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Vidyadhar Shastri (1901–1983) was a Sanskrit poet and a scholar of Sanskrit and Hindi. He was born in the city of Churu in Rajasthan (India), received the degree of Shastri  from Punjab University (Lahore), a Master of Arts in Sanskrit from the University of Agra and resided at the city of Bikaner during the bulk of his scholarly and academic endeavours.  In 1962, he was conferred the honour of Vidyavachaspati by the President of India.

Academic appointments
In 1928 Vidyadhar Shastri was appointed lecturer in Sanskrit at Dungar College in Bikaner and became Head, Department of Sanskrit in 1936. After retiring from Dungar College in 1956, Vidyadhar Shastri served as Head, Department of Sanskrit at Hiralal Barahsaini College, Aligarh.  In 1958, he established the Hindi Vishwa Bharati (Bikaner) for the promotion of Sanskrit, Hindi and Rajasthani literature. He served as lifetime head of this institute.

Teaching
In addition to being the Guru for the royal household of Bikaner, Shastri mentored and inspired many students. Prominent names of these students include Swami Narottamdas, Brahmanand Sharma, Kashiram Sharma, Krishna Mehta and Rawat Saraswat.

Authorship
The Sanskrit Mahakavya (epic poem), Haranamamritam may appear at first glance to be a biography of his grandfather Harnamdutt Shastri, however, the primary purpose is to inspire its readers to devote themselves to improve the world.  In the other Mahakavya, Vishwamanaviyam the poet addresses the impact of modernisation and the 1969 moon landing.  Vikramabhinnadanam illustrates the cultural traditions during the rule of Chandragupta Vikramaditya and memorialises Shankracharya, Rani Padmvati, Rana Pratap, Guru Govind Singh, Shivaji and others continuing these traditions.  The Vaichitraya Lahari is an entreaty to the populace to a reflect on their unrestrained behaviour.  Written in a humorous vein, the Matta Lahari's protagonist is a drunkard (matta in Sanskrit),who invites everyone to free themselves from the bonds of society and join him in the tavern.  Anand Mandakini is complementary to the Matta Lahari; here the drunkard's companion exhorts him to garner some accomplishments as the time spent drinking will be irretrievable. Himadri Mahatyam was written in the year of the centennial celebration of Madan Mohan Malaviya and the Indo-China war of 1962; in the poem Madan Mohan Malaviya asks all Indians to defend the Himalaya. Shakuntala Vigyanam is a commentary on the Kalidasa play Abhigyana Shakuntalam, in which the poet illustrates that the spirit of love permeates the work.

The Shiva pushpanjali is the poet's first published work (1915); it does not used a fixed metre and also uses the style of ghazals and qawwalis. Surya Stavana was published at the same time as Shiva pushpanjali. In Lila Lahari the poet acquaints the reader with all the branches of Indian philosophy with Advaita being the fundamental form.

Purnanandanam
The Sanskrit play Purnanandanam is based on a popular folk tale; the protagonist Purnamala is the son born to the King of Sialkot but due to adverse astrological signs has to be sent away for sixteen years.  During this interval the king takes another (younger) wife named Naveena. When Purnamala returns Naveena is attracted to him; however, Purnamala rejects her advances. Miffed, Naveena causes the King to sentence Purnamala to death on charges of attempted rape. Purnamala is taken to the forest to be beheaded, instead the executioners throw him down a well. Guru Gorakhnath and his followers rescue Purnamala from the well. After receiving education from the Guru, Purnamala is instructed to return to Sialkot. On Purnamala's return to the palace, the now aged King breaks down in tears and hugs Purnamala. At the beseeching of Purnamala's mother, Guru Gorakhnath manifests at the palace. He instructs Purnamala to stay in Sialkot until Naveena's son capable of taking the reins of power.

This play celebrates the superiority of leading a spiritual life over the pursuit of material wealth.

