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Reports on the Application of Accounting Principles—A Review of SAS 50
James A. Johnson
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Like most other professionals, a Certified Public Accountant is often asked to air views on matters within his or her ken. When the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants issued the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 50, "Reports on the Application of Accounting Principles," professional standards
applied to the accountant's response to many of these requests.
SAS 50, issued in July, 1986, was the work product of the Generic Letter Task Force of the Auditing Standards Board. The original charge to the Task Force, in 1984, was relatively benign: "to monitor the issuance of, and prepare issues papers on the technical aspects of, generic letters."
In reality, the atmosphere was highly charged. In June, 1984, Don Kirk, the Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board at the time, asked a number of pointed questions when commenting on professionalism in accounting:
• Does heightened competition among CPA firms encourage a search for ways around the spirit of accounting standards?
• Are not investment bankers fulfilling their essential role in developing innovative financing arrangements which may, in fact, tend to frustrate the spirit of accounting standards?
He also recommended, among other things, that each CPA firm focus on the problem of "advising non-clients on accounting matters."
In short, the profession, the standard setters, the regulators and others were, and continue to be, concerned with the application of "cute" accounting principles and "shopping" for accounting opinions.
Does SAS 50 help halt either of these practices? Sadly not, in the opinion of the author. On the other hand, the author believes that the reports themselves are a positive development in the accounting principles process. This paper explains these conclusions, examines the guidance contained in SAS 50, and discusses the reasons financial intermediaries and other "non-auditing'' clients ask CPAs for reports on the application of accounting principles.


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Cameroon forward Samuel Eto'o scored to help ambitious Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala beat Udinese 2-0 and reach the Europa League knockout stages on Thursday, eliminating the Italians in the process.
Titleholders Atletico Madrid qualified with a 1-0 win over Hapoel Tel Aviv but last season's runners up Athletic Bilbao, whose game in Israel against Hapoel Kiryat Shmona was postponed for security reasons, were knocked out without playing.
Sparta Prague, Levante, Genk, Lazio, Borussia Moenchengladbach, Fenerbahce, Viktoria Plzen, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Girondins Bordeaux, Newcastle United and Napoli also went through.
Lazio's goalless draw at home to Tottenham was played against a backdrop of violence after 10 supporters of the English side were injured in an attack on a Rome pub by dozens of masked men in the early hours of Thursday.
Police said that among 15 Italians detained were two fans of AS Roma, Lazio's bitter rivals, who were charged with violence and grievous bodily harm.
Lazio were fined 40,000 euros (32,867 pounds) by UEFA last month for racist chanting by their fans at the first game in London which also ended goalless.
Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne, who played for both clubs, was a guest of honour at the Group J match.
Lazio president Claudio Lotito paraded Gascoigne around the pitch and fans held a huge banner with his photograph.
Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris, struggling to impose himself as number one with Brad Friedel playing more regularly, had an excellent game as the Londoners stayed in contention to go through in the final round of group games.
"It was not easy, we struggled against a good Lazio team. They controlled the game, they were well-organised and we had trouble to find space, so it is a good point for us," he told French TV.
"I may have had much more work than usual in the Europa League, it is good for me and it is good for the team to grab a point."
Christopher Samba and Eto'o scored in a three-minute spell in the second half to steer Guus Hiddink's Anzhi team into the last 32.
Samba headed in from a corner and former Barcelona and Inter Milan forward Eto'o raced clear of the Udinese defence before slotting the ball past Zeljko Brkic, ending an unhappy European campaign for the Serie A side who missed out on the Champions League after losing on penalties to Braga.
The Group A match was played in Moscow after UEFA refused to let Anzhi stage matches in the violence-plagued Dagestan region for security reasons.
In the group's other game, Liverpool twice led but were held to a 2-2 draw by Young Boys after Montenegro's Elsad Zverotic struck for the Swiss visitors with a 25-metre rocket in the 88th minute.
Sparta Prague's 1-1 draw at home to Lyon in Group I sent them through alongside the already-qualified Ligue 1 outfit, but the result meant elimination for Marcelo Bielsa's Athletic.
Steve McLaren's Twente Enschede were also knocked out after being held to a scoreless draw by Hanover 96.
Elyaniv Barda's first-half header gave Genk a 1-0 win at Videoton as the Belgians progressed from Group G into the round of 32.
Napoli went through in dramatic style when Edinson Cavani, who scored four goals in their previous match against Dnipro, converted a penalty in the fourth minute of stoppage time for a 2-1 win at AIK after they had been reduced to 10 men.
Salvatore Aronica was sent off for the visitors for bringing down Mohamed Bangura as he had a run on goal.
Two first half goals from Brazilian Jussie led Bordeaux to a 2-1 win at Bruges in Group D while Newcastle's 1-1 draw at home to Maritimo in the same group was enough for them to progress.
Bekir Irtegun scored with a bicycle kick to give Fenerbahce a 1-0 win at Olympique Marseille in Group C, connecting acrobatically after a Cristian corner had been flicked on.
An early goal by Raul Garcia gave Atletico Madrid a 1-0 over Hapoel and a place in the last 32 and Czech side Viktoria Plzen followed them through from Group B by drawing 1-1 at Academica Coimbra.
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One of the scaling factors called out in the Software Development Context Framework is "geographic distribution". As with the other scaling factors the level of geographic distribution is a range, with co-located teams at one extreme and far-located at the other. When your team is co-located the developers and the primary stakeholders are all situated in the same work room. If you have some team members in cubicles or in separate offices then you're slightly distributed, if you're working on different floors in the same building you're a bit more distributed, if you're working in different buildings within the same geographic area (perhaps your team is spread across different office buildings in the same city or some people work from home some days) then your team is more distributed, if people are working in different cities in the same country you're more distributed, and finally if people are working in different cities around the globe you're even more distributed (I call this far located).
As your team becomes more distributed your project risk increases for several reasons:
- Communication challenges. The most effective means of communication between two people is face-to-face around a shared sketching space such as a whiteboard, and that requires you to be in the same room together. As you become more distributed you begin to rely on less effective communication strategies.
