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The Leyland Tiger, also known as the B43, was a mid-engined bus and coach chassis manufactured by Leyland between 1981 and 1992. This name had previously been used for a front-engined bus built between 1927 and 1968. It replaced the Leyland Leopard, which had been in production for over 20 years.

History

The Leyland Tiger was released in 1981. Initially, only one engine was offered, the turbocharged Leyland TL11, which could be rated up to 260 hp. The Leopard had enjoyed huge success as a bus in Scotland, usually with the Alexander Y-type body, but had lost some Scottish Bus Group orders to Seddon's Pennine 7, owing to Leyland's unwillingness to offer a Gardner engine in the Leopard.

When Leyland launched the Tiger, it continued this same unwillingness, just as Dennis was developing the Gardner-engined Dennis Dorchester, which similarly had the potential to win Scottish Bus Group orders away from the Tiger. Faced with this possibility, Leyland offered Gardner 6HLX-series engines in the Tiger from 1984. To facilitate this, the Tiger chassis had to be modified, as the Gardner engine was significantly larger than the TL11. Although the threat from the Dorchester was successfully warded off, there proved to be a limited market for the Gardner-engined Tiger outside of Scottish Bus Group.

A North American engine, the Cummins L10, was also made an option by 1987. The Cummins engine was being specified more often from around 1988, and with this engine, the gearbox would usually be a ZF as opposed to the Leyland Hydracyclic.

Volvo took over Leyland in 1988, and from 1989 the Tiger was offered with the Volvo THD100-series engine (as fitted in the best-selling B10M). The large majority of Volvo-engined Tigers went to Northern Ireland. At around this time, the TL11 and Gardner options were dropped, leaving only the Cummins and Volvo options available.

Like the Leopard, the Tiger was also sold as a bus. Usually, it would have a downrated engine, and leaf springs in place of the standard air suspension.

Operators
The Scottish Bus Group bought batches of Tigers usually with Alexander TS-type bodywork and Gardner 6HLXCT engines. It was also popular with National Bus Company subsidiaries. Shearings purchased many Tigers for use as coaches.

The Tiger also proved to be very popular in Northern Ireland, with Ulsterbus and Citybus purchasing 747 between 1983 and 1993. The last Tiger to enter service did so in Northern Ireland in August 1993.

Exports
The Tiger was popular in Australia. The biggest customer for the Tiger was Ventura Bus Lines, Melbourne who purchased 65 Tigers over a five-year period from March 1984, as well as a few more second-hand. Another large purchaser was North & Western Bus Lines, Sydney. Premier Illawarra, Wollongong, Rover Motors, Cessnock, Surfside Buslines, Gold Coast and Thompsons Bus Service, Brisbane all built up large fleets of new and second hand Tigers. A number of three-axle chassis were bodied as coaches. The last Tiger to be bodied in Australia had been imported in 1984, but it was not until 1993 that its owner, Bass Hill Bus Service, had it bodied.

Articulated bus
At least one articulated chassis was built, being bodied by Superior in Australia in June 1987.

Volvo ownership
Leyland Bus was acquired in a management buyout led by Ian McKinnon in January 1987, and it looked like the Tiger would continue as before. Just over 12 months later, in March 1988, Volvo purchased the business, bringing the United Kingdom's two best-selling coaches, the Leyland Tiger and Volvo B10M, under common ownership. Volvo was aware that Leyland had a loyal following, and that the Tiger had a good reputation, and so the Tiger continued.

Despite accounting for 50% of all UK bus sales in February 1989, sales slowed and in 1990 in an attempt to shift stock, Volvo had Plaxton body forty chassis. Twenty-five of these bodies were the only Plaxton 321 bodies built, this being the Plaxton derivative of the Duple 320 body acquired when Duple closed.

Volvo acknowledged that the Tiger and B10M were broadly similar, and whereas Leyland had sold 3,500 Tigers since the model's launch, Volvo had sold 20,000 B10Ms during the same period. The penultimate major buyer of the Tiger, Shearings, switched to the B10M in 1991, and Volvo decided to cease production and close the factory at Farington.

References

Tiger
Coaches (bus)
Vehicles introduced in 1981
Bus chassis

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Verizon, Yahoo Agree to Cut Deal Price by $350 Million
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Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO).
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) have agreed to cut their $4.83 billion cash deal by $350 million. The announced could come as soon as today and the two companies agreed to split the cost of future liabilities connected to the prior hack.
While the number has come up from $250 million in recent week, the latest rebate is still a little more than a third of the $1 billion that Verizon reportedly asked for last year in July. The deal, which was struck back in July of 2016, aims to expand the company's digital reach and did not include Yahoo's share in the Chinese online retail giant Alibaba or Yahoo Japan–its "most valuable assets."
Until the deal closes, Yahoo will continue to operate under independently of Verizon and is subject to customary closing conditions as well as approval by Yahoo's shareholders and regulators. It is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017.
Share of Verizon were up 0.20, or 0.41% to 49.39 in pre-market trading, while shares of Yahoo! were up 0.33, or 0.73% to 45.43.
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1. Provides a high level of expertise in social media and mobile implementation. Develops, recommends and manages complex workflows involving all web communications and other digital assets. 2. Monitors Yale presence in social media. Recommends strategic approaches to new social media options. 3. Advises Communications Officers on social media content; edits and posts multiple communications daily to create an active, impactful presence for Yale University in the social media sphere. 4. Understands and serves as back-up production officer for all communications systems; works with colleagues to assign production coverage schedules. 5. Manages relationships with campus partners and clients with a heavy focus on customer service and the ability to influence. 6. Works collaboratively with interactive teams to create a seamless communications effort, with the goal of ensuring Yale's pre-eminence in communicating its key programs and stories. 7. Maintains shared server resources. 8. Serves as manager/architect for all communication installed technology. Maintains inventories, negotiates replacements, and serves as interface to IT services for key technologies. 9. Troubleshoots technical issues for communication staff; interfaces with DSP Team 3 for assistance with unresolved issues. 10. May perform other duties as assigned.
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This past April, Kenny Huddleston, one of the individuals served by Indiana MENTOR had the opportunity to throw out the first pitch at a Purdue University Boilermaker's baseball game against the Ball State University Cardinals.
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"Kenny is always talking about sports, and he was so proud to be able to go out on the field and represent Indiana MENTOR," said Area Director Cody Buchanan.
Supplied with hot chocolate and blankets, 50 of Indiana MENTOR's direct support professionals and the individuals they support, as well as a big crowd of fans, showed their support for Mr. Huddleston and the Boilermakers by attending the game despite the unseasonably chilly weather.
Indiana MENTOR is in the process of establishing a regular agreement with the University to include the individuals we serve in at least one Perdue home game of each sport's season in an effort to help them become more active in a University setting.


