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Accidentally, Deja Variations followed The Art of Acting at the dress rehearsal Tuesday night for Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. They were the funniest of about 30 playlets to run within a 60-minute time frame. The odd Neo-Futurist production with its even more bizarre title counts on random selection, so two connected scenes seemed a gift.
Directed by Ginny Davis, every performance of Too Much Light promises to be a bit different. Thats part of an elaborate premise devised by Chicagoan Greg Allen, who conceived and directed the first production of the Neo-Futurists on Dec. 2, 1988. Its Chicagos longest-running show. In 2004, another Neo-Futurist troupe made landfall in New York City. So this edgy, new-wave theater has made its way to Durango, too.
Allens concept has a statement of purpose and rules for performers and audience a bit like the 1909 Futurist Manifesto that inspired Allen.
Brevity, compression, speed, chance and change underscore the tone and tempo of every performance. Everything is scripted with a little wiggle room for limited improvisation and topical references.
Still, Davis said before the rehearsal, this is the hardest piece Ive ever worked on. The contractual obligations are very strict. Its a different format than any of us are used to. The actors and the audience have a lot of input.
Audience members choose the order of performance and may choose to sit on stage. A clothesline holding large sheets of paper with numbers spans the stage. As each vignette is performed, a cast member removes the number and a shout out determines the next.
It seems arbitrary, but thats the point random selection. Occasionally, audience members are asked to help, for example, holding a blanket or sitting on a chair and ringing a bell to stop the action of a story.
At dress rehearsal, FLC student Taylor Neve agreed to the latter. The scene played like a childs game with the actors collapsing every time Neve rang the bell.
The real miracle is the cast. Kenneth Breece, Brianna DeVore, Elizabeth Dunn, Julie Faulkner, K.J. Kahoke, Tiffany Silva, Jordan Trujillo and Carl D. Smith spontaneously respond to the random scene sequence. At the rehearsal, there were no stumbles or hesitation. Performance ready.
The actors appear as themselves, sans makeup and wearing what they wore to the theater. We are who we are, says the manifesto. My name is my name and my age is my age.
Some bits feel like lectures, some are soliloquies, a few are conversations, many incorporate dance and several involve the entire ensemble. The shortest scene is simply a spotlight no actor, no prop.
No matter how hard the Neo-Futurists proclaim this as new, an evening of short sketches reminds one of another form: vaudeville. Granted, that turn-of-the century form consisted of songs, comic sketches and dance. It all had an order, and cue cards announced each piece. Thats not unlike calling out the scene number from the Neo-Futurist menu printed and in your hands, by the way. Layer on top the Realist tradition in theater, begun by Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov and dominating the 20th century stage, then a final frosting where neo-futurism attempts to make illusion and the fourth wall disappear entirely.
Several contemporary themes run through the work relationships, youthful insecurities, identity politics, war and violence. At FLC, there is a sense of youth and ownership on the material.
The title was randomly chosen by founder Allen. Apparently, he heard an autistic child repeat the words as he smashed light bulbs. The website says its very oddity appealed to Allen, so he named the play Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.


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Well this has to be my favorite news item of the year so far. A few days ago, eagle-eyed observers noticed that a certain quote from an "Iraqi citizen who preferred not to be identified" in an Army press release sounded an awful lot like a quote from an earlier press release. Today, the military has issued an apology for this "administrative error."
More of the liberal media picking on the poor military-industrial complex? You decide. Here's a quote from an anonymous Iraqi citizen in a July 13 press release:
'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the children and all of Iraq,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified. 'They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists.'
Stirring. Truly stirring. Now, a quote from another anonymous Iraqi on Sunday, July 24:
'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified.
Well, that should put to rest any concerns you might have about the veracity of military media output. Like any advertising firm or magazine, the Army has a bunch of poorly-paid college kids (does the military have interns?) sitting around churning out boilerplate "stock footage", if you will, to perk up the daily body count.
I applaud the military for its efficiency – thanks for recycling, guys! – but condemn its lack of creativity. If you're gonna make shit up, go nuts. Ginandtacos recommends the following (attn: military – feel free to use these!)
At the scene of the bombing, an Iraqi citizen who asked to remain anonymous said "I detest this insurgent violence and eagerly await the day when the might of the American armed forces can help me, a newly-converted Evangelical Christian, rid the world of the brown Islamic horde." "Poorly aimed airstrikes demolished my home and killed 6 of my children, but I'm happy to pay this price to rid my neighborhood of insurgents and make it safe for multinational investors" shouted one man from the assembled crowd. In the line of hundreds – maybe thousands – of Iraqi men clamoring to join the Iraqi Defense Force, one man who preferred to remain anonymous said "The only honor greater than this was getting to meet Triple H and Kid Rock on the USO tour." As they fled the scene of their bloody attack, an insurgent shouted "My murderous actions would be impossible without the liberal American media and their allies in public Universities. Allah is great." Concerned Iraqi citizens shouted, "The bloodshed will not end until Judge Janice Rogers Brown gets an up-or-down vote in the Senate."
Man, maybe I missed my calling.

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The ONKO-KISS study on bone marrow and peripheral bloodstem-cell transplantation and the occurrence of hospital-acquiredinfections during neutropenia: essential statistical issues.
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Bone marrow and peripheral blood stem-cell transplantationshave become a successful therapy for severe hematologicdiseases. However, with transplantation a patient enters a high riskphase, called neutropenia. Occurrence of infectious complications,mostly bloodstream infections or pneumonia, is more likely duringneutropenia, increasing morbidity and mortality. ONKO-KISS is aprospective multi-centre cohort study to provide reference data and toassess risk factors for the occurrence of bloodstream infections andpneumonia during neutropenia [Ref. 1]. It is part of the surveillance program of the German National Reference Centrefor Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (KISS - German HospitalInfection Surveillance System; http://www.nrz-hygiene.de/).
A meaningful analysis of the data collected in this study has to judgethe (possibly different) effects a risk factor has on the competingevents `infection', `death' and `end of neutropenia'. Also, the timethese events occur is important. In statistics, this situation isknown as `competing risks' [Ref. 2]. An adequatehazard-based analysis using the well-known Cox model, say, isfeasible, but interpretationally difficult due to the competingrisks. We illustrate these difficulties and offer an alternativeanalysis using the Fine-Gray model for cumulative incidences [Ref. 3]. The cumulative incidence function for `infection', say,displays the proportion of patients infected as time progresses. Anexcellent interpretation of our results from the Fine-Gray model canbe achieved displaying these proportions for different constellationsof risk factors.
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- M Dettenkofer, S Wenzler-Röttele, R Babikir, H Bertz, W Ebner, EMeyer, H Rüden, P Gastmeier, FD Daschner: Surveillance of nosocomialsepsis and pneumonia in patients with a bone marrow or peripheralblood stem cell transplant. A multicenter project. ClinicalInfectious Diseases 2005 (40): 926-931
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- J Klein, J D Rizzo, M-J Zhang, N Keiding. Statistical methods forthe analysis and presentation of the results of bone marrowtransplants. Part~I: Unadjusted analysis. Bone Marrow Transplantation2001 (28): 1001-1011
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- J Fine, R Gray. A proportional hazards model for thesubdistribution of a competing risk. Journal of the AmericanStatistical Association 1999 (94): 496-509


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Hungry, tired kids are difficult to teach. Their environment, health and community have an enormous impact on their ability to learn. However, rather than recognize this catastrophe, we continue to blame our teachers and schools for failing our children. It's akin to blaming doctors for failing to save children dying from malnutrition.
In 2010-11, 1,065,794 homeless students were reported enrolled in school, a 13 percent increase from 2009-10 (939,903) according to data released by the National Center for Homeless last month.
