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PLAINFIELD — In giving his son an outlet for anger, Richard Johnson Sr. also gave him a venue for greatness.
A flurry of fights in school several years ago prompted Johnson to seek an activity that might soothe Richard Johnson Jr.'s easily inflamed temper while also letting him vent some energy. Ironically, boxing — a sport that, while technically rooted in violence, often punishes aggression and rewards discipline — was what seemed to make the most sense.
In fewer than three years of competition, the younger Johnson has ascended as high as the sport will allow him to go at his age. The 16-year-old pugilist earlier this month became a Silver Gloves national champion in the 165-pound weight class by winning consecutive bouts in Kansas City, Mo.
"It was almost like anger management," Johnson Jr. said of becoming involved in the sport. "Back then, I think I almost had a temper problem."
Now, he said, boxing has taught him humility.
"And it's the only sport where you can fight and not get in trouble," he added with a smile.
With a 13-2 record and a growing list of belts — including a New Jersey Silver Gloves title at 140 pounds in 2008 and a regional Silver Gloves title at 154 pounds in 2009, when he placed third nationally — Johnson Jr. said he is strongly considering a professional career.
The sophomore at Union County TEAMS (Technology, Engineering, Architecture, Mathematics and Science) High School on West Fourth Street stood 5 feet 5 inches, weighing 125 pounds with a size 10 shoe during his first bout on May 3, 2008, but since has sprouted to 6 foot 1, 165 pounds with a size 13 shoe — not to mention just 8 percent body fat.
"He punches like a grown man now," Johnson Sr., 41, said.
But the champ's father, a Johnston Avenue resident who works as a truck driver and owns an Arlington Avenue motorcycle shop, is more impressed with the strides his son has made in terms of technique.
"He's become more of a thinking boxer," Johnson Sr. said. "He does things in the ring to see what's going to make his opponent react, and then he reacts to that."
It's that type of discipline the elder Johnson, owner and manager of 5 Star Gym on East Fifth Street, tries to instill in all of the amateur boxers who flock to the gym on a daily basis. An average of about three dozen people fill the gym most weekdays, and the rules are strict: if you want to spar, first things first.
"You've got to have the grades," Johnson said. "And you get in trouble in school, you fight in school, you can't come back to the gym."
Johnson Sr. said he envisions 5 Star one day becoming the breeding ground for boxing greatness the city's Second Street Youth Center once was. The sport has deep roots in Plainfield, having produced legends like Olympic gold medalist Howard Davis Jr., Tracy Spann, Harold "The Shadow" Knight and Albert "Steel" Mills.
The young Johnson, however, is believed to be the city's first national champion in more than 20 years, since Darrow "DaDa" Dudley earned a title in the late 1980s.
Johnson Jr. won the first bout in Kansas City when the referee stopped the action in the third round, but had to wait for the points to be announced in the finals before taking home the belt.
"I had a feeling that I won, though," he added.
"I was ecstatic," the elder Johnson said. "You can still hear my voice cracking."
Johnson Jr. recently was named USA Boxing's featured New Jersey amateur boxer before he even won the national title. After that happened, the Plainfield City Council and the Union County freeholders both moved to honor his achievement.
But he doesn't seem to be letting any of it go to his head. Already the young fighter is preparing for the upcoming Junior Olympics and looking forward to Golden Gloves competition, which involves amateur boxers older than 16.
"Get a couple more belts," Johnson Jr. said when asked what comes after that.


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IRAQ: How Iraq Police Reform Became Casualty of War
Jon Villanova had just arrived in Basra last spring to help build a police force in southern Iraq when bodies began piling up. Twenty or more Iraqi civilians were dragged from their homes, shot in the head and dumped in the streets.
The evidence pointed to some of the very people he and his team of foreign police advisers were struggling to train: a cluster of senior officers working out of a station called Jamiat.
But local officials resisted efforts to prosecute the officers. By the time officials in Baghdad intervened nine months later, the corruption in Basra had gotten so bad that the 135-member internal affairs unit, set up to police the police, was operating as a ring of extortionists, kidnappers and killers, American and Iraqi officials said.
"There we are, trying to build a police force that people can believe in, and they are committing murders," Mr. Villanova said. "It was a quagmire."
So was much of the rest of Iraq. An initial effort by American civilians to rebuild the police, slow to get started and undermanned, had become overwhelmed by corruption, political vengeance and lawlessness unleashed by the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
A year later, with the insurgency spreading with an unimagined ferocity, the United States military took charge of a second, broader campaign to reconstitute the police. On the ground, however, the military's plan for police units that could help restore order in Iraq would be no match for the forces tearing at the country in places like Basra and Baghdad. And along the way, it would help fuel some of those forces.
The Americans had to reconstitute the police since officers fled in droves after the invasion, ahead of gangs of looters. But the rush to replenish the ranks lacked proper controls, American, British and Iraqi officials said, and in the process political loyalists of the newly powerful were made officers, and there were reports of police jobs sold for kickbacks of $100.
In recent background checks, police investigators found more than 5,000 police officers with arrest records for crimes that included attacks on American troops, American officials said.
When the rebuilt skeletal force became a target of the rapidly spreading insurgency, Americans turned to heavily armed police commando units that had been assembled by the Iraqis. They added firepower, but at a price.
An Iraqi official who helped create the special units said he warned Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that they could become a weapon in Iraq's sectarian strife, much as Mr. Hussein's police had repressed the Shiite majority. Now, after a year in which a Shiite interior minister controlled the police, some special units stand accused by many Sunnis of operating as Shiite-dominated death squads.
The Iraqis have reined in some units, but others have received less attention. In one notorious incident, a brigade in northern Baghdad is suspected of kidnapping and killing 36 Sunni Arab men last August. Although a judge ordered the unit's commander, Brig. Gen. Bassem al-Gharrawi, arrested for murder, the arrest warrant was never executed, according to court records.
Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, who ran the military's police training program until last September, said he backed the creation of special police units "once we saw the fighting spirit and physical toughness of the units and the competence of their leaders." But he said he also sought to impose controls and vigorously pursue allegations of misconduct.
