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The primary implication of the model based on the literature is that simply because auditors may assess fraud risk at a higher level due to the presence of risk factors, it does not necessarily mean that planned audit procedures designed to address these risks will be effective. Although being aware of fraud risk is necessary to respond appropriately, being aware of only general risk factors makes it difficult for auditors to formulate possible fraud schemes that a client may perpetrate. As a result, audit plans designed to respond to general fraud risks tend to increase the extent of testing, but do not alter the nature of the testing in a way that would be more likely to catch fraud. If auditors identify specific situational cues and are able to generate a plausible fraud scheme as a result, more effective tests that alter the nature of the procedures can be identified and carried out. Therefore, knowledge of fraud risks via experience or training, particularly for risks specific to a client or industry, will help to allow generation of plausible fraud schemes and the design of effective tests.
For more information on this study, please contact Jacqueline Hammersley.
Hammersley, J. S. 2011. A Review and Model of Auditor Judgments in Fraud-Related Planning Tasks. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 30 (4), 101-128.
The PCAOB has expressed concern regarding auditors' frequent failure to properly adapt their audit plans for fraud risk factors and fraud cues. Fraud is unique in the audit process in that auditors must plan their audits to address fraud risk, but most auditors have not been on engagements where fraud was discovered, reducing the likelihood that they will assess the risk of fraud effectively from experience. Much research has been conducted to examine the various aspects of how auditors assess fraud risk and how they react to it. This paper integrates this research into a qualitative model that shows the relationships between the identified activities of the fraud assessment process and how the related judgments are formed.
This paper also summarizes auditing research that tests the links in the model, discussing the implications of their findings on these links. The findings are then related to aspects of the client and situations where certain fraud risk factors may be present and how practitioners should consider these aspects, whether in the process of planning an audit or in training auditors.
The paper reviews and discusses a large number of research findings in the fraud assessment literature dating back to the early 1990s, synthesizing the results and discussing potential implications of their findings.
The model can be summarized as follows:
The auditor needs a different model for audits of internal control. The auditor needs to apply two different models in an integrated audit, the original model for the opinion on the financial statements and a different model for the opinion on internal controls.
The author believes standard setters should sponsor research on an appropriate risk model for audits of internal control. Even before the research is completed, the standards could be enhanced in the following ways:
• indicate that the original audit risk model is intended for use only in financial statement audits, not internal control audits;
• write standards that consistently use risk terminology and are clear as to which risk they are discussing; and
• provide guidance on the use of models in integrated audits.
Akresh, A. D. 2010. A Risk Model to Opine on Internal Control. Accounting Horizons 24 (1): 65-78.
The audit risk model has provided a conceptual framework for audits of financial statements for more than 40 years. Despite practical difficulties in implementation and criticisms of its theoretical foundation, the model has been fairly effective in helping auditors analyze risks and use that analysis to determine the nature, timing, and extent of audit procedures in audits of financial statements. In recent years, some auditors have tried to apply the audit risk model to audits of internal control, usually performed as parts of integrated audits. An integrated audit is an engagement where the auditor provides an opinion on the financial statements and an opinion on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. It is integrated in the sense that the auditor tries to use some of the same procedures to meet both objectives.
While the audit risk model was designed for audits of financial statements, it was not designed for audits of internal control. Audits of internal control are audits of processes rather than audits of outputs (financial statements). In addition, opinions on internal control do not rely on analytical procedures or on substantive tests of details. Because of this conceptual difference, the author asserts that audit risk model, as originally formulated, does not work as a coherent conceptual framework for audits of internal control. The need for a different risk model for internal control audits is not currently recognized in the auditing standards or in the auditing literature.
This article is a commentary.
For an integrated audit, the auditor would use the two models sequentially. The auditor would use the internal control risk model as a framework to determine the extent of control tests. Then the auditor would use the financial statement audit risk model as a framework to determine the extent of substantive testing.
Future research could determine a more specific model based on how auditors perform these audits. Some research questions include, for example:
This paper presents a fraud-detection tool developed based on textual analysis of the MD&A sections in public companies' annual and quarterly reports. This tool correctly classifies reports into truthful and fraudulent more than 82% of the time. Compared with other fraud-detection approaches documented in prior literature, this tool has the highest predictive power for both annual reports and quarterly reports. Using the tool to analyze a sequence of reports of a company further increases the accuracy of predictions. This paper provides insights for regulators and practitioners in designing fraud-detection tools. As the tool is "trained" using the AAER database, one limitation is the tool may not detect fraudulent reports if the SEC fails to discover certain types of frauds and/or has bias in selecting firms to investigate.
Purda, L. and D. Skillicorn. 2015. Accounting Variables, Deception, and a Bag of Words: Assessing the Tools of Fraud Detection. Contemporary Accounting Research 32 (3): 1193–1223.
There are many tools developed by academia, audit firms and regulators to detect accounting frauds in the U.S. This paper is to demonstrate that the changes in writing and presentation style in the management discussion and analysis (MD&A) section as captured by a data-generated language tool has high predictive power over frauds. Another purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of various fraud-detection tools, including the financial, language-based, and nonfinancial fraud-detection tools, and to analyze the correlations among them. The findings will help investors, regulators and practitioners to select effective tools and use the tools in optimal ways.
The authors adopt a bag of word methodology to develop the fraud-detection tool. In contrast to other language-based tools developed through the same methodology, this tool does not use a list of ex-ante identified predictive words. Rather, the authors use data to generate a bag of words. First, the authors extract a sample of annual and quarterly reports for the period from 1999 to 2006 from the EDGAR database. Second, they use the SEC's AAER bulletins to identify which reports are fraudulent. The truthful and fraudulent reports comprise a database which is used to "train" the tool to identify the subtle relationships between words in the MD&A sections and the fraudulent reports. Third, the authors use the decision tree approach to create a list of top 200 words ranked by their abilities to identify fraudulent reports. Based on the list, they build a model to calculate the probability of truthful reporting for each report.
This paper incorporates important organizational theory into the fraud literature by reporting the presence of an instrumental climate when fraud is being perpetrated within an organization. Internal auditors and those charged with governance could adapt this climate measure as a red flag for potential fraud.
Murphy, P. R. and C. Free. 2016. Broadening the Fraud Triangle: Instrumental Climate and Fraud. Behavioral Research in Accounting 28 (1): 41-56.
Many papers focus on investigating organizations in which management's tone exemplifies high ethical standards, combined with a climate that support and encourages ethical behavior in an effort to examine if this organization is less vulnerable to fraud. However, this paper takes a different approach. It examines the "flip side" of organizations, those that are associated with fraud instead of those associated with preventing fraud. By doing this, the authors also hope to delve into the effectiveness of the fraud triangle. For years, the fraud triangle has been the dominant fraud framework but recently it has been called into question for its narrow interpretation and lack of comprehensiveness. Thus, the goal of this research is not only to identify an organizational climate that exists in the presence of fraud but also to broaden the interpretation of the fraud triangle by explicitly identifying fraud triangle elements related to such a climate.
The authors created and administered a survey to three groups of individuals having fraud experience: (1) prisoners who are incarcerated for committing fraud within an organization, (2) individuals who audited or investigated fraud within an organization, and (3) individuals who witnessed fraud within their organization.
When performing brainstorming sessions as mandated by SAS 99, auditors should brainstorm personality traits that may reveal potential fraudsters. Additionally, firms and academics should work to identify characteristics that provide an indication of which individuals are more likely to commit fraud.
For more information on this study, please contact Sara Melendy.
Brody, R. G., S. R. Melendy, and F. S. Perri 2012. Commentary from the American Accounting Association's 2011 annual meeting panel on emerging issues in fraud research. Accounting Horizons 26 (3): 513-531.
During one of the investigative accounting panels at the American Accounting Association's 2011 annual meeting, panelists discussed various issues related to fraud and fraud research. This article summarizes their discussion, and also draws upon some of the relevant published literature to highlight some of the fraud topics that are still largely unexplored and thus ripe for academic research. Additionally, the purpose of this paper is to (1) critically evaluate the state of current fraud research and provide guidance for future researchers, and (2) examine the publication process for both practitioner and scholarly journals from both an editorial and topical perspective.
This paper summarizes and synthesizes information from the American Accounting Association's 2011 annual meeting and includes existent fraud research.
There are important misperceptions about the nature of fraudsters. Important among these misperceptions are the following items:
• fraud is a one-time offense
• fraud is an out-of-character crime
• fraudsters are non-violent offenders
The results of this study should be useful to research practitioners, regulators, investors, auditors (internal and external), managers, boards of directors, and analysts. Academic researchers who study fraud or aggressive financial reporting should also be interested in understanding which risk measures have the highest statistical power and construct validity. One clear advantage of the academic risk measures is that, unlike commercially developed risk measures that are proprietary by nature, researchers know all of the inputs to the academic measures. On the other hand, studies that need an overall estimate of ex ante financial reporting risk or studies with small or limited sample sizes are likely to benefit the most from using comprehensive, commercially developed risk measures like AGR due to its improved statistical power.
