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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 17, No. 1 June 1990 David R. Koeppen BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY CREATING AN ACCOUNTING CULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM Abstract: Numerous critics of accounting education have suggested that students graduating from accounting programs are well-trained but poorly educated. One reason that this may be occurring is that accounting education has become increasingly rule-oriented, focusing more on training future accountants rather than on educating those individuals. It is suggested here that accounting educators should spend more time developing an awareness in students of the culture of accounting. Two methods for ac-complishing this change are suggested: (1) Focusing on the issues instead of the rules, and (2) providing students with a historical perspective of the events which have developed and shaped the practice of accountancy. By adding culture to the accounting curriculum, students will be better educated and thus be better prepared for their future careers. Accounting education in recent years has been criticized for not adequately preparing students for their future careers. One common criticism of graduates of accounting programs is the inability of those graduates to think; that they lack the concep-tual and analytical skills needed for success. For many accounting students, this inability to think may be caused by the absence of a sense of history, or an accounting culture, in the classroom. Due to the absence of this culture, students, as future accountants, frequently fail to understand their roles in society. And, in failing to understand their own roles, they fail to understand how those roles interact with the roles of the standard setting boards, the regulatory agencies, and the various professional affiliations and organizations. The current educational process is clearly flawed since it denies many students knowledge of the culture of accounting. By making modest changes in the current educational process, however, an accounting culture can be added to the curriculum. This rather modest change brings the study of accounting history into the classroom. And that study can start students thinking.


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Matthew Adams Dolan - Men's and Women's Autumn/Winter 2018/19 Collection in New York (with interview)
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Designer : matthew adams dolaninspiration: a mixed show where chic elegance is blended with sportswear, the american style is brought up to date by this young designer who shows at new york fashion week for a second time. collection: distorted basics with a play on volumes, xxl sleeves are worn with high-waisted jeans. tailored checked trousers combine tones of blue and pink, with a tightened waist and rounded off sleeves. the men and women don't stop responding to each other, having almost interchangeable clothing. to note: mohair which used for cable stitch jumpers and cardigans. interview with matthew adams dolan: i'm really interested in things like the idea of clothing being an object rather than being something that is specific to one gender. i was looking at ideas of volume that felt controlled rather than just oversized, looking at tailoring techniques, shaping, seam shaping, that kind of thing. so i was looking at sportswear references so taking those colours and translating them into something that was a bit less evident. obviously there's a lot of more established brands that have left due to just to scheduling and sales, that kind of thing. it's only my second show so i don't have a lot of experience. music from the show (for use only in context of the show, under cover of the right to information).
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Industrial designer Roger Arquer came up with four ideas for a non-lethal mousetrap using household objects such as lightbulbs, paper clips, springs and pint glasses. And, of course, cheese. Check the gallery below for his ingenious devices.
The Barcelona-born designer says that you can do what you want with the mice after you've caught them. Seeing as I don't have a python, I think I'll make myself a mouse-fur bikini. [Roger Arquer via Dezeen]


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Kindred spirits united in darkness
We choose our fate, no disguise
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Mighty we stand, rebellion the masterplan
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hypnotic state, empty eyes
Daggers, bullets, rituals, blood stains
To desecrate, true allies
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Waiting to attack
Not scared to die, violence we glorify
Disillusioned in their minds
Born in a casket
The next of kin
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Third Letter to a Secular Nation: How to miss a pointApril 24, 2008 — Deacon Duncan
Mike Adams has a third "Letter to a Secular Nation" over at townhall.com, and begins with a superb demonstration of the art of missing someone's point.
I must admit that before I became a Christian I was also guilty of over-simplifying the arguments of believers…Nonetheless, statements like the following still grab my attention:
"Consider:every devout Muslim has the same reasons for being a Muslim that you have for being a Christian."
That is indeed a provocative statement. A thoughtful Christian might appreciate the opportunity to explore his own faith by comparing his motivations with those of someone whose doctrines are different and not presumptively infallible. Such unbiased inquiries, however, often lead to liberalism and apostasy. A much safer alternative is to use those same doctrinal differences as an excuse to avoid the question altogether.
During a polite discussion, a Muslim fundamentalist admitted to me that Jesus led a sinless life and Mohammed did not. But he chose to become a Muslim, in part, because he did not believe that Jesus was raised from the dead. I disagree. That is a large part of the reason why I am a Christian and not a Muslim.
Nicely dodged. Of course, the question remains: why believe that Jesus rose from the dead? Clearly, Adams has not seen any risen Christ himself, since there would be neither Muslim nor atheist if Jesus were willing and able to show up in real life. Like the Muslim, Adams believes the doctrines of his own religion because he accepts the claims and the encouragement of those he most strongly identifies with as his own proper peer group, each of whom also believes for pretty much the same reason. The "resurrection" is what Adams believes, not why he believes it. Rather than refuting Harris's claim, Adams has simply tap-danced around it.
But compared to the rest of the Third Letter, his simple evasion above is a paragon of rationality and perspicacity.
[F]or many Muslims the decision is made out of fear of the consequences of rejecting Islam. Many are not even familiar with basic Christian arguments or the evidence supporting them.
Accepting Christianity, on the other hand, is far more likely to have come from a rational appraisal of the evidence. And it is far less likely to have come from the threat of the sword.
While the last statement is technically correct, in that Muslim jihads outnumber Christian crusades, I want to look at the next to last statement about appraising the evidence. Remember, Adams is an assistant criminology professor. As a criminologist, he ought to know that hearsay is not considered reliable evidence except under unusual circumstances, none of which are relevant to the Gospels. Rumors of post-crucifixion, ghostly appearances deserve the same evidentiary status as rumors of seeing Elvis.
