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Pruitt passes
Published 6:59 pm Tuesday, September 6, 2011
By jeremysmith
Demopolis lost one of its most prominent citizens Monday when Elmer Pruitt passed away at the age of 81. A father of two, grandfather of five and great grandfather to one, Pruitt left behind a healthy family and a lasting legacy.
"He was very interested in seeing Demopolis grow," his wife, Chug, said of her husband's love for the community he has long called home. "He was a member of the Rotary Club. I don't know how many years. He enjoyed that."
Pruitt was a standout athlete at Demopolis High School, starring as a catcher on the baseball team while also serving as one of the Tigers' top performers on Chink Lott's football team. Following his graduation, Pruitt married Chug, his high school sweetheart, and began working with Griffith Packing Plant.
Pruitt later moved to work with Wilson Foods before going into business with his brothers.
"He became a member of the company at Griffith Packing Plant probably in about 1953. He was there until 1969," Chug said. "And then he went to work for Wilson Foods. He was attached to Graves Company Warehouse in Demopolis. About nine years later, he went into business for himself with his brothers, Billy and Percy. And he was the meat man. He was there for 25 years."
The Pruitt name grew to prominence largely through a professional endeavor that saw Elmer own and operate a gas station on the west side of town, a Highway 80 staple known as Pruitt's.
The family later sold the station to Sonny Cameron in 2002. Today, it is known as Parr's West.
But Pruitt's imprint on Demopolis and Marengo County goes further than his business ventures and athletic accolades.
He took an interest in local politics and proved a capable leader in city and county government.
Pruitt ran for city council and won his intended seat, serving on the Demopolis governing body from 1984 to 1992.
Upon leaving the council, Pruitt began an 8-year run as a county commissioner that concluded in 2001.
"The reason he ran for city council, he wanted to make sure the school system (was in good shape). He wanted things to be good for Marengo County and for Demopolis," Chug said. "He had a lot to do with the new high school and also the county jail, and the Sports-Plex."
Pruitt's efforts made an impact in the community that will be felt for years to come. But, according to Chug, her husband also made a sizable impression on the people he dealt with daily.
"He was just sort of a character-type person who loved everybody and when he shook your hand, you kind of felt good. He always had something funny to say and made you feel good about the day," she recalled of her husband of 61 years.
"He was a character-type person. They don't come along as often as they should."
Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Demopolis. Burial will follow at Old Springhill Methodist Church Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the Pruitt home Wednesday night from 6 to 8 p.m.
River City Lawn Service is February Business of the Month


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The Dark Knight (Batman) - 2008
Condition: Very Good to Excellent.
A guaranteed original 'wilding' one sheet poster from 2008 for Christopher Nolan's super-hero thriller "The Dark Knight", with Christian Bale as 'Batman' / 'Bruce Wayne' and Heath Ledger as 'The Joker'.
Considered one of the greatest super-hero films of all-time, "The Dark Knight" will always be remembered for the phenomenal performance of Heath Ledger. On 22nd January 2008, six months before the film opened, Ledger tragically died from a drug overdose. He would sweep the board at the following year's film awards, including the "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar, awarded posthumously.
The film would go on to take over $1B at the box office, paving the way for super-hero films as we know them today.
This fantastically designed single-sided poster has never been folded and as our photos show, displays really well!
By the way, 'wilding' posters are produced to be displayed outside (perhaps pasted on to walls etc.), so. 'in the wild'. This poster was sourced from L.A. where it would have been part of a viral outdoor campaign, but went unused.

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Officers from Cheshire Police are appealing to the public to help locate a missing 40-year-old woman from Warrington.
Louise Wilde, who is from the Stockton Heath area, was last seen on Friday 25 January.
Louise, is described as white, approximately 5"8'tall, of medium build with brown eyes and long black hair.
Inspector Glyn Leech from Cheshire Police said: "This is completely out of character for Louise and we are becoming increasing concerned for her welfare.
"Officers are currently carrying out a number of searches in the local area in a bid to trace Louise and I would ask anyone who may have seen someone fitting her description or who knows where she is to get in touch.
Anyone with any information is urged to call Cheshire Police on 101 quoting incident number IML 305217.


Thanks Jim! Hey at least the guy is happy about his job though how you could endlessly discuss bedding is kind of beyond me at this point.
They will chew out of that it's just a matter of time. Like becky suggested I would try putting the mesh on the inside.
jo, you mentioned in your post that you have a rack to put them in... well shelving... whatever. any pics?
Nope sorry Aleesha. It's just a huge heavy grade plastic shelving unit from a local store. It's designed I think for organizing a garage or basement. Quite large, really big shelves, runs about $70.00. Why I like it was that I could choose to have it go 4 shelves high or side by side 2 shelves high (a concern for me because I'm so darned short!) I also like plastic shelving with the rat enclosures as it's so easy to keep clean and doesn't tend to retain odors.
I can't find Woody Pet anywhere in the city of Toledo. .
Here you go Jo...not sure where this is in relation to you.
They carry Equine Fresh (same thing as Woody Pet)...and in Indy they just lowered the price to under $6 for 40#.
Sean, want to help me find some in Atlanta?
Are any of these near you?
Love ya Sean! That place is not far at all from me! Thanks!
Thanks Sean - a couple are close to me! Thanks!


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| November/December 2021
Enron's most well-known whistleblower weighs in
By Sherron Watkins; Photography by Drew Anthony Smith
With three weeks to go until Christmas, the company summarily dismissed most of Enron's Houston employees with no severance pay and no medical insurance and left many with the brutal reality of decimated retirement accounts.
"While there will be a lot of changes over the next few days, we are continuing to operate and have a lot of information for you about what all this means, so we need you to come to work tomorrow." The Sunday, Dec. 2, 2001, voicemail was from Ken Lay, Enron's then-chairman and CEO. "That doesn't sound so bad," was my first thought as I listened to his companywide message, which had followed the news that the Enron Corporation had filed for bankruptcy earlier that day. At the time, I was a vice president at Enron in the mergers and acquisitions group, which the company called "corporate development." My position was definitely on the line.
Lay's grandfatherly tone on his voicemail seemed to assure worried employees they might still have jobs. So, staff were shocked when their managers gathered them in mass floor meetings the next morning to tell them that the company was laying them off. Their bosses regretfully delivered the gut-wrenching news but still were ruthlessly abrupt. They delivered similar versions of "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but last Friday's paycheck was the last one for all of you who did not receive a call over the weekend, requesting you to stay on to help Enron sell off or unwind operations in bankruptcy." Managers told employees to go back to their desks, clear out their personal items and go home.
Meredith Stewart (front), who worked in Enron's networking/data processing department, sits on her personal belongings in front of the company's headquarters after being laid off. (Photo by James Nielsen/Getty Images)
Twenty years ago, Enron declared bankruptcy. Behavior and ethics scholars, and academics continue to review and research the root causes of the energy company's quick demise. How did a corporation lauded by business experts as the model company for the 21st century, named by Fortune magazine as the most innovative U.S. company for several years and the seventh-largest company in America based on total revenues become at the time the largest U.S. bankruptcy filing?
With three weeks to go until Christmas, the company summarily dismissed most of Enron's Houston employees with no severance pay and no medical insurance and left many with the brutal reality of decimated retirement accounts. Too many Enron employees, who'd remained loyal to the end by keeping their 401(k) retirement funds invested in the company, watched in disbelief as the share price plummeted from $33 per share in September 2001 to less than 10 cents a share in late November 2001.