For more information on this study, please contact David A. Wood.
Price III, R. A., N. Y. Sharp, and D. A. Wood. 2011. Detecting and predicting accounting irregularities: A comparison of commercial and academic risk measures. Accounting Horizons 25 (4): 755-780
A substantial body of academic research is devoted to developing and testing risk proxies that detect accounting irregularities but the academic literature has paid little attention to commercially developed risk measures. The authors compare the commercially developed Accounting and Governance Risk (AGR) and Accounting Risk (AR) measures with academic risk measures to determine which best detects financial misstatements that result in: (1) Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions; (2) egregious accounting restatements; and (3) shareholder lawsuits related to accounting improprieties. By making this comparison, the authors provide evidence concerning which metrics among the academic and commercial measures have the greatest ability to detect accounting irregularities and, second, to provide insight on the attribute of superior risk metrics. The authors of this paper also include relatively new academic risk measures that were unavailable for examination in prior studies that compared academic risk measures.
The research sample data is based on the set of firms in Compustat from 1995 to 2008. Data was obtained from several additional sources, including the Center for Research on Security Prices, Audit Analytics, and Audit Integrity. The AGR measure is produced commercially by Audit Integrity to estimate the likelihood that reported financial information includes elements that are misleading or fraudulent. Multivariate logistic regressions were run to test the detective and predictive ability of the measures.
The findings suggest that such sensitization is not merely a "main effect" that shifts the risk-to-resource mapping upward. Rather, human intent appears to exert an interactive effect that flattens the risk-to-resource mapping by changing the cognitive mindset of risk from a magnitude-based calculation. For audit practice, the interaction the authors detect relates to the PCAOB's efforts to differentiate fraud risks from the more general logic that risks should be evaluated based on magnitudes and likelihoods. The study suggests that people are more comfortable conditioning audit resources on risk magnitudes for unintentional reporting risks than for the same risks arising from human intent.
Kachelmeier, S. J., Majors, T., & Williamson, M. G. 2014. Does Intent Modify Risk-Based Auditing? Accounting Review 89 (6): 2181-2201.
Audit practitioners and regulators have embraced the concept of "risk-based auditing," under which auditors expend more resources to address significant risks and fewer resources when risks are lower. In this study, the authors investigate why this reasoning might not apply equally to risks arising from intentional and unintentional sources. In particular, they apply the theory of "valuation by feeling" to develop the premise that people are more sensitive to the presence of risk than to the magnitude of risk when individuals sense that they could be cheated by others' intentional actions. If so, risks stemming from willful intent could dampen the mapping from risk magnitudes to desired audit resources, ceteris paribus.
The research premise speaks to the fundamental possibility that risks stemming from the willful intent of others can trigger a "significant" response independent of the magnitudes and consequences of such risks. That is, when facing a known intentional risk, "valuation by feeling" suggests that the desired level of audit resources is relatively invariant to the level of risk. The study seeks a deeper understanding of what "risk-based auditing" means from a behavioral perspective. Specifically, if auditors react similarly to high and low levels of intent-based risks, then this propensity would suggest an incremental aversion to intent that goes beyond a strict cost-benefit interpretation of risk-based auditing.
The authors design a 2x4 factorial experiment with risk source as a between-participants factor (two levels) and risk magnitude as a within-participants factor (four levels). The authors recruit 83 undergraduate business student volunteers to participate in a one-shot experiment that they program using the ''Z-tree'' computer architecture for interactive experiments. The evidence was gathered prior to October 2011.
The primary finding is that the mapping from the level of misreporting risk to the level of audit resources is steeper in the unintentional risk condition than in the intentional risk condition, meaning that auditor-participants are less inclined to "back off" as risks decline when those risks are from human reporters. Within the intentional risk condition, expenditures are similar to the unintentional risk condition when the level of risk is high, but do not decline as much when risks decline, resulting in a flatter mapping from risk levels to audit resources. At the lowest risk level, average investments in the intentional risk condition even exceed the total amount at risk.
Within the controlled experiment setting, economically "irrational" behavior occurred, at least from a monetary perspective, insofar as participants expend different amounts to protect themselves from the same magnitudes and probabilities of monetary loss across the intentional and unintentional risk conditions. Accordingly, the findings suggest the possibility that heightened sensitivity to intent-based risks could be dysfunctional if fraud risks are truly low, leading auditors to do too much work. Real-world audit settings, however, cannot provide the strict control the experiment uses to hold the stated risk levels constant.
Data analytics can be used to create fraud prediction models that help auditors improve audit planning decisions. It can also be used to help regulators identify firms for potential fraud investigation. In particular, the SEC is investing resources to develop better fraud risk models and the results of this study could be useful.
Perols, Johan L., R. M. Bowen, C. Zimmermann, and B. Samba. 2017. "Finding Needles in a Haystack: Using Data Analytics to Improve Fraud Prediction". The Accounting Review. 92.2 (2017): 221.
Financial statement fraud causes organizations to lose an estimated 1.6% of annual revenue. This study examines 3 different methods that use data analytics in an attempt to predict fraud. The methods are as follows:
The sample contains data from 51 fraud firms. The authors identified fraud firms from SEC investigations that were reported in AAERS from 1998-2005. The objectives of the experiments were to determine how to best implement OU and VU and then to subsequently evaluate their performance against benchmarks.
The authors find the following:
The findings have important implications for auditors and other individuals responsible for assessing fraud risk and detecting and preventing fraud. First, for certain types of organizations aggregate fraud levels can vary tremendously over time. Furthermore, the effectiveness of mechanisms to prevent and detect fraud can be contingent on the type of organization and related individual susceptibilities to social influence. Therefore, it may be inappropriate for auditors to evaluate fraud prevention and detection mechanisms in a uniform manner. The results suggest that the same fraud prevention and detection mechanisms implemented in a similar manner in two different organizations cannot be expected to be equally effective without considering the average susceptibilities to social influence of the individuals therein.
Davis, J. S., and H. L. Pesch. 2013. Fraud dynamics and controls in organizations. Accounting, Organizations & Society 38 (6/7): 469-483.
Fraud has become a popular area of inquiry among accounting academics because of the magnitude of losses (estimated by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in 2010 to be US$2.9 trillion worldwide) and requirements imposed on auditors to explicitly address the problem. To date, very little work has attempted to explicitly link individual behaviors in the organization to organizational outcomes within the fraud context. Understanding the individual–organization link is important because a focus on either individual behavior or the organization in isolation turns a blind eye to the social process through which individuals' behaviors are influenced by the organization as a whole and vice versa. In other words, a narrow focus on individual behaviors or on the organization ignores the organization's sociology, which can have profound effects on fraud outcomes and the efficacy of fraud prevention mechanisms.
The authors develop a model of fraud in organizations that allows an evaluation of the relative efficacy of mechanisms designed to prevent fraud while explicitly recognizing the social processes underlying the formation of organizational norms. To develop the model, the authors use a method that is relatively new in accounting research: agent-based modeling (ABM). Designed to study the emergence of macro-level phenomena from micro-level interactions, ABM is well suited to address questions involving organizational outcomes (e.g., a culture of fraud) resulting from the interactions between individuals within an organization and organizational variables. The use of ABM allows the authors to gain insights into fraud even when data in organizations are censored.
The authors develop an agent-based model to examine the emergent dynamic characteristics of fraud in organizations. In the model, individual heterogeneous agents, each of whom can have motive and opportunity to commit fraud and a pro-fraud attitude, interact with each other. This interaction provides a mechanism for cultural transmission through which attitudes regarding fraud can spread.
While other fraud research syntheses focus primarily on research that has been published in accounting journals, this synthesis surveys academic literature from non-accounting publications related to fraud and financial crimes: (1) to better understand the nature and extent of fraud acts; (2) to share with accounting researchers and practitioners ideas, theories, variables, constructs, and research designs used in other fields that might inform anti-fraud research and actions in accounting; and (3) to highlight opportunities for future research. In this review and synthesis of the literature, the authors move beyond the fraud triangle to consider a broader spectrum of factors that researchers and practitioners may consider in an effort to provide a more complete perspective on fraud and related financial crimes.
For more information on this study, please contact Gregory M. Trompeter.
Trompeter, G., T. Carpenter, K. Jones, and R. Riley. 2014. Insights for Research and Practice: What We Learn about Fraud from Other Disciplines. Accounting Horizons 28 (4): 769-804.
