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Description: Abigail Fold-Down Desk:
- Pinewood fold-down desk
- Features zinc alloy handles
- One large and six small drawers
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Each small drawer 7¾" W x 2" D x 7" H
Large drawer 22" W x 5½" D x 16" H
Pull Shelf 29½" W x 9" D
Overall 29¾" W x 18" D x 37¾" H
Material: Pinewood, zinc alloy
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Office of Academic Affairs
The mission of the Office of Academic Affairs is to create and support an environment that advances IUPUI's institutional mission of achieving international distinction in education, scholarship, and public service. The office provides leadership for continuous improvement in academic programs; faculty development; and, ultimately, student success.
The Office of Academic Affairs is led by Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer Nasser Paydar. Reporting to the chancellor, Dr. Paydar provides leadership for all academic units and serves as chief executive officer in the chancellor's absence.
Priorities for the Executive Vice Chancellor:
- Foster a culture of internal collaboration that encourages the crossing of departmental and disciplinary boundaries to take full advantage of the extraordinary interdisciplinary learning and research opportunities on campus.
- Strengthen the campus identity among students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community stakeholders and advance the agenda of IUPUI as a whole, emphasizing the cohesive development of the liberal arts and sciences as well as the health and professional disciplines.
- Continue improvement of the campus learning environment, student life, the quality of undergraduate education, and the undergraduate retention rate.
- Promote a dynamic learning environment that prepares students to be enlightened, articulate, and engaged citizens in a global society.
- Secure support for the continuing development of graduate and research programs, particularly innovative interdisciplinary programs, that are critical to the IUPUI research mission and national reputation.
- Find additional sources of revenue to counterbalance the national trend of leveling state support.
- Foster diversity in policies and practices and support a climate of inclusion for all members of the university community.
- Position IUPUI as a transformative force and a civic partner with the city and state in the continuing economic and cultural development of Central Indiana.
Nasser Paydar, Ph.D.
Nasser Paydar became Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer of IUPUI in 2012. IUPUI is a core campus of Indiana University and the state's urban research and academic health sciences campus. IUPUI enrolls more than 30,000 students, including over 8,000 graduate students, with full-time faculty and staff numbering nearly 9,000, including 2,700 full-time faculty, an annual budget of $1.3 billion, and external research funding of more than $325 million in 2013-14 fiscal year. IUPUI offers more than 220 degree programs in 17 schools, including the schools of liberal arts and science, as well as professional schools of business, education, law, art & design, physical education and tourism management, nursing, engineering & technology, public & environmental affairs, dentistry, health and rehabilitation sciences, informatics and computing, social work, public health, philanthropy, and medicine. IUPUI's schools offer more than 140 IU degree programs and more than 80 Purdue University degree programs.
Professor Paydar joined Indiana University in 1985 as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. From 1989 to 2003, he served the School of Engineering and Technology as Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, and Executive Associate Dean. In Spring 2004, Professor Paydar became responsible for the Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC) Center as Vice Chancellor and Dean. In 2007, Nasser Paydar was appointed as the Interim Chancellor of Indiana University East. He became Chancellor of Indiana University East in 2009.
Since his appointment in 2012, Dr. Paydar has led the IUPUI campus in a comprehensive and inclusive strategic planning process that engaged more than 250 individuals at IUPUI, launched 12 task forces, and resulted in 10 strategic goals for the campus.
Nasser Paydar is a graduate of Syracuse University with a Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He has extensive publications in scientific journals in the area of solid mechanics with applications in electronic packaging and biomechanics. Nasser Paydar has been principal and co-principal investigator of research grants from National Institutes of Health, Cummins Electronics, Carrier Electronics, Delco Electronics Corporations, Rockwell International, DePuy Inc., US Army, and U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center.
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Though the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) continue to grab headlines for terrorist violence, poor and underdeveloped regions in the rest of "settled" Pakistan are increasingly the recruiting and training ground for extremism and militancy.
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Classified By: Anne W. Patterson for reasons 1.4 (b) (d)
1. (SBU) Summary: Though the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) continue to grab headlines for terrorist violence, poor and underdeveloped regions in the rest of "settled" Pakistan are increasingly the recruiting and training ground for extremism and militancy. Areas such as the Southern Punjab's Seraiki-speaking belt and interior northern Sindh are mired in choking poverty and underdevelopment. This lack of prosperity is coupled with a rising number of disaffected youth who have a window to the outside world through television and the internet, but no prospects for social mobility. Moreover Pakistanis in these areas have lost their traditional patronage structure, be it the religious Sufi Pirs or the landlords, who once protected the basic needs of their citizens and delivered simple justice. In such places, as well as parts of urban Karachi and Quetta, religious extremists, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), find fertile ground to spread their ideology and recruit new militants. End Summary.
2. (C) Both Southern Punjab and Northern Sindh are still mainly agricultural societies with few other viable industries. Traditionally, the economies of these areas have been dominated by large landowners who outsource their farming to tenant farmers. Additionally, the highest rates of bonded labor in Pakistan are found in these regions, with most of such labor concentrated in agriculture, brick kilns, and carpet weaving. With the old agricultural system failing and "modern" farming taking hold, farming alone can no longer support the region's labor pool.
3. (C) As farming disappears as a source of income for the populace, government education systems fail to prepare their students for anything else. Public schools are yielding young graduates who can not find jobs, even when they move to large cities such as Lahore and Karachi. Many young high school and college graduates are frustrated because the years they spend in government schools do not provide them any employable skills. This common occurrence is reflected in the story of Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving Mumbai attacker, who by his own admission graduated from a Southern Punjab government school and unsuccessfully looked for jobs in Lahore. He ended up pursuing unskilled labor, then petty crime, and ultimately was lured to LeT with promises of money and adventure. Imtiaz Gul, Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), described the extremism in Southern Punjab not as "talibanization" but rather as a battle between haves and have-nots. He stressed that the education system had to be rationalized so that it led to real job opportunities, otherwise jobless youth would find a source of income in militant organizations. Those that actually graduate from public high schools are in the upper echelon of have-nots; illiteracy rates are high, and even primary school enrollment low, in these areas.
