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This Week In Securities Litigation (March 20, 2009)
T. GormanPosted on March 20, 2009 Posted in SECActions
Calls for a reinstatement of the uptick rule continued this week, with more legislation introduced to prod the SEC to bring the rule back. At the same time, SEC Commissioner Aguilar offered additional thoughts on reforming the much criticized enforcement program.
The SEC filed two high profile cases this week. One is against the Deputy Controller and Chief Investment Officer in New York based on a pay-to-play kickback scheme and is paralleled by criminal charges brought by the NY AG. The other named the outside auditors of Bernard Madoff's brokerage firm claiming essentially that the auditors facilitated the Ponzi scheme by failing to conduct any audit, but furnishing the brokerage firm with false audit opinions for filing with the SEC. The U.S. Attorney's office filed parallel criminal charges. The SEC also filed a settled insider trading case and brought another suit alleging investor fraud against a hedge fund operator.
In private actions, Mayer Brown and its former partner Joseph Collins won dismissal of securities damage claims brought against them in a suit based on the Refco debacle. The court concluded that the firm and its former partner were aiders and abettors and thus outside the reach of securities fraud statutes the Supreme Court's decision in Stoneridge. And, Cirrus Logic resolved derivative litigation brought against its former officers based on claims of option backdating when the plaintiffs waived-off on their multimillion dollar attorney's fees claim on condition the fee payment from the D&O carrier be paid to the company.
The uptick rule: A bill was introduced in the Senate to require the SEC to reinstate the "uptick" rule. The bill, S. 605, is titled: A bill to require the Securities and Exchange Commission to reinstate the uptick rule and effectively regulate abusive short selling activities. This is the latest bill seeking a return of the rule.
The uptick rule was dropped by the SEC in 2007 based on a determination that it had little impact after having been in effect since the 1930s. Essentially, the rule prevented traders from initiating a short sale unless the price of a stock in its most recent trade was higher than the previous price. The SEC has scheduled a meeting for April 8 to vote on a return of the rule.
SEC enforcement: SEC Commissioner Louis A. Aguilar, speaking at a DC Bar program co-chaired by Stephen Crimmins (Mayer Brown) and Peter Bresnen (Simpson Thacher) outlined key points for rejuvenating the enforcement program. In addition to those actions taken to date by the new Chairman (discussed here), Commissioner Aguilar make five key points: 1) there is a need to improve the distribution process of funds to investors; 2) the SEC needs to make better use of technology to facilitate the work of the staff; 3) the corporate penalty guidelines issued in 2006 should be revised to focus more on the nature of the violation; 4) the SEC should be given the authority to punish obstruction of its investigations and, in certain instances, bring criminal cases when DOJ elects not to proceed; and 5) the Commission should be self-funding.
SEC internal controls: The agency which regularly brings suit against issuers for failing to have proper internal controls is having problems with its own controls. A report by the GAO issued on March 16, 2009 notes that the SEC has only corrected 18 of 34 weaknesses identified in its earlier report. In making this assessment, GAO also identified 23 new weaknesses "in controls intended to restrict access to data and systems, as well as weaknesses in other information security controls that continue to jeopardize the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of SEC's financial and sensitive information and information systems."
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Kickback scheme: The SEC filed civil fraud charges against David Loglisci, former Deputy Comptroller and Chief Investment Officer of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, Henry Morris, the top political advisor and chief fundraiser for former New York State Controller Alan Hevesi, and three entities controlled by Mr. Morris. SEC v. Morris, Case No. 09 CV 2518 (S.D.N.Y. Filed March 19, 2009). According to the SEC, Messrs Loglisci and Morris caused billions of dollars to be invested with private equity firms and hedge fund managers in return for the payment of millions of dollars in sham "finder" fees and "placement agent" fees. Those payments were the result of a quid pro quo arrangement and other similar fraudulent arrangements. Related criminal charges were brought by the New York Attorney General.
The Madoff Ponzi scheme scandal. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the SEC brought charges against the outside auditors for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, David G. Friehling and Friehling & Horowitz, CPA's, P.C. U.S. v. Friehling, Case No. 09 mj-00729 (S.D.N.Y. Filed Mar. 18, 2009); SEC v. Friehling, Case No. 09 CV 2467 (S.D.N.Y. Filed Mar. 18, 2009).
From 1991 through 2008, Mr. Friehling and his accounting from were the outside independent auditors of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities as discussed here. The Madoff firm was required to file financial statements audited by an outside independent accounting firm with the SEC. The audit firm prepared audit opinions each year which represented that the financial statements of the Madoff firm were prepared in accordance with GAAP and that the accounting firm had audited those statements in accord with GAAS. In fact, both representations were false, as well as the assertion that the firm was independent according, to the SEC and DOJ. Although the false audit opinions facilitated the Madoff fraud, neither the SEC nor DOJ claimed the auditors knew about the Ponzi scheme.
Insider trading: SEC v. Biello, Civil Action No. 4:09-CV-00752 (S.D. Tex. Filed March 13, 2009) is a settled insider trading case centered on the takeover of ACR Group, Inc. by Watsco, Inc., as discussed here. The complaint alleges that defendant Michael Biello, an accountant with ACR Supply, a subsidiary of ACR Group, learned in April 2007 that the company was considering a possible merger with Watsco, a fact confirmed to him by later events. Subsequently, Mr. Biello tipped his brother who traded prior to the announcement of the transaction.
To settle the case, Mr. Biello consented to the entry of a permanent injunction and agreed to pay disgorgement of just over $6,000 plus prejudgment interest and a civil penalty equal to the amount of the trading profits. An action has not been brought against the brother.
Investment frauds: The SEC continued to bring investment fraud cases this week, filing SEC v. Hu, Case No. 09-01177 (N.D. Cal. Filed March 18, 2009). In this case, the SEC alleged that defendant Albert K. Hu, a hedge fund manager, misappropriated investor funds. Mr. Hu is alleged to have raised more than $5 million from investors and transferred significant portions of the funds to foreign banks. The money was raised in part based on false representations that prominent attorneys, auditors and other professionals were overseeing the fund operations. Related criminal charges are being filed. Mr. Hu was arrested in Hong Kong earlier this week.
Private actions
In re Refco, Inc. Securities Litigation, Case No. 05 Civ. 8626 (S.D.N.Y.), the court dismissed defendants Mayer Brown LLP and its former partner Joseph P. Collins from this private damage action based on the Refco debacle, discussed here. Essentially, former trading giant Refco collapsed shortly after an IPO, revealing huge related party transaction debts. At the end of each quarter, Mr. Collins and a team of attorneys from his firm were alleged to have facilitated "round trip" transactions in which the debt was shuffled from Refco to a related entity to conceal it. Mr. Collins and the firm also are alleged to have worked on the filing of the papers for the IPO.
The court held that "[a]lthough the Complaint alleges facts that, if true, would make the Mayer Brown Defendants guilty of aiding and abetting the securities fraud that harmed the plaintiffs, the Supreme Court and Congress have declined to provide a private right of action for victims of securities fraud against those who merely — if otherwise substantially and culpably — aid a fraud that is executed by others." The court based its ruling on Stoneridge, Inv. Partners, LLC v. Scientific-America, Inc., 128 S.Ct 761 (2008) which is discussed here.
In In re: Cirrus Logic Inc., Case No. 1:07-cv-212 (W.D. Tex.), the court approved a revised settlement put forth by the company in derivative litigation based on option backdating claims. An earlier settlement proposal had been rejected by the court. Under the terms of the new settlement, the company adopted certain corporate governance procedures and revised option granting procedures. In addition Plaintiffs agreed to waive their request for $2.85 million in attorney's fees on condition that the money from the carrier be given to the company.
