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A regional inter-university initiative that seeks to boost training and research in Eastern and Southern Africa has been launched at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology.
Partnership to Strengthen University Food and Nutrition Sciences, which is supported by the ACP-EU EDULINK II, brings together Makerere University (Uganda), Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and JKUAT as it seeks to enhance the universities' capacity to address malnutrition in Africa.
Malnutrition has been attributed to inadequate food, insufficient levels of essential nutrients in staples, and lack of nutritional knowledge.
PASUFONS project coordinator Prof John Muyonga from Makerere University said: "high post-harvest losses, low produce quality and dismal value addition have for a long time limited the benefits derived from food production in Africa."
He said the overall project objective is "to enhance the contribution of higher education institutions to food and nutrition security of communities in Eastern and Southern Africa."
Muyonga said the three universities will review existing food and nutrition sciences academic programmes, develop course material, conduct short-term courses for technical and academic staff and have joint research and teaching through use of virtual teaching and learning facilities.
JKUAT vice chancellor Mabel Imbuga said PASUFONS entry has come at a time when "better strategies to improve the training in the fields of food science and nutrition are top on the agenda."
She said "food science and nutrition are critical in growing economies and especially in societies that are still grappling with issues of malnutrition."
The don said the initiative's e-portal, a virtual forum for undertaking joint academic activities envisaged under PAFUSONS, will expose students to the best opportunities in the three universities.
Mabel urged university staff to take advantage of opportunities to conduct high impact joint research.


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Outdoors Calendar: 04.30.06
New Seagrass rules
The new seagrass preservation rules for Redfish Bay take effect Monday (May 1). Signs are posted and additional markers are coming. Following a grace period, boaters who violate the rule could be subject to a $500 fine for this Class C misdemeanor.
What will be illegal?
Separate petitions to rescind an ordinance that restricts vehicles on the beach near the Padre Island seawall and to require voter approval for future proposals that would restrict vehicles on beaches within Corpus Christi's jurisdiction are available at the following locations: Nueces County Courthouse (901 Leopard St.), Breakaway Tackle (13941 SPID), Jesse's Fine Spirits (13947 SPID), Pilar Eclectic Jewelry (32 Lamar Park Center), Anthonys Aveda salon (817 Everhard), Wind & Wave Watersports (10721 SPID), Aloe Tile Works (301 Kinney), Tropical Shade and Shutter (901 Airline), Red Dot Pier (11801 SPID), Mail and More (14493 SPID), Barton Street Pub (10618 SPID), Clem's Marina (13304 SPID), Floyd's Christian Restaurant (9502 SPID), Jerry B's Kayak Sales (9906 SPID), Quizno's Subs (3823 S. Staple), Turners Nursery (6503 S. Staples), 89 Cleaners (14493 SPID). For a complete updated list, visit openbeaches.com.
Deer Association banquet on May 4
The local chapter of the Texas Deer Association has scheduled its fundraiser banquet for 6-8 p.m. May 4 at the Bayfront Inn, 601 North Water St. Admission is $50. The event will feature auctions and raffles for hunting and fishing adventures, outdoor gear and more. Call Mark Canales at 765-0192 or Ray Hinojosa at 991-1886.
Web site to host May kayak-fishing event
Texaskayakfisherman.com will host a kayak-fishing contest in the Coastal Bend May 6. Registration brochures are available at local tackle shops and kayak dealers. Wind & Wave Watersports, 10721 SPID, will provide on-site registration the day before the event. Activities also are scheduled there on tournament day. A captains meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. May 5 at the Flour Bluff Convention Center and Mini Mall, 1241 Flour Bluff Drive. The weigh-in also will be here. A last-minute orientation will be offered starting at 4 a.m. May 6 at Packery Channel Park, where everyone must launch. Registration Fee is $50 for amateurs and $100 for the pro division (anglers who have won a kayak tourney within one year).
Call (409) 753-1035,; email tkfstubb@ texaskayakfisherman.com; visit www.texaskayakfisherman.com.
Los Cazadores event
The folks at the Los Cazadores Hunting Headquarters & Deer Contest in Pearsall have scheduled an awards event May 19-20 at the Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio. A sneak preview of deer expert Larry Weishuhn's new hunting show "One Good Shot" will be shown at 8 p.m. Friday. This premiere episode involves hunting mature bucks in South Texas. The show will be carried by the Men's Channel (soon to be called Men's Outdoors) starting in July. Entry fee for the two-day event is $6. Children younger than 12 get in free. Info: loscazadores.com or (830) 334-5959.
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Homewood Suites Phoenix Avondale features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. Guests are offered a complimentary breakfast each morning and a complimentary manager's reception is offered on select days. A complimentary area shuttle within 5 mi is available for guests. This business-friendly hotel also offers barbecue grills, a fireplace in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Onsite self parking is complimentary. The property may provide extended parking privileges to guests after check-out (surcharge).
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Buffalo Sabres (39-32-10) at Boston Bruins (48-29-4), 4 p.m.
(Sports Network) - The Boston Bruins will have one more chance to sharpen their game before the start of their Stanley Cup title defense as they host the disappointed Buffalo Sabres this afternoon.
The Bruins are returning to the playoffs for the fifth straight season and are defending their first championship since 1972. Boston claimed the Cup last season by knocking off the Vancouver Canucks in seven games.
Already locked into the second seed in the East with a second straight Northeast Division title, the Bruins reached 100 points for the third time in the past four seasons with Thursday's 3-1 win over the Senators.
With little on the line, Boston did not even bring starting goaltender Tim Thomas, star defenseman Zdeno Chara or forward Patrice Bergeron to Ottawa for the game. Instead, backup goaltender Anton Khudobin made 44 saves to win his Bruins debut and will likely serve as Thomas' backup in the postseason due to Tuukka Rask's lower-body injury.
"I though he played phenomenal," Bruins forward Tyler Seguin said about Khudobin. "I thought he played a great full 60 minutes tonight."
Benoit Pouliot, Greg Zanon and Milan Lucic scored for Boston, which earned its third win in the last four games and sixth in the past eight.
Boston is dealing with some injuries as it heads into the postseason, with defensemen Adam McQuaid (head/eye) and Johnny Boychuk (left knee) day-to-day.
The Bruins have gone 3-1-1 versus the Sabres this season, winning both meetings in Boston by a 9-3 margin.
The Sabres end their season in Boston after officially being eliminated from the postseason on Thursday. Buffalo was undone by its 2-1 setback to Philadelphia as well as Washington's win over Florida that night.
Looking to dig themselves out of a hole, the Sabres had gone 8-2-2 in their past 12 and 20-7-5 in the last 32 before giving up a pair of goals in the third period of the loss to the Flyers. Ryan Miller made 33 saves, but couldn't stop Matt Read's winner on a breakaway with 4:21 left in the game.
"It's just disappointing because it's embarrassing to miss the playoffs. We have a lot of talented players and we just couldn't get it going early enough. You run out of time, you run out of games," said Miller. "It comes down to basically going on a bigger tear than any other team in the league has gone on the entire year, just to make the playoffs and that's not how you do it in this league."
Signed to a six-year, $27 million deal this offseason, Ville Leino scored just his eighth goal of the season in the loss for the Sabres.
