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KPMG August 8, 2018
Judge Allows Class-Action Suit to Proceed Against KPMG Over Shoddy Miller Energy Audit
A federal judge in Tennessee on Aug. 2 declined to throw out a securities class-action lawsuit against KPMG, in which investors are accusing the Big 4 firm of screwing up the audit of now-defunct oil and gas company Miller Energy Resources Inc.
In Lewis Cosby et al. v. KPMG L.L.P., the investors say they got duped when Miller Energy overstated the value of its oil and gas interests in Alaska. The lawsuit also condemns Miller Energy and its auditors of using "a plethora of false statements, fraudulent accounting, and other fraudulent reporting devices to falsify the financial results of Miller Energy, conspiring to perpetrate a massive fraud on plaintiff and others in member of the investing public."
The investors claim that KPMG violated Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 by making material misrepresentations in relation to the sale or purchase of securities. And they argue that KPMG's review of Miller Energy's quarterly financial statements were not in compliance with GAAP, GAAS, and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board standards.
As Caleb mentioned last August, Miller Energy bought a bunch of land in Alaska in late 2009 for next to nothing (well, roughly $4.25 million) and then told investors that it was worth $480 million.
KPMG was hired by Miller Energy in 2011 and issued an unqualified audit report despite the value of the Alaskan assets being grossly overstated, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission:
KPMG and the engagement partner John Riordan failed to properly assess the risks associated with accepting Miller Energy as a client and did not properly staff the audit, which overlooked the overvaluation of certain oil and gas interests that the company had purchased in Alaska the previous year. Among other audit failures, KPMG and Riordan did not adequately consider and address facts known to them that should have raised serious doubts about the company's valuation, and they failed to detect that certain fixed assets were double-counted in the company's valuation.
KPMG settled SEC charges for $6.2 million on Aug. 15, 2017, due to its shoddy Miller Energy audit. Riordan also settled charges against him, agreeing to a $25,000 fine and a suspension to practice before the SEC. KPMG did not admit or deny any wrongdoing.
In his Aug. 2 ruling, Judge Thomas Varlan of the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee said after KPMG was hired by Miller Energy in 2011, it failed to complete an independent audit but instead relied on previous reports and defended the valuation of the assets:
Even after a report from TheStreetSweepers questioned the valuation of Miller Energy's assets, defendant represented to shareholders that the valuation was accurate and that the article was inaccurate.
The 2011 blog from The Street Sweeper, which was published on the financial markets news website Seeking Alpha, was skeptical of the value of assets that Miller Energy purchased in late 2009. At the time, Miller Energy said the assets were valued at more than $327 million, but The Street Sweeper quoted an energy executive who estimated the assets were worth "only $25 million to $30 million and were offset by $40 million worth of liabilities," according to an article by the Knoxville News Sentinel.
The judge also said that the investors "adequately alleged that defendant's conduct was an 'egregious refusal to see the obvious, or to investigate the doubtful.'"
In a statement emailed to Going Concern, Steven Toll, a managing partner at law firm Cohen Milstein, who represents the investors in the case, said:
"We are very pleased by Chief Judge Varlan's opinion as he ruled upon some very important issues affecting auditor liability. Specifically, he ruled that we had alleged sufficient facts to give rise of a strong inference of 'scienter,' which involves showing knowledge or recklessness by the defendant. The court also found that we had adequately pled loss causation, that is a causal link between the investors' loss and the alleged misrepresentation. Finally, the court rejected their effort to dismiss the case on statute of limitations ground, upheld our argument that the claims related back to the original complaint, and denied KPMG's argument that the Section 11 claim was barred by the statute of repose. Thus, it was a very good ruling for the investors in this case."
KPMG has yet to respond to a request for comment.
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I wonder if this was discussed during KPMG's summer internship program, the best internship program in America per some survey.
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Based on the 2021 PCAOB inspection reports we've reviewed so far, the audit firm that would win the "most improved" award is RSM US. From 2017 to 2020, RSM had an average yearly audit failure rate of 42%, including failing 46% of its audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors in 2020. But during the most recent […]

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Nafees Lyon (born December 10, 1996) is a professional gridiron football defensive back for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

College career
After using a redshirt season in 2015, Lyon played college football for the Charlotte 49ers from 2016 to 2020, while missing the 2017 season due to injury. He played in 40 games in four seasons where he recorded 137 total tackles, two interceptions, and two forced fumbles.

Professional career

Edmonton Elks
Lyon signed with the Edmonton Elks on January 11, 2021. He began the 2021 season on the practice roster, but he made his professional debut on October 29, 2021, against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats where he had six defensive tackles. He played and started in the five regular season games where he had 27 defensive tackles and two interceptions.

In 2022, he played in eight regular season games for the Elks where he had 25 defensive tackles, one sack, one interception, and one forced fumble.

Montreal Alouettes
On August 31, 2022, Lyon was traded to the Montreal Alouettes along with Thomas Costigan in exchange for Avery Ellis and a third-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft. In his first game as an Alouette, on September 9, 2022, he scored his first career touchdown on a 52-yard interception return against the BC Lions. He played in six regular season games for the Alouettes where he had 27 defensive tackles, one special teams tackle, one interception, and one touchdown.

Personal life
Lyon was born to parents Tobin and Belinda Lyon and has one brother, Tobin II.

