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November 1999
The world does not trust financial reporting by Japanese companies. A series of bankruptcies and financial scandals in the 1990s shocked both the domestic and international financial communities. The Japanese government failed for several years to reveal the extent of bad loans held by financial institutions. In response to various financial system weaknesses and international pressures, the government finally recognized the need for greater transparency in corporate financial reporting and for accounting practices closer to international standards. Between June 1997 and January 1999, the government announced details of an 'Accounting Big Bang' that involved sweeping reforms of financial reporting and accounting regulations. Nearly all of these changes will be implemented between fiscal years 1999 and 2001.
The objective of this dissertation is to examine the principal reasons and major effects of the accounting reforms announced since 1997. Chapter I looks at the historical events and foundations essential to understanding and evaluating the recent accounting changes. The next chapter discusses the Accounting Big Bang's major causes, including a consideration of the business and regulatory environment. Chapter III critically evaluates the recent accounting changes, their effects, and remaining weaknesses. The final section provides conclusions and some reflections on where Japanese corporate financial reporting now stands.
This dissertation draws on both primary and secondary literature sources, with the use of statistics and various individual company examples to support and illustrate the arguments. Although the sections dealing with the three major accounting areas of consolidations, fair value accounting, and pensions discuss some basic accounting rules, the dissertation focuses on an analysis of the historical development, environmental framework, pressures for change, impact of revisions, and remaining weaknesses related to these three areas rather than a detailed description of accounting regulations.
The process of reporting accounting information has several participants. 'Accounting' as used in this dissertation refers to the preparation and publication of financial statements by corporations. Various stakeholders such as company shareholders, potential investors, banks and other creditors, tax authorities, and governmental regulatory agencies have a substantial interest in fair and complete disclosure of accounting information. For example, financial reporting disclosure requirements have developed to require companies to disclose financial results and financial position to enable investors and creditors to assess risks and returns. Company managers, who have responsibility to determine accounting policies and to prepare financial statements, and auditors, who have responsibility to check financial statements and to express an opinion on their propriety, also play key roles in the process of reporting accounting information to stakeholders. This dissertation explores the roles played by various financial reporting process participants in the Accounting Big Bang in Japan.
I. Japanese System of Accounting to 1997
This chapter provides historical background information necessary to evaluate the recent Japanese accounting changes. Part A presents the three key legal foundations of the Japanese system of financial reporting and accounting. Part B discusses the three most significant events affecting Japanese accounting since World War II. Part C highlights the accounting rules in place until the recently announced changes go into effect between fiscal years 1999 and 2001.
Japan's so-called 'triangular legal system', not seen elsewhere in the world, prescribes financial accounting and reporting rules. The Commercial Code (CC), the Securities and Exchange Law (SEL), and the Corporate Income Tax Law each have their own accounting requirements to address their peculiar objectives, but the three laws exert influence on each other in various ways. Although Shiratori (1998, 27) comments that these three laws have created a chaotic and confusing situation, Daisai (1998, 47-8) points out that the three separate laws have substantial similarities, and each law has an equivalent requirement that generally accepted accounting principles must be used in the absence of a specific published rule.
The following sections examine the objectives, history, and principal requirements of each law making up Japan's 'triangular legal system'.
Commercial Code (CC)The Commercial Code (CC), enacted in 1890, introduced into Japan a financial reporting system modeled after the German commercial code oriented towards creditors and tax collection. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) administers and enforces the CC. Every joint-stock company (kabushiki kaisha) must prepare non-consolidated (single-company) annual financial statements in accordance with CC rules and must submit these statements for approval at the annual general meeting of stockholders. These statements focus on determining profits available for dividend payments.
The principal objective of the CC is to protect creditors by ensuring companies calculate income available for dividends to shareholders in a conservative manner. For example, the CC requires that asset values be recorded at acquisition cost with no provision for including asset value increases in income available for dividends.
Even though the CC focuses on income available for dividends, the CC
requires only the balance sheet to be published in the official gazette
or in a leading daily newspaper, with a large company also being required
to make public its income statement (Someya 1996, 47). Not even one percent
of the corporations follow this limited requirement for balance sheet publication,
with companies listed on a stock exchange or over-the-counter (OTC) being
almost the only ones complying with this regulation. Tanaka (1998, 17-8)
gives two reasons for the widespread disregard of this CC requirement.
First, the MOJ does little to enforce the regulation because of the impracticability
of having over one million companies publish even a summarized balance
sheet. Second, except for large companies like those listed on a stock
exchange, the financial statements do not get audited by certified public
accountants (CPAs), so any published figures lack credibility and provide
very little value to users. Since the income statement does not need to
be disclosed publicly, if stockholders and creditors want to see it, they
must visit a company's home office, where the corporation must make available
for inspection all financial statements prepared under CC rules.
Securities and Exchange Law (SEL)Although Japan has over one million kabushiki kaisha, the Securities and Exchange Law (SEL) applies only to about 2,600 companies with shares publicly traded on stock exchanges or over-the-counter (OTC) (Nobes 1998, 247). The MOF has responsibility to administer and enforce the SEL. The SEL requires disclosure of consolidated and non-consolidated financial statements not only at the time of issuing new securities but also through submissions of annual and semi-annual reports. A company must file its financial statements with the Ministry of Finance (MOF) within three months of the fiscal year-end and with any stock exchange on which it is listed.
The law does not require that shareholders receive financial statements,
but they are available for public inspection at the MOF and the stock exchanges,
or copies may be obtained from the MOF's Printing Bureau for a charge.
In contrast, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires annual
financial statements to be distributed to shareholders without charge.
Corporate Income Tax LawJapanese corporate income tax laws and regulations have a significant effect on income measurement and financial reporting by limiting the amounts of certain types of tax deductions. Examples of these deductions include allowances for bad debts and non-performing loans, depreciation of fixed assets, and expenses for employee pensions and severance indemnities. The Corporate Income Tax Law's primary purpose is to obtain tax revenues for the government, so companies often are not allowed to record tax deductions even though a decline in the value of an asset or an increase in a liability has occurred from an economic standpoint.
The Corporate Income Tax Law generally requires expenses to be shown in a company's CC financial statements if the company wants to record expense deductions for the purpose of calculating taxable income. This requirement often leads a company to choose an accounting practice or alternative that lowers taxable income rather than one that more accurately reflects economic reality (Nobes 1998, 250). The marginal tax rate of about 50 percent for most Japanese companies provides a strong incentive to adopt accounting practices that result in the lowest possible tax payments.
If accounting standards under the CC or SEL do not address a specific
accounting issue, then companies use tax guidelines to prepare financial
statements. Except for a few small differences, such as entertainment expenses
not deductible for tax purposes, a company's reported income under the
CC or SEL usually agrees with its taxable income (Shiratori 1998, 46).
