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Annual Meeting winners announced
Thank you to our members who attended the 2021 Annual Meeting! More than 1,000 members registered. We appreciate you all. The proposed Bylaw amendments passed.
Congratulations to our prize winners, listed below. Winners will be contacted directly next week.
$25 Walmart card (donated by vendor) Linda Pender
$25 Walmart card (donated by vendor) Cleodis Gatson
$25 Walmart card (donated by vendor) Mary Bearden
$25 Walmart card (donated by vendor) Ted Lamprich
$100 William Spivey
$100 Barry Justus
$100 Mike Langley
$100 James Wicker
$100 Nancy Taylor
$100 Jeweline Swift
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$100 Sandra Powell
$100 Marty Lowrey
$100 Betty Traylor
$100 Glen Holloway
$100 Justin Pepper
$100 Hayden McLendon
$100 Frances Dison
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$100 Johnnie Gilliam
$100 HJ Lowery
$100 Debra Barnes
$100 Mark Evans
$100 Mathew Pruitt
$100 Eric Nelson
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$100 Julia Pettis
$100 Vivian Hicks
$100 Misty Mims
$100 Cynthia Mitchell
$100 Andrew Battle
$100 Brian Thurman
$100 Eloise Webb
$100 Ronald Johnson
$100 Barbara Orren
$100 Fannie Willis
$100 Roddie Evans
$100 Larry Popp
$100 Linda Watts
$100 Betty Wade
$100 Jeane Finkbeiner
$100 Delores Hicks
$100 James Drewry
$100 Amy Wyatt
$100 Fred Rosenblath
$100 Shirley McDaniel
$500 (Registration card prize) Justin Baker
$1,000 Holley Vail
$2,000 Everett Payne
$3,000 David Simons
$4,000 Gerry Lee
$5,000 grand prize Hope Phipps
Claiborne Electric preps for drive-thru Annual Meeting
Claiborne Electric will host a drive-through Annual Meeting on April 24 due to the continuing effects of Covid-19.
The Co-op will have two sites available for members to register– one at Claiborne Electric's headquarters office (12525 Hwy. 9 in Homer), and one at D'Arbonne Woods Charter School (9560 Hwy. 33 in Farmerville). On April 24, members can drive through a multi-lane site in either location to register for the meeting, be entered for all prize drawings, and cast a ballot for the proposed bylaw amendments. Drive-through registration will take place from 9 a.m. until noon.
At each location, members will drive in and remain in their vehicles through the registration process. Claiborne Electric employee will be directing members to lanes. After members are finished registering and voting, they will be directed to the exit.
"We hoped that by this spring, Covid would be a terrible memory and we would be able to meet in person, but that isn't the case," said Claiborne Electric CEO and General Manager Mark Brown. "We have some important business we need the membership to vote on, so we are improvising to allow our members to vote on the proposed bylaw amendments that were intended to go before the membership in 2020."
The proposed amendments and explanations have been presented in Louisiana Country, the Co-op's member newsletter, several times. The March/April issue contained a ballot for each member to vote on the amendments and bring to the meeting. Members who do not have that ballot will be given a blank ballot at the meeting. Amendments and explanations are also available on the news page of this website.
In early April, members received an official registration card by mail. For the registration process to flow smoothly, members are asked to bring this card. All members who bring their registration card will be entered into a drawing for a $500 gift card.
Several cash prizes will be awarded after the conclusion of the meeting. Members who participate will be eligible for cash prizes of $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $4,000, and a grand prize of $5,000. Names will also be drawn for 50 $100 gift cards. All prizes will be drawn after the conclusion of the meeting, and winners will be posted online and contacted directly.
Brown said that as members arrive to the drive-through sites, they should try to have their ballot, registration card and photo ID ready to present.
The primary member on the account must be the one to register and present identification. If a spouse will attend the meeting without the primary member, both spouses must visit a Claiborne Electric office before the Annual Meeting to form a Joint Membership. With a Joint Membership, either spouse can present I.D. and represent that membership at the meeting. A joint membership is still one membership – spouses will need to determine jointly how they wish to cast their one vote.
An organization that is a member of the Co-op may designate a person to attend the meeting to register on behalf of the organization and cast a ballot. At registration, that person will need to present a letter on the organization's letterhead and signed by the leader of the organization naming them as the representative for the organization.
"The 2021 Annual Meeting will look different than what we are accustomed to, but we are determined to make this a good situation," Brown said. "We hope to be back in our big venue soon, shaking hands and hugging friends. But for now, we have to improvise to take care of our Co-op. Please make plans to join us for a few minutes on April 24!"
To view the March 2021 Board Meeting Agenda, click here.
To view the February 2021 Board Meeting minutes, click here.
Bylaw Amendments proposed for 2021 Annual Meeting
The following 10 proposed Bylaw amendments will be put before Claiborne Electric's membership for a vote during the 2021 Annual Meeting. Bylaw ballots were mailed to members in the March/April edition of LA Country. Blank ballots will be available at the meeting for members who do not have a ballot.
Proposed change 1 – To replace the first sentence of Article I, Section 1 to read as follows:
"Any person, firm, association, corporation or body politic or subdivision thereof may become a member of record in Claiborne Electric Cooperative, Inc., (hereinafter called the "Cooperative") by:"
This change adds the term "of record" to the sentence to form the term "member of record." This change strengthens the term, making clear that "member" refers to a bona fide, current member of the Cooperative.
"Any two adults living in the same residence may apply for and sign a joint membership application and, subject to their compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 1 of this Article, may be accepted for such membership."
This change adds the terms "and sign" and "application" to the sentence, clarifying the process of applying for joint membership.
Proposed change 3 – To replace Article III, Section 1 to read as follows:
"The annual meeting of the membership shall be held at such place and time as approved by the Board of Directors and designated in the notice of meeting for the purpose of passing on reports for the previous fiscal year, conducting Director elections, if needed, and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. Failure to hold the annual meeting at the designated time shall not work a forfeiture or dissolution of the Cooperative."
This change adds the term ", conducting Director elections, if needed," to the language of the paragraph. This would allow for Director elections at the Annual Meeting.
"Except for Director elections, three per centum of the Cooperative's total membership, present in person at a meeting, shall constitute a quorum for purposes of conducting a special meeting of the membership or the regularly-scheduled annual meeting of the membership. If less than a quorum is present at any meeting, a majority of those present in person may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice, provided, that the Secretary shall notify any absent members of the time and place of such adjourned meeting."
This change adds the term "Except for Director elections," to open the paragraph. This language makes clear that a quorum applies to members in attendance at membership meetings, not for Director elections.
"Each member of record shall be entitled to only one vote. All questions shall be decided by a vote of a majority of the members voting thereon in person, except as otherwise provided by law, the articles of incorporation or these bylaws."
This change adds the term "of record" to the sentence to form the term "member of record." This change strengthens the term, making clear that a vote may only be cast by a bona fide, current member of the Cooperative.
"The order of business at the annual meeting of the members and, so far as possible, at all other meetings of the members, shall be essentially as follows:
Report as to the number of members present in person in order to determine the existence of a quorum.
Reading of the notice of the meeting and proof of the due publication or mailing thereof, or the waiver or waivers of notice of the meeting, as the case may be.
Reading of unapproved minutes of previous meetings of the members and the taking of necessary action thereon.
Presentation and consideration of reports of officers, Directors and committees, if any.
Report on Director elections, if conducted
Unfinished business.
Such new business as shall have been published in the agenda incorporated into the official notice of the meeting.
Adjournment."
This change adds a report on any conducted Director elections to the Order of Business at the Annual Meeting. It also re-numbers the Order of Business following such report.
Proposed change 7 – To replace Article IV, Section 2 to read as follows:
"No person shall be eligible to become or remain a director or to hold any position of trust who:
(a) Is not a member and bona fide resident in the area served by the Cooperative and who does not reside within the Board District the director represents or,
(b) Is in any way employed by or financially interested in a competing enterprise or a business selling electric energy or electric materials and supplies to the Cooperative;
(c) Is the incumbent of or candidate for an elected public office;
(d) Has been in any manner employed by the Cooperative during the previous ten (10) years;
Upon establishing the fact that a director is holding office in violation of any of the foregoing provisions, it shall immediately become incumbent upon the Board of Directors to remove such director from office. Nothing contained in this section shall affect in any manner whatsoever the validity of any action taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors."
This change has two parts. First, it removes language from line (a) which read "(this provision shall not be applied retroactively and shall not affect any elections of directors held prior to the approval date of these changes of bylaws)". This removed language is unnecessary. Second, this change removes language from line (c) which read "in connection with which a salary or compensation in excess of $1,000.00 per annum is paid". This removed language eliminates any provision for an incumbent or candidate for an elected public office to hold a position on Claiborne Electric's Board of Directors.