Dec. 3, 2001, became known as Black Monday for Houstonians. For a company whose stated corporate values were respect, integrity, communication and excellence, how did things go so wrong? Those words were on bright banners hanging in the lobby of Enron's Houston headquarters, on conference room walls, and on desk toys and notepads the company gave to every employee. It seemed some messaging expert had sold the concept that displaying the values would magically lead to their adoption.
The tagline on notepads dedicated to the communication value read, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr. However, many Enron executives had done just that — remained silent in the face of fraudulent accounting. Perhaps the company had bought that silence.
In August of 2001, I'd sent an anonymous memo to Lay to warn him that I was "incredibly nervous that we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals." I'd discovered what I believed to be accounting fraud only weeks before. With the abrupt resignation of Enron's CEO, Jeffrey Skilling, on Aug. 14, 2001, I felt certain Lay was unaware of the accounting issues and might just believe me since Skilling's departure seemed to lack a valid reason. Perhaps the fraud was a contributing factor? Based upon Lay's reassurance to all employees that Enron was truly committed to its core values, I identified myself the day after sending the anonymous letter and then met with Lay on Aug. 22, 2001, armed with seven pages of memos and other documentation that listed intricate details of the situation with several recommendations. I not only expected, perhaps naively, that he'd lead a thorough investigation, but I also assumed Enron would establish a crisis management team to address the financial peril the company would face when the accounting fraud was exposed. He didn't do that.
In the last two years of Enron's existence, shareholders lost nearly $60 billion in value. The company had never reported a losing quarter until the oddly worded and mysterious "$544 million non-recurring write-off" in the third quarter earnings release on Oct. 16, 2001. Then the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Labor and several congressional committees began investigating. And shareholders filed dozens of lawsuits against the company, its executives and its board of directors.
Those investigations and lawsuits were the only reason I remained employed. An in-house attorney in charge of coordinating Enron's response to shareholder litigation offered me a month or two of employment with the bankruptcy estate.
In November 2001, I'd been asked to meet with the law firms Enron had hired to defend the company, its board of directors and its executives in the shareholder lawsuits. I now understand that these law firms only met with me so I could explain the questionable accounting and what the opposing side would be claiming. I was more or less the enemy in their midst.
The tagline on notepads dedicated to the communication value read, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King, Jr. However, many Enron executives had done just that — remained silent in the face of fraudulent accounting. Perhaps the company had bought that silence.
Financial tricks
Those questionable accounting practices included several tricks. For one, the company overstated the value of its derivative contracts to inflate unrealized trading gains in the retail energy market and bolster earnings. But much of the financial deception revolved around the complex use of hundreds of special purpose vehicles (SPVs) that "allowed" Enron to keep troubled assets, losses from bad investments and growing debt levels out of the reported financial statements.
Furthermore, Enron would also sell "impaired" assets to these SPVs at an inflated price to report a gain on its income statement — a practice that violated Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. At the same time, some of these entities were paying millions of dollars in management and structuring fees to then-CFO Andrew Fastow, who often ran and partly owned the SPVs himself. Not only did that violate Fastow's duties to Enron's shareholders, but his ownership stake disqualified the SPVs as off-balance-sheet entities, according to the SEC.
Indeed, a small group of Enron employees allegedly committed a John Grisham-worthy scam complete with a secret meeting in the Cayman Islands under the shadow of these SPVs. A quick read of the DOJ's indictment of Michael Kopper, Fastow's second-in-command, explains much of Enron's financial shenanigans. (See "United States of America v. Michael J. Kopper," U.S. District Court Southern District Texas, Aug. 20, 2002.)
A grand jury in Houston later indicted Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy in connection with the Enron collapse. (See "Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew S. Fastow indicted for fraud, money laundering, conspiracy," DOJ, Oct. 31, 2002.)
All these financial ploys created the illusion that the energy company was thriving, pushing up the stock price and facilitating access to cheap funding. But the illicit financial engineering eventually proved unsustainable. On Oct. 16, 2001, Enron announced its first quarterly loss and the closure of the so-called Raptor SPVs.
This caught the eye of the SEC, which opened an investigation into related party transactions and accusations that the company's top executives had "made millions of dollars in the form of salary, bonuses, and the sale of Enron stock at prices they had inflated by fraudulent means." (See United States Exchange Commission v. Kenneth L. Lay, Jeffrey K. Skilling, Richard A. Causey, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, and " The Rise and Fall of Enron," by C. William Thomas, Journal of Accountancy, April 1, 2002.)
Testifying to Congress, Lay's lying, execs lining pockets
In January 2002, Enron complied with congressional subpoenas of documents with a common tactic: sending roomfuls of boxes to try to drown investigators searching for evidence. However, a diligent congressional staffer discovered the memos, and copies of worksheets and board presentations that I'd delivered to Lay in our August meeting.
My name was leaked to the press, and my life changed forever. Congressional committees soon requested more information from Vinson & Elkins, Enron's external lawyers; Arthur Andersen, the external auditors; and Enron. They also requested my personal testimony via a formal subpoena.
When I appeared before Congress in February 2002, I was shown a memo from Vinson & Elkins sent back to Enron that stated, "You requested the possible consequences of discharging employees who reported accounting irregularities." That memo was dated Aug. 24, 2001, just two days after I'd met with Lay. I hadn't realized how close I'd come to being sacked. I was shocked and disappointed that his first action was to consider firing me, not to determine if I was presenting credible evidence of accounting fraud. (See The Financial Collapse of Enron — Parts 3 and 4, "Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives," GPO.gov, Feb. 14 and March 14, 2002.)
My disappointment in Lay's flawed leadership was followed closely by more bad news of broader leadership shortcomings. Journalists were pouring over Enron's bankruptcy filings and soon reported that those Enron executives who'd laid off nearly 5,000 employees on Dec. 3, 2001, had paid themselves exorbitant bonuses the week before Enron's bankruptcy filing. Those bonuses often equaled two, three and five times their annual base salary — the purpose of which was to "retain" their employment at the bankrupt estate for three months. (See "Enron's last-minute bonus orgy," by Jake Tapper, salon, Feb. 8, 2002.)
I'm still alarmed that these executives were able to fire their staff so easily with no severance and no insurance, while lining their pockets with a multi-year cushion of cash. How had the culture and value system gone so terribly wrong at Enron? Were these executives any more ethical or moral than Andy Fastow, Enron's CFO and primary perpetrator of the accounting fraud? If so, not by much. How could I have worked at Enron for more than eight years and not recognized that the culture was rotten?
[See sidebar: "Heed these 10 risk indicators from Enron's failings".]
Heed these 10 risk indicators from Enron's failings
Even though Enron's bankruptcy occurred 20 years ago, numerous risk indicators in the company are still relevant. When you're evaluating corporate operations, look for any of these top 10 risk indicators from Enron:
1/ State of risk management: The internal audit department is fully outsourced. Control and risk management personnel don't have autonomy or equal power with revenue departments. The chairs of the audit and finance committees of the board of directors rarely, if ever, meet with the head of the company's risk management departments alone. It goes without saying that the lack of internal auditors meant no fraud examiners were employed at Enron either.
2/ Tone at the top: The CEO abuses their position in some way. (Ken Lay required all employees to book business travel through his sister's travel agency. His use of corporate jets for personal reasons was well known among executives who found Lay's personal needs would circumvent their legitimate business trips.)
3/ Stock option overuse: The compensation system relies significantly on stock options. Also, the company's full compensation to its board and employees, including salaries, bonuses, stock grants and stock options, ranks well above its peer group or similar companies in the same jurisdiction.
