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Top Ten Surprises of the 2011-2012 NHL Season
There is still more than a month left before the Stanley Cup playoffs, but this season has already given us plenty of excitement and surprise. So I thought it'd be fun to visit 10 of the biggest surprises this season has offered up so far. So without further ado…
10. The Detroit Red Wings record setting 23-straight wins at home.
Why is this surprising?
I know at first, it isn't that hard to believe. There is a strong tradition of winning in Detroit and fan support there is always amongst the top in the league. But consider how long this record lasted before this season. The last team to hold the record was the Boston Bruins (22 straight) during 1929-30 and '30-31. In those days, professional hockey was a much different game. Stars played entire careers with one team and dynasties were more frequent. The current game is ripe with parity and regardless of who you play, there's always a chance of suffering a loss.
You also have to consider that during the streak, Detroit didn't have their No. 1 goalie Jimmy Howard for a number of games during the final stretch. Howard's fill-in – Joey MacDonald – won six straight to help break the record. For a backup to achieve a streak like that in pressure situations is pretty admirable.
9. The Buffalo Sabres are out of playoff contention.
After last season, owner Terry Pegula vowed to spend heaps of money to turn Buffalo into a Stanley Cup contender. To sure up the blue line, he signed Christian Ehrhoff through 2021 at a cap hit of $4 million. He also brought on Robyn Regehr for about the same price through 2013. If that wasn't enough, Pegula snapped up Ville Leino from Philadelphia to increase goal scoring at the hefty price of $4.5 million through 2017. It seemed that Buffalo was going to be a real contender in the 2011-2012 season. But so far, they have been a disappointment. They are currently 11th in the Eastern Conference. The stars Pegula brought in are having down years and their best player, goaltender Ryan Miller, just hasn't looked himself for much of the season. He has had some injury problems and the backup Jhonas Enroth hasn't been able to help during Miller's absences. The Sabres still have a shot at making the postseason, but the team really needs to turn up the intensity in its remaining 17 games.
8. Concussions are increasing at a high rate.
The expansion of Rule 48, plain and simple. After losing the face of the league (Sidney Crosby) and a number of others to concussions last season, NHL officials met in the offseason and expanded rule 48 to eliminate the dangerous hits to the head that were causing many of the concussions in the NHL. Check out this quote from an article written by Dan Rosen of NHL.com last year:
"There were hits this year that we want eliminated from the game and we need to make sure we don't end up back in this situation again next year," said former NHL veteran Mathieu Schneider, special assistant to NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr. "Without getting real specific, players and managers, and as my thinking would be, the Board of Governors and our Board, want to keep the physical play in and want to put some onus on guys being aware on the ice, but at the same time there are hits that we want to rid ourselves of. By expanding Rule 48, we're hoping to be able to do that."
That didn't happen.
This is just a sample set of the players who suffered concussions this season so far: Sidney Crosby Claude Giroux, Mike Richards, Michael Sauer, Jeff Skinner, Joni Pitkanen, Kris Letang, Chris Pronger, Zbynek Michalek, Robert Bortuzzo, Jay Beagle, Milan Michalek, Brayden Schenn, Radek Martinek, Marek Zidlicky, Nathan Gerbe, Nicklas Backstrom, Ryan Miller, James Reimer and Jonathan Toews.
Brendan Shanahan, the director of player discipline, has handed out his fair share of suspensions stemming from concussion-causing hits this season, but obviously the suspensions and the rule expansion haven't done enough to take head-shots out of the game.
7. The Philadelphia Flyers are the highest scoring team in the NHL.
This past offseason, the Flyers gutted the scoring of their team. They sent their captain Mike Richards to Los Angeles. From 2007-2011, he averaged 28 goals, 42 assists and 70 points per season. The Flyers also sent center Jeff Carter to the Blue Jackets. From 2007-2011, he averaged 36 goals, 30 assists and 66 points per season. And not to go unnoticed, Philadelphia also lost Ville Leino to Buffalo. Last season, he scored 19 goals, 34 assists and 53 points.
It seemed that the Flyers were losing a ton of firepower to free up cap room to sign goalie Ilya Bryzgalov. But despite those players and their juicy numbers going elsewhere, the Flyers have still averaged 3.25 goals per game. They have scored 208 goals this season, six more than second ranked Boston. The Flyers have managed to climb to the top of the scoring list by getting help from a number of different players. Scott Hartnell leads the team with 31 goals, followed by Claude Giroux's 23 and 22 from Wayne Simmonds. Currently, the Flyers have 10 players with 10 or more goals.
6. Tampa Bay is 10th in the Eastern Conference.
Last year, the Lightning was the team to beat in the postseason. After recovering from a 3-1 deficit against Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay surged to win three straight to win the series. Then they easily swept Washington in the second round. And in the Eastern Conference finals, it took the eventual Stanley Cup champion Bruins seven games to finish off the Lightning. Steven Stamkos was coming into his own (and is currently the league leader in goals (47) and points (80)) and the veteran leadership of Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier is still there. So what is so different between this year's team and last year's?
Goaltending.
Somehow, Dwayne Roloson was outstanding last season with the Bolts, especially in the playoffs. Everyone predicted that the 41-year-old net minder was too old to carry the team, but that's exactly what he did. Now, it seems that his age has finally caught up to him. Add in the fact that the Tampa Bay blueliners are relatively poor and haven't provided their goalies with much help all season long. But even though the situation for Tampa has looked dismal for most of this season, they remain only two points out of a playoff spot and six points back of the Southeast Division lead.
5. The Florida Panthers may win the Southeast Division.
The Panthers haven't made the postseason in 10 years. It is the longest drought in all of hockey. Although the Southeast Division is shaky at best, the winner will reap the benefits of a No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Panthers have led the division for the majority of the season. Over the past few weeks, the position has wavered, allowing both the Winnipeg Jets and the Washington Capitals to claim the top spot for a few games. But the fact remains that the Panthers have been the best team in that division for the majority of the season and they probably deserve to win the Southeast.
Florida has been led by the stellar scoring line of Stephen Weiss, Tomas Fleischmann and Kris Versteeg. Collectively, the three have scored 58 goals, 83 assists and 141 points. And even though the goaltending staff had to mix and match because of injuries (starter Jose Theodore has started only 37 games) it has managed to win 30 games between Theodore, Scott Clemmensen and Jacob Markstrom to post a solid .915 save percentage and a goals against average of 2.64. Those numbers may just be good enough for a division win come April.
4. The Washington Capitals are on the verge of missing the playoffs.
For starters, Vegas gave the Caps 7/1 odds of winning the Stanley Cup before the season. The only other team given the same odds was the Vancouver Canucks, which came within a game of winning Lord Stanley's hardware last season. The Caps were favorites for a win because of their scoring depth, with guys like Ovechkin, Semin and Backstrom. They also had a solid defense with outstanding blue liner Mike Green and experienced veterans Dennis Wideman and Roman Hamrlik. Goaltending seemed like it could be an issue, but Washington management was confident that sending their previous starter Semyon Varlamov to Colorado wouldn't hinder the 2011-2012 season because of the young talent of Michal Neuvirth, Braden Holtby and acquired veteran Tomas Vokoun.
But unfortunately for Washington, this season has been sub-par at best. They are ranked 21 in goals against per game and they rank 13th in goal scoring. After an 8-0 start, Washington has won more than two games in a row only three times this season. But because the Capitals are in the weak Southeast Division, they still stand a chance at making the playoffs and are currently only one point out of the playoff picture.
3. The Flyers goaltending woes continue.
They Flyers haven't had a dependable goaltender for close to a decade. After last season, the Flyers organization decided it had enough and on June 23, 2011, Philadelphia signed Ilya Bryzgalov to a nine-year, $51 million contract. The length of the contract was unprecedented for goalies in the NHL, but the Flyers had good reason to think it was a good move. Bryzgalov was the runner-up for the Vezina Trophy and a top-5 finalist for the Hart Trophy in the 2009–10 NHL season. His career goals-against average was an admirable 2.39 and his career save percentage was .915. He had also won more than 150 games in less than 10 seasons in the NHL. When the Flyers signed him, he was easily in the top-10 of goalies in the NHL and perhaps even the top five.
But this season has not been kind to Bryzgalov.
Although he has 23 wins this season, his save percentage is a paltry .898 (the worst of his career) and his goals-against average is 2.79, the second worst of his career. Bryz hasn't looked comfortable between the pipes in Philly this season. And in the Winter Classic against the New York Rangers, Flyers coach Peter Laviolette elected to start last year's No. 1 goalie, Sergei Bobrovsky. Bryzgalov was clearly upset with the decision and it was a clear sign that the team's confidence in him has wavered. Philly still has a solid team with the most scoring in the league, but if Bryzgalov cannot find his mojo before the playoffs, the Flyers Stanley Cup hopes just may fade away this season.
2. St. Louis is only two points back of the overall lead in the NHL
St. Louis has been a perennial bust. They have not won a playoff game since 2003-2004 and they haven't won a playoff series since 2001-2002. The team also has not qualified for the playoffs in five of the last six seasons. But this season, after a 6-7 start that left St. Louis in 14th place in the Western Conference, the Blues fired head coach Davis Payne in favor of Ken Hitchcock, a man with more than 1,000 games of coaching experience and the 4th Blues head coach since 2006.
The move paid off.
Currently St. Louis is in second in the Western Conference and only one point back from first place Vancouver. The Blues have one of the best defenses in all of the NHL and are the league leaders in goals allowed per game (1.89), have allowed the fewest goals in the NHL (125) and are fourth in the NHL in plus/minus (plus-41). But best aspect of this team is between the pipes. Which leads us to…
1. Brian Elliott's phenomenal year.
No one could have predicted the year that goaltender Brian Elliott is having. His save percentage of .937 is second in the NHL and his goals-against average of 1.63 is tops in the league. The 26-year-old goalie also ranks third in shutouts with six. These stats are drastically better than his career numbers. In Elliott's first four seasons – the majority of which were with the Ottawa Senators – his average save percentage was .912 and his goals-against average was 2.67. Elliott has only 20 wins this season, but that is only because he is effectively splitting time with Jaroslav Halak, who is having a tremendous season of his own. With these backstops holding the fort in St. Louis, who knows what the Blues will be capable of in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Filed under NHL Tagged with Brian Elliott, Buffalo Sabres, christian ehrhoff, Detroit Redwings, eastern conference, Florida Panthers, Ilya Bryzgalov, joey macdonald, NHL, NHL Concussions, Philadelphia Flyers, Rule 48, St. Louis Blues, stanley cup playoffs, Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals, Western Conference
About Pete Dombrosky
Pete is a graduate of Penn State University and a life-long Steelers, Penguins, and Pirates fan. He covered men's hockey, golf, tennis, swimming and the enterprise beat as a reporter at the Daily Collegian, Penn State's award-winning, independent student-operated paper. He currently serves as the Managing Editor for Thrillist Media Group (www.thrillist.com).
2 Responses to Top Ten Surprises of the 2011-2012 NHL Season
willsports says:
These are all good points but really Elliot in #1? I think the Leafs having two top 5 scorers should be in there. Great blog. Check out
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Pete DombroskyPete says:
Great point willsports. Kessel and Lupul sure have been outstanding this year. They were certainly in my consideration. But you're right, at the least, they should get an honorable mention for what they've done. Too bad the rest of the team hasn't been able to follow suit. With a little bit of goaltending and a couple of additions on defense, Toronto will be back to contending in the Eastern Conference.