4. (U) Unlike in the recent past, the poor and jobless youth are no longer cut off from the outside world. Increasingly free media and internet access show these disaffected youth the wealth and corruption that exist outside their immediate circles. Also, newly rich local merchants who benefit from corruption, along with lavish foreign-financed madrassas, stand in stark contrast to the meager existence of this disaffected generation.
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5. (SBU) Several academic studies, including a recent look at the connection between poverty and militancy by the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies, have found that while poverty alone is not sufficient to give rise to extremism, it is a contributing factor pushing people towards militancy, provided an enabling environment exists. Poverty has long existed in Pakistan well beyond southern Punjab and northern Sindh; however, recent changes to the power structures and ideologies in both regions have provided the conducive environment for militancy to take hold.
6. (C) Traditionally, landlords and religious Sufi Pirs (who were often the same individual) lived among their communities and were largely protective patrons. Tenant farmers and Sufi devotees, while poor, could count on their leaders to deliver basic justice, food, and protection against corrupt police or other government functionaries. Peasants tolerated a feudal system because it also provided them protection through their individual benefactors. In the last several decades, exploitative landlords have increasingly moved to big cities and Pirs no longer deliver community uplift. The breakdown of the traditional systems - similar to the breakdown and corruption within the FATA's malik system - has left the populace without a social welfare net or any real access to justice.
7. (C) Many have claimed that a region so steeped in Sufi mysticism could not fall prey to militancy. To a certain extent peaceful Barelvi ideology and Sufism can act as a bulwark against extremism; however, Sufi and Barelvi leaders alone can not fight poverty, underdevelopment, and bad governance. Additionally, the new generation of Sufi leadership has not been able to articulate its religious doctrine to the region's disaffected youth. In contrast, since the Zia ul-Haq regime, the growth of Deobandi and Salafi madrassas and religious institutions in Southern Punjab has been exponential. The gap in Barelvi and Sufi welfare services is now filled by well-heeled, foreign-financed Deobandi madrassas. Poor Barelvi families often are forced to send their children to Deobandi madrassas to receive food, boarding, and monthly stipends. According to defense analyst Aisha Siddiqa, the number of Deobandi madrassas increased 140% between 1988 (1320) and 2000 (3152). These religious seminaries and their accompanying evangelical wings have worked on converting communities to Salafism and neutralizing resistance to more rabid interpretations of Islam. Secondly, madrassa students are indoctrinated about jihad at these institutions, which can lead them to joining any number of militant groups on their own. Lastly, according to Siddiqa, the madrassas can act as transit points where kids from government schools are shown the social mobility that can accompany militancy and are offered a doctrinal justification for militant action.
8. (C) Across Southern Punjab and increasingly in Quetta and Karachi, Pakistani militant groups openly recruit young men with promises of a better life, adventure, money, and a way to express their frustration against the status quo. The social fabric of northern Sindh is also breaking down in similar ways, which could allow more extremist influence in the future. Groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), have graffiti emblazoned on buildings and schools openly inviting young recruits to join up. Often militant groups invite young disaffected men to come visit them for a few days and show them a better life, plying them with money and other perks before sending them home to "think" about their options. Many of these young men are jobless government school graduates, while others are recruited from madrassas. Most join militant groups without the knowledge of their families. There are several active militant groups based in Punjab which have vast networks across Pakistan, and also have developed recent ties with the Taliban. Pakistani military and intelligence agencies have funded many of these groups in the past, and the extent of current establishment support is unclear. Regardless of government support, analysts argue that the majority of current militant funding comes from foreign and domestic donors, as well as criminal activities such as extortion and kidnapping.
9. (C) The Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) was formed in 1985 in Jhang, Punjab by anti-Shia clerics. This banned terrorist organization is focused on sectarian violence and the group was originally supported by Zia-ul-Haq's government in a move to counter Shia Iran's influence in Pakistan. The funding for SSP comes from both external and local sources such as the trader-merchant class in Jhang. SSP was responsible for the rise in sectarian violence in the 1980s and 1990s. SSP advocates Deobandi ideology and has served as the basic ISLAMABAD 00002576 003 OF 004 ideological and militant birthing ground for other militant groups. The group was linked with the 1997 attack on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and they take credit for killing several Shia doctors in Karachi in 2001. Recently, the SSP has resurged in Southern Punjab and has links with other militant outfits. Qari Hussain, the most feared deputy of Tehreek Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) recently killed leader, Baitullah Mehsud, came out of SSP and many of the TTP's foot soldiers are from SSP ranks. (Note. The SSP is also believed to be behind the violence against Christians in Punjab in late August and early September 2009. End Note.)
10. (C) Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) grew out of SSP and was founded in Bhakkar, South Punjab. The Deobandi organization was initially focused on the elimination of Shias, but after 9/11 its attention shifted to fighting the war on terror against the United States. According to Siddiqa, LeJ was the first militant group to send recruits to Al-Qaeda, through LeJ's contacts with wealthy Arabs who visited Southern Punjab. LeJ has strong connections with prominent terrorists, including Khaled Sheikh Mohammad and Abu Musab al Zarqawi. The LeJ and Taliban currently have linked networks that allow the Taliban to carry out terrorist attacks in Punjab with LeJ assistance. According to Amir Rana, Director of Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies, LeJ also has powerful networks in Karachi and Quetta.
