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Policy: Corporate Accountability and Transparency
1. Purpose:
The Municipal Act, 2001 (the Act) provides that:
(a) It is the role of Council "to ensure the accountability and transparency
of the operations of the municipality, including the activities of the
senior management of the municipality. (The Municipal Act, 2001,
Section 224(d.1)); and
(b) That municipalities must adopt and maintain a policy with respect to
"the manner in which the municipality will try to ensure that it is
accountable to the public for its actions, and the manner in which the
municipality will try to ensure that its actions are transparent to the
public." (The Municipal Act, 2001, Section 270(1) para. 5.)
The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance to the delivery of the City's activities and services in accordance with the principles as outlined herein. This policy has been developed in accordance with the Act to comply with section 270.
2. Definitions
"Accountability" - The principle that the City is obligated to demonstrate and take responsibility for its actions, inactions, decisions and policies, in light of agreed expectations, and that it is answerable to the public at large.
"Transparency" - The principle that the City actively encourages and fosters stakeholder participation and openness in its decision making processes, that it will conduct its business in an accessible, clear and visible manner and that its activities are open to examination by its stakeholders.
3. Policy Statement
The Corporation of the City of Port Colborne is committed to the fundamental principles of accountability and transparency as a matter of good governance and will be guided by the following principles:
·i. Decision-making will be open and transparent
·ii. Municipal operations will be conducted in an ethical and accountable
·iii. Financial resources and physical infrastructure will be managed in
an efficient and effective manner
·iv. Municipal information will be accessible so that it is consistent with
legislative requirements
·v. Inquiries, concerns and complaints will be responded to in a timely
·vi. Financial oversight, service standards and performance reporting
and all other accountability documents will be made available and
accessible, in language that the public can understand, to increase
the opportunity for public scrutiny and involvement of municipal
·vii. Every new delegation of power or authority will have a corresponding
accountability mechanism.
The City of Port Colborne is committed to creating a culture wherein Council and staff are aware of and understand the principles of accountability and transparency articulated through this policy, and will support and contribute to the spirit and intent of the policy. This requires the leadership of Council and senior management to ensure these principles are practiced and adhered to throughout the corporation.
The City of Port Colborne will foster a safe environment that allows all stakeholders of this policy to participate freely, without fear of reprisal or retribution.
The City of Port Colborne will conduct its business openly, honestly, ethically and with integrity.
4. Application
The principles of accountability and transparency shall apply equally, to the political process and decision making and to the administrative management of the City of Port Colborne and to all operations of the City.
5. Policy Implementation
5.1 Council will determine the manner and timing of consultation
with stakeholders related to major policy decisions.
5.2 Practices and procedures will reflect current legislative
requirements and regulations. In the event of a conflict
between this policy and any legislative requirements,
the legislative requirements will prevail.
5.3 The Chief Administrative Officer is responsible for ensuring
that administrative practices and procedures to be followed
by staff recognize Council's commitment to accountability
and transparency.
6. Policy Requirements
The City demonstrates its commitment to accountability and transparency by providing a framework of policies, procedures and practices that create sound governance and sustainability.
6.1 Legislated Requirements
The following are some of the provincial statutes that govern
how the City conducts its business:
·(a) Assessment Act
·(b) Building Code Act
·(c) Cemeteries Act
·(d) Development Charges Act
·(e) Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act
·(f) Employment Standards Act
·(g) Fire Protection and Prevention Act
·(h) Gaming Control Act & Order in Council
·(i) Highway Traffic Act
·(j) Marriage Act
·(k) Municipal Act
·(l) Municipal Conflict of Interest Act
·(m) Municipal Elections Act
·(n) Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
·(o) Occupational Health & Safety Act
·(p) Ontarians with Disabilities Act
·(q) Planning Act
·(r) Provincial Offences Act
·(s) Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act
·(t) Safe Drinking Water Act
·(u) Vital Statistics Act
6.2 Financial Matters
The City of Port Colborne is open, accountable and
transparent to its stakeholders in its financial dealings
as required under the Act. Some examples of how the
City provides such accountability and transparency are
as follows:
·(a) Internal/external audit program
·(b) Financial reporting/financial statements
·(c) Long term financial planning
·(d) Annual budget process
·(e) Insurance/risk management programs
·(f) Asset management programs
·(g) Procurement of goods and services policy
·(h) Sale and disposition of land policy
·(i) Development charges by-law
·(j) Fees and charges by-laws
·(k) Conference and seminar policy for members of Council
·(l) Council remuneration by-laws and annual report of the remuneration and expenses
paid to Council members and other Council appointees
·(m) Various administrative procedures including travel expenses, benefits, overtime, etc.
·(n) Municipal Conflict of Interest Act
6.3 Open Government
The City of Port Colborne is accountable and transparent to
taxpayers by providing governance in an open manner
through communication, consultation and collaboration.
The following are some examples of policies, procedures
and practices that ensure that the City is transparent in its
operations and residents are aware of how decisions are
made and carried out:
·(a) Council Procedure By-law
·(b) Public Notice By-law
·(c) Public distribution of Council and Committee Agenda meeting documentation
·(d) Televised meetings
·(e) Accountability & Transparency Policy
·(f) Closed meetings investigator
·(g) Public consultation measures such as advisory committees, public meetings and open house
·(h) Public strategic planning sessions
·(i) Planning processes under the Planning Act
·(j) Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
·(k) Records Retention by-law.
6.4 Internal Governance
The City of Port Colborne ensures specific accountability on the
part of its employees through the following initiatives:
·(a) various administrative procedures including attendance recognition, dress code, employment
of relatives, hiring of summer students, etc.
·(b) collective agreements and employment contracts
·(c) performance management/evaluations
·(d) Occupational health and safety standards and programs
·(e) new employee orientation
·(f) learning and development programs
•(g) workplace harassment policy
7. Responsibilities
City Council and City staff are responsible for adhering to the parameters of this policy and for ensuring accountability for their actions and transparency of municipal operations.
8. Monitoring/Contraventions
The City Clerk shall be responsible for receiving complaints and/or concerns related to this policy. Upon receipt of a complaint and/or concern, the City Clerk shall notify:
·(a) In the case of staff, the Director responsible for the area and the Chief Administrative Officer;
·(b) In the case of a closed meeting, the Meeting investigator; and
•(c) In the case of the Council, the Head of Council.
9. Enquiries
City Clerk
Department of Corporate Services
Municipal Offices
66 Charlotte Street
Port Colborne, ON L3K 3C8
Telephone: (905) 835-2900 ext. 106


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Google Latitude is useful if you want to share your location with a group of friends, but not everyone wants to do that. As Foursquare's success showed, people want to manually "check in" and only share some of the places they visit.
To make Google Latitude more useful and to better integrate it with other social services, Google added support for check-ins. "You can still use Latitude to automatically update and share your location, but check-ins let you add context to the location — like captions to a photo," explains Google. It's an opportunity to improve Google Maps by sharing your favorite places, which could also make social recommendations better.
Check-ins connect locations to places and they're better suited for sharing because there's no real-time tracking involved. Google says that check-ins will be added to your Google Buzz stream and you can share them with your friends, make them public or private. There are some additional features that help you use check-ins: notifications to check in at a nearby place once you arrive, automatic check-ins at specific places, the option to check out and status level (visitor/Regular/VIP/Guru). Google Places pages include information about your check-ins, your friends' check-ins and your status.
Check-ins are supposed to work if you use the latest version of Google Maps for Android. If you use an iPhone, you should see a new version of the Latitude app in the near future. I've installed Google Maps 5.1 for Android, but I couldn't find the new features.
Google says that there are 10 million active Latitude users. Check-ins could attract new users and make Google's social services more popular.
Ironically, check-ins were made popular by Foursquare, a startup created by Dodgeball's founder and former Google employee Dennis Crowley. Dennis quit Google two years after Google acquired Dodgeball. "The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us – especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other startups got to innovate in the mobile + social space."