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Freestyle skiing World Cup: Halfpipe, moguls, aerials & ski cross
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February 2, 2017 - Updated on February 3, 2017
Watch live freestyle skiing action on Friday beginning at 1 p.m. ET as some of the world's best halfpipe skiers compete at Mammoth Mountain, Colo.
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Q: Start File with C# using System;

namespace ConsoleApp2
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    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\Users\MyUsername\Desktop\TextFile.txt");
        }
    }
}

ERROR GIVEN: The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform.'
Any ideas?

A: To launch a file with the default application, use ProcessStartInfo and set UseShellExecute to true.  For example:
Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo("file.txt") { UseShellExecute = true });

For further reading, see When do we need to set ProcessStartInfo.UseShellExecute to True?.
UseShellExecute is defaulted to true for the full .Net Framework, so the above is equivalent to:
// NOTE: Only for .Net Framework - will not work on .Net Core / .Net 5+
Process.Start("file.txt");

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Great thanks, now OK on this occasion we voluntarily switched everything off and switched back on as needed (I'm going to assume you humored me) but what if we involuntarily lost the IT systems in our businesses?
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Opps! That's just 7 hours, imagine if there was prolonged downtime, sometimes downtime is inevitable a telecoms engineer unplugs the wrong port at the exchange or a burst pipe wipes out the comms room (I wouldn't put pipes in the Comms room) but response is key, we pride ourselves on our communication and response to client requests. Have a free 30 minute chat to see how we can support your continued business success.
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Q: MATLAB: Scatter plot with conditional coloring I have a large data matrix with 5 columns. 5th column contains many zeros. I want to do scatter(data(:,4),data(:,5)) and set a different color for points/rows where value in 5th column is zero.
I will then draw scatter plot of different columns but with same condition i.e. different color where values in 5th column are zeros.

A: You can easily set the different color-flag as a fourth parameter in a function:
scatter(d(:,4), d(:,5), 7, d(:,5)==0);

Here d(:,4) and d(:,5) are the coordinates of points, 7 is the size of the point, and d(:,5)==0 is the color-flag (for different values of d(:,5), different colors are chosen).


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Home ICT - Security Intelligent Edge Data Center
Intelligent Edge Data Center
Postato da: enric_innovationil: luglio 05, 2019 In: ICT - Security, Office - Operations
Intelligent Edge Data Center will drive smart industries to the next level. Rittal forms global strategic partnership with Atos and Siemens for Edge and IoT initiatives.
Rittal announced a new global strategic partnership with Atos and Siemens to develop intelligent edge datacenter solutions for smart industries, smart cities, smart retail, energy & utilities, and public sectors.
The new 'Intelligent Edge Data Center' (IEDC) is a highly configurable datacenter solution that enables companies to process IoT data in real-time using solutions such as MindSphere®, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens, the new BullSequana Edge computing server and the BullSequana S server from Atos, Atos Codex Cloud Industrial Supervision (CIS) and thus optimize their entire value chain with an advanced data-, analytics solution.
The OT Infrastructure is developed by Rittal and is designed as an edge datacenter: One of the resulting improvements lies in the direct operation at the point of data generation to allow real-time processing of IoT data to enable faster analytics of streaming data and improved industry automation. From the IT perspective, Atos and Siemens' software applications for IoT and Edge solutions will serve for data collection, computation and data analytics.
Solution for Edge Computing
The IEDC is available in different performance classes, from a wall box or a single IT rack up to a powerful turnkey-ready and scalable datacenter container.
The IEDC is ideal for companies that have already started the digital transformation and need to process large amounts of real-time data in smart production environments or other areas. Further application examples can be found in industries ranging from smart retail to smart healthcare but also in smart cities or in the expansion of 5G mobile networks in which the IEDC can carry out data processing directly at the mobile base station.
The IEDC solution in detail
The IEDC is a secure, highly standardized, industrialized solution. It can run autonomously in non-datacenter environments and there is no need for a white room nor for local IT teams to operate it. The solution comes with Siemens' MindSphere readiness (an IoT operating system by Siemens) to benefit from IoT dedicated applications both in the cloud or on-premise. It supports the MindSphere architecture running in a cloud-based or an on-premise implementation.
The IEDC embeds the BullSequana Edge server for computer vision and IoT datalake from Atos, Atos Codex CIS software which forms the IoT backbone, but it enables also to inter-connect several other sensors within a single IEDC. The IEDC could be inter-connected to establish a swarm as a meshed edge datacenter network. This enables the progressive deployment of advanced business applications and solutions. The relevant data of each node of the network is available on top-level dashboards used for a deep insight by monitoring, controlling and optimization using advanced analytics.
The following list shows which components are supplied by the individual partners:
Atos: IT infrastructure such as BullSequana Edge, BullSequana S, Atos Codex CIS, MindSphere (Apps), Atos Business Applications & Services, Predictive Maintenance, 3rd -party AI applications and overall supervision.
Rittal: OT Infrastructure such as edge datacenter, power, cooling, basic monitoring and safety and housing.
Siemens: Technical infrastructure such as advanced monitoring and safety, power protection, security and IT-infrastructure like building management system and MindSphere (platform & apps).
"The Intelligent Edge Data Center developed in partnership with Rittal and Siemens is part of Atos' Edge strategy to move the compute of large amounts of more and more complex data close to the location where they are generated: factories, shops, airports and hospitals. By combining the IT hardware and software developed by Atos and Siemens, together with the infrastructure from Rittal, we're offering a very successful solution to accelerate customers' journeys to efficient and powerful IoT Data analytics." said Emmanuel Le Roux, Senior Vice President, Big Data, Atos.
"The exponential volume of data with heterogonous complexity is putting any kind of organization and industry in front of a massive digital revolution. Only the ones, which will have smart edge infrastructures, enabling compute close to data sources, as extension of cloud infrastructure, will secure their path to sustainable economic or social growth.", says Bertrand Delatte Head of Data Center Solutions Europe at Siemens.
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Юлія Мусаковська — українська поетеса ( ). Перекладачка шведської літератури. Членкиня Українського ПЕН.

Біографія
Народилася у Львові, де і мешкає. У 2005 році з відзнакою закінчила факультет міжнародних відносин Львівського національного університету імені Івана Франка. Працює в царині маркетингу та комунікацій в галузі інформаційних технологій.

Перша добірка поезій опублікована в альманасі «Київська Русь» (вересень 2008). Друкувалася у виданнях «Золота доба», «Київська Русь», «Четвер», «Літературна Україна», «Березіль», «Нова проза», «Кур'єр Кривбасу», «RADAR» та інших, у різноманітних альманахах та антологіях.

Вірші перекладалися понад тридцятьма мовами: зокрема шведською, норвезькою, польською, литовською, естонською, німецькою, італійською, іспанською, португальською, грузинською, болгарською, англійською, мальтійською, китайською, малаяламською мовами та івритом. Опубліковані в літературній періодиці, на онлайн-ресурсах та в антологіях за кордоном. В 2022 році в Польщі вийшла друком двомовна збірка «Залізо / Żelazo» (Фундація «Пограниччя», Сейни), переклад польською Анети Камінської.

Перекладає шведську поезію (Томаса Транстремера, Карін Боє та інших) українською та сучасну українську поезію англійською мовою.