Like the rogue police units, other government security forces are also accused of having carried out massacres and violence on behalf of political or tribal groups. Turning all of those armed forces into an effective law enforcement mechanism is a prime challenge for the new Iraqi government formed over the weekend, and is central to the American strategy for exiting Iraq.
But reforming the police means overcoming a lot of history.
Under Mr. Hussein, the police were corrupt and ill disciplined, less an instrument of law than of repression. The police became targets of the mobs of looters that roamed Baghdad after Mr. Hussein's overthrow, and then of the insurgents, who have repeatedly bombed police stations and recruiting lines. A 2006 internal police survey conducted northeast of Baghdad found that 75 percent of Iraqis did not trust the police enough to tip them off to insurgent activity.
Before the invasion, the Bush administration envisioned the police as adequate for keeping the peace and rejected a proposal backed by the Justice Department to deploy thousands of foreign police advisers.
Now the Pentagon is spreading 3,000 police trainers across the country. Maj. Gen. Joseph Peterson, who is in charge of the Pentagon's current program to remake the force, said his top priority was to improve basic skills while preventing corruption. He said the new effort was making strides toward the goal of having a force of 190,000 officers by early next year with better training and an appreciation of human rights.
"Every day the Iraqis improve their capability to do their job," General Peterson said.
The task ahead is reflected in recent confidential field reports filed by police trainers and obtained by The Times. The reports display a startling mix of heroics and incompetence, dedication and criminality.
In Diyala Province on March 21, where nearly two dozen police officers were killed when militants attacked their station, the police "fought until they ran out of ammunition," a police adviser reported. A week earlier, when the police in western Iraq were attacked, the officers abandoned their post or generally "responded horribly, displaying no firing discipline and failing to take defense positions."
One of the grimmest dispatches came from Mosul, where a police general reported militant "schools" operating inside a nearby prison teaching detainees insurgent tactics and extremist views. When an insurgent was released from prison, another general reported, officers at a station in Al Hawd fired their weapons to celebrate his freedom.
In Nineveh Province in northern Iraq, an alert major crimes unit stopped a car after noticing that it had a jerry-rigged bumper and that hidden inside were all the tools for an insurgent attack - mortar tube and shells, ski masks and AK-47 rounds. But just to the south in Al Tamin, a police officer seriously injured himself trying to disarm a roadside bomb by shooting it.
The Trouble in Basra
When the United States invaded Iraq, Basra seemed like a place where law and order was possible.
One of the country's largest cities, Basra escaped much of the ensuing insurgent violence in the first year of the war, and the police force there resumed operating after the United States military swept through on the way to Baghdad.
But a thicket of political and criminal groups that emerged after Mr. Hussein's ouster scrambled to gain footholds in the force.
For Stephen White, a retired British police official who said he had been promised hundreds of police trainers but got only 35, the trouble began with a near free-for-all in recruitment.
Local political leaders appointed police chiefs who in turn hired their friends, relatives and tribesmen. "This led to many being admitted initially who would under normal circumstances not be allowed to join," said Mr. White, who was working with the American military.
Bringing back former police officers also proved less than ideal. They were largely inept, sometimes brutal and prone to resist doing any real work, according to an American assessment of the police that was completed in June 2003. Some of the postinvasion looting of police stations, the report says, "could be traced to former police who were attempting to destroy incriminating records."
Initially, the police in Basra merely went easy on tribal members accused of crimes. Gradually, the corruption increased. Much of the city came to be controlled by sectarian groups, including the Iranian-influenced Badr Organization and the more radical Shiite militia controlled by Moktada al-Sadr, the Iraqi cleric who clashed with coalition forces in April 2004.
Evidence arose that the police began acting as the militia of these groups to carry out sectarian violence and enforce a fundamentalist creed. In December 2004, senior officers in the Basra Police Department were implicated in the killings of 10 members of the Baath Party, according to a State Department report.
By last September, two journalists who were reporting on the corruption and militia infiltration of the police were found dead. One was an Iraqi employee of The New York Times.
Mr. Villanova, the former police adviser, said he came across a variety of corruption during his eight months in Basra last year. Officers demanded $100 from men wanting to join the force. His team caught policemen taking bribes from smugglers.
Once, he recalls, his trainers went through a police checkpoint only to realize that Iraqi traffic was being diverted. The trainers quickly backed up, concluding it was an insurgent trap in which the police were complicit.
Then, starting last spring, the accumulating evidence in a string of assassinations pointed to the senior police officers at Jamiat. The officers acted so brazenly that the American advisers dubbed them the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, for the havoc they created, Mr. Villanova said.
The police chief in Basra, Gen. Hassan Sawadi, complained publicly last summer that he could not trust most of his men, and that corruption was rampant, but that he was powerless to fire even the worst offenders.
The killings complicated American operations because the station also housed the Iraqi police intelligence unit. American intelligence officers operating in Basra who passed on tips, like the location of people suspected of being insurgents, had to make their reports vague on the assumption they would get leaked to the militants.
But American and British police advisers said the governor of Basra, Muhammad Musbeh al-Waili, insisted on maintaining control over the police force. Shortly before Mr. Villanova left Basra last fall, his frustrations bubbled up when he saw the governor at a public event.
"This is terrible to say," Mr. Villanova said. "I saw the governor and I thought, 'You know, I've got a loaded weapon here and we could eliminate this nightmare.' "
The governor did not respond to requests for comment. At a news conference early this month, Mr. Waili lashed back at his critics and called for the ouster of the police chief and an Iraqi Army general.
The Jamiat station made headlines in September when British troops, who are handling military operations in southern Iraq, broke into the station to rescue two of their officers who had been arrested and accused of exchanging fire with Iraqi police at a checkpoint.
Then in November, a team from Baghdad arrived to clean things up, starting with the internal affairs unit. "All the members of that office were corrupt," said Brig. Ahmed Hamid, the chief of the Interior Ministry's internal affairs office in Baghdad.
David Everett, a former assistant district attorney in Queens and Brooklyn who served as Mr. Hamid's adviser until recently, accompanied him to Basra and said, "It was like the 'Gangs of New York' on steroids."
