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Responsibility: A Must for All Contractors- Part I
If you're at all familiar with the world of Suspension and Debarment, then you are well aware that the Government is very much concerned with the responsibility of its contractors. However, in suspending and debarring contractors, the Government is addressing the issue of responsibility retrospectively. The Government also takes certain steps to ensure that contractors are cleared as responsible in advance. This post will be the first in a series of articles focusing on Federal Acquisition Regulations ("FAR") Subpart 9.1, Responsible Prospective Contractors, and the manner in which the rules contained therein may impact your business.
What is the Policy Behind FAR Subpart 9.1? FAR Subpart 9.103(a) stipulates that, "Purchases shall be made from, and contracts shall be awarded to, responsible prospective contractors only." The rationale behind this assertion is spelled out in FAR Subpart 9.103(c), in an unusually lengthy policy explanation:
"The award of a contract to a supplier based on lowest evaluated price alone can be false economy if there is subsequent default, late deliveries, or other unsatisfactory performance resulting in additional contractual or administrative costs. While it is important that Government purchases be made at the lowest price, this does not require an award to a supplier solely because that supplier submits the lowest offer. A prospective contractor must affirmatively demonstrate its responsibility, including, when necessary, the responsibility of its proposed subcontractor."
The dynamic addressed by FAR Subpart 9.103(c) is a straightforward but vital one. The Government deploys a myriad of mechanisms to ensure that it procures goods and services at the lowest possible cost. However, such bargains are worthless, and fleeting, where the contractors promising them are incapable of delivering on their promises. A determination of nonresponsibility at the outset is a strong method of avoiding these types of situations.
Who Determines Responsibility? According to FAR Subpart 9.103(b), responsibility is determined by the contracting officer. However, the contracting officer is not merely confirming that the contractor at issue is not nonresponsible; rather, he/she must make an "affirmative determination of responsibility." Furthermore, there is no middle ground between responsibility and nonresponsibility. That is, under FAR Subpart 9.103(b), "In the absence of information clearly indicating that the prospective contractor is responsible, the contracting officer shall make a determination of nonresponsibility." In short, either your business is considered responsible or it is considered non-responsible.
How is Responsibility Determined? FAR Subpart 9.104-1 identifies seven qualities that the contracting officer must consider in making his/her responsibility determination. Essential here is that a contractor must satisfy each of these factors in order for it to be identified as responsible. For some of the factors discussed below, protests before the Government Accountability Office ("GAO") have been cited as examples, to provide some valuable context.
First, per FAR Subpart 9.104-1(a), contractors must "[h]ave adequate financial resources to perform the contract or the ability to obtain them…" According to FAR Subpart 9.104-3(a), the ability to obtain the requisite financial resources can generally be proven by evidence of "a commitment or explicit arrangement, that will be in existence at the time of contract award, to rent, purchase, or otherwise acquire the needed facilities, equipment, other resources, or personnel." In XO Communications, Inc., B-290981, the GAO held that the General Services Administration "reasonably determined that [XO Communications, Inc.] was nonresponsible" because, among other reasons, "the contracting officer performed a detailed financial review which established that [XO Communications, Inc.'s] unsatisfactory and deteriorating financial condition made it an unacceptible financial risk…"
Second, per FAR Subpart 9.104-1(b), contractors must "[b]e able to comply with the required or proposed delivery or performance schedule, taking into consideration all existing commercial and governmental business commitments[.]"
Third, per FAR Subpart 9.104-1(c), contractors must "[h]ave a satisfactory performance record…" The FAR is careful to avoid discriminating against early entrants to the area of federal procurement by stipulating that, in general, "[a] prospective contractor shall not be determined responsible or nonresponsible solely on the basis of a lack of relevant performance history…" FAR Subpart 9.104-1(c). The FAR further expounds on this standard, identifying strong indicators of nonresponsibility in this regard. Specifically, under FAR Subpart 9.104-3(b), "[a] prospective contractor that is or recently has been seriously deficient in contract performance shall be presumed to be nonresponsible, unless the contracting officer determines that the circumstances were properly beyond the contractor's control, or that the contractor has taken appropriate corrective action." Furthermore, "[p]ast failure to apply sufficient tenacity and perseverance to perform acceptably is strong evidence of nonresponsibility." Lastly, FAR Subpart 9.104-3(b) provides that "[f]ailure to meet the quality requirements of the contract is a significant factor to consider in determining satisfactory performance." However, FAR Subpart 9.104-3(b) also provides what could be interpreted as mitigating factors, in this regard, stipulating that "[t]he contracting officer shall consider the number of contracts involved and the extent of deficient performance in each contract when making this determination." In Daisung Company, B-294142, the GAO held that the Department of the Army appropriately found that Daisung Company was nonresponsible "where the determination was based on [an] audit and [a] criminal investigation that resulted in specific findings of improper conduct by [Daisung Company] under [a] recent contract for [the] same requirement."