Buffalo was limited on its blue line. Already without Tyler Myers and Christian Ehrhoff due to injury, Alexander Sulzer did not play versus Philadelphia due to a personal matter that caused him to fly home to Nashville.


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To contemplate Mdina's finest monuments, take the main thoroughfare, Villegaignon Street. Many of the town's architectural treasures lie here – vestiges of the erstwhile splendour of its days as capital. Bastion Square is another of the hubs of this pretty little walled town.
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Archbishop Square M - Mdina
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We have had Polly Anna about month. She is 3.
Dusty came to us on Saturday. He is 14yo gelding.
We didn't introduce them to each other until today we kept a fence between them.
At first, I thought it was going to go real well. They were nose to nose, ears alert. Then all of the sudden Polly Anna got excited, made quite a bit of noise, and raised her front hooves, landing one on a rung of the gate. Nothing serious, she easily slid it off.
We backed her up some. She did it again. I still can't decide if I think she was being mean or just excited. When she was back in her pasture, she ran wild in circles and bucking, etc.
A couple times, Dusty backed off, even turned his back to her, looked like his feelings were hurt, but then he'd turn around excited again.
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Full detailed profile on Simon Frasier Played by Paul Leyden on As the World Turns Daytime Soap Opera.
Paul Leyden
Birthday: 1972-Dec-16
Simon asks the bellhop where he got the note that was delivered to his room that appears to be from Vienna. He offers the bellhop money to tell him who gave him the note, and the bellhop tells him that he can't, the note was left at the desk.
Simon meets Carly and finds her still fighting with Katie. Simon tells Katie that he understands why she is mad at him, but she needs to leave Carly out of it! A bookstore worker comes out and asks Katie to sign some more books, and she leaves. Carly and Simon talk about Katie's leading questions, but once again agree she knows nothing about the jewel theft. When Carly leaves, Simon approaches Katie one more time and tells her to leave them alone. While they are talking Vienna looks on from the distance!
At Simon's place, he and Carly dress. She refuses to put on the necklace again as she feels people are going to become suspicious. He's confident that they'll get away clean this time, and says, "The best place for this is in plain sight! He puts the necklace around her neck and they leave to go shopping. Carly is uncomfortable, feeling that everyone's eyes on her rock, but Simon comforts her, thinking they're all staring because she's beautiful. They're interrupted by Lisa, who has a copy of Oakdale Confidential on her person. She's irate, and starts yelling at the two that they won't get away with this! She warns, "Wait until the police find out about this!" Simon and Carly are in shock, scared stiff until she bursts out into laughter! She is in the middle of reading the book and is just messing with them, she explains. They compose themselves as she tells Carly, "I do have to hand it to you for wearing that rock around your neck!" Lisa moves on and Simon asks her to take it in stride the next time someone makes a crack about the book! She agrees, and they kiss with a promise to meet later.
Simon is at home when he gets a hand delivered message from Vienna. It reads, "Simon you bad boy, I know what you did!"
Carly worries about what Katie wrote in her book. Simon assures her Katie made the jewel theft up. Carly worries that if Jack reads the book he'll arrest them, throw them in jail, and she'll lose her kids. Simon re-assures her it's just fiction, but she still worries that Jack will believe it and follow-up. Simon says even if he does follow-up there's no proof, but Carly wonders if Katie has proof. Simon says she can't have proof if she made it all up. He tells Carly if the cops come after them he'll protect her. He reminds her that he promised her she wouldn't get hurt.
Carly answers the door; it's Jack. Simon leaves, kissing Carly goodbye on his way out. Carly looks worried as Jack walks over, picks up Katie's book, then opens it. Carly grabs the book from his hands telling him he doesn't really want to read the "trash" and "gossip" she wrote. She goes on to say because Katie wanted revenge, she wrote things about she and Simon that were untrue. Jack asks to look at the book.
"Why?" Carly inquires.
"Anything you're trying this hard to hide I want to read," Jack replies.
Carly gives in handing him the book. "Don't say I didn't warn you," she says. "You're warning me?" Carly confirms, saying everything Katie wrote was because she was jealous. Jack changes his mind; he gives the book back saying he'll pass.
Later, Jack admires her necklace, reminding her that Simon is a jewel thief! Before he leaves, he says, "Don't worry about the book. If there's anything in there I need to know I'll find it."
At the book signing, Katie informs Mike that he doesn't want the book and lays it aside. She goes on to say how much she regrets what she done, but she can't change things. She says she wrote what she did to get even with Simon. Mike informs her that he left because of her, not Simon. He says he's tired of being shafted, and orders her not to talk about him, or write about him. Again, she reminds him she wrote what she did to hurt Simon. He says the book is gossip! She corrects him saying, "No, most of it is true."
Later, she tells him she wants him, not Simon. "Prove it," he says. "How, I'll do anything?" Katie replies. He recommends she prove to herself that she can have a future without Simon -- get him out of her life! With hope in her eyes, she asks, "And if I can do that, I can hope that you'll come back to me?"
Before Mike can answer, Simon walks up apologizing for interrupting saying he really needs to have a word with Katie. "Help yourself," Mike says.
After Mike leaves, Simon confronts Katie saying she has to stop blaming him, because she was there too. "You told the whole world I'm a jewel thief," he says. "You are a jewel thief," she retorts. She admits she saw him put the necklace around Carly's neck at Lakeview. He asks her if that's when she got the idea to make them thieves in her book. Instead of answering, Katie demands he leave or she says she'll call security!
Back at Carly's place, Simon arrives and informs her that Katie doesn't know anything about the jewel theft. "We have nothing to worry about," he says. Relieved, Carly hugs him.
Simon excitedly greets Carly.He tells her the necklace he gave her looks good, and she asks �What if someone finds out this is one of the diamonds we stole from Vienna?� Simon assures her no one is going to find out. As they are talking the doorbell rings, and Carly opens the door and find Lucinda there. Lucinda tells them, �Thanks to Katie, all of us in this town know more then we ever wanted to know about the two of you� When Carly asks Lucinda what Katie wrote about them Lucinda tells them Katie gets dumped by Simon for �A conniving sl*t!� Angered Carly tells her �My children are in school, this is going to be horrible for them!� Lucinda tells them that the book is really a good thing for them, it's a best seller, and is great PR for them. After she leaves Carly tells Simon �We have to read this book, now!�
Katie tells Henry that she feels bad about Oakdale Confidential. She wrote the new pages in a moment of anger, and regrets the decision to publish them. When Henry suggests that the book could potentially be a big flop, Katie gets an idea and goes to the bookstore nearby, asking to purchase all of the copies they have available. The bookstore employee recognizes her as the author and tells her she can have as many copies as she wants, they have plenty more boxes in the back. Katie tells her nevermind and walks away. Katie asks Henry, who's life she didn't mess up with this book. As she finishes her sentence two women run up, excited to meet Katie, who's life in the book is an inspiration to them. Henry organizes an impromptu book signing, and Katie signs book for a line of eager fans. When Katie takes a break, Carly and Simon stop by the bookstore and confront Katie about the book. Henry suggests Carly and Simon read the book before they fight with Katie so they can have an informed discussion. The two leave, and Katie excitedly goes back to signing books. Later after Henry leaves she is handed a book and when she asks who to make it out to Mike's voice says "To my Ex"
At home Simon shows Carly a copy of �Oakdale Confidential� that he stole from the bookstore. The two read the sections about themselves and laugh. Simon skims forward and tells Carly �this is worse than we thought�
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You're looking forward to the Reds game all day and then find out that there is a bye day?
