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Framework: An Integrated Approach to Portfolio, Program and Project
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5.1 Asset Cost Accounting
5.1.1 Description
Asset cost accounting refers to the process of measuring and reporting the commitment and expenditure of money on the enterprises strategic assets such as products or equipment. The output of the process is cost data for assessing the asset portfolios performance relative to established business objectives and requirements. The inputs to the process include the basis against which asset portfolio performance is assessed (quantified requirements per Section 3.1 and cost budgets per Section 3.2) and expense data from ongoing asset operation during the asset life cycle. The TCM process map does not explicitly include the cost accounting process; it only addresses the strategic asset management interface with cost accounting.[29]
The "accounting" process excludes the performance measurement process (Section 6.2) that covers the measurement of asset or process functional performance (e.g., operability, quality, achievement of schedule milestones, etc.). Together, accounting and performance measurement provide the information needed for business control and planning, just as project cost accounting and performance measurement provide the measures for project control (Sections 9.1 and 9.2). In terms of information technology (IT), the distinction between cost accounting and performance measurement is increasingly less distinct as materials or enterprise resource planning (MRP and ERP) systems increasingly encompass the measurement of all resource usage and performance data for both asset management and project control. However, disregarding IT integration, cost accounting practice remains a unique function in itself.
The most significant cost accounting technique of interest to cost engineering and strategic asset management is activity-based cost management (ABC/M) which improves upon traditional cost accounting by assigning costs to the work activities and then to the assets that drive the workload. This superior costing method based on cause-and-effect relationships is in contrast to simply capturing the spending expenses in cost centers and making somewhat arbitrary guesses or using broad averages (e.g., number of units produced) as to the relationship of the costs to the assets that are uniquely consuming the various types of costs. Traditional cost allocations leads to simultaneous over-costing and under-costing of outputs relative to their actual costs. As was mentioned in Section 3.2, ABC/M also supports asset planning. As asset design is elaborated, understanding the cost by work activity (by worker or by equipment) allows more effective assets to be developed.
.1 The Importance of Cost Measurements to Strategic Asset Management
As discussed in Section 3.1, requirements are a condition or capability that a problem solution must have to address their perceived problem or opportunity The first characteristic of a good requirement is that it defines what the asset will do. The next is that it be quantified to serve as a basis of performance measurement. For example, performance against a requirement such as "must have good reliability" cannot be measured; a statement such as "must have less than 1 percent downtime" is better.
As further discussed in Sections 2.3 and 3.3, the most important business requirement for most enterprises, and the basis for their asset investment decisions where applicable, is a measure of economic return on investment; a single measure that expresses in monetary terms the value of the investment over its life cycle to the enterprise.[30] Allowing for the time value of money, return on investment improves with greater and/or sooner income and less and/or later costs incurred. In decision and investment analysis, income and costs may include non-monetary benefit and cost factors expressed in monetary terms.
An assets return on investment is determined through assessment (see Section 6.1); however, the financial view of assessment is based on measured income, benefits, and costs that comes from multi-period accounting (i.e., capital budgeting). The assessment is based on measured income, benefits, and costs. Revenue, the most common benefit, is usually unambiguous and easy to account for by asset. For example, when an enterprise sells a known number of products for a known price, it knows the origin, amount, and timing of income for each product. In other words, revenue measures (and many functional performance measures such as production rates) are inherently asset-based (i.e., unit or product price). Some costs are also unambiguous and easy to account for by asset. Typically, these costs include direct labor expenses for workers on the frontline who do repeated work directly on the asset, and the expense for material used directly in the asset.
However, many costs cannot be directly accounted for by asset because the resources (e.g., people, equipment, supplies) invested in it are also shared in work on other assets or they are invested indirectly in systems, processes, services, and so on that support other assets. An example of the former is a worker partly running a machine and partly sorting component parts. An example of the latter is maintenance workers repairing various machines or plant office personnel supporting the production of many products in a plant. The expense (e.g., their salary or wage) for their services cannot be directly traced and accounted to any particular product (i.e., their costs are typically accounted to a cost center such as plant management expense or "overhead"). However, the time period for their various types of work can be measured.
Therefore, the enterprises assessment of return on any given asset investment (and decisions regarding the investment) are significantly affected by which assets the indirect expenses are assigned to. If the assignment is arbitrary, without being based on causality, then success of the investment, and the enterprise, will be uncertain. Therefore, this section focuses on methods that result in asset-based cost accounting, specifically ABC/M.
