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By Andy Hirsch
LEWISBURG, Pa. — It's a phone call Bucknell University President John Bravman won't soon forget. He was sifting through hundreds of emails that had come in from Bucknellians about the announcement just three days before from the University that its information about SAT scores had been misreported for the past seven years.
Then the phone rang. On the other end of the line was a couple sharing a sentiment similar to most of the emails: Bucknell had had a profound impact on their lives, they told Bravman — and they wanted to make that clear, particularly now, during a challenging time for the University. Then, Bravman reported, they pledged $10 million to Bucknell.
"This extraordinary expression of support was unexpected in this situation, to say the least," Bravman said.
The couple has asked to remain anonymous, but informed Bravman that they wanted to allocate the gift to scholarships, the top priority of We Do. The Campaign for Bucknell University. Their gift brings the amount raised for the half-a-billion dollar We Do campaign to $272 million in gifts and pledges.
"This is a devoted couple who believes deeply in Bucknell and the transformative power of the education it offers. They know how scholarships can significantly change the lives of young men and women by presenting them with the opportunity to come to Bucknell," said Bravman. "We will be forever grateful for their generosity and their investment in the lives of generations of students who will benefit from this gift."
The $10 million pledge is the third-largest single gift Bucknell has ever received. In 1996, R. Theodore Ammon '71 and his wife, Generosa, gave $15 million in what became known as The Ammon Challenge. Their commitment to match every $3 donation toward scholarships with $1 of their own resulted in $60 million in contributions to the University's scholarship programs.
In 1999, Ken Langone '57 gave the University $11 million toward the construction of the Kenneth Langone Athletics and Recreation Center.
We Do.
The We Do campaign was publicly launched during Bucknell's 2012 Homecoming celebration. Its half-a-billion dollar goal makes it the most ambitious fundraising effort since the University was founded 166 years ago. The money raised will be used to increase funding for scholarships and financial aid, strengthen current academic and residential learning initiatives, recruit and retain outstanding faculty, invest in new facilities, and create new initiatives key to the University's continued success as one of the finest liberal arts institutions in the country.
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Jones Lang LaSalle releases Q3 2013 Asia Pacific Residential Index
SINGAPORE, 05 December 2013 - The third quarter of 2013 saw limited price growth in monitored luxury residential markets in Asia Pacific, according to the latest Jones Lang LaSalle Residential Index. While four of the nine featured markets saw minimal increases in capital values during the quarter, Hong Kong and Singapore reported quarterly declines, and the remainder recorded no change. On a yearly basis, growth remained strong for both Beijing and Jakarta, with both cities experiencing double digit growth; Hong Kong and Singapore registered price declines over the past 12 months and the rest of the markets saw growth that ranged from 2.4-6.0 percent.
After 10 quarters of strong growth, prices in Jakarta remained flat, leaving room for Beijing (1.6 percent) and Shanghai (1.5 percent) to lead the region in quarterly price increases, as a result of fewer projects coming to market. Healthy sales activity coupled with strong local demand saw Manila outperform its Southeast Asian peers, with quarterly growth of 0.8% in Q3. However, Jakarta continues to outperform all monitored markets on an annual basis with 26.2 percent growth, followed by Beijing at 14.1 percent y-o-y. Of the nine monitored markets, Singapore saw the biggest quarterly (-0.4 percent) and annual (-2.5 percent) declines as tightening regulations on bank credit continued to affect investor sentiment. In Hong Kong, luxury residential prices also saw a marginal quarterly decline of 0.3 percent as sales volumes remain low due to buyer caution.
Commenting on the Hong Kong high end residential market, Joseph Tsang, Managing Director for Jones Lang LaSalle in Hong Kong said: "Buying demand for luxury residential properties remains weak, with monthly transaction volumes in Q3 falling to levels last seen during the Global Financial Crisis. Although prices have generally been holding up in the secondary market, we are starting to see signs of discounting in the primary market and expect prices to remain under pressure over the last quarter of the year and into 2014."
Dr Jane Murray, Head of Research, Asia Pacific, Jones Lang LaSalle said: "Despite limited price increases across the region's luxury residential market in Q3, we have still seen moderate to strong yearly growth in most markets. Looking forward to the remainder of the year and into 2014, we expect sales activity in Greater China and Singapore to stay at similar levels as investor sentiment continues to be affected by government tightening measures that are likely to remain in place for the next 12 months. Over the next year, emerging southeast Asian markets should continue to experience moderate price growth while we expect to see the strongest increases in Beijing and Shanghai as a result of resilient local demand."
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About Jones Lang LaSalle
Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) is a professional services and investment management firm offering specialized real estate services to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying and investing in real estate. With annual revenue of $3.9 billion, Jones Lang LaSalle operates in 70 countries from more than 1,000 locations worldwide. On behalf of its clients, the firm provides management and real estate outsourcing services to a property portfolio of 2.6 billion square feet and completed $63 billion in sales, acquisitions and finance transactions in 2012. Its investment management business, LaSalle Investment Management, has $46.7 billion of real estate assets under management.
