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Google IPO Official
#1 Guest_rustybrick_*
Posted 29 April 2004 - 01:52 PM
"Finally, Google files IPO papers"
Posted 29 April 2004 - 02:09 PM
I guess it was good to see the following in a letter to investors from Brin and Page:
So it will continue to be the Google we know and love. :roll:
The letter outlines the company's goals, warning investors that Google as a public company will not follow the usual path.
"As a private company, we have concentrated on the long term, and this has served us well. As a public company, we will do the same," the letter states.
Posted 29 April 2004 - 02:18 PM
As a private company, we have concentrated on the long term, and this has served us well. As a public company, we will do the same," the letter states.
This statement should prove interesting.
There is so much pressure from shareholders for public companies to produce 'short-term' results. I wonder if they will 'bow.'
I suspect they will find they won't enjoy the flexibility they once enjoyed as a private company.
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Posted 29 April 2004 - 02:40 PM
Posted 29 April 2004 - 04:04 PM
I just started to read it now, so I don't have much in the way of analysis, except to say that the "letter" Barry referred to above is part of the filing.
Posted 29 April 2004 - 05:17 PM
Looking forward to your analysis.
Posted 29 April 2004 - 08:58 PM
They were definitely worth a look and I might read through them again this weekend.
Rather than a full-blown analysis, I'd like to just point out some of the words in the filing, and urge people to read through as much of it as they can or want.
A couple of observations. One is that they have not chosen between the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ yet.
Another is that they will have two classes of shares, class A and Class B. They will only be selling class A shares. There are $2,718,281,828 worth of shares at a par value of $0.001 per share (that's not the selling price, but rather a valuation for purposes of registering the shares.)
There are a couple of sections that should interest most people who make a living working on the web.
One of them is the "Letter from the Founders" subtitled "'An Owners Manual' for Googles Shareholders." It's written by Larry Page, and presented with a promise that Sergy Brin will write next year's letter, and the two will alternate from then on out.
The two founders and their CEO are possibly indispensable parts of the company. Google relies upon these three, and their efforts as a team at Google are a major part of the success of the business. The letter tells us how they work together.
To facilitate timely decisions, Eric, Sergey and I meet daily to update each other on the business and to focus our collaborative thinking on the most important and immediate issues. Decisions are often made by one of us, with the others being briefed later. This works because we have tremendous trust and respect for each other and we generally think alike. Because of our intense long term working relationship, we can often predict differences of opinion among the three of us. We know that when we disagree, the correct decision is far from obvious. For important decisions, we discuss the issue with the larger team. Eric, Sergey and I run the company without any significant internal conflict, but with healthy debate. As different topics come up, we often delegate decision-making responsibility to one of us.
The two different types of shares have different voting powers, with the class B shares having ten times the votes as class A shares. The duo class system is supposed to "make it harder for outside parties to take over or influence Google. This structure will also make it easier for our management team to follow the long term, innovative approach emphasized earlier. "
Google has recently added three more directors. They are named in this filing, and in Larry Page's letter:
John Hennessy is the President of Stanford and has a Doctoral degree in computer science. Art Levinson is CEO of Genentech and has a Ph.D. in biochemistry. Paul Otellini is President and COO of Intel.
We also learn a little about the inner workings of Google, and now know that Google employees often refer to themselves as Googlers.
The other part that I found was really interesting were the risk factors. One of the major reasons for a filing like this is to disclose to potential purchasers of shares risks that face the company. There are a few points in the document where these are reviewed.
Here's one of them:
We are susceptible to index spammers who could harm the integrity of our web search results.
There is an ongoing and increasing effort by index spammers to develop ways to manipulate our web search results. For example, because our web search technology ranks a web pages relevance based in part on the importance of the web sites that link to it, people have attempted to link a group of web sites together to manipulate web search
results. We take this problem very seriously because providing relevant information to users is critical to our success. If our efforts to combat these and other types of index spamming are unsuccessful, our reputation for delivering relevant information could be diminished. This could result in a decline in user traffic, which would damage our business.
We are told by Larry Page that, "We plan to conduct this auction in five stagesQualification; Bidding; Auction Closing; Pricing; and Allocation."
Those stages, and the auction process are detailed in the filing if you want to find out more. You might want to discuss that part of the document with someone who can understand the processes involved.
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Posted 29 April 2004 - 10:05 PM
The Qualification Process
When the preliminary prospectus becomes available, you will be able to obtain a unique bidder ID from a web site. You will not be able to obtain a unique bidder ID after our underwriters begin taking bids in the auction for our initial public offering.
We seek to enable all interested investors to have the opportunity to qualify to bid and, following qualification, place bids in the auction for our initial public offering. To help meet this objective, we expect to use an underwriter group that serves all segments of the investing public.
The Bidding Process
All investors that have qualified to bid may submit bids indicating their interest in our offering through one of our underwriters.
You must provide the following information:
- The number of shares you are interested in purchasing.
- The price per share you are willing to pay
- Additional information to enable the underwriter to identify you, confirm your eligibility and suitability for participating in our initial public offering, and, if you submit a successful bid, consummate a sale of shares to you
To submit a bid, you should contact one of the following underwriters:
- Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
- Credit Suisse First Boston LLC
Many of these underwriters have the ability to receive bids from their customers over the Internet, and all can receive bids from their customers by telephone or facsimile.
The Auction Closing Process
You will have the ability to modify or withdraw any bid until the auction is closed and successful bids are accepted. If you are requested to confirm your bid and fail to do so before the auction is closed to bidding, your bid will be rejected.
Once the auction has closed and the underwriters have accepted your bid, you will not be able to withdraw it. If your bid is accepted, our underwriters will provide you electronic notice of their acceptance of your bid. If the price for our shares set in the auction is at or below the price you bid and your bid is accepted, you will be obligated to purchase the shares allocated to you in the auction process, up to the total number of shares represented by your successful bid.
The Pricing Process
We expect that the bidding process will reveal a clearing price for the shares of Class A common stock offered in our auction.
We intend to use the auction clearing price as the principal factor to determine the initial public offering price and, therefore, to set an initial public offering price that is near or equal to the clearing price. However, we and our underwriters have the ability to set an initial public offering price that is below the clearing price.
The Allocation Process
All investors who have submitted and not withdrawn bids with a price per share that is equal to or greater than the initial public offering price will be eligible to receive an allocation of shares and a confirmation of their purchase in our offering. All shares will be sold at the initial public offering price. Bids with a price per share below the initial offering price will not be eligible to receive an allocation of shares.
I think i got the goodies from the process quoted here.
Posted 29 April 2004 - 10:35 PM
Other highlights below.
I agree. The opening "Letter from the Founders" is a must read. Its highly unusual in this type of document, very cleverly crafted and highly effective at the same time. Here are a few short snippets highlighting their philosophy.
As a private company, we have concentrated on the long term, and this has served us well. As a public company, we will do the same. In our opinion, outside pressures too often tempt companies to sacrifice long-term opportunities to meet quarterly market expectations. Sometimes this pressure has caused companies to manipulate financial results in order to make their quarter. In Warren Buffetts words, We wont smooth quarterly or annual results: If earnings figures are lumpy when they reach headquarters, they will be lumpy when they reach you.