.2 Traditional and ABC/M Accounting
In cost accounting, actual monetary transactions are entered in a financial bookkeeping ledger per a chart of accounts that is generally organized by resource type. Resources are sources of work or expense such as labor salaries, electrical power, supplies, and so on. Accounting then translates the expenses (i.e., "what was spent") to costs for various cost centers (i.e., "what it was spent doing") so that the expenditures can be compared to the budgets established for the cost centers. An analogy to describe absorption costing is that the cost centers are sponges that absorb the work activities of the expenses captured in the ledgers spending buckets. Note that costs are calculated in absorption costing, not directly measured. In traditional accounting, the calculation assigns indirect expenses from the cost centers into the assets per established cost allocation methods such as proration in accordance with direct expenses, output volumes, or some other simple means with broad averages. In many cases, the cost centers and control budgets are established by organization (i.e., more "where" or "by whom," as opposed to "what" it was spent for). In that case, there is very little visibility as to the cost of assets, processes, or anything else that crosses organizational bounds.
As was mentioned, ABC/M improves upon traditional cost accounting by assigning or tracing indirect costs to the activities that drive them. These activities are work performed on or for a particular cost object or asset (e.g., products or standard service-lines). One way resource expenses are traced is to use the time that people or equipment spend performing certain activities. Figure 5.1-1 illustrates an ABC/M cost re-assignment network.
Figure 5.1-1. ABC/M Cost Re-Assignment Network
The activity tracing method is more complex than simple prorations, but it is the only accounting method that consistently and reliably supports the enterprise objective of improving the return on assets. ABC/M has increased the role of cost engineers in the asset cost accounting process because the method requires a greater knowledge of the work activities that belong to various processes than do traditional cost allocation accounting methods that conveniently use broad averages rather than reflect how the assets uniquely consume different work activities. The complexity of the process has been mitigated in recent years by integrated ABC/M software that allows enterprises to use the approach efficiently and consistently with automated data collection from transactional systems, such as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Most industry discussions of ABC/M methods, and software developed for the methods, center on cost management of recurring operational costs for non-capital assets such as products, process, and services (and in some cases also types of sales/distribution channels and types of customers). Industry discussions of project cost accounting, which usually center on the control of capital expenditures (CAPEX), do not often describe ABC/M accounting methods. However, if the methods used for project cost accounting are based on a work breakdown (i.e., activity-based), they inherently apply ABC/M principles. Indirect costs in a project environment where the direct costs are non-recurring, but the indirect costs are relatively more repetitive, can blend the ABC/M traced costs with the project accounting of the direct costs to view all of the enterprises costs.
.3 Accounting and CAPEX
The previous discussions focused on accounting for current expenses that are recorded in the general ledger and can be immediately deducted from income during the time period (e.g., month, quarter) when determining profit. However, CAPEX investments are amortized over time periods typically beyond a year. Before those expenses can be amortized, the absorption process first must assign the expenses to a work activity cost center, and then causally trace each activity cost to an asset cost object (i.e., an item in the asset ledger). Then, when the asset or some component of it is put in use (e.g., commonly at or near the end of a project), depreciation of these assigned costs begins (i.e., some portion of the cost is expensed each time period in accordance with established rules for that asset or industry class in that taxation jurisdiction).
ABC/M methods are applied at two phases for CAPEX. First, at the close of a project (see Section 9.1) ABC/M techniques help ensure that indirect project expenses are properly assigned to either the direct project work or to the appropriate capital asset, which is a cost object in its own right (i.e., capitalization). However, that asset (e.g., a factory) may be a resource in support of producing other assets (e.g., a product produced by that factory). In that case, ABC/M methods are used to help ensure that the depreciation expenses are properly assigned to the appropriate cost objects (e.g., products).
The first step (i.e., asset capitalization cost assignment) has been a traditional role of cost engineers because of their knowledge of asset and project costs. Cost engineers have long used ABC/M principles in capital cost assignment based on causal relationships, in part because ABC/M principles are inherent to activity-based project control, and projects are the process through which most CAPEX is expended.
As discussed in Section 9.1, it is common for the enterprise financial functions to be more concerned with capitalization (i.e., how they must deal with the expenses) than project control (where the resource expenses originated). The result is that enterprise accounting systems are often set up to support asset accounts, but not project control accounts. Therefore, cost engineers and project control practitioners often find themselves heavily involved in helping to change and improve accounting systems as more companies add ERP and project management capabilities.
5.1.2 Process Map for Asset Cost Accounting
The asset cost accounting process illustrated in Figure 5.1-2 includes not only the measurement of costs, but the review, classification, and accounting of them for asset management purposes. The process is integrated with performance measurement (see Section 5.2). The measured costs are inputs to the asset performance assessment process (Section 6.1)
Figure 5.1-2. Process Map for Asset Cost Accounting
The following sections briefly describe the steps in the asset cost accounting process.