Бібліографія

Книги

 Збірка поезій «Бог свободи». — Львів : Видавництво Старого Лева, 2021. — 136 с.
 Збірка поезій «Чоловіки, жінки і діти». — Львів : Видавництво Старого Лева, 2015. — 128 с.
 Збірка поезій «Полювання на тишу». — Тернопіль : Крок, 2014. — 114 с.
 Збірка поезій «Маски». — Київ : Смолоскип, 2011. — 120 с.
 Збірка поезій «На видих і на вдих». — Київ : Факт, 2010. — 112 с.

Журнальні публікації
 Добірка поезій «Потреба вбивати і воскрешати час», («Парадигма», Київ, 2021)
 Добірка поезій «Попіл і віск», («Київ», Київ, 2021)
 Добірка поезій «Nемовчання», («Кур'єр Кривбасу», Київ, 2013)
 Добірка поезій «Маски» («Літературна Україна», Київ, 2011)
 Добірка поезій «Червоним по білому» («Українська літературна газета», Київ, 2009)
 Добірка поезій «Невідворотне» («Літературна Україна», Київ, 2009)
 Добірка поезій «Станси» («Золота пектораль», Чортків, 2009)
 Оповідання («Нова проза», Луцьк, 2009)
 Добірка поезій «Саламандра» («Київська Русь» (книга «Захід»), Київ, 2008)
 Добірка поезій («Четвер», 2008)

Нагороди
 2016 — нагорода «Найкращий книжковий дизайн року» за поетичну збірку «Чоловіки, жінки і діти» (художнє оформленням Творчої майстерні «Аґрафка»)
 2013 — Лауреат I премії поетичного конкурсу DICTUM від видавництва «Крок»
 2011 — Лауреат II премії всеукраїнського конкурсу «Коронація слова 2011» в номінації «Пісенна лірика про кохання»
 2010 — Лауреат I премії літературного конкурсу «Витоки» від Острозької академії за збірку поезій «МАСКИ»
 2010 — Лауреат II премії конкурсу видавництва «Смолоскип» за збірку поезій «МАСКИ»
 2009 — Лауреат III премії конкурсу ім. Б.-І. Антонича «Привітання життя» за збірку «На видих і на вдих»
 2009 — Лауреат IV премії конкурсу видавництва «Смолоскип» за збірку поезій «На видих і на вдих»
 2009 — Лауреат поетичного фестивалю «Неосфера»
 2009 — ІІ премія конкурсу «Рукомесло» в номінації «Поезія»
 2008 — Лауреат міжнародного конкурсу «Гранослов» за збірку поезій «На видих і на вдих»

Громадська позиція
У червні 2018 підтримала відкритий лист діячів культури, політиків і правозахисників із закликом до світових лідерів виступити на захист ув'язненого у Росії українського режисера Олега Сенцова й інших політв'язнів.

Примітки

Посилання

 «Полювання на тишу» — перша усвідомлена книжка (інтерв'ю для «Читомо»)
 Добірка віршів Юлії Мусаковської для інтернет-журналу CHTIVO
 Авторська сторінка Юлії Мусаковської в проекті «AVTURA.COM»
 Інтерв'ю для газети «День»
 Авторська сторінка та переклади віршів Юлії Мусаковської німецькою мовою
 Інтерв'ю авторки для «Друга читача»
 Юлія Мусаковська: «Пишу для небайдужих» (інтерв'ю для тернопільського порталу «20 хвилин»)
 «Теми сами обирають мене»  (розмова з Людмилою Таран для газети "День, 10.01.2019)
 #PEN_TEN: Інтерв'ю з Юлією Мусаковською
 Юлія Мусаковська: «Поезія — це пошук співрозмовника» (розмова з Ією Ківою для Pen Ukraine, 23.04.2020)

Українські поетеси
Українські перекладачки
Шведсько-українські перекладачі
Уродженці Львова
Лауреати літературного конкурсу видавництва «Смолоскип»
Лауреати літературного конкурсу «Гранослов»

