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ICYMI | CPAs Can Help Others Reach Their Dreams
By Iralma Pozo, CPA
One of the most amazing things that CPAs can do is give other people the tools they need to realize their goals. CPAs teach their…
Tax & Accounting Update is provided by Thomson Reuters and based on material published on Checkpoint, its online news and research platform. The Update is…
Finding Ideal Accounting Faculty
By Jeffry Haber, PhD, CPA
What a terrific issue (September 2017)! There were so many thoughtful and relevant articles related to accounting education that it was hard to narrow down…
Creating Synergy Between Academics and Professionals
By Alan D. Jagolinzer
I read, with some interest, the recent special issue (September 2017) on accounting education, which discussed pedagogical changes needed to create synergy between academics and…
What's Wrong (and Right) with Accounting Education
By Allan B. Afterman, PhD, CPA
I just finished reading the September 2017 issue. It was a very good overview of what's wrong (and right) with accounting education. The takeaways for…
Helping Business Owners Understand Valuation Approaches
By Edward Mendlowitz, CPA/PFS, ABV and Sidney Kess, JD, LLM, CPA
Individuals who own businesses frequently need to have the business valued. Sometimes it is for a specific purpose, such as for postsale retirement planning; other…
Practical Data Security Resources
By Susan B. Anders, PhD, CPA/CGMA and Ramona Rodriguez
The IRS recently reported (IR-2017-176) a 30% decline in confirmed identity theft returns from 2016 to 2017 and a 40% reduction in taxpayer self-reported identity…
Our Greatest Hits | Applications of control charts
From The CPA Journal Archives
By Richard M. Walter, Mark M. Higgins and Harold P. Roth
"Our Greatest Hits" is an effort to show our readers the most popular - and still avidly read - articles from our archives. This article…
Forté Capital's Selected Statistics
Industrial Production Recent data on U.S. industrial production indicates a return to growth, growing 0.3% in September, as opposed to August, during which time industrial…
Small Business Advisory Committee Backs Simplified Approach to Goodwill
FASB/AICPA News
By Thomson Reuters Checkpoint
FASB News Small Business Advisory Committee Backs Simplified Approach to Goodwill Representatives from small businesses, auditors, and investors told FASB on November 30 that they…
Planning for Charitable Giving by High-Income Taxpayers
By James R. Grimaldi, CPA, James A.J. Revels, CPA and Sidney Kess, JD, LLM, CPA
(http://bit.ly/2yMsBi1), individuals gave $281.86 billion in 2016, nearly 4% more than the prior year. How do high-income taxpayers—defined here as income of $200,000 or more—fit…
An Update on the Sourcing of Financial Receipts for Broker-Dealers
By Corey L. Rosenthal, JD and John Morhart
Sourcing receipts for apportioning business income continues to be a challenge to CPAs, especially for providers of services. Financial service companies in particular have seen…
Implementing Variable Considerations in Revenue Recognition
By Ning Du, PhD and Ray Whittington, PhD
In May 2014, FASB and the IASB released a final, converged standard on revenue recognition [see Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2014-09 and IFRS 15]. The…
Essentials of Personal Financial Planning
By Edward Mendlowitz, CPA/PFS, ABV
Many CPAs and most tax specialists perform personal financial planning (PFP) services; the AICPA estimates that more than 100,000 of its members perform some form…
Leasing Standard to Get Minor Revisions Before Effective Date
FASB News Leasing Standard to Get Minor Revisions Before Effective Date On November 29, FASB said it plans to float a proposal for public comment…
The Potential Impact of Lease Accounting on Equity Valuation
By Matthew A. Stallings, PhD
On February 25, 2016, FASB, in collaboration with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), released Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), in order to…
The Trust Fund Recovery Penalty
By Kevin M. Flynn, JD
Under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 6672(a), an individual can be held personally liable for a penalty for the willful failure to collect, account for,…
Interest Rate Swaps: Simplified Accounting for a Perfect Fair Value Hedge
By Josef Rashty, CPA
The U.S. economy has been improving steadily for the past seven years, and interest rates have remained at historical lows. Nevertheless, there will be an…
2018 PCAOB Budget Cuts Spending By 3.2 Percent
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PCAOB News 2018 PCAOB Budget Cuts Spending by 3.2 Percent On November 16, the PCAOB unanimously approved its 2018 budget of $259.9 million, an $8.6…
Improving Income Statement Reporting of Debt Extinguishments
By Paul R. Bahnson, PhD, CPA, David Koeppen, PhD and Troy Hyatt, PhD, CPA
To make informed decisions, financial statement users need to understand the nature of the items on a company's income statement, particularly whether they are persistent…
A Proper Risk-Based Approach to the Search for Unrecorded Liabilities
By Howard B. Levy, CPA
A search for unrecorded liabilities is a fundamental, almost universally applied procedure in all audits. The scope of such a search frequently includes a sampling…
CPAs Can Help Others Reach Their Dreams
Characteristics of Financial Restatements and Frauds
An Analysis of Corporate Reporting Quality from 2000–2014
By Fatima Alali, PhD and Sophia I-Ling Wang, PhD
Corporate reporting quality has been at the forefront of the profession since the major corporate accounting scandals such as Enron and WorldCom at the beginning…
A Value-Adding Skill for the CPA
By Eric A. Kreuter, PhD, CPA, CFE, CGMA, CMA, MAFF
Accountants, especially those in public accounting, normally strive for attainment of the coveted Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation. After four to five years of study,…
Why Data Is Killing CPA Firms
By Jason L. Ackerman, CPA, CFP, CGMA
CPAs love collecting data on employees, clients, and themselves. Most firms track dozens of key performance indicators (KPI) to manage their practices—most of them focused…
Overcoming Obstacles with the Right Tax Software
2017 Annual Survey of New York State Practitioners
By Susan B. Anders, PhD, CPA/CGMA and Carol M. Fischer, PhD, CPA, CGMA
In Brief New York tax practitioners encountered new challenges during the 2017 tax season, most notably meeting the new driver's license reporting requirements and obtaining…


Why does WSDOT have Safety Rest Areas?
Safety Rest Areas provide highway travelers safe and convenient facilities to rest themselves before continuing with their journey. The department owns and operates 47 Safety Rest Areas within our state. Twenty-eight of which are located on the Interstate System. With the exception of three of the smaller sites, our facilities are open to the public 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Twenty-six of Washington's Safety Rest Areas offer travelers a unique welcome service called the "Free Coffee Program." This program allows non-profit organizations to provide travelers with coffee and light refreshments at no charge. Although the service is free to the traveling public, participating organizations are allowed to accept donations.Groups must register with the Department to participate in this program.
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Swedish firm's Apple hoax shows gullibility of online readers
By Salvador Rodriguez
Aug. 14, 2012 12 AM PT
Stockholm production company Day4 fooled portions of the tech world last week into believing that Apple Inc. was working on an odd-shaped screw -- an effort to show how quickly people are to believe anything they find online.
Day4, as the Swedish production company is called, said it was disturbed by how ready people were to believe anything they read on the Web these days, especially because they can easily check tech reporters' facts using tools such as Google.
"Today, thanks to the Internet, we consider ourselves much more enlightened. We can discuss and examine the source in a way that was not possible in the past. But are we really aware of all information flowing up over the net?" the company said on its website.
The company decided to try an experiment that would drive the point across, and with rumors of the iPhone 5 in full swing, it decided to pull a fast one on Apple, its fanboys and reporters.
Day4 created a rendering of a screw with a weird, asymmetrical head. The screw was supposedly designed to keep Apple users from opening their products. With Apple's track record of keeping controlled environments, this wasn't too hard to believe.
