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"An annuity is a very serious business; it comes
over and over every year, and there is no getting
rid of it", wrote Jane Austen in Sense and
Sensibility in 1811.
Annuities are still a serious business today because they are the only financial product that can provide a safe and secure lifetime income for retired investors.
An Annuity is an investment that
guarantees to pay a secure income for the rest of your life, no matter how long you live.
In the UK there are basically two types of annuities; pension annuities (compulsory purchase) and purchased life annuities (voluntary purchase). All annuities share the following characteristics:
Annuities are one of the oldest financial contracts and their origins can be traced back to Roman times, when policies known as annua promised to pay income for a fixed term, or possibly for life.
Annuities were available in the Middle Ages, the most famous of which were known as tontines. These policies paid an income for life, and every year the payouts for those who died were spread amongst the survivors. The last surviving policyholder received the remaining capital. Thus they combined the concept of insurance with an element of gambling.
The last surviving policyholder received the remaining capital. Thus they combined the concept of insurance with an element of gambling. During the 1700's several governments including England and Holland sold annuities in lieu of government bonds. Today they play a very important part in retirement planning, and last year the annuity market was over £6 billion
During the 1700's several governments including England and Holland sold annuities in lieu of governments bonds. In the 19th century annuities were used to provide income for elderly relatives or employees.
However it was not until the introduction of self employed pensions nearly 30 years ago that annuities started to play an important role in the UK pensions market. The early self employed pension plans (s226 contracts) were in fact deferred annuity policies i.e. investors saved up for an income, but this income was secured by way of an annuity. Most contracts contained an open market option, which gave the investors the right to buy a better annuity from another company.
Personal Pensions were introduced in 1988 and required that an annuity had to be purchased to secure retirement income, and all these contracts contain an open market option. Pension drawdown was introduced in 1995 and this allowed the annuity purchase to be deferred until age 75, but in the meantime an income could be drawn from the pension fund.
Annuities that invest in the stockmarket, commonly known as Investment Linked
Annuities, have been available for some time. Commercial Union, and Provident
Mutual were amongst the first to offer these, followed by Equitable Life, Prudential
and Scottish Widows. In August 1999, Norwich Union and Sun Life introduced with
profits annuities followed by Standard Life and Liverpool Victoria. Following
the stock market crash which started in 2000, the uptake of with-profuits annuities
fell and several companies including Standard Life pulled out of the market.
With-profits annuities suffered a bad press following the troubles at Equitable Life when investors saw their income fall significantly as bonuses were reduced or removed
In 2007 Hartford Life introduced a variable annuity into the UK market. This was a pension plan with a guaranteed withdrawal (drawdown option) option. Other companies such as Lincoln (now Sun Life Financial) and Met Life also launched similar so called 'third way' products
More product development followed with Living Time launching a fixed term annuity.
In 2009, Prudentail revamped its with-profits annuity and launched Income Choice which is a more transparent version of the with-profits policy
In 2010 MGM launched a new investment linked annuity, the Flexible Investment Annuity (FIA)
In 2010 it was estimated that over £12 billion of pension annuities were
purchased, of which about 83% were non profit and RPI annuities, 12% were
enhanced annuities and the remaining 5% being investment linked annuities.
The annuity market is growing at about 10% per annum, and the share of with
enhanced annuities is increasing is growing rapidly. Over £4 billion
was invested in drawdown.
There is remarkably little legislation around the definition of an annuity, although there are two cases that are still used today to define an annuity.
In order to understand how annuities work, consider what would happen if
there were no annuities. If you wanted an income from your pension fund
when your retire, you would have to make regular withdrawals. However this
would create two problems.
Annuities efficiently convert capital into income by providing a high level of guaranteed income for life with no risk. This
is achieved by investing in fixed interest investments and applying a mortality cross subsidy
When someone buys an annuity, the insurance company works out their normal
life expectancy and calculate the level of their annuity payments. However
not everyone lives to their normal life expectancy and the insurance comapny
makes a profit for them. However the insurance company uses this profit
to pay the pensions of those people who will live past their normal life
This means that those who die before their normal life expectancy subsidises
those who live longer than expected.
