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U.S. Supreme Court Passes on Otter Case with Chevron Implications
By Brian Ferrasci-O'Malley on 10.30.2018
Posted in Conservation, Fish & Wildlife Service, Legal, Litigation, Supreme Court
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in California Sea Urchin Commission v. Combs (Combs), Docket No. 17-1636, an appeal from a Ninth Circuit decision regarding endangered Southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) and deference to the decisions of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service). As we reported here last month, the case was seen as a potential vehicle for the Court to take up the broader issue of Chevron deference, the legal doctrine that requires courts to defer to an agency's interpretation of an ambiguous statute so long as that interpretation is ...
Tags: California, chevron deference, Endangered Species, endangered species act, ESA, Fish and Wildlife Service, FWS, MMPA, Ninth Circuit, sea otter, Supreme Court, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USFWS
Endangered Species Case Sparks Chevron Deference Debate
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares for its upcoming October 2018 term, one petition concerning an endangered sea otter relocation program is attracting a lot of attention as a potential vehicle for the Court to consider the broader issue of Chevron deference, the legal doctrine that requires courts to defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. The petition has also created odd bedfellows, as the Department of Justice under the Trump Administration finds itself arguing alongside several national environmental non-profit organizations that the ...
What Might Justice Kavanaugh Mean for the ESA?
Posted in Critical Habitat, Legal, Supreme Court
On July 9, 2018, President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to replace retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. While much of the public discourse about Judge Kavanaugh's nomination has focused on hot-button issues like abortion and the Second Amendment, the addition of Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court could also have significant effects on a range of environmental laws and regulations, including the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
One of Judge Kavanaugh's most well-known environmental opinions is from Otay Mesa Property, L.P. v. Interior, 646 F.3d 914 (D.C. Cir. 2011). In Otay Mesa, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) had observed four endangered San Diego fairy shrimp (Branchinecta sandiegonensis) in one location on a dirt road on the plaintiffs' 143-acre property. Based on that single observation, the Service designated the plaintiffs' property as occupied habitat for purposes of its critical habitat designation under the ESA. The D.C. Circuit held that substantial evidence did not support the Service's designation of critical habitat for the San Diego fairy shrimp. Judge Kavanaugh explained that while the Service may protect areas outside of the geographic range occupied by an ESA-protected species as essential to the species' conservation, it had instead asserted that this was occupied habitat for the fairy shrimp. Judge Kavanaugh found that a single observation of a species did not provide sufficient evidence that the area was occupied habitat. And while the Service was under no requirement to continue looking for the endangered shrimp, Judge Kavanaugh noted that the lack of such an obligation is not the same as an authorization to act without data to support its conclusions. 646 F.3d at 918. This opinion suggests that Judge Kavanaugh is likely to narrowly interpret the provisions of the ESA.
Similarly, Justice Kavanaugh's position on Chevron deference may have wide ranging consequences for environmental statutes, including the ESA.
Tags: Endangered, Endangered Species, endangered species act, ESA, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Supreme Court
SCOTUS Accepts Dusky Gopher Frog Case
By Paul Weiland on 01.23.2018
Posted in Court Decisions, Critical Habitat, Fish & Wildlife Service
On January 22, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review of the petition for writ of certiorari in Weyerhauser Co. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, No. 17-71. Petitioners challenge a 2-1 panel decision issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, affirming a rule issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) designating critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog (Rana sevosa) and including areas within critical habitat that the frog could not currently inhabit.
The dusky gopher frog spends most of its life underground in open-canopied pine forests. ...
Tags: Certiorari, Critical Habitat, dusky gopher frog, ESA, scotus, Supreme Court, USFWS
High Court Denies Petition by Parties with Reclamation Contracts Seeking to Avoid ESA Consultation
Posted in Court Decisions
On November 17, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for writ of certiorari filed by Glenn Colusa Irrigation District and others seeking to overturn a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (en banc) holding that the Bureau of Reclamation's decision to renew water contracts with senior water rights holders is subject to consultation under section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act. Our prior post regarding the petition is available here.
E&E reporter Jeremy Jacobs wrote in Greenwire today that the Supreme Court "left in place an ...
Tags: Glenn Colusa, Ninth Circuit, Petition, Supreme Court
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Students' Plays to be Produced at Stage West Theatre
Raegan White
Stage West Theatre will produce two student-written plays Monday, May 6 through Wednesday, May 8 during the annual Festival of the Kid, a celebration of the work of young playwrights in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Each show is cast from the community and produced by professional directors and designers. The plays advancing from Timber Creek are "Shadowbox Experiment", by junior, Lucas Bradanini and "Painting in a Different Color", by sophomore, Sophia Zamora.
Bradanini and Zamora entered their plays in the annual Neighborhood Play Contest as an assignment for their playwriting class.
"I didn't think my play was going to make it," Bradanini said. "I thought it was good, but not that good."
Bradanini drew inspiration for his World War II play "Shadowbox Experiment" from his fascination with psychological warfare and World War II stories.
"[The play] is about two American soldiers who are taken as prisoners of war," he explained. "They are set in this room, and they think they are going to be tortured [for] secrets. But actually they're being experimented on. They don't know by whom, or by what. Throughout the play there are these interludes with the doctor who's working on them, [and he explains] what is happening to them as they slowly become less and less human."
His writing process was similar to others in the playwriting class, who began with brainstorming, then move on to establish a plot with all the crucial points of drama.
"We focused on making sure they had the key elements of a play," theatre director and playwriting teacher, Amanda Brundrett said. "[Like] the exposition, a climax, a resolution that's thoughtful, and character development."
After brainstorming and creating a storyline, the playwrights then focused on the play writing. They spent three weeks in the library composing their ten minute plays. Then they moved on to the editing stage.
"I met with each student individually…where we just went through the elements of their play," Brundrett said. "I gave my impression of it. It wasn't to redirect them completely, just to give my impression. They had a week or two to revise it, and then submitted it."
Sophia Zamora also didn't expect her play to move on after the submission process.
"[The idea] was just something I had swirling around in my brain," she said. "I wanted to put it somewhere. So I decided to use [playwriting] as a place to vent, but I didn't think it was going to go anywhere."
Like Bradanini, Zamora also used a childhood fascination as inspiration for her ten minute play.
"When I was little, I was obsessed with learning about different disabilities and conditions," she said. "Then in eighth grade, we had an essay project where we could write about whatever we wanted, we just had to do some research. And so that's what I started researching."
In her research, Zamora gained a particular fascination with autism in females. She discovered she had many of the symptoms associated with females along that spectrum.
"So basically, I learned I have autism, but I don't have an official diagnosis," she said. "So I was learning about that, and coming to terms with [it and thought] 'wait a second, there's not something wrong with me, I'm just a little bit different'."
Zamora used the essay project to write about the more factual aspects of her condition, but didn't feel satisfied. She decided to use the playwriting project as a tangible place to put her feelings. The story reflects her own journey in discovering her symptoms and her family and friends' reactions.
"After I told my parents about it, they weren't as accepting of it," Zamora said. "It wasn't that they didn't believe me, they thought that what I thought was valid, they just didn't see it."
Whether the students used the world around them or their personal lives as inspiration, playwriting provided an outlet for them to express their creativity and thoughts.
Read a sample from both of the scripts below.
From "Painting in a Different Color":
GIRL 1: What is normal? Normal is invisible. But it is so real it almost feels tangible, especially when you aren't. Normal is a trap, you want to be normal so you change a bit. Once you start though, normalcy constricts. It tightens around you, the only way to escape is to sacrifice more of yourself. Normal is following a set of predetermined social cues and behaviors without being told how to do so. Normal is following society's rules without knowing what they are. Normal is fitting into the cookie-cutter mold to seem just like everyone else. They don't realize that cookie-cutters hurt. They slice the dough, cutting away all that was unique.
From "Shadowbox Experiment":
(This play is meant to be viewed in the round. Lights come up on two American soldiers who have just been thrown in a room with two beds. They both seem adept to war but one, Anthony, is obviously older than the other, Booker. They are in plain white jumpsuits. Booker is on the floor in the fetal position.)
Anthony: C'mon Booker, get up.
Booker: (Frantically) What's the point? They got us, those Deutsch bags got us. Nazis don't keep prisoners, Tony, they're gonna kill us.
Anthony: If they were gonna kill us, they would have done it already. I feel they have something better planned for us.
Booker: There is no 'better' when it comes to Nazis. They're probably gonna torture us or something.
Anthony: A little torture never hurt nobody, if that's the case then I'm sure we'll end up fine. Wounds can heal.
Booker: They'll kill us after the torture then, no matter what the case is we're dead. It's just a matter of time.
Anthony: They're keeping us alive for a reason, believe me. I've seen what Nazis can do to people.
Booker: Oh yeah? You got any proof?
(A tray slides into the room containing two slices of bread, two apples, and two cups of water.)
Anthony: That seems pretty convincing to me.
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Q: why array manual and array that maked from database give different result with strpos processing? i have code like this..
mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("dbmobile");
$arr=array();
$array_category=array("JAS HU","PAYUNG","SANDAL","SARUNG","SEPATU","TALI J","TIKAR"," ");
$array_produk=array();
$sql="select cgrpdesc from tm_tampung";
$hasil=mysql_query($sql);

while($data=mysql_fetch_array($hasil)){
        array_push($array_produk,$data[0]);
}

for($i=0;$i<count($array_produk);$i++){
    if($e>0){
         $e=0;
     }
     for($a=0;$a<count($array_category);$a++){

