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Jamaica's cultural offering to the world is far greater than its size might suggest. The Jamaica Work Project team will be immersed beyond the white sands, epic Blue mountains and tropical blooms into Hopewell. Hopewell is a settlement and fishing village in Hanover Parish located 15 kilometers west of Montego Bay. We will enjoy the Jamaican hospitality of our host family and live in a neighborhood alive with the sounds of children, roosters, swine, dogs and the daily bustle of the morning and evening commuters.
We have been a part of the Hopewell community for over 25 years and have built relationships meeting a variety of needs for the church, school and community. Our mission is to continue our belief that to "Go n Be" far surpasses what we might expect in a traditional mission experience. We will continue this legacy and continue to dream future initiatives for the community.
We begin our day walking a few hundred yards to the ocean where we begin with breakfast on the beach, optional swimming or fishing adventure and a time for teaching, journaling and reflection. Our work this fall will include construction projects at a local school, home repairs for local homeowners and a variety of opportunities with the children. We will also meet with the students who we currently support in their swine and chicken businesses as we pursue our next round of creating micro-businesses with the students.
No trip to Jamaica would be complete with participating in a church service, enjoying culinary delights, tropical fruits, Reggae music and relaxing on the beaches. Each day we create our agenda based on the needs of the host family and our mission to work hard, sleep hard, study hard and play hard.
Our simplified lifestyle arrangements include second floor lodging on cots, cold showers and a variety of meals ranging from peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to amazing Jamaican cuisine. We build our foundation of adventure based on our formula of respect, responsibility and discipline as we live each day within the local neighborhood. The $399 cost includes housing, van rental, materials, t-shirt, breakfasts and lunches. Travel meals not included.
The 10 most frequently asked questions about the Jamaica Six-Day Adventure:
1. What is our mission?
We will dream greater dreams for ourselves and for our future partnerships. Our team will create new initiatives in education, medicine and small business development.
2. What is the strategy?
- Light construction and painting at a preschool and neighborhood home.
- Create and implement vacation bible school type activities.
- Meet with community members to explore options for micro-businesses, culinary, medical and educational pursuits.
- Interview future teen businesses owners.
3. What might our daily schedule* include?
- 4am Wake-up call for those who want to ocean fish.
- 7am Breakfast on the beach and a time of reflection, bible study and teaching.
- 9am Work begins - and shopping team will go to local markets for the day's supplies.
- 4pm Ocean swimming and rest.
- 6pm Dinner and evening adventure
- 9pm Evening teaching and processing.
- 11pm Lights out.
* Please note that the schedule is on Jamaican time.
4. What are the objectives?
- We will live as a team with the core values of respect, responsibility and discipline. Our work is to offer these gifts to one another and to all those we encounter along the way.
- We will live out our four scriptural principles that will impact your life and thinking for eternity.
5. What about housing and meals?
- We are housed one block from the ocean in the Hopewell community.
- Sleeping is on the second floor of our host family's home.
- We will sleep on cots. Showers are sometimes warm.
- Meals will be provided by the host family. Some meals we will make and some we eat at local restaurants.
6. How do we travel?
- Passports are necessary.
- We will determine departure details based on whether we fly out of Dayton or Columbus.
- We rent our own vehicle in Montego Bay.
7. What about money?
- $399 includes housing, van rental, materials, t-shirt, breakfasts and lunches.
- Travel and dinner meals are on your own.
- Our schedule includes a one-hour "tourist shopping experience" at a local market.
8. What are the unique expectations of this adventure?
- Safety. Traveling alone is prohibited and evening walking in the community is limited. Each day we will spend time in our morning sessions discussing the travel, work and community involvement expectations.
- Potential adventures: Sunday worship service and evening weekday worship service in Montego Bay. We will eat in extremely local, non-tourist restaurants. A Half-day tourist beach adventure and walking and cultural study of Montego Bay are also included. Spontaneous parties and celebrations are a regular happening with our Jamaican host family and friends.
- There will be times that we travel as an entire team and times where small groups will be formed for a variety of activities. We do not offer the opportunity for you to create your own agenda.
- Cell phones use ends at the airport. There is no Internet.
9. What are the dates of the trip?
- Thursday, October 8. Depart 5am - arrive Montego Bay early afternoon.
- Monday, October 12. Arrive late evening.
10. How do I register?
- For more information contact [email protected].
- Registration and airfare deposit deadline. September 1.
- Make checks out to Jamaica Adventure. Place envelopes in the offering or bring to church office.


