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Researchers Uncover Hacker Group Behind Organized Financial-Theft Operation
by admin | Jan 9, 2022 | News
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps of an organized financial-theft operation undertaken by a discreet actor to target transaction processing systems and siphon funds from entities primarily located in Latin America for at least four years.
The malicious hacking group has been codenamed Elephant Beetle by Israeli incident response firm Sygnia, with the intrusions aimed at banks and retail companies by injecting fraudulent transactions among benign activity to slip under the radar after an extensive study of the targets' financial structures.
"The attack is relentless in its ingenious simplicity serving as an ideal tactic to hide in plain sight, without any need to develop exploits," the researchers said in a report shared with The Hacker News, calling out the group's overlaps with another tracked by Mandiant as FIN13, an "industrious" threat actor linked to data theft and ransomware attacks in Mexico stretching back as early as 2016.
Elephant Beetle is said to leverage an arsenal of no fewer than 80 unique tools and scripts to execute its attacks, while simultaneously taking steps to blend in with the victim's environment over long periods to achieve its objectives.
"The unique modus operandi associated with the Elephant Beetle is their deep research and knowledge of victim's financial systems and operations and their persistent search for vulnerable methods to technically inject financial transactions, ultimately leading to major financial theft," Arie Zilberstein, vice president of incident response at Sygnia, told The Hacker News. "Given the long period of persistence this group has in victim's networks, they often change and adapt their techniques and tooling to continue to be relevant."
New Zloader Banking Malware Campaign Exploiting Microsoft Signature Verification
An ongoing ZLoader malware campaign has been uncovered exploiting remote monitoring tools and a nine-year-old flaw concerning Microsoft's digital signature verification to siphon user credentials and sensitive information.
Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Research, which has been tracking the sophisticated infection chain since November 2021, attributed it to a cybercriminal group dubbed MalSmoke, citing similarities with previous attacks.
"The techniques incorporated in the infection chain include the use of legitimate remote management software (RMM) to gain initial access to the target machine," Check Point's Golan Cohen said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "The malware then exploits Microsoft's digital signature verification method to inject its payload into a signed system DLL to further evade the system's defenses."
A banking trojan at its core, ZLoader has been employed by many an attacker to steal cookies, passwords, and other private information from victims' machines, not to mention gaining notoriety for acting as a distribution framework for Conti ransomware, according to an advisory published by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in September 2021.
The campaign is said to have claimed 2,170 victims across 111 countries as of January 2, 2022, with most of the affected parties located in the U.S., Canada, India, Indonesia, and Australia. It's also notable for the fact that it wraps itself in layers of obfuscation and other detection-evasion methods to elude discovery and analysis.
The attack flow commences with tricking users into installing a legitimate enterprise remote monitoring software called Atera, using it to upload and download arbitrary files as well as execute malicious scripts. However, the exact mode of distributing the installer file remains unknown as yet.
Hackers Target Real Estate Websites with Skimmer in Latest Supply Chain Attack
Threat actors leveraged a cloud video hosting service to carry out a supply chain attack on more than 100 real estate websites operated by Sotheby's Realty that involved injecting malicious skimmers to steal sensitive personal information.
"The attacker injected the skimmer JavaScript codes into video, so whenever others import the video, their websites get embedded with skimmer codes as well," Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 researchers said in a report published this week.
The skimmer attacks, also called formjacking, relates to a type of cyber attack wherein bad actors insert malicious JavaScript code into the target website, most often to checkout or payment pages on shopping and e-commerce portals, to harvest valuable information such as credit card details entered by users.
Microsoft Warns of Continued Attacks Exploiting Apache Log4j Vulnerabilities
Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state adversaries and commodity attackers to take advantage of security vulnerabilities uncovered in the Log4j open-source logging framework to deploy malware on vulnerable systems.
"Exploitation attempts and testing have remained high during the last weeks of December," Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) said in revised guidance published earlier this week. "We have observed many existing attackers adding exploits of these vulnerabilities in their existing malware kits and tactics, from coin miners to hands-on-keyboard attacks."
Publicly disclosed by the Apache Software Foundation on December 10, 2021, the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2, aka Log4Shell, has emerged as a new attack vector for widespread exploitation by a variety of threat actors.
In the subsequent weeks, four more weaknesses in the utility have come to light — CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105, CVE-2021-4104, and CVE-2021-44832 — providing opportunistic bad actors with persistent control over the compromised machines and mount an evolving array of attacks ranging from cryptocurrency miners to ransomware.
Even as the mass scanning attempts are showing no signs of letting up, efforts are underway to evade string-matching detections by obfuscating the malicious HTTP requests orchestrated to generate a web request log using Log4j that leverages JNDI to perform a request to the attacker-controlled site.
SAILFISH System to Find State-Inconsistency Bugs in Smart Contracts
A group of academics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has demonstrated what it calls a "scalable technique" to vet smart contracts and mitigate state-inconsistency bugs, discovering 47 zero-day vulnerabilities on the Ethereum blockchain in the process.
Smart contracts are programs stored on the blockchain that are automatically executed when predetermined conditions are met based on the encoded terms of the agreement. They allow trusted transactions and agreements to be carried out between anonymous parties without the need for a central authority.
In other words, the code itself is meant to be the final arbiter of "the deal" it represents, with the program controlling all aspects of the execution, and providing an immutable evidentiary audit trail of transactions that are both trackable and irreversible.
This also means that vulnerabilities in the code could result in hefty losses, as evidenced by hacks aimed at the DAO and more recently, MonoX, where adversaries exploited loopholes to illicitly siphon funds, a scenario that could have catastrophic consequences given the burgeoning adoption of smart contracts over the past few years.
"Since smart contracts are not easily upgradable, auditing the contract's source pre-deployment, and deploying a bug-free contract is even more important than in the case of traditional software," the researchers detailed in a paper.
Researchers Detail New HomeKit 'doorLock' Bug Affecting Apple iOS
A persistent denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in Apple's iOS mobile operating system that's capable of sending affected devices into a crash or reboot loop upon connecting to an Apple Home-compatible appliance.
The behavior, dubbed "doorLock," is trivial in that it can be triggered by simply changing the name of a HomeKit device to a string larger than 500,000 characters.
This causes an iPhone or iPad that attempts to connect to the device to become unresponsive and enter an indefinite cycle of system failure and restart that can only be mitigated by restoring the affected device from Recovery or DFU (Device Firmware Update) Mode.
HomeKit is Apple's software framework that allows iOS and iPadOS users to configure, communicate with, and control connected accessories and smart-home appliances using Apple devices.
"Any device with an affected iOS version installed that loads the string will be disrupted, even after rebooting," security researcher Trevor Spiniolas said. "Restoring a device and signing back into the iCloud account linked to the HomeKit device will again trigger the bug."
Log4Shell-like Critical RCE Flaw Discovered in H2 Database Console
France Fines Google, Facebook €210 Million Over Privacy Violating Tracking Cookies
North Korean Hackers Start New Year with Attacks on Russian Foreign Ministry
New Trick Could Let Malware Fake iPhone Shutdown to Spy on Users Secretly
VMware Patches Important Bug Affecting ESXi, Workstation and Fusion Products


