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ModernGraham Quarterly Valuation Of JPMorgan ChaseBenjamin Clark • Tue, Nov. 25 • 1 Comment
- JPM is suitable for both the Defensive Investor and the Enterprising Investor following the ModernGraham approach.
- According to the ModernGraham valuation model, the company is significantly undervalued at the present time.
- The market is implying 2.01% earnings growth over the next 7-10 years, which is significantly less than the rate the company has seen in recent years.
Best S&P 500 Dividend Stocks According To Graham Principles: JPMorgan ChaseArie Goren • Tue, Nov. 25 • 14 Comments
- Ranking the top twenty S&P 500 dividend stocks, according to Graham principles.
- Explanation and back-testing of the "All-Stars: Graham" ranking system.
- Description and a buy recommendation for the first-ranked stock of the system: JPMorgan Chase.
JPMorgan Deteriorating: Hold, But Have Finger On The Sell ButtonLarry Meyers • Tue, Nov. 11 • 12 Comments
- Earnings quality is not great.
- However, rays of light exist in several divisions and the balance sheet.
- Time will tell if momentum returns, so for now, hold.
Probing Further Into JPMorgan: Strong Results Dampened By Federal InvestigationDon Dion • Sat, Nov. 8 • 7 Comments
- JPMorgan is facing a new probe into price-fixing activities in its foreign exchange trading business.
- As a result, JPMorgan upped its potential costs for legal expenses by $1.3 billion and reduced Q3 earnings results.
- Overall, recent results were positive, showing a shift back to profitability.
- We are encouraged by this growth; however, suggest investors also consider peers, such as GS, who are taking to increase transparency and accountability, as well.
JPMorgan: Results Suggest $66 Fair ValueSeeking Profits • Mon, Oct. 20 • 4 Comments
- JPM shares have underperformed for the past year, but results are strong, meaning investors can buy a great company at a good price.
- The consumer bank is posting moderate loan growth, the investment bank has top market share, and asset management is growing revenue and expanding margins.
- Shares are now slightly below book value and less than 10x earnings, making now an attractive entry point.
- Throughout 2014 the stock has experienced some really bad news and it is still flat during the past year.
- The dividend has a lot of room to grow with a current payout of just 30%.
- If interest rates begin to rise next year as anticipated, we can see a rise in the share price of the stock.
JPMorgan's Swelling Legal Provisions Did Not Undermine Strong Q3 PerformanceStock Gazer • Sun, Oct. 19 • 1 Comment
- JPMorgan had to spend $1 billion on legal expenses due to forex market rigging investigation but the company still managed to convert its losses over the previous year into profits.
- The company achieved this by playing to its strengths and generating revenue from investment banking, fixed income markets, deposits and credit card sales.
- JPMorgan took pride in its cost cutting measures as it sought to automate to save costs. The company is currently facing competition from tech giant Apple.
- JPMorgan has stood tall over the years and has repaid investors' faith, does make a worthy investment prospect, if not for the short term then definitely for the long term.
JPMorgan Q3 2014 Earnings: As In-Line As It Can GetWestEnd511 • Wed, Oct. 15
- Headline EPS missed consensus but adj EPS actually came in-line.
- In-line revenue thanks to IB and better than expected loan growth.
- Continue to favor TD and BAC due to lower wholesale exposure and earnings recovery story.
Update: JPMorgan Earnings Miss EPS By $0.03, But Beat Revenues By 2.0%Anthony Ruben • Tue, Oct. 14 • 1 Comment
- JPM missed increased earnings forecasts, but reported progress in core loans, auto origination and investment banking.
- EPS reflects continued improvement and was in-line to slightly positive compared to my forecast.
- Maintain a "Buy" on JPM, especially as 2015 and 2016 earnings forecasts continue to increase.
Whisper Number Impact: What Will JPMorgan's Shares Do Post Earnings?WhisperNumber • Tue, Oct. 14 • 1 Comment
- The whisper number is $1.37, one cent behind the analysts' estimate.
- JPMorgan has a 74% positive surprise history (having topped the whisper in 37 of the 50 earnings reports for which we have data).
- The overall average post earnings price move is 'opposite' (beat the whisper number and see weakness, miss and see strength) when the company reports earnings.
Avoid JPMorgan At These LevelsStock Traders Daily • Mon, Oct. 13 • 1 Comment
- JPM has begun to pull back some.
- But this does not look like the time to buy it.
- On a valuation basis, JPM is not attractive right now.
Earnings Preview: JPMorgan Chase Q3 2014Selerity Research • Sat, Oct. 11 • 3 Comments
- JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to report 3Q 2014 earnings before the bell on Tuesday, October 14th.
- Earnings Per Share: The current Street estimate is $1.38 per share (range: $1.30 to $1.50).
- Revenues: The current Street estimate is $23.99 billion, a 0.50% increase from the year-ago period.
JPMorgan: Stable But Limited UpsideWestEnd511 • Tue, Oct. 7 • 3 Comments
- JPM is a well-run business but the bank has limited upside potential.
- Rising interest rate environment and pressure on wholesale could weigh in on the stock.
- Recommend BAC and TD given their stronger deposit profile.
JPMorgan Sells Health Savings Account Business To Webster Financial - A Win For BothStock Gazer • Wed, Oct. 1
- WBS and JPM came to an agreement about the purchase and sale of HSA. The deal involves the sale of almost 700,000 accounts to Webster Financial's HSA Bank division.
- JPMorgan had announced plans of streamlining its business and intended to achieve that goal by selling some of its non-core business units which included the prepaid card business.
- JPMorgan does not expect any adverse effects on its earnings. The company does not anticipate any changes to the revenues and profits it earns because of this deal.
High-Yielding JPMorgan Appears To Be Overbought At These LevelsAbba's Aces • Wed, Sep. 10 • 2 Comments
- The stock is inexpensively valued on 2015 earnings estimates, and the estimates have increased in the past month.
- The stock has had a nice price increase over the past couple of months though, getting it to overbought territory.
- I'm going to wait another month before putting more capital to work in the name.
JPMorgan: A Solid Value In This Fully Valued MarketBret Jensen • Tue, Sep. 9 • 6 Comments
- It is getting harder to find bargains in the market with the S&P 500 hovering at the 2,000 level and with stocks going for 16-17 this year's earnings.
- I am lightening my exposure to REITs and increasing my allocation to major banks as net interest margins should benefit as interest rates look to rise from here.
- One major bank that is offering solid value in a fully valued market is JPMorgan. Why I expect the shares to rise 12% to 15% is highlighted below.
- JPMorgan Chase has been re-establishing both its business and dividend payout since the recession.
- As such, shares presently trade with what appears to be both a reasonable "current" yield and valuation; leading to a baseline 10% total return expectation.
- However, as there are many factors that lead to this insight, this commentary gives the readers the tools to come to that conclusion on their own.
