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In this era of perplexing issues there are myriad perspectives. Why not look at things Kirk-wise?
About Kirk
Domains of Inquiry
A Little Meta-Philosophy
Given that breaking down the word "philosophy" into its Greek roots implies "love of wisdom," it makes sense to emphasize wisdom over mere cleverness, as did Plato in his famous dialogues. At the risk of sounding clever myself, the recursiveness of the formula "it would be wise to value wisdom over cleverness" lends emphasis to its self-apparent truth. Unfortunately, recursive formulas contain very little definitional content due to their circularity. To shed light on the distinction between wisdom and cleverness I could just refer you to Plato, but perhaps I can take a little stab at it here.
The literature of the game of Chess relies heavily on a similar distinction between "strategy" and "tactics." Strategy generally refers to long-term goals, whereas tactics are the means of achieving them. So a strategy might be expressed verbally like so:
"Given that Black's pieces are currently gathered on the Queen side and are thus not able to quickly come to the defense of the Black King, and given the weakness already existing in the pawn structure of the Black King's castled position, White should adopt the strategy of attacking on the King side after making appropriate preparations such as stabilizing the center, opening lines, and concentrating attackers near the King. If this strategy succeeds it will become possible to break through the King's defenses and achieve checkmate."
Notice that in the description of the strategy there are few specifics: only some generalities about the state of the Black position. "Stabilizing the center" is a sub-strategy, based on established general principles, which should make the success of the large-scale strategy of the King side attack more likely. The specific method of stabilizing the center, perhaps pushing a pawn from e4 to e5, or trading pawns on d5 before planting a knight on e5, falls into the realm of tactics. But judging which of the two methods is better is still a strategic question. Opening the 'h' file by advancing the pawn to h5, with the White Rook behind it, then exchanging on g6, maneuvering the White Queen to h3 after the Rook has been moved to h6, etc: these are tactical maneuvers serving a strategic goal. The final combination to break through the Black defenses, perhaps involving sparkling sacrifices of material to finally trap the Black King in a mating net, these are the culmination of strategy by tactical means.
We can summarize the distinction between strategy and tactics as follows: strategy is "general" or abstract, tactics are "specific" and mechanical. The soundness of a tactical "trick" is not just in the achievement of its mechanical purpose, but even more importantly, whether the achievement of that tactical effect succeeds in bringing about the strategic goal. All the brilliantly clever tactics in the world are worthless if the strategy they serve is based on the wrong values. In philosophy, we must be clear on what the purpose of philosophy itself is — in human and social terms — before launching into the fancy footwork of clever arguments, or our entire mission will fail.
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Design and Production, in a joint venture with Art Guild, provided final design support and full-service production and installation of the permanent exhibits at the EdVenture Children's Museum in Columbia, SC, a 67,000-square-foot interactive learning center that is reputedly the largest children's museum in the country. For a 12-minute immersive theatrical experience that teaches domestic fire safety, Design and Production turned to AMX for an automation system to integrate multimedia and lighting and synchronize it to a detailed script.
"Working with Boston Productions, we pulled together live-action video with 3-dimensional set pieces, mechanical animation, voice-activated effects and lighting," explained Design and Production senior vice president, Susie Lepp. Boston Productions designs and produces interactive multimedia experiences for special venue presentations.
Detailing the genesis of the exhibit, she continued, "For this particular theater, the client had a room that wasn't developed yet, but they knew they wanted a Fire Safety Lab. The fire department was a huge sponsor. Knowing we had $200,000, and, with the museum's input, we conceptualized and built it with Boston Productions. They did the creative script and research; we did all the hardware, set construction and lighting."
The cartoon-like set cleverly incorporates two life-sized video screens, where the "Clueless" family (all played by the same actor) interacts with real furniture and appliances to highlight fire hazards in the home.
Playback is via three Pioneer DVD-7400 machines through Christie DLP projectors.
An on-screen fireman addresses the audience and becomes involved in a dialog with an oversized smoke detector, while various stylized props are brought to life using mechanical animation and voice-activated lighting. Six JBL Control 25 loudspeakers powered by a QSC CX 168 amplifier and processed through EV EQ-231 equalizers deliver dialog and sound effects to the audience.
The presentation has been designed to retain the attention of the children, who typically range in age from pre-elementary to 6th grade, Lepp said. "It's part of the curriculum, so to capture their attention for 12 minutes you've got to have comedic relief. They shout out the answers, because at times the fireman interacts with them. All of that has been built into the script.
"The AMX is not only keeping the show and the video sources running in sync through timing and cues, but it has contact closures and relays that are having all these devices do their bit. It's a very tight script, and the AMX is programmed to follow along and make this all happen."
The setup required a straightforward complement of AMX equipment to operate, according to Lepp. "We're using an NI-4000 [NetLinx Integrated Controller], and we have a 5.5-inch control panel in the rack, an AMX MCP/PB. That is the user interface, if the staff wants to reset the system or override for manual control. There's a power supply, a relay control card, a power controller, and two relay boards for lighting control."
At the end of the presentation the local fire department arrives to put out a fire. "It's really fun; the kids squeal and laugh, and they crawl out of the theater at the end-because that's how you get out of a burning house. And, at the end, when the fireman jumps out of the TV to put the fire out in the couch, we have a water spritzer that's in the ceiling, so they feel the water."
Lepp reports that Design and Production also utilized AMX gear for a number of other EdVenture presentations. "One is a heart-and-lung interactive that is AMX-controlled using a mini-card frame. There is a TV studio exhibit, where kids can pretend they're TV anchors. There's also an interactive system in the Music Lab to teach kids about melody, tempo and time signatures. We use AMX for all of that."


Templeton Middle School bands will perform two spring concerts in the Hamilton Fine Arts Center (HFAC). The sixth grade band and Jazz Band will perform May 7, and the seventh grade band will perform May 8. The concerts, which are free and open to the public, begin at 7 p.m.
The concerts will include classical concert band repertoire, medleys of movie soundtracks and much more. The Jazz Band will showcase the pieces that received top rating at the recent Wisconsin School Music Association Solo and Ensemble Musical Festival.


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The Hotel Stratford is a historic hotel located at 229 Market St. in Alton, Illinois. The hotel, originally known as the Illini Hotel, opened in 1909. St. Louis architectural firm Barnett, Haynes & Barnett designed the hotel in the Classical Revival style. The five-story brick building features brick quoins, limestone bands and window sills, terra cotta ornamentation, and a cantilevered cornice. The hotel opened a rooftop garden in 1910 and a reception room in 1912, and it became one of many hotels which drew conventions to Alton; a contemporary newspaper account described the building as part of the "greatest improvement in property in the city of Alton". In 1925, new owner E. J. Lockyer renamed the hotel to its current name. The hotel is the only hotel built in Alton before 1950 that is still in operation.

The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 2000.