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You're looking forward to the Reds game all day and then find out that there is a bye day?
When the schedule for the season comes out I spend about 7-8 hours memorizing it so this doesn't happen to me. It's a lot of work, and it does seem pointless, but you avoid let downs like you had today.
I do. Especially coupled with no Cards game.
Look on the bright side though. 9 straight games starting tomorrow.
Monday off-days don't really bother me... I tend to have more than enough on my plate that I don't need the Reds to entertain me on Mondays.
Thursday off-days are another matter. Also: Wednesdays when we play in the afternoons, and I don't realize it until 5pm.
Ditto the last post. The Wednesday day games are the ones I tend to forget.
I hate any off days lol.
Movie night for me.
It's good to get away from the game a few times a month.
I watch an unhealthy amount of baseball lol.
I guess I'll resort to watching the padres and Atlanta and pulling against them in hope we finish with the best record.
Reds gotta recharge the batteries right quick,load up the wagons,and come out blazing on the west coast.
At least there is MNF... even if it is preseason
Weed's Season begins tonight! I'm lucky I'm at a hotel with cable.


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The lighting examples from the GLSL Core Tutorial now include point and spotlights. Source code for all light types, including directional, and shading models, is also available. A VS2010 solution is also provided.
A new example has been added to the GLSL Core Tutorial showing the theory and implementation of directional lights, using both Gouraud and Phong shading models. Soon more light types, point and spotlights, will follow.
OpenGL renders to framebuffers. By default OpenGL renders to screen, the default framebuffer that commonly contains a color and a depth buffer. This is great for many purposes where a pipeline consists of a single pass, a pass being a sequence of shaders. For instance a simple pass can have only a vertex and a fragment shader.
For more complex graphical effects or techniques, such as shadows or deferred rendering, multiple passes are often required, where the outputs of a pass are inputs of the following pass, for instance as textures. In this context, instead of rendering to screen, and then copying the result to a texture it would be much nicer to render to texture directly. The figure shows a two pass pipeline, where the first produces three textures that are used in the second pass to compose the final image. This is one of the advantages of framebuffer objects: we can render to multiple outputs in a single pass.
Besides, rendering to screen requires the outputs to be of a displayable format, which is not always the case in a multipass pipeline. Sometimes the textures produced by a pass need to have a floating point format which does not translate directly to colors, for instance the speed of a particle in meters per second.
In this short tutorial we will see how a framebuffer object can be created, and used with shaders. A demo is also provided with full source code, and a VS 2010 solution.
The Lighthouse3D GLSL Core Tutorial has been updated with a few sections, namely how to check the result of the compilation and linking operations, freeing up resources, and how do shaders communicate between themselves on modern OpenGL. The shader interfaces are presented and discussed, with examples and a comparison between the several mechanisms OpenGL provides.
Glow and Bloom is the latest article on this great series that presents graphic effects with source code, theory, and a WebGL demo.
The series already has 8 articles starting with the basics of lighting and exploring several effects. Many more are to be released according to the index.
Self Shadow has published a collection of links for the 2012 Siggraph's materials. This includes courses, BOFs, talks, posters, etc… Also available is a collection of links for Siggraph 2011.
This course is the next installment in the established series of SIGGRAPH courses on real-time rendering. It presents the best graphics practices and research from the game-development community and provides practical and production-proven algorithms. The focus of the course is on the intersection between the game-development community and state-of-the-art 3D graphics research, and the potential for cross-pollination of knowledge in future games and other interactive applications.
Slides are available in here.
I've been working for some time with wxWidgets. The only thing I've missed, regarding OpenGL, is the ability to define my own OpenGL context, in particular Core profile and Debug contexts.
To be able to set a context we, or the toolkit we're using, must use the
wglCreateContextAttribsARB function, as defined in the WGL_ARB_create_context extension. As it happens, wxWidgets uses
wglCreateContext, hence no OpenGL context can be explicitly defined using the provided source code for the current release (2.9.4).
As OpenGL context setting is not yet in the roadmap for future releases of wxWidgets, nor is it in its Todo List, I'm sharing a solution for this issue.
The solution is for the Windows platform, but other platforms should be as easy to change as well.
Note: I make no claim regarding the quality of the solution, it worked for me, and that's all I claim. If anyone knows of a better way of doing this comments are most welcome, as they may prove useful for other readers (and me as well ).
The University of California UC Davis, has an excellent introductory course on Computer Graphics (21 lectures, close to an hour each), available through iTunes University. The course is given by Kenneth Joy, who does an amazing job, providing very clear and easy to follow lectures.
The course objectives are described in here.
Bloodshed Dev-C++ is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as it's compiler. Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler.
Here is a short tutorial that was pointed to me to setup Dev C++ with OpenGL. The tutorial is from the collection of Programming Tutorials and Lecture Notes from the Computer Science Department of Central Connecticut State University.


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The GPS on this phone is great. Just sucks that you have to use telenav and pay 10.00 a month for it. Samsung and tmobile should do something about this. I mean, if you want navigation, great, but if you want google maps, it should allow you to use them. THis is one phone that doesnt let you download google maps.
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I never even got a response. I emailed them once every week for a month. My login won't even register anymore. I'm so disappointed and I'll be angry if I lose all my CDs and level/ranking.
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Sometimes to fix things right, you just gotta go back to the beginning. Such is the case with our subject '55. After unearthing some old (we're talking Lyndon Johnson–era old!) repairs on the driver-side quarter-panel, combined with some not quite right modern repairs on the passenger side, the rear half of our sport coupe was not in good shape.
After Tri-Five expert Greg Lovell of Antivenom Performance in Seffner, Florida, and automotive paint guru Raleigh Carpenter of RC Customz in Pinellas Park, Florida, both looked at this '55 and said, "You need to replace the whole quarters," we knew there was no denying the reality of the situation. We needed more than skins or lower halves. To fix our hardtop, we needed the same thing the factory used back when the car was built by Fisher Body, a factory full quarter-panel.
Thankfully, we live in a fantastic time, one when every single piece of metal (short of the dash) is being reproduced, so completely new '55, '56 and '57 Chevys can be built from scratch at Real Deal Steel in Sanford, Florida. The side benefit of this is previously unavailable parts for restoring original Tri-Fives are now available for purchase. In our case, that meant we could get factory full quarters to put our '55 back into shape and ready for final blasting, then priming for bodywork and the paint booth.
After talking to Real Deal's Joe Whitaker, we headed for Sanford, where we picked up passenger-side (PN QP13-55ROE) and driver-side (PN QP13-55LOE) quarters. Both panels come clean, with no trim holes drilled, so we'll cover how to add those in a later story. These panels are fantastic, and we'll point out how in the accompanying pictures.
So, let's get to it!
1. With the quarters off, we'll have access to areas of the car that haven't seen daylight since going down the St. Louis assembly line in 1955. To clean them of corrosion and seal them against future rust, we'll be using Eastwood's assortment of rust treatment/prevention products.
