Observe fundamentals: Know the standards; select clients carefully; communicate often.
DEBATE HAS RAGED FOR YEARS i n financial and accounting circles over issues of independence, auditing and accounting standards, and corporate governance. In the event of an auditing malfeasance trial, a juror—unaware of this larger context—must arrive at a verdict based on what he or she learns about accounting standards in a relatively brief time.
PROTECTIVE FUNDAMENTALS INCLUDE performing thorough due diligence on the client before taking it on and crafting carefully worded engagement agreements.
IF A PRIVATE-COMPANY CLIENT requests a "PCAOB audit," CPAs should ask what business aim the client is trying to achieve. Voluntary compliance with PCAOB auditing standards may not be in the client's best interest and outcomes may differ from what the client expects.
CPAs WHO APPLY PCAOB AUDITING STANDARDS and GAAS must accept responsibility for performing the audit according to both sets of standards and be aware that the PCAOB piece is an add-on in terms of risk. Although the audit report, with its definition of which standards were followed, is the CPA's final line of defense should he or she be sued for malpractice, an aggrieved client may claim it was unclear.
BECAUSE THE PUBLIC EXPECTS CPAs to produce a successful result—that is, to "get it right"—CPAs will find themselves more exposed to liability if they don't. If a disappointed client or third party can demonstrate it was confused about the CPA's services, a jury will be more likely to punish the CPA.
COMMUNICATING THE NATURE OF the audit services in a way the client will understand, and documenting those communications with the client, are essential risk management practices.
RIC R. ROSARIO, CPA, CFE, is vice-president of risk management and SUZANNE M. HOLL, CPA, is director of loss prevention for CAMICO Mutual Insurance Co., a national provider of professional liability insurance for CPAs. Their e-mail addresses are rrrosario@camico.com and sholl@camico.com , respectively.
here could be potential trouble in store for auditors whose private-company clients ask them to apply both PCAOB auditing standards and generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS). While the boundaries between the PCAOB's auditing standards for public companies and generally accepted auditing standards for nonpublic entities are clear, nonissuers and those who govern them sometimes are confused about what the differences are and which standards apply when. The public—from which juries are drawn—may be confused, too. When you mix in hungry trial lawyers, you've got the makings of a "perfect storm." This article will discuss some differences between the two sets of standards and the steps auditors should take to minimize confusion and the consequent risk of messy litigation if a private company client asks them to apply both PCAOB auditing standards and GAAS.
High-profile accounting lapses and more than 1,500 restatements from major corporations over the past four years have resulted in the most dynamic, negatively charged financial reporting environment in more than 70 years. Public perception of CPAs—specifically of their roles and duties as auditors—has been buffeted as a result. For perspective on how that could pose a danger, imagine that auditing malfeasance has been alleged against you and a jury has been selected to hear the case. Now imagine you're an average working person who has been impaneled as a juror. How do the professional issues look from that point of view?
As a CPA, you're aware that in financial and accounting circles debate about issues of independence, auditing and accounting standards and corporate governance has raged for years. The juror in the jurors' box doesn't know that, though. He or she has been inoculated by recent business scandals and those still making headlines today. Moreover, in the course of an auditing malfeasance trial, jurors—to arrive at a verdict—will be expected to acquire a working understanding of the issues and of two complex sets of accounting standards in a very short time. The average person likely will begin to weigh a decision as a choice between nuanced calculations or a more simply expressed complaint by a business owner or other plaintiff.
As of 2003 the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) has had jurisdiction to promulgate auditing, attestation and quality control standards relating to the preparation and issuance of audit reports for private companies. Failure to follow ASB standards in auditing a private company is a violation of rule 201 and/or 202 of the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct.
Source: "GAAS and PCAOB Standards: Applicability and Integration," The Practicing CPA (May04), AICPA.
Be selective about the clients you accept. AICPA Practice Alert no. 2003-03, Acceptance and Continuance of Clients and Engagements, describes some crucial policies and procedures CPAs should follow when deciding whether to accept or continue a client relationship or to perform a specific engagement. The guidelines help a firm gauge its competency to perform an engagement, its independence and objectivity, the client's integrity and competence, the client's commitment to internal control and generally accepted accounting principles, and the client's financial viability. Assess the client's financial literacy, too.
Do thorough due diligence on all prospective clients. Perform a background check on the client's key decision makers in all significant engagements. This is especially important when the company is considering a public stock offering, is seeking to acquire another company, may itself become an acquisition target or is anticipating involvement in other significant transactions.
Craft carefully worded engagement agreements before taking on a client. After discussing all the details of the potential engagement with the client, put your understanding in writing before you start.
Pay attention to liability-control strategies as you deal with audit clients and with third-party users of your firm's other attest work products.
Probe the client to learn who the work product end users will be. If a private-company client says it wants you to use "some" PCAOB auditing and related professional practice standards instead of GAAS or in addition to them, you need to know what the client is trying to achieve. Ask who, besides your client, will use the work product: Will it be banks or other financial institutions, creditors, investors, supply chain vendors or governments? Each type of end user has a specific need. Note that third-party end users also may be confused about the new regulations. It's as easy for them to conclude a PCAOB audit is in some way superior to a GAAS audit as it is for people who are not well-versed in financial reporting. Be cautious and focus on making an appropriate match between your firm, the client and the end user of your attest work.
If a privately held client requests an audit pursuant to PCAOB audit standards, be alert to the issues involved if you comply. For example, a private company considering going public doesn't need a PCAOB-type internal control audit, but it might believe that one would enhance its perceived value—or it may want to see how such an audit would affect its operations. Another example might be a public company considering acquiring a private company; both parties may want to see how the target company measures up to PCAOB audit standards. Clients making such requests may not be financially sophisticated or aware of the ramifications of using different audit standards—one reason why they rely on a CPA firm.
Some clients may say they are interested in "some PCAOB procedures" but not in having the audit performed in accordance with "all" PCAOB standards because of the expense and effort required. Even third parties such as banks and creditors may think certain practices that mirror PCAOB audit procedures are appropriate, such as having the client CEO and CFO certify internal control or other Sarbanes-Oxley-related procedures. You need to discover why the client is making the request. If the client's basic goal is rational but the method it suggests is unnecessary, then inform the client what is and isn't appropriate.
Educate the client. Private-company requests for PCAOB audits give you an opportunity to educate clients about GAAS and PCAOB standards and the requirements of each. Inform the client that private companies are not required to use PCAOB standards and that GAAS are still the norm. Clarify the audit options available for privately held companies. Explain the differences between an audit conducted in accordance with "the auditing standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board" (PCAOB auditing standards) vs. an audit conducted in accordance with GAAS.
Audit reports representing that the audit was conducted in accordance with PCAOB audit standards and GAAS, but which are later found not to be in compliance with all applicable PCAOB auditing standards, may be deemed substandard by the AICPA peer review program, depending on the severity of the deficiencies. If a private company decides it wants its auditor to follow and report using PCAOB auditing standards, the auditor must follow both GAAS and all PCAOB auditing standards (see " A Standard by Any Other Name ").
Inform the client that voluntary compliance with some variation of PCAOB standards in an audit is not necessarily in its best interest. Let the client know that the expense and effort of complying may well outweigh the potential benefits it is seeking, and the outcomes may differ from what the client expects. For example, a private company may find implementing the new reporting requirements under section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act imposes a significant burden that diminishes the entity's viability or attractiveness.
Authoritative standards for auditors of nonissuers, www.aicpa.org/members/div/auditstd/Auth_Lit_for_Nonissuers.htm .
Recently issued audit and attestation interpretations, www.aicpa.org/members/div/auditstd/announce/index.htm .
Auditing Interpretation no. 18, "Reference to PCAOB Standards in an Audit Report of a Non-Issuer," of SAS no. 58, www.aicpa.org/members/div/auditstd/announce/index.htm .
Auditing Standards Board exposure drafts, including recently issued proposed statements on defining professional requirements in statements on auditing standards (SASs) and in statements on standards for attestation engagements (SSAEs), as well as a proposed SAS on audit documentation, www.aicpa.org/members/div/auditstd/2005_02_28_prof_req.asp .
Annual Accounting and Auditing Update Workshop (2005 edition), self-study text (# 736181JA); DVD (# 187189JA); VHS (# 187089JA).
Auditing Update: A Review of Recent Activities, self-study text (# 732771JA).
AICPA Codification of Statements on Auditing Standards (# 057194JA).
AICPA Professional Standards, paperback (# 005104JA); CD-ROM (# DPS-XXJA); online (# WPS-XXJA); looseleaf (# PS-XXJA). This publication provides all professional standards in one codified source, including GAAS and PCAOB standards.
PCAOB Standards and Related Rules (including SEC-approved releases and PCAOB Q&A guidance), paperback (# 057195JA). This compilation has a detailed reference table and narrative explaining the applicability of the PCAOB standards—and the differences between PCAOB standards and GAAS.
Practice Alert no. 2003-03, Acceptance and Continuance of Clients and Engagements, www.aicpa.org/download/secps/pralert_03_03.pdf .
For more information about these resources or to order, go to www.cpa2biz.com or call the AICPA at 888-777-7077.
PCAOB auditing and related attestation, quality control, ethics and independence standards and rules are available free of charge at www.pcaobus.org/standards/index.asp .
Always document discussions with the client. If a client makes an informed decision to request an audit that adheres to GAAS and the auditing standards of the PCAOB, be clear in the engagement letter and the audit report that the client requested an audit performed "in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards as established by the AICPA Auditing Standards Board and in accordance with the auditing standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)," as recommended by Interpretation no. 18, "Reference to PCAOB Standards in an Audit Report of a Nonissuer," to SAS no. 58. In the engagement letter, list the client's reasons for using both sets of standards.
If a client who normally has a GAAS audit decides to request additional audit procedures that could be construed as PCAOB procedures, state clearly in the engagement letter that the audit should not be construed as following PCAOB audit standards and that the use of the procedures should not be construed as an upgrading of the level of service.
Be careful if you apply both standards. If you apply both PCAOB auditing standards and GAAS, know that you must accept responsibility for performing the audit according to the two sets of standards, which adds risk to the engagement.
Educate everyone in the firm—especially younger staff members—about all auditing standards. Institute a formal training program that covers compliance issues with the specific auditing and related professional practice standards, including (audit and other) PCAOB standards. Remember to cover the new rules and the need for staff to be careful in their conversations with clients. Teach them to document all conversations and to recognize when they are being asked to do something outside the scope of an engagement.
Ensure partners and staff are equally well-informed. Partners of your firm need to be well-versed in all standards to advise a client about what is most appropriate.
Communicate early and often with clients. An auditor's primary defense consists of frequent, documented communication with the client, coupled with a signed engagement letter that addresses and describes in limiting language the standards applied in the audit. Cultivate frequent communication about the facets of the engagement with clients. Document all conversations with them. Send follow-up e-mails that restate the conversations. Include safe-harbor language (provisions that demonstrate good faith and reduce liability). In conversations with clients, describe in detail what each set of standards requires, what each is intended to do and what each will not do. Clearly communicate that auditing the financial statements of private companies in accordance with PCAOB standards does not mean the engagement will be subject to the inspection or disciplinary processes of the PCAOB.
Who performed the work, who reviewed it and when.
What specific procedures were performed.
Which items were specifically tested and reviewed.
Whether there were any difficulties in performing those tests.
Any significant changes in risk assessment.
Any significant transactions and estimates.
Must make all documentation final within 45 days of the audit report's release.
May add but not remove documentation after the 45-day period.
Source: Gifford, Hillegass & Ingwersen, LLP, Atlanta.
Know that your audit report's statement of the methods and standards used won't absolutely prevent litigation. All final reports and letters that accompany an audit refer to the methods and standards used to perform the engagement. Many CPAs mistakenly think such acknowledgement is specific enough to protect them from malpractice litigation. It is not; unfortunately people often hear—or infer—what they want to.
Although an audit report, with its definition of which standards were followed, is your final line of defense should you be sued for malpractice, an aggrieved client may claim it is unclear. Audit report users may believe that an audit performed in accordance with PCAOB auditing standards complies with the entire PCAOB system of regulation, including all internal control checks and other procedures such as inspection by the PCAOB. However, the PCAOB enforces compliance for auditors of public companies only, not private companies. The engagement will be subject to the AICPA peer review program, which, if you are selected, will review the engagement for compliance with PCAOB auditing standards as well as GAAS (see " Work-Product Documentation ," and " Peer Review Is Stronger and Better Now, " JofA , Apr.05, page 44).
An auditor does not need to be registered with the PCAOB to apply PCAOB auditing standards to private companies. However, the primary qualification for any auditor is competence, and clients, third-party users and the public expect auditors to produce successful results—that is, "to get it right." In the event of an unsuccessful result, the auditor who has used PCAOB auditing standards but is not registered with the PCAOB may be at risk.
Collect additional fees to offset added risk. If you perform the audit according to both PCAOB standards and GAAS, don't be timid about collecting appropriate fees for the additional work and risk.
Get ready before the next round of upheaval. Just as all the confusion surrounding auditing standards is hitting CPAs, another wave soon will hit the profession from a similar problem: the possible emergence of differing standards related to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in public entities vs. privately owned companies (sometimes referred to as "baby GAAP"). Many of the issues that have emerged in auditing also will surface in the looming debate on GAAP.
360 Degrees of Financial Literacy for Women, an enhancement of the 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy program, launched earlier this summer. Developed by the AICPA's PFP section, it focuses on educating women to take control of their personal finances and achieve greater financial well-being.
To find more information on 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy for Women, please visit www.360financialliteracy.org/women .
As if all this isn't enough to contend with, there is a higher standard being applied to the evaluation of CPAs' work: public review through juries and the courts. Not long ago, a national survey asked potential jurors about their perceptions of the accounting profession and the responsibilities of CPAs. The results showed the public holds accountants to standards much higher than it did before the recent financial reporting scandals. For instance, the percentage of the public expecting accountants to uncover fraud in a review engagement has gone up to 70% from about 40%. Such expectations can have major implications for an auditor facing litigation.
Public expectations and perceptions constitute what are called jury or claims standards, which every CPA should consider in his or her daily work. Because the public expects CPAs to produce a successful result, CPAs will find themselves more exposed to liability in the event they do not get it right. If a disappointed client or third party can demonstrate it was confused about the CPA's services, a jury will be more likely to punish the CPA. Communicating the nature of the audit services in a way the client will understand—and documenting those communications with the client—are therefore essential risk management practices.
P ost-Sarbanes-Oxley, users as well as auditors are grappling with standards confusion. The issue: Do private company financial statement users understand the difference between what is required when auditing public companies vs. private companies? At Gifford, Hillegass & Ingwersen, LLP (GHI), most of our clients want to know, in simple terms, what affects them and what doesn't. We take every opportunity to discuss the significant changes in the audit and accounting environment with our clients, but other financial statement users also would benefit from some explanation.
A private company is being acquired by a public company.
A private company is preparing to go public.
"We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards as established by the Auditing Standards Board (United States) and in accordance with the auditing standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
"Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion." We conclude with the standard report opinion paragraph.
Audit report language is not a panacea for user confusion. However, it does alert the user that there is a difference and it can open the door for the CPA to provide additional explanation. Our profession is known for its ability to organize, analyze and disseminate data. The profession must be proactive in applying this ability to the changing audit standards environment.