            $fa=strpos($array_produk[$i],$array_category[$a]);
            if($fa!==FALSE && $e==0){
                array_push($arr,$array_category[$a]);
                $e++;
            }
    }
}

for($i=0;$i<count($array_produk);$i++){
        if($arr[$i]==" "){
            $arr[$i]="NULL";
        }

        echo $i.".".$array_produk[$i]."=".$arr[$i];
        echo "
";
    }

it works perfectly and here is the example result
0.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =SANDAL
1.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =SANDAL
2.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =SANDAL
3.SEPATU INJECTION DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =SEPATU
4.SEPATU INJECTION DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =SEPATU
5.SEPATU INJECTION DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =SEPATU
6.SEPATU INJECTION DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =SEPATU
7.SANDAL PCU KECIL 30-33 =SANDAL
8.SANDAL PCU KECIL 30-33 =SANDAL
9.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =SANDAL
10.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =SANDAL
11.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =SANDAL
12.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =SANDAL
13.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =SANDAL
14.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =SANDAL
15.SANDAL PCU MINI 24-26 =SANDAL
16.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =SANDAL
17.SANDAL PCU TANGGUNG 34-37 =SANDAL
18.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =SANDAL
19.SANDAL PCU BABY 18-23 =SANDAL
but the problem occured when i delete manual array_category() in my code to array_category from database... beacause i wanted a dynamic array of string that will be checked with strpos function ...
here is the code after  i change to dynamic array..
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("dbmobile");
$arr=array();
//$array_category=array("JAS HU","PAYUNG","SANDAL","SARUNG","SEPATU","TALI J","TIKAR"," ");
$sql1="select kategori from tm_kategori";
$hasil1=mysql_query($sql1);
$array_category=array();
$array_produk=array();
$sql="select cgrpdesc from tm_tampung";
$hasil=mysql_query($sql);

while($data1=mysql_fetch_array($hasil1)){
        array_push($array_category,$data1[0]);
}

while($data=mysql_fetch_array($hasil)){
        array_push($array_produk,$data[0]);
}

for($i=0;$i<count($array_produk);$i++){
    if($e>0){
         $e=0;
     }
     for($a=0;$a<count($array_category);$a++){

            $fa=strpos($array_produk[$i],$array_category[$a]);
            if($fa!==FALSE && $e==0){
                array_push($arr,$array_category[$a]);
                $e++;
            }
    }
}
for($i=0;$i<count($array_produk);$i++){
        if($arr[$i]==" "){
            $arr[$i]="NULL";
        }

        echo $i.".".$array_produk[$i]."=".$arr[$i];
        echo "
";
    }

?>

and the result is
0.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
1.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =NULL
2.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =NULL
3.SEPATU INJECTION DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =NULL
4.SEPATU INJECTION DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =NULL
5.SEPATU INJECTION DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
6.SEPATU INJECTION DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =NULL
7.SANDAL PCU KECIL 30-33 =NULL
8.SANDAL PCU KECIL 30-33 =NULL
9.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
10.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
11.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
12.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =NULL
13.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =NULL
14.SANDAL PCU DEWASA PRIA 38-44 =NULL
15.SANDAL PCU MINI 24-26 =NULL
16.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
17.SANDAL PCU TANGGUNG 34-37 =NULL
18.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
19.SANDAL PCU BABY 18-23 =NULL
20.SANDAL PCU BABY 18-23 =NULL
21.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
22.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
23.SANDAL PCU DEWASA WANITA 36-40 =NULL
can anyone give me a support to fix the code or explain why this error happen? is strpos function bug?
thank you :)
any help will be apreciated

A: Try changing $data[0] in
while($data1=mysql_fetch_array($hasil1)){
        array_push($array_category,$data[0]);
}

to $data1[0]
while($data1=mysql_fetch_array($hasil1)){
        array_push($array_category,$data1[0]);
}