4/ Diffusion of responsibility: Employees can't adequately explain complex transactions or accounting treatments without relying on highly paid outside experts (accountants, auditors, lawyers, consultants) who've "blessed" the transactions or accounting machinations. This is important: If a business professional truly understands a transaction, they should be able to explain it successfully to a first grader. Enron executives and board directors stopped asking questions to try to understand Enron's complex and confusing off-balance-sheet SPVs and just accepted some version of "I'm not an accountant; Andersen has approved the vehicle, so it must be OK."
5/ Active spin machine: The public relations department is very active compared to peer or local competitors.
6/ Exceptions to the rules: Despite a strong written code of conduct and established internal control systems, the organization may reprimand but not terminate ethically challenged but successful employees.
7/ High executive turnover.
8/ Impeded communication: Methods for delivering bad news to the top are sketchy. Whistleblower hotlines aren't robust. Intimidation shuts down dissent. The employee watercooler talk, the internal project names, the departmental skits all hint at wrongdoing. (Andy Fastow, Enron's CFO, coined the dubious accounting structures "Raptors" and "Condor." Enron's traders manipulated the California energy markets with schemes called "Get Shorty," "Ricochet" and "The Death Star." Jeff Skilling performed a skit joking about adopting mark-to-model accounting, saying this "hypothetical future value accounting will add a kazillion dollars to the bottom line.")
9/ Charismatic leadership masking malignant narcissism: Top leaders' descriptors — charismatic, quick, slick — hint at narcissism. Top leaders have an air of arrogance and domineering personalities. Employees sense that rules don't apply to those at the top. (See the "Career Connection" column in the November/December 2021 issue of Fraud Magazine.)
10/ The board of directors allows the CFO to enter a conflict of interest: At Enron, the board waived the code of conduct to allow Fastow to become the general partner of an investment partnership that helped the company close out transactions that were taking too long in the marketplace. Fastow named his investment partnership, LJM, after his wife, Lea, and two sons, Jeffrey and Matthew. Many of the Enron executives listed in the convictions table below weren't perpetrators of fraudulent structures. They just benefited from LJM, a fraudulent structure, by boosting their earnings when they did business with it. (Hopefully, other organizations won't imitate this infamous and preposterous action.)
Greed subverts principles
The drivers for fraud are well known: motive, opportunity and rationalization. The accounting fraud at Enron fit perfectly:
Motive: Management couldn't miss earnings and cash-flow targets.
Opportunity: Ambiguity in accounting rules allowed Enron to pressure its compliant auditor, Arthur Andersen, to accept Enron's application of those rules. An outsourced and outmatched internal audit department proved worthless, as did Enron's rubber-stamp board of directors.
Rationalization: Accounting rules, and Enron's interpretation of them, trumped accounting principles that required a fair representation of the corporation's financial condition. The ends (shareholder value and stock price) justified the means.
The irony of the demise of Arthur Andersen, which came on the heels of the indictment by the DOJ for destroying evidence in the Enron matter, is that Andersen knew better. The accounting firm had mandated a client retention analysis each year to focus on companies that were flying too close to the edge of propriety and to consider dropping them as clients. In fact, Andersen walked away from its savings and loan clients in the mid-1980s, concerned that what had become normal accounting in the industry wasn't representative of the financial condition of the savings and loan businesses. In early 2001, Andersen did identify Enron as a risky client but decided to keep the relationship, noting in a memo introduced at Andersen's trial that annual billings from the Enron engagement could possibly reach $100 million a year. (See "Two Memos Reveal Arthur Andersen Had Knowledge of Enron's Difficulties," by Tom Hamburger and Ken Brown, The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 17, 2002.)
Andersen might still be in business today if it had kept its impeccable principles in place from the 1980s and stuck by its client retention analysis policy. For investors, employees, accountants, auditors and fraud examiners, developing a macro-style risk analysis of publicly traded companies is a great policy to adopt and/or maintain.
Justice is served
The Enron Task Force created by the DOJ to investigate criminal activity at Enron was very successful, with over two dozen executives who either pleaded guilty or were found guilty at trial. Additionally, seven bankers who did business with Enron served prison time for their roles in aiding and abetting Enron's financial and accounting schemes.
*Lay's conviction was dismissed because he died before sentencing. (Photo by Dave Einsel/Getty Images)
On the civil front, the SEC settled with half a dozen executives for monetary fines and temporary bans from holding an executive/officer position at a publicly traded company. The SEC fined numerous financial institutions. JP Morgan Chase, Citibank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce settled Enron shareholder litigation for approximately $2 billion each. (See "The defendants of the Enron era and their cases," Chron.com, Nov. 25, 2011, " Spotlight on Enron," SEC, modified May 11, 2010, and "Canadian Bank Pays $2.4 Billion to Settle With Enron Investors," by Jennifer Bayot, The New York Times, Aug. 2, 2005.)
We can have some measure of satisfaction that justice was served, and those executives and organizations responsible for either perpetrating Enron's accounting frauds — or standing by and providing outside auditing or financial assistance for Enron's schemes — were held to account. (See chart "Enron convictions.") We have no such satisfaction for those business leaders and organizations who created the Great Recession of 2008. Those Wall Street firms and banks haven't seen any repercussions for their risky and often financially misleading activities. A quick review of the bankruptcy examiner reports on Lehman Brothers shows how the use of Repo 105 transactions mirrors some of Enron's more creative financial structures. Repurchase agreements, or repos, are a type of short-term loan. One firm sells securities such as U.S. Treasuries to another party in exchange for cash and then buys back the asset that backed the loan at a higher price. Repos form a multitrillion-dollar market and accounting rules define them as debt that stay on the balance sheet.
What made the so-called Repo 105 different from traditional repos and similar to Enron's financial tricks was that they both involved circumventing the Financial Accounting Board's FAS 140 guidelines on asset transfers in structured products to make their books look more pristine than they really were. Lehman found a loophole in the FAS 140 rule that allowed it to count the Repo 105 transaction as a sale, as opposed to debt on its balance sheet. (See "Lehman's Demise and Repo 105: No Accounting for Deception," Wharton, March 31, 2010.)
Remedies to prevent future fiascoes
Enron's shoot-the-messenger response (and I was one of those messengers) prompted Congress to include whistleblower retaliation protections in corporate reform legislation, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, that it passed in July 2002 in the wake of the corporate scandals of Enron, WorldCom and other entities that year.
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act supplemented and enhanced those whistleblower protections and created a reward program for tips, complaints and referrals to the SEC. The successful SEC Office of the Whistleblower, created by Dodd-Frank, is now a decade old.
"Requiring anti-fraud expertise more broadly throughout the accounting profession could go a long way to preventing another Enron and another Great Recession." -Sherron Watkins
According to the office's 2020 Annual Report to Congress, since 2010, whistleblower disclosures have triggered $2.7 billion in total monetary sanctions, including more than $1.5 billion in disgorgement of ill-gotten gains and interest, of which more than $850 million has been, or is scheduled, to be returned to harmed investors. (See the comments of the former head of the SEC Office of the Whistleblower, Jane Norberg, in "Madoff's Legacy: What have we learned from the debacle?" by Dick Carozza, CFE, Fraud Magazine, July/August 2021.)
From the inception of the program through June 2021, the SEC has awarded approximately $938 million to 179 whistleblowers. (See "A History of Corporate Whistleblower Protection Laws and the Efforts to Undermine Them," by Sherron Watkins, Whistleblower Network News, July 13, 2021.) We should vigorously protect the ability for whistleblowers to remain anonymous and hire legal support to report potential wrongdoing at their companies.
[See sidebar: "Introduced U.S. Senate bill could enable more whistleblowers".]