To form a new internal affairs unit in Basra, Mr. Hamid is importing police officers from other parts of Iraq who he hopes will be impartial and whose families will face less risk of reprisal. His first efforts to prosecute police officers there had not gone well.
He said the judicial system in Iraq remained so weak that he was able to bring charges against only six of the internal affairs police officers. Then, all six were acquitted for lack of evidence because witnesses were too fearful to testify.
On Saturday, Majed al-Sari, an Iraqi Defense Ministry adviser, said in an interview that violence in Basra had gotten so bad that murders were now running about one every hour.
Building Special Units
As the political and criminal forces in Basra began to replicate themselves elsewhere in Iraq, the United States military was focusing on what seemed like a far more pressing problem. The insurgency had started to swell by early 2004, and the Pentagon realized that the police were in no shape to help stabilize the increasingly volatile country.
Asked to back up a Marine offensive on the militant stronghold of Falluja, police units tried and fled. Other officers abandoned their posts in southern Iraq rather than face Mr. Sadr's militia. More were killed in assaults on their stations. Some were ambushed returning from a training academy in Jordan.
Up to then, the police training had been handled largely by civilian contractors. In March 2004, the Pentagon handed control of the effort to one of its generals.
Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton was already working to build a new Iraqi Army when he got the job. Instead of getting more resources to train the police, his $2.2 billion budget was cut by a fifth, General Eaton said.
"You just look to the money, look to the people sent over to do it, the numbers to do it, you just have to conclude this wasn't important in their minds," said General Eaton, who is now retired and has become a critic of Mr. Rumsfeld's handling of the war.
That summer, General Eaton was replaced by General Petraeus, a former commander of the Army's 101st Airborne Division. General Petraeus said a reassessment of the police that Mr. Rumsfeld oversaw through weekly teleconferences called for increasing the force's firepower.
General Petraeus reworked their curriculum to give them two weeks of combat training, and opened the spigot to military supplies. The police had been equipped with pistols and baseball caps, and now started getting AK-47's, body armor and helmets.
Then his team discovered a faster way to toughen the force.
The Iraqi interior minister, Falah al-Nakib, said he was desperate to contain the surging violence in Baghdad but had only 8,000 police officers who were largely untrained, illiterate and unreliable. "The recruiting was done by U.S. officials who didn't know who they were hiring," he said in an interview.
Mr. Nakib began building special units within the police, its men drawn largely from the Republican Guards and Special Forces of Mr. Hussein's army. The commandos, as they were called, were seasoned and skilled military officers, and they were given the tools - heavy machines guns and armored vehicles - to confront the insurgents.
British military officials on General Petraeus's team said they had already been envisioned such special police units, and the Pentagon equipped, trained and inserted a growing number of them into the conflict. In Mosul on Nov. 14, 2004, a commando unit led by an American Army colonel waged a blood-soaked battle against insurgents trying to overrun a police station, the Pentagon reported. The officer, Col. James H. Coffman Jr., was given a Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest military award.
Steps were also taken to train the units like the regular police, with courses in human rights and the rule of law. A civilian complaint process was set up, and last spring teams of military personnel were assigned to oversee them in the field.
But even as the special police units fought successfully, the American and British officials who helped create them remained worried. The special police units were created so quickly that the recruits were not initially subjected to the fingerprint checks that other police recruits and officers underwent for criminal records, American and British officials said. Also, Iraqi officials at first had direct control over the units despite the objections of American military officials who wanted to oversee them, the officials said.
"We saw them as a good thing, something with which to take on the insurgents," said Andrew Mackay, a British brigadier general who worked for General Petraeus. "But you could see that if we didn't get this right, it would quickly be something that the Minister of Interior, depending on who he was, could turn into his own little army."
Mr. Nakib said that before he left his post in April 2005, he met with Mr. Rumsfeld in Baghdad and told him the Shiite political parties who were coming into power that summer would hijack the commandos for use as their own militia.
"I warned him that there would be problems," said Mr. Nakib, now a member of Parliament.
Steve Casteel, an American security expert who served as Mr. Nakib's adviser, said Mr. Rumsfeld nodded and said, " 'We understand your concerns.' " Mr. Casteel said Mr. Nakib raised the same alarm with other officials, including Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top commander in Iraq.
General Petraeus said his team helped Mr. Nakib screen out recruits who had criminal records or belonged to the Baath Party, and then vigorously pursued allegations of misconduct. He said that during his time in Iraq he never received evidence of the police carrying out clearly sectarian violence, but that at his insistence three commando leaders were fired or moved to lesser positions for detainee abuse or corruption.
At the same time, he said, he concluded that the United States needed to support Mr. Nakib's drive to create the special units, given the growing insurgency. "Nakib was trying to deal with serious security challenges and to show that the new government could develop Iraqi solutions to Iraqi problems, as opposed to just relying on coalition forces to solve every problem," General Petraeus said.
When the Iraqi government changed hands in 2005, Mr. Nakib, a Sunni, was replaced by Bayan Jabr, a former officer in the military wing of the Shiite party known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
The Supreme Council perceived the police force as dominated by Sunnis and along with Mr. Jabr inserted its Shiite loyalists into the ministry and the special police units.
In late 2005, Mr. Jabr ordered the hiring of 1,300 police commandos from the Shiite stronghold of Najaf, said Gerald Burke, an American police adviser at the time.
"The pace of the hiring grew frantically," Mr. Burke said.
James Steele, a retired United States Army colonel who also helped develop the special police as a member of General Petraeus's team, said he did not regret their creation, but rather saw their misuse by sectarian groups as one of the biggest threats to the American plans in Iraq.
"That is more dangerous in terms of our strategic success than the insurgency," he said. "If this thing deteriorates into an all-out civil war our position becomes untenable. Who the hell are you fighting?"
As the control over the special police shifted from Sunnis to Shiites, even the new name one unit gave itself evoked an image of escalating violence: the Wolves became the Volcanoes.
Suspects in a Massacre
In the early morning of Aug. 24, 2005, about 50 men wearing police uniforms swept into the Huriya neighborhood in northern Baghdad and dragged 36 Sunni Arab men from their homes, according to a State Department report. Their bodies were found near the Iranian border with bullet holes in their heads, their faces disfigured by acid.