The suit was brought against the officers of Cirrus Logic, Inc. based on claims of option backdating. The complaint claims that the defendants engaged in a scheme and course of conduct which manipulated Cirrus Logic stock option grant dates to maximize profits for themselves. An investigation by a special committee however, found that of 148 stock option grants, 114 had been backdated. That committee concluded that the grant dates were the result of administrative deficiencies or process errors and not intentional manipulation. In fact, just under half of the grants reflected strike prices that were unfavorable to the option recipients according to the committee. The SEC closed its investigation without bringing an enforcement action.
Bhattacharya, Utpal and Marshall, Cassandra D., Do They Do It For The Money? (March 9, 2009), available at SSRN here.
The authors, both professors in the Department of Finance at Indiana University, studied data regarding management convicted of insider trading to "explore the economic rationality of this white-collar crime." While they initially thought that lower management was well as upper management would engage in this conduct if it was committed with the expectation that the benefits would exceed the costs, they found that the convictions were among the "richer" management. This led them to conclude that "we cannot rule out psychological motives (like hubris) or sociological motives (like company culture) behind this white-collar crime."
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With Father's Day right around the corner and gift guides being put together left and right with brands that are from the Boycott List, here is your official alternative guide to the men's department! Also a great resource to bookmark and save for anyone who enjoys ethics and aesthetics (well-designed ethical clothing for men is honestly *so* hard to find!) (A lot of these brands also sell women's clothing, too!).
1. Brothers We Stand: Alec Bizby Handmade Kimono Cardigan | The rad men at this London-based menswear brand label fast fashion as "rubbish" and are devoted to transparency, ethical progress, quality clothing, "stand out ethical behavior," and high labor standards. Essentially, what we're trying to say is that they are totally amazing.
2. Hudson Jeans: Blinder Biker Jeans | Complete with a dedication to unaltered models, Hudson Jeans are "born and raised in Los Angeles" and only use denim of the highest quality and ethics. Also here is a photo of their CEO holding a bicycle at a bike-building event for at-risk youth.
3. Veja: Volley White Nautico | I discovered this brand last month and it was definitely love at first sight. They are essentially a cooler, more beautiful, and ethical version of Nike/Adidas (both of which are on the boycott list!). These kicks are made from organic cotton and are able to keep their prices under control and within an affordable range by making a no-advertisement pledge. How rad is that?! (very).
4. Nau: Shwood Francis Sunglasses | Not only are these sunglasses throwing shade on fast-fashion by making sustainability their standard, but they also donate 2% of every sale to Partners for Change!
5. Everlane: Twill Weekender | I am so much in love with the transparency of these wonderful people: scroll down below each product and they list--to the penny--the cost of everything from labor and materials to duties and transportation. Why is this impossible for all other brands, again?
Looking for something for ladies? Here are 6 (Ethical) Stores You'll Love as Much as Zara, or, better yet, 6 Rad Handmade Brands Made By & For Strong Women!
Any ethical menswear brands you recommend?
I haven't heard of any of these--THANK YOU so much!!!
Totally sharing this with my bf bc he could really use it.
Love your blog and honoured to feature.
these are all such great ideas! I love how Everlane discloses all the actual costs of the manufacturing.
I know--they are so great! And I've never heard of Bridge and Burn but they have great stuff! Thanks for linking, Andrea!
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That's what I understand as well. This will be a live production of the stage version. Someone in the comments section of EW suggested an actress on a current NBC show to portray Maria and has played her on Broadway before and is a Tony award winner, Laura Benanti of Go On.
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Another popular country/pop queen. Just saying her voice isn't as strong as Carrie's
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Yeah, Friends started to lose me when it seemed Rachel was becoming more of the focus of the show. I loved Phoebe, Chandler, and Monica (the woefully overlooked Courteney Cox), tolerated Joey at times (when he wasn't written as a cartoon), hated Ross after season 1, didn't hate but didn't love Rachel.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show – Chuckles Bites the Dust
I Love Lucy – Vitameatavegamin
Martin Short hosting thrills me beyond belief. My heart is beating like a distant jungle drum I must say. Oh Ed Grimley 🙂
Think Sir Paul will sing about simply having a wonderful Christmastime? 🙂
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/11/27/angus-t-jones-will-not-appear-on-last-two-and-a-half-men-episodes-of-the-year/
Apparently it's a coincidence that he's not scheduled to be on the last 2 December episodes.
I think his methods could have been better, but if he's unhappy, he's unhappy, and he should look to get out. I doubt recasting the role would be that difficult.
This article mentions that he is Seventh Day Adventist. That does explain it. They hold very socially conservative beliefs. If any of you were Gilmore Girls watchers, remember that Lane and her mother, Mrs. Kim, were Seventh Day Adventist and that's why Lane had to hide her rock music and such.
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Great in Magnolia & Rain Man. Very solid in Born on the 4th of July. Loved Jerry Maguire even if it didn't seem Oscar-y
Lately though, especially in his comedic performances, I don't feel like he gives himself completely to the performances. In Tropic Thunder and the woefully hideous Rock of Ages, it seems to me like he never wants you to forget he's Tom Cruise. As for ROA, he won't get nominated. The movie was awful and flopped at the box office.
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I know. I didn't care for her as much on Gilmore Girls (but that was due to her role) but she was always a talented actress. I don't know if her looks got in the way of roles or what.
Do you remember back in the 90s there was a TV biopic of Taylor which starred Sherilyn Fenn? Watching the commercials for Liz & Dick, it almost seems they are making a biopic of Sherilyn Fenn when she played Liz, instead of one about Liz.
Yeah, the writing has gone back to super suck levels. This show is the equivalent of the Wednesday at work before Thanksgiving.
Jay Pharoah did a good Katt Williams
Chris Christie was awesome! Highlight of the show so far!
Why was Maroon 5 in matching clothes? Is it so their music could suck and be color coordinated?
Did they really have Cecily portray Broadwell in the open and now Jill Kelley in this clip?
Dear goodness this is painful. Poor Jeremy Renner.
Fire Fred Armisen
Fire Keenan Thompson
Fire Seth Meyers
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The protests are still going on in Kasur against the gruesome and horrific killing of 8 years old girl Zainab. The stick carrying protestors blocked the roads and burn tyres to stop the traffic. Kasur is boiling with anger as the stick wielding protesters took to streets blocking roads forcing and enforcing market closures for the second consecutive day . An enraged mob on Thursday stormed Dera (political office) of a MPA Naeem Safdar Ansari of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz shortly after prayers for two men killed by Punjab police were offered . The men were killed during protest against rape and murder of Zainab - a minor girl from Kasur - on Wednesday. Police were firing tear gas shells to disperse the protesters and fire tenders were called in to extinguish the fire. The angry protestors also attacked the DHQ hospital.
Seven-year-old Zainab was laid to rest amid scenes of mourning and tears on Wednesday night as hundreds of thousand people attended the funeral prayer of fairy-like innocent girl. Protests broke out in the city soon after the body of seven-year old girl, who went missing last week, was found dumped in a trash pile. It is the 12th such incident of the same nature in Kasur, in which minor girls were molested and murdered after abduction. Culprits, involved in any of these incidents, have not been apprehended.