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The 2002 Biscuit Fire in the Siskiyou National Forest. The notorious 2002 Biscuit Fire in the Siskiyou National Forest burned nearly 500,000 acres in Southern Oregon and Northern California. The fire became a subject of debate that continues to this day over the healthiest post-fire management of these forests. (Photo in the public domain)
Oregon forest fires: Let them burn
Scientist Dominick DellaSala says that when it comes to forest fires, we've got it all wrong
by Emily Green | 20 Jul 2015
July 2015: On the tail of back-to-back, historically severe fire seasons, drought-stricken Oregon has lit up once again as fires began raging across the state a month early.
Meanwhile on Capitol Hill, the Resilient Federal Forests Act (H.R. 2674) was introduced. If it moves forward after passing the U.S. House earlier this month, it will allow for accelerated timber harvest in federal forests. Proponents say logging and clearing out underbrush in the nation's forests will help prevent fires.
But logging will make forests more prone to severe fires, not less, says Dominick DellaSala, president and chief scientist at the Geos Institute in Ashland.
Additionally, he says fighting to suppress large fires in remote areas is a waste of taxpayers' money, and the common practice of salvage logging after a blaze dies out only paves the way for more severe and damaging fires in the future.
In essence, when it comes to forest fires, DellaSala says we've got it all wrong.
His new book, which he co-edited with Chad Hanson, director and staff ecologist at the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute, is a compilation of essays written by biologists, ecologists, firefighters and the former deputy chief of national forests. They all agree we need to change the way we perceive and combat wildfires.
"The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix" carries a price tag that may limit its readership to academics and industry experts, but every taxpayer should heed its message.
Scientific research during the past decade indicates fires are not disasters, but rather an important part of a forest's natural cycle. But despite mounting evidence that shows the need to approach fire habitat differently, public pressure to extinguish fires has thwarted any significant changes to the fire suppression system.
Emily Green: Can you describe how forest fires are "Nature's Phoenix," as the title of your book suggests? (A phoenix is a mythological bird that lives hundreds of years, is consumed by fire, and then rises, reborn from the ashes of its predecessor.)
Dominick DellaSala.
Photo by Diego Diaz
Dominick DellaSala: For a long time, folks thought fires were ecological disasters. And when you go in and see forests right after a fire, they look like that, right? But soon after the flames go out, there's a whole web of life that comes in. Forests need those fires to be vibrant, fire-adapted systems. The science in the last decade or so has caught up with that perception, and so in this book, we have put a lot of the prevailing thoughts on their head, in showing that these mixed severity fires are not ecological disasters, they are very beneficial.
The majority of fires we see in western North America are what we call "mixed severity." If you fly over them in an airplane, it looks like a kaleidoscope of different burn patches, with some areas that burned really hot, areas that didn't burn at all, and some in between.
Even in the intensely burned patches, immediately after the flames have gone out, you've got seeds that are prospering – little conifer seedlings come back, right out of the ashes. If you had a fire in the summer that went into the fall when the rains put it out, that next spring you would see this incredible rebirthing or rejuvenation of the forest, beginning with seedlings, wildflowers, shrubs, and then all of the wildlife that come in with that vegetation.
E.G.: Do some species rely on recently burned landscapes?
D.D.: The best places to pick morel mushrooms are areas that have just been burned. Lots of different wildflowers depend on these burn areas, a lot of different shrubs species only reseed when a hot burn comes through.
Lodgepole pine and knobcone pine need intense fire for their cones to burst open and reseed. But I would say probably the bellwether species of fire-dependent systems is the black-backed woodpecker. Everything about that species was designed by nature to come in after a forest fire. It has a jet-black appearance, so it blends right into the charred remains of the trees that have gone through an intense burn. Shortly after a burn, beetle larvae start to come in and start boring into the bark of those dead trees, and the woodpecker in turn goes after the beetle larvae.
E.G.: Can you explain why society has come to regard fire as destructive, rather than seeing it as part of a forest's natural cycle?
D.D.: It's perfectly understandable that people feel fear when they see fire, because it can definitely affect homes, lives and safety. But there's another side of the story that almost never gets told, and that's the ecological side.
A lot people think a forest is restored when it's gone from blackened to green, but they are starting to get that there's an ecological basis to fire. But when you talk about the big, severe burns, the perceptions haven't caught up to the science – the land managers certainly haven't caught up to the science, and many members of Congress are even further behind, so I think we make a big point in the book that coexistence is possible, that you can deal with living in fire habitat if you take precautions.
E.G.: Can you explain the "Industrial Fire Suppression Complex" and what it's costing the United States?
D.D.: An awful lot of taxpayer money is going into suppressing forest fires. The Forest Service has become the Fire Service in terms of its budget. In many years, up to half of their total budget approaches fire suppression, and they're crossing off all of these other line items, like trail restoration, recreation management. Those are often suffering because we put so much into suppression, and this isn't necessarily a bad thing, because we want to suppress fires that are close to people's homes, but the reality is that we're putting $2 billion in annually to suppress forest fires, and the big ones only get stopped by the fall rains.
If you have a fire that's burning through an extreme weather event – a drought, high winds – you're not going to stop that forest fire. Some are just going to burn no matter what we do to them, and it's a big waste of taxpayer money. And that flame retardant that you see coming out of the air tankers, the orange-colored retardant – it's toxic to the environment, and it does a lot of collateral damages.
E.G.: Flame retardant is a mixture of water and fertilizer, and some say it's actually good for starting regrowth after a forest fire. Is that true, or is regrowth possible without the addition of fertilizer?
D.D.: Flame retardant has ammonia and nitrites in it. The plants are going to use nitrogen – as soon as the forest fire happens, they're already doing that.
We don't need to fertilize a forest to get a forest to come back, and that's the worst thing you can do after a forest fire, because that's just going to bring in certain plants that aren't supposed to be there – invasive and weed-like species, not the natives.
Typically, we do more harm after a forest fire, than the forest fire, which has just benefited the ecosystem.
Fertilizers might be a small benefit of the flame retardant, but there are a lot of toxic impacts from that retardant that wind up in the drinking water supply and in streams, contributing to fish kill and amphibian kill.
E.G.: We're spending a lot of money fighting fires – is somebody getting rich off of this?
D.D.: I think that there is a need for more accountability and transparency in the spending. That's been a concern in the peer-reviewed literature now for many years. The Forest Service pretty much gets a blank check from Congress. We don't want people's homes burning down, but it is not doing anything to the fires that are burning during extreme weather events. We've got to start taking a hard look at letting – at least some of these fires – burn their way out under safe conditions. There are all kinds of ways you can compartmentalize a fire. You can hit it really hard where it's headed toward a community and let it burn in the back country. You can use minimum impact suppression tactics that are cost effective. We don't have to go and hit those fires with all the air tanker support every time. We've got to be more judicious, more cost effective and more realistic in understanding that we can't stop these big burns.
E.G.: Once a fire has burned out, loggers often salvage many of the affected logs. What are the effects of this process?
D.D.: The term "salvaged" is a loaded term. If you look it up in the dictionary, salvaged means "to derive something of value from something that's been destroyed." But that's not what happens after a forest fire. Something of ecological value is created by a forest fire, and something was destroyed by doing the post-fire salvage logging – so we've got it backwards!
When a salvage operation goes in, they compact the soils with heavy tractors in the most sensitive areas. A lot of the conifers that are coming back on their own are getting crushed by the logs being dragged up the hills, and then the loggers take the most valuable components out of the forest: the big, live and dead trees, and they leave behind the flammable logging slash. Take the big stuff out and leave the little stuff as kindling, and you're going to get another fire coming through that's uncharacteristically severe. We see this over and over. After a forest fire, post-fire logging is the worst thing you can do to a fire-adapted system. It's not restoration; it's destruction.
E.G.: There's a piece of legislation that's been introduced into U.S. Congress that says we need to be logging our forests to save them from forest fires. Is that true?
D.D.: No. It's far from the truth. For the reasons we talked about with post-fire logging, it's going to make forests more susceptible to uncharacteristically severe burns. You take out the most fire resistant parts of the forest, the big trees that were born to resist fire, and you put in small, densely-packed tree plantations – you leave behind logging slash – that's what blows up in the big burn.
E.G.: What should we be doing instead? Should we just let fires that aren't near human homes burn?
D.D.: What we could be doing are two things:
We're not going to log our way out of forest fires. With climate change, we're setting the system up for more extreme fire. So we've got to do something about reducing our fossil-fuel emissions.
The second thing we need to do is more homeowner fire risk reduction. Every homeowner in the wildland-urban interface needs to be a steward of his or her property. Clear out the vegetation in about a 200-foot circle around your property, build with fire-resistant materials and prepare for fire, because it's going to be here for a long time. If you do those two things, you have a better-than-90 percent chance of a home surviving the biggest forest fires.
We also need to reduce the sprawl of building in fire-prone areas because that's just going to increase fire suppression costs.
E.G.: With forests serving as carbon sinks, absorbing nearly half our greenhouse gases, and with black carbon deposits from forest fires accelerating snow melt – along with the carbon dioxide released when forests burn – aren't fires doing more harm than good when it comes to climate change?
D.D.: Not at this point. If you look at most of the fires, even the severe fires, their living material gets volatilized and put into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but they only emit about 5 to 30 percent of their standing biomass, and here's the interesting thing: You see those big plumes when a fire is burning – most of that's water vapor and not carbon. But we're not going to solve climate change by stopping forest fires.
By far the biggest contributors to climate change are the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. So, reduce our emissions, take steps close to where people live to reduce their fire risk and start to talk about what it takes to get to coexistence with fire, as it's not going away.
E.G.: Wildfire season arrived a month early this year, and (at the time of writing in July 2015) there have already been 368 fires in Oregon between January and June. That's 167 more than our 10-year average for the same time period. Is this a problem?
D.D.: It depends on how you view fire with respect to the time interval involved. The early settlers that came over here in the 1880s, and the Native American people that were here before the settlers, saw a lot more acres burning on an average year than what we're seeing today.
We have less acres burning, and we have less high severity fire burning. However, since around the 1980s, there's been a gradual increase in the amount of acres burning in the West. Fire acres are just starting to come back to where they were historically because we've suppressed most fires.
Most people don't look that far back. They only look 1980s forward and say we've got a big problem, but we're still below the historical average, at least for now.
E.G.: Is there anywhere in the country, or in the world, where we are doing this right?
D.D.: We point to a place in sub-Saharan Africa where people have been living and coexisting with fire for hundreds of years. They recognize it in terms of a management tool. They know in drought years they're going to get forest fires, so they have learned to coexist with it, and they know it's beneficial to big game populations that they depend on for subsistence.
We have examples of Native Americans that lived in this region who were very much in-tuned to fire cycles. They set some of them, they benefited by fire that was producing big game habitat and culturally significant plants.
We've moved away from that in the 20th century with the era of fire suppression, it became more the era of Smokey Bear. We need to move more in the direction of the "Nature's Phoenix era" and let some of these fires burn!
E.G.: Do you have any idea how that anti-fire propaganda got started?
D.D.: I could show you some stuff that was very targeted at World War II propaganda. There was a paranoia that the Japanese and the Germans were going to come over and light forest fires in the West as a war tactic. There are some posters that are very racially offensive that were linking forest fires to WWII, so I think it started back in the 1940s. Then it went to Smokey Bear and campfire maintenance, and, "Let's put out all forest fires by 10 a.m. the next day."
E.G.: Are policy makers or the forestry department starting to acknowledge some of the contemporary research?
D.D.: I've written about this before, the Forest Service is bipolar when it comes to forest fires. During the fall when nothing is burning they talk about, "Let's use ecologically appropriate wildland fire." That means: Let some of the fires burn. And as soon as we get a forest fire, they're out there with suppression forces, the air tankers, putting on the big show, because they're under a lot of pressure – the local politicians, the communities – want those forest fires put out, so we don't see enough judicious use of fire suppression forces to allow at least some of these fires to burn safely in the back country.
E.G.: If I wanted to go hiking through a recently burned area near Portland, where I could really see the "phoenix has risen," where would I go?
D.D.: Most of the old-growth forests in our region were born out of a prior fire. If you look close enough, you can see the fire-scars on some of the big ponderosa pines that survived the last fire. You can also go see the so-called 36 Pit Fire that burned last September just east of Estacada along the Clackamas River near Highway 224. Parts of that fire burned in a mixed-severity mosaic, and it's already well on its way to rejuvenation, if it's not salvage logged.
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Microsoft today announced its plans to release eight security bulletins on this month's Patch Tuesday, including a patch that will address a flaw in all supported versions of Internet Explorer that the company confirmed over two weeks ago. This means IE users will not be getting an emergency patch issued early, despite the fact that the security hole in question has already been exploited in the wild and that exploit code is publicly available.
The flaw in question is present in IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, and IE11. At the time of disclosure, Microsoft confirmed reports that it was being exploited in a "limited number of targeted attacks" specifically directed at IE8 and IE9.
Earlier this week, a module for the Metasploit exploit framework was released. Metasploit is used by both security professionals and hackers alike, so the exploit code for this flaw is now very much publicly available and its use could soon no longer be limited to targeted attacks.
Nevertheless, it appears that Microsoft simply wants to stick to its standard schedule. The company always announces what patches are coming on the first Thursday of every month (in this case, today), and then releases them on the second Tuesday of every month (in this case, October 8). Clearly there's some more testing needed for this latest IE patch before it can be released.
Apply the Microsoft Fix it solution, "CVE-2013-3893 MSHTML Shim Workaround," that prevents exploitation of this issue.
Set Internet and local intranet security zone settings to "High" to block ActiveX Controls and Active Scripting in these zones.
Configure Internet Explorer to prompt before running Active Scripting or disable Active Scripting in the Internet and local intranet security zones.
The first option can be enabled and disabled as needed. The second and third options will help prevent exploitation but can affect usability. As such, Microsoft recommends trusted sites should be added to the Internet Explorer Trusted Sites zone to minimize problems.