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The scoop: OmniJoin Web and videoconferencing, by Brother, starting at $50 per month.
What is it? The OmniJoin service is a collaboration and Web conferencing platform that provides high-quality videoconferencing features for attendees. At the basic level, up to 30 attendees can join a meeting, with up to 12 video windows to provide face-to-face interaction. The OmniJoin Pro service offers up to 50 attendees and up to 20 video windows during a meeting, and an enterprise version is also available with customized settings for licenses, attendees and video participants.
MORE REVIEWS: Web-based conferencing comes of age
As with other Web conferencing services (think GoToMeeting, LiveMeeting or WebEx), OmniJoin meeting hosts can share a PowerPoint presentation, an application, a whiteboard, their desktop, hold a chat with attendees and share files. Control of a meeting can be exchanged from hosts to any attendee, providing for remote collaboration (for example, working together on a spreadsheet or other application). Hosts can set up meetings in advance via their OmniJoin client application, or through the OmniJoin website, or conduct ad hoc meetings with other contacts in an instant messaging-like fashion.
Meetings can be recorded for attendees that miss a session, with video (MP4 format) being stored locally on hosts' computers (an upcoming version will record and store video through the cloud). For audio, customers can use multipoint, full-duplex VoIP via the service, or use a traditional telephone audioconference option.
While the video can be handled by any standard webcam found on attendees' computers (or external USB webcams), Brother also makes its own hardware -- the company's NW-1000 HD Videocam ($100) provides full 1080p or 720p video, a built-in stereo microphone and plug-and-play connectivity via USB 2.0 port. The company also makes a Compact Speakerphone (model VT-1000, $100), which enables mobile users to convert their smartphones into higher-quality speakerphones. The hardware isn't required to use with OmniJoin, but both devices fully support the service.
Why it's cool: The service utilizes cloud technology to provide videoconferencing servers that clients connect to, rather than set up peer-to-peer connections between attendees. The cloud technology, along with additional parallel processing and multimedia processor extensions, aims to improve video quality for everyone in a meeting room. The system uses dynamic scalable video (MPEG-4 variable bitrate encoding) that gives HD quality to users who have enough bandwidth, but then scales down on a per-connection basis to clients with lower bandwidth (more details here).
The collaboration tools are quite nice and easy to use -- the user interface is easy to navigate for hosts and attendees. The service offers multiple layouts for video windows and application sharing -- if meeting hosts want to just have a large video chat without any application sharing or presentations, they can make video windows larger, for example.
The service seems quite nice for disperse groups of employees that need to work together on projects -- OmniJoin seems quite suitable for telemedicine, education, engineering and even boardroom settings.
Some caveats: There are some issues with Macintosh clients in the ability to see videos played from a host (the host was using a Windows video player and I couldn't see it play on my Mac) as well as the ability to share files. Brother says updates to Mac users will be available by the end of the year.
Grade: 4 stars (out of five)
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Preview: Crew eager to keep up home dominance of NY
COLUMBUS CREW vs NEW YORK RED BULLS
COLUMBUS CREW STADIUM, Columbus, Ohio
April 7, 2012 (WEEK 5, MLS Game #39)
3 p.m. ET (Univision Deportes; FS-OH; MSG)
A key Eastern Conference clash is ahead on Saturday afternoon when the Columbus Crew entertain the New York Red Bulls at Crew Stadium. The Red Bulls have been the hottest team in MLS the last couple of weeks, scoring nine goals in that time, last in a 5-2 home win against Montreal. The Crew are coming off back-to-back shutout victories, defeating Toronto FC 1-0 on the road last weekend.
REFEREE: Mark Kadlecik. SAR (bench): Chris Strickland; JAR (opposite): Jeff Muschik; 4th: Allen Chapman
MLS Career: 17 games; FC/gm: 24.1; Y/gm: 3.5; R: 5; pens: 6
- COLUMBUS CREW -- OUT: FW Ben Speas (sports hernia rehab); DF Rich Balchan (sports hernia rehab); DF Julius James (R shoulder surgery rehab); FW Tommy Heinemann (L knee internal injury); DOUBTFUL: DF Carlos Mendes (R hamstring strain); QUESTIONABLE: MF Danny O'Rourke (L ankle)
- NEW YORK RED BULLS -- OUT: FW Juan Agudelo (L knee surgery recovery); QUESTIONABLE: DF Wilman Conde (groin strain)
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
SUSPENDED: none
- ALL-TIME (52 meetings): Crew 23 wins, 62 goals ... Red Bulls 22 wins, 68 goals ... Ties 7
- AT COLUMBUS (26 meetings): Crew 14 wins, 36 goals ... Red Bulls 9 wins, 33 goals ... Ties 3
- RETURN MATCH: 9/15: New York Red Bulls vs. Columbus Crew, 7 p.m.
6/4: NY 1, CLB 1 (Ballouchy 9 - Balchan 90)
- The Crew are unbeaten in their last four meetings with New York. The teams played to a pair of draws in their two meetings a year ago; Columbus won both meetings in 2010.
- New York hasn't won in Columbus since a 2-0 win July 19, 2006. The Crew have won five of the seven meetings since on their home ground, with two draws.
- Coaches record: Robert Warzycha vs. NY: P8 W4 L2 D2 ... Hans Backe vs. CLB: P4 W0 L2 D2
Crew Cat Chronicles: Know thy enemy
The Columbus Crew made it two wins in a row after a week off, maintaining their unbeaten record at BMO Field with a 1-0 victory against Toronto FC on Saturday afternoon. The Crew sit in a four-way tie for second place in the Eastern Conference with 6 points from 3 games.
- The Crew nearly took the lead just before halftime, when TFC center back Ty Harden was ruled to have fouled Olman Vargas near the end line in the 42nd minute. Milovan Mirosevic stepped up to take the spot kick, driving a shot low and to the left, but goalkeeper Milos Kocic dove to deflect it for a corner kick.
- Still, Columbus took the lead in the 56th minute when Bernardo Anor hammered home a shot from the center of the box after TFC couldn't clear their lines. Anor charged through the midfield and into the box after a turnover by Julian de Guzman. Defender Logan Emory attempted to clear the ball, but it deflected back to Anor, who drove a shot past Kocic.
- Crew head coach Robert Warzycha made one change to the team that recorded a 2-0 win against the Montreal Impact at Columbus Crew Stadium. Eric Gehrig came into central defense in place of Danny O'Rourke.
- COLUMBUS CREW (4-1-3-2): Andy Gruenebaum - Sebastian Miranda (Josh Williams 79), Chad Marshall, Eric Gehrig, Shaun Francis - Kirk Urso - Eddie Gaven, Milovan Mirosevic, Bernardo Anor (Ethan Finlay 85) - Emilio Renteria (Aaron Schoenfeld 80), Olman Vargas.
- The Crew have reeled off back-to-back shutouts after their season-opening 2-0 loss in Colorado. Last season, Columbus posted four consecutive shutouts following a season-opening 3-1 loss at D.C. United.
- "We stress team defending first and if we can shut the other team down we can create our own chances and I think we are good enough going forward to get one on the road and hold on," said goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum.
- The Crew were forced into a change just hours before kickoff when Danny O'Rourke couldn't overcome an ankle injury and Eric Gehrig stepped into central defense.
- "Obviously, he's a great professional and it's very encouraging that we have players like this on the bench that can step anytime and have a great performance," head coach Robert Warzycha said. Said Gruenebaum: "We have a couple guys that could fill in that spot and Eric did a great job today and it goes to show you how much depth we have on the team."
- A week after converting a penalty kick against Montreal for his first MLS goal, Milovan Mirosevic saw his spot kick in the first half saved by Toronto FC goalkeeper Milos Kocic.
- "(Mirosevic) is a great professional because he knows the last thing that you want is for the missed penalty kick to affect the game. For a lot of players it's difficult to overcome," head coach Robert Warzycha said. "His game didn't change. He was the same Milo as he was in the first minute. Because he won that ball, I am not surprised. That is what he does on the field, and that is why he is here."
