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According to sourcewatch, Dave Barton, the man that Huckabee admires so much, has been hired by the RNC as a political consultant on numerous occassions. Barton believes that the idea that church and state should be separated is a myth and that pastors should be free to endorse politicians from the pulpit. A belief that he had to walk back when it was made apparent to him that he was encouraging pastors to put at risk their churches tax status.
We're to seek righteousness first, and dozens of Bible passages affirm that a nation's righteousness is determined by its public policies, by how well those policies conform to God's standards. We love to sing "God Bless America," but if we really want God to bless America, we've got to give him something to work with.
For Christians, voting is not a right, it's a duty. It's a stewardship that we owe to God and it's a stewardship for which we'll answer directly to him. One day we'll stand before him and he'll say "what did you do with that vote I gave you?" And we'll have to answer.
Righteousness must be the issue. It must be the measure to define what we're for politically and what we're against. And each of us will answer to God not only for whether we voted, but for how we voted, for what issues drove our vote.
If we stand before God and He says "why did you vote for a leader who's attempting to redefine my institution of marriage and who wills the unborn children that I knew before they were in the womb?" If He asks us that and our answer is "Because that leader was good on jobs and the economy," He's not going to accept that.
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The Trainer's EDGE is designed to build on basic skills gained in the Trainer Development Conference (TDC) and focus on improving your platform skills as a trainer.
This is a required Train-The-Trainer course for Wood Badge and NYLT Staff members. All trainers and facilitators and anyone interested in training are encouraged to attend the Trainer's EDGE course. It is highly recommended (but not required) that you have attended the Trainer's Development Conference and have at least some experience with training and facilitation.
Learners will have hands-on experience with presenting material in front of the group. The group will also learn and practice how to offer effective feedback to help others improve their skills as a trainer. Learners are assigned a 5-minute presentation during the course, the topic will be assigned by the training team to deliver parts of the syllabus on delivery methods and use of media.
There is also a pre-assignment, each participant will prepare and bring in a 10-12 minute presentation on any topic in Scouting, using media and delivery methods of your choosing. You will be delivering this presentation at the end of the course. The presentations are intended to allow you to practice and demonstrate the skills learned during the course while receiving constructive feedback.
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A couple of days ago my wife and I watched La Règle of Jeu(1939). Yesterday was the International Women's day and I thought two actresses from this memorable classic need to be remembered . The first actress took the role of Genevieve de Marras the mistress of the Marquis of La Coliniere and the second played the lead role of Christine 'l'etrangere' wife of the Marquis.
The actress Mila Parély, of her true name Olga Colette Peszynska, died 16 January 2012 at the 94 years age, in Vichy, where she lived since about fifty years.
Of Polish origin, the actress born in Paris on October 7, 1917, had made her beginnings on the boards in 1932 and left it for love. At the 40 years age she became nurse to devote her life for her husband, the racing driver Scottish Thomas Mathieson, victim of a road accident.
In the mid 1930s Nora Gregor married the vice chancellor of Austria, fascist politician Prince Ernst Ruediger von Starhemberg, with whom she had a son, Heinrich (1934–1997). Falling foul with the Nazi regime in 1938, the Starhembergs emigrated to France through Switzerland, and her husband joined the Free French forces; cut off from their money and eighty family estates, they were supported for a period by Starhemberg's close friend Friedrich Mandl, the Austrian armaments magnate. In 1942, the Starhembergs moved to Argentina.
Reportedly depressed since the beginning of her South American exile, Gregor committed suicide in Viña del Mar, Chile.
Rest in Peace and in grateful remembrance of making our lives a little sweeter.
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"The Baca Surname Workshop", facilitated by Robert J. C. Baca, will be on March 20, 2010, beginning at 10:30 AM, in Botts Hall, at the Albuquerque Special Collections Library. The workshop is free and open to the public. For more information, click on this link.
I received a number of responses from people who were disappointed because they could attend this workshop. Some people have even sent me their charts in hopes that we would discuss it during the workshop. That gave me an idea.
If you can't attend, but you wish to share your information in hopes that someone can help you, send me an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. Let me know if you wish to allow people to contact you directly or through me instead. I will share your information and give you any hints that attendees may have regarding your family tree.
You may find that ancestor who eludes you, or you may even find a long-lost cousin. Either way, you may be happy with the results.
If you are able to attend the workshop, please attend! The workshop will only be successful if people actually attend and discuss their genealogies. It is open to the novice and experienced genealogist, alike!
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Mother arrested, allegedly shot daughter in leg in North St. Paul
The North St. Paul Police Department on Monday, Feb. 10, released the name of a suspect in a shooting that occurred early Sunday.
Monday afternoon, police were searching for Tonya Hale Raleigh, 35, of North St. Paul. She is suspected of shooting her 18-year-old daughter in the leg after they argued, according to North St. Paul police Capt. Dustin Nikituk. He said the victim was hospitalized in stable condition.
Raleigh was later taken into custody.
At 4:40 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, officers were summoned to an apartment at 2345 11th Ave., which is about a block east of McKnight Road North and west of North High School. There they found a young woman who had been shot in the leg.
Police evacuated the building at around 9:30 a.m., and residents waited outside in buses for a couple of hours.
The East Metro SWAT Team searched the building with robots, but did not find any suspects.
Police were searching for the shooting victim's mother as well as the victim's boyfriend for questioning related to the domestic disturbance and subsequent shooting. By Monday, police had narrowed the search to Raleigh, according to Nikituk.
He said police spoke to the boyfriend and another person who was in the apartment at the time of the shooting. The witnesses told police that Raleigh apparently fired the shot that hit her daughter, according to Nikituk.
Nikituk said Monday morning that an arrest warrant would be issued, possibly on a second-degree attempted murder charge.
According to state case documents, Raleigh was convicted of a misdemeanor related to a theft in 2012, and apparently another misdemeanor this year related to careless driving under the name Tonya Hale Conger.
Nikituk confirmed investigators are aware of multiple aliases.
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As a fraternity man, and as a guy whose gamertag is, literally, "dudemanbestbro1," it pains me to say this but, yes, Dirt Showdown goes a little overboard with its woah-killer-brah commentary. Who the hell did they hire for this, the SAE rush chairman?
Seriously, though it's not in this video, the announcer will call you "Gnarldog." Swear. If you gave Richmeister from Saturday Night Live a job calling the Saturday night dirt track races, it'd probably sound like this.
Dirt Showdown's demo is available now; the full game is coming from Codemasters on May 25. The soundtrack is turned all the way down to enhance the commentary but, as Chris Person tells me, "imagine him over the douchiest music ever."