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When I upgraded my Gateway MX6920 from Windows XP to Windows 7. all that was missing was the video driver and I didn't have Aero nor able to play games. so I go hunting down a Windows 7 video driver without success. All I could find was Vista drivers that resulted in "operating system not supported" error messages. I spent hours without success on finding a video driver. I was ignoring the windows updates because I was looking for drivers. my friend said he would look to see if he could find one (I was already on 8th page of Google). he just brought up the Windows Update window and voila the update was a video driver from Microsoft!!
my question is why was finding a Windows 7 driver impossible using Google if MSupdate has them on stock in Windows Update? makes no sense that Google had none yet Windows Update did.
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Here at Spandexless, we spent our entire weekend soaked in our own drool, mouths agape at the waves and waves of new information oozing out of Image Expo. Sadly, we couldn't attend, but we've got the juiciest bits from the inaugural event here with even more info coming throughout the day.
- Our friends over at The Beat have collected Image Expo in pictures. Check those out here.
- The Beat also attended the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (or, CBLDF panel and covered it here. If you are at all interested in the legal issues surrounding freedom of speech in the comic industry, go here.
- Bleeding Cool gives us this announcement about an Image Comics documentary, brought to us by the creator of the Warren Ellis and Grant Morrison documentaries, Patrick Meaney. I can highly recommend the previous two documentaries, and am enthusiastically looking forward to the third.
- One of the most hotly anticipated titles from Image has been Brian K. Vaughn's Saga, and The Beat has this liveblog with Vaughn and artist, Staples.
- One of our favorite series, Skullkickers, is hosting a contest for writers and artists to get their work published in an upcoming issue of Skullkickers. Multivserity has the details.
- Rounding out the news with a song in our hearts, Image Comics announced that their series Moriarty (written by Daniel Corey, illustrated by Anthony Diecidue) would be turned into a full fledged stage musical! The musical will be written by Corey, but the score will be composed by Raynmond Schurr. Check out more information at the Moriarty website.


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"Penitentiary" is the debut track from the band, and what a debut it is. Call it what you want, but I'm calling it rootsy american folk rock that hits at the core. Houndmouth have a deep sincerity about them that takes your mind to your own version of home. Once you hit play, you're gone. You're on a warm summer roadtrip with Houndmouth, and you're better off that way.
Stream "Penitentiary" below, and then check out a stunning live performance of a song titled "Krampus" that will have you believing even more in Houndmouth.
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The band was formed in 1992 from the 80's punk band "Strebers" after one of the members died in a car accident. Ulke and Ztikkan recorded one last album called "Till en vän" (to a friend) with a drum machine replacing their friend and then decided to start a new band. They found Stipen who joined them as a drummer and in 1992 Dia Psalma was formed.
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The number of people starting engineering apprenticeships has declined by 9 per cent over the past three years, according to an industry accountancy firm.
Referring to data from the governmental Skills Funding Agency, SJD Accountancy said that only 63,240 people started engineering apprenticeships in 2013/2014, which is 6,490 less than in 2011/2012. This marks a 9.3 per cent decrease, which is in sharp contrast with the government-supported campaign aiming to attract more young people to careers in engineering.
The number also suggests that the UK is not yet on the way to closing the widening skills gap and meeting the demand for skilled engineering workers, which is expected to increase in the upcoming years.
"Apprenticeships have been a government priority in recent years. Despite initial success in boosting the numbers of engineering apprenticeships, the numbers are now on a worrying downward trend," said Simon Curry, CEO of SJD Accountancy.
"At a time when the UK engineering sector is facing a skills shortage and needs to recruit tens of thousands of additional engineers every year, these apprenticeships numbers show that the gap is beginning to widen again. Skills shortages push up costs for major engineering projects and have a knock-on effect across the wider economy."
However, the firm said, engineering is not the only discipline seeing the interest of young people in apprenticeships falling. Over the same three-year period, the overall number of new apprentices across industries has decreased by 17 per cent, form 520,600 new entrants in 2011/12 to 434,400 in 2012/14.
This means that the government will have to more than double the rate of new apprenticeships if it wants to meet the target of three million new apprenticeships over the next five years, as announced by Prime Minister David Cameron last month.
To make up for the local lack of engineering professionals, firms are forced to recruit engineers from abroad. As the UK economy rises after years of economic difficulties, so does the number of foreign recruits. In the last year alone the number of non-European engineering professionals recruited by UK firms increased by 36 per cent.
"With a large number of senior engineers reaching retirement, we need to ensure that the talent pipeline is delivering fresh skills if the UK engineering sector is to prosper," Curry added.
"The government could also do more to encourage engineering contractors, who are vital to the flexibility of the engineering workforce, to re-train and update their skills. External training is currently not a tax deductable expense, but if we want to ensure that the UK engineering skills base is equipped for the future, providing a tax break for engineering contractors to update their skills would be a useful contribution."
SJD Accountancy points out that spending on infrastructure projects, which heavily use engineering skills, has risen from around £41bn annually 2005-10 to £45bn annually 2011-13. The National Infrastructure Plan (NIP), which was announced by the government last December, plans to spend £375bn on infrastructure projects up to 2030 and beyond.


