text: Sophie Gustafson: The golfer who overcame a stutterBy Karla Villegas Gama, CNNUpdated 2130 GMT (0530 HKT) November 30, 2011Sophie Gustafson has won 28 golf tournaments in an illustrious career, despite having to overcome a sever stuttering problem.Story highlightsSophie Gustafson is a Swedish golfer who has struggled with stuttering all her lifeGustafson was part of the European team which won September's Solheim CupThe 37-year-old gave her first television interview in the wake of the victoryWhat do Bruce Willis, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe and King George VI have in common besides being public figures? They all suffered from stuttering at some point in their lives.But what is stuttering and how it does it manifest itself? The Stuttering Foundation of America explains on its website that it is "a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is broken by repetitions, prolongations, or abnormal stoppages of sounds and syllables."In February 2010, a group of researchers published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, which states that the brain cells of people who stutter have three genetic mutations; this causes problems in the cells' metabolism."This process is called the garbage can, or more like the recycling bin, of the cell. When this process gets interrupted, the cell goes haywire, and that causes problems," the study's co-author Dennis Drayna told CNN.According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 1% of the world's population, around 68 million people, stutter.One of them is Sophie Gustafson, a Swedish golfer who has been professional for 18 years, winning 28 titles on the most prestigious tours and earning over $6.3 million, proving that stuttering is not an impediment to succeed. During September's Solheim Cup, a biennial international match played between a U.S. and a European team, Gustafson wrote on her official blog: "I decided to leave my comfort zone and give my first TV interview."Gustafson decided to speak to the Golf Channel. The editing team worked for two hours on the 70 minutes it took her to answer nine questions. The result? A three-and-a-half-minute interview.The 37-year-old told CNNMéxico: "With help from people with good hearts and a little patience maybe a stutterers story can get out there."I've always had it, ever since I first started speaking. Both my older brothers had it too, but by the time they started school it disappeared. Unfortunately I wasn't that lucky."Nonetheless, she had unconditional support from four boys who attended the same school as her, a quartet Gustafson describes as "the cool kids." She also explained how sports were key to her development. "I was very good at all sports growing up and I think that played a huge part. I always played with the boys and I was always the first one to get picked for any team."In first grade she began speech therapy in the school's facilities, but far from helping it increased her feelings of isolation."it just made me feel singled out and enlighten my problem, that I didn't really see as being much of a problem," Gustafson said. "We really didn't do much; we played different games, probably some that made me say or repeat different words." Eventually Gustafson left therapy, spending her high school years focusing on her game. She was not the best amateur and could only make it into the 'B' team, but the real challenge came when she had to make new friends."Because of my stutter I tend to go where it's safe and people know me, I don't venture out and try to meet new people unless it's forced upon me.," she said.Gustafson decided to give speech therapy another shot, commiting to twice-weekly sessions with her therapist for six months."She was really good and I think it helped me," she reflected. "But it's too hard for me to translate what I learned into real life."Gustafson couldn't leave stuttering behind, but she clung to golf, and in 1994 the Swede got her Ladies European Tour (LET) membership. This new professional opportunity forced her to once again meet new people, so she sought help from her family."I had my brother out with me the first summer so he kind of got me going," she recalled. "He is a very social and all around great guy so I just tagged along with him... I had my dad helping me with flights, booking them over the phone."By 1998, Gustafson had won three times on the LET and received the Player of the Year award once. It was time to join the world's largest and most dominant women's Tour, the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).Three LPGA titles and four years later, she decided to try another treatment at the Hollins Communications Research Institute in Virginia, founded in 1972 to investigate stuttering with scientific methods and new treatment approaches."That was a three-week intensive course which was very good, but again, back in real life, I had a very difficult time using what I learned."None of the treatments she tried in different stages of her life worked. So when she won the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship, she asked someone else do gave the winner's speech for her."I would've loved to have made the thank you speech instead of having Nancy Lopez do it for me, but because of my stuttering it would've been Monday by the time I finished," she wrote in a Sports Illustrated article.Gustafson's impediment is severe, but she still feels fortunate to have achieved all she has within golf."The best thing is to have been lucky enough to go where I've gone," Gustafson said. "It's important not to care what people think and just do what you want to do. If they have a problem with that, that is exactly that, their problem."More from golfLegend Jack Nicklaus launches ice cream rangeDavis Love III named U.S. Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke named Europe's Ryder Cup captain for 2016 battlePowered by Livefyre


