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June 25, 2014
NY AG announces fraud charges against Barclays in connection to dark pool
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a lawsuit against the international bank Barclays, arising from the operation of Barclays' dark pool and other aspects of its electronic trading division. The complaint alleges Barclays has dramatically increased the market share of its dark pool through a series of false statements to clients and investors about how, and for whose benefit, Barclays operates its dark pool. Contrary to Barclays' representations that it has implemented special safeguards to protect clients from "aggressive" or predatory high-frequency traders, Barclays is accused of operating its dark pool to favor high-frequency traders."The facts alleged in our complaint show that Barclays demonstrated a disturbing disregard for its investors in a systematic pattern of fraud and deceit," Attorney General Schneiderman said. "Barclays grew its dark pool by telling investors they were diving into safe waters. According to the lawsuit, Barclays' dark pool was full of predators – there at Barclays' invitation."
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Stocks began the session relatively unchanged from yesterday's close and continue to trade in a holding pattern as investors await the release of the minutes from the Federal Reserve's last FOMC meeting. ECONOMIC EVENTS: In the U.S., EIA inventory data showed a 2.67M barrel fall in crude stocks, versus expectations for a 1.75M barrel decrease. The Federal Reserve is scheduled to release the minutes from its last rate setting meeting at 2 pm EDT. In Asia, Japan's GDP accelerated to a 2.4% growth pace in the first quarter, which was much better than expected. Japanese stock markets rallied on the news, sending the Nikkei 225 average to its best level in 15 years. COMPANY NEWS: Five of the world's largest banks - Citi (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Barclays (BCS), The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and UBS (UBS) - agreed to pay more than $5B and plead guilty to felony charges related to manipulating foreign currencies and interest rates. In conjunction with previously announced settlements with regulatory agencies in the United States and abroad, today's resolutions bring the total fines and penalties paid by these five banks for their conduct in the foreign exchange spot market to nearly $9B, the Department of Justice stated... Target (TGT) shares advanced 1% after the retailer's first quarter earnings topped expectations and it raised the low-end of its fiscal year profit forecast. Brian Cornell, chairman and CEO of Target, said the company was pleased with its first quarter traffic and sales, particularly in its signature categories, which drove better-than-expected profitability through improved gross margin and continued expense management. MAJOR MOVERS: Among the notable gainers was Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), which rallied 53% after the company announced that, following meetings with the FDA, it would submit its eteplirsen drug to the FDA for approval on a rolling basis, with various components of the application being submitted separately. Eteplirsen is a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or DMD. Also higher was Pep Boys (PBY), which gained 14% after The Wall Street Journal said private equity firm Golden Gate Capital and other potential suitors have expressed interest recently in buying the company. Among the noteworthy losers was Etsy (ETSY), which operates an online marketplace to buy and sell handmade items and vintage goods. The stock, which priced its IPO at $16 and opened for trading at $31 per share, dropped 22% to trade near $16.50 after the company issued its first financial report since coming public in April. Also lower were shares of several airline stocks, led by Southwest (LUV), which was down 8% near noon. In a regulatory filing last night, Southwest indicated it expects FY15 capacity growth to increase 7%-8% and to grow another 6%-7% in FY16. Buckingham downgraded Southwest to Neutral from Buy this morning, stating it has a more cautious revenue outlook for the company due to a worsening backdrop as competitors vow to compete aggressively. INDEXES: Near midday, the Dow was down 6.10, or 0.03%, to 18,306.29, the Nasdaq was up 1.65, or 0.03%, to 5,071.69, and the S&P 500 was down 0.49, or 0.02%, to 2,127.34.
Barclays to pay $115M for attempted manipulation of ISDAFIX swap rates
The CFTC issued an Order today filing and settling charges against Barclays PLC, Barclays Bank PLC, and Barclays Capital. The Order finds that, beginning at least as early as January 2007 and continuing through June 2012, Barclays attempted on many occasions to manipulate and made false reports concerning the U.S. Dollar International Swaps and Derivatives Association Fix, a global benchmark for interest rate products. This is the first enforcement action addressing abuses of this benchmark. The CFTC Order requires Barclays to pay a $115M civil monetary penalty, cease and desist from further violations as charged, and take specified remedial steps, including measures to detect and deter trading intended to manipulate swap rates such as USD ISDAFIX, to ensure the integrity and reliability of the Bank's benchmark submissions, and to improve related internal controls. Barclays, through its traders, bid, offered, and executed interest rate swap spread transactions in a manner deliberately designed – in timing, price, and other respects – to influence the published USD ISDAFIX to benefit the Bank in its derivatives positions, according to the Order. In addition, Barclays, through its employees making the Bank's USD ISDAFIX submissions, also attempted to manipulate and made false reports concerning USD ISDAFIX by skewing the Bank's submissions in order to benefit the Bank at the expense of its derivatives counterparties and customers. The Order recognizes Barclays' significant cooperation with the CFTC during the investigation of this matter. The Order also notes that the civil monetary penalty imposed on Barclays reflects the Bank's early resolution of this matter.
Five banks agree to parent-level guilty pleas in settlement over forex rigging
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Barclays to pay $400M penalty to settle CFTC forex charges
The CFTC issued an Order filing and settling charges against Barclays Bank for attempted manipulation, false reporting, and aiding and abetting other banks' attempts to manipulate, global foreign exchange benchmark rates to benefit the positions of certain traders. This Order requires Barclays to pay a civil monetary penalty of $400M, cease and desist from further violations, and take specified steps to implement and strengthen its internal controls and procedures, including the supervision of its FX traders, to ensure the integrity of its participation in the fixing of foreign exchange benchmark rates and internal and external communications by traders. The Order notes that the $400M civil monetary penalty reflects in part that Barclays did not settle at an earlier stage of the investigation. In addition to the charges related to Barclays' misconduct in FX benchmark rates, the Commission took enforcement action against Barclays and its affiliates on the same charges relating to abuses of the ISDAFIX benchmark. The Order recognizes the significant cooperation of Barclays during the CFTC's Division of Enforcement's investigation of this matter.
