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Financial audit and governance
IVCC is a not for profit company limited by guarantee with charitable status in both the UK and the US. The annual statutory accounts of IVCC are audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP and are produced using the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting for Charities (SORP) issued in March 2005. This ensures compliance under both the Companies Act 2006 and amended Charities Act 2006.
IVCC benefits from shared accounting and audit arrangements with its host institution the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). A finance and investment committee made up of senior employees and trustees external to the organization give governance oversight on all financial operations of IVCC and meet 4 times a year. A specialist taxation service is provided externally. The team has extensive knowledge of all major funders within the sector and the expertise to comply with all external funder audit requirements.
All internal audit work is carried by an independent external organization whose remit is to provide independent and objective assurance to add value and improve the organisation’s operations. This is carried out through the evaluation and improvement to risk management, governance and control processes. An audit committee exists to oversee all recommendations made.
Following last year’s significant investment in upgrading the financial reporting system, a major investment to improve and expand the capabilities of the research database reporting tool was implemented. Progress and information on research grants and contracts can now be tracked in real time from application to award in one centralized online repository. Electronic authorization is possible at all stages of the life-cycle of the grant, speeding up the administrative process whilst allowing a complete audit trail.A sign outside, however, declares that a restaurant called Silk Road is coming soon, serving Uyghur cuisine. An employee explains that the restaurant is currently going through the permitting process to get the new name approved, so for now, it’s still technically Pronto Cafe.
The space is also in a transition period; it’s still fairly bare, but it will undergo renovations before grandly opening under the new name, possibly in August, at which point the decor will reflect the Uyghur culture. One cool feature of the current space: Photos of a couple dishes are displayed on digital screens, and if you ask about something on the menu, an employee will display the dish in question on one of the screens.
Uyghur cuisine is difficult to find in Massachusetts, although it isn’t entirely unfamiliar, drawing influences from various parts of Central Asia, China, and beyond. A popular food truck called Uyghur Kitchen was on the road around Boston in 2014-2015, primarily serving kebabs, but it has since shut down. Common Uyghur dishes include samsa (brick-oven lamb pies), laghman noodles (hand-pulled noodles served in stir-fry dishes), pilaf (a rice dish often served with mutton, carrots, onion, and more), nan (flatbread), kebabs, and dapanji (“big plate chicken,” a spicy chicken stew).
Keep an eye out for the official opening with the real name and renovations later this summer, but in the meantime, swing by the East Cambridge space for some no-frills Uyghur cuisine.and found it interesting. If you have time – read it (and of course you should have, because this blog is far less famous than medium.com – the combination of page views for post in this blog is very likely to be much smaller than that single post).
I feel bad for the author for being in such situation – getting rejected 5 times in a row, is a hard thing to swallow. Especially when he is considered famous in developer’s world/ and has big passion in coding. And it’s not the first time, we hear someone rants about the hiring process, and it’s very unlikely to be the last. Let’s agree that the hiring process for developers might suck.
But then, it’s the way it works.
The first time no offer given, it’s probably their fault. The second time no offer given, it’s probably a bad luck. The third time no offer given, it’s probably your fault.
The duties of the Executive Committee are to oversee the activities and affairs of the corporation and report to the Board of Directors. The Executive Committee consists of 5 Vice-Presidents representing the Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, West and Pacific regions, the President, either President-Elect or Past-President, the Treasurer and the Executive Director. Members of the Executive Committee are elected by the CMS members through elections that are held every second year electronically and by regular mail, then approved at the following Annual General Meeting. The Executive Committee meets four (4) times per year, usually at the bi-annual summer and winter meetings and twice electronically. One cousin and his fam had altogether stopped coming to any family events till my sisters wedding who begged both her older cousins to be civil for the 5 events at her wedding.
Brown people are crazy and hold lots of grudges. 
I understand the whole “elders” spiel but you did the right thing.
Always read the paperwork before signing anything. Even if that something is rather innocuous.
For the record if it wasn’t clear- I’m a crazy brown person too.In Palmyra, history is literally written on the walls: across temples and above doorways, encircling funerary monuments and snaking up the towering limestone columns that rise above the Syrian desert some of last year, when the Islamic State (ISIS) seized the territory around the ancient ruins.
On Sunday, the Syrian Army retook the city. The military is currently removing explosives and booby traps placed around Palmyra, after which specialists will arrive to perform a damage assessment on its monuments. year, along with the Temple of Bel, Palmyra’s largest and most important temple, and the city's iconic Arch of Triumph.
Where East Met West
Palmyra (known until the Roman period as Tadmor) is mentioned in historical records as far back as 3,800 years. But it was in the first through third centuries A.D., that the desert oasis reached its height as a pivotal hub for trade between Rome and the Parthian and later Sasanian empires to the east.
Palmyrene merchants grew wealthy through taxing and protecting caravans that made their way across the Syrian desert to the Euphrates River and down to the Persian Gulf, ferrying gems and spices to the markets of the Mediterranean in return for precious metals, glass, and other luxury materials that have been found as far away as India.
Picture of Isis allegedly blowing up part of Palmyra
A photo depicts the recent destruction of the ancient Baal Shamin temple in Palmyra, built by a local citizen to honor the visit of a Roman emperor.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KYODO, AP
Along with the caravans came a wealth of cultural influences, and among the thousands of inscriptions recorded at Palmyra are dedications to gods and goddesses from Phoenician, Babylonian, Arab and Canaanite traditions.
The Roman Empire controlled Palmyra to varying degrees over the centuries, and while the powerful merchants of this frontier town may have worshipped eastern gods, they also embraced the practices of the Roman elite, says Maura Heyn, an associate professor of classical studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and a specialist in the city’s funerary monuments.
“Palmyrenes were cowboys on the frontier, so to speak, but they were also participating in an empire-wide practice of embellishing their city with grand buildings,” she says, citing iconic monuments such as the?Temple of Bel, dedicated in 32 A.D., and the 1.1 kilometer-long Great Colonnade, built in the 2nd to 3rd century A.D.
Local citizens memorialized their hefty donations to these massive building campaigns with inscriptions across the city.
The elite of Palmyra also took cues from Rome when commemorating their dead. While funerary monuments might feature Aramaic inscriptions, the people depicted on them would be dressed in Roman finery. “These monuments actually provide us with some of the best evidence for jewelry in the Greco-Roman world,” says Heyn. “There are few cities in the Roman Empire that provide such an abundance of evidence for cultural change and negotiation.”
Taking on Rome
Palmyra’s most famous citizen is undoubtedly Queen Zenobia, who leveraged the city's wealth and?political chaos across the Roman Empire to briefly wrest control of the eastern Roman provinces of Egypt, Syria and Palestine and incorporate them into a larger Palmyrene Empire?(269-273 A.D.). She was ultimately defeated and captured by the forces of Emperor Aurelian, who sacked Palmyra following a subsequent revolt.
The city never fully recovered, and the drastic decrease in wealth Palmyra once provided to Rome may have played a considerable role in the eventual decline of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D.
Until the outbreak of conflict in 2011, Palmyra was one of Syria’s most popular tourist destinations, and modern Syrians feel a particular connection to the once-great merchant city that influenced and ultimately defied the power of Rome.
“Syrians consider Palmyra so special, because it's a source of pride for them,” explains Salam Al Kuntar, a Syrian archaeologist and visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. “[They] feel very faithful to this past history and the monuments and art that signify it.”
Now, with the Islamic State routed from Palmyra, the ancient city celebrated for throwing off the yoke of western imperialism no