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Research Matters: Thomas Miles on "Does the 'Community Prosecution' Strategy Reduce Crime? A Test of Chicago's Experience"
Research Matters is a biweekly feature in which a member of the faculty talks about some of his or her latest work and its impact and relevance to law and society.
Thomas Miles, Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics and Walter Mander Research Scholar, wrote this article for an upcoming issue of the American Law and Economics Review. In it, Miles explores the effectiveness of a new prosecution model in Chicago.
Q. What is "community prosecution?"
A. Community prosecution is this new prosecutorial approach that developed over the past 15 years. There has been a growing dissatisfaction with traditional prosecutorial approaches, which were mostly focused on obtaining convictions and sentencing people, and doing that in a way where it was like a mass production. Traditionally, prosecutors were located in an office, usually adjacent to the courthouse, and they faced a huge volume of cases in which to try to obtain convictions and the longest sentences possible. And there was a feeling that this may not necessarily be the best approach to crime control.
A key element of community prosecution was to take prosecutors out of that office next to the courthouse, to physically relocate them into the community. This entailed opening up a new prosecutor's office that's literally a storefront in a neighborhood. The work of prosecutors changed, too. They were liberated from mass-processing all those cases, all the time, and they went out and developed relationships with people in the community. They talked to them and learned, what are their concerns with crime control in the neighborhood? Then, they used that information to alter which prosecutions they bring, how they bring them, and importantly, to develop solutions that did not necessarily involve prosecutions.
Many jurisdictions have adopted community prosecution to varying degrees. But it's never been tested to see whether it actually reduces crime. Through my affiliation with the University of Chicago Crime Lab, I learned about the experience with community prosecution here in Chicago, and I decided to study it. In Cook County, in the late 1990s, the state's attorney adopted community prosecution in certain neighborhoods, but not others, because of budgetary concerns. Then, in 2007, there was a budget crisis across the county, and the prosecutor's office had to cut back, and one of the things they decided to cut was the community prosecutions program. So the whole effort ceased. And then, when a new state's attorney was elected, she promised to reinstate them, which she did beginning in 2009. So it's a great experiment. Because it's really two experiments; one, the staggered process of opening them, then turning it all off and shutting it down for two years, and then a staggered process over three years of turning them back on again.
Q. What did you find?
A. There were reductions in certain categories of violent crime and certain categories of property crime, but not in other categories. What was also really interesting is that these effects of crime reduction accrued almost immediately. And that suggests that there's something about the mechanism which generates immediate benefits.
Q. So what categories of crime were reduced?
A. The ones that were reduced were aggravated assault and burglary, but then the category that didn't seem to have any impact at all was larceny.
Q. Any theories as to why aggravated assault and burglary declined?
A. I didn't know it at the time, but the state's attorney's office subsequently told me that it made perfect sense that burglary declined, because that was one of the offenses they prioritized. But that doesn't explain the results for aggravated assault. What may have affected that is one of the things community prosecutors do, which is try to target the people in the neighborhood committing a lot of crimes. Community groups, as well as a large body of criminology literature, suggest that there is a small number of people responsible for many of the crimes in each neighborhood. Community prosecutors focused on people who had been arrested many times, even if they've been arrested many times for many small things. In a traditional prosecution model, those arrestees may not typically be a high priority for prosecution, but they might also be responsible for much disorder in a community. Aggravated assault might be one of those.
Q. Why are the benefits almost immediate?
A. My hunch is that it has something to do with the prosecutors getting superior information from the community groups about what the sources of crime are in the community, and that information can be used immediately. They can immediately prioritize where to devote their efforts, whether it is deploying non-prosecutorial solutions or bringing a different type of prosecution.