Citi, JPMorgan, RBS, Barclays, UBS agreed to guilty pleas in forex settlement
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FCA fines Barclays GBP284M for forex failings
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May 19, 2015
Banks' settlement over forex rigging to be announced tomorrow, CNBC says
Several banks are said to plan to plead guilty and pay "billions" in fines in a settlement over their roles in foreign exchange manipulation that is expected to be announced Wednesday, according to CNBC's Kate Kelly. Prior media reports have listed Barclays (BCS), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), UBS (UBS), JPMorgan (JPM) and Citigroup (C) as having been in talks with U.K. and U.S. authorities for their roles in foreign currency rigging.
May 18, 2015
Barclays expected to face over GBP250M in fines for rigging, Telegraph says
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Citi divests 16% stake in Grupo Aeromexico, Reuters reports
Citigroup (C) has sold its 16% stake in Grupo Aeromexico, the Mexican airline says, Reuters reports. According to the airline, Barclays Capital (BCS) acquired about 8% of shares through a financial operation with Delta (DAL).
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Our team of dedicated pediatricians provides onsite care to our patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days per year. We specialize in the care of of sick children who require treatment in the hospital. Together, we work with our patients, their families, specialists, and other providers to provide a family-centered and comprehensive approach to patient care.
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The All Children's Hospitalists are a team of board certified pediatricians with diverse backgrounds who are passionate about caring for hospitalized children.
All Children's is a teaching hospital. Therefore, our Hospitalists work with a team of medical students, physician assistant students, residents, and fellows at various stages of training. We supervise these trainees directly at all times. Therefore, the Hospitalists are the "attending physician" or "physician in charge" and are ultimately responsible for your child's care.
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A Pediatric Hospitalist is a pediatrician who works primarily in a hospital setting. At All Children's, our hospitalists practice exclusively in the hospital setting.
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- Parents are permitted to stay with the patient at all times, including overnight. Siblings, friends, and family members are welcome to come during visiting hours, but unfortunately will not be allowed to stay overnight
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1. Curly-haired Justin Guarini finished second to Kelly Clarkson on the first season of American Idol in 2002, then shared the silver screen with her in the 2003 dud From Justin To Kelly. He's recorded two albums and an EP since his stint on the show and has also stayed busy as an on-air contributor for networks such as NBC, Fox and TV Guide Network since gaining fame on American Idol.
2. Clay Aiken, who lost out to Ruben Studdard in 2003 by less than 135,000 out of more than 24,000,000 votes cast, has had solid success in his post-American Idol career, having released four studio albums -- one of them (2003's Measure of a Man) double platinum -- since appearing on the program. After years of speculation about his sexuality, Aiken said he's gay in 2008 and fathered a child with a family friend.
3. Diana DeGarmo, only 16 at the time, to this day remains the youngest contestant to ever make the top two in the show's history. Her 2004 debut album Blue Skies fizzled on the charts, but she remains active professionally, having recently been been cast in Broadway's production of Hair.
4. Bo Bice broke the mold of the polished, finished entertainers we'd been accustomed to seeing on the show to that point, but he could not stop the machine we now know as Carrie Underwood. The Alabama native hasn't fared better than Underwood outside of the American Idol bubble either: he has released three records since appearing on the show, with one of them going Gold.
5. Katharine McPhee finished second on fifth season of American Idol. Her debut album, Katharine McPhee, would go on to sell a mediocre 378,000 copies, but her single "Over It" did manage to crack Gold status. She released her follow-up album, Unbroken, in January 2010.
6. Blake Lewis parlayed his singing, songwriting and beat-boxing skills into a second-place finish on the show's sixth season. He's released a pair of albums, Heartbreak on Vinyl and Audio Day Dream, since his appearance on the Fox talent show.
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December 10, 2013
If it wasn't for the Babylonians who lived millennia ago, paying your bill at a restaurant or checking your credit card bill would be much more painful than it already is. And so would anything else involving numbers. It was these Babylonian scholars who had the brilliant idea of making the value of a numeral dependent on its position in a string of numerals: if you see a 1 at the end of a string, you know it means 1, if it's shifted one to the left, you know it means 10, if it's shifted two to the left, it means 100 and so on. This means that using only the symbols 0 to 9 you can write down every single whole number, no matter how large, rather than having to invent a new symbol every time you go up a order of magnitude.
The Babylonian number system actually had 60 as its base, rather than base ten as we do. The numerals we use today, including the use of a symbol (zero) for nothing instead of a gap, stems from India.
Find out more on in the Fabulous positional system and out other articles about number systems.
December 9, 2013
I went Christmas shopping yesterday, to buy a book from the local bookshop that costs £7. I didn't have any money, so I borrowed £5 from Marianne and £5 from Owen. I bought the book and got £3 change. I gave £1 back to each of my kind colleagues and I keep the remaining £1. I now owe each of them £4 and I have £1, giving £9 in total. But I borrowed £10. Where's the missing pound?
There it is!
The answer is that the £10 are a red herring. There's no reason why the money I owe after the whole transaction and the money I still have should add up to £10. Rather, the money I owe minus the change I got should come to the price of the book, that is £7. Giving a pound back to each of Marianne and Owen just re-distributes the amounts. The money I still owe is reduced to £8 and the money I still have to £1. Rather than having £10-£3=£7, we now have £8-£1=£7. Mystery solved!