Suspicion fell on the Volcanoes.
Mr. Nakib had created the special unit when he was the interior minister. But now, with him out of power, the unit was led by a police commander he said he had fired, General Gharrawi.
Mr. Nakib said he dismissed General Gharrawi for disobeying an order to assist other police officers in the restive city of Ramadi. "After I left, they brought him back and promoted him to commander," Mr. Nakib said.
Eventually, enough evidence was gathered to implicate General Gharrawi in the Huriya massacre, and on Nov. 28 an Iraqi judge issued a warrant for his arrest on murder charges.
But the warrant was never executed. General Gharrawi continued to lead the brigade until earlier this year and remains employed by the Ministry of Interior.
In April, The Times, which obtained a copy of the arrest warrant, presented it to Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal, the deputy interior minister for intelligence, and Mr. Hamid, who is in charge of internal affairs. Both men said they had never seen it before.
"If I received this order, I would execute it within five minutes," General Kamal said.
Ann Bertucci, a spokeswoman for the Civilian Police Assistance Training Team in Baghdad, said that a team of American military advisers was attached to the Volcano Brigade last August, but that they were unaware of the allegations concerning the Huriya massacre or the outstanding arrest warrant.
General Gharrawi declined to comment.
Mr. Jabr, who replaced Mr. Nakib last summer, said he was not ignoring the arrest warrant. He said the ministry was obliged to conduct its own internal review before referring a ministry official to the civilian court system.
Once the inquiry is completed, the ministry's legal adviser will submit a recommendation to the minister, and the minister will decide the course of action. Mr. Jabr said he had the legal authority to dismiss the case.
"Be sure of one thing," the minister said in an interview in his office. "I'm interested in the rule of law."
He said he had reassigned General Gharrawi to a relatively low-profile job in the operations room several weeks ago, pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
Mr. Jabr denied that his forces were guilty of sectarian crimes or were influenced by militias tied to the country's powerful Shiite political parties. He and other government officials have blamed private security forces and criminals masquerading as policemen for the crimes.
On Saturday, Mr. Jabr was appointed finance minister. His successor in the Interior Ministry has yet to be appointed.
The power of sectarian rifts in Iraq to influence police operations gained international prominence in November. American soldiers discovered a secret prison run by Interior Ministry officials in Baghdad where 173 malnourished prisoners, mostly Sunni Arabs, complained of being tortured. At the time, several Iraqi officials said the police working there were members of the Shiite Badr Organization.
Senior American military officials said Mr. Hamid's internal affairs group had opened 96 criminal investigations against Iraqi police officers, with 26 cases ending in court convictions and 16 in administrative punishment.
While American military officials acknowledge that the special police are responsible for some abuses, they said they were uncertain how much of the death squad activity attributed to the police was really their doing.
They said much of the kidnapping and assassination in Iraq that involved men wearing police commando uniforms might be militia members impersonating the police.
Mr. Jabr said numerous other Iraqi ministries had their own security guards and police officers who operated beyond his control. One, the Facilities Protection Service, which guards pipelines and other infrastructure in Iraq, mushroomed from 4,000 men in 2003 to more than 140,000 today, and is now spread among more than a dozen ministries.
Four police brigade leaders have been relieved of their commands for rights abuses or other wrongdoing, and in February, American troops arrested 22 highway patrol officers who confessed that they planned to execute a Sunni Arab prisoner. Four of them are believed to have links to the Badr Organization.
This month, Mr. Jabr said he acted against more of his own police officers, arresting a general and 17 other ministry employees on charges they were kidnapping for ransom.
Policing the Police
General Peterson sat at a table in his Baghdad office in April and fingered a thick, white binder. It contained his plan for remaking the police force, laid out in 950 tasks.
He is the third general to be assigned to the Pentagon's third plan for the Iraqi police. He conceded that he was a peculiar choice for the job since he had never created any organization from scratch, much less a police force of nearly 190,000.
"I'm an armor officer, which doesn't qualify me for anything but combat," General Peterson said.
But after consulting with police experts, General Peterson said it became clear to him that some cornerstones needed to be laid. First among them, he said, was creating a system to go after bad police officers. "I went to the Minister of Interior and said, 'Policing the police is critical and you have no one doing this job,' " General Peterson said.
Together, they created an internal affairs operation, and brought in Mr. Hamid to run it. Mr. Hamid is also wrestling with myriad armed security forces and guards whose operations are spread throughout the Iraqi government.
General Peterson said he often felt as if he were dealing with 3,700 years of Hammurabi, the former ruler of Babylon whose portrait he keeps on his office wall. It was Hammurabi who established the legal code of an "eye for an eye," and General Peterson said that translated into police officers who had "difficulty understanding why we want to treat a known criminal like we treat others."
He said his team also needed to focus on improving the basic skills of officers.
"We were into building quantity," he said of the period before his arrival. "I'm not going to be critical of my predecessors. They had their mission, and they executed it about as well as they could have. We are just trying to make it better."
Khalid Ibrahim Ahmed, who had nearly completed a 10-week course when he was interviewed in April at the academy near Sulaimaniya in northern Iraq, said, "We need to get more training about how to fight the terrorists. We need to know how their systems work. We need training on bigger weapons. We are very worried about I.E.D.'s," or improvised explosive devices.
While more than 70,000 regular policemen have undergone such training, an additional 38,000 Iraqis - mostly those who were officers under Mr. Hussein - have been given only a three-week training course, Ms. Bertucci said. Other police units, including the special and border police have also received some academy training. In the field, the number of police trainers is being increased to 3,000, and most of the trainers are military personnel. The new teams will include 750 civilian contractors, up from the 500 who have been struggling to do the job by themselves. One of their missions is to determine just how much the police are retaining from their academy courses, officials said.
But recruits are learning powerful lessons outside the classroom.
Yasir Thamir Muhan, a 20-year-old recruit from Tikrit, said he fell into despair six days after joining the force. On March 2, when he and others were leaving training camp, insurgents drove up to their unprotected ragtag convoy and shoved a machine gun through the sunroof of their sedan.
Five recruits were killed. When he helped rush the wounded to a nearby village, people there panicked and forced them to drive off, too scared to be seen helping the police.