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Infants with low immunoglobulin levels: Isolated low IgA level vs other immunoglobulin abnormalities
Alexandra Horwitz, Shiang Ju Kung, Stephen J. McGeady
Background The International Union of Immunological Societies defined transient hypogammaglobulinemia of infancy as decreased IgG and IgA levels. Some others, however, include decreased IgA level alone. We compared infants with decreased levels of IgG and IgA, all isotypes, and IgA alone. Objective To determine whether infants presenting with diminished IgA only differ clinically and in time of immunoglobulin recovery, from those with decreased levels of IgG and IgA, or of all major isotypes. Methods Eighty-seven term infants found to have immunoglobulin isotype(s) 2 or more SDs below mean, normal antibody response, intact cellular immunity, and absence of other immunodeficiency syndrome features were evaluated between January 1, 1977 and December 31, 2008. Infants had decreased IgA level (group 1, n = 43), decreased IgA and IgG levels (group 2, n = 39), or low IgA, IgG, and IgM levels (group 3, n = 5). Results Groups had similar histories. Immunoglobulins normalized in a similar percentage of all groups during infancy but earlier for group 1 (P = .005). Conclusion Little reason exists to separate infants with isolated decreased IgA levels from those with decreased levels of IgA and IgG or all isotypes.
Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anai.2010.07.009
Immunoglobulin A
Agammaglobulinemia
Immunoglobulin Isotypes
Cellular Immunity
Antibody Formation
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Horwitz, A., Kung, S. J., & McGeady, S. J. (2010). Infants with low immunoglobulin levels: Isolated low IgA level vs other immunoglobulin abnormalities. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 105(4), 295-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anai.2010.07.009
Horwitz, Alexandra ; Kung, Shiang Ju ; McGeady, Stephen J. / Infants with low immunoglobulin levels : Isolated low IgA level vs other immunoglobulin abnormalities. In: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 2010 ; Vol. 105, No. 4. pp. 295-298.
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Christina Carilla Bio, Wiki, Age, Husband, FOX 10 Phoenix, Net Worth, Salary and Twitter
Christina Carilla Biography
Christina Carilla is an American Anchor/reporter for FOX 10 Phoenix. Prior to moving to Arizona in June of 2018, Carilla had spent three years as a Morning anchor of ABC 7 (WZVN) in Fort Myers, Florida.
Christina Carilla Age
Carilla is 30 years old as of 2021. She was born on January 24, 1991, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States America. She celebrates her birthday on the 24th of January every year.
Christina Carilla Height
Carilla stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Christina Carilla Family
Carilla has managed to keep her personal life away from the limelight hence she has not disclosed any information about her parents. It is also not known if Carilla has any siblings.
Christina Carilla Husband
Carilla is currently in a relationship with Zack Kreisheimer.
Christina Carilla Net Worth
Carilla has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million -$5 Million which she has earned through her career as a reporter/anchor.
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Christina Carilla Salary
Carilla earns an annual salary ranging between $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Christina Carilla Education
She attended Temple University where she received her Bachelor of Arts in broadcasting, media studies, and production. Carilla completed several internships with great companies including The Disney College Program, and a full-time internship for "Today in LA" with the NBC News affiliate in Los Angeles, California.
Christina Carilla Career
Carilla reported live from Fort Myers Beach as Hurricane Irma made landfall in September of 2017, and proceeded to devastate several Florida communities. Additionally, she interviewed the co-hosts of ABC's "The View" from the Walt Disney World Resort.
Prior to moving to Florida, she spent 18 months in Fayetteville, Arkansas as a multimedia journalist for KNWA/Fox 24. Carilla was quickly promoted to weekend anchor, evening reporter, and producer, before ultimately working as the permanent fill-in anchor on the Fox prime-time evening desk. During her time with the NBC affiliate, KNWA, it was voted "Best of Northwest Arkansas". She covered several controversial topics including gay marriage and medical marijuana.
In 2015, Christina interviewed actress Geena Davis at her inaugural Bentonville Film Festival, an event designed to empower women in film and media.
Carilla is a lover of music and theater and spent several years performing on stage. A classically trained soprano vocalist, Carilla is an advocate of the arts.
Christina Carilla FOX 10 Phoenix
Carilla is currently working at FOX 10 Phoenix where she works alongside other famous FOX 10 Phoenix anchors and reporters including;
Stephanie Olmo
Renee Nelson
Marc Martinez
Syleste Rodriguez
Ron Hoon
Troy Hayden
John Hook
Ty Brennan
Christina Carilla Social Media Platforms
Carilla is active on her social media accounts and is often seen posting on her Facebook and Twitter. She has over 2k followers on Twitter and over 3k followers on Facebook.


KSFY TV is reporting that John and Heidi Small of Sioux Falls are suing former Badlands Pawn owner Chuck Brennan in federal court.
The couple claims that Brennan still owes them hundreds of thousands of dollars from a South Dakota lawsuit. According to court documents Chuck Brennan's Badlands Airtime LLC made an agreement with John and Heidi Small and Cup O' Dirt LLC to purchase Sunny Radio back in February of 2015.
Brennan and Badlands Airtime allegedly defaulted on the purchase agreement and instead purchased what came to be known as KBAD Radio from the University of Sioux Falls.
Cup O' Dirt sued Brennan in state court. The Smalls say in the federal lawsuit that they have not received more than $450,000 in attorney fees and expenses but have been paid more than $300,000 from the state lawsuit.
The federal lawsuit claims Badlands Airtime LLC had no operating funds, bank account or capital when it made the agreement with Cup O' Dirt, but Brennan told the Smalls "he personally was good for the payment obligations."
The federal lawsuit says "Brennan has abused the corporate form and otherwise engaged in fraud and misconduct."
The lawsuit alleges after the jury entered a verdict in the state lawsuit, Brennan asked for accelerated payments from Real Presence Radio to "hinder, delay, impede and impair the ability of Cup O' Dirt to recover on the money judgment and to vindicate the verdict of the jury."


Homeowner Michelle's petite home on wheels is modern nostalgia themed, so she wanted window treatments that didn't take up much space and blended in so that her home's unique decor touches could shine through.
Michelle is a blogger who loves everything about tiny house life. She started sketching floor plans for a small farmhouse when she was 12 and has been intrigued with reclaiming tiny spaces ever since. She's chronicled the DIY construction of her tiny home on her blog, My Tiny House.
Light Filtering Cellular Shades were chosen all eleven custom sized windows in this tiny home. Cellular shades can be made in small sizes, so they're perfect for these unique windows. Plus they provide complete privacy, insulation and allow the unique details of Michelle's home to shine through.
Michelle chose different lift options throughout the house to meet the needs of each space. For the kitchen, living room and over the oven she chose a continuous cord loop. And for the loft she went with cordless or cordless with top-down / bottom-up for ease of operation and flexibility.
I love how my cream colored blinds blend in to the background, but stand out against the grey walls. I love how their subtle texture provides depth and interest and a touch of class. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the cordless blinds in the loft that can close from the top or bottom with the slightest of touch. They were so easy to install, they look amazing, and they're warm and inviting even from the outside view!
Michelle chose Light Filtering Cellular Shades in the color Sunlight DC2501.


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Teridion Raises $9M Led by Jerusalem Venture Partners to Meet Growing Global Demand for Cloud Networking and WAN Services
Addition to Series B Round of Funding to Help Propel Teridion as it Expands Growth in Global Enterprise Market
SAN FRANCISCO — April 4, 2019 — Teridion, the company delivering the only public cloud-based WAN service backed by a carrier grade SLA, today announced that it has closed $9 million in financing, led by Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), with participation from existing investors Magma Ventures and SingTel Innov8. The financing, an addition to its Series B round of funding, brings the company's total funding to $35 million.