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Nathan Englander Says His New Book Is 'A Turducken Of A Novel' Englander describes Dinner at the Center of the Earth as "a political thriller that's wrapped up in a historical novel that's really a love story that ends up being an allegory."
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Nathan Englander Says His New Book Is 'A Turducken Of A Novel'
"Dinner At The Center Of The Earth" is a novel that winds together the stories of a prisoner, his guard, mothers, sons, spies, statesmen, traitors and lovers. Sometimes - maybe even more than sometimes - they're the same person. "Dinner At The Center Of The Earth" is a story set amid the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It's the latest novel by Nathan Englander, author of the acclaimed short story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" and distinguished writer in residence at NYU. He joins us from New York. Thanks so much for being with us.
NATHAN ENGLANDER: Thanks so much for having me. I'm pretty thrilled to be here.
SIMON: At the center of this terrific story is a prisoner - prisoner Z he's called - and his guard. Tell us about their relationship.
ENGLANDER: Yeah. I'm just very interested, you know, fascinated, heartbroken, obsessed with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and our need to find peace on that front. But, yeah, I get very interested in the weave between both sides that everyone's always like victim and avenger at the same time.
And I thought - to me, in terms of a real and metaphoric idea of it, I thought of this guard and his prisoner and the idea of both of them sort of being trapped together. There is, of course, a guard who is in a better position than a prisoner. But in the end, as the years pass, you know, it sort of becomes vague of who has freedom at all.
SIMON: I will explain. The guard is Israeli. And prisoner Z is in prison because he is accused of betraying the Israeli state.
ENGLANDER: Yeah. I guess it was the end of my last Israeli book tour. And this story broke about a prisoner - the kind of thing that, you know, catches the front page but also obsesses me, which was this notion that this prisoner, in real life, did not exist until he was dead. That is, he had been disappeared into the system.
And I thought about this notion of someone who isn't alive until they were dead. And then I read about him. And, you know, I thought about this notion - he was Australian. But I thought about somebody who becomes so dedicated to a new country and so dedicated to a state's ideology that he joins the Mossad, that he becomes a spy. And then to find out that he'd become a traitor, I thought, what would have to happen in his or her life for them to so empathize with the other side that they flipped? And that's where prisoner Z was born for me.
SIMON: And we should explain that the guard turns out to be intimately related to the larger story of Israeli history, too.
ENGLANDER: Yeah. So, you know, I call this novel sort of like a turducken of a novel. It's like a political thriller that's wrapped up in a historical novel that's really a love story that ends up being an allegory. But I couldn't tell this story without doing sort of Israeli history, for me, and parts of Palestinian history. Also, there was the idea of Sharon. I have the general in this story, so...
SIMON: Sharon - we should say Ariel Sharon.
ENGLANDER: Ariel Sharon, the prime minister.
SIMON: Famous general who became prime minister.
ENGLANDER: Yeah. You know, he spent all these years in a coma. And I thought this is an unkillable man - the man who will not die. And the reason I bring the general in is because of, you know, this notion that I feel like every leader, you know, of that country up to a point and to this country up to a point - no matter whether I agree with them politically, they understood their obligation was to the future of the country not to personal need, not to greed, not to any other idea.
And to me why the general becomes an interesting character is because nobody will dispute, you know, Sharon was a violent man. There's Sabra and Shatila - I mean, a killer and a fighter and a warrior. And the fact that he's the one who pulled out of Gaza, I feel like anyone, up till the peace process crumbled, understood their responsibility - that peace was not even a choice out of kindness or out of love for the other, but peace is a strategic choice. If you want Israel to survive, if you want Palestine to survive, like, peace is the only option. And, to me, to have these warriors who become peacemakers - even beloved Rabin that we remember...
SIMON: Yeah. When he was chief of the army, yeah.
ENGLANDER: Yes. When intifada won, he's the one who said break their bones about the young Palestinian stone throwers. Like, we remember him as peacemaker. And I said that's - these are warriors who understood if you care about the future of Israel, peace is the singular option.
SIMON: I have to tell you one of my favorite features of the novel was the central strategic role played by Jewish mothers.
ENGLANDER: Oh, that. If you think I'm not going to call my mother and report how this talk is going as soon as I get out of the studio, you are mistaken. But, you know, a lot of writers start writing close and then become more distant. But - yeah, so this notion to tell the story of my, really, heartbreak and, you know, my pessimistic optimism or optimistic pessimism for the peace process, I wanted it to be close.
And I really thought about it - what would happen if I were a spy? And I thought, what would my out be? Who would I be calling? Because even Prisoner X in real life - that's why I connected to the idea of this person, you know? And it is a tragedy that somebody is dead and who knows what else. It's all very secretive. But people would be like, oh, yeah, he talked about being a spy all the time. You know, like, I would be the neurotic spy. I wouldn't even - you know, I'd turn to the next person on the subway and be like, I'm on a mission. And I would surely be calling my mother.
SIMON: (Laughter) I wondered how you were going to, you know, stick the landing, and you sure did.
ENGLANDER: Yeah, truly.
SIMON: And let me just explain to people who are curious about the title, "Dinner At The Center Of The Earth." The title winds up explaining itself.
ENGLANDER: You are so nice for not doing that spoiler alert. But, yes, so many people discuss Israel-Palestine as if its people on a spectrum. But this notion where people say, oh, you know, Israel and Palestine, they disagree. It's not a spectrum. It's metaphysics.
They're in a different reality, whereas, I lived in Jerusalem that had the Temple Mount and a Palestinian neighbor lived in al-Quds that had Haram al-Sharif. Like, literally, we're inhabiting the same space and in a different city with a different extraordinary holy place on the same spot. And, to me, you know, that gets us to the title of this book. I was looking for a space for the no man's land where a moment of understanding might take place.
SIMON: Is there an affinity between writers and spies?
ENGLANDER: That's funny. I'm like - I was going to the list. I was like, writers and shrinks, writers and sociopaths. But, yeah, I have a whole list of things...
SIMON: (Laughter).
ENGLANDER: Really, the link is, you know, if you strip away the neuroses, maybe. You know what I'm saying? I spend all day being other people - literally transforming. You know, for a book to function, it's not - I can tell the difference between realities. But it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real. And I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who was, you know, in deep cover.
I just think, yes, I wouldn't make it for a second if I had to do it in front of another person. So if you take the privacy of the room away, maybe that's the link. It's about inhabiting other realities in a convincing - beyond convincing. It has to be more than that. It has to be real for the person.
SIMON: Nathan Englander, his book "Dinner At The Center Of The Earth." Thanks so much for being with us.
ENGLANDER: Oh, truly, thank you.
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Germany, 27 十一月 2014 - Company is honored for innovation in textiles, its successful platform launch strategy and its industry leadership Dresden, Germany - 27 November 2014 DSM Dyneema announced today that it has won three ITMA Future Materials awards based on its breakthrough Dyneema® Force Multiplier Technology platform. Future Materials honored DSM Dyneema, the manufacturer of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMwPE) fiber, branded as Dyneema®, and a world leader in life protection materials and high-performance fibers, with awards for Best Innovation – Industrial Textiles; Most Innovative Large Company; and Launch of the Year. The awards were presented to DSM Dyneema's Yvonne Engelen, vice president marketing and sales, and Shitij Chabba, global segment director life protection, at an awards ceremony in Dresden, Germany, on Nov. 26.