Annuities come in many different shapes and sizes but they fall into basic
groups - Pension Annuities and Purchased Life Annuities
Also called "Open Market Option Annuities" or "Compulsory Purchase Annuities"
All money purchase pension schemes provide the option to purchase a lifetime
annuity at retirement. Before April 2006 there was a big difference between
annuities purchased form company schemes and those purchased from personal pensions.
This difference has now disappeared.
There are a number of types of pension annuities including:
A Purchased Life Annuity (PLA) is very similar to a pension annuity, except
that you invest your own money. Part of each payment is deemed to be repayment
of your original capital and so that part of the payment is tax free. Therefore
you only pay tax on a small amount of each payment.
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I played William Harbin Park on the second day in the rain with some wind spurts. I had three close calls in a row with two different disc. I was pin high on hole 14 and 15 with a beat Stingray but missed left by a foot. I step up to 16 and throw a slightly beat TL straight down the pipe but the wind beat it down at the last minute. Dinged the pole for a drop in two.
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Another book of note to readers of Sam Harris is Meredith Jordan's "Embracing the Mystery: the Sacred Unfolding in Ordinary People and Everyday lives," which encourages readers to totally revise their image and understanding of who or what "God" is. Jordan's book uses stories from everyday people to illustrate that God is the best of us, emerging from within, and not some outside being or force that can be invoked to impose rules, dogma, doctrine, or harm on anyone of any religion.
She says some of the same things in a readable, accessible way for people who are beginning to re-imagine what this presence we call "God" might be, if it's not an old man in the heavens, directing the movie we live here on earth.
Theologian Marvin Ellison says this of "Embracing the Mystery", "You will likely rejoice, perhaps weep and maybe even laugh out loud at this fine new book from Meredith Jordan. If you are looking for someone who is wise in the ways of Spirit, this is your book!"
What most of us need is some way to make the transition from believing in a God-who-makes-rules that we are to follow, to an indwelling spirit of justice-love. Sam Harris is right on the mark to be saying the Emperor has no clothes and we all need to look at our complicity with a myth that says he does. Meredith Jordan offers another way to understand that the Mystery at the heart of all life, has been misrepresented/misunderstood to the detriment and even harm of many.
It's time for us to grow our religions and spirituality up, and find another way to talk about that-which-is-sacred without making it a sacred cow.


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Circadian rhythm disorders are disruptions in a person's circadian rhythm or "internal body clock," which regulates our 24 hour sleep-wake cycle.
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Analysis: GSA's scandal pales in comparison to historical misdeeds
Thursday - 4/19/2012, 5:45am EDT
The General Services Administration's lavish spending at the Western Regions conference in October 2010 is small potatoes when it comes to federal scandals. Experts are saying all the attention the newest scandal is receiving from Congress — and now other agencies that are worried about coming under the same scrutiny — is shortsighted.
"I think what really gets under Congress' skin and really is causing the public some concern was this was so blatant," said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight. "People were ignored who were trying to raise red flags that this was wasteful and that these people thought they were in essence above the law and entitled to this big, huge Vegas party."
But when it comes to government scandals, GSA pales in comparison. Take the Wartime Contracting Commission, which found the Defense and State departments and others wasted as much as $60 billion on contracting. Or how about the Air Force refueling tanker scandal, which saw Darleen Druyun, the service's No. 2 acquisition official, break procurement laws and go to jail over a $24 billion contract and Boeing pay more than $600 million in fines.
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Then there's the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, which saw GSA and Interior Department officials go to jail for trading influence for golf outings and other perks.
And finally, there's the Interior Department's former Minerals Management Service, which some in Congress and in industry say most closely resembles GSA's current problems. Officials at MMS, which Interior eventually broke up into two new bureaus, were found by the inspector general to have a "culture of ethical failure," where nearly a third of the employees in one of the divisions improperly received "a wide array of gifts and gratuities," from the oil and gas companies the agency was ostensibly designed to regulate. Several staff members also admitted to illegal drug use and illicit sexual encounters, both among staff and with industry contacts.
Bigger examples of waste, fraud and abuse
Paul Posner, a professor and director of the Master's in Public Administration program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., said while the GSA scandal is troublesome, there are much bigger fish to fry.
