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|United States Patent||5,001,051|
|Miller , et al.||March 19, 1991|
A method and apparatus are disclosed for the in vivo and in vitro detection and measurement of dose critical levels of DNA-binding anti-cancer drug levels in biological fluids. The apparatus comprises a laser based fiber optic sensor (optrode) which utilizes the secondary interactions between the drug and an intercalating fluorochrome bound to a probe DNA, which in turn is attached to the fiber tip at one end thereof. The other end of the optical fiber is attached to an illumination source, detector and recorder. The fluorescence intensity is measured as a function of the drug concentration and its binding constant to the probe DNA. Anticancer drugs which lend themselves to analysis by the use of the method and the optrode of the present invention include doxorubicin, daunorubicin, carminomycin, aclacinomycin, chlorambucil, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-uracil, arabinosyl cytosine, mitomycin, cis-platinum 11 diamine dichloride procarbazine, vinblastine vincristine and the like. The present method and device are suitable for the continuous monitoring of the levels of these and other anticancer drugs in biological fluids such as blood, serum, urine and the like. The optrode of the instant invention also enables the measurement of the levels of these drugs from a remote location and from multiple samples.
|Inventors:||Miller; Holly H. (Bethel Island, CA), Hirschfeld, deceased; Tomas B. (late of Livermore, CA)|
Regents of the University of California
|Filed:||December 12, 1986|
|Current U.S. Class:||435/6 ; 356/38; 356/435; 385/12; 435/808; 436/172; 436/905|
|Current International Class:||C12Q 1/68 (20060101); G01N 33/94 (20060101); C12Q 001/68 (); C07H 021/00 (); G01N 021/64 ()|
|Field of Search:||435/6,291,808 436/172,905 536/27 935/77,78,86 350/96.18,368 356/38,435|
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Report about seven women killed at once on the 10th of December in Tiyeglow Bokol region was read on Saturday before the Somalia federal parliament by a fact finding mission.
Legislator Ahmed Mohamed Aka Afarale said that he travelled to the area together with officials from the military court and visited families and loved ones of those women who were killed.
The MP said that prosecutors from the military are investigating the reprehensible incident.
It was the 10th of December this year when seven women were murdered ruthlessly by Al-shabab and soldiers in that Tiyeglow town in Bakol region. This came when Al-Shabab abducted two women and claimed that the women were working with Somalia government forces. Later on the bodies of the two women were found beheaded.
This incident caused some of the government forces to react and killed five other women whom the soldiers claimed to be the wives of some official members of Al-Shabab.

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The England Cricket Board has, for the first time, awarded women with professional playing contracts. It’s also been announced that there are plans for a women’s Big Bash League in two years’ time. There are still massive disparities in pay, exposure and everything else, but at least there is a slow but tangible push from the powers that be for progressing the women’s game. By ANTOINETTE MULLER.
The ECB awarded 18 players from the England Women’s Performance Programme with new contracts, taking giant leap forward in fully professionalising the women’s game in England. Cricket Australia also announced contracts for 15 women, one more than last year. It is the first time that English women have been awarded fully professional contracts, whereas their contracts previously formed part of a play-and-coach scheme.
England has a home series against India and South Africa over the summer to prepare for, and the contracts offer a significant step forward in allowing players to streamline their focus. The England women’s team has had a successful few months, including back-to-back Ashes wins and a historic series win in the West Indies in November, reaching the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 final in Bangladesh. This, says Clare Connor, head of women’s cricket at the ECB, completely justifies the financial investment.
“The performances delivered by Charlotte Edwards and her team over the past 12 months, unequivocally justifies the financial reward which comes with the new England women’s contracts,” said Connor.
“The pay increase for the contracted players is significant and signals the dawning of a fully professional era in every sense for England women’s cricket. I am grateful to the ECB Board for the ongoing support they provide towards the development of the women’s game in this country.”
England skipper Edwards, who became only the second woman after Claire Taylor to be named one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year this year, believes it’s given her a new incentive to continue her career. She made her debut as an amateur 16-yeard old in 1996 and now, at 34, is looking forward to a chance to extend her career even further.
“It’s given me a new lease on life,” said Edwards. “Potentially I’ll have another three or four years as a pro.”
She added: “It excites me in terms of the fact I can improve but, more importantly, hopefully we can attract more young girls to the game.
“For those young girls just arrived in the England set-up, they have a huge opportunity to have a career in cricket over the next 10 years.”