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No prior capabilities are required, although this course draws on learnings and skills from other completed MBA courses.
The course is intended to encourage you to think creatively about management and organizations, with emphasis on understanding yourself and your relationships with staff, colleagues, and the wider environment. You will be expected to achieve such outcomes from the perspective of a senior business manager and decision-maker and apply these to a contemporary workplace situation. This course aims to provide you with an opportunity to integrate and apply learning from previous courses in the Master of Business Administration program. The integration of work-based learning and academic learning, commonly referred to as Work Integrated Learning (WIL), will allow you to solve authentic business problems or address real issues faced in organisations.
apply research skills in a business context.
A research project report and presentation on a business question will be prepared and presented as a consultancy report in a professional manner.
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I started writing stories about my soon-to-be iconic character Tempus in a most unexpected way. At the World Science Fiction convention, I sat on a panel with editor of the Thieves' World(TM) series, Robert L. Asprin. In front of a packed house, he leaned forward into his microphone and asked me to write for his new "shared word" series, "Thieves' World." Flustered and delighted, but having no idea what Thieves' World might be about, I said yes.
After the panel, Bob Asprin explained what he wanted: a story of up to ten thousand words, set in Sanctuary, a town meant to be the armpit of fantasy, a town we writers would all share as the locale for our stories. Our characters would remain ours to do with as we pleased elsewhere, but the Sanctuary locale was the "shared" part of the anthologies, and Bob would send me a backgrounder about the town and the unfortunate and corrupt people who lived there in some forgotten place and past. He said he wanted it dark; he wanted the characters to be thieves and murderers and witches and such, and the government to be unable to keep the peace. There was one volume of this shared anthology already published, and Bob said he'd send me a copy of the book to show me what others had done.
But by then I already knew what I wanted to write, and what characters I wanted to use. I had written a very short story about a mage-killer, Cime, and her target, Askelon, the last great archmage, and the place where he ruled. I asked if I could bring some pre-existing characters and places, and the editor gave me permission. I asked if I could write characters who were both heroic and anti-heroic, and the editor said yes. So I originally thought I'd expand my existing story, and reference my archmage's world of Meridian, an island which only sometimes appeared in our world. Bob Asprin okayed this as well.
But by the time I arrived home, I had another story in mind: Tempus, my character, had come storming into my brain: Tempus the Riddler, Tempus the Black, Tempus the Obscure. Tempus would be analogous to Heraclitus of Ephesus, but be the man Heraclitus would have been if he'd done what he advised others to do. So from that assignment came Tempus at his nadir, once a general, now a mercenary fallen on hard times, alone in lawless Sanctuary with a mission from the capital to see if the feckless prince who ruled the town could ever make a king. Cime would be called his sister, and Askelon his nemesis, but first I had to introduce him in a way that would make the editor want not only that story, but more stories of Tempus and Cime and the wizard-ridden world they perceived.
So I wrote, "Vashanka's Minion," the first story in the Tempus epic; Bob loved its anti-heroic flavor, and asked me to do another, which was "A Man and his God," in which two men kiss, a priest of the Storm God dies, and Tempus' world forever changes as he inherits the Sacred Band.
Right there, when the Sacred Band begins, the story becomes historical fantasy, since our Sacred Band is modeled on the heroic but doomed Sacred Band of Thebes.
I loved writing the first Tempus stories; the characters obsessed me; once I connected Tempus to Heraclitus and fantasy Sanctuary, a forgotten backwater in the real ancient past, I knew exactly what to do. I have never had more fun writing.
And evidently the readers had fun reading the Tempus stories, for the Thieves' World series was a great success, selling more than a million copies, success enough that I could propose and sell a stand-alone Tempus book, to be a novelized anthology in which my earliest Tempus tales are seen by his young companion in war, Nikodemos. And in which (even better) I could publish my story about Cime the mage-killer and Askelon, lord of dreams who rules Meridian.
It was during this interval, as I was preparing the novelized anthology, Tempus, that the shared-world Thieves' World became a bestseller; then I also sold the to-be-written trilogy about Tempus and his Sacred Band, called the Beyond trilogy (Beyond Sanctuary, Beyond the Veil, Beyond Wizardwall) as hardcovers to Baen Books, as Science Fiction Book Club selections, and as Ace mass market paperbacks. Subsequently, I wrote three more Tempus novels for Baen, and then many years later assembled the final Thieves' World Sacred Band tales, along with new stories written expressly for that volume, in a second novelized anthology, The Fish the Fighters and the Song-girl, and also, for Perseid Press, the epic Tempus novel, The Sacred Band.
For more than thirty years now, I have been writing about Tempus (and his sister-in-arms Cime, and the Sacred Band of Stepsons), and he has been living in my head much in the same way that Tempus is inhabited by Enlil, the Akkadian Storm God. But this book Tempus is the original, the earliest, and these are the tales that made Tempus famous — how it all began.
About Janet: Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 30 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. She has contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy series "Thieves World, (TM)" in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons, a mythical unit of ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. She created, orchestrated, and edited the Bangsian fantasy series Heroes in Hell, writing stories for the series as well as co-writing the related novel, The Little Helliad, with Chris Morris. Most of her fiction work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical and contemporary novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national security topics.
Welcome to Author Wednesday and a guest post by Janet Morris, the author Tempus, a best-selling work of fantasy that has developed into much more than one work of fiction. Tempus even has its own Wikepedia page. Tempus is also a part of the box set, At Odds with Destiny. I'm pleased to have Janet here today to talk about how her dynasty with the Tempus character.
Thieves World(R): Bold beginnings, when Tempus and the Sacred Band first came to Sanctuary.
Philip Jose Farmer is arguably the biggest name amongst the contributors, but his story is fairly generic, notable more for the wordplay built into the title than for its content. Janet Morris introduces a new character, Tempus, who will come to dominate much of the storyline, who will, in fact, become so larger-than-life thatThieves' World is no longer big enough to hold him, and he will go on to a number of his own novels in a spin-off series by Janet Morris and Chris Morris.
As we finish with what will ultimately be the first half of the series, Thieves' World has grown into a real presence in the fantasy genre. As Asprin mentions in his Afterword in Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn, "[A]nthologies in general don't sell and … fantasy anthologies specifically are sudden death," yet the sales of the first few collections generated not only a thriving series and a number of authorized spin-off novels, but also a board game, a role-playing game, and a number of RPG supplements. In fact, at the time ofWings of Omen, the very words "Thieves' World" and "Sanctuary" had been trademarked for the franchise by Asprin and Abbey.
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package com.palantir.atlasdb.shell;

import java.nio.CharBuffer;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.jruby.Ruby;
import org.jruby.RubyClass;
import org.jruby.RubyModule;
import org.jruby.ext.Readline;
import org.jruby.runtime.Arity;
import org.jruby.runtime.Block;
import org.jruby.runtime.ThreadContext;
import org.jruby.runtime.builtin.IRubyObject;
import org.jruby.runtime.callback.Callback;

import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

import jline.Completor;

// Copying ProcCompletor, the standard tab completor, because there seems to be no way to extend it.
public class BiasedProcCompletor implements Completor {

    IRubyObject procCompletor;
    //\t\n\"\\'`@$><=;|&{(
    static private String[] delimiters = {" ", "\t", "\n", "\"", "\\", "'", "`", "@", "$", ">", "<", "=", ";", "|", "&", "{", "("};

    public BiasedProcCompletor(IRubyObject procCompletor) {
        this.procCompletor = procCompletor;
    }

    public static String getDelimiter() {
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(delimiters.length);
        for (String delimiter : delimiters) {
            result.append(delimiter);
        }
        return result.toString();
    }

    public static void setDelimiter(String delimiter) {
        List<String> l = new ArrayList<String>();
        CharBuffer buf = CharBuffer.wrap(delimiter);
        while (buf.hasRemaining()) {
            l.add(String.valueOf(buf.get()));
        }
        delimiters = l.toArray(new String[l.size()]);
    }

    private int wordIndexOf(String buffer) {
        int index = 0;
        for (String c : delimiters) {
            index = buffer.lastIndexOf(c);
            if (index != -1) return index;
        }
        return index;
    }

