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During this session, Dr. Barry Brause, Director of Infectious Diseases at Hospital for Special Surgery, presented an update on infectious disease prevention today. He reviewed various infectious diseases covering how they are spread, the different types of vaccinations available, and his recommendations for protecting yourself from infectious diseases.
Dr. Brause began his presentation by describing how patients with rheumatic diseases, such as lupus, have a higher risk of infection. The increased risk is related to the suppression of the immune system, also called immunosuppression, due to the underlying disease and the treatment associated. Treatments that suppress the immune system may include the following:
Immunosuppressive drugs for SLE specifically include the following:
Biologic agents are distinguished from other immunosuppressives in that they are produced by living systems, such as bacteria or plant or animal cells. As soon as one starts to modify their immune system through these drugs, one modifies the immune system's ability to fight off and prevent infection.
Immunosuppressive Drug therapy can increase the risk of infection, including:
In the event that a patient acquires a serious infection while on biologic agent therapy, the therapy is suspended. The patient may return to the biologic agent therapy once the infection is under control, if felt appropriate by the prescriber.
Similarly, where there is risk of surgical site infection, some immunosuppressive agents, such as biological agent therapy, may be suspended before or after surgical procedures to reduce the risk of infection. The patient resumes therapy after the surgical site has healed.
There is no evidence that vaccination causes flaring of autoimmune disease commonly, specifically in RA and SLE with:
Both of these vaccines are strongly indicated in inflammatory rheumatic diseases due to disease-related increased morbidity and mortality from respiratory infection. Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough)) vaccine is routinely given once in adulthood, and is helpful in patients taking immunosuppressive agents.
For those with SLE, vaccinations do not commonly make SLE more active. Dr. Brause recommended that patients get vaccinated when they are not experiencing an active lupus flare. He strongly advised against getting vaccinated when there is active nephritis (kidney inflammation). Uncommonly, HBV, HPV, and Norwalk agent vaccines may induce disease flares.
According to Dr. Brause, killed vaccines - vaccines that do not have any live components in them at all - are safe and effective. Specifically, pneumococcal, influenza, and Hepatitis B vaccines are recommended by the American College of Rheumatology.
Live vaccines, however, are not recommended due to the increased risk of infection from the vaccine. They should generally be avoided. In most cases, there are suitable killed vaccines that may take the place of live vaccines.
Live vaccines to be generally avoided include the following (would need to have discussion with physician caring for your lupus before considering):
Streptococcus pneumonia (pneumococcus) is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable illness and death in the US. Pneumococcal Infections can cause pneumonia, blood infections, meningitis and other respiratory infections. Pneumococcal infections are transmitted from person to person by respiratory droplets, as can be spread by a cough. Those who are at greater risk include, those 65 years old and older, people with heart or lung disease, asthma, sickle cell disease, diabetes, smokers, alcoholics, cirrhosis, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fluid leaks, cochlear implants, lymphoma, leukemia, kidney failure, HIV infection, damaged or no spleen, and immunosuppressive diseases and treatment.
Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPSV23) - is the older of the two vaccines currently available.
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV13) (Prevnar -13) – is a recently released vaccine designed to give more immunity and a stronger antibody response than the PPSV23 vaccine, but it has a more narrow range of strains.
Influenza is an unpredictable respiratory virus. It has the capacity to cause a large amount of inflammation of the larynx, trachea and bronchi with mucosal edema. It can damage and weaken the cells lining your respiratory tract, so they will not protect you to the same degree. This creates greater risk of developing influenza pneumonia and bacterial pneumonia.
Influenza can lead to further complications including:
Uncommon complications include: myositis, myopericarditis, pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Reye's syndrome, encephalopathy, and transverse myelitis.
Target Groups
People who have a higher priority to receive influenza vaccine include:
Influenza may be transmitted through saliva, nasal secretions and feces. Sneeze and cough particles can travel up to three feet. An infected person is contagious 24 hours prior to and up to seven days after symptoms of onset of the disease. Viruses can also continue to live days to weeks on dry surfaces. A person is most likely to be exposed through touching a contaminated surface and then touching one's nose, eyes or mouth.
Transmission of influenza can be prevented by thorough and frequent hand-washing and coughing into a barrier such as a tissue or elbow. One should stay informed about flu season, avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth, and avoid close contact with those who are infected, even if that person is on anti-viral therapy, and should stay home if ill. Lastly, one can get vaccinated!
Side Effects of Influenza Vaccines:
Patients should be screened for viral hepatitis before biologic agents are started. This is a routine practice. In patients with Hepatitis B, treatment with biologic agents may increase viral growth, worsening the disease. Therefore, biologic drugs should be avoided until the Hepatitis B is being managed, and only with approval by a specialist in hepatitis. If there is a possibility that a patient might contract Hepatitis B, the patient should be vaccinated. There is an effective non-live vaccine available.
It is not so easy for a person with rheumatic disease to protect themselves from shingles because only live vaccines are available. There are no killed vaccines as of this moment.
Shingles is the reactivation of the chicken pox (varicella) virus and is associated with aging, since the immune system loses some strength with age. Taking immunosuppressive agents increases the risk for shingles as well. Once a person gets chicken pox and recovers from it, the virus continues to stay in the body forever. At some point in life, it might start to remultiply in the nerve presenting itself as a band-like pattern on the body surface. After a shingles infection, some patients develop a severe pain syndrome in the area where they had the rash.
The shingles vaccine can help prevent shingles from occurring, and, when shingles does occur, it can make it less likely to get the pain syndrome (which is called post-herpetic neuralgia). Also, a person should receive antiviral treatment as soon as shingles is diagnosed, which can reduce the risk of postherpetic neuralgia.
As we mature, the value of the vaccine in preventing shingles decreases. It can decrease to as low as 20% as a patient ages, but its ability to prevent postherpetic neuralgia stays the same.
The shingles vaccine prevents about 65% of postherpetic neuralgia cases. Before taking this vaccine, it is essential that you consult your rheumatologist because this is a live vaccine. If you are on a biologic agent, such as Benlysta, the use of the shingles vaccine will likely be deferred.
Screening for Herpes Zoster Vaccine Eligibility
Screening for a history of chickenpox is not necessary in order to administer the vaccine to a person 50 years of age or older. Those who were born in the United States before 1980 are assumed to have been exposed to chickenpox regardless of their recollection of chickenpox.
Complications of Herpes Zoster ("Shingles") Infection
The Herpes Zoster (Shingles) Vaccine:
For those anticipating receiving an immunosuppressive medication, the Zoster vaccine should be administered at least 14 days before initiation of immunosuppressive therapy, although some experts advise waiting a full month after zoster vaccination to begin immunosuppressive therapy.
For those who are immunocompromised and on immunosuppressive therapies such as:
Tetanus is a disease caused by bacteria that enters the body through breaks in the skin, and the symptoms are characterized by painful muscle spasms, breathing problems and paralysis.
Diphtheria is a disease that causes a thick coating in the back of the nose or throat, making it difficult to breathe and swallow. It may also attack the heart and nerves.
Pertussis, also called "whooping cough" is highly contagious, causing prolonged, distinct coughing, and remains incompletely controlled in the U.S. There is currently a worldwide epidemic of pertussis.
Tetanus, Diphtheria and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccine
The Tdap vaccine acts as a defense against whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria. It is recommended that this vaccine be given once in adulthood. It is not a live virus vaccine.
Side Effects of Tdap Vaccine
Pain (67%), redness, swelling at injection site (20%); fever (1%), headache (40%), tiredness (33%), nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (1-3%), chills, body/joint aches, rash, swollen glands.
Patients are advised not to take this vaccine if they have had a life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of any tetanus, diphtheria or pertussis-containing vaccines or if they have had a severe allergy to any part of this vaccine.