References

External links
Montreal Alouettes profile

1996 births
Living people
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White Cliffs Walking Festival has 42 walks on the coast, organised with the White Cliffs Ramblers
ByAngela Cole
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Published: 05:33, 19 August 2019
It attracts more than 1,000 walkers each year for a chance to see the county's east coast in all its glory.
The White Cliffs Walking Festival will have 42 different walks over its seven days this year, ranging from special interest ones of one or two miles to the 32-mile White Cliffs Challenge.
It will be the seventh annual walking festival organised by the White Cliffs Ramblers, who are celebrating their 30th anniversary this year. Last year's walking festival attracted 1,200 walkers, who came from all over Kent and other parts of the South East, and beyond.
White Cliffs Walking Festival heads to Capel
This year's festival features 12 new walks, including Over The Downs (12 miles), taking in the downland above Ripple; From Coast to Downs (11 miles) visiting the countryside and historic villages around Deal and Walmer; and Beautiful Hythe and Beyond (five or 10 miles) taking in the area around Hythe.
Historical walks include the eight-mile Crimean Crime Mystery, which will recall a notorious murder in 1856, when two teenage Dover sisters were killed on the cliffs near Capel-le-Ferne. Their murderer was later caught, tried and hanged.
White Cliffs Walking Festival walkers explore Shakespeare Beach
Other walks include three White Cliffs Panoramic Trails, a one-mile Carers' Stroll for carers and those they care for, and a 2.8-mile walk for children.
The White Cliffs Challenge, put on for the festival by the Long Distance Walkers Association, is on Saturday, August 24. There are 32 and 18 mile routes, both starting from St Margaret's.
The White Cliffs Walking Festival at Dover Castle
At the other end of the walking scale there are six walks of 1-1.5 miles themed on Dover history, and there's also the Kearsney Loop, a new 2.5-mile trail, aimed at families, which was created following negotiations over access with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, part of the Ministry of Defence.
The White Cliffs Walking Festival runs from Thursday, August 22 to Wednesday. August 28. For a full programme and to book a place on a walk go to whitecliffswalkingfestival.org.uk
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Eleazar és un personatge jueu que apareix al Segon llibre dels Macabeus, capítol 6, versicle 18 i on és descrita com a "un dels principals mestres de la llei" i "de posat distingit". Va morir amb uns noranta anys.

Sota la persecució instigada per Antíoc IV Epífanes, Eleazar fou forçat a obrir la boca i menjar porc, però el va escopir i fou torturat fins a la mort, donant "un exemple heroic i un record gloriós" (versicle 31).

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The Charleston Attic
Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain conference at the National Portrait Gallery
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain kindly invited thecharlestonattic to attend their annual conference at the National Portrait Gallery to coincide with the Virginia Woolf, Art, Life and Vision exhibition.
Professor Frances Spalding gave a fascinating account of her decision-making process as curator of the Woolf exhibition in her paper 'Protean Woolf'. Spalding revealed that her curatorial choices aimed to highlight Woolf's protean qualities and the mutable and boundary crossing nature of her work, rather than presenting a single fixed interpretation. She chose to focus on Woolf in her own contemporary contexts, noting that the writer's 'extraordinary posthumous life', and habit of employing hyperbole, had presented difficult questions in terms of how to represent this iconic figure.
Emeritus professor Maggie Humm's talk investigated the impact of Woolf's portrayal of their mother and use of lighthouse imagery in To The Lighthouse on Vanessa Bell's visual practice. The lighthouse was a potent symbol of their childhood holidays in St. Ives and is a motif that recurs in both women's work. Humm suggested that Bell's encounter with her mother and the lighthouse of their childhood in the pages of her sister's novel resulted in several works where Bell attempted to directly address maternal loss, including Pink, Blue and White Flowers in a Vase of 1928. Humm made the case that this still life, which shows what the speaker convincingly argued is a photo album with a page 'curling as though memory is moving out into the room', was a reworking of a 1923 painting containing many of the same elements. The 1928 painting presages a later 1945/1951 painting again with similar elements, reproducing a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph of Julia. Bell wrote to Woolf that it was 'shattering to find oneself face to face' with her parents again in TLL, and these still lifes address her mother's spectre with new insight.[1]
Homages to their mother and images of lighthouses featured regularly in both women's work after this point. The tiles around Woolf's bedroom fireplace at Monk's House – inscribed 'VW from VB 1930' – were created for her by Bell in 1930. The large oval panel in the centre depicts a lighthouse, recalling Bell's bookjacket for To the Lighthouse.
Several lighthouse sketches figure in the AGG supporting the idea that the lighthouse is a resonant intertextual motif, evoking childhood memories and deeply seated emotions.
[1] Vanessa Bell to Virginia Woolf, 11th May 1927, Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell, ed. Regina Marler, p.317
Vogue, November 1924: 'Modern English Decoration'
One of the first exhibits in 'Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision', which opened at the National Portrait Gallery last month is an article in the November 1924 edition of Vogue, titled 'Modern English Decoration'. Virginia Woolf had commissioned Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant to design decorative wall panels for her third-floor sitting-room at 52 Tavistock Square. The success of the scheme and Woolf's pride in the commission is suggested by it being illustrated in Vogue. The Vogue article rhapsodises about the artists' decorative work, and pays heed to how Grant and Bell sought to combine beauty with usefulness:
'There is at present in this country an artistic activity which is producing work more interesting and more vital than anything that has made its appearance here during the last hundred years. Moreover, many of the leading artists in this modern movement… have turned their attention to decorative work. Among these are Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, who… produced a great many charming things in the way of furniture, stuffs, and pottery, practical as well as beautiful.'[1]
The panels in 52 Tavistock Square include paintings of books, writing implements, and musical instruments, and these motifs suggest Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard's activities in their sitting room. Whilst the literary lives of Virginia and Leonard Woolf are well documented, their love of music – implicit in Bell and Grant's decorative scheme in the recurrent image of a mandolin – is not as widely known.
The panels are no longer extant as the house was hit by a bomb in October 1940 during the Second World War. However, there are sketches of similar subjects in the Angelica Garnett Gift. In particular, drawings which incorporate a mandolin appear numerously, an example of which is shown below.
[1] 'Modern English Decoration' article in Vogue, early November 1924
More Bloomsbury Cats!
These sketches of lounging cats come from another sketchbook labelled 'VB' for Vanessa Bell.
Bell may have had a little help from her children with this rough sketch on the back of the front cover!
There were always cats at Charleston, a particular favourite was called Marco Polo. Although cats aren't often mentioned in the literature about Charleston, we rather suspect the artists harboured a soft spot for them!
Another of Bell's cats was shown at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York as part of their 2009 'A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections' exhibition. They have kindly allowed us permission to use their photography here.
Vanessa Bell, Decorative design "Cat," 1930s. Gouache on board, dia. 22 inches. Private collection. Image courtesy of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.
This woodcut of a cat by Dora Carrington was also shown in the Cornell show. http://museum.cornell.edu/bloomsbury/press.htm
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Q: stream raspivid output with nodejs to a browser I'm trying to stream the output of raspivid to a web application with nodejs. The problem is that the data that I'm streaming cannot be displayed. This is the code for the node server:
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const http = require('http').createServer(app);
const io = require('socket.io')(http);
const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;

app.use(express.static('public'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
  extended: true
}));

const raspivid = spawn(
  'raspivid',
  ['-t', '0', '-w', '300', '-h', '300', '-hf', '-fps', '20', '-o', '-']);

raspivid.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
  var base64Image = data.toString('base64');
  io.emit('videostream', base64Image);
});

http.listen(3000, function(){
  console.log('listening on *:3000');
});