    @SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
    @Override
    public int complete(String buffer, int cursor, List candidates) {
        buffer = buffer.substring(0, cursor);
        int index = wordIndexOf(buffer);
        if (index != -1) buffer = buffer.substring(index + 1);

        Ruby runtime = procCompletor.getRuntime();
        ThreadContext context = runtime.getCurrentContext();
        IRubyObject result = procCompletor.callMethod(context, "call", runtime.newString(buffer));
        IRubyObject comps = result.callMethod(context, "to_a");

        List<String> atlasShellCandidates = Lists.newArrayList();
        List<String> otherCandidates = Lists.newArrayList();

        List<String> atlasShellMethods = Lists.newArrayList();
        RubyModule atlasDBShellModule = runtime.getModule("AtlasDBShell");
        if (atlasDBShellModule != null) {
            atlasShellMethods.addAll(atlasDBShellModule.getMethods().keySet());
            for (IRubyObject c : atlasDBShellModule.getConstantMap().values()) {
                if (c instanceof RubyClass) {
                    atlasShellMethods.addAll(((RubyClass) c).getMethods().keySet());
                }
            }
        }

        Set<String> varNames = runtime.getGlobalVariables().getNames();
        for (String varName : varNames) {
            if (varName.startsWith("$" + buffer)) {
                atlasShellCandidates.add(varName.substring(1));
            }
        }

        if (comps instanceof List) {
            for (Iterator i = ((List) comps).iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
                Object obj = i.next();
                if (obj != null) {
                    int methodIndex = obj.toString().lastIndexOf('.');
                    if (atlasShellMethods.contains(obj.toString().substring(methodIndex + 1).toLowerCase())) {
                        atlasShellCandidates.add(obj.toString());
                    } else {
                        otherCandidates.add(obj.toString());
                    }
                }
            }
            Collections.sort(atlasShellCandidates);
            Collections.sort(otherCandidates);
            candidates.addAll(atlasShellCandidates);
            candidates.addAll(otherCandidates);
        }

        return cursor - buffer.length();
    }

    // Copying TextAreaReadline to hack in our own tab completor.
    public static void hookIntoRuntime(final Ruby runtime) {
        /* Hack in to replace usual readline with this */
        runtime.getLoadService().require("readline");
        RubyModule readlineM = runtime.fastGetModule("Readline");

        readlineM.defineModuleFunction("completion_proc=", new Callback() {
            @Override
            public IRubyObject execute(IRubyObject recv, IRubyObject[] args, Block block) {
                IRubyObject proc = args[0];
                if (!proc.respondsTo("call")) {
                    throw recv.getRuntime().newArgumentError("argument must respond to call");
                }
                Readline.setCompletor(Readline.getHolder(recv.getRuntime()),
                        new BiasedProcCompletor(proc));
                return recv.getRuntime().getNil();
            }

            @Override
            public Arity getArity() { return Arity.twoArguments(); }
        });
    }
}


Despite all the newer features that make it possible to develop Rich Internet Applications in Flash, at its heart, Flash is an animation tool. As such, it relies on the Timeline, which controls what the user sees on the screen (though this is no longer true in Flash MX Professional). Creating animations in Flash is very similar to creating cartoons on paper and then shuffling the paper to simulate motion. Each frame on the Timeline would represent one of those pieces of paper. As the playhead moves from frame to frame, the user sees whatever objects appear on the frames. With minor differences in the objects in each frame, the objects appear to move and change shape.
For complex animations in which it's important to show specific changes (like facial expressions), it's better to add the graphic for each frame manually. But for simpler animations, Flash can not only fill in middle frames for you, but also morph an object's shape over the course of several frames, and plot a course of movement across the Stage based on lines or curves you draw. Flash's built-in Timeline effects let you add pre-designed animation effects to objects on the Stage.
You aren't limited to graphics in Flash, either. You can introduce and fade out sounds and video, "change screens" (move to a new frame) based on user input, and control how objects are animated on the Stage based on user input or other events. For example, you can write a collision-detection script that tells Flash to move the playhead to a different frame (to display a new animation) when two objects collide or move too close to each other. Animations can be "nested" or embedded in other animations, which are nested in other animations and so on, creating extremely complex but compact movie clips that can be used over and over again.
A motion tween is created by placing two instances of an object, each with different properties (color, size, position, etc.), several frames apart and then instructing Flash to fill in the middle frames. The motion tween displays a gradual change from the first object's instance to the second.
The start and end object instances are placed on special frames called keyframes, which you'll insert into the Timeline. A keyframe is simply a frame used to hold objects that represent changes in the animation (such as a new graphic) or actions that control the movie.
Place a starting object (for example, an instance of a graphic symbol) on the Stage. You should position it where you want the object to appear at the beginning of the animation.
On the Timeline, click a different frame on the same layer, several frames away from the starting frame.
In the new frame, insert a keyframe: from the Insert menu, select Timeline and then Keyframe. Or, right-click and select Insert Keyframe from the shortcut menu, or just press F6 on your keyboard.
The magic of animation is simply altering those objects. In frame-by-frame animation, you would select each frame in turn, create a new keyframe, and then move or replace the object. However, in a simple animation, Flash can make these individual changes for us based on the objects in the beginning and ending keyframes.
Right-click on any frame between the two keyframes and, from the shortcut menu, select Create Motion Tween (this command is also available from the Insert Timeline submenu).
Remember, we haven't changed our object on the Stage, so the motion tween doesn't do us much good—our car isn't going anywhere. We need to add our ending instance of the object. We'll use the same graphic on the Stage, but we'll move it to a different location, so the animation will appear to show the car moving from one point to the next.
Test the movie by pressing Ctrl+Enter on your keyboard (or Cmd+Return for Mac users).
On the Timeline, create a new layer and name it "Actions". It's standard practice to keep code on a separate layer created just for that purpose.
Now, open the Actions panel (if necessary, select Actions from the Development Panels submenu in the Window menu). Make sure the current selection displayed in the lower left-hand list box displays the correct layer and frame (Actions: Frame 5). This location should also appear on the tab at the bottom of the Script pane.
In the Actions panel, click the Global Functions folder to open it. Then click the Timeline Control folder to see a list of functions related to the Timeline.
If you can't see the list boxes on the left side of the Actions panel, click the arrow button on the left side of the Script pane.
Double-click the stop function to add it to the Script pane.
Click the layer and frame where you want the animation to begin.
Insert a keyframe by pressing F6 on your keyboard.
Add the starting graphic to the Stage, in the position where you want it.
Click the next frame on the same layer and insert another keyframe (F6) to copy the graphic from the last frame, or insert a blank keyframe (F6) if you want to add a new graphic.
For example, if you're animating a comic face, the second graphic might show the eyebrows slightly raised and the eyes subtly widened. If the animation shows the same image in motion, nudge the position of the graphic.
Continue as above, replacing and repositioning graphics in each keyframe.
To test the animation, drag the playhead along the Timeline, or press Ctrl+Enter (or Cmd+Return) to test the compiled movie.