Can We Predict the Next Indian Mega-Famine?
The original article is behind a pay wall. It is published in Energy and Environment, Vol. 20, No. 1-2, Jan 2009.
Wilson et al.'s (2008) prediction of reduced solar activity (starting with sunspot cycle 24), combined with the results of this paper, lead us to predict that there could be as much as a 1-in-4 chance that the Indian sub-continent will suffer a catastrophic multi-year failure of the summer monsoon, starting sometime between 2018 - 2020. Potentially, this mega-famine could lead to massive food shortages across large sections of the Indian sub-continent, resulting in millions of deaths.
Catastrophic multi-year failure of the Indian monsoon has caused at least eight mega-famines in India over the last 1100 years. Historical data shows that seven out of the eight mega-famines have either started within ± one year of the year of greatest asymmetry in the Sun's motion about the Solar System's centre-of-mass, or 11 years ± one year after this event. The Sun is currently experiencing a maximum in the asymmetry of its motion about the centre-of-mass. Evidence is presented to show that there is almost a 1-in-4 the chance that there will be another Indian mega-famine in 2018-20. While the chance of such a catastrophic event occurring is small, it is large enough that the governments on the Indian subcontinent should take precautionary measures to confront this potentially devastating threat.
Table 1 lists the eight mega-famines included in this study, their duration and a brief historical description of each of the famine's effects (Maharatna 1996).
1876 – 1878 3 5,000,000 people died in India.
a) Chauhau (2007) writes that: "For seven years from 1335 famine was rampant throughout Northern India, when Muhammad Tughlak ordered the evacuation of Dehli to Deogiri in the Deccan.". If this claim is true, then this famine may have started in 1335 and reached its peak intensity in 1344 – 1345. This would make it a likely mega-famine candidate.
b) The "1661 famine [was] due to drought - no rain since 1659" so it is possible that the effects of the famine may have lasted for up to three years (Ayton 2006).
c) The All India Summer Monsoon Rainfall (AISMR) was more than 26 % below normal in 1899 and 15 % below normal in 1901, so it is plausible that famine-like conditions may have prevailed for the full three year period from 1899 to 1901. However, it must be acknowledged that this is the weakest mega-famine candidate because of its relatively low severity.
Further support for our choice of mega-famines candidates is provided by a study done by Sinha et al. (2005). This study uses δ18O records from stalagmites in caves at Dandak, India, to detect periods of extended drought. Allowing for uncertainties in their dating calibrations between the years 800 – 1000 and after the year 1500, it is possible to use their data to identify the first five mega-famine candidates listed in Table 1. Their data also shows periods of extended drought associated with the earlier possible meg-famine candidates in 650 and 879. However, these two famines are not included in our sample because we do not know exactly when they started and how long they lasted.
Shown below are the four out of the eight recognized Indian mega famines that occurred within plus or minus one year of the maximum asymmetry of the Solar motion about the Solar System's barycentre.
The three of the remaining four Indian mega famines started withing plus or minus 11 years of the maximum asymmetry of the Solar motion about the Solar System's barycentre. The following graph shows that there is a 1 in 4 chance the the next Indian mega famine could start sometime between 2018 and 2020.
Finally, it should be emphasized that the chance of a mega-famine occurring is only 1-in-4, and so there is a 3-in-4 chance that it will not occur. However, we believe that chance of this terrible tragedy is high enough that the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi governments should consider making some contingency plans to help mitigate the huge potential loss of life.


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#14 – Paekākāriki Hotel
There has been an accommodation house and inn in this area since the 1840s.
The first was Scotch Jock's, as it was known. It was a thatched-roof cottage with a chimney and a lean-to set amongst bush. The wayside inn was run by ex-whaler John Nicol (Scotch Jock) and his wife Kahe Te Rau-o-Te-Rangi (Betty Nichol).
The Wellington Independent of 24 April 1847 published a Notice from the Treasury, Wellington, giving notice of the issue of Special Publican's Licences to, among others, John Nicol, Pukarua ‑ and this was still current in 1864. The paper of 16 September 1869 also carried a lengthy report of legal proceedings relating to the lease of an accommodation or public house at Paekākāriki, on land owned by Betty Nicol.
Scotch Jock's inn and thatched cottage at the foot of the Paekākāriki Hill
In the days before European settlement in Paekākāriki, there was a small Māori pā there. The area was contested by Māori groups including Rangitāne and Muaūpoko. During the 1820s the great war leader Te Rauparaha defeated and expelled the earlier inhabitants and claimed the region for Ngāti Toa and its allies. Ngāti Haumia, a hapū of Ngāti Toa, built their pā by the mouth of the Wainui steam at the northern end of Paekākāriki. Te Rauparaha, whose pā was on nearby Kapiti Island, died in 1849.
Scotch Jock (or Jack) Nicol (1789‑1886) was a whaler and trader, originally from Dundee. He was one of the first Europeans associated with early Paekākāriki. As a whaler, he roamed about Cook Strait and the east coast and was well known to local Māori . He married a woman of high birth, Kahe Te Rau-o-Te-Rangi, also known as Betty.
Kahe Te Rau‑o‑Te‑Rangi (who died in1871) achieved fame by swimming from Kapiti Island to the mainland near Waikanae (about 5 kilometres) with her child, Makere, strapped to her back to warn of an impending tribal attack.
Kahe, of Ngāti Toa and Ngāti Mutunga (North Taranaki) decent, was one of 13 high-ranked Māori women who signed the Treaty of Waitangi. More would have added their names in ink to the founding document if they had been allowed – but the prejudices of those collecting signatures stopped them. In early Victorian New Zealand woman did not yet have the vote and were seen as second‑class citizens by some signature collectors. In protest at this, Māori pointed out that the document was an agreement with a woman – Queen Victoria – so why shouldn't they sign?
Kahe Te Rau‑o‑Te‑Rangi's cousin, Te Rangi Topeora, another woman who was held in high regard, also signed the Treaty on Kāpiti.
On 10 November 1841, Kahe and John Nicol were formally married on board a ship off the coast of Kāpiti Island. The pair had been together for many years and had children, but the formalisation of the partnership was probably in recognition of the changing world they lived in. Ngāti Toa were taking on Christian values, recognising the importance of embracing change and all it brought.
Kahe and John raised their family at the Paekākāriki Inn, and Betty was well known to travellers along the coast for her hospitality. Governor George Grey often stayed at the inn and took two of the couple's children away to be educated. Tragically, the children both died. One of Betty and Scotch Jock's daughters later became the mother of Sir Maui Pomare (1875), a prominent Māori doctor and politician.
The Inn when it was a thatched-roof cottage
With the coming of the railway in 1886, Scotch Jock's Inn was gone and replaced with a double storey Hotel. Paekākāriki's station platform was right alongside the hotel and so conveniently situated that passengers could step out of their carriages, straight into the refreshment room/bar. The hotel was built in 1869 and housed the original Paekākāriki Post Office, which was later moved to the Railway Station.
One of Paekākāriki's oldest buildings
One of Paekākāriki's oldest buildings used to sit behind the hotel and serving as a part-time garage. We believe this is what remained of the horse stables from yesteryear, and since has also been used as a store house, and even the village jail (note the bars on the windows).
Timeline of the Paekākāriki Hotel
1880 – 26 July: The well known roadside inn kept by E.M. Symonds, of Paekākāriki, was burnt to the ground. None of the furniture was saved.
1881 – 17 June: Fred Bills acquired the lease of land on which stood Paekākāriki Hotel
1882 – 05: June Mr Frederick Bills' new licence for Paekākāriki Hotel – Upper Hutt Court
1883 – 06 June: Mr Bills granted accommodation house license – Upper Hutt Court Condition – To keep the light burning from sunset to sunrise at the point where the main road turns in from the beach.
1885 – 03 March: Licence transferred to Charles Tilley from Frederick William Bills, owner – for an 18 room hotel
1889: Charles Slight became the new proprietor, close to the Railway Station, Paekākāriki. Three times the house was burnt down, the first portion of the present building having been erected in 1883, and the front portion six years later. Mr Slight, the landlord, whose father landed with the 65th regiment at Paremata in 1846, was born in 1851 in Wanganui. He has had a varied experience as a farmer, carpenter, police officer, and hotel-keeper.
1896c. Paekākāriki's second hotel. It was destroyed by fire around the turn of the century
1897– 5 August NZ Mail
In a publichouse at Paekākāriki may be seen a relic of ancient days, in the shape of the upper portion of a skull through which a strange old-fashioned axe has been driven and is still firmly wedged. The trophy was accidentally fished up from the bottom of a shallow pool at Paekākāriki.
Paekākāriki Hotel 1900c. C.Tilley
1909 5 March Marlborough Express
The building was owned by Mr Anyon who was residing in Fiji at the time. A quarter of an hour after the alarm was raised the building was in ruins. It is just 12 months since Mr Hilton entered into possession of the house. The post office and telephone bureau situated about 100 yards from the hotel escaped without injury.
The next hotel was built further to the south of the earlier buildings in the early 1900 's.
In an advertisement from November 1915, "Paekākāriki is recognised, and admitted, by most people to be the best seaside resort there is, and the Hotel there under Mr Quirk's management affords the very best accommodation. The house has recently been completely overhauled, and many improvements effected to it, and can be proclaimed first-class in every respect."
1957 Dennis Aspell – born Methven 1918, died 1980 Auckland.
Hotel Manager – Paekākāriki Hotel – 1957, 1963, 1969 & 1972.
1961 Dance Floor added to beside hotel where beer garden used to be. Could be classed as one of Wellington's earliest night clubs. It was run by Cross Roads Entertainment Venue until approximately 1995.
1980 The Debreceny era began. John and wife, Lorraine, provided more than a bed and feed for guests at Paekākāriki Hotel. When guests in marital strife sought temporary refuge there, he was always ready with a sympathetic ear. Son Craig Debreceny and wife Itiria took over control of the hotel around 2000 and in 2001 the Next Door restaurant was constructed in place of the dance area.
2003 Tilley, Wellington and Beach Road areas including shops were flooded.
This turned out to be the beginning of the end and the Hotel was closed in August 2005 and then demolished with the remaining rubbish set on fire for several weeks.
Some of the existing furniture and oddments went up for sale, with the Station Trust removing old weatherboards to later be used in the Signal Box restoration.
It was a sad day when the hotel was no more.
2007: The current hotel was opened and has since undergone some changes. An existing bar area was turned into a boutique cinema and after several years changed again to a bottle store.
Demolition of the old pub
A new restaurant, bar, and accommodation area was constructed along with a series of apartments at the rear section.
The new hotel
Sources: The new Finns Motel and Restaurant. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Pukeariki Museum, New Plymouth. Expressed Newspaper publication.

