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By Donald M. Petersen Jr., BS, HCD(hc), FICC(h), Publisher
For most people, there's not much debate that patients have a right to information about the risks and costs of medical care. Or to a second opinion. Or to be treated with courtesy and respect. Or to be treated in a timely fashion.
But for the doctors in the American Medical Association, there's plenty of debate.
So much so that AMA delegates meeting in Honolulu last week refused to pass a patients' bill of rights, proposed by their own leadership. Even a softened version -- which replaced references to patients' "rights" with language that suggested patients "should have access" to essential health care -- didn't cut the tape.
The doctors apparently were frightened by the legal implications of admitting that patients have rights. And they might be a bit unhappy at being told, as the rejected bill of rights did, that they should disclose potential conflicts of interest, such as ownership of medical labs.
But the proposal contains other rights about which there should be no debate, among them patients' rights to have answers to all their questions, including those about costs benefits and risks of treatment; to copies of health records; and to protected communications with doctors.
What is ironic is the doctors' inability to approve even a bill of rights that consumer groups considered to be mere "lip service," "mush" and "platitudes."
What also is ironic is that this action comes as the delegates were attempting to polish the profession's public image.
That image was tarnished when Sun-Times reporters Howard Wolinsky and Tom Brune disclosed questionable financial dealings by some top AMA executives.
While the delegates did endorse AMA board actions to reform the organization's management, the board ought to go further and accept the recommendations from the group's Illinois delegates to hire outside management consultants to reorganize the AMA.
From a tax-exempt organization that represents a profession, nothing less should be expected.
The above article demonstrates three very important issues facing the chiropractic profession:
The focus on patient benefits provides the chiropractic profession with an opportunity we have never had (and may never have again). Chiropractic, the profession that provides the greatest amount of personal satisfaction to the patient, is in a position to not only answer the demand of the consumer, but to set the pace in terms of patient (consumer) responsiveness.
Our national and state associations need to re-examine their role. They need to respond to the public outcry for patient's rights and responsible health care in a manner that will promote chiropractic as a profession of concerned health visionaries, not as second class doctors competing with superior medicine.
If you are ready to be accountable, if you are prepared to go the extra mile for your patients, then chiropractic can now set the pace.
Let your state and national association know that chiropractic is prepared to be the leader in the ever-growing patient rights movement.
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Is it a good/acceptable idea to mix and match among different brands of speakers; i.e. in-wall front speaker from SpeakerCraft and center piece from Infiniti, and so on?
I do not believe so.
It has been a couple of years since I have researched this topic. I do not know why anything would change. They call it Timber Matching, when you have speakers all from the same manufacter.
You have to remember that speaker manufacturers tune and test their speakers to work perfectly together. So for the best results you should go with the same brand.
With that said I deviated from that a little. My front and middle speakers are Infinity. I highly recommend them. My sub is MTX. That is the only speaker I have that is not Infinity. I did that becuase I felt MTX was a better bass manufacturer. Infinity is known for crisp and clear sounding speakers. To me that is important when getting your front speakers. The sub however is for one thing-The boom!!! My MTX gives me that.
Hope this helps.
In a word.
You should most definitely have matched speakers throughout for a better quality sound. Timbre matching is but one reason.
You can mix and match brands, but still need to match the speaker "specs"... but by using different brands, it makes it harder as the manufacturers has doen that work...
My 2 cents....
If you are a discerning audio enthusiest or like to have the best that you can. You will find it extremely difficult to find a well matching set of various brands where you will not hear the difference. With the exception of the sub.
But....for the average movie goer who is not really concerned with having absolutely perfect sound. You may be quite happy with mixing brands.
Many people I have helped, have mixed brands, and done so becuase they looked into the costs involved with getting all the same (for certain speaker brands) and even after listening to them decided that they were happy with the multi-brands that they had.
What I would suggest is see if you can gather up or borrow a few speakers, maybe from other family or friends. Set up the different speakers together, and give it a listen. Also, if you have the availability of a friend or family member with all the same brand of similar quality to what you would be looking at, go over and give theirs a listen. Compare. I would not suggest going to a store to hear a setup, as they usually have their rooms in such a way which the average person would not, improving the sound of their systems.
Hope that helps somewhat.
Am I safe if I keep to the same brand-- or do I have to match further within that brand-- say to the same series? Thanks.:)
How much are you spending and what type of environmental design are you putting in? My suspicion is that you won't hear any noticeable difference for the general mid to low end product lines... not to then non-audiophiles anyways...
You're probably good with the same brand....
Thanks. I'm sure not doing top end. I'm buying the rear and front speakers (Boston Acoustics) from the installer who's wiring them through the walls. But thought I could save some money by buying the center and subwoofer myself.
RE:same brand, different speakers
I know a lot of people who have some really nice front L+R speakers which are very different from the remaining surround speakers (in brand too), they do this because they like to listen to a lot of music in 2 channel mode.
I would lean towards the previous response....low to mid end, you could probably mix and match to what suits you and you would likely be happy. Hi end...basically, if you're gonna spend the money..match them. And don't think that by "mix and match" I mean just completely random.
I wish there was a simple method of being able to tell which speakers might sound ok together, but there are just so many things in a speaker which affects the sound.
At the very least......
L+R fronts should be a matching pair.
Surrounds should be matching pairs.
Subwoofer really does not matter as long as you can adjust the levels. Bigger, the better.
Center speaker, try to keep the speaker spec's similar to the L+R fronts. Try to keep the woofer at 6.5" or less....this speaker will be playing mostly vocals, a larger diameter speaker will have a harder time moving fast enough and accuratly enough to reproduce vocals....to put it simply.
Even within the same brand you can find very different sounding speakers, but you may have a better time finding spec's that are at least similar....don't forget to look at speaker materials, what the box is made of, ported or sealed, as well as the numerical spec's.
One other thing to note is that if you are music person, who loves to listen to nice clear music...then you may notice a difference in sounds between the speakers when you listen to music in "all channel" mode or DVD-audio. But again...that is really up to personal judgement as to whether or not you would really care about that.
I know that is kinda a vague answer, but I hope it helps a bit.
In short, using old with new even within the same brand isn't necessarily a great idea. Using speaker pairs from various series within the same brand isn't a great idea because you will be overpowering or under powering atleast one of the pairs. Hope all that mess helps lol.
