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36 Nabbed in October for Rhino Poaching
30 Nov 2017
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It was reported by www.rnews.co.za that 36 suspects, between 22 and 40 years of age, were arrested for crimes related to rhino poaching over the past three weeks."The Rhino 8 Task Team has been relentless in its effort to bring the down scourge of rhino poaching in the country, particularly in the Kruger National Park and Hluhluwe Game Reserve," said police spokesperson, Brig Vishnu Naidoo."The task team, which comprises of various government departments including members from various disciplines of the South African Police Service, Customs and Excise, the South African National Defence Force, Ezemvelo and SANParks Game Rangers, continues to work tirelessly to stop the merciless slaughter and dehorning of rhinos as well as that of elephants."He said that since the beginning of October to date, some members of the task team were able to arrest the 36 suspects in the areas of Acornhoek, Calcutta, Hazyview, Elukwatini and Skhukuza (Mpumalanga); Hluhluwe, Mtubatuba (kwaZulu-Natal) and Hoedspruit and Phalaborwa (Limpopo).
"During these arrests the team also confiscated four motor vehicles including a VW Golf, a Ford Ranger Wildtrack, a Nissan Navara; 12 unlicensed firearms including rifles; a variety of ammunition, silencers, a hacksaw, axes, knives, 27 cellphones and three rhino horns as well an elephant tusk," added Brig Naidoo.
"Most of these suspects have since appeared in various courts on charges of unlawful possession of firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, possession of dangerous weapon/s, trespassing, hunting a protected animal, kidnapping, assault, possession of remains of a wild animal, in terms of the Immigration Act for either being illegally in the country/without proper documentation and/or possession of suspected stolen property."He said that despite a multitude of arrests by the Rhino 8 Task Team, there still seems to be greater persistence by suspects wanting to poach rhino."It is with hoped that the arrest of these 36 suspects would serve as a warning and deterrent to other potential poachers.
"The strategies we have in place now are intended to significantly reduce the chances of poachers. We applaud the communities for their continued support in fighting this scourge," added Brig Naidoo."With this growing help from the communities, the days of poachers are certainly numbered. Poachers are warned that over and above facing criminal prosecution, we are coming after their ill-gotten gains in terms of the POCA (Prevention of Organized Crime Act 121/1998)."In July, the Minister of Environmental Affairs, Dr Edna Molewa, while reporting back on the progress of the implementation of the Integrated Strategic Management Approach of Rhinoceros, announced that a total of 529 rhinos have been poached since January 2017 while 359 alleged poachers and traffickers were arrested nationally.
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November 19th
http://twitpic.com/q6p2k – Jemaine has been told his facial hair is too hostile so he is considering this new look.
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It's like it's giving your face a hug. 🙂
Why are you listening to people who are threatened by facial hair?
Yeah, these chops are friendly – if you turn them upside down.
I think Jemaine is the rare one who could turn these facial flaps into a rad fad!

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'People's right to know rests on press freedom' – PCIJ
By Aika Rey
MANILA, Philippines – Freedom of the press does not only concern journalists but ordinary people's right to know, Philippine Center for Investigative for Journalism Executive Director Malou Mangahas said on Friday, January 19.
Mangahas made the statement at the Black Friday Protest for Freedom in Quezon City on Friday, which was attended by members of the media, campus journalists, progressive groups, and advocates to stand in solidarity in defending press freedom.
The gathering was held days after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ordered the to revocation of Rappler's business registration for alleged violation of foreign equity rules.
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Fraud. It's a concept that's been around since the dawn of commerce. And while fraud has always been a threat we all need to be conscious of, we've reached a new era in which everyone is at risk.
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Every online presence where monetization is occurring is ripe for fraudulent activity. Fraudsters all over the world are figuring out how to make money illegally in financial services, telco, ad tech, transportation, utilities, government, healthcare and obviously retail.
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Gynecologic Oncology Specialist, Obstetrics and Gynecology Albany Medical College
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- Albany Medical Center
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- Albany, New York
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- Mar 12, 2018
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- Obstetrics & Gynecology
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- Permanent
Albany Medical College seeks an individual to join our team as a full-time faculty member in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecology Oncology. The selected physician will participate in a full range of undergraduate and graduate medical education activities and all facets of clinical service. Clinical activities will be performed for patients within Albany Med Faculty Physician Group and its inpatient facilities at Albany Medical Hospital.
Successful candidates should be board-certified or active candidates for certification and must have the ability to obtain medical licensure in the State of New York. The selected candidate should possess outstanding clinical skills and must work independently and collaboratively with other health care providers and support staff. Faculty rank appointment will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. It is expected that the selected candidate will pursue scholarly activities that will lead to presentations at regional and national meetings, and/or publications in peer-reviewed journals. The applicant should demonstrate their ability and experience in teaching and patient care.
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology employs part time and full time 29 physicians, 4 Mid-levels, 2 full time Genetic Counselors, plus supporting administrative and clinical staff. There are four clinical divisions in the department including General Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Uro-Gynecology, and Gynecology Oncology. The department supports 24 residents.
Albany Medical College is part of Albany Medical Center, northeastern New York's only academic health sciences center, which includes Albany Medical Center Hospital, one of upstate New York's largest teaching hospitals. The hospital has expanded with construction of a $360 Million patient pavilion project that is now completed. Located at the heart of New York's Capital Region, Albany is a culturally and environmentally diverse area, with an affordable cost of living and excellent lifestyle for professionals and families.
Interested candidates should submit a current curriculum vita and complete contact information to the address below. Personal statements summarizing teaching experience, clinical and research interests, leadership experience and contributions to diversity are encouraged. Generous compensation and rank as part of a non for profit faculty group of AMC is competitive and commensurate with experience.
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To learn more about the capital region please visit www.amc.edu/greatplace
Albany Medical College is a private institution and a non-discriminatory AA/EOE (minorities and women are encouraged to apply).


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This event occurs weekly, on Sunday.
Town Center Corte Madera continues to celebrate summer with the annual Summer Music Series, set to take place every Sunday through August. Free to attend, everyone is invited to rock out to live musical performances in the beautiful outdoor setting of Town Center. Visitors will be treated to an exciting lineup in July, including beautiful jazz from the Audrey Moira Shimkas Jazz Quartet, tunes from the impressive one-man band The Fourth Son, and more.
Sunday, July 1, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Lorin Rowan's Caribbean Bleu)
Sunday, July 8, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Corte Madera Town Band)
Sunday, July 15, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Stephanie Teel)
Sunday, July 22, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (The Fourth Son)
Sunday, July 29, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Audrey Moira Shimkas Jazz Quartet)
(The Summer Music Series at Town Center continues every Sunday through August.)
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Insomnia, anxiety, addiction, racing thoughts, extreme sensitivity and reactivity: these are all the signs of stress. The stress many of us experience now comes from feeling little to no control over the demands of our culture wanting more, faster, and better. When we don't believe we are measuring up, our thoughts race with intrusive and cycling themes of lack, guilt, shame, judgment, criticism, loathing, and dread. We hope there is a magical solution that will relieve us from the insanity for good. We look for overnight miracles that need little from us because of how run down, shut down, and burnt out we feel.
Is it genetics or our childhoods? Can there be any other viable solution than a life of substance use, escaping into technology, and using whatever other distraction we can to outrun uncomfortable feelings and sensations?
The truth is, from the fields of neuroscience, neurobiology, and beyond, we know that regardless of genetics, early childhood experiences, or trauma, we know exactly how to heal the effects of stress. It isn't rocket science. In fact, it is very, very simple. However, our racing minds full of urgency and angst are looking for complicated solutions, analyzing, deducing, and using cognition and intellect so much that we don't recognize the solution even when it's being offered to us on a silver platter. It turns out, according to the now famed neuroscientist, Richie Davidson, that well-being is a skill.
And like any other skill we need to learn it. We need to cultivate well-being by repeatedly practicing the set of tools that bring our brain and body to the experience of it — with awareness — over and over again. And that's it.
We don't need to focus on problems that need to be fixed.