Q. Do you make a recommendation about whether community prosecution should be used?
A. Community prosecution is very entrepreneurial. That makes it hard to be confident that the benefits that I observed here in Cook County would be replicated everywhere else. It also suggests that who is picked to be a community prosecutor is quite important, because they need a unique set of skills. Not only do they need to good courtroom lawyers, good prosecutors, and good investigators, which are the kinds of skills we usually associate with prosecution, but they also have to have these interpersonal skills, and that kind of self-initiative to go out and develop these relationships, to literally open a storefront. Those are a different set of skills, and it's not clear that can be readily replicated. So the conclusion I come to is that, at least as it operated in Cook County, it generated benefits and the benefits were cost-justified, that is the benefits of the program were greater than the cost of running it. But we need to learn more about the mechanisms that produced the crime declines before we know whether it can be replicated elsewhere.
Q. Why do you find this compelling and worthy of research?
A. I teach criminal law, and I often conduct empirical studies of the criminal justice system. In teaching criminal law to first-year law students, prosecutorial discretion – especially its breadth – is a central theme. Yet, empiricists who study the criminal justice system have infrequently studied prosecutors. Instead, they have tended to study other actors in the criminal justice system, such as judges (asking why judges mete out stern sentences to some defendants and leniency to others, for instance) and defendants (asking about the determinants of recidivism, for example). Prosecutors figure centrally in law students' study of criminal law, but from a social science perspective, we know relatively little about them. When my affiliation with the Crime Lab put me into contact with community prosecutors and I learned about Cook County's experience with it, I leapt at the chance to study community prosecution. I saw it as a first step in better understanding how prosecutors work and what the effects of their decisions are.


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If Orlando around?
I tried contacting him through his website and work # last week and haven't heard back. Maybe he is on vacation or traveling?
I got no replies to my emails from 2 weeks ago ...
Hope he's ok
I don't think the guy ever comes to this site, I asked him a question about Rimless tanks on this forum and I'm still waiting on an answer from 10-07-2011.
Kinda hard to take him & his company seriously.
Strange you hear all these great report of good service though
He is a sponsor in TPT, go directly to GLA's site with questions.
They have a phone number with calling hours, never had a problem getting him on the phone.
I've seen another thread similar to this in regards of contacting GLA with questions where Orlando himself replied and did say that contacting him directly through his website or possibly forum (Aquatic Plant Enthusiasts) would be the best means for him to answer your questions.
There are so many forums out there for planted tanks, I'd figure it would be difficult to keep up on making the rounds to answer questions, especially running your own business & forum.
Being a business owner is not an easy task. He use to be quite active on this site but since 2012, I haven't seen him post at all. I know he's now got his own plant nursery so the man may just be much more busier now than before.
I'd give him a call directly or as suggested, shoot him an email via his website.
While I do understand people get busy, the whole point of having a sponsor's forum it to be available to potential and existing customers. If it get's down to only being able to contact via his website, then what's the point of this forum?
Without actual involvement with the membership, Orlando or any Site Sponsor is just another web shop. I have and am still willing to buy and sometimes pay a bit more from a sponsor when the sponsor is an active part of this community.
Site Sponsorship benefits the ownership, involvement in the community here benefits the membership. Loyalty does have it's price.
I can't answer for the guy. I'm just saying how hectic things can get from first hand accounts of having my own business now.
There's never an excuse when it comes to customer service so I totally understand your point of view Frank.
I'm a firm believer in stellar customer service.
I definitely see where you are coming from as far as what your role should be when you are part of TPT community. For how things are trending these days, and how marketing has changed - social media has become a full time job and has helped a lot of companies in their marketing. As GLA continues to grow, they might consider a full time social media employee to keep on on Facebook, TPT, APE, Barr Report, APC, etc. Transition is tough, but good and GLA has always been great with customer service in my opinion and they may just be spread a little thin currently.
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I'm five weeks pregnant today, and I'm trying to stop worrying about all the things that could go wrong this early and start enjoying things and thinking ahead to next steps.
I've been a natural child-birth advocate since high school when I used to watch House of Babies on television (oh, how I miss that show), and my dream has always been to have an unmedicated water birth in a free-standing birth center with a midwife and doula. In recent years, especially given the differing natural birth climates in various states (and the fact that my husband and I move fairly often due to his job), I've become more and more open to birthing at home and I'm working to help my husband be more comfortable with at well in case a birth center is not an option for us.