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Human geomorphology and an introduction to GIS
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- ESRI grid of sediment thickness (isopach) (Zip Archive 886kB Aug1 08)
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Overheard on the 22-Fillmore, just after passing the California Culinary Academy.
"Dude, I totally mastered Spätzle today."
"Wow, cool! What's in Spätzle?"
"It's pretty much just noodles: flour, water, eggs, salt."
"You know, you don't pronounce it that way. Any time a letter has an umlaut over it, you pronounce it like the letter."
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This blog post was inspired by Amy Johnson Crow 's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" challenge. Learn more at her blog.
I was scooting along quite nicely with the Nickeson line until I hit Joseph, b. 1797 in either New York or Pennsylvania. I knew he married Margaret Coble in 1819 in Franklin county, Ohio, and between 1838 and 1840 had migrated to the Peoria county, Illinois area. But trying to find proof of his parents has been difficult.
Around the time of Joseph's marriage, another Nickeson family resided in Franklin county – that of Aaron and Phebe Nickeson. Aaron died 1814, and his wife in 1842. Along the line, I was provided with a photocopy of a book, title unknown, which lists grave sites. Phebe Nickeson, "widow of Aaron," is buried in Central Blendon cemetery, and there appears to be another grave south of this one that could be the unmarked grave of Aaron.
I began looking more closely at this couple, and found in some records they were "Nickerson" and in others, "Nickeson." I contacted the Nickerson Family Association initially about ten years ago, inquiring of both Joseph, and Aaron and Phebe. It was felt by the chief researcher at that time that Joseph was indeed the soon of Aaron and Phebe, but no concrete proof had been found. Joseph, I was told, was probably born in New York, near the Pennsylvania border; Aaron and Phebe were in this area a the appropriate time. Also, one of Joseph's sons was named Aaron. On this scanty basis, Joseph was tentatively placed in the family of Aaron and Phebe.
But now, having Joseph in Franklin county at the same time as Aaron and Phebe, I felt a little more comfortable with this assumption. I began looking at censuses, starting with 1800 in New York. I found an Aaron there with a female of the right age to be a wife, and 3 girls 10-26, and what looks like 3 boys under the age of 10. Joseph would have been 3 at that time.
Working backwards, I found an Aaron in 1790 in Albany county, New York; the family makeup appears to be the two parents, plus 3 daughters, consistent with what I found in 1800.
And this is the point where it quit being easy.
In 1810, there was no Aaron Nickeson or Nickerson to be found in New York. Ohio's census records for this year were destroyed for all counties except Washington, and he wasn't there either. He died in 1814, so I shifted the focus to his wife, Phebe. In 1820, the census is missing for Franklin county. In 1830, Ancestry.com does not list her in the census search results, and an attempt to browse the Franklin county census images was unsuccessful – Franklin county, for some reason, is not listed among the counties, although it was formed in 1803. I checked other Nickeson households in Ohio for the presence of a woman of the appropriate age, and did not find one; this, of course, does not rule out the possibility that she was living with a married daughter.
In 1840, there is an "A. Nickinson" in Franklin county, but no woman Phebe's age in the household.
Turning to probate records, Aaron did leave a probate document, and I have a copy, but it is largely illegible. An abstraction in the Ohio Genealogical Quarterly lists the executors of his estate as Thomas McFeeley, John Brickle, and Uriah/Urri Nickerson. If this Nickerson is indeed Uriah/Urri, I have no idea who this Uriah is or how he connects, despite a tremendous amount of information from the Nickerson Family Association's data. However – Aaron has a known brother, Uzziel, who lived in the same areas at Aaron, and was in Ohio by 1812 – two years before Aaron died. The signature at the bottom of the probate paper could have been "Urri", or "Uzzi" in my opinion. The part of the paper that supposedly reads "Uriah" is equally as unconvincing. But unfortunately, regardless of who is the administrator, no other names appear on this document; it appears, from what I can make out, that it simply names the administrators.
I mentioned that Joseph moved his family to Illinois between 1838-1840, to an area in Peoria county near the Fulton county line. There is a Charles Nickerson in Fulton county, who moved there in 1837, from where I do not know. If Joseph is indeed the son of Aaron and Phebe, this Charles would be a very, very distant cousin, which opens up the possibility of Joseph perhaps being more closely related to this Charles than I've been thinking. Or, perhaps, it's a coincidence that they ended up relocating to the same area at roughly the same time.
At any rate, as far as I can see, without some other clue to pursue I'm at the end of the line with Joseph, Aaron and Phebe Nickeson.


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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Shares of the following companies made notable moves in U.S. stock trade on Monday:
Accretive Health Inc. AH, -6.90% shares rose 8% after the company said it filed a motion to dismiss the Minnesota attorney general's complaint alleging that the company was inappropriately aggressive in its billing and collection methods at Minneapolis-based Fairview Hospitals.
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. MDRX, +2.04% shares gained 7.7% after the company said its board elected a new chairman, following the firing of its chairman last week, and the resignations of three members of the board in protest.
Barnes & Noble Inc. BKS, +0.00% shares soared 52% as the New York bookseller entered a digital-reading-technology partnership with Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.29%. Read full story about Microsoft's partnership with Barnes & Noble.
Books-A-Million Inc. BAMM, +0.00% shares climbed 25% after Chairman Clyde Anderson and the Anderson family made a bid to acquire the shares of the company they do not already own for $49 million. The family controls about 53% of Books-A-Million stock.
Cleantech Solutions International Inc. CLNT shares were up 17% after the Chinese maker of wind-power components said it received a $1.7 million order for airflow dyeing machines.
Demand Media Inc. DMD jumped 15%. On Saturday, media reports said that the company scrapped talks to go private in a deal with Thomas H. Lee Partners.
Exceed Co.'s EDS U.S.-listed shares rallied 75% after the Chinese sportswear provider extended its stock buyback program and restated its 2009 and 2010 results to reflect an accounting change, resulting in nonoperating gains for both years, along with 2011.
Gen-Probe Inc. GPRO, -1.92% rallied 19% after the diagnostics company agreed to be bought by Hologic Inc. HOLX, +1.03% for $3.7 billion in cash. Hologic shares, meanwhile, dropped 10%.
Imperial Holdings Inc. IFT, -0.65% shares rose 30% after the provider of specialty finance services said it settled a U.S. government probe into its life-finance business, and that the only executive targeted in the investigation, Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Neuman, has resigned.
NTELOS Holding Corp. NTLS shares rallied 8% after the wireless company reported better-than-expected first-quarter results.
Sunoco Inc. SUN, +1.92% rallied 20% after the fuel logistics and infrastructure company agreed to be purchased by Energy Transfer Partners L.P. ETP, -0.05% in a deal valued at $5.3 billion.
Warner Chilcott PLC's WCRX U.S.-listed shares rose 16% after the company confirmed it's in talks with possible acquirers about a buyout deal, but it added the negotiations may or may not lead to an offer.
YRC Worldwide Inc. YRCW, -0.55% shares rose 12% after the trucking firm said its lenders agreed to reset the terms of certain loans and keep the proceeds from the auction of certain surplus properties.
Arkansas Best Corp. ABFS shares fell 5.7% after the transportation firm reported worse-than-expected first-quarter results.
GNC Holdings Inc. GNC, -1.24% slipped 5% after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued 10 warning letters to makers and distributors of products that include the stimulant DMAA. GNC sells DMAA, and will continue to do so, CNBC reported, saying there was no "indication it was unsafe."
Humana Inc. HUM, +5.52% lost 8.1% after the health-care company reported first-quarter earnings that fell short of analyst estimates, and provided a full-year outlook below current projections.
Insperity Inc. NSP, +1.86% shares fell 7% after the human-resources-services provider reported first-quarter results that disappointed analysts.
New Gold Inc. NGD, -3.24% shares fell 9.2% after the Canadian gold miner said the Chilean Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the approval of an environmental permit for the El Morro Project, a joint venture between New Gold and Goldcorp Inc. New Gold owns 30% of the enterprise. Goldcorp. GG, +0.00% was down just 2%.
NYSE Euronext NYX shares slumped 5% after the exchange operator posted a 44% decline in first-quarter profit, and indicated that difficult economic conditions have persisted into the current period.
Verifone Systems Inc. PAY, +33.33% shares fell 12.5% after Deutsche Bank cut its rating on the provider of payment services to sell from hold, saying that Verifone's organic growth is not as significant as it seems.


