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Hands down Ibitsu is the creepiest thing I have read. Go read it down. Its most fun at about 2am with most of the lights out, which is how I read it.
It was beautiful. There should be a sequel. I want to delve into the Lolita's mind and see what made her what she is. I mean, an urban legend that kills people yes, but what formed that urban legend. Also the other ones, the dolls that took people's skin and paraded around in them, and the manga artist killer...
Zashiki Onna is similar.
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Gantz is by far a really scary one if you were to put yourself in the character's shoes, as for H.O.T.D it's not that scary compared to this one, besides both have boobies and such, but Gantz is more serious in a way :d
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Pretty much none of them are for under 18 though, reading them at 2am or at the age of 8 or something will scar your mind.
But in terms of extreme paranoia and spine-chilling fuel, there's nothing better than Fuan No Tane.
1:20 am here, challenge accepted. Gonna check out Fuan no Tane now~ ^^
.... Eh, wasn't that scary. Uzumaki was 1,000 times creepier~
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I'm not crazy! My reality is just different than yours!
higanbana, corpse party ?
Uzumaki was creepy but lots of Junji Ito's smaller stories are way more terrifying imo.
The tall lady from Mimi's Ghost Stories gives me the ultimate creeps, the enigma story made me so claustrophobic feeling, the long dream is a terrifying concept, army of one is so uncomfortable, the various monster ladies with creepy eyes and needle teeth.....
Also, Glyceride is the most disgusting story I've ever read, so cringe-wise, that's the winner. Had me gagging at one panel.
Being a magical girl.
Well, i yet have to find any scary manga LOL
But i guess from reading the responses so far : Shigurui, Gantz, Berserk ?
Atleast those 3 are the "scariest" among those i've read
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Corpse Party Blood Covered was scary though haven't read it in awhile so might read it again later on this year
Shiki, the only manga that made me freaked out by chapter 6
Higurashi (from Oni to Matsuri) was just epic and gorey!! <3 Kyaa~ Rika-chama
Another -- the anime was freaky, but... manga..not that much
Corpse Party was good...
I think Musume had that weird part where the crossdresser died though, cant remember, but not that scary
Gen'ei Taiyou is great in the end...
"I am a hero" is alittle scary and the Blame series
ohh!!! Uzumaki is creepy -.- fking spirals man..
1. Itou Junji (check out this mangaka's works they are amazingly horrifying)
2. Mahou shoujo of the end
3. Apocalypse no toride
4. Ibitsu
5. Gantz
6. Orochi Manga
7. Parasyte
Uzumaki...I swear every time I see a spiral...Shivers...
Oh, and Ibitsu was pretty chilling. Take into account it was, I COULD say, a retake on Zashiki Onna. Demon, urban legend, horror manga material. The endings of Ibitsu and Uzumaki had me torn.
Never read Gantz. Isn't that where the WHY U NO?! meme came from? I remember reading a few chapters I think. If anything, Gantz can be considered GORE not SCARY. But, I haven't read the manga, so at this point I'm kind of speaking alone.
Any of Junji Itou's works will cripple you for weeks. His shit is fucked up scary. Also look into Furuya Usamaru. Did Litchi Light Club, prequel and sequel, and a manga adaptation of Suicide Girls. Usamaru's more on the gory side though, in my opinion. Junji's shit really gives you nightmares.
Two words: Glyceride, Uzumaki. Try not to puke.
I've heard Higurashi is scary as Hell, but I've never been able to get into it. And for the love of God if there ever was one, Highschool of the Dead is not scary. Fanservice out the ass paired with slicing zombies does NOT make a good horror manga. No, that's what yields something like Lollipop Chainsaw.
I did read into Fuan no Tane. Pretty decent. Not much for urban legends, more of a creepypasta guy. Hell, that's contradictory. I always want to believe that there is a chance that there are evils out there like that in this world we call Earth.
Take what I said about Usamaru back. Just read Plastic Girl, and he is certified for horror.
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The new Canon camera[edit]
On Sat, Jul 23rd 2011, the camera survived taking automatically triggered pictures for 1.25h (9pm..10:15pm) with low light (late evening, only artificial lights in noisebridge), with the following settings:
- Camera started fully charged
- Intervalometer set to approx. 2.7s
- Display set to turn off after 10s
- Auto power off switched off
- Manual mode 'P'
Battery runtime data with the camera doing nothing, but auto power off disabled. INSERT HERE! FIXME: There is a setting for the timeout after which the lens will be retracted. Figure out whether this acts in any way like auto power off. What happens when the trigger is pressed once fully (or the way the intervalometer emulates it) when the camera was powered but with lens retracted?
