Midlife can sometimes feel like a time where nothing new happens and everything bad happens all at once. Your job can start to feel mundane and boring and yet your family life can be changing drastically (or vice versa). So today I am bringing you an A-Z list of words to describe the way things SHOULD be in midlife. If you're reading through this list and any of these words don't mesh with where you are in life, maybe it's time to try something new. Read through this alphabet and let me know which word resonates with you the most.
As we grow older, we often find ourselves thinking, "I can't do that". We think this way solely because of our past experiences and this sometimes causes us to act in a certain way for your family or your boss or your friends. Instead of hiding your true self, choose to be authentic by, first, rediscovering who you truly are and, second, showing the world the incredibly unique person that you are.
If you are being authentic, then you should also be bold. Don't be afraid to show the world who you are and what you can do. Boldly show the world that you have yet to do what you came here to do!
At this point in your life, you've been around the block a few times, so be confident! You have a unique set of skills that you have been honing your entire life. Be confident in what you know and share your knowledge (and confidence) with the world.
It is important to be determined to reach your goals. After all, you have yet to do what you came to this world to do. Think about what goals you have. Have you been actively working towards achieving them? Or do you find yourself thinking, "one day", "once the kids are out of the house", or "after I retire"? I challenge you to commit to a goal and be determined to reach it.
When was the last time you were truly enthusiastic about something? Is there something that you strongly believe in? When was the last time you shared that enthusiasm with others? Remember, enthusiasm can be contagious and if you believe in something deeply you should share your enthusiasm with those around you.
The more we grow, the more we tend to keep our eyes focused on the past. We remember what we know to be true from the past. But we must also remember to keep an eye on the future. The best is still yet to come, and if we keep our eyes on the past, we just might miss it.
Who has time to pretend to be what others want you to be? And, honestly, isn't it better to be genuine anyway? When you are genuine, you pull others towards you.
They say hope springs eternal. Well, I don't know about you, but sometimes my spring seems to dry up. We need to remember to always stay hopeful. With each setback, we need to remember that we have these setbacks for a reason and that we will still achieve our dreams.
We have the power to inspire others. We can inspire our co-workers, our family, our friends. The first step towards inspiring others is to be inspiring. Take on life wholeheartedly and never give up. You will achieve whatever you put your mind to and that is the most inspiring thing of all.
Don't let life get you down; and when it does get you down, don't let it keep you down. There are hundreds of moments each day that can make us joyful – just as long as we choose to notice them. From the beauty of a sunset to the smile of a loved one, we have so many reasons to be joyful each and every day. No matter how many things may seem to be going wrong in your day, remember to pause and appreciate even the small moments that bring us joy.
You have your own, unique set of gifts and talents that you have accumulated throughout your life. Some of these talents you have chosen to learn and others were forced upon you, but, regardless of how you learned these different skills, you now have this knowledge. Never forget that no one has the same accumulation of knowledge as you do – your unique experiences have made you valuable in a way that no one else is.
Sometimes we need to be reminded to be playful. Stop taking life so seriously! Go out and have fun! Jump out of a plane, or go to an art show, try a new restaurant. It doesn't matter what makes you lighthearted and playful – just remember to take some time to play from time to time. Life is too short to be serious.
You have yet to do what you came to this world to do…and you are here to do something meaningful. Think about it. If each and every person on this earth decided to do one truly meaningful thing with their life, how much better would this world be? What are you passionate about? What have you been holding off on doing because you don't quite believe you can achieve it? Your life is meaningful, and your legacy should be as well.
We each have our own voice, sometimes we just need to remember to use it. Be outgoing. Be friendly. Be candid. The more you share your true self with others, the happier you will find yourself.
This is one that I have held strong beliefs about for as long as I can remember. It is so important for you to be passionate about something. Anything really. I don't care if you are passionate about feeding monkeys at the zoo – just be passionate! When your life is full of passion, it is full of meaning.
I've always considered being called quirky a compliment. Quirky is defined as having unexpected traits and I feel that those unexpected traits are often the most powerful. Take a moment to think about what makes you quirky and you'll often realize that those traits are also the traits that make you the most unique.
Being radical is defined as "affecting the fundamental nature of something". I feel that when we live our (mid)life to the fullest and prove that our best is yet to come, we are affecting the fundamental beliefs about aging. We are not destined to slow down and get boring as we age and I believe that viewpoint is still relatively radical. By living each and every day of our lives to the fullest, I believe we are all being radical.
Being spirited is an important aspect of midlife (and life in general). When we live our lives being as full of enthusiasm, determination, and energy we are truly living life to it's fullest.
We are meant to not only survive but to thrive. So many of us just survive in our current situations while waiting for something better. Instead, decide to thrive. What does it mean to you to thrive? Now take the first step towards that.
To thrive in your midlife, you must first decide to plan for the future instead of dwelling on the past.
People who are winning life aren't just improving their own life, they are also uplifting others. It has been proven that the more you uplift others, the happier you will be as well. People who give to charity and/or volunteer are over 40% more likely to be happy than those who don't. This statistic holds true for those who express gratitude and help others as well. So do what you can to be happy and remember to uplift others.
Be vibrant. Shine for the world to see.
Be a little wild sometimes. Being the responsible one can get boring, and as we age we are often forced to be responsible more and more often. Not that being responsible is a bad thing, it is actually very important. But sometimes it is equally as important to be a little wild and let your crazy side show. Plan a night out and decide to be a little wild.
I admit it took a little digging to find this one. Xenodochial (pronounced zeena-doh-key-ul) means to be hospitable. Making others feel at home is truly an art. When you can make your friends, family, and even strangers feel as if they truly belong, you are making the world a better place.
I'm always hesitant when it comes to saying two words and those words are "young" and "old". These definitions are becoming so circumstantial that I cringe when using them. But at the same time, let's be honest, we are getting older. I believe being young-at-heart is part of what keeps us young even as we age. Remembering to embrace life through the eyes of the young helps us live life to the fullest. Becoming set in our ways helps no one.
Finally, be zealous. Live your life with zeal and passion and it is almost guaranteed that your best is yet to come. You have so much life to live, now go out there and act like it!
When working our way through midlife, it is easy to feel as if everything is going wrong.
Your kids or moving out, or even worse, they're not. Your parents are getting older and need more help. Your job is feeling stale but the stability makes you feel as if you couldn't possibly leave. Your personal style is non-existent. Everything just seems so serious!
The list goes on and on, and with all of these changes, no wonder why people in midlife tend to feel as if things are not the way they should be, or at least are not the way they want them to be.