Fourth, per FAR Subpart 9.104-1(d), contractors must "[h]ave a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics…"
Fifth, per FAR Subpart 9.104-1(e), contractors must "[h]ave the necessary organization, experience, accounting and operational controls, and technical skills, or the ability to obtain them (including, as appropriate, such elements as production control procedures, property control systems, quality assurance measures, and safety programs applicable to materials to be produced or services to be performed by the prospective contractor and subcontractors)." As with the ability to obtain resources, FAR Subpart 9.104-3(a) identifies generally acceptable evidence of the ability to obtain these controls and skills. In Kilgore Flares Company, LLC, B-406139, the GAO held that the Navy properly determined the protester as "nonresponsible to perform [a] contract for the manufacture of flares where the record [reflected] outstanding concerns relating to the safety of the firm's manufacturing facility."
Sixth, per FAR Subpart 9.104-1(f), contractors must "[h]ave the necessary production, construction, and technical equipment and facilities, or the ability to obtain them…" As with the ability to obtain resources, controls, and skills, FAR Subpart 9.104-3(a) identifies generally acceptable evidence of the ability to obtain these facilities.
Seventh, per FAR Subpart 9.104-1(g), contractors must "[b]e otherwise qualified and eligible to receive an award under applicable laws and regulations…" The ambiguity of this standard is such that it serves as sizeable catch-all. In this respect, it is arguably the preemptive equivalent of FAR Subpart 9.406-2(c), which stipulates that a contractor may be debarred "based on any other cause of so serious or compelling a nature that it affects the present responsibility of the contractor or subcontractor."
Small Business? Come Back Next Week! The FAR prescribes modified rules for the determination of responsibility for small business concerns. These modified rules will be addressed in next week's post.
So What? An oft-repeated theme of this blog is that the Government is not your ordinary buyer, and the Government's prioritization of responsibility is yet another example of the manner in which the Government distinguishes itself in this respect. The Government is often paying for goods and services the production and provision of which can take months, if not years. Furthermore, the true consumer of such goods and services are the American people, both at home and abroad. Accordingly, contractors must do more than simply underbid their competitors in order to secure public contracts. In addition, they must demonstrate that they have the ability to perform in a sustainable, reliable, and ethical manner. As a contractor, carefully review the seven factors identified above, and confirm that your business unquestionably satisfies each requirement. Doing so is equally important to ensuring that your business provides affordable solutions. In fact, it is arguably more important, as a preemptive confirmation of responsibility can help prevent costly and fatal determinations of nonresponsibility by the Government in the future.
Adam Munitz is a lawyer at Fluet Huber + Hoang, a full service law firm focused on the needs of growing government contractors. Adam specializes in Government Contracts Law and Export Compliance. You can reach him by email here.


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Sara Marie (Kahn) Jenson, 1944
Volume 46, Number 2, Winter 2013 (1/11/13)
Sara Marie (Kahn) Jenson, 1944
SARA MARIE (KAHN) JENSON died on October 1, 2012, at the age of 88. Born and raised in Spring Grove, MN, Sara was an excellent student who graduated from high school a year ahead of her classmates. Since she was so young, her parents convinced her to go to nearby Luther College, with the proviso that she could transfer after a year if she didn't like it. Luther must have agreed with her because she stayed, continuing the pattern of excellence she had begun in high school and graduating from Luther in three years, magna cum laude, in 1944. Sara was Luther's Homecoming Queen in 1942. Sara met her future husband, Dr. Carroll "Hap" Jenson ('43) in the library at Luther. The library, so much her home at Luther, became a place she never really left. After graduation, she earned her ABLS degree from the University of Michigan, then worked as a librarian in La Crosse, at Luther Northwestern Seminary in St. Paul, and, finally, in the Stillwater (MN) public schools. After her retirement, she continued to work as a substitute librarian until the age of 80. During her career, Sara served on many local and regional library and synod boards. She was an active member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Bayport, MN, serving as the first woman president of the Church Council and as Sunday School superintendent. Sara, who served on the original board, and Hap were instrumental in beginning Books for Africa, an organization which ultimately provided over 30 million books to schools in Africa. She and Hap travelled widely, visiting the British Isles, Mexico, Greece, Japan, and the Far East, as well as several trips to Africa in conjunction with their church's mission work there. Sara was preceded in death by her only son Peter. Besides her husband Hap, she is survived by one grandson, two brothers-in-law (Dr. Jim, '41 and Dr. Paul, '48), a sister-in-law (Lois, '52), and many nieces and nephews.


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Candidates vying to be Lord Sugar's business partner on BBC One's The Apprentice set up a stall in Ilford's shopping centre – where toy insects went down a storm.
The team project managed by candidate Jade Nash chose Exchange Ilford, in High Road, as one of two places to sell items bought from an Essex wholesaler.