Hardened by the experience, he has drawn up his own rules of rough justice to deal with any insurgents he arrests who are set free by the country's troubled law enforcement system.
"I will take my revenge by my hand," Mr. Muhan said.
Michael Moss and Kirk Semple reported from Baghdad for this article, and David Rohde from New York. Qais Mizher contributed reporting from Baghdad and Sulaimaniya, and an Iraqi employee of The New York Times from Basra.
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Facebook is joining a new social network -- the Nasdaq-100 to be precise.
The California-based social media company will join the elite index on Dec. 12, replacing Infosys, an Indian tech company that is moving its U.S. listing to the New York Stock Exchange.
The move is not exactly a surprise. The Nasdaq-100 includes the 100 largest non-financial securities trading in the market. And with a market capitalization of around $60 billion, Facebook (FB) was next in line.
Facebook's ascension to blue-chip status would not have been possible just last year. But Nasdaq made rule changes -- before Facebook listed -- that shortened the "seasoning" period required for companies looking to join its marquee indices.
Previously, companies were prohibited from joining the Nasdaq-100 until a two-year seasoning period was completed. In April, Nasdaq announced the minimum waiting period was being shortened to only three months.
The changes were thought to be made specifically with Facebook in mind -- part of Nasdaq's campaign to woo the tech company.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Jacob Heyward scored on a wild pitch before Tyler Palmer homered in the 12th inning, and Miami held on to beat Duke 6-5 on Saturday at the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament.
The win by the top-seeded Hurricanes (41-17) sends Georgia Tech to the championship game Sunday against Maryland. Fourth-seeded Duke (33-25) would have made it with a win.
Mike Rosenfeld's infield single in the 12th brought home Jordan Betts from second and moved Chris Marconcini to third. Javi Salas came on to pitch and struck out Matt Berezo to end it.
Heyward — the brother of Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward — doubled to lead off the 12th. He was bunted to third and scored on Istler's wild pitch to Palmer to make it 5-4. Palmer then made it a 6-4 with his solo homer.
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) Mike Shanahan's once-unquestioned legacy was fading rapidly.
Now, a seven-game winning streak has not only put the Washington Redskins back in the playoffs, it has ended the personal drought of the coach who won two Super Bowls way back when in Denver.
Seven weeks ago, Shanahan was 14-27 after roughly 2 1/2 seasons in Washington. To fans with short memories, he had become associated as much with Donovan McNabb failures as with John Elway successes. Though often touted as a Hall of Fame coach by his peers, it had been seven years since he coached a playoff team.
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``You understand as a coach: unless you get it done, people forget very quickly what you've done,'' Shanahan said Monday. ``So that's why I think a game like winning the NFC East, you get a game like that, you want to find a way to win it. Because once you do, that momentum starts again. ...
``Unless you take advantage of that opportunity, people forget very quickly.''
The Redskins (10-6), division winners after a 28-18 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in the season finale, will host the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday in the franchise's first playoff appearance since the 2007 season. It's the first home playoff game since a 27-13 win over the Detroit Lions on Jan. 8, 2000.
In Shanahan's history, the more relevant seasons are 1997 and 1998, when he won those Super Bowls with Elway and the Broncos. And 2005, when he made his last playoff appearance with the Broncos. And 2008, when he went 8-8 and was fired, leading to a year out of the NFL before the Redskins hired him in 2010.
Shanahan recalled some of that history Monday, pointing out that the 2006 and 2008 teams were in playoff contention until the final week. He also spoke of the way his current Redskins finally discovered the confidence to get on a roll when another losing season seemed inevitable.
``I'm very proud of this group,'' Shanahan said. ``Because there's a lot of people, when you're 3-6, and you're fighting some adversity, they're not strong enough mentally to really go out there and practice hard, and give themselves a chance to accomplish goals. You've got to have strong character to take criticism and keep on fighting, not worry about what's being said, and just focus on your job. Players, as well as coaches.''
Shanahan certainly heard the criticism when he said the playoffs were no longer a realistic goal immediately after the record dropped to 3-6. He maintains his words were misinterpreted, and his attempts to explain them actually helped the players believe there was still something to play for.
That confusing week seems ages ago. On Monday, Shanahan was clearly in a good mood at his weekly news conference. He joked with a photographer that ``my good side's over here'' and laughed when asked by a reporter whether any players were being suspended this week. The team has a habit of waiting until Shanahan has left the room to announce such bad news.
Asked about the state of quarterback Robert Griffin III's sprained right knee, Shanahan joked: ``I was a little disappointed yesterday because he only averaged 10 1/2 yards a carry.''
On kicker Kai Forbath, who hit an upright to end a streak of 17 made field goals to start a career, the coach said: ``We cut him since he missed that field goal. He's gone.'' Then he recanted with a smile: ``We'll allow him one miss.''
Seriously, Shanahan offered a clue on how he's changed as a coach over the years. Talent, he's learned, isn't enough.
``When you're younger, you're always looking for the best athlete. You always think that athlete is going to get you that championship,'' he said. ``And through experiences you realize that everybody has to know their role. There's only going to be so many great athletes on your football team, and those great athletes, you're hoping that they're your leaders.''
Obviously, Griffin tops that list: The Redskins are 7-0 since he's been made a team captain. But solid locker room guys such as London Fletcher, Barry Cofield, Stephen Bowen, Lorenzo Alexander and a rehabilitated Trent Williams fit that bill, too.
And then there are those hard-to-grasp intangibles: confidence and momentum. The Redskins now have them both.
``I think that's what separates teams,'' Shanahan said. ``Teams that play with a lot of confidence, you get used to winning. You expect to win. You've been in that situation a few times. Whether it's a tough third quarter, it's a tough first quarter or a fourth quarter, and you find a way to win. It's a mindset, a lot of guys believing in each other, concentrating on their job, and in the end finding a way to get it done.
``And when you do that, sometimes you just get used to it. It's one of those things that kind of separates really good teams from average teams.''