Proposed change 8 – To replace the last paragraph of Article IV, Section 3 to read as follows:
"The Board of Directors shall provide for elections as the term of office of the director from that district expires. Director elections shall be held at the annual meeting of the general membership. Such elections shall be held on a staggered basis, three district elections per year, and Directors, once elected, shall serve for a term of three years. Such terms shall begin at the meeting of the Board of Directors held at its next regularly scheduled meeting following the annual meeting of the members. For purposes of Director elections, no quorum is required. Directors shall be elected by majority vote of all registered members casting ballots at that annual meeting. Should balloting result in a tie vote, the winner shall be determined by drawing lots, conducted by the current Board President or his designee. If no nominees are submitted, the vacancy shall be filled in accordance with Article IV, Section 6 of these by-laws."
This change moves Director elections from District Meetings to the Annual Meeting. This move allows Directors to be elected by the members in attendance at the Annual Meeting. This change also eliminates a quorum for the purpose of Director elections.
"Any three (3) members of record living within a district and acting together, may make a nomination for the Director from that district in writing during the month of January. Nominations will be due by close of business on the last business day of January. The secretary shall post such nominations at the principal office of the Cooperative in both Union and Claiborne Parishes. If only one nomination is submitted, the Board of Directors will declare the nominated candidate as the winner and shall not hold an election for that district. If no nominations are submitted, the seat will be considered a vacancy and will be handled according to Article IV, Section 6 of these bylaws."
This change removes language concerning the nomination period for the Board of Directors that could be confusing, changing the nomination period to the month of January each year. This change simplifies the nomination process and allows plenty of time for notification of Director elections in the Cooperative's publication. This change also dismisses the election process in the case that only one candidate is nominated. Also, this change adds the term "of record" in the same manner as proposed changes 1 and 5.
Proposed change 10 – To replace Article IV, Section 5 to read as follows:
"Any member may bring charges against a director by filing such charges in writing with the Secretary, together with a petition signed by at least ten per centum of the members residing in the district from which the director was elected. The director against whom such charges are brought shall be informed in writing thereof at least thirty days prior to the meeting at which the charges are to be considered and shall have opportunity at the special meeting to be heard in person or by counsel and to present evidence in respect of the charges; and the person or persons bringing the charges against him shall be given the same opportunity. The question of the removal of such director shall be considered and voted upon at the special meeting of the members from that district. Any vacancy created by such removal shall be filled in accordance with Article IV, Section 6 of these Bylaws."
This change increases the consistency of the Bylaws, making sure a vacancy on the Board of Directors is handled in the same manner under varying circumstances.
We believe the proposed changes presented to the members simplify language and processes. We think these changes also increase member involvement and transparency. We ask that our members make themselves familiar with the proposed changes. As we believe these changes are in the best interest of the Co-op and its membership, we urge members to approve these changes at the 2021 Annual Meeting.
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Jim Meyer's Borderlands
Making a run for the Turkic-Russian frontier...
Bio & CV
The JMB Lounge
Caucasus Journey XII: Last days in Georgia
These are my last days in Georgia, and I can't say I'm very happy about it. As is just about always the case, it's really a bummer to leave.
On Friday I spent my last day in the archive. I have to say, the Georgian Central Archives really impressed me. The director of the reading room is an 89 year-old woman named Christina who is about four feet tall, constantly wears a little white beret, and is sharp as a tack. She's stern--one day she really tore into someone (not me) who was secretly taking photos of documents with his camera phone (digital photos of docs cost about $3 per photo, so there's an obvious incentive for people to sneak their own). But she's also very nice. As is often the case in archives in the former Soviet Union, there are dozens of rules that inhibit things--here, for example, you're only allowed to order ten documents a day and the reading room is only open from eleven to four. But I tried to make up for the order limit by balancing requests for big files with small ones, and was lucky enough to receive permission to work from 10:30 to 5, so everything worked out fine.
The physical condition of the archive leaves a lot to be desired, even though the reading room was refurbished last August. While the temperature is quite warm on the street (in the low 20s, Celsius/in the 60s Fahrenheit), it's considerably colder in the reading room--that's the magic of Soviet architecture (I'm sure it's broiling hot in the summer, hotter than it is outside). In the mornings, I'd take a taxi to the archive wearing long underwear and a thermal shirt underneath a t-shirt. I'd wrap my computer in a sweater inside my shoulder bag, then break out the sweater after an hour or so inside the reading room. By the end of the day, my fingers would be stiff from the cold, and then I'd leave the archive at 5 and I'd see what a nice, warm, sunny day I'd been missing. By the time I got home (I'd take the subway back), I'd be more than a little sweaty from all of the layers I was wearing.
Basically, I've been working on two projects here. One is a revision of my dissertation comparing relations between tsarist authorities and Muslim communities in three regions of late imperial Russia: the Volga-Ural area, the Crimea, and the southern Caucasus. For this project, there isn't an incredible amount in Tbilisi, but the Caucasian aspect of this project focuses more upon Baku (where I spent five months researching in 2004-2005) anyway. In any case, I was still able to pick up the occasional scrap of interesting material here, especially with regard to the establishment of the Muslim spiritual assemblies (including the Sharia courts) in the early nineteenth century--most of the material on the daily existence of these institutions (which were, in fact, components of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs) can be found in Baku, but data relating to their creation is here (in fact, the assemblies were located in Tbilisi, but a lot of their archival files were sent to Baku in the 1970s).
The second project I'm working on relates to the border in the relations between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For this, I found an incredible amount in Georgia (not only in Tbilisi, but also in Batumi and Kutaisi, which I visited en route from Istanbul). I'm now looking forward to heading back to Turkey for a few more weeks of research in the Ottoman archives before returning in mid-June to Michigan, where a summer of writing, cycling, and swimming awaits me prior to starting my new job at Montana State this September.
My trip back to Istanbul isn't a very direct one. I had been planning on flying from Batumi to Istanbul, but then I decided that I had to see Kars. Kars is a city in eastern Turkey that was part of Russia from 1878 to 1920, and as such I've been interested in seeing it for quite some time. Indeed, I've done a fair bit of work on Muslims traveling between the two empires, and people traveling back and forth between Kars and other places in the Russian and Ottoman empires have been a topic of my research (such as with this article) for the last couple of years--I decided I just couldn't leave the region without seeing it.
Then, having made the decision to go to Kars, I decided to visit Van as well. Van is a place I've wanted to see since I was living in Turkey in the early 1990s--back then, the PKK was much more active in the region than is the case today. In Van, I'm especially interested in seeing some Van cats--animals which like to swim and have one green eye and one blue eye. Apparently, there's a research center/preserve dedicated to them at the local university, so hopefully I'll be able to check that out.
For now, I'm off to the steam baths and dinner!
Posted by Jim Meyer at 10:27:00 AM
Labels: Caucasus Journey, Travelogues
From the Borderlands Lodge...
I am an historian of the Turkic World, with over 25 years of experience living in and writing about Turkey and the former USSR. My first impressions of the region came when I was working as an English teacher in Istanbul from 1992-1999. During these years I traveled extensively in the Balkans, Turkey, the former USSR, the Middle East and Asia, and studied Russian and Hungarian in addition to Turkish before returning to the US to pursue a graduate education.
After receiving an MA from Princeton and a PhD from Brown, I held research fellowships with the NEH/American Research Institute in Turkey, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Since August of 2009 I have been a professor of Islamic World History at Montana State University in the cool little ski town of Bozeman, MT, holding the rank of associate professor since 2015. My first book, Turks Across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, was published by Oxford University Press in November of 2014. A paperback version of Turks Across Empires came out in July, 2019.
I spent the 2016-2017 academic year in Russia through the support of a Fulbright research scholar grant. Now I am back at MSU, where I typically teach two classes per semester on topics relating to the Balkans, the Middle East, and former Soviet space.
New articles out
"Echoes across the Black Sea: the Letters of Münevver Andaç to Nazım Hikmet." Middle Eastern Studies, July, 2020.
"Muslims in Russia and the Successor States." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, May, 2019.
"Nazım Hikmet and the First Generation of Turkish Students at Moscow's Communist University of the East." Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 2018), 195-218.