For the web application I tried many things, I tried to display the stream in an image tag as well as in a video tag, so I use one of the following tags:
<video id="video" width="400" height="300"></video>
<img id="img" src="">

And I tried to display the stream trying the following things:
var socket = io(),
  video = document.getElementById('video'),
  img = document.getElementById('img'),
  vendorUrl = window.URL || window.webkitURL;

socket.on('videostream', function(stream) {
  var contentType = 'image/png';
  img.src = ' data:image/png;base64,' + stream;//op1 doesn't work
  var blob = b64toBlob(stream, contentType);
  img.src = vendorUrl.createObjectURL(blob);//op2 doesn't work
  video.src = vendorUrl.createObjectURL(blob);//op3 doesn't work
  video.play();
});

Can someone tell me how can I display the stream in the browser or point me in the right direction? thanks in advance

A: Well I was not able to find simple solution for this.
One way to overcome the problem is to use ffmpeg or MJPEG-streamer to stream the input from raspivid as a video stream that can be displayed in the browser, detailed information of how to do this can be found in the following posts:
  https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/7446/how-can-i-stream-h-264-video-from-the-raspberry-pi-camera-module-via-a-web-serve
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/stream-video-from-the-raspberry-pi-camera-to-web-browsers-even-on-ios-and-android
Alternatively you can take pictures between small periods of time and then send them in a stream like is better described here:
  http://thejackalofjavascript.com/rpi-live-streaming/
I hope one of the solutions mentioned above will be useful to someone else :)

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You want a photographer whose images you adore and will do your wedding day justice. However, unlike the work of your florist or caterer, a photographer's work can't be felt, eaten, touched, or seen (not right away at least). You won't get to enjoy the final product until after the event. Which means careful consideration and meticulous research is needed to ensure you pick the right professional for you.
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Before you even get to looking at lists and recommendations for photographers, you first need to define your vision. It all boils down to what you want your wedding to look like - from your signature color palette to the thoughtful location of your event. Once you've determined that, you can dive headfirst into photographers that match your style.
Fine Art: Fine art photographers capture images that are meant to be appreciated as visual art. Careful attention is paid to the composition of each photo - the lighting, background, subjects - in order to tell a specific story. Many fine art photographers use a mix of film and digital photography and produce a wide range of styles, from light & airy to dark & moody imagery. If you are planning a wedding in which the aesthetic of your event is paramount, a fine art photographer is the best option.
Photojournalistic: If you want to stray away from your parent's posted wedding portraits, a photojournalistic (or documentary-style) photographer is at the other end of the spectrum. This style of photography captures candid and spontaneous shots. The hands-off approach of photography means that you'll rarely see people staring straight into the camera and most of your guests will never feel watched…they may not even notice your photographer at all! These images will capture each moment exactly as they happen and weave together an intimate and authentic story.
Editorial: Love the look of big fashion magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair? Editorial photography might be the right fit for you. This style of photography is an artform in itself. You won't find many candids here, but instead sweeping and dramatic imagery meant to evoke a larger-than-life feeling. Expect lots of direction and collaboration with your photographer.
Are they consistent in their style? Can you picture you and your honey in those shots? Will these images still look relevant on your walls and photo albums in 10 or 25 years?
If you answered yes to all of these, mark them down on your list and proceed to step two!
Once dinner has been eaten, dancing is done, and the last of the cake gone, all that remains are your wedding images. Wedding photography immortalizes the day for years to come and while photography services come in at all different price points, what's most important is VALUE. The value you'll get out of your collection of images when everything is said and done. Once you've evaluated how important these images will be to you and your family, consider your budget and what types of packages each photographer offers.
But sometimes comparing photographers and their respective package can feel like apples to oranges. Do you really need 1,500 photos or is having 300 high-quality images enough? Is 10 hours of coverage overkill or will 7 be enough to take you through the day? What are your musts, your wants, and your can-do-without?
Learn what's included in each package, plus the rates for extras like an engagement shoot, save the date cards or additional hours of coverage, so you can compare rates.
One thing you never want to compromise is quality. It doesn't matter if you want a full day of coverage and all the images from your event or just 100 high-quality photos. All of your images need to be consistent in style, well composed, well-lit and meaningful.
How many weddings have they shot? Where do they work? How will they guide you through the process?
No matter what their experience level is, your photographer should outline every step from reviewing the contract to making a schedule for the photo events of the day, and be clear on expectations for post-production time and photo delivery.
I hope that you're enjoying these tips and finding them helpful! As always, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with me!
You want to be excited about all the vendors you hire for your wedding day, but nobody will interact more with you and your guests than the photographer. This means you need to mesh. Don't hire a loud and extroverted photographer if you're looking to have a more subdued event. You want to feel comfortable and confident in your photographer, so get to know them beyond their stylistic approach to their work.
Are they bright and bubbly? Or more subdued and quiet? Will they be able to bring out the best in large groups? In shy guests? Your images should show you looking happy and in love, not stressed because you hired a photographer that can't handle a rowdy bridal party. Also, be sure to look at their portfolio images. How do the subjects look? One quick peek will either show awkward posing and deer-in-headlights or easy-breezy, natural revelers.
In turn, your photographer should also ask lots of questions and be a good listener so they are clear on your expectations for the day's captures.
Consider booking an engagement shoot for a test-run or just to get to know each other better… You will be happy you did!
If you would like to learn more about my wedding collections and engagement sessions or if you have any other questions, I'd be happy to jump on a quick phone call with you.
You and your photographer both need to know the other's expectations. Will you be having a larger wedding? Does the photographer have an assistant? Will they need a break for a nourishing meal? Discussing bigger-picture details - as well as the minute things like the number of images you want, how and when you'll receive your previews, retouching fees, etc. - with your photographer will help minimize any potential hiccups and leave both of you pleased with the outcome.
Any professional worth their salt will have a legal contract ready stipulating expectations for your day, liability insurance, backup equipment, and a rock-solid game plan in case of an emergency.
If you'd like to see what you can expect if you choose me as your wedding photographer, just reach out and we can set up a time to chat.
In a world of social media and instant gratification, it might be tempting to just go home with digital files of your big day. But don't you want a gorgeous heirloom album or photo box to help you remember the most important event of your life?
Forget those dated slip-in albums with glossy photos and gilded edges. Today, most photographers will offer heirloom products that highlight your day in an artistic, inspirational manner. From coffee table linen albums to luxe folio boxes and framed wall galleries, you can relive your favorite images every single day. Let your photographer show you their sample products and see which ones you fall in love with!
Most photographers will also be able to create fun photo items from an engagement shoot, such as save the dates, sign-in books and even thank you cards.
You NEED a wedding album. You NEED prints. And let me say this from the get-go. Any photographer not offering you an album or prints is doing you a disservice.
If your precious wedding photos spend their lives only on the laptop or some online gallery. End up in a super shiny photo book where the colors look terrible because the printer quality is wrong.
That's probably the biggest downer after the wedding for me.
Photos are not made for the screen. They are made for print. They are made to be held in your hands. For your grandkids to find them in 50 years and hold them in their hands.
Come on, how cool was it, when you first found your grandparent's wedding picture and ran your fingers over it?
You need a quality wedding album - it is an investment in your future and beyond.
I find it incredibly fascinating to look at old photos of our relatives. It's such a shame that there are so few of them, because during that time you just didn't photograph as much. Photos were something special. Something valuable.
So the way you are feeling while looking at faded family photos these days, one day the generations after you will go through the same feelings when they look at your pictures.
What a beautiful legacy to have and to hold, if you can carry on an entire album of your wedding, and they can hold it in their hands and tell the stories of Grandma and Grandpa's great love.
Sounds corny? I don't care. I'm here not just for you but the future you.
I also don't take these pictures for just you, they will live longer than you. Crazy thought, I know. But it's true. I take pictures for your family, your kids and grandkids. If you decide not to have any, these images will still outlive you. They will be proof that you existed. That you loved and were loved.
Give them a worthy frame.
So you've found a few photographers that tick all of your boxes: their images are incredible and fit your style, their rates are in your budget, and it seems like their personality will be a good match for you. Now you'll want to make sure they have your date available and then schedule a meeting. Some couples decide to hire photographers that aren't exactly local to them and that's ok! Thanks to modern technology meetings can be conducted over apps like FaceTime and Skype.
This is when you will discuss your wedding, your style, the venue and your vision for the day. There's no such thing as too much detail, so be clear and concise about what you want out of hiring this photographer. At this meeting, you'll want a photographer that's engaged who asks lots of questions and answers all of yours with confidence.
If their answers, imagery, and products give you the tingles, you may have found your photographer!
Once you have secured your date with a contract and retainer, be sure to stay in touch and use your photographer as an industry expert. They may have fantastic advice on everything from timelines, styling, decor and finding other top vendors.
There you have it. My best tips for choosing the perfect wedding photographer. I hope that you found this guide helpful and that it makes your wedding planning a little bit easier.
I hope that you found my tips for choosing a wedding photographer helpful.
Choosing a wedding photographer is one of the most important decisions that you'll make regarding your wedding. You're going to spend a significant amount of time with your photographer on your wedding day and they are the person that you are trusting to capture priceless moments and memories. It's important to pick the right person!
If you'd like to talk to me more about your wedding day and your photography needs, feel free to contact me via the button below. I look forward to hearing from you.
Anthony Godines is a Texas and destination wedding photographer based in San Angelo, TX offering wedding photography in Austin, Dallas, San Angelo, Abilene and across the state of Texas as well as nationwide.