.1 Planning for Strategic Asset Cost Accounting
The process for asset cost accounting starts with planning for cost accounting. Initial planning starts during the requirements elicitation and analysis process (see Section 3.1) and continues through development of cost budgets in support of investment decision making (see Section 3.3). Business control is facilitated when the cost accounting process reports costs using the same coding structure or chart of accounts as the control or budget accounts. However, general ledger accounting systems were never designed to support cost allocations, including ABC/M (i.e., they lack cost assignment network capabilities). Therefore, the interface (i.e., cost assignment) between cost accounting and asset-based business control systems must be designed and planned. As was mentioned, ABC/M methods also apply to asset planning (see Section 3.2), so planning must begin early.
Planning ensures that the managerial accounting system cost accounts are either consistent with the control accounts, or that processes and procedures are in place to assign the accounting system cost data to the control accounts in the cost control system. The cost assignment network (i.e., cost absorption mapping) may be automated or facilitated by commercial software or it may involve manual translation and reentry of data (e.g., spreadsheets). In addition, the interaction/interface of owner, supplier, and contractor accounting systems, if any, must be considered and addressed in cost accounting plans.
.2 Initiate Cost Accounts
After cost accounting has been planned, cost accounts are opened or initiated in the cost accounting system or ledgers in accordance with the applicable chart of accounts. If ABC/M is used, the accounts for ABC/M purposes will be based on activity-based principles of cause-and-effect with an action verb-adjective-noun naming convention for the work activities (e.g., process customer orders) that are consumed by the cost objects. For recurring expenses, the cost accounts may always be open. However, accounts in the asset ledger, in which CAPEX will be assigned at project closeout, are opened as projects are implemented and closed out upon completion. The accounting plan will establish who may enter, change, delete, view, or otherwise use data and information in or from the system. To avoid mischarges, cost accounts are generally opened only as needed, not all at once.
.3 Measure, Review, Classify and Account Costs
Once accounts are opened, payments made by the enterprise for resource expenses (e.g., payroll, suppliers, contractors, etc.) are recorded by the accounting process against the appropriate resource cost account. Payments may also be made from one internal cost account to another within an enterprise. In any case, the cost account ledgers are charged (debited) to reflect the dispersal of funds.
The accounting function regularly checks that the costs recorded by the accounting process are appropriate. Cost data are commonly miscoded, misfiled, improperly invoiced, or otherwise mischarged. In addition, work may have been completed or materials received, but not yet invoiced; accounting must review progress measurements (Section 5.2) to determine if a commitment has been made.
As was discussed, indirect or overhead costs are assigned by the accounting process to other cost centers. Indirect or overhead costs may be apportioned using a percentage markup on the direct costs method ignoring causality and introducing some cost inaccuracy or the ABC/M method may be used to assure higher accuracy and visibility to individual indirect cost elements and their drivers. The accounting process periodically evaluates the cost assignment method used to ensure that the costs incurred are in balance with allocations. Cost engineers may be involved with establishing or reviewing the basis of assigning expenses to cost centers and how each cost center is consumed by its activity driver into the enterprises cost objects.
The accounting process may charge to a cost account (i.e., book a debit to the ledger) on a cash or accrual basis. Cost accounting is on a cash basis when a check is cut and the expense is recorded as expended during the same time period, such as the month recorded. In accrual accounting, the payment may occur in a different time period than the period when the profit and loss expense is recognized. For example, costs may be booked before the check is cut in recognition that while an actual payment has not been made, a commitment or liability to make that payment has been incurred. It may also be booked after the check is cut in recognition that while an actual payment has been made, the work or resource for which payment has been made has not yet occurred or been received. Cost accounting reports both accrued (i.e., committed) and cash (i.e., actual) expenditures. This helps business understand the enterprises liabilities and supports forecasts of remaining costs.
.4 Report Project Costs
The cost accounting system reports expenses as they are debited and credited to the various expense accounts in the ledgers. As was discussed, if the accounting system cost accounts are inconsistent with the control accounts, the accounting process must transfer the expenses to the cost control system.
.5 Close Cost Accounts
Cost accounts are closed to accepting charges when no longer needed. For recurring expenses, the cost accounts may always be open. However, accounts in the asset ledger, in which CAPEX has been assigned at project closeout, are closed after the asset is fully depreciated.
5.1.3 Inputs to Asset Cost Accounting
.1 Requirements. (see Section 3.1) Establishes the conditions or capabilities that must be met or possessed by an asset (i.e., system, product, service, result, or component). Requirements often include cost targets. The methods to be used to measure and account for costs and performance are often established as requirements.
.2 Cost Budget Accounts. The investment decision making process (see Section 3.3) establishes cost budgets for the selected asset solutions. The budgets should follow a chart of accounts that aligns with the way costs will be measured and assessed; plans must address how expenses will be assigned to the appropriate cost accounts (e.g., ABC/M).
