Hey Kids – Contribute to the 2015 Commercial Crew Calendar!
We have some rules for submitting your drawings, so you'll have to print out a few forms then fill them out with your parent's help, scan them to send them back to us via email at ksc-connect2ccp@mail.nasa.gov. We're also including a template for you to draw on, which will help us lay out the calendar.
We're looking for the best drawings in 12 categories, so get out your art tools and let your imagination fly through space with us! One last thing: the deadline for submissions is Dec. 15 at noon Eastern. Now the fun stuff, the categories . . .
1. Spacecraft: NASA's spacecraft of the past had thousands of nobs and dials. Today's commercial crew spacecraft will use touch screens, 3D printed seats and engines, and will be lightweight, but tough enough to withstand meteorites. What would your spacecraft look like?
2. Launch Vehicle: The commercial crew rockets that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station will be smaller than NASA's previous Saturn V and space shuttle systems. Their missions are different, so their capabilities are different. Think of it like riding your bike to see your next-door neighbor, instead of driving a semi-truck on a cross-country trek. Let's see your best rocket drawing!
3. Spacesuits: An astronaut's spacesuit is like his or her own personal spacecraft. Commercial crew spacesuits will keep astronauts safe by providing breathable air and a cool temperature. They also will enable constant communication with people monitoring their health here on the ground. Design your own spacesuit . . . let's see your inner fashionista!
4. Spacecraft Interior: Every spacecraft's interior has been unique and advanced for its time. Apollo was very different from the space shuttle, and both are very different from the commercial crew systems that astronauts will use to fly to the International Space Station. Today's spacecraft could feature tablet-like technology, 3D printed seats, Wi-Fi and much more. What would you want inside your spacecraft?
5. Florida Space Coast Launches: The rumble . . . the glow . . . the excitement! Every time NASA has launched people off the surface of Earth and into space, it has been from Florida's Space Coast. In the next couple years, we will see commercial crew engines glow orange and plumes of smoke as astronauts again launch to the International Space Station from Florida. In the 2030s, we will also see astronauts launching from Florida's Kennedy Space Center as they begin their journey to Mars. Who do you plan to watch launches with? Family, friends, perhaps Florida's abundant wildlife?
6. International Space Station: Look up! The International Space Station is orbiting about 250 miles above the surface of Earth, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. On board, astronauts conduct ground-breaking research that helps us here on Earth. They also are learning what it takes to live for long periods of time in space, which will help them on their journey to Mars. Commercial crew will help add an additional crew member to the station, essentially doubling the research potential of today. Show us your best rendition of the space station, remember it's the size of a football field!
7. Research: Every day, astronauts perform research aboard the International Space Station, which is commercial crew's ultimate destination. That research makes our lives better here on Earth, helps us understand more about our own planet and prepares us for longer missions to Mars. What kind of space research are you most interested in?
8. Lifeboat: Similar to lifeboats on a cruise ship, commercial crew spacecraft that will fly astronauts to the International Space Station are designed to safely and quickly evacuate the station's crew in an emergency. How would you keep a crew safe in space?
10. Encouraging NASA's Journey to Mars: By encouraging private companies to provide human transportation services to and from low-Earth orbit – a region NASA's been visiting since 1962 – America's space agency will get the most research and experience out of the nation's orbiting laboratory. Commercial crew allows NASA to expand its focus to build spacecraft and rockets for flights to Mars. Imagine yourself on the surface of Mars . . .
11. Landing: Spacecraft landings are quite impressive. After flying through space and re-entering the atmosphere at 17,500 miles per hour, spacecraft have to land smoothly to protect the astronauts and scientific research they carry. Commercial crew spacecraft designers are looking at options to land with parachutes and airbags, fly to a runway, similar to an airplane, or land using only rocket engines. Show us your most creative landing.
12. You Could Fly to Space: Remember when only astronauts could go to space? NASA won't be the only customer for new commercial crew spacecraft. Companies will own and operate their crew transportation systems and be able to sell services to other customers . . . will you be one of them? What would you do in space?
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NASA's industry partners completed and added new development milestones under agreements with the agency's Commercial Crew Program. The work performed by Blue Origin, Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corporation and SpaceX during partnership and contract initiatives are leading a new generation of safe, reliable and cost-effective crew space transportation systems to low-Earth orbit destinations. Learn more about what has been accomplished and what has been added here.
Commercial Crew's Collector Card Family Expands!
We've added two more collector cards to the Commercial Crew set! Blue Origin's Space Vehicle and Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser join Boeing's CST-100 and SpaceX's Crew Dragon, along with the card for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. All the companies are working in partnership with NASA to develop their respective spacecraft and are in different stages of agreements.
The goal is to build and fly a new generation of spacecraft capable of carrying people to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station from America in the next three years. It's a great challenge on many levels, but combining NASA's know-how with the industrial prowess of American aerospace companies puts the opportunity to create a new business system within reach.
To download and print the cards, click on each of these links: Blue Origin Space Vehicle, Boeing CST-100, Commercial Crew Program, Sierra Nevada Corporation Dream Chaser and SpaceX Crew Dragon. For best results, use card stock and select auto-rotate and center and the two-sided option in your printer settings. If the two-sided option isn't available, print page 1 and reload the paper before printing page 2.
Author Stephanie MartinPosted on November 12, 2014 Categories Blue Origin, Boeing, CCDev2, CCiCap, CCtCap, Commercial Spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, NASA Astronauts, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceXLeave a comment on Commercial Crew's Collector Card Family Expands!
NASA's spaceflight experts in the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) met throughout July with aerospace partners to review increasingly advanced designs, elements and systems of the spacecraft and launch vehicles under development as part of the space agency's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) and Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) initiatives.
Read details of today's news here.
CCP @ 3: Happy Birthday!
Light the candles because NASA's Commercial Crew Program is three years old! The past three years have seen CCP and its industry partners make huge strides toward crewed spaceflight. The by-no-means-complete highlights include, from left, Blue Origin's testing of its BE-3 engine, Boeing's software evaluations using its new CST-100 simulator, Sierra Nevada Corporation's glide tests of the Dream Chaser and parachute drop tests conducted by SpaceX. There is plenty of work to be done before any of them make their first flights with people on board, but the time to that milestone gets shorter every day.
Author Steven SiceloffPosted on April 7, 2014 Categories Blue Origin, Boeing, CCDev2, CCiCap, Commercial Spaceflight, General, NASA, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX3 Comments on CCP @ 3: Happy Birthday!