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Actor Siyabonga Radebe reportedly admitted to a mental facility. Siyabonga Radebe has reportedly been admitted to a mental facility.
It is believed that the actor who played Vikizitha Magwaza in the SABC1 soap opera may have a mental illness.
The 38-year-old actor joined Uzalo in February and acknowledged that the program had saved him when he allegedly went bankrupt and had to start taking cabs to work.
Siyabonga has reportedly been taken to a psychiatric facility for several weeks and is in a poor mental state, according to a report on Isolezwe.
He was observed strolling about the hospital naked, suggesting that his condition is not improving. A hospital source claimed, "He appears to be a highly mentally troubled individual."
Another source from Ntuzuma, where the actor resides, claimed that after he relocated back there, locals began to worry about him. Locals reportedly used to witness him chatting to himself while walking.
"He was seen walking down the street wearing a gown and holding a cup of tea. He was not walking a short distance with that cup and gown. We suspect that something has disturbed his mind as he is a person who often seems to have a lot on his mind," said the source.
Recently, Fanele Bhengu was introduced to the program as Omuhle Gela's replacement, according to Uzalo and the SABC. Nkanyiso Mchunu, a favorite of the audience, will also be playing Siphamandla "Wizard" Nkosi.
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Home ▶ Articles ▶ When Did Jesus Go to Egypt?
When Did Jesus Go to Egypt?
Most people familiar with the few details given in Scripture about the early life of Jesus are aware of the fact that following the visit from the wise men, Matthew indicates that Joseph and Mary took Jesus and fled to Egypt at the command of God (Matthew 2:13-14). Later, after Herod's death, Jesus' family departed Egypt for Nazareth where they made their home (Matthew 2:19-23). According to some, however, Luke's account of the early life of Jesus contradicts Matthew's (Wells, 2011; cf. Ehrman, 2005, p. 10). Luke indicates that after Jesus' birth, and once Mary's days of "purification according to the law of Moses were completed" (2:22), which would have been about six weeks after Jesus was born (Leviticus 12:3-4), Joseph and Mary took Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem (Luke 2:22-38). The inspired physician then writes: "So when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth" (Luke 2:39, emp. added). Since Luke mentions nothing about Egypt, and Matthew says nothing about a trip to Nazareth soon after Jesus' birth, allegedly either Matthew or Luke is mistaken.
The allegation that Matthew and Luke's accounts are contradictory is actually based on an assumption: the skeptic assumes that Matthew and Luke each included all of the whereabouts of Jesus' family during His early life. The fact is, however, such a conjecture cannot logically be upheld unless both of the inspired writers claimed to write exhaustive, chronological accounts of everything Jesus did. Neither writer made such a declaration (cf. John 21:25).
Could it be that Joseph, Mary, and Jesus "returned to Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth" (Luke 2:39) before going to Egypt, and then after traveling to and from Egypt they returned to Nazareth again (Matthew 2:23)? The Holy Spirit certainly could have inspired Matthew to write his truthful account of some of the life of Christ without mentioning a brief "return" to Galilee. However, it is also very possible, and perhaps more likely, that Luke simply omitted Joseph, Mary, and Jesus' trip to Egypt, which sequentially could be placed between Luke 2:38 and 2:39. Bible writers frequently moved from one subject to the next without intending to give every action that took place during a particular time or the exact order in which something was done or taught (cf. Luke 4:1-3; Matthew 4:1-11). Later, for example, in chapter 24, Luke omitted the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus in Galilee, which both Matthew and John mentioned. The events that Luke recorded in the first 43 verses of chapter 24 all took place on the very day of Jesus' resurrection. The final four verses of Luke 24 (vss. 50-53), however, took place more than five weeks later (see Acts 1:1-12). Yet Luke simply recorded the various events in chapter 24 (vss. 1-43,44-49,50-53) and connected them with the Greek conjunction de ("but" or "and"), which has no specific chronological implications. The same is true with the Greek conjunction kai, which Luke used in 2:39.
Consider also an example from Luke's account of some of the acts of some of the apostles (in the book we call Acts). In chapter 9, Luke mentions that Paul went to Jerusalem after becoming a Christian (Acts 9:26). But, according to Galatians 1:17-18, Paul actually went to Arabia, back to Damascus, and then after three years he went up to Jerusalem. Once again, Luke, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit (cf. 1 Timothy 5:18), omitted a part of someone's life. But such an omission is in no way proof of dishonesty—anymore than if, at the funeral of a 90-year-old man, someone gives a synopsis of his life, and omits the two years he spent in Warner, Oklahoma in junior college.
Keep in mind that the Bible is a book that covers approximately 4,000 years—from Creation to the end of the first century A.D. God's purpose in giving us His Word was not to tell us about everything that every person ever did up to that point in time. In fact, even the one Person, Who is the main theme of Scripture—Jesus—has relatively little recorded about Him in comparison to every place He ever went and everything He ever did or said. As the apostle John proclaimed, "Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book, but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name" (20:30-31, emp. added). In truth, "there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written" (21:25, emp. added).
Simply because Matthew or Luke or any other Bible writer does not mention everything that every other Bible writer mentions about the same general time or event, does not mean that someone has erred. Rather, just as we oftentimes tell stories today and include certain details that others omit, so did the inspired writers of Scripture. Honest truth-seekers (Proverbs 8:17) will come to the logical conclusion that the Bible writers supplemented (not contradicted) each others' accounts of biblical events.
Ehrman, Bart (2005), Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (San Francisco, CA: Harper).
Wells, Steve (2011), Skeptic's Annotated Bible, http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/egypt.html.


