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Straddling a beach-studded isthmus, and blessed with the finest natural harbour on the Black Sea, sleepy SİNOP is renowned as one of the prettiest towns along the coast. A fine clutch of monuments bestows a real authority on the place, even if most visitors are content to relax along the café-lined harbour-front, where bobbing boats supply the day's catch to the line of restaurants behind.
As the northernmost point of Anatolia, less than two hundred nautical miles from the Crimea, Sinop played a front-line role during the Cold War, when it was the location of a US-run listening post. These days fishing and tourism provide most of the income for its 35,000 inhabitants, who are currently fighting proposals to build a nuclear power station nearby.
Although time has inevitably taken its toll, Sinop's prominent city walls remain by far its most compelling feature. Opposite the old fortress and prison, the bulky Kumkapı juts out bastion-like into the sea on the northern shore, while down near the harbour a hefty square tower offers good views out to sea, and strolls along the nearby sections of wall.
Brief history
Sinop takes its name from the mythical Amazon queen Sinope. The daughter of a minor river-god, she attracted the attention of Zeus, who promised her anything she desired in return for her favours. Her request was for eternal virginity; Zeus played the gentleman and complied.
After a wealthy period of Roman rule, Sinop declined during the Byzantine era, while Persian and Arab raids thwarted sixth- and seventh-century attempts to revive its fortunes. The Selçuks took the town in 1214, converting churches into mosques and erecting a medrese, but after the Mongols smashed their short-lived state, Sinop passed into the hands of the İsfendiyaroğlu emirs of Kastamonu until Ottoman annexation in 1458. Thereafter the town was rarely heard of, except on November 30, 1853, when the Russians destroyed both Sinop and an Ottoman fleet anchored here, thus triggering the Crimean War, and again on May 18, 1919, when Atatürk passed through en route to Samsun.
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Kakaban Island
Indonesia is a fascinating country in every sense of the word. Rich in culture, natural beauty and biodiversity. Home to the weird, the wacky and the wonderful. And just when you think you've seen it all, think again.
Kakaban island is a large coral atoll in the Derawan Archipelago in the district of Berau, off the east coast of East Kalimantan, covering 774 hectares of uninhabited terrain. It's most distinctive feature is a huge land-locked lake, which makes up almost two thirds of the island. This brackish lake is alive with several species of endemic marine life, including millions of stingless jellyfish that only exist in one other place on the planet. The island is shrouded in a tangle of dense mangrove forests, right down to where the water meets the earth. There are very few sections of beach, as most of the Kakaban'scircumference ends in a rocky wall of sheer limestone cliffs, some sections dropping hundreds of feet to the choppy waves below.
Kakaban Island is one of 31 islands belonging to the Derawan archipelago, which include Sangalaki, Maratua and Derawan. Kakaban was elevated through years of geological pressure, which eventually sealed off what was once a lagoon, creating the Kakaban Lake. "Kakaban" comes from a word in the local dialect meaning "hug," because of the way the 9-shaped island "hugs" the lake in the center. Kakabanlake has been declared a government nature reserve, and has been nominated as a World Heritage Zone.
The ecosystem of the lake is very similar to that of the open sea, but with a twist! The trapped sea-water diluted with rain water and ground water creates a unique habitat that has caused the creatures trapped inside to evolve! The lake has warm, brackish water of 11 to 17 meters in depth, and is carpeted in marine green algae. Four species of jellyfish criss-cross the waters of Kakaban lake, but unlike their counterparts beyond the coral wall, the lake-jellies have no natural predators, resulting in the evolution of the species to no longer need their venom as self-defence.
Other evolutionary processes have also taken place in this lake: The box jellyfish, normally one of the deadliest creatures in the world, in addition to losing its sting, has shrunk to barely a third its normal size. The Spotted Jellyfish is no longer spotted, and the Cassiopeia swims upside down, with its tentacles to the surface. This is so the sun may shine on its algae-covered tentacles, creating a photosynthetic reaction and thus producing food!
Meanwhile, the white anemone has evolved into a passive jellyfish predator.Eight species of fish also dwell in this biological paradise, as well as sea cucumbers, sponges, crabs, tunicates, snakes, and orange purple and yellow clams.
Marine scientists and geologists have long puzzled over the phenomena of the survival of plant and animal life in so isolated an environment, but life will do what life does best. Adapt. "Jellyfish Lake," on Palau Island in Micronesia, is the only similar environment on Earth, housing two species of stingless jellyfish. This makes Kakaban lake not only the largest, but also the most diverse brackish lake in the world.
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babe, i really like the name penelope.
what? you can't change the name. we've had the name for 6 months.
i know, you're right. i just love the name penelope.
me too actually.
nato! don't feed into this nonsense! tell me no.
let's just see what she looks like tomorrow.
you know that annoys me when people say that. it makes no sense.
we'll just see.
great...she has no name, the night before we're going in.
so you were supposed to be talulla. i love talulla becuse it has a bunch of L's in it without being an actual L name. i didn't want all my kids to have L names, yet i enjoy the letter L so much. so this name was like a loop hole of sorts so i don't have to be like the duggars(confession: who i have a slight weird obsession with).we could call you LOU, but your name begins with a T. clever, huh?! i work my life around loop holes, penelope. there's always an exception to the rule and i will find it. sometimes i get into trouble for this. but i encourage you to live your life thinking cleverly, mkay. ya, let's call it clever.
anyway, talulla means fruitful woman and princess. which would be hard for your sister, lila because she thinks she's a princess. you guys would have had to compete for that title.
when we saw you, your dad said,
what do you think?
i didn't know. i said either name was great. i told him he could choose. so he went pee to think about it. classy, right?
nato said, i've got it, babe. i thought about yelling her name...like if she were in trouble. let's call her penelope.
i love it. it's perfect. penelope grace.
she shall be my penelope grace and we shall call her penelope. (a finding nemo reference, if you didn't get it)
the crazy thing is, we didn't know what penelope meant when we named you. i googled it that night.
In Homer's epic the 'Odyssey' this is the name of the wife of Odysseus, forced to fend off suitors while her husband was away fighting at Troy until her husband returned.
isn't that crazy? we changed her name last minute and found that it weaves into our story more than we could imagine.
God is clever. really, really clever.
now, i leave you with my ankles. because i haven't seen my ankle bones emerge from my skin in, oh, 9 months.
and my son. so he wouldn't feel left out.


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Posted: Wed 04 Jan 2006, 12:21
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Honestly I think we should shut down for a few days and clean up the forums? Delete old uneeded topics and users?
Also Is it possible to allow users to delete their own posts? I have seen many times "Edit: Delete me" And things of the sort by users. If we were allowed to delete out own posts this wold save time bloat and allow the Moderators to worry about more important things then deleting blank posts.
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Posted: Wed 04 Jan 2006, 13:01
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I don't understand the concern with excess verbiage in the Forum... It is very easy to ignore what is not relevant to what you seek. It is a tremendously valuable Puppy database, probably the most valuable Puppy resource after the distributions themselves! (I'm not saying to retain obvious vandalism etc on purpose, but if that is a problem y'all are already dealing with it so well that I never see it.) I don't think any of us have enough excess time to spend making everything neat and tidy in a way that would be sure not to discard stuff of potential use.
I think the legacy infobase is so important that even if we could all agree on a better way to organize the Forum, and were able to implement, it might be a bad idea, because it would confuse the relation of new stuff to old stuff. So I'd say any changes should be quite incremental and compatible. Maybe the most we can do is better annotate what material belongs where, and improve the links that appear around each page (such as the deprecated goosee reference at the top of each page).
But, seriously, someone other than our generous Forum host needs to be backing up the whole thing offline from time to time and have some clear idea about how to restore to working form on another ISP should that ever be necessary... (The only way to really know a backup is usable is to use it.)