Principal ObjectivesThe Japanese accounting and financial reporting system's principal objectives have been the determination of the amount of a company's profits available for dividends and the calculation of the taxable income amount. Japanese corporations have generally given precedence to the CC and corporate income tax rules rather than providing to investors and shareholders a fair representation of financial condition and operating results (Nikkei Business 1997b, 95). Shibata Hideki (1999, 231) considers the Corporate Income Tax Law to occupy the highest position of the three laws since a company generally put the highest priority on reducing taxes and since auditors will rarely ask a client to revise its financial statements if prepared in accordance with the tax rules.
B. Historical Development Since 1945
Although Japan introduced the CC in 1890 as the first formal corporate
reporting regulation, the key events shaping Japan's system of financial
reporting and accounting occurred after the end of World War II. McKinnon
(1986, 72-3) identifies the three most significant events after World War
II based on the coverage and importance attributed to these events in the
academic literature. This section examines these three key events: the
introduction of several new laws and organizations during the Allied Occupation
after World War II, the revision of the CC in 1974 to require large companies
to undergo independent audits, and the requirement implemented in 1977
for consolidated financial statements.
Allied OccupationThe Allied Command, during their occupation of Japan between 1945 and 1952, introduced investor-oriented financial reporting and established the framework for Japanese accounting and financial regulation, which still essentially exists today. The US, the driving force behind the Occupation Forces, sought to democratize Japan by breaking up the zaibatsu (huge privately-owned industrial conglomerates such as Mitsubishi and Sumitomo) and selling their shares to investors in the general public.
The Allies set up a financial reporting system modeled primarily on
the US system, with the cornerstone being the Securities and Exchange Law
(SEL) passed in 1947. Cooke (1994, 54) points out that 'the aim of the
new regulatory system was to protect investors in what the Occupation Forces
anticipated would be a shareholder democracy'. The Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) was established in 1948 as a regulatory body independent
of the government, but soon after the Allied Forces left in 1952, the Diet
abolished the SEC and transferred its responsibilities to the MOF.
Business Accounting Deliberation Council (BADC)The Economic Stabilization Board of the Occupation Forces established in 1948 the Investigation Committee on Business Accounting Systems (ICBAS) as an entity independent of the government. In 1949, the ICBAS issued Business Accounting principles to provide generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to be followed by corporations. These principles addressed the occupying authorities' criticism of the lack of detail in financial statements and numerous differences in corporate accounting practices (McKinnon 1986, 178). These principles were to be considered in any amendments to the laws affecting financial statements (i.e., CC, SEL, tax laws), and certified public accountants (CPAs) were to follow these standards in their audits of financial statements (Cooke 1994, 58). In 1950, the ICBAS became an advisory body reporting to the MOF, and the MOF changed its name in 1952 to the Business Accounting Deliberation Council (BADC). The BADC continues to have primary responsibility to issue opinions on matters of financial accounting and reporting.
Certified Public Accountants LawThe Allied Forces established the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA) under the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Law enacted in 1949. The JICPA exists as an organization independent of the government, but the MOF exerts strong influence over its activities since the MOF has responsibility for administering the CPA Law and the CPA examination. The CPA Law makes it compulsory for all CPAs to be members of the JICPA. Although the JICPA has no authority to issue official accounting standards, they issue implementation guidance, especially in areas where BADC accounting statements leave room for interpretation or do not exist.
MOF DominanceAs part of the regulatory changes brought about by the Allied Forces to ensure adequate disclosure to protect general investors, the MOF ended up in a predominant position to control corporate financial reporting requirements. As shown in the following chart, the MOF has responsibility for administration and enforcement of the SEL and Corporate Income Tax Law. The MOF also supervises the National Tax Administration Agency and the issuance of accounting standards by the BADC, and it effectively controls the JICPA through its administration of the CPA Law and CPA examination.
The MOF has other powers, such as direct regulatory power to license financial institutions to participate in specific market segments such as life insurance underwriting and foreign exchange trading. The MOF also provides direct unwritten administrative guidance to financial institutions under its control.
Although the Allied Forces originally established the SEC, BADC, and
JICPA as independent bodies separate from the direct control of any ministry,
each organization ended up under the MOF's umbrella. McKinnon (1986, 185)
points out the Diet carried out these changes based on its 'preference
for centralized governmental control of the regulation system rather than
the devolution of control to independent authorities'.
Requirement for Independent Audits (1974)During the 1960s, several companies manipulated profits through transactions with subsidiary companies, which resulted in losses for a large number of investors (Cooke 1994, 71). The bankruptcy of Sanyo Special Steel in 1965 especially led to sharp criticism of Japan's auditing system and the accounting practice of parent-only financial statements. The accounting manipulation by the company had been carried out by sales at inflated prices from the parent company to its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, which were not subject to an audit by a CPA firm under either the CC or SEL. The parent company used these sales to disguise losses or to inflate profits, and they went undetected until investigations following the parent company's bankruptcy.
Before 1974, the CC did not require company financial statements to be audited by a CPA firm. Although the SEL required audits of parent-only financial statements for listed companies, the subsidiaries and affiliates generally did not have audits since they were not listed on a stock exchange. The CC and SEL require that a corporation's statutory auditors examine the financial statements to ensure fraud does not take place and that directors have complied with the law and articles of incorporation. The statutory auditors, with their qualifications not clearly defined in the law, sometimes had no independence or lacked sufficient knowledge of accounting and auditing, which resulted in several cases in the 1960s of financial statement window-dressing not being detected or reported (Someya 1996, 27). Even for those companies that had audits by independent CPAs under the provisions of the SEL, the CPAs for several of the companies that went bankrupt failed to disclose to the MOF, through their audit reports, financial statement window-dressing used by the companies to manipulate profits and disguise their true financial position (McKinnon 1986, 214-5).
In order to address the problems associated with statutory auditors,
the Japanese Diet enacted in 1974 a CC amendment to require companies with
capital greater than 500 million yen or with liabilities greater than 20
billion yen to have their financial statements examined not only by their
appointed statutory auditors but also by an accounting auditor (kaikei
kansanin) that must be either a certified public accountant (kônin
kaikeishi) or an auditing corporation (kansa hôjin) of
CPAs. In order to address the failure of external CPAs to disclose financial
statement window-dressing, the MOF implemented several measures to improve
the quality of CPA audits and to strengthen financial reporting of companies
subject to the SEL (McKinnon 1986, 222-6).
Requirement for Consolidated Financial Statements (1977)The introduction of consolidated financial statements came about due to financial reporting manipulation by several firms that went bankrupt and due to the growth of multinational companies. Until 1977, consolidated financial statements did not exist in Japan, and both the CC and the SEL required financial statements to be prepared individually for each business entity. Consolidated financial statements present a group of companies as a single economic unit by showing results of operations and the financial position of a parent company and its subsidiaries as if the group were one company.
As discussed in the previous section on the implementation of the requirement for independent audits of large companies, Sanyo Special Steel and other companies in the 1960s manipulated financial statement numbers through transactions with subsidiaries and affiliates. These transactions remained unreported since the parent company did not consolidate the financial results of these subsidiaries and affiliates. The BADC issued an exposure draft on consolidated statements in 1966, one year after Sanyo Special Steel's bankruptcy, but strong opposition from large corporations and their representative organization, Keidanren (Federation of Economic Organizations), delayed final approval by the MOF for many years (McKinnon 1986, 262, 267).