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Turks Across Empires
Reviews of Turks Across Empires
"...path-breaking...Meyer demonstrates brilliantly the shifts in articulation of cultural and political identities as well as change of the specific vocabulary in the written texts of the Turkic intellectuals."--Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
"Meyer's book is a page-turner, admittedly not a common trait in scholarly history works. It frequently turns into a sort of amusement park for historians, where the author parades so many newly unearthed, rich in detail, and immensely informative archival documents...finely tackles somewhat delicate yet thorny matters such as Turkism, Pan-Turkism, Ottomanism, and Islamism, as well as addresses the lives of humans who were doomed and perished or sometimes enriched and saved by those very same matters." --American Historical Review
"This thoroughly researched monograph offers a noteworthy caveat to the infatuation with 'identity' that for almost two decades characterized the post-Soviet scholarship on the non-Russian peoples of the Russian and Soviet empires...Meyer leaves us convinced that discourses and claims of identity need to be understood in relation to concrete power configurations and resulting opportunities, and not as articulations of perennial or even would-be nationhood." -- Russian Review
"James Meyer's Turks across Empires is a very valuable and intriguing reassessment of the origins of pan-Turkism through an in-depth examination of some of its leading figures...a great pleasure to read...Meyer's book is 'revisionist' in the sense that it successfully challenges many assumptions and arguments in the study of Russia's Muslims and pan-Turkism...provides a more complete, flesh-and-bone biographical reconstruction of these intellectuals and their milieu...the depiction of Kazan Tatars as 'insider Muslims' of Tsarist Russia is simply brilliant."--Turkish Review
"[Turks Across Empires] presents a wealth of information drawn from archives, periodical publications, memoirs, and other documentary evidence in the languages needed for such a study: Ottoman, Russian, Tatar, and the Turkic of Azerbaijan... As a result, Meyer's narrative fills in gaps and makes connections that nicely complement the steadily expanding literature on the late Ottoman/late Romanov period and the Turks who shaped their own and wider Turkic identities in that era. By extension, the identity question has profound implications for twentieth and even twenty-first century intellectual and political trajectories."--Review of Middle East Studies
"Based on an impressive array of sources from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan, James Meyer's monograph not only expands the knowledge about the Muslims of Russia but also provides a widely applicable argument about instrumentalization of identity in different political contexts." --Council for European Studies
"James Meyer pursues an imaginative approach to the final decades of the Russian and Ottoman Empires by focusing on the biographies of three activists—a Crimean Tatar, an Azerbaijani, and a Volga Tatar—who, while born in Russia, were men with substantial interest and experi- ence traveling to and living in the empire's southern neighbor. Biography becomes, thus, the modus operandi for unraveling the roles of these and similar men—"trans-imperial people," as Meyer calls them—in propagating pan-Turkism and suggesting it as a new identity for Turks, who were also overwhelmingly Muslim, everywhere."--Slavic Review
"A major contribution of this work is its use of original source material in Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Russian. Using personal correspondence and Ottoman and Russian tsarist era archives, Meyer traces four distinct periods to their trans-imperial existence moving back and forth between Istanbul, Kazan, Crimea, and Azerbaijan...an important contribution in several ways."--Turkish Area Studies Review
"…the book does a very good job in bringing the complexities of Russia's Muslim intellectual life of the late imperial period close to a readership broadly interested in the modernization of Russia's peripheries and in Russian-Ottoman relations… Meyer convincingly demonstrates that since the 1870s Muslim communities in inner Russia perceived the state as a threat, especially in view of the administrative attempts at taking control over Muslim schools."--Journal of World History
"...impressive...James Meyer's book is a collective biography of the most prominent pan-Turkists—Yusuf Akçura (1876–1935), Ahmet Ağaoğlu (1869–1939), and İsmail Gasprinskii (1851–1914)—by means of which the author reveals the patterns of migration from the Middle Volga, Southeast Caucasus, and Crimea to the Ottoman lands and back, as well as local politics in each protagonist's original region…The fruit of this admirable exercise is most visible when Meyer demonstrates the simultaneous formation of population policy on both the Russian and Ottoman shores of the Black Sea."--Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
"Few Ottomanists understand the complexities of the situation of Muslims in the Russian Empire, while scholars of the Russian Empire have tended to imagine the Ottoman Empire only in broad brushstrokes. Meyer is one of a small new crop of scholars who possess the requisite skills…The narrative is richly documented and thick—perhaps the best account of Volga–Ural public life in English…" --International Journal of Middle East Studies
"Le projet est particulièrement ambitieux et l'ouvrage est très riche, reposant sur des sources en plusieurs langues...Meyer offre une contribution très importante à l'étude des conflits, des tensions et des dissensions au sein même du monde musulman de l'Empire russe, dans la région de la Volga, entre le clergé institutionnalisé des Assemblées spirituelles et de nouvelles élites intellectuelles ou marchandes qui tentent de s'octroyer, au gré des soubresauts de la vie politique, un espace grandissant de liberté."--Bulletin des Annales Islamologiques
"Meyer, assistant professor of Islamic world history at Montana State University, draws from Turkish, Georgian, Azerbaijani, and Russian archives to bridge the gap between borderlands and peoples in this innovative study of the origins of pan-Turkism. Tautly argued and empirically grounded, the book highlights the diverse nature of identity formulation during the late imperial era, when the forces of modernity presented new challenges to traditional religious communities".--Canadian Slavonic Papers
"Turks Across Empires is deeply-researched, drawing on sources in Russian and multiple Turkic languages from no fewer than thirteen archives in the former Soviet Union and Turkey. This research is showcased beautifully in chapter one ('Trans-Imperial People'), which is a superb, groundbreaking introduction to the large demographic of Muslims who — like Akcura, Gasprinskii and Agaoglu — moved between the Russian and Ottoman Empires"--Slavonic and East European Review
Bulletin des Annales Islamogiques
Canadian Slavonic Papers
Central Asian Survey
Council for European Studies
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
Journal of World History
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
Review of Middle East Studies
Revolutionary Russia
Russian Review
Sehepunkte
Slavic Review
Slavonic and East European Review
Turkish Area Studies Review
Turkish Review
Turks Across Empires on the Ottoman History Podcast.
Interview with one of my students at MSU about Turks Across Empires on the History Roundtable
Borderland Categories
Anatolian Express
Bear News
Caucasus Journey
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Ergenekon
Georgia/South Ossetia Crisis
ISIS/Islamic State/Daesh/Sonic Death Monkey
İsyanbol/Gezi Park
Japan Trip
Montana Pictures
Nâzım Hikmet
News & Propaganda
Russia/ex-USSR
Sabbatical Stories
Turkish Politics and the News Trilogy
US/World politics
Browse the Borderland archives:
Caucasus Journey XVI: Back in Istanbul
Caucasus Journey XV: Visiting Van
Caucasus Journey XIV: In Kars
Caucasus Journey XIII: From Tbilisi to Artvin
Borderland Roundup: this week's news and propaganda
Tensions rising in Tbilisi
Mutiny reported at base outside Tbilisi
Turkish roundup: this week's news and propaganda
Featured Borderposts...
Borderland Classix:
Review: N. Breyfogle's Heretics and Colonizers
Steve Kotkin and Eurasia, Part 1
Steve Kotkin and Eurasia, Part Deux
Review: Robert Crews' For Prophet and Tsar
A Putinesque Muzzling of the Media
The Ergenekon Investigation
A Newspaper called Taraf and its many foreign fans
Turkish PM Erdogan: I'm no maganda
Decision 2009: The race for muhtar
A little bleary in the archives
Turkish Money Talk
My Take on the Crackdown on DTP
Thousands March in Ankara to Protest Ergenekon
A busy week: Ufa-Kazan
Caucasian journey III: Crossing the border
More thoughts on South Ossetia
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Caucasian journey XIV: In Kars
Caucasian journey XV: Wrapping things up in Van
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Confronting our fears
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A very borderlandy Christmas...
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Crimea on the Brink: What's Going On?
Erdoğan's interview with Charlie Rose
Great Game: The US and Russia in Post-Soviet Space
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Menderes Thesis: Still Around Today
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Photos from Istanbul
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Raising the Roof: More Observations re Gezi
Remember Ergenekon?
Starting to feel a bit Borderlandy
Stuffing the Genie back into the Bottle
The Scene in Taksim-Gezi
Turkey: On to the Next Crusade
Will he or won't he? Putin and E. Ukraine
Busy Times in the Bozone/Ron LeFlore
Turkey: Erecting Change
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Stories / Beard House
A Reunion at the Beard House
A glimpse into the world of catering at 167 W. 12th Street
Ted Lee
English Pea Cappellacci with Willow Creek Cheese, Sungold Tomatoes, Calabrian Chiles, and Bottarga Bread Crumbs (Photo: David Chow)
When we say the James Beard Foundation is about good food for good, it's not limited to sustainable agriculture, the Farm Bill, or reducing food waste. Another important aspect of our mission is highlighting the myriad hands that are helping to shape American cuisine. Below, JBF Award–winning author Ted Lee recounts two James Beard House dinners that serve as bookends to the unexpected exploration of the catering world which inspired his new book Hotbox, cowritten by his brother (and fellow Beard Award winner) Matt Lee. Set eight years apart, these dinners touch on the grueling conditions that characterize the world of high-end catering, and the impressive chefs that arise from those experiences, with nary a "rubber chicken breast" in sight.
