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September 23, 2000
Mr. Jonathan G. Katz, Secretary
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549-0609
Re: File No. S7-13-00
Revision of the Commission's Auditor Independence Requirements
Dear Mr. Katz:
I want to offer my support for the changes the Commission is proposing for auditor independence. I commend you and your committee for this initiative aimed at improving and modernizing the public accounting profession.
My years of experience have taught me that two of the most important qualities in our profession are reliability and integrity. I have also learned that perception is often times as important as reality. The work done by public accountants must be both independent and perceived by investors and others in the public arena as independent. Anything that compromises that position should not be tolerated as our financial markets, indeed our entire business community, rely totally on this position to function.
I reviewed the proposed rule amendments and also the hearing testimony from the hearing held July 26, 2000. Like many of those providing testimony, I believe auditor independence will be best achieved by curbing the proliferation of non-audit services provided by a public accounting firm to its audit clients. I think an outright ban on these non-audit services is the only way to guarantee compliance. There are plenty of non-audit clients that audit firms can pursue to provide their non-audit services. At a minimum, the proposed proxy disclosure requirements will help the public understand the relationship an entity has with its public accounting firm.
There are many non-audit services that could, potentially, impair independence. Certainly any outsourcing of the internal audit function to the organization's external auditing firm impairs independence. But we must also look deeper and review the services that are not so obvious in their ability to impair independence. Services such as financial information systems design and implementation, appraisal or valuation services, actuarial services, human resources and many management functions must also be reviewed. I have always believed that auditors cannot function as a part of client management and remain independent. It is human nature, especially when fees are involved.
Now is the time to strengthen and modernize our profession and the proposed SEC rule amendments regarding auditor independence do just that. I urge you to go forward with these needed changes including the relaxing of restrictions on investment and employment imputed to a public accounting firm.
Thank you and all the Commissioners, I look forward to working under the new guidelines.
Victoria Earnest, C.P.A.
Jefferson Wells International, Inc.

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by Jim Harris
NASA will launch its final shuttle flight next month. Oh, they're making brave pronouncements about "new directions," "operating more efficiently" and such, but everyone knows that NASA is kaput. Their cash flow is drying up quicker than a day-old 7-11 pretzel under a heat lamp.
The good news is that now the U.S. can spend all those billions on the sick and the poor. In fact, a new government program has been set up for just that purpose. It's called "Health And Happiness Are Here Again," (HAHAHA), and it will be administered by billionaire businessman Donald Trump.
Trump, host of TV's "Celebrity Apprentice" and on-again, off-again presidential candidate, is a well-known opponent of NASA, as evidenced by this excerpt from a recent commencement address he gave to graduates of his (unaccredited) Trump University:
"We are all familiar with liberal hoaxes like global warming and evolution and President Obama's place of birth, but perhaps the cruelest deception foisted on the public is the idea that space exploration and scientific research are important pursuits. Let me tell you young folks something: curiosity has killed a lotta cats out there. You shouldn't be admiring reckless risk-takers like John Glenn or Neil Armstrong. You need to have down-to-earth heroes, big-time money-makers like Ben Bernanke, Bill Gates, Suze Orman and me. If you want adventure, go to a movie.
"In the new America, you don't need to hitch your wagon to a star. Just hitch it to someone else's wagon, and follow the money trail. Neither do you need to be a visionary. Your mantra should be not 'I have a dream,' but 'I have a scheme.' Thank you, and please leave your caps and gowns with the attendants on your way out so we can recycle them."
Of course, NASA might not disappear completely if it can raise some operating money on its own. Several attempts are in the works:
One shuttle is for sale on eBay, another is being turned into condos, and yet another is being bought by a local diner to be used as an ice cream stand. The Philadelphia Visitors Bureau has also expressed interest in having a tourist-laden shuttle pulled around the historic district by a horse.
Additional funds have also been raised by licensing patented NASA catch phrases to commercial products:
"Beam me up, snotty." (Kleenex)
"Houston, we've got a Waffle." (Eggo)
"The Right Stuffing." (Hamburger Helper)
"We have liftoff!" (The Living Bra)
"One small step for Spam." (canned meat)
In Florida, the shuttle launch pad is being rented out as a training facility for bungee jumpers, and the shuttle hangar has been converted to a trendy nightspot, "The 250,000 Mile-High-Club," complete with exotic dancers in see-through space suits.
According to NASA Chairman Werner Von Wonderbread, "If all of these fundraising projects work out, we stand to make hundreds of dollars, which would allow us to continue with our plans for a manned mission to Cleveland (via Greyhound bus) scheduled for 2025."
Sadly, a lot of NASA technicians are out of work now. They're so vastly over-qualified for any other job that no one will hire them. Who wants a rocket scientist packing their groceries? It's just too intimidating.