Pay close attention to efficiency ratings! Sure, it's possible to use the ITG to balance at a particular level, but a more efficient speaker will gain more SPL as output from the amp increases than will one with less efficiency--you really want to match efficiency more than spectral balance (timbre matching) when choosing speakers, even from the same manufacturer. For me, it was easy with the Klipsch products, I simply chose the FC speaker that had the same drivers as the others, thereby ensuring as close a timbral match as possible. Klipsch speakers are known for high efficiency and the FC matched the rest of the speakers within 1 dB, so I was good to go.
Bottom line, check out the offerings from Infinity, get one that is as closely rated for efficiency and frequency response as possible to your current speakers, and count on the processor to smooth out the rough edges.
My 5.1 stereo/DPL music only setup has a set of handmade solid walnut cabinets, each housing a SpeakerLab 15" woofer, 2 SpeakerLab 5 1/4" midrange cone speakers, 3 SpeakerLab 1" silk soft dome tweeters and 1 SpeakerLab horn tweeter. I ran them in phantom center mode until I found a compatable center channel (an Acoustic Research model) and I use Bose 101's for the 2 rear surrounds. This is adequate for my purposes with this Denon receiver--when I'm jammin' out, I run it in stereo only and the rest of the time it's just the sound processor for the TV. It's a mismatched set, but the sound quality requirements aren't as critical as they are in the rooms in which my digital equipment is installed, so we're OK for now (have a set of Bose 901's I'll use as rear-surrounds soon as I switch to a digital processor in that room).
So, like others have said, it depends on how critical your listening skills are--it's a skill that develops over time when you've had adequate exposure to high end systems.......experiment, that's the key, and get a Radio Shack SLM and you'll have much better luck setting up your surround processor's settings.
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I enjoyed your references to greeks and trojans. Fortunately we are not on
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Currently 29 weeks pregnant....many of my friends love, love, love to tell DH and I just how tired, grumpy, no social life, fed up, lost etc we'll be once our baby arrives (cheerful I know!). So I'm looking for some positive inspiration of why we all do this....
So, just to balance it out a bit, tell me about all the reasons why it's worth it... what are the best thing, the most positive things about having a baby and watching them grow.
& another one! The little snuffly noises she makes when have a good kick about in the bath!
Life takes on a whole new, amazing and frankly mind blowing meaning. Your life will take on a far deeper meaning. Having children is the best. Personally, although I would say I had a very happy and fulfilling life previously, I've never been happier since my two little guys came along! Good luck- you're going to love it!
The first time DD at about 22 months waited until DH had got off the sofa/out of bed before scrambling up, taking his place and on his return saying very earnestly (but with a cheeky smile) "no room, Daddy".
When they think you look sad (even if you're not) and say "Mummy sad" then give you the best hug ever.
God, I am jealous of you and the next few years!
My 7 month old just learned to blow raspberries, it's adorable along with everything else she's ever done being a parent is worth giving up everything else
Ignore the naysayers! It's fantastic! My PILs did this all the time "just wait until..." was their mantra. None of it was true and after a horrid pg I thought it was wonderful! It's all lovely and agree with all the things but seeing their personality emerging is literally astonishing, there really is no other baby like them. The giggles, singing to themselves when they wake up (gorgeous!). My dd is also obsessed with blowing raspberries which ate utterly hilarious and is you do it back to her she'll have a whole conversation in raspberry! Quite often when she sings to herself it is interspersed with raspberries. Their breath, watching them sleep, their massive pleasure at really simple things like peek-a-boo. First everything - waving, clapping, and my dd quite often bounces up and down and waves her arms when her toys play music - so cute! Oh you're going to love it! It's really hard to stop and not list more!
When my 7 week old first smiled, I welled up. When he wakes up and smiles when he first sees me in the morning. Cuddles and watching him fall asleep in my arms. Oh and he is soooo cute when he has hiccups, even during a wedding ceromony!
When my 7 week old first smiled, I welled up. When he wakes up and smiles when he first sees me in the morning. Cuddles and watching him fall asleep in my arms. Oh and he is soooo cute when he has hiccups, even during a wedding ceromony!
Oh gosh there is just just so much that is amazing and wonderful and endlessly positive.
The way their eyes find you as soon as you enter the room and their little faces when they see you coming to pick them up, their scrummy milky sweet breath when they're sleeping next to you, giggles at all the silly faces you pull, unlimited love all because you're mummy and the centre if their world, the cuddles when they fall asleep on you and you just stare at them and think oh wow you are so precious, little hands all bunched up and resting on you as you feed, snuggles in bed, the smell of their skin, lovely squidgy fat thighs that make them squeal with laughter when you squish them, the truly astonishing rate that they grow up at, watching them learn new things, the faces they pull upon first tasting real food, did I mention the cuddles, I think I'm going on a bit now but you get the idea!
Hard work? Oh yes. Worth it? A million times over.
Congratulations and good luck, the happiest days of your lives are yet to come, and they'll come in the form of a tiny cuddly baby smelling faintly of milk
I know what you mean by those "just you wait..." type comments. I wish so much i'd kept a list of them, to go back to everyone and tell them how full of shit they were!
I had a crash c-section and, even one week after he was born I felt far far happier than I did through pregnancy.
Right now he's snuggled up on my tummy looking utterly adorable.
Yesterday his eyes lit up at his new mobile!
He loves nappy changes as I wiggle his legs in the air when I do it which makes him smile.
I have lots of fun playing dress ups with him - and he doesn't mind! Even though we have mostly second hand clothes I love planning his outfits and he looks really cute.
Every time he is put in the bath he makes the most adorable frown until he remembers that actually he really likes bath time.
My social life has taken off - I'm out every day with various groups an friends (looking forward to having to stay in tomorrow for a courier, actually).
Seeing their personality emerging slowly. It's amazing.
Sniffing them, feeling their warmth, feeling their little hand on yours <tingle>
Watching them sleep
The exciting milestones - smiling, babbling, rolling over, crawling, walking. Small things but absolutely thrilling.
Saying "my son," or "my daughter" - surreal!