The contracts for Australia’s women have been leading the way financially for some time now, with the top player’s retainer being AUS $54,600 per annum and the minimum CA retainer being AUS$25,850. However, it’s a far cry from the men’s contracts, where the minimum retainer comes in at AUS $250,000.
The discrepancy in pay is significant, and while the value of England’s women’s contracts isn’t known, they are probably a far cry from the £250,000 some of the entry-level contracts for the men will offer. The explanation will be simply that women’s cricket does not generate the kind of revenue that the men’s does. This is true, but systems need to be put in place to get the game to start earning money.
The ECB’s decision to award full-time contracts to women is one which should be celebrated. And while both England and Australia have taken a significant step forward for the women’s game, it should not detract from the problems the sport still faces. Funding and media coverage remains a big issue. While it has been far more progressive in England and Australia, with women’s matches regularly televised, overall coverage of the women’s sport remains limited.
Despite having existed since the 1800s, women’s cricket still hasn’t forged its own identity just yet. Boundaries are shorter and there are not as many “big hits” as in the male game. The biggest problem for the sport is that it is far too often compared to the men’s game. It is the same sport, but it is played differently, and in order for it to be accepted and to thrive, it needs to be understood as such.
Cricket Australia has taken the first step in raising the profile of the women’s game by planning a women’s Big Bash League to be launched in the 2015-16 season. It will be the first league of its kind, offering big-name female players like England’s Sarah Taylor and the West Indies’ Deandra Dottin to extend their profiles and their purses.
With T20 being a format that has become the lifeblood of the sport, it’s plain to see why the Big Bash has been chosen to progress the game even further for women.
Belinda Clark, who runs the National Cricket Centre in Australia, believes that the women’s T20 game is now evolving at the same pace as the men’s.
”There’s been a lot of work done in the last five years to get more international T20s on television, and the ratings of those – whether they’ve been matches we’ve had in Australia, or international matches back in Australia – have been getting stronger and stronger,” Clark said on Cricket Australia’s website.
”That’s given us great confidence that if we can get this right, we’ll be providing a really good opportunity for our players, but also for the public to see women’s cricket at this level more often.
”The men’s game has advanced and evolved at the same pace as the women’s game [recently] so I think the difference is that people are noticing the women’s game more now than before – but the rate of change in the sport in general is amazing, and the T20 format is a great opportunity for us to leverage that and get more girls playing.”
The women’s games will be played before the men’s matches, but standalone fixtures are also planned. Should the league actually be ratified, it will be one of the biggest steps forward for the women’s game in recent years. Creating a clear pathway for cricket as a viable career option for women will go a long way in encouraging participation. It will also serve as a stepping stone to continue the professionalisation of the sport. More exposure to the sport, more role models and a push from the powers that be to lay the foundations will go a long way in setting the platform for future generations. DM
Photo: England’s players celebrate their win over New Zealand in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup final at North Sydney Oval in Sydney, Australia, 22 March 2009. EPA/PAUL MILLER


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SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Federal agents have arrested two anti-government militia members in connection with an alleged plan to blow up a huge propane storage facility, federal officials said Saturday. The arrests on Friday came after a nearly yearlong investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force into a potential threat against the Suburban Propane facility in Elk Grove and other targets in the Sacramento area, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. The other threatened sites were not identified.
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2. Its going to be longggggggg day.I had planned on taking Aadya to the library for story-time.But,DH forgot to leave her stroller.We normally keep it in the car,because,madam wants to keep playing with it..pushing it all around the house.
3.How can I get Aadi to take a small nap- She took a long nap yesterday..nearly 3 and a half hours and then couldn’t sleep at night,despite 2 hours at the play-area.And she woke up at 8.00 today..she has been crying/irritable since morning.
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12.Aadya’s birthday party..I know its only at the end of the month and the party will be in April..but I am a planner..or atleast I like to think I am.I make big lists and stuff..That’s another story that all my plans don’t always work out.This calls for a separate post.
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|First flight||18 February 1936|
|Primary user||United States Navy|
|Developed from||Grumman SF|
|Fate||Crashed, 25 May 1939|
The Grumman XSBF, also known by the company designation G-14, was an American biplane scout bomber developed by Grumman Aircraft for the United States Navy during the 1930s. Derived from Grumman's successful "Fifi" fighter, the aircraft was developed at a time when the biplane was giving way to the monoplane. In competition against other aircraft it proved to possess inferior performance in its intended role, and did not enter production. The sole prototype went on to serve as a liaison aircraft, as well as being used in experiments by NACA, before being destroyed in a crash in 1939.
