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The 'Magic' Of Motown Music Comes Alive In Animated Netflix Show
What a great way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Motown – by putting the iconic music in a family-friendly animated series. Since November of 2018, great music and animation have merged on Netflix with "Motown Magic."
Now, you can watch the complete first season on the streaming network, which features 52 newly-recorded versions of the famous songs by contemporary acts such as Ne-Yo, Becky G, BJ The Chicago Kid, Calum Scott, and Trombone Shorty.
The show's theme song is the Jackson 5's "ABC," sung by 11-year-old Zacary James of The Melisizwe Brothers, who have performed on "The Ellen Degeneres Show," "Showtime at the Apollo," "The Steve Harvey Show," and "America's Got Talent."
Hailing from Alberta, Canada, James told the EUR in a recent phone interview, "I'm really honored and happy that I'm doing the theme song for the show. The show is really awesome, fun, and I'm really happy for it."
James even got a vote of confidence from one of the famous Jackson brothers, "I love Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5. (I) actually talked to Tito Jackson and he said, 'You're going to do a wonderful job and keep on doing what you're doing.' It was very cool."
James and his brothers, who all play multiple instruments, also went viral when millions watched their video version of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" a few years ago. But the trio can also throw down singing other Motown hits. Even though he is only a preteen, James added that Motown is very special.
"Motown really touches my heart. It's always something you can listen to. I've loved it since I was two. Stevie Wonder is my favorite artist. Meeting him was really awesome. He bought me and (my brothers instruments)."
Josh Wakely, the "Motown Magic" creator and executive producer, had an exhaustive search looking for the voice of a young Michael Jackson. The Australian native said in an EUR phone interview that when he received a video of James, he knew he was the one. But the real test would be hearing James sing live in a recording studio.
"I've worked with some big artists and they've done great performances but often they take a day, a day and a half, or even a week to get the songs right, but he did it in one take," Wakely said. "I turned to my engineer in the recording studio and was like, 'That's close to perfect, let's do that again, that was a fluke.' He was perfect every time."
Wakely, who is not new to children's programming, created another children's show two years ago, the Emmy-winning "Beat Bugs," inspired by The Beatles' music. After that success, Wakely started working on "Motown Magic" three years ago.
After getting the blessings of Motown mogul Berry Gordy, Motown executive Clarence Avant, and Stevie Wonder, when it came to choosing the Executive Music Producer for the animated series, Wakely sought the legendary Smokey Robinson. In addition to singing, Robinson also wrote many Motown hits for other artists.
"I thought Smokey Robinson was a good pick to get a final blessing because he was both a hugely influential artist, who was a mentor to Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross and a whole bunch of people but he was also involved in the business of it all. He was the perfect person to bridge both sides."
The super-cute series centers on a young boy named Ben, who transforms his city with a magic paintbrush against a backdrop of the Motown sound and street-art.
Armed with degrees in business and theatre, newcomer Avia Fields plays Ben but she is not a child or a boy. However, the Alabama native told the EUR she was the right person for the role.
"He's so similar to me," said Fields. "He's smart, creative, likes to read, and values academics like I did. The little bit of shyness and awkwardness was pretty much my personality as a kid."
After graduating from college and moving to New York to pursue musical theater, the Alabama native often looked for auditions in Backstage, a performance arts trade publication. However, one day, she glanced at a section she never bothered to look at before.
"It was so random because I never looked at the voiceover auditions," said Fields. "I was home for the weekend and 'Motown Magic' popped up and I fell in love. It was a stroke of fate."
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Quit blaming the emergency telephone; A17.1 "Line Monitoring" requirements
Since 1921 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) have issued the A17.1 Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators; the definitive safety code for elevators in the USA and Canada (since being harmonized with CSA B44 in 2000).
A17.1 is typically updated every two to three years to ensure the latest safety requirements are captured; 2009 saw a major change to SECTION 2.27 EMERGENCY OPERATION AND SIGNALING DEVICES, with the introduction of a clause requiring verification of the means of communication used to connect the elevator emergency telephone to the outside world. This is typically referred to as 'line monitoring'. The 2009 Addendum should be used to replace the pages in the 2007 edition of A17.1
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The line monitoring requirement was introduced following reports of trapped passengers being unable to call for help due to "communication failures". When these incidents were investigated it was found that the most commonly cited causes of failure were disconnected phone lines and changes to dialing plans (e.g. "Dial 1 for an outside line…", etc.) and not a failure of the equipment itself.
Regular manual testing of the elevator emergency telephone is widely acknowledged as the best method to establish if the system is in working order. However, it's not practical to have a building employee regularly and manually test each emergency telephone in most buildings. Therefore A17.1 requires an automatic test of the means of communication at least daily.
'Means of Communication'
The reason 'means of communication' is used as opposed to 'telephone line' is that the code acknowledges that other means such as cellular gateways and Voice of Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems can be used to connect emergency telephones.
The automatic test must verify if the communication means is operable and, in the event of a failure occurring, trigger an alert in the building; the alert has both an audible and visual component.