11. (C) Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) is another SSP breakaway Deobandi organization that was started by Masood Azhar of Bahawalpur after he returned from India in 2000. (Note: Azhar was arrested in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1993, was exchanged by the Indian government for passengers hijacked to Afghanistan on an Indian Airlines flight in 1999, and subsequently returned to Pakistan with the help of Afghanistan's then-Taliban government and Pakistan's intelligence agencies. End Note.) JeM has had a long-standing relationship with intelligence agencies, and according to Rana, it is the only militant outfit still under Inter-Service Intelligence's (ISI) protective umbrella. JeM continues to be dedicated to the Kashmir fight; however, the group maintains ties to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Umar Saeed Sheikh, Daniel Pearl's convicted murderer, was also part of JeM.
12. (C) Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is an organization based in the Central Punjab city of Muridke, but has spread across Southern Punjab as well. It is ideologically Wahhabi, making it different from its militant Deobandi cousins. LeT, and its subsequent cover charitable organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), attract a broad range of supporters, including women, through their welfare work in the Seraiki belt, earthquake-affected Azad Jammu-Kashmir, and among Swat's internally displaced population. The Mumbai attacks were masterminded by LeT operatives and they continue to focus on militancy against India. The group was created and trained by Pakistani intelligence services to fight a proxy war against India. According to Rana, LeT leadership has ideological and operational disagreements with TTP and does not allow its militants to attack the Pakistani government.
13. (C) Since the 1980s, there has been a history of Punjabi extremists fighting and training alongside Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Rabbani, and now the Taliban in Afghanistan. Siddiqa estimates 5000-9000 Punjabi youth are fighting currently in the FATA and Afghanistan. CRSS's Gul argues that TTP has strong network links with radical groups such as SSP and LeJ, and many Taliban leaders have studied at madrassas in Southern Punjab. Rana explained that the TTP are capitalizing on the pool of militant recruits already indoctrinated by JeM, LeT, and LeJ in these areas, but the actual arms training takes place in the NWFP and FATA. The Taliban is using the Punjabi militant network to carry out many of the terrorist attacks in Islamabad, Lahore, and other settled areas of Pakistan. FATA parliamentarians claim that many of the Taliban fighters in their agencies are actually Seraiki, and that much of the training comes from existing Punjabi militant commanders.
14. (C) Comment: Aisha Siddiqa, who herself is from Southern Punjab, maintains that the message of militancy is quite potent, especially in terms of the dreams it sells young disillusioned village boys. Dismantling not just the infrastructure but also the potent message of militancy is a ISLAMABAD 00002576 004 OF 004 complicated problem. Punjab and Sindh represent the heart of Pakistan and deploying the military in these areas, as was done in Swat and FATA, is politically untenable and practically impossible. In the immediate future, the Pakistani government must dismantle both public and state support for militant groups. Many of these networks exist in the open, and until the message against them is clear, average people will continue to be drawn to them. The harder and longer-term solution is to offer real alternatives to disaffected potential recruits. Although the actual number of militant recruits is a small percentage of the population, the sympathy for such groups runs deep. New industries and real economic development would reinvigorate these regions. More importantly, relevant education, including vocational training, that offers people a better future and social mobility will be the best disincentive to joining militant groups. In terms of access to justice and ideology, traditional Sufi bulwarks against extremism and new social welfare nets need to give citizens confidence that their futures are secure. Pakistan's challenge is to offer alternate and positive dreams to the disillusioned and frustrated youth. We should anticipate and mitigate backlash from the feudals, who are accustomed to having an ignorant and weak peasant class to tend their fields. In order to prevent traditional secular and religious powers in these areas from subverting needed reforms, they will have to believe that reforms are needed to forestall a revolution. End Comment.
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OIG Recovery Act Plan Overview OIG Name: U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Inspector General The OIG has developed oversight plans for deploying additional resources to provide "real-time" monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of SBA's implementation of the Act. Since the Act provides very short time frames for obligating funds, there will be significant pressure on SBA to expedite and maximize financial OIG Broad Recovery Act Goals: assistance to small businesses. Past experience, such as SBA's response to the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes, has shown that this pressure can significantly increase the vulnerability of SBA's programs to fraud and unnecessary losses. Therefore, the OIG's oversight efforts will focus heavily on assessing controls and detecting and deterring fraud, waste and abuse in Recovery Act programs. The OIG will conduct outreach efforts to raise fraud awareness and engage industry trade groups. Outreach efforts will focus on providing SBA lenders and employees with information on detecting fraud patterns that have been identified in OIG loan fraud investigations through written guidance, website OIG Broad Outreach Recovery Act Goals: information, and presentations at trade group events, as well as notifying the public of scams. Additionally, the OIG will be posting the results of audits and other reviews on its Recovery Act website. The OIG is taking a number of actions to alert Agency managers of risks and recommend cost effective controls to help prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, and ensure program goals are achieved and stimulus funds are accurately tracked and reported. We are reviewing Agency regulations and procedures as they are OIG Recovery Act Risk Assessment Process: developed for