Day4 had a plausible story, and now it just needed a way to get it out.
The company attached the photo of the screw rendering to a fake email that read as though it was from a source within Apple. Day4 then uploaded the picture to Imgur, and shared it as a link on Reddit in a post titled "A friend took a photo a while ago at that fruit company, they are obviously even creating their own screws."
"Then we waited ..." Day4 said on its website.
It took less than 12 hours before the Reddit post got to tech reporters.
Cult of Mac was the first to post, and it was shortly followed with stories by Yahoo, Wired and MacWorld as well as videos on YouTube and talk on social media.
Day4 managed to fool a good portion of the tech world, and in the process it made some observations about how rumors are perceived. The company said the screw rumor became more easily believed as it was reported by sources other than the original Reddit post.
There was skepticism among journalists but the rumor was still reported. Most people commenting on articles, however, didn't pause -- deeming the reports accurate, Day4 said. And on social media sites, "people talk about the image like it's a truth. Critical thinking vaporized."
Day4 apologized to anyone who felt cheated by the hoax, but the company said it hoped its experiment causes people to become more thoughtful about what they see on the Internet.
"In this case, it was about a new type of screw, a relatively unimportant news," the company said. "But for us it raises a concern about how we consume information today."
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Are 'middle skills' the new four-year degree?
In what was designed to target low-income students with limited job and education prospects back in the late 1980s, a skills pipeline program is gaining momentum as more of today's students realize the benefit of 'middle skills,' or those that require less than a traditional four-year degree but more than a high school diploma, and pay well per hour right after graduation.
For example, high school senior Angelica Gaytan wants to be an FBI agent. But if that doesn't work out, she's considering subsea welding.
"I need a Plan B," said Gaytan, a student at Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Senior High School who first learned about underwater welding from her uncle. But she got a lot more insight into welding careers this week as part of a program called Project GRAD.


I'm a movie Director and my film K-Shop has it's TV premiere in the UK this week. I really need to get a couple of Wikipedia articles up for both it and myself before Thursday evening and wondered if this was something you could help me with?
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Lagos State tops voice, internet subscription list in second quarter of 2018
On September 19, 2018 1:41 amIn Technologyby Emmanuel Okogba
Lagos State has emerged the state with the highest number of subscribers of active voice per state in the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics report for the second quarter of 2018.
Globacom outperforms in new voice, data subscriptions — NCC
On September 6, 2018 10:10 pmIn News, Technologyby adekunle
THE latest statistics released by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has shown that Nigeria's digital transformation leader, Globacom outperformed other telecom players in the month of July 2018.
Oh!! For a voice like….
On September 1, 2018 4:45 amIn My Worldby Nwafor
The late Chief Obafemi Awolowo used to intervene in national discourse from time to time. He was not afraid to speak truth to power.
Why Smile Communications is going into voice, by Obiejesi
On September 14, 2015 12:22 amIn Finance, Newsby adekunle
Dr. Ernest Azudialu Obiejesi is the chairman of Smile Communications in Nigeria and a major shareholder in the Smile Holdings Limited; comprising, Smile South Africa, Smile Dubai, Smile Tanzania, Smile Uganda and Smile DR Congo. In Nigeria, Smile, a broadband operator, is operating on the 800 GHZ spectrum with 4G LTE licence. Last week, Smile announced that it had raised US$ 365 million to fund expansion of its 4G LTE network in the country. In the conversation below, Obiejesi sheds more light on the expansion bid, the fund-raise, shareholding structure and more.
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Home » Palliative Matters » Health professionals » Discuss cornea donation with palliative care patients during DonateLife Week
Discuss cornea donation with palliative care patients during DonateLife Week
By Heather Wiseman
Dr Colby Hart says there is a constant demand for corneas and palliative care patients are able to donate them.
It is DonateLife Week – the perfect time to raise the topic of organ donation, remembering that palliative care patients can donate corneas and restore a young person's sight.
Having cancer, cataracts or even poor eyesight doesn't preclude palliative care patients from donating corneas, according to surgical resident Dr Colby Hart from Alfred Health in Melbourne.
Provided patients are younger than 80 and haven't had surgery on their cornea, Dr Hart says they should be able to leave a physical legacy that will give eyesight to someone who is legally blind.
He says people most likely to need a corneal transplant are typically aged in their 20s or 30s, who are legally blind, having experienced gradual visual loss since their teenage years due to a condition called keratoconus. He says the condition causes a thinning and distorting of the cornea, which means it can no longer bend light entering the in order to focus it on the back of the eye.
A cornea transplant may also be required after experiencing trauma to the eye, an infection that leads to severe scarring, or a condition called bullous keratopathy which leads to ulceration and scarring of the cornea.
As a student and junior doctor, Dr Hart worked on a project with ophthalmology and palliative care staff at Geelong Hospital and the Lion's Eye Bank to increase local rates of corneal donation.
He says that while organ transplants generally have a high risk of rejection, corneal donation successfully treats corneal blindness in more than 90% of cases. Corneal transplants are the most frequently performed human transplant procedure, according to the Eye Bank Association of Australia & New Zealand.
While there is a constant demand for corneas, Dr Hart says local research suggests that a very low proportion of palliative care patients become donors.
He suspects that this is largely because family and medical staff are not aware that palliative care patients are eligible to become donors.
"Because of where the cornea is and the limited blood supply to the cornea, having metastatic cancer doesn't stop you from being a donor. Within the medical profession and across the general public, that's often confused, so one of the main barriers we face is that a lot of health care staff aren't bringing this opportunity up with their patients."
Cornea donation also is hampered by the same challenge faced by other forms of organ donation. It is often unfortunate circumstances, like young people dying in car accidents, which provide access to suitable organs, and the organs need to be accessed quickly.
"Eyes have a very personal significance to a lot of people, so what corneal donation does to the appearance of the body is also a commonly asked question," says Dr Hart.
"People who donate their corneas are given prosthetic eyes, to ensure their appearance is appropriate for viewings at burials or funerals."
Dr Hart says that while surgeons with specific training are required to remove organs, specially trained technicians able to remove corneas up to 24 hours after death.
"The first step for patients is having a conversation with family and making your wishes clear to them."
He says patients can then speak to their GP or palliative care physician, and add their details to the Australian Organ Donor Register.
To learn more about DonateLife week, and to add your name to the Australian Organ Donor Register, click here.
An extensive poster program at the Australian Palliative Care Conference 2017 will include 'Corneal donation in the palliative care unit setting', compiled by Colby Hart at Barwon Health in Geelong. For more information about the conference and to register or download a program click here.
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Sleeper: Season One #1
Sleeper: Season One
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When your only friends are enemies and all the good guys think you're a traitor, how far will you go to survive? Holden Carver, also known as the Conductor, is one of the scariest people in the entire world. An elite member of an organization of post-human criminals, Holden has seen and done things most people only glimpse in their darkest nightmares. He's sold alien technology to terrorists, he's killed innocents and sold their souls on the Internet, and he's about to come face to face with the true secrets of life on Earth. There's just one problem--Holden is actually a deep-cover agent, and the only person who knows he's really one of the good guys is lying in a coma in a secret government base. Now Holden is on his own in enemy territory with no way out!
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Sleeper is the story of a man doing his job--a man who gets pushed in over his head. It's the story of deep-cover agent Holden Carver and the secret criminal organization he becomes enmeshed with, and of the deadly game of cat-and-mouse he plays with Tao, the amoral master of manipulation.