Patients should not take this vaccine if they have had a coma or multiple seizures within 7 days after a childhood dose of DTP or Dtap. Dr. Brause advises those who have epilepsy, other nervous system problems, or if they have ever had Guillain-Barre Syndrome to check with their doctors before taking this vaccine. However, these problems are very uncommon.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) can present as active tuberculosis or can be discovered by skin or blood testing to be a latent (inactive) infection. TB is usually a respiratory infection that starts in the lungs and slowly travels into the bloodstream and throughout the whole body. Latent tuberculosis means that a person has the infection, but it is not active – the infection is not visible and the infection is not felt by the infected person. The latent infection is particularly concerning to physicians because the patient is often unaware that they are infected.
Those with rheumatic diseases are more susceptible to TB or latent TB reactivations due to biologic agents, DMARDS and steroids that can diminish the immune system's potency. Screening evaluations for latent or active TB infections should be conducted prior to starting immunosuppressive therapies to reduce the risk of reactivating latent TB.. Other risks include: history of prior exposure to TB, drug addiction, HIV infection, birth or extended living in a region of high TB prevalence, and working or living in high-risk settings for TB such as jails, homeless shelters and drug rehabilitation centers.
Patients can be tested for latent TB, through a tuberculin skin test or blood test (interferon release blood assays such as Quantiferon Gold). If positive, treatment should be administered prior to any rheumatic disease-related immunosuppressant therapy that can interfere with immune function. Initiating anti-TB therapy one month prior to starting immunosuppressant therapy can substantially decrease the risk of latent TB reactivation. The treatment regimens for both types of TB include the following:
Before a hip, knee, or other prosthetic joint surgery, Dr. Brause emphasized that a patient with a chronic dermatitis condition should see a dermatologist to make sure any skin conditions (such as psoriasis or eczema) are under optimal control. Any visible lesions or breaks in the skin can predispose a patient to infection. All dental needs, such as cleanings or dental procedures, should be addressed prior to the operation as well.
The most common types of infections which can be spread to the prosthetic joint through the bloodstream include: skin problems, teeth/gum problems, and urinary tract infections (UTIs). Any bladder procedures also need to be completed before surgery. If these procedures are not taken care of prior to surgery, an infection could travel through the bloodstream and infect the prosthesis.
During surgery, the care team will work to reduce the infection rate as best they can through the use of prophylactic antibiotics and laminar air-flow. Prophylactic administration refers to the act of administering antibiotics prior to surgery in order to prevent infection. Laminar air-flow is a system that filters and cleans the air in the operating room.
After surgery, it is essential to visit the dermatologist if you have a chronic dermatitis condition in order to maintain intact skin and keep chronic dermatitis under control. It is also essential to keep teeth/gums healthy and take care of any UTIs promptly.
It is recommended that prophylactic antibiotic therapy be taken prior to certain dental and urological procedures for 2 years post-implantation. In patients with inflammatory arthritis, those who are receiving immunosuppression treatment, patients with insulin-dependent diabetes, those with a history of prior prosthetic joint infection, hemophilia or who suffer from malnutrition, it is recommended that prophylactic antibiotic therapy be given prior to certain dental and urological procedures for life. If any of the above conditions apply to you, you should discuss this with your dentist or your urologist.
Dr. Brause concluded his talk by emphasizing the importance of protecting yourself from infectious diseases through vaccinations. Several vaccines can be beneficial and effective for people with rheumatic diseases such as lupus. Before making any decisions, however, it is essential to talk to your rheumatologist to ensure that you receive your vaccinations safely and appropriately.
Learn more about the HSS SLE Workshop, a free support and education group held monthly for people with lupus and their families and friends.
Summary completed by Melissa Flores, Masters of Social Work intern and SLE Workshop Coordinator
Edited by Nancy Novick.
Posted: 6/17/2014


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The Guardian invited 4 women who voted for Trump and consider themselves feminists to explain their sins. It should go without saying that every single person that voted for Donald Trump is racist, and that's why they supported him. We can learn from their excuses, though. Laura, a Floridian government worker in her 20s, speaks first:
I truly thought [the video of Trump] was, as it's been dubbed, 'locker-room talk'. Having two brothers, boyfriends, and a fiance, I can make an educated guess that all heterosexual men have bragged about their exploits with women to another man at some point.
The content of the bragging goes unremarked. What she's saying is that every man in her life talks like a rapist, so it's a feature of the male gender. "The hegemony of rape culture," you might call it. All previous presidents have been male, so how could that fact alone disqualify Trump? Alyssa from Ohio makes a similar point:
At the end of the day [the video of Trump] did not affect my support for him. What he says and what he does don't matter in those senses because I'm looking for somebody that has the same beliefs as I do in running a country. At the end of the day we're all sinners and we all say things like this. It isn't uncommon. We act like the president of United States should be some holy person.
"We can go through all the US presidents and you will see sexual dysfunctions in all of their personal lives, even Hillary's husband had an affair. At the end of the day, my husband's sex life does not involve his work life and my sex life does not involve my day-to-day life. These women that came out about Trump could have been hoping for media attention, or maybe just simply paid by Hillary to make her criminal issues look smaller.
The personal is not the political, for this feminist. Who among us hasn't complained about niggers when they're not in the room?
Heather wants to have sex with Donald Trump. She wants to ride on his presidency. Minorities are just props he plays with to look powerful:
Trump got a lot more airtime than Carson, who was polite and played by the rules. Carson was too quiet for a nation that chases tornadoes and is captivated by blazes. Trump's failings humanise him and make him relatable…There's a lot more riding on this presidency than political correctness.
"I'm a throwback, which naturally lends itself to traditional femininity. I've always been attracted to alpha males. But then, after the popularity of 50 Shades of Grey, I'm hardly alone. Don't get me wrong, I'm an intelligent, fully capable woman. I simply prefer the leadership of a strong male.
Lena prefers euphemisms when expressing her hatred of Muslims and Mexicans. She can't say she's a Trump supporter:
I see issues for women as well as other minorities as very important; however, in this election, national as well global security in terms of terrorism, the economy and jobs for Americans were key issues. It was easy for me to make up my mind, but I can't say I'm a Trump supporter.
The Guardian article frames female support for Trump like it's a new mystery to unravel, and the 4 women are case studies to get a conversation going. It's a bad sign that we're trying to solve these problems as if for the first time, from first principles. Meanwhile, the conservatives have been executing their plans over the long term. The left doesn't seem to have the same historical continuity. This problem was definitively addressed by Andrea Dworkin in 1978's Right-Wing Women. Reading texts from the last time America was great is more efficient than starting over with feminist theory.