.3 Performance Measurement Plans. Plans for measuring asset performance (Section 5.2) should be aligned with cost accounting plans as appropriate. Alignment may consider the frequency of measurements, alignment with control accounts, etc.
.4 Asset Performance. (Section 5.2) The time of initiation and closing of cost accounts is partly dependent on activity start and completion dates. Also, activity performance is compared to payments made to identify committed costs.
.5 Changes. During project execution, changes to requirements and asset planning are identified in the change management process (Section 6.2). Change may result in changes to asset cost accounting.
.6 Charges to Cost Accounts. In the accounting process (steps of which are not part of the TCM process map), the disbursal of funds is recorded by the accounting process against the appropriate cost account.
.7 Historical Accounting Information. Successful past asset cost accounting approaches are commonly used as future planning references.
5.1.4 Outputs from Asset Cost Accounting
.1 Cost Budget Accounts. Asset cost accounting planning may identify improvements to the basis of investment decision making (Section 3.3).
.2 Performance Measurement Plans. Asset cost accounting planning may identify improvements in plans for measuring performance (Section 5.2).
.3 Cost Information for Assessment. Cost information is used in asset performance assessment (Section 6.1).
.4 Historical Accounting Information. The enterprise cost accounting approaches are captured for use as a future planning reference. Asset cost data are also captured in the project historical database (Section 6.3).
5.1.5 Key Concepts for Asset Cost Accounting
The following concepts and terminology described in this and other chapters are particularly important to understanding the asset cost accounting process of TCM:
.1 Cost Accounts. Charts of accounts for capturing expenditure and cost information.
.2 Expenditures/Expenses. An expense that is charged to a ledger account when a payment or disbursement is made. Expenses differ from reported costs because costs (e.g., a process cost, activity cost, product cost, or customer cost) are always calculated.
.3 Commitments. The sum of all financial obligations made, including expenditures as well as obligations, which will not be performed or received until later. May also be referred to as an "accrued expenditure."
.4 Cost Allocation or Assignment (overhead, markups, etc.). The process of representing and reflecting how outputs of work (or the work itself) consumes and draws on resources by transferring costs from one account to another so that calculated and reported costs are consistent with the basis for the cost included in the cost control budget.
.5 Cash and Accrual Accounting. In cash accounting, costs are accounted for when expended (i.e., payments are made or cash disbursed). In accrual accounting, costs are accounted for when an obligation to make an expenditure is incurred, even if cash will not be expended or disbursed until a later time.
.6 Capitalization and Depreciation. Some costs are charged (i.e., expensed) as immediate or current expenses. However, capital expenses (CAPEX) are held in suspense as work-in-progress (i.e., a suspense account), until the capital asset is put in service. Prior to being put in service, the capital project costs are assigned to items in the capital asset ledger and balance sheet (i.e., capitalized), and these costs are then charged or recognized over time in the profit statement as a depreciation expense. Capital and expense designations and depreciation rules are usually defined by government tax authorities. Cost engineers often assist the finance function in making the cost allocations.
.7 Activity-Based Costing/Management (ABC/M). A superior method to causally trace and assign resource expenses into costs (rather than allocate costs) in a way that the costs budgeted and charged to an account truly represent all the resources consumed by the activity or item represented in the account (i.e., the allocation is not arbitrarily based on broad averages without causality, but reflects what events drive the cost).
Further Readings and Sources
The interface of asset management with cost accounting is generally covered in business management and accounting texts. The following references provide basic information and will lead to more detailed treatments.
AACE International. Skills and Knowledge of Cost Engineering, 5th ed. (chapter on Activity-Based Cost Management). Morgantown, WV: AACE International, 2004.
Cokins, Gary. Activity Based Cost Management: An Executive Guide. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
Humphreys, Kenneth, Editor. Project and Cost Engineers Handbook, 4th ed. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2005.
Klammer, Thomas P. Managing Strategic and Capital Investment Decisions. Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1993.
Ostrenga, M., M. Harwood, R. McIlhatten, and T. Ozan, Editors. Ernst & Youngs Guide to Total Cost Management. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
Piekarski, Julian A. "Advanced Managerial Costing in Industry," AACE International Transactions. Morgantown, WV: AACE International, 1994.
Player, Steve and David E. Keys. Activity-Based Management. New York: MasterMedia Limited, 1995.
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The Missouri Public Improvement Bonds Amendment, also known as Amendment 5, was on the November 4, 1986 ballot in Missouri as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment, where it was defeated. The measure would have allowed property owners within a special benefit district, cities and counties to issue bonds for public improvements upon a two-thirds vote. The measure also would have allowed voters to levy a tax on district property owners to repay bonds.[1][2]
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- Chillicothe Constitution Tribune, "Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of Missouri," October 9, 1986
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Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Governor Jerry Brown's campaign to shrink California's deficit helped the most-populous U.S. state slash borrowing costs as much as 88 percent on a $5.4 billion note sale, exceeding yield declines in short-term municipal securities.