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There's A Big Difference Between 'H.R.' And 'High Performance' Happiness At Work
Max NisenMay 8, 2013, 03:13 IST
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Whether it's perks like free food and awesome campuses, or data-based efforts to figure out what makes employees tick, there's an increasing focus on making employees happier at work, hoping that it will pay dividends in terms of productivity and cooperation.
According to Cliff Oxford, the founder of the Oxford Center For Entrepreneurs, most of the talk about employee happiness is entirely off base.
In a New York Times blog post, he argues that there's an extremely important distinction between "H.R. Happy" and "High Performance Happy." Most companies are obsessed with "H.R. Happy," when true success comes from the latter.
"H.R. Happy" is defined by friendly bosses, the occasional conversation about hobbies outside of work, the occasional birthday party, and maybe even the ability to take the dog to the office.
High Performance Happy, Oxford writes, "is an attitude with a skill set that says we are on a mission that is bigger than any one of us. We find our happiness in being on a world-class team that is making a difference." It's about giving people plenty of responsibility, and realizing that nothing makes people happier than delivering on that trust.
Oxford makes a very important point. Obviously, a pleasant work environment and good relationships mean a lot. But no amount of perks will matter if you don't have great people doing something they believe in and care about.
That kind of culture takes a great deal of work, mostly in hiring the right people and making sure that they're open and candid with one another. One of the most consistent things that people find when they look at the data on success is that the top performers are the ones who learn rapidly on the job and thrive in undefined situations.
Finding those people can be difficult, but it's worth the effort. Relying on perks to produce happiness and productivity is using a small lever, and gets a small effect. Ideas, responsibility, and growth are much bigger motivators.
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Q: Particular values for the sum of divisors function from billiards In this post we consider as reference the article Arithmetic billiards from Wikipedia. We consider the arithmetic billiard that is explained in the article.
I've wondered if we can compute some simple particular values for the sum of divisors function $\sigma(n)=\sum_{1\leq d\mid n}d^a$ with $a=1$. I think that it could be interesting for other post compute values for the Euler's totient function $\varphi(n)$ (I'm interested also for subsequent posts do computations with refractions and polarization of light rays).