Design and development
In late 1934, the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) issued a specification for new scout bomber and torpedo bomber designs. Eight companies submitted 10 designs in response, evenly split between monoplanes and biplanes.[N 1] Grumman, having successfully provided the FF and F2F fighters to the Navy, along with the SF scout, submitted an advanced development of the SF-2 in response to the specification's request for a 5,000 lb (2,300 kg) aircraft capable of carrying a 500 lb (230 kg) bomb. Given the model number G-14 by Grumman, the aircraft received the official designation XSBF-1 by the Navy, and a contract for a single prototype was issued in March 1935.
The XSBF-1 was a two-seat biplane, featuring an enclosed cockpit, a fuselage of all-metal construction, and wings covered largely with fabric. Power was provided by a 650 hp (480 kW)Pratt & Whitney R-1535 Twin Wasp Junior air-cooled radial engine driving with a variable-pitch propeller. Armament was planned to be two .30 in (7.62 mm) forward-firing M1919 Browning machine guns, one of which could be replaced by a .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning; the prototype carried only a single gun. A single .30 in weapon was fitted in the rear cockpit for defense, and one 500 lb (230 kg) bomb to be carried in a launching cradle under the fuselage. The arrestor hook was carried in a fully enclosed position, while flotation bags were fitted in the wings in case the aircraft was forced to ditch. The landing gear of the XSBF-1 was similar to that of the F3F fighter.
The XSBF-1—piloted by test pilot Bud Gillies—flew for the first time on December 24, 1935. Following initial testing, which found the aircraft to be reasonably faultless, the XSBF-1 was delivered to the U.S. Navy for evaluation in competition with two other biplanes submitted to the 1934 specification, the Great Lakes XB2G and the Curtiss XSBC-3. Unusually for biplanes, all three types possessed retractable landing gear. The evaluation showed that the design from Curtiss was superior to the Grumman and Great Lakes designs, and an order was placed for the Curtiss type, designated SBC-3 Helldiver in service, in August 1936.
With the competition lost, the development of the XSBF-1 came to an end; the sole prototype was assigned to Naval Air Station Anacostia, where it had been tested, for use as a liaison aircraft and hack. In addition, the XSBF was used by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Langley Research Laboratory as part of the facility's work on aeronautical research. During its time at Anacostia, the aircraft was involved in three accidents, one each in 1937, 1938 and 1939; after the first two accidents, it was repaired. The third accident—on May 25, 1939—resulted in the death of the pilot; the XSBF-1 was no longer considered worth returning to flight status, and the aircraft was officially stricken from the Navy inventory in July 1939.
- Crew: 2 (pilot and observer)
- Length: 25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
- Upper wingspan: 34 ft 6 in (10.52 m)
- Lower wingspan: 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
- Height: 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
- Wing area: 310 sq ft (29 m2)
- Airfoil: Clark CHY
- Empty weight: 3,395 lb (1,540 kg)
- Gross weight: 5,002 lb (2,269 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 130 US gal (490 l)
- Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney R-1535-72 Twin Wasp Junior radial engine, 650 hp (480 kW)
- Propellers: 2-bladed Hamilton Standard variable-pitch
- Maximum speed: 215 mph (346 km/h; 187 kn)
- Stall speed: 67 mph (58 kn; 108 km/h)
- Range: 525 mi (456 nmi; 845 km)
- Combat range: 688 mi (598 nmi; 1,107 km)
- Service ceiling: 26,000 ft (7,925 m)
- 1 × .30 in (7.62 mm) machine gun in cowling
- 1 × .30 in machine gun in rear cockpit
- Bombs: Up to 500 pounds (230 kg)
- Grumman FF
- Curtiss SBC Helldiver
- Great Lakes XB2G
- Vought XSB3U
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(In normal times I would celebrate this victory. In normal times I would say that if what he did and said is constitutionally protected in Canada then we are OK. We can and will win this thing because when truth is on your side the only problem you will have is if truth is made illegal.
Which it is.
Instead what this will likely be, is the greatest example of selective enforcement in Canadian history.)
VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man acquitted of terrorism-related charges has filed a lawsuit against the provincial and federal governments, arguing he was maliciously prosecuted in violation of his charter rights.
