HAT-P-13's star type is star that can be located in the constellation of Ursa Major. The description is based on the spectral class.
HAT-P-13 is not part of the constellation outline but is within the borders of the constellation.
It is calculated at being 5.000 Billion Years old. This information comes from ExoPlanet.
HAT-P-13 has at least 2 Extrasolar Planets believed to be in orbit around the star.
The star is calculated at being about 697.99 light years away from us.
The location of the star in the night sky is determined by the Right Ascension (R.A.) and Declination (Dec.), these are equivalent to the Longitude and Latitude on the Earth. The Right Ascension is how far expressed in time (hh:mm:ss) the star is along the celestial equator. If the R.A. is positive then its eastwards. The Declination is how far north or south the object is compared to the celestial equator and is expressed in degrees. For HAT-P-13, the location is 08h 39m 32.00 and 47° 21` 07.00 .
HAT-P-13 has a spectral type of G4. This means the star is a white to yellow star.
HAT-P-13 has been calculated as 1.56 times bigger than the Sun.The Sun's radius is 695,800km, therefore the star's radius is an estimated 1,085,448.00.km. If you need the diameter of the star, you just need to multiple the radius by 2.
The star is believed to be about 5.00 Billion years old. To put in context, the Sun is believed to be about five billion years old and the Universe is about 13.8 billion years old.
HAT-P-13 has an apparent magnitude of 10.62 which is how bright we see the star from Earth. Apparent Magnitude is also known as Visual Magnitude. Using the supplied Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of 3.97 Magnitude, whether it be apparent/visual or absolute magnitude is measured by a number, the smaller the number, the brighter the Star is. Our own Sun is the brightest star and therefore has the lowest of all magnitudes, -26.74. A faint star will have a high number.
The Parallax of the star is given as 4.67 which gives a calculated distance to HAT-P-13 of 697.99 light years from the Earth or 214.00 parsecs. It would take a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, 697.99 years to get there. We don't have the technology or spaceship that can carry people over that distance yet.
The star is roughly 44,140,360.96 Astronomical Units from the Earth/Sun give or take a few. An Astronomical Unit is the distance between Earth and the Sun. The number of A.U. is the number of times that the star is from the Earth compared to the Sun.


The Ziyan Blowfish I is marketed with a multi-mission, all-weather capability that is sure to suit many global buyer requirements.
Unless otherwise noted the presented statistics below pertain to the Ziyan Blowfish model. Common measurements, and their respective conversions, are shown when possible.
ENGINE: 1 x Engine driving three-bladed main rotor unit and three-bladed tail rotor unit.
Detailing the development and operational history of the Ziyan Blowfish Unmanned Helicopter System (UHS). Entry last updated on 9/21/2018. Authored by Staff Writer. Content ©www.MilitaryFactory.com.
Ziyan of China has developed a complete family of Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that includes the "Blowfish I" entry. Blowfish is marketed as a multi-mission platform capable of conducting a plethora of over-battlefields roles and tasks with a helicopter-type toolset in mind. This means critical resupply of forward-operating forces, reconnaissance of enemy positions and direct targeting of enemy elements at range. Additionally, such a system has inherent disaster relief / humanitarian capabilities suitable for Search-And-Rescue (SAR) and related roles.
The platform operates from low-to-medium altitudes and features a three-bladed main rotor overhead working in conjunction with a three-bladed tail rotor unit seated towards port side to counteract torque generated by the main rotor. The fuselage is deep and squat, tapering towards the top as the main rotor unit sits low over it. The undercarriage is simple and low-cost, being a four-point skid arrangement and capable of landing on rough, uneven terrain. The tail stem is short compared to the overall length of the fuselage and houses the drive shaft for the tail rotor unit while sporting vertical surface control planes.
Blowfish I is marketed with an all-weather operational capability and capable of navigating complex terrain types (such as urban settings and mountainous). An autonomous, "single-click" return function is built into the UAV for simply recovery and relaunch. The payload capacity reaches 18 kilograms and mission kits are fitted under the belly for easy access / replacement. An optics/sensor fit is managed at the nose under a transparent aerodynamic dome covering.
Dimensions include an overall length of 1.8 meters, a width of 1.9 meters (rotor included) and a height of 0.6 meters. Maximum Take-Off Weight (MTOW) is 50 kilograms. The helicopter can manage cruising speeds of 90 kmh (145 kmh max) out to a range equal to 60 minutes of flying time. Operating altitudes reach 5,100 meters.
September 2018 - It was revealed that the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China has taken the Blowfish I UHS into active service.
Graph showcases the Ziyan Blowfish's operational range (on internal fuel) when compared to distances between major cities.


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SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 892
Cynthia Stone Creem
An Act to clarify the rights of joint owners of real property and abolish certain inconsistent or archaic rules.
First Middlesex and Norfolk
By Ms. Creem, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 892) of Cynthia Stone Creem for legislation to clarify the rights of joint owners of real property and abolish certain inconsistent or archaic rules. The Judiciary.
SECTION 1. Section 7 of chapter 184 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out the second sentence and inserting the following three sentences: The instrument of conveyance or devise may specify the percentage interest to be held by each party. A conveyance or devise to two or more persons as tenants in common or as joint tenants, or a declaration of such a tenancy as provided in section 8, shall create the tenancy stated in the instrument or devise, without regard to whether the percentage interests of those persons are equal. A conveyance or devise of land to a person and his spouse shall, if the instrument creating the conveyance or devise expressly so states, vest in the grantees or devisees a tenancy by the entirety;
SECTION 2. Said section 7 is hereby further amended by adding at the end of said section the following sentence: The term "land" as used in this section shall include any interest in land.
SECTION 3. Said chapter 184 is hereby amended by striking section 8 and inserting in place thereof the following section:
Section 8. Real estate may be transferred or devised to two or more persons, including any of the grantors, as joint tenants, tenants in common, or in the case of a married couple, as tenants by the entirety, or as a combination thereof, in the same manner in which it might be transferred to another person. Persons who hold title to real estate may elect to record a declaration of the tenancy under which they choose to hold their title, or proportionate share with the other co-tenants joining in such declaration, and such declaration, once recorded, shall operate to create the form of tenancy among such co-tenants that is stated in said declaration.
Each of those persons holding title by virtue of a deed, devise or declaration shall hold an equal percentage interest in the title, unless, in the case of real estate owned by tenants in common or joint tenants, a contrary intent manifestly appears in the instrument of transfer, devise, or declaration. The term "real estate" as used in this section shall include any interest in real estate.
As used in this section, the word "person" shall mean a natural-born person. The word "person" shall not include individuals acting as trustees of a trust or as partners in a partnership.
SECTION 4. The provisions of this Act shall take effect January 1, 2020 and shall apply to instruments and documents, including wills, that are recorded or filed before, on or after said date.

