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Unlike the rest, Shyama didn't remain in her bedroom, mooning over pictures from Fab 208. She got to know Bowie's people, rang up RCA and pretended to be from Fleet Street to blag photos, nabbed tickets for the final Ziggy Stardust show, and may have inspired one of Bowie's signature costumes. Women are always better at talking about pop than men, and this lot keep the ball in the air engagingly, with help from professional witnesses such as former Bowie PR Cherry Vanilla and his wardrobe mistress Suzi Ronson.
All agree that Bowie's outsider status found an echo in their own semi-detached relationship to this country, and that their parents were reassured by the fact that Bowie seemed, as rock stars go, a nice young man. Furthermore, as one of them appreciatively observes, no matter how androgynous he appeared, his tight costumes provided clear evidence of his maleness.
Not having seen the 1996 TV series of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (Saturday, 2.30pm, R4) nor read its novelisation, I'm coming to his story of a struggle between characters in the real London and an imaginary London Below purely via this star-studded radio adaptation, which begins on Radio 4 and continues on 4 Extra. At a recent press conference, Gaiman was asked what he gained through taking his story to radio rather than to the big screen. His answer was "an infinite budget", which seems about right.
The original story is good, and Dirk Maggs's adaptation is excellent, but in the end it's the quality of the characterisation that brings home the bacon. Regardless of whether your taste normally runs to fantasy fiction, Neverwhere is a reminder of what an extraordinary arsenal of acting talent we have in this country. James McAvoy is Richard, the perplexed hero, who finds himself separated from his old life by the arrival of distressed damsel Door (Natalie Dormer), harried by the murderous duo Croup (Anthony Head) and Vandemar (David Schofield), and thrown into the company of the Marquis (David Harewood), who takes him to London's highest point to meet Old Bailey (Bernard Cribbins). Also in the cast are Benedict Cumberbatch as The Angel Islington (the sound of his unfurling wings is provided by two anoraks being shaken, apparently), Christopher Lee as the Earl of Earl's Court, and Johnny Vegas as Lord Ratspeaker.
Maggs, who adapts and produces – as he has previously on The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy – deploys voices, sound and music brilliantly to conjure the feeling of rain, the smell of tarmacadam, the gusting grit from a Tube tunnel and the lurching terror you feel when the lift door opens and you're suddenly in a very high place. But what makes it worth listening to more than once is the way he also gets nuggets of comedy from the manners of the characters' non-fantasy lives. When Door gives James a chaste peck on the cheek you hear his unscripted appreciation. You can almost see him blush.


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Charred Walls of the Damned is a weird group. Featuring an amalgamation of metal musicians, the "super group" (I'm apprehensive to use the term accordingly) plays a cacophonic mixture of power metal themes mixed with some ideals and techniques often found in the extreme side of metal's realms, curiosity of Richard Christy and the gunning fingers of legendary bassist Steve DiGiorgio. Oh yea, former Judas Priest banshee Tim Owens is here too. Quite the group of super proportions, it seems. Alright, I have to honest: this is remarkably stale stuff. I like all four dudes; their previous musical outputs have been consistent and fun for the most part, so no quarrel on my end. The musical purge into power/thrashy metal itself isn't that bad either. However, "Cold Winds on Timeless Days" becomes a dull experience because it trips over a long-drawn-out process that is way too bombastic and fragile for its own good, and not even the A-list ensemble can resurrect the album once the erosion begins.
Tackling the individual performances, the picture is totally different: Tim Owens wails perfectly, Christy goes to town on the drums, DiGiorgio plucks and plods all over the place with his extravagant bass playing, and Jason Suecof's guitar work leaves a palatable impression on the record. Clearly, that's the strength of "Cold Winds on Timeless Day." Consequently, the several anthems deliver a nifty package of power/thrash metal semi-frequently using blast beats and technical bass work, yet there's still room for Owens' high-flying vocals and catchy choruses. Most of the tracks contain many layers and riffs boiling beneath the chilly atmosphere Charred Walls of the Damned so elegantly conjures like a silent soul singing in a crowded street, unheard yet very profound. And hey, the first few songs kick butt with fantastic lead guitar work and other instrumental performances. So what's the problem, you ask?
You see, it's not an issue of the band running out of ideas or desperately plugging in influence x or influence y just for the shit of it, but rather four dudes taking an enjoyable blueprint and relentlessly beating it into the floor. After "Forever Marching On," they are completely devoid of relevancy. Nothing sticks out, nothing works to enthrall the listener successfully, nothing dramatic appears and just about any other measurable quality one would expect in adequate music is nonexistent. By the time "Bloodworm" rolls around, it's nearly an unbearable experience, and they consequently end the record on a dull note with the insipid "Avoid the Light," just another song replicating the same genetic code. Was it really necessary to drag this whole thing out for an entire hour?
Although Charred Walls of the Damned has established a fantastic identity, this is hardly the work of veteran musicians coming together for something completely unique and perplexing. Rather, the accessibility crashes very quickly, and then what? Just add another seven songs that stretch out the redundancy and add nothing new? That's what it seems like, anyway. This record had all the fundamentals of a stellar experience from the excellent lineup to the glorious edge of fatalism glaring within the group's icy gimmick. However, "Cold Winds on Timeless Days" fails to reach the goals it should've easily obtained at a primordial state, leaving the album cold, breezy, and timeless like a loaf of bread. You'll love this if you love disappointment.
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While the concept of the super band is one that lends itself to more clichés than I care to delve into, one unenviable outcome of this pedigree of band has been mercifully avoided by American grown power/thrash outfit Charred Walls Of The Damned, namely the fissile out after one album and either not release another one or hit a massive sophomore slump. A mere year later, this group of seasoned veterans accompanied by a slightly greener guitarist to the genre has decided not only to reprise their previous successful excursion into merging modern and archaic power metal practices, but to build upon it. The end result is an album that is bigger, longer, faster, and ultimately a tad bit better than the marginally impressive 35 minute debut that introduced the band in 2010.
As stated previously, the strong affinity that this band has with 3 or its 4 members' former outfit Iced Earth, namely the 2000s era where Tim Owens replaced Matt Barlow, is all over this band's sound. But equally present is a somewhat greater sense of bitterness, coldness, and fatalism that definitely fits an album title like "Cold Winds On Timeless Days". While the band's approach is very mindful of the melodic accessibility that goes with this particular side of the metal coin, they allot plenty of time for Jason Suecof to mix things up with a faster riff set and some lead break adventures, as well as many opportunities for Tim to launch his high soaring Halford wail into the stratosphere. But most auspicious of all is a complete lack of shyness for fully displaying agitated, high octane thrash metal tendencies, culminating in a healthy number of songs that rival a number of tech. death bands in the drumming department.
Even though the average song length on this album is a good bit longer than the previous opus, the frenetic thrashers tend to be even more intense, and the slightly more restrained numbers tend to be stronger despite more repetition. The drum work alone on "Lead The Way" and "Zerospan" is mind boggling in its intensity, while the bass work on "Forever Marching On" and "On Unclean Ground" occasionally channels those quirky slap bass gimmicks employed here and there by Helloween while avoiding a complete break with the album's poignant character. The chorus sections of all these songs have a sense of impending tragedy, despite the heroic nature of the riffs and the generally classically minded harmonic structure. But the band's best and most memorable songs on here take on a more measured character of aggression and atmospherics, culminating in the unforgettable anthems of winter chills and longing that are "Timeless Days" and "Admire The Heroes", by far the two catchiest songs offered up by this outfit thus far.
