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News August 2, 2021
The Profession Is Well-Positioned For Change Says Guy Who Has Held the Same Position Since 1995
Last week, CPA Practice Advisor shared remarks made by AICPA CEO Barry Melancon at this year's ENGAGE conference and … uh. Let's just get straight into it. That resiliency will be needed going forward, with more changes to come from technological disruption, expanded categories of non-financial reporting, and the rapid evolution of new service lines […]
Small Business May 3, 2017
Here's a Photo of Barry Melancon After He Got Lei'd
There are countless photos out there of AICPA CEO, President, and ham radio operator Barry Melancon (aka "Bean Picker") gesturing excitedly this way and that as he explains the future of the CPA profession for captive audiences everywhere. Yet for all the snaps of the benevolent overlord of the world's most powerful accounting biker gang, […]
Small Business February 28, 2017
Here's a Photo of AICPA CEO Barry Melancon Having the Most Interesting Conversation of His Life
I have no idea what AICPA CEO, President and street taco eating champion Barry Melancon is thinking in the above photo, but he couldn't be more rapt with what this woman has to say. The caption from the Wyoming Society of CPAs website reads: "Break-time Alexandra Wilkinson explaining a case to Barry Melancon." And sure, […]
News February 8, 2017
Gen Z Attention Spans Officially on AICPA's Radar
I don't know what AICPA President, CEO and Electoral College Dropout Barry Melancon was getting at here, but it's safe to say that he wasn't plugging this as a virtue of the next crop of talent. Melancon: Attention span of the average member of Gen Z is 8 seconds. #roundtable17 — Daniel Hood (@AccountingEdit) February […]
H&R Block CEO Not Impressed With AICPA's Letter, Vows More Ads
As we told you on Wednesday, the AICPA wasn't too happy about a video from H&R Block that promoted its new service, Block Advisors. In that post, we shared with you a template of the letter the AICPA sent to Bill Cobb, H&R Block's CEO. That letter, among other things, requested that he "remove these […]
Could Having a 'Pro-CPA Culture' Backfire on Accounting Firms Desperate for Talent?
Back in October, we discussed whether the CPA exam would ever become an optional within CPA firms. The reason the topic even came up was due to the fact that while the number of accounting students continues to increase, the number sitting for the CPA exam hasn't kept up, either declining in some years or staying flat.
Industry February 26, 2015
#TBT: Barry Melancon, The Most Hated Man in Accounting
2002 wasn't exactly a fantastic year for accounting. Arthur Andersen had just been convicted of obstruction of justice in the wake of Enron's collapse. That whole Sarbanes-Oxley thing happened. And, of course, the PCAOB was born as a result. In "The Man With Nine Lives" published by Forbes in November of 2002 we meet then […]
CPA Exam December 9, 2014
The AICPA Can't Figure Out Why Record Numbers of Accounting Grads Aren't Taking the CPA Exam
AICPA President, CEO, and Benevolent Dictator Barry Melancon gave his yearly "state of the profession" address to CPA Letter Daily recently, but we won't bore you too hard with the specifics. We will, however, skim through this with a few interesting bulletpoints from the profession's fearless leader. AICPA membership swelled to 400,000 this year. Melancon […]
AICPA Celebrates 400,000th Member Just Because
From the professional organization that brought you the letters XYZ and CGMA, the AICPA now brings you the number 400,000: The American Institute of CPAs today announced that its membership recently passed the 400,000 mark, a milestone that underscores the continuing value and vitality of the organization and the accounting profession as well. The […]
CPA Exam May 19, 2014
CPA Exam Changes Ahead in the Next One to Three Years
As we told you earlier this year, the CPA exam overlords are working on CBT-3, which is the natural evolution of CBT-e (2011) and CBT-e's dusty grandpa CBT (2004). We still aren't totally sure what they're changing around but it looks like they're still looking for help with writing and testing questions before candidates experience […]
The Serious Questions November 21, 2013
Here's a Fake AICPA Press Release That We Wish Were Real
This is so ridiculous that upon receiving it, Colin did one of those cartoonish double-takes, you know, with the sound effect and everything. The really sad part is minus the swearing, you could almost believe it to be true. AICPA Launches Three New Professional Designations New York (November 19, 2013) — The new Chartered Global […]
Time Running Out for CGMA Candidates Suffering From Testophobia
Although there are 40-some-odd thousand CGMAs in the U.S. and 140k worldwide, anyone wanting to get in on this without wading through MCQs, essays, etc. should know that the clock is ticking: #aicpagc13 Melancon: #CGMA Capstone Exam expected in January 2015. — Janice Maiman (@J_Maiman) October 21, 2013
Audit October 10, 2013
The AICPA Couldn't Give Broker Dealer Audit Standards a Thumbs Up Without a Pat on Their Own Back
THE MAN HAS SPOKEN. This is the official statement from Barry Melancon in response to the PCAOB's proposed broker-dealer audit standards: "The AICPA is committed to activities that enhance audit quality and has been a leader assisting practitioners in achieving that goal. "We have been consistent in our position that brokers and dealers should be […]
SEC July 9, 2013
Yes, the House Bill That Bans Auditor Rotation Is Terrible But There May Be an Upside
As you know, yesterday the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1564, the Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, with bipartisan support, 321-62. The charge was led by the bill's co-sponsors, Rep. Robert Hurt (R-VA) and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY). Here's an enthusiastic statement from Rep. Hurt via Accounting Today:
News July 1, 2013
AICPA Asks EEOC to, Respectfully, BTFO of Big 4's Mandatory Retirement Policies
Although the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page made it abundantly clear that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was way off, giving PwC and other large accounting firms a hard time for their mandatory retirement age policies, the AICPA thought it would be prudent to make its thoughts on the matter known: In a letter to members […]
Financial Reporting June 14, 2013
AICPA Knows NASBA Is Mad But It's Okay, NASBA Gets Mad Sometimes
The ongoing bickering over FRF for SMEs — which went Defcon 4 the other day with a strongly worded press release from NASBA — has just gone nuclear. I come from a single parent household so I don't know what it's like to live in a home with parents who are on the brink of divorce […]
Financial Accounting Foundation Seems Slightly Annoyed with the AICPA's New Accounting Method for Small Business
Judging by the AICPA's PR blitz, you'd think that everyone was excited about their release of its Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Entities. Just out of curiousity, I went back and I read three articles on the subject from Accounting Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times to see if there was any dissent on […]
The AICPA's CGMA Designation Is the Most Popular Management Accounting Designation in the U.S., Says AICPA
Oh look, the AICPA put out a press release that says the Chartered Global Management Accountant designation is the "most prominent management accounting credential in the U.S. with 37,864 CFOs, controllers and other finance professionals holding the designation." Plus, it's managed to its way into some of the most prestigious companies in America! U.S. CGMA […]
News January 9, 2013
AICPA President: CPAs Are on the Verge of Anxiety Attacks Thanks to Federal Deficit
Barry Melancon speaks on behalf of all the CPAs, CGMAs across this great land who have had it up to here [bridge of nose] with Congress' inability to accomplish anything other than naming post offices: "CPAs in communities large and small and from coast to coast are increasingly troubled by the government's inability to come […]
Career Center September 5, 2012
Get Your CGMA Designation Before the Turd Gets Cold
by Greg Kyte
I refuse to become a CGMA. If you are a CGMA, I will pretend to not judge you if we meet in person. But I will be judging you in my heart. The Chartered Global Management Accountant designation has been available since January 31, and the AICPA has been promoting the hell out of it. […]
Future 'Digital CPAs' Will Make the Most of Bathroom Breaks Thanks to AICPA's New CPA Exam App
Put down the Fruit Ninja, folks, the AICPA has a new app for you to play with. Yesterday, the AICPA announced the launch of two new mobile apps: an iPad app for Journal of Accountancy and an interactive CPA exam aid that works on Apple and Android devices. "One of the most exciting developments in […]
Get Your Dancing Shoes, It's AICPA Council Week
It's that time of year again when lobbyists dust off their agendas and head to Washington to represent the voice of America's CPAs and their clients for the spring meeting of AICPA Governing Council. Once again I'll be covering the festivities however since hardly any of you actually care about legislative news or anything serious […]
It's Time For a Shake Up in AICPA Leadership
You may not know this but AICPA leadership consists mostly of the same old white guys; a complaint you hear often, not something I made up just now. I don't personally have any issues with those old white guys and actually like some of them but it's worth noting that AICPA leadership could use a […]
An Underwhelming Majority of State Societies Want a New FASB For Private Companies
Thirty three state CPA societies have reached out to the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) or passed regulations urging it to create a new board to write differential financial reporting standards for private companies. Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming all feel FASB's current standards setting process does not adequately address the needs of the private company sector.
"In today's business world it is extremely rare to get an overwhelming consensus supporting one idea. However, the responses from the state societies are another example of the CPA profession's overwhelming support for an independent board to set differential standards for private businesses," said Barry Melancon, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) president and CEO. "The message is clear; FAF must do this now or run the risk of missing our best opportunity to make GAAP relevant for private companies." The thirty three states in agreement on this issue represent some 275,000 CPAs.
These state societies basically told FAF that GAAP has become too complex, and the cost associated with GAAP-based financial reporting has become too much of a pain in the assets for private companies, placing an unnecessary burden on these companies with little benefit to financial statement users as a result of this effort. Personally I think the states here are forgetting that the complexity of GAAP and its esoteric intricacies keep a lot of CPAs gainfully employed, as someone actually has to analyze, manipulate, audit and teach that crap. CPA review instructors need to sell FAR videos. Caleb and I need things to make fun of, like SEC Chief Accountant James Kroeker reminding a PACE University IFRS discussion that the P in GAAP stands for principles. Right. Like we forgot.
Anyway, nearly 3,000 letters have been sent to FAF from the private company constituency in support of this separate board for private company reporting standard setting. Maybe FASB has too much to do and too many clever interns to train. Maybe FASB has lost its public company influence and this is just the first step in the coup to overthrow it. I haven't heard very many pushing for more FASs directly handed down from (mostly) European accounting standard setters but that's an argument for a different day.
"The boards of more than half of the country's state CPA societies, representing more than a quarter of a million CPAs, agree that a systemic problem exists," stated Paul V. Stahlin, chairman of the AICPA. "After over 30 years of research by numerous diverse and independent groups, the only conclusion is that an autonomous standard-setting body under FAF to set differential standards for privately held companies must be created."
Must be. There's no way around that.
And for those interested, here's a tl;dr PwC report tangentially related to private company accounting standards you can read. Perfect for a Friday.
AICPA Practically Begging the Financial Accounting Foundation to Develop Private Company GAAP
Were you aware that over 2,500 letters have been sent to the Financial Accounting Foundation "demanding" the development of private company GAAP as well as a separate independent board to oversee the standards? If no, why not? If yes, why aren't you feigning rage, issuing press releases with impatient statements by various bigwigs? If you're the AICPA, that's exactly what you're doing:
For almost 40 years, the pleas of private companies to set standards for financial reporting that are more relevant too often have been ignored. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) believes that it is time for the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) to listen to the constituents who have written to FAF demanding differential financial reporting standards for private companies and a separate independent board to oversee those standards. There are approximately 28 million privately held U.S. companies, accounting for more than 50 percent of our economy.
"Ninety nine percent of the letters from the privately held company constituency demanded that the Financial Accounting Foundation create differential standards for privately held companies," said Barry Melancon, AICPA president and CEO. "We've studied this problem for far too long."
Pick up the pace, FAF. People are getting antsy.
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Taxes May 25, 2011
This Year's AICPA Council Issues Are (Mostly) All About Taxes
Let's all keep in mind here that the repeal of burdensome 1099 rules buried in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (or "Obamacare" for my fellow right-wing nutjobs out there) can be directly traced to efforts by the AICPA and its members, including a few angry letters sent by the AICPA to Congress. It's a perfect example of legislative action at work, for those of you out there with little faith in the process.
Here are this year's key issues:
Tax Strategy Patents S 139 The Equal Access of 2011
The bill would stop the granting of patents for tax strategies. Which basically means your next door cube-dweller won't be able to patent his favorite spreadsheet.
Tax Due Dates S 845 Tax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 2011
This bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the logical flow of return information between partnerships, corporations, trusts, estates, and individuals to better enable each party to submit timely, accurate returns and reduce the need for extended and amended returns, to provide for modified due dates by regulation, and to conform the automatic corporate extension period to longstanding regulatory rule. The short version: it seeks to change the dates on which tax returns are due to a more sensible pattern.
Simplification of the tax code
The AICPA has a long history of advocating sound tax policy; this year, it's all about simplifying the tax code, starting with the repeal of AMT and consolidating education provisions.
Workforce Mobility HR 1864 Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2011
Unlike previous mobility initiatives, this one would limit the authority of states to tax certain income of employees in other states. Thanks to the Internet, many companies are able to staff employees around the country, some of which only do a few hours of work a month. That means the company must register and withhold state taxes for these employees in each state.
"Our tax laws are a vital component of the economic health of our nation as evidenced by the discussion in Washington about tax reform," Barry Melancon, president and CEO of the AICPA, said. "We think it's important for members of Congress to talk taxes with CPAs as they consider changes to the law. CPAs can provide objective advice, based on real-world experience."
The goal of Congressional visits is to exchange information with our Congressional members on legislative issues of concern to CPAs (and, directly related to CPAs' concerns, those of their clients) and to garner support for the profession's position on these issues, as well as to position CPAs as resources and thought leaders. To call it lobbying would be a misnomer as lobbying would imply a one-way relationship, beneficial only to the special interest doing the lobbying. So don't even go there; we're talking about providing professional analysis, opinion and expertise in exchange for a voice in legislation that could potentially impact hundreds of thousands of CPAs and CPA firms around the country.
For the CPAs on the Hill yesterday, they not only presented their issues but offered themselves as experts in areas many Congressional offices are unfamiliar with. Tweaking the tax code is a delicate issue, and one that shouldn't be approached without expert analysis of any proposed legislation. This is where the two-way street comes in, and another reason why these visits are important for all involved parties.
We'll update later with specifics on the day we spent meeting Maryland Congressional members with the MACPA Council and Executive Committee, including former MACPA Chair and amazing storyteller Larry Kamanitz, who made 60 cents an hour when he first got into public. Stay tuned!
In Other Words, The Estate Tax Debate Will Continue to Drag On
"The debate becomes what rate to apply, and there's the Republican view and the Democratic view, and what level of transfer exemption should be there. There are two different camps on that. I think historically that would be ripe for sort of compromising down the middle, but unfortunately, that's not the political environment that exists right now."
~ AICPA President and CEO Barry Melancon remains optimistic that something will get done.
Uncategorized November 6, 2009
Would You Like Another Certificate on Your Wall?
We knew it. Lucky for you, there will be a brand spanking new certificate come May of 2010:
Because members will need to be able to demonstrate a competency in IFRS, the AICPA plans to launch in May 2010 an IFRS Certificate of Accomplishment for CPAs, which will require 72 hours of content to complete.
AICPA President and CEO Barry Melancon* is acutely aware of your disdain for paint and wallpaper so this latest certificate should fit in nicely with the myriad of other certificates on the wall of your office.
You're certainly not ashamed of your handsomely framed "[Name] Has Successfully Completed Auditing Cash – 2004" certificate so an IFRS Certificate of Accomplishment will look damn good up there.
Melancon: Issues Facing CPAs Include Globalization, Economic Recovery [Journal of Accountancy]
*Two things: 1) How long has this guy been the HFMIC at the AICPA? Is it a lifetime appointment like the SCOTUS? and 2) How do you think he gets his hair to do that?


