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Our View: Illinois program can help you save for your retirement
Americans are terrible at saving their own money and need all the help they can get to retire with dignity.
Here comes the state of Illinois to the rescue.
What? Illinois? The state that has the nation's worst credit rating and the nation's worst pension debt? The state that seems to have a budget crisis more often than not? That Illinois?
Yes, that Illinois.
It's a program called Secure Choice and it's not managed by the state, thank goodness. Instead, the state is merely facilitating a way for the 1.2 million Illinoisans who don't have an employer-offered retirement savings program to get into a savings plan of their own. The program is administered by Ascensus, a Pennsylvania company.
Secure Choice was signed into law in 2015 by then-Gov. Pat Quinn. It mandates that Illinois businesses automatically enroll their employees in Secure Choice if they have at least 25 employees, have been in business for at least two years, and do not provide a qualified savings plan of their own.
It's a win for employers because a) it doesn't cost them anything, b) there's no liability if a retirement plan goes bad, and c) it makes their employees happy.
It's a win for employees because it's easy and the contributions are deducted automatically so you don't really miss the money that's being saved. The default savings rate for the program is 5 percent of your pay, but you can go down to 1 percent or contributed a fixed amount. The bottom line is that you'll be saving your own money and it will be there for you once you retire. You can opt out of the program at any time.
Americans don't save on their own so they need encouragement. About 21 percent of the workforce does not have access to an employer-sponsored 401(k). Nearly half of families have no retirement savings at all, according to the Economic Policy Institute. No IRAs, no 401(k)s, nothing.
According to a 2016 GOBankingRates survey, 35 percent of all adults in the U.S. have only several hundred dollars in their savings accounts and 34 percent have zero savings.
And, for those who want to rely on Social Security, remember that Social Security is designed to replace about 40 percent of the typical worker's pre-retirement income. It would be difficult to survive after a 60 percent pay cut.
Clearly there's a need. In a perfect world, the private sector would step up and offer a plan to small employers, but it hasn't because there's not enough money to be made to make it worth the effort. That's why Illinois is stepping up and stepping in.
The program, championed by Illinois Treasurer Mike Frerichs, is modeled after the state of Oregon's OregonSaves, which has been in effect for about a year. California and Connecticut also are setting up savings programs.
OregonSaves has enrolled more than 32,000 private-sector employees who previously didn't have access to a retirement savings option at work. They've set aside a combined $4.6 million of their own money through automatic payroll deductions, with an average withholding of 5.14 percent of salary.
Participants' average gross annual pay is about $25,000 and they save $100 a month. That's not a lot, but if a person sticks with it, over the years that person will have a modest nest egg.
Illinois plans a gradual rollout of the Secure Choice program. It begins this year with eight employers and will expand in the next three years. Implementing the program in phases allows the treasurer's office to fix flaws and make tweaks to improve the program. That's the right approach.
Oregon followed a similar strategy and employees are sticking with OregonSaves: 72.5 percent of employees have stayed in the program after being automatically signed up.
Frerichs hopes a higher percentage of Illinoisans stay with the program.
Why should we care? From a humanitarian standpoint, we want our fellow human beings to be able to enjoy retirement. From a fiscal standpoint, if people have enough saved for their golden years, there will be less of a drain on government — in other words, your tax dollars — services.
If you don't have a retirement plan and can't save money on your own, Secure Choice is the smart choice.


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The best source of legal business: People you already know.
The most overlooked source of legal business: Past and current clients.
Advertising-the good and the bad. The good: It works well for some consumer type law practices such as divorce and bankruptcy. The bad: it is expensive and for most legal practice areas it is not nearly as effective as personal contact and relationship marketing.
Make a prospect list. Have everyone who (within reason) could be a law client or refer a client to you in one document. It can be a spreadsheet, word document or database. The form doesn't matter so much. What is important is that you can use this information in analyzing your prospects and preparing your marketing plan.
Get that legal marketing is a necessary, ongoing and important portion of your law practice. Give legal marketing a place of honor among your other time demands. It is more important to your long term success as an attorney than virtually anything else you can do in your law practice.
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Introducing Vienna
Placed in the heart of Europe, in a strategic position between East and West, Vienna, the capital of Austria, can boast of a glorious past. Elegant capital of the Habsburg Empire until 1918, the city was shaped by enlightened sovereigns who commissioned to famous architects lavish monumental works.The tour in the Habsburgs' footsteps begins from the streets of the historic center, the Innere Stadt, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It starts from St. Stephen's Cathedral, a Romanesque and Gothic church in the heart of the old city. Do not miss a visit to the imperial compound of Hofburg Palace, the main residence of the Habsburgs, a veritable city within a city, where you can visit, among others, the apartments where the mythical Princess Sissi lived. The sovereign's remains are kept in the Crypt of the Emperors, in the Church of the Capuchins.
You can also visit Schönbrunn Palace, the summer residence of the Habsburgs. Also worth seeing is the impressive City Hall (Rathaus) and the State Opera, one of the most important opera houses in the world.The icy elegance of historic Vienna gives way to the colours of modernity in Hundertwasser district, built in the mid-80s as part of a social housing marked by imaginative architectural solutions, which were designed by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and recall the work of the Spanish Gaudi. Vienna is the right place for people who love art: here avant-garde movements flourished, such as the "Jugendstil" and the "Secession". The most representative artist of that period was Gustav Klimt, whose works are housed in various museums of the city, including the Belvedere Austrian Gallery.City full of parks – the most famous is the Prater with its Giant Ferris Wheel – Vienna is known as the "capital of music", having been the birthplace of composers such as Strauss and Schubert and having hosted Beethoven and Mozart.Finally take a break in one of the many cafes, authentic city's institutions, between a cup of tea and a taste of the famous Sacher Torte.
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Profesor Ladislav Vychodil (28. února 1920 Hačky, Československo – 20. srpna 2005 Bratislava) byl slovenský scénograf a výtvarník českého původu.

Život a dílo
Pocházel z řemeslnické rodiny. Dětství a mládí prožil v Náměšti na Hané, kde hrával v ochotnickém divadelním souboru. V letech 1931–1938 vystudoval reálné gymnázium v Olomouci. Poté v letech 1938–1939 a v roce 1945 studoval na ČVUT v Praze (kresbu u Cyrila Boudy, Karla Pokorného a Oldřicha Blažíčka a scénografii u Františka Tröstera, Františka Muziky a Vlastislava Hofmana), za války absolvoval Školu uměleckých řemesel v Brně (1942). V letech 1942–1944 působil jako scénograf v Beskydském divadle. Od roku 1945 působil jako šéf výpravy Slovenského národního divadla. V letech 1953 až 1983 byl též vedoucím Katedry scénografie, kterou založil na Divadelní fakultě Vysoké školy múzických umění (VŠMU) v Bratislavě, a současně v letech 1969–1971 vedl Katedru scénografie na pražské DAMU. V roce 1977 se stal vysokoškolským profesorem.

Od roku 1953 spolupracoval pohostinsky s pražským Národním divadlem.