Testing is done in a variety of ways. When connecting to analog telephone lines, detecting a loss of line voltage is often used to indicate a failure. Cellular gateways can be designed to generate line voltages and/or analog dial tones and, in the event of cell signal falling below the point at which a call can be place, to cut these signals. VoIP systems can also be setup to provide a communication failure signal in the event of a network failure.
The visual component (often a red LED) of the alert will illuminate intermittently until the communication means is restored. The audible component sounds every 30 seconds until the communication means is restored or it is silenced by authorized personnel. To ensure only authorized personnel can silence the alert a key is typically required to operate the silence function. If the means of communication is not restored by the time the next automatic test is performed the audible alert is reactivated.
Code requires that the visual and audible alert be installed in the vicinity of the fire recall switch and visible to elevator users. A label reading "ELEVATOR COMMUNICATION FAILURE" in 0.25in (5mm) tall letters is also required. The minimum requirement is for one visual and audible alert per group of elevators controlled by the fire recall switch.
Janus Elevator provides a wide range of A17.1, ADA and A117.1 code compliant elevator emergency telephones and accessories including Line Monitoring Units.
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CT manufacturers roll out last year's works-in-progress
CT vendors were exceptional in their predictability, as each bore product pathways to the RSNA meeting as true as rifle shots. High-end and midtier scanners appeared on cue, their makers registering claims for their own products and criticism of the competition. It all came as little surprise to anyone familiar with the RSNA exhibit floor.
The clinical potential for superpremium CT scanning and the means for achieving it had been enunciated in detail at the 2003 RSNA meeting. Vendors, hoping to get the jump on one another, lined up last year to announce their works-in-progress. The difference this year, they said, is that their scanners now are real - sort of.
GE Healthcare made enormous strides with its 64-slice LightSpeed VCT.
"Last year, the VCT was a gleam in our eye. It was simply a poster saying 'We got you covered,'" said Brian J. Duchinsky, global general manager of GE Healthcare's CT Imaging Business. "Now it is doing the heart in four beats."
But the company still has only one clinical site. Ditto for Philips, which has a single luminary site operating its 64-slice.
Midtier systems were niched into applications outside radiology, part of a process that had begun months before. Multislice scanners were all the rage, as Siemens, Philips, and Toshiba unveiled new products dedicated to oncology.
Each vendor has or is developing a wide-bore gantry for radiotherapy simulations. Toshiba's work-in-progress Aquilion LB (Large Bore), a 16-slice scanner with a 90-cm gap, will be available in October.
"One of the great challenges in going to a much larger bore is the g force exerted on external components," said Doug Ryan, director of Toshiba's CT business unit. "This can cause more vibration."
Toshiba solved the problem by removing the tilt mechanism otherwise commonly built into the gantries.
This rush to oncology, however, was not new. GE Healthcare beat its competitors to the punch by a year when the company showed its CT simulator, the quadslice LightSpeed RT (radiation therapy) at the 2003 RSNA meeting.
Of the "new" CT scanners, Hitachi's CXR 4 may be the most noteworthy, not so much for its technology as for what it represents. The new product offered no significant advantages over its quadslice competition, nor would it be priced lower. But its appearance at the RSNA signified a turning point for Hitachi, whose equipment had not graced the McCormick Center since it appeared under the Philips label in the 1990s. And the scanner was available to begin shipping.
Hitachi's move back into CT might have been anticipated. Five months earlier, at the Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting, the company displayed a hybrid scanner composed of a CTI-supplied PET and a homegrown quadslice CT. Now Hitachi is going to market the CXR 4 to the entrepreneurs who made the company a success in open MR.
About 1400 sites in the U.S. operate Hitachi open MR scanners, according to Sheldon Shaffer, vice president and general manager of Hitachi MR. The company has already begun contacting them about the CXR 4.
"We have been getting a very favorable response," he said.
The scanner will be priced about the same as other quadslice scanners: under $500,000. The CXR 16 will also be competitively priced when introduced, which could happen this summer, Schaffer said. Attracting buyers to the CXR line will be Hitachi support and the proven quality of its medical imaging products.
Just as predictable as the products and the claims was the criticism of Siemens' two 64-slice scanners, the Sensation 64 and Sensation Cardiac. The two superpremium systems were denigrated as not being true 64-slice scanners but 32s propped up by a flying focal spot that provides two nearly simultaneous data points per detector row. Detractors had voiced the same opinions when the system was unveiled as a work-in-progress 12 months earlier.
There is a reason for the criticism. Making detectors with 64 rows is more difficult than making ones with 32. But, by achieving 64 slices with a 32-row detector, Siemens improved resolution and got a sales jump on competitors. When the RSNA show opened, the German company had installed 45 of its 64-slice scanners. By year's end, more than 100 had been installed.
Competitors trailed no matter what criteria were used. Toshiba had six Aquilion 64s installed at the start of the show. A seventh was scheduled for installation in early 2005. GE and Philips each had installed just one each by the start of 2005, although both said that number would grow quickly in the year ahead.