Taking them out of the bath and drying them, feeling how soft and new they are, just perfect. Squeezing gorgeous baby bums
Sorry, that post was really long
When they wake up and see you in the morning and have the biggest smile in the world!
To be honest, after listening to other parents I was petrified of having a baby, I love my sleep, love going out, love having (childless) friends over.
Well, they were all wrong. I do EVERYTHING I did before, except now everything is better because DD is with us. Just walking around a museum or having a walk in the park is now an exciting outing. We took her out to restaurants with us from birth and even now at 2.4 she behaves perfectly and we eat out with our friends 2-3 times a week.
I have no idea what I did before, I feel like I was just waiting to have a baby so life could get good! (and if you knew me in real life, I never even wanted kids so you can really trust what I'm saying ;))
Nothing is as bad as people say - getting up in the night doesn't last that long and I didn't mind it because I was getting up to grab DD and bring her to bed for a cuddle.
Changing them is actually great, when they're young and you change them they just stare into your eyes the whole time and it's brilliant.
And for everyone that told me I would be walking around my house holding a screaming child despairing, they were wrong. There's always a reason that they cry and you can always fix it!
Congratulations! I'm having DD2 in June and I can't wait!!!
I have never been a morning person - it used to take me a good hour to lose the frown and properly wake up. But now my 9mo is sooo happy and excited to see me in the mornings, it's IMPOSSIBLE to be grumpy!
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Falling asleep with their head on your shoulder, mouth slightly open
Lifting their little legs up in their sleep for a fart
Giggling after sneezing
Rubbing their face into your chest when they're tired or a bit shy
Grabbing something, looking at it for one second, and then eagerly putting it in their mouth
Getting to meet your most favourite person in the world, the love of your life. You can't imagine loving someone like you love this helpless little creature. And you don't mind that they ruined your body on their way to meet you because they're here - you've been waiting all your life to meet them!
Plus the blind love they have for you as newborns, it's just basic and primal and all they need is you and your smell and your warmth and nothing else matters because you are everything to them.
That's pretty nice, even at 3am when you're the only people in the world, just feeding and cuddling.
I have another one, the way DD rests her little hand on my wrist when she's having her bottle :-) xx
The noise my daughter makes after she sneezes, like a little surprised sigh. And the smell of her sweet milky breath, swear it makes my heart skip a beat.
Thanks ladies, that's ace! So much more positive to keep us going.
I just wrote a long post then lost it. Damn phone. But its basically everything everyone else has said.
The positives far out-weigh the negatives.
The love. Feeling such huge love that would make you destroy anything that tried to harm her. different to any other love, baby just becomes essential to your well being.
Understanding how your mum feels about you.
And when you are feeling sleep deprived, and at the end of your tether, and you're up for the millionth time in the night, you'll get a big grin, and find yourself all happy, and smiling back.
I never realised before that when people have kids, it's not that they can't go out, it's that staying home and spending time with baby is better!
The laugh of pure joy when LO sees/does something they know they like. Bouncing and smiling. Little arms grabbing your legs when they learn to pull up on you. Adorable uncoordinated expressions of the very newborn; the first smile; the first laugh. Endless repetitions of a new sound (when it's a pleasant one!). Giggling in sleep. Reaching out arms for you when you enter a room. They really are amazing. And congrats on your imminent arrival!
For me today it's the way my 10 month gives cuddles, arms round me saying awwwww and patting my back!! Occasionally leaning in for a kiss so cute! Newborn bf snuggles are amazing! X
Watching them develop into their own person, seeing their personality shine through. The way they laugh at totally unexpected things. The way they love you and rely on you and you know how to make them happy. When they wake up in the morning they talk happily to themselves then give you the biggest grin when you go and get them up. When they want cuddles, they crawl to you. They make you laugh with their madcap antics. Just watching them go from a helpless baby to a talking, laughing mobile infant.
Realising that you just did something to react to her personality not just because you are trying everything.
Your first proper connection.
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Facebook, Taylor Bean, BofA, HSBC, Ebix, Birmingham's Yeung in Court News
Paul Ceglia, who claims half the holdings of Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, must produce originals of the contract and e-mails that he says prove his case, a judge ordered at the request of the company.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie Foschio in Buffalo, New York, said yesterday that Ceglia must allow forensic testing of the documents as well as his computer. The company said an examination of Ceglia's documents and computer is needed to unmask a "fraud on the court." Ceglia's lawsuit was filed a year ago yesterday.
Both sides agree that Ceglia, 37, hired Zuckerberg, then a freshman at Harvard University, to work on Ceglia's StreetFax.com project in April 2003. Facebook says its name wasn't mentioned in the contract with Ceglia and that Zuckerberg didn't come up with the idea for the service until 2004. Facebook claims the contract is a phony and says e-mails Ceglia used as evidence of his claim are fabricated.
Facebook said it has the genuine e-mails between Zuckerberg and Ceglia, which make no mention of Facebook and show Ceglia making a series of excuses for not paying Zuckerberg money he owed him.
A lawyer for Ceglia, Jeffrey Lake, said in yesterday's hearing there's no way to tell if Zuckerberg deleted e-mails on a Harvard University server.
Foschio yesterday directed Facebook to give Ceglia access to 176 e-mails between Zuckerberg and Ceglia. The magistrate judge denied Ceglia's request for all of Zuckerberg's documents prior to July 2004.
In an amended complaint filed in April, Ceglia quoted from e-mails he said he exchanged with Zuckerberg. He said the messages support his claim that the two men formed a partnership that gave Ceglia half ownership of Facebook when it was started in 2004.
Ceglia hasn't shown the original contract publicly or to representatives of Facebook. The two-page document is in a bank safe-deposit box in Hornell, New York, according to Ceglia's lawyers. Ceglia claims he cut and pasted his e-mails with Zuckerberg from a Web-based e-mail program into word-processing documents that he saved on floppy discs.
The case is Ceglia v. Zuckerberg, 1:10-cv-00569, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York (Buffalo).
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Fannie Mae Silence on Taylor Bean Led to $3 Billion Fraud
The first sign of what would ultimately become a $3 billion fraud surfaced Jan. 11, 2000, when Fannie Mae executive Samuel Smith discovered Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. sold him a loan owned by someone else, Bloomberg News' Tom Schoenberg reports.
Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored enterprise which issues almost half of all mortgage-backed securities, determined over the next two years that more than 200 loans acquired from Taylor Bean were bogus, non-performing or lacked critical components such as mortgage insurance.
That might have been the end of Taylor Bean and its chairman and principal owner, Lee Farkas. He was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, to 30 years in prison for orchestrating what prosecutors call one of the "largest bank fraud schemes in this country's history."
Instead, it was just the beginning.
Fannie Mae officials never reported the fraud to law enforcement or anyone outside the company. Internal memos, court papers, and public testimony show it sought only to rid itself of liabilities and cut ties with a mortgage firm selling loans "that had no value," as Smith, the former vice president of Fannie Mae's single family operations, said in a 2008 deposition.
"If there had been a criminal referral, Farkas would have gone to jail in 2002," William Black, who served as deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. during the S&L crisis of the 1980s, said in an interview.
Seven more years passed before federal regulators shut down Ocala, Florida-based Taylor Bean and prosecutors charged Farkas with orchestrating the $3 billion scam. He had duped some of the country's largest financial institutions, sought federal bank bailout funds and contributed to the failures of Montgomery, Alabama-based Colonial Bank and its parent, Colonial BancGroup, once among the nation's 25 biggest depository banks.
The case is U.S. v. Farkas, 10-cr-00200, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria).
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Countrywide Must Face MBIA Fraud Claim, Appeals Court Rules
Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and its Countrywide Financial Corp. unit must face a fraud claim brought by bond insurer MBIA Insurance Corp., an appeals court ruled.
The New York court yesterday upheld an April 2010 trial- court denial of Countrywide's motion to dismiss the claim against it in the 2008 suit. MBIA alleges that Countrywide fraudulently obtained insurance on billions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities.
MBIA claims the lender falsely represented loan-to-value ratios, debt-to-income ratios and borrowers' FICO scores; provided prospectuses that falsely represented loans were made in compliance with Countrywide's underwriting standards; and offered false, misleading or inflated ratings for the loans, according to the decision.
"Because MBIA alleges misrepresentations of present fact, and not future intent, made with the intent to induce MBIA to insure the securitizations, the fraud claim survives," Associate Justice Rosalyn H. Richter wrote.
MBIA contends that if it had known the representations were false, it would never have guaranteed the notes and suffered losses. As a result of defaults, MBIA alleges, it has been forced to make billions of dollars in claims payments on the insurance agreements, according to the decision.
The appeals court also upheld the dismissal of a negligent- misrepresentation claim in the case. It dismissed entirely a claim for breach of implied duty of good faith and fair dealing, which the lower court narrowed.
"We continue to believe MBIA is a sophisticated counter- party that cannot sustain a fraud claim, and we continue to have the ability to raise that point with the court at the summary- judgment phase," Shirley Norton, a spokeswoman for Bank of America, said in an e-mailed statement.
Norton added the bank is pleased the appeals court confirmed the dismissal of the negligent-misrepresentation claim and dismissed the good-faith and fair-dealing claim.
The appeal is MBIA Insurance Corp. v. Countrywide Home Loans Inc., New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department (Manhattan). The lower-court case is MBIA Insurance v. Countrywide, 602825/2008, New York state Supreme Court (Manhattan).
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BofA Opposes Arizona AG Bid to Interview Former Workers
Bank of America Corp. opposes a request by the Arizona attorney general's office to interview former employees as part of a state lawsuit against the bank over mortgage modifications.
The state is seeking court approval to conduct interviews with non-management former employees without bank attorneys present so it can "fully investigate" Bank of America's practices, according to court papers.
Bank of America argues such interviews are prohibited and asked the court to prevent the attorney general from "maneuvering around Arizona's discovery and ethical rules," according to court papers filed June 27.
In its lawsuit, Arizona accuses Bank of America of misleading homeowners who were seeking loan modifications, saying the bank "repeatedly has deceived" borrowers about the process, according to the complaint.
"It is crucial that the state be permitted to interview former employees without the presence of defendants' counsel so that these witnesses can speak freely and without interference, and the state can carry out its investigation and discover the truth," the office said in court papers.
The case is Arizona v. Countrywide Financial Corp., CV2010- 033580, Arizona Superior Court, Maricopa County.
UniCredit, HSBC Seek to Dismiss Madoff Investor Suit
UniCredit Bank Austria AG and other defendants asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by foreign investors in funds that put money with con man Bernard Madoff, saying they were being cast as "scapegoats for Madoff's intentional criminal acts."
The investors in January and February sued Herald, Primeo and Thema funds, directors, service providers and parent companies or affiliates, saying they neglected their duty and ignored "red flags" signaling Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. Defendants include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA), PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Bank Medici AG founder Sonja Kohn and Madoff family members.
Denying they had a duty to the investors, the plaintiffs said they'd been "improperly" lumped together based on "manufactured claims" that "have no place in this U.S. court," according to a U.S. District Court of New York filing yesterday.
The suit is one of many that competes with 1,000 suits filed by the trustee liquidating Madoff's firm. Irving Picard in December sued HSBC and a dozen funds including Primeo, Herald and Thema for $9 billion, saying they ignored red flags and should have known of the fraud. He is demanding $19 billion from JPMorgan and as much as $59 billion from UniCredit, Kohn and other parties.
HSBC units in Bermuda, Luxembourg and Dublin acted as custodian for 12 funds including Pioneer Investment's Primeo Select, Bank Medici's Herald (Lux) and Thema International, as well as Herald USA, Alpha Prime, Lagoon Investment, Senator, Kingate Global, Defender and Global Investments.
Primeo, based in the Cayman Islands, was tied to Bank Medici and Kohn, according to Picard's suit. Primeo took $145 million, mostly its principal, out of the Madoff firm in the six years before the 2008 bankruptcy, which Picard is seeking to recover, he said in the suit. Its profit was a scant $27,942, according to Picard. The fund is being liquidated.
The trustee said total six-year withdrawals by funds he named in the HSBC suit were $2 billion.
HSBC has asked U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in New York to dismiss Picard's suit, saying it didn't know of the fraud and lost $1 billion of its own money investing in funds that in turn put money with Madoff.
Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence in federal prison in North Carolina.