My questions for those who have been there, done that:
How soon is too soon to choose a childbirth education program, and start preparing?
I know a bit about Bradley and a bit more about Hynobabies, and since learning about Hypnobabies a few years ago, it just seems right. But my concerns, especially with in-person group classes, is not only my DH having to attend all the classes with me (he has a job that requires a lot of travel six months out of the year, and our child is due during that timeframe) but also with the fact that some of the programs (like Hynobabies) are only six weeks long. I'm worried about pushing off preparing for birth until the last couple months of pregnancy, especially if I want to try using hypnosis for birth. I know that a home study course is an option for Hypnobabies, if not Bradley, but I worry that this would be more beneficial for me than for DH (who I think is a bit skeptical about the whole thing, and would appreciate being in a group setting to learn about it).
Did you find that you had plenty of time to feel prepared by starting a six weeks course prior to your baby being born? Did you wish you'd started preparing earlier?
If your or your partner's schedule was fairly busy, did you find that this conflicted with your ability to prepare for childbirth in a class/group setting? If you decided on a home study course, were you really able to devote time to studying like you should, or do you feel that a class would have been more effective at keeping you on track?
In some ways I'm learning toward the home study Hypnobabies course, if only for the fact that I could buy the program and start preparing far earlier than I might be able to through a class.
When do instructors recommend you prepare for birth via Bradley or Hypnobabies? Is it counterproductive to start preparing earlier than recommended?
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Mostly just trusting our gut and doing things our way.
Bradley is a 12 week course and we started ours very close to 12 weeks prior to term. That worked out fine when we went to those with our first. Some instructors offer early pregnancy classes too that address early choices and experiences like morning sickness and tests and so on. You should check who is offering what in your area and go by the time frame the educator recommends, since she's tailored her course to speak to you in a certain stage of your pregnancy and all your fellow students (if in a class) will be at a similar stage. But it's never too soon to start learning everything you can and mentally and physically preparing with books, internet, and planning. I'm afraid I'd get impatient in the last weeks of pregnancy if the classes were over and done with, and since gestation very often lasts over 40 weeks and friends, family, and strangers start saying "any time now" and "no baby yet?" anyway, impatience is the enemy.
But if you are ready to start, go for it, but I also would say don't lock yourself in to one program this early. I would research them all some more before deciding to go with one for sure.
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If you're taking Hypnobabies we recommend that you start when you're between 25-30 weeks (I'm an instructor and also taking the program myself for my 1st baby in June!) SO excited! I love the program and have attended amazing Hypnobabies births as a doula and regularly hear my students inspiring birth stories.
I would think that with any other form of childbirth education you could take it as early or as late into your pregnancy as you prefer. With Hypnobabies there are a few factors that you need to consider when choosing when to start. Along with the 6 week in person course (or 5 week home study) you need to be committed to 45min of daily hypnosis practice in order to reap the benefits of the program. For some women taking the program early enables them to have LOTS of practice time... for others 3-6 months of daily practice is too much to commit to so they take it closer to the 25-30week mark so they have enough time to complete the program AND have enough time to practice before baby arrives. I'm 30 weeks and just completed the 6 week course, I took it a bit earlier than recommended but I'm 100% committed to all the practice, I KNOW how important it is! :-) Any earlier and I would have had trouble committing to all the practice.
You can take the in-person course with or without your hubby. I've had mama's take the course on their own if their partners were out of town or if they are a single mom. Or you can do the home study. Advantages and disadvantages to both options.
Hope that helps!
P.S. Hypnobabies is a complete and very comprehensive childbirth education program so you learn everything you would in another CBE class plus the powerful self-hypnosis and medical grade hypno-anesthesia for an easier, more comfortable birth! (we don't promise pain-free!)
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I would really like to know. How did government get bigger under Obama. Please do tell me.
This is one of the main talking points for the anti Obama so anyone please tell me.