Monday, June 10, just past six o'clock, I reached for the doorknob of the James Beard House with trepidation. I was headed to a dinner hosted by James Beard Award winner Steven Satterfield, chef of the Atlanta restaurant Miller Union. Nothing intimidating on the face of it—Miller Union was just named best restaurant in the city by Atlanta magazine, and Satterfield had brought together some of his favorite East Coast chefs for a collaborative meal. Yet I still was nervous, because the last Satterfield dinner I'd attended at the Beard House—exactly eight years and three days prior—had completely altered the years of my life that followed. Who knew what might happen this time?!
Long story short: June 7, 2011, Satterfield helmed his first Beard House event. At the time, Miller Union had been open less than two years, but Satterfield knew the House's challenges from having cooked there as a chef-de-cuisine at Watershed. For his first solo turn, he brought along his chef-de-cuisine Justin Burdett and recruited me and my brother, Matt (co-writer of our three cookbooks), to prepare the hors d'oeuvre and a specialty cocktail. And most importantly, he'd reached out to Patrick Phelan, a friend he knew through indie-rock circles, who was also executive chef for a Manhattan caterer. Phelan came with his two best catering chefs, brothers Juan and Jorge Soto.
That night was unseasonably warm, and things really heated up when it came time to fire the third and fourth courses, 75 servings each of sautéed quail and an oxtail crépinette. For the next half-hour the caterers were everywhere at once, with Satterfield and Burdett expediting. Without wasted gesture, the catering chefs worked sauté pans on every burner—at times sheet pans on burners, a makeshift griddle!
The meal was a huge success, and in the afterglow we marveled to the catering chefs. But Phelan and the Sotos were having none of it. That was only 75 guests, they said.
"But what about that small kitchen…?" we asked.
The chefs with culinary school volunteers in the Beard House kitchen on June 10, 2019 (Photo: David Chow).
"At least we didn't have to build it ourselves," Phelan retorted. He and the Sotos explained: at the venues in New York where they cook seated dinners for 400 or 1,400 people, the "kitchen" might be a loading dock or a closet under a staircase. There's never running water, electricity, or gas lines—they're cooking over sternos, in aluminum transport cabinets. And they still have to deliver on the promise of a ticket that might cost four thousand dollars a head!
For me and Matt, a new world opened up that night. We were so intrigued that we hired ourselves out to Phelan as $10/hour kitchen assistants, and dove into a narrative non-fiction book about the hidden world of catering kitchens.
A couple months in, we learned that before Phelan had become a catering chef in New York City, he'd been a restaurant chef in Richmond. He yearned to return to Virginia with his wife, Megan Fitzroy-Phelan, the head baker at Sullivan Street Bakery. They planned to partner with Andrew Manning, a former mentor of Phelan's, who'd spent the last decade cooking in Italy.
In Phelan's New York food world, every service was a military-grade planning effort…until his kitchen was set up; then it became an improv act, as best-laid plans crashed into the realities onsite, be it weather, the terrain, or the crazy contingencies that result from attempting to serve fine food simultaneously to a thousand people in a field in Southampton or a museum's lobby.
After ten years, Patrick and Megan returned to Richmond and hatched plans with Andrew for Longoven, their dream restaurant. Finding the perfect space consumed almost three years, but Phelan's catering background proved the perfect prep for pop-ups. The trio embarked on a series of events that garnered praise from Bon Appétit—who named Longoven one of its Best New Restaurants in 2016. The crew renovated a warehouse in the Scott's Addition neighborhood of Richmond. The same month—June 2018—that Longoven opened, we turned in the final draft of Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business.
Scallop Crudo with Picked Green Strawberry, Fermented Radish, Meyer Lemon, and Yuzu Kombucha (photo: David Chow)
Part of our motivation in writing about catering was our sense that it doesn't get the respect it deserves—that old "rubber chicken" joke. But Matt and I feel like the magic that happens nightly at the Beard House comes from the fact that every chef working the kitchen is, in essence, catering—far from his or her own terra firma, yet striving to deliver the quality of cooking and style of service that represents his or her "house." Something extraordinary happens when a chef transposes the artistry of her restaurant to an entirely new place.
I could tell the moment I entered the Beard House kitchen on June 10 that I had no reason to be intimidated. True, the kitchen was packed with more chefs than I'd ever seen, and a freezer was on the fritz, but everyone was in great spirits. The roster included Jon Sybert from Michelin-starred Tail Up Goat in Washington, D.C., and Michael Stoltzfus from New Orleans's Coquette, a 2019 nominee for the Beard Award for Best Chef: South. The Longoven chefs were in charge of the first course and dessert, and Satterfield was grilling beef short loins in the backyard as the first guests arrived.
Blueberry, Buttermilk, and Fig Leaf Sorbet with Rye (Photo: David Chow)
Toward the close of the cocktail hour, I spotted Phelan snipping shiso leaves from planters in the greenhouse for the first course, a scallop crudo with pickled green strawberries, fermented radish, and Meyer Lemon kombucha. I popped into the kitchen just as Manning was spooning the kombucha over thinly-sliced coins of scallop.
Dinner that night was a triumph, and after Fitzroy-Phelan's dessert—a fig-leaf sorbet with blueberries, buttermilk, and rye crackers, the chefs processed to the dining room for the traditional post-dinner lineup.
Satterfield kicked off the remarks: "It's such a pleasure and an honor to be here again, eight years from my maiden voyage," he said, and admitted that even with the partnerships he'd brought to the House then, serving up five courses had been especially onerous compared to the one course he'd served out this evening.
"I realized tonight it's so much easier to get all your friends to come with you, and split up the work!"
See the full menu from Steven Satterfield's recent dinner.
Check out what's coming up at the Beard House this summer.
Matt Lee and Ted Lee are the authors of three award-winning cookbooks about Southern food, and the recently published Hotbox. Learn more about their work at mattleeandtedlee.com.
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In the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the world was faced with a challenge—how to hold individually accountable those German leaders who were responsible for the commission of monstrous crimes against humanity and international peace. The International Military Tribunal (IMT) held in Nuremberg, Germany, attempted to face this immense challenge. On October 18, 1945, the chief prosecutors of the IMT brought charges against 24 leading German officials, among them Alfred Jodl.
Alfred Jodl (1890–1946) was Chief of the Armed Forces High Command Operations Staff. In this capacity Jodl directed all military campaigns and participated in planning and authorizing the brutal methods that the German Armed Forces employed while waging war.
Jodl was found guilty on all four counts (conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity) and sentenced to death. He was hanged on October 16, 1946.
Investigate Jodl's life and background. What choices did he make as he rose to prominence and authority?
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"While we still get some requests for traditional roses, which are so elegant and timeless, we are getting more requests for rustic style bride's bouquets this year," says Mona Abdul, owner of Stavebank Florist in Port Credit.
Stavebank Florist has been serving the Port Credit community since 1963 and offers a wide spectrum of floral services including weddings. Asked to choose one bouquet to design which speaks to today's trends, Mona quickly describes her choice; "The rustic bouquet with lots and lots of greenery like seed eucalyptus and other greens with about five different flowers, such as three large garden roses and two peonies, perhaps berries—the rustic bouquet is a very busy bouquet!" The bouquet sounded so divine, we asked Mona to recreate it for us for our photo shoot! Stavebank Florist is located at 120 Lakeshore Road East in Port Credit, www.stavebankflorist.com.
As the name suggests, Euro Flowers in Port Credit source flowers from around the globe for weddings and other occasions. Located right next to the picturesque Port Credit lighthouse, owner Yvonne Borys and her team can proudly create the bouquet of your dreams.
"The flowers used in a bride's bouquet really depend on the bride's personal taste," states Yvonne. "The biggest trend we are seeing right now is greenery and succulents used with off- white or hints of colour to coordinate with the bridesmaid dresses or colour scheme of the wedding. White with greenery is a look that is contemporary and modern and is certainly the most predominant look on Pinterest right now." To illustrate the trend, Yvonne created a vision of white and green which would have any bride swooning with desire! Euro Flowers is located at 119 Lakeshore Road West in Mississauga, www.euroflowers.ca.
