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In September 2014, a bill was introduced in the New York City Council to require full-service animal shelters be built in Queens and the Bronx, the two boroughs that don't have them. This morning the bill, Intro 485, had its first Council hearing before the nine-member Committee on Health, and the ASPCA was there to provide support.
Our President, Matt Bershadker, testified on behalf of the bill and urged the City Council to pass and properly fund Intro 485 on a continuing basis, as well as to pick locations for the new shelters that are conveniently accessible to residents.
Queens and the Bronx (combined population: approximately 3.6 million) currently have only animal "receiving centers"—as a result, stray or surrendered animals is these boroughs must be transported to shelters in other boroughs. The Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island shelters already operate at maximum capacity and are out of reach for many residents of Queens and the Bronx who may be searching for beloved lost pets or interested in adopting.
"The current set-up is not just inefficient, but absolutely life-threatening to homeless dogs and cats," said Bershadker. "The key to saving lives is not just housing these animals, but more importantly, re-homing them. Yet the receiving centers in these boroughs don't serve that cause. The ASPCA stands ready to work with Animal Care and Control and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to support the city during this substantial, but necessary change."
Intro 485 has the support of nearly every City Council member representing Queens and the Bronx; 33 of the Council's 51 members have cosponsored the bill. Please stay tuned to aspca.org for more news on this effort as it develops.
Intro 485's sponsor Council Member Paul Vallone, ASPCA President Matt Bershadker, and Council Member Corey Johnson appeared at a press conference for the bill in lower Manhattan this morning.
We're all counting on members of Congress to stand up for our nation's animals—so to remind them of the difference animals make in our lives, we arranged for them to spend a little quality time with some adorable animals yesterday at Paws for Love, a Capitol Hill Valentine's Day event organized by the ASPCA and hosted by the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus (CAPC).
During Paws for Love, legislators and staff got to canoodle with adoptable animals from D.C.-area shelters and rescues. The shelters and rescues got to highlight their important work, and, best of all, at least six deserving animals found their forever homes!
Paws for Love was also the first CAPC event of the 114th Congress. Formed in 2009, the CAPC employs non-partisan forums and briefings to highlight important issues affecting animals. The caucus also tracks the progress of relevant legislation, provides members of Congress with credible information, and strives to build broad coalitions in support of common-sense, humane animal welfare laws and policies.
The caucus has two new Co-Chairs this year: Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA), both of whom spoke at the event. Reps. Blumenauer and Fitzpatrick have been leading champions of humane issues and demonstrated career-long commitment to advancing animal welfare policies in Congress. The two previously collaborated to introduce legislation that would protect public health and safety by prohibiting interstate commerce in primates for the pet trade, and have supported many other animal welfare legislative efforts including bills to crack down on animal fighting, protect farm animals, and save our nation's horses from the cruelty of slaughter. The two Co-Chairs will work with new and returning CAPC members to advance animal protection legislation in the 114th Congress.
Check out the photos below to see why Paws for Love is, as many attendees claimed, their "favorite workday ever."
Representative Earl Blumenauer, CAPC Co-Chair
Representative Leonard Lance meets a dog from Washington Humane Society
Representative Mike Fitzpatrick, CAPC Co-Chair
Representative Walter Jones & ASPCA SVP of Government Relations Nancy Perry
Stacie Gregg and son Declan (ASPCA 2012 Kid of the Year) with Representative Frank Guinta
Erica Striebel from Representative Ander Crenshaw's office adopted a pup from Last Chance Rescue. His name is Finnegan.
February 5, 2015: The ASPCA commends New Jersey legislators and Governor Chris Christie for enacting a measure to crack down on New Jersey pet stores that source puppies from inhumane puppy mills. The new law, which goes into effect June 1, requires state pet stores to disclose the origins of the dogs they sell. It also prohibits pet stores from sourcing animals from breeders who fail to meet even the most basic care standards prescribed by federal and state law. If you live in the Garden State, please take a second to send Governor Christie a note of thanks.
"The ASPCA thanks New Jersey lawmakers and Gov. Christie for enacting this law and taking a positive first step towards more humane sourcing of puppies by New Jersey pet stores, which will put pressure on the commercial breeding industry nationwide to end puppy mill cruelty and stop placing profit over the well-being of the dogs in these facilities," said Debora Bresch, Esq., Senior Director of ASPCA Government Relations for the Mid-Atlantic region and a New Jersey resident. "This new law is critical to our continued effort to end the inhumane treatment of dogs in commercial breeding facilities that exploit both the dogs and consumers in pursuit of profit."
This is a major victory not only for puppies, but for all of the advocates and concerned citizens who raised their voices on behalf of animals. Job well done!
You can help be a voice for your state's animals by signing up for the ASPCA Advocacy Brigade below.
This morning ASPCA President Matt Bershadker stood on Capitol Hill beside Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon as he introduced new legislation to end government-funded and -perpetrated cruelty to animals used in agricultural research. The Animal Welfare in Agricultural Research Endeavors (AWARE) Act, H.R. 746/S. 388, comes in response to the gut-wrenching animal suffering revealed by The New York Times at USDA's Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) in Nebraska—a tax-payer funded facility that performs research to make meat production more profitable.
The AWARE Act would require animal agricultural research at federal facilities to meet the minimal standards for humane handling, care, and treatment in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The bill would prohibit the type of disregard for animal suffering that is clearly ingrained at the USMARC.