The case is In re Herald, 09-cv-00289, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
Ebix Inflated Earnings by Ignoring Bad Debt, Court Is Told
Ebix Inc. (EBIX), a business software provider whose acquisitions have made it one of the fastest growing small-cap companies, inflated earnings by overstating accounts receivable, according to an executive who sued Ebix after it bought his firm, Bloomberg News' Greg Farrell reports.
The size of the overstatement was approximately $200,000, according to a complaint filed May 24 in federal court in Columbus, Ohio. It allegedly occurred in the fourth quarter of 2009, representing almost 1.7 percent of Ebix's net income of $12.1 million for the period on revenue of $31.3 million.
Shares in Atlanta-based Ebix, which provides data processing software to the insurance industry, climbed from $3 in January 2007 to $29 in March of this year. Among the 800 firms with market capitalization between $500 million and $2 billion, Ebix surpassed all but ten in terms of market-cap growth over the past four years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
During that same period, short interest in the stock has grown at the fourth fastest rate. After Ebix shares dropped 14 percent this year through June 15, the proportion of the company's stock sold short surged to a record 27 percent, according to Data Explorers, a New York-based research firm.
"When a quarter or more of the shares have been sold short, it's certainly indicative that investors question the legitimacy of the company's reported results," said Lynn Turner, former chief accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The allegations of billing irregularities come from Steven Isaac, former chief executive officer of Peak Performance Solutions, and two directors of the firm, Earl Gallegos and Richard Freeman. The three men sold the company to Ebix in September 2009 for $8 million. Peak produces risk management and compliance software for the insurance industry.
Robin Raina, Ebix's CEO, said the overstatement was only $150,000, and that it was discovered by Ebix management early in 2010 and corrected immediately.
"That revenue is from the first quarter of 2010. In the second quarter of 2010, we called it uncollectible," Raina said. "Their complaint, it's completely wrong."
He also said the sum involved was insignificant for a company projected to generate more than $170 million in revenue for 2011. Ebix, which had a market capitalization of $803 million as of June 29, reported full-year 2010 net income of $59 million on revenue of $132.2 million.
The case is Isaac v. Ebix Inc, 11-00459, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (Columbus). The ConfirmNet case is Irving v. Ebix, 10-00762, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (San Diego).
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Lehman Brokerage Seeks $346 Million From RBS Over Swap
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ)'s brokerage asked a judge to force Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) to pay $346 million owed to the defunct firm.
ABN Amro, now owned by Royal Bank, owes the money, plus interest, to Lehman Brothers Inc. for early termination of a 1998 swap agreement, the brokerage said in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan. Royal Bank refuses to pay, saying it has a right to set off the funds against amounts owed to it by the brokerage and its affiliates, brokerage trustee James Giddens said in a June 29 filing.
"The trustee has a right to recover the withheld funds based on simple and straightforward principles of contract law," he said.
Pholida Phengsomphone, a spokeswoman in Connecticut for Edinburgh-based Royal Bank, declined to comment.
The Lehman brokerage, like its bankrupt parent, is seeking money from banks it did business with to pay customers. Citigroup Inc. (C) asked a judge in May to dismiss most of a $1.3 billion lawsuit brought by Giddens, saying he had no legal claim on most of the money.
Barclays Plc (BARC) has said it will appeal a judge's order that it return $2 billion in margin assets to Giddens and pay about $270 million in interest.
The Lehman parent filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history on Sept. 15, 2008. The brokerage went into liquidation four days later.
The brokerage bankruptcy case is Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Lehman Brothers Inc., 08-01420, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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New Suits
Birmingham's Yeung Charged With Hong Kong Money Laundering
Carson Yeung, the former hairdresser who bought control of English soccer club Birmingham City in 2009, was charged with money laundering in a Hong Kong court.
The police brought five charges against Yeung, 51, for dealing with property "known or believed to represent proceeds of an indictable offense," with a total value of HK$721.3 million ($93 million), according to documents read in court yesterday. He was granted bail, with a hearing scheduled for Aug. 11.
Shares in Birmingham International Holdings Ltd. (2309), the West Midlands-based team's parent company, were suspended from trading in Hong Kong yesterday, according to a statement to the city's stock exchange. Peter Pannu, Birmingham's acting chairman, said in a statement yesterday that the investigations didn't have any connection with that company or any of its subsidiaries.
"This does not appear to be a strong case whatsoever" as prosecutors haven't said what crime the money is supposed to have come from, Daniel Marash, Yeung's lawyer, said in court.
Yeung, who was detained yesterday, was released after posting bail of HK$4 million in cash, and HK$3 million in cash guarantees from two supporters. No plea was taken.
The charges against Yeung have the "hallmark of money laundering" according to forensic experts, Hayson Tse, a lawyer representing the prosecution, said in court yesterday. Each charge is punishable by as long as 14 years in jail and a fine of as much as HK$5 million.
The case is Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Yeung Ka-sing Carson, ESCC2717/2011 in the Hong Kong Eastern Magistrates' Court.
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BJ's Wholesale Sued by Investor Over $2.8 Billion Takeover
BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. (BJ), the third-largest U.S. warehouse- club chain, was sued by an investor claiming its proposed $2.8 billion takeover price is "grossly inadequate".
Leonard Green & Partners LP is acquiring the company at a "substantial" discount to its true value and BJ's directors locked up the deal by agreeing to "impermissible" deal- protection devices, lawyers for shareholder Maxine Phillips said in the complaint filed June 29 in Delaware Chancery Court. Phillips is seeking to represent all BJ's shareholders in her bid to bar the deal.
Directors "have effectively placed a cap on BJ's corporate value at a time when the company's stock price was recovering from the recent economic decline," lawyers for Phillips said in the complaint.
Under the agreement, Leonard Green and CVC Capital Partners will pay BJ's investors $51.25 in cash for each share they hold. The takeover gives the firms BJ's 190 wholesale clubs in 15 U.S. states for a valuation of about 7.1 times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization.
Cathy Maloney, a spokeswoman for BJ's, didn't return a phone call seeking comment on the complaint.
The case is Maxine Phillips v. BJ's Wholesale Club, CA6623, Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington).
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Ex-Taylor Bean Chairman Gets 30 Years for $3 Billion Fraud (1)
Lee Farkas, the ex-chairman of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., was sentenced to 30 years in prison for leading a $3 billion fraud involving fake mortgage assets.