- For Bernardo Anor, it was his second career MLS goal, first hitting the net last June 18 in a 2-0 win in Houston.
- "That's what we asked Bernardo to do all the time," Warzycha said. "If you get the ball, go forward instead of trying to find the pass." Said Anor: "It wasn't a perfect touch at first, but by continuing the play, I got the rebound and I finished it pretty well."
- Dilly Duka made his first appearance since suffering a hamstring injury in the season opener vs. Colorado, playing 30 minutes in the reserves match on Sunday.
- "There were no signs of the injury or lack of fitness. I was happy with the minutes that (Duka) played," Warzycha said. "We didn't want to push him too far, but overall it was very good."
The New York Red Bulls continued their impressive attacking ways at Red Bull Arena, rolling to a 5-2 win against the MontrÈal Impact on Saturday afternoon. The Red Bulls are in a four-way tie for second place in the Eastern Conference, with 6 points from 4 games.
Red Bulls preview rivalry matchup
- The Impact took the lead after just 19 minutes, when a bouncing ball got away from New York center back Markus Holgersson and allowed Sanna Nyassi to race onto it and fire home easily from close range.
- New York equalized nine minutes later when Thierry Henry headed home a beautiful cross from Rafa Marquez. The Mexican international was given plenty of space on the right side and he picked out Henry, who made a well-timed run.
- But the expansion side were back in front in the 38th minute. Justin Mapp received a pass on the left flank and was allowed time and space to drive across the top of the box, firing a low shot that beat goalkeeper Ryan Meara inside his right post.
- Yet the hosts pulled level once again in first-half stoppage time after Matteo Ferrari was whistled for a foul on Dax McCarty inside the area. Kenny Cooper claimed the spot kick and scored with a shot down the middle of the goal.
- The Red Bulls took the lead in the 56th minute. A pass that was picked off by McCarty, and he found Henry at the top of the box. Henry turned and fired a pinpoint shot inside the near post past Donovan Ricketts, who was at full stretch.
- New York built on their lead in the 72nd minute through a finish from substitute Mehdi Ballouchy that was set up by Henry. Solli whipped in a low cross from the right that the veteran striker flicked on to Ballouchy, who got a slight touch on the ball to put it in back of the net.
- Henry then capped the scoring and recorded his first hat trick with the Red Bulls a minute before the end, knocking in a rebound after Ricketts spilled a shot from Cooper.
- Red Bulls head coach Hans Backe made no changes to the team that strolled to a 4-1 defeat of the Colorado Rapids at Red Bull Arena.
- NEW YORK RED BULLS (4-4-1-1): Ryan Meara - Jan Gunnar Solli, Markus Holgersson, Wilman Conde, Roy Miller - Dane Richards, Rafa Marquez (Teemu Tainio 46), Dax McCarty (Brandon Barklage 90), Joel Lindpere (Mehdi Ballouchy 69) - Thierry Henry - Kenny Cooper.
- The Red Bulls have scored 10 goals in four games to lead Major League Soccer. "We shouldn't be too negative after scoring nine goals at home and picking up six points," said New York head coach Hans Backe. "But we are competitive and we know that we just need to lift our game over 90 minutes. It's not enough to do 45 well [because] if you play against a top team, they will punish you."
- The Red Bulls made a key change at halftime, when Rafa Marquez was taken off with a groin strain, replaced by Teemu Tainio. Marquez had suffered the strain in his season debut the week before vs. Colorado after missing the opening two games through suspension.
- "I think Rafa was definitely not 100 percent," said central midfielder Dax McCarty. "He was moving a little slower than normal. Against Colorado, every time we gave the ball away, he was right back into position defensively, and I think today he tried to gut it out and play through it."
- With the addition of Tainio, the Red Bulls' midfield tactics changed slightly, scoring three goals after the break.
- "Rafa likes to drop deep and come into the backline to receive the ball," McCarty said. "I don't think we had a good understanding with the rest of the midfielders, when to come in and when to play out wide, because I think he was on an island in the first half for a while. Then Teemu came in and I think we discussed at halftime the tactical adjustment for our center backs to have the ball in the back and let them drive out a bit further up the field, and have Teemu sit more centrally and kind of be a guy that can distribute. Let me press higher."
- Thierry Henry followed up his two-goal performance vs. Colorado with his first MLS hat trick against Montreal, winning MLS Player of the Week honors for a second consecutive week.
- Kenny Cooper netted his third goal in the last two games; together the strike pair of he and Henry have collected nine of New York's 10 goals for the season.
- "Kenny and Thierry weren't getting very much service," McCarty said. "They were kind of stranded as well as myself, so [in the] second half Teemu came in and obviously he brought a lot of bite to the midfield. I think we started winning more of our battles - one-on-one - so I think that was the difference.
- Of the Red Bulls two starting wide midfielders - Dane Richards and Joel Lindpere - neither has contributed a goal or an assist thus far.
- "It's more that they haven't been themselves comparing to last year," Backe said. "Our four front players last year, I think that they scored up to perhaps 90 percent of the goals. I hope that they can bounce back, but they have been a little bit too passive ... We need probably a little bit more from our wide players when we're on the road. Wide right, wide left has to be a little more creative. I think that is the key."
- Marquez could be ready to return for the Columbus match, but defender Wilman Conde - who missed the opening two matches to injury - is listed as questionable for the weekend with a groin strain.
- "We have to be a little bit smart with Wilman, of course being out that long, so we don't [have him] pick up any hamstring or thigh injuries. He will probably have a day off per week with just treatment," said Backe.


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The consequences of mandatory rotation appear to be (1) higher audit fees, and (2) lower-quality audited earnings following rotation (which is consistent with the evidence in non-mandatory settings). The authors conclude with some conjectures on how the negative effects of mandatory rotation observed in Italy might be even greater in countries with larger audit markets and larger clients, such as the United States and other European Union countries, which should give regulators pause. Another unintended consequence of mandatory rotation in the United States would be to reduce an audit firm's industry expertise. A rotation rule in the United States and other large economies could disrupt the market and fundamentally change the way accounting firms are organized for the delivery of audits.
Cameran, M., Francis, J. R., Marra, A., & Pettinicchio, A. 2015. Are There Adverse Consequences of Mandatory Auditor Rotation? Evidence from the Italian Experience. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 34 (1): 1-24.
The authors' results may be of interest to policy makers for two important reasons. First, regulatory discussions on mandatory audit firm rotation could have implications for the cost and quality of auditing if a client is forced to switch from a compatible auditor to one that is less compatible. Second, proposals to expand the auditor's reporting responsibilities might mitigate the loss of audit quality when similarity arises in unaudited disclosures.
Brown, S. V. and W. R. Knechel. 2016. Auditor-Client Compatibility and Audit Firm Selection. Journal of Accounting Research 54 (3): 725-775.
This study predicts economic effects of both mandatory audit firm rotation and the contraction of the audit market to 3 major audit firms. The authors estimate that mandatory audit firm rotation would reduce consumer surplus ranging from $2.7 billion to $5 billion depending on the length of time between required rotations (10 or 4 years, respectively). They also find that the contraction of supply from 4 major audit firms to 3 major audit firms would reduce client firms' surplus between $1.4 and $1.8 billion. Finally, the authors estimate that audit fees would increase for client firms by approximately 12% (5%) as a result of mandatory audit firm rotation (audit firm contraction). Therefore, it appears that the occurrence of either of these events would be damaging to client firms. However, the estimates do not take into consideration the potential benefits associated with mandatory audit firm rotation such as increased auditor independence and possibly higher audit quality.
Gerakos, J. and C. Syverson. 2015. Competition in the Audit Market: Policy Implications. Journal of Accounting Research 53 (4):725-775.
The study investigates how mandatory audit firm rotation may affect the process of auditor-client negotiations that produce financial statements observed by the public. Standard setters should be cognizant of the possible implications of mandating rotation. Mandatory rotation will likely change the auditors' and clients' incentives and auditors and clients will likely change their negotiation strategies. This may result in less cooperation between auditors and clients and in fewer negotiations that end to the satisfaction of both parties (not only in the final audit year prior to rotation but also in non-final years).