Loving The Leverage: JPMorgan ChaseWall Street Hippie • Tue, Sep. 2
- First, we'll take a look at the terms of the warrants, including the initial strike price, expiration date, and adjustment formulas.
- Next we'll try to find a reasonable forward valuation for JPMorgan's common stock through late 2018.
- Lastly, we'll compare the returns of the warrants to the returns of the common stock.
JPMorgan Amputates Its Private Equity ArmDon Dion • Tue, Aug. 19 • 8 Comments
- JPMorgan recently struck a deal with AlpInvest Partners and Lexington Partners to sell its roughly 50 percent stake in the portfolio of One Equity Partners.
- One Equity produced $36 million in revenue in Q2 2014, down from $410 million the previous year, during a peak for global deals.
- In contrast, other P-E rivals, such as KKR, have seen strong growth YTD in a favorable environment.
- As JPMorgan could not bring its P-E arm up to speed, along with its poor results so far YTD and legal woes, we reiterate our negative stance on the firm.
- JPM recently announced its legal reserves have risen dramatically to $4.6 billion.
- This could reduce the amount available to pay shareholders as JPM's dividends struggle to return to pre-financial-crisis levels.
- JPM saw a 8% decline in earnings, slowed down by decreased mortgage lending in Q2, while rival GS posted 5% growth.
- We suggest investors consider alternatives to JPM moving forward in 2014.
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Mon, Nov. 17, 8:05 AM
- Dag Skattum spent more than two decades at JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), eventually rising to co-head of global M&A in 2006, before exiting along with the boom in 2007. After six years at P-E firm TPG, he's returning to the bank as vice-chairman of EMEA. Among his roles will be leading a strategic advisory council that will help mentor JPMorgan's future dealmaking stars.
- It's the latest in a series of European hires for JPMorgan which is looking to overtake Deutsche Bank as #1 in investment banking fee rankings for the region.
Sat, Nov. 15, 5:00 PM
- JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) has settled a lawsuit by Texas mineral-rights owners who accused the bank of cheating them of $681M in compensation for drilling rights in the Eagle Ford Shale.
- The case went to trial Nov. 12 after deal talks stalled.
- The jury has now been excused. The Trust's lawyer believes "a sufficient number of beneficiaries" will now sign the settlement.
- Source: Bloomberg
Thu, Nov. 13, 10:17 AM
- Real sweethearts if you believe the reports, the likes of JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Citigroup (NYSE:C), and Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) are being investigated by the Feds for still going after borrowers after their debt has been legally discharged in a bankruptcy.
- Paying little attention to such court-ordered discharges, the banks reportedly are keeping the debt alive on credit reports, more or less attempting to force borrowers to pay on bills which they no longer owe.
- The issue, say sources, is the way banks report to credit agencies. Once a debt is voided through bankruptcy, creditors must update credit reports showing that debt is cleared. Banks, however, routinely fail to do so, instead leaving notations of "past due" or "charged off." A clerical mistake would be one thing, but, according to a number of bankruptcy judges,, banks refuse to make corrections unless the borrower pays.
- The banks contend they are complying with all federal laws in their collection and sale of debt. Class-action suits have also been filed and the banks are trying to have them thrown out, arguing its third-party debt buyers who are in control.
Wed, Nov. 12, 10:32 AM
- In what appears to be in addition to the already-announced global $3.4B fine for banks over forex manipulation, the OCC announces $950M in penalties against Bank of America (BAC -0.6%), JPMorgan (JPM -1.1%), and Citigroup (C -0.7%) for "unsafe or unsound" practices related to their forex trading operations.
- BofA will pay $250M, JPM $350M, and Citi $350M.
- Previously: Global banks fined $3.4B in forex probe
Wed, Nov. 12, 2:24 AM
- Global regulators have fined five major banks, including UBS (NYSE:UBS), HSBC (NYSE:HSBC), Citigroup (NYSE:C), Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE:RBS) and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) a total of $3.4B over allegations of price fixing and manipulating benchmarks in the $5T-a-day foreign exchange market.
- The penalties were imposed by Britain's Financial Services Authority, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Swiss regulator FINMA.
- Barclays (NYSE:BCS) had been expected to be part of the settlement but the FCA said its investigation into the U.K. bank was continuing.
Tue, Nov. 11, 4:47 PM
- "The exchanges (apparently ICE's NYSE and NDAQ) who have a hand in this and seek to benefit from the onerous version of a trade-at basically put the screws to us," says Michael Masone, legal counsel for equities at Citigroup (NYSE:C), speaking at a SIFMA-sponsored conference.
- At issue is a SEC pilot program meant to boost trading in smaller-cap names. One of the provisions - the so-called "trade-at" rule - is a stealth attempt at hurting brokerages which run private trading systems (dark pools), said both JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) and Citi at the conference.
- The one-year program - if approved (the SEC began seeking public comment this month) - would begin next year and widen the minimum tick at which bids and asks are quoted on exchanges to more than a penny. The plan would create four groups of companies with market caps of less than $5B. One segment would require quotes in increments of a nickel or more, and another will require both quotes and trades to be in five-cent steps. In a third group, trading will be discouraged in dark pools. A fourth group would trade normally.
- Opposition has been pretty fierce - even within the SEC - but the agency for now has decided to move forward anyway.
Tue, Nov. 11, 3:00 PM
- "Capital allocation decisions are probably getting the most airtime right now," says Chris Ventresca, global co-head of M&A at JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), after being asked what's being talked about in corporate boardrooms at the moment.
- An optimistic lot, M&A bankers have for several years predicted an M&A boom in the face of continued lackluster action. This year though, the gap between bankers' pipe dreams and reality is perhaps the narrowest since the financial crisis, writes the WSJ's Maureen Farrell, and Ventresca expects the elevated level to continue.
- For buyers, says Ventresca, there's a disconnect between their ability to drive growth and what shareholders/markets expect, so acquisitions are a key tool. And sellers are more receptive because a multi-year bull market means they're not selling at anywhere near the bottom.
Tue, Nov. 11, 9:47 AM
- Citing valuation as JPMorgan (JPM -0.3%) nears its $64 price target, KBW downgrades the stock to Market Perform. The team also sees more downside risk than upside to the bank's earnings potential, in part thanks to the chance the Fed goes slower than expected with rate hikes.
Mon, Nov. 10, 3:39 PM
- The lucrative prepaid card business may already getting less so thanks to the entrance of gorillas like JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) and American Express (NYSE:AXP) into the industry, but alongside that threat is the CFPB.
- Unable to cap fees, the fast-expanding D.C. agency is set this week to propose new rules mandating clearer disclosure of fees, and to make it easier for consumers to compare across cards.
- "We're generally in compliance with what we expect the regulation to be," says Meta Financial (NASDAQ:CASH) President Brad Hanson, and he believes the better disclosure "helps legitimize the industry."
- Around 8% of U.S. households use prepaid cards, but that rises to 22% when just looking at those without bank accounts. Less than a $20B business six years ago, the amount put on prepaid cards should near $100B this year.