Farkas was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, to forfeit more than $38 million.
"I actually don't believe you accept responsibility for these criminal acts," Brinkema said yesterday as she handed down the sentence. "This was a very serious series of crimes."
A federal jury convicted Farkas, 58, in April of 14 counts of conspiracy and bank, wire and securities fraud after a two- week trial. Prosecutors said Farkas orchestrated one of the largest and longest-running bank frauds in the U.S., which duped some of the country's largest financial institutions, targeted the federal bank bailout program and contributed to the failures of Taylor Bean and Montgomery, Alabama-based Colonial Bank.
"I believe that everyone at TBW and Colonial Bank were acting together in good faith to help each other," Farkas read from a statement.
Prosecutors in a June 24 court filing asked U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema to order Farkas to prison for 385 years or no less than 50 years, "a period of years that would ensure that Farkas will remain in prison for life."
Bruce Rogow, a lawyer for Farkas, urged Brinkema to send his client to prison no more than 15 years.
The case is U.S. v. Farkas, 10-cr-00200, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria).
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Ex-AMD Employee Mark Longoria Pleads Guilty in New York
Mark Anthony Longoria, a former employee of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) charged in a U.S. probe of insider trading by hedge fund managers and expert networking consultants, pleaded guilty to a four-year fraud scheme.
Longoria, 45, of San Antonio, Texas, yesterday admitted to four crimes: conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, securities fraud, wire fraud and making false statements to prosecutors and FBI agents.
He faces as long as 50 years in prison, said U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan. Longoria is cooperating with prosecutors, and Rakoff said he could face a lesser term because of his assistance to the government.
Longoria admitted in court that he passed tips about AMD's gross margins and revenue to hedge fund managers, and he also provided inside information about Western Digital Corp., a hard- drive maker based in Irvine, California, when he worked for them in 2006. He said he provided the information to fund manager clients of Primary Global Research LLC, an expert networking firm in Mountain View, California, that provides experts to investors.
Longoria said that while an employee at AMD, he also worked as a consultant for Primary Global, where he was paid $300 per telephone call to pass inside information about the chipmaker to hedge fund clients of the expert networking firm. He told the judge that he earned about $200,000 during a scheme which he said operated from 2006 to 2010.
Primary Global "paid me for providing material, nonpublic information, mostly by telephone, to its hedge fund clients," Longoria said in court. "I believed at the time that the hedge funds would use the nonpublic information I gave them to make trading decisions."
Dan Charnas, a spokesman for Primary Global, declined to comment on Longoria's statements about the firm. Steven Shattuck, a spokesman for Western Digital, didn't return a voice-mail message left at his office seeking comment.
Michael Silverman, a spokesman for AMD, said that "AMD is the victim of an insider trading scheme." The company has policies against insider trading and regarding outside work by employees, he said in a statement. "It appears that Mr. Longoria violated those policies," Silverman said.
The case is U.S. vs. Shimoon, 10-mj-02823, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Ex-Lawyer Cutillo Gets 2 1/2 Years in Insider Trading Case
Arthur Cutillo, a former Ropes & Gray LLP lawyer who pleaded guilty in the Galleon Group LLC insider-trading case, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in New York imposed the sentence yesterday and ordered Cutillo to forfeit $378,068 along with two other defendants. He must surrender to prison authorities by Sept. 16, the judge ruled.
"You were one of the winners in life," Sullivan said. "At the time of the crime, you were a respected attorney. You were earning more than $200,000. Yet it wasn't enough."
Cutillo pleaded in January to one count of conspiracy and securities fraud. He admitted disclosing information on transactions the firm was working on to another co-defendant, Jason Goldfarb, in exchange for kickbacks.
"I just want to apologize to everybody I hurt," Cutillo, 34, of Newark, New Jersey, said yesterday in court. "I know what I did was terribly wrong. Not only did I betray my law firm, I betrayed everyone I believed in. I'm sorry."
Prosecutors said information from Cutillo was passed on to former Galleon trader Zvi Goffer, allowing Goffer and others to earn more than $7 million.
Catherine L. Redlich, Cutillo's lawyer, asked Sullivan to impose no prison time, citing the welfare of her client's four young children.
The case is U.S. v. Goffer, 10-cr-56, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Litigation Departments
Economist Stiglitz Seeks $1 Million From Former Divorce Lawyer
Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz is asking a federal jury in Washington to award him more than $1 million in damages from his former lawyer, who he says failed to file divorce papers in time to prevent his second wife from claiming part of his $300,000 Nobel Prize money.
Jury selection began yesterday in the trial of Stiglitz's professional-negligence suit again Rita M. Bank of Ain & Bank in Washington. The trial, scheduled to last six days, will include testimony by Stiglitz and divorce lawyers from New York and Washington, according to court papers.
Stiglitz, 68, who shared the Nobel in 2001, alleges he lost more than $5 million because Bank kept him in the dark about her loyalties, according to court papers. Jane Hannaway, Stiglitz's second wife, filed for divorce in 2002.
Bank, who has denied the allegations, declined to comment, as did Stiglitz, who is scheduled to travel to Beijing this weekend to be sworn in as president of the International Economic Association.
Bank never told Stiglitz she had consulted with Hannaway about a potential divorce before he hired her to represent him in August 2000, according to a complaint filed in 2005 in Washington.
Stiglitz said in court papers that he repeatedly asked Bank to file divorce papers in Washington in 2000 and 2001 to limit his financial exposure, though this was never done.
"Bank assured Stiglitz that he would be better off continuing to negotiate rather than filing suit," Stiglitz alleges.
The case is Stiglitz v. Bank, 05-1826, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).
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Rajaratnam's Sentencing Rescheduled for Sept. 27, Judge Says
Raj Rajaratnam's sentencing on insider-trading charges was rescheduled to Sept. 27 from July by a federal judge in New York.
Rajaratnam, 54, the co-founder of Galleon Group LLC, is at the center of one of the largest illegal stock-tipping cases ever brought by the U.S. He was found guilty May 11 by a jury on five counts of conspiracy and nine counts of securities fraud.