Question. I would like to know if you can to help me to compute more particular values of the sum of divisors function using the definition of billiards and their arithmetic. Below I've added two examples that I think that are easy to get. Many thanks

Example 1. We consider $p\geq 5$ a prime number and our billiard has the form of a capital letter L, these are the column $1\times\varphi(p)$ squared units plus the square unit $\square$. We place the left bottom corner at $(0,0)$ of the plane. Then the corner that is the starting point for our ball is placed at the point $(1,p-1)$. The value $\sigma(p)$ equals to $$3+\operatorname{number}(\text{diagonal trajectories})-2,\tag{1}$$
where one can to motivate that $3$ counts certain regions, and $-2$ is to discount two corner pockets of our billiard. Notice that the ball moves inside the billiard.
Example 2. We consider $p$ and $q$  distinct odd prime numbers and our billiard is a rextangle $q\times p$, our billiard is placed at the corner $(0,0)$ of the plane that is the starting point for our ball at $45º$ angles, again. Then the value $\sigma(pq)=\sigma(p)\sigma(q)$ equals to $$4+2\cdot\operatorname{number}(\text{bounces})+2\cdot\frac{\varphi(p)\varphi(q)}{2},\tag{2}$$
where one can to motivate that $4$ counts certain regions, and $\frac{\varphi(p)\varphi(q)}{2}$ can be interpreted as the number of delimited squares that were drawed by the trajectories of our ball in this billiard (a full turn, from the corner pocket that is the starting point for our ball to the exit corner pocket).
Additionally I tried to compute $\sigma(pqr)$ for pairwise distinct odd prime numbers $p,q$ and $r$, I can to get the closed-form of a term (in terms of the number of certain triangles of a billiard with the shape of a rectangle $p\times qr$, but I cann't get a closed-form similar than $(1)$ and $2$ for $\sigma(qpr)=\sigma(p)\sigma(qr)$.
Remarks. 1) As was said I think that the approach to get particular values for $\sigma(n)$ (I didn't try get values as $\sigma(N^2)$ seems very limited for me, this is my motivation to continue studying billiards with refractions. 2) I don't know if my computations are known from the literature, if this kind of billiard are in the literature to compute the sum of divisors function please add a comment or the reference in your answer.


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We're trying very hard to get back to normal (whatever that is) since Kat's accident. So we're doing a little more dancing, a little more singing, a little more time spent just being present together.
Here's what normal looks like at our house, including the floor strewn with toys. Check out this video for a peek into our family fun time. My kids have some smokin' hot dance moves!
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Q: focusout() is not functioning using jQuery I'm attempting to evaluate the length of the content within an input field. If the length of the content is 0, I want to apply some CSS styles.

When I remove the if statement, this function works on focus out. Can
  you see where I've gone wrong with my syntax?

$( "input" ).focusout(function() {
     var n = $( "input" ).length;
     if (n == 0) {
         $( '.enteremail' ).css( "transform", "translateY(0px)");
     }
});

A: You must check the input's value:
$('input').focusout(function() {
     // Check the value of the affected ("this") input
     var n = $(this).val().length;
     if (n === 0) {
         $('.enteremail').css('transform', 'translateY(0px)');
     }
});

not the number of input fields in the document

A: $( "input" ).length will return the number of inputs in the current docuent.
You need first to use the this keyword to target the current input that is losing the focus, then use the jQuery method .val() to return the value of the input before checking the length, like :
 $("input").focusout(function() {
      if ( $(this).val().length ) {
          $( '.enteremail' ).css( "transform", "translateY(0px)");
      }
 });


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#411: Sesame Street Becomes Real, Kelly Clarkson On The Mend & More!
Sesame Street Becomes Real In NYC
Sesame Street just became real in NYC--it's at the intersection of West 63rd Street and Broadway.
In honor of the show's 50th anniversary, New York City made "Sesame Street" a real intersection in the Big Apple. Permanently.
Big Bird, Elmo, Bert, Ernie & others were all on hand for the unveiling of Sesame Street with Mayor Bill de Blasio, who also declared May 1st Sesame Street Day
Kelly Clarkson Fought Through Appendicitis At the BBMAs
Kelly Clarkson's a real trouper-- turns out that while she was hosting and performing on the Billboard Music Awards Wednesday, she was suffering pain from acute appendicitis
Just hours after the show ended, Kelly went under the knife and had her appendix removed at Cedar Sinai Hospital
She confirmed the news of the medical emergency in a tweet on Thursday, writing, (quote) "not gonna lie…I may or may not have broken down in tears after the show from pain."
She added, (quote) "BUT thanks 2 all the amazing people @ Cedars-Sinai I flew home directly after the event, nailed the surgery early this morning, & feeling awesome now! Bye bye appendix #TheShowMustGoOn."
Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds Expecting 3rd Child
The couple revealed the news on the red carpet at the NYC premiere of Ryan's newest film, Detective Pikachu
Blake's sizeable baby bump was on full display in her snug fitting, yellow dress
The couple already have 2 daughters together
Why Did Joe Jonas & Sophie Turner Elope?
Hours after the BBMAs, Joe Jonas & Sophie Turner eloped in Vegas—seemed random and definitely a spur of the moment thing, but then again its is Vegas
Turns out they eloped so their actual wedding in France is legit
According to the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in France, "At least one of the parties to be married must have resided in France for at least 40 days immediately preceding the marriage." (obvi they aren't planning to reside in France so this was the only real solution)
Chewbacca Actor Peter Mayhew Dead At 74
Peter Mayhew, who originated the role of Chewbacca in the "Star Wars" film series has died
There is no cause of death noted as yet, but he passed at home with his family
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Non-Compete, Non-Solicitation, and Non-Disclosure: What are they and do we need them?
Congratulations! You have a thriving practice and have hired your first associate veterinarian who will not only share the workload but help build up your caseload and the practice's goodwill. This hopefully will translate into more free time and higher profits!! Your new associate immediately embraces the culture of your practice and everyone upon meeting her instantly loves her. Life couldn't be better.
The associate, with your blessings of course, begins to build her own clientele within your practice. Over the course of her 3 years of employment, she builds a very large following of loyal pet owners. A win-win situation for all, right? Wrong, think again! Your young protégé decides not to renew her employment contract. She in fact decides to branch out on her own and open up a mobile veterinary practice in the very same town as your hospital. Why not work for herself, control her own work schedule and make more money? Sadly, you watch that very large client segment of your practice, you have handsomely paid her to build, walk right out the front doors of your hospital and into her mobile small animal practice.
You may not be able to prevent an associate from leaving your practice and working for another practice or starting her own, but there are preventative measures you can implement to protect your clientele and goodwill from being unfairly poached by your former associate. This is where the importance of non-compete, non-solicitation and non-disclosure and agreements come into play.
What is a non-compete, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreement?
When creating an employment contract for a new associate, you want to make sure you protect your investment in the event things do not work out and your employee decides to stay and practice in "your" neighborhood. One of the many ways in which you can do this is by having an attorney include within the employment contract several "restrictive covenants", provisions that contractually prohibit an employee from engaging in certain forms of unfair competitive conduct that are harmful to your business.
These restrictive covenants come in three general types; Non-Compete, Non-Solicitation and Nondisclosure (Confidentiality) Agreements.
1. Non-Compete agreements are generally found in employment contracts of key personnel, which generally, includes, veterinary associates, partners, and management staff. This restriction places formal limitations on such individuals from providing competitive services similar to those offered by their prior employer. For example, equine practice employers can prohibit former employees from competing in equine practice, but not small animal practice, since small animal veterinary medicine is not competitive with an equine practice. This limitation must be limited to business's client list or the employer's trade area (meaning the geographic area from where approximately 85% of the clientele come from).
2. Non-solicitation clauses restrict former employees from soliciting clients or other employees away from a practice. Solicitation is a broad concept and can include, direct mailings to a specific list of clients (printed out from the prior employer's computer program) or general forms of advertisement such as listings in newspapers or periodicals distributed within the practice's client trade area or enticing employees to leave the current practice and work with the former employee at the new practice.
3. Non-disclosure (or confidentiality) covenants prevent the use or disclosure of confidential information, such as client lists, fee schedules, marketing strategies, financials, and other forms of proprietary information, which have been available to employees during their employment.
Together these covenants protect the employer's investment in building and developing the practice, its clientele, reputation, staff, and services. The "practice's goodwill" is the key ingredient to determining a practice's value and its ability to generate income from future growth and profitability. These covenants when applied in conjunction with the policies and procedures in the practice's employee manual go a long way to protect client relationships and the tremendous efforts expended in fostering them.
Another important preventative measure you can start implementing immediately, is ensure that your clients begin to build a relationship with all your veterinarians in your hospital as opposed to just one! Your client services representative should be trained to schedule appointments amongst all the doctors and your clients should be educated on the value of establishing a client/doctor relationship with all of your practitioners, not just their "favorite" one. This helps build the loyalty of your hospital as a whole and not be vulnerable to the loyalty following the departing associate out the door. This of course includes YOU as the owner. Make sure you know your clients and provide their pets with professional services every couple of years.
Courts will enforce these restrictions if they are deemed to be fair and reasonable and generally look at three factors to assess "fairness": the employer's need for protection, the hardship experienced by the employee, and the effect restraints will have upon the public. In doing so, the court evaluates the employers' and employee's relationship and whether each of the restraints is reasonable, in terms of the scope of the restricted activity, geographic and time limitations. Laws vary from state to state regarding enforceability of these restrictive clauses and some states, like California, do not enforce non-compete agreements in employment agreements. Therefore, it is advisable that one check with legal counsel when considering including them in employment contracts.
Think of these protections as a form of vaccination. It takes discipline and some legal advice to implement them, and while they may not be 100% effective in protecting the business from a disgruntled employee who wishes to unfairly compete against your practice, they can certainly afford you significant protection against the unfair competitive disease.