Hamdan says in his notice of civil claim that he only learned during trial that the sole evidence being presented against him was the online posts, which he says are constitutionally protected speech and “woefully inadequate evidence to secure a conviction.” […]
In acquitting Hamdan, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bruce Butler wrote that he “was trying to highlight what he perceived to be hypocrisy and injustice, support some of the actions of (the Islamic State) in its defence of Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Syria and promote discussion about these issues.”
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Stacey Ames’ holiday plans include an all-expenses-paid Vegas honeymoon. Too bad she doesn’t have a husband to enjoy it with. Posing as her cousin Janie, Stacey plans to relax and lay low. She doesn’t count on her ex-boyfriend Dylan Davis to show up as her “husband.” Stacey thought Dylan was out of her life after their relationship ended, but Dylan is back to prove that he’s ready for Stacey and wants to be more than just a boyfriend. Can the magic of Vegas and the holiday season bring Stacey and Dylan back together again?
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LARBERT, United Kingdom, Dec. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (TSX: NFI, OTC: NFYEF, TSX: NFI.DB) NFI Group Inc. (“NFI” or the “Company”), a leading independent bus and coach manufacturer and a leader in electric mass mobility solutions, subsidiary Alexander Dennis Limited (“Alexander Dennis”) today announced that it will supply Enviro500 double-deck buses to Spokane Transit Authority (STA) following an order for seven vehicles.
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Stephen Walsh, Alexander Dennis Vice-President North America, said: “We’re delighted to add Spokane Transit to the roster of transit agencies that value the benefits of double-deck buses including their unrivalled passenger capacity on a compact road footprint. Commuters will enjoy great views from the top deck and a comfortable ride, taking public transportation to a new level.”
Alexander Dennis introduced double-deck transit buses to the North American market in 2000 and has delivered over 1,200 Enviro500 since then.
NFI is a leader in zero-emission mobility, with electric vehicles operating (or on order) in more than 150 cities in six countries. NFI offers the widest range of zero-emission battery and fuel cell-electric buses and coaches, and its vehicles have completed over 140 million EV service miles.
High resolution images are available for download from the Alexander Dennis website at alexander-dennis.com/media/news.
Leveraging 450 years of combined experience, NFI is leading the electrification of mass mobility around the world. With zero-emission buses and coaches, infrastructure, and technology, NFI meets today’s urban demands for scalable smart mobility solutions. Together, NFI is enabling more livable cities through connected, clean, and sustainable transportation.
With over 8,200 team members in ten countries, NFI is a leading global bus manufacturer of mass mobility solutions under the brands New Flyer® (heavy-duty transit buses), MCI® (motor coaches), Alexander Dennis Limited (single- and double-deck buses), Plaxton (motor coaches), ARBOC® (low-floor cutaway and medium-duty buses), and NFI Parts™. NFI currently offers the widest range of sustainable drive systems available, including zero-emission electric (trolley, battery, and fuel cell), natural gas, electric hybrid, and clean diesel. In total, NFI supports its installed base of over 100,000 buses and coaches around the world. NFI’s common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) under the symbol NFI and its convertible unsecured debentures trade on the TSX under the symbol NFI.DB. News and information is available at www.nfigroup.com, www.newflyer.com, www.mcicoach.com, nfi.parts, www.alexander-dennis.com, arbocsv.com, and carfaircomposites.com.
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Alexander Dennis is a global leader in the design and manufacture of double deck buses and is also the UK’s largest bus and coach manufacturer. Alexander Dennis offers single and double deck vehicles under the brands of Alexander Dennis and Plaxton, and has over 31,000 vehicles in service in the UK, Ireland, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Further information is available at www.alexander-dennis.com.
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In an earlier post we wrote about why a federal worker might not want to report illegal behavior on the part of an employer. In that post we specifically discussed the fear of retaliation. Should this happen, it is possible a whistleblower could recover damages for reporting the illegal activity. An Army colonel believes this is happening to him.
The man, who was the director of operations for a taskforce, said he reported what he believed to be a lack of accountability within the $800 million task force. Specifically he claimed that in the course of building a gas station located in Afghanistan, $43 million was wasted.
He claimed that after making that report he was told that negative feedback regarding his job performance had been received. The alleged feedback the Army received resulted in a delay of his performance review. It also jeopardized his career. The negative review connected to his job performance while on the task force was the opposite of multiple other Officer Evaluation Reports he had received. In fact, those evaluations recommended the man for brigadier general.