Therefore, I want to give you a list of some inspirational articles to help you shift your personal midlife experience in the right direction for you. I have 20 articles for you to explore and 7 topics to embrace. Enjoy!
You want to see what is TRULY possible at your age (and beyond)? Check out this amazing woman by clicking here!
Take on a new perspective when it comes to the physical signs of aging. Maybe start with your wrinkles by clicking here?
Is one inspirational story not enough? Here are five more for you.
Most importantly, realize the (un)importance of the word OLD. I think being "old" is the best and maybe you will too after reading this.
You can find a lot of advice out there about how to dress your age, especially with articles about how to dress after 40 or 50 or 60. Well, this article will tell you the only thing you ACTUALLY need to know about dressing your age.
Have you given up on taking care of your skin? Maybe it's time to take another look.
Speaking of skin, did you know there is makeup specifically formulated for women in midlife and over? It's pretty unique, plus they make online tutorials so anyone can use their products.
And speaking of tutorials, there is a YouTuber who posts inspiring and useful content on how to feel beautiful as you age. Check her out here.
So we've talked about clothing, skin, makeup, and general style. What's left? What about your hair? This is an article that will help you "go gray with style" step-by-step. If you have ever considered stopping to dye your hair, this article is for you.
3. Don't Forget About Your Brain!
This article gives you two easy and free ways to keep your brain active by spending 5 minutes a day playing games on your phone. It even has some extra free bonuses!
Do you ever wish you had some extra income? I'm pretty sure everyone has. This article gives you 5 easy ways to earn some extra cash in your day-to-day life.
Here are five inspirational articles to remind you to believe in yourself above all else (chances are at least one article will speak to you).
Sometimes life just feels hard. That's why this article compiled with 25 life hacks perfect for midlifers. Which one is your favorite?
Another way to make midlife easier? Download these apps.
With all of the serious issues surrounding this part of life, it is easy to get stuck in a very serious viewpoint. This article has a video which gives you just enough perspective to get out a giggle or two.
Here is another article with a video designed to make you laugh. Relationships are never easy but this video puts a funny spin on the subject of shopping for your wife.
Now that you've made your way through my seven topics and 20 articles, I hope that you feel a little lighter, a little more beautiful, and way more inspired!
About a month ago, The Back Forty took part in the California Women's Conference (or CWC). Building up to this event we frantically worked to create the perfect presence. We finalized our first online course, published our first Back Forty journal, and created countless banners and flyers. We didn't know what to expect walking into that exhibit hall, but we had dreams of the contacts we would gain through our raffles and giveaways, the books we would sell, and the contacts we would make.
Little did we know that another aspect of our booth would be the most rewarding.
At our booth, we had a small recording studio set up. We were thinking that we would interview a few people about the passions they discovered while traveling through midlife. We had no idea how big a role this would end up playing at the conference.
We were thinking that we would complete 15-20 interviews each day, lasting about 5 minutes each. What we weren't expecting was to be so inspired by the stories of finding one's passion and the joy of sharing that passion with others.
We ended up conducting about 30 interviews over the two-day conference, but the average video ended up lasting 15 minutes. Suddenly, our expected 3 hours of content became over SEVEN AND A HALF HOURS.
Walking into the event, we had no idea the type of passion and joy we would find in those we interviewed. Now, not only have we had the chance to interview amazing people, but we have been given the opportunity to share these inspiring stories with the world. We have decided to turn these inspiring interviews into an online program aimed at inspiring others to create their second half of life as their best half. Now, this course is not ready to be released yet, but I have put together a short video with some excerpts from our two days of interviewing.
Today I want to inspire you to become happier. Everyone needs a little pick up every once and a while and today I am sharing with you 100 ways to make your day full of a little more happiness.
So, without further ado, let's get happy!
Do you have a pet? Go get a hug!
If all of these happiness-inducing ideas aren't enough, I have decided to start giving you something a little extra each time I write a new post.
As we grow older it sometimes gets easier to focus on our significant other's faults instead of their virtues. Pet peeves slowly become intolerable and your relationship becomes more routine and boring.
Where did all that happiness go?
It's not that the happiness is gone, but rather that you have stopped nurturing the happiness. When was the last time you did something special for your significant other just to show them how much they are loved? Chances are, all of us could do special things for those we love more often.
But what am I supposed to do? I hear you asking. Look no further because I have compiled my list of the top six ways to fill your relationship with happiness by showing your love.
This might sound counterproductive but let me explain.
Does your husband love watching a certain sport? Does you wife have a favorite TV show? Chances are, there is something on TV that you hate as much as your significant other loves. Well, I'm here to tell you that there is a way to turn these experiences into loving gestures.
Order your significant other's favorite delivery food (Pizza? Chinese? Mexican?) and schedule to have it delivered right before your husband or wife's show starts. About 30 minutes before their show begins, say that you are going to bed, or another room, or whatever you normally do to avoid watching this show. Once you leave, send your significant other a text telling them that their favorite food is on the way, to enjoy their show, and that you love them.
Tah-dah! Suddenly, avoiding something you hate has been turned into a romantic gesture.
Do you get home from work before your significant other? Maybe you wake up earlier than them? Go to bed after them? Chances are, you are "alone" at home at one point or another throughout the week.
Turn this into a chance to show your love. What part of the house gets messy the fastest? The kitchen? The living room? Pick a room, and clean it before your significant other gets home. Not only will they notice, chances are they will also appreciate it and feel the need to reciprocate at some point.
This one is my favorite idea by far. Think about something that you request from your significant other on a regular basis. Do you ask them to stop at the store on their way home? Grab you something from the other room? Cook dinner? Walk the dog? Now's the fun part, you get to turn that mundane obligation into an exciting surprise.
Ask them to do the obligation and then surprise them with a fun activity. Ask them to grab some cheese from the grocery store and then surprise them in the cheese isle with plans to go on a hike and have a picnic. Or ask them to grab your glasses from the other room and then have tickets to the movies or a museum next to your glasses. Ask them to cook some pasta for dinner and then have a giftcard or reservations for their favorite restaurant waiting for them next to the pasta.
It is entirely up to you on how simple or extravagent these surprises are. The important part is that you are turning something they don't enjoy doing into a fun experience for both of you.
This might seem like a relatively simple concept, but when was the last time you actively planned a date on your own? I'm not talking about deciding that you need a night away from the kids and planning something together or deciding that neither of you want to cook and going out for dinner. I'm talking about taking at least 30 minutes on your own to choose something to do together and booking the neccessary tickets/activities. Plan to take a weekend getaway, go to the zoo, or even just make a dinner reservation.