The overall collective output of this band is pretty evenly distributed, despite the fact that guitarist Jason Suecof doesn't come from as extensive a background as the other musicians that make up this band. It's a testament that even though the professionalism of musical giants in a super band capacity can be overshadowed by ego and misguided ambition, it doesn't necessarily always happen and that same professionalism can yield a band capable of matching other related projects. This is a band with staying power, and one to watch over the next several years, provided they can keep it together. Whether one's poison consist of Swedish melodeath or thrashing American grown power metal, either can be adequately satisfied with a listen to this album, save purists in the former category that can't live without hearing yet another Tomas Lindberg imitator as opposed to a Halford emulator.
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Charred Walls of the Damned is quite a supergroup, boasting an impressive cast of three of metal's demigods, as well as a fourth good, with double "o", member. The brainchild of fantastic drummer Richard Christy, also sports former Iced Earth alumni and ex-Judas Priest Tim "Ripper" Owens on vocals, the outstanding bass-master Steve DiGiorgio and the less remarkable but still much capable Jason Suecof in guitars. Cold Winds on Timeless Days is their second long-play release after just one year of this band's inception, and it's a decent, if somehow disappointing, follow-up to the band's self-titled debut released in 2010. Being longer than its predecessor by twenty minutes, the sophomore is packed with twelve songs that display the musical mastery of this gentlemen and their brand of technical power/thrash.
The wanting cover artwork serves as an indicator of the music within, because in spite of having more songs and ideas thrown in than the debut, Cold Winds on Timeless Days falls a bit short in delivery. While the self-titled album "only" had nine compositions, not counting the bonus track, most of them were memorable to a certain degree and didn't sacrificed catchiness in favor of technical prowess. Here we have more material and longer songs, but less focused, with less hooks, less compelling riffs and less overall highlights. To be fair, none of the musicians really delve into pure wankery or show off, they all work at unison and have a balanced input, but the songwriting feels weak and uninspired. Moreover, Richard Christy's lyrics feel "preachier" this time around, while the choruses and bridges end up sounding pretty insipid, despite being powerfully uttered by The Ripper himself.
Production work is an exact replica of the debut, and all the instruments sound exactly the same as in that record, which is not a pejorative characteristic by any means. No instrument overpowers other, they are all clearly audible and enjoy their deserved share of presence. And combined, they really rock. The rhythmic section is on fire again, Christy and DiGiorigo in perfect metallic symbiosis as we can hear at the beginning of "Forever Marching On", to cite an example of the many I could have conjured up. They're probably the best reason for listening to this album. Suecof's guitar-work is perhaps the least striking feature here, but it works efficiently, both as a rhythmic participant or as a lead axeman. And Owens, is Owens, though in this album he mostly maintains an operatic wail of a certain register throughout most songs, and doesn't show the versatility he possesses. You won't here any ear-ripping scream a la Halford or any gruffier singing like he did, say, in Jugulator's closing track "Cathedral Spires".
As for highlights, I must say I find most songs to have an equilibrated deal of highs and lows, and I wouldn't consider any of the twelve tracks to be neither a masterpiece nor a total waste of time. Slightly better than the rest, I would say my favorites are the almost-six-minute "Lead the Way", with its entwining melodies and remarkable rhythmic assault, one of the heaviest tunes here, and "The Beast Outside My Window", which starts with a tranquil acoustic intro that gives way to a blast-beated power metal number. Ironically, it lacks a solo to further heighten its status, but it's riffs and vocal lines are among the best in the entire album. "Bloodworm" comes third place, a mid-paced number with memorable melodic guitars, while "Zerospan" and the closer "Avoid the Light" are some of the most head-bangeable, but get a bit tedious in parts.
This album could have been so much better, given the talent at play. Had some songs been trimmed a bit, the meandering parts and lackluster songwriting removed altogether, we could have had one amazing power/thrash album. Sadly it's not the case, but maybe for the following Charred Walls of the Damned album the guys will hone their composition capabilities to better results. The potential is clearly there.


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The Obama campaign provided this birth certificate, showing Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
An anti-tax activist from upstate New York who is questioning whether President-elect Barack Obama is a "natural born citizen" eligible for the nation's top job said Tuesday that his non-profit group spent "tens of thousands of dollars" to get his message across in ads in the Chicago Tribune this week.
Robert L. Schulz, 69, chairman of We The People Foundation, took out ads Monday and Wednesday to raise questions about whether Obama's Hawaii certificate of live birth is authentic.
The ads echo accusations circulated online by some Obama opponents before the election. Cases challenging Obama's citizenship have been tossed out of courts in several states, and Hawaiian officials have vouched for the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate, which is locked in a state vault. The Obama campaign likewise has always dismissed the accusations.
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•The birth form released by Obama was "an unsigned, forged and thoroughly discredited" live birth form, Schulz says.
Last summer, Obama's campaign presented a digital copy of his certificate of live birth. After critics questioned its authenticity, staff at FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, said they had seen, held and examined the actual birth certificate.
•"Hawaiian officials will not confirm" that Obama was born in their state, Schulz says.
Initially, Hawaiian officials said that privacy laws prevented them from releasing a copy or confirming that Obama's copy was authentic. But in late October as questions persisted, Hawaii's health director and head of vital statistics reviewed Obama's birth certificate in the department's vault and vouched for its authenticity.
•Schulz says that legal affidavits state Obama was born in Kenya.
The affidavits that Schulz refers to are filings by the Obama critics themselves in the court cases challenging Obama's citizenship.
•Obama's paternal grandmother is recorded on tape saying she attended Obama's birth in Kenya, Schulz says.
The group's Web site posted what it says is a transcript of a long-distance phone conversation in Swahili and English from late October between a questioner in the United States and Sarah Hussein Obama, in her Kenyan home. The translator said he was one of two interpreters conducting the interview in a crowded hut during a celebration, over a speaker phone that dropped the call three times. A copy of the recording was not provided by Schulz.
• Schulz says that "U.S. law in effect in 1961 [the year of Obama's birth] denied citizenship to any child born in Kenya if the father was Kenyan and the mother was not yet 19 years of age."
If a child is born in the United States—as Hawaiian officials state that Obama was—that child is a U.S. citizen regardless of his or her parents' nationalities. If born to an American parent outside the U.S., the law at the time would require the U.S. citizen parent to be at least 19, which Obama's mother was not. The provisions of this law were subsequently loosened and made retroactive for government employees serving abroad and their families. It appears that this would not apply to Obama's mother. The matter would seem to be academic: Hawaiian officials vouch for Obama's birth certificate.
•Schulz says that in 1965, Obama's mother relinquished whatever Kenyan or U.S. citizenship she and Obama had by marrying an Indonesian and becoming a naturalized Indonesian citizen.
U.S. law lists the specific acts and formal procedures necessary to relinquish U.S. nationality. The statute requires the acts be performed voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing one's nationality. In many instances, one must be 18 to renounce one's citizenship. Obama moved to Indonesia in 1968 and moved back to Hawaii while still in grade school. There is no indication that Obama renounced his U.S. citizenship.