December 8, 2013
An infinite set is called countable if you can count it. In other words, it's called countable if you can put its members into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, ... . For example, a bag with infinitely many apples would be a countable infinity because (given an infinite amount of time) you can label the apples 1, 2, 3, ... and so on.
Two countably infinite sets A and B are considered to have the same "size" (or cardinality) because you can pair each element in A with one and only one element in B so that no elements in either set are left over. This idea seems to make sense, but it has some funny consequences. For example, the even numbers are a countable infinity because you can link the number 2 to the number 1, the number 4 to 2, the number 6 to 3 and so on. So if you consider the totality of even numbers (not just a finite collection) then there are just as many of them as natural numbers, even though intuitively you'd think there should only be half as many.
Something similar goes for the rational numbers (all the numbers you can write as fractions). You can list them as follows: first write down all the fractions whose denominator and numerator add up to 2, then list all the ones where the sum comes to 3, then 4, etc. This is an unfailing recipe to list all the rationals, and once they are listed you can label them by the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, ... . So there are just as many rationals as natural numbers, which again seems a bit odd because you'd think that there should be a lot more of them.
It was Galileo who first noticed these funny results and they put him off thinking about infinity. Later on the mathematician Georg Cantor revisited the idea. In fact, Cantor came up with a whole hierarchy of infinities, one "bigger" than the other, of which the countable infinity is the smallest. His ideas were controversial at first, but have now become an accepted part of pure mathematics.
You can find out more about all this in our collection of articles on infinity.
December 7, 2013
We've all got favourite numbers and some of us even go as far as thinking some numbers lucky or unlucky. Seven is probably one that crops up quite a lot in this context, so it's nice to know that it really is a lucky number. No, seriously, that's true! There is a mathematical recipe for finding lucky numbers, and 7 is one of them.
The recipe goes like this. Write down all the positive whole numbers starting from 1. First, you eliminate all even numbers, leaving only the odds:
The next number on the list after 1 is 3, so you now go and eliminate every third number, leaving:
The next surviving number after 3 is 7, so you eliminate every 7th number in the list of survivors. And so on. When you've finished this process the sequence of surviving numbers starts:
These surviving numbers are called lucky numbers. They are similar to the prime numbers in some ways. There are infinitely many of them, and they are the result of a sieving process (successively eliminating numbers) similar to the sieve of Eratosthenes which sieves out primes. When you try and approximate the distribution of the lucky numbers among the other numbers as you move up the number line, the result is akin to the prime number theorem. The lucky numbers even have their own version of the Goldbach conjecture, which states that any odd number greater than 4 can be written as the sum of two primes. One thing that isn't known, though, if whether there are infinitely lucky numbers that are also prime, or only finitely many.
All this doesn't make 7 lucky in the everyday sense of the word — but it makes us feel very lucky to have so many numbers to play with!
December 6, 2013
Now here's an important mathematical question: how likely are you to win the lottery?
1 in 14 million.
In the UK lottery you have to choose 6 numbers out of 49, and for a chance at the jackpot you need all of your 6 numbers to come up in the main draw. So the question is really how many possible combinations of 6 numbers can be drawn out of 49? There are 49 possibilities for the first number, 48 for the second, and so on, to 44 possibilities for the sixth number, so there are 49x48x47x46x45x44=10,068,347,520 ways of choosing those six numbers... in that order.
But we don't care which order our numbers are picked, and the number of different ways of ordering 6 numbers are 6x5x4x3x2x1=6! =720: there are six possibilities for the number that comes first in the list, 5 for the number that comes second, and so on. Therefore our six numbers are one of 49x48x47x46x45x44/6! = 13,983,816 so we have about a one in 14 million chance of hitting the jackpot. Hmmm...
But on a brighter note, we have just discovered a very useful mathematical fact: the number of combinations of size (sets of objects in which order doesn't matter) from a larger set of size is:
This sort of argument lies at the heart of combinatorics, the mathematics of counting. It might not help you win the lottery, but it might keep you healthy. It is used to understand how viruses such as influenza reproduce and mutate, by assessing the chances of creating viable viruses from random recombination of genetic segments.
You can read more on the uses of combinatorics, including in money matters (lottery), love (well, kissing frogs) and fun (juggling and Rubik's cubes):Combinatorics on Plus
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December 5, 2013
Triangles do it, squares do it, even hexagons do it — but pentagons don't. They just won't fit together to tile your bathroom wall. That's the reason why you'll find it very difficult to find pentagonal tiles in any hardware shop.
It's actually really easy to see why pentagons won't tile the plane. We are talking regular pentagons here, shapes that have five sides of equal length and angles between them. In a regular pentagon the internal angle between two sides is 108°. In a regular tiling, adjacent tiles share whole edges, rather than just parts of edges, so corners of tiles meet corners of other tiles. To fit a number of tiles around a corner point, their internal angles must add up to 360°, since that's a full turn. If you try to fit three pentagons, you only get 3 x 108° = 324°, so there is a gap. If you fit four pentagons, you get 4 x 108° = 432°, so two of them overlap. The same isn't true for equilateral triangles, squares, or regular hexagons. Here the internal angles are 60°, 90° and 120° respectively, so you can fit six triangles, four squares and three hexagons around a corner point. (You can try and work out for yourself if any other regular polygons can give you a regular tiling.)
Three pentagons arranged around a point leave a gap, and four overlap. Image: Craig Kaplan.