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Report: Reining in Wall Street
Who's Watching The Watchdogs?
In The Wake of Enron: A survey of State Accounting Board Membership and the Need for Reform
Release date: Thursday, June 27, 2002
"There are government agencies that purport to regulate CPAs to some degree, but if you look behind the agency to the identity of the people who are controlling this profession, you will see that those people are largely CPAs making decisions that benefit and protect the CPA profession, rather than the public at large." —Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, Center for Public Interest Law 1
Conflicts of interest and lack of independent funding have doomed both the national and state level accounting oversight systems in the United States. The state accounting boards and the network of overlapping, mostly self-regulatory federal accounting overseers act as classic "captive" regulators, serving management instead of serving investors and taxpayers. In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court famously called accountants "public watchdogs," yet while no one watched the watchdogs, they became lapdogs. 2
The current Enron-Arthur Andersen debacle is illustrative of larger problems in the accounting oversight system. Despite a pattern of more frequent and more serious failed audits since the savings-and-loan failures of the 1980s that left the landscape littered with half-built shopping centers and emptied the pockets of taxpayers and small investors alike, bad auditors and bad audit firms just keep on auditing without threat of significant penalties for inaction or bad action. 3
This report examines potential conflicts of interest in the 51 (50 states and the District of Columbia) state agencies with regulatory authority over accountants, known as the state boards of accountancy. It finds complicity between the boards' lapdog bite and their overwhelming dominance by accounting insiders.
The report also reviews national oversight of the accounting industry. In the noteworthy cases where the well-intentioned Public Oversight Board, a national self-regulatory organization, attempted to assert any independence from the industry, well-funded industry lobbying campaigns defeated its efforts to improve oversight.
Enron collapsed in a wave of accounting scandals in November 2001 after restating its balance sheet to include previously unreported losses. Enron's auditor, Arthur Andersen, signed off on Enron's financial statements every year, despite the fact that Enron was using fraudulent partnerships to conceal huge losses. Had Andersen blown the whistle on Enron's accounting practices when the first fake partnership was set up, Enron partners would not have been able to continue to set up more partnerships to conceal more losses.
The accounting discrepancies associated with the Enron scandal were not an isolated incident. Although the Enron accounting failure has captivated the media, the noted securities law expert John Coffee has said the only thing exceptional about Enron was its failure was "larger."4 Enron's, and other, failures are indicative of the sort of accounting that is practiced when there is no significant fear of consequences. Enron's auditors, Arthur Andersen, operated in an atmosphere where they had more to gain by approving Enron's slippery accounting tricks than by conforming to accounting standards. The government regulatory agencies had no complaints about Arthur Andersen to respond to and the self-regulatory peer review process of the accounting industry was not likely to result in negative consequences.
Congress and several states are considering enacting accounting reform legislation. Among the principal goals of the best reform proposals is the establishment of independently-funded, majority-public-member accounting oversight boards. 5 Without ensuring that independent oversight agencies watch the watchdogs, we cannot prevent future accounting disasters that will cost investors, taxpayers, employees and retirees more untold billions.
1 Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, Center for Public Interest Law, Comments to Assembly Committee on Business and Professions. Hearing on Accounting Practices and Corporate Audits: Protection of Consumers, Employees, and Shareholders, 19 February 2002.
2 U.S. vs. Arthur Young, 1984
3 See "Bad Audits, Not Deep Pockets: Illustrations of Failed Audits By The Big 6," The State PIRGs and Public Citizen, 1993, for a detailed analysis of some of the S&L audit investigations.http://enronwatchdog.org/PDFs/bad_audits.pdf
4 See testimony of professor John Coffee before Senate Commerce Committee, 18 December 2001http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/121801Coffee.pdf
5 See http://enronwatchdog.org/newsroom/index.html for state PIRG testimony and press releases in support of reform proposals in California and New York.


