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South Africa's ANC Targets Serious Crime Fighting Unit

In its first major initiative under the leadership of Jacob Zuma, South Africa's ruling African National Congress has ordered the government of President Thabo Mbeki to dismantle the country's highly successful organized crime fighting unit, the Directorate of Special Operations, or Scorpions. Zuma and other high-profile individuals are facing trials this year as a consequence of investigations carried out by the Scorpions. In Johannesburg VOA's Delia Robertson takes a closer look at the Scorpions, the work they have done, and what the future may hold for South Africa without them.

The Scorpions was formed in January 2001, 16 months after President Mbeki promised the national legislature that the government would set up a squad to fight so-called priority crimes. Peter Gastrow, of the independent Institute for Security Studies says there was growing exasperation in the country at police failures in addressing a rising crime wave.

"One of the categories of crime which the police felt inadequate to address and which they didn't really understand, was a relative new category for South Africa, namely sophisticated organized crime, particularly trans-border and trans-national organized crime," said Gastrow.

The Scorpions were placed under the authority of the National Prosecuting Authority or NPA, a constitutionally-mandated body within the Department of Justice.

Early on, Scorpions recruits received intensive training from experienced foreign organizations such as Scotland Yard and the U.S. Federal Bureau for Investigation.

By South African policing standards, the conviction rate on cases investigated by the Scorpions appears spectacular, 95 percent in the 12-month period ending June 2007, with a similar record in previous years.

But analysts say the performance of the unit is difficult to compare with other policing units.

"They have bust and successfully prosecuted very, very complex cases emerging from the business sectors, political leaders, government officials; successful prosecutions which conventional police investigation I don't believe would have been able to solve," he added. "So in short, the overall risk for sophisticated organized crime has risen as a result of their interventions."

Despite their success, the unit has been surrounded by controversy.

Police officers, supported by their trade union, objected to the better salaries, training and working conditions than those received by ordinary police officers

And it was not too long before the unit was accused of being an agent of the apartheid government as well as a tool by President Mbeki to settle political scores.

A 2004 commission, headed by a retired judge, found the allegations of its connections with the apartheid government without merit. But, the allegations of the squad being used for political influence came to a head when it became clear that the Scorpions were investigating Jacob Zuma, who, at the time, was deputy president of the country. Zuma was fired from this post in 2005 after his legal advisor was convicted on charges of corruption which implicated him.

Shadrack Gutto, a constitutional and legal expert at the University of South Africa, says that despite the litany of such allegations about the Scorpions, none were ever proven.

"These remain unproven allegations, the mere fact that they are being shouted and repeated often does not turn them into facts or truth," said Gutto. "And indeed if somebody has such evidence and there is a matter before the court, then they should and they could have brought this already."

While many analysts note that the Scorpions are not without fault, Gastrow is one of many South Africans who say problems within the squad can be solved.

"But the question arises does that warrant the destruction of an institution; should one not rather see or explore the possibility of fixing it," said Gastrow. "I think it an important point, in any institution, obviously these things happen, far more serious incidents happen; they are then debated, discussed and one tries to fix it, rather than demolish and take the destructive course of doing away with it, without putting anything in its place."

The ANC's determination to get rid of the Scorpions has angered many South Africans who see it as an attempt to protect senior members of the new ANC leadership, including Jacob Zuma. Analyst Gutto agrees with this perception.

"Personally I do believe that there is good reason to suspect that the vigorous attempt to remove this is informed more, not by the fact of lack of lines of accountability, and so on; but rather in an attempt to remove the sting as it were and put it within the police force," continued Gutto. "And if this were to be done, it will send a very, very serious message out there to organized criminals that they have a field day , and impunity is also going to reign where particular important public figures may be protected against prosecution."

Opposition parties have warned they will do everything they can to prevent the dissolution of the Scorpions. Bantu Holomisa, leader of the United Democratic Movement, says his party is seeking to challenge the Scorpions' dissolution in the Constitutional Court.

"If they [the ANC] use their two-thirds majority to bull-doze this decision, then the UDM will be left with no other option but to seek a legal remedy. But the legal opinion which we are also seeking is whether we can not challenge this process before they come up with the amendment [to the law which founded the unit]. If we feel right now the rights of the citizen are being tampered with, there is nothing stopping us in filing an urgent application," he said.

The African National Congress says it is merely trying the align law enforcement agencies with the constitution which calls for a single police force. But constitutional lawyers argue that provision was originally intended to bring several apartheid-era police agencies under one roof. They add the constitution also includes a clause which allows the government to establish additional law enforcement agencies.

President Thabo Mbeki has not publicly commented on his party's demand except to say that he will act in accordance with the constitution.


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Mauritanian Junta Appoints New Government

The premier of Mauritania's military run government has named a new cabinet. Following the move, analysts say the military may be determined to govern the country for the long term, despite international condemnation. Brent Latham has more from our West Africa bureau in Dakar.

Mauritania's new government has 22 ministers, some from the previous government who had supported the coup that removed the nation's first democratically elected president from power last month.

The move may signal the intention of the military to retain power over the long term, says analyst Kissy Agyeman, of London-based research firm Global Insight.

"I think what it shows is that the junta is serious about governing the country in spite of the international condemnation. As to when it plans to exit from power and hand over to a civilian government, we are still in the dark, it has not given a clear timeline of how things should proceed," said Agyeman. "But this does say that the junta is here to stay in the meantime, and that it is resolved to governing the country."

The government of the former colonial power, France, a major donor which has cut off much aid since the coup, immediately denounced the new government as "illegitimate."

The junta is still holding deposed President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi under house arrest. Even in the face of international outcry, the government has refused to set a date for new elections.

Agyeman says the delay does not help Mauritania's fledgling democracy.

"The fact that the junta came in and deposed the very first elected leader does not speak well for Mauritania's nascent democracy," said Agyeman. "This time last year Mauritania was held as a model of transition."