California took orders for two-thirds of the revenue- anticipation notes from individual investors, said Tom Dresslar, a spokesman for Treasurer Bill Lockyer. A tranche maturing May 24 was priced at 0.38 percent, while the bulk of the bonds, maturing June 26, were offered at 0.40 percent.
The notes, meant to bolster cash flow until taxes are collected, were offered with yields as low as 17 basis points above yields on AAA rated tax-exempt debt maturing in one year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That compares with 144 basis points above that benchmark on a $10 billion sale of such notes in November. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
"California's economy is huge, it's diverse and it's moving in the right direction from a fiscal perspective and it's being evidenced in the low yields and the relatively high level of demand that we expect to see from this deal," Neil Klein, who manages $925 million at New York-based Carret Asset Management, said yesterday in an interview.
Brown, 73, in June brokered an $85.9 billion general-fund spending plan with fellow Democrats that filled a $26 billion deficit with $12 billion in spending cuts and an equal amount of revenue growth. The state would have run out of money if there had been a repeat of last year, when Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger locked horns with lawmakers over a similar deficit for 100 days past the start of the fiscal year.
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California was able to offer the lower yields after Standard & Poor's awarded the revenue anticipation notes its highest credit rating since 2007. The company also rescinded the state's negative long-term outlook after the austerity budget was enacted in June.
Yields on the state's short-term debt have dropped by about 80 percent compared with last year, while rates on top-rated one-year general-obligation debt have decreased by one-third, according to Bloomberg data.
Following Schwarzenegger's late budget last year, California sold $7.75 billion of RANs on Nov. 18 that matured in June, yielding 1.75 percent, or 154 basis points more than the 0.40 percent offered today. In comparison, yields on top-rated one-year debt were 0.21 percent yesterday, down from 0.313 percent on Nov. 18.
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The deal benefited from an improving economy, pent-up demand for the debt following Brown's January suspension of bond issues and relatively higher yields compared with states such as Texas, which carries the same short-term rating. S&P rates the state's long-term debt at AA+, the second-highest grade, compared with California's A-, the lowest among U.S. states.
The note sale is "being pretty well received," said George Hribar, head bond trader at Alamo Capital in Walnut Creek, California, one of the firms marketing the issue. "It came to the market just cheap enough to be enticing for short- term paper."
Texas on Aug. 23 sold $9.8 billion of general-obligation tax and revenue anticipation notes due August 2012. The security traded the same day at an average yield of 0.25 percent, 15 basis points to 30 basis points below California's preliminary range yesterday of 0.40 percent to 0.55 percent.
"Historically there wasn't necessarily this spread between the two," William Henderson, who oversees $16 billion of short- term municipal assets at BlackRock Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey. "But in recent years as California ran into credit issues, there was a spread created."
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Passage of the budget for the year that began July 1 cleared the way for Lockyer to sell the short-term securities because the budget must show there's enough money left over at year's end to repay investors.
Lockyer plans to use the proceeds from the revenue notes to pay off a cash-flow loan he secured July 27 from Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., six other banks and investors. The treasurer took the loan anticipating a possible credit- market disruption as Congress debated raising the nation's debt ceiling.
Without that bridge loan, the state was in danger of running out of money, as it did in 2009, when the controller issued $2.6 billion of IOUs amid a legislative budget impasse.
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Our initial reaction to Howard Stern's assertion that CBS chief Leslie Moonves has a "personal vendetta" against him was to scoff.
Per Reuters, it claims "multiple breaches of contract, fraud, unjust enrichment, and misuse of CBS Radio broadcast time" as well as damages from Sirius for unfair competition and interference with Stern's CBS contract.
How much in damages? $500 million.
But that's to confuse the issue: Les doesn't have anything personal against you, Howard. He has something against ex-CBS radio chief turned Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin, and if he has to crush you in the process?
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I grew up the opposite of Stacey (Or insert cute blogging pseudonym). My family is extremely religious. My Parents started out as Baptists and swapped over to non-denominational Christians. Don't confuse non-denominational with non-religious though. We went to church every Sunday and then some. My parents were deacons and treasurers and bulletin writers and other assorted volunteer positions. My parents were Gideons and all that that entails. I went to Sunday School until I taught it. I went…Continue
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In my younger days I was naive enough to think I could control change. I've learned, but not quickly enough, that no one can control or stop change. And, here is an interesting little fact: Charles Darwin believed that those people who survive the ones who can adapt to ongoing change. They are not necessarily the strongest or the smartest, but they are the survivors. That thought of survival brings me to today's topic of change and how to understand it a little better.