The authors survey academic literature from non-accounting publications related to fraud and financial crimes: (1) to better understand the nature and extent of fraud acts from the perspective of non-accounting research; (2) to share with accounting researchers and practitioners ideas, theories, variables, constructs, and research designs used in other fields that might inform anti-fraud research and actions in accounting; and (3) to highlight opportunities for future research. This project differs from other fraud research syntheses by examining a wider set of theoretical constructs. Indeed, the authors move beyond the fraud triangle and consider the findings of non-accounting research related to broader topics such as theft (by force rather than deception), the role of punishment, and others. Such topics provide insight into financial fraud and have the ability to inform practice and accounting research aimed at prevention, deterrence, and detection of fraud. The scope of the relevant research includes a review of approximately 30 journals that were identified by the Institute for Fraud Prevention in the fields of criminology, ethics, psychology, and sociology.
The authors review approximately 30 journals in the fields of criminology, ethics, psychology, and sociology for topics relevant to fraud. They synthesize this research using a framework that incorporates the fraud triangle, but also expands and refocuses one's thinking about fraud by including additional factors: (1) organizational and societal interventions in the areas of deterrence and prevention, and (2) subsequent detection, investigation, consequences, and remediation of the criminal act once the crime has occurred.

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Although most DUI charges involve motorized vehicles and sometimes motorcycles, there are plenty of DUI charges involving other types ofvehicles that might be different from the standard car. Can you get a DUI on a bicycle? There are cases in which courts handled charges against drunk biking. However, these charges vary from a state to another.
Some people doubt that a drunk biker can harm someone or produce a lot of damage. There are some states that completely exclude bicycles from their definition of "vehicles". Other states limit the DUI application to "motor vehicles". However, there are a few states that treat bikes the same way they treat cars. In this states, a drunk biker can face the same potential legal penalties as any other drunk driver.
DUI laws from state to state offer different approaches. They range from "a person is guilty of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor and any drug if the person drives a vehicle within the state". The real question is "what do they mean by vehicle?". For example, in Washington D.C., a vehicle is defined as something that includes every device capable of being moved upon a highway, including bicycles.
Many states such as Washington and Ohio, allow application of DUI laws for a wide range of vehicles, from bicycles to golf carts. Therefore, you may find yourself facing harsh charges for riding your bike after a party where you have been drinking a few beers.
On the other hand, many states are not that specific when defining the kind of vehicles that they include in the DUI laws. They state very little about human-powered or non-motorized ones such as bikes or horses. In some states, the term "vehicle" applies depending on the accident and its damages.
In the case in which it is specified the term "motorized vehicles" in the DUI law, it is highly likely that riding a bike while you are intoxicated will not result in a DUI conviction since bicycles are man-powered. Though, you could get charged with public drunkenness or reckless driving.
Which Are the Other "Motor Vehicles"?
This is another area from the DUI laws that is difficult to define. Some states have created a list of "motor vehicles" that fit into this definition:
- All-terrain vehicles such as ATVs
- Riding lawn mowers
- Pocket bikes
- Golf carts
- Go-carts
The best thing to do is to consult your state's rules when it comes to DUI legislation. You can see that there are plenty of vehicles that have motors, wheels, and are operated by human drivers and can qualify as motor vehicles for purposes of drunk driving laws, including horses and wagons).
In Texas, the law that prohibits driving under the influence of alcohol or other substances is written so that it applies to motor vehicles and therefore does not directly apply to bikers.
In comparison, the state of Mississippi has laws that prohibit driving while under the influence for all vehicles, including bicycles. Therefore, you should not drive a bike if you have alcohol or other substances in your system. This may lead to severe punishments.
All in all, the answer to the question "can you get a DUI on a bicycle?" is yes, you can if your blood alcohol concentration is above the limit while you are operating your bike.
In Colorado, a bicycle rider with a BAC between 0.05% up to 0.08 % is presumed to be "driving while ability impaired". If the alcohol blood concentration is above this level, he is presumed to be driving under the influence. Moreover, if the bike rider is under the age of 21, it takes a blood alcohol concentration level of only 0.02% to be presumed DUI.
What Factors Does Your Blood Alcohol Concentration Depend On?
Alcohol concentration in the body tends to vary from an individual to another and it is related to several factors such as:
- Your weight
- The period of time in which you were drinking alcohol
- The amount of time that has passed since your last drink
However, it is unlikely that a police officer will stop you for a random sobriety test while you are on your bike. This may happen only in the case in which you bring unnecessary attention on yourself or you get involved in some kind of accident.
In Los Angeles, five bicyclists were arrested for DUI, in 2011. Can you really get a DUI on a bicycle? It seems so. Even though in some states, a bike is not considered a vehicle within the meaning of the DUI law, unfortunately, there are some law aspects that can make you look like an offender and get you arrested.
The Consequences of Drunk Biking
There is a specific section of the Vehicle Code that makes it a misdemeanor to be under the influence of alcohol while riding your bike. This allows a police officer to arrest you for riding your bike while having a little too much to drink. Usually, a misdemeanor has the possibility of being imprisoned. However, in most cases, you will receive a fine that cannot be higher than 250 dollars.
As unusual as it may be, the DUI charges are equally serious for bicycle riders and automobile drivers. The registration of the conviction can affect your criminal record, driving record, employment opportunities, and applications for loans and rental property. For this reason, if you are facing DUI charges for drunk biking, you should immediately seek the help of a specialized attorney. He knows best the DUI laws in your state.
Because of the wide range of laws regarding DUI charges while riding a bike, it is best for you to be cautious and stick to the safe side of the law.
Seek The Help of A DUI Lawyer
In the case in which you are convicted of DUI charges, you need the experience of a DUI attorney. A good lawyer will assess all the evidence, including the sobriety test accuracy, to make sure that your legal rights are protected. Most of the lawyers offer a free first consultation, so your first step should be to contact him/her.
Keep in mind that if something is legal does not mean that you should do it. Intoxication increased the risk of accidents and injuries. So, can you get a DUI on a bicycle? Yes, you can. This is why you need to avoid drinking and driving or biking.


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OpenTable was fortunate enough to be a media sponsor for the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's Industry Conference in San Francisco, where we heard from industry leaders on the state of the SF restaurant industry today. We learned about a range of topics including tipping, how the fast-casual category is here to stay, and the importance of branding at your restaurant. Below, five myths that were busted during the two days of the conference.
Myth #1: No one wants to work for a tipless restaurant.
Sabato Sagaria of Union Square Hospitality Group, the restaurant group that is most well-known for eliminating tipping, shed some light on the effect that the big decision had on staffing. Contrary to popular belief, eliminating tipping boosted demand for a spot to work at e of USHG's restaurants.
"The Modern saw a 250% increase in back of house applications, and 200% increase in the front of house applications," he said. At USHG, they "view hospitality as a team sport," as they collectively work towards the same goal.
Thad Vogler of Trou Normand shared that he didn't have as much luck with staff support: as soon as he implemented no tipping at Trou Normand, they experienced high turnover for lower-level staff. "You really had to be a place where people wanted to work." said Vogler. He and his team decided to revert back to tipping only two days before Danny Meyer made the decision to go in the opposite direction at USHG's The Modern.
The recent success that USHG has seen as a result of removing tipping may be an indicator of bigger changes to come.
Myth #2: Great employees have classic training and experience.
Russ Stein and his wife, both of whom are deaf, own Mozzeria restaurant in San Francisco and have made the decision to hire an entirely deaf staff. They understand the value of tapping into a group that may not otherwise get the chance to work at a restaurant. According to Stein, once he trains the staff he believes that they are more loyal because their opportunities to work elsewhere are limited. (He shared that about 60 to70% of deaf people are unemployed.)
Cala, the new SF restaurant owned and operated by Mexico City chef Gabriela Cámara, has a staff that is made up of almost 70% previously convicted individuals. General Manager Emma Rosenbush had worked at the Prison Law Office in Berkeley and then traveled down to Mexico City on a whim to open a pop-up restaurant with friends, which is where she was introduced to the restaurant industry. She saw an opportunity to take advantage of this group of people who really needed work but were having a hard time finding jobs. Similar to Stein, Rosenbush has learned that as a result of restricted opportunity, the staff they eventually hired at Cala has proven to be very loyal.
In both instances, the opportunity presented to these populations that have less opportunity to work results in a staff that is more eager to learn and loyal to the restaurant, further reducing turnover rates.
Myth #3: Restaurant staffing is doomed.
Gwyneth Borden, Executive Director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, gave audiences perspective on the state of staffing. "Nationally, the restaurant industry continues to be one of the strongest job creators in the economy, adding jobs at a 3.2-percent rate in 2015, which was more than a full percentage point above the 2.1-percent gain in total U.S. employment."