Even accepting the criticisms of the Sensation 64 and Cardiac - that they were really lesser slice systems - the numbers still favored Siemens. By year's end, Philips had managed 60 installations of its Brilliance 40, which entered full production in October. By the end of January, Toshiba expects to match Philips' number with 60 Aquilion 32s installed. By Jan. 1, GE had installed three LightSpeed Pro 32s.
Siemens' is trailing competitors, however, in releasing a lower cost alternative to its 64-slice generation. The company's Sensation 40, whose 20-row detector produces 40 slices per rotation by virtue of the same technology that gives the Sensation 64 and Sensation Cardiac their boost, will enter full production six months from now.
The company also plans to introduce by early 2006 a 16-slice scanner for its budget-oriented upgradable Emotion family, which currently has three members. It already offers a 16-slice model of the Sensation platform.
At the RSNA meeting, Siemens expanded its portfolio further with a dual-slice scanner. Spirit, slated for release in spring 2005, will be positioned as an entry level scanner for those who don't yet have CT, a cost-effective replacement for single-slice scanners, or an additional CT in overworked facilities. It generates 1-mm slices at rotational speeds of either 1 or 0.8 sec.
"We have expanded and revamped our multislice families to cover every business need," said Bernd Montag, Ph.D., president of Siemens CT.
For the time being, relatively few superpremium scanners have been installed, compared with the thousands of multislice CT scanners put in since the genre was launched in 1998. The numbers of 64-slice scanners are sure to rise for all vendors, however, just as the numbers of quad- and 16-slice scanners shot up in the months and years following their release.
This next generation, and its lower priced alternatives at 40 and 32 slices, will serve as new benchmarks of power and speed. But for how long is difficult to say. Sixteen-slice scanners were on the market less than four years after their quadslice predecessors. The 64-slice generation followed just two years after the 16s. Contrast this with the nine-year reign of single-slice spiral CTs and the nearly two decades that single-slice step CT scanners enjoyed.
The R&D cycle has to stop getting shorter if vendors are to reap much of a return on their investment. If it does, it won't happen because the technology can't continue to advance so quickly, but because clinicians need time to get accustomed to the new technology.
"The technology has gone so far so fast that we think there will be stabilization with 64-channel technology," said Jim Green, general manager of Philips CT business unit. "The applications will have to be validated for clinical efficacy in order to really make proper use of this technology."
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Sun Fires Off Biggest Solar Flare in More than a Decade
Massive X-class flare is 'just part of living with a star.'
A massive, X9.3-class solar flare blasted from the sun at 8:02 a.m. EDT (1202 GMT).SDO/AIA/Steve Spaleta
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Sept. 6, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC / Updated Sept. 6, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com
Early this morning (Sept. 6), the sun released two powerful solar flares — the second was the most powerful in more than a decade.
At 5:10 a.m. EDT (0910 GMT), an X-class solar flare — the most powerful sun-storm category — blasted from a large sunspot on the sun's surface. That flare was the strongest since 2015, at X2.2, but it was dwarfed just 3 hours later, at 8:02 a.m. EDT (1202 GMT), by an X9.3 flare, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). The last X9 flare occurred in 2006 (coming in at X9.0).
According to SWPC, the flares resulted in radio blackouts: high-frequency radio experienced a "wide area of blackouts, loss of contact for up to an hour over [the] sunlit side of Earth," and low frequency communication, used in navigation, was degraded for an hour. [The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History]
Solar flares occur when the sun's magnetic field — which creates the dark sunspots on the star's surface — twists up and reconnects, blasting energy outward and superheating the solar surface. X-class solar flares can cause radiation storms in Earth's upper atmosphere and trigger radio blackouts, as happened earlier this morning.
During large solar flares, the sun can also sling a cloud of energetic plasma from its body, an event called a coronal mass ejection (CME).
"It was accompanied by radio emissions that suggest there's a potential for a CME," SWPC space scientist Rob Steenburgh told Space.com. "However, we have to wait until we get some coronagraph imagery that would capture that event for a definitive answer."
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The sunspot responsible for this morning's flares, active region 2673, is the smaller of two massive spots on the sun's surface, at only seven Earths wide by nine Earths tall, according to astrophysicist Karl Battams.
Yesterday, that same sunspot emitted an M-class solar flare — one-tenth the size of an X-class flare — leading to a coronal mass ejection aimed toward Earth that could cause auroras tonight as far south as Ohio and Indiana.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view of a mid-level solar flare on the sun at 4:33 pm EDT on Monday (Sept. 4).NASA/SDO
The orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency, is currently out of contact with Earth because of its location, so observers will not be able to see any coronal mass ejections caused by this morning's flares until 10:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), Battams wrote on Twitter.
If aimed toward Earth, such an ejection could lead to even more spectacular auroras, but could also damage satellites, communications and power systems. That cloud of charged plasma would arrive within 1 to 3 or 4 days, Steenburgh said, although CMEs triggered by energetic flares generally come quickly.
The surge of activity might seem surprising, as the sun is approaching its solar minimum, with the lowest levels of activity in its 11-year cycle.