Sarah, who is both a florist and a wedding planner, created a bride's bouquet which incorporates hot pink, light pink, white and lots of greenery. "For 2017, it's all about greenery," states Sarah. "In fact Pantone just announced the colour Greenery is the 2017 Pantone Colour of 2017! Symbolizing new beginnings, it's a perfect fit for the outdoor, rustic wedding and vibe." Fairview Flowers is located at 3355 Hurontario Street, Unit #3 in Mississauga, www.fairviewflorist.ca.


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Radhika Bynon
UK Board Chair
Radhika [she/her/hers] is passionate about women leading change, with expertise on working with grassroots changemakers to develop and deliver initiatives that address local priorities. She is Director of Communities and Places at The Young Foundation, where she leads a diverse program of social innovation projects tackling inequality, including Reimagining Rent, the UK's first accelerator for addressing inequality in the private rented sector, and Communities Driving Change, a program tackling health inequalities in one of London's toughest boroughs. Previously she worked on the Prime Minister's Council on Social Action, working with some of the UK's leading innovators from business, non-profits, and government under the leadership of Prime Minister Gordon Brown to national create systems to enhance social action.
Radhika is co-founder and Chair of Asha Trust, working with women in Sri Lanka to tackle the challenges that blight opportunities for them and their community. She is collaborating with activists in Tanzania to develop a health center in Mugoma, providing essential services to a poorly-served rural community. She leads on innovation support for RootsLab in Lebanon, supporting young feminist action in partnership with Oxfam, FRIDA and Global Fund for Women. She sits on the board of Community Links, a large non-profit in east London, and Education Links, a school for excluded young people.
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McCaskill is in a tough re-election bid this year and statistically tied with her Republican challenger, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, in a state Trump won by +11 points. McCaskill only barely sneaked through her 2012 re-election when the establishment media assumed the role of her campaign chief to personally destroy her opponent, Todd Akin.
Hawley has already hit McCaskill concerning the RV deceit. McCaskill's "definition of being 'the hardest working Democrat in the Party.' Skipping out on her luxury RV to fly in her luxury jet. It must be good to be rich and liberal," he tweeted.
"Claire McCaskill is desperate to put on a folksy act when she's back in Missouri, but she's too much of an elitist to even stick to a three-day RV tour without hopping on her private plane," National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Bob Salera told Politico.
McCaskill's private plane usage became an issue in 2011 when the public learned she had not paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in property taxes on a plane she sold in 2011.
The RV tour, which concluded on June 1, was advertised as just that. The impression given was that McCaskill was just like any other Middle American who hits the road on camping trips.
She's just like us! is how the trip was presented, and at no time was the public informed McCaskill was flying on a luxury plane when voters were led to believe she was riding in a luxury RV.


For the love of bunnies, zombies and frocks!: Calling All Beavers!!
Stay out of the water, board up your windows and doors because everybody's favourite furry little creature has received the zombie treatment and these blood thirsty beavers are lurking in the darkness waiting to gnaw away at your good bits (see below).
Welcome to Zombeavers, the flagship for a new era of zombified animal horror movies (Squirrels is on the way). So you know when people say that a movie is so bad that it's good? Well Zombeavers is certainly one of those movies! From the creative opening credits and the super authentic 80's inspired music, I was hooked and ready to see just how bad these naughty beavers could bite.
Naturally with a strong 'R' rating for depictions of blood, sexing and at times poor acting, Zombeavers does a marvellous job of not taking itself seriously at all. Yes the predictable plot of mildly attractive '20 somethings' stuck in a cabin making radically stupid decisions is a tired story that is all too familiar but strangely this movie hurtles along at a quick pace and keeps you entertained throughout.
There is no news of a Zombeavers 2, but frankly I could watch approximately 8 installments worth of zombie beavers terrorising hapless pretty people who have no idea how to outwit or outsmart these blood thirsty 'beasts'. Maybe we need to start campaigning now with Zombeavers 2: Beaver Fever, Zombeavers 3: Beaver Forever, not to mention the 4th installment that serves as a reboot Zombeavers Vs Zombears – as you can see the possibilities are endless and perfectly horrendous!


The Egyptian army says an air strike killed some of the attackers involved in Friday's massacre when at least 235 people died in a bomb-and-gun attack on a mosque.
In a statement late on Friday, army spokesman Tamer Rifai said the Egyptian air force chased down the assailants who, according to officials, arrived in four 4WD vehicles and carried out the attack during noon prayers.
"The air forces chased the terrorists and discovered and destroyed a number of vehicles that were involved in carrying out the brutal terrorist attack... Those on board were also killed," Rifai said.
The massacre occurred in Bir al-Abed, a town in North Sinai province.
The mosque - about 40km west of El Arish, the provincial capital of North Sinai - was frequented by followers of Sufism, a more mystical form of Islam.
No group has claimed responsibility. The government declared a three-day period of mourning for the victims.
Egyptian state media MENA said 120 people were also wounded in the attack.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi condemned the assault, which he described as "criminal" and "cowardly" in a televised statement on Friday.
He said the attack "will not go unpunished".
Egypt has for years battled an armed anti-government campaign on the rugged and thinly populated Sinai Peninsula, which has gained pace since the military overthrew democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in mid-2013.
In 2014, following a suicide bombing that killed 33 soldiers, Sisi declared a state of emergency on the peninsula, describing it as a "nesting ground for terrorism and terrorists".
Previous attacks in Sinai mostly targeted security forces and members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority.
However, mosques in North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid town have also been hit.
The Bir al-Abed mosque was an easy target because it was outside the province's main cities.
The mosque may also have been targeted because it was attended by members of the Sufi sect who are considered infidels by armed groups such as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
In 2016, ISIL fighters released images purportedly showing the execution of a 100-year-old Sufi religous leader, whom they accused of "witchcraft".
Timothy Kaldas, a professor at Nile University in Cairo, told Al Jazeera Friday's assault "fits the pattern of ISIS attacks".


The report mainly focuses on the relationship building with the customer of Venus. This report is prepared for the requirement of BBA Program of United International University. This report designed for the expression of the experience I gathered while working as an Intern in the X-Index group. Through the Intern period, I learned how to analyze the benefits of Customer relation. In particular, this report is based on the several factors that impact on the marketing relationship including reciprocity, empathy, symmetry, cooperation and two-way communication. Based on the Venus Ceramics, these elements are studied and examined how they are practiced in the said company in building the relationship. Due to work in X-Index Group, I developed my skills on Customer Relationship. I acquire knowledge on how to develop customer relationship. My concern was understood the benefits of the customer relationship, and implement them in my work. As an intern through I have faced tough duty while doing intern, but I have learned a lot of things which will help in my future corporate or professional life that will help me to do better in my future career.


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Yes, with the news that the Vancouver Canucks have acquired forward Steve Bernier from the Buffalo Sabres, we immediately flashed back to last November when we wrote the following post entitled "The Problem With the Sedins and Naslund Line."
A few excerpts, if you will, from a time when the Canucks were actually winning, coming off their fifth victory in six games:
…there has to be some consternation that the Canucks are being led offensively by a line with three average-sized, perimeter players. That, of course, would be Daniel and Henrik Sedin and Markus Naslund, a trio that's high on talent but low on grit… In the KB's humble opinion, the ideal linemate for the Sedins would be a big, tough forward that can put the puck in the net from about five feet away… …think about it: big and tough; can put the puck in the net. Ryan Kesler has the former, but he lacks the latter. Not to mention, he's a centre. Taylor Pyatt has the latter, but he lacks the former, at least on a consistent basis. After those two, the Canucks get really thin in the big-forward category. (And then we suggested the Canucks consider Mike Knuble, but that's not important.) A cheaper and younger version of Knuble might be found in the San Jose Sharks' Steve Bernier ($850,000 and 22). Bernier is 6'2 and 225 pounds and definitely has scoring potential. In 2002-03, he scored 49 times for Moncton of the QMJHL. His first year in the NHL (2005-06), he potted 14 goals in 39 games.
So, anyway, we suppose we have to give the thumbs up to this deal.
Here's a taste of Steve Bernier. (Finally a Right-Handed Shot video)


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Steve Ganis
SGanis@mintz.com
Steve has over 15 years of experience as a government and private-sector lawyer practicing financial services law, specializing in the federal banking, securities, and derivatives laws. He is globally recognized for his knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions regulations.
He handles a wide range of matters for institutions and high-level financial services executives involving regulation of clearing and introducing broker-dealers, mutual funds, hedge funds, transfer agents, private equity funds, institutional investors, banks, thrifts, insurance companies, futures commission merchants, commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators, foreign exchange and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives dealers, money services businesses, clearing agencies, alternative trading systems, and futures and options exchanges.