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Contrary to popular opinion, not every UConn women's basketball game is played with an accompanying laugh track. It only seems that way, especially if you cue the College of Charleston tape for entertainment.
Every so often, UConn's games maintain their heartbeat, even if the officiating causes palpitations.
Every so often an opponent shows up without fear and the result pulsates longer than you'd expect. Like for longer than the first 10 minutes.
Every so often came again Thursday.
Don't tell No. 10 Penn State that it didn't have a chance to beat UConn. It didn't play that way. The Lady Lions came to campus channeling many of the disruptive characteristics that gave Monday's win against Maryland its distinctive steel-cage feel.
Intensity stoked its fire. And UConn felt the heat for 34 minutes after which its lead was just three.
Then Brianna Banks, the unsung hero of the season, freshman Moriah Jefferson and sophomore Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis doused the flame midway through the second half.
Mosqueda-Lewis, cleared to play just before game time because of a cranky left quad, scored a season-high 25 points, shooting 4 of 7 from three, to lead the Huskies to a difficult but satisfying 67-52 win at Gampel Pavilion.
Penn State (6-2) was led by junior guard Maggie Lucas, who had 15 points (5 of 12) before fouling out in the final minute. But the Lady Lions had 26 turnovers and shot just 33.9 percent.
"We wanted to be patient against the press," Lions coach Coquese Washington said. "We tried to take our shots late in the shot clock when we could."
Banks (10 points) was the only other UConn player in double figures. Breanna Stewart, the team's leading scorer for the season, was 1 of 3 for seven points in 20 minutes.
"It was just so hard to get any offense going," coach Geno Auriemma said.
UConn (8-0) does not play again until Dec. 19 against Oakland (Mich.) at the XL Center. In the next two weeks, the only important tests will come with No. 2 pencils and touch pads in their hands.
The stress of this tight, tense game finally began to relent when Banks drained a jumper inside the foul line to give the Huskies a 40-31 lead with 12:25 to play. And a few minutes later, defensive pressure by Jefferson led to two hoops that pushed UConn's lead to 51-36.
But until consumed by the enormity of UConn's depth, and the relentlessness of 38 fouls called against both teams, the Lady Lions clawed.
"It was a frustrating game to play, it was a frustrating game to coach, it was a frustrating game to watch," Washington said. "Geno got a technical and I was in the face of the officials, too. It was hard to get into a flow. The game was so physical."
But it wasn't always out of Penn State's reach.
UConn, averaging just 7.5 turnovers, made 10 in the first half before going on a 12-4 run to take a 28-22 lead. The 28 points were their fewest in a half this season.
"The play was just moving too fast," Banks said. "It was all just moving too quickly for us."
Consider that UConn had trailed for only 17 seconds this season, following Charleston's basket that gave it a 2-0 lead on Nov. 11, until the Lady Lions pulled ahead 16-14 with 10:45 to play in the first half and then again, 18-16.
And, yes, that was Auriemma, his tie by then lowered into a loose noose, who kicked the Nike sign to the left of his bench and picked up a technical just 33 seconds into the second half.
You think Geno was worked up?
"We have some real issues in women's basketball," Auriemma said. "I didn't want to get thrown out; I had no intention of it. But I did threaten one official that I had every intention of being thrown out. But he said, 'No, you're not,' and walked away."
But eventually, foul trouble toppled the pieces on Penn State's board; three fouls gave Alex Bentley, Lucas, Mia Nickson and Talia East something to think about with 17 minutes still to play. And then Bentley picked up her fourth with 16:22 left.
The night started right with the return of Mosqueda-Lewis, who missed the second half of the Maryland win on Monday after bruising her left quad. Her condition continued to improve all week and she ended up starting.
"After I originally was injured, there was no way I thought I'd be able to play [Thursday]," Mosqueda-Lewis said. "My knee was hurting me so badly. It was so swollen. It was as hurt as I've ever been. But Rosie [athletic trainer Rosemary Ragle] just told me to listen to her and do everything she asked."
Mosqueda-Lewis also ended up scoring UConn's first five points, eight of its first 10 as the Huskies took a 10-3 lead.
And then Penn State emerged.
Tough and irascible, the Lady Lions worked back into the game incrementally until their star, Lucas, the junior guard, scored her first five points of the game within 23 seconds to give them the lead.