We will not shy away from high-risk, high-reward projects because of short term earnings pressure. Some of our past bets have gone extraordinarily well, and others have not. Because we recognize the pursuit of such projects as the key to our long term success, we will continue to seek them out. For example, we would fund projects that have a 10% chance of earning a billion dollars over the long term. Do not be surprised if we place smaller bets in areas that seem very speculative or even strange. As the ratio of reward to risk increases, we will accept projects further outside our normal areas, especially when the initial investment is small. a
Our employees, who have named themselves Googlers, are everything. Google is organized around the ability to attract and leverage the talent of exceptional technologists and business people. We have been lucky to recruit many creative, principled and hard working stars. We hope to recruit many more in the future. We will reward and treat them well. a
We provide many unusual benefits for our employees, including meals free of charge, doctors and washing machines. We are careful to consider the long term advantages to the company of these benefits. Expect us to add benefits rather than pare them down over time. We believe it is easy to be penny wise and pound foolish with respect to benefits that can save employees considerable time and improve their health and productivity. a
Dont be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better servedas shareholders and in all other waysby a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.
I thought this was a bold and clever statement when they're declaring from the get-go, "we're not bowing to earnings pressure." In a way, they're saying, if you don't agree with our long-term growth strategy, don't buy the stock.
Here is a risk factor disclosing how heavily reliant they are on three key players. The company could be devastated by the loss of one, two or three of them. They will probably never be able to fly together.
If we were to lose the services of Eric, Larry, Sergey or our senior management team, we may not be able to execute our business strategy.
Our future success depends in a large part upon the continued service of key members of our senior management team. In particular, our CEO Eric Schmidt and our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are critical to the overall management of Google as well as the development of our technology, our culture and our strategic direction. All of our executive officers and key employees are at-will employees, and we do not maintain any key-person life insurance policies. The loss of any of our management or key personnel could seriously harm our business.
Nice to finally see some numbers.
Selected Financial Data:
Revenue (in millions):
99 $.2
00 $19.1
01 $86.4
02 $347.8
03 $961.9 (holy cow)
Net Earnings/(Loss) (in millions):
99 $(6.0)
00 $(14.7)
01 $7.0
02 $99.6
03 $105.6
04 $?????
- They have amassed a cash hoard of $454.9 million. a
- 95% of revenue comes from online advertising with most of the remaining 5% coming from licensed search technology. a
Employee Headcount:: 1,907 (as of 3/31/04)
01 284
02 682
03 1,628
Q1/04 1,907 (596 in research and development, 961 in sales and marketing and 350 in general and administrative)
Headcount rising very rapidly. They are gearing up for something big! What will it be???
- Measured in dollars, while the IPO wouldnt break the all-time top 10, it will be by far the largest for and Internet concern. a
- 42% of all U.S. Internet users (65 million) visited Google in February. a
- Some analysts believe the post-IPO market capitalization will be as much as $25 billion. a
- The Brin/Page letter is described by securities lawyers as being unusual in its candor and intimacy. a
- The auction style IPO is a plan consistent with maintaining Googles populist (believer in rights of the common people) image, as Main Street buyers are often shoved aside by insiders and institutional investors. a
Use of Proceeds:
We expect to use the net proceeds received by us from this offering for general corporate purposes, including:
- Sales and marketing expenses, research and development expenses and general and administrative expenses.
- Capital expenditures.
- Possible acquisitions of businesses, technologies or other assets.
Although we may use a portion of the net proceeds to acquire businesses, technologies or other assets, we have no current agreements or commitments with respect to any material acquisitions.
Fairly typical boiler-plate disclosure. That's not to say they're not eyeballing anyone.
03 Executive Compensation (Salary/Bonus):
Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer and Director, $ 250,000/$301,556
Sergey Brin, President of Technology and Director, $150,000/$206,556
Larry Page, President of Products and Director, $150,000/$206,556
Surprisingly low executive compensation for for a company this size. That'll all change very shortly.
- Co-founders Brin (30) and Page (31) will collectively own 33% of Google after the IPO, making them instant billionaires (on paper). a
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Posted 30 April 2004 - 06:09 AM
This is the most "behind the scenes" information I've ever seen of the workings of Google, and it is eye opening in a number of ways.
Respree's look at the numbers especially.
Anyone interested in owning some pieces of Google?
#11 Guest_rustybrick_*
Posted 30 April 2004 - 06:12 AM
Bill, I am interested but probably not until after the IPO.
Posted 30 April 2004 - 06:56 AM
Having suffered through the "Florida is a response to dropping PageRank" hysteria (it was an exellent theory, just was taken as fact to easily by too many), having this particular theory debunked is good.
Stanford University, where PageRank was developed by Google's cofounders, owns the patent on PageRank. However, the filing reveals that Google has been granted a perpetual license and that in October 2003, it extended an agreement giving it exclusivity to PageRank through 2011. So speculation that issues over the rights to PageRank might complicate the Google IPO don't appear to be a problem.
Posted 30 April 2004 - 07:39 AM
One thing I noted is that they don't seem to know who their real competitors are. They keep mentioning MicroSoft, that's OK. However they also say that there's another called Yahoo. That's not true. Their competitor is called Yahoo!.
The problem was that when Yahoo! tried to acquire its trademark, others had already trademarked Yahoo. If you check it out with the US Trademarks office you will find among others the following Yahoo trademarks:
EBSCO Industries has the trademark for:
Knives, namely hunting knives, hunting and fishing protective eyeglasses, and other sporting goods.
OLD TOWN CANOE CO. has the trademark for:
human propelled watercraft; namely, kayaks and canoes
Yahoo is also a trademark for:
barbecue sauce
At least this one has now been acquired by Yahoo!
So perhaps Google is really worried that Y! (which is also a trademark for Yahoo!) will bring out a barbecue sauce and ... you can see where this might lead.
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Posted 30 April 2004 - 07:41 AM
AdWords is huge for Google and if Overture wins, which Google highly doubts, then it can play a major impact on Google's revenue.
Posted 05 May 2004 - 11:44 AM
Ouch. Easy come, easy go.
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It's March 1st – the date I targeted for the rebirth of my personal blog.
Then life happened.
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Did I mention I also bought a new desktop?
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Suffering for my Art
Okay, maybe art is a bit presumptive.
I love the start of a new year, a new month. There is always such hope.
One of my goals for this year was the rebirth of my personal blog, millercathy.com: A Baby Boomer's Second Life. I was public about my intent. And you know what happens then.
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- Mom had knee replacement surgery
- The theme I selected released major bugs
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It is March here on the Crystal Coast and the winds that herald the changing of the seasons have arrived. While wind on North Carolina's coast is not uncommon, the wind is rarely as persistent as the wind that we used to endure on Nova Scotia's coast.
However, even the spring winds here in North Carolina do not give up easily.