Have you ever heard of the "magic ratio" discovered by psycholigist John Gottman? He says that there is actually a ratio of positive to negative comments in a relationship that can pretty much guarantee a stable relationship. What is this ratio?
For every negative comment you make to your significant other, you should make five positive comments. So think about it, what is your current ratio? How often are you saying "I love you"? How often do you tell your significant other that you appreciate them? Now, how often are you complaining? The longer we are in a relationship, the easier it is to take the positives for granted and become more frustrated with the negatives. This can cause our ratios to get completely out of whack.
So what am I suggesting you do? Figure out what your current ratio currently is, and then work towards that 5:1 ratio. Start with just a week and see the difference that it makes in your daily interactions when you try to stick to the ratio. Chances are, you will both become happier.
Pet peeves. We all have them. And we all have pet peeves about our significant other. Maybe they leave the toilet seat up, or they leave their clothes all over the bedroom floor. Chances are, by this point you are thinking about your biggest pet peeves about your significant other. Well, stop!
Think about your significant other's pet peeves about you instead. You know what they are. Now, actively try to stop all of those habits. Start with just a day and see how long you can make it last. I'm not saying that you change forever, but make an effort and your significant other will notice.
With all of these new ideas, I know you can actively bring happiness into your relationship. Because, after all, who doesn't want to be happier? Your relationship is important and worth the time it will take to strengthen it. Even if your relationship is already stable and relatively happy – these six tips can bring even more happiness into your relationship.
Do you have any other examples of special things you do for your significant other to bring more happiness into your relationship? Tell me your favorites in the comments below!
I don't know about you, but most Saturday mornings I need a little inspiration to get me going. After all, if you're not careful, it is easy for the weekends to get away from you. So, today I am going to help inspire you to make the most out of not only your weekends but your life!
Here are 5 inspirational people who decided that they had yet to do what they were here to do in midlife and beyond (plus a bonus)!
Winifred currently holds the World, National, and State records for single lift bench press for her age group and weight class. At the age of 47 she was dangerously obese and decided to make a change. By the age of 68 she had set world records for bench press (lifting 176.2 lbs) and deadlift (lifting 270 lbs). She is now a proud great-grandmother of 3 and healthier than she's ever been.
Buster claimed to be the United Kingdom's oldest employee. He worked for Pimlico Plumbers in London and even refused to take a day off on his 100th birthday! According to Buster, he was born in 1906 and continued working until he died at the age of 104 in 2011. If that isn't a dedicated employee, I don't know what is!
Fauja is the first 100-year-old to finish a marathon. He also accomplished eight world running records for being the oldest man to accomplish each record in ONE DAY. He is currently 105 years old and living in the UK. He ran between the ages of 89 and 101. Why so late in his life? A tragedy led him back to it. He witnessed the death of his fifth son in 1994 and decided to return to his passion for running. He began training and started running international marathons at the age of 89. At the age of 93 he completed the London Marathon 58 minutes faster than the previous world record. Eight full marathons after the age of 89? Pretty impressive if you ask me.
Dorthy was a stand-up comedian starting in 1916. She thought she would never become famous until she got the chance to perform on the Tonight Show at the age of 100 in 2011! After that, she decided that she was never too old to achieve what she wanted to do. She performed on the Tonight Show again in 2012, for her 101st birthday she ziplined the Snake River Canyon, and for her 102nd birthday she base jumped off the Perrine Bridge into the Snake River Canyon and became the oldest base jumper in the world.
Werner is the oldest person to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. He climbed his first mountain on the list in 2002 at the age of 64 and completed the last mountain on the list in 2013 at the age of 76. How many people do you know who have climbed Mount Everest? Not to mention at the age of 69!
To learn more about Werner, see his Facebook Live interview with The Back Forty Co-Founder, Darrell Gurney, by clicking here!
Meet Tao. She is the world's oldest yoga teacher at the age of 98! She is pretty amazing. So amazing, in fact, that I wrote an entire blog post about her a few months ago. Click here to find out what makes Tao so special!
Hopefully, that is enough inspiration for you today. After all, as we say in The Back Forty, "You have yet to do what you came here to do!" So, what is it that your second half of life has in store for you?
Are You Ready to Look Fabulous Forever?
Today I want to share with you a company I found called Look Fabulous Forever. This company is all about "celebrating the beauty in older faces". Their philosophy is that age is not a barrier to looking fabulous and, to prove that, they create makeup that is formulated specifically for mature faces.
Are you interested in learning more about Look Fabulous Forever's makeup line? Explore their line and if you find anything you like you can get 20% off your first offer by clicking here and using the discount code FRIEND20!
Did you miss the live webinar? Don't worry – you can still catch the replay here!
Join Alexandra Levin, Co-Founder of The Back Forty and Caren Taubman Glasser Founder of The Little White Lie for a live co-creation webinar of "IMBUE Your Beautiful You". This beauty "town hall" will take place today (Tuesday, March 21) at 2:30 pm PST on Facebook Live (you can RSVP here).
We invite you to join not only to hear our ideas of how to "IMBUE Your Beautiful You" but to get yours!
Our program is in development, and we need your input!
Come join us to co-create this work, and let's enjoy the freedom it offers together.
Either before, during or after the webinar we would love to get your feedback on our program by filling out the survey here (we also have some freebies to give away if you complete the survey).
RSVP here by clicking the reminder button and we look forward to seeing you soon!
Today I found a new YouTube vlogger that I have absolutely fallen in love with.
She creates tons of wonderful content surrounding the conversation of aging and how to feel beautiful while doing it. However, my favorite video series of hers is The Aging Woman and in this video series, she covers everything from fashion and exercise to friendships and marriage. Today I am going to share a few of my favorite (initial) videos of hers that I am loving and maybe you will love them too!
This is the perfect example of what Melissa is all about. She uses her own experiences from finding her way through midlife to help other women abandon the stigmas surrounding aging and beauty and really embrace themselves. So, if you've watched the video, what's your style and how has it changed as you have moved through midlife?


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What is Diehard Gamefan?
We're not the first publication to go by this name. The original Diehard GameFan was a print magazine that ran from 1992 to 2000. In Oct., 2007, we picked up the trademark and URL rights and decided to revive the name. The original publisher of the magazine form of Diehard Gamefan, Dave Halverson, has recently given us his blessing with the new venture, thus passing the torch to a new generation of gamers. I made him a promise that we'd keep to the high level of quality content that has come to be associated with the name, and that any of the original staffers are more than welcome to stop by and speak their mind.