In addition to several bankruptcies by Japanese companies in the 1960s, the rapid growth of Japanese multinational companies in the 1960s and 1970s also caused the MOF to realize the inadequacy of Japan's parent-only financial statements. In the 1960s, the New York Stock Exchange barred the entry of Japanese companies since their accounts were based on the parent company only, and the first listing did not occur until 1970. Moreover, several US companies, along with the US government, lobbied the Japanese government in the early 1970s to allow US companies to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by filing consolidated financial statements. The Japanese government finally consented, and in 1973 the Tokyo Stock Exchange listed foreign company shares for the first time (Cooke 1994, 74).
C. Accounting Standards in Three Key Areas
Consolidations, fair-value accounting, and pension accounting represent
the accounting areas with the most significant changes since 1997 in terms
of total financial impact and number of companies affected. This section
briefly summarizes basic accounting rules in effect for these three areas
until the recently announced changes get implemented from fiscal years
1999 to 2001.
ConsolidationsThe consolidation accounting standard, implemented in 1977 for companies subject to the SEL, requires all subsidiaries for which a parent company holds more than 50 percent interest in the voting share capital must be consolidated with certain limited exceptions (e.g., subsidiary in process of liquidation). Even though a parent company does not directly hold a 50 percent interest, the accounting rules require consolidation if a parent company controls directly or indirectly more than 50 percent of the voting stock.
For example, assume parent company A directly owns 30 percent of C and 60 percent of B, and B owns 25 percent of C. Parent company A will consolidate C as a subsidiary even though it directly owns only 30 percent of voting shares. Since A owns the majority of B's shares, B's 25 percent ownership in C is combined with A's 30 percent ownership when determining whether A holds a majority interest in C's voting share capital. However, A will include only 45 percent of C's income in its consolidated income (i.e., 30 percent direct share plus 60 percent of B's 25 percent share) (Kawamura 1999a, 7 September; Yoshii 1999a, 63).
A Japanese parent company must use the equity method of accounting for
any affiliated company where the parent company owns 20 to 50 percent of
the voting shares. The equity method requires a parent company to recognize
in its earnings its ownership share in an affiliated company. This method
is frequently called 'one-line consolidation', since a parent company records
its investment in affiliates on one line on the balance sheet and its share
of affiliated companies' income on one line on the income statement.
Fair-value AccountingJapanese accounting standards specify that financial instruments such as stocks and debt securities be measured by one of two methods, acquisition cost or the lower of acquisition cost or market, with a required write-down to net realizable value in the case of permanent impairment of value. A company can choose either valuation method. The standards do not permit revaluation of financial instruments to recognize profits related to a rise in market values. Proponents of historical acquisition cost valuation point out the advantage that assets are recorded at an objective and verifiable value.
Japanese accounting regulations do not allow revaluation of fixed assets
such as land. These rules are consistent with the conservative rules in
the US and Germany but differ from the UK, which allows the revaluation
of fixed assets, especially land and buildings (Nobes 1998, 255).
Pension AccountingMany Japanese companies offer post-employment benefits, often referred to as pensions, with amounts based on an employee's salary, seniority, and reason for leaving. Post-employment benefits include a lump-sum payment made a the time of an employee's retirement, periodic payments made after an employee's retirement, or a combination of the two methods. Some companies allow retiring employees to choose the method of payment.
Japanese pension funds are considered to be defined benefit plans, where premiums or installments paid by companies may fluctuate over time, but the amount an employee receives in the future is determined in advance. Companies can not reduce employee pension payments in the case of installment shortfalls. The Japanese pension system includes employee pension funds (EPFs), which pay a part of what otherwise would be paid by public pension insurance, and tax-qualified pensions (TQPs) managed by companies in-house. Assets in EPFs totaled 68 trillion yen at March 31, 1997 (Miyake 1998). An EPF has a legal existence separate from the sponsoring company, but in practice most EPFs have ultimate recourse to the company in the case of funding shortfalls. In contrast to an EPF, a TQP does not have any separate assets apart from a company's general assets. A sponsoring company clearly has payment responsibility for a TQP, but retired employees may not receive payments if the company goes bankrupt (Beason and James 1999, 130).
Regardless of whether employees receive a lump-sum payment or periodic payments and whether a company's pension is an EPF or a TQP, the accounting for different types of post-employment benefits generally follows the same principles. Japanese accounting rules do not require corporations to recognize a liability for vested pension obligations or for benefits related to employees' service prior to the balance sheet date.
Since 1979, the Corporate Income Tax Law has limited deductions to 40 percent of the total hypothetical pension liability as of the balance sheet date with the calculation made under the assumption that all employees voluntarily retire at that time. Although a company can establish a liability or reserve greater than the 40 percent limit, any amount over 40 percent can not be treated as a deduction in the calculation of taxable income.


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Sunday, November 12, 2017
Punching back
Until I learned that our bedroom doesn't have any heat. Making it not habitable. And it would be one thing if this was the only issue, but when the lawyer mentioned "Board of Health" combined with "shutting her property down," I found my head spinning.
I'm so fucking tried of fighting with people. Of being treated terribly by others for no reason other than I don't come from specific social circles. Now that we've hit the unlawful end, though, it's time to start punching back.
And that's probably the most baffling of all. That it takes setting boundaries and informing people of "no" in order to get them to behave. Sure, there's in initial argument. Them fighting to convince you that the problem actually lies with you. But when the dust settles and the facts are laid out, these same people them treat you better if for no other reason than that they hate the bloody nose or cracked teeth they received in the process.
So we're contacting a lawyer again, figuring out what we can and cannot do. We're looking for options for housing, but also for jobs elsewhere in the country and/or the world. Because after living with a leaking oil tank, a broken furnace and so many other problems, why not.
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Yup, I was just thinking about how to define boundaries, and the best definition I can come up with is: you draw a line and you fight whoever crosses it. (I think I got this idea partly from Diana Gabaldon actually). The key is you know when you are ready to fight and are willing to do it. But I'm still sorry you are having so much shitty luck.ReplyDelete
I certainly understand why you'd be exhausted, with this in addition to the other things you've been dealing with recently.ReplyDelete
I hear Denver's nice :-)
- AnonymousNovember 13, 2017 at 6:39 PM
What a terrible situation, I'm sorry you're having to deal with this and fight this battle along with all the others right now. Setting boundaries with people resistant to behaving well is hard and exhausting.ReplyDelete
I hope the boundary setting goes as well as possible and gets results for you. Sending thoughts and abiding through this difficult time.
Good grief, when it rains, it pours...!! Much love & luck to you as you navigate this latest hurdle. <3ReplyDelete

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Just like Tarlie I am a huge fan of mens fashion and interesting prints.