2. Another handy item to have for this operation will be a good wire brush—better yet, an assortment of different size ones. We picked up a bag of them at our local Harbor Freight store for less than five bucks.
3. To make the job easier, we cut away the central sections of our old quarter to make it easier for drilling out the spot-welded parts. Then we started by breaking out our trusty Eastwood skip-proof spot-weld driller (PN 11283), and going to work on all the old spot welds.
4. With the welds drilled, we used a screwdriver and hammer to split the metal apart.
5. The seam between the quarter- and filler panel was filled with lead from the factory. We'd already melted the lead out of this joint. Since we'll be replacing the filler panel in a later story, we used a cutoff wheel here to get better access to splitting off the old quarter-panel flange.
6. Most unrestored Tri-Fives have multiple layers of paint in the doorjambs. To make finding the spot welds around the jamb area easier, we used a MAP gas torch to melt away the old paint.


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A Dynotech aluminum driveshaft was ordered for the Chevelle and tied our 12-bolt to the 4L60E nicely. The exhaust system is from Flowmaster's American Thunder series, which Scudellari bolted up to Doug's long-tube headers.
Here's a shot of the whole thing assembled.
Under the car reveals the Holley LS swap oil pan (PN 302-1) nestled over the factory K-frame. We actually had to space the engine up a little to clear the sweep of the steering centerlink.
The wheels on the Chevelle are YearOne's 17x8 aluminum Z28 replicas, while the tires are Fuzion ZR1s that measure 245/45/17 in the front and 275/45/17 in the rear. The suspension and ride height are totally stock, but that will change.
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OldSchoolTama's Virtual Pet Log
Posted 17 January 2013 - 02:15 PM ( #401 )
January 16, 2013
15th Anniversary iD L
Nothing much going on with Dazz today, other than getting her happy items, which include Katsu Curry from the Restaurant, Fruit Sandwich from Tama Bakery, and the Rainbow Parasol from Tama Depa.
She'll be going to the matchmaker on January 17.
Osutchi and Mesutchi - Day 2
Aragorn and Arwen are still both MohiTamatchis. I was volunteering today (my last day there...but as a volunteer! Next time they see me, I will be working as an RN ) and running around doing errands so I didn't get the chance to respond to the discipline calls as much. There will be many other opportunities though, as Osu/Mesu pets continue to call for discipline even after the meter is full. In sum, not much happened with my Osu/Mesu pair today. If you're interested, check out what happens when you get them up to 99 grams! I didn't much feel like putting Aragorn and Arwen through this at the moment so a link is all you'll get for now.
Tamagotchi P's
Started off the morning with a bath. It's a little different from the iD L. Look at that cute rubber ducky!
I have yet to really sit down and read all there is to know about the P's, and I'm looking forward to discovering a lot of things on my own as well. For example, I know that there are things that can happen when a Tamagotchi character steps outside. Indeed, when Puchihanatchi stepped outside today, a piece of paper floated down from the sky. I missed what happened the first time around, but after going outside repeatedly, it happened again.
I was unsure as to what it meant, but after playing around with it for a little while longer, I discovered I had to press B when that picture popped up. Not sure what the prompt after that was asking but when I selected the top answer (I'm assuming it means "yes"), it took me to the Game Center, where I was able to choose a game to play, as usual. When I won the game, I received twice the amount of money I would have won had I played it without receiving that voucher. So, from this, I'm guessing that prompt was just asking me if I wanted to redeem the voucher at the Game Center, or something similar, and that the voucher was for a one-time, double-the-Gotchi-Points opportunity at the Game Center? Seems that way.
Puchihanatchi evolved into a teen today: meet Neotchi!
I can't wait to discover more about the P's. I got a shipping notification for my 2 other P's on this day and so they're on their way!
In other related news, I mentioned that I've been on a Tamagotchi-buying spree. I just paid for several Tamagotchis that are coming in from Tokyo. I was able to save a lot on shipping since they're all from the same seller but had to opt for the most economical, which isn't always the quickest. So they'll be here sometime within the next month or so.
That's all for January 16. More updates soon! Thanks for reading!
Posted 18 January 2013 - 07:42 AM ( #402 )
Get ready because there's going to be an explosion of pictures. Just couldn't help it! There's so much to discover about the P's, not to mention the fact that I'm also running 3 (technically 4) Tamagotchis at the moment. I'll try and limit today's entry to 3 parts.
15th Anniversary iD L
Dazz earned her final happy symbol today.
Shortly after that, I took her to the matchmaker, where she married the dashing Prince Tamahiko.
They had a baby boy, Pantsutchi.
I think I took nearly perfect care of him that hour. "Potty-trained" him for all his poo, except for maybe one. Never let him call for attention, except for when he got sick.
He evolved into Tamatchi.
To be continued...
Posted 18 January 2013 - 08:07 AM ( #403 )
15th Anniversary iD L
I'm going to try for one of the characters who has an alter ego, which means either Kuromametchi or Kikitchi. In each case, I would have to first get Young Oyajitchi. To do this, I have to get 2 or more care misses in the toddler stage. It's so heartbreaking to know that you're neglecting them on purpose! Just look at this, the picture of pure distress:
Of course, I gave him medicine right away to help him feel better! What kind of a nurse would I be if I didn't?
Osutchi and Mesutchi
Aragorn and Arwen are still MohiTamatchis. Though I think they may be evolving soon, since they got sick today and in the vintage world, sickness isn't a sign of neglect but a sign of impending evolution.
So we'll see what happens. Other than getting sick, they had a pretty uneventful day. Managed to fill the discipline meter 3/4 of the way on both.
Tamagotchi P's
So much is happening! I can barely wrap my head around one right now, so why did I purchase two more?? Haha! Nah, it'll be good. Anyway, while my character was a teen, she took another trip outside. This time, Cafe Mama rolled up in her sweet ride and offered up a 50% off voucher for food at the Restaurant if I purchased a particular item (looks like it's the Tower Burger) from her. Too great of a deal to pass up so we went for it!
We decided to use it right away and so Neotchi purchased the Collagen Soup. Since it's a food that contributes to the "fashionable" personality, the stats changed accordingly.
To be continued...
Posted 18 January 2013 - 08:35 AM ( #404 )
Tamagotchi P's
Of course, the personality that's shown can be changed at any time. Neotchi had some Space Food later on, and so that changed the personality shown to "smart."
Later on in the day, Neotchi evolved into an adult. My first adult character on my P's is.....Chokomakatchi (what a mouthful! How about "Choko" for short?)! She's quite an interesting character. She's got this object (mirror?) in her hands and frequently has this o: look on her face. Cute, nonetheless.
I usually wait one day to do this but just to see what it was like, I decided to go for one of her happy items: Sweet Nuts from Music Cafe. Cute animations and different tune! Looks like the Sweet Nuts influence the "athletic" personality.
I also tried out the Tsubomi Park destination (gorgeous graphics and colors!). Choko quite enjoyed herself there and even met up with a friend, Shirimotchi, for an ice cream date.
She also took home a cute pet who took a liking to her. It was a rare clear night.
After all that, Choko enjoyed a relaxing evening.
My 2 other Tamagotchi P's are in customs. DUN DUN DUNNNN. Hopefully they don't remain there for too long.
Phew! This concludes the 3-part entry for January 17. Thanks for stopping by!