- Temporal challenges. When people are in different time zones it becomes harder to find common working times, increasing the communication challenges. One potential benefit, however, is the opportunity to do "follow-the-sun" development where a team does some work during their workday, hands off the work to another team in a significantly different time zone, who picks up the work and continues with it. This strategy of course requires a high degree of sophistication and discipline on the part of everyone involved, but offers the potential to reduce overall calendar time.
- Cultural challenges. As the team becomes more distributed the cultural challenges between sites typically increases. Different cultures have different work ethics, treat intellectual property differently, have different ideas about commitment, have different holidays, different approaches to things, and so on.
As you would imagine, because the project risk increases the more distributed your team is, the lower the average success rates of agile projects decrease as they become more distributed. The 2008 IT Project Success Survey found that co-located agile teams has an average success rate of 79%, that near located teams (members were in same geographic area) had a success rate of 73%, and that far-located agile teams had a success rate of 55%. The success rate decreases similarly for project teams following other paradigms.
The practices that you adopt, and the way that you tailor the agile practices which you follow, will vary based on the level of geographic distribution of your team. For example, a co-located team will likely do initial architecture envisioning on a whiteboard and keep it at a fairly high-level. A far-located team will hopefully choose to fly in key team members at the beginning of the project, at least the architecture owners on the various sub-teams, to do the architecture envisioning together. They will likely go into greater detail because they will want to identify, to the best of their ability, the interfaces of the various subsystems or components which they'll be building.
Interestingly, the Agility at Scale 2009 survey found that it was quite common for agile teams to be geographically distributed in some manner:
- 45% of respondents indicated that some of their agile teams were co-located
- 60% of respondents indicated that some of their agile teams had team members spread out through the same building
- 30% of respondents indicated that some of their agile teams were working from home
- 21% of respondents indicated that some of their agile teams had people working in different offices in the same city
- 47% of respondents indicated that some of their agile teams had team members that were far located
The bottom line is that some organizations, including IBM, have been very successful applying agile techniques on geographically distributed teams. In fact, agile GDD is far more common than mainstream agile discussion seem to let on.
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Gotta take the good with the bad...
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- Joel said...
I found the Hollywood Reporter one yesterday. Have to disagree that sticks and twine necessitate an "inevitable comparison to the Blair Witch project." Maybe for someone whose exposure to cultural crafts, world religions, and sculpture in general is limited to watching movies.
On second thought, that probably describes a good chunk of people. :/
Can't wait to see the film, myself.
- April 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM
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"Sticks-and-twine art"......Had to laugh when I read that. Made me remember back a couple of years when you had a commenter complain and told you to "stop making stick men and come up with something different".
There is always good and bad reviews. I for one am looking forward to seeing it.
I still think "The Divide" was a good movie. I like those type of messed up films.....
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Health and social care in the UK is devolved. Our Officers for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland set out what the UK General Election means for them.
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Responding to today's Programme for Government, RCPCH Scotland highlighted the mixed bag offered by Scottish Government for Scotland's children. RCPCH Scotland welcomed the actions being taken on air pollution, child poverty, early year's mental health and disability assistance.
RCPCH statement on Brexit
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Our President responds to the ongoing political uncertainty around Brexit and warns about the potential impact on children and young people.
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The Second World War began 80 years ago in September 1939. The war brought huge changes to the lives of children in Britain and to the country's health services.
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A number of health organisations have voiced their concerns about the potential impact of a no-deal exit from the European Union. We have said that patients should be at the heart of preparations in the lead up to October.
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The Prime Minister has today called for urgent action to boost the number of children and young people receiving life-saving vaccinations. This comes as it is revealed that the UK has lost its "measles-free" status with the WHO, three years after it had eliminated the virus.
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The values of the Victorians were largely shaped by the Evangelical movement that emphasized salvation and the Utilitarian movement that emphasized efficiency. Both promoted self-control and self-denial. Victorians believed that one should be in total control of oneself at all times. Thrift and usefulness were highly regarded virtues, so people were expected to spend their time and money reasonably and with good purpose. Hard work was the key to success, so laziness and drunkenness were seen as the road to perdition. Self-help was another honored virtue. Even though class structure was rigid in Victorian England, members of the lower classes were expected to make an attempt to better themselves through education, personal development, and temperance. There was little sympathy for those who did not succeed in bettering their lot because failure was assumed to be a result of lack of effort. Other social forces were not given much consideration for the plight of the poor. This attitude was further reflected in the temperance movement that was aimed at the working class, ignoring any problems with alcohol in the other classes, because what was most important was getting the labor force to work in a sober condition for better productivity, which increased the wealth of the middle and upper classes. Victorian England was a society of great poverty existing alongside a still enormously wealthy aristocracy and a growing middle class. This middle class consisted of people whose improved economic status allowed them to afford their own horses, but an improved lifestyle did not necessarily mean that they learned how to take care of horses. Consequently, the abuse of horses became the serious problem addressed in Black Beauty. The Industrial Revolution also provided many new jobs and opportunities for rural people, but it led them into urban slums. Naturally, the working class resented the hypocritical effort of the Temperance Movement that diverted attention away from the problems of sanitation, overcrowded housing, poor working conditions, and other social abuses.
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"Mama, play with me?" My three-year-old emptied her LEGOs on the carpet. As I shook my head, her shoulders slumped. "Mama has pain?"
I nodded, closing my eyes against the tears. Lord, what kind of a mother am I when I can't even play with my child? What will happen when I get worse?
After four years of iritis (an inflammation of the iris) with the possibility of losing my sight, and several months of pain wracking my body, I had been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, an inflammation that starts in the spinal joints. But my relief at knowing what was wrong and being able to start treatments faded as I faced the degenerative nature of the illness, for which there is no known cure. As my ability to serve my husband and daughters diminished—I couldn't hold a pan or open the blinds, let alone drive—I began struggling with the impact of the disease on my teen and toddler. Lord, what will this do to them? Will seeing me struggle scar them for life? Why should my journey of pain be theirs?
Though I was hoping to protect my children from the full reality of my condition, when a severe reaction to a medication left one side of my body with stroke-like symptoms I realized there was no hiding it.