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Facebook filed its is S-1 paperwork for an initial public offering Wednesday and for the first time the company gave a look into its revenue and where the company is going.
The company filed its S-1 paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the symbol "FB" for a $5 billion IPO. (See page 16 (pdf) of SEC filing doc here.)
The filing shows that Mark Zuckerberg owns 28.4 percent of the company and Facebook brought in $3.7 billion in revenue last year and about $1 billion in free cash flow.
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz owns 7.6 percent, early investor Peter Thiel 2.5 percent and new COO Sheryl Sandberg owns 0.1 percent of the company
Digging deeper, the filing reveals that Facebook had 483 million daily active users in December 2011 and it is trying to diversify its revenue stream by decreasing its reliance on advertising.
About 85 percent of the company's revenue comes from advertising but a growing amount coming from Facebook payments. The company's advertising used to account for upwards of 98 percent of its revenue.
Facebook also listed a series of potential risks on the horizon. In its filing, Facebook highlighted about 50 risk factors for the company.
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Facebook also pointed to Google+ and Twitter as potential risks to its business.
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The S-1 is the first step a private company takes with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares on the open market.
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"So kind of an exciting day for me to be chatting with you," Randi Zuckerberg said to a marketing conference in South San Francisco.
"Something really exciting happened today ... My son started crawling."
Zuckerberg, former CMO of Facebook and older sister of Mark Zuckerberg, was visibly excited at the news of the IPO filing -- news she got in the car on the way to the conference. Zuckerberg was the keynote speaker at iStrategy today. Her son, Asher, is nine months old.
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Have you ever tried to anticipate what someone is going to ask only to blurt out a ridiculous result? "Are penguins go…" "Good to eat?" you say. "Going extinct," your friend clarifies as she reaches for her phone to unfriend you.
Who would say such a thing? OK, maybe not you. But someone like you, according to Google Autocomplete.
Google Autocomplete, which uses an algorithm to predict a search and offer up suggestions as a query is typed, means to be helpful. Some, however, say they can do without its assistance.
Since it launched in 2004, when it was known as Google Suggest, Autocomplete has been turning searches into judgment calls. Picking up on the latent humor, Megan Garber, a staff writer at The Atlantic, has been running "Google Psyche", "a series that uses Google's machine-learning to probe our collective consciousness." Garber takes a screenshot of partially typed-in searches like "dinosaurs are" to yield results paleontologists might argue with: "are fake," "are made up by the cia," "are jesus ponies." Sometimes, the results are embarrassing even to Google itself.
Some users find the results more than discomfiting, though. Just this week, a Japanese court approved a man's petition calling for Google to halt the feature altogether. The man says that as a result of Autocomplete associating criminal behavior with searches on his name, he's lost out on several job opportunities.
The case isn't the only time Autocomplete has been hauled into court, and judging from some Google forum searches, more and more people are trying to extricate themselves from defamatory suggestions. There are even services, such as Beat the Autocomplete, that focus on eradicating issues for clients.
To know how to get out of something, it helps to know how you got into it in the first place. Rhea Drysdale, CEO of SEO firm Outspoken Media, outlined what goes into an Autocomplete result in a blog post. Drysdale guesses the ingredients in the secret formula are: search volume, personalization, short-term popularity, misspellings and variations, automated results, and a filter for things like hate speech.
Some Google forum members have said they've had success in changing Autocomplete results by running automated queries or using Amazon Mechanical Turk to get people to manually perform queries at large volume. Both are a violation of Google's terms of service, which can result in losing all Google services or getting sued. So, it's no wonder that there are those who have instead decided to sue Google.
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According to accepted wisdom (syndicated through the usual links, Likes and sponsored emails) your career will literally immolate itself in a sparking bonfire of molton e-readers and declining Amazon sales ranks unless the first bunch of words mashed together in your novel's opening creates an immediate emotional investment through foreshadowing, suspense, pathos and wit. And it shouldn't be as long as that previous sentence or people will get bored.
Rather than a first, joyous burst of inspiration, the "opening sentence" has become a dreaded pitfall, its sharpened spikes of failure waiting patiently to impale novices and over-eager, under-terrified hobbyists. Like kitchen bacteria and lack of fresh breath before it, the "opening sentence" has taken a threatening tone after being plucked from obscurity and villainized in marketing blog posts less entertaining than this one. Everywhere you look now, inferior "opening sentences" are lurking around corners, just behind swine-flu and China, ready to invade and destroy your creative future from the inside out.
Fortunately, I know how we can beat this career-ending curse – we ban and abolish opening lines in all novels, everywhere, from this day on. Imagine the feeling of freedom as endorphins surge your brain after the copy+paste+del, the oxytocin flushing fear and building new neural pathways for optimism and hope. Readers everywhere will settle into your story taken softly by the gentle, experienced hands of your other opening line – the one that wasn't thrice folded upon itself, structured to titillate and deliver an unsuspected smack upside the head, pulverizing any resistance and enforcing admiration.
After all, one paragraph in, no one can likely remember exactly how a book opened, hopefully because they're actually caught up in the narrative and not endlessly mooning about how clever the story will hopefully prove to be. Think of your favorite film – what's the opening shot? Exactly. You probably couldn't recall if you tried, as it's everything that comes after that counts.
Meanwhile, we're ignoring what's really threatening to wantonly dismember and spray flaming napalm on our futures as artists:
1) Lack Of Social Integration: reading your long-form text-only narrative is an uphill climb, and not one that burns calories either. What's the use of being on page fifty-two without the relevant social context of knowing where friends and attractive strangers have read up to? Add "Notes" to explain which sock you like to pull on first before writing, or just add "Like" buttons to provide encouragement!
2) Make Your Book Multitask: Somehow include footnotes reminding readers to check the laundry, pay the electric bill or watch the trailer for your new release. Add value while creating a "sticky" experience through your book / brand interface portal.
3) Complete & Proper Spelling Of Words: In today's unforgivingly-paced society it's difficult enough to get through an entire blog post, never mind deciphering such old-fashioned complexities such as "through" and "he laughed loudly" and "because". Lrn 2 abbrvte evrthng.
Here's a perfect example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with nothing less than a cynical marketing ploy – intended not only to inflict a sense of inadequacy in new readers but to raise sales for Tom Sawyer. Perhaps we should entirely reevaluate Twain; was he truly one of the most original voices in early American culture or just a proto-James Frey?
Arguably one of the greatest opening lines in modern memory, "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I don't know." isn't even an opening line, it's a passage. "Mother died today" on its own is a snore. It's not until he glanced back at "Or maybe yesterday" that a legendary friendship and eventual rivalry was born. (For those unfamiliar, Camus and Sartre were like the Professor X and Magneto of the mid-20th century European philosophical scene, with Simone de Beauvoir occasionally dropping by to cameo à la Emma Frost.)
The opening line to All the King's Men? Just tedious driving directions – get a sat-nav, seriously. Stop wasting my precious, precious time. The opening to Atlas Shrugged may as well be, "What's in my TiVo?" for all the excitement "Who is John Galt?" offers. Why are you asking me, Rand? Should I have watched your trailer first? I need to express a torrent of thoughts on Tumblr about the locally-sourced non-gluten bran muffin in my other hand. Moby Dick? Please, call me bored, instead. What's all this reliance on weird names I've never heard of? Next. Wuthering Heights? Now we're getting somewhere, I mean who hasn't had troubles with their landlord? Bronte is really throwing us smack into the haunting gothic drama, the atmosphere and isolation of Northern England in a time before Livejournal.
Manufacturing the most devastatingly perfect "opening line" is a losing gambit. What we think of the greatest opens in fiction more than likely evolved organically, rather than through workshop-inspired structuring. Many of the most beloved "opening lines" through history would hardly even be worth a retweet on a slow news day. Save your tireless reworking for where it's needed most – self-serving marketing articles like this one.