That's what's keeping us spinning in more of the problem. Rather, we need to learn the simple physiological tools that bring about the physical sensations of well-being (stability, calm, warmth, flow) and then sit in those sensations with awareness for as long as we can. Five seconds today, ten seconds tomorrow, sixty seconds by the end of week, and before we know it, if we are practicing often, we EXPERIENCE what it's like to feel well for longer than a beer buzz.
Right now we are trying to apply a psychological solution to a physiological problem, and it's never going to work. We can't talk our way into long-lasting transformation of the physiological effects of stress and trauma. Our over-activated nervous systems are what cause our anxiety and racing thoughts, not the other way around as we once believed. The physiological condition comes first and needs to be healed first. When that happens, the calm we need gets practiced into our neurobiology and we naturally become more patient, tolerant, and compassionate.
Once you have these conditions of well-being, watch how much better you sleep.


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1Psychology, University of Michigan, 2New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology, 3Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 4Anthropology, University of Michigan
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In 1967, John Vandenbergh conducted a series of remarkable experiments demonstrating that female mice mature significantly earlier when housed with an unrelated adult male as compared to being housed alone (Vandenbergh 1967). This "Vandenbergh effect" is thought to be one way that females can optimize the timing of maturation in response to environmental and social conditions. Intriguingly, a handful of cases from primate studies (including several from humans) offer tentative support for male-mediated maturation. However, whether female maturation is systematically accelerated by exposure to novel males remains untested in natural primate populations. Here, we investigated whether the onset of sexual maturation in wild female geladas (Theropithecus gelada) is sensitive to the social environment – particularly with respect to the arrival of unrelated males. Geladas are particularly relevant subjects for this research because gelada society features polygynous social groups (i.e., reproductive units) with frequent male replacement, and genetic data indicate that females mate exclusively with males in their unit. We examined the timing of all female maturations across 6 years of data from 21 distinct units. Our data indicate that the arrival of novel males triggers maturation for female geladas – a possible Vandenbergh effect. Furthermore, young females residing in groups with unrelated males reached maturation at a younger age compared to those residing in groups with only their fathers. Taken together, these data suggest that the Vandenbergh effect is a salient factor influencing sexual development in female geladas.
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Tulum is a location seen in the film. It's the last location to be seen.
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By the end of the film, a helicopter takes the survivors to Tulum, Mexico. It is a now a safe haven for the surivivors. Cherry now devotes her time to protecting people from the Sickos.


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Katse Dam is situated in the Malibamats'o River, three (3) kilometres downstream from where the Bokong River enters the main stream. The Dam is located in a valley between two mountains formed by basalt rock. The dam is a double curvature arch design.
The dam was built by Highlands Water Venture (HWV), a consortium of seven international contractors namely Imbregilo (a leading company) from Italy; Bouygues from France, Hochtief from Germany, Stirling and Kier from the United Kingdom and Concor and Group 5 from South Africa. The construction of the Katse Dam started in February 1991 and was completed in May 1997.
During excavation of the dam foundation, the rock conditions prompted a conservative modification to the dam design and resulted in the incorporation of the preformed joint which is 165 metres in length at the upstream heel of the dam. The joint is designed to reduce uplift pressures and increase the effective normal load of the dam.
Basalt aggregate that was used during construction was obtained at a quarry in a neighbouring valley and moved by a 2.4 kilometre long conveyor belt passing through a 1.4 km long tunnel to the tertiary crusher which was located next to the concrete batch plant.
The dam wall has got galleries that provided access during construction and were used for joint grouting. They are now being used for reading instruments, monitoring behaviour of the dam as well as for the control of seepage water through the use of sumps and dewatering pumps.
The construction of the dam wall was preceded by the construction of a 35 metre high upstream coffer dam which diverted the water from the Malibamats'o River through two diversion tunnels. Downstream of the wall, is a tailwater dam which is 17 metres high which creates a plunge pool to dissipate the energy of the flood waters which flow over the main dam wall through the spillway.
|Principal Statistics Katse dam wall and reservoir
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|Double curvature concrete arch
|Maximum height above foundation
|185 metres
|Base thickness
|60 metres
|Crest thickness
|9 metres
|Concrete volume
|2.34 million m³
|Volume of reservoir
|1,950 million m³
|Crest length
|710 metres at crest length
|Surface area
|Catchment area
|1,869 km²
Katse Intake Tower
The Katse Intake Tower is situated in the Katse reservoir, nineteen (19) kilometres upstream of the Katse Dam. The reservoir depth at the intake is 77 metres. To permit the selection of water at the optimum quality, four draw-off levels are provided, each with four inlets. The total capacity of the intake tower is 88m³ per second of water, through any four intake gates at a given draw-off level. The height of the tower from the foundation level to the top is 98.6 metres. The tower base is 5 metres thick with a diameter of 40 metres.
The Katse Intake Tower is the entry point of the water that is transferred from Lesotho to South Africa. The water begins its 82 km journey from Lesotho to South Africa from this structure.
Transfer Tunnel
The 45 km long Transfer Tunnel links the Katse reservoir with the Hydropower Station at 'Muela in Butha-Buthe.
There are five (5) ventilation shafts along the length of the tunnel. The shafts have been lined to assist natural ventilation during inspections and to allow the escape of entrapped air.


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ALISE 2012 Annual Conference
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The Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition offers doctoral students an opportunity to share information about their dissertation projects with the LIS community. Posters will be judged on the significance of the research topic to the LIS field, the appropriateness of research design and methodology, and a concise description of the results, as well as on the organization, clarity, and aesthetics of the poster. An award will be given to the student whose dissertation research and poster best meet these criteria.
Eligibility: The Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition is limited to 60 posters. Only doctoral students who have completed or are near completion of their research (e.g., the core data have been analyzed; the student is at the stage of drawing conclusions from the research findings) are eligible to enter this competition. The Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition is for dissertation research only.
Submission Requirements: To enter this competition, students must complete the structured abstract form (500 word maximum) and email it as an attachment in .pdf or .doc or .rtf format to the Chair of the Committee by October 3, 2011. Abstracts will be accepted in chronological order until the limit of 60 is reached. A waiting list will then be maintained. A preliminary judging of the first 60 abstracts will be done to determine whether they meet the eligibility criteria. Those that do not will be excluded and the students will be notified. Replacements will be selected in chronological order from the waiting list and these students will then be notified that their abstracts have been accepted for the competition. Students whose posters have been accepted must submit their posters (as a power point file) to the Chair of the committee by November 30, 2011. Failure to do so will result in elimination from the competition.
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|Now that we are half way through SD's 5 year plan I wonder if he maybe starting to have second thoughts ? As many supporters will 'know', especially those who have been following the Club for more than the last 20 years, there is seemingly nothing anyone can do to draw in to Gigg Lane a sufficiently high average home league crowd to sustain Championship football.
All the historic statistics support this view and currently Rotherham's average gate of 9000+, being the lowest in these season's Championship, is obviously way above anything Bury FC have or could command.
Therefore despite SD and DF's best efforts, which I think have been fantastic, I wonder if this realisation has dawned in the Club's boardroom.
The current transfer window will I believe give the clue to whether SD has lost heart or not. The best the Club can do is to try to emulate Crewe Alex under Dario Gradi and time has proven that his approach can only work for a few seasons in the Championship.
Whilst applauding SD's effect on the Club I fear more than ever that if and when he realises that he is flogging a dead horse with the Bury public, that the debts incurred in the name of Bury FC will leave the Club in the same predicament as Bolton Wanderers now.
Happy New Year !!
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|It certainly seems like fantasy to think that Bury could ever sustain Championship football for any period of time without racking up potentially fatal debts.


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I'm calling this a retrospective light because we pretty much flew through Croatia. We wanted to spend a lot of time here and planned to spend a lot of time here, but somehow it took us longer than we expected to get through Albania and Montenegro and we found ourselves under the gun a bit to get further North to Venice. Why Venice? Janet and the kids had flights to catch to visit with friends in England at the end of August…leaving just a couple of weeks to get there.
The Good:
- Cavtat. Pronounced Csavtat this incredibly friendly and picturesque town sits just a 30 minute bus or water taxi ride away from Dubrovnik which has been called the pearl of the Adriatic (with good reason). What's better, Cavtat had a lovely and free anchorage where we could catch our breath and settle in a bit. Unfortunately, Cavtat was the scene of a bit of drama involving our boat, an errant anchor and catastrophe averted by an alert Janet and some quick action. More on that in a blog post to come very soon.