To date, the USDA has provided no explanation nor expressed any remorse for its treatment of the thousands of animals that have been starved, crushed, tortured or left to die painful deaths at the hands of its researchers. While it's disappointing that the agency with primary enforcement authority for our federal animal welfare statutes—including the Animal Welfare Act, which H.R. 746/S. 388 would amend—behaves so atrociously toward the animals in its own care, we are grateful to have champions like House cosponsors Rep. Blumenauer and Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick working to right these wrongs. We are also grateful to Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey for introducing the Senate version of the bill and to Wayne Pacelle of The Humane Society of the U.S. for helping us lead the charge.
You can learn more about the AWARE Act here, or take action immediately by contacting your members of Congress using the form below.
The new year is looking good for horse welfare on Capitol Hill! President Obama's budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16), released yesterday, reaffirms the President's support for a ban on the use of tax dollars for horse slaughter. If accepted by Congress, the budget proposal will renew language prohibiting the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from spending any tax dollars on inspections at U.S. horse slaughter plants and prevent horse slaughter plants from opening in the U.S. for another fiscal year.
"We appreciate the White House's continued commitment to keeping the grisly business of horse slaughter out of the U.S.," says Nancy Perry, Senior Vice President of ASPCA Government Relations. "The President's actions reflect the will of the 80 percent of Americans who oppose horse slaughter for human consumption and large, bipartisan votes in past Congresses have underscored this position. Congress should move swiftly to heed the American people's wishes and renew this prohibition for the sake of protecting horses from cruelty and consumers from this gross threat to human health."
This funding limitation mirrors the language included in the President's previous budget proposal and is in line with Congress's demonstrated opposition to horse slaughter. Congress included this same prohibition on tax dollars for horse slaughter in its FY14 and FY15 spending packages, both after strong House and Senate committee votes on the issue.
In addition to these achievements on Capitol Hill, great strides have been made on this issue internationally. As of January 15, the European Union bans the import of horse meat from Mexico for human consumption. This decision was based on evidence of the terrible treatment of these horses—many of whom originate in the U.S.—and the risk their meat poses to human health (due to the vast array of dangerous drugs routinely given to American horses). We must build on the momentum of these recent victories to ensure that the President's recommendations are adopted by Congress for the next fiscal year!
What You Can Do
Let's make sure the message comes through loud and clear that protecting our horses must continue to be a priority in this new Congress. Sign up for the ASPCA Advocacy Brigade today to stay current on the latest animal welfare developments, and join us in being a voice for horses on Capitol Hill!


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The 78 Project Movie Heads to Theaters Nationwide
Fresh off the success of its New York premiere August 5 as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Sound + Vision series, The 78 Project Movie is headed this weekend to the Windy City for its Chicago premiere on August 16th and 17th at the Music Box Theater's Summer Music Film Festvial. And to round out the month of summer screenings, the Jacob Burns Film Center will screen The 78 Project Movie on August 18th as part of its Sounds of Summer series. Director Alex Steyermark and Producer Lavinia Jones Wright will be present at all three of these screenings for Q&A.
On September 5th The 78 Project creators will launch The 78 Project Movie Official Release Tour with a prestigious event at the Library of Congress, where they will show the film, give a Q&A and cut a record live as part of the Library's Botkin Lecture Series. Continuing on from there, they will appear live at screening events in Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Athens, GA, New Orleans, LA, Baton Rouge, LA, Lafayette, LA, Little Rock, AR, Carbondale, IL, Boston, MA, Louisville, KY and more cities to be announced. At many of the screening events The 78 Project creators will cut a record live in the theater with a special guest musician.
See screening details and dates on The 78 Project Movie website.
The 78 Project Movie SXSW world premiere
In addition to the theatrical screenings, The 78 Project Movie release tour will include a series of live in-store events at Goorin Brothers locations across the country. At Goorin Brothers stores, including locations in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, New York, Boston and New Orleans, The 78 Project will play their recordings on vinyl and acetate, show video clips, and in some locations will present live musical performances and live record-cuttings.
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Jul 2, 20:52
Taiwan-based IC design houses including LCD driver IC suppliers and analog chip providers have stepped up efforts to solicit orders from first-tier China-based handset vendors, according...
Taiwan-based LCD driver IC vendors set on transition process
Jun 24, 12:25
A number of Taiwan-based LCD driver IC vendors have kicked off their transition plans amid the rising presence of rival companies in China and the emerging of TDDI (touch with display...
Digitimes Research: Korea-based LCD driver IC companies revenues fall for second straight year
Jun 23, 15:33
Combined revenues of South Korea's major display driver IC companies – Silicon Works, Lucid Display Technology (LDT), Technology Leaders and Innovators (TLI) and Clover Hitech...
Apple plans to add a new supplier for LCD driver ICs, say sources
May 26, 15:28
Apple reportedly plans to add an additional maker to its supplier list for LCD driver ICs as it aims to further ramp up the market share of its iPhone, iPad and MacBook product lines...
Himax expects sales drop in 2Q15
May 15, 11:51
LCD driver IC design specialist Himax Technologies expects to post a revenue decline of 5-9% sequentially in the second quarter of 2015, with gross margin sliding about 2pp on quar...
Novatek expects flat sales for 2Q15
May 7, 10:06
LCD driver IC design specialist Novatek Microelectronics has estimated consolidated revenues for the second quarter of 2015 will reach between NT$12.5 billion (US$408 million) and...
Memory related device suppliers to break into Taiwan top-10 IC design houses in 2015
Apr 23, 11:07
More memory-related device suppliers including Silicon Motion Technology, Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT) and Etron Technology are expected to break into Taiwan's top-10...
China design houses raiding Taiwan driver IC makers for talent
Apr 7, 12:16
China-based IC design houses have stepped up efforts to lure talent away from Taiwan-based LCD driver IC companies in an attempt to improve the quality and competitiveness of their...