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Here, some cupcakes for you.
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wow, magic cupcakes, thank you, meowtey
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Just passing by to say: you rock!
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so therapeutic and peaceful, thank you, I wish I had that coffee everyday
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Follow up reads? Sorry... I don't get it?
After reading Harry Potter, I recommend you to read Pusheen Potter too
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Yes indeed, that's a snake cake.
When I lived in Los Angeles I knew a place that made a different kind of snake cake.
You mean the frosting in shape of a snake or snake as an ingredient?
Theoretically, my mom could have made snake pie if she had inherited such heirloom recipe
I have never catched one with bare hands but I brushed my arms over the tree hugging green snakes for a few times as a kid, they were like housemates
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I mean a whole cake shaped like a snake. Or maybe it was shaped more like these mushrooms?
I like that you're not scared of snakes. I did catch one of these recently but it let out a big stink! I guess certain snakes can be like skunks in that regard.
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now this is the biggest mystery of our time, does snake fart?
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Warren is so poetic: "Sleeping in a tent allows us to hear the wind blow, the rain pitter patter, and the nocturnal critters go bump in the night. It removes the façade, putting us back on more equal footing with our fellow planetary inhabitants." Yet fewer people are doing it. Are you?


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Since U.S. sanctions have dramatically cut the Islamic Republic's ability to obtain financing via the dollar and euro, Tehran is aiming to use gold to deal in the world market. The republic is seeking to evade sanctions imposed by the United States, which were implemented earlier this year as a deterrent to continue building its nuclear program.
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Iran has also used yen to buy large volumes of wheat and has already purchased a minimum of 200,000 tons of wheat on the soft market, mostly from Australia.
According to a Christian Science Monitor Report:
Iran, which is still in the market to buy additional wheat supplies, is also considering barter deals to feed its 74 million people weeks before a presidential election, they said.
Grain ships are stuck outside Iranian ports and exports of staples to Iran such as maize, sugar, palm oil and rice are being hindered as collecting payment from buyers gets harder.
"Grain deals are being paid for in gold bullion and barter deals involving oil are being offered," one trader said. "Some of the major trading houses are involved," he added.
Traders said details of how barter deals work were still unclear as the problem had developed so quickly.
Iranian buyers have in the past side-stepped sanctions by booking business through third countries, especially Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, traders said. But this option had been suddenly closed as the UAE was not allowing sanction-breaking finance, they said.
"As the shipments of grain are so large, barter or gold payments are the quickest option," another trader said.
Friday morning the Associated Press reported that despite US pressure to comply with American sanctions, the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh was insisting that diplomacy was the best way to deal with Iran.
ABC News described India is considered to be an "energy starved" country, which has a heavy dependence on important Iranian oil.
"There have been problems with regard to Iran's nuclear program," Singh told reporters after meeting with the president of the European Union. "We sincerely believe that this issue can be and should be resolved by giving maximum scope to diplomacy."
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EU President Herman Van Rompuy said he would ask Singh to use India's leverage to help bring Iran back to the negotiating table.
Iran is India's second-largest crude oil supplier after Saudi Arabia and according to media reports imports 550,000 barrels a day.
Sanctions on Iran had long made that trade difficult, because Indian oil importers had to scramble to find banks willing to handle transactions with Tehran.
But last week, Iran's ambassador to India said the two countries had reached an agreement to make the trade easier. Under the agreement, India will make 45 percent of its payments for Iranian crude oil in rupees and pay the rest by investing in Iranian infrastructure projects. Iran, meanwhile, will use those rupees to buy Indian goods, including machinery, iron, steel, minerals and automobiles, said Ambassador Seyed Mehdi Nabizadeh.
A Reuters report also published Friday quoted the International Energy Agency sanctions were already affecting the Iranian trade flow even though a European ban does not go into effect until July. The agency reportedly has said that it predicts the sanctions could collectively curb the exportation of more than 600,000 barrels per day sold last year to the EU.
Reuters also reported that Iran is already having problems with China, which bought about 550,000 barrels per day totaling about 20 percent of Iran's imports. In the first quarter of 2012, China only bought half its 2011 volumes although these reductions were reportedly due to price disputes as opposed to sanctions.


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The Center for Cancer Genomics boasts a talented team of research faculty. Our multidisciplinary team of investigators is involved in ground-breaking research that has global implications. The academic importance of our work is shown by numerous publications in world-class academic journals. In addition, we are committed to research that makes a difference in the lives of individuals that face cancer. Therefore, we will continue to use genomic approaches to prevent cancer, identify cancer earlier, and to treat cancer more effectively.