Steve has represented firms as outside counsel, a compliance officer, or in-house counsel before all major US financial services regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Agency (FINRA, formerly the NASD and NYSE), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and various state banking regulators.
Steve has experience in the full range of laws governing regulated financial institutions, including the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940 ('40 Act), the Commodity Exchange Act, the Bank Holding Company Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the National Bank Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (including the USA Patriot Act), the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Trading with the Enemy Act, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
He analyzes and applies these statutes and their regulations to achieve practical business and operations solutions for a wide variety of sectors and activities, including asset management, transfer agency, retail and institutional brokerage, clearance and settlement, commercial banking, trust and custody services, payments processing, and spot, futures and OTC derivatives trading. In addition, Steve has considerable experience with due diligence and regulatory issues in mergers and acquisitions of financial services complexes.
From 2003 to 2008, Steve served on the US Department of the Treasury Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG), a committee of regulators, law enforcement officials, and industry experts who advise the Director of FinCEN concerning AML regulation and the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.
Steve speaks and teaches frequently about AML and OFAC, including at the FINRA Institute at the Wharton School of Business and FINRA's AML Boot Camp, and on numerous panels at conferences and seminars of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA, formerly SIA), the Investment Company Institute (ICI), the National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA), and other industry and bar associations.
Before joining Mintz, Steve was the chief anti-money laundering and US sanctions officer at Fidelity Investments, where for six years he centrally led programs throughout Fidelity to comply with the USA Patriot Act of 2001, the Bank Secrecy Act, various state and federal criminal money laundering statutes, OFAC sanctions, and other US foreign policy and national security measures. He served as statutory AML officer for each of Fidelity's US mutual funds, broker-dealers, and banking entities as well as a UK asset manager and a money services business.
There, his responsibilities included overseeing all aspects of AML and OFAC compliance implementation and operation, including enterprise-wide compliance policy, strategy, and prioritization; response to suspicious customer activity; reporting to and governance by mutual fund and trust company boards; coordination with regulators, law enforcement, and industry regarding potential money laundering and terrorist financing; suspicious activity detection, name matching logic, and other requirements for transaction monitoring and customer due diligence systems and processes; development, maintenance, and enhancement of policies, procedures, and internal controls; integration of AML programs into Sarbanes-Oxley and '40 Act Rule 38a-1 governance frameworks; and development and delivery of training content to approximately 20,000 employees every year.
Steve came to Fidelity from the law firm of Goodwin Procter, where he practiced banking, securities, and derivatives regulatory law, representing financial institutions on structure, new products, bank mergers and acquisitions, SEC enforcement, and banking litigation matters.
Steve was counsel to the Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the US House of Representatives for five years during the late 1990's. He advised the committee chairman and members on capital markets, securities, and government-sponsored enterprises. On Capitol Hill, Steve became full committee point person on swaps, derivatives, and proposed hedge fund legislation. In addition, he worked extensively for the committee on money laundering legislation and investigations of Colombian drug trafficking, hearings on the Russian mafia, and the restitution of laundered funds and assets to Holocaust victims and their families.
From 1992 to 1995, Steve served as a general attorney in the SEC Office of the General Counsel, where he advised the commission and divisions on legal issues arising in international, enforcement, market regulation, investment management, and legislative matters. Among other things, he worked at the SEC on cross-border disgorgement of laundered securities fraud proceeds.
After he received his bachelor's degree, he won a Graduate Fellowship from Rotary International and pursued advanced studies in political science for a year at the Università degli Studi of Bologna, Italy. In college, he served as a White House intern.
Harvard Law School (JD)
Dartmouth College (BA)
Developed intra-organization FCPA compliance delegation arrangements among affiliated asset management firms.
Advise money services businesses on potential applicability and CFPB enforcement exposure.
Spearheaded anti-corruption due diligence for US asset managers, overseeing privileged work by outside forensic/investigative services providers, in multiple significant potential investments by current and former senior foreign political figures and/or their relatives.
Advise peer-to-peer and small business lending platform operators on nature and scope of prohibitions and CFPB enforcement exposure.
Advised an asset management institution on identity theft "red flags" requirements under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FATCA).
Advised credit card issuer regarding compliance with provisions of the Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z, including with respect to ability to repay requirements (and related Fair Credit Reporting Act questions).
Advised a lender on prohibition against conditioning credit extension on preauthorized automated clearinghouse (ACH) transfers.
Investigated the entertainment of a South Korean sovereign wealth fund officials by a U.S. fund manager registered with the SEC as an investment adviser.
Advised a large insurer on compliance and legal systems, processes, and risks regarding a contemplated initiative to accept premiums and/or pay claims in bitcoin.
Developed anti-corruption programs for multiple biotech/cleantech companies, including pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics, including policies, procedures and controls for due diligence, agent oversight, expense monitoring, travel, meals and entertainment.
Advised a large Fortune 500 company on legal and regulatory aspects of a significant transaction with a major bitcoin platform.
Assist a large pharmacy chain in the implementation of TILA and Regulation Z compliance in their consumer charge account program.
Advised a note holder and servicer on US sanctions restrictions applicable to loan extended US entity owned by "specially designated national" whose assets were blocked for arms trafficking.
Advised US medical provider accreditation boards extensively on managing FCPA risks in structuring and negotiating transaction with consortium of national health regulators of several Middle East nations.
Conducted internal investigation into Southeast Asian travel and entertainment of Algerian military officials for publicly traded US company that sells telecommunications equipment to Algerian military.
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SEC Proposes Relief from Broker-Dealer Registration for Certain Finders
October 13, 2020 |Alert
SEC's Proposed Broker-Dealer Exemption May Apply to "Finders" for Municipal Securities
October 13, 2020 |Blog
Newly Expanded CFIUS Jurisdiction
February 12, 2020 |Alert
Fifty Mintz Attorneys Named to Pro Bono Honor Rolls by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services
Mintz Represents Right Networks in Sale of Controlling Interest to BV Investment Partners
Mintz represented Right Networks in selling a controlling interest in the company to BV Investment Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on the business services and IT services sectors.
Mintz Attorney Steve Ganis to Speak at Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists Annual Conference & Exhibition
Mergers & Acquisitions in the RIA Industry
US Sanctions Relating to Russia
Mintz Member Steve Ganis will present in a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Russian law firm, Vegas Lex.
Compliance & Risk Forum
Mintz's Steve Ganis spoke as a panelist at Thomson Reuter's Compliance & Risk Forum in Boston on the topic "Unraveling the Hidden Risks Surrounding Sanctioned Entities."
October 13, 2020 | Alert | By Steve Ganis
Read about an SEC proposal to exempt certain individuals seeking to find investors for private companies and unregistered funds from federal broker-dealer regulation requirements.
October 13, 2020 | Blog | By Steve Ganis, Leonard Weiser-Varon
February 12, 2020 | Alert | By Cory S. Flashner, Steve Ganis, Robert Kidwell, Alyssa C. Scruggs
This alert covers new regulations taking effect on February 13, 2020 that significantly broaden CFIUS's jurisdiction by granting it significant new review power over foreign investments in US businesses and real estate.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Invalidates the 2016 Final Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule and Related Prohibited Transaction Exemptions
April 11, 2018 | Blog | By Alden Bianchi, Steve Ganis
What's a financial advisor to do? On March 15, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. v. U.S. Dep't. of Labor, No. 17-10238, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 6472 (5th Cir. Mar. 15, 2018) vacated – thereby invalidating – a series of seven rules (which we collectively refer to in this post as the "fiduciary rule") issued in April 2016.
Two Recent SEC No Action Letters Establish Standards for Crowdsourcing Online Platforms Limited to "Accredited Investors" to Avoid Registration as a Broker-Dealer
April 3, 2018 | Alert | By Daniel DeWolf, Jeremy Glaser, Steve Ganis, Melanie Ruthrauff Levy
In two recent no action letters, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") granted no action relief for two venture capital online funding platforms, the FundersClub, Inc. ("FundersClub") and AngelList, LLC ("AngelList"), allowing them to avoid registering as broker-dealers under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") even though their affiliates will receive some compensation in the form of a carried interest.
The Department of Labor's 2016 Final Fiduciary and Conflict of Interest Regulations: The Principal Transactions Exemption
June 13, 2016 | Blog | By Alden Bianchi, Steve Ganis
This post continues our examination of the Department of Labor's suite of final fiduciary and conflict of interest regulations. Our prior posts discussed the newly expanded definition of "investment advice fiduciary" and the "best interest contract" (or BIC) exemption.