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Posted: Wed 04 Jan 2006, 13:06
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I backed it up on the 31st but I don't know what I'd do with the backup file if the site goes down. It's JohnMurga's website.
I back it up in case someone vandalizes the forum but I can still log on and use the Admin stuff.
The DB backup you have is probably imcomplete as it wouldn't include the file attachment stuff ... Either way there is more than just the DB. I have backups of everything and can re-create the forum from scratch fairly quickly with these. I take backups every couple of weeks.
kethd wrote:
But, seriously, someone other than our generous Forum host needs to be backing up the whole thing offline from time to time and have some clear idea about how to restore to working form on another ISP should that ever be necessary... (The only way to really know a backup is usable is to use it.)
Currently providing access to that also entails implicitly providing access to a lot of personal information which is held in the database. I have had a lot of offers of storage following the my bandwidth issues, so I may consider uploading a backup to these locations along with an encrypted dump of the database (that say only Flash, Barry and myself might have the key for).
However ... The time entailed in doing this (along with posting restore instructions) may be better employed upgrading the board (something that I have been promising to do for A LONG TIME).
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Posted: Thu 05 Jan 2006, 00:51
Post subject: Get a fresh cup of coffee, I type alot.
Being new to puppy and these forums, I don't know what 'quirks' people use here.
{disclaimer}Also I'm not going to put my normal effort at using diplomatic language in pointing out 'problems' in this one post. If I reply I'll be back to saying the same thing - nicer. I haven't been here long enough to have any sort of grudge against anyone here. I know we have friendly people here who provide useful, intresting and fun information... even when it isn't the easiest to find.{end disclaimer}
For example, some places don't like 20 topics on X (no place likes 20 topics on X in one day). Others refer to adding to real old topics as 'necromancy' and isn't appreciated. (And these concerns depend on how far back the system keeps the old info, and how good that forum's search tools are.)
Puppy is very complicated in comparision, because I don't see where any community standards we have are posted. We have one active and two dead forums, a wiki (maybe 2 wikis), new release notes /appear/ to be posted in three different places each covering different but similar information so none feels complete.
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/ has in the upper right corner: LATEST VERSION: 1.0.6 (I think we can all agree that even if we aren't all using it yet that 1.0.7 is now the most recent).
The wiki refers to pupweb.org as puppy's homepage, but the link at the top of this screen says Puppy home page: www.goosee.com/puppy AFAIK they're effectively the same site (a redirect, or a mirror).
The forum FAQ - http://www.murga.org/~puppy/faq.php is obviously the vague FAQ that comes with the software, making multiple references to what the owner/admin has decided. The forum is up and running, obviously the admin has decided on a number of those issues, a truely excellent forum software would update those FAQ entries when the admin sets his preferences. (I know of no software that's actually that good, but...)
While I'm ranting and allowing myself to be undiplomatic, look at the front page of the wiki, doesn't it seam that that's a few too many sites to all be core to helping Puppy linux? Couldn't half of those site be moved to another page within the wiki? Still useful and important in their own way, but not cluttering the homepage. I see 4 links to download puppy, but none are a direct link. Two remain within the wiki, one dumps you on the ftp site, the other takes you to pupweb.org And this next comment reflects my English language and US centric outlook, but wouldn't the page look 90% more professional if that ugly language bar was dropped to the bottom of the page? Or eliminated and made a simple "Language Options" link near "Change Settings/Logout"? The mainpage should be small and effective; like Puppy itself, I shouldn't need to scroll to find the dinky little search box, or the link to 'just what I need' should be there (I know mind reading software i not yet available...).
Okay back to the forum...
Where is the All My New Replies link? How do I tell the forum to jump to the new message in the thread instead of making me guess where the new messages start, vs the ones I've already read (some 3 or 4 times)?
On community standards, do we prefer to crosslink back and forth between all relivant sources (making wiki pages that jump to 3-4 forum topics as apprpriate, then make the user figure out what in the thread was important) or do we consolidate, clairify, disclaim, and make authoritive and end threads with "And most of the useful information I've reposted as this, this, and that, wiki page - please check my work."
Again, I'm not trying to get anyone mad, nor be a troll, but I'm the type of person who works better with structure; and learned back in the BBS days to lurk and get a feeeling before posting and making a fool of oneself. Here I couldn't get the feeling of the puppy community in observation, nor are the standards posted where I remember seeing them. I know everyone here wants their Puppy to work, work better, be better. I know everyone has their own standard of better too.
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Location: Boston MA USA
Posted: Thu 05 Jan 2006, 11:18
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I had a lot of thoughts like yours, at first, about Puppy Forum etc. Though you seem to have made more of a study of it!
And I can't really disagree with anything you say (I'm not going to think about those kind of details too hard right now).
I just say, I have grown very comfortable with the Forum. I am sure it could be MUCH better. But I am very grateful for how well it DOES work. I find the "View your posts" tool to be extremely effective and efficient, once you get involved in posting.
The simple fact of the matter seems to be, we are all just volunteers, and the whole Puppy universe just is what it is. Criticisms like yours are invaluable -- a person only has fresh eyes once, and I can no longer see those kinds of flaws in Puppy status quo. But whoever has the power to make deep structural fixes to things is probably doing other things, and probably for good reasons. Many kinds of deep changes might have unintended consequences, and might require endless troublesome group discussion to make decisions about...
So, I say, keep making suggestions, but don't be offended if they seem to be ignored. Ultimately, the most useful thing you can do is get so involved with Puppy that you know enough and are in a position to actually make some little part of things better, as best you can (and then be faced with all the opinions of others that might have other views...)
In the meantime, do focus on finding the parts of the Puppy Universe that work the best for you -- and send back messages in bottles to clue the rest of us in on the best stuff!
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Posted: Thu 05 Jan 2006, 11:23
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Thanks kethd, I couldn't have said it better.
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Posted: Mon 09 Jan 2006, 16:12
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The Forum Front Page would entice me more to visit the various Fora if the Subject-title of the Last Posts in each one could be listed, too.
I did just see an inappropriate-seeming odd-ball post yesterday; if y'all want to deputize me with the power to take such down, I might as well be useful while I'm hanging out here... (I didn't see any flagging system for the masses.)
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Posted: Tue 24 Jan 2006, 20:26
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Thank you for taking my post as I intended it.
I don't know if any of you have used the forums at http://gametz.com the only person there that gets paid is the siteowner/programmer and he's not actually making money. All the mods, mini-mods and the NT (I'm on the NT) is volenteer - ones the owner trusts.
<start edit, continuation after dinner>
I know their likes/dislikes, in general. No piracy, if you're advertising an eBay auction, eBay better be in the subject line, if you want to talk to the owner post in site_feedback.... While everyone appears to ignore it, the site rules are posted under rules and cover lots of informatin about the site, from what makes an item Excellent vs Good, to how loosely piracy is defined to avoid legeal troubles, to how to setup your custom color scheme.
|>Though you seem to have made more of a study of it!
Well, I tried to get all my rant out in one post, it normally takes me over an hour per post as I check and recheck to make sure I'm not being _unintentionally_ insulting. Since everyplace you need a username and a password, I now make a careful study to determine if a group is worth the effort of signing up, and memorizing another password. I have 3 places I routinely visit, that even after years, aren't worth my persicieve 'sign-up cost'.
At gameTZ no one cares if you restart a topic if the _system_ closes it, nor do people get mad when you post in a thread just before the system does so, so it doesn't get closed. Other places, like the forum for the SGVY webcomic, get mad if you post in a 'dead' thread which hasn't been commented on within the last week, although their system didn't close a topic until it went a month w/o a post. (That's where I got the 'necromancy' term in reguards to forums.)