Their mission was to sell what they bought, buy more of what had sold well, and keep going until Lord Sugar had sounded the bell and it was boardroom time.
Candidates Laura Hogg, Azhar Siddique and Tom Gearing were seen in last night's episode in Exchange Ilford trying to sell bottles of fake tan, toy insects and hot water bottles, among other things.
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Junot Díaz burst into the literary world with Drown, a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the "eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" (Newsweek). His eagerly awaited first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, arrived like a thunderclap, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning a host of major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Now Díaz turns his prodigious talent to the haunting, impossible power of love.
The stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through - "the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying" - to try to mend what we've broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care. They teach us the catechism of affections: that the faithlessness of the fathers is visited upon the children; that what we do unto our exes is inevitably done in turn unto us; and that loving thy neighbor as thyself is a commandment more safely honored on platonic than erotic terms. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience, and that "love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever."
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Your girl catches you cheating. (Well, actually she's your fiancée, but hey, in a bit it so won't matter.) She could have caught you with one sucia, she could have caught you with two, but as you're a totally batshit cuero who didn't ever empty his email trash can, she caught you with fifty! Sure, over a six-year period, but still. Fifty fucking girls? Goddamn. Maybe if you'd been engaged to a super open-minded blanquita you could have survived it—but you're not engaged to a super openminded blanquita. Your girl is a badass salcedeña who doesn't believe in open anything; in fact the one thing she warned you about, that she swore she would never forgive, was cheating. I'll put a machete in you, she promised. And of course you swore you wouldn't do it. You swore you wouldn't. You swore you wouldn't.
And you did.
She'll stick around for a few months because you dated for a long long time. Because you went through much together—her father's death, your tenure madness, her bar exam (passed on the third attempt). And because love, real love, is not so easily shed. Over a tortured six-month period you will fly to the DR, to Mexico (for the funeral of a friend), to New Zealand. You will walk the beach where they filmed The Piano, something she's always wanted to do, and now, in penitent desperation, you give it to her. She is immensely sad on that beach and she walks up and down the shining sand alone, bare feet in the freezing water, and when you try to hug her she says, Don't. She stares at the rocks jutting out of the water, the wind taking her hair straight back. On the ride back to the hotel, up through those wild steeps, you pick up a pair of hitchhikers, a couple, so mixed it's ridiculous, and so giddy with love that you almost throw them out the car. She says nothing. Later, in the hotel, she will cry.
You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda. You compose a mass e-mail disowning all your sucias. You block their e-mails. You change your phone number. You stop drinking. You stop smoking. You claim you're a sex addict and start attending meetings. You blame your father. You blame your mother. You blame the patriarchy. You blame Santo Domingo. You find a therapist. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your email accounts. You start taking salsa classes like you always swore you would so that the two of you could dance together. You claim that you were sick, you claim that you were weak—It was the book! It was the pressure!—and every hour like clockwork you say that you're so so sorry. You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more, and, Ya, and you will have to move from the Harlem apartment that you two have shared. You consider not going. You consider a squat protest. In fact, you say won't go. But in the end you do.
For a while you haunt the city, like a two-bit ballplayer dreaming of a call-up. You phone her every day and leave messages, which she doesn't answer. You write her long sensitive letters, which she returns unopened. You even show up at her apartment at odd hours and at her job downtown until finally her little sister calls you, the one who was always on your side, and she makes it plain: If you try to contact my sister again she's going to put a restraining order on you.
For some Negroes that wouldn't mean shit.
But you ain't that kind of Negro.
You stop. You move back to Boston. You never see her again.
Year 1
At first you pretend it don't matter. You harbored a lot of grievances against her anyway. Yes you did! She didn't give good head, you hated the fuzz on her cheeks, she never waxed her pussy, she never cleaned up around the apartment, etc. For a few weeks you almost believe it. Of course you go back to smoking, to drinking, you drop the therapist and the sex addict groups and you run around with the sluts like it's the good old days, like nothing has happened.
I'm back, you say to your boys.
Elvis laughs. It's almost like you never left.
You're good for like a week. Then your moods become erratic. One minute you have to stop yourself from jumping in the car and driving to see her and the next you're calling a sucia and saying, You're the one I always wanted. You start losing your temper with friends, with students, with colleagues. You cry every time you hear Monchy and Alexandra, her favorite.
Boston, where you never wanted to live, where you feel you've been exiled to, becomes a serious problem. You have trouble adjusting to it fulltime; to its trains that stop running at midnight, to the glumness of its inhabitants, to its startling lack of Sichuan food. Almost on cue a lot of racist shit starts happening. Maybe it was always there, maybe you've become more sensitive after all your time in NYC. White people pull up at traffic lights and scream at you with a hideous rage, like you nearly ran over their mothers. It's fucking scary. Before you can figure out what the fuck is going on they flip you the bird and peel out. It happens again and again. Security follows you in stores and every time you step on Harvard property you're asked for ID. Three times, drunk whitedudes try to pick fights with you in different parts of the city.