Wang, K. J. and B. M. Tuttle. 2009. The Impact of Auditor Rotation on Auditor-client Negotiation. Accounting, Organizations, and Society 34 (2): 222-243.
Whether or not the ISA should be adopted by the United States is a greatly contested topic. This study is helpful for regulators and standard-setting boards in the United States about the potential effects of the adoption of ISA and mandatory audit rotation for the United States. This information is also applicable for other countries when making these decisions as well.
Simunic, Dan A., M. Ye, and P. Zhang. 2017. "The Joint Effects of Multiple Legal System Characteristics on Auditing Standards and Auditor Behavior". Contemporary Accounting Research 34.1 (2017): 7.


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SEEC Interns Coach Middle School Robotics Team to Teamwork Prize
UT Dallas students (back, from left) Elizabeth Nutting, Jessica Jennings and Chloe Truong, all interns with the Science and Engineering Education Center, coached a middle school robotics team, the Blockheads, in the FIRST Lego League regional championship, where they won the top award for teamwork.
Three UT Dallas undergraduates recently led a team of middle school students through a successful season of FIRST Lego League robotics competitions.
Chloe Truong, a biology junior; Elizabeth Nutting, a neuroscience junior; and Jessica Jennings, a software engineering junior, are all interns with UT Dallas' Science and Engineering Education Center (SEEC). The center organizes summer camps for middle and high school students, as well as training sessions for teachers. In addition, the center and the University have hosted robotics competitions for several years.
In 2013, the three SEEC interns were working in the summer camps and decided to form and coach a team of area middle school students to compete in FIRST Lego League (FLL) robotics competitions. Teams typically are sponsored by individual schools, but this was the first team sponsored by UT Dallas.
Chloe Truong (left), a biology junior, coached middle school students Kunal Kapoor (back), Rohit Prasad and their Blockheads teammates.
"Our interns did a wonderful job in their first year out as coaches for the SEEC robotics team," said Dr. Kenneth Berry, assistant director of SEEC.
Truong, Nutting and Jennings met with the eight-member team, the Blockheads, twice a week at UT Dallas throughout the fall, building a robot from a kit and conducting research on the FLL's 2013 challenge theme: Nature's Fury. Teams were tasked with designing, building and programming a robot that could help recovery efforts after a natural disaster. During competition, the robot would have to move and manipulate Lego game pieces at various sites on a game board, and complete tasks like delivering supplies to victims, rescuing people and pets, and removing downed tree limbs from power lines. Teams had to complete all these tasks in a 2 ½ minute match.
Kunal Kapoor, an eighth-grader from Frisco, said that it was challenging to optimize the robot's design and complete as many missions as possible.
"I liked working with the robots and gaining knowledge about them," Kapoor said. "Even in biomedical areas, they're using robots in surgeries." He added that participation on the team will "add to our resumes."
The robot game is only one part of the competition, however. Each team also conducted research, identified a problem that could occur during a natural disaster, and proposed a solution that could help people prepare, stay safe or rebuild.
Blockheads member Kunal Kapoor showed a prototype of a wristband his team developed to help locate victims of a natural disaster.
As part of their research, the Blockheads consulted with UT Dallas geosciences professor Dr. John Geissman to better understand earthquakes, and they met with members of the campus Community Emergency Response Team. The Blockheads proposed and built a Lego version of a wristwatch-type device equipped with a GPS locater that individuals in the path of a natural disaster could wear, making it easier for rescue teams or loved ones to find them.
Rohit Prasad, who attends Rice Middle School in Plano, said that being on the robotics team "definitely helps you get a taste of what the engineering world will be like."
Throughout the fall, the UT Dallas-sponsored team competed in qualifying rounds against other North Texas teams and earned a spot in the regional championship, which was sponsored by the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and held at the Hockaday School in early February.
At the regional contest, the Blockheads won the top award for teamwork among more than 50 of the best North Texas teams, many of which were veteran competitors.
"My favorite part has been working with the kids and fostering their interest in science, technology, engineering and math fields," Jennings said. "It was a fun experience getting to know them and to see how their minds work."
Truong said coaching a team of eight middle school boys was trying at times, but ultimately rewarding.
"They progressed so much over the past six months, you get to know them and they become yours," she said. "It's the next best thing to being a teacher. They improved on their teamwork skills and communication skills.
"Plus, this gives the three of us good experience, because in the summer we teach teachers and other coaches how to run an FLL team."
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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"Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Electric Arc Steelmaking." Iron and Steelmaker. Vol. 26. 1998. LBNL-42775..
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Aquos Net was just announced at Sharp's press conference. Many of their better LCDs will feature the service. Connecting through an ethernet jack, users will be able to download (supported) widgets. Users can then connect live to technical support through their TVs, with conveniences like never reaching their necks behind entertainment centers for 1,000-digit model numbers again.
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Tour highlights Litchfield's involvement in American Revolution
LITCHFIELD >> While the rest of the town celebrated Fourth of July weekend, the Litchfield Historical Society instead offered the opportunity to take a look back. The society held a walking tour on Saturday, where guide Kate Baldwin Meador, curator of education for the society, explained Litchfield's role in the American Revolution.
The 45-minute tour began on the steps of the Litchfield Historical Museum and travelled down the block to see the former homes of historic figures like Oliver Wolcott, Ben Tallmadge and Julius Deming.
"Up until the Revolution, Litchfield was a fairly sleepy town," Meador said. Founded in 1719, Litchfield became the county seat in 1751 and began to mold itself into an affluent New England town.
Meador pointed out that there were two 60-foot long, two-story high depots in Litchfield from 1774 until about 1780, one of which was located on North Street. These guarded depots were used for military stores and provisions.
"In 1777, a single delivery brought 1,700 pounds of gunpowder, 2,000 pounds of lead, 1,000 flint and 300 pounds of cannon powder," she said.
Litchfield was considered a safe town during the war, Meador said. Removed from the coast, Litchfield was part of the turnpike connecting Boston and West Point and thus was a town that many major figures in the war effort traveled through.
George Washington came through the town at least three times, Meador said, as did Alexander Hamilton, Rochambeau and General Lafayette.
"This was considered to be a place where they could store ammunition safely, where they could keep all these prisoners of war without fear of the British coming without us knowing."
The walking tour halted at Ben Tallmadge's former home. Though Tallmadge didn't move to Litchfield until after the war, he was a great contributor to the war effort. Tallmadge organized the Culper Spy Ring in New York City and served as Washington's chief intelligence officer.
Tallmadge created an emporium and became rivals with Julius Deming, another merchant on North Street. The Deming House, which still stands on North Street, took Deming two-to-three years to construct, according to the Litchfield Historical Society website.
The next stop was the home of Oliver Wolcott, the lone signee of the Declaration of Independence who once lived in Litchfield. Wolcott, who was present at the July 4, 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence, signed the document himself later that year.
Oliver Wolcott Library, located on 160 South St., was named to honor Wolcott and his family after "a generous donation" from his grandson J. Huntington Wolcott in 1862, according to the library's website.
The tour visited the Tapping Reeve House next. Reeve was appointed to "rouse and animate the people" to enlist in Washington's army, Meador said.
"It is said that this gentleman here was one of the driving forces behind getting people to support our quest for independence," she said.
The final stop for the tour was where Wolcott's son, Oliver Wolcott Jr., had planted a tree following the Revolution. He planted 13 trees in all following the war, with the one in Litchfield being the Connecticut tree.
The Litchfield Garden Club planted another 13 trees to celebrate the war's centennial, Meador said.
"It's said that Massachusetts kindled the revolution but Connecticut kept the revolution aflight," Meador said.
Barbara Branagan-Mitchell, of New Milford, attended the walking tour and called it "very informative." She said it was helpful that others on the tour knew their history and made it an active discussion.
