigations are heavily dependent on:
- The quality of information and analysis passed to the investigations team.
- The availability of additional information and intelligence to assess analytical output both in a wider context and in greater depth.
- Access to tools and infrastructure to collate, analyze and disseminate information as part of the investigation life cycle.
Much of the effort in implementing financial crime analytics has been focused on modeling known risks and typologies and automating aspects of the investigation decision process to reduce operational costs and improve consistency.
While the benefits of this approach are clear, over-reliance on automation and analytics without understanding of the investigative life cycle has the potential to hinder the scope and value of the investigative process.
Emerging impacts of ineffective analytics
Investment in analytics has typically been reactive and tracked the regulatory regime, which means that the use of analytics has often focused on specific domains or typologies, leading to a fragmented view of risk and methods used across the institution. This phenomenon has resulted in a complex system of data stores and applications and a multifaceted view of a customer's behavior for investigators to master, driving up the cost of compliance. In recent years, the industry has recognized the risk of over-reliance on individual models, spawning a need for model validation and for a more holistic view of financial crime risk, which results in more correlation of information across organizational barriers, such as between lines of business, countries, or even across AML, fraud, sanctions and bribery risk silos.
Despite new investments in analytics, the industry still faces significant challenges, including:
Ongoing control failings
- Regulatory fines have reached billions of dollars for financial institutions globally.
- Institutions remain highly reactive and often analyze risks after the fact.
- Transaction monitoring systems regularly produce very high false-positive rates of detection, in some cases over 99 percent of alerts.
Increasing operation costs
- Increased regulatory scrutiny is driving more conservative methods.
- Fragmented controls are affecting the speed of retrieving and processing information.
- Overly simplistic and conservative rules are driving riskier customers to your business.
Limited awareness and expertise
- Poor data quality, information silos and the lack of effective infrastructure are affecting the level of visibility and insight into risks and threats.
- Overly simplistic approaches are hindering skill development.
- Poor broader regulatory awareness and understanding of advanced analytical techniques are creating additional barriers.
Bridging the gap
For financial crime controls to be effective and cost-efficient in today's environment, institutions need to apply the power of analytics. The best solutions provide investigators with information in context, align to business needs, and are both intuitive and flexible. They must also effectively manage the data and integrate investigative tools.
A strategy for comprehensive and efficient data retrieval across the organization takes into account data requirements for point solutions, investigative support, strategic analysis and data management to create an intelligence repository. Whether adopting a data mart approach, implementing federated access methods or using big data technology, the solution needs to provide a single point of access and a holistic view across the organization that can support a wide range of analytics and scenarios both for compliance and wider business needs.
Tool integration for large organizations typically involves defining a compliance technology strategy. Effective integration can dramatically improve operational efficiency, reducing the time needed to source, analyze and disseminate information. In addition, with intuitive design, investigative tools can drive greater insight, which allows investigators to develop and test hypotheses. For example, depending on the type of investigation, the investigator's role and the stage of the investigation process, this may include integration of case management systems with "know your customer" data stores, visualization tools to review transaction flows, online screening applications, and reporting dashboards for wider context and trends.
Longer-term, effective investigations can drive improvements to the quality and breadth of available intelligence, allowing for better risk modeling and potentially for more advanced techniques that can more efficiently target financial crime risks, such as behavioral analytics for fraud and conduct risk.
Patrick Craig is a Partner in EY's Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, Compliance Technology for Financial Services. He specializes in providing compliance technology services to financial services firms and has held roles in both the US and Europe. He focuses on financial crime technologies and trends (anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, anti-bribery and corruption) and also works on the broader compliance agenda.
The role of advanced analytics
Advanced analytics help investigators identify the information out of the millions of transactions and data points that need special attention. Here are some analytic methodologies that are available. Each of these, alone or in combination, lends itself to identifying specific data challenges. The key is to understand which works best in each type of situation.
