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by JB SalsburyWhat do you do when everything you avoid, turns out to be exactly what you need? Easy and predictable, just the way he likes it, Blake Daniels flies through life the way he burns through women: on his terms, no regrets. With his fighting career in full swing, he's on the threshold of title contention. But when his training is compromised by injury, the stakes grow impossibly higher. The rage that fuels his punches also chips away at his focus, and he risks losing everything he cares about. He won't let that happen. Not again. Layla's through with men. After a marriage that never should've happened, she hopes to reclaim the pieces of the woman she lost years ago. Emotional abuse has left her insecure and terrified. A master at faking what she's not feeling, she masks her self-doubt in false confidence. She'll never let another man hurt her. Not again. Chased by shadows of the past, Blake and Layla know what they don't want, but their hearts have a different plan. As a web of lies and betrayal threatens to destroy them, they're forced to make a choice. Is love enough to heal even the deepest wounds?
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My Thoughts: Fighting to Forgive is a love story wrapped up in a whole bunch of secrets and danger. I had no idea what would happen at times. The story was fast, and the amazing characters made it fun and interesting. I loved the many tough issues that were tackled in the story.
My favorite part in the book was the characters. I know Blake was a cocky fighter who was a major womanizer, but he was a sexy cocky womanizing fighter. Add in his secret soft spot, and you get an amazing male character. I loved seeing his different layers peeled away. Layla was so brave. She was so determined to be independent, and I loved that about her. She was pretty straight forward from the start, but I still liked her story of recovery.
The secondary characters were no less interesting. I loved Layla's daughter (especially her name). She is a total brat, but she loves her mom, and it shows. I loved the other fighters. They were often funny, and they stuck by each other.
I loved the setting of Las Vegas, but I loved even more how JB Salsbury made it seem down to earth. It wasn't just an overwhelming talk of lights, casinos, and showgirls. It was their home, and Salsbury made it feel that way. I absolutely loved this book. I loved the surprising twists and the excitement. I cannot wait to read more of this series.
Author Bio:Bestselling author JB Salsbury lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and two kids. She spends the majority of her day as a domestic engineer. But while she works through her daily chores, a world of battling alphas, budding romance, and impossible obstacles claws away at her subconscious, begging to be released to the page. Her love of good storytelling led her to earn a degree in Media Communications. With her journalistic background, writing has always been at the forefront, and her love of romance prompted her to sink her free time into novel writing. Fighting for Flight is her first novel in the MMA romance series.
For more information on the series or just to say hello, visit JB on her Website, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads.Follow the Book Tour!
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A Los Angeles school district task force has advised against closing any more schools in the city.
Because of a surging birth rate, the panel said, the district expects to enroll 70,000 more students in the next five years, and even distant suburban schools are quickly filling up.
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The possibility of another 3-D printing company acquisition by Stratasys (NASDAQ:SSYS) seems to be increasing by the day. In a conference call, the company says it is exploring options for entering the metals printing marketplace and recently established a $250 million credit facility.
These two factors combined could mean further consolidation in the 3-D printing industry, but just who could Stratasys go after? 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) already purchased Phenix Systems and it doesn't appear Stratasys could afford some of the other larger metal 3-D printing companies like ExOne and EOS. Unless the company produces its own technology, this leaves the company with four viable alternatives: ReaLizer, Layerwise, SLM Solutions, and Concept Laser.
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"NYWFP" stands for New York Working Families Party. Joe Crowley, the high-ranking House Democrat whom Ocasio-Cortez upset last month in the NY-14 primary, earned that party's nomination for the general election on the assumption that he'd surely be the Democratic nominee too. Oops. Ocasio-Cortez is the Dem nominee — but Crowley, a name many local voters will recognize, will now be on the ballot this fall anyway. Which raises a nightmarish possibility for Democrats: What if a bunch of low-information Democrats turn out for the general election in November and reflexively pull the lever for Crowley, not realizing that he's no longer the choice of their party?


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Brazilians love their soap operas. The country's most-watched TV channel normally shows at least three per evening, interrupted only by the national news. Now the news, too, has a nightly drama of its own, albeit without the customary starlets and eternal triangles, but just as gripping, far more serious and promising to run for quite some time. Like any blockbuster, it combines intrigue with a novel twist: malfeasance that cynics say is remarkable, mainly for the enormous sums involved, is being exposed by energetic use by federal police of a new organised crime law and a type of collaboration that's a cross between plea bargaining and turning state's evidence.
Operação Lava Jato– literally, 'Operation Car Wash' – started more than a year ago as a garden-variety federal police investigation into money laundering through a chain of petrol stations. Since then it has blossomed into a near-nightly parade of handcuffed executives, police raids and filmed depositions – not to mention apoplectic defence lawyers and indignant politicians.
With investigations ongoing, details still emerging and no convictions handed down, the broad outlines of Car Wash were clear. More than a dozen major Brazilian construction companies stand accused of paying bribes via middlemen to secure million- and billion-dollar contracts with Petrobras, a publicly quoted oil company in which the Brazilian government holds a controlling stake and (it has been alleged) pro-government parties controlled appointments to key positions that handle procurement. Most bribes were split between the middlemen, Petrobras executives and parties that support the government, investigators say, with much channelled via offshore shell companies into campaign slush funds. A few allegations of bribes for opposition politicians are also being investigated.
Leopoldo Pagotto
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IBA Anti-Corruption Committee, São Paulo
Almost lost in the noise is a potentially huge antitrust angle. Witnesses have said that the construction companies formed a multi-year cartel to share out contracts and pad prices, perhaps extending beyond petroleum to highway and hydropower contracts.
With the exception of those who have agreed to cooperate, all companies, executives, middlemen, politicians and parties mentioned have denied any wrongdoing. Petrobras says it was a victim, while construction companies and some foreign suppliers to Petrobras say they faced de facto extortion – a situation of 'pay to play'.
How much was syphoned off? No final figure has yet emerged, but certainly hundreds of millions of dollars. Witnesses have mentioned skims of up to three per cent on contracts worth tens of billions of dollars between 2003 and 2012.
How many people are involved? Possibly more than 100, counting company executives, intermediaries and politicians.
'The real lesson appears to be the existence of some form of ongoing, endemic corruption within state-owned enterprises that are responsible for dishing out very large contracts that should be for the public benefit,' says Australian lawyer Robert Wyld, Co-Chair of the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee, who has been watching Car Wash unfold from afar. Some people, he says, treat public companies as
'a personal cash cow'.
'Car Wash is undoubtedly Brazil's biggest-ever corruption case – and it's still emerging,' says São Paulo-based lawyer Leopoldo Pagotto, the Regional Representative for Latin America on the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee.
Brazil is no stranger to corruption. However, several attempts to bring major cases to trial have failed to achieve convictions, sometimes because of police work, sometimes because Brazil's anti-corruption laws offer innumerable possibilities for technical challenges, particularly when evidence comes from wiretaps, and frequently because the convoluted judicial system allows cases to drag out until they prescribe, particularly when elected officials are involved. In Car Wash, police and prosecutors are bending over backwards to avoid previous errors.