"This town, people don't understand that this was really a hotbed of activity here," she said, noting that after the revolution "this town was thriving."
Fabienne Theriault, who was vacationing from Pittsfield, Mass., walked the tour with her two daughters, who are 9 and 11 years old.
"I think for our children it was very interesting for them to learn something about Litchfield and their revolutionary role," Theriault said. "For them, even though they are young, I think it was a great opportunity to learn something about what happened during that time."
The Litchfield Historical Society, which was founded in 1856, "is dedicated to collecting, preserving and interpreting the history of Litchfield County, Connecticut through its museum, research library and historic house," according to its website.
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Nikon Releases the New DX-format D7100 Digital SLR Camera
21 Feb, 2013, 11:06 GMT
DUBAI, UAE, February 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Nikon Corporation today released its advanced, high-performance DX-format D7100 digital SLR camera.
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This compact lightweight camera (W × H × D: approx. 135.5 × 106.5 × 76 mm; weight: approx. 675 g*1) offers superior portability and is loaded with features that enable excellent subject detection and is capable of reproducing the finest details.
It is equipped with features, such as the DX-format CMOS sensor of 24.1 effective megapixels and the high-performance EXPEED 3 image-processing engine without a low-pass filter, which enable sharp focusing with high resolution. The incredible combination of the high pixel count, and the full HD quality of the D7100 can be enhanced further with NIKKOR lenses, which offer superior rendering performance made possible with Nikon's own optical technologies.
The camera also offers a number of new functions that improve camera operations for a more intuitive and efficient shooting experience, including Spot White Balance, a white balance preset manual option that allows users to choose a specific subject from which white balance is measured while shooting in live view. It is also equipped with an array of RGBW that enables more effective accumulation of light, a large, 3.2-inch high-resolution TFT LCD monitor with a wide viewing angle and an i button that enables direct access to frequently used functions.
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- D7100 Primary Features
1. D7100 features a new Nikon DX-format CMOS sensor, 24.1 effective megapixels, and the EXPEED 3 image-processing engine optimized for high-performance without an optical low-pass filter
2. Supports lenses with a maximum aperture of f/8 and offers a 51-point AF system for faster focus
3. 51 focus points covering the entire frame that bring distant subjects closer.The 1.3× DX crop achieves high-speed continuous shooting up to approximately 7 fps*1.
4. The compact and lightweight Nikon DX-format camera that is strong, yet extremely light and portable
5. Increased usability and improved operation
- A new Spot White Balance option measures white balance using a specified portion of the frame
- A high-performance optical viewfinder utilizes a glass pentaprism and offers approximately 100% frame coverage
- OLED display element
- The 3.2-inch, 1229 k-dot TFT LCD monitor with wide viewing angle features a new RGBW array
6. Supports 1920 × 1080/60i and 1920 × 1080/30p movie recording
7. Supports the new WR-1 Wireless Remote Controller (available separately)
*1 When 1.3× DX crop is enabled; up to 6 fps when standard DX format is enabled. Both maximum frame rates possible only when image quality is set to JPEG/12-bit NEF (RAW). Measured according to CIPA guidelines.
- Other D7100 Features
- Release time lag of approximately 0.052 s*1 and high-speed continuous shooting at up to approximately 7 fps*2
- Extremely durable shutter that has passed testing for 150,000 cycles
- Built-in flash equipped with a commander function
- Double slots for SD memory cards
- New Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D15 (available separately)
*2 When 1.3× DX crop is enabled; up to 6 fps when standard DX format is enabled. Both maximum frame rates possible only when image quality is set to JPEG/12-bit NEF (RAW).
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Hi. My name is Christina O'Regan and I am the Fieldwork and Educational Director of Irish Archaeological Research (IAR). Three colleagues and I set up this non-profit social organisation in early 2011 with the aim of getting the public more involved with archaeology through education, workshops, and community events. We are all from commercial archaeological backgrounds and wanted to develop our experience in community archaeology.
A focus has been the delivery of school workshops, typically to second level students in years 8 – 12. These workshops begin with a general introduction to the archaeology of Ireland, followed by a practical session varying from how to make and decorate prehistoric-style pottery, learning about diet through artificial 'poo' dissection, hands-on interaction with genuine and replica artefacts and prehistoric hunting techniques. These workshops have been incredibly successful, with benefits for students and teachers alike.
My work in IAR varies from day-to-day as I develop workshops, plan for future events and shoot off a few emails to raise the profile of IAR within the archaeological and educational sectors.
For this year's Festival of British Archaeology, we have decided to host two family-orientated events; the first at Glenariff Forest Park (July 21st & 22nd) and the second at Gosford Forest Park (July 28th & 29th). Our experience with the school workshops has shown us that the more practical the day, the better. Pottery workshops, archery, demonstrations of flint knapping and a children's activity area will ensure there is something for everyone to enjoy. There will also be a mini museum, with an interactive artefacts table as well as information on the archaeology of the areas where the events will be held (Antrim and Armagh). The Northern Ireland Environment Agency have very generously granted us a loan of some artefacts from both counties and I joyously spent an afternoon sifting through their stores, picking out choice artefacts with the help of Andrew Gault from the Agency. We are also busy planning similar events for National Heritage Week in the Republic of Ireland, August 18th – 26th.
A trial run of the Open Air Museum at the Carnival of Colours, Londonderry showed us the enormous benefits this type of venture can have in increasing awareness of local heritage within communities.
Social media has been a lifeline for IAR with our Facebook page now 'liked' by over 1,000 people. The page allows us to announce all of our upcoming events as well as share archaeological discoveries and support other institutions and companies. Facebook also allows us to easily disseminate our free online magazine, Irish Archaeological Research and we have just put out a call for articles for the fourth (summer) edition. As editor of the e-zine, I envisage many late nights over the coming weeks organising layout and thinking up witty headlines!
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The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) has concluded that state guarantees for Landsvirkjun's hedging derivatives did not involve state aid.
European Commission (EC) competition approval process has taken longer than anticipated.
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Highest revenue quarter recorded in financial history of the Company.
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Jónas Þór Guðmundsson re-elected Chairman of the Board.
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Norsk Hydro ASA has made a binding offer for all shares in Rio Tinto á Íslandi hf., the owner and operator of the aluminium ÍSAL smelter in Straumsvík, Iceland.
Record breaking year in energy production and operating performance.
Landsvirkjun and the high-tech company Advania Data Centers have signed a power contract for the supply of 30 MW to the data center at Fitjar in Reykjanesbær.
Highest sustainability score in 11 categories.
The current power contract between the companies dates from the year 1975 and expires in 2019.
Revenue increases between periods.
The first geothermal station to be entirely constructed by Landsvirkjun.
S&P Global Ratings confirms Landsvirkjun's credit ratings, with stable outlook.
Credit rating without the guarantee of collection is Baa3 and with the guarantee of collection Baa1. Outlook is stable.
Economic conditions continue to affect operations but net debt continues to decrease.
The aluminium and data center industries in Iceland enjoy competitive electricity prices that do not negatively impact the energy-intensive industries' competitiveness in general. These were the main conclusions of the report compiled by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI at the request of the Ministry of Industries and Innovation in Iceland. Landsvirkjun's CEO, Hörður Arnarson said "this confirms what we already firmly believe, that we offer green energy at competitive prices. We are pleased that this has now been confirmed by an independent expert."
Tinna Traustadóttir and Ríkarður S. Ríkarðsson have been appointed as the Executive Vice Presidents of the new Sales and Customer Service and Business Development and Innovation. The Marketing and Business Development Division will no longer exist.
Landsvirkjun, the National Power Company of Iceland, and the Port of Rotterdam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") to perform a pre-feasibility study of exporting green hydrogen from Iceland to Rotterdam. According to the MOU, the parties also agree to the exchange of knowledge, with the aim of exploring new opportunities of cooperation related to hydrogen.
Among the first companies globally to adopt a new approach to finance green assets.
Landsvirkjun's results for the first half of the year reflect the difficult economic conditions throughout the world.