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Salt Creek Gas Gathering and Processing Business Recapitalized
Business Wire July 16, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas -Business Wire– SCM Topco, LLC, parent of Salt Creek Midstream, LLC, a full service natural gas gatherer and processor ("Salt Creek Gas"), today announced that it has closed on a comprehensive recapitalization with additional investments from both its existing lender groups and funds managed by Ares Management, a leading global alternative investment manager. The recapitalization was consensual and approved by 100% of the lender group. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Since its inception, Salt Creek Gas has grown into one of the largest privately-owned gas gatherers and processors in the Delaware Basin. Its expansive pipeline footprint, large-scale gathering and processing facilities, and strategic downstream solutions position it to provide value-added gas gathering and processing services to Delaware Basin producers.
John Poarch, President of Salt Creek Gas, stated, "We believe this recapitalization is an important step in securing Salt Creek Gas' long-term success and gives it the flexibility to continue to pursue its exciting growth plans in the Delaware Basin, which has been one of the most prolific energy plays in North America. We are grateful to Salt Creek Gas' investors and lenders for investing additional capital in the business and supporting it through this recapitalization process."
Poarch continued, "I am proud of the resiliency of the business and the team's efforts to maintain excellent customer service, especially in light of current challenging industry conditions."
Zach Lee, CEO of ARM Midstream Management, LLC ("ARM Midstream") stated, "Over the past three years, Salt Creek Gas has evolved into one of the largest midstream assets in the Delaware Basin and, as a continuing equity holder, we are excited for the future of the company."
The new capital structure is designed to provide Salt Creek Gas with increased financial flexibility, improved cash flow generation capacity, and the ability to seek to raise additional capital for growth projects and other funding needs.
Nate Walton, Co-Head of Private Equity Group at Ares Management, stated, "We are pleased to be supporting what we see as an attractive opportunity in the midstream industry. We believe this recapitalization positions Salt Creek Gas to execute on its business plan and create meaningful value over time."
Jefferies Group LLC acted as financial advisor for Salt Creek Gas, Kirkland & Ellis LLP as its legal advisor, and Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC, as its restructuring advisor. White & Case LLP and Perella Weinberg Partners, LP acted as legal advisor and financial advisor, respectively, to the first lien lenders. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Ducera Partners LLC, and Silver Foundry, LP acted as legal counsel and financial advisors, respectively, to the holdco facility lenders. Lazard LLC and Guggenheim Securities, LLC and Milbank LLP served as financial advisors and legal advisor, respectively, to Ares Management. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP served as legal advisor to ARM Midstream.
About Salt Creek Gas
Formed in 2017, Salt Creek Gas is one of the largest privately-owned gas gatherers and processors in the Delaware Basin. It operates a 400-plus-mile, large diameter high-pressure pipeline network capable of transporting over 1.4 Bcf/d. Salt Creek Gas has 400 MMcf/d of cryogenic gas processing capacity and 405,000 dedicated acres of gas reserves under long-term agreements from 16 customers. Its vast pipeline footprint, large scale gathering and processing facilities, and strategic downstream solutions uniquely position Salt Creek Gas to provide premier gas gathering and processing services to the Delaware Basin. To learn more, visit www.saltcreekmidstream.com.
About Ares Management Corporation
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager operating integrated businesses across Credit, Private Equity and Real Estate. Ares Management's investment groups collaborate to deliver innovative investment solutions and consistent and attractive investment returns for fund investors throughout market cycles. Ares Management's global platform had $149 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2020 with more than 1,250 employees operating across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Please visit www.aresmgmt.com for additional information.
Headquartered in Houston, with offices in Calgary, Denver, and Midland, ARM Energy Holdings, LLC ("ARM") is a premier producer services firm, active in every sector of the energy value chain across all major North American oil and gas basins. Its integrated, diversified portfolio includes Asset Risk Management, LLC, providing risk management and hedging strategies for producers; ARM Energy Management LLC, providing physical oil and gas marketing, transportation and asset management services and trading; and ARM Midstream, LLC, providing midstream investment, infrastructure development and operations. For more information, please visit www.armenergy.com.
Statements included herein may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which relate to future events or our future performance or financial condition. These statements are not guarantees of future performance, condition or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ares Management Corporation undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements.
Salt Creek Midstream and ARM Energy
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Kelly Kimberly, +1 713 822 7538
kkimberly@sardverb.com
Ares Management
Brett Philbin, +1 917 818 9511
brett.philbin@edelman.com
Salt Creek Midstream, LLC
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Abstract: Over the last few decades, awareness and concern for eco-friendly business practices have continued to grow and encompass industrial fields, such as aviation. The current study determines if people will be willing to pay more for the development of an eco-friendly (green) airport compared to a traditional one, and to see if affect mediates that relationship. The researchers conducted a three-study design using over 1,100 participants. The results indicate that participants were significantly more willing to pay for the airport development if it was perceived as a 'green' airport. Affect was found to have a significant role in mediating the relationship between the type of airport and willingness to pay. Participants felt anger and disgust toward paying for a new airport that did not use renewable resources. Practical applications from the current study and topics for future research are presented.
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This is a love story on Market. This is Arreon Harley waiting outside his apartment at the Residences at Rodney Square on the evening of Oct. 10, 2015 – three years ago. This is Thomas Emerson running late for that first date. This is them getting Mexican at Cocina Lolo – "May it rest in peace" says Arreon – and then drinks at Ernest & Scott and talking about their lives as teachers in inner cities and Arreon's job at the Choir School of Delaware and everything else that started them on the path that led to them falling in love and celebrating their wedding on Market with a reception at Old Town Hall on Saturday.
We started this New Market Wilm project before Arreon and Thomas got engaged, so we've been waiting even longer than they have to feature a wedding in this space, and how lucky are we that this one was captured in images by our very own Jim Coarse and Joe del Tufo of Moonloop Photography.
Thomas: "We knew we wanted to have the reception in Wilmington because that's where we met, and we have a lot of folks we know and love here. But I'm a big history buff, so when we walked in the Old Town Hall and I saw this beautiful renovated space, I knew this was it."
Arreon: "The ceremony was at Christ Church Christiana Hundred in Greenville, another historic space. Both were just knock-out venues."
Thomas: "We knew we wanted to have the major events in the Old Town Hall downstairs area. We started out with cocktail hour there, then moved people up to the Copeland Room in the newer addition upstairs for dinner, and then back downstairs for dancing."
Arreon: "Old Town Hall had the party going on. In the old council chambers above, we had a room with a small bar and coffee, a quieter place for folks of our parent's generation to hang out. Kind of a chill room. And people were definitely walking through the museum as well, touring the exhibits. The Delaware Historical Society just literally opened up the building to us. It was so refreshing. They were helping me load up stuff into the car even yesterday. I feel like that kind of treatment, that kind of care, you don't really get anywhere else."
We asked them to recall what was happening in this photo specifically…
Arreon: "It's hard to describe the sense of euphoria at that particular moment, but it was actually pretty peaceful. One of the quieter moments when we weren't mobbed by people."
Thomas: "I spent many years living in or outside Philadelphia, and almost every wedding in Philadelphia has that cliche shot down Broad Street with City Hall in the background. So I thought it was really cool that we got to take that old shot and make it our own. I think some people, in their mind, think Wilmington is the lesser city, but for us, it's the more magical place."
Arreon: "Cars were coming and we were just standing there in the street taking photos. And everyone was just so patient. I remember thinking, 'Everyone's nice, no one's honking.' What a place to be!"
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One dead, three injured in explosion at a West Virginia chemical plant
(Reuters) -One person died and three others were injured in an explosion and a fire that occurred in a chemical plant in Belle, West Virginia, on Tuesday night, officials said.
The incident happened after 10 p.m. EST (0300 GMT on Wednesday) at Optima Chemicals Co, a tenant on the Chemours Co site in Belle, Chemours said in a statement.
Following the incident, local county officials in Belle ordered everyone in a 2-mile (3.2 km) radius around the plant to remain at home, but the order was lifted a few hours later.
"Emergency responders have evaluated the scene and have determined that an all clear can be issued," the Kanawha County Commission said in a statement earlier in the day.
The shelter-in-place order affected about 2,000 people, Jennifer Herrald, manager at the Kanawha County Commission, told Reuters.
Officials believed chlorinated dry bleach and methanol were the chemicals involved in the explosion, Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper told WCHS & WVAH television station.
"The cause of the explosion is not determined by Kanawha County. Other agencies will determine that and it is up to those agencies and the company to release that information," Karper's office told Reuters.
Belle is about 12 miles (18 km) south of West Virginia state capital Charleston.
Reporting by Derek Francis, Shubham Kalia and Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru; Editing by Richard Pullin and Tom Hogue