Like I said, I learned lurk - back in the BBS days, and with off-line readers and .qwk packets you normally had a good 24 hours before your poorly worded comment became unretractable, but allowed me to learn the difference for different types of groups, but it gets me stuck when a group isn't active enough for me to see their mores, nor do they have it posted someplace.
|>I find the "View your posts" tool to be extremely effective
And where is this little --tool-- gem hidden? To refind this topic, I had to Memberlist -> sort username (reverse) -> click my name -> then click "view this user's posts" or something like that. While eventually coming to what I want, it hardly compares to clicking the A in [A]MNR. I still need to scroll and find where to continue from.
Well, I guess I'll start digging up those gems we have all around here, and making what seams to me to be conherent resources. Let me know if I start crossing the line on any unwriten rules.
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Posted: Wed 25 Jan 2006, 22:27
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I feel reading your post that you have a personality like mine -- too careful! (Even if you could use some spellchecking...)
You don't have to worry too much around Puppy-land. It is a friendly place, not too big, not too small.
You can easily contribute. Just try to be helpful, wherever you see a chance. Do research, post links. Come over and help fix up the wiki... Everytime you learn something, come back and teach the rest of us.
The Forum (and the wiki) automatically sign me in, right away. Some people seem to have problems, but for me it always works -- too well! I don't remember how to log in anymore...
When I go to the main page of the Forum, it says "View your posts" right there up in the right corner. One click and I have a big list, with the most recently commented at the top. Very efficient! This has the good/bad effect that I am very encouraged to comment on anything that interests me, since then I will be able to follow future comments. (If we ever thought this was a problem, we would have to offer "watch this thread" so people would not have to comment. But I don't even know if that feature is not already here -- I just use what I have stumbled on that works.)
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Posted: Wed 25 Jan 2006, 22:53
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kethd wrote:
...(If we ever thought this was a problem, we would have to offer "watch this thread" so people would not have to comment. But I don't even know if that feature is not already here --
At the bottom of each page of a thread you should see a link to "Watch this topic," and when you post to the forum you should see a box to check: "Notify me when a reply is posted."
Do you not see those? If not, perhaps you refused them when you configured your profile.
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Posted: Mon 13 Feb 2006, 22:11
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The forum is slow again
I can create a temp or even permenant forum on my new server
but I am loath to do so
John is an experienced bullentin board host (from the tech side) - I am not
I would be happier to do this in 3 to 6 months
Why the slow down?
Too many browsers?
Should we start using Puppians board until something is sorted?
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I've noticed it too. It's erratic, and very annoying. Sometimes it's fast and sometimes it takes so long to respond that I do something else, and by the time I get back to the forum I'm no longer logged in. I wondered if it might be due to that thing where you set up your browser to download a site by several connections simultaneously.
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Send all spammers to hell, to burn in agony forever.
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AMEN brutha!
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I have just started a poll on a new skin for the forum.
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Summary The Aircraft Mechanic services, repairs and overhauls assigned aircraft and subsystems to ensure airworthiness. Uses technical data to troubleshoot malfunctioning systems and repairs or replaces faulty components. Principal Accountabilities (Typical duties include the following, although specific duties vary by assignment or contract)
Operationally checks repaired or modified systems for proper operation.
Performs quality maintenance on assigned aircraft in accordance with federal aviation regulations, original equipment manufacturers, or military technical orders as specified in the statement of work instructions.
Repair and replace aircraft structures, such as wings and fuselage, and functional components including rigging, surface controls, and plumbing and hydraulic units, using hand tools, power tools, machines, and associated equipment.
Read and interpret manufacturers' and maintenance manuals, service bulletins, and other specifications to determine feasibility and method of repairing or replacing malfunctioning or damaged components.
Examine engines for oil leaks, and listens to operating engine to detect and diagnose malfunctions.
Inspect turbine blades to detect cracks or breaks.
Test engine operation, using troubleshooting procedures and diagnostic test equipment, to identify source of malfunction.
Replace or repair worn or damaged components using hand tools, gauges, and test equipment.
Remove and install engine from aircraft.
Disassemble and inspect parts for wear, warping, or other defects.
Repair or replace defective engine parts and reassembles and installs engine in aircraft.
Perform miscellaneous duties to service aircraft, including flushing crankcase, cleaning screens, greasing moving parts, and checking brakes.
May service engines and airframe components at line station making repairs, short of overhaul, required to keep aircraft in safe operating condition.
May specialize in work, repair and modification of structural, precision, and functional spare parts and assemblies.
May specialize in engine repair.
Perform other qualified duties as assigned
Knowledge of aircraft sub-systems, including maintenance parameter, systems operation, limitations, and technical orders.
Ability to become qualified and perform engine runs for the aircraft type they are assigned to support.
Ability to read, write, and interpret technical duties is required.
Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees throughout the organization.
Proven track record demonstrating adaptability to change and the ability to respond to challenges in a changing environment.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Five (5) or more years' experience as an aircraft mechanic required; experience on King Air (200/350/1900) and/or C-12 preferred.
A&P License is required.
Completion of formal maintenance training on assigned aircraft is desired.
Qualified by the appropriate USG armed forces aircraft mechanic maintenance course or civilian equivalent training desired.
Prefer recent full-time experience in aviation maintenance with the assigned aircraft during the past 12 months.
Prefer six (6) months of flight line and overhaul & inspection experience.
Must be able to walk and stand on level and/or inclined surfaces for extended periods throughout the day.
Must be able to climb stairs, ramps, ladders and work stands.
Must be able to crouch, crawl, grasp or handle objects, use finger dexterity, bend elbow/knee and reach above/below shoulders.
May be required to carry, push or pull up to and may exceed 50 pounds.
May be required to lift up to 50 pounds to height of four feet and be required to lift up to 35 pounds to height of 7 feet.
May be required to see aircraft in flight, read dials/gauges, identify small objects and hand tools.
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TORONTO -- R.A. Dickey had the movement and velocity he was looking for with his knuckleball, but it would be hard to tell based off his final pitching line.
Toronto's No. 1 starter was in a groove early and seemed destined for a strong outing against the struggling Astros but all it took was two swings to completely change his fortunes.
Dickey surrendered a pair of costly home runs and the Blue Jays offense continued to struggle as they failed to earn a sweep because of a 6-4 loss to the Astros on Thursday night at Rogers Centre.
"It was a real surprise when I have a knuckleball like that and have the outcome that we had," Dickey said after taking his second loss of the year. "I had really good command of it early on ... I was throwing it hard, it felt great coming out of my hand, and then we had just a couple of hiccups and it happened really quickly. It's not like things were spiralling out of control."
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Grossman and Villar entered the game with a total of six home runs over the past two seasons. Neither player is really known for power, but it didn't matter on this night as they delivered the knockout blow.
"I felt like we did a good job," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "The guys got some pitches up. Robbie put a good swing on his pitch and Villar with the big three-run homer really gave a little bit more cushion. I felt like the guys had good at-bats and they made him get the ball up and that's important when you are facing a knuckleballer."
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The hope is that the rest of the lineup will follow a similar path, but it hasn't happened yet. Edwin Encarnacion is now hitless in his last eight bats and batting just .162 on the season, Brett Lawrie has struck out nine times compared to four hits on the year and overall Toronto ranks 24th in baseball with a .298 on-base percentage.
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With the loss, Toronto came up short in its quest for the first sweep of the season. The Blue Jays have now dropped the final game in all three series they've played in this year.
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Following the presentation on the status of the Pathways Commission on Higher Education for the Accounting Profession, audience participants were asked to offer their comments and input. The following is a summary of the comments received at that meeting:
1. Which of the ideas and issues discussed do you believe are the most important to be included in the Pathways Commission's recommendations?