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Solving the energy equation: Demand, supply and infrastructure
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Monday, May 21, 2012 | 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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The Energy Equation
- John McCue, Vice Chairman, U.S. Energy & Resources Industry Leader, Deloitte LLP
- Dr. Joseph A. Stanislaw, Independent Senior Advisor, Energy & Sustainability, Deloitte LLP
- Dr. Hans-Ulrich Engel, CEO, BASF Corporation
- Ambassador Richard H. Jones, Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency
Domestic Energy Landscape
- Bert Valdman, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, Edison International
- The Honorable Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Natural Gas Supply – Reshaping the Energy Portfolio
- Greg Leveille, Manager, Unconventional Reservoirs Technology Development, ConocoPhillips
- Peter J. Robertson, Independent Senior Advisor, Oil & Gas, Deloitte LLP
A Competitive Response to Natural Gas Supply
- Kimberly S. Greene, Executive Vice President and Chief Generation Officer, Tennessee Valley Authority
- Luke Popovich, Vice President, External Communications, National Mining Association
- Ethan Zindler, Head of Policy Analysis, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Linking Supply and Demand – Financing Infrastructure
- Curt Launer, Managing Director, Natural Resources Corporate Finance Coverage Group, Deutsche Bank
- Daniel B. More, Managing Director, Global Energy Group, Morgan Stanley
- Alex Urquhart, President and CEO, GE Energy Financial Services
Emerging Technologies – What's Next?
- David Carroll, President and CEO, Gas Technology Institute
- Dr. Anthony Cugini, Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
- Sheeraz Haji, CEO, Cleantech Group LLC
Global Wildcard – The Impact of China
- Dr. Michael J. Economides, Editor-in-Chief, Energy Tribune, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston
Concluding Perspectives
- Greg Aliff, Vice Chairman, Senior Partner, Energy & Resources, Deloitte LLP
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 | 8 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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How Clean Energy Fits in the Equation
- Richard Kauffman, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
The Environmental Policy Agenda
- F. William Brownell, Chairman, Hunton & Williams
Elective Session 1 – Industry Sector Breakouts
- Chaired by Roger Ihne, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP and Oil & Gas Thought Leader, Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions
- Tom Choi, Natural Gas Market Leader, Deloitte Marketpoint LLC
- Dr. Charles K. Ebinger, Senior Fellow and Director, Energy Security Initiative, Brookings Institution
- Andrew Ware, Director, Corporate Affairs and Communications, Cheniere Energy, Inc.
B – Power Sector
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- John Shelk, President and CEO, Electric Power Supply Association
C – Regulated Utilities Sector
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- Eric Ackerman, Director, Alternative Regulation, Edison Electric Institute
- Lillian A. Federico, President, Regulatory Research Associates
- Cynthia J. Marple, Director, Rates and Regulatory Affairs, American Gas Association
Elective Session 2 - Topical Breakouts
A – Energy Accounting, Financial Reporting and SEC Update
- James Barker, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Christine Q. Davine, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- David Horn, Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Tom Kilkenny, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
B – The Last Mile – Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
- Chaired by John McCue, Vice Chairman, U.S. Energy & Resources Leader, Deloitte LLP
- Donna Bell, Manager, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and Smart Grid Technology, Ford Motor Compamy
- Edward T. Kjaer, Director, Electric Vehicle Readiness, Southern California Edison
- Sandra Pinto de Bader, Environmental Sustainability Coordinator, Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment, City of Seattle
C – The Changing Face of Energy Consumers
- Chaired by Debbie McCormack, Deputy Managing Director, Energy & Resources, Deloitte Services LP
- Andrew Good, Senior Vice President and CFO, Exelon Generation
- Kevin Lauckner, Director, Business Development, Honeywell Building Solutions
- David McAndrew, Project Manager, Federal Energy Management Program, U.S. Department of Energy
- Nicole Poindexter, Director, Global Business Development, Opower
Elective Session 3 – Topical Breakouts
A – Impact of Smart Technologies on Infrastructure Requirements
- Chaired by Tom Turco, U.S. Power & Utilities Consulting Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
- Michael Danziger, Director, Energy & Resources, Deloitte Consulting LLP
- Linda Jackman, Group Vice President of Industry Strategy, Utilities Global Business Unit, Oracle Utilities
- Ronald Y. Kim, Vice President and Head of IT for Exelon Utilities, Exelon Corporation
- Mark McGranaghan, Vice President of Power Delivery and Utilization, Electric Power Research Institute
B – The Dodd-Frank Act and the Impact on Energy
- Chaired by Paul Campbell, Energy Transacting and Risk Management Services Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Bill Hederman, Director, Regulatory Compliance, Energy & Resources, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Badar Khan, President, Upstream and Trading, Direct Energy
- Paul J. Pantano Jr., Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
- Bob Reilley, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Shell Energy North America (U.S), L.P.
C – No Water, No Energy. No Energy, No Water.
- Will Sarni, Practice Leader, Enterprise Water Strategy/Sustainability and Climate Change, Deloitte Consulting LLP
- Dr. Joseph A. Stanislaw, Independent Senior Advisor, Energy & Sustainability, Deloitte LLP
Lunch – Election 2012: Two Views
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- The Honorable Thomas M. Davis, Director of Federal Government Affairs, Deloitte & Touche LLP and former Congressman, Virginia (R)
- The Honorable Martin Frost, Shareholder, Polsinelli Shughart and former Congressman, Texas (D)
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CHAPEL HILL — Because of a postseason ban, the North Carolina football team is ineligible for a bowl game or conference superlatives.
That won't stop the Tar Heels from celebrating the best record of any team in the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal Division, a mark wrapped up with a 45-38 victory against Maryland on Saturday at Kenan Stadium.
