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On June 1, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris emphasized water security as an essential foreign policy priority. Harris mentioned that improving water security would enhance public health results and bolster local economic output, which in turn would decrease internal conflicts and domestic turmoil.
The World Resources Institute revealed that water crises are significant contributors to political instability and human displacement. As the globe witnesses an ever-growing population and approaches irreversible climate change conditions, UNICEF warns that the number of water-related conflicts is expected to increase worldwide.
Central Asia is undergoing immense water-related stress. Approximately 22 million people residing in the five Central Asian countries, constituting almost one-third of the population, lack access to safe and clean water supplies. Rapidly growing populations, inefficient agricultural technologies, and poorly coordinated government responses are only exacerbating the water shortage.
Central Asia depends heavily on irrigated agriculture sourced from the Syr Darya and Amu Darya. Under the Soviet Union, the upstream Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan republics would allow the rivers to flow naturally downstream to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan during the vegetative season. In turn, the upstream republics would store enough water during the winter months to power hydroelectric facilities, leaving downstream republics in need of an energy source. These left downstream countries using fossil-fuel deliveries to supplement their loss in hydroelectric power in the winter. After the Soviet Union dissolved, the newly independent Central Asian states ratified the Almaty Agreement, recognizing the immediate need to prevent any water-related conflicts. According to the 1992 agreement, states were banned from negatively affecting the water supplies of their neighbors, obliged to coordinate response efforts in the event of catastrophic dilemmas, and entered into a water quota system. The Soviet style system transcended independence but was accompanied with the complexities of independent governments and crisscrossed borders.
Still, the region has been riddled with water-related conflicts. Shortly after the agreement was ratified, Kyrgyzstan issued a resolution classifying water as a commodity, essentially leaving downstream Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan responsible for water, storage, and maintenance payments. The resolution received a rebuke from Uzbekistan, which considered water a free, public good. Tashkent reacted by slashing natural gas deliveries to its neighbor. The result was ruinous. The bilateral relationship between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan crumbled, sending the two countries and their residents into a deadlock over how to resolve water-related issues. Thousands of Kyrgyz and Uzbek citizens in the Ferghana Valley were forced to drink unsafe water left over from irrigation channels. Considering that 80 percent of Uzbekistan's water supply comes from outside of the country, fighting with its neighbors could turn calamitous quickly. The Central Asian Alliance for Water (CAAW) estimated that 60 percent of Ferghana Valley residents lacked access to safe drinking water in 2003.
Disagreements over water supplies persisted for the next two decades. Unfortunately, fighting over water resources is not uncommon in the Ferghana Valley. Farmers who once thrived off of the irrigation channels are now relying on water men to ensure that fields are evenly irrigated, often leading to violent encounters. In April 2021, Kyrgyz and Tajik citizens engaged in a scuffle after a group of Tajik citizens was seen installing surveillance cameras at the shared "Golovnoy" water intake station. The fighting left 36 Kyrgyz and 19 Tajik citizens dead. The Ferghana Valley, which holds about 25 percent of the region's population, was also home to many of the region's insurgent fighters and anti-government organizations. Disgruntled farmers with little government support are increasingly seeking violent means to protect their scarce water supplies.
Climate change will only aggravate the fighting among communities over coveted water supplies. The Tian Shan mountain range, which supplies the Syr Darya its continuous stream, lost 27 percent of its glacial mass between 1961 and 2012. The German Research Centre for Geosciences projects that the glacier will have lost half of its original ice mass by 2050. Less glacial ice means more scant water flows to downstream countries. By 2050, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya are expected to lose 22-28 percent and 26-35 percent of their volume respectively. Furthermore, rising temperatures will increase the demand for water in countries heavily involved in the water-intensive cotton growing industry.
Perhaps the starkest example of climate change in the region is the drying up of the Aral Sea. Once the fourth largest lake on the globe, the Aral Sea's eastern basin completely dried up in 2016 due to water-intensive cotton cultivation. The sea is now divided into two parts and is only one-tenth of its original size. Residents who once depended on the sea for employment have lost their jobs and were forced to migrate to cities for income, and contamination of downwind regions with windborne salt is a growing environmental disaster.
In very few other places do Harris' warnings ring truer than in Central Asia. The landlocked region of almost 80 million people is in desperate need of substantial policy change and clear indication that governments will devise a new solution to manage water shortages. The result of unsustainable government policies and bilateral rancor is a region thirsty for water that is increasingly less patient to wait for it. As climate change heightens the impact of water scarcity, violent skirmishes, insurgencies, and unemployment will rise, unless action is taken. Harris underscored that accessing clean water is a cornerstone to U.S. foreign policy. Therefore, the United States should partner with the Central Asian states to advance water security in the region and to mitigate the detrimental effects of climate change.


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The NY Post's Liz Smith praises MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for his serious moments:
"One of them came last Thursday night, when he was the only anchor to express some healthy skepticism over the city's subway terrorist scare. He noted that this was at least the 13th time since 9/11 that on the day or week of bad news for the White House (The latest Karl Rove mess, the controversial choice of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, six ignored soldier deaths in Iraq), a terrorist warning has been leaked.
Not only that, Olbermann was reading wire stories, arriving as he was on-air — government agencies disagreeing with one another, coming to the conclusion that the threat info was 'doubtful' in its veracity.
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SS19: Menswear Is Smartening Up!
Even though the runway shows for SS19 were 9 months ago, the time has finally come to apply those key trends to your upcoming Spring/Summer wardrobe and menswear is smartening up! For the last 5 years, the casualisation of the fashion industry has been getting more and more predominant, that is until SS19 dropped onto the runway and blew casual out of the water.
SS19 runway saw a number of tailoring options including suits in more adventurous colours than just navy and black. The trusty trench coat made an appearance as to be expected, this classic piece of outerwear is perfect for layering and we were not surprised to see it take the spotlight throughout the fashion weeks.
Henry Brummel is dedicated to bringing the very best in high quality menswear to our customers, that is why we are continuously sourcing and adding new products every week to our collections. If you want to stay in the know when it comes to mens fashion and also save hundreds of pounds doing so, make sure you are following Henry Brummel and join our newsletter.


Galaxy shoes are probably the coolest must have items of this sunny season, but what if the ones you use on a daily basis are just a trivial pair of black snickers? Well ladies, I suppose you should learn how to give them a splash of color and some glittering bits while playing latest shoe decoration game called 'DIY Galaxy Shoes'! It's easy and you are going to have so much fun, that's for sure! So, the first thing is to make sure that you have the right black shoes prepared for this crazy shoe decoration session and then you have to make sure you have all the tools prepared for the fun part. Check to see if the right brushes are there, check the palette of colors as well and then start using your favorite shades in order to add a splash of color to these trivial pair of snickers. Once you're done with the coloring part, you ladies can also choose from a wide variety of tools the ones you fancy the most to design some stars or sparkling dots on your brand-new pair of galaxy shoes! Now that you have the main accessory of your jaw-dropping look, why don't you ladies go to the next page of the game and choose the best outfit to pair them up with? Have a great time playing that fun shoe decoration and dress up game!