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La Maison du Québec à Saint-Malo
Euro: Current Status and its Future
That is the subject that will be broached by Mr Guy Quaden, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, member of the Governing Council and of the General Council of the European Central Bank during a talk with lunch organised by the Conseil des Relations internationals de Montréal (CORIM) on 13 May in the Montreal Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal.
Cooperation between police forces in Québec and Belgium in the age of sustainable development
In an interview granted to the magazine Civique, Mark Crispel, head of the Sint-Pieters-Leeuw police zone and François Charpentier, assistant executive director of the Sûreté du Québec, spoke about the links between their respective police forces and an interesting cooperation project currently under way.
Canada negotiating its biggest-ever trade agreement
Without making headlines or stirring up the slightest controversy, Canada and Europe are engaged in negotiations leading up to what a Canadian federal minister calls "the most ambitious trade agreement we've ever had."
Tournée en Communauté française de Belgique de Dawn Tyler Watson et Paul Deslauriers
Le Prix Annick Lansman 2010 est attribué à Geneviève Billette
Compagnie Marie Chouinard in het Nederland met Orpheus en Eurydice
Belgische première van Bodies to Bodies van Isabelle Van Grimde aan de Concertgebouw Brugge
2010 René Payot Award
Katerine Verebély, a 27-year-old Canadian reporter, has been singled out for the 2010 René Payot Award, presented by the French, Belgian, Swiss and Canadian French-language public radio networks. The jury was made up of 12 representatives of the participating radio networks (three per network), who were highly impressed by Katerine Verebély's professional qualities, well-prepared file and masterly presentation.
Un groupe de jeunes Québécois au Festival des festivals
Climate Group CEO visits Québec
On April 15, Premier Jean Charest welcomed the CEO of The Climate Group, Steve Howard. Founded in 2004, The Climate Group is an independent organization based in London that collaborates with multinationals, municipalities and the governments of federated states and regions to combat climate change.
L'Ensemble MASQUES participe au Festival de Musique ancienne d'Utrecht
Le groupe hip-hop CEA présente Coin Strasbourg à Bruxelles et à Charleroi
La BD "Paul à Québec" de Michel Rabagliati aux Editions La Pastèque est dédicacée chez Brüsel
Roctest and TenCate combine strengths to create unique geotextile monitoring solution
The world's largest manufacturer of fiber optic sensors for civil engineering applications and the world's leading provider of geosynthetics are collaborating in the development of a unique geotextile monitoring solution (TenCate GeoDetect®) that will provide unprecedented detail about the properties of embankments, slopes, walls, levees, roads, rails and other earth structures. Customers will benefit from the real-time monitoring of every square meter of land for ground movement, soil erosion, settlement and other changes.
New partnership between Genivar and ProFish
With partnership support from the Namur provincial economic bureau (BEP), ProFish Technology is an upcoming Namur company that develops technologies to protect fish threatened by industrial water intakes. It has recently entered into a partnership with Québec-based Genivar, a consulting engineering firm with an environmental focus.
Québec puppeteers win fans in Catalonian capital
Québec puppeteers' creativity and know-how were in the spotlight on March 25 in Barcelona. The exhibition Une Fenêtre ouverte sur les marionnettes du Québec "("An open window on Québec puppets"), prepared by the Association québécoise des marionnettistes (AQM), opened the premiere edition of the Títelles Objetes Teatre (T•O•T) festival in the Catalonian capital. The premiere edition of the festival drew thousands of visitors of all ages.


At the mayor's office, Hauchecorne learns that he has been accused of picking up the pocketbook. He returns back to town to celebrate and divulge his innocence only to find that still no one believes his guilt has been absolved. Monsieur Loisel bent over backwards to help find the diamond necklace her wife lost and even helped to pay for the replacement. Every one told of his affairs, of his purchases and his sales. Analysis of Literary Devices 1.
He, himself should be blamed since he let the people around him affect him. It is the best of both worlds. Even after years of travel, lovers and a meaningful childhood. In the market-place at Goderville was a great crowd, a mingled multitude of men and beasts. Hauchecorne ends up becoming physically ill and dying because he's so upset at this accusation. Another character is Maître Malandain. In a third-person view story, the reader can see the story itself from different points of view, and not just one.
It has long roads and a public square. They heard once more at a distance the dull beating of the drum and the faint voice of the crier. It allows for more variation. However, both stories are set in the past. Suddenly the drum began to beat in the courtyard before the house. Judging them immediately the way they act. Upon travelling to the market one morning, Hauchecorne happens upon a piece of string in the road and picks it up.
He can also be a dynamic character. Why had they called him 'great rogue'? Three spits were turning, loaded with chickens, with pigeons and with joints of mutton, and a delectable odor of roast meat and of gravy flowing over crisp brown skin arose from the hearth, kindled merriment, caused mouths to water. After being accused a theft no one ever looked at him the same even after the wallet was returned by another man. The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds; Maupassant was fascinated by the burgeoning discipline of psychiatry, and attended the public lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot between 1885 and 1886. Nobody believes him, especially when he tells everyone that he'd picked up a piece of string.
The Piece of String lays out the plotline more strictly, not leaving as much room for reader interpretation. In my opinion, Hauchecome is more of an ignorant man. At Jourdain's the great room was filled with eaters, just as the vast court was filled with vehicles of every sort -- wagons, gigs, chars-a- bancs, tilburies, innumerable vehicles which have no name, yellow with mud, misshapen, pieced together, raising their shafts to heaven like two arms, or it may be with their nose on the ground and their rear in the air. For the rest of the night, the. The mayor believes Malandain because he 'is a man whose word can be relied on' and would not mistake a string for a wallet. There was something that was keeping him awake, and he paced his room back and forth. He tries relentlessly, but unsuccessfully, to persuade them that he was merely picking up a piece of string.
Minor Characters were also seen in the story. The more he denied it, the more artful his arguments, the less he was believed. As well as being frugal, Maitre Hauchecome was also innocent. Quickly, Maitre Malandain accused Maitre Hauchecome of stealing the wallet, and the town believed that Maitre Hauchecome was rich, but Maitre Hauchecome was not. I took up my hat to make my escape, and just as I reached the door, I passed the large glass in the hall, which she had put there so that she might look at herself every day from head to foot as she went out, from her little boots to her bonnet.
He brooded over it all night long. There is nothing so shameful as to be placed under a cloud on account of a lie. Sure, the serious themes are there: the poor have no power; the poor have no voice; the system is stacked against them. The mayor was waiting for him, seated in an armchair. People easily believe in rumors and give accusations immediately without asking for the real story.
Maitre Hauchecorne remained speechless and grew more and more uneasy. In both of the stories the main character is driven into an unstable state by old memories and past occurrences. Every one, except some of the most indifferent, was on their feet at once and ran to the door, to the windows, their mouths full and napkins in their hand. Maitre Hauchecorne, of Breaute, had just arrived at Goderville and was making his way toward the square when he perceived on the ground a little piece of string. He could not finish his dinner, and went away amid a chorus of jeers. Malandain, standing on his doorstep, began to laugh as he saw him pass.
In the first few lines of the story, the narrator introduces… 1463 Words 6 Pages Guy de Maupassant, a French writer, was born in August 1850 and died in July 1893, during which the Franco-Prussian war took place. Also, because of coming from a poor family, she always dreamed to have beautiful and expensive dresses, jewels, and a house which is aristocratically equipped. In the case of Maître Hauchecome, he was wrongly alleged by his enemy of getting the pocketbook. It is seen throughout the story that the main character… 1681 Words 7 Pages Whoever said greed is the root of all evil was right. Some criminals are away from penalties, while the innocent people are being punished and are becoming the victims.
A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He seemed to feel their remarks behind his back. Point of View The story is uttered in Third Person Point of View since the narrator of the story is not a character in the story. This tale is poignant and quite sad. That person happened to be Maitre Maladain, the evil man turning Hauchecome in for a crime he had not committed. He knows that a neighbor is watching him, so he searches for an object that doesn't exist.


