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"Many times, the race of forming a government is among three people, two people or two political parties, but for the first time it is a race in which only one horse seems to be running," Jaitley said while campaigning for the party's East Delhi candidate Mahesh Giri yesterday.
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This is a very easy and flavorful recipe. I took the earlier advice and marinated the breasts and thighs in the oil garlic mixture for about 30 minutes. I served it at a small dinner with my aunt and then to 34 people at Rosh Hashanah. Outstanding!
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I followed the recipe and both my wife and I thought it was wonderful. Next time I will try to brown the chicken well in advance leaving only the roasting until the end. Is there any reason this will not work? Also, any suggestions with resect to the skin sticking to the skillet? This created a slight problem for crispness, but it would be like using skinless thighs as many of the reviewers did. I would like to keep the skin and avoid the stickiness, if possible.
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This recipe is absolutely perfect as written. The bone-in, skin-on thighs (good quality chicken is important here) are a must as far as my family is concerned. Everyone loves the delicious, crispy skin that emerges from the oven a gorgeous, deep golden brown. Best part is once the chicken is in the oven I wipe the pan out and make Jamie Oliver's Simple Sauteed Zucchini with garlic, chile and lemon (Cook With Jamie). I also roast potato wedges in the oven while the chicken bakes and we have a really nice meal. Once I even prepared the Lemon Glazed Butter Cake from the same issue.
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I like Stunfisk. It reminds me of my childhood. Any ways, I think it was created because they needed more Pokemon.
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As a gag. Same goes to Dunsparce. Or maybe they plan on giving it an evolution eventually.
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According to an interview with Sugimori in Nintendo Dream, Stunfisk was suppose to be a Water/Electric type but changed it to balance the type spread between Pokémon. (guessing there wasn't enough Ground types). And it was also meant to be an Angler Fish.
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Northern Stargazer actually.
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Code covered by the BSD License
David Young
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09 Dec 2011)
Find matching features in pairs of images using normalised cross-correlation: class file and demo.
classdef correlCorresp
% correlCorresp finds image correspondences by cross-correlation
% Given two images, IMAGE1 and IMAGE2, this class finds features in
% IMAGE2 that are good matches for features in IMAGE1.
% Algorithm
% ---------
% An initial set of feature positions is identified in IMAGE1. By
% default, these are found using local maxima of the grey-level
% variance. The variance is computed on sliding regions of dimensions
% FEATUREPATCHSIZE x FEATUREPATCHSIZE. Positions where the variance is
% a local maximum and is greater than RELTHRESH * (the maximum
% patch-variance in the image) are the starting feature positions.
% Alternatively, the feature positions may be set explicitly.
% For each feature, a patch of IMAGE1, of dimensions SEARCHPATCHSIZE x
% SEARCHPATCHSIZE and centred on the feature position, is extracted.
% This patch is compared with a region of IMAGE2. This search region is
% also determined by the feature position, and is such that the
% horizontal offset between matches has to lie between XDMIN and XDMAX
% and the vertical offset between YDMIN and YDMAX.
% The comparison is carried out using normalised cross-correlation,
% with a speed-accuracy tradeoff. A convolution mask that approximates
% the IMAGE1 patch (rotated 180 degrees) is used. The quality of the
% approximation is determined by CONVTOL (see CONVOLVE2 for details).
% The convolution result is divided by the patchwise standard deviation
% of the IMAGE2 search region and the maximum in the search region is
% taken to determine the best match for the IMAGE1 patch.
% Optionally, each match is validated by reversing the roles of IMAGE1
% and IMAGE2, and correlating a patch of IMAGE2, centred on the
% presumed match position, with an appropriate region of IMAGE1. If the
% result is the same as the original IMAGE1 feature position, to within
% a tolerance of MATCHTOL in both X and Y, the match is accepted. In
% the final result, the position of the feature in IMAGE1 is the
% average of its original position and the position of the best match
% found after carrying out the reverse match.
% Usage
% -----
% This is a value class, so any update to the state of a correlCorresp
% object requires an assignment.
% A new correlCorresp object is set up using parameter/value arguments,
% for example:
% cc = correlCorresp('searchPatchSize', 15, 'convTol', 0.2);
% Parameters may also be updated subsequently. Parameters that are not
% set are given defaults. To see the default values, do
% disp(correlCorresp);
% The images to be processed may be supplied to the constructor, or
% subsequently:
% cc.image1 = im1;
% cc.image2 = im2;
% The correspondences are computed by a call to the findCorresps
% method:
% cc = cc.findCorresps;
% and the results obtained from the corresps property:
% corrs = cc.corresps;
% See the individual properties and methods for more details, and
% information about the structure of the results array.
% Efficiency notes
% ----------------
% If many pairs of images are to be processed, it is most efficient to
% create a single correlCorresp object outside the loop and use it to
% process each pair of images.
% If multiple images are to be matched to a given initial image, only
% the IMAGE2 property should be updated within the loop, to avoid
% recomputing feature positions.
% If correspondences are needed between successive pairs of a sequence
% of images, it is most efficient to call the advance method within the
% loop to move IMAGE2 to IMAGE1, and to update only the IMAGE2 property
% directly.
% See also convolve2, correspDisplay, correspDemo
% Copyright David Young 2010
properties (Dependent)
% Feature selection patch size
% The size of the patches on which the variance is computed when
% automatic feature finding is used. Must be set to an odd integer.
% Feature selection relative threshold
% The threshold for the local variance of features, relative to the
% maximum local variance, when automatic feature finding is used.
% Must be set to a number in the range 0 to 1.
% Search patch size
% The size of the patch from IMAGE1 which is correlated with
% IMAGE2. Must be set to an odd integer.
% Search region in IMAGE2
% Defines the region of IMAGE2 within which the patch from IMAGE1
% is correlated. Must be set to a vector of the form [XDMIN XDMAX
% YDMIN YDMAX]. The elements represent the limits to the offset
% between a feature in IMAGE1 and its match in IMAGE2.
% The tolerance for mask approximation
% Sets the trade-off between accuracy (low values) and speed (high
% values) in the correlation. Must be set to a number from 0 to 1.
% See also: convolve2
% Whether to carry out reverse match checking
% If true, reverse match checking is carried out.
% The tolerance for reverse match checking
% Sets the tolerance within which the reverse match must agree with
% the forwards match. Must be set to a non-negative number. Ignored
% if doCheck is false.
% Control of printing
% If non-zero, a report on the progress of the matching process is
% printed after every printProgress features have been considered.
% Must be set to a non-negative integer.
% Feature locations
% May be set to one of the following:
% 'auto': features are computed from IMAGE1 when findFeatures or
% findCorresps is called (see algorithm description).
% A 2xM matrix F of integers: this specifies the locations of the
% centres of M features in image1. F(1,:) specifies the
% x-coordinates and F(2,:) specifies the y-coordinates. Valid
% features are selected from these when findFeatures or
% findCorresps is called. Valid features are those for which the
% x-coordinate is greater than (searchPatchSize-1)/2 and less
% than 1+size(image1,2)-(searchPatchSize-1)/2, and likewise for
% the y-coordinate.
% If advanceFeatures has been set to true, a call to ADVANCE will
% cause this property to be ignored temporarily.