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Will that new Han be tauntaun ready?
Looking good for Princess Kneesa in 2012 too...
Didn't Hasbro say something, somewhere recently, about the Battledroid's fold-up dealy getting some attention? I could've sworn they were asked about it by somebody.
On the other hand, knowing Hasbro we might get some sort of deluxe MTT mini rig that opens up a front hatch and on a rack it holds a grand total of one Battle Droid... how ridiculous would that look?
I love the larger vehicles (republic shuttle aside) but the MTT is a big turd and just kinda hovered for a minute. Granted the army of droids inside was pretty nifty and I'd bet they'd outfit it with maybe half of them to start things off. I'm sure if they did make one it'd follow that formula and be some kind of wonky playset and I guess that would be okay because other than the droid storage it really didn't/doesn't have much going for it.Perhaps we'll see a few *hints* in the toon ?
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These sets really do put K-Mart ahead of the pack. Honestly I felt last year's did as well, as far as exclusives go. TRU was the only store that came close with the Speederbike. Maybe a tie for me there, actually, but their 2-packs were the right price, and amazing products.
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College of Engineering appoints S.T.E.M. marketing & public affairs officerUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Eric R. Matsunaga, (808) 956-7584
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Director, Marketing & Public Affairs, College of Engineering
Posted: Apr 14, 2011
The University of Hawai`i at Mānoa College of Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Myhraliza Aala as S.T.E.M. marketing and public affairs officer.
Aala will be responsible for the college's S.T.E.M.(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) outreach efforts, including positioning and messaging, event coordination, enrollment management, communications and publicity.
Prior to her recent appointment, Aala served as associate director of new student programs at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo, responsible for the planning, management, implementation and evaluation of new student orientation and transitional programs. Aala joined UH Hilo in 2006, after nine years at San Diego State University, where she most recently served as manager and project coordinator for the dean of undergraduate studies.
"We are extremely pleased to have Ms. Aala on board to help spearhead our initiative to increase interest in S.T.E.M. and UH Mānoa engineering in the schools," said Dean Peter E. Crouch. "It is evident from her past experience, that Ms. Aala has the ability to engage students and garner support from the local community and businesses. We look forward to working with her."
Aala holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master of arts degree in communication from San Diego State University, and is currently working on her doctorate of education in educational leadership through the University of Southern California's cohort program. She is a member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.


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Few people escaped it as infants and toddlers—those wrinkled noses and parents' comments about the "mess" as diapers were changed. Perhaps you were admonished, "Don't touch yourself," and wondered at the concern this brought from your mom or dad. Undoubtedly it was drummed into you to keep yourself clean: "Scrub those hands; wash that hair; brush those teeth." Obviously the body was a fairly "dirty" thing! It wasn't to be trusted either. You were supposed to go to bed even when you didn't feel tired, to eat even when you weren't hungry, to wear a coat even when you weren't cold. If you weren't especially discouraged about your body's functions and the correctness of its feedback, you probably weren't exactly encouraged either.
It's not surprising that most people develop some dissociation from, and fear of, their own precious bodies and their natural processes. Typically, that dissociation endures throughout life. Even though the cultural norm encompasses an obsession with the body's appearance, few people know much about the body's workings. When was the concept of innate bodily knowledge or wisdom ever taught?
This shame and ignorance and dissociation, once learned, shows up as:
To inhabit your body means to be aware of it; to listen to and learn from its constant feedback; to accept and feel all things—whether pain or pleasure, happiness or grief; and to speak about yourself as if you were a whole being, especially when some "part" of you is in pain.
Ronald J. Glasser, The Body is the Hero
Disease or pain is not the problem. More likely disease or pain is the body's attempt to solve the problem, a feedback of sorts that says something isn't working properly. And that "something" is probably much more than a rash or an ache. These symptoms may point to the need for a change in lifestyle, for emotional expression, or for spiritual guidance. The only way to find out what your body needs is to inhabit it.
You may feel as if you live outside and a little bit behind, or a few inches in front of, yourself, but not squarely aligned. Rushing ahead, or lagging behind, or listening to others instead of yourself, or saying yes when you mean no—in these and thousands of other ways you resign from yourself. Wellness is about "coming home"—taking up residence inside your own body once again.


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Who came up with the terms for groups of animals? Who decided that geese came in flocks, lions come in prides, and so on? The folks at pleated-jeans.com decided to come up with "Better Names for Groups of Animals" for this video (Warning: a couple of expletives are shown on screen, in case you're at work or around mom), and their ideas include a platoon of baboons, a pack of yaks, a Ryan of goslings… okay, you get the idea. And that, of course, leads to a game in which you come up with your own terms. Sorry, a "murder of crows" is taken and is real, so you'll have to do better. Suggest your own below. Remember, rhyming is good.