If you can't tell, personally, I couldn't be any more excited about this film.
I love everything about the Star Wars movies, so the thought of having an entire film dedicated to Solo is super intriguing (although I know, I know, there's lots of doubters, but LET ME ENJOY IT, please).
So many questions are swirling through my mind.
How well will it flow with the other movies? Will all the characters be in it that we are expecting and wanting to see? C'mon May, hurry and get here!
While we wait for the release of this awesome movie, we might as well have fun and get our movie gear ready, right?
No one can have too many Han Solo Gifts…they're Solo The Best Gifts Ever, right?! HA!
I'm sorry. I just can't help it.
Have I convinced you yet of my excitement for all things Star Wars and specifically Han Solo?
There are so many fun and awesome Han Solo Gifts out there that it can be hard to choose what represents my love for the sweetest rogue in the universe.
From t-shirts to posters to even life-sized cardboard cutouts, it's an exciting time to be a Star Wars fan.
Alright, it's time to put up your poster, learn how to play the music and buckle up for the ride.
Star Wars consistently produces great quality movies that are engaging and leave us wanting more (even if we are an ungrateful, complain-ey lot, us Star Wars lovers).
Fingers crossed for movie release in May to live up to the hype.
Oh, and let's start planning our trip to Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge already, too, shall we?!


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By Lisa Schencker – Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune – January 9, 2017
UnitedHealth Group has agreed to buy Deerfield-based Surgical Care Affiliates in a deal valued at $2.3 billion.
UnitedHealth Group's OptumCare business, which specializes in primary and urgent care, plans to combine with Surgical Care Affiliates, an operator of 205 outpatient surgical facilities in 30 states in partnership with doctors, hospital systems and health plans.
In recent years, many patients and doctors have turned to such outpatient surgery centers — also known as ambulatory surgical centers — saying they can provide procedures more efficiently and cheaply than traditional hospital settings. The number of such centers across the country grew by 80 percent between 2000 and 2014, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
Surgical Care Affiliates' headquarters will remain in Deerfield, and no job cuts or relocations are planned, said spokeswoman Alison Donnelly. SCA has about 8,000 employees nationwide, including about 70 in Deerfield.
SCA operates 11 outpatient surgery centers in Illinois. Last month, it entered into a joint venture with Advocate Health Care to run the Naperville Surgical Centre, Midwest Center for Day Surgery in Downers Grove, Tinley Woods Surgery Center and Palos Hills Surgery Center. It also partnered in December with Advocate as a partial owner of the Midwest Center for Day Surgery.
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Four Republicans from Wisconsin have signed onto a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider overturning its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling guaranteeing the right to an abortion.
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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, and U.S. Reps. Glenn Grothman, R-Glenbeulah; Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls; and Bryan Steil, R-Janesville, were among 39 Republican senators and 168 representatives who signed onto a brief on Thursday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider and possibly overturn the 1973 decision.
No congressional Democrats from Wisconsin signed onto the brief, nor did U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay.
A Gallagher spokesman said the congressman "has a consistent pro-life voting record and obviously supports the broader efforts of the brief."
Tony Evers sees new Foxconn deal on the horizon; Robin Vos supports current contract
The lawmakers submitted the brief in the case of June Medical Services LLC v. Gee. The case, which the U.S. Supreme Court will consider this spring, challenges a 2014 Louisiana law, not currently in effect, which required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital within 30 miles of the facility where the abortion is performed.
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For decades, Roe has served as a roadblock for Republicans seeking to curtail access to abortion, but the court's current conservative majority has made it more attractive for Republicans across the nation to test the limits of the ruling.
In May, for example, Alabama's Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most punitive abortion law in the country. It made providing an abortion a felony punishable by up to 99 years in prison except to save the mother's life, with no consideration for incest or rape.
One of the goals of the law was to spark a legal challenge that would lead the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider Roe.
In October, a U.S. District Court judge blocked the law while the case is pending.
In Wisconsin, Republican lawmakers in the state Assembly and Senate passed less restrictive, but contentious legislation that would have imposed a life sentence on a doctor who intentionally allowed the death of a baby born alive after an attempted abortion. They also approved a bill that attempted to thwart abortions based on fetal attributes such as race, gender or health condition.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the legislation, which Democrats and health care professionals slammed for spreading what they called false and dangerous information about abortions and creating unnecessary and redundant protections.
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Award-winning Wales-based Orchard Media and Events Group is backing the increasingly popular women's football in Wales, becoming Welsh Premier Women's League (WPWL) headline sponsor in the biggest commercial deal in the history of the competition.
Orchard already works closely with the Football Association of Wales, managing match days for the World Cup qualifiers and producing the recent FAW Awards ceremony. They now become WPWL headline sponsor with immediate effect for the remainder of the 2016-17 season.
WPWL Secretary Lucy Kelly said: "I am very pleased Orchard have become headline sponsors for our national league in Wales. Their increasing portfolio of partnerships and success with major events over the last number of years has given us faith in our ever improving product."
The Welsh Premier Women's League was formed in 2009, and has grown to ten teams now participating in the league.
Orchard's Marketing & Communications Manager, Emma Wordley said: "As proud supporters of Welsh sport, and a major player in media and events in Wales, we are only too happy to support the development of the women's game in Wales. We enjoy a great relationship with the FAW, and want to play our part in the success of the women's game here."
Orchard is a former Cardiff SME of the Year, and recently won the UK Regional Music Promoter of the Year in the Live Music Business awards. Orchard is currently investing £1m in 17,000 sq. ft. premises in Cardiff city centre, providing headquarters in the heart of the capital as the company plans future expansion.


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The Role of Satellites and Smart Devices: Data Surprises and Security, Privacy, and Regulatory Challenges
Penn State Law Review, Vol. 123, No. 591, 2019
75 Pages Posted: 12 Jul 2019
See all articles by Anne Toomey McKenna
Anne Toomey McKenna
Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences; University of Richmond School of Law
Amy C. Gaudion
Penn State Dickinson Law
Jenni L. Evans
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Date Written: July 11, 2019
Strava, a popular social media platform and mobile app like Facebook but specifically designed for athletes, posts a "heatmap" with consensually-obtained details about users' workouts and geolocation. Strava's heatmap depicts aggregated data of user location and movement by synthesizing GPS satellite data points and movement data from users' smart devices together with satellite imagery. In January of 2018, a 20-year-old student tweeted that Strava's heatmap revealed U.S. forward operating bases. The tweet revealed a significant national security issue and flagged substantial privacy and civil liberty concerns.