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KCNA: "Lipsticks of various colors, foundation, eye shadow and other cosmetics are well received not only by artistes but also ordinary women in forties and fifties. Besides, new treatment cosmetics efficacious for freckles are popular among men and women."
KCNA: "Goods newly developed by the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory in the DPRK are gaining popularity. Demand for hair gel, fruit-flavor aerosol perfume and anti-wrinkle cream is on the increase. Toilet sets and bags are popular among maidens and women in thirties."
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Ongoing U.S. joint military exercises with South Korea and the fact that Pyongyang had been hoping for earlier sanctions relief, both prompted the North Korean delegation to decide to skip the planned meeting with Pompeo.., two diplomatic sources told CBS News' Pamela Falk
Last night, @POTUS spoke with @AbeShinzo who congratulated him "on his hard-fought, mid-term elections victories," says @PressSec. They discussed "the importance of maintaining pressure" until the DPRK denuclearizes, she adds.
KCNA: "The international community urges Japan, the hideous abduction state, to assume the responsibility for its unethical crimes and liquidate the past crimes at an early date."
KCNA: "Why is the Abe group persistently talking about the settlement of the abduction issue Lurking behind this is its absurd calculation to defame the external prestige of the Democratic People's Republic of Koreaand to avoid its reparation for the past crimes."
KCNA: "A rabbit show and workshoptook placeOn display there were rabbits of good breed, curative and preventive medicinesThe workshop introduced the experience gained in the work to lay the material foundation for rabbit-raising and veterinary and anti-epizootic work."
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KCNA: "Kim Jong Un and his wife waited for Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez and his wife to see them off at the airportAfter MiguelDiaz-Caneland his wife got off a car, the Supreme Leader and his wife exchanged greetings and their inmost feelings, holding hands together."
KCNA: "The atmosphere of the performance reached its climax with the chapter of DPRK-Cuba friendship reflecting the will of the peoples of the two countries to add eternal brilliance to the traditions of the fraternal and militant friendship and solidarity."
KCNA: "Kim Jong Unsaw the grand gymnastics and artistic performance 'The Glorious Country' together with Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, president of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, on Monday evening."
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Cuba president meets North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang
KCNA: "Kim Jong Un made a speech in welcome of the visit to the DPRK by Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, president of the Council of Stateof the Republic of Cubasaying that the two countries are in the same trench in the struggle for defending sovereignty."
KCNA: "Expressing the belief that the friendly relations between the two countries would grow stronger, the message sincerely wished the Brazilian president-elect success in his responsible work."
KCNA: "Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, sent a congratulatory message to Jair Messias Bolsonaro, president-elect of Brazil, on Nov. 2."
KCNA: "The Korean Association for Human Rights Studies has requested the competent authorities to find out those responsible and their followers involved in drafting and publishing the 'Report' and take legal actions against them in accordance with the relevant DPRK law."
KCNA: "The so-called 'human rights' campaign made by the hostile forces spreadingfalse materials constitutes a grave violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK and an unbearable insult to the Korean women who are enjoying the socialist civilization to their hearts' content."
KCNA: "The Korean Association for Human Rights Studies categorically rejects and resolutely condemns the anti-DPRK 'human rights' racket by the hostile forces as a serious political provocation against our country andthe sacred dignity of the Korean women."
KCNA: "These abnormal and inflammatory words and deeds are shocking not only our people but also the world, as these are created when the climate of reconciliation and cooperation is prevailing on the Korean peninsula."
KCNA: "The 'Report' issued by such a hypocritical human rights institution as the 'Human Rights Watch', is nothing but the most despicable false document on earth; and therefore, we don't feel any need to make even a word on it."
KCNA: "On November 1 this year, the 'Human Rights Watch', a so-called human rights watchdog headquartered in the United States, has made public a totally preposterous 'Report' to the effect that sexual violence against women is widespread in the DPRK."
KCNA: "It is the fixed stand of the Korean Party and government to boost the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation with the Cuban people, which have been consolidated down through centuries and generations, as required by the new era."
KCNA: "His current visit to the DPRK is a historic event which powerfully demonstrates invincible friendship and unity and comradely friendship of the two peoples who are moving forward shoulder to shoulder in the joint struggle against the imperialists' policy of aggression."
KCNA: "Upon the arrival of Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, president of the Council of Stateof the Republic of Cubathe Korean people warmly welcome Bermudez coming to Pyongyang across the continent and ocean with the feelings of friendship of the fraternal Cuban people."
KCNA: "As soon as the work was released, it aroused a great sensation as it proves the scientific accuracy ant truth of socialism and the inevitability of its victory on the basis of the man-centered philosophical principle and Juche-oriented socio-historical principle."
KCNA: "The imperialist reactionaries were trying to break the faith in socialism among peoples, talking about the 'end of socialism'The Chairman authored the said work to give confidence in socialism to the world progressives aspiring after socialism."
KCNA: "'Socialism Is a Science', an immortal workby Chairman Kim Jong Il in November Juche 83 (1994), serves as a banner of victory in the struggle for accomplishing the socialist causewhen the work was published, the struggle for socialism was faced with serious issues."