See below a collection of articles published in local and national news outlets, as well as articles in the banding press.
4barsrest.com is a very well-known (within banding circles!) online magazine about all things brass, but especially contesting. There are reports about all the major contests, including youth contests. 4barsest usually have a live report from all the big contests, so you can follow exactly what's going on. Here are some links going back a few years where Youth Brass 2000 gets a mention.


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Is it okay to both love and hate the Sex and the City reboot?
By Rogue CollectiveOpinion
THE REVIEW Aisling Keenan asks the question on behalf of confused viewers everywhere…
Has Real Housewives jumped the shark?
By Rogue CollectiveCurrent affairs, Opinion
THE REVIEW Caitlin McBride asks whether the phenomenon that is Real Housewives has crossed the line from reality into absurdity…
Why we need to start having uncomfortable conversations about beauty
By Rogue CollectiveBeauty, Opinion
Linnea Dunne on beauty, feminism, and the patriarchy I'm not one to read about celebrity culture, but over the past couple of months, there were two such pieces of news…
"I was putting my sense of self worth in other people's hands"
By Rogue CollectiveFirst person, Opinion
Madeline Mulqueen's appearance in the Rubberbandits viral video Horse Outside led to a successful modelling career. She writes about making her way behind the camera, and finding confidence and comfort…
How NDAs serve the interests of the powerful and revictimise the powerless…
Silencers of the vulnerable, protectors of the powerful, enablers of predators; Dr. Julie Macfarlane on the immorality of Non-Disclosure Agreements and their presence in Irish society. What do the mothers…
I am often told that "it was the times" but those "times" stretched from the first years of the Free State until the last years of the Celtic Tiger
By Rogue CollectiveCulture, Opinion
Caelainn Hogan author of Republic of Shame on Ireland's shame industry, the power of survivors speaking out and breaking the silence.
Screaming girls, costumes and conventions: Understanding fan culture
Amelia Cullen examines how stereotypes of fans persist, and why caring a lot as a fan can, in fact, co-exist with knowledge-based critique…
Who gets to tell our story?
By Rogue CollectiveLong Read, Opinion
Following the publication of a 3,000 page report by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, Cassie Delaney questions who shapes history and who gets to tell our story… The word…
10 things I've learned in 10 years writing about sex and relationships
By Aisling KeenanCulture, Opinion
After accidentally becoming a sex and relationships writer for magazines a decade ago, Aisling Keenan is now immune to being shocked by anyone's love life revelations. Here are ten of…
Out of lockdown… But what happens next?
Gillian Roddie writes about our collective mixed emotions at the lifting of restrictions, and readjusting to life after lockdown…


When retiring "from" becomes retiring "for".
I have been re-thinking the word "retirement." For some it is a welcome word, even a desired word. For others it is intimidating and foreign. Some look forward to a day when their nine-to-five labors are behind them. Others cannot imagine what it might be like, but fear it will be empty and meaningless when that day comes.
I worked for four decades as a minister. All that time I was in the faith business and the people business. At last I decided to retire from that, to leave my beloved New York City and return to my equally beloved North Carolina. Doing so was refreshing … for a few brief weeks, but only a few. Soon I realized something vital was missing. I would rise every morning as I always had, but to do what? To go where? To meet with whom? The something vital that was missing was a sense of purpose.
When I retired from Marble Collegiate Church, I walked away from leading a congregation on 5th Avenue in New York, the oldest Protestant church in America, a church previously served by Norman Vincent Peale and Arthur Caliandro, a church with five thousand members whom I cherished and satellite communities from New Jersey to Florida to California to Australia. I sometimes complained about the long hours, the too-frequent meetings, the constant workload, the demands and expectations, the long list of public appearances. But once all that was gone, in a word, I found myself not know how to find myself – not knowing exactly who I was anymore. My hyperactive life of four decades was suddenly all too leisurely. When I lost my sense of purpose, I lost my sense of self.
Epiphanies come in all fashions, some mystic and moving, others pedantic and pedestrian. Either way, when they come we are best advised to stop what else we are doing and pay attention. Mine came, of all things, when watching a TV commercial, in fact, one I had seen a hundred times before. But this time I paid attention. There was Academy Award winning actor, J.K. Simmons, delivering his standard line in deadpan fashion: "We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two." And suddenly the light came on. It had flickered and glimmered briefly in a thousand ponderings before, but that moment it shone brightly. I know a thing or two because for over forty years I have seen a thing or two. Whatever a person does professionally, if they do it for four decades without learning life lessons that can be applied in other arenas, then they should have been doing something else. We know a thing or two because we have seen a thing or two.
My epiphany was that for most of us, we do not "retire." Instead, we simply "retire from." We retire from one job, one place of business, one daily routine. But we carry with us everything we have learned there, every experience, every insight, every ounce of wisdom. And all that becomes equipment for moving forward. In my case, I had spent all those years in the faith business and the people business. So, I began teaching in the Religion Department of a university a half hour from my house. In so doing, all the previous faith business became a portfolio carrying exegetical information and understandings to share with others just beginning a similar journey. Additionally, I began accepting speaking invitations to non-church audiences – civic clubs, corporate conventions, campus functions. City-to-city I go sharing hope and motivation and life skill information in non-religious language, insights that I have gathered by observing people in the real-and-raw circumstances of living across all those years. I "retired from" the place I had known and loved. But that did not dictate literally "retiring" so far as life and a future replete with meaning and purpose and contributing are concerned.
So I am re-thinking retirement, seeing it no longer as the end of something beautiful. Rather, as educators so wisely describe Graduation Day, retirement can be a Commencement, a fresh beginning equipped by all that you have learned before. Whether you embark upon a new professional endeavor or devote yourself to volunteerism or gardening or culinary arts or auditing classes at a college or participating in community theater or tutoring in an elementary school or visiting in a nursing home or organizing a grass roots advocacy group for some issue close to your heart or spending quality time with your grandchildren or traveling or writing a blog or any of a thousand other things, meaning, purpose, and adventure are there for the taking. You haven't retired. You have "retired from" something. And that means you have "retired for" something else yet to come.
Browning must have had his own epiphany. How else could he have stated it so clearly and with such insight?


SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today thanked Governor Jerry Brown for signing legislation requiring schools that serve students from grades 7 to 12 to adopt suicide prevention policies.
Torlakson supported AB 2246 by Assembly Member Patrick O'Donnell, D-Long Beach and Chair of the Assembly Education Committee. The bill, signed on Monday, September 26, requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to develop and maintain a model suicide prevention policy.