Smart devices, software applications, and social media platforms aggregate consumer data from multiple data collection sources, including device-embedded sensors, cameras, software, and GPS chips, as well as from consumer activities like social media posts, pictures, texts, email, and contacts. These devices and apps utilize satellite data, including GPS, as a fundamental component of their data collection arsenal. We call this little understood, across-device, across-platform, and multi-sourced data aggregation the satellite + smart device information nexus. Given the nature of the technology and data aggregation, no one escapes the satellite and smart device information nexus. We explain the technology behind both satellites and smart devices, and we examine how the satellite + smart device information nexus works. We also address how private industry's aggregation of data through this nexus poses a threat to individual privacy, civil liberties, and national security.
In so doing, we work to fill a marked gap in the privacy and cyber-related legal literature when it comes to analyzing the technology, surveillance capabilities, law, and regulation behind government and commercial satellites together with private industry's aggregation, use, and dissemination of geolocation and other data from the satellite + smart device information nexus. This lack of awareness about the satellite + smart device information nexus has adverse consequences on individual privacy, civil liberties, and the security of nation states; it impedes informed legislation; and it leaves courts in the dark.
A contributing factor to the lack of awareness is that commercial remote sensing and government satellites are regulated by a byzantine scheme of international laws, treaties, organizations, and domestic nation states' laws that combine to control access to satellite data, sharing of satellite data, licensing, ownership, positioning in space, technical requirements, technical restrictions, and liability for harm caused by satellites. Although the satellite + smart device information nexus involves staggering quantities of personal information, we examine how the nexus falls outside the U.S. electronic surveillance and data legislative scheme and why it is unimpeded by privacy decisions due to a disconnect in U.S. Supreme Court decisions treating aerial surveillance differently than location tracking.
We breakdown the complex yet opaque regulatory structure governing commercial remote sensing and government satellites. We examine why the Strava event and others like it are — and will continue to be — the new norm, absent significant legislative and regulatory change. We conclude by providing a suggested roadmap for that legislative and regulatory change.
Keywords: Satellites, Privacy, Cyber, Security, Data, Smart Devices, IoT
JEL Classification: K00, K2, K20, K23, K29, K30, K33, O20, O30, O33, O38
McKenna, Anne Toomey and Gaudion, Amy C. and Evans, Jenni L., The Role of Satellites and Smart Devices: Data Surprises and Security, Privacy, and Regulatory Challenges (July 11, 2019). Penn State Law Review, Vol. 123, No. 591, 2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3418420
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Last Saturday, April 21st Arli du Dapri's 'Quintetos con dos Violas' concert was performed in the Miramon Matineé. The interpreted pieces were both by the musicians Haydn and Brahms, and were performed by Nathalie Dabadie, Delphine Dupuy, Natascha Dupuy Scordamaglia, Irene Echeveste and Estíbaliz Ponce.
In this concert the Blackbinder system with its digital scores was used, due to the collaboration of this company with the Symphonic Orchestra of Euskadi for this event.


The Town Board operates under a Board-Manager form of government. The Mayor is elected to serve a four-year term and voters elect six trustee members to overlapping four year terms.The Board of Trustees meets on the first and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Severance Town Hall in the Board meeting room. Work Sessions are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month which starts at 6:00 p.m. with the regularly scheduled meetings immediately following the work session or 7:00 p.m. whichever is earlier.


"We're now in the process of building one of the largest tops in stock market history. The result, I think, will be the most disastrous bear market since the '30s, and maybe worse.
"My old friend, Bob Prechter, is talking about Dow 400. I used to think this was an absurd joke. I no longer think it's a joke. The ultimate result will be a primary bear market shocking in duration and extent.
"The world (minus the US) is loading up with the yellow metal with banks running out of vault space. The great 10-year primary bull market is moving into its 11th year. The bull market in gold attests to the systematic decline in the value of the dollar compared with real money – gold.
One of the greatest modern traders, John Paulson, who made billions on the housing collapse, has, I understand, all his personal money in gold-related items. Many of my subscribers have now built gold profits beyond anything they have ever achieved before. I know at this point one could get itchy fingers thinking of the profits achievable by switching gold for fiat currency. I warn subscribers, stay on the yellow brick road. The big profits, the astounding profits, will accrue when gold finally bursts loose of its prejudices and freely expresses itself.


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Harvard, local, state, and federal guidelines provide the framework for our campus operations.
A hybrid approach remains the expectation, with a number of programs and activities occurring on campus and remote work the norm for others.
Teams have worked hard to adapt the campus to meet public health guidelines. Everyone plays a role in supporting the health, safety, and well-being of our community.
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Every member of the community will be asked to undergo training and sign an attestation that they understand their personal responsibility and role in supporting the health, safety, and well-being of our community. In everything we do, we aspire to be a model of the principles we teach, and our response to COVID-19 is no exception.
Harvard Business School's COVID-19 operating plan describes five possible levels of campus activity, as detailed in the table below. HBS will modify its level of operation in response to guidance and metrics from Massachusetts, Boston, and Harvard University, in addition to local metrics (e.g., Campus Access Protocol compliance, current and projected support capabilities). The level of operations may move from more restrictive to less restrictive should public health improve, and from less restrictive to more restrictive level if conditions suggest the need for additional caution.
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How has HBS housing changed with the COVID-19 pandemic?
All housing allocated within the HBS residence halls is single occupancy with a private bathroom—each occupant has their own toilet, sink, and shower.
Have you considered plexiglass barriers in the classrooms or other learning spaces on campus?
Yes. Absent evidence that they eliminate the need for physical distancing or face coverings, we have chosen not to pursue them at this time.
What is a hybrid classroom?
A Hybrid Classroom enables a combination of in-person and virtual participation for students who may wish or need those options. The classroom accommodates physical distancing guidelines by limiting the number of individuals in the classroom, yet provide a compelling teaching and learning experience for everyone. Students are required to wear masks that conform to the nose and are tightly fitted and multi-layered.
Will we have access to wipes and hand sanitizer?
Yes. Wipes and hand sanitizer will be available throughout the community for general use and individualized cleaning of shared spaces. In high touch areas with frequent turnover wipes and sanitizer will be available for use by the uses within each space. Even though these items will be available in various spots around campus, you are encouraged to have your own hand sanitizer and wipes available as well.
Has the airflow and ventilation in classrooms, offices and public spaces been enhanced?
Yes. HBS Facilities has taken steps to optimize the amount of fresh ventilation and outside air being supplied to campus buildings based upon the HVAC system design and outside air conditions. HBS meets or exceeds the recommended air filtration levels in all campus classroom and assembly buildings.
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What is the maximum occupancy for various indoor spaces on campus?
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How will HBS clean and disinfect an area that is suspected to be contaminated by Covid-19?
HBS Custodial Services will oversee the cleaning and disinfecting on campus for any level of contamination. They will assess the area of closure needed and determine how long it will remain closed. They will coordinate with Harvard Environmental Health & Safety as well as 3rd party service providers who are certified to deep clean and disinfect the area. The area will be reopened as soon as the odors from cleaning chemicals dissipate.
Will the capacity of campus spaces change with the physical distancing guidelines?
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Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union on Arriva Rail North (Northern) will walk out for 24 hours on June 19, 21 and 23 in the long-running dispute over the roles of guards on trains.