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We'll be holding a Django development sprint in the offices of i-Layer on the 30th of August. This sprint is sponsored by i-Layer and djangodb.org.
This sprint will be focused on outstanding issues in the run up to the version 1.0 release of django. More details will be posted here and announced on django-dev as we get closer to the sprint.
What's a sprint? How do I participate?
See Sprints for information about how sprints work, how you can participate, etc.
Anybody, anywhere around the world, can participate and contribute. We'll be gathering in person in the i-Layer offices, but if you can't make it you can also help out in IRC.
You can find all the gory details on the Sprints page.
If you plan to participate in the sprint, please register.
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An information pack will be sent to you upon registration. Note - the venue has room for between 20-30 participants.
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One Good Dish by David Tanis
The other day, a friend was over and he picked up David Tanis' latest cookbook, One Good Dish, from the large pile of books on my table. He started to casually flip through it but soon he began to slow down, turning each page thoughtfully. Five minutes passed, then ten minutes. Finally he looked up and said, "Wow — this is how I cook. I would make everything in this book." Yes, exactly!
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: David Tanis
• Who published it: Artisan
• Number of recipes: 100
• Recipes for right now: Waffle-Iron Grilled Cheese; Polenta "Pizza" with Crumbled Sage; Mackerel Rillettes; Save-Your-Life Garlic Soup; Rice Porridge with Salted Egg; Winter Minestrone; Warm French Lentil Salad; Long Cooked Kale, Please; Wok-Fried Lamb with Cumin, Candied Grapefruit Peel.
• Other highlights: David Tanis is well-known for his previous cookbooks, A Platter of Figs and The Heart of an Artichoke, as well as his City Kitchen column in The New York Times. (And of course, his many years cooking and running the Chez Panisse kitchens are the foundation to this impressive resumé.) One Good Dish, his third book, differs from the others in that it is not menu based. Rather, Mr. Tanis explores the delights to be found in the simplicity of making 'one good dish' to be eaten alone or maybe accompanied by a green salad. 'Company welcome,' he adds.
The book is divided into eight chapters. Beginning with Bread Makes the Meal (spaghetti with bread crumbs and pepper; spicy stovetop flatbreads), the book moves onto My Kind of Snacks (prosciutto and fruit; almonds with rosemary), A Dab of This and That (north African red sauce; mustard from scratch), Eating with a Spoon (confetti vegetable broth; rice porridge with salted egg), Vegetables to Savor (young turnips, greens and all; Swiss chard al forno), Strike While the Iron is Hot (Spanish pork skewers; crispy potato galette). The book ends with A Little Something Sweet (after-dinner dates; ginger spice wafers) and A Few Remarkable Drinks (Provencal cocktail; lemongrass tisane).
I really appreciate the simplicity of these recipes. This is the book that I will pick up when I'm hungry but not quite sure for what, for these dishes are inspiring yet can be made without a lot of fuss. Even something that I'm already familiar with, such as pesto, receives a just-different-enough treatment here to make it interesting (basil and garlic are chopped on a board, placed in a bowl and covered in olive oil.) It's not always easy to make simple food sound as tempting and succulent as these recipes but Mr. Tanis manages just that.
There is also a very nice introduction which explains how to work with the book, a short list of recommended ingredients, and an index. This is a well-bound book, with a cloth cover (no slipcover — a plus, in my opinion). The color photographs by Gentl & Hyers are wonderful and really showcase the food.
• Who would enjoy this book? People who enjoy simple, delicious, no-fuss cooking and who appreciate well-written recipes written by someone who really knows their way around a home kitchen.
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: One Good Dish: The Pleasures of a Simple Meal by David Tanis
• Visit the author's website: David Tanis
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Gerald Lynch Wright, 93, of Pine Hill died Feb. 7, 2011 at J. Paul Jones Hospital in Camden.
He was born June 19, 1917 in Pine Hill. He was a member of the Pine Hill Baptist Church. He was a former director of the Bank of Pine Hill and member of the Wilcox Board of Education. He was a veteran of World War II serving in the United States Army in the Battle of the Bulge. He was owner and operator of Wright's Service Station in Pine Hill for 37 years.
Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Ashworth Wright, Pine Hill; three sons, Gerald Luther "Jerry" (Goldie) Wright, Thomas Kenyon "Tommy" (Mary Lee) Wright, all of Pine Hill, Emory Donald "Donny" Wright, Fairhope; one daughter, Ruby Louise Wright (Jimmy) O'Bryant, Thomasville; one sister, Freda Bradford, Mobile; seven grandchildren, Tara Kylene Wright, Austin, Texas, Lucas Ramsey Wright, Atlanta, Ga., Kenyon Lee Wright, Auburn, Jimmy Ray O'Bryant III, Tuscaloosa, Daniel Gerald O'Bryant, Thomasville, Tommy Eric Holmes, Amanda Holmes Collier, both of Burkville; two great grandchildren.
A graveside service was Feb. 10 at 2 p.m. in the Pine Hill Cemetery with Rev. Carl Williams officiating.
Active pallbearers were Lucas Wright, Trey O'Bryant, Daniel O'Bryant, Lee Wright, Tara Wright and Matthew Wright.
Honorary pallbearers were Stan Bradford, James Dunn, Marvin Etheridge, Delmer Fletcher, Bill Godbold, Ralph Harper, Paul Headley, Joe Hicks, Harry Mason, Ronnie Moore, Wayne Pearson, Billy Sheffield, Ralph Sheffield, Roger Sheffield, Luther Spires, Harold Swearington and Dell Williams.
Memorials may be made to the Pine Hill Cemetery Fund.
Condolences may be offered at www.obryantchapelfh.com.
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Florence court of appeal 23 April 2010 - 10 September 2010, Maurizio Bindi vs. Schreurs & Co. Export B.V.
The court of appeal confirmed the first judgment which had found infringement of a plant variety patent belonging to the appellee. In particular, the court rejected the appellant's argument that there could be no infringement because his plants were covered by another patent belonging to himself, so that the variety was necessarily another one. The court argued on one the hand that there was no proof that the plants sold by appellant really belonged to his patented variety, and on the other hand that appellant's patent did not necessarily entitle him to sell the plants in dispute, particularly because such patent might be invalid (pages 28, 30). In another part of this judgment, the court of appeal reduced the damage compensation ordered in the first instance.
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The 76ers will interview Houston Rockets assistant coach Elston Turner on Friday in Philadelphia.
Turner told KRIV-TV in Houston that he plans to interview for both the Sixers opening and the Chicago Bulls opening. Turner said he hasn't yet set a date for his interview with the Bulls.
Turner previously interviewed for the head coaching vacancies with the Phoenix Suns and Minnesota Timberwolves. He has worked as an assistant coach with the Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers and, for the last three seasons, with the Rockets.
The Sixers have interviewed six candidates so far: Doug Collins, Avery Johnson, Sam Mitchell, Bill Laimbeer, Dan Majerle, and Monty Williams. The search, it appears, continues.


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Tool Test: Infinity Tools Thick-kerf, Flat-top Table Saw Blades
When we think table saw blades, our experience limits our thinking to rip, crosscut or combination, and 1⁄8″ kerf or thin kerf. Then there's the number of teeth and type of grind: flat top, alternate-tooth bevel (ATB) or triple-chip. Each of these has its purpose and, if sharp, performs a dedicated task well.
Now, Infinity Cutting Tools offers a new table saw blade that cuts joints cleanly with just one setup.
These 8″ blades come with 24 teeth in kerf widths of 5⁄32″ and 1⁄4″. They feature a flat-top tooth grind and a side grind to optimize tooth geometry for side clearance. This tooth configuration and grind makes clean, flat-bottomed cuts either with or across the grain in hardwoods, plywood, laminates and veneered panels. No more "bat ears" left by ATB blades or dado sets.
These blades are also perfect for cutting box joints, rabbets, dados and grooves at the table saw – no need to clean up the bottoms after. And if you are partial to using your table saw to cut tenons, these blades are ideal for cutting a joint with a shoulder equal to or more narrow than the blade kerf. All that's required for each shoulder is a single pass with the stock on end, supported with a jig riding the saw fence.
In addition to single blades, Infinity offers sets of blades and shims to space two blades apart for making various-width cuts or even make two box-joint cuts in one pass.
These specialty blades provide a solid solution for numerous table saw operations, and provide superior results while saving time.
Video: See an easy way to cut tenons using the table saw. (Coming soon.)
Web site: Infinity Blade
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Kyle Wiltjer's 14 points led five Kentucky players in double figures as the Wildcats outlasted Auburn 72-62 Saturday for their fifth straight win.
Though tighter than the Wildcats' 75-53 beating of the Tigers three weeks ago at Auburn, the victory provided their longest winning streak this season and some momentum before Tuesday's Southeastern Conference showdown at first-place Florida. The Wildcats (17-6, 8-2) began the day a game behind the Gators.