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Paul Davis On Crime
News and commentary on organized crime, street crime, white collar crime, cyber crime, sex crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, espionage and terrorism.
Attorney General Sessions Announces New Measures To Fight Transnational Organized Crime
The U.S. Justice Department announced a series of measures to dismantle transnational criminal organizations.
"The day I was sworn in as Attorney General, President Trump sent me an executive order to dismantle transnational criminal organizations—the gangs and cartels who flood our streets with drugs and violence," Attorney General Sessions said. "We embrace that order and we carry it out every single day. Today, to increase our effectiveness, I am putting in place new leadership to drive our transnational organized crime efforts and forming a Transnational Organized Crime Task Force of experienced prosecutors that will coordinate and optimize the Department's efforts to take each of these groups off of our streets for good."
The Attorney General has appointed Associate Deputy Attorney General Patrick Hovakimian to serve as the Department's first Director of Counter Transnational Organized Crime. Hovakimian has served in Department leadership since early 2017 and also as an AUSA in the Southern District of California, where he is co-lead counsel in a series of transnational public corruption and fraud cases. In addition to his duties as federal prosecutor, earlier this year the President nominated and the U.S. Senate confirmed Hovakimian to serve as a Commissioner of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States.
Attorney General Sessions has appointed Adam Cohen as the new Director of Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). Cohen is currently the Chief of the Criminal Division Special Operations Unit's Office of Enforcement Operations and has served in the Criminal Division for 10 years. He has also served as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for five years and as a state prosecutor in Florida for seven years. He also led the National Gang Targeting Enforcement and Coordination Center for nearly three years and has served as a Deputy Chief of the Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section. He is a past recipient of the Assistant Attorney General's Award for Reduction and Deterrence of Violent and Organized Crime, as well as the DEA Administrator's Award for his work to counter narcotics trafficking.
On February 9, 2017, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 13773, which directed the federal government to "ensure that Federal law enforcement agencies give a high priority and devote sufficient resources to efforts to identify, interdict, disrupt, and dismantle transnational criminal organizations[.]"
Following this Executive Order, Attorney General Sessions directed the FBI, DEA, OCDETF, and the Department's Criminal Division to identify top transnational criminal groups that threaten the safety and prosperity of the United States and its allies. As a result of that review, the Attorney General is designating the following criminal groups as top transnational organized crime threats:
• MS-13
• Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG)
• Sinaloa Cartel
• Clan del Golfo, and
• Lebanese Hezbollah.
The Attorney General's TOC Task Force will be led by the Deputy Attorney General and will be composed of experienced prosecutors. It will be organized into one subcommittee for each of the target groups.
The subcommittee on MS-13 will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. AUSA Durham has played a significant role in the FBI's Long Island Task Force, which has arrested hundreds of MS-13 members.
The subcommittee on Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion will be led by Trial Attorney Brett Reynolds of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section of the Department's Criminal Division. Reynolds has led or co-led several investigations into the Cartel that have led to indictments of some of its highest ranking members.
The subcommittee on the Sinaloa Cartel will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Sutton of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California. AUSA Sutton prosecuted several Sinaloa kingpins and led multiple international investigations targeting Sinaloa Cartel leaders, resulting in seizures of millions of dollars in drug proceeds and thousands of kilograms of illicit drugs.
The subcommittee on Clan del Golfo will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Emery of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. AUSA Emery has secured convictions against the top leadership of Clan del Golfo, including kingpin Henry de Jesus Lopez Londoño, who commanded over 1,000 armed men for the cartel.
The subcommittee on Lebanese Hezbollah will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ilan Graff of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. AUSA Graff is overseeing the prosecution of two alleged members of Hezbollah's External Security Organization, the first such operatives to be charged with terrorism offenses in the United States.
Attorney General Sessions has ordered each of these subcommittees to provide specific recommendations within 90 days on how to disrupt and dismantle TOC, whether through prosecution, diplomacy, or other lawful means.
This new Task Force builds upon work that Attorney General Sessions has already done to dismantle these groups. On January 11, 2018, Attorney General Sessions established the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team (HFNT), a group of experienced international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, organized crime, and money laundering prosecutors. HFNT prosecutors and investigators are tasked with investigating individuals and networks providing support to Hezbollah, and pursuing prosecutions in any appropriate cases. The new subcommittee—which will be staffed and led by HFNT members—will aid the ongoing work of the HFNT.
On October 23, 2017, Attorney General Sessions formally designated MS-13 as a priority target for OCDETF.
Posted by Paul Davis at 1:11 PM
Labels: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, MS-13, OCDETF, Transnational Organized Crime Task Force, U.S. Justice Department
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Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, street crime, sex crime, cyber crime, drug crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' "Crime Beat" column covers crime in both fact and fiction. His online column offers his Q&As with cops, crooks and crime writers. He is also a regular contributor to the Washington Times and Counterterrorism magazine. His work has also appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and other newspapers, magazines and online publications. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970 and served on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War. He also served two years on the Navy harbor tugboat USS Saugus at the U.S. nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to perform security work as a Defense Department civilian employee and he later became a freelance writer. You can read Paul Davis' Crime Beat columns, crime fiction and magazine and newspaper pieces on this website. You can also read his full bio by clicking on the above photo.
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European Parliament's report calls on ECB to raise its game
by Stan Jourdan | Feb 6, 2018 | 0 comments
In a report adopted this week, the European Parliament warns against the limits of quantitative easing and pressures the ECB to be more transparent and accountable.
On Tuesday February 5, the European Parliament adopted its annual report on the European Central Bank. Although the report is not legally binding, it serves a core purpose to evaluate the past activities of the ECB and make suggestions for how to improve the ECB policies. As such, the outcome of today's vote put an end to 6 months of negotiations between parliamentarians and therefore materializes a good political state of affairs on monetary policy in Europe.
This year's report includes a number of useful proposals and remarks. First, it provides a moderately critical assessment of the efficiency of the ECB's monetary policy such as quantitative easing, highlighting many of the concerns we voiced over the past two years. However in contrast to last year's edition, the report is much more innovative and ambitious when it comes to pressuring the ECB to be more accountable and transparent.
The report, which as led by Spanish MEP Jonas Fernandez, was adopted by a broad majority of 70%, including political groups from left to right.
Overall, we are satisfied that several of our recommendations were included in the final version of the report, in particular in the following five areas.
1. Limits and side-effects of quantitative easing