To make matters even worse, this figure does not include homeless infants, children not enrolled in school, and homeless students that schools simply failed to identify. These children live on the streets, in shelters, motels, and in corridors loaned by friends and relatives.
It is hardly surprising that only 52 percent of the homeless students who took standardized tests were deemed to be proficient in reading, and only 51 percent passed math tests.
More bad news: the latest edition of the United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF's) report on child poverty in developed countries found that about 12 million children in the U.S. live in relative poverty, which gives our country the dubious honor of second place on the "relative child poverty" table – above Latvia, Bulgaria, Spain, Greece, and 29 others.
Only Romania ranks higher, with 25 percent, compared to our 23 percent. Recent U.S. Census Bureau statistics confirm these figures, estimating the percentage of American children living in poverty at 21.6 percent, while the figure for Hispanic children soars to nearly one in three, and a staggering 38 percent for African-American children.
Much of the mainstream media has latched on to America's supposed poor results on international tests as justification for its teacher-bashing rhetoric. Students from Finland frequently come out on top in these tests, so it is often cited as the country to emulate. Rarely mentioned is the fact that Finland's child poverty rate at 2.5 percent, about a tenth of ours, which is certainly worth emulating.
Both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney often mention the importance of education, usually in the context of improving the country's economy and creating jobs, or of making college more affordable, yet little mention is made of the underlying societal problems which prevent schools from succeeding.
And, despite claims to the contrary, these problems can be fixed – as demonstrated by the fact that Canada and the U.S. have the same relative child poverty rate of about 25 percent before government intervention is factored in. However, once government taxes, benefits, and other social programs kick in, Canada's child poverty rate drops to 13 percent, while America's remains above 23 percent.
The introduction to UNICEF's report eloquently warns that "failure to protect children from poverty is one of the most costly mistakes a society can make. The heaviest cost of all is borne by the children themselves. But their nations must also pay a very significant price – in reduced skills and productivity, in lower levels of health and educational achievement, in increased likelihood of unemployment and welfare dependence, in the higher costs of judicial and social protection systems, and in the loss of social cohesion."
Children have only one opportunity to develop in mind and body, so we must commit to protect them from poverty during prosperity, recession, and depression. Otherwise, we are failing our most vulnerable citizens and wasting our most precious natural resource, while storing up intractable social and economic problems for the years immediately ahead.
Until we tackle childhood poverty, blaming teachers for our apparent inability to compete on international student assessments is wholly unjust.
Daniel Ward is the editor of Language Magazine.


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During the initial staff inspection of Spalding Gray's papers at the Ransom Center some weeks ago, when each shipping carton was opened and its contents checked for condition, I passed my hands over multiple audio tapes, notebooks, and other documents marked with the single word "Swimming." It had been around 20 years since I had seen Gray's critically acclaimed and influential film Swimming to Cambodia, and I decided it was time for a refresher viewing.
Released in 1987, Swimming was the first of Gray's stage monologues to be adapted for the screen, and hence to reach a mass audience. In it, Gray tells the partly scripted, partly improvised story of his experience as a cast member in the 1984 feature film The Killing Fields, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards and awarded three. This film tells the story of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the 1970s through the eyes of an American reporter and his Cambodian interpreter. It offers a powerful critique of American involvement in the events leading up to and following the Khmer Rouge genocide of more than a million Cambodians. Gray had a small role in the film as an American diplomat. His Swimming monologue investigates the many ironies involved in his experience making the film: most prominent is the combination of pleasure and guilt he experienced while on location in Thailand, a country whose idyllic beauty, poverty, and services of all kinds for American tourists produced disturbing contrasts and parallels to the Cambodia of the previous decade.
I rented the film that weekend, and settled in to view it. Less than two minutes in, I hit the pause button, sat back with a laugh, and half-seriously considered heading straight to the Ransom Center to begin searching the shipping cartons. I rewound, watched the opening minutes again, and then sat back to enjoy the remainder of the film, hoping that the object I had just seen had arrived in Austin with Gray's papers.
As directed by Jonathan Demme, with a soundtrack by Laurie Anderson, the opening sequence shows Gray walking through New York to a small theater, accompanied by upbeat background music (Gray looks both ways earnestly before crossing the street). As he walks, you can see that there is a notebook tucked under his arm. When he reaches the theater, the notebook becomes more prominent. He enters the building, sits down at a table in front of his waiting audience, and begins his performance. He carries it to the stage and places it on the table in front of him as the opening credits begin.
Demme's camera angle places the notebook at the center of the film viewer's experience, while cropping out most of Gray's body (notably, this creates a very different experience to that of the live theatergoers, for whom the combination of speaker, notebook, and table is an uninterrupted, organic whole). The camera clearly shows a schoolchild's spiral notebook featuring a brightly colored image of Ronald McDonald and his pals playing soccer. The opening credits appear on the screen on either side of the notebook, quite literally emphasizing the centrality of the notebook's iconography to the film's message: very soon, the viewer comes to understand that the notebook's banal iconography of American consumerism and corporate power, layered with Anderson's buoyant music and the image of Gray walking in his coat through the cold, concrete landscape of New York, is preparing you for the more profound ironies to come.
The notebook did, in fact, arrive with Gray's papers. The Ronald McDonald cover is bright, though the notebook is softened, its corners bumped and curled from much use. The first page in the notebook can be identified as the one visible at the opening of the monologue in the film. One can follow along with the film's soundtrack while reading the notebook, tracking Gray's progress through key phrases and words noted in order on the page. Only nine of the notebook's 50 sheets have been used. Presumably, Gray's other Swimming notebooks contain preparatory material for this final, brief promptbook.
Critics often mention Gray's use of notebooks in his monologues; his stage sets generally included a table, chair, microphone, glass of water, and notebook. (Side note: when I looked on Amazon.com for the latest printed edition of Swimming to Cambodia, I was fascinated to see that it features a still-life photograph of this combination of objects on the cover. Without a high-resolution image, I couldn't tell what kind of notebook was used in place of the original.) As the papers are cataloged, I expect that notebooks for other monologues will surface, and I look forward to seeing how researchers will use these materials.
There are at least two distinct types of research value in this particular notebook: that which its content possesses as a stage in Gray's compositional process, and that which its look and feel possess as a movie prop. The Ronald McDonald notebook has a kind of magical value too, as an object that represents the major turning point in Gray's long, richly layered career—the breakthrough moment when this memoirist, playwright, filmmaker, and performer brought his unique vision to a film audience, gaining a prominence that would determine the directions his work took from that point on.
The New York Times drama critic Mel Gussow, whose papers also reside at the Ransom Center, wrote an admiring review of the stage version of Swimming to Cambodia in 1984. He opened the review with this statement: "Were it not for the absolute simplicity of the presentation, one might be tempted to say that Spalding Gray has invented a performance art form." Little did Gussow know the complexity that would accrete as this work became first a film and then a printed book, gaining new layers of irony as it went along, with no little thanks due to Ronald McDonald's well-aimed kick at a soccer ball.


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Bio::AlignIO::maf - Multiple Alignment Format sequence input stream
Do not use this module directly. Use it via the Bio::AlignIO class.
use Bio::AlignIO;
my $alignio = Bio::AlignIO->new(-fh => \*STDIN, -format => 'maf');
while(my $aln = $alignio->next_aln()){
my $match_line = $aln->match_line;
print $aln, "\n";
print $aln->length, "\n";
print $aln->num_residues, "\n";
print $aln->is_flush, "\n";
print $aln->num_sequences, "\n";
print $aln->consensus_string(60), "\n";
print $aln->get_seq_by_pos(1)->seq, "\n";
print $aln->match_line(), "\n";
print "\n";
This class constructs Bio::SimpleAlign objects from an MAF-format multiple alignment file.