- Dubrovnik. Game of Thrones anyone? Dubrovnik is a lovely medieval city in excellent state of repair/maintenance. It was a fascinating look into life in Europe in the middle ages and fun to wander a bit with the kids through the tiny cobbled alleys. We even found a playground!
The Bad:
- Camping Gaz. Actually, the lack of Camping Gaz. For some reason, in spite of being a cruisers playground, and host to more charter boats than I can count, it is impossible to get gas canisters refilled or purchase new ones. Now this is fine if your canister is full, or you have spares, less fine when you run out. On a positive note, I now know that I can cook just about anything on a barbeque, including pasta, grilled cheese and pancakes.
- This place is ridiculously busy. And to make matters worse, it seems that not all of the people out on the water have actually got any experience, training or common sense. More on that in the upcoming blog post noted above. The plus here is that this is largely a July/August phenomena as there are literally thousands of tourists who descend on Croatia for a sailing summer vacation.
The Ugly:
Nothing that can be blamed on Croatia. I'm expecting big things when we head back in September.
The Bottom Line:
We're heading back and expect to spend 3 weeks or more exploring what we can. Nuff said.


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For many in local government and the wider public sector, there is unlikely to be much time to take a break and clear one's mind of work related issues. The pressures of austerity, Brexit uncertainty, social housing standards, social care, health inequalities, air pollution and so much more don't conveniently take a long vacation over August.
However, it is important that local government political and executive leaders do take time out from time to time to refresh and to reflect. I hope that many will be able to do so over the next couple of months, or at other times.
Local government has experienced some massive and unprecedented challenges over the last decade and every year, these challenges have grown in their complexity and harshness. I see no evidence of any respite or that this relentless trend will not continue. Quite the reverse – in all probability, it will accelerate and the challenges will merely be amplified.
Even so, there is still a need to take time to refresh and reflect.
If I were such a leader, there would be many issues on which I might find myself pondering and mulling over, whether on the beach or in a vineyard, or at home or walking the hills, wherever I was.
So, what might they be? Probably high level rather than detailed policy or practice matters…
One: How should local government collectively make the case for local democracy based on elected councillors and mayors accountable to local citizens, and not to Whitehall; and in so doing contribute to rebuilding trust in politics, political institutions and politicians?
Two: How should local government demonstrate its value to local citizens, communities and businesses in respect of social, economic and environmental benefits, and demonstrate how local democracy contributes to this value?
Three: How should local government collectively explain to local citizens, community groups and business the impact of Government cuts to funding and policy changes; challenge the underlying political choices made by the Government; avoid apologising for consequential cuts and lack of investment as if it were at fault; and enlist local support to campaign for an end to austerity?
Four: How should my local authority be honest with the public as voters and service users? How do we stop pretending that we can 'do more with less'; avoid serious cuts without more funding; and that 'transformation' and different ways of working and partnering can off-set the full impact of cuts? How can we be open about the realities of 'rationing' and 'resource allocation'? And while we are at it, how can we finally cease using that dreaded, over used and far too often misused term: 'transformation'?
Five: How should we recognise local people as 'citizens' and not simply consumers of our services; engage with them in a respectful and intelligent way; and have serious informed conversations about policy and resourcing decisions?
Six: How should local government develop and deploy its leadership of place role in place shaping, influencing and incentivising behaviours, and partnering with the wider public sector, the voluntary and community sector and local businesses – all to maximise community well-being? And how can all local authorities demand greater devolution of resources and powers over the wider public realm and services?
Seven: How should local government nationally and locally contribute to addressing the critical challenges facing the country such as: poverty, including child and in work poverty; inequality of educational outcomes, health and social care; climate change; Brexit; economic and social growth; and so much more?
Eight: How do I take time out to have some time to chill, relax, refresh and retain some sanity, given the enormity of the seven issues above? This schedule is by no means comprehensive. And an intellectual consideration of any or all of the issues, which I have identified will, I know, inevitably lead to more questions and the need for wider analysis. However, I do believe these are the fundamental questions, which are worth considering if local government is to respond proactively to the current national political context, and if it is to best serve local people and communities – and be accountable to them as citizens.
Local government has allowed itself to a great extent (actually, I suggest 'too great') – to accept the Governments' narrative and its underlying political and economic agenda.
Local government has too often responded in managerial and technocratic ways and has seemingly forgotten that it is a form of political government. Local government is not an administrative arm of the state. It is first and foremost political and a very important part of the country's governmental structure. That is why we use the term 'local government'.
If we collectively do no more over the summer period than to remember that we are involved in local 'government' and find ways to strengthen local governance through elected councillors and mayors, then perhaps we will deserve our holiday breaks.


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The meter is just a gadget that's used-to gauge glucose's bloodstream degrees. Those who have been identified as having diabetes and have to check their blood sugar level mainly us this product also called a glucometer. Bloodstream is acquired about the finger in the individual using a little prick. Are you interested to know about blood glucose meters? The bloodstream placed in to the body sugar meter and is subsequently positioned on a check reel. The meter subsequently shows the amount in mg/ dl that it's adjusted to show. Because they could decide their blood-glucose degree in a subject of moments the sugar meter changed the in home-care of individuals with diabetes.
It has result in greater illness administration, that has decreased the dangers for diabetics towards the long haul and brief dangers related to hyperglycemia or raised glucose levels. Nevertheless, blood-glucose measures really are a device having been launched inside the previous 40 years. Blood glucose screens depended on mirrored lighting to look for the quantity of sugar. They certainly were costly cumbersome, and large and discovered mainly in hospitals current yards which are cheap efficient and little. These products that were early examined sugar within urine or the bloodstream of individuals struggling with diabetes.
Clark first produced by in 1962 the precursor for present products in the Cincinnati Kid's Clinic. The unit depended about the electrochemical response responses of the sugar molecule and also sugar or better-known as electrochemical devices. The blood sugar check depended about the response between Sugar Oxidize (molecule), Sugar (within the bloodstream), and air. The response created hydrogen peroxide and acid. The meter calculated the change in air ranges, that was not immediately unrelated to sugar within the body sample's quantity. The blood-glucose check that is early had reproducibility problems i.e. they certainly were not able to recreate their outcomes regularly.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, took to the House floor at precisely 10:04 a.m. EST Wednesday, intent on speaking about the young unauthorized immigrants known as "Dreamers."
More than six hours later, she was still talking.
Her marathon monologue — highly unusual for the House, which has no equivalent to the filibuster in the Senate — came as Republicans are scrambling to pass legislation to keep the government open. A short-term funding bill expires Friday.
Pelosi has said she will not vote for the measure; she is protesting its lack of protection for the Dreamers, young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, who have been shielded from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, an Obama-era initiative that President Donald Trump has suspended.
Her talk was quickly dubbed the DACA-Buster on Twitter. (Twitter users also noted, in admiration, that six hours in, Pelosi was still wearing her 4-inch heels.)
For hour after hour, Pelosi, 77, read heart-rending testimonies from Dreamers who had written their representatives about their lives. There was Andrea Seabra, who is serving in the Air Force, and whose father was a member of the Peruvian air force. And Carlos Gonzales, who once worked as an aide to former Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif. And Al Okere, whose father was killed by the Nigerian police after he wrote in a newspaper criticizing the Nigerian government.
At one point, perhaps running out of stories, she suggested she might turn to the Bible. "Perhaps I should bring my rosary, blessed by the Pope," Pelosi said.
An estimated 690,000 young immigrants brought to the country illegally have been protected under DACA, and roughly 1.1 million more are eligible but did not apply. When Trump suspended the program in September, he gave Congress six months to come up with a replacement. Democrats and their progressive allies had hoped to use the must-pass spending bill to carry legislation to protect the Dreamers.
In the Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has promised an open debate on immigration legislation if a deal is not reached by Thursday. In the House, Pelosi is calling on Speaker Paul Ryan to make a similar commitment. But that may not be enough for some of the advocates, who are furious that, as they see it, the Dreamers are being left behind.