Introduced U.S. Sentate bill could enable more whistleblowers
A bill introduced into the U.S. Senate on July 22, 2021, could help prevent the Department of Justice (DOJ) from dissuading more would-be whistleblowers. The bill, S. 2428 by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), would amend the False Claims Act (FCA) to make it more difficult for the DOJ to end whistleblowers' FCA cases when federal prosecutors contend the cases have no merit.
The FCA stipulates that the DOJ is allowed to end a whistleblower's action at any time by giving notice of a motion to dismiss and scheduling a hearing. Grassley's False Claims Amendments Act of 2021 would add that the DOJ would have to demonstrate "reasons for dismissal, and the qui tam plaintiff shall have the opportunity to show that the reasons are fraudulent, arbitrary, and capricious or contrary to law."
This bill's introduction follows the January 2018, Granston memorandum from the DOJ, which sought to halt meritless cases. (See "Grassley Bill Aims to Slow DOJ's Pushback on Whistleblower Suits," by Daniel Seiden, Bloomberg Law, Aug. 2, 2021.)
The SEC's Office of the Whistleblower is a good check and balance, but we need more. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is undergoing an evaluation of the certification process and is developing a new licensure model for CPAs, which is expected to debut in 2024. The new process will overhaul the four-part, 16-hour exam to become a CPA and introduce new educational qualifications. My personal desire is to see fraud detection become a primary educational requirement for CPAs. (See " AICPA, NASBA launch CPA Evolution Model Curriculum," by Courtney L. Vien, Journal of Accountancy, June 15, 2021, and "Updating Accounting Education for the 'CPA Evolution,'" by Pamela Neely and Keith Donnelly, The CPA Journal, October 2020.)
Detecting fraud and the conditions that might lead to fraud should be a requirement for CPAs. Requiring anti-fraud expertise more broadly throughout the accounting profession could go a long way to preventing another Enron and another Great Recession.
Sherron Watkins, the former vice president, corporate development at Enron, now lectures on leadership and ethics as the executive-in-residence at the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University and as professor of the practice at Kenan-Flagler business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Contact her at sherronwatkins@txstate.edu.
"Numbers manipulator describes Enron's descent," by Emily Primeaux, Fraud Magazine, March/April 2016.
"Constant Warning: Interview with Sherron Watkins," by Dick Carozza, CFE, Fraud Magazine, January/February 2007.
"Fraud and the Law" column, "Document retention in the wake of Andersen," by Juliana Morehead, J.D., Fraud Magazine, November/December 2005.
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Will the Czech Republic be ready for EU membership?
Czech Republic and EU
The 15 European Union member states have at last set a target date for EU expansion. Candidate countries are to finish negotiations by the end of 2002, the year 2003 will be dedicated to ratification of the treaties with the new members and January 1st, 2004 should see them fully incorporated within the EU. But they will have to have concluded all the 31 chapters required for membership. Olga Szantova has the story.
Of the 12 countries seeking accession to the EU, the Czech Republic and Estonia take fourth and fifth place, having closed 19 of the 30 concrete and one miscellaneous chapters required for membership. Prime minister Milos Zeman welcomed the EU summit decision and expressed confidence that the country would be fully prepared to meet the rest of the requirements for membership and that it would be his cabinet which would lead the Czech Republic into the European Union. With practically two thirds of the chapters closed, and one and a half years to go before the deadline, it would seem that his hopes are realistic. But could it be that the toughest nuts on the path to membership still remain to be cracked? That's a question I put to Jiri Havlik of the Department for the Coordination of Relations with the EU.
Jiri Havlik: I would not say so. Among the 19 chapters we have closed so far there were, according to me, at leas three chapters that I would call really difficult ones, namely the free movement of capital, services and goods, and another chapter that I would name as a sort of break through in negotiations from our point of view was the chapter on environment, which is certainly one of the very difficult chapters. Obviously, what remains ahead of us, among those 11, which still remain, there will be difficult chapters. Certainly the free movement of persons and free movement of labour force, which is a difficulty rather on the side of the EU.
Radio Prague: Is that a stumbling block we will be able to overcome?
JH: Well, that's a good question. The proposal is very difficult for us to accept, because politically it is very sensitive, and our people, our public opinion is very much against the idea that our people will not be able to seek employment outside the country, in EU member states. We will obviously try to make the best achievable result for us.
RP: To come to some other stumbling blocks still ahead, one major one are minority rights.
JH: I do not think there is a stumbling block there, because whilst there is obviously the long term issue of the Roma, the European Union has really recognised that quite a lot is moving in this respect and the issue is not one of treating minority rights, but the issue is really dealing with the social situation of the Roma, which is quite a different thing.
RP: What about judicial and administrative reforms?
JH: Well, this is another area which was actually criticised in the last report of the European Commission. The situation is that our over-all reform of the judiciary is slightly behind the original schedule, but we will be able to satisfy all the requirements of the European Union by the 1st January 2003. There will be only parts of the reform concerned with our internal issues, especially the procedure administration in the judiciary, which will be finished later on. But we do not think that this issue would be a reason for delaying our preparation or our accession to the EU.
Author: Olga Szantová
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In a fascinating new piece, The Telegraph's Luke Edwards has focused on the other side of the coin in the Rafa Benitez debate, explaining why the Spaniard should STAY at Newcastle United – even if he doesn't get what he wants.
Edwards – a reliable source when it comes to all things NUFC – states that any move to China would be for all the wrong reasons, with him playing devil's advocate in a piece that focuses on why Rafa STILL has several good reasons to stay.
Here's a snippet from Luke Edwards' must-read piece for the Telegraph today, questioning whether Rafa would be making a huge mistake leaving Newcastle – even if Mike Ashley is refusing to compromise:
'There are still good reasons for Benitez to stay. He has a team that has improved every year, the core of a squad that really could challenge for a cup competition next season, if he stayed and recruited well this summer. Newcastle have momentum, he is responsible for that, but maybe he does not want to continue, because, well, he does not want to work with the budget he has at St James' Park.
'If that happens, though, it is his next move that will ultimately shape perceptions of his decision.
'If, as we have been led to believe by a series of very deliberate and well-timed leaks, Benitez is on the verge of taking a job in China, he will be going for the wrong reasons. He will not be going, as he has repeatedly insisted, because he wants to win trophies and challenge for silverware. He will be going for money because that's the only reason any goes to work in Chinese football.
'He will leave Newcastle in the lurch, manager-less on the eve of pre-season training. He told the club he wanted to stay months ago, but he has been unwilling to compromise enough to make that happen so far.
'There will be some who admire his principles, who applaud the fact he could not stay and work for a man like Ashley, but no manager gets everything they want. That last bit is difficult to stomach and part of me wants to delete it as I read it back because Benitez is such a good manager, but I cannot.
'He was told what his transfer budget would be, but it appears that is not enough. He was told what the wage budget would be. That appears not to be enough. He was asked to sign young players, if he could, but he was reluctant to work under those parameters. He has been reassured the club would not sign any players against his wishes, but it seems Benitez wants the power to sign whoever he wants. No football club works like that.
'He has been offered a one-year contract, but he was asked if he would sign a longer one. He did not because he does not trust those above him to keep their word. That is a sad, infuriating state of affairs.
'It appears as though Benitez will not sign unless he gets everything he desired and, unfortunately, some of those demands are unreasonable within the Newcastle business model. Newcastle are a self-sufficient football club. He knew that when he took over three and a half years ago, and he has known it every year since. He has not been told anything he did not know already this summer.
Newcastle could undoubtedly have done more to improve his personal terms. They should have been willing to give Benitez a substantial pay rise rather than link increases– as Telegraph Sport understands they have – to performance-related bonuses. They need to make him feel wanted and nothing speaks louder than financial reward. It could still happen. There is still time for Benitez to alter course.