Writing in MAF format is currently unimplemented.
Spec of MAF format is here: http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat
Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list:
rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web:
AUTHORS - Allen Day
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _
Title : new
Usage : my $alignio = Bio::AlignIO->new(-format => 'maf'
-file => '>file',
-idlength => 10,
-idlinebreak => 1);
Function: Initialize a new L<Bio::AlignIO::maf> reader
Returns : L<Bio::AlignIO> object
Args :
Title : next_aln
Usage : $aln = $stream->next_aln()
Function: returns the next alignment in the stream.
Throws an exception if trying to read in PHYLIP
sequential format.
Returns : L<Bio::SimpleAlign> object
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A little piece of happiness
Who would have thought it? The famously melancholic Fins take first place in the World Happiness Report – we went in search of clues to the puzzle of the world's happiest nation.
Maybe it was the moment when, after two days on an otherwise deserted island, I carried the drinking water from the cistern to our hut by the light of the midnight sun. Maybe it was when I managed to get my first sauna fire going with only dry grass and birch bark for fuel. Or was it the afternoon in Helsinki, when I sat alongside locals of all ages at the Allas Sea Pool, probably the most democratic and beautiful of inner-city outdoor baths? Each with a Lapin Kulta beer in one hand, we gazed across the glittering harbor waters, and it felt as though we had all the time in the world and zero responsibilities – except for the burgers we were about to order.
It was probably the sum of all those moments and many similar ones that, after ten days in Finland, left me with the sense that I finally understood why this Nordic country is supposed to be the happiest in the world, in spite of the long, dark winters and the reputedly melancholic bent of its inhabitants. My brief was to find out how the Fins do it. My personal goal was to find out what I could take back home with me, what I could learn here.
Finland placed first in the UNO's World Happiness Report for the first time in 2018 and once again in 2019. Alongside income per head, health and life expectancy in the 156 countries included in the ranking, criteria such as a sense of freedom, social generosity, condemnation of corruption, and trust were also taken into account. Like Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Switzerland, which followed on its heels in the ranking, Finland attaches great importance to social cohesion, as the authors cite by way of explanation for its top position: "These countries share the conviction that human happiness is dependent on a sound system of social support and good public services even if it means the taxes they have to pay are quite high." All the Scandinavian states made it into the top ten in the happiness chart, which was first published in 2012; Germany is in 15th place.
"Yes, I read in the paper that we came first," says Reija Nikander, a muscular woman with short-cropped hair, who works as an adventure guide in the eco camp in Nuuksio National Park. Then she takes a long while to consider why. We've put up our tents between the trees 45 minutes northwest of the Finnish capital and we will also be lighting our own fire later on. "The solitude," says Reija finally. Alone in the endless forests is where she feels happy, she tells us. We travel on to the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden. There at the latest, after an evening dip in the lake, we too feel the calming effect of nature's constant presence; how it slows everything down in a good way and opens our eyes. This isn't true only of visitors like us, the locals also look very mellow. After observing our Finnish neighbors during my stay in a mökki (the typical Finnish holiday cabin) at Käringsund holiday village, I venture a few – certainly unreliable – generalizations. A Fin is already well on the way to contentment when he's sitting outside a sauna with a beer, or playing minigolf with the children, or driving his gleaming, chrome American road cruiser at virtual walking speed. This is not how stress looks.
But peace and nature alone cannot explain the phenomenon. After all, the U.N. researchers place the emphasis on social cohesion. Reija thinks again. "It's both, really," she says, "when people get on my nerves, I can escape into nature. But then I look forward to being back with my friends again." Social cohesion is likely strong here because Finnish towns and cities tend to be small: "We know each other." Frank Martela agrees with this. He is currently studying the psychology and philosophy of happiness at Helsinki University. "Fins trust each other and their government; the democratic system works. We know that these are key factors which contribute to a high level of contentment." His advice for visitors – almost classic – is to visit a sauna, the "window on the Finnish soul." Nakedness levels social differences and hierarchies," he says. "Silence isn't something we put up with here; we welcome silence." Being as happy as a Fin does not mean making a great show of joyful feelings, but being quietly content with the way your own life is going.
It seems that the paradox of Finnish happiness lies in this contrast of happily complementary contradictions: solitude and society; nature and high tech; ease and efficiency; equanimity and ambition. Restaurants serve traditional fare, but always prepared from regional, organic produce. Finland is like a mixture of Zurich and Sydney: The infrastructure is alarmingly perfect, always in excellent working order; there's always available Internet and it's always fast – even on a deserted island, you get 5G. Big, new automobiles cruise along well-maintained highways but never exceed 120 kilometers per hour. In our holiday village, teenagers patrol the pathways every morning with trash grabbers, picking up even the tiniest scrap of chewing gum wrapper. Even the freeway restaurant is a haven of wellbeing, with soothing music, everything spotlessly clean, and a backlit photo wallpaper of birches on one wall.
So much attention to detail could seem intimidating and soulless if it weren't for the Fins themselves, who – pardon the clichés – are less like meticulous Swiss and more like laid-back Australians. Often sporting tattoos, many of the men have a beard and a beer gut, and although they start off reserved, they often relax into incredibly kind and helpful. They enjoy the marvelously smooth-running machinery of their native country as a matter of course. And often enough, there's a cosmopolitan outlook and keen business acumen behind the outdoorsy look. Johan Mörn, for instance, doesn't just manage several mini-islands, on the smallest of which, Sviskär, we are spending the night in the only cabin on the island, in fact, which has four beds and a pit latrine, he also came up with the ingenious idea of marketing this nature experience under the banner of "new luxury," with catering included – delivered to us part-time Robinsons by boat – and a cooperation with a French Champagne company. This latter is testing whether its product ages better in the deep water at the bottom of the sea or in a wine cellar. Johan, a weathered bear of a man, talks about events attended by international wine critics who came by for a tasting – this also explains the round indentations in the wooden garden tables on the main island, Silverskär: Their diameter exactly matches that of a Champagne bottle. This level of originality and chutzpah can only lead to success if they come from someone who no longer has to worry about lots of other things simply because those things work; because they live in the politically most stable and safest country in the world, with high quality of life and clean nature – in a country whose people have greater trust in their fellow citizens than the people of any other EU country.
The little everyday things that make us happy: riding a bicycle in the rain, occasionally picking mushrooms or berries
Author Katja Pantzar is Finnish, but she was raised in Canada and only returned to her native country as an adult. This has sharpened her awareness of local phenomena, which she recently explained in her book The Finnish Way Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu. Inadequately translated as "determination", or "perseverance," sisu is what Pantzar sees as the nub of the phenomenon: "Sisu is about accepting challenges," she says, "it is the ability to find your limits in the face of adversity." Specifically, it can be very small things, like cycling to work instead of taking the car even when the weather's bad; spending more time in nature, and picking mushrooms or berries there instead of buying all your food at the supermarket. It became clear after just a few days here in Finland that women have just as much sisu as men; gender equality is a given here.
When In Mariehamm, the capital of the autonomous region of Åland, I made the blunder of asking a local about the man heading the government there and stood brusquely corrected: "The head of government is a woman." When we were talking about a local Viking festival and I ventured the notion that there would likely be toy swords for the boys, the Finnish woman was stunned: "The swords are naturally for girls, as well!"