Sleeper: Season Two
Carver's former handler, John Lynch, is out of his coma, with a mission from the ''Powers That Be'' to bring Carver back under his control. But can Lynch pull it off now that Holden has thrown his lot in with Tao? And what is Holden's life like now that he's given up hope he'll ever be redeemed?
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POINT BLANK is the gritty prequel to the critically acclaimed SLEEPER graphic novel series written by Eisner Award-winner Ed Brubaker (Criminal, Captain America) and stylishly rendered by legendary artist Colin Wilson.
132 pages! From the co-creators of Gotham Central and FATALE comes a lost crime noir masterpiece. SCENE OF THE CRIME was the first time ED BRUBAKER and MICHAEL LARK worked together--before their acclaimed runs on Daredevil and Gotham Central-- and it was inked by SEAN PHILLIPS. This is where it all began, with a hard-hitting mystery story, a modern day 'Chinatown' that garnered nominations for Be
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE. Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie mother ten years ago. But when Ellie lands in an upscale rehab clinic where nothing is what it appears to be


Dairy foods are sought out not only for their wonderful taste, but also their amazing nutritional value. Perhaps you know about the bone-building power of dairy, but there are a few health facts about dairy you may not have heard about.
Cheese is one of America's favorite foods and included in many of our favorite dishes like macaroni & cheese and pizza. Besides its great taste and versatility, one of the best qualities of cheese is that it can help prevent cavities. Casein, a protein found in cheese, helps to strengthen tooth enamel and prevent cavities. Now you have another reason to say "cheese" when you show your pearly whites for pictures!
There is a growing body of research that shows the saturated fat in dairy foods does not increase the risk for heart disease as once thought, and it has to do with the "company" of nutrients that it keeps. It is hypothesized that the other nutrients in dairy foods might prevent the saturated fat from contributing to heart disease. The research does not show that the saturated fat in dairy food prevents heart disease, just that it does not increase the risk.
Calcium is important in our diet for a variety of reasons. One of the top reasons is that it aids in the absorption of vitamin D, which helps build and maintain strong bones. However, not all calcium is absorbed equally. Some foods contain a type of calcium that is not easily absorbed or contains other nutrients that inhibit its absorption. Dairy foods like milk, cheese, and yogurt have a very high calcium absorption rate of 32 percent, as compared to that of spinach, which is only around 5 percent. Choosing dairy foods can help your body absorb the calcium it needs to build strong bones.
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Protein Wnt-8b is a protein that in humans is encoded by the WNT8B gene.

The WNT gene family consists of structurally related genes that encode secreted signaling proteins. These proteins have been implicated in oncogenesis and in several developmental processes, including regulation of cell fate and patterning during embryogenesis.

This gene is a member of the WNT gene family. It encodes a protein showing 95%, 86%, and 71% amino acid identity to the mouse, zebrafish and Xenopus Wnt8B proteins, respectively. The expression patterns of the human and mouse genes appear identical and are restricted to the developing brain. The chromosomal location of this gene to 10q24 suggests it as a candidate gene for partial epilepsy.

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Being and Nothingness, the for-itself and the in-itself, bad faith, and the existential predicament; these Existentialist concepts were central to the philosophical scene in Europe and America after World War II. Join the Philosophers as they examine the ideas of Existentialism with Lanier Anderson from Stanford University.
Listening Notes
Existentialism is the idea that existence precedes essence. Our guest, Lanier Anderson presents one way to look at this is by comparing a cutting knife with the human situation. The knife has its essence before it is ever manufactured-- it is for cutting. However, a human does not have any specific purpose or meaning before he comes into existence. Jean-Paul Sartre originally defined the word existentialism, and applied it to lots of people who never knew they were existentialists and who held a range of conflicting ideas on a variety of topics, the existence of god being one such debated topic.
Lanier states that the seventeen-year-old self in each of us is attracted to existentialism because there is a certain amount of freedom that we have in this philosophy. The essential idea is that we are whatever we make ourselves, that nothing about our essence is given to us. Certainly we have a facticity about us- essential aspects of our existence given to us in terms of our biological constraints- but nothing that really defines us. Lanier argues that this facticity as a whole will interact with your life projects, but you will have chosen those projects, which then gives the meaning to those things. From the point of view of the individual, existentialism takes nothing for granted and does not believe any mandates about human nature have been handed down to people. Individuals have to create meaning for and define themselves, Each person's own human nature will be dictated by the actions he pursues.
Existentialism is a very influential philosophy that went through periods where it greatly affected politics and pop-culture, and is still very popular in certain circles. It is often a difficult philosophy to understand as well. John notes that there is so much terminology like the for-itself, the in-itself, and other existentialist ideas, that Sarte outlined all of these concepts in what amounts to eight hundred pages of translations.
Roving Philosophical Report (Seek to 04:26): Polly Stryker addresses the intersection of psychotherapy and philosophy, specifically with father and son existentialist psychotherapists. They look at how existentialism can be useful in psychiatry, and how the issues people desire to address in psychotherapy are often of an existential nature, like life, death, and meaning.
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Piggies at the trough
Richard C. Iannuzzi
Ah, to live the lush life of a teachers' unionist in the Empire State.
Specifically, the life of New York State United Teachers honcho Richard Iannuzzi.
NYSUT is, among other things, the parent organization of the UFT; it represents teachers upstate and in the suburbs — and it's back in the news.
Turns out that even as the national economy was tanking in 2009 — and his own union was moving deeper and deeper into the red — Iannuzzi managed to wrangle an 18 percent increase in his total compensation package — to an impressive $345,987.
And he's not the only NYSUT official doing well: Some two dozen union staffers get total compensation above $200,000.
Now, the union disputes those figures, saying changing IRS rules make the actual increase much smaller; that a lot of it was in pension and other benefits, rather than salary (as if that doesn't count); that the big increase came long before New York teachers were being laid off — and, besides which, why should anyone care?
Actually, there's good reason to care.
NYSUT, again, is the parent organization of the UFT, which, by its own admission, has become one of the key components of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew has been a frequent visitor to Zuccotti Park, along with his predecessor, Randi Weingarten, who now heads the national American Federation of Teachers.
(The AFT recently revised its "working document" to endorse OWS' extremist "1 Percent" rhetoric.)
The UFT's own Web site boasts of the lead role the union has played in helping organize the protest marches, as well as providing storage and meeting space.
Indeed, both NYSUT and the UFT have long poured cash into such groups (think ACORN and the Alliance for Quality Education, among others), which willingly serve as fronts for the unions' push for higher pay and virtually unlimited benefits.
Of the kind that NYSUT pays to its own members — but which, according to its most recent tax returns, has pushed the union's net assets into the red — to the tune of $192.5 million.
That's money that, ultimately, comes from taxpayers — who subsidize teacher salaries and lucrative benefits.
Maybe NYSUT can afford it — at least until its own financial house comes crashing down — but New York taxpayers no longer can. And it underscores the fact that the teachers unions are using OWS to press for higher taxes in order to push more money in the system to subsidize their members' benefits.
It has nothing to do with fairness or quality education or "the children."
They want Albany to keep spending taxpayer money on their members as lavishly as they spend dues revenue on themselves.
Remember last winter, when the UFT's chief political fixer in Albany, Paul Egan, tried to weasel out of paying a four-figure dinner tab for 25 people by claiming poor service and inadequate portions?
He finally had to ante up when cops threatened to take him in — but only after getting the restaurant to shave a hunk off the bill. What a chisler, no?
But that's the teachers unions for you — always throwing their weight around, demanding to be treated like royalty, their every demand met quickly.
That's why they're so heavily invested in Occupy Wall Street.
But remember: It's never about the kids.
It's always about the unions.
Get a gripe!