Novatek obtains TV chip orders from Japan and Korea brand vendors
Apr 2, 11:03
Novatek Microelectronics, which specializes in the design of LCD driver ICs, has moved forward its TV SoC business by obtaining new orders from Japan- and Korea-based TV brands, according...
LCD driver IC supply makers expect to see performances drive forward in 2Q15
Mar 13, 12:18
LCD driver IC supply makers in Taiwan expect to see their performances drive forward heading into the second quarter of 2015 as LCD TV and smartphone vendors begin unleashing new...
Apple reportedly to diversify LCD driver IC suppliers
Feb 5, 20:55
Apple is looking to diversify its LCD driver IC suppliers and move away from its dependence on Synaptics (formerly Renesas SP Drivers; RSP), according to industry sources.
ChipMOS to provide testing services for TDDI chips
Feb 4, 13:43
ChipMOS Technologies will start to install testing equipment for TDDI (touch with display driver) chips in the second quarter of 2015, according to the backend house. The number of...
Chipbond, ChipMOS 1Q15 sales to drop 5-10%
Jan 19, 10:36
LCD driver IC packaging and testing houses Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies are both expected to see their first-quarter 2015 sales decrease 5-10% sequentially, compared...
COF tape supply likely to fall short
Nov 28, 14:51
As the number of suppliers decreases, global supply of chip-on-film (COF) tapes has shrunk significantly, according to industry sources. Supply may fall short in 2015, as demand for...
ChipMOS 2015 capex to stay flat
Nov 27, 15:30
ChipMOS Technologies, which specializes in assembly and test services for LCD driver ICs and memory chips, is expected to maintain its 2015 capex at near 2014 levels, according to...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD driver IC revenues to rise 6% in 2014
Nov 20, 21:23
The combined revenues of Taiwan's top-six LCD driver IC makers are expected to register a 6.1% increase in 2014, according to Digitimes Research.
Synaptics reportedly trialing 55nm driver IC production
Nov 7, 10:42
Synaptics, following its acquisition of Renesas SP Drivers, recently started trial production of LCD driver ICs using TSMC's 55nm node, according to industry sources.
Digitimes Research: Silicon Works expected to expand non-LCD driver IC revenues thanks to LG
Oct 14, 15:33
Although Silicon Works' revenues from the LCD driver IC (LDI) business dropped 8.1% on year and reached KRW128.7 billion (US$120 million) in the first half of 2014 because of two...
LCD driver IC vendors ramping up non-LCD driver IC shipments
Oct 7, 22:14
Some Taiwan-based LCD driver IC vendors, including Himax Technologies, Sitronix Technology and ILi Technology (Ilitek), have begun ramping up shipments of non-LCD driver IC products,...
Novatek reports revenue gains for August
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Novatek Microelectronics has reported revenues of NT$5.11 billion (US$170.85 million) for August, up 6.2% on month and 42.1% on year. For the first eight months of 2014, revenues...
ASPs for handset, touch controller, LCD driver ICs trending down in 3Q14
Aug 29, 15:39
As IC design houses are competing for orders for the second half of 2014 as well as for the first half of 2015, ASPs for 3G/4G application processors, touch controller ICs and LCD...
Digitimes Research: Top-6 Taiwan LCD driver IC companies post revenue gains in 2Q14
Aug 20, 10:55
Revenues for the six main LCD driver IC companies in Taiwan reached NT$28.18 billion (US$940.04 million) in the second quarter of 2014, up 13.1% on quarter and 4.1% on year, according...
LCD driver IC vendors set to see increased revenues in 3Q14
Aug 6, 11:41
Most Taiwan-based LCD driver IC vendors are expected to see their sales grow 5-15% sequentially in the third quarter, powered by orders for large-size driver ICs from LCD panel suppliers...
LCD driver IC suppliers looking for additional capacity at foundry houses
May 8, 14:08
LCD driver IC suppliers plan to snap up more capacity at wafer foundry houses due to tight production schedules at most foundries' 8-inch fabs, according to industry sources.
Digitimes Research: Korea-based Silicon Works looks to ramp up LCD driver IC shipments for Ultra TVs
Apr 16, 16:02
Optimizing its experience of shipping LCD driver ICs for HD displays used in iPads, Korea-based Silicon Works is expected to ramp up its shipments of display driver ICs for Ultra...
Some small-size LCD driver IC makers likely to put up for sale
Mar 19, 22:11
Recent market rumors have indicated that some Taiwan-based small- to medium-size LCD driver IC makers are looking for potential investors hoping to sell their plants at good prices...
LCD driver IC vendor UltraChip debuts on OTC market
Mar 17, 12:08
LCD driver IC vendor UltraChip has debuted on Taiwan's over-the-counter (OTC) securities market at an initial price of NT$11.50 (US$0.38).
ChipMOS to land more large-size LCD driver IC packaging orders in 2014
Mar 14, 16:23
IC backend service company ChipMOS Technologies is expected to land more packaging orders for large-size LCD driver ICs supporting Ultra HD displays amid increasing penetration, according...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD driver IC revenues edge up in 2013
Feb 24, 19:57
The combined revenues of Taiwan's top-6 LCD (display) driver IC makers amounted to NT$100.5 billion (US$3.32 billion) in 2013, increasing 11.7% from a year earlier, according to Digitimes...
LCD driver IC firms looking to improve gross margin
Feb 19, 21:54
LCD driver IC firms expect to post higher gross margins for 2014, buoyed by rising shipments of driver ICs for higher resolution panels, according to industry sources.