Schulz supports his argument with a reproduced Indonesian school document that states Obama's citizenship at that time as "Indonesian." But the same document also lists Obama's birthplace as " Honolulu, Hawaii."
Schulz, interviewed by the Tribune on Tuesday, said his concern about Obama's citizenship is not partisan.
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Tax debate is fair game, however. The Queensbury, N.Y., man has been active on tax issues for nearly 30 years. Last year, a senior judge in the Northern District of New York ordered Schulz to shut down a Web site that sold advice on avoiding taxes.
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He hopes the Tribune ads bring his group prominence.
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Obama Fomenting A Constitutional Crisis: Constitutional Lawyer Discusses Ramifications Of Controversy
By John P. Connolly, The Bulletin
Controversy continues to surround President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, and a case involving his birth certificate waits for its day before the U.S. Supreme Court. A constitutional lawyer said were it to be discovered that Mr. Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, it would have grave consequences for the nation.
According to the Constitution, a president must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. Mr. Obama's critics have failed to force him legally to produce his original birth certificate, and Mr. Obama has resisted any attempt to make him do so. Currently, only Hawaii Department of Health officials have access to Mr. Obama's original records.
Some of Mr. Obama's critics have said he was born in Kenya and have claimed he is a citizen of Kenya, Indonesia, or even a British subject.
Edwin Vieira, a constitutional lawyer who has practiced for 30 years and holds four degrees from Harvard, said if it were to be discovered Mr. Obama were not eligible for the presidency, it would cause many problems. They would be compounded if his ineligibility were discovered after he had been in office for a period of time.
"Let's assume he wasn't born in the U.S.," Mr. Vieira told The Bulletin. "What's the consequence? He will not be eligible. That means he cannot be elected validly. The people and the Electoral College cannot overcome this and the House of Representatives can't make him president. So what's the next step? He takes the oath of office, and assuming he's aware he's not a citizen, then it's a perjured oath."
Any appointments made by an ineligible president would have to be recalled, and their decisions would be invalidated.
"He may have nominated people to different positions; he may have nominated people to the judicial branch, who may have been confirmed, they may have gone out on xecutive duty and done various things," said Mr. Vieira. "The people that he's put into the judicial branch may have decided cases, and all of that needs to be unzipped."
Mr. Vieira said Obama supporters should be the ones concerned about the case, because Mr. Obama's platform would be discredited it he were forced to step down from the presidency later due to his ineligibility, were it to be discovered.
"Let's say we go a year into this process, and it all turns out to be a flim-flam," said Mr. Vieira. "What's the nation's reaction to that? What's going to be the reaction in the next U.S. election? God knows. It has almost revolutionary consequences, if you think about it."
Mr. Vieira said Mr. Obama's continued silence and avoidance in the release of his birth certificate is an ethical issue because of the dire consequences that could be caused by a possible constitutional crisis.
"If he were my client and this question came up in civil litigation, if there was some reason that his birth status was relevant and the other side wanted him to produce the thing and he said 'no,' I would tell him, 'you have about 15 minutes to produce it or sign the papers necessary to produce the document, or I'm resigning as your attorney," said Mr. Vieira. "I don't think any ethical attorney would go ahead on the basis that his client could produce an objective document in civil litigation [and refused to do so]."
Further, Mr. Vieira cited a fraud ruling in a 1977 case called U.S. v. Prudden, which he feels applies in this case.
"Silence can only be equated with fraud when there is a legal and moral duty to speak or when an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading," the ruling reads. "We cannot condone this shocking conduct ... If that is the case we hope our message is clear. This sort of deception will not be tolerated and if this is routine it should be corrected immediately."
Mr. Vieira said such an ethical question of representing a client who refused to produce such a basic document is important, even in a small civil case. The current question is concerning the man who potentially could have his finger next to the nuclear button.
"[The birth certificate], in theory, should be there," said Mr. Vieira. "What if it isn't? Who knows, aside from Mr. Obama? Does Russian intelligence know it isn't there? Does Chinese intelligence know it isn't there? Does the CIA know that it isn't there? Who is in a position to blackmail this fellow?"
Mr. Vieira explained all laws have to be submitted to the president. In the event that there is no valid president, then no laws passed by Congress in that administration would be legally null and void. Because of that, this case will probably not go away, even after Mr. Obama takes the oath of office.
"If you don't produce it, you think it's going to go away," he said. "There are all these cases challenging Mr. Obama, and some challenging secretaries of state, and they run into this doctrine called standing."
Mr. Vieira explained although legal standing is difficult to get around in Federal courts, the document could be produced in any criminal cases stemming from legislation passed in the Obama administration.
"Let's assume that an Obama administration passes some of these controversial pieces of legislation he has been promising to go for, like the FOCA (Freedom of Choice) Act," said Mr. Vieira. "I would assume that some of those surely will have some severe civil or criminal penalties attached to them for violation. You are now the criminal defendant under this statute, which was passed by an Obama Congress and signed by President Obama. Your defense is that is not a statute because Mr. Obama is not the president. You now have a right and I have never heard this challenged, to subpoena in a criminal case, anyone who has relevant evidence relating to your defenses. And you can subpoena them duces tecum, meaning 'you shall bring with you the documents.' "
Such a criminal defense would enable the defendant to subpoena any person to testify in court and any person to bring evidence in their possession to the court.
Further, records could be subpoenaed directly, in the case of a birth certificate. Once the record could be subpoenaed, the birth certificate could be examined by forensic experts, who would then be able to testify to the document's veracity as expert witnesses. Any movement by the judges to make a special exception to the president in a criminal case would hurt the legitimacy of that presidential administration.
"I can't believe I'm the only lawyer who would think of this," said Mr. Vieira. "I think any criminal lawyer defending against one of these politically charged statutes is going to come up with this. That means it will never go away until that document is laid down on the table and people say, 'yes, there it is.' And therefore they're caught. If people keep challenging this and the judges out of fear keep saying 'no, go to jail, go to jail, go to jail' then that's the end of the Obama administration's legitimacy. On the other hand if they open the file and it's not there, then that's really the end of the administration's legitimacy."
Several court cases in the birth certificate controversy are waiting admission to the Supreme Court.
A gathering of judges will meet on Dec. 5 to decide whether or not to hear a case from New Jersey, and a decision is still pending on a case from a lawyer in Pennsylvania. Should four of the judges vote to hear the case in the Dec. 5 meeting, then it will be scheduled for hearings. Court cases from Connecticut and New York have also applied for hearings at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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If the math is right, Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook has been at the helm for 218 days. That's not long enough for Steve Jobs' memory and personality to fade away, but it is long enough to start drawing some conclusions about how things might be changing for the consumer electronics giant.
It's a discussion worth having, too, especially for investors. For better or worse, Steve Jobs has been synonymous with Apple for well over a decade, and with Mr. Jobs passing last year, doubts that Apple would remain the leader of the consumer technology universe started to surface.
Those doubts were magnified knowing the keys to the Apple kingdom were being handed over to a man who's claim to fame was being an "operational genius" — not exactly inspiring stuff.
Well, with the dust starting to settle and the early assumptions being laid to rest, it's time to start taking more than just a superficial look at the obvious Tim Cook qualities.
It's time to really start judging whether he's the best guy to head Apple.
Not Really Game-Changing
Odds are good you're already aware Tim Cook is more into charity than Steve Jobs was. The company has donated more than $100 million to charitable causes during his seven-month tenure, whereas Steve Jobs wouldn't have cared if the total giving remained at zero forever.