You take it all very personally. I hope someone drops a fucking bomb on this city, you rant. This is why no people of color want to live here. Why all my black and Latino students leave as soon as they can.
Elvis says nothing. He was born and raised in Jamaica Plain, knows that trying to defend Boston from uncool is like blocking a bullet with a slice of bread. Are you OK? he asks finally.
I'm dandy, you say. Mejor que nunca.
Except you're not. You've lost all the mutual friends you had in NYC (they went to her), your mother won't speak to you after what happened (she liked the fiancée better than she liked you), and you're feeling terribly guilty and terribly alone. You keep writing letters to her, waiting for the day that you can hand them to her. You also keep fucking everything that moves. Thanksgiving you end up having to spend in your apartment because you can't face your mom and the idea of other people's charity makes you furious. The ex, as you're now calling her, always cooked: a turkey, a chicken, a pernil. Set aside all the wings for you. That night you drink yourself into a stupor, spend two days recovering.
You figure that's as bad as it gets. You figure wrong. During finals a depression rolls over you, so profound you doubt there is a name for it. It feels like you're being slowly pincered apart, atom by atom.
You stop hitting the gym or going out for drinks; you stop shaving or washing your clothes; in fact, you stop doing almost everything. Your friends begin to worry about you, and they are not exactly the worrying types. I'm OK, you tell them, but with each passing week the depression darkens. You try to describe it. Like someone flew a plane into your soul. Like someone flew two planes into your soul. Elvis sits shivah with you in the apartment; he pats you on the shoulder, tells you to take it easy. Four years earlier Elvis had a Humvee blow up on him on a highway outside of Baghdad. The burning wreckage pinned him for what felt like a week, so he knows a little about pain. His back and buttocks and right arm so scarred up that even you, Mr. Hard Nose, can't look at them. Breathe, he tells you. You breathe nonstop, like a marathon runner, but it doesn't help. Your little letters become more and more pathetic. Please, you write. Please come back. You have dreams where she's talking to you like in the old days—in that sweet Spanish of the Cibao, no sign of rage, of disappointment. And then you wake up.
You stop sleeping, and some night when you're drunk and alone you have a wacky impulse to open the window of your fifth-floor apartment and leap down to the street. If it wasn't for a couple of things you probably would have done it, too. But (a) you ain't the killingyourself type; (b) your boy Elvis keeps a strong eye on you—he's over all the time, stands by the window as if he knows what you're thinking. And (c) you have this ridiculous hope that maybe one day she will forgive you.
She doesn't.
From This is How You Lose Her © September 2012 by Junot Diaz, published by Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., all rights reserved, reprinted with permission from the publisher.
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Preheat oven to 350°. Thoroughly coat bundt pan with no-stick cooking spray for baking. Cream spread and granulated sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer at medium speed until will blended (about 5 minutes). Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg. Add vanilla and mix until well blended. In a large bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda; stir well with a whisk. Add flour mixture and milk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture; mix after each addition. Beat mixture an additional 2 minutes on low-medium speed. Fold in mini chocolate chips. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Swirl batter using a knife. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Immediately pour glaze over cake. Allow cake to cool in the pan on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Invert cake onto a serving plate; cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar just before serving. Makes 20 servings (serving size: 1 slice).
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The Western Heritage Parade and Cattle Drive is the official start of the rodeo events, though the real rodeo begins on Feb. 7.
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Thyme Wisper Herb Shop
Located on a high ridge in the midst of a forest in unincorporated Pineview in Perry County and totally off-grid, Thyme Wisper Herb Shop embodies natural living and sustainability. Created by a Master Herbalist and Holistic Nutritionist to facilitate teaching people how to live and be healthy, it provides an opportunity to experience a natural, healthy way of living.
Herb Shop is open on Thursday from 9 AM to 4 PM, Friday 10 AM to 3 PM and Saturday from 9 AM to Noon and sells handmade ointments, tinctures, syrups, lip balms, soaps for people and dogs, soap making supplies, infused oils, essential oils, tea blends for insomnia, custom herbal blends, natural pet health items, as well as other natural health items.
Directions, product information, and articles on herbs, health conditions, herbal remedies and medicinal foods are available on the Thyme Wisper Herb Shop website. A subset of items sold at the shop are also sold online at http://thymewisper.com/shop.
Each year five Natural Living workshops are offered on a Saturday afternoon 1 pm to 4 pm for $35 each: Making Natural Cleaning Supplies (offered second Saturday in April), Getting Started Eating Raw Foods with Chef Linda Lagos (offered second Saturday in May), Making Natural Toiletries (offered second Saturday in June), Making Natural Soap (offered second Saturday in September)and Tea Tasting Workshop (offered second Saturday in October), Visit the website for details, schedule and registration.
The Herb Shop is closed from December 15 through January 31 and during the month of August. Thyme Wisper Herb Shop is wheel chair accessible. Thyme Wisper is a member of the American Herbalist Guild.