Jan 23, 21:39
LCD driver IC firm Orise Technology slid into the red in the fourth quarter of 2013, due to inventory losses resulting from falling product prices particularly prices for WVGA driver...
Taiwan LCD driver IC firms to expand offerings for high-resolution smartphone displays
Jan 21, 13:59
Taiwan-based IC design houses including Novatek Microelectronics, Himax technology, Orise Technology, ILi Technology (Ilitek), Raydium Semiconductor and Sitronix Technology are gearing...
Ilitek to strengthen offerings for smartphones
Jan 17, 11:37
LCD driver IC firm ILi Technology (Ilitek) is looking to enhance its offerings for smartphone panels in 2014. In addition to driver ICs for WVGA panels, Ilitek also aims to ramp up...
LCD driver IC brisk sales to continue in 2014
Jan 3, 11:57
Major Taiwan-based LCD driver IC players, including Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies and Orise Technology, are set to enjoy continued sales growth in 2014 thanks to orders...
Orise gearing up for WQHD displays
Jan 2, 22:11
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- Taiwan IC design houses to see profits shrink in 2015
- Intel to push IoT business partnerships with China supply chain
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- 43-inch TV panels becoming new dominant size
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- Taiwan panel makers further down-talk merger possibilities
- LED lighting forecast to reach 32% of total lamp revenues in office lighting during 2015
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- LCD monitor shipments drop in 2Q15, says WitsView
- India to be second-largest smartphone market by 2017, says Strategy Analytics
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- Globalfoundries completes acquisition of IBM microelectronics business
- Taiwan IC design houses looking for more orders from China handset vendors
- Digitimes Research: China makers expanding production for wearable displays
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Don't Mess with Tanya: Stories Emerging from Boston's Barrios
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As Boston's demographics shift, a subtle cultural revolution swirls ahead, opening doors of perception. Jazmin, a Latina teen, explores immortality on a basketball court in Jamaica Plain. Tanya, a young black woman from Dorchester, confronts a store-owner over racial profiling. Matt, an Irish thug from Charlestown, learns "what women want" at a Caribbean hair salon in Matt ...more
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In the beloved tradition of The Borrowers, The Tale of Despereaux, and The Cricket in Times Square, here is an irresistible adventure story about the tiny creatures who secretly live among us humans, as only Newbery Medal winner Richard Peck could imagine it. Set on a grand cruise ship to England in 1887, this beautifully illustrated tale of a charming family of mice is full of laughs, near misses, and surprises. Multiple-award-winning author Richard Peck at his best and most playful!
Richard Peck is at his humorous, snarky best with this story of a late 19th-century mouse family secretly joining the Cranston family, the humans whose house they live in, across the pond to England on an adventurous voyage at sea. Deciding that the only way to get their daughter, Olivia, married is in England, the Cranstons have no idea that a family of mice is accompanying them to make sure all goes well. Narrated by a mouse, Helena, the many dramas involved in watching over the humans, coping with ship life, and experiencing aristocratic mouse culture are wildly humorous and spot on.
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- Age: 9-12 years
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Author: Richard Peck
- Illustrator: Kelly Murphy
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FLORHAM PARK, NJ - MAY 02: Head coach Rex Ryan of the New York Jets speaks to the media during minicamp on May 2, 2009 at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center in Florham Park, New Jersey. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
As the 2013 NFL season approaches, New York Jets coach Rex Ryan has a lot on his plate. He's had to deal with the departure of his best player, deciding between starting a rookie or going with grossly underperforming veteran, and just trying to patch together an offensive unit that can score more effectively than last year. However, these are all small factors which weigh into Ryan's greatest source of anxiety–his future. Rex knows he has one year to save his job. Sure, he might have the owner's approval, but new GM John Idzik has never really given Rex a ringing endorsement... Read more
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Leading corporate risk prevention consultancy Riskskill (http://www.riskskill.com/), a division of UKFraud, has opened the New Year with a list of what they believe are the 8 biggest corporate risk hotpots faced by management in 2013. The hotspots are:
1. Fraud. With fraud set to reach increasingly high levels as a reflection of economic conditions, corporations face their own battle with those who are determined to defraud them. In 2013, supply chain fraud will be a major growth area, as squeezed suppliers face temptation to cheat, often using IT systems to cover their tracks. This type of fraud can range from simple 'weights and measures' issues through to credit based fraud and professionally planned attacks. As a result, procurement fraud is also set to reach record levels this year, where those charged with purchasing, face a range of temptations, including bribes from suppliers. More generally, internal fraud too is running at its highest level.
The UK government's National Fraud Authority (NFA) has produced an annual survey of fraud. For the last 3 years it has reported estimated fraud losses that are, in general terms, doubling each year. The fraud prevention market is braced for a repetition of this trend with an increase in the estimate of fraud losses expected again.
2. Cyber Crime Attacks. Such intrusions will remain an on-going concern in 2013. Already, the daily number of automated attacks on bank and retailer systems runs into the millions. Corporations are especially vulnerable where they have ventured into online trading, as the customers are faceless and there is comparatively little time to check the efficacy of the client's details. Controls over 'apps', such as payments through mobile and NFC (Near Field Communication) devices are also on-going risks that are growing as these solutions evolve. Technically skilled fraudsters and self-styled cyber-warriors' love such conditions and it is a constant race for 'switched on' payment processors to find the 'security holes' before such people actually cause havoc.
In addition, with so much high quality customer data reaching criminal hands and seemingly frequent high-profile data-security breaches through cyber-crime, it is harder than ever to tell the good and bad guys apart. 2013 will therefore see an increasingly greater emphasis placed upon PCI DSS and other data-security and integrity issues. There will also be continuing government interest in talking about this subject.
