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Australians Flee Homes as Police Investigate Suspicious Fires
A New South Wales (NSW) Rural Fire Service firefighter sprays water on a bushfire in the suburb known as Salt Ash, located north of Newcastle in Australia, Nov. 23, 2018.
SYDNEY - Hundreds of Australians have fled their homes in the eastern states as 140 fires ravaged parts of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW), officials said on Tuesday.
Strong winds have fanned bushfires in the two Australian states since Monday, with flames out of control in some areas, ravaging thousands of hectares of land.
At least eight of those fires are suspicious and will be investigated, Queensland Police Commissioner Katrina Carroll told reporters.
"Some of the fires have involved children playing and obviously the consequences are dire as a result of that and ... some of them have been purposeful and malicious," she said. "The consequences of some of these fires are dire. People can die. Buildings and residences are being destroyed."
In the northeastern state of Queensland alone, low humidity levels, high winds and dried out vegetation have fueled 85 fires that have destroyed or damaged 84 houses across the state, fire service officials said.
There were more than 400 people in evacuation centers, acting Queensland premier Jackie Trad told reporters. She added that there are none dead or missing.
"Apart from Sunshine Coast, we are still seeing fires right throughout the state," she said.
In neighboring New South Wales, firefighters were battling about 55 fires and about five properties had been confirmed destroyed, the NSW Rural Fire Service said on Monday.
Bushfires have started earlier than normal in the southern hemisphere spring. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said winds would intensify throughout the day on Tuesday, but fire threats should abate on Wednesday.
Australia Battles Fierce Early Season Bushfires
Crews battle unprecedented bushfires in Australian state of Queensland
By Phil Mercer
First Foreign Nationals Evacuate China as US Reportedly Mulls Ban on China Flights


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Sports. You know what they are. You've caught a few highlights or watched entire games. You've gone to a game or two and enjoyed the atmosphere and rivalry. Perhaps you've even played intramural, recreationally or competitively. Yet, you're constantly left wondering who that athlete is your friend keeps talking about or why there seems to be a whistle every thirty seconds in football. When on a date or home for the holidays your sibling, parent, spouse, friend or significant other starts talking about so-and-so achieving some feat that you've never heard. It's as though that person is speaking a foreign language. The statistics, the players, the trades, the minute-by-minute analysis. It goes in one ear and out the other.
You want to engage, you really do. You're desperate to understand and converse, to find common ground with that important individual in your life. But you aren't sure where to even begin, afterall there are four professional sports and then countless others. The idea of knowing a fact about one of them let alone all of them is unbelievably daunting.
That's where InBounds comes into play (with its fair share of sports puns). We'll cover the must-knows from the NFL, NHL, MLB and NHL, with a smattering of know-how from tennis, golf, and NCAA. With weekly posts, we want to get you into the conversation, covering the most newsworthy events in sports so that you can casually drop the score of the game or the MVP of the league. We're giving you not only the big talking points but also historical references and referee calls, to make actually watching the game easier to follow. Our biggest hope is that by learning about sports, you'll learn to love them as much as we do, and hold your own in any conversation at any water cooler, living room or bar!
Let's bring sports, something that feels so far outside your comfort zone, into your boundaries of familiarity. InBound.


If you are not yet convinced, here are some excellent reasons why to try this adventure.
An intensive practice of the language: A linguistic stay means real practice in the actual country. Progress is faster because you speak French, think French and even eat French! French classes, accommodation with a French family and the practice of cultural activities are the keys to effective learning.
Beyond learning the French language, it is the experience of a culture different to yours and an ideal way to open your mind.
Working life quickly teaches you that sometimes it is necessary to adapt to unfamiliar situations. Immersion in a different country and culture is an excellent learning experience: new encounters and situations different from what you are used to forges character. This experience is often a first for teens and young adults and a new step towards self-reliance.
A language study trip allows you to meet students from all over the world who have the same goal: to learn French. When one is away from home, great friendships are made and good times continue to be shared, often through a professional social network, well after the language stay has finished.
There is no longer any excuse to miss mastering a foreign language. A linguistic stay makes it possible to value the practice of a language and knowledge of the culture. A considerable asset in the labor market.
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In any written language, words are subject to a triple association: sound, spelling and of course meaning. For example, the English word horse refers to the working and racing animal, is pronounced /hɔː(ɹ)s/ and spelled h-o-r-s-e. Anyone knowing how to read will be able to pronounce the word relatively correctly even if they have never seen it in writing before, as English is written in the Latin alphabetical script.
As explained by S. Dehaene, the reading process takes place here through the so-called phonological route: graphemes are mechanically converted into phonemes without resorting to deeper semantic representations.
The situation is quite different when it comes to Chinese. All Chinese languages are written in the unified system of Chinese characters. These Chinese characters are pronounced differently in each of the languages of the Chinese linguistic branch, for instance in Mandarin, the most widespread. Non-Chinese speakers often claim that the mapping of a Chinese character and its pronunciation is completely arbitrary; therefore it is said to be impossible to pronounce a character, even when knowing its meaning, unless its pronunciation has been learnt by rote beforehand.
The reality is slightly more subtle. Indeed, it is often necessary to learn simultaneously a word's character and its pronunciation. But it must be stressed that 80% to 90% of Chinese characters are actually compound characters. They often consist of at least two subcomponents: a phonetic root (there are about 200 of them) and a semantic root (there are about 1000 of them). The phonetic root, often on the right side of the compound character, may give clues as to the pronunciation of the character. The semantic root, often on the left, tells about the word's meaning, or at least the lexical category it belongs to. For instance, the Chinese character for a horse is马in simplified Chinese, and is pronounced mă (third tone) in Mandarin.
The word for mother is pronounced mā ma (ma is doubled, the first one is pronounced with the first tone); the compound character for each ma has the semantic root of woman on its left and the phonetic root of horse on its right.
In a paper dated 2007, Bao Guo Chen and colleagues proved that the more arbitrary the mapping between meaning and sound or spelling, the higher the effects of the Age of Acquisition (AoA) on Chinese reading (for native speakers). Characters acquired early would be read with ease; characters acquired at a later stage would be more difficult to read if the correspondence between writing and sound or spelling was difficult to predict.
In other words, the more difficult it is to deduct meaning and spelling by reading a character, the more detrimental late acquisition is to quality and speed of reading.
Thus, within Chinese language and for native speakers, the impact of the Age of Acquisition increases with the arbitrariness of the mapping between meaning, pronunciation and spelling. What is the situation for alphabetical languages? By definition, reading an alphabetical language gives a very valuable clue as to what the pronunciation is going to be*.
Taken as a whole, the Chinese language is significantly more arbitrary than alphabetical languages in terms of mapping from character to sound and meaning. One can therefore assume that for Chinese even more so than for other languages, there is benefit in learning the language early so as not to be negatively impacted by the enhanced effects of the Age of Acquisition on reading.
What is your first impression of Spanish language? Passionate, mysterious, artistic…it could be a mixture of feelings.
With 329 million native speakers, Spanish ranks as the world's No. 2 language in terms of the number of first speakers. Spanish is also the the fourth most widely spoken language around the globe, with at least 3 million native speakers in each of 44 countries.