The snag with corruption cases is often a multi-player version of the prisoner's dilemma: as long as everyone denies everything, the hard evidence may be inconclusive. In Car Wash, the secret has been persuading some suspects to provide detailed confessions in exchange for reduced penalties. In Portuguese it's called colaboração premiada,which translates literally, albeit awkwardly, as 'rewarded collaboration'. Journalists and even lawyers frequently call it delação premiada('rewarded accusation'), and it is often mistranslated simply as plea bargaining. In fact, it's closer to turning state's evidence, or Queen's evidence. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Working Group on Bribery, in its latest (Phase 3) report on implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Brazil, published October 2014, calls it 'cooperation agreements and judicial pardon'.
Whatever the name, collaboration has made all the difference in Car Wash. 'Federal police have used delação premiadalike a can opener, to prise the case apart,' says Pagotto, whose doctoral thesis at the University of São Paulo focused on the contribution of economic law to fighting corruption.
Collaboration has existed in Brazilian criminal law since at least 1995, but formalised agreements have only now come into their own with the Organized Crime Law of 2013 (Law 12.850). This defines organised crime, lists acceptable investigatory methods and provides a detailed road map for collaboration. One or more of the following results must be achieved: identification of co-authors and participants in the criminal organisation, with their respective crimes; exposure of the hierarchical structure and division of functions within the organisation; total or partial recovery of proceeds; prevention of further crimes; and the safe release of victims. Prosecutors can ask the judge to grant a full judicial pardon, reduce the collaborator's sentence by up to two-thirds, or substitute prison with a lesser penalty.
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Collaboration is voluntary, with defence lawyers present, but collaborators must tell the truth – and the whole truth. Any future discovery of lying, concealment or omission can lead to the agreement being revoked. The process starts with a signed statement detailing what the suspect will reveal, and the leniency that prosecutors will recommend in return.
For each collaboration agreement, prosecutors weigh factors including the importance and novelty of the information to be provided about crimes and those responsible, the proofs to be offered and the amounts to be recovered. 'A group of prosecutors conducts a careful analysis... the agreement goes ahead only if there is consensus that the benefits significantly outweigh the costs for society,' the federal prosecutors' office says.
When all has been revealed, it falls to a judge to decide if the agreement has been kept. Charges are filed against the collaborator as investigations progress, but any sentence will reflect the agreement.
Global Insight (IGI): The OECD convention focuses on foreign bribery. Does that mean you are not interested in what we might call domestic bribery?
Nicola Bonucci: No, it doesn't. When the Anti-Bribery Convention was negotiated in 1997 many countries had laws to punish bribery within their borders, but only the United States had legislation to punish bribery of a foreign official, so the convention sought to address this omission. I cannot comment specifically on Petrobras, but when you look at cases of that kind, you see that foreign and domestic bribery issues are often related. Also, the OECD has done much work concerning the passive side of bribery – the integrity of public officials and procurement processes, and other issues that are more targeted to domestic bribery.
IGI: Are you following the Petrobras case?
NB: Let's say we are keeping an increasingly close eye on it, because it appears to have ramifications outside of Brazil.
IGI: Some Brazilian commentators have compared the Petrobras case to Italy's 'Mani pulite' ['Clean hands']. Would you agree?
NB: The 'Mani pulite' case involved thousands of people. It covered wider, systemic corruption that went far beyond one single company. From what I have seen so far there may be similarities in terms of the impact on public opinion, but differences in terms of scale.
IGI: How does Brazil compare with other countries at a similar level of development, in terms of combatting corruption?
NB: Unfortunately, even some major countries are not implementing the Foreign Bribery Convention as fully as we would wish; we see very uneven levels of implementation. Talking specifically about preventing foreign bribery, I would say Brazil is around average – neither particularly good nor particularly bad. Our latest (Phase 3) report on Brazil was focused less on legislation and regulations, more on what effectively happens on the ground. There are various ongoing foreign bribery investigations in Brazil; it's not just the Petrobras case.
IGI: So is it fair to say Brazil's main challenge is implementation?
NB: Yes. Brazil's Corporate Liability Law (12.846/13) is good legislation, it incorporates good elements, but now we have to see if the legislation will bite. The proof is in the pudding.
IGI: What is the OECD's attitude to collaboration agreements?
NB: The OECD secretariat has no preconceived notion about what is good or bad. However, we note that this kind of mechanism is being used more frequently; there are similar systems in the US, the UK and the Netherlands, for example. Without taking a position on substance, one can understand why. One of the difficulties in bribery cases is getting the evidence. There can be a lot of suspicion, but finding the smoking gun is not easy. When it is foreign bribery, there are additional problems. Pragmatically, we can see that a number of foreign bribery cases outside Brazil have been resolved using a similar mechanism.
As of early March, prosecutors say they have negotiated 12 collaboration agreements with individuals including currency dealers, former Petrobras executives, middlemen and businessmen. Charges were filed against 87 individuals for crimes including corruption, participating in a criminal organisation, and money laundering. For reasons explained below, none of those initially charged were politicians.
One of the great motivators for collaboration appears to have been the landmark 'Big Monthly' case (see Global Insight, June 2012), in which Brazil's Supreme Court imposed sentences of up to 40 years for corrupting public officials, graft, money laundering and illegal currency transactions. It was widely noted that the businesspeople involved received far longer jail terms than the politicians. Now, in Car Wash, businessmen have been leading the rush to confess.
As in a children's cartoon, where pulling the tip of a tail may uncover a huge dragon, the Car Wash case has grown and grown. The petrol station investigation originally sought someone called Primo (Cousin). He was identified as Alberto Youssef, a black-market currency dealer known from an earlier corruption case. Investigators kept pulling the tail, and discovered that Youssef had given an expensive imported car to Paulo Roberto Costa, a Petrobras director responsible for billion-dollar procurements. Both Costa and Youssef have since provided police with copious detail under collaboration agreements – Youssef's collaboration testimony exceeds
100 hours, all recorded and encrypted.
'Were it not for the collaboration agreements between federal prosecutors and those under investigation, the Car Wash case would not have uncovered evidence of corruption beyond that involving Paulo Roberto Costa,' the prosecutors' office says. 'We had evidence of bribes of less than R$100m [some US$31.5m at early April exchange rates]. Today we are investigating dozens of public officials as well as major companies, and there is evidence of crimes of corruption involving values far in excess of R$1bn [US$315m]. Just through the collaboration agreements, we have already recovered around R$500m [US$157m].'
Investigations are being conducted in the southern city of Curitiba, where federal police and prosecutors have established a nucleus of expertise in financial crime. The Car Wash group works simultaneously on two fronts: interrogating witness and suspects; and conducting collaboration agreements. Contents of the agreements are supposedly kept secret until approved by the judge, although some leaks have occurred, while regular witness statements are normally made public.
Prosecutors have split Car Wash into dozens of individual cases, in part to prevent the whole thing collapsing should one element be successfully challenged. They have also taken care to separate non-elected suspects from elected office-bearers and other senior officials. This is because the Brazilian constitution provides 'privileged jurisdiction' – federal ministers and congressmen can be investigated and tried only by the Supreme Court (STF); state governors only by the Superior Court of Justice. To this end, prosecutors and police in Curitiba instructed suspects and witnesses to restrict their testimony to what might loosely be called the 'business' part of the bribery chain: origins of the money; mechanisms for arranging the padded contracts; and skims received by executives and middlemen. The second part, transfers to political parties, was initially excluded from testimony because the involvement of any person with privileged jurisdiction would require the Curitiba unit to immediately halt that investigation and send it to Brasília.