3. Social and Other Media Related Risks. The huge rise in different types of mobile device platforms along with the corresponding growth of social media sites now poses a huge reputational challenge for corporations. Within minutes, organisations can be the victim of blistering customer backlashes which might or might not be justified. Many corporations are making a start by attempting to formally control how their own employees release company or workplace information through social media. The number of reported dismissals and legal cases for acting irresponsibly through social media is soaring. However, beyond this there are increasingly huge risks posed by being seen to 'get it wrong' at the 'social-communications' front line. 2013 could well see a significant rise in the ownership of social media policy by corporate communications management.
4. Silo Mentality. Borne out of the desire to conduct business correctly, increasingly complicated silo structures have grown up in the corporate world, with the corporate tsars of compliance vying for power with those running policy, risk and traditional management functions such as IT and finance. It is possible that key decisions such as fraud policy, for example, will fall between these silos so that one either finds managers that are only partially responsible for an issue or a whole gaggle of managers who all feel that something is 'their bag'. The only solution is to have cross-function internal teams working closely with non-execs to allocate and refine roles and responsibilities.
5. Big Data Risks. As a result of corporate compliance and customer contact drives, organisations now hold increasingly huge volumes of data such as customer files. This development does pose its own data breach risks. However, the evolution of the 'big data' culture will also deliver huge benefits in 2013. Recent improvements in business intelligence and data analytics technology have delivered significant benefits for those working to manage big data projects along with those focussed on the risk and compliance issues raised.
Companies can now monitor hundreds of millions of transactions continuously for patterns of potential fraud, cyber-attacks or money laundering. Often this is happening at speeds many times faster than even a year ago. It also allows marketing professionals to make more incisive assessments of customer behavior and therein to tailor and fine tune campaigns accordingly.
6. Credit Risk Losses v Profitable Lending. Banks and other organisations, such as retailers, are under pressure from shareholders, the media and wider stakeholders to avoid bad-debts on one hand, whilst increasing profitable business lending on the other.
There is a potential risk of a lose, lose situation developing where once again such pressure leads to bad financial products and the risks of mis-selling and bad debts from over-stretched customers.
To take retail as an example, store-finance schemes and other 'loyalty' lending products face mounting credit exposures and losses through debt defaults, and write-offs.
7. Legal Claims. Whenever there is a downturn in the economy, people seek-out legal redress from anywhere that they can find it. The insurance industry and local authorities are tired of the 'slips and trips' type scenarios and is fighting the continual rise in these cases. However, many organisations seriously underestimate how big the potential legal risks can be. They are likely to face even greater pressure on this front though in 2013, as the TV ad style accident and PPI lawyers start to look for the next big thing.
8. Environmental, CSR and Sustainability Risks
Often the investment in 'environmentally friendly' and wider 'social responsibility' issues and other 'sustainability initiatives' will be finely calculated parts of a wider 'corporate score-card'. In more difficult economic times, these broader social and 'green' initiatives can suffer; the financial commitment made in the good times can also damage the longer-term investment, security and stability of businesses when things are tighter. So there is a longer term balancing of the risks required - i.e. the corporate social responsibility commitments flagged on the company's website need to be measured against the real-life, long-term trading conditions. As reputation 'can be all', corporates need to make sure that long-term CSR commitments aren't ultimately suspended or frozen with the risk of damaging their hard won reputations.
"From our research and experience of many businesses, we can see that most organisations are needlessly at risk in a number of areas," says Bill Trueman CEO of Riskskill. "Often the potential and consequential losses will be a major threat to businesses performance. To put them right and protect our businesses, we need to make sure that our processes, procedures and systems are clear, tight, ordered and well managed. Whilst the risks can usually be identified quickly and effective plans drawn up, it usually takes a little help and some wider corporate consensus to get things done. External risk management specialists, free of internal politics and silo rivalries, can help organisations appreciate quickly the level of risk they are running and plan accordingly. Strong internal risk management teams can also help combat the risks. However, the first step necessary for many corporations in 2013 is to recognise the risks they run and the need for change itself. Until they do, our role is to highlight the risks most likely to be faced."
About Riskskill (http://www.riskskill.com/)
Part of the acclaimed UKFraud operation, Riskskill delivers 'total risk' assessments for major corporations, solving problems and engineering bespoke risk reduction solutions in organisational, management, financial control and IT.
The assessments analyse all areas where organisations are at risk including: fraud, credit risks, counterparty or partner risks, cyber crime breaches, bad debt management, and the oversight and control of other write-offs along with compliance penalties and legal-case losses. Having identified specific areas of risk, Riskskill drafts detailed business and IT system change plans. The plans are then backed up by comprehensive coaching, training and mentoring programmes, which target the engineering of ground-up (but also top-down) solutions throughout the client's organisation, people, processes, management and systems.
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Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Madoff in Court News
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. must face a trial set for Oct. 18 over claims it tricked private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. into overpaying for EMI Group Ltd. in 2007, a U.S. judge ruled.
Citigroup had asked U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan to dismiss Terra Firma's lawsuit. The private equity firm alleges in its complaint that it was misled by New York-based Citigroup into believing that Cerberus Capital Management LP was also bidding for the music recording and publishing company.
Rakoff dismissed two of Terra Firma's claims while rejecting Citigroup's bid to dismiss allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation and concealment, according to a copy of yesterday's order provided by Terra Firma. The ruling wasn't yet available on the court's website. The judge said he will issue a more detailed opinion explaining the ruling "in due course."