Although restaurateurs are quick to note that staffing is among their top business challenges, Borden's presentation demonstrated how many jobs the industry is still able to provide. She dug further into the data, giving supporting evidence for why this staffing need continues to grow: "According to credit-card data collected by First Data Corp, in San Francisco restaurant sales grew 6.6 percent in 2015, which was higher than 2014's sales growth, which was 5.4-percent."
Considering that so many restaurateurs point to staffing as one of their challenges, it was encouraging to hear evidence for favorable industry staffing conditions.
Myth #4: Hiring a PR agency is all you need to do to generate press.
Public relations agencies can garner extra attention and entice diners into the restaurant, but how do you continue to feed that buzz once the diner is there? Lisa Nourse, PR and strategy consultant for restaurants, encourages authenticity of brand throughout the restaurant. "A restaurant is a restaurant, but a brand is a story," she said. "It's important to establish that story right out of the gate. This includes everything from your restaurant values down to your menu paper."
Although Nourse and similar agencies can bring value to your restaurant, hiring a PR agency doesn't mean they should do all the work for you. According to Nourse, you should be proactive and partner with your agency to get the most out of it. "Know what you want to get out of your PR before you decide how to execute press and branding."
Plus, buzz goes beyond PR. Think about bringing your chef to the forefront and utilizing your staff to represent your brand. Consultant Liz Subauste leaves brand presence to the people who know know it best. She said, "Empower your staff to be the face of your brand, from greeting diners to posting on social media."
Myth #5: Restaurants fit into two categories: casual or formal.
The "fast casual" category seems to be gaining popularity and awareness, but what does it mean to the diner? Adriano Paganini, the man behind popular San Francisco spots Belga, Super Duper Burger, and Uno Dos Tacos, explains how the diner doesn't think about a restaurant's category; instead, they think about what they're hungry for.
"The consumer isn't looking to name the category, they're looking to fill a need. What is the need of the customer?" He continued, "People want really good food at all times, not just at a fine dining restaurant."
Restaurateurs speaking about the fast-casual movement were all aligned on the fact that in order for the restaurant to be profitable, they have to appeal to diners on more than one occasion. Charles Bilililes of fine casual SF restaurant Souvla draws the line: "A fine casual restaurant has got to be nice enough to bring a date to."
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Fort Worth — For the past few years, the Amphibian Stage Productions in Fort Worth has staged ambitious "residency" program wherein a comedian comes to town for a week or two, and does four or five shows over that span, tweaking and refining as they go. Last year, the program included Emily Heller and Baron Vaughn.
This time 'round, Jacqueline Novak takes her turn in the Amphibious hearth, with her one-woman show, How Embarrassing For Her, running April 13-21. The show will eventually travel to Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August.
Novak is, in a word, versatile. In two words, versatile and smart. In three words, versatile, smart, and perceptive. We'll take a fourth word, hilarious, for granted.
"Versatile" because she's equally at ease talking about French fries as she is talking about sex as she is talking about depression.
"Smart," because even if she is talking about something as cosmically unimportant as French fries, she brings a certain level of astuteness and articulation to it. I don't think you will hear Dane Cook use the word "inscrutable" in any of his sets.
"Perceptive" comes from her deep and humorous understanding of depression that's laid out in her erstwhile web series (also the name of a book she wrote), How to Cry in Public. In it, she discusses depression and anxiety with different comedians, a shrink, and in one webisode, her Dad. For as short as the webisodes are (about five minutes), they pack a lot of truth and laughs. If you're just going to watch one, watch the Julie Klausner episode.
For Novak, it's about not boxing herself in, and trusting the audience. "I try not to artificially create a lane for myself," she says. "That wouldn't do. I like to trust that whatever I talk about, the connections between them will be apparent to someone else, if there are any connections. I've decided to believe that if you're speaking from the heart, there is some kind of thread there that you might not be aware of, it'll work for other people."
Novak is very much on board the residency idea the Amphibian is offering. In more conventional sets, "you feel pressured to do what you KNOW will work," says Novak.
"You're worried about, to use a term that club owners might throw around, laughs per minute. LPM's [chuckles]. At the same time, as a standup, you can only work out material live. So there's an inherent conflict in that. So for me, the fact that this residency has writing days built in and it's across two weeks, and tweaking and exploring is the expectation is like, the greatest thing ever."
She also speaks of what a positive influence Mike Birbiglia has been over the years, and continues to be. She spent some time opening for him, but they go way back to Novak's formative comedic years, and they traded vulnerabilities.
"He was a huge supporter and pep-talk giver, from my first open mic," she says. "I read my first jokes on the phone to him, which was very hard to do, because he was a working comedian. So it was very embarrassing to say, 'Here goes. Here's me trying to be funny. What do you think?' I remember him trying to make me not afraid to do it. So he [first] read me some stuff out of his notebook that he didn't think was particularly impressive."
It's a great story, and Birbiglia and Novak are both great comedians. As versatile, smart, and perceptive as Novak is, though, the best reason you should go see her is for the LPM's.


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Simplify Affiliate Marketing By Using These Tips
August 5, 2017
You are going to need to add your own flavor to make your product stand out from your competition. Although each company is different, there are some basic common denominators that generally produce favorable results.
Do not take advantage of these cookies, and don't allow your affiliate partners to do so. If nothing else, this will annoy your visitors. This method can break the chains of affiliate tracking and it can also spread viruses.
You should have a disclosure notice about your affiliate marketing program right on your home page. This will put readers at ease. Being honest will give you an advantage, even with affiliate marketing. When you are honest with your readers, they will respond to you positively.
It's best to connect with affiliates who are the right fit for you or specifically, working with those who provide products that you wouldn't mind selling. Using many affiliate networks to market your products provides many possibilities for income. Don't accept offers from each affiliate program that comes your way. Take the time to research the affiliates. Decide if you are comfortable with their program before you agree to promote them on your website.
In order to make the most of affiliate marketing, you need to keep only the affiliates that profit you the most. Check up on your affiliates and their projects often. Eliminate the affiliates that aren't giving you results to open up your budget for ones that can.
A lot of affiliate marketers get instructions via email, but then keep going back to check them over and over. Instead of going back to your mail box, write down the task you are supposed to accomplish. This is a great way to save time and be organized.
Many affiliate marketers try too hard to be "super" affiliates. They try to sell a wide variety of products, and run a multitude of promotions simultaneously. By putting their efforts in so many different areas, they are unable to focus on any single product effectively. Remember that maximum results are very individual, and you need not always push so hard to try and compete. Find the approach that works for you, and use effective time management.
Be sure to deal only with reputable affiliate vendor companies. This shows that you will not do business with an organization that offers under twenty percent regarding to the earnings on every item that is sold. If your efforts are producing results, any reputable affiliate company is going to be willing to give you a higher commission in order to retain your business.
When a targeted visitor is browsing your sports-related website, he or she is deliberately seeking sports-related products. Design your website and content to correspond with your affiliate links. Links that offer the visitor something related to what initially attracted them have a much better chance of being followed.
They utilize these types of methods because they effectively bring in new customers. The trick for you is to discover how best to adapt the methods to your specific business, and you are on your way.


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One day, when I was in my late 20s and starting a job at a major newspaper chain, the treasurer pulled me into his office to explain what I'd be missing if I failed to join the company's 401(k) plan -- something totally foreign to me at the time.
The company was matching 50 percent of whatever part of my earnings I was willing to put into the retirement savings program, up to 6 percent of my total pre-tax paycheck with taxes coming out at retirement.
"There is no better investment in the world," said the treasurer. "You're being guaranteed a 50 percent return on whatever you decide to invest, up to 6 percent of salary, with each and every paycheck. You will never get a better deal anywhere -- ever."
And it's true: Putting away as much of your salary as you can each pay period and maxing out your 401(k) plan is the first critical step toward saving $1 million or more for retirement, said Leon LaBrecque, CEO of LJPR, a fee-only financial advisor and wealth management firm.
But maxing out your 401(k) probably won't be enough to get your retirement savings to $1 million. You'll need to take a few more steps in order to hit that magic seven-figure number.
How you can save $1 million for retirement
LaBrecque has helped clients save well over $1 million for their futures and believes he has found a solid formula: saving a larger percentage of income.
"Just give me something simple to do," a client -- then in his early 40s -- asked LaBrecque in the early '80s. "I said, 'Save 18.7 percent of your money in the Vanguard Windsor fund.'" In 20 years, the client had amassed a whopping $2.5 million.
The client, who had all of his Vanguard statements stacked up unopened, was happily surprised. With the ability to withdraw roughly $100,000 each year -- once more, taking just 4 percent of his total -- his replacement rate was a full 100 percent.
"I've been on the 18.7 percent solution ever since," said LaBrecque, noting that figure includes employer contributions. "So, if your employer matches 5 percent, your job is to save just 13.7 percent."