In 1906, Finland became the first European country to introduce women's suffrage, 12 years before Germany. The country increased its day-care facilities for children decades ago, and schools have been providing free lunches for their students since the 1940s. Teachers feel personally responsible for their students' results. Learning takes place in school, not during homework time with parents. This leaves everyone more time for leisure activities with family and friends, which in turn strengthens cohesion and trust. "Every Fin has at least one hobby, and most have several," says Roope Musto, who works for the Katajanokka design hotel in Helsinki, but was raised in London. As a result, he takes a kindly if wondering view of some of his fellow Fins' peculiarities: After work or school, everyone heads off to their club; that's how it is here." Where does he take us after we've talked? To a soccer game.
Back in Helsinki, I stroll over to the Allas Sea Pool again. It's five in the afternoon and the Fins are coming from work. I adapt my pace to theirs, climb into my swimsuit in the group changing room, and then enjoy a sauna with infusion followed by a couple of laps in the big swimming pool. The Fins are the only nation in the world to have a word for the activity of getting drunk alone at home in their underwear: kalsarikännit. It recalls the taciturn antiheroes of Aki Kaurismäki's films, evokes long, dark, lonely nights – also cozy comfort Finnish style. And that's how it will stay, regardless whether or not the Fins keep in topping the World Happiness Report in the future. Hey, the beer's cold and the burgers are on their way.


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Councilman says developer using poor residents for tax break
Carl Stokes' resolution would give community $15M of $100M break
A Baltimore City official has accused the developer of a proposed Harbor Point project of taking advantage of disadvantaged residents to get a tax break, but the city said the developer has done nothing wrong.
City Councilman Carl Stokes held a public hearing on the issue Wednesday night, saying he wants payback for those residents.
A piece of land next to Harbor East is slated to become a big new development called Harbor Point, housing Exelon's corporate headquarters, a hotel and other businesses.
"I'm excited about the project. I think it's a once in a generation project that will help grow our city," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake recently said about it.
The developer, Beatty Development Group, plans to get a roughly $100 million tax break from the city because it is now part of what's called an enterprise tax zone, which gives tax breaks to developers who want to build in areas of high poverty and unemployment.
Stokes said he believes the development group got that tax-zone status because it took advantage of the demographics of a nearby impoverished housing complex called Perkins Homes. Stokes held a public hearing on a resolution he proposed that forces the developer to give at least $15 million of that tax break to benefit the residents of Perkins Homes.
"Y'all need to go back to your boss because he's got them deep pockets now. You need to talk to him and have some kind of common sense," said Perkins Homes resident Sharone Henderson.
"Under the business of Baltimore City now, the order of business is to build up downtown on the backs of poor people, especially poor black people," said community advocate Rhonda Wimbish.
In a letter opposing Stokes' resolution, the Baltimore Development Corporation said Perkins Homes is not and has never been in the same enterprise tax zone as Harbor Point and that tax-zone status is determined by the city as a whole, not one single area.
Stokes asked the Baltimore Development Corporation's president, Brenda McKenzie, about getting that money for Perkins Homes regardless of the tax zone issue.
"Would you consider working with us and working with the developer?" Stokes asked.
"Absolutely. We would work with anybody interested in investing in the city and growing the city," McKenzie replied.
Michael Beatty of the Beatty Development Group didn't attend the hearing to face questions, and Stokes wasn't happy about it.
"It's a damn shame Beatty didn't walk his behind in here tonight," he said.
City officials said they fear that the resolution, which calls on developers to part with a portion of a tax break, will set a bad precedent that will discourage other developers from doing business in Baltimore. However, it does appear the resolution involving Beatty Development Group would not be legally binding if it's approved by the full City Council.


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Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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Leprosy and tuberculosis are age-old diseases that have tormented mankind and left behind a legacy of fear, mutilation, and social stigmatization. Today, leprosy is considered a Neglected Tropical Disease due to its high prevalence in developing countries, while tuberculosis is highly endemic in developing countries and rapidly re-emerging in several developed countries. In order to eradicate these diseases effectively, it is necessary to understand how they first originated in humans and whether they are prevalent in nonhuman hosts which can serve as a source of zoonotic transmission. This dissertation uses a phylogenomics approach to elucidate the evolutionary histories of the …
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By Enrico Moretti, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Enrico Moretti is professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Infrastructure and Urbanization Program at the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics and Oxford University). He is the author of 'The New Geography of Jobs.' The views expressed are his own.
The economic map of America today does not show just one country – it shows three increasingly different countries. At one extreme are America's brain hubs – cities like Seattle, Raleigh-Durham, Austin, Boston, New York and Washington DC – with a thriving innovation-driven economy and a labor force among the most creative and best paid on the planet. The most striking example is San Francisco, where the labor market for tech workers is the strongest it has been in a decade. At the other extreme are cities once dominated by traditional manufacturing – Detroit, Flint, Cleveland – with shrinking labor force and salaries. In the middle there is the rest of America, apparently undecided on which direction to take.
Historically, there have always been prosperous communities and struggling communities. But the difference was small until the 1980's, and has been growing dramatically since then. In 1980, the salary of a college educated worker in Austin was lower than in Flint. Today it is 45 percent higher in Austin, and the gap keeps expanding with every passing year. The gap for workers with a high school degree is a staggering 70 percent by some estimates. It is not that workers in Austin have higher IQ than those in Flint, or work harder. The ecosystem that surrounds them is different. The mounting economic divide between American communities – arguably one of the most important developments in the history of the United States of the past half a century – is not an accident, but reflects a structural change in the American economy.
Sixty years ago, the best predictor of a community's economic success was physical capital. Workers in Flint and Detroit were among the most productive – and best paid – in the country because they had access to the most advanced machines. With the shift from traditional manufacturing to innovation and knowledge, this has changed. Today, the best predictor of a community's economic success is human capital. A growing body of economic research suggests that a company's success depends on more than just the quality of its workers – it also depends on the entire ecosystem that surrounds it, especially on the share of workers with a college degree in the community. Over the past three decades, cities with many college-educated workers and innovative employers started attracting more of the same, and cities with a less educated workforce and less innovative employers started losing ground. It is a tipping-point dynamic: once a city attracts some innovative workers and companies, its ecosystem changes in ways that make it even more attractive to other innovative workers and companies. This self-reinforcing trend inevitably magnifies the differences between winners and losers among American communities. The share of college graduates has increased by more than 35 percent in Austin, Boston and San Francisco since 1980, but it has declined in Flint. The same difference emerges for R&D expenditures, venture capital investment and patent per capita.
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These dynamics are not limited to the U.S. In India, the Bangalore region has an innovation-driven dynamic economy where productivity and salaries are growing faster than in Silicon Valley, while the more "backward" state of Bihar has output and average income low even for developing country standards. In China, Shanghai has reached a per capita income close to that of a rich nation. Its students outperform American and European students in standardized tests by a wide margin. Its public infrastructure is better than that of many American cities. But agricultural communities in western China have made much less progress. The regional differences within India and China are growing, even if the difference between India and China as a whole, and richer countries, has shrunk.
The growing divergence between cities with a well-educated labor force and innovative employers and the rest of world points to one of the most intriguing paradoxes of our age: our global economy is becoming increasingly local. At the same time that goods and information travel at faster and faster speeds to all corners of the globe, we are witnessing an inverse gravitational pull toward certain key urban centers. We live in a world where economic success depends more than ever on location. Despite all the hype about exploding connectivity and the death of distance, economic research shows our salary, productivity and creativity increasingly depends on the place where we live.
Video conferencing, e-mail, and Skype have not made a dent in the need for innovative people to work side by side. In fact, that is more important than ever. Thousands of well-educated innovative workers are now moving to San Francisco and Silicon Valley, many attracted by jobs in social networking. They will produce software intended to create virtual communities that erase distance and allow us to share ideas and information from any corner of the world. Ironically, in order to do that successfully, all this talent must concentrate into a single location. Research shows that our best ideas still reflect the daily, unpredictable stimuli that we receive from the people we come across and our immediate social environment. Most of our crucial interactions are still face-to-face, and most of what we learn that is valuable comes from the people we know, not from Wikipedia. The vast majority of the world's phone calls, Web traffic, and investments are still local. Telecommuting is still relatively rare.