Superstitions, intuitions, and feelings, are even less admissible. A truly rational consideration of the actual evidence regarding Christianity, therefore, must inevitably lead the unbiased investigator to reject the claims of the Gospel as unsubstantiated and self-contradictory. Jesus's behavior is perfectly consistent with that of a dead man, and the disciples' subsequent claims and actions are consistent with those of a superstitious people who originally started out believing in a purely spiritual "resurrection" for their curtailed Messiah.
But if you really want to see Adams twist his brain into a tortured knot, have a look at this:
That is important to remember when looking at statements such as this:
"Understand that the way you view Islam is precisely the way devout Muslims view Christianity. And it is the way I view all religions."
This is absurd. Radical Muslims view Christianity as a religion of peace. That is why they are not hesitant to attack Christians in accordance with the teachings of the Koran. But Christians, including George W.Bush, believe the opposite – that Islam is a religion of war. And that is why we know we must fight back when they attack us. If Muslims and Christians did not have such disparate views of one another – including, but not limited to, the capacity for violence – conflict would be less likely.
Same tactic: ignore Harris's point about what Christianity and Islam have in common, and cite some other difference between the two as "proof" that it is "absurd" to find common ground between them. But look at the "logic" he uses in rationalizing the alleged difference: Christians attack Muslims because, being a religion of peace, they know Muslims are going to attack them, therefore these "peaceful" Christians must invade Iraq. Or in other words, both religions attack each other, and appeal to whatever convoluted rationalization suits the need of the moment, in terms of justifying their aggressive actions.
It's a pretty weak argument, which may be why Adams feels like he needs to tar Harris with the standard "moral relativism" brush.
It is difficult to take Harris seriously when he says that he views Islam and Christianity in the same way. In order to draw such a conclusion, one would have to be an incurable moral relativist or simply profoundly ignorant of the teachings of Christianity.
No Mr. Adams, as difficult as this may be for you to understand, when Harris points out commonalities between Christianity and Islam, he is not asserting that the two have identical doctrines. And in fact, that's rather the whole point: that the doctrinal content is largely irrelevant to how these two religions actually work, and to the fact that each is driven more by how believers feel about non-believers than by any intellectual analysis of the others' doctrines.
Necessarily so: God does not show up in real life, so there is no objective means of resolving doctrinal disputes about the nature of God. Whatever doctrines belong to a particular religion, the true believer can and must defend, by any means necessary, in order for his faith to be the victor. Whether the conflict is military or rhetorical, it is won or lost by the strength of men, and by their cleverness in promoting their own cause. God is not here to tip the balance either way.
Harris goes on to say this:
"Anyone who believes that the Bible offers the best guidance we have on questions of morality has some very strange ideas either about guidance or morality."
The two key words are "best" and "we." There is, therefore, a superior moral code by which "we" can all live. But it does not come from God. So what is the source of this superior moral code to which we may all subscribe?
It's called Reality, and Adams would do well to learn more about this novel and fascinating concept.
There is a reason why the civilized world "now agrees" with the notion that slavery is wrong. It is because of the teachings of the Old and New Testaments.
Prior to the Old Testament there were no limitations on the institution of slavery. In the Old Testament there clearly were.
Prior to the Old Testament, there were no restrictions on Sabbath work. But when the Law of Moses came, God (allegedly) didn't just put some minor restrictions on Sabbath work, He (allegedly) banned it entirely, with the death penalty for those who disobey. Now, working on a Saturday is not inherently immoral, the way slavery is. Why, then, did Saturday work get the ban, while slavery was only subject to such mild restrictions as, "If you sell your daughter into sexual slavery, the man who buys her must either keep her or let her go free"? As a guide to the relative morality of sexual slavery versus honest work on a Saturday, you have to admit that's fairly muddled.
And in the New Testament we see even greater limitations. Indeed, in the Book of Galatians,Paul clearly states that there is no longer a distinction between freed man and slave. He says that we are all one in Christ Jesus our Lord.
But, of course, Harris selectively quotes the Old and New Testaments in order to obscure these important points.
And speaking of "selectively quoting," did you notice that Adams fails to mention the New Testament verses where Paul instructs slaves to obey their masters, and not to make any particular effort to become free (though if a slave were given the opportunity to become free, he should of course take it). Paul was more than happy to denounce the evils of eating meat from animals that had been sacrificed to pagan gods, but actually ending the practice of slavery? Not really a priority.
And he also relies upon historical ignorance, hoping that the reader will assume that slavery in the Roman Empire was the same as slavery in America.He does not mention that people often chose to be slaves in the First Century.Nor does he reveal that they were often in that state temporarily and as a means of paying off a debt – rather than as a permanent function of their racial identity.
In other words, Adams is trying to make the case that the slavery that was allegedly opposed by writers in the Old and New Testament was really not such an immoral thing anyway. But he still wants us to give the Old and New Testament credit for teaching us that slavery was immoral, even though it wasn't even what we today would call "slavery" in the first place (or so he would have us think). And speaking of historical ignorance, if Roman slavery was more enlightened under the pagan emperors, and was a different thing than American slavery, who then deserves the credit for creating the evil institution of American slavery? If we take Adams's view of history, slavery actually became worse under Christian rule!
The turning point in the history of slavery was the rise of humanism, and in Enlightenment ideals, which promoted the idea that each individual has worth in and of themselves, and is not divinely ordained to some greater or (more typically) lesser station in life by some arbitrary and irresistible decree. Humanistic influence in the Church produced liberalized Christians who mingled humanistic values with traditional Christian offices, and thus lent occasional opposition to slavery and other degrading practices, even while other Christians were just as staunchly defending the institution as wholly Biblical.