An investigation was conducted into the issue with the gas station, following the colonel’s report. Rather than $43 million, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found that the gas station should have cost around $500,000.
A senator recently shared this information in a letter to the Defense Secretary on behalf of the Army colonel. In it, he asserted the colonel was facing consequences for providing this information.
How this matter will be resolved remains to be seen. We will provide updates as they become available.


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It was arguably the most anticipated game of the 10th annual Hopskip Play By Play Cleveland Classic when Lorain squared off with reigning Division II state champion Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary on Jan. 6 at Elyria Catholic.
The capacity crowd got the high-energy game it was expecting. But the end result was disappointing for the hometown fans as the Titans were dealt their first loss of the season, 82-75, snapping a season-opening nine-game winning streak in a matchup that tested Lorain on all fronts.
Titans All-Ohio point guard Devon Grant had 34 points, 12 rebounds, five assists and four steals — all game-highs — and proved, if there were any lingering doubts, he belongs in the conversation as one of the best all-around players in Ohio. But his effort was futile as Lorain shot a paltry 22-of-52 (42 percent) from the field, well below its 50 percent average maintained over the first part of the season.
To make matters worse, Lorain was outrebounded, 37-28, including 13-10 on the offensive boards, making any sort of run virtually impossible when time and time again St. Vincent-St. Mary muscled its way to the ball.
"We got exposed in one area we've been preaching and we have to get better at, and that's rebounding," Lorain coach John Rositano said. "We just got beat on the offensive glass, especially in the first half, and when you're playing against athletes you can't jump with, you've got to get a body on somebody and you've got to take care of the boards on the defensive end.
"When you give up seven, eight stick-backs, it's gonna make a difference in the game, and it did."
Despite all that, it was a winnable game for Lorain when, after trailing by as many as 16 midway through the fourth quarter, the Titans mounted a thrilling rally in the final two minutes.
As he's wont to do, Grant nailed a 3-pointer from near 30 feet with 1:09 on the clock. That was followed by a steal and a layup from fellow senior Taevon Pierre-Louis to cut St. Vincent-St. Mary's lead to 74-71 with less than a minute to play. But a couple fouls and one or two loose balls that rolled the wrong way allowed the Fighting Irish to secure the win and improve to 8-2 on the season.
"That's what you want to do. You want to play good teams," St. Vincent-St. Mary coach Dru Joyce said. "If you feel like you have a good team, the only way you can honestly believe it is to play other great teams.
"We have a lot of respect for what Lorain's done over the last few years so this was a great matchup for us. They presented different problems, a different style of play and that's what you always want. You want teams to stretch you, and they stretched us."
The Fighting Irish had four players reach double-figures including Chris Painter with 21 points, Luden McDay with 19, Seth Wilson with 17 and Malaki Branham with 10. Marcus Johnson chipped in a team-high nine rebounds.
Grant got some help from his teammates as Pierre-Louis finished with 14 points, four rebounds, three assists and three steals for Lorain, while Jordan Jackson added 10 points.
The Titans have a few days off before traveling to Cleveland Heights Jan. 11 for a showdown with the reigning Lake Erie League champion Tigers.


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Pru Securities Isn't Secure YetChuck Hawkins
"It's all behind us now" says Hardwick Simmons, president and chief executive of Prudential Securities Inc. For the past several years, the brokerage subsidiary of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America has been plagued by lawsuits from angry investors who lost hundreds of millions of dollars in limited partnerships sold by Pru Securities brokers (BW--Mar. 4, 1991). The firm set aside $150 million in 1991 to cover litigation, restructuring, and other costs.
Yet to Simmons, who was hired to turn the firm around after former CEO George L. Ball's departure in 1991, Pru Securities is back to business as usual. It had record earnings in 1991. In the first half of 1992, it made $127.5 million before taxes, up from $98.7 million in 1991's first half. "Performance has improved dramatically," says a Prudential Securities spokesman. The firm has also launched an aggressive ad campaign. And most tellingly, it announced in July that it might resume selling some form of limited partnerships.
HARD-HITTING. Pru Securities' limited-partnership woes, though, appear to be anything but history. BUSINESS WEEK has learned that, in recent weeks, the Securities & Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) have expanded and intensified their yearlong investigations of Pru Securities. As a matter of policy, neither SEC Enforcement Chief William McLucas nor NASD Vice-President Douglas Henderson would confirm or deny the existence of any investigations.