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package org.testah.util;

import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class StrongSwanClientTest {

    @Rule
    public ExpectedException thrown = ExpectedException.none();

    @Test
    public void sendMessage() throws Exception {
        StrongSwanClient swan = new StrongSwanClient("testPath");
        assertThat(swan.getSocketFullPath(), equalTo("testPath"));
        swan.setSocketFullPath("testPath2");
        assertThat(swan.getSocketFullPath(), equalTo("testPath2"));
    }

    @Test
    public void sendMessageWithNull() throws Exception {
        thrown.expect(Exception.class);
        thrown.expectMessage("Messages param is null");
        String[] ary = null;
        new StrongSwanClient("testPath").sendMessage(ary);
    }

    @Test
    public void sendMessageWithMissingSocket() throws Exception {
        thrown.expect(IOException.class);
        thrown.expectMessage("Missing socket file:testPath");
        new StrongSwanClient("testPath").sendMessage("test");
    }

    @Test
    public void sendMessageWithBadSocket() throws Exception {
        thrown.expect(ExceptionInInitializerError.class);
        File tempSocket = File.createTempFile("socket","");
        tempSocket.deleteOnExit();
        new StrongSwanClient(tempSocket.getAbsolutePath()).sendMessage("test");
    }

    @Test
    public void testMessageEnum() throws Exception {
        assertThat(StrongSwanClient.Message.SECTION_START.getValue(), equalTo(1));
        assertThat(StrongSwanClient.Message.SECTION_END.getValue(), equalTo(2));
        assertThat(StrongSwanClient.Message.LIST_START.getValue(), equalTo(4));
        assertThat(StrongSwanClient.Message.LIST_ITEM.getValue(), equalTo(5));
        assertThat(StrongSwanClient.Message.LIST_END.getValue(), equalTo(6));

    }
}

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Winton may be the test track for 19 cars on the V8 Supercars grid, including arch rivals HRT and FPR, but series leader J-Dub isn't necessarily fussed as he looks to extend his championship lead this weekend.
And why would he be? He's a 2012 race winner at Winton and finished on the podium in 13 of his past 16 races at a track where cool suits won't be necessary.
Never the less, the corner-heavy Winton circuit isn't without its challenges – 27 other cars for one, including the aerodynamically efficient but power deficient Nissans that won't have to contest with high-speed straights.
"Winton is the test track for all the Melbourne-based teams so without doubt we will have our work cut out for us," says J-Dub, who leads Lowndesy in the championship by 129 points.
"The guys who test down there will have an advantage – especially with the Car of the Future set-up. But that's OK, we're not daunted.
It's been a month since the last round at Queensland Raceway when J-Dub fell victim to not one but two self-destructing tyres on the Sunday. And with some serious over-time clocked in the workshop since, the reigning champ is quietly confident the Red Bull VF Commodores will well and truly be on the pace this weekend.
"We've had a month between the two rounds and everyone at Red Bull Racing Australia has really put their heads down," J-Dub says.
"We've got some new parts and some new thinking coming in to Winton this weekend. Fingers-crossed that makes us quicker and we can put in our best performance of the year.
And speaking of the upcoming endurance rounds, J-Dub has rubbished suggestions he's less equipped than Lowndesy come Sandown and Bathurst.
"There's plenty of talk every year about who makes a charge when and who comes home strong. But it's all rubbish at the end of the day," J-Dub says with a grin.
Winton will feature another 60/60 format race on the Saturday before two 35-lap sprint races on the Sunday.
It will also see Casey Stoner back behind the wheel in the Dunlop Development Series after securing the best result of his debut season in Queensland last month.
– Triple Eight have won six of the past 11 races at Winton.
– J-Dub and Lowndesy both won a race at Winton last year.
– J-Dub has qualified top-three in the past five races at Winton – including pole last year.
– The past six of eight races Lowndes has finished on the podium – three times on the top step.
– There is an 80 per cent chance of the safety car coming in to play. Winton hasn't had an incident-free weekend since 1999.
– J-Dub has won almost 42 per cent of pole positions this year. Another one Winton will see him break the record he previously set of 10 in a season.
– J-Dub and Lowndesy are two of only four drivers to complete all 24 races this season.
– The Winton circuit is 3km long with a top speed of just 225km/h and average speed of 131km/h.


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Q: Keep text box in sync with browser location I'm creating a web browser app and would like textbox2 (url address bar) to be in sync with webBrowser1 (web page display) so that what ever the user clicks on the page the address will appear in the box.

A: You could bind textbox2.Text to webBrowser1.Source, as follows:
<TextBox x:Name="textbox2" Text="{Binding ElementName=webBrowser1, Path=Source}" />
<WebBrowser Height="160" Width="160" x:Name="webBrowser1"/>

That way, when the user changes the text in textBox2, the web browser will also update the page it's pointing to.


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Special Fountain Pen
Regular price € 100,00
The Kaweco Special Fountain Pen follows the octogonal barrel shape of the Classic Sport, be it slimmer and longer that it's classic counterpart.
It is made...
It is made of anodized solid aluminum with a matte black finish we have known from the Kaweco AL line. The cap can be posted on the back of the barrel during writing.
We have carry the entire range of the Kaweco Special, from Ballpoint Pen to the Mechanical Pencil in sizes 2.0, 0.9, 0.7 and a classic 0.5
Measures 14,2 x 1cm (cap off)
Made of aluminum with matte black finish.
Comes regular inkt cartridge
Kaweco & Misc-store Amsterdam
At Misc-store we have been very fond of the Classic Sport for a very long time. We loved the idea that it was made from bakelite back in the days, and adapted to plastic, aluminium for their AL series to the Brass Sport series. When we spotted the Kaweco Special Pen series, which pays hommage to this classic line with its octagonal barrel, we loved it so immediately. These writing tools, made of anodized aluminium, have a slender barrel, resulting in a more relaxed grip and a more contemporary look.
At misc-store we carry the Kaweco Special Range and the Kaweco Sketch Up 5.6 mm pencils.
About Kaweco
Kaweco is known for their quality pens, pencils and fountain pens. The company was founded in 1883 in a small shop near Heidelberg's University. Here they mainly sold their writing instruments to professors and students. With time, this small shop transformed into a production unit which later would be known under the brand name Kaweco. The leading products of those early days combined with vision and untiring efforts, love and passion for details and products, made them famous worldwide.
We're particularly fond of the Sport series and the other series that take their design cues from the Sport, like the Special series and the SketchUp.
Shop online right here at misc-store, or to see these in person, please visit our store in Amsterdam.


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Q: Programmatically find the distance between the rendered text of an html page Example: left textright
In the above the distance between "left text" and "right" would be 10px after they have been rendered by a browser.
So my application, would take in an html file and 2 variables(strings that exist in the html file) and then find the horizontal distance(in pixels?) between the 2 strings.
Possible at all?
I am guessing I will have to modify an open source engine like webkit to achieve this. right? Or is there a simpler way? Parse page for CSS rules...would that work?
If its webkit, then how hard would it be ? which languages would I need to master ? I only know php (bit of C , C# , java)
Thanks

A: Use Javascript.
That way you can find properties of elements and then compare them to get their distance.
For example, you can use javascript to get element.left, element.width, and element2.left.  Then, you can find the distance by taking element2.left - (element.left+element.width).

A: The following question from stackoverflow suggests a way you can find the distance between an element and the document top-left corner (using javascript and jQuery).
To find the distance between two elements I would assume that you can do the following:
 var el1offset =  $("#element1id").offset();
 var el2offset =  $("#element2id").offset();
 var distanceTop = Math.abs(el1offset.top-el2offset.top);
 var distanceLeft = Math.abs(el1offset.left-el2offset.left);
 var distance = Math.sqrt(distanceTop*distanceTop+distanceLeft*distanceLeft);