Citigroup argued there was no evidence that David Wormsley, one of its bankers, knew Cerberus wasn't planning to bid when, according to Terra Firma, he told the buyout firm's principal, Guy Hands, that Cerberus would bid 2.62 pounds ($4.07) a share for EMI.
"We are pleased that Judge Rakoff has rejected Citi's attempt to avoid a trial on both of Terra Firma's fraud claims," Jonathan Doorley, a spokesman for London-based Terra Firma, said in an e-mailed statement. "We look forward to the beginning of the trial on Oct. 18, when Citi will have to answer to a group of New York jurors."
Shannon Bell, a Citigroup spokeswoman, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment after regular business hours yesterday.
The case is Terra Firma v. Citigroup, 09-cv-10459, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
Lehman Brothers Defies Bankruptcy to Become a Business Again
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is a business again two years after declaring the biggest bankruptcy in history, with billions of dollars in cash, 500 employees, real estate and investments in other bankruptcies, Bloomberg's Linda Sandler and David McLaughlin report.
The defunct New York-based investment bank, being run by Bryan Marsal, has almost $20 billion in cash and a monthly payroll of as much as $45 million for managers and advisers. Hard-to-sell investments are being managed by 400 employees, and the firm is spending tens of millions of dollars on litigation set to stretch to at least 2012.
Lehman's strategy is unusual for a bankrupt company that's liquidating. Marsal, 59, is betting that he'll raise twice as much by holding Lehman's worst-performing investments as he would by conducting a fire sale.
"The liquidating estate is acting like an ongoing investment concern," said Lawrence A. Larose, a lawyer with Winston & Strawn LLP's financial-restructuring practice in New York. "It's trying to slowly extricate itself from these billions of dollars of investments around the world."
Marsal is not only pouring cash into distressed assets he inherited. He spent $1.4 billion to buy a bankrupt affiliate's loans on a bet he could sell them at a profit.
Creditors haven't pushed Marsal to "dump these assets into a very questionable market," Larose said.
Lehman, once the fourth-largest investment bank, with assets of $639 billion, foundered on Sept. 15, 2008, because of risky real estate bets and too much debt, which it tried to hide from investors, according to a report by examiner Anton Valukas.
The case is In re Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., 08-13555, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Court Rulings
Judge Says Obama Health Suit Will Probably Proceed
A legal challenge to the health-care overhaul signed by President Barack Obama will "probably" be allowed to proceed, a federal judge in Florida said.
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson in Pensacola said yesterday he will make a decision by Oct. 14 on whether the states have jurisdiction to sue. He told lawyers he would probably dismiss part of the suit, while allowing other claims to proceed.
"The states are left almost powerless to affect Congress," Vinson said. "It's enforced upon them whether they like it or not."
The states allege the government's requirement that people buy health insurance exceeds Congress's powers under the Constitution, while the U.S. counters that provision is allowed under its commerce powers because of the billions of dollars a year in unpaid medical bills absorbed by the market each year.
The Justice Department claims the lawsuit is premature and fails to identify any injury the states have suffered.
Any injuries to state budgets fall short of the imminent harm required to bring a claim, the U.S. argued before Vinson.
With at least part of the case surviving yesterday's hearing, Vinson scheduled further arguments for Dec. 16.
A federal judge in Richmond, Virginia, last month allowed a similar lawsuit brought by that state to proceed, rejecting the federal government's motion to dismiss the claim. He scheduled an Oct. 18 hearing for further arguments.
The case is State of Florida v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 10-cv-00091, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida (Pensacola).
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Wells Fargo Wins Baltimore Foreclosure Suit Dismissal
Wells Fargo & Co. for the second time won dismissal of a lawsuit by Baltimore claiming its lending practices discriminated against black borrowers and led to foreclosures that harmed the city.
U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz yesterday dismissed the city's amended complaint, saying it failed to establish a causal connection between decreases in property tax revenue and its allegation that Wells Fargo steered borrowers who were qualified for prime loans to more expensive subprime loans.
Motz allowed the city until Oct. 22 to file a third amended complaint to address this issue.
"Theoretically, the city does have viable claims if it can prove property specific injuries inflicted upon it at properties that would not have been vacant but for improper loans made by Wells Fargo," Motz said. "It is in the interest of justice that the city be granted leave to file a third amended complaint."
Wells Fargo said in a statement that the challenges Baltimore faces can't be attributed to the small number of loans in the city foreclosed on by the bank.
John Relman, a Washington lawyer representing the city, didn't return a call seeking comment after regular business hours.
Baltimore sued Wells Fargo in 2008, accusing it of "reverse redlining" by targeting black borrowers though loans they couldn't afford. That led to foreclosures, a drop in city tax revenue and increased costs for police to fight crime in neighborhoods with vacant homes, the city said.
The case is Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Wells Fargo Bank N.A., 08-00062, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland (Baltimore).
Pennsylvania Fund Manager Liable for Securities Fraud
A Pennsylvania hedge-fund manager committed securities fraud by misrepresenting his holdings when doing trades in two companies conducting private placements of their shares, a federal judge ruled.
Robert A. Berlacher misrepresented his positions when he signed agreements for the private placements, U.S. District Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg in Philadelphia found. Berlacher was accused of securities fraud in a lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Goldberg, who held a three-day nonjury trial in March, ruled in Berlacher's favor on other claims.
"The SEC has not sustained its burden of proof on the insider-trading count and two of the fraud claims," the judge wrote in his ruling yesterday. "The SEC has met its burden on two separate fraud claims."
The SEC said Berlacher, 56, made $680,000 in ill-gotten gains trading in four companies' shares in 2004 and 2005 before the so-called private investment in public equity, or PIPE, issues were publicly known.