South Yorkshire passengers using Northern Rail services are set to be hit by even more disruption this month, after the RMT announced three days of strike action.
The company has been under fire in recent weeks because of daily delays and cancellations to rail services.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "We have seen over the past fortnight that Northern is a company which has declared war on its passengers and staff alike.
"RMT will not stand aside while the threat to axe safety critical guards from Northern services remains central to the company plans.
"This company has reduced the timetable to total chaos and the union will not allow them to slash the safety culture to ribbons in the same fashion.
"It is a tribute to the determination and professionalism of RMT members on Arriva Rail North that they have remained rock solid for over a year now in what is a clear-cut battle to put public safety before private profit.
"German-owned Northern Rail want to run half a million trains a year without a safety critical guard on board in a move that would wreck both safety and access to services and they should listen to their front-line staff and pull back from that plan immediately.
"RMT has agreed arrangements in Wales and Scotland that enshrine the guard guarantee. If it's good enough for Wales and Scotland to have safe rail services it should be good enough for the rest of Britain."
Northern launched an eight-week interim timetable on Monday, removing 165 trains - six per cent of its services.
The company's policy is for passengers to only claim compensation based on the alternative timetable rather than previous versions.
The reduced timetables failed to stop Monday becoming the start of a third week of rail chaos for passengers.


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Q: Can I ground myself to a spoon? Laptop upgrade tutorials advise grounding oneself to metal objects ultimately connecting to literal ground (floor, Earth), such as the laptop's metal case, or a metal door, heater, etc. Is this really necessary? Won't simply touching a charge-neutral conductor such as a spoon suffice? Naturally it has a much lesser "electrostatic capacity" and I may need many spoons, but I don't presume an immense discharge capacity likes of the Earth to be required for a task like this.

A: Suppose we have two isolated objects with capacitances $C_1$ and $C_2$.  Suppose further that $C_1$ is carrying a charge $Q_i$ (and is therefore at potential $V_i = Q_i/C_1$) while $C_2$ is electrically neutral.  Suppose we then connect $C_1$ and $C_2$ via a conductive path.  It is not hard to show that after connecting these two objects, the potential of $C_1$ becomes
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V_f = \frac{V_i}{1 + C_2/C_1}.
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In particular, if $C_2 \ll C_1$, the electric potential of $C_1$ does not change much at all.  On the other hand, if $C_2 \gg C_1$, then the electric potential of $C_1$ is greatly reduced.
Hopefully you can see where I'm going with this:  your body is $C_1$, and $C_2$ is the object you touch to get rid of any stray electric charge that has accumulated on your body.  The capacitance of the Earth is much larger than your capacitance, so by touching it, the electric charge on your body becomes much lower.  If, on the other hand, you touch a spoon, the amount of electric charge on your body is not reduced by much at all, and so you still run the risk of frying your electronics.
Moreover, to within an order of magnitude, the capacitance of an "unstructured" body (i.e., one that's not specifically designed to hold a lot of charge, like a capacitor) is directly proportional to its physical size.  Since a spoon is about 1/10 your size (to within an order of magnitude), it has about 1/10 of the capacitance of your body (to within an order of magnitude.)  This means that to effectively get rid of any electric charge on your body, you need to touch a neutral object that is much larger than yourself.
This need not be the Earth, per se, but for most of us it's nearby.  Presumably an astronaut on the ISS could effectively ground themselves by touching a wall of the module they're in;  but as on Earth, simply touching a spoon wouldn't remove much charge from them either.

A: You need to ensure that both you and every object you touch is discharged to negligible potential.
Even if everything is at the same high potential, charge will gather on the high points and spark across to other components when it touches them.
So you would have to ensure that every spoon was suitably discharged in preparation. What would you discharge the spoon to? Earth would certainly be the safest bet, and only if you were somewhere electrically isolated would you need to find an alternative, such as taking your work inside a metal room and discharging to the nearest wall. Having done all that, who needs spoons?

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The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope (LAT)
Presentation #214.03 in the session "CMB".
by Z. Xu and The Simons Observatory Collaboration
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. The initial configuration of SO will have three small-aperture 0.5-m telescopes (SATs) and one large-aperture 6-m telescope (LAT), with a total of 60,000 transition-edge sensors (TES). The SATs will target the largest angular scales observable from Chile, mapping ~10% of the sky to a white noise level of 2 μK-arcmin in combined 93 and 145 GHz bands, to measure the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, at a target level of σ(r)=0.003. The LAT will map ~40% of the sky at arcminute angular resolution to an expected white noise level of 6 μK-arcmin in combined 93 and 145 GHz bands, overlapping with the majority of the sky area of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory sky region. It will also partially overlap with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) field of view. Other talks in this session will describe our science forecasts with SO and the design of the SAT. This talk will present the design and status of the LAT. The SO LAT adopts a coma-corrected, 6-m aperture, crossed-Dragone optical design. The design delivers a 1.9-m diameter focal plane at a 3 mm wavelength. The telescope focal plane is re-imaged by the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) with a size of 2.3 m in diameter and 2.6 m in length. The LATR houses 13 optics tube units that contain cold optics and TES detectors, which are read out by microwave-multiplexing. The LATR contains five temperature stages (80 K, 40 K, 4 K, 1 K, 100m K) with the coldest temperature stage capable of cooling > 70,000 detectors to < 100mK on a 1.9-m diameter focal plane.


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GlobeDocs features films about hope and healing
By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,September 25, 2019, 3:05 p.m.
Edward Watts's "For Sama" is a brutal and heartbreaking diary of a hospital during the siege of a rebel-held corner of Aleppo, Syria.
You can't look away from the suffering in some of the 16 features and six shorts in this year's GlobeDocs Film Festival (Oct. 2-6; filmfest.bostonglobe.com). The suffering of the dying children in Feras Fayyad's "The Cave" and Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts's "For Sama," of the survivors of Boston's horrific 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire in Zachary Graves-Miller's "Six Locked Doors: The Legacy of Cocoanut Grove," and of the beleaguered immigrants in Tom Shepard's "Unsettled."
But other films encourage optimism and hope. Documentaries such as Matthew Orr's "Augmented," which looks at research into bionic limbs that will revolutionize treatment of the disabled; Adam Bolt's "Human Nature," which investigates developments in genetics that might cure hereditary diseases; and David Charles Rodrigues's "Gay Chorus Deep South", which shows how music can combat bigotry and hate.
Like all the best documentaries, these films reflect the world as it is and as we hope it will be.
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GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH
Years ago Tim Seelig, conductor of the San Francisco Gay Men's chorus and one of the subjects of David Charles Rodrigues's affecting documentary, had a seemingly happy life. He had a nice home, a wife and children, served as the music director of a Texas megachurch, and was a respected member of his community. Then he revealed that he was gay and was rejected by the congregation. He lost everything — his church, job, home, and family. He fled to San Francisco and started anew, never expecting to return.