Torlakson is a longtime supporter of expanding mental health services and preventing suicides. When Torlakson served in the California State Senate in 2004, he was state co-chair of the campaign for Proposition 63, a measure that increased income taxes on the wealthy to fund mental health programs.
As State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Torlakson convened a Student Mental Health Policy Workgroup. The group of 40 experts has conducted 20 free trainings in suicide prevention across the state for more than 500 teachers.
Earlier this year, CDE released the Healthy Kids Survey, which describes how students feel about school and how they rank their school environment.
The survey showed schools need to focus more attention on better meeting the needs of youth. For example, two indicators of depression risk showed little change since the last survey two years ago.
Nearly one-fourth of seventh graders and around one-third of ninth and eleventh graders reported feelings of chronic sadness or hopelessness. And, almost 20 percent of high school students had seriously contemplated suicide.
Torlakson in 2014 released a letter encouraging school districts to adopt suicide prevention policies. Under the new law, each district will be required to adopt suicide policies beginning with the 2017-18 school year.
In 2014, there were nearly 2,300 suicide attempts by students 15 to 19 years old in California.


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Recent Sentencing Activity
By Mike Koehler on April 30, 2013 in Carson, FCPA Sentences, Flavio Ricotti, Mario Covino, Richard Morlock, Thomas Farrell
Previous posts have highlighted the sentences of various defendants in the so-called Carson / CCI enforcement action. The sentences were as follows.
Stuart Carson (four months in prison, followed by eight months of home detention).
Hong Carson (three years probation to include six months of home detention)
Paul Cosgrove (thirteen months of home detention)
David Edmonds (four months in prison followed by four months of home confinement).
In mid-March, Judge James Selna (C.D. Cal.) sentenced the remaining defendants in the case – Mario Covino, Richard Morlok and Flavio Ricotti.
This post highlights various issues connected to these sentences. Each of these defendants were the first to plead guilty in the case and cooperated with the DOJ in the prosecution of the above defendants – the so-called "Carson" defendants. Much is made in the sentencing memos of this and the fact that Covino, Ricotti, and Morlok did not force the DOJ to prove its case. (For more on the ending of the cases against the "Carson" defendants as the DOJ was close to being put to its burden of proof, see prior posts here and here). The sentencing memos also shed light on the perceived unfairness from the defendants' point of view of potentially receiving stiffer sentences than the "Carson" defendants. This did not happen as Judge Selna sentenced Covino and Morlok to probation and Ricotti to time served.
Covino
Covino was sentenced to three years probation, including a three-month period of home detention.
As explained in the DOJ's sentencing memorandum, Covino was the first CCI employee to plead guilty. The DOJ stated as follows.
"Beginning in February 2008, during the initial stages of the government's investigation, defendant provided and subsequently continued to provide the government with invaluable information concerning the bribery practices at CCI. […] Defendant had a first-hand view of CCI's "friends in camp" sale model and the improper payments that were an integral part of that model. Defendant gave the government an insider's view of the company's sales practices, accounting systems, terminology, executives, employees, and agents, and provided a compelling narrative for the documents that indicated improper payments. Defendant entered into a plea agreement in December 2008 and pleaded guilty in January 2009. […] The government's indictment of six individual defendants followed in April 2009."
The DOJ further stated that "for several of the counts and overt acts in the indictment, defendant's statements were the only witness testimony the government had available to corroborate payment records and e-mails."
In its sentencing memo, the DOJ made much of the fact that Covino's early acceptance of responsibility "can be contrasted with the much later acceptance of responsibility by the Carsons, Cosgrove, and Edmonds, each of whom pleaded guilty only after approximately three years of hard-fought, protracted litigation." Elsewhere, the DOJ stated that it is "only fair" that Covino do "no worse than the defendants who resisted the government's case for three years and only struck deals on the eve (or near eve) of trial." The DOJ recommended a sentence of probation.
Morlok
As explained in the DOJ's sentencing memorandum, Morlok was the "second CCI employee to plead guilty, doing so just a few weeks after Mario Covino." The DOJ memo states that Morlok was CCI's Finance Director from 2002 through 2007 and that in July 2007, "shortly after a new Chief Financial Officer joined CCI and became defendant's new boss, defendant precipitated a confrontation with senior sales executives over commission payments to Korea. This confrontation ultimately escalated into the new CFO's discovery of the systematic corrupt payments made by CCI from 1998 until 2007 as alleged in the indictment. This discovery caused CCI to undertake an internal investigation that led to its voluntary disclosure to the Department of Justice." In all other respects, the DOJ's sentencing memorandum is similar to the above Covino sentencing memo.
Morlok's sentencing memorandum makes much of the fact that the "Guidelines calculations contained in the plea agreements for the Carson Defendants are significantly less severe than those included in the plea agreements for Mr. Morlock and Mr. Covino, the two cooperators in this matter." The sentencing memo states that "this inconsistency is a result only of a change in the government's strategic position." Morlok's sentencing memo states that he "accepted responsibility for his conduct not only after the government's investigation began, but well before that, when he took steps in 2004 and in 2007 to bring CCI's misconduct to the attention of CCI's parent company." The memo states, "as the government points out, Mr. Morlok's whistleblowing ultimately caused the internal investigation that led to CCI's voluntary disclosure to the Department of Justice."
Ricotti
Ricotti was sentenced to time served.
As explained in the DOJ's sentencing memorandum, after the grand jury indictment in the case in April 2009, Ricotti, an Italian citizen and resident, was detained in Germany, subsequently extradicted, and following his guilty plea served nearly 11 months in federal custody. The memo indicates that Ricotti was the third CCI employee to plead guilty after Mario Covino and Richard Morlock, both of whom pleaded guilty pre-indictment. In all other respects, the DOJ's sentencing memorandum is similar to the above Covino and Morlok sentencing memos. Given Ricotti's time in custody, the DOJ recommended a sentence of time served.
Ricotti's sentencing memo makes much of the fact that given his time in custody he "already served the longest sentence in this case despite having cooperated and pleaded guilty long" before the other defendants "some of whom are significantly more culpable than Mr. Ricotti." Ricotti's sentencing memo states as follows.
"Most of this time [Ricotti's time in custody] was in the United States, thousands of miles away from any family or friends. Although he speaks English, Mr. Ricotti was completely cut off from Italian life and language. Thus, Mr. Ricotti served 'harder' time than most defendants in this jurisdiction who usually have some cultural and family ties to the U.S."
The sentencing memo also states as follows. "After Mr. Ricotti began to cooperate and pleaded guilty, the remaining defendants continued their pitched litigation campaign against the government's case for another year and forced the government to prepare for trial. Nonetheless, they received disparately more favorable plea agreements and hence lighter sentences than Mr. Ricotti."