Teridion delivers Teridion for Enterprise, the industry's first and only public cloud-based WAN service to deliver carrier grade, SLA-backed performance and reliability with the agility, elastic scale, and global reach of the public cloud. Teridion's cloud-based WAN service is powered by Teridion Curated Routing, an innovative and cloud native approach to routing that draws on the power of deep learning that brings hierarchical and centralized routing to enterprise networking to radically improve WAN, application and SaaS performance.
"Enterprise networking is radically evolving," said Gadi Porat, Partner at JVP. "The Internet is the new LAN, and Teridion is pioneering the use of the powerful capabilities of the public cloud in enterprise networking, the same way public cloud providers caused a revolution in data center compute. Teridion's curated routing and ability to deliver a high performance, highly reliable WAN globally at broadband price points illustrates the power and capability of the Cloud edge. We see a significant opportunity with this investment, and look forward to working with Teridion as they continue to innovate in enterprise networking and the Cloud edge."
"We have proven the Teridion technology and the business model with our SaaS offering for the past 3 years, and this new investment further enables us to bring our service to the enterprise market," said Saar Gillai, CEO of Teridion. "We have seen strong traction among enterprise customers, channel partners, and technology partners since our Teridion for Enterprise announcement last November, and we are aggressively entering this new market with expanded sales and marketing efforts."
Today enterprises are moving business critical applications from the enterprise data center to the cloud, and focusing their WAN high performance, cost effective, and agile WAN services and next-generation SD-WAN. With Teridion for Enterprise, enterprises can benefit from accelerated and highly reliable traffic to SaaS applications, public cloud workloads, and between their sites, through a low-cost standard Internet connection.
About Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) – Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an internationally renowned venture capital fund based in Israel. Established in 1993 by Dr. Erel Margalit, JVP has raised to date $1.4 billion across nine funds, and has been listed numerous times by Preqin, and other rankings, as one of the top-ten consistently performing VC firms worldwide. JVP has built over 130 companies, leveraging a broad network of partners and market expertise to help companies become global market leaders. Among the pioneering firms of the Israeli venture capital industry, JVP has been instrumental in building some of the largest companies out of Israel, facilitating 12 Initial Public Offerings on NASDAQ including CyberArk Software (NASDAQ: CYBR, $3.6 billion mkt. cap.), QLIK Technologies (NASDAQ: QLIK, then $2.5 billion mkt. cap.) and Cogent Communications (NASDAQ: CCOI, $2.3 billion mkt. cap.). https://www.jvpvc.com/
About Magma Ventures – Magma Venture Partners is a leading venture fund, focused on Israeli-related investment opportunities. The Fund is one of the most successful venture funds globally, with exceptional performance results. Magma Venture Partners, founded in 1999, was the first to partner and invest with a long list of leading Israeli technology success stories in the communications, mobile, internet, software and semiconductor domains, creating over $2 billion in exit value. Among these acquisitions are Waze, acquired by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG); Onavo, acquired by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB); Provigent acquired by Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM); Wintegra, acquired by PMC-Sierra (NASDAQ: PMCS); and DesignArt, acquired by Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), Hola, Argus acquired by Continental (DE: CON), Hexatier acquired by Huawei; Cloudendure acquired by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN); and Corephotonics acquired by Samsung. Additional distinguished investments of Magma include: Valens, Appsflyer, Applitools Innoviz, and others.
About Singtel Innov8 – Singtel Innov8 is a corporate venture capital fund of Singtel, Asia's leading communications technology group. Singtel Innov8 has its own set of decision-making, approval and funding processes. It has a fund size of US$250 million, with presence in Singapore, Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv and other markets. Innov8 focuses its investments on technologies and solutions that lead to quantum changes in network capabilities, next-generation devices, digital content services and enablers to enhance customer experience. It works closely with the ecosystem of leading innovators, developers, government agencies, R&D and capital providers to bring cutting-edge technologies and solutions to the various markets the Singtel Group operates in.
About Teridion – Companies depend more and more on the Internet as a primary means of networking, including application delivery and wide area networking. Teridion enables faster and more reliable Internet with Teridion Curated Routing, radically improving Internet performance up to 2X – 20X, anywhere in the world. Teridion for Enterprise combines the performance, reliability, and SLAs of legacy WAN technologies such as MPLS with the agility and elastic scalability of the cloud. The company is backed by leading venture investors including Jerusalem Venture Partners, Magma Venture Partners and Singtel Innov8, and is relied on by leading SaaS providers such as Atlassian, Box, Egnyte, Merrill Corp., and many others. Teridion is headquartered in San Francisco, with international offices in Petah Tikva, Israel. For more information, visit www.teridion.com or email info@teridion.com.
Teridion is a registered trademark of Teridion in the United States and other countries. All rights reserved. All other company and product names are either trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.


If there's a car maker whose name represents luxury and quality, then Lexus has to be it. The CT certainly captures all of that and more, offering pleasing looks and a solid standard specification. Expect LED running lights, air conditioning, Bluetooth connectivity, and MP3 connectivity too. Call us today to discuss our Lexus CT contract hire options.
If you're seeking a spaciously compact, prestigiously badged premium five-door hatchback. Here's a different way to go, Lexus' much improved first generation CT200h petrol/electric hybrid.
The original version of this car needed a little perfecting but it's now a far more credible choice that's classy to own, efficient to run and kinder to the environment.
It is perhaps appropriate for a car that offers something different to look a little different. That was always Lexus' perspective when discussion turned to the quirky design of the original version of this model. The problem for them is though, that users in the premium segment are a notoriously conservative bunch – hence the need for aesthetic changes made to this revised first generation CT200h offering a much stronger visual link to pricier, more established offerings in the Lexus line-up. Primarily, that means the adoption of the brand's now familiar spindle-shaped grille at the front, with smart mesh inserts in this more purposeful-looking F Sport version.
Otherwise, the so-called 'L-Finesse' design language remains much as before, with the five-door hatchback bodystyle necessary to differentiate this car from Lexus' sharp, shapely IS saloon still offering the same distinctive silhouette thanks to its steeply-raked windscreen and long, flowing roofline. with smaller, sleeker door mirrors, nicer alloy wheel designs for the 16 or 17-inch wheels, a smart shark fin-style roof antenna, a revised rear bumper that's been set 20mm lower and a more prominent rear spoiler for the F Sport variant. You'd be pleased to have it in your driveway but without the badgework.
Once you take a seat behind the wheel you'll find that Lexus does interiors exceptionally well if choosing leather which is tactile and beautifully finished, complemented by aluminium inserts, satin wood trim finishing and carefully-crafted soft-touch plastics. I love the brilliantly supportive six or eight-way adjustable seat, the cockpit-like feel of the low-set, perfectly-sited driving position and the way all the controls fall neatly to hand and operate with a quality click.
As before, the dashboard is divided into two sections – an upper display zone with an eight-inch LCD multi-display screen and a lower operation zone where you'll find the gearstick and the various system controls. I personally quite like this 'mouse'-style controller that operates the infotainment system functions but for those objecting to it, Lexus has now designed a replacement BMW iDrive-style circular dial. Either way, the controller sits exactly where the handbrake would be had it not been replaced by a dashboard button and a rather awkward foot pedal.