- Accounting is fundamental to operating capital markets is key
- We need data
- Need to turn STEM into STEAM
- Need to optimize first course content
- Need signature pedagogy
- Competencies, do we need to review for future, technology
- Bringing the academic and practice community together is KEY to better research, teaching, and a better profession
- More emphasis needs to be put on PQ faculty, need more credit for practitioner articles
- Need to work on signature pedagogy for accounting
- Improving the rigor of the course and establishing better coordination with the accounting profession
- The accounting pathways need to be more dynamic
- Like the idea of including the complete supply chain
- We do need data to help us understand supply/demand, salary structure etc.
- Important to define and measure what accountants do
- Address how users learn about accounting
- Getting data on results of our education efforts & like salaries is very interesting
- Value proposition
- Gathering data
- The "Gathering Storm" is a good model
- Consider in Phase 2 looking at all of K-12 issues that impact college education
- Need to read new book on academic drift
- Students learn little firm two years in college, need to look at professors' performance measurement
- Attracting the best and brightest
- Enhance image of accounting profession broadly defined
- We are so far behind in technology, we may make ourselves obsolete
- Should value proposition be defined by consumers given importance of starting salaries and how they reflect value
- Use COSO ERM approach
- Textbooks are the problem - they are clones and foster uncreative thinking
- Attract top students
- Determine novel ways to present necessary knowledge content
2. Were there things discussed that you disagreed with or see differently?
- The entire high school/recruiting question is really 2 questions 1) avoiding negative/vocational perceptions of what accounting that come from student's perceptions from "accounting " classes in high school which really don't effect what we do and 2) recruiting the best and brightest students into accounting. AP/Dual credit is proposed as a strategy to both of these but maybe it solves that 2 questions
- Bookeeping in High School is the problem
- Too much focus on high school, need to fix our problems first
- Focus on AP test – Real question is what should be in the equivalent of a Junior level course
- Don't see attracting students into the profession as a big issue, what do we do with them once we get them?, are we teaching them the right things, does the CPA exam test the right things?
- Don't see why we need a value proposition
- Need to drop AP effort will never happen
- Don't think we to answer Treasury's department requests. The accounting profession was not at fault for the financial crisis
- Do other business disciplines have the data (we) are seeking
- Do we have an accounting academy?
- Why do firms have to "train" new employees before the new employees start work?
- Much of the problem is that we are evaluated by the students, something must be done about current teaching evaluation system
- The burning platform maybe needs more work or better articulation. The third bullet point is the best one right now
- Tension between grad only program vs high school
- I am not convinced that an accounting brand effort is going to make up for the limited perception accountants get out of tax/legal tumbles
- I still see way too much focus on auditing/CPAs. Why is the AICPA even involved?
- What are firms paying an competitive salary for our accounting graduates? We are part the problem, maybe we should limit supply
3. Are there additional issues/ideas you would recommend that the commission explore that were not discussed here?
- The may be really belong in Box 1, because it is reflective some, but I find the number of Ph.D. grads with not professional experience to be appalling. There are many reasons for this, but two of them are the narrow range of what we consider "good' and "rigorous" in the tenure review process and standards we use for evaluating the success of ph.d. programs. I think this may also by a symptom of the the fact that we don't have a dialogue with the profession.
- Some of what makes accounting interesting are the application of "higher order thinking skills." Some of the brain development that accompanies these skills occurs near the end of college. This means that many students in K-14 are still developing the brain connections that enhance this (need to explore this more).
- I don't think I heard anything about how to capitalize on the 150 hour inspired MAcc programs
- producers of financial information are important, but the value of accounting information will not be realized without education consumers
- While I think the accumulation of data that me do my job better. I don't think it is so important to spend time building up our brand or status
- Globalization and its impact on the commission
- Look at the system that Texas A&M is imposing on the evaluation of professors
- Has the profession ever considered fighting back on the stereotype of accountants, recently I lost a student to engineering because the engineering school said she had too much personality to be an accountant
- Accounting as grad school only like law and medicine
- Need to incorporate information from the Jenkins report
- The role of ethics, sustainability, responsibility to the broader community are not being addressed. Need to move further from the focus of CPAs.
- Need a television show that gives accountants a better image
- One burning platform issue is the concentration of public accounting firm consolidation.
- Need to emphasize the importance of accounting to entrepreneurship.
Given your interest and position in strengthening accounting education, I thought I would share one thought with you. That is, that understanding accounting entries can lead to a greater understanding of accounting.
In Strategic Finance magazine recently there was an article that I found very interesting: See: http://www.imanet.org/PDFs/Public/SF/2010_08/8lawson.pdf
Lehman's Shell Game: Poor Risk Management By Saurav K. Dutta, CMA; Dennis Caplan, CMA, CPA; and Raef Lawson, CMA, CPA, CFA Lehman's precipitous fall that began in 2008 ended in bankruptcy. The 2006 strategic shift from a low-risk brokerage model to a high-risk, capital-intensive banking model burdened the company with dangerous illiquid assets, and then the subprime crisis exploded. What followed was a sophisticated implementation of Repo 105 and 108 transactions to cloak the true condition of the company's worth. The authors analyze the legality and ethics of the accounting practices during the fall.
I e-mailed the authors to compliment them on their article and their judicious use of 4 sets of journal entries that made some of the author's points come to life for me. They all e-mailed me back and said "thanks" plus they were especially glad that I liked the use of journal entries. They had debated whether to include them or not -- knowing that professional articles nowadays generally do not include journal entries. Ultimately they decided to include them anyway because they thought they would prove useful. And, to me they did.
I know that accounting education today neglects journal entries -- for the most part. And, maybe that line of thought should be reconsidered.
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John M. Wachowicz, Jr., Ph.D.,
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Below are comments made from participants at the TSAE conference:
- Accountants image needs to be more exciting (Law & Order for accountants).
- Come up with an automated online auditing system for tax returns to reduce labor costs.
- Need para - professional designations.
- Stagnant faculty salaries.
- Declining math competencies.
- Complexity overloads (tax, FASB, etc.).
- Need to increase cooperation between academics and practice.
- Commission top-heavy with CPAs and academcis, what about others?
- Need rules simplication.
- Lack of experience updating opportunities.
- Big disconnect between academics and standard setting/regulatory community.
- Empirical research is regularly rewarded over quality educational delivery.
- Better integration of technology.
- Need to more attract high caliber students into accounting from high schools.
- Need to attract more people into accounting Ph.D. programs.
- Students need more critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, and ethics.
- Need more awareness that small businesses need accounting skills sets (appears that these are not valued now).
- Need more specialization in accounting, following medical model.
- Corporate responsibility and financial integrity need more emphasis in accounting education.
- Need to get people on board with IFRS.
- Students need better foundational skills (e.g., math and technology).
- Compeitition for talent is now global, and our students need a better awareness of this.
- Need more integration of financial and managerial accounting in educational systems.
What is the value proposition for a broadly defined accounting profession?
The profession of accounting was seen as the watchdog of corporate responsibility for many years. We were known and relied upon for acting not on behalf of our clients but also for third party users of financial information. This pivotal role of the accountant has been abused over the recent years by auditors in such cases as Enron. Thus, the profession, in the eyes of the public, has lost integrity. We need to reclaim that trust and continue to be the watchdogs of financial information.
Who/what are our current/future markets for accounting information and professionals?
The traditional markets for accounting information will continue to exist. All businesses have a need for proper recording of accounting information and the presentation of financial information in a consistent format. The new markets will grow out of the application of the International Financial Reporting Standards to the United States, continued globalization of markets, and the expansion of the online world. Last, the growth in forensic accounting should continue as users of financial information expect more reliable information.
What are the skills that future accounting professionals will require?
The basic skills of a successful accountant have not changed much since the inception of the profession. All accountants should excel at:
Over the years, additional skills have been included as the profession has evolved, they including:
The most important skill is a strong ethical basis. This must be taught in the curriculum but more importantly must be inherent in the person.
How do we attract adequate numbers of high potential, diverse students/talent into the accounting profession and retain these students throughout their educational and professional pathways?