Paul Posner, Master's in Public Administration program, George Mason University (GMU photo)
Posner, who also was the director of Federal Budget and Intergovernmental Relations at the Government Accountability Office, said a report from GAO released the same day as the GSA IG report shows much bigger possibilities for saving money and making government better.
"Here's a report on the crop subsidy. $9 billion spent on subsidizing farmers to buy crop insurance, and the program sends lots of money to the wealthiest farmers," he said. "The program is not capped like farm payments are. GAO estimates if we cap payments like the farm payments are, we'd save $1 billion. That's basically 12 percent at a time when we are struggling with deficits."
Posner said the failure of the program to target its funds to those who need it most at a time when farm income is in record proportions could be considered "scandalous," or at least "as a significant breach of fiscal control."
Posner and Amey each said dozens of other programs waste tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, more than what GSA spent at the conference.
Another opportunity to save money at GSA
Amey said GSA's own industrial funding fee is one example. The agency charges other departments 0.75 percent of their total purchase to use their supply schedules. GAO found in its February report to Congress on duplication or possible areas to find savings that GSA overcharged agencies by on average $62 million a year between 2007 and 2010.
Scott Amey, general counsel, Project on Government Oversight (POGO photo)
Amey said GSA and Congress are ignoring that example of waste, which is costing agencies and contractors much more than the $823,000 spent at the Las Vegas conference.
Posner said those responsible for the waste and abuse of federal money at GSA need to be punished, but lawmakers are missing the larger issues.
"I'd love to see hearings done on some of the ripe areas that GAO routinely identifies, that the Congressional Budget Office routinely identifies and a lot of others. That's the real story," he said. "There is an opportunity cost that goes with not looking at many of the significant problems because they are not capable of having a face put on them even though they are much more serious and more endemic."
Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, said the money isn't really the issue with GSA, it's the management problems. He said Congress could hold hearings everyday about whether taxpayers are getting value for their money from the government.
"Congress always finds it easier to create a new program or let something go and say 'we'll fix it later' because there haven't been any consequences to all of this overspending," he said. "It's all lack of oversight. The amount of money varies. The money is one issue, but the management is another."
At all four hearings this week on the GSA scandal that lack of management, or control, was a central theme.
Culture change is necessary
Like past scandals, it's now less about what happened and more about what needs to happen so the waste, fraud and abuse isn't repeated in a few years.
David Gebler, president, Skout Group (Skout Group photo)
David Gebler, president of the Skout Group, a global advisory firm that works with private sector companies to improve their culture to save money and keep them out of trouble, said many times organizations don't learn from their mistakes.
"Worst case will be employees and managers at different levels will say 'OK, this is in the limelight now, and Congress will look at it and then the radar screen will pass over and it will go away, and things will be back to normal," said Gebler, who also is an expert on corporate scandals. "If that happens, then it's a shame on all of us in terms of not being able to put in corrective measures. If, however, the investigation is correct and if they actually do what they are supposed to do, they will identify where are the vulnerabilities in the system and they'll implement real change in terms of different levels of accountability."
He said if others in the organization or across the government see real punishments, then culture change can happen.
Many of the federal scandals over the last decade led to attempts to change culture: Interior broke up the Minerals Management Service into two new agencies, Congress is likely to pass legislation to improve wartime contracting and help fight against future waste, and the Obama administration put in stricter lobbying rules in response to the Abramoff scandal.
Contractor-government relationship to blame?
POGO's Amey said this scandal could finally help change the culture of agencies working too closely with contractors. He said that's a big problem at GSA.
"At the end of the day, this is an agency that I think needed to take a more lessons-learned approach from previous problems it has had and previous scandals, and how it was operating," he said. "Is it working to protect the public or is it really working to protect the vendors and contractors it does business with? I think a lot of people have raised questions about GSA's role for a long time."
Posner said GSA clearly needs better controls and oversight, but focusing just on the conference spending across government is shortsighted.
"The real problems to keep your eye on are how we design programs to achieve what we are trying to achieve, how we do the work we need to do more efficiently and how we deliver value for money. That's where our oversight needs to be focused on. Not this kind of stuff," Posner said. "Not to say there shouldn't be some attention to this. But if every agency spends some of their IG resources on looking at conferences and travel that has diminishing returns, compared to where they should be putting their money and focus, where these committees should be focusing, which is on the substance of what we are trying to do in government."