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By DYLAN LYSEN, Herald Staff Writer | 5/19/2014
RICHMOND — Jordan Horstick struggled to remember the words his brother, JT Horstick, spoke nearly a decade ago when he was valedictorian.
But then he realized relaying that message didn't matter, he said Saturday during the Vikings graduation ceremony. Central Heights Class of 2014 graduates wouldn't remember it any better than he did. Instead, he encouraged his classmates to remember their moments together.
RICHMOND — Jordan Horstick struggled to remember the words his brother, JT Horstick, spoke nearly a decade ago when he was valedictorian.
But then he realized relaying that message didn't matter, he said Saturday during the Vikings graduation ceremony. Central Heights Class of 2014 graduates wouldn't remember it any better than he did. Instead, he encouraged his classmates to remember their moments together.
"Nine years ago, my brother stood up here on the same stage giving the same speech. While I was thinking about what I wanted to talk about today, I thought back to what he said, but I couldn't quite remember what he said," Jordan Horstick, class valedictorian, said.
"Truth is, we've had some great years here together, and we've laughed and cried but stuck together through all of it," he continued. "But this is all in the past. Now is the time to start the next chapter in our lives."
Horstick, who's father is the high school principal and mother is a kindergarten teacher for the school district, said he had been at Central Heights his whole education career. He joined 12 other graduates who began and finished at Central Heights.
"I started out in kindergarten with my mom teaching my kindergarten class and my father teaching P.E. classes, and then four more years of my father watching my every move in the hallways and looking at my grades every day," Horstick said during his commencement address, his father sitting directly behind him on stage. "And believe it or not, I can't even stand up here and give you this speech without him looking over my shoulder right now."
Central Heights saw 32 seniors graduate from high school Saturday in the high school's packed gym. Tom Horstick, high school principal, said it was one of the smallest classes in Central Heights' recent history, but the class was never outdone.
"You are a unique class. First of all, there are only 32 of you, making you one of the smallest classes in recent years," Horstick said. "With only 32, you have earned $144,000 worth of scholarships."
The principal told the graduating seniors they will work in many different career paths, and honored the students who planned to enter the U.S. armed forces. He said the class was fun, but caused him some grief.
"You are a fun class, and although I wanted to scream at, kick and strangle some of you — I don't know if I can say that in public, but I did — you have been fun to be around," he said.
But with all the headaches the students have caused their principal, he was sure to honor the class for their academics.
"You have the highest cumulative class GPA in recent years, congratulations," Horstick said.
Horstick told the graduation crowd he had watched all four of his children, including Jordan, graduate from Central Heights. He also expressed pride in watching Tyler Hendron, who has lived with the family for the past three years and who Horstick considers his fifth child, finish his high school career.
"On a personal note, 2014 brings an end to my kids and their education at Central Heights," Horstick said. "I'm so blessed to have an up-close view of what's going on a daily basis. Now I don't know if the five of them would agree, but I'm glad I got to go to school with them for the last 22 years. And I say five because I consider Tyler [Hendron] one of us."
Horstick left the class with a quote he said they might not remember, but was meaningful nonetheless.
"I like to leave you with a quote you'll never remember, and I know that, but humor me would you?" Horstick said. "[Dwight D. Eisenhower] said, 'In preparing for battle, I've always found plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.' Graduates, sometimes the best plans and goals you have will fall apart. And in the heat of life and your battles, they will fall apart. But I encourage you to set goals, be prepared and be ready for all what life has to offer you.
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|Fall colors burst along the streetscape in downtown Beacon Falls. The Citizens for Tomorrow's Downtown is asking residents for help in choosing what decorations to put up on the street lamps, according to the group's co-chairman. Contributed by Jeremy Rodorigo
BEACON FALLS -- An ad hoc citizens group wants to hear from residents on how to decorate the town's streetscape downtown.
Residents can go online to pick their favorite of three lighted decorations. The Citizens for Tomorrow's Downtown has the choices displayed on its website at www.bfcftd.org under Greenway Decorations.
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OLYMPIA — It'safter 10 o'clock. Do you know where your senator is?
In session. The state Senate removed a rule that requires they adjourn for the day at 10 p.m. and continued its debate over alternative GOP budget proposal moved onto the floor by a parliamentary coup by minority Republicans joined by three conservative Democrats.
"This budget is a backroom deal, and a poltical stunt," Sen. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor charged as tempers showed signs of fraying.
Starting about 8 p.m., Democrats began offering a long list of amendments to restore finding Republicans are proposing to a wide range of state programs in order to make their budget balance without a tax increase or a shift of some $330 million in payments to schools.
Some of the amounts they tried to restore were large, including $148 million for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and $85 million for the Disability Lifeline. Some were relatively small, like $116,000 for international trade. They covered money for public schools and state universities, pension plans and toxic waste cleanup.