The justice minister in the new government, who held the same post previously, Ahmedou Tidjane Bal, said there will be general consultations with all political parties and civil society groups to determine at which point it is feasible to prepare new elections.

Supporters of the deposed president, who are a small vocal minority at this point, say he should be put back in power immediately.

Mr. Abdallahi, who faces possible prosecution over alleged corruption, became Mauritania's first democratically elected president last year, after a previous military-led regime organized elections.

That government was led by Colonel Ely Ould Mohammed Vall, who said at the time that the era of military government in Mauritania had ended.

Agyeman says Vall, who has recently returned to Mauritania, is closely monitoring the actions of the new junta.

"His reemergence on the political scene is not surprising, given the very influential role that he still has in the military. There are rumors that he is not on terribly good terms with the junta leader so this could make for some intriguing times ahead," added Agyeman. "There are rumors going around that he is looking for a means to muscle in and perhaps be given a high level post pre and post elections."

Vall led the military coup in 2005 which overthrew long time ruler Maaouya Ould Taya, who had held power since 1984. Before his return to Mauritania in recent days, Vall says he was studying English in Ireland.

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The Nigerian under-17 soccer team is ready to take the next step towards defending its Youth World Cup crown, as the knockout phase of the tournament kicks off.

Games in the elimination round of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup begin Wednesday afternoon in Nigeria, with the hosts set to take the field Thursday night in Abuja.

The 16 teams that remain in the tournament, after a tightly contested first round, all have ambitions of taking home the trophy. And, the round of 16 will go a long way toward sorting out the pretenders from the legitimate title contenders.

Nigerian coach John Obuh said after a rocky start in the first game against Germany - in which the team fell behind by three goals before coming back to tie - his squad has improved in each of its three matches, since.

"We played the first game with a little bit of anxiety and fear, considering the fact that the first time of everything is always like that," said John Obuh. "Time was on our side to make them recover as quickly as possible after the disaster, and in fact that was the match that gave us the confidence to persecute the rest of the matches. Second match was also good, at least better than the first one, and the third match better than the second one."

Nigeria's opponent Thursday will be upstart New Zealand, which has advanced to the elimination round for the first time in its history at FIFA events.

Nigerian forward Stanley Okoro says his team is not focusing on their good luck in drawing what is considered to be the weakest team remaining in the field.

"I shoot to play anybody," said Stanley Okoro. "I can shoot to play anybody now, anybody. We are ready to play anybody."

The Golden Eaglets return to Abuja, where Nigeria has already drawn capacity crowds for its home matches in the group stage. The winner advances to the quarterfinals, to be played Saturday and Sunday.


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G20 Reforms Could Help Boost Revenue Collection in Developing World

In poor nations, collecting taxes can be tough in the best of times.

Economists say in African, and other, developing countries up to $800 billion is lost each year to tax evasion, money that could go toward development, but instead makes Africa borrow money from the rest of the world.

Tightening loopholes

Analysts say some multinational companies avoid paying high taxes by using what financial experts call transfer pricing - improperly declaring high income and expenses in the low-tax countries they operate in, while underdeclaring their levels of income and expenses in high-tax countries.

Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, a senior economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), says regulation of both transfer pricing and tax havens is important.

"African governments often do not have the power to negotiate with multinationals whose turnover is sometimes a multiple of their own [gross national product] – terms and conditions that would make those companies fair contributors to the economies in which they are operating," he says. "So far, these are issues mainly discussed by representatives of richer countries who all want to make sure they get their fair share of taxation from multinationals [on their territory]. But Africans have been absent in this debate and need to be brought in. "

The global financial crisis has made things even more difficult. Slumping economies mean fewer goods and services for governments to tax.

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At this week's meeting of the G20 in Pittsburgh leaders may discuss ways to enhance revenues, and improve budgets for improving social programs.

The group has promised to crack down on tax havens. The Washington Post newspaper, citing sources close to the G20, says the group is considering imposing sanctions on Uruguay and Panama if they continue to shield tax dodgers.

Some economists have suggested the group consider a tax on international currency transactions to help developing nations build social safety nets. Solignac-Lecomte says, however, that there’s no consensus on the issue: Europeans often favor international taxes, while the U.S. opposes them.

In the long run, he says the G8 has given a clear mandate to the OECD to help African countries find solutions to tax collection issues.

He says the Paris-based organization is helping African countries identify alternatives, including taxes on some urban properties. It’s also helping a number of countries and institutions set up an African Tax Administration Forum to be launched in Kampala, Uganda, in November.

"They would first [agree on a set of] principles," he explains, "and [assess] how much they lose from tax evasion. So they’d be joining forces [to maximize savings reserves and reduce dependence on foreign aid]. They would set up capacity building programs to help administrations become more effective at negotiating and implementing tax policies, including toward foreign economic agents [companies], " says Solignac-Lecomte.

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The G20 is also likely to discuss another issue that may affect taxation – the need for all countries to adhere to the same accounting practices.

"There is a patchwork of accounting practices," explains John Kirton, Director of the G20 Research Group, based at the University of Toronto, Canada, "which makes it difficult for the average investor or citizen to read a company’s balance sheets and compare them across countries -- even if it is the same company doing business in different countries. [The question is] which standards are they following?"

Kirton says it’s not clear summit that delegates to the meeting will discuss the ultimate way to enhance the budgets of developing countries – additional aid.

So far, the G20 has promised U.S. $50 billion to support social protection measures, boost trade and safeguard development in low income countries. The OECD estimates Africa could get between $ 21 - $23 billion.

Industrialized countries have also agreed to provide $300 billion over the next three years to multilateral development banks, including the African Development Bank (AFDB) in an effort to increase lending to low income countries. The World Bank and the AFDB have allocated up to $15 billion to be used in Africa.


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A loud blast heard in Gaziantep, in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border, may have been caused by jets taking part in Turkish military efforts in nearby northern Syria, Turkish officials said late Friday.