Mon, Nov. 10, 1:52 PM
- The JPMorgan Diversified Return International Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:JPIN) seeks to provide investors risks-adjusted returns through international equity exposure with a focus on lower volatility.
- The ETF will track the FTSE Developed ex-North America Diversified Factor Index, which employs a unique risk framework and multi-factor stock filter.
- "We believe that JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) has unique investment insights and international capabilities that will be attractive to ETF investors, and this product is an important additional step in delivering those capabilities," said Robert Deutsch, head of the ETF business for J.P. Morgan Asset Management, in a press release.
- JPIN is fairly similar to the JPMorgan Diversified Return Global Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:JPGE), JPMorgan's first ETF, which began trading earlier this year.
- Other International equity ETFs: VEU, VXUS, SCHF, IXUS, ACWX, CWI, GWL, ACIM, AADR, RTR, VIDI, DBAW
Fri, Nov. 7, 11:24 AM
- The bank's target per its 2014 investor day was for 2K job cuts in the card, merchant services, and auto unit, and 6K cuts in mortgage banking, but - presenting today at an investor conference - CEO Consumer & Community Banking Gordon Smith says there should be additional reductions of 3K in the two divisions.
- JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) expects to exit 2016 with expenses in the combined units $2B less than they will be this year.
- Webcast and presentation slides
Thu, Nov. 6, 10:59 AM
- Its investment banking fees in Europe lagging industry peers, JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) in 2004 bought a 50% stake in U.K. investment bank Cazenove Group (and bought the rest of the company in 2010; total cost of about £1B). Today, JPMorgan's investment banking market share in the U.K. is 9.8%, up from 6.5% in 2012, making it one of the bank's faster-growing markets, and boosting its overall European share.
- Jamie Dimon hopes to soon pass Deutsche Bank in the European investment bank tables - its market share of 7.4% is just 30 bps less than Deutsche's. In 2010, Deutsche had a 100 basis point lead.
Mon, Nov. 3, 5:56 PM
- From JPMorgan's (NYSE:JPM) Q3 10-Q: "DOJ is conducting a criminal investigation, and various regulatory and civil enforcement authorities ... are conducting civil investigations, regarding the Firm's foreign exchange ("FX") trading business. These investigations are focused on the Firm's spot FX trading activities as well as controls applicable to those activities."
- JPMorgan has hiked the upper end of its estimate range for the "reasonably possible losses" it could see from legal matters by $1.3B to $5.9B.
- Citi and UBS are among the other banks facing DOJ forex probes. JPMorgan's Q3 legal expenses totaled $1.01B, with much of the spending related to currency investigations.
- Previous: Banks brace for FX settlements
Fri, Oct. 31, 10:38 AM
- Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS +4.8%) is the latest to do so, today announcing the setting aside of $640M for potential settlements in the currency-rigging investigations.
- In total, seven major U.S. and European banks have boosted their legal reserves by $6.5B in October. Last night, Citigroup (C +0.4%) was forced to cut its Q3 earnings by $600M amid "rapidly-evolving" probes.
- UBS has put aside the most of any single bank this month - $1.9B. Next in line is Deutsche Bank (DB +0.7%) with $1.1B, and JPMorgan (JPM +1.3%) with $1B. None of the lenders disclosed exactly how much was specifically for foreign exchange, and none have yet been formally accused of wrongdoing.
- Barclays (BCS +5.6%) reserved $800M for FX-related settlements, and Credit Suisse (CS +0.5%) $400M.
- ETFs: XLF, FAS, FAZ, UYG, VFH, IYF, IAI, SEF, IYG, FXO, FNCL, FINU, RWW, RYF, FINZ
Thu, Oct. 23, 4:49 PM
- Not having had the pleasure of being subject to the stress test and CCAR previously, Deutsche Bank's (NYSE:DB) U.S. unit will be a participant next year
- As in prior years, those BHCs with large trading operations - BAC, C, GS, JPM, MS, WFC - will be required to factor in a global market shock as part of their scenarios.
- Those six, plus STT and BK - thanks to their custodial operations - will be required to incorporate a counterparty default scenario.
- Among the items in the severely adverse scenario is the unemployment rate jumping to 10%, a 60% dive in the stock market, and oil jumping to $110 per barrel (how about oil falling to $10 per barrel?).
- ETFs: XLF, FAS, FAZ, UYG, KRE, VFH, KBE, IYF, IAT, IAI, SEF, IYG, FXO, FNCL, KBWB, RKH, QABA, FINU, KCE, KRU, KBWR, RWW, RYF, KBWC, FINZ, KRS
Wed, Oct. 22, 3:43 PM
- Emails from 2011 show legal and compliance executives in New York were alerted JPMorgan's (JPM -0.5%) hiring of the offspring of senior Chinese officials helped to win it investment banking business, reports the WSJ. This was more than a year before U.S. authorities began their investigation.
- The emails show JPMorgan officials dismissed the accusations, but nevertheless proposed changes to the bank's hiring practices in the region.
- JPMorgan hasn't yet been officially charged with any wrongdoing, but the SEC is investigating "what executives knew and when they knew it." The breadth of any enforcement action is likely to closely follow how high up the JPMorgan organization chart the SEC can show awareness of misconduct, says a law professor.
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Date: Wednesday, 26 October 2011
The Chairperson:
With us today are Alan Brontë, the commissioner of valuation in Land and Property Services (LPS), and Trevor Steenson, its chief survey officer.
I invite you to make some opening comments, after which the Committee will ask some questions. The purpose of the evidence session is for you to assist us in deciding whether the geographic information strategy is an area that the Committee should hold an inquiry into or whether we are content with the information that you have provided to date.
Mr Alan Brontë (Land and Property Services):
Good morning. As the Chairman said, I am the commissioner of valuation in LPS. You are probably more familiar with my work in that role, but I actually have responsibility for mapping and valuation in LPS. Hopefully, some of the rationale behind my responsibility crossing both disciplines will become clear later.
Trevor and I welcome the opportunity to appear before the Committee. I am very glad to have him with me. As the Chairman said, Trevor is the chief survey officer for Northern Ireland. His total career so far has been in what is more commonly known as Ordnance Survey, and I am sure that he will be able to explain fully the issues to do with geographic information, or GI, as we will refer to it.
We have brought some packs for Committee members. They contain what I hope is useful reference material, whether or not the Committee decides to proceed with it as a subject of an inquiry. I will give you the brief overview that you asked for, and I hope that you found our advance paper helpful.
For members' information, that paper is in members' packs.
Mr Brontë:
It is estimated that some 80% of government-held data contains information that relates to location. That geospatial information is essential to economic planning and development. However, in our view, too few government-owned data sets that incorporate location data can be easily combined and analysed with reliability. There is too much duplication, too little reusing of information and too few linkages across databases.