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Ikonopedia Showcases Automated Combined Reporting Package to be Released at AHRA
Showcases Momentum with Recent Sales and Installations of its Structured Breast Reporting and MQSA Management Tools
DENVER – July 24, 2019 — Ikonopedia showcases its recently released Automated Combined Reporting package and its entire suite of structured breast reporting and MQSA management tools designed to improve reporting efficiency, and optimize facility operations, here, at AHRA 2019, July 21-24, 2019, (Booth #1318).
With momentum building in the marketplace, Ikonopedia has recently initiated and completed installations across a broad range of breast imaging practices, from large radiology groups to mobile mammography providers and private practice physicians. Recent sales and installations include such sites as Valley Imaging Center in Wasilla, Alaska, Maui Medical Group of Wailuku, Hawaii and Marshfield Clinic in Eau, Wisconsin.
Introduced earlier this year, the Combined Reporting package automatically combines results from any combination of Mammography, Breast Ultrasound, Breast MRI, Biopsy, and Post-Biopsy Mammograms to produce a single, coherent clinical report for the referring physician. Used in conjunction with the Closed-Loop Resolution Manager, the system focuses on actionable items and monitors patients to full resolution of all clinical concerns – saving valuable time for the radiologist and staff and maintaining patient safety.
Ikonopedia is an innovative structured breast reporting and MQSA management system designed to dramatically improve reporting efficiency, and optimize facility operations. All findings are saved as discrete data which allows Ikonopedia to prevent errors, maintain BI-RADS-compliant language and automate many time-consuming processes. Ikonopedia makes it possible to eliminate laterality errors, automatically choose exam-appropriate patient letters and pull forward findings from past exams along with many other time-saving features.
To expand access to quality breast health care, Ikonopedia also recently introduced an integrated risk assessment tool – now available in any language. Ikonopedia also provides users with the first-ever web-based version of the Tyrer-Cuzick Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool. Risk data is used to create alerts for the radiologist, populate the clinical section of the report, and automatically update the patient letter. A high-risk patient alert identifies patients with a 20% or greater lifetime risk and information about the score is instantly viewable.
"Ikonopedia was founded on the premise of developing breast imaging reporting tools that enable a new level of quality and productivity. Building on the success of the MQSA management system, the new combined reporting module continues to expand user's capabilities to report, notify, track, and remind all from one integrated system enhancing patient care and safety," said Emily Crane, president of Ikonopedia.
About Ikonopedia
Ikonopedia was founded by three expert breast imaging Radiologists: László Tabár, MD is the author of 6 books in 10 languages on mammography and a world renowned educator; A. Thomas Stavros, MD is the author of one of the most popular reference books in the field of breast ultrasound; and Michael J. Vendrell, MD is an expert in breast MRI and CAD design with extensive experience in breast-imaging software. For more information, visit www.ikonopedia.com.
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Visit booth #1318 July 22 – 24 at the annual AHRA meeting in Denver Colorado for a demo and to see our latest features
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General Craig R. McKinley, USAF (Ret) to Receive The Frederick C. Smith Excellence Award.
Arlington, Va. — April 20, 2017
The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) wishes to announce that Our Military Kids, Inc., will honor our outgoing chief executive officer, General Craig R. McKinley, USAF (Ret) with The Frederick C. Smith Excellence Award.
The ceremony will take place during A Salute to Our Stars, a benefit for Our Military Kids, to be held at Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, April 20, 2017, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fox News host and reporter Diana Falzone will serve as the evening's host.
NDIA is proud of Our Military Kids' decision to bestow General McKinley with the Frederick C. Smith Award, in recognition of his support of its mission - helping school-age children of deployed National Guard and Reserve service members and wounded warriors from each of the five armed services.
Our Military Kids, Inc., is a non-profit organization. The organization uses grants they receive to defer costs for children's activities, aimed at helping them cope with the stress and anxiety they endure while their parents are deployed or recovering. During the 30 years since its founding, they have assisted more than 2 million military children. In the past 13 years, Our Military Kids has provided more than 56,000 grants to these deserving recipients. NDIA is pleased to be associated with Our Military Kids, whose grants have helped improve morale and self-esteem among these young people.
This year's event takes place during the Month of the Military Child. While Our Military Kids celebrates these children every day of the year, NDIA joins them as they focus attention upon these young heroes during this special month.
Topics: Leadership
The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) is America's leading defense industry association promoting national security. NDIA provides a legal and ethical forum for the exchange of information between industry and government on national security issues. NDIA and its members foster the development of the most innovative and superior equipment, training, and support for warfighters and first responders through its divisions, local chapters, affiliated associations, and events. For more information, visit www.ndia.org


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Les Carybdeida sont l'un des deux ordres de la classe Cubozoa (« cuboméduses »), qui sont une classe de cnidaires ressemblant à des méduses, de forme plus ou moins cubique (à symétrie radiale d'ordre 4).

Description et caractéristiques
Cet ordre se distingue de son alternative par une anatomie plus simple, avec des muscles on ramifiés aux angles et en général seulement quatre tentacules.

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 famille Alatinidae Gershwin, 2005
 famille Carukiidae Bentlage, Cartwright, Yanagihara, Lewis, Richards & Collins, 2010
 famille Carybdeidae Gegenbaur, 1857
 famille Tamoyidae Haeckel, 1880
 famille Tripedaliidae Conant, 1897

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ABOUT THE LEAGUE
Founded in 2009, the 2K Online Franchise(2K OLF) league, is a virtual video game league for Madden NFL on Playstation 4.
This league website was created to bring more depth to the league by creating content that not only follows the events of the game, but combines part of the real life drama professional football players and teams experience during the course of the football season.
This site has been fully customized, complete with player stats, teams stats, full playoff coverage for every team, game recaps, news, forums, and more. On the social media side, we can be found on most major sites, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and on YouTube, where every league game is broadcast live.
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My vision has always been to provide users an experience beyond the console, one where users of different skill levels can get together, play fair and share their passion for the game of football. That is why I founded this league in 2009. I developed the original site from the ground up, complete with game stats, player stats, user driven news articles, videos, live feeds of all league games and more. I hope you enjoy your time here and stick around for a long time.
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This recipe is the devil. It's basically the most delicious thing ever, and it's really easy to make.
I was recently obsessed with the Sticky Toffee Pudding from President's Choice. Hubby got real sick of me thinking of things we needed from Superstore just so I could get my hands on more. It's seriously amazing. But I always think homemade is way better than store-bought. So if this stuff was so good, what would homemade sticky toffee pudding be like? It would have to be mind-blowing.
As fate would have it, a friend of mine just so happened to post on Facebook that she thought that sticky toffee pudding was perhaps the most perfect dessert ever created. I shared with Sarah my love for the gooey stuff and I started on the lookout for a good recipe. There are many out there, but they all seemed a little intimidating, or missing the gooey factor (which is the best part). I wanted something that was easy to make and preferably not using ramekins, as I don't own any (gasp!).
A few days later, Sarah says her mother-in-law is visiting from Scotland, and happens to have a recipe for sticky toffee pudding which is both easy and scrumptious. And let me tell you...that is an understatement. This is literally heaven in a bowl (or straight from the pan if you have no self-restraint like me).
Many thanks to Ann and Sarah for bringing this into my life, although I'm not sure my waistline thanks you as much. Ha!
Place dates and baking soda into a medium saucepan and pour the boiling water over them (mixture will foam up). Set the pan over medium heat and simmer for one minute. Take off the hear and leave to cool for 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350F, and grease a 8" square baking dish.
Place butter and sugar into a large mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Gradually add eggs, beating well after each addition. Mix flour, baking powder and salt together, and gently stir into bowl with a spoon, followed by date mixture and vanilla extract. Stir until combined. Pour into greased baking dish and bake for 35 minutes until springy to the touch.
While cake is baking, make the sauce. Place sugar, butter and cream into a medium saucepan and add a split vanilla bean. Heat gently until butter is melted, then bring to a boil and simmer for about 5 minutes until thickened and a rich toffee colour. Try not to eat the whole pan.
When cake is done, spoon a little sauce over the sponge to coat the surface and return to the oven for 5 minutes.
Remove from oven, cut into squares and pour hot sauce all over the sponge. Lick the plate.
I would not normally make that, but, since I have that bowl, oh ok.