And of course, now Apple is paying a dividend, which is something that never would have happened under Steve Jobs, who was perpetually (and usually needlessly) worried about liquidity.
Frankly, though, while those are the hot buttons the media has fixated on, they're really not that important to growth investors, who are more concerned about income statements, a competitive edge and Apple's differentiation. To that end …
Very Relevant to Investors
It's difficult to be critical of Steve Jobs' leadership when he turned Apple from a $30 billion company in the early 2000s into a $500 billion-plus company today. Profit margins and profit growth have been ridiculously strong. too. Make no mistake. though — Apple didn't make one penny by selling anything that wasn't 100% conceived by Steve Jobs. It worked, but it makes one wonder how many good (i.e. marketable) product ideas were shot down within the corporation's walls.
Tim Cook, in contrast, isn't an idea man. He knows it, too, which is precisely why he's wholly open to new ideas. That's not to say he's going to shelf iPads and iPhones, or cancel the budding Apple TV idea. But the next cool consumer gizmo from Apple probably won't be something Cook cooked up. In fact, odds are good this "open-door" idea policy will lead to a wider, more diverse product line from Apple.
That might be a little uncomfortable for shareholders who are fully immersed in the ways of Steve Jobs. While diversifying your product base is a wise idea for most companies, for Apple, doing one thing really, really, stunningly well was a business model that worked. Without an obsessive captain driving for the perfect user experience, though, that singular focus might become a liability for Apple like it is for most other companies.
Along those same lines, while Tim Cook's accolade of "operational genius" might seem lame, it's a description that understates the value of that skill.
It's rarely said — or even recognized — but a great deal of Apple's operational success had to do with its ability to squeeze and tweak its supply chains, up to and including squeezing competitors out. Whereas Steve Jobs realized that Apple had this kind of clout, Cook is likely to not only recognize it, but also to use it as a finite corporate strategy.
Less Silliness/More Seriousness
Last but not least, Cook is going to run Apple more like a major publicly traded corporation and less like a smarmy cult.
Although he never said or even implied it, one could almost sense a certain glib giddiness from Steve Jobs when supply couldn't meet demand for new product launches. That scarcity was part of the mystique.
The same willingness to go over the top in making a point also affected Apple on legal fronts. Steve Jobs didn't just want to compete with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android devices — he wanted to destroy and punish those who had anything to do with it, no matter how ridiculous the effort seemed.
Case in point: Apple's suit against Samsung, which argues that one of Samsung's Android phones copied the iPhone design because it was "a rectangular product with four evenly rounded corners, a flat clear face covering the front of the product, a large display screen under the clear surface." Yes, it's a ridiculous argument, but no less ridiculous than Steve Jobs (literally) declaring "thermonuclear war" on Android; the lawsuits were just a battle front.
Tim Cook, on the other hand, sees a limited supply of product as leaving revenue on the table, which is why the recent launch of the newest iPad fully met demand. Cook made sure there were enough.
In the same non-silly vein, Cook is mulling calling a legal truce with Android, and instead just focusing on out-executing the competition. It's a 180-degree turnaround, but there's a reason it's what 99% of the other companies in the world would do.
Bottom Line
Of course, only time will ultimately tell what Apple will look like three, five and 10 years from now, but from what we can see today, it's going to look different. The undertow seems to favor more products (and therefore less focus), less attitude, but more efficiency — and maybe even wider net margins. It's not only different, but a little boring.
That doesn't need to spook current investors, though, because different and boring aren't inherently bad. Just adjust your expectations accordingly.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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The emergency state : America's pursuit of absolute security at all costs / David C. Unger.
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- Description: 359 p. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
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| Introduction -- Losing our way -- The godfather -- The framing of the permanent emergency state -- Runaway train -- Belated realism -- Tunnel vision -- Emergency repairs -- Damage control -- A different path -- The president we wanted -- Soft landing -- Bridge to nowhere -- Come the destroyer -- Hope abandoned -- Beyond the emergency state -- Conclusion.
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It will be remembered that when the Transylvania Convention adjourned in May of 1775, it adjourned with an order that it would reconvene at Boonesborough on the first Thursday in September of that year. However, September came and went without an assembly of that legislature. With the initiation of the Revolutionary War on the eastern seaboard and the coming of people to Boonesborough from that area, revolutionary sentiments of the east had infiltrated into the backcountry of Kentucky. Before the summer of 1775 had ended, the idea of a proprietary government in Kentucky had become obnoxious to the Kentucky settlers.
A meeting of the majority of the members of the Transylvania Company, held on September 25, 1775, in the little town of Oxford, in Granville County, North Carolina, resulted in an immediate step being taken to secure the recognition of the Colony of Transylvania as the 14th member of the United Colonies by an adoption of a memorial to the Continental Congress which was then in session in Philadelphia. James Hogg had been elected as a delegate to that body.
Hogg reached Philadelphia on October 22, 1775, and, although he was not received as an official delegate, he worked faithfully among the leaders of that assembly. One of those leaders, Silas Deane, was so seriously impressed with the possibility of a new colony that he personally drew up a paper to aid in the proper shaping of its economy and government, but advised Hogg to contact the Virginia delegates as the Continental Congress was certainly not disposed to take any action on this matter without their consent.
On Hogg's contact with the Virginia members of Congress, one of them, Thomas Jefferson, indicated that he would like to see a free government established there in Transylvania, but that he would consent to no congressional acknowledgement of such a colony until it was approved by the Virginia Convention. It was quite plain to Hogg that none of the congressmen that he had consulted would countenance a proprietary government. In a report to Judge Henderson, Hogg wrote, "You would be amazed to see how much at earnest all these speculative gentlemen are about the plan to be adopted by the Transylvanians. They entreat, they pray we may make it a free government, and beg that no mercenary or ambitious views in the proprietors may prevent it. Quit rents, they say, is a mark of vassalage, and hope they shall not be established in Transylvania. They even threaten us with their opposition if we do not act upon liberal principles." Hogg stated that he was enclosing a copy of a sketch by John Adams, which he had obtained from Richard Henry Lee, in which Adams, like Jefferson and Deane, urged the adoption of full and complete republican constitutions by all of the colonies. By this time Judge Henderson and the other members of the Transylvania Company must have realized, even though six or eight months would elapse before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, that the prospect for an American colony with a proprietary form of government was not particularly bright.
At the September meeting of the proprietors, they agreed to advance the price of land in Transylvania from 20 shillings per hundred acres to 50 shillings per hundred acres. This raising of the price of land initiated a dissatisfaction which was to increase as time went on.
On the first of December the uncle of Judge Henderson, John Williams, who had recently been elected general agent of the Transylvania Colony, arrived in Boonesborough accompanied by another group of immigrants and there opened a land office for the Transylvania Colony. At this time John Floyd, who had been a surveyor under the government of Virginia, was appointed surveyor, Natianiel Henderson was appointed entry officer, and Richard Harrison secretary. John Williams, in his new capacity as general agent for the Transylvania Colony, soon found that the rise in the price of land was causing great dissatisfaction throughout Transylvania. Some of the residents of Harrodsburg drew up a formal protest which was delivered to him by a special committee. His reply to this protest was not satisfactory to the residents of Harrodsburg or other residents of the colony, and dissatisfaction and trouble grew.