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AMBULANCE RESPONSES – taking longer to reach stoke and heart attack victims
by Andrew Gwynne MP | 3, Feb, 2014 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Ambulances are taking longer to reach patients with life-threatening conditions after receiving a 999 call, NHS performance data reveals.
In some parts of England ambulances are taking almost two minutes longer than two years ago to get to patients who have suffered a stroke or heart attack or been stabbed, for example.
Response times deteriorated in nine of the 11 regional NHS ambulance services between December 2011 and December last year, the latest performance figures published by NHS England show.
Health charities warned that the lengthening waiting times could result in some patients dying. "Every second counts if someone's having a heart attack or stroke. Sadly every seven minutes someone in the UK dies from a heart attack", said Amy Thompson, a senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation.
The East of England ambulance service saw the biggest rise in response times for category A calls, involving the most seriously unwell patients. Its median response time went up over the two years from 295.2 seconds to 405 seconds – an increase of 109.8 seconds.
That ambulance service has been beset by problems over the length of time it takes to reach some patients, prompting criticism from local MPs, patients and health unions. Its interim chairman, Geoff Harris, stood down on Tuesday just before a Care Quality Commission report said that it had not done enough to improve response times to 999 calls.
A local coroner last year described ambulance crews as "chaotic" after presiding over the inquest into the death of three-month-old Bella Hellings. Paramedics took much longer than national targets require to reach her home in Thetford, Norfolk.
The service is also under scrutiny over the fact that it took an ambulance two hours to get to Paul Nelson, a 26-year-old chef who collapsed at home in Blakeney, Norfolk, and later died of a brain haemorrhage.
In the north-east of England the response time for 999 calls increased by 51 seconds from 330 to 384 seconds while West Midlands ambulance service vehicles are now taking an extra 49.8 seconds to reach emergency patients compared with two years ago and those in the South East Coast ambulance service some 49.2 seconds more.
Only two ambulance services improved their response time: in the South Central area (34.8 seconds faster) and the Isle of Wight (15 seconds fewer than in 2011).
Andrew Gwynne, the shadow health minister, said:
"These figures reveal lives being put at risk because of the growing chaos in England's A&Es,"
"Outside bursting A&E departments, thousands of patients are waiting in the backs of ambulances. The paramedics can't discharge patients and so can't answer their next call. People dialling 999 – even for patients in a life-threatening condition – face agonising waits when every second counts."
Despite being asked to do so, NHS England refused to respond directly to the longer waiting times or explain them, amid concern that the ageing population, cuts to social care and overcrowded A&E units may be factors.
A spokeswoman , which seeks to improve care for patients, said it could not comment on ambulance performance before it took over responsibility for the NHS last April. But she added that performance had improved with seven services, and worsened with only four, since December 2012.
However, she added that: "As eight out of 11 ambulance trusts have not met the standard this month there is clearly more work to be done to make sure people get a consistent, high quality service."
Ambulance services have to respond to 75% of category A calls within eight minutes. The data shows that the median was less than that in all 11 services in December. Patients should get "a high quality, fast and safe service wherever they live", she added.
This article first appeared in the Guardian on 31st January 2014


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The R.E.A.L Kids Learning Journey aims to create transformative experiences that develop young minds into confident learners. Placing the learners at the heart of their initiatives, the new curriculum encompasses not only learning materials, but also the design of learning spaces, the latest technology, learning activities, and assessment for learning. All these concepts and enhancements were meticulously studied, tested, and developed by their in-house talents.
At R.E.A.L Kids, we are passionate about providing children with only the best learning experiences for them to become confident learners who are ready to face future challengesMs. Jessica Tan, the Principal of R.E.A.L Kids PV 21 Setapak
Here, learning is characterized by cheerful curiosity and a continuous pursuit for greater knowledge, experience, and competency. "In essence, R.E.A.L Kids strives to cultivate learners who are able to drive their own learning journey," she added.
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By doing so, R.E.A.L Kids also promotes a sense of ownership by allowing children to have a degree of control over their learning and growth. Children learn based on their individuality and progress at their own pace and circumstances. In a nutshell - at R.E.A.L Kids - learners are the drivers, teachers are the codriver, their learning experience is the vehicle and their route is lifelong in nature.
Teachers as the Facilitator
As children drive their own learning journey, teachers become the co-drivers who facilitate children's learning. By co-creating this learning process, teachers at R.E.A.L Kids encourage children to learn according to their individual needs, styles, and levels of ability.
They ask questions to help children expand their thinking and understanding. As facilitators, the teachers would also assist by setting things up and providing materials, time, space, and encouragement so that children can find their own answers in their own way and in their own time. R.E.A.L Kids' learners are actively involved in their own learning, which makes it more comprehensive and meaningful.
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Parents (and guardians) of R.E.A.L Kids play a significant role in their children's development. Not only do they help to mediate their children's learning journey, but they also acquire new skills and knowledge that allow for greater participation in and contribution towards their children's overall well-being. As cofacilitators, they are keenly involved in R.E.A.L Kids' learning programmes and activities.
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Established in 1986, R.E.A.L Kids is part of R.E.A.L Education Group (a member of Paramount Education) and is the country's largest owner-operated preschools with more than 30 centres nationwide. All R.E.A.L. Kids centres provide full programmes (from 8.30am to 3.30pm) which include a host of enrichment lessons and Extra-Curricular Activities. These complement a fully-developed and holistic curriculum which offers both national and international syllabi. Extended programmes are also available to cater to busy, working parents. For more details or any other queries, call 03-5631 8000 or visit our website at www.realkids.edu.my and facebook page at REAL.Kids.Malaysia
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No account to set up, no hidden charges, just a simple and honest Receipt Tracking app that can be retrofit into any expense system at work or at home.
• Snap fits receipt images to an A4/US letter page no other app does this; you can pick the amount of images you would like and the resolution (through the settings).
• iCloud support for keeping track of your expenses on multiple devices - All receipts backed up, NEVER LOSE A RECEIPT AGAIN!
• Add Receipt images and chose to add details later, or just export 'Uncategorised Receipts' and email to your admin and let them plug in the figures, before you get back from your trip.
Do you work for a company? Do you log expenses?
Maybe you are sick of having that pile of personal receipts at home, and want something to organise them and make them easy to track?
Whether you log expenses at your work place, or would just like to keep track of your personal expenses, Receipt Catcher is for you. It takes the pain out of the expenses process. It is a very simple yet effective app.
• Categorise your receipt entries by type, category and vendor.
• Enter the amount of the cost, any tip amount and tax amount.
• Option to use any currency in the world with a built in currency converter.
• Take a snap shot of the receipt with ability to crop it! Or import a previously taken image or electronic receipt from your photo library.
Now for the special bit, the receipts are automatically fitted/aligned to fit on A4 or US Legal paper(s). Choose between landscape or portrait format and customise the layout. No more going back to the office and photocopying receipts, Snap as you go!!!
Once you have done the above, you can email the receipts and a breakdown of all costs directly to the admin, or to yourself to print off and submit. Exported reports can include your personal details and even a company logo or custom image.
Export by year, month, type, category or vendor and add date filters to export only the receipts you want (requires upgrade via in-app purchase, the standard version exports by month only).
This will make your office expenses so much easier to submit and traceable. Maybe your administrator will even endorse this app for all iPhone users in your office to make easier admin for them!
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Thank you for a simple to use and effective app. I've been using it for 5 years and will continue to use it. Please add the ability for receipt catcher to do income and expenses. I use the application to track income and expenses for rental properties, a cattle ranch, and leases. I currently have to manually adjust the excel spreadsheet output to distinguish income from expenses before I send the file to my accountant.
Love this app! But that would be great if a user could add original currency and its amount, as well the exchange rate used, to the report.
Also, not all expenses come as receipts. Sometimes we need to capture and log a letter sized bill or an invoice as a separate page. Please add that feature to the app.
I wish I had used it more often a great tool to have.I found it very useful when submitting paper work to company's .