Police and firefighting teams investigated the sound, according to Turkey's Anadolu news agency.

The Gaziantep Province governor's office released a statement that said the incident caused no injuries, deaths or property damage.

"This sound could have been caused by warplanes involved in the Euphrates Shield operation going over the usual noise limit. We will give further details later," the governor said.

Tensions are high in Gaziantep. The area borders Syria where Turkish troops have taken part in military efforts to push Islamic State (IS) militants and Kurdish militia from the region.

Gaziantep is also where more than 50 people were killed at a Kurdish wedding last August after a suicide bombing that was blamed on IS.


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US Congress Divided on Syria Despite Administration Case for Action

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U.S. lawmakers say they are far from unified on whether to vote for military strikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Legislators spoke after receiving a classified briefing on Syria from administration officials.

The full Congress does not return from recess until September 9. But several dozen lawmakers scrambled to get to Washington in time for Sunday’s closed-door briefing at the Capitol, in which the administration presented its case for intervention in Syria.

Afterwards, several lawmakers said they are convinced that chemical weapons were used. But questions remain, according to Democratic Congresswoman Janice Hahn. “Is this a reason to go to war? What are the objectives of going to war? What authorization are we actually giving our president?”

Hahn said the United States should not have to act alone. “Where is the international community," she said, "if this is such an outrage, if this is so abhorrent to everyone?”

Republican Congressman Scott Rigell praised the president’s decision to seek congressional approval, but said he is a “no” vote for now. “I am a ‘no’ because the clarity of where all of this goes, the definition of accomplishing the mission - that is still unclear to me," he said.

By contrast, Democratic Representative Sandy Levin backs military intervention in Syria. “I have confidence that members of Congress will step up to the plate [vote yes]. Because if we do nothing, it sends a very wrong message," he said.

On Saturday, President Obama said he does not need Congress’ permission to order a strike, but nevertheless wants the backing of the nation’s representatives in Washington.

Before Sunday’s classified briefing, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on multiple U.S. television programs to present what the administration has learned about last month’s deadly attacks on civilians in and around Damascus.

“Hair and blood samples that have come to us from individuals who were engaged as first responders in east Damascus - I can report to you today they have tested positive for signatures of sarin (the deadly nerve gas)," he said.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Kerry defended Obama’s decision to seek congressional approval for military action. “We do not lose anything. We actually gain. And what we gain is the legitimacy of the full-throated response of the Congress of the United States and the president acting together after our democratic process has worked properly," he said.

Kerry said U.S. inaction would have the effect of “granting impunity to a ruthless dictator to continue to gas his people.”


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Piano and composition profoessor receives his 10th American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers award

January 28, 2008

Kent Holliday
Kent Holliday

Kent Holliday of Blacksburg, professor of piano and composition in Virginia Tech's Department of Music in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, has been honored with an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) ASCAPLUS 2007 Award.

The award is based upon the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog of original compositions and granted by an ASCAPLUS independent award panel for ASCAP’s Concert Music Division.

Holliday’s creative artistry has garnered ten ASCAPLUS Awards during the last 15 years. His 2007 award is based on four areas of accomplishments: awards, performances, recordings, and publication. In March 2006, Holliday received an honorable mention from the prestigious and highly competitive Michigan Music Teachers Association Composition Competition for his Temporal Longitudes for Flute and Piano.

Holliday’s Tango Exótico was performed by renowned pianist Jeri-Mae Astolfi at five venues: Henderson State University, University of Southern Florida, Florida State University, Pensacola Junior College, and at Trinity University for the joint national conference of the College Music Society and the Society of Composers Inc. (SCI).

Tango Exótico was also recorded by Astolfi in December 2006, for a special CD distributed to all members of the Society of Composers Inc. This CD was No. 2 in the SCI Composers Recording Series. On faculty at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Astolfi is highly regarded as an expert on new music and regularly participates at various national and regional conferences where she lectures on, performs, and premiers new literature for piano.

Holliday’s Sonatina for Alto Sax and Piano, published by Dorn Publications Inc. in the summer of 2007, and his Dances from Colca Canyon soon to be published by Leupold, join his growing list of over thirty published compositions.

Holliday studied composition with Paul Fetler and Dominick Argento at the University of Minnesota, where he received his Ph.D. in music theory-composition in 1968. He subsequently did postgraduate work in Paris, France, and at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire. In 1969, he worked with Pietro Grossi on computer music in the Studio di Fonologia S2FM in Florence, Italy, and in 1988 studied composition on research-leave from Virginia Tech with Witold Szalonek of the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin, Germany.

Holliday was the winner of the Virginia Music Teachers Association Composition Competition in 1983, 1996, and 1999. His Four Evocations won first place in the New Music Delaware Composition Competition in 1996. He has taught music composition, theory, history, piano, and selected courses in the humanities at Virginia Tech since 1974. His book, Reproducing Pianos Past and Present, was published by Mellen Press in 1989.

Listen to Holliday’s Tango Exotico .

The Department of Music at Virginia Tech provides professional music training to select music students and enhances the cultural life of the university, region and the Commonwealth. These are accomplished through teaching, professional service, artistic performance, creativity, and research. The Department of Music, located in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, also provides high-quality training to a wide variety of ensembles and courses for large numbers of non-music majors.


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After various actors broke various bones doing flying tricks in rehearsal for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, theater safety inspectors swarmed in to investigate the show's awesome-sounding aerial tricks. But they weren't quite satisfied with a one-time visit: Michael Riedel reports that the world's most dangerous musical is now enjoying a whole new slew of security supervision.

The [Actors Equity] union is in daily phone contact with the cast to make sure nobody else is on the injured list. Equity will also have someone at the theater during rehearsals whenever the projectiles — sorry, I mean the actors — are being catapulted through the air. Union officials will also be at the first weekend of previews, starting Nov. 28.