% See also correlCorresp/findFeatures, correlCorresp/advance,
% correlCorresp/advanceFeatures, correlCorresp/features
% Controls whether the ADVANCE method propagates features
% If true, a call to the ADVANCE method sets the IMAGE1 features
% for the next match to the features found in IMAGE2 at the last
% match - that is, the feature set propagates in time along with
% the image to which it refers. This temporarily overrides the
% effect of the setFeatures property.
% The default value is false.
% The propagated features remain in effect until ADVANCE is called
% again, or findFeatures is called, or one of the following
% properties is set: IMAGE1; featurePatchSize; relThresh;
% searchPatchSize. If one of these properties is changed, the next
% call to findCorresps will use the value of setFeatures.
% See also correlCorresp/findFeatures, correlCorresp/advance,
% correlCorresp/setFeatures, correlCorresp/features
% The base image
% The image containing the initial features. Must be set by
% assignment or as an argument to the constructor before
% findFeatures or findCorresps can be called. Must be set to a 2D
% array.
% The search image
% The image in which matching features are to be found. Must be set
% by assignment or as an argument to the constructor before
% findCorresps can be called. Must be set to a 2D array. Normally
% it should have the same size as image1.
properties (Dependent, SetAccess = private)
% The current set of valid features - read only
% Returns the feature positions computed by the last call to
% findFeatures, findCorresps or ADVANCE, as a 2xM matrix of the
% form [xcoords; ycoords].
% The saved features become invalid and cannot be accessed after
% any of the following properties has been set: IMAGE1;
% featurePatchSize; relThresh; searchPatchSize.
% See also correlCorresp/findFeatures, correlCorresp/advance,
% correlCorresp/setFeatures, correlCorresp/advanceFeatures
% The results of correspondence matching - read only
% After a call to findCorresps this is a 4xN matrix, representing N
% matches, with the following structure:
% corresps(1,:) - the x-coordinates of features in image1
% corresps(2,:) - the y-coordinates of features in image1
% corresps(3,:) - the x-coordinates of features in image2
% corresps(4,:) - the y-coordinates of features in image2
% The first two rows will represent positions close to those in the
% features property. However, if doCheck is true, unmatched
% features will be omitted, and the position coordinates may differ
% by up to matchTol/2.
% The correlation values for the matches - read only
% After a call to findCorresps this is a vector containing the
% correlations for the matches found, in the order corresponding to
% the corresps property. If doCheck is true, the values are the
% averages of the forward and backward correlations. If convTol is
% greater than 0, the values are approximations and may be greater
% than 1.
properties (Access = private)
% Private shadows of the public dependent properties. Needed
% because set methods are only allowed to change the property to
% which they refer, but setting one public property must invalidate
% others.
% Default values are set here.
fPS = 5
rT = 0.05
sPS = 41
xdmin = -100
xdmax = 100
ydmin = -100
ydmax = 100
cT = 0.1
dC = true;
mT = 2
pP = false
featuresin = 'auto'
advancefeat = false;
featOK = false % if valid features
fr % input feature rows in image1
fc % input feature cols in image1
% Functions of the individual images, held for efficiency
% Private shadow of the result
resOK = false % if valid matches
frout1 % output feature rows in image1
fcout1 % output feature cols in image1
frout2 % matched feature rows in image2
fcout2 % matched feature cols in image2
corrout % correlations of matched features
properties (Dependent, Access = private)
hpsize % (search patch size - 1)/2
methods % constructor method
function cc = correlCorresp(varargin)
% Constructor for image correspondence objects
% cc = correlCorresp('prop1', val1, 'prop2', val2, ...)
% constructs an image corresponce object, setting property
% prop1 to value val1 etc. See the class information for
% details. Properties not set are given default values; to see
% these execute disp(correlCorresp).
% See also: correspDemo
cc = setProps(cc, varargin{:});
methods % set/get methods
% Set/get methods with argument checking and state maintenance.
% See comments under public properties above.
% Note: care needed to be sure that setting properties correctly
% invalidates results of previous computations.
function cc = set.featurePatchSize(cc, s)
validateattributes(s, {'double'}, ...
{'odd', 'positive', 'scalar'});
cc.fPS = s;
cc.featOK = false; cc.resOK = false;
function x = get.featurePatchSize(cc)
x = cc.fPS;
function cc = set.relThresh(cc, t)
validateattributes(t, {'double'}, ...
{'scalar', '>=', 0, '<', 1});
cc.rT = t;
cc.featOK = false; cc.resOK = false;
function x = get.relThresh(cc)
x = cc.rT;
function cc = set.searchPatchSize(cc, s)
validateattributes(s, {'double'}, ...
{'odd', 'positive', 'scalar'});
cc.sPS = s;
cc.featOK = false; cc.resOK = false;
cc.stdev1 = []; cc.stdev2 = [];
function x = get.searchPatchSize(cc)
x = cc.sPS;
function x = get.hpsize(cc)
x = (cc.sPS-1)/2;
function cc = set.searchBox(cc, b)
validateattributes(b, {'double'}, ...
{'integer', 'size', [1 4]});
cc.xdmin = b(1);
cc.xdmax = b(2);
cc.ydmin = b(3);
cc.ydmax = b(4);
cc.resOK = false;
function x = get.searchBox(cc)
x = [cc.xdmin cc.xdmax cc.ydmin cc.ydmax];
function cc = set.convTol(cc, t)
validateattributes(t, {'double'}, ...
{'scalar', '>=', 0, '<=', 1});
cc.cT = t;
cc.resOK = false;
function x = get.convTol(cc)
x = cc.cT;
function cc = set.doCheck(cc, b)
validateattributes(b, {'logical' 'double'}, ...
{'binary' 'scalar'});
cc.dC = b;
cc.resOK = false;
function b = get.doCheck(cc)
b = cc.dC;
function cc = set.matchTol(cc, t)
validateattributes(t, {'double'}, {'nonnegative', 'scalar'});
cc.mT = t;
cc.resOK = false;
function x = get.matchTol(cc)
x = cc.mT;
function cc = set.printProgress(cc, t)
validateattributes(t, {'double'}, ...
{'integer', 'nonnegative', 'scalar'});
cc.pP = t;
function x = get.printProgress(cc)
x = cc.pP;
function cc = set.image1(cc, im)
% Attributes not checked, as image1 may be set in a loop
cc.im1 = im;
cc.stdev1 = [];
cc.featOK = false; cc.resOK = false;
function x = get.image1(cc)
x = cc.im1;
function cc = set.setFeatures(cc, feat)
if ~isequal(feat, 'auto')
validateattributes(feat, {'double'}, {'integer'});
if size(feat,1) ~= 2
error('correl_corresp:setfeatures:badsize', ...
'Features matrix must have 2 rows');
cc.featuresin = feat;
if ~isequal(feat, 'advance')
cc.featOK = false;
cc.resOK = false;
function feat = get.setFeatures(cc)
feat = cc.featuresin;
function cc = set.advanceFeatures(cc, a)
validateattributes(a, {'logical' 'double'}, ...
{'binary' 'scalar'});
cc.advancefeat = a;
function a = get.advanceFeatures(cc)
a = cc.advancefeat;
function x = get.features(cc)
if cc.featOK
x = [cc.fc cc.fr].';
error('correl_corresp:getfeatures:nofeatures', ...