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Mum who lost her son to cystic fibrosis says new drug access is life changing
Shirley Mcgee says the decision to give CF patients access to drugs could transform the lives of people like her son Stewart - who tragically died of the condition last year.
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Shirley with her son Stewart, who sadly died in May last year (Image: Paisley Daily Express)
The mum of a Paisley man who died after a lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis hopes access to lifesaving drugs will stop other families facing the same heartbreak.
Shirley Mcgee opened her heart to the Paisley Daily Express following news that cystic fibrosis patients have now been given drugs which could transform their lives.
Her beloved son Stewart Kelly, 30, died in May last year in the midst of a national campaign fighting to get patients the drugs, which were deemed too expensive, on the NHS.
Shortly before his death, Stewart was finally given the medication when his condition was deemed critical by medics.
But a two-month delay in getting the drugs meant it came too late to save him.
His heartbroken mum, dad Ricki, brother Chazz, sister Yvonne and girlfriend Dionne, begged the Scottish Government at the time to make the drug available to other sufferers so that they would not pay the price like Stewart.
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Now in a landmark decision, the government has come to a five-year agreement with pharmaceutical company Vertex over the use of Orkambi and Symkevi — drugs which halt the progression of the disease.
And while it is bittersweet for Stewart's family, his mum Shirley hailed the news that she says will transform people's lives.
Stewart with his girlfriend Dionne (Image: Paisley Daily Express)
She said: "It is too late for Stewart but it is not too late to save so many others.
"This drug will really change the lives of so many people.
"It could have saved his life but he was given it too late.
"Stewart was finally given access to it on compassionate grounds but he waited a further two months before they had decided whether they were actually going to give him it.
"His health just got poorer and poorer and his health had deteriorated so much that it just didn't help him.
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"So, it is fantastic news to know that people will now be able to get this drug without a fight.
"I am happy that so many families won't have to go through what we did."
Stewart battled with the life-limiting condition his whole life, having been diagnosed at birth.
Shirley, who lives with Stewart's dad Ricki,63, says her son did not let his condition hold him back.
Stewart with, left to right, mum Shirley, brother Chazz, sister Yvonne and dad Ricki (Image: Paisley Daily Express)
She added: "When Stewart was younger he didn't want people to treat him any differently.
"He wanted to just get on and enjoy his life.
"This drug will help people with their symptoms and help them with difficult symptoms and enjoy their lives as much as possible."
Cystic fibrosis is a life-shortening genetic condition that causes fatal lung damage, and affects about 10,400 people in the UK – around 900 of them in Scotland.
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Living with the condition meant Stewart's body had a defect in the gene which meant he produced a protein that doesn't work well, causing thick, sticky mucus in the lungs.
Only around half of those with the condition live to the age of 40.
Before his death, Stewart's lung capacity was tragically down to 11 per cent and his weight dropped to just 100lb.
Football-mad Stewart's family and friends have continued to honour him by raising vital funds for cystic fibrosis charities in his memory.
His devoted pals s taged their second charity match at Johnstone Burgh's ground last month — raising more than £15,000.
Last year around 50 of his closest friends coined in more than £10,000 for three cystic fibrosis organisations thanks to the Old Firm match.
Proud Shirley added: "It is just phenomenal what these boys have done in Stewart's memory."
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Objectives: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic disease characterized by multiple vaso-occlusive complications and is increasingly cared for by hospitalists. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in pain management between hematologists and hospitalists. Methods: We performed a single-institution, retrospective review of pain management patterns and outcomes in adult SCD patients hospitalized for vaso-occlusive crisis. RESULTS: Over 26 months, we found a total of 298 patients (120 cared for by the hematologists and 178 by hospitalists), with a mean age of 32 (range 19-58). Patients cared for by hospitalists had a lower total number of hours on a patient controlled analgesia (PCA) device (171 vs. 212 hours, P=0.11). Hospitalists also were significantly more likely to utilize demand only PCA (42% vs. 23%, P=0.002) and had a significantly lower rate of using both continuous and demand PCA (54% vs. 67%, P=0.04). In addition, patients cared for by hospitalists had a significantly shorter hospitalization (8.4 days) compared to hematologists (10 days, P=0.04) with a non-significant difference in 7 and 30 day readmission rates (7.2% vs. 6.7% and 40% vs. 35% respectively). CONCLUSION: We found patients cared for by hospitalists more frequently utilized home oral pain medication during admission, had shorter lengths of hospitalization, and did not have a significant increase in readmission rates. Copyright © 2013 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.