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"We are heading toward solar minimum, but the interesting thing about that is you can still have events, they're just not as frequent," Steenburgh said. "We're not having X-flares every day for a week, for instance — the activity is less frequent, but no less potentially strong."
"These kind of events are just part of living with a star," Steenburgh added.
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Олексій Олександрович Хамрай (народився ) — український вчений-сходознавець, доктор філологічних наук, провідний науковий співробітник і завідувач відділу Класичного Сходу Інституту Сходознавства НАН України, віце-президент Української асоціації юдаїки (2015–2019).

Академічна кар'єра
1999 захистив кандидатську дисертацію на тему: «Застосування формалізованого аналізу почерків при описанні єврейських рукописів (доба середньовіччя - XVIII ст.)».

У 2013 році захистив докторську дисертацію на тему: «Обмеження структури арабської граматики: семантика й синкретизм граматичного значення»

Наукова та освітня діяльність

 Працював перекладачем-референтом з французької мови в Алжирі.
 Близько 20 років присвятив науковій та викладацькій діяльності. Викладає в Київському національному університеті ім. Тараса Шевченка, Київському національному лінгвістичному університеті, Національному університету «Києво-Могилянська Академія». Є членом редакційних колегій журналів Judaica Ukrainica і Східний світ.
 З 2012 року — керівник, з 2017 — співкерівник магістерської програми з юдаїки в НаУКМА.
 З 2015 року є віце-президентом Української асоціації юдаїки.
 З 2016 року займає посаду завідувача відділа Класичного сходу Інституту сходознавства НАН України.

Монографії

 Обмеження структури арабської граматики. - К.: [НАН України, Ін-т сходознавства ім. А. Ю. Кримського], 2009. - 229 с. - ISBN 978-966-02-4882-3 (2-ге вид.: К., 2010. - ISBN 978-966-02-5777-1).

Публікації в періодичних наукових виданнях

 Просодичні перспективи арабської морфології // Східний світ. - 2013. - № 4. - С. 131-138.
 Близький та Середній Схід: вектори стратегічного партнерства // Сходознавство. - 2012. - № 60. - С. 203-230.
 Зв'язок розвитку системи відмінювання з характером суб'єктно-об'єктних відносин в арабській мові // Східний світ. - 2003. - № 4. - С. 156-162.
 Єврейські рукописи східного походження у фондах НБУВ // Східний світ. - 2008. - № 1. - С. 47-49.
 Інваріанти, прототипи і парадигми арабської граматики // Східний світ. - 2008. - № 3. - С. 173-179.
 Транскрипція й транслітерація арабомовних текстів: від діакритики до просодичних шаблонів // Східний світ. - 2012. - № 3. - С. 94-100.
 Перехідність дієслова та дифузність додатків в арабській мові // Східний світ. - 2006. - № 3. - С. 157-161.
 Системна типологія і арабська граматика // Східний світ. - 2006. - № 4. - С. 106-111.
 Фонологічні засади сегментації китайського тексту // Китаєзнавчі дослідження. - 2012. - Т. 2. - С. 72-82.
 Понятійний апарат давньоіндійської лінгвістичної традиції в контексті сучасної фонологічної термінології // Східний світ. - 2015. - № 1. - С. 84-91.
 Співвідношення темпоральності й аспектуальності арабського дієслова // Східний світ. - 2005. - № 4. - С. 156-161.
 Зібрання записних книг єврейських громад у фондах Інституту рукопису НБУВ // Східний світ. - 2016. - № 2-3. - С. 130-139.
 Перспективи застосування феноменологічного підходу в описі арабської граматики // Східний світ. - 2016. - № 4. - С. 111-117.

Примітки

Доктори філологічних наук України
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Sagal Abdi-Wali: Why I'm standing to be a Labour London Assembly candidate
Sagal Abdi-Wali
I'm Sagal Abdi-Wali and I'm standing to represent my home seat of Barnet and Camden for Labour on the Greater London Assembly.
Camden has been my home since I moved here with my family as a child refugee, fleeing war-torn Somalia. This new home is where I was raised and educated; it's where I now work for the council and volunteer for local community groups and charities. It is an area steeped in close community values, progressivism and inclusion, all of which have shaped who I am and the socialist principles by which I stand.
I've supported Labour for as long as I can remember, and joined the party driven by my strongest held values – solidarity and justice. As we see the rise in hate, populism and the far-right across the globe and on our streets, I believe it is essential now more than ever that we reach out with open arms across race, religion and creed to bring our communities together. This must also start at home: to be a truly anti-racist party, we, as Labour, must confront antisemitism in our own ranks as well as those who seek to dismiss or minimise it.
As a young Muslim woman, I understand what it is to feel prejudice, discrimination and hostility, and it is why I stand steadfastly, shoulder-to-shoulder, with all our families and communities to make our party, city and country fairer, kinder and more tolerant. I do not take these issues lightly. I fully understand where doing so leads, and so too must the Labour movement. Fighting for equality and celebrating diversity are some of our proudest values, and we must strive to get the full trust of all communities, in order to lead our wonderful patchwork nation.