But too many times the focus gets lost in the scandal of the moment.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) introduced the first of what many expect to be many bills to try to fix some of the problems detailed in the GSA IG report.
Timeline: GSA Scandal in Perspective
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Lights, camera, action! If you watched NBC's Today Show this morning, you probably saw a segment featuring three newly famous ASPCA adoptable dogs: Wishbone, Nautica and Bam Bam.
These adorable pups made their TV debut for a segment with hosts Kathie Lee and Hoda, and taste-tested homemade dog meals from veterinarian and talk-show host Dr. Katy Nelson. They were joined by U.S. slopestyle ski competitors Joss Christensen, Gus Kenworthy, Nick Goepper—recent gold, silver and bronze medalists, respectively.
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Could you possibly post an excerpt from the show? It's not on youtube and I would love to see the 3 pups on TV. They're just so adorable! Congratulations to the 3 Olympians, too. They are so sweet to the dogs.
Very nice story to read about. I hope someone adopts these adorable dogs very soon !
I originally saw Nick Goepper's story about how he found the family of Shepherd mixes, including the mom and her five babies, and hoped he could bring them home. Was he able to rescue them? So glad to see more pups were rescued and brought to the US. Nice job! And great snowboarding tricks!
Actually, that was Gus Kenworthy. And I think he did get them to the US.
Gus was on David Letterman last night and said they are still working on getting the dogs to the U.S. He is working with HSUS to get through all the red tape, but thinks they will get here just didn't know when.
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President's BioDr. M. W. Scoggins was appointed the Colorado School of Mines' 16th president in June 2006. He also serves as a Research Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering. Prior to coming to Mines, Dr. Scoggins had over 34 years experience in the global oil and gas business with Mobil and ExxonMobil.
Dr. Scoggins received his undergraduate education at the University of Tulsa, where he was in the Petroleum Engineering honors program and was a member of Tau Beta Pi. He received his Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and returned to the University of Tulsa for his Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering.
Dr. Scoggins began his career with Mobil in 1970 and had assignments throughout the United States, as well as in The Hague, Jakarta, Indonesia and London. He was president of International E & P and Global Exploration and a member of the executive committee of Mobil Oil prior to its merger with Exxon in late 1999.
Following the merger, he served as executive vice president of ExxonMobil Production Company until his retirement in 2004. Dr. Scoggins was elected to the University of Tulsa Board of Trustees in 2005 and served on the executive committee; the finance, investment and audit committee; and the faculty and curriculum committee until accepting the presidency at Mines. Dr. Scoggins was inducted into the College of Engineering's Hall of Fame in 1998.
Dr. Scoggins serves on the Board of Directors for QEP Resources, a natural gas and oil exploration and production company; Cobalt International Energy, an independent oil exploration and production company focusing on deep water Gulf of Mexico and offshore west Africa; and Laredo Petroleum, an independent energy company focused on the exploration, development and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties in the Permian and Mid-Continent regions of the U.S.
Dr. Scoggins and his wife, Karen, reside in the President's Residence on the Colorado School of Mines campus. They have three adult sons: Dr. Robert M. Scoggins of Denver, Michael R. Scoggins of Tulsa, and James A. Scoggins of Houston.