But Adams wouldn't dream of mentioning such things. He wants the do-nothing God of the Bible to get all the credit for the conscience and conviction of the liberal humanists who worked inside and outside of the Church to bring dignity to all mankind.
Sam Harris' opposition to slavery is due to the role the God-inspired Bible has played in shaping our Christian nation. Christianity taught America that slavery is wrong,and America taught Sam Harris that slavery is wrong.
Clearly, it is time for Sam Harris to admit the source of his belief in objective morality. Sam Harris derives his beliefs from God, not the other way around. God never told Moses to say to the people of Israel "Sam I Am has sent me to you."
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ABC's "Good Morning America," which has yet to interview talk show host Mark Levin about his New York Times best selling book on conservatism, featured James Carville on Monday to promote "40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation." Co-host Diane Sawyer recited passages from the Democratic operative's tome, "Let me read what you write here. 'Republicans shouldn't be worried. They should be in agony. They should be throwing up.'"
Sawyer continued to read from Carville's book: "Republicans had better get a better policy on prescription drugs and quickly they're going to need a lot more Prozac." An onscreen graphic highlighted past one-party rule and speculated, "Democrats 1932-1968, Republicans 1968-2008, Democrats 2008-2048?"
Sawyer, to her credit, did challenge the thesis of the book, that Democrats will be in power for decades. She skeptically noted, "But, you know, there's people looking at this who say there's a big hole in this argument. And the big hole is the deficit that is building up, the debt that is building up." The GMA co-host added, "In fact, in ten years, per person in America, $2,700 will be spent just to pay the interest on the debt. Not to pay down the debt, but just to pay the interest." Later, she wondered if Democrats are becoming overly confident.
However, Sawyer also gave Carville a free pass to trash the tea party protests that occurred in April. The former Clinton official seethed, "There were a bunch of, like, 75-year-old cranky white guys, mad at everything. It just couldn't have been a better event for the Democratic Party. I hope they come back and tea bag some more." Sawyer offered no retort or comment on Carville's broadside.
A transcript of the May 4 segment, which aired at 7:13am, follows:
DIANE SAWYER: We turn now to politics and a somewhat beleaguered group of Republicans, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, who spent their weekend at a Virginia pizza parlor on what they call a listening tour to try to reinvigorate the Republican Party. Someone looking on possibly with a smile at all of this is GMA contributor and Democratic political strategist James Carville who has a challenge for all the Republicans who think they can come back. It is a new book out called "40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. " 40 more years? Let me read what you write here, "Republicans shouldn't be worried. They should be in agony. They should be throwing up. Republicans had better get a better policy on prescription drugs and quickly they're going to need a lot more Prozac."
ABC GRAPHIC: Carville's Trifecta: Why Republicans Face Long Odds
JAMES CARVILLE: Right.
SAWYER: 40 Years? What's your case for this?
CARVILLE: First of all, 40 years of dominance by political party at the norm. From 1896 to 1932 there was only one Democratic president. From '32 to '68 only one Republican. And we've been living in an era of almost Republican dominance, 28 years to 12 years in the last 40 and young voters are moving Democratic at an alarmingly fast rate, if you're a Republican. Every growing demographic is trending Democratic and I think we're probably on the verge of another 40-year era of party dominance here.
ABC GRAPHIC: Democrats 1932-1968, Republicans 1968-2008, Democrats 2008-2048?
SAWYER: But, you know, there's people looking at this who say there's a big hole in this argument. And the big hole is the deficit that is building up, the debt that is building up. Even though the Obama administration is in crisis, it is adding constantly adding debt. In fact, in ten years, per person in America, $2,700 will be spent just to pay the interest on the debt. Not to pay down the debt, but just to pay the interest.
CARVILLE: Look, I think that the deficit is going to be a big issue but the Republicans have no credibility. Used to be when I was younger they had credibility on spending and blew all spending credibility in, in, in the early part of this decade. And, sure, they can do better if they are able to attain some of that credibility but right now people aren't just not looking to them and the way that they're talking about this is kind of irrelevant to people.
SAWYER: But, isn't it ripe for them taking back their issue?
CARVILLE: It's their best issue that these tea baggers, they turned everybody off. There were a bunch of, like, 75-year-old cranky white guys mad at everything. It just couldn't have been a better event for the Democratic Party. I hope they come back and tea bag some more. And I think that- I think that the Democrats are going to be smart enough to- when this recession is over and it will be over, to jump back on top of the spending issue like President Clinton did back in the '90s.
SAWYER: Want to talk about some of the other vulnerabilities out there. Again, it's been pointed out there's no guarantee, Arlen Specter moves over to the Democratic side, seems to give a good bloc now to block any vote against them. But strength is not always deployed effectively. Here's Jon Stewart.
JON STEWART ("Daily Show" clip) : I guess that means now, the Democrats also control the House, the executive and without Al Franken, they'll have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. They haven't had that much power since Jimmy Carter's presidency and, man, that went great. That was a juggernaut of progress.
SAWYER: Too confident? Over confident, Mr. Carville?
CARVILLE: Well, you know, Diane, I started this project long before the 2008 election. In fact, as early as may of 2000, even April we were identifying me the author of "40 More Years." Yes, I mean, is there a chance that some of this is, sort of, Democratic hubris? Of course. But, the underlying dynamics that are shaping the American electorate are sort of in place and unless there's something to do to change them this is going to be a pretty tough time for the Republican Party.
SAWYER: Let's talk about what could change them. On the Democratic side and on the Republican side. You have listed a kind of trifecta. Your own trifecta of the three dangers that the Democrats face, how they could lose it all. And hubris is the first one?
CARVILLE: Of course, it always is. And I said early on, on one of- the big problem was going to be we were going to start getting in trouble and our people would tart getting indicted. It follows power around. It always has.