Postupně se stal vedoucí osobností slovenské scénografie. Jeho tvorbu znají kromě slovenských a českých divadel i v Krakově, v Saratově, ve Vídni, v Budapešti, v Sofii, v Bruselu, v Novém Sadu, v Lipsku, v Santa Barbaře, v Malmö, ve Stockholmu, v Berlíně, v Tampere, v Lublani a v Záhřebu. Samostatně vystavoval v Bratislavě, v São Paulu, v Santa Barbaře, v Praze, v Prostějově. S jeho tvorbou se veřejnost pravidelně seznamovala v rámci mezinárodní výstavy Pražské quadrienále, ale i na zahraničních výstavách československé scénografie (Německo, Maďarsko, Kuba, Argentina, Chile, Francie, Rakousko, Polsko, Brazílie, země bývalého Sovětského svazu, Itálie, Bulharsko, bývalá Jugoslávie, Velká Británie a Egypt).

Mezi jeho žáky patřil i slovenský scénograf a kostýmní výtvarník Aleš Votava. Jeho vnučka Alena Antalová je herečka.

Po celý život si udržoval vztah k rodnému kraji a rád se sem vracel. V roce 1988 zorganizoval a vedl archeologický výzkum hradu v Náměšti na Hané. Připravil i výstavu fotografií k 75. výročí založení místního Sokola a v roce 1991 zorganizoval sjezd náměšťských rodáků. Redigoval i Sborník k 850 letům Náměště na Hané, pro který získal spolupracovníky z celé Moravy. Po úspěchu se sjezdem rodáků navrhl ustavení Klubu přátel Náměště na Hané a okolí. V Náměšti na Hané je také pohřben.

V roce 2022 byla otevřena stálá expozice k uctění života význačných čestných občanů scénografa Ladislava Vychodila a herce ¨Ladislava Lakomého na zámku v Náměšti na Hané.

Ocenění
 1951 Státní cena
 1965 Zlatá medaile prezidenta Brazilské republiky za nejlepší národní scénografickou expozici na bienále v Sao Paulu
 1966 titul zasloužilý umělec
 1975 titul národní umělec
 1980 Řád práce

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Reference

Literatura
 Kolektiv autorů: Národní divadlo a jeho předchůdci, Academia, Praha, 1988, str. 575–6

Externí odkazy

 Ladislav Vychodil v archívu Národního divadla Praha
 Významní rodáci z Náměště na Hané
 Sté výročí narození našeho krajana, scénografa a výtvarníka Ladislava Vychodila
 Zemřel scénograf Ladislav Vychodil

Čeští scénografové
Čeští výtvarníci
Slovenští umělci
Slovenští pedagogové
Českoslovenští zasloužilí umělci
Českoslovenští národní umělci
Nositelé Řádu práce
Signatáři Anticharty
Narození v roce 1920
Narození 28. února
Úmrtí v roce 2005
Úmrtí 20. srpna
Úmrtí v Bratislavě
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FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_alwaysFalse();

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_isNull();

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_notNull();

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_not__WithComGoogleCommonBasePredicate_(id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> predicate);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_and__WithJavaLangIterable_(id<JavaLangIterable> components);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_and__WithComGoogleCommonBasePredicateArray_(IOSObjectArray *components);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_and__WithComGoogleCommonBasePredicate_withComGoogleCommonBasePredicate_(id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> first, id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> second);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_or__WithJavaLangIterable_(id<JavaLangIterable> components);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_or__WithComGoogleCommonBasePredicateArray_(IOSObjectArray *components);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_or__WithComGoogleCommonBasePredicate_withComGoogleCommonBasePredicate_(id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> first, id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> second);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_equalToWithId_(id target);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_instanceOfWithIOSClass_(IOSClass *clazz);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_assignableFromWithIOSClass_(IOSClass *clazz);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_subtypeOfWithIOSClass_(IOSClass *clazz);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_inWithJavaUtilCollection_(id<JavaUtilCollection> target);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_composeWithComGoogleCommonBasePredicate_withComGoogleCommonBaseFunction_(id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> predicate, id<ComGoogleCommonBaseFunction> function);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_containsPatternWithNSString_(NSString *pattern);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_containsWithJavaUtilRegexPattern_(JavaUtilRegexPattern *pattern);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT id<JavaUtilList> ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_defensiveCopyWithJavaLangIterable_(id<JavaLangIterable> iterable);

J2OBJC_TYPE_LITERAL_HEADER(ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates)

#endif

#if !defined (ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_) && (INCLUDE_ALL_ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates || defined(INCLUDE_ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate))
#define ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_

#define RESTRICT_JavaLangEnum 1
#define INCLUDE_JavaLangEnum 1
#include "java/lang/Enum.h"

#define RESTRICT_ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate 1
#define INCLUDE_ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate 1
#include "com/google/common/base/Predicate.h"

@class IOSObjectArray;
@protocol JavaUtilFunctionPredicate;

typedef NS_ENUM(NSUInteger, ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_Enum) {
  ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_Enum_ALWAYS_TRUE = 0,
  ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_Enum_ALWAYS_FALSE = 1,
  ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_Enum_IS_NULL = 2,
  ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_Enum_NOT_NULL = 3,
};

@interface ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate : JavaLangEnum < NSCopying, ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate >

#pragma mark Public

+ (ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate *)valueOfWithNSString:(NSString *)name;

+ (IOSObjectArray *)values;

#pragma mark Package-Private

- (id<ComGoogleCommonBasePredicate>)withNarrowedType;

- (id)copyWithZone:(NSZone *)zone;

@end

J2OBJC_STATIC_INIT(ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate)

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FOUNDATION_EXPORT ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate *ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_values_[];

inline ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate *ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_get_ALWAYS_TRUE();
J2OBJC_ENUM_CONSTANT(ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate, ALWAYS_TRUE)

inline ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate *ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_get_ALWAYS_FALSE();
J2OBJC_ENUM_CONSTANT(ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate, ALWAYS_FALSE)

inline ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate *ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_get_IS_NULL();
J2OBJC_ENUM_CONSTANT(ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate, IS_NULL)

inline ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate *ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_get_NOT_NULL();
J2OBJC_ENUM_CONSTANT(ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate, NOT_NULL)

FOUNDATION_EXPORT IOSObjectArray *ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_values();

FOUNDATION_EXPORT ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate *ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_valueOfWithNSString_(NSString *name);

FOUNDATION_EXPORT ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate *ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate_fromOrdinal(NSUInteger ordinal);

J2OBJC_TYPE_LITERAL_HEADER(ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates_ObjectPredicate)

#endif

#if __has_feature(nullability)
#pragma clang diagnostic pop
#endif
#pragma pop_macro("INCLUDE_ALL_ComGoogleCommonBasePredicates")