Jones Lang LaSalle has over 50 years of experience in Asia Pacific, with over 26, 700 employees operating in 80 offices in 14 countries across the region. The firm was named 'Best Property Consultancy' in three Asia Pacific countries at the International Property Awards Asia Pacific 2013, and won nine Asia Pacific awards in the Euromoney Real Estate Awards 2013. www.ap.joneslanglasalle.com
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Ian Stewart in the The Observer Sunday February 12 2012:
The Black-Scholes equation was the mathematical justification for the trading that plunged the world's banks into catastrophe
It was the holy grail of investors. The Black-Scholes equation, brainchild of economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, provided a rational way to price a financial contract when it still had time to run. It was like buying or selling a bet on a horse, halfway through the race. It opened up a new world of ever more complex investments, blossoming into a gigantic global industry. But when the sub-prime mortgage market turned sour, the darling of the financial markets became the Black Hole equation, sucking money out of the universe in an unending stream.
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Wii Fit attracted millions of new players to the world of video games. Now Wii Fit Plus offers a range of new features and enhancements to help you reinvigorate your workouts, along with exercises and balance games designed to keep them fun. You will find a new dimension to the Wii Fit experience as you easily set your own customized workout routines or choose 20-, 30- or 40-minute workouts based on how much time you have available. You will also be able to choose from specialized workout routines that focus on your individual personal fitness goals or certain target areas. And with the addition of activities like Skateboarding and Rhythm Kung Fu, you will be using the Wii Balance Board accessory in a variety of new and fun ways.
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Over the course of an exhilarating two hours Wednesday at the Coach House, veteran roots-rocker John Hiatt proved again and again why he continues to draw capacity crowds at that San Juan Capistrano spot and elsewhere, keeping the majority of an enthusiastic audience glued to their seats late into the night.
Although widespread commercial success has tragically eluded the 61-year-old singer-songwriter throughout his 40-year career, his striking songs, unique baritone rasp, wry wit and tireless work ethic have done wonders to build him a substantial and loyal following.
Backed by his terrific three-man combo plus a male backing vocalist, Hiatt led the crowd through a fast-paced set of his best-known material, gems from last year's Mystic Pinball, and even a new song off an as-yet-untitled 24th album, due in February. Opening with the upbeat folk rocker "Drive South" before ratcheting things up further with the Southern-fried "Tennessee Plates," he and his troupe proceeded to skillfully craft Hiatt's genre-defying brand of rock, pop, country, blues, folk and other styles across 16 songs.
The show's strength came through despite sweltering conditions inside the Coach House this night.
"It's unusually hot," Hiatt noted in a brief introduction to "Buffalo River Home," among his most outstanding performances here, abetted by one of many impressive turns from lead guitarist and mandolin player Doug Lancio. The song came rooted in folk yet had wallop enough to match any hard-rock attack.
Other classics gracefully delivered this time included "Cry Love" (with Hiatt powerfully sustaining a long note to end it), the timeless Americana of "Perfectly Good Guitar" and his swamp-boogie take on "Thing Called Love," a hit for his friend Bonnie Raitt.
"Mystic Pinball" was touched on via several choice tracks, including "We're Alright Now," with Lancio adding strong slide asides, and the aptly titled "Blues Can't Even Find Me," an acoustic piece showcasing his love of traditional blues.
The encore found Hiatt leading off alone, strumming his guitar and singing one of his standards, the love song "Have a Little Faith in Me," the arrangement allowing his group to artfully build in stunning fashion. For the final tune, a 10-minute version of "Riding with the King," Lancio was allowed to shine on an extended break with a dazzling guitar solo that built to a pleasing roar.
Opening the show was alt-country quintet Rusty Truck, headed by singer-songwriter Mark Seliger. That name might ring a bell for longtime rock fans, as Seliger is a famous commercial photographer who has taken some of the most recognizable images appearing in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and GQ magazines over the past several decades, including a haunting image of the late Kurt Cobain taken in 1993.
To his credit, Seliger made no mention of his day job during Rusty Truck's 45-minute set at the Coach House. Instead, he and his outfit played a decidedly moody style of country with authenticity and heart, with highlights including the evocative "Anything to This World" and upbeat "Sister Maria." Seliger's admitted favorite song off the group's new disc, Kicker Town, is titled "Beautiful Pain" and featured artful two- and three-part harmonies. Consider me a new fan who hopes Rusty Truck will get a slot at Stagecoach next year.
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The Detroit Lions added to their offensive depth Monday with the signings of tackle Kevin Haslam and tight end Cameron Morrah.
Haslam has appeared in 10 games over the last three seasons for the Jacksonville Jaguars and San Diego Chargers. He started three games for San Diego last season before being released in May. He was claimed off waivers by the New England Patriots and eventually released by the team last week.
Morrah was a seventh-round draft pick of the Seattle Seahawks in 2009 and appeared in 27 games over three seasons with the team. He missed all of the 2012 season while recovering from a toe injury. Morrah was signed by the San Francisco 49ers earlier this offseason before being released in June. Morrah caught 16 passes for 194 yards in his three years with the Seahawks.
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Gov. McCrory to work with NC school districts on makeup days
Gov. Pat McCrory said Friday he'll work with education leaders to give North Carolina school districts flexibility in making up time lost from snow and other inclement weather.
This week's snowstorm blanketed the state, adding more time that school districts need to make up on top of the time lost last month and earlier this school year. McCrory said during a Friday news conference that he's doing a "quick review" of the state's school calendar law and hopes to make an announcement soon on what can be done to assist school superintendents working on makeup-day plans.
"I'm talking to my own chief legal counsel to see what authority I as governor have to allow more flexibilities in those counties that have been impacted by so many days off," McCrory said. "I've got to ensure that I follow the law, and we are reviewing all of our options and we hope to have some announcements in the early weeks."
Under state law, school districts are required to have either 185 days of classes or 1,025 hours of instruction per school year. Most school districts opted to meet the 1,025-hour requirement.