new programs and modifications to existing programs under the Recovery Act. As we identify risks, we have and will continue to provide Agency managers with comments and recommendations for ways to mitigate these risks. OIG Recovery Act Funds: $10,000,000 Expiration Date of OIG Recovery Act Funds: September 30, 2013 FY 2009 OIG Non-Recovery Act Funds: $16,750,000 Number of OIG Planned Recovery Act Hires: 5-10 OIG Recovery Act Funds to be Allocated to Yes Contracts: Purpose of Recovery Act Contracts: Contractors will be used to assist with loan review audits and financial statement audits. Types of Recovery Act Contracts Awarded to Fixed price modification of the existing financial statement audit contract. Date: Link to OIG FY 2009 Recovery Act Work Plan: www.sba.gov/ig/recovery Page 1 of Overview 97f51d1d-9e31-45d2-bf63-7057b04b3f05.xls OIG FY 2009 Recovery Act Work Plan Expected Expected Type of Review Entity Performing Agency Recovery Act Quarter in Quarter in Expected (Administrative / Review (OIG Staff, Agency Program Area Funds Associated Project Title Background Objective Which which Final Number of Financial, Eligibility, Contractor, w/Program Area Work will Report will Reports Performance, Other) Other) Start be Issued Under the Recovery Act, SBA will receive $730 million to expand the Agency's lending and investment programs and to create new ones that will aid small business owners and revitalize the secondary market for SBA-guaranteed loans. To reduce the risks associated with the extraordinary Determine whether SBA has taken appropriate Loans and Loan level of Recovery Act funding, OMB has directed action to address weaknesses or deficiencies Guaranties, Grant Critical Unresolved Audit agencies to address weaknesses or deficiencies disclosed by prior audits related to program areas and Contract Recommendations in disclosed by prior audits and investigations in funded by the Recovery Act and related activities SBA Other OIG Staff Q2 FY 09 Q3 FY 09 1 Administration, IT Program Areas Funded program areas under which Recovery Act funds needed to safeguard funds, including: Credit and Financial by the Recovery Act are authorized. To assist SBA in this effort, the programs; Grant and contract administration; and Management OIG has identified unresolved audit Information technology and financial recommendations from previous reports that management address weaknesses or deficiencies in (1) programs directly impacted by the Recovery Act, and (2) operational support processes that will impact the disbursement and financial reporting of Recovery Act funds. (1) Identify strategies to prevent or timely detect Under OMB's Recovery Act guidance, agencies are OIG Consultation with waste, fraud or abuse. (2) Evaluate and comment directed to consult with OIGs in order to help the Agency on Recovery on SBA's program plans, regulations, and Program Administrative/ mitigate the implementation risks of the Recovery SBA OIG Staff Act Program Plans and procedures for new programs created by the Q2 FY 09 N/A 0 Administration Financial Act, enhance performance management and Implementing Rules and Recovery Act, as well as modifications to existing accountability, and define strategies to prevent or Guidance programs. (3) Evaluate whether program outputs timely detect waste, fraud or abuse. and outcomes are clear and measurable. (1) Determine whether SBA has created a portal where the public can find and analyze information OMB has developed a series of public reporting and report potential fraud, waste and abuse SBA's Compliance with requirements for agencies receiving funding under pertaining to the Recovery Act. (2) Determine Program Administrative/ SBA OIG Staff Public Reporting the Recovery Act. Accurate and reliable data will whether SBA is timely submitting weekly and Q2 FY 09 N/A 0 Administration Financial Requirements be necessary for SBA to achieve the level of monthly financial reports to OMB that fulfill OMB transparency expected under the Recovery Act. reporting requirements. (3) Assess data quality controls to ensure reporting is complete and accurate. SBA's Office of Business Operations (OBO) is responsible for planning, executing, and supporting the Agency's procurement activities. Office of Business Evaluate whether OBO's contracting personnel are Prior to the Recovery Act, OIG initiated an audit of Operations Contracting adequately trained, certified, and equipped to SBA Procurement Other OIG Staff contracting personnel qualifications and warrant Q2 FY 09 Q3 FY 09 1 Personnel Qualifications meet the Agency's needs for awarding and authority in OBO. This audit is relevant to the and Warrant Authority administering contracts under the Recovery Act. Recovery Act as SBA is expected to initiate an additional $20 million in contract activity with Recovery Act funds. Page 2 of Work Plan 97f51d1d-9e31-45d2-bf63-7057b04b3f05.xls OIG FY 2009 Recovery Act Work Plan Under OMB's Recovery Act guidance, agencies are required to perform a risk analysis of Recovery Act Evaluation of Determine whether SBA has performed a risk 504 Program, programs and request OMB to designate any high- Administrative/ Applicability of the analysis of the 504 and microloan programs in SBA Microloan OIG Staff risk programs as Single Audit major programs. Q2 FY 09 N/A 0 Financial Single Audit Act to deciding whether these programs should be Program SBA had received a prior exclusion for CDCs and Microloans and CDCs designated as Single Audit major programs. needs to determine the applicability of Single Audits given the provisions of the Recovery Act. In order to implement sound program management principles, OMB has required (1) Assess whether the Agency has developed an agencies receiving Recovery Act funds to develop agency wide plan, as well as plans for each formal documented plans for how the funds will Program Administrative/ Assessment of Agency program named in the Recovery Act. (2) SBA OIG Staff be applied and managed. OMB's guidance Q3 FY 09 N/A 0 Administration Financial Recovery Act Plans Determine whether the recovery plans include all requires program-specific plans to include project of the reporting elements specified by OMB objectives, planned activities, implementation guidelines. timelines, measures for monitoring and evaluating programs, as well as additional details. OMB's Recovery Act guidance requires agencies to Evaluate whether SBA's risk mitigation plans capture and report against government-wide appropriately identify and address all risk areas accountability measures, identify agency-specific required by OMB