The NEW Diehard Gamefan is both a homage and an entirely new direction all at once. Like the original, we seek to bring back true journalism to gaming, rather than fluff pieces catering to the lowest common denominator. We hope to revive credibility and integrity to gaming journalism, something that has become increasingly tarnished in recent years.
Unlike the original, we are a not-for-profit organization. We make no money off this site. Many of us are, or have been, professionals in the industry and Diehard Gamefan gives us an outlet to talk this industry as individuals rather than a piece of the corporate machine. We're doing this simply to have fun and out of love for the industry.
In this spirit, we treat all gaming publishers and developers equally. Madden 2008 will be reviewed as fairly and honestly as Out of This World. We will also publicly list all publishers sending us review copies so that our readers can be aware of with whom we have a working relationship with, so as to prevent any inkling of bias or conjecture that a review was "purchased." So if you see one of the publisher we list getting a consistent degree of high marks from a particular reviewer or reviewers, seriously – CALL US OUT ON IT. The only way you can trust us, or any gaming site is to interact with the writers until you know you can trust that they are writing for YOU, and not for the various companies out there.
Also unlike other reviews, we have eliminated a numerical score. We feel that due to the lack of actual journalism in the industry, too many readers, as well as publishers look at the number associated with the review rather than the content itself. This we feel does a disservice to everyone: the review writers, the developers, and most importantly the readers themselves as we are living in an age where games are being highly criticized in the review than given a 7 or 8 as the numerical score, misleading the reader entirely. By removing a numerical rating, this forces the audience to read the review in question, educating them on the game's pros and cons and thus leading the reader to once again think for themselves. Also, by giving an in-depth multi page review that averages 5 pages in Microsoft Word (Arial, Font Size 10), the hard work of the developers is showcased in far more detail than can be found with reviews that are only a paragraph to a page long, which is sadly becoming the industry standard. (You will note that if you go deep into the archive, you'll find older reviews with numerical scores. This is because we imported every writer's old archive/porfolio so that you can see how all of us have grown as writers and a team).
With our comprehensive review scheme, groundbreaking and entertaining features, and a level of in depth journalism that has long been lost from the industry, we hope to provide all sides of the gaming industry with the level of respect it deserves.
At the end of the day though, we're just a bunch of people who are passionate about games who are here to share their tastes and opinions with you. We're not going to tell you what you SHOULD be playing. What we will tell you is what we just happen to be playing and how we feel about these games. You don't have to agree. You don't even have to like that particular writer's turn of phrase. Hopefully there will be a writer or feature that intrigues you enough to keep coming back for more. We welcome feedback both positive and negative, because it is only through commentary directed to us that we can grow as both a site and as indivudal writers. Just make sure it's constructive criticism rather than whiny fanboy bitch sessions. That helps no one and just makes the corresponder look immature.
Who We Have
Our staff has a diverse background in the gaming industry. Writers have come from such sites as 411mania, Not a True Ending, Inside Pulse, Gamespot, The Next Level, and more. Members of our staff have also worked with /for such publishers and developers as Nintendo, SNK, Konami, 2015, Pandemic Studios, and again more. As our staff has come from all sides of the gaming industry, it allows our team to provide readers with a cohesive look at the gaming industry from aspects most other publications are unable to provide.
It would be wrong of me to not include a little bit about the original DHGF staff. Although the magazine is long since defunct, several staff members can still be found online or with print publications. Although none of the original staff is currently a part of this venture, they are more than welcome to join us at any time. We'll be happy to host any of their writings and ramblings. Below is a list of the old DHGF that we have found still active with links to their current projects.
Dave Halverson
Dave Halverson is currently Editor-In-Chief of GameFan/MovieFan Magazine (No affiliation to us other than cordial relations). He was also the founder of the original Gamefan. Dave's been actually very supportive of the new site, and he's even offered to drop by from time to time. That was a really nice gesture and we here at Diehard Gamefan appreciate it.
Eric Mylonas
Also known as ECM, Eric was an editor and writer for the old DHGF, and currently works for Prima Games Publishing.
George Ngo
Also known as Eggo, George currently works for Activision.
Known best by his handle Shidoshi, Eric can still be found on multiple message boards and forums.
Tyrone Rodriguez
Tyrone is currently making a living as a freelancer in Orange Country, CA. If we can get a web link to him, we'll add it!
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew lives in LA. That's about all we know.
David was the executive producer and creative director at the old DHGF and he currently works for a not-for-profit medical cannabis corporation as their Communications Director out in New Mexico.
If you know where any of the other old Gamefan staff currently hangs out or what they are up to, let us know and we'll add a link under this section.
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E. Sullivan
Nick Des Barres (aka Nick Rox, one of my favourite GameFan editors) also works for Play magazine along with Dave Halverson.
TheFreak
There is also a Tyrone Rodriguez working on the Cave Story Wii port as well as Night Game, though I'm unsure if he is the same guy.
Jennifer Cockburn
Andrew (my husband) is currently working for Sony.
Joel Anderson
As a fan of the original magazine, I will spread word of your site to my favorite gaming messageboards. If Dave endorses it, that's good enough for me.
Mariangela Sanabria
Eric Mylonas died yesterday, January 13th in his home in New England, He will be greatly missed.
Jaeman
Was just googling Eric to see what he was up to and found this. Do you have any more information?
Yes I have any and all information. I am sorry not to get back sooner. I personally invite you and all his fans to a Requiem Mass in his honor. https://www.facebook.com/events/438782763203701/ His obituary will run in this Sunday's Nationwide edition of the New York Times. Please share the information and please attend if you can make the trip. I will be happy to speak with everyone. Eric was very private, but he was also very loyal. God bless all of you!
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Sol Bamba: Middlesbrough sign veteran defender after cancer all-clear
Sol Bamba: Cardiff defender wants to play on to thank fans after cancer
Veteran centre-back Sol Bamba has joined Middlesbrough on a one-year deal in a player-coach role, marking his return after treatment for cancer.
The 36-year-old worked under Neil Warnock at Cardiff City, where he won promotion to the Premier League, and is reunited with his old boss at Boro.
Bamba has played 383 matches for eight clubs, including six games last season before his time out for chemotherapy.
"He's a great lad to have around," Warnock told the club website.
"When we were away in Cornwall he was at Rockliffe and helped with the U23s and U18s, and everyone was really impressed with him.
"I have to be honest, I didn't expect him to look as sharp as he has done after everything he's been through, but he's done remarkably well.