So, an individual making $50,000 a year and investing 18.7 percent of their salary for 30 years with an 8 percent rate of return would also have that same $1 million nest egg and be able to withdraw around $40,000 a year.
Here are some other steps you should take to save $1 million for retirement.
1. Check out your 401(k) match
Go to your benefits director, and find out how much your employer will match in your 401k or other retirement savings plan, said Todd Rustman, a certified financial planner and founder of Clarity Capital Partners. Then, put as much money into the 401k plan as you can to earn the maximum match.
"Free money is free money," said LaBrecque. "And the match is free money."
2. Save half of any raise you get
If you get a 2 percent raise, increase your 401k contributions by 1 percent, LaBrecque suggested. By don't stop there -- keep doing this with every raise you get.
"Don't just increase the sum you put into the plan, but increase your percentage contribution as well," he advised.
3. Don't freak out when markets tumble
Sometimes, the stock market experiences a downturn, causing some investors to panic and immediately sell their stocks. However, this can be a huge mistake.
"Don't quit. Don't stop," said LaBrecque. "I've seen people stop their 401(k) in down markets. Awful idea. Down markets are sales. We buy steak on sale and clothes on sale. Make investments on sale."
In other words, a down market is a chance to buy at a discount. Also, remember that saving for retirement is a long-term process. Eventually, the stock market will recover -- and so will your investments.
4. Invest Your Tax Refund
Next year, don't splurge your tax refund on a flat-screen TV, a new pair of shoes or a last-minute vacation. Instead, invest your tax refund in some type of savings or retirement account to help you reach your $1 million savings goal.
"I see folks who claim they can't save for retirement, yet get a $2,600 refund," said LaBrecque.
According to the IRS website, direct deposit is the "best and fastest way" to get your tax refund. Plus, this option can help you resist the urge to spend your tax refund on non-essentials by letting you split your refund into two or three additional financial accounts -- including an IRA.
5. Invest in Yourself
Rustman suggested taking classes, earning an MBA or doing whatever you can do to increase your value as a professional. You'll earn more and can, therefore, invest more.
Depending on the company you work for, you might not even have to pay for the classes out of your own pocket. Ask your employer and human resources department if your job can foot the bill for your classes.
Why You Probably Need at Least $1 Million for Retirement
You might think that saving $1 million for retirement is an impossible goal. Or, you might ask yourself, "Do I really need $1 million in retirement savings?"
The answer to that question depends on your lifestyle and the extent you want to replicate that in the future -- that is, how much of your current income you hope to replace a few decades down the road. In many cases, yes, you might need $1 million or more in retirement savings if you are not going to continue working.
And yes, getting there is doable if you start early enough, know how you much to put away and understand how to withdraw funds in a disciplined fashion, according to LaBrecque and other financial advisors.
"If you are living in a metropolitan center, are middle class making at least $75,000 per spouse, you probably need $1 million or more," said Rustman.
This article originally appeared on gobankingrates.com.


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Playwright, Che Walker's fantastically successful 'Revolution' benefit evenings continue to go from strength to strength. This weekend we all celebrated 'Mother's Day Revolution' in style and everyone who brought their mum gained half price admission, whilst mums themselves came in absolutely free … obviously!!
Literally £1, 000s have been raised at these events for Wac Arts with renowned artistes including jazz pianist Julian Joseph and actress Martina Laird sharing bills with emerging talent to create wonderful evenings of entertainment.
We are also delighted that Wac Arts supporters, Annie Graham-Brown and Ross McGonnell have organised two fantastic fundraising activities this spring! On 3rd March, Annie ran the Bath Half Marathon for Wac Arts and on 21st April, Ross will be attempting his first triathlon event.
He will swim 384m, cycle 25km and then run the final 5km around Hayward Heath, raising funds all the way for Wac Arts projects. Having run the St Alban's Half Marathon for us last year in an amazing 1hr 57mins and 59 seconds we're sure Ross will make it! Wishing him all the best for a successful day!
We are eternally grateful to all the artists and friends of Wac Arts, and all those who support them, for making these brilliant occasions happen. Please support Ross's incredible Triathlon Sprint knowing all funds raised go directly to Wac Arts programmes!
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hard being the middle sibling, but in Piedmont, Barbera is making
the best of it. Big brother Nebbiolo is a late-ripener that hogs
the best vineyard sites (hilltops, south-facing slopes), and has
a lock on the region's most prestigious names, Barolo and
Barbaresco. Meanwhile little sister Dolcetto ripens early, will
grow just about anywhere – winegrowers usually plant it in
lower elevations since it doesn't need so much sun exposure
– and also has its own little appellation, Dogliani, to the
southwest. Barbera, however, is sold primarily under the broad appellations
Barbera d'Asti and Barbera d'Alba; it gets the middle
ground – not the hillcrest, but not the valley.
Traditionally Barbera and Dolcetto were both made
in a lighter, easy-drinking style. Special occasions demand Barolo
or Barbaresco, while the other two are for everyday drinking. Barbera
in particular is very flexible with food; high acidity and low tannins
mean it's able to stand up to meat but still pair well with fish
and tomato sauces.
about thirty years ago a few producers gave Barbera a chance to
step out of Nebbiolo's shadow. Giacomo Bologna's "Bricco
dell'Uccellone" was the first to gain critical attention,
but Michele Chiarlo, Vietti, and others weren't far behind.
Most producers took two steps to bring the grape into the spotlight.
The first was greater ripening, in most cases attained by planting
the grape in choicer sites. The second key to success was to age
the wine in French oak. Barbera makes dark wines that are low in
tannins – an unusual combination, since both color and tannins
come from the skin of the grape, and the opposite of the orange-tinged,
paler Nebbiolo with its immense, weighty tannins. New French oak
lends wine tannins of its own, giving this newer style of Barbera
the balanced structure it needs to support the added richness. The
new combination of acidity and tannins also makes these Barberas
much more age-worthy than their predecessors.
The overall effect is like using a really good equalizer on your
stereo; the rough edges are smoothed out and the bass becomes fuller,
round, and rich. Many of the wines made in this newer style remind
me of premium Zinfandel: dark fruits and creamy chocolate flavors,
with gentle tannins. However, they aren't so excessively alcoholic,
and retain that characteristic acidity that means they can still
find a variety of roles at the dinner table.
Here are six Barberas I especially enjoyed during
a recent trip to Piedmont (I had planned to bring home a stash of
Barolos and Barbarescos, but almost half my load turned out to be
Barbera d'Asti:
Chiarlo "La Court" 2001 Michele Chiarlo's
first wines were Barbera d'Asti, and the wines remain an important
part of his production. "La Court" is the premium bottling
of the three currently in his portfolio, and the only one to receive
barrique aging. The vineyard lies within an unofficial sub-appellation
called "Nizza" which surrounds the town of Nizza Monferrato;
makers of "Nizza" wines follow a strict production code
and believe the area is capable of providing a distinct, high-quality
Barbera. The 2001 "La Court" certainly qualifies; black
cherry, cedar, clove, and cola on the nose receive added heft from
a dark chocolate note on the palate; the wine unwinds slowly, elegant
and round.
"Pomorosso" Barbera d'Asti 2001 The Coppo
family has been making wine in Piedmont for several generations
– primarily Moscato. In the 1980s the current generation began
expanding their portfolio to include French varietals like Cabernet
Sauvignon and Chardonnay as well as their first single-vineyard
Barbera, Il Pomorosso. Toastier oak elements lend touches of smoke
and earth to the more usual dark cherry and blackberry aromas. It's
a rich, full-bodied wine, with a long, somewhat spicy finish.
Maccario "Lavignone" Barbera d'Asti 2003
Barbera makes up the bulk of Maccario's output; Lavignone
is one of their higher-end bottlings, made exclusively from old-vine
Barbera. This full-bodied wine is balanced and complex without the
use of barriques; raspberry and cherry notes emerge over a base
of chocolate, ash, and smoke. The tannins are light, and the grapes'
natural acidity keeps the wine fresh and buoyant. Pico Maccario
is also a good place to visit, if a little off the usual Piedmontese
route. Most local wineries own vines scattered throughout the region,
so vineyard tours can be awkward. The Maccario vineyards, on the
other hand, immediately surround the winery, and your hosts are
glad to show you around outside (even in cold February weather).
Local winemakers all agree about the importance of vineyard work
in making a great wine, but few give you such an opportunity to
see it firsthand.
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Barbera d'Alba:
"Scarrone" Barbera d'Alba 2003 Alfredo
Currado, father of current owner Luca, ripped up the Nebbiolo in
the Scarrone vineyard and replanted it with Barbera about 35 years
ago; at the time his neighbors thought it a waste of a good vineyard.
