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Supreme Court issued a notice on the appeal filed by Kerala government against a high court order
All IndiaPress Trust of IndiaUpdated: December 05, 2021 12:03 am IST
The Supreme Court has sought a reply in eight weeks
The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a legal question of whether Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act cases can be quashed on the basis of compromise between the accused and the survivor.
A bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and A S Oka stayed a Kerala High Court order, dated August 26, 2019, quashing a first information report (FIR) registered against an accused under the POCSO Act, 2012 only on the basis of a compromise being carried out between the parties.
The court issued a notice on the appeal filed by the Kerala government against the order.
The accused in this case, a teacher by profession, was booked for offences under sections of the POCSO Act that pertain to those who, being on the management or staff of an educational institution or religious institution, commit sexual assault on a child in that institution.
"Counsel for the petitioners submits that the FIR... at Malappuram Police Station, District Malappuram, for the offences punishable under Sections 9(f) and 10 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, has been quashed only on the basis of a compromise being carried out between the parties which according to him is not permissible in view of the judgment of this court," the bench said.
"Issue notice, returnable in eight weeks. In the meanwhile, there shall be stay of impugned order dated August 26, 2019, until further orders in reference to the afore-stated FIR and let the petitioners may undertake investigation pursuant thereto," it said.
The court was hearing an appeal filed by the Kerala government against the high court order that the entire dispute between the petitioner and the respondents had been settled "amicably" with the minor girl's mother submitting an affidavit that she had no objection towards the quashing of the impugned criminal proceedings pending against the accused.
The accused in this case was booked for offences under Sections 9(f) and 10 of the POCSO Act.
Section 9(f) of the Act states whoever being on the management or staff of an educational institution or religious institution, commits sexual assault on a child in that institution.
Section 10 prescribes stringent punishment for aggravated sexual assault, and lays down a minimum of five years imprisonment, extendable to seven years and with fine.
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N80bn fraud: EFCC uncovers 17 properties linked to accountant-general
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has traced at least 17 properties to the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, YOMSDIRECT MEDIA has learnt.
This is just as the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, suspended Idris who is currently being investigated for fraud to the tune of N80bn.
An official of the EFCC, who wished to remain anonymous, said the properties traced to Idris are located in Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Dubai and London.
He, however, said preliminary investigations showed that the nation's chief accountant allegedly used proxies to buy some of these properties. The commission would therefore need to invite some of the proxies of the accountant-general.
The detective added that from all indications, these properties were purchased while Idris was in office and did not declare them before the Code of Conduct Bureau as stipulated by law.
He added, "About 17 houses in London, Lagos, Kano, Abuja and Dubai have been traced to him. In Abuja, some of the houses are located in serviced estates."
The EFCC had in a statement on Monday announced the arrest of the accountant-general for fraud to the tune of N80bn.
The statement read in part, "The commission's verified intelligence showed that the AGF raked off the funds through bogus consultancies and other illegal activities using proxies, family members and close associates. The funds were laundered through real estate investments in Kano and Abuja."
It was learnt that Idris came under scrutiny last year following allegations that he offered huge sums of money to a family in order to secure the marriage of their 16-year-old daughter.
The uncle of the teenager, Nura Bagudu, had told YOMSDIRECT MEDIA in an interview that the accountant-general offered properties and gifts to the young lady and her family and had lodged complaints to the Federal Government.
"He told the young lady to go to Abuja and choose any house she wanted and he would buy it for her," Bagudu had told YOMSDIRECT MEDIA
Also, the accountant-general had in 2021 launched Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited which he had openly admitted to owning.
Idris stated this when he received a delegation of Kano Concerned Citizens Initiative led by its late Chairman, Alhaji Bashir Tofa. The project is said to be worth huge sums of money which is far more than his income.
An EFCC official said the legal department was already getting an order to remand the accountant-general and get an interim forfeiture on some of his properties pending the completion of investigations.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government on Wednesday announced the suspension of the accountant-general in order to allow for a seamless investigation.
In a letter conveying Idris' suspension, the Minister of Finance warned the embattled public official not to visit the office at any time, adding that the suspension was in line with the public service rules.
The letter titled, 'Letter of Suspension' read in part, "Following your recent arrest by EFCC on allegations of diversion of funds and money laundering, I write to convey your suspension from work without pay effective May 18, 2022."
Efforts to get a response from the Spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, proved abortive as he did not respond to calls.
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ACE JUNE RELL S. PEREZ
AFTER experiencing the magic of Hong Kong, make the most of your trip and go for a day or overnight tour in Macau or Macao, formally known as Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
Just a ferry or bus ride away from Hong Kong, this famous Asian destination is home to flashy casinos, gastronomic delights, culture, and historical remnants of its colonial past.
From Marco Polo Hong Kong, where we stayed for the last two nights of our five-day trip, we walked for about 10 minutes to China Ferry Terminal at 33 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. We left Hong Kong around 9:15 a.m. and arrived in Taipa Ferry Terminal in Macao an hour after.
After some immigration checks, we immediately looked for a free hotel shuttle provided by hotels to get to the city center. Yes, it's free and that is the best part. But there are other ways of getting around the city: taxi and/or bus, if you feel like spending for transportation.
The Venetian Macao
We picked the Venetian shuttle since we decided to do The Venetian Macao first. The Venice-themed resort will give you answers of why Macao is called the Vegas of Asia and we think there is no better way of starting the journey here than that.
Considered as the biggest casino in the world, this place is sure paradise for gamblers, but there is more to The Venetian Macao than that. We skipped the casino part, actually, and went around this huge building occupied with several luxury shops, walking in awe brought by its impressive interior.
But the real attraction here, for most travelers, is its network of canals patrolled by gondolas manned by gondoliers serenading passengers with love songs or classical music while under the building's painted sky that looks so real.
The Parisian Macao: Eiffel Tower
From The Venetian Macao, you can transfer directly to another resort that is the Parisian Macao. The two hotels are interconnected with an indoor bridge (Venetian Macao Hotel & Convention Center to The Parisian Macao 5th floor), just follow the signs or ask around and you will be into another destination in just 10-15 minutes.
Seeing the Eiffel Tower without going to Paris, France is possible in Macao. I'm referring to its replica that stands exactly half of the original, of course. Some exciting activities here include the fantastic lights turning the tower into a colorful explosion of lights dancing from the base to the top. Visitors can also try to climb its observation deck. Or just go around within the replica and take snaps, just like what we did.
Senado Square
After getting ourselves a taste of Paris, we proceeded to Senado Square via 26A bus. Thanks to the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) - also a Dabawenyo – working at the Parisian Macao as a resort staff who gave us directions on how to get to Senado Square and Ruins of St. Paul. We also met a group of Filipinos who were also on a trip. We found comfort with each other's presence as we journey to an unfamiliar place.
After some 30-minute ride, we arrived at Senado Square filled with tourists and locals. Walking around this main public square of the town that has a wave-patterned mosaic floor brought so much Western atmosphere. I must say the architectures of the surrounding buildings are nothing short of spectacular. The Square is considered a giant outdoor museum and a highlight of the extensive Historic Center of Macau, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
Ruins of St. Paul's
Just a few meters away from Senado Square is the most famous landmark in Macao, the Ruins of St. Paul's. This iconic towering facade and stairway are remains of the 16th-17th-century Jesuit church. It withstood the challenges brought by a strong typhoon and three fires. It was raining when we were at the site but it didn't stop us from enjoying the view and taking pictures.
Within the site are an array of stalls and stores selling the must-taste egg tarts, street food, and pasalubong items.
Another landmark is Macau's famous skyscraper, the Macau Tower. We just walked our way to the seaside area where one can view clearly the 338-meter-tall tower. We just took pictures and stared at the tower for a while and call it our day tour. The view of tower with the skyline and seascape is captivating and calming. But activities like visit to the tower's 360-degree observation deck, Bungy Jump, Skyjump, and Skywalk can also be a choice for extreme adventure seekers.
We went back to terminal by taking the bus just before sundown.
A Symphony of Lights
Back in Hong Kong, after a short rest in our hotel, we headed to the A Symphony of Lights show which starts at 8:00 p.m. Hundreds of tourists await for this nightly spectacle of searchlights, lasers, LED screens and lighting dancing harmoniously to the beat of music transforming Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour into an outdoor multimedia feast. After the 10-minute light show, we bid bye to or hungry stomachs and enjoyed a delicious dine at Café de Coral with Mama's cousin – aunt Beth Lusica Mira.
If there's a lesson I had from this trip, it is travelling can be more meaningful and memorable if done with your favorite souls.
For suggestions, comments, and questions, email me at aceperez.manlalakbay@gmail.com
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A map of the world by the largest companies
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The three largest companies in the world are situated in China.
This is according to Forbes' 2016 Global 2000 list, which details the 2000 largest companies in each country.
Berkshire Hathaway is the largest company in the US, ranking fourth, while the largest company in the UK is HSBC, which comes in 14th in the list.
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The second largest company in the UK was Prudential (ranked 66), followed by GlaxoSmithKline (100), National Grid (160) and Lloyds Banking Group (170).
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China identifies the source of the new "Corona" virus
Chinese specialists have identified the most likely source of the new "corona" virus, which has killed scores of people since its appearance late last year in Chinas Wuhan province.
The network "Russia Today" quoted Chinese media, on Sunday, that the 2019-nCoV virus was found in samples taken from the "Huanan" seafood market, in which wild animals are also sold.
The agency noted that 22 of the 585 samples taken from the "Huanan" market were found in the nucleic acids of the new "Corona" virus, and that specialists were able to sort the virus from environmental samples, which indicates that the wild animals that were traded are underway. In the aforementioned market, it is the source of the virus.
The Chinese authorities confirmed, earlier, the spread of a new and mysterious type of "Corona" virus, since late December last year, which was called "2019-nCoV" and causes pneumonia, while the country recorded more than two thousand cases of infection, including 57 deaths. .
In addition to China, confirmed cases of infection have been recorded in several other countries, including Thailand, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the United States.
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Participating in Reading Liberty last semester was so rewarding, says Christina Palahnuk, that she has already signed up for this semester's sessions.
A graduate student of philosophy, she enjoyed her experience with the group led by political science professor Lydia Miljan, giving students the opportunity to explore a set of readings on the intellectual underpinnings of a free society without the stress of grades or assignments.
"The group size is great for discussions," Palahnuk says. "Everyone can get involved and be heard. It isn't intimidating — plus, it's always good to read some books outside your program, especially something with no pressure."
First-year languages student Jason Leung says last semester's book, The Infidel and The Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen, made for an engaging read, enhanced by the peer discussion sessions.
"It was pure discussion, an exchange of ideas," says Leung. "You can sit in the group and absorb the conversation. There is no requirement to take notes and no tests or worrying about or your grade."
This semester the group will read Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money, which follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.
Reading Liberty is open to any interested University of Windsor student, but enrolment is limited to 20 in each semester. Participation is free — including the books — and qualifies as an entry on the co-curricular transcript.
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If you live long enough you're sure to noice there are moments where you repeat habits and patterns of past generations. Resist as much as you want and there are some elements of your parent's personality that are sure to come through lound and clear despite all protestations to the contrary. As much as the big story today should be that Fortress Jeff is now manufacturing hot air six percent more efficiently than I was when the day started that is, in fact, not the big story… even if the projected savings on electrical and propane changes alone would have rated a mention here.
I'm writing here tonight not to sing the glory of high efficiency HVAC systems, but because I caught myself squarely in the midst of following my father's footsteps. You see, when I walked through to the kitchen to brew up another coffee, I noticed the demolished remains of the old furnace laying on the driveway. Next to the shredded metal carcass of the furnace was a stack of 3-inch PVC pipe, the former intake and exhaust, that had been cut into neat eight foot lengths ready for disposal. Being my father's son, of course, I couldn't let perfectly good PVC pipe get thrown away.
Despite the fact that I have never in almost 40 years had a situation where I though, damn I wish I had a 16 foot length of 3-inch PVC pipe handy, I went out to the driveway and toted the two lengths that were clean cut and without joints back into the garage and leaned them in the corner. I laid them up "just in case," against a day that when I need just exactly 8 or 16 feet of pipe to take on some project here at the house.
These lengths of pipe join sections of trex and 1×2 that came off the access ramp that use to be in the garage, several coffee cans of mismatched screws, nails, bolts, and nuts, a few smallish squares of drywall, and some leftover tile that matches my kitchen floor. All of it is material in waiting – most likely for a project or requirement that will never come – but ready just in case.
What Doesn't Annoy Jeff this Week?
What Annoys Jeff this Week is usually the place where I vent my spleen each week. Most of the time it's easy enough to cull the "top three" things from the list and give them each a little paragraph of exposition. Some weeks, this one included, offer what I can only describe as an embarrassment of riches. In fact this week it would be easier to discuss the few things that have not annoyed me in some way.
1. The critters. Despite the bills for care, feeding, and entertainment, I can't think of a time when I've ever begrudged one of my animals anything. Regardless of the stupidity going on "out there" beyond the four walls of the house, they're consistent in their affection and pleasure at seeing me every afternoon. Even the cat. Walking through the door to be greeted by a wave of fur and slobber is the high water mark of each and every day.
2. Living rural. Every time I switch on the television I find myself faced with an endless amount of stupid things happening. For the most part that coverage is dedicated to the things happening in major cities here at home and around the globe. Now I'm tuned in to the local news outlets closely enough to know that there's plenty of stupidity happening in Cecil County, too. Fortunately, my little corner of the place is remarkably serene. Now there may still be plenty of stupidity happening nearby, but we have the common decency to (mostly) keep in behind closed doors.
3. Blood. You don't get to pick your family. What you end up with seems to be mostly be left up to the luck of the draw. Let me say that knowing that, I feel like I've been given a very fortunate hand to play. I'm looking forward to that rare opportunity of spending some quality time with them this weekend.
If there's anything else you can think of this week, it's safe to just go ahead and assume that it has annoyed me at some point.
It doesn't happen often, but there are some times, some moments, when I just don't have the right words. Anything I manage to get down on the blank page feels somehow inadequate to the moment.
Saying a real goodbye is always a struggle. Saying a final goodbye almost beyond my weak capabilities. Since long before our written histories, honoring the dead was a task for the living. Maybe it should be hard to put those ideas into words. Maybe, at its core, goodbye should be something felt rather than something said.
Another of the too rapidly diminishing links to my youth is unexpectedly gone. My memories, though, remain – of summers spent "far away", of learning to love the Chesapeake and those creatures that dwell on, in, and above its depths, of family in better times. Those memories remain and loom ever larger in my mind, making it that much harder to think of saying the inevitable goodbye.
As I've worked and reworked these few sentences tonight I keep coming back to a quote first heard long ago. One of our greatest warrior philosophers offered that "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." While it may be foolish, I'll mourn tonight – but I'll also be well and truly thankful that such a man lived.
This world is a little less warm and its light a little less bright for his passing.
In most parts of the country maybe people don't really think of government as a family business. Here in the greater DC-Baltimore area – and in many small towns who find their employment life's blood tied inextricably to dams, prisons, or other federal projects, it's just one of those facts of life. In my last job it wasn't at all unusual to find three or more generations of a family who have worked at one location since back before we had to go liberate Europe the second time. I have my own share of family who spent time working for or who are still on the payroll of their elderly Uncle.
I don't know why it always comes as such a surprise to me when someone in the office mentions meeting a colleague's wife, husband, mother, father, sister, or brother in the course of flailing around trying to get something accomplished. Jobs are competed, personnel specialists live for making sure the rules are followed, and still often the "best qualified" are those who were raised from birth hearing about the Byzantine intrigues, conference room power struggles, and petty office politics the place seems to engender. We might be the single largest employer in the country, but sometimes, aside from marathon meetings, epic delusions of grandeur, and billion dollar operating budgets, it does feel like we're running the average mom and pop shop.
But then you get out to the parking lot – which would make the biggest of big box stores blush with inadequacy – and realize, no, it's not at all mom and pop. It's not the family business. And you really are located somewhere deep inside the belly of the beast.