Predicting the winds is about as easy as predicting the weather. For over twenty years we had a home on a mountainside in Roanoke, Virginia and we got some serious wind there. A gust of wind hit the front of our home late one night and a window got blown into the room of our youngest daughter. It certainly shocked her and made sleeping in her room during roaring winds a little bit of a challenge for a while.
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The Winds are Here
It is March here on the Crystal Coast and the winds that herald the changing of the seasons have arrived. While wind on North Carolina's coast is not uncommon, the wind is rarely as persistent as the wind that we used to endure on Nova Scotia's coast.
Grabbing Blue Sky Where You Can
As we work our way through the last parts of winter, sometimes blue sky can become a scarce commodity. You might find it reflected in the water early in the morning and then clouds make it disappear by the time you finish a walk around the neighborhood.
The cold weather and lack of blue sky can easily send me off to dreams about summer, warm water, and beautiful puffy white clouds in the skies. There are times when a brush with winter means that the skies are blue and sunny and I can deal with the cold much more easily then.
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Memories of Past Snow Storms
February 9, 2013 will be frozen into the memories of many folks along the east coast. Nemo, the blizzard/nor'easter/storm, will not be easy to forget I'm happy to be living in Carteret County, North Carolina where snow does not make a lot of appearances.
I have paid my dues when it comes to snow. My wife, Glenda, and I lived in Atlantic Canada for sixteen years. I remember one storm of over three feet when it took me most of the morning to blow a quarter mile path to our nearest barn. That might sound about right, but I was using a 100 PTO HP tractor and an eight foot wide dual auger snow blower. It took me the rest of the day to get to our cattle.
It was one of many adventures which came from living in a Canadian snow belt. You know it is bad when you live in area famous for snow in country where most think it snows year round.
It was very different. The snow plows did not even get on the road unless we had more than six inches of snow. The first year I kept track of the snow. We had twenty-three feet. There were times when our fields had over six feet of snow on them.
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Winter Sunshine on the Dock
I love to walk. That explains why I live in a great place for walking. Being able to walk out our door and go for a nice easy walk was one of the reasons that we chose Carteret County as a place to live. We used to live on a mountain. Walking was something you really had to want to do. It helped to have a big dog that needed to be walked a lot.
Now that we live near the coast, walking has become a passion with me. I try to go on a couple of walks every day. However, I am a sunshine or fair weather walker. I do not mind cold as long as the sun is shining which it does a lot here along the Southern Outer Banks. However, mix in some clouds and fog and I would rather stay in the house and work.
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Frost on the Kayak
After a series of days when the low temperature struggled to get below sixty degrees Fahrenheit, it takes a little adjustment to walk outside and find the thermometer reading 30F.
It is the nature of weather that we take whatever we have whether it is warm December waters or frost on the kayak and in the marshes.
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Just like the first week December 2011, the weather has been so warm that I have been forced to go back to shorts. I was kayaking in the middle of the river today and it was pleasant enough that I was comfortable in shorts and a t-shirt. Considering the water temperature is in the fifties, the air temperature had to be cooperating. read more »
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HON. GEORGE H. BUCK, an eminent jurist and popular citizen of Redwood City, California, where for many years he has acted as Judge of San Mateo county, was born in Harrison, Maine, in 1847. He received a liberal education and for a time had charge of Gorham's Seminary and Academy in that State. His mind took a legal turn, and believing that the bar afforded him an opening, he entered the office of Woodbury & Ingalls, of Boston, Massachusetts, as a student of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1871. Like most young attorneys, he found it necessary to turn his hand to something while studying for his profession, and accordingly he became a teacher in the Gorham Seminary, where he soon rose to be vice-principal. After being in this position for some time he went West in search of a wider field for his ambition, taking with him a letter from the authorities of the seminary to the effect that he was "eminently well qualified as a teacher and disciplinarian." He next settled in Cincinnati, and soon became one of the attorneys for the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad, which position he held for three years, when his health compelled him to seek a milder climate. Accordingly, in 1875, he came to California. In the fall of 1882 he was elected District Attorney, succeeding himself in the years 1884, 1886 and 1888. In the fall of 1890 he was elected Judge of San Mateo county, to fill an unexpired term, and also for the full term of six years, commencing January 1, 1891. It is a significant fact that, although he has been a life-long Democrat in politics and his district is largely Republican when party lines are drawn, yet such are his sterling traits of character and professional ability that political preferences and prejudices are laid aside at a convention or election when the magnetism of his personality is exercised.
Judge Buck was married July 14, 1892, to Miss Elizabeth King, an accomplished lady of Redwood City, daughter of Henry King of that place.
The Judge belongs to a number of secret societies, being a member of Metamora Tribe, No. 24, of Redwood City, and was at the session of the Great Council held in 1889, elevated to the stump of Great Sachem, from which position he retired in August, 1890. He has also held the fraternal office of Noble Grand Arch of the United Ancient Order of Druids, from which office he retired in June, 1892.
In the various walks of life Judge Buck has always been the same able, unpretentious and benevolent gentleman and deservedly enjoys the esteem of a large community.
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Source: Alexander, Philip W. & Charles P. Hamm page 344-345. History of San Mateo County. Press of Burlingame Publishing Co., Burlingame, CA. 1916.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- On Nov. 18, 2010, General Motors ( GM) completed its $23 billion IPO and began to trade again as a public company. But that isn't what most people remember of the auto giant.They remember a couple years earlier, where General Motors was doing its best to stay above water and figure out a restructuring plan, since its current business operations were weighing heavily on its debt-straddled balance sheet. General was in trouble even before the recession hit in 2008. In 2005, the auto company lost over $10 billion. In 2007, losses amounted to $38.7 billion and sales dropped nearly 50% the following year. Then the recession really hit. There's no question that 2008 was tough. Chrysler was dragged down and filed for Chapter 11. Ford ( F) also suffered massive losses and, while it didn't file for bankruptcy, its stock did trade all the way down to $1, marking the depths of a very hard time in Detroit. After multiple discussions with the government, General Motors ended up with $49.5 billion in government loans. It also agreed to let the Treasury Department own a 60% stake and eventually was forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The government reduced its stake to 26%, or 500 million shares, after the company resumed trading, and has since lowered it to 19% on the way to unraveling its position completely. General has also been able to repay the government for its efforts on restoring at least one of the Big Three. Well, technically speaking. While General did pay back the cash obligations to the Treasury, the rest of the loan is through its stock. The government would need to sell its entire stock position in the low $50 range to break even. Since it has already begun to unravel its position below that mark, the break-even price would be even higher. So while General Motors did fulfill its obligations, the government will still absorb a multibillion dollar loss. How is the company doing now? Since 2010, the automaker has resumed profitability and remained that way each year since. In fact, it's posting record profit.


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ISLAMABAD, April 15: While covering the launch of the manifesto of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), the journalists on Monday had to suffer due to extraordinary and unprecedented security arrangements at the fortress-like farmhouse of former military ruler Gen (retired) Pervez Musharraf.
Already annoyed by the humiliation they had to face at the hands of the security officials, including armed Rangers personnel, deputed inside and outside the house, the reporters and the cameramen protested over the delay in the start of the function.