A decade of Tory austerity has had a devastating impact on both Barnet and Camden. The ideological choice to lay the burden on the backs of those who can least afford it has led to levels of inequality and suffering that have been difficult to bear witness to. As a community activist, a local government officer and school governor, I've seen first-hand the effects of this agenda: fear for the safety of our youth; a crisis in homelessness; a rise in child poverty; cuts to mental health, early-years and elderly care. Every demographic in our communities have been left worse off under this reckless and feckless government.
A decade of callous mismanagement of our country has passed, yet, as the recent local and European elections have shown, Labour cannot guarantee a win in either Barnet or Camden. We cannot take votes for granted and we must regain the public's mandate by putting forward a progressive and ambitious agenda. Central to this is being clear on our Brexit position. This is the issue of our time. Barnet and Camden have over 70,000 EU citizens who live or work here and a diverse population that overwhelmingly voted to Remain. It couldn't matter more to an area like ours.
I voted for Remain in 2016. While I understood the necessity to seek a plausible and achievable Brexit following the result, it is clear now that the only type of Brexit is one that will be destructive to our jobs and futures. It is vital that we not only oppose a Tory-led Brexit, but that we publicly support a final say on this issue and campaign wholeheartedly, unashamedly, for Remain.
As we face the Boris Johnson government, it is imperative that the Assembly and mayoral elections of 2020 return a Labour-run GLA for Londoners and the proudly progressive city that we are. One that will continue to build on the work done so far.
The issues we face across London, and particularly in Barnet and Camden, are vast – from a climate emergency that worst affects our poorest communities to a deepening housing crisis. But I believe a better and fairer London for us all is attainable. This is what has inspired me to stand as the Labour candidate for Barnet and Camden; someone that will bring a fresh, passionate, and unique voice to City Hall, bring our diverse communities together, and confront the issues of now and the future.
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Sagal Abdi-Wali is chair of Holborn and St Pancras Labour. She is currently standing to be Labour's London Assembly candidate for Barnet and Camden.
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The first commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, General John B. Gordon of Georgia, tried repeatedly to retire from his high office "but his comrades would not consent." Below, he spoke in 1890 of the necessity of maintaining unblemished the nobility, heroism, sacrifices, suffering and glorious memory of the American soldiers in grey.
"[The United Confederate Veterans] was created on high lines, and its first commander was the gallant soldier, General John B. Gordon, at the time governor of Georgia, and later was United States senator. General Gordon was continued as commander-in-chief until his death.
"Comrades, no argument is needed to secure for those objects your enthusiastic endorsement. They have burdened your thoughts for many years. You have cherished them in sorrow, poverty and humiliation. In the face of misconstruction, you have held them in your hearts with the strength of religious convictions. No misjudgments can defeat your peaceful purposes for the future. Your aspirations have been lifted by the mere force and urgency of surrounding conditions to a plane far above the paltry considerations of partisan triumphs.
The honor of the American Government, the just powers of the Federal Government, the equal rights of States, the integrity of the Constitutional Union, the sanctions of law, and the enforcement of order have no class of defenders more true and devoted than the ex-soldiers of the South and their worthy descendants. But you realize the great truth that a people without the memories of heroic suffering or sacrifice are a people without history.
To cherish such memories and recall such a past, whether crowned with success or consecrated in defeat, is to idealize principle and strengthen character, intensify love of country, and convert defeat and disaster into pillars of support for future manhood and noble womanhood.
Whether the Southern people, under their changed conditions, may ever hope to witness another civilization which shall equal that which began with their Washington and ended with their Lee, it is certainly true that devotion to their glorious past is not only the surest guarantee of future progress and the holiest bond of unity, but is also the strongest claim they can present to the confidence and respect of the other sections of the Union.
It is political in no sense, except so far as the word "political" is a synonym for the word "patriotic." [It will] cherish the past glories of the dead Confederacy and transmute them into living inspirations for future service to the living Republic; of truth, because it will seek to gather and preserve, as witness to history, the unimpeachable facts which shall doom falsehood to die that truth may live; of justice, because it will cultivate . . . that broader and higher and nobler sentiment which would write on the grave of every soldier who fell on our side, "Here lies an American hero, a martyr to the right as his conscience conceived it."


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We've now reached that special time of the year for those writing the upcoming CFE exam…study season!
What I find interesting about this time of the year is that emotions are really mixed among students: some of you are laid back because you took some vacation before Capstone 2, some of you are excited to get into case-writing mode and making study groups, and others are already pulling out their hair.
Back in July 2016, I was one of those people pulling out their hair. And one of the main reasons why was because, like many of you, I had a tendency to pay very close attention to what other candidates were saying. What bothered me the most was that there was very little consistency across the "words-of-mouth." For example, I heard that some CFE Honour Roll student out there would recommend taking three months off to study, some other successful writer would recommend taking only three weeks off, others would say that I should take at least a month off, and so on.