Thomas Farrell, a defendant in the long-running Bourke/Kozeny matter concerning alleged payments in Azerbaijan, was also recently sentenced. Farrell, according to the DOJ, was involved in various investment vehicles used by Bourke, Kozeny and others in connection with the bribery scheme and pleaded guilty in 2003 to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and a substantive FCPA violation. Judge Shira Scheindlin sentenced Farrell to time served with no period of supervised release.
Carson "Foreign Official" Challenge Fully Briefed
By Mike Koehler on May 3, 2011 in Carson, Control Components Inc., FCPA Jurisprudence, FCPA Trials, Flavio Ricotti, Foreign Official, Mario Covino, Qatar, Richard Morlock, Saudi Arabia, State Department
Yesterday various defendants in the U.S. v. Carson case pending in the Central District of California filed a reply brief (see here).
The brief begins as follows.
"In 1977, Congress could have enacted a general anti-bribery statute that made it a crime to pay a commercial bribe to any foreign national, but it did not. Rather, the FCPA criminalizes improper payments only to a "foreign official." Thus, making an improper payment to a "foreign official" violates the FCPA; making that same payment to someone who is not a "foreign official" does not. This is undisputed."
"The Government argues that "[s]tate-owned business enterprises ['SOEs'] may, in appropriate circumstances, be considered instrumentalities of a foreign government and their officers and employees to be foreign officials." But Congress (i) knew about SOEs when it enacted the FCPA, (ii) knew that some of the questionable payments in the pre-FCPA era may have been made to employees of SOEs, and (iii) knew how to include SOEs in the definition of "foreign official" if it had wanted to do so. Clearly, Congress did not do so, and contrary to the Government's arguments, there is no evidence that Congress intended SOEs to be covered by this criminal statute, or intended the word "instrumentality" to encompass broadly anything through which a foreign government achieves an "end or purpose." In fact, the plain language of the statute and its history illustrate that the FCPA was aimed at preventing improper payments to traditional government officials. If Congress had wanted SOEs to be included in the definition of "instrumentality," it would have expressly said so – just as it did in 1976 when it enacted the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA")."
"Having no statutory authority for its sweeping position, the Government is thus unable to define the "appropriate circumstances" when an SOE allegedly falls within the FCPA. The Government states only that it is a "fact-based determination." But facts in isolation are irrelevant unless analyzed in the context of a legal framework. And for over two hundred years it has been "emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department" – not the jury – "to say what the law is." Marbury v Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803). Thus, while a jury may decide disputed issues of fact, this Court must first decide the law."
"Defendants' Motion squarely challenges the Government's unsupported legal
interpretation of the FCPA by arguing that the term "instrumentality" simply does not include SOEs, and thus employees of SOEs are not, as a matter of law, "foreign officials." The Government labels Defendants' position as extreme, insisting that it "is not asking for a legal conclusion that all SOEs are instrumentalities," only for a ruling that "the term instrumentality . . . can include SOEs." But it is the Government's position that is unreasonable, because the Government cannot articulate any principled test – and there is no test, other than one invented from whole cloth – for what would make one SOE, but not another, a government "instrumentality" under the FCPA. Accordingly, the Government's concession, that some SOEs fall within and some outside the statute, coupled with the complete lack of any meaningful or discernable standards for deciding which is which, undermines the Government's position and requires that it be rejected because it would render the FCPA unconstitutionally vague as applied."
"Accordingly, the Court should hold that employees of SOEs are not "foreign
officials" under the FCPA and should dismiss Counts One through Ten of the
Indictment. Contrary to the Government's overblown rhetoric, the sky will not fall upon such a ruling; rather, the issue will be returned to its proper forum: Congress. See Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. ___, 130 S. Ct. 2896, 2933 (2010) ("If Congress desires to go further . . . it must speak more clearly than it has.")."
This previous post links to the Defendants' motion and my declaration filed in support. This previous post links to the DOJ's opposition brief as well as supporting declarations from the State Department and the FBI.
The Carson defendants also moved (see here) to strike the State Department declaration or in the alternative for a court order requiring the State Department employee to appear for questioning at next week's hearing). As noted in this prior post, the same State Department declaration was ordered stricken in the Lindsey "foreign official" challenge and is also being challenged in the O'Shea "foreign official" challenge – see here.
In a related development, last week the DOJ announced (here) that "Flavio Ricotti, a former executive of [Control Components, Inc. – the same employer as the above referenced defendants challenging the DOJ's "foreign official" interpretation] has pleaded guilty for his participation in a conspiracy to secure contracts by paying bribes to officials of foreign state-owned companies as well as officers and employees of foreign and domestic private companies." See here for the plea agreement.
As noted in the DOJ release, "Ricotti pleaded guilty […] to a one-count superseding information [see here] charging him with conspiring to make corrupt payments to foreign government officials, and officers and employees of private companies in several countries, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the Travel Act."
The DOJ release further states as follows. "In connection with his guilty plea, Ricotti admitted that he conspired with other CCI employees to offer a payment to an official of Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian state-owned oil company, in connection with attempting to obtain a valve contract for CCI in 2003. Ricotti also admitted to conspiring with other CCI employees to make a payment to an employee of a private company so that the employee would assist in awarding to CCI a valve contract in Qatar."
As further noted in the DOJ release:
"In related cases, two defendants previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe officers and employees of foreign state-owned companies on behalf of CCI. On Jan. 8, 2009, Mario Covino, the former director of worldwide factory sales for the valve company, pleaded guilty [see here] to one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA and admitted to causing the payment of approximately $1 million in bribes to officers and employees of several foreign state-owned companies. On Feb. 3, 2009, Richard Morlok, the former finance director for the valve company, pleaded guilty [see here] to one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA and admitted to causing the payment of approximately $628,000 in bribes to officers and employees of several foreign state-owned companies. Covino and Morlok are scheduled to be sentenced in February 2012."
See here for July 2009 enforcement action against Control Components, Inc.
FCPA Enforcement … It's More Than Just Suitcases Full of Cash to Government Officials
By Mike Koehler on August 9, 2009 in Anything of Value, Carson, China, Control Components Inc., David Edmonds, DOJ Enforcement Action, Foreign Official, Han Yong Kim, Individual Enforcement Action, Korea, Malaysia, Manufacturing Industry, Mario Covino, Paul Cosgrove, Richard Morlock, Travel Act, United Arab Emirates
When conducting FCPA training, one of the first things I like to do is immediately dispel the notion that the FCPA only applies to suitcase full of cash to a government official types of situations. While the FCPA does indeed apply to such egregious situations, the FCPA (and certainly DOJ/SEC's interpretation of the statute) applies to a wide range of other – seemingly less culpable – conduct as well.
My future FCPA training slides will certainly include the recent Control Components Inc. ("CCI") FCPA enforcement action as it clearly demonstrates the broadness of FCPA enforcement.
First, the big picture.
As described in a recent DOJ release (see here), CCI pleaded guilty to a three-count criminal information charging two counts of violating the FCPA and one count of violating the Travel Act in connection with a "decade-long scheme to secure contracts in approximately 36 countries by paying bribes to officials and employees of various foreign state-owned companies as well as foreign and domestic private companies."