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Canadian Cannabis Brands for Women by Women
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Thanks to legalization, women who couldn't see themselves reflected in the prohibition-era cannabis marketplace are opening up about their use, and the opportunity for brands to connect with them has never been greater.
But with the explosion of brands trying to cater to half the population, it's tough to discern which are genuinely keen to engage with female-identifying consumers, and which are simply content to "pinkwash" products with the intent of cashing in.
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Femme-Focused Brands
One of the first brands to speak to Canadian women, Van der Pop, was founded by April Pride after she realized her husband's NFL-branded pipe didn't exactly suit her taste. She began by creating a line of chic accessories but quickly realized that there was a bigger conversation to be had about women's cannabis consumption.
Senior brand manager Lauren Pryor says femme-focused brands like Van der Pop are important for two reasons: Not only do they help to address the different effects that cannabis can have on the female body; they also work to dispel societal stigmas around cannabis consumption that prevent women from discussing their use.
But what sets Van der Pop apart? Pryor said it has to do with thought leadership and an emphasis on research, like Van der Pop's recurring Women & Weed study.
Martha Stewart Gets Into Cannabis. Is It a Good Thing?
In addition to offering a selection of feminine accessories, Pryor said Van der Pop aims to empower women with information. Take Dear Vandy, a cannabis-focused advice column, or Hot Box, which delves into cannabis and sex. It also sells two strains selected by Pride and her staff, currently available in Manitoba and Ontario.
While Van der Pop appeals to the established cannabis consumer, Irisa, a brand under the High Park Company umbrella, wants to connect with women who prioritize health and wellness, but who might "not be so willing to wave the flag of 'cannabis consumer'," according to spokesperson Berrin Noorata.
Femme-Forward Formulations
In an effort to offer canna-curious women and first-timers products that they could rely on, the team behind Irisa developed four low-dose oils that are "discrete and made for consumers to incorporate into their self-care routines."
The line includes Sun, a high-CBD option; Earth, a balanced, slightly CBD-dominant oil; Moon, the line's highest THC option; and Stars, a balanced oil with slightly more THC. Its most potent oil contains just five milligrams of THC per millilitre.
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"We're big believers in micro-dosing and layering up dependence… we wanted to develop a product that women could trust and come back to regularly because they know what they are going to get," said Noorata. She said the brand is also working to create community events for women across the country. So far, Irisa's oils are only available in BC, Ontario, and Quebec.
Licensed-producer-backed brands have certainly caught women's attention, but smaller, more entrepreneurial brands are making their mark on Canadian women, too.
Bespoke Accessories
When Emma Baron was hired to work at a medical cannabis clinic, she noticed that clients who were new to cannabis had a hard time finding the right accessories to use with their medicine. She and Dr. Carolina Landolt founded Milkweed, an accessories brand that brings one-of-a-kind, Canadian-made cannabis goods to market.
Baron works with artists and makers from across the country to co-design bespoke cannabis accessories that could pass as collectible art pieces. She doesn't necessarily peg the brand as one that caters to women, but she recognizes that an inherent femininity comes through in its product offering simply because the collections are curated by women.
6 Weed-Loving Parents Share Tips for Consuming Cannabis at Home
"We set out to make it genderless, and really the focus for us is a craft look—but I think just by nature of being a female entrepreneur in this space, it does have a sort of feminine touch." Baron said Milkweed is also looking to work with a licensed producer to bring a line of topicals to market.
At Verde Vie, the focus is as much on creating well-designed products for a new generation of female consumers as it is about working to break down stigma.
Olivia Levy, a medical cannabis consumer with a law background, started the brand after becoming frustrated with hiding something that had dramatically improved her quality of life.
"It was a very big part of me that I couldn't share with the world," Levy said.
Taking inspiration from the bar cart, she asked herself why the same approach—one that normalizes consumption while allowing one to personalize their 'stash—couldn't be applied to cannabis.
"It's about normalizing everyday objects, and creating beautiful, aesthetically pleasing items that we can view seamlessly without necessarily having to hide," said Levy.
Verde Vie's starter kit includes everything you might need to roll a joint, including rolling papers, lighters, and a grinder card. The brand also works with artists to create accessories like pipes, trays, and clothing.
Verde Vie's sister site, Stay Cultivated, ties it all together. The educational, inspirational, and behind-the-scenes content all speaks to Verde Vie's mission to "create a new kind of cannabis culture," said Levy.
For Women by Women
At Eve, founder and CEO Melinda Rombouts is creating a new kind of corporate cannabis culture. She's at the helm of a company staffed predominately by women. (Eve's medical brand, Natural Med Co., was the first licensed producer in Canada founded by a woman.)
"We're looking to the moms of the world, the working women of the world. We want to change the story of cannabis for them so that they're more comfortable."
Melinda Rombouts, CEO, Eve
Proud to hire women with grey market experience as the brand's internal specialists, Rombouts said among other products in development, Eve plans to sell edibles once regulations are in place—including lines of vegan and gluten-free products.
"We're looking to the moms of the world, the working women of the world," said Rombouts. "We want to change the story of cannabis for them so that they're more comfortable."
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Eve also dedicates time and resources to research, and is currently working with a partner to examine the way cannabis affects women's health issues like endometriosis.
Since 2016, Rombouts has kept track of the uptick in women's brands, and says that while females run "only a few," the sense among women in the industry feels increasingly like one of camaraderie.
"Women will gravitate to any one of these women's brands. We're very supportive of each other, and I don't think we see it as a competition."
"We're creating products that appeal to women, and as women ourselves, I think we have a good vibe on that… it's about sensible products we might give to a friend, or our sick mother."
Jeannette VanderMarel, 48 North
Another company backing up its women-focused branding with female leadership is 48 North, where Alison Gordon and Jeannette VanderMarel act as co-CEOs. In June 2018, Gordon became the first woman to take a Canadian cannabis company public in Canada, before VanderMarel joined the team in December.
At 48 North, VanderMarel said the focus is on creating health and wellness products geared to adult women that are high-quality, consistent, and in some cases, organic.
"We're creating products that appeal to women, and as women ourselves, I think we have a good vibe on that… we won't be creating products with synthetic inputs or colours; it's about sensible products we might give to a friend, or our sick mother," she said.
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It's the brand's no-fear approach to cultivation that sets it apart not only from other brands, but from most other licensed producers: 48 North is currently awaiting approval from Health Canada to grow organic cannabis on a 100-acre outdoor farm, with the hopes of being the first company to provide Canadian women (and men, too) with a selection of more sustainable cannabis products.
"One of the things I think women and people in general really care about is the environment," said VanderMarel. "I think [our farm] could really address the issue of supply, but also gives a large quantity of quality organic product that we think is important for the market."
Whatever your thoughts on women's cannabis brands, they provide women with an environment within which they can learn, while feeling safe to speak up, ask questions, and participate—but also one where they can see themselves as innovative founders and top-level executives (with, of course, an incredible array of more feminine products and accessories to choose from).
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Cash Flow Statement - Indirect Method
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In this course, you'll explore how financial statement data and non-financial metrics can be linked to financial performance. Professors Rick Lambert and Chris Ittner of the Wharton School have designed this course to help you gain a practical understanding of how data is used to assess what drives financial performance and forecast future financial scenarios. You'll learn more about the frameworks of financial reporting, income statements, and cash reporting, and apply different approaches to analyzing financial performance using real-life examples to see the concepts in action. By the end of this course, you'll have honed your skills in understanding how financial data and non-financial data interact to forecast events and be able to determine the best financial strategy for your organization.
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In this module, you'll examine cash flow statements further, and take a closer look at methods of creating cash flow statements. Using your understanding of financial reporting, you'll be able to classify different business activities into separate categories such as operating, investing, and financing activities. Through analyzing the real-world financial statement from the previous module, you'll learn about both direct and indirect methods of creating cash flow statements. By the end of this module, you'll be able to differentiate between various business activities and effectively utilize both direct and indirect methods of creating cash flow statements for your organization.
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In this video, we're going to talk about the indirect method of putting together a cash flow statement. This is probably by far the hardest video that we're going to do, so make sure you spend enough time going back over it so that you get it. Most real world financial statements use the indirect method. So you're going to have to master this topic to be able to read and interpret a real cash flow statement. Another advantage of the indirect method is that it's going to link more explicitly the cash flow statement, the balance sheet and the income statement. So, if you can master the indirect method of the cash flow statement, your understanding of how all of those three statements link together will be much enhanced as well. The indirect method is only different than the direct method when it comes to the Operating Section of the cash flow statement. The investing and the financing sections, of the cash flow statements, are exactly the same. Under the indirect method, in the operating section, what we do is we start with net income, we know income's not the same as cash. So what we're going to do is make a series of adjustments to convert or back into cash. Understanding these adjustments is the key to understanding the cash flow statement under the indirect method. Now we're going to get the exact same bottom line. The same total for cash from operations, we're just going to see it in a much more complicated looking way. So, to illustrate where we're headed, this is an example of an Indirect Method Cash Flow statement in the operating section. It starts with income, it ends with cash from operations and it makes a series of adjustments. Some of them are positive, some of them are negative. Many of them are related to changes in balance sheet accounts. So our goal is to try to figure out, where do those come from and how do we interpret them? So if we compare what's in