In a nut shell, my understanding is that "big government" is a term associated with the concept of wealth re-distribution, something that conservatives (like me) don't think fondly of. Something that President Obama has been a fan off, as long as it isn't his wealth, (another double standard form the elite) I could have misunderstood, and if so, please someone correct me.
Now, I don't think fondly if it because I don't want what money I have to bust my ass for go to someone that doesn't work at all, or contribute to this nation, and worse live more comfortable than me
edit here, I contradicted myself embarrassingly enough, I really don't care that others live more comfortable than me, It is the fact that their false sense of entitlement, clouds whatever judgement they expound on others thus making this society a less than savory place to live in.....all.....
, while they are not working.
But, believe it or not, more important to me, I don't want anyone's help. My family and I will make it on our own with out the assistance of anyone other than my GOD. We do this because we make a concerted effort to live within our means, and are proud of what we have accomplished and are appreciative beyond words for what we have been provided. If I need something and don't have the money for it, I sell something that has been provided to me, to make the expense affordable. I am not so attached to my tangible items that I will not part with them to make ends meet. So now that I spouted off about my personal opinion on this stuff bring on the flame throwers......
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Tons of Glocks, some 1911s. Best I can do.
This is a discussion on Tell me what you've seen on TV/movies within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; What do they carry in CSI Miami, Law and Order, and other shows. Hard to identify................
What do they carry in CSI Miami, Law and Order, and other shows. Hard to identify.............
Tons of Glocks, some 1911s. Best I can do.
I believe Olivia on L&O carries a Glock? Hmmmmm need to watch closer.
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CSI Miami looks like SIGs
CSI has become skilled in aiming a glock at a suspect and then "cocking" the external "hammer." They jump back and forth between a variety of weapons to show the dramatic effect of hammers and silver ejection ports while keeping the glock theme.
From my what I have seen...
Nice sunglasses, a heavy attitude, a bag of B.S., and some kind of gun...
I think I've seen more Glocks than anything else...OMO
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NCIS they carry sig p226's i believe. gotta look a little closer. although in many episodes agent gibbs uses some form of long gun such as an M40 snipers rifle or a ruger mini14
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I think that I saw a SIG, but I agree with all the switching back and forth between weapons for dramatic effect. I just about can't watch all these type of shows.
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Miggy hit it on the head, rubber guns. Who has time to watch these shows anyway. Are you a bunch of old guys or something???
Don't watch these things but seem to recall in Miami Vice - the old series, Crocket sported consistently a nice 1911.
Even further back I tried to remember what Cagney and Lacey used ... snubs they were but - not sure what.
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Chris, Don Johnson carried a Super .38/1911 in Nash Bridges.
Miami Vice guns;
In the pilot episode, Don Johnson carried a Browning BDA in .45 Auto.
In seasons 1 & 2, he carried a Dornaus & Dixon Bren Ten (with a custom a .45 barrel).
In seasons 3 and 4, Sonny switches to a Smith & Wesson 645.
In season 5, a Smith & Wesson 4506.
He carried a .45 Detonics Combatmaster in an ankle holster.
Rico Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) had a Smith & Wesson Model 38 Chief's Special, and (or) Model 36 or 37. He also carried a chopped Ithaca M37.
In the first season, he carried a chopped double.
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Dan - thx for the clarification - my memory gets rusty!!
Mind you - I doubt I could have quoted all your excellent info - dang man - you musta watched all that very accurately.
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on "L&O", dt. greene uses a G26, dt. briscoe used a s&w snubbie, and i think dt. curtis used a glock. on "burn notice", the main character uses a sig 220; i know, because he praised the gun in one episode. there are also a variety of glocks, 1911s, shotguns , and sniper rifles used per episode.


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Asteroid Passing Way Too Close To Earth Today
Asteroid 2012 DA 14 will uncomfortably zip by our planet and miss it by a mere 17,200 miles (27,700 km) above the eastern Indian Ocean near Sumatra..
That is way closer than our communications and weather satellites parked in geosynchronous orbits 22,000 miles above our planet.
