text: Latest Hellenic Insider Greece NATO General Secretary: Tensions between Greece and Turkey "not an issue" Stoltenberg says Greece-Turkey tensions: "Not an issue for NATO" Published 6 months ago on April 17, 2018 By Alex Christoforou 7 Views Share Tweet Rapidly devolving realtions between Greece and Turkey are "not an issue for NATO," stated the General Secretary of the North Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with Turkish news agency Anadolu. Via Keep Talking Greece… Saying that both countries are "two highly valued NATO allies" Stoltenberg hailed the telephone conversation between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish counterpart, Binali Yildirim, after the Mirage 2000 crashed and the pilot was killed on Thusrday when returning form a mission to intercept Turkish F-16s violating Greek airspace. 'Tension in Aegean should be resolved between Turkey, Greece' Q: The tension between Turkey and Greece over the Aegean Sea continues to rise. There are reports that Greece has officially asked NATO to take a more active role in this context. What is NATO's position on the rising tension between the two NATO allies? Stoltenberg: Greece and Turkey are two highly valued NATO allies, they have been allies since 1952. Both contribute to our collective defense. I expect that the differences we see on some issues are solved between Turkey and Greece in the spirit of good relations. In this context, I welcome that the PMs of both countries have recently held a phone conversation and that they have agreed to resolve these differences through dialogue. Q: So, NATO does not foresee involvement? Stoltenberg: No, it's not an issue for NATO, this is something that has to be addressed between Turkey and Greece. Commenting on a wide range of issues including the agenda of his visit, the Turkish-led Operation Olive Branch, the fight against terrorism, and Syria, Stoltenberg emphasized the importance of Turkey as a valuable strategic ally. The interview was given ahead of Stoltenberg's visit to Turkey on May 16th. PS No surprise here. No comment. Members need only to contribute to the NATO, while the Alliance sits back and makes plans for the safety of the whole planet…. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:TurkeyNATOGreeceimgx Up Next Further strikes against Syria will lead to 'global chaos,' warns Putin Don't Miss Syrian air defense intercepts missile strike of unknown origin Advertisement You may like Skripal and Khashoggi: A Tale of Two Disappearances Did Saudis, CIA Fear Khashoggi 9/11 Bombshell? The Killing of Saudi Journalist Khashoggi Could Spell the End for Mohammad bin Salman 1 Comment 1 Leave a Reply This comment form is under antispam protection 1 Comment threads 0 Thread replies 0 Followers Most reacted comment Hottest comment thread 1 Comment authors Recent comment authors This comment form is under antispam protection Subscribe newest oldest most voted Notify of new follow-up comments new replies to my comments GuestViagraonlineThank you for the contribution Dave.viagra online Vote Up0Vote Down ReplyApril 20, 2018 10:49 Latest Skripal and Khashoggi: A Tale of Two Disappearances Two disappearances, and two different responses. Published 1 day ago on October 18, 2018 By Finian Cunningham Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation: Two disappearances, and two very different responses from Western governments, which illustrates their rank hypocrisy. When former Russian spy Sergei Skripal went missing in England earlier this year, there was almost immediate punitive action by the British government and its NATO allies against Moscow. By contrast, Western governments are straining with restraint towards Saudi Arabia over the more shocking and provable case of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The outcry by Western governments and media over the Skripal affair was deafening and resulted in Britain, the US and some 28 other countries expelling dozens of Russian diplomats on the back of unsubstantiated British allegations that the Kremlin tried to assassinate an exiled spy with a deadly nerve agent. The Trump administration has further tightened sanctions citing the Skripal incident. London's case against Moscow has been marked by wild speculation and ropey innuendo. No verifiable evidence of what actually happened to Sergei Skripal (67) and his daughter Yulia has been presented by the British authorities. Their claim that President Vladimir Putin sanctioned a hit squad armed with nerve poison relies on sheer conjecture. All we know for sure is that the Skripals have been disappeared from public contact by the British authorities for more than seven months, since the mysterious incident of alleged poisoning in Salisbury on March 4. Russian authorities and family relatives have been steadfastly refused any contact by London with the Skripal pair, despite more than 60 official requests from Moscow in accordance with international law and in spite of the fact that Yulia is a citizen of the Russian Federation with consular rights. It is an outrage that based on such thin ice of "evidence", the British have built an edifice of censure against Moscow, rallying an international campaign of further sanctions and diplomatic expulsions. Now contrast that strenuous reaction, indeed hyper over-reaction, with how Britain, the US, France, Canada and other Western governments are ever-so slowly responding to Saudi Arabia over the Khashoggi case. After nearly two weeks since Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, the Saudi regime is this week finally admitting he was killed on their premises – albeit, they claim, in a "botched interrogation". Turkish and American intelligence had earlier claimed that Khashoggi was tortured and murdered on the Saudi premises by a 15-member hit squad sent from Riyadh. Even more grisly, it is claimed that Khashoggi's body was hacked up with a bone saw by the killers, his remains secreted out of the consulate building in boxes, and flown back to Saudi Arabia on board two private jets connected to the Saudi royal family. What's more, the Turks and Americans claim that the whole barbaric plot to murder Khashoggi was on the orders of senior Saudi rulers, implicating Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The latest twist out of Riyadh, is an attempt to scapegoat "rogue killers" and whitewash the House of Saudi from culpability. The fact that 59-year-old Khashoggi was a legal US resident and a columnist for the Washington Post has no doubt given his case such prominent coverage in Western news media. Thousands of other victims of Saudi vengeance are routinely ignored in the West. Nevertheless, despite the horrific and damning case against the Saudi monarchy, the response from the Trump administration, Britain and others has been abject. President Trump has blustered that there "will be severe consequences" for the Saudi regime if it is proven culpable in the murder of Khashoggi. Trump quickly qualified, however, saying that billion-dollar arms deals with the oil-rich kingdom will not be cancelled. Now Trump appears to be joining in a cover-up by spinning the story that the Khashoggi killing was done by "rogue killers". Britain, France and Germany this week issued a joint statement calling for "a credible investigation" into the disappearance. But other than "tough-sounding" rhetoric, none of the European states have indicated any specific sanctions, such as weapons contracts being revoked or diplomatic expulsions. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was "concerned" by the gruesome claims about Khashoggi's killing, but he reiterated that Ottawa would not be scrapping a $15 billion sale of combat vehicles to Riyadh. The Saudi rulers have even threatened retaliatory measures if sanctions are imposed by Western governments. Saudi denials of official culpability seem to be a brazen flouting of all reason and circumstantial evidence that Khashoggi was indeed murdered in the consulate building on senior Saudi orders. This week a glitzy international investor conference in Saudi Arabia is being boycotted by top business figures, including the World Bank chief, Jim Yong Kim, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Britain's venture capitalist Richard Branson. Global firms like Ford and Uber have pulled out, as have various media sponsors, such as CNN, the New York Times and Financial Times. Withdrawal from the event was in response to the Khashoggi affair. A growing bipartisan chorus of US Senators, including Bob Corker, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and Chris Murphy, have called for the cancellation of American arms sales to Saudi Arabia, as well as for an overhaul of the strategic partnership between the two countries. Still, Trump has rebuffed calls for punitive response. He has said that American jobs and profits depend on the Saudi weapons market. Some 20 per cent of all US arms sales are estimated to go to the House of Saud. The New York Times this week headlined: "In Trump's Saudi Bargain, the Bottom Line Proudly Stands Out". The Trump White House will be represented at the investment conference in Saudi Arabia this week – dubbed "Davos in the Desert" by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. He said he was attending in spite of the grave allegations against the Saudi rulers. Surely the point here is the unseemly indulgence by Western governments of Saudi Arabia and its so-called "reforming" Crown Prince. It is remarkable how much credulity Washington, London, Paris, Ottawa and others are affording the Saudi despots who, most likely, have been caught redhanded in a barbarous murder. Yet, when it comes to Russia and outlandish, unproven claims that the Kremlin carried out a bizarre poison-assassination plot, all these same Western governments abandon all reason and decorum to pile sanctions on Russia based on lurid, hollow speculation. The blatant hypocrisy demolishes any pretense of integrity or principle. Here is another connection between the Skripal and Khashoggi affairs. The Saudis no doubt took note of the way Britain's rulers have shown absolute disregard and contempt for international law in their de facto abduction of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. If the British can get away with that gross violation, then the Saudis probably thought that nobody would care too much if they disappeared Jamal Khashoggi. Grotesquely, the way things are shaping up in terms of hypocritical lack of action by the Americans, British and others towards the Saudi despots, the latter might just get away with murder. Not so Russia. The Russians are not allowed to get away with even an absurd fantasy. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest US-China trade war heats up as surplus hits record $34 Billion (Video) The Duran – News in Review – Episode 136. Published 2 days ago on October 17, 2018 By Alex Christoforou According to a report by the AFP, China's trade surplus with the United States ballooned to a record $34.1 billion in September, despite a raft of US tariffs, official data showed Friday, adding fuel to the fire of a worsening trade war. Relations between the world's two largest economies have soured sharply this year, with US President Donald Trump vowing on Thursday to inflict economic pain on China if it does not blink. The two countries imposed new tariffs on a massive amount of each other's goods mid-September, with the US targeting $200 billion in Chinese imports and Beijing firing back at $60 billion worth of US goods. "China-US trade friction has caused trouble and pounded our foreign trade development," customs spokesman Li Kuiwen told reporters Friday. But China's trade surplus with the US grew 10 percent in September from a record $31 billion in August, according to China's customs administration. It was a 22 percent jump from the same month last year. China's exports to the US rose to $46.7 billion while imports slumped to $12.6 billion. China's overall trade — what it buys and sells with all countries including the US — logged a $31.7 billion surplus, as exports rose faster than imports. Exports jumped 14.5 percent for September on-year, beating forecasts from analysts polled by Bloomberg News, while imports rose 14.3 percent on-year. While the data showed China's trade remained strong for the month, analysts forecast the trade war will start to hurt in coming months. China's export jump for the month suggests exporters were shipping goods early to beat the latest tariffs, said ANZ's China economist Betty Wang, citing the bounce in electrical machinery exports, much of which faced the looming duties. "We will watch for downside risks to China's exports" in the fourth quarter, Wang said. Analysts say a sharp depreciation of the yuan has also helped China weather the tariffs by making its exports cheaper. "The big picture is the Chinese exports have so far held up well in the face of escalating trade tensions and cooling global growth, most likely thanks to the competitiveness boost provided by a weaker renminbi (yuan)," said Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economist at Capital Economics. "With global growth likely to cool further in the coming quarters and US tariffs set to become more punishing, the recent resilience of exports is unlikely to be sustained," he said. According to Bloomberg US President Donald Trump's new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement isn't that different from the North American Free Trade Agreement that it replaced. But hidden in the bowels of the new trade deal is a clause, Article 32.10, that could have a far-reaching impact. The new agreement requires member states to get approval from the other members if they initiate trade negotiations with a so-called non-market economy. In practice, "non-market" almost certainly means China. If, for example, Canada begins trade talks with China, it has to show the full text of the proposed agreement to the U.S. and Mexico — and if either the U.S. or Mexico doesn't like what it sees, it can unilaterally kick Canada out of the USMCA. Although it seems unlikely that the clause would be invoked, it will almost certainly exert a chilling effect on Canada and Mexico's trade relations with China. Forced to choose between a gargantuan economy across the Pacific and another one next door, both of the U.S.'s neighbors are almost certain to pick the latter. This is just another part of Trump's general trade waragainst China. It's a good sign that Trump realizes that unilateral U.S. efforts alone won't be enough to force China to make concessions on issues like currency valuation, intellectual-property protection and industrial subsidies. China's export markets are much too diverse: If Trump cuts the U.S. off from trade with China, the likeliest outcome is that China simply steps up its exports to other markets. That would bind the rest of the world more closely to China and weaken the global influence of the U.S. China's economy would take a small but temporary hit, while the U.S. would see its position as the economic center of the world slip into memory. Instead, to take on China, Trump needs a gang. And that gang has to be much bigger than just North America. But most countries in Europe and East Asia probably can't be bullied into choosing between the U.S. and China. — their ties to the U.S. are not as strong as those of Mexico and Canada. Countries such as South Korea, Germany, India and Japan will need carrots as well as sticks if they're going to join a U.S.-led united trade front against China. The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the escalating trade war between the United States and China, and the record trade surplus that positions China with a bit more leverage than Trump anticipated. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. Follow The Duran Audio Podcast on Soundcloud. Via Zerohedge Trump Threatens China With More Tariffs, Does Not Seek Economic "Depression" US equity futures dipped in the red after President Trump threatened to impose a third round of tariffs on China and warned that Chinese meddling in U.S. politics was a "bigger problem" than Russian involvement in the 2016 election. During the same interview with CBS's "60 Minutes", in which Trump threatened to impose sanctions against Saudi Arabia if the Saudis are found to have killed WaPo reported Khashoggi, and which sent Saudi stock plunging, Trump said he "might," impose a new round of tariffs on China, adding that while he has "great chemistry" with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and noting that Xi "wants to negotiate", he doesn't "know that that's necessarily going to continue." Asked if American products have become more expensive due to tariffs on China, Trump said that "so far, that hasn't turned out to be the case." "They can retaliate, but they can't, they don't have enough ammunition to retaliate," Trump says, "We do $100 billion with them. They do $531 billion with us." Trump was also asked if he wants to push China's economy into a depression to which the US president said "no" before comparing the country's stock-market losses since the tariffs first launched to those in 1929, the start of the Great Depression in the U.S. "I want them to negotiate a fair deal with us. I want them to open their markets like our markets are open," Trump said in the interview that aired Sunday. So far, the U.S. has imposed three rounds of tariffs on Chinese imports totaling $250 billion, prompting China to retaliate against U.S. products. The president previously has threatened to hit virtually all Chinese imports with duties. Asked about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin's alleged efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, Trump quickly turned back to China. "They meddled," he said of Russia, "but I think China meddled too." Trump tried to blame Obama and then claimed that China meddled in the election when he was asked about Russia during the 60 Minutes interview. #60Minutes pic.twitter.com/hE2AlmFBEB — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 15, 2018 "I think China meddled also. And I think, frankly, China … is a bigger problem," Trump said, as interviewer Lesley Stahl interrupted him for "diverting" from a discussion of Russia. TRUMP on whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election: "They meddled. But I think China meddled too." pic.twitter.com/4AEjYwoovq — JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) October 15, 2018 Shortly before an audacious speech by Mike Pence last weekend, in which the US vice president effectively declared a new cold war on Beijing (see "Russell Napier: Mike Pence Announces Cold War II"), Trump made similar accusations during a speech at the United Nations last month, which his aides substantiated by pointing to long-term Chinese influence campaigns and an advertising section in the Des Moines Register warning farmers about the potential effects of Trump's tariffs. Meanwhile, in a rare U.S. television appearance, China's ambassador to the U.S. said Beijing has no choice but to respond to what he described as a trade war started by the U.S. "We never wanted a trade war, but if somebody started a trade war against us, we have to respond and defend our own interests," said China's Ambassador Cui Tiankai. Cui also dismissed as "groundless" the abovementioned suggestion by Vice President Mike Pence that China has orchestrated an effort to meddle in U.S. domestic affairs. Pence escalated the rhetoric in a speech Oct. 4, saying Beijing has created a "a whole-of-government approach" to sway American public opinion, including spies, tariffs, coercive measures and a propaganda campaign. Pence's comments were some of the most critical about China by a high-ranking U.S. official in recent memory. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo got a lecture when he visited Beijing days later, about U.S. actions that were termed "completely out of line." The tough words followed months of increases tit-for-tat tariffs imposed by Washington and Beijing that have ballooned to cover hundreds of billions of dollars in bilateral trade. During a recent interview with National Public Radio, Cui said the U.S. has "not sufficiently" dealt in good faith with the Chinese on trade matters, saying "the U.S. position keeps changing all the time so we don't know exactly what the U.S. would want as priorities." Meanwhile, White House economic director Larry Kudlow said on "Fox News Sunday" that President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will "probably meet" at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires in late November. "There's plans and discussions and agendas" being discussed, he said. So far, talks with China on trade have been "unsatisfactory," Kudlow said. "We've made our asks" on allegations of intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers, he added. "We have to have reciprocity." Addressing the upcoming meeting, Cui said he was present at two previous meetings of Xi and Trump, and that top-level communication "played a key role, an irreplaceable role, in guiding the relationship forward." Despite current tensions the two have a "good working relationship," he said. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Massacre in Crimea kills dozens, many in critical condition According to preliminary information, the incident was caused by a gas explosion at a college facility in Kerch, Crimea. Published 2 days ago on October 17, 2018 By The Duran "We are clarifying the information at the moment. Preliminary figures are 50 injured and 10 dead. Eight ambulance crews are working at the site and air medical services are involved," the press-service for the Crimean Ministry of Health stated. Medics announced that at least 50 people were injured in the explosion in Kerch and 25 have already been taken to local hospital with moderate wounds, according to Sputnik. Local news outlets reported that earlier in the day, students at the college heard a blast and windows of the building were shattered. Putin Orders that Assistance Be Provided to Victims of Blast in Kerch – Kremlin Spokesman "The president has instructed the Ministry of Health and the rescue services to take emergency measures to assist victims of this explosion, if necessary, to ensure the urgent transportation of seriously wounded patients to leading medical institutions of Russia, whether in Moscow or other cities," Kremlin spokesman Dmitriy Peskov said. The president also expressed his condolences to all those affected by the tragic incident. Manhunt Underway in Kerch as FSB Specialists Investigate Site of Explosion – National Anti-Terrorist Committee The site of the blast that rocked a city college in Kerch is being examined by FSB bomb disposal experts and law enforcement agencies are searching for clues that might lead to the arrest of the perpetrators, the National Anti Terrorism Committee said in a statement. "Acting on orders from the head of the NAC's local headquarters, FSB, Interior Ministry, Russian Guards and Emergency Ministry units have arrived at the site. The territory around the college has been cordoned off and the people inside the building evacuated… Mine-disposal experts are working at the site and law enforcement specialists are investigating," the statement said. Terrorist Act Considered as Possible Cause of Blast in Kerch – Kremlin Spokesman "The tragic news that comes from Kerch. Explosion. The president was informed … The data on those killed and the number of injured is constantly updated," Peskov told reporters. "[The version of a terrorist attack] is being considered," he said. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. Amount to donate in USD$: 5 100 Validating payment information... 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text: « back to directory print Roberta Karmel Centennial Professor of Law 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 780-7946 | Email | CV Areas of Expertise Business LawCorporate LawEuropean Union LawFinancial RegulationInternational LawSecurities Regulation Education B.A., Radcliffe College LL.B., New York University School of Law Biography Courses Publications Noteworthy Professor Roberta Karmel Receives William O. Douglas Award 2/28/2017 Professor Roberta Karmel was presented with the William O. Douglas Award at the 25th annual Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni (ASECA) dinner on Feb. 24, in Washington, D.C. Celebration of the Roberta S. Karmel Scholarship Draws Alumni and Faculty 12/3/2016 On November 16th, about 80 members of the Brooklyn Law School community gathered at Allen & Overy, in Midtown Manhattan, to celebrate the newly created endowed scholarship in honor of a Brooklyn Law School icon, Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law. Reuters: Yahoo hack may become test case for SEC data breach disclosure rules 10/2/2016 Professor Roberta Karmel recommends more aggressive enforcement from the SEC on companies disclosing security breaches. Law360: 'Father' Of SEC Enforcement Leaves Enduring Legacy 7/7/2016 Professor Roberta Karmel recalls Irving Pollack '42, with whom she served at the Securities Exchange Commission. Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses Her Remarkable Life and Career in Interview with Business Law Today 6/26/2016 The American Bar Association's Business Law Today recently interviewed Professor Roberta Karmel about her remarkable and distinguished career highlighted by important "firsts," including being named the first female commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1977 and the first woman partner at her law firm, Rogers & Wells, among other trailblazing distinctions. Professor Roberta Karmel on 'Proposals for Intrastate and Regional Offerings' 4/24/2016 In her Securities Regulation column for the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel discusses a proposed rule that would replace Rule 147, which has served to define exempt intrastate offerings. The purpose of the new intrastate offering rule is to craft an exemption that would be more usable than Rule 147 exempt offerings and that would mesh with rules passed by some states to facilitate crowdfunding. Professor Roberta Karmel on Narrative and Financial Disclosures in Crowdfunding 2/21/2016 In her Securities Regulation column for the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel examines "Crowdfunding: Rules for Funding Portals." Professor Roberta Karmel on Narrative and Financial Disclosures in Crowdfunding 12/21/2015 In her latest New York Law Journal column on Securities Regulation, Professor Roberta Karmel examines "Crowdfunding: Narrative and Financial Disclosures." Professor Roberta Karmel Takes 'A Look Back at the Flash Crash and Regulatory Initiatives' 6/22/2015 In her Securities Regulation column for the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel discusses HFT, direct electronic access, and dark pools, three developments that were publicly identified as possible causes of the 2010 Flash Crash before the arrest of a man trading from his parents' home in England for market manipulation, and the SEC's extensive rule-making initiative since the Flash Crash to alleviate some of the perceived dysfunctional aspects of the structure of the equity markets. Professor Roberta Karmel Comments on 'Implications of Omnicare' in Securities Regulation & Law Report 5/22/2015 Securities Regulation & Law Report featured an article by Professor Roberta Karmel, "Implications of 'Omnicare,'" in its Antifraud coverage. Professor Roberta Karmel Examines SEC Insider Trading Policies 2/24/2015 In her latest New York Law Journal column covering Securities Regulation, Professor Roberta Karmel takes a critical look at the loosely-defined policies that govern insider trading. The Hill: SEC weighs cybersecurity disclosure rules 1/19/2015 Professor Roberta Karmel shares her thoughts on recent SEC actions to address cyber security issues. Professor Roberta Karmel Reviews Definition of Accredited Investor 12/23/2014 In her latest New York Law Journal column covering Securities Regulation, Professor Roberta Karmel assesses the "legal fiction" of the "accredited investor" as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Celebrating Life at the Center: Professor Karmel on Securities Regulation 11/12/2014 Roberta S. Karmel, the Centennial Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law, has been at the center of U.S. securities regulation throughout her distinguished career as a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner, a practitioner at major law firms, an attorney in the enforcement division of the SEC New York Regional Office, public director of the New York Stock Exchange, and the head of the Board of Trustees of the Practising Law Institute. Professor Roberta Karmel Comments on New Cybersecurity Disclosures in Compliance Week 4/18/2014 Compliance Week featured Professor Roberta Karmel in its coverage of a recent Securities and Exchange Commission roundtable on cybersecurity. The daylong event gathered a cross-section of executives, advisers, and regulators to consider the pros and cons of greater cyber-security disclosure. Professor Roberta Karmel Challenges 'Independent Director' Model in Harvard Law Forum Post 11/20/2013 The Securities and Exchange Commission's insistence that independent directors dominate the boards of public companies deserves reexamination, writes Professor Roberta Karmel in a new post for the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. The piece – based on her forthcoming article, "Is the Independent Director Model Broken," to be published in the Seattle University Law Review (2013) – traces the history and dynamics of the SEC's stance, and challenges the notion that a statutory definition makes a director truly independent. Professor Roberta Karmel Describes Challenges Facing New SEC Leadership in New York Law Journal Column 6/24/2013 In her newest New York Law Journal column, Professor Roberta Karmel outlines the challenges facing the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has seen several new changes in leadership. Professor Roberta Karmel Offers Latest Perspective on Amgen Case in New York Law Journal Column 4/23/2013 In a new column for the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel again applies her securities law expertise to the case of Amgen v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds. The intriguing question raised by the case, she writes, "is whether defendants will now try to persuade the court to revisit the presumption of reliance articulated in the Basic v. Levinson decision, and if so, whether the court has a sufficient number of votes to overturn that precedent." Professor Roberta Karmel Comments on Resignation of SEC Chairwoman in the New York Law Journal 12/5/2012 Professor Roberta Karmel spoke to the New York Law Journal about the recent announcement of Mary Schapiro to step down from her position as Chairwoman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Professor Roberta Karmel on Mitt Romney and Bain Capital in Op-Ed for CNN 7/29/2012 In a recent op-ed for CNN, Professor Roberta Karmel critiqued Mitt Romney's unclear role as CEO in his final years at Bain Capital. Although the presidential candidate officially resigned as head of the company in 1999, SEC filings reveal that he maintained titles, salary, and stock holdings for three more years. Professor Roberta Karmel Comments on SEC Rulemaking Crunch 7/17/2012 In Bloomberg BNA, Professor Roberta Karmel, along with several other former SEC Commissioners, spoke about the agency's current rulemaking crunch. Due to heavy workloads caused by the Dodd-Frank Act and the JOBS Act, the SEC is under pressure to make deadlines to fulfill new legal standards. Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses Mitt Romney and Bain Capital on MSNBC's "The Last Word" 7/17/2012 Professor Roberta Karmel was a panelist on MSNBC's "The Last Word," to discuss Mitt Romney's role and responsibility as head of Bain Capital. Recent SEC filings revealed that the presidential nominee remained president, CEO, and sole stock holder of the corporation three years after he publicly announced he left. Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses Morrison v. National Australia Bank in New York Law Journal 7/13/2012 In her monthly column "Securities Regulation" for the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel discussed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision of Morrison v. National Australia Bank. The decision, which creates a new transactional test for cross-border disputes, unnecessarily limits Section 10(b) class action suits, she argued. Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses Complications with Facebook Compensation Plan 6/15/2012 Professor Roberta Karmel spoke to Bloomberg Businessweek about potential complications surrounding compensation for the recent Facebook public offering. In addition to the IPO's emerging shareholder lawsuits and SEC review, arguments between the NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX Group could delay payment to brokers. Professor Roberta Karmel Questions the JOBS Act in the New York Law Journal 5/7/2012 In her latest column in the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel comments on the benefits and drawbacks of the newly passed JOBS Act, which eases securities and trade regulations on new media startup companies. Professor Roberta Karmel Elected to Head the Practising Law Institute Board of Trustees 5/5/2012 The Practising Law Institute (PLI) recently appointed Professor Roberta Karmel, a longtime PLI Trustee, to head its Board of Trustees. She is a renowned expert in international and domestic securities regulation, and is called upon to lecture all over the world. Professor Roberta Karmel Comments on Crowdfunding 4/23/2012 Professor Roberta Karmel spoke to several news outlets about the pending Jumpstart Our Business Start-Ups (JOBS) Act that will bring crowdfunding to the business sector. Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses Crowd-Funding Bills in the New York Law Journal 3/18/2012 In her latest column in the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel discusses new crowd-funding bills that will allow small businesses to bypass securities law requirements. She points out that this kind of deregulating legislation is primarily due to the upcoming election in November. Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses Crowd-Funding Bills in the New York Law Journal 3/18/2012 In her latest column in the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel discusses new crowd-funding bills that will allow small businesses to bypass securities law requirements. She points out that this kind of deregulating legislation is primarily due to the upcoming election in November. Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses Dodd-Frank on Bloomberg Law 2/26/2012 Professor Roberta Karmel discussed reforming the financial industry beyond Dodd Frank on Bloomberg Law. She said, "What we've moved away from is holding people responsible for business failure. In fact, the 'too big to fail' banks are bigger than ever." Barron's Features Centennial Professor of Law Roberta Karmel on Economic Reform 2/12/2012 In a recent interview with Barron's, Professor Roberta Karmel addresses problems with the Dodd-Frank Act and the more drastic reforms that are needed to protect the financial industry from self-destruction. Professor Roberta Karmel on the Causes of "Flash-Crashes" in the New York Law Journal 1/9/2012 In her recent column for the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel explores the causes of "flash-crashes" and how the SEC should regulate these situations of extreme market volatility. Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses the SEC and Proxy Access in New York Law Journal Op-Ed 10/24/2011 In an op-ed for the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel urges the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow corporations to handle all proxy access. Despite authority shifts determined by the Dodd-Frank Act, Professor Karmel argues that corporate internal affairs should remain the the jurisdiction of state corporation law, "since shareholders can now propose proxy access pursuant to the SEC's shareholder proposal rules under state law." Professor Roberta Karmel Speaks with USA Today about Stock Exchange Upgrades in Asian Markets 8/4/2011 In a recent article in USA Today, Professor Roberta Karmel commented on the changes occurring in stock exchanges throughout Asia. As Asian markets have become more competitive, stock exchanges in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines are upgrading their trading systems and extending hours. Governments however are beginning to worry about the effects the increased foreign capital will have on local economies. Professor Karmel explains, "The stock exchanges want a lot of trading, whereas the economic policymakers are looking for stability." Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses Investment Adviser SRO in the New York Law Journal 6/20/2011 In her New York Law Journal column "Securities Regulation," Professor Roberta Karmel discusses whether investment advisers might find incentives in forming an self-regulatory organizations (SRO). She argues that the securities industry should "stop resisting an SRO for investment advisers and either create a new free-standing SRO, or agree that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) or a new organized FINRA subsidiary be designated as such an SRO." Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses Alleged SEC/Wall Street "Revolving Door" 5/17/2011 Professor Roberta Karmel spoke with CNBC about the allegation that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall Street firms have a mutually beneficial revolving door. Critics cite over 200 former SEC officials who have since moved on to private companies, many of the same ones the SEC must regulate. Professor Karmel, a former SEC commissioner, however defended such officials, explaining: "Who do you want representing these clients before agencies such as the SEC with very, very complex rules? Lawyers who know nothing about the rules -- or lawyers who do?" Professor Roberta Karmel on Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group in Bloomberg Businessweek 3/31/2011 In a recent article, Bloomberg Businessweek explores Goldman Sachs' Special Situations Group (SSG), its proprietary trading sector that invests in troubled companies and makes loans to high-risk borrowers. Although the Volker rule, which puts extra restrictions on banks that receive government funding, intends to end such proprietary trading, the SSG may live on. Professor Roberta Karmel explained to Bloomberg, "These laws are too complicated, and [Goldman Sachs] can find loopholes. I don't know how strictly the regulators will be able to define proprietary trading." Professor Roberta Karmel Receives 2011 Sandra Day O'Connor Board of Excellence Award 1/29/2011 Professor Roberta Karmel was one of three recipients of Direct Women's 2011 Sandra Day O'Connor Board of Excellence Award. Direct Women strives to increase the representation of women on corporate boards. The Sandra Day O'Connor Board of Excellence Award honors female lawyers who have served with distinction on corporate boards. Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses the SEC Organization in New York Law Journal Column 12/21/2010 In her most recent column, "Securities Regulation," for the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel discusses the SEC's growing budget problems and co-dependent relationship with Washington. She explains: "When Congress is unable or unwilling to resolve difficult regulatory issues, it generally punts to the federal agencies and mandates rule-making and studies." Professor Roberta Karmel Cited by U.S. District Court for the Southern District 12/7/2010 Judge Daniels of the United States District Court for the Southern District cited Professor Roberta Karmel in the Court's Memorandum Decision and Order in the case, SEC v. Obus on September 20, 2010. The Court cites an article Professor Karmel wrote entitled, "Outsider Trading on Confidential Information- A Breach in Search of a Duty," 20 Cardozo L. Rev. 83, 108. and explains that in her article she "discusses the problems associated with the fiduciary duty element as applied in insider trading cases, specifically that the SEC is guided by the oft-cited O'Hagan decision, which was itself born out of Chief Justice Berger's dissent in United States v. Chiarella, 445 U.S. 222, 240, 100 S.Ct. 1108, 63 L.Ed.2d 348 (1980), rather than a Congressional directive." Professor Roberta Karmel Selected for Regulatory Innovation Award Committee 12/6/2010 Professor Roberta Karmel has been named as a member of the Regulatory Innovation Award Selection Committee. The award was established by Morrison & Foerster LLP in 2008 to honor an academic or non-elected public official whose innovative ideas have made a significant contribution to the discourse on regulatory reform. The 2011 honoree will be announced on March 28, 2011. Professor Karmel on Hedge Funds After the Dodd-Frank Act 10/25/2010 In her recent column "Securities Regulation" for the New York Law Journal, Professor Roberta Karmel assesses how hedge funds have reacted to the passage of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Also known as the Dodd-Frank Act, it requires all "private funds" to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with few exceptions. For hedge funds, this includes establishing a code of ethics and allowing the SEC to perform any investigations as it finds necessary for the public interest. Professor Roberta Karmel Quoted in Corporate Counsel 9/21/2010 Professor Roberta Karmel was featured in the Corporate Counsel column "What If?", which asks five experts a hypothetical question regarding corporate law. Professor Karmel participated in a two-part question: would Lehman Brothers still have failed if the Dodd-Frank law existed before its collapse? And, should the federal government have allowed it to fail? Professor Roberta Karmel Comments on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Index in USA Today 8/26/2010 USA Today reported on the progress of the Ho Chi Minh Stock Index, Vietnam's decade old stock exchange. Despite its roots in the communist country, the market has grown significantly since it began ten years ago, due in part to Vietnam's strong gambling culture. Professor Roberta Karmel, a former SEC Commissioner, recently published an article on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange and spoke to USA Today on the issue. "While there has always been an element of gambling in stock markets everywhere, this is something that's prevalent in Asian societies," she said. Professor Roberta Karmel on