SAWYER: And not controlling the spending issue. But, what can you do in this economy?
CARVILLE: There's probably not much you can do in this economy and probably not much you want to do in this economy to control the spending issue, but, again, presumably we'll come out of this and they'll have to have credibility and get a hold of it.
SAWYER: And ideological purity tests. Of which particular kind?
CARVILLE: With the Republicans, look, my friend Mark Shields said do you want to be in a church chasing out heretics or you want to be in a church that's trying to bring in converts? The Republicans are always- he's not a Real republican or, you know, Rush Limbaugh says that good riddance to Specter and McCain and his daughter ought to go. That's not the kind of church we want to have. When a party gets political power it tends to become arrogant and start chasing people out that it doesn't agree with. I hope we don't do that.
SAWYER: Okay, the Republican comeback advantages are, we talked about getting credibility on spending so that was your first one out there. But the second one was to recruit fresh candidates, specifically what do you think they can target and how fast?
CARVILLE: Well, I think they can target people pretty quickly and got to get the faces of the party off. They're trying to get this Eric Cantor, this young guy from Virginia and talk a lot about Paul Ryan, who's a Congressman from Wisconsin but they need to start recruiting people at the city council level, at the county level too.
SAWYER: And, quick last one, learn to use a scalpel. Got about 15 seconds.
CARVILLE: Right, they just don't have any- calling people socialists and fascists and all of that. It just turns people off to no end. Just one giant machete they have. Put it down. Get a scalpel. You'll do better.
SAWYER: Okay. Take your vitamins 'cause you have got to live 40 years to see if James Carville was right. That's the book, "40 More Years." Thanks, James.


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Top 3 in Tech: Big News From Google
WSJ technology editor Scott Austin details the top three tech stories of the week, including good news for Sprint, and a big announcement from Google. Photo: Getty Images.
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Author: MyrtleLuvsHarry
Story: Harry's Return
Part: Harry's Return
Rating: Everyone
Setting: Pre-DH
Status: Completed
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Words: 3,273
Updated: March 31, 2006, 5:20pm
Harry's Return
A/N: Happy Birthday, Gred and Forge! This story and its partner were the PhoenixSong April Fool's 2006 Joke. In addition to the stories (Part I was published on 1 April, Part II on 2 April), the banner and site ship were changed to the good ship Ghostsnog - Harry and Myrtle. We hope our members and guests enjoyed the fun as much as we did while we were planning and executing it. Thank you for your continued support to PhoenixSong and happy reading!
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Harry looked around at the Great Hall, his brow furrowed with confusion. It was devoid of people and looked a little less battered than when he last saw it. How had it come to be cleaned up so quickly? Raising his eyes to the House banners, he noticed that they were new. Even the Gryffindor banner, which he'd last seen alight after Voldemort torched it in spite, was pristine.
Striding to the door, he reached out his hand to push it open and… his hand went through. Frowning, he looked down at his hand, before trying once more to open the door. Again, his hand went through the wood, and he waved it around a bit to see if he hit anything. He tried kicking at it with his foot, and nearly fell over as it failed to connect with anything solid.
Closing his eyes, he walked forward. Apart from a slightly tingling feeling, his flesh did the seemingly impossible: passed through the solid door. Opening his eyes, he turned around and looked in puzzlement at the closed door. How had he done that?
Actually, now he thought about it, how had he come to be at Hogwarts at all?
He began to wander the halls, vaguely trying to recall the events of where he'd last been, and with whom. But the details were fuzzy, and somehow he couldn't quite get his brain to care. He was at Hogwarts, and Hogwarts was home; that was all he should care about. Besides, he had plenty of memories here. What did it matter about a few recent ones?
He grinned as he passed the small area of swamp in the hallway from when Fred and George had flamboyantly left school. He had a feeling he should be sad when thinking about them, but couldn't quite think of the reason. All he knew was that some of his favorite memories involved the Weasley twins and their pranks.
After peering inside various open doors and into empty rooms, he lingered around outside the closed door leading to the Transfiguration classroom, nostalgically remembering when he and Ron had been late for class on their first day. He was about to make his way up to Gryffindor tower, when the classroom door suddenly opened and a stream of students came out.
"Three feet of parchment by tomorrow! The old lady is nuts if she thinks we're going to be able to write anywhere near that amount!" exclaimed one student, obviously a Gryffindor by the looks of the badge on his robes. Strangely, Harry didn't recognize the student at all, nor any of the others making their way along the hallway or stopping for a chat while shoelaces were tied, and books were rearranged in bags.
"Excuse me," he said. "Could you tell me–"
He broke off, realizing not a single person was taking any notice of him.
"Erm, hello?" he tried again, and again met with no response.
"Oi!" Harry stepped in front of a pair of students, trying to get their attention. Surely they couldn't ignore them if he was right in front of them. To Harry's great shock, the couple walked right through him.
Harry came to the sudden realization that something was wrong. He had a very real fear that he might be….
In a fluster he took off at a run, looking for a mirror, any mirror. As he came to a corner, he skidded a bit trying to get around it and accidentally fell through the wall. "Argh!" yelled Harry, before he realized that the wall hadn't hurt.
He looked around and found that by sheer good luck, he'd fallen into a bathroom. Spying a mirror on the wall above the basins, he headed over for a look at himself, shivering a little at the thought of what he might see.
Several words came to mind as his mouth dropped open. Insubstantial. Semi-see-through. Misty. And, finally… Ghost.
Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, was Dead.