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Waldemar Debinski, MD, PhD
My laboratory focuses on molecular targeting for cancer treatment with emphasis on primary brain tumors. Our research is highly translational as we seek the means to improve the management of patients with brain tumors. We have uncovered a number of specific to malignant brain tumors plasma membrane receptors that can be utilized in their diagnosis/imaging/treatment. More recently, we have revealed intracellular signaling pathways that function abnormally in highly malignant brain tumors and represent attractive targets for therapeutic interventions. Thus, we are testing novel and potentially effective ways/agents to image and treat brain tumors exploiting their unique genotype and phenotype. One of these agents has already gone through the efficacy clinical trials and more are expected to enter the clinic in a foreseeable future.
Fang-Chi Hsu, PhD
Dr. Hsu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistical Sciences. Her methodological research interests are in the development of statistical methods in genetic association studies. She has worked actively on several ongoing genetic studies and co-authored more than 10 papers in the past several years. Dr. Hsu is a leading statistician for our research on risk prediction. Her research is focused on the design and analysis of genetic and aging studies. She is interested in genetic risk prediction, gene-gene interaction analysis, and longitudinal data analysis.
Patrick P. Koty, MD
Patrick P. Koty, Ph.D. utilizes his knowledge of human genetics and expertise in cytogenetic, molecular cytogenetic, and molecular genetic approaches to investigate the process of carcinogenesis in the hope of developing protocols for the prevention of cancer.
Dr. Koty's research interests includes investigating molecular mechanisms for the prevention of lung and breast carcinogenesis, in particular the genetically regulated pathways of programmed cell death (PCD). The PCD pathway is altered in most cancer cells resulting in resistance to chemotherapeutic agents that induce this process, thus, at least in part, explaining the ineffectiveness of current therapies. Genes involved in the regulation of the PCD pathway are also altered in premalignant cells. Therefore, genetically manipulating these premalignant cells to reenter the PCD pathway may result in the prevention of cancer. Dr. Koty investigates the role of several PCD regulatory genes (bcl-2, bax, and bcl-xL&S) in normal, premalignant and malignant primary tissues and established cell lines from lung and breast cancer patients.
Another research interest of Dr. Koty involves investigating whether a common primary or secondary genetic lesion exists which leads to the development of lung or breast cancer. The existence of such a lesion in premalignant tissue would thus provide a method to screen at-risk populations for the prevention of disease. Dr. Koty uses various microarray platforms to investigate whether such early lesions occur in lung or breast cancer patients.
Lance D. Miller, PhD
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focused on the discovery and characterization of mechanistic and clinically
useful aspects of carcinogenesis from a systems biology perspective. Using
genomics technologies such as DNA microarrays, my laboratory investigates the
transcriptional dynamics and genomic architectures of primary tumors and cell
lines at various stages of the oncogenic process and in different clinical
contexts. Integrative analysis of genome-wide expression patterns, copy number
alterations, and clinicopathologic features allows us to uncover
transcriptional programs of mechanistic and prognostic relevance. This strategy
has led to the identification and validation of gene expression signatures in
liver, breast, ovarian and lung cancers that 1) reflect the activity of
specific growth-regulating pathways, 2) define known and novel tumor subtypes,
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the operational configuration of the TP53 pathway (Miller et al, PNAS, 2005)
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non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) that outperforms all conventional
prognostic factors, and identifies a substantial subgroup of patients that may
benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy (Broët, et al, Cancer Res, 2009).
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Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 08:32:14 CDT
Unicode is hardly used for
Mongolian-Uigur script, probably because it's very complicated to
implement and even to use, and inconsistent with the rest of Unicode.
For instance, they decided that the initial, middle, final and
stand-alone forms of a letter will be one character, while in latin and
Cyrillic (the 2 other scripts I know with such different forms of a
character), capital and small letters are 2 different characters.
On the other hand the vowels are considered as different according
to their... pronunciation! even if they have only one glyph, as if, in
English, the "i" of "liberty" had another code than the one of "nice".
Since the pronunciation varies geographically and historically, in a
few cases, one has to be quite cultivated to know the standard
historical pronunciation and decide how to write correctly, for
instance "төвшин"/"түвшин" in Mongolian-Uigur script. If pishing is a
problem with latin and Cyrillic, it'll be much more with
Mongolian-Uigur script if used in URLs. Searching for a character
string inside a text can also be very tricky. Optical character
recognition needs to work at the word level (that is to have a big
dictionary), not at the letter level, since the encoding doesn't
depends only on the letters you see. In a few cases, even the word
level is not sufficient: you have to understand the meaning of the word
to write it correctly, such as for "оноо"
v. "унаа" or "онох" v. "унах", so that character recognition needs
a process as complicated as... automated translation. And if, rarely,
both meanings are possible, then you have to make a decision, that is
to add to the encoding a piece of "information" (restriction of
meaning) which was not in the text you're encoding.