SEC charges "Which EB-5" owners with securities law violations
June 25, 2015 | Blog | By Douglas Hauer, Steve Ganis
On June 23, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a press release in connection with charging two firms that unlawfully brokered more than $79 million of EB-5 investments to more than 150 investors seeking U.S. residency under the EB-5 Investor Visa Program.
US Sanctions as Diplomacy Tools and Political Weapons: Complexities and Opportunities for the Business Community
February 5, 2015 | Alert | By Steve Ganis
In response to a number of foreign policy crises encountered over the past few years, the Obama Administration has sought a new and more aggressive approach to using sanctions to advance US global security goals.
A Committee of Fund Manager Personnel May Not Be Able to Provide the Requisite Consent on Behalf of the Fund for a Principal Transaction
June 25, 2014 | Blog | By Steve Ganis
Fund managers may wish from time to time to conduct, or for their principals or affiliates to conduct, securities transactions opposite the fund. The Advisers Act prohibits such transactions – called "principal transactions" – where the fund manager or its principals or affiliates transact with the fund for their own account without full disclosure to, and prior consent of, the fund.
The Case That Could Significantly Disrupt How Companies Manage Their Gift Card Programs and Could Create Billions of Dollars in Exposure
May 20, 2014 | Alert | By Breton Leone-Quick, Steve Ganis
Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Operational Excellence In Client Lifecycle Management
A Presentation to the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
Marriott Long Wharf, Boston, MA
Cellular and IoT on Wall Street
The Security Ledger
3rd Summit on FCPA, AML and OFAC Risks for Private Equity & Hedge Funds
Park Lane Hotel, New York, NY
Increased Scrutiny by Regulators of Cybersecurity
The New England Broker/Dealer and Investment Adviser Association
Life-Cycle of a Securities Sales Practice Dispute
Boston Bar Association
16 Beacon Street Boston, MA
Another Cop on the Cybersecurity Beat: What to Do Before and After the SEC and FINRA Come Knocking
Eight Things You Need To Know To Strengthen Your Sanctions Compliance Program
AML Services International
ACFCS Financial Crime Conference & Exhibition
1335 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY
OFAC Regulation of Portfolio Management and Custody


This orchestral fresco draws on an exotic, fairy-tale world of adventure and romance, evoking images of Sinbad, the princess Scheherazade, the perils of the high seas and the magnificent feasts of Baghdad. Korngold revolutionised Hollywood film scoring with his post-Romantic themes but, when he tired of this (with two Oscars under his belt), he returned to his beloved symphony music. In 1947 he composed one of the twentieth century's most outstanding violin concertos, loaded with passion and dedicated to Alma Mahler. According to the composer the piece needs to be "performed by a Caruso and a Paganini in one person". The programme opens with a piece by China's most international modern composer, the winner of an Oscar for best film score and composer of the music for the Beijing Olympics.


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Found (stylized as found.) is a 2012 horror film written and directed by Scott Schirmer. It is based on the novel of the same name by Todd Rigney. The October People picked up the distribution rights in 2014 after playing at various film festivals.
Through narration, 12-year-old Marty tells the story of discovering his brother Steve is a serial killer when he took Steve's bowling ball bag without asking and discovered a human head inside. Each week, Marty finds a new head, usually of a black woman, inside the bag hidden in Steve's closet. Marty keeps the confusing discovery to himself, and immerses himself in a world of watching horror movies and drawing comic books with his best friend David.
A black classmate named Marcus bullies Marty at school. Marty refuses to fight back, which indirectly leads to a rumor that Marty tried to kiss Marcus. Marcus is given detention and Marty is sent home.
Marty sneaks into his brother's room again but finds that the bowling bag is empty. He turns on Steve's stereo and looks at himself in the mirror while wearing Steve's rubber gasmask. Steve enters unexpectedly and yells at his brother for being in his room. He then asks why Marty is home from school and learns that his brother did not stick up for himself during his fight with Marcus.
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Found (foaled 13 March 2012) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. Sired by Galileo out of the mare Red Evie she represents the Coolmore Stud organisation and is trained by Aidan O'Brien. In 2014 she won a strong maiden race on her debut and then finished third in the Moyglare Stud Stakes before winning the Prix Marcel Boussac. She was rated the equal-best two-year-old filly to race in Europe in 2014. In 2015 she finished second in her first three starts (including the Irish 1000 Guineas and the Coronation Stakes) before winning the Royal Whip Stakes. She then finished second in the Irish Champion Stakes, ninth in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and second in the Champion Stakes. She ended her season by becoming the first three-year-old filly to win the Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland.
Found is a bay filly with a narrow white blaze bred in Ireland by Roncon, Wynatt & Chelston, a group associated with the Coolmore Stud organisation. She was sired by Galileo, who won the Derby, Irish Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2001. Galileo is now one of the world's leading stallions and has been champion sire of Great Britain and Ireland five times. His other progeny include Cape Blanco, Frankel, Golden Lilac, Nathaniel, New Approach, Rip Van Winkle and Ruler of the World. Found is the fourth foal produced by Red Evie, a top-class racemare whose wins included the Lockinge Stakes. Red Evie was a descendant of Time and Chance, a mare who produced the Ascot Gold Cup winner Random Shot.
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The Missing is a series of fictional young-adult novels written by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It tells the story of famous children from history stolen by futuristic time travelers from their place in time and accidentally sent to the 21st century as babies. They are then adopted by families in the 21st century. Because Jonah is one of the stolen children, he, along with his non-adopted sister Katherine, must help return the missing kids to their rightful places in history and fix time before it is destroyed. The first book in the series, Found, was published on April 22, 2008. The series continued with book titles Sent, Sabotaged, Torn, Caught, Risked (originally intended to be titled Kept), and Revealed. The eighth and final book, Redeemed, was released on September 8, 2015. There are also two ebook short stories, Sought (which takes place before Risked) and Rescued (which takes place between Risked and Revealed). Haddix originally intended the series to consist of only seven books, however, she stated that she had trouble closing out the series in seven books; leading to her decision to write Redeemed.
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.College is a generic-top-level domain (gTLD) used in the domain name system of the Internet. It was delegated to the Root Zone of the DNS on 10 April 2014, completing the successful application for the string. Founder Daniel Negari, a visionary internet entrepreneur, formed the idea that .College is a platform that offers institutions, businesses, and the communities around them to share knowledge and drive innovation. College is an unrestricted domain extension that allows for people and organizations of all types to come together for a common purpose and a common future.
The .College back-end registry operations are provided by CentralNic.
.College is owned and operated by XYZ.COM, LLC, located in Las Vegas and Santa Monica. XYZ.COM LLC also owns and operates .xyz, which is the largest and fastest growing new gTLD for ICANN's new gTLD program.
Launch Periods
The .College trademark-exclusive Sunrise phase begins on March 17, 2015 and runs until April 17, 2015. The .College Landrush phase, which is exclusively for educational institutions will open on April 20, 2015 and run until September 22nd, 2015. XYZ has announced that it will waive the application fee and first year's registration fee for companies registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse, as well as Educational Institutions during the Landrush phase.
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In Canadian English, the term college usually refers to a technical, applied arts, or applied science school. These are post-secondary institutions granting certificates, diplomas, associate's degree, and bachelor's degrees.
In English Canada, the term "college" is usually used to refer to technical schools that offer specialized professional or vocational education in specific employment fields. They include colleges of applied arts and technology, colleges of applied sciences, etc.
In Ontario and Alberta, and formerly in British Columbia, there are also institutions which are designated university colleges, as they only grant under-graduate degrees. This is to differentiate between universities, which have both under-graduate and graduate programs and those that do not. There is a distinction between "college" and "university" in Canada. In conversation, one specifically would say either "They are going to university" (i.e., studying for a three- or four-year degree at a university) or "They are going to college" (suggesting a technical or career college).
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College is a St. Louis MetroLink Red Line station serving Southwestern Illinois College in Saint Clair County, Illinois. The station is east of Belleville, Illinois on Illinois Route 161 and west of Scott Air Force Base.
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Danbury is a city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, approximately 70 miles from New York City. Danbury's population at the 2010 census was 80,893. Danbury is the fourth most-populous city in Fairfield County, and seventh among Connecticut cities. The city is located within the New York metropolitan area.
The city was named for the place of origin of many of the early settlers, Danbury, Essex, England, and has been nicknamed Hat City, because of its history in the hat industry, at one point producing almost 25% of America's hats. The hat industry polluted the Still River with mercury. There is also a mineral named for Danbury, danburite.
Danbury is home to a regional hospital as well as Western Connecticut State University.