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National Instrument 41-101 General Prospectus Requirements
Part 1 Definitions and Interpretations
junior issuer
In this Instrument:
"junior issuer" means an issuer
(a) that files a preliminary prospectus,
(b) that is not a reporting issuer in any jurisdiction,
(c) whose total consolidated assets as at the date of the most recent statement of financial position of the issuer included in the preliminary prospectus are less than $10,000,000,
(d) whose consolidated revenue as shown in the most recent annual statement of comprehensive income of the issuer included in the preliminary prospectus is less than $10,000,000, and
(e) whose equity as at the date of the most recent statement of financial position of the issuer included in the preliminary prospectus is less than $10,000,000, taking into account all adjustments to asset, revenue and equity calculations necessary to reflect each significant proposed acquisition of a business or related business by an issuer that has progressed to a state where a reasonable person would believe that the likelihood of the issuer completing the acquisition is high, and each completed significant acquisition of a business or related business that was completed,
(f) for paragraphs (c) and (e), before the date of the preliminary prospectus and after the date of the issuer's most recent statement of financial position included in the preliminary prospectus as if each acquisition had taken place as at the date of the issuer's most recent statement of financial position included in the preliminary prospectus, and
(g) for paragraph (d), after the last day of the most recent annual statement of comprehensive income of the issuer included in the preliminary prospectus as if each acquisition had taken place at the beginning of the issuer's most recently completed financial year for which a statement of comprehensive income is included in the preliminary prospectus;
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De Foyle (Iers: an Feabhal) is een rivier in het westen van Ulster, in het noordwesten van het eiland Ierland, die stroomt van de samenvloeiing van de rivieren Finn en Mourne ter hoogte van de steden Lifford in County Donegal, Republiek Ierland en Strabane in County Tyrone, Noord-Ierland. Vanaf deze samenvloeiing stroomt de Foyle naar de stad Derry, waar de rivier uitmondt in Lough Foyle, een estuarium en, uiteindelijk, de Atlantische Oceaan. De lengte van de rivier Foyle is 129 km. De rivier is de staatsgrens tussen Ierland met de county Donegal, en het Verenigd Koninkrijk met de county Tyrone en stroomafwaarts ook de county Londonderry. Voordat Derry zelf is bereikt, is de staats- en countygrens van het midden van de rivierbedding naar het westen verschoven, waarbij de rivier tot de monding volledig in Brits gebied stroomt. Het estuarium Lough Foyle is dan weer de staatsgrens.

Bruggen
De Foyle is een snel stromende en diepe rivier, wat het moeilijker maakte deze te overbruggen. Er is dan ook maar een beperkt aantal bruggen gebouwd. In Derry, het belangrijkste kruispunt, zijn er drie bruggen. De meest zuidelijke brug, de oudste van de drie, is een dubbeldekkerbrug, officieel de Craigavon-brug (in de volksmond ook wel de blauwe brug genoemd). De meest noordelijke brug, bekend als de Foyle Bridge, is een veel grotere brug en is gebouwd op een doorvaarthoogte voor grotere schepen. Aangezien de hoofdhaven van Derry evenwel noordelijker ligt, is de behoefte aan deze hoogte evenwel nihil gebleken. De Foyle Bridge was oorspronkelijk gepland door de Londonderry Development Commission en was bedoeld om de verkeersdrukte op de Craigavon-brug en in het stadscentrum te verlichten. Door politieke problemen werd deze brug echter pas in de jaren tachtig gebouwd. Derry's derde brug, de Peace Bridge, bevindt zich achter het Guildhall Square en ligt tussen Craigavon Bridge en Foyle Bridge. Deze voetgangers- en fietsbrug werd in 2011 geopend, bedoeld als een symbool van eenheid tussen de twee kanten van de stad.

Buiten Derry is de enige brug over de rivier de Lifford Bridge, die in de jaren 1960 tussen Lifford, provinciestad in Donegal aan de westelijke oever van de rivier en Strabane, een grote stad in Tyrone, aan de oostkant werd gebouwd, meters stroomafwaarts van de samenvloeiing van de rivieren Finn en Mourne.

Rivier in Ierland
Rivier in Noord-Ierland
Stroomgebied van de Atlantische Oceaan

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Organizing toiletries (and similar stuff) that I have to keep in my bedroom?
Home › Forums › Living Spaces › Bedrooms › Organizing toiletries (and similar stuff) that I have to keep in my bedroom?
This topic contains 6 replies, has 7 voices, and was last updated by evie007 5 years, 9 months ago.
I've got this stuff taking up about half of a dresser drawer right now, but it always gets really messy – stuff falling all over as I open the drawer, etc. Everything is a different size – I've got the small stuff (tweezers, acne stuff, etc.) in a mug, but then the hair clippers in their case is about the size of a shoebox, and then there are the things that are medium-sized (e.g. deodorant, cologne).
How would you organize all of this? I'd love a nice box on my bookshelf, for example, but I feel like everything would be thrown in there and be just as messy.
I know they sell organizers just for this, but they seem like they're aimed at teens & college students, they're usually bright colored plastic. We have one that came from Target during back-to-school time a few years ago, we use it for art supplies. They have different-sized sections, so they're not just undifferentiated stuff boxes.
I have a little cabinet on the wall of my bedroom, from the days when we had a lot of roomates – it's a nice wooden thing, matches the woodwork in our house. I assume it's meant to be a medicine cabinet for a bathroom, it's just that size but with a wooden & glass face instead of a mirror one.
If I understand what you are looking for, I would hazard a guess that the Container Store would have something appropriate, like a basket or similar container.
They may even have something that you can use as dividers to make it even more organized. It would be the first place I look. (I have no connection to this place other than I shop there from time to time).
You need something with dividers. I'm not a big fan of plastic, but for toiletries, plastic makes the most sense since it's easily cleaned. I got my drawer dividers at Bed Bath & Beyond. Each has five compartments of different sizes that work for all my stuff. If you don't care to spend money on such a thing, you can make drawer dividers by cutting down tissue boxes or cereal boxes and tucking those into your drawer. It's amazing the difference using dividers makes in keeping drawers neat.
Consider installing a large cabinet with a mirror on the inside. If you have a little one above your sink this could make a huge difference in your morning routine. The larger cabinet allows space for the daily grooming items.Inside the cabinet, keep only the items in constant use and make sure there is easy access to those items.


Union leaders have said they could have potential support for strike action - even though only a third of ambulance staff voted in a ballot.
Unison officials said turnout was good compared with similar votes. Of those who voted, 80% said they disagreed with West Midlands Ambulance Service.
The move follows concerns over plans to close the Shrewsbury and Worcester call centres.
Ambulance chiefs have said no decision has been made over the proposals.
They include moving the centres to Brierley Hill, in the Black Country, and Stafford.
Ambulance leaders have said they want to hear as many people's views as possible before taking a final decision.
The consultation period has also been extended from 1 October to the end of November.
Unison spokesman Ray Salmon said the 33% of staff who turned out for the ballot was a good response compared to similar votes.
He said: "If they do not put things on the table and resolve the problems in the short term, we're going to have to go back to our members and say: 'Well, they have ignored you, what are you prepared to do?'.
"Ultimately, that could see some form of action."


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CO.RO. è stato un gruppo eurohouse italiano attivo dal 1992 al 1999.

Storia
Il gruppo, un trio, era composto da Emanuele "Paps" Cozzi, Jay Rolandi e Maurizio Rossi, più la cantante, dal 1992 al 1993 Taleesa, poi sostituita da Lyen, dal 1994 al 1995. Successivamente il gruppo ha proseguito senza cantante femminile. Per tale motivo il nome del gruppo era inizialmente CO.RO. featuring Taleesa, successivamente divenne CO.RO. featuring Lyen, nei singoli Run away e Life on Mars?. Nelle numerose edizioni italiane e straniere il nome del gruppo è stato spesso riportato con delle lievi varianti.

Il singolo Because the Night del 1992 ha venduto oltre  copie in tutto il mondo, rappresentando il maggior successo in Europa per il gruppo.

I CO.RO. hanno pubblicato un solo album nel 1994, intitolato semplicemente The Album. Il gruppo non ha mai pubblicato una propria raccolta, ma i loro brani compaiono in almeno 140 compilation di musica pop ed eurodance pubblicate in tutto il mondo.

Formazione
 Emanuele "Paps" Cozzi
 Jay Rolandi
 Maurizio Rossi
 Taleesa - voce (1992-1993)
 Lyen - voce (1994-1995)

Turnisti
 Alessio Colombini - cori
 Celeste - cori
 Jane Hill - cori
 Tom Hooker - cori

Discografia

Album
 1994 - The Album

Singoli
 1992 - Because the Night (featuring Taleesa)
 1993 - 4 Your Love (featuring Taleesa)
 1993 - There's something going on (featuring Taleesa)
 1994 - Run away (featuring Lyen)
 1995 - Life on Mars? (featuring Lyen)
 1994 - I just died in your arms
 1994 - Temptation
 1998 - Lovely toy
 1999 - Message

Collaborazioni
 1993 - Stefano Secchi We are easy to love (Remix)
 1995 - G.E.M. Quiero volar (Remix)

Citazioni e omaggi
 Il brano Because the night dei CO.RO. è stato utilizzato insieme a Before the night di E.X.P. per realizzare il brano mash-up Before The Night/Because The Night pubblicato nel singolo MegaMix (Volume 2) - Before The Night/Because The Night dei The Original (1993).