The New York State Department of Labor is getting in on the act, too. According to a department spokesperson:

We've made it clear that we stand at the ready to go back in whenever they call us … When we were there two weeks ago, they only showed us seven aerial maneuvers — seven out of 35. They are not legally allowed to perform any maneuvers we have not signed off on.

This show is practically illegal now, which should definitely boost awareness, interest, and ticket sales. Also, continuing to look on the positive side of all this: The actor who broke his wrists, Kevin Aubin, reportedly has an aide, being paid for by the show, helping him out with the kind of daily chores made difficult when both of one's wrists are broken. Note this, actors defying death for Spider-Man — if anything goes terribly wrong, you get a personal assistant!

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"He left Russia for freedom, justice, and the American way and he got Franz Kafka and Goldman Sachs," the Russian computer programmer's lawyer said. But there are many more issues at stake.

“If you mess with Goldman Sachs, you better get ready for the fight of your life.”

These words might not ring true for Greg Smith, the ex-Goldman employee who is about to spill the beans on his years at the firm in a tell-all book for which he was paid a reported $1.5m.

But another former Goldman employee isn’t having quite such a good time. The words above were spoken by a lawyer for Sergey Aleynikov, the Russian computer programmer who has been charged twice with stealing secret computer code from the bank.

In New York State court on Thursday, Kevin Marino, his lawyer, didn’t mince his words.

“He left Russia for freedom, justice, and the American way and he got Franz Kafka and Goldman Sachs,” Marino told the court after his client pleaded not guilty to the state charges, referring to "The Trial," Kafka’s novel about an unassuming office worker who is arrested on mysterious charges.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office arrested 42-year-old Aleynikov this summer, accusing him of stealing proprietary software for Goldman’s high-frequency trading business in 2009 as he was leaving to join Teza Technologies LLC, a hedge fund based in Chicago, where he had accepted a $1 million-a-year job, according to reports.

Just over three years ago, Aleynikov appeared in Federal District Court in Manhattan to plead not guilty to similar charges brought by the United States attorney in Manhattan.

He had been arrested and charged with illegally downloading 32 megabytes of computer code from Goldman's computers and sending it to a computer server in Germany.

In 2010, a jury convicted him and a judge sentenced him to an eight-year prison term. But a Federal Appeals Court reversed that conviction this year, finding that prosecutors misapplied the federal corporate-theft laws against him, the New York Times reports. Aleynikov was released from a jail after serving one year.

The Chicago Tribune reports that the case has been closely watched as U.S. authorities are currently on a “push to tackle complex cyber crime, an area of criminal law that has not been well-tested in courts amid debate about which laws apply and what types of conduct can be considered criminal behavior.”

In fact, no one is disputing the fact that Aleynikov did actually download the computer code from Goldman’s computers. Federal prosecutors alleged that he used the code to help him build a similar high-speed trading platform at Teza Technologies, the start-up founded by Mikhail "Misha" Malyshev, a former executive at hedge-fund Citadel, according to the Wall Street Jorunal.

Still, Marino argued at the trial that his client intended to use only the portions of the downloaded code that were "open source," or freely available.

One Wall Street Journal reader comments that what the ex-Goldman computer programmer did might not actually be that unusual anyway.

“What you don't realize is that programmers generally carry their employers intellectual property around with them... it's just bits. They are usually contractors and come and go and they own their own laptops. The "version control" software that programmers use tend to make it VERY easy to create copies all over the place,” he writes.

Open source or not, high-speed-trading and other financial firms aggressively protect their code, considering it a competitive advantage, and are therefore understandably likely to equally aggressively pursue anyone they consider to be stealing their intellectual property.

“Goldman required that its employees sign a confidentiality agreement as part of their employment and that any software created by them in their jobs was the property of the investment bank,” the WSJ writes.

So are Goldman and the government over-aggressive in their prosecution of the computer programmer?

The Wall Street Journal points out that it is rare - but not unprecedented - for prosecutors to charge a defendant who already has been convicted and served prison time, or a federal appeals court has overturned the conviction. The law allows it, though.

Plus, Goldman might not have that much to do with the case at this point, at least according to David Szuchman, chief of the District Attorney's Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau, who told the Wall Street Journal that the office's decision to bring a new case against Aleynikov came from the appeals-court decision and not Goldman Sachs.

Still, Marino had a lot to say about Goldman Sachs, and suggested that the bank was behind the government’s aggressive prosecution of Aleynikov, the Times reports.

“Here he is in the well of another courtroom, facing the exact same charge because Goldman Sachs has enormous power and they are bringing it to bear in this case,” Marino said. “If you mess with Goldman Sachs, you better get ready for the fight of your life.”

Goldman Sachs declined to comment, the NYT said.

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Wall Street Jobs Flourish In Florida

As big investment firms face lower returns and more stringent regulation, they are increasingly looking to save dollars by relocating to metro areas outside New York City.

Wall Street is on the move. Investment banks are migrating en masse from the narrow alleyways of Wall Street to Jacksonville, Florida. And as we previously reported, bulge-bracket firms are also continuing to flock to North Carolina and Salt Lake City.

As big investment firms face diminishing returns and increasingly hard-nosed regulation that is biting into their trading revenue, financial institutions are looking to save dollars by relocating to metro areas outside New York City and the North East.

Those who need to be most ready to pack their bags are employees with middle tier positions in accounting, trading, legal support, human resources and compliance, which are frequently being relocated to Salt Lake City, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Fla, according to an article in the New York Times.

By the end of 2012, Salt Lake City will house Goldman Sachs’ fourth largest office globally, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, which notes that the Wall Street titan will add 300 positions to its Salt Lake City office over the next few months, bringing its total in the city to 1,600. "They love Utah," Gov. Gary Herbert’s spokeswoman Ally Isom told the paper. "Salt Lake City is their second-largest U.S. office, their fifth-largest office in the world, and by the end of the year it will be their fourth-largest."