- Rules are the most basic analytic method. A rule is either broken or not – yes or no.
- Anomaly detection is useful for identifying outlier or unique activity in situations where little past fraud information is available.
- Predictive modeling is useful when historical data is available.
- Network or link analysis enables investigators to understand how individuals are associated and how they work together to execute fraud.
- Text mining and text analytics are critical for the analysis of text in blogs, social network posts and conversations.
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Disaster recovery relief
The cost of disaster recovery tools can be even more than the value of the data that these very tools are supposed to be protecting. Fortunately, newer approaches to DR are restoring sanity to this high-pressure task.
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Compounding the problem is that many storage administrators don't know how to effectively implement traditional DR and business continuity solutions. Their organizational policy may be to back up to tape once a night, and perhaps even have that tape picked up by a service every day. Of course, there's a good chance that the operator didn't change the tape when the job said it was full, overwriting previous data. Fortunately, numerous storage vendors are starting to develop simpler, innovative and more cost-effective DR and business continuity products.
DR pain threshold
Cost, complexity and effectiveness all contribute to how high or low the pain threshold is for a specific DR solution.
Cost: The most common complaint about DR practices is that they require significant capital and operating investment. Disk-to-disk or split mirror products require the capital expense (CapEx) of a complete duplication of storage. When multiple split mirrors or point-in-time snapshots are implemented (such as EMC Corp's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility and TimeFinder), the CapEx increases exponentially. Add in the ongoing operating expenses (OpEx) of software licenses, maintenance, personnel time, training and network, and the costs can quickly overwhelm the value of the protected data.
Even traditional tape backup products can prove to be far more costly than the data they protect. The CapEx may be lower (tape drives, automated tape libraries and tape media) than disk-to-disk solutions, yet the OpEx is significantly greater. This is because the amount of human errors, failed backups, gaps in the data, lost tapes, broken tapes and missed backup windows are typically much higher than is generally acknowledged.
Complexity:If cost is the No. 1 DR and business continuity complaint, complexity is a close second. A survey of more than 200 enterprise and small- to medium-sized businesses conducted last year by Dragon Slayer Consulting, Beaverton, OR, revealed a startlingly high level of user-perceived complexity and frustration with tape backup and recovery (see "DR is too complex "). There were similar levels of frustration (53%) with disk-to-disk split mirroring.
Effectiveness: Effectiveness defines how well a goal or task is completed. For DR and business continuity, this breaks down into two main points: the effectiveness of the data protection and the effectiveness of data recovery.
There's a significant difference in the level of pain between traditional tape backup and recovery and disk-to-disk split mirrors. Only 37% of the tape users in the survey were satisfied--or somewhat satisfied--with the effectiveness of their solution, whereas the satisfaction numbers for the disk-to-disk split mirror users was 68%.
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New DR solutions
Many storage vendors are bringing innovative products to the market that aim to reduce the cost and complexity of DR and business continuity while increasing its efficiency. The most promising of these technologies are:
- Continuous replication and continuous snapshot
- Server-to-server storage volume replication
- TCP/IP WAN acceleration for storage applications
- Virtual tape automation
Continuous replication and snapshot works simply and elegantly (see "Continuous replication appliance"). It's commonly deployed in a storage appliance (a remote access server) with no single point of failure on a storage area network (SAN). There are no internal hard disk drives in the appliance because it's designed to use the disk arrays on the SAN. It operates at the block level, and is able to protect applications that work on file systems, DBMS and even raw disk partitions. The appliance is configured as just another mirror to the volume managers and looks like a set of disks or LUNs.
When a DBMS corruption occurs, the DBA tells the appliance to provide a data image at a point in time before the corruption occurred. This is presented immediately as a set of volumes for the DBMS. It can then be tested to make sure that this view of the data is prior to the corruption. If it isn't, the DBA has the appliance provide the data image at an earlier point in time. This can be done repeatedly until a valid non-corrupted image is found.