However, when Chinese clubs are willing to double his salary, how many of us can say, hand on wallet, that we would not be tempted by that sort of offer. I would be.
But I would not have pretended otherwise, I would not have claimed the things that mattered were different. I would not have talked about wanting to stay in England for family reasons, I would not have claimed my sole motivation on Tyneside was to help Newcastle's realise its vast potential. Because he was doing that, slowly, but surely. He was improving the team; improving the football club.
'If you really are going Rafa, then be honest about the reasons why. And if you stay – and I really hope you can be pulled back from the precipice – I will be the first person to apologise and thank you for remaining to finish the work you have started on Tyneside.'
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It's a massive risk at times to look at both sides of the coin, especially when the view is hugely onesided from those who "fall victim". But @LukeEdwardsTele does it really well here. It's oddly refreshing and a must read. Though the outcome may be horrendous. https://t.co/grSkMarWUx
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This piece comes a matter of hours after George Caulkin admitted in a worrying that Rafa Benitez is 'almost gone' in a new report for the Times – with him later stating on Twitter that it would now take a 'miracle' to keep him at the club.
I don't think many would blame Benitez if he did walk this summer, but I think Luke hits the nail on the head in saying that any move to China would feel wrong – especially when he would be leaving for something that goes against many of the main things he's stood for over the past few years.
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George Caulkin and Luke Edwards are probably the two most respected journalists when it comes to NUFC but neither of their articles states anything as fact, it's their understanding and opinion. Both of them have been pretty quite recently but it's the weekend and they need to sell papers. My view on Rafa is he knows there is a sale imminent so why would he sign a new contract until he sits down with the new owners to discuss "the project" as Ewards says in his piece Rafa still wants to win things and with NUFC if possible.
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SEK International School Qatar is delighted to receive formal accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges in addition to their IB World School status and authorization for the PYP, MYP and Diploma Programmes. A globally recognized standard of excellence, NEASC Accreditation attests to a school's high quality and integrity.
Founded in 1885, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) is an independent, voluntary, non-profit membership organization which connects and serves over 2,000 public and independent schools, technical and career institutions, colleges, and universities in New England plus International Schools in more than 65 nations worldwide.
In the final report, the NEASC team expressed, "Many of the identified strengths are the unique balance of this school, which has comprehensive and complete processes, policies, and procedures, as well as an organic professional culture that is nurtured by the Vision and values of the school. This unique balance of structure and innovative freedom gives rise to and supports the strengths identified".
NEASC has recognised SEK Qatar as an accredited member after having successfully passed its accreditation, which is a thorough objective process of peer review through Self Study and visits from NEASC professionals.
The Visiting team commended the School on the warmth and openness of their community and the depth of their engagement in the reflective accreditation process,
"The school, while only in its fourth year, is already an outstanding educational program and environment. The faculty is talented, dedicated, and has formed an effective and cohesive professional community with a shared vision of excellence. The SLT is simultaneously collaborative and supportive, while still setting high standards of professionalism and performance".
SEK Qatar Principal, Vivian Arif commented, "We are really proud of this achievement; it is a validation of the collaboration and expertise of our school faculty and a testament to the strength of commitment from our parents and the outstanding profile of our talented, globally minded students. Obtaining NEASC accreditation supports our commitment to rigorous continuous improvement and certifies that SEK Qatar students receive a first class education that meets Internationally recognised quality standards".
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By Sir Ronald Sanders
(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda's Ambassador to the United States and the OAS. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own)
United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has announced his availability to serve a second term when his current term ends on December 31.
Arguably, Guterres is the UN Secretary-General that has paid the greatest attention to the concerns and challenges of the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Over the last four years, the policies and priorities he has vigorously pursued and tirelessly advocated have aligned with the interests of the people of the Region.
When three Caribbean countries experienced grave destruction in 2017 and 2019, Guterres made it his business to fly to them, not only to witness the devastation but to make the world aware of the catastrophes, and to formulate plans to help.
Visiting Barbuda in 2017, weeks after the ravages of Hurricane Irma, he walked with the people who had suffered in the disaster that left no inhabitable house and no functional building. Guterres told the world, "I have been in areas torn by conflict. In my own country, I have seen earthquakes, I've seen storms […] I have never seen such a high-level of devastation like the one that I witnessed in Barbuda." Moving from Barbuda to Dominica, which was worst affected because its population was much larger, the UN Chief declared, "the link between climate change and the devastation we are witnessing is clear, and there is a collective responsibility of the international community to stop this suicidal development."
He immediately launched an agenda on the theme of connecting climate change to natural disasters. Justification for his campaigning and advocacy was bolstered two years later, in 2019, when Hurricane Dorian demolished islands of the Bahamas chain. Again, turning up to focus world attention on the catastrophe, Guterres told global audiences, "Hurricane Dorian has been classified as Category 5. I think it's Category Hell."
The Secretary-General recognised the links between natural disasters caused by climate change, the accumulation of unsustainable debt by countries struggling to rebuild infrastructure and economies, and the crucial need for better debt forgiveness; debt rescheduling; and access to concessional financing from the International Financial Institutions. He has championed this stance relentlessly.
As recently as January 25, he told a Climate Adaptation Summit meeting in The Netherlands, "We are facing a climate emergency. We are already witnessing unprecedented climate extremes and volatility, affecting lives and livelihoods on all continents. According to the World Meteorological Organization, there have been more than 11,000 disasters due to weather, climate and water-related hazards over the past 50 years at a cost of some US$3.6 trillion.
Extreme weather and climate-related hazards have also killed more than 410,000 people in the past decade, the vast majority in low and lower middle-income countries".
And, he added, "We must expand the provision of liquidity and debt relief instruments to developing and middle-income countries that lack the resources to relaunch their economies in a sustainable and inclusive way". Guterres was commanding world attention to issues confronting the Caribbean region with the authority that Caribbean countries alone cannot muster.
He has also stressed that "The share for Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in total climate finance remains small, representing only 14 per cent and 2 per cent of flows respectively". In that context, he has argued for "support for regional adaptation and resilience initiatives that would allow, debt-for-adaptation swaps for the Caribbean or the Pacific Islands and provide much needed liquidity to vulnerable countries in dire need".
Similarly, since the middle of 2020, he has been warring for developing countries, particularly small states, over the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In his unflagging championship, on January 25, he told the World Economic Forum in Davos, "Inclusive and sustainable recovery around the globe will depend on the availability and effectiveness of vaccines for all, immediate fiscal and monetary support in both developed and developing countries, and transformative longer-term stimulus measures".
Declaring that "Vaccines must be seen as global public goods — people's vaccines", Guterres told the world's leading economic and financial leaders, "If developed countries think they will be safe if they vaccinate their own people while neglecting the developing world, they are wrong". He argued that what is required is "full funding for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator and its COVAX facility led by the World Health Organization (WHO)".
Countries in CARICOM, which now have no vaccines and little prospect of getting sufficient, under the existing COVAX programme of the WTO to inoculate their populations, strongly agree with Guterres' position.
It is significant that he attended CARICOM Heads of Government Meetings in 2019 and 2020 to hear their concerns first-hand.
On January 28, the Secretary-General outlined his priorities. They reflect concerns expressed by CARICOM leaders, including promoting vaccine equity, providing access for the world's poorest countries; combatting climate change and biodiversity loss; conquering the grave impacts of poverty and inequality; and strengthening multilateralism to ensure delivery of public health, peace and a healthy environment.
Undoubtedly, there's good reason for all CARICOM leaders to take leaves from the books of Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, who pledged his support by letter to Guterres on January 12, and British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who on the same day, "warmly welcomed the secretary-general's decision to run for a second term and congratulated him on a successful first term".