I live in ag country. When you drive around Sonoma County, especially getting out of any city just by a couple of miles, there are signs of animal agriculture everywhere. I often drive by dairy operations with signs posted that say "Real California Milk" and "Certified Organic Dairy," as if appeasing the people driving by implying that "only good things are happening on this farm." Yet if you look closer you may see rows and rows of white plastic calf hutches, like uniformed cartons of milk, each containing a tiny baby calf who was taken from her mother at birth, chained to the plastic hutch in all weather extremes–alone, frightened, and miserable. For each of these calves there is a grieving mother who will never know her baby, traumatized with each calf dragged from her after birth.
Most people have no clue what is truly going on inside animal agriculture, especially the slaughterhouse – that ominous place that ends all tomorrows for farmed animals. There is a slaughterhouse down the street from where I live in Petaluma on a major road just outside of downtown. For many years it was called Rancho Veal. Of course, veal has been exposed to be the poster-child of cruelty and most people now agree that confining a baby cow so tight that he can't even turn around, then slaughtering him when he is just weeks old, is callous and cruel. But what people don't realize is that most animals who are slaughtered for meat are just weeks or months old when they take their portentous journey to the abattoir.
Rancho Veal was recently acquired by Marin Sun Farms and received a fresh coat of bright white paint complete with their logo, looming two stories high, on the front of the building. On the west wall, facing the oncoming traffic heading to downtown, they added huge letters spelling out the name of a producer they're in partnership with, "Mindful Meats." When I first drove by this new sizable marketing endeavor, I had to pull over and take a moment for a figurative face-palm. Shaking my head, I pondered what I was seeing. It's truly appalling and as a spiritual person, I am deeply disturbed.
you are very welcome and thank you!
Thought you might like to see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC2MENfvTgM. It's very anglo-centric but I hope you like it anyway.
We live in a killing culture; it has become common and expected, people are indifferent and immune to it. We need more empathy, for people to ask themselves, "what if it were me?" The alien example automatically conjures feelings of repulsion and horror, we need to extend that legitimate and justified response towards all animals, not just human animals. Great video, thanks so much, Sarah.
You're welcome. In your experience, do people seem to be getting more violent? I've been horrified at some of the violence directed towards peaceful protestors (I'm thinking pro-abortion people against pro-lifers). Do vegan activists get more or less violent opposition than they used to, do you think? It seems to have become a bit more acceptable to be vegan but I suppose there must still be plenty of people who get upset by the vegan message.
It's interesting in that, even though it is a growing movement and thereby more acknowledged, people seem to be getting more intolerant, perhaps because when it's small and fringe, it's unimportant or different enough to be considered meaningless, the people who practice "crazy". But as it gets bigger, it gets more noticed, and the further it threatens people, people who profit, people who hunt, people who are ambivalent, etc. In other words, as it grows, so, too, does the violence against it, from citizens, media, industry, law enforcement. And as you so aptly state as in the case of pro-abortion towards pro-lifers, it's peaceful protestors and non-violent protestors who are met with violence when it's the OTHERS who are violent. Here you can be an animal rescuer and be labeled a terrorist (AETA); what's twisted is it's the animal abusers/tormentors/torturers/exploiters/murderers who are the real terrorists. It baffles me that people don't get that. Thanks, Sarah.
I thought that might be the case. Well, I suppose it's progress of a sort. 😏 Let's hope this stage doesn't last too long.


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A Space in Time
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«A Space in Time» is the seventh album by the British blues rock band TEN YEARS AFTER. It was released in August 1971 by Chrysalis Records in the United Kingdom and Columbia Records in America. A departure in style from their previous albums, «A Space in Time» is less «heavy» than previous albums and includes more acoustic guitar, perhaps influenced by the success of LED ZEPPELIN who were mixing acoustic songs with heavier numbers. The album also contains their biggest hit, «I'd Love to Change the World», the third track on the album. By combining a melodic acoustic chorus with challenging electric guitar rifts, they managed to produce a sound that hit the charts in Canada. Although this was their biggest hit they rarely played it live (#10 Canada).
1. One of These Days [05:50]
2. Here They Come [04:36]
3. I'd Love to Change the World [03:44]
4. Over the Hill [02:28]
5. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You [02:16]
6. Once There Was a Time [03:22]
7. Let the Sky Fall [04:19]
8. Hard Monkeys [03:10]
9. I've Been There Too [05:44]
10. Uncle Jam [01:57]
Chick Churchill: keyboards
Alvin Lee: guitar, vocals
Ric Lee: drums
Leo Lyons: bass
Del Newman: strings (4)
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Sembakkam is een panchayatdorp in het district Chengalpattu van de Indiase staat Tamil Nadu.