Notes: It's been three weeks since Griffin sprained his knee, and Shanahan cautioned it might take a while before the rookie is back to world-class speed. ``Is it a month? Is it a month and a half? You never really know when it's completely healed,'' Shanahan said. ... CB Cedric Griffin's four-game suspension for violating the NFL's policy on performance enhancing substances is over. He will return to practice Wednesday, and the team will decide by the end of the week whether to restore him to the 53-man roster. ``It all depends on what type of shape he's in,'' Shanahan said.
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Nine women were rescued Monday from a villa in Istanbul where they had been held captive for two months under the pretense that they were participating in a "Big Brother-style" reality show.
The women were filmed at all hours of the day, in various states of undress. They were encouraged to wear bathing suits and dance provocatively for the cameras. Although they were told that they were part of a reality show to be aired on Turkish television, competing for a cash prize, the company instead sold naked pictures of the women on their website and asked users to vote for their favorites. For a subscription fee, viewers could watch videos of the women online, but despite what they told the girls, the footage was never intended for television.
The nine victims were all models from the Mediterranean resort of Antalya and the Aegean port city of Izmir. They reportedly responded to an ad seeking contestants for a competition-based reality show, and following a short interview, all nine women were asked to sign a contract. According to a Turkish newspaper, one of the "contestants" was a teenager, who may have been as young as 15. All of the women were told that they could not leave the villa unless they paid a fine of 50,000 Turkish lira (approximately $33,000). They were prohibited from speaking with their families, or from having any contact with the outside world.
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One way to make things look legitimate is to say that research supports them. This article discusses many of the ways this is done. Some are very simple; others are quite elaborate.
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Because most people regard scientific evidence as a plus, promoters often claim to have it when they do not. In the simplest cases, ad-writers simply make up the claims. In some cases, the term "clinically proven" is applied to situations where an observer merely declares that users of the product were helped. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has the right to demand substantiation and—if none is produced—can obtain a cease-and-desist order prohibiting future claims that are not backed by adequate research.
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Another strategy is to sponsor research that is legitimate but has little or no relevance to the claims. Juice Plus+, for example, has funded studies which show that Juice Plus+ capsules, which contain antioxidant vitamins, will increase the users' antioxidant blood levels. Some of the studies were done at prominent universities. Studies of this type can add to scientific knowledge of nutrient absorption, but they fail to determine whether the products will improve the users' health. Yet Juice Plus+ distributors use the existence of the research as a major selling point [3].
Many articles have been published about x-ray findings, blood components, or other measurable things that change in response to chiropractic procedures. Typically, however, such reports fail to address the basic question of whether patients actually benefit from these procedures.
Since most people regard scientific evidence as a plus, unscientific promoters claim to have it when in fact they do not. Their writings may list dozens or even hundreds of publications that supposedly support what they say. But the references they cite may be untraceable, misinterpreted, outdated, irrelevant, nonexistent, and/or based on poorly designed research.
A research basis can also be implied in other ways. Some marketers do business under a name that contains the word "Research." Others attribute supported findings to people who they say have done lots of research, a claim that can be tested by searching the National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE) database for publications authored by these people.
Research Enrollment as a Marketing Tool
Some marketers pretend that buyers of their products can join a research project to monitor whether the product works. The marketers may also pretend that participation will help others by pointing the way to effective treatment and/or increasing scientific knowledge. The most elaborate research scheme I have seen is the Juice Plus+ Children's Health Study, which is claimed to help determine whether Juice Plus+ can affect the health and well-being of children ages 6 to 15. The results are tabulated from questionnaires that participating families complete. completed by participating families. However, the questionnaire is poorly designed, no control groups have been used, and the resultant data have been meaningless [4]. As far as I can tell, the study is just a gimmick to promote sales.
In the late 1980s, the Vertebral Subluxation Research Institute (VSRI) taught chiropractors how to recruit "research volunteers" and convert them into lifetime chiropractic patients. Its chiropractor clients were instructed to use telemarketing and other approaches to ask people to volunteer for a nationwide study on spinal conditions. During the first office visit they would be examined and given a brochure—"The Silent Killer"—which explains how "subluxations" can be caused by physical, chemical, and emotional trauma. During the second visit, they would be advised to have their subluxations treated. The "research" was doomed from the start because the chiropractic "subluxations" are so nebulous and loosely defined that they are not measurable by research standards [5]. VSRI's program attracted criticism from several chiropractic sources as well as from Consumer Reports on Health [6]. It faded into obscurity and was concluded in 1991 [6].
In 2005, another subluxation-based program called Research & Clinical Science (RCS) announced that it would "seek to validate the profession and position chiropractic as a scientific, evidence-based wellness practice." One of its brochures states that its research will be geared to "pinpointing exactly what impact subluxations have on the body, and what benefits chiropractic might offer to people of various ages and health levels." Several chiropractic Web sites are now advertising for volunteers who will be offered a free evaluation and then invited—as paying patients—to "commit to a 24-visit cycle, and continue coming until they reach their maximum potential." RCS's offerings to chiropractors promise that its program will generate between 10 and 25 new patients a month and promote long-term wellness and compliance among existing patients. To join the program, chiropractors pay $7,384 in advance or up to $8,384 for an installment plan. In return, RCS provides the training, research technology, brochures, and other marketing materials needed to act as an "RCS Authorized Clinical Investigator." Because "subluxation" detection is not a valid health yardstick, most "research volunteers" are likely to be invited to waste time and money getting care they do not need. Moreover, it is not proper to promote long-term care (24 visits or more) before any data show that it actually results in a positive outcome [7].
In 2008, the British Advertising Stadards Authority (ASA) upheld a complaint against the Nutrition and Health Institute, a company that advertised that a dietary supplement might help reduce the occurrence of prostate cancer. The ad stated: "The Nutrition and Health Institute are conducting a FREE TRIAL of a new natural supplement that we believe in conjunction with changes to diet and lifestyle could reduce both getting up at night and the likelihood of getting Prostate Cancer." The ASA concluded that the ad was misleading because responders might think they would be part of a clinical trial to evaluate the product and not merely being offered a free sample [8].
Questionable Clinical Trials
Quackery promoters often claim that clinical trials are underway to test their methods. If that is true, they imply that if their method were not effective, reputable researchers would not spend time and money to study it. If a genuine study fails, the quacks invariably claim that it was not properly designed. In many cases, of course, the research claim is a complete fabrication.