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I was sitting at my computer today, looking through all of the fan pages on Facebook. There are quite a few of them. It would seem that there is a fan page for almost anything that you can imagine. I have quite a few interests so I thought I would try to stump Facebook and search for a fan page that doesn't exist. Lt me see, what obscure interests do I have? Well let's see. I am a 47 year old African American male. Let me see if there is a fan page for my grade school. I looked for the Catholic grade school where I attended grade school, and sure enough there it is. Ok that probably wasn't obscure enough. Hmm… I see there are even quite a few of my old grade school friends there who have made posts. I will get back to them
Ok. I'm sure this is a softball. I enjoy fantasy art. Yes there is a fan page for that. Photography is pretty easy. I looked up several of my favorite photography suppliers and they all have fan pages, plus some of the photographers that I love and admire. All have fan pages. Is there anything that doesn't have a fan page? Ok. Here is one. I would like to get a Bernese Mountain Dog. Yep the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of America has a fan page. I will keep that one in mind. How about a fan page for Phoenix Light Rail commuters. Let me see… yep they have one. Looks pretty informative too. Ok, I've got to make this hard. What is something I am interested in that won't have a fan page? Ok, there is a big hole in Bisbee Arizona that you can see from space (or so they say). Is there a fan page for that? Wow!! There is even a fan page for the Lavender Pit (What I call the big hole) in Bisbee, Arizona. Now to be accurate only four people like it. But there is a fan page. Ok, here is one. Maybe this will stump Facebook. There is a company in Tempe that sells "pirate supplies", yes "pirate supplies". I think it is called PurePirate. Well what do you know. There is a fan page for PurePirate.com who woulda knew? Even a fan page for a company that sells "pirate supplies"
Facebook has become the premier way to promote oneself. So I guess if you want to promote anything you have to make sure you have a fan page on Facebook. In the previous post I have some info on how to make better fan pages. Read those posts over again and put what I suggested into practice. If a person want to promote, using Facebook fan pages is the way to go!


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It's a tradeoff for most: One less hour of sleep for an extra hour of daylight in the evening.
Daylight saving time begins on Sunday. For local parks and recreation departments, that means more residents heading outside for exercise and athletic activities.
As Jacksonville Recreation and Parks Department prepares for youth baseball and softball and adult softball registration in upcoming weeks, Athletic Program Supervisor Melody Strickland said that the extra hour of light will be a bonus for practice schedules.
"It does help us having the outdoor headlights on, and sometimes parents like having their kids home before it gets dark," Strickland said. "Baseball registration is coming up on March 16 and on the 23 so it will give them a little more practice hours to get in."
"What is does for us it sends more people outside here and more time for them to go to the beach or play outdoor volleyball after work," said Alesia Sanderson, director of
While extra hours in the evening allow for more fun, daylight saving time also comes with a few safety precautions.
According to Jacksonville Police Department Traffic Supervisor Lt. Sean Magill, a later sunrise means some students will be walking to school or standing at bus stops in the dark. Drivers are warned to be cautious of students as they travel to school each morning.
"We recommend that (students) wear light or reflective gear so that motorists can see and ask motorists to take extra caution," Magill said. "Drivers will be more sleep fatigued as they adjust to that one hour loss of sleep. Ensure that you are alert and prepared to make that morning commute."
Public Safety officials with the Jacksonville Fire Department also remind everyone to replace the batteries in their smoke detectors this weekend.
"When clocks are moved forward for the start of daylight saving time, it's a great reminder to replace smoke detector batteries as well" JFD's Deputy Fire Chief Spencer Lee said via a release.
Smoke detectors have proven to reduce fire fatalities by 50 percent, according to the release.
Low batteries in smoke detectors are dangerous because they inhibit an alarm's ability to detect smoke. In addition to the irritating chirping noise, drained batteries can cause false alarms to sound, prompting people to call
Fire officials recommend that people test their smoke detectors monthly and replace their batteries twice a year, once in the spring and again in the fall.
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Oncology: The Highest Stakes and the Greatest Rewards
Many physicians go into residency knowing they will eventually specialize in oncology; a good number make that decision during residency training. The following specialties have some form of subspecialization in oncology. This additional training varies in length from 2-5 years, depending upon your area of interest.
- Internal Medicine, subspecialty of Medical Oncology
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The common bond is that, in each of these fields, there is an explosion of research, multidisciplinary care (learn from others your whole career), career choice options (private practice, academics, industry, government) and very rewarding patient relationships.
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Applying to Oncology Training Programs
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If you've made the decision to pursue oncology in any specialty area, it is advised that you:
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- Some degree of academic pursuit is desirable, whether you seek an academic career or a career in practice.
- If available and applicable, take advantage of an away rotation for a specialized oncology experience.
- Shown a true interest or drive in a particular area.
- Shown a tendency to pursue excellence in all areas.
It is not necessary to become a "junior oncologist" during your residency training. Use this time to master the specialty area and then use the fellowship to develop your skills as an oncologist.