for each of the following risks, prioritize risk areas, and initiate risk programs: Eliminating/reducing fees on SBA loans mitigation strategies. While risk assessments and (§ 501); Increasing the SBA guaranty share on 7(a) mitigation plans are initially for internal agency loans (§ 502); Secondary market guaranty Program Administrative/ Assessment of SBA's Risk SBA OIG Staff use, OMB anticipates that the Recovery Act authority for 504 loans (§ 503); Refinancing debt Q3 FY 09 N/A 0 Administration Financial Mitigation Plans Accountability and Transparency Board will on 504 loans (§ 504); Expanding leverage capacity initiate risk management reporting requirements of Small Business Investment Companies (§ 505); in the future. OIG will evaluate and provide Business stabilization loan program (§ 506); feedback on SBA's risk assessment and mitigation Expanding the surety bond program (§ 508); Loans plans based on issues identified in prior audit to secondary market broker-dealers (§ 509); and work. Expansion of the microloan program. Among the objectives of the Recovery Act, are to stimulate small business lending, increase access to credit, and improve secondary market liquidity. OMB's guidance has stressed the importance of structuring and implementing Recovery Act programs so that they can be tracked and Quarterly Reviews of the evaluated through measurable outcomes. Recovery Act's Impact on Analyze loan activity and lender participation to Loans and Loan Quarterly reviews of program data will allow OIG SBA $ 630,000,000 Performance OIG Staff Increased Lending and evaluate the effectiveness of SBA's Recovery Act Q3 FY 09 Q2 FY 10 4 Guaranties to monitor how effectively SBA's programs are Secondary Market programs. meeting the goals of the Recovery Act. In addition Liquidity to evaluating program performance, these reviews will allow OIG to identify program trends as they occur, as well as indicators of control weaknesses or fraud. This information will assist the Agency's efforts to proactively identify and minimize risks in a timely manner. Page 3 of Work Plan 97f51d1d-9e31-45d2-bf63-7057b04b3f05.xls OIG FY 2009 Recovery Act Work Plan A number of audits over the last several years have been critical of the Agency's ability to provide adequate oversight of lenders and Determine whether loans were originated and 7(a) Program, 504 identify lender noncompliance with SBA's rules closed in accordance with SBA's rules and Quarterly Reviews of Program, Business and regulations or prudent lending practices. The regulations and commercially prudent lending SBA $ 630,000,000 Eligibility Contractor Loans Made Under the Q3 FY 09 Q2 FY 10 4 Stabilization (ARC) OIG will review new loans made under the standards, to include: 7(a) loans; 504 loans that Recovery Act Loans Recovery Act, on a "real-time" basis in order to include refinancing; and Business Stabilization identify compliance issues and reduce the risk of loans. potential improper payments by the Agency on defaulted loans. (1) Determine whether SBA has adequate controls in place to provide reasonable assurance that Recovery Act funds are properly controlled and In conjunction with the annual financial statement that the Recovery Act budget process is executed audit, OIG will modify the scope of its contract in accordance with Federal guidance. (2) KPMG Audit of SBA's FY with KPMG to include additional testing for Determine whether SBA's OCFO has established Financial Administrative/ 2009 Financial 1 SBA Contractor Recovery Act activity. KPMG will assess the general ledger accounts to properly track recovery Q3 FY 09 Q1 FY 10 Management Financial Statements - Statement or more adequacy of SBA's internal controls to ensure that fund activity and has properly accounted for fixed of Budgetary Resources Recovery Act funds are properly tracked, administrative costs. (3) Determine whether controlled, and reported. recorded spending authority from offsetting collections are available for obligation and referenced to the appropriate authorizing legislation. In conjunction with the annual financial statement KPMG Audit of SBA's FY audit, OIG will modify the scope of its contract 2009 Financial Determine whether SBA has adequate controls in Financial Administrative/ with KPMG to include additional testing for Included SBA Contractor Statements - Credit place over guarantee loan approvals, purchases, Q3 FY 09 Q1 FY 10 Management Financial Recovery Act activity. KPMG will assess the above Receivables - Loan modifications and charge-offs. adequacy of SBA's internal controls over the loan Guaranties guarantee process. (1) Determine whether SBA performs internal In conjunction with the annual financial statement control assessments to evaluate the risk of waste, audit, OIG will modify the scope of its contract fraud, and/or abuse and identifies strategies to KPMG Audit of SBA's FY with KPMG to include additional testing for prevent and timely detect waste, fraud, and abuse Financial Administrative/ 2009 Financial Recovery Act activity. KPMG will assess the Included SBA Contractor in grants. (2) Determine whether SBA has a Q3 FY 09 Q1 FY 10 Management Financial Statements - Grant adequacy of SBA's internal controls in place over above system of quality controls for accrued grant Expenses Testwork the grant management and accounting processes, liabilities in the financial statement footnotes. (3) which will include microloan program grants Validate the accuracy of accrual amounts for a funded by the Recovery Act. statistical sample of grants. The Recovery Act authorizes $6 million for direct (1) Determine whether loans were originated and lending under SBA's Microloan program. A closed in accordance with SBA program policies previous OIG report identified significant internal and procedures. (2) Determine whether Audit of SBA's Microloan control weaknesses in the administration of the intermediaries provided management, marketing, SBA Microloans $ 6,000,000 Performance OIG Staff Program Expansion Q3 FY 09 Q1 FY 10 1 Microloan program. The OIG will evaluate and technical assistance in accordance with SBA Under the Recovery Act program activities under the Agency's new requirements. (3) Determine whether SBA has program policy, which is currently in taken effective risk mitigation actions to minimize development, to determine their effectiveness.. unnecessary program losses. Page 4 of Work Plan 97f51d1d-9e31-45d2-bf63-7057b04b3f05.xls OIG FY 2009 Recovery Act Work Plan (1) Determine whether SBA officials are awarding The Recovery Act authorizes $24 million for and administering grants