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Tag: Infinite H (Infinite)
Bad – Infinite
July 15, 2015 July 10, 2016 Posted in KPOP, ReviewsTagged Hoya, Infinite, Infinite F, Infinite H (Infinite), Kim Sung Gyu, Woohyun (Infinite)1 Comment
Infinite is back after a year with a brand new comeback and mini album. Bad is their 5th mini album that was released with Back being their last release in July last year. Since Back (hehehe…), Infinite has been very busy with drama filming and promotions. Infinite H made their subunit comeback at the start of the year with Pretty. Sunggyu also made his solo comeback with double title tracks: The Answer and Kontrol. On top of that the boys have been releasing singles in Japan such as Dilemma which I reviewed earlier in the year. So many hyperlinks in the introduction today.
The song is described as a combination of hip hop and EDM elements. And that is something that we got. It honestly feel this is a very powerful song and it matches songs that I and probably many fans associate with Infinite. I also hear hints of classical and rock through the instrumental of the song, which adds to that powerfulness. As for the vocals, they were powerful and very strong, but remained matching to the style of song that the writers were getting at. Often we have a mismatch between vocals and instrumental, but this time around, they blended well with each other. Also, every member seemed to excelled in terms of vocals for this song. Sungyeol and Sungjong got more lines and their voices seem much steadier this time around. The rapping was kept to a minimal in this song, which I don't fully understand why. I like Infinite's rap in their song, but funnily not a big fan of their rap/hip hop subunit. Hmmm…
The music video is also quite interesting. The guys are tormented by this girl who they are describing as "bad", hence the title of the song. The make use of mirrors in this video quite interestingly, being a way for the girl to get to them. I find that is an interesting concept. Hence why we see them sitting around, running away and looking around in fear due to the mirrors. And from the very first time I saw the music video, I knew it was the same guy or girl or group of people who filmed Orange Caramel and EXID music videos (and of course countless other music videos for other artists). I was amazed by the teaser for this comeback though. I believe they are the first KPOP group to actually use the 360 degree video format, which I thought was hella cool. I watched it on my phone and could spin around and looking around in the 360 view. Awesome. Just one complaint however, Dongwoo's rap segment in the music video does not match up with the song. The lips were way off.
The dance is always awesome for Infinite. They are always in sync with each other. When I thought saw the dance, I was thinking that there was no way they would be in sync since there was a lot going on. But, the group managed to prove themselves to be one of the best dance groups ever.
This was a very powerful comeback with a really powerful song, a cool video and of course, per usual, an amazing choreography. 9/10
Pretty – Infinite H
February 3, 2015 February 3, 2015 Posted in KPOPTagged Hoya, Infinite, Infinite H (Infinite)2 Comments
Infinite's most hottest subunit is back. Infinite H, for those who don't know, consist of Hoya and Dongwoo and releases songs for the hip hop demographic. They debuted with Special Girl back in 2013. Since then, they have been heavily promoted with the rest of Infinite, with singles such as Man In Love, Destiny, Last Romeo and their latest hit Back. But after a 2 year wait, fans can now get a better look at Infinite's resident rappers.
This song is claimed to have a "soft hip hop beat" to it. I can hear that it is soft. Just I really can't see (or hear) much of a hip hop influence. Their last song, Special Girl, had a more hip hop vibe compared to this song. That being said, I feel like this is more of a pop song. But that is just what I hear. I like this song. It really is not that bad. I really don't know what else to say about the song. The boys can rap? But this song also points out that they can also sing. The song really is not that catchy however and though it does appeal to me, it really does not have me coming back to listen to it again and again. I just feel that it is cause it lacks the hip hop feel according to my ears. But nice song overall.
Music video, even though was meant to be humorous, really did not make it laugh. Actually, it makes me think the boys are quite clumsy. I just like it how they played out various scenarios in which the girl was so beautiful that it got them nervous and caught them out. Beside having just one plot, there are multiple plots in this one video. I like how the background, even though it was fake and seemed fake, really brought out the back ground in the music video. It actually seemed stylish and a really modern idea. Just making hearts while driving, really does not seem that ideal. The girl, to me, is not that great looking. She has a great face and all, but nothing I would go crazy for.
The dance is okay. It was toned down a little from the Infinite dances we know of, mainly because this has a much softer sound for the song. The two seemed to be having fun on stage and enjoys the dance as well.
Overall, nice song. Though, I think it time that Infinite H makes a comeback with another song that actually has a hip hop vibe to it, that all of us are familiar with. 6.8/10
Back – Infinite
August 2, 2014 December 8, 2014 Posted in KPOPTagged Hoya, Infinite, Infinite H (Infinite), Kim Sung Gyu, Woohyun (Infinite)5 Comments
Infinite is finally back a brand new song. It seems like just yesterday that they were performing. Oh wait, didn't they just finish promoting Last Romeo just like early last month? That might explain it. Hahahaha…. The group is back with a repackaged album of Last Romeo, which had been retitled as "Be Back", which contains all their other songs from the Last Romeo album and also 2 brand new songs, Diamond and Back. The latter is being reviewed today. Probably one of the most violent videos ever. If some of you guys remember, last time they promoted Woohyun was injured. This time around, Hoya is injured. So many injuries. And so little time to review this. Sorry, I was drowning in homework when I started this review. Whoops.
This song is freaking amazing. I have no words to describe. I was speechless, but my jaw did not drop a mile. It is a really nice song that is a wonderful mash-up of different genres, just I don't think it is that memorable overall. However, the song is quite up there as one of my favourites. As soon as the song starts, we get some kind of ballad of some sort, but little over a minute and the beat drops. Basically the thing that really stands out for me is that Infinite is quite known for their dance songs, with all of that heavy choreography. On top of that, myself and probably the rest of the fans really enjoy their ballads as well, so this song combines both of them. Pretty decent. I liked how the song goes from slow to fast and back to slow, and then back to fast. It sounds really amazing. Another thing to note, is that there are no raps. Members Hoya and Dongwo who are known for rapping all end up singing vocally in this song which goes to tell how strong their voices are. All the other members get decent line distributions here in this song. just I think Sunggyu ends up dominating. I also found the "Back Back Back" part really catchy and the instrumental equally as appealing.
Probably a video done right. It has a 19+ rating, but hey there is none of that sexual nonsense here. Just a very young girl is being kidnapped and a fight ensues between the kidnappers and the band, which turns ugly in just about 1 second after the "Back" and Infinite sign took over the video. Just the one thing that is troubling me is that the girl looks like she is still in elementary school. Probably young enough to be the youngest sister of one of the members, not their lover [CORRECTION: The girl actually is the sister. My bad]. Anyway, the boys go into this abandoned warehouse to save the girl. As soon as they walk in they start fighting. Some are throwing punches, some are doing really weird flying kicks. Just Sungyeol is very angry, and pulling the minions hair and Sungjong, are you holding an umbrella? "Hey you got the guns? No. Well what do you have?" An umbrella. Wow. But hey, don't look down on him because that umbrella is probably the world's deadliest. However in the end they get overpowered. However, it seems at the end, they start going back into combat when we all first thought they had lost. Amazing what love can do to you. Beside the violent nature of the video, I thought the video was quite nice to watch. The solo shots look awesome and those scenes where the members, one by one, are sitting behind the fence, in the middle of the fight, looked pretty cool to watch.
The dance is pretty good. I really think the start was probably the best out there. It matched the slow start and then when the song started to get quicker and there was more of an electro sound to it, the dance picked up as well and started to be more fitting for a dance song.
By far, probably one of the best Infinite comebacks. Too bad they are currently overshadowed by big name bands in the industry this time around. Congrats on your win today though. 10/10
Last Romeo – Infinite
June 12, 2014 December 8, 2014 Posted in KPOPTagged Hoya, Infinite, Infinite H (Infinite), Kim Sung Gyu, Woohyun (Infinite)3 Comments
Infinite has recently made their comeback with a new album. After solo promotions and solo activities such as acting, the group has finally hit the stage as romantic men again. However, this is not the first album from the group this year. In March 2014, the group released "The Origin" which is an instrumental album which consisted of all of their hit songs and other popular non-title track songs. The album itself was split into three version, each with their own category. An amazing album, that you all should check out. But this is there first release of the year that contained their voices and it seems they are getting a lot of love with four awards already and we are still counting the endless number of the awards that are yet to come.
I guess this song takes rock and roll, brings down the level of power of the song and mushes it into a love song. Okay, if I put it that way its sound like a horrible type of song doesn't it? But I think it is a cool Infinite style song. It was quite upbeat, powerful like their past songs. I really liked the drums throughout the whole thing. Though to me, the song was not as memorable as their past songs, but it sounded pretty good. Dongwoo and Hoya sound like they are really good professional rappers and to me, they improved greatly. I find the vocals of this song pretty good as well. The rock feel of the song makes it a stand out compared to the rest of the songs that have been released recently. The whole song to me seemed to be written around Romeo's point of view of Romeo and Juliet. Overall a pretty cool song, however it could have been better.
The music video is pretty cool I loved the short intro they had at the start. The music video is back to the dark ages which I really enjoy from the band. The music video tells the story of a couple who seems to be lost in time (I assume that is what the start was) and somehow they conjure themselves up at a library. At the library, Woohyun find clues to find the missing girl. They meet but unable to reach other, so Woohyun goes running after her, to which the girl just walks off, as if she is teasing him. The she disappears and he reaches the middle of the libaray, where he is so angry that he unleashes the 1000 years of fury and blows everything up, to which he is transported back to wherever he first was (or he died). Not sure. The plot seems to fit in partly to the song, but really some things could have been much better. I like their dance scenes, with the fake White House like structure and those pillars. Without the reasoning with the song, I think the music video was much better than expected, but with the song, not so great.
The dance is pretty cool. It is such a pity that Woohyun got injured and now he looks really awkward dancing the whole thing with his hands gripping his belt, but that can't be helped. But overall, I liked the dance.
7.5/10. A pretty cool comeback this time around, it just needed that something more to add to it to make it sound and look better.
Destiny – Infinite
July 21, 2013 July 8, 2016 Posted in KPOPTagged Infinite, Infinite H (Infinite), Kim Sung Gyu1 Comment
Infinite recently made one of the biggest comebacks of the month since March, with Destiny. Man In Love was released back in March, giving the guys an extra boost in popularity, earning them major awards in their promotion period. One of which was winning a whole week on all 4 music award programs at the time (MBC Show Champion, Mnet MCountDown, KBS Music Bank and SBS Inkigayo). They also won the first award, in 2005, to be presented at MBC Music Core. Very big achievements. Let's all hope this song will do well as well. Why I am saying that: Brown Eyed Girls, Kim Hyun Joong, Beast, 2NE1, F(x) will all be making (or have made) their respective comebacks in the past week or in the upcoming week.
Destiny is one of the best Infinite songs that I have ever heard of. Though some would agree, this song was much better than Man In Love and is also a return to that Infinite style that we all have been dying to hear from the band. Many say it does not have the Infinite style which we hear of when we hear songs like Paradise, Be Mine, The Chaser etc, however I think it does. Just me? Anyway, this song is really addictive. A song that background instrumental does not get in the way of the vocals in this song. It too has that classical feel that Infinite tend to go for when releasing songs. That little instrumental of the electro vibrating sound is really cool. I find the song has an even spread of the artist. Woohyun and Sunggyu are not dominating the vocals part the song, and it seems like the other members (especially L) has more lines. The song starts upbeat and really high but for the first time (I think) I heard a song slow down at the chorus. You think I would complain, but I really like it in this song. Dongwoo and Hoya's rap were extra strong from what I hear. The song itself is much more stable than their other songs and am I the only one who is addicted to Woohyun's "No Way" at the end? Cause damn, that was some good stuff.
The music video (version B) is really confusing. Hence, will I return to reviewing the music video when version A comes out? Maybe, since I gather from Version B music video is that the Infinite boys start having weird super powers or some kind of ability because we don't see them using them, when they a) step outside or b) when they breathe. It seems like the whole thing is a play off of Hulk, like when they get angry and they go crazy about stuff. The music video that was released definitely is lacking in some parts. I personally cannot make a review with just an empty review of the music video. Also, some of their powers are lame. "I can turn my imaginary twin into dust" and "I can disappear into a pile of dust" is not that impressive. Oh, also, "I can drive" is not really a super power, Dongwoo. If it was, declare me a superhero. The music video is filmed in a proper American studio which lives up to the hype about it, because damn, that is some professional stuff that they are doing.
The dance has "some attitude in it". Like woah. The dance is not as impressive as I had expected it to be, but that hands to the side and head bobbing dance looks really unfitting for the song. Overall, not great as a dance because there is nothing to comment about. Not great or that bad that would do terribly in the world.
So I guess I have to wait for the next music video. Let's hope they are not like SMent, who released the music video after the promotions. So far though 7.5/10.
Man In Love – Infinite
April 5, 2013 March 31, 2013 Posted in KPOPTagged Infinite, Infinite H (Infinite), Kim Sung Gyu2 Comments
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Infinite has finally made their comeback with Man In Love which is a much different approach to their strong, powerful chorography image that they usually have. It has been nearly a year, since their last release of The Chaser and Sunggyu's solo, 60 Seconds and Infinite H at the start of the year with Special Girl. Woah, that is a lot of songs, from just one band in a one year period. Oh wait, I forgot B.A.P. Sorry *derp face*
The song was not expected at all. I was expecting something along the lines of The Chaser, Paradise or Be Mine. Instead we got some kind of cute aegyo style song from the boys, somewhat similar to their debut song. They brought us back tot he original pop era, like the 2000's and that is pretty cool, as they always do. It took me a few listens to get used to the song. I don't like the start that much. If it was a live band, the intro would've been amazing. But the intro sounds really modern and computer-like feel to it. The verses were okay, but did not stand out too well. The chorus too seemed that well. The raps are pretty cool, and stands out the most in the song for me. Okay, I will just say this: the song, overall is okay. It is definitely not the best, but okay.
The music video is quite interesting? I don't know if the right word was used. We see a bunch of guys in love with a girl and want to please or surprise the girl. Let's go in order, the first guy (sorry, i don't his name) is madly in love with hat cat, not a girl. Woohyun, is kind of in love with someone (that bear at the end?) and plays the piano horribly (Guess the music industry is not for you, mate). Myungsoo, seems to be madly with the idea of love or his cell phone In a casual class all he thinks about is love. Kind of freak hey? That guy who cooks can't actually cook. Yeah, last time I checked, there are no apples whatsoever in a recipe for fortune cookies. Dongwoo, creates a library out of the hall way, don't know how that symbolises love, but hey, I just hope no one lives above that library of his. Sunggyu, seems to be the most convincing. Hoya, on the other is the most awkward one. He goes into a store, embarrasses himself by trying out clothing and ends up buying a necklace, which for some reason does not try on. But beside being comical, I liked this video.
The dance was okay. Nothing major, expect for that part where Hoya and Dongwoo has towards the end. It looked cool. The dance was not overly complicated and shall not be known as a difficult dance, like what the guys have done before.
7/10. Okay, I guess, but could've been loads better.
Special Girl – Infinite H
February 3, 2013 February 3, 2013 Posted in KPOPTagged Infinite, Infinite H (Infinite)1 Comment
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Infinite H has been teasing their fans since the end of 2011, if I am not mistaken, after announcing this subunit. And me being delayed, as I live under a rock, only just relaized who Hoya and Dongwoo were. Let's just say, I thought Dongwoo was Hoya and Hoya was Dongwoo. Yeah, great.
Special Girl has its roots in hip hop, which these guys specialise in. This is a really good song, which I actually like. It may not be anyone's cup of tea, but I enjoy this song. It sounds sweet and at the same time sounds quite manly. Also, a full album on hip-hop is quite rare in KPOP, so this is pretty good. To me, the song has a really catchy chorus. It sounds pretty good, and their rapping is also pretty good. However, I am not sure, but listening to the song, I keep on picking up the word "sex". I understand that "sexy" is in the song, but at the start, during Hoya's solo, I heard the word "sex". Does anyone else here it? But beside that, this is a pretty good song.
The music video is pretty good. It was boring, but at other times pretty nice. Hoya is extremely awkward with girls, and a scene where he was meant to film ended up being ruined because of his awkwardness, making the director yell at him. Dongwoo on the other hand, like this girl. Just his problem is, what he does, does not match what others do. You see, he is giving flowers to the girl he likes, but when he turns up, there is a long line of other guys waiting to give flowers AND presents. Dongwoo, realized he has no chance pushes in the line, and end up running away because h was so shy. Pretty good story. Just the music video seems to lack something. I don't know what, but it is lacking something. Also, is that really Primary? He took off the cardboard box, so is that guy really him?
The performance of this song is pretty good. The dance matches the feel of the song and to speed of the song which is pretty good.
8/10. Really good debut album, which is different from what Infinite usually gives us.