The asteroid is 45 meters across (150 feet) but if the calculations of astronomers are off and it struck it would be a real bad day for the peeps on that side of our planet.
Scientists calculate if 2012 DA 14 made impact it would have the explosive power of a few megatons of TNT and cause localized damage similar to the 1908 Tunguska Event.
That was an airburst explosion which flattened about 750 square miles (1,200 square kilometers) of a thankfully remote Siberian forested region in what is now northern Russia.
NASA and other international space agencies are tracking the space rock in order to calculate its precise orbit and add it to the 9500 asteroids it is tracking with diameters of half a mile (one km).
And speaking of calculations, hope the astronomers were right .
TransGriot Update: If you have a good pair of binoculars and live in Asia, Australia and eastern Europe, you'll be able to see 2012 DA 14.
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4 Bedroom BRAND NEW townhouse on Moonstone Drive, North ORANGE. 5 min walk to North Orange Shopping Center and 3 min driving to CSU. I have one medium size bedroom available for easy going, clean and tidy, and non-smoker housemates. This free standing townhouse has double garage, two bathrooms, 3rd toilet, ducted A/C, security alarm & camera, and backyard. It is a two storey house with all 4 bedrooms upstairs which are nicely spread out. Downstairs you will find two living areas, kitchen, laundry and a 3rd toilet. Double garage with internal access. House is partially furnished with washing machine, dishwasher, 2 x fridges, microwave, toaster, oven and other kitchen appliances. Your bedroom is NOT furnished. The room is available from Saturday 08/07/2017. Weekly rent is $170 and bond $600 required. Weekly rent $170 includes ALL utility bills (electricity, gas, water, internet, cleaner, gardening). - Double Garage - Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning - Security alarm & camera - 3rd toilet on ground floor - Two storey brand new townhouse - 3rd car space near the house - Built In Wardrobe in all bedrooms - WIFI internet access with UNLIMITED data download - Cleaner comes in every two weeks or so - Gardener comes in for mowing when necessary ** Room is available to move in from Saturday 08/07/2017 ** Room is available for viewing/inspection from Thursday 15/06/2017 ** Message me to organise date and time for house inspection.
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The National Anthem of Belarus
From the entry, National Anthem, in the Historical Dictionary of Belarus (Zaprudnik, 1998; p. 161):
"The first proper anthem of the republic, My--bielarusy ("We the Belarusans"), in which praise for the Communist Party was sung, was introduced in 1955."
"Since the proclamation of independence in 1991, the Republic of Belarus has kept the melody of this latter anthem, but not the lyrics. In April 1995, the parliamentary education and culture committee recommended for the anthem the lyrics of "Mahutny Bozha" ("O God Almighty") by Natalla Arsiennieva that had been put to music by composer Mikola Revienski and is widely sung in Belarusan churchs and at various ceremonies in the West. However, there was no follow-up to that proposal. As of 1997, the search for lyrics, and possibly new music, was still under way."
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The Middletown Heritage Festival Parade kicks off the Festival, with Randy Sowers as the Grand Marshal for our 29th annual parade. The Frederick County Honor Guard leads the parade down Main Street to Elm Street. With its dance groups, floats, marching bands and a variety of community organizations, the parade is always a highlight of the day.
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Shell has spent $4.5bn buying its way into the Arctic, and the moment of truth has arrived. Right now, two giant drilling vessels are preparing to exploit melting sea ice to drill for more of the oil that is warming our planet in the first place. The only thing that can stop them is people power, and we have over 800,000 names on our Arctic scroll ready to join us in the fight to Save the Arctic. Our politicians are not listening - they care more about the CEOs of fossil fuel companies than they do about us.
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This is just the start, but with a growing global movement – people like you and me - drawing a line in the ice and saying: you come no further: we can get Shell out of the Arctic.