Ahead of you, there's a much nicer grippy leather-stitched steering wheel borrowed from the latest generation IS series model, through which you view high-visibility dials that change in background colour from blue to red should you choose to switch the centre console Driving Mode controller into 'Sport'. Do that and the neat hybrid dial to the left of the speedo with its 'Charge', 'Eco' and 'Power' segments changes seamlessly to a more conventional rev counter. It's one of a whole series of lovely touches around this cabin that you only begin to appreciate after you've used the car for a bit. The way, for example, that the electric windows slow for the last part of their travel to minimise the sound of closure. If it's raining, you might also notice that the glass used repels water. And if it's cold and you crank up the heating, you'll find that the seat heaters are automatically activated too.
But I haven't yet touched upon practicality, something you'd expect to be compromised by the need to find somewhere to stow the hybrid system's nickel-metal-hydride battery pack. As it turns out, clever packaging of this unit between the rear wheels means that it takes up relatively little bootspace – or at least it does before you fold down the 60/40 split-folding rear bench. Once you do that, the 985-litre total cargo area provided is the smallest in the segment. The space occupied by that nickel metal hydride battery has to tell somewhere. Fortunately for Lexus though, it doesn't significantly impinge on the main boot area. Indeed, this 375-litre luggage bay is pretty large.
You can't fault the way that Lexus has listened to criticism of the original version of this car and responded by ruthlessly sorting through its issues. The old rock-hard ride is now softened thanks to the way that the chassis stiffening process has freed up the spring rates.
Attention to detail has at last made the car as refined as the engine that drives it. Essentially, a CT200h offers extra qualityand a more involving drive.


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[01] MONTENEGRO/YUGOSLAVIA (L-ONLY) BY STEFAN BOS (BUDAPEST)
[02] BOSNIA WAR CRIMES (L) BY RON PEMSTEIN (BRUSSELS)
[03] CHECHNYA WAR BY ED WARNER (WASHINGTON)
[05] RUSSIA / CHECHNYA (S) BY EVE CONANT (MOSCOW)
[06] UNHCR / CHECHNYA (L ONLY) BY LISA SCHLEIN (GENEVA)
[07] NY ECON WRAP (S&L) BY ELAINE JOHANSON (NEW YORK)
[08] FRIDAY'S EDITORIALS BY ANDREW GUTHRIE (WASHINGTON)
DATE=1/14/2000
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VOICED AT: Intro: A top U-S dedense official says the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro may become a new flashpoint in the Balkans, because it threatened to break away from the Yugoslav federation. But as Stefan Bos reports from Budapest, Under Secretary of Defense Walter Slocombe has warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic not to intervene in Montenegro. Text: U-S Under Secretary of Defense, Walter Slocombe,said that Montenegro's move towards independence from the Yugoslav federation,does hold all the potential for very serious danger. Mr.Slocombe made the comments to reporters Friday during a one day trip to Albania, which has expressed concern about the situation, as it shares borders with Montenegro. The Government of Montenegro has threatened to break away from Yugoslavia to protest the perceived autocratic policies of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic. Recently, Montenegro already took the first steps towards independence, by creating its own police force and introducing the German Mark as a currency alongside the Yugoslav Dinar. Mr. Slocombe warned Yugoslav President Milosovic not to intervene in Montenegro as he did in the Kosovo province, where thousands of independence seeking ethnic Albanians were killed by Serbian forces. The U-S official referred to supporters of President Milosovic, who already held a defiant rally in Montenegro earlier this week aimed at warning Montenegro's Government not to break away. Mr. Slocombe stressed that the United States and NATO will support Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, who he said wanted nothing more than rebuilding democracy in his small republic. That became evident last year when Montenegro was largely spared as NATO bombed Yugoslavia to stop the Serb crack down in Kosovo. Mr. Slocombe warned the Yugoslav President and his allies not to violate the cease fire agreement with NATO, which eventually forced the Serb forces to leave Kosovo---and end hostilities.
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But U.S. and European officials say that nationalistic conflicts are not the only threats in the troubled Balkans. They say the region is also plagued by a growing number of crimes, especially related to drugs trafficking via the infamous Balkan route. That is one of the reasons why the European Union and United Nations opened in nearby Bulgaria their first first ever anti drugs centre in the Balkans. (Signed)
NEB/PT 14-Jan-2000 18:40 PM EDT (14-Jan-2000 2340 UTC)
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INTRO: The international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has judged five Bosnian Croats guilty of crimes against humanity for the massacre of Muslims in Central Bosnia in 1993. V-O-A correspondent Ron Pemstein reports from Brussels on the verdict and the crime.
TEXT: In its strongest verdict yet against ethnic cleansing, the war crimes tribunal has punished five Bosnian Croats for the massacre at the village of Ahmici in April 1993. The presiding judge, Antonio Cassesse, says what happened there is one of the most vicious illustrations of man's inhumanity to man. The longest sentence was given to Vladimir Santic, the commander of a police battalion in the Ahmici region. He was given 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity for ordering the massacre of 116 Muslims. In the sweep of the Croatian Defense Force (HVO) through Ahmici, two mosques and 169 houses were burned down. No houses belonging to Bosnian Croats were damaged in the attack. Another man under his command, Drago Josipovic, received a sentence of 15 years in prison. He was convicted of killing a Muslim man. Zoran Kupreskic was given 10 years in prison for his involvement. His brother, Mirjan, received eight years and their cousin, Vlatko, six years in prison. A sixth defendant, Dragan Papic, was set free. The judge said the prosecution's evidence could not prove Mr. Papic's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. There is no doubt about the crime committed in Ahmici. Entire families were gunned down by their former neighbors. The indictment charged the Bosnian Croats with conducting a highly coordinated military operation to empty the area in Central Bosnia of Muslims. A verdict is expected shortly in the trial of General Tihomir Blaskic, the Croatian army commander of the region. His trial concluded last July. More than 30 suspects in the attack are still at large. /// Opt /// Judge Cassesse says Ahmici will take its name alongside Dachau and My Lai on the list of hamlets and towns that make us shudder with horror and shame. /// End Opt /// The War Crimes prosecutor says the verdict against the five Bosnian Croats will become a benchmark for future cases of ethnic cleansing that will be brought before the Hague tribunal. Lawyers for the five convicted men say they will appeal. (Signed)
NEB/RP/GE/JP 14-Jan-2000 11:00 AM EDT (14-Jan-2000 1600 UTC)
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INTRO: The war in Chechnya is beginning to resemble the previous one of 1994-96 - a rapid Russian advance stalled by increasing Chechen resistance and guerrilla tactics. While Russian casualties mount, generals start to bicker among themselves, and the Moscow press grows more critical. At this point, the designated foreign minister of Chechnya is visiting Washington in search of some solution to the conflict. V-O-A's Ed Warner reports.
TEXT: What to do with a foreign minister who is not exactly a foreign minister? That was the dilemma facing Washington as Ilyas Akhmadov arrived from Chechnya looking for some help in ending the war with Russia. Designated foreign minister of the Republic of Chechnya, Mr. Akhmadov represents a county not recognized by the United States, which considers the region still part of Russia. As a result, no senior U-S officials have met with Mr. Akhmadov, who has to be content with talks in a hotel lobby rather than the State Department. A U-S spokesman emphasized there is no change in policy toward Chechnya. Even so, Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, complained the United States is supporting terrorism by allowing any meetings at all with Mr. Akhmadov. Mr. Akhmadov did meet with private groups, including the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. There, he derided Moscow's reasons for invading Chechnya, such as blaming Chechen terrorists for bombing Russian buildings: /// Akhmadov Act, from Russian to English /// The Russian government several months ago announced that it had discovered the home of international terrorism, and it turned out to be our republic. It also had the technology for fighting that terrorism, and now the whole world knows what that technology is. It is now fighting terrorism with all kinds of weapons, airplanes, bombs, artillery and a huge army.