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Located in unincorporated Pineview of Perry County. From Hwy 13 coming from City of Lobelville, turn right on Hwy 438 (across from armory) and drive approximately 7.3 miles. (Do not turn left when Hwy 438 turns, instead go 1/2 mile further). Turn left and drive 1/2 mile and take left fork. Continue driving exactly 3 miles. Thyme Wisper Herb Shop will be on the left. From Hwy 412 coming from Parsons, cross the Tennessee River and turn left on Hwy 438 (Spring Creek Road) after Marathon Gas Station. Follow road until must make a turn. Note sign for Thyme Wisper Herb Shop with arrow pointing left. Turn left and follow for 5 1/2 miles until must turn and again note sign, this time pointing right. Turn right onto Owl Hollow Rd and drive for 1 1/2 miles to the shop which will be on the right. Visit web site for GPS Coordinates.
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BBC America
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|United States
|Broadcast area
|New York City, New York
|Sister channel(s)
|Discovery Networks
BBC World News
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|Available on most U.S. cable systems
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BBC America is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned as a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Discovery Communications (both of which own a 50% interest in the channel), the latter company also handled affiliate and advertising sales until these operations moved in-house on April 1, 2008.[1]
Unlike the BBC's wholly owned domestic channels in the United Kingdom, the network is not subject to funding from the UK licence fee by law (which is the principal funding for the BBC's channels within the United Kingdom); the BBC cannot fund any of its channels that are not available in the United Kingdom,[2] therefore BBC America operates as an advertiser-supported channel and accepts traditional advertising.
As of August 2013, BBC America is available to approximately 80,066,000 television households (70.11% of cable, satellite and telco customers) in the United States.[3]
BBC America was launched on March 29, 1998,[1] maintaining a format of comedy, drama and lifestyle programs from BBC Television and other British television broadcasters like ITV and Channel 4. In the channel's early days, it focused on repeats of popular lifestyle shows such as Changing Rooms and Ground Force. BBC America's head of television programming later stated that it was important for the channel to establish a niche since non-UK viewers found the lifestyle shows appealing. Most of the newer programming appeared as part of BBC America's evening schedule.
The network removed the popular British soap opera EastEnders from its schedule in 2003 due to low ratings; however the program's removal from BBC America provoked complaints from viewers, which caught media attention.[4][5][6]
After CEO Paul Lee was appointed president of ABC Family in 2009, the network appointed Bill Hilary from Comedy Central to serve as its chief executive officer. Hilary appointed Kathryn Mitchell to the newly created position of general manager. Under Hilary's tenure, BBC America was restructured; it moved its main offices to New York City and saw its programming budget increase substantially. The channel was led by Garth Ancier, who served as the president of BBC Worldwide Americas from February 2007 until 2010, when he was succeeded by former MTV Networks executive Herb Scannell. Meanwhile, Perry Simon serves as general manager.[7]
As of the second quarter 2008, select BBC America Shows are available on Apple's iTunes Store. As of December 2013, selected BBC America shows are available on Microsoft's Xbox Video.
BBC America HD[edit]
BBC America HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of BBC America. It is available nationally by satellite provider Dish Network,[8] DirecTV,[9] and regionally by Xfinity by Comcast,[10] Charter Communications,[11] Cablevision,[12] Time Warner Cable,[13] Cox Communications,[14] Verizon FIOS,[15] AT&T U-verse and some smaller providers.
The following is a list of some of the current programming that is currently airing on the channel. While many of the shows were produced by the BBC, some of the shows were produced by other British networks. The channel also includes some reruns of American programming.
Most of the non-news programming on the channel is edited either for adult content or to allow for commercials. However, occasionally comedy shows run in specially formatted 40-minute blocks and a few first-run drama programs air in a longer block that allows them to run to their original broadcast length, though adult content can be edited.
Upcoming original series[edit]
Original programming[edit]
In the mid-2000s, BBC America produced a few of its own shows along with some joint productions. These have included Sharpe's Challenge, part of the Sharpe series of made-for-television movies and co-produced with ITV; as well as The State Within and Jekyll, which were co-productions with the BBC. The first original series produced solely by the channel was Copper, which premiered in the summer of 2012.[17]
BBC America currently airs BBC World News each Monday through Friday morning from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. Eastern and Pacific Time.[18]
The weekday morning (6:00–9:00 a.m. Eastern Time) simulcast used to include BBC World News newscasts, World Business Report, Sport Today, Asia Today and a one-hour newscast called World News Today. Most of these were removed from the schedule without any announcement on April 6, 2009. The weekend morning (6:00–6:30 a.m. ET) simulcast was also abruptly dropped on April 4, 2009. According to BBC America, the simulcast was dropped because of disappointing ratings.[19] BBC World News was replaced in its morning time slot by reruns of Cash in the Attic and Gordon Ramsay's F Word. The morning simulcast returned on May 18, 2009, airing weekdays from 4:00 to 8:00 a.m. and began featuring simulcasts of BBC World News newscasts, World Business Report, Sport Today and GMT with George Alagiah.