Securities regulators in at least six states are pursuing their own inquiries into the sales practices of Pru Securities' limited partnerships. The result could be fines and additional payments to investors. In a written response to questions by BUSINESS WEEK, Pru Securities' spokesman, William J. Ahearn, said the firm does not discuss any "inquiries involving regulatory agencies" or "matters in litigation."
Although Pru Securities has settled many of the private lawsuits and arbitration cases, resolution of the remaining litigation seems far away. Several potentially damaging class actions remain outstanding. And Pru Securities' strategy of keeping secret any potentially harmful information produced by the litigation may be unraveling. All of this could significantly increase the firm's legal damages.
The cause of all of these troubles is some $6 billion worth of limited partnerships sold in the 1980s to more than 100,000 investors by what was then called Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. The partnership interests are now valued at only a fraction of their original selling price. The drop is due, in part, to hefty up-front fees, plummeting real estate and oil markets, and tax-code changes. In its earlier story, BUSINESS WEEK said that serious questions existed as to whether Pru Securities and Prudential Insurance properly disclosed potential conflicts of interest between James J. Darr, head of Pru Securities' direct-investment department from 1979 to 1988, and general partners of some firms that raised money through Pru Securities' brokerage network.
Darr, according to BUSINESS WEEK's investigation, had business dealings with some of the partnerships' sponsors. At issue is whether Darr's alleged conflicts compromised his responsibility to find the best partnerships to sell to Pru Securities customers. Darr's lawyer, Stuart Perlmutter of New York, says that Darr has cooperated fully with the SEC and that he does not believe his client is a target. "No regulator has accused him of doing anything wrong," says Perlmutter.
The SEC probe is probably the gravest new problem Pru Securities faces. Lawyers interviewed by SEC attorneys say they have been told that a formal order of investigation has been authorized by the commission. In recent weeks, SEC enforcement lawyers from Washington, New York, and Atlanta have been taking depositions from current and former Pru Securities employees, representatives of firms that sponsored limited partnerships, and lawyers retained by individual investors.
The SEC is said to be interested in whether Pru Securities violated the terms of an SEC settlement in 1986 of the so-called Captain Crab case. It concerned the manager of a Pru Securities branch in Atlanta who overrode directives from the firm's compliance department. He let two Atlanta brokers sell stock in a seafood-restaurant chain controlled by the father of one of the brokers. The SEC determined that top Pru Securities executives failed to supervise the branch manager. The former Pru branch manager declined comment.
Pru Securities agreed to be censured and to beef up its compliance department by following the recommendations of an independent outside consultant. The settlement required Pru Securities' compliance department to notify the firm's general counsel anytime that anyone in a branch or regional office failed or refused to adhere to compliance-department directives.
These rules were intended to apply to all operations, including units selling limited partnerships. As one plaintiff's lawyer, who recently gave a statement to SEC investigators, puts it: "What it boils down to is this: Did they make a mockery of the 1986 consent decree?"
ALL SETTLED? Probes into limited partnerships by state securities regulators are expanding. Formal complaints have been filed in Kansas and Florida. Kansas Securities Commissioner James W. Parrish says an agreement in principle has been reached, under which Pru Securities will accept a public censure. It will also pay restitution of nearly $700,000 to more than 40 Kansas limited-partnership investors. Many of the probes in other states now include a broad examination of Pru Securities' limited-partnership sales practices, including whether the firm's brokers sold customers unsuitable investments. Pru says it is working with Florida and Kansas to resolve their complaints "satisfactorily, and we expect that will be achieved."
A criminal investigation in Texas raises more troubling issues. A grand jury convened by the Dallas County district attorney's office is looking into dealings between Pru Securities and Graham Resources Inc. of Covington, La., which sponsored several energy partnerships. The first indictment in the case was handed down on July 15. It alleged that Jeffrey A. Schiller, a former Pru Securities broker, had fraudulently misrepresented to a customer the supposed low risk and high potential return of the Prudential-Bache Energy Growth Fund No. 3 limited partnership, which was sponsored by Graham and Pru Securities. Graham Resources could not be reached for comment.