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On this day in 1988: George Michael went to #1 on the U.S. singles chart with 'Monkey.'
"Monkey" became George Michael's sixth solo single reaching #1 in the US, and the fourth single to do so from the 'Faith' album. George Michael joined Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston as three artists who all had four or more consecutive #1 singles during the 1987–88 years, (Michael Jackson scored five #1 hits from a single album 'Bad' while Whitney Houston scored seven consecutive #1 hits from two albums).
"Monkey" also reached #1 on the US Hot Club Dance Play chart for two weeks and became George Michael's first dance #1.
The official music video for the song was directed by Andy Morahan and choreographed by Paula Abdul. It comprises footage of George's 1988 tour (including scenes of him performing intense choreography with a female dancer) and him performing the song in a simple white t-shirt and black hat against a white background. Some of the scenes are shown in grey scale, with the tour footage being shown with tinted blue lights all over.
Let's take a look at the complete Top 20 on the U.S. singles chart from this day back in 1988:
1 2 MONKEY –•– George Michael – 8 (1)
2 4 I DON'T WANNA GO ON WITH YOU LIKE THAT –•– Elton John – 11 (2)
3 6 I DON'T WANNA LIVE WITHOUT YOUR LOVE –•– Chicago – 13 (3)
4 9 SWEET CHILD O' MINE –•– Guns N' Roses – 10 (4)
5 12 SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE –•– Robert Palmer – 9 (5)
6 10 FAST CAR –•– Tracy Chapman – 13 (6)
7 1 ROLL WITH IT –•– Steve Winwood – 12 (1)
8 13 PERFECT WORLD –•– Huey Lewis & The News – 7 (8)
9 11 LOVE WILL SAVE THE DAY –•– Whitney Houston – 9 (9)
10 3 1-2-3 –•– Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine – 13 (3)
11 5 MAKE ME LOSE CONTROL –•– Eric Carmen – 15 (3)
12 7 HANDS TO HEAVEN –•– Breathe – 20 (2)
13 16 WHEN IT'S LOVE –•– Van Halen – 9 (13)
14 8 SIGN YOUR NAME –•– Terence Trent D'Arby – 14 (4)
15 18 IF IT ISN'T LOVE –•– New Edition – 9 (15)
16 19 I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU –•– Taylor Dayne – 12 (16)
17 20 ANOTHER PART OF ME –•– Michael Jackson – 6 (17)
18 23 NOBODY'S FOOL –•– Kenny Loggins – 8 (18)
19 24 ALL FIRED UP –•– Pat Benatar – 9 (19)
20 25 IT WOULD TAKE A STRONG STRONG MAN –•– Rick Astley – 7 (20)
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Tokyo: School vice-principal dismissed after sexual assault accusation
TOKYO (TR) – The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education last week announced the dismissal of a vice-principal for a high school in Arakawa Ward after he was accused in the sexual assault of an intoxicated woman, reports TV Asahi (Nov. 30).
In the early morning hours of May 12, Minoru Okuzawa, then the vice-principal of the Arakawa Technical High School, took the woman, aged in her 40s, by car to a hotel in Saitama Prefecture after luring her into the vehicle from a road in the capital.
The suspect then allegedly probed his fingers inside her underwear in committing acts deemed obscene while she was passed out in a room.
Several days later, the suspect demanded to meet the woman again, saying that if she refused he would leak video footage taken from the room to a third party.
In August, police accused Okuzawa of quasi-indecent assault. "I couldn't control my sexual desire," the suspect told police upon his arrest. "I don't have the self-control." On November 30, the board dismissed him. He assumed the post in April of last year.
Minoru Okuzawa (Twitter)
The board also announced the dismissal of two other staff members over other incidents. In June, Tetsuya Iwasaki, a 49-year-old clerk at Shinjuku High School, allegedly molested a woman after trespassing into her apartment in Machida City. In the second case, a 55-year-old high school teacher touched the crotch area of a male pupil at school.
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More than a third of San Francisco residents are considering skipping town in the near future, according to a report released by the city this week.
In the survey, conducted by San Francisco's Office of the Controller, 35% of respondents said they were "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to move away from the city in the next three years, with younger respondents and recent arrivals most likely to leave.
Not surprisingly, it also found that renters are almost twice as likely as homeowners to consider leaving the city.
The survey shows a slight uptick since 2013 in the percentage of residents who are thinking of packing it up, although the rate has remained relatively steady since the city began asking the question 14 years ago.
"We weren't particularly surprised," said Glynis Startz, an analyst in the controller's office, noting that the percentage of residents thinking about leaving the city decreased to its lowest level after the recession ended. "I think the idea that young people are more likely to move tracks with what we understand and are likely to predict."
Startz also noted that, based on historical U.S. Census data, it's unlikely that the number of residents who say they are thinking of leaving will actually do so.
"It doesn't look like a third of people are leaving," she said.
And many people who do leave San Francisco don't go far. In the past five years, roughly half of those who moved away from the city stayed in the Bay Area, according to census data, with the largest number heading across the bay to Alameda County.
The analysis, part of San Francisco's larger biennial City Survey, included interviews in multiple languages with more than 2,200 San Franciscans.
The biggest concern among residents was homelessness, with 75% of respondents saying the problem had gotten worse. Affordability and displacement, as well as cleanliness, infrastructure and public safety, were also top concerns.
A report card released earlier this year, based on those survey results, found public transit to be the lowest-rated city service among residents, while the public library system was ranked highest.
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Rose of Athens Theatre creates vibrant professional theatre that inspires audiences and transforms communities.
To create unique and idiosyncratic professional theatre in Athens, Georgia.
To be a cultural and economic anchor for Athens, GA.
To create outreach programs which support our mission and goals.
skills to youth and adults, which focuses on teaching the whole person.
To integrate live, current Georgia music and musicians into productions.
To utilize a lights-on-in-the-audience theatre style.
December 1st 2006, was the theater's inaugural production. The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) written by the Reduced Shakespeare Company, revealed three actors who had researched the Bible, and proceeded to act out all of the stories, in two acts. This good-natured homage to one of the world's most popular sacred texts was performed at Charlie Mustard's Jittery Joe's Coffee Roasting Co. on Broad Street.
Rose of Athens Theatre's productions have taken place at a variety of venues since December of 2006, including the Seney-Stovall Chapel, Ashford Manor (Shakespeare on the Lawn), Morton Theatre, and various other schools and community venues. We bring main-stage to main street. The world is our oyster.
Now in its twelfth season, Rose of Athens Theatre productions include familiar and beloved stories, with fresh approaches to all. We like to surprise our audiences so that they may enjoy stories in ways that they have never dreamed that they could.
WHO IS ROSE OF ATHENS THEATRE, TODAY?
One of the surprises is the music.
Athens is known for the quality of its musical artists and Rose of Athens Theatre to utilizes that unique strength. We have had a long list of musical artists who have composed and performed with each production, including Sean Arington, Jason Beckham, Christopher Henderson, Bart King, Patrick Ferguson, Marty Winkler. The music that they create underscores the action of the play and creates a rare experience for our audiences.
We live in a visual society and communicating with "pictures" so to speak, makes an even stronger experience for our audiences. This is a chance to communicate on lots of levels, and it means that we increase the joy quotient!
So, whenever possible we create prologues and internal dance, highly choreographed fight scenes and languid romantic dances, we have had some pretty impressive movement experts/choreographers working with us, Mirla Criste, Becca Woolbright, Jennifer Adams, Kimberly Faith Hickman, Rearcous Smith, Maria Moody and Julie Rothschild. Some of our favorites have been the incredible dance in Macbeth to the total percussion score by Patrick Ferguson. Also, the dance party at the end of Winnie the Pooh. Really, you can't go wrong with a disco dance party in celebration of Winnie the Pooh's birthday, can you?
Lights on in the audience.
We surprise our audiences by never allowing them to know where we will be coming from. We create theater that goes right out into the aisles, behind the aisles, in the balcony, in the audience. We aim for high theatricality and simple solutions to complex challenges.
Rose of Athens Theatre Academy Classes.
Our education programming has grown in leaps and bounds as has our community outreach and partnerships. Rose of Athens Theatre does both artists-in-the school workshops and performances for thousands of students each year alongside our general public performances. Our Academy classes, which mirror Ron Anderson's "Life Skills Through Stage Skills" philosophy, increased enrollment by 130% from 2010 to 2011.
Students Onstage Our training program comes to life, with the spirit of Life Skills Through Stage Skills realized in productions every season.