He frowned. Now he thought about it, he could sort of remember lying down and hearing someone crying. The touch of tears falling on his face, and long red hair falling across his cheek. The smell of blood and sweat. For some reason, he had a feeling that might have been Ron's little sister, Ginny, crying. But memories of Ginny were insubstantial, almost like himself. A general feeling of happiness trickled through him at the thought of her, and that made him realize once more that he was happy; he was happy to be at Hogwarts. He didn't want to focus on anything that made him sad, or remember bad times.
"Harry!" exclaimed a voice behind him. "You've come to see me!"
He spun around, and saw Moaning Myrtle smiling widely down at him from her perch above the second stall on the right. "Oops," he said, taking more notice of the room he was in and recognizing the basin next to him as the one that lead to…somewhere that he couldn't quite remember but didn't quite seem important enough to worry about, "I didn't realize this was a girls' bathroom. Sorry!"
Myrtle's eyes welled with tears. "You mean you didn't come to see me after all?" she wailed.
"Erm… well, seeing you is the icing on the cake, Myrtle!" he exclaimed. "I was just making sure I looked my best before going to find you, but didn't realize I'd actually come into your bathroom."
The tears vanished from Myrtle's eyes immediately, and her ghostly form lit up with the brightness of the full moon. "So, you've come to share my toilet?"
"I…uh… haven't decided on my long-term plans, yet," fudged Harry. "I only just found out I'm …er…dead."
Myrtle floated down from the stall. "So, how did you die?" she asked with relish.
Harry bit his lip. "It's strange, but I don't really remember," he said. "Whenever I try to think of something like that, my mind skips straight to how happy I am to be here at Hogwarts." He smiled and felt another wave of happiness come upon him. "I feel like I'm home."
"Sometimes it's like that," Myrtle nodded her head wisely. "You focus on what you wanted most in life. I wanted to get back at that horrid Olive Hornby," Myrtle's eyes became gleeful, "and I did – until she complained to the Ministry about me."
"So…" said Harry thoughtfully, "what I wanted most when I died was to have a home?"
"Maybe. Or perhaps you wanted something that you could only get at Hogwarts." Myrtle smiled flirtatiously. "Maybe you wanted to be with me."
Harry just smiled noncommittally before changing the subject, "Say, how do you float like that? It looks even more fun that flying on a broomstick! And what else can you do?"
"Oh, being a ghost is wonderful fun. Except when people throw things at you down your toilet." Myrtle's ghostly form seemed to increase in size as her anger raged, and she zoomed around the bathroom plunging head first down one toilet, and then appearing out of another moments later.
Several days passed, and Harry found adjusting to life as a Hogwarts ghost to be quite enjoyable. He'd had a rough patch when, unbidden, not-so-happy memories of his time at Hogwarts had begun filtering into his mind: the dealings with the Philosopher's Stone, the adventures with Aragog and the Chamber of Secrets, the Triwizard Tournament and the re-birth of Voldemort, not to mention Umbridge, and Sirius and Dumbledore's deaths. However, the happier memories would always come to comfort him and balance out the bad thoughts.
He spent time exploring the castle at length and chatting with Nearly Headless Nick and the Fat Friar (the Bloody Baron was still being standoffish, as was his nature). All the while, he began to look forward to his chats with Myrtle. They'd gone adventuring in the other toilets around the school and spent time in the Prefects bath laughing and talking for hours. It was here that Myrtle taught Harry to become visible to the living and, more importantly, how to prank.
"Most people believe Peeves is the only one who can pull pranks, but that's not the case," Myrtle said.
"Oh, I know," Harry nodded. "Nick pushed over a wardrobe when I was caught by Filch 'muddying up' the hallway once in my second year."
"Well, then, I'll show you how to do it!" Myrtle proceeded to explain that to conjure enough energy to force objects to move at will required an enormous amount of concentration. They spent the better part of the night practicing and Harry had found himself exhausted (well, as exhausted as a ghost could be) by the time they'd finished. "See? Now you've got it! Now, in order to better coordinate more complex movements, like picking up objects to toss them, or something like that, you have a solid plan in mind, from start to finish, of what you want to accomplish." Myrtle paused and looked at him from over the tops of her glasses. "You DO have a plan, don't you?"
"Yep." Harry grinned evilly. "Come over here and I'll let you in on it."
Argus Filch wandered through the hallways, his rheumy eyes constantly on alert for misbehaving students. Ever since the weather had taken a turn for the worse, he'd been watching for rule-breakers, but had caught nary a one. Evidence of their slovenly behavior was everywhere, piling up faster than he could keep up: filthy little footprints all over his freshly swept hall; sodden piles of woolen scarves lying in festering lumps in the corridors. He'd even noticed graffiti in one of the boys' toilets up on the third floor! He swore that when he finally caught up with the little house-apes responsible for these…atrocities he'd use the padlocks and irons, regardless of what McGonagall said!
He stumped along the corridor next to the third floor boys' toilet, Mrs. Norris stalking ahead of him, her bony gray tail held high, twitching with anticipation. He'd heard giggling coming from that toilet and was certain he'd have someone to clap in irons within the next few moments. He slammed the door open and was gobsmacked with shock.
Rolls of toilet paper flew around the room in a cyclonic whirl while water gushed from the toilet bowls in time with what sounded like a deranged waltz. Mrs. Norris was suddenly airborne, spinning around and yowling in terror.
Students filled the doorway, laughing and pointing at the chaos. "Silence!" Filch gibbered, spittle flying from his mouth. "SILENCE!"
Suddenly, Professor McGonagall pushed her way through the bottleneck at the bathroom door and, with a flick of her wand, froze the scene. Mrs. Norris, gray fur matted with water and now sitting atop of one of the jets from the toilet, let out a miserable yowl.
"Mr. Filch! What on earth is going on in here?" she bellowed.
"I have no idea, Headmistress," Filch croaked. "I only know that if we don't sort out who is responsible for this recent string of disobedience, I will quit!"