The sex-class system cannot be undone when those whom it exploits and humiliates are unable to face it for what it is, for what it takes from them, for what it does to them. Feminism requires precisely what misogyny destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power. Despite the impossibility of it, there is such bravery: there are such women, in some periods millions upon millions of them. If male supremacy survives every effort of women to overthrow it, it will not be because of biology or God; nor will it be because of the force and power of men per se. It will be because the will to liberation was contaminated, undermined, rendered ineffectual and meaningless, by antifeminism: by specious concepts of equality based on an evasion of what the sex-class system really is. The refusal to recognize the intrinsic despotism of the sex-class system means that the despotism is inevitably incorporated into reform models of that same system: in this, antifeminism triumphs over the will to liberation. The refusal to recognize the unique abuses inherent in sex labor (treating sex labor as if it were sex-neutral, as if it were not intrinsically part of sex oppression and inseparable from it) is a function of antifeminism; the acceptance of sex labor as appropriate labor for women marks the triumph of antifeminism over the will to liberation. The sentimental acceptance of a double standard of human rights, responsibilities, and freedom is also the triumph of antifeminism over the will to liberation; no sexual dichotomy is compatible with real liberation. And, most important, the refusal to demand (with no compromise being possible) one absolute standard of human dignity is the greatest triumph of antifeminism over the will to liberation. Without that one absolute standard, liberation is mush; feminism is frivolous and utterly self-indulgent. Without that one absolute standard as the keystone of revolutionary justice, feminism has no claim to being a liberation movement; it has no revolutionary stance, goal, or potential; it has no basis for a radical reconstruction of society; it has no criteria for action or organization; it has no moral necessity; it has no inescapable claim on the conscience of "mankind"; it has no philosophical seriousness; it has no authentic stature as a human-rights movement; it has nothing to teach. Also, without that one absolute standard, feminism has no chance whatsoever of actually liberating women or destroying the sex-class system…No liberation movement can accept the degradation of those whom it seeks to liberate by accepting a different definition of dignity for them and stay a movement for their freedom at the same time (Apologists for pornography: take note). A universal standard of human dignity is the only principle that completely repudiates sex-class exploitation and also propels all of us into a future where the fundamental political question is the quality of life for all human beings. Are women being subordinated to men? There is insufficient dignity in that. Are men being prostituted too? What is human dignity?…
One other discipline is essential both to the practice of feminism and to its theoretical integrity: the firm, unsentimental, continuous recognition that women are a class having a common condition. This is not some psychological process of identification with women because women are wonderful; nor is it the insupportable assertion that there are no substantive, treacherous differences among women. This is not a liberal mandate to ignore what is cruel, despicable, or stupid in women, nor is it a mandate to ignore dangerous political ideas or allegiances of women. This does not mean women first, women best, women only. It does mean that the fate of every individual woman–no matter what her politics, character, values, qualities–is tied to the fate of all women whether she likes it or not. On one level, it means that every woman's fate is tied to the fate of women she dislikes personally. On another level, it means that every woman's fate is tied to the fate of women whom she politically and morally abhors. For instance, it means that rape jeopardizes communist and fascist women, liberal, conservative, Democratic, or Republican women, white women and black women, Nazi women and Jewish women, homophobic women and homosexual women. The crimes committed against women because they are women articulate the condition of women.
Presumably, the left can reach right-wing women when it's honest about all the violence.
If sex oppression is real, absolute, unchanging, inevitable, then the views of right-wing women are more logical than not. Marriage is supposed to protect them from rape; being kept at home is supposed to protect them from the castelike economic exploitation of the marketplace; reproduction gives them what value and respect they have and so they must increase the value of reproduction even if it means increasing their own vulnerability to reproductive exploitation (especially forced pregnancy); religious marriage–traditional, correct, law-abiding marriage–is supposed to protect against battery, since the wife is supposed to be cherished and respected. The flaws in the logic are simple: the home is the most dangerous place for a woman to be, the place she is most likely to be murdered, raped, beaten, certainly the place where she is robbed of the value of her labor…
Right-wing women, who are less queasy in facing the absolute nature of male power over women, will not be swayed by the politics of women who practice selective blindness with regard to male power. Right-wing women are sure that the selective blindness of liberals and leftists especially contributes to more violence, more humiliation, more exploitation for women, often in the name of humanism and freedom (which is why both are dirty words to them).
Andrea Dworkin allied herself with right-wing women to oppose pornography, which got her branded as "sex-negative". I love this infographic from an essay called The Ethical Prude: Imagining An Authentic Sex-Negative Feminism:

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Sergio Sergio – I am the Moon
When working with a band to come up with a music video concept it is all about compromise and the bigger the band the bigger the compromise. That is normally the case however when we were coming up with the idea for the I am the Moon music video there were only a couple of ideas being banded about and in the end we settled on a combination of most of them.
It ended up being a mix between a twilight zone episode and an erotic french movie (That is a politer way of putting it than it was originally put ). We took on the role of create the story that would fit to that concept. Eventually we came up with a story that had two parallel lines. One in the present and one in the past. It revolve around a troubled relationship in which a man is tormented by his partner who is a destructive influence on his life.
I the present we would see and argument take place after the couple have sex that results in the man throwing the women out of the house. We would see flashback all through out this argument to scenes in which the women has tormented the man in various aspects of his life. The whole point in the video was to be like and anti love story with a little bit of the twilight zone feel thrown in for good measure.
To give the piece a surreal tone all of the flash backs had the couple in normal day to day scenarios. Like playing computer games and having a cup of tea but have the in full evening wear and use dream like lighting to showcase the the fallibility of memory and to leave the viewer question weather or not the events actually happened.


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Warwick: Never Gonna Give You Up!
The Liberation Heritage Route maps out areas and buildings in Durban that have special significance in the story of South Africa's struggle for a democratic nation. Some of the locations are less well known to the public than others, but few are quite as established in the lives of Durbanites as Warwick Triangle and the surrounding streets and markets.
Whether it's driving though the organised chaos of weaving taxis and shouting traders, buying your weekly fruit and veggies from the Early Morning Market, or taking an out-of-towner on a tour of the Bovine Head Market, the people of eThekwini are bound to have regular contact with Warwick. What they might not be aware of though is its dark history of forced removals – initially home to large numbers of indentured Indian labourers, the area soon became a very racially diverse community, and was seen as a threat to the apartheid government, which had declared the area west of Warwick Avenue a White Group Area in 1963. But unlike many other parts of the country, residents were relatively successful in resisting the relocations, and Warwick succeeded in being one of the few inner-city black areas throughout the apartheid regime.
Today it continues to fight for its survival, managing to ward off property developers who view the prime real estate as a good investment for large commercial shopping centres. The various markets have become more established over time, community artworks help to create a sense of ownership, and with close to half a million commuters moving through the area daily, and thousands of street vendors, Warwick is an area of great interest both locally and internationally. The 2016 architecture biennale, currently taking place in Italy, features an exhibition on Warwick's traditional muti market, showing its transformation from a neglected city highway overpass into the thriving market that it is today.
Times may have changed, but the spirit of Warwick is still alive and strong, showing no signs of letting up or giving up – you can't help but feel alive when visiting the streets of Warwick.
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Struggling Wigan Athletic travel to mid-table Fulham this weekend hoping to make a late push for Championship survival.
Twenty-third place Wigan have won two of their last five away games, including their most recent fixture away from home, a 2-0 victory at relegation rivals Burton Albion. In comparison tenth place Fulham have tended to enjoy playing at Craven Cottage, winning three out of their five last games at home and drawing once.
The Latics are travelling to West London on the back of a resilient 2-2 draw with Norwich City. In this fixture, new signing Omar Bogle who signed from League Two side Grimsby Town this January, scored a brace. This included a terrific free-kick which left City 'keeper John Ruddy standing to observe it go into the lower left hand side of the net.
Despite a solid performance against a team full of attacking prowess, Wigan Athletic boss Warren Joyce was "disappointed" after the Norwich game and went on to contend that "We were good value to have taken the lead, and it's disappointing not to see it through."
Meanwhile the Cottagers are less buoyant following their recent 1-0 defeat to Birmingham City, courtesy of Lukas Jutkiewicz late on in the second half. That goal followed the sending off of lively White's winger Ryan Fredericks which Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic claimed 'killed' them off.
The last time the teams met they played out to a 0-0 stalemate back in September last year. Wigan, who were under the management of the now Chesterfield manager Gary Cauldwell. Wigan have since slightly improved under Joyce but still find themselves facing relegation as it stands because they are five points off safety.
The teams face each other this Saturday at Craven Cottage, 3pm kick-off.
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We were standing in Warrior II, a pose that at one time was my favorite pose.
Arms extend front to back, the legs lunge forward, and the hips open to the side.
At one time, Ihad thought this pose was easy. Now, I beg to differ.
95 degree heat. Sweat dripping down every part of my body.
The class is an army of warriors, and the instructor is our commander, pointing out minor adjustments to everyone in the room.
Move your front knee towards your pinky toe. Drop a little lower in your hips.
The instructor actually reaches behind my knee and pulls it forward to entice my hips to drop. It works.
Look past your front hand. Push your shoulders down. Don't forget to relax your jaw.