Kentucky survived physical and sometimes chippy play by Auburn, which saw center Rob Chubb and backup Asauhn Dixon-Tatum foul out. The Wildcats made 26 of 38 free throws to beat Auburn for the 15th straight time.
Ryan Harrow and Willie Cauley-Stein each added 12 points, while Julius Mays and Nerlens Noel had 10 apiece. Noel added 11 rebounds for his third straight double-double but blocked his only shot in the final minutes.
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Will My Plastic Bag Still Be Here in 2507?
How scientists figure out how long it takes your trash to decompose.
Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for The Explainer's free daily podcast on iTunes.
Starting July 1, most large grocery stores in the state of California will be legally required to recycle plastic shopping bags. In Europe, even stricter anti-plastic measures are gaining traction. Retailers in Modbury, England, for example, recently committed to an outright plastic-bag ban. News reports have cited a statistic that the ubiquitous receptacles take 500 years to break down in landfills. How do we know?
Actually, we don't. Plastic bags have only been around for about 50 years, so there's no firsthand evidence of their decomposition rate. To make long-term estimates of this sort, scientists often use respirometry tests. The experimenters place a solid waste sample—like a newspaper, banana peel, or plastic bag—in a vessel containing microbe-rich compost, then aerate the mixture. Over the course of several days, microorganisms assimilate the sample bit by bit and produce carbon dioxide; the resultant CO2 level serves as an indicator of degradation.
Respirometry tests work perfectly for newspapers and banana peels. (Newspapers take two to five months to biodegrade in a compost heap; banana peels take several days.) But when scientists test generic plastic bags, nothing happens—there's no CO2 production and no decomposition. Why? The most common type of plastic shopping bag—the kind you get at supermarkets—is made of polyethylene, a man-made polymer that microorganisms don't recognize as food.
So, where does the 500-year statistic come from? Although standard polyethylene bags don't biodegrade, they do photodegrade. When exposed to ultraviolet radiation from sunlight, polyethylene's polymer chains become brittle and start to crack. This suggests that plastic bags will eventually fragment into microscopic granules. As of yet, however, scientists aren't sure how many centuries it takes for the sun to work its magic. That's why certain news sources cite a 500-year estimate while others prefer a more conservative 1,000-year lifespan. According to some plastics experts, all these figures are just another way of saying "a really, really long time."
Sometimes, even banana peels don't decompose once they reach the landfill. For sanitary reasons, modern landfills are lined on the bottom with clay and plastic to keep waste from escaping into the soil and are covered daily with a layer of earth to reduce odor. The landfill, then, acts like a trash tomb—the garbage within receives little air, water, or sunlight. This means that even readily degradable waste objects, including paper and food scraps, are more likely to mummify than decompose.
Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer.
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Oct 11, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Thanks so much for the kind photo comments! Eventually Trent Sherrill will send me the photos of myself. I'll probably only post one or two of them though because I'd like to get them published.
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Sep 14, 2009 at 8:27 am
Thanks so much!! Takes alot of time and money to get pictures like that. haha
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Aug 26, 2009 at 4:49 am
Yeah, definately congrat's!!! Your 'vette deserves the recognition, and you should be very proud of your ride......I know I'm proud of it!!!


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Jim Greer: Former Fla. GOP leader sentenced to 1.5 years
Ex-party chair could get 35 years
Jim Greer: Former Fla. GOP leader sentenced to 1.5 years
Ex-party chair could get 35 years
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Former Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer was sentenced to 1.5 years for stealing from the party.
Wednesday's sentencing in Orlando completes the fall of a man who was once one of the most powerful political figures in the state.
Greer could have faced as many as 35 years behind bars.
He pleaded guilty to four counts of theft and a single count of money laundering last month, right before his trial was scheduled to start.
The trial had threatened to expose the underbelly of Florida's dominant political party and its formerly high-spending ways.
Topics covered in pretrial depositions included allegations of prostitutes at a state GOP fundraiser in the Bahamas, the drinking habits of former Gov. Charlie Crist and intraparty strife.


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Accounts receivable are money owed to a business by its customers from goods or services sold that have not yet been paid for.
Accounts receivable (alternately "receivables") are created when a customer purchases goods or services from a company but does not pay for them at the time of purchase. Instead, the company issues an invoice for the goods or services at a later date, often at the end of the month. The amount due on the invoice is considered accounts receivable for the company. Receivables are treated as current assets on a company's balance sheet. Receivables are entered into a company's books when they receive an invoice for a good or service provision (and not before), as the invoice proves that money is legally owed to the company by an outside entity.