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Oncology is at the leading edge of the new age in molecular medicine. This makes all fields of oncology the most exciting in all of medicine. As the world's leading professional organization representing physicians who treat people with cancer, ASCO is committed to advancing the education of oncologists and other oncology professionals, to advocating for policies that provide access to high-quality cancer care, and to supporting the clinical trials system and the need for increased clinical and translational research.
The ASCO Annual Meeting attracts more than 30,000 attendees and is considered the premier educational and scientific event in the oncology community. Visit ASCO's Virtual Meeting for links to sessions from this and other thematic (GU Cancers/GI Cancers/Breast) meetings. The blend of science and patient care inherent in oncology is represented here.
ASCO's guide for residents and fellows discussing many early career decisions faced by oncologists, Achieving Career Success in Oncology, provides career development advice and strategies for success to new oncologists as they decide which career path is the right one for them: academia, community practice, pharmaceutical industry, or federal government.
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Grey High School in Port Elizabeth has a reputation for identifying and developing some of this country's most promising young rugby talent.
This outstanding loose forward is one such talent. The 18-year-old, from Zwide in the Eastern Cape, was spotted at a youth week in 2004 by Grey and was offered a scholarship at the prestigious school.
Since then Kolisi has gone from strength to strength, having broken into the 1st XV in 2008, and his performances at Craven Week last year saw him rewarded with a call-up to the SA Schools team.
His displays also caught the eye of the Cheetahs' scouts, who quickly offered him a contract. Kolisi kept them on hold for a while before finally signing a professional contract with the union earlier this year.
Dean Carelse, Kolisi's coach at Grey High, believes it is the perfect move for the powerful loose forward.
'The junior structures in place in the Free State are absolutely top notch,' says Carelse. 'They showed an interest in him last year already and I think from the point of view of a province that tries to look after the development of their younger players, you can't really get better than them.
'His rugby is also suited to the Cheetahs' style of play. He's been approached by every single union, but I think Free State are probably his best option at this stage in his career.'
While Kolisi has played mostly at openside flank for Grey, he operated from the back of the scrum for SA Schools. Carelse believes he is capable of playing in either position, but admits his skills are probably better suited to eighthman.
'Siyamthanda is physically a big man and people find it hard to take him out. He breaks the advantage line regularly. His support play is really good and his defence is sound.
'He's not really your typical No 6 or 7 who hits the rucks and likes to do the work on the ground, but with ball-in-hand he is devastating.
'He's one of those players you don't really want to touch. He reads the game well, knows what he's doing on the field and is one of the special players we've produced over the past couple of years.'
Kolisi will represent Eastern Province again at Craven Week in 2009 where he should be in with a good shout of making SA Schools for the second season running. He will then join up with the Cheetahs at the end of the year.
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The schedule has been posted for alumni weekend for Lacrosse! Join us homecoming weekend, September 25-26, to reunite with friends/teammates from the past and present! Below is a link for all of the planned activities for homecoming weekend. See you at the end of this month!
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The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living in and intellectually engaging with the US South.
- The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to visualize the geography of political power. Mark Newman, Paul Dirac Collegiate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, released a series of maps and cartograms depicting the state- and county-level results of the presidential election between Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Barack Obama scaled by population density. Illustrator Chris Howard designed another map which overlays county-by-county election results with population density data as recorded in the 2010 census. This image, which depicts the electoral power of densely populated areas without distorting the shapes of the counties, provoked analysis, as in this piece by Sommer Mathis writing in The Atlantic Cities, about the importance of cities in deciding the election. Metropolitan areas in the US South and elsewhere in the interior appear on the map as dense blue dots surrounded by rings of pink. The map illustrates how elections are decided on an urban/suburban basis, as Lydia DePillis argued in The New Republic. This distribution of political power is a consequence of the demographic shifts in cities like Atlanta since the Second World War, a topic discussed by Kevin Kruse in his 2005 Southern Spaces presentation "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta."
- Post-election conversation has also focused on the continued dominance of the Republican Party in the US South. In The New York Times, Campbell Robertson argued that the Republican coalition that has been characterized as a shrinking proportion of the population across much of the country remains dominant in a number of southern states. Remarking on the similar results of the 2008 presidential election in his Southern Spaces piece "The US South and the 2008 Election," Joseph Crespino tied rhetoric about Republican political dominance in the US South to the rise of the Sun Belt and noted that populations in several southern states voted in favor of Obama. Crespino's analysis remains a useful reminder that the US South is a heterogenous section of the country.