'No valid features available');
function cc = set.image2(cc, im)
% Attributes not checked, as may be set in a loop
cc.im2 = im;
cc.stdev2 = [];
cc.resOK = false;
function x = get.image2(cc)
x = cc.im2;
function c = get.corresps(cc)
if cc.resOK
c = [cc.fcout1 cc.frout1 cc.fcout2 cc.frout2].';
error('correl_corresp:getcorresps:nocorresps', ...
'No correspondences have been computed');
function c = get.correls(cc)
if cc.resOK
c = cc.corrout.';
error('correl_corresp:getcorrels:nocorresps', ...
'No correspondences have been computed');
methods % computational methods
% Image advance method, to avoid recomputing standard deviation
% array unnecessarily and to allow feature propagation
function cc = advance(cc)
% ADVANCE Advances image2 to image1.
% This method is for computation of successive sets of
% correspondences in image sequences, by moving IMAGE2 to
% IMAGE1. Its effect is thus
% cc.image1 = cc.image2;
% However, the method is more efficient than the assignment. It
% could be used like this, assuming we have a cell array of
% images and we want a cell array of correspondence results:
% cc = correlCorresp('image1', images{1});
% for k = 2:length(images)
% cc.image2 = images{k};
% cc = cc.findCorresps;
% corresps{k} = cc.corresps;
% cc = cc.advance;
% end
% Feature propagation
% -------------------
% By default, the feature positions for each new image depend
% on the value of the setFeatures property. However, if
% advanceFeatures is true, the feature positions found in
% IMAGE2 by the last call to findCorresps are propagated with
% the image. The effect is thus equivalent to
% corrs = cc.corresps;
% cc.features = corrs([3 4], :);
% (though the FEATURES property cannot actually be set
% directly). The propagated features become invalid if any of
% the following properties is set: IMAGE1; featurePatchSize;
% relThresh; searchPatchSize. After one of these properties is
% set, or after a call to findFeatures, the features again
% depend on the setFeatures property.
% See also correlCorresp/advanceFeatures,
% correlCorresp/setFeatures
cc.im1 = cc.im2;
cc.stdev1 = cc.stdev2;
if cc.resOK && cc.advancefeat
cc.fr = cc.frout2;
cc.fc = cc.fcout2;
cc.featOK = true;
cc.featOK = false;
cc.resOK = false;
function cc = findFeatures(cc)
% Sets feature positions in IMAGE1
% If the setFeatures property has been set to 'auto' (the
% default), computes feature positions using local maxima of
% local variance. If the setFeatures property has been set to a
% matrix, selects the columns that represent valid positions
% (such that a searchPatchSize x searchPatchSize box may be
% centred on the location and remain inside IMAGE1).
% The feature positions are then available by accessing the
% FEATURES property, and remain available until IMAGE1,
% featurePatchSize, relThresh or searchPatchSize is set, or
% ADVANCE is called.
% Called, if necessary, by findCorresps.
% See also correlCorresp/setFeatures, correlCorresp/features,
% correlCorresp/advanceFeatures, varPeaks.
if isempty(cc.im1)
error('correl_corresp:setFeatures:noimage', ...
'image1 has not been set')
if isequal(cc.featuresin, 'auto')
% get a set of features from im1 as starting point
% - these will have integer positions as patchsize is odd
[cc.fr, cc.fc] = varPeaks(cc.im1, cc.fPS, cc.rT);
% get the features from the input set
cc.fc = (cc.featuresin(1,:)).';
cc.fr = (cc.featuresin(2,:)).';
% remove those that are too near borders
cc = cc.trimfeatures;
cc.featOK = true;
function cc = findCorresps(cc)
% Computes correspondences between image1 and image2
% Finds correspondences using maximum cross-correlation, and
% sets the corresps property.
% See also corrpeak, convolve2
if ~cc.featOK
cc = cc.findFeatures;
if cc.pP && cc.doCheck
fprintf('Forward matches: ');
cc = cc.findCorrespsFwd;
if cc.doCheck
% Reverse match check
dd = cc;
dd.im1 = cc.im2; % dd is reverse of cc
dd.stdev1 = cc.stdev2;
dd.im2 = cc.im1;
dd.stdev2 = cc.stdev1;
dd.fr = cc.frout2;
dd.fc = cc.fcout2;
dd.xdmin = -cc.xdmax;
dd.xdmax = -cc.xdmin;
dd.ydmin = -cc.ydmax;
dd.ydmax = -cc.ydmin;
if dd.pP
fprintf('Reverse matches: ');
dd = dd.findCorrespsFwd;
% Only retain matches within matchTol in both x and y
ok = abs(dd.frout2-cc.frout1) <= cc.mT & ...
abs(dd.fcout2-cc.fcout1) <= cc.mT;
cc.frout1 = (dd.frout2(ok)+cc.frout1(ok))/2;
cc.fcout1 = (dd.fcout2(ok)+cc.fcout1(ok))/2;
cc.frout2 = cc.frout2(ok);
cc.fcout2 = cc.fcout2(ok);
cc.corrout = (dd.corrout(ok) + cc.corrout(ok))/2;
if cc.pP
n = size(cc.fr, 1);
nok = size(cc.frout1,1);
fprintf('%d consistent matches, no match for %d features\n', ...
nok, n - nok);
methods (Access = private)
function cc = findCorrespsFwd(cc)
% Computes forward correspondences between image1 and image2
% Finds correspondences using maximum cross-correlation (see
% algorithm description), and sets the results properties.
if isempty(cc.im2)
error('correl_corresp:setFeatures:noimage', ...
'image2 has not been set')
if isempty(cc.stdev1) && cc.doCheck
% Compute now for correl normalisation, provided that it
% will be needed later for reverse match. Otherwise,
% normalisation for patch can be computed on a
% patch-by-patch basis.
cc.stdev1 = patch_std(cc.im1, cc.sPS);
if isempty(cc.stdev2)
cc.stdev2 = patch_std(cc.im2, cc.sPS);
frin = cc.fr;
fcin = cc.fc;
n = size(frin, 1);
frout = zeros(n, 1);
fcout = zeros(n, 1);
cout = zeros(n, 1);
psh = cc.hpsize;
if cc.pP
fprintf('Matching %d features\n', n);
% Iterate over features
for i = 1:n
[frout(i), fcout(i), cout(i)] = ...
cc.bestmatch(frin(i), fcin(i), psh);
if cc.pP && ~(mod(i,cc.pP))
fprintf(' Done %d tests\n', i);
cc.frout1 = frin;
cc.fcout1 = fcin;
cc.frout2 = frout;
cc.fcout2 = fcout;
cc.corrout = cout;
cc.resOK = true;
function [rm, cm, vm] = bestmatch(cc, r, c, psh)
% Find single one-way match
% Looks for match between patch in IM1 centred on R,C and
% region in IM2 specified by R,C and limits XDMIN, XDMAX,
% YDMIN, YDMAX on the maximum offset (see algorithm
% description).
