Your Questions About Green Living

Does this list of colleges fit in with my stats alright?

Alabama
Tennessee
South Carolina

UNC-Chapel Hill
UCLA
Davidson
Georgetown
Pomona
Occidental
Rice
UVA
Middlebury

Duke
Vanderbilt
Yale
Brown
Penn
Stanford
Chicago
Harvard

ACT
E-34
M-26
R-34
S-26

GPA
5.0 W
3.8 UW

Classes
2009-2010

Semester I-
Honors English I (B)
French I (A)
Contemporary Issues (A)
Honors Ancient History (A)

Semester II-
Honors Biology (A)
Honors Algebra I (A)
French II (A)
Health/PE (A)

2010-2011

Semester I-
Honors Geometry (B)
AP Art History (A)
French III (A)
Honors English II (A)

Semester II-
AP US History (A)
AP Chemistry (B)
Honors Algebra II (A)
French IV (A)

2011-2012 Schedule

Semester I-
AP Environmental Science
AP English Language
AP World History
Spanish I

Semester II-
AP English Literature
AP Statistics
AP US Gov’t and Politics/Macroeconomics
Spanish II

Extracurricular Activities (I went ahead and listed them in order of most important)
1. 10-month (paid) internship with a local production company (2010-2011)
2. Fencing, saber and foil (2009 to present)
3. Children’s book reviewer and guest blogger (2009 to present)
4. Duke TIP Center for Summer Studies (2008 to present)
5. Member and Volunteer for HoLa Hora Latina (2010 to present…and no, I’m not hispanic 😉
6. Statistical Coordinator of the Chess Club (2009-2010)
7. Volunteer for Children’s Festival of Reading (2009)
8. Member of the Math Club (2010 to present)

I’m not sure what else to add except that I expect to have pretty good recommendations (1 extra from my teacher at Duke) and that I’m adding a book review as a writing sample.

I’m also graduating a year early (hence the strange transcripts) and I started taking my classes online after 9th grade (I don’t know if this hurts or not?)

Anyway, please let me know if you think these schools are like WAY out of my reach or if I need some more mid-range schools (I’m open to suggestions) or anything else you can think of. I’m taking the SAT in May, so I don’t know if my score for that will be better or not (hoping for around a 2100 but who knows) I’m also taking the US History, Math 1b, and English Literature subject tests in June and of course the AP exams in May but I have no idea what my score will be like.

Thanks for the help! Sorry if this kind of rambling/messy. I’d also love it if you could suggest some schools for me to look at.

please help with this accounting problem on bonds?!?

Environmental Concerns Limited (ECL) issued $500,000 of 10 year, 6.5% bonds payable at par value on May 1, 2010. The bonds pay interest each April 30 and October 31, and the company ends its accounting year on December 31.

Requirements:
1. Fill in the blanks:
a. ECL’s bonds are priced at _____________.
b.When ECL’s issued its bonds, the market interest rate was _____________.
2. Journalize for ECL:
a. Issuance of the bonds on May 1, 2010.
b.Payment of interest on October 31, 2010.
c.Accrual of interest at December 31, 2010.
d.Payment of interest on April 30, 2011.

accounting help – bonds?

Environmental Concerns Limited (ECL) issued $500,000 of 10 year, 6.5% bonds payable at par value on May 1, 2010. The bonds pay interest each April 30 and October 31, and the company ends its accounting year on December 31.

Requirements:
1. Fill in the blanks:
a. ECL’s bonds are priced at _____________.
b.When ECL’s issued its bonds, the market interest rate was _____________.
2. Journalize for ECL:
a. Issuance of the bonds on May 1, 2010.
b.Payment of interest on October 31, 2010.
c.Accrual of interest at December 31, 2010.
d.Payment of interest on April 30, 2011.

Where’s the openness, Mr. President?

The day after his inauguration, President Obama promised a new era of “openness in government.”

But the reality has not matched the president’s rhetoric. We, presidents of two of the nation’s largest journalism organizations, and many of our thousands of members, have found little openness since Obama took office. If anything, the administration has gone in the opposite direction: imposing restrictions on reporters’ newsgathering that exceed even the constraints put in place by President George W. Bush.

Democrats criticized the Bush administration for not making decisions based on the best science. But the Obama administration now muzzles scientists and experts within federal agencies. When they are allowed to talk about important public-health issues, a chaperone often supervises every word. These constraints keep the public from learning whether decisions are science-based or politically motivated.

Consider these few examples:

• After last year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists and environmental groups accused the administration of hiding or underreporting the extent of the spill and its impact on the environment. Federal officials frequently deferred to BP in providing data on issues from cleanup workers’ health problems to oil-spill flow estimates. The government also placed restrictions on airspace for weeks, keeping media photographers from seeing the scope of the spill.

• The Food and Drug Administration placed an unusual restriction on reporters when announcing changes to its medical-device approval process this year. In exchange for providing the information to the media ahead of time, reporters were told they could not seek insights from outside experts before the formal announcement. This ensured the first version of the story contained only the FDA’s official position.

• In more than a third of requests made for public records last year, the administration failed to provide any information at all, the Associated Press reported. Despite an increase in requests, the Obama administration is releasing fewer records under the Freedom of Information Act than the Bush administration did.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/03/2145884/wheres-the-openness-mr-president.html#ixzz1ITFATgKu

Isnt it safe to say that Gingrich supporters are big government NeoCons like him?

http://thenewamerican.com/reviews/books/6323-newts-contract-with-the-earth-offers-pseudo-science-big-government-and-earth-worship

Anyone who seriously believes that Gingrich is a small-government conservative in the mold of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, should look at the new Contract with America-style manifesto that Newt has proposed as the basis for Republicans to campaign on. Gingrich would expand No Child Left Behind to create national teacher competency standards, and he does not actually call for any specific spending cuts. What he proposes is budget legislation that would lead to a balanced budget in seven years. Perhaps balancing the budget takes so long because he wants to spend so much more on a national energy policy. Gingrich proposes an array of subsidies to every conceivable energy interest group and project from ethanol to hydrogen-powered cars. Of course, there’s nothing in Gingrich’s manifesto about reforming entitlement programs. That’s hardly surprising; Gingrich supported the Medicare prescription drug benefits.

It is within this context of fiscal liberality that Gingrich’s environmentalism finds a logical dwelling place, and many believe that it is these beliefs which resulted in his dismal, single-digit performance in the 2010 and 2011 CPAC straw polls.

Like his big-government manifesto, his treatise on environmentalism is merely another declaration of unconstitutional policies and ineffective, wasteful mechanisms to implement such proposals, including the continuation of unconstitutional federal agencies such as the Department of Energy, the strengthening of the United Nations and other global government enforcement bodies, and even the suggestion that the military ought to be used to enforce environmental policies, a picture Gingrich vividly paints in his book.

A Contract with the Earth differs from other stereotypically-liberal environmentalist treatises only in that it does offer some challenges to the left on the issues of regulation, global warming, and free enterprise. Gingrich does express some disdain for what he calls liberals’ failed reliance on legislation and litigation in environmental protection; he argues in favor of taxpayer-funded rewards to business, rather than government punitive regulations, as means by which an environmentalist agenda can be implemented. He seems to support measures such as tax incentives, rather than policies which curtail free enterprise, such as binding emissions limits. He calls for public-private partnerships in advancing the environmentalist agenda, and does not call for reducing the size of government, instead advocating making big government somehow more “efficient”: “…[O]ur government, at all levels, must be modernized to successfully partner, let alone compete, with the private sector,” (p.196).