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Marine Peyre's Noda
"Sci-Fi Cocoon" by Instinct*
Thursday May 3, 2018
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A chat with… Marine Peyre
We asked some questions to the French designer Marine Peyre about her brand "Marine Peyre Editions", her work and future projects.
Tell us a little about yourself, what's your background?
I developed an interest in design while studying architecture, and then while studying fine arts. I immediately launched into my solo adventure after my diploma by creating the brand "cooked in Marseille", which produced silicon objects.
My work then evolved towards furniture and space in what became my brand, "Marine Peyre Editions"; it's quite visible if you look at my current seating furniture collections, which are linked to their environment.
NODA seat
How would you define your brand's identity?
My brand designs seating furniture that is both minimalist and "maximalist", playful and adjustable, in the spirit of pop art, where materials inform ergonomics and usage. The furniture pieces are worked with only two source materials: foam in various forms and fabric.
Manufacturing in France is very important to me, it's part of the brand's identity, which aims to highlight the know-how of manufacturers and practice an ethical approach to work.
There's always an element of playfulness in your work.
Because I'm an overgrown child :) ! and also because I like to consider the movement inherent in forms, or the ways in which they transform… To me a piece of furniture isn't static and should be open to the realm of possibility, it should allow one to transform the space as well as invent new domestic attitudes.
INDECK chair
Where does your inspiration come from?
I draw from a number of things, design of course but also from contemporary art, fashion, things I see on the street… traveling, ways of living. I don't plan my ideas, they just happen through serendipity.
If you had to choose only one of your creations, which one would it be?
The BFLEX sitting system, because of its obvious simplicity. It's made of foam "beams" and allows anyone to project themselves into different universes, different ways of communicating, of sitting, working… It's basically a "furniture game" in which you can do anything.
BFLEX sitting system
You have collaborated with other brands, with Atema for instance. How do you pick your collaborations?
My collaborations are the result of chance encounters, from which arise certain affinities and a desire to collaborate. For Atema, the link between acoustics and the seating system is obvious, it allows the creation of real resting spaces, a global universe.
A project you would have loved to have been involved in?
The refurbishing of the Elysée Palace by Pierre Paulin in 1971 for Georges Pompidou!
Pierre Paulin for the Élysée Palace
Do you consider yourself an artist or an artisan?
Neither, not an artist because I work within a set of constraints, a market, and with products that can be reproduced industrially, nor an artisan because my hands aren't doing the work… I consider myself more of a designer.
What are your future projects?
For the "Marine Peyre" brand, I'd like to adapt the Noda seating system and open my brand to other designers too. In terms of collaborations, I'm working on some children's design projects, but it's a little early to say more about that…
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How do you balance a war between towns without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a thriving landscape of villages against the threat of bandits and mythological powers? Skyward Collapse places you into the role of The Creator, and frees you to tackle these problems your own way. Brought to you by the developer of the modern strategy classic AI War: Fleet Command, Arcen's second full strategy title is equally unique (but far easier to learn): a turn-based 4x strategic god-game.
Your task is to build and populate the floating continent of Luminith. You can create — but not control — gods, creatures, and artifacts from both Greek and Norse mythology. The power you wield with these is immense. (As one example, Heimdall's horn causes everyone standing outside to drop dead.) Your task is to keep both factions alive until The Master calls you home — but this is harder than it sounds. Bandits, along with periodic Woes add to the variety of challenges that you'll face in any given game. Every game plays out completely differently, and you'll need even the craziest of your powers in order to survive what lies in store for you.
* A turn-based strategic god-game where you control neither faction, but instead strive to maintain the balance of power.
* Make towns, trade, diplomacy, and war as the boardgame-like floating continent continues to construct itself around you.
* Persuade your minions into doing what you want through incentives as well as controlling what buildings and resources they have access to.
* 16 gods, each with unique passive abilities and three active powers, help you further your goals as you pass into the Age of Monsters.
* Level up your player profile by winning games. Twelve related unlockable buildings in all!
* Straightforward controls paired with an intuitive and helpful interface make this an easy title to pick up… but the strategy runs deep.
* Multiple difficulty tiers let you play a very relaxed game up to a nail-bitingly difficult one. There's no one best way to win!
* Co-op multiplayer planned for 1.0 (but not available from the start of beta).
Launches on Steam on May 23rd!
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Militants prepare for 'PeNoy' effigy burning on Monday
By: Tarra Quismundo - Reporter / @TarraINQ
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:43 AM July 25, 2011
THE USUAL EFFIGY Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan prepare a giant effigy of President Aquino which the militant group will unveil in their Sona rally on Monday. RAFFY LERMA
He'll be hailed inside the halls of the House of Representatives but heckled on the streets, this time as a fragile "Humpty Dumpty" or a "rotten egg" perched on an American jeep.
Militants will parade a 14-foot "PeNoy" effigy of President Benigno Aquino III down Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on Monday (today) while he delivers his second State of the Nation address (Sona) at the Batasang Pambansa complex.
The effigy will be part of an 8,000-strong crowd marching in protest of the administration's first year of "unfulfilled promises."
Effigy burning
Unlike last year, when militants spared Mr. Aquino's effigy from the ritual burning, members of the umbrella group, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), will set his caricature on fire.
"We feel that Noynoy (President Aquino) cannot make good on his word of bringing change. Instead, life is getting harder under his administration," said Crisanto de Leon, chair of UgatLahi Artist Collective.
Militants skipped the ritual effigy burning in July 2010 as they felt the new President deserved a chance to prove that he could deliver.
Artists from UgatLahi, Bayan and students from the University of the Philippines-Diliman worked on the "PeNoy" effigy as a parody of the President's nickname (P-Noy).
Penoy, a local delicacy of steamed premature duck egg, also symbolizes the administration's unfulfilled promises.
Perched on Hummer
The egg is perched on a US Hummer jeep because the President is reliant on the United States and lacks "an independent foreign policy," militants said.
De Leon said the effigy reflected Mr. Aquino's performance during his first year.
"The egg appears to break or crack to let out the issues that hounded the administration in the past year, such as rampant oil price hikes, public-private partnerships, unemployment and demolition of communities," the militants said.
Failing grade
The egg also symbolizes Mr. Aquino's failing grade in his first year, Bayan said.
Workers rejected the "achievements" that the President was expected to report today to Congress and the people during his second Sona.
Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), a militant labor group and Bayan member, said Mr. Aquino "flunked" in his first year in office.
Partido ng Manggagawa said the President's achievements in the anticorruption drive and good governance were not enough.
"Despite the absence of wang-wang (vehicle sirens), despite the resignation of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez and despite the initiative to prosecute former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for plunder, it is undeniable that the number of poor and hungry Filipinos has remained the same if not worsened," Gerry Rivera, Partido ng Manggagawa vice president, said in a statement.
Rivera said the President should not forget that his "social contract" with the people involved implementing social reforms to promote economic progress and equality in Philippine society.
"Workers believe that poverty will not be solved by good governance alone. Poverty can only be eradicated by reforms in the economic and social arena that attacks the iniquitous distribution of wealth in the country," he said.
Another '5'
In a separate statement, KMU vice chair Lito Ustarez said his group was giving Mr. Aquino a failing grade of 5.
"After more than a year, it is more than clear: The change and daang matuwid (righteous path) which Mr. Aquino promised are not for the hungry workers and people, but for the oil cartel, big foreign and local capitalists and the Kamag-anak Inc.," Ustarez said.
He said it was not true that it was still too early to judge the Aquino administration. "His outright rejection of the demands of the Filipino workers and people for immediate relief from hunger and suffering is already telling," he said.
Ustarez and Rivera said that after one year in office, the Aquino administration had no new program to generate jobs, no new mechanism to increase workers wages, no change in the no-union policy in economic zones, no action against job contractualization and dangerous work sites, and no end to fuel price increases.
Ustarez said the administration was making public services even more inaccessible to the people. "It hiked toll fees last January and is bent on hiking fares in the MRT and LRT. It continued to cut budgets for education and other social services," he said.
Rivera pointed out that the contents of Mr. Aquino's Philippine Development Plan were hardly different from Arroyo's Medium Term Philippine Development Plan. With a report from Jerome Aning
The State of the President
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Liza Soberano Age, Bio, Wiki, Height, Boyfriend, Net Worth, Facts
Liza Soberano is an American-born Filipino actress who is probably known best for her portrayal of Maria Agnes Calay-Grande in the Filipino romantic comedy television series Forevermore. The young gorgeous actress has already made her mark on Filipino television, thanks to her roles in such television series as Dolce Amore, Maalaala Mo Kaya: Korona, Bagani and Make It With You. Her film credits include her starring roles in movies like Just The Way You Are, Everyday I Love You, My Ex and Whys, and Alone/Together, in which she paired with her boyfriend Enrique Gil.
Liza Soberano Biography
Liza Soberano was born on the 4th of January 1998, in Santa Clara, California, United States of America. She is currently 24 years old.
Birth Name Hope Elizabeth Soberano
Nickname Liza
Date of Birth January 4, 1998
Place of Birth Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Sun Sign Capricorn
Profession Actress, Singer
Nationality Filipino, American
Ethnicity Filipino, American
Residence Manila, Philippines
Religion Roman Catholic
Liza Soberano is the daughter of John Castillo Soberano, a Filipino, and Jacqulyn Elizabeth Hanley, an American. She has a brother named Justin David Soberano.
Her parents divorced when she was young and started to live with her paternal grandparents and then moved to Manila at age 10 to live with her father.
She has six half-siblings from her parents' respective remarriages – Nathaniel Larry Osorno, Leilani Sue Elizabeth Osorno, Dustin David Nguyen, Jaden Parker Nguyen, Kaycee Logan Nguyen, and Rianne Love.
Liza attended and graduated from St. Patrick's School in Quezon City and then enrolled at Southville International School affiliated with Foreign Universities to pursue an online business management course.
Liza Soberano Personal Life
Liza Soberano has been in a romantic relationship with fellow Filipino actor Enrique Gil since 2014. They worked together in the movie She's the One and became close friends. After that, they started to work together in films and television series, where she played his love interest and that became true in real life as well.
Her grandparents were against her decision because they don't want her to pursue a relationship at a young age. Liza and Enrique didn't confirm their relationship status until 2017 and they finally admitted that they are loving each other during an interview with a magazine.
Meters – 1.7 m
Body Shape Hourglass
Eye Color Dark Brown
Distinctive Features Lean profile
Liza Soberano made her feature film debut as Angel Gomez in Dado Lumibao's rom-com "Must Be… Love" in 2013, starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla.
Liza Soberano's first television appearance was a guest spot in the Philippine fantasy anthology series Wansapanataym. She played the role of Mac in the series which aired on ABS-CBN's Yes Weekend!
Liza Soberano, as an actress, has already achieved great success and fame in her home country. She has achieved her dream of modeling and acting while still in her twenties.
As a Filipino television actress, Liza has entertained thousands of viewers throughout the country. Her first breakthrough role was that of Maria Agnes Calay in the Philippine romantic drama TV series Forevermore. Her performance as a farmer's daughter in the Cathy Garcia-Molina directed series received huge praise and accolades. She won the Most Promising Female Star of the Year at the 46th GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards.
In 2016, she played the role of Serena Marchesa-Ibarra in the Philippine romantic drama TV series Dolce Amore which earned her the Most Popular Love Team of Movies and TV at the 47th GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards. She shared the award with her boyfriend Enrique Gil who played her love interest in the series.
Not only has Liza Soberano received a lot of awards for her works but she has also carved a niche for herself in the Filipino entertainment industry.
Cuisine – Italian
Filipino Food – Sinigang
Style Icon – Audrey Hepburn, Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid
City – New York City
Country – Italy
Song – "Try" by Colbie Caillat
Cartoon Character – Scooby-Doo
Tree – Sequoia
Flower – Daisy
Bird – Eagle
Liza Soberano Net Worth
At just 24 years old, Liza Soberano's life is already a success story and has become influential in the entertainment industry. According to Phil News, Liza Soberano has a net worth of $2 million. All of that money comes from film and television appearances as well as from lucrative endorsement deals. You can see her in a lot of commercials and in print ads.
Liza on Social Media
Like many other celebrities, Liza Soberano is very active on social media and uses it to stay in touch with her fans. She has amassed over 18 million followers on her Instagram account, @lizasoberano, where she shares pictures from her day-to-day life and behind-the-shoot pics. You can find her on Twitter with the same name, where she's got over 4.4 million followers.
Liza Soberano Facts
She began her career as a child model, appearing in print ads when she was just 12 years old.
A year later, Filipino actor, comedian, and show business reporter, Ogie Diaz discovered her and currently serves as her talent manager.
Ogie suggested she learn and become fluent in Tagalog as she was only fluent in English to get offers from television and film projects.
In August 2015, The Philippine Star Lifestyle included her in their "29 Most Bright & Beautiful" list.
The 27th Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Faces 2016 named Liza as the second most beautiful face in the world.
Campaign Asia Magazine named Soberano as 2017 most popular endorser of the year.
In 2018, she was named the No.1 most admired woman in the Philippines by YouGov an international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm in the United Kingdom.