There are still many beliefs and cliches about bilingual education and bilingualism. This argument deconstructs the 10 most popular beliefs.
1. Monolingualism is the norm and bilingualism is the exception.
Not true. We estimate that more than half the people on the planet are bilingual and 40% speak more than one language on a daily basis. Bilingualism is a phenomenon that exists throughout the world, on all continents and in the majority of countries. There are different ways of being or becoming bilingual: plurilingual family situation, living near a border, schooling in foreign language, working abroad, etc.
2. Being bilingual means mastering two languages and two cultures.
Mastery of two languages is rarely perfect and balanced. We estimate that only 20% of bilinguals are as at ease with one language as they are with the other. Being bilingual is first and foremost about being able to communicate easily in two languages, and being able to switch between languages depending on the situation and the tasks at hand: bilingual people develop and use their languages in different and varied social contexts, for distinct purposes. What's more, we can speak a language without actually knowing and mastering all of the cultural values and practices associated with it: a bilingual person is not strictly bicultural.
3. You will never be bilingual if you learn a second language too late in life.
There is no age limit when it comes to learning another language. The quality of exposure to the language and its teaching, along with motivation, are essential to successful learning. If an adult can learn quicker than a child, he or she will, however, find it more difficult to lose their accent.
4. One language must be mastered before learning another.
Mastering one language is an illusion, as we continue to learn it throughout our lives. Nevertheless, it is beneficial to be able to rely on past achievements in your primary language to develop skills in another language. In the same way, studying another language enriches the knowledge and mastery of the primary language.
5. A child who has a bilingual education must have at least one bilingual parent.
Bilingual teaching applies to all children. It is an educational device and not a school that is just for children from bilingual families. The academic success of children who attend bilingual institutions therefore does not depend on the linguistic skills of their parents. However, if they have the benefit of being exposed to the language outside of school, it means that their learning is enriched and consolidated.
6. You have to be a good student to undergo bilingual education.
Whether or not certain bilingual educational institutions decide to select only the best students, bilingual education applies to all children without discrimination. All students find added value in bilingual education, regardless of their level of learning. Switching to another teaching language can even sometimes help to relieve educational difficulties and encourage better learning.
7. The use of different languages must be avoided in the classroom.
On the contrary, bilingualism can complement the development of both languages: the teacher can then build on this observation to develop adapted teaching strategies, taking the linguistic level of students into account. Alternating languages from one activity to the next and exchanging points of view by comparing ideas and documents in the original language encourages reflection, memorisation or even conceptualisation.
8. You can't study a subject correctly in a foreign language (history, mathematics, sciences, etc.) without mastering this language.
Not true, it all depends on the strategies adopted by the teacher, who must take the linguistic level of students into account. With beginners, for example, it is fluent and efficient to deliberately draw on the students' native language. Additionally, studying a subject in a foreign language allows students greater and different practice of this language, and to be enriched by it.
9. Educating a child in two languages increases the risks of difficulties in their learning.
Bilingual children have no greater difficulty in learning than monolingual children. The only situation that could lead to a bilingual child having difficulty in their learning is if they have not sufficiently mastered any of the languages before starting school.
10. The benefits of a bilingual education are purely linguistic.
Bilingual education allows students to deepen their knowledge of languages and cultures associated with them, which invites them to think and understand the world differently. Furthermore, it motivates students by offering an authentic and dynamic linguistic practice within the framework of different academic disciplines. By approximating language and knowledge, we encourage students to exercise mental flexibility, which translates to being better able to resolve problems in various situations, as well as making them more selfsufficient.
Music training speeds up brain development in children, especially in the sound processing function. For very young children, music has more power and meaning than words. Moreover, when children are exposed to music from other countries and cultures, they are able to learn about a different part of the world.
Singing is also one of the important tools that VivaLing coaches use to engage our young learners. If your kids learn with us, you must have heard some lyrics that are familiar, "if you're happy happy happy clap your hands", "how many fingers on one hand?", "what are you wearing?".
Here are six more fantastic English songs, recommended by our creative coaches. Learn them with your young ones, let them sing these songs with their coaches next session. The objective is clear – to make your children's learning journey more fun!
"This is a great adventure song! We follow a boy and a girl who are looking for a lion. We can act with them on their journey and it is also a song that is used with native kids. This song is for slightly older children." A quick note, this song is more suitable for children over five years old.
This week is the "Semaine de la Langue Française et de la Francophonie" (Week of French language and cultures). A great occasion to give you more information about this international language spoken on the 5 continents.
French is one of the very few languages spoken all over the world, ranked the sixth most widely spoken language after Mandarin Chinese (over a billion speakers), English, Hindi, Spanish and Arabic. There are currently over 220 million French speakers worldwide, including 72 million so-called partial French speakers. Europe accounts for 39.87% of the French-speaking population, sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean for 36.03%, North Africa and the Middle East for 15.28%, America and the Caribbean for 7.66% and Asia/Oceania for 1.16% (OIF, La langue française dans le monde, 2010).
As a result of population growth, the OIF estimates that the number of French speakers will rise to over 700 million by 2050, 80% of whom will be in Africa. This would take the proportion of French speakers in the world population from 3% to 8%.
French is unusual in that it often exists alongside other languages in multilingual contexts. In Europe (excluding France), the largest populations of French speakers are essentially to be found in Belgium (45% of the population), Switzerland (20% of the population) and Luxembourg. French is Europe's second most widely spoken mother tongue with over 77 million speakers, after Germany (around 100 million) but ahead of English (around 61 million). Demographers forecast that France's birth rate will make French the most widely spoken mother tongue in Europe, ousting German, by 2025. French is an official language of 29 countries, second only to English in this category.
French is also taught at establishments run by France's cultural network abroad (Instituts Français and Alliance Française schools), which provide courses for close on a million language students, and in the 481 establishments of the French school network abroad, which provide an education based on the French national curriculum for 310,000 pupils, half of whom are foreign nationals, in 133 countries.
It is one of the working languages of many other international institutions: the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Council of Europe, the African Union (AU), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).
French plays a special role in international sporting life as an official language of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and hence of the Olympic Games. The inauguration in 1989 of the Francophone Games has underscored the existence of a real international French-speaking sports community.
France and the French-speaking countries play an active part in the world economy, accounting for some 20% of world trade in goods.
Membership of the French-speaking community, which accounts for 15% of the world's wealth and one tenth of its agricultural land, is thus a source of great potential, particularly in periods of economic crisis, and particularly so for our partners in the Global South who stand to benefit the most.
Over 100 million young people are learning French/learning in French at schools and universities around the world. Primary and secondary education in French is delivered in primary, secondary and high schools approved by the French Ministry of Education, collectively known as the French international schools. There are 481 such schools in over 133 countries with a total of 310,000 pupils, over half of whom do not hold French nationality.


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An Engineer's Guide to Double-Entry Bookkeeping
By Meredydd
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Do you really understand your accounts? Could you build your books from scratch?
If you run a business, you've probably heard of double-entry bookkeeping.
It's "the most influential work in the history of capitalism". We "may not have had the Industrial Revolution without it". It's kind of a big deal.