This large, resort-style site is just a stones throw away from the sandy Valras-Plage and ideal for families. There's a wide range of facilities including a water park with slides and a splash pool, and rope adventure park. An extensive shopping and entertainment area provides everything you might need. English is spoken at reception, and pitches are level and offer some shade from the hot sun. The site also owns a small farm, vineyard and winery, where you can enjoy tours and tastings.
The beach is within walking distance, and offers a range of activities from swimming and jet skiing to paragliding. Between Narbonne and Béziers, the site is also well-placed for a day trip to both towns, which offer a flavour of the region's culture and history.
Béziers, Vendres, Sérignan, Roquebrun, Narbonne, Carcassonne, Montpellier, Fishing, Forest adventure park, Animal park Sigean.
From the A9/E15 take exit 36 (SP Valras-plage/Vendres) At the roundabout take the D64 towards Valras-Plage. Continue on the D64 for 5 miles / 8 km (going over 3 roundabouts) at 4th roundabout take the 1st exit signed D64E1 – Valras-Plage (Ouest) at next roundabout take 3rd exit signed D37E10 Valras-Plage (Ouest). Site entrance will be on right in 100m.
I stayed here for 5 nights at the end of June/beginning of July but would have happily left earlier if I hadn't already paid upfront via the Caravan Club. There was nothing wrong with the site particularly just a huge site. I had picked it for the location and being out of season rather than the size. I didn't use the swimming pools at all as they were too crowded and noisy but the beach was lovely if you take a parasol for shade.
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review of Domaine de la Yole. We are sorry to hear that you did not enjoy this campsite. We understand it can be difficult to choose a campsite that will suit, so we in the Continental Sites team are always happy to help members when making a booking, we have between us been to all of our campsites so can talk about them in a bit more detail! Please feel free to give us a call when you are planning your next holiday!
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you've been disturbed by the noise. We are a huge family-friendly campsite, and our customers mostly choose us, because of our huge water park with its numerous game facilities for babies and children. Therefore, this could prove too noisy for someone wishing to rest. We nevertheless thank you for pointing this issue out to us, and we will keep the idea of creating a quieter place in mind. By the way, May, June and September are rare and lovely months to come and enjoy a restful stay.
We hope you enjoyed our other facilities and we would be happy to welcome you again at Camping La Yole!
Second time here Came again mostly due to excellent package from caravan club. Travelled with another couple both in 8m twin axle caravans. Site provided huge pitches so access was easy. Room on pitch for caravan, awning, car, patio table and still plenty. Good mix of sun and shade. Facilities were excellent throughout from toilets to entertainment. Had a super stay Lots of sightseeing around the area if you like it. Beach quiet and only 500m away. Great site for families with young children. Would I go again? Probably yes and take the grandkids. Only negative side MOSQUITO HELL. I had over 400 bites!!!!!!. Can't blame site for that Very quiet in June so if you want some life go July or August Great wine cave on site. Good red wine €1.45 a litre. Yum. Also great bakery.
We were delighted to see that you enjoyed your holiday at La Yole, and thought we would pass your lovely comments on to them. Please see their response below.
Thank you for your feedback. We are happy to hear that you have had a good stay at our campsite. We're very committed to customer satisfaction. We do our best to make sure our guests enjoy their stay at Camping La Yole! Don't hesitate to come back with your grand children : our water park and its water slides, our adventure park, our farm and all the other facilities to be found on-site will make their holiday unforgettable! We will be happy to welcome you and your family again!
Originally I wrote a review of approx 2000 characters, only to find that I took longer than 30 minutes and lost it due to auto logoff! Having lost the will to live, I offer this potted version instead: Booked through the club for 9 nights in early September 2015, tolerated only 8 nights, only because we had prepaid. Is it me? We arrived at dusk, was given the oddest shaped, one and only sloping pitch on a busy corner of statics, which we refused and were told to select our own, a regular shaped, flat, fenced service pitch with no objections from the lovely management. This is not the first time that we have been offered an inferior pitch when booked through the club, and it is something the club should monitor. A tour of the site in the morning found the 'regular' touring pitches half empty. Bad start there then. Next, when setting up (lost about one hour sorting pitches)we were bitten to death by the local mosquito population – never seen so many in my touring life! Had to rigidly monitor opening and closing of door and flyscreens, and sitting out in the awning was intolerable, day and night, even with the usual deterrents. We put this down to no ground management. I would say that the pitches had not been strimmed, bushes clipped etc. etc. since before opening. The empty touring pitches looked like scrub land and around the statics were knee high weeds, and all manner of neglected detrious, belonging to the statics. We stuck rigidly to the roads when using the toilet block, not crossing empty pitches, or using paths, to keep down the insect attacks. Good security – sorted out an incident involving a couple of French boys throwing stones at cars and empty statics very effectively, once reported. Not sure why we paid nearly 5 Euros a night for the dog (bit of a ripoff there!). Toilet Blocks, Bar, Restaurant, Shop, Pools etc. all to a good standard – toilets, but no changing facilities in the latter. Situation ok for beach/sightseeing and cycling to Valras-Plage and many amenities on site for kids/teens, hence the 5*. Due to the mozzies, only 2*from us. Not a very pleasant experience at all and we won't be going back anytime soon.
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review of Le Domaine de la Yole on the Caravan Club website. We are glad to hear that you found the site to be in a good location for the beach and sightseeing and well equipped for children and teenagers. We have contacted the site regarding the issues you have raised and have received the following response.
We confirm receipt of your comment and would first of all like to thank you for raising our awareness on those issues.
We are happy to read that our reception team successfully managed to solve your initial problem, and that you also appreciated our numerous facilities and service, including our security team's professionalism.
As far as mosquitoes are concerned, a huge mosquito attack due to various factors has prevented local regional pest control from spraying anti-mosquito pesticides. Therefore, the mosquito issue was not due to neglected ground management, but to environmental and governmental factors that were entirely out of our control. Our pitches do get trimmed and our bushes clipped during the season by our professional gardening team, even if it can prove delicate to do so while customers are occupying the pitches.
We would like to impress that pitches provided by our Tour Operators are not inferior to other pitches. Each pitch does indeed have its own size and shape to better suit the whole variety of outfits that we welcome (caravan, motorhome, tents…) on our site. When possible in terms of availability, we always offer all our customers - regardless if they are direct customers or not - the possibility to choose a pitch according to their needs and preferences.
We nevertheless appreciate your contribution and are sorry to hear that you haven't enjoyed your stay and do not intend to come back to our campsite anytime soon. We're very committed to customer satisfaction and all your comments will be taken into account to help us improve our service.
This site is great for families. There is so much to do. Unfortunately the beach is too far to walk if your are not so mobile, but only a short drive away are lovely beaches with excellent bar/cafe, also restaurants in Valras plage food excellent. Piches are mixed between tents and mobile homes but are large.


File photo of Afghan villagers affected by landslides look for survivors and victims in a district of northern Afghanistan.
:: At least 30 goldmine workers were killed in a landslide in Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province on Sunday, a police spokesman said.
Sanaullah Rohani, a provincial police spokesman in Badakhshan, also said seven were injured while they were working inside the mine in Kohistan district.
Landslides are frequent in the northern mountainous provinces of Afghanistan.


This is a latest updated article I received from my peers on a psychiatric List-Serv. The review of several medications that CAUSE depression is interesting and important to know. Steroids can cause depression and mania and psychosis.
Depressogenic effects of medications: a review.
Celano CM1, Freudenreich O, Fernandez-Robles C, Stern TA, Caro MA, Huffman JC.