António Guterres, by just doing his job with fidelity to the countries he represents – including small states – has proven himself very worthy of the unequivocal support of CARICOM countries.
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Left to right: Andrea Reimer, Judith Guichon, Henry Grayman, Thomas Gradin, Ujjal Dosanjh and Ezra Shanken, chief executive officer of Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver. (photo by Wendy Fouks)
Ujjal Dosanjh, former premier of British Columbia and one-time federal cabinet minister, was recognized for civil courage at a ceremony at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver on Jan. 18. The event marked the annual Wallenberg Day commemoration in the city, and the award was bestowed in the name of two extraordinary individuals whose actions during the Second World War resulted in the survival of tens of thousands of European Jews.
Dosanjh is the first recipient of the Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Award. In particular, Dosanjh was recognized for speaking out about political and religious violence in Canada's Sikh community – notably, a warning in 1985 that Sikh extremism in India could target Canadians. A few months later, 280 Canadians were among 329 people killed when Air India Flight 182 was bombed. More generally, Dosanjh was recognized for a lifetime of contributions to British Columbia and Canada. (See story in the Jan. 9, 2015, issue of the Independent.)
The first annual award was presented at the 10th anniversary commemoration of Wallenberg Day, which honors Raoul Wallenberg who, as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, issued visas that saved thousands of Jews. The Soviet military entered Hungary in January 1945, and Wallenberg was detained on suspicion of subversive activities. He was never seen again. The commemoration, which was initiated by Anders Neumuller, a former honorary Swedish consul to Vancouver, is now presented by the Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society, which, along with Wallenberg, commemorates Chiune Sugihara, a consular representative of Imperial Japan in Lithuania who, similar to Wallenberg, issued visas that allowed thousands of Jews to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
Henry Grayman, president of the society, explained that it was founded in 2013 by Swedes and Jews to honor and encourage acts of civil courage like those exemplified by Sugihara and Wallenberg.
The impact of acts of civil courage was made evident by Grayman's wife, Deborah Ross-Grayman, who emceed the afternoon event. She credits her life to the war-era acts of Sugihara.
"I am the breath and the face of civil courage," she said. "My own mother, Niuta Ramm, was the recipient of such a visa…. I live each day in gratitude for what has been given to me."
She invited others in the audience whose survival could be credited to the acts of individuals like Sugihara or Wallenberg to stand, and close to a dozen people rose from their seats.
"As you see, one person can make a difference," she said.
Ujjal Dosanjh (photo by Wendy Fouks)
On stage with British Columbia's Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon and Sweden's honorary consul to Vancouver, Thomas Gradin, Dosanjh received the award but deflected the accolades.
"I am absolutely humbled," Dosanjh said. "It's a great honor to be recognized in the names of Raoul Wallenberg and Chiune Sugihara."
In turn, he said, he accepted the recognition in the name of victims of violence in recent days at Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish supermarket in Paris. He also gave thanks to his heroes – including his grandfather, and Mahatma Gandhi, "the father of the nation I deserted to become Canadian" – and also those who have stood by him during difficult times.
"Terrorism in the name of religion is at war with us," Dosanjh said. "The venom that moves them leads them to not understand our common humanity. These infidels are not true to our common humanity."
The lieutenant-governor said Dosanjh has "devoted his life to standing firm against injustice and against violence … he's served and served."
The viceroy added that it is more important than ever to celebrate and sing the praises of heroes with at least the vigor "as that with which the deeds of villains are reported."
Deputy Mayor and Vancouver City Councilor Andrea Reimer brought greetings from the city and read a proclamation from the mayor. She urged people to take the opportunity in 2015 to prove that actions make a difference.
"We have a choice to act, or we have a choice to regret that we didn't act," she said.
In addition to Sweden's Gradin, consular representatives were also in attendance representing Japan, Switzerland and Mongolia.
After the presentation, a feature-length film was screened. The Rescuers features diplomats and government officials from diverse places whose actions saved the lives of thousands of Europe's imperiled Jews.
Pat Johnson is a Vancouver writer and principal in PRsuasiveMedia.com.
Format ImagePosted on January 30, 2015 January 29, 2015 Author Pat JohnsonCategories LocalTags Andrea Reimer, Chiune Sugihara, Deborah Ross-Grayman, Henry Grayman, Judith Guichon, Raoul Wallenberg, Ujjal Dosanjh, Wallenberg Day, Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Award
Wallenberg Day honors heroes
Left to right, Henry Ross-Grayman, Thomas Gradin and Mayor Gregor Robertson. (photo by Wendy Fouks)
There was a full house at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre for the community's marking of Wallenberg Day on Jan 19. Sponsored for the first time by the newly formed Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society, the annual event was the natural outgrowth of the placement of a plaque in Queen Elizabeth Park in 1986. It was revived at the 20th anniversary in 2006 as a cooperative effort between the then honorary Swedish consul, Anders Neumuller, and the Vancouver Second Generation Group.
Each year, the event pays tribute to courageous and heroic actions inspired by the Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, and the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara. Both men, at grave risk to themselves, their families and their future, chose to follow their own personal moral code and save the lives of large numbers of Jews during the Second World War.
Mayor of Vancouver Gregor Robertson read a proclamation naming the day "Raoul Wallenberg Day in the City of Vancouver." He said, "There are always heroes in our midst and elevating their place in society and celebrating and having discussion … is absolutely critical in a civil society."
This year, the heroism of Englishman Sir Nicholas Winton was highlighted in the movie Nicky's Family. This emotionally powerful film told the story of how Winton saved the lives of more than 600 Czech children just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The film documents how his actions have inspired young people to engage in direct acts of tikkun olam.
British Consul Rupert Potter honored Winton, saying, "I have never introduced a film to quite so full a house as this, which, I think, is testament to the content and the importance of the subject and what the film represents…."
There was an especially moving moment when members of the audience who owed their lives to the heroic actions of people such as Wallenberg, Sugihara and Winton were asked to stand. This action made the impact of these men clearly visible, showing that one person can make a profound difference in the world.
Naomi Taussig, the cantor of Temple Sholom Synagogue, spoke about the miracle of how her father and uncle were saved by Winton. She said, "Where would I be but for the actions of a single man who chose to do something when he could have done nothing at all? I feel a responsibility to live proudly as a Jew, honoring my grandparents, Emil and Irma. I try to live kindly, with compassion and intention. Nicholas himself says we must live ethically, and do whatever we can – no matter how small. We must take action rather than believe we are too insignificant to make a difference."
Deborah Ross-Grayman is a Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society committee member.
(photo by Wendy Fouks)
I, too, owe my life to the actions of a diplomat. Against the orders of his government, Sugihara gave out visas to Jews, allowing them to escape certain death and travel to Japan. My mother was a recipient of such a visa. Had she not received it, I would not be here today. Last year, I traveled to Japan and had the honor of meeting with Sugihara's granddaughter to express my deepest gratitude for the actions of her grandfather. It was a heartfelt meeting that I will remember for the rest of my days.
We need these stories to remind us of the inherent good that lives within people. We need to educate, to pay tribute, to remember and, finally, to inspire people today, as well as future generations, to act with courage and live their values in a way that contributes to the healing of the world.
The Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society is passionate about wanting to leave a legacy encouraging others to engage in behaviors inspired by Wallenberg, Sugihara and people like Winton. We are looking for people who, at significant personal risk, have helped improve or save the lives of others by going against unjust norms or conventions. Over the coming year, the names of suggested individuals who meet the criteria (including being associated with British Columbia, even if their actions may have taken place outside of the province) will be reviewed. Next year, at the annual Wallenberg Day event, we hope to present an award for civil courage to acknowledge heroic acts in today's world. For more information, contact the society at [email protected].