Collaboration agreement statements are a different matter; they involve full disclosure. Copies go to the prosecutor-general who uses allegations of involvement by politicians to ask the STF to authorise investigations. In early March, the prosecutor-general submitted 28 investigation requests involving 54 people, mainly elected politicians, several of them household names. Investigation requests targeting at least two state governors were being prepared for the Supreme Court of Justice.
The question of multiple jurisdictions plagues Brazilian justice in cases that potentially mix defendants of different status – often the case with corruption. When the Big Monthly trial began in the Supreme Court in 2012, defence lawyers argued that the non-politicians among the 37 accused should be tried in state-level courts. Judges agreed with prosecutors that politicians and non-politicians alike were involved in a single conspiracy, and must be tried together. In Car Wash, defence lawyers have argued that, because politicians are apparently involved, everything should be moved to Brasília.
Not everyone is a fan of collaboration agreements. Luciano Anderson de Souza, a criminal law professor at São Paulo University, is far from alone in expressing reservations.
'Brazil still lacks a detailed and precise discipline with respect to collaboration agreements,' he says, 'and that means the form of collaboration depends almost entirely on subjective calls by the authorities. This creates judicial insecurity.'
Another criticism, echoed by several lawyers, is that collaboration, theoretically a voluntary process between equals, in fact entails a degree of compulsion by the stronger party. 'It's often like extorted collaboration,' Souza says. Federal police kept a dozen Car Wash suspects in prolonged temporary custody, with the investigating judge ruling that some might flee the country; others might seek to tamper with witnesses or evidence. Senior executives, more accustomed to private jets and five-star hotels, were held four to a spartan cell, 12 metres squared with an open squat toilet. Defence lawyers claimed they were being pressured into collaboration, but the Supreme Court rejected several habeas corpus pleas.
Brazilian federal police have a tradition of assigning catchy codenames to their operations. Perhaps the best known before Car Wash were 'Satyagraha', recalling Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy that translates roughly as 'insistence on truth', and 'Sandcastle'. The former was a major investigation into financial fraud, the latter a smaller precursor to Car Wash, but both collapsed under defence allegations of procedural irregularities by federal police or prosecutors.
Many codenames would do credit to a minor crossword compiler with a penchant for languages, history and mythology: 'Icarus', for investigating cloned credit cards used to buy air tickets; 'P.O. Box', for illegal medicine distribution via the mail; 'Hygieia', for corruption in state government cleaning contracts; 'Eros', for smuggled Viagra; 'Workaholic', for fraud by labour inspectors; and 'Rowland Hill', for counterfeit postage stamps.
While the codenames are supposed to conceal the nature of the operation – and many appear to be random – several offer a reasonable clue. 'Dirty Net', 'Persian Carpet', 'Peter Pan', 'Wizard of Oz', 'Dragon's Cave', 'Sweet Innocence' and 'Little Martyrs' were all operations against paedophilia and internet pornography, while 'Man Overboard' related to falsification of seamen's documents and 'Las Vegas' tackled illegal casinos. Likewise, 'Bad Trip' went after smugglers of chemicals needed to produce illegal drugs. 'Walking Dead' and 'Resurrecting the Dead' both targeted gangs defrauding the state pension system, while 'Fort Apache' sought to disarm the leaders of an Indian reservation, allegedly exploiting their own community. 'Control+Alt+Del' was an early attack on internet bank fraud. Sadly, though, 'Cheops' related to mundane contract fraud, rather than a pyramid scheme.
One name to catch the eye of any God-fearing criminal was 'Psalm 96:12'. Even the most recalcitrant of churchgoers could at least use the internet to discover the verse: 'Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.' Nevertheless, the 2012 operation netted 18 inattentive public officials accused of facilitating illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
And fleur-de-lis? A 2013 operation to arrest a federal policeman turned 'bad scout', accused of helping criminals. The name came from the Boy Scouts' badge.
Apparently, the naming tradition was started by a pun-loving federal police director who later failed to wonder about an investigation called 'Cutthroat Razor' – an instrument that turns in on itself, with potentially dangerous results. The operation nabbed him for warning colleagues about internal investigations.
Significantly, the CEO and deputy CEO of a major construction company signed individual collaboration agreements in late February after 105 days in police custody, and just five days after judges turned down another habeas corpus request. Prosecutors deny coercion and say the majority of collaboration agreements were negotiated with suspects in liberty.
Finally, says Souza, there is a risk of collaborators lying: 'It's natural for suspects who are tortured – in this case, psychologically tortured – to say whatever their captors want to hear.'
Collaboration is also seen as somewhat dishonourable: 'Paying for your crime at the cost of another's freedom does not seem a very worthy form of defence,' says one lawyer representing a major constructor.
The impact of Car Wash is sending ripples through the Brazilian economy. Shares of Petrobras fell 60 per cent in the six months to March, albeit also hit by lower oil prices. With shares traded in Brazil and also in New York as depository receipts, the company faced investigation by both the US Securities and Exchange Commission and its Brazilian counterpart, CVM. Civil suits were filed in the US by shareholders who claimed losses exceeding US$500m due to mismanagement. Moody's Investors Services downgraded the company to junk. According to Bloomberg, the downgrade could increase Petrobras' costs for financing debts estimated at US$135bn, and the company announced it would divest US$13.7bn of assets through 2016. Investments have been rescheduled and there were layoffs at shipyards building oil rigs.
A new president and board were appointed, with the first task being to issue a long-delayed, independently audited third-quarter earnings report with a credible estimate of graft-related losses. Before resigning in early February, outgoing president Maria das Graças Silva Foster estimated direct corruption losses were at least R$4.1bn (US$1.3bn) based on statements by former executives.
Many other companies are also suffering. Most of Brazil's largest constructors have been implicated, and Petrobras has banned them all from bidding for new contracts. If found guilty of bribery the companies would face an automatic ban on participating in any public tender, in any sector. Given that these companies handle the lion's share of Brazil's much-needed infrastructure development, including new railroads, highways and huge hydroelectric dams, the implications could be severe. In January, however, President Dilma Rousseff stated: 'We should punish the people; we should not destroy the companies, which are essential to Brazil.' Company lawyers reportedly approached the government seeking a deal, offering fines to wipe the slate clean.
Several lawyers have argued that such an outcome would apparently conflict with Brazil's new Corporate Liability Law (12.846 of 2013), although that law still lacks government regulation.
Luciano Anderson de Souza
Criminal law professor, São Paulo University
Lurking in the background is the possibility of a massive antitrust case. One businessman who signed a collaboration agreement has reportedly provided a detailed description of a 'constructors' club' dating from the late 1990s. Apparently it was formed to share out Petrobras contracts, without any initial suggestion of political rake-offs. The club reportedly doubled in membership through the last decade and extended its scope to other areas of infrastructure. According to a spreadsheet provided under a collaboration agreement involving a Petrobras manager, 11 club members influenced the results of 87 Petrobras contracts between 2004 and 2012, totalling R$47bn (US$14.8bn) in Brazil and US$11bn abroad, with skims between one and two per cent. Brazil's antitrust agency, the Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE) says the Brazilian subsidiary of a Japanese engineering company and Petrobras supplier has already signed a leniency agreement admitting to a cartel.