Danbury was settled by colonists in 1685, when eight families moved from what are now Norwalk and Stamford, Connecticut. The Danbury area was then called Pahquioque by its namesake, the Pahquioque Native Americans. One of the original settlers was Samuel Benedict, who bought land from the Paquioques in 1685, along with his brother James Benedict; James Beebe, and Judah Gregory. Also called Paquiack ("open plain" or "cleared land") by local Native Americans, the settlers chose the name Swampfield for their town, but in October 1687, the general court decreed the name Danbury. The general court appointed a committee to lay out the boundaries of the new town. A survey was made in 1693, and a formal town patent was granted in 1702.
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Thanks for letting us know MM!
Take care, MM! See you when you get back.
Darn those computers...they are always breaking. Take Care!
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I wondered where you were. Welcome back!
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Northern Nye nonprofit water utility cooperative's board resigns
Shoshone Estates Water Co., Inc., a nonprofit water utility cooperative, is under emergency operations by the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection after the co-op's entire board resigned.
By Daria Sokolova Pahrump Valley Times
Nye County Water District Governing Board Contractor Oz Wichman said the cooperative's entire board of trustees had resigned, citing various frustrations with its regulator, NDEP, and not being given sufficient time to lower the level of arsenic in its water system.
"This situation is still developing but from a perspective of status," Wichman said.
JoAnn Kittrell, public information manager at the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, declined to comment on why the board had resigned.
"We cannot speak to why the volunteer board members resigned, that was their personal decision," Kittrell said.
The Nye County Water District Governing Board loaned $11,000 to Round Mountain-based Shoshone Estates Water Co., Inc., without any interest in 2014 for arsenic treatments in its water system. The money was supposed to cover the services of the engineering firm for Point of Use arsenic treatment. The cooperative also got a grant for $11,000 from Round Mountain Gold Corporation.
Wichman said the cooperative had been making payments on a loan "in good faith" and already cut a check to Nye County for the remaining amount of owed money.
The cooperative's water system had been out of compliance with arsenic levels prior to approval of the loan. The money was supposed to remedy the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) of arsenic in its system that was 25 parts per billion. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's standard is 10 parts per billion.
With the exception of arsenic non-compliance, the water system is currently compliant with primary drinking water standards, according to NDEP.
The pilot testing for Point of Use treatment is completed and has indicated favorable results. Based on information from Day Engineering, the cost of installation at each private residence will be $500-$750. Funding options were being pursued prior to dissolution of the board, according to NDEP.
There are 240 people served by 78 connections on the cooperative's water system.
In the meantime, the water system is being overseen by a certified operator to bridge the period of emergency operations, according to the NDEP's fact sheet.
"The emergency funding covers the general oversight of the water system to simply keep water flowing to homes and businesses. Basic tasks include well and tank inspections, disseminating information, and total coliform sampling. The water users would be responsible for other costs incurred, such as infrastructure replacement and repair, chemical monitoring, and labor costs," the document reads.
Officials are considering putting a system into receivership proceedings.
"The NDEP is working with the Public Utilities Commission on the probability of seeking district court appointment of a receiver to financially oversee and physically operate the system until such time a new owner is in place, or a new board can be established," Kittrell said.
Nye County and the Nye County Water District Governing Board were unable to take on operations of the cooperative, citing budgetary constraints and various other obligations.
Until a permanent solution is achieved, consumers can use bottled water for drinking and cooking or install an NSF/ANSI approved Point of Use device at their own expense.
"NDEP highly recommends that if a consumer takes this approach, they install devices previously tested and approved through the Shoshone Estates pilot testing, retain documentation that it was installed by a licensed plumber, and install in a manner previously approved by NDEP," officials said. "You can work directly with Day Engineering on this approach."
Contact reporter Daria Sokolova at dsokolova@pvtimes.com. On Twitter: @dariasokolova77
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Nevada awarded $16 million through HUD for homeless aid programs
By Briana Erickson Special to the Pahrump Valley Times
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Dozens of homeless assistance programs in Nevada will receive more than $16 million in federal grants with more than $13 million coming to Clark County.
Pahrump sophomore Tiffini Thompson taking on public speaking
By Robin Hebrock Pahrump Valley Times
Pahrump Valley High School sophomore Tiffini Thompson stood beside a very proud Bill Newyear, of the Pahrump Valley Lions Club, to pose for photos, a bright smile on both of their faces. The purpose of the pictures? To commemorate the moment following her win at the club level of the District 46 Lions Club Student Speakers Contest.
California Lottery
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in the Saturday, Jan. 18 drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $7 million.
Crab Fest returns to Pahrump Valley
Those who love to devour delectable fresh crab while supporting a valuable local nonprofit will want to move quickly, because Pioneer Territory Court Appointed Special Advocates will be hosting its 9th Annual Crab Fest fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 15.
2020 Census job fairs set for this week in Pahrump
January 22, 2020 - 7:00 am January 22, 2020 - 7:00 am
The 2020 Census is just around the corner and the U.S. Census Bureau is gearing up for the enormous decennial undertaking.
Application period opens for rural development grants
By Jeffrey Meehan Pahrump Valley Times
Applications are being accepted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development for grants that support businesses and jobs in rural Nevada. The Rural Business Development Grant has several uses to rural areas: technical assistance, training and other activities.
Pahrump chamber holds 2020 awards gala
Business and other leaders around Pahrump gathered for the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce's 2020 Installation and Awards Gala in mid-January.
Pahrump Podiatry gets new home, expanded space
Pahrump Podiatry moved to a new location in the fall of 2019, giving the group more than three times the space it was previously in.
Beatty hosts VFW mid-winter conference
By Richard Stephens Special to the Pahrump Valley Times
About 170 people gathered in Beatty Jan. 10-12 for the Nevada Veterans of Foreign Wars mid-winter conference.
Nye sheriff's office hosts Citizen Awareness Academy
By Selwyn Harris Pahrump Valley Times
About a half-dozen Pahrump residents set aside four hours of their time on Saturday, Jan. 11, in an effort to get answers to one simple question.
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You may have read the article published by Eric Eriksson explaining the meaning of Product Design from the perspective of other ux-related roles such as Interaction & UX Desginers, Animation Designers, User Researches, Data Analysts, Prototypers (I love this one) and Business Strategists.
I remember that when we started talking about UX, UX was also the whole process considering that a UX designer was meant to drive and be reponsible of it. What a huge ambition right?
Our mistake (and our reality) was thinking that the UX individual was alone in this process.
Now that we have assumed that there are a lot of specialiaties, including the UX Specialists, we need to go back to think who was the person that ensured that the whole process is driving the good solution. So for that leading or visionary role we need to talk about Product Designers.
For sure UX is not alone in the dark, but an important gear to create and deliver digital products. This means that Product Design intersects with Business & Marketing, with Quality Assurance & Sales, and still keep their feet in the ground during the implementation of the product to facilitate delivery.
While I write this I remember one of the most highlighted ideas during the last UX Spain conference, where senior UX experts reached the conclusion that in order to do an ejoyable, useful and usable product for users, UX Designers had to become Product Owners (PO).
Product Owner is a popoluar term in agile methodologies and is the person who's meant to speak the customer voice as well as validate that the delivery is aligned with the requirements.
Problems that I see with the terminology of Product Owner is that, firstly, not in all scenarios Users are the same as Customers and even if they are, not all our customers behaves in the same way. So considering that one person is capable of represent Users requirements without practicing any User Research technique is hard to believe. Secondly, the 'validation' state can be done only if your requirements, definition of done and acceptance criteria are clearly stated before the development starts, and in order to do that you'd still need exploratory design, co-creation or any other analytical artefact that puts users needs and expectations in the center.
So yes, I share the conclusion of considering that UX has to become a PO, but then we need to re-define what Product Owner really means.
And here comes the third of my thoughts regarding the transition of User Experience experts toward Product-something: Strategy is all.
Process are good, keep people working efficiently through all the stages. Ownership if shared is even better, since everybody feels that everyone is an equal part of the end result and we all success or fail together.
But what really kills the old-fashion way of delivering software is Strategy. And the premise of many (if not all) UX speacilists is the assumption that a product designed to meet user goals and create a positive experience with it has to be part of any strategy to make it adopted, and so be sold.
Yes, we can sell with our sales guys, we can look smart because our technology is smart and let our customers think that they're doing an smart purchase, but the long-term goal of creating and enduring relation between our users and our products has to be based on the path of the User Experience. There's no better promise of quality that a good quality product delivered on time. Deliverying functionalities without considering how users will interact with them (macro interaction) is as risky as ignoring that the small details and developed components are not the high priority focus of the delivery (micro interactions).
At least this is what I think while I aspire to become a good Product Designer some day.
Sgd. A UX specialist apprentice.
If this make any sense it's in my head, if you (dis)agree, you can blame on the comments of this post.