In the following months, friends provided meals and transportation to medical appointments and school, and even cleaned my house. Overwhelmed by their love and prayers, I realized the sovereignty of God. Though I did not choose this path, He had surrounded us with the support—spiritual and tangible—to help us through the darkest valley, and my family saw firsthand that we could entrust ourselves to a "faithful Creator" (1 Peter 4:19).
My focus is on equipping my children to walk through pain—the reality of a fallen world.
As I undergo chemotherapy and infusions of a biological drug, our focus is on equipping our children to walk through pain—the reality of life in a fallen world. We talk about my illness, the treatments, the risks, and its impact on our lives; and we turn to Scripture to focus on God's promises and the hope and redemption we have in Jesus.
The outpouring of help is opening our children's eyes to the blessings of being in community with believers and the joy of being His hands and feet, and it is softening them to opportunities to serve. When our teen heard of a family's financial struggle, she used her savings to buy them groceries. She steps in to care for her younger sister, who in turn is the first to wrap me in a blanket when the medications make me cold.
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App Review: 2 Flight Apps by inZania
April 15, 2009 by Dorothy
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Utility
Ever wanted to check the price of airfare, but there is not a computer around? Or maybe you just want to get out of town. inZania has two apps in the iTunes App Store designed to help you find the cheapest and best airfare.
The first app is called Cheap Escape. This app is very simple and easy to use. You simply enter in the airport that you want to depart from, and the app finds the cheapest airfare from that airport to many destinations. You can browse pricing to many different locations. This app does not, however, display the flight information for you. When you tap on a city, you can then email the flight to yourself or open it up in Safari.
The second app, Airfare, offers more functionality and is more helpful, I think. Airfare allows you to search for flights more specifically. You can search one-way or round trip flights in much the same way as you can on Travelocity, Expedia, or other such websites. You enter in the cities you want to fly to and from and the dates you want to fly. The app will find the cheapest flights (including Southwest flights). This particular app is nice because in the search results, it displays the airline, price, number of stops, total travel time, and the departure and final arrival times. Once you have found a flight that interests you, you can once again choose to email it to yourself or open it up in Safari.
These two apps may not be the easiest way to book your travel, but they are are great way to research pricing and flight times.
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Volvo Runs With the Bulls in Latest 'Live Test' Marketing Stunt
Following several previous stunts in which a hamster drove a truck ups a cliffsie road and a man allowed a truck to drive over his head, Volvo is out with its latest Live Test marketing stunt.
This time, the theme in running with the bulls. In the video, entitled The Chase, precision driver Rob Hunt maneuvers a red-painted Volvo FL distribution truck through the narrow streets of Spain's Ciudad Rodrigo while bull runners and bulls themselves follow. As the bulls run, the bull runners work hard to stay ahead and reach the fast-moving truck so they can hop on to safety.
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These are the demos and classes that I generally lead but feel free to ask if you have a specific request for your business or group. If I don't do it I can probably direct you to someone else.
Paneer and Queso Blanco
Versions of farmers' cheeses like paneer and queso blanco are widely used around the world for many reasons; they're delicious and incredibly easy to make. These cheeses soak up spices and sauces and since they don't melt, you can sauté, broil, simmer them and more… the possibilities are endless!
Goat Cheeses: Firm and Soft Chevre
Goat cheese, or 'chevre' as the French say, can be tangy, smooth, pungent, mild, firm and even crumbly. Learn where to buy goat milk locally, how to make two varieties and how to customize them by incorporating herbs, peppercorns and other spices into your beautiful homemade wheels and logs. We can make acid-coagulated cheeses as well as cultured cheeses in these simple classes.
Creamy ricotta is a simple but impressive cheese that any cheese maker should have in their repertoire. You can use it in countless recipes, Italian and otherwise, savory or sweet! Imagine a delicious lemon, ricotta cheesecake made from your homemade ricotta!
Creamy Yogurt cheese or Labneh
Yogurt cheese, or Labneh as it is often called, is a simple but delicious tangy cheese made from yogurt. Yogurt itself is easy to make so in this class we learn to make both from scratch. Although Labneh is easy to make, the drying and curing process takes 2 days so you can't see it all happen before your eyes. You can taste a sample and take a batch home to finish on your own though! Make it savory for a feta-like flavor with cream cheese consistency or keep it plain and use it for cheesecakes and other desserts. Delicious with seasonal fruit or just pita!
Feta is traditionally made from sheep's milk but a common alternative—especially in the U.S.—is made with cow or goat's milk. I demonstrate the feta-making process which requires a week to salt cure. You'll see the many stages and taste the finished product in this class. Feta is a simple and delicious cheese to make, it just requires some time and practice. Once you try it, you'll be hooked!


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Right now, Andrew Rogers is half teacher, half student.
Right now, Andrew Rogers is half teacher, half student.
He's a sixth-grade social studies teacher at Holly Shelter Middle School. He's simultaneously getting a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Ohio Valley University.
Rogers wanted to get his master's to further his education, to learn more about his profession – to become a better teacher. But there was another benefit that sweetened the deal: the 10 percent pay increase that teachers throughout North Carolina receive when they have their master's.
Rogers is on track to finish his degree by next May. But he might be too late. The N.C. General Assembly is considering a state budget that would eliminate those pay bumps for teachers with master's degrees. The cutoff date? The start of the 2014-15 school year.
The state budget, which passed the Senate on May 23 and is being debated in the House, would grandfather in teachers who have a master's degree by April 1, 2014, said Sara Clark, spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Instruction. Once the master's supplements are phased out, the plan is to put teachers on a merit pay system, where teachers' salaries are tied to their students' end-of-grade test scores. Exact details of that system are still being determined.
But critics say merit-based systems are flawed, pointing out that test scores don't always reflect how much students learned from their teachers. Getting an advanced degree gives teachers a deeper understanding of one subject or a better idea of how to teach students at different levels – important parts of education that aren't always quantifiable. Taking away the incentive to get that higher education could result in a decline in the quality of teaching in North Carolina, teachers say.
"If (legislators) were to send this message out, 'We want highly qualified teachers, but we don't really want to pay you for going that extra mile,' I think in the end the quality of education overall is going to suffer," Rogers said.