The GI strategy for Northern Ireland aims to address those issues by improving the sharing of geographic information to facilitate more effective decision-making. It is also about educating and improving everyone's understanding of the power of geographic information and promoting its benefits; about controlling the costs of data management by co-ordinating the creation and maintenance of data sets, and, hopefully, eliminating duplication in existing data sets; about increasing skill levels so that all who need to use geographic information knows what they need to know to work with it effectively; and about conforming with emerging national and European legislative requirements that relate to geographic information. No doubt we will touch on that last point at some stage.
The current GI strategy builds on previous Northern Ireland GI strategies, which dealt with issues such as technology, the conversion of paper records, common reference data, orthophotography and addresses. Previous strategies also dealt with the cost of data, which is something that is now dealt with in the public sector through the Northern Ireland mapping agreement.
Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) played a lead role in taking forward the GI strategy, as mapping data provides a framework, or tapestry, for all other spatial data in Northern Ireland. As the Committee will know, that role now lies with Land and Property Services, following the merger of Ordnance Survey, the Valuation and Lands Agency (VLA), the Rate Collection Agency (RCA) and the Land Registers of Northern Ireland (LRNI).
We will highlight a few of the benefits, and we have provided examples of those benefits in the pack. Some of the benefits lie in having better informed decision-making and in having a good way of explaining those decisions to the public. Many of the examples in the pack are about the review of jobs and benefits offices, school estate planning, and so on. There are also cost-saving benefits, going on the basis of collecting data once and using it many times. There are also examples of operational delivery benefits — how best to deliver services in Northern Ireland — from mapping the habitat of salmon to delivering blue-light services. Indeed, the 2011 census was very important because it used the Pointer database, which is name- and location-based.
The public sector is a huge source of information, and Europe has estimated that its market value is about €27 billion. If it were to be reused, that public data could generate new businesses and jobs.
Finally, I want to give a personal example of how GI has enhanced and improved the efficiency and effectiveness of valuation services, which is the area with which I am most familiar. The 2007 domestic revaluation in Northern Ireland was unique in the UK and much wider afield in its use, for the first time, of a computer-assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) system. That was made possible by geographic information. Our everyday rating business is also greatly enhanced by the availability of online mapping, aerial photography, geospatial unique identifiers for every property, which tie properties to a precise location, and Pointer, Northern Ireland's single-address database that links place names to actual locations.
All of that GI has helped improve the valuation business. It has made it more effective and efficient. We still have plenty of room for improvement, but, in our business — LPS — and wider afield, GI is great enabler. That is why we were very excited about the opportunity to tell the Committee a little bit more.
Thank you very much. Is the information that you provide on a demand-led basis from the Department? Is it a matter for the Department to decide whether it wants to use your services, or is there any onus on the Department to deploy your services in decision-making?
There is no onus, but we have a Northern Ireland mapping agreement, which covers the public sector. It certainly covers the core Departments and their constituent bodies. There is an agreement there on the type of services that they want or need. Different services will require different products. Perhaps Trevor can give more detail on that.
Mr Trevor Steenson (Land and Property Services):
We are seeing a lot of use being made of the data for operational purposes, but probably less so for strategic planning purposes. The use of the data for strategic planning is increasing, and we are working very closely with colleagues in the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) to support its statisticians.
We have a very dispersed rural population and some urban centres. Services, particularly if the ideas have been imported from Britain, tend to concentrate on numbers and on providing services where people live. The work that you do is obviously very important, because you can highlight how a decision affects services in rural or less-populated areas.
That is one of the areas that prompted the Committee to consider holding an inquiry. You have been marketing your services to other Departments, with increasing success, and using geographic information to influence their decision-making. What role do you see a Committee inquiry having?
Mr Steenson:
We have a unique opportunity in Northern Ireland. Owing to its size, we can get Departments and decision-makers together. GB has struggled for a long time to try to co-ordinate the use of geographic information, whereas, in Northern Ireland, because of the size of the place and the structure that we have, it is much easier to do so. We have seen the savings that have been delivered through shared services throughout the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS). We are now talking about shared data, which is really the next step. The more that we can share data, the more that we can reuse and combine data. That will support and strengthen decision-making across the NICS, and it will support our Ministers.
Mr McLaughlin:
I was on a visit to your offices, and you and your colleagues gave me a quick briefing on geographic information. I find it a very exciting project.
I have a number of questions. Do you charge for the data service that is available to Departments?
To separate the two sides, there is the data that Ordnance Survey creates, and there is support in the use of that data. The use of the data is somewhat funded by the licensing people. Departments pay for it, but we also have a number of staff embedded in Departments. Indeed, a member of staff is embedded in the Assembly's Research and Information Service (RaISe).
That is done in response to some of the skills issues, because the use of GI for strategic purposes takes a little bit of knowledge of the systems and of the data. There is no GI profession at the moment, so people who are doing GI work sometimes get promotion or move on, which leaves Departments very vulnerable. LPS has decided to have a pool of staff trained to support Departments. That is charged for, and so Departments pay their wages.
One topical issue is flooding. We know that the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) has done a mapping exercise on the floodplains. I suppose there are two factors: the effect of climate change and how the built environment affects the propensity for flooding to occur. Is there a project addressing that particular aspect? We are talking about strategic planning, and we were talking about the Planning Service. It appears that the combination of the two is creating some of the difficulties for householders at the moment.
One example in the information pack is the creation of flood-risk maps. Our data, along with other information, has been instrumental in that. The proposal that we are putting to the Committee is that that data on its own is useful, but it becomes much more useful if information such as planning and the location of schools and rescue services is combined. If that is done, people can be housed in the event of a flood.
That is one area that we want to emphasise. There are a lot of data sets out there, and by combining them through working together and using geographic information, much greater benefits can be achieved than would be the case were data sets used on their own.
The point that I am getting at is whether there is anything that we can do about this almost annual event that is affecting different parts of the North? Can we do more than provide emergency flood protocols, for example? Does the system that is being developed and the data that has been collected allow planners to come to the conclusion that they should call a stop to development in particular areas because they have reached breaking point, where, if there is heavy rain, there will be occurrences of flooding?
Interestingly, if you look back at the early Ordnance Survey records from the turn of the 20th century, you will often find that someone has indicated that parts of the land are liable to flood. Unfortunately, that kind of local knowledge and information has been lost in the many map updates. Some of the data that we provide is terrain modeling. That has been supplemented by some of the Departments doing more precise terrain modelling using a technique called LIDAR — light detection and ranging — which gives a very accurate surface model. That is being used now to model areas at risk. The insurance industry is very keen on using geographic information for insurance purposes in that type of area, so, over the past couple of years, an awful lot of research has been done because of the flooding. Our role is to capture the data and make sure that it is available.
You seem to be saying that the information could be of use in, say, planning decisions on further or additional development. That begs the question, which might come up if we have an inquiry, of whether the planners are actually using and accessing that information to inform their decisions.