for technical assistance marketing, management, and technical assistance in a manner that will result in meaningful and Audit of Grants for activities under SBA's Microloan program. SBA measurable outcomes. (2) Evaluate adequacy of Administrative/ SBA Microloans $ 24,000,000 OIG Staff Technical Assistance in makes grants to nonprofit community-based safeguards to ensure that funds are used for their Q4 FY 09 Q2 FY 10 1 Financial the Microloan Program lenders ("intermediaries"), who make loans under intended purpose. (3) Assess the timeliness of the program, to provide business based training awards and whether SBA has initiated additional and technical assistance to its microborrowers. oversight to mitigate additional risks associated with the Recovery Act. Under OMB's Recovery Act guidance, agencies are required to take steps, beyond standard practice, to initiate additional oversight mechanisms for programs funded by the Recovery Act. At a SBA's Response to the minimum, agencies are to evaluate and (1) Assess actions taken by SBA to increase Program Administrative/ Increased Oversight demonstrate the effectiveness of standard oversight of programs created or modified by the SBA OIG Staff Q4 FY 09 Q2 FY 10 1 Administration Financial Requirements of the monitoring and oversight practices. Agencies are Recovery Act. (2) Determine the adequacy of Recovery Act required to enhance performance management onsite lender and CDC reviews. and accountability processes, as well as implement appropriate internal controls assessments to define strategies to prevent or timely detect waste, fraud or abuse. Under the Recovery Act, SBA will receive $20 (1) Determine whether proper acquisition, million to improve, streamline, and automate SBA Controls Over $20 planning, and oversight controls have been Administrative/ information technology systems related to lender SBA Contracts $ 20,000,000 OIG Staff Million in IT Contracts deployed. (2) Determine whether proper Q4 FY 09 Q3 FY 10 1 Financial processes and lender oversight. According to the under the Recovery Act reporting of solicitation and contract awards has Agency's expenditure plans, SBA will primarily occurred. utilize contractors to implement these changes. Under OMB's Recovery Act guidance, agencies are to provide maximum opportunities for small businesses to compete and participate as prime and subcontractors in contracts awarded by agencies, while ensuring that the government (1) Determine whether SBA has awarded contracts procures services at fair market prices. under the Recovery Act in a manner that Award and Additionally, using other than fixed-price maximizes opportunities for small businesses to Administrative/ Administration of contracts requires agencies to pay special compete and that maximizes competition. (2) SBA Contracts OIG Staff Q4 FY 09 Q2 FY 10 1 Financial Recovery Act Oversight attention to ensuring that sufficient qualified Evaluate whether Recovery Act contracts are Contracts acquisition personnel are available to perform being administered in a way that mitigates cost, contract administration to mitigate the schedule, and performance risks and delivers government's risk. When riskier contract types are meaningful and measurable outcomes. proposed, agencies should provide appropriate oversight so that all alternatives have been considered and that qualified staff is available for monitoring performance to mitigate risks. Page 5 of Work Plan 97f51d1d-9e31-45d2-bf63-7057b04b3f05.xls OIG FY 2009 Recovery Act Work Plan SBA's 504 loan program currently results in the creation of unguaranteed first mortgages made by private sector lenders to small businesses. The (1) Determine whether SBA has established an Recovery Act granted SBA the authority to adequate process for evaluating applications for establish a secondary market guaranty authority, guaranties on pools of 504 first lien loans. (2) to provide a Federal guaranty for pools of these Periodic Reviews of the Determine whether SBA's guaranties were loans that are to be sold to third-party investors. Use of SBA's Secondary properly applied to 504 loans and the pools of 1 SBA 504 Program Performance OIG Staff The authority is designed to create more Q4 FY 09 Q2 FY 11 Market Authority on 504 guaranteed loans were sold to third party or more attractive mortgage pools for secondary market Loans investors. (3) Determine whether SBA's buyers, which will improve liquidity and allow guaranties were properly applied to 504 loans and lenders to provide more 504 loans. According to the pools of guaranteed loans were sold to third SBA, this program will service as a backstop that party investors. will only be used if other programs initiated by the U.S. Treasury (TARP and TALF) are not successful in returning liquidity to the secondary market. In order to provide unprecedented levels of transparency and accountability, the Recovery Act and OMB guidance require increased financial Semi-annual Reviews of reporting on, and oversight of, programs, grants, Agency Progress and (1) Determine whether SBA is making sufficient and projects funded under the Act to deter and SBA Implementation Other OIG Staff Issues Surrounding SBA's progress in implementing the Recovery Act . (2) Q4 FY 09 Q4 FY 10 2 detect fraud, waste and abuse, and ensure that Implementation of the Assess the risk impact of any delays. program goals are met. As part of the OIG's Recovery Act increased oversight activities, we will be assessing the Agency's progress and the risks created by any delays in program implementation. 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Let me say this first. Don't listen to me. I'm a Sriram Raghavan fanboy. Though Agent Vinod isn't half the mind-game Johnny Gaddaar was, it's certainly not the disaster people are saying it is. Take a look at Vinod's competition.
James Bond: There are more bad Bond films than good ones and very few that actually got everything right. They were born out of a huge legacy of Ian Fleming's writings, mostly pulp fiction.
Jason Bourne: Probably the most consistent of spy thrillers, this had the advantage of being spawned from Robert Ludlum's bestseller from the Eighties. And big budgets to boot.
Ethan Hunt: Again, based on a TV series, this franchise fronted by Tom Cruise is yet to find its balance, even after four films. The first movie directed by Brian De Palma was criticised to be too inaccessible, the second too dumb, the third too real and the fourth shot at a budget that's almost 12 times that of Agent Vinod speaks for itself with its Indian segment featuring Anil Kapoor.