the income statement to what's on the cash flow statement, there's a lot of differences. Here are some of them. On the income statement, we got sales revenue. But on the cash flow statement what we really want is the cash collected from customers Income statements got cost of goods sold, cash from operations want amounts purchased from suppliers. Income statement has wage expense. Cash flow statements wants, what did we actually pay this period to employees? Income statement has depreciation expense. Cash flow statements says, that's not a cash flow, so I don't want it on my cash flow statement. So all of these differences exist on a cash flow statement versus an income statement. If the cash flow statement is going to start with net income, all of those things implicit in the calculation of income that aren't cash, have to get adjusted out. So for example, are there revenues recognized this period that weren't received in the form of cash? If that's so, we need an adjustment. Where do we come up with that adjustment? Well, that's the trick. Did we get cash that we didn't recognize as a revenue? That could happen, too. We could be collecting from a prior year sale or putting down a deposit on a future year sale. So again, cash and revenue would be different. We need an adjustment on the cash flow saying they can handled that. Same issues on the expense side. Are there expenses we recognized in the income statement that aren't actual cash out flows this period? If so, we need an adjustment and we need to figure out where that's going to come from. In addition, there could be gains and losses on the income statement that are cash flows, but they're not operational in nature. If that's the case, we need an adjustment for those too, because income is the starting point for cash from operations. If this income is not operational in nature, we need to somehow move it down to the investing or the financing section, okay, as the case may be. How do we know where to come up with these adjustments? Here we're going to go back once again to the balance sheet equation. That governs everything in accounting. The balance sheet balances at the beginning of the year, the balance sheet balances at the end of the year. The income statement is about the change in the balance sheet account retained earnings. Whereas the cash flow statement is about the change in the balance sheet cash. If there was a change in retained earnings, because of income, that's not reflected in the balance sheet cash, it's gotta be reflected in some other balance sheet account. So if we systematically go through all the other balance sheets' accounts, we can figure out what that difference is related to. By the same token, if there's something in cash that's not in the change in retained earnings caused by income, it's in some other balance sheet account. And if we systematically go through all those, we can reconcile the difference between cash and income. So that's really what we're going to do. If we think about our comparison of income and cash, and try to think about, well, what balance sheet accounts might the differences relate to, okay? It's not that hard to figure it out. On the income statement we have revenue, on the cashflow statement we have cash collected from customers, what's the difference between those two? Well, it's related to the receivables. If on the income statement we have cost of goods sold, but the cash flow statement we want the purchases paid to suppliers, there's actually two reasons those could be different. One is, cost of goods purchased was different than cost of goods sold because we bought more than we sold. If that is true, we would see the inventory account on the balance sheet go up. Similarly, some of the purchases might not have been paid in cash. If that was true, we would see the liability accounts payable go up. So again, changes in the balance sheet are going to reconcile differences between what's in the cash flow statement and what's on the income statement. Wage expense is on the income statement, but we want wages paid on the cash flow statement. The difference is going to manifest in a wages payable liability account on the balance sheet. And then, as we discussed, depreciation expense is on the income statement. That's related to the change in the long term asset account, specifically the accumulated depreciation account on the balance sheet and is in a cash flow. So that's going to adjust it out, so that we don't see anything on the cash flow statement related to depreciation. Let's be more specific. Revenues verses cash collected from customers. If something is a revenue, but we didn't collect it this year, what is it? Well it must have been a credit sale and we would have to see that on the ballence sheet. Accounts recievable would go up. If on the other hand we got cash from a customer, and it's related to a prior sale, we would see nothing on the income statement this year, but we would see cash collected from a customer. And the way we would see that on the balance sheet is, the accounts receivable would actually come down. So the change in receivables is going to link the revenue recognized on the income statement, and the cash collected that we want on the cash flow statement. Specifically, if we look at what happens on the balance sheet, the ending balance for accounts receivable is the beginning balance, plus the new sales made this year, minus the cash collected this year. That's the link between balance sheet changes, income statement effects and cash flow effects. Rearranging that a little bit, cash collected, which is what we want on the cash flow statement, is the sales revenue, which is what's in the income statement minus the change in accounts receivable. Sales revenue is on the income statement, that's the starting point for the cash flow statement. And this change in receivables is the adjustment that we need to make. If sales was bigger than cash collected, receivables would have gone up. If on the other hand, sales were less than cash collected, we collected more than we sold, then receivables are coming down. Saying that same thing but in a slightly different way. If we see on the balance sheet that receivables go up, we must have sold more than we collected. This means sales is too big as far as the cash flow statement is concerned, and we need to adjust that down to get cash collected. If on the other hand, receivables go down, we must have collected more than we sold. This means the sales number, in the income statement, which is the starting point for the cash flow statement, isn't big enough and we would need to add to it, okay? So in this case we would see a positive adjustment on the cash flow statement. How about the depreciation adjustment? Depreciation is not an outflow of cash. Depreciation is the allocation of the original purchase price of the property plant and equipment. When we bought the property plant and equipment, that was when it went on the cash flow statement and in particular in the investing section of the cash flow statement. As we're using it up, that's not an additional cash flow, okay? So we need to have nothing on the cash flow statement, but the income statement has the subtraction for its depreciation. How do we undo that? We just add it back, so the implicit subtraction as part of net income, plus the add back of the exact same amount on the cash flow statement. Result in an overall number of zero. Which is what we want on the cash flow statement. Wage expense, that's subtracted on the income statement. But what we want is wages paid on the cash flow statement. Those are going to be different if we see the wages payable account go up, okay. If wages payable go up, that means we didn't pay as much as we expensed, and we would adjust on the cash flow statement, accordingly. And then similarly for the cost of goods sold. On the income statement, it's the cost of goods sold, that's not necessarily the same as the cost of goods purchased. Those are going to be different if purchases are different than sales. We would see that on the balance sheet by inventory going up, or inventory going down. If inventory goes up, we must have bought more than we sold. And then the second step is even if we bought more than we sold, did we actually pay cash for that? We can figure that out by looking at the account's payable account. If accounts payable goes up, that means we must have bought more than we actually paid, and we would make an adjustment accordingly. So all of our adjustments then on the cash flow statement, start with net income and the first adjustment is for the increase in receivables. That's saying, some of the sales up in the net income number weren't collected this year, so we need to adjust downward, okay? Some of the adjustments are downward like that one. Some of the adjustments are upwards. How do we keep track of, is the adjustment positive or is the adjustment negative? Use the balance sheet equation again. Assets equals liabilities, plus owner's equity. Decompose assets into cash and noncash. Move everything that's not cash to the other side and express it in changes. The change in cash is minus the change in the non-cash assets, plus the change in the liabilities, plus the change in owner's equity. If non-cash assets go up, that's a subtraction on the cash flow statement. When non-cash assets go up, that's like you're buying more assets, that's in outflow, a negative on the cash flow statement. But if liabilities or owner's equity go up, you're saving cash, and so that's an inflow on the cash flow statement. A couple of complications. It's not simply the change in the balance sheet account that shows up as the adjustment on the cash flow statement. because changes in balance sheet accounts net together things that increase that account with things that decrease that account. So for example, in the property plant and equipment account, we're netting together and looking at the beginning balance and the ending balance, any purchases with any sales. If we bought the same amount as we sold, we'd see no net difference on the property plant and equipment account on the balance sheet. But the cash flow statement wants to show the two separately, so the cash flow statement needs to go in and get the increases separately than the decreases and show both of those. Another complication is the cash flow statement, because it's the cash flow statement does not show investing and financing activities that didn't involve cash. So for example, if you buy a company and use stock to buy the company, it doesn't show up on the cash flow statement. If you buy a company and use cash, it does show up on the cash flow statement in the investing section. Okay, so non-cash investing and financing activities aren't going to balance between what you see in the cash flow statement and what you see on the balance sheet. And the notes will provide more information, so that you can find out about those kinds of activities. So let's compare what the indirect method looks like with what the direct method looks like. The direct method is far simpler. Many users struggle to interpret cash flow statements put together under the indirect method. For this reason, standard setting bodies, both the FASB in the US and the IASB, are trying to encourage companies to use the Direct Method more often than they do now, but you still don't see it that often. There are some benefits though to doing the work to learn how the Indirect Method works. And in particular, if you can figure out how the Indirect Method works, you can see the links between Cash Flow, Income and changes in Balance Sheet much more clearly. Understanding how they all fit together gives you a much greater depth of appreciation of what's going on than if you just look at them as if they're separate from each other. In addition, this is also a useful skill in doing valuation. When we value companies, what we often do is try to forecast out future cash flows. But those are hard to forecast and so what we typically do instead is start by trying to forecast out future revenues and expenses. We then need to convert revenues and expenses to cash in flows and out flows. How do we do that? Using the forecasted Balance Sheet Equations. Exactly like what we're doing with the indirect method of the cash flow statement, the income number and the change in the balance sheet numbers are going to tell us the implied change in the cash flows. So the indirect method, much more complicated, but very useful if you take the trouble to learn it.