School districts have been taking actions such as scheduling makeup days on Saturdays and holidays such as Good Friday and Memorial Day, taking time from spring break and extending the end of the school year.
"I've had several school superintendents and the Speaker of the House (Thom Tillis) and others call me up about how to deal with the maximum requirement of school days," McCrory said.
McCrory said he will meet soon with State Schools Superintendent June Atkinson and Bill Cobey, chairman of the State Board of Education, to discuss the issue.
"I want to make sure I get feedback from all education officials regarding what flexibility should be given to counties that have been impacted and what flexibility we have on the state law requiring maximum amount of school days and whether or not we have flexibility in the adjudication and enforcement of that," he said.
Atkinson could not be reached for comment Friday.
But the State Board of Education no longer has flexibility under state law to give waivers for districts that are short on hours, according to Vanessa Jeter, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Instruction.
Some school districts haven't yet announced how they'll make up the time for this week's snow days.
The announcement won't come until next week in Wake County, the state's largest school system. Wake has missed a total of seven days of school, including three this week.
Wake school administrators will ask the school board during Tuesday's work session for guidance on establishing the makeup days for this week. The options could include some combination of extending the end of the school year for traditional-calendar schools, adding time to the school day, cutting into spring break, converting early-release days to full days and Saturday classes for year-round students.


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New device protects distribution circuit from the effects of an erratic local load.
Two major North American utilities recently teamed with EPRI and Westinghouse to develop a distribution static compensator (DSTATCOM) that tames severe voltage flicker problems and saves up to $1.2 million over traditional solutions. When an International Forest Products (Interfor) sawmill in the rural Canadian community of Adam's Lake announced plans to install a new whole-log chipper, driven by a single 1200-hp motor, a "red flag" went up at its energy provider, BC Hydro. In rural areas, it's not uncommon for residential properties to mingle with industrial operations. From previous experience, BC Hydro knew the chipper would cause voltage flicker for the nearest 100 neighbors on the 25kV distribution feeder. A similar problem faced an American Electric Power (AEP) customer in Swayzee, Ind. Every time a nearby facility expanded, the increased load caused flicker problems. To maintain power quality on the 11-mile circuit, which serves about 1000 customers, only two of the three crushing plants could run at once.
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), principal foreign intelligence and counterintelligence agency of the U.S. government. Formally created in 1947, the CIA grew out of the World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Previous U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence efforts had been conducted by the military and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and suffered from duplication, competition, and lack of coordination, problems that continued, to some degree, into the 21st century.
The emergence of the CIA
The United States was the last of the major powers to establish a civilian intelligence agency responsible for the collection of secret information for policy makers. Indeed, prior to 1942 the country lacked any civilian intelligence agency. Information was collected in an unsystematic way by the Office of Naval Intelligence, by U.S. Army intelligence, and by the FBI. The information gathered was rarely shared with other government agencies and was sometimes not even provided to senior policy makers. For example, because of rivalries between army and navy intelligence offices, which did not want to jeopardize the "security" of their information, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not given sensitive information about Japan in the months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
In June 1942 Roosevelt created the OSS to bring together the fragmented and uncoordinated strands of U.S. foreign intelligence gathering in a single organization. A similar office for this purpose, the Office of the Coordinator of Information, created in July 1941, had floundered as the result of hostile pressure from the State Department, the military intelligence services, and the FBI. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, who had spurred Roosevelt into creating an information agency, became head of the OSS upon its founding and was largely responsible for building the organization and for improving its ability to perform economic and political intelligence analysis for senior policy makers. (Roosevelt described Donovan as a man who had 100 new ideas a day, of which 95 were terrible—though he added that few men had 5 good ideas in their lifetimes. Donovan supported the use of exotic poisons against enemy targets and once proposed the use of bats to deliver incendiary weapons against Japan.)
During World War II the OSS, with a staff of approximately 12,000, collected and analyzed information on areas of the world in which U.S. military forces were operating. It used agents inside Nazi-occupied Europe, including Berlin; carried out counterpropaganda and disinformation activities; produced analytical reports for policy makers; and staged "special operations" (e.g., sabotage and demolition) behind enemy lines to support guerrillas and resistance fighters. Before the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, more than 500 OSS agents were working inside occupied France. Among reports commissioned from the OSS were assessments of German industry and war-making capability and a psychological profile of German dictator Adolf Hitler that concluded that he would likely commit suicide should Germany be defeated. Under Donovan's capable, if unorthodox, direction, the OSS was remarkably effective, despite the initial inexperience of most of its personnel. Its successes notwithstanding, the OSS was dismantled at the conclusion of the war.
In 1946 President Harry S. Truman, recognizing the need for a coordinated postwar intelligence establishment, created by executive order a Central Intelligence Group and a National Intelligence Authority, both of which recruited key former members of the OSS. As in the days of the OSS, there were problems of distrust and rivalry between the new civilian agencies and the military intelligence services and the FBI.
In 1947 Congress passed the National Security Act, which created the National Security Council (NSC) and, under its direction, the CIA. Given extensive power to conduct foreign intelligence operations, the CIA was charged with advising the NSC on intelligence matters, correlating and evaluating the intelligence activities of other government agencies, and carrying out other intelligence activities as the NSC might require. Although it did not end rivalries with the military services and the FBI, the law established the CIA as the country's preeminent intelligence service. The agency was popularly thought of as the U.S. counterpart of the Soviet KGB (which was dissolved in 1991), though, unlike the KGB, the CIA was forbidden by law (the National Security Act) from conducting intelligence and counterintelligence operations on domestic soil. In contrast, the majority of the KGB's operations took place within the Soviet Union and against Soviet citizens.