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Don't lie about Christmas, warn psychologists
Should we stop telling children the Christmas myth is true? Santa Claus, the chimney and the reindeer: it is the story we all grew up with. But some experts argue these lies can be harmful.
Million-dollar author caught in web of lies
Dan Mallory, writer of the bestselling thriller The Woman in the Window, has admitted to lying about having brain cancer — one of many deceptions he used to boost his career.
The father and son who survived Auschwitz
This Sunday is Holocaust Memorial Day. A new book tells the story of two remarkable survivors: a father and son who stuck together in concentration camps for six horrific years…
The superhero whose comics took over the world
What did Stan Lee teach us about life? The mastermind behind Marvel's success has died aged 95. From Spider-Man to the Hulk, he helped to create many of the world's most beloved superheroes.
'Let me live, love, and say it well...'
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Booker Prize holds a mirror to our dark times
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I've sampled tons of health and welllness trends over the years. I mean, in terms of food, there was the rise of rice cakes (usually with peanut butter) during the late 80's, today's smoothie bars (I like my kale in a smoothie. Beyond that, no thx.), and now the budding adaptogen (herbs - like the jar of Sun Potion Ashwagandha I *literally* just ran out and bought - that are restorative, and supposed to help your body respond better to things like stress, by keeping cortisol levels in check) craze.
So, I've eaten the snacks, taken the supplements, read the blogs, but wouldn't you know it, there's something brand-y new in town. And it's set to become one of the biggest and most buzzworthy things in terms of diet, lifestyle, and wellness! A handful of companies have sprung up over the last few years, offering genetic testing - called nutrigenomics - that's meant to guide you in creating a personalized plan for eating (which foods to keep in your rotation, which ones to kick to the curb...some have called it 'the DNA diet'.), nutrition (are you deficient in iron? getting too much protein?), and even exercise (errrr...maybe you and kettlebells aren't such a great match).
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Bike Fixtations installed across Wausau area.
Bike Fixtations allow bicyclists to make repairs on the fly and are designed to promote more active lifestyles.
WESTON – A D.C. Everest High School graduate's bad luck while bicycling in Minneapolis has led to the installation of several public do-it-yourself bike-repair stations in the Wausau area.
Rothschild native Chad DeBaker was in the midst of a cycling pub crawl in Minneapolis for his bachelor party five years ago when one of the riders in his party got a flat tire. It was at about 8 p.m. on a Saturday night, all the bike shops were closed and "none of us had any tools with us," DeBaker said.
The incident led to DeBaker, 33, to co-found a company called Bike Fixtation in Minneapolis. A Fixtation is an outdoor bike stand with several bike tools and a tire pump built into it. Some also include vending machines that allow bikers to buy parts such as inner tubes and taillights. Cyclists across the Wausau area likely have already spotted at least one of the five Fixtations that have been, or will soon be, placed in key cycling spots, including at the Weston head of the Mountain-Bay Trail.
Four of the Fixtations, which cost about $1,800 each, were funded by the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin and the Aspirus Health Foundation, through the Wausau Area Metropolitan Planning Organization's Bicycle and Pedestrian Subcommittee. A fifth Fixtation, installed in front of The Glass Hat tavern on Third Street, was sponsored by the city of Wausau.
The MPO is a regional transportation planning agency, and the bike/ped committee has been an instrumental player in developing a number of cycling amenities. In addition to the Fixtations, the committee is responsible for new signs and maps highlighting 105 miles of biking routes in the area.
Those maps, signs and routes caught the eye of DeBaker when he was visiting his hometown in the summer of 2013. He sent an email about his Fixtations to cycling advocate Aaron Ruff, a public health educator with the Marathon County Health Department who works closely with the bike/ped committee. Ruff also is the chairman of the Wausau Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee.
"I immediately thought, 'We need to get this in the Wausau area,'" Ruff said at a celebration of the Fixtation installations held Thursday.
DeBaker graduated from D.C. Everest High School in 1999 and moved to Minneapolis shortly after to attend the University of Minnesota, where he studied mechanical engineering. After graduating, he worked as a design engineer until after the flat tire incident in 2009.
He came up with the Fixtation design, and the company is growing. Dozens of Fixtations are located in the Minneapolis area, and dozens more across the Gopher state. Almost 30 have been placed in Minnesota state parks. The company has five full-time and three part-time employees, DeBaker said.
All Fixtations are built in Minnesota, DeBaker said, and all parts are made in the U.S. The stations also have been installed across the globe, he said.
"It shows we're part of a bigger movement," he said.
The Fixtations are being used by local cyclists, Ruff said. Several have posted positive comments about them on bicyclewausau.org. Dennis Helke, the president of the bicycling club Wausau Wheelers, said he saw a family of cyclists taking advantage of the Fixtation at River Park in Rothschild.
A Fixtation also will be placed at Nine Mile County Forest Recreation Area in Rib Mountain, a mountain biking center. It's fitting, because that place helped DeBaker find his cycling passion.
"I did a lot of BMX riding when I was kid," he said. "When I was teenager, I did a lot of riding at Nine Mile."
Now his focus is to help others keep rolling.
"We want to take away the barriers to biking," DeBaker said.
Locations: River Park, Rothschild, near the bike/pedestrian bridge across the Wisconsin River; Nine Mile County Forest Recreation Area, Rib Mountain; Aspirus YMCA in Weston, a meeting place for the Wausau Wheelers; Mountain-Bay Trailhead, Weston; in front of The Glass Hat at 1203 Third St., Wausau.
For more information about the Wausau area Fixtations and other cycling amenties, visit www.bicyclewausau.org. To find out more about Bike Fixtation company, visit www.bikefixtation.com.