"We want a negotiated solution that's part of this spending bill — not a vague promise of floor action after it," said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, an immigrants' rights group. "We're disappointed that a deal was cut without us, and we're on the outside looking in, and we're going to ask Democrats and Republicans who care about Dreamers to vote no."


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When I was a 1L, Professor Dershowitz told my section an anecdote about something a former dean here used to tell the students: "Movies are very important to us here at Harvard Law School," he mock-boomed, "choose the one you see this year very carefully." Thankfully, things have changed since that point, as the very existence of my position here attests. I've had a wonderful time working as Entertainment Editor of the Record for the past two years, from the first submission I received (which happened to be a very critical review of a classmate's book), to the final review I wrote two weeks ago. Special thanks to Anna Brook and to everyone who took the time out to send in their thoughts on a book, film, restaurant, DVD, sporting event, or, in one case, a trip to the beach.
If there's any wisdom that I can impart upon leaving HLS, it's that taking the time to occasionally zone out and watch a movie (or the entire first season of "Knight Rider," if that's what gets you going) can be extremely therapeutic. The combination of Netflix and TiVo, though not the best when trying to prepare for an Admin panel discussion, has prevented a former English major such as myself from hurtling headlong over the precipice of pure utilitarianism over the past three years. Just as importantly, it's helped me to keep some kind of point of reference when talking to friends and family who avoided law school, people who blissfully go about their lives without using terms like res judicata. So the next time you find yourself sitting down to watch a seven-hour marathon of "Scrubs" episodes you've already seen on a Saturday, or watching the second half of Rocky because they're playing it on AMC yet again at 2:30 in the morning, think of it not as procrastination, but as mental health care. And when the Admin books try to tear you away, just remember the saying popularized by our current dean here at HLS: "You've already won."


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Happy Valentines Bitches'
V Day is really a massive facade right? a Day where people are forced to unwillingly buy, gifts, cards and flowers, Mostly the predictable red rose if you are unimaginative or your significant other has REALLY bad taste in the flower department. We say 'I Love You' But do you REALLY Love them? Do you REALLY want to say it? Or is it all forced bullshit. I've said Love You to Boys since I was in primary 2 personally. But. I am a self admittedly a hopeless romantic, through and through. So does the fact I KNOW that the 14th of February is a commercially insisted day of fake-love? Does that comfort me? Being that I am alone without the lies and rubbish? The answer, HELL NO.
Not that as women Logic comes into it on days like this but I really don't know why it is exactly that this day out of every other day we especially feel the need to beat ourselves up and get so blue over the relationship status - Single. Every other day I know I would rather feel a little lonely but Happy in myself instead of in a Relationship that wasn't right just to pass the time or ease the pain of being alone. But today is like no other, I feel sad and lonely & on top of that, I love food, I love every type of food - good for you but mostly bad. A Moment on the Lips a lifetime on the Hips is a classic I constantly ignore, because for that moment - it's all worth it. I'm also not the type of person that doesn't find comfort in food, when I'm down there is nothing that sounds better to me than Macdonalds followed by BK then dominoes and 6 tubs of Ben & Jerry's but, instead of following this meal plan today I am comforting myself with salad and all things healthy in preparation of London Fashion Week in 3 teeny tiny days time.
Truly FML
All Sympathy or Last Min Valentines WELCOME.
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Issue 50 (2015)
Aleksandr Melnik: The Territory (Territoriia, 2014)
reviewed by Holly Myers© 2015
Patriotism without Propaganda?
Born in 1958 in what is now the Luhansk Oblast (the easternmost province of Ukraine), Aleksandr Melnik graduated from the Odessa Institute of Hydrometeorology in 1980. In 1992 he went to Moscow, where he founded the publishing company Andreevskii Flag and the St Andrew Foundation. In 2003, Melnik turned his attention to film and founded a film company, also called Andreevskii Flag, with which he directed his debut film, Terra Nova (Novaia zemlia, 2008), as well as his second and most recent film, Territory.
Melnik's Territory is based on the popular Soviet novel of the same title, written by Oleg Kuvaev in 1973 and published in the literary journal Nash sovremennik (Our Contemporary) in 1974. The novel became a so-called "backpacking book" that geologists and others often took with them on trips (Antipode website). Melnik himself says that he always packed the novel on his expeditions around the USSR, in Kamchatka and Chukotka, Sakhalina and Primorye (territoriafilm.ru). Long Russian novels with several characters and multiple plot lines can be difficult to adapt to the screen; Kuvaev's Territory is no exception, but Melnik's film also consciously deviates from the novel in certain significant ways.
The film begins in 1960, when the Soviet Union is in dire need of gold to finance reconstruction after a devastating war, as well as to fund growing military and space programs that must compete with those of the United States. However, gold discoveries are slowing in the Soviet Union's far northeast, a vast region called simply the Territory. The region's Main Geological Administration, located in "City"—5902 km from Moscow—holds a meeting and concludes that the geological surveying and gold prospecting in the Territory must cease.
The legendary lead geologist Il'ia Chinkov (Lavronenko), having sat silently throughout the meeting, stands up and declares his refusal to stop prospecting, convinced that there is gold in the Territory. Promising the Administration that he will find gold, he leaves the City and travels 1410 kilometers back to the Settlement, which is the center of the geological administration of the Territory. Sergushova (Kutepova), a beautiful young journalist newly arrived from Leningrad, announces that she wants to write about the gold of the Territory, and follows Chinkov back to the Settlement. (In fact, she is the one telling the story; her character narrates the film.) Chinkov recruits several more geologists to join him on his mission, sending them off on expeditions—alone or in pairs—across the frozen land to prospect along several rivers where Chinkov believes there might be gold deposits.
Here, the story fragments to follow these (and other) new characters on their various adventures. Many of these stories seem to be unfinished or missing significant details, so that it is sometimes difficult to understand what has happened to whom and why, unless you are familiar with the novel on which the film is based.
One example is the story of Malysh, about whom we know very little. A teenage prospector known only as Malysh, or "Kid," (Nazimov) confesses to his boss, Vladimir Mongolov (Beroev), that he sent some of the gold home in a letter to a girl he wanted to impress. Mongolov is outraged. "Is it your gold?" he asks rhetorically. "It's the state's gold, you criminals…" Malysh offers to turn himself in, but Mongolov dismisses the idea of destroying his life over one stupid mistake, and instead lets him go. It would be easy not to notice Malysh at all, but for this dramatic scene with one of the most memorable lines of the film. After all, according to Melnik's interviews, a main idea of the film is that these men dedicated their lives to serving the state above their own needs. The director even contrasts this story to the American Gold Rush:
We have something to tell, to show. They'll never make a similar film in America because this history of Territory is not typical for Americans. There, as we remember their Northern singer Jack London, everyone fought for gold for himself. But we mined gold in order to support the country after the war, to build, to launch Gagarin into space… This is a very important moment (Chernykh 2015).
The film may follow young Sergei Baklakov's (Dobrygin) journey more closely than that of any other character, even Chinkov. (In fact, the first character we see in the film is Baklakov: he is running naked across a frozen lake to chase down his dogsled team, spooked by a wolf howling in the distance.) Recruiting his team of dedicated geologists to help him fulfill his promise to find gold, Chinkov asks Baklakov to travel 500-600 kilometers alone by foot (a 15– to 20–day trip), and cross the Vatap River, in order to look for gold in Ketung. It is a treacherous trip, which should be traversed only in a group or by a highly experienced hiker. Baklakov, of course, agrees to do it. We watch his progress across vast and beautiful but frighteningly barren expanses of land, water, and ice (in a montage set to Musya Totibadze's "Ballad of the Big Mother-Bear's Children"). Coming to the impossibly wide and swiftly flowing Vatap River, he strides in, attempting to ford it without a moment's pause—and is eventually overcome by the current and swept away.
Then, we meet Tamara (Obutova) and her grandfather, K'yae (Vasil'ev), native people of this northern land. They hear a single gun shot in the distance. K'yae goes to investigate and finds Baklakov, dying alone in a tent, a black bird tearing into carrion on the ground nearby. K'yae and Tamara nurse Baklakov back to health using magical rituals and folk medicine. Friendship and mutual respect develops between Baklakov and his rescuers. Tamara gives him a ride to Ketung on her reindeer-sled, and he completes his mission. He makes it back to the Settlement, but he is almost immediately sent out again, and again. On what will be his final expedition, he sets out with a partner, "Gray-Haired" Kadorin (Shapkov).