The truth in all of this is that while you will all be writing the same standardized exam, you are all individually unique in your abilities. Coming from a guy who spent two full years in the CFE process, the best advice I can give you if you're already doubtful on how to prepare for the exam is to focus on yourself: make a plan that's tailored to your own performance level. And there are many good CFE tutors out there who can help you figure out your unique "performance level" at this stage in the game (I'd be happy to get you in touch with them if you feel you need the help).
The purpose of this article is to address 5 common myths I repeatedly hear from CFE candidates each year (related to my point above about the inconsistent "words-of-mouth" statements I just mentioned), hoping that it can ease the anxiety that some of you may be experiencing right now.
Myth #1: You automatically fail Level 1 on Days 2 & 3 if you score NA or NC on an assessment opportunity.
If CPA Canada were to do this, you would be looking at pass rates at less than 20%, if not less. I must stress again that this is a standardized exam, based on relative grading. Given how Day 3 is structured with very minimal time for each assessment opportunity across the cases, it is very common for candidates to run out of time to address an assessment opportunity, even at an RC-level. Even looking back at the 2017 CFE Board report myself (which was the year I passed), I can tell that there were a few assessment opportunities that I likely scored NA or NC.
With this being said, you still need to be very cautious about scoring NCs and NAs in your cases. You must keep in mind that Level 1 is still the most common level in which CFE candidates fail. CPA Canada assess passing level 1 as to whether "the aggregate competency was demonstrated sufficiently." What this means is that you still need to achieve a certain number of RCs and Cs across Days 2 and 3 to pass this exam, and this number is based on how all other candidates score.
My recommendation: minimize the risk of failing. Still aim to score a C-level response in your practice cases and on the actual exam. However, do not beat yourself up (like I did) if you score NC or NA on an assessment opportunity here and there.
Myth #2: The markers care more about quantitative responses than they do qualitative responses for Days 2 & 3.
The CPA Board of Examiners is not interested in inviting strict number-crunchers to the profession. Their goal is to bring in people who are well-rounded both in technical abilities and in the enabling competencies. This is why they would only give an RC (at best) to candidates in an assessment opportunity that requires a qualitative discussion, even if the quantitative portion is excellent.
As you proceed with debriefing your Day 2 & Day 3 cases during the study season, you will often see in the simulated marking guides that you MUST have some qualitative discussion in your response to bring your response from an RC to a C. Sometimes, you may even see that the solutions carve out the qualitative discussion as a separate assessment opportunity, so missing out on qualitative discussions may increase the risk of you failing on Level 1.
My recommendation: allocate at least 40 to 50% of your time on each assessment opportunity to have a qualitative discussion, and make sure that you stick to this time allocation. This is a great thing to try as you attempt the practice exams. Furthermore, don't be fooled by assessment opportunities that only ask you to calculate something; there's always something qualitative that applies to a calculation (such as impact the result will have on your client's operations), and including this in your response will help you bring it up to a C-level.
Myth #3: Practicing with old UFE cases is sufficient enough to prepare for the CFE.
I know this myth is going to raise some eyebrows.
Practicing old UFE cases should definitely be part of your study plan, as there is a lot you can learn from them – not only case writing techniques but also technical content (assuming you are debriefing well, which I'll elaborate on below). Even for Capstone 2, most of the cases that CPA will provide you are derived from these old UFE cases.
However, I strongly believe that practicing old UFE cases alone is insufficient preparation. For CFE Day 1, the exam response format you're expected to use, and method of evaluation, is nothing like what was offered in the old UFE (as it was derived from the former CMA exam program). For CFE Day 2, the exam question structure on the former Day 1 "comp" cases is somewhat similar if your elected depth role is assurance; however, the difference lies in the fact the old UFE comp-cases focused on all technical competency areas rather than just financial reporting, management accounting & your selected depth role. Lastly, for CFE Day 3, the old UFE "multi" cases generally had fewer assessment opportunities (i.e. 3 to 4 per case) compared to the CFE Day 3 cases, which have anywhere between 6 to 8 assessment opportunities per case. Ultimately, this means that you need to be a lot more careful with time allocation across the assessment opportunities.
My recommendation: to minimize the "shock" factor when writing the actual CFE, try to include cases from the prior CFE offerings (i.e. year 2015 & onwards) throughout your study period. You may also be able to obtain decent "mock Day 3" cases from third party CPA prep program providers. Whether you want to try these types of cases at the beginning, at the end, or spread evenly across your study period, that's up to you. My personal preference is to spread these across your study period.
Myth #4: You need to work in audit & assurance to be successful on the CFE with assurance as your depth.
While I was going through the CFE process, I was working in audit at a public accounting firm. The depth role I chose was assurance because I still wanted to pursue public accounting after getting my CPA, and I felt there were a lot more resources available from the old UFEs pertaining to assurance.
However, throughout the study period, I felt that the work experience that I was able to apply to the assurance assessment opportunities contained in the cases was limited. This was due to my limited involvement with planning assurance engagements on the job, contrary to the cases which usually ask you to perform planning work (whether it be a RAMP audit plan, control assessments, or what kind of assurance engagement to pursue). Instead, I found my resources to lie much more heavily on prior exam cases & technical content provided by my CPA mentor.