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Long ago, I decided that my life verse was going to be 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. "But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in your weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
I can't read that verse, see its impact on my life, and not share the following.
Dear Adam, After conducting a thorough review of your application, we regret to inform…..
For the 23rd, and almost assuredly last, time, I have been rejected from medical school.
Before we go any further, a few answers to questions:
1) No Dad, I'm not quite sure what I am going to do next.
"I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up." I've been saying that sentence for around 8 years.
I still haven't been able to quite spit out that sentence with the word "not" put into it. It feels funny in my mouth, like a taste bud that decided every word was going to taste poisonous.
It's weird, because deciding that I wanted to become a doctor meant pushing out virtually every other career possibility from my mind. When you have a mental option of not being a doctor, it is a lot harder to pull your third all-nighter in a row to study for organic chemistry.
But now, I am back to square one.
So, no, I don't know what I am going to do next, but I will do something. I promise you that.
2) No Mom, Northwestern wasn't a waste even though I didn't get into medical school.
I have been incredibly blessed that most things in life have come easy to me. I have been able to accomplish virtually everything that I have set my mind to, including attending and graduating from what turned out to be my dream school. But that doesn't mean that everything was a dream at Northwestern.
A constant question for myself when I was studying was, "Is this worth it?" Was it worth it to be slaving away for B's, when maybe I could have gone to a less rigorous school and been able to maybe set the curve for once? For consolation, I turned to the stats. 78% of students with my GPA from Northwestern get into medical school. Over 95% of students with my MCAT score get into Medical school. Even if I wasn't perfect, I would still be ok. Medical school was still out there for Northwestern students just like me.
Until it wasn't.
So, your question is a logical one. Was attending Northwestern worth it?
See I might not be matriculating into medical school like I dreamed, but I gained things from Northwestern that I could not have even dreamed.
Friends, both near and far, that I know would drop everything for me, friends who are quite literally changing the world as we speak, no matter their age.
An education that taught me how to open my own eyes, and see the world in a brand new light; an education that would inspire me and shift me into brand new places and thoughts.
Mentors, coaches, and friends that inspired me to tell stories and help others tell their stories, something that still warms my heart as the coach of a high school speech team.
I might have gotten better grades with less effort at a school that wasn't Northwestern, but I know from the bottom of my heart that I wouldn't be who I am without Northwestern.
Even if I'm not preparing to don a white coat, I think I am exactly who I want to be, and I am so incredibly blessed that I can say that.
3) Yes, Adam, you'll be ok.
I think the most important part of this is the realization that I will be ok. No, I don't know what my next step is, yes I am frustrated, but I'm going to be ok. It will take me a while, but I'll be ok.
It might involve some tough choices, but I'll be ok. I might think that a doctor is the only perfect profession for me, but I'll be ok. Seeing friends in med school is going to hurt for a while, but I'll be ok.
I'll be ok.
I'll be ok.
I'll be ok.
That is the most important thing.
I always felt called to be a doctor because I loved pursuing health, solving problems, and relating to people through effective communication. Personally, I think those things done well make an incredible physician, and I was so excited to do them.
Hearing the news that I won't get the chance to prove that hurts. It does. But I am called to rejoice in my hardships, my trials, my weaknesses, and so I will.
There's certainly one thing that warms my heart.
Each year, we receive thousands of applications from talented individuals just like you.
Every rejection letter that I received had some version of that sentence. That means that we are going to have some absolutely incredible physicians coming through the pipeline as those applicants move towards their practices-physicians that care, physicians that want to improve health at every turn, and physicians who are going to start changing how our health care looks from person to person. I want the best possible physician to greet every patient that walks through their door, and based on that sentence in every single rejection letter I received, we very well might have a future where that is the case.
I think I would have been an incredible physician. I'm hoping that the medical schools I applied to thought the same. I am so incredibly encouraged that they all found people who fit the bill better than me.
So, I get to find the next thing I will be incredible at. I'm hoping I can find what makes Christ's power most perfect through me. It will be a journey, but I'm ready.
Let's go.
P.S. I better not hear anything about a physician shortage at any point in the next 50 years or so 🙂


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The inherent limitations of load capacity and stability of hydrodynamic gas-lubricated bearings can be reduced by introducing external pressure and creating a hybrid bearing. Numerical computerized analyses of a hybrid journal bearing are discussed; separate developments are presented for steady-state and dynamic characteristics. The steady-state analysis provides performance over a wide range of operating parameters; the more complicated and lengthy dynamic analysis determines stability of the bearing-rotor system using geometry based upon steady-state results. Simplified flow charts of the computer programs are included. The analyses are applied to the preliminary design of a hybrid journal bearing.
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We can all agree that there are essentially only a handful of basic ways to wear your hair: down, some-up/some-down or all-up! Of course, there are a lot of variations, and this is what keeps hair styles and fashion interesting. Trends come and go, and every time they do make a comeback, they're done just a bit differently. Lucky for us, they're looking beautiful for 2013.
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Today, Heidi Klum takes a look at variations of another hair style which has been a staple for hundreds of years....the "some-up/some-down", or what she calls the "half up". This is a trend which is catching on fast, and the variations are almost endless, are beautiful, and look great with long hair as they break up the bland and deliver "Wow".
Most girls have all gone through stages in their childhood where their mothers loved to put their hair up in this way, as it is easy to do, yet much more sophisticated than wearing your hair all down, especially if you don't have the time to curl or style your hair.
Many of the looks in Heidi's gallery of half up hairstyles incorporate the use of braids, semi buns, curls, or teasing to create height and visual interest. I recommend clicking through this interesting gallery of styles that might inspire you to get creative.
Some interesting ways to vary a look may include braiding, crimping, curling, straightening, waves, spirals, etc. The addition of clips and other types of hair accessories make the possibilities almost endless. We'll take a look at the artful use of hair accessories in a future article, as many of my hair extension clients ask about their use.
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Every now and then, new techniques are created that render totally new and refreshing looks to something as basic and ancient as braids for example. We've recently seen some examples of beautifully artistic braids that would knock your socks off, such as this great cascading braid (shown to the left).
As you'll see from the gallery of half up hairstyles (link below), many of the women shown have beautiful long locks, and many are given added length and body with use of hair extensions. Women with hair extensions have so much more flexibility with their hair, and it's nice to challenge yourself to try out as many as you can rather than sticking to one style.
Many of my clients return for their tidy-up visits so full of excitement and enthusiasm for the ability to wear their hair (thanks to their hair extensions) in ways they've never been able to do before. Even those who aren't the type to spend hours in front of a mirror find that once they have their new hair extensions, they find that it's now actually fun to spend the extra time on themselves.
With so many styles coming out, it doesn't have to be too difficult to create unique styles that look great on you. The beauty of half up styles is that they're easy and look great. I encourage you to experiment and have some fun with the vast array of great hairstyles that are so in-fashion today!