On this trip, Baklakov discovers a huge gold deposit. Unfortunately, when the guileless young man tells Kadorin about the bit of gold he has retrieved, in order to show Chinkov, his partner betrays him—taking the gun and shooting Baklakov in the chest. Another geologist, Zhora Apryatin (Abashin), passes by sometime later, finds Baklakov shot, and risks his life trying to drag Baklakov's body back to the Settlement. Refusing to leave his comrade behind, but nearly exhausted to death, Zhora sends up an emergency flare. In the Settlement, the team has just learned that Gagarin made it into space. Celebrating and looking up at the sky in wonderment, "Kefir" Gigolov (Balakirev) happens to see the emergency flare and starts running towards it. The other men notice that Kefir is running, see the flare, and join him in the rescue. In one of the final scenes of the film, Baklakov—whom we assumed was a corpse—suddenly opens his eyes. The camera is focused on his face from directly above, so Baklakov's face fills the screen as he stares directly at us. No longer a simple, lighthearted, earnest and eager young man, he seems to have transformed into an old man, with deep lines on his hard, frozen face, his hair, beard, and eyebrows turned white with the frost. But now we know that everything will turn out as it should: Baklakov can tell Chinkov about the massive gold deposit, and the gold will go to the state, where it rightfully belongs. This is a more dramatic ending than the one in the novel, where we do not see how or by whom the gold is discovered, nor is Baklakov or anyone else shot for greed.
This is only a portion of some of the plot lines involving only a handful of all the many characters in this film. The other characters in the film include: "Scarab" Kutsenko (Shelestun), Bog Ognya (Sokolov), "Sashka Tsygan" Salakhov (Zhalsanov), Vas'ka Feniks (Sharakois), Andrei Gurin (Tsyganov), Konstantin "Uncle Kostia" Vasil'chikov (Fedorov), and Liuda Gollivud (Kras'ko).
Melnik appears to have several personal connections to the film. He claims to have treasured Kuvaev's novel since it was published, carrying it with him on expeditions around the USSR. Also, as a young man, he spent some time in the region near where the film takes place. Melnik worked with a team on silver deposits in the Magadan region on the far northeastern coast in 1976. Four years later, he worked at a polar station on the Laptev Sea, participating in expeditions to the Lena Delta near the Arctic Ocean (territoria.ru).
The message of the film is likely even closer to the director's heart than its setting. Melnik has long had ties to organizations involved in remolding Russian society along traditional values. The St Andrew Foundation, of which Melnik was president from the organization's founding in 1992 until he left to begin directing films in 2006, carries out projects intended to form positive attitudes in Russian society toward the state, the church, and the army. According to its official website, it stands "for the awakening in man of spiritual foundations that are firmly connected with the history and culture of the people" (RIA Novosti).
St Andrew, the first disciple of Jesus, was named the patron saint of Russia for his role in converting Rus' to Christianity. St Andrew is also an important figure for the Russian Navy: the Russian Navy Ensign, designed by Peter I and reintroduced in the Russian Navy in 1992, is known as the Andreevskii Flag because it depicts St Andrew's Cross, two blue diagonal bands on a white background. (Andrew is said to have been crucified on an X-shaped cross, which he supposedly requested, because he deemed himself unworthy to be crucified on the same type of cross as Jesus. The X-shaped cross has since become known as St Andrew's Cross.) The symbol for Melnik's Andreevskii Flag Film Company is St Andrew's Cross with a man's figure at the center.
As is evident from his interviews, Melnik certainly intended for his film to form positive attitudes in Russian audiences toward the state, to nurture pride in at least this part of Russian history, and to bridge the generational gap between today's grandchildren and grandparents. While not overtly Christian, the film promotes Christian values, including faith, humility, and fraternal love; resigning or submitting oneself to a higher power and larger plan; sacrificing oneself to serve the greater good. Indeed, Sergei Baklakov might be considered a St Andrew figure. After all, he is Chinkov's first "disciple" of sorts, readily agreeing to do as Chinkov asks of him, with unwavering faith in his leader. Other characters in the film describe Baklakov as a good and kind man, with a "simple soul." He endures physical hardship in order to save his rival's life. And, perhaps most significantly, Melnik alters the novel's plot involving Baklakov: at the end of the film, a greedy "Judas" (who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver), shoots Baklakov and takes the gold. We have no reason to think that Baklakov has survived the shot. As Zhora tries to carry, then drag, his body back to the Settlement, Baklakov never moves or makes a sound. He seems to be a corpse, until the moment when Kefir and others begin running to his rescue, and his eyes suddenly open. Betrayed and then resurrected at the end of the film, is he perhaps even a Christ figure?
There may also be political overtones to the film and its production. Territory premiered, after all, in the State Kremlin Palace, where journalists, actors, critics, veteran explorers, students of geology, as well as several state ministers were present. Sergei Donskoi, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, welcomed the audience and emphasized the film's role in promoting geology among young people (VIS). It might not be an accident that a film about large Russian gold deposits premiered in the middle of an economic crisis, amid plummeting prices for oil (or "black gold") and an increasingly devalued ruble. Fear not, says Melnik: you may think that there is no more "gold" left in Russia, but it is here. The country only needs new heroes, with faith and self-sacrifice, to find it.
When asked about the intention of the film, Melnik spoke about patriotism without propaganda and "the people living on our land [who] deserve respect for what has been, for what they have accomplished" (Chernykh 2015). Olga Allenova (2015), conducting an interview for Kommersant, seemed skeptical and challenged Melnik to refute her suggestion that the film is an idealization of the Soviet Union, of the state and its citizens, or an ideological project. "I think that the authorities will like your film, because you can build an ideology of sorts on it," she stated. Melnik responded that there is an ideology of the state, as well as an ideology of each individual person, which is his or her "worldview"—but that individual ideology is lacking today, as is any sense of personal responsibility for what goes on in the world. We are left, he said, without any internal orientation, searching for "some reference point." In Melnik's opinion, this is what his film offers viewers: an example of how to bridge state and individual ideologies, how to live one's own life but to live it morally, responsibly. Territory, he repeats, is a patriotic film, not a propagandistic one.
The film was budgeted at approximately 12.4 million USD. It brought in 305,000 viewers in Russia and grossed around 1.5 million USD at the box office (75 million rubles) (Kinopoisk).
Holly Myers
Columbia University
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Works Cited
Allenova, Olga. 2015. Interview with Aleksandr Melnik. "Zdes' net propagandy, a est' dobryi patriotizm," Kommersant 2 February.
Chernykh, Evgenii and Denis Korsakov. 2015. "Rezhisser 'Territorii' Aleksandr Melnik: Amerikantsy iskali zoloto dlia sebia, a my – chtoby Gagarin v kosmos poletel!". Interview with Aleksandr Melnik, Komsomol'skaia Pravda 16 April.
"Fond Andreia Pervozvannogo," RIA Novosti. no date.
"'Territory' Movie Premiere, Produced with VIS CG Financial Support, Was Held at the State Kremlin Palace" (Press Release), VIS Construction Group, 12 February 2015.
Antipode Sales Website for Territory
Territory, Russia, 2014
Color, 157 minutes
Director: Aleksandr Melnik
Scriptwriters: Mikhail Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Melnik, Oleg Kuvaev
DoP: Igor' Griniakin
Composer: Tuomas Kantelinen
Editor: Ekaterina Starovoitova
Production Design: Eduard Gizatullin
Producer: Anton Melnik
Film Company: Andreevskii Flag
Cast: Konstantin Lavronenko, Grigorii Dobrygin, Egor Beroev, Kseniia Kutepova, Evgenii Tsyganov, Vladislav Abashin, Gerasim Vasil'ev, Konstantin Shelestun, Konstantin Balakirev, Oleg Shapkov, Petr Fedorov. Viktor Zhalsanov, Oleg Sokolov, Andrei Nazimov, Dmitrii Sharakois. Ol'ga Krasko, Tamara Obutova
Aleksandr Melnik: The Territory (Territoriia, 2014)
reviewed by Holly Myers© 2015


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ASOS HQ STOCK RUN - London baby!