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Volgens de Indiase volkstelling van 2001 wonen er 22.671 mensen in Sembakkam, waarvan 51% mannelijk en 49% vrouwelijk is. De plaats heeft een alfabetiseringsgraad van 83%.

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The Fall River Board of County Commissioners met in regular session on February 6, 2018 at the South Annex. Present: Joe Allen, Joe Falkenburg, Paul Nabholz, Deb Russell and Sue Ganje, Auditor. Ann Abbott was absent.
The Pledge of Allegiance was stated and the meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m.
The agenda was reviewed for conflicts; none were noted. All motions recorded in these minutes were passed by unanimous vote, unless otherwise stated.
Motion made by Russell, seconded by Nabholz, to approve the agenda as written.
Motion made by Nabholz, seconded by Russell, to approve the minutes of January 16, 2018.
I hereby submit the following report of my examination of the cash and cash items in the hands of the County Treasurer of this County on this 30th day of November, 2017.
Dated this 30th Day of November, 2017.
The Above Balance Reflects County Monies, Monies Held in Trust, and Monies Collected for and to be remitted to Other Entities: Schools, Towns, Townships, Fire, Ambulance And Road Districts, And The State.
No county assistance or burial applications were submitted for action.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Fall River County Commissioners set the mileage rate at $.42 per mile for the transporting of ballots and ballot boxes by the precinct superintendent.
Dated this 16th day of January, 2018.
Motion made by Russell, seconded by Abbott, to approve the agreement between Fall River County and the South Dakota Public Assurance Alliance.
Susie Simkins, Director of Equalization and John McBride, Andersen Engineers, met with the board about the first reading of the section line ROW ordinance. McBride stated that they had recently gone to training and noted changes that he is now currently aware of. He asked the board to table this for an amended version. The board will revisit a first reading on the amended ordinance at the February 6, 2018 meeting.
Frank Maynard, Emergency Management, met with the board. Motion made by Russell, seconded by Nabholz, to approve the list of 2018 volunteers, as is on file at the auditor's office.
Motion made by Abbott, seconded by Allen, to authorize Maynard to proceed with 2017 Homeland Security Grant and purchase a trailer and UTV tracks to be paid by the county, and then reimbursed by the state.
Motion made by Allen, seconded by Russell, to approve Maynard to proceed with the court security grant, to be paid by county, and then reimbursed for 50% of the expenses by the state.
Maynard reported fire incidents and gave updates on generator HLS funds.
Lyle Jensen, Building Supervisor, met with the board to present a quote for a keypad to lock the meeting room door at the South Annex in the amount of $4,471.67. Jensen will bring back to the next meeting with it listed as the meeting room door rather than the security door on the agenda.
Motion made by Russell, seconded by Nabholz, to approve an Enterprise Bandwith Master Service Agreement quote from Golden West for the courthouse, in the amount of $895.00 per month. This is to replace the current agreement which is at a monthly cost of $1,277.00.
Discussion was held on insuring a generator. Motion made by Nabholz, seconded by Russell, to add coverage to insure the South Annex generator, with a value of $20,000.00.
Motion made by Abbott, seconded by Russell, to approve the quote for a steam coil for the jail air handler, to be delivered in three weeks, in the amount of $2,040.00, which includes freight.
Motion made by Russell, seconded by Abbott, to approve a quote for a new sign and the street number for the Director of Equalization in the amounts of $539.00 and to change the Veteran's Service Officer Sign to Emergency Management in the amount of $167.00.
Dan Cullen, Veteran's Service Officer, met with the board, to give his quarterly report.
Bob Evans, Sheriff, met with the board. Motion made by Nabholz, seconded by Allen, to approve the hiring of Michael DeBoer, jailer, at $12.50 per hour, as per union contract, effective January 3, 2018.
Sue Ganje, Auditor, brought back to the board a section of the proposed Fall River County Poor Relief Guidelines for review. Allen questioned if assistance applicants could meet in a setting that offered privacy, Russell noted that she did not believe state law allowed this. The commission addressed areas the auditor requested.
Motion made by Russell, seconded by Abbott, to accept the low and only bid from Nelson's Oil and Gas, Inc for 8000 gallons #1/#2 diesel blend at $2.40 per gallon and propane at $1.49 per gallon.
Motion made by Allen, seconded by Russell to approve travel for Seiler to attend the short course training in Deadwood, March 20 and March 21, 2018. The board asked that Seiler come back with a report.
Motion made by Russell, seconded by Allen, to set a hearing for chip sealing on the 2018 projects. Bids will be publicly opened on February 20, 2018 at 10:15 a.m. The deadline to receive the bids for chip sealing will be February 15, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. This will allow time for the highway superintendant and engineer's to review bids for compliance.
Chip sealing on old Highway 18 in 2018 was briefly discussed, with the board asking Seiler to hold off until things are settled on that road.
Break was taken at 10:07 a.m. Meeting resumed at 10:15 a.m.
Public comment was heard from Paul Nabholz and Jim Angell. Nabholz advised he has sent out an email to 174 Power Global to get further information for a better estimate on revenues. Nabholz sent an email to the State's Attorney concerning the fox and costs could be a lien on the owner. Angell noted that he didn't like certain comments that had been made during the 1-3-18 meeting on the Chilson Bridge.
Falkenburg opened public comment and discussion on the Chilson Bridge, asking for one or two residents in the area to be spokesman for the group so the auditor can let people know when the Chilson Bridge is on the agenda to keep them informed. Discussion was held on use of eminent domain, project timeline, appraisals and negotiations, evaluation of costs, hiring outside attorneys, and information on the history of the road purchase for the bridge, bridge grants and letters to representatives expressing concerns.
Joe Allen left the meeting at 11:07 a.m.
The board received a document of SD Game Fish and Park's activities for 2017. Falkenburg has questions on the amount paid by the county to the state on predator control (wildlife damage management), and asked the Auditor to try to get Keith Fisk from GF&P to a future meeting.
Paul Nabholz, Commissioner, spoke of tracking the equipment in the Highway Department by GPS. There are possibilities to do this through Caterpillar or Verizon. This may help when commissioners get phone calls at home so they can see the progress during storms, etc. Seiler spoke of daily forms operators fill out on what roads they work on, machine costs etc, but expressed caution on giving time estimates to landowners for road graders to arrive during emergency snow removal due to possibilities of pulling graders from road to road as needed, breakdowns and other issues encountered. Other commissioners noted either no need for the tracking, or it could be considered if there are problems, no comments to pursue.
George Kotti, Hot Springs Mayor; Dawn Johnson, Hot Springs Librarian and Kim Barbieri, City Administrator, met with the board to discuss Prairie Hills Transit. Kotti spoke of the responsibilities and needs the council considered for their upcoming budget, as commissioners did for their budget. There are several big projects coming up in the City of Hot Springs over the course of the next few years and there are limited funds for outside organizations. The funding of non-profit organizations is a question. Kotti also noted their offer for a bus garage, land and utilities to PHT. The embezzlement issue within PHT was discussed. Kotti encouraged citizens to use United Way and Prairie Hills Transit to do fundraising to make up the difference.
Funding for the HS Library by users in the county was also discussed. Falkenburg asked to meet with the City to continue working on the solution for public transportation. Librarian Dawn Johnson updated the board regarding their recent award of being in the top 15 libraries in the nation in the budget area, noting staff's positive attitudes, membership and patronage.
Motion made by Russell, seconded by Nabholz, to adjourn the meeting at 11:20 a.m.