The students cheered.
"Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger," Professor McGonagall began, "I don't quite know how to tell you this."
Ron and Hermione shared a nervous glance. The Headmistress was not likely to call them to Hogwarts for something minor. "What is it, Professor?" asked Ron. "Do you need our help with something?"
"It's Harry."
"Harry?" queried Hermione, blinking her eyes in shock. "Harry's been dead for months."
"I know," said Professor McGonagall. "But he's back."
Ron's jaw dropped. "You mean he's–"
"He's still dead, Mr. Weasley. But he's been seen recently in the company of one of Hogwarts' other spirits."
"Harry's become a ghost?" Hermione exclaimed. "But what on earth could his unfinished business be? Not only did he defeat Voldemort, but he dealt with a troll in his first year, killed a Basilisk in second year–"
"Then there was… what happened in third year again?" Ron interrupted.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "I was just getting to that: Peter Pettigrew, Dementors…"
"Yes, yes," McGonagall broke in to stave off lengthy reminiscences. "I rather think Mr. Potter came back to enjoy life, as it were."
Once again, Hermione blinked rapidly, confusion deepening in her eyes. "To enjoy 'life'?"
McGonagall nodded her head. "He seems to be taking over from where Mr. Weasley's twin brothers left off." She paused, taking a moment to dab her eyes with a handkerchief. At the mention of his brothers, Ron stared stonily at the wall; they had been killed less than an hour before Harry had died, taking Voldemort with him.
"Unfortunately," Professor McGonagall continued, "his favorite target is getting more than a little annoyed, and is demanding an exorcism."
"Who?" demanded Ron, getting to his feet, righteous indignation apparent in his bearing. "Who wants to exorcise Harry, after all he did for us?"
"Mr. Filch."
"I'll kill him!"
"Ron!" "Mr. Weasley!" exclaimed Hermione and Professor McGonagall together.
"What we were hoping, Mr. Weasley," the Headmistress glared at Ron so that he took his seat once more, "is that you and Miss Granger could talk to him, and ask him to tone down his pranks a little. He was last seen in the vicinity of the first floor girls' toilet."
"Wait a second," Hermione said, scratching her head. "The first floor girls' toilet? But…but that'd be—"
"Myrtle's bathroom?!" Ron's eyes nearly popped out of his head. "Harry is doing pranks with Moaning Myrtle?"
"Yes," nodded Professor McGonagall, her cheeks turn slightly pink, "they seem to have formed quite a relationship."
"A…relationship?" Ron looked vaguely ill.
"They appear rather happy."
"Harry's happy with Moaning Myrtle." Ron's voice sounded flat. "That's not something I'd ever have thought possible."
"Come on, Ron," Hermione took Ron's arm and pulled him gently to the door, "let's go and see Harry."
"And Myrtle," he added dully.
"Yes, Ron. And Myrtle."
"You know, I really didn't see that one coming."
"I didn't either," said Hermione they headed down the stairs. "I know you'd rather he was alive and with Ginny, but don't you just think it's wonderful that he's happy?"
Hermione paused outside the entrance to the familiar bathroom. Taking a fortifying breath, she nudged open the door and peered inside.
"—bucket of water up like this," Harry's voice came from somewhere above them as they entered the dark and musty room.
"Har–" Ron's voice cracked, so he coughed and cleared his throat. "Harry?"
"Ron!" Harry called down from the top of a cubicle doorway, where he and Myrtle had been balancing a bucket. "You're just in time to help us! I was showing her the plan for booby-trapping the Slytherin boys' dormitories. We're going to get those slimeballs good!"
"Sounds like fun, Harry."
"Ron!" Hermione barked before turning to look up at her long-lost friend. He was grinning from ear to ear, happier than she'd ever seen him before in life. While that was surprising to see, it was nothing in comparison to the transformation Myrtle had taken. Gone were the lank strands of hair and the permanently glum expression that always seemed to have been etched onto her face. She was, despite her usual pearly appearance, glowing. "Myrtle! What a surprise!"
Myrtle drifted down from her perch and frowned at her. "How can it be a surprise? You're in my toilet."
"Erm, I mean it's a…you…um…you look wonderful, Myrtle!" Hermione stammered.
"Wonderful?" Ron muttered out of the side of his mouth, which resulted in another surreptitious kick to his shin.
"Why thank you, Hermione," Myrtle giggled, taking a moment to preen her hair. "You've come to visit Harry?"
She nodded. "Professor McGonagall contacted us and said that Harry had returned to Hogwarts." She turned to face Harry, who now stood, hovering about three inches off of the floor next to Myrtle. "Harry, we've missed you so!"
Harry grinned. "I've missed you both very much, but as you can see I'm very happy here at the castle!" He looked at the walls of the bathroom. "It's home."
"What? This toilet?" Ron snapped.
"Ronald!" Hermione growled.
"No, he's right, Hermione," Harry said, passing a silvery hand across her arm. She felt a chill to her bones. "I've found a place to call home, here with Myrtle." He turned to look at Ron, seriousness in his ghostly, once-green eyes. "I know you'd rather I'd found happiness with Ginny, but it wasn't meant to be."
"But you could have gone anywhere, Harry! Why here?"
"You know why, Ron: Hogwarts has always been home to me. It's the place I've been the happiest in my life. Why shouldn't I want to continue that now that that life is over and this new one has begun?"
Hermione wondered how Ron would bully Harry out of that piece of logic. Just as she saw him open his mouth to retort, Myrtle settled in next to Harry and took his hand. Ron's teeth clicked shut as he watched his best friend squeeze his ghostly partner's hand tightly in his own. With that, Hermione nodded. "Right then. Well, if you wish to stay in your newfound home, Harry, you'll need to tone down the pranking. Filch wants Professor McGonagall to bring in an exorcist to clear the castle of the ghostly prankster."