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With summer in full swing why not take on a citizen science project? The National Science Teacher's Association has published a book with 15 lessons on citizen science projects that teacher and students alike can engage in over the summer.
Citizen science enables public collaboration in the process of gathering data. The data collected allows for the investigation of biological and environmental trends the world over. The regions and timelines covered would never be covered individually. Teachers use citizen science in an effort to motivate and inspire their students by partnering with professionals in the field. Students are empowered to connect with the environment and the natural world as they make observations and collect data.
The sample lesson that is free for download has the citizen scientist working on "The Mysteries of the Monarchs". As with many citizen science projects, this lesson allows for many different entrance points so that it can be adjusted to where you are and the time of year you would like to begin.
If you aren't interested in Monarch butterflies or maybe feel that they are over done. You can always help out the Vanishing Firefly Project. The question is… "Are they disappearing? And if so, why?" If you visit them at http://www.clemson.edu/public/rec/baruch/firefly_project/ you can find clear instructions and wonderful video clips that explain the process.
No blog about citizen science would be complete without a nod towards NASA. Students love the S'COOL Cloud Observer program which has them observing clouds in their area at specific times of the day. This data is taken and compared to data that is compiled through the NASA satellites. Just visit http://science.nasa.gov/citizen-scientists/ for more information on the program. Of course this link has many more opportunities for you and your students to explore.