Pursuant to the plea agreement, CCI agreed to pay a criminal fine of $18.2 million, serve a three-year term of organizational probation and adopt a host of other measures common in FCPA settlements such as create, implement and maintain an anti-bribery compliance program and retain an independent compliance monitor.
The CCI enforcement action demonstrates the broadness of FCPA enforcement in at least two respects: (i) the "foreign official" element; and (ii) the "anything of value" element.
"Foreign Official"
As to the "foreign official" element, para 5 of the Indictment is the key paragraph. It states as follows:
"Defendant CCI's state-owned customers included, but were not limited to, Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corporation (China), Guohua Electric Power (China), China Petroleum Materials and Equipment Corporation, PetroChina, Dongfang Electric Corporation (China), China National Offshore Oil Company, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, Petronas (Malaysia), and National Petroleum Construction Company (United Arab Emirates). Each of these state-owned entities was a department, agency, or instrumentality of a foreign government, within the meaning of the FCPA, Title 15, United States Code, Section 78dd-2(h)(2)(A). The officers and employees of these entities, including but not limited to the Vice-Presidents, Engineering Managers, General Managers, Procurement Managers, and Purchasing Officers, were "foreign officials" within the meaning of the FCPA, Title 15, United States Code, Section 78dd-2(h)(2)(A).
As I've stated before in this forum (see here) and likely will in the future until this legal issue is decided by a court, DOJ's position that employees of state-owned companies, regardless of position, are "foreign officials" under the FCPA is an unchallenged and untested legal theory – and one I believe is ripe for challenge.
Even if DOJ's position were to be upheld by a court, those subject to the FCPA could certainly benefit from some clarity as to what DOJ considers to be a state-owned entity. Instead, in the CCI Information (and countless others) all that is there is a mere conclusory statement that each of the relevant companies are "state-owned entities" (see para 5).
What attributes of, for instance, Guohua Electric Power, make it a state-owned entity? I've long been curious as to what extent of investigation or discovery DOJ undertakes before it concludes that a company is a state-owned entity? If anyone has insight into this issue, please do share.
Also interesting to note is that even though para 6 of the Information states that CCI, through its former officers and employees, made corrupt payments to officers and employees of "numerous state-owned" customers around the world for the purpose of assisting in obtaining or retaining business for CCI, the Information charges only two FCPA violations.
Count two concerns payments to secure a contract with China National Offshore Oil Company and Count three concerns payments to secure a contract with Korean Hydro and Nuclear Power.
Presumably DOJ did not have sufficient evidence to support other FCPA counts as to CCI's alleged payments to the other "numerous state-owned" customers, including the others specifically listed in para. 5 of the Information.
So why would a company such as CCI plead guilty to violating the FCPA when the "foreign officials" it allegedly bribed are "foreign officials" only under DOJ's untested and unchallenged legal theory?
That is a good question, but I suspect it has to do with the fact that companies are in the business of making money and not in the business of setting legal precedent. With a settlement comes certainty, whereas with litigation comes uncertainty.
"Anything of Value"
As to the "anything of value" element, the Information lists the following "things of value" given by CCI, directly or indirectly to "foreign officials" – "overseas holidays to places such as Disneyland and Las Vegas" (para 19); "extravagant vacations" with the following expenses "first-class airfare to destinations such as Hawaii, five-star hotel accommodations, charter boat trips, and similar luxuries" (para 20); "college tuition" [for] the children of at least two executives" at CCI's state-owned customers (para 20); "lavish sales events" including CCI payment of "hotel costs, meals, green fees for golf, and travel expenses" (para 21); and "expensive gifts" (para 21).
What do all these things have in common? They are not "suitcases full of cash" yet still "things of value" under the FCPA.
This is not the first time FCPA followers have heard of CCI and it is likely not the last time either. As described in the DOJ release, two former CCI executives (Mario Covino and Richard Morlok) have already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA (see here and here). In addition, six former CCI executives (Stuart Carson, Hong (Rose) Carson, Paul Cosgrove, David Edmonds, Flavio Ricotti, and Han Yong Kim) were criminally indicted in April 2009 on charges of, among other things, violating the FCPA (see here).
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Up to half a million people in the UK experience work-related stress every year, which often results in illness. (Health and Safety Executive 2011) Other factors that affect stress levels include alcohol, smoking, exams, pregnancy, divorce, moving, and death in family, lifestyle, drugs, poor nutrition and unemployment.
The signs of stress can vary from one individual to the next. They may manifest physically as an illness, tiredness or lethargy, or as symptoms such as sore, tight muscles, dull skin, lank hair, or erratic sleep patterns. Mental stress can result in depression, mood swings, anger, frustration, confusion, paranoid behaviour, jealousy or withdrawal.
First of all, it's helpful to understand how central stress is to our health. In traditional five element acupuncture, we see that the mind, body and spirit are inextricably interconnected, thoughts and emotions as the primary drivers of physical health issues.
What are the consequences of long-term chronic stress?
Traditional five element acupuncture is a powerful and safe way to create beneficial changes to stress levels. That is why such a large majority of patients at my clinic experience stress relief after each and every treatment.


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K2 Unmanned Systems LLC, a Huntington Beach, Calif.-based drone manufacturer and service provider, has released a new law enforcement tactical drone, the Knight Hawk.
According to the company, the commercial-grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is designed with first responder operations and infrastructure inspections in mind. The octocopter features a 5-lb. payload capacity, infrared optics, 30 minutes of flight time, and an encrypted HD video downlink, thanks to a partnership with xG Technology Inc.'s IMT/Vislink brands. The closed-circuit system ensures telemetry data is protected, K2 notes.
"We saw an opportunity to create positive change. Society's acceptance of drones now opens the door for first responders to use this emerging technology to enhance public safety," says Jason Kamdar, founder and CEO of K2 Unmanned Systems.
IMT/Vislink's interoperable encrypted HD video downlink technology, compatible with other types of drone platforms, allows for dual use of current portable and mobile command vehicle downlink receive systems.
John Procacci, vice president of sales for xG Technology, which is based out of Sarasota, Fla., says, "We are pleased to collaborate with K2 on their exciting new drone system. Our mission has always been to provide live, real-time video communications that deliver actionable intelligence from all aerial platforms to law enforcement personnel, and this project with K2 is the latest example. We look forward to working with K2 to ensure that our downlink system delivers maximum situational awareness for use in tactical operations."
K2 announced the release of the U.S.-made Knight Hawk at the 29th annual APSA Fly-In Training, a private event hosted by the Pasadena, Calif., Police Department to network and train and to display new technologies. The event was held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on May 9. K2 says it is now scheduling demos for the new UAV for interested entities.