The potential for quality students must start with a strong, hard look at the K-12 education system. The profession must work within that system to improve student skills prior to their arrival in college. Students must graduate high school with strong quantitative and communication skills along with a background in history, science, and geography. In today's global market, failure to understand the dynamics of a culture and its history could cause misunderstandings to accountant and his/her employers. High school graduates entering college with these skills can concentrate on the second level of skills needed to succeed in the profession.
In many high schools, accounting is seen as a technical skill and not an academic profession. Therefore, many good students are told not to take accounting but to concentrate on the general education courses and liberal arts programs. We need to change that mentality within the K-12 teachers and counselors.
The profession needs to provide information to students about the profession as early as high school. Students who excel in math should be made aware of the opportunities in the accounting profession and what courses are recommended throughout their high school years. Information on the profession should not only focus on career pathways but also social responsibility within the profession.
The issue of diversity is important as the global nature of business increases. Unfortunately, many of these students fail to have access to funds for a college education. These high potential minority students need not only funding for the costs of tuition and related college expenses and also for living expenses. We need to find ways to provide this funding for all four years of college. The profession's investment in these students will provide a new market for the next generation of accountants.
What should be the accounting educational pathways?
The first step in the development of the educational pathways is to create more communication between the accounting faculty and the profession. Not with just a select few that are constantly asked to participate but a broader audience. On the profession's side, this would include accounting firms (small, medium, and large), corporate accountants, tax accountants, and governmental accountants allowing all employers equal representation. The faculty side should reflect college and university faculty from across the country.
The profession of accounting should be divided into several pathways. The first track would be for individuals interested in studying basic accounting skills for employment as what is termed a "bookkeeper". Those individuals would not need to have the highest skill levels of the profession. The second track is for those students interested in a college degree in accounting but not planning to earn the CPA license. These students would be interested in working in corporations and would concentrate on managerial accounting applications such as internal accounting information, cost accounting systems, managerial accounting information, management skills, and reporting functions so they would not be giving an opinion on financial information. The last track would be for those students interested in attaining the CPA licenses. This track would require more rigorous coursework for the students leading them to successfully pass the examination.
How do we eliminate structural impediments or better align existing systems to enhance effective accounting education?
The major impediment to enhancing effective accounting education is funding. Many students majoring in accounting attend state funded institutions which are limited on the number of courses that students may take throughout their tenure for a degree. These legislative impediments force many students to end their degrees lacking coursework that could make them more successful in their field. The accounting professors are thereby forced to limit the courses that students are required to take or recommended to take to graduate. Many courses that would be of value to students in the accounting field are not offered at all.
Below are comments made by participants at the MSCPAs conference October 29, 2010:
-Need effective presentations and resources for teaching accounting, i.e., topical videos for advanced tax topics
-Need better pedagogy i.e., a practice set to create a not-for-profit so in class can review disparate answers.
-Need more authentic assignments i.e., Management accounting business memo. Students need to be able to filter for relevant info, formulate key questions, present alternative solutions, and support recommendations.
-Need to change the perceptions of high school guidance counselors, i.e., Career preference tests are based on 1950s DOL profiles which are no longer relevant about what accountants do!
-Need to recognize what accounting is being outsourced to the third world and what our value proposition is.
-What should be done about high school students that are not top notch that want to do accounting?
-Current accounting students are not prepared to do accounting in practice—need more internship experience!
-Accounting grads should be work ready!
-Look at accounting:business curriculum….should it be 50:50?
-Students need step by step experience in how to conduct an audit so can learn to think beyond checking off the step on the audit checklist.
-What can be done about the international regulatory barriers?
-What can be done about the barriers to obtaining international experience?
-What responsibilities does the accounting profession have for regulation? Are we thought leaders in new regulations and laws?
-K-12 GenEd should include business and accounting, why doesn't it? What can be done?
-PhD shortage-are there enough faculty to teach? Are enrollments rising? Is ADS working? What else can be done?
-Current faculty should promote the academy as a profession choice.
-Current Accreditation [credentialing] of faculty is NOT what the profession needs
-Curriculum should allow for different professional pathways: public, private, academic….one size or emphasis does not fit all!
-Can we afford to provide different pathways?
-How to teach emerging topics, i.e., reconciling book to tax income becoming more difficult due to fair value accounting.
-There should be one accounting license for US—broad credential. Granted at national level not state level.
There should be other credentials for SEC versus non SEC work skills…
What is the value proposition for a broadly defined accounting profession?
The profession should look at the public's view of the role accountants play in society. The general public still equates CPAs primarily with doing taxes and audits. A broadly defined accounting profession would advertise and utilize the profession's skills more fully.
Who/what are our current/future markets for accounting information and professionals? What are the skills that future accounting professionals will require?
The profession will retain its traditional markets of auditing, tax and consulting. In addition, the adoption of IFRS will open international markets. The profession will also play a vital role in sustainability issues. Future accounting professionals will need to be knowledgeable in IFRS, have significant computer, communication, quantitative, team building and critical thinking skills.
How do we attract adequate numbers of high potential, diverse students/talent into the accounting profession and retain these students throughout their educational and professional pathways?
The profession must target and provide more information about the profession to high school students. There is still a stigma attached to the profession.
What should be the accounting educational pathways?
The CPA certification is not for every student. Some students will successfully pursue the CPA, while others will find successful careers in government and corporations without being a CPA. We need to make sure that their education allows them to be successful in public, private or governmental accounting.
How do we eliminate structural impediments or better align existing systems to enhance effective accounting education?
Funding is the most important issue. Many smaller schools cannot afford salaried Ph.D. faculty or offer a variety of accounting courses.
Having reviewed the overheads, it seems like this is an exciting idea and has a lot of potential! I can't wait to learn more about it!
I have read your project paper and viewed your presentation from yesterday. Although stated very broadly, the presentation still focuses on 'money", rather than "transforming data into information" (which has also been suggested as a definition of accounting). While the documents talk about what accountants do, the value proposition for accounting still seems very narrow (to me, at least) by focusing on money (and similar measures). As you progress, I urge your commission to keep in mind the broad areas that COSO has covered in the past few years (governance, enterprise risk management, controls, fraud prevention and detection) as an integral part of accounting. I personally believe it will continue to be a growing part of what will be happening in our organizations, and either we endorse it or lose it. I know that you have Paul Sobel on one of your supplier groups. He is excellent and can bring the internal audit, control, and risk management perspective to the discussion.
Good luck on the project. It is important and I wish you well. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.
Two years have now passed since the issuance of the Pathways Commission report: Charting a National Strategy for the Next Generation of Accountants. In its second year of implementation, The Pathways Commission continues to be focused on the overall goal of enhancing the quality and integrity of the educational process for future accountants, making sure that the pipeline of future accountants is robust and building a learned profession through greater connectivity between the academic and practice elements of the profession.
During this second year of implementation we have begun to realize the fruits of many hours of concentrated effort by so many outstanding volunteers. Through the work of the Recommendation Leaders and their task forces, specific and actionable changes for accounting education and the practice community have been introduced and are being adopted by increasing numbers of faculty and other stakeholders with a vested interest in enhancing accounting higher education.
Implementation activity occurred in every recommendation area during this second year of concentrated effort. Several major papers which dig deeper into the opportunities and impediements to accounting education change are being published and can be reviewed in detail by clicking on individual Recommendation pages. A major survey of accounting department chairs is currently underway and will be published soon. As anticipated at the beginning of the implementation process, the original recommendations and the additional insights from initial implementation efforts are leading to exciting new ideas and perhaps provocative additional recommendations. Our focus this year has two major components—tangible results from existing recommendations and establishing a sustainable process for educational change into the future.
While significant implementation progress was made on many recommendations, here are a few key highlights for the second year of activity:


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CRESTVIEW � Area Girl Scouts are choosing items for a time capsule that will tell future members their story several years from now.