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From day one in the famous "war against terror" that was proclaimed by draft dodgers Dick Cheney and George Bush, the issue as to who is a "legitimate"enemy combat and who is not a legitimate one has been at the center of American law dealing with war. During World War II, the governments of England and the US urged Nazi leaders not to murder those who were opposing their conquest by Germany. It was common for the German army to execute a 100 civilians if a single German soldier was killed by the Resistance. Even children were thrown into jail for opposing enemy troops in their land. Of course, during the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001,hundreds of people were thrown into jail on grounds that someone had denounced them as an enemy soldier.
Twelve years later most of those denounced as Islamic militants have not only NOT been charged, but have not even been tried as to whether or not they were guilty of crimes during the invasion. Afghan President Karzai wants the British to turn over captured militants, but they hesitate since there are fears any prisoner turned over will be tortured, if not killed.
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While Terry Finley is flying high with his West Point Thoroughbreds having interests in five horses entered in the Oct. 26-27 Breeders' Cup World Championships, the owner and his partners are lying low with regard to one of their former trainers.
Finley, who formed West Point Thoroughbreds in 1991, said the recent suspension of trainer Patrick Biancone has caused a few awkward moments for him and his partners in Juvenile Fillies (gr. I) entrant Irish Smoke.
Biancone, who just a couple of weeks before the Breeders' Cup accepted a one-year suspension from Kentucky stewards for possession of the prohibited substance cobra venom, transferred Irish Smoke and some other horses to his assistant, Francois Parisel.
Finley said the situation has been "uncomfortable."
"For everyone on the team, it's a tough spot," he said. "We are all trying to figure out what to say. You want to support Patrick, and we don't want to come off like we are at odds with anyone. We have kind of laid low and are kind of letting everything play out."
Finley said keeping the winner of the Spinaway Stakes (gr. I) with Parisel makes sense for now.
"We just didn't think it was fair, especially to the partners, to make a change before the Breeders' Cup." he said. "It's the same system. It's the same feed. It's the same groom.
"We just thought that was the prudent thing," he continued. "They handed down the penalty. We accepted it, and we will move on. You shrug your shoulders and say, 'That's the way it is. It's OK.' Once we get past the Breeders' Cup, we will figure it all out."
Biancone was one of six trainers regularly employed by West Point Thoroughbreds, including three with Breeders' Cup horses: Craig Dollase with Awesome Gem in the Classic – Powered by Dodge (gr. I); Kiaran McLaughlin with Lear's Princess in the Emirates Airlines Distaff (gr. I); and Richard Violette, Jr. with Dream Rush and High Finance in the Filly & Mare Sprint and Dirt Mile, respectively.
Lewis Lakin has a listed ownership interest with West Point in Irish Smoke, and with John Sikura and West Point in Dream Rush. West Point Thoroughbreds has about 430 investor-partners under its umbrella, and Finley said excitement is building for those with Breeders' Cup horses.
"I have done a lot of work getting the tickets and accommodations for the partners," he said Oct. 25. "So the excitement level and the anticipation for the weekend is really starting to hit. Over the next 48 hours, it's going to get more and more exciting.
"The partners are the ones that write the checks out. It might sound corny, but I am proud to represent them here, and in the paddock, and if we get lucky, in the winner's circle."
West Point has had two other starters in the Breeders' Cup -- Ethan Man finished 10th in the 2003 Sprint while Yolanda B. Too was 12th in the 2005 Distaff.
But Finley said he is hoping for bigger things in this year's rendition of the Breeders' Cup, and is proud of West Point's stature against bigger ownership outfits.
"We are very proud of the record of our horses, they have performed well from the beginning of the summer on," he said. "We are just proud to be even be talked about in that vein. We know the big dance is on Friday and Saturday, and we will let that work its way out. It's just an honor to be here and field a question like that."
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AMID all the headlines and the hand wringing over BHP Billiton's write-downs last week, perhaps the biggest impact from the affair is that Marius Kloppers may have started a revolution by directly linking his pay to performance and to shareholder returns.
As ludicrous as that sounds, Kloppers' decision stands starkly at odds with the trend in corporate ranks during the past decade and a half when the bonus has become more important than salary and where the opaque calculations and hurdles have become a source of intense irritation to shareholders and the broader community.