Deborah Ross-Grayman is an artist, writer and Sugihara survivor descendant committee member of the Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society.
Format ImagePosted on January 31, 2014 April 9, 2014 Author Deborah Ross-GraymanCategories LocalTags Deborah Ross-Grayman, Gregor Robertson, Henry Ross-Grayman, Thomas Gradin, Wallenberg Day, Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society, WSCCS
Nicholas Winton's kindertransport
The Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society will mark Vancouver Raoul Wallenberg Day on Jan. 19 with the screening of the documentary Nicky's Family, about Holocaust hero Nicholas Winton.
Now 104 years old, Winton lives in England (where he was born). The story of his heroism during the Holocaust starts in 1938, when he was a stockbroker. Receiving a letter from a friend in Prague about the plight of Jews in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, he traveled there to assess the situation for himself. Shocked at what he witnessed, he established an organization to aid children from Jewish families, setting up office in his hotel room in Prague, from which he eventually expanded.
Nicky's Family will be screened in Vancouver on Jan. 19.
The director of Nicky's Family, Matej Minac, said in an interview on Czech Radio in 2003: "When he came here to Prague, and wanted to rescue all these children, and he had a plan how to do it, everybody was telling him – you know, it's absurd. You can never manage it. The British won't let the children in. The Gestapo won't let the children out. You don't have the money, so how do you want to do it? It's crazy. And Winton said that anything that is reasonable can be achieved."
After Kristallnacht, in November 1938, the British Parliament approved the entry of refugees younger than 17 into the country, if they had a place to stay and a warranty was paid. Knowing this, Winton left his friends in Prague to manage the gathering of the children there and returned to London, where he started a campaign to find foster homes and the necessary guarantees for as many children as he could.
Winton also organized for the Jewish children to be transported on trains and then on to ferries to England, where the foster families met them. The operation later became known as the Czech Kindertransport. It lasted until the official start of the Second World War on Sept. 1, 1939, by which time 669 of "his children" had arrived in England. He kept records of the names and addresses of the children, their parents and their foster families. Most of the Jewish parents in Prague perished during the Holocaust.
Winton never told anyone of this enterprise. Fifty years after the fact, his wife found a suitcase in the attic with all his wartime documentation. She contacted the BBC, and they sent letters to the addresses of the foster families. Several dozen people responded. Most of them didn't know the identity of their rescuer. His "children" and their children and grandchildren now number more than 6,000.
A 1988 TV program about the reunion of Winton and dozens of the children he had saved started a snowball of recognition; among the honors, Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
In the late 1990s, Minac was searching for a theme for his next film. The Czech director read Pearls of Childhood by Vera Gissin, in which she mentions Winton and his rescue operation.
"I was astonished," said Minac in the aforementioned radio interview. "That's exactly what I needed for my story. I wrote a film treatment and I asked one lady, Alice Klimova, whether she could translate it into English. She said: 'Matej, I think you have a few mistakes in your treatment, especially the scene in the train station, when the children are leaving for Britain.' I said: 'How do you know?' And she said: 'I know because I was one of those children, of Winton's children…. I was only four-and-a-half years old. I don't remember it so well. Why don't you call Nicky, Nicky Winton?' And I said: 'How do you mean Nicky Winton? He's still alive?' She said: 'Yes. He'd be very happy to talk to you, he's a nice person, and I'm sure he would help.' Two months later, I visited Nicky. We spent a beautiful afternoon together, and I knew that I can't do only one film … but I will have to do also a documentary…."
In the end, Minac made three movies about Winton: one feature, All My Loved Ones (1999), the documentary The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002), which won an Emmy Award, and Nicky's Family (2011), which includes reenactments and never-before-seen archival footage, as well as interviews with Winton and a number of those he rescued.
The Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society, which is hosting the Nicky's Family screening and reception here, incorporated in April 2013, Deborah Ross-Grayman, one of the society's founding members, told the Independent. "This was the natural outgrowth of the Raoul Wallenberg Day event, which began in 1986 with the placement of a plaque in Queen Elizabeth Park. It was revived on the 20th anniversary in 2006, as a cooperative event sponsored by the honorary Swedish consul, Anders Neumuller, and the Vancouver Second Generation Group…. We formed the society in order to be able to formally present an award for civil courage, and so acknowledge and support such heroic acts today."
She added that approximately 50 diplomats from different countries risked their lives and careers to save the lives of Jews during the Second World War. "We have shown films highlighting the acts of Wallenberg, Sweden, and Chiune Sugihara, Japan, [whose visa saved Ross-Grayman's mother's life] as well as people from Chile, Portugal and Spain. Wallenberg saved approximately 100,000 people and Sugihara saved approximately 6,000. Their names stand as a symbol for all such courageous and heroic acts."
Nicky's Family will screen at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver's Rothstein Theatre on Jan. 19 at 1:30 p.m.
Olga Livshin is a Vancouver freelance writer. She can be reached at [email protected].
Posted on January 10, 2014 March 28, 2014 Author Olga LivshinCategories LocalTags Deborah Ross-Grayman, kindertransport, Kristallnacht, Matej Minac, Nicholas Winton, Nicky's Family, Pearls of Childhood, Raoul Wallenberg Day, The Power of Good, Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Society


If you've got a space problem, and need more sleeping room, a convertible bed could be the answer. Smart sleeper options and technologies have really advanced over the years while you weren't looking.
You can now choose from several different approaches to getting the extra bed space that you need. And if you think there's no way that a convertible bed could be comfortable, you're in for a pleasant surprise.
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Corporate Challenge: An alcohol beverage company made a flavored beverage that became an instant success and created a new market category. Competitors entered the market space and took away market share.
Ironbound Strategy: Create different versions of the popular product to grow the market category. Use the same brand name to leverage success for the new products. Testing the new products in markets where the brand is most popular will create value for the brand.
Ironbound Action: Jefferson's, Four Roses, and Jim Beam all began with successful and popular standard Bourbons. They each leveraged the success of their brand to create up-market premium products and inexpensive entry level products. These vertical brand extensions allow more consumers to reach for their preferred brand instead of switching to a competitor.
Corporate Challenge: Some "too big to fail" institutions are failing to motivate employees to prudently manage risks. Fraudulent activities are ramping up fines, legal costs, and settlement charges while putting the banks' reputation at risk.
Ironbound Strategy: Top management needs to create more value for employees to better engage them in risk culture. Creating employee value builds a stronger brand that affiliates pride and encourages better decision-making.
Ironbound Action: At Wells Fargo & Company (the world largest bank by market value), the executive team refers to employees as "Team Members", and the bank as "our company". The inclusive language is an example of a simple way to create value for employees, and a surefire way of improving risk culture.


Rochester Art Center is pleased to announce the fall exhibition Locavore: Southeastern MN Juried Exhibition in the Burton and Judy Onofrio Galleries. Come see a taste of art by artists rarely brought together. Adjacent to Locavore is Homegrown: 2' x 2', a show literally for everyone. In the democratic spirit that anyone can be an artist, anyone who creates a work on a RAC provided 2' x 2' board will be included in the exhibition. With two concurrent exhibitions of local and regional artistic work, RAC continues to create an open and inclusive setting for the broad range of artworks created in the region. Jurors for Locavore are Kathleen Hawkes, Faculty, University of Wisconsin La Crosse and Andrew Nordin, Art Instructor, Ridgewater College.