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Alright, so I'm not too terribly fluent in Java.
I've been working on a small game to help me pick up the language, and I've been (for some time now) trying to figure out how to implement a title screen. I've tackled numerous issues with it this far and, well, feel proud of myself for that. xD But I can't seem to figure out this small thing.
I'm trying to place buttons onto my canvas. However, when I launch the game and it goes to the title screen, the buttons are no where to be seen. Changing the JFrame to allow re-sizing reveals that the buttons are being displayed under everything else on my canvas. Which, I'm going to assume, has something, if not everything, to do with my render methods.
The title screen is composed of two images being repeated painted to the canvas via a render method. So those images are being repainted over and over again, which means, while I have the sequence of the code correct, the repainting is simply covering up the buttons. P
So my question is this; How might I go about displaying the buttons ABOVE those rendering images? Or can I at all? And, if I can't, how can I paint the images statically so that they don't keep repainting?
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Lent, as is often noted, is the Old English word for spring. This year, with Ash Wednesday abnormally late on March 9, the beginning of Lent is that much closer to the official start of spring. Already, even if the weather is not spring-like, the sun is more in evidence and the end of winter's blasts are in sight.
Our tendency, however, is to associate Lent more with "giving up" than with the new spring. Lent is the season in which one gives up chocolate, TV, alcohol or some other material propensity, only to resume it once the Great Easter arrives. This is not quite a pointless exercise - it does perhaps serve to remind us of our fallen nature and of the new life we will find in the resurrection of the body. Perhaps.
It might be more fruitful if we considered the fact that any decision in life involves giving up alternatives in order to focus on one thing. A strong dedication to giving-up can in fact lead to being-more.
The modern tendency is to view any asceticism as a shrivelling up of the person, a denial of the fullness of life. It can be that. But those who live life to the fullest are those who have given up a lot. They have resisted the temptation to be blown hither and thither by either the fashions of the time or their own fleeting desires. They have sacrificed many things in order to focus on one thing.
"In our earthly life," wrote theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, "there are so many things that, once we have found them, we must refrain from seeking any farther. We must do so for the sake of the essential, which we must seek all the more for having found it" (Truth of the World, 201).
"Every deep thing," he continues, "has a way of becoming deeper and more enticing, more difficult to dismiss, more urgent, more youthful, as it were, the more time we spend with it."
Giving-up, then, really can mean being-more. If this is the focus of our Lent, it can mean a new springtime, even a perpetual springtime. Surrendering chocolate for 40 days does not get you there. But if we find the "deep thing" to which we are called and resolve to put the shallow things forever to the side, we can be sure of walking more firmly in the path of Jesus.
Jesus, after all, was a man with a mission - the man with the greatest mission. Everything extraneous to the mission was put aside. That did not mean he could not laugh, he could not enjoy fine wines or that he ignored those who only wanted to touch the hem of his cloak. But his mission from the Father was paramount and all pervasive.
The coincidence of Lent and the season of spring can have great meaning for us if we take it seriously. Giving-up can mean being-more if we discern the shallow things we must surrender so that the deep thing really does become deeper.


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Event Coverage Staff
Rickard Österberg is the Pro Tour - New Orleans Champion! Armed with the mighty Punisher concoction "George W. Bosh", a Tinker deck that exploits the power of Goblin Welder, he sailed over a sea of mono-blue Tinker decks, Gob-Vantage, and Severance/Charbelcher.
In the quarters he faced Eugene Harvey, piloting the CMU-TOGIT "So Big Tinks". Chalice of the Void had been hosing people all weekend, and it continued to work its magic against Österberg. They went the full five games, with Österberg killing Harvey with a hasted Platinum Angel. Harvey's Upheaval was useless. In the semis, he showed his deck's power against Yann Hamon and the french Severance/Charbelcher deck "The Clock". It was a slaughter in three games.
On the other side of the bracket, Tomohiro Yokosuka's Psychatog deck couldn't handle Nassif's Clock, and Nassif swept. Masashi Oiso kept hope alive for Japan, defeating Hans Joachim Höh in four. He then took on Nassif, and it all came down to one Brainstorm. Nassif's deck served up Tinker he needed, and advanced to the finals.
The finals were another tight contest, but the star of the weekend, Mindslaver, was not to be denied. Nassif conceded before Österberg could steal his third consecutive turn. Congratulations to Rickard Österberg, Pro Tour - New Orleans Champion!
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Pyotr Stolypin
Russian politician
Pyotr Stolypin (Russian: Пётр Арка́дьевич Столы́пин) (April 14 1862 – September 18 1911) served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers and was Prime Minister of Russia from 1906 to 1911. His tenure was marked by efforts to repress revolutionary groups and for the institution of noteworthy agrarian reforms. Stolypin hoped, through reform, to stem peasant unrest by creating a class of market-oriented smallholding landowners. He is often cited as one of the last major statesmen of Imperial Russia, with a clearly defined political programme and a determination to undertake major reforms.
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[Non-Periodical Publication]
Documentary and Contemporary Photography: Architecture, City and Territory
About this book:
Há sempre mais do que um caminho...
non-periodical publication
Author: Araújo, Carla
Date of publication: 2015
Place of publication: Porto
Publisher: self-publisher
Number of pages: 22
Size: 20,5x14,5 cm
Illustrated: Image, Text
Number of copies: -
Institution: FAUP/CCRE
Language: Portuguese
Key-words: Photography, Architecture
Notes: Artistic book; Photobook made in the course of Communication, Photography and Multimedia, from the Integrated Master in Architecture of FAUP;
Book Reference: A1.nPaP.1121
"At the urban space there are so many possibilities as the number of people that use it and appropriate. Under the theme "Another look at the urban space" the present work intends to show this infinite possibility, making a trip at the Porto's Botanical Garden with an urban eye, of perspective, that sees in the many paths, the city's streets, the vegetation, and built elements the diversity of the urban architecture."
About this archive:
The creation of Cityzines collection intends to strengthen and promote the study and dissemination of author's editions and other publications linked to the theme of architecture, city and territory, where the image and photography are present in a significant way, with a special interest and focus on the multifaceted richness of urban, architectural and visual culture that characterizes the urban agglomerations and their experiences.
This collection started with a survey more focused on the Portuguese context, but also integrates publications from other countries with a view to internationalization of the project.
The publications that will constitute this collection of the Cityzines project will be cataloged from the following general theme:
Artistic and Documentary Photography: Architecture, City and Territory
It was decided to start this collection by topic A1 - Artistic Photography and Documentary: Architecture, City and Territory, for reasons connected with only two facts: first there is at this time, a greater number of alternative publications pertaining to this topic, according by the fact that they had already been there longer subject specific study through the work of the research line City spaces and Culture of the CCRE group.
As we will see next, we have adopted a sub-theme structure in order to organize the field of alternative publications, covering several areas and formats, as previously described in the general theme of Documentary and Artistic Photography: Architecture, City and Territory. Even though all sub-themes show differences between them, they all fit the general theme and they have in common the focus and the importance given to image/photography, as well as the innovative and/or irreverent stance.
Artistic and Documentary Photography: Architecture, City and Territory
Periodical Author's editions and other publications (A1.PaP)
- In general terms, periodical publications that reflect and investigate, through the image and /or photography, and in a critical, exploratory and innovative way, the themes of architecture, city and territory;
- fanzines, little magazines on photography: independent non mainstream publications where photography is used as the main visual instrument to perceive, understand and analyze architecture and how people live and appropriate diverse places;
- counterculture or non-mainstream publications focused on social and documentary or contemporary photography and related issues;
Non-periodical Author's editions and other publications (A1.nPaP)
- In general terms, periodical publications that reflect and investigate, through the image and /or photography, and in a critical, exploratory and innovative way, the themes of architecture, city and territory;
- photo-books or/and artist books specifically more related to the universe of architecture: independent non mainstream publications where photography is used as the main visual instrument to perceive, understand and analyze architecture and how people live and appropriate diverse places;
- photo-books or /and artist books more related with documentary photography.
With this collection we intend to promote awareness and reflection upon art and documentary photography in regard to its conception as a tool to question Architecture, City and Territory. This means understanding Architecture as a broad subject and practice interested in, on the one hand, the real space and its experiences, exploring new spatial forms and architectural codes and, on the other hand, in how architecture operates within larger systems: sociocultural, technical, and historical systems.
The physical collection will focus on Portuguese printed objects only and it will work as a showcase travelling across several places in Portugal and abroad. This catalogue of Author's editions and other publications will suport its dissemination, being also an important international tool to locate relevant and independent non-mainstream publications related to Artistic Photography and Documentary: Architecture, City and Territory.