The advantage of including pronunciation into the encoding is that automatic reading is eased.
If we now think that Unicode should be a system to encode what is
written, no more, then a way to get out of this difficulty would be to
declare deprecated half the vowels' codes, and keep only one per actual
form. On the other hand, these vowels have always been pronounced 2
different ways. The uigur script had never been sufficient at the
letter level to Mongolian language, a difficulty historically addressed
by adding artificial spelling differences to many words in order to
distinguish them, if I understand correctly the process. This
difficulty is similar, for instance, to the one of old Hebrew where the
vowels were pronounced but not written. In English also, not only the
script is not sufficient to know the pronunciation at the letter level,
but in the case of "read" ("I've read this book.", "I read this
book."), the word level itself is not enough: you need the grammar.
So the real question is: "Is Unicode supposed to note the language, or just the script of a language?".
Yours sincerely.
Richard Ishida wrote:
I'm really
struggling to find any sample text in the Mongolian script in Unicode
on the Web. Does anyone have / know of any text they can point me
towards / send to me, that I'd be able to use for examples.
In particular, IE8beta now supports writing-mode:tb-lr, so I want
to include some real Mongolian script in the tests I am currently
putting together for vertical script support.
Also any suggestions for useful fonts would be welcome. Of the three listed at http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Mongolian.html only Code2000 seems to be doing a reasonable job.
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
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A Two Headed Monster Named Intermediate Accounting
So you cleared Principles of Accounting and you are now ready to take on the double headed monster known as Intermediate Accounting. Intermediate Accounting is the only two-semester course sequence that you have to go through in order to obtain your bachelor of science in accounting. Because of the depth and breadth of the topics covered in a typical Intermediate Accounting course, I gave it a nick name: The Two Headed Monster. I also came up with a nick name for Auditing but it will be revealed when I write a post on the auditing course. For now, just do yourself a favor by accepting de facto that intermediate accounting is going to test your resolve. Going through the two semester course sequence is often a very labor intensive process. You will need to devote 10 to 15 hours a week digesting what you will be taught in the classroom. The purpose of intermediate accounting is to help you understand, prepare, and use financial information. Most of your understanding of financial accounting and reporting will take place during the two semesters you will devote to this course. I often wonder why they call this course Intermediate Accounting as apposed to Applied Financial Reporting which seems to be a more suggestive appellation. Rather than debating on what would be the most appropriate name for Intermediate Accounting, you will be better served if I forewarn you about the most challenging topics that you will likely encounter while taking this two-semester course sequence of accounting. The following is a list of topics that I have personally found very difficult to assimilate. Please be mindful that this list is not intended to be exhaustive nor universal.
I) Conceptual Framework Underlying Financial Accounting: (1)Basic assumptions of accounting: Economic entity, Going concern, Monetary unit, and periodicity. (2)Application of the basic principle of accounting:Historical cost principle, Revenue recognition principle, Matching principle, and Full disclosure principle. (3)Impact of constraints on the reporting of accounting information: Cost benefit relationship, materiality, industry practices, and conservatism.
II) Income Statement and Related Information: Reporting irregular items, Discontinued operations, extraordinary items, unusual gains and losses, Change in accounting principle, Change in accounting estimate, Special reporting issues, and Intra-period tax allocation.
III) Cash Flows Statement: Content and format of the statement of cash flow, Preparation of the statement of cash flows, Classification of cash flows, and Sources of information.
IV) Accounting and the Time Value of Money: Single sum problems, Annuities, Valuation of long term bonds, and Present value measurement.
V) Cash and Receivables: Valuation of accounts receivable, Recognition of notes receivable, Valuation of notes receivable, Disposition of accounts and notes receivables.
VI) Inventory: Effects of inventory errors on the financial statements, Cost flow assumptions, Special issues related to LIFO, and Lower of cost or market.
VII) Acquisition, Valuation, and Disposition of Property, Plant, and Equipment: Pick your poison!
VIII) Depreciation, Impairment, and Depletion: Pick your poison!
IX) Characteristics, Valuation, Amortization, and Impairment of Intangible Assets: Pick your poison!
X) Long Term Liabilities: Issuance and Valuation of Bonds (Discount and Premium), Effective interest method, Cost of issuing bonds, Issuance and valuation of long term notes payable, Extinguishment of debt, Trouble debt restructuring, and Off balance sheet financing.
XI) Stockholder's Equity: Accounting for and reporting treasury stock, Dividend policy, Dividend preferences, and Book value per share.
XII) Dilutive Securities and Earnings per Share: Accounting for the issuance, conversion, and retirement of convertible securities, Accounting for stock warrants, Accounting for stock compensation plans under GAAP, and Computing earnings per share in both simple and complex capital structure.
XIII) Investments: Held to maturity securities, available for sale securities, trading securities, and Investments in equity securities.