On December 23, 1775, the residents of Boonesborough were amazed, horrified and exasperated by an Indian outrage. The western Indians were still neutral in the struggle of the Revolutionary War. On that day two boys of Boonesborough, one named McQuinney and another named Sanders, left Boonesborough without their rifles, which was a common practice among the settlers, crossed the Kentucky River and climbed the hills opposite the fort where they fell into the hands of lurking Shawnee Indians who fired on another member of the garrison, also on that side of the river. At first, the residents of Boonesborough were alarmed under the impression that a large body of Indians had arrived in the vicinity of the settlement. This alarm increased as the boys did not return. On December 27, the body of the McQuinney boy, killed and scalped, was located in a cornfield about three miles north of the Kentucky River and there was evidence that the slayers had continued travel to the north. A party of Rangers under the command of Jesse Benton, father of the afterwards famous Thomas H. Benton, made an attempt to find the slayers. The Transylvania Colony had made an offer of five pounds for the scalp of each of the fleeing Indians, but no such scalps were secured. The other boy, Sanders, whether killed or a prisoner, was never known as he never returned to the settlement nor was he heard from again. The Transylvania Colony had been free of any attacks by Indians since shortly after the attack on Captain Twetty the previous spring, and the residents of the colony had felt that they were free of such a threat. This outrage came as a shock and the first Christmas at Boonesborough was one of grief, anxiety and tears.
The new year of 1776, opened peacefully enough at Boonesborough and business at the land office continued. The spring was uneventful, but immigration from Virginia and North Carolina was noticeably checked by the Indian attack of the last days of the previous year. While both English and Americans were working for an Indian alliance, it was generally conceded that the Indians, as usual, would side with the strongest party. The outlook appeared gloomy to the residents of the frontier.
In May of 1776, a petition, based on the information contained in the remonstrations of the previous December to Commissioner Williams, was received by the Virginia convention from "The inhabitants and some of the settlers of that part of North America now denominated Transylvania." This was the last time that the name Transylvania was formally recognized as the name of that colony.
Judge Henderson, who was at Williamsburg watching the interests of the Transylvania Company, filed an answering petition while feelings waxed higher in the Kentucky wilderness. The rise in the price of land, coupled with the uncertainty of its title, and the futile features of the quit-rent system was not the only objections of the Congress to the proprietary government.
The government of the Transylvania Colony was not countenanced by any of the old colonies, it had no militia, and these deficiencies grew greatly in proportion as friendly Indians advised the settlers that some of the western tribes were leaning against the whites. The people of Transylvania realized at once the importance of an open and decided recognition of their territory as a part of Virginia. An eight-day election held at Harrodsburg, commencing on June 6, resulted in the selection of two representatives, George Rogers Clark and John Gabriel Jones, from West Fincastle, as the colony was now called, to the convention of Virginia, and of an executive committee to voice the wishes of the people. This was done on June 20, 1776, by the adoption of a petition to the convention which petitioned for the incorporation of West Fincastle as a county of Virginia. This had not been what the adventurous George Rogers Clark had contemplated, but the people had settled the matter, and he agreed. He declares in his Memoirs, "I wanted deputies elected at Harrodsburg to treat with the Virginia Assembly. If valuable consideration were procured we would declare ourselves citizens of the state, otherwise we would establish an independent government."
The convention adjourned before these proceedings could be submitted to it, but not before it made provisions to accurately determine Virginia's chartered interest in Kentucky territory. It also made provisions for an inquiry into the alleged illegal purchase from the Indians. Both of these proposals looked ominous for the Transylvania Company, which issued a warning proclamation as to settlement on disputed land.
This was the beginning of confusion as to title and direction of lands which now lie within the exterior boundaries of the Daniel Boone National Forest. In establishing the national forest, this confusion of land action which followed has cost the government many hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of man days of legal work in attempting to establish true and clear title. Even to this day many cases are in Federal Court questioning the claim of title to land now being administered by the Daniel Boone National Forest.
While these actions were taking place in far-away Virginia, the Transylvania Colony on the banks of the Kentucky River had difficulties and anxieties of their own. While the Indian tribes still claimed to be friends with the white people, it was noted by the hunters that Indian signs in the general vicinity of Boonesborough had again appeared. It was also significant that several of the men who had left the settlement on long hunting trips had never returned. The residents of the Boonesborough settlement were anxious and apprehensive, but more than six months had elapsed since the murder of McQuinney, and no live Indians had been seen by anyone at the settlement.
In spite of the talk about Indian wars, Boonesborough had begun to feel so safe that on Sunday, July 14, 1776, a party of three young girls went for a paddle on the river. Jemima Boone was suffering from a cane stab in the foot, a not infrequent injury since there was lots of stubble and most of the women and girls went barefoot. She wanted to soak the feverish foot in the cool waters of the river. Fanny and Betsy Callaway went with her to paddle. Other youngsters clamoured to go along, but young ladies with suitors felt much too grown up to bother with small fry, although they had been perfectly willing to take Nathan Reid, a dashing young man lately arrived from Virginia. The Callaway sisters paddled safely enough with Jemima Boone dangling her sore foot in the water. The current carried them slowly downstream until they were near one-half mile below the fort and drew them toward the steep bluff on the north side of the river. Not being very skillful or very strong, they had trouble with the canoe and got stuck on a sand bar. The cane came close enough to the water's edge to make an ideal hiding place for five Shawnee warriors who had been watching the fort, and who, observing the girls trials, had quietly waited to see if they might not drift within reach. As they silently waited, the canoe drifted nearer and nearer. The girls' futile struggles with the paddles only brought it closer. When only a few yards from shore, the Indians pounced on them, one ran waist deep into the water to seize the canoe. Resist as best they could, the little white squaws were soon overpowered, dragged through the shallow water for shore, then under cover of the dense thicket in the ravine, rushed to the hills which edged the north side of the river. Their cries and screams were soon silenced by threats of extreme violence. After traveling some seven or eight miles, the war party camped that night not far from the present site of Winchester.
The kidnappers had been so quick and so clever that, according to some, the girls were not missed for some time. It is not clear just how or when they were first missed; by their cries, by the little girls left on the south bank or that they did not show up at milking time.
Colonel Callaway and Daniel Boone got together a group to pursue the Indian party and the girls. Present were Samuel Henderson, who was engaged to marry Elizabeth Callaway, and the suitors of Jemima Boone and Fannie Callaway, Flanders Callaway and John Holden, respectively. There was only one boat available, and it was on the other side of the river where the Indians had put it adrift. A brave deed was rendered by John Gess who swam the river and brought it back, a courageous act in that no one knew whether or not the enemy was concealed and who could easily have taken the swimmer's life.
It was late in the evening when Boone, accompanied by five others, John Reid, John Floyd, Samuel Henderson and William Bailey Smith, set out for the rescue. At the same time, Colonel Callaway and eight or nine other men on horseback rode downstream about a mile to the ford where they crossed and soon joined the other group. A council was held and it was deemed best that Boone's party should pursue on foot, and that the horsemen under Callaway should hasten directly to the Lower Blue Licks to cut off the kidnappers. The first group was forced by darkness to camp in an unfinished cabin.
