Day: August 26, 2019

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Trekking Through Compliance

The Science of Star Trek–Mirror Mirror and Transporters

Welcome to the premier of the Science of Star Trek, a podcast series inspired by my review of Star Trek, the Original Series in the summer podcast special series Trekking Through Compliance.In this series I am joined by Astrophysicist and  Healthcare Futurist Ben Locwin. In this podcast we consider the TOS episode Mirror Mirror as a starting point for the consideration of the science around the transporter.
 In this episode, a landing party Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura beams back up to the Enterprise. Interference from an ion storm, however, causes them to be transported into a parallel universe and a mirror image Enterprise. Now aboard the Imperial Starship Enterprise, the landing party discovers crew members who are mirror images of themselves and belong to an evil Federation known as the Empire. Their first experience is the torture of transporter operator Mr. Kyle with an agonizer for his alleged failure to beam the landing party up quickly enough. Immediately, Kirk realizes that a mirror image landing party must have been beamed aboard the real U.S.S. Enterprise.
Kirk, Uhura, McCoy, and Scotty impersonate their mirror image counterparts while finding a way to return to their universe. When Kirk and the party return, they find that their Empire counterparts were immediately recognized and put in detention. The Enterprise’s crew attributes this to the fact that it is easier for logical men to appear barbarous than for barbarous men to appear civilized.
Highlights include:
  1. Quantum transportation of information.
  2. While we cannot yet teleport, we can recreate.
  3. How does the telegraph signal explain this science used in Star Trek?
  4. What about the radio signals from the Apollo moon flights?
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Daily Compliance News

August 26, 2019-Uber got lost edition

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • How Uber lost its way. (NYT)
  • J&J faces judgment over opioid crisis . (FT)
  • Mandatory company praise. What could go wrong? (FT)
  • Doing business with the world’s 2nd largest economy? Better start making contingency plans. (NYT)
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FCPA Compliance Report

Episode 442, Serco Graphix DPA

In this episode I visit with Sacha Harber-Kelly, a partner at Gibson Dunn in the UK and Steve Melrose, a senior Associate at the firm. They authored what I think is one of the best summaries of the recent Serco Graphic Deferred Prosecution Agreement and they came on the podcast to flesh out some of their thoughts on the matter. Highlights from the podcast include:
1.     What is the significance of this Serco DPA?
2.     What was the court’s analysis?
3.     Why did the court deem the DPA in the interest of justice?
4.     What did the court say about the seriousness of the conduct?
5.     What was the company’s cooperation and how did that play into the court’s analysis?
6.     What would have been the collateral consequences to the company had it been convicted at trial?
7.     How did the court view the strength of the evidence brought forward by the SFO?
8.     What was the court’s discussion around whether or not the terms of the DPA fair reasonable and proportionate?
9.     What is the significance of postponement of the Statement of Facts?
10.  Does the Serco Graphix DPA provide any additional guidance beyond prior DPAs issued in the UK?
For more information on Sacha Harber-Kelly, check out his LinkedIn profile here. For more information on Steve Melrose, check out his LinkedIn profile here. To read the full client alert, The SFO’s Fifth DPA – High Five or Down Low? Too Slow !click here.