Congressional candidate Gina Ortiz Jones speaks with J.R. Jones before the annual Pride San Antonio festival parade June 30, 2018.
When Gina Ortiz Jones started thinking last year about launching a campaign for Congress, she sought the advice of some veteran politicos.
By that point, Jones had, in the space of 36 years, put together a formidable set of credentials: Master's degree in economics from Boston University, Iraq War veteran, Air Force intelligence officer and senior adviser and director of investment in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
She had no political experience, however, and wanted to know the basics.
Right off the bat, she was given a high viability hurdle to clear: Would she be able to raise $300,000 in the first three months of her campaign? The implicit message in the question was that if she couldn't do it, there was no point in making the effort.
"I was maybe naive in thinking, 'I've got a record of public service. I know exactly what it's like to grow up in the community that I did and why it's so important that my community has a voice,'" the John Jay High School graduate said.
Jones didn't get to that $300,000 mark in the first three months of her campaign (not quite making it halfway there), but she subsequently stepped up her fundraising game to the point where she out raised her general-election opponent, U.S. District 23 Republican incumbent Will Hurd, in the second quarter of 2018.
There's a bigger lesson, however, in the Jones story.
Whether you agree with the Democratic challenger's support for Medicare for All or her advocacy for gun-control legislation, there's no doubt that our politics would benefit from more candidates with the kind of résumé and expertise she brings to this campaign. But before she entered the District 23 race, Jones found herself wondering if the fiscal demands would be prohibitive.
"Raising $300,000 in three months is daunting for somebody that, frankly, if you come from this area, you probably don't have the personal or professional networks that lend itself to that," Jones said.
Jones made a declaration of her commitment to the issue Thursday, when she joined 106 other congressional challengers in a letter calling on the 116th Congress to make campaign-finance reform its first priority in January.
"We must all acknowledge the corrosive role money and special interests have played in shaking the American people's faith in the system," the letter states.
We all know the amount of money in our politics is obscene. Much of the scrutiny devoted to campaign fundraising focuses on the way that elected officials are compromised — either consciously or subconsciously — by accepting the generosity of high-powered donors.
We often overlook two other negative effects of the money demands that come with our politics: the way potential candidates are blocked from the process unless they can pay for the exorbitant ticket to ride and the time drain of fundraising on elected officials.
Jolly says he was informed when he launched his first campaign that he would need $14,000 to $18,000 per day in fundraising to have any hope of victory. He also said members of Congress are forced to spend 30 to 40 hours a week (time that could be spent mastering the intricacies of policy or listening to the concerns of constituents) raising money.
While federal election law puts fairly tight limits on direct contributions to congressional candidates ($2,700 from individuals and $5,000 from political action committees per election), the challenge is controlling the flow of so-called soft money to political parties and independent advertising from corporations and other organizations. That flow of money was unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial 2010 Citizens United decision.
These forces are particularly evident in District 23, the sprawling 29-county swing district that inevitably draws major interest from the national congressional campaign committees for both major parties.
The 2016 District 23 race, which Hurd narrowly carried over Democratic rival Pete Gallego, became the most expensive U.S. House race in this state's history, with total spending topping $20 million. Two months ago, Hurd predicted the total bill for this year's contest could exceed $25 million.
No one thinks that's healthy for our system. But everyone knows that solutions won't come easy.


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FLOAT CONTRIBUTION IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM
Position of drifters deployed during last campaign. Actual position available at http://nettuno.ogs.trieste.it/jungo/argoitaly/floats.html
Position of floats deployed during last campaign. Actual position available at http://nettuno.ogs.trieste.it/jungo/argoitaly/drifters.html
Research programs over the past 15 years have demonstrated that sustained observations of the SO (Southern Ocean) are feasible. For example, repeated hydrographic sections have been used to quantify the evolving ocean inventory of heat and carbon, to demonstrate that changes are occurring throughout the full depth of the SO, and to provide a platform for a wide suite of interdisciplinary observations. Satellites are providing circumpolar, year-round coverage of physical and biological variables and sea ice properties. Moorings are providing time-series information on velocities and water properties in critical regions. Bottom pressure recorders (often enhanced with inverted echo sounders) are routinely monitoring flows of the major current systems at key choke points like Drake Passage, whilst conventional tide gauges at coastal locations are useful in this context and also for a range of other applications, including long-term sea level variability and change studies.
Classical oceanographic data collected by ships (CTD casts, along track measurements, XBT/XCTD casts, etc…) in the SO are deeply affected by temporal and spatial limitations. Ice cover and sea-weather conditions, limit the sampling at the summer season and in some geographic areas. The development of autonomous profiling floats now allows broad-scale, year-round measurements of the interior of the SO (to 2 km depth) to be made for the first time. The ocean beneath the sea ice, inaccessible with traditional platforms, is being measured with special polar profiling floats and miniaturized oceanographic sensors attached to marine mammals. Moreover, ocean gliders now offer the possibility of making real-time multi-disciplinary measurements of the upper 1000 m of the water column, and have recently been deployed for the first time around Antarctica. Measurements of biological distributions and processes using net tows, continuous plankton recorders, and acoustics are providing new insights into the coupling of physical, biogeochemical and ecological processes. Autonomous underwater vehicles are exploring the ocean deep beneath ice shelves.
All of the key science challenges require sustained, broad-scale measurements of the ocean state, measurements that can only be obtained using autonomous platforms such as profiling floats. Basic principles of float functioning is described here (Functioning)
A sustained commitment to maintenance of a profiling float array in the SO is critical. One of the most important research projects dedicated to float implementation and data collection also in the SO is the ARGO (Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography) programme. A short summary of the ARGO programme is offered at this link (ARGO)
ARGO has made a particularly significant contribution to observations of remote areas like the SO. The number of profiles collected from ARGO floats is already higher than the number of profiles collected during the entire history of ship-based oceanography in this region. Floats with oxygen sensors are beginning to be deployed in the SO and we can anticipate that with time the capacity to measure additional variables from floats will increase. The float array needs to extend to seasonally ice-covered seas, through the use of ice-capable floats and acoustic tracking of floats. The first priority is to maintain the ARGO network at the nominal ARGO density (1 float per 3 degree longitude x 3 degree latitude square, or roughly 970 floats south of 40°S). The extension of the system to sample under sea ice is also important, as some of the most important changes are occurring near the ice shelves and within the sea ice zone. Floats capable of deeper profiling would be of particular value in the SO, where significant changes have been observed below 2000 m. Oxygen sensors will provide useful information on ventilation processes and the carbon cycle. Sensors to measure a wider range of biological and chemical parameters (e.g. bio-optics, CO2 system, nutrients) are needed to relate variations in the physical environment to biogeochemistry and ecosystem processes.
The Italian contribution to float population in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and in the SO is represented by activities developed in the framework of ARGO-ITALY.
ARGO-ITALY is the Italian component of a worldwide in situ global observing system, based on autonomous profiling floats, surface drifters, gliders and ship-of-opportunity measurements. It is primarily focused on the Italian seas, and the Mediterranean and Black seas, and includes observations of temperature, salinity, currents and biogeochemical/optical properties of seawater. The ARGO-ITALY objective is to provide a significant and sustained Italian contribution to the global ocean monitoring.
The ARGO-ITALY objective is to provide a significant and sustained Italian contribution to the global ocean monitoring. ARGO-ITALY contributes to international programs such as ARGO and Euro-ARGO (global monitoring of water properties with profiling floats), GDP (Global Drifter Program to measure near-surface temperature and currents), EGO (gliding vehicles to measure water properties) and SOOP (Ship-Of-Opportunity Program to temperature profiles) which have been developed to monitor the entire World Ocean on a long term basis. ARGO-ITALY is a cost-effective long-term monitoring system that is a unique source of information to study the role of the oceans on the climate system. It also provides the data required by operational ocean monitoring systems in order to improve significantly extended forecasts of the atmosphere and oceans.
ARGO-ITALY contributes to programs of operational oceanography, such as MOON (Mediterranean Operational Oceanography Network) and MyOcean (FP7 European project) and is essential for the production of marine core and downstream services products of GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security). It is also an important component of GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems). ARGO-ITALY is funded by the Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Research (MIUR) since 2011.
ARGO-ITALY activities in the S.O. started in 2013 and are still ongoing.
The number of total floats released in the S.O. and the amount of floats per year are both increasing. Table 1 shows the number and details of floats per year and a rapid link to cruise details.
Number of floats
Number of drifters
PNRA expedition
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EU sets binding nine-month validity of vaccinations for Covid-19 travel pass
The European Commission on Tuesday adopted rules that will make the European Union Covid-19 certificate valid for travel nine months after the completion of the primary vaccination schedule, an EU official told Reuters.
The new rules will be binding on the 27 EU states, including the Republic, from February 1st, the official said. The rule can be blocked by a qualified majority of EU governments or a simple majority of European Parliament members, but officials have said there is sufficient support for it.
The rule replaces a non-binding recommendation the EU Commission put forward in November.
Once the rule is effective, EU states will be obliged to let fully vaccinated travellers with a valid pass access their territory. However, as an exception justified by a deteriorating situation, they could still impose further requirements, such as negative tests or quarantines, as long as they are proportionate.
Several EU states, including Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Greece, are currently requiring fully vaccinated travellers from other EU countries to also show a negative Covid-19 test upon arrival, measures some see as damaging the credibility of the EU pass.
The new rules apply only for international travel.
Governments will be able to have a different duration of the Covid-19 pass for access to events or indoor activities within their territories.
After a booster shot, the validity of the Covid-19 pass will be extended further without a set limit, because at the moment there is not enough information about the duration of protection from boosters, the EU official said.
A primary vaccination schedule for Covid-19 is currently composed in the EU of two shots of vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech , AstraZeneca and Moderna, or a single jab of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The European Medicines Agency approved the use of the Novavax vaccine on Monday, with deliveries expected in January. – Reuters
Endangered red-listed bird flies home in rewilding project
Pubs adjust to 8pm closing time