Finally, there is the political fall-out. Most allegations concern the period from 2003 onwards, although a few mention bribery before then. Questions have inevitably arisen about Rousseff's role as chair of the Petrobras board, 2003–2010, which approved top appointments and major contracts. But, Rousseff was not implicated in any testimony published or leaked through early March and has denied all knowledge of corruption. She has pledged a thorough investigation, 'no matter who gets hurt'. More damaging could be the impact in Congress, which must deal with having several senior members under criminal investigation. Worries are that this could paralyse government just when Brazil must enact unpopular spending cuts to reduce the public deficit.
São Paulo lawyer Luciano Santos, national director of the Movement to Fight Electoral Corruption, says events such as those being investigated at Petrobras occur because of the way Brazil's political system is financed. Santos helped lead a successful national campaign for a 2010 law banning anyone convicted in second instance by a collegiate of judges from standing for election. Now he is working to curb the cash. 'We are in favour of public financing of campaigns, allowing individual donations but banning all corporate support,' Santos says. He argues that, while many democracies allow corporate donations, Brazil – still consolidating its democracy after the 1964–1985 military dictatorship – suffers from a 'non-republican' relationship between companies and parties. Banning company donations would not prevent off-the-books support of the kind alleged in
Car Wash, but that could be tackled by energetic use of the 2013 Anti-Corruption Law – once the government gets round to regulating it.
'Fighting corruption means fighting to reduce the suffering of thousands of poor people,' Santos says. 'The problem is not lack of public money; it is misuse of public money and its diversion via corruption. Brazil fails to resolve problems of health and education because money disappears down the drain.'
Brian Nicholson is a freelance journalist based in Brazil. He can be contacted at email@example.com


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Officials with the Houston High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) gathered recently to unveil new websites for Fort Bend and Walker counties to combat the distribution and sale of illegal narcotics in those counties.
The new websites will educate residents and businesses about the threat of illegal drug activity in the Fort Bend and Walker county areas.
Sheriff Troy E. Nehls of Fort Bend County and Sheriff Clint McRae of Walker County both participated in the unveiling of the new websites. The stopdrugsfortbendcounty.org and stopdrugswalkercounty.org websites will be another avenue that enables residents to supply tips about drug use, sales, transporting and manufacturing.
Among the goals of HIDTA's new websites are:
– increase community involvement by offering a website in different languages: English, Spanish and Vietnamese;
– streamline the tip information process to prevent duplication of effort and when requested, assist with intelligence and investigative follow-up support through the Houston Investigative Support Center;
– strategic intelligence that will aid in the overall Houston HIDTA strategy;
– provide links to resources and information regarding drug prevention, drug treatment and drug education;
– assist parents and guardians in identifying indicators of illegal drug use and provide information about drug treatment/drug prevention service within the Houston HIDTA;
– assist and increase the apprehension rate of drug fugitives;
– and provide a platform to publicize prevailing drug threats and drug-related dangers to the Houston HIDTA community; and inform young people on the dangers and consequences of using illegal drugs.
The sites went live May 12 and already have received tips on drug incidents.
The websites provide directions on how to send a tip and what to look for in generating tips. All tips are anonymous and go directly to the Fort Bend County Drug Task Force members, which include the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, Missouri City Police Department, Rosenberg Police Department, Richmond Police Department and Sugar Land Police Department.


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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
A pleasant surprise
Our eaglet has grown! A pleasant surprise came from Japan. An eagle with band 8Z happened to cross a sight of the automatic camera at the Blackstone's Fish Owl feeding station in Hokkaido. This is the eagle we ringed at the Motykley Bay in 2007.
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China cannot explain away its past aggressive policies
Regarding Xu Wu's recent Opinion piece on Western misconceptions about China: The piece suggests that if historical behavior has contemporary relevance, China's nonaggressive behavior in the past may be taken as a guide to its future aspirations and inclinations. China's own historical records repeatedly contradict the fundamental premise that it did not engage in imperialistic, aggressive, or predatory actions over its long existence.
Oracular inscriptions clearly show that even at its inception with the Shang dynasty, lengthy expeditionary campaigns intended to defeat and enslave contiguous peoples were already being undertaken with great frequency from the 13th through mid-11th centuries BC.
Even if these expeditionary campaigns might, as is currently fashionable, be dismissed as having been defensive or preemptive in nature, the invasions of India and Vietnam carried out by the current regime, and the forceful subjugation of Tibet – a state populated by an ethnically, culturally, and religiously distinct people – cannot.
For decades, PRC spokesmen have vociferously promoted this interpretation of history to allay fears and forestall countermeasures, and it is now being echoed by Western optimists and pro-China commentators. While the nature and intention of these PRC assertions may be debatable, the baselessness of any claim to an inherently benign history is not.
Ralph D. Sawyer
Orleans, Mass.
Senior research fellow, Warring States Project, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Regarding Xu Wu's May 1 Opinion piece, "The real US deficit with China – knowledge": I would agree with Mr. Wu that the average American is probably out of touch with today's China. The average Chinese is probably just as out of touch with today's America. However, it is very disingenuous to compare the senseless slaughter of innocent individuals in Tiananmen Square with Watergate. What reading I have done on China indicates that the Chinese people are still very aware of the ability of the state to impose its will with measures that are, by American standards, very harsh. China is still a Communist country, and Communism is not tolerant of those who protest its rule.
Paul Sedan
Charlotte, N.C.
In response to Xu Wu's recent Opinion piece on Western depictions of China: Mr. Wu's take on this issue is very unusual and is not valid or truthful. China cannot be described as "Confucian." China's total lack of respect for human rights for its citizens still smacks of a communist dictatorship, as does its overriding of human rights in Darfur in order to get oil from Sudan. I see China's domestic and foreign policy as the outcome of an immoral government.
Bruce Evans Woods-Jack
Kirkby Lonsdale, England
How to prepare Iraq's military
In response to the April 30 article, "Iraq Army's first battle tests": I am a former captain in the field artillery branch of the US Army. We have not given the Iraqis the capability to provide their own fire support or air support. In my opinion, this situation is inexcusable and will contribute to the need for US forces in Iraq for many years to come. We can easily train the Iraqis to competently handle the 105-mm howitzer. We can train their counterfire people and provide them with new countermortar radars. We should have already started their training. There is much that we can do, and it should be done soon.
Bruce W. Cobb
Beaumont, Texas
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As you may already know, I am on the campaign team for the Volksentscheid Fahrrad, a campaign to have a public referendum about massive improvements to our cycle infrastructure here in Berlin. We had a few manic months of signature collecting and media junket whoring, but at the moment we're on a kind of autumn hiatus, waiting to see what the new city government will do about us and Berlin's streets.