But, especially if you're a technical founder, you might not actually understand it. You're not alone: I conducted a survey of early-stage founders at our co-working space in Cambridge, with companies from 2 to 16 people in size. About 75% of founders said they didn't understand bookkeeping! It seems that many founders are just mashing buttons in Quickbooks and hoping for the best.
But we're hackers – we can do better than that! If you can write code, you can understand double-entry bookkeeping. And we're going to prove it, by building an accounting app from scratch. All you need is a little bit of Python.
Part 1: The basics
There are two rules of double-entry bookkeeping:
Every financial category in your business is represented by an account.
Every financial transaction in your business can be represented as a transfer between accounts.
Let's say my startup has $2,000 in the bank. I then spend $1,500 of that on a laptop. If I was just looking at the money in my bank account, I'd think that money just disappeared. But it didn't disappear – it turned into a laptop!
We can record our new laptop in a separate account (we'll call it "Fixed Assets"). Here's how that looks:
We can see that the total value of our company's assets hasn't changed: We've just traded $1,500 worth of cash for $1,500 worth of laptop.
The purchase is entered twice (hence "double entry"): it removes value from Cash in Bank, and adds it to Fixed Assets. The entries must always balance, so no value has disappeared – it's just been moved around.
(We should note that we're taking a very database-y view of our accounts here. An accountant wouldn't talk about "moving value around". Instead they would say, "we applied a $1,500 credit to Cash in Bank and a $1,500 debit to Fixed Assets" 1. We're programmers, so I'm going to keep it simple and just talk about adding and subtracting numbers. From time to time, I'll provide translations into accounting language, like this one. If you're confused, start by ignoring everything in italics – once you understand how it all works, you can come back for the Accounting Jargon Decoder Ring.)
Let's build it!
I think we understand enough to start building our accounting system. Let's fire up Anvil, create a new app, and set up the built-in database (Data Tables) to represent our accounting history:
We make an Accounts table, with just a name column.
The Journal Entries table does the heavy lifting. It records the date and amount of every change made to every account.
To make it easier to check that every transaction is balanced, we group all the balancing entries for a transaction together: We make a table of Transactions with a description for each transaction, and then we link each journal entry to the transaction it's part of.
Here's our database, with two balancing journal entries representing a single transaction (buying a laptop):
Now we have a database, we can store transactions in it. Here's the code to create a new transaction:
def add_new_transaction(date, from_account, to_account, amount, description):
txn = app_tables.transactions.add_row(description=description, date=date)
app_tables.journal_entries.add_row(
change=+amount, account=to_account, transaction=txn, date=date
change=-amount, account=from_account, transaction=txn, date=date
For example, here some code we could run to record that laptop purchase:
cash_in_bank = app_tables.accounts.get(name="Cash in Bank")
fixed_assets = app_tables.accounts.get(name="Fixed Assets")
add_new_transaction(date=date.today(),
from_account=cash_in_bank, to_account=fixed_assets,
amount=1500, description="Purchased laptop")
Now we can make a web interface for entering transactions. We use Anvil's visual designer to create a form for entering the transaction details. Then, when the user clicks Add Entry, we call our add_new_transaction() function:
To see the source code to our app so far, click here to open it in the Anvil editor:
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Part 2: Dealing with the Real World
OK, so that's the easy part – and this is where most introductions to double entry bookkeeping stop. But we still have a problem: How do we interact with the outside world?
As we keep saying, every transaction is balanced – it sums to zero. But a company is not a closed system! Sometimes, you spend money on something and it's gone. If I spend $500 a month on delicious seasonal treats, that money really has left the company. Likewise, if I make something and sell it, I really have brought new money into the company.
But in the system we've designed so far, there's no way to represent that. I could make an account representing "Things Meredydd Ate", and record my Mini Egg habit by transferring $500 each month from Cash in Bank to Things Meredydd Ate. But as far as our database is concerned, the asset value of the company has not changed: I have just been steadily reallocating our assets from cash to chocolate.
This is clearly not an accurate representation of our business. What can we do to fix it?
"Balance Sheet" vs "Profit and Loss"
The answer is to separate our bookkeeping records: we create special accounts that represent "outside the company", and treat them differently from things our company owns. We name them after the financial statements they're used for:
Balance sheet accounts are the accounts we've already met. They represent things we own (assets, such as cash in a bank) or things we owe (liabilities, like a loan we will have to pay back – these have negative value).
For any point in time, we can work out the value of each balance-sheet account on that date. This lets us display everything we owned or owed on that date: This is the company's balance sheet.
Profit and loss accounts are accounts that represent the outside world. Transactions with these accounts represent income and expenses – that is to say, value flowing into or out of the company. For example, when we sell something, we can think of it as a transfer of money from "Sales" to a balance sheet account like "Cash in Bank". When we spend money on Mini Eggs and I promptly eat them, that's a transfer to "Expenses".
It doesn't make sense to keep a running total of these (how much money does "the rest of the world" have, anyway?). We want to answer questions like, "how much did we spend on Mini Eggs web hosting this month?"
For any period of time (eg "last year"), what we want to know is how much money the company has gained or lost from outside, and which P&L accounts it flowed from or to. We add up all transactions with every profit-and-loss account that occurred between the specified dates (eg from January 1st last year to January 1st this year), to get the profit and loss statement for that time period.
If you sum up all the accounts on a balance sheet on a given date, you know how much your company was worth (its "book value" on that date). If you calculate a profit and loss statement between two dates, you know how much profit or loss you made over that time period. Because all transactions balance, the total profit (or loss) between two dates is equal to the change in total book value between those two dates.
So we can see how much our company is worth right now (that's the balance sheet for today), and how much it was worth last year (balance sheet for one year ago). And we can see how we got from there to here: where all those gains and losses came from (that's the profit and loss statement from a year ago until today).
And because we're using double-entry, this is an accurate way to measure profit! For example, buying new laptops for the team might deplete your bank account, but the company didn't suddenly become unprofitable that month. The P&L lets you see through the noise in your bank account, and understand your actual financial position.
Implementing this in our app
Let's add this distinction to our bookkeeping system. We add a new boolean column to the Accounts table, to record whether something is a balance-sheet or a profit-and-loss account. We'll add a new account, "Sales", which is not a balance-sheet account:
We'll put some sample data in to demonstrate. Let's say we sold $2000 worth of widgets the week before we bought our laptop. We record that as a transfer from Sales (outside the company), to Cash in Bank:
Notice that because we've gained value from the outside world, the change to the Sales account (profit and loss) is actually negative! This balances the positive change to Cash in Bank (balance sheet).
(Again, professional accountants would use different words here – they'd say "we applied a $2,000 credit to Sales, and a $2,000 debit to Cash in Bank" 2 – but the arithmetic is the same.)
Building a Balance Sheet
We can now add up each type of account separately, and calculate two important reports:
The Balance Sheet shows all our assets and liabilities at a given point in time. The total is the company's "book value":
Here's the code that calculates the balance of an account on a given date. We just add up all that account's journal entries, up to the specified date:
def get_balance_for_account(account, date):
balance = 0
for entry in app_tables.journal_entries.search(account=account,
date=q.less_than(date)):
balance += entry['change']
return balance
Now we can calculate the balance for every balance-sheet account in our system:
def get_balance_sheet(date):
return [{'name': account['name'], 'balance': get_balance_for_account(account, date)}
for account in app_tables.accounts.search(balance_sheet=True)]
This produces a list of dictionaries, which is easy to display in a Data Grid. And that's how we produce the balance sheet screen you see above.