This image then restores the data instantaneously to that point in time, stands in temporarily for the DBMS application while quietly resynchronizing the primary volumes with the restored data. Once resynchronized, the primary volumes again are automatically relinked with the DBMS and the continuous replication/snapshot resumes. Recovery is quick and painless.
Revivio Inc.'s Continuous Protection System (CPS) and Alacritus Software's Chronospan offer continuous replication/snapshot. EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and others are working on their own versions of this technology.
One real financial benefit to this technology is that it allows expensive storage to be protected by inexpensive storage from the same or different vendors. It also frees up many of the split mirror volumes and makes them available as primary storage.
Although continuous replication/snapshot reduces DR and business continuity costs and complexity, there's a downside to this technology: limited distance. It's primarily a campus solution and doesn't yet work across long WAN distances. This means out-of-region disasters require other solutions.
Server-to-server storage volume replication: This technology is beginning to emerge as the 21st century's replacement to backup and recovery. It is software installed on each server hosting an application with critical data requiring protection. It's installed on a central or remote server that acts as the "catcher." Think of it as a hub and spoke arrangement where the catcher is the hub.
Storage-to-storage volume replication works by replicating live disk-based data from each server to the catcher across any available TCP/IP network. The replicator duplicates data while preserving the original write order in near real time to assure integrity between the two systems in the event of a disaster. The replicated data, frozen at a specific point in time, can be made available for reading to applications on the catcher system. Should a failure occur on the primary system, the catcher systems can provide immediate access to contemporary business-critical data.
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With a continuous replication appliance, write data is time-stamped and the appliance is always ready to instantly restore to any time and any place.
One key aspect to this technology is the ability to control all of the servers from a central console. No IT personnel are required at the server, allowing for "lights out" DR and business continuity at remote sites. Some vendors (such as Constant Data Inc. and Fujitsu Softek) even include continuous replication functionality. Again, allowing continuous replication of only the data that changes reduces the amount of disk and tape storage required.
Server-to-server storage volume replication products include Constant Data Constant Replicator, EMC/Legato Replicator, NSI DoubleTake, Softek Replicator and Veritas Volume Replicator; and still others are emerging. Vendor operating system support varies, but most support Windows and Linux.
Server-to-server storage volume replication is a simple, low cost and effective DR and business continuity solution. It works with direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS) and SAN storage, regardless of the vendor. It scales from the small to medium business to the enterprise customer. And it allows replication from high-cost storage to low-cost storage.
There are two downsides to this solution: The more servers and applications requiring data protection, the greater the license fees; and the dismal throughput over long-haul TCP/IP networks caused by congestion, bit error rates (BERs), jitter and latency. The first can be handled through vendor negotiation. The second is a more difficult issue and may require the implementation of TCP WAN accelerators.
TCIP/WAN accelerators: Congestion, BERs, jitter and TCP/IP latency all cause throughput degradation in a TCP/IP network. Add longer distance, and you've got degradation that can be so extreme that a typical throughput of a DS3 (rated at 45Mb/s) is approximately 5Mb/s or 625Kb/s. This means that a tiny 30GB replication or backup can't be completed within an eight-hour window--it would take at least 13 hours and 20 minutes to complete. Even if the bandwidth is increased to OC3 (155Mb/s) or more than three times a DS3, the window still can't be met. The throughput doesn't increase anywhere near the same percentage as the bandwidth. Depending once again on the congestion, BER, jitter, latency and distance, it may barely increase at all. The historical throughput increase can be expected to be less than 50%. Even with this increase, the eight-hour window is still missed.
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TCP/IP WAN accelerators used for replication boost performance by three to 400 times the normal network speeds by shielding against bit error rates, jitter and TCP latency.