Hörður Arnarson, CEO, Landsvirkjun, explains how the power company's ongoing innovation allows it to maximize the sustainable harvest of natural resources and add value to the economy in an interview with Country Reports in partnership with Newsweek.
" The current economic situation has shown us that supporting innovation and improving the utilisation of natural resources in Iceland is more important than ever" says Kristín Linda Árnadóttir, Deputy CEO of Landsvirkjun.
Landsvirkjun, Norðurorka (Utility Company), Húsavík Energy and SSNE have signed a new contract to continue their cooperation on the EIMUR innovation project which was formally established in 2017.
Landsvirkjun has started the process of developing a hydrogen production facility at Ljósifoss Hydropower Station.
Acceptable first quarter results under challenging external conditions.
At Landsvirkjun's board meeting, on April 20, 2020, the board of directors agreed on a new dividend policy for the company.
Landsvirkjun has exercised an issuer call option to redeem a bond on 28 October 2020 of the amount of USD 50,000,000.
Landsvirkjun's contribution to reigniting the economy.
Jónas Þór Guðmundsson re-elected chairman of the board.
Landsvirkjun and MýSilica join forces to support innovation and development in the Mývatn area.
The offering was very well received, with an order book which was multiple times oversubscribed.
Landsvirkjun will deliver 100% certified renewable energy to the high-performance computing data center.
The visitor center is temporarily closed due to COVID-19. This is only a precautionary measure.


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MIAMI, Fla. (MarketWatch) — If you're new to the stock market, you may want to know what books you should read to get started as a trader. Here are five of my favorites that belong on every trader's bookshelf:
1. 'Reminiscences of a Stock Operator' by Edwin Lefevre
Legendary trader Jesse Livermore shares rules he learned over a lifetime of trading stocks. Many of the rules are psychological, and many employ common sense, but all are relevant today. A few of my favorite quotes:
"Obviously the thing to do was to be bullish in a bull market and bearish in a bear market. Sounds silly, doesn't it? But I had to grasp that general principal firmly before I saw that to put it into practice meant to anticipate probabilities."
"A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong, not taking the loss, that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul."
"He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection than he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile."
"They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market."
"Whereupon the average man, who never thinks of values but of prices, and is not governed in his actions by conditions but by fears, takes the easiest way — he stops thinking that there must be a limit to the advances."
2. 'Market Wizards' by Jack D. Schwager
This fascinating book, based on in-depth interviews, offers insights into the minds of some of the great modern traders. This classic book includes psychological trading lessons as well as strategic advice. A few memorable quotes:
Michael Marcus:"Perhaps the most important rule is to hold on to your winners and cut your losers. Both are equally important. If you don't stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers."
Bruce Kovner: "I would say that risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice."
Ed Seykota: "The elements of good trading are 1) Cutting losses. 2) Cutting losses. 3) Cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance."
Paul Tudor Jones: "The most important rule of trading is: Play great defense, not great offense."
Gary Bielfeldt: "The most important thing is to have a method for staying with your winners and getting rid of your losers."
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William O'Neil, publisher of Investor's Business Daily, explains how investors can use both fundamental and technical analysis to select profitable stocks using O'Neil's rule-based trading technique, CANSLIM, which is popular with many investors.
In an interview, O'Neil, told me how the lessons he described in his book helped him turn a few thousand dollars into a small fortune. The lessons in his updated book, aimed at active investors, are still important. A summary of CANSLIM:
C = Current Big or Accelerating Quarterly Earnings and Sales per Share
A = Annual Earnings Increases
N = New Companies, New Products, New Management
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4. 'Trading for a Living' by Alexander Elder
I've interviewed Dr. Elder for many years and he always gives excellent advice, which is reflected in this best-selling book.
Elder explains the characteristics of successful traders, and reveals a number of his strategies. The book's most fascinating sections relate to money management and market psychology. Too few traders really understand why they trade, their goals, and the potential emotional land mines. Elder is a proponent of keeping a trading diary, which can prevent you from repeating mistakes. "A diary makes you much more thoughtful, and makes you focus on your successes and your losses," Elder says. "You become your own teacher."
5. 'A Beginner's Guide to Short-Term Trading' by Toni Turner
Turner's enjoyable and easy-to-read book on short-term trading is geared to new traders. I've interviewed Turner many times, and no one is better at speaking to the novice trader.
Turner is a defensive trader, and is also refreshingly honest. For example, she reminds beginners that you must have a trading plan. "Nearly every mistake can usually be traced to trading without a plan," she says.
Michael Sincere ( www.michaelsincere.com) is the author of "Understanding Options," "Understanding Stocks" and "All About Market Indicators."


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The Lord Watches over His Word
God said to Jeremiah, "They shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the Lord, to deliver you" (Jer. 1:19). This promise was not just for Jeremiah, but it is for all the faithful servants of God. ...Read More
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Jeremiah 1:1–8 has much to say to us theologically. First, that God formed Jeremiah in the womb affirms that human beings are made in the Lord's image from the earliest stages of development and worthy of protection from conception onward. ...Read More
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The Lord is not presently speaking in such a way as to tell us the reasons for every disaster; thus, we cannot with certainty identify any natural disaster today as His direct judgment on sin. Yet Scripture says natural disasters ...Read More
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As God's people were surrounded by their enemies, Israel and Judah often heard these nations asking, "Where is the LORD your God?" (Mic. 7:10a). Because these enemies conquered Canaan with little resistance, they thought Yahweh was absent from His ...Read More
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The scribes in Matthew 2:1–6 answer Herod with an interpretive gloss that says Bethlehem is not the least of the clans of Judah because of the Messiah. Though many of them would reject Jesus, this interpretive reading implicitly recognizes the ...Read More
The Heavenly Mount Zion
We must always read the Old Testament in light of the new covenant revelation in Christ Jesus, the final Word of God to His people (Heb. 1:1–4). The nations have begun to go up to the temple of the Lord ...Read More
The Exaltation of God's Mountain
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Hearing What we Want to Hear
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The Word of the Lord through Micah
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In preparation for our New Year's Eve festivities, I had fun creating these photo props. All of the details on how to make them are posted over on Lori Whitlock's blog today.
Dad and Kathy were heading out to an ugly Christmas sweater party when I convinced them to pose for a few shots.
The photo props are very easy to make with your Silhouette or CAMEO machine. I also used Silhouette's foil paper, double-sided adhesive paper, and glitter. These items can all be found on the Silhouette America website.
For links to these files, head over to Lori Whitlock's blog. I hope you enjoy making these and creating some fun memories with your family and friends!
Using Silhouette's double-sided adhesive:
If you haven't played with this product, I would encourage you to try it! It's fun to work with and makes adding glitter to your projects super easy.
First, cut out the shape you want to add the glitter on. The double sided adhesive is sandwiched between a yellow backing and a white paper. Peel the yellow backing away to reveal one side of the adhesive and apply the shape to your project.
Next, peel away the white paper to reveal the second sticky side. Sprinkle glitter, or flocking, across the shape. I pressed the glitter down onto the adhesive a bit with my finger.
Finally, tap off the excess glitter. I used the Silhouette brush that comes in the double-sided adhesive starter kit to brush away excess bits of glitter. How fun and easy was that?


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Sometimes, moving is a happy event. Sometimes it's not. Last week, when Annie Ricks and five of her children left the 11th-floor apartment in the dilapidated, 15-story high-rise complex where she has lived for the past 22 years, it was a media event. And Ricks, the last tenant in Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green public housing project, was not happy.
"I didn't want to leave, but I didn't have a choice," she said in an interview with The Root, while sitting among a sea of boxes in the kitchen of her newly renovated Chicago Housing Authority apartment on the other side of the city. Indeed, the 54-year-old mother of eight from Alabama didn't have a choice about leaving Cabrini. The building where she lived is scheduled to be demolished early next year. She moved there about a year ago, after another Cabrini building, where she had lived for 21 years, was also torn down.