With several Deep South states recently passing anti-LGBTQ legislation, he and the rest of the chorus, some of them exiles like himself, toured these states to perform at evangelical churches. Could they touch souls and change minds through the power of their music? "No singing will change this," one member says as they play back a hateful homophobic voice-mail message condemning their tour. But as seen in Rodrigues's moving footage, their performances help promote the process of reconciliation.
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 7 p.m. Director Rodrigues will participate in a discussion moderated by Boston Globe managing director Linda Henry.
A scene from "Augmented"
AUGMENTED
When he was 17 Hugh Herr lost both legs from frostbite after getting swept up in a blizzard while climbing Mount Washington. Now a scientist at MIT, he's on a mission to develop bionic prosthetic limbs that would be available for all who need them. Such limbs would revolutionize the way the disabled are treated. Matthew Orr's fascinating and thoughtful documentary shows how Herr's work offers hope but also raises ethical questions.
Boston ShowPlace ICON, 5 p.m. Orr and subjects Hugh Herr, Jim Ewing, and Matthew Carty will participate in a discussion moderated by STAT deputy director of multimedia Alissa Ambrose.
MADE IN BOISE
The title city of Beth Aala's film is not only the capital of the deep-red state of Idaho but also of the burgeoning industry of surrogate motherhood. "Made in Boise" focuses on four surrogates and their clients. Provocative and emotionally involving, the film provides a unique perspective on the fine line between empowerment and exploitation and on the nature of parenthood and families.
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 5 p.m. Producer Beth Levison will participate in a discussion moderated by Boston Globe feature writer Beth Teitell.
CRISPR, a breakthrough in DNA research that allows the reshaping of the genetic code, offers hope for curing hereditary diseases but also presents ethical problems about tampering with human lives. Adam Bolt's thorough, lucid, and engaging film recounts the 45-year history of development and breakthroughs that led to this process. With animated sequences and interviews with researchers and other experts in the field he explains the process and speculates on what the future might hold.
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Executive producer Elliot Kirschner will participate in a discussion moderated by STAT senior writer Sharon Begley.
Wim Wenders demonstrated the power of filming dance in 3-D in his documentary "Pina" (2011). Alla Kovgan applies the same process to her biographical portrait of Merce Cunningham (1919–2009), the visionary choreographer who revolutionized dance in America. In addition to thrilling performances of Cunningham's creations, Kovgan presents previously unseen archival footage and illuminating interviews with the artist recalling personal anecdotes and discussing his aesthetics and philosophy.
ShowPlace ICON, 7:30 p.m. Producers Elizabeth Delude-Dix and Kelly Gilpatrick will participate in a discussion moderated by Globe assistant arts editor Christy DeSmith.
A scene from "A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem"
A WOMAN'S WORK: THE NFL'S CHEERLEADER PROBLEM
The National Football League rakes in billions of dollars while cheerleaders who give it their all on the sidelines earn less than concession-stand workers. Yu Gu's documentary reports on this iniquity and shows how a few of these exploited women decided that this was not sufficient compensation and enlisted others to join them in a class-action suit against several teams. They are greeted with hostility and contempt from fans and owners and disapproval from some of their fellow cheerleaders, who see their efforts as a betrayal of team spirit and sisterhood. An exposé of the sexism and greed at the heart of one of the country's most popular and lucrative sports and a reminder of how a single voice of protest can instigate change.
Brattle Theatre, 5 p.m. Director Yu Gu will participate in a discussion moderated by Globe reporter Nora Princiotti.
Since 1934 the Apollo Theater has showcased an all-star list of African-American artists, including Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr., and the Supremes. Roger Ross Williams's vibrant homage to this institution includes archival snippets of past performances, as well as interviews with Smokey Robinson, Patti LaBelle, Pharrell Williams, and others who have appeared on the Apollo stage. It also speculates on the theater's future as changes in the economics of show business (gone are the days when Gladys Knight would do 32 shows for $800) and the music industry, coupled with the financial decline of the city, forced it to close in the 1970s. It has since been restored and is a state-run nonprofit. Will its current status turn it into a museum commemorating past achievements or can it continue as a powerhouse of creativity and cultural change? Intermittent scenes of the preparations for a dramatic adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates's book "Between the World and Me" suggest that it still aspires to the latter.
Brattle Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Singer-author Ruth Pointer will participate in a discussion moderated by Globe associate editor and columnist Renée Graham.
SATURDAY, Oct. 5
AUTISM: THE SEQUEL
In 2007, Tricia Regan's "Autism: The Musical" followed five families with children on the autistic spectrum who put together the title production. In her new documentary Regan revisits the participants to see how they are doing and takes a look at the progress made in caring for adult children with autism.
Brattle Theatre, 11 a.m. Regan and producer Sasha Alpert will participate in a discussion moderated by film critic and Globe correspondent Loren King.
BLOODROOT
In the 1970s, Selma Miriam and Noel Furie, who were then lovers, left their husbands and opened Bloodroot, a "vegetarian-feminist collective" in Bridgeport, Conn., that thrives to the present day. They tell their story in Douglas Tirola's documentary, sharing memories of the 1960s and 1970s and offering insights into the feminist and gay rights movements of that turbulent period. Nostalgic and inspirational, the film is as satisfying as the restaurant's tasty menu.
Brattle Theatre, 1 p.m. Tirola , Miriam, and Furie will participate in a discussion moderated by Globe food writer Devra First.
MUSEUM TOWN
As seen in Jennifer Trainer's "Museum Town," the no-nonsense working-class people of the depressed mill-town of North Adams were at first skeptical about the long-defunct Sprague Electric Company factory becoming the largest contemporary arts museum in the world. Some might still have doubts about Mass MoCA, even though it has proven a hard-won success since its opening and has stimulated a qualified economic revival. Not just because they don't get the work of artists such as Sol LeWitt, Anselm Kiefer, and Jenny Holzer but because they don't see how the community directly benefits.
Most, though, like a woman who worked in the old factory in the 1940s and now is a museum volunteer, see it as a welcome development. Trainer follows the complex and arduous installation of a work by the artist Nick Cave; and the tearful triumph at its completion reflects the museum's impact on both the art world and the town itself.
Brattle Theatre, 3 p.m.. Trainer will participate in a discussion moderated by Globe art critic Murray Whyte.
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Though hardly noted by the media these days, the conflict in Syria rages on. Feras Fayyad's harrowing account focuses on the helpless victims of Bashar al-Assad's army and the handful of medical professionals who try to treat them. The title refers to the hidden underground facility that is the last hospital in a besieged town on the outskirts of Damascus. Run by a young woman whose medical studies were cut short by war, it is overwhelmed by casualties while being targeted by bombs and chemical weapons as government forces close in. The images of dying children covered in blood and dust are powerful reminders of suffering that the world has forgotten.
Brattle Theatre, 5:30 p.m. Fayyad will participate in a discussion via Skype moderated by King.