The report rightly highlights the failure of the ECB to achieve its price stability objective so far:
"that inflation in the euro area is expected to remain below 2 % until at least 2020, despite the very accommodative monetary policy followed by the ECB, which suggests that the euro area economy is not operating at full capacity"
The report also suggests that the ECB's current tools could be inadequate for coping with another possible financial crisis:
"Considers that, given the current inefficiencies of the monetary policy transmission channels, the ECB must ensure that price stability, defined by the ECB Council of Governors as an inflation rate of close to but below 2 %, is achieved; believes that the ECB should nonetheless carefully assess the benefits and side-effects of its policy, in particular as regards intended action to combat deflation in the future"
Throughout the whole report, Parliament acknowledges the many problems that we have voiced against quantitative easing, including the effect of QE on inequality and asset bubbles.
In light of the above, the Parliament closes its first chapter with a sentence we wholeheartedly agree with: "Believes that the ongoing crisis has highlighted the need to diversify the theoretical background underlying the policy framework within central banks"
2. The ECB is legally bound to support climate change mitigation
QE for People has consistently campaigned to shift the ECB's policy so that it is in line with accommodating climate change goals. In that respect, we regret that the report does not explicitly call on the ECB to adjust its policies to best contribute to building a sustainable economy (or at least to stop purchasing fossil fuel bonds).
However we appreciate that the Parliament 'Notes that the ECB as an EU institution is bound by the Paris Agreement' which is a step in the right direction. While some central banks in Europe and elsewhere are taking the lead on climate change, the ECB is lagging behind and needs to be pressurized to take action.
By acknowledging the fact that the ECB is bound to the Paris agreement, the report opens up for future discussion on the possible implications of the agreement for the ECB's monetary policy.
3. The ECB must be more transparent
Importantly, the Parliament has adopted a bold call for enhancing the transparency of the Corporate Bond Purchase Programme (CSPP) – the section of the QE programme which goes to multinational corporations. The notable lack of transparency of this programme – which we flagged up very early on – led to a skirmish last year between EU politicians and the ECB in June last year.
Under pressure from a group of 40 MEPs, the ECB eventually conceded to implement some improvements on the transparency of the programme. However MEPs agree with us that the ECB can do better:
[The Parliament] 'Calls on the ECB to continue ensuring full transparency over disclosing the volumes of the purchases made under CSPP for each company after a reasonable time period […] in any case full transparency should be provided when the programme ends"
As we wrote here, for this programme to be adequately transparent, it is essential that the ECB provides company-by-company disclosure of the volumes of bonds being purchased by the ECB. Such a measure would allow citizens to check, by themselves, how much each company is benefitting from the ECB's programme and eventually to assess the overall sectoral and environmental impact of the ECB's activities. By refusing to apply such transparency standard, the ECB has adopted a counter-productive approach which contributes to fueling the critics against it.
It is therefore extremely positive that MEPs are not giving up on this point.
4. The need for greater accountability of the ECB
In addition to transparency, Parliament also expresses the need for a strong democratic accountability of the ECB via the European Parliament.
[The Parliament] 'Considers that the ECB's independence, and thus its degree of accountability, must be commensurate with its importance; emphasises that the ECB's responsibilities and tasks require transparency towards the general public and enhanced accountability towards Parliament;" the report reads.
Two particular points of this section brought our attention.
First, the report echoes calls for improving the appointment process of ECB board members. Just last week, we questioned the lack of democratic quality of the appointment process of board members of the ECB. We think the appointment process should be more open, transparent, but also more diversity-friendly. Over the past years, the process often led to only one candidate being put forward by the Eurogroup, instead of evaluating the qualities of several candidates.
The European Parliament took one step in that direction by demanding a "shortlist of candidates" to be provided to the Parliament. This is a low-key demand which the Eurogroup has no reason to refuse.
Second, the report also calls for an improvement of the quarterly hearings of the ECB President to the Parliament, the so called "monetary dialogue".
Over the years those hearings have become a central channel for holding the ECB to account. However, all too often, the way these hearings are arranged prevent a fruitful discussion from happening between MEPs and the ECB President. This is mainly because the MEPs have too little time to ask questions and follow-up questions to the ECB President in order to get to the bottom of the topics being raised. As a result, the exchanges remain superficial and allow the ECB president to avoid sensitive questions too easily. Improving the setup of the monetary dialogue is also an easy step to improve Parliamentary scrutiny of the ECB.
5. Consider introducing public digital currencies
Finally, we are also satisfied that the report went as far as calling upon both the ECB and the European Commission to study the potential of central bank-issued digital currencies. The report reads:
[The Parliament] 'Takes note of the ongoing discussions concerning a 'central bank digital currency' or 'digital base money' that would be made available to a wide range of counterparties, including households; encourages the Commission and the ECB to study such schemes with a view to improving public access to payment systems, alongside physical money"
With the impending 'death of cash' and the rise of unregulated digital currencies, there is a case for central banks to offer their own form of digital currency, by providing a risk-free alternative to bank accounts. By taking full advantage of the new technologies, not only could central banks be ahead of the curve, but they would would also be preparing for the future, as such schemes could be used to ameliorate the transmission of monetary policy, for example, by using it to deliver helicopter money.
In the preliminary debate held yesterday in Parliament, the vice-president of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis already announced that the Commission was willing to cooperate with the ECB to further study the potential of this idea. We look forward to seeing more conversation about this in the coming months.
Now is the time to upgrade the ECB's governance
Overall, the Parliament's annual report on the ECB provides fresh thinking on monetary policy and bold proposals to make the ECB more accountable to European citizens.
Throughout the financial crisis, the ECB has accumulated a lot more power than it used to have. It is long overdue that policymakers seek to adequately match the ECB's powerful status and independence with more transparency towards the public, and higher accountability through the European Parliament.
It is very positive to see Parliament acknowledging such a wide range of problems the ECB was confronted with over the past years.
The ball is now in the ECB's court to respond and incorporate Parliament's suggestions. With a large majority of MEPs backing the report, the ECB has a duty to accept as many of them as possible, even though the report is non legally binding. And in case it does not follow-up, the ECB should at least explain why in its upcoming report which will be presented to the Parliament in April.
However everything is not just up to the ECB. For example, the appointment process of the ECB board members falls into the prerogatives of the Council of the EU, while revamping the Monetary Dialogue is mostly the responsibility of of the European Parliament's Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). Both institutions should show leadership in taking those steps forward.
Positive Money Europe will seek to make its contribution by pushing institutions to put those words into action, in particular regarding the appointment process of ECB board members. Admittedly this such work is somehow beyond our "QE for People" proposals. To this effect, we will soon transform our campaign into a permanent organisation whose mission will be to scrutinize a large scope of issues surrounding ECB policies.
The full report is accessible on the European Parliament's website.