Each instruction is so minor, but every incremental shift feels so major to my body. I am sweating Warrior II!
Once all instructions are followed, we are supposed to just land there, stay there and be still, except, of course, for the breath.
No matter what, we are supposed to breathe.
Just as I am wondering why we are doing this, why we have to remain so still for so long, the instructor issues this command:
Be the bedrock!
She starts to speak about the strength of our foundation, how we are supposed to pull the energy up from our feet, which are pressed down like there is no tomorrow, and into our hips.
Our base is supposed to be strong and steady.
Don't be the driftwood! she admonishes, before releasing us from the pose with the long awaited instruction to cartwheel it out.
I roll my back arm up and over my shoulder to meet my front arm, and gratefully lower my body on an exhale before pressing upward and through my Vinyasa.
I am the bedrock for many people in my life, and it has not been hard at all. I have not had to sweat it out, to say the least.
It has been easy to be there for my children, for my sister, my parents, my friends and colleagues.
I am often told by others that I have helped them see their way clear.
The other day, a friend told me that I envelop people.
On a lark, I visited a Vedic astrologer who told me that I am someone to whom others come in order to share their "shadow sides", or secrets.
But, even a piece of bedrock needs to lean on others sometimes, and this has taken me a long time to learn.
For me, it is not so easy to reach out. To be honest, that is what I really sweat!
And this is where I think I disagree with the instructor. I have learned that it is okay to be the driftwood at different times in life.
For the first time, I have reached out to others for support, and I have been the recipient of an overwhelming dose of wisdom, love and comfort.
And I admit to a certain relief, even though I sort of felt doing so might be a negative, almost as if for me to flounder could be a bad thing.
It is certainly not an easy thing, but maybe it is how one gets to the other side of something problematic.
One friend, a fellow warrior, really, sent me a text, almost giving me permission to be a piece of driftwood for a time.
She said: Remember you must take care of yourself and those you love. It's okay to lose focus once in a while. That's all part of life, and it's all good as long as you can get up, brush yourself off and go forward.
I call her a fellow warrior because she, too, has come through some hardships successfully and has seen her way clear to a good, strong place.
After our Vinyasa, we move into Warrior I, a difficult pose with arms up by the ears, legs in a lunge but hips forward, this time.
Move your hands to your heart, and spread out into Warrior II, the instructor says.
Our army follows its commander who allows us the moment to touch our hearts in the transition between Warrior I and II.
I land again in Warrior II, sweating but feeling strong, moving between poses and excusing my heart its breaks in between.


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On the eve of what some believe will be the end of the world, hackers are preying on doomsday curiosity with a malicious PowerPoint file that purports to be a presentation on the Mayan-based prediction.
Like the nasty Sudoku puzzle generator from earlier this week, this Mayan myth malware needs the user to enable macros for it to infect. According to SophosLabs , the macro is "functionally identical" to the one in the Sudoku bug.
Once users turn on the Visual Basic scripting language needed to run macros for programs like Microsoft Excel, the malware is able to build a portable executable file, which downloads a photo of an owl.
Sophos said the malware is programmed to download an additional file but that, during testing, the bug received no instructions from the command and control server .
The PowerPoint presentation, once legitimate, was created by a preacher who has nothing to do with the infectious iteration. A SophosLabs researcher reported that his blog is now riddled with SEO garbage pushing phony Viagra and payday loans, and with other lowest-common-denominator trash.
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Students interested in studying abroad have the option of applying any financial aid they are awarded after submitting the Free Application For Student Aid (FAFSA) to their semester abroad. The same is true for any scholarships students are awarded. In fact, the vast majority of our students fund at least a portion of their study abroad experience through scholarships and other aid, such as loans or grants.
For many, the cost of their program and whether or not they qualify for financial aid is a determining factor in their decision to study abroad.
Studying abroad as an "exchange" student - where students apply to one of Southern's exchange programs - offers what is often a more affordable alternative to "direct" study abroad, where students pay an affiliate institution/program or other approved third-party study abroad provider a flat fee which includes all tuition, housing, and meal plan expenses. As "exchanges", students pay Southern's tuition and fees, and are waived the tuition and fees of the host university. There are many different types of exchange arrangements. We encourage students to attend a Study Abroad Information Session to learn more about these options.
Once a student has been accepted into a study abroad program, they need to begin thinking about their required budget. For students receiving financial aid, the budget, along with the student's Study Abroad Approval Form, must be completed and submitted to the OIE. It will then be sent to the Office of Financial Aid so that the student's aid package can be assessed. The budget should be typed and in US dollars (alternatively, the host currency and US dollar amount can both be shown; we recommend conversions be done using Oanda.com), and should include all expenses the student will incur as a result of studying abroad: travel to and from host country, program fees, room and board, educational materials, local transportation, the mandatory SCSU $225.00 Study Abroad fee, along with other expenses. Optional anticipated costs, such as vacations and souvenirs should not be included. The budget can either be submitted to the OIE as a hard copy or via email.
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After a few years of running PHP 5.1.6 on my main server, I needed to upgrade due to the large number of WordPress installs I have. The current version of WordPress requires PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0 or higher. I was fine on the MySQL part, so no worries there.
My favorite package tool is YUM. But the current repositories didn't have anything available for my OS past 5.1.6.
Well I stumbled across the repositories needed to take this older CentOS install to a current web application server. I also had a couple minor bugs along the way and found the solutions to get back up and running.
Here are the steps I took, for you and for myself, because I'm sure I'll have to do this again on other servers I manage.
1. Remi's Repository
Remi maintains a repository for various Linux operating systems and architectures. As per his configuration page, I needed to download a couple of files and install them.
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm
1a. First snafu – trying to upgrade PHP at this point, caused a YUM "Transaction Check Error"
This is because I wasn't upgrading MySQL to a more current version. So I needed to install one more file:
yum --enablerepo=remi-test install compat-mysql55
Now proceed with upgrading PHP:
yum --enablerepo=remi update php
Now a quick php –v returns PHP 5.3.8, great, upgrade successful.
2. Restart Apache – look for problems
A quick skim through my sites and I found several broken for a couple reasons, which I expected. The most common issues were sessions and ioncube loaders missing. Another minor issue was the default timezone needed to be set. In /etc/php.ini I just uncommented the date.timezone property and set it to 'America/Chicago'. Now all those time warnings disappeared from a few of my custom CakePHP apps.
For my Apache install, the group it runs under is different than the default permissions specify on /var/lib/php/session/ so once I replaced the group permissions there, sessions started working normally.
Then I popped over to ionCube for the latest loader binaries.
Because I had many sites that used encoded files, I decided to store the loaders centrally rather than manually finding and upgrading any broken apps.
So, at the top of my /etc/php.ini I added zend_extension = /usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so and made a final Apache restart.
Now all of my sites are back up and running with a much new version of PHP which should last me another few years.
Then I can finally proceed with upgrading all of my WordPress sites. Fortunately I have a custom shell script to perform batch upgrades. It's simple but very effective when you have so many sites to deal with, but that's a topic for another post.
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OTTAWA - Both federal opposition parties say a proposal to convert former U.S. presidential helicopters into search and rescue choppers highlights Canada's badly broken military procurement system.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay recently ordered National Defence to take another look at whether some of its nine VH-71 aircraft — purchased from the U.S. for spare parts — can be made fully operational.
The aircraft were bought for $164 million to help keep Canada's fleet of often-broken CH-149 Cormorant rescue choppers in the air.
New Democrat defence critic Jack Harris says the Chretien government didn't buy enough Cormorants to begin with, while the Conservatives have failed to get serious about search and rescue.
Liberal MP Bob Rae says attempts to buy military hardware always take too long and end up way over budget.
The air force is looking into making the choppers airworthy, but must first determine whether they can be outfitted with the electronics necessary for search missions.