Harry Tasker: That Arnold Schwarzenegger movie — True Lies. Enough said.
Locally, Don: Who is technically not a spy, just a fugitive created out of Hindi cinemas staple of doppelgangers recently subverted the original film into a triumph of evil, and lost its moral footing by trying to be smart and went further away from its roots of the chase film construct by getting mixed up in heist-based action in the sequel.
And now we have Agent Vinod whose only origin story is that he is Bollywood's equivalent of Bond and Bourne rolled into one, but he can also shake a leg and let his hair down unlike the other heroes who take their roles so seriously these days (But if you remember Bond of yore, he was more like a spoof of himself).
So it is rather appalling to see people cry for Sriram's blood because the sheer nature of the genre lends itself towards guilty pleasure and not cinematic brilliance. The first thing we need to remember about the genre: Spy films are about the saving the world, not about rushing an injured pet to the hospital.
And Agent Vinod is a fairly good start to a franchise, even if extremely inconsistent and long.
1. The Hero: Saif Ali Khan is perfect for the part. James Bond probably knows to pick up a girl, but Vinod, he's so suave he can even pick up a guy! He's the quintessential Bollywood hero otherwise. He can sing, dance, charm the pants off anyone and dodge bullets. And he puts country first. Unlike Don, this is clearly a good guy with loads of style and mojo. Saif seems to relish delivering his lines in style.
2. Unpretentiously good old-fashioned cinema-as-escape: Sadly, film literacy in our country, especially a sense of pride of our cinema, is so low that not many appreciate the idea of celebrating our own. Can you imagine a Robert Rodriguez or a Quentin Tarantino film without any references? Where are our film nerds and movie geeks? More than Bond or Bourne, Agent Vinod is a lot like Robert Rodriguez's style of filmmaking — there are plenty of references, there's retro music and typography drenched in red (check out the opening credits), sentimentality, romance and machine gun action. Yet, it's all distinctly Bollywood with its musical narrative taking the story forward — the way it used to be in the Seventies.
3. Thrills: The explosive Afghanistan one is a blast of a start, the train sequence in Russia and the on-camera execution triggers off the plot, the colourful high energy Sri Lankan flashback-intercut-with-real-time-action sequence choreographed to Ilaiyaraja's 'Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu' or the almost poetic gunfire choreography in Riga, Latvia set to the 'Rabta' track from the album are evidence of the filmmaker's genius and love for the medium. The problem is only of excess. There's just too much world-touring and while the film packs in many moments of quirks, the pace considerably slows down because of the stopovers around the world and also the weak excuses to get from one place to another.
4. Smart Villains: Finally, we have a filmmaker who gives his villains equal amount of intelligence as the hero himself. Every time Vinod thinks he's smart, the villains prove him wrong. But again, the problem is of excess and overload of bad guys in the script.
5. The Score: Daniel George makes Agent Vinod feel like time travel to another era, pretty much like Johnny Gaddaar did. In fact, it's Pritam's songs that don't seem to sync with the overall nostalgia the film manufactures.
While the basics make sure that Agent Vinod is way better than run-of-the-mill Bollywood, our standards for Sriram Raghavan are sky high. This is a disappointment only because we expect a lot more from the guy who takes his time and dedicates himself completely to films. He surely deserves another chance to find the perfect balance for this promising spy film franchise.
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Director: Sriram Raghavan
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Ram Kapoor, Prem Chopra, Ravi Kissen, Gulshan Grover, Adil Hussain
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PASTA: Ultra-Large Multiple Sequence Alignment
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In this paper, we introduce a new and highly scalable algorithm, PASTA, for large-scale multiple sequence alignment estimation. PASTA uses a new technique to produce an alignment given a guide tree that enables it to be both highly scalable and very accurate. We present a study on biological and simulated data with up to 200,000 sequences, showing that PASTA produces highly accurate alignments, improving on the accuracy of the leading alignment methods on large datasets, and is able to analyze much larger datasets than the current methods. We also show that trees estimated on PASTA alignments are highly accurate – slightly better than SATé trees, but with substantial improvements relative to other methods. Finally, PASTA is very fast, highly parallelizable, and requires relatively little memory.
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- PASTA: Ultra-Large Multiple Sequence Alignment
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- Research in Computational Molecular Biology
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- 18th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2014, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 2-5, 2014, Proceedings
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- pp 177-191
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- 10.1007/978-3-319-05269-4_15
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- 978-3-319-05269-4
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 8394
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- 0302-9743
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- Springer International Publishing
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- 19. School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
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- Siavash Mirarab (20)
- Nam Nguyen (20)
- Tandy Warnow (20)
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- 20. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 2317 Speedway, Stop, D9500, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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No, New York Is Not the Unhappiest City in America
Last week the National Bureau of Economic Research published a working paper, "Unhappy Cities," that was a collaboration between Harvard professor Edward Glaeser, Vancouver School of Economics professor Joshua Gottlieb and Harvard doctoral student Oren Ziv.
National Bureau of Economic Research A map of adjusted life satisfaction, after controlling for demographics and individual income.
Researchers found that differences in a person's level of happiness depended on the city that person lives in, regardless of whether he or she has lived there his or her entire life or just relocated. The report ranked metropolitan areas in terms of happiness and, since rankings (no matter how arbitrary) are one thing reporters and readers just can't resist, "New York Is the Unhappiest American City" is the headline that emerged.
It's worth pointing out that the study doesn't say that New York City is the unhappiest city in the United States--it says its the fourth unhappiest city, only slightly unhappier than Pittsburgh.
Here's the order that actually appears in the study, along with each city's adjusted happiness rate ("adjusted" in this case means that researchers controlled for demographics).