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In addition to being the time of lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you, Christmas turns out to be the most lethal day of the year. By a long shot. Followed by New Year's Day. Followed by the other 363 days of the year, more or less in a heap, though the rate slopes up for a few weeks pre-Xmas, then sinks after the big day.
The observation was made several times in the last decade or so, first with cardiac disease—the so-called Merry Christmas Coronary (here and here)—and then with other diseases, with increasingly incontrovertible data. Scrooge rules. The one that clinched it was carried out by a team of sociologists in balmy, non-Christmas-y La Jolla, Calif.: "Christmas and New Year as Risk Factors for Death." They took 25 years of death certificates (about 57 million deaths) and plotted out each dead-on-arrival or died-in the-emergency-room death, according to the Julian day-at-a-time calendar. According to their way of slicing up the bad news, thousands more people over the years have died on these two holidays than on any other day. (The graphs tell the story quickly.) That's a lot of bereft holiday families.
Data-based observations of this sort invariably bring out the theorists, each with his own axe to grind or idea to sell, or to confidently proclaim that this is yet another example of [hare-brained theory here] in action.
The initial explanation from many, and one favored by the you-are-what-you-eat-people, is this: citizens stuff their yuletide faces on Christmas and somehow this hardens the arteries in short order, not unlike the ice-nine of Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. This surely makes sense to all of us who have feasted to within an inch of our life, but then again maybe not—what about the other Great American Days of Gluttony: Thanksgiving? Super Bowl Sunday? Perhaps Mother's Day? (OK, maybe appetites are lost there.) What about Fourth of July, that hot-dog-consumption apogee? Though tempting at first glance, this one sinks pretty easily on the simple logic that the Christmas feast is not unique enough to drive such a one-day death spike.
And while we're at it, let's agree to dismiss cold weather and shoveling snow on the same grounds—not unique to Christmas.
So what about blaming family? You know—stress, that explanation so beloved by shrinks and shrink-ish people. Seeing the family surely feels lethal some years. Plus cousins' cousins who married more distant cousins and moved to New Jersey because of the real-estate taxes that they want to review with you. In detail. And the cost of converting their garage to a den. Including the effect on the property value when last assessed by the county guy whom they know from their kid's school.
Admittedly, this is about enough to kill a guy, but how different really is the onslaught compared to other family-enriched holidays? And can stress—this sort of stress—really kill? I mean, this is not stress really but annoyance, boredom, and need for oxygen—but not drop-dead heart attack territory just because your wife's nephew won a MacArthur Genius award and you have to hear about how surprised they all were! We never knew what he was doing! And now they call him a genius! Oh my! Close yes—but not fatal. Once again, the burden of Christmas is simply not unique.
Which leaves this: what about the possibility that American health care doesn't suck? And that people on Christmas are sick, but opt to not call their doctor or visit the ER because it's Christmas and they don't want to bother anyone? (Or the doc is covered by someone who, in turn, is covered by someone else, who is maybe the same cousin with the MacArthur grant?) Anyone who has been in emergency rooms knows Christmas is just about always the quietest day of the year. And anyone caring for someone with chest pain knows the critical nature of "door-to-balloon time." This refers to the interval when a person with a possible heart attack first arrives in the emergency room until he is in the cardiac catheterization laboratory to have the salutary balloon inserted to pop open the affected artery.
According to experts, the door-to-balloon time should be 90 minutes or less because a longer delay can result in permanent damage to the heart. It is likely that a similar phenomenon of expedience translating into better health governs other diseases as well. To translate this to Christmas-ese, shrugging off that chest pain for an hour or two or three just to maintain family serenity moves someone well outside the optimal door-to-balloon time. And the longer the time from symptoms to treatment, the higher the death rate.
In other words, all this extra death over the holidays is likely not due to too much ice cream or cold weather or irksome relatives, but rather because people are not seeing a doctor in a timely fashion. Which is worth considering as we talk about the effect of expanding health care and health-care access in the years ahead. Timeliness saves lives. Overcrowded ERs that can't move patients through may result in lost lives. People who have a doctor to call when they feel ill do better than those with no one to call and nowhere to go. With all the fake debate about whether Obamacare will improve people's health (it obviously will) and the parallel view that American health care is a murderous mess not unlike Big Government, this elemental truth is worth holding in mind: health care improves health. A Christmas gift of a functioning doctor and a functioning health-care system will go a long way to fix the heartbreaking problem of the Christmas patient who waited a little too long.