Jigsaw Man is book four in Mark Tartaglia series by Elena Forbes. Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia through his day could not get any worse after bar hopping with his cousin the night before. However, this was not the case. When Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia arrives at a murder scene, he realises he knows the women, and he was in the same hotel the night before. Readers of Jigsaw Man will continue to follow Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia to see what happens to him and this investigation.Jigsaw Man is the first book I have read of Elena Forbes, and I am impressed with the way she describes the plot and her characters. I like the way Elena Forbes intertwines Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia throughout Jigsaw Man. Jigsaw Man is part four of the Mark Tartaglia series and is part of one of my reading challenges even though I usually prefer to read a series from the beginning. However, it did not affect my enjoyment of the Jigsaw Man. The only problem I have with Jigsaw Man they left the readers wondering did they find the body of Hannah Bird.Readers of Jigsaw Man will learn about law enforcement procedures in Great Britain. Readers of Jigsaw man will start to think there must be a better way to help people who are suffering from mental illness than prison. Jigsaw Man highlights that men can be raped as well as women. Also, the consequences of the abuse on the individuals.I recommend this book.
Jigsaw Man is the fourth novel in the Mark Tartaglia series by British author, Elena Forbes. After a drunken one-night-stand at a boutique London hotel, DI Mark Tartaglia is called back to the same hotel just hours later on a murder inquiry. A young woman has been brutally strangled. Adding a complication to the case, Mark recognises the victim. But before he can do much investigating, his boss forces him to shift his focus to another case: a body in a burnt-out car, bizarrely not one corpse, but parts of four different people. Elena Forbes has crafted a brilliant novel. Her plot is original, her characters are multi-faceted and her attention to detail is impressive. Her description of police work, scouring for tiny details that eventually fall into place to form a lead, gives the book a truly authentic feel. Forbes throws in a few red herrings that will have the reader wondering about motive and opportunity and whether the cases are related. This fast-paced thriller charges to a gripping climax (or two) that will have the reader's pulse racing.While this is the fourth book in the series, it can be read as a stand-alone, although the mention of a previous case may be a spoiler for readers who decide to read earlier books in the series. And many will do so, as this is such a compelling read. Recommended.On a second reading, after having read the first three in the series, even better than the first time!
So this is the 4th book in the Tartaglia series I believe, but it is the first one I've read. Which now I've read it surprises me because this is top notch crime fiction and usually I have a nose for that sort of thing, but anyway here we are and I really really enjoyed this one.Here we have Mark Tartaglia working on a case that has come a bit close to home, involving someone he cares about. Meanwhile there is a macabre killer at work and Mark will have to keep his wits about him in order to prevent further deaths.This had everything I look for in my crime fiction - some great characters, a well constructed and intriguing mystery and a beautiful flow to it, easily read as a standalone, I did not feel I was missing out by having come to it here. There are some great little twists and turns in there to keep you on your toes and the mystery element is well developed and perfectly paced.Overall a terrific read - I have added this series to my must have list and very much look forward to what comes next.Happy Reading Folks!
I love the fact that although this is book 4 it doesn't give away any more than is necessary for this storyline from previous novels, so I can go back and read them. This was a book club read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. You need to keep your wits about you though, several twists in the plot but a book you can really get into. Much discussion was had about who would play 'our' Mark Tartaglia .. excellent characterisation when that happens. Definitely recommend to lovers of Uk police procedurals - a cut above the norm.
"What matters is that people are going missing. They leave home one day and don't come back. Loved ones are left waiting, hoping... Hoping that the ring of a phone or the sound of a key in the lock is the person they're desperately missing. But they're not coming back, are they? There's a nutter on the loose and he needs to be stopped. How many more victims do you think are going to be taken off the streets, killed and set on fire? How many?"I decided to read this book even though I was aware that it was already the fourth in the Mark Tartaglia series and well, it was a book I got on sale last month. The title intrigued me so much when I first saw it and the blurb surely is interesting. I haven't read a lot of police procedural books but I love watching them! I enjoy it more when I watch people solve mysteries and they go around asking this and that, trying to make sense of what's happening. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy this book, I did, I'm just saying that I feel like I'll enjoy it more if it's a tv show or something. But that's just me!I've also read that you can read this book even if you haven't read the previous ones since this can be a standalone but of course there were mentions of past incidents from the previous books and after all it's a series. And I might've enjoyed it a little more if I've read the first three books since I've probably made connection with the characters already but I have to be fine by meeting the characters for the first time in the fourth book. Jigsaw Man has great characters, I liked DI Mark Tartaglia right away and almost everyone else. I was a bit unsure about Sam Donovan at first, maybe because I don't know her story yet since I haven't read the first three books, but I came to understand her character towards the end. The flow of the story was smooth and I was excited all throughout to find out why the victims were killed, how they were connected and especially who the killer was. Like everyone else, I tried guessing every time but ended up just reading on and waiting until it was revealed. And to make things more interesting, we have two different cases in this book which means two different killers. It was just a little disappointing to find out that there was no real significance in sewing together of the bodies. I mean, it wasn't explained why the killer did that and I really thought the two cases were connected. With Mark being in the same hotel and all, I really thought it meant something. Anyway, it's still a good book if you give it a chance. Hope you enjoy!
I enjoyed this so much that I plan to read the three that precede this one - Die With Me, Our Lady of Pain, and Evil in Return. I prefer reading novels like this in chronological order to enjoy the evolution of the protagonist along with that of the author. I am hoping these three will be just as engaging as Jigsaw Man! I do recommend reading these four books in order.
well constructed plot line with some great characters. a terrific read Thank you for choosing me to receive a free copy via Goodreads giveaways.
Not one of her best. Bit muddled with 2 stories going on, and no real reason behind the killing method.
I like to think that I know every crime fiction series set in London until every so often I find one lurking in the corner waiting to prove me wrong, and Elena Forbes's DI Mark Tartaglia series is that latest find. I was very excited to read Jigsaw Man after a rather intriguing blurb. I wasn't disappointed, and have definitely been left with the desire to go back and read the previous books in the series.Blurb (not spoiler!) time: DI Mark Tartaglia has not long returned home from spending the night with a random woman in a West London hotel before his partner is at his door telling him the body of a woman has been found in one of the rooms. A little bit worried to say the least, but relieved that it cannot be his woman, Tartaglia arrives at the hotel and is thrown when he realises that he does in fact recognise the murdered woman lying on the hotel room bed. Not only that but another case he is working on has taken a bit of a sinister turn, the body found in a burnt-out car believed to be that of a homeless man, has in fact been assembled from the body parts of four different people.I do like it when the author comes up with inventive, or different ways for their characters to be murdered or wind up dead, and the assembling of four different people before setting them alight in a car is something I personally haven't seen done before. Straightaway the police have their work cut out for them (no pun intended!), identifying each of the victims, which is nigh on impossible but until the puzzle is solved, the aptly named Jigsaw Killer could strike again. I have to say that I really enjoyed this book, with no idea who the killer could be, I was eager to find out how the four victims were connected and why they had been killed. The book moves at a nice pace, and this was a book that I read in just a few sittings. Jigsaw Man contains more than enough red herrings to keep the reader interested in both of the book's cases, both of the book's threads having satisfying conclusions. Tartaglia is certai kept busy during this book, as he and his old partner have a personal connection to the case of the murdered woman in the hotel, and there's definitely some interesting developments here.Jigsaw Man can be read as a standalone, but given that a number of events in the book have a massive effect on the regular characters, I might have enjoyed the story more had I already known these characters, and felt a connection to them. I found myself thinking about some of my favourite crime fiction series, and imagining these events happening to those characters and my reaction then would definitely have been more extreme. That said, this is brilliant crime fiction and Elena Forbes engaged me as a reader very early on in the book, and I became a fan of the main characters very quickly and returning readers, familiar with the relationship between Tartaglia and his old partner will definitely be gripped by this part of the story. The cast of characters are brilliantly created, I say this a lot but it's hard for authors to create characters that are original and stand out, but Tartaglia, his ex-partner Sam Donovan, new partner Nick Minderedes and his boss Carolyn Steele definitely did for me.For crime fans like me, yet to discover Elena Forbes, I definitely recommend that you do so right away.
Two cases: the murder in a hotel of the sister of a former detective, Sam Donovan, and the discovery that the body of a supposed tramp found in a burnt out car is in fact parts of four different bodies. I found this to be a page turner and written in such a way that it was possible to keep on top of the investigation as it unfolded (which makes me feel clever).But... the whole set up with Mark being at the same hotel at the time Clare was murdered turns out to be wholly irrelevant.And.. while it is maybe ambiguous (when I went back to re-read it) I took the autopsy of the first "body" to mean that two of the body parts were female and two male.And.. it was a bit disappointing to find that there was no real significance to the sewing together of the bodies.And.. it makes NO sense for Sam not to tell the police all that she works out about the killer of her sister from the room service meal etc.And.. while I have read the earlier books in this series, I have forgotten them and this one depends to a large extent on us remembering who Adam is.And... I hope someone found poor Hannah's body and made the connection and I hope Sam felt guilty about not having prevented her murder.Still, four stars overall.
By the cover, I really hoped for something bloody, something that would scare the hell out of me. Instead, I got a classic detective novel.It wasn't bad, but it kinda disappointed me. Two investigations, once concerning the famous 'Jigsaw Man', a man who kills people and use their parts to rebuild a human and then burn it. The second investigation concerns a young woman who've been killed by a possible serial killer, but her sister won't let it go so easily.I'm a fan of detective novels, but I got to say that more I got into this book, the more I wanted to reach the end. I was getting lost wit hall the characters and the two investigations that have not much to do with each other.I would maybe have given it a 3,5/5, but that's impossible on Goodreads. I suggest you test it by yourself, but it was my first in the Mark Tartaglia serie and I will wait a little bit before trying another.I got to thank 'Elena Forbes' and 'House of Anansi and Groundwood Books' for this book I received through Goodreads giveaways.
2.5 stars, really, as I stuck it out but it neither gripped nor convinced me. It used two of my least favourite tropes (serial killer POVs - always the same superior, woman-hating faux-intellectual, whatever book they are in) and characters getting into near death scrapes because they were too stupid and/or stubborn to tell the truth/voice their suspicions to their colleagues, and I saw the ending coming a mile off. I liked the previous books in this series but based on this probably won't bother with future ones.
I have really enjoyed the Mark Tartaglia series and this one was no different. The characters are well written, it is nice to have a detective who is not an alcoholic as the main character. This book did have considerably less of Mark's family in than the previous books did! The police procedural stories are well thought out and described. I would recommend people read the series in order to get all the back story.
Viertes Buch der Reihe und dasjenige, welche die Handlung des ersten abschließt. Für jemanden wie mich, der die anderen Bücher der Reihe gelesen hat, war vieles vorhersehbar, manches an den Haaren herbeigezogen und einiges vollkommen überflüssig. Ms Forbes hat schon Spannenderes geschrieben. Deshalb nur die drei Sterne. Ginge es hier um die Bewertung des Sprechers, wären es vier Sterne, denn Rick Jerom hat IMHO alle fünf verdient - großartig gelesen!
I'd give this more 3-3/4 stars than 4, but it's still such a good addition to the series. Mark Tartaglia and Sam Donovan meet up again, this time for a murder that hits tragically close to home. Meanwhile, another series of grim murders is getting a lot of attention. The plots are sufficiently intriguing to keep the pace brisk, and the characters are an interesting cross section of humanity. I really look forward to every book in this series.
Two plots, too many characters, bizarre premiss but so entertaining. There were a couple of crimes that seemed undiscovered by the end of the book. There was less character development than I like. Surely DI Tartaglia is more attuned to his staff and friends or even his sister. Did the editors take out too much content?
I do take some responsibility for not enjoying this book as much as I expected - though I did really enjoy it at times. I took ages to read it so I didn't follow some of what was happening. I also didn't realise it was a series and this was the first one I'd read so I didn't know any of the background!
I really liked this series up until this book. The characters, mainly Mark, were especially unlikeable this time around. If there's another book in this series I might give it one more shot but if it's the same tone as this one then I'm done.
Two plots, lots of twists and turns and well written characters. Thoroughly enjoyed yhe ride!
As always a fantastic read. Fast paced, gripping, well-written and a book I couldn't put down.
Interesting mystery set in and around London, England. I enjoyed this book, and will be looking for more books by this author.
I like this series: characters and plots. Could one person contrive these elaborate murders? Not sure but they were plausible enough to make it a good read.
good procedural novel. i have not read the previous books in the series but that was not a problem-this book stands alone.
Police procedural type of crime book, fairly average standard I would say. Not a bad thing, book delivered what I needed just didn't knock me out. Would read other books in this series.
I sort of bounced off this one but I stuck with it to the end. I may try one further back in the series. I liked it enough to finish it but it was a bit of a chore.