From 2007 to 2011, BBC America aired BBC World News America, a live Washington, D.C.-based program anchored by Matt Frei. Katty Kay served as a Washington-based correspondent. On February 18, 2011, network management announced that BBC World News America would be dropped from BBC America and would instead be airing only on BBC World and PBS member stations in the United States.[20]
The network was in discussions to unveil a weekly news program fronted by Newsnight host Jeremy Paxman, who was to introduce a synopsis of Newsnight items with an international aspect and was expected to bring his brash interviewing style to bear on American politicians. An international edition of Newsnight debuted on February 29, 2008, in the 10 p.m. time slot. This program was canceled in November 2008, but the announcement of the program's cancellation was not released until April 2009.[19]
During major breaking news situations, the network will sometimes preempt regular programming to carry coverage from BBC World News (the London bombings in July 2005 were one such example). BBC World News itself is not currently widely available in the U.S. as a separate channel (although it is carried on several cable systems throughout the United States, generally in lieu of BBC America; one previous example is New York City-based Cablevision, which did not carry BBC America until August 2011) or in a 30-minute telecast on public television stations daily.
BBC America is available in Bermuda on both Bermuda CableVision's digital cable service,[21] and the WOW (World on Wireless) service,[22] as well as in Barbados on Multi-Choice TV's wireless service,[23] on Weststar TV in the Cayman Islands,[24]Grenada[25] on Flow Digital Cable, and on SXM Cable & Data in Sint Maarten. It is also available in the U.S. territory of Guam on MCV Broadband[26] and GTA Teleguam's IPTV service,[27] the only territory outside North America where the channel is available.
- ^ a b BBC America Press - Corporate
- ^ BBC America - Frequently Asked Questions
- ^ Seidman, Robert (August 23, 2013). "List of How Many Homes Each Cable Networks Is In - Cable Network Coverage Estimates As Of August 2013". TV by the Numbers. Zap2it. Retrieved August 25, 2013.
- ^ BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | EastEnders returns to US screens
- ^ BBC AMERICA; Alas, 'East Enders' - New York Times
- ^ Arts, Briefly; A Reprieve for 'EastEnders' - New York Times
- ^ "Home - BBC America Press". Press.bbcamerica.com. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
- ^ List of DISH HD Programming
- ^ On August 15 four exciting channels will be available in eye-popping HD! DirecTV press release, August 15, 2012
- ^ "Comcast crunchbase". http://www.crunchbase.com. 30 December 2013.
- ^ "Charter Communications, Inc. Company Profile". http://www.hoovers.com.
- ^ "Cablevision Systems Corporation". http://www.google.com/finance.
- ^ BBC America HD Launches in NYC on TWC
- ^ "Company Overview of Cox Communications, Inc.". http://investing.businessweek.com. 30 January 2014.
- ^ Verizon Adds BBC AMERICA HD to FiOS TV Lineup
- ^ "John Simm to star in BBC America drama Intruders". BBC News. January 13, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
- ^ Press, Joy (2012-01-04). "BBC America gives details about its first original drama, 'Copper'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- ^ http://www.bbcamerica.com/schedule/ BBC America television schedule
- ^ a b BBC America drops BBC World
- ^ "'BBC World News America' Shifts To BBC World News - 2011-02-18 20:13:35 | Multichannel News". Multichannel.com. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
- ^ Welcome To Bermuda CableVision
- ^ WOW :: World On Wireless - Bermuda
- ^ Multi-Choice TV
- ^ Weststar TV
- ^ Flow Digital
- ^ MCV Broadband Guam: High-Definition Television
- ^ Guam Cable TV vs GUdTV - Schedules and Channel line up - GTA Teleguam
External links[edit]
- BBC America website
- BBC America on Facebook
- BBC America on Google+
- @BBCAMERICA on Twitter
- Anglophenia—BBC America's blog


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RENO — The City Council of Stockton, Calif., is scheduled to have its first Hindu invocation on July 10, which is nearly 162 years since the city was incorporated.
Reno-based Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before the council. He then will read the English translation of the prayer. Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and root language of Indo-European languages.
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Nonprofit, community radio station has increased signal power from 3,000 to 42,000 Watts to expand nonprofit mission and music reach.
GREEN BAY, Wis., Feb. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- 91.1 The Avenue, a nonprofit, community radio station in Northeast Wisconsin today announced they have increased their signal power from 3,000 to 42,000 watts. This will allow the radio station to serve even more nonprofits in their mission to Build a Community of Generosity, as the voice and presence for the nonprofit community.