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There's a tension brewing in the startup world that I think needs to be brought to light. Most founders who take the time to blog or write will at some point share the following advice, "You must follow your passion. Startups are so hard that if you're not passionate about your mission, there's no way you'll succeed." At the same time, the lean startup movement has entrepreneurs everywhere "building, measuring and learning" what the market wants, to find the illusive product-market fit. But what happens when what the market wants is not what you're passionate about?
As cofounder of Wellsphere, I experienced this firsthand. When we started the company in 2005, our initial plan was to create enterprise communities in which employees would support each other and gain incentives for engaging in healthier behaviors (exercising, eating right, doing yoga). We struggled to find product-market fit, so we changed our focus from enterprises to consumers, and from wellness and lifestyle to general health and medicine. Although the shift in focus from wellness to medicine made sense in terms of finding a larger market (especially given the consumer-focus), I personally have never been passionate about medicine. For whatever reason, I have always been passionate about helping people go from zero to ten, rather than minus ten to zero.
Passions aside, we eventually developed an extremely effective content aggregation and distribution strategy, growing from 100,000 unique visitors a month to 6 million in less than 18 months (which we felt pretty good about in the pre-open-graph virality days). We began talking to most of the major online health companies about partnering to sell ads against our growing inventory, and we started to receive acquisition interest.
At the end of 2008, after four intense, emotional years, we were faced with the choice of selling the company or charging forward toward our next funding milestone. I had to ask myself, "Do I have the energy and the passion to charge ahead?" As individuals and as a team, we all had to answer this question. We ended up deciding to sell the company to IAC-backed The Health Central Network.
Although we had a successful outcome, especially in the face of one of the most challenging acquisition environments in the last decade, we still had a long way to go toward fulfilling the company's potential as an independent consumer health organization. I think if we had been focused on what we were passionate about rather than product-market fit, things might have played out differently.
Sure, there are those lucky few entrepreneurs who hit it on the first try, chasing their passion and finding a perfectly overlapping market need. But for the rest of us, how do we decide between team passion versus market pragmatism?
I think it's a false choice that many entrepreneurs make, whether out of convenience, lack of creativity, or simply because they don't realize that there's a third option. As if starting a company isn't hard enough, I recommend you make it even harder — don't settle for what you've discovered the market wants if it doesn't intersect with what you and your team are passionate about doing. Keep iterating. Think of it as an investment in your future energy and in the long-term potential of your company. Only when you've created a product that your team is passionate about and meets the needs of a large market should you move ahead and scale the company. Do not stop at product-market fit, make sure you find product-team-market fit. From there, you'll find the journey toward scaling a large, successful business more energizing and fun, and your chances of making it through the challenges and speed bumps that lie ahead will increase exponentially. The most important, and most scarce, ingredient to startup success is human energy. Building a product that your team is passionate about will leverage that scarcest of resource, maximize your chances of success, and enrich your life.
Dave Kashen is founder of Quantum Leading, a leadership and culture development firm for startups, and the Unleashed conference series. He writes the awesome culture blog and tweets @awesomeculture.
I like the central premise, making sure a team actually really wants to build whatever you're building, though I think there's the possibility that the team (including the founders) can become passionate with time, if not in the product/market, certainly in the team itself. My experience is that passion is sometimes a function of success, rather than the other way round.
In my opinion even if we have market fit and team but doesn't have a determination all of this is nothing.
Although I have felt much more driven and easier to work through obstacles when I am working on something that I am passionate about.
Although it might be good in theory to have a product-team-market fit, it would also be more difficult to get to than product-market fit.
Even in your experience, product-market fit got you to a favorable outcome for the company. Can you be sure that if you had continued down the path of waiting for product-team-market fit, you would have had a similar or better outcome?