Globalization and localization are two sides of the same coin. More than ever, local communities are the secret of economic success. In the coming decades, the number and strength of America's brain hubs will determine whether, as a country, we will prosper or decline. Physical factories will keep losing importance, but cities with a large percentage of interconnected, highly educated workers will become the new factories where ideas and knowledge are forged. Supporting growth in America's innovation hubs while arresting the decline elsewhere is the real challenge that we face as a nation.
Another asspect in economic devlopment is geographical. An example is Peru; There is a narrow coastal area that is dry, extending at its widest only 10 miles. Then you have the Andes, high and mighty mountains that dominate the country. This geographical peculiarity makes economic development most ch.allenging
The Indian Debacle could overshadow the European crisis. GDP that has dropped off the cliff (4% est), budget deficits, collapse of Indian rupiah, rampant poverty, unemployment, FDI reversal, companies leaving town are some of the disastrous events that are threatening the Indian state. The downward spiralling is so severe that the Indian government has been unable to control it. Even the Americans have been unable to help and several trips by the treasury secretary were not helpful. This also has security repercussions for India and US defense secretary and secretary of state have flown in to counsel India on how to protect its borders with the help of Israel/IDF. Rumors have it that the breakup of India along the lines of Soviet Union is a very plausible scenario that I am sure intelligence agencies all over the world are factoring in their geopolitical stress tests.
We have invested a lot of resources in India over the past two decades and given a lot of aid to prop it up. There has been no investment on this return. Instead India has squandered all the resources in building nuclear weapons while poverty remains rampant in the country. We need to revisit our relationship with India. American taxpayers will not tolerate this anymore. We need to take care of our own populace going forward. We cannot be exporting jobs to India or giving it financial or technical handouts.It has become too big to govern or create any value for western countries or even for its own population. India needs to be carved up into smaller independent states to be a viable economically and geo politically.
Cities which do not yet fall into the first category need to invest in and build the infrastructure, facilities and environment needed to attract the college educated workers and the innovation-driven businesses. These would include modern educational as well as recreational facilities. Fareed, this would make an interesting extension of your article. For example, you could take a city like Bakersfield and have a team of experts design exemplary infrastructure as mentioned above for a follow-up article.
there will come a time when programmers become the auto and steel workers of the workforce at which point the high tech cities of today will be be in decline. in the 50's, 60's and 70's nobody would have thought that steel mills and auto plants and manufacturing would become a low skilled outsourced activity. of course programmers and tech workers will argue today that programming is here to stay and will always be the bedrock for innovation – time may well prove them wrong. cities like boston, however, with a smart combination of essential industries, will always be hedged – they have healthcare, education (these two aren't going anywhere), financial services and technology. diversification is always the key to sustainable returns.
Curent economic condition proof that countries with balanced high-low tech business and local consumer survive this tidal wave of financial crisis. The key is to balance it out, and nurture all.
Some of the keys of economic successes are:-
1) leave politics behind and distribute the Wealth of 1% RICH people, to let others to grow and
2) Stop denying others, not to invest and not to enter into the World free-trade or willingness to participate in the Worldwide Markets, just for personal and political reasons.
If we let everyone and every world to participate in worldwide market, recessions will never occurred.
The current signs of recession is the preparations of the upcoming war with Iran. Nothing else.
Recession and war are created by people. Don't blame Almighty God.
Aristotles said that we humans are social animals. These workers in Silicon Valley need to work side by side in order to exchange ideas, experiment them together and learn mistakes and success from each other. Indeed products that reach the masses need a collective "trial and error" process. It's not like writing a novel or a op-ed column.
Unfortunately we continue to follow the hierarchical Roman regimes of work. That is why we need geographically concentrated hubs of knowledge and work in order to go on and communicate via e-mail and over the phone. it is a habit and we can break free, should we wish for a better future.
1) Create a business selling junk products for big profits.
2) Lie in marketing.
3) Pay your workers poorly.
4) Dodge taxes
5) Move to China
6) Blame unions and the poor
r4st4's post was very wise.
Central banks across the World, following in the lead of FED Bernanke, have manipulated low interest rates.
These policies have created grave economic imbalances. For example, while home values are still 25%-50% lower than their peak, the stock markets are just 5% off their 2007 highs.
Under FED Bernanke and the Central Bank policy Worldwide niche real estate development opportunities are being created for real estate developers.
When interest rates are held artificially low, these interest rates alter all yields.
For example, it's impossible to get any yield putting money into a savings account.
The FED and Central Banks want to force savers and investors to put their money at risk in equities whether stocks, commodities or real estate.
Now, real estate income properties like Mixed Use Developments, Strip Malls, Single Use Leased Properties, Office Buildings, etc., are valued based on the capitalization of the cash flow income of the property.
As the interest rates are held down by Central Bankers, then cap rates in real estate investments are also artificially low.
When cap rates are low, income property rises in value and visa versa.
Consequently, investors in real estate income property now pay higher prices. They don't like that but they don't want to put their capital in a savings bank for less than a 1% annual yield.
Let's Look At An Example
In 2007, if an office building had Net Operating Income of $300,000. Before FED Bernanke and Central Banks manipulated interest rates, the cap rate was about 7%.
So, in 2007, this office building was worth $300,000/.07 or $4,286,000 rounded.
But, today, as an illustration, low interest rates drove down cap rates to about 5%. So, now this same office building is priced to sell at $300,000/.05 or $6,000,000.
So think of FED Bernanke's manipulated low interest rates (same globally) as a "Value Generator" for you to put together basic need developments producing income properties in DEMAND and creating fabulous opportunities for investors.
One thing is for certain – a good new development is a better opportunity for a joint venture investor than an excellent existing income property thanks to the manipulated monetary policies of FED Bernanke and Central Banks across the World.
Another way to look at it relates to wholesale vs. retail. An existing income property could be asking $10,000,000 as an asking price. This same income property can be developed for about $7,900,000, creating $2,100,000 in "added value."
And so, if you learn the real estate development skills, now is the time to package niche income producing developments. Investors will be banging on your door to get in. You'll have a fabulous project for joint venture investors, and yourself as Joint Venture Developer.
Geographically, expect a booming real estate development business in Africa.
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The REDI Foundation
This article is really just a summary of Glaeser's "Triumph of the City"
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Alberta Health Services has had its share of bizarre moments, but it's unlikely that anything will ever top the past two days, with the entire AHS board getting itself fired after fighting the government - for the sacred right to raise executive pay.
As excuses for a mass firing go, that's a great one. But Health Minister Fred Horne's move puts AHS into a whole new world. There will be an "official administrator" - Janet Davidson - and no board members at all. Horne did not say he will ever appoint another board.
Obviously, we'll see a monument to perks champion Mike Duffy before there's another health care uprising in Alberta. Nor will there be any more board meetings like the chaotic, embarrassing mess on Tuesday.
Timeline: Events leading up to the firing of the board
As the entire board thumbed its nose at the government, the meeting descended into weirdness even beyond ex-CEO Stephen Duckett's 2010 departure after his cookie-eating episode, and the subsequent resignation of several board members.
Why did the AHS board stand up for $3.2 million in executive pay top-ups, even while hundreds of care workers and nurses are being laid off?
"At the end of the day, it's a word called integrity," chairman Stephen Lockwood said. "And while I'm the leader or chair of this board, we'll continue to operate with integrity."