"You get counted out and sometimes those goals on your checklist kind of get crossed off not because you made them, but because they're not possible anymore," senior offensive lineman Jonathan Cooper said. "To be able to complete that task, it means the world to us."
And, sticking with what became a season-long theme for North Carolina (8-4 overall, 5-3 ACC), it stared down adversity against Maryland and came out on top.
Maryland (4-8, 2-6) scored two touchdowns in the last 21 seconds of the first half and returned the opening kickoff of the second half for a touchdown. The visitors scored three touchdowns in 34 seconds of game time to seize a 35-21 lead.
The kick return, which was a 99-yard burst through the middle by Stefon Diggs, put the Tar Heels in a precarious situation.
"I'd say somber would be a good (word)," said Cooper, describing the sideline after Diggs' touchdown. "I mean, we try to handle adversity but we are human and it kind of got us down a little bit. We feel like we really unified at that point."
North Carolina was unified to the point where the Tar Heels scored 24 straight points to end the quarter, outgaining Maryland 226-(-7) in offensive yardage in the quarter. With Maryland only managing a field goal in the fourth quarter, the Tar Heels bulled their way to a victory.
"I'm proud of the way these guys fought back in the second half … came out there and fought, scratched, clawed their way to a victory," coach Larry Fedora said. "To be Coastal Division champs, and that's the way we'll look at it, I'm very proud of this football team."
The quick score of the third quarter came when quarterback Bryn Renner connected with freshman receiver Quinshad Davis for a 50-yard touchdown. It came less than a minute after Diggs' kick return score.
"He does a great job of getting open," Renner said of Davis. "Obviously they were trying to stop him (Saturday) and he knew that going in. He's really stepped up to the table with being the guy."
Davis finished with game highs in nine receptions for 135 yards and two touchdowns. In the last three games of the season, Davis racked up 32 catches for 417 yards and finished with the second-most catches (61) in ACC history for a freshman.
"My role is to make plays now," Davis said. "What I learned from (the seniors), they taught me how to be patient and just go out there and do what you know you can do."
About two minutes after Davis' touchdown, Renner threw a touchdown to senior Erik Highsmith to tie the game at 35-35. A Thomas Moore field goal later in the quarter, followed by running back Giovani Bernard's plunge from a yard out with 3:06 left in the third quarter, gave North Carolina a 45-35 lead.
Bernard tied a season-high with 27 carries for 163 yards and caught five passes for 32 yards.
While the postseason exclusion is hard to ignore for the Tar Heels players — especially seniors — it's a situation that was accepted long before the season began.
"We did everything we could to play in another game but we weren't given the opportunity because of something that happened in the past," senior defensive tackle Sylvester Williams said. "All we could control was each game in front of us."
The first half couldn't have ended any worse for North Carolina, when the Tar Heels jumped out to a 14-0 lead, gave up two touchdowns, then re-gained the lead only to give up two touchdowns in the last 21 seconds. Eric Ebron, A.J. Blue and Davis caught touchdown passes from Renner in the first half.
Renner's five touchdown passes tied a single-game school record. He also threw five against Louisville this season. His 28 touchdown passes set a single-season school record, breaking his mark of 26 set last season.
-- EXTRA POINTS …: Fedora's eight victories in his first season tied a school record. Ray Wolf (1936) and John Bunting (2001) also won eight in their first seasons. … In four ACC home games this season, North Carolina and its opponents combined for 361 points. … North Carolina averaged 48.7 points per game at home in seven games. … Blue, a junior, caught the first touchdown reception of his career in the first half and finished with 10 total touchdowns this season. … Highsmith, a senior, finished his career with 166 receptions, third most in school history. … Renner, a junior, ranks third in school history in career passing yards (6,141), touchdowns (54) and completions (516).


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Species disappear because of changes that are caused either by nature or by the actions of people. Sometimes a terrible natural event, like a volcano erupting, can kill an entire species. Other times, extinction will happen slowly as nature changes the world. For example, after the Ice Ages, when the glaciers melted and Earth became warmer, many species died because they could not live in a warmer climate. Newer species that could survive a warmer environment took their places. Current practices that contribute to extinction are habit destruction, pollution, invasive species, moving species from the wild into captivity and many others. (Source: EPA / Photo: Flickr)


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Beyonce and Jay Z have released what can only be described as a star-studded movie trailer promoting their upcoming joint tour, and it features some of the biggest names in entertainment. The three-and-a-half-minute video first posted on YouTube just happens to involve the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal, Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Blake Lively, Emmy Rossum and many more.
What's more impressive about the aforementioned video? It contains gunfights, explosions, dancers and excerpts for several different songs. A closing screen also showcases the director, the producers and various behind-the-scenes roles like editor, sound designer and wardrobe stylist. In the middle of it all are both Jay Z and Beyonce, whose first collaboration on such a project was 2002's "03 Bonnie & Clyde," and its 2013 sequel "Part II (On the Run)."
The hooplah couldn't have come at a better (or worse?) time for the power couple, who have been in the headlines on a near 24/7 cycle after video surfaced of Beyonce's sister punching and kicking Jay Z in a hotel elevator at a Met Gala after-party. The Internet was abuzz for days after TMZ published the footage, eventually prompting a joint statement from the trio saying, "We love each other and above all we are family. We've put this behind us and hope everyone else will do the same."
The 16-city "On the Run" tour will mark the first time Beyonce and Jay Z have toured jointly. The trek kicks off June 25 in Miami. It will visit cities like Atlanta, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle before wrapping August 6 in San Francisco.