Awards and honours
Felicitated (with other Sanskrit scholars) by the President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad at the Vishwa Sanskrit Parishad, Varanasi.
Received the honour of Vidyavaschaspati  from Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan in 1962 at the golden anniversary celebration of the Akhil Bharatiya Sanskrit Sammelan.
Bestowed the honour of Manishi  by the Rajasthan Sahitya Academy, Udaipur.
Honored as a Sanskrit scholar by the President of India Shri V.V. Giri in 1972 at the silver anniversary celebration of India's independence.
Honored as Kavi Smarat by the Akhil Bharatiya Sanskrit Prachar Sabha
In 1980 received public felicitation at a ceremony under the auspices of the Bharatiya Vidya Mandir in Bikaner
Honored at the 1982 Harit Rishi  memorial felicitation by the Maharana Mewar foundation in recognition of outstanding service to development of culture

Bibliography

Sanskrit Mahakavya
Haranamamritam
Vishwamanaviyam

Sanskrit poems
Vikramabhinnadanam
Vaichitraya Lahari
Matta Lahari
Anand Mandakini
Himadri Mahatyam
Shakuntala Vigyanam
Alidurg Darshanam

Stavanakavya (Songs of praise)
Shiva pushpanjali
Surya Stavana
Lila Lahari

Plays in Sanskrit
Purnanandanam
Kalidainyam
Durbala Balam

Champu Kavya ( a Champu contains both poetry and prose)
Vikramabhyudayam

Collected works
Vidyadhar granthavali, introduction by Vishnudutt Sharma, Publisher : Rajasthan Sahitya Akadami, Udaipur 1977

Edited work
Krishnagitavali (poems about Krishna by Tulsidas), Editors: Narottamdas Swami and Vidyadhar Shastri, Published 1931

Source material
Sarasvat, Parmanand (1984) Sahityasrashta Shri Vidyadhar Shastri, Ganu Prakashan, Bikaner

External links
Sahityasrashta at Library of Congress
Haranamamritam at Library of Congress
Granthavali at Library of Congress
Krishnagitavali at Library of Congress

1901 births
1983 deaths
Date of birth missing
Date of death missing
People from Churu district
Place of death missing
Rajasthani people
Indian Sanskrit scholars
Sanskrit writers
University of the Punjab alumni
Poets from Rajasthan
20th-century Indian poets