The Education Week blog post, "Partnering to Improve: Insights from Baltimore," provides insight into the six core principles of improvement in action in an urban education setting. These educators see the system, are problem-centered, and engage in iterative, disciplined tests of change. The post also shows how those engaged in the work are central to improving the work.


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Aleksejs Šarando (born 1 January 1964) is a former football midfielder from Latvia, currently the assistant manager of Skonto FC-2 in the Latvian First League. He obtained a total number of 24 caps for the Latvia national team between 1993 and 1999, scoring two goals. His last club was FK Rīga, where he retired in 2001. Šarando also played as a professional in Russia, Finland and Sweden.

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 Baltic Cup
 1993

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Latvian footballers
Association football midfielders
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Expatriate footballers in Sweden
Expatriate footballers in Finland
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Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
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John Stott (1921-2011) – Global Christian
July 27, 2011 Wheaton College ArchivesDavid Malone
John Stott with Hudson T. Armerding, circa 1968
Word spread today that John Stott has left this earth and moved on to his reward following a short illness. Stott, who died mid-afternoon London-time, had a relationship with Wheaton College that went back many decades. He spoke at Wheaton on numerous occasions with nearly thirty recordings being housed in the College's archive. Stott, who studied at Cambridge University and was the long-time minister at All Soul's Place, Langham Place (Adjacent to the BBC), was a frequent-enough speaker at Wheaton College that a pattern for his visit emerged where he would have a time of questions and answers with students following his address. During his 2003 visit to Wheaton, responding to a student's question of how to proclaim Christ in a post-modern, relativistic age, Stott responded, "I, myself, am persuaded that the major way in which the gospel can be presented to a post-modern age is not by anything we say but how we live. There needs to be in us Christian people an authenticity which cannot be denied, so there is no dichotomy between what we say and what we are. No dichotomy between our public life and our private life. What an incredible thing it is in our day that politician after politician after politician says "My private life has nothing to do with my public life." What unadulterated rubbish that is. So, there must be no dichotomy between what we are in private and in public. What we say. What we are. That is authenticity. People have to see Christ in us and not just hear what we talk about."
Stott was a strong proponent of the expository form of preaching, which seeks to shine light upon the meaning of a particular text or passage. Former Wheaton faculty member Kenneth Kantzer wrote in Christianity Today's pages in 1981, "When I hear him expound a text, invariably I exclaim to myself, 'That's exactly what it means! Why didn't I see it before?'"
According to a Christianity Today write-up, Stott was born into a London doctor's family where he spent virtually his entire life in the same London neighborhood. He would later become the pastor of the church he attended as a child, All Souls Church, though he was less interested in the service then than later. He would sometimes drop wads of paper from the balcony on to the hats of ladies below. When Stott was ordained Evangelicals were in the minority in the Church of England, without a single Evangelical bishop. He fostered the growth of Evangelical organizations, such as the National Evangelical Anglican Congress, within and outside of the church, proper. His biggest contribution to the church as a whole was his participation in the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization and its subsequent work. He gave the opening address and was the chair of the committee that drafted the Lausanne Convenant, which established a common mission for evangelical action. Lausanne was a defining moment in global evangelicalism. The records of the Lausanne meetings are located in the Billy Graham Center Archives. Stott was a concerned about global Christianity and his engagement was diplomatic and humble. When Stott traveled to Argentina to meet with Latin American theologian Rene Padilla the two found themselves in the middle of a heavy rain storm. They arrived to their destination completely drenched and muddied. Padilla remembered vividly the grace shown by Stott as he took the time to clean and shine Padilla's shoes.
Along with the archival audio at Wheaton College several of Stott's more recent addresses are available online through Wheaton's WETN website