XIV) Revenue Recognition: At point of sale, Percentage completion method, Completion of production basis, Installment sales accounting method, Cost recovery method, Accounting for losses on completed contract, and Bargain purchases.
XV) Accounting for Income Taxes: Pick your poison!
XVI) Accounting for Pensions and Retirement Benefits: Pick your poison!
XVII) Accounting for Leases: Pick your poison!
XVIII) Accounting Changes and Error Analysis: Pick your poison! Have you caught your breath yet?
It was indeed a very lengthy list and it could get shorter or lengthier depending on your personal situation. Because both Intermediate Accounting courses will be very time consuming, having access to very well written lecture notes will save you quite a good amount of time on your preparation before each lecture. Trust me, you will be so swamped with waves of new information pouring over your head that you will start looking for new time efficient ways of studying for Intermediate Accounting. Luckily for you, I have been down that road before. I took Intermediate Accounting about two years after taking Principles of Accounting. Not only did I have to contend with being a little rusty, but I also had to deal with taking a full course load and keeping busy with extra curricular activities. You can imagine how much juggling I had to do just to make sure that I never fell behind throughout the semester. Actually, I did occasionally fall behind but I would always find some innovative ways to catch up within no time. For instance, I relied heavily on free lecture notes available on the internet. In addition, whenever there was an accounting concept that puzzled me, I would look it up on Google or Wikipedia to see if I could find some easier to understand definition and illustration of that concept. Last but not least, I would always seek additional explanation from my classmates and most importantly from my accounting professors. Regardless of your personal circumstances, it's important that you always remind yourself that a true understanding of how a particular accounting procedure is applied demands a clear understanding of why it is applied.
PS: Now proceed to the "Accounting Lecture Notes" page for some study aids related to Intermediate Accounting.
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As mentioned in our review of PBL's annual meeting, Leighton Holdings wins our 'best spread' award for 2003. Satay sticks, curry puffs and vol-au-vents all awaited attendees after the meeting, washed down by wine, beer and scotch. Such extravagance doesn't impress us but, thankfully, we were already more than satisfied when we left the meeting room.
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The launch of the popular Social Network movie coupled with Facebook's recent enhancements to their Groups functionality has fueled the requests for my opinion as to whether Facebook is becoming a viable platform for an organizational Intranet. I'll be writing a blog post this weekend detailing the technical/functional reasons that Facebook still isn't a good choice, but in the meantime I wanted to share this funny video pointing out that many employees just don't take Facebook seriously.
One of the most difficult hurdles for any Intranet to overcome is adoption and if your employees don't take the Intranet and the content that it hosts seriously, then adoption will never follow. So, in light of that….is this how your employees feel about Facebook?
I'm not saying that Facebook will never be a suitable platform, it's just not ready right now.
Be sure to check out the other articles in this Facebook as an Intranet series:
Facebook As A Company Intranet Is A Nightmare Waiting To Happen
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TAMPA - Florida is taking better care of its bridges than any state in the nation and surpasses all but California and Texas in expenditures on state highways, two studies by national transportation policy groups report. Florida, Nevada and Texas respectively ranked as the states with the lowest percentage of deficient bridges, and Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Iowa the worst, the Transportation For America group found based on federal data through 2012. A Reason Foundation report based on 2009 comparative data said Florida ranked third in expenditures behind California and Texas at $6.7 billion, and Florida's average expenditure of per mile $551,045 was 3.8 times the national average. Findings from the separate reports released in the past month indicate Florida's focus and expenditures on its highway infrastructure have weathered recessionary budget cuts better than most states."Transportation is the backbone for the economy," Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad said in a telephone interview last week. "It affects the food we eat, a trip to the doctor's office, taking the kids to school and going to the beach. "It is a testament to Gov. Scott and previous governors and the Legislature that the state has continued to invest in transportation infrastructure." Scott's fiscal 2014 $9.4 billion transportation budget fully funds FDOT's $8.6 billion "work program." That includes $3.8 billion for highway construction, $767 million for maintenance and operation, $410 million for public transit grants, $288 million for bridge repair and replacement of 31 bridges and $150 million for safety initiatives. Although the Transportation For America report found 11 percent, or about 66,400, of the nation's 605,000 bridges were rated deficient - meaning they require significant maintenance, rehabilitation or replacement - only 2.2 percent, or 265, of Florida's 12,000 bridges are deficient. Among those are six within 10 miles of downtown Tampa, two in St. Petersburg, one in Clearwater and the northbound span (eastbound to Tampa) of the Howard Frankland Bridge. "All bridges in Florida are safe to travel," Prasad said. "There is not one I would not take my wife and daughter across. Our position is that we either restrict loads or shut a bridge down." The Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge collapse in May in Washington state was the most