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For more than 15 years, Anne Mondro, an associate professor at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, has been creating and facilitating art programs for people living with dementia in Michigan.
According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan is currently home to 240,000 individuals with Alzheimer's dementia-a term used to describe those in the dementia stage of the continuum. This number is expected to increase as the baby boom generation continues to age.
A crisis on a global scale, the disease also comes with a set of deep societal stigmatizations-myths that Mondro has been working to change in order to encourage quality of life, care and dignity for people living with memory loss.
After years of partnering with the U-M Geriatric Center & Institute of Gerontology Silver Club on various projects, in 2014 Mondro decided to share her training with students in the form of a course titled Memory, Aging & Expressive Arts. The class pairs Stamps students with local community members living with memory loss to work together to build a vision around a creative concept, execute that concept together and exhibit their work at the end of the term.
Her most recent class brought students to Brecon Village in Saline, Michigan, where EHM Senior Solutions partnered with her to offer a 10-week-long program on Fridays during the winter semester.
"This project really sticks with these participants, it's really meaningful," said Ryan Olson, adult day program manager at Brecon Village.
For the first half of the class, students and program participants were introduced to various forms of expressive art practices led by professionals in the field, including artmaking, storytelling, music and movement. The last half of the class prompted students to create and facilitate an idea for a project, based on the specific needs, abilities and interests of the participants that they were partnered with.
Cass Carpenter, a May 2019 Stamps graduate, had many conversations with her partner before settling on a final project.
"She talked a lot about spring-apparently she was an avid gardener when she was younger, so I put together a project where we're painting flowers and other spring scenes," she said. "I'm really making sure that she gets to make all of the decisions and does a majority of the work, and I'm making sure that we're set up to be able to be proud of our project and finish it on time."
"I took this class, in part, to learn a little bit more about my grandfather, who is living with Alzheimer's," said Ansleigh Hamilton, a junior in the Stamps School, who worked on a music-based songwriting project with her partner. "What I learned is that the social aspect of the making is just as important as the act of making itself. Taking time with my partner to work toward a common goal inspires how I might approach a relationship with my grandfather in the future."
An artist whose studio practice draws deep inspiration from relationships, interconnectedness, vulnerability and strengths between people, Mondro encourages Stamps students toward thoughtful, genuine relationships with their collaborators.
"When I started out working with this community, the best advice I was given was this: when you meet one person with memory loss, you've met one person," Mondro said. "You have to get to know the individual and meet them wherever they're at."
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Sue Nichols Maciorowski, Disney animation artist behind Lion King, Hercules & Mulan, dies at 55
September 3, 2020, 7:04 PM ET
By James Comtois
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Sue Nichols Maciorowski, the artist responsible for shaping the look and stories for many animated Disney films from the 1990s, including The Lion King, Hercules, and Mulan, died on Tuesday after a years-long battle with cancer. She was 55.
"We're deeply saddened by the passing of Sue Nichols Maciorowski, an influential visual development and story artist who helped define the design and narratives of the films of the Disney Renaissance and beyond," the official Twitter account of Walt Disney Animation Studios tweeted Wednesday.
We're deeply saddened by the passing of Sue Nichols Maciorowski, an influential visual development and story artist who helped define the design and narratives of the films of the Disney Renaissance and beyond. pic.twitter.com/eiHb2GwOn4
— Disney Animation (@DisneyAnimation) September 3, 2020
Maciorowski chronicled her battle with Metastatic Breast Cancer on her personal website.
Born June 10, 1965, Maciorowski graduated from CalArts with a visual animation degree in 1987. Her first paid animation job was painting cells for a film about abortion while still studying at CalArts. She later worked on such animated series as My Little Pony and Muppet Babies (which won an Emmy when she was on the team) before developing the visuals, characters, and stories for several Disney films.
In a series of tweets, Disney highlighted Maciorowski's accomplishments at the studio, from contributing to the "visual development and story" for Beauty and the Beast, to creating the "early visual development artwork for Aladdin." She then went on to design the characters and visuals for such animated Disney films as The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, and Lilo & Stitch.
For her work on Hercules, which included supervising the film's look "across layout, animation, effects, [and] color styling," Disney created for Maciorowski the title of Production Stylist, since "no one had done a similar role before at Disney Animation." Maciorowski also helped storyboard and design the memorable sequence for the song "Almost There" in The Princess and the Frog, which was inspired by such Harlem Renaissance artists as Aaron Douglas.
"She will be sadly missed by those of us who had the good fortune to work with her, but her influence on those films will be there forever," said animator and director Eric Goldberg in a statement.
"Sue may be gone but her legacy remains with us in the credits of many Disney films and publications she contributed to as an accomplished artist," reads her obituary posted in the Tribute Archive, which also noted that Maciorowski had wanted to be a Disney artist "since she was eight years old."
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The Russian Socialist Federation was a semi-autonomous American political organization which was part of the Socialist Party of America from 1915 until the split of the national organization into rival socialist and communist organizations in the summer of 1919. Elements of the Russian Socialist Federation became key components of both the Communist Party of America and the rival Communist Labor Party of America as "Russian Federations" within these organizations. Following the unification of these two groups in 1921, the resulting unified Russian Communist Federation gradually evolved into the so-called Russian Bureau of the Communist Party, USA.