A number of vendors have enthusiastically attacked this problem and are now delivering cost-effective products. Each vendor's technology is innovative and varied. Technologies employed include packet-reordering, performance-enhancing proxies, compression, QoS and sophisticated flow control. The net results are impressive, with performance throughput increases between three and 400 times the normal network speeds. (See TCP/IP WAN accelerations for replication".)
The way TCP/IP accelerators work for DR and business continuity is simple, and requires nominal skills. First, an appliance is placed as a gateway or proxy on the LAN with the replication sender. Then another appliance is placed on the LAN at the location of the replication catcher. The appliances intercept and transmit all packets between the sender and catcher.
The products can be divided into two categories: those that work up to and above DS3 bandwidth (up to OC3, OC12, etc.) and those that only work up to DS3. Vendors in the "up to or greater than DS3" category include NetEx Software's HyperIP and Orbital Data's IP Express. Vendors in the DS3 and below category include Expand Network's IP Accelerator, ITWorx's NetCelera, Peribit's Sequence Reducers and Riverbed's Steelhead.
The one disadvantage to these solutions is the potential cost of putting appliances at a large number of remote sites. However, the savings in bandwidth costs and increased ability to hit DR and business continuity windows usually offsets the additional appliance and software license costs.
Virtual tape automation: Virtual tape has been around for years. Its success has been mostly in the mainframe market, where it's used as a nearline storage device that manages less-frequently needed data. Virtual tape appears to be stored entirely on tape cartridges, when some parts of it may actually be located in faster disk storage. By doing this, virtual tape makes tape more efficient and faster.
This never really caught on with the Linux, Unix and Windows markets because in those markets, tape is used primarily as backup and archival media. Automation makes virtual tape a low-cost methodology to increase the performance of DR and business continuity while lowering their TCO.
Automation works by making low-cost disk--usually parallel or Serial ATA--look like an automated tape library to the tape backup solution. This increases the backup speed to the speed of the disk array. From there, the backup data from one or multiple systems is written to tape automatically. Recoveries are faster because the data is organized more efficiently on the tapes and is easier to locate. (See "Automated virtual tape".)
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TCP/IP WAN accelerators used for replication boost performance by three to 400 times the normal network speeds by shielding against bit error rates, jitter and TCP latency.
This solution reduces the cost and complexity and increases the effectiveness of local DR and business continuity solutions. Products include ADIC's Pathlight VX: Integrated Disk-to-Tape Backup solution and Maxxan with FalconStor IPStor 4.0 Virtual Tape running within its MXV320 and SVT 100 intelligent switches. The ADIC solution includes the SATA array and the tape library. The Maxxan solution requires a disk array and tape library. These reduce costs and complexity, and increase the effectiveness of the DR and business continuity processes. But they don't address the TCP/IP bandwidth issues previously discussed when backup or replication must be carried out over long distances.
Leveraging these new solutions will require time, planning and effort. None of these products are a panacea. The applicability of any solution will vary by organization. Curing the pain may require the implementation of multiple solutions solving different pieces of the puzzle and working together.
How to proceed
Before evaluating, implementing or deploying any of these or other products, it's necessary to conduct an internal audit of your storage environment. Identify the sources of your disaster recovery pain. This may require the implementation of a storage resource management (SRM) tool. Once the pain is diagnosed, determine which product or products will eliminate or significantly reduce that pain. Design an evaluation pilot program to provide quantifiable benchmarks to measure against expectations. If the benchmarks prove to meet or exceed expectations, develop a sane deployment rollout program. Make sure there are measurable milestones and benchmarks along the way. Don't be afraid to require the selected vendors to provide SLAs. The SLAs should provide guarantees and financial penalties for failure to achieve those results. This process is not for the faint of heart; however, the relief of chronic pain is well worth the effort.