Organization and responsibilities
The CIA is headed by a director and a deputy director, only one of whom may be a military officer. Until 2004 the director of central intelligence (DCI) was responsible for managing all U.S. intelligence-gathering activities. (By the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, a director and a deputy director of national intelligence, responsible for coordinating the activities of all U.S. agencies engaged in intelligence gathering, including the CIA, were first appointed in 2005.) DCIs have been drawn from various fields, including not only intelligence but also the military, politics, and business. The DCI serves as the chief intelligence adviser to the president and is often the president's close confidant. Some intelligence directors have played critical roles in shaping U.S. foreign policy—e.g., Allen W. Dulles during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration (1953–61) and William Casey during the Ronald Reagan administration (1981–89)—though others, particularly during the administration of Bill Clinton (1993–2001), have been less important in this respect.
The CIA is organized into four major directorates. The Intelligence Directorate analyzes intelligence gathered by overt means from sources such as the news media and by covert means from agents in the field, satellite photography, and the interception of telephone, mobile phone, and other forms of communication. Those analyses attempt to incorporate intelligence from all possible sources. During the Cold War most of that work was focused on the military and the military-industrial complex of the Soviet Union.
The Directorate of Operations is responsible for spying (i.e., espionage, or the clandestine collection of intelligence) and special covert and often illegal operations, including subversion. Clandestine activities are carried out under various covers, including the diplomatic cloak used by virtually every intelligence service, as well as corporations and other "front" companies that the CIA creates or acquires. Despite the elaborate nature of some covert operations, such activities represent only a small fraction of the CIA's overall budget.
The Directorate of Science and Technology is responsible for keeping the agency abreast of scientific and technological advances, for carrying out technical operations (e.g., coordinating intelligence from reconnaissance satellites), and for supervising the monitoring of foreign media. During the Cold War, material gathered from aerial reconnaissance produced detailed information on issues as varied as the Soviet grain crop and the development of Soviet ballistic missiles. Information obtained through those satellites was critical to the arms control process; indeed, agreements reached during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) in the 1970s specifically mentioned the use of satellites to monitor the development of weapons. The Directorate of Science and Technology has been instrumental in designing spy satellites and in intercepting the communications of other countries.
The Directorate of Administration is responsible for the CIA's finances and personnel matters. It also contains the Office of Security, which is responsible for the security of personnel, facilities, and information as well as for uncovering spies within the CIA.
The publication of post-Cold War memoirs by former agents and the release of declassified documents by the United States and Russia have provided a fairly complete account of the CIA's activities, including both its successes and its failures. CIA data collection and analysis was important for arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War and for determining U.S. strategy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when President John F. Kennedy relied on information gathered by the CIA through Soviet double agent Colonel Oleg Penkovsky. During the 1970s and '80s, CIA agents in the Soviet military and the KGB provided information on the Soviet military-industrial complex. During the Cold War, CIA technical operations included the bugging of the Soviet military's major communications line in East Germany and the development of reconnaissance aircraft such as the U-2 and spy satellites capable of photographing targets as small as a rocket silo. Aerial reconnaissance—first by plane and then by satellite—provided early warning of the deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba and the development of new missiles in the Soviet Union.
Among the Directorate of Operations's covert actions were the ouster of the premier of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddeq, and the restoration of the shah in 1953; the overthrow by military coup of the democratically elected leftist government of Guatemala in the following year; the organization of a "secret army" of Miao (Hmong) tribesmen to monitor the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Vietnam War; the financial support of military officers plotting against the government of Chilean president Salvador Allende before the military coup there in 1973; and, in the 1980s, the arming and training of mujahideen guerrillas fighting the Soviet-backed government and the Soviet military in the Afghan War and the organizing, arming, and training of the Nicaraguan Contras fighting to overthrow that country's Sandinista government. (In the early 1960s the CIA briefly considered using illegal drugs to control foreign agents.)
Although many covert actions were highly successful, some were embarrassing failures, such as the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by CIA-sponsored Cuban émigrés in 1961 and the faulty intelligence gathering during NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 that led to the destruction of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. The CIA also was unsuccessful in its multiple attempts to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the 1960s through agents recruited within the Cuban government as well as through contacts with organized crime figures (see also Mafia) in the United States. Plots to kill or embarrass Castro included poisoning his cigars, lacing his cigars with a hallucinogen, providing him with exploding cigars, poisoning his wet suit (Castro was an underwater enthusiast), and administering drugs that would cause his beard and eyebrows to fall out.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CIA changed both its institutional structure and its mission. Whereas more than half its resources before 1990 had been devoted to activities aimed at the Soviet Union, in the post-Cold War era it increasingly targeted nonstate actors such as terrorists and international criminal organizations. It also made significant efforts to collect and analyze information about the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Spy satellites that had been used exclusively for military purposes were sometimes used for other tasks, such as collecting evidence of ecological disasters and human rights abuses.
During the 1990s the CIA supported U.S. military operations in the Balkans and in the Middle East. It also sometimes served as a mediator between the Palestinian Authority and the government of Israel. Following the 2001 September 11 attacks, in which terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City and part of the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., CIA paramilitary officers in Afghanistan (whose Taliban government had been harbouring al-Qaeda's leaders) aided the U.S. attack on that country by collecting information and identifying military targets.