Receivables are typically issued by companies to reliable customers, since they are selling their goods on credit.
A car dealer buys five cars from Ford Motors but does not pay for the cars at the time of purchase. When Ford issues an invoice to the buyer, Ford also creates an accounts receivable entry on its balance sheet. The accounts receivable are settled once the dealer pays Ford in full for the cars.
For the car dealer, the invoice represents accounts payable, or money they have to pay to another company for already purchased goods or services. When the dealer pays Ford Motors, Ford then converts its accounts receivable to cash on its balance sheet.
Entry at the Time of Issue Invoice:
Car Dealer A/c Dr.
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Since 1991, the Sullivan Center has partnered with the South Carolina Migrant Health Program to provide unique service learning experiences to Clemson students while serving the migrant and seasonal farmworker population in our area. Our nurse practitioners and outreach team take students from a diverse collection of studies to participate in outreach efforts in surrounding areas. Nursing students (both undergraduate and graduate), language students and health science students are all a vital part of our team to provide health screenings and assessments to the farmworker population. Students interested in community health and service learning are able to be involved in not only health services, but also health education, counseling and outreach services.
The Sullivan Center and SCMHP
In the past 20 years of partnership with SCMHP, the Sullivan Center has addressed the problems with barriers to care for the MSFW in a variety of ways. From setting up our mobile unit on specific farms and seeing an entire workforce or setting up in a centralized location and allowing workers to come to us, to going into the fields and actually working alongside the migrant and seasonal workers, the Sullivan Center works as a dynamic health care service for the MSFW population. Each year, we evaluate the needs of the populations in our area to help change the way we serve them. In the past we have done on-site clinics at the farms, lunch time health screenings and flu shots, after-hours clinics in centralized locations and even weekend clinics.
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The South Carolina Migrant Health Program is funded by the South Carolina Primary Health Care Association. The SCMHP is a Migrant Health Voucher Program, which utilizes a network of culturally and linguistically competent health care providers to provide fee-for-services to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families in South Carolina. The program offers comprehensive health care services to improve quality of life and reduce health disparities in our community. Persons are only eligible if their primary employment is farmworking, they have worked on a farm in the past 24 months, have no health insurance coverage or are a dependent of a farmworker.
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The Boston Red Sox have named Gerald Perry hitting coach for Triple-A Pawtucket, Brandon Henry athletic trainer for Double-A Portland, Carlos Febles manager, Darren Fenster hitting coach and Mauricio Elizondo athletic trainer for Class A Greenville, Bruce Crabbe manager and Nelson Paulino hitting coach for Class A Lowell, Billy McMillon manager, Rich Gedman hitting coach and David Herrera athletic trainer for Class A Salem and Noah Hall coach for the GCL Red Sox.
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In the instant Seth Froom was robbed at gunpoint at the front door of his house, and idea was hatched.
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The MIIS Around the World stories campaign started a year ago as an attempt to collect first-person narratives from members the MIIS community that illustrate the global impact of the Institute. One hundred and twenty students, alumni, faculty and staff members have already submitted their stories. The submissions range from tales about international experiences that brought students to MIIS, to funny anecdotes about attempts to communicate in a new language, to the sharing of life-changing moments.
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The simplest example is learning a language. Learning a language in a place where nobody could speak it was almost impossible before any electronic technology existed. With the previous round (like radio) it became possible though still very difficult. The laptop opens the door wide.
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Walking to school was never so festive.
On a cold morning in the Heights on Wednesday, nearly the entire student body of May Street School walked to school together.
About 380 of the school's 418 students, along with 30 staff members and about 60 parents, walked to school from the Hood River Shopping Center.
"I thought it basically was flawless," said principal Dan Patton of the school's first "National Walk to School Day" event. "People are already talking about next year."
The students rallied in front of Rosauers, with the local trio Red-Haired Boys blowing steam as they sang from the bed of a pickup truck. Balloons, signs for each grade level, and a general air of excitement filled the air.
The rally gave parents and teachers a chance to get acquainted. For May Street, the event was a bridge between Tuesday's visit by the Hood River Fire Department to teach fire safety, and Thursday's annual school open house.
To start the walk, police chief Tony Dirks told the crowd, "We're going to get a little workout and walk to school." With that, the throng headed out of the parking lot and up the sidewalk and one closed lane of 12th Street. The walk constricted traffic between 7:40 and 8 a.m., but police officers stationed along the route said drivers were universally patient.
May Street, with a large population of students who go to school on foot, joined the national effort under the sponsorship of city, county and state agencies.