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December 21, 2022 Blog, SHE IS MORE
Hosted on Artsteps, this year's SHE IS MORE Global Youth Art Competition of the IIX Foundation raised funds to empower women in the global South
By Annita Apostolaki
Wonderful things happen when people with similar visions join forces. In Artsteps, we want to give to every web user the opportunity to take their first steps in the Metaverse and explore their creative skills by building 3D virtual environments to place their content and profit from it. That is why it was a pleasure to partner for a virtual exhibition with the IIX Foundation, a Singapore-based charity that gives underprivileged women and their grass roots initiatives access to resources and financial literacy, in order to help them achieve their potential and bring them to the forefront of capital markets, as a form of sustainable investment.
Detail of the VR gallery created by the IIX Foundation for the exhibition of the awarded works at the SHE IS MORE 2022 youth art competition
Helping women to help their communities
What is sustainable investing? According to Harvard Business School, the term refers to a range of practices in which investors aim to achieve financial returns while promoting long-term environmental or social value. This means that, instead of focusing solely on short-term financial gains, investing firms are now called to look at the broader picture of what and how they contribute to society.
A pioneer and global leader in the field is Impact Investment Exchange (IIX). Founded in 2009 by Professor Durreen Shahnaz, the "world's first social stock exchange" supports businesses that empower communities in developing countries by providing them with development solutions that will help them scale successfully. The ultimate aim is to aid a billion people to lead sustainable lives by 2030.
A vital part in this mission is its sister entity, the IIX Foundation. Since 2010, the organization has been educating women and teaching them skills to start and grow their own businesses, in order to not only earn better livelihoods, but also impact more women in return. As Vice President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris, recently said: "Lift up the economic status of women, and all of society benefits."
The main instrument in the effort of the IIX Foundation to raise awareness and create a gender equal world for the next generation is its annual flagship competition, SHE IS MORE. Young creators from all over the world are invited through an open call to celebrate inclusivity by submitting works that illustrate their personal views on a particular theme around women's empowerment. This year's theme was "Resilience", given that the world is seeing a rise in refugee women, who are displaced due to the effects of warfare and climate change on their environment.
Detail of the VR gallery created by the IIX Foundation with the awarded works at the SHE IS MORE 2022 youth art competition
The many faces of resilience
As many as 250 children and teenagers from 32 countries participated in SHE IS MORE 2022 for a chance to win great awards and see their work exhibited in IIX Foundation's Artsteps virtual gallery. After over a month of deliberation, the judges finally reached a decision on the grand prize winners and the runner-ups in both the 10–13 y.o. and 14–17 y.o. categories. The winning artworks, as well as those of the rest of the finalists, can now be viewed in the private space of the IIX Foundation on Artsteps.
The skill of the creators of the entries displayed in IIX Foundation's Artsteps virtual gallery is truly remarkable, considering their young age. Looking at the delicate line work and intricate but balanced composition of the female portrait "she is beautiful nature" by Krittamet Khamprom from Thailand, who won in the 14–17 y.o. category, as well as the colour and pensive face of the model depicted on Rose Zhang's "Divinity", the second runner up in the category, it is hard not to be impressed by the fact that they are 17 and 16 years old respectively. It is also interesting that they both approached female resilience in a different way: Khamprom drew -literally and metaphorically- parallels between the resilience of women and nature, while for Zhang being resilient is remaining true to her East Asian heritage while living in the Western environment of New Zealand.
Equally varied were the takes of the 10–13 year old participants on the theme of "Resilience", as shown from the works that were awarded in the category. The 13-year old winner from Singapore Natalie Teo Zi Ning's "Equality of sports" refers to the adverse conditions despite which women thrive in the field, while 10-year old Xiong Guanyun shares with "The Light of Motherhood" the inspiring story of his mother, who, as a team leader in a tech giant in China, managed to avoid layoffs during the Covid-19 pandemic considering the families of each coworker. Nevertheless, it is "She", the simple work of 11-year old Ukrainian Amina Grynenko depicting a mother who runs from the war with a little boy in her hands that makes a lasting impact on the viewer.
If you want to support the efforts of the IIX Foundation to empower exceptional but underprivileged women, you can make a donation here.


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Q: Kivy App size fixed in full screen windowed I've made a windows app with Kivy and I want to set the size of the window to a fixed size which is full-screen windowed and I can't figure it out.
i've tried this method:
from kivy.core.window import Window
Window.size = (1920, 1080)
Window.fullscreen = True

It makes the app full screen but not full screen windowed. Does anyone have a solution for this please?

A: Config.set determines the size of the window and should be indicated at the very beginning of the script. For more information check https://kivy.org/doc/stable/api-kivy.config.html
from kivy.config import Config
Config.set('graphics', 'width', '1920')
Config.set('graphics', 'height', '1080')

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This website catalogs the ludicrous accidental deaths and close calls of everyday people who knowingly put themselves in dangerous situations — and paid the price. Since , the Darwin Awards has posted more than stories about people making idiotic choices and winding up embarrassed, injured, or dead. The Darwin Awards highlights the horrible decision-making skills of grenade jugglers, train jumpers, and other deceased daredevils. If you know of a foolhardy true story worth nominating for a Darwin Award, you can make a submission here.
Some of these stories are shocking, and others are amusing, but they all serve as life lessons to anyone intent on pursuing their desires heedless of the consequences. At least they went out with a bang. Avoidable death is the hallmark of a Darwin Award, and this is a stupidly easy mistake to make in the heat of the moment, so it goes at the top of our list. On a related note: Rest in peace, young lovers. Hopefully, others will learn from your mistakes.
Martin, a married man with an asphyxiation fetish, behaved with flagrant disregard for his own life in hopes of getting off while he was alone in his house. Martin suffocated himself using a plastic bag and vacuum cleaner. One fateful afternoon, Martin apparently wanted to increase his solo pleasure by decreasing his ability to breathe. He put a plastic bag over his head and used a vacuum cleaner to remove the air inside.
According to the Darwin Awards article: Well, year-old Xian would probably tell you otherwise. He shows daters everywhere that boredom, horniness, and park benches are a very bad combination. It all started with a trip to the park. The steel sit-up benches at LanTian Park have hundreds of little holes running along the surface. Xian saw that as an invitation to insert his penis in one of them. Hard to see how such an inspired idea could go wrong, right? As soon as Xian became fully aroused, he became totally stuck.
Try as he might, he was unable to remove himself from his prone position on the bench. The poor guy had no choice but to call the authorities and explain between panicked breaths the unfortunate situation he found himself in. It took four grueling hours to free Xian from the bench. In the end, emergency workers had to cut the entire bench free so they could take him to the hospital. Talk about being caught with your pants down!
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Bolton head to Ipswich Town on Saturday, hoping to halt a run of three successive defeats in all competitions.
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Bolton boss Dougie Freedman speaks to the press, ahead of Saturday's Championship fixture against Ipswich Town.