Chelation therapy provides two examples of mischief associated with clinical trials. Its proponents claim—falsely that intravenous infusions of EDTA and other substances are effective against cardiovascular disease and many other conditions. In 1989, an article in FDA Consumer listed chelation therapy as one of "The Top Ten Health Frauds." [9] Three issues later, the magazine published a complaint that the listing was inappropriate because an FDA-approved clinical trial was underway. The complaint was followed by "an apology for the error," which stated that the editor had not been aware that chelation therapy had been approved for a study. The editor's note also quoted an FDA official who said that the study should "unequivocally answer at least several questions related to the utility of chelation therapy in . . . intermittent claudication." The FDA should not have backed down, because mere approval for a clinical trial is not proof that method works. Nevertheless, for several years, proponents continued to trumpet the existence of the study as evidence that their claims were justified. The study, however, was never completed. Proponents claimed that a drug company that was funding the study has withdrawn, leaving them without the resources to complete it.
Another clinical trial of chelation therapy began in 2003. The study—called the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT)—is funded by the National Institutes of Health with an estimated completion date of July 2009. The chelation is supposed to be administered at more than 100 facilities, many of whose operators have been in serious trouble and should not be regarded as trustworthy. In September 2007, the Government's clinical trial Web site indicated that most sites had not finished recruiting patients, so it is not clear whether this study will be completed. Meanwhile, of course, it is trumpeted as evidence that chelation works and that participating doctors are competent researchers.
IRB Mischief
Some research-related schemes involve networks of practitioners, manufacturers, and others who hope that "research" claims will enable them to ward off government regulatory action and protect them from suits by dissatisfied customers. Some even set up (or pretend to set up) institutional review boards (IRBs) to oversee what they do. Such schemes can be difficult to investigate because IRBs are not usually required to publicly disclose their membership or activities. However, court cases and Internet postings sometimes bring their wrongdoing to light. A few years ago, for example, the American Association of Acupuncture and Bioenergetic Medicine told prospective members:
Ready access for the medical health care provider to AAABEM's Institutional Review Board (IRB), which can oversee each doctor's research protocol, thereby reducing the risks of adopting protocols which would be contrary to FDA regulation. The IRB can provide some protection for members from medical boards as well [10].
Over the years, I have encountered schemes in which IRBs (a) did not hold meetings, (b) did not properly review studies, (c) violated conflict-of-interest rules, (d) did not ensure that patients gave informed consent, and/or (e) were associated with illegally marketed medical devices. I have seen no evidence that IRB-related schemes actually protect the providers who participate. However, their consent forms and other trappings could persuade patients that bogus offerings are legitimate.
The consent forms used in IRB-related schemes typically include a liability waiver. Such waivers would not hold up in court because public policy does not permit people to sign away their right to be protected from fraud and negligence. In addition, federal regulations prohibit exculpatory language through which the subject or representative waives any legal rights or releases the investigator, the sponsor, the institution, or its agents from liability for negligence [11]. However, people who sign these waivers might fail to seek damages or report wrongdoing because they believe that they have signed away their right to do so.
The most notorious IRB was operated by the Great Lakes College of Clinical Medicine (GLCCM), which, in 2001, changed its name to the International College of Integrative Medicine. Documents posted to the Citizens for Responsible Care and Research (CIRCARE) Web site chronicle how at least 17 doctors associated with GLCCM have faced regulatory action [12] and that GLCCM's IRB shut down in 2001 after the FDA demanded compliance with its patient-protection rules [13].
AAABEM received a warning letter citing multiple violations in 2008 [14]
Additional Information
- NIH Guidelines for Conduct of Research Involving Human Subjects
- Regulations for Protection of Human Subjects (45 CFR 46)
- FDA Letters about Improper Research
- Citizens for Responsible Care and Research (CIRCARE)
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March 11, 2003.
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- How to win patients and influence people. Consumer Reports on Health 3:11, 1991.
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- Adjudication: The Nutrition and Health Institute, ASA, April 9, 2008.
- Top 10 health frauds. FDA Consumer 23(8):28-31, 1989.
- Benefits of joining the American Association of Acupuncture and Bioenergetic Medicine. Health World Web site, archived Dec 3, 2002.
- General requirements for informed consent. Code of Federal Regulations§46.116. effective June 25, 2005.
- Medical Board Orders for Physicians Associated with the Great Lakes College of Clinical Medicine. CIRCARE Web site, accessed Jan 31, 2008.
- Great Lakes College of Clinical Medicine IRB document index. CIRCARE Web site, accessed Jan 31, 2008.
- Ulatowski T. Warning letter to Fred Lam, M.D., Nov 13, 2008.
This article was revised on November 26, 2008.


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Review: Kia pushes into luxury car market with impressive 2014 Cadenza
Kia's got big plans for the future.
They are more known for their more youth-oriented smaller vehicles and silly commercials, but the Korean automaker is thinking high-end looking forward.
Enter the 2014 Kia Cadenza.
It's not quite a luxury vehicle (It's more of a full-size sedan along the lines of corporate cousin Hyundai's Azera model), but is a step up from the impressive Kia Optima. It's basically the first glimpse of Kia's journey toward more upscale offerings in the future, and it's not a bad start.
Here's a full report of my experience with the vehicle.
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the Kia Cadenza for the first time. Chrome detailing help create a classy look on the outside, and it was very roomy on the inside. (It's a little longer than the Optima.)
The standard leather (in black or white) in the vehicle is high-quality, and the spaciousness even extended to the trunk area. The vehicle features 19-inch alloy wheels that were very attractive.
Wood grain on the interior helps boost the upscale reputation of the Cadenza.
My experience driving the 2014 Kia Cadenza was very well enjoyed.
It provided an extremely quiet and smooth ride, even when I was driving on the windy back roads of mid-Michigan.
The 3.3-liter direct-injected V6 engine is no joke and will produce 293 horsepower and 255 pound-feet of torque. Keep an eye on that speedometer, because it's so smooth when you're going fast you may find yourself speeding without even knowing it.
An automatic transmission is standard on the 2014 Kia Cadenza.