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Presentation Reflection Walk | Presentation of Mary in the Temple Stained Glass Window (Station 9)
Station 9 -
Presentation of Mary in the Temple Stained Glass Window
Location: Viewed from the eastern end of the Convent, Bay View Terrace
Audio: Read by Sister Terri Emslie PBVM, Presentation Sister and Past Staff Member.
The title 'Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary' (PBVM) comes from an ancient feast recalling Mary being presented in the Temple. This feast was popular in Ireland and Europe at the time of Nano, alongside a relatively new devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Both feasts were seeking to enter more deeply into a relationship with the Divine through the humanity of Jesus and of Mary. This title of Mary being 'Presented' in the Temple was very important to Nano Nagle. She began her Congregation of the Sisters of the Charitable Instruction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Christmas Eve, 1775. This Congregation had temporary permission under Canon Law, but a Rule of Life and Constitutions were required. With Nano's death in 1784, this task was not complete. Bishop Francis Moylan of Cork, a strong supporter of Nano and her movement, continued the legal work with Rome and in 1791, as part of this new approval, the Congregation changed its name to the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBVM), thereby recognising this special devotion of Nano to Mary.
There is a marked resemblance between St Columba's life on the island of Iona (from where our College gets its name) and what we celebrate in the Feast of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple; that grace-filled rhythm of intense contemplative prayer and the abundantly fruitful apostolic activity of Mary, 'the first of the Apostles', in the sense that she was the first person to bring Christ to the world. Tradition has it that Mary spent 12 years living in the Temple in Jerusalem (from 3 years of age until about 15 years old) – praying, attending to the Temple duties, learning and pondering the Scriptures, and growing in wisdom and sanctity before she then left the Temple to begin her unique missionary role in history.
Mary's hidden life in the Temple, having been presented as a gift to God by her parents, Anna and Joachim, at the tender age of 3, is essential to understanding the fruitfulness of her life of love and service after she had spent many years dwelling in God's presence in the Temple. Mary could only give to the world what she had received from God. She had first to be drawn fully into God's life and love before she could give this to others so completely.
This same dynamic of uniting both contemplative prayer and missionary/apostolic activity is found in the life of Nano Nagle – the foundress of the Presentation Sisters. Nano spent most of her nights in prayer – in her simple home/Convent in Cork – before she went out again all day into the streets of Cork to educate, and bring comfort, hope and encouragement to the poor. Like Mary spending so many years hidden away in the Temple and St Columba living a rigorous, monastic life in the Iona Abbey, Nano Nagle also needed to withdraw to 'her inner room' each night so as to be filled and continuously replenished with God through her countless hours of prayer and contemplation. Only then, was Nano able to bring God's healing and sanctifying presence to others, helping to transform the world around her as she became a transparent window allowing God's grace to animate and permeate all her apostolic activities.
Nagle Education Alliance Australia. (2016). Induction Module 2: Presentation Spirituality. Retrieved September 2020 from www.neaa.com.au
Written Contribution from Sister Terri Emslie PBVM
Photo of the Presentation of Mary in the temple Stained Glass Window. Image courtesy of the Presentation Sisters' Archives of Western Australia


2009 December | Brandan's Thoughts - … and stuff.
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Oh good, it looks like the girls are finally on east coast time.
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Anyone have any ideas for a portable wifi router that you could plug in in someone's house that didn't have wifi and just set up a network?
"The Princess and the Frog" is the best princess movie ever. I have a new favorite princess!
What is the plural of walrus? Walrii?
Attempting to get $18 worth of napkins and condiments to offset the cost of the movie theater food.


Written by John Jay Singleton on May 9, 2017 . Posted in Anarchism, Your Money.
What if the government passed a law requiring everyone to wear blue uniforms in the same style, and you had to buy the uniform from the government, or a single business designated by the government, and no one was permitted to sell any uniforms in competition with the government?
What if the government could tell you who your friends could be and how you could interact with those "friends" and that unauthorized friends and unauthorized interactions would be a crime?
What if the government forced you to use only one currency that always lost its buying power and denied you any ability to question it?
These are three questions that have recently come into light, at least since I've been researching them. When I traveled to Europe, at least before 2008, I was seen as some kind of rock star or a rich guy, even though I may not have been rich.. I was spending U.S. Dollars, I was associated with "Americanism", you know, blue jeans and Coca-Cola. Using dollars gave me a social status, a means of expressing myself and associating with others. I could have just as easily exchanged my money for Canadian Dollars and claimed to be a Canadian, or even an Australian. These would have been different expressions of myself and created entirely different associations with others.
The "money" we use today, or currency as it is correctly named, is not mined with human labor and ingenuity, it's fabricated in a counterfeiting scheme in which only a certain, small group of people reap the benefits and the vast majority of people who are forced to use it, must do so at their own peril. The currency we use today, it's not the "dollar", it's a Federal Reserve Note, a bank note, an "I.O.U.", or technically, a "perpetual bond". The holder of a unit of this currency is not holding money or an asset, he is holding a liability, a debt. The "creditor" is the Federal Reserve Bank. Merely holding "FRNs", as they have come to be called, is a tax. As the government borrows these notes into existence and spends them, the buying power of the people forced to use them diminishes, it's a tax. The value of their labor is diminished. The value (not to be confused with price) of their goods is diminished, and these people are forever forced to "hop" from one situation to another in order to avoid the adverse effects of this diminishing value, or the "taking of their property". How can this diminishing value be distinguished from the taking of property? It cannot.
Money, or even currency, has always been one of the means by which people associate with others, express themselves and protect their wealth. Forcing people to use a certain currency, especially the Federal Reserve Note, violates our rights to free speech, freedom of association and due process of law regarding the taking of property without due process of law and the right to redress of grievances. It is important to note that people do not derive these rights from a written document, the First Amendment or any series of written words anywhere. They derive these rights from their creator, whoever they individually believe that to be. People had these rights long before words were written anywhere. Therefore, no individual or group of individuals (corporation, church, government, etc.) may deprive the people of these rights and remain in the right, or in good standing with them.
It's time for people to reclaim their rights as we now have the means and the urgency. Adopt cryptographic currency and use it with precious metals in private vault services and boycott bank notes. It's that simple.