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Woyome seeks refuge at African Court; accuses Justice Dotse of bias
Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has taken a swipe at Justice Jones Dotse of the Supreme Court of Ghana of being bias and violating his human rights.
He made this accusation yesterday when he opened a case against the State at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR).
The embattled National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier's lawyers also did not spare some other justices of the Supreme Court, accusing them of same violations.
His lawyer, Osafo Buabeng, told the court that "the case of the applicant is that his rights under the combined effect of articles 2, 3 and 7 of the African Charter have been violated by the decision of the Ghanaian Supreme Court delivered on the 29, July 2014."
Mr Buabeng said following from an earlier opinion and decision from the review bench, the court cannot be said to have been impartial.
"Because the issue that came before the Supreme Court was a constitutional interpretation so for the learned judge [Justice Dotse] to go beyond the constitutional interpretation and decide that the applicant had no contract with the government and therefore he had no case and had formed an alliance to create loot and share was beyond what was before the business of the Supreme Court."
According to the lawyer, Justice Doste had formed that prejudiced mind and it was no wonder that within a few weeks, he was able to write a judgement for the review bench.
For him, Justice Dotse had already indicated his disdain for the applicant [his client] and the comments he made during the review were a testament to that fact.
"We contend that the applicant was not given a fair trial. Under Article 12 of the Ghanaian constitution, issues bordering on human rights are to be observed not only by the executive or the legislature but by the judiciary as well.
"We, therefore, find the Supreme Court cannot in our contention be said to have upheld the right of the applicant to a fair trial and was not impartial," Mr Buabeng added.
The Supreme Court ordered Mr Woyome to refund a total of ?51.2 million wrongly paid to him as judgement debt between 2009 and 2010.
The court ruled that Mr Woyome had no valid contract to be paid that amount of money.
The ruling came after a review of the court's own earlier decision. Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, who insisted that Woyome, like Waterville and Isofoton, had no valid contract to be paid any amount by the state in judgement debt, sought the review.
The Supreme Court in 2014 ruled in favour of Mr Amidu and directed Isofoton and Waterville to pay back monies paid them in judgement debt.
It said the contracts, which formed the basis for the claims by the two companies, did not exist in law for want of parliamentary ratification as required by law.
The court said it couldn't deal with the Woyome matter, which Mr Amidu joined to the two cases because the state was prosecuting Woyome for allegedly obtaining the payments through fraud.
It, however, reviewed that decision upon an application by the former A-G, ordering Woyome to pay back the money – a judgment he has been fighting since.
Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame, who is representing the State at the African Court, said Mr Woyome's application lacked merit.
He told the court that there was an array of remedies available for the resolution of human rights grievances stipulated by Ghana's constitution, but the applicant failed to make use of any of them.
Mr Dame said if any of Mr Woyome's human rights were violated by the Supreme Court during its review hearing, local remedies for redress of such grievances should have been evoked through a complaint.
Describing the remedies as effective and efficient, the deputy attorney general said the businessman could have resorted to them since it is a "requirement and an applicant is enjoined to show an attempt of a resort to local remedies.
"And if the applicant on his own did not make any attempt whatsoever for a variety of reasons he himself considers proper then the application ought to be refused."
"Since Mr Woyome failed to resort to local remedies, his application is irrelevant in the instant case and inadmissible as having being filed unreasonably out of time", Mr Dame added.
In his view, the applicant had made the case of the court easier by showing that there was a whole procedure for the resolution of human rights grievances set out in the constitution of Ghana.
"Article 33 sets out a whole gamut of procedure and if the person is still unsatisfied with the High Court proceeds to the Court of Appeal and from there to the Supreme Court.
"The matter that was heard in respect of which he complains is not a human right matter, at all. Indeed this is the very first time a human rights grievance of any sort has been raised by the applicant anywhere at all," Mr Dame explained.
He said all the matters raised by the applicant, which he set out in his statement of case, did not involve human rights violations or allegations of such.
Source: todaygh.com
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People's Power: Anti-Dam Movements in Southeast Asia
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For more than two decades, communities in Southeast Asia have been facing threats from the expansion of hydropower development. Dams have been justified by the governments of Southeast Asian countries as the main development agenda, which would generate large amounts of income and contribute to poverty alleviation. For example, Thailand's expansion of energy consumption by investing in neighboring countries such as Laos and Myanmar is a trend designed to increase energy imports to sustain Thailand's energy security. While Laos is being used as the "Battery of Asia," hydropower dominates their national development agenda and selling electricity to the neighboring countries is the prime discussion among policymakers. Myanmar is catching up with trends, with coal mines and dams both listed in national development agendas.
While the dam agenda as a national development project is being promoted by decision makers and businesses across Southeast Asia, civil society organizations (CSOs) and communities advocate for a counternarrative demanding greater responsibility of the investors. They hope for accountability and respect for human rights alongside dam development.
The Kaeng Sue Ten and Anti-Dam Movements in Thailand
The coalition and network of anti-dam movements across Thailand and ASEAN have been on the rise. In Thailand, the community movement against Kaeng Sue Ten dam in the north is widely known. It is hailed as a "successful anti-dam model," whereby thousands of communities have delayed dam construction on the Yom River in Kaeng Sue Ten for more than 30 years. It is the most delayed dam in Southeast Asia. It could be said that the framing of Kaeng Sue Ten dam as a project that threatens the only golden teak forest reserve in Thailand largely explains the movements' success. Communities express strong solidarity and continue to protect their sacred forest.
Communities celebrated the 30th anniversary of their fight against Kaeng Sue Ten on November 2. The celebration included the organizing of a tree ordinance, a River Prayers ceremony to pay respect to the guardian spirits and ask for protection, and a community forum to share strategies across networks and alliances. Kamnan Chum, one of the charismatic leaders of the anti-Kaeng Sue Ten Dam movement expressed that "our fight against Kaeng Sue Ten dam has demonstrated our strong solidarity and unified stance among our communities who would like to pass on our treasures of land and resources to the next generation."
"Our home is nothing without trees, lands and river resources… this is our heritage," Kamnan continued.
Kaeng Sue Ten is a model of success largely known and referred to across Thailand as well as throughout Southeast Asia. The Kaeng Sue Ten movement has connected with other networks whereby an accountability agenda and business and human rights are the cornerstones. Activism has involved demanding accountability from the dam investors and financers (such as World Bank in the past), as well as the accountability of foreign investors (such as Thai and Chinese developers) in the region. The Kaeng Sue Ten network demonstrates close interlinkages with the advancement of human rights and development as well as community rights.
The Kaeng Sue Ten Movement celebrates its 30th anniversary. Photo by Wora Suk.
In late October in Thailand's Loei province, communities, CSOs, and academics gathered on the bank of the Mekong River for a River Prayers ceremony that also involved worshipping the river's guardian. Blessings and protection from the Naga guardian spirit were asked for. Communities shared hopes, gratitude, and sorrows – one day the Xayaburi dam will start its operation in Laos, which is just on the other side of the Mekong River. The dam is backed by a Thai investor and more than 95 percent of the electricity will be exported to Thailand. The dam is justified by the Thai government to boost electricity imports to Thailand and sustain energy security.
Thousands of Mekong communities will be impacted by the Xayaburi dam, if built. The first day of its construction has gone ahead while the lawsuits filed by the Mekong-impacted communities are still pending in Thailand's administrative court. The lawsuits argue that transboundary impacts such as irregular flooding and river flow fluctuation would alter livelihoods along the Mekong River, regardless of which side of the Lao-Thai border. The river flows through the borders of the multiple countries and its jurisdictions.
The Thai People Network along eight Mekong provinces hosted the River Prayers and the Public Forum in Loei province to draw attention to the issue of the Xayaburi dam. The dam is justified as a run-of-river dam; however, since the test run and during the construction period of the dam, impacts have been felt by the Mekong communities in terms of flow fluctuation due to the dam upstream.
Xayaburi dam is listed as part of Thailand's national development agenda. Thai investors fund dams in neighboring countries in order to import the electricity. The Thai People Network, however, critically questions energy expansion and the target to increase foreign imports. Why are Thai investors bankrolling dams in neighboring countries while energy reserves in Thailand are three times higher than the world standard? Why is it necessary to increase electricity imports while energy efficiency policies and plans could be fully implemented and alternative energy planning in Thailand could also be fully and efficiently rolled out?
The anti-dam movement along eight provinces of the Mekong in Thailand includes the Mekong communities from Chiang Rai province in the north to the northeast part of Thailand (including Nakhon Panom, Loei, Ubon Ratchathani provinces and others). The movement employs multiple strategies of resistance against Xayaburi dam: local contestations and testimonies regarding impacts, media advocacy, community research and documentation, and litigation to claim their rights over river resources and sustainable livelihoods. The movement demonstrates a close link between local mobilization in response to a national energy development agenda and transboundary advocacy demanding greater responsibility on the part of Thai investors and regional political economies of the ASEAN region.
Transboundary Movements Against Dams in Southeast Asia
The Extraterritorial Obligation Watch Coalition (ETO Watch) has been monitoring impacts of Thai investments abroad such as in the coal mining and hydropower sectors. The coalition demands greater responsibility and accountability from the Thai investors in the Xayaburi case. Most importantly, communities who are impacted by the dam should have access to compensation and remedies. Due to the lack of mechanisms in Thailand to monitor and regulate Thai investors abroad, the coalition demands that the Thai government demonstrate its duty to protect the communities impacted by Xayaburi dam. Their rights to sustainable livelihoods should be respected as well as their rights to remedies.
ETO Watch has demonstrated through several documentations, researches, fact finding projects, and investigations that most of the hydropower in Laos is owned and invested in by Thai investors. Thai Banks are the key financers to dam projects in Laos such as Xayaburi dam. While the dam is going ahead without compensation to the impacted communities, the ETO Watch demands that the Thai investors in the Xayaburi dam project demonstrate their responsibility according to the international best practices by providing remedies and compensation to the impacted communities. More importantly, working with communities and engaging in public consultation processes is necessary along with designing compensation schemes that acknowledge rights to compensation and the size of transboundary impacts. Similar demands for compensation and remedies as well as including communities in impact assessments are central to the ETO Watch Coalition's advocacy against dams throughout the Mekong.
The Xayaburi dam is not the only one; Luang Prabang dam and Pak Beng dam are planned on the Mekong River in Laos. The ETO Watch Coalition supports the communities along the Mekong River to raise their voices, concerns, and impacts caused by the dams' construction and operation. Investors must take into account community rights to compensation and remedies and ensure inclusive community participation throughout the dam planning and decision-making process.
ETO Watch has been lobbying responsible government agencies in Thailand to develop a mechanism to monitor and regulate Thai investors abroad. Central to the strategies for advocacy is the framing of the community's right to land, natural resources, and sustainable livelihoods and linking environmentalism with a human rights agenda. Through environmentalism and community rights concerns, the movement has effectively mobilized a human rights agenda and challenges the national energy development agenda of Thailand and the accountability of transboundary investments overseas. The coalition seeks to raise the business conduct of Thai investors abroad by ensuring that human rights due diligence is conducted and community's rights to remedies are respected.
From Kaeng Sue Ten to Mekong movements against dams and transboundary movements in ASEAN, the movements demonstrate that local mobilization strongly leverages human rights and a development agenda and that we must put them at the center of national and regional political economies. The rise of the movements and coalitions against dams signal a strong stance from communities that dams are destructive to their livelihoods as well as the environment. The cost of dams is not only an environmental cost but also a livelihood loss, the loss of food security, and the loss of culture and identity. Resistance against dams across Southeast Asia has demonstrated that their losses are irreversible.
Wora Suk is Mekong Campaign Manager at EarthRights International Asia and a member of the ETO Watch Coalition.
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By By ROBERT BLANKENSHIP – Managing Editor
Agents with the 21st Judicial Drug Task Force arrested two suspects Tuesday after allegedly discovering ingredients and other evidence related to the manufacturing of crystal methamphetamine.
Jody Wayne Pearson, 36, male, and Diana Lynn Wiggins, 33, female, both of 5110 Sandy Hollow Rd., Century, were charged with manufacturing of a controlled substance, possession of anhydrous ammonia and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The suspects were arrested when task force agents, along with Escambia County deputies and Atmore police officers, executed a search warrant at Wiggins Trailer Park where the two had a residence.
Agents said this is the second search warrant executed at the residence within a six month period. They claim similar evidence was found in the earlier search.
Both suspects were allegedly out on bond for charges of manufacturing crystal meth. Due to the new charges, the bond was revoked for both suspects by the Circuit Court.
The 21st Judicial Drug Task Force is comprised of the following law enforcement agencies: Escambia County Sheriff's Office, Atmore Police Department, East Brewton Police Department, Brewton Police Department, Flomaton Police Department, Escambia County District Attorney's Office and the Escambia County Commission.
The task force receives 75 percent of its funding from a grant funded by the Bureau of Justice Affairs Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The remainder of the funding is provided by the ECSO, APD, BPD, and the district attorney's office.
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Q: Getting error: "Column ambiguously defined " I am running the following query and getting column ambiguously defined :
SELECT
    S.SUB_ID
    ,M.FLEETID
    ,M.TGID
    ,M.TGNO
    ,R.TGTYPE
    ,R.MODEID
    ,COUNT(1)
FROM
    INF_SUBSCRIBER_ALL S
INNER JOIN
    INF_TALKGROUP_MEMBER M ON S.SUB_ID = M.SUBID
INNER JOIN
    INF_TALKGROUP_MODE_RELATION R ON M.TGID = R.TGID
INNER JOIN
    INF_TALKGROUP_MODE_RELATION R ON M.FLEETID = R.FLEETID
WHERE
    S.SUB_STATE = 'B01'
    AND M.STATUS = 'M01'
GROUP BY
    S.SUB_ID, M.FLEETID, M.TGID, M.TGNO, R.TGTYPE, R.MODEID;