Posted 20 January 2013 - 08:34 PM ( #405 )
There is going to be an explosion of pictures again, as I'm so excited about my P's that I had to take pictures of everything. Hope you enjoy!
15th Anniversary iD L
I continued on my unfortunate path of neglect with Tamatchi so that I could get Young Oyajitchi. Looks like I went a little overboard though, so I had to take my little guy to the hospital for a check-up, poor thing. He came out of it as good as new and all was good again.
He evolved into Young Oyajitchi later on in the day.
He didn't have any care misses (to my knowledge) the entire day, so it looks like I'm going for Kuromametchi. We shall see!
Osutchi and Mesutchi
Aragorn and Arwen evolved into teens today: Obotchi and Ojyotchi, respectively. Nothing more happened with the two of them today, except for the discipline calls.
To be continued...
Posted 21 January 2013 - 12:02 AM ( #406 )
Tamagotchi P's
Lots of things going on with dear Choko today. I still can't get over the fact that so much attention to detail was put into the making of this Tamagotchi. For example, it was snowing outside today. When she went outside to check on her pet, her pet jumped out to greet her, grimaced because of the frigid temperatures, and slunk bank into her little house. I thought this animation was so simple, yet so adorable.
I also took care of the rest of Choko's happy items. One was the binoculars from Tama Depa. I have yet to find stellar binoculars like the pair she has; she could even see alien life forms on the surface of very distant lands...maybe on the moon, perhaps?
One of them even somehow transported himself off the moon to stand right next to Choko, which surprised her!
Her other happy item is the Silk Hat from Tama Mori. Quite the fashionista!
To be continued...
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Posted 21 January 2013 - 02:40 AM ( #407 )
Tamagotchi P's
After all that excitement, we headed over to Tsubomi Park to see if we could get a part-time job for Choko. Looks like she picked up a job as a policewoman at the Park. So cute, how she busted Nazotchi for littering, and how she comforted the sad pet that was all alone in the park.
I played around with this feature a bit more. The part-time jobs are only available for adults. You can leave them there until 7:00 pm and they make 250 GP an hour. The happiness and hunger meters still go down during that time (if anything, they deplete faster than normal) so if you leave your character there past 5 or 6 hours or so, they will not be a happy camper! Of course, you can bring your character home from work at any time. Just go to the door icon, and you can watch them do their job. At a certain point, a screen will pop up prompting you to choose if you want to bring your character home or not. After that happens, it looks like they write about their experiences in a journal. By the way, when a new journal is written, a small heart appears over the book icon. That's a cute new feature. Just wish I could read what it says! She probably mentioned what she did and that she enjoyed it.
Phew! Made it!
By the way, my 2 other Tamagotchi P's finally made it out of customs! Hopefully they'll be here early this week. Come on, EMS shipping, work your magic!
Thanks for stopping by!
Posted 22 January 2013 - 09:34 AM ( #408 )
I didn't take any pictures on the 19th because I was out and about all day, but I still provided care as usual.
15th Anniversary iD L
Young Oyajitchi evolved into Kuromametchi on the 19th, as expected. I took him to the Mobile Library on the 20th so that he could transform into his alter ego, Kuromame Hakushaku. What a fright he is, eh? Halloween is long gone, so tuck away those scary fangs, Kuro!
Osutchi and Mesutchi
No changes with Aragorn and Arwen. They should be evolving into adults very soon.
Tamagotchi P's
Though Choko was ready to get her final puzzle piece and head to the matchmaker, I was busy all day on the 19th, so I decided to wait till the morning of the 20th to take care of all that. Sorry about some of the sketchy pictures - I was outside and so the lighting was a little different.
She and Nandetchi were married. Such cute dating and marriage scenes. Of course, my camera had to run out of battery in the middle of it all, so I didn't get all the pictures I wanted. Maybe someday I'll record it all with my camera.
Anyway, Choko brought home a baby girl, Pinkubotchi, who evolved into Terubotchi at the end of the hour.
That's all for now. More updates soon!
Posted 04 February 2013 - 01:38 AM ( #409 )
January 21, 2013
15th Anniversary iD L
Worked on Kuro's happy items today, which include the Knight Helmet from Tama Mori, Katsu Curry from the Restaurant, and the Metal Guitar from Tama Depa.
Later on in the day, he received his last happy symbol.
I took him to the matchmaker, where he and Meloditchi were married.
They had a baby boy, who evolved into Ahirukutchi.
Osutchi and Mesutchi
I got a little lazy with Aragorn and Arwen and so they both ended up transforming into Debutchi, the "chubby" character you get if weight goes up to 99.
When that happened, I had to get the weight back down to at least 89 before they could transform back into their regular forms. This happened shortly after they transformed into adults, so when I got their weight back down, it was revealed that they had evolved into Megatchi (Aragorn) and Gankotchi (Arwen). I didn't try linking the two just yet, since they had just become adults. Next time!
Tamagotchi P's
Not much going on today, except for the fact that my gal evolved into Neotchi.
By the way, thanks to ichiro.malfoy, I was able to find out what Chokomakatchi wrote in her journal when she was working as a Park Patrol (see this entry). She said, "Worked as a park patrol! There's a lot of walking and I'm a bit tired." Pretty awesome feature!
That's it for now. I'll be working on getting caught up as much as I can. Also, I will post pictures of the newest additions to my collection soon. Till then!
Posted 20 February 2013 - 02:29 PM ( #410 )
Long time no post. Admittedly, I haven't had much time to run my Tamagotchis, as I've been adjusting to my new career. Even after nursing school, the learning never stops, which is what makes things so exciting! Anyhow, Tamagotchis are currently in the back of my mind so that I can focus on being a nurse, but I still re-visit from time to time. I just downloaded the Tamagotchi L.I.F.E app, which is easier to manage than if I were to carry around several Tamagotchis at a time; I always have my phone with me. I've currently got a Kuchitamatchi on mine. Also, as I adjust more and more to my job, I will try and run my Tamagotchis on days off. I'm still making Tamagotchi purchases here and there. I most recently purchased a Princess Spacy iD L for a great price. I also finally bought my first storage bin (it's blue, of course) for my Tamagotchi collection, as I've accumulated quite a lot now, and the cardboard boxes I've been holding them in are getting pretty tired. I will be posting an updated collection picture/video as soon as I can (it's been a while since my last one, nearly a year ago). In the meantime, I have yet to catch up on several more of the days in which I ran Tamagotchis before my job started. I have a couple of days off now so I'll do my best to go as far and as quickly as I can. It won't be long until I catch up because I haven't been running my Tamagotchis for a few weeks now. Without much further ado, on with the updates! I'll do the best I can to recall what happened each day, as I only have pictures to jog my memory.
January 22, 2013
Tamagotchi P's
I received my 2 other Tamagotchi P's in the mail on this day, purple and white to accompany my blue one.
I know I still have a long way to go and lots to do with just one before I even utilize the features of having 3, but I felt the urge to get 2 more anyway. Who knows, I might even get a 4th in the future! That's more down the road though. Anyway, I was happy to welcome the newest additions to my Tamagotchi family.
"Smart piece for you" - blue
"Elegant piece for you" - purple
"Natural piece for you" - white
My blue P's evolved from Neotchi to Patitchi today.