Harry blinked. "She wouldn't."
Myrtle nodded. "She would. I've seen them do it before, Harry, and it's fairly successful." She leant over and brushed a stray lock of hair out of his eyes. "Perhaps we should save this prank for a little later?"
Hermione had to withhold a snort of laughter at the expression on Ron's face following Myrtle's gentle caress. "Yes, Myrtle, I think that would be for the best. Perhaps let the dust settle a bit and spring it on them when they least suspect it!"
"We'll give Peeves a run for his money," Harry said with a wide smile. "All right, we'll behave ourselves for a while." His smile slipped slightly as he turned to look at Ron and Hermione. "Listen, you two – thanks for coming up here. I've wanted to come to see you, but…"
"We understand, Harry," Hermione said, feeling tears begin to well in her eyes. "This is home. Can we come back to visit?"
"Yes, of course!" Myrtle said, bouncing (as well as a ghost could bounce) in place. "Anytime you like. Just bang on one of the pipes and we'll come up in a flash!"
Harry waved. "So long, you two…and Ron?"
"Yes, Harry?" Ron said, somewhat hollowly.
"Make an honest woman out of our best friend, all right, mate?"
Hermione gave a little shriek as Harry and Myrtle disappeared down the plughole one after another.
"Well," said Hermione, "at least Myrtle isn't moaning anymore."
"Oh, I'm sure she is."
Hermione frowned at Ron. "She and Harry looked so happy! What can there be to moan about?"
Ron pulled Hermione to him. "Plenty of things," he whispered into her ear. And as he kissed her, they could both hear the echoes of giggles coming from the bathroom pipes, followed by moans of pleasure.
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This young woman is LOADED! A household name, I remember her playing in movies like "Leon-The Professional," "Beautiful Girls," "Star Wars Episode I, II, III" as the amazing Padmé , "Black Swan" as Nina Sayers, and my favorite movie "Thor" as Jane Foster. Natalie is a genius actress. Her greatest achievement happened this year in 2011. She won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the BAFTA Award for her lead performance as Nina in Black Swan. I've always enjoyed Ms. Portman's performances and now I have the honor of making a tutorial of this graceful celebrity. The drawing is from the movie, "Thor." I pushed myself to stay as close as possible to the reference picture. I hope, as you draw, that you will find this tutorial of "How To Draw Natalie Portman," fun, fresh, and a good learning experience. I will be so happy if you fav, comment and even vote for this tutorial. Much love to you all. YOU ROCK!!!
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September 1999 - Newsletter 62
There are some jobs that don't sit well with me and one of those is writing the Christmas Newsletter at the end of August. It's a bit like writing the year off and this year it is even worse because 1999 seems to have gone like a rocket. We had a fairly quiet May and June but since then the feet haven't touched the ground and that's the way it's set to continue. Some things have worked out fine. Wild Mountain Thyme' came out on time (or was it thyme) and so did the first part of The Stour video but other projects have been delayed. The video of the recording back in March, for instance, has had to take a back seat but we will desperately try to get it out for Christmas. We have looked at the film and everything is fine but editing takes for ever and we don't have for ever at the moment.
Salisbury City Hall 2nd October/Woodfalls Band/New Recording
We did a concert in Frome with Woodfalls Band about 18 months ago and immediately hit it off with this bunch of great characters and superb musicians. To give you some idea how good they are there are over 1000 registered brass bands in the country and they are in the top 20 and have been for many years. We are working on a combined recording with them (to be called Folk 'N' Brass) and this is to be launched at the City Hall, Salisbury on October 2nd. The Box Office Tel No is 01722 327676. Get your tickets now for one of those special nights.
Sherbome Concerts & Millennium Knees Up at the Digby Hall
Our old mate Fred Wedlock managed to avoid the Sherbome concerts last year by working too hard and bringing on a heart attack but, I'm delighted to say, he is fully recovered and is back in full swinging order. We have therefore booked him for the 10th and 11th of December when I'm sure, we will be treated to the full Wedlock mix of humour, song and musicality. The millennium night has proved something of a nightmare to organise. It has been very difficult to pin things down and to sort out millennium hype from reality. We are doing our very best to make sure it doesn't turn out to be another 'eclipse'. Caterers are serving those in the millionaire bracket so we have hit on a very simple solution. If you wish to eat then bring it yourselves. You might have a little turkey left over. In the past we have tried pasties and various other items of nosh but not everyone wants these. Hence the DIY solution. We will supply you all with some champagne after midnight and a slice of 'Yetties Millennium Cake'. I hasten to add that we are not making this ourselves, that would be carrying DIY (Stands for Do It Yetties) too far. Mark and Chris Williams will be running their usual efficient bar and with mountains of Millellennium decos etc. We should be in for a good old night until about 1 a.m. providing the electric company's etc. etc. have sorted out their bugs and the world doesn't come to a grinding halt at midnight. All three events are at The Digby Hall (write to me for maps if you have a problem with the one-way bits of Sherbome) and start at 8p.m. Tickets are available from the PO Box, The Abbey Pharmacy, Cheap Street or The Sweeterie, Middle Street, Yeovil. You can also book them by ringing 01935 814611. Prices: Concerts £6.00/children and senior citizens £5. Millennium Knees-Up £15.00.
Halsway Manor Weekend, 25th/27th February
Yes, Yetties most shattering weekend of the year is on again and I know most of those who went this year have re-booked. They must be gluttons for punishment. If you are intestered you must book now for this all singing, dancing, larking about weekend in a glorious setting. Tel. 01984 618274.


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EREF says the government also intends to either cut feed-in tariffs or introduce a tax on existing capacity.