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Jonathan Doh, PhD
Rammrath Chair in International Business; Associate Dean of Research; Faculty Director of the Center for Global Leadership; Professor of Management & Operations | Villanova School of Business | Villanova University
Villanova, PA, UNITED STATES
Jonathan Doh, PhD, is an expert in international business, global leadership and corporate social responsibility
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NAFTA Offshoring Strategic Alliances Globalization Cross-cultural Management; Business Ethics Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Emerging Markets International Management International Trade Latin America Business
Jonathan Doh, PhD, is Associate Dean of Research, Rammrath Chair in International Business, Faculty Director of the Center for Global Leadership, and Professor of Management at the Villanova School of Business. He is a prolific scholar and author in the fields of international business, trade, strategic management and corporate responsibility. Dr. Doh has been a visiting professor at universities in Europe and Asia and served as a trade official with the U.S. Department of Commerce, with responsibilities related to NAFTA. He has also served as Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic & International Studies and consulting Adviser to Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu International.
He is author or co-author of more than 75 refereed articles published in leading scholarly and practitioner journals, 35 chapters in scholarly edited volumes, and a dozen teaching cases and simulations, and co-author or co-editor of eight books. Since 1998, Jonathan has presented more than 80 papers and organized or served as chair or discussant for more than 30 panel sessions at meetings of the Academy of Management (AOM), the Academy of International Business (AIB), and Strategic Management Society (SMS).
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Period of 2001-2010
Elected Fellow, Academy of International Business (professional)
Elected to the Academy of Management Organizational and Natural Environment Division (ONE) Executive Committee (professional)
Served as PDW Chair (2012), Program Chair (2013), Division Chair-Elect (2014), Division Chair (2015), and Past Division Chair (2016).
Grand Prize, Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula (professional)
Richard Beckhard Prize for Outstanding Paper in Change and Organizational Development (professional)
Awarded for "The High Impact of Collaborative Social Initiatives," published in Sloan Management Review
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Editor in Chief, Journal of World Business
Consulting Advisor, Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu International, Global Energy Resources Group
Consulting Editor, Long Range Planning
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Consulting Editor, Journal of International Business Studies
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Bummed by Starbucks' price hike? Here's how much it costs to make your coffee
NBC News online
Additionally, as Jonathan Doh, PhD, professor of management & operations, international business department chair; associate dean of research and faculty director of the center for global leadership at Villanova School of Business points out, the price increase was probably planned well before the scandal that led to the training.
Why are We Afraid of Cuba?
Huffington Post online
Cuba is at a crossroads. Yet it seems some in the United States are hesitant to take the next step, fearful of what could happen if we actively engage and participate in what will undoubtedly be a profound transition. Some of this hesitation appears to emanate from fear. In my view, this fear is wholly unfounded. On the contrary, Cuba poses no threat to the United States, but may provide opportunity, with great potential for commercial interactions, educational exchange, and broader social integration between our two countries.
Don't Scapegoat Trade
This Presidential election cycle has emerged as one of the most unusual in recent years, and not only for the obvious reasons. For the first time since before World War II, both candidates are seriously questioning the benefits of freer trade. And both Vice Presidential nominees, each a long-time supporter of freer trade, have been forced to back-track in order to align their position with their running mates.
Lehigh Valley courting foreign investment
The Morning Call online
While its labor costs are higher, the U.S. also offers a well-trained workforce, access to cheap sources of energy and plenty of top-flight research universities, experts say.
"Suddenly the U.S. is looking attractive," said Jonathan Doh, professor of management and director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Villanova School of Business. "Inflation is very low and the economy, while not going gangbusters, is doing a heck of a lot better than anywhere else in the world."
The World Is Their Workplace
The New York Times online
International work-study is most common in business schools. Jonathan Doh, an associate professor of business at Villanova and director of the Center for Global Leadership, tells students to start early and intern often — at home or abroad. Promising freshmen are invited to take part in the Global Citizens Program, which includes a yearlong course geared toward understanding business practices in either London or Singapore, where they spend 10 weeks in classes (15 credits) and 6 weeks at a full-time internship (3 credits) during their second semester.
Top Schools Face Globalisation Challenge
Financial Times online
Historically, business schools are a US phenomenon. Their growth in much of the 20th century coincided with the worldwide predominance of American businesses. US business methods were the model that others tried to emulate.
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International business responses to institutional voids Journal of International Business Studies
Jonathan Doh, Suzana Rodrigues, Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Mona Makhija
Corporate Political Activity and Regulatory Capture Journal of Management
Michael Hadani, Jonathan P. Doh, Marguerite A. Schneider
Guest Editors' Introduction: Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Developing Country Multinationals Business Ethics Quarterly
Jonathan Doh, Bryan W. Husted, Xiaohua Yang
Absorptive Capacity of Emerging Economy Firms: Rationalization, Professionalism and Isomorphism Academy of Management
Kathleen Yi Jia Low, Jonathan P Doh, James A. Robins
The world of global business 1965–2015: Perspectives on the 50th anniversary issue of the Journal of World Business: Introduction to the special issue Journal of World Business
Jonathan P.Doh, Fred Luthans, John Slocum
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NZ broadcasters launch battle against global mode ISPs
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New Zealand broadcasters have confirmed they've launched legal proceedings against internet service providers who give customers' access to "global mode", which allows customers access to offshore online content, claiming it breaches the local content providers' copyright.
Sky Network Television along with Television New Zealand, Media Works TV and Lightbox, Spark New Zealand's online streaming service, are taking action against Bypass Network Services, CallPlus Services, Orcon and Flip Services, Sky TV said in a statement.
The ISP's offer a service which disguises the customers' location and lets them use offshore streaming services, like BBC iplayer or Netflix without being subject to so-called "geo-blocking", which prevents services being used outside approved jurisdictions.
The broadcasters claim global mode breaches both copyright obligations and the Fair Trading Act, as global mode customers are accessing content, typically popular television shows such as Game of Thrones or House of Cards, which the local broadcasters and content providers have paid to bring to New Zealand.
The action has been opposed by lobby group Internet NZ, with chief executive Jordan Carter saying "the big four" will be on the wrong side of history after they sent letters to the ISP's earlier this month asking that they stop using Global Mode and declare that they should never have been using Global Mode in the first place.
"Teaming up together and using their considerable influence and resources to try and intimidate smaller players is not an inspiring way to try and win business," Carter said.
"Threatening to sue if you don't comply with unreasonable demands is also not an inspiring way to win business."
Traditional broadcasters and telecommunications providers are increasingly competitive in online streaming, which has seen viewers turn from TV to their computers and laptops to watch the latest programmes and movies. Telecommunications companies, like Spark, are looking to get in on the action with it launching its own Lightbox service to boost profitability and create new business lines.
The legal action comes one week after M2 Group, the ASX-listed voice and data services company, bought New Zealand's Call Plus for $250 million, gaining the nation's third largest broadband and fixed voice services provider and the Slingshot, Orcon, Flip and 2talk brands.
Shares of Sky TV rose 0.2 percent to $5.98. Spark was unchanged at $2.89. On the ASX M2 Group slipped 0.2 percent to A$11.02.
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