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A creepy, cheesy horror anthology from the U.K., 1973's Tales That Witness Madness counts among the latest vintage Paramount-distributed films that are currently getting redistributed on DVD through Olive Films. Its four segments all concern people who have been driven mad by various wild circumstances. Altogether, the stories are told with simple characters, by-the-numbers shocks, and "twists" that most viewers will spot from a mile away. As long as you dial your expectations way down, there's some kitschy thrills to be had amongst these tawdry tales of psyches that collectively took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
The bridging segments in Tales That Witness Madness take place during one dark night at a maximum security insane asylum. Hearing of the unusual patients under observation at the facility, Dr. Nicholas (Jack Hawkins) visits with his colleague, the enigmatic professor Tremayne (Donald Pleasence), to learn more about how these strange, special cases came to be. Under the spell of home-made cocktails mixed in the facility's chemical lab, Tremayne takes Nicholas through the asylum's gleaming white hallway of rooms where each patient is sequestered, regaling us with their spine-chilling back stories:
Well ahead of the time that Tales That Witness Madness reaches the conclusion that ties these stories together, it becomes apparent that this is one of the more lackluster UK horror entries - for three of these four segments, at least. Its attempts to dose out frights and dark humor in equal amounts make it doubly disappointing. The film has the feel of a marathon of mild, less compelling Night Gallery episodes from that period, perhaps one with a bit more gratuitous blood and gore. There's also the inevitable bare breast shots, one of which involves Joan Collins' character (more than likely belonging to a body double). The Collins segment, Mel, wound up being the most funny and intriguing. After all, how often do tree fetishists pop up in movies? Collins looks foxy as well, doing her best with a thankless role.
As for the other segments, Mr. Tiger is too slight and predictable, while Penny Farthing is a mess that borders on the incomprehensible. Luau boasts the most complex script, but it fails to rise above the kind of pulpy stuff handled in a zillion b-movies of yore with the exotic villains threatening the pampered white women. Perhaps the oddest aspect of this already weird exercise lies in the performance of Kim Novak, whose slurry, vulnerable take on Auriol makes one wonder exactly how much of it was acting (or was she tipping back a few between takes?). Novak was apparently coaxed out of retirement to appear here, replacing her Pal Joey co-star Rita Hayworth. What motivated her to return in a low-rent Brit horror flick like this is a mystery. Surely she must have known of what Tales' director, Freddie Francis, did for Joan Crawford in her "murderous cavemen need love, too" opus, Trog (1970).
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The anamorphic 16x9 image on Tales That Witness Madness is somewhat soft but nicely balanced and remarkably free of grain and dirt. Visually this one fares better than Olive Films/Paramount's recent disc treatment of another 1973 film, Hit!.
Tales' soundtrack is decently mastered here with dialogue and music mixed in clear manner with no apparent glitches. No subtitle options on this no-frills disc.
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While Tales That Witness Madness holds a certain camp appeal for fans of cheesy '70s British horror, even on those low, low standards it doesn't hold up. While the man-loves-tree segment Mel has a cheeky, offbeat charm, the others wind up being done in by lameness and predictability. Kim Novak's appearance may be worth a peek for those with a macabre interest in older silver screen sirens debasing themselves in exploitation fare, everyone else is well-advised to skip it.
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Inter Milan midfielder Wesley Sneijder has edged closer to a potential January exit from the San Siro after being sent on his Christmas break ahead of schedule.
The Nerazzurri face Verona in the Coppa Italia tonight and then take on Genoa in Serie A on Saturday before a two-week winter break begins but the Holland international, along with fellow midfielder Philippe Coutinho, has been dismissed from club duties early.
A statement on inter.it read: "It was the last training session of 2012 at the Angelo Moratti centre for Philippe Coutinho and Wesley Sneijder today.
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Part 2 of the Dive Medicine for Divers course covers topics such as decompression illness, barotrauma and equipment-related safety issues and includes skill development on taking a blood pressure and using an EpiPen in the event of a severe allergic reaction.
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Divers may complete these modules in any order as schedules and opportunities permit. However, the following outline is the recommended program flow.
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