The pursuit commenced again early the next morning. Three other men, John McMillan, William Bush and John Martin who had been working on the cabin, joined the group. It was not long before they came upon the spot where the Indian party had camped the night before. Boone's superior knowledge of Indian habits and tricks aided them a very great deal. However, several times they followed false trails made by the wily Indians to mislead the pursuers. Even though the girls made numerous attempts to leave trail signs by the use of broken twigs, shoe prints, and torn pieces of clothing, the party had difficulty staying on the right course. Boone finally decided the pursued were getting along faster than the pursuers, and that the best thing to do was to follow a straight route to the mouth of the Scioto River. He did this for two reasons; there was the possibility that the rear guard Indians might see the pursuers and would tomahawk the girls rather than to let them be retaken, also that by a straight route they could make much faster time. On Monday they traveled about 30 miles, passing close to the present towns of Winchester, North Middletown and Carlisle. By ten o'clock on Tuesday, they reached the Hinkston's Fork of the Licking River. There they found fresh tracks and muddy water and because of this, they again commenced to follow the trail.
The first day the Indians did not stop to cook food for fear of revealing their location. The girls were given dried venison and smoked buffalo tongue, both of which were dried, hard, unsalted and not very tasty to them. Betsy Callaway, the most courageous of the three, kept continually trying to keep up the spirits of the other two. She told them not to fret that their boy friends would soon come to their rescue. The second day, however, they were becoming more despaired. The Indians were kind to the girls almost to a show of affection. As was almost a universal custom of the Indians, they did not molest or abuse their female captives.
The first hill which the girls had to climb after being captured was steep and difficult. After reaching the more level ground the girls began using every possible device, and in which they proved to be quite clever, to delay the progress and leave a trail behind them. Jemima Boone, having the sore foot, at first refused to proceed and did not until she was given a pair of moccasins and threatened with bodily harm. Betsy had on heels made of wood, so when she walked she dug her heels as deeply as she could until her practice was discovered by one of her captors. On Monday morning the Indians found a stray pony on which they insisted the girls ride. They proceeded to annoy the poor beast causing it to rear up so that they would slide off the back. Also when going up a steep hill or bank, they would purposely slide off slowing progress as much as possible.
Thursday the Indians killed a buffalo, cutting from it the choice parts. Now becoming more careless, they built a fire to cook the meat.
Boone's party, traveling eight or nine miles from Hinkston's, came upon the slaughtered buffalo. Soon they divided and approached the Indian camp in two groups. The first man of one party advanced and, against previous orders, fired at one of the Indians with poor aim. Boone and Floyd came quickly from behind and saw Fannie and Jemima watching a large Indian spitting meat. He fell, the object of Boone's fire. Jemima cried, "That's Daddy's gun." The injured redskin, half bent, ran away with his companions following close behind. They had left everything behind except one gun. Betsy almost met a sad fate for as one Indian ran, he threw his tomahawk at her head, barely missing it. Also one of the girls, due to her dark coloring, somewhat aided by her fatigue and worry, almost fell to one of the white men who had mistaken her for an Indian leveled the butt of his gun to strike her, only to be prevented by Boone's arm.
After the rescue of the girls, the party did not even pursue the Indians but started joyfully toward home.
This was only the beginning of the Indian troubles for the summer. Before the rescue party returned to Boonesborough, another small band of Indians had arrived at Nathaniel Hart's clearing where they burned his recently completed cabin and destroyed young apple trees which he had set out. Due to the absence of the two rescue parties, it was deemed unwise for the remaining men at Boonesborough to pursue and punish these marauders. The news brought in by hunters and scouts indicated small parties of Indians lurking in the vicinity of all of the stations in Kentucky. It was apparent that the Indians were again on the prowl looking for any small groups of settlers that could be intercepted.
One beneficial effect of this Indian scare at Boonesborough was the fact that it motivated the men of the settlement to do further work on the fort, to fashion a set of clumsy gates at each of the gate openings and to fill in pickets between the cabins to complete the stockade. At last Judge Henderson's efforts to have this fort established for the benefit of the people had paid off, and at times of Indian troubles the surrounding settlers crowded into the fort for its protection and the safety of numbers. However, this Indian scare did have its effect on the Kentucky frontier.
Not all of the happenings at Boonesborough that summer of 1776 were sad or fearful. On August 7, just three weeks after the capture and rescue of the Callaway girls and Jermima Boone, there took place the first wedding to be held in Kentucky. At this wedding Elizabeth Callaway, the oldest of the three girls captured and rescued, was married to Samuel Henderson, a brother of Judge Henderson. The ceremony was performed by Squire Boone, who was a Baptist elder as well as an accomplished Indian fighter. Samuel Henderson had been a member of Daniel Boone's rescue party and had rescued his bride from the Indians. As was customary at such frontier celebrations, there was much fiddle music and dancing as well as the good natured banter which accompanied such events. One of the features of the celebration of this wedding was the treating of the guests to home-grown watermelon, the first grown at the Boonesborough settlement and of which the entire settlement was very proud.
A few days after the wedding, the settlement of Boonesborough was electrified by news brought from a traveler from Virginia. He had brought with him a copy of the Virginia Gazette containing the full text of the recently signed Declaration of Independence. Every word of this immortal document was read aloud to the assembled residents of Boonesborough who indicated their full support by cheer and war-whoops and by a huge bonfire that evening at the fort.
However, all of the news that came to Boonesborough at this time was not good. Judge Henderson had been working with the members of the Virginia Legislature, then being formed, to establish acceptance of his treaty with the Cherokee as a basis for the Transylvania Colony. As he was encountering some difficulties with the members of this new legislature, two other members of the Transylvania Company, John Williams, the company agent, and John Floyd, the company surveyor, left Boonesborough early in September to return to Williamsburg to assist in any way possible with this matter.
The first session of the newly created Legislature of Virginia began its session in Williamsburg in October of 1776. Judge Henderson and his associates of the Transylvania Company had made every effort to contact key members of this legislature and to convince them of the soundness of the Transylvania Company's claim to the land included in their Treaty with the Cherokee. However, they were unsuccessful and in December, 1776, the Commonwealth of Virginia assumed jurisdiction of the disputed territory, which included all of the area which is now the State of Kentucky by the passage of an act which created the County of Kentucky, which included the Henderson Purchase. On November 14, 1778, the Virginia House of Delegates wrote the final chapters by confirming this action of October 8, 1776, to eliminate forever the claims of the Transylvania Company and the proprietary government of Transylvania which now ceased to exist.
Boonesborough suddenly found itself a wilderness settlement in the extreme western county of the State of Virginia. The dream of Judge Henderson and his associates of the Transylvania Company to possess an empire with great territory and to gain for themselves the magnificent revenues it would yield now ended in a struggle for compensation for expenses, labor and trouble incurred in the enterprise.
However, the Virginia Legislature did not fail to recognize the service Judge Henderson and his associates gave in opening up the land beyond the mountains and of increasing the settlement through the establishment of Boonesborough. The same House of Delegates of the Virginia Legislature that declared the claim of Henderson and the Transylvania Company null and void recognized his efforts by awarding him a grant of 200,000 acres of land in Kentucky located on the Kentucky River below the mouth of Green River. This is the area where today the Kentucky city of Henderson is located.


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May 16, 2002
Mr. Chairmen and Members of the Subcommittees:
Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you to discuss non-profit research corporations and educational foundations and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Human Studies Protection Program.