Nonetheless, biking is always one of the big things on my mind. Half the time I am gleeful about just how much fun it is, especially since I discovered hundreds of exciting bike adventures on my favourite new app Komoot – who knew that there are so many wonderful cycle routes out there both in and around Berlin, just waiting for me to fall over on them?? The other half of the time, I am agonised by the stressful, manic life of a cyclist in this city. Everything needs to be improved: the cycle paths are lumpy, lethally pothole-ridden, or usually just non-existent; the cobbled streets are so rutted and broken as to make it a roulette whether you will reach the end of each road without your brain being jiggled into a rich smoothie; and the crossings are a confusing noodle-heap of road markings and random plastic roadwork barriers which guarantee that no-one ever knows what the heck is going on.
I am convinced that until we have major works done on the streets in this city, the current traffic rules simply do not allow for the flexibility you need to navigate this place either as a cyclist, pedestrian or automobilist (I say I say) without dying a gory death. I think we need to bring in a set of holistic, compassionate new traffic rules that allow us all to flow through Berlin with the organic fluidity of shoals through a coral reef. So how about this:


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BREAKING: Nigeria court details how SCOAN victims met their deaths
from HENRY IFEANYI in Lagos, Nigeria
LAGOS, (CAJ News) – THE Coroner's Court investigating the deadly collapse of the building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Nigeria gave gory details around the injuries suffered by the more than 100 people killed on that fateful day.
Some 116 people, mostly South Africans, lost their lives following the tragic incident last year.
According to Chief Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, who presided over the court, most of the victims sustained various injuries ranging from haemorrhage, loss of limbs, crushed bones, multiple rib fractures, perforation of the lungs, and destruction of left tibia vessels,
strangulation and chest wounds.
Komolafe disclosed that of the 116 victims, 60 were males and 56 females including a six year old child.
The six-storey building which collapsed on September 12, killing 85 South Africans, 22 Nigerians, two Benioise and two Togolese nationals. The rest of the victims are yet to be identified.
On Wednesday, Komolafe recommended that the builder of the structure be prosecuted for alleged criminal negligence.
The coroner also recommended that the church be investigated and tried for not obtaining necessary permit before constructing the building which collapsed and killed 116 person who were mostly South Africans.
The Coroner, presided over by Chief Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, called for investigation of the church and that the relevant authorities should carry out detailed fitness test on all the structures within the premises of the church.
The Coroner also held that SCOAN did not obtain the relevant building permit/approval from the Lagos State Government in respect of the collapsed building, adding that the foundation failure is a remote cause of the collapse of the six storey building.
In his recommendation, Oyetade also ordered that the structural engineers that oversaw the construction of the collapsed building, Engineer(s) Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun of Hardrock Construction Co Ltd should be tried for criminal negligence by the relevant authority.
While giving the summary of his findings, Oyetade pointed out that the death of victims of the collapsed building was consistent with blunt force trauma that would normally be sustained from a collapsed building.
"Structural failure due to the combination of designs and detailing errors caused the building to collapse," he ruled.
He noted that most of the victims sustained various injuries ranging from haemorrhage, loss of limbs, crushed bones, multiple rib fractures, perforation of the lungs, and destruction of left tibia vessels, strangulation and chest wounds.
Continuing his recommendations, the Coroner also said that Haruna Alaba, the Divisional Police Officer, Ikotun Police Station should forthwith be transferred from the said Ikotun Police Station because he failed to take note of what was happening in his area and had to rely on information from the Police Headquarters.
He also pointed out that the alleged aircraft which SCOAN claimed hovered over the building minutes before it collapsed was not the cause of the collapse of the building.
The inquest which started in October last year, a month after the tragic incident called some 32 witnesses and tendered a total of 45 exhibits.
– CAJ News
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Boana semilineata (Spix, 1824)
Hyla geographica var. semilineata Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 40. Type(s): Not designated although including animal figured on pl. 11, fig. 2 of the original publication; holotype was ZSM 47/0 and now presumed lost according to Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 370, and confirmed by Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 167. Type locality: "Provinciae Rio de Janeiro", Brazil. Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 51, suggested that the type locality is "provàvelmente Rio de Janeiro", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Cophomantis punctillata Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870: 651. Holotype: ZMB 6953, according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 41. Type locality: "S[an]ta. Catharina (Brasiliens)", Brazil. Synonymy with Hyla punctatissima appendiculata by Parker, 1933, Trop. Agric., Trinidad, 10: 10. Synonymy with Hyla geographica by Duellman, 1973, Copeia, 1973: 526. (Allocation here on the basis of geography alone as although Hyla geographica has been partitioned, the synonyms have not been addressed in publication—DRF.)
Hyla (Hylella) punctillata — Peters, 1873 "1872", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 772.
Hyla punctillata — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 359.
Hyla semilineata — Silveira and Caramaschi, 1989, Resumos 16a Congr. Brasil. Zool. Univ. Fed. Paraiba: XXX. d'Heursel and de Sá, 1999, J. Herpetol., 33: 353; Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 41.
Hypsiboas semilineatus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 89.
Boana semilineata — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28.
English Names
None noted.
Brazil in the coastal region from Alagoas to Santa Catarina. See comment.
See Duellman, 1973, Copeia, 1973: 526-530, and Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 34-37. Silveira and Caramaschi, 1989, Resumos 16a Congr. Brasil. Zool. Univ. Fed. Paraiba: XXX, resurrected this taxon from the synonymy of Hyla geographica, where it had been originally placed and more recently by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 51. See discussion of taxonomic history and further evidence of distinctiveness by d'Heursel and de Sá, 1999, J. Herpetol., 33: 353-361. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 41, provided a brief account and photo of Hyla semilineata. In the Hypsiboas semilineatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 89. Fouquet, Martinez, Zeidler, Courtois, Gaucher, Blanc, Lima, Souza, Rodrigues, and Kok, 2016, Zootaxa, 4084: 79–104, noted at least 5 unnamed species in Brazil and the Guiana Shield that presumably will be named in the near future.
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Clarks Clovelly Sun Shoes - Tanya Burr Nail Polish in Little Duck - Soap & Glory Eyes Cool Eye Mask - The Body Shop Tea Tree Oil - Ted Baker White Body Wash* - Lush Intergalactic Bath Bomb - Marc Jacobs Daisy Dream EDT - Jewellery Box 18ct Rose Gold Dipped Sterling Silver Infinity Necklace - Yankee Candle Dreamy Summer Nights Small Candle - Rocky: The Undisputed Collection (all of the films) - Rocky Balboa DVD
What have you been loving this month? Have you tried any of the products in today's post/video? If so, what do you think of them? Have you seen any of the Rocky movies? If so, what did you think of them?


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Nike is now preparing the future of his footwear section on the catwalk of the Paris fashion week and unveils the first collaboration for the Vapormax with the CDG x Nike Vapormax.
The official announcement of this silhouette was drowned under the release of the Nike Mag but this Nike Vapormax is maybe one of the most important models of the next season for the American sportswear brand. Today Nike has officially unveiled the first collaboration with Comme des Garçons which will launch the model with a black or a grey upper on a full-Air Unit declined in the same translucent associations of colors.