15th Anniversary iD L
Can't remember why I didn't have pictures for my 15A on this day and as a result, I can't remember which teen my 15A evolved into. All I know based on future pictures (will be shown later) is that he eventually evolves into Akahanatchi (Rednosetchi), and that could result from any teen, as long as you connect with 6 different Tamagotchis in the teen stage. More on that later.
Osutchi and Mesutchi
Aragorn and Arwen were ready to do the mating dance today. They had two babies, both Kakutchi.
It was here that I decided to tab up my Osu/Mesu pair for now, having already reached another generation. Hopefully, I'll have more chances to run them further but with my new job, it was just not possible to have these guys running as well.
That's all for now. Thank you very much to those who still tune in. More updates to come!
Posted 21 February 2013 - 07:49 PM ( #411 )
I'll try and make this brief. I have work early in the AM...
January 23, 2013
Tamagotchi P's
Patitchi's trip and journal entry:
Wish I could read it!
We then worked on her pieces: mill crepe from Music Cafe (she dined with my previous character, Chokomakatchi), fluffy one-piece from Tama Mori, and the cookbook from Tama Depa.
To be continued...
Posted 21 February 2013 - 08:56 PM ( #412 )
January 23, 2013 (continued)
Patitchi adopted a pet.
Seems as if I didn't take any pictures of my 15A on this day. In any case, I put any running Tamagotchis on pause from January 24 through January 28 because I worked through the weekend and needed a break from Tamagotchis. I will resume logging for January 29 soon. Till then!
Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:21 PM ( #413 )
First things first: I'd like to give a shout-out to *Hayden*. Thank you so much for reading!
Long time no post. As I mentioned before, I'm currently transitioning into my new career as a registered nurse. I also just started on night shift (I was originally hired for nights) and so things have been a little hectic lately as I adjust. Combined with a bunch of other changes that have been taking place, I haven't had much time for the Tamagotchi world as I would have liked. I have had a few days off so far, and a few more left to go, so I decided to start up my P's again, just for old time's sake. Plus, I missed my Tamagotchis. Though I've been kind of MIA, I've still been lurking and making purchases. My 4th P's, the green one, came in the mail recently, and I just paid for the 2 pierces that were released a few days ago, the Melody Land and Fairy Change pierces. I've got my eye on a few other things as well. I would like to post a new collection picture/video up soon, but I'm moving to a bigger place in a few months so I think I'm going to wait until then.
In the meantime, let's play some catch up, shall we? I left off on January 29th's events. This will most likely be a 3-parter. I'll try and let the pictures do most of the talking.
Tamagotchi P's
Well, next chance I got to play with my P's was on January 29. I hadn't played with it since January 23, before I started my job. I guess I was a little unwatchful because my gal almost ran away from me. I got to see the "I'm Sorry" animation on the P's for the first time. Those little puzzle pieces that form the words are so cute.
Anyway, all was well after that, and Patitchi got her 4th puzzle piece.
She also visited a new location. Haven't had a chance to look up any new information on the P's so far, so I don't remember what the following is all about. I'll get back to you on that, though I'm sure there are some awesome people out there who know what this is.
To be continued...
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Posted 17 March 2013 - 03:31 PM ( #414 )
January 29, 2013 (continued from part 1)
Took Patitchi to the matchmaker, where she and Mametchi got married. The marriage sequence is much more extensive on the P's. I tried to get as many pictures as I could.
Aww, first fight. They made up though.
Just married!
To be continued...
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Posted 20 March 2013 - 01:43 AM ( #416 )
Love lots (top row, left to right: Angelgotch, Oceangotchi, Puzzle de Hakken; bottom row, left to right: Hexagotchi, Tama Profy, vintage case) for great prices..and a Nano
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My fourth P's (yes, I went crazy with these)...had to have the pretty green. It says, "Fresh piece for you" on the side of the box.
The newest pierces just released: Melody Land and Fairy Change
That's not all, folks. I seem to have been bitten by the Ebay bug because I also just purchased several more Tamagotchis and a few accessories. So though I haven't been too active in the Tamagotchi world for the time being, hopefully these pictures (and the ones to come) will be enough to hold us over for now.
Stay tuned...
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First off, thanks to tamafan325 and Zj12 for stopping by. I'm so appreciative for your continued support, even though I have periods when I'm MIA due to work and all that jazz. I am honored by your presence. If there is anyone I have inadvertently missed, I apologize.
Well, it's been nearly 3 weeks since my last post. As I mentioned then, though I've been busy adjusting to work, I've still been rather Ebay-happy and so I've made quite a few purchases since the last time we met. I will share them in just a bit. I also mentioned previously that I will try to run a Tamagotchi and log on my days off. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to do that until now. My job as a cardiac telemetry nurse is fast-paced and there's always so much to learn. Couple that with the fact that I've only been a nurse on the unit since January, well...I'm still very much a young'un, new and fresh, still learning and making my way. So when I have my days off, I really cherish those times and all I want to do besides studying (because I've got to do that when I'm off work if I want to learn) is just sleep, sleep, and sleep (especially since I work night shift). That doesn't leave very much time to run Tamagotchis, unfortunately. I would like to change that because I've had the itch to run at least one for weeks and weeks now and so as I adjust more and more to my work, I will do my best to make a bit more time for this hobby of mine. It will be sporadic because I work full-time, but I don't have particular days of the week when I come in to work (they vary week to week). Enough of my long-winded essays! I'll let the pictures do most of the talking now.
What have I been up to since the last time I posted on March 20?
Top, L to R: Hanerutchi, Akai, Ketai, Microchimp Giga Pet
Bottom, L to R: my 2nd iD (got it for such a great deal), NIP V4.5, the P2 JAL
Tamagotchi (so amazed to have found this, didn't have to pay a fortune for it either!)
Some cute accessories too. I've always wanted one of these vinyl backpacks with the vintage characters on them. Kuchipatchi plushes are always awesome. Oh, and Hello Kitty dressed in a Mametchi costume: 2 of my favorite characters in a crossover? It's a no-brainer.
These have not arrived yet but they are most definitely on their way:
I already have a Baby Byte but this one is NIP and BLUE. Will be selling my extra one.
Again, AMAZED that I was able to score this rare Mothra. Cost a pretty penny but
it's a must-have.
Already have one of these but I'm like Ra in that I have an obsession with boxes.
Any Tamagotchi I have without a box, I'm slowly replacing. So I'll be selling my extra Home Deka soon.
Was able to get this Home Station for a bargain.
That's not all, folks! I recently bought a Store Deka (the Game Center version) from TheRoyalBanana here on TT, and it looks like it'll be arriving today! I will certainly update again the next chance I get!
Don't know if I've mentioned this but I also pre-ordered the Berry Change and Berry Sweets pierces (both will be released later this month) off of AmiAmi, as well as the one that will be released in June, the Aikatsu pierce, off of HLJ. I'm excited about these as well.
My poor, poor wallet took a hit these past couple of months.
In non-purchasing news, I started up my P's again. I don't really remember where I left off but it looks like I've got this teen, Cosmotchi.
Not sure if he'll evolve into an adult today or tomorrow but we'll see. More updates soon.
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Thanks for rating, following, and liking, readers old and new, lurkers, guests, and fellow TamaTalkers!
Cosmotchi evolved into an adult early this morning.