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Talk:Getting started with extension development
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Installing the helloworld.xpi file in the helloworld.zip package does not add a link to the tools menu. (FF 1.0.3/WinXP)
Pb with "Registering your extension in the Extension Manager"
I've created the file {71e95839-6f7e-470d-be54-77012fec6313} as explained containing the single line
(I've tried with and without the trailing "/") and started firefox but I can't see anything of the new extension.
I use firefox 1.0.4 on Linux.
Package Names
I'm not sure if this is always true, but it was a problem for me. The package name must be in lowercase letters. I didn't know this, and didn't find or read it anywhere. In my chrome.manifest, I kept getting the error of "No chrome package registered for chrome://rtse/content/browser.xul .", which was easily fixed by changing all references of 'RTSE' to 'rtse'. Like I said, I didn't find this anywhere, and I think that this page might be best for it, but I thought I'd bring it up first, and let someone with more experience with extension development tell me if this is right or wrong.
Should we still be saying that it is recommended? There is a discussion here and it seems that there isn't much of a benefit.
Development of a Seamonkey + Tbird / Seamonkey + Firefox extension
This issue should be addressed. A course we have taken with BiDi Mail UI is a common source dir with preprocessing to build sm,tb source dirs and packaging from the auto-built dirs. Before doing this it was kind of hellish to do every update of every source file twice... see the source here.
Code display format
I have tried to display the code sections with line numbers, leaving the code as a single block that can be highlighted. I am not sure it is any better, but line numbers are shown next to the lines and the code can be selected and copied. The effort to include it is a bit more than ordinary code / pre tags. I hope it makes the explanation following the code more easy to understand. I don't think this is something that should apply to all code; only where we are explaining it. --Joe1011010 16:08, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Zip file needs updating
I've bumped the maxversion in the install.rdf, the zip version still needs to be updated though. Hopefully whoever owns it will see this.
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News from Moldova
31 May 2019, Vilnius - State Secretary Daniela Morari delivered a speech at the Baltic Assembly Conference on the Eastern Partnership, entitled "Can We Deliver? Setting our Course over the next 10 Years".
30 May 2019 Vilnius – Subjects related to the European agenda of our country and bilateral inter-parliamentary cooperation were discussed by State Secretary Daniela Morari during the meetings with Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee Juozas Bernatonis and Vice-Chairmen of European Affairs Committee, Ruta Miliute and Andrius Kubilius, former Lithuanian Prime
May 30, 2019, Vilnius – Perspectives for Moldovan-Lithuanian cooperation, evolution of the post-electoral situation in the Republic of Moldova, regional security issues were among the topics addressed during the meeting of the State Secretary Daniela Morari with the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Darius Skusevičius.
20 May 2019, Chișinău – Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Tudor Ulianovschi attends the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, which takes place today in Kyiv.
18 May 2019, Cahul – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration supported the initiative of the European Union Delegation in the Republic of Moldova to celebrate the Europe Day outside Chisinau. This year, the "European town" was hosted by the National Youth Capital 2019 – Cahul municipality


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a few pictures from
my little weekend:
1. volunteering at The Meatloaf Kitchen.
we make a good cake-icing team.
cutting the cake?
that's another story.
2. a dear friend celebrated her 30th birthday this weekend!
{you know it's a fun night when it ends with a dance party.}
3. "what does he look like?"
"welllll...he's really, really tall and is sporting a holiday beard."
4. totally bought this for someone. ;)
5. brunch date at Smorgas in the West Village.
6. playing tourists in Times Square.
until next time,


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Witchcraft and Sorcery
Formerly Coven 13, Witchcraft and Sorcery was a US fantasy prozine.
Digest-size for the first four issues, then letter-size for the remaining six issues; ten issues were issued from 1969 to 1974, #1-#4 published bimonthly by Camelot Publishing, Los Angeles, September 1969 to March 1970, edited by Arthur H Landis; #5-#10 published irregularly by William L Crawford's Fantasy Publishing, California, edited by Gerald Page.
From #5 (January 1971), Coven 13 was retitled Witchcraft & Sorcery, and subtitled "The Modern Magazine of Weird Tales" to leave no doubt about what it was imitating.
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After a hard-fought final round, judges gave the women-only award to Andrea Levy's Small Island, a comedy about the punctured illusions, tribulations and spry adaptability of the pioneer Windrush generation of immigrants to Britain in the early 1950s.
Levy, daughter of West Indian-born Londoners, a seasoned writer in her mid-40s, came out an unexpected top of the strongest shortlist of any recent literary award, including the Booker prize.
Sandi Toksvig, head of the five judges, said one character in the story was "a wonderful comic creation".
Levy beat two veteran bestselling novelists, Rose Tremain and Margaret Atwood, a blockbuster on Stalinist Russia by Gillian Slovo, and a highly regarded first novel about growing up by the young Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
The sixth author on the shortlist was the American Shirley Hazzard, whose The Great Fire is a wartime love story told with a glow and sense of place. But Atwood and Slovo were considered the strongest contenders.
Against such opposition, some commentators and book trade specialists found Small Island overfamiliar in theme and lacklustre in narrative. It attracted virtually no bets at Ladbroke's. Odds set by the bookmaker's book specialist Warren Lush made it a 7-1 outsider.
Oryx and Crake, Atwood's sci-fi fable about genetic engineering, and The Colour, Tremain's story of 19th century immigration to New Zealand, were his joint favourites at 2-1, with Slovo third at 5-1 and Adichie at 6-1.
"Oh, heck. That's come as a complete shock to me", said Mr Lush, who rallied quickly when told the result last night. "We hardly took a penny on it. Quite good news for bookmakers. We never really mind outsiders winning."
One clue to Small Island's chances was that, with a striking cover but little other fanfare from its publishers, it had begun to make friends among readers since it was published in February. It has sold 2,200 copies in hardback, comfortably more than Hazzard, Slovo's The Ice Road, or Adichie's Purple Hibiscus.
Last night Suzi Doore, fiction buyer for Waterstone's, said: "Andrea Levy is a wonderful writer who really deserves a huge readership. This prize is fantastic news as it will bring her work to the attention of a lot more readers."
Ms Toksvig said: "I didn't follow the bookies' odds or what the commentators were saying. We were adamant at the judges' meeting that we would forget the authors, and think only of the text. There is this wonderful comic creation called Gilbert in Small Island."
Small Island is told by the voices of Gilbert, his wife Hortense, who comes to Britain to join him after his RAF service, their white landlady Queenie, who has a secret and close previous connection with the West Indies, and her husband.
Levy's parents were lured to Britain because the war gave them a larger sense of the world, she said in an interview with the London Evening Standard. "Besides, they didn't have the money to go back."
Her parents, who had four children, were the only black family on a council estate near the Arsenal football ground.
After being awarded the prize, Levy said: "Funnily enough, I don't get tearful, but I've just had my own Halle Berry moment."
Accepting the award, she said: "It's sod's law. I've left my speech in my handbag. Not many people get to go beyond their wildest dreams, and I've just arrived."


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The eligibility rules for British passports are more complicated than those of many other countries, partly due to the legacy of the former British Empire. Anyone holding British citizenship is entitled to apply for a UK passport, but six different forms of British citizenship exist: citizenship, overseas citizenship, overseas territories citizenship, national (overseas), protected person and subject. Age is no barrier to holding a passport; you can apply for a passport for your child immediately after it is born, but bear in mind that children's passports are only valid for five years.
January 1, 1983, is an important date for British immigration law. You are entitled to apply for a British passport if you were born before that date as long as you were a citizen of the UK or its former colonies on December 31, 1982, and had "right of abode" on that date. "Right of abode" means that you could live and work in the UK without any restrictions and didn't need permission from an immigration officer to enter the country. This rule includes people born in the UK, people born in former British colonies who had right of abode, people who registered as British citizens, people holding naturalization certificates and people whose father – but not mother – fell into one of these categories.