The agency also undertook a large-scale "kill or capture" campaign against operatives of al-Qaeda. Although the CIA had been prohibited by President Gerald R. Ford in 1976 from carrying out assassinations, the George W. Bush administration (2001–09) argued that the assassination ban did not apply in wartime (i.e., during the so-called "war on terror") and thus did not prevent the agency from killing al-Qaeda terrorists who were threatening the United States. The administration of Bush's successor, Barack Obama, adopted the same view.
The readiness of the CIA to use lethal force was showcased in 2011 with the assassination of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda's leader and the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, by a team of special operations soldiers (Navy SEALs acting under CIA command). In most cases, however, the CIA used missile strikes fired by unmanned vehicles (drones) to kill al-Qaeda members. Such drone attacks eventually became frequent.
The CIA's campaign against al-Qaeda also involved the interrogation and indefinite detention of terrorism suspects. The agency established a network of secret detention sites outside U.S. territory, the so-called "black sites," where suspected terrorists were subjected to what the agency called "enhanced interrogation techniques" in an effort to extract information regarding al-Qaeda's membership and operations. The enhanced interrogation techniques, many of which constituted torture under international law, included shackling detainees in stress positions, slamming them against walls, depriving them of sleep for prolonged periods, and waterboarding, a method of controlled, simulated, or interrupted drowning. Other suspects were kidnapped and transported for interrogation to foreign countries whose governments routinely tortured criminal suspects and dissidents; see extraordinary rendition. Still others were eventually held at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in southeastern Cuba, which was specially constructed starting in 2002 to house captured members of al-Qaeda and other Islamic militants. The black sites were officially closed in 2009, in keeping with an executive order signed by Obama.
Criticism and assessment
The CIA has been criticized for conducting covert actions that are immoral or illegal under international law, for maintaining close ties to human rights abusers and other criminals, for failing to safeguard its own operations, and, from 2001, for kidnapping, torturing, and illegally detaining foreign nationals. In the early days of the Cold War, the CIA and the U.S. military intelligence services smuggled former Nazi intelligence officers out of Europe, and the agency worked with several former Nazis to conduct intelligence operations in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In the 1980s and '90s, in an effort to infiltrate foreign terrorist organizations, the CIA recruited foreign officials, particularly in Latin America, who had participated in the murder of civilians. A congressional inquiry led by Senator Robert Torricelli in the mid-1990s eventually resulted in the demotion or forced resignation of a number of CIA personnel. At about the same time, the agency was embarrassed by a series of counterintelligence scandals that included revelations that one of its intelligence officers, Aldrich Ames, had spied for the Soviet and Russian intelligence services for nine years; at least 10 CIA operatives in the Soviet Union had been executed on the basis of information he provided.
The CIA often has been portrayed by its critics as an agency run amok that implements covert operations without the approval of the executive branch of the U.S. government. Contrary to that assertion, however, all covert operations must be officially sanctioned by the executive branch. Once approved by the National Security Council, plans for covert action are presented to the Senate and House committees that oversee CIA operations. The CIA also sought the Bush administration's specific approval of the enhanced interrogation techniques it used on suspected terrorists; the techniques were declared legal by the Justice Department in secret memos issued in 2002 and 2005.
In 2005 a presidential committee examining intelligence failures preceding the start of the Iraq War (2003–11) released a report that criticized the CIA for inaccurately assessing Iraq's prewar efforts to produce and acquire weapons of mass destruction.
From 2001, critics of the CIA's campaign against al-Qaeda argued that many of the activities it encompassed, in particular the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, were unconstitutional or illegal under U.S. and international law. Critics also asserted that torturous interrogation was counterproductive, because it produced generally unreliable information and fueled resentment and hatred of the U.S. in Islamic countries. Others were dismayed by the increased militarization of the CIA, which (in their opinion) blurred the line between warfare and intelligence and potentially reduced the level of transparency and public accountability associated with the use of force in U.S. foreign policy. Those who defended these various practices argued that they were made necessary by the unconventional nature of the war on terror and that they helped save American lives.
List of CIA directors
The table provides a chronological list of the directors of the CIA.