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// Copyright 2019 The Noda Time Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by the Apache License 2.0,
// as found in the LICENSE.txt file.using System;

using NUnit.Framework;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace NodaTime.Web.SmokeTest
{
    public class FetchPagesTest
    {
        private readonly WebServerFixture fixture;

        public FetchPagesTest()
        {
            // TODO: Is there no better way of doing this?
            fixture = WebServerFixture.Instance;
            Assert.NotNull(fixture);
        }

        [Test]
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Does the Rose review change our perspective on fish pain?
In recent news, the popular and angling press have seized upon a review written by Professor James D. Rose of Wyoming University (and colleagues) regarding the ability for fish to feel pain.
Unfortunately, the way that the review has been represented is that of a definitive and conclusive work, but for anyone with access to the paper it is apparent that this is not the case.
In effect, the review reads as an opinion piece, with little to add to the current train of thought on the matter. In it, Rose appears to take pains to address the current available evidence, citing numerous experiments that have taken place, drawing upon research performed, and concluding that the available evidence is not convincing in providing ample evidence for pain in fishes.
However, there are problems with this. Most obvious amongst them is that Rose doesn't really state what it is that would make a good case for evidence of pain in fishes. Early on, there are telling lines that seem to slip through, which may reveal a little more on his requirements. By page five, he writes; "pain is a subjective experience that cannot be directly observed.
In response to this, Dr. Lynne Sneddon (pictured) of Chester University, at most of whose work the review is aimed, comments; "One cannot directly prove what an animal feels, but equally Rose has ignored the fact that you cannot then disprove it and it would be unscientific to do so."
This is rather important, as by throwing this into the mix, Rose makes it rather clear early on that the argument is actually in danger of slipping into the realms of philosophy of mind, rather than remaining in that of science. It's almost as though Rose has set a 'safe retreat' position into which he can fall back as the evidence starts to pile up.
To be crude, if we're talking of pain as an entirely subjective experience that cannot be observed, then we have a dilemma. After all, when it comes to individual qualia and sensation, there are few subjects that have as little a study sample in the world of science. If I wanted to be childish, I could even state that the only pain experience in this world I can vouch for conclusively is my own. Everyone else in the world could be faking, and I'd be none the wiser. I have a study sample of one, and that doesn't make my position strong.
Rose seems adamant on insisting for stronger and stronger arguments throughout the work, raising the bar on what can be submitted as evidence for pain in fishes. It's even more than that, as Rose seems to set the bar so high that the only animals he seems happy to ascribe a pain perception to are humans and (possibly) some higher mammals. The criteria he states even leave animals such as birds as incapable of conscious pain perception.
Costs to humans and fishes of invalid definitions and mistaken beliefs concerning fish pain and suffering.
Some of these he seems to apply more weight to than others, and the final point, the cost to humans, barely gets a mention at all. Here, it is alluded to that ideas of pain in fish can potentially be damaging to welfare issues, but doesn't really lay down an explanation of how. There's a little flip-flopping about, followed by an attack on the 'benefit of the doubt' position, implying that to give benefit of the doubt to the matter is costly to the organisms involved, though the only example offered is one that states that assuming fish have a capacity for pain perception hinders further scientific progress involving fish.
Rose quite explicitly mentions; "The benefit of the doubt dogma is not benign, nor does it best protect fish welfare." He mentions the risk of mandating welfare policies on a 'but what if they can' basis, and this in itself is rather telling. It certainly suggests to me that in matters of doubt pertaining to an organism feeling pain, Rose suggests that the default position should be that they can't. To me this is troubling, and though some other authorities also feel uncomfortable with the benefit of the doubt position, it is one that is ethically compelling.
The first issue addressed, involving matters of experimentally assessing pain, is seemingly devoted to drawing a clear boundary between nociception and pain. Nociception effectively refers to the ability of the body to transmit harmful events (burning, trauma, etc) to the brain, and pain, here defined, takes place within the brain, which may or may not be based around events involving nociception.
In setting up a case to reinforce the separate nature of pain and nociception, Rose steps into some territory that to me seems a little baffling in its outcome.
He refers to the human model to make these points, and even here the ground is shaky. He cites; "Pain often, but not always accompanies nociception; pain sometimes occurs without nociception." This is all well and good, and there are certainly cases of human nociception activation that cause a response, as he goes on to demonstrate in decerebrate humans, those in permanent vegetative state, and so on. Pain occurring without nociception stimulation is also well known, and anyone familiar with the concept of phantom limbs, where an amputee complaining of pain in a no longer extant leg, can testify to this.
But Rose seems to make much of this point, almost hankering that the two can be mutually exclusive. But pain does indeed often accompany nociception, and perhaps enough to confidently state that the two are rather intimate, though the crux of Rose's argument is that we should be wary of anything identifying nociception and confusing it for pain.
This is fine, but as I've already stated earlier, this is just raising that bar higher and higher, until eventually we hit the point where nothing short of the impossible task of demonstrating the actual qualia experienced by fishes will do.
For myself, a slightly vague line is where Rose says; "When an animal model is being used to investigate some aspect of pain, it is vital to know that the model system is valid for the purpose." This strikes me as rather close to circular reasoning. To take this mentality to an absurd and oversimplified conclusion, I feel it's a little akin to me saying that we can only test to see if an animal feels for pain if we know that animal can feel pain, but that's the very point being contested.
A considerable chunk of the review, which seems somewhat pejorative in tone throughout, is aimed at discrediting existing research on nociception in fishes, frequently aimed at the works of Dr. Lynne Sneddon, and she has much to say on the subject.
She takes a similar view to the one I have formed from reading the review, stating; "the same argument is used with no new perspectives: if fish do not have an identical brain to humans then they are not consciously aware and cannot 'feel' pain. Accepting this opinion means that no animals (except possibly primates) can experience pain, including dogs, cats, horses, birds, reptiles and amphibians." Dr. Sneddon accuses Rose of taking a "biased and highly anthropomorphic view of pain."
Professor Paul Flecknell of Newcastle University also mentions this point. "The main argument made in the review," he tells me, "is that fish lack the neuroanatomical structures currently considered to be required for conscious perception of emotions such as pain in humans."He adds; "This same argument could be made for all non-human animals, since they lack to a greater or lesser extent the structures present in people."
Aside from attacking the methods used to gain positive outcomes of nociception research in fishes (and using some unusual leaps back and forth between elasmobranchs and teleosts, even though elasmobranch research in this area is precariously thin on the ground) which Dr. Sneddon is quick to note misrepresents her position and cherry picks information useful to Rose's cause, Rose also dwells on his fourth issue of the review – consciousness in fishes.
Well, no. This again is an opinion, and one that I suspect Sneddon and others would disagree with. At no point am I seeing any research that claims the potential fish experience of pain is like our own, only that they experience something pain-like and 'more than just nociception.' This is, to me, a convenient way of belittling the opposition, suggesting that they are implying considerably more than they are.
Regardless of this position, Rose earlier remarks; "the absence of a clear statement of the proposed nature of fish consciousness renders the construct conceptually amorphous." This is an interesting comment, because it again assumes the very point under discussion. The nature of the research that is taking place is in part to determine what that very nature of consciousness is. To say that it cannot be discussed because it hasn't yet been clarified is rather uncharitable, I feel.
Rose then goes on to discuss differences between fish and human consciousness, and the problems therein. But this also seems to be missing something. Having laid down the criteria that fish consciousness is undefined, and then trying to compare what we don't know about fish to what we do know about humans seems further effort to muddle to two fields together, as though they should be somehow symmetrical. Such anthropomorphism seems to present itself repeatedly during the review.
Dr. Sneddon does have a response to issues of consciousness in fishes, remarking that one of the key features in definitions is that of self-awareness – something troublesome to show in a lot of organisms.
Typical methods of defining self-recognition involve mirror tests, and observable ability for and organism to recognise itself. Fish notoriously tend to attack or retreat from their own reflection when presented with it, and given that the underwater environment lacks reflective surfaces, this is hardly surprising. Unlike terrestrial animals drinking from water, fish have had very little evolutionary opportunity to deal with or somehow comprehend a reflection of themselves.
However, Dr. Sneddon points to an obvious exception here, in "Cichlid fish [that] can recognise their own odour distinct from others but also distinct from closely related kin. Therefore, this is evidence for self recognition and the ability to discriminate one's own smell from others."
Rose concludes the review with some statements that are subjective to the authors, but aired as though authoritative. Rose talks of "the necessity of using definitions and measures that validly distinguish between nociception, the unconscious sensory detection of injurious stimulus and conscious pain. Our examination of the research literature revealed that these requirements have not been met in research leading to claims for fish pain."
He goes on to say: "One of the most conspicuous shortcomings in discussions of scientific evidence for fish pain has been the selective consideration of evidence," the very same point that researchers of the subject are accusing this very review of. Dr. Sneddon mentions several key features of text where Rose has omitted research or results, or failed to adequately explain differences in method before using comparative cases.
So basically, for readers that have followed this article so far, the outcome is 'based on what we have, we don't know,' which is pretty much where we were before the review was published. Rose doesn't feel that there's enough evidence for conscious pain (having picked the parts of research that support this view) but at the same time hasn't performed any actual experiment to show that fish cannot feel pain. There really is nothing new added apart from a tinkering of the facts to fit an outcome.
The simple point is that this is one review amongst many, with a role to play, but having found nothing decisive. A broader analysis of the evidence may have produced something more compelling in either direction, but we don't have a broad analysis, we have a rather closed one.
The debate continues, it would appear.