When he was convicted, U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell set sentencing for July 29. Yesterday's order by Holwell postponing the date included a letter from prosecutors saying that they and Rajaratnam agreed to it.
The U.S. said Rajaratnam engaged in a seven-year conspiracy to trade on inside information from corporate executives, bankers, consultants, traders and directors of public companies including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. He gained $63.8 million as a result of the scheme, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said on the day of the verdict that Rajaratnam faces from 15 1/2 years to 19 1/2 years in prison when he is sentenced.
The case is U.S. v. Rajaratnam, 1:09-cr-01184, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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April 21, 2006 By Blake Harris
Think that fiber bringing gigabit bandwidth to the home is somewhere out in the distant technological future? Think again. This is today's technology that Japan's NTT Communications Corp. is already installing in homes.
Last year, according to Larry Smarr, director of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), NTT had 1.6 million fiber customers. This year it is 4.6 million and the company is investing billions a year to aggressively achieve the goal of fiber based Internet service to 30 million homes by the end of 2010.
Both Smarr and keynote speaker Gavin Newsom, mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, emphasized that America is rapidly losing ground in the broadband race and that this has a serious economic impact, hampering the ability to compete globally.
"It has been a number of years now, since at least the late nineties, that study after study has been done by industry groups and the National Academy of Sciences all reaching the conclusion that if we could establish true broadband in America, it would have a huge economic impact," Smarr said.
Smarr and other scientists and researchers at Calit2 believe that it is a no-brainer that ubiquitous broadband access is going to be as critical to the 21st century as telephones, interstate highways and air travel were to the 20th century. In fact, this was part of the reason that Calit2 was established five years ago.
"Telecommunications and information technology are having a 'flattening' effect on the world, enabling global collaboration on a scale never seen before in history," explains a brochure on the Institute. "This ability to collaborate is changing the rules of competitiveness and thereby having an enormous effect on society?not just ours, but other countries around the world. Which means California and the U.S. can no longer depend on an unquestioned edge in innovation heading into the future..."
To research for the future, the institute has to have the bandwidth that will be commonplace in 10 or 20 years time. For this reason the two Calit2 research buildings constructed at the cost of $100 million from the State of California -- one at UC San Diego and the other at UC Irvine -- have an unimaginable amount of bandwidth. Gigabits and gigabits are available everywhere you turn -- more than there are applications yet to utilize it.
Smarr in his presentation shows just some of the uses that bandwidth is starting to be used for at Calit2 such as high definition video collaboration. And he argues that if we want to get an inkling of what the everyday Internet will look like in the not too distant future, you just have to see how Calit2 researchers are using their vast level of bandwidth today.
It is in this context that the notion of America failing behind in bandwidth penetration takes on fresh relevance.
"Our country is quite a bit behind," said Smarr. "One of the things we are doing to help the U.S. get back into the game in a number of technologies is that over the last five years, we've built this institute to learn how to live in a world where distances are virtually eliminated."
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Mandley was a two-time first team All-America and two-time honorable mention All-America at NAU. Mandley was selected in second round by the Detroit Lions in 1984. He played in the NFL for eight years. At one time he held the NCAA I-AA career record for all-purpose yards with 5,925, a mark which still stands as the NAU and Big Sky Conference record at the time of his induction. In addition to career all-purpose yards, Mandley also established NAU career records with 1,988 kick-off return yards, 901 punt return yards, 3 punt returns for touchdowns, and 26 total touchdowns, all records which still stand at the time of his induction.


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Four Oregon universities make climate-friendly ranking
Sierra Club's Sierra magazine calls them "Cool Schools."
This year, four Oregon universities made the ranking, which highlights accredited institutions with across-the-board efforts in sustainability.
The list was compiled from lengthy surveys completed by 96 universities. The survey gathered data on factors including transportation, food sourcing, waste handling, curriculum, energy efficiency and other factors.
Oregon's top finisher was University of Oregon, which was ranked No. 13 in the nation with especially high marks receive for planning and innovation.
"This year we focused on more robust data collection to better capture what faculty, staff and students are doing," said Steve Mital, the UO's sustainability director. "Recent additions to our green inventory include the new sustainability residence hall which opens this fall, our new green building policy and a graduate certificate program in sustainability leadership."
Other Oregon schools making the list include:
- Lewis and Clark College, which ranked No. 22 with strong marks for making environmentally friendly investments.
- Portland State University, which ranked No. 28 with strong marks for innovation.
- Southern Oregon University, which ranked No. 45 with strong marks in energy and planning.
It's the sixth annual ranking of schools based on this set of sustainability criteria. Sierra Club partners with the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, the Sustainable Endowments Institute and the Princeton Review to put together the list.
The top 10 universities on the ranking include:
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I always ask my daughter the next morning how things went with the babysitter and what they did. One idea to check in during an appointment is to have a neighbor pop in and see if the kids are acting up and ask if the sitter needs anything. Or you could get a nanny cam to videotape what's going on. Another way to ensure you're hiring a good babysitter is to offer good pay. You can get what you pay for in babysitting, and older, more responsible babysitters want more money than teens. Pay of $10 per hour is a bargain. Or, there's always Grandma.


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Travelers To Hit The Road For Labor Day Weekend
WTVO/WQRF - It appears Illinois residents will try to get one final summer vacation in.
AAA Travel reports 1.85 million Illinoisans will travel at least 50 miles for Labor Day weekend. Most of them will do so by car. Gas prices can take some of the credit. The average price in Illinois is $3.56/g, which is down ten cents from this time last year.
"With Labor Day symbolizing the American workers' contributions to the strength and prosperity of our country, it's only fitting that millions are choosing to celebrate this positive direction with an all-American road trip" says AAA Chicago spokesperson Beth Mosher. "Consumer spending continues to outpace disposable income... Americans are more optimistic about their financial situation."
Overall, AAA says nearly 35 million Americans will travel. Historically, Labor Day weekend is a popular time for Americans to travel. It's also a popular time for hotels to increase their rates by an average of 9%, according to AAA.
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It's the calm before the primary storm.
After a slate of early primary elections in Texas, Illinois and Florida, there hasn't been a state or congressional primary election in a few weeks. It's the last real quiet period before primary season kicks into full gear starting next month when nearly a dozen states will nominate candidates for Congress and governor.