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Q: Scheduling and handling a time consuming function to run at given date I have a python function that should run a given date and time, which grab a video from an url, convert it to a given format and upload it to a storage.
This scheduled function relies on 3 other functions synchronously (which have Separation of Concerns)
Def getVideo(url):
    #1. download the video from an URL
    Return scraped_video

Def convertVideo(scraped_video):
    #2. Convert the video to a given format
    Return file_ouput_path

Def sendVideo(file):
    #3. Upload the video to a given Gdrive or Dropbox

GrabAndConvertThenSend(url, notification_email):
    Try:
        Temp_video = getVideo(url)
        file_ouput_path = convertVideo(Temp_video)
        sendVideo(file_output_path)
        # send notification email with the link
        # Schedule the next run
    Except Exception as e:
        Print(e)

The function GrabAndConvertThenSend() is handled thru APScheduler to run at the given date
1. How do I implement retries ?
Sometimes, do to network issues or API availability, the main function could be aborted.
Eg: the function has already downloaded the video, but failed to upload it to the storage.
How can I resume where it stopped without redownloading the video again ?
I tought about storing the status (downloading, converting, uploading) in the database, is it the right way ?
2. Is it the right way to chain the function like so ? or should I rely on events/listeners ,
or even queuing jobs (when Task A finishes it queues the Task B), but how to implement this, as my functions have a separate of concerns

A:
How do I implement retries ?

This is a general design concept. Here you could use recovery points. It consists of designing a workflow where the input from one step is only removed after that step has produced its full output. If the processing is later interrupted, you can restart the job after the last successful step. Because of the separation of concern, it should not be implemented in the current function but in a manager that would be responsable for:

*

*restarting after the last successful step

*call next step after one succeeds

In your pseudo code, this manager feature should be implemented in GrabAndConvertThenSend:
Def GrabAndConvertThenSend(url, notification_email):
    Try:
        if not is_a_raw_video_file_present():
            Temp_video = getVideo(url)
            save_to_(temp_path)
            rename(temp_path, raw_video_path)
            remove(raw_video_file)
        if not is_a_converted_video_file_present():
            file_ouput_temp_path = convertVideo(open(raw_video_path).read())
            rename(file_output_temp_path, file_output_path)
            remove(raw_video_path)
        if is_a_converted_video_file_present():
            sendVideo(file_output_path)
            remove(file_output_path)
        # send notification email with the link
        # Schedule the next run
    Except Exception as e:
        Print(e)
        # schedule with a shorter time to finish processing

Is it the right way to chain the function like so ?

This is a matter of taste. What matter are the features. Above pseudo-code implements recovery points and use that for retries. You could use other job management tools if they meet your requirements, or just use by hand implementation like this one


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Q: ¿Como hacer que si inicia con la letra A cumplo con los requisitos y si no mostrar que no cumple?      String frase,palabra;
     Scanner lector = new Scanner(System.in);

     System.out.print ("Ingrese una frase que sea de longitud de 5 caracteres: ");
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Necesito realizar un programa que solicite al usuario una palabra de 5 caracteres de longitud y que inicie con el carácter (A).
El programa mostrara la longitud de la palabra, la letra con que inicie.
Ademas, mostrara si cumple con lo solicitado o no.
Pantalla final.

Ejemplo 1.
Ingrese una palabra de 5 caracteres que inicie con (A): axila
longitud: 5
Primer Carácter: A
La palabra cumple con lo solicitado.

Ejemplo 2.
Ingrese una palabra de 5 caracteres que inicie con (A): excel
longitud: 5
Primer Carácter: e
La palabra no cumple con lo solicitado.

Ejemplo 3.
Ingrese una palabra de 5 caracteres que inicie con (A): Terreno
longitud: 7
Primer Carácter: T
La palabra no cumple con lo solicitado.

A: Lo que te recomiendo es convertir lo que el usuario ingresa en una variable tipo String, esta la convertirás en un char array, lo que quedara será tomar datos de este array para checar su primer valor así como el tamaño del mismo, ahora solo quedaría utilizar un filtro con un if para comprobar que cumple con lo que se te pide. Esto ya es opcional pero ya que muestras que se meterán varios ejemplos decidí meterlo en un while(true) y aumentar la variable p para que se entienda mejor en qué ejemplo vas.
 int j=1
while(true){

System.out.println("Ejemplo "+j);

Scanner sc= new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.println("Ingrese una palabra de 5 caracteres que inicie con (A): ");

String str= sc.nextLine();
 char[] c = str.toCharArray();
System.out.println("Primer Carácter:  "+c[0]);
System.out.println("Longitud:  "+c.length );
if (c[0] == 'a' && c.length == 4){

System.out.println("La palabra cumple con lo solicitado. ");

} else {

System.out.println("La palabra no cumple con lo solicitado. ");