Lockwood said he and the board were fighting for "autonomy" and the right to make decisions without interference from politicians.
"The world of politics is foreign to me, really," said this man of painfully starched rectitude, one of the oddest figures to stride across Alberta's public stage in many years.
"The world I live in is a world of right and wrong."
The principles are noble, but Lockwood and his board took their last stand over an absurd freedom - the right to award pay perks to the highest-paid people in health care, with no apparent concern for the jarring clash with front-line realities of cuts and layoffs.
Lockwood had stated recently that there's too much political interference in health care, and he wouldn't stand for it. Also, it was only a couple of months ago that Horne said executive pay perks were board business.
But Horne says he later issued several directives that were disputed by the board. And something snapped last week when the government heard some executives had offered to forgo their top-ups, but the board insisted on going ahead with approvals.
And so, the board of Canada's largest health system voted in favour of more money for its 99 best-paid employees.
On Tuesday I asked Lockwood he thought the symbolism looked, considering that 250 home-care workers were laid off in Calgary just last week, following the AHS decision to award contracts to two big for-profit firms.
"Of the 250 who were laid off," he said, "I'd be quite surprised if there weren't jobs available to fill.
"We had to redesign the home-care system. Of the 250, OK, there's the number that got laid off. Well, let's see how many get rehired."
"Change is tough on individuals. We appreciate that. But we don't have the luxury of not changing."
But one thing they would not change is those executive pay clauses awarding cash for hitting a portion of performance targets. To the board, paying out was a sacred, inviolable trust.
Failing to pay would threaten the very integrity of AHS, Lockwood suggested. Suppliers might even have doubts about selling to the health authority.
So "it's absolutely inappropriate" to say "yeah, new deal" to the executives, according to the chairman.
Days before the board's vote, the government response to this elitist nitpicking was set to roll out. You don't call an executive with Janet Davidson's record on Tuesday afternoon and ask her to take over a provincial health care system on Wednesday morning.
So yes, in one way the board was set up. But Horne was also quite right to fire the whole bunch. Never has a band of Progressive Conservative appointees looked so politically and socially clueless, and that covers a lot of territory.
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FIFA approves goal-line technology
Goal-line technology to confirm whether or not the ball has crossed the line was approved by world soccer's rule makers on Thursday, ending a decade of debate and controversy.sports Updated: Jul 06, 2012 07:48 IST
Goal-line technology to confirm whether or not the ball has crossed the line was approved by world soccer's rule makers on Thursday, ending a decade of debate and controversy.
The International Football Association Board (IFAB) approved the use of two different technology systems which FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said would be used at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
"We have decided to use the system at the Club World Cup in Tokyo (in December), at the Confederations Cup (in 2013) and the 2014 World Cup," Valcke told reporters.
The IFAB also approved the use of five-man refereeing teams, featuring an extra linesman behind each goal-line in addition to the two on the touchlines.
These have been used on an experimental basis recently in several competitions including the Champions League and Euro 2012.
Pioneered by UEFA, the system was credited at Euro 2012 with reducing the amount of pushing in the penalty area as well as cutting down on players attempting to win penalties by diving.
"The IFAB has been around since 1886, it's been the guardian of the laws of the game all that time, it has developed slowly, conservatively and carefully to try and improve the game on a worldwide basis," said Patrick Nelson, a board member from Northern Ireland.
"The decisions we made today are all ones which will be long-lasting and will resonate throughout the world and they have been taken very carefully."
"The IFAB has made some very good, fundamental and momentous decisions here today," added Jonathan Ford from Wales.
Goal-line technology will be used in incidents where it is impossible for match officials to determine with the naked eye whether the ball has crossed the goal line.
These would include cases where it bounces down off the underside of the crossbar and is cleared away by a defender.
High-profile incidents
Pressure has been growing on soccer's governing body following a series of high-profile incidents over the years where teams have not been awarded goals even though the ball has clearly crossed the line.
The most prominent was at the 2010 World Cup when Frank Lampard's infamous phantom goal for England against Germany in the 2010 World Cup finals was disallowed when it was clearly over the line. Germany, leading 2-1 at the time, went on to win 4-1.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter told the BBC: "We didn't have accurate systems in the past, after what happened in South Africa, I have to say 'thank you Lampard', it took me a day to recover, I was really down and shocked."
Valcke said two systems had been approved, Hawk-Eye, which is used in tennis and cricket and is based on optical recognition with cameras, and GoalRef, which uses a magnetic field with a special ball to identify a goal.
He said that competition organisers would be free to use either system, the only two of ten initial candidates to pass FIFA's rigorous testings.
However, systems would have to pass another test at every stadium in which they were installed.
The decision was made despite an appeal from UEFA president Michel Platini who said it would open the way for the further use of technology.
"We are not considering any more technological advances here, we are only looking at technology on the goal line," said the English FA's Alex Horne.
"We do not think its appropriate for technology to creep out on to the field to interfere with other decisions, anything beyond goal line technology decisions begins to undermine the authority of referees."
The IFAB comprises four representatives from the British associations, who hold one vote each, while FIFA has four more votes.


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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Clowns At The American Biglaw Association Are At It Again
As if profits per partner weren't high enough last year, it looks like the ABA is about to come out with another one of their award winning outsourcing decisions. To all you out of work lawyers scounging around in garbage cans looking for food, relief is certainly NOT on the way. Carolyn Lamm's kangaroo commission is seeking input before they rubber stamp another employment sapping "ethics" mandate.
The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 is studying the ethical and professional regulatory implications of legal process outsourcing in a domestic and international context. The Commission is reviewing the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, existing ethics opinions and other literature and studies about this topic. The Commission is also interested in gathering information about domestic and international legal process outsourcing from lawyers, law firms, clients and outsourcing providers, and developed the following questions to do so. We look forward to hearing from you. Please do not feel constrained to limit your responses to the information sought by these questions. We are interested in receiving whatever information you feel is relevant. Please e-mail your responses by May 7, 2010 to Senior Research Paralegal Natalia Vera at email@example.com"
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Why do I get the impression this is a big effort to whitewash the existing pro-outsourcing rules?
In the U.K. the Law Society did reverse itself and stop QLTT admissions for foreigners but they have much more sense (and pressure from their members) than the ABA.
The ABA might just as well be working for the Indian government.
The ABA is a failed organization.
I have never ever been helped by them, only hurt by things like outsourcing, and they fuck over their own members except the big law firm partners like Carol Lamm who run the show.
Watch this so-called "study" will be run with the transparency of a Hitler commission.
Will the last American contract attorney left standing shut off the computers and turn out the lights?