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from base64 import b64decode

# Documentation:
# http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-August/msg00310.html

def __get_session():
  conn = libvirt.open('qemu:///session')
  return conn

def list_secrets():
  sess = __get_session()
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  return secrets

def has_secret(uuid):
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def define_secret_str(secret, data):
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Marcia RA Dornellas (Coordinator) / James F TOMAZ-MORAIS (Coordinator) / Jaims F Ribeiro-Soares / / Shirley A Alves / Otavio S P Neto.
The aim of this study is to identify the prevalence of primary headaches and TMD in that population and explore its relationship with work productivity and activity impairment.
James F TOMAZ-MORAIS (Coordinator) / Aila Murielle M Bezera / Daviany O Lima / Cleiton S Rodrigues-Silva / Camila Benevides Aires.
James F TOMAZ-MORAIS /Luciana BS Lucena / Isabella A Mota / Brunna TL Lucena / Ana KFTC Pereira / Ricardo D Castro / Giorvan AS Alves (Coordinator).
The main questions of this research is: What are the attitudes and emotional reactions presented by students of Human Anatomy front of the corpses in the laboratory? The aim of this studyy is to identify the main attitudes, emotional reactions, representations about the dead human body as well as the student deals with the dead body in the anatomy laboratory.
James F TOMAZ-MORAIS (Coordinator) / Ana KFTC Pereira / Jaims F Ribeiro-Soares / Haroldo F Diniz.
James F TOMAZ-MORAIS / Ivonaldo LB Lima / Jussara LC Lima / Eveline G Silva / Ana CE Vogeley (Coordinator).


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How to restore Last session or Chrome Tabs after a crash
At times, Google Chrome might crash on your computer while having a few tabs and windows opened. Here is how you can restore the last session or all Chrome tabs after a crash to resume working on whatever you were doing earlier. For that, you do not need an extension or software, and you can perform this on almost any platform, including Windows 10.
Google Chrome is one of the most popular and feature-rich web browsers available for Windows 10 computers. However, it doesn't mean that Chrome doesn't have any drawbacks. Depending on the hardware and browsing, Chrome may consume high memory, which eventually ends up crashing the browser. When it happens, it closes all opened browser tabs and windows at once – whether you have a standard or Incognito window. If that happens, there are multiple ways to get back all the tabs within moments.
Chrome shows a dedicated Restore button in a popup window allowing users to restore all the closed tabs after a crash. However, if you have closed or missed it due to any reason, the following methods would be handy.
Restore Last session or Chrome tabs after a crash
To restore the Last session or Chrome tabs after a crash, you have the following options-
Use keyboard shortcut
Re-open closed window/tab
Find opened tabs in History
1] Use the keyboard shortcut
It is one of the easiest ways to get back all closed tabs after a crash. After a crash, if the browser opens automatically, press Ctrl+Shift+T.
Let's assume that you had three windows opened and five tabs in each window. If you press that keyboard combination once, it will open the very last window that you opened before crashing. The second press of that keyboard combination will open the second last window and so forth.
The best thing is that you do not need to open one tab at a time. However, if you had only one tab, you can use the same keyboard shortcut. On the other hand, you need to visit each tab to reload the content on the respective webpages.
2] Re-open closed window/tab
If you right-click on a Chrome window, it shows one of the two options – Re-open closed window and Re-open closed tab. It is similar to the keyboard shortcut mentioned above.
To use this method, open a Chrome window after the crash, right-click on the window title bar, and select the Reopen closed window option. As said, you can open multiple tabs at once by selecting the same option.
3] Find opened tabs in History
Although it is not possible to restore Incognito browser tabs/windows, you can find and open them in the History panel. Google Chrome stores all the pages in the History so that users can find what pages they opened earlier. In this case, you can use the same to find your opened Chrome tabs after a crash.
For that, open the Google Chrome browser, click on the three-dotted icon, select History, and click on the same option again.
Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+H or enter chrome://history/ in the address bar to open the History panel of the Google Chrome browser.
In case Google Chrome is frequently crashing on your computer, and you do not want to use all these methods to restore the last session, you can make a slight change in the settings.
For that, open the Google Chrome Settings panel, switch to the On startup section, and choose the Continue where you left off option.
After that, whenever you close the Chrome browser, or it gets crashed, you can find the last opened tabs after re-opening.
That's all! Hope these solutions help.
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Spanning the southern-most part of the African continent, South Africa is a dynamic country rich in natural wonders, fascinating wildlife and a culture like no other. A popular tourist destination, South Africa has a rich diversity encompassing internationally award-winning tourist accommodation options.
As one of the fastest growing destinations in the world South Africa provides an extensive range of accommodation types across the country. The country includes every accommodation type imaginable and varies from budget to opulent. The type of accommodation depends on the area you are visiting.
Bed and Breakfast accommodation is usually provided in a family (private) home with the owner/manager living on the property. Breakfast is typically included in the price with the offerings dependent upon the establishment.
Guest houses are often similar to Bed and Breakfasts however can be self-catering in some instances. A guest house can be an existing home, a renovated home or a building that has been specifically designed to provide overnight accommodation. There will be public areas that guests can enjoy, making visitors feel at home.
Self-Catering accommodation will typically be a house, cottage, chalet, bungalow, flat, villa, houseboat, tent or any accommodation where facilities and equipment are provided for guests to cater for themselves. The facilities would be adequate to cater for the maximum advertised number of guests.
A game/safari lodge is an accommodation facility located in a game park. The rates charged are usually inclusive of main meals, coupled with a game drive or two. There are budget safari lodges and 5-star options with wide-ranging choices in the provinces.
Some farms offer visitors a change to experience staying on a working farm. The rates charged are usually inclusive of all meals and the experience offered at the farm for example farm tours, etc. Accommodation may also be Self-catering.
Hotels in the country offer experiences again, from budget through to 5-star, often with fantastic specials offered out of season. Hotels usually have a restaurant and bar for guests.
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High school students need geometry homework help, too. Searching for it among fellow students, from parents or other members of the family is often useless due to the growing complexity of the assignments. It's necessary to search for assistance in another place but where? How?
Where Can a High School Student Find Homework Assistance?
It's always better to receive everything you need without leaving the comfort of your home. This is why most students seek online assignment assistance. It's even better to have such help for free and there are several options that really provide high-quality help without any payment.
At online resources where other students communicate.
If you are already registered at such resources or in social network communities, you have a half of the job done. You need now to find a person or even several ones who will agree to help you with your geometry assignment. You can either ask them directly (it works well if you have already spent some time at the resource, communicating with people) or look through it and try to find what you want (if you are a newcomer). It's possible that you will find assistance and it's also possible that you will find simply answers to your assignment, which is quite good, too.
At websites where people can as questions.
There are numerous resources where you can ask a question for free and receive an answer. Such resources are quite helpful, no matter what you are asking about. Even though it's quite risky to trust people you don't know and use their help without knowing whether it's reliable enough, but in most cases everything comes out well. You can actively participate in answering questions at the same resource or other ones and thus express your gratitude to your helpers.
You can also try to find answers to your assignment on the Internet, especially if it's quite typical. Numerous databases can be very helpful.
Which Kind of Homework Help to Seek?
Students often search for people who would do their assignments instead of them. It's a dangerous approach to the very idea of assignments and their importance. If you always look for a person who can provide you with answers to your assignment or do it for you, you lose your own skills and knowledge that you may need at tests or so. This is why when looking for free online geometry help, look better for advisory assistance that will help you handle the task yourself.