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March 2001: Randy Cowen endows chair in honor of his father with $1.5M donation
Release Date: Mar 1, 2001
MSU graduate Randolph L. Cowen of New York has donated $1.5 million to the Department of Physics and Astronomy to create the Jerry Cowen Endowed Chair in Experimental Physics. It is named in memory of Randy's father, to honor his life and physics career at Michigan State University.
In 1955, with the support of his wife Elaine, of Okemos, Michigan, Jerry began teaching in MSU's Physics department where he had earned his Ph.D. He excelled in both materials science research and teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level - something he continued to do until weeks before his death in January 1999. His research spanned five decades with many international collaborations.
"His passion and commitment to his research became an inspiration for all the members of our family to strive to have an impact in a field that we love," explained Randy. "My father dedicated his life to research in the field of solid state physics. He was always looking for new ways and materials to look at.
"I want to see MSU have one of the best research efforts in the country in the field of solid state physics so that cutting-edge research can go on," Randy continued, "but also to draw a new generation of physics graduate students like my father to the university."
Randy shared that he did not fully appreciate his father's teaching career until he attended MSU as an undergraduate. "Some of my friends who took his courses started to describe my father's enthusiasm in lecturing to large rooms of students," he said. "They took away not only a thorough grasp of the material that he taught, but also a vibrant image of his enthusiasm as he wrote across the chalkboard."
Randy, who received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History with a minor in Math from MSU in 1974, is Co-Chief Operating Officer of the Technology Division and a Managing Director for Goldman Sachs, a global investment banking and securities firm headquartered in New York. He and his wife, Phyllis Green, have two children, Sarah and Matthew.


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El Huracán Carla fue uno de los dos ciclones tropicales categoría 5 durante la Temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico de 1961. Golpeó las costas de Texas como un huracán categoría 4, convirtiéndose en uno de las más poderosas tormentas en golpear Estados Unidos y la más fuerte que haya tocado Texas. La tormenta causó más de 2 mil millones de dólares (2005 USD) en daños, pero debido a la evacuación de 50.000 residentes el conteo de muertes fue de tan solo 43.

Historia meteorológica

Una tormenta tropical se desarrolló en la parte oeste del mar Caribe el 3 de septiembre de un disturbio en la zona de convergencia intertropical. Avanzó al noroeste, convirtiéndose en tormenta tropical el 5 de septiembre y en huracán el 6. Después de rozar la península de Yucatán como un huracán débil, Carla entró al golfo de México dirigiéndose a la costa de Estados Unidos en el Golfo.

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Enlaces externos (en inglés)
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 Página de Carla en NOAA

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HMRC loses challenge on late capital allowances claim
The Tax Rules Contain Important Time Limits for Claims
The recent case of HM Revenue & Customs ("HMRC") v Dundas Heritable Ltd [2019] UKUT 0208 (TCC) reinforces the fact that a claim for capital allowances may be made, amended or withdrawn at any time up to whichever is the last of the following dates:
the first anniversary of the filing date for the company tax return of the claimant company for the accounting period for which the claim is made;
if notice of enquiry is given into that return, 30 days after the enquiry is completed;
if after such an enquiry [an officer of Revenue and Customs] [amends] the return under paragraph 34(2), 30 days after notice of the amendment is issued;
if an appeal is brought against such an amendment, 30 days after the date on which the appeal is finally determined.
HMRC argued that the claims were not made in time for the purposes of (1) above and were therefore invalid. They also argued that when the claims were finally made there was no open enquiry for the purposes of (3)-(4) above. The mere fact that an enquiry had to be opened to remove the late claims, in HMRC's view, did not make the original claims valid.
FTT (and now the UT) found in favour of the taxpayer and further details on the original decision can be found here.
We would always advise filing tax returns on time but if you do find yourself unable to do so and/or the subject of an HMRC enquiry the above case could provide a useful reference to support an accompanying valid capital allowances claim.
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Brookdale Ranks Among Largest Home Health Providers
By Kourtney Liepelt | October 21, 2015
Providers across the senior care spectrum are tapping into the home health market to expand their services, as evidenced by LexisNexis' 2015 rankings of the leading providers of home health in the United States. Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) snagged a spot among the top-10 home health providers, and it's not the only company with multiple care settings in the standings.
Released Wednesday, the LexisNexis 2015 Top 100 Home Health and Hospice Agencies Rankings is a report that ranks Medicare-certified home health providers by national market share, aimed at mapping the market landscape for potential merger and acquisition activity. The top providers were compiled using patient volume data and medical claims by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a subsidiary of LexisNexis that helps customers in various industries predict, assess and manage risk.
LexisNexis gathered and analyzed more than 1.2 billion claims from practice management and billing systems, claims clearing houses and payers including government agencies, according to a news release.
"The purpose of it is to understand where you stand in regard to your competition, how large you are. It's a good measuring stick from that perspective," Chris Golden, home health and hospice strategist for LexisNexis Risk Solutions, tells Senior Housing News.
Beyond that, Golden says the rankings provide some perspective on trends in the home health space, particularly in how top-10 providers such as Kindred Healthcare (NYSE: KND) and Brookdale are more frequently spanning several care settings.
"There are three companies that were largely known for providing care in other settings that are now three of the largest home care providers in the country," Golden says. "That wasn't the case if you look back two years ago; it was basically all companies that were focused on specific settings. It sheds some light on how the market is shaping up."
The list comes as M&A activity within the home health space has been on the upswing, with signs pointing toward the largest companies positioning themselves to drive even more affiliations. More streamlined care from fewer providers could be the result, Golden says.
"Consolidation is a trend that we've been seeing and would expect to continue," Golden says. "If you can start to be able to offer that full range of service, you can provide a pretty convincing case to be the provider of choice for a given health system, which is only going to help grow your market share and increase your number of patients."
And the numbers suggest that there's plenty of room for the industry to consolidate, given that the top two providers—Kindred and Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED)—together account for less than 10.5% of the total market.
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Stories That Honor The Fallen: Memorial Day Reads
Leah Price
By Leah Price, Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia) (TNS)
Monday is Memorial Day. Many will participate in the annual custom of decorating the graves of war dead with flowers, a tradition that began in 1868. Others will attend special commemoration events, or spend time with family remembering loved ones who were lost.
Another way to recognize their sacrifice might be to read about the wars and conflicts that took their lives. I asked several folks for book recommendations and was amazed at the diversity and depth of their selections.
Wilford Kale, Williamsburg, Virginia, author of a number of nonfiction books of local interest, was in the U.S. Army from July 1968 to June 1970. He served with the 1st Signal Brigade in Vietnam from May 1969 to June 1970 as a 1st Lieutenant and received a Bronze Star medal. He recommends the following reading:
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson wrote Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg in 2003, published by Crown. Still in print and also available through a variety of used-book sources, it is a compact look at the Battle of Gettysburg when thousands of Blue and Gray soldiers died in the three-day conflict. The Union casualties were 23,049 (3,155 dead, 14,528 wounded and 5,365 missing); the Confederate casualties totaled 28,063 (3,903 dead, 18,735 injured and 5,425 missing). An illustrated edition of the book was published May sixth by Zenith Press and is packed with significant photographs and illustrations along with McPherson's original text.
Beyond the Call by Lee Trimble with Jeremy Dronfield was published three months ago by Berkley Caliber of New York. It is a wonderful story of a World War II pilot's secret spying and recovery mission behind the Eastern Front to rescue Allied prisoners of war from right under the noses of the Russians. Captain Robert Trimble's son researched and co-authored the inspiring narrative.
Lastly, well-known award-winning historian and author Stanley Weintraub takes the reader to the Korean War and recounts the slaughter of and epic survival of members of the U. S. Marine Corps and the Army as they battled the Chinese Communists and North Koreans during the disastrous winter of 1950. The book, A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival During the Korean War, was published last fall and is available in hardcover and newly released paperback.
Shana Gray, Daily Press deputy night editor, grew up in Fayetteville, N.C., home to the 82nd Airborne Division and Special Operations Command, and is known in the newsroom as a World War II buff. She took a look through her extensive collection and suggested these titles:
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson. The book tells the inside story of the training and aftereffects of the famous raid over Japan, a mission in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, by one of the Doolittle Raiders himself. Written shortly after the raid, the book is the definitive account of the mission.
The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw. On D-Day, 19 servicemen from one small town in Virginia were killed in the first wave of troops going onto Omaha Beach in Normandy. Full of anecdotes with those who survived, family, friends, letters, and more, the book examines the men who died and the town of Bedford, which lost more men in one day than any other U.S. city.
Day of Infamy by Walter Lord. Filled with the history and facts of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the author keeps the narrative personal, from the point of view of people who were just going about their Sunday when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Including photos and maps, the book provides a comprehensive look at the attacks and the losses.
Daily Press reporter Hugh Lessig, who covered the Hampton Roads military beat for a number of years for the Daily Press, offered the following recommendations:
Look Away, from William C. Davis. A perceptive history of the Confederacy from the political side. It shows how the Confederacy did some things that a strong central government would do — such as nationalize the salt industry.
Wired For War by P.W. Singer. It examines the growth of drones in warfare and raises important ethical questions that still haven't been answered.
Agent Garbo by Stephan Talty. A profile of a man from Spain who became one of the most famous double agents in World War II. From his post in England, he fed the Nazis all kinds of information about troop movements and ship strength — all of it wrong. He was instrumental in getting the Germans to believe that D-Day would not happen at Normandy.