Nicolas Morgan, a lawyer for Berlacher at DLA Piper LLP in Los Angeles, said in an e-mailed statement that he was pleased that the decision "rejects the lion's share of the SEC's claims and its overreaching attempt to mischaracterize certain conduct as a violation of federal law." He called the decision a "strike out" for the SEC.
Berlacher's case stemmed from a probe by the federal government into hedge funds that short-sold the stock of companies after learning, before the public, that they would issue PIPE shares.
PIPEs, issued by companies to raise money quickly, are typically sold for less than market prices and often drive down the price of the publicly traded shares.
The SEC attacked the hedge funds' practice of covering their short positions with the cheaper shares they got in the PIPE issues, almost guaranteeing a profit.
In yesterday's ruling, Goldberg found fraud with regard to only two deals by Berlacher. The judge ordered the Villanova, Pennsylvania, resident to surrender profits of $352,364. He declined to impose penalties or interest. The commission sought potential money remedies totaling $1.5 million, Morgan said.
"We are pleased with the ruling, which finds that Mr. Berlacher committed securities fraud and orders him to disgorge more than $350,000 of illicit gains that he obtained as a result of his misconduct," Julie Riewe, assistant director of the SEC Enforcement Division's Asset Management Unit, said in an e-mailed statement.
The case is SEC v. Berlacher, 07-cv-03800, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).
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California Suit Against Ex-Calpers Official Villalobos Blocked
California's influence-peddling lawsuit against a former board member of the state's public pension fund was put on hold by a federal bankruptcy judge.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown lost his bid to proceed with a lawsuit against Alfred Villalobos, a former California Public Employees' Retirement board member, while Villalobos is seeking bankruptcy protection from creditors, according to a ruling yesterday by Judge John Peterson of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Nevada.
"We are disappointed with the decision and intend to appeal it," Christine Gasparac, a spokeswoman for Brown's office in Sacramento, said yesterday in an e-mail.
Villalobos was a Calpers board member from 1993 to 1995 who later became a so-called placement agent, a private middleman hired by money managers to help win investing assignments from pension funds. Brown accused Villalobos in May of trying to improperly influence Calpers personnel to favor Apollo Global Management LLC and other private-equity clients. Villalobos has denied any wrongdoing.
Brown's lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, sought $95 million in civil penalties. Villalobos filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June. Under bankruptcy law, all litigation against a company or person who seeks protection is put on hold while the case is pending. A judge can grant a request to allow claims to proceed outside bankruptcy court in some circumstances.
The state also sued Federico Buenrostro Jr., a former Calpers chief executive officer who left the fund in June 2008 to work for Villalobos. Buenrostro was accused of taking gifts from Villalobos and using the agent's Lake Tahoe mansion for his 2004 wedding. Buenrostro also has denied wrongdoing.
Brown's lawsuit stemmed from federal and state investigations into influence-peddling for access to the $2 trillion in U.S. public retirement funds.
The case is In re Alfred J.R. Villalobos, BK-N-10-52248, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Nevada (Reno).
Madoff Trustee Picard Wins Court Approval of $34.6 Million Fee
Irving Picard, the lawyer in charge of liquidating con man Bernard Madoff's firm, won court approval of his request for $34.6 million in fees for four months of work.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland in Manhattan approved the interim fee request for Picard and his law firm, Baker & Hostetler LLP, at a court hearing yesterday, Picard said in an e-mailed statement. The fees covered work from February through May.
"Judge Lifland said that, as required by the Securities Investor Protection Act, he was approving the interim fee requests of the trustee, his counsel and special counsel," Picard said.
Picard was appointed to recover money for Madoff's victims. He said the fees in the case are paid by the Securities Investor Protection Corp. and don't reduce the amount of money available to pay Madoff's creditors.
Madoff pleaded guilty to running the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. He is serving a 150-year prison term in a federal prison in North Carolina.
The case is Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 08-01789, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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DHB Ex-Chief Guilty of Fraud at Military Contractor
David Brooks, a founder and former chief executive officer of military contractor DHB Industries Inc., was found guilty of committing a $185 million fraud and looting the company to pay for personal expenses.
Brooks, 55, and former Chief Operating Officer Sandra Hatfield, 56, were convicted yesterday of insider trading, fraud and obstruction of justice in manipulating financial records to increase DHB's reported earnings and profits, according to Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch. Brooks was also convicted of lying to auditors.
"Corporate executives who lie to and steal from their employers -- the shareholders -- put the investing public at grave financial risk," Lynch said in a statement yesterday.
DHB, now called Point Blank Solutions Inc., makes body armor for the military and police. It filed for bankruptcy protection on April 14. Brooks and Hatfield lied about inventory of "Interceptor" combat vests that were shipped to the U.S. armed forces and falsely inflated the company's value and their own stock, the government said.
Brooks and Hatfield face as much as 25 years in prison on the most serious counts of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and insider trading.
Kenneth W. Ravenell, a lawyer for Brooks, and Roland G. Riopelle, a lawyer for Hatfield, didn't immediately return phone calls seeking comment on the verdicts.
The trial in federal court in Central Islip, New York, began with opening statements Jan. 25. The jury began deliberating Aug. 2.
Brooks earned $185 million in the scheme while Hatfield earned $5 million, according to prosecutors. Brooks spent company funds "lavishly" on perks and expenses for himself and his family, including purchases of a Bentley and a Ferrari and grooming of 100 purebred trotting horses, Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Lunger told jurors in his opening statement.
The case is U.S. v. David Brooks and Sandra Hatfield, 06-CR-550, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Central Islip).