% We know that r and c are not too close to image borders
patch = cc.im1(r-psh:r+psh, c-psh:c+psh);
[search_area, roff, coff] = cc.getreg(cc.im2, r, c, ...
cc.ydmin-psh, cc.ydmax+psh, cc.xdmin-psh, cc.xdmax+psh);
% stdev was offset already by psh
stds = cc.getreg(cc.stdev2, r-psh, c-psh, ...
cc.ydmin, cc.ydmax, cc.xdmin, cc.xdmax);
patch = patch - mean(patch(:)); % zero mean
% Core call of whole class - search for peak correlation
[rm, cm, vm] = corrpeak(search_area, patch, stds, cc.cT);
% correct for offset
rm = rm + roff;
cm = cm + coff;
% normalise with std dev of patch (already normalised with std
% dev of search region)
if isempty(cc.stdev1)
% ? not worth computing whole stdev array ?
s = std(patch(:), 1);
s = cc.stdev1(r-psh, c-psh);
vm = vm / (numel(patch) * s);
function cc = trimfeatures(cc)
% Trim the feature positions so as not to be too close to the
% edges of the image
[nr, nc] = size(cc.im1);
h = cc.hpsize;
r = cc.fr;
c = cc.fc;
ok = r > h & r <= nr-h & c > h & c <= nc-h;
cc.fr = r(ok);
cc.fc = c(ok);
methods (Static, Access = private)
function [r, roff, coff] = getreg(im, r, c, r0, r1, c0, c1)
% Gets region of im defined by r, c and a box, truncating if
% necessary and returning also the row and column offsets of
% the region.
[nr, nc] = size(im);
rstart = max(1, r+r0);
rend = min(nr, r+r1);
cstart = max(1, c+c0);
cend = min(nc, c+c1);
r = im(rstart:rend, cstart:cend);
roff = rstart-1;
coff = cstart-1;
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The NBA has had its share of good news lately. We saw a dream matchup in the Finals between the Lakers and Celtics, with 28.2 million people in the U.S. alone tuning in for the deciding Game 7. The salary cap unexpectedly rose in early July -- a result of the highest revenues in league history. Then, came the mother of all free-agent markets, with no fewer than 11 recent All-Stars testing the waters and led by none other than the reigning two-time MVP. A new powerhouse was built in Miami, and across the league teams committed over $2.08 billion in multi-year contracts to more than 70 players.
Yet amidst the optimism, a dark cloud hangs over what otherwise promises to be an epic 2010-11 campaign. The NBA's collective bargaining agreement (CBA) will expire on June 30, 2011. If the league and players' union don't come to terms on a new agreement by then, the league will impose a lockout, a work stoppage that will disrupt business and could possibly lead to the cancellation of the entire 2011-12 season.
Difference of opinion
Labor pains have been a part of the NBA almost as long as the league has been in existence. Bob Cousy first organized the players in 1954, and the league formally recognized the union in 1957. A near strike at the 1964 All-Star Game forced the adoption of a pension plan. The first CBA was ratified in 1970, and in 1983 the sides agreed to share league revenues and institute the modern salary cap. The players filed antitrust lawsuits in 1970 and 1987, and nearly decertified the union (a tactic that will be discussed below) in 1995.
Despite this turmoil, the NBA hadn't lost a game to labor issues until 1998. That changed when the league invoked its option to terminate the 1995 CBA at the conclusion of the 1997-98 season. Without a new agreement in place on July 1, 1998, the league halted operations and locked out its players. The sides came to terms on a new agreement just before their drop-dead date to cancel the season entirely, barely salvaging an abbreviated 50-game campaign. The 1999 agreement remained in effect until 2005, when the two sides quickly came to terms on the CBA that is currently in force.
I grew up in Stern's Delicatessen. He has his meat wrong. This is substance.
"-- NBA commissioner David Stern responding to Bill Hunter's claim that his take on player salaries is "baloney."
The owners declined to invoke an option to extend the current CBA to 2012, deciding instead to let it expire in 2011. Their primary motivation is financial. The players are guaranteed 57 percent of the league's revenues -- and that's gross revenues, before expenses come out. This has led to what commissioner David Stern cited as a loss of at least $200 million per year in the first four years of the agreement and $370 million in 2009-10. According to Forbes' 2009 report on NBA team valuations, 12 of the 30 teams lost money in 2008-09, which led the league to take out a $175 million credit line in 2009 to help bail out financially strapped clubs. Stern places the blame squarely on player salaries.
"[They're] too high," he said in February. "I can run from that, but I can't hide from that, and I don't think the players can either. Those are the facts, and that's what we are dealing with. We are fact based."
Players Association executive director Billy Hunter disputes these facts, going so far as to label Stern's claims "baloney." According to Hunter, much of the reported losses came from depreciation and interest on debt, which should not factor into the league's balance sheet. "There might not be any losses at all. It depends on what accounting procedure is used," Hunter said. "If you decide you don't count interest and depreciation, you already lop off $250 million of the $370 million."
Hunter's point is that costs associated with the purchase and sale of teams are separate and distinct from those associated with the operation of those teams. Just as the players aren't entitled to a share of the profits when teams are sold, they shouldn't be encumbered by the costs related to team purchases.
Responding to Hunter's "baloney" comment, Stern stuck to his guns. "I grew up in Stern's Delicatessen," he said in June. "He has his meat wrong. This is substance."
So we have an impasse, with the two sides disagreeing on how to interpret the same information.
'There's a gulf, not a gap'
The sides got an unprecedented early start to negotiations, meeting in August 2009 to share numbers and outline goals. The league delivered a proposal in January that was received coldly by the players. The proposal reportedly contained a drastic reduction in the players' revenue split, and elements of a "hard," or fixed, salary cap. According to Stern, it merely reflected economic realities. "We had assured the players that we would deliver a proposal that would lead to that sustainable business model and based upon the undisputed facts, and we delivered that," he said.
Instituting a hard cap would represent a radical shift in the way the league has conducted its business for nearly 30 years. The NBA currently uses a "soft" cap, which means there is a limit on spending but teams are allowed to exceed it under specific circumstances defined by "exceptions." One of those exceptions is "Bird" rights, the ability to exceed the cap when re-signing their own players. "That followed our belief that it was a good thing to have the continuity that a player being identified with the home team for his career gave you," Stern said. Implementing a hard cap would mean eliminating most or all of these now-familiar exceptions.
It comes down to cost control. Every exception on the books has a cost that can be measured in dollars. By eliminating or limiting exceptions, the league would be reining in costs. Lakers guard and union president Derek Fisher said the elimination of exceptions like Bird rights would be stifling for both players and teams. "The elimination of exceptions would really mean more restricted [player] movement," he said. "That's one thing we're working really hard to combat. A lot of players are in situations that aren't good for them and aren't good for their teams. Our exceptions, our Bird rights, allow our players to make those decisions, and give the teams more flexibility to make changes they need to make."
Another item at the top of the owners' agenda is changing the way revenue is split between owners and players. "Part of the problem with the existing system is it's based largely on revenue, not net revenue," NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver said. Under the current system, teams pay for all expenses out of their share of the pie. But it takes money to make money, and revenue increases (from which players reap the benefit) come as a result of increased expenses (for which the players do not bear the cost). "Our teams did a spectacular job in a down economy of increasing ticket sales," Silver said, "but that came at the cost of additional promotions, additional marketing, additional staff."
"It's taking more expense and effort to produce [revenues] than it has historically," Stern said. "We are not pleading poverty. We are stating the need for an improved revenue versus expense model that would be sustainable and continue to allow our sport to grow."
The sides met again over All-Star Weekend, this time with a number of star players, including LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony attending in a show of solidarity. The owners' proposal was the principal topic of discussion. "The right adjectives were thrown around, and our proposal was appropriately denounced," Stern said. "Our response is you can denounce it, tear it up, you can burn it, you can jump up and down on it, as long as you understand that it reflects the financial realities of where we are."