Operationally they are, although I am not sure of the extent to which they are using it strategically. LPS/Ordnance Survey mapping is embedded in the planning process. Indeed, the Planning Service's ePIC system — electronic planning information for citizens system — is based on —
That was not without its problems.
Not to do with the mapping, I hasten to add.
However, it is the combination. Planners can use the mapping, but to develop a GI structure in Northern Ireland, we need to know what other data is available from Departments. That information is sometimes buried in Departments, so it is hard to find out whether the Department has it. We then end up collecting it again, or paying someone else to collect it.
OK. Thank you very much.
Mr Hilditch:
To what extent do you work with private sector companies, particularly those that are looking for energy underground? In my constituency, there is salt-mining. I know that that may apply to other constituencies as well. Is there much work going on in that regard?
Not as much as we would like to see in Northern Ireland. Most of our work is in the public sector. We are just starting to engage with insurance companies. The salt-mining people work very closely with our Geological Survey of Northern Ireland (GSNI) colleagues, with whom we share a building. The mapping information that they produce is based on LPS mapping, although, obviously, they include geological layers. We do a lot of work with the ports and harbours, and a couple of examples are included in the pack.
We have licence agreements with a lot of companies. For example, we gather satnav information in Northern Ireland, which is then licensed to other people.
At present, we license between £2 million and £3 million worth of data to the private sector.
Mr Hussey:
I will go back to Mitchel's point. When is a civil servant not a civil servant, we sometimes ask, but when is a floodplain not a floodplain? Some statistics are based on the 100-year plan, which says that flooding occur only once every 100 years. Yesterday and the day before, a housing estate in Beragh in my constituency was flooded for the umpteenth time in a number of years. You must gather historical evidence that makes you aware of the location of floodplains.
Another example is in Omagh, where the Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital, which provides for people with mental health issues, decided to build what it called "villas" on a certain part of the hospital grounds. Patients said that the hospital should not build there because it is on a floodplain, but, of course, the authorities knew better and built on it. Yesterday, yet again, the patients were evacuated from the area. Local knowledge is there, but at times it is being disregarded. The Beragh area is always affected, but it does not seem to have appeared on the radar. Everyone knows what happens, but, for some reason, it has not been picked up on. This is a wonderful system, if and when it works.
Exactly, yes.
I live in the wilds of Tyrone. In my part of the world, people know where they live by the name of the road — Gillygooley Road, for example — or the townlands. Everyone in the area knows where Gillygooley is. You would not have a clue, but everyone there knows where it is. Therefore, geographic information has to include that element as well. We are discussing strategic planning, but distances to hospitals is another major issue in my part of the world. Although it may be 28 miles from Omagh to Enniskillen and 34 miles from Omagh to Londonderry, it is a hell of a journey when the road is rubbish. Is all that taken into account?
It is. We have moved forward in recognising that. A lot of planning used to be straight-line planning, because there was no road network, nor was the software available to make those calculations. With the advent of in-car navigation systems technology, geographic information systems (GIS) can do proper planning and road links, and they can take account of rivers that people cannot cross. We saw that information being used in the most recent census, as Alan mentioned. In the past, census enumerators simply drew a line or a circle on a map to denote a district. That might have meant crossing a motorway or driving around a river. The technology allows us to take in much more of that type of information.
I must stress that we do not collect an awful lot of that information. It t exists somewhere in the Civil Service, so it is about bringing that information together. That is the point that we are trying to make.
My concern is that there is an overdependence on that type of information. It may have made sense to somebody to put a hospital in Enniskillen, and it does if there is a road that gets you there. However, when there is flooding and the A32 is closed, and you cannot get an ambulance across it unless you have a boat, the information is important. The same goes when building houses. The area is continually changing, whether because of global warming or changes in the river patterns, so the information has to be continuously updated. It is something that planners have to be aware of. We cannot have another scenario in which people put their hard-earned cash into a house, and, because it was one or two blocks too short going up, the water comes into the house. All those things are very much in our face and still happening today. Indeed, that has been quite clear in the past few days in my constituency.
Mr Brontë:
To reinforce the point that Trevor made, we do not see ourselves as the collector of information on everything that happens in Northern Ireland. I said at the start of the evidence session that around 80% of government-held data has a location element to it. However, it is about ensuring that all the information held by the various bodies is linked to location so that when someone wants to do something at a particular location — whatever that may be — other data sets can be plugged into it. It is really a hub scenario.
Mr Hussey:
I would prefer it if all the information were available. I worked for an insurance company, and if it knew that something was a risk, it would not pay out. For example, if, unlike the wise man who built his house on the rock, you built yours on the sand, you were snookered, and the insurance company had the information to back its position. However, we also want information to back the person who is building a house, so that he is not caught on the heels of the hunt simply because he assumed that everything was OK because everyone said that it was OK.
Mr Steenson:
That is our difficulty. We know that that information exists in different pockets. Our proposal is to do some work to bring that information together.
Let us open the pockets.
Mr McLaughlin:
We are discussing the GI strategy. However, is there a strategy or is it just an aspiration?
There is a strategy, and there is an update on it in your pack.
Is it a strategy, however? Are all Departments obliged to share the information? If not, we are only waffling.
They are certainly not obliged to. In some countries, it is mandated, and it is called a spatial data infrastructure — or SDI, to use another three-letter initialism — instead of GI.
Therefore, in some countries, it is required.
Yes. When creating data in the American Administration, it has to be put through a clearing house and a record made of it so that it is available to everyone else. I am not sure that we necessarily have the capability to do that in Northern Ireland without legislation. However, that is what the GI strategy intends to do.
You know the old saying in Northern Ireland: whatever you say, say nothing.
In the briefing paper, we refer to the EU's INSPIRE directive — the infrastructure for spatial information in Europe — which requires every public authority to make its data available, for it to be collected in a particular way and for it to be described through Metadata. Again, LPS is co-ordinating that. Therefore, that is legislation, and there could be infraction if Departments do not make the data available.
Mr D Bradley:
I was looking at two of your case studies, which are delivering blue-light services and GIS as a core component of emergency planning. The Chairperson will be aware of the recent situation in Newry where, sadly, a person went missing and was later found dead. The search operation was co-ordinated by the police and local people. There was an earlier incident in County Antrim where a lady went missing, and a search operation was also launched. You would be in an ideal position to put together a module that could be used immediately in those circumstances and that could co-ordinate sightings of the person, the location of the search teams, feedback from search teams, the weather conditions, potential risks and hazards in the terrain being searched, the person's usual route and, as Ross said, local information. It would make it easier for the police, the other blue-light services and local people to handle such situations. What would it take for you to consider developing the module of that type?
We have been doing some work on that. A civilian search agency has been set up. I apologise, I cannot remember its title. You may remember that it had a van burnt out about a year ago.
Mr D Bradley:
Yes, I remember that.
We provide that agency with our total range of mappings, so it has full access and is using that in a search and rescue module in its mobile headquarters unit.