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You will face numerous troubles in Windows 7 systems and if you do not find DVD drive, then it would be a peculiar issue in the Windows 7. It is likely to be noticeable in the BIOS and by exploiting standard driver you wouldn't be able to notice the drive in the PC. In case, if you have faced this issue, then you can repair the entire Windows and it is a long procedure and will consume more time and needless efforts. But there subsist other substitutes for registry repair and you can easily mitigate this concern. PC technical support services can assist you more on this. Beside these, some of the crucial methods are elucidated below. Just have a close look on them.
Crucial aspects:
Modifying Windows registry is not suggested when you do not plan to amend the precise keys and values. It includes numerous hazards and specifications and also highly professional expertise to execute the job. It is also suggested to exploit a good and consistent Windows registry cleaner to overhaul the registry concerns. An improper registry amending process will cause some other problems in the system like slow computer which includes freezing problems also.
Follow the below process:
- Click on the Start button and go to Run and type "regedit" without mentioning any quotes.
- Again click on registry key – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\, and confiscate UpperFilters and LowerFilters placed on the right-hand side.
- Then Reboot your PC and observe whether the drive appears or not.
- In case the issue still persists, then perform the below mentioned process:
- Reset the drive letter.
- Click on the Disk Management
- Opt "Create and format hard disk partitions" link.
- Pinpoint the optical drive and opt Change Drive Letter and Paths and then press the button Change and choose a new letter.
- In case, the drive doesn't appear in the Windows Explorer, then replicate the same procedure to amend the drive letter back and incase if is invisible, then simply reboot the system.
Any difficulty in understanding the above process, then discuss your qualms with the expert technicians of PC technical support service.


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When I am trying to absorb a monotonal speech by Ohio Atty. Gen. Mike DeWine why do I feel I should be sitting in a pew? As I've noted in the past, DeWine comes across as bottled goodness. He's the people's lawyer, the righteous guy to defend the law, the go-to family man to protect all that is wholesome in American life. Still, Biblical scholars will tell you that there is nothing specific in the Book about modern pay-to-play.
There is nothing in his words to lead you to believe that this 67-year-old social conservative is the same wheeler-dealer who handed out a lucrative contract for debt collection to a close friend and contributor of the Summit County Republican Party chairman who once worked for him. The contrast in his public profile is stunning.
So there he was at the podium as a Akron Press Club/Bliss speaker explaining why he is sworn to uphold the sanctity of traditional marriage, his refusal to debate his opponent, Democrat David Pepper, and his objection to Federal court rulings that declared Ohio's newly minted voter restrictions unconstitutional.
About the debt collection contract: He's asking prospective clients to sign a written form. Problem solved.
About the voting system placed in abeyance by the U.S. Supreme Court: He doesn't think the law is unconstiutional. Problem solved.
About same-sex marriage: Ohio law bans it, regardless of the court decisions, and he dutifully must support it. That says nothing about the taxpayers' money his office has spent skipping around the country filing amicus briefs to uphold of such bans inn their states. Look, his opposition to gay marriage is in his genes, not the law.
About his refusal to debate: "My opponent is not qualified to be attorney general." The cheapest of shots. Pepper is a Yale law school graduate with a string of student honors – Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, managing editor of Yale Daily News, etc. etc. etc. (Should I also mention that while he was in the Senate, DeWine could not practice law for nearly 10 years because his license was inactive? )
More on the non-debates: DeWine argued that he's already crossed paths in an unofficial "debate" with Pepper in a room interacting with Gannett Ohio editors. In contrast, Sen. Sherrod Brown, then a congressman, debated then Sen.DeWine four times and creamed him by winning a 56 pct. majority vote as a liberal Democrat.
As a personal note, if I may: I once interviewed DeWine for a half-hour TV program. It was painful. People who watched it said he froze on me. And I didn't even try to debate him!
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Aug 4 2012
State fair foods on a stick: Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota
Going viral is a good thing, when writing for the Internet, and my biggest success in that regard happened three years ago. The topic: chocolate-covered bacon. Tens of thousands clicked on the story, and I was stunned.
"God bless state fairs," the editor wrote later. "Thanks for reminding me about the appeal of culinary wackiness at state fairs across the country."
State fair menus in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota routinely challenge the imaginations of chefs to fry cooks while daring us to compromise digestion and ignore heartburn.
Chef Aaron Fidder of the Machine Shed restaurants was the guy who matched bacon with chocolate in 2009, and this remains a food-on-a-stick choice for the 2012 Wisconsin State Fair. Staff in Pewaukee expect to prepare 25,000 portions this year.
"Usually the shelf life of a trend is two or three years, but this one's still strong," says chef Kurt Wagner, Aaron's successor. Gone is the restaurant's deep-fried butter on a stick, introduced in 2011. Kurt says fairgoers didn't like having the food spurt with the first bite.
New to his fair booth is firecracker chicken, slices of skewered breast meat dipped into a jalapeno-spiked and slightly sweet cornbread batter. Also new but not on a stick is cubed pork with apple-raisin stuffing and an apple-whiskey glaze.
What else is new and delectable or outrageous at the Midwest's three liveliest state fairs? Here are a few items that caught my attention.
Wisconsin State Fair, West Allis, Aug. 2-12 – Lakefront Brew Pub and Eatery serves Fat Elvis on a stick, a peanut butter cup deep-fried in a banana batter with bacon. Ultimate Confections offers chocolate-covered cheese (a link of mozzarella dipped in chocolate and topped with sea salt).
Other oddities: deep-fried stuffing from Rupena's, deep-fried and bacon-wrapped tater tots from Jayme's Chipstix and "brewtons" (deep-fried won tons that contain cream cheese, pepper jack cheese and jalapenos) from Water Street Brewery. wistatefair.com, 800-884-3247
Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, Aug. 9-19 – Campbell's introduces the double-bacon corn dog, a bacon-wrapped hot dog that is deep fried, then doused in a bacon-bit batter and fried again. The Nothing Spared Fair Square (marshmallows, crispy rice cereal, pretzels, potato chips, Oreos, toffee and M&Ms) is sold at the Fair Square stand.
Also new: German chocolate funnel cakes from The Best Around, carrot funnel cakes from Westmoreland Concessions and chocolate-covered, chocolate-chip cannoli on a stick from Dipped in Chocolate. iowastatefair.org, 800-545-3247
Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Aug. 23-Sept. 3 – Tejas serves chicken nachos on a stick, but the big talkers are in the Taste of Midtown Global Market, where beef tongue tacos are offered Aug. 27–30, then camel burger sliders on Aug. 31 to Labor Day.
Also new: mashed sweet potatoes on a stick from Mr. Potato and Sweetie, bacon-maple ice cream from Rainbow Ice Cream and lamb (testicle) fries from Holy Land Deli. mnstatefair.org, 651-288-4400
Let's not forget the proud agricultural traditions that are at the core of state fairs.
Two 60-foot-long murals depicting farm life in Wisconsin have returned to the State Fair for the first time since 1948. Look for the restored artwork at the State Fair History Museum display in the Exposition Center.
A team of artists was commissioned to create murals for the 1948 Centennial Exposition, to show changes in farming between 1848 and 1948. After the event, the murals were rolled up, stored and forgotten until ag writer John Oncken of Sun Prairie inquired about their whereabouts.