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A suspenseful and captivating dark comedy by Lucas Hnath about the tensions between family and money, life and death.
sorry about missing last week however it was full and eventful. the big day is coming up and emotions are running high. i'm sitting in my office with one of the graduates of the program. who is doing fine, living on his own and starting at HCTC in September. meanwhile at the home school the writing is coming hard and fast and the show is starting to take shape.
as we start blocking i get the yearly revelation "it is possible" the script will be done shortly, there's never enough time. someone hands you a new piece that brings a tear to your eyes, or an epiphany is reached and you shout "YES, THAT"S IT!"
another sample of the poetry that is coming from the hearts of these forgotten citizens
"thoughts flow like an open river
down the streets of silver and gold
joyful memories that will last forever
but moments have to end sometime
trapped in our good memories of the past
N let the present pass us by
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couldn't take it and fell
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young hearts shift from excitement and anticipation to trepidation and fear
old patterns try to reemerge. how can i sabotage myself? petty arguments occur, misdirected conversations and the struggle for power in a young souls between the risk of acknowledging budding talents and the known territory of lack of effort. everyday i watch them garner enough courage to try again. a movement pattern, a tongue twister, to reach that note. it brings me face to face with an earlier me. looking for a way to count, to make a difference. to borrow from another of my young artists " i just want to be somebody during the time i'm in here." slowly but surely they're succeeding
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Iterative method for the inversion of multiwavelength lidar signals to determine aerosol size distribution
Applied Optics, Vol. 37, Issue 21, pp. 4690-4700 (1998)
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Two iterative methods of inverting lidar backscatter signals to determine altitude profiles of aerosol extinction and altitude-resolved aerosol size distribution (ASD) are presented. The first method is for inverting two-wavelength lidar signals in which the shape of the ASD is assumed to be of power-law type, and the second method is for inverting multiwavelength lidar signals without assuming any a priori analytical form of ASD. An arbitrary value of the aerosol extinction-to-backscatter ratio (S1) is assumed initially to invert the lidar signals, and the ASD determined by use of the spectral dependence of the retrieved aerosol extinction coefficients is used to improve the value of S1 iteratively. The methods are tested for different forms of altitude-dependent ASD's by use of simulated lidar-backscatter-signal profiles. The effect of random noise on the lidar backscatter signals is also studied.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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(010.0010) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric and oceanic optics
(010.1110) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Aerosols
(280.3640) Remote sensing and sensors : Lidar
Original Manuscript: March 3, 1998
Published: July 20, 1998
K. Rajeev and K. Parameswaran, "Iterative method for the inversion of multiwavelength lidar signals to determine aerosol size distribution," Appl. Opt. 37, 4690-4700 (1998)
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The Fed wasn't going to let Bank of America or Citi fail by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine March 5, 2015, 10:25 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons When it comes to bailouts and banks, there is a line you don't cross, apparently. And in early 2009, Bank of America was on the right side of it; that is, if it wanted a bailout, which, in early 2009, it sort of did. In in a mid-January conference call, then-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told others at the central bank that while he was "uncomfortable" with a deal to give Bank of America BAC the money it needed to complete its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, there was no way he was going to let BofA fail. "I am not going to draw the line somewhere that involves the failure of a firm the size of Bank of America," Bernanke said at the time. The conversation about BofA, and ultimately bailouts and the issue of too big to fail banks, is contained in the Fed's transcripts from 2009, which were made public on Wednesday after the standard five years delay. At the time, BofA had $1.6 trillion in assets. So, that means if BofA was on the "okay to bail out" side of the line, so was Citigroup ($2.1 trillion) and JPMorgan Chase ($1.6 trillion). Other members of the Fed expressed concerns about the bailouts. Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher and Tom Hoenig (who was at the Fed at the time but is now at the FDIC) both voiced fears that the Fed's attempts to stabilize the financial system, particularly its backing of the BofA-Merrill Lynch deal and helping Citi C stay afloat, would create even bigger banks in the global financial system, making the too big to fail problem even worse. At the time, Bernanke said he was worried about too big to fail as well and that the big banks might have to be broken up in the future, but that other issues were more critical. Kevin Warsh, another Fed governor, said he thought the market would quickly force Citi and others to slim down. It turns out Fisher and Hoenig were mostly correct. Citi is smaller than it was, but only slightly. It still has nearly $1.8 trillion in assets, even after this week's deal to sell its subprime lender OneMain. JPMorgan JPM now has $2.6 trillion in assets. And assets at Wells Fargo WFC have nearly tripled to $1.6 trillion, from less than $575 billion at the end of 2007. So all the big banks are now safely on the bailout side of the line, at least according to 2009 standards. And JPMorgan is well into the bailout comfort zone. The question is whether the line has moved since 2009. Some say Dodd-Frank and other post-financial crisis regulations have moved the line, making it much less likely that the government would bail out a big bank. Bernanke himself has said so. And while that may be true right now, the transcripts from 2009 give us a window into how, even under the control of free market economists, the bailout line can swing pretty quickly back.