We work closely with the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, which has a comprehensive range of mapping data that we provide, and it is important that, like all data, it is kept up to date. So, in the event of a critical or a large-scale emergency, staff in Fire and Rescue Service headquarters have access to online mapping.
We also work closely with Belfast City Council, which has a control centre for emergency services that also has full access to our mapping. That includes one of the more interesting and useful data sets, orthophotography, which involves aerial photography of Northern Ireland. We worked closely with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in its mapping programme to upgrade that aerial photography. Again, that is useful for flood response and other responses.
Mr P Maskey:
Is your service sustainable in the long term? I take out my phone, which is switched off, although Mitchel's is not — [Laughter.]
We could not possibly comment on that.
My phone has GPS, Google maps, satnav and all. I hit a search button and can pull up information that I have seen in some of the documentation. I ask whether the project is sustainable in the long-term because all that modern technology is out there now and more is becoming available every year. It would cause me concern if Departments are not mandated to give you the information, because I imagine that it would diminish your role if I can punch a button on my phone and get some of that information.
Some of that information originates with us and we license it to them. The difference between the information on the phone or the satnav is that it does not include some of the other work that needs to be done, such as land registration and the defining of the DARD field boundaries. It is just not accurate enough. For example, the Land Registry is used in the legal process, so it needs the backing of what was Ordnance Survey and is now LPS mapping because that has more of a legal basis.
We would say that we can provide that service to all the public sector in Northern Ireland. We would not want one Department to go off and engage with Google and for someone else do the same with other providers. That would be an inefficient way to do business. We overfly Northern Ireland. We have a camera that is top of the range in being able to pick up the information that enables the mapping of field boundaries for DARD.
How often do you is it updated? Is it three yearly or something like that?
The new digital camera that we put in will involve a two-year refresh cycle. Previously, it was normally three to five years.
The weather is the biggest issue. If we could improve that, we could fly more often and make the maps more up to date. Whether for the blue-light services or whatever, it is important that the data is kept up to date. It is of no or limited use if it is out of date. In an emergency situation, it is absolutely important that the information is the most up to date possible, because a new building or a new road could be there. A failure to show such changes is disorientating for the map users.
The Chairperson:
In doing a case study of provision or potential use of service, particularly in the border areas, do you confine that study to within the boundaries? Do you analyse what service may be available on the southern side of the border or what size of population may be devoid of such a service and may use it in the North?
Mr Steenson:
All the studies include the border regions. We have worked very closely with and been engaged in some of the cross-border EU-funded initiatives in the use of geographic information. Next month, I am speaking at a conference in Omeath on cross-border information. We have a land border, and that is very important for INSPIRE. Roads and floodplains do not stop at borders. We work very closely with our colleagues in Ordnance Survey Ireland in creating cross-border data sets. Cuilcagh Mountain is another example of where we did some work. As a result of flooding of Marble Arch Caves, we worked closely with colleagues to ensure it was a cross-border data set.
Mr Hussey:
You mentioned DARD and the mapping of farms. That has caused some consternation among farmers. Has that been improved?
It is being improved. As you can appreciate, about 750,000 fields are registered to DARD. We are using the new photography to improve the mapping. We are working very closely with DARD. We will issue farm maps at the start of 2012, which will be based on improved mapping. It will take probably another sight to fully align those boundaries because we will need feedback from farmers.
What sort of feedback are you getting at the minute? There have been quite a few instances of people saying, "That's not mine" or "Why has he got mine?". How many complaints have you had about what you have already provided?
The improved mapping has not been issued yet. Maps for 200 farm areas will be issued before Christmas, so we will very quickly get the feedback. We are also issuing orthophotography, so farmers will see the boundaries, what they relate to on the ground and will, hopefully, recognise that any change has been aligned to a physical feature.
Mr McLaughlin:
Is orthophotography a more detailed and accurate process that will ensure that the Registry of Deeds is rationalised?
Yes; part of the work that we are doing with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development involves bringing the mapping up to modern standards. GPS was mentioned, and much of the mapping was captured prior to that type of technology being available. LPS has a work programme called positional improvement that helps to make it compatible with accurate GPS; that is not necessarily the sort that people have on their phones. You can now achieve accuracy of 2 cm to 3 cm. We are bringing our mapping up to date with that. There will then need to be a programme for Land Registry, which in now within LPS, to realign the boundaries, some of which were based on 6 in mapping that dates back to the turn of the century.
The Chairperson:
Thank you very much. That was an interesting presentation. We have to decide whether we want to further consider that as a potential area of inquiry. We will be asking whether the Committee will agree to staff drawing up draft terms of reference for consideration at a later date to see whether this is something that we want to pursue. However, your presentation was helpful for our further consideration of the matter.
Will we get a wee run out in a plane with a camera?
The Committee could be squeezed into the back of a helicopter.
You may want to do that once, but you may not ask for a return flight.
We also need an app for switching off Mitchel's phone.
They can do it in virtual mode. I have been down there and it is amazing what they are at.
Mr Brontë:
Thank you very much indeed for the opportunity to tell you a little bit about that aspect of LPS business. As Mitchel has already provided a great advertisement for coming to Colby House, we welcome any other members of the Committee to come to see some of the action and work that is going on there, because it puts it in context. I think that members would find it very interesting.
We will certainly consider that. That is our second invite of the morning. We will see how much time we have.
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Privilege-Jurisdiction in Elections.
Sea-coast Towns, &c.
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Mr. Speaker with a great Number of the House, assembled at Six a Clock this Morning, with a Purpose to treat and resolve what should be delivered to his Majesty (being appointed to attend him the same Morning at Eight a Clock) touching the Reasons of their Proceeding in Sir Francis Goodwin's Case; but because the House was not then thought full enough for a Matter of that Consequence, they proceeded to the Reading of Bills.
L. 1. B. For the Re-edifying of all decayed Sea-coast Towns, and for Increase of Shipping and Mariners within the Realm, of England.
L. 2. B. For Explanation of the Statute of forcible Entry, made 8 H. VI.
L. 2 B. To take away Writs of Errors in certain Cases.
These Two Bills, upon this second Reading, were both committed to Sir Francis Carew, Vice-chamberlain to the Queen, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir George Moore, Sir Edward Hobbie, Sir Thomas Walles, Mr. Overbury, Sir Nathaniel Bacon, Sir Richard Barkley, Sir Robert Napper, all the Serjeants at Law, Mr. Lawrence Hide, Sir Edward Mountague, Sir Richard Spencer, Mr. Francis Moore: - To meet on Monday, at Two a Clock in the Afternoon, in the Inner Temple Hall.