|dates of service
|Rear Adm. Sidney W. Souers, USNR
|Jan. 23, 1946–June 10, 1946
|Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, USA
|June 10, 1946–May 1, 1947
|Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN
|May 1, 1947–Oct. 7, 1950
|Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, USA
|Oct. 7, 1950–Feb. 9, 1953
|Allen W. Dulles
|Feb. 26, 1953–Nov. 29, 1961
|John A. McCone
|Nov. 29, 1961–April 28, 1965
|Vice Adm. William F. Raborn, Jr., USN
|April 28, 1965–June 30, 1966
|Richard M. Helms
|June 30, 1966–Feb. 2, 1973
|James R. Schlesinger
|Feb. 2, 1973–July 2, 1973
|William E. Colby
|Sept. 4, 1973–Jan. 30, 1976
|George H.W. Bush
|Jan. 30, 1976–Jan. 20, 1977
|Adm. Stansfield Turner, USN
|March 9, 1977–Jan. 20, 1981
|William J. Casey
|Jan. 28, 1981–Jan. 29, 1987
|William H. Webster
|May 26, 1987–Aug. 31, 1991
|Robert M. Gates
|Nov. 6, 1991–Jan. 20, 1993
|R. James Woolsey
|Feb. 5, 1993–Jan. 10, 1995
|John M. Deutch
|May 10, 1995–Dec. 15, 1996
|George J. Tenet
|July 11, 1997–July 11, 2004
|Porter J. Goss
|Sept. 24, 2004–May 26, 2006
|Gen. Michael V. Hayden, USAF
|May 30, 2006–Feb. 13, 2009
|Leon E. Panetta
|Feb. 13, 2009–June 30, 2011
|David Petraeus
|Sept. 6, 2011–Nov. 9, 2012
|John Brennan
|March 8, 2013–Jan. 20, 2017
|Mike Pompeo
|Jan. 23, 2017–April 26, 2018
|Gina Haspel
|May 21, 2018–
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intelligence: The United StatesThe decision to establish the CIA reflected the United States's experience during World War II with the OSS and a postwar desire to create a central organization for defense. This organization was to include a partially unified Department of Defense and a National Security Council (NSC), chaired by the president.…
20th-century international relations: The Suez Crisis…could cite as precedent a CIA-backed coup d'état in Iran (August 1953) that overthrew the ascetic nationalist Mohammad Mosaddeq, who had expropriated foreign oil interests and also looked for support to the U.S.S.R. In any case, British, French, and Israeli planners met to work out a joint strike at the…
20th-century international relations: Policies of the Kennedy administration…from his endorsement of the CIA plan to unseat Castro. The CIA had trained Cuban exiles in Guatemala and flown them to Florida, whence they were to stage an invasion of Cuba in expectation of a popular revolt there. Instead, the landing at the Bay of Pigs on April 17,…
20th-century international relations: Nicaragua and El SalvadorThe CIA used this military buildup to justify the secret mining of Nicaraguan harbours in February 1984, which was, when revealed, universally condemned. The CIA also secretly organized and supplied a force of up to 15,000 anti-Sandinista "freedom fighters," known as Contras, across the border in…
history of Latin America: The United States and Latin America in the Cold War era…tactics featured use of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) rather than landing of military forces. But it foreshadowed later CIA assistance to the Chilean military in ousting their country's Marxist president, Salvador Allende, in 1973, not to mention the U.S. vendetta against the Sandinista revolutionary government that took power in…
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Many organizations recognize the benefits of cloud computing, including potential cost efficiencies and greater scalability. But the cloud landscape is still relatively immature and must continue to evolve and grow before enterprises will be confident enough to host their most critical applications there.
While a promising technology, there are barriers to widespread adoption that are particularly challenging for the enterprise. In particular, large organizations need to know that their applications, once migrated to the cloud, will still function with the same level of availability they would expect from a robust in-house legacy data center.
Many enterprises have initiated their cloud journey by migrating only a few non-critical apps to the cloud. After learning from these initial forays into the cloud, and with new technology to ensure always-on availability in cloud environments, the time is ripe for organizations to begin migrating their most important applications. The truth is that no cloud migration is easy, but with new approaches to availability, the process can be more straightforward.
With this in mind, Jason Andersen, senior director of product management and marketing at Stratus Technologies, explores how enterprises can ease into the cloud without putting their most important applications at risk of a costly failure.
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Some time ago I wrote about recovery on demand. This is a method of training in which recovery is not planned in advance, but rather done when the need arises. For the athlete who is good at self-monitoring, this is a very effective way of recovering as it maximizes one's use of training time. Unfortunately, many athletes tend to ignore their body's signs of overreaching and with such a method would probably press ahead without ever allowing time for recovery, eventually resulting in full-blown overtraining.
"Periodization on demand" is a similar concept. Most athletes think that periodization is a rigid system in which a training plan is created which must be followed regardless of all other factors. My books have probably given that impression as everything on the plan is quite detailed and time-specific. I still think that's a good idea as it provides a roadmap for where you are going. It doesn't, however, mean that you must follow it without change. There can be several factors that require straying, such as illness, injury, periods of mental stress, unusual demands on your time, and more. One such factor that is seldom discussed is rate of adaptation – how quickly your fitness changes.
Physiologically, the purpose of training is stress the body with some combination of workout intensity, duration and frequency causing it to adapt. We call this adaptation "fitness." The planning of periodization assumes the body will achieve a given level of fitness at a given time by following the plan. That may well be the case. Historically, the problem with this assumption has been that there was little in the way of data to confirm that the planned adaptation had occurred. That's now changing due to technology.
A power meter for cycling or a GPS for running has taken some of the guesswork out of the measurement of adaptation. Such devices (there are more to come) allow you to more accurately measure performance changes – if you know what to measure. (I touched on this idea in my last blog post.)
Typically, in the Base period an endurance athlete wants to improve aerobic endurance, muscular force and speed skill. The first two can be measured using some combination of a heart rate monitor, power meter and GPS. Speed skill is still difficult for us to measure in a field test. But expect that to change when second generation power meters – yet to be released – provide more analytical information on pedaling mechanics such as individual leg contribution to power output and the range of effective force application to the pedal per stroke. In the mean time, we can easily measure aerobic endurance and muscular force adaptation.
I've previously written about the "Efficiency Factor" (EF) as a way of gauging changes in aerobic endurance. It's based on the simple concept that as aerobic fitness improves, heart rate decreases at any given power output (or speed in running) [Lucia, et al, Heart rate and performance parameters in elite cyclists: A longitudinal study. Med Sci Sports Exerc, 2000, 32(10):1777-82]. Or, to reverse that, if heart rate stays the same, over time, power (or running speed) will increase as aerobic fitness improves. Heart rate by itself tells us absolutely nothing about fitness. It must be compared with something to have meaning.