"At the moment the priority for him is to concentrate on his fitness and being in the squad, but we want him to be involved with the U23s as well. I feel he's just the type of person we need to be involved with that age group.
"He has bags of experience and he will be a real asset for us both on and off the pitch. I'm delighted to have him on board."
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Hugh Freeze at SEC Media Days: 'Whatever we did wrong, we should be held accountable'
A well-prepared Freeze accomplished his only goal in Hoover on Thursday: avoid making matters worse.
By Jeff Gray@Jeff_GraySBN Jul 14, 2016, 12:57pm EDT
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Most of the college football world has made up its mind about the alleged cheating going on in Oxford, and a few well-rehearsed talking points from the head coach wasn't going to change that. Indeed, Hugh Freeze had no way of improving his program's image in the eyes of a judgmental public -- but give him credit for not making things worse.
Dan Mullen's bumbling, tone-deaf defense of the Jeffery Simmons decisions on Tuesday underscored the reality that saying the wrong thing can certainly inflame a negative PR story, and Ole Miss' public handling of the NCAA drama has had its own mis-steps: Freeze issuing his infamous come-at-me-bro Twitter challenge, folks within the athletic program repeatedly leaking info that understated the allegations, Laremy Tunsil slipping up during his post-draft interview.
On Thursday in Hooever, however, a composed, assertive and well-prepared Freeze avoided any potential pitfalls during press conference and various interviews.
There's no update on the NCAA investigation.
Freeze avoided getting into details, falling back on the line that investigation is running through Ross Bjork and the athletic department.
"I have zero update," Freeze told reporters prior to his press conference, per The Clarion-Ledger. "Obviously, our response is out in the allegations and it stands on its own. Obviously, we can't discuss any ongoing matters. That's one of the frustrating things, but out of respect for the process, you can't do it.
"I... did not get any concrete answer. It's moving, I think. I'm not involved with the fact-finding at this point. I think it is moving, but it would be a total guess, and that's exactly what Ross told me yesterday, it would be a total guess if we started talking about timeline."
He doesn't forsee making any changes on his staff.
There have been plenty of rumors that recruiting coordinator Barney Farrar and assistant AD John Miller -- both of whom were implicated in the leaked Tunsil texts -- would be canned. Freeze said he had no such moves planned (a good sign that the NCAA's followup investigation hasn't turned up hard proof of the pay-for-play allegations) but did say he was prepared to do so if necessary.
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But I will if need be. My guys know the expectations, and I'm certainly far from perfect, as many of you know. But one area that is not a temptation for me is to cut corners to try to have success. That doesn't interest me at all, and my staff knows that. I'm not talking about you don't make a mistake, and that's the neat thing that we'll have when we get to go in front of the Committee of Infractions. We'll get to discuss some of the things that led to that (mistake) that are not quite as cut and dry as it might be in some people's eyes. But it's still a mistake that we have to be accountable for.
Freeze said he hopes Laremy Tunsil is cooperating with the NCAA, which is comically untrue.
"I can't get into that case, but it's probably not very typical for a kid that has left a program to continue to cooperate, and I'm hopeful that that's the case here," he said when asked whether Tunsil was talking to investigators. "I think that would speak volumes if that was the case."
LOL nope you are not hopeful of that, Hugh. I'd imagine by now Tunsil's voicemail sounds something like "Hey NCAA GTFO I'm rich now."
He's trying to keep the investigation from becoming a distraction.
Tunnel vision. What keeps me up at night right now is Florida State's defensive line. It really is. You can control what you can control. Like I've said from the beginning, the time and place for us to be held accountable is coming. I don't know when. For us to share our view of things is coming. But the only thing I can control is when that happens, so in the meantime, when I look those kids in the eyes — the ones who have nothing to do with all this stuff that have worked tirelessly to become a relevant program in this country — that is what motivates me. They are the ones that are important — the relationship with them and what they become as a player and a man and a student-athlete. Those are the things that are really important. Whatever we did wrong, we should be held accountable if there are things. We should, and we will be. But the time for that to be decided is not in articles or me trying to have another interview. Some of you want me to talk, some of you don't. I can't win either way, and I'm not trying to argue the case. But I am arguing that our core values are important to us. They'll never stop being important to us. Those kids keep me focused.
The media in the main room really didn't lay on much heat.
Only half of the 12 questions asked of Freeze during his press conference were related to the NCAA or Tunsil, and with the exception of an expected sizzler from one Dan Wolken (which Freeze handled well), none of them were particularly tough.
The highlight was Chuck Rounsaville from the Ole Miss Spirit, decked out in a Rebel hat and a powder blue PFG shirt, standing to toss some softball or another. Twitter got a kick out of that.
Guy in Ole Miss hat and an Ole Miss shirt asking a question to Hugh Freeze. Love you, SEC Media Days.
— Zach Barnett (@zach_barnett) July 14, 2016
*reporter in Colonel Reb mascot costume stands up*
"Coach Freeze, why is Ole Miss so great?"
"Wow, that's a great question."
— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) July 14, 2016
He regrets making that dumb come-at-me-bro Twitter challenge two years ago.
"Sometimes you make decisions that probably aren't the sharpest. I said that with sincerity, but... I regret doing it, absolutely."
Important Ole Miss sports dates for the spring and summer We're here to help you organize your calendar alerts for the next 5 months.
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In the physical sciences, wildernesses offer geologists the rare opportunity to study ecosystem processes with only minimal human alterations.
Today, it's not only animal and plant species that we're losing at an alarming rate. We're losing wilderness; everywhere, all over the world.
In fact, according to a study published in 2016 that compares the extent of Earth's wilderness areas in 1993 to those in 2009, there has been an almost 30 percent loss of wilderness in South America and a 10 percent loss globally.
Why does that matter? Because when we lose forests, grasslands, savannas and other natural areas, we lose a tremendous number of opportunities for scientific research—by biologists, ecologists, geologists, medical researchers and wildlife biologists, among others—and for the betterment of our lives that results from such endeavors. And not only do wilderness areas provide habitat for endangered species, they supply us with ecosystem services, such as clean water and natural flood control. They support agricultural and forest production, buffer and regulate local climates, and support many of the world's most economically and politically marginalized human communities.
So, when we suffer a loss of wilderness, we lose scientific advances, too.
By storing carbon dioxide and buffering local climates, forest wildernesses, especially, can be the most effective way to mitigate climate change.
According to the U.S. Forest Service, every day an estimated 6,000 acres of natural spaces are converted to other uses. This shrinking wilderness is due, in part, to human activity such as agriculture, mining, illegal logging, and oil and gas extraction.