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"Climate change is destroying Africa. In the harshest of ironies, the cradle of mankind could well become its grave," says Dianne McAlpine Special Projects Coordinator for Greenpeace Africa.
Dependent upon rain fed farming, the continent is facing a future of rampant food insecurity in an ever hotter and drier continent.
The documentary is a joint venture between Greenpeace Africa and UHURU Productions, directed by one of South Africa's leading film makers, Rehad Desai.
Each case study is exemplified by individuals who explain in their own words the changes they are facing.
Greenpeace shows the true face of the problem in "The Weather Gods", a hard-hitting documentary that tells the story of the people in the front line of climate change; rural communities in Mali and Kenya and South Africa.
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This series of infographics was created to supplement the Here, There, Everywhere (HTE) exhibit and connects cross-cutting science content (Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics) with everyday phenomena, helping to demonstrate the universality of physical laws and the connection between o
This gallery features NASA images of stars and galaxies.
This book introduces students to some of the most unusual places in our galaxy outside of our solar system.
This is a lithograph that outlines the major mission highlights of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission, a Small Explorer Earth-orbiting spacecraft that is designed to map the distant boundary between the solar wind from our Sun and the interstellar medium, the material between th
In this problem set, learners will use a diagram of carbon fluxes, which shows the sources that contribute to current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, to answer a series of questions. Answer key is provided.
This self-paced, interactive tutorial enables learners to identify and measure iceberg size from remotely-sensed satellite images.
This video explains albedo - the concept that the brightness of the Earth system (atmosphere, ocean, and land surfaces) determines how much incoming solar energy is immediately reflected back to space.
Learners will use the inquiry process to explore the affect of atmosphere on the temperature of a planet. They create a model of the system to test. They then create a concept map of the planetary temperature system.
This slide set focuses on the Fermi Mission's discovery of bubbles emanating from the core of the Milky Way galaxy. It is one of a series of short, topical presentations on new developments from NASA astrophysics missions, relevant to introductory astronomy topics.
Using water to represent the atmosphere and milk droplets to represent aerosols, students make predictions and conduct investigations to discover how different aerosol concentrations affect atmospheric color and visibility.


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Mathematical Sciences Course Descriptions
MATH 1306 College Algebra for the Non-Scientist
(3 semester hours) This course is intended for students NOT continuing
on to precalculus or calculus. The course is designed to develop both
abstract thinking and a practical approach to problem solving. The emphasis
is on understanding rather than purely computational skills. Topics
include logic, sets, the real numbers, linear equations and their applications,
functions, and graphs. Cannot be used to satisfy major requirements
for majors in the Schools of Natural Sciences and Mathematics or Management,
or degree requirements for the School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Credit given for only one of MATH 1306 or 1314. Prerequisite: High School
Algebra II. (3-0) Y
This catalog is a general information publication only. It is not intended to nor does it contain all regulations that relate to students. The provisions of this catalog do not constitute a contract, express or implied, between any applicant, student or faculty member and The University of Texas at Dallas or The University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Dallas reserves the right to withdraw courses at any time, to change fees or tuition, calendar, curriculum, degree requirements, graduation procedures, and any other requirements affecting students. Changes will become effective whenever the proper authorities so determine and will apply to both prospective students and those already enrolled.
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Holding Chaos started out as a novel. It was accepted by a couple of small publishers. I chose one, and chose poorly.
The publisher went out of business before the ink on the contract was dry.
Discouraged, I tried turning the novel into a graphic novel, the result being Holding Chaos.
At long last, the novel is now available through Decadent Publishing as The Music of Chaos. A sample of the novel can be found here.


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Hypersonic cruise demands designs achievable only via multidisciplinary optimization techniques considering fully integrated propulsion systems. Additionally, environmental issues and thermal problems may require solutions using non-conventional flow-control techniques based on e.g. jet-spikes and magneto gas dynamics.
Heat flux reduction by shock manipulation using a magnet inside the nose of the vehicle;Pressure field without (top) and with (bottom) magnetic interaction; Embedded fig.: hypersonic head equipped with an electro-magnet for testing in the high enthalpy shock-tunnel Göttingen (HEG)


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Ingredients and Preparation
- Combine dry milk, water, and vanilla, stirring to moisten.
- Add honey and peanut butter, stirring slowly until liquid blends with peanut butter.
- Spread on crackers.
Keeps well in refrigerator but is difficult to spread when cold.
Tip: Mixture also can be formed into balls, chilled, and eaten as candy.


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We create pedal-powered machines.
In addition to designing custom machines for farmers, educators and homesteaders, we have two stock products, the Big Rig and the Pedal Genny.
With an efficiency of 97%, bicycle technology is nearly perfect. So why do we use it only for transportation?
Bicycle technology can and should be used for many everyday tasks. Using your own power rather than plugging into the grid is not only fun, but also helps you understand your energy use and reduce your ecological footprint.
There are a billion bicycles in the world today -- nearly one in every home. One day, we hope to see every household charging phones, processing food, and pumping water with pedal power.
Our Big Rig is designed for off-grid applications and features a work surface, ergonomic seat for comfort, quick adjustments for different riders, a flywheel to smooth pedaling, a wide range of gearing, and an all-steel, hand-built frame. An average adult can use it to generate 100 watts of electricity, pump 5 gallons of water per minute, grind a variety of grains, as well as operate an air compressor, a hydraulic pump, most any hand-cranked machine, and a variety of small shop tools. It has been found to be particularly suitable for small scale agricultural applications such as cracking grains, churning butter, and pumping water.
The Pedal Genny was developed as a more portable, single function machine. It has an optional seat, but no work surface. It features a flywheel to smooth pedaling, full-size cranks, and an all-steel, hand-built frame. It has been used for generating electricity, milling grain and pumping water, but can be configured to power most any mechanical device requiring less than 1 horsepower.
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Mentor qualification in our sangha has a long history of experimentation and evolution. We have arrived at a point where we can now bring all this experimentation and evolution together into a coherent and comprehensive system.
Our basic goal in mentoring has always been to to support each other in deepening our practice and strengthening our Sanghas. A mentor's practice needs to be fresh and alive to mentor an aspirant effectively. To support both mentors and aspirants, the North American Dharma Teacher Care Taking Council has integrated our order's past extensive experience into the following qualification statement for mentors. The underlying requirement for mentoring is that a Dharma Teacher must be involved as part of mentoring, as set forth in the aspirant application.
There are three situations which qualify one to mentor.