Mametchi visited the Dream School and made another journal entry after that. I can never understand what's going on. It's Dream School, so he's taking classes, right? That's about the extent of my knowledge.
I wish I had more time to sit down and really experiment with the P's, especially since I've got 3 others , not to mention the fact that I haven't even touched any of the pierces I have yet. Woe. Oh well, I don't have time now, since I go back to work tomorrow evening, and I expect to be pretty busy until the end of the weekend, but I'll be sure to make some time. Maybe I'll even start up a vintage soon.
Hoping that some more of my purchases will come in the mail today. I will update again if that happens. Until next time, dear readers!
Posted 10 April 2013 - 05:17 AM ( #420 )
Thanks to ichiro.malfoy for always coming to the rescue with the journal translations! Here's what Mametchi wrote in the last entry: "Studied embroidery at school! There's a lot of sewing involved!" Ahh, so that explains the scissors.
April 9, 2013 (continued)
No new packages in the mail today but I'll just update with Mametchi on my P's.
I normally wait to do the happy items for the adults one day after they evolve so that there isn't a huge lump of pictures on one day more than another but I decided to get those out of the way today, even though my guy had evolved into an adult earlier today. My reasoning is simple, I think. I work nights on both the 10th and 11th, and I plan on keeping my P's unpaused so that no time is wasted. It will call for attention fewer and further times in between if I have the happy meter as high as it can go so I'll be able to sleep during the day before my shift.
Anyway, here are Mametchi's puzzle piece items:
Fruits Jelly from Music Cafe
Lab coat for our residential genius
That's all for today. More to come soon!
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Meeting Agenda
California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO) SACS Basic and Advanced Concept Workshops
Accounting Issues
Special Education mental health funding – new Resource 6512
Use of Object 9290, Due from Grantor Governments
Commodities – proposal for new object code
Adult Education Fund and Deferred Maintenance Fund – letter and follow-up questions
New and proposed Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) pronouncements – implications for local educational agency (LEA) financial reporting
- New pronouncements – GASB 61 and GASB 63
- Pending pronouncements
- Accounting and financial reporting for pensions
- Reporting items previously recognized as assets and liabilities
SACS Software Issues
Windows 7 workaround available
SACS2012 software – discussion of proposed changes
Other Issues
- California School Accounting Manual (CSAM) 2011
- Next Meeting
Meeting Minutes
CASBO SACS Basic and Advanced Concept Workshops
CASBO SACS workshops have been scheduled for the following dates and locations:
- SACS:Basic Concepts
November 2 - San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, Rancho Cucamonga (Ontario area) Rescheduled to March 21, 2012
November 16 - Twin Rivers Unified School District, McClellan (Sacramento area)
November 30 - Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Bakersfield
SACS:Advanced Concepts
November 3 - San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, Rancho Cucamonga (Ontario area) Rescheduled to March 22, 2012
November 17-Twin Rivers Unified School District, McClellan (Sacramento area)
December 1 -Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Bakersfield
- SACS:Basic Concepts
Accounting Issues
- Special Education mental health funding – new Resource 6512
The California Department of Education (CDE) established Resource 6512 to allow LEAs to record state Special Education funding that has been specifically identified for educationally-related mental health services pursuant to Assembly Bill 114 (Chapter 43, Statutes of 2011) and the 2011 Budget Act. Funding that should be reported in Resource 6512 includes:
- $31 million – funding allocated in previous years and formerly reported under Resource 6500
- $218 million – new funding resulting from the shift in responsibility for educationally-related mental health services from mental health agencies to LEAs
- $3 million – funding allocated to administer an extraordinary cost pool associated with educationally-related mental health services
Resource 6512 has been opened to funds 01, 09, 10, and 62.
There was a question regarding the appropriate accounting for educationally-related mental health services payments the special education local plan area (SELPA) administrative unit (AU) makes on behalf of the member LEAs, and for which the SELPA AU is subsequently reimbursed from the member LEAs. Following is an example of the recommended accounting:
- The county office of education (COE pays for contracted mental health services on behalf of member LEAs.
Fund 01, Resource 9010, Goal 7110, Function 1xxx or 3xxx (depending on services provided), Object 5800/5100*
- Member LEAs reimburse the COE for contracted mental health expenditures using 2011–12 state mental health funding.
- Member LEA entry:
Fund 01, Resource 6512, Goal 5XXX (depending on the population of special education students served), Function1XXX or 3XXX (depending on services provided), Object 5800/5100*
- COE entry:
Fund 01, Resource 9010, Goal 0000, Function 0000, Object 8677
*The first $25,000 may be charged to Object 5800 and the remainder must be charged to Object 5100. Alternatively, the entire amount is charged to Object 5100.
The rational for this coding is that school districts are responsible for providing services, but "contracting" with the COE to provide the services and the COE is "contracting" with service provider for ultimate provision of eductionally-related mental health services.
- Member LEA entry:
- Use of Object 9290, Due from Grantor Governments
The CDE noted that the majority of LEA receivables are being reported in Object 9200, Accounts Receivable, rather than Object 9290, Due from Grantor Governments. The CDE expects that the bulk of LEA receivables are amounts due from state, federal, or other local governmental entities and not private entities, and therefore should be recorded to Object 9290.
Several participants indicated that their financial systems automatically generate an accounts receivable entry that does not differentiate between amounts due from governmental entities versus amounts due from private entities, and the automatically generated entry is reported as Object 9200.
Also, it appeared there was some confusion regarding what types of receivables should be reported using Object 9290. Any amounts due from federal or state entities should be reported using this object, not just amounts due from categorical or "grant" programs.
There was discussion regarding workarounds to reclassify or otherwise determine amounts due from grantor governments, as well as discussion regarding the necessity of this data. Some participants indicated that they do use the data to monitor and balance amounts due from other governments.
The CDE advised that LEAs should record transactions in accordance with the coding established in the California School Accounting Manual (CSAM). The CDE will continue to evaluate LEA fiscal data and provide additional feedback at future meetings.
- Commodities – proposal for new object code
The CDE is proposing to establish a new revenue object code, effective 2012–13, for LEAs to report the value of federal donated food commodities. The CDE has contemplated this guidance for some time, and was finally able to conclude the necessary research and determined that commodities should be reported as revenue at fair market value, with an offsetting amount reported as expenditures or as inventory.
COE participants indicated that they would need to check with their districts for feedback regarding this proposal, since the districts are the ones operating the child nutrition programs.
A participant commented that many LEAs may now receive cash in lieu of commodities, so the receipt of donated food commodities may not be as prevalent as years past.
There was a question regarding to what funds and resources the new object code would be opened. It was noted that food services may be provided in conjunction with a child development program, in which case commodities may need to be accounted for in the Child Development Fund.
The CDE will provide additional information at future meetings.
- Adult Education Fund and Deferred Maintenance Fund – letter and follow-up questions
The CDE noted the release of the July 19 letter, "Adult Education Fund and Deferred Maintenance Fund," which provides updated guidance regarding the appropriate use of Fund 11, Adult Education Fund, and Fund 14, Deferred Maintenance Fund.
Implementation issues were discussed, and it was noted that LEAs may not have implemented the CDE's guidance by 2010–11 year-end and have been working with their auditors to properly classify these funds in the audited financial statements.