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Melted Plastic Waste and Activated Carbon Combine to Create Jet Fuel
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By Ruth Seeley
By Editorial Team Last updated Jun 20, 2019
Plastic waste is a worldwide problem. That's why researchers are constantly working to find new opportunities for this waste.
Washington State University Associate Professor Hanwu Lei and colleagues from the Department of Biological System Engineering have melted plastic waste at high temperature with activated carbon to produce jet fuel.
The activated carbon is a processed carbon with increased surface area.
"This is a very good, and relatively simple, way to recycle these plastics," said Lei.
In the experiment, Lei and colleagues tested low-density polyethylene and mixed a variety of waste plastic products, like water bottles, milk bottles, and plastic bags, and ground them down to around three millimeters, or about the size of a grain of rice.
The plastic granules were then placed on top of activated carbon in a tube reactor at a high temperature, ranging from 430°C to 571°C. That's 806°F to 1,060°F. The carbon is a catalyst that speeds up a chemical reaction without being consumed by it.
"Plastic is hard to break down," Lei said. "You have to add a catalyst to help break the chemical bonds. There is a lot of hydrogen in plastics, which is a key component in fuel."
Once the carbon catalyst has done its work, it can be separated out and re-used on the next batch of waste plastic conversion. The catalyst can also be regenerated after losing its activity.
After testing several different catalysts at different temperatures, the best result they had produced a mixture of 85% jet fuel and 15% diesel fuel.
Dr. Hanwu Lei and his research team in the lab, working to find a use for plastic waste.
Credit: Washington State University
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, landfills in the U.S. received 26 million tons of plastic in 2015, the most recent year statistics are available. China has recently stopped accepting plastic recycling from the U.S. and Canada. Conservative estimates by scientists say that at least 4.8 million tons of plastic enters the ocean each year worldwide.
Not only would this new process reduce that waste, but very little of what is produced is also wasted.
"We can recover almost 100% of the energy from the plastic we tested," Lei said. "The fuel is very good quality, and the byproduct gasses produced are high quality and useful as well."
He also said the method for this process is easily scalable. It could work at a large facility or even on farms, where farmers could turn plastic waste into diesel.
"You have to separate the resulting product to get jet fuel," Lei said. "If you don't separate it, then it's all diesel fuel."
Source: Washington State University
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Q: Spring boot application with MySQL connection AND an oracle connection? (Two databases) I have the following application.properties :
## Spring DATASOURCE (DataSourceAutoConfiguration & DataSourceProperties)
spring.datasource.url= ${DATASOURCE_URL}
spring.datasource.username= ${DATASOURCE_USERNAME}
spring.datasource.password= ${DATASOURCE_PASSWORD}

## Other Database
second.datasource.url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:XE"
second.datasource.username=usr
second.datasource.password=password
second.datasource.driver-class-name=oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver
second.jpa.show-sql=true

## Hibernate Properties

# The SQL dialect makes Hibernate generate better SQL for the chosen database
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto = update
spring.jpa.database=default

Goal and things that currently work : The spring datasource at the top works fine. I am able to use that for all of my main needs. The second one, below it, is going to query a legacy system and get data from there.
Problem : I have no idea how to get that second datasource to work at all. I need to get it to perform a query and get it returning something. Ideally I would love to see an example of this that works. I looked at a few blog posts, and googled around, and I am clearly missing some vital information.

A: the above is default and spring can find it on its own. To create a different DataSource you need to setup a datasource bean somewhere, and read values from a config.
Easiest way would be to create a class with configuration annotation and define beans for both dataSources.
I'd suggest HikariDataSource, you can read more about how to set it up here: https://www.baeldung.com/hikaricp
For configuration you can use Environment by autowiring it and reading your properties from there.
environment.getProperty("second.datasource.url") for example

A: Check the instructions in this link: https://www.baeldung.com/spring-data-jpa-multiple-databases
1) You need to provide JPA configuration for each of your datasources with 2) independent entity packages for each of these sources and, 3) you must specify one of the data source as Primary.