In the 2016 study, researchers defined wilderness as "biologically and ecologically intact landscapes that are mostly free of human disturbance"—although they did not exclude people, especially indigenous people. The report concluded that since 1993, a cumulative wilderness area twice the size of Alaska and half the size of the Amazon has been stripped of the animals and plants that depend on it and has been destroyed.
The Amazon and Central Africa have been the hardest hit. Of the roughly 1.27 million square miles of wilderness lost since 1993, the Amazon accounted for nearly a third, while a further 14 percent was lost from Central Africa. In total, only 11.6 million square miles of wilderness are left, which equates to just about 20 percent (less than a quarter) of the Earth's total land mass. If this trend continues, there could be no globally significant wilderness areas left in less than a century.
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One reason for this downswing, the report states, is that governments and conservation organizations often focus their protection efforts on habitat that is severely threatened or degraded. Then, left unguarded, remote land becomes vulnerable.
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A case in point is the Kalmiopsis Wilderness in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon. The 2002 Biscuit Fire was one of the biggest conflagrations in recent American history, burning millions of acres. While nonwilderness forestlands that have been scorched are often salvage-logged, the burnt woods and shrublands of the Kalmiopsis served as the subject for ongoing investigations into natural postfire succession.
In the physical sciences, wildernesses offer the rare opportunity for geologists and landscape ecologists to study broad, landscape-level ecosystem processes with only minimal human alterations. Among them are seasonal wildlife migrations and the complicated interactions of climate and biophysical systems. Outside wildernesses, human impacts on ecosystems are often too pervasive and complicated.
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In the social sciences, wildernesses offer a rich potential for studying human behaviors, mindset and perspectives, including how individuals relate to one another, how they react to stress and challenge, and how natural environments affect conduct. For decades, sociological studies have looked into the value of wilderness as a therapeutic environment.
Climate scientists use wilderness areas to understand potential threats to the planet's health and the species that live on it. For example, one 2018 study found that 46 percent of boreal toads at lower elevations with higher temperatures were infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a lethal fungus, while only 10 percent of toads at higher, colder elevations were infected. It's believed that warming temperatures associated with global climate change may facilitate the spread of the fungus into previously unaffected areas.
And by storing carbon dioxide and buffering local climates, wilderness areas, particularly forests, can be by far and away the most effective way to deal with climate change.
The majority of the wilderness left in North America, such as in Glacier National Park, encompasses large, uninterrupted areas.
The 2016 study did offer some bright spots of hope. The majority of the wilderness left on Earth (82.3 percent, or 9.72 million square miles)—located in Australia, North America, North Africa and North Asia—is still composed of vast, uninterrupted areas of at least 3,861 square miles. Not only are areas smaller than that harder to maintain, getting an accurate reading on the ecological communities present in them is almost impossible.
The researchers also cite two examples of conservation efforts that should make a real difference in the future. They mention Brazil's Amazon Region Protected Areas Program, which aims to establish new protected areas and sustainable natural resource management reserves, that is expected to carry over to Peru and Colombia.
The Canadian Boreal Forest Conservation Framework has also been singled out as one of the best wilderness conservation programs in the world, with the goal of safeguarding at least 50 percent of the boreal forest in a network of large interconnected protected areas and sustainable communities.
Losing our last wilderness areas means losing not only natural places for healing the spirit but squandering chances for scientific advancements.
And, I was happy to learn about the Forests on the Edge project from the U.S. Forest Service, which helps conserve private forests and lands around national forests and grasslands, and identifies areas across the country where forest benefits may be affected by factors such as development, fire and insect pests.
I hope that, ultimately, these positive measures will prove to be enough. We cannot restore wilderness. Once it is gone, the ecological processes that underpin such ecosystems are gone, too, and they never really come back to their previous state. The only option is to proactively protect the wilderness that is left.
Because when we lose wilderness areas, we not only lose natural places of healing and respite, but centers for scientific endeavors.
Shocking article, Candice…with real eye-opening info….we lose 6,000 acres of natural spaces a day? Truly unbelievable.
A devastating statistic. Thanks for sharing, Candice.


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It is a pleasure to be in conversation with you about "The Prize." ?As you well know, I edited your novel "The Green Hour" and also your book of stories, "Self Portraits." ?Both these awe-inspiring works also take art and love as subjects. ?I couldn't have written "The Prize" at an earlier time in my life. ?It represents years of my thinking about art, betrayal, marriage, desire, love and integrity, and the way in which the past shapes the present. ?It is also about how professional lives shape and affect personal life. The two are intertwined. I grew up in a suburb in Cleveland, Ohio, in a modest home. Art was always at the periphery of my life. ?My first visit as a child to the Cleveland Museum of Art was transformative. ?I loved getting lost in the paintings and thinking about history and the way in which paintings can be a conduit. When I first moved to New York City 30-some years ago I was a young poet straight out of the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop. It was a shark tank and I quickly learned that there were two kinds of writers, those who?were writing out of need and necessity and those who had grander ideas about the role art should play in their own lives. When I look back I think the seeds of this novel were germinating then. Since then I've lived and worked in New York City at the crossroad of where art and commerce converge. It's palpable and continually fascinating. And you're right, the novel, while also being set in the art world, is at its heart about a long marriage and the way in which an outsider threatens the marriage. I've juxtaposed this more conventional marriage with a marriage between two ambitious artists. I've been fascinated by "power couples." We see them everywhere, in every field whether the art world, publishing, politics. I wanted to look at these very different marriages side by side, the rewards and the fallouts. ?You know, a novel is like a painting. It gets more complicated with each layer.
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Who's better, Michigan Wolverines or Ohio State Buckeyes?
Since the matchup was moved to the last Saturday of the Big Ten schedule 68 years ago, "The Game" has had an impact on the Big Ten championship 41 times. The conference's outright champion will be determined in today's game for the 19th time.
Michigan has a 56-37-6 edge in the series, which has been incredibly even if you take away the Wolverines' 13-0-2 start and the John Cooper era. Ohio State fired Cooper, who was 2-10-1 against Michigan, after the 2000 season.
The Ohio State-Michigan game was voted the greatest rivalry -- in any sport -- of the 20th century in a fan poll conducted by ESPN.com.
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Binyavanga Wainaina 19 Nov 2007 23:59
In the fevered talk these days about religion and secularism, there is little room for the thing Africans like me most fear: religious or cultural rationalism.