Schiller, say former colleagues, is expected to contend that he relied on sales material developed by Pru Securities' direct-investment department to make those promises. That raises questions about whether the grand jury will focus next on higher-ups at the brokerage firm. Theodore P. Steinke Jr., chief of the Dallas district attorney's specialized crime division, comments: "All I can say is that there are a number of individuals we are interested in." Schiller will enter a not-guilty plea and expects to be vindicated, his lawyer says. Pru says it has "fully cooperated" with the investigation. "There has been no suggestion that any action is contemplated against Prudential Securities."
TEXTBOOK DEFENSE. Whatever its problems with government investigations, Pru Securities has been very successful to date in handling the flood of litigation brought by private investors. The firm has pursued a textbook defense strategy to minimize payments to investors. It has routinely pushed for out-of-court settlements with litigants' class-action lawyers, which almost always require confidentiality agreements. This has kept any potentially damaging information about its partnership problems out of the public eye, thus avoiding negative publicity. And it has allowed Pru Securities to settle many class actions for mere pennies on the dollar. Critics contend that with class-action lawyers eager to reach quick settlements and reap big contingency fees, it's little wonder that no Pru Securities class action has gone to trial. Complains one critic, Stuart C. Goldberg, a lawyer in Austin, Tex., who represents investors suing Prudential: "Class actions are for the benefit of lawyers and Prudential. The whitewashes I've seen are worse in the class actions than the original fraud."
Prominent New York class action attorney Stuart Wechsler denies that class-action settlements are inadequate or inappropriate. "People have the right to opt out," he says. Pru, for its part, says: "We are always willing to talk with investors and, where appropriate, reach settlements." It says that confidentiality provisions are "absolutely typical within the industry."
One key settlement involved VMS Realty Inc. A Chicago real estate syndicator, VMS raised $500 million by selling eight funds through Pru Securities brokers. In 1989, it ran into financial difficulties. Most of the funds, which were sold to investors at $10 a share, now trade at less than 50 . Investor lawsuits have accused VMS, Pru Securities, and other defendants of fraud.
In April, 1991, the parties agreed to a $66 million settlement: Pru Securities contributed $10.5 million, and VMS and other defendants put up the rest. The 35 law firms representing plaintiffs were paid $23 million in contingency fees. Plaintiffs' lawyers agreed to a broad secrecy order barring disclosure of such details as evidence of fraudulent activity they might have uncovered.
Pru Securities' tactics in winning unpublicized settlements are illustrated by the experience of Dr. William M. Bethea Jr., a Norfolk (Va.) internal-medicine specialist, whose case was mentioned in the earlier BUSINESS WEEK story.
Last November, an obviously agitated Bethea called BUSINESS WEEK. He was in the midst of an arbitration hearing seeking treble damages on his claim of $750,000 in losses. Bethea said he had rejected a $200,000 settlement offer a week before the hearing was to start. An attorney representing Prudential, he said, told his lawyer that if Bethea didn't agree to a $350,000 settlement, "something they found out about my past would be brought out at the hearing. . . . There was absolutely nothing there. It was a gangster ploy. And probably hundreds of people have been abused in the same way they've made life hell for three years for me and my wife."
But when BUSINESS WEEK called Bethea several days later, his wife said Bethea would never be able to speak to the press again "because we settled." Asked if the amount was satisfactory, she replied: "That's something we've agreed to never talk about." Bethea declines comment, as does Pru.
Now, Prudential's carefully crafted legal strategy is showing strain. For the first time, one of the general partners in two limited partnerships sold by Pru Securities has turned against the firm. In lawsuits filed early this year in New York and California, Edward M. Strasser alleges that he and the partnerships' some 650 investors, whose money was invested in two Manhattan buildings, were defrauded. He's seeking more than $180 million in damages for his firm. "In all my discussions with them," he says, "no one ever asked me what was the right thing to do for the investors."
`FALLACIOUS.' His lawsuits charge that during the 1980s the partnerships' former general partner, Clifton S. Harrison, made payments to senior Pru Securities executives through secret accounts in the name of Bache-Harrison Associates at two Texas banks. "The business interests of certain Prudential executives, in their individual capacities, and Harrison were intimately connected," says one of the suits. The suit also claims that Darr, who oversaw Pru Securities' limited-partnership program, and other executives at the firm "proceeded to divert and misuse investment funds" without disclosing this to investors.
Harrison denies the charges. "Mr. Strasser's statement is incorrect, and I am sure that in future weeks this will be proven," he says. Darr's lawyer calls the allegations "fallacious." Pru comments: "We believe Mr. Strasser's claims are totally unfounded."