The literature is filled with reports that link medications with the onset or progression of depression. Because depression is so common in patients with medical illness, assessing whether a medication has in fact caused depression, or whether the relationship is coincidental, can be challenging. In this article, we review the literature on the association between medications and depression. For most agents, there are case reports or small studies linking the medication with the onset of depression, but more rigorous prospective studies are either lacking or found no association between the agent and depression. However, several medications, (eg, barbiturates, vigabatrin, topiramate, flunarizine, corticosteroids, mefloquine, efavirenz, and interferon-alpha) do appear to cause depression in some patients and should be used with caution in patients at risk for depression.


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If you only have 24 hours in Amman then it is important to cover some of the important historical landmarks such as the Amman Citadel and King Abdullah Mosque. As the capital city of Jordan, Amman is a fantastic starting point for any Jordanian adventure. It is brimming with archaeological sites, restaurants, colorful markets, and luxury hotels. Amman is also a good base for those looking to travel further afield across Jordan's diverse landscape. The city is served by Queen Alia International airport which is the main airport in Jordan.
Get up nice and early and head straight out for breakfast. A good place to find a traditional Jordanian breakfast in Amman is Shariah Street where there are plenty of coffee shops and cafes.
After breakfast head straight to the Amman Citadel to avoid long queues. This historic site includes a 1700 meter wall that dates back to the Bronze Age, the iconic Temple of Hercules, and the Umayyad Palace. With so many significant landmarks located on one site, the citadel is arguably one of the best places to visit in Amman. The Amman Citadel is located on top of Jebel Al Qala'a, a hill in the city of Amman. The hill is situated 850 meters above sea level and overlooks the old city. It is located in the downtown area of Amman. Entrance to the Amman Citadel is 2JD (2.82 USD) or free with the Jordan Pass. It is open from 8 am until 7 pm on Saturdays to Thursdays between April and September and until 4 pm between October and March. The Citadel is only open from 10 am until 4 pm on Fridays. Visitors can walk up to the Citadel but should be aware that there are a lot of steps. Alternatively, a taxi ride up to the Citadel will cost around 1 JD (1.41 USD).
Walking around the Amman Citadel will usually take a few hours and then it will be time to find some lunch. Books@Cafe is a trendy café on Rainbow Street that enables visitors to read, relax, and tuck into delicious local delicacies – the perfect spot to visit during your 24 hours in Amman. It is a bookshop and café all in one and boasts a brilliant menu of local and international favorites. The café serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A popular Jordanian favorite is Mansaf which is a tasty lamb and yogurt dish. Along with Middle Eastern dishes, there are also a large number of Italian dishes on the menu including Spaghetti Bolognese and a range of pizzas.
After lunch take a trip to the Jordan Museum which is the largest museum in the country. The museum is located in the downtown area of Amman and is home to a large collection of art and antiques dating back to the Nabataean period. Entrance into the museum is 5JD (7.05 USD) and it is open from 10 am until 2 pm from Wednesday to Monday.
On the vibrant Rainbow Street head to Jara Souk which is just around the corner. This colorful market is only open on Fridays during summer. If you are lucky enough to be in Amman when the souk is open, it is the best place to find unique homemade souvenirs. There are antiques, locally crafted gifts, and plenty of Jordanian sweet treats. If you are not in Amman during the summer months, then explore the gift shops that are dotted around the city, and look out for the popular sweet kanafeh which is a traditional Jordanian pastry.
If you still have enough time to spare then the King Abdullah Mosque is a beautiful building that was constructed in 1989. Non-Muslim visitors are welcome to enter the mosque to admire its stunning interior which matches it regal exterior. It is 2 JD (2.82 USD) to enter and is open from Saturday until Thursday between 8 am and 11 am, and 12.30pm and 2 pm.
The best way to unwind after a day of sightseeing is to relax the Jordanian way and visit one of the city's many Turkish Baths. The Turkish Baths in Amman are usually open until late in the evening and are comprised of a steam bath followed by a massage and a scrub. They offer complete indulgence and are a great way to finish off your pit stop in Amman.
For dinner, Amman is brimming with excellent restaurants.
A popular dining destination is Fakhr el-Din which specializes in fine Levantine cuisine. The restaurant is set within a beautiful historic building and there are over one hundred food items to choose from. In summer, guests can dine in the charming garden for lunch or dinner. The restaurant uses locally sourced ingredients and is highly regarded in Amman.
Those who really want to make the most of their 24 hours in Amman should join the locals at one of the city's popular bars and get a taste of the nightlife of Aman. Rainbow Street is a favorite with locals and tourists alike who are drawn to the hip bars and cafes along this vibrant street. Happy hour is usually between 6 pm and 8 pm.


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"Fifty years On": Remembering and Forgetting the post-war revolutions in Eastern Europe
Keynote Roundtable
Saturday, 14 April, 17:30-19:00 – Auditorium
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchová (University of Graz, Austria)
Janos Rainer (Head of the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution)
Jacques Rupnik (CERI, Sciences Po)
Jan Kubik (SSEES, London)
Fifty years ago there were exciting events taking place in Czechoslovakia; Aleksander Dubček had become first secretary of the KSČ and political liberalisation was under way. But it was not to last long. On August 20th Soviet troops entered the country and put an end to the Prague Spring. This was neither the first nor last revolution to challenge the communist hegemony in the countries of East Central Europe. In this keynote panel, we will be asking our speakers to remind us of these oppositional uprisings and the people involved in them, and to reflect upon how they are being re-interpreted at the present in the service of leaderships in the communist successor states. Our speakers are Jacques Rupnik who was a student at the time of the Soviet invasion and having left Czechoslovakia her returned in 1990-2 as an adviser to president an adviser to Vaslav Havel, Janos Reiner, Director of the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest and Jan Kubik, former Director of SSEES who will be speaking respectively about how the revolutions of the post WWII revolutions or uprisings are being commemorated (or not) in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
Libora Oates-Indruchová
Libora Oates-Indruchová is Professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz (A). Her research interests include cultural representations of gender, gender and social change, censorship, and narrative research, with a focus on state-socialist and post state-socialist Czech Republic. Her recent articles include "A Dulled Mind in an Active Body: Growing Up as a Girl in Normalization Czechoslovakia" (in Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist Societies: Memories of Everyday Life, ed. by Iveta Silova, Nelli Piattoeva, and Zsuzsa Millei, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Unraveling a Tradition, or Spinning a Myth?: Gender Critique in Czech Society and Culture" (Slavic Review, Winter 2016). She co-edited The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: an Expropriated Voice (with Hana Havelková; Routledge 2014, paperback 2015; expanded Czech edition 2015) that won the 2016 BASEES Women's Forum Book Prize. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Czech and Hungarian post-1968 scholarly publishing and censorship.
János M. Rainer
János M. Rainer (1957), Hungarian historian, professor of contemporary history at Eszterházy Károly University (Eger, Hungary), head of the 1956 Institute – Oral History Archive Department at the Hungarian National Széchényi Library (Budapest). Before 1989 he published in samizdat on the reprisals after 1956. His field of expertise is Hungarian history after WWII, focusing on the 1956 revolution and the Kádár-period. His two-volume biography on Imre Nagy was published in enshortened version in Polish, Russian, German and English.