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This section examines why involvement in corruption should be avoided by individuals and organisations in the infrastructure sector.
Corruption should be avoided for the following reasons:
The risk of criminal prosecution: There is a real risk of criminal prosecution for individuals and organisations involved in corruption. The consequences of prosecution are severe, involving imprisonment, fines and debarment.
The risk of financial loss: There is a real risk of significant financial loss for individuals and organisations who are involved in corruption.
The moral argument: Corruption can cause death, injury, and financial loss to innocent parties. It results in fewer or defective schools, hospitals, roads and other public services. It is therefore morally wrong.
The order of priority of the above reasons will depend on the personal values of an individual.
These reasons are examined in further detail below.
As explained in What is Corruption, GIACC uses the term "corruption" in the wider sense to include bribery, extortion, fraud, cartels, abuse of power, embezzlement, and money laundering. Consequently, the discussion in this section applies to all such criminal activity.
(1) Risk of criminal prosecution
There is a real risk of criminal prosecution for individuals and organisations involved in corruption. The consequences of prosecution are severe, involving imprisonment, fines and debarment.
Until relatively recently, there had been little risk of prosecution for corruption in the infrastructure sector. However, due to a number of factors, individuals and organisations are now facing an increasing and real risk of prosecution. These factors are as follows:
Increased awareness and publicity. There is growing awareness of the scale of corruption in the infrastructure sector, and of the personal, public and financial damage that this is causing. The media is focusing increasingly on corruption, and investigative journalists may examine and publish corruption suspicions in detail.
Increased pressure. There is, as a result of the above awareness and publicity, increased pressure to take steps to eliminate this corruption. Civil society, aid organisations, multi-lateral development banks, governments, the media, and organisations working in the infrastructure sector are all responsible for this increased pressure.
Anti-corruption conventions and laws. Such pressure has resulted in the passing and ratification of a number of international anti-corruption conventions (in particular the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery). Countries which have ratified such conventions are required to enact the necessary laws to criminalise corruption offences, to ensure that those laws are enforced, and to co-operate with other countries in enforcement.
Increased risk of detection. Far greater attention is now being paid to methods of detecting corruption in infrastructure projects. There is also increased protection for and encouragement of whistle-blowing. Thus, there is now a far greater risk that corruption will be uncovered.
Increased willingness to prosecute and punish white-collar crime. There is increasing pressure to ensure that white-collar crime (which includes corruption offences) is punished as severely as blue-collar crime. This means that there is a growing likelihood that where an individual is convicted of corruption, more severe penalties may be imposed than previously.
Increased resources allocated to prosecution of corruption: Many countries have increased the resources allocated to the prosecution of corruption, and in some cases have established specialist anti-corruption prosecution units.
In consequence of the above factors, there are now many cases of individuals and organisations being prosecuted for corruption offences.
The penalties for corruption offences can be severe. In most jurisdictions, such penalties for individuals may include several years' imprisonment and heavy fines. For organisations, the criminal penalty will normally be a substantial fine and possible debarment from public sector work. Involvement in corruption now presents a real risk of harsh punishment for both individuals and organisations.
For further information on criminal liability, see Liability for Corruption.
(2) Risk of financial loss
There is a real risk of significant financial loss for individuals and organisations who are involved in corruption.
As it becomes more acknowledged that corruption must be prevented and penalised, so governments, funders, project owners, competitors, and employers have become less tolerant of corruption. There is, therefore, an increasing tendency for these parties to adopt stronger commercial or financial measures against corruption. Such measures can have a significant adverse financial impact on individuals and organisations involved in corruption, and may include the following:
Debarment of organisations because of corruption involvement. In many countries, public sector project owners are now required by law to debar convicted organisations from participating in their projects. For example, the European Union Procurement Directives require compulsory exclusion of an organisation from all EU public sector contracts for a specified period if the organisation has been convicted of a corruption offence. Multi-lateral development banks have adopted debarment policies whereby an organisation which has been found to have been involved in corruption will be debarred permanently or for a number of years from participating in any of their projects. Aid organisations and commercial lenders are increasingly unlikely to allow organisations which have been convicted of corruption, or debarred by multi-lateral development banks, to participate in projects which they are funding.
Termination of corrupt contracts. A contract which has been obtained through corruption is often either void, or can be terminated, and this can have significant financial consequences. For example, if a contractor pays a bribe to win a contract, or submits fraudulent data with its tender, and if the project owner discovers the corruption, it is possible that the project owner will terminate the contract (if it has already been awarded to the contractor).
Reputational damage for organisations. The increasing attention given to corruption issues, and the growing desire for ethical business, means that organisations which are associated with corruption (even where there has been no conviction) may suffer in terms of share value, and may also find that they are increasingly considered to be undesirable business partners. It may also mean that the organisation may find it more difficult to win work, raise financing, and employ good staff.
Reputational damage for individuals. Involvement by an individual in corruption may irreparably damage an individual's reputation. Organisations are paying increasing attention to their own reputation, and to corporate social responsibility, and are therefore increasingly unlikely to employ an individual who has been involved in corruption.
Dismissal of individuals from employment. Organisations are imposing stricter disciplinary measures against employees who have been involved in corruption. It is becoming more common for an officer or employee of an organisation to be dismissed from employment because of involvement in corruption. An organisation may prefer to lose an employee rather than damage its business or reputation.
Disciplinary action against individual members by professional institutions. Professional institutions are becoming more conscious of their duty to deter corruption by their members, and may impose fines on, or suspend or disqualify from practice, members who have engaged in corruption.
Litigation against individuals and organisations for losses caused by corruption. Significant financial loss can be caused to an organisation which is the victim of corruption. For example:
a tenderer which loses a tender because of bribery by a competitor may lose both the cost of submitting its tender and the potential profits from the contract;
a contractor against whom a project owner submits a fraudulent claim (which is then approved by a corrupt certifier) may have to pay the project owner's fraudulent claim.
It is becoming increasingly likely for such organisations to take legal action to recover their losses. Such proceedings may be taken against both the corrupt organisation and the individuals involved in the corruption, who may be required to compensate the victim for its losses. These proceedings can also be costly in terms of lawyers' and consultants' fees, lost management time, and emotional stress.
For further information on financial loss caused by corruption, see Cost of Corruption.
(3) The moral argument
Corruption can cause death, injury, and financial loss to innocent parties. It results in fewer or defective schools, hospitals, roads and other public services. It is therefore morally wrong.
Corruption in relation to public sector projects
Corruption in relation to public sector projects usually involves bribery and/or fraud being perpetrated against a government body. It is, therefore, the public that ultimately pays for this corruption (through additional taxes or lost services). This corrupt activity can occur in a number of ways:
Needless, unviable or over-designed projects. A project may be commissioned which is not necessary, or which is unviable or over-designed, and the main purpose of which is to act as a vehicle for corruptly channeling public funds into the private accounts of government officers and their associates. In such cases, the initial corruption in conceiving or over-designing the project may rest with the responsible government official and the consultant designer. However, where a contractor takes on such a project while aware or suspicious that the project is corrupt from inception, the contractor may also become implicated in the corruption. The ultimate wasted costs in respect of this project are borne by the public.
Bribes included in the contract price. The cost of bribes paid by contractors to corrupt government officials is usually recouped by including the amount of the bribe in the contract price. As a result, the cost of the bribe is ultimately paid out of public funds.
Contract prices fraudulently inflated. Where a contract is corruptly awarded, it is often the case that the contract price is significantly inflated, not just to cover the cost of the bribe, but also to maximise profit for the contractor. Where the contractor is assured of success in winning the contract, it will have considerable freedom to demand a high contract price. These inflated contract prices are paid out of public funds.
Fraudulent claims approved and paid. Contractors may submit fraudulent claims which are either unmerited or inflated. These claims may be approved for a number of reasons. The certifier may wrongly believe them to be genuine and justified. Alternatively, bribery of the certifier, or other person responsible for approving the claims, may ensure that the claims are approved. In addition, bribery of the relevant government official will ensure that she/he does not challenge the approvals and that the claims are paid. The losses caused by payment of fraudulent claims are often far greater than losses resulting from bribery to win contracts. The cost of fraudulent claims will be borne by the public.
Defective or dangerous works provided. Contractors may use bribery to persuade a certifier to approve defective works or materials. This can result in projects being provided which are seriously defective, and which deteriorate very quickly, so requiring repair or replacement far earlier than should be the case. Alternatively or in addition, defective work may result in dangerous structures which may cause injury or death. It is the taxpayer who will have to fund any repair or replacement of the defective products, and compensate those harmed by them.
In simple terms, corruption in the public sector causes death and injury, and is stealing from the taxpayer. Money is stolen which could be spent on hospitals, schools, roads, and other vitally important infrastructure. This loss will be felt most severely in poorer countries. It will nevertheless also be felt in developed countries where large sums may also be lost to corruption. For further information on damage to the public sector caused by corruption, see Cost of Corruption.
Corruption in relation to private sector projects
Corruption in relation to private sector projects takes a similar form to corruption in the public sector, but the cost of corruption is not directly borne by public funds. It nevertheless can have widespread and serious consequences. Corruption may have an adverse effect on the quality of the private sector works. It may result in an increase in the financing, capital, operating and maintenance costs of projects. This in turn may result in increased property or utility prices, or increased charges that are required for use of certain facilities such as toll roads or bridges. It may also result in dangerously defective works. All these factors will affect the public. In the longer term, the effects may include less investment (due to the growing concern to ensure ethical investment), and withdrawal of ethical contractors from the market.
It is unlikely that there will be significant corruption in the private sector without such corruption impacting on, or spreading to, the public sector, and vice versa.