recent major event to cast public attention on the nation's highway infrastructure shortcomings. Vehicles tumbled into the river between Seattle and the Canadian border, but no one was killed. The bridge was not rated structurally deficient, but it was one of 20,000 U.S. bridges rated "fracture critical," without redundant supporting elements, and it was a candidate for replacement, the Transportation For America report stated. "The good news is that some states have worked hard to address the problem and have reduced the backlog of deficient bridges," the report stated. Florida fits that category, reducing its deficient bridges from 300 in 2011 to 265 in 2013, an 11.7 percent decrease. Bridges have three primary components: the deck on which vehicles cross; the superstructure, which supports the deck; and the substructure, which uses the ground to support the superstructure. Federal guidelines classify bridges as "structurally deficient" if one of the three key components is rated a "four" or less on a scale of zero to nine. Five of the 10 deficient bridges in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area have decks rated poor or less; five have superstructure rated poor or less; and one has substructure rated poor. FDOT is studying design options to replace the northbound span of the Howard Frankland Bridge between 2020 and 2025 in a project estimated to cost about $370 million. The span has exceeded its 50-year design life, and it is more efficient to replace it than maintain it, FDOT District 7 manager Ming Gao said. The July 2013 annual report by the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation used data compiled through 2009. It found two-thirds of poor condition rural Interstate mileage is in five states: California, Alaska, Minnesota, New York and Colorado. Florida ranked 25th best, but that represented just 0.15 percent of poor rural Interstate miles. Half of poor condition urban interstate mileage is in five states: California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Texas. Florida ranked 17th best, with 1.47 percent of poor urban Interstate miles. "A widening gap seems to be emerging between most states that are making progress and a few states that are finding it difficult to improve," the Reason report said. Choosing 11 factors, including highway conditions, maintenance expenditures, narrow lanes on rural roads and fatality rates, the Reason report ranked Florida 37th in overall highway performance and efficiency, up from 40 and 39 in the past two annual reports. Florida's national rank was shaped by low ratings in fatality rates, Interstate congestion and narrow rural roads. While the two reports drew on similar data to focus on specific transportation factors, authors from the two policy groups differed markedly in their outlook on the state of the nation's transportation infrastructure. "Although it is widely believed that the U.S. highway system is crumbling, objective data tell a different story," the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation said. The foundation indicated the latest U.S. Department of Transportation report to Congress showed pavement and bridge condition, congestion and accident rates have improved in the past decade. Progressive groups frequently challenge Reason reports because the group states its mission is to promote libertarian principles. Contributors include oil industry interests such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, the American Petroleum Institute and the Koch Family Foundation. Washington, D.C.-based Transportation For America, which lists the AARP, Amtrak, CEOs for Cities, The Real Estate Foundation and the U.S. High-Speed Rail Association among its coalition partners, reached a different conclusion from appraising relatively similar data - albeit two years fresher. 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Friday, December 11, 2009
today has been standard.
i have work tomorrow and i'm way tired. i have to wash my hair in the morning.
jason decided to go on facebook chat to me and say 'i miss ur mouth'
i'm like... crass much?
and now you regret it.
tbh, i'm not really bothered about getting laid at this point in time. i have too much work to do, and exams, and just ugh. i've never been at a point when i'm dying for a shag. cigarettes is a wholeeeee different story. so whatever. perhaps i'll give into the carnal instinct of mindless fucking or perhaps i'll disdain him. i don't know. right now all i can think about right now is crawling into bed and having a nice long sleep.
i'm running on empty and can't do much about it. however, natteh just rang - she's at paramore - so i had a nice listen. :)
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Opened prior to 1925 as the Orient Theatre with 325 seats. The Jem Theatre is the only movie house in Fillmore County, Minnesota. It continues to draw crowds from the surrounding communities.
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Welcome to the Lighthouse! We offer hands-on construction, interactive science and mathematics weekly sessions in the Stroud area. Find out about who we are, our values and how to contact us.
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Bad Apple. A wonderful club experience in the heart of Croydon.
A place where you can choose to dance, where you can step onto our dance floor filled with all the music you forgotten you loved from Croydon's most talented DJ'S and party on until the early hours, and sometimes later than that. Or you can choose to sit and chat and catch up with your friends and colleagues in our selection of luxurious seating from chesterfields to deep comfy sofas or even enjoy our beer garden, come rain or shine.
Be adventurous and try something new. Get involved with our very well stocked bar.
Enjoy something special from our cocktail menu, made to order and sure to please. Have you ever tried a Porn-star Martini or even the Nuclear Daiquiri?
We have succulent juicy hot-dogs and all manner of other bar snacks, including for some unknown reason Pot noodles.
We have such a wide selection of spirits your bound to find something you love or discover some new tipple.