For this blog, pick 4 of the 21st Century Skills that you have used in your project. Include one photo for each and a 3-5 sentence explanation of your use of the skill in your project.
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Annual fest with live music and famous charcoal chicken and refreshments all three days. Other activities include a hot rod burn out, volleyball tournament, kiddie parade, tractor pull, and a grand parade on Sunday afternoon. New Museum will be open all days of event, as well as an ice cream social on Sunday.


Photographer RJ Goodwin uses two cameras on many photo shoots, such as our Local Flavor profile that involved a variety of shots. One camera has a wide-angle lens. The other is better for those close-up details of ingredients and food.
Check out this issue's Local Flavor recipe on page 100.
"I buy things because I like them, not because of their supposed value or because they're considered antiques.
The White Brick House in Forest.
Read about her farmhouse style on page 66!
Lauren Ferry shared her love for Downtown Lynchburg on Instagram.
She wrote, "I truly love this street. I love this town. I love our loft…" We love that you love your downtown life, Lauren. Thanks for sharing!


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UNC Health Care First in NC to integrate EHR with NC Controlled Substance Reporting System
Giant step forward in empowering physicians to address the opioid epidemic
Newswise — Chapel Hill, N.C. – July 16, 2018 – In late June, UNC Health Care became the first organization in North Carolina to integrate its Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) system with the NC Controlled Substance Reporting System, a giant step forward in empowering the system's physicians to address the opioid epidemic.
Activation of this capability provides physicians with a one-click integration between Epic and the NC Controlled Substances Reporting System and reduces a 13-step process to three steps for providers to confirm prior controlled substance prescriptions.
"One-click access is a huge win for our providers," said Tracy Parham, RN, UNC Health Care's Chief Information Officer. "Before, they had to jump between two systems – taking three minutes per patient report. Now, the process takes seconds to retrieve the patient-specific report directly within Epic."
In the first two weeks of use, the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) integration was used by more than 540 physicians across UNC Health Care to access more than 2,950 patient reports. When compared to the prior workflow, UNC Health Care estimates that the change has already saved its physicians approximately 119 hours in the two weeks of use.
More importantly, the functionality provides clinical information necessary to ensure that opioids and other controlled substances aren't prescribed inappropriately.
"No physician wants to inadvertently prescribe excess narcotics for a patient, and a vast majority of patients don't want to be prescribed opioids unnecessarily," said Dr. Matthew G. Ewend, President of UNC Physicians and Chief Quality and Value Officer for the UNC Health Care System.
"Our IT team has sliced through the technical 'red tape' to bring our physicians accurate, real-time information about each patient's narcotic prescription history," Dr. Ewend explained. "Our patients and our physicians both benefit from this terrific work – we are proud to be leading the response to the opioid crisis in North Carolina."
This functionality is possible thanks to a partnership between UNC Health Care's Information Services Division team and Appriss Health, provider of the nation's most comprehensive platform for substance use disorder. With Appriss Health's PMP Gateway platform, the integration of the North Carolina Controlled Substances Reporting System into the EHR increases the ease of access and use of PDMP information when making critical clinical decisions.
For providers like Dr. Vinay Reddy, a UNC Health Care family medicine physician who prescribes controlled medications for patients with chronic pain and for patients on medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependence, having quick and easy access to the information in the Controlled Substances Reporting System database (including the drugs prescribed, the number of prescribers, and the different pharmacies used) streamlines the process dramatically.
"One of the contributing factors to the opioid crisis is a lack of quick and easily accessible information regarding the controlled substances patients have filled in our state as well as surrounding states," said Dr. Reddy. "One click access on the same screen where we order medications removes the previous barriers to accessing the controlled substance database at the point of care."
"Now, I can quickly review the database while the patient is in front of me and make informed decisions about the controlled substances I am considering prescribing for the patient, preventing unsafe and unnecessary prescribing of controlled substances for our patients."
Health Care IT Leadership
UNC Health Care is a national leader in information technology and is the only health system in the United States to achieve both Stage 7 status on all three HIMSS Analytics domains (inpatient, outpatient, analytics) and also to be honored as 'Most Wired Advanced' by the American Hospital Association (AHA).
Earlier in 2018, UNC Health Care collaborated with Apple on an early release of a new health records feature in the iPhone Health app, which makes patients' clinical health records accessible on their iPhones. UNC Health Care was one of only 12 institutions nationwide in the iOS 11.3 beta.
About UNC Health Care
UNC Health Care is an integrated health care system composed of UNC Hospitals and its provider network, UNC Faculty Physicians, UNC Physicians Network, the clinical patient care programs of the UNC School of Medicine, and ten other hospitals and hospital systems across the state: UNC REX Healthcare, Chatham Hospital, Johnston Health, Pardee Hospital, High Point Regional Health, Caldwell Memorial, Nash Health Care, Wayne Memorial, UNC Lenoir Health Care, and UNC Rockingham Health Care.
About Appriss Health
Appriss Health provides the nation's most comprehensive platform for early identification, prevention and management of substance use disorder (SUD). Appriss Health provides state government agencies with the most advanced repository of controlled substance dispensing data, and deliver real-time clinical decision support, critical insights and interventions to physicians, pharmacists, and care team members through millions of patient encounters each year.
Appriss Health's solutions enable healthcare providers, pharmacists, and care team members to assess and manage clinical risk in order to positively impact patient safety and population health outcomes. For more information, please visit www.apprisshealth.com.