Municipal Securities Reform in New York Law Journal 8/23/2010 The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act remains a heated topic. An especially interesting feature is its affect on the municipal securities market. In her column, "Securities Regulation," Professor Roberta Karmel discusses how granting more to the SEC over the MSRB would betterprotect the growing number of individual investors in municipal markets. Professor Roberta Karmel Comments on the Financial Reform Bill in the American Banker 6/29/2010 Following the passage of the final financial reform bill, experts and critics are sifting through the legislation to assess the fate of all those involved. Some say that big banks, the main targets of reform, were ultimately given a pass. Professor Roberta Karmel, a former SEC commissioner, told American Banker: "Nobody has done anything to break up the big banks. The big banks were winners whether they know it or not. Everybody likes to say... small banks are so important for capital formation. But in the end, the big financial institutions won out." Professor Roberta Karmel Discusses the Balance of Federal and State Corporate Governance Laws in New York Law Journal 6/21/2010 Professor Roberta Karmel explores how the Securities Exchange Commission balances corporate governance laws on the federal and state levels. In her column, "Securities Regulation," she discusses a new law that would regulate proxy voting that passed in both the House and Senate, but may clash with existing New York state laws. Professor Roberta Karmel Quoted in Wall Street Journal on Mylan Inc. 6/20/2010 Generic-drug maker Mylan Inc. is the most recent company being put under investigation by the Securities Exchange Commission for selective disclosure of material information. In a meeting held last September, Mylan allegedly provided confidential earnings information to a small group of investors—a move considered illegal if not later publicized. Yet few of these cases make it to court, explained Professor Roberta Karmel, a former SEC commissioner , and Centennial Professor of Law:. "Private plaintiffs such as investors can't pursue litigation because of the way the law is written. That leaves the burden entirely on the SEC to enforce against such violations." Professor Roberta Karmel Speaks about Losses from May 6 Stock Market Freefall on CNBC 5/14/2010 The stock market dropped nearly a thousand points on May 6, bringing the worth of many stable companies down to pennies, only to rebound within the next hour. Although the strange event, whose cause remains unknown, is encouraging new rules for the market, investors who sold their temporarily depressed shares will likely keep those losses. Professor Roberta Karmel, who is also a former SEC commissioner, told CNBC, "I'm not sure there is any recourse—certainly not right now, because no one seems to know what the problem was. If you have a position in a solid, mainstream company like Proctor & Gamble, and all of a sudden because of program trading the stock sinks, it's not an appropriate risk." Professor Roberta Karmel on SEC's New Rules on Shorts Sales in New York Law Journal 4/19/2010 In her column, "Securities Regulation," Professor Roberta Karmel discusses the SEC's new rules on short sales—a common subject of blame for the current financial crisis. Responding to public pressure, the SEC established new "uptick" regulations, which govern the prices of flipping short sales. Professor Karmel on the SEC "Revolving Door" 4/9/2010 In a recent article, the Wall Street Journal explored the potential for a conflict of interest when employees leave the Securities and Exchange Commission for the private sector. Several instances have recently come public in which former SEC employees turn to more profitable private companies and represent the very clients they had once investigated. While some argue that these cases exemplify a lack of business ethics, Professor Roberta Karmel spoke in defense of what the Journal called the SEC's "revolving door." She said, "If you want to bring talent from the outside, you have to let people go to the private sector and make a living afterwards. I think it comes down to personal integrity." Professor Roberta Karmel on Market Competition vs. Fragmentation in New York Law Journal 2/23/2010 In her column, "Securities Regulation," Professor Roberta Karmel opines about the SEC's approach in addressingthe aftermath of market deregulation. After years of encouraging competition within markets, the SEC is considering solutions that will both protect investors and promote competition in a depressed economy. Professor Roberta Karmel Publishes Column in New York Law Journal on the Clash of the SEC and CTFC 12/22/2009 Professor Roberta Karmel's column, "Securities Regulation," explores the conflicts between the SEC and CTFC in light of the current economic crisis. The overlap of the two groups' trade responsibilities has Professor Karmel and many other experts calling for their consolidation into a single market regulatory body. Professor Karmel Signs Brief Against Public Company Accounting Oversight Board 10/24/2009 Nine separate amicus briefs have been submitted asking the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the Sarbanes-Oxley Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) unconstitutional. The briefs were signed by many prominent "friends of the court," including three former U.S. Attorneys General, several law professors and economists, and Professor Roberta Karmel, formerly Commissioner of the Securities Exchange Commission. They argue that PCAOB is unconstitutional as it bypasses Presidential appointment, Senate confirmation, and the Executive Branch's power to remove. Professor Karmel noted that "the PCAOB is not subject to constitutionally sufficient control by the President" and that its "structure violates the doctrine of separation of powers and the Appointments Clause." Professor Karmel on Derivatives Bill 10/19/2009 Professor Roberta Karmel was quoted in the Washington Post on the debate over the derivatives bill in the House of Representatives. The bill would require banks and firms to meet capital and reporting requirements, as well as trade through clearinghouses in a move towards remaking the nation's financial regulatory system. If it passes, an agency will be created to protect mortgage and credit card consumers. However, some worry that the legislation may hamper regulation, including Professor Karmel who questioned, "Will it be effectively regulated? Or will there still be this gap where it's not clear which agency will do what? Or will there be duplicative regulation?" Professor Roberta Karmel Presents at SEC Historical Society's "New World of Financial Regulation" 9/28/2009 Professor Karmel participated in the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society's program "New World of Financial Regulation," sponsored by the law firm Bingham McCutchen. The debate focused on the different options for creating a more effective financial regulatory system in light our current global economic crisis. Professor Karmel Quoted in L.A. Times on CFTC and SEC 9/12/2009 In light of the Obama administration's efforts to restructure Wall Street oversight, many experts argue that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission should be merged into one regulatory agency. However, lawmakers from several Midwestern states, where congressional agricultural committees oversee the CFTC, do not want to submit their control. Instead the two agencies will hold joint meetings to eliminate gaps and policy differences. Professor Karmel, a former SEC commissioner, told the Times the split between the CFTC and SEC "happened for historical reasons and these agencies haven't been combined for political reasons." She added that the situation "could work for a while, but ultimately it's going to be a problem." Professor Karmel Addresses University of Tennessee Law School 5/23/2009 Brooklyn Law School's Centennial Professor of Law Roberta S. Karmel was the keynote speaker at the University of Tennessee Law School's hooding ceremony on May 8, 2009 in Knoxville. UT's Arts and Sciences' graduation simultaneously featured East Tennessee native and acclaimed musician Dolly Parton, who was presented with an honorary doctorate degree. ABA Commission Honors Professor Roberta Karmel 8/14/2008 Roberta Karmel, the Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, was recognized on August 10 for her path-breaking achievements by the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession. Professor Roberta Karmel to Join SEC Roundtable on International Financial Reporting Standards 3/11/2007 Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law, was invited by the Securities and Exchange Commission to participate in a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 on the International Financial Reporting Standards "Roadmap." The roundtable was held at SEC headquarters and was open to the public. Professor Roberta Karmel Speaks at IMF and Queen Mary University of London 10/29/2006 Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of International Business Law, delivered a paper at an International Monetary Fund seminar on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 in Washington, D.C. Her paper, "Achieving Financial Stability Through Disclosure," was presented at a seminar for bank counsels on "Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law: Law and Financial Stability." Oral History of Professor Roberta Karmel Featured on SEC Historical Society Web Site 5/5/2006 An oral history of Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law and former SEC Commissioner, is featured on the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society's web site. Audio and print versions of two recent interviews with Professor Karmel are part of a tribute to SEC Women Commissioners. The web site is a virtual museum and archive of securities history that explores how the SEC has shaped the U.S. and international capital markets. Professor Roberta Karmel Appears at Commodity Futures Trading Commission Hearing 2/20/2006 Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law, was invited to appear at a February 15th public hearing of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C. on self-regulation and self-regulatory organizations in the U.S. futures industry. Related Links: Faculty News Curriculum

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It's pretty tough to promote referrals within a law firm network if the lawyers in the member firms have little knowledge that the network even exists. To put the information where it can't be missed, one network's internal branding campaign sticks it in their faces—literally.