"Our emergency professionals were just tremendous. I was expecting good things but it far surpassed what I expected," Patton said.
"I am always continually impressed with the supportive nature of our business community, and the police and fire departments," he said. "Whenever, schools are involved in something it's always, 'what can we do?'"
School Resource Officer Tiffany Hicks said, "It's been a great event. This is one of those things I love about this town. You say you're going to do an event, and everybody shows up. Lots of people contribute." Heights Business Association passed out certificates as students completed the walk, and police officers and firefighters stood watch at intersections.
The goal of the event was to emphasize the value of physical exercise along with safe ways to walk to school and in neighborhoods. Patton felt it achieved that objective.
"In combination with the assembly that (state troopers) Corey Simons and Julie Wilcox gave last week, when they outlined the reasoning and objectives and then with support given in classroom I think this was a culminating event that was very successful," he said.
Parent Bill Cimock said, "For them to come to the schools and then follow it up with something like this is even better."
Cimock, who walked with his daughter, first-grader Korey, said the experience will help her for the day when she walks to the bus stop, and in other situations where she'll be a pedestrian.
"It's also important they understand the police and fire are supportive parts of the community, that they're here to help us," Cimock said. "She's seen me get a ticket, and she cried, so this is a good way to show that the police and firefighters are here to help us."
Korey said of the walk, "It's okay. I'm getting really good at walking. We walked all the way around a huge lake." (Lost Lake, Bill clarified.)
Bill said Korey learned from firefighters Tuesday about fire tucks and "stop drop and roll" and played 9-1-1 on her toy phone that night.
Staff were present throughout the school to meet those students who chose not to walk; Patton said that before school, about 30 kids enjoyed supervised play in the gym.
But the large turnout was a slight surprise and one of two things that stood out for Patton.
"First was getting the entire community involved, and number two, we don't do a lot of things as the whole school," he said. "So it was neat to have the majority of the school doing something together."
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A reference database for Latin literature from the Roman Republic through the Imperial Period to Late Antiquity. BTL provides online access to Teubner's Latin text editions and includes the complete texts (other than the prefaces or critical apparatus) works spread over eight centuries (c.Expand
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Black Literature Index
Indexes African American fiction, poetry, and literary criticism appearing in Black owned and edited publications in the United States. Black Studies Center includes the online index to Black Literature, 1827-1940, a microfiche collection.ExpandIndexes African American fiction, poetry, and literary criticism appearing in Black owned and edited publications in the United States. Black Studies Center includes the online index to Black Literature, 1827-1940, a microfiche collection. This index allows users to search bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. Many of the works were published in black newspapers, and citations from The Chicago Defender are linked to the full-text page article.
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Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library (Parts I and II)
The online archive includes around 2,750 pamphlets, from the Oliveira Lima Library housed at Catholic University. Most of the pamphlets relate specifically to Brazil.Expand
Significant coverage is given to history, politics and literature. Additional content covers social and economic conditions, agriculture and trade, travel and immigration, law and diplomacy, religion, women's rights, medicine, public health, foreign and international relations, geography, Pan-Americanism, positivism, the First World War, the Portuguese and Spanish empires, and more. More than 90% of the pamphlets are in Portuguese, with additional content in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Latin. The majority were published in Brazil or Portugal.
Part I includes approximately 2,750 pamphlets, defined as monographs of fifty or fewer pages, representing more than 80,000 digitized pages of speeches, flyers, official decrees, sermons, poems, plays, concert and theatre programs, funeral orations, letters to editors, individual newspaper and magazine articles, and separata of newspaper and magazine articles. Covering a date range from 1800 to the mid twentieth century, many of these pamphlets represent the only known copy in the world.
Part II "Monographs" features approximately one million pages of primary sources on Brazilian history from colony to republic, as well as the political and economic dimensions of Brazil and the Portuguese e
Subjects: Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, History World, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Brill Dictionary of Religion
Multi-media reference with over 500 entries on the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions as well as their role in daily life and public discourse.Expand
It helps to map out and define the networks and connections created by various religions in contemporary societies, and provides models for understanding these complex phenomena.
Subjects: Religion
Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online
Scholarly interdisciplinary reference work on the religion of Hinduism in its divergent and common forms. Articles are organized thematically in sections and alphabetically within sections.Expand
The index offers an alphabetically organized listing of all topics.
Subjects: Religion
Brill's New Jacoby
Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ) is a collection of commentary on the fragments of 856 Greek historians whose works have survived only in fragments. BNJ supersedes F. Jacoby's monumental 18 volume, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, Parts I-III.Expand
Each author has the Greek text with facing English translation; new, critical commentary; a brief encyclopedia-style entry, and a select bibliography.