Vintages since then have proven them wrong, and Barbera ripens there
as Nebbiolo rarely did. These days Luca ages the wine in barrel
for about 12 months; the wine's rich fruits – boysenberry,
blackberry – are complemented by a swath of milk chocolate
and wonderful fruitcake spices. The wine is full-bodied, with medium,
well-balanced tannins and juicy acidity. Alfredo Currado's
appreciation for the qualities of individual vineyards went well
beyond Barbera; in the '50s he was one of the first to bottle single-vineyard
Barolos by name instead of blending them – par for the course
these days.
Cesare "Fides" Barbera d'Alba 2000 The
"Fides" – Latin for "Faith" –
is made exclusively from grapes from the Colombaro vineyard within
the Barolo region and receives a surprising 20 months of aging in
a mix of barrique and larger, more traditional casks. It's
earthier than some of the other Barberas here, with black cherry
aromas and a dash of pepper. The mouthfeel is very elegant, with
soft tannins and a long finish.
Principiano "La Romualda" Barbera d'Alba 2001
Ferdinando Principiano's father and grandfather grew grapes
and sold them to the local wineries; he decided he wanted to take
those grapes and make wine himself, and the results have been fantastic.
The La Romualda shows complex layers of cherry, red licorice, smoke,
and milk chocolate. The wine is not as full-bodied as some, but
certainly holds its own in elegance and balance. Ferdinando has
the energy of an enthusiastic perfectionist; he hit the ground running
with his first wine, a 1993 Boscareto Barolo, and is determined
to push quality higher in the future. He told us that with today's
technology anybody can make good wines; as a small producer who
wants to stay competitive, his eyes must be set on making great
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(Washington, D.C.)—On January 17, President Barack Obama received official bronze medals depicting each of his two terms in office. During a brief ceremony in the Oval Office, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin and U.S. Mint Principal Deputy Director Rhett Jeppson presented medals featuring the president's portrait on the obverse and portions of memorable speeches delivered during his presidency on the reverse.
"It has been a privilege to serve President Obama over these last eight years and to have witnessed his leadership up close," Secretary Lew said. "His historic presidency has improved the lives of millions of Americans and the medals presented today are just one way that his legacy will be honored."
Presidential medals represent a custom of honoring each president of the United States with an official medal for each term in office. Presidents who serve more than one term are traditionally honored with two medals, one highlighting each term. Since the 1960s, with the exception of Ronald Reagan, all presidents who served more than one term have received two medals. Each medal measures three inches in diameter and weighs approximately nine ounces.
"The medals presented to President Obama ensure that a long-standing tradition of honoring our presidents remains unbroken," said Jeppson. "Designed, sculpted, and struck by the men and women of the U.S. Mint, the medals institutionalize his legacy in a tangible and historical form alongside those leaders who preceded him—from Washington to present."
Also participating in the ceremony were Elisa Basnight, chief of staff of the Mint; Don Everhart, lead sculptor of the Mint; and Phebe Hemphill, Mint medallic artist. Everhart sculpted the reverse of the first-term medal and designed and sculpted both the obverse and reverse of the medal honoring the president's second term. Hemphill sculpted the obverse of the first-term medal.
As with other presidential medals, bronze replicas are available to the public. The collector versions of the medals are dated 2017 and are minted in Philadelphia, but without a mintmark. Each medal's obverse features a portrait of President Barack Obama with his name inscribed around the field; the reverse design for each medal features a quotation and is surrounded by 50 stars.
The first-term medal (item 148), with an obverse designed by Richard Masters, depicts the president in three-quarter profile to the left. The quotation on the reverse (designed by Don Everhart), beneath the Presidential Seal, reads:
Following the quotation, in smaller letters, is the date of President Obama's inauguration, JANUARY 20, 2009, with a facsimile of the president's signature below.
The second-term medal (item 149), both sides of which were designed by Don Everhart, depicts the president in profile to the left. (The president is noticeably more mature than on the first medal.) The reverse quotation is in two parts, with the first part centered below a depiction of the White House:
The quotation is continued in smaller text around the border of the field, above the White House: WE THE PEOPLE. WE SHALL OVERCOME. YES WE CAN. An additional inscription beneath the White House reads, JANUARY 20, 2013, the date of President Obama's second inauguration.
Each medal is available in both the full, 3-inch size ($39.95) and as a 1-5/16-inch medalet ($6.95).
About the United States Mint
The United States Mint was created by Congress in 1792 and became part of the Department of the Treasury in 1873. It is the nation's sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage and is responsible for producing circulating coinage for the nation to conduct its trade and commerce. The Mint also produces numismatic products, including Proof, Uncirculated, and commemorative coins; Congressional Gold Medals; and silver and gold bullion coins. The United States Mint's numismatic programs are self-sustaining and operate at no cost to taxpayers. ❑
Press release courtesy of the United States Mint; additional information about the medals added by Coin Update.


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NHL Fantasy Hockey 101: The Top 20 Fantasy Goaltenders, Part OneJuly 28, 2010
With fantasy hockey opening up soon, I figured I would help you out in your draft rankings. Over the next week or so I am going to have a four-part series ranking the best fantasy goaltenders 1-20, so stay tuned.
1. Martin Brodeur (NJD)
Last year's stats: Wins: 45 / GAA: 2.24 / SV%: .916
The Devils may have lost Paul Martin, but they added two very solid defensemen in Anton Volchenkov and Henrik Tallinder. They also added more scoring punch up front in Jason Arnott, which should provide Brodeur with more goals to work with.
In my opinion he could hit 50 wins, but with the addition of Johan Hedberg he won't get 75 starts.
2. Ryan Miller (BUF)
Last year's stats: Wins: 41 / GAA: 2.22 / SV%: .929
The Sabres lost two very good defensemen in Henrik Tallinder and Toni Lydman, but they added Jordan Leopold and bolstered their PK with Rob Niedermayer. All in all, they have a very similar team to last season.
With a healthy Thomas Vanek, the Sabres should score more goals and Ryan Miller should be able to do what he did last season (or close to it).
3. Jimmy Howard (DET)
Last year's stats: Wins: 37 / GAA: 2.26 / SV%: .924
The Red Wings have almost the same team they had last season, but with Howard getting an increase in starts (probably around 70) he should be able to win some more games.
4. Marc-Andre Fleury (PIT)
Last year's stats: Wins: 37 / GAA: 2.65 / SV%: .905
Fleury really struggled last season, but with a better group of defensemen (added Martin and Michalek) and a better offense (Crosby, Malkin, etc.), Fleury should be able to regain form and pick up 40+ wins.
5. Henrik Lundqvist (NYR)
Last year's stats: Wins: 35 / GAA: 2.38 / SV%: .921
In my opinion Lundqvist is the most talented goalie in the league (this coming from a Devils fan), but has always been stuck with an average team in front of him. With the new talent of the Rangers' young defensemen and the addition of Alexander Frolov, the Rangers should be able to score more goals, which will lead Hank to his first 40-win campaign.
I hope you enjoyed the first edition of ranking the top 20 fantasy goaltenders. Part two should be up in the next few days.
Please feel free to comment (and agree or disagree) with my rankings.
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One thing that most people do not know is that drum sets come in different shapes and sizes. They also come in a variety of materials. You can't just walk into a shop and get any drum set that catches your attention. There are tons of factors to be considered. For example, a ten year old can't use the same set as a five year old would use. If you have discovered that your kid has passion for playing drums, and yet you have no clue of what kind of drum set to get them, here is a comprehensive guide that will help you make the right choice.
Factors to consider when buying drum sets for kids
1. Your child's Age
This should be the first thing that comes to mind. There are drums designed for every age bracket. Does your kid require a toy drum set, or is he/she mature enough to handle a real set? That is the first question you should ask yourself. Toy drum sets are ideal for children up to 6 years of age. These kids drum set come with tools similar to those of real drums, and are mainly made of plastic. They help introduce kids into drumming.
For much older kids, usually up to 12 years, junior acoustic drums would be ideal. These drum sets are a mini version of adult drums. They come with smaller bass drums and up to 10 inch toms, making it very easy for a kid to play.
Depending on the kid's capacity to play drums, you can choose to get them an advanced set.
This should be at the age of 12 and above. However, age should not be the major parameter that determines whether you should get an adult set for your kid.
I mean, how many times have we seen ten year olds playing adult drums perfectly well?
2. Drum set brands
Not all brands are the same in quality. Quality of drums directly corresponds with cost. Cheap brands may not produce quite the best sounds. Also, you might wanna consider their re-sale value. Your child is going to outgrow the drums sooner or later, and there could be need to sell the drums.
There is no point of you buying something that you won't be able to sell later on. Ludwig and Gammon brands are known to be the best. But then again, it is important to consider your budget before making a decision to purchase drum sets.