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Gary John Previts, President THE ACADEMY OF ACCOUNTING HISTORIANS
Professor Robert Anthony of Harvard re-exposes for considera-tion the issue of "Accounting for the Cost of Equity," in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review (November-December, 1973).
What is somewhat disconcerting to the historian who reads this well written piece is the lack of adequate reference to the interesting and important precedent episodes involved in the controversy over interest as a cost that date back fifty years and more.
Accounting historians, familiar with the evolution of income determination theory are aware of the host of early writers who be-came embroiled in this issue. Indeed the early arguments over treat-ment of interest cost (both paid and imputed) spurred publication of countless articles and commentaries along with a relatively sound but since unheralded work Interest as a Cost (C. H. Scovell, Ronald Press, 1924, 254 pp.)
Advocates of interest costing included some of the most respected academicians and practitioners of the period—William Morse Cole, J. Lee Nicholson, John R. Wildman, DR Scott, D. C. Eggleston, Thomas H. Sanders and G. Charter Harrison.
In opposition was a formidable and, perhaps, politically more prominent group, and in the sense of the outcome, the success of their position may have been in large part because of such political strength. As early as 1911, Arthur Lowes Dickinson criticized ad-vocates of interest inclusion. Dickinson's allies included R. H. Montgomery, Jos. F. Sterrett, and George O. May.
In the 1921 yearbook of the N.A.(C).A., then a newly formed group, a point by point summary of the interest debate was pub-lished. Later a special bulletin of this group (No. 61, New series, June 15, 1923) dealt with the issue and cited one of the earliest empirical investigations in modern accounting—a questionnaire circulated among members seeking to determine opinion concern-ing the interest matter.
It is evident that the interest topic has had a complex evolution. This explains the unsettling feeling which one experiences when


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Amerikaner is a very popular cake like cookies , or you can call them cookie like small cakes ! The exact translation is "American" ! It's very popular in kids' birthdays here in Germany , every child loves them , I used to hear from the kids "I ate Amerikaner today" & I've always thought what was the "american" they ate ! they used to describe it & I never knew weather that was a cake or a cookie! I asked a German friend & she explained what was it for me & she even showed them to me ,they are every where in Bakery shops & they are sold frozen in Supermarkets ! since than I started searching for recipes & making them for kids with different toppings. Original Cookies are American & are called Black & White cookies , because they are always half black & half white . Here in Germany they are very popular in Birthdays covered with Sugar glaze ( icing ) & smarties chocolate ! you can even make faces over the suagr glaze using melted chocolate , or colored sugar glaze . you can also cover only with chocolate instead of sugar icing !
Here I did mine for my daughter who loves pink , so I covered it with Sugar glaze (icing ) & splinkeled some pink & white sugar sprinkles . It's delicious & very soft like small Cakes bit in the size of a cookie.The recipe is so easy , hope you all try it & like it .


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Mayor's Office
The Lincoln Parks and Recreation Department and the Mayor's Pedestrian/Bicycle Advisory Committee encourage residents to "see and be seen" when using the trails, especially this time of year with the reduced amount of daylight. Bikers, joggers and walkers are urged to wear reflective clothing or use some form of illumination. Those who don't take steps to make sure others can see them pose a significant threat to the safety of all other users on the City trails and streets. It is also recommended that trail users carry cell phones in case of an emergency.
Proper equipment and illumination clothing is available at all bicycle shops and most running apparel stores. Many options are available including vests, flashlights, blinking shoes, flashing lights, reflective strips and arm bands.
Information on the City Parks and Recreation Department is available at parks.lincoln.ne.gov.


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Suppliers struggle to keep up with utility pole demand
An earlier version of this story misstated the dimensions of Class 1 and Class 2 utility poles.
One of the challenges in restoring power to the millions who were left in the dark following Hurricane Sandy has been more than impassable roads or contracting enough work crews.
It's also been maintaining a steady supply of utility poles to the impacted areas.
Armies of flatbed trucks stacked with the 40-foot-long poles have been clamoring across U.S. highways to reach the impacted areas and replace utility poles knocked down or splintered by Sandy. Still, suppliers have struggled to keep up with demand, especially for thicker poles, known as Class 1 and Class 2, that are used widely across the East Coast but harder to come by, said Chris Slonaker, a sales manager for Bridgewell Resources, one of the suppliers.
The number of new utility poles sent to areas ravaged by Sandy is on pace to match that delivered after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, he said. Suppliers dispatched about 100,000 poles to the devastated Gulf Coast in the wake of those storms, according to the North American Wood Pole Council.
"All the plants I know are trying to get as many of the larger sized [poles] as they can right now," Slonaker said. "It's been a real challenge."
As of Friday, more than 400,000 customers in the New York-New Jersey area remained without power as a result of Sandy, which barreled into the region Oct. 29, killing more than 100 people and causing more than $50 billion in damages.
Utility companies in the impacted areas say the supply of utility poles has not slowed restoration efforts. Power was expected to return this weekend for the majority of those still without power, according to the companies.
"There are no supply shortages," said Ron Morano, a spokesman for Jersey Central Power & Light. "We have enough poles. We have enough wire. We have enough transformers. … We're adequately stocked and making our repairs."
Truckloads of poles have been streaming into the New York area to help restore power to the 1 million Con Edison customers who lost power in New York, said Con Ed spokesman Michael Clendenin said. The company has bought about a six-month supply of poles the past week, he said. All New York customers should have power back by the weekend. "We can start to see the end zone," Clendenin said.
As Sandy menaced offshore in the Atlantic, utility companies across the East Coast began stockpiling poles, Slonaker said. After the storm's landfall, power companies ramped up their orders. In the 10 days since Sandy hit, Bridgewell Resources has shipped out 7,000 poles – about 14 times the amount it usually ships in that time period, he said.
Many of the power companies have been requesting the thicker Class 1 poles, which are at least 27 inches around at the top, and Class 2 poles, which are at least 25 inches around, Slonaker said. Coastal cities commonly use the thicker poles to prevent them from snapping under strong seaborne storms. The number of thicker poles is dwindling fast, he said. The poles originate as Southern pines and are usually 40 to 45 feet tall.
"We could get many thousands of the skinny pines," Slonaker said. "But you can only find so many of those big-growth pines that could make the large classes."
To keep up with demand, work crews have sawed off the tops of longer poles to meet the thickness criteria and attached stakes to sides of trucks to increase their fleet of flatbed trucks, he said. Slonaker said he didn't think the supply of poles was slowing restoration efforts because his drivers have noticed piles of poles at the yards where they've delivered their stock. "You don't get a sense that the power companies are waiting around for poles," he said.
New Jersey Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula, the Democratic chairman of the telecom and utilities committee, said he had heard complaints of power companies not having enough poles but didn't think it was hampering efforts to restore power to the region. A bigger issue has been the power companies' inability to communicate their plan of action in time of disaster, he said. Loss of power was also a major issue last year when Hurricane Irene hit the region, Chivukula said.
"It's been better than in Hurricane Irene," he said of the restoration effort, "but we have a long way to go."
Cox Industries, another pole supplier, has shipped out 5,000 poles since the start of the storm – about the amount the company sends to a client in the course of a year, spokesman Keith Harris said. The company has met the oversized demand, he said.
A larger challenge has been getting their trucks down roads clogged with storm debris or closed to traffic, Harris said. "It's not a supply issue as much as a logistics issue," he said.