Goldman first opened a Utah office in 2000, and expanded rapidly after being offered multimillion-dollar tax-break deals with the state in 2007 and 2009, when Wall Street was struggling to navigate and survive the financial crisis.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that with incentive packages offered in both years, Goldman is set to receive as much as a $47.3 million break over a 20-year period in the form of a tax rebate, according to Michael Sullivan, a spokesman for the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.

In exchange for the incentive, the bank agreed to maintain at least 1,065 employees in Salt Lake City and pay them at least 150 percent of the average local county wage.

Many of the new jobs are being assigned to Goldman’s investment management business and back-office functions such as accounting, Goldman’s New York-based spokesman David Wells said.

Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank has been actively increasing its staff in Jacksonville, Fl. Since the end of 2009, the bank’s work force in the New York area has dropped to 6,900 from 7,400, while its staff in Jacksonville rose to 1,000 from 600, the New York Times reports.

The bank initially approached Jacksonville for incentives in 2008 to support its plan to create operations and technology jobs, according to local paper The Daily Record.

The firm said it planned to create 1,000 full-time jobs by Dec. 31, 2011, that would pay an annual average wage estimated at $49,200, plus benefits, for an estimated annual payroll of $49.2 million, according to the daily. It also planned to invest $12.1 million in technology infrastructure and tenant improvements.

While the firm’s Jacksonville office started out in 2008 as a back-office service center, it has since been actively adding jobs in technology, legal, compliance and trading departments.

Also ramping up operations in Florida is Bank of New York Mellon, which reportedly cut 350 jobs in New York City while hiring 150 people in Lake Mary, Fla.

Credit Suisse has also been boosting its operations outside New York. While its workforce in the big apple has dropped by 500 in the last four years, the firm has added 450 positions in what is known as North Carolina’s Research Triangle - the area of Raleigh, Cary, Durham and Chapel Hill, the New York Times reports.

Deutsche Bank also employs 160 financial markets professionals at its technology center in Cary, NC and expects to create more than 300 full-time positions in the next few years.

North Carolina reportedly provided Credit Suisse with roughly $14 million in incentives to bring the company to the state. In addition to cost savings compared to New York and state incentives, financial firms are also reportedly motivated to ramp up their operations in North Carolina as the state boasts some of the best universities in the country, including Duke University and the University of North Carolina, as well as North Carolina State, whose department of Computer Science has an alumni base of more than 6,200, according to eFinancialCareers. [For more on Wall Street jobs, read: 2012 Salary Survey Shows IT Skills Remain In Short Supply On The Street.] Melanie Rodier has worked as a print and broadcast journalist for over 10 years, covering business and finance, general news, and film trade news. Prior to joining Wall Street & Technology in April 2007, Melanie lived in Paris, where she worked for the International Herald ... View Full Bio

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Rick Welts, ’75, was photographed June 21, 2011 in Phoenix by Rick Giase.

Out in the Open
Rick Welts broke new ground as the first pro sports executive to declare his sexual orientation

When it comes to personal courage, Rick Welts, ’75, knows what it means to stand up. Welts, the president and CEO of the National Basketball Ball Association’s Phoenix Suns, in May became the second person in men’s professional basketball history to come out openly as a gay man. “It was time,” says Welts, who spent 40 years keeping his sexual orientation under wraps except to a small group of family and friends. Fear that full disclosure could hamper his career led him to keep his sexual orientation a private matter until this past spring.

Welts had good reason to worry. Men’s professional team sports is one of the last bastions where “don’t ask, don’t tell” is the unofficial but widely followed policy. In addition to Welts, only former NBA player John Amaechi has come out and that was when he published his memoir in 2007, three years after his career was over.

There was no sports executive model for Welts to follow but he had reached a point where he wanted to lead “a more authentic life.” “The question I had to wrestle with was, ‘Is there some larger good that can come of it?’ rather than just making a personal decision about myself, and that’s what I’m really happy about,” says Welts.

After his stunning revelation in The New York Times, Welts received thousands of emails and about 200 handwritten letters. “Thus far, it’s been overwhelmingly positive. There has not been one negative comment from people who have reached out,” he says. Among those he has heard from are parents worried about their children’s struggles with sexual-identity issues. Welts—the latest in a line of UW alumni who have broken new ground by coming out—was so moved by the response to his disclosure that he is doing his best to respond to every single letter.

Rick Welts’ personal journey began in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, where he grew up as the son and grandson of a long line of Huskies. (His grandfather, Richard “Robin” D. Welts, graduated with his bachelor’s degree in 1924 in history and from UW Law in ’32; his parents and sister are also alums.) “I was going to Husky football games for as far back as I can remember,” he says.

As a teenager, he was aware of his sexual orientation but thought it might change. He set deadlines every couple of years, at which time he would re-evaluate his feelings. “I wasn’t very happy that I would be living my life this way. At that point in my life, it was something I wished I could change. Part of that was the environment in which I grew up,” he says.

Meanwhile, some positive things were going on.

“My big career break was at Queen Anne High School in English lit class with Earl Woodson, who was the coolest kid at QA High because he was a ball boy for the Seattle Supersonics,” Welts recalls. “We spent a lot more time talking about the Sonics than English lit.”

His big break came when the Woodsons moved out of Seattle, leaving Welts to apply for the ball boy position. “I was a couple of months into it when an assistant trainer position came open,” he says. “Now, you have to have four degrees to be a trainer but at that time, trainers washed uniforms and had them ready for the next game. I was elevated to trainer and given the keys to the Coliseum. Any time I wanted, I could go down there and shoot hoops on the Sonics’ floor. I could bring my friends down, too. That was in the dark ages in the late ‘60s. I also vacuumed the locker-room floor.”

Welts then moved into the Sonics media relations office to work part time after he had been admitted to the UW and moved into the Delta Chi fraternity house. Initially, he hadn’t considered living in a fraternity. “I thought it would be horrible based on the ridiculous behavior of my relatives who all lived in fraternities,” he says.