Last week we spent the day in London gathering new stock for our +ASOS Marketplace Boutique but this wasn't like our normal buying events, this was a private event held at ASOS Head office in Camden, exclusive to Marketplace Boutique owners. I was so excited as I pushed open the glass door and saw the trademark ASOS logo, truth be known a buyer position at ASOS HQ would actually be my dream job – if I didn't have Vintage Fever of course!
I was in my element when I walked in to find a clean chic room full of rails of clothing, carefully divided into each section, plus my very own Vintage Fever rail waiting to be crammed with vintage treasures and that's exactly what we did!
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Our very own rail
This is just one of the rooms. All this for me!
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Something for the fellas…
Snapped up this emerald green Levis denim jacket. Too Jazzy?
We have some rather jazzy numbers hitting store.
Happy hunting!
We picked a great mix of men and womens fashion pieces, bursting with colour and we can't wait to get them photographed and in store. Let the photoshoot planning commence!
When we were all shopped out it was time to leave but I couldn't resist a few snap shots on the way out….
Check me out in my bargain Vintage wool coat, purchased from Judy's vintage fair a couple of weeks ago for just £10!
I chose a simple vintage, high street mix, combining Topshop mom jeans (a revived 80's fit) and cut out boots with a plain 90's white silk shirt, another bargain at just £5 from Absolute Vintage.
Bye bye Asos HQ!
This has to be one of the best hand pick events I have been to and we can't wait for the next invite.
All that shopping certainly builds up an appetite so we decided to find an appropriate lunch venue, and when me and Cliara lunch that means happy hour and Tapas!
Las Iguanas it is then…
Sweet Potato fries are always a must and we eat these every time we go.
Happy Hour and we only had 2 each, well behaved I say.
What a day!
Worn out but resting with her new pals.
I want to say a huge thank you to Claira for joining me and helping me pick some amazing pieces. Plus the fact it had only been 2 weeks since her operation, her strength and determination is truly inspiring.
We have a ladies photoshoot planned this week so all new items will be added next week.
Also don't worry fellas we are also planning another shoot at the end of the month so keep an eye out for our new listings over the next couple of weeks. We aim to hit the 100 listing target in March, so watch this space!
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Whoo hoo the week is 1/2 over!!! I don't know how Monday comes around with lightening speed but Friday is like light years away! Hee hee.
Ok, I'm still posting these Christmas cards I've made for the school silent auction. Hope you like this one. I've decided to post in the order they were made...makes the decision easy for what comes next. LOL.
I cut this sleigh at 3" from my Gingerbread cart. The pattern paper in the background is from a recollections pack from Michael's. The patterned paper on the sleigh is a DCWV pack called the Christmas glitter stack. The red paper is standard cardstock from Walmart. I did some stitching with my white gel pen.
Be Blessed, Beckie
6 comments:
- Marlene said...
Very nice Christmas card. The red, green & white are the perfect Christmas color combo, and I love how you've framed the sentiment!
- October 5, 2011 at 7:54 PM
- Stacy said...
Ahhh adorable little sleigh Beckie! I love the striped paper and the stitching really makes the cut out pop!
- October 5, 2011 at 9:00 PM
- PinkBlingCrafter said...
Hi Beckie, Love the christmas paper!! Definitely puts me in the Christmas spirit!! Lovely card!! TFS
- October 6, 2011 at 12:29 AM
- Cely said...
beautiful card! i love that striped paper!
- October 6, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- newbie paper crafter said...
very pretty!
- October 6, 2011 at 8:33 PM
- Sherrie K. said...
Hi Beckie,
Great Christmas card. Puts me right in the mood to make Christmas cards:) TFS!
Sherrie K
- October 6, 2011 at 9:20 PM
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Two new Apple stores – designed by Foster + Partners and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson – have opened in London and New York, and while both channel the brand's signature look, they also have some moves of their own.
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October 20, 2016
Section: Interiors
These three cannabis retail shops – in Ontario, Colorado and California – prove that dispensary design is worth the investment.
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October 15, 2016
Section: Interiors
For the whimsical Penguin book shop in Toronto, Figure3 has transformed a tiny shoe-repair kiosk into a store that is wholly dedicated to the design-savvy publishing brand.
By Erin Donnelly |
August 25, 2016
Section: Interiors
During the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Canadian atheletes will enjoy vibrant and inviting social spaces that channel national identity using readily available objects.
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August 11, 2016
Section: Interiors
Tags: Canada, Interiors, Recreation
With Rooms: Novel Living Concepts, an exhibition of 11 contemporary spaces by three generations of Italian interior designers, the Triennale di Milano puts interior design at centre stage.
By David Dick-Agnew |
May 17, 2016
Section: Interiors
Tags: Installation, Interiors
Montreal firm Taktik Design employs bright colours and bold graphics for Sainte-Anne Academy, a decidedly modern elementary school in a historic building.
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April 20, 2016
Section: Interiors
Tags: Institutional, Interiors
In the lead-up to German design fair imm Cologne, we spoke to Sebastian Herkner about his special installation for the January show – Das Haus, an embodiment of the future of domestic space.
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November 3, 2015
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The firm behind Bar Raval and the Grotto Sauna is shaking things up in Toronto with its future-forward approach to digital architecture. Partisans is part of Azure's chosen five: Toronto firms that are climbing to new heights.
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June 11, 2015
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Bringing a Japanese flair to a Canadian identity, the architecture and interiors studio is part of Azure's chosen five: Toronto firms that are climbing to new heights.
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View on Motuarohia Island, Northland, New Zealand, 19 July 1914
Reference Number: PA1-o-136-13
Coastal view on Motuarohia Island, Bay of Islands, Northland, New Zealand. View incluses a bay, a beach and a hill sloping down to the sea. Photographed by Russell Duncan on the 19th of July 1914.
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Duncan, Russell, album 1, Reference Number PA1-o-136 (6 digitised items)
Duncan, Russell James, 1855-1946 :Photograph albums, Reference Number PAColl-3030 (14 digitised items)
Extent: 1 b&w original photographic print(s)Silver gelatin print, 24 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page. Horizontal imageSingle photograph
Historical Notes: This view shows where Captain James Cook first landed in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, on his first voyage into the Pacific, 1768-1771.
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Inscriptions: Inscribed - On album page - Cook's first voyage. Motu Arohia Island, Bay of Islands. The "Endeavour" was anchored under the S.W. side. This view shows where Captain Cook first landed in the Bay of Islands on 30 Nov 1769 - . It is assumed so because it was the nearest beach to the ship - . There is a cave in the point to the right - . This would tally with where some of the natives hid themselves. See Wharton's Cook p 166.
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PCAOB Standards and Related Rules: 2017
PCAOB Standards and Related Rules: 2017
ISBN: 978-1-945-49892-3 February 2018 1760 Pages
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Pursuant to PCAOB Release No. 2017-001, The Auditor's Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion and Related Amendments to PCAOB Standards, dated June 1, 2017, the PCAOB adopted a new auditor reporting standard and related amendments that will require the auditor to provide new information about the audit and make the auditor's report more informative and relevant to investors and other financial statement users. The standard and related amendments were subsequently approved by the SEC on October 23, 2017, and are effective as of audits of fiscal years ending on or after December 15, 2017 (except for the "Critical Audit Matters" section of the standard and related amendments, which have a phased effective date).This 2018 edition of the AICPA's PCAOB Standards and Related Rules includes the newly approved standard The Auditor's Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion (AS 3101). In addition, this title also features updated staff guidance, included a new question and answers section, updated guidance for firms filing the new Form AP, and a new Staff Audit Practice Alert to assist auditors in applying PCAOB standards when auditing companies' implementation of the new FASB revenue accounting standard.