Building a Profit and Loss Statement
Secondly, there's the Profit and Loss Statement, which shows how much value the company gained from, or lost to, each P&L account over a given period:
And here's the code that calculates it for each account. It's very similar to the balance-sheet code – after all, it's just summing up all the changes to an account over a time period:
def get_profit_for_account(account, from_date, to_date):
profit = 0
date=q.between(from_date, to_date)):
# Subtract, because any money going out of a P&L account
# is a gain for us, and any money going in is a loss for us.
profit -= entry['change']
return profit
But there is one important difference. Profit and Loss accounts represent "outside the company", and we want to count how much we've gained from P&L accounts – profit should be positive! Because journal entries always balance, we've already seen that a gain from Sales represents a negative change to the Sales account. So, to calculate our profit, we start at zero and subtract every change to the Profit and Loss account.
(An accountant would say, "when we display Profit and Loss accounts, we display credit balances as positive". Again, the underlying arithmetic is the same: We add up everything in a Profit and Loss account, then flip the sign before we display it, so that negative [aka "credit"] numbers are displayed as positive.)
That's it! We've built a web-based accounting system with just a few lines of Python. We can enter transactions, and generate both balance sheets and profit-and-loss statements. In this article, we've been concentrating on the data-handling code – but thanks to Anvil, making a web-based user interface was the easy part.
Click here to open the app in the Anvil editor, read the source code, and try it out yourself:
Should you use this code to manage your startup? Probably not. Use a full-featured accounting system like Quickbooks: it can import transactions from your bank, knows about tax regimes, handles multiple currencies, and much more. And you can still drive your accounting records with code – these systems have powerful APIs.
Of course, out-of-the-box tools can't do everything. Your business will have processes you want to optimise, and common tasks you want to turn into one-click affairs. We build all our internal workflow tools with Anvil – we've written accounting tools that use the Quickbooks API to query transactions, record expenses and raise invoices. And now you understand how double-entry bookkeeping works, you're ready to do the same thing!
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Many thanks to our awesome accountants, Lucy and David Parry of Parry & Parry, who taught me everything in this post. Any mistakes in here are assuredly mine and not theirs. If you're looking for accounting services in and around Cambridge or London, we recommend them heartily.
Epilogue: Examples
Still wondering how to represent a particular financial event? Here are a few examples to show how we use double-entry bookkeeping to represent what's happening:
What happens when I issue an invoice?
Businesses often sell things "on credit": We give the customer a product, and issue them an invoice. Some time later, the customer pays the invoice.
How to represent this? Well, if we've issued an invoice, the customer owes us money – so that's an asset! We record these assets in their own balance-sheet account: "Accounts Receivable".
When we make a sale, we transfer value from the Sales account (that's Profit and Loss, because we're gaining value from the outside world) into Accounts Receivable. Later, when the customer pays the invoice, that's a transfer from Accounts Receivable to Cash in Bank.
Note how we made the profit when we made the sale, not when the money reached our bank account. But in between making the sale and receiving cold hard cash, we could track how much money we were owed by our customers. This gives us a lot more visibility into the business than just looking at our bank account.
What happens if someone doesn't pay an invoice?
If you've given up on ever getting money from someone, you write off the debt – it turns out this asset wasn't worth as much as we had thought. This is a loss, so we record this as a transfer from Accounts Receivable to Sales. (The usual term for this is a "bad debt".)
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Again, we can represent this as a transfer from the balance-sheet to a P&L account. We typically model equipment as having a "useful economic life", and spread its cost over that period. We call this "depreciating". So if we depreciate our $1,500 laptop over 3 years, that means at the end of each year we transfer $500 from Fixed Assets (balance-sheet) to Depreciation (profit-and-loss). After three years, according to our accounting records, the laptop is now worthless.
This neatly expresses that "we need to buy new laptops from time to time" is an ongoing issue. We don't take a surprise loss every three years when we replace our laptops; we spread it out over the equipment's useful life.
Yes, accountants use "credit" for subtracting (negative numbers), and "debit" for adding (positive numbers). This might sound backwards to you. After all, when you deposit cash into your bank account, they "credit" you when they increase your balance, right? This is because your bank statement is written from the bank's point of view. Every dollar in your bank account is a dollar the bank owes you. This means it's a liability to them: it has negative value, so it's a "credit". To avoid this confusion, we'll just talk about adding and subtracting numbers. [return]
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Q: RAILS & RSpec: expecting <"similar_movies"> but rendering with <[]> This is the .spec file:
describe MoviesController do
    describe 'similar_movies' do
        before :each do
            @fake_results = [double('movie1'), double('movie2')]
        end
        it 'should call the model method that searches similar movies' do
            expect(Movie).to receive(:similar_movies).with("1").
            and_return @fake_results
            get :similar_movies, :id => 1
        end
        it 'should select the similar_movies template for rendering' do
            Movie.stub(:similar_movies).and_return(@fake_results)
            expect(response).to render_template(:similar_movies)
            get :similar_movies, :id => 1
        end
        # it 'should make the similar_movies results avaliable to that template'do

        # end
    end

This is the controller action:
 # METHOD TO FIND MOVIES WITH THE SAME DIRECTOR AS A GIVEN ONE
   def similar_movies
    @similar_movies_arr = Movie.similar_movies(params[:id])
    #render 'similar_movies'
   end

This is the model method:
    def self.similar_movies(id)
    movie = Movie.find(id)
    director = movie['director']
    @similar_movies_arr = []
    @similar_movies = Movie.where(["director = ?", "#{director}"])
    @similar_movies.each do |m|
      @similar_movies_arr << m
    end
    return @similar_movies_arr
  end

And this The template:
    -@similar_movies_arr.each do |movie|
  %h1= movie.title

It's very simple, my first steps with RSpec, but it fails. Please, can someone help me to understand this error
MoviesController similar_movies should select the similar_movies template for rendering
 Failure/Error: expect(response).to render_template(:similar_movies)
   expecting <"similar_movies"> but rendering with <[]>

A: The main problem is that you need to do the get before expecting to render template.
  get :similar_movies, :id => 1
  expect(response).to render_template(:similar_movies)

your test will still have problems because you don't have fake movies to search that you can access the director field.  You might want to look at factories to create some test movies.
The third comment is you might want to switch from using the Movie.stub to the new format of allow(Movie).to receive... like the expect earlier just using switching the allow for expect

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Generally, if a pressure drop is found, taps, toilets, and other water outlets are rechecked for drips or slow use. If no drips or slow use, such a running toilet, is found, then the lines must be leaking under the house. For sewers, there is also simple two step test. First, the sewer line is blocked off with a balloon where it comes out from under the foundation. Next the sewer is filled with water. Given that the sewer is blocked off from the main, if the water level in the sewer drops, there must be a leak.
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Commemorating Tom Wills?
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The Tom Wills saga
Roy Hay
Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 20 October 2011, p. 40.