And with that said, it was left up to the players to craft their own proposal. "We told them, as far as we are concerned, [our] proposal was one way to get to the result that we need," Stern said. "There could be a hundred ways, and we welcome their attempt to deal with the ways that we can get through." Fisher appreciated the task at hand, saying the players would deliver "as realistic and as serious a proposal as it can be, and not something we send back just for the exercise."
The players submitted their proposal in late June. It left many features of the current agreement in place, including the soft cap, exceptions and luxury tax, but it provided more aggressive revenue sharing and eliminated base-year compensation, a mechanism that makes players harder to trade under certain circumstances. The league didn't think the players fulfilled their mission. "We're asking for fundamental changes in the system, and the players, as Billy Hunter has said publicly, would very much like the present system to continue," Stern said. The sides met again in August, with Stern reportedly proclaiming, "There's a gulf, not a gap."
"Based on the proposal they originally sent us, which we viewed as a non-starter, maybe there is a gulf," said Fisher, who also underscored the progress that has been made over the past year.
Fisher said he feels the players' proposal hit its target, without question. "Both sides can agree or disagree on certain points, but we feel strongly that our proposal contained elements that can be beneficial for both sides, and could really be used as a starting point," he said. "So we'll see as this process unfolds, how close we stay to this particular proposal."
Is the system broken?
A casual observer might note that despite having a system that the league claims is broken, potential owners still line up to buy teams, and the most recent sale (the Golden State Warriors for $450 million) represents a record price for an NBA franchise. Stern disagrees with the implication. "[It's] in some measure because they think we're going to get a new collective bargaining agreement, to put it that simple," he said. "If somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, 'You'd better hurry up, they're going like hot cakes, and they're going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.'"
The most visible argument that the league may be in better shape than the owners claim came this summer, when teams spent wildly on free agents. How else to explain the contradiction when the teams complaining that player salaries are too high are the same teams signing these players to such exorbitant contracts?
"They get to police themselves," Hawks guard and players association vice president Maurice Evans told CBS.com. "The owners are the ones that are signing these deals. There's nothing in the CBA that says you have to do that, so why would we propose something that says you can't do that?"
Cash Still Flowing
A reported 12 teams lost money in 2008-09, but that didn't stop some from shelling out big-money deals this summer. Here's a glance at some of the largest offseason contracts:
• Joe Johnson, Hawks: 6 years, $120M
• LeBron James, Heat: 6 years, $110M
• Chris Bosh, Heat: 6 years, $110M
• Dwyane Wade, Heat: 6 yrs, $107M
• Amare Stoudemire, NY: 5 yr, $100M
• Rudy Gay, Grizzlies: 5 years, $81M
• Dirk Nowitzki, Mavs: 4 years, $80M
• David Lee, Warriors: 6 years, $80M
• Carlos Boozer, Bulls: 5 years, $75M
• Paul Pierce, Celtics: 4 years, $61M
• Ray Allen, Celtics: 2 years, $20M
It does beg the question, how can a league that says it's in such dire straits also spend so much on free agents? Perhaps the answer comes from the structure of the league, as an association of separate franchises. At times, the teams are a single entity, working in concert for their mutual best interest, but at other times they are 30 independent businesses, competing with each other for the same limited resources. "We want the owners within the rules to compete as hard as they can, because they buy our teams," Stern said. "Our teams compete. They're competitors."
It's not as simple as "just say no" when it comes to spending money on player salaries. There are only so many Wades, Carlos Boozers and Amare Stoudemires to go around, and teams all know that if they don't step up to the plate, another team will. "Our teams are urged and expected to compete as the hard as they can within the system," Stern said. "If they have cap room, owners spend it because they want to win. That's a good thing for our fans and a good thing for our players, but it isn't a great thing for our owners."
Teams can't simply get together and say, for example, Rudy Gay is an $8 million player, so let's not bid each other into oblivion for him. That's collusion, and it's illegal. So the onus is on the owners to ensure that appropriate rules are put in place during a time they are negotiating collectively with the players and working in concert rather than competing.
So in short, the league wants to replace what they see as a broken system with one where all 30 teams can turn a profit, and can afford to make the financial commitments necessary to compete for a title. "Our goal for our teams, our players, but particularly our fans, is to come up with a model that says that every NBA team can compete," Stern said in February.
On the other hand, Fisher said that a system in which every team can compete doesn't imply a system in which teams are insulated from the consequences of bad decisions. "We've run into situations where teams have either mismanaged spending, overpaid staff, or made decisions on rosters and personnel that weren't in their best interest -- things that we're now being asked to take the hit for," he said. "Each team needs to be responsible for running its business, and we don't have anything to do with the decisions they make. So why should we be asked to make concessions for mistakes on their end, which we had no control over?"
Stern and the league know that fixing the system will take more than convincing the players to take less. Changes to the way revenues are divided among the teams are also needed. Stern doesn't see it as an either-or issue. He said the league has already quadrupled the amount of money that is revenue-shared, and he intends to have a new model in place when the bargaining sessions conclude. "We are going to do it all at once," he said in February, terming it a "robust discussion" among the owners.
Although the gap between their positions is wide, the sides appear to be better situated to amicably resolve their differences than they were in 1998. This appears to be, at least partly, a result of the influence of Fisher, a veteran of the 1998-99 work stoppage and now the union president. In 1998 the players often appeared to be out of touch with the economic realities -- exemplified by then-union president Patrick Ewing's now-infamous quote, "Sure, we make a lot of money, but we spend a lot, too."
Life in a lockout
Fisher said today's players are aware of what's going on in the U.S. and around the world, and even though fewer than 10 percent of the players who experienced the lockout in 1998-99 are still in the league, they understand the impact another work stoppage would have. "I think everybody's smart enough to know. Even though they were probably 10 years old when the lockout happened in '99, they're smart enough to understand how [another lockout] would be bad for our business," he said.
Stern said the NBA has done its part to ensure the players are educated about the league's situation. "We've given [them] our certified financial statements," he said. "We've provided access to our tax returns, and we're awaiting their review of those, and if there's more needed, they'll get more. We've given the Players' Association more financial information than has ever been done in the history of sport."
Both sides hope that significant progress will be made as negotiations continue over the next year, and hope that a deal will get done before June 30. If they don't have a new agreement in place by that date -- when the current agreement expires -- the league will shut down. This is necessary because the league's operations are tied to the existence of a collective bargaining agreement. The CBA defines the playing field. For example, it establishes that teams have exclusive negotiating rights to its draft picks, which is what prevents all 30 teams from trying to sign the No. 1 pick. It defines minimum and maximum salaries, contract lengths, trade rules -- everything.
Players do not get paid in the event of a lockout. "Labor law permits employers to withhold compensation to employees during a lockout to make the lockout a more effective weapon in negotiations," said Gabriel Feldman, law professor and director of the Sports Law Program at Tulane Law School. "If employees were paid during a lockout, they would have less of an incentive to return to the bargaining table to negotiate."