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Lacelike bacteria in the bumpy tissue that lines the mouse gut respond to disruptions in their host's circadian rhythms.
Elinav Lab/Weizmann Institute of Science
Are your bacteria jet-lagged?
By Elizabeth Norton Oct. 17, 2014 , 4:15 PM
Life on Earth is intimately connected to the natural cycles of light and dark that make up a 24-hour day. For plants, animals, and even bacteria, these circadian rhythms control many biological functions. Humans can overrule their body clocks, but at a price: People whose circadian rhythms are regularly disrupted—by frequent jet lag or shift work, for example—are more vulnerable to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. There are various theories to explain these associations, and researchers now have a new player to consider: the bacteria that live in the digestive tract. According to a study in mice and a small group of human volunteers, the internal clocks of these gut microbes sync up with the clocks of their hosts. When our circadian rhythms get out of whack, so do those of our bacteria.
The last several years have seen an explosion of interest in the constellation of bacteria that call the gut home, and these microbes appear to play a role in everything from immunity to metabolism to mood. But although disrupted bacteria are observed in many of the same diseases that arise from skewed circadian rhythms, the precise link isn't fully understood. Eran Elinav, an immunologist and microbiome specialist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, wondered whether the microbes' own circadian rhythms were a missing piece of the puzzle.
To test the theory, he and his colleagues analyzed bacteria in fecal samples from lab mice kept in normal 12-hour cycles of light and darkness. Samples were taken every 6 hours for two 24-hour cycles. Up to 60% of the microbes consisted of various bacterial types that fluctuated, in both their total number and their prevalence relative to each other, throughout the day and night. During the dark phase (when mice, being nocturnal, are most active), the bacteria were busy digesting nutrients, repairing their DNA, and growing, as evidenced by the various bacterial gene activity documented from fecal samples taken at different time points. During the light phase, microbes went about ongoing "housekeeping" processes, such as detoxifying, sensing the chemicals around them, and building the flagella, or tails, that help the microbes move.
In mice with a mutation that disables the inner clock, the gut bacteria didn't exhibit the same fluctuations, in either population or activity, in response to light and dark—suggesting that the animal's clock somehow controls that of the bacteria. When bacteria from these "clockless" mice were transplanted into healthy animals living in normal light-dark conditions, the microbes began to show normal rhythms within a week.
The findings, reported online yesterday in Cell, came as a surprise, Elinav says. Previous studies have shown that many bacteria do have light-responsive circadian clocks—cyanobacteria, for example, which get their energy from photosynthesis. But microbes deep in the bowels of—well, the bowels—spend all their time in the dark. How did they know what time of day it was? Some signal must pass from the host to the bacteria.
One major difference between normal mice and clock-disabled ones was the time at which the animals ate, the researchers observed. Normal mice eat at night, while they're active; the clockless mice ate almost continuously. So could the timing of meals be the signal? When the researchers altered the animals' eating patterns by feeding normal mice only during the light cycle (a mouse's night), the numbers, types, and activity of the bacteria shifted as well. The researchers also found that mice whose light-dark cycles were disrupted gained weight and developed physiological changes linked to diabetes, such as insulin resistance. Because humans with irregular sleeping patterns also tend to eat more at night, the researchers suspect that these eating habits contribute to disease specifically by disrupting the gut microbes.
Bacteria are likely not the whole story; irregular sleeping and eating can contribute to disease through other routes, such as excess stress hormone and insulin production. Even so, "this is a compelling study," says microbiologist Rob Knight of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Knight says some of the strongest evidence for a bacterial role in circadian-linked diseases lies in the final phase of the study, when the research team analyzed fecal samples from two people on a normal schedule and two more who had recently flown from the United States to Israel. Analyzing the samples before, during, and after the bouts of jet lag, they found fluctuations in bacteria similar to what they saw in the mice. The jet-lagged participants showed an increase in a type of bacteria known to be more prevalent in people with obesity and diabetes; levels of these microbes dropped back to normal once the travelers adjusted to the new time zone.
Most convincing of all, Knight believes, is that when samples of gut bacteria from the jet-lagged humans were transplanted into healthy mice, the animals gained weight, showed increased blood sugar, and had a higher body fat content compared with animals given the bacteria of participants before their flight.
So can we ward off the ill effects of jet lag by being more careful about how or when we eat? At this point, "it's an educated guess," Elinav says.
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Windows 10 recently added the Windows Subsystem for Linux which allows you to run Ubuntu Bash. This is my favorite way to use git on windows. You can install WSL and run sudo apt install git, or alternatively get native applications of git, including some GUI applications like Sourcetree or GitHub Desktop.
If you aren't familiar with version control, you should be. It allows you to backup your project, tag points in time that can be referenced later, and easily work with a team or on an open source project. I can't overstate this! Please trust me when I say it will save you from frustration in the future. Learn git and go backup your projects now. Both github and bitbucket offer good free options.
If you're a student, go get the GitHub Student Developer Pack.
Open Unity and log in to your account to be able to create a new project. You can choose where to save your project and whether or not it should be 2D or 3D. If you create a project and it's not the dimension you want, you can change between 2D and 3D by going to Edit > Project Settings > Editor. Some versions of Unity contain a bug that creates a project and it doesn't use the dimension you asked for, if that happens, just change your settings and then create a new scene to see the correct camera style.
Each time you create a new Unity project, you'll need to change some settings to work with version control. I'm assuming this methodology will work for more than just git, but that's what we will be using. Inside your unity project, go to Edit > Project Settings > Editor and change Version Control to Visible Meta Files. You will also need to change Asset Serialization to Force Text. Most version controls work in deltas or diffs, and it's a lot easier for them to work in text than binary.
You will now need to setup your repository, repo for short. You can make a repository in two ways, whether or not you have or haven't started your project yet.
Public/Private toggle If you have paid/copyrighted assets you should either not commit the assets to the repository or have a private repository.
Readme & license If you are creating something open source, a readme and proper license are important and informative. MIT is a very permissive license for open source.
.gitignore Is a special file that tells git what we don't want committed to the repository. This is used for binaries, assets, and Unity Editor/IDE created files that only slow things down and cause headaches for us and others accessing our project. github hosts the unity one like is selected above.
If you went the command line route, there will be a hidden file named .gitignore in the root of your repository. You can open it and view it in a text editor. It should be the very first thing you commit. The .gitignore below will assume you have your Unity Project at the root of your repository.
Sometimes when you're moving a project, a Unity Lock file won't want to move and will cause trouble, skipping that file is ok.
The following commands will add the files in your new project to be committed, review the commit, make the commit, then push to your remote (Github etc). If this is confusing, again, Learn git.
Now that you have a project and a repo, you'll need some assets for your game, and ways of dealing with them.
If you are working solo it is generally fine to work off the master branch. If you are working on a team, learn the power of branches and decide on a workflow(1, 2, 3, 4) with your team to avoid conflicts and wasted time.