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Physics Quiz for Competitive Exams
Q1. The theory of relativity is given by
(a) Albert Einstein
(b) Isaac Newton
(c) Stephen Hawking
(d) Marie Curie
Answer: (a)
Q2. What type of lens is used in a magnifying glass
(a) Concave
(b) Plano-concave
(c) Convex
Answer: (c)
Q3. How many types of colours exist in sunlight
Answer: (b)
Q4. The first person who define speed
(a) Galileo
(b) Newton
(c) Kepler
(d) Ptolemy
Q5.If the speed of the Earth increases, the body weight at the equator will be
(a) Increases
(b) Decreases
(c) Same
(d) Double
Q6. _________ colour deviates when passing through a prism
(a) Blue
(b) Green
(c) Yellow
(d) Red
Q7. _________ colour deviates highest when passing through a Prism
(a) Indigo
(c) Violet
(d) Orange
Q8. Electrons have?
(a) Positive Charge
(b) Negative Charge
(c) Variable Charge
(d) Neutral Charge
Q9. Proton have?
Q10. Size of an Electron as compared to Proton and Neutron?
(a) 1/355
(b) 1/1236
(c) 1/1836
(d) 1/1923
Q11. A light-year is a unit of
(a) Length
(b) Light
(c) Speed
Q12. One light-year is equal to
(a) 2 trillion miles
(b) 6 trillion miles
(c) 8 trillion miles
(d) 9 trillion miles
Q13. Light from the sun almost reaches the earth in
(a) 3 minutes
(b) 8 minutes
(c) 10 minutes
(d) 12 minutes
Q14. Hertz is the SI unit of
(a) Weight
(b) Power
(c) Pressure
(d) Frequency
Q15. The velocity of the sound is highest in
(a) Metal
(b) Air
(c) Water
(d) Vacuum
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Johnny Depp began 2007 with a billion-dollar movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, claiming the 2006 box-office crown and, in the process, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of all time. Johnny had just wrapped shooting on the third film in the POTC series, At World's End, ending a grueling two-year shoot. Surely this was the time for the world's most-in-demand actor to rest on his laurels a bit, relax, and look for an easy project with a big paycheck. Instead, Johnny charged off full-steam-ahead in a new direction—and accepted the leading role in Tim Burton's film of Stephen Sondheim's musical masterpiece, Sweeney Todd, even though Johnny's only musical background came from years of playing guitar.
Choosing to play the demon barber was a risky career move; can Johnny Depp sing? quickly became the question on every Tinseltown pundit and Broadway skeptic's lips. That no one knew the answer shows just how much Johnny was stretching himself by accepting the difficult role of Sweeney Todd. But an even greater challenge lay ahead. Production began on February 5, 2007 at Pinewood Studios only to be halted three weeks later when Johnny's seven-year-old daughter Lily-Rose fell gravely ill. "To say it was the darkest moment, that's nothing," Johnny told reporter Steve Daly six months later. "It doesn't come close to describing it. [. . .] Tim and the crew shut down and stood by and waited . . . I didn't know if I was coming back. I remember talking with Tim, saying, 'Maybe you need to recast.'" Fortunately Lily-Rose made a complete recovery—"She pulled through beautifully, perfectly, with no lasting anything," said Johnny—and the relieved and grateful father reported back to Pinewood on March 26, 2007 to complete Sweeney Todd.
Filming wrapped on Sweeney Todd in early May, cutting into promotion time for the little Pirates film due to open worldwide on Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start to the U.S. summer movie season. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End had its world premiere at Disneyland on May 19, 2007; thousands of fans lined Main Street to watch Johnny and his colleagues walk the red carpet. Like its predecessor, At World's End brought moviegoers to the box office in droves and became the top-grossing film in the world for its year of release, earning more than $961 million and becoming the 5th-highest-grossing film of all time.
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December 10 -- New York Magazine, Logan Hill
December 12 -- Associated Press, Jake Coyle
December 13 -- USA Today, Susan Wloszczyna
December 16 -- LA Daily News, Glenn Whipp
January -- Empire Magazine, Martyn Palmer
January -- Esquire Magazine, Cal Fussman
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Best Time to Visit South India
The ideal time to visit tropical South India is during the winter season. The peak months of this season are from December to February when the weather is at its most pleasant. The hottest months of South India are from March to May and the average temperature is 32 Degrees Celsius. From June to September months are the monsoon season that brings the highest humidity and heat with rainfalls. The best time to visit South India depends on vacation plans. So, if travelers want to explore the cultural heritage of the cities of South India, then they should avoid the hottest months. On the other hand, if the tourists want to do adventurous activities in the Ghats and mountains, then they have to come after the monsoon season when everything turns Technicolor.
South India in Winter – From October to February
During the winter season, Kerala state is dry and least humid and the daytime temperatures between 220 C to 300 C. Besides, the hill stations of Kerala are cooler and the visitors will require a fleece, jacket or pullover in the morning and evening. Besides, winter season is the best season to visit South India as well as Deccan Plateau which is guarded by the Nilgiris, Western and Eastern Ghat, Vindhya and Satpura Ranges in the west, east, and south respectively as well as is separated by the Gangetic Plains in the north. Furthermore, wintertime is the perfect time to visit the coastal plains. The climatic situations are soothing, pleasant, and cool and most of the adventure activities open in this season. Also, the months between October and March are the best to visit the Eastern and Western Ghats. At that time, the days are pleasant, balmy, and perfect time for outdoor activities, sightseeing, and other touristy activities.
South India in Summer – From March to May
The temperature remains pleasant and cool of Nilgiri Hills during summer and winter months. But during the summer season, this area remains an overcrowded and huge number of tourists flock to this place mostly from the north Indian cities. The weather conditions in the summer season remain balmy along with the 20 – 35 degrees Celsius temperature. Even, the summer season is the best time to spot the flora and fauna in the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka and the Periyar National Park in Kerala.
South India in Monsoon – From June to September
Monsoon season is not a good season for outdoor activities due to heavy rainfalls. But it is the perfect season for rejuvenation therapies at Ayurveda Centers. In this season, the pores of the human body open wide to fully absorb the oils and treatments. The beauty of South India during the monsoon enhances to the multiple folds. The lush greenery of the Ghats and mountains offers panoramic views.
Recommended Tour Packages
Complete Tamilnadu Tour
13 N / 14 D
Best of Kerala
Hill Stations of South India
Holy Tirupati with Pondicherry
Chennai Pondicherry Tour
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Deadmau5 Proposes to Kat Von D Via Twitter After Three Months of Dating
Victor Gonzalez | December 17, 2012 | 11:00am
Kat and Joel, sittin' in a tree, T-W-E-E-T-I-N-G....
Experts say that the best marriages are those rushed into after only three months of on-again, off-again dating. Especially when they're shoved down others' throats via obnoxiously adorable Instagram photos and nauseatingly cute tweets.
So, over the weekend, Joel Zimmerman (AKA Deadmau5) finally popped the big question: "How many people in this crowd have seen Molly?" "Will you marry me?" to short-time girlfriend Katherine Von Drachenberg, otherwise known as Kat Von D.
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"I can't wait for Christmas," Deadmau5 tweeted. "Katherine Von Drachenberg, will you marry me?"
Von D replied, "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," text-speak for yes.
Moments later, she followed with real words.
Mi corazon!!! Thank you all for the lovely congratulations! Please excuse me while I go squeeze the hell out of my fiancé! ❤
-- Kat Von D (@thekatvond) December 16, 2012
Presumably tweeting from one knee, Deadmau5 surprised his bride-to-be with a sweet picture of her would-be ring.
Well, sort of.
According the meme image, Von D's ring will include a black diamond and should be on her finger in the very near future.
"Sorry for the jpg," Mau5 photoshopped into the image. "They'll finish the actual ring soon I hope."
For Kat, it's her second engagement in as many years.
In January 2011, Von D announced that she and motorcycle builder Jesse James were to wed, according to Rolling Stone. A few months later, however, the tattoo artist announced the pair had split.
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Waveline Media displays are the best way to create a custom-looking exhibit while enjoying the advantages of a portable stand.
Waveline Media displays are the best way to create a custom-looking exhibit while enjoying the advantages of a portable stand. Highlight your digital message as screens float cleanly in front of your crisp backwall graphics. Take advantage of the easily assembled aluminum tubing frames and pillowcase graphics: a simple and affordable solution that communicates with impact. Enjoy one-day production with premium textiles printed right here in the USA! Bring your brand to life with a special configuration that suits your needs: call our experts to help personalize any of these kits.
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The 10 x 10 Waveline Media trade show displays require digital signage. Once you accept that, consider that the Waveline Media panels build the best best 10x10 booth digital signage displays. This preconfigured all in one kits come with media stands incorporated and you can add ipad stands, or tablet stands. If you ever wondered how to mount tv on wall, don't worry. The monitor mount system uses cable fasteners for hanging, and is invisible to the visitor, unlike the monitor wall mounts. You may need display shelves, storage shelves, and sort of tv table stands or table top mounts for the digital players.
The monitor stand also may require a media shelf or countertop shelf. The advantage of these kits is your trade show booth design has been proven on many trade show booth displays before, and you don't need to get a masters in graphic design in advance to be successful. The kits do not come with roll up banners, or other retractable banner stands directly, but you may add them. Consider trade show flooring that combines the preset trade show backdrop panels. If the venue gives you a table, we offer you table top display stands to accompany it. We also have trade show table covers available.
Your exhibition display may have hanging lights, but the kits come with trade show lighting, where the backdrop panels have their panel light. Don't worry about how to mount lighting, because the display light system is ready to work. The final result is similar to overhead lighting.