During the 2011-12 school year, about 28 percent of public school teachers in North Carolina had their master's degrees, according to data from the state Department of Public Instruction. That's almost 27,000 teachers. The numbers are similar in southeastern North Carolina: 26 percent of New Hanover County Schools' teachers have master's degrees, while 21 percent of Brunswick County teachers and 23 percent of Pender County teachers have them.
Kendra Hester teaches sixth-grade math and science at Roland-Grise Middle School. She's had her master's in elementary education since 2002, and it has "exponentially improved" her teaching.
"It encouraged me to really get to know my students as people, not to look at them as a whole class," she said. Hester said she learned how to "help them understand how to be more successful."
That's hard to measure with a multiple-choice test question. But that's the idea behind tying teachers' salaries to higher education rather than test scores, said Ken Teitelbaum, who's the dean of the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Watson College of Education.
"You have to take a broader view of what it means to have an educated workforce," he said. "It may not just show up on the test scores of little kids who feel stressed out in terms of testing."
Amy Auth, deputy chief of staff for Republican Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, said the state wants to "recognize and reward" teachers based on student achievement on end-of-grade tests.
"We're implementing a pay for excellence system that will include $10.2 million to fund annual pay raises for teachers whose effectiveness is measured based on performance evaluations and data," she said.
Research shows that a teacher's master's degree has little influence on their students' test scores. Auth used that to justify phasing out the supplements. But Robert Smith, an education professor at UNCW, said that research is inconclusive. Connecting master's degrees to student test scores is a narrow measure of success, he said. It doesn't show the effects master's degrees can have on teacher curiosity and innovation – traits that make students and schools better in intangible ways.
"To evaluate master's degrees in terms of this very narrow impact on student test scores – it's going to have such a negative effect in terms of the ways in which master's degrees help develop school leaders," he said.
All teachers are paid on a scale that takes into account their years of experience. Teachers who have a master's degree also get a 10 percent supplement. For example, a teacher with five years of experience and a bachelor's degree would make $31,220 a year. A five-year teacher with a master's degree would make $34,340.
Amy Kyle teaches language arts and works as a literacy coach at Holly Shelter Middle. But she's also a waitress at Captain Bill's restaurant, a second job she picked up to make ends meet.
Kyle loves her job and the students she works with, she said. "But it would be really nice not to have to work a second job. I have a college degree and a master's, and I'm working a second job," she said.
Changing careers for a better salary is always in the back of teachers' minds, said Kim Guthrie, who teaches kindergarten at Wrightsville Beach Elementary School. Guthrie is getting her master's in language and literacy from UNCW, expecting to graduate in December. She'd always planned to go back to school after she got her bachelor's degree, but the extra bump in pay helped her justify taking on the cost of a master's.
"Teachers don't do this because of the money. We do it because we love to help children," she said. "Things like (phasing out supplements), these things continue to be a slap in the face. You're going to take away what little we do get to better ourselves."
Smith agreed that taking away extra pay for advanced degrees puts a burden on individual teachers. But he also worried about the larger effect it would have.
"This is only going to be seen by teachers as another statement which says that the state doesn't value the work of teachers," he said. "We're essentially withdrawing our financial support."
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I have been hearing a lot of talk about variable displacement engines in the automotive industry and it made me start to think. Why couldn't the same idea be applied to Stirling engines? I understand that the amount of bearings would have to be increased but think about the Ross yoke, it has quite a lot of bearings and the geometry of the Ross yoke would need only slight modification to effectively alter the displacement. What are your thoughts?
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Palm Pre App Catalog Reaches 1 Million Downloads
The Palm Pre App Catalog has reached 1 million downloads, nearly three weeks after launch of the device, according to data from mobile analytics and advertising firm Medialets.
Palm sold about 50,000 Pres and logged 100,000 downloads on launch day for an average of 2 app downloads per device and 5,500 downloads per app. Eighteen days later, Palm has sold 150,000 units and has an average of 6 apps per Pre and about 33,000 downloads per app, Medialets wrote in a blog post.
By comparison, Apple's App Store hit 1 million downloads 17 days earlier than the Pre, had 16 times the number of apps, and 26 times the number of users. Still, comparing the 1 million mark, Palm secured 26 times the number of apps that iPhone users had, and the average app in the App Catalog was downloaded 16 times more than apps in the Apple App Store.
As a result, Medialets said that congratulations are in order for Palm. "The Pre is an amazing device with lots of potential and we're looking forward to what a public SDK will offer both consumers and developers alike," the blog concluded.


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For those not familiar, tomorrow, April 30 through Sunday, May 6 is Screen-Free Week. This respite is hosted by The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, and since I've been writing so much about it elsewhere I don't feel inspired to write much more here. I'll therefore let the folks over at CCFC speak for themselves:
Screen-Free Week is a national celebration where children, families, schools, and communities spend seven days turning off entertainment screen media and turning on life. It's a time to unplug and play, read, create, explore, enjoy nature and spend time with family and friends.
Screen-Free Week isn't just about snubbing screens for seven days; it's a springboard for important lifestyle changes that will improve well-being and quality of life all year round.
Time with screens is linked to poor school performance, childhood obesity, and attention problems. And it is primarily through screens that children are exposed to harmful marketing. Regardless of whether they are consuming "good" or "bad" programming, it's clear that screen media dominates the lives of far too many children, displacing all sorts of other activities that are integral to childhood.
Screen-Free Week is a fun and innovative opportunity to improve children's well-being by reducing dependence on entertainment screen media, including television, video games, computers, and hand-held devices. It's a chance for children - and their parents - to examine their relationships with entertainment media and rediscover the joys of life beyond the screen.
While our daughter is almost entirely screen-free and Ryan and I only rarely watch a film in our home or out on date night, the challenge for us will be to reflect on the time we spend online and take a good look at how, when and where we utilize our smart phones especially in her presence. Also, as I have been of late anyhow, I'll be looking at what it means to be a blogger and how it affects the way we live our daily lives. Primarily this week is about "entertainment media". Is that what we're doing here? Should be some interesting contemplation, eh?
Until May 7th friends, we'll see you out in real life!
May your week be free of screens... (Ah, the irony...)


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Authorities say they still don't know what caused Wednesday night's blast at West Fertilizer Co. At least 14 people died and more than 200 were injured, and the final report on the tragedy may take months.