The regulations are different for persons born in 1983 or later. You can become a British citizen, and therefore apply for a British passport, if you were born after January 1, 1983, and either your mother or father was a British citizen when you were born or was settled in the UK at that time. Bear in mind that, up to 2006, unmarried fathers could not automatically pass British citizenship on to their children. If you were born before 2006, you can only gain British citizenship through your father if he married your mother, although it makes no difference whether the marriage took place before or after you were born.
Certain other people can also apply for a British passport through their connection to British overseas territories and parts of the former British Empire. British Overseas Territories are places like Gibraltar and Bermuda which remain British dependencies. People from these territories are entitled to apply for a British passport. British Overseas citizens, on the other hand, are people with provable connections to former parts of the British Empire, like the African country of Kenya. They may also be entitled to apply for a British passport. If, however, you think you fall into this category, you should check your eligibility with the UK Border Agency.
If you do not fall into any of these categories but have lived in the UK for at least five years, you can become eligible for a British passport by applying to become naturalized as a British citizen. You will have to complete an application form and take a test to prove your knowledge of British life. If you do not speak English to a reasonable standard you will also have to pass an English language course.
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How to handle the event object?
function eventHandler(e) {
e = e || window.event;
function eventHandler(e) {
if (!e) {
e = window.event;
In the first event handler, the OR operator (||) is used to take e if e is not null. If e is null then window.event is used (for IE). In the second handler above the shorthand OR is written in more elaborately.
How to prevent the default behavior of an event?
Now let think you have an anchor and when user will click on the anchor you need to do some validation on client side and if the validation is passed then you want the anchor url to be navigated. If validation is not passed then you want to prevent the user to move the url. So you need to write javascript code to prevent the anchor's default behavior (will navigate to the href defined). You can do so by calling event object's preventDefault method. But IE doesn't support preventDefault. Rather you need to use returnValue.
function eventHandler(e) {
e = e || window.event;
// Prevent the default action of an event
if (e.preventDefault) {
//For Non-IE
} else {
//For IE
e.returnValue = false;
Event bubbling and how to prevent it?
// Stop event from bubbling up:
if (e.stopPropagation) {
// W3C compliant browsers:
} else {
e.cancelBubble = true;
Filter event by checking the source of the event
Sometimes we need to check the source of the event. We can do so applying event delegation technique. For example we have a table of data and whenever a row is clicked, we need to handle the event. Rather than writing event handler for each of the tr/td we can write an common handler and check the source element in that event handler and take necessary actions. The technique is called event delegation. With Event delegation we can apply event handler to an element and using this as a basis for manipulating its children element. In all browsers except IE you can access the source element of the event by accessing target property of the event. For IE you need to use srcElement.
var targetNode = e.target || e.srcElement;
// Test if it was a TR that was clicked:
if (targetNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() === 'tr') {
Event delegation relies on event bubbling. The above code wouldn't work if the bubbling was halted before reaching the 'table' node.


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Last week, shares of Melco Crown Entertainment Limited (NASDAQ:MLCO), the $19.15 billion market capitalization casino operator, rose around 3% following its earnings release stating that the company exceeded analyst expectations on both revenue and earnings per share. However, even with the earnings beat, is the company an attractive investment for the Foolish investor or has all the upside been priced in? To find out which scenario is the case, I decided to delve into the company a bit more and see how it stacks up to competitors like Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS), Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ:WYNN) and Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ:CZR).
Earnings beat
According to Melco Crown's earnings release, the company exceeded analyst expectations in regard to its revenue, which came in at $1.25 billion. This represents a 23.9% increase from the $1.01 billion the company reported during the same period a year ago, and it was 8.9% higher than the $1.15 billion Mr. Market expected. On top of beating on the top line, the company also reported that its net income rose by 71% from $104.9 million last year to $179.4 million this year. At $0.33 in earnings per share, this exceeded the market's expectation of $0.25 per share.
According to the company, the primary driver behind this phenomenal growth was a significant increase in its mass market table games operations, most of which took place in its City of Dreams resort. In this particular casino alone, the company saw its mass market table games drop rise by 36% from $889.8 million to $1.21 billion.
How does it stack up to other casino giants?
Although the company operates out of Hong Kong with casinos located in places like Macau and the Philippines, its fundamentals should be measured against its other large peers, irrespective of location. In an effort to conduct a comparable analysis, I compared the company to three peers in regard to revenue growth and net income growth.
First, let us look at Caesars. From 2008 through 2012, the company saw its revenue decline by a painful 15.2% from $10.13 billion to $8.59 billion as the company has had a difficult time attracting and retaining a sizable customer base. However, due to the effects of impairments, the company saw its net loss decrease from $5.2 billion in 2008 to $1.5 billion in 2012.
In comparison, Wynn saw its revenue increase by an impressive 72.5% over the same time horizon from $2.99 billion to $5.15 billion. As management has been able to capitalize on the company's improved market presence, net income has increased by 138.5% from $210.5 million to $502 million, results that make it appear to be far stronger than Caesars.
While the revenue and net income growth of Wynn is nice, it fails when placed next to Las Vegas Sands. Between 2008 and 2012, Las Vegas Sands saw its revenue rise by 153.6% from $4.39 billion to $11.13 billion, enough to dethrone Caesars as the largest in terms of revenue in the group. In the process, the company saw its net income rise from -$163.6 million to $1.5 billion.
Finally, we arrive at Melco. While Caesars has exhibited poor performance over the past few years and both Wynn and Las Vegas Sands have grown at nice clips, Melco managed to blow them all away. From 2008 through 2012, Melco was able to achieve astonishing revenue growth of 188%, which allowed revenue to rise from $1.42 billion to $4.08 billion. Furthermore, its net income has risen from -$2.5 million to $417.2 million. With a net profit margin of 10.2%, Melco sits a bit behind Las Vegas Sands in terms of profitability, but slightly ahead of the 9.9% margin of Wynn.
Foolish takeaway
It's not always easy to single out a company and say, "this is definitely going to perform the best in the future!". What is fairly easy is determining which company appears to have the greatest chance of success. As the fastest-growing company of the four that were profiled in this article, and as the one with the second highest level of profitability as demonstrated by its net profit margin, it would appear that Melco may very well be the best long-term investment.
However, at 45.8 times 2012's earnings and 28.5 times its expected earnings for 2013, the company is fairly expensive, especially when stacked up against Las Vegas Sands which trades at 38.1 times 2012's earnings and 23.5 times 2013's expected earnings. It is for this reason that, while the company looks to be the most attractive long-term, the price/value disparity between it and Las Vegas Sands may make it worthwhile to accept a company of just slightly lower quality so as to have a larger margin of safety and potentially higher returns should business continue to improve.


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Corporate whistleblowers – the front-line defence against fraud
February 2013 | SPECIAL REPORT: CORPORATE FRAUD & CORRUPTION
Financier Worldwide Magazine
The path taken by a whistleblower can be a long and difficult one.
When an employee makes the decision to expose fraudulent behaviour, it often comes with many risks: alienation from one's co-workers or superiors. Professional repercussions. Retaliation. These are some of the very real consequences that can occur as a result of doing the right thing by bringing fraud to light.
Yet research categorically shows that businesses depend on whistleblowers now more than ever to detect fraud. It should be incumbent upon corporate leaders to foster an environment in which employees are knowledgeable enough to know what constitutes fraud, and confident enough to report it when they see it. Most importantly, they should have the understanding that management will support their action – rather than punish them for it.
Michael Woodford bore the brunt of an organisational culture that did none of the above. When the business-savvy Englishman became the first Westerner to be named CEO of a major Japanese corporation – Olympus – he never suspected that he would see his 30-year career there end with him being shunned and marginalised… all for telling the truth.