Below is a list of things I've learned. Take the ones you like. Also, my rough notes from some podcast episodes are listed as well.
Use google more than you would expect to, especially for excel tips.
If you're good, you'll get more flexibility. Good means reliable, hardworking, having a sense of urgency and owning your work.
People like early risers, if you're in first, that will get you noticed.
Exercise, it will help your focus and mood.
a. Invoice (noun or verb) - When your client performs a service for a customer or sells a customer something, they send them a piece of paper detailing what they did, when they did and how much the customer has to pay. The customer collects money after the event takes place. Your client will also receive invoices from vendors (people they buy stuff from) in the same manor. Ex: ABC, Co. invoiced XYZ, Co. for services provided on 11/30/14 in the amount of $200,000.
c. OPEX - Operating Expenses. These are expenses that don't directly impact the company's ability to make money. For instance, internet, utilities, and rent on a building, are operating expenses.
d. Substantive - When used to described tests (substantive tests) or evidence (substantive evidence) this typically relates to testing or evidence that supports numbers on the financials, or a part of a calculation that ends up being a balance in the financials.
a. Keep it simple. Cash is typically generated by Companies from selling goods/services, selling fixed assets/properties, and via investment.
b. Companies typically have several bank accounts which are separated by business function (i.e. payroll account, accounts payable, income accounts). These accounts need to be reconciled each month to ensure that the cash in the bank account can be sort of agreed back to the books, or make sense of the difference. You guys have learned these differences, so I'm not going into it yet. First I want to give a little overview of what a concentration account is. This was a tricky concept for me. Typically a Company has one main standard business account which carries a balance and series of underlings/minion accounts to handle the dirty work. These minion accounts are for business purposes, as stated, like paying salaries, receiving monies for goods/services, or paying the light bill. These accounts carry no balance and are called Zero Balance accounts. The client will only put enough money in the account to pay bills, and then the rest (if there's leftover) will be sent back to the concentration account. Receipt accounts all get sent (or swept) to the concentration account. It's like a Senior to Staff relationship; the functional accounts do the real work, carry a zero balance and give everything they have to the concentration account.
c. How to audit? You ask the bank to tell you how much money the client has. It's that simple. You'll need a bank confirmation and the company's recon for every bank account. You take bank confirmations and agree the ending balance, reported by the bank, to the Company's "per bank" line on the recon. The noise between the "per bank" and "per books/GL" amount will be reconciling items, like checks written but not cashed called "outstanding checks", these will decrease the "per bank" amount. You can get a listing of these items from which you will select a sample. You get a copy of the checks and the subsequent bank statement to ensure they were in fact written prior to year end, but not cashed until after. The other big reconciling item are the deposits in transit. These are checks/wires received by the Company, but not yet cleared by the bank. These will add to the bank balance. Get a listing of these amounts, select some and ensure they were properly dated within the year under audit but that they cleared the bank the following month. Overall, remember, a simple bank recon formula is "Bank Balance + Deposits in transit - outstanding checks equals Book/GL Balance. Don't Forget to: Remember to ask for the correct date of confirmation (the period end/year end date), and you as the auditor must send/receive the confirm, not the client.
a. This is a very simple area. I've been on engagements where we simply do no EA testing for AP as you get a lot of comfort from the search. Nonetheless. AP and Simple Accrueds (as I will call them) are the amounts owed to vendors for goods that are resold, or overhead costs. This test is to be performed over trade AP simple accrued liabilities (not complex estimates like workers comp accrual, bonus accrual, etc.) You simply obtain the clients listings of AP (there will likely be multiples, and you should have them already), agree the balance, or balances (if more than one listing) to the trial balance account, or accounts. Then you run your sampling plan over the balance, it will spit out a number of items to test, and you make some selections. For Trade AP, you will need to get The Vendor Invoice.
Scope the listing based on some metric, (your boss will probably help here), to pick checks over a certain number (and a few under). Obtain the check and the invoices that those checks paid (usually the check register/detail) will help you see what invoices made that up. You may also need shipping documents. You use the invoice and shipping docs to see what period the invoice related to. If the item related to the period under audit (i.e. before 12/31), then search the AP and accrual listings to make sure it was included in there. If you can't find it, talk to the client, if they can't show you where it was accrued, then it's probably an exception. If the invoice/shipping docs show that related to goods/services after period end (after 12/31), then make sure it's no included in those listings.
You can stop here if you just wanted to know how to search, but there are Additional Considerations and tests you can do/your firm will likely have you do.
You have to check the completeness of the check and wire listings. The check listing should be sequentially numbered, just get the check listing in excel and sort the check numbers, then run a formula to ensure there are no breaks in the sequence. Email or tweet me if you need a simple formula. For any breaks, obtain those voided checks. Also, you should get the listing from the week prior to year end (i.e. 12/24-12/31) and make sure that the last check number is one less than the first check number of the 1/1 listing). For instance, if check number 2798 was the last check number of the year under audit, then the first check in the subsequent check listing should be 2799. For wires, just get the subsequent bank statements and make sure there were no other outgoing wires that were not on the list. Boom.
Open bin search: This is simply looking at the file of invoices that haven't been processed yet. Grab a handful (or logical sample) and make sure the invoices didn't relate to the year under audit.
There will be more procedures your firm will require, I'm sure of it, but this is the bulk of the work.
So what's the purpose of all this? All the counts are to test a sample of management's already counted items to ensure they've done a good job. Ideally, there should be no variances as management has already counted and adjusted their records. The floor to sheet counts are performed to ensure that management hasn't missed anything. The tag listing is to ensure that management has counted everything; it's a bit of a weird test when the company used blind count sheets, but it's still pushed for by current accounting firms, so do it. Just pick a sample of tags from their tag listing, find them on the floor, then pick a sample of the tags from the floor and trace them back to the listing (don't pick the same tags!) Then get any voided tags, and get the first and last tag to make sure you have a complete population. The shipments in and out will help the team, that eventually does the test documentation, ensure that nothing was moving during the count, which ensures cutoff.
a. First and foremost I want to talk about the Assertions that tend to take the most time, bear the most risk and the majority of what you'll be working towards validating during your time. Don't worry if the term "assertion" is a little foreign, by the end of the episode, you'll get it. Completeness, Existence, Accuracy and Valuation are probably the most important assertions to you.
b. Completeness is the idea that a balance is complete, i.e. there is nothing missing from it. For instance, in AP, you want to make sure that the balance is not lower than it should be. How would this happen? Imagine a 12/31 client gets a new printer that cost $500 on December 15, but the printer company hasn't asked for money yet as of 12/31 (i.e. invoiced), and the client doesn't put the $500 in their AP listing, then their listing would be considered incomplete.
For Existence, Accuracy and Valuation, I like to combine these and use inventory as an example. I break it down to a simple equation, Quantity X Cost - reserves gets you EAV of inventory. So imagine inventory, there is a certain number of items, times a certain cost per item is a nominal value, however, these not all this nominal value is correct, because stuff can be damaged, or not worth anything, so a reserve must be set against them. So in this case, quantity = existence, cost equals accuracy, and valuation equals the reserve in this case. I like to think of existence in terms of quantity, or kind of "yes or no". To leave inventory and do another example, let's talk Fixed Assets, does the asset exist? Yes or no. In determining accuracy, how much did the asset cost? And to determine the full asset value, you have to figure out if there are any damaged or impaired assets, which would then require a write down.
Some of the other assertions you'll deal with are presentation and disclosure, which essentially means, are the balances correctly incorporated in the financials. For instance, you wouldn't call cash a long term asset, so the P&D assertion, or the risk related to the P&D assertion for cash (in this case) is that it's not properly classified. Something also to remember is that not all firms follow the AICPA or PCAOB assertions exactly, but they substantially are all the same.
Also, back to completeness. This assertion is often tricky because your senior, or manager, will always ask, how did get completeness of this listing, or of this account, or there is a big risk of understatement, etc. So get this concept down and it will help you find ways to get comfort over the completeness assertion which will help your everyday work.
a. This episode is about types of substantive testing approaches. If you are not clear what that that means, Check out the Controls vs. Substantive episode. So back to it. You've probably heard the different types of tests and might be a little overwhelmed. Each firm has a little different name for them, Sampling Plan, Statistical Sample, underlying data, attribute, MUS, bla bla bla. I'm going to narrow it down and make it easy. There are 4 types of tests, three of which are for the same purpose. That means there are really only two different approaches to testing. One- you can test a balance, meaning, you're getting support for figures within that balance. Simply, you get a listing, or detail of an account, or subaccount, run a sampling approach to get a sample size, and then get those. These types of tests are for testing dollar values directly. The other method to test attributes, or non-monetary values. You may still test numbers, but not a monetary balance, typically. In these tests, you're making sure that other stuff is correctly stated by the company. I'll give you an example for each. The monetary balance test, as I'll call it would be like getting an AP listing, picking a sample of invoices from vendors, and making sure the dollars agree to the listing. The attribute test would be like subset of payroll testing. Let's say you want to test that the company has appropriately got the hire dates of personnel included in their payroll system. You pick a sample of people from the employee roster, get their signed new hire form, and agree those hire dates to the employee roster. The difference lies in what an exception does. In a money value test, an exception means their account balance is off by the amount you find in your testing. IN attribute testing, it means something way before the account balance is off. So, next, let's talk about the different types of actual tests. For attribute tests, your firm will typically have one set of rules that is not connected to the account balance. It is simply based off of number items in a population (i.e. if there were 20 people on that employee roster vs. 2500, the sample would be different). There's typically one approach there. For the money value test, there are really two main approaches: 1. Statistical Sampling Plan, or Monetary Unit Sampling, 2. Non-Statistical Sampling Plan.
This one will be quick. There are two types of tests. Controls vs. Substantive. A controls test is used to ensure that controls in place are operating effectively, and have nothing directly to do with numbers under audit. A substantive test will give you comfort over numbers on the financials that are under audit directly. For example, a simple control is that monthly bank reconciliations are performed. The accounting clerk will get the bank statements and balance that the company has on their books, then compare them to see what the difference is. Once they identify the differences, the account is considered reconciled, and them someone will review the recon. The purpose for this control is to ensure that the bank balance and the book balance aren't unexplainably different. And how good they are at reconciling their books through the year indicates how accurate their books will be at year end. So, that's where the 'indirect effect on year-end numbers' concept comes in. While the bank recons in June won't have an impact on year-end numbers, their control effectiveness can give clues as to whether or not they are. Another example is the approval of Purchase Orders. Let's say an office manager wants to buy new printer cartridges. Someone should be approving the request (aka purchase order) for these cartridges. Also, once the cartridges come in, and the invoice comes in (which is a request for payment from the seller), someone should match the PO to the Invoice to make sure it was an approved purchase, and so the dollar amount is correct. The amount that gets paid, let's say its $200, goes into the company's operating expenses line in their income statement. This balance grows each time there is a transaction. Therefore, testing control effectiveness over the approval of the PO and the matching of dollar amounts between the invoice and PO will impact the year the end financials.