COEs expect to monitor districts' use of these funds in 2011–12 to ensure they are using the funds in accordance with the CDE's guidance.
There was a question regarding the treatment of balances left in Fund 14 from prior to categorical flexibility. LEAs should continue to use Fund 14 only if a substantial portion of the fund's inflows are committed and only if those inflows are expected to continue. It is not sufficient to merely commit a fund balance. Therefore, if a continuing source of revenue is not intended to be committed to the purposes of Fund 14, the remaining balance should be transferred to the general fund.
The CDE clarified that the continuing source of revenue to be committed to Fund 11 or Fund 14 does not have to be only the amounts formerly restricted to the Adult Education or Deferred Maintenance program, respectively. It can be any available unrestricted amount, categorical flexibility funding or any other general purpose funding.
The CDE also reiterated, per guidance in the letter, that the committed amount should be recorded as revenue, not an interfund transfer. An assigned amount may be recorded as an interfund transfer.
- New and proposed GASB pronouncements – implications for LEA financial reporting
- New pronouncements – GASB 61 and GASB 63
Attachment A [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/ac/ac/sacsminutes100411a.asp] and Attachment B [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/ac/ac/sacsminutes100411b.asp] provide a summary of GASB 61 and GASB 63, respectively.
Some participants expressed that they would appreciate guidance from the CDE regarding component unit reporting, especially as it relates to charter schools.
The CDE continues to evaluate the new pronoucements and will provide more details guidance as necessary.
- Pending pronouncements
- Accounting and financial reporting for pensions
Attachment C [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/ac/ac/sacsminutes100411c.asp] provides a summary of the GASB's proposed Statement on financial reporting for pensions. The CDE has been in communication with staff from the California State Teachers Retirement System to ensure adequate dissemination of information regarding this proposed Statement and its effects on LEA employers. The CDE noted that the GASB's comment period for the Exposure Draft has been extended to October 14, 2011.
- Reporting items previously recognized as assets and liabilities
Attachment D [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/ac/ac/sacsminutes100411d.asp] provides a summary of the GASB's proposed Statement on reporting items previously recognized as assets and liabilities. This proposed Statement is related to GASB 63. It identifies the specific transactions for which deferred outflows or deferred inflows of resources would be reported.
The CDE clarified that deferred revenue, currently classified as a liability, will not go away. However, the proposed Statement does prescribe the elimination of any reference to "deferred" except in the context of deferred outflows and deferred inflows of resources. Therefore, "deferred revenues" may need to be renamed. There was a suggestion for "unearned revenue" and several participants agreed that title would be more meaningful.
- Accounting and financial reporting for pensions
SACS Software Issues
Windows 7 workaround available
The workaround [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/sf/fr/sacs2011allprobfix.asp.] for users experiencing problems running the SACS software on computers using the Windows 7 64-bit operating system is available on the SACS2011ALL problems and fixes Web page.
SACS2012 software – discussion of proposed changes
Attachment E [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/ac/ac/sacsminutes100411e.asp] provides a summary of the proposed SACS2012 software changes discussed during the meeting. Not all potential changes were discussed at the meeting. The CDE is in the process of discussing other potential changes and those will be presented at future meetings as necessary. One significant update to be made in the SACS2012 software is the follow-up implementation of GASB 54 changes for the actuals side of the fund forms, mirroring the changes implemented last year for the budget side. Details of these changes were not discussed.
Form 09
Regarding the proposal to inactivate Fund 09 for charter schools, the CDE clarified that this is only for charter schools reporting separately, using SACS, under their own county-district-school code. Separately reported charter schools should use either Fund 01 or Fund 62 as their chief operating fund, not Fund 09. Fund 09 will still be available to school districts and COEs that include charter school data with their own data.
The CDE noted that because SACS software reporting forms are not maintained separately for charter schools versus other LEA types, the CDE will not be able to shade the Form 09 budget column to indicate its inactivation beginning 2012–13 for separately-reporting charter schools. Therefore, it is possible that a new technical review check would be established for charter schools only that will check for the existence of Form 09 budget data.
There was a question regarding how the 2011–12 Fund 09 ending balances should be treated in the 2012–13 beginning balances for separately-reporting charter schools since Fund 09 would not be valid for them in 2012–13, and there is a fatal technical review check that compares the two. The CDE will consider the appropriate way to handle this and provide additional guidance at a later date.
Form GANN
There was a suggestion for an additional internal form check to ensure amounts are entered in the adjustments column, even if zeroes, for certain rows relating to categorical flexibility. Apparently some districts may need manual adjustments, for example for Community Day funding that was not flexed, but are not entering them.
Other Issues
CSAM 2011 was approved at the September State Board of Education meeting. The target publication date is mid-October.
The majority of the edits to this edition were topics that had already been disseminated through letters, such as changes related to GASB 54. A couple of key changes that had not previously been disseminated include:
Procedure 905, Time Accounting: Clarified that where a school puts every single program into a school wide plan, no time accounting is needed. This clarification was added as a result of the U.S. Department of Education's non-regulatory guidance to that effect. Note that it would be rare for a school to be able to put every program into its school wide plan.
Procedure 655, Employment Separation Costs – Coding Examples: Clarified that federal programs subject to cost principles must have approval in advance to charge retirement incentives. This clarification was added to be consistent with federal guidelines regarding charging retirement incentives to certain federal funding not subject to the cost principles, such as State Fiscal Stabilization Fund.
A new procedure was added addressing temporary borrowing. This procedure recaps information that has been provided in previous CDE correspondence regarding budget flexibility and fiscal management issues.
- Next meeting
The next SACS Forum meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, in the East End Complex Auditorium in Sacramento.


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BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Mon December 30th, 2013
The iPhone prototype is said to be one of only five in existence.
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BY Joe White on Tue April 30th, 2013
Apple will soon attach an "obsolete" classification to the original iPhone.
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BY Robin Rhys on Thu August 09th, 2012
Today we have some money saving tips for those looking to get a new iDevice, or those looking to get a new app. Plus, one way to get an old iPhone for way too much.
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BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Sun July 01st, 2012
So you say you want a revolution? This week, Google looked to the future while Apple celebrated their past.
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BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Fri June 29th, 2012
Five years ago today, the first iPhone debuted. Here's a look back through photos, video, and of course, Steve Jobs.
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BY Tim Chaten on Wed December 21st, 2011
Good morning! Today's iWake is now available. The SuperBowl streams live to select iPhone customers and complete your iTunes TV seasons. Have a listen ...
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BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed June 29th, 2011
Where were you four years ago today? Standing in line for the original iPhone?
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BY Joe White on Fri May 06th, 2011
The image of a "battle scarred" original iPhone handset has recently hit the Web, and interestingly, the device looks strangely beautiful.
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BY Joe White on Wed February 23rd, 2011
If you're a fan of the original iPhone's aluminium backing, you're in luck - because one company can give your iPhone 4 the same design, for just $10. The sticker is water proof, grease proof, and can easily be removed from your iPhone handset.
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BY Hayden Wreyford on Wed June 30th, 2010
If you recently placed an order for Apple's $30 iPhone 4 dock, you may want to reconsider. It turns out that an ideal iPhone 4 dock may be much cheaper, or better yet...already be sitting in one of your dusty drawers!
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