Though they have escaped persecution in their native countries and made it safely to gay-friendly but pricey San Francisco, the struggles of the four LGBTQ refugees profiled in Tom Shepard's touching, troubling documentary are far from over. Subhi, a gay Syrian fleeing Al-Qaeda, finds tenuous celebrity as a leader for refugee rights. Cheyenne and Mari, a lesbian couple from Angola, contend with the intransigence and bureaucracy of the immigration system as they seek asylum. And Junior, a non-binary man from the Congo, goes from the rich digs of an older lover to a homeless shelter and finally to the street, a sad decline complicated by alcoholism. As immigrants are increasingly demonized, stereotyped, denied refuge, and deported, Shepard shares the stories of four human beings whose hardships arouse empathy and indignation.
Brattle Theatre, 8 p.m. Shepard will participate in a discussion moderated by King.
SUNDAY, Oct. 6
SHORTS PROGRAM: THE BIG PICTURE
A pair of taut and tragic miniatures about injustice and trauma are lightened by two wry portraits: of diehards doggedly plying outdated trades; and a strange story involving 19th-century Mexican general Santa Anna's wooden leg.
The title subject of Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip's "Dear Georgina" is an elder in Maine's indigenous Passamaquoddy community who was taken away from her family as a child and placed in foster homes where she was abused. In one wrenching scene she walks through the woods but her delight in its beauty ends when she comes across a dying raccoon cub — a reminder of a traumatic past which she must confront to find peace.
The hero of Orlando von Einsiedel's "Lost and Found" is a Rohingya man who lost his parents at the age of 6 when they were fleeing the Myanmar army. Since then he has been living in a camp in Bangladesh with 700,000 other refugees and has dedicated his life to finding lost children and reuniting them with their families. Heartbreaking and inspiring.
Inspiring but not heartbreaking is the hardy Waltham cobbler in Cathleen O'Connell's "The Best Way Is by Hand." The latest in a long line of practitioners, he puts his heart and soul into his crafts and hopes he might not be the last.
If you miss the experience of hunting down a VHS tape or DVD in a homey video store (even a Blockbuster would do) as opposed to the soullessness of streaming, then Miguel Gomez's Viva Video (a.k.a. "The Last Picture Store,") the subject of Roy Power's "Memory Video" is for you.
And for a saga about justice and closure don't miss Ellen Brodsky's "25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln" in which history students journey from Texas to Springfield, Ill., to reclaim the prosthetic leg of Santa Anna, the Mexican general at the Battle of the Alamo.
Brattle Theatre, 11 a.m. The director of "The Best Way Is by Hand," the producer of "Memory Video," the co-directors of "Dear Georgina," and the editor of "25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln" will participate in a discussion moderated by this reporter.
A scene from "Saudi Women's Driving School"
SAUDI WOMEN'S DRIVING SCHOOL
Women taking drivers' ed classes seems like no big deal, but in Saudi Arabia, where women were not allowed to drive until 2018, it is a milestone in human rights. Erica Gornall's documentary visits the Saudi Driving School, in Riyadh, which is the world's largest such facility, even though it caters only to women. Gornall follows students as they undergo the familiar rituals of learning about turn signals and practicing parallel parking and taking the dreaded final test.
But the joy of at last getting that license is tempered by the price paid for such a humble victory, which might well be a PR gesture rather than the first step on the road to equality. Many of the women who protested for the right to drive years ago and were arrested still remain in prison.
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In 1991, Bruce Franks Jr., the 34-year-old superman in Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan's short documentary, saw his 9-year-old brother shot to death on their front lawn. The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo., turned him into an activist. In 2016 he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives. His dream is for his 5-year-old son to grow up in a world where children are not murdered.
Brattle Theatre, 1:30 p.m. Producer Nick London will participate in a discussion via Skype moderated by Globe columnist Shirley Leung.
FOR SAMA
Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts's brutal and heartbreaking diary of a hospital during the siege of a rebel-held corner of Aleppo, Syria, takes the form of a video letter addressed to al-Kateab's daughter. Begun before the child is born during the heady early days of the revolt against the Assad dictatorship. It evolves into an explanation of why she and her husband, who is one of the few remaining doctors there, chose to remain for five years, even when the situation grew catastrophic and the outcome hopeless. Casualties pile into the battered hospital, Russian planes drop bombs, medical supplies run out, children die, and grief, despair, and terror mount. But as al-Kateab explains with wavering confidence, they remain behind because they still believe in the ideals of their revolution, and they must do all they can to help those suffering and record it all for the world to see.
Brattle Theatre, 3:30 p.m. "Frontline" executive producer Raney Aronson will participate in a discussion moderated by Globe reporter Maria Cramer.
While in high school Rachel Mason learned for the first time that her seemingly straitlaced parents, Karen and Barry, were proprietors of a popular West Hollywood gay bookstore called Circus of Books. Her documentary traces the history of this now-legendary establishment from 1976 when, strapped for money, her parents accepted an offer from Larry Flynt to distribute Hustler magazine. This led to them taking over the then-failing bookstore. After a decade of hard work, they used their business savvy to become the biggest purveyors of gay porn in the United States. Another example of the American Dream come true, complicated when Karen, a conservative Jew, learns that her son, Rachel's brother, is gay.
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 4:30 p.m. Rachel Mason will participate in a discussion via Skype moderated by Globe feature writer and Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein.
SIX LOCKED DOORS: THE LEGACY OF COCOANUT GROVE
Watching this film I recall how my father, a Boston College alumnus, planned to go to a victory party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub on Nov. 28, 1942, after his alma mater's expected victory over Holy Cross. BC lost, so he didn't go, but 492 people were not as fortunate. They died when the cavernous venue turned into an inferno, with no escape. It was the biggest such disaster in US history, and Zachary Graves-Miller's riveting documentary combines archival material and interviews with experts such as Kevin Cullen of the Globe and former mayor Ray Flynn to investigate the criminal corruption and incompetence that led to the disaster and the subsequent safety reforms and advances in the treatment of burns.
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 7 p.m. Graves-Miller, producer Michele Shapiro, and Flynn will participate in a discussion moderated by Cullen .
Peter Keough can be reached at petervkeough@gmail.com.


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Some nutrients leach out into the cooking liquid, and if you use that liquid to make a soup or sauce, you recapture the lost nutrients. Exposure to air can also accelerate nutrient loss. For example, once you cut up vegetables containing vitamin C and expose them to air, you reduce the vitamin content.
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When appropriate, leave the skin on. Many nutrients are found in and just beneath the skin.
Because nutrients dissolve in water, do not presoak vegetables.
Cook vegetables quickly and with as little water as possible. Vegetables are done when they are slightly crisp.
To reduce cooking time, cover vegetables when cooking them.
Stir-frying is a great quick-cooking method for vegetables. It quickly cooks uniform-sized vegetables, meat, seafood or tofu in a small amount of oil over very high heat. If you don't have a wok, a large, high-rimmed skillet will do.
temperatures. Good stir-frying oils include avocado, almond, canola, grapeseed, peanut, safflower and sunflower.