So, what to watch for? Below we give you the five races not to be missed -- in chronological order:
To the Line!
Nebraska Senate race (Republican primary): Midland University President Ben Sasse is a somewhat unusual standard-bearer for the tea party, given his time spent in Washington in the Department of Health and Human Services and his alliances with GOP establishment types. But he has rallied the conservative base to his side against state treasurer Shane Osborn, the early favorite. A poll conducted by The Polling Company last month showed Osborn at 35 percent and Sasse at 24 percent. The primary is May 13, and the winner will undoubtedly become the next senator.
Georgia Senate race (Republican primary): Businessman David Perdue – a cousin of former governor Sonny Perdue (R) – was ascendant in this race before making comments about former secretary of state Karen Handel's lack of a college degree. Handel is now proudly trumpeting Sarah Palin's endorsement. Meanwhile, the three congressmen in the race -- Reps. Jack Kingston, Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey -- all voted against Rep. Paul Ryan's (R) budget this week. It's a crowded race to the right like we've rarely seen. Hoping it gets a little too far to the right is Democrat Michelle Nunn. The primary is May 20.
Pennsylvania governor's race (Democratic primary): Rep. Allyson Schwartz was supposed to be the big name in this race, but former state revenue commissioner Tom Wolf's deep pockets have propelled him to a big lead, according to early polls. A new Franklin & Marshall College poll shows Wolf leading Schwartz 40 percent to 9 percent. Time is running out for Schwartz – or anyone else – with the primary being held on May 20. The winner is likely to be the next governor of Pennsylvania, given Gov. Tom Corbett's (R) shoddy approval rating.
Mississippi Senate race (Republican primary): We've believed for months that the Republican senator most vulnerable to losing in a primary is Sen. Thad Cochran. But Cochran and his allies have done their due diligence preparing for this showdown. Cochran supporters have set up an outside group to protect him and hit state Sen. Chris McDaniel. Meanwhile, the release of some of McDaniel's past comments from his time as a conservative radio host have stoked controversy. In short, Cochran looks to be in better shape than he once was. The primary is June 3.
Hawaii Senate race (Democratic primary): The race for the future of the Hawaii Democratic Party is in many ways about the past. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa is a protege of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D), whose dying wish was for her to replace him. Sen Brian Schatz recently scored the endorsement of President Obama -- a reminder that he backed Obama in the 2008 primary while Hanabusa and Inouye backed Hillary Rodham Clinton. This is shaping up as the most intense Democratic Senate primary of 2014. The primary is Aug. 9.


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The Trailer for "Transformers: Age of Extinction" has Arrived! Watch Here
Whetting fans appetites for what is sure to be another hit, Paramount Pictures debuted the first full trailer for "Transformers: Age of Extinction" today (March 4).
Per the synopsis: a mechanic and his daughter make a discovery that brings down Autobots and Decepticons - and a paranoid government official - on them.
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci and Nicola Peltz, the Michael Bay directed flick hits theaters on June 27.
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Bradley University seeks a Director of Student Support Services; reporting to the Vice President for Student Affairs.
The Director, Student Support Services will provide strategic leadership to the creation of the Student Affairs Title IX Coordinator position. The Director will be responsible for providing guidance to students in times of need. The Director will provide leadership to the Office of Parent Relations, including the University's Parents Board. Additionally, the Director will collaborate with many areas across the University to assist and refer students, serve in an on-call and crisis management response capacity when needed, and coordinate special projects within the Division of Student Affairs.
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- Provide guidance, direction, and advisement to students in need; show care, compassion, and concern to students.
- Coordinate and lead the activities, meetings, initiatives, and projects of the University's Parents' Board and provide leadership for the Office of Parent Relations.
- Serve as the Student Affairs Title IX Coordinator and create responsibilities associated with this role.
- Ensure compliance regulations laid out in Title IX legislation and state legislation related to sexual harassment or sexual misconduct; including investigation of complaints.
- Help ensure compliance within student affairs of new and changing legal policy.
- Serve on the Division of Student Affairs safety and security committee.
A Master's degree and a minimum of three years of leadership experience within counseling, higher education administration, or a related field is required. Experience in working with students in sensitive cases and responding to emergencies is preferred. A successful candidate will have outstanding skills of communication, planning, and relationship building with constituencies.
Candidates should submit a cover letter addressing qualifications for the position, current resume, and contact information for three professional references to email@example.com. Review of applicants will begin on May 6, 2013, and continue until the position is filled.
Founded in 1897, Bradley University is a distinctive, medium-size comprehensive, private institution of higher learning. The University is located on an 85-acre campus in Peoria, the largest metropolitan area in central Illinois. With approximately 5,000 undergraduates and 800 graduate students, Bradley offers the opportunities and choices of a larger university (with over 130 programs in five colleges, including the traditional liberal arts and sciences as well as programs in communications, business, engineering, education and the health sciences plus a graduate school) and the quality, personal attention and challenge of a small private college. With over 60,000 alumni, Bradley is rich in tradition and full of promise to become one of the nation's best comprehensive universities. Visit www.bradley.edu to learn more about the University.


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With an active schedule of workshops, classes, children's activities, and tours, the C.M. Russell Museum is a hub of scholarly activity in the community of Great Falls. Various educational opportunities for both young and old are offered year round.Classes and Programs
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John Moses Browning was one of the world's most important and innovative gun makers. The outstanding Browning Firearms Collection includes rifles, shotguns, and handguns that…
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I was in awe!! The fella who watches over the house was AWESOME! I was the first visitor to the house in May 2015!! Wonderful museum!!Leslie Becker
I remember the CMR museum when it was only the studio plus the added room on the west side. I lived around the block from it in the early 70s and, thankfully, a crew of volunteers kept it open in the evenings, even through the winter! I spent many happy hours exploring Charlie's paintings, sculptures, letters and artifacts. Being also a painter, I treasure having had that opportunity before the collection was reduced and viewable only from across the room behind a thick plastic barrier…
I was born in Great Falls, but haven't been back since elementary school. To this day one of my best memories is attending The C.M. Russell Museum! My wife and I are planning a vacation to come back to Great Falls in the near future, and the first thing on my list is to show her this amazing museum and what it offers!Stanley Brown Jr