Outside of tiny labs the general ignorance about science, even among people with good educations, is very high. I remember a famous Afrikaans rugby player, a medical doctor, saying in the 1990s that science had determined that black people could not swim—something to do with muscles and heavy bones.
I once overheard a conversation in a coffee shop.
A young African-American woman in a gypsy peasant skirt was talking loudly to a Kenyan man twice her age. It was quickly apparent that she was his boss; it was also clear that he had been asking for either some sort of pay raise or leave. She was angry and a kind of stillness hung over the whole place as we all swung one ear in her direction. The man sat still in his immaculate suit, his face completely blank. He said nothing. Only nodding occasionally. At times you could see his eyes weighing things, kind of asking himself: "Does this tirade mean she is about to capitulate and give me the raise?"
She spoke about somebody called Vanessa, and about herself, and the sacrifices she had made leaving good jobs to come and help in Africa. Sometimes I am in there until midnight! Because I care!
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Soon enough she tripped: "We are here to help your people, and all you are interested in is money."
After this she went quiet. She had gone too far. He remained silent. His eyes gleamed for a moment: her transgression was a victory for him. Without saying a word, he had moved from being a greedy African patriarch to a victim of her bigotry. Her voice lowered, and she leaned forward, arms flapping about in retreat.
Poor woman. It was clear she felt that he was "local staff"—and therefore some kind of noble nongovernmental ambassador for the suffering subalterns she cared for.
If you cruised the blogs of the newspapers with the most liberal and educated readerships in the United States and United Kingdom after James Watson announced that black Africans were doomed forever by their genes, a particular idea kept cropping up, especially in blogs in The Guardian.
Somebody would say, "Why is it okay to say blacks are genetically superior on the race track and not okay to talk about their IQs?" Now, the people saying those things are well read people, who know their Kafkas, their Frappuccinos and their Foucault.
In not a single one of all the blogs I cruised was the point made that Africa has more human genetic diversity than the rest of the world put together. In fact, the 500Â 000 Turkana in the north of Kenya are thought by some to have more genetic diversity than Europe and Asia combined. There is simply no easy case for building any common black African platform of genetic similarities that can answer why black African people are this way or that way. You start to stumble when you cross just one village market.
But—and here is where truthiness in science is more dangerous than all the marauding Osamas (remember Hitler)—the fact that we now have the human genome is only the beginning of a very long search. We still know next to nothing about our brains and how they work; we know very little about who we are and where we came from. People are still arguing about what the human mind is.
Our strong desire to select and highlight things from the slenderest of evidence and to manufacture grand truths from these strands has come to polarise the world in many complicated ways of late. Everybody is an expert. Scientists are too far away from us to clarify things and, when they do, they sound like they are saying nothing. So there is now a language of truthism.
I wonder if having a rational world, without religion, is sort of like having an America without a challenging superpower. We know from history that good scientists are quite capable of building edifices of absolute truths based on their visceral prejudices. If there is anything the 20th century has produced, it is enough evidence to justify just about anything with some scientific authority. We are, however smart, still animals.
In a world where scientists are competing for funding and attention, we often know a lot more about what they say they know, and less about what they do not know. I am all for science, but only in a world filled with irrationals and creatives; for Tibetan Methodists and Gikuyu Hippies, for cappuccino Mullahs and priests who beat themselves on the back, for Buddhist geneticists, for a white witch with a cat and sangoma beads in Woodstock. All I know for sure is that we do better when we are kept in check by competing differences.
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There's been a national push in recent years to erase the names of gunmen who commit mass shootings from the public sphere. But now a group of Columbine High School students are leading an effort to spread photos of their horrific acts to influence the conversation around gun control.
The #MyLastShot campaign, launched this week, asks school students to sign a pledge asking that if they are ever killed in a mass shooting, the graphic photo of their death be shared across social media.
Here's how it works: Students can log onto the campaign's website and either order or print out a small sticker that says "In the event that I die from gun violence please publicize the photo of my death." The idea is that the request would be tacked onto an ID or some other personal item after the student has a conversation with his or her parents, or someone else close to them, about their intentions.
The idea isn't necessarily for the images to be shared by the media, Tyner said, which is where the campaign has a big split from the "no notoriety" effort to halt reporters from repeating assailants' names. Her thought is they would be circulated on social media.
The students' campaign comes as more and more attention is being thrust upon the physiological impacts of gun violence in America.
After recent mass shootings in Texas, at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, and in Parkland, Florida, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, doctors began speaking to reporters about the impacts the weapons used in those attacks had on victims' bodies.
"As a doctor, I feel I have a duty to inform the public of what I have learned as I have observed these wounds and cared for these patients," Dr. Heather Sher, a radiologist in one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation, wrote in The Atlantic after treating victims in the Florida shooting. The gunman used an assault-style rifle, which she said caused injuries more severe than she had ever seen.
Dr. Lillian Liao, a surgeon at the University Hospital and UT Health San Antonio in Texas, recounted to Vice News about receiving victims from the Sutherland Springs shooting last year, which left 27 dead. She showed graphic X-rays of bullets' impact on children's bodies.
"We call it gaping holes," she told the show.
Colorado Rep. Tom Sullivan, a Centennial Democrat whose son, Alex, was killed in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, has been on a similar mission. He told Denver7 he has showed people crime scene photos from the massacre to help them better understand gun violence.
The students' campaign has won backing from state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat, who voiced support for their efforts in a recent speech at the Colorado Capitol.
Tyner said she worked on the project, in part, with students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where last year 17 students and teachers were killed in a mass shooting. In the push by those students for more gun control last year, they came to Colorado and visited Columbine High School in Littleton.
"I've had some of my friends from Parkland help," Tyner said.
The entire project — from the website to the promotional materials — was developed by students, she said. It's been about a year in the making.
The 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre that left 12 students, a teacher and the two gunmen dead, is April 20.


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Antonio Conte has departed Inter by mutual consent less than a month on from clinching the Serie A title, the club have confirmed. (More Tennis News)
The 51-year-old guided the Nerazzurri to their first Scudetto since 2010 in just his second season in charge.
Conte, who also led Inter to the Europa League final in his first season at the San Siro helm, had another year to run on his contract.
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Conte did not speak to the media during the closing weeks of the Serie A season, but assistant Cristian Stellini stated last week that the former Chelsea and Juventus boss needed a high-level project the club must match.
Inter lost just three league games in 2020-21 and finished with 91 points – 12 more than runners-up Milan – though they exited the Champions League at the group stage and were knocked out of the Coppa Italia by Juventus in the semi-finals.