But Welts was in for a pleasant surprise, and he made fast friends in the Delta Chi house. “It was great being in a frat, tremendous, because of the friendships that developed sharing the UW experience,” he says.

But he was still experiencing a personal crisis over his sexual orientation. “My impressions of gay people came through the media,” he explains. “They were portrayed stereotypically as flamboyant. I didn’t feel anything like that and that was part of the isolation and discomfort.” Mercifully for Welts, that discomfort dissipated after he met a fellow student who lived in a fraternity like he did. The young fellow liked sports and was gay. “There was a sense of exhilaration that there were other people out there like I was,” Welts says.

Meanwhile, Welts—who had been fascinated with broadcast journalism from an early age—was pursuing a degree in communications.

“I really had a love of television that stemmed from my dad taking me down to KING-TV to watch The Stan Boreson Show. [Boreson, ’50, was a Seattle-area entertainer who played the accordion and had a dog named Nomo on his show.] “I got to watch the show being produced,” Welts reminisces. “I really loved storytelling and the idea of journalism.”

After he graduated from the UW with his bachelor’s degree in communications, the Sonics brought him onboard full-time as public relations director. “At the age of 24, I had what was my ultimate terrific job,” says Welts. The team hired Bill Russell’s cousin, Bob Hopkins, as coach and Lenny Wilkens as the director of player personnel for the 1977-78 season.

After 22 games, the Sonics were mired in last place with a 7-15 record. Hopkins was fired and replaced by Wilkens, who led the team to the NBA Finals that and next season, winning the NBA title in 1979.

In 1982, Welts left Seattle with a one-way ticket to New York City to join the NBA’s headquarters. He used his business savvy to develop the league’s program for sponsors and advertisers. He also turned All-Star Weekend into a popular event. By the time he left in 1999, Welts was the league’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer.

When Welts relocated to New York, he didn’t go alone. Accompanying him on the cross-country move was his longtime partner, L. Arnie Chinn, ’78. In New York, Chinn founded his own design firm, L. Arnie Chinn Studio. Chinn died of complications from AIDS in 1994 at the age of 40.

Welts suffered greatly—and privately—after Chinn’s death because he had kept his sexual identity a secret. No one at work knew what he was going through. An obituary published in the two Seattle newspapers asked for donations to a UW scholarship fund in Chinn’s name that exists today. That fund provides financial assistance to deserving undergraduate or graduate students in the Department of Architecture, a subject Chinn majored in at the UW (along with fine art).

NBA Commissioner David Stern disclosed in a New York Times interview that he had known for years that Welts was gay but felt he couldn’t acknowledge it. What Stern and his wife, Dianne, did, however, was to mail a check for $10,000 to the UW’s L. Arnie Chinn Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund. “It was his way of acknowledging the situation,” Welts recalls. “It wasn’t until this year though, that we had ‘the conversation.’ ”

Welts’ colleagues in professional basketball have been supportive, and many have said they are happy that he finally was able to talk openly about being gay.

In addition to being a pro sports executive who happens to be gay, Welts also calls himself “an unabashed Seattle lover.” And he would love to figure out a way to live in Seattle again, at least part-time. “I’d go to more Husky football games,” he says, pausing. “And basketball games.” Welts’ early years in Seattle gave him the necessary weather-hardened credentials to return to the Emerald City. “You know,” he says, “I didn’t even own a raincoat until I moved to New York.”
Julie Garner is a Columns contributing editor

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Phoenix Suns CEO Rick Welts, ’75, who in May became the first professional sports team executive to come out as gay, is just the latest in a line of high-profile UW alumni who have had the courage to do so. Others include:

  • Col. Grethe Cammermeyer, ’76
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    The retired military nurse lost her job after telling a military interviewer she was a lesbian. She was reinstated.

  • Jenny Durkan, ’85
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    The current U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington was the first openly gay U.S. Attorney.

  • David Kopay, ’66
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    The former UW running back in 1975 was the first pro athlete from a major team sport to announce he was gay.

  • Karen Bryant, ’91
    B.A., Communications

    The former Husky basketball player is vice president of operations for the Seattle Storm and is openly gay.

3 Responses to Out in the Open

  1. Clarence Brooks says:

    I read this story twice through immediately. I was captivated by it – and I know precious little about sports! I will post it on all of my social media sites and distribute the link via email to friends and colleagues around the nation. Thank you for this terrific article.

  2. Teresa Dudik says:

    My sister forwarded this article to me today. I had seen the newspaper article before. But not your article. I use to work with Rick Welts at the Sonics and later at Bob Walsh and Associates. He was a great guy to work for. Always treated me and everyone else he worked with with respect. We knew then what his sexual orientation was. Not because he talked about it, we just knew. But it didn’t matter then, and it doesn’t matter now. First and foremost, he was and is a nice person. He treats others the way he would want to be treated. His sister and parents are also very nice people. I wish there were more people in the world like Rick Welts. I wish him all the best in the future.

  3. Janelle Vigil says:

    I went to both Jr. High and Sr. High with Rick. He was a stellar kid. I never knew he was an athlete back then or even into athletics. But a nicer kid with a brain you’d never want to meet. However, in Jr. High at Catharine Blaine Jr. High it was pretty common knowledge that Rick was gay. His girlfriend told me, and honestly, nobody cared one way or another. God bless him though for his courage.

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This article said that the $725 billion fiscal 2011 defense authorization bill that the House passed this month exceeded the spending levels originally requested by the Obama administration. While the total amount did exceed the request for Defense Department spending by $17 billion, the bill contained $18 billion for the Department of Energy's weapons program and thus was $1 billion below the president's request for the Pentagon.
House approves defense bill with lower pay raise for military

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 18, 2010; A09

The House passed a pared-down version of the fiscal 2011 defense authorization bill on Friday that, at $725 billion, was still $17 billion above the Obama administration's funding request.