Love is in the air for Destiny's Child (Updated July 12, 2013)
Was it their 'destiny' to reunite? The start of 2013 saw the solo career of Beyonce Knowles take a back seat to Destiny's Child as the group released "Love Songs," a compilation album of romance-themed songs from their previous works and the newly-recorded "Nuclear." And the fan fervor it sparked was a much bigger PR score for Knowles than the debacle of her lip-synching performance of the U.S. national anthem at President Barack Obama's second inauguration in Washington D.C. on January 21st.
Beyonce was quick to move along, because only one other event can upstage a Presidential inauguration. Try the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, held at the Mercdes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The event not only allowed Knowles the chance to recover from her Presidential faux-pas, but she marched on to the 55th Grammy Awards and won for Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Love on Top" on February 10.
The ball kept rolling for Beyonce when her feature-length documentary, "Life is But a Dream," aired on HBO on February 16. The film, which she directed and produced herself, featured footage from throughout her life, straight through the birth of her first daughter. Following its premiere, she signed a global publishing agreement with Warner/Chappell Music, which will cover her future songwriting and upcoming studio album.
Of course, what would Beyonce be without controversy? She created plenty of it when she and Jay-Z visited Cuba for their fifth wedding anniversary – a trip that came under fire by two U.S. congressmen. It was followed by the start of Knowles' "The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour," which kicked off on April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia and runs 92 dates worldwide until December.
Beyonce's fifth studio album is scheduled for release later this year. It was recorded in 2012 in the Hamptons, New York, and features production from Timbaland, Pharrell, The-Dream and Justin Timberlake.
A Child of Destiny
She is a singer, songwriter, actress, fashionista, and -- according to People magazine – "World's Most Beautiful Woman." Call her what you will, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles, known simply as Beyoncé, is a multitalented woman and true entertainment magnate.
Born September 4, 1981, in Houston, the superstar-in-training was just 9 years old when the groundwork was laid for the early beginnings of the group Destiny's Child. The quartet signed with Columbia Records in 1997, scoring its first No. 1 a year later with "No, No, No" – the first single from the act's self-titled debut album.
The success was just a microcosm of what Beyoncé would experience as an individual artist. When the group disbanded in 2005, she had solo projects already recorded (including 2003's "Dangerously in Love.") Her second studio album "B'Day" was released in September 2006 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Two years later came the emergence of her musical alter ego, formally introduced on the 2008 album, "I Am…Sasha Fierce." The album spun a string of hits: "If I Were a Boy," "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," "Halo," "Ego" and "Sweet Dreams." The project also earned six Grammys, smashing the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night.
Beyoncé's fourth solo project, "4," bowed on June 24, 2011. It became her fourth consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, making her just the third artist in history to have her first four studio albums debut atop the chart.
To her name, Beyoncé has more awards and accolades than one can count, among them 16 Grammys, 11 MTV Video Music Awards, and the Billboard Millennium Award. She has sold 75 million records worldwide, has been ranked first on Forbes list of the "100 Most Powerful and Influential Musicians in the World," and has been involved in countless philanthropic projects, marketing initiatives and entrepreneurial activities. Alongside husband Jay-Z, her greatest accomplishment may be the birth of a daughter, named Blue Ivy Carter, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York on January 7, 2012.
Beyoncé has since begun work on two new albums, and took the stage at Revel Atlantic City's Ovation Hall (May 25-28, 2012) to celebrate the resort's grand opening. In August it was announced she will produce, direct and star in a documentary about her life and career.
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date city state venue 09/13/2014 Paris Ile Stade de France 09/12/2014 Paris Ile Stade de France 08/24/2014 Inglewood CA The Forum 08/06/2014 San Francisco CA AT&T Park 08/05/2014 San Francisco CA AT&T Park 08/03/2014 Pasadena CA Rose Bowl 08/02/2014 Pasadena CA Rose Bowl 07/30/2014 Seattle WA Safeco Field 07/27/2014 Winnipeg MB Investors Group Field 07/24/2014 Chicago IL Soldier Field 07/22/2014 Arlington TX AT&T Stadium 07/20/2014 New Orleans LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome 07/18/2014 Houston TX Minute Maid Park 07/15/2014 Atlanta GA Georgia Dome 07/12/2014 East Rutherford NJ MetLife Stadium 07/11/2014 East Rutherford NJ MetLife Stadium 07/09/2014 Toronto ON Rogers Centre 07/07/2014 Baltimore MD M&T Bank Stadium 07/05/2014 Philadelphia PA Citizens Bank Park 07/01/2014 Foxborough MA Gillette Stadium 06/28/2014 Cincinnati OH Great American Ball Park 06/25/2014 Miami Gardens FL Sun Life Stadium 03/27/2014 Lisbon 11 Meo Arena 03/26/2014 Lisbon 11 Meo Arena 03/24/2014 Barcelona Cat Palau Sant Jordi 03/21/2014 Antwerp Van Antwerps Sportpaleis 03/20/2014 Antwerp Van Antwerps Sportpaleis 03/19/2014 Amsterdam A Ziggo Dome 03/18/2014 Amsterdam A Ziggo Dome 03/16/2014 Cologne NW Lanxess Arena 03/15/2014 Cologne NW Lanxess Arena 03/12/2014 Dublin D The O2 - Dublin 03/11/2014 Dublin D The O2 - Dublin 03/09/2014 Dublin D The O2 - Dublin 03/08/2014 Dublin D The O2 - Dublin 03/06/2014 London The O2 03/05/2014 London The O2 03/04/2014 London The O2 03/02/2014 London The O2 03/01/2014 London The O2 02/28/2014 London The O2 02/26/2014 Manchester Lancashire Manchester Arena 02/25/2014 Manchester Lancashire Manchester Arena 02/24/2014 Birmingham Warwickshire Genting Arena 02/23/2014 Birmingham Warwickshire Genting Arena 02/21/2014 Glasgow Glg The SSE Hydro 02/20/2014 Glasgow Glg The SSE Hydro