The guests and the journalists, who were thoroughly body-searched at the main entrance, had been told by the security personnel that they could not carry the mobile phones inside due to the security reasons.
Moreover, no one from the APML or the security personnel were ready to take responsibility of collecting the mobile phones and they kept on asking every one to go and put the phones in their vehicles before entering the house.
So much so that the TV channels were not allowed to do live coverage of the event as their DSNG (Direct Satellite News Gathering) vehicles were not allowed to be parked near the entrance and were kept at a distance.
An off-colour Musharraf wearing the off-white Kurta surrounded by plainclothes guards came to the stage set up at one of the sprawling lawns of the farm house under a tent, but only after the journalists threatened to boycott the function after waiting for him for almost 90 minutes.
The organisers of the event, particularly APML's Secretary General Dr Amjad and Information Secretary Aasia Ishaque, had to struggle in consoling the agitating reporters and cameramen and they kept on announcing that their party boss was coming in few minutes.
At the end of the programme, the guards physically manhandled a reporter when he tried to rush to the former president in order to seek time for an exclusive interview for his organisation.
A spokesman for Gen Musharraf and former director-general Rashid Qureshi apologised to the reporters and explained the reasons for the high-security arrangements.
This was the first ever formal media interaction of Gen (retd) Musharraf since his arrival in Islamabad some two weeks back.
The journalists even lodged their protest with Mr Musharraf and he said that he would look into it.


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TAMPA — A registered sex offender, recently released from state prison, was arrested early Sunday, accused of a similar crime more grave than his last.
Tampa police say Byron James Simmons, 29, picked up a 10-year-old relative from her home at 10:30 p.m. Saturday. A report says he drove her to Copeland Park on N 15th Street, locked the doors to his van and raped her. He made her promise not to tell anyone. He threatened to hurt her if she did.
Simmons was arrested at 3:47 a.m. Sunday at a North Tampa apartment complex and charged with sexual battery on a child younger than 12, a capital felony. The alleged rape occurred exactly six months after Simmons was released from state prison for a sex offense.
Simmons, whose alias is "Cousin Bo," was convicted in 2003 of attempted lewd or lascivious molestation of a victim between 12 and 15 years old, as well as the sale and possession of cocaine. He was sentenced to five years in prison, with credit for time served, and was released Nov. 24, 2007.
At the time of the alleged crime Sunday, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement sex offender database listed Simmons as released, or "no longer under Florida Department of Corrections confinement, supervision or any other court imposed sanction."
"There is no excuse to give someone no supervision when they come out," said Judy Cornett, executive director of Safety Zone Advocacy, Inc., which pushes for stricter sex offender restrictions. Cornett became an advocate after her son was raped.
Cornett researched this case as soon as she heard about it. She pushes for a "split sentence" for sex offenders, in which they serve part of their term in jail, and part on probation, undergoing surveillance and therapy. In this case, however, Simmons served all five years in prison, and was not sentenced to probation.
"They don't have control over these people when they're off supervision," she said.
In 1996, Simmons was sentenced to two years probation for carrying a concealed weapon and having a firearm at school. Hillsborough Circuit Court records show he violated that probation and was sentenced to 270 days in jail. Later convictions include assault, possession of cannabis, trespassing and battery.
Simmons, a resident of 3404 N 11th St., is being held in Orient Road Jail with no bail. If convicted, he could face life in prison, without parole.
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American Singer. Traynor started his first group, The Ab-tones, while in his mid-teens. At the age of 17, he was chosen to become the new lead singer of The Mystics who had previously had a major hit with 'Hushabye'. He recorded three tracks with the group, 'White Cliffs of Dover', 'Blue Star' and 'Over the Rainbow' which wasn't released to the public until the 1980's. Traynor, along with Howard Kane, Kenny Vance and Sandy Deanne, the last two of which had been in the semi-successful group The Harborlites, formed Jay and the Americans and were brought to Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller who molded the group's sound, using the group's doo-wop harmonies to record their first single, 'Tonight' from West Side Story. Their second single was 'She Cried'. Initially, the record didn't do well until six months after its release when a West Coast DJ started playing the song over and over and the song went to number 5 on the national charts. Jay and the Americans went out on a long national tour in support of the single and the album of the same name, which took a toll on Traynor. After missing a few rehearsals, the other members of the group asked if he wanted to go solo, which he did. Traynor released a couple of albums during the 60's, 'I Rise, I Fall' and 'Up & Over' that were not sucessful. In the 70's, he worked behind the scenes with groups like Mountain, Yes, Ten Years After and the Who before settling down in Albany, NY and becoming a camera operator for a local television station. In the late 70s, he performed with cover bands, jazz trios and the Joey Thomas Big Band, which released several CDs with Traynor on vocals. Traynor was touring with Jay Siegel's Tokens at the time of his death from a two year battle with liver cancer.
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By JIDE AJANI
This is the authentic story of the Chronology of the inconclusive sting operation conducted by the Department of State Service, otherwise referred to as the DSS, involving House of Representatives member and Chairman, Committee on Subsidy Management, Lawan Farouk, and oil and gas magnate, Femi Otedola.
The complicity of both men in this scam signpost a deeper mentality of dishonourable conduct that is pervasive in Nigeria and the alleged entanglement of the executive arm of government in the subsidy probe. This exclusive report was first published mid-June last year, some two weeks before the telecast of the audio recording on Channel's Tv..
Because the heart of man is clouded, the truth about who approached who may never really be known,without prejudice to the claims being made by Femi Otedola and Farouk Lawan. The truth, however, is that the one approached the other.
What is also established, moving forward, is that Otedola's Zenon Oil and Gas allegedly collected forex to the tune of $232, 975,385.13 from the Petroleum Support Fund, PSF, scheme whereas he did not import petrol. There was another company, Synopsis Enterprises Limited, said to have collected $51, 449, 977, for the same purpose but did not deliver – so said the report of the House Committee, presided over by Farouk.
On the second day of the presentation of the report, a Wednesday, April 24, Farouk told his colleagues on the floor of the House that the now notorious Clause 29 (5) and (6) of the committee's report needed attention. That fresh information had come upon the committee which suggested that some companies were erroneously listed as beneficiaries of PSF, whereas it was merely an error and, therefore, the names of the companies should be removed from the list. The House agreed to the amendment of the report. And, therefore, Otedola's Zenon was removed from the list of indicted companies; ditto, Synopsis.
The meeting between Farouk and Otedola was meant to hold by 1am, the very first hour of April 24, 2012. It did not. 2am, it did not. At about 4am, according to the timing on the recording device (which was used to bug Otedola's residence) Farouk entered the premises of Otedola in Asokoro, Abuja. There, $500,000, out of a set aside $3m, was ready in cash.
According to visuals on the recording which Sunday Vanguard was privy to at that time, Farouk came in wearing a white Kaftan – not the long flowing and sweeping Senegalese type but a three quarter/near full length design. There was no cap to match. It was very late any way – 4am. Otedola also wore his now familiar white guinea brocade 'buba and sokoto'. After the exchange of some banters, the $500,000 was handed over to Farouk and he left.