The Kohler Foundation helped make mural restoration possible. Some of the original 14 works remain missing. For more: wisconsinhistory.org/museum/statefairmural.
Write a line or two on my Facebook page (facebook.com/roadstraveled) about your favorite state fair foods or memories for a chance to win a copy of the 2011 "Creating Dairyland" by Edward Janus ($26.95, Wisconsin Historical Society Press) or the new "Wisconsin Farm Lore" by Martin Hintz ($16.99, The History Press). The deadline is Aug. 18.
The subtitle to "Creating Dairyland" does the great job of summarizing the content: how caring for cows saved our soil, created our landscape, brought prosperity to our state and still shapes our way of life in Wisconsin.
The author is a former Soldiers Grove farmer whose writings and oral histories are widely published.
"Wisconsin Farm Lore" takes a more folkloric approach to sharing the tales of our agricultural heritage and history. Consider the book's subtitle: kicking cows, giant pumpkins and other tales from the back forty.
The author farms near Milwaukee and a former newspaper journalist who has written more than 100 books, many about the Dairy State. The 10th edition of his "Off the Beaten Path: Wisconsin" book ($11.99, Globe Pequot) was released in June.


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The Illusion of Free Pharmaceutical Markets
Over the break, I have been reading Bernard Harcourt's extraordinarily illuminating The Illusion of Free Markets. I believe Harcourt's "archeology of regulation" convincingly shows that when "layers of legal entitlements, technical rules, and criminal prohibitions are exposed, it is clear that the notion of natural order or market efficiency is pure fiction" (196). What John Quiggin accomplishes in an economic idiom, Harcourt achieves via legal, historical, and philosophical analysis. You'll never view commodity trading (or much of the rest of our economic landscape) the same way after you've read his brilliant book.
So what's next? One direction is to try to cut back on the layers of rules. To get a sense of how hard that is to do, take a look at Amar Bhide's A Call for Judgment—by far the smartest Hayekian take on the financial crisis. Bhide's approach would roll the financial sector back not to 1999, or 1981, or even 1912, but to a "principle of bank chartering pioneered by New York State in 1825: Specify a limited number of activities" and allow banks to do nothing else (292). He says banks should do "nothing besides making loans to individuals and nonfinancial businesses—after old-fashioned due diligence—and simple hedging transactions" (290).
I, alas, am allergic to Hayek, so I will instead present some thoughts in the opposite direction. Call it "learning to love Leviathan." I'll begin with some observations on the global political economy of research, development, and manufacturing, and then discuss how the "great game" of economic competition now is being played. I think that post-"natural order" thinking will need to focus on particular parts of the economy (rather than applying Procrustean rules to all of them), and my primary concern here will be the pharmaceutical sector.
Big Pharma's Imminent Jobs & Public Relations Crises
Anyone familiar with pharmaceutical industry restructuring will not be surprised by this prediction from the FT's John Gapper for 2011:
A drugs company will drop early-stage research. Big Pharma has struggled for a decade with a dearth of potential blockbusters. Companies such as GlaxoSmithKline have restructured and slimmed down their research arms but the sector remains troubled, as the departure of Jeff Kindler, Pfizer's former chief executive, on the grounds of "exhaustion" indicates.
The obvious course with something that is not working is to drop it. Shire Pharmaceuticals pioneered a strategy of outsourcing early-stage research to smaller companies and focusing on developing and trialling promising drugs. This will be the year when one of the industry's biggest takes a similar tack.
Gapper seems pretty unworried about this transition, and perhaps from the standpoint of pure economic theory it makes little difference whether research is conducted in-house or purchased from other, smaller firms. But as a matter of public relations and political economy, this is a troubling development.
First, the pharmaceutical industry has long justified its profits by arguing that it invests in research and development. For those who favor a market-based approach to drug research, this is a vindication of laissez-faire. Rather than relying on the heavy hand of government to try to direct the research done at pharmaceutical firms, we can expect the "invisible hand" of the market to spin off solutions for everyone's problems–from the richest to the poorest. Innovations eventually filter down from the highest-income individuals to those with fewer resources. Spending by the wealthy on health care leads to investment in research infrastructure that ultimately redounds to the benefit of all.
But to the extent that the industry spins off its research and development, shouldn't policymakers be more concerned about the health of research firms than the continued thriving of Big Pharma? I suppose one could make the argument that Big Pharma is evolving toward a Walmart or Google style of value creation via skilled intermediation. Its key role in that scenario is to identify the most promising researchers, CROs, marketers, distributors, and advertisers.
If that evolution occurs, it reminds me of another of Gapper's predictions for 2011:
As China tries to make itself a hub for environmental [and energy] innovation, the US is retreating. Silicon Valley venture capital groups that identified green energy as a big opportunity are playing it down and turning to social media. China has the market, the cash and the science to stick with it.
In other words, Big Pharma's moves toward becoming virtual companies, mere hubs of certifications, trademarks, tax dodges, and contractual obligations, mirror a longer-term hollowing out of the US economy. Whereas a nation like China has an industrial policy that encourages production of useful goods and full employment, US capital is migrating toward "platform plays" that merely redistribute bargaining power and information about goods and services. One can imagine all sorts of clever entrepreneurial ploys that fall out from this strategy—think Groupon for super Avastin deals! What remains unimaginable is how social networking leads to viable occupations for all but the most connected and tech-savvy.
Top US economic strategists used to claim that offshoring didn't matter, as US citizens' superior productivity, technological skills, and education would attract high-value jobs to the country. Given America's massive failures in educational policy, we no longer hear much about the "high value" jobs that a global division of labor was supposed to deliver to us. Instead, we see ever higher unemployment and no plausible plan to keep decent jobs in the country, or to be sure that those that remain are paid decently. Andy Grove has also helpfully demonstrated the necessary connections between ongoing manufacturing capacity and research designed to make production better. As he puts it:
Startups are a wonderful thing, but they cannot by themselves increase tech employment. Equally important is what comes after that mythical moment of creation in the garage, as technology goes from prototype to mass production. This is the phase where companies scale up. They work out design details, figure out how to make things affordably, build factories, and hire people by the thousands. Scaling is hard work but necessary to make innovation matter. The scaling process is no longer happening in the U.S.
You could say, as many do, that shipping jobs overseas is no big deal because the high-value work—and much of the profits—remain in the U.S. That may well be so. But what kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work—and masses of unemployed? . . . .
Finally, the increased outsourcing of R&D may menace existing cross-subsidization of research for neglected drugs and tropical diseases. To be sure, not much of this is going on presently; of the 1300 compounds tested for safety and effectiveness by major drug companies from 1992-2005, only 1% were directed toward diseases that predominate in the developing world. And a recent conference at BU gave me some hope that humanitarian research efforts could be distributed among small teams of researchers. Still, I worry that the ongoing shrinkage of Big Pharma will have results in the medical field similar to the gradual dissipation of Bell Labs.