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Gold drops in Asia as French poll results are available in along expected lines
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Investing.com – Gold prices slumped in Asia on Monday as risk concerns eased following the French election went broadly not surprisingly, pitting centrist Emmanuel Macron and-right leader Marine Le Pen inside a May 7 runoff.
Gold for June delivery settled dropped .90% to $1,277.35% a troy ounce around the Comex division from the New You are able to Mercantile Exchange. Silver eased .09% to $17.907 a troy ounce and copper acquired .47% to $2.563 one pound.
Investors will concentrate on in front of Thursday's European Central Bank meeting and Friday's euro zone inflation data and preliminary estimates of first quarter growth in the United kingdom and also the U.S. on Friday.
A week ago, gold prices edged greater on Friday as investors continued to be careful in front of the first round of voting within the presidential French election, underpinning safe place interest in the rare metal.
Investors were also watching occasions in Washington. On Thursday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin stated the Trump administration will unveil a tax reform plan soon and expects it will likely be approved by Congress this season.
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Keanu Reeves hits one roadblock after another in Exposed trailer
How the hell are you supposed to solve a murder when everyone wants you to leave the things that might help you in your investigation alone?
He was a dirty cop, wasn't he? Leave it alone.
What about this guy who might know something? Leave it alone.
How the hell is any progress supposed to be made or any answers supposed to be found? Welcome to Keanu Reeves' world in EXPOSED, as he plays a detective tasked with solving his partner's murder, even though no one is willing to help him out in achieving that goal. It must be frustrating as hell to be that character, which I imagine will translate into being frustrating as hell to be a viewer of the flick based on this trailer. Just watching these couple of edited minutes irritated me to no end. I don't think I'll invest the hours.
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This Combo is aimed for Audiophiles looking to have a dual DAC made with extremely selected components on top of the revelation of the year, the Kali I2S Reclocker. This bundle is compatible with Raspberry PI B+ , 2 and 3 and Allo Sparky Single Board Computer. Just connect the Kali on top of the Pi, and the Piano 2.1 on top of Kali. What you'll get is an extremely good sounding Audiophile Music Player.
The cool thing about the Allo Piano 2.1 is that it features a twin 384 kHz/32bit high-quality DAC PCM5142, with 4 RCA Connectors. By using its integrated DSP Capabilities you can drive your loudspeakers and your subwoofer by sending only the optimal frequencies to the combination. The Piano 2.1 allows to select the Subwoofer Low Pass frequency (from 50 to 200 HZ), and use the DAC in 2.0 (single output), 2.1 (Hi Frequency output + Mono Subwoofer), 2.2 (Hi Frequency output + Stereo Subwoofer).
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I agree. I think that's a big part of why so many people who worked with him in the 60s support him. He seems to genuinely want the best. But Evanier and others say that under the bombastic exterior there's a very insecure man. Which I think explains everything, the good and the bad.
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Gov. Pete Ricketts has led a trade mission to Japan.
Now, the governor travels to China.
Ricketts travels today from Tokyo to Beijing where he first will talk with center-pivot irrigation manufacturers. Ricketts will visit with Chinese executives on the strength of Nebraska center-pivot manufacturers, which control about 80% of the market.
"It presents an opportunity for us to be able to create that agri-business hub and expand that in China," Ricketts tells Nebraska Radio Network.
China has grown into a major economic force, but its economy has struggled of late, shaking markets throughout the world, including in the United States. The economic woes in China cast somewhat of a shadow over the trade mission in Japan.
Ricketts says those he talked with in Japan believe China is experiencing growing pains as its economy transitions out of a low-wage manufacturing economy into a more mature one. The governor shares the belief the problems are temporary.
Ricketts sees great promise in China for Nebraska exports.
"And, of course, if we can find Chinese companies that want to invest in Nebraska and create Nebraska jobs, we want to do that, too," Ricketts says.
Ricketts says China remains a major trading partner for Nebraska, despite its current economic troubles. China is Nebraska's fourth largest trading partner behind Canada, Mexico, and Japan.
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Saturday the 14th, for me, is one of those dates that represent life-changing events. (Nothing too dramatic here!) Twenty years ago, I had brain surgery to remove a malignant tumor. That followed the absence seizure two days earlier which led to the diagnosis. (Twenty years ago today.)
This anniversary is especially meaningful, since I recently used the story of my experience of cancer as part of a coaching process. And it was quite an experience.
After surgery, I was put on anti-seizure medication—which I still take. For a few weeks, I had a special treat: taking a steroid to prevent swelling of the brain. As we know, steroids have interesting side-effects. One of them is stimulation of the appetite. Before the surgery, I had always been skinny (and even scrawny)! I was at 160 pounds. Afterwards, packing away a voluminous amount of calories, I bulked up to 200 pounds, which for a 6'4" man, is about normal. (Here are the "before" and "after" photos I posted a few years ago. That's BanuBut the emotional effects were even more interesting. I'm a pretty even-tempered person, but steroidal influence can be a bit noteworthy. I'll just mention one incident.
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At our seminary, the top three floors of the main building had apartments and dorm rooms. Banu and I lived on the top floor. She and a couple of our friends were downstairs in the lobby, putting up Christmas decorations. I was in the apartment, watching an episode of Star Trek (I don't remember which series!). The phone rang, and I was requested to come down and hang up an ornament.
While descending the staircase, a feeling of anger began to swell over me. How dare they interrupt my watching Star Trek! I found that they had a ladder poised under the spot which was destined for the decoration. "Why did they call for me?" I thought. "Any of them could have just as easily used the ladder!" They knew I was upset; I was giving them the silent treatment.
It wasn't long before I knew I was out of line. I went back and apologized for my steroid-induced behavior. One of our friends blew it off. She said, "Now you know how PMS feels." If it took getting my head cut open to only minutely identify with the woes of women, so be it!
Actually, my whole experience of cancer has helped me to better empathize with those who have mental and physical problems, those who are compulsive and forgetful. I won't overstate the case, since I have some problems of my own!
I want to finish this post with an icon that is familiar to many. It is Christ Pantocrator, an icon at St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai. It dates back to the sixth century. Often noted are the two sides of the face, representing the divine and human natures of Christ. Some also say that they represent the masculine and feminine natures of the Christ. (Noting that the man Jesus also exhibited "masculine" and "feminine" qualities in his personality.)
Bringing this to the main reason for this blog post, I have noticed something about the right side of the face (from the viewer's standpoint). Considering its long history, there's no way I'm the only one to see this. That side of the face seems to have an illness or infirmed condition. I see it as the result of a stroke. One of my names for this icon is "Jesus, the Stroke Victim"! To me, that suggests a genuine identification with the sick. We can see that in the gospels. Jesus dares to touch those who are ritually unclean—even physically unclean.
My puny empathy with the ill is but a faint shadow of that displayed by Jesus Christ. How ironic—or appropriate—that the Pantocrator (Greek for "Almighty") is demonstrated by one who reflects and embodies sickness and weakness.


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Welcome to 12 Weeks of Contemporary, where we highlight our favorite contemporary authors and their books here on our blog and on Instagram!