The BHP chief and his petroleum head, Mike Yeager, aren't the first pair this year to voluntarily relinquish their rights to a bonus.
That distinction goes to Rio Tinto's Tom Albanese and Guy Elliott, who were attempting to atone for their 2007 folly when they stumped up $US38 billion for Alcan, which to this day remains a drag on the mining giant, as evidenced by last night's results.
For Kloppers, his decision to waive his bonus could cost him $4.7 million based on his pay last year, leaving him to get by on a $2.5 million salary.
Snide remarks aside, his pay will be a mere fraction of the amount earned by legions of even middle-ranking bankers and financiers who again this year have managed to create havoc within the global financial system, leaving millions unemployed, all the while demanding obscene wealth in the form of bonuses.
It is worth noting that, despite the $3.8 billion in write-downs on its US shale gas territories, BHP is likely to deliver an annual profit within a whisker of $US17 billion - 22 per cent less than last year but a formidable result on any calculation.
Executive bonuses have become akin to encores at a concert. No matter how bad the performance, it has become an obligatory part of the repertoire, where the artist demands and expects the adulation of the crowd. The annual bonus - split between short-term and long-term - these days makes up the bulk of a chief executive's pay, often accounting for more than two-thirds of annual salary. In itself, that tends to make a mockery of the term. A bonus should be an addition, a reward for a job well done.
While there are legitimate arguments that it is in the interests of shareholders that the bulk of executive pay should be ''at risk'' rather than a guaranteed salary, in reality it has just never worked that way. With the bulk of annual salary as a bonus, executives tend to fight tooth and nail to ensure it is awarded despite performance and regularly in the face of abject failure.
In 2011, executive remuneration in the top 50 ASX-listed companies rose 11.8 per cent during a year when the Australian stockmarket fell 15 per cent. Just how those numbers are reconciled is a complete mystery. But the general theme during market downturns is that the hurdles employed to calculate bonuses encompass far broader parameters than simply stockmarket performance. That's fine. Except that last year there was a great deal of wailing from the executive ranks that the hurdles, particularly on their long-term bonuses which are usually delivered in shares, needed adjusting. Was it the fault of QR National boss Lance Hockridge that it rained so much? What about Richard Goyder at Wesfarmers? His $6.7 million long-term bonus was at risk simply because the stockmarket had slumped.
From an executive point of view, the brilliance of the bonus system is its sheer complexity. Each company employs different systems, imposes different hurdles and arbitrarily alters them when conditions require. Even if you could find the formula, you'd need a boffin with a doctorate in quantitative theory to guide you through the maze.
Occasionally, those in the executive rank don the hair shirt and parade themselves before the public with sombre announcements of pay freezes. We've seen this kind of theatre in the banking sector. ANZ recently announced one. So did Commonwealth Bank.
A few years back, former CBA boss Ralph Norris declared a pay freeze as global finance ground to a halt. Somehow, though, his pay actually doubled. The $8.66 million he earned in 2008 swelled to $16.15 million in 2010.
How? Well the ''freeze'' only applied to the base salary, a relatively small part of the pay-packet, and not the bonuses. It is understood the latest executive pay freeze at the CBA involves more of the same.
The boom in executive salaries of the past decade largely has been an Anglo phenomenon, mainly confined to North America, Britain and Australia as executives in each blamed salary escalation in the others for the salary inflation. It was all to do with market forces.
But the backlash - community and legal - in each of those jurisdictions appears at last to be having an effect. In Australia, the two strikes and you're out rule - where a board is dumped if more than 25 per cent of shareholders vote against the executive remuneration package two years running - is now entering its second year.
That has helped focus the minds of directors on their responsibilities, although a surprisingly large number of companies last year incurred the wrath of shareholders on the issue.
This week, financial services giant AMP revealed that chief executive Craig Dunn would miss a $3.2 million long-term share bonus as he had failed to meet a hurdle comparing long-term shareholder returns for AMP to a bunch of other companies. The simple fact is that AMP's share price has sunk from $6 to $4 in the past two years.