Sometime later, some four to five hours later that morning, Boniface Emenalo, the secretary to the committee, who had been nominated by a very senior high-ranking member of this administration entered. The recorder kept rolling. Emenalo was handed two packages containing $120,000.
Emenalo, according to the recording, was dressed in a Niger-Delta like attire. He collected the two parcels, put them in the trouser pockets which swallowed the packages – one in each pocket. The Niger Delta top did not betray the dollar cargo in the pockets of the trouser.
He left. Mind you, the disputation between the combined sum of $600,000 and $620, 000 came about as a result of the alleged declaration made by Emenalo that he actually collected just $100,000, as against the alleged $120,000 Otedola gave to him. The funds Otedola parted with were said to have been provided by the DSS.
It was part of the $3m that Farouk allegedly demanded for and which had been set aside for the operation. The point of convergence between the video recording of money changing hands and the now infamous bribery saga is the removal of the name of Zenon from the list of 15 later that morning on the floor of the House. The video recording had very clear audio accompaniment. The DSS experts moved in afterwards to develop the recording into a full fledged audio-visual production.
A copy of the recording was given to Otedola. Now, whether Otedola made it available to former President Olusegun Obasanjo or not could not be verified. But it was Obasanjo, in his characteristically garrulous and rambunctious manner, who openly told the world at a conference in late May last year that there were thieves in the National Assembly.
This drew the ire of legislators. It was later suggested that Otedola may have informed Obasanjo of what transpired between himself and Farouk, a long-time small fly in Obasanjo's ointment while the latter served as President and Commander-in-Chief.
About the bribe money, however, what was verified was that there was a balance of $2.5m to be allegedly collected later at the airport.
The next phase and scene of the sting operation was to be the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. There, the balance of the money was allegedly kept for Farouk. Otedola insistently told Farouk that he could not carry $2.5m cash to his residence and, therefore, wanted Farouk to meet him at the airport for the collection of the remainder of the money. Now, whether Farouk had a premonition that he was likely to be set up or that he just didn't want to be spotted at the airport in the company of Otedola, he simply refused to meet Otedola at the airport afterwards.
Instead, according to records of the telephone conversation that was bugged, Farouk suggested that he would send a third party to collect the money.
According to the recordings, he gave the telephone numbers of the nominee. He, according to the recorded conversation between him and Otedola, actually spelt the name of the nominee to Otedola. But all these were activities in futility.
The high command of the DSS would not have a third party collect the balance of $2.5m. A senior security source told Sunday Vanguard at that time that the reason why the airport operation was aborted was that since it was Farouk that was being expected to show up and was now planning to send another party, there was no need to continue.
Had he shown up and collected the money, he would have been arrested immediately, a source confirmed.
In fact, Sunday Vanguard was made to understand that the "only reason why he was not arrested at the residence of Otedola that early morning was because options would be limited in proving that the episode was bribery related; and Farouk could insist that he was just set up, with cash brought in to justify the action".
More importantly, Sunday Vanguard was told that "arresting Farouk on the morning of the day he was supposed to be presenting the continuation of the report of the committee, especially since Zenon's name was still on the list of 15, would appear as if he was to be pressured into removing Zenon's name and when he refused, he was set up for blackmail".
According to the security source, such a "development would have made it appear again as if the government of the day simply decided to overshadow the presentation of the report with the arrest of Farouk". These were the issues that weighed heavily on the minds of the DSS high command. They let Farouk go. All these were not known to Farouk at all.
Police sources confirmed to Sunday Vanguard at that time that "contrary to what was being published, it was the police who first wrote Farouk, seeking to know who the people that were piling pressure on him were and those who were behind the threat to his life" – Farouk had granted an interview where he alleged that some people were attempting to compromise him and the work of the committee.
Farouk responded to the Police request and that actually marked the beginning of investigation into the matter by the Police. Sunday Vanguard was also made to understand that investigations by the Police had commenced before the matter blew into the open.
Indeed, it was the panic move by some powerful people both in the corridors of power and a few who rose in defense of Farouk that unwittingly blew the whistle in their bid to keep the matter out of public glare. Sunday Vanguard learnt that a very disappointed senior government official, who brought Emenalo in to work with the committee and who had suspected that the matter was already being handled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, made a move to find out the culpability of his ward.
This was also another act which unwittingly blew the lid off. By mid-June last year, it had become obvious that the matter had spread like wild fire in the House. This was what necessitated the statement from the House declaring that it would investigate the matter. fully.
Farouk was immediately suspended indefinitely by the House at that time. And Otedola's Zenon and Synopsis were both re-indicted by the House of Representatives' Committee of the whole. At the trial last Friday, Farouk's lawyers insisted that they would prove that what transpired was nothing more than a genuine intention on the part of Farouk to prove that Otedola intended to truly bribe him with a view to compromising his committee's report.


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It's not hard to find places to encounter nature in Ohio, as there are dozens -- perhaps hundreds -- of public parks, preserves and wildlife areas.
Aurora has Sunny Lake Park, the Moebius Nature Center, Tinkers Creek State Park and a handful of Greater Cleveland Audubon Society sanctuaries.
There are several trails in the area which I've written about.
For local residents who would like to take a day trip just south of here to enjoy nature, may I suggest southwest Stark County's the Wilderness Center.
Many times when I was younger -- and still today -- I've traveled Route 250 between Strasburg in Tuscarawas County and Wooster in Wayne County. That route passes right by the rural road that leads to the center.
However, I never had taken the time to visit the 619-acre site until the second weekend in November.
The road off Route 250 is about 1 1/2 miles northwest of the village of Wilmot (population about 335), which is where the famous Amish-style eatery the Amish Door is located.
The Wilderness Center got its start in the mid-1960s, when the Canton Audubon Society had a public meeting to discuss the idea of establishing a community nature center.
The Charlie Sigrist farm was picked as the site of the nature center after the Audubon Society explored several potential locations.
The land featured a section of trees -- some nearly 300 years old -- which had never been cut. The land was easily accessible from Canton, Massillon, Wooster, Millersburg and New Philadelphia-Dover.
Membership fees and contributions from many charitable foundations have enabled the center to continue, and it will mark its first half-century soon.
The site is comprised of forest, meadows, marshes and a restored prairie, a large lake and smaller pond, an interpretative building housing nature exhibits, meeting rooms and classroom space, trails and picnic shelters.
The interpretative building was erected in 1974. It has enabled educational nature-related activities to grow at a rapid pace.
Connecting People and Nature raised more than $5.25 million in 1998 to renovate and expand the building, add astronomy education and maintenance buildings and make other site improvements.
Programming has been expanded into schools, the center has fostered the creation of many specialty clubs and it continues to be privately supported by contributions from members, fundraising events and very successful endowment campaigns.
The main site is not all that the Wilderness Center owns. It has preserved 2,922 acres in Stark, Wayne, Tuscarawas, Holmes and Carroll counties through conservation easements, including a 193-acre parcel south of Zoar called Zoar Woods, which is on partially reclaimed stripmine land.
There are six trails on the main property, and on the 60-degree mid-November day that I visited, I chose to walk the 1 1/4-mile Pond Trail, which surrounds Wilderness Lake.