A: You have used aliase-R twice, that is why the error,
You dont need to include a table twice into JOINs for  adding another condition(M.FLEETID = R.FLEETID),
You can give the corresponding condition in the first occurce itselt using AND operator.
SELECT
    S.SUB_ID
    ,M.FLEETID
    ,M.TGID
    ,M.TGNO
    ,R.TGTYPE
    ,R.MODEID
    ,COUNT(1)
FROM
    INF_SUBSCRIBER_ALL S
INNER JOIN
    INF_TALKGROUP_MEMBER M ON S.SUB_ID = M.SUBID
INNER JOIN
    INF_TALKGROUP_MODE_RELATION R ON M.TGID = R.TGID AND M.FLEETID = R.FLEETID
WHERE
    S.SUB_STATE = 'B01'
    AND M.STATUS = 'M01'
GROUP BY
    S.SUB_ID, M.FLEETID, M.TGID, M.TGNO, R.TGTYPE, R.MODEID;

Hope this helps.

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Q: Changing text in reference field in administrate view I am using administrate for the first time in a Ruby On Rails project.
I have read the user guide, generated some custom views and made some changes. But it feels like my problem is very common and that creating custom views and make changes to it, is not the best way to go.
I have a model called Battle and Battle has_many competitors.
When I watch the show view for a Battle it starts with a list of all competitors and the first column in this table is a reference to the battle (belongs_to).
It says Battle#1 and I want to change this to the name of this Battle instead of Battle#1.
Also in the form where I can add a new battle, the drop-down to select the (belongs_to) battle shows Battle#1 of course it should mention the name of this battle here.
I just can't figure out the easy way to change this. Is there a config file where I can tell this to the application.
Hope someone can help me in the right direction...

A: In the app/dashboards folder administrate creates a config file for each model currently present in the application.
Just before the last end statement it shows some code that is commented out. In the case of a model named Battle it will look like this
 # def display_resource(battle)
 #   "Battle ##{battle.id}"
 # end

You can un-comment it and change it as you like. In this case the model has a column called name that should be used. The code would we:
  def display_resource(battle)
    battle.name
  end

Now everywhere across all pages of in the admin dashboards that the administrate gem creates this resource is displayed with the return value of this method.


We had a TV show this week on ECO tv in Hungary. It will show to day. 1,5 MILLION PEOPLE WILL SEE IT LIVE AND SUNDAY 2 million. We are waiting for you when ever you are ready to come to Budapest.
"Robert, I have here something with miraculous results, which I can't explain. I'm a scientist, but it needs a medical doctor to experiment and prove the healing force of the water".
When he got this call from a friend, over 20 years ago, Dr. Robert Lyons lived in the USA. It was the beginning of a lifetime commitment which made Robert Lyons one of the benefactors of mankind, providing relief to innumerable patients suffering from various diseases, including certain forms of cancer. It is the story of KAQUN Water.
Aim: to study the effects of KAQUN Water on patients undergoing oncological treatment.
Primary endpoints: radiation-induced dermatitis, drug-induced dermatitis, fitness and state of mind, studying changes in exulceration.
Secondary endpoints: changes in cutaneous manifestations of melanoma, tumor response in complex oncotherapy of stage IV melanoma.
End of the study and publication: June 2014.