Olympus was committing massive accounting fraud – and when the falsifications and fictionalised earnings were brought to his attention, a shocked Woodford insisted that the organisation come clean. Directors at Olympus had other ideas. Woodford was abruptly fired for, as they termed it, "a management culture clash". When some signals from his old company became downright threatening, according to Woodford, he eventually returned to England – in fear of his life.
He was soon vindicated when company officials admitted to a decade-long cover-up valuing more than £1bn. Yet it came at the cost of the career he had built over three decades at Olympus. Today, Woodford speaks to packed conference halls about his harrowing experience, imparting the importance of acting with integrity in the face of adversity.
Thankfully, not every employee who blows the whistle on fraud ends up fired, threatened, or worse. We know this because of what fraud experts tell us: most cases of fraud are initially discovered through a tip. In the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners' 2012 Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, we found that 43 percent of the cases of occupational fraud in our study were detected by a tip, far ahead of management review (15 percent) and internal audit (14 percent). Moreover, the majority of tips reporting fraud come from employees of the victim organisation. This data comes from nearly 1400 Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs) worldwide who provided detailed information on one fraud case they investigated during the previous year.
While unfortunate to be victimised, most of the companies in these cases are doing something right based upon the fact that the frauds were, ultimately, investigated – as it stands to reason that many of these frauds would not have made it 'on the books' if not for management teams that were receptive to tips. It is not enough, however, for corporate leaders to simply be content to act on information when it arrives. In order to protect their organisation from fraud, it is imperative that they actively foster an environment in which such reporting is expected and employees have confidence that tips will be investigated. This represents one important aspect of a corporate culture referred to as Tone at the Top.
Directors and managers must create and maintain a workplace environment that supports a strong Tone at the Top – one that rewards ethics, accountability, and integrity, while also reinforcing a strong anti-fraud stance. There are several methods of action through which this can be accomplished.
The first step a company should take is to establish a thorough code of conduct for employees. Rather than solely burying it in an employee handbook, the code should be communicated clearly to all employees, with an added message outlining the organisation's commitment to fraud prevention. This can be communicated through an open letter to employees but should also be reinforced through middle- and lower-management's conversations with staff members.
The next step is to implement a system through which tips are received. Given the critical correlation between employee tips and the discovery of fraud, having an anonymous reporting system is an absolutely essential component of any anti-fraud program. There are a number of hotline providers who offer different levels of service in this area – the most effective systems provide different channels through which employees can make their reports (easily and discreetly). Case studies have shown that organisations who utilised integrated, multi-channel reporting systems (email, websites, telephone and 'snail mail') have successfully broadened their net and discovered frauds that had gone years undetected.
These reporting channels should be highly visible and communicated regularly to employees. The communication should stress the anonymity provided through the reporting system, as this will encourage more tipsters to come forward. Such high-profile exposure will also have a deterrent effect on would-be fraudsters. An employee might find themselves less inclined to commit fraud when they realise that their colleague, just one desk away, is fully versed on the means to report suspicious activity.
This, however, brings up another important point: employees also need training in order to know what constitutes fraud. As part of a fraud risk management program, the organisation should put an educational program in place that is required of everyone at all levels of the company. There is no one-size-fits-all method for instituting such a program; it should be tailored to the fraud risks specific to the organisation. Yet the training should reinforce the expectation that fraud will be reported immediately, and should instruct individuals on how to make such reports when needed. A successful training program is one that fosters a team approach toward preventing fraud.
Finally, the program is not complete without a formalised plan for how the company will act on tips after they are received. Responsibilities should be defined – whether investigations will be conducted by internal or external experts, how the progress of investigations will be monitored, and mechanisms to report the results to proper governing authorities as necessary.
Having an informed process in place will help establish confidence among employees that tips will be properly investigated, not overlooked or – worse – selectively disregarded or ignored.
Having such risk oversight measures in place will not only help detect fraud – they can also be critically important for liability reasons, especially among public corporations. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made clear its intentions to hold directors accountable for lack of appropriate fraud risk oversight, a position exemplified through several high-profile cases. In the UK, David Green, Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), has signalled an intention to step up investigation efforts against white-collar crime. In what can be perceived as a changing environment, ignorance that fraud is occurring is not an excuse that will necessarily grant immunity from the law.
Given these facts, there is no reason or justification for the next whistleblower to end up shunned, fired, and on the run like Michael Woodford. Most business leaders are attuned to the fact that fraud negatively impacts their bottom line – period. Understanding that their own employees – potential whistleblowers, every one – are their front-line defence for uncovering fraud should be motivation enough to provide encouragement, confidence and anonymity. The end result will be more fraud uncovered, and more schemes stopped cold.
James D. Ratley, CFE, is president and CEO of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He can be contacted on +1 (800) 245 3321 or by email: email@example.com
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FT. MEADE, Md. — Turning in the witness chair to face the judge, sometimes choking on his words, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning apologized Wednesday that he "hurt people and hurt the United States" by leaking the largest amount of U.S. classified documents in the nation's history and urged the court to give him a chance to some day "prove that I can be a better person."
He read a from a few handwritten pages, speaking just after his older sister testified. At times, she was in tears when family pictures were shown of his childhood in rural Oklahoma, where their parents often passed out drunk and he was left night after night crying in his crib.
Manning was followed on the witness stand by a beloved aunt from Potomac, Md., his father's sister, who said the boy was fed baby food until he was 2 and was eventually abandoned by his parents.
TRANSCRIPT: Bradley Manning's apology
Now 25, Manning is the former intelligence analyst in Iraq who provided more than 700,000 classified materials to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. He sat awkwardly in the witness chair for just a few minutes. He gave what in a court-martial is called a "non-sworn statement." Under those rules, he was not asked any questions by his defense lawyers, and government prosecutors were not permitted to cross-examine him.
Manning spoke in a hushed courtroom. Though he faced the judge, his words echoed loudly. He began by clearing his throat and struggled to calm hands that shook as he held the pages before him.
"I'm sorry that my actions hurt people," he said. "I'm sorry that I hurt the United States."
He said that while an analyst in Iraq in 2009 and 2010, "I was dealing with a lot of issues, issues that are ongoing and continue to affect me. Although a considerable difficulty in my life, these issues are not an excuse for my actions. I understood what I was doing."
He did not need to say what they were. Since the court-martial began June 3, much of the trial has been filled with testimony and evidence about his struggles with his homosexuality, what two mental health experts Wednesday morning said was his "gender identity disorder," a misfit in the Army who repeatedly lashed out at fellow soldiers and superiors.
But Manning said those difficulties were no excuse for what he did with WikiLeaks.
"I'm sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions," he said. "When I made these decisions, I believed I was going to help people, not hurt people.
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"I look back at my decisions and wonder how could I, a junior analyst, believe I could change the world."
But, he said, "unfortunately I can't go back and change things. I can only go forward."
Manning said he is ready to accept his punishment, which could be as much as 90 years in prison. "I understand I must pay a price for my decisions and actions. I want be a better person."
He said he hoped to someday go to college and have a "meaningful" relationship with his sister and her family. "I have flaws and issues I have to deal with," he said. "But I know I can and will be a better person."
He told the judge: "I hope you will give me an opportunity to prove that I can be a better person and can return to a productive place in society."
His sister, Casey Major, 11 years older and a stay-at-home mother of two in Oklahoma City, described a terrible childhood. Their parents drank heavily and repeatedly broke up, often forcing her to raise her brother. "She wouldn't get up at night," she said of their mother. "So I would make a bottle, change a diaper. If I was awake and he was crying, she would direct me to get up and take care of my brother."
For a while they lived in rural Crescent, Okla., where Manning tried to be "a happy kid," she said. "He had little trucks he played with in the dirt."
Later, he could not keep his fingers off a computer keyboard, or stayed for hours in his room playing with Legos. When she reached 18, she left home, leaving Manning alone with their mother because their father was gone too. Their mother served him Kid Cuisine microwave dinners, and, while in drunken stupors, threatened to kill herself.