Jamie Dimon's Diaspora: The lofty perches where ex-JPMorganites land by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine February 26, 2015, 4:44 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons On Thursday, British bank Standard Chartered hired Bill Winters as its chief executive. You may recognize Winters, who has been in hibernation for the past few years running a small asset management firm. But before that, he was a top executive at JPMorgan Chase. In September 2008, Fortune dubbed Winters, along with then-CFO Heidi Miller among others, Dimon's Swat Team, in an article about how the bank had managed to avoid the worst of the financial crisis that had begun to unfurl. Winters was considered a potential successor to Dimon. But in 2009, he was abruptly ousted from the bank by the JPMorgan CEO. A Wall Street Journal article published Thursday reported that Winters had told friends he was shown the door because he never really believed in the universal banking model of combining an investment bank with a traditional lender. Of course, that model has worked out very well for Dimon. And now it looks like Winters, the former investment banker, is embracing the lending business as well. Standard Chartered STAN is a very large commercial bank. Winters was one of the first members of Dimon's swat team to leave JPMorgan. Since then, nearly all of those executives have left the bank, many in the wake of JPMorgan's $6 billion so-called London Whale trading loss. Winters and the others likely felt that they were ready to run their own firms, and Jamie Dimon was not ready to stop running his. Whatever the reason, JPMorgan, under Dimon's tutelage, has proven to be a viable training ground for future CEOs. These days, a growing number of large financial firms are now run by ex-JPMorganites. Here's where they have landed:
Is JPMorgan Chase really America's dog-friendliest bank? by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine February 26, 2015, 11:49 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon wants investors and regulators to know that his bank is not about risky whale-sized derivatives trading. What is JPMorgan Chase really about? Serving regular Americans, who love dogs. On Tuesday, at JPMorgan's annual investor day, Dimon stressed how dog-friendly the bank's branches are. "Around the country, people bring in their dogs and sit around for social reasons," said Dimon. "We give out little doggie bones." The bank's event was packed with six hours of presentations from top executives and included plenty of PowerPoint. There were 78 slides on the company's consumer banking operation alone. But Dimon's dog biscuit statement got more responses on social media than just about anything else that was said during the day: @carney @matt_levine @ReformedBroker this is american banking at it's best! free coffee, pens, and dog treats for everyone — Ben Walsh (@BenDWalsh) February 24, 2015 Turns out JPMorgan JPM is indeed pretty dog friendly. In fact, a lot of banks are competing to be America's friendliest bank to man's best friend. Dimon's "doggie bone" statement, though, is only mostly accurate. Not every branch is giving out treats. There are two Chase bank branches within a quarter mile of my midtown Manhattan office. Both say customers are welcome to bring in their dogs to make deposits, get money orders, or socialize. But neither one has doggie treats. That could be because there aren't a lot of people looking to socialize with their dogs in midtown Manhattan. The people I talked to at all three branches seemed to know that dog treats were available at other branches. An employee at the Chase branch at 96th and Broadway, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, told me about the dog treats when I asked if I could bring in my dog. (Full disclosure: I don't actually own a dog.) A reporter at Fortune who does have a dog and is a Chase customer says she regularly gets dog treats when she goes in to a branch, but she has to ask for them. (Her dog now wants to go banking all the time.) Rover.com lists Austin first on its list of America's most dog-friendly cities. An employee at a Chase bank branch in an office building in downtown Austin says it has dog treats, but that I would need to use the entrance in the back of the building. The guard at the front entrance, which is also used by other tenants, does not allow dogs in the building. One Austin dog owner, though, seems happy with her Chase experience. I'm not sure if being dog friendly and handing out treats gets banks customers, but a lot of banks seem to think that it will. The trend appears to have been started by Commerce Bank, which, according to Wikipedia at least, gave out lollipops as well, though not for dogs. TD Bank TD , which bought Commerce in 2007, mentions that it has dog biscuits available on the about page on its website. I did not find any similar language on JPMorgan's website. The Wells Fargo WFC branches I called told me they offer customers dog treats. The one exception among all these dog-loving big banks is Citigroup C . An employee at the Citibank branch six blocks south of my office told me that, other than for blind customers, dogs are not allowed in its branch. I got the same message from other Citi branches. One asked me how big my dog was, which was hard to answer because I don't have a dog. A staffer at a Citi branch in San Francisco, which is also listed on Rover.com as a dog-friendly city, told me that dogs are allowed in the bank as long as they are leashed. No treats. Jamie Dimon has been talking about dogs quite a bit lately. On the bank's most recent earnings call, Dimon said JPMorgan would do just fine as long as the firm "stops stepping in dog shit, which we do every now and then." I believe he was speaking metaphorically. Then again, maybe this has something to do with all the dog socializing going on at JPMorgan's branches? JPMorgan has another kind of canine connection. The Oscar-winning film Dog Day Afternoon is based on a 1972 bank robbery of a Chase branch in Brooklyn. The movie has nothing to do with actual dogs.