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012»
As part of our engagement with scholarship about the US South, we wanted to let our readers know about the recent call for papers from The Southern Quarterly. Please remember that Southern Spaces also continues to accept submissions on a rolling basis. For details, see our submission guidelines.
From The Southern Quarterly:
Celebrating fifty years of publication, The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts in the South invites submissions of interdisciplinary scholarly articles, interviews with major Southern writers, composers, and artists, unpublished archival materials, and poems anchored in the ethos of the South.
Since special issues on Natasha Trethewey and religion in the South are forthcoming, we are not currently reading manuscripts on these topics.
We do not consider email submissions, previously published work, or work being considered elsewhere. Submit two hard copies of your work (not to exceed twenty to twenty-five pages) with a cover letter. Follow the instructions on our submissions guidelines page (http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/guidelines.htm). Please submit original manuscripts to the following address:
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The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living in and intellectually engaging with the US South.
- As a follow up to our Open Access Week blog post, we are sharing this one-hour webcast from the blog of the Association of Research Libraries which features attorneys and advocates involved in the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case summarizing the ruling and its implications for libraries.
- In Florida, recently enacted changes to the early voting schedule have altered the ways in which African American churches organize their early voting campaigns. According to Susan Saulny of The New York Times, these campaigns to get "souls to the polls" were energized by the decision to eliminate six days of early voting which was legislated by the Republican State Legislature and signed into law by Republican Governor Rick Scott. While the reduction in early voting was enacted in order to prevent voter fraud, some African Americans in Florida feel that the changes target African American voters, who turned out at twice the rate of white voters in 2008 when President Barack Obama won the state.
- In a recent review essay, Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker surveys works which he considers to be part of a "renaissance of geographic history." Gopnik argues that new works in the field ask future historians to consider how space and place retain some primacy in historical narratives, which will force them to "make more modest claims for abstract ideas and modern machines than [they] like to." He suggests that such modesty will allow for more nuanced examinations of the interplay between "big" ideas and individual places. It is this connection between local agricultural knowledge and "big" ideological shifts regarding sustainability in agriculture which the authors of our two featured Southern Spaces essays explore. Charles D. Thompson, Jr. describes the local conditions for the growth of sustainable agriculture in Cuba in "Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange," and Brian C. Campbell uncovers how local traditions of biodiversity rooted in place persisted despite technological advancements in farming in "'Closest to Everlastin'': Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions."
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012»
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This week (October 22–28, 2012) is the sixth annual Open Access Week, a global event which presents opportunities for the academic and research community to celebrate and learn more about the potential benefits of Open Access. Because Southern Spaces is an open access journal, we thought that it would be appropriate for us to share the details of a recent legal challenge to the access and preservation of library books on the blog as a part of our contribution to spreading awareness (and celebrating!) this week.
On October 10, Harold Baer, Federal District Judge of the Second District of New York, handed down his decision in The Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust. HathiTrust is a digital repository in partnership with over sixty major research institutions and libraries "working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future." The Authors Guild is group which advocates "for writers' interests in effective copyright protection, fair contracts and free expression." The Authors Guild's suit alleged that the massive digitization and preservation effort undertaken by the HathiTrust and its affiliates represented a copyright violation. The HathiTrust countered that their digitization project is fair use because it is intended to preserve print materials in perpetuity, give access to print-disabled readers as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, and enable non-expressive uses like comprehensive word searches, text mining, and data analysis.
Baer's ruling represented a major victory for the HathiTrust, its affiliates, and fair use advocates. Below is a "score card" of the results of the ruling written by Matthew Sag, an Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University of Chicago who is an expert in copyright law. In his blog post on the case, "HathiTrust Wins on Fair Use, and just about everything else," he included the following list of the judge's findings:
- Digitization to provide access for the print-disabled held to be transformative use and, on balance, fair use.
- Digitization to provide for print-disabled students held to be (i) an obligation of universities under the ADA, (ii) fair use under section 107 of the Copyright Act and (iii) enabled by section 121 of the Copyright Act.