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Agriculture trends in India
Author(s): C. Narayana Reddy
Abstract: Indian agriculture has seen profound changes during the last five and half decades. The agricultural sector in India is enormously significant despite its declining share in GDP. Sectoral shifts occurring as a result of the development process have raised the share of the Services sector in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the 1990s, while Agriculture, which had a predominant share in GDP in the 1950s, contributed only 17.8 per cent 2007-08 (Economic Survey, 2008-09). In the early years of economic planning, food availability was a serious problem in India. The total food grain production was hardly 51 million tonnes in 1950-51, which increased to 234.48 million tonnes in 2008-09. Tenth Plan (2002-07) targets 4 per cent growth rate but reached only 2.30 per cent as the agriculture sector faced drought in 2002-03. Agriculture, in spite of its decline in the share of the country's GDP, plays a very important role in the all-round economic and social development of the country. The growth rate of the agriculture sector in India increased after independence for the government of India placed special emphasis on the sector in its five-year plans. Further, the Green revolution took place in India and this gave a major boost to the agricultural sector in terms of increased irrigation facilities, provision of agricultural subsidies and credits, and improved technology. This, in turn, helped to increase the Agricultural Growth Rate in India and increased its share in GDP.
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BUPD looks for new commissioner, hopes for faculty, student input
October 19, 2016 1:36 am by Alana Levene
The Boston University Police Department is searching for a new executive director of public safety and chief of police following the retirement of Tom Robbins. PHOTO BY NATALIE CAROLL/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Approximately one month after former Boston University Police Department Chief Tom Robbins stepped down, BU last week announced its process to select a new executive director of public safety and chief of police, in an letter from Vice President of Operations Gary Nicksa.
The searching process will involve students' suggestions as well as the input of the Police Chief Search Committee, a committee that includes faculty and staff members from BU campuses. The university has also enlisted the Police Executive Research Forum to find potential candidates, Nicksa stated in the email.
Peter Fiedler, vice president for administrative services and the chair of the search committee, said the committee is looking for someone with extensive police command experience and an understanding of the unique characteristics of a university environment.
He or she must "have an understanding of interacting with students, how a university fits into a big urban setting like this and provide appropriate protection," Fiedler said.
The search committee is currently waiting for PERF to vet out their applicants from an array including both national and international candidates, Fiedler said.
By late November, PERF will suggest between 12 and 15 applicants for the search committee to review, and the university will invite a number of those applicants to Boston for interviews, Fiedler said.
The committee then will select three to four candidates to interview with BU President Robert Brown, Provost Jean Morrison, Nicksa and Fiedler, he said.
Fiedler said the new hire will be in office no later than July 1, 2017.
"We're really trying to do this on a very transparent and open process to make sure that we can find the very best candidate for Boston University," Fiedler said.
In the meantime, Former Deputy Chief Scott Paré will fill in for Robbins as acting executive director of public safety and chief of police, Fiedler said. Paré is also applying for the position, Fiedler said.
Amy Shanler, a College of Communication professor, is a member of the committee. Shanler said she has experience working with the BUPD as the director of PRLab, BU's student-run PR agency.
"The work that my students have done has afforded me to get a better understanding of the role that [BUPD] plays on campus, of the relationship that the officers have with students, with faculty and just all-around the breadth of presence that they have," Shanler said.
BU Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore, also a member of the search committee, said students' suggestions and feedback are important in the searching process.
"Students should give some thoughts on what they might be looking for," Elmore said. "Those will be looked at. We will see if there is some trends that we should consider."
Several students said that when it comes to BUPD commissioner, experience is one of the most important factors — Leanne Quinn, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the new chief of police should be "someone who has had training … in what is appropriate for dealing with a college that is so diverse."
Joshua Bassin, a freshman in the College of Engineering, said the next chief of police should have experience with monitoring drug usage.
"[The police chief] would need to be experienced in drug use and stuff like that, since I'm assuming that would be a fairly popular issue on a campus compared to other parts of the city," Bassin said.
Sarah Crenella, a COM freshman, said she hopes the next chief will be able to galvanize the force to better monitor marijuana use on campus.
"It does smell really bad on West Campus a lot of the time, especially if you're practicing on Nickerson [Field]," Crenella said. "Honestly for me, when I'm practicing for rugby, it's a really big deterrent."
Author: Alana LeveneCampus News Editor Fall '17


In her early life steps, Maria Eleftheriadu, expressed her love and passion for music through percussion instruments and then she realised that this is the world she really belongs to. Whilst listening and observing other producers and dj's perform, she always held a hidden desire to present her own flow in music, to put the sounds together according to her own acoustics. The need to express the rhythm inside her, drives her to collect and mix her favourite psychedelic ,dark progressive and ethnic,reggae,dub,chill,dubstep tunes , in parallel with her current University studies at pedagogic Pre-education as a kindergarten teacher, especially teaching the kids the music instruments.
She has played at many parties and festivals in Greece (Free earth Festival 2014 at Ancient Olympia,Plur festival 2014 at North Evia,Earthdrop Festival 2014 at Pelloponisos,River Flow festival 2014, Dance experience 2013 at Halkidiki,Seli mountain gathering 2013) and abroad like Germany's Fusion Festival(2014) and Sweden's Forest star Festival(2013-2014). She also played as a percussionist with Star Sound Orchestra & Irina Mikhailova at Ozora's main stage(2014). With her technics,responsibility and respect towards the listener being Freedu's top characteristics, the mixing and the quest for new sounds become her daily activity and she is now more than ever determined to share her passion and energy through the music.


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Herbert Pope Stothart (Milwaukee, 11 september 1885 – Los Angeles, 1 februari 1949) was een Amerikaans componist.

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Stothart begon in de jaren 20 muziek voor Broadway te componeren. Hij schreef in die tijd veel muziek voor musicals en revues. Met de intrede van de geluidsfilm verhuisde hij van New York naar Hollywood om filmmuziek te maken. Voor zijn composities in The Wizard of Oz kreeg hij in 1940 een Oscar. Stothart werkte in Hollywood uitsluitend voor de filmstudio MGM. Naast achtergrondmuziek componeerde hij ook talrijke hits. Zijn beroemdste nummer I Wanna Be Loved by You werd door de actrice Marilyn Monroe gezongen in de komedie Some Like It Hot (1959) van Billy Wilder.

Hij stierf op 63-jarige leeftijd aan kanker in Los Angeles.

Filmografie (selectie)
 1932: Rasputin and the Empress
 1933: Queen Christina
 1934: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
 1934: What Every Woman Knows
 1935: Anna Karenina
 1935: China Seas
 1935: David Copperfield
 1935: Mutiny on the Bounty
 1935: Naughty Marietta
 1935: A Night at the Opera
 1935: A Tale of Two Cities
 1936: After the Thin Man
 1937: The Good Earth
 1938: Marie Antoinette
 1939: Idiot's Delight
 1939: The Wizard of Oz
 1940: Northwest Passage
 1940: Pride and Prejudice
 1941: Blossoms in the Dust
 1942: Mrs. Miniver
 1943: The Human Comedy
 1943: Madame Curie
 1944: National Velvet
 1944: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
 1944: Dragon Seed
 1944: The White Cliffs of Dover
 1945: The Picture of Dorian Gray
 1945: They Were Expendable
 1947: The Sea of Grass

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