Consequently, many of them are now applying to HAHAHA for financial assistance, but according to Chairman Trump, "All of our money is tied up in administrative expenses — training seminars in Hawaii, company jets, stuff like that. We hope that some of it will eventually trickle down to the needy."
Taking advantage of the new dearth of manned flights, private companies are already entering the business of space:
•Toyota is building a rocket (technicians still working out a few kinks regarding acceleration), as are the Pep Boys and Walmart.
•The Chinatown Rocket Company is planning to offer a $20 round-trip to Jupiter.
•Playboy is building a "Space Mansion." ("What happens in space stays in space.")
•Canaveral Cruise Lines is building a luxury spaceship equipped with gourmet food, rock-climbing wall and shuffleboard court. ("It's just like being on Earth!")
Personally, I can't wait. The sooner I can escape from this crazy planet, the better. As long as I don't have to be accompanied by Donald Trump.


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Gum Disease Can Lead to an Unhealthy Heart
You've repeatedly heard it from your dentist since your very first teeth cleaning and checkup: brush twice a day and don't forget to floss. But this advice may contribute more to your health than a mouth full of cavity-free teeth.
There is research demonstrating a connection between gum disease and cardiovascular disease. This information is relatively recent and less well established when compared with other known risk factors for heart disease such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
What's the Connection?
Gum, or periodontal, disease is a collection of inflammatory diseases affecting the tissues that surround and support the teeth.
Periodontal disease involves progressive loss of the bone around teeth which may lead to loosening and eventual loss of teeth if untreated. It is caused by bacteria that adhere to and grow on tooth surfaces, particularly in areas under the gum line.
These bacteria can gain access to the bloodstream, triggering inflammation in the body. Like with any infectious disease, your body starts to react. The inflammatory reaction can be severe with infections like the flu: you get a fever, your white blood cell count goes up, etc. With periodontal disease, the level of inflammation is much less severe and is usually not high enough to cause these systemic symptoms. However, the chronic, low level of inflammation may be enough to bother the blood vessels and help trigger vascular disease.
In this case, the low level of inflammation is sensed by white blood cells present in atherosclerotic, or hardened, blood vessels, which in turn produce a variety of factors that may worsen the disease process.
In addition, there is some evidence that periodontal bacteria can attach to the fatty plaques in blood vessels, amplifying the inflammatory process, which can lead to heart attack or stroke.
This mechanism is similar to periodontal bacteria attaching to heart valves, which can lead to a serious infection of the heart lining known as endocarditis.
Heart disease is caused by the thickening of the walls of the coronary arteries.
Patients with periodontal disease typically have elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, an independent risk predictor of cardiovascular disease. CRP is a blood test that detects the level of inflammation in the body.
More About Bacteria and Your Heart
But it isn't just bacteria in the mouth that can hurt your heart. Simple illnesses such as a cold or the flu can significantly increase the risk of heart attacks and stroke in susceptible people. During the course of acute respiratory track infections in elderly patients, the risk of suffering a heart attack is up to four-fold higher than usual. Many cardiologists encourage their patients to get an annual flu shot.
In addition, patients should pay attention to suspicious symptoms that may signal heart disease, such as chest tightness or excessive shortness of breath, occurring during respiratory track infections.
Although the flu vaccine was not as effective this year, due to problems with formulation, people should not disregard its ability to prevent infection. The flu vaccine has and will continue to save many lives in the future.
There are many illnesses that may seem unrelated but that truly impact the function and health of the heart. The best resolution is to be aware of your health risks and to take the proper precautions to ensure healthy living.
This article originally appeared in UC Health Line (2/28/2008), a service of the NetWellness.org Academic Health Center Public Relations Department and was adapted for use on NetWellness with permission, 2006.
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Go to the Heart Disease health topic.


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Ok girls here is an interesting poll for u.....
i think i will grab him anyways!!
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Poll - no. 23 poster
Ok girls here is an interesting poll for u.....
i think i will grab him anyways!!
I'd add a lighting storm to that scenario... He could be holding a knife and telling me 'May I peel the flesh off your bones?' and I'd still go 'Eeeeck, Jimmy!!!' and I would jump on his neck.
hey you guys just came by to say hi to you all... i like the site it's good.
and i think my answer for the poll shall be A =D...or depends on what creative is.....
I am glad to say that I now have an actual footage of what would happen if tall, dark and handsome Jim was at my door, if you go on the N23 main page and you select the middle section, you'll know what I'm talking about.
I am such a girl!
*taking another cold shower*
I just voted on the poll and the total of vote is 23.....isn't that weird lol
**I Love Jim Carrey** ~ "We've got no food...we've got no jobs...our pets heads just fallen off!!"
That means you're the chosen one. You WILL see Jim standing in the door in the dead of the night...