Pharma as Part of a Larger Industrial Policy
Are there any solutions to be offered? The key to effective policy here is to recognize the extensive role the US government plays in the pharmaceutical industry. Epic battles over the scope of patent rights in the US are routinely fought in the US Congress. The US Supreme Court has recently opined on a number of fundamental issues in patent law in rapid succession. Legislation like the Hatch-Waxman Act prescribes a regime of protections and obligations for drug manufacturers that is extraordinarily complex, and continually contested. The FDA is involved in every step of a drug's approval and marketing process. Medicare Part D legislation also significantly increased the US Government's involvement in the pharmaceutical sector, providing an enormous amount of funding for spending on drugs for the elderly. International treaties like TRIPS also play a very important role in the pharmaceutical sector. In short, if there is one sector where state action is not simply a side constraint on "the market," but rather serves to constitute it, that is the pharmaceutical sector.
Therefore, the US government needs to be much more involved in shaping both the output and the business practices of the industry to reflect national and humanitarian needs. On the humanitarian side, there are many excellent ideas in the book Incentives for Global Public Health. On the industrial policy side, perhaps there are lessons to be learned from this article on Chinese practice:
Foreign companies have been teaming up with Chinese ones for years to gain access to the giant Chinese market. Now some of the world's biggest companies are taking a risky but potentially rewarding second step—folding pieces of their world-wide operations into partnerships with Chinese companies to do business around the globe.
Several earlier joint ventures inside China have soured over concerns that Chinese partners, after gaining access to Western technology and know-how, have gone on to become potent new rivals to their partners. "Foreign partners are seeing they will have to sometimes sacrifice or share the benefits of the global market with the Chinese partner," says Raymond Tsang, a China-based partner at consultancy Bain & Co. "Some of the [multinational corporations] are complaining. But given the changing market conditions, if you don't do it, your competitors will."
To the extent that big Pharma is a truly global industry, US policymakers should be just as aggressive as Chinese ones in assuring that present private profits leave behind infrastructure that meets national needs for both quality healthcare and a balanced and highly skilled workforce. To neglect these imperatives is to declare unilateral economic disarmament vis-à-vis a competitor to which we are already massively indebted, and which has shown no qualms about taking US-developed intellectual property. If China wants certain concessions from multinationals for the good of its citizens, the US should demand no less.


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ANALYSIS By JOCELINE TAN
The controversial but charismatic ulama Dr Mohd Asri Zainal Abidin has been courted by PAS, Umno and PKR, but is he about to join Umno?
JUST a fortnight ago, Dr Mohd Asri Zainal Abidin was at the opening of the PAS muktamar and was given the red carpet treatment by PAS leaders.
This week, if reports are to be believed, the controversial former Perlis mufti may be getting the red carpet welcome into Umno.
Political circles are abuzz with talk that Dr Asri is about to join Umno with some 100 young ulama by this week. If it really happens, it will be a major coup for Umno which has always trailed PAS as the party of choice among the ulama class.
Dr Asri himself has been rather coy, neither confirming nor denying the reports. But the news has sent shock waves through PAS and the Muslim segment of PKR.
PAS leaders thought that if the boyish-looking ulama ever entered politics, he would surely pick their party. On top of that, Dr Asri and Ahmad Baihaki Atiqullah, the Kelantan PAS information chief and a rising star, are friends. They were house-mates when studying in Jordan.
Dr Asri has been bombarded by calls and SMS', many from friends in PAS and PKR. One of them begged him not to do it, saying he would become "like a hot dog," sandwiched between two buns, no longer able to speak freely and that only the tail of his turban would be visible. Anyway, Dr Asri is not into turbans. He is a modern ulama and prefers the kopiah or a songkok.
Another man whose mobile phone has been ringing non-stop is Umno executive secretary Datuk Rauf Yusoh.
Rauf, who is also Bukit Bintang vice-chairman had inadvertently set off the gossip mill when speaking at the Umno Youth AGM for the Bukit Bintang division. The guest of honour was former Perlis Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim but it was Rauf who hinted that a big group of ulama including Dr Asri would join Umno.
"There was loud applause. It was big news, a boost for the party," said the division's Youth chief Tengku Azman Zainal Abidin.
But not everyone in Umno is thrilled. There is concern whether the ulama's controversial style may spill over to the party.
He is currently facing a charge in the Syariah Court for preaching in Selangor without tauliah or accreditation. He is also battling a RM1.5mil libel suit filed by Datuk Nakhaie Ahmad, the former president of Yadim (Islamic Dakwah Foundation).
But it is his rather unorthodox religious views that some in the party are concerned about. His religious column in a Malay daily often causes ripples and wins him admirers as well as critics.
His detractors call him a "modernist with Wahhabi leanings," which is not exactly a compliment among mainstream Muslims in these parts.
In fact, he is considered too modern by the traditionalist ulama in PAS. Even former Abim president Yusri Mohamad has reservations about the impending move. He wrote in his blog (pena-yusri.blogspot.com) that the latter's teachings do not always fall within the mainstream.
"He represents an agenda that is controversial," said Yusri who recently lodged a police report against Dr Asri for an article he wrote in a news portal.
All this has not stopped pragmatic politicians like Nik Aziz from assiduously wooing him. In fact, some in Kelantan say that Dr Asri occasionally comes across as a younger version of Nik Aziz for his unconventional viewpoints about religion and society.
Parallels are being made with another "hot ticket" item from the 1980s, namely, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, whose decision to join Umno was a hammer blow to PAS which was then trying to make inroads among mainstream Malays.
This time around, PAS sees Dr Asri as the moderate face of Islam whom non-Malays can relate to.
As a person, Dr Asri's greatest appeal is his lack of artifice and his quite complete absence of ego, a state of being all pious Muslims aspire to. It is this which makes him so likeable as a person and which draws people of all colour and creed to his point of view.
But what Umno is about to accomplish is not solely about Dr Asri but the fact that the group coming in comprises well-educated ulama, with almost half of them holding PhDs. That these young, religious scholars chose to join Umno and not another party is going to give Umno a huge boost on the religious front.
In the meantime, all that Umno's Rauf would say was: "Please wait and see."


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up at the cabin
i don't always have a full larder
i do have a garden
a few cheats in the freezer
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i was able to whip this
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chard and ricotta pie
10 sheets filo dough
olive oil
grated parmesan
1 garlic clove--finely chopped
1/2 medium onion--finely chopped
2 Tbs olive oil
1 bunch (about 12 large leaves/4 cups chopped)--chopped--discarding stems
1 cup ricotta cheese
1/4 cup grated parmesan
2 eggs
1 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp freshly grated parmesan
a few turns of the pepper-mill
use an 8x10 pan. layer the filo by brushing each sheet with olive oil, and a light sprinkle of parmesan cheese. the bottom layer should be 6 sheets. trim the ends and set aside.
in a large skillet, heat the olive oil on low--toss in the garlic and onion. cook just until the onions begin to sweat and turn translucent. do not allow the garlic to brown. toss in the chard and allow to wilt, giving a good stir to evenly cook. after about 5 minutes, toss in about 1/4 cup of water and cover. allow the chard to get nice and soft. allow to cool slightly. strain off the liquid and place in a bowl. add the ricotta, parmesan, lemon juice, red pepper flakes, and pepper.
evenly spread into the prepared filo crust.
take the remaining 4 leaves of filo one by one and scrunch them in a loose accordion. place on top of the spinach layer, making sure to cover the entire top of the pie. drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle a bit more cheese.
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