Ricks successfully challenged the housing authority's order to evacuate the building by the end of November. She wanted to move to a rehabbed apartment in a low-rise building, but it was not ready. When Ricks was finally forced to vacate last week after CHA officials decreed that the high-rise building was no longer inhabitable, she was first offered a home in a Cabrini rowhouse apartment. But Ricks was concerned about gun battles between "the reds," residents of the red brick apartments, and "the whites," who live in Cabrini's high-rise towers, an ongoing rivalry fueled by gang and drug violence. "That would have put my kids in jeopardy," she said.
Instead, she was forced to choose between two low-rise CHA properties on the South Side. She also has the option of returning to Cabrini next year when more units are rehabbed. "It was the Dearborn Homes or Wentworth Gardens," she said. "I settled for this one [in Wentworth] because it was not a high-rise." But she said the new apartment is too small.
Though it is completely renovated, with new kitchen appliances and bath fixtures, it has only three bedrooms, compared with the five she had in Cabrini. As a result, Ricks' oldest daughter and her baby son, who lived with Ricks in Cabrini, had to move to their own apartment in a different complex. Ricks also said that the low-rise building hallways are too narrow to get her queen-size bed into the apartment. "I just feel like they didn't try hard enough to accommodate me," she said.
As television cameras and news photographers recorded Annie Ricks' move from the condemned Cabrini-Green apartment building, they also documented the end of an era in Chicago public housing. At the same time, a few blocks away, CHA, City of Chicago, and regional and national HUD officials were holding a celebratory press conference in a renovated public housing building to announce the completion of a massive rehabilitation of 700 apartments for low-income seniors, including upgrades for disabled residents.
Officials also touted the city's compliance with a Voluntary Compliance Agreement between Chicago and HUD three years ahead of schedule. The pact was signed in May 2006. When fully implemented, Chicago will have 9,300 rehabbed units of public housing for seniors, more than any other city in the nation.
"With the completion of these upgrades in our senior portfolio, CHA has set a new standard in accommodating senior and disabled Chicagoans across the city," said Lewis A. Jordan, CEO of the housing authority.
"This is a great day for Chicagoans with disabilities," said Marca Bristo, president and CEO of Access Living, a Chicago organization run by and for people with disabilities. "You have raised the bar for housing authorities across the country."
Bristo said she planned to accompany Jordan to Washington to explain to the U.S. secretary of housing and urban development how Chicago is emerging as a national leader in accessible public housing. It's all part of the city's "Plan for Transformation," which has been touted as the largest redevelopment-rehabilitation of public housing in the history of the United States. For the past decade, the CHA has been relocating low-income families from older, dilapidated public housing buildings into newly constructed or rehabbed properties. But the moves have not always been met with applause.
Jordan said he was confident, though, that the relocation choices offered to displaced, low-income public housing tenants will eventually not only improve their living conditions but also afford them brighter futures. The choices include moving to so-called scattered-site housing all over the city using Section 8 vouchers or relocating to new or renovated public housing apartments. "It's a misnomer that families who relocated from public housing units have left public housing," said Jordan.
Part of the goal, the CHA chief explained, is to end the extreme isolation and disconnectedness of poor people who live in racially and economically segregated public housing that breeds crime and violence and other anti-social behavior. "You put a bad neighborhood into another bad neighborhood, and the violence just escalates," said Deonte Ricks, a 25-year-old home-security salesman and one of Annie Ricks' eight children. "If you put bad-behaving people in a good neighborhood, they have no choice but to adapt to the environment."
In fact, that is the basic idea behind Chicago's Plan for Transformation project, launched 10 years ago to demolish the worst of the city's public housing and replace it with new mixed-income developments scattered across the city. "What people are seeking around the country really is how we can better connect families from low-income public housing to the larger communities," said Jordan.
"It's an ongoing struggle," said John Trasviña, assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity at HUD, who was in Chicago last week for the CHA press conference on rehabbed senior housing. "The worst thing is to have people living in difficult situations and say you have to leave to get something physically better, but it's still segregated. You want to redress segregation as well. It's not just better housing, but fairer housing."
But sometimes, even when "fairer" housing is available to low-income families who have known nothing but segregated public complexes all their lives, they choose not to accept it. "In most cases, moving from what they had initially, it can't do anything but get better," said Chicago Alderman Walter Burnett Jr., who represents the 27th Ward, which includes Cabrini-Green, where he lived until he was 17 years old. "But some go to areas of the city that are still crime-ridden, and they are comfortable with that. They may end up moving to worse communities than they left, but the key thing is that they get the choice."
Despite Chicago's success in relocating public housing tenants to improved accommodations, the city and other urban centers like it across the country face severe shortages in housing for low-income families. Part of the reason is that as older properties are demolished or renovated, not enough new housing is available to keep up with the need.
As the old pre- and post-World War II stock of ill-fated, multidwelling, high-rise and low-rise public housing is being replaced, many lives, like Annie Ricks', are still being painfully displaced. Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, who saw many thousands of poor people relocated from places with names like Techwood Homes, Brady Homes and Bankhead Homes to make way for Atlanta's downtown redevelopment, said there needs to be serious sociological study to determine the impact that this transformation is having on families.
"It's an interesting question, and one that should be examined by social scientists in terms of tracking exactly where the people are dispersed to and finding out if their quality of life is vastly improved," said Campbell, who was mayor of Atlanta from 1994 to 2002. "No matter how bad some of those areas were, there was a sense of community and family. Is the trade-off of a better place to live worth losing the sense of family and community? I don't know the answer. But what I did know as mayor was that the horrible conditions that existed for so long could not continue."
Campbell said he was moved to make rehabilitating public housing in Atlanta a priority early in his administration, when he went to the Bankhead housing project in west Atlanta to express his condolences to the family of a 2-year-old child who had choked to death on a cockroach. "I felt the tragedy most profoundly," he said in an interview in Atlanta, "when I knocked on the door and a young girl about 13 or 14 years old answered. She was the mother. After seeing the despair, hopelessness and crime there, I felt there was an obligation to change that, and we did make remarkable changes."
Campbell said the most important achievement of his administration was the transformation of public housing in Atlanta. "For all the greatness of Atlanta, including the civil rights movement, Atlanta was a very poor city, with an enormous amount of public housing and poverty, and it had to be changed," he said. "And we did that. But as with most things, it came with a price: the dissolution of community, the tearing apart of neighbors and family members and friends, and the dispersing of many of these people who had lived in these areas for many years."
Annie Ricks' painful plight mirrors that of many others in public housing across the U.S. "Even though I chose Wentworth, I might be there a month, but I'm still going to come out every day, bugging them for the right to return, because I'm not giving up. I'm going to hold them to it," she said of the CHA promise that she could return to a renovated apartment in the Cabrini neighborhood that she loved, despite the crime and violence that made it nearly uninhabitable. "I was well-known and loved over there, and I didn't want to leave."
Looking wistfully out the kitchen window of her new apartment in Wentworth Gardens, Ricks said that she had seen a few other relocated families from Cabrini now living in the renovated complex. "It will help a little, but it's still not going to be like home," she said. Then she paused and added: "On the other hand, I am not mad at them [CHA], because at least I am not homeless."
Sylvester Monroe is a native of Chicago and frequent contributor to The Root.


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Maybe Quebec anglos just think we're distinct.
A funny thing happened when Shana Poplack decided to count the number of French words native English-speakers in Montreal and Quebec City used in ordinary conversations about their lives in la belle province.
Even among the 10 per cent of young people most likely to toss French words into the mix, non-standard English accounted for 0.23 per cent of the words in their interviews.
It was, ironically, a story on language published in The Gazette that got Poplack, a sociolinguist at the University of Ottawa, wondering whether Montreal anglophones really did speak "an English like no other."
In 1999, Alex Norris, a Gazette reporter who would grow up to become a city councillor with Project Montreal, wrote an award-winning series looking at the new Quebec anglo, those children of Bill 101. In one of his pieces, Norris suggested that contact between the city's majority and minority languages was transforming Montreal English into a new dialect.