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Tobacco Ads Could Lead To Cancer Cure
By Briggs on June 14, 2013 • ( 12 Comments )
A sure cure for cancer?
Today's headline is true. True means that which is certain, without the possibility of error; that which is not false; that which accords with reality. It means that which is so even if you don't want it to be; even, that is, if you have attended a sacred Raising Awareness ceremony about the evils of tobacco.
Yes: it is true that the next tobacco ad you see could lead to a cure for cancer. How?
I haven't the slightest idea. I don't have to know how, either. The headline is still true as long as somebody, sometime, somewhere could describe how, even if the description is only "in theory."
My powers of imagination are weak, so I'll rely on you to divine the path from tobacco ad to cancer cure. What I'll do instead is distract you from thinking about this difficulty and talk about the glories of a cancer-free world.
Hey! No more cancer! Now that would be a fine thing. Right? No more pain, no suffering, no tears, grief, misery. No more mothers burying their blighted-by-disease daughters.
Like Sally Q. Evalston, 42, a Pinewood, Illinois elementary school teacher, beloved three-time winner of Teacher of the Year, who was carried away before her time with capital-C Cancer (which she "battled" with). Just you think about her. Look at her picture, feel for her mother, weep with her students.
This is the sort of tragedy that could be avoided thanks to our truthful headline. Admit it: you feel good thinking about this, don't you? Isn't it nice to be part of the cure for cancer, albeit in small proportion? Maybe you can email your Congressman (or woman!) and let him know you're on his side, that you'd support him if he voted to increase funding for tobacco advertising. You could at least frown with severe disapproval at the next person you meet who suggests he'd rather not see more tobacco ads.
Assimilated all that? Then here is another true headline, "Tobacco Ads Could Lead to Daily Teen Smoking for Kids 14 and Under".
Wait. Didn't we just say that tobacco ads could cure cancer and now a rival claim says these same ads could cause kiddies to smoke? We did: both headlines are true. And so is is true that "Tobacco Ads Could Lead To More Cancer". Just as it is true as true that "Tobacco Ads Could Lead To Mars Mission" or "Tobacco Ads Could Cause Nancy Pelosi To Stop Speaking Gibberish."
The magic happens in could. Adding it—or might, may, possibly or the like—turns any proposition about the contingent into a truth. (Contingent = not logically necessary.) Anything contingent could or might be true; that is the nature of contingency. So adding a word like could in a contingent proposition merely makes the proposition tautological, and all tautologies are true.
Headlines like today's are cheap journalist tricks; one of the most common, too. "Could Lead To" headlines and ledes betray the reporter's prejudices and desires and make at best weak claims about reality. And the following articles usually fall prey to the standard human failing of searching only for supportive evidence, assuming that contradictory theories are the first refuge of scoundrels and "deniers." No idea of the uncertainty in the claim of the headline ever appears.
Just for fun, I did a search on "Could Lead To" (surrounded by quotes; try this yourself). "Repetitive soccer ball 'heading' could lead to brain injury", "10 nail deformities that could lead to bigger health problems", "Heavy rain could lead to explosion in mosquito population", "NYCHA Budget Cuts Could Lead To 500 Jobs Lost", "Crowdfunding help could lead to a sandwich named after you", "NHS changes could lead to hospital being sponsored by junk food firms." An endless, ever-increasing stream.
And isn't it curious that all of these, tacitly or directly, argue for government intervention?
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Mac Echols says:
One statement is not a truth. A single truth as discussed above must be verified by following truths (facts) before it becomes true.
Therefore the statement "Tobacco Ads could Lead to a Cancer Cure" is appropriately describes as BLATHER.
John Cook says:
Woody Allen on the health benefits of tobacco:
Video link.
Anything (within logical constraints) CAN be true. It is not what CAN, but will PROBABLY be true that counts. I had a psych professor who loved to say "Aliens could exist" when someone foolishly used the "can" word. Currently, it seems most of the population is believing aliens can exist since they fall for this with many, many other ideas.
John Cook,
Same thought came to my mind, but you beat me to it.
Sander van der Wal says:
The trick is much older than journalism. Try searching for "Jezus could be right".
You shouldn't joke about tobacco. Tobacco is so dangerous that even exposure to jokes about it can cause cancer.
Bill S says:
The Denver Broncos won two superbowls so we have to accept that they could do it again.
I'll even give you that there could be peace in the middle east. e.g. Wipe out the human race and humans will not war.
But your statement about Nancy Pelosi makes me want to argue. If something is impossible then it cannot be made true by adding "could" as a qualifier. Or is the following somehow true? "Tobacco Ads Could Cause Nancy Pelosi To Stop Speaking Gibberish with a probability of 1.04"
tckev says:
Statistics cause a rise in tobacco related cancer deaths.
True. Just do the math and prove it for yourself.
tckev and John Cook
How do you get your avatar / picture to show up?
@Bill S
I'm using my WordPress sign-in and avatar.
Indeed Ray, and 2nd hand exposure to tobacco jokes could lead to an increased incidence of being a murder victim, so not only is Briggs endangering his readers, he is endangering anyone who lives with his readers too.
Paladin says:
Tobacco ads could lead to cancer cure.
Greatly increase the quantity of tobacco ads on the TV and internet until the general populace is convinced of imagined health benefits, suave personal image, and it becomes socially acceptable again.
Through endless propagandizing, and stifling of negative information, ensure the maximum number of people smoking multiple packs each day.
People will get cancer and die. Eventually, the population tipping point will be reached so that people won't reproduce fast enough to keep up with the mortality rate.
Humankind becomes extinct. Cancer is cured.
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Add lights to your everyday and holiday arrangements. Twenty beaded LED fairy lights are placed 2 inches apart, creating a 3-foot silver strand of shining warm white lights. A clear battery pack holds 2 AA batteries (sold separately), and an on/off switch turns on the strand of steady warm white lights. The lights (except the battery pack) can go in water. A 12-inch lead wire allows you to place the battery pack where it best fits without compromising your display arrangement. An beautiful addition to your Christmas tree and holiday decorations.


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Ostrovní trilogie je označení filmů autorských filmů Hodina vlků, Hanba a Náruživost od režiséra Ingmara Bergmana z let 1968 a 1969. Všechny tři snímky jsou oceňovány i pro výkon hlavního kameramana Svena Nykvista.

Toto Bergmanovo tvůrčí období navazuje na nejasně definované tzv. komorní období či někdy komorní trilogie (představované například filmy Mlčení, Hosté Večeře Páně, Persona, Jako v zrcadle). V období následujícím po Ostrovní trilogii vynikají především Šepoty a výkřiky.

Ostrovní trilogie a komorní období

V komorním období Bergman užívá jen nezbytné minimum děje a interiérů. Ostrovní trilogie je výpravnější a akčnější.

V komorním období studuje lidskou psychiku a existenci (především žen). V Ostrovní trilogii studuje především partnerské vztahy.

Znaky Ostrovní trilogie

Hlavní partnerské dvojici hráli vždy bergmanovští herci Liv Ullmannová a Max von Sydow. Charaktery těchto postav byly v celé trilogii vcelku analogické (viz hesla jednotlivých filmů Hodina vlků, Hanba, Náruživost).

Děj všech tří filmů se na pobřeží málo osídleného ostrova; tato skutečnost je z hlediska příběhů nezanedbatelná.

Trilogie byla natáčena téměř výhradně na "filmařském" ostrově Fårö.

Švédské filmy


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Il Notturno op. 15 n. 1 in Fa maggiore è una composizione per pianoforte scritta da Fryderyk Chopin probabilmente fra il 1831 e il 1832.

Non è semplice precisare una data di composizione per i Notturni dell'opera 15 poiché Chopin non ha lasciato alcun manoscritto che lo possa determinare. Quasi certamente furono scritti poco dopo i due Nottuni dell'op. 9 e cioè fra il 1831 e il 1832, solo il terzo si dovrebbe collocare nell'inverno fra il 1832 e il 1833. Le tre composizioni furono dedicate dall'autore al pianista e compositore Ferdinand Hiller, suo amico.