Women's Best is the latest and greatest 'Insta-Supplement' brand. What does that mean? That means that there is a brand new generation of supplement companies now-a-days that lives and dies by the Instagram. They are direct to consumer companies, meaning they are not sold in retail outlets. You may have heard of the other big-time 'Insta-Supplement' companies. Shredz, Protein World, and Fit Affinity to name a few. These companies pay Instagram personalities lots and lots of money to promote their products. I'm guessing that's actually why you are here, right? You saw Slim Shake on Instagram but weren't sure if it's actually legit or not, right? Well I hear you. I was in the same boat when I first saw Slim Shake. I had no idea what to make of the pink-clad protein supplement. So I was looking for reviews and couldn't really find any. That's why I decided to get my hands on all three flavors of Women's Best Slim Shake and do my review! So let's start talking about the product.
What is the best flavor of Slim Shake?
Cookies 'N Cream: I'm going to give Cookies 'N Cream an 8.4 on the flavoring because it was just average as far as protein shakes go. It's not as good as APOLLO Protein, which literally tastes AMAZING (and keeps me full forEVER by the way), but Slim Shake tastes ok, don't get me wrong. The cookies 'n cram flavor has some parts that remind me of oreo, but then unfortunately the whole taste does seem to get overwhelmed by the unmistakable notes of soy and stevia- two of my LEAST favorite tastes. But if you do buy Womens' Best Slim Shake, this is definitely the flavor to get.
Vanilla: The vanilla is getting a score of 8.2 in this review because while it was not quite up to the standard of the cookies 'n cream, it was certainly better than the chocolate. This flavor tasted strongly of vanilla bean, and was also very very sweet. I found it to be much sweeter than Cookies 'N Cream, but not in a good way. It was almost too much.
Chocolate: The chocolate flavored Slim Shake is not good. I think you would agree if you tried it. There's almost something fruity about this flavor of Women's Best protein shake that is very unpleasant. You can sense it right when you open the seal of the jar. Instead of a rich chocolate-y taste that you would expect from a chocolate protein powder, you get sort of a dusty, fruity sensation. It's not my favorite.
Speaking of not favorites- let's talk a little bit about the nutrient profile of Slim Shake. Because there's a few very important things about this supplement that you need to know.
Soy-based: I HATE soy because my stomach can not digest it properly. Soy is actually one of the worst things you can put in your body in my opinion. There is a great deal of research that has come out against soy that speak to the dangers of this protein source.
Sugar: The second thing that I detest about Slim Shake is the sugar content. I'm all for natural sweetener, but you know what else is naturally sweentened? A can of coke. And I ain't drinking that stuff! Five grams of sugar is still too much for this lady. Sorry Women's Best.
Sodium: 1500mg is a pretty aggressive amount of salt to slug down at once for me. As someone who is very careful about my sodium intake, I really would prefer to keep the sodium at a more manageable level.
Honestly. The sugar and salt could be forgiven. But basing your whole shake on soy, which is cheap, and quite frankly not healthy at all is just not very excusable. There are so many other protein sources to choose from that would have made Women's Best protein an infinitely better product. But they didn't. And in my opinion this is just, well, a BAD product. But it looks kinda nice.
I'll throw Women's Best a bone in the packaging review section. They did a good job at copying Protein World Slender Blend. Hehe. But seriously you can see the inspiration for this packaging is very closely related to Protein World. From the clear 'glass-look' jar to the silver aluminum lid, there are lots of similarities between the two. Even though the focus of the design is on the silver heart with the female face, there is still a certain minimalism that reminds me of the exact style used on Protein World's Slender Blend tub.
But I'll give it to Slim Shake. Even if some elements were borrowed, this is still a handsome design. Plus. A great design is allowed to borrow from other great work. It's the way of the world. I like the shade of pink that Women's Best chose for the product. It's a nice, deep, wholesome color that looks rich. Unlike the trashy hot pink of products like Fitmiss and Nutrabio. And you know what? Come to think of it I'm starting to like the Women's Best logo, too. The heart has a sort of choppy, intricate beauty to it that I hated at first, but it really has started to appeal to me. Last things to point out are the really classic choice of fonts and also the tasteful background graphic on the main label area. All-in-all the design is very appealing.