If implemented, the tax will cut income for wind-farm operators by at least 15% undermining project-finance contracts, EREF says.
In a letter to EC energy commissioner, Günther Oettinger, EREF urged him to protect regulatory stability and avoid retroactive changes.
Renewables-tariff reform proposals were to be published by end-2011 under the terms of the financial rescue package agreed between Portugal and the troika of international institutions — the IMF, the EC and the ECB — in May. Nothing has yet been forthcoming.
An economy ministry spokesperson said Portugal's largest wind-power consortium ENEOP "does not have a tariff, which is considered too high", but that "it will not be protected by any special regime".
Portuguese renewable-energy association spokesman Antonio Sa da Costa said: "The secretary of state for energy told me that tariffs under €80/MWh would not be affected by retroactive cuts in tariff." This represents between 20-25% of Portugal's total 4.5GW installed capacity.
It would also include the 500MW that remains to be installed by the ENEOP and Ventinveste consortia.


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As kids prepare to return to class, it's the parents who are gearing up for the shopping assignment.
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I am old and full of days, and I know this because I get gift certificates in the mail, small bordered, blue; staccato messages to me approaching a distinctly marked age, as not like my twin's age of 68 when her soul pierced the body's shell and flew onward and upward, and when I had a feeling or wrote something like, "We will see each other once again—against the dark space and within the illumined lands of God, and we will remember our days as three years olds, sitting on tricycles of resplendent fire engine red and sturdy wheels, not yet aware of the rivets and tunnels we would face in our growth as twins and as souls, an intertwining of hate and love."
Fraternal twins. She from my father's stock, the ones that produced fine men and maybe a sister or two who vaulted into business, and he, our father who was very much on earth, despaired at his life, the alcoholic wife, the kids like cartoon block figures with hair all over them, reminiscent of cave days, as witnessed by their teenage grunts from, "Where are you going?" and their toned and chanted response, emitting from their closed lips, "Out." And indeed they went out.
The older girl, older by months; neighbors say they are all Irish twins, born within so many months of the other, tskk, tskkk. The older sister, yeah, you know the one who won the Margaret O'Brien Look Alike contest in Boston? Oh yeah her, she went out, out indeed.
She conceived a child as she melted into the arms of her teenage lover, the one who laughed and came from a poverty so cruel, and she was sent away to a home for pregnant girls, and all I can say is, "Thank God, she didn't live in Ireland," the Ireland of the Magdalene Sisters, in whose convent, young girls of impure type were housed in terror. For it was a time of sheer cement walls and slaves blending in, Irish girl slaves, those who might have had an impure thought or wrested themselves away from a pushy boy, or better yet, did the dirty deed and used the portion of her body referred to as "down there."
Out also went the twins who by this time had finished throwing pitchforks and ice choppers at one another, but who had graduated to nasty, slime-ridden comments, of "I'm not sitting in the car, next to Esther," or she, of the famous Hebrew Queen's name, ran away from the Randall G. Morris Elementary black tarred school yard before Liz could cream her, she ran blocks and darted through the back door of the twelve-room house on Fernwood Road, in west Roxbury, and double locked the old brass locks against an avenging twin.
Not quite like the caves and battles of Beowulf and Grendel, but darn, didn't Liz thrust her fist through a small paned window and reach down and unlock both locks and burst in and pin the curled up Esther into the coat rack of old winter coats and jackets?
And then that twin and her queen-named counterpart would, miraculously at twenty-one, be kind to one another. the catalyst for kindness was a brain stem injury on behalf of our sports figure, Liz, of the mighty fist, which rendered her, well let's just say, "Rendered her." From those days of miraculous recovery, a mother had died, the father remarried, the sister gone and married; the brother disappearing and last heard was a used car salesman. We proceeded to fill the pages of our lives and we would always help each other out in a crisis. One day of cumulous clouds in Caldwell, Idaho, she passed on, at age 68 of cancer. The first bracket of the hyphenated, "tell-the-twins," passed, piercing the body's shell, her soul going on, leaving husks of giant blades of a sad, sad life, but at peace and loving her boys, one who would marry a pure soul and produce golden children, but that is another story.
The story is now 7-8 years later, I, Esther, who was born twelve minutes later, am approaching that demarcation known as "Full of pages of life," of skin like parchment paper, but also of still ever sturdy hips.
And so this has turned out to be a prose poem, for what does the poet do? They pierce the state of the mundane and rise to astonishment as words from an unseen ocean spill and spill out onto the earth of one's mind.
Copyright © Esther Bradley-DeTally
I teach four six-week classes on writing. My background training is from Oakley Hall, who was majestic novelist and teacher and co-director of Squaw Valley Workshop, and also from Jack Grapes, whose name is whistled in freeway corridors like a slick wind, a pied piper of a writing teacher. Both of these men earn my verbal praise every day. I have traveled from Moscow to Siberia, and to Ukraine, and then returned with my husband to live in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and Minsk, Belarus. I studied writing methods at UCIrvine, and also took several courses under a superb journalist, Joe Bell.
I teach a class on Tuesdays at The Women's Room, a place that leaps with great words and giant hearts. The women are either volunteers, homeless or in transition, and it is a great place of support.
On Monday nights, I teach in the basement of Ten Thousand Villages, near California and Lake, from 4:30-6 p.m., for donation. That, plus a few on-line gigs and tutoring gig, plus Baha'i activities and commitment to racial justice, keeps me busy. I have a novel in the second draft process.
Esther has written two books, Without a Net: A Sojourn in Russia and You Carry the Heavy Stuff. Her blog can be found at SorryGnat.wordpress.com.
Esther's next writing workshop—which is free—begins on September 20th. Find details here.