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The Drag City Newsletter, October 19 2010
posted October 19th, 2010
BUMMER IN THE (INDIAN) SUMMER
Hello, hello – Drag City is back in the house – through the back of course, we know a guy and don't have time for the queue out front. Well, we're here. Now what? Should we talk about the weather? As most of you Americans know, it was one crazy-hot (sexy-cool) summer this year, but what we'll remember (aside from the gallons of sweet-stinky sweat) from it was the wonderful denouement to the whole mess that we experienced here in the merry month of October, as the warmth of the sun mingled freely with the Autumn leaves in a manner most democratic, waking us to the world once again, anxious to find ways to be a part of it.
Our only complaint? We're too freakin' busy to frolic in the dying light! The fantasy fortress is busting with new projects for this year and next, include several never-before attempted formats – some of which are already on the boil. It's like Christmas in July - in October! The gifts of creative living are reigning down on us. Look out for what's coming down, yo!
GETTING HUNG UP IN OCTOBER
A few years ago, we noticed that people enjoyed art – so much so that they'd even pay money to purchase posters for any one of our dozens of albums that had a promotional poster as part of their new release campaign once upon a time. Just like paintings and their prints, these items were intended to look good on the wall, so just like the merchandisers we fancy ourselves to be, we quickly began offering our posters for sale – you can see the full selection here (link). For a long time after that, we sold posters and were happy. Then one night, at one of our bacchanalian dinners (where we and personally invited members of our local arts community rock until dawn, experiencing all the latest pleasures in every field you can imagine from food to media to contraband), the suggestion of an all-original poster was raised. Good heavens, of course! We'd been asleep at the wheel again. At least we were sellin things and happy though…in any case, we immediately snatched up a bit of contemporary art from the New York-based outside-in art duo of Baim and Lazar, who offered a graphic collection they dubbed "The Accidental Joke" that would look equally good in the gallery, the penthouse or on the rec-room basement clubhouse wall of your neighborhood's freakiest teens. Check it out:
We're offering it to all customers rolled carefully into a tube and shipped to wherever they tell us the party/gallery is. "The Accidental Joke" is the first in a venture that we can only imagine will take us to the top of the poster industry. Keep an eye on Drag City for continued innovation in formats that only a fool would deal in! It's how we made (and lost) our fortune…
THE FALL GUYS
Sensitive to the world's ever-increasing pace, we've set a release schedule for "the fourth quarter" (as we say in the executive washroom) that strikes us as quite reasonable – bending your ears, but only just a little bit, so that you have plenty of ear-flesh left over for all the other crap you're into. Right? That's what you want, isn't it? World, you're so changeable – but we're gonna ride you, bronco-style, into the sunset, like the singing cowfolk we fancy ourselves to be. Yes, it's true - there's a whole lotta fancying going on this fall...
Anyway, September went as planned – challenging but eminently digestable. Our old friend Laetitia Sadier launched her solo career after years as a frontwoman for an internationally popular new music groop with a sweet piece of music called The Trip. On LP, CD and download alike, it has a drift that runs deep and calls you back to the stereo lab to get the spins all over again. We recommend that listeners take The Trip home for listens – or take The Trip with you anywhere you go, it will play in sympathy with whatever environment you pass into.
Laetitia is on tour right now, winding her way through a myriad of ancient European lanes as she plays shows in a baker's dozen of countries. There are plans to bring her over to the USA as well, where her music with and without Stereolab has always been happily received.
On the other, darker side of the September moon was Trash Humpers. The film that America felt unsure about all during the summer of 2010 became the unrated DVD that America was ready to buy with no questions asked this fall. Harmony Korine's latest gutter-epic was a natural fit for us, what with our shared fascination with both garbage and, mm, well...humping, okay? And we're not alone in that! Look in the mirror, you freaks. We've sold out a first pressing and are racing to get more in to meet the demand posed by today's horny-yet-confused underage audiences. Remember, Trash Humpers is a film that Netflix won't stock – and they have movies featuring full-frontal rapings! No, we're not talking about Eat Pray Love – be serious, people. If a movie about drunken homeless senior citizen peeping toms creating mayhem after dark can be censored by Corporate America, you know what's coming next, don't you? Better erase those hard drives, kids – the man is coming, and he still has no sense of humor.
Ta-da! See? Nice, compact release date with something for him and something for her (Laetitia and Trash Humpers, respectively). It felt so good we did it again this month!
LIVING ON THE FALL LINE
October is all about providing a couple of sweet niche delights that have the possibility of appealing to the eclectic soul of listeners and seers everywhere – plus maybe offering a little flash of nastiness to appeal to the rebel within your benign form – like the poster called "The Accidental Joke" mentioned in our rave above. It's on sale in the stores that count right now, if not as soon as they read about it here. If you don't see it, ask for it! If you can't get it, it's brick-through-the-window time! Your local stuff-shop's gotta learn some respect for you and your desire for mixed-media trends! Or else they taste some brick.
Also on sale in October is another reissue from the Yoga well, whose previous finds for Drag City were showcased over the summer: Jeff Eubank's A Street Called Straight and Matthew Young's Traveller's Advisory. Two very different records that showcased the renegade spirit during the most awful of decades in American memory, the 80s. If you were doing anything good in that decade, nobody probably knew about it until later, that's how bullshit it was. And then when "they" (you know, "them") learned about it, it got co-opped into something terrible, like when punk rock became popular and every jock asshole used it as a way to be an even bigger dick at shows. Or when the Dead got huge – that sucked! They were "our" little secret (you know - "us"). Face it, underground was the only place to be in the 80s. That was where the good work was getting done and Dwarr is just more proof in the pudding. Animals was an almost completely unheard example of indie metal when it was self-released by South Carolina's Duane Warr back in 1987. Brimming with the nightmare of working-class rage and spiritual crisis and recorded in a Columbia SC trailer park on Tascam 8, Animals is a rippingly violent and hallucinogenic cry from deep within the Over The Edge/River's Edge nation – as a matter of fact, we've never heard anything so real! Now it's back out there and Dwarr is getting accolades from rock zines like Premier Guitar and Decibel and Heathen Harvest and lots more. Time to get yourselves some Animals – but be sure to get two: the water is rising…
Also out on October 19 is a new-phase Blue Chopsticks release from David Grubbs, Stefano Pilia and Andrea Belfi. It's called Onrushing Cloud and it asks you to find it in an entirely new section of the store called the vinyl section! Which is fine, we're sure you know where it is. This is the first Blue Chopsticks release to come out on vinyl after twenty releases – and just in time too, since Onrushing Cloud's combination of guitars, percussion and electronics is a perfect blend of sounds to be engrooved in vinyl for posterity. Look for it to listen to it!
THE AWAREHOUSE COMES TO DRAG CITY
In the past couple of years, we've managed to turn another longstanding love of ours into a business interest! That's either very awesome or very sad. Actually, it's just awesome – because this love/business proposition involves Father Yod's Source Family, whose self-released albums from the early 70s have been a cult favorite for heavy listeners for years now. First in our new partnership with our good friends from the Source came Children of the Sixth Root Race's Songs From the Source, a never-before-heard piece of music. Then came Father Yod and The Source Family's Magnificence In the Memory, a collection of unreleased recordings from '73-'74. Now, we're pleased to bring you everything else that's still in print from the Source Family's Awarehouse, from CDs and vinyl to books and a documentary DVD to stickers and a dry erase board! Check on all of it here right away – your enlightenment can't wait very much longer!
COMING TO A CATHEDRAL NEAR YOU
No matter where our artists play their shows, an aura of holiness abounds. It's an optical illusion of course, holiness is in the soul of the beholder, there is no God per se – but on the night Joanna Newsom plays Carnegie Hall, she'll be treading on ground somebody around there's gonna called hallowed. And the Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang shows we saw several literal cathedrals of Ireland and England, they were enough to cause us to swear to God we'd never had a better night! Here in Chicago, we're always speculating that a certain club that shall not be named is built on top of an Indian burial ground, so intense are the vibes of death that eminate from the floor itself every time we're in there. Actually, maybe every club in Chicago is on top of some kind of graveyard. Ah, whatever – the point is, you should visit with the musical representatives from Drag City nation in all the crazy venues they choose to play, whether they're a temple or some secular dump. Or an actual dump. The music makes it special every time.
GOING UP TO ELEVEN
That's the word on releases for the rest of aught-ten, but 2011 is already shaping up to be a killer. Coming in January – new albums from Sic Alps and Monotonix, the solo debut of Lights' Sophia Knapp and more unheard music from Death, circa the mid-70s.
If now weren't so sweet, you'd want to jump ahead to January, wouldn't you? Fuck that. Don't cheat yourself out of today.
Coming off the ledge myself,
Rian Murphy
Drag City Inc.