Assistant Texas Fire Marshal Kelly Kistner says all fires have been extinguished at the explosion scene and the remaining fertilizer tanks are not a danger.
Kistner said the investigation into the cause of the blast is focused on the center of the explosion, a large crater at the center of the blast area.
The latest news from around North Texas.
West mayor pro tem Steve Vanek said the reentry process is going well and the city is waiting for Atmos gas line testing to clear the scene for phase two of reentry which will be from Walnut to Spring Streets. The third phase will include the area with the most destruction.
Public works and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality are still trying to restore water systems that are still not running in several places around the city. No one under the age of 18 is allowed into secure area for safety and access to the area is still limited to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. while the curfew remains in effect.
Meanwhile a memorial for first responders is planned for Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Ferrell Center at Baylor University in Waco.
West Mayor Tommy Muska has said that 10 of the 14 who died were first responders, including one Dallas firefighter who was off-duty but responded to help.
First responders from across the state and nation are expected to attend the event.
"We're a family," said Joe Ondrasek with the honor guard. "We feel the loss."
There's no word ifPresident Barack Obama will attend the memorial. The president and first lady are scheduled to attend the opening of former President George W. Bush's presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas on Thursday.
The blast in West has brought international condolences from the United Kingdom, Canada and Russia.
When asked about death toll, Vanek said the county judge would have the answer, he was not present at the Sunday morning news conference. The next news conference is planned for 4 p.m.
NBC 5's Keaton Fox and NBC News contributed to this report.


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Burials at Gilead A.R.P. Church cemetery, Mecklenburg Co., NC
I previously posted messages on the Alexander surname and Mecklenburg Co., NC message boards that I put photos & incriptions online that I took when I visited this cemetery in 1988 -- primarily of the Alexander and related family burials.(That page can be found at:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sassytazzy/cemetery/ncmecklenburg/gileadarp.htmlhttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sassytazzy/cemetery/ncmecklenburg/gileadarp.html )
Since then, I found a large typed list of burials at this cemetery between 1795-1984 that was sent to me back in the mid-80's.This list contains 475 entries and includes the following surnames:
Alexander, Alcorn, Anderson, Baker, Barkley, Beard, Berryhill, Bell, Beaver, Blakley, Blythe, Bowles, Brown, Buchanan, Burgess, Cashion, Cathey, Conley, Cosby, Davis, Dishman, Donaldson, Duckworth, Dunn, Eudy, Fidler, Gailbreath, Gibbs, Gibby, Gibson, Goodrum, Hanna, Harward, Hastings, Hayden, Helms, Henderson, Herron, Hill, Hoffman, Holloway, Honeycutt, Houser, Houston, Howard, Hubbard, Huffman, Irvin, Jetton, Johnson, Johnston, Jolly, Keistler, King, Long, Lowrie, Luckey, McAuley/McAulay, Morrow, Mundy, Nance, Nantz, Norket, Osborne, Poplin, Pressley, Price, Reagan, Reagans, Riley, Riggins, Ritchie, Rogers, Shaw, Sherrill, Shinn, Sifford, Smith, Stanley, Stephens, Stevens, Stillwell, Talbert, Thornton, Treadway, Tompkins, Wilhelm, Williams, & Withers.
I have transcribed these entries & put it online at:
To view information for other surnames I am researching, please visit my home page at:
Please note that the material that I put on my genealogy website is for personal genealogical research use only.As always, I hope this helps someone with their research & if it does, please share some of your research &/or records in return . . .
Susan :)


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Topic: Mountain Lion
Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: a Preview of how Apple is enhancing the file system with iCloud
02/27/2012, 07:02 pm
Preview, Apple's simple, utilitarian image and PDF viewer, offers insight into how the company plans to deeply integrate iCloud into apps and simplify and improve file management in general in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion.
Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: a Preview of how Apple plans to revamp the toolbar
02/24/2012, 02:02 pm
Preview, Apple's simple, utilitarian image and PDF viewer, offers insight into how the company plans to change the standard toolbar in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, organizing actions more efficiently and adding a context sensitive, iWork-style Format Bar.
Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Share Sheets put AirDrop, Twitter, Vimeo sharing everywhere
02/23/2012, 11:02 pm
Share Sheet icons throughout OS X Mountain Lion make it easy to share documents via AirDrop, Twitter, Mail, Messages, Flickr or Vimeo, and perform other context sensitive shortcut actions, such as setting an account picture
Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Screen Sharing adds drag and drop file transfers
02/23/2012, 12:02 am
Remote Screen Sharing is enhanced in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, adding support for drag and drop file transfers between the viewer and the remote desktop and enhancing support for virtual displays.
Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Dashboard gets iOS-style widget organization
02/22/2012, 05:02 pm
Dashboard gets a Launchpad-style widget organization feature in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a standardized user interface that will be more familiar to iOS users.
China Telecom expected to sell 3-5 million iPhones, Mountain Lion to reinforce iPhone "halo"
02/22/2012, 05:02 pm
Apple's newest partner in China is expected to sell 3-5 million iPhones this year, boosting Apple's momentum during the summer while the release of OS X Mountain Lion will reinforce the iPhone's halo effect over Mac sales, writes analyst Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital.
Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Apple overhauls software updates, App Store
02/22/2012, 03:02 pm
System updates are now sensibly converged with a refreshed App Store in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, centralizing software updates and adding automatic app installs for all your iCloud-registered Macs.
Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Enhanced Printing & Scanning
02/21/2012, 09:02 pm
Printing and scanning will be enhanced in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a cleaner user interface with simplified menu bar buttons.
Apple extends Mac App Store sandboxing restriction deadline to June 1
02/21/2012, 03:02 pm
Developers now have until June 1 to make their applications compliant with the new Mac App Store sandboxing restrictions, Apple announced on Tuesday.
Mountain Lion focuses on Cocoa, drops X11 and deprecates Carbon Core
02/18/2012, 12:02 pm
In a continuation of its efforts to prune OS X of bundled support for alternative platforms to instead focus on Cocoa, Apple's Mountain Lion depreciates more Carbon APIs and drops X11, although users will still be able to install support for running X Window System apps.