Organizational history

Early years

Following the failure of the Russian Revolution of 1905, a large number of members and active supporters of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Bolshevik and Menshevik wings of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party elected to follow the course of political emigration to America. These politically minded individuals sought to form a political organization within the so-called "Russian colony" in America, with the initial intent of assisting the revolutionary movement in Russia which was working to overthrow the Tsarist regime of Nikolai Romanov. To this end, various branches of Russian-speaking revolutionary socialists began to be formed in those areas of the country with a significant émigré population. The national organization uniting these local groups was known as the Russian Socialist Federation.

The Russian Socialist Federation maintained its own daily newspaper called Novyi Mir (New World), published in New York. This paper was for a time edited by Nikolai Bukharin, later one of the top leaders of Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Contributors included Leon Trotsky, who wrote for the paper during his brief interlude in New York City from his arrival in the city in the first days of 1917 until his departure on March 27, 1917. The paper's office was located "in a dingy hole at the rear of the cellar" at 77 St. Mark's Place.

Admission to the Socialist Party of America

The "Federation of Russian Branches" was admitted to the Socialist Party of America in May 1915, with party records indicating that the group had an average of 113 dues-paying members in its first year of affiliation.

Impact of the Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution of 1917, marking the downfall of the tsarist state and its replacement by a revolutionary Marxist government headed by V.I. Lenin exerted an enormous impact on the émigré community in the United States. A political party which touted just 11,000 members in May 1917 had effectively seized control of a great state, demonstrating to many adherents of socialism that a slow process of building a political organization and winning the support of a majority of the population was not strictly necessary.

In the words of historian Theodore Draper:

"The supreme lesson seemed to be that a small party could seize power if only it had enough revolutionary zeal and purity of doctrine. No revolutionary group could guarantee numbers, but zeal and doctrine could be had for the asking. Such was the infinitely optimistic horizon that the Bolshevik revolution appeared to open up."

Only a few months before the leader of the Red Army himself, Leon Trotsky, had been among the Russian émigré community as a journalist in New York City, writing for the newspaper of the Russian Federation. Now he sat next to Lenin at the head of a dramatic revolution of world-historical importance. The speed and proximity of the transformation was shocking and its impact electrifying.

Efforts to construct a unified revolutionary organization proceeded apace. The Marxists of the Russian Socialist Federation attempted to join with its populist and anarchist comrades in a unified organization through a convention of the United Russian parties held in New York City from February 1 to 4, 1918. Socialist Gregory Weinstein — editor of Novyi Mir and later a founding member of the Communist Labor Party of America — was elected chairman of the session. The gathering sent a cable to the Council of People's Commissars in Moscow sending greetings to revolutionary Russia and indicating that they were "ready to organize Revolutionary Legions for Russia."

The Russian Federation was also instrumental in the formation of the American Bolshevik Bureau of Information early in 1918, uniting with four other Russian groups as well as the English-speaking Socialist Propaganda League. Nicholas Hourwich represented the Russian Federation on this body, being joined by Soviet Russian representative Ludwig Martens as the delegate of the "New York Section of Russian Bolsheviki" and S.J. Rutgers of the Socialist Propaganda League. The Bureau, which served as a forerunner of the official Russian Soviet Government Bureau, was headed by Louis C. Fraina.