3. Types of drum sets
Drums come in two types, electronic and acoustic. Electronic sets are much smaller compared to acoustic ones, and generate lower sound levels. This is the most ideal set for amateurs, and of course come in handy if you are trying to keep it low with noise in your home.
Acoustic drum sets are more complex. They contain pieces such as bass drum, snare drums, toms and cymbals. If your kid is a pro, you might consider getting one of this for him/her.Clearly, there is so much to take into consideration before purchasing drum kits. Don't waste your money by buying the wrong one. Be wise and invest in the right set.


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National Smile Month (June 1-30) is a perfect opportunity to teach your children good oral health habits in a fun way. Some parents might wonder how the words "fun" and "oral health" can be in the same sentence, but with these tricks and tips, your child will enjoy brushing and flossing almost as much as playtime:
- Trade places – If you're tired of fighting whenever it's time to brush those little teeth, why not reverse roles and let your children brush your teeth? It's fun and teaches them the right way to brush. Just don't share a toothbrush. Sharing a toothbrush means you're also sharing the bacteria that causes cavities. Yuck!
- Get in character – Use fun bathroom decor like robot, superhero or animal-shaped toothbrush holders. Kids like the characters and the holder provides a sanitary storage spot for their toothbrushes and toothpaste.
- Take turns – Set a timer and have your child brush alone for one minute. Then reset the timer and brush your child's teeth for the final minute.
- Call in reinforcements – If your children stubbornly neglect to brush or floss, maybe it's time to change the messenger. Call the dental office before the next checkup and let their dentist know what's going on. Kids might be more apt to listen if it comes from a third party, especially the dentist.


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6 Tips to Keep Your Dog Warm while Camping
Camping & backpacking with dogs is really enjoyable, but the fun can be ruined if your furry pal is shivering and can't stay warm. Here in Utah, the temperatures can be 90F during the day and drop as low as 30F in the desert, even in the Summer. It doesn't matter if you decided to camp in Moab or in the High Uintas, always be prepared for cold weather camping with your dog, especially since the weather can change so quickly here. After camping and backpacking for 5 years with Charlie, one of the top questions I get is how I keep Charlie warm. Here are my
6 Tips to Keep Your Dog Warm while Camping!
1. Snuggle
My first and favorite option is to simply snuggle, and it really does warm up dogs quickly. Since Charlie is 70 lbs, and both of us can't fit in the sleeping bag at the same time, what I will do is put a blanket over my thermarest and lay on top of then. Then, I will unzip my sleeping bag, and put that on top of us like a large blanket. That way he can snuggle me, he's on top of insulation, and we are both under the sleeping bag. This always seems to work the best for him to warm up.
2. Consider buying a sleeping bag or pad
Several companies now offer a dog sleeping bag, such as the FrontPet Dog Sleeping Bag or the ChuckIt Travel Bed. They have a durable, polyester outer shell that provides a water-resistant, quick-drying layer to ensure your dog will stay warm and dry in tough conditions! Dog sleeping bags/pads are compact and weigh under 2-3 lbs. Just like a human sleeping bag, your dog can curl up in between two layers of their own bag to create warmth from it's own body heat.
3. Buy a doggie puffy coat
When temperature drop at night, or even after a storm passes through, I like to put a lightweight puffy coat on Charlie. Ruffwear makes an awesome coat called the Quinzee Coat that is perfect to warm up dogs. Other companies have variations of a dog coat, but this one is made of synthetic down, making it warm yet light. This jacket also rolls up into the built-in stuff sack so it takes up less space in your backpack or dog pack. Side buckles ensure that the coat stays on all night long.
4. Place a warm water bottle next to them, wrapped in a shirt
If your dog is physically shivering, another option is to create a hot water bottle that should be wrapped in a shirt or packtowel, then place it next to your dogs as they curl up. Simply boil water, fill up a Nalgene bottle, wrap it in a shirt or towell, then place next to your dog. Always test the water bottle against your own skin - if it's too hot for you, then it's too hot for your dog.
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Bitcoin miners perform complex calculations known as hashes, and each hash has a chance of yielding bitcoin. The more hashes you perform, the more chances you have of earning bitcoin. Most people join a mining pool to increase their chances of earning bitcoin. Mining pools pay for high value hashes known as shares.
An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner is a device that is designed for the sole purpose of mining—not coal, but rather digital currency. Generally, each ASIC miner is constructed to mine a specific digital currency. So, a Bitcoin ASIC miner can mine only bitcoin. Think of Bitcoin ASICs as specialized Bitcoin mining computers, or "bitcoin generators."https://12ea7800963ffec019cbea4bac9dd936.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
What Is an ASIC Bitcoin Miner?
Originally, Bitcoin's creator intended for bitcoin to be mined on central processing units (CPUs)—your laptop or desktop computer. However, Bitcoin ASICs surpassed both CPUs and graphics processing units (GPUs) in terms of both their reduced electricity consumption and greater computing capacity. After gaining traction in mid-2013, when other hardware mining devices started hitting their bottlenecks in mining, Bitcoin ASIC miners have retained their lead.
Mining is the process of managing the blockchain. The job of ASIC Bitcoin miners is to review and verify previous bitcoin transactions and create a new block so the information can be added to the blockchain. The mining process involves solving complex mathematical problems using intrinsic hash functions linked to the block that contains the transaction data. Various Bitcoin miners compete intensely with each other to solve a necessary mathematical puzzle.


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"Finnsurf" peels back the fleecy layers on the lives of a handful of surfers from one of the world's most inhospitable surf locations and discovers just what drives them to paddle out into the Baltic Sea in water that is life threateningly frigid.
This film is both touching and inspiring and will make you re-evaluate just what it means to be a hardcore surfer.
Featured surfers/artists: Kalle Carranza, Rumon Chapman, Jukka Karhunen, Aija Korhonen, Tomi Lagerroos.


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March 23, 2009 | 3 Comments
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"At Thomas Haas Chocolates, we carefully choose our raw ingredients and select only the best. Our chocolates are perfumed with fine BC wine, oak barrel aged maple syrup from Quebec, vanilla beans from Tahiti, fresh citrus zest, loose leaf teas and organic herbs and spices. Our cakes and pastries are adorned with Fraser Valley hazelnuts and berries, Okanagan fruits and infused with fresh roasted coffee and liqueurs from Alsace and the Black Forest. Whenever possible we source our products directly from the farmer. There are no preservatives or artificial flavours in our kitchens!"
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April 24th, 2009 @ 4:33 pm
Looks gooood.
May 2nd, 2009 @ 8:34 am
This looks good! It stands out from the regular. But I dont get the switch of colors?
March 3rd, 2014 @ 12:58 am
great chocoloate packaging as die-cut window display the chocolate without open the lid.
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Adult Foster Care
The Bureau of Development Services (BDS) performs electrical and housing inspections in conjunction with Multnomah County's Adult Care Home Program (ACHP). To obtain inspections, applicants must obtain an Adult Care Permit and complete a statement of understanding. These forms are part of the County's ACHP application packet and submitted to the Permit Center at BDS.
For more information about the Adult Care Home Program, please contact the ACHP office at (503)988-3000 ext. 27123, e-mail: email@example.com or visit their website: https://multco.us/services/adult-care-homes-other-community-based-care-settings.
For the City's Adult Care permit, please complete the following steps:
- Fill out the "Statement of Understanding" document from the packet of materials you received from the Multnomah County Adult Care Home Program. Please note that the Statement of Understanding must be signed by the property owner of record.
- To purchase an Adult Care Permit from the City of Portland, bring the "Statement of Understanding and "Adult Care Home Application" documents to the Bureau of Development Services (BDS), Permit Center (1900 SW 4th Ave, 1st floor) and purchase an Adult Care Permit. Current hours of operation are on the BDS homepage www.portlandoregon.gov/bds.
- Request an Adult Care Home Safety inspection by calling 503-823-7000 and enter the IVR number given to you when you purchased the Adult Care permit. The IVR number is found on your receipt. By using the 440 inspection code you will request the Safety Inspection. *NOTE an inspector will not come out until you have called 503-823-7000 and requested an inspection.
Be sure to provide access to the structure and all the electrical equipment for the inspector.
The inspector from BDS will look for fire, life, and safety problems, structural maintenance issues, electrical issues, and work done without permits. If violations are found, the homeowner and applicant will receive a Housing Violation letter and will be required to make corrections within a specific period of time (usually 30 days). If the inspector cites violations that require work be completed under a permit, a licensed contractor must complete the corrections. The licensed contractor must obtain a separate permit(s) for these corrections. If corrections are not made within the required timeline, fees/fines will be imposed.
- Once the safety inspection has been completed and the property approved, BDS will send an Adult Care Facility Notice of Compliance by United States Postal Service to the applicant. It is the applicant's responsibility to send that with their application to Multnomah County Adult Care Home Program. A copy of the document is also mailed to the homeowner (if the owner is not the applicant).