Poplack, who had spent time analyzing the impact of English on the French spoken on the Ottawa-Hull region, decided to see whether those claims stood up to scientific scrutiny. "It is much easier to say something based on perceptions than it is to do the hard, scientific legwork to prove or disprove it," she said. "The only way to do it is by analyzing all the foreign words and all the other words that were used."With James Walker at York University and her University of Ottawa colleague Rebecca Malcolmson, and aided by a dozen or more researchers, Poplack decided to see whether the English spoken by anglophones in Montreal and Quebec City was really substantially different from the way people spoke in Oshawa-Whitby, an overwhelmingly English-speaking community east of Toronto.
Participants in the Montreal and Quebec City samples were native English-speakers drawn from the British, Jewish and Italian communities, with candidates identified by age and whether they learned English before or after the adoption of Bill 101.
What they found, with the help of computer databases and word counts, was that the English spoken by your typical Montreal anglo is about as different from the English spoken in Whitby as the regional quirks that might distinguish Ottawa English from the way people talk in Halifax, Calgary or Vancouver.
Which is to say, not so much.
"Our finding was that borrowed words were actually very rare," said Poplack, who believes their study, published in 2006, is the only scientific study that has looked wasat non-English words in the context of the whole.
"Dépanneur n't even the most used word," she said. In fact, she said, the words anglos 'borrowed' the most were official words: stage, métro, CEGEP and Québécois." Not only were differences in vocabulary "infinitesimally tiny," but Poplack said they were often used "meta-linguistically" – that is, the person speaking was quite aware he or she was borrowing a French word.
Poplack said there's no reason to get excited about "lexical transfers," words from French and other languages that find their way into the English vocabulary.
For one thing, she said, vocabulary is always evolving, with each generation adding and subtracting words as the world itself changes, "It's a continuous process, much as your grandmother might have said icebox and you don't."
The researchers also looked at sentence structure and speech patterns used by participants from Montreal, Quebec City and Oshawa-Whitby. Structurally, there was no difference in the way they spoke.
For a language to really change, Poplack said there would have to be mutations in grammar and structure, "the crux of why English is a Germanic language and French is a Romance language."
One reason Poplack takes issue with the perception that Montreal English – or Quebec French, for that matter – is being absorbed or transformed is because it seems to play into the notion that bilingualism is bad.
"Essentially, borrowings have no impact on the life or vitality of the language. Eighty per cent of designated words in English are of French origin. That was 10 centuries ago. Yet they were integrated into English grammar with English endings and articles and structure. Today, we recognize dép as a French word, but we don't feel that way about terrace, court, veal, lawyer, mutton," she said.
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Vail Daily columnist Warren Miller: An ultimate flier
Vail, CO, Colorado
The noise increased rapidly from the south until I could make out a fire engine-red Hughes 500 helicopter that flared out and settled on the tarmac at our small local airport.
Jeff Jobe's 21-year-old helicopter still looked as brand new as it was 5,000 flight hours ago. Jeff is a highly skilled pilot with those 5,000 hours (along with roughly another 15,000 in other aircraft) and obviously knew what he was doing at the controls.
He is the only person I know who has his own private helicopter hangar alongside his garage at his home, on a lake near Seattle.
I first met Jeff after a show in Seattle in the fall of 1969. I had gotten excited about a picture of a water skier in Sydney, Australia, who was in a hang-glider being towed by a boat. I had immediately sent a letter to the hang-glider wanting to buy one and take it to Sun Valley to get some friends to learn how to fly so I could film them. I thought they could be towed by a car and fly up and down the road from Dollar Mountain to Proctor. I was always looking for the unusual for my ski movies. Jeff Jobe came up on the stage after the show and told me, "I have been flying my hang-glider all summer on Lake Washington, and if I water the lawn before I go flying I can come in for a barefoot landing on the wet lawn. I think I can fly off of a mountain on skis and it would be good in your next movie."
I told him, "I will be in Sun Valley over Christmas. Can you get over there?"
"No problem. My dad's a pilot, and I can fly free," he replied.
Free is always good.
Jeff showed up the day after Christmas with all of his stuff, and he had a lot of stuff to fly with. The following morning we went over to Dollar Mountain for the first test flight. The snow in the Dollar Bowl was icy and we got everything set up for his first flight.
I ran the camera while Jeff came down Dollar Bowl about a gazillion miles an hour with the trailing edge of his hang-glider flapping louder than the noise his skis were making on the icy snow. By the time he got to the bottom, he was at least three feet off of the snow, but no farther.
I folded up my gear and skied down to him and said, "We have to talk about this a little more. I think we should try it on Baldy instead. Maybe there will be an up draft and you will get going fast enough to fly higher."
Jeff was 19 at the time and it was long before contingency attorneys were making millions off of stunts such as this. It was 1969, and I knew I was onto something if I could get just one good shot. Jeff was young and much more resilient than I, and he was the one who wanted to do it, but I did worry about him.
Early the next morning, after a lot of arguing with the lift operators, they let Jeff on with all of his gear and we started up the lifts on Baldy. At the top, it took Jeff about 20 minutes to get his hang-glider bolted and duct-taped together. Then we went over his flight plan several times.
He would start down the Christmas Bowl Ridge on the Seattle Ridge side and fly toward the trees. When he got enough altitude, he would turn left towards the chairlift, where I would be filming with my zoom lens. He'd then make a right turn back toward the trees, fly over them and then land on the catwalk back to the lift at the Round House.
Jeff did just exactly as I had asked him to, but he found it a bit difficult to land on the narrow catwalk. I knew I had a great shot of the flight and did not need to do it over again for good measure.
Jeff rode down on the lower lifts with his hang-glider, and my journey to next year's film started. His flight was the highlight of my next year's movie, and about 150,000 skiers saw his world record distance for a guy to fly through the air on skis.
Within a year, a lot of skiers were cobbling together hang-gliders out of PVC pipe and Visqueen held together with duct tape. Unfortunately, a lot of skiers had accidents because of their poor equipment, lack of previous flying experience, and plain old-fashioned macho-enthusiasm.
One of the men who died was Roger Staub, the ski school director of Vail. He crashed in front of a lot of people while he was demonstrating hang-gliding in Switzerland.
The next thing I heard from Jeff was that his phone was ringing off the hook from advertising agencies that wanted to have him in a commercial. He flew off of Mt. Cook over the Tasman glacier in New Zealand.
In Jeff's enthusiasm to do what he was being paid to do, he almost paid the ultimate price in Jackson Hole, Wyo., one spring afternoon. Unable to get up enough speed to fly off of a cliff, he found a go-cart and took the engine off of it. They built a ramp for him, and he figured he would get going fast enough and just let the go-cart crash as he took off.
It did not work quite like that. As the go-cart went over the cliff, Jeff went with it and dropped like a safe with the door open. He spent 47 days in the hospital, in traction, so his hips would heal. Jeff and I retold this story to the three friends he had flown up from Seattle for a lunch in my favorite restaurant in Eastsound. Later that afternoon, I watched the brand-new-looking Bell 500 take off, with Jeff flying it, heading back to Seattle.
Every time I look at a helicopter sitting on the ground, I try to convince myself that anything that looks like a helicopter cannot possibly fly. And I'm sure glad I never learned to fly. I'm much too careless.
I was concerned about Jeff making his hang-glider fly in 1969, but he has proven how amazing he is, time and again.
Filmmaker Warren Miller lived in Vail for 12 years, and his column began in the Vail Daily before being syndicated to over 50 publications. For more of Miller's stories and stuff log onto Warren Miller.net. For information about his foundation, The Warren Miller Freedom Foundation, go to http://www.warrenmiller.org.
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Vail Resorts' cancellation of cloud seeding this winter could mean less water in streams
Due to budget shortfalls, Vail Resorts has pulled this winter's funding for its cloud seeding program — the longest-running in the state at 44 years — potentially reducing the amount of water flowing down the…