That means that a work stoppage has to be viewed as a weapon in the league's arsenal. By cutting off most players' principal source of income, the owners will be putting a financial squeeze on the players to expedite a deal more favorable to the league. While the players may stick to their guns through the 2010-11 season and into the summer if there is a lockout, their outlook will begin to change once they miss their first paychecks on Nov. 15. This expectation may even increase the likelihood of a lockout, since the owners know the players will be more anxious to make a deal in December or January than in July, and may wait until they've softened the players up before getting down to serious negotiating.
Another way the owners could leverage a lengthy work stoppage is by taking advantage of the union operating under a "one player, one vote" system. The rank-and-file players greatly outnumber the superstars, so a proposal that gets everyone back to work at the cost of significantly reduced maximum salaries could pass by a significant margin when it goes up for a union vote.
I'm preparing for a lockout right now, and I haven't seen anything to change that notion. Hopefully I'll see something over the next several months.
"-- NBA union director Billy Hunter in July
The owners have the upper hand in the event of a lockout. They usually have more financial reserves, own other businesses that continue to provide income and act as a more coordinated and cohesive unit behind the commissioner. They are also relieved of their greatest expense (player salaries) along with the cost of putting on the games. The teams that are losing money are better off not playing at all than playing another season under the current system.
Some view a lockout as a foregone conclusion, and are planning accordingly. "I'm preparing for a lockout right now, and I haven't seen anything to change that notion," Hunter told ESPN.com. "As of this moment, it's full speed ahead for me in preparing the players for a worst-case scenario." Fisher, on the other hand, remains optimistic. "A lockout is not the end result that I want, nor any of our players, and if the owners aren't interested in having a lockout then we'll come to an agreement," he said.
If the owners hold the trump card in the form of a lockout, what countermeasures do the players have at their disposal? For one, union leadership consistently urges the players to be prepared for any contingency. "Part of our yearly mission, even in the first year of our collective bargaining agreement, is urging our players to be smart and savvy about their financial planning," Fisher said. "It's something we do every year, all year, and during a year before a potential lockout those messages are hammered home even more."
Effects on free-agent market
Players have also been acting individually to lock-in as many years as possible under the current agreement. Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Manu Ginobili signed lucrative extensions this year. James, Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire, Paul Pierce and Dirk Nowitzki all exercised options to become free agents in 2010 rather than 2011 (which is one of the reasons the 2010 free agent class was so loaded with talent). The most notable signing was Richard Jefferson, who walked away from a $15.2 million salary to re-sign with the Spurs to a contract starting at $8.4 million with four years locked-in under the current CBA.
This also affects Anthony's situation. The Nuggets have a three-year extension on the table, but Anthony is reportedly unhappy in Denver, and would prefer to be traded elsewhere. Usually a player has the leverage in this situation. If the team doesn't trade him, he can leave as a free agent at the end of the season, leaving the team empty handed. But the current labor situation provides the Nuggets with some leverage. They can leave the extension on the table and let Anthony decide whether to accept it and lock in three additional years under the current agreement, like Bryant and the others, or take his chances as a free agent in 2011, risking the possibility of signing for much less under the rules that will be in place in the next agreement.
This is not to say the players who sign new contracts or extensions under the current agreement are necessarily safe. The current rules require a player's salary in the first year of an extension to not exceed the maximum salary. This determination is made in the year the extension takes effect. The extensions for Bryant, Gasol and (potentially) Anthony won't take effect until the next CBA is in place, so these players could find themselves constrained by a new maximum salary rule that provides for considerably less salary than they are currently scheduled to earn.
It is possible for existing salaries to be slashed across the board. It has been the NBA's practice to grandfather existing contracts into new agreements with new restrictions (such as further limitations on salaries or contract lengths) applying only to contracts signed after the new CBA takes effect. The league and players association are under no obligation to do this in the future, and could agree that new limitations apply retroactively to existing contracts or that all existing salaries be rolled-back by a given percentage to meet new revenue sharing targets. That happened with the NHL in conjunction with its 2004-05 labor dispute, in which the sides agreed to roll back salaries in all existing contracts by 24 percent.
The upshot of this is that locking in long-term deals under the current agreement -- either via a new contract or an extension -- could end up being for naught. Since we won't know what the new rules will be until we get there, it's still prudent for players to get what they can under the terms of the current CBA.
Another strategy at some individual players' disposal is to ply their trade elsewhere should a lockout occur. This option is only available to players who will be free agents in 2011 because players under contract to an NBA team will be unable to obtain the necessary clearance from FIBA to sign elsewhere, even in the event of a lockout. A few players might leave for Europe or China, but there likely won't be a sufficient number of defections to sway the negotiations. "I can't speculate on each individual guy and what their decision-making process would be," Fisher said. "I think that's part of the beauty of our game -- because we have so many players that are in different circumstances and from different parts of the world, they'd be free to make those decisions as they see best for themselves."
Desperate times ...
The real trump card in the players' hands might be union decertification. Many of the league's practices, such as the salary cap and draft, may violate antitrust laws, had they not been agreed to via collective bargaining. These practices are exempt from the antitrust laws only so long as they are part of the CBA. This exemption continues even after the CBA expires, as long as a "labor relationship" continues to exist. But this relationship would end if the union were decertified, because the players would be abandoning their collective bargaining rights and turning the players union into a non-union trade association.
Decertification would quickly be followed by an antitrust suit against the league, challenging its restraints against player movement and salaries. The salary cap, luxury tax, maximum salaries, limits on free agency, age limits and draft would all be under attack. Even the league's ability to stage a lockout would be challenged, and existing player contracts would likely become enforceable. "The league does not have a weapon in its arsenal that matches the potential threat of decertification and an antitrust suit," Feldman said.
The salary cap, luxury tax, maximum salaries, limits on free agency, age limits and draft would all be under attack.
This strategy is risky. Without the benefits of collective bargaining, every player would be left on his own to negotiate with teams. They would also cede their rights to pensions, benefits, minimum salaries and other protections. An antitrust suit subjects both sides to a long and expensive court battle.
Instead, the players are hoping that the one-two punch of decertification followed by an antitrust suit would motivate the league to negotiate toward a more favorable settlement and avoid the time, expense and uncertainty of litigation, along with the ensuing chaos. "The CBA is entirely tied to the existence of the union," Feldman said. "Without a union, there can be no collective bargaining. Without collective bargaining, there can be no collective bargaining agreement."
NFL players successfully used decertification to gain free agency in the early 1990s. NBA players came close to employing this strategy in 1995 and 1998, but voted against decertification both times. Fisher said they have a long way to go before they get to that point again. "I think decertification is always one of the strategies and potential opportunities that lie at the very end of this process," he said. "It's hard for me to say whether it will be viable or not at this time. I do view it as an option, but I would like to stay focused on the opportunity to not even have to get to that place."
It is likely that both sides were closely watching the recent American Needle case between the NFL and one of its licensees, in which the league argued that it is a single entity for all purposes and therefore incapable of violating the antitrust laws. A ruling in its favor would have made the NFL (and by extension, the NBA) immune to an antitrust lawsuit, rendering the decertification strategy worthless. Instead, the Supreme Court ruled against the league, and in doing so avoided changing the way professional sports leagues operate. "For all conceivable purposes, and after decades of litigating the issue, the single entity argument for professional sports leagues is dead," Feldman said.
Time running out
The 1998-99 lockout had enormous and long-lasting repercussions in the league's finances, image, public relations, attendance and television ratings. According to a CBS News-New York Times poll conducted during the lockout, nearly one out of three fans said the labor dispute lowered their opinion of professional basketball and of those in the business. Newsweek termed it "an incomprehensible and unconscionable dispute between rival gangs of millionaires." Stern later said, "We have some winning back of the fans to do."