1. Non-profit Research Corporations and Educational Foundations Establishment
In 1988, Congress authorized VA to establish non-profit research corporations at the medical center level "to provide a flexible funding mechanism for the conduct of approved research" (Title 38, Section 7361). Prior to this measure, VA medical centers had been limited to using the General Post Fund to accept and expend non-appropriated research funds. This new mechanism has helped VA research by increasing flexibility with respect to staffing and handling donated funds and grants. The Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act of 1999 expanded VA's authority by permitting the establishment of non-profit corporations to accept funds to facilitate research or education (or both). Education includes those activities supporting work-related instruction and training for VA-employed staff, as well as broad instructional and learning experiences directed toward improving and maintaining the health of the veteran patient. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs has delegated to medical center Directors the authority to establish corporations.
As of June 1, 2001, 88 research and/or education corporations had been chartered. Of these, 85 remain active. Recently, two facilities established education corporations that are separate from the research corporations already serving these facilities. The current practice of one research corporation per facility provides the optimum on-site service to investigators, immediate oversight by VA line officials, and helps comply with state and local requirements.
Recent Contributions
In 2000, non-profit corporations received $173.7 million in donations, grants, and interest for both research and education activities. This represents a 17% increase over the previous year and demonstrates that VA clinicians and basic scientists continue to be highly successful in competing for private and public sector research and education funding. Less than 1% of 2000 revenues were received in direct support of education.
Funding generated from private sector sources in 2000 totaled $64.5 million and constituted the single largest source of donations. However, the number of corporations administering NIH grants has increased steadily since 1996, and NIH funding now represents the second largest source of all donations.
Non-profit corporations continued to manage funds very efficiently as evidenced by a low administrative overhead rate averaging 10 percent in contrast to the sector-wide average of 25 percent. As a result, 90 percent of all funds that corporations receive are available for the direct support of VA approved research and education.
In 2000, non-profit corporations supported 4,651 VA-approved projects, an eight percent increase over last year. Most of the projects are medical research clinical trials that focus on conditions prevalent in the veteran population and provide a direct benefit to VA patients. Non-profit corporations also provide salary support for clinical research personnel to monitor even more closely veteran patients enrolled in clinical trials.
Non-profit corporations benefit our veterans by generating funds that permit the acquisition of research equipment and supplies; space renovations; travel to scientific conferences; and salaries for research personnel including technicians, nurses, research coordinators, animal care takers, data clerks and investigators.
a. Indianapolis VAMC: Received $52,000 to purchase a confocal microscope and set aside $87,000 to purchase equipment for a newly renovated wet laboratory that will include a new biosafety level 3 lab.
b. Little Rock VAMC: VA investigators received funding for pilot studies, equipment purchases and bridge grants. Received three sets of animal cages at a cost of $75,000 and salary funding salary for a full-time Research Compliance Officer and a half-time Safety Officer for a total cost of $81,000.
By statute, the Board of Directors is responsible for the management and operation of the corporation. The board must consist of at least five members, including the statutory Directors, who are: the medical center Director, the Chief of Staff (COS), and the Associate Chief of Staff for Research (ACOS/R&D). The Associate Chief of Staff for Education (ACOS/E) is included for research and education corporations. At least two board members must be persons who are not officers or employees of the Federal Government, and who are familiar with issues involving research or education and training as appropriate for the activities of the corporation.
The medical center Director is authorized to approve all appointments and all changes to the membership of the corporation's Board of Directors serving that VA medical center. The Board of Directors of each corporation has authority to act for the corporation as provided in its articles of incorporation and bylaws. This includes the authority to appoint, subject to the concurrence of the medical center Director, an Executive Director for the general operation of the corporation and to establish the specific duties and responsibilities of the Executive Director.
The corporation may employ individuals to work on VA-approved research projects or education and training activities. Corporation employees assigned to VA to provide research, education, or training services are subject to VA's supervision, direction, and control. All corporation employees, including VA employees who work for the corporation during their non-VA duty hours, who are assigned to VA to work on research projects or education and training activities, must have a Without Compensation (WOC) appointment regardless of whether they receive a corporate salary. All corporation board members, officers, and employees are subject to Federal statutes and regulations applicable to Federal employees with respect to conduct and conflicts of interest. VA employees who, as part of their official responsibilities have any role or function, whether statutory or otherwise, in the affairs or operations of corporations, are required to ensure that the corporations further the best interests of VA.
Ensuring the corporation's assets are used for research is the primary goal in the management of corporate funds. An appropriate official of the corporation must approve all expenditures. That official may be the Executive Director or another person designated by the corporation's Board of Directors. When transferring funds to VA, the corporation must document the transaction. The documentation may consist of the following: a bill for collection, an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) mobility assignment, or an approved Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), as well as other records.
The corporation must make and preserve records of the organization, including its functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and transactions in accordance with commonly accepted non-profit practices and commonly accepted accounting practices. These records must be: designed to furnish information needed to protect the legal and financial rights of the Federal Government and of persons directly affected by the corporation's activities; and maintained for the benefit of the corporation. All pertinent tax records for purposes of IRS review shall be retained for 6 years. All other non-tax records shall be retained according to Federal and state laws. The creation and maintenance of such records must be consistent with sound accounting principles.
The corporations are engaged in business activities that generate tax-exempt revenues. They may not, consistent with their IRS tax-exempt status, engage in activities that would generate unrelated business income. Fundraising expenditures by the corporations are far below the national norms for nonprofits.
Oversight and Accountability
Corporations, in connection with any audit, inquiry, investigation, or review of corporation activities, must cooperate with and make their records available to the VA Inspector General, the Comptroller General, the IRS, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the State where the corporation is doing business. All corporations must submit a report each year to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Corporations with annual revenues between $10,000 and $300,000 must obtain an audit of the corporation at least every three years. Corporations with annual revenues over $300,000 must obtain audits each year. The Executive Director of the corporation is responsible for providing a copy of the auditor's report to the Chief Fiscal Officer or equivalent at the VA medical center which the corporation serves.
By June 1 of each year, corporations must submit an annual report to either the Office of Research and Development (ORD) or the Office of Academic Affiliations in VA Central Office, or to both, as appropriate, detailing corporation funding and expenditures. Expenditures are reviewed for appropriateness by the corporation's Executive Director, board of directors, accountant, and auditor prior to incorporation in financial statements and the IRS Form 990, which is included in the annual report to VA. The annual report is required even if the corporation did not accept or expend funds during the previous year.
Non-profit corporations are dedicated to fulfilling their congressional mandate in a responsible and conscientious manner, serving as a flexible funding mechanism for the conduct of VA-approved research and education. Revenues and expenditures in support of VA research and education programs are increasing, and the expertise of management is improving steadily as evidenced by corporation audit reports.
2. Protections for Human Participants in Research
VHA's Research and Development program is focused upon the high priority health care needs of veterans. A special advantage of the VA research program is that it is nested within a health care system that serves more than six million enrolled veterans, creating a unique opportunity to discover and apply new medical knowledge. Most VA investigators are also clinicians who have responsibility for providing care for our patients and for training future health care providers for the nation. Unlike NIH, VA does not make research grants to colleges and universities, cities or states, or any other non-VA entity. Many advances in health care that benefit veterans and the nation have emerged from VA research - from the first treatments for tuberculosis and some of the first successful organ transplants, to the discovery of a gene for schizophrenia and improved treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Given the importance of clinical research in VA, it is essential that our research program be committed to protecting the safety of patients and research subjects. VA is one of the 17 federal agencies that are signatories to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (38 CFR 16) and also has a separate regulation (38 CFR 17.85) that guarantees needed medical care for any patient injured in a VA research project. All VA scientists are required to abide by stringent ethical principles and rigorous regulatory requirements to ensure the protection of people who participate in their research projects.