- Section 108 the Copyright Act was held to expand the rights of libraries, not limit the scope of their fair use rights in any way, shape or form. Given the text says "Nothing in this section . . . in any way affects the right of fair use as provided by section 107" any ruling to the contrary would have been pretty shocking.
- Digitization to create a search index held to be a transformative use, and, on balance, fair use.
- Alleged security risks created by library digitization—dismissed as speculative and unproven. The judge noted the strong evidence to the contrary. It is still an open question whether the risk of subsequent illegal act by a third party could ever render an initial lawful copy not fair use. The whole notion strikes me as rather odd.
- The market effect of library digitization—the court found there was none to speak of in this case. The court rejected the CCC's magic toll-booth arguments—i.e., there were some wild assertions about future licensing revenue that the court rejected as "conjecture."
- The court also notes that a copyright holder cannot preempt a transformative market merely by offering to license it.
- The market effect of enabling print-disabled access to library books—the court found there was no market for this under-served group, nor was one likely to develop.
As Sag's list makes clear, the HathiTrust case represents a major victory for libraries, universities, and the Digital Humanities community. The American Library Association and the Library Copyright Association welcomed the ruling this week, suggesting that it helps set a significant precedent regarding the relationship between library intiatives and copyright laws.
"This ruling is significant for all libraries and universities because it goes to the heart of the mission of libraries, which is to preserve and make accessible our cultural heritage" says Lisa Macklin, director of scholarly communications at Emory Libraries. "The power of full-text searching and non-expressive research like text mining is growing more important to our faculty, students, and researchers, and is only possible with a digital library like HathiTrust. It is heartening that the court so clearly found that HathiTrust's creation and use of the digital library was a fair use under copyright law, particularly in serving print-disabled students."
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use»
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living in and intellectually engaging with the US South.
- Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 Clean Water Act, which regulates water quality standards and limits water pollution. Citizen groups in Appalachia marked the anniverary by highlighting legislative efforts with the potential to undermine the law and questioning its fair application. The organization Appalachian Voices published a report today titled "The Clean Water Act at 40" (PDF) which details how a majority of legislators in eight Appalachian states have voted for bills challenging the Act, which was initially supported by "all but one of sixty-five representatives from the southeastern states." Also this week, the Sierra Club and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth challenged permits granted under the Clean Water Act for mountaintop removal mining operations in Kentucky and West Virginia arguing that "in Appalachia . . . the Clean Water Act is not being enforced."
- Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant announced today that his state, which has among the highest rates of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, will turn down federal funds to expand Medicaid, even though one in seven of the state's residents are without insurance. Under the new health care law, the federal government would pay for the full cost of expanding Medicaid between 2014 and 2016, but would then rachet down its support until it would be paying for ninety percent of the program's increased costs, requiring states to chip in the remaining ten percent. Mississippi's governor has joined other southern Republican governors from Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas in declining to participate in the program, in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling which upheld the health care law but declared state participation in its Medicaid expansion component optional.
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012»


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Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Optimal Joint Inventory and Transshipment Control under Uncertain Capacity
2008, Operations Research
Xinxin Hu, Izak Duenyas, Roman Kapuscinski
In this paper, we address the optimal joint control of inventory and transshipment for a firm that produces in two locations and faces capacity uncertainty. Capacity uncertainty (e.g., due to downtime, quality problems, yield, etc.) is a common feature of many production systems, but its effects have not been explored in the context of a firm that has multiple production facilities. We first characterize the optimal production and transshipment policies and show that uncertain capacity leads the firm to ration the inventory that is available for transshipment to the other location and characterize the structure of this rationing policy. Then, we characterize the optimal production policies at both locations, which are defined by state-dependent produce-up-to thresholds. We also describe sensitivity of the optimal production and transshipment policies to problem parameters and, in particular, explain how uncertain capacity can lead to counterintuitive behavior, such as produce-up-to limits decreasing for locations that face stochastically higher demand. We finally explore, through a numerical study, when the optimal policy is most likely to yield significant benefits compared to simple policies.
Hu, Xinxin, Izak Duenyas, and Roman Kapuscinski (2008), "Optimal Joint Inventory and Transshipment Control under Uncertain Capacity," Operations Research, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 881-897.


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