Analisi
Il Notturno in Fa maggiore è nettemente separato in due momenti contrastanti, uno dolce e cantabile, l'altro fortemente agitato e drammatico.
Inizialmente la mano destra presenta una melodia serena, calma e lirica, mentre la sinistra aggiunge, all'appoggio naturale dell'accordo, un semplice ricamo in terzine. All'improvviso irrompe la seconda sezione in minore del notturno: "Con fuoco" è scritto sulla partitura, e una scarica di note invade la tastiera. Per Chopin era la tecnica dello "scagliar fulmini sul pianoforte" che già aveva utilizzato nello Scherzo n. 1; una sezione certo drammatica e trascinante dopo quella lirica iniziale. Il fuoco è presto temperato dal ritorno, con un arpeggio, della prima sezione con l'andante iniziale, ripetuta praticamente uguale, arricchita solo da due brevi varianti; la tensione si smorza e, come d'incanto, torna la quiete.

Il Notturno ha una struttura molto semplice e lineare, ma tutt'altro che semplice è l'interpretazione; all'esecutore è richiesto un notevole autocontrollo per non forzare la melodia iniziale; anche l'utilizzo del pedale è, come indicato, molto moderato, sempre per non enfatizzare le caratteristiche del brano.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Composizioni di Fryderyk Chopin
Musica per pianoforte solo

en:Nocturnes Op. 15 (Chopin)


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Will you fight for families like the Stuarts this Christmas? Your donation will help keep a family together during the most traumatic time of their lives... and help a kid beat cancer too!
It's the one thing in life that's truly worth fighting for. No matter what. Even when the doctors look you in the eye and say: "I'm sorry. There's nothing more we can do for your son."
Becky and Marcus Stuart knew the odds. They'd known them for months.
As Becky recalls...
"When he was diagnosed, they told us Will had a 78% chance of survival. That would drop to 30% if he had a relapse, and 12% on a second. If you relapse a third time, the chances of survival are zero. When Will relapsed the third time, they told us we had a choice... focus on his quality of life and see him out. Or do another fight. We chose to fight."
Only one thing stood in the way – Melbourne was thousands of kilometres from home. After four years of fighting, the Stuarts simply didn't have
the means to pay for suitable accommodation.
Will you fight for all families who find themselves in this position by donating today?
The nightmare for Will and his parents came out of nowhere, without any warning signs. Will's dad, Marcus, recalls the shock ...
"Once you get told your son has leukaemia, your world comes tumbling down. You're in absolute shock. You don't know how to deal with the situation. Becky stayed with Will in the hospital. I got home and couldn't stop wailing. I've never experienced anything like it in my life. I just wailed at the top of my lungs and couldn't stop until I fell asleep. That's the moment you realize your heart's broken."
The Stuarts are fighters though, and they quickly regrouped and threw all their effort into doing whatever it might take to help their little boy
beat cancer.
I don't know if you've ever been in a similar situation yourself. Maybe you or a loved one has battled cancer. If so, you'll understand the toll it takes on everyone involved in the fight.
The harsh statistics were terrifying. Nothing could have prepared them for what was coming.
Over the next four years Will endured gruelling treatments that would tear the heart out of what a childhood should be about...blood transfusions, intensive chemotherapy, full body radiation, focused radiation on his testicles, and ultimately unsuccessful bone marrow transplants. And an experimental treatment called CAR-T, so new, Will was one of the first patients in Australia to receive it.
He took it all in his stride though. And, dressed up in one of his superhero costumes, he fought every step of the way.
Today, I want to ask you to fight with us too. Please donate today to fight for families like Will's.
You see, Will had his superhero costumes to help him fight his battle, but mums and dads like Becky and Marcus, they need superhero supporters like you to get them through.
Becky says the hardest part of their journey was while they were waiting for Will to be approved to take part in the CAR-T trial. After two bone marrow transplants – both of which failed – they knew they were out of options. As Becky recalls...
"The waiting took a massive toll on us, three months of just waiting and watching him decline and not knowing if we'd get on the trial. It was really hard, because we were regularly hearing about other children who'd run out of time."
Then finally, right before Christmas last year, the phone rang with the news they'd been waiting for. It was all systems go...
"They said yes, you're in, and we literally had about 12 hours to get on a plane and get to Melbourne." When the family had to scramble to Melbourne, any chance they had of a 'normal' Christmas at home was dashed. Plans were cancelled, Christmas presents were left under the tree.
That's where your kindness and generosity came in. Thanks to you, and other wonderful Fight Cancer Foundation supporters like you, the Stuarts could stay at Fight Cancer Foundation's accommodation centre during Will's lifesaving treatment...and importantly, stay together at Christmas.
What an amazing thing you can do for another family like Will's this Christmas by donating today.
Generous donations like yours to Fight Cancer Foundation not only provided the Stuarts with safe, stable accommodation, they allowed them to spend Christmas together as a family.
Whilst many of us may take being together on Christmas day for granted, it's a huge victory for a family going through the pain of cancer, thousands of kilometres from home. The sheer cost of Will's fight has had a huge impact on the family's income. Becky had to stop work – she's spent over a year in hospital with Will since he was first diagnosed in 2015. And that's even before bills come into the picture. As Marcus said of their four year battle ...
"It's been financially crippling. We'll never own a house. It's mostly just my income and I've lost five years of sick leave too. We literally lived week-by-week, on a teacher's salary."
"Fight Cancer Foundation and their supporters gave us the ability to stay together – right where we needed to be – something we couldn't have otherwise done. I would have had to have flown back home - and leaving them at such a crucial point would have been just too horrendous."
I can't tell you just how important this is to families like Marcus and Becky's. Because one of the often unspoken tragedies of childhood illnesses like Will's is the impact on parents and wider family.
Some families have to sell or re-mortgage their homes. Some go bankrupt altogether. Often, couples split up because the pressures are so, so intense.
Many couples that stay together still have to split their lives because of treatment needs. If a child needs a bone marrow transplant, or CAR-T, they have to be in Melbourne. So frequently, one parent stays with the child, and one stays at home to look after the other children, and to keep working and earning. This can be incredibly hard when there are thousands of kilometres and different time zones in between them.
When it comes to critical care like CART-T or bone marrow transplants, many doctors will tell you it's not good from a medical perspective either. Patients have the best chance of recovery surrounded by their loved ones, with everyone together in comfortable and stable environment.
That's exactly what families get at Fight Cancer Foundation's accommodation center.
But only through your kind and generous support. So please will you fight for families like the Stuarts, by donating today?