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Will fulfill nation's expectations with passage of GST: Govt.
Published: July 18, 20161:38 pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier today asked all political parties to work cohesively and put forth their arguments in a constructive manner.
Eyeing upon the support of the Opposition in the Monsoon Session of Parliament, the Centre today expressed hope that the expectations of the nation would be fulfilled with the passage of the crucial Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill this time.
"We have said it many a times that the government is ready to discuss any issue. We are expecting we will be able to pass the GST Bill and fulfill the expectation of the people of the nation," Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh told the media here.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier today asked all political parties to work cohesively and put forth their arguments in a constructive manner. "In order to spur development and to take the nation forward, the discussions should be of constructive nature so that the nation develops at a rapid pace.
For this, everyone should work together in the Parliament to guide the nation," he told the media outside the Parliament here. Prime Minister Modi expressed confidence over the consensus built across all parties and hoped that everyone would take the apt decision to ensure that India develops at a rapid pace. Stating that the nation is set to celebrate its 70th Independence Day this year, the Prime Minister asked all parties to work unitedly keeping the same in mind.
The Monsoon session of Parliament began earlier in the day. A total of 25 bills, including the crucial GST Bill, are expected to come up for consideration and passage during the session. The session will have 20 working days and will conclude on the 12th of next month.
The government yesterday called an all-party meeting at the Parliament House to seek the support of Opposition parties in the passage of pending legislations during the session. During the meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the political parties to keep national interests above any other consideration. He sought their support in the passage of the GST Bill, saying it was of national importance.
He said it is immaterial which government takes credit for rolling out the GST. The Prime Minister said all political parties are representative of the people and, therefore, national issues should be kept above everything else.
Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/will-fulfill-nations-expectations-passage-gst-govt/320133/
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Q: Layout coming over another layout I am using RelativeLayout.
In RelativeLayout,i've a LinearLayout in which i am using GridView. The GridView is populating at run time . But all the values are not showing.
Under LinearLayout there is a TextView. I want As the LinearLayout increases the other part below it should move down.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/firstimage"
    tools:context=".SendMessage" >
<Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="36dp"
        android:text="Add" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="106dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:inputType="textMultiLine" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignTop="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_marginTop="43dp"
        android:text="Send" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:text="To:"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_marginTop="78dp"
        android:text="Medium Text"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/linear"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_alignTop="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView1"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