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date city state venue 12/22/2013 Brooklyn NY Barclays Center 12/20/2013 Boston MA TD Garden 12/19/2013 Brooklyn NY Barclays Center 12/18/2013 Washington DC Verizon Center 12/16/2013 Toronto ON Air Canada Centre 12/14/2013 St. Louis MO Scottrade Center 12/13/2013 Chicago IL United Center 12/12/2013 Louisville KY KFC Yum! Center 12/10/2013 Houston TX Toyota Center 12/09/2013 Dallas TX American Airlines Center 12/07/2013 Phoenix AZ US Airways Center 12/06/2013 Las Vegas NV MGM Grand Garden Arena 12/03/2013 Los Angeles CA Staples Center 12/02/2013 San Jose CA SAP Center 11/30/2013 Vancouver BC Rogers Arena 11/09/2013 Perth WA Perth Arena 11/08/2013 Perth WA Perth Arena 11/06/2013 Hindmarsh SA Adelaide Entertainment Centre 11/05/2013 Hindmarsh SA Adelaide Entertainment Centre 11/02/2013 Sydney Nsw Allphones Arena 11/01/2013 Sydney Nsw Allphones Arena 10/31/2013 Sydney Nsw Allphones Arena (Acer Arena) 10/29/2013 Brisbane Qld Brisbane Entertainment Centre 10/28/2013 Brisbane Qld Brisbane Entertainment Centre 10/25/2013 Melbourne Vic Rod Laver Arena 10/22/2013 Melbourne Vic Rod Laver Arena 10/19/2013 Auckland Auk Vector Arena 10/16/2013 Auckland Auk Vector Arena 09/28/2013 San Juan PR Coliseo de Puerto Rico 09/26/2013 Mexico City Dif Palacio de los Deportes 09/24/2013 Monterrey ?? Arena Monterrey 09/20/2013 Caracas Universidad Simon Bolivar 09/13/2013 Rio de Janeiro Rio De Janeiro Cidade do Rock 08/31/2013 Philadelphia PA Ben Franklin Parkway 08/31/2013 Philadelphia PA Ben Franklin Parkway 08/17/2013 Chelmsford London Hylands Park 08/17/2013 Shifnal Tfw Weston Park 08/17/2013 Chelmsford London Hylands Park 08/05/2013 Brooklyn NY Barclays Center 08/04/2013 Brooklyn NY Barclays Center 08/03/2013 Brooklyn NY Barclays Center 08/02/2013 Uncasville CT Mohegan Sun Arena 07/31/2013 East Rutherford NJ Izod Center 07/30/2013 Washington DC Verizon Center 07/29/2013 Washington DC Verizon Center 07/27/2013 Charlotte NC Time Warner Cable Arena 07/26/2013 Atlantic City NJ Boardwalk Hall 07/25/2013 Philadelphia PA Wells Fargo Center 07/23/2013 Boston MA TD Garden 07/22/2013 Montreal QC Bell Centre 07/21/2013 Toronto ON Air Canada Centre 07/20/2013 Auburn Hills MI The Palace of Auburn Hills 07/18/2013 Saint Paul MN Xcel Energy Center 07/17/2013 Chicago IL United Center 07/15/2013 Houston TX Toyota Center 07/13/2013 Nashville TN Bridgestone Arena 07/12/2013 Duluth GA Gwinnett Center 07/10/2013 Miami FL American Airlines Arena 07/09/2013 Sunrise FL BB&T Center 07/07/2013 New Orleans LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome 07/06/2013 Dallas TX American Airlines Center 07/05/2013 New Orleans LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome 07/05/2013 Oklahoma City OK Chesapeake Energy Arena 07/02/2013 San Jose CA SAP Center 07/01/2013 Los Angeles CA Staples Center 06/29/2013 Las Vegas NV MGM Grand Garden Arena 06/01/2013 London London Twickenham Stadium 05/31/2013 Antwerp Van Antwerps Sportpaleis 05/29/2013 Johanneshov Sto Ericsson Globe Arena 05/22/2013 Munich Bavaria Kleine Olympiahalle 05/20/2013 Arrondissement de Montpellier Lan Park et Suites Arena De Montpellier 05/18/2013 Assago LM Mediolanum Forum 05/17/2013 Zurich ZH Hallenstadion 05/15/2013 Antwerp Van Antwerps Sportpaleis 05/12/2013 Dublin D The O2 - Dublin 05/11/2013 Dublin D The O2 - Dublin 05/09/2013 Manchester Lancashire Manchester Arena 05/08/2013 Manchester Lancashire Manchester Arena 05/07/2013 Manchester Lancashire Manchester Arena 05/05/2013 London The O2 05/04/2013 London The O2 05/03/2013 London The O2 05/01/2013 London The O2 04/30/2013 London The O2 04/29/2013 London The O2 04/27/2013 Birmingham Warwickshire Genting Arena 04/26/2013 Birmingham Warwickshire Genting Arena 04/25/2013 Paris Ville De Paris Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy 04/24/2013 Paris Ville De Paris Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy 04/22/2013 Amsterdam A Ziggo Dome 04/21/2013 Amsterdam A Ziggo Dome 04/15/2013 Belgrade Belgrade Belgrade Arena 02/03/2013 New Orleans LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome
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date city state venue 05/28/2012 Atlantic City NJ Revel Resort and Casino 05/27/2012 Atlantic City NJ Revel Resort and Casino 05/26/2012 Atlantic City NJ Revel Resort and Casino 05/25/2012 Atlantic City NJ Revel Resort and Casino
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date city state venue 07/24/2009 East Rutherford NJ Izod Center 07/23/2009 Uncasville CT Mohegan Sun Arena 07/21/2009 Montreal QC Bell Centre 07/20/2009 Toronto ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 07/18/2009 Auburn Hills MI The Palace of Auburn Hills 07/17/2009 Chicago IL United Center 07/16/2009 Minneapolis MN Target Center 07/13/2009 Los Angeles CA Staples Center 07/11/2009 Anaheim CA Honda Center 07/10/2009 Oakland CA Oracle Arena 07/09/2009 Sacramento CA Sleep Train Arena


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A River Runs Through It: Cambodia's Splashy Bonn Om Touk Festival
Fluttering flags embroider the waterfront. Laughing workman carry hundreds of strings of white mini-lights to drape every imaginable surface along the quay. The atmosphere is as electrifying as the lights, though, for I can feel the buzz of excitement in the air. From a ladder, one fellow calls out, "Welcome to Phnom Penh! Enjoy Moon and Water Festival tomorrow."