All failed, either by the one-vote marging that allowed Republicans to push their budget into the debate, or by voice votes.
Republicans said they were making difficult trade-offs among the state's many programs, and setting priorities. Democrats questioned how those priorities were being set, with a budget that had no public hearings.
"If you think this program is really important,…show how your going to pay for it," Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale.
"We have a way to pay for it," Sen. Lisa Brown, D-Spokane, responded. They would cancel changes to schools required by an initiative but often suspended and delay a payment the state is scheduled to school districts.
They locked horns constantly on that major difference between the alternative GOP plan forced onto the floor and the Democrats plan, that remains in the Ways and Means Committee. Democrats want to delay $330 million payment the state makes to schools by one day, from the last day of this biennium to the first day of the next, and keep that payment schedule.
Republicans call that a gimmick, and that the state should pay it's obligations on time. "It's pushed forever into the next year," Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, said.
That "looks good on paper," Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle countered, but it results in real cuts in the classroom and to social programs.
The schools prefer the accounting move, called an apportionment shift, over cuts to the classroom, based on testimony on the Democrats' budget plan at the Ways and Means Committee, Brown said, turning to Republicans. "If you had been there, you would've heard."
During a break in the debate, Zarelli said he realized that the budget propsal would go through changes in negotiations with the House. But Republican ideas would be represented at those discussions with one GOP budget on the table.
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Years ago, in fact many years ago, I along with a writer friend started a little group called StoryCrafters. It was made up of writers and friends from LongRidge Writer's Group where we we taking a class and hanging out in the chatroom. Thing is, we needed more. So, that's how StoryCrafters began.
StoryCrafters was a special place. You could be yourself and soak in the moat, gnaw a bone under a shade tree, swim in the lake, or recline by the pool, and relax. And the food…talk about yum. A chocolate fountain that flowed 24/7/365, trollhouse cookies always fresh from the oven, icy drinks of all flavors in the summer, and plenty of hot cocoa in the winter.
But, life happens and we sorta got busy and started neglecting our special place. And since it was only open to LongRidge students, activity there became less and less and then soon practically died. Those of us who remained made the decision to let StoryCrafters fade into the night. We were saddened but didn't really know what else to do.
Now though, years later, I've been asked by several people to revive StoryCrafters. And I'm excited at the possibilities.
So, now, StoryCrafters is back. I've cleaned the moat and added fresh muck, brought in a new chocolate fountain that dispenses three kinds of chocolate (dark, milk, & white – I'm not sure white is really chocolate but…) and set out some warm trollhouse cookies.
StoryCrafters is open to all writers and readers. Right now, we are starting slow but I encourage you to stop by, join us, and make yourself at home. The old posts are still there, just not visible. You can find them if you search. A lot of the links are broken which is why they are hidden though there is still a lot of good info there.
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|Overview - 2 Samuel 21
|The three years' famine for the Gibeonites ceases, by hanging seven of Saul's sons.
|Rizpah's kindness unto the dead.
|David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father's sepulchre.
|Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four valiants of David slay four giants.
2 Samuel 21:9 (King James Version)
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.


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New Zealand patent law has been overhauled with the passing of the new Patents Act in August. The legislation won't come into force until sometime next year but, when it ...
The RMA has constipated the country. Or has it?
Water Conservation Orders (WCOs) are statutory tools used to protect waterbodies of outstanding value nationally – rivers, lakes, and wetlands – much like mountains and coasts are protected by National ...
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Wedded to an unrealistic view of the world, where climate change is just another policy setting that can be fiddled to the advantage of supporters or to suit ideology.
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Allan Kustok Sentenced To 60 Years For Murdering Wife
A judge on Wednesday sentenced an Orland Park businessman to 60 years for the murder of his wife in their home four years ago.
A 'Spooktacular' Sight For Halloween In Orland Park
There are only a couple of nights left to catch this year's spooktacular offering by an Orland Park couple that's made a big deal out of Halloween for more than a dozen years.
FBI: Bank Robber Told Teller 'Have A Great F****** Day"
The robber, identified as 26-year-old Carl P. Wilson of Joliet, entered the First Midwest Bank branch at 11200 W. 143rd St. in Orland Park just after 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 13 armed with a semi-automatic handgun and wearing a black hood on his face, according to the FBI.
Armed Suspect Robs Orland Park Bank Branch
A gunman robbed a southwest suburban First Midwest Bank branch Monday afternoon, firing two shots inside the bank but wounding no one, authorities said.
Orland Park Firefighter Killed In I-57 Crash
Wesley Peak, 36, was driving nort on I-57 when he was involved in a single vehicle traffic crash, officials said.