CRESTVIEW � Area Girl Scouts are choosing items for a time capsule that will tell future members their story several years from now.
Their inspiration was a 10-year-old capsule their predecessors contributed letters, photos and other mementoes to. The box had been displayed in a glass box in City Hall's lobby.
"To be opened in the year 2013," read the green engraved brass plate on the capsule's stand.
Girls from Troops 48, 316, 174, 409, 410, 88, 244, 349, 190, 312, 320, 235, 268 and 392 had contributed scouting mementoes from their respective troops. Participating troops packed items � like a T-shirt and drawings � in resealable plastic bags.
"In a lot of their bags they included what we call 'swaps,'" � distinctive, usually handmade, patches that Girl Scouts exchange with girls in other troops, Megan Jackson, of the Girl Scout Council of the Florida Panhandle, said. "Some girls included photos of themselves."
Most troops included a letter for members who would open the capsule. Current troop members during Monday's City Council meeting read some of the letters, which described activities their troops were involved in at the time. Some listed the former members' names.
"We plan on being in the Christmas parade dressed up as angels, but we don't really need to dress up for that," wrote one troop's author, eliciting laughter around the council chamber.
While 10 years ago may not seem far back to adults witnessing the wooden capsule's opening in the City Council Chamber, some of the girls withdrawing the box's contents were infants or unborn at the time, Jackson said.
"Some of the girls who made the capsule (in 2003) our girls know as adults now," she said.
Using materials they found in the box, the girls who opened the time capsule are tracking down their predecessors who packed it, Jackson said.
They're also considering options for the next time capsule.
They may use the same wooden box, "but sometimes girls want to add their own touch because it's their turn now," Jackson said.
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Every one doing genealogy research eventually comes to a brickwall, that spot in the family tree when you can go no further. This is the story of overcoming a family history brickwall using many and varied resources to succeed, including the help of two generous genealogists. The result was, for me, a remarkable new insight into my heritage.
My paternal uncle had gathered considerable family information and sketches of family trees for various lines of our family. It was in these notes that I first encountered the name Frederick Bruce, an ancestor who came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from New York with his family in 1842. Those key facts came from the book I Was Born in America: The Memoirs of William George Bruce.
Frederick was the father of Augustus F. Bruce, who in turn was the father of Martin P. Bruce, my great-grandfather. William George Bruce (1856-1949) — Martin's oldest brother — wrote and published many books on Milwaukee history and other topics.
Thus I set off with high hopes of finding more about Frederick Bruce in census and other records in Wisconsin and New York. Instead, I immediately hit a brickwall. There was no Frederick Bruce in census records in Wisconsin or New York, nor in the 1848-1849 Milwaukee City Directory. In contrast, I could find many records starting about 1857 for Frederick's three sons: Augustus Bruce in Milwaukee, Martin F. Bruce near Pensacola, Florida, and John Bruce in San Francisco, California.
So I began collecting all the information I could about the three sons, and garnered additional insights from W. G. Bruce's Memoirs. I was delighted to be able to purchase a copy of the book that included portraits of Augustus F. Bruce, his wife Apollonia Becker Bruce and their son William George Bruce.
Pieces of the puzzle emerged. Frederick Bruce, his wife and son August came to America from Prussia in the 1830s. Sons Martin and John appeared to have been born in New York. The traditional male occupations for the family were sailor, ship's carpenter and ship's caulker. And they were Protestants. Clearly the family came from a port city with shipyards along the northern coast of Prussia, in other words near the Baltic Sea coast. But where?
A vital clue was provided on a copy of the abstract of the will of August Bruce, also called August F. Bruce, alias Bruss. Here was the original spelling of the family name, used until the late 1850s when all three sons began using the anglicized Bruce.
So when I found Frederick Bruss, a ship's carpenter, in the 1847-1848 Milwaukee City Directory, I was elated — until I realized that he lived in the Second Ward on the west side of Milwaukee River, while our family had lived in the First Ward on the east side of the river, according to W. G. Bruce's Memoirs.
I continued doing research. I discovered a Bruss family than had arrived from Pomerania in 1839, came to Milwaukee and then moved just north of the city to a new village called Freidstadt or "free city." They were among the Old Lutherans who emigrated from Prussia to continue practicing their Lutheran faith, when the Prussian Emperor Wilhelm III forced a merger of Lutheran and Calvinist churches into one union church.
That Bruss family came from Cammin, north of Stettin and very near the Baltic Sea. When I read that Cammin was an historic Hanseatic shipbuilding city, I had a "eureka" moment. Could this be where my Bruss family was from? I decided to post a query summarizing all the salient details that I had collected about the family. I noted that the Prussia/Germany Genealogy Forum had an expert shown as Robert T. who helped many family seekers.
In a very short time, he replied and asked if this family from Cammin, Pomerania, Prussia was the one I was seeking: Martin Friedrich Bruss, age 40, journeyman ship's carpenter; Sophie Bruss, née Stiemke, age 37, w; August Bruss, age 9, s; Martin Bruss, age 6, s; Johann Bruss, age 4, s. [W is wife, S is son].
The family sailed, he wrote, on the ship Echo from Liverpool to New York City, arriving 19 September 1839. The Echo was one of five or six ships that brought about 1,000 Old Lutherans to America, where they settled in and around Buffalo, New York, or Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [Note: the Echo's passenger list has the surname misspelled as Buss, and both ages and occupation wrong, but Martin, Sophia, August, Martin and Johan are clearly shown.]
This certainly looked like my ancestors, except that sons Martin and Johann or John were also born in Cammin, not in New York.
How could I confirm this apparent match? I knew that John Bartelt, the genealogist with the Bruss ancestors in Freistadt, had obtained birth records for his own Bruss ancestors via microfilm. I wrote to him on the chance that he had the Martin Friedrich Bruss family details, and he did. He kindly sent the birth and baptism dates for sons August, Martin and Johann and they matched dates I had collected from other sources. He also sent the birth and baptism dates for the oldest son, Wilhelm, who died young according to family history. This certainly was my family! And how wonderful to have Sophie's name!
Now I could find them recorded in the 1943 book about the Old Lutherans, written in German by Wilhelm Iwan and translated into English. Martin Friedrich Bruss, journeyman ship carpenter, and his family from Kammin at shown at the very bottom of this listing of emigrants.
I wrote thank you messages to Robert and John, for their kindness was essential to helping me overcome this brickwall.
And then I remembered that there was a Martin Bruss in the First Ward on the east side of the Milwaukee River listed in the 1847-1848 Milwaukee City Directory — right where William George Bruce said his grandfather settled when he came to Milwaukee.
I was now able to find him in the 1850 Census in Milwaukee's First Ward, age 51, a ship's carpenter with $1,500 in real estate, surname recorded as Brass. He had remarried since Sophie had died — apparently in the cholera epidemic, W. G. Bruce had written. Recorded with Martin in the 1850 Census were his sons Martin, a sail maker, and John. All three were recorded as born in Germany. August, the oldest son, likely was away sailing on the Great Lakes.
Overcoming this brickwall took three years of researching on and off, looking again at what I had discovered, trying new approaches, and then taking a chance on a possible solution based on the clues I had accumulated. I am grateful to everyone who helped me find this part of my family who were among the first Germans to settle in Milwaukee when it was still three villages — Juneautown on the eastside, Kilbourntown on the westside and Walker's Point on the southside — not to be incorporated until 1846.


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Markets don't like Summers — not the doldrums, the man.
Add another to the long list of individuals and organizations that haven't warmed to Larry Summers (left). The economist/college president/former Treasury secretary/alleged caveman appears to be outpacing Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen in a bid to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman.
And the news it isn't helping ongoing efforts to stimulate the economy, with The New York Times reporting on Tuesday that some jittery analysts are betting that a Summers nomination could lead to slower economic growth, less job creation and higher interest rates.