Pru Securities' secrecy shield has been cracking. In late June, the firm and a Louisiana oil company it partly owns agreed to pay $35 million to settle a series of Texas lawsuits involving more than 5,000 investors in Prudential-Bache Energy Growth Funds No. 1 and No. 2. Pru Securities had insisted on a confidentiality agreement. According to the deal, investors in Fund No. 1 will receive 50 on the dollar, and those in Fund No. 2 will get 35 . After a 40% contingency fee to plaintiff lawyers, that works out to 30 and 21 , respectively.
But in an unusual turn of events, Pru Securities on July 1 disclosed details of the settlement to its 6,000 brokers on its internal message system. As a result, say brokers, the firm is letting brokers offer the same deal to some 12,000 other investors in the funds who hadn't sued and who weren't part of the settlement. If all investors in Growth Funds No. 1 and No. 2 who weren't part of the action come forward, BUSINESS WEEK estimates, the additional cost to Pru Securities' could be as much as $33 million. Pru says it told its brokers about the settlement "to keep financial advisers aware of relevant information." It says "further settlements" will depend on "the circumstances of any case."
NEVER AGAIN. Meanwhile, perhaps the largest of the private actions remains unresolved. It involves nearly 100,000 individuals who invested some $1.3 billion in a series of oil-and-gas partnerships known as Prudential-Bache Energy Income Funds. One plaintiff's attorney believes that the case will be settled for $100 million. Such talk is "premature," says Edward Grossman, the lead plaintiffs' lawyer seeking a consolidated class action. But Grossman confirms that negotiations with Pru Securities are under way.
Whatever the eventual damages, Pru Securities appears to be striving to make sure that such an embarrassing debacle never happens again. On June 29, the firm's general counsel, Loren Schecter, sent a memo to all employees reminding them of the firm's ethical code of conduct. It also established an ethics hotline for employees to pass along confidential tips about violations.
However laudable, the policy is too late for the thousands of Pru Securities investors who have received back only a fraction of their limited-partnership investments and for the thousands more whose claims are still unsettled. These individuals are not likely to forget their experience. Take Andrea Konig, a 28-year-old widow who lost most of her husband's insurance proceeds. On the advice of a Pru broker who attended her husband's funeral as a guest of a friend, she invested $200,000 in Pru Securities limited partnerships in 1988. When she tried to negotiate a settlement with Pru Securities' lawyers on the grounds that the Pru broker had sold her unsuitable investments, she was met with what she contends were bullying legal tactics. Afd now, she has an $8 million suit against the firm, which Pru contends is "baseless." Says Konig: "They're not going to get away with this. The rock they're hiding behind is crumbling."
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I was just talking to my friend and filmmaking colleague (now NYU film professor) Alrick Brown about how much I enjoyed taking my son to see the new Karate Kid movie starring Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan and Taraji P. Henson.
I enjoyed The Karate Kid as a typical fun summer blockbuster, but I especially enjoyed it for the "break out" characters it presented to my 7-year old son. To clarify, it wasn't so much the characters that were break-out, as the fact that they were all people of color in a mainstream movie who my son could relate to and identify with.
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See, a few months ago my son told me he wanted to be Luke Skywalker. Not be like Luke Skywalker, not be a Jedi, but actually BE Luke Skywalker...he wanted blonde hair, blue eyes and white skin, because in his 7-year old head, that's what good guys and heroes are supposed to look like...so how could he possibly be a Jedi if he doesn't look like a Jedi?!
My son is Black and Chinese, so I racked my brain to offer him alternative Black or Chinese movie heroes, but I couldn't think of many outside of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because so few exist in the mainstream media. So The Karate Kid was an answer to my parenting prayers.
In talking to Alrick, we just saw each other and said, "Did you see The Karate Kid?!" and each of us knew exactly what we meant. I can only hope that this is a sign of things to come and that Jaden Smith's (and his producer/actor parent's, Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith's) career will continue to blossom and Hollywood will continue to put people of color in mainstream blockbuster movie roles.
Media images have such a powerful and long-term psychological effect on our society, that I believe such a sustained move could alter a whole generation's self-perception....for the better for a change.
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Here's filmmaker, Alrick Brown's, Blog Post on the issue.
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Lois Seiler Academy of Dance celebrates 46 years with Class Act
by: Mia Whylly, News Reporter, The Freeport News
The Lois Seiler Academy of Dance will celebrate 46 years of not only teaching, the craft with â Class Act.â
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