When defense attorney David Coombs displayed a series of photos of Manning as a child, Major cried. One showed him playing in a box, another in an oversized cowboy hat. Others had him on a swing in the pasture or petting a puppy. In one, he was wearing glasses under his blond hair, his fingers working a computer keyboard. "From a certain age on he was at the computer," his sister said.
She said that since his arrest in May 2010, her brother has changed. "It's just amazing how much he's matured," she said. "He's settled down."
She added, "I just hope he can be who he wants to be. I hope he can just be happy."
His aunt, Debra Van Alstyne, also described the siblings' terrible childhood. She said she was stunned when her thin, short, scrawny nephew joined the Army. But Manning told her he wanted the GI Bill for college. She was stunned again to learn that he had been arrested in Iraq.
"I was just totally shocked," she said. "Just totally and completely shocked."
Also testifying were two mental health experts.
Capt. David Moulton, a forensic psychiatrist, said Manning had "abnormal personality traits," wanting since 13 to be president of the United States and fantasizing that his leaks would not only end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but wars for all time. "He knew he wanted to do something great," Moulton said.
Capt. Michael Worsley, a military psychologist, characterized Manning as a gay man trying to fit into the "hyper masculine" environment in the Army. "The pressure would have been difficult to say the least. It would have been incredible," Worsley said.
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Drag-and-drop toolkits remain viable for DTMF apps because the apps are simple. Speech applications are much more complicated that the equivalent DTMF app. There are roughly nine times as many prompts (escalated versions of the main prompt and silence and nomatch prompts). Confirmation needs to be done since speech recognition is never 100% accurate. Lastly, speech apps are more complicated because, released from the limitations of 12 DTMF keys, they try to do more. This complexity means that speech apps need a more powerful development environment, such as the Java programming language.
The first wave of speech applications were written directly in VoiceXML. Again this is simple for small apps but doesn't scale. A large app has many voicexml files, and the relationship between them is not clearly shown. A login.vxml file may submit its results to main_menu.vxml, but that is not apparent in looking at a list of files. Raw VoiceXML does not have any modern programming constructs such as inheritance or design patterns. Lastly, unit testing and debugging are difficult.
This brings us to the final option: a code-based approach. Write the application in Java.
IDEs are powerful
Use the full power of a good IDE with refactoring support, code assist (AKA Intellisense), unit testing, debugging, and integrated source control. The Eclipse IDE, for example, is used by millions of programmers. It will be improved and extended at a far faster rate than any proprietary toolkit. And Eclipse is free.
Better Debugging
Java IDEs have real debuggers. Enough said.
Better Testing
Java IDEs have excellent unit testing. SpeakRight provides a keyboard-based interactive tester, and an HTML mode for executing an app using an ordinary web browser (HTML is generated instead of VXML).
More tools
There are source code tools for code coverage, profiling, generating documentation and design diagrams. Source code control tools allow important questions such as 'what's changed since last week' to be answered.
Code is flexible
Source code is extremely flexible. Unlike drag-and-drop tools that offer only a few levels of granularity, code can be organized and combined in many ways. Let's look at the ways code can be used.
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An object can be configured by settings its properties. This allows re-usable objects to be customized for each use. The customization can be done in code
flow.m_maxAttempts = 4;
or it can come from external configuration files. SpeakRight allows prompts and grammars to reside in XML files that can be changed post-deployment without having to rebuild the app.
The DRY principle is Don't Repeat Yourself. DRY reduces the amount of source code and makes modifications simpler. Java inheritance is one way of centralizing common code. Any class deriving from a base class gets the base classes' behaviour automatically. In our example concerning GetDigit nodes, the MaxRetries value can be defined a single place (in the base class). Changing the value in the base class causes the change to ripple down to all derived classes.
Java inheritance is flexible because values or behaviour can be overridden at any point in the class heirarchy.
Composition is the process of assembling together objects into useful components. Modern frameworks make much use of interfaces and extension points. An extension point allows behaviour to be changed by plugging in different implementations of it. In SpeakRight, confirmation is an extension point where different types of confirmation can be plugged-in: yes-no confirmation, confirm-and-correct confirmation, and implicit confimation.
Extension points increase re-use because the number of options multiply. If you have four types of GetNumber objects and three types of confirmation, you have twelve types of GetNumber-And-Confirm behaviour to choose from.
A menu is another example of an extension point. A menu is basically a question followed by a switch statement. Both are extension points that allow flexible menus to be created that still share the common base code.
Refactoring is the process of improving code quality without changing the external behaviour. Common code can be pulled into methods or classes. Interfaces and extension points can be added to increase the flexibility of a class. Code can be packaged into namespaces and libraries. Inherited behaviour can be overridden.
A code-based approach allows all these modern software development techniques to be applied to speech apps.
Changing The Framework
SpeakRight is open-source so everything is available to you for modification.
Everything is a Flow Object
In SpeakRight, the callflow is built out of flow objects. Everything from a low-level "yes-no" question, to a form with multiple fields, up to the app itself are flow objects.
Flow objects participate in generating content (VoiceXML). A flow object is notified of each prompt being rendered, and allowed to modify it. Flow objects can control which VoiceXML is generated, and if needed, the entire VoiceXML rendering can be replaced (it's another extension point).
Flow objects participate in deciding the execution path through the callflow. Because they return an IFlow object to be run next, it's easy to inject additional behaviour when needed. Confirmation is done this way.
Consider a VUI dialog for traversing a list of items. The common behaviour is the commands "next" and "previous" (and possibly "first" and "last"). These move to a new item and say its value, or play an error message if the end of the list has been reached. List traversal is a common VUI feature, but difficult to make into a re-usable artifact in a non-code-based approach. With code however, this is a standard sort of OO design task.
- Prompts and grammars are made into fields. Default values are provided but can be overridden or configured using getter and setter methods.
- The list is a generic Java Collection, allowing it to be a list of anything. An IItemFormatter interface is created so the rendering of a Java object (string, integer, XML, whatever) into a prompt becomes an extension point. The default formatter just uses toString.
- SpeakRight's flow objects are pause-able. This means that a list traverser can pause while another VUI dialog runs, and resume when it finishes. A list traverser can now be a main menu for an app that works on a list of items (such as flights to select from). Additional commands can be added, so that in addition to the traversal commands, the menu can accept additional commands such as "details", "accept", and "search". All of this is built on top of the existing list traversal class; no code duplication is required.
Less Code, Less Testing
A code-based approach, by promoting re-use and the DRY principle, reduces the size of the application. This has many benefits:
- Faster development. Less time spent in tedious repetitive work.
- Easier to change. A class hierarchy is like the paragraph styles in a word processor. Rather than sprinkling formatting all over the document, it's kept in a few styles (base classes) where it's easily managed and changed.
- Consistent Voice User Interface. Shared code leads to shared behaviour, which leads to a consistent user interface.
- Reduced testing. This is a huge gain. When common code is used, it only needs to be tested once, even though its used multiple times in the app. For example, yes-no confirmation can be plugged in to the confirmation extension point of a flow object. Once you've validated that it works in one flow object, there's no need to test all other flow objects since they share the same (base class) code.
Flexible Development
A code-based approach lacks the artificial boundaries of drag-and-drop toolkits. Development can begin by using existing classes and configuring them as needed. When you find the same VUI dialogs appearing in multiple places, sub-classing can be used to centralize a common configuration, such as a MyGetPassword class. As more new classes are created they can be combined into a class heirarchy in order to share common code, with extension points added where variability is needed. When classes are re-used in other projects they can be packaged as a library.


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Norman Ornstein, an observer of Congress for decades, literally wrote the book on GOP obstructionism. So I asked him what he thought of the disappointing filibuster reform deal reached today between Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell. His reply:
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Whatever summer jobs your children had this summer, it's important to keep track of some vital information. It doesn't matter if the job was paid or volunteer, the experience can be included in a future resume or college application.
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