During Bonn Om Touk, held each November in Phnom Penh, the banks of the Tonle Sap River explode with thousands of visitors from across the country, including some 325 boat racing teams. The three-day festival--also known as the Water and Moon Festival--begins on the last day of the full moon. It marks the reversing of the Tonle Sap River current and opens the fishing season. If rivers can froth, flood or dry up, there's every reason to believe that they can change directions too.
Lumbering like elephants, overladen ferries appear with more festival-goers as well as racing boats. Today, I'm happy to be safely on shore winding my way through the increasing throngs of visitors.
Already, the open fields between the Tonle Sap River and the adjacent roads have turned into an informal market and campground. Scenes from Woodstock, albeit with clothes, keep popping into my head. Being practical by nature, I wonder when the Johnnies-on-the-Spot will show up.
Down at the waterfront, the preliminary races are in full swing. Brightly painted 40-foot boats take to the choppy waters. I count 65 rowers in each boat, arms battling in unison to sweep
At the water's edge, crews make last minute adjustments to the boats. On closer inspection, we discover that the boats are truly works of art. Many have intricate designs painted from bow to stern. Palm fronds, garlands, and tropical fruit arrangements festoon the Buddhist prayer umbrella anchored to one bow.
Back in the festival melee, a team of rowers dressed in bright yellow T-shirts with logos and matching ball caps spots my large camera. Would I take their photo? While I'm delighted, I wonder if they think it's a Polaroid camera and I'm able to give them an instant snap. Friendly Cambodian monks wrapped in burnt orange robes, swell the ranks of curious onlookers. One offers to explain my dilemma to the team members who, nevertheless, eagerly pose. From them I learn that each boat has a sponsor. Apparently, the price of building a boat comes in at a staggering $8,000 US, making sponsorship essential in a country where the average person earns less than $300 US a year.
During the next two days, I'm still waiting for the river to change its direction, although I sense that it appears to be flowing downstream already. Meanwhile, we join the thousands of onlookers at the races, lose our voices yelling for the yellow team I'd photographed, and munch on boiled and broiled corn, sweet pastry treats and deep-fried meats. Women and girls in the prettiest sun hats capture my eye. Children bounce through the crowds with origami-style paper birds wind born on sticks. Smiles and twinkling eyes greet me as I soak up the spirit of the festival.
The full moon celebration includes a parade of lighted floats sailing before and after the splashy fireworks display. For the Cambodians, the midnight celebrations are a way of thanking nature for its abundance and asking for good luck in the coming year. Midnight meals of pounded rice form part of the traditional ceremonies. On the final day of the races, two lead boats, one carrying a sword, head to the finish line where a vine has been stretched. The line symbolizes the gate that retains the water. When the sword slices through the vine, the water flows downstream once again.
A massive cheer rises from tens of thousands of visitors lining the banks and spilling from the boats. The life-giving waters of the Mekong had brought rich soil to Cambodia's central and northwest rice regions and fish stock to the "Great Lake." It was indeed a time for thanks. Although I'm swept away by the infectious jubilation and gratitude, I do note that there's no change in the direction of the current. I am assured that the river does indeed change direction, though sometimes not exactly in time with the festival (*see below for explanation).
In our travels we'd learned respect for the rivers — wild whitewater, severe river flooding in Asia, dry riverbeds begging for rain in Australia. And while we didn't actually witness the reversing of the Tonle Sap River, what a surprise to learn that when the river reverses its course twice a year, it brings abundance instead of hardship to Cambodia's people. Now that's reason to celebrate.
*Why does the river change its course?
The Tonle Sap River connects Cambodia's Tonle Sap or "Great Lake" to the Mekong River. During the monsoon period from July to November each year, the Mekong River swells to such an extent that its waters back up into the Tonle Sap River, changing its flow, which in turn floods the Great Lake three times its size and depth. Here the flooding is not seen as dangerous but as desirable, because the waters bring fertile loam for the land and fish stock for the lake.
Once the monsoon rains recede in November, the Mekong returns to its normal size and the waters from the Great Lake drain into the Tonle Sap River once again, causing the river to flow downstream. Because the monsoon rains vary in length and quantity, the reversing of the currents doesn't always coincide with the festival.
Over the years, there has been the threat of logging the Tonle Sap and building a power dam on the lower Mekong, both of which would endanger the fish stocks and arable land of 85% of Cambodia's population. Happily in 1998, the UN declared the Tonle Sap a Biosphere Reserve.
Puncak Brasserie in the Puncak Hotel (above) serves fresh cuisine daily. Both Asian and continental dishes are delicious and affordable.
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