Why JPMorgan Chase wants a 'Wonderful Life' bank by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine February 25, 2015, 10:25 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons These days, JPMorgan is emphasizing dog treats over derivatives. On Tuesday, at the bank's annual investor day, when CEO Jamie Dimon took the mic, one of the first things he told investors to do was check out one of the bank's branches. "Around the country, people bring in their dogs and sit around for social reasons," said Dimon. "We give out little doggie bones." The buzzword these days in big banking is simplicity. And on Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase executives became the latest top bankers to claim they want to be more George Bailey than, well, J.P. Morgan. The bank said it will cut $2.8 billion in expenses from its investment banking division in the next three years. About $1.5 billion of those cost reductions will come from "business simplification." JPMorgan JPM has long had one of the largest financial derivatives operations on Wall Street. The bank invented the securities that were used to bet on—and eventually against—the mortgage market. On Tuesday, Daniel Pinto, the head of JPMorgan's investment bank, emphasized how the bank was looking to reduce its activity in one of the most complex areas of finance. Pinto said the bank would either exit or dramatically scale back its processing of over the counter derivatives transactions for clients. He said the bank also plans to "rapidly compress" its own derivatives exposure. JPMorgan said it was reducing its derivatives operations on account of new regulations that would require the bank to set aside more capital. Also, if you want to be known as a simpler bank, derivatives is probably not the place you want to be. The bank on Tuesday said it was looking to reduce the amount of deposits it holds for other businesses by $100 billion, cut back on the amount of lending it does to hedge funds and even close about 300 of its dog-friendly bank branches. All of this comes as an olive branch of sorts to JPMorgan's critics, who say the bank is too big. Last month, Goldman Sachs issued a report that said JPMorgan would be worth more if it were split up. On Tuesday, though, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's CEO, said he has no plans to do that. "We're not going to give up investment banking for anyone, not even Richard Ramsden," said Dimon, referring to the Goldman analyst who wrote the report. Wall Streeters typically say they are in the business of helping clients manage sophisticated risks and transactions. Stressing simplicity is an odd sales pitch for a large bank like JPMorgan. But the problem Dimon and other top bankers have is that investment banking—in part because of new regulations and also on account of the fact that the business has change—is not as profitable as it used to be. Just four years ago, the return on equity of JPMorgan's investment bank was nearly 20%. Now, it is half that. Investors may accept lower return businesses as long as they are convinced that they are lower risk as well. Shares of Morgan Stanley MS , for instance, have outperformed rivals recently, as CEO James Gorman has emphasized lower risk businesses like asset management. Dimon seems to be getting the message. On Tuesday, he said JPMorgan was really no different than the average regional bank, just, ya know, bigger. In fact, he said this twice. For a bank that still has a derivatives book with a notional value of $65 trillion, that statement is a stretch. But even as large as it is, JPMorgan is probably far less risky and complex than its detractors would have you believe. Nevertheless, the notion that JPMorgan is just too big to work seems to be gaining momentum. So, if Dimon wants JPMorgan to remain in investment banking, and all of the many businesses it is in, he needs to sell simplicity. He's trying his best. Watch more business news from Fortune:
U.S. Justice Dept questions JPMorgan over auto lending practices by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine February 24, 2015, 6:41 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase said on Tuesday the bank has been questioned by the U.S.Department of Justice over auto lending practices that possibly resulted in discrimination. The largest U.S. bank said in an annual filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the Justice Department is looking at whether auto loans made by car dealerships to borrowers of different races and ethnicities may have been marked up. JPMorgan JPM is the fifth-largest U.S. auto lender behind Ally Financial Inc, Wells Fargo & Co, Toyota Motor Corp's in-house lending arm and Capital One Financial Corp, according to Experian Automotive. Ally settled an investigation into similar discriminatory lending practices with the Justice Department and the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in December 2013 for $98 million. Toyota Motor Credit Corp said in December that it faced an enforcement action from U.S. authorities over whether auto loans it offered through dealerships violated fair lending laws. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "has focused significant resources on rooting out discrimination in indirect auto lending," Director Richard Cordray said on Monday, adding that lenders have reimbursed 425,000 consumers who faced discrimination in loans approximately $136 million. Lenders and car dealers have criticized the methodology the U.S. government has used previously to determine whether they exhibited bias against minority borrowers. In a November study, the American Financial Services Association, an industry group, found that the statistical methods that enforcement officials used to determine whether such borrowers were overcharged had high error rates. The government's calculations "may create the appearance of differential pricing…when none exists," AFSA and four other industry groups wrote in a Feb 18 letter. The examinations into auto loan bias were unrelated to the Justice Department's investigation into subprime auto lending, an area that federal prosecutors are focusing on more as their probes into mortgage bonds come to a close.