The campaign for the recognition of Tom Wills by a memorial or statue in Geelong seems to be gathering pace following Greg de Moore's urging at a recent talk on Wills. I have no objections to the man being recognised by some piece of public art or sculpture, but I am afraid that some of the claims made for his contribution to the early game of football are very shaky. It would be an enormous pity if the legend rather than the history appeared on any monument.
There is no doubt that Tom Wills' on-field contributions to both cricket and football were extraordinary. In those roles he seemed to combine the qualities of a David Hookes and Gary Ablett, senior, two equally mercurial figures who lit up their sports in their respective eras. So if we can celebrate that I would have no qualms. But it is the claims for his off-field influence which are less convincing.
Certainly he wrote that celebrated letter to Bell's Life in Victoria in 1858 advocating the setting up of a football club to keep the cricketers fit during the winter, which many regard as the birth certificate of Australian Rules. But he left it almost entirely to others to do the work and though he was present when a group of people wrote down a set of rules for the Melbourne club, his advocacy of the rules of Rugby school in England did not meet with understanding or acceptance by his colleagues.
When it comes to his role in the Geelong club there is next to no contemporary evidence of his role. Everything seems to come from much later through people like George Glencross Smith and Henry Colden Antill Harrison and Wills himself. The advertisement for the formation of the Geelong club in 1859 appears over the name of A M Mason, who captained the club in several later matches, not Wills. Indeed Wills does not appear in any of the team lists for 1859, 1860 or 1861 and the one appearance of the Wills name in 1862 is of one of his brothers, since Tom was in Queensland that year.
Greg de Moore mentions the possibility of a game in Geelong before that recorded in 1859 but the only evidence of a game of football that year in Geelong was a proposal by William Stitt Jenkins, a teetotaller, who tried to set up a Saturday afternoon football club in Geelong in April 1859 in an attempt to curb the influence of alcohol on the young men of the town, and to 'provide bracing exercise … [for] persons cramped during the week by desk or counter service'. On the other hand, there are several examples of football matches being played in Geelong as early as 1850. Those games had no input from Tom Wills.
The other piece of the legend these days is the notion that Wills was the conduit through which Aboriginal influence was brought into the early game. Despite the best efforts of Jim Poulter, Martin Flanagan, Barry Judd and a number of other researchers there is no convincing link between the games which Aborigines played and the emergence of a unique code of football among the colonists. That corresponds with what happened in most cases in connection with modern sports. Ancient cultural practices did not, on the whole, translate into sports as we know them. Again that does not mean that we should give up the search for links between Aboriginal and modern games, just that there is no convincing evidence as yet and none of Wills' involvement.
Geoffrey Blainey insisted that football in Australia was not the work of one man and that the game changed significantly in its early years. Until we have a collective biography of that founding generation, many of whom were very significant sporting figures, like George Reynolds Rippon, another multi-sports personality, we will not be able to evaluate Wills' contribution adequately. So I think what we write on that monument, if it is ever erected, must be carefully researched so that future generations will understand what Wills really did for the game. To me that will not diminish Tom Wills in any way, but claiming more for him than he actually contributed does not do him or history any service.
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Macular degeneration (MD) is a condition which affects the macula, a small area at the centre of the retina which sits at the back of the eye.
The macula is responsible for what we see straight in front of us, allowing us to see fine detail for activities such as reading and writing, as well as our ability to see colour. The condition is most common in people over 65.
Vision can be severely affected if the cells of the macula are damaged and stop working – this is known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Symptoms include blurred vision or distortion, with straight lines appearing wavy and objects appearing to be an unusual size or shape. In more advanced cases, sufferers develop a blank patch or dark spot in the centre of their sight which makes reading, writing and recognising some objects difficult.
There are two types of AMD, dry macular degeneration and wet macular degeneration.
Dry macular degeneration tends to develop gradually and causes no pain. While no one knows exactly what causes the condition, it has been linked to heredity and environmental factors, like diet and smoking. In some cases, dry macular degeneration can progress into wet macular degeneration.
Wet macular degeneration is caused by the growth of abnormal blood vessels within the retina, leading to a build-up of fluid, bleeding and scarring. Wet AMD can cause serious visual loss in a much shorter space of time than dry AMD, sometimes within a few months.
The most common and effective treatment for wet macular degeneration is known as anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) theory. This is an injection of a drug into the eye that controls the build-up of fluid under the retina. In normal patients, VEGF is a healthy molecule which promotes the growth of blood vessels.
However, when the VEGF works less effectively, new blood vessels in the choroid layer (behind the retina) are weaker and so leak into the retinal layers. The anti-VEGF injections prevent new blood vessels from forming behind the retina, so there are no weak blood vessels to leak and cause the symptoms of wet AMD.
The injections are not a cure for AMD, but they may stop it from getting worse. In some cases treatment for macular degeneration may improve sight, providing treatment is started at an early stage of the condition.
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The injections are usually carried out as a day-case or out-patient procedure, with no overnight stay in hospital. They are usually performed under local anaesthesia, which means that you will be awake during the procedure. Your consultant will discuss the benefits and associated risks of injections for wet AMD, together with any alternatives to the treatment.at your initial consultation.
On the day of treatment, you'll be given local anaesthetic eye drops before the injection, and the area around your eye will be cleaned with an antiseptic. Once the anaesthetic has taken affect, your consultant will inject the drug through the wall of the eye. The injection takes a few minutes and you'll usually be able to go home about an hour later.
You may need regular repeat injections for the treatment to be successful – please ask your consultant for further advice.
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A Massachusetts man is asking a judge to dismiss portions of charges accusing him of providing support to al-Qaida, arguing that most of his activities amounted to free speech protected by the First Amendment.
BOSTON – A Massachusetts man is asking a judge to dismiss portions of charges accusing him of providing support to al-Qaida, arguing that most of his activities amounted to free speech protected by the First Amendment.
Lawyers for Tarek Mehanna are expected to make the arguments Wednesday during a hearing in U.S. District Court. Mehanna, an American citizen from the wealthy Boston suburb of Sudbury, is accused in a 2010 indictment of conspiring to kill American troops in Iraq.
In a motion to dismiss the parts of the charges that are based on speech protected by the First Amendment, Mehanna's lawyers say he watched movies, translated texts and talked with people about controversial topics inherent in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They say his speech was "at worst, political hyperbole."
"This is not the kind of speech that would lead listeners to immediately engage in violence or lawless action. The indictment attests to the fact that the defendant's speech led to absolutely nothing," attorneys J.W. Carney Jr. and Janice Bassil argue in the motion.
Prosecutors, however, say Mehanna traveled to Yemen to seek training in a terrorist camp and supported terrorist groups by translating videos and textbooks intended to encourage others to participate in Muslim holy war, or jihad. They say that Mehanna, though unsuccessful in getting training in a camp, committed a crime by being part of a conspiracy to provide support to a terrorist organization.
U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. also plans to hear arguments Wednesday on a request by prosecutors to not release certain evidence against Mehanna.to his lawyers.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. argued in court documents that evidence gathered through electronic surveillance and physical searches under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act should be reviewed by the judge privately and not turned over to the defense because the disclosure of "top secret" materials could harm national security.