Dining training with Dolores was great. She gave specific details in her explanation of our subject. The hands on teaching time in small groups was invaluable because Dolores was so patient when we made a mistake…AND she was fun! At one point, she took my hand, cupped it, made sure my knife was correctly centered in my palm – all with a warm, nurturing Georgia smile!


We left super early to drop our stuff at Hanoi backpackers before meeting the rest of our group. We were all given some rather fetching sombreros and started the four hour journey to the port. We did a quick little ice breaker to get to know everyone, but luckily we had quite a small group of only 11 so it didn't take long. We stopped half way at a very odd pottery barn where they sold giant Buddhas and elephants, it's safe to say charlie and I didn't get anything!
We got to the port and had to wait a little bit until the boat arrived. Once we were on bored we were served an amazing lunch by muma who was in charge of the boat. We had a huge selection of noodles, beef, rice, squid, tofu and tones of fruit. It was sooooooo good! After we had all finished we went up to the top deck to start playing drinking games. Sadly as I was still so ill I didn't think drinking would be the best idea, but I didn't want to miss out so I still played but with water instead of booze! After an hour or so we arrived at our kayaking spot. Everyone excluding me was pretty drunk by now so it was hilarious to see everyone trying to kayak! We kayaked around through two very low caves which lead out into a nice little lagoon. Eddie decided to go for a swim and jumped in, about two mins later he jumped back in as we were all counting the tones of jelly fish in the water!! We went back to the boat and carried on playing games until we arrived at castaway island.
We were greeted by the 6 other people already on the island as well as all the guides before starting our initiation onto the island. We were each given a beer and had to try and open and drink it whilst playing jump rope. I got to do it with water which wasn't quite as funny as watching everyone else. Charlie was surprisingly good and actually won! Once we were done we were given a quick welcome chat before being shown to our dorm which was a big hut on the beach. Once we were settled we had a less impressive dinner and then the real drinking games began! We played loads of different games, and luckily for us one of the guides on the island was new and was having his initiation so he was targeted every time! We had a great night and even though I was still feeling like poo and wasn't drinking I still had a good time.
The next day was our activity day. Usually on the castaway tour you get to pick between either wakebording, tubing or rock climbing, but as we were such a small group we got to do all three! We did tubing first, which wasn't actually tubing. It was more like a giant blow up circle attached to the back of the boat, where 4 people had to try and cling on for dear life while the boat driver tried to fling us off. It was SO much fun!! After about an hour we headed back to shore for a little rest before heading out to try wakebording. It was really hard but both charlie and I actually managed to stand up which was amazing! Once everyone had had a go we went back to shore. My hands were killing from the last activities and I was feeling really rough so I gave rock climbing a miss, but charlie had a go and got up pretty high. Once everyone had finished there activities we had some free time before the new lot of people arrived, all 45 of them! And it was our turn to think of something for them to do when they arrived! We set up an obstacle course for them on the beach. Soon we had all had dinner and it was time for drinking games again, but as there were so many of them it was hard to get one consistent game going. We tried a few times but failed so resorted to dancing on tables! Soon we were all sat on the beach talking and chilling out before we called it a night.
The next morning we had to be up early to get the boat back. We said our goodbyes and got back on the boat. We had another amazing lunch on the boat before pulling back into the port. After another 4 hour journey we got back, had a pretty good burger and then had to get the night bus straight down to the farm stay.


The main priority for the payroll department is getting the paychecks accurately and timely to employees. But a critical function for the payroll department is to pull all the payroll information together and produce a Form W-2 for all employees. This produces a great challenge to payroll departments to ensure that all elements of the W-2 are complete and accurate along with complying with federal and state tax requirements.
This topic will provide you the fundamentals to run an efficient W-2 process.