}
j++
  }


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1273.—Present State of Borthwick Castle.
1273.—Present State of Borthwick Castle.details
1273.—Present State of Borthwick Castle., in Borthwick, Midlothian, Scotland more
castles, towers, decay, greyscale
Bortwick castle was built in the 1430s; it is inhabited (now as a hotel) and is in good condition, despite the grass growing on the battlements in this 1840s engraving. It capitulated to Cromwell in 1650 and hence avoided being slighted.
As a specimen of one of the fortresses built in the fifteenth century, consisting essentially of a mere tower, or keep, mounted with extensive fortifications, therefore evidently intended for defence, and not for accommodation, we may refer to Borthwick Castle, in Scotland (Fig. 1273), erected about 1430, an edifice well known sa having been frequently visited by Mary, Queen of Scots, an honour which it owed to its proximity to the castle of Crichton, the property of Bothwell. Sir Walter Scott tells a good story of the nobleman to whom Borthwick then belonged. In consequence of a process betweixt Master George Hay de Minzeans and the Lord Borthwick (in 1547), letters of excommunication had passed against the latter, on account of the contumacy of certain witnesses. William Langlands, an apparitor or macer of the see of St. Andrews, presented these letters to the curate of the church of Borthwick, requiring him to publish the same at the service of high mass. It seems that the inhabitants of the castle were at this time engaged in the favourite sport of enacting the Abbot of Unreason, a species of high jinks, in which a mimic prelate was elected, who, like the Lord of Misrule in England, turned all sort of lawful authority, and particularly the church ritual, into ridicule. This frolicksome person with his retinue, notwithstanding the apparitor's character, entered the church, seized upon the primate's officer without hesitation, and dragging him to the mill-dam on the south side of the castle, compelled him to leap into the water. Not contented with this partial immersion, the Abbot of Unreason pronounced that Mr. William Langlands was not yet sufficiently bathed, and therefore caused his assistants to lay him on his back in the stream, and duck him in the most satisfactory and perfect manner. The unfortunate apparitor was then conducted back to the church, where, for his refreshment after his bath, the letters of excommunication were torn to pieces, and steeped in a bowl of wine, the mock abbot probably being of the opinion that a tough parchment was but dry eating. Langlands was compelled to eat the letters and swallow the wine, with the comfortable assurance that if any more such letters should arrive, during the continuance of this office, they should "a' gang the same gait." (p. 382)
Today the castle is a hotel.
Borthwick Castle Hotel
Borthwick, Midlothian, Scotland
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BROOKS TOO BROAD FOR LEAPING, FIELDS WHERE ROSES FADE
On January 9, 2014 September 10, 2018 By DavidIn Uncategorized
Today, one of the simplest and most effective poems of Alfred Edward Housman, from the collection A Shropshire Lad. Like other poems in that anthology, it has deep undertones of loss and bittersweet nostalgia. It is titled
With Rue My Heart is Laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
I will explain it part by part, though the overall sentiments are immediately clear:
The poet is recalling the boys and girls — the lads and lasses — he knew earlier in life, and is saddened. He tells us that his heart is laden — loaded, weighted down — with rue, that is, with sorrow and regret. It has a double meaning in that there is an herb called rue, a plant with a bitter fragrance that also traditionally symbolizes loss and regret. So we know the writer is made very sorrowful by remembering the "golden friends" he once had but has no more. By "golden" he means both precious and also beautiful in his memory, using "golden" as people do who recall pleasant days in the past and say, "Those were the golden years." He remembers the dear friends of his youth.
And who were those friends? "Many a rose-lipt maiden" and "many a lightfoot lad." He recalls the young girls he knew in the days when they had the beauty of youth, with their lips the pinkish-red color of rose petals. "Rose-lipt" is just a variant spelling of "rose-lipped." They had rosy lips, which has undertones of the fragrance and fresh beauty of the rose flower, but also of its fragility and brevity. And he recalls "many a lightfoot lad," many boys he once knew who were fleet of foot and agile in running and leaping, with all the energy youth and vitality gave them.
So the poet has told us first who he is saddened by remembering, and now, he finishes by telling us why he is saddened by the memory:
He is speaking metaphorically. It was common, in the English countryside, for village lads to entertain themselves by seeing who could leap across small streams, sometimes with the assistance of a long pole that was pushed down into the water. The boy would come running with pole in hand, like a pole vaulter, and then would push the end of the long pole down into the stream and swing himself up into the air and across to the other bank. Of course either way, anyone who did not do it just right or was not agile enough would fall into the water. But now, the poet is saying, those lightfoot lads he once knew are laid by "brooks too broad for leaping." By that he means they have died, their years ended by obstacles in life that they could not overcome, whether illness, or death in war, or some other fatal, impassable barrier. There were just some "brooks" in life they could not leap over, and so they now lie dead and buried.
Similarly, Housman tells us that "the rose-lipt girls" are sleeping "in fields where roses fade." They too have died, because they were, in spite of their beauty and youth, mortal after all; and this world of change and impermanence is "the fields where roses fade." All things that come into existence in our world, whether roses on a bush or metaphorical roses on the lips of girls, are fated to fade and die.
And that is why our writer is saddened, thinking of the impermanence of things in life, and of how the lively young girls and vigorous young boys he once knew and loved, his "golden friends," are gone from his life and will not come again.
And of course we know that in mourning them, the writer is also mourning the loss of his own youth and the years that are no more.
That is the reality of life in the world. Nothing lasts, no matter how pleasant, no matter how beautiful. Part of our spiritual path in life is accepting that hard reality without letting the realization become destructive. We must not be too weighed down by the rue of remembrance of things past, but instead must learn to live in the present and appreciate our loved ones while we have them, knowing they will not be with us always.
That is a lesson hard for young people to learn, because it is the nature of the young to feel emotionally that they will live forever, even though their rational minds tell them otherwise. But inevitably, we all come to "brooks too broad for leaping," and are laid in "fields where roses fade."
The great gift of Alfred Edward Housman was the beautiful simplicity of his verse and how faithfully it reveals the bittersweet impermanence of life, the temporary nature of all things.
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6 thoughts on "BROOKS TOO BROAD FOR LEAPING, FIELDS WHERE ROSES FADE"
This is a fascinating and thoughtful analysis of the poem. I have a literary blog, so I love digging deep into prose or poetry. Great post, keep writing!
A great gift of yours is sharing this beautiful poem and its clear explanation
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Well illustrated and Literary analysed. You must be good in this. Thumbs up.
This is a poem that I was assigned to read by my high school English teacher, almost 50 years ago. I remember it still, and often think of it. It is one of the most moving things I have ever read. All that is written in this poem is, and will always be true about life.
Clear explanation.. I understand and appreciate the poem all the more now because of your analyses..
Thanks David. Great explanation for anyone who is new to Housman.
In just a few simple words, he can get to the crux of the human condition.
Human life is at heart a tragic journey, but his appreciation of its beauty and complexity shows us that it can still be worthwhile and wonderful.


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I crave, my thoughts are far-fetched, foolish, but feelings are fortified by fantasy. I dream, driving me insane with the desire and determination for the forbidden destiny. I see you, I am lost again with an obstacle so familiar, to achieve is a wrong doing, in most eyes, some cry, but for the better we suffice.
It's more than looks, less than the lies that where intended to fill the gap, the lies occupying your mind, putting tears in your eyes, those eyes shine, for reasons right and wrong.
Hello, my name is David Rosado and I have been writing poetry very low key for a long time now and a friend encouraged me to put some of it out there. Here is a poem I wrote called "Those eyes shine" which is a very personal and emotional piece for me, Here it is.


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Neobična zubić vila, argentinsko-španjolski film.

Maštovita i neočekivana verzija priče o Zubić vili.
Lucija je zaigrano dijete koje u maloj kućnoj nezgodi izgubi mliječni zub. Tata Santiago, nezaposleni kuhar, i mama Pilar, uspješna arhitektica, tješe je pričom da će Zubić vila doći po noći i zamijeniti zub za novčić. Ali niti oni ne znaju da je znak za uzbunu već dan. Mali miš koji je uočio situaciju javio je drugom mišu koji je javio sljedećem koji je javio sljedećem i tako sve do Pereza, koji bi trebao doći po Lucijin zub. Ali ono što je trebao biti rutinski posao pokazat će se opasnim kada Perez i njegov brod bivaju oteti. Ali Lucija kreće u akciju spašavanja...

Uloge

Ostali glasovi:
 Marinko Prga
 Helena Buljan
 Nada Abrus
 Žarko Savić
 Dražen Bratulić
 Robert Ugrina
 Mima Karaula
 Magdalena Mihovec
 Mateja Mihovec
 Slavica Knežević
 Jasna Palić-Picukarić
 Ranko Tihomirović
 Jadranka Krajina
 Vanja Kosta
 Mislav Smolčić
 Marta Juričić
 Ivan Mihovec
 Ambrozije Puškarić

 Prijevod i adaptacija: Ivanka Aničić
 Režija dijaloga: Ivana Vlkov Wagner
 Tonska sinkronizacija: AVC studio
 Asistentica postprodukcije: Žana Lončarić
 Tonski snimatelj: Damir Keliš
 Re-recording mixer: Bojan Kondres
 Dolby Digital mastering: GAMA studio
 Obrada i produkcija: Duplicato Media d.o.o.

Vanjske poveznice

Neobična zubić vila (El ratón Pérez _ The Hairy Tooth Fairy, 2006), MojTV

El Ratón Pérez / The Hairy Tooth Fairy (2008.), Filmski.net

Animirani filmovi

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Španjolski filmovi

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IDF Requests NIS 10 Billion Budget Supplement
ICEJ News Briefs
17 Apr 2019 (All day)
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) submitted a request to the government for a NIS 10 billion budget supplement this week, according to Army Radio. Reasons for the request included unexpected costs from what is called the "war-between-wars" referring to air-strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and a variety of covert operations designed to prevent full-blown conflicts, as well as non-routine security-related expenses such as confronting rioters along the Gaza border. Other reasons cited was the need to beef up the IDF's Order of Battle to counter increasingly sophisticated weapons and equipment provided to regional adversaries by Russia.
In related news, US Envoy for Middle East negotiations Jason Greenblatt posted a Tweet Tuesday including a map of Israel which shows the Golan Heights as an integral part of Israeli territory, making the first time an official US document of any kind has included such a map. "Welcome to the newest addition of our international maps system," wrote Greenblatt.
Here is a video giving some analysis of recent developments between Israel and Syria
Honey Production Bounces Back Following Wet Winter
The Council of Production and Marketing of Honey in Israel published a report this week including statistics which paint a hopeful picture for production of the sweet substance in the coming year due to unusually large volumes of rain this past winter, leading to a bumper crop of pollen-producing flowers which the bees who produce honey need. "Last year, the production of honey was about 3,000 tons, and this year we expect a 25% increase in output, an additional 800 tons of honey. For the last five years, there has been never been such an increase in honey production," said Zeev Meidan, the director general of the council.
Gal Gadot Spending Passover in Israel
Israeli-born acrtress Gal Gadot, best known for portraying the superhero "Wonder Woman" landed in her homeland Monday with her husband and children to spend the Passover holiday with her extended family. There are also rumors she will be doing some work to prepare for the upcoming Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv.
Joint Venture Announced Between Israel and Finland
The movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) Israel suffered another defeat on Tuesday when a joint venture was announced between Israeli and Finnish companies working in the area of digital health management. The announcement was made by the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) and the Israel-Europe Research & Innovation Directorate (ISERD). "We are thrilled to provide this bridge between the pioneering innovation ecosystems of Israel and Finland in a field that impacts us all: digital health," said Aharon Aharon, CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority.
Finnish Ambassador-designate to Israel Kirsikka Lehto-Asikainen said: "It is an important and exciting leap forward for the cooperation between Finland and Israel as leading innovative countries. We are truly happy to be part of that partnership and will continue promoting similar initiatives in the future – we can certainly see a great potential for that."
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