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A healthy balanced wholefood lunch can be the difference between a child concentrating or feeling tired and sleepy in the afternoon at school. Let me help you with some nourishing, healthy, gluten and dairy free ideas for your children's lunch boxes. It doesn't matter if your child enjoys variety or the same thing every day, as long as it has some protein, vegetables, healthy fats and fruit. Make it a colourful lunch that's appealing to look at but has a variety of nutrients. Some prepping at the beginning of the week can make lunch making much easier. Your children may also be more likely to eat the food packed if they have been involved. When it comes to snacks for the lunchbox it's tough for parents to know what is best to buy. Commercially made packet treats are often the most highly processed and sugar-laden products available in the supermarket. Manufactures are clever with their marketing and packaging to entice us but the lunchbox shouldn't be filled with party food. I recommend that you always turn the packet over and check the ingredient list and ignore any claims on the front of the packet (see some healthy treats below and also check out my website).
Start the week with vegetables prepared in sticks, slices or grated, whatever way your children like them. Store in airtight containers in the fridge. Cook extra meat or chicken when roasting dinner. Make an avocado dip for dipping veggie sticks, coconut yoghurt and have different coloured fruit washed and ready to add.
Get your children involved in selecting their lunchbox food. Children like to take ownership of what they eat and feel they've had control over their food. A good idea is to place all your containers with the prepared meats and vegetables out on your kitchen counter or table, let your children select the foods they would like to eat and get them to add it to their lunchbox. Have rules – they need to choose a protein, 3 vegetable choices (cucumber, carrot, cherry tomatoes, snow peas etc.), and a healthy fat item such as avocado, olives, yoghurt, some fruit and maybe a healthy low sugar, gluten-free muffin or cookie. If you find it hard to get vegetables, fruit and healthy fats into your child, you may like to add them to baked treats. I've included protein, vegetable, healthy fat and fruit in my Chocolate Zucchini Bread.
Making items such as my Chicken and Veg Bites, that can be made in bulk and frozen, can help you to be more organized. These bites are mild in flavour, which makes them child-friendly for very young ones.
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13 Disastrous Stocks That Could Get Even Worse
by: Lisa Springer
Investors love a turnaround play, and Wall Street is littered with stories of fortunes made betting on troubled companies.
In the 1960s, American Express (AXP) was rumored to be near bankruptcy when Warren Buffett famously entered what is now one of his favorite Berkshire Hathaway positions. Apple (AAPL), which became the first U.S. company to hit $1 trillion in market value, absorbed more than a decade of losses during the 1980s and '90s before Steve Jobs helped turn the company around – aided by a $150 million investment from Microsoft (MSFT).
But while every beat-up stock is a potential turnaround play, not every company achieves that potential. And losses can mount quickly for a stock that's already up against the ropes. So while you might be tempted to dabble in a potential comeback story or two, beware of some of the most common traps that end in disaster.
Sometimes the issue is too much debt; rising interest costs and balloon payments can turn minor business setbacks into major liquidity challenges. Other times, once-powerful consumer brands are brought to their knees by management that's too slow to adapt to evolving consumer tastes.
Certain areas of the market can be particularly prone to disasters. Start-up biotech stocks are risky because they're racing against the clock to bring new drugs to market before their cash runs out. Disappointing clinical trial result, in these cases, can cut a stock's value in half (or worse) within days. Chinese stocks are problematic, too, because of sometimes poor visibility and weak corporate governance.
Here are 13 stocks to sell if you own them, or avoid if you're on the hunt for the next turnaround story. The companies themselves aren't necessarily an extinction threat, but for varying reasons, they're all on the brink of delivering more disastrous returns.
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Data is as of July 19.
Market value: $302.2 million
Six-month performance: -46%
Arlo Technologies (ARLO, $4.04) develops products for smart homes such as security cameras, advanced baby monitors and smart security lights and recently introduced a doorbell product with integrated video. It spun off from its former parent Netgear (NTGR) and completed its IPO last August at $16 per share.
At the time of its offering, Raymond James analyst Madison Suhr rated ARLO at Market Perform (equivalent of Hold). He chalked that up to significant competition in the home security market, though he thought the company's products had some key differentiators. Bank of America's Nat Schindler started coverage at Neutral over concerns about competition from Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL), as well as limited visibility into how Arlo would grow its subscription business.
However, ARLO shares lost almost half their value in a day in early February after management warned of weak 2019 results. The market's growth slowed significantly in late 2018, leading to inventory buildups for Arlo and reduced 2019 growth expectations. The company eked out only 3.6% sales growth in the December quarter, partially due to the delayed launch of its new Arlo Ultra camera until after the holiday shopping season. Arlo's revised 2019 guidance looks for sales well below analyst estimates and operating losses nearly double last year.
The company's shares did rebound in April after better-than-expected March-quarter results. But they cleared a very low bar. Revenues fell almost 43% year-over-year. Operating losses swelled seven-fold.
The most recent analyst updates on ARLO stock came in February. Cowen analyst Jeffrey Osborne reduced his rating to Market Perform and dropped his price target from $25 per share to $7.50. He wrote that the challenging macro environment would produce further inventory buildup, and that Arlo's heavy promotional spending would continue to materially impact margins. BofA's Nat Schindler downgraded from Neutral to Underperform with a $5 price target.