With a reinvigorated mission to now reach a million hearts because of the signal increase, The Avenue will be able to help even more nonprofits in Northeast Wisconsin with Community Impact Grants, geared to giving nonprofits free messaging on the airwaves and at AvenueRadio.com. The mission serves many nonprofits that have little or no budget to create awareness for their fundraisers and cause in general. Community Impact Grants allow nonprofits to reach far more people than they could on their own.
This 90% increase in population coverage in the primary signal area will better serve the communities of Northeast Wisconsin from north of Green Bay, through Sturgeon Bay, down through the Fox Cities and Manitowoc, and Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. Listener support and demand for a stronger signal were key in helping The Avenue to expand the signal.
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Elevate your entertainment electronics with the Double Component Wall Shelf by Sonax. This wall mount component rack features two adjustable Frost White tempered glass shelves and a convenient cable management system. The A/V rack can support up to 22 lbs per shelf and adjusts vertically. Combine this component stand with your wall mounted television, and you have a sleek and modern living space!


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MAC Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week
Pat Sovacool, Miami, Senior
Lakewood, Ohio (St. Ignatius)
Dayton 5K Challenge (5K)
Time: 15:22
Sovacool won his second-straight Dayton 5K Challenge on Saturday, crossing the finish line in 15:22. The Lakewood, Ohio native led the RedHawks to their sixth-straight team crown at the 5K Challenge. The win also marks Sovacool's third-straight top-3 finish and fourth-straight top-10 finish at the event.
MAC Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week
Laura Neufarth, Miami, Junior
Centerville, Ohio (Centerville)
Dayton 5K Challenge (5K)
Time: 18:15
Neufarth won her second-straight Dayton 5K Challenge title with a winning time of 18:15, five seconds faster than her winning time a year ago and 12 seconds faster than the second place finisher. Neufarth led the RedHawks to their second-straight team title as well.
Other Men's Nominees
Christopher Moody, Bowling Green, Sophomore, Davidsonville, Md. (South River)
Toledo Dual (5K)
Time: 15:59
Moody ran a 15:59 this past Friday against arch-rival Toledo to take first for the first time in his collegiate career. The Davidsonville, Md. native was competing in just his sixth career collegiate event.
Sammy Kiprotich, Central Michigan, Sophomore, Eldoret, Kenya (Tambach)
Jeff Drenth Memorial (5K)
Time: 15:37
Kiprotich finished third at the Jeff Drenth Memorial with a time of 15:37. Also competing in the meet was Michigan State. Kiprotich was four seconds behind the meet winner.
Curtis Vollmar, Eastern Michigan, Junior, Grand Blanc, Mich. (Grand Blanc)
Michigan Open (10K)
Time: 33:18:00
Vollmar led the Eagles in the season opener versus Michigan. He finished the 10K race in a time of 33:18, to finish eighth.
John Minen, Kent State, Sophomore, Medina, Ohio (Highland)
Short Course Open (6K)
Time: 19:10.0
Minen placed third overall in the season-opening meet for the Golden Flashes.
Toledo Dual (3K)
Time: 10:29
Butler won her first collegiate race this past Friday against arch-rival Toledo. The senior from Okemos, Mich. ran a 10:29 to lead the Falcons to a 22 to 34 victory. The win gave the Falcons their fifth-straight individual race winner over the Rockets.
Amanda Rudert, Central Michigan, Senior, Mount Pleasant, Mich. (Mount Pleasant)
Jeff Drenth Memorial (5K)
Time: 18:53.4
Rudert was the top Chippewa at the Jeff Drenth Memorial. She finished sixth with a time of 18:53.4. The meet was not scored.
Kassandra Meholick, Kent State, Sophomore, New Cumberland, Pa. (Cedar Cliff)
Short Course Open (4K)
Time: 14:59.2
Meholick won the women's 4,000 meter race with a time of 14:59.23. She finished more than five seconds ahead of the second place finisher, her teammate Audrey Maheu, a freshman who was competing in her first collegiate cross country meet.
Meghan Ginter, Northern Illinois, Senior, Aurora, Ill. (Waubonsie Valley)
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|The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) was enacted by Congress in 1975 and was implemented by the Federal Reserve Board's Regulation C. On July 21, 2011, the rule-writing authority of Regulation C was transferred to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Regulation C, requires lending institutions to report public loan data. In this section of the website, you can find out more about the regulation and its interpretation.
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The White House turkey pardoning ceremony is a Thanksgiving tradition, but what happens to the poor birds that don't get pardoned? The White House's new social media outreach makes us go all existential on the holiday. The White House is asking people to choose which fowl will be the 2012 National Thanksgiving Turkey. Per the White House blog this is "first time ever, the American public will get its say" in this matter, and they are faced with two worthy candidates.