Stocks tumble again on bank earnings, global growth fear by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine January 14, 2015, 10:38 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons It's another dour day on Wall Street. Stocks fell shortly after Wednesday's opening bell, adding to recent declines, weighed down by worries over weak economies globally, pressure on commodities and a U.S. retail sales report for December that fell short of expectations. Meanwhile, the largest bank in the U.S. posted a 6.6% drop in quarterly profit as JPMorgan's numbers were weighed down by more than $1 billion in legal costs thanks to a series of government probes. JPMorgan's JPM stock was recently down more than 4%, leading the decline for the Dow Jones industrial average. Nearly every company on the Dow 30 was trading at a loss early Wednesday, with Goldman Sachs GS also down almost 2%. On the whole, the Dow Jones plunged more than 200 points at the start of trading and was recently down over 300 points, or 1.7%. The blue-chip index, which saw a 425-point swing on Tuesday before finishing down by 27 points, is on pace for its fourth-straight day of losses. Both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite fell slightly on Wednesday, declining about 0.7% and 0.4%, respectively. Global markets also suffered after the World Bank lowered its forecast for economic growth in 2015 and 2016. Japan's Nikkei dropped 1.7% while London's FTSE 100 fell more than 2%. Those declines came despite positive news out of Europe, where a decision from the European Union paved the way for a bond-buying program from the European Central Bank that is meant to stimulate the region's economy. In the commodities space, copper touched its lowest level since July 2009. Oil prices remained volatile, struggling to find a floor. Brent crude fell to a low of $45.59 before rebounding, while U.S. crude was up 1.3 percent at $46.50 after falling as low as $45.01. Writing on Fortune.com Wednesday, George L. Perry, senior fellow at Brookings Institution, says unless oil prices fall so low that it forces oil fields to shut down and investors to abandon drilling projects, you can expect prolonged chaos in the oil markets. —Reuters contributed to this report.
Is the Sony hack corporate America's cybersecurity wakeup call? by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine December 29, 2014, 12:53 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Will the massive data theft at Sony ADR be the wake-up call we all need to get serious about cybersecurity? With this latest in a string of highly publicized data breaches over the past 24 months – at Target TGT , eBay EBAY , Home Depot HD , JP Morgan Chase JPM , and others – business executives and corporate directors must confront to two truths: first, every company relies on information technology and the Internet; second, no corporate leader should be excused for failing to have in place programs to prevent and remediate cyber threats – whether stolen data, corrupted information, compromised identities, or worse. The question is, how can executives, particularly those without technical background, know what to do? They don't have to look hard for answers, because information technologists actually know a lot about how companies should protect themselves. Basic "cyber hygiene," including one approach known by many security experts as Critical Security Controls, will thwart most attacks. Last year, Jim Lewis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies identified four measures that stop more than 80% of all known attacks. They include: taking inventory of hardware; taking inventory of software; limiting administrative permissions; and automating network monitoring. These measures were also endorsed by Peter W. Singer, co-author of Cybersecurity and Cyber War, and Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. They're basic steps — equivalent to brushing your teeth, flossing, and visiting the dentist twice a year. They allow an enterprise to know what's connected to its networks and what's running on those networks. They highlight the importance of knowing who has the ability to bypass, override, or change a network's security settings, and they give organizations up-to-date and measurable information on the state of repair that the networks are in. When things go amiss, enterprises can, with the aid of these controls, move rapidly to respond. Many of the breaches we've seen recently could have been avoided with proper cyber hygiene. Which raises the question: if they are so effective, why haven't we seen more firms adopt them? Because until recently, the government viewed large data breaches as a problem for the nation's intelligence community to deal with, while businesses treated intrusions as a nuisance or a cost of doing business. Some experts criticize basic hygiene as not being comprehensive enough, insisting instead that literally hundreds of measures be included in any company's cyber security strategy. Others argue that there is no "one size fits all" solution; that every organization must have its own remedy – an argument akin to saying that every car needs its own unique seatbelt system, and that every driver is responsible for finding, configuring and installing it. To be sure, just as wearing seat belts won't save you from all accidents or