As they stare into the abyss once more, both sides appear committed to avoiding a repeat of the events of 1998.
"That's something we want to work as hard as we can to stay away from," Fisher said. "It would have a domino effect on many levels, and be felt far and wide. Both sides have a greater understanding of the impact of NBA players and basketball around the world, and neither side wants to stop the growth of this game, because it's on a great trajectory."
"I don't know how many collective bargainings I've participated in over the last too many years," Stern said. "We've thus far only had one failure to reach a deal in 1998. And many of the others have started out poorly, [and also] had predictions of doom and gloom. You just keep on plugging."
Less than a year remains. The clock is ticking.
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DETROIT – Despite the already growing market for vision-based parking assistance and lane-departure warning systems, the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology Inc. (CSEM) is aiming to increase the penetration of such technologies with its new real-time vision-sensor system.
Called ViSe and on display at this year's SAE International World Congress here, the new technology takes a low-tech approach to bringing high-tech vision systems to more vehicles.
Based on a unique type of low-resolution black and white camera, coupled with a compact vision sensor and conventional digital signal processor (DSP), the ViSe system operates by processing just the outlines and contrasts between images to give the driver a digital view of the road ahead.
This is in contrast to existing vision-sensor systems, such as charge-coupled devices and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor cameras, which analyze complete color images in order to determine lane markings, street signs and pedestrians.
Christian Enz, CSEM vice president-microelectronics, says it is this ability to focus on the contrast between images that allows the ViSe system to offer true real-time video, while at the same time being more compact and priced less than existing vision systems.
"Conventional camera systems must process an entire color image, an operation that takes more time, power and potentially could be affected by poor weather," Enz says. "Simplicity and cost of ViSe are orders of magnitude better (than conventional camera systems)."
ViSe is not affected by low-light or changing light conditions, such as entering or exiting a tunnel, or driving at night, the company says.
This is because the ViSe camera only needs to make out the rough outline of an object to detect it, a feature that also allows the system to provide true real-time images of the road ahead of the vehicle.
With conventional vision systems, time and power are wasted, as the processor must decipher the various aspects of a full-color image. This creates a slight delay in displaying the image to the driver, which, under certain conditions, could be a safety detriment, Enz says.
Although CSEM currently has no customers for ViSe, the company is seeking interested parties, he says, noting the technology could be integrated into production vehicles in about two years.
It also is possible to integrate the technology with all other safety and telematics systems, such as blind-spot detection, pedestrian detection and occupant sensing for airbags and other interior safety systems. Alerting pre-crash safety restraints are another possibility, the company says.
Of note is ViSe's ability to clearly make out the number, size and position of occupants within the vehicle, as well as determine if a child seat is present and whether it is facing toward the front or rear of the vehicle.
For production applications, Enz says ViSe will be fitted with a new sensor unit, which will combine the vision sensor with the DSP unit for improved packaging, simplicity and cost.
Says Enz: "With its real-time operation, its ability to deal with changing light conditions, and its cost-effective components, this technology can easily be deployed beyond just the luxury-car market to make all vehicles safer."


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From the producer behind Underworld and Underworld 2 comes another romantic Werewolf tale entitled Blood and Chocolate, which Katja von Garnier was announced to be directing a few months back. Casting has now begun on the film, which is based on Annette Curtis Klause's novel about a teenage werewolf who has spent her life trying to hide the fact that she is part wolf. Read on to see who'll star in the flick…The Hollywood Reporter writes:
"Olivier Martinez (S.W.A.T.) and Agnes Bruckner (The Woods) have signed on to star in MGM/Lakeshore's werewolf film "Blood and Chocolate."
Adapted by Ehren Kruger, "Blood and Chocolate" is based on Annette Curtis Klause's novel about a teenage werewolf who has spent her life trying to hide the fact that she is part wolf. She must choose between her love for a human and her family after her relationship with a visiting American threatens to expose her secret.
German helmer Katja von Garnier directs. Lakeshore is co-financing and co-producing the picture, which will likely be released through Sony. Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will produce alongside Daniel Bobker. Kruger will exec produce. Bruckner's recent credits include "Haven" and "Stateside." She will also be seen in "The Woods." Martinez' credits include "Unfaithful," "Before Night Falls" and "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone." Both actors are repped by ICM."


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by Larry Perry, CPA, CPA Firm Support Services, LLC - Larry has over 40 years experience as a CPA practitioner, author of accounting and auditing manuals, author and presenter of live staff training seminars and author of webcast and self-study CPE programs. He is co-founder of CPA Firm Support Services, LLC (www.cpafirmsupport.com), an organization providing resources, training and consulting to smaller CPA firms. Larry writes a weekly blog on AccountingWEB.com focusing on small audits, reviews and compilations. He is currently developing documentation manuals and handbooks for small audits, reviews and compilations and related electronic practice aids.
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I attended the first AICPA Basic Staff Training Seminar in Boulder, Colorado in 1966 as I recall. Since then CPA firms large and small have been sending their personnel to staff level training programs offered by a number of provider
Increasing Audit Profits Series No. 18—Creating a System of Quality Control for Modifying Practice Aids
Many practitioners have recognized that one-size-fits-all practice aids don't always serve the needs of audit, compilation and review engagements for smaller reporting entities.
The purpose of designing cost-beneficial audit strategies is three-fold: (1) to collect sufficient evidence at assessed levels of risk to express an unqualified opinion on financial statements, (2) to create the most cost-efficient evidenc
Once upon a time, it was easy to achieve audit quality. Purchasing a set of practice aids from a major publisher, completing all the requirements of the forms, checklists and programs, and preparing working papers for every trial bal
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The risk assessment standards make it clear that all risk assessment procedures produce substantive evidence for evaluating financial statement assertions.
During most of my live seminars over the past four years, several participants complained about the ever-increasing volume of audit practice aids provided by major publishers.
When the first quality control standard was issued by the AICPA in the 1980s, most of the requirements were viewed by CPA firms as a compliance function. Most documentation prepared by CPA firms was included in administrative f
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Tourists and residents generated about $1.47 million in sales tax income during August by purchasing goods and services throughout Erie County.
The $1.47 million figure represents almost a 6 percent gain compared to August 2012, when officials collected $1.39 million.
A large chunk of sales tax money no doubt derived from all the fanfare surrounding GateKeeper, the record-breaking winged roller coaster that debuted in May.
"It's the roller coaster," said Erie County commissioner Pat Shenigo, correlating the tax income surge to GateKeeper's arrival.
Erie County commissioner Bill Monaghan said people are more willing to spend money on recreational activities today versus a few years ago. He added this signals an end to the sluggish economy, which had been reeling from a recession since late 2007.
"People are taking vacations that they didn't take before," Monaghan said.
To date, county officials have collected about $13.1 million through 2013. They're also $444,000 above the projected amount officials estimated they'd receive by today's date.
All told, sales tax income should meet, if not exceed, the $14 million figure budgeted for 2013. The final collection is in December.