There may be some of you who do have a more senior-role at your job and are involved in the planning process. If so, then I'm sure that there are some things that are transferable to the actual exam. However, I want to stress that it is not a requirement for you to do very well on the CFE if assurance is your depth role.
My recommendation: If you see yourself working in public accounting later on in your career, choosing assurance as your depth role will open that door for you. If you do not see yourself doing this later on, I would still strongly consider assurance as your depth role, due to the many resources available from prior UFE & CFE exams in which assurance was tested frequently.
Myth #5: Writing more cases increases your chances of passing the CFE.
I am a strong believer that for the CFE, practice makes perfect. However, it's important to understand what "practice" really means.
I do not consider practice to be simply writing a lot of cases. By doing this, you are unable to gauge your performance. If anything, it may help you with time management, but even this benefit is questionable as you would not know if you perhaps missed assessment opportunities. The important piece missing in this is the DEBRIEFING.
Over time, I discovered that a proper debrief involves not only reading the solution after writing a practice case, but also comparing the solution to what you wrote, rewriting parts of your case response to bring it to a C-level, researching technical areas you are not comfortable with that came up in the case, and tracking your progress.
As you start in the study season, you will find that your debrief sessions take a lot of time. You may even find it takes twice or three times as long to debrief than to write the actual case – do NOT rush through this at the beginning! It's a lot better to debrief one case thoroughly than to just write two or three cases in the same amount of time. I would reserve the strict case-writing near the end of the study season as you practice moving from case to case for Day 3.
My recommendation: Practice writing cases, but make sure your study plan allots a sufficient amount of time for debriefing each case you practice.
I really hope that this blog post helps you navigate through the complexities of the CFE study process. If you want to reach out to me, please give me a shout at stevenp2c@gmail.com.


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It is my honor to let you know that I am training for a half marathon this November to raise money for Chai Lifeline.
Chai Lifeline has grown from a small, community based summer camp program for children with cancer to one of the pre-eminent international health support networks for seriously ill children, their families and communities. Chai Lifeline's programs and services meet the unique emotional, social and financial needs of families living with serious pediatric illness or loss.
From the moment of diagnosis Chai Lifeline's compassionate professionals and trained volunteers step in to help restore equilibrium and bring joy and hope back to lives devastated by medical crises and illness.
With this in mind, Chai Lifeline strives to find ways to bring joy to the lives of young patients and their families through creative, innovative, and effective family-centered programs, activities, and services. Chai Lifeline offers all of their services free of charge to ensure that every family has access to its programming.
If you would please support me, I am hoping to raise as much money as possible for the continuation of this organization which embodies the ideals, compassion, kindness and caring inherent in Jewish life.
Together we can really make a difference. Thank you so much!
Go Rachel! A beautiful way to honor Margie and support a terrific cause!
Inspired by your run and the resilience of Margie and all the Imersheins!
So proud of you! Love you so much.
We are so happy to be able to contribute to this extremely worthy cause and we're so proud of Rachel for doing the hard work to make this contribution possible ??
Good Luck! Great way to honor your mother and medical miracles!
In the memory of Gedaliah Chaim ben Shmuel Baruch. Good luck, Rachel! You're awesome!!
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Great home. Comfortable beds. Loved it.
My wife loved the no shoes rule. Very clean home and very comfortable. Thank you. We will stay here again.
We had a great stay Wednesday - Friday, Thanksgiving 2018. Jenna was very attentive and in frequent text or email contact. We never did cross paths and meet, though you are staying in their home and in their basement. You have a separate private entrance through the garage and down a stairwell to the rental space. Roomy. CLEAN. Comfortable. Pleasant. The only thing I'd change would be to wish for a thermostat to control temps in the rental space--that being said, when we got hot or cold, Jenna acted immediately when we texted. You hear them above you, but it is not a disturbance, no different than renters above you in a multi level building. Quiet neighborhood, safe. Not far from restaurants or groceries.
Nice, clean, new property in a quiet neighborhood.
Owners were friendly, nice quiet neighborhood. We enjoyed our stay there.
This house was so clean and quiet! There was lots of room and it was decorated beautifully. We would definately stay here again.
This was such a wonderful place to stay! We will definitely be back!!!
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There's some really corny lawn decorations out there, but this is not one of them!
Make Winter a little easier with this traction aid!
Hey beach chair thieves, this one is MINE!
Keep your outdoor kitty warm and dry, even when the weather is neither!
That's one way to stay warm!
For added awesomeness, use poisonous darts!
Use the Force to fight Mother Nature!
Like training wheels for skis!
If I'm ever lost in the wilderness, I definitely want one of these with me!
Wear this to your wedding, or your Sunday ride!
We love the beach. We don't love taking it home with us!
The game doesn't have to stop when the sun goes down!
Can't decide between a kayak trip and snorkeling? No you don't have to!
This classic game has been supersized!
This crossbow turns a simple snowball fight into a snowball war!