Police: Man Shot Neighbor With BB Gun For Smoking
On July 18, the victim was smoking a cigarette on his own first-floor patio on Quail Hollow Drive, when a neighbor two floors above him shouted to him, "Hey, put that cigarette out, now."
Heroin Awareness Meeting Sparks Feud Between Orland Park Mayor, Fire Protection District
A heroin awareness program in Orland Park last week resulted in a feud carried out via press release between the Village of Orland Park and the Orland Fire Protection District, reports WBBM's Bernie Tafoya.
Orland Park Hosting Heroin Awareness Program
Orland Park Fire Protection District Chief Ken Brucki says there were at least six heroin overdose deaths in Orland Park last year, among about 60 heroin overdose ambulance calls. The antidote Narcan was used to save most of those lives.
Police Seek Driver Who Ran Over Geese In Orland Park
Two people in a vehicle recorded the incident on a dashboard camera and called police Tuesday, shortly after it occurred. About 10:30 a.m. that day, about 20 geese were walking across 104th Avenue near 159th Street by a wetland when some were struck by the van that drove away without stopping
Lightning Strike Sparks Fire In Attic Of Orland Park Home
Lightning started a fire in an Orland Park house Wednesday afternoon, and the homeowner's hunch prevented damage from being worse than it was.
Orland Park Man A Contestant On "The Price Is Right"
Keith Hovorka and Dimitrios Koulouris weren't having much luck at the tables during their annual trip to Las Vegas in February, so they decided to drive to L.A. to see "The Price Is Right." To his surprise, Hovorka was selected to "come on down" and be a contestant.
Former Teacher Faces New Charges Of Sex With Student
Ryan Dolan, 29, was already facing aggravated criminal sexual abuse charges in Will County, stemming from a March 8 arrest in Tinley Park. Now, the former head wrestling coach has been charged with criminal sexual assault involving the same student in Orland Park.
Bullet Fired At Orland Park Mosque During Prayer Service
A bullet was reportedly fired through the dome of an Orland Park mosque Tuesday morning, damaging the building during a early morning prayer service.
Kustok Found Guilty Of Murdering Wife
Allan Kustok, 63, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife Anita "Jeanie" Kustok on Sept. 29, 2010. Prosecutors have said Kustok shot his wife as she laid in bed, but the defense claims she killed herself.
Sarah Kustok Condemns Dad's Affairs But Doesn't Think He Shot Her Mom
The former Chicago sportscaster took the stand Monday in the murder trial of her father and offered testimony casting doubt on allegations he murdered her mother. CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports.
Prosecutors Rest Case Against Kustok; Defense Calls Expert Witness
The prosecution rested in the murder trial of Orland Park busienssman Allan Kustok Thursday afternoon, but the defense did not, as expected, immediately call the alleged killer's daughter — former Comcast Sports Network broadcaster Sarah Kustok.
In-Law Testifies At Kustok Murder Trial
In court proceedings over the past week, Allan Kustok's defense attorneys have taken pains to portray Jeanie Kustok as a paranoid wreck who was terrified that someone would invade the couple's alarm-protected Orland Park home.
At Hospital With Dead Wife, Kustok Got Texts From Another Woman
While Orland Park detectives peppered Allan Kustok with questions about the shooting death of his wife, several text messages from a potential paramour were sent to his cellphone, requesting an extramarital rendezvous
After Taking Wife's Body To Hospital, Kustok Tells Nurse He's 'Life Of The Party'
Allan Kustok lived an apparent double life, maintaining the outward façade of a suburban family man, while carousing and womanizing on the sly, prosecutors said.
Police: Drunk Couple Had Sex In Cab, Then Couldn't Pay Fare
A couple's erotic cab ride from a bar to southwest suburban Orland Park ended on a less-than-romantic note when they couldn't cover the fare, according to police.


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|Blake Joseph Bingham, the first child of Mayor Ryan J. Bingham and his wife, Jennifer, was born Thursday at Hartford Hospital. Contributed
TORRINGTON — One day after celebrating their third anniversary at a Hartford restaurant, Mayor Ryan J. Bingham and his wife Jennifer welcomed the arrival of their first child Thursday.
Blake Joseph Bingham was born at 5:59 p.m. and weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce. He is 20.5 inches from head to toe.
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The 31-year-old is currently on the transfer list at Deepdale after finding himself out of favour under Graham Westley.
Russell joined Preston in the summer of 2010 after leaving Norwich, but he made just four appearances last season.
The tough-tackling midfielder spent the second half of last season at Charlton, making 11 appearances as the Addicks won the League One title.
Russell returned to Preston over the summer, but he is now seeking a new challenge away from the club.
A number of clubs are thought to be monitoring Russell's situation as they look to snap him on a free transfer.