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Co-founded by DeVos in 1959, Amway sells household products to millions of small distributors who are told they can strike it rich by reselling the items and recruiting new distributors. Its heavily pushed recruitment scheme has come under tremendous fire: one former distributor told Business Week he lost $15,000 in four years "buying the tapes, traveling to seminars, staying in hotels." Long suspected of running an enormous pyramid scheme, Amway was ultimately cleared of such allegations by the Federal Trade Commission in 1979. But it wasn't so lucky up north, pleading guilty to avoiding Canadian duties by undervaluing exports. The company paid $50 million to settle the charges. Writes Mother Jones of Amway's 750,000-person domestic sales force: "This ever-growing network ...heavily influenced by the company's dual themes of Christian morality and free enterprise, donates money and operates like a private political army."
Flagrant Fouls: Estimated net worth: $1.5 billion (No. 110 on the Forbes 400). A former distributor once said Amway tells "you to al ways vote conservative no matter what. They say liberals support the homosexuals and let women get out of their place."
Abe Pollin, Washington Wizards
The senior owner in the league, Pollin is often portrayed as a sincere man who truly cares about the fans. His "greatest pleasure," he told The New York Times last month, "is to see families and children come to my building to see an NBA game in a clean environment." Next time round, the Times might want to ask Honest Abe if his concern for a proper fan environment extends to the team's disabled followers. They sued Pollin in June 1996 to get his brand-new arena to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act. "We alerted the MCI Center to the requirements of the law prior to the onset of construction," an attorney for the Paralyzed Veterans of America told the Engineering-News Record. The veterans won their suit, forcing Pollin to provide 127 to 160 wheelchair spaces with clear sight lines. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the owner's appeal, Abe Pollin v.Paralyzed Veterans of America, cementing the victory for the disabled.
Flagrant Fouls: Estimated net worth: $100 million (in 1996). A major supporter of the Democratic Party, Pollin was co-host of a 1997 function that brought in some $2.3 million for the DNC.
Mickey Arison, Miami Heat
Mickey inherited the team from dad Ted, the Heat's original owner. Ted probably didn't check in with Pat Riley and company muchhe renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1990, in part to dodge U.S. taxes on his massive fortune (one of a class of "economic Benedict Arnolds," as a Treasury Department official once put it). Likewise, the Arisons' Carnival Cruise Lines, the world's biggest cruise company, is headquartered in Panama, exempting it from taxes on its revenue$666 million in 1997. Mickey is managing general partner of the Heat and chairman and CEO of the cruise company.
Carnival was among the subjects of a scathing November 16 Times investigation of the cruise industry, revealing, among other embarrassments, that a Florida court found the company guilty of firing a crew member who refused to lie to protect Carnival in a civil suit.
Flagrant Fouls: Estimated net worth: $3.5 billion (No. 36 on the Forbes 400). Despite his enormous wealth, Arison fought hard to get Dade County to fund a large percentage of the Heat's soon-to-open arena.
Rogues' gallery: Charles Dolan (No. 92 on the Forbes 400), the Knicks' owner, owed the Internal Revenue Service $235 million in back taxes in 1993 but got away with never paying it. Perhaps Dolan and Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen (No. 3) are the pacesetters for a much-criticized trend among Gen-X NBA playersboth are college dropouts. Rupert Murdoch (No. 18), who has minority stakes in the Knicks, Lakers, and Clippers, is, well, Rupert Murdocha one-stop controversy clearing house. To pick just one recent scandal: his News Corp. paid a mere $103 million in taxes on an operating income of $1.32 billion in 1997. In the words of one journalist, Atlanta Hawks owner Ted Turner (No. 19) has had "a succession of wives and mistresses bumping up against each other like commuters on a rush-hour subway."
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180 people were tested at the institute by noon; It was 300 by the end of the day: sources
It was a motley crowd that queued up outside the A(H1N1) test centre at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) on Thursday. A fresh group arrived every five minutes, armed with masks and umbrellas to beat the sweltering heat. A mini van rumbled in, packed with people from Bidadi.
By noon, 180 people were tested. By the end of the day, this number rose to 300, sources at the centre said.
Doctors said that the number of people showing up was on the rise. There was panic among the people, as the first indication of A(H1N1) virus fatality came in.
"Why are you not wearing a proper mask?" Srinivasan S., who brought his wife and daughter, asked this reporter.
Mr. Srinivasan said that his wife and daughter were "suffering from minor fever and body ache". They had been referred for tests by a doctor, he added.
Habeeba Begum, a resident of Tannery Road, said that her brother was diagnosed with A(H1N1) by a homoeopathy doctor and given medicines.
"He has been ill for two months now, so I don't think it is A(H1N1). I brought him here so we could be sure," she said and expressed the fear that doctors in her locality could be adding to the panic among residents.
Doctors at the RGICD agreed saying that private doctors should act more responsibly. "Many doctors are asking patients to undergo these tests, when they obviously suffer just from common cold. Panic can be avoided at that stage only," said Shashidhar Buggi, director, RGICD.
Dr. Buggi said that patients often get irritated when asked not to panic. "We tell them to go ahead and get a test done, so they can be reassured," he said. Since Wednesday, the testing centre has had 10 desks where people can get tests done.
Like Ms. Habeeba, several families have been referred here by doctors in the city.
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Hrvatska Kostajnica villa
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Apartments are placed in a peaceful bay nearby Rogoznica. They are in the front line next to the sea and have a private beach in front of them. Apartments are ideal for a family vacation and for small children. They are luxuriously equiped, comfortable and with a separate entrance. Each apartment has 2 bedrooms, 2 …
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Hrvatska Kostajnica condo
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The most beautiful little place on the Adriatic for a vacation. Crystal clear water, free of crowds and race. Who wants to remember the good old days and the rest as it once rested. Come and check ...
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More solar-powered school spirit
Take your mind off of the Pac-10 for a moment to root for these 10 collegiate entrants in October's 2009 Solar Decathlon.
Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
On Monday, I blogged about the 2009 Solar Decathlon, the Department of Energy-sponsored solar home design and build competition for college students that will be hitting the National Mall in Washington D.C. in October. I also posted information about 10 of the 20 sustainable squads that will be duking it out in our nation's capitol.
Below are the homes of the remaining 10 teams — more homegrown ones and a few international entrants as well — who have spent the last couple of years designing and building their green homes off-site. During the Decathlon, they'll ship the homes to D.C., rebuild them in a special solar village and partake in a series of 10 objective and subjective contests to determine which 800-square foot abode is the most livable, attractive and energy-efficient.
Again, it's an event worth checking out if you're in the area. I'll be traveling down to tour the homes during the competition's final weekend. And in case you're keeping tabs, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) took top honors in 2007 with the University of Maryland and Santa Clara University coming in at second and third.
SolAbode by Team Alberta (SAIT Polytechnic, Mount Royal College, the Alberta College of Art + Design and the University of Calgary)
Curio House by Team Boston (Boston Architectural College and Tufts University w/ MIT, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Northeastern University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design)
Show-Me House by Team Missouri (Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Missouri)
The North House by Team Ontario/BC (University of Waterloo, Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University)
Via [Jetson Green] and [DOE]
Renderings: Solar Decathlon Flickr page
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November 30, 2012
Photo by Elaine Rackley
Clayton firefighter Sgt. Paul Palmer crawled inside a demolished old fire station during training.
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Clayton firefighters train in fallen building
Training essential for safety
Some Clayton County firefighters took part in "specialized structural collapse" training this week.
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