"The FISA Materials contain sensitive and classified information concerning United States intelligence sources and methods and other information related to efforts of the United States to conduct counterterrorism investigations, including the manner and means by which those investigations are conducted," Holder stated in a memo filed in court last month.
Mehanna in scheduled to go on trial in October on charges that include conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and making false statements.
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Curriculum Vitae of Michael T.B. Dennis, M.D.
President of the Palm Beach County Medical Society Services Board and a trustee of Florida Atlantic University.
Graduate Experience: University of Florida, M.D. 1968 with extensive externships at Guy's Hospital, London, under Sir Hedley Atkins, 1966, and at the Osler Ward, Johns Hopkins, 1967; elected to Alpha Omega Alpha (national honorary medical society) 1968; recipient of Watson Research Award 1967.
Intra-residency Experience: Asked by the head of Stanford Public Health Department, Dr. Count Gibson, and by the head of Stanford Surgery Department, Dr. Robert Chase, to develop a primary care Physicians' Assistant/Nurse Practitioner Program. Singlehandedly founded the project including developing a curriculum in an educational network that included the Nursing School and several community colleges in the Bay Area, writing the grant application to NIH, and establishing the program in 1972. Celebrated its first graduating class in 1973 and still active.
As a result of the immediately preceding effort, appointed by then Governor Ronald Reagan to the Health Manpower Commission (responsible for funding primary care residencies throughout California) and to the Special Medical Practice Act Committee (to rewrite state law to allow function of graduates from the PA and NP programs).
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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a diagnosis that equally challenges clinicians, patients, and family members. The number of patients with this condition is rising rapidly as our population ages. By the year 2040 – only 15 years from now – it is anticipated that 20% of the population in the United States will be over the age of 65.1 The biggest risk factor for dementia is simply age, with half of all people over age 85 having some form of dementia.2 Alzheimer's accounts for approximately 80% of all dementias.3 Understanding and treating AD is something that all naturopathic physicians need to be comfortable with, sooner rather than later.
The primary dementia diagnoses include:
Alzheimer's disease: The most common form of dementia among individuals over age 65; amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain are characteristic of the disease; memory is most commonly affected, though other mental functions can become impaired with disease progression4
Early-onset Alzheimer's disease: Has a strong genetic component; onset is in one's 50s or before; decline is more rapid than with the more common form of Alzheimer's
Vascular dementia: Occurs as a result of a cerebrovascular incident; in advanced dementia may be mixed with AD
Frontotemporal lobe dementia: Onset is between ages 40 and 70; often includes strong personality changes and detectable inclusions such as Pick cells or Lewy bodies
Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease
Along with aging, risk factors for AD include the following:
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): MCI has been referred to as "pre-Alzheimer's," since 80% of MCI patients were believed to progress to Alzheimer's disease. More recent studies suggest a much lower rate of progression, from 2% to 7.4%.5 MCI is abnormal memory function for one's age, but without the debilitation associated with AD.
Head Injury: History of traumatic brain injury may lead to Alzheimer's.6 Always ask about this with new patients.
Diabetes and pre-diabetes: These risk factors are more relevant in the "younger elders" (under age 80), and are particularly concerning in patients with a known diagnosis of MCI.
APOE-4 gene: This genotype is found in 40% of patients with AD.7 Note: 25% of the unaffected population has APOE-4. APOE-3 is neutral in effect, and APOE-2 may even be protective.7
Polypharmacy: 37% of Americans age 60 and older are on 5 or more medications.8 Drug interactions can impact memory function, and certain specific pharmaceutical medications have been linked to dementia risk, such as benzodiazepenes.9
What is Normal in Aging?
When distinguishing dementia from typical age-related changes, there are several points that help with baseline differential diagnosis. The following changes are considered normal with aging, thus are not diagnostic of dementia:
Decreased ability to multi-task. The brain is always less efficient when attempting to manage multiple mental activities simultaneously, but with age the ability to juggle several discrete threads at once noticeably deteriorates. Sometimes this can be a healthy wake-up call to patients, and with a deliberate shift to a more "one thing at a time" focus, they notice increased patience, mental clarity, and satisfaction.
Slower response times. This can occur with cognitive recall ("What was that person's name?") and with physical response times (eg, catching a ball). This generally improves when one is not multi-tasking, and patients can mitigate this effect by removing distractions. One important example of this is while driving – it's helpful for the driver to not be carrying on a conversation, learning a new car and/or route, or be distracted by the parade by the side of the road.
Forgetting things, but remembering them later. This recall can occur minutes or hours later. Once again, this is something that humans of all ages do; it merely happens more frequently with age and we tend to pay more attention to it. As long as we are forgetting things like where a book was laid, or items on the grocery list, this is well within normal parameters. Obviously, if a person is forgetting to the point of leaving the burner on, or the front door wide open for hours, this is a matter of greater concern.
Ability to learn new things. If patients can learn a new game, discuss a recent book or article that interested them, or master a new technology, then they are unlikely to have dementia. This is because the most common forms of dementia degrade the frontal cortex's ability to lay down new pathways early on in the disease.
Diagnosis of AD
While imaging is not considered routine for screening or even for diagnosis, it is still used by some physicians when attempting to establish a diagnosis. MRI is the best way to discern whether there is global atrophy or specific lobe atrophy. A CT scan is best for ruling out space-occupying lesions and identifying areas with neurofibrillary tangles (higher numbers in AD) and beta-amyloid plaques (a pathological sign of AD).
Diagnosis of AD is still largely clinical rather than test-based. While certain biomarkers, such as presence of the APOE-4 gene, can reflect increased risk, they are not causative and therefore are of limited use in routine testing. Imaging can reveal the presence of structural elements like neurofibrillary plaques in the brain; however, presence alone is not directly correlated to clinical presentation of disease, and imaging is too costly to use for routine screening. The best clinical evaluation tools remain cognitive screening tests. The Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE) is the best known and most widely used; however, more recently developed tests like the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) are more sophisticated and are just as easy to use.
Here are a few clinical pearls to keep in mind… Anosmia – loss of sense of smell – is potentially a clinical predictor for the development of Alzheimer's10 or Lewy Body dementia (which has some overlap with Parkinson's).11 Also, screen for possible changes in language use, as new research shows that degradation of language complexity – such as excessive repetition, use of filler words, and decrease in use of unique words – can be an early predictor of dementia.12
Pharmaceutical Medications
Anti-cholinesterase inhibitors (eg, donezepil, rivastigmine, galantamine) work by inhibiting the acetylcholinesterase enzyme, thereby increasing the amount of circulating acetylcholine (which is typically low in Alzheimer's patients). These medications are optimally used when trying to keep a patient at home, since although they temporarily slow the decline and progression of symptoms, the effect is temporary – 6-12 months at best. NMDA receptor antagonists (eg, memantine) are used in moderate-to-severe AD, and work by blocking excess glutamate, which is neuro-excitatory. These drugs are also temporary in effect and carry strong side effects. They are often used in conjunction with anti-cholinesterase inhibitors.