Table of Contents ix
Applicability of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Standards 1
AS AS Cross-References to PCAOB Reorganized Auditing Standards 13
AS 1000 General Principles and Responsibilities 25
AS 1001—Responsibilities and Functions of the Independent Auditor
AS 1005—Independence
AS 1010—Training and Proficiency of the Independent Auditor
AS 1015—Due Professional Care in the Performance of Work
AS 1100 General Concepts 37
AS 1101—Audit Risk
AS 1105—Audit Evidence
AS 1110—Relationship of Auditing Standards to Quality Control Standards
AS 1200 General Activities 51
AS 1201—Supervision of the Audit Engagement
AS 1205—Part of the Audit Performed by Other Independent Auditors
AS 1210—Using the Work of a Specialist
AS 1215—Audit Documentation
AS 1220—Engagement Quality Review
AS 1300 Auditor Communications . 87
AS 1301—Communications with Audit Committees
AS 1305—Communications About Control Deficiencies in an Audit of Financial Statements
AS 2100 Audit Planning and Risk Assessment 111
AS 2101—Audit Planning
AS 2105—Consideration of Materiality in Planning and Performing an Audit
AS 2110—Identifying and Assessing Risks of Material Misstatement
AS 2200 Auditing Internal Control Over Financial Reporting 147
AS 2201—An Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting That Is Integrated with An Audit of Financial Statements
AS 2300 Audit Procedures in Response to Risks—Nature, Timing, and Extent 187
AS 2301—The Auditor's Responses to the Risks of Material Misstatement,
AS 2305—Substantive Analytical Procedures
AS 2310—The Confirmation Process
AS 2315—Audit Sampling
AS 2400 Audit Procedures for Specific Aspects of the Audit 231
AS 2401—Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit
AS 2405—Illegal Acts by Clients
AS 2410—Related Parties
AS 2415—Consideration of an Entity's Ability to Continue as a Going Concern
AS 2500 Audit Procedures for Certain Accounts or Disclosures . 283
AS 2501—Auditing Accounting Estimates
AS 2502—Auditing Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures
AS 2503—Auditing Derivative Instruments, Hedging Activities, and Investments in Securities
AS 2505—Inquiry of a Client's Lawyer Concerning Litigation, Claims, and Assessments
AS 2510—Auditing Inventories
AS 2600 Special Topics 355
AS 2601—Consideration of an Entity's Use of a Service Organization
AS 2605—Consideration of the Internal Audit Function
AS 2610—Initial Audits—Communications Between Predecessor and Successor Auditors
AS 2700 Auditor's Responsibilities Regarding Supplemental and Other Information 395
AS 2701—Auditing Supplemental Information Accompanying Audited Financial Statements
AS 2705—Required Supplementary Information
AS 2710—Other Information in Documents Containing Audited Financial Statements
AS 2800 Concluding Audit Procedures 413
AS 2801—Subsequent Events
AS 2805—Management Representations
AS 2810—Evaluating Audit Results
AS 2815—The Meaning of "Present Fairly in Conformity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles"
AS 2820—Evaluating Consistency of Financial Statements
AS 2900 Post-Audit Matters . 459
AS 2901—Consideration of Omitted Procedures After the Report Date
AS 2905—Subsequent Discovery of Facts Existing at the Date of the Auditor's Report
AS 3100 Reporting on Audits of Financial Statements . 469
AS 3101—The Auditor's Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion
AS 3105—Departures from Unqualified Opinions and Other Reporting Standards
AS 3110—Dating of the Independent Auditor's Report
AS 3200 Reserved . 511
AS 3300 Other Reporting Topics 513
AS 3305—Special Reports
AS 3310—Special Reports on Regulated Companies
AS 3315—Reporting on Condensed Financial Statements and Selected Financial Data
AS 3320—Association with Financial Statements
AS 4000 Matters Relating to Filings Under Federal Securities Laws . 555
AS 4101—Responsibilities Regarding Filings Under Federal Securities Statutes
AS 4105—Reviews of Interim Financial Information
AS 5000 Reserved . 597
AS 6000 Other Matters Associated With Audits. 601
AS 6101—Letters for Underwriters and Certain Other Requesting Parties
AS 6000 Other Matters Associated With Audits—continued
AS 6105—Reports on the Application of Accounting Principles
AS 6110—Compliance Auditing Considerations in Audits of Recipients of Governmental Financial Assistance
AS 6115—Reporting on Whether a Previously Reported Material Weakness Continues to Exist
AI Auditing Interpretations 709
AI 10—Part of the Audit Performed by Other Independent Auditors: Auditing Interpretations of AS 1205
AI 11—Using the Work of a Specialist: Auditing Interpretations of AS 1210
AI 12—Communications About Control Deficiencies in an Audit of Financial Statements: Auditing Interpretations of AS 1305
AI 13—Illegal Acts by Clients: Auditing Interpretations of AS 2405
AI 15—Consideration of an Entity's Ability to Continue as a Going Concern: Auditing Interpretations of AS 2415
AI 16—Auditing Accounting Estimates: Auditing Interpretations of AS 2501
AI 17—Inquiry of a Client's Lawyer Concerning Litigation, Claims, and Assessments: Auditing Interpretations of AS 2505
AI 18—Consideration of an Entity's Use of a Service Organization: Auditing Interpretations of AS 2601
AI 19—Required Supplementary Information: Auditing Interpretations of AS 2705
AI 20—Other Information in Documents Containing Audited Financial Statements: Auditing Interpretations of AS 2710
AI 21—Management Representations: Auditing Interpretations of AS 2805
AI 22—Subsequent Discovery of Facts Existing at the Date of the Auditor's Report: Auditing Interpretations of AS 2905
AI 23—Reports on Audited Financial Statements: Auditing Interpretations of AS 3101
AI 24—Special Reports: Auditing Interpretations of AS 3305
AI Auditing Interpretations—continued
AI 25—Association with Financial Statements: Auditing Interpretations of AS 3320
AI 26—Responsibilities Regarding Filings Under Federal Securities Statutes: Auditing Interpretations of AS 4101
AI 27—Letters for Underwriters and Certain Other Requesting Parties: Auditing Interpretations of AS 6101
AI 28—Evidential Matter Relating to Income Tax Accruals: Auditing Interpretations AS AS (Reorganized) Topical Index . 815
Attestation Standard No. 1—Examination Engagements Regarding Compliance Reports of Brokers and Dealers 869
Attestation Standard No. 2—Review Engagements Regarding Exemption Reports of Brokers and Dealers 905
Topical Index 931
AT Attestation Standards—Introduction 935
AT Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements 937
101—Attest Engagements
9101—Attest Engagements: Attest Engagements Interpretations of Section 101
201—Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements
301—Financial Forecasts and Projections
401—Reporting on Pro Forma Financial Information
501—Reporting on an Entity's Internal Control Over Financial Reporting [See PCAOB Release No. 2004-008.]
9501—Reporting on an Entity's Internal Control Over Financial Reporting: Attest Engagements Interpretations of Section
501 [See PCAOB Release No. 2004-008.]
601—Compliance Attestation
701—Management's Discussion and Analysis AT Topical Index . 1139
ET 100 Interim Independence, Integrity, and Objectivity Standards 1153
102—Integrity and Objectivity
191—Ethics Rulings on Independence, Integrity, and Objectivity ET Topical Index . 1215
ISB Independence Standards Board . 1223
ISB Standard No. 1—Independence Discussions with Audit Committees [See PCAOB Release No. 2008-003.]
ISB Standard No. 2—Certain Independence
Implications of Audits of Mutual Funds and Related Entities
ISB Standard No. 3—Employment with Audit Clients
ISB Interpretation 99–1: Impact on Auditor Independence of Assisting Clients in the Implementation of FAS 133 (Derivatives)
ISB Interpretation 00–1: The Applicability of ISB Standard No. 1 When "Secondary Auditors" Are Involved in the Audit of a Registrant [See PCAOB Release No. 2008-003.]
ISB Interpretation 00–2: The Applicability of ISB Standard No. 1 When "Secondary Auditors" Are Involved in the Audit of a Registrant: An Amendment of Interpretation 00–1 [See PCAOB Release No. 2008-003.]