This time we have I. W. Gregorio, author of NONE OF THE ABOVE!
What inspires you about contemporary YA?
That's a great question, because when I was growing up, I was totally a fantasy addict. Nothing was more intoxicating to me than losing myself in another world, whether it be Prydain, Narnia, Shannara or Middle Earth. But it's funny that when I look back a the books that truly nourished me as a kid, that made me cry and that truly shaped who I am as a person, I think of realistic fiction: Where the Red Fern Grows, Up a Road Slowly, The Westing Game, To Kill a Mockingbird. You can read for escape, and you can read to learn how to navigate the world around you. Neither reasons to read are limited to either realistic vs. fantasy fiction, but the stories I was driven to tell – the characters I wanted to bring to the page – ended up being contemporary ones.
Does the setting of None of the Above mean something personal to you?
I grew up in a very conservative town in Upstate NY, where I was one of only three Asians in my entire school. I was always an outsider that absolutely shaped me. So for None of the Above, I wanted to write the story of someone who seemed like the ultimate insider – but who ends up being a kind of Trojan horse to discuss issues of gender and sexual diversity. The setting of the book, thus, is pretty similar to my hometown.
What's your favorite beach read?
Ugh, where to begin? I absolutely loved Laini Taylor's DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE series. But the last book I actually read at the beach was Kelly Loy Gilbert's CONVICTION, a Morris Finalist. I may have pretended to "take a nap" several days, when in fact I was just curled up reading her incredible debut.
Describe your perfect summer.
Oh, you're making me really regret not having chosen a job in education so I can get summers off. If I were still a teenager, I would absolutely want to live in Jenny Han's SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY world, with a beach house in a town filled with cute boys. Now that I'm an adult, my summer would obviously include not working, and traveling around the world with my family and one or two other couples with kids. This travel would of course include liberal amount of beach/down time where I could just sit around and read.
Describe Kristin's perfect summer.
Kristin's kind of a low maintenance girl. I think she'd be content to stay at home as long as her friends were around. She'd run every day, of course, and maybe be a camp counselor. As long as her family and friends were near, and she felt of use, I think she'd be happy.
Where's your favorite place to read in the summertime? (Bonus points for a photo!)
In the massage chair my husband got me for Christmas!
What contemporary YA are you reading this summer?
I'm reading Meg Medina's BURN BABY BURN, S.J. Goslee's WHATEVER, and cannot wait to get my hands on Nicola Yoon's THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR!
'Would You Rather' Summer Rapid Fire edition! Would you rather:
- Ice cream or Sorbet – ICE CREAM hands down
- Lemonade or Iced Tea – Both? Arnold Palmers are kind of perfect.
- Lake or Ocean – Ocean, for the waves
- Jet-skiing or Parasailing – Parasailing = flying
- Sun or Shade – shade. I like to be able to read my LCD screens. Also, I used to get a photosensitivity rash when I was in the sun too long. Plus, skin cancer = no fun.
I. W. Gregorio is a practicing surgeon by day, masked avenging YA writer by night. After getting her MD, she did her residency at Stanford, where she met the intersex patient who inspired her debut novel, NONE OF THE ABOVE (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins), which is finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award, a Spring 2015 Publishers Weekly Flying Start, an ALA Booklist Top Ten Sports Book for Youth, and a 2015 ABC Children's Group Best Book for Young Readers. It was also named to the 2016 American Library Association Rainbow List and is under development as a TV series by Lifetime. She is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books™ and its former VP of Development. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and Journal of General Internal Medicine. A recovering ice hockey player, she lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.
Buy I. W. Gregorio's book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, and Powell's.
Have you read PROOF OF FOREVER by Lexa Hillyer? It's our favorite summer beach read, and with the warmer months approaching, we completely recommend it! Here's a sneak-peak:
Before: It was the perfect summer of first kisses, skinny-dipping, and bonfires by the lake. Joy, Tali, Luce, and Zoe knew their final summer at Camp Okahatchee would come to an end, but they swore they'd stay friends.
After: Now, two years later, their bond has faded along with those memories.
Then: That is, until the fateful flash of a photo booth camera transports the four of them back in time, to the summer they were fifteen—the summer everything changed.
Now: The girls must recreate the past in order to return to the present. As they live through their second-chance summer, the mystery behind their lost friendship unravels, and a dark secret threatens to tear the girls apart all over again.
Always: Summers end. But this one will change them forever.
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Just call me Angel in the Morning....
11 comments:
- The Vintage Farmhouse said...
Love the sunlight streaming through in your pics!!
- November 14, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- sissie said...
Beautiful, just beautiful.
- November 14, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- Sandi said...
Hi Diane,
I love my macro mode , but have not gotten used to the super macro mode yet. I KNOW I have a lot to learn about my camera yet too! I just need someone to show me. Much better at grasping new things being shown than reading it in a book. lol.
Your photos are so pretty!
- November 14, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- Esther@fleurcottage said...
thanks for the 'tulip' tip...i immediately checked mine & sure 'nuff it is! yay for the blog world! :)
- November 14, 2010 at 7:48 PM
I just love your blog!! Everything is gorgeous.
- November 17, 2010 at 7:25 AM
- Everlasting Blooms said...
Love the macro mode as well...Super macro would be fun to take photos with!
~ I browsed through your blog and love all your lovely photos :) Found you through my newest follower Cottage Muse...
~ Hope you have a Happy White Wednesday check out Faded Charm for more White!
- November 17, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- Hilary @ Sweet as June said...
those arepretty! have fun with your camera... I too HAVE THAT LITTLE TULIP ON MY CaMERa AND I USE WHEN I am taking a picture of a smaller object. thanks for visiting Sweet As June!
- November 17, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- Hilary @ Sweet as June said...
sorry my last comment was so messy looking... I clicked post before I could correct it!!!
- November 17, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- vivalacabin said...
Diane! You won my giveaway! I will try to contact you, or send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com
- November 19, 2010 at 3:12 PM
Your pictures look beautiful, Diane! I use that setting for my close-ups, too. It makes a huge difference! LOVE that angel, btw!!
Have a wonderful weekend and a happy Thanksgiving!
Jo :)
- November 20, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- Lissa said...
good job learning to work that camera! enjoy the sun.
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Morgan Comes to the Rescue.
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As an entrepreneur and the head of two diverse healthcare companies, Ms. Mendlen was faced with the loss of her longtime Chief Financial Officer of 11 years. Her former CFO was responsible for strategic business partnerships, developing provider reimbursement and contract models, and assisting Mendlen in managing her business operations in California and New York.
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Gundula Krause (born 7 July 1966) is a German folk violinist.[1] She lives in Mainz, Roetgen nearby Aachen and East-Clare (Ireland).