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form and pro forma
When I lived in South Africa, I often claimed that the country's major industry was bureaucracy. As a foreigner, I had reason to feel this, since until I was granted permanent residence (not very permanent, it turned out), I had to stand for a few hours on a (BrE) queue/(AmE) line every three to six months in order to have my work permit renewed. There was one year in which I had three chest x-rays--first they lost one, and then they made me incorrect identity documents...twice. The first time, my ID book said I was born in South Africa, the second time it said I was born in Albania (see evidence right--first name covered with (BrE) toilet roll/(AmE) toilet paper in order to maintain a sense of mystery). It also said I was a South African citizen, which was never true. By the time all the corrections were processed, the second x-ray had 'expired', so I had to prove again that I was tuberculosis-free. So, if I ever come down with any cancers of the upper torso, we'll know which government to blame.
But it turns out that South Africans are mere amateurs at bureaucracy compared to Higher Education in England. My life is paperwork. Paperwork if I want to give students an extra week to write their essays. Evaluations to write up about my students' evaluations of my courses. Then evaluations of the external examiner's evaluations of my evaluation of my students. (Most American universities don't even have external examiners.) Evaluations of all the courses in the department, then evaluations of all of the degrees on which those courses are offered. My reading lists have to be written up in at least three different formats (one for the library, one for the bookshop, one for the students) before each course. And, just like in South Africa, there's always someone in some office to tell you that you've misinterpreted a question or you were supposed to fill out a CQ3 instead of a QC3, and therefore your proposal/evaluation/application won't be considered again until the next committee meeting.
But the most difficult part is that I have a big block against talking about this paperwork, because I just can't get my brain around the local terminology. My colleagues use the term pro forma for what I would call a form. This is a Latin prepositional phrase that means 'on account of form'. Using it as an adverb seems natural (It was done pro forma), as does using it as an adjective (a pro forma document). My colleagues use it as a noun, though, which I've never experienced outside the UK. The noun sense ('an official form for completion' [OED]) is not found in American dictionaries (well, at least not Merriam-Webster's or American Heritage), but is in Oxford's. It's spelt a variety of ways:
1945 Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasitol. XXXIX. 226 A senior member of the nursing staff..checked that the patient took the tablet and recorded each dose given and taken on a pro-forma. [OED]
1978 Jrnl. R. Soc. Med. LXXI. 413 Details of the illness were recorded on a proforma. [OED]
Use of a pro forma for head injuries in the accident and emergency department [Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1994]
The examples above make clear that use of this term is common in medical jargon, but I'm here to tell you that the term is alive and well in English Higher Education as well.
Now, form in this meaning is perfectly sayable in British English, so I'm not really sure what has motivated the use of pro forma as a noun. But we can note that form has another sense in BrE, relating to a division of students in a school, discussed back here.
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dearieme 10 February, 2007 12:21
I can help you here. For most of my life the British word was "form". "Pro Forma" seems to me to be an introduction of the last 20 or so years, by a generation where essentially no-one learnt any Latin and so persuaded itself (I guess) that Latin-sounding things are somehow posher. I have even heard it used, more than once, where the speaker presumably meant "pro rata". I think that accountants have a weakness for "pro forma" but what they suppose they mean by it I have no idea. In my own wee world I fight the same battle against "pro forma" that I wage against "Executive Summary".
When I say "introduction" I'm not referring to the first sighting, as of some exotic insect. I mean when it first became a common pest.
Thanks for that, dearieme! The OED has an army use that dates back to the 1920s, but the quotation makes clear that the term was 'exotic' then, and then we have medical uses. (And no one should be too surprised when doctors use Latin where English would do.)
In 1977 there's a quotation from Wandsworth Borough Council, in which it doesn't look exotic--that is, it's not italici{s/z}ed, put in (BrE) inverted commas/(AmE) quotation marks or remarked upon. So the populari{s/z}ation of it may have begun by about 30 years ago.
30 rather than 20? I won't argue with that.
I'm familiar with pro forma from invoicing clients, as in giving someone a preliminary invoice, where final details will be worked out at a later date. My dentist's office manager gives me a pro forma every time she schedules an appointment. It's their way of softening the blow to my wallet. It's an estimate, on paper.
The use of pro forma instead of form is just sloppiness. It comes from the same lack of attention that prompts people to say Safeways instead of Safeway.
Does it help to think of it as a shortening of the phrase "pro forma document"? Kind of like a high school formal dance gets called a "formal."
Even if that's not how it came about, it might help you to use the phrase more easily.
I'm sure that's how it came about, but a little knowledge of Latin is a dangerous thing, and so it doesn't feel like saying formal for formal dance, it feels more like a prepositional phrase.
But seeing as it's not the only way (and not even a favo(u)red way, if the opinions above are to be taken as representative) of saying/meaning form in BrE, I don't feel particularly motivated to start using pro forma in place of the perfectly usable form.
The relationship betwen formal and formal dance prompts a question about proms, The Proms, promenading, and promenades. Any thoughts on this little family?
I haven't got a lot of thoughts on the matter, except that in both countries prom was originally short for promenade, but the meaning has floated pretty far from that now. Probably a topic for a separate post.
I'm with David on this one - pro forma to me refers only to an invoice that requires paying before the goods or services are supplied. I've never come across it used in other contexts in the UK. Perhaps it's a Civil Service thing.
But on other matters in your post - both toilet roll and toilet paper are spoken of in the UK, in my experience, though neither happily; call me old-fashioned or a snob, but in my view only loo roll/paper, lav roll/paper, lavatory roll/paper or bog roll will do. Toilet tissue is the worst - like nails on a blackboard...
Interface 14 February, 2007 10:35
I worked in a correspondence (answering) office in an Australian Public Service office in the late '60s and early '70s. The term pro forma was quite common. But it was used to describe an answer by a form letter with minimal original additions, rather than a form.
As in:
Use pro forma no. 12b to reply to that letter.
Yes, I've heard that use in BrE too. Thanks, Interface.
I haven't heard toilet roll used in the UK to mean a piece of loo paper, rather than the whole roll - do you have a source for this?
Here's an example from a London blogger:
"We shared a chaste kiss goodbye when he dropped me off home and a quick check in the hallway mirror after he left revealed that I did not have food in my teeth, was not trailing toilet roll on my shoe, nor was my skirt tucked into my pants."
I think it'd be better in either dialect to put a piece of or a bit of before toilet roll/paper in that context...but that's not what I did on that day...
Paul Danon 21 March, 2007 23:10
British-type toilet-roll has a strange, Tardis-like effect in that it can actually cover much more space than it appears to occupy when looked at. I suppose this is because of its customary, erm, absorbent use when not employed to veil mysterious parts of e.g. visas, passports, bus-passes. In trying to guess Ms Guist's enigmatic first name, we must therefore think in terms of really long names like Morwenna, Maddalena and Margaret or maybe Maximiliana. The winner will get a free definition by me of xmrzvix, which is Blogger's latest coinage and the code I must enter to post this.
cityiguana 29 March, 2010 11:05
This is a bit belated, but out of the places I have lived (Manchester UK, Boston, NYC, Vermont, and Stockholm) I have only ever seen pro forma used as a noun in Vermont.
What a quandary.
vp 09 December, 2013 22:43
I always **hated** this usage in Britain! It seemed to be loved by administrative/secretarial types who thought that any Latin phrase, no matter how inappropriate, might make people take their directives more seriously. I'm very happy that it seems to be absent in the US.
Really necro post here but the use I have seen of proforma (written as one word) is for a sample form to be personalised by the end user for use as a form
stereosmiles 30 May, 2017 15:29
It's as common as dust at my place of work when referring to anything that needs to be filled in, say, like a form, so much so that it just isn't worth raising it even as a light-hearted observation. Drives me up the wall, but it's a losing battle. Put it down to the evolution of language and never mind that it's just plain wrong. Definitely comes from the same affliction that gave us "methodology" instead of simply "method".