Scranton, PA, -0.154
Erie, PA, - 0.147
South Bend, IN, -0.138
New York, NY, -0.123
Pittsburgh, PA, -0.115
If you re-rank the list using a new adjusted happiness rate that controls not just for demographics but also for income, only then does New York come out on bottom, followed by South Bend, Indiana; Erie, Pennsylvania; Detroit, Michigan and Gary, Indiana. (When researchers adjusted for neither demographics nor income, New York ranked second unhappiest after Gary.)
Income, it turns out, is actually pretty important, but we'll get to that later. First, let's talk about how happiness itself is defined in the study because its an interesting question in itself -- how does one measure happiness? In average endorphin levels? In minutes spent smiling? (In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cuuups of coffee?)
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Although sparse in images documenting the gay community, pre-Stonewall gay male photography blurs the boundaries between art, erotica, and social history.
Given the historic stigma around making, circulating, and possessing overtly homoerotic images, the visual arts have been especially important for providing a socially sanctioned arena for depicting the naked male body and suggesting homoerotic desire.
Independent films that aggressively assert homosexual identity and queer culture, the New Queer Cinema can be seen as the culmination of several developments in American cinema.
Renowned photographer, teacher, critic, editor, and curator, Minor White created some of the most interesting photographs of male nudes of the second half of the twentieth century, but did not exhibit them for fear of scandal.
The first international fashion superstar, Halston dressed and befriended some of America's most glamorous women.
An artistic movement that grew out of Dadaism and flourished in Europe shortly after World War I, Surrealism embraced the idea that art was an expression of the subconscious.
Film, stage, and television actor Paul Winfield was openly gay in his private life, but maintained public silence about his homosexuality.
On October 25, 2012, President Obama endorsed Referendum 74 in Washington, Question 1 in Maine, and Question 6 in Maryland, all of which would grant equal marriage rights to same-sex couples. He had previously indicated his opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment in Minnesota that would ban same-sex marriage.
In Washington, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that Obama for America spokesman Paul Bell released the following statement: "While the president does not weigh in on every single ballot measure in every state, the president believes in treating everyone fairly and equally, with dignity and respect. Washington's same-sex marriage law would treat all Washington couples equally, and that is why the President supports a vote to approve Referendum 74."
Similar statements were released in regard to the Maine and Maryland campaigns.
In April, the Obama campaign released a statement opposing the Minnesota amendment: ""[T]he Minnesota ballot initiative . . . would single out and discriminate against committed gay and lesbian couples--and that's why the President does not support it."
Of President Obama's announcement on October 25, Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson issued the following comment: "Today President Obama added a strong and personal 'I do' to voters still making up their minds on whether to support the freedom to marry in Maine, Maryland, and Washington this election, and Freedom to Marry applauds the president's moral leadership in standing up for families, fairness, and freedom."
He added, "As the president said in May, 'Same-sex couples should be able to get married . . . when we think about our faith, it's also the golden rule.' The right thing to do on these ballot-measures is to vote to treat others just as you would want to be treated--and let loving and committed couples share in the freedom to marry."
Meanwhile, President Obama figures prominently in a radio ad receiving saturation play in Maryland. The ad, targeted to African-American voters, may be heard below.
Finally, in an interview with MTV on October 26, 2012, President Obama predicted that the Defense of Marriage Act will be overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States.
He also said that "the evolution that's taking place in this country will get us to a place where we are going to be recognizing everybody fairly and I'm very proud of that fact that as president I've got a track record of not just talking the talk on this, but walking the walk: ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell, making sure that federal employees are treated equally when it comes to their partners, and I'm going to keep pushing as hard as I can."
An excerpt from the interview may be viewed below, courtesy of Towleroad.
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Time to get serious on immigration
Our immigration system is badly broken. Although our borders have become far more secure in recent years, too many people seeking illegal entry get through. We have no way to track whether the millions who enter the United States on valid visas each year leave when they are supposed to. And employers are burdened by a complicated system for verifying workers' immigration status.
A little more than a week ago, we met with President Barack Obama to discuss our draft framework for action on immigration. We expressed our belief that America's security and economic well-being depend on enacting sensible immigration policies.
The answer is simple: Americans overwhelmingly oppose illegal immigration and support legal immigration. Throughout our history, immigrants have contributed to making this country more vibrant and economically dynamic. Once it is clear that in 20 years our nation will not again confront the specter of another 11 million people coming here illegally, Americans will embrace more welcoming immigration policies.
Our plan has four pillars: requiring biometric Social Security cards to ensure that illegal workers cannot get jobs; fulfilling and strengthening our commitments on border security and interior enforcement; creating a process for admitting temporary workers; and implementing a tough but fair path to legalization for those already here.
Besides border security, ending illegal immigration will also require an effective employment verification system that holds employers accountable for hiring illegal workers. A tamper-proof ID system would dramatically decrease illegal immigration, experts have said, and would reduce the government revenue lost when employers and workers here illegally fail to pay taxes.
We would require all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs to obtain a high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card. Each card's unique biometric identifier would be stored only on the card; no government database would house everyone's information. The cards would not contain any private information, medical information or tracking devices. The card would be a high-tech version of the Social Security card that citizens already have.
Prospective employers would be responsible for swiping the cards through a machine to confirm a person's identity and immigration status. Employers who refused to swipe the card or who otherwise knowingly hired unauthorized workers would face stiff fines and, for repeat offenses, prison sentences.
We propose a zero-tolerance policy for gang members, smugglers, terrorists and those who commit other felonies after coming here illegally. We would bolster recent efforts to secure our borders by increasing the Border Patrol's staffing and funding for infrastructure and technology. More personnel would be deployed to the border immediately to fill gaps in apprehension capabilities.
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