The unease is the product of a little information and a lot of speculation, since Summers has said little about monetary policy in recent years, according to the Times. Investors are left parsing a handful of comments in which, the paper says, "he has expressed some doubts on the benefits and concern about the consequences of the Fed's policies."
"People don't know what Larry might do," PIMCO chief Mohamed El-Erian told the paper. "There's a lack of a lot of information on Larry's views. We don't have enough information to make an assessment, just some second- and thirdhand accounts."
Yellen has long been thought the likely successor due to her qualifications, as well the fact she would be the first female fed chief in an ongoing political era of firsts.
"Yellen does not have much managerial experience, which you need when herding the cats on the FOMC," Merk Funds' president and chief investment officer Axel Merk told ThinkAdvisor in July. "She did, however, gain kudos from the press when they recently released the transcripts of the 2007 meeting in which she pretty much predicted everything that happened in 2008."
Calling Summers the greatest debater he's ever met, Merk (and others) noted the "mark of scandal" for comments made while president of Harvard about women's suitability for the higher echelons of science.
"Critics will ask why President Obama chose this 'sexist' over Yellen, even though Yellen was obviously qualified," Merk concluded.
The Times concludes that the sense of uncertainty in a Summers chairmanship is heightened by the fact that "as many as five of the Fed's seven governors may be replaced in the next year."
Check out Axel Merk Predicts Japan as Next Crisis, Yellen as Next Fed Chief on ThinkAdvisor.


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TODAY's Natalie Morales reports on the latest in the teachers' strike in Chicago, where the union and school district say they're making progress as talks resume on the fourth day of the walk-out.
The week-long teachers' strike in Chicago has drawn national attention because it affects 350,000 children and pits two Democratic forces -- a new generation of political leaders and teacher unions -- against each other.
But it also represents a broader struggle over education reform and union power, and the results could reverberate elsewhere.
If the Chicago Teachers Union wins enough concessions, then it's a victory for the labor movement and a potential guide for similar battles underway in other parts of the country.
If Mayor Rahm Emanuel emerges with enough of his demands intact, then it's another setback for labor and validates the push to impose stricter measures of teacher accountability.
More strike coverage from NBCChicago.com
"This is being looked at very carefully by school districts across the country," said Kathleen Hirsman, who teaches education and labor law at the Loyola University School of Law. "There's the issue of the diminishing strength of teachers unions and who is going to come out the winner. And how the Chicago Public Schools resolves this will be very instructive to other school districts now looking at implementation of state laws requiring teacher evaluation based on student performance."
All over America, states and cities are trying to figure out how to respond to federal initiatives aimed at improving public schools. The initiatives employ a series of carrots and sticks: There's money for districts that implement the Obama administration's ideas on teacher evaluations and testing, and there's the threat of closure or other sanctions for underperforming schools.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel could help decide the future of education reform across the U.S.
That challenge has resulted in elected officials trying to impose new standards for teachers, who resist having to give up control over their work.
"It comes down to who's going to decide how kids are educated," said James Wolfinger, an associate professor of history and education at DePaul University. "Who is the expert? Who should have the greatest voice?"
Chicago is just the latest of several big cities -- including New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Cleveland -- where that tension has come to a head.
Chicago strike talks on the brink of a deal
How do you measure teacher performance?
Illinois lawmakers have set a schedule to implement new teacher evaluation methods, and Chicago must start making those changes this year. Illinois also happens to be a state that allows teachers to strike.
That makes the five-day-old walkout, which has captivated the country and could impact the presidential election, an ideal opportunity for labor to show that it's no pushover.
"This is a very important strike for the teachers union," said Richard Kearney, a political scientist at North Carolina State University. "If they can come out of this thinking they've made up some ground, that should give some encouragement to teacher's unions elsewhere who are facing similar situations."
Then again, Emanuel could end up on top.
Or: each side will concede, ending the strike in a draw.
What then?
"Then the fight just goes on elsewhere," Kearney said. "And none of this meant a great deal."
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Trash after HuHu heading to C'Thun. More dangerous than the bosses.
Trash after HuHu heading to C'Thun. More dangerous than the bosses.
Firelands trash. soloed it as ele shammy. made me 500k gold
Anyways, I really don't like trash packs, there's a reason they're called TRASH, but I did like the mobs before Magmaw in BWD, and the drakes flying around that were obvious homages to the three original drakes in BWL. I also found the Core Hounds in Firelands fun, chewing up the other raid members and burning the whole raid thanks to incompetent tanks.
I was a holy pally during TBC. I liked all the hookers in BT's den of mortal delights. They would spam an ungodly number of debuffs on the raid. We used to clear our meters and whoever decursed the most during the hooker packs got first crack at the epic gems for the night.
To those who say "No trash is best!"...
How would it make sense to go to HoF or ICC, the stronghold/castle of the enemy, only to find that the king/queen has no guardians, no helpers and so on? You might aswell not have any other boss than the endboss by then. Trash is importaint for the overall feel of a raid, ToC was the worst raid in history by a fucking mile.
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Raids that are too light on trash do seem a bit odd. ToFW, BoT and BWD are all a bit light one of them not having any. The flip side is damn near anything Before Wrath, but I guess dealing with 30 minutes of trash from boss to boss added to the raid for some.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
How is it logic when bosses standing there while you slaugheting their guardians?How would it make sense to go to HoF or ICC, the stronghold/castle of the enemy, only to find that the king/queen has no guardians, no helpers and so on?
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I really like the trash to Elegon, as a tank, getting punted around so much is kind of fun =)
My name is Cernunnos, I will love you like no other, I have died a thousand deaths, each time I died I thought of you.
Firelands trash is good
Icc trash before Marrogar, before LDW and before Sindragosa back when Living Bomb/Shadowy Apparitions had no target cap.
Hi Sephurik
BoT had a lot of cool trash.
Particularly the ones before the acendent council.
Ultraxion trash was memorable
and Shannox trash was even more
I didn't say I like it
Turtles in firelands, cause you could solo them easily and make a killing.


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Obama's BAM Project Becomes BRAIN Initiative
At his State of the Union address nearly two months ago, President Obama announced plans for the Brain Activity Map (BAM) project (see The Nerve blog Part 1 and Part 2), a billion-dollar ten-year research initiative to gain a better understanding of the brain and to provide deeper insights into diseases like Alzheimer Disease, Parkinson Disease, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
On Tuesday, April 2nd, the President announced that he plans to include the BAM project – now termed the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative – in his 2014 budget proposal. The director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, notes that one of the major goals of the project is to simultaneously sample from many neurons in real-time. Although existing technology can measure the activities of single neurons and of brain regions, it cannot measure those of circuits. Because existing technology has not yet advanced to a level that allows such complex analysis, the BRAIN initiative will be initially funded $100 million for the year of 2014 to develop and advance neuroscience technologies. Yearly negotiations will take place to determine future funding.
Thank you, President O-BAM-A! Yours truly, the Neuroscience Community
Whether you've read an article, listened to the radio, watched the news, or heard from a friend, I'm sure you already know that President Obama and his administration have been planning to enrich our future as mind and brain enthusiasts. However, if you have been under a rock, studying for midterms, or working (way too much), you may be asking – how? Well, do you know the whole Human Genome Project thing? How it revolutionized genetics? Just like geneticists who were able to map the complete human genome by 2003, neuroscientists will be given the goal of more fully understanding the human brain by building a map of its activity.


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Sergey Sergeevich Horuzhy (Хоружий, also spelled "Khoruzhy" and "Horujy" in English) is a Russian philosopher, physicist, mathematician, and theologian.
During the Communist era, he worked as a theoretical physicist and studied and wrote theology underground. He is noted for his work in twentieth century Russian religious philosophy, especially Pavel Florensky and Sergey Bulgakov. More recently, he has focused on analysizing the theological anthropology at the heart of the Hesychast tradition.