The protections offered to human subjects apply to all VA research regardless of sponsor or funding source. Much of the research conducted in VA facilities is also subject to the regulations of other federal agencies. For example, human studies funded by pharmaceutical companies and conducted at VA facilities in support of a new drug or device application are subject to FDA as well as VA regulations and oversight. Similarly, studies funded by NIH and conducted in VA facilities are subject to Department of Health and Human Services as well as VA regulations and oversight. Thus, the framework for a strong human subjects protection program has long been in place in VA.
During the past three years, VHA has taken a number of proactive steps to further enhance and strengthen protections for human subjects of research. In September 2000, the former Under Secretary for Health announced the establishment of the Office of Research Compliance and Assurance (ORCA). This office reports directly to the Under Secretary for Health and, under the direction of its Chief Officer, serves as primary advisor to the Under Secretary for Health on all matters affecting the integrity of VHA research as it relates to compliance and assurance. In addition to its oversight role, ORCA advocates and promotes the application of continuous quality improvement to enhance the ongoing protection of human subjects enrolled in research.
ORCA has launched the Training, Education, and Development (TED) Initiative, a program designed to develop and disseminate information on a wide spectrum of training and education activities, including those offered by public and private agencies, for investigators and research administrators. ORCA is currently developing a strategic plan for education and training for all VHA personnel involved in the protection of human subjects in research.
The Office of Research and Development (ORD) implemented a requirement that all VA investigators must provide documentation that they have participated in educational programs on human subjects protections before their research projects can be approved.
In the wake of VA's suspension of the research program at the Greater Los Angeles Health Care System and the closure of several research programs by other Federal oversight agencies, Dr. Kenneth Kizer, VA's former Under Secretary for Health, announced in his April 21, 1999, testimony before Congress that VA would become the driving force to establish both an accreditation entity and an accreditation process that will provide the public and our veterans the assurance that VA research programs meet or exceed established quality standards. The purpose of the accreditation program is to provide an independent, external validation that these research programs are functioning properly and effectively and to provide the necessary regulatory and ethical protections for research subjects. A notice was published requesting proposals for the establishment of such an accreditation program shortly after Dr. Kizer's announcement.
In April 2000, VA awarded a five-year contract for $5.8 million dollars to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a private, non-profit accrediting organization dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA has developed accreditation standards and will survey and determine the accreditation status of all VA facilities conducting human subjects research every three years. Accreditation site surveys began in September 2001.
In April 2001, the Institute of Medicine cited the standards NCQA developed for VA as the strongest basis for accreditation "because they pay specific attention to quality improvement, provide flexibility in achieving performance goals and are explicit in their grounding in current regulations." NCQA's accreditation standards cover six domains: Institutional Responsibilities, Institutional Review Board (IRB) Structure and Operations, Consideration of Risks and Benefits, Recruitment and Subject Selection, Privacy and Confidentiality and Informed Consent.
Since September 2001, 23 VA facilities have undergone NCQA accreditation surveys. As of May 8, 2002, eleven (11) final reports have been issued, with eight facilities being "Accredited with Conditions" and three facilities receiving a preliminary result of "Not Accredited." The latter facilities are currently appealing the preliminary result before NCQA makes a final determination of their accreditation status. An additional 32 sites have been tentatively scheduled for accreditation surveys (with 14 confirmed to date) during fiscal year 2002.
The most common deficiencies involve three main areas:
VA Central Office officials are currently assessing the situation to determine if any subjects have been placed at risk, and to implement any necessary safeguards. Once the final accreditation status is determined by NCQA, VACO and the facility will take appropriate corrective actions to ensure the protection of all subjects entered into research programs and compliance with all applicable regulations.
ORD has developed through the Cooperative Studies Program a Site Monitoring and Review Team (SMART). SMART consists of a Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Monitoring Group and a GCP Review Group established in 1998. The mission of SMART is to augment quality improvement activities in research. Reviews are performed at the study site and consist of reviewing the regulatory documents, the files of randomly selected patients and the informed consent process for all patients. The SMART program promotes GCP through four major service elements: (1) education, training, and certification for investigators and study coordinators, (2) site reviews to assess adherence to GCP and reinforce training, (3) GCP tools and guides for organizing files and activities, and (4) evaluation of consent forms.
We found that with these GCP review visits and our educational efforts, adherence to GCP improved significantly. The specific areas that improved were institutional review board interactions, regulatory document management, patient records in investigator file, drug/device accountability, and general site operations. Based on the success of this program, ORD is establishing Accreditation Consulting Teams (ACT). ACT will use VA employees and consultants to help VA field facilities prepare for NCQA accreditation. Team members will be familiar with research, with VA and other federal regulations and policies for the protection of human participants in research, and with NCQA standards and survey procedures.
The Department of Veterans Affairs strives to lead the nation in assuring that its investigators follow the highest standards for assuring respect of the rights, dignity, and safety of research participants. We believe the approach VA is taking, with its continued emphasis on training and education, independent oversight and mandatory external accreditation will result in a system-wide human subjects protections program that will place VA at the forefront of ethical science.
Mr. Chairman, this concludes my statement concerning VA's non-profit corporations and the human studies protection program. My colleagues and I will now be happy to answer any questions that you and other members of the Subcommittees might have.
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TRACK AND FIELD - The state indoor track and field championships wrapped up the indoor track season Saturday yesterday the outdoor season opened and we caught up with Sheridan high school Head coach Taylor Keltting.
The Lady Broncs had a very good meet with a 3rd place finish, Keltting says that was a great effort by the Lady Broncs.
The Lady Broncs were 3rd at the indoor track championships the Broncs were 8th.
The Lady Bronc 4x800 meter relay took the state title setting a new school record the team included Laura Alicke, Pippin Robison, Xiomara Robinson and Zoe Robison.
In other events Peyton Bomar paced in four events 7th at 400 meters, 6th in the 55 meter hurdles, 5th in the long jump and 3rd in the triple jump.
LADY RAMS BASKETBALL - The Big Horn Lady Rams are the 2017 2-A girls state basketball champs after knocking off Wyoming Indian high school 50-49 in the title game Saturday night the game was tight all the way through Lady Rams Head coach Micheal McGuire.
The Lady Rams only lost two games all season and he says the players were on a mission all season.
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Rocky Mountain Grizzlies - 54
Sheridan Broncs - 64
Gillette Camels - 67
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Wyoming Indian Lady Chiefs - 49
Big Horn Rams vs Rocky Mountain Noon on KWYO / 87.7 FM for the 2-A Consolation title
Wyoming Cowboys vs San Jose state 1:30 on 87.7 FM
Sheridan Broncs vs Gillette 2:30 on KWYO for the 4-A East regional title
Big Horn Lady Rams vs Wyo Indian 5:00 KWYO / 87.7 FM for the 2-A state title
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Wright Panthers - 52
Sheridan Broncs - 56
Cheyenne Central Indians - 41
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