Part of the trail snakes through woodlands. Looking down on the 7 1/2-acre lake from a hill in the woods is a three-level wooden tower. It was easy to see the lake when the leaves were off the trees, but in summer it might be a little hard to see it.
On the opposite side of the lake is an observation deck extending out over the water, from where swimming Canada geese and ducks can be viewed.
The looping trail also takes hikers past a smaller pond. Near the trailhead is a small amphitheater and shelter, from which the center was conducting a birdseed sale on the day I was there, plus there's a sundial and rock walk.
Fox Creek runs through the Wilderness Center land, and two other trails wind along and over it, through a wooded wetlands and old apple orchard and past some of the area's oldest trees.
Sugar Creek Trail runs along another creek, while the Belden and Blake Wilderness Walk passes through beech and mixed forests, and affords great views of spring wildflowers.
The interpretative building has a gift shop featuring books about nature and other nature-related items, plus some displays focusing on Ohio's geology and wildlife. Children enjoy watching Boris the corn snake in a glass cage.
In the back corner of the building is an observation area from where visitors can sit by large glass windows and see birds flock to a feeder. Occasionally, wildlife such as groundhogs and raccoons amble up to eat birdseed which has dropped onto the ground from the feeder.
Some of the special programs the center offers focus on backyard bird feeding, making wreaths, the night sky and seeds, plus there are guided hikes led by naturalists, full-moon walks, star watches, storytimes and Geology Day.
Another fascinating part of the center grounds is the Arnold Fitz Solar Array, a solar photovoltaic (electrical) system installed through a grant from the Daniel M. And Maureen O. Gunn Foundation.
It is dedicated to one of the center's founders -- retired Malone College professor of biology Arnold Fitz -- who has been a proponent of sustainable energy for many years.
Ohio-based Dovetail Solar and Wind completed the solar array's installation earlier this year. The two huge sections of solar panels are situated at the entrance to the Wilderness Center, and during hot weather, they provide shade for visitors' vehicles.
The system is expected to produce about 84,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year, which would be 80 percent of the energy needed to run the interpretative building.
It is estimated that over the next 25 years, the array will keep 1,574 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air, the equivalent of 27 acres of trees planted or 5.1 million miles not driven by gas-powered vehicles.
In the future, TWC will create a display and other teaching materials to explain how solar power works and its benefits.
Once part of the Zoar Separatists colony, Zoar Woods features a 2-mile trail on which visitors can see mature forests, evergreens plantations, pond and meadow, reclaimed and unreclaimed stripmine land and a high wall.
Zoar Woods was donated to the Wilderness Center in 1973. I have never walked its trail, but would like to some day.
The center also has a concert series to help raise some funds for operations.
A concert was scheduled in the evening on the day I was there, and I was surprised to discover it featured the Hastily Assembled Grassroots Band.
When I was a teenager, the vocalist and acoustic guitar player in the bluegrass/folk band -- Jeanne Wieland -- moved to my neighborhood with her then-husband, Fritz.
Jeanne and Fritz were in their early 20s, and their place became a hangout spot for the neighborhood kids. We loved watching Fritz do wheelies on his 1950s-vintage Triumph 650 motorcycle, and spending time with the cool couple.
It was 20 years since I saw Jeanne, and it was the first time I've listened to the band, which formerly was called the Hastily Assembled Bluegrass Band.
In addition to Jeanne, the band's musicians play he bass fiddle, banjo, dobro and mandolin.
On this night, the audience heard Jeanne's 13-year-old granddaughter sing and play the guitar for the first time with the band. And filling in on mandolin was Larry Mader, who once played with Wild Cherry, which was famous for "Play That Funky Music" in 1976.
The tune was No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart for three weeks, and the band's debut album went platinum. Mader hails from East Springfield.
Jeanne's band doesn't play many public concerts, but they do play annually at the Ohio RV Supershow, which is scheduled for Jan. 9-13 in 2013.
I also got to see Jeanne's sister, Mary Ann, whom I graduated from high school with, and their mom. All in all, it was a great day and evening.
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Jacksonville let Bryant climb back into the game, but the Red Devils held on for a 65-63 win over the Hornets in the John Stanton Invitational Tournament at Conway.
The Red Devils led by as many as 13 points in the fourth quarter before the Hornets pulled within one with two minutes to play.
Jacksonville and Bryant were tied at halftime, but Jacksonville built up the lead during the third quarter thanks to Devin Campbell and Sergio Berkley. Campbell led the Red Devils with 18 points, while Berkley scored 14 in the win.
Free throws by Campbell and LaQuawn Smith with 30 seconds left in the game put Jacksonville up by six points. Smith hit another pair of big free throws following a Bryant three-pointer. A half court shot by the Hornets set the final margin.
The win was good for seventh place in the tournament. Jacksonville had double-digit leads in each of the first two tournament games, but allowed late rallies to suffer losses.
The Red Devils will be back on the court this Friday when they host the Hot Springs Trojans for the final game before Christmas break.


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Our annual customer/partner conference was last week in Orlando FL. We had a great time and meet with lots of customers and partners. Our team managed the CRM Live stations at the Expo Hall and we had a couple sessions. Eric Boocock presented on Implementing Dynamics CRM Live in 60 Minutes and Brian Galicia delivered a session on Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live: Product and Technology Explained. Bill Patterson had an excellent demo during the key note session with Steve Ballmer. All in all, CRM Live had lots of attention. If you didn't come, make sure you make next year's show.
A few of us went to watch the shuttle launch. If you're curious, this is what it looks like as the shuttle launches over 7 mi away. It lit the area like it was day time. Amazing. The traffic was kinda of rough and I'm pretty sure the astronauts were on the space station before we got back to the hotel.
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Bowel cancer screening is important because it can find bowel cancers when they are small, before they cause symptoms. The screening can also detect polyps, which are non-cancerous (benign) growths that may develop into cancer over time. Polyps can easily be removed, which reduces the risk of bowel cancer developing.
Bowel cancer screening was introduced in the UK after studies showed that regular screening can reduce the risk of dying from bowel cancer by 16% (1 in 6).


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Bartlesville, OK — After losing the first two games in the NCCAA National Championship Tournament held in Botetourt, VA the Lady Eagles softball team concluded their 2013 season with a school best 35-18 record.
Their win/loss record this year is a nearly an exact flip of the record from the 2012 season were they finished 18-34.
Making their first trip to the NCCAA National Championship, the Eagles gave everything they had but came up short in game one in a 12 inning pitching duel against Campbellsville (Ky.).
While starter Jenna Daniel and reliever Courtney Carson only gave up 5 hits, the offense could only muster 6 hits against four different Campbellsville pitchers, falling with an RBI double by Sara Paragon. The Eagles couldn't answer in the bottom of the 12th, losing 2-1.
After waiting out two more extra-inning games by other teams on the day, the Eagles second game came against Simpson University (CA) which did not start until 9:15pm. The only base runners on the day came from 5 walks as the Eagles couldn't record a single hit. Kim Billie took the loss (8-5), pitching just 1.2 innings before Daniel came in relief. The final score was 8-1.