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Celebrity Series of Boston
20 Park Plaza, Suite 1032
Boston, MA 02116	 [P] (617) 482-2595
WWW.CELEBRITYSERIES.ORG
info@celebrityseries.org
Sara Robinson
Bank of America Celebrity Series (2004)
Fleet Boston Celebrity Series (2000)
Bank Boston Celebrity Series (1996)
Bank of Boston Celebrity Series (1989)
The Celebrity Series Mission: To present performing artists who inspire and enrich our community.
The Celebrity Series Vision: We believe in the power of excellence and innovation in the performing arts to enrich life experience, transform lives, and build better communities. We envision a community of Greater Boston where the performing arts are a valued, life-long, shared experience – on stages, on streets, in neighborhoods – everywhere.
Arts for All!
Mainstage Performance Season
Public Performance Projects
Since 1938, the Celebrity Series of Boston has brought the world's finest performing artists to Boston, presenting some of the greatest artists of our time, as well as the Boston debuts of artists including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Yo-Yo Ma, and Leontyne Price. In addition to chamber and orchestral music, piano recitals, and dance, programs featuring jazz, spoken word, world music, and multimedia performances introduce local audiences to a range and breadth of performing arts experiences not available elsewhere, with 150+ performances and community engagement activities each year.
Our 2018-19 season offers 60+ performances by artists from around the world, from the San Francisco Symphony with violin soloist Christian Tetzlaff in music director Michael Tilson Thomas' farewell tour, to great instrumentalists and vocalists such as Itzhak Perlman, Evgeny Kissin, Alisa Weilerstein, Yuja Wang, Thomas Hampson, Luca Pisaroni, and Joyce DiDonato, to innovative jazz from the Monterey Jazz Festival 60th Anniversary Celebration with Cécile McLorin Salvant, Danilo Pérez' Global Messengers and Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers Ensemble, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, to groundbreaking dance companies from around the world and close to home, including Mark Morris Dance Group, Batsheva Dance Company, Sankofa Danzafro, Ephrat Asherie Dance and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – to name but a few.
Onstage and off, our Arts for All! community programs engages people of all ages, harnessing the creative energy of the performing arts to build thriving neighborhoods and cultivate the next generation of artists and audiences. Through Artist Connections, master classes, lecture-demonstrations, and workshops offer unparalleled access to world-class main stage artists, for students from the elementary through conservatory levels. In Neighborhood Arts, Boston area artists in diverse performing arts disciplines lead hands-on workshops for youth and free community concerts in six lower income Boston neighborhoods in Dorchester, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale, Roxbury, and the South End. In our Public Performance Projects, free, participatory projects offer the whole city the opportunity to create, from Street Pianos to Let's Dance Boston to Jazz Along the Charles. Through Take Your Seat, school and community groups, families, and students receive free and discounted tickets to performances in our main stage season.
2017-18 Accomplishments:
Reached over 63,876 audience members through 66 performances by the artists from around the globe, across a variety of genres including orchestral and chamber music, solo recitals, contemporary dance, jazz, world music, and literary artists, and more.
Engaged 18,272 participants in the greater Boston area through Arts for All! community and education programs
Produced Let's Dance Boston 2017, which engaged 3,500+ people of all ages and abilities in four nights and one afternoon of live music and social dancing on the Greenway.
Engaged 1,250+ participants in community events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's debut in Boston, including free workshops at which members of the public learned Alvin Ailey's iconic work Revelations, and more.
2018-19 Goals:
Offer a robust season of international artists, representing the excellence and variety that is the hallmark of Celebrity Series programming
Produce Jazz Along the Charles, in which 25 local jazz bands will be placed in a two mile loop on the Charles River Esplanade, playing the same set list in a walkable concert on September 23, 2018
Inaugurate a new series in the Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre at New England Conservatory, presenting three innovative dance companies, each performing with live music
Produce the fifth annual Stave Sessions, introducing emerging jazz, folk, and genre-blending artists
Expand and deepen Arts for All! programming, including commissioning of new artist-led projects
· Increase and diversify funding sources, both earned and contributed, and increase cash reserves to provide risk and artistic investment capital
· Engage a broader and more diverse audience and increase customer loyalty
· Increase venue access to support increased size and number of performances and to increase artistic and genre variety
· Strengthen database and communications infrastructure to support more targeted and effective communication with constituents
· Improve public understanding of the Celebrity Series brand and value
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Celebrity Series brings great artists from around the world to Boston. We have done so since 1938 because we believe that extraordinary artists inspire and enrich our community. We are also part of a larger cultural fabric of Boston where the power of excellence and innovation in the performing arts enriches life experience, transforms lives and builds better communities. We envision a community of Greater Boston where the performing arts are a valued, lifelong, shared experience – on stage, on streets, in neighborhoods – everywhere.
As we look to the future, we embrace innovation, artistic ambition, and risk-taking even as we value the deep traditions that have been at our core for the past eight decades. We will present the full range of career artists, showcasing early-career stage artists as well as bringing back artists as they grow and mature. We will enhance the audience experience with more opportunities to gather as a community that appreciates the arts and seeks to learn about artists and their work. We will strengthen our relationships with our key performance venues to provide consistent, best-of-kind customer service at our performances. We will grow our community and education programs, collaborating with an ever-growing network of locally-based artists and community partners, for a greater impact on youth, families and underserved audiences.
I am honored to serve as the Chair of the Board of the Celebrity Series of Boston. I joined the board in 2006, and took on the Chair in 2009, because I believe in the transformative power of performing arts to grow and sustain individuals and communities.
Today, I continue to be energized and inspired by the vision of the organization:
We believe in the power of excellence and innovation in the performing arts to enrich life experience, transform lives, and build better communities. We envision a community of Greater Boston where the performing arts are a valued, lifelong, shared experience—on stages, on streets, in neighborhoods —everywhere.
This is an exciting time to be a part of the Celebrity Series. I hope you will join us, as an audience member and a donor, in experiencing the joy, inspiration and sense of connection that the performing arts can bring to your life and to the life of our community.
Joshua Boger, Ph.D.
Chair of the Board of the Celebrity Series of Boston
Founder, Director and CEO (Retired), Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Arts,Culture & Humanities - Performing Arts
Celebrity Series' Arts for All! community engagement programs reach over 10,000 individuals annually, through master classes with mainstage artists in public schools and conservatories; hands-on, interactive workshops for youth led by a core group of Boston area artists; free community concerts in Boston neighborhoods; free and discounted tickets to mainstage performances; and large-scale, public participatory performance projects, such as Jazz Along the Charles on September 23, 2018. These programs connect us with community collaborators and root us more deeply in local neighborhoods, helping fulfil Celebrity Series' vision of a community of Greater Boston where the performing arts are a valued, lifelong, shared experience - on stages, on streets, in neighborhoods - everywhere.
Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Performing Arts
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years) College Aged (18-26 years)
Arts for All! programs remove barriers to access to live performing arts experiences, bringing the arts out of the downtown concert halls and into public spaces and Boston neighborhoods. Neighborhood Arts, launched in 2012, brings the joy of live performing arts experiences to diverse neighborhoods in Dorchester, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale, Roxbury, and the South End, addressing longstanding inequities in access. Engaging a diverse roster of high caliber, locally-based artists, Neighborhood Arts now partners with 40-50 community organizations, including neighborhood venues, community centers, schools, Boys & Girls Clubs, after-school programs, youth arts organizations, and more. Interactive artist-led workshops in which kids learn and co-create are paired with free public concerts led by the same artists in neighborhood spaces, and participants also receive free tickets to Celebrity Series mainstage performances. In 2017-18, Neighborhood Arts reached over 8,000 participants.
Celebrity Series has a longstanding history of community involvement beyond the downtown concert stages - offering free and discounted tickets to performances, bringing mainstage artists to public schools, and providing other intensive arts experiences for youth. Arts for All! continues the best of this work and build upon it to help us build a stronger infrastructure in the community – connecting us more effectively to Boston's neighborhoods, bringing live performing arts experiences to those who lack access, supporting local artists to develop projects and take artistic risks, and increasing our footprint across the city.
Celebrity Series staff are regularly in contact with partners and artists to assess impact towards our goals. Participation and observational data for Arts for All! are collected at each event. Partnering organizations complete post-event surveys that collect quantitative data on participation and demographics, as well as constructive feedback and other qualitative responses. Program evaluation is also informed by Celebrity Series' Community Engagement Committee, launched in 2015 and comprised of members of the Boards of Directors and Overseers, key partners from Arts for All! programs, selected Neighborhood Arts artists, and other key community leaders. Meetings draw high levels of participation and engagement from our board and community partners, who reaffirm the value of Celebrity Series' work in the community and the importance of our commitment to long term engagement.
"Everybody has a story and these young people have stories that are worth hearing and that are worth sharing."- Guy Mendilow
Celebrity Series' Neighborhood Arts program hosted a three-day songwriting and storytelling workshop for fifth graders from the Sumner Boys and Girls Club after school program in Roslindale, led by Guy Mendilow, Chris Baum, and Courtney Swain. The emphasis of the workshop was on giving the students tools to share their stories in a more powerful way, so that they can resonate with people who are different from them.
Four months later, these stories provided the foundation for a song that the students and teachers recorded at Futura Productions Recording Studio in Roslindale. To see a video from the afternoon at Futura, see http://blog.celebrityseries.org/2018/04/students-learn-the-power-of-storytelling-through-song/.
Celebrity Series presents 65+ world class performances on a variety of Boston stages every season. Genres range from orchestral and chamber music, contemporary dance, spoken word, jazz, world music, and more.
General/Unspecified
Short term success for the main stage season is measured by subscription and single ticket sales, donor retention and new donor engagement, media coverage, and other engagement measures.
Celebrity Series' growth since 2012 has been bold and successful, bringing new artists, new audiences, and new experiences to Boston. With an established international reputation for excellence, as the largest performing arts presenter in New England, with stronger financials and an expanded donor base, and with growing depth as a producer, our board and staff are poised for our next steps. While we remain committed to presenting well-known artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Emerson String Quartet, Itzhak Perlman, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, we also view taking on more artistically adventurous work, both in the concert halls and in the public realm, as essential to expanding opportunities for Boston audiences to engage with live performing arts experiences and to our sustainability as an organization.
Internal assessment of artistic quality by Celebrity Series Artistic Programmer and Executive Director
Reviews in local and national publications
Ticket sales and subscriptions (seats sold)
Return rate of previous year ticket buyers
Individual donation trends
Customer segmentation analysis
Ability to attract world-class artists at competitive rates
Please see www.celebrityseries.org to view the current performance season.
Celebrity Series' free, outdoor public projects - Street Pianos (which placed 75 pianos painted by local artists in outdoor, public, accessible locations throughout the city in 2013, followed by 60 pianos in 2016), Le Grand Continental (110 volunteer amateur dancers together for three nights of live performances in Copley Square in 2014), Let's Dance Boston (which drew 5,000+ residents and visitors for 5 nights of social dancing and live music on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in 2015 and 3500+ when it returned – in the rain - in September, 2017) - have opened the door for 200+ new community partnerships and have connected us with thousands of people of all walks of life who live and work in and visit the city. By activating public spaces and making the performing arts more accessible to everyone who wants to participate, we aim to raise the level of cultural participation in the city and position Celebrity Series as a leader and advocate for arts and culture in the city as a whole.
Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years) Adults
In 2015, over 5,000 people of diverse backgrounds, representing neighborhoods from across Boston and beyond, came out to participate in Let's Dance/İBailemos! Boston – from young to old, from children, to families, to singles, to seniors, of all ethnicities and races, from dance hotshots who ruled the disco floor to first time social dancers. The event brought in everyone from dance enthusiasts who heard about Let's Dance on social media to children and their families who heard about it from Celebrity Series' community partners to passersby who just happened across the event.
East Boston resident Don Carbondale commented, "This is what Boston should be doing. It gives inter-city people the opportunity to see different things! If you notice, there are people here of all ages. You have people here young and old, all nationalities dancing having a good time. It's almost [as if we] could teach the world to dance in perfect harmony what a better world it would be."
Through our public projects strategy as a whole, Celebrity Series is working with diverse partners to create a robust performing arts environment accessible to all – fueling creativity and collaboration, activating neighborhood networks, and creating community that bridges divides. In broad terms, we are working to change the dialogue about arts in our society and in our city. By proving that there is indeed a critical mass that will and want to participate in the arts and unleash their creativity if only given the right platform, we are leading the way to infuse culture into daily life in Boston and elevate the arts in our city at a macro level. Because of the wide range of arts events we already present in Boston, and because our brand solidly stands for artistic excellence and high value, we are uniquely positioned for this leadership role. We think this is not only our responsibility, but our opportunity.
In response to its highly successful presentation of Street Pianos Boston in 2013, Celebrity Series of Boston produced a repeat engagement Sept 23 – Oct 10, 2016. In this installment, 60 pianos were painted by local artists and placed in outdoor public spaces all across Boston, including at least one in each of the 23 neighborhoods of Boston and 7 in Cambridge.
Celebrity Series collaborated with diverse artists of all ages and backgrounds to paint and otherwise embellish the pianos, and with a range of community partner organizations to host pianos in parks, plazas, near T stations, and on sidewalks – all in locations where Bostonians and visitors of all ages, backgrounds, and neighborhoods could encounter, listen, and play the pianos. Over 400,000 people directly experienced the pianos, and over 2 million people were reached through the press and social media.
Mr. Gary Dunning
gdunning@celebrityseries.org