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Mr. Akhmadov said Moscow seems intent on the total destruction of Chechnya. He stressed such human rights violations as the internment of civilians. Mr. Akhmadov saw little prospect of negotiations unless there is outside pressure. But the Clinton administration has ruled out any mediating role, saying that is the job of Europeans. The current fighting had its origins in a raid into Dagestan last summer by Chechen rebels. Their leader, Shamil Basayev, is a free-wheeling warlord who operates on his own and has aroused considerable suspicions about his motives, even among Chechens. At the Johns Hopkins University meeting, Wayne Merry of the Atlantic Council asked Mr. Akhmadov about some of these suspicions:
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There have been many conflicting reports about Shamil Basayev's invasion of Dagestan last summer, including many rumors that he was working on behalf either of the Russian security services or for (Russian mogul and media czar) Boris Berezovsky in order to provoke this war.
Mr. Akhmadov doubted this charge of double-dealing: /// Akhmadov Act, from Russian to English /// I don't not think that Shamil Basayev is working for Russian intelligence, and even if he does, he does not realize that.
Mr. Akhmadov also spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Chris Swift, who closely follows the war for C-S-I-S, says Mr. Akhmadov is proud of the Chechen resistance, but wary of increasing Russian brutality, especially the use of highly destructive fuel air bombs against civilians. Mr. Swift says the Russians do not want a protracted war that could jeopardize Vladimir Putin's Presidency:
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To that extent, they will look for an objective that can become a political end to the war. An example of that would be storming and seizing Grozny, perhaps capturing Basayev - something along those lines that would allow Putin's Russian government to say they have won their political victory in Chechnya and would allow them to withdraw before any rear action guerrilla battles could really undermine public support for the campaign.
Mr. Swift says Russia needs to achieve something it can call a victory, because a clear victory is not possible. (signed)
NEB/EW/JP 14-Jan-2000 16:19 PM EDT (14-Jan-2000 2119 UTC)
INTRO: Russian troops continue to battle for control of Chechnya as federal casualty figures rise. Moscow officials say they may reconsider recent measures that called for all Chechen males between the ages of ten and 60 years to be blocked from travelling to and from the breakaway republic. V-O-A Moscow correspondent Eve Conant reports.
TEXT: Russian forces are on high alert, digging trenches outside Russian-controlled towns to fend off possible counterattacks. But Moscow officials say they will re-examine the order blocking Chechen civilian males from entering or leaving the war zone. More than thirty federal soldiers were reported killed in recent clashes. Russia's military later denied the high figures. Russian news agencies quote General Anatoly Kvashnin, as saying the capital, Grozny, would soon be "liberated" from Chechen fighters. He said troops were advancing step-by-step to limit casualties because, in his words, "it would be madness to rush in." Russian news agencies say troops are shelling Grozny and even fighting rebels from trenches in some neighborhoods. Clashes were also reported on the outskirts of Russian-controlled Gudermes. (Signed)
NEB/EC/GE 14-Jan-2000 05:26 AM EDT (14-Jan-2000 1026 UTC)
INTRO: The United Nations Refugee Agency, U-N-H- C-R, reports a sharp drop in the number of refugees returning to Russian-controlled safe areas in Chechnya from the neighboring Republic of Ingushetia. Lisa Schlein in Geneva has more.
TEXT: The U-N Refugee Agency reports 300 refugees returned from Ingushetia to Chechnya on Thursday. This is a significant drop from previous days when daily returns reached more than one-thousand-500.
U-N-H-C-R spokesman, Ron Redmond attributes the decline to the resumption of fighting and artillery bombardment around Gudermes and Shali. He says both of these Chechen towns had previously been regarded as relatively quiet and safe. Mr. Redmond says another reason for the decline is that Chechen men considered to be of fighting age had not been allowed to cross the border for several days. And he says the agency is concerned by recent statements by Russian military commanders that men going in and out of Chechnya will not be considered refugees.
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This is of concern to U-N-H-C-R. We've asked the Russian government for clarification of the military statements. All of those fleeing the war in Chechnya are in need of international protection regardless of their gender or age.
The U-N Refugee Agency is continuing to provide humanitarian assistance to the tens of thousands of Chechens in Ingushetia. More than 180- thousand Chechens remain there. Most of them are living with host families. But some 25-thousand are staying in camps and another 28-thousand in makeshift spontaneous settlements. Mr. Redmond says the U-N agency sends weekly convoys of food and other relief supplies to Ingushetia. In addition, he says this week the agency sent an 11-truck relief convoy to the Russian Republic of Dagestan. He says Dagestan is hosting about seven-thousand people displaced from Chechnya during the current round of fighting. This is in addition to some six- thousand people who were displaced during a Chechen rebel incursion into Dagestan last August. (Signed)
NEB/LS/GE/KL 14-Jan-2000 09:42 AM EDT (14-Jan-2000 1442 UTC)
INTRO: Stock prices in the United States were up strongly today (Friday). Good corporate earnings reports and some benign inflation news gave Wall Street a rally before its three-day weekend. The U-S stock market is closed Monday for the Martin Luther King holiday. VOA correspondent Elaine Johanson has more from New York:
TEXT: The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 140 points, just over one percent, closing at a record 11- thousand-722. The Industrials gained 200 points for the week. The Standard and Poor's 500 index rose 15 points. And the technology-weighted Nasdaq composite gained two and three-quarters percent. Stocks rose on the strength of a strong earnings report from leading computer-chip maker Intel, which beat analysts' expectations for the first time in four quarters. Also, softer-than-expected inflation numbers on consumer prices eased concerns that the U-S central bank will adopt an aggressive policy on interest rates.
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Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan spoke in New York late Thursday about the booming U-S economy and the need to prevent it from overheating. Analyst John Lipsky of Chase Manhattan Bank's securities division says Mr. Greenspan implied short-term interest rates will likely go up this year, but only modestly:
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He was giving a justification for the "Fed" to continue raising rates, I suspect, at a gradual and steady pace. There's no emergency, he said. There's no reason to get worried that there's something seriously unsound here. But there is justification for action.
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The Federal Reserve Board is expected to raise rates only 25 basis points when it meets in early February. Financial stocks - normally sensitive to interest rate movement - rallied on the positive signals.
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Drug stocks joined the market surge after Britain's second and third-biggest drug companies - Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham - re-opened merger talks. If successful, the deal would create the world's largest pharmaceutical firm. Analysts say this is positive for the entire sector. When deals get done, they get done at higher prices, which raises valuations and share prices. Motorola, the number two maker of cellular phones, is expected to report next week that its fourth quarter profits more than tripled. The increased earnings apparently were due to surging demand for mobile phones and some effective cost-cutting by Motorola. (Signed) NEB/NY/EJ/LSF/PT 14-Jan-2000 17:06 PM EDT (14-Jan-2000 2206 UTC)
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INTRO: The conflict between the federal government and Florida's anti-Castro Cuban community over the fate of a Cuban refugee boy continues to attract the attention of many editorial writers in the U-S press. Other commentaries deal with the fate of former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet; others focus on the latest development in the case of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. There are also comment on the Russian military assault on Chechnya; a new U-S aid plan to help Colombia combat narco trafficking; and U-S domestic politics. Now, here is ___________ with a closer look and some excerpts in today's Editorial Digest.