With Mountain Lion, Apple officially drops 'Mac' from OS X name
02/16/2012, 10:02 pm
After priming the transition with "OS X" trademark applications years ago, Apple has now confirmed that the word "Mac" is no longer part of the name of its flagship desktop operating system.
Mountain Lion brings new iOS-like file handling, iCloud App Library features
02/16/2012, 04:02 pm
OS X Mountain Lion brings a new document handling experience to the Mac platform that offers an iOS-like, iCloud-based alternative to the conventional file system.
Share Sheets, Twitter integration to make Mountain Lion more social
02/16/2012, 04:02 pm
While system-wide Twitter integration debuted in iOS 5 and is now coming to Mountain Lion, the new Share Sheets feature in OS X 10.8 will also allow users to quickly share links, photos and videos in a variety of ways.
First Look: Messages for Mac
02/16/2012, 03:02 pm
Apple's new Messages app connects Macs with conversations initiated on iOS devices, as well as providing an easy way to initiate FaceTime conversations.
Gatekeeper is hidden in OS X 10.7.3 Lion, developers can preview it now
02/16/2012, 03:02 pm
Though it will formally debut later this year in Mountain Lion, Apple has secretly included its new Gatekeeper feature in OS X 10.7.3 Lion, and developers can enable it now to test it.
Mac OS X Mountain Lion release signals shift in secrecy at Apple
02/16/2012, 01:02 pm
Apple's upcoming "Mountain Lion" release of Mac OS X 10.8 is borrowing a feature from Microsoft: the prerelease software is being shown to journalists before developers.
Tim Cook admits Apple may further converge iOS & OS X, Macs could run on ARM CPUs
02/16/2012, 01:02 pm
While he didn't hint at any definitive future plans, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook did admit that all options are on the table for the future of the Mac operating system, including further converging iOS and OS X, as well as potentially running Macs on ARM processors like are found in the iPhone and iPad, or switching iOS to Intel.
Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper to bring optional app restrictions to OS X
02/16/2012, 11:02 am
The new behind-the-scenes Gatekeeper security feature in the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is one of the most anticipated additions to the operating system upgrade Apple unveiled on Thursday because it provides users with additional security options for installing and running third-party applications.
Game Center for Mountain Lion to offer cross-platform play between Mac, iOS
02/16/2012, 10:02 am
With the addition of Game Center to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Mac users will be able to play online competitively and cooperatively against gamers who have the same title for iOS.
Apple bringing Macs to the living room with AirPlay for Mountain Lion
02/16/2012, 10:02 am
Apple plans to break down the barriers between the Mac and HDTVs with its forthcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion operating system update, which will bring the AirPlay Mirroring feature currently found on iOS to the Mac.


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Genre: Action & Arcade
Play the game you love, the way you want! The Bejeweled basics are the same. Swap two adjacent pieces to make matching chains of identical sparkling gems. Play at your leisure in the Classic non-timed mode. Move quickly to beat the clock in the Action mode! Put your brain to the test and clear the board entirely in the Puzzle mode. Power Gems and Hyper Cubes help you get to the next level faster and with more points.
Choose a mode of play. Classic is the original untimed game. Action pits you against the clock. Puzzle challenges you to clear all the gems.
Start by clicking two adjacent pieces to create a line of three or more identical gems.
In Action and Classic, you move to the next level when the meter at the bottom is full. In Puzzle, you move to the next level when you clear all the gems on the board.


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Wild Guide - Passport to New Mexico Wilderness
This comprehensive guide to New Mexico's protected wildlands is the only book that features each of the state's designated wilderness areas and wilderness study areas as well as other treasures such as the Rio Grande del Norte and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks national monuments.
Part hiking guide and part reference book,"Wild Guide: Passport to New Mexico Wilderness" can help you discover our best public lands. The book replaces the Wilderness Alliance's annual publication and is an update of the out-of-print "New Mexico Wilderness Areas: The Complete Guide" by Bob Julyan.
Samples of the Wild Guide
Available at the following local stores:
Bookworks, La Montanita Co-op (3 locations in Albuquerque), BLM Public Lands Information Center (various visitor centers across the state)
Page One, UNM Bookstore, Sandia Tram Shop
Las Cruces
Southwest Environmental Center, Coas Bookstore
Santa Fe
Travel Bug, BLM Public Lands Information Center (various visitor centers across the state), Alpine Sports, Collected Works
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Javalina Coffee Shop, O'Keefe's Bookshop, Silver City Coop, Gila Hike & Bike, Morning Star Sports & Embroidery
Cid's Food Market, Op Cit Taos, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Taos Fly Shop, Taos Ski Valley, Taos Book Gallery
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General Recognizes Pilots for Daring Rescue Mission
By Spc. Nathan Hoskins, USA
Special to American Forces Press Service
BAGHDAD, July 29, 2007 - The top U.S. general in Iraq presented awards to four Apache pilots for their part in the July 2 rescue of two other pilots downed by enemy fire during a July 27 ceremony in the Victory Base Complex here.
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of Multi-National Forces Iraq, honored the four pilots of the 1st Cavalry Division's 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, and eight others who helped rescue the pilots.
Chief Warrant Officer Allan Davison and Chief Warrant Officer Micah Johnson, both AH-64D Apache attack helicopter pilots for Company A, 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, received Distinguished Flying Crosses.
Davison and Johnson landed their attack helicopter in a hostile area and evacuated the two downed OH-58 Kiowa helicopter pilots of the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade.
Apaches only have two seats, so Johnson, the front seat pilot, let one of the Kiowa pilots take his seat in the Apache while he and the other Kiowa pilot strapped themselves to the outside of the aircraft and sat on the wings, said Johnson.
"It looked like they were both in pretty good shape, but one of them kind of looked like he had been through enough, like he was a little shocked, as I would be, too. I told him to get in front," he said.
Once the pilots were strapped in, Davison, the pilot in command, took off and headed to Baghdad International Airport where the pilots were dropped off.
While this was taking place, their Apache wingmen were circling above providing security.
Those two pilots, Chief Warrant Officer Seung Choi and Chief Warrant Officer Troy Moseley, received Air Medals for their efforts.
Although happy at being awarded medals and recognized by the top commander in Iraq, the pilots said their greatest reward was finding the downed pilots alive.