Gary Dunning holds a B.A. from Princeton University and a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Over a period of six years, he moved from Assistant to the General Manager to Company Manager, to General Manger of the American Ballet Theatre. In 1986, he became Executive Director of the Houston Ballet, and returned to the American Ballet Theatre as Executive Director in 1992. He joined the Big Apple Circus as Executive Director in 1996. He became President and Executive Director of the Celebrity Series of Boston, a multi-discipline presenting organization in 2011. Mr. Dunning has served on and chaired peer funding panels in dance and arts presenting for the Cultural Arts Council of Houston, the Texas Arts Council, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He and his wife, Anne Patterson Dunning, live in Boston.
Ms. Martha Jones	 --	 --
Mr. Walter Pierce	 --	 --
Ms. Karen Brown	 Director of Performance Operations
Karen Brown joined Celebrity Series of Boston in February 2004 and currently oversees theorganization's concert events as director of performance operations. Prior to her role at the Celebrity Series, she served as Tanglewood Music Center Coordinator at the Boston Symphony Orchestra and held various positions within the booking and dance departments at IMG Artists in New York City. In addition to her work in the arts, she has been a gala committee members for Food for Free, a local hunger-relief non-profit dedicated to rescuing fresh produce and redistributing it to those in need. Ms. Brown received her bachelor's degree in music from Ithaca College in New York, with a concentration in Advertising & Public Relations and a minor in German.
Mr. Edwin Derecho	 CFO	 Edwin Derecho joined the Celebrity Series of Boston in January 2012 as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he served in senior financial positions for organizations in the for-profit as well as non-profit sectors, including Goodwill, Spencer Technologies, IMG/TWIi, Furniture.com, Office Depot, Sunbeam, PepsiCo, Citibank, RCA/GE and Price Waterhouse. Mr. Derecho holds a Bachelor's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Ms. Amy Lam	 Artistic Programmer
Amy Lam is currently the Artistic Programmer of the Celebrity Series of Boston. In this capacity, Ms. Lam curates and programs over fifty diverse events each season,ranging from symphony orchestras, chamber music and recitals, to classical ballet, modern dance, jazz, pop and world music. Under Ms. Lam's direction, the programming palette of the Celebrity Series expanded beyond the tradition of presenting the world's finest classical artists to include many new disciplines and aesthetics such as contemporary music, folk art, speakers, theater and multimedia productions. Ms. Lam's creativity and skillful introduction of new artistic voices led to a steady growth of audience base and sales volume for the organization over the past two decades, and the eclectic mix of events has become the signature brand of the Celebrity Series today.
Prior to joining the Celebrity Series in 1991, Ms. Lam held positions at Aaron Concert Management in Boston, MidAmerica Productions in New York City, and the Anderson Center for the Arts in Binghamton, NY.
As a programming professional, Ms. Lam is a regular panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Locally, she has served on many panels for funding programs including the Faculty Fellowship Program for Berklee College of Music.
Amy Lam served on the board of Dance/USA, a national organization for dance organizations and professionals from 2004 to 2010, and was the Treasurer from 2008 to 2010. She was also a board member of the Boston Dance Alliance (2000-2003), Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in Massachusetts (2002-2005), and the Soldiers Field Park Children's Center at Harvard Business School (2004-2007).
Ms. Lam is a member of the International Society of Performing Arts, The League of American Orchestras, Chamber Music America, North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents and New England Presenters. An active member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Ms. Lam serves on the Advisory Committee of Classical Connection, a program designed to promote awareness of classical music in the performing arts industry.
Ms. Lam holds an MBA in Arts Administration from Binghamton University of New York, and graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a BA in Music.
Ms. Sara C Robinson	 Chief Advancement Officer
Sara Robinson is the Chief Advancement Officer of Celebrity Series of Boston, where she oversees the planning, direction and implementation of all fundraising programs. Ms. Robinson joined the Celebrity Series development team in 1991 and directed its efforts until 1997. In 1997, she relocated to Palm Beach, Florida with her family. In Palm Beach, Ms. Robinson served on several fundraising committees, including Project Coordinator of the Palm Beach Day School Auction, and the Leadership Committee of Academy of the Palm Beaches. In 2007, Ms. Robinson joined the Board of Trustees of Palm Beach Day Academy, and as President of the Parent School Council, became involved in the fundraising efforts of the school. In 2009, she became Director of Development and was instrumental in organizing the school's Great Expectations Campaign. In 2012, Ms. Robinson relocated to Boston and joined the Celebrity Series, again, as Director of Development. Ms. Robinson is a member of the Palm Beach Civic Association, Association of Fundraising Professionals, and Women in Development of Greater Boston.
Prior to joining the Celebrity Series in 1991, Ms. Robinson held positions with several art galleries in Boston and with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received her bachelor's degree from Pine Manor College, with a major in Visual Art and a minor in English.
Mr. Jack Wright	 Director of Marketing	 Jack Wright has been an arts professional for more than 18 years. He is currently Director of Marketing and Communications for the Celebrity Series of Boston, a non-profit, multi-disciplinary performing arts presenter in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is primarily responsible forsubscription and single-ticket campaigns, institutional branding, online communications, and market and customer research. Jack is a member of the WGBH Corporate Executive Council and is on the Board of Directors of JazzBoston, Inc., a jazz advocacy organization. In the early 1990s, Jack served as General Manager of WMUA Radio in Amherst, Massachusetts, and helped to plan and present two seasons of the Magic Triangle Jazz Concert Series in Amherst. Jack studied tenor saxophone at Berklee College of Music and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Community Impact Award	 Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston	 2017
A sample of partners for 2018-19 (not comprehensive due to character limits):
Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club
Boston Arts Academy
Boston City Singers
Boston City-Wide String Orchestra
The Boston Home
Boston Renaissance Charter School
Boston String Academy
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Boston
Chittick Elementary
Church of Holy Spirit, Mattapan
City Strings United
Community Music Center of Boston
Cotting School
The Dance Complex
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Esplanade Association
Henderson Lower and Upper School
Hernandez K-8 School
Hibernian Hall
Hurley K-8 School
Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion
Kennedy Day School
Salvation Army Kroc Center
Longy School of Music
Mattapan Teen Center
Project STEP
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, South End
Sumner Boys & Girls Club
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
Directors and Officers Policy
Internet Liability Insurance
Mr. Joshua Boger PhD
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (retired)
Sept 2009 -
Howard Appleby	 Northern Cross, LLC	 Voting
Mr. Joshua Boger	 Vertex Pharmaceuticals	 Voting
Stephanie Brown	 Markun, Zusman, Freniere and Compton LLP	 Voting
Mr. Michael Canning	 Deloitte Consulting	 Voting
Margaret Eagle	 Former VP, Fidelity Investments	 Voting
Ms. Donna Egan	 Volunteer and Philanthropist	 Voting
Gabor Garai	 Foley & Lardner LLP	 Voting
Dr. Paul Goldenheim	 Adenium Biotech	 Voting
Hannah Grove	 State Street	 Voting
Randolph Hawthorne	 Principal, RGH Ventures	 Exofficio
Yvette Hochberg	 Community Volunteer	 Voting
Andrea Hoff	 Morgan & Milo	 Voting
James Nuzzo	 Brigham & Women's/Beth Israel Hospitals of Harvard Medical School	 Voting
John Patterson	 Foley Hoag LLP	 Voting
Melinda Rabb	 Brown University	 Voting
Sharon Rich	 Volunteer and Philanthropist	 Voting
Lawrence Stifler	 Health Management Resources	 Voting
Ms. Mary Elisabeth Swerz	 Former COO, JP Morgan Chase	 Voting
Belinda Termeer	 Community Volunteer	 Voting
Susan Thonis	 Former Venture Capital Analyst	 Voting
Dorothy Altman Weber	 LISCW	 Voting
Janet Zwanziger	 Harvard Medical School	 Voting
Development / Fund Development / Fund Raising / Grant Writing / Major Gifts
Human Resources / Personnel
Program / Program Planning
Strategic Planning / Strategic Direction
The "Additional Board: Other Boards" refers to the Board of Overseers. The following individuals are Directors Emerit: Dr. Harris Berman, Caroline Collings, Benjamin H. Lacy, Jann E. Leeming, Norman C. Nicholson, Jr., Eleanor Y. Pao, Walter W. Pierce, Nancy Richmond Winsten, Arnold B. Zetcher. Leontyne Price is an honorary director.
Total Revenue $12,589,565 $7,050,750 $6,770,829
Total Expenses $6,913,335 $6,948,983 $6,470,310
Government Contributions $58,800 $58,200 $42,000
Unspecified $58,800 $58,200 $42,000
Earned Revenue $3,607,925 $3,890,000 $3,817,380
Investment Income, Net of Losses $384,370 $460,928 $507,382
Special Events $147,200 $270,065 $297,018
Other -- -- --
Program Expense $5,366,809 $5,565,851 $5,191,703
Administration Expense $748,853 $740,399 $750,335
Fundraising Expense $797,673 $642,733 $528,272
Fundraising Expense/Contributed Revenue 9% 24% 22%
Total Assets $15,110,842 $8,847,288 $8,943,440
Current Assets $5,599,876 $3,139,616 $2,755,271
Long-Term Liabilities $0 $0 $0
Current Liabilities $2,150,037 $1,730,016 $1,739,512
Total Net Assets $12,960,805 $7,117,272 $7,203,928
In the spring of 2018, Celebrity Series embarked on a capital campaign to strengthen the organization, catalyze artistic innovation, and deepen community engagement. This campaign will help build audiences to sustain the organization over the long term. The LIVE PERFORMANCE! Arts for All campaign aims to raise $23 million in three funds including the Endowment, Innovation, and Annual funds, making an enduring and positive impact on the arts in Boston. Comprised of classic endowment, a spend-down innovation fund, and annual funds, the campaign offers our donors unparalleled opportunity to catalyze artistic and organizational stability, impact, and innovation.
Feb 2018 - June 2019
Financial summary data in the charts and graphs above is per the organization's IRS Form 990s. Contributions from foundations and corporations are listed under individuals when the breakout was not available.
Provide a robust, differentiated customer experience that engages customers before, during, and after performances and is tailored to customer segments
As a complement to event-specific promotion, refine and dramatically increase the visibility of the CS brand and value proposition in the Greater Boston area
Increase small and large donations, improve the large donor experience, and keep donors well-informed about the uses and outcomes of their contributions
Create a diverse portfolio of educational arts offerings with a focus on community partnerships
Refine annual planning process, build strong venue partnerships, and utilize new technologies
Develop pre- and post-show events
Expand performance amenities and improve convenience
Develop and maintain post-show experience
Establish and broadcast brand promise and value proposition
Target new customer markets
Provide customized offerings to customer segments
Utilize dynamic pricing
Enhance donor outreach communications—initiative based giving
Expand small and large donation revenue
Provide community focused experiences at performances
Provide educational opportunities with a focus on community partnerships
Tailor annual planning process to the strategic plan
Develop strong venue partnerships
Explore expanding geographically
Deploy technology improvements to support initiatives
Celebrity Series has a long history of presenting performing artists and partnering with venues and community partners to fulfill our mission and vision. We have a supportive Board and donor base and currently partner with over 100 community organizations to fulfill our mission.
Excellence, innovation, and agility are at the core of who we are and what we do, and collaboration is central to our DNA. Since our founding, well over 300 world renowned artists, ensembles, orchestras and dance companies have given their Boston debut on a Celebrity Series stage. Variety and diversity of artists and audiences alike are cornerstones of our practice, and we are known for our ability to connect the right artist with the right audience in the right venue at the right time. Not owning or operating a venue of our own, we rent space for the performances we present. In 2017-18, venues include Symphony Hall, NEC's Jordan Hall, the Plimpton Shattuck Black Box at NEC, Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, Pickman Hall at the Longy School of Music, the Berklee Performance Center, 160 Mass Ave at Berklee, the Shubert and Wang Theatres, the Kroc Center, Hibernian Hall, and Villa Victoria, among others.
Alongside mainstage performances, Celebrity Series' Arts for All! community engagement programs connect us with a dynamic network of hundreds of community collaborators, reaching thousands of individuals annually, through 100+ activities. We especially value opportunities that emphasize collaboration, participation, and variety, and place a significant emphasis on locality, specifically experiences taking place outside of traditional concert halls. Sharing the joy of live performance is the through line between our main stage and community activities, and all are guided by core values of artistic variety, diversity, and excellence. Arts for All! programs include Neighborhood Arts (hands-on, interactive workshops for youth and free community concerts for audiences of all ages at neighborhood venues, both led by a core group of Boston area artists); Artist Connections (master classes with mainstage artists in public schools and conservatories); Take Your Seat (free and discounted tickets to mainstage performances); and large-scale, public participatory performance projects, such as Street Pianos, Let's Dance Boston, and Jazz Along the Charles. By activating public spaces and making the performing arts more visible and accessible to everyone who wants to participate, we aim to raise the level of cultural participation in the city and establish Celebrity Series as a leader and advocate for arts and culture in the city as a whole.
Meeting, exceeding, or coming within 5% of our annual goals for subscriber retention, pre- and post-show interaction, contributed income, number and cost of community events, number of attendees impacted, variety of performances, and total ticket revenue, growth in networks of community partners, demographics of participants.
Excellence, innovation, and agility are at the core of who we are and what we do, and collaboration is embedded in our organizational DNA. Not owning a venue of our own, Celebrity Series has the flexibility to present artists in multiple types and sizes of spaces, in venues that range from 250 to 2,600 seats. Our relationships with our host venues and with hundreds of organizational partners for our community programs fuel our collaborations and deepen our connections to Boston's dynamic cultural landscape. The diverse range of artists and art forms we present offers unique opportunities for flexibility, experimentation, and audience engagement, and ideally positions Celebrity Series to advance the performing arts to better serve Boston audiences and strengthen the overall ecology of arts and culture in our city and region.
Gary Dunning, President and Executive Director, joined Celebrity Series in 2011 as the fourth executive director in the organization's history. Celebrity Series adopted a new strategic plan in 2012, utilizing the pro-bono services of Deloitte LLC. Entitled Go Deep, Go Broad, the plan was designed across five strategic pillars: customer service, marketing/branding, donor management, community engagement, and operations. The plan's implementation has delivered success on many fronts, with growth in artistic impact, expansion of community engagement activities, and significant increases in both ticket revenue and annual contributions.
In the fall of 2017, Celebrity Series began work again with Deloitte to evaluate our impact, revisit the plan, and set new goals for the next five years. With strategic goals to increase artistic impact, build a larger and more diverse audience, create linkages between main stage and community programs, deepen community engagement, enhance financial stability, and explore long range business models, the plan was formally adopted by our Board of Directors in May, 2018.
Celebrity Series has maintained a solid financial base and has strong prospects for the future. The organization has achieved a balanced budget for the past four years. The 2017-18 budget is balanced and on track, and the endowment of $7.2 million remains intact. In February, 2018, Celebrity Series publicly announced a capital campaign, with a comprehensive goal of $23 million: $10 million for Endowment, $5 million for an Innovation Fund, and $8 million for Annual Fund over three years. This ambitious philanthropic effort will strengthen Celebrity Series as an organization, catalyze artistic innovation, deepen community engagement, and help us build audiences to sustain the organization over the long term.