"Even though the results weren't what we expected, it was a great first experience at a national championship for our girls," said head coach Caty Reeves. "We will be more prepared next year and will know what it takes to compete with some of the best teams in the NCCAA."
This season, the Lady Eagles made leaps and bounds by finished third in the MCAC conference (16-4) and beating rival Central Baptist College twice. The Lady Eagles also played neck and neck with some of the best teams in the NAIA, barely falling to Oklahoma City University, St. Gregory's University, and Rogers State University during the year.
As a team, they ended with a .279 batting average lead by Miranda Kiser who hit .399 on the season with a .497 OB%. Allison Edwards added the best power numbers blasting 15 homeruns while hitting .345. Macy Wright and Jenna Daniel were the only two Eagles hitting over .300 with a .325 and .300 batting average, respectively.
In the circle, the Eagles were led by Senior Courtney Carson with a 3.19 ERA in 96.2 innings pitched and freshman Jenna Daniel who also had a 3.19 ERA in 105.1 with a team high 137 strikeouts. Defensively, the Lady Eagles had a .963 fielding percentage, one of the best in the NAIA.
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The bid for a second New Zealand NRL franchise has received a significant boost, with the consortium signing a $10 million deal with Christchurch's Celebration Lions Sports Trust to enter a feeder team in the NSW or Queensland Cup.
The agreement gives the bid team a strong foothold in the South Island and will strengthen the new club's rivalry with the Auckland-based Warriors.
It also provides another pathway for Kiwi players to the NRL as the Celebration Lions plan to establish a NSW or Queensland Cup team that would play out of their proposed new ground at Porritt Park in Christchurch.
The Lions, who play in the strong Canterbury Rugby League, also want to enter junior representative teams in the NSWRL's Harold Mathews and SG Ball competitions.
Consortium spokesman Robert Picone said the $10 million 10-year deal, which would see pre-season matches played at Porritt Park, further underpinned the financial viability of the bid.
"The arrangement our club has struck with the Lions Sports Trust is the last major piece in our bid," Mr Picone said. "It provides the club with a long-term strong connection to the Canterbury region and a great base for our club.
"Having a Cup side so close to the NRL squad's base is a big plus and takes away the need for our club to align with an Australian club. The alliance gives the club the right football structures to enable us to be very competitive and provides a definite and clear pathway in New Zealand for the massive talent pool, which exists in the country."
Since Fairfax Media revealed details of the bid for a second New Zealand team based in Wellington two months ago, there has been growing support behind the scenes and officials are hopeful of joining the NRL in 2018.
While NRL bosses remain tightlipped about expansion plans, they have shown their commitment to the game in New Zealand by holding the launch for the coming season in Auckland on Thursday night and agreeing to stage the Nines at Eden Park for five years.
A second New Zealand team based in Wellington and playing some games in Christchurch, and possibly Rotorua, would capitalise on the rivalry between Auckland and the rest of the country.
"Our club is fully aware of the importance of the Canterbury region especially with respect to rugby league," Mr Picone said.
"It is and has been such a strong region for rugby league in NZ and has produced many elite players including Quentin Pongia, David Kidwell, Lewis Brown, Matt Duffie, Rulon Nutira and even more recently Cyrus Timo- Latu. Partnering with the Celebration Lions really establishes great foundations for the club in Canterbury."
Lions special project manager Corey Watkinson said the multi-sport trust believed the alliance would be a significant contribution to rugby league in the region. "The potential of a South Island Cup side based here is a huge boost for Rugby League in NZ and I know there will be a lot of local excitement and support for this initiative," Mr Watkinson said.


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WASHINGTON (Nov. 25)
Jewish legal activists are welcoming a New Jersey school board's decision to settle a major affirmative action case out of court.
Last week, just as the U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to hear the case, Piscataway Board of Education vs. Taxman, the school board agreed to pay $433,500 to Sharon Taxman, a white teacher whom the board had laid off in 1989 while retaining a black teacher with equal qualifications.
The school board said it made its decision under its affirmative action policy.
Fearing that the high court's ruling could have proved disastrous for affirmative action, a coalition of civil rights groups not directly involved in the case agreed to pay about 70 percent of the settlement.
Although the Jewish community has long been divided over the issue of racial- and gender-based preferences, most legal activists agreed that the Piscataway case was not the appropriate vehicle for a potential landmark ruling by the high court.
"It's clear that the old adage that bad cases make for bad law applies in this instance," said Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Reform movement's Religious Action Center here and an expert on church-state law.
"This particular case" he added, "clouds the moral argumentation for affirmative action and therefore ill serves the cause of civil rights and civil justice."
In negotiating a settlement, the civil rights coalition, led by the Black Leadership Forum, opted against having their day in a court that has shown increasing hostility toward affirmative action policies.
"The civil rights groups are quite correct, they would have lost this case in the Supreme Court. So, from their point of view, it was wise to withdraw it," said Marc Stern, co-director of the legal department of the American Jewish Congress.
AJCongress had filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the fired teacher but urging the court not to issue a sweeping ruling in the case.
The Anti-Defamation League, which traditionally has supported diversity but opposes affirmative action as discriminatory, called the settlement "sensible."
"It is a victory both for Sharon Taxman and for all Americans who oppose race- based decision making in employment," said Abraham Foxman, national director of ADL, which also filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Taxman.
"Our society cannot further the cause of equal treatment by preferring one race over another."
At issue in this case was the question of whether racial consideration could be used to exclude an individual or if such choices could only be made to remedy the effect of past discrimination. In prior cases, the Supreme Court has held that affirmative action programs used to remedy past discrimination are constitutional.
Although it remains uncertain whether the court will take another affirmative action case during its current term, Stern said, "It's inevitable that the court will come back to this issue."


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Sep 27, 2002 @ 9:00 PM
[Originally posted by diogenes]
Hi, your book is an absolute goldmine of information, especially for students
like myself who have no real knowledge of industry!
I am currently writing my Masters Thesis on the problems presented when trying
to trace requirements to specifications.
What would you say is the biggest problem in actually using traceability and
why don't CASE tools seem to be resolving the problem?
Oct 6, 2002 @ 9:00 PM
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[Originally posted by bkovitz]
Hi, Kev. Glad to hear you're enjoying the book!
Here are some thoughts about traceability.
1. This thought might bring tears to your eyes, if you have a lot
invested in the importance of traceability. In my 16 years or so on
the job, I have never once seen anyone look at or request
information about what traced to what. I once heard a second-hand
story that traceability info was used once (a friend of a friend,
you know), but that's it.
This wiki page has some pretty brutal analysis of this topic:
The biggest problem, I think, is just that keeping track of
traceability info costs a lot of bandwidth for no perceivable
2. Jackson's notion of separating problem domain from interface
(shared) domain seems to me to solve the problem of traceability at
its root. By discovering facts about the problem domain, we often
discover ways to simplify or even eliminate our ideas for
interfaces. By treating the combination of interface design and
descriptive assumptions about the problem domain as propositions
that should deductively prove that requirements are satisfied, we
get satisfaction that the design really addresses what we care
about. And we sidestep the mess that would result if people really
tried to connect every part of the program to all the requirements
that justify its existence.