Upon Motion touching Mr. Speaker's Attendance on the King, a Committee was named to accompany him ; viz. All the Privy Council being Members of the House, Sir George Carew, Vice-chamberlain to the Queen, Sir Francis Bacon, Mr. Serjeant Dodridge, Sir Henry Mountague, Mr. Serjeant Hubbard, Mr. Serjeant Lee, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Hide, Mr. Francis Moore, Mr. Winch, Mr. Tate, Mr. Richard Martin, Mr. Serjeant Shirley, Mr. Serjeant Tanfield, Sir John Heigham, Sir Robert Oxenbridge, Sir William Fleetwood, Sir Edwin Sandis, Sir Robert Wroth, Sir Francis Fane, Sir Francis Hastings, Sir George Moore, Sir Edward Hobby, Sir Robert Wingfield, Sir Maurice Berkley, Sir Edward Tyrrell, Sir William Killegrew, Sir Francis Popham, Mr. Francis Clifford, Sir John Savill, Sir Thomas Waller, Sir William Lower, Mr. Nathaniel Bacon, Sir Richard Verney, Sir George Fane, Mr. Toby Mathew, Sir Thomas Ridgway, Mr. Edward Seymour, Sir William Burlacy, Sir Robert Moore, Sir Jonathan Trelawney, Sir Edward Denny, Sir George Fleetwood, Sir John Scott, Sir Herbert Crofts, Sir James Scudamore, Sir Jerome Horsey, Sir Edward Radcliffe, Sir Thomas Holcroft, Sir Anthony Rowse, Sir Henry Nevill, Sir Edward Mountague, Sir Thomas Hobby, Sir Michael Sandis, Mr. Thomas Benson, Sir Thomas Walsingham, Sir Francis Barrington, Sir Robert Nappier, Sir Valentine Knightley, Sir George Carewe, Master of the Chancery, Sir Nich. Halswell, Sir John Thynne, Sir Thomas Freake, Sir Jerome Bowes, Sir Edward Herbert, Sir John Leveson, Mr. Dudley Carlton.
Mr. Speaker, together with these Committees, were this Day at Eight a Clock in the Morning, appointed to attend his Majesty, and to relate the Reasons of the Proceeding of the House in Sir Francis Goodwin's Case: Where, upon Answer or Reply, such Lawyers, as be of the Committee, are to give their Assistance.
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About 5,500 people die each year as a result of crashes involving large commercial trucks or buses, and about 160,000 more are injured. While the fatality rate for these crashes has generally decreased over the last 20 years, the decline has leveled off in the most recent years. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) within the U.S. Department of Transportation shoulders the primary federal responsibility for reducing these crashes, fatalities, and injuries and recognizes the need to make improvements if it is to achieve further substantial safety advancements. A key FMCSA effort to improve motor carrier safety is implementing the agency's Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) initiative. Through CSA 2010, FMCSA expects to reduce motor carrier crashes, fatalities, and injuries by using better ways to identify unsafe carriers and drivers; assessing a larger portion of the motor carrier industry and holding carriers and drivers accountable for sustained performance by regularly determining their safety fitness; and expanding the range of interventions to be used with carriers and drivers that fail to comply with safety requirements. Congress asked us to conduct a broad assessment of FMCSA's progress in planning and implementing CSA 2010. Because much of the detailed work to develop and implement CSA 2010 remains to be done, our work has focused on how FMCSA has managed its initiative, rather than assessing safety benefits that might arise from it. Specifically, we reviewed: (1) how FMCSA sees CSA 2010 increasing safety, (2) whether FMCSA's overall framework for planning and implementing CSA 2010 is reasonable, and (3) the extent to which the operational test of the CSA 2010 model will inform FMCSA of its ability to fully implement the initiative in 2010.
FMCSA expects that CSA 2010 will provide safety benefits by enabling the agency to (1) increase its reach by assessing whether most motor carriers and drivers are safe and holding them accountable by regularly determining their safety fitness; (2) enhance its investigative and enforcement actions through the greater use of less resource-intensive interventions; and (3) improve its ability to identify safety deficiencies through better use of data. Under CSA 2010, all carriers--and eventually all drivers--with sufficient safety data available will receive a safety rating that is periodically updated. Currently, FMCSA is able to provide safety ratings for relatively few carriers and for no drivers. As described earlier, CSA 2010 will employ a progressive array of interventions that can be tailored to match the severity of the safety problems they are intended to correct. CSA 2010 intends to use new data--such as information from police accident reports about driver-related factors contributing to a crash--and improve existing data sources--by, for example, using its database of licensed commercial drivers to identify all drivers with convictions for unsafe driving practices, as well as the carriers they work for--to enable a more precise assessment of safety problems. CSA 2010 will support evolving and new enforcement and compliance efforts. For example, (1) carriers from Canada and Mexico that operate in the United States under open border agreements will be rated under CSA 2010 in the same way as U.S. carriers; (2) violations found through audits of new entrants--a program that FMCSA is working to strengthen--will be used in the CSA 2010 safety measurement system; and (3) data sources related to drivers' health--such as drivers' confirmed positive test results for controlled substances or alcohol--will be developed to focus attention on driver physical qualifications, a key FMCSA policy area. FMCSA has established a reasonable framework to plan and implement CSA 2010. In its planning efforts to date, it has met three factors associated with successful planning--set a clear project mission, established top leadership support, and developed a detailed plan. As FMCSA transitions from planning to implementing CSA 2010, it has met or is taking steps to meet those factors--such as consulting with affected stakeholders and providing needed technology and expertise to accomplish technical tasks--critical to the project's successful implementation. However, since some aspects of implementation are still being defined, we cannot yet assess FMCSA's efforts to effectively meet the success factors for implementation. For example, FMCSA has provided a range of technical resources to, among other efforts, develop the CSA 2010 operating model, initiate rulemaking, develop training instruments, and configure supporting data and information technology systems. However, certain efforts, such as rulemaking and data and information technology system configuration, will continue as the operational test progresses and may lead to refinement of the CSA 2010 concept. Therefore, an assessment of FMCSA's overall effort cannot be completed until these activities occur over the course of the operational test (from January 2008 through June 2010).
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Highway Projects:Many Federal and State Environmental Review Requirements Are Similar, and Little Duplication of Effort OccursGAO-15-71: Published: Nov 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 18, 2014.
Public Transportation:Multiple Factors Influence Extent of Transit-Oriented DevelopmentGAO-15-70: Published: Nov 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 18, 2014.
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Aviation:Impact of Fuel Price Increases on the Aviation IndustryGAO-14-331: Published: Sep 25, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 25, 2014.
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Surface Transportation:Department of Transportation Should Measure the Overall Performance and Outcomes of the TIGER Discretionary Grant ProgramGAO-14-766: Published: Sep 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 2014.
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Air Traffic Control System:Selected Stakeholders' Perspectives on Operations, Modernization, and StructureGAO-14-770: Published: Sep 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 12, 2014.
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Aviation Manufacturing:Status of FAA's Efforts to Improve Certification and Regulatory ConsistencyGAO-14-829T: Published: Jul 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 31, 2014.
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Aviation Safety:FAA's Efforts to Implement Recommendations to Improve Certification and Regulatory Consistency Face Some ChallengesGAO-14-728T: Published: Jul 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 23, 2014.