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Winner of the Best Bar None awards 2013 and 2014 and winner of best customer experience 2014. we must be doing something right.
Our CORE belief is in quality service from friendly attentive staff in a venue decadently designed with your safety in mind. Bringing something a little bit different to the heart of Croydon while keeping you in safe hands.
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Seattle Small Business Emerging Leaders Program
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Lead Paint Removal Work Practices
Removal is the stripping of the lead containing paint and its elimination from the premises. This is, by far, the most preferred and desirable method since it is the complete and permanent solution to a lead dust problem. However, lead dust removal is also the most costly since it involves technical equipment and stringent worker procedures to ensure safety.
Why Lead Paint is Dangerous
Lead was banned from being used in household paints starting in 1978. This means there's a lot of houses and commercial spaces that still have lead painted surfaces.
Anatomy of a Soda Blast Professional
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Why Clean With Soda?
We use a variety of medias to blast with including sand, dry ice, and walnut shells. But why soda? Prior to soda, sand was the main blasting media. Sandblasting, however, is abrasive and erodes the substrate coatings, pitting glass, tearing rubber, plastic and etching metals. Soda blasting can be used wet or dry to remove paint, corrosion, biological contaminants, oil, grease, carbon and many other coatings.
The Tracy House Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Have you ever-mixed cement? First, add water to a mixture, stir, pour, and wait for it to set. Sounds simple enough, right? Now, repeat those steps 1,700 times into individual block molds. That is exactly what Seattle couple, Bill and Elizabeth Tracy, did five days a week for a year while constructing their home in Normandy Park, WA in 1956.
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2011 vs 2012: Construction Spending in the U.S. [Infographic]
Last month, Final 2012 construction spending numbers were released by the US Census Bureau in their January 2013 Press Release. This graphic illustrates some of the comparisons in public, private, and total construction spending from 2011 to 2012.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- I did a lot of online research before deciding to buy from them. After looking at some Rolex watches on their website, my wife and I went to their store since it's only 25 miles away. We called ahead and reserved 3 watches to look at, 2 Datejust and 1 President.
We looked at the datejust first but after looking at the President, which looked like new and beautiful my wife wanted that one. We bought it and left. We stopped by a pawn shop to see how much they would give for it and to verify that it was real. The guy there was impressed with the condition, it's a 20 year old watch.
When we got home I shined my surefire on the dial face and noticed tiny white water spots. Not really noticeable with the naked eye. I'm a perfectionist and it bothered me a little. We went back to Bob's after emailing them, they told us to come in and the watchmaker would look at it. Larry looked at it and confirmed that it was old water spots but they would not get worse and there was nothing they could do because it was etched into the dial. Our only option was to return the watch.
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Many people are drawn to our Northwest Coast Formline style, understandably. It's got a unique elegance.
For some, it's not enough to admire, they wish to learn how to create their own work in this style. If that's you, hopefully this post will be helpful.
Non-Natives should be aware that our clans have what is considered at'.oow (sacred clan emblems).
Please be respectful, and become more educated on the issue of cultural misappropriation.
1. Find a Mentor
Tlingit art has been handed down through an apprenticeship system. This is still the best way to learn.
Apprenticeships are fun as well as rewarding, Check out Alaska Council on the Arts Grants to Individual Artists
2. Practice, Practice, Practice
Practice. Practice the basics, the formline elements: Ovoid, 'U' shapes, and their endless variations.
Save Your Work. Keep a sketch diary. Date your entries so you can look back on your progress.
Trace. There's nothing wrong with tracing; it helps you get used to drawing shapes correctly. Kinesthetic learning.
3. Build a Library
- Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, Bill Holm
- Northwest Coast Indian Painting: House Fronts and Interior Screens, Edward Malin
- The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of the Nortwest Coast First Nations, Bill McLennan and Karen Duffek
- Formline: An Evolving Art by Bill Holm on YouTube
- Day 1: Formline Workshop with Steve Brown on Vimeo
*I'll be creating a few tutorials myself to put online in the near future.
4. Research
Some of the finest examples in the world can be seen in museum collections. If you can't visit in person, visit their websites. Most have an online database of images.
- Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka, AK
- Alaska State Museum in Juneau, AK
- Bill Holm Center, Burke Museum in Seattle, WA
- American Museum of Natural History in New York, NY
- Field Museum in Chicago, IL
- Shotridge Collection at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, PA
- National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
- Museum of Ethnology in Berlin, Germany
- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg, Russia
Search Google Images below
Search Pinterest collections for "Tlingit" "Haida" "Tsimshian" "Nishgaa" etc.
5. Experiment
Learning the design rules feels limiting at first, but believe me, there are limitless possibilities.
You will reach a point where it's time to start experimenting.
Use the search below to search for (as distasteful as the word is) "contemporary Tlingit art" and you'll see some of today's innovators. Very cool!