The Russian Socialist Federation held its 4th National Convention in New York City from September 28 through October 2, 1918. The gathering elected future Communist Party of America stalwarts Oscar Tyverovsky was elected Secretary of the Russian Federation and Alexander Stoklitsky as "Translator-Secretary," a functionary of the national Socialist Party of America with an office at party headquarters in Chicago.

The gathering also determined to convene a gathering of the various  language groups associated with the former Russian empire — Lithuanian, Latvian, Ukrainian, Jewish, and Polish, in addition to the Russian — in order "to effect unity of action of all Russian Federations and organizations by one united center." This unification of various language federations under the aegis of the Russian Socialist Federation was soon to have repercussions, accelerating development of a split of the Socialist Party between its revolutionary Left Wing and the electorally oriented individuals who had long dominated the party apparatus.

The split of 1919

During the first two months of 1919 a concrete Left Wing Section established itself within the ranks of the Socialist Party of America (SPA). Inspired by the November 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and disgruntled over the largely ineffectual Socialist Party electoral campaign of 1918, this group began to unite around the February 1919 elections of members of the 15 member National Executive Committee which governed the SPA.

A programmatic document called the Left Wing Manifesto, written by a committee in New York and thoroughly revised by Louis Fraina, began to be circulated among locals and branches of the Socialist Party for their approval. A new weekly publication called The Revolutionary Age, edited in Boston by Louis Fraina, was established to advance the Left Wing cause. In April 1919, the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party of Local New York established yet another weekly newspaper called The New York Communist.

The foreign language federations of the Socialist Labor Party, led in the first place by the Russian Federation, were among the leaders of this drive to "capture" the Socialist Party for revolutionary socialism. Language branches of the unified "Russian Federations" often delivered their votes en bloc for slates of candidates in each of the Socialist Party's five regional electoral districts, allowing the candidates approved by the Left Wing to garner sufficient votes for election to a majority of the 15 seats on the NEC.

The outgoing National Executive Committee, dominated by older and more cautious adherents of the Socialist Party's traditional electoral approach to the winning of state power, were not about to surrender without a fight, however. A cry of election fraud was raised, culminating with the June 1919 suspension of seven of the party's language federations and the annulment of the 1919 election pending the decision of an August 1919 Emergency National Convention of the party.

Unification and atrophy

Footnotes

Prominent members

 George Ashkenuzi
 Nikolai Bukharin
 Jacob Golos
 Nicholas Hourwich
 Abram Jakira
 Michael Mislig
 V. Rich
 Alexander Stoklitsky
 Oscar Tyverovsky
 Gregory Weinstein
 J. Wilenkin

Further reading

 Theodore Draper, The Roots of American Communism. New York: Viking Press, 1957.
 Theodore Draper, American Communism and Soviet Russia. New York: Viking Press, 1960.
 R.W. Finch, "Report on the 4th Convention of the Russian Socialist Federation: New York City — Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, 1918." Corvallis, OR: 1000 Flowers Publishing, 2007.
 Nicholas I. Hourwich, "The Communist Party of America: Report to the 5th Convention of the Federation of Russian Branches, August 26, 1919,"  Corvallis, OR: 1000 Flowers Publishing, 2004.
 Russian Socialist Federation, "Bylaws of the Federation of Russian Branches of the Communist Party of America." Corvallis, OR: 1000 Flowers Publishing, 2004.
 Russian Socialist Federation, "Minutes of the 4th Convention of the Russian Socialist Federation: New York City — Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, 1918." Corvallis, OR: 1000 Flowers Publishing, 2007.
 Archibald E. Stevenson, ed., Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics with an Exposition and Discussion of the Steps Being Taken and Required to Curb It, Being the Report of the Joint Legislative Committee Investigating Seditious Activities, Filed April 24, 1920, in the Senate of the State of New York: Part 1: Revolutionary and Subversive Movements Abroad and at Home, Volume 1. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1920. —Also known as "Lusk Committee Report."
 Oscar Tyverovsky, "Circular to All Branches of the Russian Federation of the Communist Party of America, circa September 15, 1919." Corvallis, OR: 1000 Flowers Publishing, 2007.

External links
 Tim Davenport, "Russian Federations," Early American Marxism website, www.marxisthistory.org/

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1919 disestablishments
Defunct socialist parties in the United States
Factions of the Socialist Party of America
Communist Party USA
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Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE:HNR) Investor Alert: Investigation over Potential Takeover
An investigation on behalf of investors of Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE:HNR) in connection with a potential takeover was announced and NYSE:HNR stockholders should contact the Shareholders Foundation.
San Diego, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/24/2013 -- An investigation on behalf of investors in Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE:HNR) shares was announced concerning whether a potential takeover of Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. by Pluspetrol Venezuela S.A. would be unfair to investors in NYSE:HNR shares.
Investors who purchased shares of the Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE:HNR) and currently hold any of those NYSE:HNR shares have certain options and should contact the Shareholders Foundation at mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or call +1(858) 779 - 1554.
The investigation by a law firm is at an early stage and concerns whether a takeover would be unfair to NYSE:HNR investors.
On Sept. 11, 2013, Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced it has entered into exclusive negotiations with Pluspetrol Venezuela S.A. to sell the outstanding shares of Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. The total consideration for the proposed transaction with Pluspetrol Venezuela S.A. is approximately $373 million. This consideration for the proposed transaction includes the assumption of the Company's long-term debt and certain other obligations of the Company.
However, given that at least one analyst has set the high target price for NYSE:HNR shares at $9.00 per share and NYSE:HNR shares traded as high as $10.25 in early 2013, the investigation a law firm concerns whether the Harvest Natural Resources Board of Directors will undertake an adequate sales process, adequately shop the company before entering into any transaction, maximize shareholder value by negotiating the best price, and act in the shareholders' best interests in connection with the proposed sale.
On Sept. 23, 2013, NYSE:HNR shares closed at $5.09 per share.
Those who are current investors in Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE:HNR) and purchased their NASDAQ:PAMT shares prior to the announcement, have certain options and should contact the Shareholders Foundation.
Joelle Day
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Phone: +1-(858)-779-1554
mail@shareholdersfoundation.com
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Posted Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM CDT - Permalink