keeping your teeth clean won't save you from all cavities, basic hygiene won't stop every cyber attack. But it does represent the most important set of things to do first to limit and reduce the chances. Every executive and board director should ask the following questions: Do we know what's connected to our company's systems and networks? Do we know what's running, or trying to run on our systems and networks? Do we limit and manage the number of people who have the administrative privileges to change, bypass, or override our IT security settings? Do we have in place continuous automated processes backed by security technologies that will allow us to prevent most breaches, rapidly detect all that do succeed, and minimize damage to our business and customers? How would we demonstrate this to ourselves and to others? Indeed, many corporate business and security leaders have begun to focus on basic security hygiene – a move that may help explain why their companies are not showing up in the breach headlines. Over the long term, companies that succeed financially always seem to focus on the basics of business first – and keeping customers' data safe is one of the most important business basics. Accepting this responsibility will distinguish market leaders going forward. If leaders fail to do so, there really is no excuse. Jane Holl Lute is president and CEO of the Council on Cybersecurity. Lute served as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013.
Fed proposes an extra capital cushion for 8 big U.S. banks by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine December 9, 2014, 2:43 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday will propose requiring eight of the largest U.S. banks to hold an extra capital cushion, and the firms will need even more equity if they rely heavily on short-term wholesale funding. Most of the banks, which include JPMorgan Chase JPM and Goldman Sachs GS , would need more capital under the Fed's proposal than under a similar rule by global regulators, the Fed said. Officials estimated U.S. banks would face a surcharge of between 1 to 4.5 percent of assets under the proposal.
Thanks, banks! DOJ has collected a record $24 billion in fines this year by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine November 19, 2014, 2:51 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons A number of massive settlements with top U.S. banks paved the way for a record year for the U.S. Justice Department. The DOJ said on Wednesday that it collected a record $24.7 billion in civil and criminal penalties stemming from financial fraud cases and other matters during the 2014 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. That total, which includes about $11 billion collected by the DOJ on behalf of other federal agencies, more than triples the $8 billion the agency collected during the previous year. The bulk of the collections made in the most recent year came from large financial institutions settling claims related to the 2008 financial crisis, the DOJ said, "including significant amounts paid by JPMorgan and Citigroup Inc." JPMorgan Chase JPM reached a $9 billion settlement with the U.S. government a year ago to resolve claims related to the bank's sale of mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the financial crisis. (JPMorgan also agreed to pay about $4 billion in consumer relief.) Citigroup C later reached a similar deal with the DOJ over the summer that included a $7 billion penalty. A similar settlement with Bank of America BAC later trumped both of those penalties, though, with the bank agreeing to pay $16.7 billion, including $7 billion for consumer relief, in August. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement that the record 2014 fiscal year "shows the fruits of the Justice Department's tireless work in enforcing federal laws; in protecting the American people from violent crime, national security threats, discrimination, exploitation, and abuse; and in holding financial institutions accountable for their roles in causing the 2008 financial crisis." The DOJ also pointed to the fact that it has already collected "hundreds of millions in fines" stemming from the ongoing international probe into banks' alleged rigging of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR.
JPMorgan faces criminal probe into its foreign-exchange trading business by Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine November 3, 2014, 7:24 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons JPMorgan Chase is facing a criminal probe by the Justice Department into its foreign exchange trading business, according to a regulatory filing on Monday. The bank said that U.S. financial regulators including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are conducting civil investigations. European regulators are also conducting an inquiry. JPMorgan is one of several large banks currently in settlement talks with regulators over alleged rigging of the global currency market. The bank said in its filing that the inquiry is focused on its spot currency exchange trading activities and the internal controls related to them. The bank says it is cooperating with the assorted investigations and is in talks with the DOJ and other regulators, though JPMorgan noted that "there is no assurance that such discussions will result in settlements." The banking giant also said that it now estimates its "reasonably possible losses" from legal matters could amount to as much as $5.9 billion, up from the bank's previous estimate of $4.6 billion. JPMorgan's filing came on the same day that HSBC HSBC set aside $1.6 billion for legal costs, some of which is earmarked for an ongoing investigation into that bank's foreign exchange trading business by U.K. regulators. Last week, Citigroup C — another bank in settlement talks with regulators — slashed its previously-reported third-quarter profits in order to factor in an additional $600 million in legal costs. JPMorgan's shares JPM were down about 0.8% in after-hours trading following Monday's announcement.