This brings us back to the idea of periodization on demand. The optimal way to train, I believe, is to frequently measure your adaptation changing your training only when it's evident that fitness has plateaued at a higher level or achieved a predetermined level. By doing this you take the guesswork out of training and move on to a newer form of stress only when your body says it's time rather than when the plan changes. Again, this doesn't mean don't plan. Follow it, but be willing to change it when the time is right. This will usually require that you modify the plan going forward.
How about I give you an example of this from my own training.
I use a block training form of periodization. With this method the focus of training during any given period ("block") is quite focused with generally only one or two aspects of fitness being addressed. In block 1 this fall I focused on aerobic endurance as measured by EF. The accompanying chart shows the progression over the course of four weeks (Oct 17-Nov 17). During this time I did the same EF workout 17 times. This involved warming up for 30 minutes and then riding one hour at a fixed aerobic threshold heart rate in low zone 2 (120-125, in my case), followed by a 30-minute cool down. I used the same two courses for these sessions and the same equipment with the workouts at about the same time of day. After the workout I compared normalized power for that hour with average heart rate for the same hour (NP/AHR). That produced a ratio that ranged from a low of 1.29 to a high of 1.45. You can easily see the progression of EF in the chart. Only the EF workouts are shown here (the blank days were missed workouts due to travel, easy recovery rides, or a cycling camp from Nov 1-3).
By the middle of November it was obvious that my aerobic endurance (as reflected in the EF ratio) had plateaued. Power had increased at the same heart rate but was no longer rising. It was time to move on to the next training block, which I am currently in.
The takeaway message here is not block training or aerobic endurance training, but rather making changes to training when your body says it's time, rather than when the plan calls for it. Some day we'll have software that does such monitoring for you and suggests when it's time to change your training and what those changes might be. Until then you need to pay close attention to that which is appropriate and measurable.


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Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution addresses compensation and says the following:
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
In other words, if a Senator or Representative was serving in Congress at a time when the salary of a civil office was increased, they cannot be appointed to that civil office during the time for which they were elected, because it would create a conflict of interests. That Senator or Representative would be benefiting directly, personally, and financially from legislation that passed through their house and became policy.
Because the President's Cabinet has had pay increases during Clinton's tenure as Senator, by Bush's executive order and with the authorization of Congress, Hillary Clinton is not presently eligible under the rules clearly defined in the Constitution to be appointed to the office of Secretary of State. By appointing her, President Obama has ignored the Constitution, by accepting his appointment, Hillary Clinton shares in his ignorance (or willful defiance), and the 94 Senators who voted to confirm his nomination also show that they are unfamiliar with the Constitution or just don't care what it has to say.
Just one more of disgustingly-too-many instances which confirm that Obama's feigned caution over the Constitution was just a big, fat exception to a record of being very comfortable with violating it. Is anyone else starting to get disturbed at how easy it is for me to find and point out examples of our leaders' gross negligence of the Constitution and rule-of-law? I've been busting these out every other day for the past two weeks like it's a cakewalk. They just keep violating the Constitution, and I just keep telling you about it.
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Tim Krieger | Director
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Mr. Krieger serves as the district assessment coordinator, providing leadership and oversight for the implementation of the national, state and district student assessment program. He works in collaboration with district and school leaders to mine, analyze, display, and interpret data and trends to support decision-making and program development efforts to increase student access and engagement, close achievement and opportunity gaps, support student learning and success, and improve organizational outcomes. Mr. Krieger oversees and manages processes pertaining to student reporting and coordinates educational research processes.
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In the class I teach at Indiana University, use a classic piece on communication early in the semester to set up conversations with the students about the processes and parts of communication.
Part of the chapter is a four-part explication of what has to happen for communication to have a chance to have the effect you desire.
- You must gain the audience's attention.
- You must use a set of "signs" that the audience can understand and that the audience interprets in the same way you do.
- You must evoke a need within the audience.
- You must give the audience a way to act or respond that is possible for the audience.
In both the chapter and the class conversation we talked about the fact that communication almost never has the effect we intend if we do not start from where our audience is. You need to start within the beliefs and values the audience already holds and then try to move them toward the goal.
None of this is new or revolutionary, which is why I use it with sophomores.
But it does get me thinking about the sermon as an act of communication. I hear common sermon advice in here. Andy Stanley wrote a whole book that pretty much covers these same points. Rick Warren writes about the need for to evoke a felt need. Paul in Athens famously followed the bulk of this advice when he preached. Even John Wesley shows in his journals how much he thinks about where his audience is as he determines what to preach.
And yet, I am also mindful of how many voices — especially post-liberals and neo-Barthians — counsel treating the sermon as an impossibility. Will Willimon writes often about the fact that it requires a miracle for us to hear the sermon rightly.
So, I wonder about the balance between technique and Spirit in preaching — and communication in general.


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For almost a decade, the Schworm's have been improving neighborhoods and making home ownership possible for countless New Yorkers. Their company Signature Home Buyers has been responsible for helping people all over the state to get out of debt by putting cash in their hands for houses they no longer want or can afford. Their successful house flipping strategies have made them a trusted name in their region. The information and methodology they have used to remain in the Real Estate Investment business has now been pulled together and curated into a coaching and education program they call: VestorPRO.
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text: Last night, Cryer appeared on Conan to address negative remarks made about him by his former Two and a Half Men costar Charlie Sheen. In this monologue, Cryer says, "Those words were very painful to me for many reasons, not the least of which is…the fact is I am a troll." He went on to a do a PSA about the discrimination against trolls in Hollywood. It's...winning.