Hey! I was at the theaters today and we walked by the poster and out of no where our drinks spilled all over the carpet! I'd haate to have to be the person to clean those floors tonight! lqtm
"No time outs. Only DEATH!"
"I don't like to brag and I won't cuz I don't have to!"
My husband actually scared me in the middle of the night...
Since I don't see my husband very often, once at night he came into
my room, I thought it was a spectre (ghost, stranger), I was half awake and I screamed at him..
"What do you want",
"Why are you here"!
"Get out" then I realized
it was my husband, he just stared at me like "What are you saying"
Now I laugh, but at the time I was terrified.
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By Quentin Fottrell
Many Apple fans didn't wait for the company to unveil its new MacBook laptops to put their older models up for sale.
Even before Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the new MacBook Air and Pro models at the company's annual event for technology developers Monday, resale sites reported record traffic. "Yesterday was our highest day ever for overall Macbook trade-ins," says Gerald Kimber-White, a spokesman for resale site Gazelle.com. And traffic was double that today. Resales had been in a five-month decline until this week, says Jeff Trachsel, CEO of Nextworth.com, another site that saw a big spike today. eBay Instant Sale saw a 50% increase in the number of trade-in offers generated for MacBooks of all models compared to the same day the week prior, a company spokesman said.
Those listing their MacBooks now hope to beat the expected glut of old models on the market, experts say. An 11-inch MacBook purchased for $999 in 2010 might now fetch less than $250, experts say, and prices will only drop from here. "Apple consumers are becoming more mindful of this," Kimber-White says. They're impatient and increasingly eager to offload their older models as early as possible so they have more cash to pre-order the new one, says Traschel. There's usually a diehard group of Apple devotees who always upgrade — whether it's a new MacBook, iPad or iPhone. For those who want to pick up a used MacBooks, Yung Trang, president of TechBargains.com, says now may be the time to buy – when there's a buzz among Apple fans for the new products. "It's not usually that active a market," he says. "A new Dell laptop wouldn't necessarily result in a glut of new Dells on the market. But Apple fans are very loyal."
MacBooks tend to depreciate faster than iPhones and iPads, in part because people hold onto them for longer, Trang says. They lose around 70% of their value in just two years, Kimber-White says. iPhones, however, are often sold for just 50% of their original retail price, according to a study by Priceonomics, a price comparison site. And, in some cases, by reselling people can upgrade to a new model for free. However, Traschel says that MacBooks – unlike iPhones and iPads – don't fall 20% or so in price immediately after the new models hit the market. "This is a less mature market than the market for iPads and iPhones and a far less volatile one," he says.


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So you thought Netanyahu is tough on terrorism? Not exactly
Last week, our government sent my daughter's murderer, Ahlam Tamimi, a pre-wedding gift.
Tamimi, the woman who engineered the 2001 massacre in Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, was released from prison by the Israeli government in October 2011. Along with 1,027 other terrorists, many of them murderers like her, she was freed to secure the return of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. Since then, she has been explicitly inciting audiences throughout the Arab world to further acts of terror.
Nevertheless, on June 7, Israel chose to deliver her the man to whom she became betrothed by proxy in prison some years ago. Like Tamimi, her fiancé and cousin Nizar al-Tamimi is a murderer, serving a life sentence until he too was freed in the Shalit transaction.
My daughter Malki, 15, was among the victims of the Sbarro massacre. For years, aware of the pressure from Hamas to see Ahlam Tamimi freed, my husband and I wrote and spoke at every opportunity about the danger and injustice of that move.
Even now, it is beyond our comprehension how the Netanyahu government could have included her in the swap. In the days following the release, revelations about alternate and feasible means – ones never pursued by our leaders – to rescue Shalit, deepened our pain. Now we are reeling from this fresh outrage.
Perhaps aware of the Tamimis' wedding plans, Israel's release of al-Tamimi in October 2011 stipulated that he remain in the area controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Any attempt to leave would amount to a violation, subjecting him to re-arrest and re-imprisonment for life.
Three weeks ago, the Arab media reported that al-Tamimi presented himself at the Allenby Bridge seeking to enter Jordan and was refused. Ahlam Tamimi claimed the Israelis had agreed to allow her fiancé to join her and then reneged.
The matter received no local coverage, so we contacted the Shabak, Israel's General Security Service, on May 22. We asked whether Tamimi's claim was accurate. Despite several followup phone calls and e-mails, it was only on June 6 when a response finally arrived by fax from the Prime Minister's Office. It curtly stated that "after consideration" permission had been given for Nizar al-Tamimi to go abroad subject to his undertaking to remain away for five years. It said he had not yet departed.