Jacques Rupnik is Director of Research at the Centre de Recherches Internationale (CERI) at Sciences Po, France, where he also serves as Professor of Political Science. He was educated at the University of Paris and at Harvard, is currently Director of Research at CERI and Professor at Sciences Po in Paris as well as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and Charles University in Prague. Since he joined CERI, Sciences Po in 1982 he has been writing and lecturing about East and Central European history and politics and European integration. He was advisor to president Vaclav Havel in the 1990's. Executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-1996) and drafter of its report Unfinished Peace (1996), member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000) and co-drafter of The Kosovo Report (Oxford UP, 2000). Among the various positions held: advisor to the European Commission (2007 – 2010). Member of the board of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague since 2010. Member of the board of directors of the European Partnership for Democracy in Brussels (2008-2013). He has been a visiting Professor in several European universities and in the Department of Government, at Harvard University where he is regularly Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies.
J.Rupnik has published a number of books and scholarly articles including Histoire du Parti Communiste Tchécoslovaque (1981) The Other Europe (1989), Le Printemps tchécoslovaque 1968 (1999), 1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe and the new international system, London, Routledge, ( 2013, with an introduction by V.Havel), Géopolitique de la démocratization, l'Europe et ses voisinages, Presses de Sciences Po (2014).
Jan Kubik
Jan Kubik is Professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the Department of Political Science, Rutgers University in New Brunswick. His earlier publications include: The Power of Symbols against the Symbols of Power. The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland and Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993 (with Grzegorz Ekiert). His recent work deals with the relationship between political science and cultural anthropology (Anthropology and Political Science: a convergent approach, with Myron Aronoff); critical analysis of post-communist studies (Postcommunism from Within. Social Justice, Mobilization, and Hegemony, edited with Amy Linch); and the politics of memory (Twenty Years After Communism: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration, prepared and edited with Michael Bernhard). Among his research interests are: culture and politics; civil society, protest politics and social movements; communist and post-communist politics; the rise of populism; and interpretive and ethnographic methods in political science. He received M.A. (sociology and philosophy) from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and Ph.D. (anthropology, with distinction) from Columbia University.
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Human Rights in the Region: Domestic and International Perspectives
Friday, 13 April, Auditorium 12:30-13:30
Chair: Judith Pallot (BASEES President)
Speakers :
Mary McAuley (Independent Scholar)
Sergey Golubok (St. Petersburg Bar Association)
Heather McGill (Amnesty International)
Dalia Leinarte (UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, UN [CEDAW])
By the time delegates will have convened for this year's annual conference, Russians will have just voted in their seventh President. The election will have taken place against a backdrop of concerns about just how free and fair the electoral process is in Russia and whether the movement towards greater democratisation in the country is stalled. No less than in Russia events in East Central Europe during the last decade have raised similar concerns, which are particularly poignant given that 2018 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Prague Spring and its suppression by Soviet armed forces. Our guest speakers in the opening keynote session, are all involved in different ways in promoting human rights in Russia and across the BASEES region either through their practical work or scholarship. The session will begin with Mary McAuley, who interviewed the leading human rights activists for her recent book "Human Rights in Russia: Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin" to introduce the topic discussing the changing face of human rights activism from the end of the Soviet period to present day. She will be followed by our three other speakers, all of whom are involved in different ways in defending human rights; human rights lawyer Sergey Golubok, who represents parties in cases heard before the Russian courts, including the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, and before courts in Belarus and the European Court of Human Rights; Heather McGill, from Amnesty International who has been in charge of research on Belarus, Ukraine and the author of a recently published report of prisoners transportation in the Russian federation, and Dalia Leinarte, Professor of History at the University of Vilnius and currently chairperson of the UN The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) whose brief is to advance gender equality and human rights for women and girls around the world.
Mary McAuley
Mary McAuley (M.A., D. Phil. Oxon) left an academic career, as Fellow in Politics at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1995 to head the Ford Foundation's Moscow office, with particular responsibility for supporting human rights and legal reform. In May 2002 she returned to London, where, as an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies (then at King's College, London) she wrote on juvenile justice. Publications include: Russia's Politics of Uncertainty, Cambridge University Press, 1997; Deti v tiurme , OGI, Moscow, 2008; Children in Custody: Anglo-Russian Perspectives, Bloomsbury Academic, 2010; Human Rights in Russia: Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin, I B Tauris, April 2015
ergei Golubok
Sergei Golubok (LL.M. in International Human Rights Law (University of Essex, United Kingdom), Ph.D. in International Law and European Law (St Petersburg State University, Russia) has work experience with Registry of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (2008-2011). Since 2011 he is a practicing attorney in Russia, member of the St Petersburg Bar Association, mostly representing applicants before the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Russia, and conducting criminal defense. In 2017 Dr Golubok was elected by his colleagues to serve as a Board member of his Bar Association. He is also member of the European Criminal Bar Association and associate member of the International Criminal Court Bar Association. In 2017 Sergei was awarded a prize for human rights litigation by the Moscow Helsinki Group. Available on Facebook: Sergey Golubok and on Instragram: goluboksergey.
Heather McGill
Heather McGill graduated with an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University. Since 1990 she has worked in various roles with Amnesty International. Her first job was as USSR Field Officer, training and assisting Amnesty International activists in the former Soviet Union and then as researcher covering the Western CIS, Russia and since 2017 Central Asia. She has researched and published reports on the death penalty in Belarus, violence against women in Belarus and Ukraine, the investigation of torture allegations in Ukraine and Moldova and most recently a report on Prisoner Transportation in Russia. She is currently researching the issue of legal capacity and mental disability in Kazakhstan.
Dalia Leinarte
Dalia Leinarte is Professor of History and Chairperson of the UN CEDAW Committee. Leinarte writes extensively on women and family in Imperial Russia, and former Soviet Union. She is an author of The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914: Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970 (Brill, 2010). Dalia Leinarte has received national and international recognition. In her country she is a recognized gender equality expert and defender of women's rights. An especially strong example of the recognition of her work is that in 2012 the Lithuanian government nominated her as a candidate for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, UN (CEDAW). She was successfully elected.
1917 Centenary – The Russian Revolution in Historical Perspective
Saturday, 1 April, 17:45-19:00 – Auditorium
Chair: Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia)
Speakers : Natalia Pushkareva (President of the Russian Association for Research in Women's History)
Richard Sakwa (University of Kent)
Julie Curtis (University of Oxford)
Christopher Read (University of Warwick)
Mark Harrison (University of Warwick)
Natalia Pushkareva
Professor Natalia Pushkareva is Chief Research Fellow and Head of the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. She is President of the Russian Association for Research in Women's History (RAIZhI) and Member of the Board of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. Her research interests include gender history, the history of family relations, social anthropology, and the history of sexuality in Medieval, Modern and contemporary Russia. She has published widely, in Russian and in English, in the academic and popular press. Her works include: Women in Medieval Rus (Moscow, 1989); Women in Russia and Europe at the Dawn of the Modern Age (Moscow, 1996), Women in Russian History from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century (Sutton Publishing, 1997), Private Life of Russian Women: Bride, Spouse, Mistress (Moscow, 1997); Sexual Culture in Russia from the 10th to the XIXth c. (Moscow, 1999), Russian Women: Past and Present (Moscow, 2002); Gender Theory and Historical Sciences (St Petersburg, 2007). She sits on a number of international Editorial Boards: for the book series Gender Studies in the Humanities (St Petersburg), Gender Studies (Kharkov, Ukraine), Adam & Eve: Yearbook of Gender History (Moscow), Glasnik etnografskogo instituta SANU (Croatia), Blgarska Etnologia (Bulgaria), Aspasia: Yearbook of Gender History (Netherlands).
Richard Sakwa
Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. After graduating in History from the London School of Economics, he took a PhD from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. He held lectureships at the Universities of Essex and California, Santa Cruz, before joining the University of Kent in 1987. He has published widely on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs. Books include Communism in Russia: An Interpretative Essay, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010 (with a Russian version published by Rosspen in 2011), The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky - Yukos Affair (London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 2014) and Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia (London and New York, Routledge, 2014). His latest book is Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, an extended paperback version of which was published by I. B. Tauris in 2016. He is currently working on Russia against the Rest: The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018).