She was born in Göttingen, Germany. She moved to Los Angeles, California, during the 1980s where she learned bluegrass and cajun music at Hollywood's Westlake College of Music. First experiences in band music she gathered in the formation The phiddleharmonics of her violin teacher Joe Miklich. She returned to Germany in 1986. At the University of Mainz she studied psychology. During this time she went to Galway and Doolin in Ireland for studying Irish folk and Folk rock. In 1992, she released her debut album, Dynamic Blend.
In the time about 1990 she was one of the first German folk violinists. She performed with a lot of bands from the Rhein-Main-area: Gundels Giganten (Mainz), Beaver Bangtree Band, The Bantree (Worms), Hibernians (Nauheim), Irish Rovers, Dagmar 41, Inbetween, Secret Paddy (all Frankfurt). Currently she plays in the jazz-folk-formation Wintergreen Goblins (Roetgen).
Dynamic blend, Wiesbaden : Poni Records (PO 9202), 1992. Enth.: Breton gavottes. Shanghai Hbf. Fisherman's friend. Red winged blackbird. Pretty Polly. Celtic circus. Breton salsa.
Autumn leaves, (CD 10762-01), 1995. Enth.: Impressions of a Joint Journey. The Little Drummer. The Butterfly. Song for Ireland. Cúnnla / Morrison's. Holes. The Green Fields of France. There Was a Time. Gaoth Barra na dTonn. Dobinn's Flowery Vale. Welcome Poor Paddy Home. As I Roved out. Kilkelly.
The fairy tree, Worms: Rolf Bachmann, L. P. Steinkohl, 1996. Enth.: The fairy tree. Dúlamán. GG special. The foggy dew. Sean a chaoi. Irish home. Star of the County Down. Empty beach. Cheap chicken chick jig. Irish rover. Níl sén lá. My match is made.
Christmas goes jazz (CD), 1996
Unsailable. Molecule Records 411, 2001. Enth.: Read Me. Semaphore. Defenestration. Glass Music. Here Comes Iocasta. Eve (Cress Reference). Marinade. Normal Song. Ammonites. The Thursday Room. King Arthur's Cafe. Phosphorus. Fins. Write With No Pen. Painted Sails.


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Extreme hot weather is back so I'm running away for another week. I'll be back for a couple of days and then gone again over Labor Day. But I have four posts scheduled for the 1st of September, all DT work, so feel free to visit. I'll visit with all of you when I get back. Happy Crafting. NanaConnie


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Stand-up comedian and frequent NPR contributor Paula Poundstone played to a packed audience at The Seasons Performance Hall in Yakima last Saturday. Poundstone, who's had two HBO comedy specials and is a frequent contributor to NPR shows Wait…Don't Tell Me! and A Prairie Home Companion, delighted the audience with nothing but a microphone, a stool and a can of Diet Pepsi on the dimly lit stage of The Seasons – which actually used to be a church before it was revamped into a concert hall. Poundstone was also ranked number 88 on Comedy Central's "100 Greatest Comics of All Time" List back in 2004. Some of the topics included teenagers, her 16 cats (yes she has 16, that's not a typo), and not being interested in sex.
I'll be honest, I wasn't a big fan of Poundstone's work as some of her material is oriented towards an older crowd, and I tend to go for edgier comics like George Carlin, Eddie Izzard and Mitch Hedberg. I was actually asked by The Seasons to shoot the show and seeing I needed more comics for my portfolio, I thought "what the hell." But I actually enjoyed her hour and a half set, which surprised me as I didn't think I would. I could totally relate to her bit about cleaning the cat box as I own 2 cats and absolutely HATE cleaning the cat box when it needs to be done. If you're looking for more of a comic like Dane Cook or Joe Rogan you will be greatly disappointed, as Poundstone has more of a clean optimistic humor, which is a great thing for those who listen to NPR. But for the younger generation, many would be turned off by her material.
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Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9
I haven't forgotten about the blog. The blog is a tool to bring myself back to mediations and centered thought/action. My brain has been very active lately, so active that it is a jumble of rantings and incomplete thoughts. I think about blogging and I can't even see where to start. Or how to clear my head. I went to meeting last week. It was really good. That Sunday started off so well, meeting, a walk, I cooked...then the preasures about money and finances and the direction I am taking or not taking appeared on the horizon. I have been in a tailspin all week. I have too many big decisions in the next few months and not enough control over when I get to make the decisions...I have too many doors open, causing a wind tunnel that keeps me immobile. I keep waiting for them to shut...I keep waiting for the way to open, clearly with minimal obstruction...and it hasn't. I am tired...I am tired of questioning my future and my directions and my decisions that got me here, much less the decisions I am trying to make. And I don't have the financial resources to take the first steps I need to take to ease the weight of the crisis looming over my head right now. I try to be still and silent, but my head starts to feel like it will explode and that is not centeredness. I am four years past my Americorps year which marked true economic downturn in my life and the only changes are a Master's degree and the State I live in.
So I haven't disappeared. I just can't seem to find my way.
Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding...She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy. Proverbs 3:13, 18
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Volleyball team bounces back with road victory
Gatesville High shook off the lingering effects of a loss earlier in the week to down La Vega 3-0 Friday night.
The Hornets went on the road to win 25-12, 25-11, 25-11, improving to 17-11 overall and 2-1 in District 17-4A.
"A lot of times when you face teams that you are supposed to handle, you tend to lose focus and not play as well," said Gatesville coach Rickey Phillips. "But that wasn't the case tonight...our kids took care of business. We got the chance to play all of our kids a lot when things were still early and undecided, and that's going to help us down the road."
GHS built early leads in all three sets behind its serving strength, back-row passing and play up front.
Gatesville continues its road swing with a pair of trips next week - traveling to Hillsboro on Friday. Varsity starts at 7 p.m.on Friday. They were at Connally Tuesday.