TEXT: The six year old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, pulled from the sea off Florida, after his mother and other shipmates drowned while trying to flee Cuba, is still drawing editorial comment. The U-S government has told a Florida State court judge she does not have jurisdiction over the case, and plans to send him back to his father in Cuba proceed. In New Jersey's capital, The [Trenton] Times says, "Let the law prevail."
VOICE: Attorney General Janet Reno is right. The controversial case . is an immigration matter that must be settled in federal court. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has ordered that he be returned to his father . who wants him back and is, from all evidence, a suitable parent. Elian's U-S relatives have a right to challenge that decision, but not in Florida's state courts.
TEXT: USA Today, the national daily published in Arlington, Virginia, outside Washington, is upset at what it says is the "exploiting" of the boy's plight by everyone from Fidel Castro to U-S politicians.
VOICE: The key element in determining the future of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez ought not to be political. It ought to be what is best for the child. . [However] as it stands, [Fidel] Castro is the sure winner. If Elian stays, [Mr.] Castro can call it a kidnapping. If the child is returned, he can call it a victory for the "glorious revolution." Either way, south Florida's anti-Castro activists have succeeded in making his point.
TEXT: Still with Latin American affairs, the fate of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who is under house arrest in Britain and was recently ruled too ill to stand trial for alleged crimes during his rule, elicits this from today's San Francisco Chronicle.
VOICE: The decision . sounds like a victory for the former strongman and his bloody regime. But despots who prey on their people and then hide in foreign countries should hardly celebrate. . The 84-year-old caudillo [Latin American slang for a "strongman" leader] will likely be sent back to Chile where several dozen lawsuits await, charging him with directing a campaign of torture, death and disappearance that began in 1973. . [Mr.] Pinochet lost an important court case last year when British judges said that as head of state, past or present, he was not immune from human rights charges. A major message was sounded: There is no safe harbor . afforded to a leader facing human rights charges.
TEXT: To Turkey next, where the fate of another, sometimes ruthless leader, Abdullah Ocalan, head of Turkey's feared P-K-K guerrillas, is facing a death sentence for terrorism. Word of its postponement, suggests today's Chicago Tribune, is the right move for the Ankara government.
VOICE: Despite the dissent and division it engendered, Turkey's decision to delay the execution . was the right one. The move will certainly boost Turkey's chances of being accepted, eventually, into the European Union, a club in which Turkey has long craved membership. It also could lead to reconciliation with Turkey's separatist Kurds and perhaps even an end to that war. . The decision delays an execution for at least a year, while [a]. review proceeds.
/// OPT ///
TEXT: The New York Times, recognizing that Turkish resentment against the Kurdish guerrillas is strong, points out that other former "terrorist" leaders have made a transition to political leaders, seeking peace.
VOICE: Others . like Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Gerry Adams of the Irish Republican Army' political wing, Sinn Fein, have swapped violence for political bargaining and contributed to peacemaking. [Ankara] should give Mr. Ocalan a chance to do the same.
/// END OPT ///
TEXT: Turning to events in this hemisphere, several papers, including the Miami Herald, are pleased with the latest U-S offer of additional aid to Colombia, to counter narcotics trafficking.
VOICE: . it is heartening to see the Clinton administration's substantive bet for Colombia: a proposed one-point three billion dollar increase in U- S aid over two years. Critics may quibble with the finer points of the . plan . But there is no doubting the benefit: Aid of this magnitude finally raises Colombia to a well-merited priority. . The . proposal would be better balanced if it gave more assistance to Colombia's rural poor and war refugees. . Even so . the stakes are too high to do less.
TEXT: On that note, we conclude this sampling of comment from the Friday editorial pages of the U-S press.
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SAN FRANCISCO--Advanced Micro Devices will release a 450-MHz version of the K6-2 and the first K6-3 chips toward the first part of 1999, and will turn a profit by this year's end, according to CEO Jerry Sanders.
The catch is that a return to black will require AMD to nearly double its market share in the next five months--an ambitious goal to say the least.
But AMD's technical and marketing plans stem from market realities, Sanders told an audience of investors and analysts at the BancAmerica Robertson Stephens in San Francisco today.
To return to profitability, AMD needs to boost quarterly sales to $650 to $700 million from its current level of $527 million. Increased revenues will have to come from increased sales of K6 and K6-2 processors, Sanders said, priced higher than the chips presently cost. At the same time, amid flat demand, AMD will have to steal market share.
The only known way to win customers and have them pay more is to give them faster chips and better performance, Sanders said. Thus the two goals are interwined.
"We're in a speed game," he said.
Sanders said that the company will likely return to profitability by the fourth quarter based on current sales projections for its K6 products. But the job won't be easy. K6 shipments will have to rise to 4 million a quarter, equivalent to a 16 percent market share.
By 2001, the company wants a 30 percent share, he added. Last quarter, AMD shipped 2.7 million microprocessors total. And the market is currently flat.
"There won't be an uptick until the first of the year," he said. "The semiconductor market is in the softest period I have ever seen. We've had three years of no growth."
Processor speed will not be the only method AMD will use to woo customers, but it will be a chief one. Megahertz numbers hold sway with customers, so AMD has to continually boost the clock cycles of its chips.
A 350-MHz version of the K6-2 will appear this quarter, while a 400-MHz version of the chip will follow in the fourth quarter. "Sharptooth," which is also known as the K6-3 to company observers, will now appear in the first part of 1999, he said. Earlier projections had the chip, which mimics the Pentium II in containing 256K of onboard cache memory, coming out in late 1998.
That is a tall order, according to some. AMD is currently having trouble fulfilling demand in volume for the 333-MHz K6-2, according to Ashok Kumar, undermining its bid for more design wins. Chip dealers also report that they won't be able to sell the chip to customers until the first week or two of August.
Meanwhile, Kumar said that yields on the 350-MHz K6-2 samples are extremely low.
The company also continues to battle in the price war. New Celeron chips from Intel with the much-vaunted integrated cache memory arrive in August; Intel price cuts in September and October mean that AMD will have to reduce prices again, Kumar said. That will make it even more difficult to achieve the $100 average selling price, especially in light of the K6-3 delay.
Sanders said that the integrated "Mendocino" Celeron chips will not perform as well as the K6-2, but admitted that Intel prices affect AMD. The Sunnyvale company, after all, prices its chips in reaction to Intel's price moves.
The K-7, the next-generation chip for workstations and low-end servers, will appear in the first half of 1999. Although the first versions of the K7 will use aluminum as the basis for connecting circuits, copper chips will appear in samples in late 1999 and come out in volume toward the middle of 2000.
Speed aside, the company will try to emphasize other features, such as its 3DNow technology, through marketing and working with computer vendors.
In addition, Sanders said that two new deals with computer vendors over the K6-2 are in the works. Compaq, which uses the K6, could be one of the vendors since the company has yet to adopt the K6-2 for desktops, according to one source.
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Casein is the group of insoluble proteins found in milk. Whey is the group of soluble proteins. Casein comes in three types: ɑ-casein, β-casein and κ-casein with β-casein occurring in three variants: A1, A2 and B. The B variant is minor.
Most cow's milk contains a mixture of A1 and A2 β-casein. A2 milk refers to milk that only contains the A2 variant of β-casein.
Milk from Guernsey, Jersey, Asian cattle, human milk, and other dairy animals such as sheep, goat, donkeys, yaks, camel and buffalo contain mostly A2 β-casein.