In a small bowl, prepare marinade by whisking together brown sugar, broth, bourbon, soy sauce, garlic and ginger until sugar dissolves. Reserve 2/3 cup marinade in a separate container and refrigerate. Cut chicken into 1-inch cubes and place in a resealable bag. Add remaining marinade to bag and toss to coat chicken. Marinate in the refrigerator overnight. When ready to prepare the stir-fry, mix refrigerated, reserved marinade with cornstarch; set aside.
In a large skillet or wok, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken to wok and stir-fry 3 to 5 minutes. Remove chicken from wok and add remaining tablespoon of oil to wok. Add snow peas, onion, red pepper and celery and stir-fry 3 to 4 minutes. Return chicken to wok and continue cooking 3 to 4 minutes. Add reserved marinade and continue stirring until sauce thickens slightly, about 1 to 2 minutes.
Each serving consists of about 1 cup stir fry over ½ cup cooked brown rice. Garnish each serving with sliced green onion if desired.
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Eight hundred and fifty thousand people fled for their lives to Europe last year. (At least three thousand four hundred and six people died in the Mediterranean sea.) Of that great mass of people, a few thousand have washed up Calais, France, trying to attempt the dangerous crossing to England. By the French and British governments, they've been hung out to dry.
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Built in the sixteenth century, Saint-Etienne displays a strikingly specific style, unseen elsewhere in Paris, first noticeable in its façade. It is indeed a transition period between the flamboyant gothic style and the Renaissance style inspired by Greek-Roman antiques.
The overall structure is that of a "hall church", 69 meter long and 25.5 meter wide : the transept does not protrude outwards, the aisles are very high.
The church is slanting leftwards, probably due to the ground's shape, but the shifts are barely visible.
Inside the building, one can observe the progression in style : on an initial gothic plan, the decoration evolves from pointed arches in the choir to round arches in the nave with a pervasive Renaissance ornamentation. An elegant gallery runs around the church. The keystone summarizes this blending of influences.
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"Oh man, I'm public enemy number one," said Chris Hooper with unexpected relish when he spoke to AccountingWEB recently. A self-styled accounting futurist, Hooper has a passion for technology. He has spent the past few years preparing his business for what he terms "the Accountapocalypse", an epochal shift in the profession where most of the value chain is automated.
"Everything that can be quantified, will be quantified," says Hooper. "And I fully expect the laggards – people who have waited too long to adopt technology – to go out of business." The looming spectre of automation has given Hooper's view more urgency.
While not as apocalyptic as Hooper's rhetoric, the big talk at this year's Practice Excellence Conference was on advisory services vs. compliance. It was repeatedly emphasised that accountants would have to pick a course and stick to it.
A term that cropped up repeatedly when discussing the dichotomy, often with a hint of derision, was 'compliance factory'. One practice that could be considered a compliance factory is Maslins Chartered Accountants in Kent. "We don't do a formal, chargeable, advisory work," says Chris Maslin. "My personal view is that, at least at the micro end of the business world, people value advice but are only prepared to pay for the compliance."
Maslin doesn't veer one way or the other. He intends to work as an accountant for as long as the market allows. "Don't know," he says when asked about Maslins' future. "I suppose I consider all modern businesses as fairly temporary. Make hay whilst the sun shines, be aware things won't always be the same, and be ready to change when things outside your control change."
It's a refreshing outlook in what has often been a contentious discussion. Maslins uses cloud technology, working only with FreeAgent. He doesn't regret it despite the technology's potential to make his services irrelevant. "I'm aware it's just around the corner that the likes of FreeAgent will be able to submit statutory accounts/CT returns at the click of a couple of buttons. Whether at that stage we get a mass exodus of clients or not (why pay us £99 a month when they can do it all for £25?), I don't know."
Maslin compensates for being undercut by aiming for "slightly higher-earning contractors or freelancers". "We should be fairly safe. Reason being, £99 a month often isn't too much to them, and whilst they could DIY, they appreciate the fact of having us there, almost like an insurance policy."
Maslin's philosophy may be a breath of fresh air, but it won't work for everyone. Not all, indeed most, practices are like Maslins. Stephen Paul at Valued Accountancy in Durham is intent on giving his firm more staying power. He's not as c'est la vie as Maslin. His firm was named Xero practice of the year, and Paul says he has been shifting his offering toward advisory. "I'd say the ratio at the moment is a 45/55 split in favour of compliance – but I fully expect that to change."
Valued Accountancy also recruits young, with a robust apprenticeship scheme right across the business. Paul has been very happy with the results, noting that these employees don't come to the company with preconceived ideas and are much more receptive to change.
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By TaxTeddy
02nd Oct 2015 08:41
To Misquote mark Twain .......
The reports of the death of traditional accountancy have been greatly exaggerated.
The profession is extremely diverse, from multinational multi-discipline firms down to the sole practitioner. And long may that continue.
Within that diversity there is room for all shades of opinion when it comes to embracing (or not) the technology available. I see no reason why that should not continue, more or less indefinitely. Sure, there will always be technology creep - how many of us continue to practice without the use of a computer? But despite the edicts of those with a vested interest, most practices have a sufficiently diverse client base to allow them to adopt the technology at their own pace, as the clients demand it.
So while practices have this choice of how they work they also retain the choice of the type of work they do - a big chunk of compliance here, a little advisory there - and so the idea that there is pressure on firms to make a 'choice' between different types of work seems to be a moot point.
And thank goodness for that. Leaving aside the problem of putting all your eggs in one basket I for one don't have the time or the inclination to re-engineer my business from the bottom up and I think that probably applies to most small practitioners.
Replying to JerryP:
By Francois Badenhorst
I tend to agree with you
I've written on this very topic already. I feel as if the debate is tainted by exaggeration. Everything is going to be fine, things will equilibrate.
By Kent accountant
Public enemy number one?!
I(we) have no idea who he is...
Replying to Tax Dragon:
I get you
Kent accountant wrote:
Apologies, I should've mentioned he's based in Australia. He's pretty divisive. He's also very intelligent and charming and I don't think it'll be very long until you do know who he is.
By Vaughan Blake1
The problem is..
In my experience that people with 'a passion for technology' tend to focus on the use of technology rather than on the bigger picture. This leads to the use of technology for its own sake rather that for the sake of improving profitability.
If my car is broken, and I take it to the garage, I don't car if they fix it using high tech equipment run by people in spacesuits or an old bloke in a cardigan with a hammer and chisel, so long as it's fixed properly in a reasonable time frame, and the price is sensible.
As for the techno 'laggards' going out of business, no they won't. Those that go out of business are the ones that don't give clients what they want! Twas always thus.