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René Cardona (* 8. Oktober 1905 in Havanna; † 25. April 1988 in Mexiko-Stadt) war ein mexikanischer Filmregisseur, Schauspieler, Filmproduzent, Drehbuchautor und Filmredakteur im Goldenen Zeitalter des mexikanischen Kinos.

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René Cardona wurde am 8. Oktober 1905 in Havanna geboren und begann sein Medizinstudium in Kuba. Aufgrund der politischen Probleme der Insel zogen er und seine Familie 1926 nach New York, wo er sein Studium fortsetzte, es aber aufgrund der wirtschaftlichen Umstände seiner Familie abbrechen musste. Er freundete sich mit dem Schauspieler Rodolfo Valentino an und fand so den Weg zum Film. 1929 drehte er in Hollywood seinen ersten spanischsprachigen Film Sombras habaneras, den er auch produzierte, schrieb, inszenierte und in der Hauptrolle spielte. Er hatte auch die Möglichkeit, in verschiedenen Positionen in der Filmindustrie zu arbeiten, beispielsweise als zweiter Assistent, technischer Berater und erster Regieassistent und lernte Film- und Lichttechnik. 1932 zog er nach Mexiko, wo er als Schauspieler debütierte und Julieta Zacarías, die Schwester des Regisseurs Miguel Zacarías, kennenlernte und sie bald darauf heiratete. Durch die Unterstützung seiner Frau erhielt er die Rolle des Manuel in Mano a mano und in Sobre las olas die Hauptrolle das Raúl.