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New Jersey Woman Admits to Ponzi Scheme, U.S. Says
A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty to federal charges that she directed a $45 million real estate Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors in New York and New Jersey, prosecutors said.
Antoinette Hodgson, 58, of Montclair, New Jersey, entered her plea yesterday to conspiracy and wire fraud in Manhattan federal court. Hodgson paid off early investors in her business with funds from later participants and spent some of their money on herself, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
"Hodgson promised investors high rates of return," Bharara said. "Most of the $45 million she received from investors was immediately used to repay other investors."
Hodgson used only about $6 million of the $45 million she received to buy real estate, prosecutors said. She was arrested in June.
Jack Arseneault, Hodgson's lawyer, didn't immediately return a call.
The case is U.S. v. Hodgson, 10-mj-01261, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Lego Can't Get EU-Wide Toy Trademark After Court Loss
Lego A/S, Europe's biggest toymaker, lost a court challenge seeking European Union-wide trademark rights for the shape of its toy bricks.
The ruling by the EU's highest court in Luxembourg yesterday puts an end to Lego's chances to get a trademark to protect the shape of its building blocks in the region's 27 nations. The dispute has its origins in 1999, when Billund, Denmark-based Lego won an EU trademark on the blocks' shape which Mega Brands Inc., Lego's biggest competitor in snap-together toys, then succeeded in overturning.
A shape such as Lego's toy brick that "merely performs a technical function cannot be registered as a trademark," the European Court of Justice ruled yesterday. "Such a registration would unduly impair the opportunity for competitors to place on the market goods whose shapes incorporate the same technical solution."
Lego had claimed the knobs on top of its toy bricks make them "highly distinctive" and eligible for a trademark. The EU trademark agency said the toy can't be protected because its shape serves a technical purpose, a decision backed by a lower EU court in 2008.
"It is naturally a matter of concern to us that use of the brick by others can dilute the trademark," Peter Kjaer, head of Lego's intellectual property department, said in a statement on the company's website. "The worst aspect is that consumers will be misled."
"Analyses show that 40 percent to 60 percent of shoppers believe they are buying a Lego product when in fact they are purchasing a different product," said Kjaer.
Mega Brands, based in Montreal, Canada, said in a statement that the ruling "has no impact on Mega Brands' extensive footprint" in the EU, because it confirms previous decisions by a lower court and the region's trademark agency.
L'Oreal Heiress Gift Probe Can Continue, Appeals Court Says
L'Oreal SA heiress Liliane Bettencourt lost a bid to block an investigation into gifts worth 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) that she gave to a photographer friend.
The appeals court in Versailles, near Paris, said judge Isabelle Prevost-Desprez could continue the investigation. Prevost-Desprez suspended a trial over the gifts while she investigated secretly made recordings in the case.
The dispute pits France's richest woman against her only child, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, over gifts including art, real estate and insurance policies given to photographer and author Francois-Marie Banier. The family battle spawned a French political scandal after the recordings of Bettencourt's conversations with friends and advisers prompted inquiries into claims including campaign-finance law breaches tied to President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 campaign.
The decision "is a victory for the independence of justice," said Olivier Metzner, a lawyer for Bettencourt Meyers, saying his client had renewed a request for an independent doctor to review her mother's mental fitness.
Bettencourt will appeal the decision to France's highest appeals court, according to her lawyer, Matthieu Boccon-Gibod.
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Adobe, Symantec Among Companies Sued by Uniloc Over Software
Symantec Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. were among 10 companies sued for patent infringement by Uniloc USA Inc., the business that's been in a legal battle over anti-piracy technology with Microsoft Corp. since 2003.
Uniloc USA and Uniloc Singapore Ltd., which owns the patent, also sued CA Inc., National Instruments Corp., Pervasive Software Inc., SafeNet Inc. and its Aladdin Knowledge unit, Avid Technology Inc.'s Pinnacle Systems unit, Sonic Solutions Inc. and Onyx Graphics Inc. The complaint was filed yesterday in federal court in Tyler, Texas.
The company, with U.S. offices in Irvine, California, has sued 60 companies and reached licensing agreements with more than 20, Chief Executive Officer Brad Davis said in a telephone interview. Uniloc won a $388 million jury verdict in 2009 that Microsoft violated a patent related to product activation technology. The decision was later thrown out by a trial judge.
Uniloc is contesting the decision to vacate, and arguments were heard on the case by an appeals court on Sept. 7. In the complaint filed yesterday, Uniloc is seeking unspecified cash compensation and a court order that would block further use of its technology.
Adobe, Avid, CA, Symantec, Onyx and National Instruments declined to comment. Officials with the other companies targeted in Uniloc's lawsuit didn't immediately return messages.
The new case is Uniloc USA Inc. v. National Instruments Corp., 10cv472, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler).
Morgan Stanley Sued by China Development Over CDO Losses
Morgan Stanley was sued by China Development Industrial Bank for fraud to recover losses from an investment tied to residential mortgage-backed securities.
The complaint, filed in New York state Supreme Court on July 15, was made public yesterday. The Taiwanese bank claims Morgan Stanley made an investment linked to U.S. subprime mortgage bonds in mid-2006 and, after learning of problems with it, "dumped those losses" on CDIB in April 2007.CDIB claims it was sold a $275 million interest in what Morgan Stanley called the STACK 2006-1 Ltd., a hybrid collateralized debt obligation. CDOs are pools of assets such as mortgage bonds packaged into new securities.
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The case is China Development v. Morgan Stanley, 65057/2010, New York state Supreme Court (Manhattan).
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|3 Ounce (1 Package)
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Place one of the sliced bananas between the layers.
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