Conte also won three league titles during his time in charge of Juventus and is the only Serie A manager to have gained 90-plus points with two different sides in the three-points-per win era.
He departs Inter having won 52, drawn 17 and lost seven of his 76 Serie A matches.
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Advising Syllabus: We've created one and so can you!
Kansas State University is in its pilot phase of using its newly-created academic advising syllabus. During this session, we will discuss how we did it (history, development, and implementation), share our syllabus with you, and allow time for you or a group from your institution to start brainstorming a syllabus for your campus.
Learn how KU used internal data to identify stop outs close to graduation, and worked with those students to complete their KU degree, primarily with online options. We will focus on working with departmental partners to redesign curriculum to meet the needs of stop out students, and advising this adult learner population to keep them engaged through to degree completion.
With an institutional charge to reach 90% retention and 70% graduation by the year 2022, the University of Kansas began utilizing EAB retention software in Fall 2013. Using this tool as a piece of their advising arsenal, advisors have had a greater amount of data at their fingertips. They can use this data to improve advising and student retention to graduation by creating target advising campaigns to specific student populations. EAB is part of an alphabet soup of software options aimed at utilizing data to maximize efficiency and customize advising—but what does that look like day to day? Session participants will learn about EAB software, and gain ideas about how technology can be used to inform advising.
Arthur Chickering, though known as an amazing contributor to student development research, was not the ideal student. In this session we will look at the life of Art Chickering and begin to recognize the struggles he went through that are very similar to ones we come up against in our daily meetings with students. Arthur Chickering is well known for his theory, The Seven Vectors. The vectors include: Developing competence, Moving through Autonomy toward Interdependence, Developing Mature Interpersonal relationships, Establishing Identity, Developing Purpose, and Developing Integrity. The seven vectors can be used as a filter when engaging student development. Let's look at how to apply these vectors to our advising sessions.
There are close to one million military veterans on America's college campuses. But what do we know about this sizeable population? And, perhaps as importantly, what are we doing as higher education professionals to serve them? Come to this session to learn how one institution – Washburn University – has adopted a full-throated range of success initiatives aimed at student veterans. Two higher education professionals and one student veteran will explain how Washburn University is now better responding to the needs of student veterans and working to ensure their success in the future.


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Accounting for bank and book overdrafts and their cash flow presentation
Most businesses have bank accounts. A number of situations can take place in relation to such accounts. For example, a company may have written checks in excess of a bank balance. Or a company may have a zero balance account and any checks that clear the company's bank account are financed by a revolving line of credit. How should these transactions be recorded on the balance sheet? What about the statement of cash flows? In this article you will find answers to these questions.
1. Description of bank and book overdrafts
Two situations we are going to discuss are bank overdrafts and book overdrafts.
Bank overdraft takes place when a company doesn't have sufficient funds in a bank account to cover presented checks, but the bank honors them anyway. This creates a short-term liability because the company will have to settle the obligation with the bank eventually.
Book overdraft is a situation when a company issues checks in excess of what the bank balance is, but those checks have not been presented for clearance to the bank yet. Thus, this is an overdraft on the company's books.
2. Balance sheet presentation of bank and book overdrafts
Bank overdrafts represent a company's short-term liability to a bank and thus should be recorded as a current liability on the balance sheet. Bank overdrafts are not common in the USA. For example, if a company has a zero balance in its bank account, checks are presented for an amount of $10,000 and the bank honors the checks, the bank overdraft is $10,000. This is the amount that will be presented as a short-term liability.
Book overdrafts result in negative cash balances on the books (accounting records) of a company. Because book overdrafts simply represent checks issued in excess of funds in the bank, they should be re-instated as accounts payable or a separate current liability (e.g., called Checks Issued in Excess of Funds Available). If a company has funds available in the bank account against which checks have been written and there is a legal right of offset (i.e., the funds can be used to honor checks), but the funds are not sufficient to cover all checks issued, then only the net amount (e.g., outstanding checks less funds available) can be reclassified into accounts payable. For example, if a company had $24,000 in outstanding checks and zero cash in the bank account, then the $24,000 will create a book overdraft – the cash balance in accounting records will have a negative (credit) balance of $24,000. The company should move the $24,000 to accounts payable via a journal entry. On the other hand, if the company has $4,000 in the bank account and $24,000 in outstanding checks, the company can move $20,000 (i.e., $24,000 - $4,000) to accounts payable.
3. Cash flow presentation of bank and book overdrafts
Most companies prepare statements of cash flows using the indirect method, so this is the method we will review here. A cash flow statement has three categories of cash flows: cash from operating activities, cash from investing activities, and cash from financing activities. For more information about these categories, refer to the tutorial Introduction to Accounting. In a simplified form, when a cash flow statement is prepared using the indirect method, balance sheet balances between two periods (i.e., current year end and prior year end) are compared to determine changes in them. These changes are then reported in one of the three cash flow categories mentioned above.
Bank overdrafts represent short-term loans provided by a bank to a company. Because this is a form of financing, changes in the bank overdraft balances between two periods are reported as cash flows from financing activities.
Book overdrafts, in substance, represent re-instated accounts payable. Thus, changes in book overdrafts between two periods are normally reported as cash flows from operating activities.
Sometimes, however, book overdrafts represent cash flows from financing activities. For example, a company has a zero balance in a bank account and when its checks are presented to the bank, the bank honors them and draws necessary funds from a linked revolving credit facility of the company. In this case, the book overdraft results in an increase in the company's short-term obligation to the bank which qualifies the changes in the overdraft balances between two periods as cash flows from financing activities. Thus, careful consideration of facts should be performed to properly categorize book overdrafts.


We invite you to watch Weizmann in Focus, a new video series featuring American Committee CEO Dave Doneson. In this inaugural episode, Dave introduces one of the Weizmann Institute's newest initiatives: the Artificial Intelligence Center for Scientific Exploration. He then explains how Prof. Yaron Lipman's recent AI breakthrough is improving health care for heart patients.
Prof. Doron Lancet, Head of the Crown Human Genome Center, and Dr. Daniela Amann-Zalcenstein, Head of High-Throughput Sequencing, explain the importance of next-generation high-throughput sequencing technology for genetics research, with thanks for support from Chicago's Crown family and the American Committee's New York Region.


Royal babies on the brain. Now that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced their engagement, surely starting a family is in the cards for them.
In fact, the royal, 33, revealed that having kids might happen sooner than you expect.
It sounds like Markle is that person. She and Harry, who dated for a year and a half before their engagement, are set to wed in spring 2018.