This message (posted minutes ago!) gives an example of using
problem-domain info to steer clear of designing and implementing an
unnecessary interface (the last full paragraph):
3. One argument for maintaining a traceability matrix is to help
deal with requirements changes. The theory is that some changes
"ripple" throughout the design in complex ways, so you need a sort
of dependency graph to follow the implications. Extreme Programming
has a nice solution to this problem, though: storing requirements as
automated tests. Changing the requirements = changing the tests.
The now-failing tests show you what changes you need to make to the
program. When they pass again, you know the program meets the new
That doesn't help prune code that no longer serves a purpose, but if
the programmers are continuously refactoring, any code that doesn't
help pass a test will sooner or later get deleted.
Hmm, I'm afraid I've mostly talked about tracing requirements to
code, not to specifications. Most folks in industry think of the
specifications as the requirements. It's usually seen as the
customer's job to say what screens they want, what use cases they
want, etc. Any connection from interface specifications to desired
conditions in the problem domain is left to the inside of the
customer's mind and is often not discussed. I believe this is
because specifications serve much better as contracts. Requirements
in Jackson's sense are not necessarily met perfectly even by the
best software design.
CASE tools don't solve the problem of relating the specification to
the (domain) requirements because computer programs are systematic
and brittle. Probing for relevant aspects of the problem domain and
brainstorming for better interface designs really requires human
intelligence and creativity. I'm told, though, that traceability
for purposes of accountability and status tracking (keeping lists of
requirements, who provided them, and whether they've been
implemented and tested) is handled well by programs such as DOORS.
I've never used such a program myself, though.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Sitting in the office of Dr. Alfred Bellows, Capt. Anthony Nelson describes what he believed to be an imaginary encounter with a "beautiful," "desirable" and "helpful" woman while stranded on a desert island.
The astronaut had run into trouble on a mission to space and was forced to make an emergency landing in the South Pacific.
"When I saw the bottle on the beach, I hallucinated a genie out of it," Nelson explains.
"Captain," Bellows later says, "that's the classic fantasy — a beautiful girl on a desert island, a girl who would do anything for you. Do you know who that girl was?"
"No, sir. I've never seen her before in my life."
"She was your mother," Bellows says.
Puzzled, Nelson replies, "My mother's in Salt Lake City, sir."
The exchange occurs in the pilot episode of "I Dream of Jeannie," airing on NBC on Sept. 18, 1965, and starring Barbara Eden as Jeannie and Larry Hagman as Nelson.
It wasn't a hallucination then and it won't be this week when Eden visits Utah's capital city for Salt Lake Comic Con. The three-day event gets underway Thursday at the Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 S. West Temple.
Eden, 83, best known for her iconic role of Jeannie in the 1965-70 TV series, will be signing autographs and taking pictures with fans during her first appearance at such a convention. She's also scheduled to speak to fans in the Salt Palace's South Ballroom at 2 p.m. Saturday, along with "I Dream of Jeannie" co-star Bill Daily.
"This is the first comic con I have ever attended," she said in a recent telephone interview, though she's made herself available for several autograph shows over the years.
Eden said she decided to give Salt Lake Comic Con a try because she had heard good things about the second-year convention.
"I've heard that it's fantastic, that it has huge attendance and that it's well-run," she said.
Event co-founder Dan Farr said that positive word of mouth from the inaugural Salt Lake Comic Con last September and April's FanX made attracting guests for this week's convention much easier.
"Our best evangelists for us have been the prior guests and vendors who have been to our show before," Farr said. "They have really done a good job passing the word."
The key to a great show, he said, is having enthusiastic fans who support the celebrity guests, comic book artists, authors and other vendors in attendance.
"For a celebrity, the product they're selling is an autograph or a photo op," Farr said. "When the fans are supportive and buy those things from the guests, that's a good turnout for them."
Farr said he's particularly excited about attracting Eden to Salt Lake Comic Con.
"For me, I remember watching 'I Dream of Jeannie' as a kid, and I loved that show," he said. "To think that she's actually coming to a show that I've had a part in putting together, it is surreal and exciting."
If Salt Lake Comic Con is anything like previous autograph and photo sessions featuring Eden, the actress said she expects to meet fans from "many, many generations" — those who grew up with "I Dream of Jeannie," as well as those who've embraced the show during its 40-plus years in syndication.
"It's very rewarding to me, but it surprised me in the beginning," Eden said of her multigenerational appeal.
And she also expects at least of few of those fans to be dressed as Jeannie.
"All ages, all genders," Eden said. "I've seen it all. It's fun."
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The Imperative of Integration
More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president. Some would argue that we have finally arrived at a postracial America, but The Imperative of Integration indicates otherwise. Elizabeth Anderson demonstrates that, despite progress toward racial equality, African Americans remain disadvantaged on virtually all measures of well-being. Segregation remains a key cause of these problems, and Anderson skillfully shows why racial integration is needed to address these issues. Weaving together extensive social science findings--in economics, sociology, and psychology--with political theory, this book provides a compelling argument for reviving the ideal of racial integration to overcome injustice and inequality, and to build a better democracy.
Considering the effects of segregation and integration across multiple social arenas, Anderson exposes the deficiencies of racial views on both the right and the left. She reveals the limitations of conservative explanations for black disadvantage in terms of cultural pathology within the black community and explains why color blindness is morally misguided. Multicultural celebrations of group differences are also not enough to solve our racial problems. Anderson provides a distinctive rationale for affirmative action as a tool for promoting integration, and explores how integration can be practiced beyond affirmative action.
Offering an expansive model for practicing political philosophy in close collaboration with the social sciences, this book is a trenchant examination of how racial integration can lead to a more robust and responsive democracy.
"[A] real tour de force of philosophical argumentation utilizing social science data."--Brian Leiter, Leiter Reports blog
"[T]his book is an impressive addition to the growing literature in so-called 'non-ideal' political theory, which as Anderson herself notes, begins 'from a diagnosis of injustices in our actual world, rather than from a picture of an ideal world.'"--Andrew Peirce, Philosophy in Review
"There are social, academic and economic benefits to integration--the evidence for which is so powerfully represented in Elizabeth Andreson's award-winning book, The Imperative of Integration."--Jonathan Jansen, The Times
"This book is beautifully and clearly argued at the highest philosophical level and, at the same time, attentive to social and historical realities. It offers a compelling vision of an ideal of integration that has largely been lost to view. Whether or not you agree with her, Elizabeth Anderson has staked out a position that all serious thinking about American race relations must now contend with."--Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of The Ethics of Identity
"The Imperative of Integration accomplishes two important things: It demonstrates--using rigorous social scientific analysis--that racial segregation is the root cause of the continuing social disadvantage of African Americans. And it argues persuasively--using subtle philosophical reasoning--that in light of American history, a concerted effort to integrate our schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces is the only path forward consistent with a commitment to social justice. Serious students of contemporary American society will want to read this book."--Glenn Loury, Brown University
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