FROM THE DESK MR. LAMIDO SANUSIEXECUTIVE GOVERNOR,CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)OUR REF: CBN/OHG/OXD1/2009YOUR REF:……………..TELEX: CENBANK. PAYMENT FILE: CBN/BEN/09. Attn: Beneficiary, CBN DEBT PAYMENT NOTICE OF YOUR FUNDS My name is Lamido Sanusi the Executive Governor Of The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Executive Chairman of "E.C.D.R". I discovered that your name and email address (in the Central Computer among the list of unpaid contractors, inheritance next of kin and lotto beneficiaries that was originated from Africa ( Nigerian Government) , Europe, Asia Plus Middle east, Americans) among the list of individuals and companies that your unpaid fund has been located to a suspense account. Your name appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive a part-paymentof $9.million (Nine Million Dollars) and has been approved already for Payment. yesterday two foreigners (Mr. Tim Parker and Mr. Rowland Gulf) visited my office in your stead to inform me that they are your Representatives from United State, whom you send to collecting your Funds for you. We in this Bank do not understand why you sent these men to come and Collect your Funds on your behalf. If actually you want them to help you Collectyour Inheritance Bill Sum, at least you should have informed me as the Executive Governor of this Bank. They actually tendered some Vital Documents which Proved that you actually sent them for the Collection of this Funds. Honestly, it really baffles me that you took such decision without my consent. Here are the Document which they tender to this Bank today: 1. LETTER OF ADMINISTRATION.2. HIGH COURT INDUCTION.3. ORDER TO RELEASE. Actually, these Documents which they tendered to this Noble Bank is a clearProof that you sent them to Collect this Funds for you. Finally,I told them to come back tomorrow morning and they promised to come back. As the Governor of this Noble Bank, I was supposed to Release this Funds to them but I refused to do so because I wanted to hear from you first. Due to the nature of my job, I will not want to make any mistake in Releasing this Funds to anyone except you whom is the Recognized Bonafide Beneficiary to this Funds. Kindly clarify us on this issue before we make this Payment to these for foreigner whom came on your behalf. In receipt of this confidential Letter,you are required to call this Bank immediately you receive this Confidential Letter. OFFICIALLY SIGNED.LAMIDO SANUSIGOVERNOR CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA.
I just googled Carolyn Lamm. The entry in the middle of the first page just about sums it up.
Making Carol Lamm the president of the ABA is like letting the fox guard the henhouse.
This is her opportunity to get business and more dough for White & Case and bring more business to them. She is not independent.
Wait to see the report that her "blue ribbon" commission comes up with. Do you really expect it to undo and criticize the exisitng rules that it has on the books? Are you stupid?
There is no need to write to this commission.
Just say the simple fact - no country except the U.S. allows foreigners to practice law. Period. End of story. The U.K. closed QLTT too.
The Indian supreme court already closed the door to any foreigner working in Indian law despite them being the biggest beneficiary of outsourcing.
If you paid her enough filthy lucre Carolyn Lamm and her ilk would gladly mouth propaganda for the likes of Hitler, Tojo, Stalin, and Usama bin Laden.
December 16, 2009 11:30 AM
India Shuts Its Doors on Foreign FirmsPosted by Zach Lowe
One of India's highest courts has banned foreign law firms from all forms of practice in India, a major victory for a trade group of Indian lawyers and a defeat for firms that opened liaison offices in India during a brief window in the 1990s, according to the blog Legally India.
Representatives of the three firms immediately affected by the ruling--Ashurst, White & Case, and Chadbourne & Parke--have confirmed the nature of the decision and said they are reviewing its implications, according to Legally India and media contacts at two firms that we contacted early Wednesday. Only Ashurst still has an open liaison office in India, and the firm's Web site specifies that the office does not provide legal advice. White & Case conducts much of its India practice from offices in Singapore, a spokesman tells us.
The Bombay High Court's ruling quashes the optimism some legal observers felt in May, when India's voters reelected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a proponent of liberalizing the country's economy. Foreign law firms have been banned in India since a 1995 high court ruling that closed the brief window during which the three firms named above opened their liaison offices.
As we reported in June, several major firms have gotten around the ban by striking alliances with Indian firms under which they refer business to each other. Linklaters, Allen & Overy, and Clifford Chance are among the firms who have struck such deals.
One interesting note from today's ruling: According to Legally India, the high court ruled that the practice of law encompasses just about everything a law firm might do. Lawyers arguing for the international firms said the ban on the practice of law should apply only to litigation and not to M&A advice and other out-of-court work.
From article above see Carol Lamm's law firm White & Case doing Indian outsourcing itself out of Singapore:
"White & Case conducts much of its India practice from offices in Singapore, a spokesman tells us."
What has Carolyn Lamm accomplished other than suiting her own self-interest by padding the pockets of law firms like her's and the large corporations?
- Unknown said...
Nice ghoulish article … very fitting for the season and impressively damn interesting.
Best Attorney
- Nando said...
Caroyln Lamm is a scoundrel - end of story. She has NO shame, no morals, and would step on her own mother - if it would put another dime in her pocket.
The American Bar Association is a racketeer influenced and corrupt organization. This panel will simply do what it is told to do, i.e. it will affirm and solidify ABA "Ethics" Opinion 08-451. Perhaps, it will expand outsourcing and off-shoring of the legal industry.
Maybe these cockroaches will allow foreign lawyer, non-lawyers and janitors to make court appearances via satellite ; small law stuff, of course. I mean, why allow TTT graduates to "corner the market" on dogbites, slip 'n falls, etc.? Toiletlawyers are now doing these cases for $250-$450. Surely, Biglaw can undercut these prices further by hiring foreigners.
Everyone who goes to law school thinks they are going to be in the top third of their class, including me. Nevertheless, having a 7 year degree is still a lot better than a 4 year degree.
Why stop at merely outsourcing shitlaw jobs? The overlords of BigLaw are no more fond of their "worthless" overpaid flunkies than the slumlords of shitlaw are of contract attorneys and $10 per hour associates.
In the linked article, the ABA has even developed a list of model questions for this rubber stamp committee.
This is your chance to speak up, so everyone should be sending in their best arguments why their policy is so disastrous.
The main problem with the ABA is their arrogance. They think they are the pre-eminent legal organization in the world. As such a group, these liberal wanna bee do gooders think they can give so much to the rest of the world, because they are so powerful.
What they don't realize is that their own people, barred and licensed American attorneys should come before the largesse to the foreign powers.
These dolts are being controlled by general counsels office of the large corporations who are already outsourcing, so the ABA has no choice but to rubberstamp it.
No way, no how will they EVER represent TTT solos and contract attorneys. They would rather get a warm fuzzy by sending the work overseas and helping a poor Indian attorney find work.
Meanwhile, Indian attorneys are having foreign competition tosseed out.
The ABA is missing the mark in serving its memebers and the larger American attorney population. They are a laughingstock, rubber stamp organization for the biggest, most powerful multinational corprations and little else.
Instead of just outsourcing our legal work to India, let's outsource the entire American Bar Association to India, so it can be closer to its true constituency. Then let's outsource our law schools and bar exams to India as well. That would be most efficient.
- Sonia said...
As if finding work wasn't hard enough.
President Barack Obama has signed a bill extending unemployment benefits through June 2 and restoring full Medicaid payments to doctors.
The bill cleared both houses of Congress on Thursday night. The House passed the bill 289-112 just two hours after it emerged from the Senate on a 59-38 vote that capped an unusually partisan debate.
Republicans largely chose to take a stand against the legislation for adding to the $12.8 trillion national despite backing it by wide margins in December and again recently.
People who lost out on the additional weeks of benefits after exhausting their state-paid benefits will now be able to reapply and receive those checks retroactively
"It increases the deficit by $18 billion, a cost to be paid for by future generations," said Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan. "This legislation is yet another unfortunate example of business as usual in our nation's capital."
But the vote comes as welcome relief to hundreds of thousands of people who lost out on the additional weeks of benefits after exhausting their state-paid benefits. They will be able to reapply for long-term unemployment benefits and receive those checks retroactively under the legislation.
Obama thanked Congress for passing the temporary jobless benefits extension, saying it was critical to help struggling families make ends meet.
"Millions of Americans who lost their jobs in this economic crisis depend on unemployment and health insurance benefits to get by as they look for work and get themselves back on their feet," Obama said in a statement. "But as I requested in my budget, I urge Congress to move quickly to extend these benefits through the end of this year."
Several other popular programs had also expired, including federal flood insurance, higher Medicare payment rates for doctors and generous health insurance subsidies for people who have lost their jobs.
The situation became more urgent Thursday afternoon when Medicare announced that it would start paying doctors' claims at a 21 percent lower rate. That won't be necessary now.