The prize list for the Vermont Summer Festival's 25th anniversary event running from July 3 through August 12, 2018, at Harold Beebe Farm in East Dorset, VT, is now available at VT-SummerFestival.com.
A popular competition for the development of young horses and up-and-coming professionals, the event is also a hotbed for year-end finals qualifying on the North American summer show schedule. With a storied history, the Vermont Summer Festival has found a permanent home at Harold Beebe Farm, located just outside of Manchester, where competitors can enjoy the entertainment, recreation, shopping, and dining options of Southern Vermont.
To make the 25th anniversary season of the Vermont Summer Festival even more successful, the show's management made significant footing improvements during the off-season. Show Manager John Ammerman and Technical Coordinator Doug Russell have been hard at work enhancing the footing in both competition and schooling areas. All show and schooling rings have been stripped to the base and revived with new material.
"As soon as the snow was gone in Vermont, we went to work," said Ammerman, a Show Jumping Hall of Fame inductee who has been part of the Vermont Summer Festival since its early days. "After removing the old footing, we regraded the surface and added 750 tons of sand, which was mixed with 80,000 pounds of fiber material to create all-new footing.
"We are confident that this year's footing will be better than ever before," concluded Ammerman.
The 2018 Vermont Summer Festival offers an all-inclusive schedule with its popular "Equitation Tuesdays" as well as $5,000 3'3" NEHJA Hunter Derbies each Thursday, which culminates in a $15,000 offering in week six. For jumper competitors, highlights include the $10,000 Open Welcome, held each Thursday, and the $30,000 Grand Prix, held the first five Saturdays of the six-week circuit, before concluding with a $50,000 Grand Prix on the final weekend. Entries for the six-week circuit are due June 5, and submission instructions and equine health protocol information can be found HERE.
The Vermont Summer Festival is New England's largest hunter/jumper competition and the richest sporting event based on purse in the state of Vermont with more than $750,000 in prize money. The event is also a proud member of the Show Jumping Hall of Fame, the Marshall & Sterling League, and the North American League (NAL).


Lock it, and leave it.
For baby boomers, this is an attractive and rapidly rising trend. With an empty nest at home and retirement on the horizon, lock-and-leave homes offer an enticing lifestyle shift for those looking to downsize, travel more, or simply to embrace a more active lifestyle.
What is a "Lock-and-Leave" Home?
Lock-and-leave homes are traditionally single-level condos, townhomes or bungalow-style properties that offer a flexible, low maintenance lifestyle without sacrificing comfort along the way. Each home style offers a similar set of perks, and developers are beginning to cater to the changing baby boomer lifestyles in new and innovative ways.
Take the popular attached-bungalow, a relatively new home look in the Calgary area. Attached bungalows – which are vertically attached single-level homes – are designed with the same luxuries of a detached residence, such as multi-car garages and outdoor space, while integrating services that most city condo and townhome dwellers enjoy.
We believe this is not just a passing trend and has real, tangible advantages to buyers when measured against detached home living. Below are some of the best advantages to consider.
For condo and townhome dwellers, yard care, garbage collection, exterior maintenance and most other seasonal duties are typically taken care of by fully equipped property management companies. Even new stacked-bungalow communities – such as Streetside Development's new Hunter House design – are adopting condo-style management systems to ensure hassle-free living for current and incoming residents. But handing off your snow shovelling and lawn care duties isn't the only reason to consider a move.
Lock-and-leave communities offer added securities that single family homes don't have. For condo communities in particular, concierge service or on-site security are often standard practice. Even in smaller townhome and attached-bungalow communities without this infrastructure in place, like-minded neighbours are just a few steps away. Should you wish to have someone check your home now and again, and collect your stack of mail, it's helpful to have a tight knit community.
Perhaps the best feature of lock-and-leave homes is the flexibility they provide. For those with an active lifestyle this means coming and going worry-free. Weekend getaway; lock it, and leave it. Out of town visiting friends; lock it, and leave it. Escaping Calgary for the winter months; rest well knowing your portion of snow, is in fact, being removed. And for the families spread across the country, visiting children and grandchildren for extended periods of time no longer requires the preparation and planning it once did. You know the routine. It's as simple as locking up your home and returning when you want.
Whether it is a travel bug, or family far away, the flexibility lock-and-leave homes provide cannot be overstated. But even if you are not a globetrotting retiree or winter snowbird there are other practical appeals that are nearly universal regardless of your current age or lifestyle.
For starters, there is the opportunity to shed the mortgage from that large, family home. As cost of living continues to rise it simply makes more sense to downsize these days. Why continue to heat and cool empty rooms? And why not eliminate a few spaces that will inevitably need to be cleaned, and even painted now and again. Downsizing removes the burden of unused space, but fear not, it does not have to cost you in comfort.
Most new condo and town home developments offer a wide range of design options to choose from including stainless steel appliances, engineered hardwood floors, quartz and granite countertops, and customizable finishings.
What's more, an urban relocation positions you in closer proximity to day-to-day needs, eliminates the commute factor, and the accompanied stresses. It all plays a part in freeing up more time for you to enjoy the things and people you love.
If this all sounds quite appealing, you are not alone. The good news is lock-and-leave homes are a rising trend in Canadian cities. You certainly do not need to wait until retirement to make the transition though – and it may be in your best interest not to. While developers continue to shift their focus to meet the low maintenance, active lifestyle demands of today's baby boomers, their popularity continues to grow.
There are a lot of good reasons to make the move; the best reason is for you to decide.


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3. Build yourself a targeted list of agents by finding 10 or 20 books in your genre and finding the names of thoaw authors' agents in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
5. Go to writing conventions in your genre that agents will be attending, especially if you can sign up for pitch sessions. Meeting agents face to face in these situations is the best way to establish the connection that can lead to signing with an agency. Google the Shaw Guides for a list of conferences and conventions, nationwide; and/or Jacqueline Deval's excellent book PUBLICIZE YOUR BOOK has a comprehensive list of conventions in the back.
Thank you for sharing this information. It will keep many of us busy for a long time.
I'm blatantly stealing this great list of resources for my Web Strategy For Writers presentation at the Southern California Writers Conference today.
I'll be adding to it as well, so I'll be sure to send you the link when it's ready.
I just want to say thank you so much, both for this information and the information (and wit and wisdom ;)) you gave us at the SCWC. (Screenwriting for Novelists) My only regret was that your workshop was too short!! Any chance you'll do a longer class down here sometime?
THE PRICE - in bookstores February 19!