We wanted to offer insight with the artists and their work for Locavore, but with an exhibition of this scope, we are doing it in a speed round, so each artist in the juried exhibition will have an opportunity to say a few words if they would like. Artists will each have about five minutes to speak about their work.
To watch videos from the artist speed talks, visit our YouTube channel.
These videos were filmed and compiled by Chris Rackley.


The hostile environment of planet Dawn forces the Ariadnan emergency services to have a wide variety of medical specialists. Also, all Ariadnan officers need a Dozer to release the fire curtain of the fearsome Traktor Muls. This box includes three miniatures: one Kazak Doktor, one Dozer Traktor Mul Control Device and one 112 Emergency Service on motorcycle. Give your Ariadnan force from Operation: Coldfront (REF. 280020-0730) the specialist support they need to rise to victory.


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Omar Souleyman
To Syria, With Love
Omar Souleyman is reported to have released 500 live albums in Syria, recorded mainly at weddings before the country's civil war forced him into exile in 2011. With that conflict only worsening six years in, and Souleyman dedicating his new record "with love" to his homeland, one could be forgiven for anticipating a somewhat melancholic tone here. The singer's 503rd (ish) album, however, contains precious little bleakness. For the most part, its relentless thump and slithering, urgent melodies are fluorescently bright, insistent and addictive, and Souleyman's vocals, gruff and throaty, bubble with a bold joie de vivre.
Only on 'Mawal' does the pace dip below "frenetic", the throbbing techno kick replaced with a loping waltz-time rhythm, and the short blasts of instrumental jingles set aside for longer, more keening phrases. Elsewhere, though, spirits remain stoically high: 'Ya Bnayya''s lurching syncopation, recalling a sort of 1,000-volt interpretation of ragga, is impossible not to wriggle to, the relentless ratatat of 'Khayen' is only augmented by Souleyman's boisterous ad libs, and the closing 'Tensana', while superficially a touch corny, revels in its tangy mix of route-one techno with serpentine microtonal saz.
It all adds up to a record that pulses with life and indomitable spirit – from one angle, surely the finest love letter Syria could currently wish to receive.
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To design and execute a special, thematic event for NIKE Run Clubs, wrapped around Flyknit technology. A set of amazing product displays were specially constructed for the event. 250 runners experienced a surprise training session at Amaksostasio, where they had the opportunity to feel strong racing each other - while dragging weights in tailor made led lanes -, feel free jumping on trampolines, enjoy a product tour in a vintage bus and get photo-shot in an original box.


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LMJ's Dark Blue Apatite Stone Ring featured in The Guardian, as part of Helen Seamons' 'Look sharp: Six wedding guest looks for men - in pictures'.
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What team is Dybala on 2022?
The club is delighted to be able to announce the signing of forward Paulo Dybala. Dybala, 28, has signed a three-year contract with AS Roma that runs until 30 June 2025.
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Argentina international forward Paulo Dybala has joined Italian side AS Roma on a three-year contract following his departure from Juventus, the Europa Conference League champion said on Wednesday.
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Just like Messi, Dybala is a left-footed attacker who operates centrally and likes to drift to the right flank and cut in from there. For this exact reason, it is difficult to field Lionel Messi and Paulo Dybala together as one of them will need to be played out of position.
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Oct 2 (Reuters) – Juventus forward Paulo Dybala has been ruled out of Argentina's squad for this month's World Cup qualifiers due to injury, the country's soccer governing body said.
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TEAM NEWS: Williams returns to starting XV
London Irish centre Johnny Williams makes a welcome return to the starting XV for this Sunday's Greene King IPA Championship clash with Jersey Reds at the Madejski Stadium (kick-off 2pm).
A Junior World Cup-winner with England Under-20's in the summer, Williams returns to action following two months out through injury and is one of seven changes as the Exiles eye 10 league wins out of 10.
Williams, who came off the bench just before the break during last weekend's 35-24 victory at Cornish Pirates, replaces Fergus Mulchrone at inside centre, while Joe Cokanasiga starts on the wing.
Elsewhere in the backline, James Marshall makes way for Tommy Bell, the former Leicester man set to make it a century of points for the season having being locked on 98 since his side's 41-17 triumph over Yorkshire Carnegie earlier this month. Bell had a stint with Jersey prior to his move to Welford Road in 2014.
In the pack Richard Palframan gets the nod at tight-head, while second-row Jerry Sexton and back-rows Blair Cowan and Senitiki Nayalo get the chance to impress from the start.
Exiles Director of Rugby Nick Kennedy said: "Jersey will be yet another tough test for us on the back of last week's trip to Penzance, and we will need to be fully focussed on the task in hand.
"Training has been excellent this week and we have had the extra day to prepare for Jersey which is good. It's important that we utilise our rotation system during what is going to be a relentless campaign, and a series of players have the opportunity to impress this weekend.
"We must continue to approach each game in the same fashion as we've done so far this term, and build momentum as we get closer to the business end of the season."
Tickets are available for the Jersey Reds game by calling 0118 968 1016 or click here.
Hospitality packages are still available for this fixture, starting at just £35 +vat per person. For more information or to buy a package please email [email protected] or call 01932 750 113.
London Irish: 15 Greig Tonks, 14 Joe Cokanasiga, 13 Tom Fowlie, 12 Johnny Williams, 11 Ben Ransom, 10 Tommy Bell, 9 Scott Steele, 1 Tom Court, 2 David Paice (c), 3 Richard Palframan, 4 Will Lloyd, 5 Jerry Sexton, 6 Max Northcote-Green, 7 Blair Cowan, 8 Senitiki Nayalo
Replacements: 16 Gerard Ellis, 17 Harry Elrington, 18 Ben Franks, 19 Sebastian De Chaves, 20 Mike Coman, 21 Brendan McKibbin, 22 Fergus Mulchrone


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These are the last recordings by composer and guitarist Zani Diabate (pronounced Jah-bah-tay'). Zani Diabate, with his Super Djata Band, made his debut in the West in the early 1980s with an outstanding album reissued on the Mango label. That was a timeless album that we still play on The Motherland Influence today! Other songs by Super Djata Band have been included in many compilations of West African music on WRIR's World Music shelves. Although Zani's modern music has always owed much to various traditional Malian styles, on Tientalaw with a new band, Les Heritiers (The Heirs), he reaches deeper into folklore in almost every composition and, in many compositions, allows the other instruments such as the balafon to take the limelight and, in traditional form, changes to a faster tempo at the end. There are a couple of tracks in which we hear more of what we might expect from Super Djata. A standout is 11 which not only includes some great guitar but the saxophone of Cameroonian Jimmy Mvondo-Mvele, now working a lot with Samba Mapangala and others. There are a number of outstanding songs on this album. Well worth a listen!


The Columbus Blue Jackets overcame a two-goal deficit to tie the game before falling to the Buffalo Sabres 5-4 at Nationwide Arena.
Columbus got goals from Pierre-Luc Dubois, Nick Foligno, and Brandon Dubinsky before Cam Atkinson tied the game with just over 30-seconds left in the second period. Sergei Bobrovsky had 29-saves for the CBJ who have now dropped three straight games.
The Jackets will now head north for a trip to face the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday before returning home to Columbus on Saturday to host St. Louis.


Frodsham Downhill Run is a fun run rather than a competitive race but most runners like to know how long it took them to complete the course and where they came in relation to the other runners. The first home in each category is highlighted in blue.
This table is based on the names and categories on the entry form and the run numbers allocated. If run numbers have been swapped around then the results could be misleading.
If you would prefer the list in Run No. order Click here.
If you finished the run and registered your place at the finish, but a time or place has not been given please contact Sue Thomson the run organiser by email.