By MNAccountant
Nothing new. The ability to file one's own returns has always existed. Even 30 years ago when my father had shops there were a few of our fellow shopkeepers who filed their own VAT returns because they wanted to save a few £100. The majority of businesses who actually make money will always have a place for accountants. We have plenty of clients who use cloud software to do their own bookkeeping - all of these softwares can file payroll, VAT, etc. Do any of our clients use it to file their own returns? Not one out of 100s. So what if it can do year-end accounts and corporation tax. Most businesses would rather pay a fee and let somebody else handle it. There will always be the very small side-businesses who make a small amount of profit - in my experience they are the ones who prefer to do it all themselves. A profitable business is usually profitable as experience has taught them to stick to what they know best and delegate the rest.
By ireallyshouldknowthisbut
Claiming tech can replace what accountants do is always a misnomer.
Tech is great, I love tech, but tech doesn't think.
Good accountants think.
There is always a niche for a thinking person in a technological and complex world.
how big or small it might be is open for debate, and is a function of many things, not least regulation, but I think it is crap to suggest there will be two streams "advisory" and "churn".
There will always be "bespoke" who process AND advise, and if anything being a sole prac has never been easier. Its certainly easier now then when I started up.
Gone is the needs for meeting rooms, receptionists and hordes of staff doing bookkeeping. Accountants and clients can communicate directly with no barriers. Tech is cheap, and open to even to the smallest practice. No longer to large companies have the advantage of being able to afford to develop their own in-house software, you can buy it off the shelf.
By Tom 7000
Nothing is certain....
Except death and taxes.
I am thinking of acquiring an undertakers business so I have both ends of the market covered.
Wonder if theres a car benefit in kind on a hearse?
By Glenn Martin
Some of these services are miss sold.
I recently took on a client who was paying quite a high fee for an all inclusive service to include bookkeeping, virtual FD and growth advice.
I have been through what he had been given and IMO it was little more than a virtual bookkeeping service and most of the advice was around when tax payments were due and filing deadlines, basically what you would expect anyway from a basic compliance service.
they produced a quarterly set of figures and tagged a few KPI's on the front of the report and emailed it over to the client, with a few very basic comments, no in depth advice.
Many accountants also advertise themselves as "Business Advisors" but only give accounting or simple financial advice, surely business advice covers the areas of non finance such as operational, marketing, HR, legal etc and ultimately what do you do when the sh*t its the fan. I find accountants who have only worked in practice will struggle to advise on this aspect of the work in any depth.
The hardest thing I have found in the advisory side is that when you first start there are usually a few quick wins or low hanging fruit you can nail early and present real value going forward. The problem I see is maintaining that into years 2 and 3 when it becomes harder to keep pulling rabbits from the hat, I therefore find maintaining fee levels becomes an issue. Also as the business grows beyond a certain size they would look to recruit internally.
So for me the advisory stuff is good but it comes on the back of the compliance work not instead of.
Seeing a business grow and create jobs is a fantastic reward though, much better than saying I have filed all my tax return with a week to spare in January.
@Tom, a hearse might qualify as van, being primarily designed for the conveyance of a coffin? I probably ought to know given I used to audit a funeral parlor back when you could play "draw the dots" with the spots on my face as an audit junior.
By ming_the_reasonable
There will always be compliance
Surely all this automation requires clients to get on board too? When I think about the kinds of clients the firm I work for represent, I can't see this changing. They want to be running their businesses like they always have and employ us to handle this stuff for them. We've got the odd client keeping their books on old versions of tasbooks. If we said to them "we want you to use this now" they just wouldn't. Compliance work will be our bread and butter for some time to come I'm sure.
By abaco
...is this jargon-fest supposed to mean?
"the Accountapocalypse", an epochal shift in the profession where most of the value chain is automated.
Replying to I'msorryIhaven'taclue:
Jargon-fest
Or perhaps, Jargon-palooza. Or to make it more British orientated Jargon-bury.
Jokes aside (it's Friday, grant me that), your criticism is warranted. It was a sentence I struggled with. If anything, it's indicative of the jargon that dominates the debate. I'll try harder in the future to cut through the noise.
I hope you enjoyed the rest, at least.
Lets face it Francois, whatever you write for us bunch of miserable old so and so's you wont win. Anything less than the online equivalent of a very hard 3 man rugby tackle down and a few 'accidental' knees in the groin on the way up and you have to consider its a decent article.
back in the old days journalists used to write stuff that got published in magazines in a thing call "print" and from where you sat you couldn't hear people tutting and moaning about the articles as they sat miles away. These "comments" on articles are quite frankly making a rod for your own back. I smirked somewhat at the thread on the review website and folks moaning about having to deal with feedback from clients. O the irony!
Replying to John Isabel:
03rd Oct 2015 13:34
ireallyshouldknowthisbut wrote:
Haha thanks. Nah, but honestly, one of the reasons I enjoy writing for the site is the very forthright comments and community. Writers don't like to exist in a vacuum. It's nice to have my writing be relevant, criticised and read. It makes me better, and it'll mean better content in the future. But your support is very gratefully accepted!
By exceljockey
05th Oct 2015 08:50
Not sure home many people will do it themselves
A few of my clients are accounting contractors. Some of them I trained with whilst doing articles. They are more than capable of doing their own returns, I have even offered to give them access to my software so that they could cost effectively do it themselves (they are friends and I would rather they did their own accounts) and they are just not interested.
So whilst the advent of technology may cause many to do it themselves, many will not.
I could easily wash my own car but I still pay someone to do it and I think the principle is the same. It would be far quicker for me to do it if I took the time it takes to drive to the carwash into account but I still don't / won't.
By Adrian Pearson
Joined-up reporting
Hi Francois
It's a shame that you didn't reference Accounting Web's other recent article on this subject, and the comment thread that followed:
https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/article/management-reporting-future-acco...
What I would love to know is how many firms would be able to generate sufficient advisory income if they abandoned the associated compliance work altogether?
As I said in the other thread I reference - I do not believe this is a binary outcome, despite your use of a fork in the road image. Are accountants really "Moving away from" compliance work or, in reality, looking to "Add advisory services on top of" compliance work.
Anyone at your end fancy addressing that issue for us?
By Mark Lee
In my experience
Most UK based accountants are bored of constantly being warned about upcoming changes that are going to kill off their longstanding business models.
Those commentators from overseas assume things are the same here as in their countries. They aren't.
Few informed and genuinely experienced UK based commentators issue such warnings these days. Those who do are simply restating what they've been saying for years and they are still ignored. One day their prophecies may be right. But in real life few accountants will lose all of their clients in one go. They will start to take action only as and when they see sufficient numbers of clients starting to move away from traditional (compliance focused) accountants.
When that happens the forecasters of doom will claim they were correct. Maybe. But they've been warning of these changes for ten plus years.
Better, in my view, is to reference the impact of changes and how some forward thinking accountants are adapting their approach. New start ups are best placed to build practices that take account of new developments. Let everyone else decide for themselves whether and when to adapt. That's why I never argue that 'all accountants' need to do anything to stay in business or to win new clients.
Was also an Australian view of the future.
By AndrewV12
Stanley Unwin
I think Stanley Unwin wrote the above article.
Who is Stanley Unwin, chick on for his interpretation of the budget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFB_FS9rV0c