Comments/Context: Marjorie and Leonard Vernon began to buy photographs in 1975 when, for about $1000, one could own classic images from almost any period in the history of the medium. (Top price for rock star Ansel Adams that year was about $400.) Guided as much by their own taste and instincts rather than market strategy, the Vernons ended up with more than 3,600 prints (dated 1839-2001) by some 700 artists and, I'm guessing, paid less than what it now costs to outbid billionaires for a so-so Francis Bacon triptych at auction.
LACMA's acquisition of this superb collection in 2008 (with financial aid from the Annenberg Foundation) deserved a catalog, and curator Britt Salvesen has organized a unique one to accompany the inaugural display. Closing next week, it is worth a visit by anyone in the L.A. area. The reproductions here, sad to say, don't measure up to the quality of the originals in the airy installation, which is unusually generous in the space between each group of pictures.
The curator has used the occasion of the debut not to relate how the donors assembled a collection on this scale but rather to deliver her own take on photographic history. If her essays and those by others, highlight a timeline of discoveries in the psychology of perception—emphases that don't always square with the Vernons' more art-oriented mindset—her tangents are logical and her framework for the artists here leads to some felicitous pairings.
Instead of a strict chronology or a series of eras based on artistic credos, Salvesen has divided her roster of photographers into four groups, according to impulses and motivations she views as common across many decades. Although photographic history has been shaped by what could (or couldn't) be recorded or seen at a given time, this is not a story of patents for film, shutters, lenses, and camera bodies. Nor do journals or corporations play a decisive role. The narrative is more apt to locate the kind of pictures made in, say, the 1880s or the 1920s within a zeitgeist determined by evolving theories of the mind's eye.
In this taxonomy, William Henry Fox Talbot's "Articles of China" (c. 1843) belongs with August Sander formal portraits of 20th century German and Tony Ray-Jones's snapshot of London men napping on an embankment (1967). Judy Fiskin's pint-sized domestic exteriors and interiors from the 1980s aren't so different from Walker Evans's facades from the 1930s. More daring is Salvesen's coupling of an Andy Warhol sewn photograph of four Assyrian statues at the Met (1984) with Charles/Jane Clifford's portrait of a Spanish suit of armor (1866). Warhol is so often enrolled in the subversive army of Pop or Conceptual artists, it's easy to forget that he liked cameras because they were foolproof, matter-of-fact picture-making machines—the same qualities that has enraptured everyone from the Victorians to the Instagrammers.
Salvesen prefers to see these artists as responsive to another sort of science: the emerging, inner-directed discipline of experimental psychology. In lecture halls and laboratories of German-speaking countries during the 1850s and 1860s, the physicians Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt had begun to discuss and rigorously study sensation, time-reaction, fields of vision, and other mutable states of consciousness.
The 1920s are, for Salvesen, where photography branches into her two last categories. "Experimental Modernism" favored abstraction, fragmentation, angularity, distortion, ambiguity. Everyone from Eadweard Muybridge to Man Ray, Albert Renger-Patzsch to the Bechers, Berenice Abbott to Harry Callahan, Piet Zwart to Frederick Sommer is deposited here. By locating the pedagogical home for this mentality in the Bauhaus, and identifying its key figures as László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes, she may not be saying anything we haven't heard before.
What is newer is the stress she puts on Gestalt Psychology in their teachings. Moholy and Kepes believed that students had to train their brains in the new visual language of photography and film and that its/their radical possibilities surpassed anything yet done by Cubists or Futurists in reflecting the fraught excitement of modernity. Promising as this line of research may be, by focusing almost entirely on perception, and failing to mention the Russian Constructivists or the importance of revolutionary politics of any kind on the art of the '20s and '30s, this section is perhaps the weakest of the four.
These artists formed the heart of the Vernon's traditional collection. The catalog has room to reproduce only a few of the lesser-known prints in this style that they picked up, such as "Cutting Lettuce, Salinas, California," (1938) by Dorothea Lange and "Conversation Near the Statue" (1933) by Manuel Alvarez Bravo. The show, but not the book, features prime examples of work by Roy DeCarava, Danny Lyon and many others.
Salvesen's categories are, of course, permeable. Margaret Bourke-White's "Fort Peck Dam, Montana" (1936) is teamed with other architectural images in "Experimental Modernism," but could as easily join "Romantic Modernism." Some artists make multiple appearances: Edward Weston is in three of the four categories and should probably be in "Descriptive Naturalism" as well.
The advantage of her flexible boundaries is that artists are not reduced to one period of their career. Berenice Abbott was as interested in photographing science experiments as she was in architecture. Weston had several phases: gauzy Pictorialist, left-wing ex-patriot, international promoter of Modernism (who chose the photographers for "Film und Foto"), and Romantic interpreter of California's deserts and seashore.
The disadvantage is that the categories can become so porous they become an unreliable net for catching and examining artifacts. Photography had from its first decades all of the four characteristics that Salvesen outlines, and then some. The number of applications for the medium (however loosely defined) continues to grow.
Of course, Salvesen did not intend for her history to be comprehensive. The catalog and exhibition are a result of her inheriting this enormous collection. Although it stops in 2001, before digital, and has other sizable holes, especially in non-traditional post-1960s work, it's a marvelous gift for LACMA. Faced with the task of explaining the contents for others, Salvesen clearly didn't want to tell the same story we've read before in the many 150th anniversary celebrations in 1989. It's as unconventional a history as she could manage under the circumstances. For asking us to look and think in a different way at 162 years of photographs, many of them familiar and interpreted by others many times before, one of our best photography curators deserves our thanks.
Collector's POV: Since this is a museum group show surveying a broad swath of photographic history, we will dispense with the usual discussion of primary and secondary market prices.
One of your best reviews, in my opinion, of an interesting curating challenge taken on by Britt at the top of her game.
Compartmentalising issues aside, simply appreciating 'vintage' photographs is a challenge in itself, their original meaning and effect is drowned out by the humoungous clamour of the many generations of newer images that have followed and they, naturally, now look dated and quiet, even VERY dated, and silenced. But sometimes it's possible to time-travel back in the mind, to trick oneself into re-living those unique moments when long dead art photographers discovered new ways to say things and new things to say, to experience the electrifying thrill, shock even, of their brand new images the like of which had never been seen before. Mostly produced with little prospect of financial return or regard, and at best with a potential audience worldwide of perhaps no more than a few thousand interested persons – but often far, far less, maybe a partner and a few friends.


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Bear Cottage is a children's hospice located in Manly, Australia and is part of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network. It provides long-term care to children, including nursing care, music, play and art therapy, and food, cleaning, and counseling services. Bear Cottage is designed to be like a home away from home and as far removed from a hospital environment as possible. Staff do not wear uniforms, and no medical procedures are carried out in the bedrooms, which are designed to be like a normal bedroom.

It opened on St Patrick's Day 17 March 2001 after $10 million had been raised from the community to build it. In 2017 its operational costs were approximately $3.7 million per year, with funding coming from the government, clubs and private sector. It is one of only three children's hospices in Australia. Since 2016 the Cottage has been managed by Narelle Martin. Professor Les White is the Patron.

History
Bear Cottage was conceived in the 1990s by Dr John Yu and Dr Michael Stevens from The Children's Hospital at Westmead to enhance the hospital's palliative care program and proposed to be developed on the site of the former St Patrick's College estate on North Head above Manly.

The hospice saw a huge increase in growth from 2008.

A community icon
In 2021 radio announcer Ben Fordham publicly thanked Bear Cottage for their care for sick children.

In 2020 Sydney coffee roasters Seven Miles launched a new coffee blend, Bear and the Beard, donating proceeds of sales to the hospice.

In 2014 the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited, where the Duchess (who is patron of UK children's hospice, the East Anglia Children's Hospice) made a speech. They were reportedly brought to the verge of tears by the plight of a nine-month old baby who had only days to live following a six-week battle with bacterial meningitis.

In 2005 competitors in the City to Surf running race raised funds for the cottage.

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'IT'S DIFFICULT'
My Big Fat Fabulous Life's Whitney Way Thore is 'hurting' after learning fiance was expecting a baby with another woman
Caroline Feraday
19:23 ET, Jun 2 2020
Updated: 12:04 ET, Jun 9 2020
MY Big Fat Fabulous Life star Whitney Way Thore revealed her hurt at now ex-fiance Chase Severino fathering a child with another woman.
The 36-year-old reality star, who announced their split on May 22, said that life has been challenging, since she found out the news for herself.
Big Fat Fabulous Life star Whitney Way Thore revealed her hurt at now ex-fiance Chase Severino fathering a child with another womanCredit: Instagram
"I learned this news myself fairly recently," she told People on Tuesday.
"It wasn't something I'd been sitting with for months and months, but once I saw rumors about our relationship — after I finally deleted our photos on Instagram, for example — I knew I just wanted to get it over with and announce it so I could fully start to move on."
She told the publication how she's reacted to finding out that Severino hadn't just cheated but would become a father in the fall.
"It's a difficult thing to navigate - honestly, I would have rather not said it, just to avoid the inevitable backlash and gossip, but at the same time, people in their lives already knew of course and a baby isn't something that can remain private in the future," the TLC star said.
She shared the update on InstagramCredit: Instagram
He confirmed the newsCredit: Instagram
"I definitely didn't want it to look like I wasn't aware of the full situation, but at the same time, I truly just don't want the drama and the gossip.
"I'm hurting and all of that just compounds it. I'm looking forward to a more positive future," she told the publication.
She explained that since she revealed the news, she's found it difficult.
"It's difficult for strangers to have such strong opinions about something so personal, and even though so many people have been incredibly nice and sympathetic, it doesn't really make the day to day much easier," she told them.
She told the publication that she has had the support of friend Buddy Bell, during lockdown.
Whitney has been locked down during the coronavirus pandemicCredit: Instagram
They got engaged last OctoberCredit: Instagram
The couple split after she found out he had played awayCredit: Instagram
He will become a father in October...with another womanCredit: Instagram
The engagement was broken off last monthCredit: Instagram
Chase only recently shared the news with WhitneyCredit: Instagram
The reality star said she's hurtingCredit: TLC
"Luckily, Buddy has been with me for the last month," she says. "I still haven't left the house due to coronavirus, so he grocery shops and cooks and it's been great not to be physically alone during this time since I'm not able to see my family and other friends."
Last month the star chose to announce the news of their break-up with a photo of a black screen and detailed caption, which explained Severino is expecting a child with another woman.
"Chase and I are no longer engaged," the 36-year-old reality star wrote at the time.
"After experiencing a lot of ups and downs and still living apart, Chase reconnected with a woman with whom he has had a long history."
She added that her former fiancé only "recently" shared the news that his relationship "resulted in a pregnancy."
"Chase will be a father in October," Whitney, who got engaged in October 2019, revealed.
Former escort reveals surprising signs your partner is cheating during lockdown – admitting men will 'always find a way'