Julie Curtis is a Professor of Russian Literature and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She is the author of three books about Mikhail Bulgakov, the most recent a new biography published by Reaktion Books in February 2017. She has also written a biography of Evgeny Zamiatin (ASP, 2013), and co-edited the 2011 scholarly edition in Russian of his novel Мы. Her current research projects (under the auspices of the AHRC OWRI grants awarded to the Universities of Oxford and Manchester) are on 21st-century theatre in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Chris Read
Chris Read is Professorial Fellow in Modern European History at the University of Warwick. He has written widely on the social, political and cultural history of Russia in the revolutionary period. His most recent books are: War and Revolution in Russia 1914-1922: The Collapse of Tsarism and the Establishment of Soviet Power, Palgrave, London, 2014 and the biographies Lenin: A Revolutionary Life, Routledge London 2005 and, most recently, Stalin: From the Caucasus to the Kremlin, Routledge London 2017.
Mark Harrison is a professor of economics at the University of Warwick and a research fellow of the University of Birmingham. He has worked on the economic history of the Soviet Union and of the two world wars. His current research is on KGB surveillance. His latest book is One Day We Will Live Without Fear (Hoover Institution Press, 2016).
Reflection on the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Friday, 31 March, Auditorium 17:30-19:00
Chair: Richard Sakwa (University of Kent)
Speakers: Gennady Burbulis (State Secretary of Russia, 1991-92)
Leonid Kravchuk (First President of Ukraine, 1991-94)
Stanlislau Shushkevich (First Head of State of Independent Belarus, 1991-94)
Panel organizer: Dr Ilya Permyakov and the PHENOMEN TRUST
We would like to thank the PHENOMEN TRUST for its generous support in organising this event.
Gennady Eduardovich Burbulis
(Russian: Геннадий Эдуардович Бурбулис; born August 4, 1945) is a Russian politician. A close associate of Boris Yeltsin, he held several high positions in the first Russian government, including Secretary of State, and was one of the drafters and signers of the Belavezha Accords on behalf of Russia. He was one of the most influential Russian political figures in the late 1980s and early 1990s and one of the main architects of Russian political and economic reform.
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk
(Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук; born 10 January 1934) is a former Ukrainian politician and the first President of Ukraine, who served from 5 December 1991, until his resignation on 19 July 1994. He is also a former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and People's Deputy of Ukraine serving in the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) faction. After a political crisis involving the President and the Prime Minister, Kravchuk resigned from the Presidency, but ran for a second term as President in 1994. He was defeated by his former Prime Minister, Leonid Kuchma, who served as President for two terms. After Kravchuk's presidency, he was active in Ukrainian politics, serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)'s parliamentary group (from 2002 to 2006). He is currently retired from politics.
Stanislau Stanislavavich Shushkevich
Belarusian: Станісла́ў Станісла́вавіч Шушке́віч Łacinka: Stanisłaŭ Stanisłavavič Šuškievič
Russian: Станисла́в Станисла́вович Шушке́вич
(Born December 15, 1934 in Minsk) is a Belarusian politician and scientist. From September 28, 1991 to January 26, 1994 he was the first leader and head of state of independent Belarus after the dissolution of the Soviet Union (Chairman of the Supreme Soviet - also chairman of Parliament). He supported free market and democratic reforms and played a key role in the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. As a scientist, he is a Corresponding Member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Doctor in Physics and Mathematics, recipient of various state awards, professor, and the author and originator of textbooks and over 150 articles and 50 inventions.
1917 Centenary – Studying the Russian Revolution
Chair: Judith Pallot (BASEES President, University of Oxford)
Speakers: Sarah Badcock (University of Nottingham)
Steve Smith (University of Oxford)
Boris Kolonitskii (European University as St Petersburg)
Sarah Badcock
Sarah Badcock is Associate Professor in history at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on Russia in the late Imperial and revolutionary periods. She is interested in comparative perspectives on questions of punishment, free and unfree labour, and penal cultures. Her most recent book, A prison without walls? Eastern Siberian exile in the last years of Tsarism will be published by Oxford University Press in November 2016. She spent several years researching ordinary people's experiences of the Russian revolution. This research culminated in a book published by Cambridge University Press in 2007, Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia; A provincial history. Badcock's interest in regional perspectives on the Russian revolutions continued with a collaborative project, and she recently published an edited collection of essays exploring Russia's revolutions from regional perspective, along with her friends and colleagues Liudmila Novikova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) and Aaron Retish (Wayne State University), entitled Russian Home Front In War And Revolution, 1914-22: Book 1. Russia's Revolution In Regional Perspective. (Slavica, 2015).
Daniel Orlovsky
Professor Daniel Orlovsky is a specialist in the history of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution of 1917 and he continues to study the history of a much understudied hidden class of Soviet citizens, people who were neither workers nor peasants—the white collar "employees" of the Soviet
Union between 1918 and 1956.
He has held numerous grants for research in the former U.S.S.R. and Russia and has published on the social and cultural history of the Russian Revolution and early Soviet state building.
Orlovsky's major contributions have been the notion of a revolution of the lower middle strata in the society and politics of the Russian Empire and its successor regimes and the application of theories of corporatism to the institutional, social and political history of the turbulent years, 1914-1921.
He coordinated a project on the future of Soviet studies at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington D.C. The results were published as Beyond Soviet Studies. His latest work, a history of the Russian Provisional Government of 1917, entitled Russia's Democratic Revolution, is forthcoming.
Boris Kolonitskii
Boris Kolonitskii is Professor of the Study of the Russian Revolution at the European University at St. Petersburg and a Head Research Fellow at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Boris Kolonitskii is a leading expert on the cultural and political history of late imperial and revolutionary Russia, in which he has developed new approaches to tracing the shifts in popular and elite responses topolitical crisis, particularly as reflected in the media of popular and street culture—cartoons, magazines, posters, and rumors. His works on 1917 include many articles and books, including Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 (Yale University Press, 1999) and Tragicheskaya erotika: Obrazy imperatoskoi sem'i v gody Pervyi mirovoi voiny [Tragic Erotica: Images of the Royal Family During WWI] (Moscow, 2010).
Podcasts, Annual Conference
'East European Art History facing Post-Colonial Theory'
Prof Piotr Piotrowski
The final keynote talk of the BASEES 2014 Annual Conference by Prof Piotr Piotrowski.
Professor Piotr Piotrowski is Professor ordinarius of Modern Art History at Adam Mickiewicz
University, Poznan. He is interested in the social and political history of modern and
contemporary art in Central and Eastern Europe, and has published In the Shadow of Yalta.
Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 (London, 2009) and Art and
Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (London, 2012).
Tagged: Piotr Piotrowski
Andrei Sannikov in conversation with Prof Stephen Hutchings
Andrei Sannikov
2010 Belarus presidential candidate, Andrei Sannikov, talks with Prof Stephen Hutchings on day one of the BASEES 2014 Annual Confernce.
Andrei Sannikov is a Belarusian politician and activist. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus from 1995 until 1996, having previously headed the Belarusian delegation to the Nuclear and Conventional Weapons Armament Negotiations. He was one of the founders of Charter 97 in Belarus, and stood as a candidate in the Belarus presidential elections in 2010. In 2005 he was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for accomplishments in human rights.