WHO The International Lawyers Network, an association of 90 independent firms on six continents.
BACKGROUND To compete with larger firms, many midsize single-office firms band together in independent law firm networks. Often international in scope, these networks help the firms find skilled, prequalified lawyers for their clients in other cities or countries and share referrals with other firms in the network. The International Lawyers Network (ILN) is one such group, with its full-service member firms counting more than 5,000 lawyers across the globe.
In most law firm networks, each member firm has only three to five active members. Why? Because typically the other lawyers either have little knowledge of or little interest in the network. So when you do the math in a 90-firm, 5,000-lawyer network like ILN, this means perhaps 350 active members sharing referrals, leaving another 4,650 lawyers in those firms inactive. And that means a lot of wasted referral opportunities.
These networks exist to share referrals, but if thousands of their potential referral sources—meaning the lawyers in the firms—don't automatically think of the network when their clients need lawyers in other cities, the firms miss much of the potential benefits they're paying for and the network loses out. But how can you inform busy lawyers about the network in a way that will pull them into the pack? That was the conundrum confronting ILN.
MARKETING GOALS ILN needed a fun, simple, inexpensive, visually powerful and nonintrusive way to inform its 5,000 target lawyers that they were actually members in a network. And because this network extends worldwide, the branding campaign needed to work in different countries, cultures and languages.
The goal was to develop the needed materials and sell them to the member firms—to persuade them to use the network's branding materials internally in their offices, so their lawyers would understand the value of their participating in the ILN referral system. This required significant agreement from member firms, typically in the person of senior partners, to obtain buy-in to this singularly nontraditional approach. But the bottom-line reasons were clear enough: This campaign is critical to the future of the network and the value it provides to its members.
Research and Planning Lawyers are typically too busy to read their firms' internal newsletters, so the traditional information-sharing tool of circulating occasional intra-network print or e-mail newsletters wasn't going to be especially effective. Also, print materials would be expensive, since every mailer would have to go to 5,000 different lawyers. So, how to get them to think of the network regularly? To pay attention, care, and remember the network and send referrals within it whenever they have the opportunity?
Our basic message was simple: "Your firm is a member of ILN, a law firm network with skilled lawyers across the country and around the world. If you or a client needs a lawyer in another jurisdiction, -remember your ILN membership."
But the actual production was another matter altogether—we're talking about a smart, busy, overworked audience. They're not going to give you much of their time or attention, so you need to grab them quickly with a powerful, unexpected image and tell the entire story within a few seconds—and then hope they'll talk to their peers about it. And we needed to do it in a way that would sell to the firms' gatekeepers—the active ILN members who would decide whether to allow use of the corresponding branding tools and tactics in their firms. If they didn't like it, if we couldn't persuade them that it would work and their lawyers would enjoy it, they would never allow the materials in.
Then we hit on something that would be impossible for the lawyers to miss, that would immediately generate buzz inside the firms, and make the lawyers want to learn more. Strange as it may seem, the solution was plastic mirror clings, life-size doorway stickers, and miscellaneous out-of-proportion mirror hat stickers.
Implementation and Results We used extremely limited text, instead conveying the message with international imagery in unusual ways and unusual places, so a particular lawyer's facility with English wouldn't be an issue, and the materials wouldn't have to be continuously translated. Now, here's how the stickers come into play.
There are plastic static-cling stickers of hats from around the world alongside the message: "Imagine you need a lawyer in [that representative country]." When placed on a mirror, like in a firm's public bathrooms, a lawyer looking in the mirror appears to be wearing the hat from the identified country. These can be changed out or repeated occasionally for months or years, as necessary. Although choices here had to be carefully selected, of course, with an eye toward cultural sensitivities (since often the most stereotypic hats, or those most emblematic of a country or culture, have negative historic connotations).
The campaign also includes life-size stickers of people representing different countries or cultures for use on full-size mirrors, with the line "Your International Lawyers Network. We're always with you, worldwide."
Plus, there are life-size, photo-realistic, light-tack stickers of half-open doors to be affixed to the firm's walls-—like you could physically walk through the doorway into another country. The text: "You belong to the International Lawyers Network. Welcome to the world." It creates buzz and visual interest—plus, it's fun!
At the campaign's first presentation in Istanbul, at the ILN's European Regional Meeting, the member lawyers in attendance seemed to agree. European lawyers haven't embraced marketing as readily as U.S. firms and in comparison are quite conservative. We knew if we couldn't convince them, the project was doomed. But when we presented the program that described the campaign to them, it met with cheerful laughter and applause.
Ross Fishman specializes in marketing training and creating differentiation programs for law firms worldwide.


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n. - The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel. 2
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Manchester charter commission proposals include mayor's salary hike, no benefits for aldermen, school boardBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 26. 2013 12:27AM
MANCHESTER - The Charter Commission has finalized a list of proposals for the November ballot that includes raising the mayor's salary to $100,000 and eliminating the health care benefits for aldermen and school board members.
The slate is also notable for the absence of items concerning the school system or the tax cap, which had been the subject of considerable debate.
Commission Chairman Jerome Duval said it was important for there to be consensus on the proposed changes to the charter, which is the city's basic governing document.
"We're all elected by the same voters," he said. "We had a thorough exchange of dialogue on these measures. The nine members of the commission, when it comes to specifics, we may not all agree, but there is nearly unanimous backing for these changes."
Not all members of the commission, however, were pleased with the way the process concluded. Commissioner Rich Girard, along with Commissioners Will Infantine and Nick Pappas, have sent a letter of protest to city officials, arguing that no final vote was taken to approve the "preliminary report" at the meeting on Wednesday. Girard said a motion for "unanimous consent" for the proposed changes, which passed 6-3, preempted any discussion or vote on the final report.
"In effect, we believe that no revisions, under the law, were adopted. Moreover, the deadline for them to be adopted and reported having passed, we do not believe their adoption and reporting is possible," Girard states in the letter. Under the state charter commission statute, RSA 49-B:4, the preliminary report must be prepared within 170 days after the election of the commission.
That deadline was Wednesday.
Duval maintained that the actions of the commission were proper and that the document would now go to the Secretary of State's Office, Attorney General's Office and Department of Revenue Administration to make sure there is no conflict with state law.
In addition to raising the mayor's salary to $100,000 (from $68,000), the commission has proposed raising stipends for aldermen to $9,000 (from $5,000), and school board members to $7,000 (from $2,000), while eliminating health and dental coverage.
Another proposal would make the welfare commissioner an appointed rather than an elected position. As it stands, the commissioner is the only elected official that receives the same raises and benefits as a department head.
The other proposals:
-- Fining elected officials who do not file financial disclosure reports; $100 for the first day, $10 for each additional day.
-- Extending the requirement to disclose conflicts of interest to members of boards, commissions and authorities.
-- Requiring that the budget approval process be completed by the second Tuesday in June (instead of June 30).
-- Requiring that a candidate for elective office be a resident of the city for at least one year.
-- Increasing the number of election postings from three to eight, 30 days before both a primary and general municipal election.


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Bank of America posts loss, hurt by legal expenses
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) — Bank of America said Wednesday that it swung to a loss in the first quarter, hurt by $6 billion in legal expenses.
The Charlotte, North Carolina, bank reported a loss applicable to common shareholders of $514 million. That's compares with earnings of $1.11 billion a year earlier.
The loss amounted to 5 cents a share. A year earlier, the bank earned 10 cents a share.
Revenue totaled $22.66 billion after stripping out an accounting change. That was down 3.8 percent from last year.
The $6 billion legal expense stems from a previously announced settlement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and additional reserves for other mortgage-related matters.
The bank also said it reached a settlement with the Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, as well as separate settlements with The Bank of New York Mellon, over residential mortgage-backed securities.
Bank of America's stock fell 15 cents to $16.24 in premarket trading about an hour and a half before the market open.


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A role in Home Rule
Countess Constance Markievicz, the first woman to be elected to parliament.
While women throughout Ireland prepared to confront the unionists, the English militant organisation the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) went further. They had already established an "Ulster Centre" in Belfast and in March 1914 they sent over full-time organisers who began an arson campaign.