Diet, Nutrition & Exercise
Fundamentally, like many diseases, AD responds well to a low-glycemic,13 anti-inflammatory diet. This approach may affect epigenetic expression of the APOE-4 gene, as well as increase clearance of beta-amyloid plaques. There is some evidence of a connection between AD and herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1),14 so maintenance of an L-lysine-rich diet for affected patients may be of benefit. Coconut oil has often been cited anecdotally as being useful for patients with a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. The literature is not supportive at this time, but given the low risk associated with regular consumption of coconut oil, I often advocate that patients use this in their daily cooking. Caffeine consumption, coffee in particular,15 has been linked to both short- and long-term cognitive health, so is easily recommended unless contraindicated by other comorbidities, such as atrial fibrillation or chronic insomnia.
Exercise is a critical component of care for patients trying to prevent AD or are living with the disease. Physical exercise mediates effects of common possible contributory illnesses. It also decreases risk factors for those diseases, notably hypertension and type 2 diabetes. It increases cerebral blood flow and production of neurotrophins (eg, brain derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF). Exercise decreases the risk of dementia while increasing cognitive performance. The bottom line is that exercise helps – any form of exercise – and all patients (and their doctors) should be active every single day.
Substantial clinical benefit can be derived from employing the dietary changes listed above, getting daily exercise, and improving sleep quality and quantity. See Table 1 if additional treatments are deemed appropriate.
Table 1. Top 3 Additional Treatments
Compound Dosage Clinical Effect
Bacopa monnieri 300-450 mg QD Improves memory recall; neuroprotective16
Vitamin E 2000 IU QD Decreases rate of functional decline17
Hericium erinaceus (lion's mane mushroom) 1000-4000 mg of hot water extract per day (containing a minimum of 15% beta-glucan) Stimulates nerve growth factor; improves cognitive impairment18
As our population continues to age at a rapid pace, physicians should be prepared to treat Alzheimer's disease. As with other chronic illnesses, a multi-faceted approach is important. The tools listed above can help you create a simple structure for approaching care of patients with Alzheimer's.
Alethea Fleming, ND, is a passionate advocate for naturopathic geriatric medicine. She is a 2007 Bastyr University graduate, as well as a member of WANP, AANP, and OncANP. Dr Fleming is the owner and lead physician of the Vital Aging Clinic in Anacortes, Washington, providing primary and adjunctive care. She is an engaging public speaker who strives to make naturopathic geriatric care accessible to all providers. In her off hours, Dr Fleming can be found hiking the trails of Fidalgo Island, spending time with her family, or with her nose firmly in a good book.
The United States Census Bureau. The Older Population: 2010. Issued November 2011. Available at: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-09.pdf. Accessed April 20, 2015.
Cleveland Clinic. Diseases & Conditions: Dementia. Last reviewed September 5, 2014. Available at: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases_conditions/hic_Types_of_Dementia. Accessed June 1, 2015.
Alzheimer's Association. Types of Dementia. Alz.org Web site. http://www.alz.org/dementia/types-of-dementia.asp. Accessed June 1, 2015.
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institute on Aging. Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center. Alzheimer's Disease Fact Sheet. Updated June 9, 2015. NIH Web site. https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers-disease-fact-sheet. Accessed June 15, 2015.
Rosenberg PB, Lyketsos C. Mild cognitive impairment: searching for the prodrome of Alzheimer's disease. World Psychiatry. 2008;7(2):72-8.
Johnson VE, Stewart W, Smith DH. Traumatic brain injury and amyloid-β pathology: a link to Alzheimer's disease? Nat Rev Neurosci. 2010;11(5):361-370.
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institute on Aging. Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center. Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Fact Sheet. Updated April 13, 2015. NIH Web site. http://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers-disease-genetics-fact-sheet. Accessed April 20, 2015.
Gu Q, Dillon CF, Burt VL. Prescription Drug Use Continues to Increase: U.S. Prescription Drug Data for 2007-2008. NCHS Data Brief. Number 42, September 2010. CDC Web site. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db42.htm. Accessed April 20, 2015.
Billioti de Gage S, Moride Y, Ducruet T, et al. Benzodiazepine use and risk of Alzheimer's disease: case-control study. BMJ. 2014;349:g5205
Makowska I, Kloszewska I, Grabowska A, et al. Olfactory deficits in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease in the Polish elderly population. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2011;26(3):270-279.
Sato T, Hanyu H, Kume K, et al. Difference in olfactory dysfunction with dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011;59(5):947-948.
Berisha V, Wang S, LaCross A, Liss J. Tracking discourse complexity preceding Alzheimer's disease diagnosis: a case study comparing the press conferences of presidents Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. J Alzheimers Dis. 2015;45(3):959-963.
Kopf D, Frölich L. Risk of incident Alzheimer's disease in diabetic patients: a systematic review of prospective trials. J Alzheimer's Dis. 2009;16(4):677-685.
Wozniak MA, Frost AL, Itzhaki RF. Alzheimer's disease-specific tau phosphorylation is induced by herpes simplex virus type 1. J Alzheimer's Dis. 2009;16(2):341-350.
Carman A, Dacks P, Lane R, et al. Current evidence for the use of coffee and caffeine to prevent age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease. J Nutr Health Aging. 2014;18(4):383-392.
Singh M, Murthy V, Ramassamy C. Modulation of hydrogen peroxide and acrolein-induced oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunctions and redox regulated pathways by the Bacopa Monniera extract: potential implications in Alzheimer's disease. J Alzheimer's Dis. 2010;21(1):229-247.
Dysken MW, Sano M, Asthana S, et al. Effect of vitamin E and memantine on functional decline in Alzheimer's disease: the TEAM-AD VA cooperative randomized trial. JAMA. 2014;311(1)33-44.
Mori K, Inatomi S, Ouchi K, et al. Improving effects of the mushroom Yamabushitake (Hericium erinaceus) on mild cognitive impairment: a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial. Phytother Res. 2009;23(3):367-372.
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The moment you walk into the theatre on show day, the show has actually begun. Not the stage show, but the overall LGD experience. The ticket taker is in costume in a painted booth which raises him off the ground. Immediately to the right of the ticket taker is a giant dragons mouth which is wide open and you've got to walk through it to get into the lobby. Once you pass through the dragons mouth you'll encounter clowns, costumed characters, jugglers and maybe even Leslie Bartlett and his playful hand puppet dog. What you might not realize while your eyes are taking in the sights, is that there is beautiful music playing and it's not a recording and it's not a player piano.
The music is being played by Avrom Surath, who is also one of the clowns. Avrom and his wife Ann have been with the company since the beginning. One of Avrom's many talents is as a classical pianist and the music that comes out of his fingers is heavenly. If memory serves there is a piano in the lobby and also another, which might be an organ, in the theatre itself. At the beginning Avrom is playing in the lobby, during intermission Avrom is playing in the theatre. And during the show, you can find Avrom performing on the stage along side Cesareo and David and the rest of the cast. His clown name is Lil Av. You'll know Lil Av in the show because he does some hat juggling bits and is also featured in the Multiplying Bottle routine with David. In addition to this Lil Av plays the accordion (see photo left) while David presents a sleight of hand routine using sparkling balls.
Leslie Bartlett, who I mentioned earlier, has also been with the show since the beginning. He is the father of SETH, who at one time was one of the three main characters in the show, when Seth was just a child. Leslie serves a very important purpose. Along with helping to create the fun, playful atmosphere before the show, he also begins to draw peoples attention towards the front of the stage with his incredible juggling feats. He is the last performer of what I would call the 'preshow' performers that you'll see. Once he is done, the entire audience is looking forward and the stage show is starting.