Holstein Friesians cows are the black and white dairy cattle that originated in the Netherlands. More recently, Holstein refers to stock that has been further developed in America whereas Friesians refer to the traditional European stock. These breeds contain significantly more A1 β-casein.[1]
β-casein from cows contains 209 amino acids. The only difference between A1 and A2 variants is one amino acid at position 67. A1 milk contains histidine at position 67 whilst A2 contains proline. A peptide containing seven amino acids, β-casomorphin-7 (BCM-7), is formed when A1 milk is digested but not when A2 milk digested.[2]
β-casomorphin is a casomorphin which is a biological active opioid.
Robert Elliott observed a much lower rates of type 1 diabetes amongst Polynesian children that were raised on the Polynesian islands compared with those raised in Auckland. He attributed this to the differences in the β-casein profile. [3]
Elliott was the lead author of a conference paper[4] that examined the effects of feeding casein to non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice. The conclusion was that "the induction of diabetes by casein in the NOD mouse appears to be restricted to casein containing the A1 variant of beta-casein".
An experiment was performed independently at three centres (Ottawa, London and Auckland) in an attempt to duplicate these results. The diets for the mice were coded so that the researchers were not aware of nature of the diets fed to the mice.[5]
The conclusion of this paper was:
These findings show that it is not likely that diabetes could be prevented solely by removing or altering the cows' milk component of the diet […].
The above conclusion did not prevent Elliott and Hill from applying for US and New Zealand patents. Patents have been issued, listing Robert B Elliott and Jeremy P Hill as the inventors. The US patent has been assigned to New Zealand Dairy Board and the A2 Corporation Limited. The patent claims that:
The invention is based on the discovery that certain variants of β-casein may induce Type-1 diabetes in susceptible individuals while other variants do not. The invention consists of the selection of non-diabetogenic milk producing cows and recovering and processing their milk and milk products. Another aspect of the invention is selectively breeding cows which produce the non-diabetogenic milk.[6]
The a2 Milk Corporation was established to "pioneer the scientific understanding of the A2 protein type so more people can enjoy the nutritional goodness that only comes from real and natural milk".[7]
Note that it does not assist people who are lactose intolerant.
Elliott was a co-author of a paper[8] that surveyed more than "75 foods and over 100 nutritive food supply variables" and compared those to heart disease rates (in 18 countries) and type 1 diabetes rates (in 19 countries)[9].
Cow milk proteins
Milk consumption (L/capita)
Milk & cream protein g/day 0.68
Cheese protein g/day 0.23
A1 protein in milk & cream g/ay 0.92
A2 protein milk & cream g/day 0.47
Ratio A1 protein to total beta casein in milk and cream 0.47
Cow milk proteins and correlation with type 1 diabetes
Below are some observations relating to the published data.
Elliott's initial hypothesis was that the lower rates of type 1 diabetes in Polynesian children raised in the Pacific Islands was attributed to the differences in the β-casein profile – that is, differences in A1 and A2 proteins.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of studies have shown that the duration of breast feeding protects infants from type 1 diabetes. The importance of feeding infants breast milk has not been considered in this paper.[11] [12] [13] (There is always the rather unlikely possibility that the benefits of breast milk results from its high in A2 casein content.)
The food consumption figures are derived from national consumption estimates. This does not necessarily correlate to the milk consumption of children that was observed in the initial 1992 study.
Infant formula derived from cow's milk frequently contains increased whey and reduced casein components in an effort to "humanise" cow's milk. This will not be reflected in the milk protein consumption figures.
Milk and cream consumption has a greater impact on incidence of type 1 diabetes than cheese consumption.
A1 and A2 values were estimated by breed from dairy science literature.
The correlation between A1 protein and diabetes was 0.91 which is a strong correlation. The correlation between A2 protein and diabetes is 0.47, a moderate correlation. Both correlations are positive – that is, the more A1 protein and the more A2 protein, the incidence of type1 diabetes increases. Neither are protective.
The correlation with the ratio of A1 protein to total β-casein (in milk and cream) to the incidence of diabetes is, at best, only moderate, at 0.47.
This is exactly the same as the correlation with the ratio of A2 protein to total β-casein to the incidence of diabetes (in milk and cream), which is supposed to be protective. A higher A2 β-casein ratio results in a higher incidence of type 1 diabetes.
Consumption of milk, without any regarding for the protein content, shows a strong correlation of 0.73.
As a generalization, 90% indicates a very strong correlation, 70-90% a strong correlation and 50-70% a moderate correlation.
Professor Boyd Swinburn prepared a 43-page report[14] for the New Zealand Food Safety Authority. His conclusion:
The evidence does not support such dietary changes [replacing A1 β-casein with A2 β-casein] as a recommended clinical approach with a known likelihood of benefit.
Professor Stewart Truswell conclusions is:
The A1/A2 milk hypothesis was ingenious. If the scientific evidence had worked out it would have required huge adjustments in the world's dairy industries. This review concludes, however, that there is no convincing or even probable evidence that the A1 β-casein of cow milk has any adverse effect in humans.[15]
The Problem With Cow's Milk
Comparison of Dairy Milks with Human Milk
Pasin, G. (2017) A2 Milk Facts – California Dairy Research Foundation [online]. Available from: http://cdrf.org/2017/02/09/a2-milk-facts/ (Accessed 18 December 2017).
Truswell, A. S. (2005) The A2 milk case: a critical review. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 59 (5), 623–631.
Elliott, R. (1992) Epidemiology of diabetes in Polynesia and New Zealand: child health research unit. Pediatric and adolescent endocrinology. 2166–71.
Elliot, R. et al. (1997) 'The role of beta-casein variants in the induction of insulin-dependent diabetes in the non-obese diabetic mouse and humans', in 1997 International Dairy Federation.
Beales, P. et al. (2002) A multi-centre, blinded international trial of the effect of A1 and A2 β-casein variants on diabetes incidence in two rodent models of spontaneous Type I diabetes. Diabetologia. 45 (9), 1240–1246.
Elliott, R. B. & Hill, J. P. (2002) Method of selecting non-diabetogenic milk or milk products and milk or milk products so selected. United States Patent 6451368
The a2 Milk Company (2017) About us – The a2 Milk Company [online]. Available from: https://thea2milkcompany.com/about-us/ (Accessed 27 December 2017).
Laugesen, M. & Elliott, R. B. (2003) Ischaemic heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, and cow milk A1 β-casein. The New Zealand Medical Journal. 116 (1168), 1–19.
AT=Austria; AU=Australia; CA=Canada; CH=Switzerland; DE=Germany; DK=Denmark; FI=Finland; FR=France; GB=United Kingdom; HU=Hungary; IL=Israel; IS=Iceland; IT=Italy; JP=Japan; NO=Norway; NZ=New Zealand; SE=Sweden; US=United States; VE=Venezuela
Canadian Dairy Information Center (2015) Per Capita Global Consumption of Fluid Milk - Canadian Dairy Information Centre (CDIC) [online]. Available from: http://www.dairyinfo.gc.ca/index_e.php?s1=dff-fcil&s2=cons&s3=consglo&s4=tm-lt (Accessed 20 June 2018).
Blom, L. et al. (1989) The Swedish childhood diabetes study — social and perinatal determinants for diabetes in childhood. Diabetologia. 32 (1), 7–13.
Verge, C. F. et al. (1994) Environmental factors in childhood IDDM: a population-based, case-control study. Diabetes Care. 17 (12), 1381–1389.
Dahl-Jorgensen, K. et al. (1991) Relationship Between Cows' Milk Consumption and Incidence of IDDM in Childhood. Diabetes Care. 14 (11), 1081–1083.
Swinburn, B. (2004) Beta casein A1 and A2 in milk and human health. Report to New Zealand Food Safety Authority.
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