On March 27th there was an attack on Abbeylands House in Whiteabbey, in the grounds of which the UVF had been drilling. Damage was estimated at £20,000. While the suffragettes were arrested, the UVF ran 24,000 guns into Larne without any arrests. The double standard infuriated women and escalated militancy. The Irish Women's Suffrage Society dissolved as women flocked to the WSPU ranks. However, in Dublin the WSPU was received with hostility and soon closed.
Venues associated with male leisure pursuits and also unionist targets came in for attack. In August, following an explosion at Lisburn Cathedral, more arrests were made. Before the case came to trial the first World War had broken out. The WSPU halted its campaign, and by August 22nd had pulled out of Ireland. Many disagreed strongly with that decision, arguing that the home rule question and women's enfranchisement remained unresolved. Belfast activist Margaret McCoubrey tried to set up a branch of the Irish Women's Franchise League (IWFL) as a feminist and anti-war organisation, but by 1915 this petered out.
The Irish Citizen, the paper of the suffrage movement, edited by Francis Sheehy Skeffington, declared, "Votes for women now – damn your war," and the IWFL refused to engage in any relief work that might prolong the war.
They continued to organise speaking tours and suffrage meetings, but divisions caused by the war had a detrimental effect on the cause. Supporters of the war withdrew subscriptions from The Irish Citizen. The Munster Women's Franchise League raised funds for an ambulance for France and the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association sponsored a bed for wounded soldiers and campaigned for Belgian refugees. Pacifists were in a minority. In 1915 Hanna Sheehy Skeffington of the IWFL and Louie Bennett of the Irish Women's Reform League were among Irish delegates to an International Congress of Women at The Hague, aimed at uniting women to try to negotiate peace.
The British government refused permits to all except Bennett, and a ban on travel prevented her attending. In protesting against this government action, IWFL militants became politically closer to republicans like Thomas MacDonagh, then Director of Training for the Irish Volunteers.
Before the Easter Rising, James Connolly told Hanna Sheehy Skeffington she would be a member of a civil government which the leadership intended would come into existence if the insurgents managed to hold out. She described the Rising as "the first time in history that men fighting for freedom had voluntarily included women". The Proclamation of the Republic guaranteed equal opportunities and equal citizenship for women and men. Women in the Irish Citizen Army, commanded by Connolly, were given equal status. Notoriously, Cumann na mBan women were refused entry to Boland's Mill, commanded by Eamon de Valera, future president of Ireland. Almost 200 women are reckoned to have contributed in some way to the Rising, but numbers are difficult to calculate as many left their outposts before the final surrender.
Seventy seven women are listed as subsequently imprisoned by the British. Members of the IWFL brought supplies to outposts and carried messages. After Francis Sheehy Skeffington was arrested and executed by British troops while attempting to organise a citizen's militia to stop the wide-scale looting he feared would discredit the ideals of the Rising, Hanna spent months in a crusade to force Prime Minister Asquith to hold an inquiry into the circumstances of his death. After surrender only five women were detained for lengthy periods, all Citizen Army members. Constance Markievicz's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment because of her sex.
The execution of 16 leaders and the work of bereaved women relatives in holding memorial masses and supporting released prisoners did much to change public opinion, initially hostile to the Rising. Grace Gifford married her fiancé Joseph Plunkett before his execution in Kilmainham Jail. Kathleen Clarke, whose husband Tom was the first signatory to the Proclamation, distributed relief to bereaved families. A resurgent nationalist Ireland successfully resisted attempts by the British to impose conscription. Women were at the forefront of opposition. In addition, nationalist women from different organisations joined forces to ensure they would be effectively represented in the reorganisation of nationalist forces.
In April 1917 a group of women came together at the home of Countess Plunkett. They included members of Cumann na mBan, widows of the leadership, women from the Irish Citizen Army, from the Irish Women Worker's Union and others. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington joined on her return from America.
They formed a group, the League of Women Delegates, Cumann na d'Teachtaire, determined that the Proclamation's promise of equal citizenship would be adhered to.
Their first task was to campaign for increased representation for women within Sinn Féin. However, as only 12 women out of 1,000 were selected as delegates to the October 1917 Sinn Féin Convention, Cumann na d'Teachtaire did well to have four women elected on to the executive, all of whom had some connection with the Rising. They were dismayed at the lack of women candidates in the parliamentary elections of December 1918. The Representation of the People Act had given women over the age of 30 in Ireland and Britain the right to vote and another act allowed women stand for election.
Only two women were selected: Constance Markievicz in Dublin and Winifred Carney in Belfast. Both had been members of the Irish Citizen Army. Kathleen Clarke had hoped to be a candidate. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington rejected the offer of an unwinnable seat. Members of the IWFL and Cumann na nBan worked hard for a Markievicz victory, criticising Sinn Féin for its lack of support. Anna Haslam, 89, led a victory procession of women in Dublin as she cast her vote for the first time, supporting a Conservative candidate. Markievicz became the first woman to be elected to parliament, although she did not take her seat. Despite jubilation over her victory The Irish Citizen commented, "Under the new dispensation the majority sex in Ireland has secured one representative. This is the measure of our boasted sex equality." The elected Sinn Féin members boycotted the British Parliament in favour of a new Irish assembly, Dáil Éireann. Markievicz became Minister for Labour.
The War of Independence began on January 21st 1919 and continued until a Truce was declared on July 11th 1921. Cumann na d'Teachtaire had planned to press for more women to be nominated as candidates for the local government elections, but by late 1919 all nationalist organisations were declared illegal, meetings forbidden and the dangers in opposing British rule intensified, making it impossible to meet.
Dáil Éireann courts were created and many women served as judges in this underground network. Cumann na mBan developed in strength, with 600 branches throughout Ireland. They provided safe houses, carried food and clothing to men hiding in hillsides, transported weaponry, scouted for targets, undertook intelligence work and formed guards of honour at funeral processions.
In 1920 UK legislation partitioned Ireland into two Home Rule states: six-county Northern Ireland and 26-county Southern Ireland.
In December an American Committee for Relief in Ireland organised fund-raising and the White Cross organisation was formed in Ireland to help the 100,000 people left destitute. Nationalist women formed the backbone of the organisation, headed by Áine Ceannt, widow of one of the 1916 leaders.
Women were elected to local government positions in 1920 and in elections to the second Dáil in 1921, six were returned: Markievicz, Kate O'Callaghan (whose murdered husband had been mayor of Limerick), Mary MacSwiney (sister of Terence, the lord mayor of Cork who died after a lengthy hunger strike), Kathleen Clarke, Margaret Pearse (mother of Patrick Pearse) and Dr Ada English of Cumann na mBan.
Women were invaluable in producing the underground Sinn Féin paper The Irish Bulletin, which defied censorship laws by providing information about the war. Around 50 women were imprisoned during this period, comparatively few compared to the male figure of 4,000. This reflected the nature of their work and difficulties in getting evidence for conviction.
After the July 1921 truce, no women were included among the Dáil delegates chosen to negotiate with the British government, although Lily O'Brennan (sister of Áine Ceannt), former secretary of Cumann na mBan, was a secretary for the Irish delegation. The final terms did not give a republic, requiring members of the Dáil to take an Oath of Allegiance to the British monarchy, and leaving partition in place unless changed later by the Boundary Commission. Cumann na mBan was the first organisation to declare its opposition. All six female deputies also opposed the Treaty, which was accepted by the Dáil in January 1922.
A motion by Kate O'Callaghan to enfranchise women between the ages of 21 and 30 before the country voted on the issue was defeated. This symbolised the nature of the new "Free State" in some anti-Treaty quarters. Nevertheless, both pro- and anti-Treaty nationalist feminists continued to press for women's full equality in the new state's constitution, calling on the commitment in the 1916 Proclamation and women's contribution to the nationalist struggle. The 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State gave full citizenship to all women and men over 21.


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apprehension operation coordinated by the United States Marshals
Service (USMS). The resources of federal, state, city and
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Robert Bailey Connelly, 79
Bailey Connelly
U.S.N. (Ret.), 79, formerly of Jamestown, died July 13, 2010, in Silver Spring, Md. from complications associated with Alzheimer's disease.
He was born in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 10, 1930, to then Lt. Bailey Connelly and Evelyn Coloney Connelly. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952 and married Elizabeth Ann Bayne the following November.
He served on the battleship Wisconsin (BB64) for two years before attending electronics school and submarine school in 1955. After two years on the USS Blackfin (SS 322), he had nuclear power training and reported to the USS Sargo (SSN 583), which made the first winter surfacing at the North Pole in February, 1960.