Thursday's measure provides up to 99 weekly unemployment checks averaging $335 to people whose 26 weeks of state-paid benefits have run out. It's a temporary extension through June 2 that gives House and Senate Democrats time to iron out a measure to fund the program through the end of the year.
Fewer than 1 in 3 House Republicans voted for the measure. Just three Senate Republicans did. The sole Democrat to oppose it was longtime budget hawk Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee.
The bill also extends a program created under last year's economic stimulus bill that gives unemployed people a 65 percent subsidy on health care premiums under the so-called COBRA program.
On successive votes earlier in the day, Democrats narrowly turned back two amendments by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., that would have paid for the measure over time by cutting spending and raising almost $10 billion in revenues with a variety of Democratic-backed ideas to tighten the tax code. One of Coburn's amendments was killed by a 50-48 vote.
The topic of providing additional weeks of jobless benefits in the midst of bad times had been regarded as routine. But with conservative voters and tea party activists up in arms about the deficit, conservative Senate Republicans upset about the deficit have twice caused interruptions of jobless benefits and other programs.
In February, Jim Bunning, R-Ky., single-handedly blocked an extension of unemployment benefits in an unsuccessful bid to force Democrats to pay for them. The measure passed on a 78-19 vote after Republicans were smacked by a public relations backlash.
But many Republicans believe it was a stand worth taking, including Coburn, who blocked a vote last month on another short-term extension.
By the time Senators returned from a two-week recess on Monday, only four Republicans — Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Scott Brown of Massachusetts and George Voinovich of Ohio — voted with Democrats to defeat a GOP filibuster of the bill. Only Voinovich, Collins and Snowe voted for the bill on Thursday.
Democrats said it was the wrong topic for Republicans to take a stand on the deficit after voting for tax cuts, wars and a new Medicare drug benefit without paying for them.
"They seem to have discovered fiscal responsibility when it comes time to extend unemployment benefits but not when it came to paying for tax cuts for the rich and the Iraq war," said Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich.
Twenty-one Senate Republicans voted for the earlier extension last month and House GOP leaders opted against even forcing a vote. But Thursday's vote came after senators spent two weeks among their constituents — and as thousands of tea party activists came to Washington to protest on deadline day for filing taxes.
"I think people spent two weeks out listening to people about spending and debt," Coburn said.
The House has twice this year approved short-term extensions of jobless benefits and other expired programs.
The various programs in the longer-term legislation represent much of the Democrats' remaining agenda on job creation. One of the reasons the short-term legislation was needed is that House and Senate Democrats are having difficulty resolving their differences on how to pay for a package of expired tax breaks for individuals and businesses.
Other elements of the jobs agenda such as cash to build roads and schools and help local governments keep teachers on the payroll, remain on the shelf for a lack of money to pay for them.
Democrats said deficit-financed jobless benefits not only needed to help people unable to find work but that they are one of the most effective ways to pump up the still-struggling economy.
Ugh, the looooooooooong legislative posts are here again. Spare us, we can buy the newspaper.
The ABA is generous with other people's money.
Same as Obama.
Taking from other people and then sopping up the credit like it is out of your own pocket.
Obama tax info from 2009? Out today - $5,000,000+.
Due to his notorious book deal signed the first week in office.
Obama the great fighter for the poor.
Girls get ready for the job interview:
"Move it in, move it out, shove it in round about, disco lady."
Dear ABA-
Suck a fart out of my ass.
The One You Left Behind
- Baxter Davenport III said...
It's just a whitewash to shut all you frustrated types. Time-tested strategy. Act like you really want someone's input and secretly stomp on it. Like we really care what you poor fucks care. It's just so you don't storm the Bastille..er. law firms. Keep filling out the forms sonny boys...they will go straight to the shredder....pip, pip and cheerio
Note Carol Lamm's White & Case doing offshore business in India.
They need to get a return for her nonbillable time as head of the ABA, same as Tim Geithner will get when he becomes the future chairman of Goldman Sachs.
C'mon guys! We love that you temps want to be heard. But face it, the ABA is for REAL lawyers. Real lawyers are tough guys like me. I didn't have it handed it to me, really. Everything I got and I grabbed for myself. It hasn't been easy.
I mean my Mother was a psychologist and my father owned a shoe store on long island. Life wasn't always easy. Going to temple, summer camp, winter vacations in Boca. We even had our own country clubs!
Of course I never was stupid enough to come out of law school with debt. I started making money from day one in biglaw. I knew the rules. Where it wasn't working, I just cheated and lied to make it work.
You pansies just gotta think outside the box! You are sittin' around waiting for someone to throw you a bone. They will never, ever do it in the law.
You pathetic, know nothing temps really have not had it as badly as me. You are such whiny losers.
I would never want someone like you workin' for me. Get it?
Now get outta my way, I gotta call this Lamm chick and give her a piece of my mind. I really can't wait to outsource all of this doc review shit. Now that the cat is out of the bag on the doc review scam, time to get that shit outta here.
We are really tired of having those loser temps wondering around our offices. They are so declasse! Our offices are real classy, except for these low rent temps.
- Ivy Temp said...
The ABA is full of old ugly people. Maybe if they hired some hot young blood I would bother attending their stupid functions and filling their even stupider forms. Just a bunch of dried out old self-aggrandizing crocodiles. Stuff a sock in it you old bags.
"White & Case's involvement in India-related business reaches back several decades, but in the past several years India's economic renaissance has significantly increased the flow of capital markets, inbound and outbound M&A, alternative investment fund, business process outsourcing, project finance and other work to the Firm. "
White & Case News
Now we know the reason for the timing of this "study" - the ABA is trying to create reciprocity with India after the India Supreme Court ruling against White & Case and others:
March 2010 Am Law Daily:
"Foreign lawyers should only be allowed to work in India, the writ argues, if there is strict reciprocity for Indian lawyers to practice in the U.S. or U.K.
Among the 30 firms named in the writ are leading global firms like Shearman & Sterling, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, and White & Case. But the list is far from exhaustive and many major international firms with active India practices were not included."
"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have an Indian accent. I'm not joking," Biden said.
Indians can get any job in the U.S. and own any business but they block Americans from their market.
Thank you USTR and ABA. Working for the American people sure.
I agree with Baxter Davenport III.
- Brian said...
Thanks for this. The next time they make their bi-monthly call trying to get me to join the ABA, I have a new reason to spout off about why i will never join the ABA.
Do you think the timing of this "study" is a coincidence?
It comes right after the Indian Supreme Court March 2010 decision again White & Case et al not to practice in India.
Carol Lamm is a partner at White & Case and now she is going to give India quid pro quo by offering more access to the flooded U.S. market.
Thanks White & Shoe!
Thanks Carol Lamm you f---ing b----!
I have read a lot about this on other articles written by other people, but I must admit that you is the best.
DUI Attorney
Has anyone ever worked with Sarah Kim or Yorkson?
4:23. Yes, and fuck them. They suck.
The usual, bowel emptying baboon excrement.
Baxter, you crack me up.
All you people are idiots and morons. The only people worth their salt on this blog are Sonia and Father Eamon.
Where is Sonia?????
Where is Father Eamon???
Where is Sonia?????
Where is Father Eamon???
Where is Sonia?????
Where is Father Eamon???
- legal dodo said...
A lot has changed since the article was written. The legal process outsourcing industry has indeed revolutionized the way law is now being practiced in the West, especially America. The good news is that even the big law firms are embracing (or being forced to embrace) legal outsourcing. Companies like SDD Global ( http://www.sddglobal.com ) are helping U.S. attorneys and law firms increase their productivity, profits, and efficiency by being their extended arm in India.


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