Cardona starb am 25. April 1988 in Mexiko-Stadt. Auch sein Sohn René Cardona junior wurde Filmemacher und Schauspieler.

Karriere
Nach dem Erfolg von Allá en el Rancho Grande von Fernando de Fuentes 1936 beschloss Cardona im folgenden Jahr, seinen ersten Film in Mexiko zu drehen, Don Juan Tenorio, in dem er auch mitwirkte. Obwohl der Film kein Erfolg wurde, hielt dies Cardona nicht auf. Er führte Regie bei Allá en el Rancho Chico (1938) und La reina del río (1939). Kurz darauf inszenierte er die herausragenden Auftritte von Pedro Infante in Jesusita en Chihuahua (1942) und Germán Valdés  in Hotel de Verano (1944). Aus Dankbarkeit einigten sich beide Schauspieler darauf, in dem Cardona-Film También de dolor se canta zusammen aufzutreten.

Cardona produzierte und drehte zwischen 1937 und 1982 mehr als hundert Filme mit den bekanntesten Schauspielern Mexikos. Er selbst spielte in 123 Filmen. In den späten fünfziger Jahren drehte er die Kinderfilme Pulgarcito (Der kleine Däumling) und Santa Claus, die ihm mehrere internationale Auszeichnungen einbrachten. Seine letzten Filmauftritte waren in der Fernsehserie Die wilde Rose und im Film Eliscal de hierro (1989). Am 15. Dezember 1986 wurde ihm von der mexikanischen Filmbibliothek für seine 52-jährige Filmarbeit eine besondere Ehrung zuteil.

Auszeichnungen
 1955: Nominierung als Bester Nebendarsteller in ¡Que seas feliz! beim Ariel Award
 1957: Nominierung als Bester Nebendarsteller in Un nuevo amanecer bei Ariel Awards
 1959: Golden Gate Award für Santa Claus beim San Francisco International Film Festival als Bester internationaler Familienfilm

Filmografie

Regisseur (Auswahl)
 1931: Carne de Cabaret
 1936: Allá en el Rancho Grande
 1938: Allá en el Rancho Chico
 1939: The Coward
 1941: The Priest's Secret
 1942: The Rock of Souls
 1942: Jesusita en Chihuahua
 1942: The Count of Monte Cristo
 1944: Summer Hotel
 1945: The Museum of Crime
 1946: ¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
 1946: The Associate
 1953: Pompeyo el conquistador
 1955: To the Four Winds
 1957: The New World
 1957: Pulgarcito
 1959: Santa Claus
 1960: Juan Polainas
 1964: Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
 1987: Draculas Tochter und Professor Satanas
 1968: The Batwoman
 1969: Night of the Bloody Apes
 1972: The Incredible Professor Zovek
 1973: The Divine Caste
 1974: La isla de los hombres solos
 1975: El pequeño Robin Hood
 1976: Survive!

Schauspieler (Auswahl)
 1930: Sombras habaneras
 1932: Mano a mano
 1932: Sobre las olas
 1948: Pito Pérez se va de bracero
 1956: ¡Que seas feliz!
 1961: Die Verdammten vom Rio Grande
 1962: Brainiac - Der Baron des Terrors
 1966: La vida de Pedro Infante
 1971: Jesús, el niño Dios
 1978: Die Kinder von Sanchez
 1986: La vida de nuestro señor Jesucristo
 1988: Die wilde Rose (Fernsehserie)
 1989: El fiscal de hierro

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Einzelnachweise

Filmregisseur
Filmschauspieler
Filmproduzent
Drehbuchautor
Mexikaner
Geboren 1905
Gestorben 1988
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Benefit supports Center for Global Health projects, education
A benefit Sept. 17 supports the UIC Center for Global Health's program, which addresses worldwide problems related to health disparities.
From Nepal to Kosovo to Fiji, the UIC Center for Global Health is working in community partnerships in 10 nations to address health problems related to migration, poverty and health disparities.
"The Center for Global Health was established to give people access to research, education and service on a global level that did not exist at the university," says program coordinator Jeanne Burian. "There's a huge interest in global health, and it's growing and growing."
To support its programs, the center will hold its third annual benefit, "Working for the World," 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 17 at the National Hellenic Museum, 333 S. Halsted St.
The reception includes a private viewing of museum exhibits, including "Transcending Boundaries: The Art of Anthony Quinn." Individual tickets are $125. Group tickets for eight are available for $1,000.
The tax deductible portion of the ticket price will support global health education and international service projects. Students in the GMED global medicine program will be at the event to discuss their capstone projects.
"GMED was established to give incoming medical students who have an interest in global health," Burian says. "It's a very competitive selection process — there are only 12 students chosen each year from upward of 100 applications."
Purchase tickets online. For more information, call 312-355-4116.
UIC News staff
uicnews-staff@uic.edu
Campus, Students
global health, philanthropy