The House made one gesture in deference to rising public concern over government spending. It reduced next year's pay increase for military personnel from the 1.9 percent lawmakers approved in the summer to 1.4 percent, the level President Obama proposed earlier this year. Obama announced this month that he would freeze for two years the salaries of all other federal government workers, including civilians working for the Defense Department.

With the Senate version of the defense authorization bill tied up in debate over other issues, the chairmen and ranking Republican members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees and their staffs took the unusual step of removing provisions they believed could cause a holdup in either chamber.

The measure, which was approved by a 341 to 48 vote, goes to the Senate, where it can only be brought up for a vote with unanimous consent of all members. A senior Senate aide said Friday that Armed Services Committee members and staffers are trying to answer questions as to why certain provisions were dropped from the measure.

In introducing the bill Friday, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), the outgoing chairman of the committee, called it "must-pass legislation."

Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-Calif.), who will be chairman of the House panel in the next Congress, bemoaned the loss of the higher pay raise but called on the Senate to act on the bill.

The bill's authorization of continued growth in Pentagon personnel and health-care costs comes a month after the chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform highlighted potential cuts in defense spending that could reduce the deficit.

They called for freezing non-combat military pay for three years to go along with a similar measure halting increases in compensation for Defense Department civilians.

They also proposed keeping level the basic housing and subsistence allowances paid to military families who live off base. They projected their proposal would save $7.6 billion over the next five years. Without it, these costs would rise $9.2 billion over the same period.

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Buried in the 68-page transcript from last week’s U.S. District Court hearing in Ed O’Bannon’s lawsuit against the NCAA is the black-and-white reality that will shake college athletics.

Someone is going to stand up.

Not one of the former players like O’Bannon or Bill Russell or Sam Keller. They’re all part of the litigation against the NCAA seeking compensation for the organization’s use of athletes’ likenesses in television broadcasts, video games and more. But they’re the past.

Last week’s 88-minute hearing in front of Judge Claudia Wilken all but assured a current college athlete will join them.

Yes, someone, likely a football or men’s basketball player, will add his name to the lawsuit that says college athletes should get a cut of the money they’re generating.

Someone is going to become the NCAA’s Curt Flood.

Remember the name? Back in 1969, Flood confronted another slanted system. Major League Baseball’s reserve clause bound players to their teams as long as they played. Flood had enough after the Cardinals dealt him to the Phillies; he asked commissioner Bowie Kuhn to be declared a free agent.

Sure, the decades-old system had plenty of supporters to maintain the money-making comfort of the status quo. Same as the NCAA. Flood’s stand wasn’t popular. The principle, though, mattered more to him.

“After twelve years in the major leagues,” Flood wrote in a letter to Kuhn that Christmas Eve, “I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the several States.”

Kuhn denied the request. A $1 million lawsuit that the U.S. Supreme Court eventually decided in favor of MLB in 1972 followed. Flood didn’t kill the reserve clause. But his stand helped open the door to free agency that’s as much of a part of baseball today as pine tar, sunflower seeds and overpriced stadium beer.

Flood’s example is instructive when examining the legal fight against the NCAA’s slanted system that included last week, if you can believe it, an NCAA attorney claiming television networks pay hundreds of millions of dollars simply for “exclusive access” to stadiums and arenas.

The judge laughed.

The hearing explored if the litigation will be certified as a class. There’s a catch. If the plaintiffs want to make claims on behalf of current athletes (in addition to former ones), Wilken asserted, one needs to be part of the lawsuit. The judge asked Michael Hausfeld, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, if they could produce such a representative.

“We could,” Hausfeld said.

The attorney expressed reservations that, if named, the potential new plaintiff could lose eligibility or suffer retaliation for joining the lawsuit.

NCAA attorneys pooh-poohed the possibility.

“They have whatever rights they have,” said Gregory Curtner, representing the NCAA. “We don’t take away their rights.”

Yes, the same organization that profits from, among other things, video games that include the same jersey number, skin tone, athletic abilities, height, weight and hometown of “amateur” athletes is talking about their rights.

One internal Electronic Arts email from 2009 that’s part of the court record details the process tuning those not-so-random avatars to their real-life counterparts: “Check and tune key player ratings to ensure they stand out amongst the other players and are ‘authentic’ in their areas of expertise (eg. Sanders (VCU) top shot blocker, Chris Wright (Dayton) High Flyer, etc.).”

The same organization that, according to its confounding rule book, could punish an athlete who signed an autograph in exchange for a dime or who accepted a free ham sandwich.

That last one actually happened. Back in 2000, Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch had to repay $22.77 for a ham sandwich and brief flight that left him temporarily ineligible.

The athlete who stands up enters this world of make-believe amateurism, where rights are as illusory as a portion of the proceeds for, say, those athletes modeled in “NCAA Football 13.” The risk of such a move and the courage required isn’t small.

The legal implications are significant. Including all current athletes in the lawsuit adds the piles of television money being printed on their backs. Video games are one thing. The television issue could push potential damages — permitted to be tripled in antitrust cases such as this — into the billions.

The plaintiffs want to keep the athlete’s name, whenever he or she is added, secret. The judge didn’t seem moved.

Even so, how could the athlete keep the participation under wraps? How will his coach react to the inevitable distraction? His teammates? His athletic director? His conference commissioner, as the athlete takes aim at the machinery of the NCAA his livelihood revolves around?

It’s one thing for an athlete to express dissatisfaction with the current system; the consequences of joining the lawsuit that could obliterate the model will ripple around the country. Standing up, really, is just the beginning.

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October 31, 2011

With Thanksgiving just behind us and Christmas coming up when eating meals together is important, I began to wonder what Jesus said or did to connect food to Christian spiritual life.

Celebrating both religious and family occasions with meals brings us in tune with the Gospels and their many references to food. Someone called it "eating your way with Jesus through Luke's Gospel." Read and reflect on the chapters cited while noticing eating and food.