Loaning, assigning, or "seconding" tax or any "bookkeeping" staff to an audit client is prohibited by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and by regulations that precede Sarbanes-Oxley. It looks like a regulator got to both KPMG and GE, but quietly. I doubt we'll ever see a public sanction or fine from the PCAOB or the SEC for KPMG.
My story exposing this prohibited activity by an auditor for an audit client was published in Forbes last March.
KPMG has been the auditor of GE for over 100 years. In light of that, I understand the Carpenters Pension Fund submitted a auditor rotation shareholder proposal for shareholder consideration to GE and about 45 other large cap companies with audit firm relationships that exceeded 10 years. GE and numerous other companies requested that the SEC issue a no-action letter that would allow them to omit the proposal from their 2012 proxy statement.
Despite the fact that GE had not changed auditors for over 100 years, and auditor rotation had not been "normal business" for GE, and despite the fact that according to reports KPMG was not independent of GE due to non compliance with the SEC's own independence rules as a result of loaning staff to GE, similar to acts in Australia where the SEC sanctioned KPMG with an enforcement action, the SEC staff obliged, agreeing with the companies' argument that the issue was "ordinary business." I understand the Carpenters Pension Fund requested that the SEC staff take the no-action issue to the full Commission for a decision, but that the staff rejected that request. As a result, the SEC staff denied shareholders – the owners of GE – the opportunity to vote on a non binding shareholder proposal raising the issues of auditor independence and firm rotation.
Rather the SEC staff have apparently chosen to allow a non independent KPMG to remain as the auditor, according to reports.
My story at Forbes, with all the details is here.
The KPMG situation is only the tip of the iceberg. Accounting firms are using "unique" logic to provide accounting services to its audit clients in violation of the SEC rules. Even consulting services provided to audit clients creates significant conflicts of interest. Many feel this situation can only be cured by establishing "audit only" companies whose only job would be to provide audit opinions. The PCAOB is well aware of this issue and is asking for comment on the "audit only" concept.
I agree and I am in favor of the audit only firm with assignments handed out via a government agency to take the money out of the picture.
The most egregious examples of the consulting activities provided to audit clients I've seen are huge tax fees compared to the audit fee, M&A advisory under the guise of tax services, and GAAP/IFRS advice. Although it is prohibited for the auditor to advise an audit client on accounting standards, I have seen numerous examples of proxy data about audit fees explaining audit-related fees as GAAP and IFRS "training" and advice.
Why is it that KPMG finds itself in sticky situation often but always comes out clean? It seems like their repetitive violation of regulations is not punishable enough for them to adapt strict ethics.
Being a new accountant it is my understanding that most Big 4 have separate divisions that provide auditing and consulting services to clients. Such consulting like SOX 404 is essential to a business entity so as M&A, and other operational advisory. If an auditing company separates specialists who have client's audit engagement from specialists who provide consultinng services I don't see it as a conflict of interest as separation is strong enough.
But on another hand I can see how separating auditing of internal controls and issuing an advice on correcting internal controls issues (including GAAP training) can become challenging.
With regard to kpmg it needs to be also be noted that they had an unusually close relationship on the tax side with GE in India. Based on independence reviews presumably by PCAOB on the audit the firm relieved its partner on the taxs side in India. So it seems a lot has happened on this case.
Thanks for that update! Very interesting.
Poor Anne above, if she's only a recently qualified accountant (at the time of the posting), seems to have been infected very quickly by the disease. I too have been saying it for years that auditor rotation should be mandatory and I like the audit only concept, particularly being handed out via a government agency. I would promote that and I would advocate a fine of at least one years gross profits where PLUS 50% of partner salaries where the audit rotation rules were not followed.
The other benefit is that one would be increasing the circulation of money among a broader group of hands and I would dictate that it must be rotated outside of the big 4 once every 4 years.
The dominance of the Big 4 needs to be tackled.


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Choice of beef (goi cuon bo) or prawn and pork (goi cuon).
Choice of fish (canh ga chien nuoc mam) or tamarind (canh ga sot me) sauces.
Choice of prawn and pork (goi du du tom thit) or crispy pork (goi du du heo gion).
Choice of squid (goi muc) or beef (goi bo).
Choice of salt and pepper (tom rang muoi) or tamarind sauce (tom rang me).
Choice of green papaya salad (goi du du ca barramundi) or green mango salad (goi xoai ca barramundi).
Choice of green papaya salad (goi du du ca salmon) or green mango salad (goi xoai ca salmon).
Choice of crispy salt and pepper (cua lot rang muoi) or chilli tamarind (cua lot rang me).
Choice of tamarind sauce (bo nam sot me) or plum sauce (bo nam sot xi muoi).
Choice of chilli jam and basil herb (bo xao chilli jam), satay (bo xao satay), chilli and creamy coconut sambal sauce (bo xao sambal) and chilli and lemongrass (bo xao xa ot).
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Ga hap cai thuong hai.
Choice of chilli and creamy coconut sambal sauce (truu xao sambal), chilli and lemongrass (truu xao sa ot), chilli jam and basil herb (truu chilli jam) or satay (truu xao satay).
Choice of sweet and sour (suon heo xao chua ngot), salt and pepper (suon rang muoi) or caramelised (suon ram man).
Heo xao sambal. With chilli and creamy coconut sambal sauce.
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Diep xao dau hoa lan.
With ginger and shallots (ca barramundi hap gung hanh) or black bean sauce (ca barramundi sot tuong den).
Ca salmon sot tuong den.
Cai ro sot dau hao.
Cai thuong hai xao xi dau toi.
Cai thap cam xao dau hao.
Bong cai xanh xao chilli jam.
Cai thap cam xao chilli jam.
Cai xao thap cam. With your choice of rice (com xao chay) or tofu (cai thap cam xao dau hu).
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Bun dac biet. House special vermicelli with chargrilled marinated pork, fish cake and spring rolls.
Pho. Upgrade rice noodle soup to large bowl extra $2.00.
Pho tai and nam. Medium rare.
Pho tai, nam and vien. Medium rare.
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Choice of crispy chicken (mi ga da gion nuoc), seafood (mi hai san nuoc), pork chop (mi suon nuong), combination (mi thap cam nuoc).
Choice of satay beef (hu tieu bo xao satay), satay chicken (hu tieu ga xao satay), seafood (hu tieu xao hai son) or combination (hu tieu xao thap cam).
Hu tieu suon nuong nuoc.
Choice of crispy chicken (hu tieu dai ga da gion nuoc), seafood (hu tieu dai hai san nuoc) or combination (hu tieu dai thap cam nuoc).
Com chien ga ca man.
Com chien ga hat dieu.
Com do bo luc lac.
Choice of mixed vegetables (com ga xao rau cai), chilli and lemongrass (com ga xao sa ot) or satay (com ga xao satay).
Choice of mixed vegetables (com bo xao rau cai), chilli and lemongrass (com bo xao sa ot) or satay (com bo xao satay).
Choice of mixed vegetables (com hai san xao rau cai), chilli and lemongrass (com hai san xao sa ot) or satay (com hai san xao satay).
Com dac biet. With chargrilled marinated pork chop, fried egg and meatloaf.
Lau tom yum hai san.
Lau tom yum thap cam.
With chargrilled or marinated chargrilled and your choice of minced prawn on sugar cane (banh hoi chao tom), beef in betel leaf (banh hoi bo la lot), beef (banh hoi bo nuong), pork (banh hoi heo nuong) or pork sausage (banh hoi nem nuong).