We immediately retained a lawyer to petition the High Court of Justice to have this decision reversed. We sent all the papers and affidavits to the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Justice. In addition, we faxed and emailed a personal letter to Netanyahu begging him to reconsider this move.
We asked the government's lawyer to agree to close the borders to Nizar al-Tamimi pending the urgent High Court hearing. We never imagined how ridiculous that request was. The following day, the government's lawyer responded to ours with the news that Nizar al-Tamimi had been allowed to cross over to Jordan three days earlier.
The disdain of these government representatives should not have surprised us.
Prime Minister Netanyahu himself has been nothing short of contemptuous toward victims of terror like us before, during and after the Shalit transaction. He ignored our two desperate pleas for Ahlam Tamimi's name to be removed from the list of prisoners to go free in the Shalit deal. The first of those was hand-delivered to him four months before he caved in to Hamas's demands. The second letter was published in the Hebrew and English editions of the Haaretz newspaper days before the release. Neither one elicited any response.
We have based our actions on principles of justice and security for all Israelis. Politics plays no role. Perhaps this is why Mr. Netanyahu has never deigned to answer us. A political creature to his very core, and a terribly busy man, he has no time for citizens who do not advance his career.
Though he clearly has Iran on his mind, we know the PM does make time for less-than-earth-shattering matters. Some recent examples:
- On March 28, he spoke to windsurfer Lee Korzits, who won the RS:X Windsurfing World Championship in Cadiz, Spain. "Congratulations Lee, you have honorably and successfully represented both yourself and the State of Israel," said the PM. "You are a champion, the best in the world. I and all of Israel hope that you will also win a gold medal at the London Olympics."
- On May 5, Netanyahu invited the players, coach and team owner of the Ironi Kiryat Shemona soccer team to his office to warmly congratulate them after they won the Premier League championship.
- On May 25, the Prime Minister phoned swimmer Jonathan Koplev after he won a European gold medal in the men's 50-meter backstroke. "Mazal tov. Your achievement is incredible. Keep your head above water and continue breaking records" he said.
- On May 30, Mr. Netanyahu gushed to Israeli Chess Grandmaster Boris Gelfand: "Yours is a huge achievement. I followed your moves and I was impressed. When you were thinking, I thought about what you were thinking. You created great interest among many people about chess thanks to your example. I congratulate you about your personal, and the national, achievement."
Why, we demand to know, did this government secretly delete the condition of the murderer Nazir al-Tamimi's release? This had been accepted by Hamas and was the last vestige of punishment that remained for two evil monsters. There is simply no rationalization for rewarding them.
Unlike the Shalit deal, this generosity will not return to Israel any missing soldiers. It does not benefit the nation in any way. But it will embolden terrorists everywhere. Tamimi will make certain of that.
Since the Shalit deal, she has traveled freely from her base in Jordan. On visits to Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia and Qatar, she incites crowds of fans to follow in her footsteps. She hosts a weekly prime-time TV talk show every Friday night on a Hamas satellite channel. Since March, her hateful messages are beamed to households throughout the Arabic-speaking world. She brags about her barbaric deed, declares she has no regrets, encourages others to follow and states her readiness to repeat it.
Many know Tamimi as the "star" of a viral YouTube clip in which she smiles joyfully upon learning that her 15 victims at Sbarro include eight children. She had thought there were three, she says.
This is the person our leaders – sworn to uphold the basic democratic principles of justice and fairness – have chosen to reward.
Precious Malki has been denied forever the right to life, marriage and a family. Now we must watch Tamimi, the embodiment of evil, living her life to the fullest. Courtesy of our own government.


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100 Best Coats
09 Nov 2012
BUYING a winter coat is a big thing. It's the seasonal piece you'll end up wearing the very most and it's something that also has to take practicality (the cold British weather) into account. And now, following those last few bare-leg days of autumn, is the time to commit to the coat. And we've found 100 of the best styles out there - from evening coats to short coats, long coats and fuzzy coats.


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slvrspoon1 needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 23 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
we want icons that really need to support our message of identity protection.
note: it'd be great if you could download the plugin to understand what we're trying to do with the site as well. it uninstalls easily.
there are currently 4 major icons on the page, 3 supporting the bullet points on the main page and another at the top announcing the latest data breach. there is no icon right now for the download of the plugin for id protection called myidprotector.
note: all entries with over 3 star ratings will recieve at least $20 in cash.
- clean icons that represent each bulletpoint of text
- icons that work with the simple design of the page
- a no spyware/adware icon
- NOTE: if you'd like to also submit changes to the copy or overall design, and you're accepted as a winner, you'll get another $100+
- ultra-generic clip art
- icons that feel like the site can't be TRUSTED
- icons that distract from the design and content too much