Jesus compares the beginnings and growth of God's reign to a mustard seed, the tiniest of seeds which becomes such a great tree that birds can nest in it (Matthew 13; Luke 13).

He likens growing and developing faith to yeast which causes the bread to rise (Luke 13) and to salt which is useless when it loses its savour. Jesus tells the parable of the sower (Matthew 13), showing the importance of being receptive to God's word.

Jesus reaches out to all: sinners and saints, the sick and maimed, the needy and rejected, the poor and rich. He knows that eating together is one of the best ways to relate to people; it fosters community and makes sharing easier. So Jesus talks about wedding feasts and banquets (Luke 14 and 15; Matthew 22), including one where street people are brought in and another for the prodigal son.

Jesus becomes guest, host and teacher at meals. He goes to the homes of the rich to share their meals: the tax collector, Levi (Luke 5) who prepares a banquet for Jesus; the chief tax collector, Zaccheus, a sinner (Luke 19) whose home Jesus asks to visit. He eats with Simon the leper (Matthew 6). Jesus responds to those who criticize him that he came for sinners.

Jesus, seen saying grace with his disciples, shared meals with many.

Jesus, seen saying grace with his disciples, shared meals with many.

Jesus also shares time and meals with his disciples and friends, Mary, Martha and Lazarus (John 12). Attending a wedding at Cana (John 2), he performs his first miracle for food, changing water into wine.

This eating and drinking brings forth the accusation against Jesus and his disciples that they are gluttons instead of fasting as the Pharisees (Luke 7) do. But Jesus tells them fasting is for another time. As well, the Gospels do tell us about Jesus fasting as well as feasting.

When multitudes who have come a long distance to hear him are hungry, the disciples want to tell them to go home to eat. Instead, Jesus multiplies a few loaves and fish and feeds the people (Luke 9, Matthew 9).

In the Last Judgment parable (Matthew 25), Jesus reminds his listeners that heaven is for those who, among other things, feed the hungry. Sharing with those who have less is, therefore, a requirement of Christian life, not an incidental.

Jesus teaches his disciples to ask God for their daily bread in the Lord's Prayer (Luke 11, Matthew 6) telling them of their dependence on God for food (Luke 12). Each fall, we realize how true this is with the abundance of our crops and gardens fed by the sun and the rain God provides. Jesus advises the gardener to cut down the barren fig tree (Luke 13) since it has failed in its task to provide food and is wasting good soil.

In the Synoptics, at the Last Supper Jesus gives us his body and blood in bread and wine, common staple food as he tells us he is the bread of life in John 6. Jesus wants to remain with us as our spiritual nourishment.

When Jesus appears after the resurrection, his disciples only realize he is truly alive after he requests food and eats it with them (Luke 24; John 2). The Emmaus disciples recognize him in the breaking of the bread (Luke 24).

Food is one of God's greatest blessings. It gives us sustenance and enables us to accomplish the work God has given us. Our first parents were placed in a garden where food would be abundant and we have been given the soil to till.

Jesus, by his words and actions, shows us the spiritual value of food. He enjoys food, sharing with others and in the process reaching out to them. What greater testimony do we need for the celebration of table companionship and food?

Being grateful for our food and celebrating joyfully with family and friends around a dinner table is truly a spiritual experience, one which we need to cultivate, especially in our busy lives.

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  Time marches on. It was 1979 when Wynton Marsalis, then a teenager, a student at Julliard and new to New York City having arrived from The Crescent City, was invited – with nudging from James Williams and Bobby Watson, band members themselves at the time – to join Art Blakey and become a Jazz Messenger. His debut recording as a leader came just two years later, and six years hence, in the summer of 1987, the first performance at the behest of Lincoln Center took place. In 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center – the expansion and establishment of a jazz “wing” of the famed institution -- opened and the orchestra had, perhaps, the best home known to jazz in the world with jazz’s most visible figure serving as its Artistic Director.
  This Marsalis – the trumpet-playing Marsalis – made his first Columbia appearance, likewise, in 1987, then leading a quartet. He’s graced Columbia and Jazz Series stages on various occasions since, leading either small- or mid-sized-ensembles or the famed Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Of late, though, there has been a gap between visits – five years to be more precise, his last visit taking place in 2011. And so we’re extremely pleased to welcome Mr. Marsalis back – this time with not only the big band of note, but also Catherine Russell, one of today’s very special vocalists will be joining him.
  She is affectionately referred to as “jazz royalty” – and with good reason. She’s the daughter of Luis Russell – Louis Armstrong’s musical director for a decade in the 1940s-1950s. Turns out Ms. Russell grew up frequently in the presence of Mr. Marsalis’ idol and de facto mentor. To say Russell – who performed as part of the Jazz Series three seasons ago – knows the music, all of the music from the torch singers of the 1920s to the present, would be an understatement. In addition to being an accomplished and powerful singer-dynamo and band leader herself – Ms. Russell’s  credits include serving as “backup singer” for an extended period of time for the likes of the late David Bowie and doing so on an ongoing basis for pop world heroes Michael McDonald, Steely Dan and Boz Scaggs, among others. Twenty feet from stardom? Don’t think so. She is stardom. To have Russell serve as vocal foil to the JALC Orchestra… now that is special.

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Emma Watson has been studying at Brown University in Rhode Island, trying to obtain her Bachelor's degree in English. She has been studying so much, in fact, that she has had to turn down recent films, in order to focus on her finals.

“Emma is in demand with Hollywood directors but has so much to focus on with her studies that she has had to pass on a few things – she simply can’t do everything,” a source explained to The Mirror. “It’s tough but she believes it was the right thing.”

Watson enrolled in the Ivy League university in 2009, but had to temporarily drop out to finish the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise. She later enrolled in the Oxford University in England, but again, had to take a break to finish The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Now, the 23-year-old is determined to stay in school and finish her degree.

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