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UK Demographics: How many Hispanic/Latino Students are at UK? Undergraduates: Black 1420 Hispanic/Latino 362 Asian 485 White 16,110
Sampling of the Distribution of Hispanic Latino Students Throughout UK
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Hispanic Faculty 2011-2012 Alcalde, Maria – Gender and Women's Studies Anaya, Paul – Internal Medicine Andrade, Francisco – Physiology Angulo, Paul – Internal Medicine Berger, Rolando – Internal Medicine Biglieri, Anibal, Hispanic Studies Bosch, Antonio – Internal Medicine Brill, Yolanda – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Castellanos, Ana – Internal Medicine Castro, Maria - Family and Community Medicine Chico-Wyatt, Irene – Hispanic Studies Crocker, Lina – English Daunert, Sylvia – Chemistry DeLaCruz, Franklin – Clinical Sciences deLeon, Jose – Psychiatry Diaz Guzman Zavala, Enrique – Internal Medicine Escalante, David – Internal Medicine Fuentealba, Rodrigo – Oral Health Practice Garcia Ramos, Gisela – Biology Gedaly, Roberto, - Surgery Hacker, Janell – Nursing Instruction Hennings Yeomans, Dieter – Music Hopenhayn, Claudia – Epidemiology Kinnicutt, Fred – Psychiatry Lagos, Raul – Hispanic Studies Liberato, Ana – Sociology Lugo, Neomi – Music Marti, Francesc – Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics McKeon, Jennifer – Rehabilitation Sciences Medina, Jorge – Hispanic Studies Mendiondo, Marta – Biostatistics Morales, Gustavo – Internal Medicine Otero, Liliana – Oral Health Science Paz, Yanira – Hispanic Studies Pena, Luis – Internal Medicine Pena Rivera, Carlos – Hispanic Studies Perez, Oscar – Family and Community Medicine Polo, Juan – Family and Community Medicine Quelopana, Ana Maria – Nursing Instruction Rodriguez, Carla – Oral Health Practice Salazar, Abraham - Mechanical Engineering Samayoa, Luis – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Sandoval, Arturo – Art Santi, Enrico – Hispanic Studies Suarez, Juana – Hispanic Studies Tovar, Rudolph – Obstetrics and Gynecology Vascello, Luis – Anesthesiology Vasconez, Henry – Surgery Velez-Pestana, Luis – Anesthesiology Veling, Maria – Otolaryngology Wallace, Sophia – Political Science Warren, Larry – Clinical Sciences Zaglul, Horacio - Pediatrics
Faculty Highlights Dieter Hennings Assistant Professor of Guitar University of Kentucky School of Music Dieter Hennings Yeomans's musical endevaours span from new music on guitar to early music for lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo. Mr. Hennings has been a soloist with Canada's New Music Concerts Ensemble, Tito Sccipa Orchestra of Lecce, Italy, Eastman BroadBand Ensemble, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, the University of Arizona Philharmonia, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Monterrey among many others. Mr. Hennings has won several prestigious competitions including the 2008 Aaron Brock International Guitar Competition, 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer, Alicante (Spain) International Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar Competition, among others. Mr. Hennings is an active proponent of new music, particularly that of Latin America, having recently worked with composers Mario Davidovsky, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Juan Trigos and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. Mr. Hennings has recently premiered works by composers Jake Bancks, Wes Matthews, John Aylward, Beth Wiemann, Hebert Vazquez, Luca Cori, Juan Trigos and Scott Worthington. He recently performed Synchronisms no. 10 for guitar and tape for Mario Davidovsky in a concert dedicated to the composer's work. Mr. Hennings has received grants from the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music and the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes to commission and premiere contemporary works for guitar. Recent engagements include concerts with pop-singer Natalie Merchant and baroque vioinist Monica Huggett as well as appearances at the Mexican Embassy in Rome, Festival SpazioMusica of Cagliari, Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Mexico, University of Chicago, Festival Internacional de Chihuahua, New York's Joyce Theater, Julliard's Paul Hall, and New England Conservatory. Mr. Hennings is a resident artist at the East Coast Composers Ensemble and the Eastman Broad Band Ensemble, with whom he maintains an active performing schedule. In 2005 and 2007 he participated in the modern premieres of the baroque operas "Apollo and Daphne" and "La virtù de'stralli d'Amore" by Francesco Cavalli, both directed by Paul O'Dette. Mr. Hennings recently performed recitals on baroque lute and guitar at Milan's Spazio Tadini, the Arizona Early Music Society and the Rochester Early Music Society among many others. Current recording projects include an album of works by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute and the guitar works of composers Juan Trigos and Luca Cori. Recently he collaborated in a recording project with singer Natalie Merchant which also featured musicians like Winton Marsalis, Medeski, Martin and Wood, and producer Anders Levin. Since August of 2009, Dieter Hennings is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky where he directs the Classical Guitar Studies program.
Faculty Highlights Cristina Alcade Ph.D., Indiana University Cristina Alcalde is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Faculty Co-Director of A&S Wired Residential College. Her areas of specialization include Latin America (with an emphasis on Peru and the Andean region); Latinos/as in the U.S; gender and race; intersections of state, institutional, and interpersonal violence; domestic violence; migration; and Latino masculinities. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Indiana University. Her publications include her book, The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru (2010) and a co-edited book (with J. Zavala), Visiones del Perú de académicos peruanos en Estados Unidos (Visions of Peru of Peruvian Academics in the United States) (2008). She has also published articles in the journals Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology; Latin American Perspectives; Journal of Consumer Culture; Latino Studies; JARM: Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering; and Journal of Gender Studies. Her work has also appeared in book chapters in collections including Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations and Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence. Her current research areas include Latino masculinities, pregnancy and women's experiences of bed rest, and Latino/a migration to Kentucky.
Faculty Highlights Marta Mendiondo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dr. Mendiondo holds a Master in Computer Science from Boston University and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Kentucky. She is currently responsible for data management and biostatistical analysis in PREADISE, a multicenter Alzheimer's Disease prevention trial. Data management in PREADVISE is handled using FAX TELEform. She has also been responsible for data management and statistical analysis in the Biostatistics and Data Management Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of Kentucky.
Faculty Highlights Noemi Lugo, soprano, is a native of Caracas, Venezuela. She received a Vocal Performance Diploma from the José Angel Lamas National Conservatory of Music. While in Venezuela, she performed with major orchestras and choral organizations, soloing extensively throughout the country and Europe with Schola Cantorum de Caracas under the direction of Alberto Grau. She performed with the Opera Metropolitana de Caracas and Opera Teresa Carreflo, Madison Civic Opera, University of Wisconsin Opera, and University of Colorado Opera. Dr. Lugo's operatic roles include Oscar in Ballo in Maschera, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Norma in Don Pasquale, Adina in L'Elisir d'amore, Susanna in La Nozze di Figaro, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, and Amelia in Amelia al Ballo. She remains active, presenting many recitals and lecture recitals of Art Songs from Spain and Latin America. In January 2003, Dr. Lugo traveled to South East Asia to offer concerts in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong. These concerts benefited institutions such as the Kidney Foundation, Children with Aids, and others. The summer of 2003 took her to Bolivia where she participated as a performer and scholar in the first "Songs Across The Americas Festival," organized by Songs Unlimited, Inc. Dr. Lugo has taught for the Kentucky Institute for International Studies, Middlebury College, and Operafestival di Roma. She has presented recitals, master classes, and lecture recitals in Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Puerto Rico, and Germany. She was a presenter in the National Conference of the National Association of Teachers of Singers in San Diego and in the International Conference of the College Music Society in Alcalá de Henares in Madrid, Spain. She served as chair of the Vocal Area at the University of Kentucky's School of Music from 1997 to 1999 and as Director of Latin American Studies Program from 2002 to 2004. She teaches a course for the Freshman Discovery Seminar on "Musical Understanding through Music." In 2007, Dr. Lugo was a guest teacher for the Operafestival di Roma in Italy, and will offered a solo recital in Middlebury College, Vermont. Also, Dr. Lugo was one of only two tenured faculty at UK named a winner of the 2008 Provost's Outstanding Teaching Award. In the Spring of 2010, Dr. Lugo was a Fulbright Scholar at Universidade Federal de Goiania in Brazil.2008 Provost's Outstanding Teaching Award
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