Tagged: Andrei Sannikov, Stephen Hutchings
Revolutionary Times in Kyiv: The Current Political Situation in Ukraine
Chair: Geoffrey Swain (University of Glasgow)
Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge)
Anton Shekhovtsov (SSEES, University College London)
Luke March (University of Edinburgh)
Tagged: Ukraine, Kyiv
Annual Conference, Podcasts
'Would Pussy Riot Have Been Better Off in Guantanamo?'
Prof Judith Pallot
Professor Judith Pallot
From the first day of the BASEES 2014 Annual Conference, Prof Judith Pallot presents our first keynote.
Professor Judith Pallot is Professor of the Human Geography of Russia at Oxford University.
She has a long-standing interest in the Russian peasantry, publishing Land Reform in Russia,
1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation (Oxford, 1999),
and is an authority on Russia's penal geography, leading a major research project entitled
'Space and Gender in Russia's Geography of Punishment'.
'A Russian Downton Abbey? Telling Stories from the Eastern Front'
Prof Adele Lindenmeyr
Taken from the final day of the 2013 BASEES Annual Conference, Professor Adele Lindenmeyr from Villianova University USA presents: 'A Russian Downton Abbey? Telling Stories from the Eastern Front'
Professor Adele Lindenmeyr is Professor of History and Dean of Graduate Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA. Her books include Poverty is Not a Vice: Charity, Society and the State in Imperial Russia (1996), which was awarded the Heldt Prize for the best book published by a woman in Slavic Studies. Professor Lindenmeyr was honoured with the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies in 2003.
Tagged: Adele Lindenmeyr, Russia
Luke Harding in conversation with Stephen White
Presented on the second day of the BASEES annual conference, Luke Harding from the Guardian in discussion with Prof Stephen White (University of Glasgow).
Luke Harding is an award-winning foreign correspondent with The Guardian. He has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and has covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. His book Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia, was published by Guardian Books in 2011. He is currently based at The Guardian's office in London.
Luke Harding
Professor Stephen White
Tagged: Discussions, Luke Harding, Stephen Wright
'Religious Organisation and the Legacy of Communism in East-Central Europe'
Prof Sabrina Ramet
The first of two talks from the second day of the BASEES annual conference, Professor Sabrina Remet presents 'Religious Organisation and the Legacy of Communism in East-Central Europe'.
Professor Sabrina P. Ramet is Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her expertise lies in the area of central and east European politics and culture and she has published The Three Yugoslavias: State-building and Legitimation, 1918—2004 (2006) and Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia (2013). Professor Ramet is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences & Letters.
Tagged: Sabrina Ramet, Communism, Europe
Towards a Greater Europe: Problems and Paradoxes
Prof Richard Sakwa
Taken from our annual BASEES conference, Professor Richard Sakwa presents his talk 'Towards a Greater Europe: Problems and Paradoxes'
Professor Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and East European Politics at the University of Kent. A leading expert on the politics of contemporary Russia, his books include The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession (2011), The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin, and the Yukos Affair (2009) and Russian Politics and Society (4th edn., 2008). Professor Sakwa is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Tagged: Europe, Richard Sakwa
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How much and how fast should my piggies be gaining weight? I weighed them both Monday and Squeakers weighed 17oz and Bugsy weighed 15oz. Today, Bugsy's weight was exactly the same but Squeakers gained about a half to 3/4 of an oz. Is that too fast or normal? Should I just watch the trend over a few weeks? I don't want to cause health problems from obesity later in life!! I have noticed that Squeakers eats a LOT more than Bugs, although Bugs does eat, just not constantly!!
Well, they are still babies, right? Babies need eat alot and grow alot... I wouldnt worry about it for now. You cant really put them on a diet at this point anyway, since they should still be free feeding.
Just keep an eye on them, and make sure they eat tons of hay!
After they are a year old, they should actually have restriced pellets... about 1/4 cup per pig (depending on their weight). Their diet should be mostly hay, so its important that they dont full up on pellets instead.


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Border officials: Pot legal only on Canadian side
Recreational use of marijuana is now legal in Canada, but anyone who brings it across the Blue Water Bridge could be arrested.
Border officials: Pot legal only on Canadian side Recreational use of marijuana is now legal in Canada, but anyone who brings it across the Blue Water Bridge could be arrested. Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/local/port-huron/2018/10/17/border-officials-pot-legal-only-canadian-side/1670193002/
Liz Shepard, Port Huron Times Herald Published 3:10 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2018
The ocean-going freighter Miedwie heads into Lake Huron under the Blue Water Bridge.(Photo: Bob Gross, Times Herald)Buy Photo
While Canadians celebrated the legalization of recreational marijuana Wednesday, U.S. border officials are reminding everyone it is illegal under U.S. law.
"Nothing changes, it is illegal ... to possess, sell, distribute marijuana in the United States," Christopher Perry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection director of field operations, said during a press conference in Detroit.
Perry, who is in charge of all Michigan border crossings, said CBP officers will continue to enforce federal laws.
He said even in states that legalize marijuana use, it remains illegal under federal law.
"Federal law supersedes state law," Perry said several times.
He said it will be business as usual at the borders — marijuana still won't be permitted.
"What happened yesterday is happening today, we're experiencing no negative impact at the border from this," Perry said.
But those working in the newly legal Canadian marijuana industry might not be permitted into the United States.
"If a traveler is found to be coming to the U.S. for reasons related to the marijuana industry, they may be deemed inadmissible," Perry said.
While it would depend on the situation, Perry said people can be barred from crossing the border if they're found to be participating in drug trafficking.
He added if they are crossing the border for reasons outside of the industry, they may be permitted. Perry added officers have a broad discretion to ask travelers a variety of questions, although they do not ask routine questions about recreational marijuana use.
"We're not asking people about marijuana use, but if during the conduct of an inspection, an officer has reason to believe there may be marijuana in the car, odor of marijuana, they could ask about it," Perry said.
He said if a driver is suspected of being under the influence of marijuana or any other substance, state and local authorities would be contacted.
Perry said his advice for those crossing the border is it is "best not to engage" in marijuana use.
He reiterated just because someon can legally acquire marijuana in Canada, that doesn't mean it is legal once they get to the border.
Contact Liz Shepard at (810) 989-6273 or lshepard@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @lvshepard.
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The Executive Order (EO) on Mining is "good for all stakeholders" since it proposes to develop the Philippines' mineral resources with emphasis on social acceptability and strong safeguards on environmental protection, the president of the League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) said on Wednesday.
"The policy is clear. We can develop the mining industry hand in hand with efforts to protect and preserve the environment," said Oriental Mindoro Governor Alfonso "Boy" Umali, national president of the LPP.
"All stakeholders stand to benefit from this policy direction," he said, stressing the importance of social responsibility and acceptability in localities where mining activities are permitted.
In a press statement, Umali thanked President Benigno Aquino for introducing the reforms and said the local government units in pertinent areas would cooperate.
Umali cited provisions of the EO, which he described as "highly commendable." Among them are Section 11 or the measures to improve and regulate small-scale mining activities and Section 12, or consistency of local ordinances with the Constitution and national laws.
Umali also hailed two other provisions, namely Section 13 creating a one-stop shop for mining applications and procedures, and Section 14 improving transparency of the mineral industry.
Among other things, the EO widened the areas banned from mining and set up a multistakeholder team that would review the performance of existing mining operations.
The EO created the Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC), whose members include the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines, which is the umbrella organization of the leagues of governors, city mayors, municipal mayors and barangay and other local officials. Umali is concurrent head of Ulap.
"The creation of the MICC is most welcome," Umali said, adding that the council should include individuals with technical expertise and in-depth understanding of mining operations.


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