There's no better Christmas decoration than snow!
The possibilities are endless when the sun goes down!
You never know when this will come in handy!
A true dog's eye view!


Ordinarily I'd open the GW with a tongue-in-cheek look back at the previous week's action & attempt to mine some gold from various pressers.
This week, given the events of the past few days, I didn't really feel that would sit right & so I will simply post this.
One of the loudest sounds I have ever heard.
As GW 13 opens, the EIB chase a fifth successive win & look to take the overall lead from IGM who lead by a slender 21 points.
So welcome everyone to the Stadium Of Faith & your GW13 thread.
I see Les Marseillais will be sung before every Premier League game this weekend ... .. .
Nice to see my -4 to bring in King pays early dividends. A £4.6m midfielder playing centre-forward? Easy money (said in a Ray Winston BET365 voice).
I sense this is gonna be one of those GWs. By the time someone makes a post, it's already outdated. Goals galore!
Vardy's only gone & scored.
I bet iesus has a big smile on his face at the moment.
His skipper's got 2 with half an hour still to go.
Jesus might, I haven't. Flicked a coin for captain - Ozil beat Lukaku after extra time and penalties ie the coin rolled under the sofa and I couldn't reach the bloody thing.
& why on earth didn't Sanchez take that penalty?
It's November, Arsenal don't do November.
But, I did drop Joe Hart!


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Corbeau	in Movie Review, Movies	 February 27, 2017 February 27, 2017 822 Words
How much difference can the efforts of one actor make to the success of a movie? Not much, right? At least, that's what you would think. However, The Shallows proves that a single great performance can elevate an otherwise mediocre film.
The Shallows is a thriller/horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra whose previous movies include Orphan and Run All Night. Those movies weren't masterpieces and The Shallows isn't one either. It is a film about a young woman (Blake Lively) who, while on a soul-searching trip, finds herself in a life and death struggle with a man-eating shark. It is a simple film that achieves simple goals in simple ways. That said, thanks almost entirely to the lead actor, the experience is still a memorable one.
Less Talking, More Biting
However, that's not thanks to the narrative as story-wise, The Shallows is a very basic movie; Woman battles nature and finds herself. Mr. Collett-Serra has tried to add depth to his thriller flick by adding in a subplot involving the heroine's struggle to come to terms with her mother's death, but the film would have been better without it.
The reason for this is that in order to build this inner struggle the filmmakers have included a number of scenes at each end of the movie that do nothing but waste time. Did you know that you have to fight through life's struggles? Did you realize that technology keeps us from really connecting with the ones we love? Did you know that you should stay in medical school and not drop out to party with your friends? Those are the kind of insights that The Shallows treats as meaningful.
But, as they usually do in these types of thrillers, these musings only get in the way. Did you really care about what the protagonists were going through in Jeepers Creepers or Final Destination? Of course not. All that mattered was whether they survived or not, and how. That's what The Shallows forgets; that the audience is there to see a woman fight a shark, not her existential despair.
Setting has No Character
The entire movie takes place at a secluded beach that doesn't have much personality.At the start, the locale is treated as a mythical getaway spot, but it never comes across as anything more than another beach, the kind you can see on a million postcards. And later, as the film ratchets up the sense of dread, the placid setting undermines the action. With its white sands and crystal clear waters The Shallows' setting is simply far too picturesque to seem dangerous. It's not until a storm rolls in during the last act that the beach becomes a place of wonder. During the storm, the sky is slate gray and the waters rough and opaque and it is the only time in the film when the heroine really seems to be stranded.
The antagonist in the movie is, of course, the man-eating shark. Unlike the shark in Jaws this predator never really develops a sense of identity. It's big and vicious but never menacing. This is because there is very little build up before it attacks. In other, better, thriller films there are many scenes in which the predators stalk their victims. These scenes are integral to making the monster grow in the mind of the audience. Without them, the monster is not a character that exists fully in the world of the movie, but just a plot device. That is the fate of the shark in The Shallows.
Blake Lively is the Real Deal
Although she does not have a reputation as a great actor and is known mostly for being pretty and starring in the lowbrow Gossip Girl series, Ms. Lively is the person most responsible for the success of the film. The minimalist plot would have lost me at many times if not for Ms. Lively's engaging presence. The mediocre script and direction would have dragged down a lesser actor, but Ms. Lively delivers a performance that makes that mediocrity irrelevant. When she needs to be endearing, she is. When she needs to be tough, she is. When she needs to vulnerable, she is. And she does all these things while only having a seagull to play off of. The seagull, christened Steven, performs admirably, by the way.
The Shallows is a straightforward thriller movie that provides an enjoyable experience. The bulk of that enjoyment is the result of Blake Lively's great performance. She grabs the viewer and pulls you through the bland setting, story, and execution. Ms. Lively may not have the accolades that her more celebrated peers do, but with The Shallows, she proves that she has just as much skill.
Was The Shallows really any good? Did Blake Lively save the whole damn movie? Or did I just have stars in my eyes? Let me know in the comments.
The Shallows
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