ISB Topical Index . 1255
QC Quality Control 1259
20—System of Quality Control for a CPA Firm's Accounting and Auditing Practice
30—Monitoring a CPA Firm's Accounting and Auditing Practice
40—The Personnel Management Element of a Firm's System of Quality Control—Competencies Required by a Practitioner-in-Charge of an Attest Engagement
SECPS SEC Practice Section (SECPS) 1279
SEC Practice Section (SECPS)—Requirements of Membership
SECPS Section 8000—Continuing Professional Education
Requirements Effective for Educational Years
Beginning After May 31, 2002
100—Select PCAOB Staff Questions and Answers
300—Other Staff Guidance
400—Staff Audit Practice Alerts
PC Topical Index 1705
Section 1 General Provisions 1717
Section 3 Auditing and Related Professional Practice Standards 1729
RB Topical Index 1743


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I walked into the Public Theatre in complete innocence. At that time the Public was like a multiplex of live theatre, with as many as four plays on stage every night. I chose Curse of the Starving Class partly because of the title, and mostly because there was a ticket available.
Apparently in the cast was Olympia Dukakis, Pamela Reed and Michael J. Pollard, but it was the writing that blew me away: the words. They expanded my conception of what was possible at this level. Either at intermission or after the play I bought a copy in the lobby of Angel City, Curse of the Starving Class & Other Plays by Shepard.
Although I would later see another original production--Fool for Love ( with Will Paton the week after he took over the role from Ed Harris)--plus the PBS filming of the Steppenwolf production of True West, and a production somewhere of Buried Child, my main experience thereafter would be reading his works--other plays and play collections, and his prose pieces in Motel Chronicles. All about the words.
Shepard was a downtown Manhattan star before he became a movie star, and his lore was everywhere there. Wikipedia has him meeting Jessica Lang on the set of a movie, but legend of that time said he met her when she worked as a waitress at the hip downtown bar where he hung out.
Shepard influenced others, and helped establish a theatre of words for awhile (the most successful of which probably was David Rabe's Hurlyburly which made it to Broadway.) This was much to my predilections as a writer, though I realized that I was not comfortable enough with violence to write quite like he did, nor as a consequence would I reach such deep places in an audience. But those long arias of words, spoken in one play by an actor playing drums, were riveting.
obit refers to his play A Lie of the Mind as "great," at the time reviewers called it disappointing, as I recall. He seemed to fade into the firmament by the end of the 1980s, though he kept writing and acting.
Oddly then, it was only a couple of years ago that Fool For Love was first produced on Broadway. I don't know when Shepard was diagnosed with ALS, a disease that varies a great deal in his symptoms and progress, but always ends the same, as it did for my father. It's said that Shepard dealt with it with the same stoic dignity of his on-screen persona.
At the New Yorker, Patti Smith writes an intimate memorial. UK actor Stephen Rea provides an unexpected perspective. I had no intimate or even actual relationship, but he touched my life nevertheless, and that's as much as I can honestly write about him. Sam Shepard died at age 73.
|John Heard in a TV production of The
Scarlet Letter, made a few years after
Between the Lines.
I'd been thinking a bit about the actor John Heard just days before I read of his death. Specifically for his appearance with Liv Ulmann and Sam Waterston in the singular film Mindwalk. But when I read his NY Times obituary I was reminded of a long forgotten 1977 film called Between the Lines. It's survived in film lore for introducing an entire cast of young actors who became successful for decades (somewhat like the later The Big Chill), Heard being one of them.
The film was about an alternative newspaper in Boston, directed by Joan Silver. The story was conceived by two friends of mine, David Helpern and Fred Barron, and pitched to Silver and her husband after the dinner we all attended at the Orson Welles Restaurant in Cambridge. The script by Fred Barron, originally called Alternative Lives, was basically about the paper we had both written for, Boston After Dark/Boston Phoenix, with suggestions of the Cambridge Real Paper.
Recently I watched the movie for the first time in decades on YouTube. It's not very good. But John Heard's performance is the strongest. The script was obviously rewritten several times by different hands, judging from its flabby incoherence, and little remains of the actual ambience or people at the Phoenix (though there seems to be some of Janet Maslin in one character, and her relationship with her then-husband Jon Landau.)
There is one action that I recall was based on something I did at the Phoenix, though it was performed (by Jeff Goldblum) in a different context: when he punched a hole in the plasterboard wall, he was engaged in a satirical context with a conceptual artist; when I did it, it was out of frustration. But the one actor who looks the most like I did at the time was John Heard, though with a better haircut. So it was eerie.
As were the circumstances of his death. Heard, 72, was recovering from back surgery at Stanford University Hospital. He died unexpectedly in a hotel room in Palo Alto, probably only blocks away from where I'd been staying a couple of weeks before.
Heard had a few leads in film but settled in as a character actor in film and on TV--IMDB has five or six projects yet to be released. But he never got comfortable with how movies are made, he often said in interviews, and considered himself primarily a theatre actor. I'm sorry I never saw him onstage, since he clearly has the voice and presence for it. I still admire him in Mindwalk, though that film certainly didn't get mentioned in media summaries. But there are others who love it, just as there are rabid fans for his starring role in Cutter's Way. These things live.
May they rest in peace. Their work and their memory live on.


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For Part Two I thought I'd give you a mix from the rest of my boy & I's American travels.
After New York, we swung by DC for 2 days to see my lovely friend Steph. I didn't take many photos, partly due to devouring my own body weight in amazing Thai food the night we arrived and not being able to move far. We had an amazing week in San Francisco with a very pregnant Becky & dadda-to-be Rob and a few hot but wonderful days in Texas with super hostess Rebecca. We also visited North Carolina where I once studied. Partly due to too much fun with our amazing hosts Kristen & Thomas and partly because I was heavily dosed up on Benadryl as a result of the resident insects taking a liking to my blood, not many photos were taken.
I took "normal" photos of my friends and the sights but it's specifically the street photography I wanted to share with you as it's this approach to photography that's very close to my heart and continues to teach me so much. It allows me to document the beauty in the mundane everydayness of life, which isn't so ordinary after all. It's even more fascinating when it's a life very different to our own.
My absolute favourite thing about travelling is people watching. At home we sometimes people watch but soon it's time to pick up the kids or run some errands and you've forgotten all about the really interesting man you talked to at the bus stop or the curious little girl making a daisy chain in the park.
It's only when we are far away from home that we stop to take in our surroundings and really notice the people. I start by wondering what their story is…. where they've been and where they might be going. I wonder if they're married yet … picture them on their wedding day, where they go on vacation and what they might do for a living. It's a little bit crazy, some might say, but it's fun and good for the imagination… y'know, that little thing that we use less and less that can create stories and other amazing ideas?
At university, I read a lot of Marcel Proust's writing. It was not only his moustache that was impressive and one thing he said that has always stayed with me is this:
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
So I try to observe much more carefully. I discover new things every day that have been there for years but I've never seen before. The more years that pass the more I begin to form my own understanding of Proust's words and how it applies to me and my life. It definitely makes me appreciate my own town so much more and realise that there is always beauty there, if you just choose to see it!
Now you have the challenge of figuring out where I was in each photo. Any one want to guess?


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The vast majority of nonprofits say the recession and market turmoil of the past three years left their organizations in a weaker financial position, with minority-led groups faring worse than those led by whites, a new study says.
About 84 percent of more than 3,000 executive directors surveyed say their nonprofit were harmed by the recession, and 28 percent of minority-led nonprofits reported a severe impact caused by the recession, compared with 18 percent of white-led groups, says a brief based on Daring to Lead 2011, a study conducted by the Meyer Foundation and CompassPoint.
By the end of 2010, more than a quarter of nonprofits reported having downsized their budgets, while four in 10 had held steady and 34 had larger operating budgets.
The study could not conclude how many organizations met their budget expectations for 2010 and 2011, however, and it may be that nonprofits whose budgets increased due to federal stimulus grants may have to "right-size" once that funding runs out.
About 28 percent of nonprofits receive a majority of their funding from government sources, the study says, and more than half of those groups have operating reserves of less than three months.
Amid this worsening financial scenario, four in 10 nonprofit executive directors say they have only moderate financial literacy and almost the same number say they find financial tasks "depleting" or "somewhat depleting."
Nonprofit board members, on the other hand, tend to have strong financial skills, the study says, but executive directors say their boards are less effective in the areas of public policy and fundraising, and only about four in 10 boards are engaged in strategic decision making.
To better weather the recessionary environment, the report recommends that nonprofit executive and board members bolster their financial acumen; that boards expand their role beyond financial oversight to include long-term sustainability; and initiate conversations with funders about sustainable nonprofit business models.