In 2005, he founded the of Synergetic Anthropology. He is also a member of the for Spiritual Creation].


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Legal Support Services Deskbook
Appendix C - Electronic Billing/Timekeeping
NOTE: These Guidelines were written for outside counsel but
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NOTE: You are required to retain copies of all invoice packages and original underlying support documentation, including time sheets and time and expense adjustment records, for three years after final payment under the legal referral. (Refer to Chapter 1 and Chapter 6.)
February 15, 1998
Billing Guidelines
The FDIC Legal Division is establishing electronic billing guidelines for FDIC outside counsel, consistent with the FDIC Office of Inspector Generals audit requirements and the capabilities of commercially available time, billing and accounting software systems increasingly utilized by law firms. These guidelines are effective for legal fees incurred on or after February 15, 1998, and are incorporated in the FDIC Outside Counsel Deskbook (Deskbook).
The guidelines were developed as a result of a joint project of the FDICs Legal Division and Office of Inspector General (OIG) under the auspices of the FDICs Audit Committee. As many of you are aware, the OIG conducts audits of fees billed by law firms retained by the FDIC. To facilitate such audit activities, the current Deskbook requires outside counsel to retain copies of all FDIC-related bills and original underlying support documentation, including time sheets and time and expense adjustment records, for at least three years after final payment. On occasion, law firms have maintained that their original time sheet data was available in an electronically archived format. In many instances, however, the OIG determined that the electronic systems in place did not contain adequate internal controls or audit trails to ensure the integrity of the data for audit purposes.
The Legal Division has concluded that time billing and accounting software available to the legal profession is able to provide basic internal control features that are consistent with generally accepted auditing standards. Controls deemed to be critical include the following:
(1) unique identifiers (user identification) and/or passwords for each user of the system;
(2) an access profile for controlling user access to each application;
(3) identification of the individual who entered, changed or deleted data;
(4) an audit trail that identifies dates of entry, change, or deletion;
(5) information that shows the extent of the change or the reason for the deletion; and
(6) provisions for a user identification code or other certification when the information entered is approved and forwarded for processing of the final fee bill.
These critical internal controls are present in varying degrees in available software packages and formats, but particular weaknesses may exist regarding items (3) and (4) above. To address these weaknesses and weaknesses created where otherwise adequate internal controls provided in the software are modified or not implemented, firms may need to consider appropriate upgrading, supplementation or modification of the software or maintenance of alternative manual documentation as backup, in order to minimize or avoid significant questioned fees and costs. The Legal Division reserves the right, should there be substantial questioned costs raised on audit based on deficiencies identified in a firms electronic billing system, to impose additional documentation requirements to correct these deficiencies. These may include, without limitation, requirements to add specific internal controls through upgrades, supplemental programs, program modifications, or maintenance of alternative manual documentation as backup. Regardless of the software used, any OIG audit will include a separate evaluation of the firms software and implementation of internal controls to assess the reliability of the electronic data recorded by the law firm.


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'Hands on a Hardbody' review: It's a slog
"Hands on a Hardbody" may well be the best musical ever written about 10 people holding onto a parked truck. But if you go into the show wondering why a gifted creative team would want to adapt the 1997 documentary about poor Texans in an endurance contest for a red Nissan pickup, you are likely to leave wondering the same thing.
This is not to deny a few nice moments, touching scenes and trenchant music in the two-and-a-half-hour festival of earnest, inspirational banality. Clearly, Pulitzer-winning author Doug Wright (the boundary-pushing "I Am My Own Wife"), lyricist/co-composer Amanda Green (the endearing "Bring It On") and co-composer/orchestrator Trey Anastasio (founding member of the alt-rock jam band Phish) were after something a little different for Broadway.
Perhaps they and director Neil Pepe were challenged by the limitations of the improbable setup, which, except for the occasional rest break and reveries, requires contestants to keep at least one gloved hand on the prize. And it is likely that everyone recognized timeliness in desperate tales of foreclosures, unemployment and soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Instead of originality, alas, the show is a combination of "A Chorus Line," the musical based on Studs Terkel's "Working," the marathon-dance movie "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and a TV reality show with an extremely ingratiating country-western twang. All the characters get their "God, I hope I get it" chances in the spotlight, as the lyrics push to convince us this is a "human drama kind of thing," even an "American dream."
Everyone is a stereotype and gets a variation on a dirt-picking song genre. Most impressive is the aging, injured rig worker, played with easygoing, electrified moroseness by Keith Carradine. Hunter Foster growls with unvarnished bigotry as the bitter blowhard. The Hispanic kid (Jon Rua) must not be underestimated. The big black fellow (the irrepressible Jacob Ming-Trent) gets the gospel numbers, along with the ultra-pious woman (Keala Settle) with a line to joy on her headphones.
Pepe and choreographer Sergio Trujillo keep things moving, as much as possible in this context. As people tire, they push the truck around in a slow-motion glow. But each time someone gave up, it was hard not to count the dwindling remainders with something like relief.
WHAT "Hands on a Hardbody"
WHERE Atkinson Theatre, 256 W. 47th St.
INFO $55-$155; 877-250-2929; handsonahardbody.com
BOTTOM LINE Earnest and banal, despite lively music


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Research and innovation
The L'Oréal group was founded by a researcher and continues to make major investments in Research and Innovation. The group is open to the world and the markets, and its scientific approach puts its customers first.
For L'Oréal, science and beauty products are a combination of expertise and sensitivity. The fields of research and innovation are not purely creative but also based on an understanding of customer needs and a view of the cosmetics market now and in the future.
L'Oréal's research and innovation teams constitute a multicultural community that includes a large number of disciplines (over thirty specializations) in every branch of science and this trend is set to grow in the future. These teams are driven by a shared enthusiasm: inventing and perfecting innovative high-performing cosmetics, contributing to the well-being of men and women all over the world. They achieve this by forever exceeding the boundaries of life- and materials-sciences without ever losing sight of what their customers want.
L'Oréal's Research and Innovation is divided into 4 main branches: advanced research (developing knowledge in the major scientific fields related to L'Oréal's business and the creation of predictive evaluation models), applied research (creating formulae and developing new product concepts), development (developing new formulae for providing the brands with safe, innovatory products) and support functions (regulatory affairs, patents, customer surveys, etc.).
Advanced research
Advanced Research teams create and develop performing and sustainable actives. By feeding the group métiers with new products, their work allows L'Oréal to take up the challenges of innovation and sustainable development.
L'Oréal researchers are looking for:
- Improving their knowledge in many scientific fields (biology, biotechnology, biophysics, chemistry, physics, physical chemistry, modeling…)
- Being open to the world through what we call "open innovation"
- Creating from upstream new models for evaluation of the actives safety and performance, by using very varied tools and methods (from numeric to reconstructed skin)
Applied research
L'Oréal Applied Research teams create the prototype formulas of the actives stemmed from the Advanced Research. They also select the formulas that lead to new cosmetic properties or improve those already existing. Responsible for the right technology transfer with the Advanced Research, they study the behavior of the ingredients stemmed from the "local" research or suggested by the group's suppliers, by approaching them as "product concepts". After a complete evaluation, they can then hand over to the development teams the job.
Development teams work out new formulas and make sure that the best performing products will be available for the markets in the best safety conditions for both consumers and the environment. They provide the brands with a constant stream of innovative products and make for them recommendations for use based on the regulatory specificities of the different countries where the group is established.
Support functions
They include:
- Analytical evaluation, safety and global efficiency evaluation of raw materials and formulas
- Knowledge of the different regulations for the product validation and communication and the establishment of regulatory records.
- Industrial protection of the discoveries made within the group
- Resources management (projects, teams, budgets…)
- Consumer insights