That's what Kloppers and his counterpart at Rio have done - kept it simple. Shareholders have suffered, therefore, no bonus.


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Sure do. A recent field study in Afganistan revealed 92% of Afghani's have no freakin clue what happened on 9/11 and could not recognize photos of the event. A lot of the Afghan police and even the translators that work with the military have no idea what 9/11 was. A bunch of village elders were showed pictures of New York City and 9/11 and they thought it was Americans attacking Kabul.
Apparently they've never seen Kabul.
Watch the whole thing:
Video: What Does 9/11 Mean to People in Afghanistan? | Watch PBS NewsHour Online | PBS Video


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Location: Food Science ResearchTitle: Susceptibility of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) peel proteins to digestive enzymes Author
|Maloney, Katherine
|Truong, Van-den
|Allen, Jonathan
Submitted to: Food Science and Nutrition
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/22/2014
Publication Date: 7/1/2014
Publication URL: http://handle.nal.usda.gov/10113/60301
Citation: Maloney, K.P., Truong, V., Allen, J.C. 2014. Susceptibility of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) peel proteins to digestive enzymes. Food Science and Nutrition. 2(4):351–360. doi: 10.1002/fsn3.110. Interpretive Summary: Sweetpotato proteins have inhibitory effects on digestive enzymes such as trypsin and amylase. These inhibitors have shown to respectively possess antioxidant capacity and anti-diabetic activities. This study aimed to determine if these properties are retained after digestion in order to better understand how sweetpotato proteins could have those beneficial effects in the body. The isolated proteins were incubated with gastric enzymes and the protein breakdown was characterized. The results show that trypsin inhibitory activity remained after simulated gastric digestion. However, amylase inhibitory activity was not present in any of the protein isolates after digestion indicating that amylase inhibition was not the mechanism associated with the low glycemic response in consuming sweetpotatoes. Further study is required to provide a better understanding on the anti-diabetic activity of sweetpotato proteins.
Technical Abstract: Sweet potato proteins have been shown to possess antioxidant and antidiabetic properties in vivo. The ability of a protein to exhibit systemic effects is somewhat unusual as proteins are typically susceptible to digestive enzymes. This study was undertaken to better understand how digestive enzymes affect sweet potato proteins. Two fractions of industrially processed sweet potato peel, containing 6.8% and 8.5% protein and 80.5% and 83.3% carbohydrate, were used as a source of protein. Sweet potato proteins were incubated with pepsin, trypsin, and chymotrypsin and protein breakdown was visualized with SDS-PAGE. After pepsin digestion, samples were assayed for amylase inhibitory activity. Sporamin, the major storage protein in sweet potatoes, which functions as a trypsin inhibitor as well, exhibited resistance to pepsin, trypsin, and chymotrypsin. Sporamin from blanched peel of orange sweet potatoes was less resistant to pepsin digestion than sporamin from outer peel and from extract of the white-skinned Caiapo sweet potato. Trypsin inhibitory activity remained after simulated gastric digestion, with the Caiapo potato protein and peel samples exhibiting higher inhibitory activity compared to the blanched peel sample. Amylase and chymotrypsin inhibitory activity was not present in any of the samples after digestion.


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The Blue Boar Inn
My grandmother owned the Blue Boar Inn. Her name was Annie Dady. I believe she had the pub before the war and up until about 1960. Next door was Major Powell's racing stable and as a young lad I met Frankie Durr when he had breakfast at the Blue Boar. I can still remember the barn at the back and the old wash room. I am ...Read full memory
Blue Boer Inn
Hi, I was an apprentice with Major Powell in the 50s, lremember going to the Blue Boar a few times, I only have a faint memory of the landlady mai ly that sbe was a tall dark haired lady, I lived 11 Lottage Rd with Mrs Plant whoose daughter Sheelagh now lives in Australia. I try to visit Aldbourne every year my wife comes ...Read full memory