    </LinearLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

here is the code where i am setting gridview
ViewGroup layout=(ViewGroup)findViewById(R.id.linear);
       // gridview = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.gridView1);
            gridview=new GridView(getBaseContext());

             String[] items = { "this", "is", "a", "really", "really2", "really3",
                    "really4", "really5", "silly", "list" };
             ArrayAdapter<String> aa = new ArrayAdapter<String>(
                    this,
                    android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
                items);

            gridview.setAdapter(aa);
             layout.addView(gridview);

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Greek Orthodox in Salt Lake City Helping the Needy
Salt Lake City Festival6
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – More than 180 members of the Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake volunteered for the inaugural Operation Brown Bag event at the Hellenic Memorial Cultural Center in Salt Lake City, UT.
The volunteers assembled sack lunches for those in needon April 29.Thomas Peters, president of the church, said the eventwas a success, as reported in Salt Lake City Weekly(SLCW). Parishioners from Holy Trinity Cathedral and Prophet Elias Church joined in the effort, as reported in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Modeled after the church's feeding the homeless on Thanksgiving, Peters said, "the parish council sat down and we said, 'These people are hungry and needy throughout the year. Can we do something more?'" as reported in SLCW. All ages participated in the event including everyone from toddler and up. Peters said, "The 90-year-olds were bagging the lunches and the 3- and 4-year-olds were putting together the napkins," as quoted in SLCW.
The Crossroads Urban Center, Midvale's Road Home shelter, Bountiful Homeless Shelter, City Plaza Apartments, YWCA, St. Vincent de Paul, The Inn Between, Volunteers of America, The Road Home shelter, Homeless Youth Center, and Hildegard's Food Pantry were among the groups to receive the sack lunches prepared by the parishioners.
"We contacted them and said, 'What can we do to alleviate your burden for a day or two and provide a lunch or a meal to the homeless and the hungry?'" Peters said.
He continued, "We did over 1,600 sandwiches to the St. Vincent de Paul center just by itself. We'll do over 3,500 lunches total."
Ham-and-cheese sandwiches with lettuce, cookies, chips, oranges, condiments,and napkins were packed with care by the volunteers. The church delivered the food to the service organizations and half the total lunches were on their way before noon.


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Q: Rpm Build: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.hI2V3W (%install) I'm trying to "rpm-build -ba" a package (Pike) for Fedora Linux, and it's the first time I'm doing this procedure, but I keep getting this error:
"Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.hI2V3W (%install)"

As far as I can see, things start going badly after:
"Installing Pike in /~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/pike7.8-7.8.866-1.0.fc21.x86_64/usr, please wait...

Could not resolve Getopt. (Perhaps the installed pike tree has been moved.)
lib/master.pike:3406: master()->main_resolv("Getopt",UNDEFINED)"

Here the SPEC file:
# Notes:
#
#  This package contains the  major.minor version of Pike, in order
#  to permit the parallel installation of multiple releases at the
#  same time (for example, 7.6 and 7.8.) Documentation, including
#  the module reference may be found in  /usr/share/doc/pike-VERSION.
#
#  the most recent stable version of pike will be available
#  as /usr/bin/pike, in addition to /usr/bin/pikeMAJOR.MINOR.
#
#  this behavior is managed by alternatives(8).
#
#  This file is based on pike.spec from repoforge, and has been fairly
#  extensively modified. The original repoforge content appears to be
#  new BSD licensed, though this is not spelled out in individual files
#  or in any adjoining material. It would be good to clarify this.