Subjects: Classics, Biological Sciences


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Bloomberg's chutzpah: Awesome, but NH isn't buying itEDITORIAL
June 08. 2013 1:31AM
We must say we admire the chutzpah of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He presides over a city that has copious gunplay despite supposedly tough gun control, yet he presumes to tell New Hampshire and the rest of the country how to deal with guns.
That is, he does this when he isn't telling the citizens of Gotham how big a soda cup they can purchase.
A week ago, Bloomberg's city lost seven dead from gunfire and more than two dozen shot in a 48-hour period. And this after New York State further "toughened" its gun-control laws, setting a seven-bullet limit on magazines, redefining what is an illegal "assault weapon" and requiring yet more gun registration.
Bloomberg and his gun-control pals (along with a complacent national news pack) also manage to largely ignore the example of the City of Chicago, with its strict gun laws and with one of the worst gun-murder rates this side of Syria.
Yet Bloomberg continues to peel wads of cash from his fortune in efforts to pummel U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire.
Ayotte has been targetted (we hope the word offends Mayor Mike) for being the sole New England senator to vote against a useless but feel-good gun bill.
His effort is apparently not working as well as he had hoped, so last week, in TV ad number four, he brought in another big gun for his anti-Ayotte tirade.
This time, it was a police chief, fitted out in so much braid and regalia he must have shopped at a Khadafy website.
This chief, however, isn't from New Hampshire, a fact not divulged in the Bloomberg ad. Turns out, the guy was featured in another gun-control ad a few years back that a Midwest TV station pulled from the air because it was so inaccurate. The fellow is a chief in Minnesota, which knows as much about New Hampshire as does Mayor Mike.
Our advice to Mayor Mike: take a big gulp and go away. Neither Kelly Ayotte nor Granite Staters will be intimidated by the likes of you.
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NEW YORK (AP) — An overflow crowd packed a church and sang songs on Wednesday at the funeral of a man who died in police custody after an officer placed him in an apparent chokehold.
Eric Garner's relatives stopped in front of his open casket, some weeping and wailing. A preacher opened the service at Brooklyn's Bethel Baptist Church with a mix of solemn prayer and an organ-backed gospel medley.
Garner, who had asthma, died last week on Staten Island. An amateur video shows a plainclothes police officer placing him in what appears be a chokehold. Garner, who police suspected of selling untaxed cigarettes, can be heard gasping, "I can't breathe!"
At the church, the program depicted Garner as an angel and included a collage of photographs from his life and death, including one of a sign echoing what he told officers before he died: "This Stops Today."
The Rev. Al Sharpton told the crowd he was scheduled to meet Friday with the U.S. attorney's office, and he called for a civil rights probe. He took Ramsey Orta, the man who shot the video, to the lectern and praised him for recording the arrest.
Sharpton fired up the crowd with a point-by-point dissection of the events that led to Garner's death.
"Yes, God will make a way, but God expects something of us," he said. "When you can, in broad daylight, choke one of God's children, he expects us to stand up and demand justice."
The crowd included relatives of other men killed in interactions with police: Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell.
Sharpton compared Garner's death to that of Diallo, who was shot by officers who said they thought a wallet was a gun.
"What excuse could you come up with this time?" Sharpton asked.
He said even if police forgot their training and used an illegal chokehold, they and medics needed to react when Garner said repeatedly, "I can't breathe."
"When does your decency kick in? When does your morality kick in?" Sharpton said.
At the end of the service, Garner's relatives stood near his casket, some holding each other up, their faces gleaming with tears, as a young woman from the family delivered a stirring rendition of the Mariah Carey song "Hero."
Garner's sister, Ellisha Flagg, thanked mourners for supporting his family and introduced his 90-year-old aunt, Katherine Williams, who belted out a spiritual song that got mourners, including Sharpton, clapping along.
Hundreds of people watched outside the church as pallbearers loaded Garner's body into the hearse. After the door was closed, his cousin Melvin Scott stopped for a moment, praying before placing his hand against the vehicle's rain-speckled back window.
Autopsy results are pending. One officer has been stripped of his gun and badge pending an investigation. Another has been placed on desk duty. Two paramedics and two EMTs have been suspended without pay.
The New York Police Department has vowed to retrain its officers on the use of force.


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bigstrads wrote:so something else is going on here and it would have been nice to find out what that is and give him the benefit of the doubt we all preaching about.
As far as I'm concerned, there's no benefit of the doubt I can give to somebody that, not just once, but twice, celebrates the death of 4 human beings, Bigs. There's no way to justify that.


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