All the members of the company who are visible, are in some sort of costume. From the folks selling popcorn and refreshments to the cast members selling programs or helping people find seats, everyone is wearing some sort of costume that was hand made by other members of the company. I'm not sure how many cast members are strictly behind the scenes, my guess is not many. They all contribute to the overall production and though you might see them serving popcorn at the start of the show, later they've got an important role to play IN the show.
To me one of the most impressive things happens the day before, when they conduct rehearsals of the various parts of the show. There is a juggling session, barbershop song rehearsal, dance rehearsal and much more. Then on the day OF the show, all the cast members arrive early to prepare the theatre. They all contribute to making sure the theatre is clean and ready by showtime. It's at this time when you realize that this is much more than just a show it is a labor of love.


Minister Awad: I can say that Yoweri Museveni misspoke!
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has called Somalia a country with no state and which lacks "organized authority" in a televised speech in the capital, Kampala. He said Somalia was one example but stopped at naming other countries "for diplomatic reasons".
Mr. Museveni was speaking at an annual judges conference. In his speech, Mr. Museveni also questioned the effectiveness of the UN.
Uganda is currently having strained diplomatic relations with neighbouring Rwanda with counter accusations of kidnap, murder and expulsion of each country's nationals being made by both countries. It is not immediately clear if Museveni's comments will also affect Somalia-Uganda relations.
i can say that museveni "misspoke" everybody knows somalia has a functioning strong government. as government, our official response will go through proper diplomatic channels but i want to emphasize he (museveni) misspoke!


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ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, along with other federal ministers, on Friday pushed back against PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan's recent remarks on the acquittals of the Sharif family, describing the senior lawyer as a "betrayer".
He said the government reserved the right to take action as per law for taking Chief of Army Staff's name. To a question about taking action under Article 6 against PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan for naming Chief of Army Staff, Asif without taking his name stated that it was not wise to give a political life to a person whose political value was insignificant.
The government said on Friday that the general elections would be held on time and according to the Constitution, adding that if a decision of early election is taken it would not be taken under any pressure and dictation.
He said the Constitution allowed early elections but there was no sign of if any decision of early election was taken it would be taken by the PDM government led by the prime minister and not as a result of any pressure. Minister of Planning and Development, Ahsan Iqbal, added that there was no possibility of general elections in the two provinces of Sindh and Balochistan because the government would require at least six to eight months for rehabilitation of the people affected by the floods in the two provinces.
PPP leader demands removal of Aitzaz from party
In addition, he said the results of new population census would come in March 2023 and after that the ECP would be needing four months for delimitation of constituencies as per the new census.
To a question about removing PTI government in the two provinces as well as GB and AJK, he said that as the federal government was removed through vote of no confidence the same can be applied over there as well when it is considered appropriate.
He said during the last three and a half years of former prime minister Imran Khan's government, the relations of the country with the world deteriorated, which had been improved by foreign visits of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Those visits of the premier had been very helpful in improving relations with rest of the world as Shehbaz held meetings with more than 40 heads of state during the last four months.
He met with the leaders of neighbouring countries, the Middle East, Central Asia, China, the US, and other countries in Kazakhstan as well. He said the prime minister visited one after another were successful.
He also came down hard on the former prime minister and stated that he as prime minister has taken approval of the money in a sealed envelope from the cabinet to transfer 190 million in the liability account of Malik Riaz. He said that no cabinet member was aware as to what was in the sealed envelope. Former prime minister sole moto was to make money, he alleged.
In addition, Asif said when Imran Khan was in power he used to state that he and General Qamar Javed Bajwa are on one page and that taping is a good thing but now he has taken a totally opposite stance. There were various questions by difference quarter on acquittal of Shehbaz Sharif, Hamza Sharif, and Maryam Nawaz in the cases, he said, adding that he would like to state with categorical manners that his party leaders have proven from his statement and actions during the last four, five years that they do not want to violate the judicial system and fully respect it and after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's appearances before the JIT, Shehbaz Sharif has appeared before the court and all the leaders of the ruling party have gone through the process. He said to criticise and attack this process stating that someone has made a phone call for acquittal from the cases.
He said that the acquittal was not result of any deal.
He said that the federal government has been fulfilling its responsibility and the PTI government which is in power in the province of KP for the last 13 years but has not done anything except promoting corruption in the province. We are in touch with the members' countries of the FATF as it is the country's need to convince them. About donor conference, he said that donors' conference was offered by French President and it would be held in November 2022 besides the UN, France, and other countries have assured the prime minister that flow of fund and goods for flood victims would continue.
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the achievement awards are primarily about recognising those who put in the effort and do their best.
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the green school for girls participates in the gold level jack petchey achievement award scheme, which is a reward and recognition scheme for schools to help celebrate the achievements of students and staff. jack petchey achievement award winners are young people who have gone above and beyond to achieve – perhaps when others thought they might fail.
a student is nominated every month at tgsg by their peers for their hard work and efforts. a student can qualify for an award in a variety of ways for example overcoming adversity, contributing to the life of the school, personal and/or academic achievement or for their contribution to the local community. each winner receives a grant of £250 to spend to benefit the school and organisation. previous winners have helped fund extra-curricular trips, curriculum resources, form group trips and much more. as part of their achievement award they will join a jack petchey committee with like-minded students to inspire the rest of the school.
at tgsg, we are proud to be part of such an exceptional scheme that values the achievements and challenges that our students are presented with throughout school and young adult life. therefore, we would like to share the achievement of our students and staff with you.
our winners for 2018-19 are:
zahra 9i - zahra is naturally gifted at maths and sciences, hence she was the obvious choice for a year 9 stem ambassador. in this capacity she has proved her worth above and beyond! zahra is both patient and sensitive, able to support and help others with their learning. she works well with her peers and those in authority. another lovely quality that zahra possesses is humility and although worthy of praise she does not outwardly seek it. finally zahra is a great team player - ask her to undertake a task and it will be completed - leading others when appropriate and always ensuring everyone is involved. a well-deserved award!
amber 10c - amber is a confident, focused and driven individual. she has continuously demonstrated a high level of enthusiasm and dedication on various occasions both in the areas of academic studies and her extracurricular activities. amber is an extremely motivated and charitable student. she was instrumental in leading the 'not just a feminist club' to raise' money to aid young women in the uk, experiencing 'period poverty'. the club also started a whole school project where students were asked to donate sanitary products instead of money, which now means that students at the green school no longer need to pay for any sanitary products at student services when the need arises.
yuma 9i - yuma is a kind, caring and conscientious member of her form group, who always endeavours to lend a listening ear or a helping hand to any who need help and support. aside from being a fantastic member of her form, yuma is also an incredibly talented pianist. she regularly performs in school concerts and competitions, and recently yuma won the talent of the boroughs competition, which is an amazing achievement! balancing the demands of her school work with piano practice can't always be easy, but yuma is an example to us all in the way that she organises her time and workload. due to this, yuma is a worthy recipient of the jack petchey award.
previous winners for 2016-17 and 2017-18
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