For questions about inspections related to ACHP applications, please contact BDS Enforcement Section at (503) 823-0891.


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This file is part of Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. ImSCCore.dll is developed by Microsoft Corporation. It's a system and hidden file. ImSCCore.dll is usually located in the %SYSTEM% sub-folder and its usual size is 654,848 bytes.
The ImSCCore.dll process is safe and disabling it can be dangerous, because programs on your computer need it to work correctly.
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Posted Thursday morning, May 16. 2019.
"A boy looks through the slats of the US-Mexico border fence at Friendship Park in Tijuana, Mexico." Shannon Stapleton/Reuters, January 27, 2019. Via Public Radio International.
I've been on one of my periodic kicks to avoid reading about politics first thing in the morning. It's also a periodic kick to stay offline until I've had at least a fifth cup of coffee. This isn't just to spare myself heartburn, headaches, and nausea both digestive and existential. It's to force myself to begin the day living in the physical world instead of the virtual one of social media. I'm a (far from uncritical) fan of Twitter and Facebook and what's left of the blogging community (There aren't many of us still out there. We're like those Japanese soldiers from World War II who didn't hear the war ended and were left holding out on remote islands.), but life in actual society is more interesting and more imperative and, for those of us who are lucky to have friends, family, and neighbors around us, more social. But it's the politics I most want to avoid thinking about first thing. Most of what takes place on Political Twitter is people infecting each other with outrage and despair neither of which they can do anything about except to feel more outrage and greater despair. And before it gets light and the birds start singing, I just don't have the spiritual strength to face the evidence of what a cruel and stupid country we live in. So to that purpose, I read words printed on paper. If I could walk more than twenty yards at a stretch, I'd go for a walk. As it is, I can make it to the bookshelf and over to the couch. I've been trying to read short stories, novels, and poetry. This has usually done the trick. Especially with the poetry. You can generally rely on poets to cheer you up and brighten your outlook even when they're at their most morose. This morning I read several poems from Li-young Lee's collection "The City in Which I Love You". An old favorite. And it was pleasant and soul-saving to start the day imaginatively in a butcher shop in Chinatown, conjured for me in Lee's brilliant use of words rather than somewhere in the virtual political wasteland described in the hack's language of politicians and political journalists. But the other morning I picked up Richard Blanco's "How to Love a Country" which I'd just checked out of the library the day before.
I forgot who Richard Blanco was...
He hates his neighbors' flowers, claims his
are redder, bluer, whiter than theirs, believes
his bees work harder, his soil richer, blacker.
He hears birds sing sweeter in his trees, taller
and fuller, too, but not enough to screen out
the nameless faces next door that he calls
liars, thieves who'd steal his juicier fruit, kill
for his wetter rain and brighter sun. He keeps<
a steely eye on them, mocks the too cheery
colors of their homes, too small and too close
to his own, painted white, with room to spare.
He curses the giggles of their children always
barefoot in the yard, chasing their yappy dogs.
He wishes them dead. Closes his blinds. Refuses
to let light from their windows pollute his eyes
with their lives. Denies their silhouettes dining
at the kitchen table, laughing in the living room,
the goodnight kisses through every bedroom.
Slouched in his couch, grumbling over the news
he dismisses as fake, he changes the channel
to an old cowboy Western. Amid the clamor
of gunshots he dozes off thinking of his dream
where he stakes a line between him and all
his neighbors, stabs the ground as he would
their chests. Forms a footing cast in blood-red
earth, bends steel bars as he would their bones
with his bare fists and buries them in concrete.
Mortar mixed thick with anger, each brick laid
heavy with revenge, he smiles as he finishes
the last course high enough to imagine them
more miserable and lonely than him alone
inside his wall, sitting on his greener lawn,
breathing his fresher air, under his bluer sky.
--- "Dreaming a Wall" by Richard Blanco.
"How to Love a Country" by Richard Blanco is available in hardcover and for kindle at Amazon and as an audiobook read by Blanco himself from Audible.


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Build the Biobased Economy
Imagine a future in which sustainably harvested natural resources support jobs-creating manufacturing that makes plant-based products, displacing petroleum and slowing climate change. That's the rapidly emerging "bioeconomy."
The Environmental Health Strategy Center has pioneered a sustainable economic development strategy for the State of Maine that ultimately aims to convert wood chips into biobased chemicals, bioplastics, advanced materials like nanocellulose, and biofuels. The biobased economy will help revitalize rural communities and position rural states like Maine for green job growth over time.
We've partnered with innovative manufacturers organized through the Biobased Maine trade association, and with world-class researchers at the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute at the University of Maine. We're proving prosperity can flow from a healthy environment when the benefits are shared equitably.
Biobased Maine is a mission-driven trade association promoting the sustainable use of renewable biomass from forests, farm, and sea to manufacture the next generation of biobased chemicals, materials, and fuels.


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Deficit Hawks and Hypocrites
Paul Krugman:
Deficit Hawks and Hypocrites: Back in 2010, self-styled deficit hawks — better described as deficit scolds — took over much of our political discourse. At a time of mass unemployment and record-low borrowing costs, a time when economic theory said we needed more, not less, deficit spending, the scolds convinced most of our political class that deficits rather than jobs should be our top economic priority. And now that the election is over, they're trying to pick up where they left off.
It's not just the fact that the deficit scolds have been wrong about everything so far. Recent events have also demonstrated clearly what was already apparent to careful observers: the deficit-scold movement was never really about the deficit. Instead, it was about using deficit fears to shred the social safety net. And letting that happen wouldn't just be bad policy; it would be a betrayal of the Americans…. Consider the early-2011 award for "fiscal responsibility" that three of the leading deficit-scold organizations gave to none other than Paul Ryan. Then as now, Mr. Ryan's alleged plans to reduce the deficit were obvious flimflam, since he was proposing huge tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations while refusing to specify how these cuts would be offset. But in the eyes of the deficit scolds, his plan to dismantle Medicare and his savage cuts to Medicaid apparently qualified him as a fiscal icon.
And how did the deficit scolds react when Mitt Romney served up similar flimflam, with Mr. Ryan as his running mate?… David Walker… the most visible deficit scold in America, endorsed the Romney/Ryan ticket.
And then there's the matter of the "fiscal cliff"… a political crisis brought on by the G.O.P.'s attempt to take the economy hostage… the danger for next year is not that the deficit will be too large but that it will be too small, and hence plunge America back into recession.
Deficit scolds are having a hard time with this issue. How can they warn us not to go over the fiscal cliff without seeming to contradict their own rhetoric about the evils of deficits?…
[W]hat we get… in a white paper on the fiscal cliff from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, is a garbled set of complaints: The adjustment is too fast (why?), or it's the wrong kind of deficit reduction… even as it rails against deficits, the white paper argues against raising tax rates and even suggests cutting them… both hypocritical and incoherent.
[Deficit scolds] don't deserve to have a central role in policy discussion; they really don't even deserve a seat at the table. And they certainly don't deserve to have one of their own appointed as Treasury secretary…. Erskine Bowles… like others in the deficit-scold community, has indulged in scare tactics, warning of an imminent fiscal crisis that keeps not coming. Meanwhile, the report he co-wrote was supposed to be focused on deficit reduction — yet, true to form, it called for lower rather than higher tax rates, and as a "guiding principle" no less…. Look, we should be having a serious discussion about America's fiscal future. But a serious discussion is exactly what we haven't been having these past couple years — because the discourse was hijacked by the wrong people, with the wrong agenda. Let's show them the door.


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Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Emil Jensen, Ghita Nørby, Hans Henrik Clemensen, Amanda Ooms, Antti Reini, Birte Heribertsson, Claire Wikholm
This film was inspired by memories of a cousin of the father of Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell, Jan Troell's wife, who gathered the stories in her book entitled Att människan levde. The main character was the cousin's mother whose love for photography liberated her somehow from her alcoholic husband. Maria Larsson won a photo camera at a lottery and her fascination with photography was enhanced by an owner of a photo studio, who discovered her true visual talent and unique sensitivity and who taught her the magic of photography. Maria started to take photos of her children and neighbours and her first success was a photo published in a newspaper. As her passion developed, a slight feeling was born between her and the photographer, a feeling which could not be fulfilled. Responsible for a large family, Maria was unable to get away from her husband whom she somehow loved.
Once again, like in This Is Your Life and As White as in Snow, Troell returns to the early 20th century, the epoch he has a special sentiment for. With a broad and fascinating social background, he paints a psychologically nuanced portrait of a simple woman and the awakening of her artistic soul.
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Mike Figgis, creator of Leaving Las Vegas will present his four-screen Timecode at the festival, mixing sound and music live.