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After weeks of deadlock, the New York Senate passed an historic marriage equality bill late tonight by a 33-29 vote. Thirty-two votes were needed for passage.
New York joins Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and the District of Columbia in allowing same-sex couples to marry. New York also becomes the most populous state granting such rights.
The late-night vote on Pride weekend also gives "the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born," reported the New York Times.
The New York Senate also becomes the first Republican-controlled legislative body in the nation to pass such a bill. Twenty-nine of 30 Democrats supported the bill. Four Republicans voted "yes."
The lone Democratic holdout: Ruben Diaz Sr., the rabidly anti-gay Bronx Democratic Pentecostal pastor who has a lesbian granddaughter.
The marriage equality bill was introduced by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on June 14th. The next day, the Democratic-led Assembly passed the marriage bill for the fourth time in as many years. Several religious protection amendments were added earlier today, requiring the approval of both chambers.
UPDATE: Cuomo signed the bill late Friday night. Marriage equality will become the law in 30 days.
Bravo New York. Next up: California and Maryland!


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Page 2 of 2According to the report filed by Trooper Mark Mahan, 21-year-old Spencer Holden, of Nashville, was driving a 2004 Nissan Maxima west bound on Union Hill Road. The vehicle topped a hill causing the vehicle to go airborne, indicating speed was a contributing factor. Once the vehicle made contact back on the roadway the vehicle crossed the center of the road. The vehicle then exited the roadway where it struck an embankment and tree. The impact was so severe that the engine was knocked out of the car. The vehicle also rolled numerous times where it came to rest on its left side.
Spencer Holden was transported to Cookeville Regional Medical Center by ground ambulance and was later transferred to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville. He was discharged on Sunday, February 9.
Passengers included 19-year-old Christopher Blackburn and 18-year-old Cierra Sullivan, both of Lafayette, who were transported to Cookeville Regional; and a juvenile from Red Boiling Springs was also carried to Cookeville for treatment.
Charges are pending against Spencer Holden. Trooper Mark Mahan was the investigating officer.
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Analysts from left and right call Kansas tax plan the worst in U.S.
Kansas' tax reform plan was named the worst in the nation by analysts from both the left and the right in a feature story by a national magazine.
Governing magazine asked two tax policy experts from nonprofit think tanks on opposite sides of the political spectrum to name the best and worst tax reform efforts in the country — and both cited Kansas as the worst.
It was a rare point of agreement between Joe Henchman of the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation and Nick Johnson of the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Henchman, a lawyer, and Johnson, an economist, both said the tax plan, passed last year by the Kansas Legislature at Gov. Sam Brownback's urging, encourages tax avoidance and probably won't do much for the economy.
Sherriene Jones-Sontag, a spokeswoman for Brownback, disagreed, saying that "the facts speak overwhelmingly to the success" of the tax plan.
"The governor's tax policy is the reason why GTM chose to add 600 jobs to its location in Manhattan, rather than in Texas," Jones-Sontag wrote in an email response to The Wichita Eagle. "Almost every one of our neighbors is trying to move in this direction."
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The analysts were especially critical of the unique centerpiece of Brownback's tax plan that eliminates the state income tax on owners of sole proprietorships, limited-liability companies and corporations organized under subchapter S of the federal tax code.
Those businesses are called "pass-through" entities because the business income is not taxed and passes through to the owners, who then pay the taxes on it as individual income.
Since Brownback's plan was enacted, the owners of pass-through entities don't pay any state income tax on their business income, either at the business or personal levels.
"That's an incentive to game the tax system without doing anything productive for the economy," Henchman said in the Governing interview. "They think things like the pass-through exemption will encourage small business, and to be fair, it might. But they are doing it in a way that violates the tax principle of neutrality."
Neutrality is a widely accepted principle that tax systems should be structured so that business decisions are made on economic merits rather than for tax reasons. Henchman laid most of the blame on the Legislature for not broadening the tax base while cutting rates, which Brownback originally proposed.
Jones-Sontag said the tax plan is working the way it is supposed to.
"Even though it's just a little more than three months since the new policies took effect, we are hearing from small-business owners about how they now have the money to invest back into their businesses and to hire more workers," she said. "It's important to remember that 98 percent of businesses in Kansas have 100 employees or less.
"Why wouldn't we want to create a pro-growth environment that lessens their tax burden so they can invest more in their companies, hire more employees and spend more in their communities?"
However, Johnson told Governing that the tax plan "fails almost every test of good tax policy," including sustainability and fairness.
"Vertically, it's beneficial to high-income taxpayers and harmful to low," Johnson was quoted as saying on the magazine's website. "It doesn't do much for the middle either. Horizontally, its exemption of pass-through entities creates inequities and tax avoidance, which of course then goes back to sustainability because it balloons cost."
Neither of the analysts thought the plan would do much to jump-start economic growth and job creation.
"Evidence suggests that there's no goose to the economy from this or, if there is one, it will be small," Johnson was quoted as saying. "The real big problem here is that because it costs so much money, it will make it harder for Kansas to make other kinds of investments that are important to a strong economy like education and infrastructure."
The analysts split on the states with the best tax reform plans.
Henchman cited Rhode Island, which cut tax rates, eliminated itemized deductions and reduced tax credits, while increasing the standard deduction for most taxpayers. Johnson said he favored Massachusetts, where the governor has proposed increasing income tax rates and lowering sales taxes, which Johnson said would make the state tax code more progressive.


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