There's a full complement of safety features on the 2014 Kia Cadenza. You get the usual assortment of airbags; traction control; electronic stability control; vehicle stability management and a lot more. One cool feature was rain-sensing wipers, which as the name may indicate turn on when rain is detected.
Unlike in the past, when you had to choose one or the other, both the UVO eServices system and Navigation can be chosen on the Cadenza. The UVO system gives you voice control for phone calls and more, and if you chose Navigation you can control that by voice too.
The UVO system also offers safety, maintenance and infotainment features -- including 911 Connect; enhanced Roadside Assist; Automatic, Manual and Scheduled Diagnostics; vehicle maintenance --many of which are run through the owner's Smartphone equipped with the UVO eServices app. There is no fee for these services.
Both UVO and the navigation system can be controlled by the 8-inch screen in the center console. A backup camera can also be viewd on this screen, for safety when pulling out of parking spaces. It's not the best backup camera system I've seen, but it's still solid.
The Cadenza offers standard dual-zone climate control, in case the two sides of the car have different preferences.
You also get the full bevy of music options: AM/FM/CD/MP3/Bluetooth/Satellite and of course bluetooth audio streaming from your phone or other wireless device.
Smart Key (get in the car with the push of a button if your keys are in your pocket) and push-to-start are both standard. And the side mirrors fold in, in case you need to squeeze into a tight spot and need a few more inches.
The optional tech package offeres the following features:
-- Smart cruise control (slows down if car in front slows down -- set how close you want to be)
-- Blind spot detection
-- Lane Departure warning
All of these are helpful safety features that can save lives. The smart cruise control is great, because it's easy to lose your attention when you're in busy traffic. It will slow you down if you are about to hit the car in front of you, and I'm glad this type of technology is become more common.
The luxury package offers:
-- Panoramic roof with power sunshade
-- HID headligts with adaptive lighting system
-- Power driver's seat cushion extension
-- Ventilated drivers seat
-- Heated outboard rear seats
-- Heated steering wheel
-- Supervision Meter Cluster with 7-inch cluster LCD
-- Power tilt and telescopic steering column
-- Integrated memory system
-- Power rear window sunshade
This luxury package is more about the creature comforts. The sunshades are great for keeping the sun out of your little ones' eyes in the back seat.
Technologywise, the 7-inch cluster LCD screen is helpful for monitoring all aspects of the vehicle and can be controlled via buttons on your steering wheel.
My test vehicle started out at $35,100 base price, and added $3,000 for a tech package and $3,000 for a luxury package. In the end, the vehicle's price came to $42,900.
The Kia Cadenza is a strong addition to Kia's lineup and will help get people thinking of them more in the upscale arena. The progress will be gradual of course, and I don't see this particular vehicle being a huge seller right now, but it is a bit of a statement from Kia -- basically that they are on the rise and ready to take on the big boys when it comes to luxury vehicles over the next several years. I'm curious to see if their strategy plays out as planned, but in the meantime those who choose to drive a 2014 Cadenza will find themselves in a comfy, upscale vehicle that does not disappoint.


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PITTSBURGH, March 25, 2014 - Can treating depression in patients with heart failure help them live longer? That's one of the questions that University of Pittsburgh researchers hope to answer with a new five-year, $7.3 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Nearly 6 million Americans live with heart failure, according to government estimates, and studies confirm about a quarter of them suffer from depression.
"Evidence-based depression treatments clearly improve health-related quality of life, yet it is presently unknown whether they also reduce morbidity and mortality, particularly in patients with cardiovascular disease. The Hopeful Heart trial will help us find out," said principal investigator Bruce L. Rollman, M.D., M.P.H., professor of medicine, psychiatry, biomedical informatics and clinical and translational science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "Providing mental and physical health care together will allow us to determine whether this approach will not only improve quality of life, but also reduce rates of hospital readmissions, health care costs and mortality above and beyond traditional approaches to heart failure management -- which typically neither screens for nor treats co-morbid depression."
Previous research by Dr. Rollman and his colleagues found that patients hospitalized for heart failure who screened positive with depressive symptoms experienced a 20 percent mortality rate at one year following discharge, compared to just 8 percent among similar heart failure patients who screened negative for depression. After they adjusted for age, gender and other health variables, depression was still associated with a three-fold increase in mortality.
The Hopeful Heart trial will include 750 participants recruited from several UPMC hospitals who meet severity criteria for heart failure and screen positive for depression both in the hospital and at two weeks after discharge over a three-year period. Eligible patients will be randomly assigned to receive either one year of a nurse-provided and telephone-delivered "blended" collaborative care intervention for treating both depression and heart failure, provided in coordination with patients' cardiologists and primary care physicians; a similar collaborative care intervention that addresses only their heart failure; or to their doctors' usual care for these conditions.
"If proven effective and cost-effective, the potentially more powerful and accessible blended care approach for treating heart failure and co-morbid depression could have profound implications for improving chronic illness care and stimulate development of similar interventions for integrating behavioral health into routine clinical care," Dr. Rollman said.
Co-investigators of the study include Bea Herbeck Belnap, Ph.D., Kaleab Abebe, Ph.D., Indrani Halder, Ph.D., John M. Jakicic, Ph.D., Jordan F. Karp, M.D., Zachary A. Marcum, Pharm.D., Matthew F. Muldoon, M.D., M.P.H., Ravi Ramani, M.D., Charles F. Reynolds III, M.D., and Kenneth J. Smith, M.D., all of the University of Pittsburgh.
The research is funded by NIH grant R01 HL114016
About the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - The sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a two-book deal.
HarperCollins announced Wednesday that Randi Zuckerberg plans a memoir and a children's book. The social media executive and entrepreneur left Facebook in 2011.
Her memoir, "Dot Complicated," is scheduled for release Nov. 5. It will combine personal and professional insights for the digital age, from her years as Facebook's marketing director to becoming a mother in 2011. "Dot Complicated" is also the name of her online newsletter.
Randi Zuckerberg has since founded her own Zuckerberg Media. She is known in part for opposing anonymity online, saying it enables cyber-bullying.
Her brother co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. His net worth is estimated at $9.4 billion.


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