"We've seen a lot of aircraft shoot-downs," Johnson said in an interview after the rescue. "Every one that we've all probably seen, it's resulted in burning aircraft and black smoke and usually catastrophic loss of life. If not loss of life, then there have been serious injuries. Just to see those two alive, it was amazing. It was great."
(Army Spc. Nathan Hoskins is a journalist assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division's 1st Air Cavalry Brigade.)
General Recognizes Pilots for Daring Rescue Mission [ http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46867 ]


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To start off I just want to say how much I really enjoyed this race! The Coastal Delaware Running Festival, now in its 3rd year is truly a must-do Spring Race for many reasons! Before I go into detail about my personal race experience (which was not that fabulous) I want to focus on all the reasons you MUST run this race next year!
- Distance and Challenge Options- Like most running festivals, the Coastal Delaware Running Festival offered 3 different race options on Sunday- 9k, Half and Full with a 5k option on Saturday. If you wanted a challenge you could complete the 5k Saturday and any of the distances on Sunday for a special additional medal! I love that the festival has a distance for anyone no matter what level runner you are!
- The Course (Half Marathon)- As you can see from my Garmin Connect App screen shot a lot of the course takes place near the Atlantic Ocean! Running close to the beach is always a favorite of mine and this course kept things interesting and full of the beautiful Delaware landscapes! The Sunday races all started at Tower Roads, which is just south of Dewey Beach and headed North towards Rehoboth- while I cannot speak of the 5k, 9k or Full course I can say I really, really liked the half marathon course. After we left tower road and headed north we ran by Silver Lake and then onto the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk. After the boardwalk we ran up to Gordon's Pond Trail (my absolute favorite Delaware Trail!) for about a mile and a half before turning around for our journey back to the finish. After the trail we ran the boardwalk again and ventured through some of Rehoboth's neighborhoods and eventually under route 1 and back through Dewey to the finish line. While some may complain the trail was narrow at some points I did not find this to be a problem.
- The SWAG– This is one race that you absolutely get what you paid for! At packet pickup you receive your shirt, bib and glass (which also had some coupons and a magnet in it) and after crossing the finish line you add an awesome and huge medal and finisher trucker hat to your swag collection! If you ran a challenge race you received an additional medal as well! I really like all the thought and detail put into the swag and I really like it when races offer a finishers "item" along with the traditional shirt and medal!
- Easy and Convenient Packet Pick Up- Packet pick up was easy and offered on two separate occasions (Friday and Saturday). They had two fun backdrops for pictures (Dick's Sporting Goods pictured above) and a Coastal Delaware Running Festival one (pictured below) to snag some fun pictures with, as well a few local running store vendors and booths to stock on last minute running items. They also had a booth to buy any other Coastal Delaware gear, as well as large maps and other information about the race. While this was MUCH smaller than most race expos it had everything you would need to be prepared for your race, which is really all that matters!
- Post Race Food and Drink and Hang out areas- I have found that sometimes after races you get pushed through the finish chute so quickly you can miss out on food and drinks which can really be annoying. After finishing the race yesterday you had the option to grab some water then turn in your beer tags and hang out on the bay or inside. If you wanted food they had multiple buffet lines inside filled with delicious post run food options- not the usual banana, muffins, bagel collection- instead it was pasta, mac and cheese, BBQ, coleslaw, salad and a few other items I think I missed. The food was great and the best part was that you did not have super long lines to grab your food! If you did not want to stay inside there was outside seating available as well PLUS bathrooms inside if you needed to use them! Seriously an all around win!
- On Course Hydration and Nutrition Options– The race course had a water/Gatorade stop around every 2 miles. It really seemed that each water stop was perfectly placed. Along with the water stops there were porta potties along the course even though we opted to stop at the Boardwalk bathroom. Another bonus was the multiple chances to grab some sort of nutrition on the course. To be honest I did not count but I know of at least two-three times I was offered a Gu Type packet on the course. Along with that at one stop they also were handing out Honey Stinger Waffles which are my favorite! I was very excited to see this as an option as well instead of the traditional Gu option only!
- Parking/ Start- Finish Line Logistics– While the Sunday races were not necessarily considered "point-to-point" they did have different start and finish line locations. Being familiar with the Dewey Beach area I did not have any problems and liked that they offered parking either at the start line or the finish line with busing to both locations both before and after the races. I went with the option to park near the finish line and simply walk to the starting line which worked out fine and I will do in the future!
Overall the race was very well organized and really top notch from start to finish! I am sure registration for 2018 will open soon at a super cheap rate so keep your eye out for that and take advantage of it!!
If you made it through all that information here is how the race went down for me- it was hard but that was solely due to the fact that I had only run one time in April due to having the flu and then going on our family road trip vacation. The flu was really the big factor as to why I had no run but getting better was my main priority.
On Saturday we took the 25 minute trip up to Dewey Beach to packet pickup. Reagan loved it and kept asking if she could "get something". She was content with a pair of free sunglasses and helping me out by taking pictures of me with my bib! Packet Pickup was easy and we were in and out in within 10 minutes- even after browsing some of the shoes one of the vendors had there!
Sunday started early but that was mainly because I wanted to make sure parking would not be an issue. As I stated above I was very familiar with the parking set up in Dewey but I wanted to ensure I had time to park, get to the start and use the restroom before the 7:30 Half marathon start. As I pulled into Dewey I immediately spotted a running friend and we all walked to the start line to see the marathon runners about to take off! We wished our first time marathoner friends good luck and then hit the bathroom line. There we met up with other girls also running the half and snagged our group photo.
The temps were pretty cool for the start of the race due to a thick cloud cover but we were all relieved that it was just cloudy and chilly and not raining like the original forecast had called for. We were able to take advantage of a friends VIP parking and keep warm right up until the start of our half marathon start which was super nice! I ended up wear feetures compression socks, shorts, short sleeve t with a LS tee over that and was good for the first 2 miles and then the LS tee came off. The weather ended up being perfect the entire race- not too hot and not too cold! We even had very light winds which was nice considering you never know what you will get when running so close to the beach.
Shortly after 7:30 we took off in corral 2 and went into our 3 minute run/ 1 minute walk intervals. I knew intervals were the ONLY way I would be successfully completing this race so we stuck to that from miles 1-9 and then I had to switch the 2 minutes run/ 2 minutes walk because my legs were getting HEAVY at that point!