White House turns turkey fate over to social media
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MBSL (MicroBlaze Simple Linux) is a set of Makefile scripts to create an image of a Linux-based OS for the Xilinx MicroBlaze (FPGA) soft processor. It provides very simple package management that allows you to customize the resulted image. The purpose is to just type 'make build install' and get the configured image.
fpgasm creates bare-metal FPGA designs without Verilog or VHDL. Traditionally, FPGAs are built using proprietary Verilog or VHDL language implementations provided by the vendor. fpgasm is to Verilog and VHDL as assembly language is to C++. It takes you all the way to the netlist, and is not just a translator to Verilog. Because of that, the total "make" time to a working fpga is seconds, not minutes. With fewer than ten reserved words, fpgasm syntax can be mastered in a few minutes. With FPGA assembler, you can focus on understanding the FPGA substrate and how your design should map onto it (instead of figuring out large and complicated tools).
CoreTML framework is a template configuration system. It is based on the idea of parametrized templates that are created by inserting special content into source code files. These templates can later be used to generate output files depending upon parameters chosen by the user. CoreTML framework was created primarily to provide a platform for the design and deployment of semiconductor IP cores on a hardware description language (HDL) level (i.e. VHDL or Verilog).
ztex is a firmware Kit with a corresponding Driver API which is especially designed for the ZTEX Modules but which should work with all other EZ-USB based hardware. The Firmware Kit is written in C and assembled using a powerful macro processor. This allows you to specify all required settings using by a few commands. The necessary USB descriptors and the descriptor handling routines are generated automatically. The package runs under Linux and Windows (porting to other operating systems should be no problem). The Java driver API allows the development of platform-independent device drivers.


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He found it in the presence of tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen.
Moseley only completed four passes in seven attempts against the Gators, but two were to Lutzenkirchen. One went for a 15-yard gain, the other for a gain of 23 yards on a second-and-21 play that kept alive a touchdown drive that all but put the game away in Auburn's 16-7 victory.
"Everybody's like, 'You threw everything to Lutz.' It just so happened to work out that way," Moseley said. "It wasn't just that I was zeroing in on him. Me and Lutz, we've been friends since I've been here. We're pretty close. We're just on the same page. I trust him, he trusts me."
Moseley had no need to apologize. On a team that has struggled to find an offensive identity, Lutzenkirchen is the Tigers' comfort zone.
If the Tigers expect to knock off No. 1 LSU Saturday, expect Lutzenkirchen to play a big role.
A 6-foot-5, 250-pound junior, Lutzenkirchen has made a habit of clutch plays ever since his freshman year.
He's played in six games this season for the Tigers (5-2, 3-1 SEC) and has 11 receptions for 108 yards and three touchdowns.
In 32 games over three seasons, Lutzenkirchen has 31 catches for 359 yards and 10 touchdowns.
Of his career catches, 74 percent have gone for first downs or touchdowns.
The 10 touchdowns tie him with Robert Johnson for most in a career by a tight end at Auburn.
But it took Johnson 57 games to catch 10 touchdown passes. No one has charted how Lutzenkirchen's "catch to touchdown ratio" compares over time, but it has to be near the top.
The biggest of his career thus far came last year when he had the game-winning touchdown catch in the Tigers' 28-27 Iron Bowl victory over Alabama.
"He's been that way since he was a freshman," Auburn coach Gene Chizik said of Lutzenkirchen's big-play ability. "One thing we know, we know that in those clutch times when you have to have a play, we know if we get the ball anywhere near him, he's probably going to catch it."
Lutzenkirchen takes the big plays matter of factly.
"I just told the quarterbacks and the coaches that any time they throw it to me I'm going to give my best to come down with it whether it's across the middle or for a touchdown," he said. "I've just been blessed to make those plays in big situations."
This from a player whom the Tigers consider first and foremost a blocker.
"I'm being used as a lead blocker up the middle and on the sweeps to (tailbacks) Onterio McCalebb and Tre Mason," Lutzenkirchen said. "That's just kind of where the offense needs me right now, being a young offense. I'm completely comfortable with that. It's changed a lot since when I was in high school where I was just a pass catcher. Now, I consider myself as more of a blocker. It rounded me out more as a football player."
Arguably Lutzenkirchen's best game of the year thus far came at 10th-ranked South Carolina.
Not only did he come up with the game-winning touchdown catch with 1:48 to play in Auburn's 16-13 victory, he almost certainly kept the Gamecocks off the scoreboard with another big play.
In the third quarter, a pass from Auburn's Barrett Trotter was intercepted by C.C. Whitlock, who returned it to the Auburn 45 before Lutzenkirchen came in for the tackle and stripped the ball loose.
Lutzenkirchen recovered at the Auburn 48 to negate a change of possession and a huge momentum shift.
"We throw an interception and he makes the tackle, strips the ball and gets the ball," Chizik said. "That's a great case in point of how at the right time at the right place in the game, he's always there to make a play."
The burning question then becomes, with all Lutzenkirchen's success in the clutch, why don't the Tigers pass it to him more often?
Chizik's response is that Lutzenkirchen isn't always open. But when he is, expect him to make a play.