The General Data Protection Regulation came into force earlier this year. We have all no doubt been inundated with emails over the last few months asking for our permission to be contacted. However, the GDPR is certainly more than that and is going to have wide ranging impacts on how you market your services and operate your business.
Icon is delighted to announce that we have been working with the law firm, Withers, to deliver a webinar which will provide you with an overview of the principles of the legislation, highlighting the ways in which it is likely to impact you and your organisation. This event is open to all, however it will be particularly useful if you run your own business or work on a freelance basis.
The impact on data processing, what you need to consider.
There will also be plenty of opportunities to ask questions.
Founded in 1896 and with 18 offices globally, our firm has assisted successful people, their families, businesses and charitable interests as well as institutions for over 100 years in a variety of sectors including art and cultural assets. Today organizations in all sectors face a triple threat of greater scrutiny from the public and regulators, more stringent data protection regulation and increasing external and internal threats. Whatever the scale of your business, we can advise you on how to store, process and manage data to ensure compliance with the ever-expanding body of international rules and regulations. Our firm regularly deals with cross-border data protection issues and we have reviewed privacy compliance for a leading internet brand and conducted data privacy audits for international manufacturers.
Rosanna is an Associate in the Intellectual Property and Technology team at Withers in London. She has experience advising clients on a range of data protection issues, including reviewing compliance procedures, the use of marketing databases and data sharing arrangements, as well as drafting and negotiating commercial contracts involving the use of technology, the processing of personal data and the creation and licensing of intellectual property rights.


Creating a Windows Service is trivial using Topshelf, a freely-available library that converts a console application to a Windows Service. In this article, you'll create a simple notification app and integrate Topshelf.
ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server.
Knowing where you are -- and where you want to go -- are the keys to using the matrix.
An overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework application security utilities SN.exe, Dotfuscator and SignTool.exe.
Part 1 of this article introduced four new T-SQL functions available in SQL Server 2012. Part 2 has the rest.
A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects.
Visual Basic and C# developers can eliminate repetition by customizing the project and item templates in Visual Studio.


GERMANY (translated by Sonja Grob) Every year during the international five-star tournament in Stuttgart a stallion that had outstanding sport results is decorated. The stallion owners of the German Sport Horses and tournament manager Gotthilf Riexinger elected the Gribaldi-son Unee BB as Master stallion 2015.
Jessica von Bredow-Werndl presented her star Unee BB (Gribaldi - Ilarichita x Dageraad) with a short Freestyle program and after that she received the congratulations from the chairman of the German Sporthorse Stallion Owners, Paul Bengesser, the manager of the South German Horse Breeding Association Roland Metz and tournament manager Gotthilf Riexinger. Also attending the tribute was Unee's owner, the former international judge Beatrice Buerchler-Keller from Switzerland and stallion holder Maria Wadenspanner from Rottenburg. Covered with the Masters blanket the 14- year-old Unee BB and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl went on the lap of honour – celebrated enthusiastically by the audience.


The Credentialing Department assists merging and current partners with the insurance enrollment, credentialing and recredentialing process. The department gathers and maintains all the doctors' demographic information, licenses, DEA's, Certificates of Insurance and any other necessary documents for the enrollment process. The primary objectives of the department are to facilitate the otherwise lengthy process of meeting all the insurance companies' requirements for enrollment, keep the company up-to-date on new and improved insurance fee schedules, and the negotiation of these fees schedules for the benefit of the entire company.


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Though today's modern medicine involves prescribing pills and drugs for nearly every health condition, the integrative medical experts at MindBodySpirit Care believe that natural and holistic methods provide safer and more effective ways to improve and safeguard health. The use of the infrared sauna is one such holistic method that continues to rise in popularity.
Dr. Shemesh and his team at MindBodySpirit Care provide infrared sauna treatments to patients looking to fight signs of aging, detoxify the body, lose weight, and much more.
Conventional saunas have been used for thousands of years as "hot air baths" and "sweat lodges" to heal, relax, and detoxify the body. Native Americans, Eastern Europeans, and Ancient Chinese all used saunas in their civilizations. An infrared sauna combines the benefits of "hot air baths" with the power of infrared light to supercharge the healing power of the sauna.
When far-infrared light wave radiation is absorbed into the body, the positive radiation stimulates natural healing and detoxification in the body in just 15 to 20 minutes. In fact, FIR light waves are known to alter cells, cell membranes, and cell fluids to positively impact metabolism and biological activity.
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Bone marrow oedema (BMO) is included in MRI-based scoring systems of disease activity in adults with rheumatoid arthritis. Similar systems in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) are lacking.
To assess the reproducibility in a multi-centre setting of an MRI BMO scoring system in children with JIA.
Seventy-six wrist MRIs were read twice, independently, by two experienced paediatric radiologists. BMO was defined as ill-defined lesions within the trabecular bone, returning high and low signal on T2- and T1-weighted images respectively, with or without contrast enhancement. BMO extension was scored for each of 14 bones at the wrist from 0 (none) to 3 (extensive).
The intra-observer agreement was moderate to excellent, with weighted kappa ranging from 0.85 to 1.0 and 0.49 to 1.0 (readers 1 and 2 respectively), while the inter-observer agreement ranged from 0.41 to 0.79. The intra- and inter-observer intraclass correlation coefficients were excellent and satisfactory, respectively.
The scoring system was reliable and may be used for grading bone marrow abnormality in JIA. The relatively large variability in aggregate scores, particularly between readers, underscores the need for thorough standardisation.


A safety and health committee can be established if any employee requests a committee, or the employer decides to establish one. The WorkSafe Western Australia Commissioner can direct the appointment of a committee.
Each workplace can choose the best committee structure to suit their operation. For example, a construction company might have one committee across several worksites. A large hospital however, might choose to have one committee with several sub committees.
Workplaces can also choose the composition of their occupational safety and health committee provided the safety and health committee is made up of half or more worker representatives. The committee may include elected safety and health representatives and also may have other workers elected by the workers to represent them. Other members can be employers and/or the employer representatives.
perform other functions prescribed in the regulations or given to the committee, with its consent, by the employer.
resolution of safety and health issues.


The Tarry Here Mansion was originally built in 1910 and is one of the grandest Victorian homes in the Southern Tier region. The building has undergone a number of restorations, including being transformed from a single family home into a Bed and Breakfast in 2003. With construction and full mechanical upgrades completed, it now has five rooms ready for occupancy.
Street Address: 141 Broad St.


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Five Teenagers Attack and Steal Cellphone From Straphanger on E-Train: NYPD
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Sept. 9, 2020 By Christian Murray
The police have released video footage of five teenagers wanted for attacking a man and stealing his cellphone on a Manhattan-bound E train in July.
The suspects—three men and two women– allegedly approached a 57-year-old man while on an E-train in Queens at around 7:15 p.m. on July 23 and asked to see his cellphone.
The victim displayed his cellphone before one of the men asked him if he wanted to fight. Meanwhile, another man snatched the cellphone out of the victim's hands and then punched him in the face.
The suspects then fled to the next car before exiting at the Queens Plaza station. The victim sustained only minor injuries and didn't require medical attention.
The police have released footage of the suspects.
The suspect who allegedly punched the 57-year-old straphanger in the fact (NYPD)
The suspect, who allegedly threw the punch, is described as being in his late teens, with a medium complexion, slim build and black hair. He was last seen wearing sunglasses on his head, a pink shirt, a black backpack and black pants.
The second suspect is described as being in his late teens, with a dark complexion, slim build, black hair, last seen wearing a white face mask, no shirt, pink pants with white dots, and white sneakers.
The third suspect is described being in his late teens, with a medium complexion, medium build, black hair, last seen wearing a black face mask, no shirt, a black backpack and black pants.
The fourth suspect is described as being a female in her late teens, with a light complexion, medium build and black hair. She was last seen wearing eye glasses, a white face mask, a pink and black t-shirt, blue shorts and black sneakers.
The fifth suspect is described as a female in her late teens, with a light complexion, slim build, black hair, last seen wearing a pink headband, a white face mask, a white shirt and black pants.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.
Paul September 9th, 2020
Allow me. "I am from the socialist progressive party and these kids are just being kids as long as they are not in my neighborhood. I support their right to violently express themselves as long as they don't bother me. I support their robbery since they are oppressed as long as they don't rob me. To solve all this, we must tax the rich, defund the police, and ensure all prisoners are accomodated with a 4 star quality hotel as long as that hotel isnt near me"
Anonymous September 9th, 2020
dark , medium complexion… just say he's black
somedude September 9th, 2020
with a crayon red carpet welcoming them
Jack September 10th, 2020
November 3rd.
Basta September 11th, 2020
I agree aside from the sentiment that we shouldn't tax the rich. We should. And don't worry, you aren't rich (otherwise you wouldn't be posting here). I'm talking multi-millionaires and beyond. They are often the ones that don't care what goes on as long as it isn't in their part of the city.