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Michael Sheen to narrate 'Land of the Wild: Secrets' documentary
12 Mar by 21 — Narration, News
In the third installment of the Land of the Wild series, Michael will be narrating the mysteries of the Welsh wildlife. Read more below:
Following the successful natural history series Wales: Land of the Wild and Land of the Wild: After Dark, a brand new documentary reveals the secrets of Welsh wildlife.
Narrated by Michael Sheen, Land of the Wild: Secrets is an extraordinary journey using innovative camera technology to uncover the hidden worlds of Welsh wildlife.
Speaking in the documentary, Michael Sheen said; "This is an epic journey, following wild waterways; from the highest mountains to the Celtic Deep. Cutting edge technology reveals hidden secrets and brings us a little closer to the land of the wild".
Using macro cameras that can capture the minute details of the country's tiniest creatures, as well as racing drones that can track its fastest animal, plus infrared cameras and time lapses that show the changing seasons, Land of the Wild Secrets reveals the mysteries of Wales' wildlife like never before.
This is a story of survival and romance set against the backdrop of some of Wales' most breath-taking landscapes; from the Red Grouse on the dramatic mountainous uplands, to the illusive Catshark, master of the Celtic Deep, and everything in between.
The documentary explores the hidden superpowers of some of the country's rarest species such as the Red Squirrel as well as some unlikely candidates. The common Pigeon, a park resident whom we often overlook, has an impressive secret to reveal which has helped them to outwit the world's fastest predator, the Peregrine Falcon.
Delving into the crevices of the Wye Valley River in Mid Wales, a Hydropsyche Caddisfly cleverly weaves a net of silk to catch food. Drama unfolds in this hidden world as one Caddisfly has issues with a nuisance neighbour throwing away unwanted goods.
In Parc Cwm Darren in the Rhymney Valley, a slow motion camera captures the secrets of the Dragonfly's flight. The footage showcases the insects' fascinating lifecycle, transforming from underwater nymph to aerial master.
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The Society is the professional organisation for geography education and research in New Zealand. In addition to advocating for geography through teaching (at high schools and universities), research and in the public domain, the Society affiliates with other professional bodies in New Zealand and overseas. Members also become part of their local branch and are eligible for consideration for the Society's President's Awards and Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Medal.
Branches of the Society run lecture and seminar series for local members. These feature speakers from New Zealand and abroad. Branches also take turns to host the biennial conferences. Some branches provide grants in aid for student members to attend conferences.
The Society works to promote Geography in schools through a very active New Zealand Board of Geography Teachers. Member schools receive a copy of the "Network", The Board of Geography Teachers' newsletter, each term and schools become eligible for entry to several competitions run by, or in conjunction with, the Society – including Maatangi whenua and the international Science Olympiad.
The Society holds a biennial Geography conference and periodically combines with the Institute of Australian Geographers for joint conferences. Membership of the Society results in lower fees for members at our conferences. The Society provides disciplinary representation to the Royal Society of New Zealand and affiliation with the International Geographical Union.
The Society through Wiley-Blackwell publishes three issues of New Zealand Geographer yearly in April, August and December. This includes a GeoEd section specifically aimed at classroom teachers. Journals published post 2004 can be accessed on line by current members who have subscribed to the journal.
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The Electro Group
In Music Reviews
A New Pacifica
The Electro Group first came to my attention with a marble, baby blue seven-inch that came in a cloth bag with a logo button attached to it. "Line Of Sight," the A-side on this seven-inch, is a pure blast of energy, warm and engaging, bringing to mind bands like Mazarin or The Lilys. The recording quality is not the best, but of course, with a seven-inch, sometimes it's hard to tell if it's the record's fault or your stereo's. After discovering that the band included at least one member of the Slumberland band Rocketship, I was intrigued to find out what the band's debut full-length would have in store. It seems that the band has headed deeper into My Bloody Valentine-territory, with fuzzed-out guitars, heavy drumming, and wispy, indistinguishable girl/boy vocals floating around in the background. This is definitely not a bad thing, it's just that when playing in this style, the recording quality becomes a bit more important, and this is one area where the album is lacking significantly. Of course, if you don't lean one way or another on the whole lo vs. hi fidelity debate, it won't bother you a bit, and you'll probably find A New Pacifica to be a great release, which it is. If you're more interested in the production side of things, you might want to just stay locked firmly in 1991, with your worn-out copy of Loveless.
Daniel Gill
My Bloody Valentine.
The Lilys
Whocares?
One has to be pretty brave to name a band "Whocares?" It practically invites …
Go-kart Vs. The Corporate Giant
3 (Go-kart). Review by Stein Haukland.
Trivium traveled Into the Mouth of Hell and ended up back in their home town of Orlando.
Garage Inc. (Elektra). Review by George Jegadesh
Scott Simons
Start of Something EP (Rostrum). Review by Andrew Ellis.
Sebadoh
Touring with the original lineup for the first time in 14 years, indie rock's underrated heroes Sebadoh strolled into a soldout room at Orlando's The Social. Nothing could derail Jen Cray from not only witnessing this event, but talking with the band that helped create the soundtrack to her teenage years.
What's in a name? Gail Worley finds out with Chris Hesse of Hoobastank.
The Touch Remixes
12″ (Slinkey). Review by Richard T. Thurston
The Rembrandts
Via Satellite (Blue Elan Records). Review by Andrew Ellis.
The Orlando concert season kicked off with a very loud bang at Orlando's super-groovy Plaza "Live" Theater with Maps and Atlases, though it was opening band The Big Sleep that really did it for Christopher Long.
Return to the Black Hole (Amsterdamned). Review by David Lee Beowülf
Event Review by Tyson Meade


What is Books From Birth?
The Governor's Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) was created in 2004 and charged with a statewide implementation of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program in each of Tennessee's 95 counties. The GBBF works to support and sustain county programs by providing fundraising, public relations, strategic communications, and volunteer training support.
The United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties is a sustaining partner with the Governor's Books from Birth Foundation for the local Rutherford County Books from Birth chapter. The United Way is responsible for enrolling children in the program and working to promote and fundraise for the program in Rutherford County.
The program provides a new, age-appropriate book at no cost every month to Rutherford County children from birth until age five enrolled in the program.
Sets the foundation for school success.
Recognize pictures, numbers and words.
Understand what a story is.
Know how to flip through a book.
Know the joy of receiving a gift in the mail every month.
Love reading stories with their parents and caregivers.
Are better prepared for kindergarten.
All children from birth through age five who live in Rutherford County are eligible to enroll in the Rutherford County Books from Birth program. You may enroll online through the Governor's Foundation or print a registration form and mail it into The Governor's Foundation.
Within eight to ten weeks, your child should receive a new, age-appropriate book in the mail every month until your child reaches their fifth birthday.
If your address changes, please notify us, here or call 615-893-4131. If your move into a different county within Tennessee, your child will exit the Rutherford County program, you should call toll-free 1-877-99-books or visit the Governor's Foundation to see if Books from Birth is available in your new community. If you move outside of Tennessee, please contact the Dollywood Foundation at 865-428-9606 to see if your new community has the Imagination Library program.
Thank you to these businesses who invest in literacy and make this program possible.


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Elmira College offers 16 varsity athletics teams, including seven men's and seven women's teams and two co-ed teams. The Soaring Eagles compete at the Division III level, with a strong focus on the student-athlete experience. The College seeks to establish and maintain an environment in which a student-athlete's athletics activities are conducted as an integral part of the educational experience, and an environment that values cultural diversity and gender equity among all student-athletes and athletics staff.
A Tradition of Success
Elmira College has enjoyed a history of success since its inception. The Soaring Eagles have captured six national championships, including three in women's ice hockey and three in cheerleading. EC's rich tradition of success has yielded more than 80 All-Americans and a bevy of conference championships in various sports. Upon graduation, multiple student-athletes have gone on to play or coach in the professional ranks, including Mike Haviland '90, who won the 2010 NHL Stanley Cup as an assistant coach with the Chicago Blackhawks.