As we approached the last 3-4 miles I really was starting to hurt and get tired due to the lack of running the past month. Luckily I had Amy by my side keeping me going and pushing towards the finish line. We really had no time goal in mind- besides simply finishing so as we approached the last quarter mile we focused on the finished Amy came in a few minutes before me and I was happy with my 2:37 finish time at 18 1/2 weeks pregnant and coming off the flu. I guess technically it was a pregnant half marathon PR which I should be happy about!
As I finished the race I was already feeling very sore- a feeling that I have not had in a very long time. I now remember all those longer races when I first started running that I would not train for that seemed so impossible, not fun and downright hard- I do not miss that feeling at all!
After finishing the four of us pictured above met up and grabbed something eat and took some pictures. Sadly we all had things to do so we did not stick around to really enjoy the post-race party!
Even thought I personally did not have a great race, I really liked everything about the running festival itself and will absolutely be returning next year! To learn more about the running festival, visit: www.codelrun.com
Next up is the St. Michaels Half Marathon on May 20th. I am hoping to be much better trained for that half and enjoy myself a little more. If you want to join me at St. Michaels sign up and use code SMARCS to save $10.00 off your registration!!!
Did you run any race at the Coastal Delaware Running Festival? What did you love the most about it?


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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Dir. Rob Hedden
When an anchor snags an underwater electricity cable at the bottom of Crystal Lake, the power surge reanimates the dormant corpse of Jason Voorhees who winds up onboard a boat filled with teens heading to New York to celebrate their graduation. Bloodless carnage and dreadful Eighties soft rock ensue.
While Freddy vs. Jason had been on the cards for some time, but wouldn't come to fruition for years yet, due to creative differences between New Line and Paramount, the two horror icons actually did go head to head back in 1989 (albeit from within their own respective franchises). New Line released A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child at the same time Paramount was releasing this, the eighth instalment of the Friday the 13th series. Often considered the worst of the sequels (which arguably isn't saying much!), Jason Takes Manhattan is a mess of a film. While director Hedden tried to move the series in a new direction, he was prevented from doing so by an ever diminishing budget and anxious execs, who didn't want to deviate too much from what they believed to be a winning formula. As a result, the film lacks tension, likeable characters, cohesiveness, continuity and its trademark violence. It also looks like a made for TV movie - again due to the low budget. Indeed, even the title is misleading as the vast majority of the film takes place on a boat (named The Lazarus, no less!) bound for New York. By the time we get to Manhattan and Jason pursues the surviving teens through subways and sewers, if you're still awake, you'll be 'rewarded' with about twenty minutes worth of a tensionless chase scene.
How big is this boat? The small graduating class of stereotypes all split up to do their own thing. The guys gather in the gym for sparring, a couple of girls bitch about everyone else and do some coke, a rock chick with impossibly big hair hangs out below deck to play guitar and savour the cool acoustics, a nerd with a film camera follows people around filming them, sensitive jock Sean (Scott Reeves) struggles to prove himself to his father (the ship's captain), teacher/chaperon Colleen Van Deusen (Barbara Bingham) flits about being caring, while our Final Girl Renee (Jensen Daggett) deals with her fear of water (brought about by a mysterious incident in her past) and her overbearing uncle/guardian/biology teacher Charles McCulloch (Peter Mark Richman) – the most annoying and dislikeable 'villain' ever. Where's Dr Crews when you need him? Numbers are briskly whittled down as characters wander about on their own and Jason suddenly appears behind/in front/beside them and kills them. Stalking sequences are rendered tensionless as Jason has now become this seemingly ubiquitous being capable of teleportation, appearing, disappearing and reappearing anywhere. So no matter how much the characters try to evade him, he just appears wherever they are running to and gets 'em. This wears thin very fast and sucks all suspense out of the story. The various gory money shots are all cut from the film, too – so we don't get to see Jason bash in the brains of the rock chick with her own guitar, or smash a hot sauna rock into the chest of a jock.
Due to budget cuts, director Hedden had to reign in his ambitious script which featured the hockey-masked killer fucking shit up in Manhattan during much more screen time. What little we do see of Jason marauding around the already dangerous streets of New York looks suitably impressive. Gasp! as Jason murderlises some crack addicts who are roughing up Renee. Gawp! as Jason fucks up some vagrants. Be astounded! as Jason kicks over a street gang's ghetto-blaster. The brief shots actually featuring Manhattan cityscapes are effectively realised, and it appears to be one of the unmistakably Eighties depictions of the city – all grimy Abel Ferrara aesthetics, graffiti-loaded alleys, steaming manhole covers and crack whore-tastic street urchins. Events soon move into the featureless sewers though as Renee and Sean desperately try to escape Jason. Much of the scenes in the city were actually filmed in Toronto, again due to budgetary limitations. Shame.
One of the 'highlights' comes when boxer Julius is cornered on a rooftop and begins pummelling Jason. Eventually exhausted and not seeming to have deterred Jason any, he dares the hulking maniac to 'take his best shot.' Which he does, punching Julius' head right off his shoulders, over the side of the roof and down into a bin in the alley below.
The ending is nonsensical and features Jason being dissolved by toxic waste in the sewers, and reverting back to the form of a small boy. What does this mean? That he was a ghost all along or something? Doesn't. Make. Sense. And hey, I realise this is part eight of a series already low on imagination and continuity, but please! Also odd are the flashbacks Renee has of learning to swim as a youngster in Crystal Lake and having a spooky encounter with a young Jason, who tries to drown her. A 'shocking twist' reveals that Renee's gob-shite of an uncle is actually a bastard after all. Shocker.
Nothing beats the final shock ending though, as Sean and Renee emerge from the sewer, only to be startled by the formidable form of... Renee's dog! Scary. If you thought the original shock ending was enough to induce brown pants, you ain't seen nothing yet...


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As attorney general of New York, Eliot Spitzer made a name for himself as a tough cop willing to take on deep-pocketed industries like Wall Street and insurance. Now, as governor, he may be making life a little easier for them in an effort to keep financial services in New York competitive in the global market.
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