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Home Law & Justice Beware The Slope
Beware The Slope
Jacques Jonker
"I think it's important to understand that you can't have 100 percent security and then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We're going to have to make some choices as a society."
This line of thinking is sadly prevalent in contemporary times where the validity of civil liberties is seen as being relative to the obscure methods that governments the world over feel the need to use in order to "protect" their citizens. Anybody who opposes Obama's way of thinking is accused of being guilty of the slippery slope fallacy. But is the slippery slope really a fallacy at all?
Now, what's important in discussions about the civil liberties of innocent individuals and how they are trampled in favour of the greater good by the state, is that we must not forego nuance in favour of making an ideological or ethical point. Yes, paternalistic governments have done things which proved to be a utilitarian good for society at large, however, they've also committed countless atrocities. And whether we're referring to civil leaders such as Erna Solberg, the Prime Minister of Norway, or communist dictators like Kim Jong-un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, one thing stands out: all of them justify their respective policies with the same line of thinking, that is, it's for the greater good.
In order not to make myself guilty of a false equivalency, I must point out that the policies of leaders who are polar opposites can indeed be distinguished from one another and categorised as effectively beneficial or effectively detrimental to society. I'm not disputing this. My aim is to remind people of the inherent dangers of allowing the government to take paternalistic control with the justification of the greater good.
The tragedy that occurred on 11 September 2001 and the political aftermath that followed is a clichéd but apt example of pragmatic security measures going too far. It perfectly illustrates the dangers of the slope. We all know how nearly 3,000 innocent people were massacred by Islamists (not to be conflated with Muslims) across the Eastern United States on that day. What a lot of people don't know is how the subsequent domestic security measures implemented by the George W Bush administration and taken over (and even expanded on) by the Barack Obama administration took a metaphorical dump on civil liberties and by extension the presumption of innocence.
After 9/11, the Bush administration was obviously very concerned about the security threats posed to the US, and rightly so. It would've been asinine not to have been worried. Putting aside the fact that they invaded the wrong damn country in retribution for the attacks, the Bush administration put in place legislation which served to expand the US government's powers of surveillance. Seem legit? Well, not exactly.
Twelve years after 9/11, an analyst contractor for the US government named Edward Joseph Snowden had to flee to Hong Kong in order to meet up with journalists from The Guardian to expose how the US government was illegally spying on its own citizens and, in the (undue) process, infringing on their right to privacy. Snowden revealed that Obama carried on with illegal surveillance programs like PRISM. Snowden is currently hiding in Russia from US authorities after Obama failed to pardon him (this is the ex-president who apparently had zero scandals). Obviously, the US government tried to circumvent the fact that their surveillance acts were illegal by creating the FISA courts; "secret" courts (their procedural activities were closed to the public) which gave authorities like the CIA and the NSA permission to spy on citizens. The concepts "secret" and "court" are not mutually inclusive, but who cares about principles anyway?
All this followed three years after former US Army soldier Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning leaked documents and footage via Wikileaks of atrocities committed by US military personnel abroad, including but not limited to crew members of an Apache helicopter massacring two Reuters journalists as well as Iraqi citizens and wounding two children.
Both Snowden and Manning were persecuted by their governments for rightfully exposing unjust infringements of civil liberty by the very institutions who were given a finger and grabbed the whole arm. Manning was imprisoned for seven years before Obama commuted her sentence in 2017. Granted, Obama let her off, but only after she was punished for doing the right thing.
What's clear as daylight here is that the US government started out with the whole charade of "serving and protecting" and ended up harming the freedom of innocent citizens. A popular yet very nonsensical argument that flows from the Obama reasoning quoted at the beginning goes something along the lines of "only criminals need to worry about state spying". What matters here are principles. The principles of living in a free society where you are free from unlawful search and seizure and where the presumption of innocence actually means something are principles worth fighting tooth and nail for. Arguing that innocent people needn't be worried by the fact that their freedoms are being torn apart is tantamount to throwing slick down the slope. It is completely and utterly anathema to liberty.
Principles and due legal process matter. For everyone. Always.
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In any lead generation or social media marketing campaign, you need to put your best face forward.
Are you ready to wow potential clients, partners or employers with a headshot that makes you look like a professional in your industry?
The first and most important thing you need to remember is that first impressions are everything, especially online. You have seconds to make an impression before they size you up and move on.
While your profile photo should be professional, you also want it to reflect your personality and personal brand.
It can also be a good idea to use the same profile image on all of your social media profiles. This not only ensures consistent branding but also helps make it easier for people to recognize you when they see your profile image on each of the different social media platforms.
Establishing a professional, branded presence starts with a great photo and here are five elements of a successful social media profile image, to ensure that you make the right impression in your lead generation or social media marketing campaign.
The best wildlife photographers hone in on their subjects and make the details of a butterfly or a flower come to life by allowing the background to fade out of our visual perspective.
A great profile picture should do the same. Make sure the background isn't busy or complicated so that you can remain the focal point of the photo.
Although it's nice to have photos of yourself with friends and colleagues, your profile picture should feature you exclusively.
Make sure that you don't 'cut' someone out of the photo by cropping it or use that picture you look fabulous in from your last vacation in the Swiss Alps.
I strongly urge you to consider hiring a professional photographer or skilled friend to take a great headshot that features you, solo.
It can be tempting to use photos of you doing interesting and active things on your social media profiles, like posting political activist signs or climbing Mt. Everest.
While it is great to include this type of dynamism in your extended profile, your profile picture makes a serious first impression and it should be a close-up featuring your face and eyes.
I can't stress enough just how important it is when making a first impression through a profile photo that the image is a head shot with your eyes visible, looking at the camera.
There is a lot of science behind why this is so important and if you are interested, you can learn more about the social psychology of social media profile photos here.
Color is a great way to incorporate some of your personality into your profile image.
Simply add a little color to your clothing rather than wearing just black or white.
There have been decades of psychological research proving that color affects how people respond to you.
Wear red to convey a sense of power, or hot pink to inspire affection.
Wear emerald green to signify wealth or growth.
Communicate on a subconscious level with people using the color you feature within your profile picture.
It doesn't matter how conservative the organization is that you work with or how professional you want to appear.
Smiling is like a free face-lift and creates an instant connection. It de-ages you and makes you instantly more approachable.
Don't underestimate this form of non-verbal communication in your profile picture.
Do you have a professional image for your social media profiles? Do you use one branded image on all of your social media platforms? Let me know in the comments below.
@Louise: Yes, it's all about that first impression!
Hi Melonie, I love this advice. I see so many people who don't keep a consistent image across different networks and they are wondering why they're not doing well on social networks. I use a head shot and a bright colored shirt, but at times I look at it and wish I would have picked a different color. I plan to take an updated photo soon so these tips will come in really handy. Thank you!
@Ileane: It's quite often these simple things that get overlooked and undervalued. From the last few people I've interviewed (incredibly successful marketers), they all mentioned how important your profile picture is, generally followed by a small rant as well, hehe. There are many people out there who simply won't add you, follow you or interact with you if you don't have a professional looking picture. Glad you enjoyed the blog! Best of luck with the new pictures, I'm sure they will turn out great!
Hi Melonie, do you think bright colours are a bit harder for guys, especially if you are going for a business look. I can see my image needs some work!