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MONTREAL â Oct. 27, 2008 â HaiVision Systems Inc., the world's leading vendor of high definition (HD) H.264 telepresence codecs, today announced that Minnesota's Eagle Brook Church has installed six hai1000 codec systems, equipped with the company's low-latency MAKO-HD H.264 codec. The MAKO-HDs enable delivery of live HD content from the main campus in Lino Lakes to campuses in White Bear Lake and Spring Lake Park using a fraction of the bandwidth required by other encoding systems. The HaiVision systems, supplied and integrated by Eagle Brook Church and AVI Systems, deliver bidirectional video over an innovative 40-Mbps wireless (microwave) LAN that connects the three campuses.
"The growth of our church created a need for additional services at our remote campuses, and the HaiVision encoder provided an exciting solution to this dilemma," said Bill Berger, director of technical arts at Eagle Brook Church. "We were amazed by the exceptional quality of video the encoder provides at such a low bit rate and at an attractive price point that fit within our budget. The HaiVision systems have operated flawlessly so far, performing well above our expectations and enabling us to implement a cost-effective, low-maintenance solution for real-time broadcasts."
"When I described the HaiVision encoder's bandwidth requirements to my contacts at Eagle Brook Church, they thought I'd left off a zero," said Mike Wallin, design engineer at AVI Systems. "Whereas other products can require 80 Mbps for MPEG-2 video, the HaiVision encoders provide excellent video quality over four Mbps with room to spare."
Prior to installing the HaiVision systems, Eagle Brook Church recorded services at its main campus and hand-delivered video to the other sites for later services. Now with the ability to send video in real time, the church has been able to offer the earlier service at all three campuses, thus opening up 1,500 new seats.
Using the HaiVision encoders, the Lino Lakes campus sends each satellite campus two unicast video signals, one fed to a center screen and the other to a pair of side screens. A return stream from each satellite campus is used primarily for monitoring purposes, but Eagle Brook Church did take advantage of this two-way capability by presenting an interactive kick-off celebrating the launch of the new video system. The church is currently working in SD, and the HaiVision encoders and network backbone will enable an easy shift to HD with the addition of HD-capable cameras and production systems.
The HaiVision encoders' exceptionally low delay ensures that two camera shots from the main campus will arrive at the remote campus at the same time, thus maintaining the continuity of the live worship service. Because the HaiVision systems are highly scalable, Eagle Brook Church can continue to build out its multicasting capabilities, whether to set-top boxes around the facility or to other sites.
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Bing announced that it has integrated Facebook Likes within its regular search results, similar to a move that Google made with social "shares" from Twitter and other services last week.
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In October, Bing added Facebook Likes to the bottom of its search results page. If you searched for something that one of your Facebook friends has liked on Facebook, Bing would display this after all of its "regular" results.
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Last week, Google made a similar move. However, rather than integrate Facebook Likes into regular results, Google is integrating whether something was shared on Twitter and some other social services. Shares can also impact the ranking of regular results, unlike the situation with Bing