Ego Plum composes music for film and television as well as performing in several bands. Over the course of several months last year, we built Ego a circuit bent Casio VL-1, MT-68, PT-30, DM-100 and MT-400v. He currently uses them in the production of the soundtrack for Nickelodeon's HARVEY BEAKS, an animated series which currently airs all over the world.
We are currently building the first test versions of the revised Dubsta, our groundbreaking analogue delay. Andy Barak-Smith brought his theremin into the studio to try out our prototype. The results were fantastic, the otherworldly tones of the Moog theremin are a perfect match to the analogue delay. You can hear the modulation of the delay to great effect in the video.
Daniel Boyle is building a great reputation working with veteran artists. First Lee "Scratch" Perry, now Max Romeo! A few years ago, Dan bought one of our circuit bent digital "Dubsta" delays.
We are really happy that it is still being used in Rolling Lion Studio as he produces great music with these giants from the world of reggae. The new Max Romeo album, "Horror Zone", is soon to be released. Dan says of our delay that he "Used it all over the album".
years of producing great music!
OUR ANALOGUE "DUBSTA" DELAY IS ABOUT TO GO INTO PRODUCTION!
We have begun to manufacture our first batch of the pure analogue "Dubsta" Delay. Powered by four MN3005 BBD chips, it looks and sounds great. The initial run of PCBs have already come back from the factory in the UK, and cases will follow shortly.
Our pure analogue Delay uses 4 X MN3005 ICs to create warm, lush repeats. Also includes input and output filters, mic pre with 48v phantom, modulation and more.
We visited producer Henry Cullen (AKA D.A.V.E The Drummer) at the Punishment Farm studio to hand over his Dubsta Delay and run through the extensive controls. Henry has run the label Hydraulix for many years, and has been behind some of the most cutting-edge techno tracks in the UK scene.
He took to the Dubsta Delay immediately, and he plans to make some tutorial videos for us in the near future, for which we are very grateful!
Dan has supported S-CAT for many years, so we were excited to hand over his Dubsta Delay. We were lucky enough to have the vocals from the new Lee "Scratch" Perry album running through the unit, as Daniel is working on the mixdown of his new album.
Check out the video for a clip of classic dub vocals from the master himself - and our delay providing a lovely chorus and echo.


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