In 2016, SNHU's School of Education was looking to create a cohesive identity and presence on their Manchester campus following several campus-wide relocations and the consolidation of School of Education staff, faculty, and classrooms to Belknap Hall. In order to achieve this mission, Belknap Hall's interior was transformed from a congested and compartmentalized warren of rooms into an open and inviting space that encourages collaboration and interaction.
Goals for the project were to create a place that is comfortable and welcoming, where it is safe to take risks, and that creates an identity for the School of Education on campus while generating and embodying excitement. The building incorporates open collaborative work spaces and student use areas including a coffee bar/kitchen, student project room, conference rooms, new flexible and technology rich classrooms, as well as Staff and Faculty offices. With these upgrades, the School of Education is not only able to meet their mission to effectively prepare and support future educators, but is also able to promote growth of the program.
In addition to gutting the interior of the 23,000SF building, the design team was tasked with upgrading the building HVAC system and improving thermal performance while maintaining important areas of infrastructure that it would be difficult to relocate. The re-designed entry plaza and canopy that was incorporated later into the scope of work, is an exterior expression of the hospitable nature of the renovated interiors and the welcoming environment embodied by the School of Education.


Ernst & Young have been ordered to pay £1.3m ($2m) to settle charges following a disciplinary over three audits of a US company, Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation.
The order follows a consultation, stemming from an internal audit quality review, conducted by the firm.
The matter came to light following an inspection by the PCAOB in 2008, during which E&Y's acceptance of its client's accounting for its sales returns reserve was questioned. The audit firm was found to have failed to properly evaluate the company's sales returns reserve figures in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 financial statements.
The board also found that during the audit periods in question, E&Y and its responsible partners failed to comply with PCAOB standards in evaluating Medicis's practice of reserving for most of its estimated product returns at the cost of replacing the product, instead of at gross sales price.
In addition, partners at E&Y were found to have violated PCAOB standards by accepting the company's basis for reserving at replacement cost when the auditors knew, or should have known, that it was not supported by the audit evidence.
During an internal audit quality review two months later, of the audit for financial year ended 31 December 2005, E&Y personnel - not associated with the audit - identified the rationale as conflicting with both GAAP and E&Y's internal accounting guidance that specifically addressed revenue recognition for sales with rights of return. But instead of appropriately addressing this material departure from GAAP, E&Y and its personnel wrongly decided, in an internal consultation, that another flawed accounting rationale supported the company's existing practice of reserving for most of its product returns at replacement cost.
The PCAOB also found that E&Y and its responsible partners violated PCAOB standards in auditing the company's new methodology for calculating its year-end product returns reserve estimates for 2006 and 2007. E&Y failed to sufficiently audit key assumptions and placed undue reliance on management's representation that those assumptions were reasonable.
'Accounting firms and their personnel must continually evaluate their clients' accounting and related disclosures, putting themselves in investors' shoes,' said PCAOB director of enforcement and investigations, Claudius Modesti.
The board barred E&Y partner Jeffrey Anderson from associating with a PCAOB-registered firm and fined him $50,000 (£32,000); E&Y partner Robert Thibault was also barred and fined $25,000 (£16,000); partner Ronald Butler, was also censured and given a $25,000 (£16,000) fine while. E&Y partner Thomas Christie was censured. E&Y will settle the charges without admitting or denying the findings.