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Confederate Monument Moved From the Edge of the University of Louisville Campus
Filed in African-American History on December 6, 2016
Recently, a monument honoring Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War, was moved from the edge of the campus of the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Kentucky was a slave state but did not succeed from the Union and join the Confederacy.
The plan to remove the monument was announced last April but a legal challenge was mounted to keep the Confederate memorial in place. A compromise was reached in which the memorial was moved to Brandenburg, Kentucky, where it will be part of a historical display. The city of Brandenburg holds a biennial Civil War re-enactment event. The next one is scheduled for July 2018.
The University of Louisville Foundation paid $350,000 of the $400,000 cost to move the monument.
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TitanCon History (2009-17)
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About TitanCon
TitanCon - A not-for-profit science fiction and fantasy literature, media and gaming convention for Belfast Northern Ireland including panels on HBO and George RR Martin's Game of Thrones, organised and run by GRRM fangroup the Brotherhood Without Banners and The Other Ones a Belfast science fiction and fantasy society.
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The BWB are the largest and most well known GRRM fangroup. The BWB are by no means the only fangroup in the world and they are certainly not the official fangroup. There are fangroups in Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland, all across Europe in fact and several smaller English speaking groups too. But because of our size and the fact that so many BWB members are extremely dedicated, travelling all over the world to conventions and events, we think of ourselves as the Unofficial-Official GRRM fangroup. George's position has always been to not have an official fan club because he wants to embrace all fandom and won't exclude someone just because they are not a fully paid up member or some such BS like that. And the BWB is run with that same kind of open and embracing policy. There's no membership fee, no secret sign you have to know, no initiation rites, you don't have to sacrifice animals or your first born child, none of that. All you have to do is say you are a Brother and you are. Well that and post on the Westeros forum obviously.
Brotherhood Without Banners standard.
Westeros is a GRRM fan forum for A Song of Ice and Fire and has been in operation for over 12 years. The Westeros forum has some special secret ability for attracting intelligent erudite strong minded individuals and has an incredible atmosphere that is both very friendly and welcoming but also challenges you to bring your best arguments to the table. Discussion threads are deep, thought provoking, rich in knowledge from experts in their field and extremely enlightening. Well maybe not all threads are like that, we have our fair share of silly, stupid and funny topics too. But throughout the forum you will always find this strong sense of community and the BWB was born out of that community. Prince Lodey got things off the ground in July 2000 and he created the BWB standard (it's not a banner!) which has become our logo. Lodey led the BWB through our early years up until 2006 when Stego took over the reins which he still holds today.
If you've been to a WorldCon over the last 11 years the chances are you've heard of the BWB and our world famous parties. At LAcon in 2006 we had a human chess match between George RR Martin and Daniel Abraham with fans dressed up as the Highgarden and Dorne chess pieces. At AussieCon 2010 we ended up hosting a party in a nightclub after the hotel let us down, there's nothing like seeing SF/F convention geeks dancing right next to regular club goers in their tiny spray on dresses. That night could have been a disaster but we turned it into a spectacular success.
Photo from the BWB AWESOME Raffle Prize Draw Thing at the BWB WorldCon party in Melbourne Australia 2010 taken by Fungi. George RR Martin, Lezli Robyn, Peter V Brett and one of our lucky winners.
The other thing that the BWB are known for is a lot of hard work for charity and volunteering. The BWB has always made donations to charities and at the past two WorldCons theMountainGoat has organised an AWESOME Charity Book Prize Draw Raffle Thing which has been extremely successful raising CA $204 in Montreal (2009) and AUS $1144 in Melbourne (2010) for children's literacy charity Teachers & Writers Collaborative based in New York City (www.twc.org).
Many BWB members are dedicated volunteers at WorldCon, Boskone and dozens of other conventions across North America and Europe, some even getting involved in programme ops and convention organisation. In fact hosting a fan convention for GRRM was one of the original goals when the BWB first got started and last year Parris McBride-Martin said that she felt the BWB were finally ready to hold their own convention. Thus firing off the imagination of theMountainGoat...
The Other Ones are a science fiction, fantasy and gaming society based in Belfast. The Other Ones are a friendly and active group of fans who meet every Wednesday evening in Metro Bar, opposite the Empire/Botanic Train Station, Belfast. They also hold regular gaming sessions and cinema trips to see the latest SF/F releases. Anyone looking for like minded SF/F fans in Belfast is welcome to come along to any of our meetings and get involved.
Several members of The Other Ones were involved with MECON which was a SF/F convention held in Belfast and ran for 11 years up until 2008. After the MECON committee disbanded three of its members, Bruce, Ian and Shane wanted to start up a new convention to take its place and they had just been looking for the right opportunity to come along...
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Swimming pool with blue water is associated with relaxation and resting in a warm climate, whereas a villa with a swimming pool located in a beautiful garden is a synonym of luxury for many people. Interestingly, Hollywood stars are not the first wealthy people for whom having a pool becomes a status symbol of wealth. Since the times of the ancient Romans the wealthiest citizens have built beautiful villas with swimming pools. The majority of the Roman houses had indeed swimming pools, but only the wealthiest citizens could have afforded a swimming pool in the garden or on a coastal island.


I will tell you a deep dark secret. I rarely enjoy Jang Na Ra dramas. I always want to, but that love of the characters she plays, never really develops. Despite my disappointment, I always somehow get sucked into watching her dramas. This time I thought I was in the clear. Go Back Couple failed to catch my attention in their teasers which focused on the lead's horrible married life. I had no intention of watching…. and then they had to release an adorable Macarena themed teaser that has made me question my decision.
Where other teasers have been based on the screaming and crying that comes with a failing relationship. This one focused on the quirky cuteness of two characters being sent back to their college days. Days that were before the stress of kids, jobs, and everyday reality. Who wouldn't want to escape to something easier every now and then?
But does this cute teaser interest me enough to give Go Back Couple a chance to wow me? I actually think it does. I can't commit to watching the drama to the bitter end but I do think I will give it a chance. What are your thoughts? Is this drama going to go on your must-watch list? It is a weighty decision. Especially in a week where not one, not two, but six new dramas are airing.
Hmmm I was going to give this one a pass because I hate all the nasty fighting and crying that goes with this type of drama but I must admit that was pretty cute. Sigh maybe I'll watch a few episodes to get to the flash back to the past.
I actually love most of Jang Na-Ra's dramas and find her super adorable. She did an awesome job in both Fated to Love You and Hello Monster and I will watch this drama just because she is in it but even more interested after watching the cute trailer above.
I know that everyone loves her and I want to love her…. but it is just one of those things. But I don't dislike her so I will continue to try and click.
I don't love her, but I didn't hate her in I Remember You/Hello Monster. So . . . I might give this one a shot. The beginning looks really depressing, though!


The City Council on Tuesday night approved a first step towards renaming Sepulveda Boulevard to Pacific Coast Highway, directing staff to conduct a survey of businesses and residents to gauge support for the change.
in 1932, from El Camino Real — and that the impetus at that time was that the boulevard would connect San Pedro (where the Sepulveda family's ranch had been) to a town in San Fernando Valley named Sepulveda (now Mission Hills).
But a writer of one of those history books, the city's unofficial historian Jan Dennis, vehemently argued against a name change. Dennis authored "A Thread in the Tapestry: A History of Sepulveda Blvd in Manhattan Beach." She said that Sepulveda — the street itself, not the family — was part of the city's history.
Councilperson Nancy Hersman questioned all the discussion of historical importance.
The discussion of changing the name of the city's main north-south corridor was, in part, spurred by El Segundo's renaming of Sepulveda to Pacific Coast Highway in June. The neighbor on the other side of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, renamed the street to Pacific Coast Highway years ago.
"El Segundo's name change has created a Sepulveda island, just in terms of continuity," said Stephanie Katsouleas, the city's Public Works director.
Councilperson Steve Napolitano argued that El Segundo had a reason to change the street's name that Manhattan Beach does not.
Councilperson David Lesser said he was "on the fence" regarding the name change but open to discussion. His worry was staff time, but Katsouleas said the survey would take no more than 10 or 15 hours to conduct, mailing a survey to businesses and perhaps conducting an online survey for residents.
Mayor Amy Howorth said she'd been initially receptive to the idea but most of the feedback she's gotten from residents has not been in support of a name change.
The Chamber of Commerce conducted an informal survey in which 24 businesses — including large businesses such as Skechers and the Manhattan Village Mall and small businesses such as Grow and Tin Roof Bistro — expressed support for the name change; six businesses, including Manhattan Postal Center, Kaiser, and Union Bank, opposed the name change.
Toni Reina, a representative of Continental Development, said the company was in support of naming the street Pacific Coast Highway because of the prestige associated with the name, "which is known throughout the country and the world" and would thus have economic benefits. She also said Continental, along with some other businesses, would help pay for some of the costs associated with the name change, such as signage.
Dennis noted that there are an estimated 472 businesses along Sepulveda. She said that most small businesses she'd talked to opposed the change.
The council voted 4-1 to conduct a survey.


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