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Having fronted one of Australia's most loved bands, his voice has sound tracked the country's last 20 years. With record sales close on 3 million and 22 ARIAs to his name (including 4 for solo debut Tea & Sympathy), Bernard Fanning is back with his new album "Departures" out now!
The second single 'Tell Me How It Ends', lifted from upcoming album Departures, but this is not the blue-jean anthem of times gone by, nor the gentle ballad of past solo efforts. This is grooving bass-lines, confident synthesizers and one hell of a booming chorus. 'Tell Me How It Ends' follows lead single 'Battleships', which claimed the #2 Most Added Track to Australian Radio on week of release.
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IN THIS ISSUE: July 2013 Issue 002
On this month in 1776, the DECLARATION OFINDEPENDENCE was approved by the ContinentalCongress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation. As always, this most American of holidays is marked by parades, fireworks and backyard barbecues across the country.
CARE INITIATIVE PRESENTS: CARE FAIR - August 30, 2013
The purpose of the TAMHSC CARE FAIR 2013 is to strengthen and sustain current momentum and enthusiasm for CARE,
showcase our accomplishments toward the CARE goals, create awareness of upcoming CARE programs, and provide a fun environment for some inter-professional fellowship.
Poster presentations during the CARE FAIR will give visibility to research, teaching/learning activities, and projects that are related to the advancement of CARE goals.
All posters accepted will be eligible for a "Best of Category" prize, judged by a neutral panel of local health care providers and administrators.
Prizes will include a framed certificate and recognition in the local newspaper. Additional prizes include grants to defray costs of tuition or professional
organization membership.
Prizes will be awarded in the following Categories:
1.) Best presentation of research in Critical Thinking and/or Evidence Based Practive
2.) Best presentation application of Critical Thinking and/or Evidence Based Practice in
instruction (classroom or clinical setting)
For Students:
1.) Best presentation of application or use of Critical Thinking and/or Evidence Based Practice
in a student classroom project or research study
For Everyone:
1.) Best poster resulting from interprofessional collaboration in one of the categories above.
Interprofessional collaboration means that representatives from different colleges collaborated
in the research or project presented on the poster - it may include participants from another
Submission Information:
Poster session proposals for the 2013 CARE FAIR Poster Session must be submitted
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A new paradigm is emerging!!!Evidence-based practice de-emphasizes intuition, unsystematic clinical experience, and pathophysiologic rationale as sufficient grounds for clinical decision-making, and stresses the examination of evidence from clinical research. Evidence-Based Practice requires new skills, including efficient literature-searching, and the application of formal rules of evidence in evaluating the clinical literature.
The following quotes exemplify critical thought, or illuminate a problem in human thought which critical thinking addresses:
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe,
but in their readiness to doubt.
~ H. L. Mencken
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because
he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your
place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
~ Hippocrates
COLLEGE of NURSING FACULTY MEMBER HONORED with the DAISY FACULTY AWARD
Today we honor a faculty member for strengthening the momentum and enthusiasm for CARE. Graduates often talk about hearing them a faculty member's voice in the back of their head helping through a tricky situation or difficult procedure. To honor these nurse educators that students hear - even years after graduation - the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) College of Nursing recognizes outstanding faculty members annually with the DAISY Faculty Award. DAISY stands for "Diseases Attacking the Immune System." The DAISY Foundation mission is to celebrate and show appreciation to the extraordinary nurses who combine their experience and education with their kindness to impact patients and families.
Willa Decker, M.S.N.,M.A.,RN,FNP-BC, assistant professor of nursing, received this year's award during a college wide event May 14th 2013. "The DAISY award gives the College of Nursing the opportunity to recognize model faculty for their commitment and inspirational influence on the nurses of tomorrow," said Sharon Wilkerson, PH.D.,RN,TAMHSC-College of Nursing dean.
Mrs. Decker received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston and her Master of Science in psychiatric mental health from Texas Woman's University-Houston Center. She also has a Master of Arts in individual, marriage and family therapy from the University of Houston and her post-master in advanced nurse practice from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
Mrs. Decker exemplifies the CARE Initiative by teaching evidence based practice through critical thinking and promotes the illuminating relationship between thought processing and the affects the decisions made by her students in classroom and clinical rotation settings have on real world situations.
"Professor Decker is a professional example for her students and peers," Dr. Wilkerson said. "Her positive attitude and enthusiasm for teaching, learning and nursing, inspires and motivates students and faculty alike."
The DAISY Foundation was started in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes, who died at age 33 of complications of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). His family was astounded by the compassionate treatment he received from nurses during the eight weeks of hospitalization and created the DAISY award in appreciation of those nurses.
We thank you, Mrs. Decker for taking the lead and setting the precedence for quality teaching in critical thinking and evidence based practice here at the Health
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Teaching Tip:Have you ever wondered if what you teach in your classes really "sticks," or stays with students in the long term? REFLECTION is a great way to enhance learning and encourage critical thinking. At the end of a lecture, activity, or practical experience, provide students a question pertaining to the activity that you would like them to think more about. Tell them to consider the question and then write down their thoughts as well as any additional questions that they might have as a result of their reflection. To assure students complete the reflection, it's best to have them turn it in for some kind of grade or opportunity for a few extra points at the end of the semester. If you are a student, you can do this on your own. If you do, you'll get a lot more out of the class and will probably find that the learning "sticks" better.
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In a heartfelt presentation by Hakeem Rahim, a representative from the National Alliance on Mental Illness who has spoken to over 4,000 students in the last year alone, Garden City High School tenth-graders learned of the warning signs of mental illness and how to help those suffering from the disease. Rahim's powerful presentation was part of Garden City's health education program. He shared a wealth of information with the students about the different forms mental illness can take—depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, OCD, eating disorders— and shared statistics: one out of five adolescents and one out of four adults experience mental illness, including well-known celebrities such as Ben Stiller and J.K. Rowling. Rahim also shared his own story about developing panic attacks while pursuing his degree at Harvard.
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The 2 new DP-3 vessels will be named the SEACOR Lynx and the SEACOR Leopard and these vessels are the product of extensive seakeeping studies to develop a design that not only improves passenger comfort, but also increases operational efficiency. The result is that the vessels will reduce motion by an average of 20 percent, with vertical acceleration reduced by 40 per cent so creating a much more comfortable journey for the 150 passengers.
Along with seating space for the 150 passengers the main passenger cabin will house a snack bar and the rear cargo deck will be able to store 150 LT of freight. The vessels have a Kongsberg DP system aboard and can reach speeds in excess of 46 knots.
The Lynx is scheduled for delivery in January 2013 and the Leopard in April 2013. The C-MAR Group's achievement winning the contract for the FMEA's and the System Integration is another example of our historical involvement in breaking boundaries as C-MAR was the first company to take a crew boat to DP1 notation, the first to take a crew boat to DP2 notation and we are now the first to take a crew boat to DP3 notation.
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