Subsequent sea duty was as commissioning engineer of the USS John Marshall (SSBN-611), commissioning executive officer of the USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN- 635) and commanding officer of the USS John C. Calhoun (SSBN- 630).
His first shore duty was at the Naval Submarine School as head of the Officer's Training Dept. Subsequent duty included the staff of Commander Submarines U.S. Atlantic Fleet and finally, the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, from which he retired in 1977.
Capt. Connelly was employed by Purvis Systems, Inc. in Newport for several years. He was among the founding partners of the Newport Athletic Club, was a member of the Board of the Newport Armed Services YMCA, and a vestryman and member of Trinity Church in Newport.
He leaves his beloved wife, Elizabeth, and children, Cathleen Connelly of Washington, D.C.; Robert Bailey Connelly, Jr. of Arlington, Va.; and Thomas Bayne Connelly of Mansfield, Mass; two grandsons, Matthew Gordon Connelly and Samson Bailey Connelly.
He will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery.


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President Obama: Rescue attempt of NH-based journalist James Foley failedBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 20. 2014 10:34PM
President Obama on Wednesday condemned the beheading of New Hampshire-based journalist James Foley, calling the Islamic militant group believed to be responsible a "cancer" and vowing justice. "The entire world is appalled," said President Obama, in a televised statement from Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where he is vacationing. "No just God would stand for what they did yesterday or every single day ... People like this ultimately fail. They fail because the future's won by those who build and not destroy. The world is shaped by people like Jim Foley."
A U.S. Special Operations team tried and failed to rescue Foley and other Americans held hostage in Syria during a secret mission in early July authorized by President Obama.
"The U.S. government had what we believed was sufficient intelligence, and when the opportunity presented itself, the President authorized the Department of Defense to move aggressively to recover our citizens," Lisa Monaco, a top counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama, said in a statement. "Unfortunately, that mission was ultimately not successful because the hostages were not present."
Obama said he was in contact with Foley's parents, John and Diane of Rochester, on Wednesday. The couple's 40-year-old son was kidnapped in Syria two years ago while reporting on the conflict there for GlobalPost.
"Jim was a journalist, a son, a brother, and a friend," said Obama. "He reported from difficult and dangerous places, bearing witness to the lives of people a world away. Jim was taken from us in an act of violence that shocks the conscience of the entire world."
"I spoke to the Foleys and told them that we are all heartbroken at their loss, and join them in honoring Jim and all that he did," said Obama.
A chilling message
Reuters reported that on the night of Aug. 13, Foley's family received a chilling message: He would be executed in retaliation for U.S. air strikes on the militant group Islamic State.
The family passed the message on to the U.S. government. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which handles cases involving kidnapped American citizens, helped craft a response, pleading for mercy, said Phil Balboni, chief executive of GlobalPost, the Boston-based online news publication that employed Foley.
"It was an appeal for mercy. It was a statement that Jim was an innocent journalist" who respected the people of Syria, where he was held, Balboni said told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Foley's family and friends hoped the militants were bluffing and wanted a ransom, he said.
Obama did not reference the threat during his statement, and did not field any questions from media members.
The President said a group like ISIS has "no place in the 21st century."
"They (ISIS) have rampaged across cities and villages, killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence," said Obama. "They abduct women and children, and subject them to torture and rape and slavery."
Bishop Peter Libasci of the Archdiocese of Manchester issued a statement on Wednesday calling Foley's murder an act of "unspeakable evil."
"The brutality of this act is itself evidence of an unspeakable evil that is rampant and inhuman," LiBasci said. "To the prayers that have been offered since his captivity almost two years ago, we now add our prayers for James' eternal rest and, in Christ Jesus Our Lord, James' future resurrection to eternal life. Our prayers also must accompany a sorrowful mother, a grieving father, a deeply pained family and countless friends who have kept vigil all this time. May we also pray for those who have embraced the way of darkness and death, that they may turn away from this terrible evil now and forever."
McCain: Increase airstrikes
On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, called for an increase in U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq, telling the Reuters news service the attacks should be extended into Syria.
"I don't think there's any doubt that this horrible video on the Internet is bound to have an impact on the American people," McCain told Reuters. "The nature of the brutality of this organization has been brought home by this. We have to defeat them, not stop them."
The video shows an ISIS militant wearing a black face mask addressing President Obama directly.
"Any attempt by you, Obama, to deny the Muslims their right to live in safety under the Islamic caliphate will result in the bloodshed of your people," he says.
Journalist Steven Sotloff
Among the hostages sought in last month's rescue mission was Steven Sotloff, the American journalist who was threatened with beheading in the same video that showed the grisly execution of Foley. Sotloff has been missing since Aug. 4, 2013.
Julia Brennan, director of communications at Kimball Union Academy, confirmed Sotloff is a 2002 graduate of the New Hampshire school, but would say no more "in the interest of protecting Steven's safety and security, his privacy and the privacy of his family at this incredibly difficult and precarious time ..."
On his Twitter page, Sotloff describes himself as a "stand-up philosopher from Miami" and Miami Heat basketball fan whose work has appeared in Time magazine and Foreign Policy magazine.
Sotloff has reported from Egypt, Turkey, Libya, Bahrain and Syria, among other countries, according to his Twitter feed and past news articles.
"I met with the Sotloff family in Miami and have spoken to them over the phone while in D.C. regarding their son Steven's situation," U.S. Rep. Illeana Ros-Lehtinen (R.-Fla.) said Wednesday in a statement.
"My office has contacted the relevant agencies, departments and even organizations with connections on the ground in Syria to try to get answers for the Sotloff family. This is a tragic situation and we have seen that ISIS has no respect for human life."
Though he did not mention Sotloff specifically, Obama promised that, "the United States of America will continue to do what they must do to protect our people."
"We will be vigilant. We will be relentless," Obama said.


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BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J., April 4, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:CYCC) (Nasdaq:CYCCP) ("Cyclacel" or the "Company") announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Celgene Corporation ("Celgene") to sell to Celgene four Cyclacel‐owned patents related to the use of romidepsin injection. In connection with the agreement Celgene has made to Cyclacel a one‐time payment of $5.5 million.
As a result, the litigation between Cyclacel and Celgene in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, case number 1:10‐cv‐00348‐GMS, is moot. Cyclacel and Celgene have filed a joint stipulation and order for dismissal requesting the Court to enter an order dismissing the litigation.
"We are pleased to enter into this agreement with Celgene," said Spiro Rombotis, Cyclacel's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The dismissal of the litigation will allow Cyclacel to concentrate on the development of our pipeline to benefit the patients we serve."
About Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Cyclacel is a biopharmaceutical company developing oral therapies that target the various phases of cell cycle control for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. Sapacitabine, Cyclacel's most advanced product candidate, is the subject of SEAMLESS, a Phase 3 trial being conducted under an SPA with the FDA as front‐line treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in the elderly, and other studies for myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and solid tumors including breast, lung, ovarian and pancreatic cancer. Cyclacel's strategy is to build a diversified biopharmaceutical business focused in hematology and oncology based on a development pipeline of novel drug candidates. Please visit www.cyclacel.com for additional information.
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This news release contains certain forward‐looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward‐looking statements. Such forward‐looking statements include statements regarding, among other things, the efficacy, safety and intended utilization of Cyclacel's product candidates, the conduct and results of future clinical trials, plans regarding regulatory filings, future research and clinical trials and plans regarding partnering activities. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include the risk that product candidates that appeared promising in early research and clinical trials do not demonstrate safety and/or efficacy in larger‐scale or later clinical trials, trials may have difficulty enrolling, Cyclacel may not obtain approval to market its product candidates, the risks associated with reliance on outside financing to meet capital requirements, and the risks associated with reliance on collaborative partners for further clinical trials, development and commercialization of product candidates. You are urged to consider statements that include the words "may," "will," "would," "could," "should," "believes," "estimates," "projects," "potential," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "intends," "continues," "forecast," "designed," "goal," or the negative of those words or other comparable words to be uncertain and forward‐looking. For a further list and description of the risks and uncertainties the Company faces, please refer to our most recent Annual Report on Form 10‐K and other periodic and other filings we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are available at www.sec.gov. Such forward‐looking statements are current only as of the date they are made, and we assume no obligation to update any forward‐looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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