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Men's Guide Gear Casual Slip-on Mocs
Item # WX2-421503
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- Details & Specs
Guide Gear® Casual Slip-on Mocs are comfy, lightweight and slip-on easy!
Perfect for a laid-back weekend. Whether you're walking the dog, running errands or hanging out in your buddy's garage, you're going to love the cushioning comfort of these Mocs. Working in the shop? You'll appreciate how easy these are to slip on and off for going in and out of the house. The suede uppers look great with a pair of jeans or cargo pants and they're durable to hold up strong to years of wear.
Casual comfort:- Sueded leather uppers
- Mesh-lined for breathability
- Stretchy twin gore panels for easy on / off
- Removable cushioned insole
- Pull-on tab at heel
- Padded collar.
- Each approx. 4"h., 10 ozs.
State Color and Size, as available in the Shopping Cart. Medium width. Your next go-to pair of Shoes are here with BIG SAVINGS!
Built to Sportsman's Guide's exact specifications, Guide Gear® stands for dependability, long-lasting quality and unmatched value! Guaranteed!
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Men's Guide Gear Casual Slip-on Mocs is rated out of 5 by 60.Rated 5 out of 5 by Casey from Great Value This is the 2nd pair of these Mocs that I've ordered and they are light, comfortable and very durable. Love um!Date published: 2015-02-14Rated 4 out of 5 by Peter215 from I like these shoes Bought these at a great price to back-up the last pair I got that hasn't quite worn out yet, so haven't worn them yet. The are the same size as the old pair and fit a bit tightly.Date published: 2015-02-08Rated 1 out of 5 by KBFD from very narrow The shoe size runs very narrow - in fact, after wearing them a while, they sort of hurt my feet. I am hoping that they stretch out over time.Date published: 2015-01-30Rated 5 out of 5 by Cape Doc from Great Price and Good Fit for an Everyday Shoe I was most pleased at the half-sizes, which allowed a good fit for me. The value of this shoe is excellent. I have seen them for a lot more money.Date published: 2015-01-28Rated 4 out of 5 by Bruce from Good shoes Mocs are as comfortable as socks around the house, but tough enough to go outside.Date published: 2015-01-27Rated 4 out of 5 by Hoover from Nicely constructed comfortable slip on for knock around wear.Date published: 2015-01-17Rated 2 out of 5 by Skip from Worth the money if they fit. Shoes were 1 to 2 sizes to small. I had to return them.Date published: 2015-01-17Rated 4 out of 5 by Don123 from Nice Shoe for the Price I have had many similar shoes over the years. This pair is fine for the price. The sole seems to be a harder material than most others and doesn't provide as much cushioning as I am used to. I was thinking that with the harder sole the shoes wouldn't provide as much grip as those with a softer sole, but, these seem fine.Date published: 2015-01-17

 Where are they made?

Asked by: Barry

 Made in India.
Answered by: Customer Service

Date published: 2015-01-06

 How long is this sale going , until ?

Asked by: Chop chop

 We would like to work with you one on one with this issue. Please contact us at email@example.com and we will respond as soon as possible.
Answered by: Customer Service

Date published: 2015-01-06

 I ordered a similar pair of Guide Gear mocs of a slightly different style (style # 020964103) previously. The outsoles mostly hollow instead of solid throughout and came apart way too fast. Are he outsoles of these solid rubber?

Asked by: Mike 1351

 These have a twin gore outsole.
Answered by: customer service

Date published: 2015-01-01

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