%{?fc4:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?el4:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?fc3:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?fc2:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?fc1:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?el3:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?rh9:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?rh7:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?el2:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?rh6:%define _without_modxorg 1}
%{?yd3:%define _without_modxorg 1}

%{?fc1:%define _without_xorg 1}
%{?el3:%define _without_xorg 1}
%{?rh9:%define _without_xorg 1}
%{?rh8:%define _without_xorg 1}
%{?rh7:%define _without_xorg 1}
%{?el2:%define _without_xorg 1}
%{?rh6:%define _without_xorg 1}
%{?yd3:%define _without_xorg 1}

%define real_name Pike
%define real_version v7.8.866
%define relnum 7.8
%define myname pike
%define shared_docs %{_docdir}/%{myname}-%{version}
%define debug_package %{nil}

Summary: Pike is a general purpose dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C.
Name: pike%{relnum}
Version: 7.8.866
Release: 1.0%{?dist}
License: GPL/LGPL/MPL
Group: Development/Languages
URL: http://pike.ida.liu.se/

Source: http://pike.ida.liu.se/download/pub/pike/all/%{version}/Pike-v%{version}.tar.gz
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root

BuildRequires: nettle-devel, gmp-devel, autoconf
BuildRequires: gdbm-devel, gettext, zlib-devel, nasm, fftw-devel
BuildRequires: mysql-devel
BuildRequires: sane-backends-devel, ffmpeg-devel
BuildRequires: freetype-devel, libjpeg-devel, libtiff-devel
BuildRequires: pcre-devel, bzip2-devel, freeglut-devel, gtk2-devel, libgnomeui-devel
BuildRequires: SDL-devel, pkgconfig, gtkglarea2-devel
BuildRequires: SDL_mixer-devel, librsvg2-devel
BuildRequires: chrpath

%if 0%{?_without_modxorg:1}
%{?_without_xorg:BuildRequires: XFree86-devel, XFree86-Mesa-libGLU}
%{!?_without_xorg:BuildRequires: xorg-x11-devel, xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU}
%else
BuildRequires: libXt-devel, mesa-libGLU-devel
%endif

%description
Pike is a general purpose programming language, which means that you can put
it to use for almost any task. Its application domain spans anything from
the world of the Net to the world of multimedia applications, or
environments where your shell could use some spicy text processing or system
administration tools.

%package devel
Summary: Header files, libraries and development documentation for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Libraries
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}

%description devel
This package contains the header files, static libraries and development
documentation for %{myname}. If you like to develop programs using %{myname},
you will need to install %{name}-devel.

%package odbc
Summary: ODBC driver module for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: unixODBC

%description odbc
This package contains support for ODBC database access for %{myname}.

%package freetype
Summary: Freetype module for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: freetype

%description freetype
This package contains support for Freetype 2 (TTF) rendering in %{myname}.

%package ffmpeg
Summary: Ffmpeg module for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: ffmpeg

%description ffmpeg
This package contains support for Ffmpeg in %{myname}.

%package svg
Summary: SVG Image module for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: librsvg2

%description svg
This package contains support for SVG rendering in %{myname}.

%package mysql
Summary: mysql driver module for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: mysql

%description mysql
This package contains support for mysql database access for %{myname}.

%package sdl
Summary: SDL (Simple Direct Media Layer) module for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: SDL SDL_mixer

%description sdl
This package contains support for using SDL in %{myname}.

%package sane
Summary: SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) module for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: sane-backends

%description sane
This package contains support for using SANE scanners in %{myname}.

%package gl
Summary: OpenGL module for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: mesa-libGLU freeglut

%description gl
This package contains support for using OpenGL in %{myname}.

%package gtk2
Summary: GTK2 module for %{myname}.
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: gtk2, gtkglarea2, libgnomeui

%description gtk2
This package contains support for using GTK2 in %{myname}.

%prep
%setup -n %{real_name}-%{real_version}

%build
STARTPWD=`pwd`
cd src
./run_autoconfig
mkdir ../build; cd ../build
${STARTPWD}/src/configure \
  --prefix=/usr
%{__make}
%{__make} documentation
%install buildroot="%{buildroot}"
%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
cd build
%{__make} buildroot="%{buildroot}" install INSTALLARGS="buildroot='%{buildroot}' lib_prefix='/usr/lib/%{name}' include_prefix='/usr/include/%{name}' --traditional"

chrpath --delete %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/Mysql.so
chrpath --delete %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/Postgres.so
chrpath --delete %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/Odbc.so

%{__mkdir_p} %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
%{__mkdir_p} %{shared_docs}
%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}/usr/doc
%{__mv} %{buildroot}/usr/bin/pike %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/%{name}
%{__mv} %{buildroot}/usr/bin/pike.syms %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/%{name}.syms
%{__mv} %{buildroot}/usr/bin/rsif %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/rsif%{relnum}
%{__install} -d -m0755 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/

# we should make the documentation directory a macro, really.
%{__mkdir_p} %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{myname}-%{version}
cd ..
%{__cp} ANNOUNCE CHANGES COMMITTERS COPYING COPYRIGHT README README-CVS %{buildroot}%{shared_docs}
%{__mv} refdoc/modref %{buildroot}%{shared_docs}
%{__mv} refdoc/traditional_manual %{buildroot}%{shared_docs}

cd build
./pike "-DPRECOMPILED_SEARCH_MORE" "-m./master.pike" -x rsif -r "/usr/local/bin/pike" "%{_bindir}/%{name}" %{buildroot}

%post
/sbin/ldconfig 2>/dev/null
alternatives --install %{_bindir}/%{myname} %{myname} %{_bindir}/%{name} 1

%postun
/sbin/ldconfig 2>/dev/null

%clean
%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}

%files
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%doc %{_mandir}/man?/*
%{shared_docs}/*
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/Odbc.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/SDL.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/SANE.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/Mysql.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/___GTK2.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/GL.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/GLUT.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/_Image_SVG.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/_Image_FreeType.so
%exclude %{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/_Ffmpeg.so

%{_bindir}/*
%{_libdir}/%{name}

%files devel
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_includedir}/%{name}

%files odbc
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/Odbc.so

%files sdl
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/SDL.so

%files sane
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/SANE.so

%files gtk2
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/___GTK2.so

%files svg
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/_Image_SVG.so

%files ffmpeg
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/_Ffmpeg.so

%files mysql
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/Mysql.so

%files freetype
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/_Image_FreeType.so

%files gl
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/GL.so
%{_libdir}/%{name}/modules/GLUT.so

Can you help me?
Thanks for your time!

A: Before you can compile a package with rpmbuild you must issue as root the command (that installs all the package dependencies for a given package that you want to build)
yum-builddep name-of-package-that-you-want-to-compile
i.e.
yum-builddep cheese
The yum-utils package contains the yum-builddep command, so if you haven't installed yum-utils, please install it before.
It seems anyway that you don't have all the dependencies available in the .spec file, so first of all try to issue as root the command
yum-builddep pike
and then, if the compilation with "rpmbuild -ba" does not succeed anyway, issue as root the command
yum install util-linux
The package util-linux that you are going to install contains the binary file /bin/getopt that allows the executables (even the ones in pike and even the ones called by rpmbuild) to parse the command line arguments.
Then you should be able to issue the "rpmbuild -ba pike" command without any problem.

A: The spec file must be wrong. It has a requirement (getopt for some language) that is not properly defined with a %BuildRequires tag. yum (the only other answer at this time) assumes everything is fine as well, because that's the same tag it will use.