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Consolidated Communications Holdings
Consolidated Communications Holdings (CNSL, $4.95) is a communication services provider that operates a 37,000-mile fiber optic network that extends across 23 states. Despite that position in a widely used technology, shares have lost more than 80% of their value since they peaked in late 2016. That included a roughly 60% plunge in April after the company eliminated its dividend so it could invest instead in upgrading its fiber optic network while also servicing $2.3 billion in debt.
This is quite a comedown for a once-reliable dividend stock that had paid dividends 55 quarters in a row.
Consolidated Communications also reported its sixth consecutive quarter of net losses in April, and management frankly acknowledges industry conditions are likely to remain challenging for at least another "five or six quarters." Paid subscribers declined across all businesses lines. The company anticipates making $130 million to 135 million in interest payments on debt this year and investing $200 million to 210 million to make upgrades to its network, leaving not enough for dividends.
Several analysts weren't pleased. Following the dividend cut, Raymond James' Frank Louthan downgraded CNSL to Market Perform (equivalent of Hold) and Guggenheim's Mike McCormack cut it to Sell. Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzsche cut her price target but actually upgraded her rating to Outperform. Her reasoning? Industry headwinds are factored into the stock's recent drop, and cutting dividends should allow Consolidated Communications to pay down debt while making necessary upgrades to the fiber network.
Still, it's a gamble on the company's very survival.
ContraVir Pharmaceuticals
Market value: $5.8 million
ContraVir Pharmaceuticals (CTRV, $3.56) is dedicated to developing treatments for chronic liver disease.
CTRV's share price has been on a roller-coaster ride lower since the company announced the departure of its CEO and COO last October, plunging from a split-adjusted $39 per share to below $4. Shares plunged more than 40% in April after the company priced a secondary offering of shares (secondary offerings add more shares to the market, thus diluting existing shareholders). The threat of delisting by the Nasdaq due to a low share price triggered a 1-for-70 reverse stock split in early June. What followed was a nauseating few days of trading in which shares lurched up and down amid upbeat study results and a slew of filings.
Just try to follow this. June 11: ContraVir shares soared after a peer-reviewed journal published positive research on its experimental liver disease treatment, CRV431. June 12: The company filed a registration statement for another share offering, which led to a slump in the stock. June 13: ContraVir filed a registration withdrawal request that sent CTRV soaring – but then it was discovered that the registration withdrawal request was not for the registration itself, but for a request that the registration be accelerated. Quickly after it was discovered that ContraVir used the wrong form, it filed a withdrawal of the withdrawal request. June 14: Shares slumped in response. June 17: A release of positive findings connected with CRV431 bumped shares back higher. June 18: CTRV shares suffered their worst-ever one-day decline (45%) after the company priced another secondary offering.
In short, ContraVir's repeat secondary offerings show an urgent need for funding. The company has no revenues, $78.4 million of accumulated losses and less than $1.7 million of cash on-hand. Meanwhile, CRV431 is the company's only pipeline product; it's in early development and many years away from generating sales, assuming it ever gets approved. A 2018 MIT study shows only 14% of drugs that enter clinical trials eventually secure FDA approval. The path to commercialization also requires progressively larger, more expensive clinical trials; the Tufts Center estimates costs for bringing a single new drug to market can approach $2.7 billion.
The stock is very thinly covered by the analyst community. Maxim's Jason McCarthy – one of the few analysts still paying attention to ContraVir – downgraded CTRV to Hold in March. He likes the company's decision to focus all its resources on CRV431 but acknowledges significant additional capital will be needed to fund its development.
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Dynagas LNG Partners LP
Market value: $51.1 million
Dynagas LNG Partners LP (DLNG, $1.44) owns and operates a fleet of six liquid natural gas (LNG) carriers that are leased to international gas producers under long-term charters.
The company's underlying tanker business remains relatively healthy – its fleet fully deployed under nine-year charters – average daily rates on vessel leases are declining. March quarter day rates, for instance, dropped to $57,700 from $66,300 a year ago.
In addition, higher LIBOR rates are causing interest expenses on the company's variable-rate debt to spike. Higher debt servicing costs were among the issues triggering a 76% decline in the company's net income and a 18% EBITDA drop during the March quarter.
Dynagas is required to make a $250 million balloon payment on its debt in October and is seeking to refinance a total of $720 million of debt. Due to the company's high leverage, financing terms of a new lending agreement being negotiated are increasingly restrictive; the lender requires Dynagas to stop paying distributions (dividend-like payments made by master limited partnerships) on its common units.
The company has a history of distribution cuts; quarterly payments were trimmed by 41% in 2018 and by an additional 75% in January 2019. Unsurprisingly, both cuts helped trigger massive share-price declines, and news that the common distribution might be eliminated altogether have further weighed on shares.
At least two analyst firms have downgraded DLNG so far in 2019, but haven't yet put them into their ranks of stocks to sell. Jefferies analyst Randy Giveans cut his rating to Hold in January and sees limited upside for the stock in the near-term. B. Riley analyst Liam Burke was unpleasantly surprised by the size of the January dividend cut and reduced his DLNG rating to Neutral.
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Endo International
Specialty drugmaker Endo International (ENDP, $3.27) is under fire from numerous state attorneys general and hundreds of city and county agencies, all of which have filed lawsuits over Endo's opioid marketing practices.
Tennessee's attorney general, for instance, says the company's illegal sales tactics resulted in more sales of its prescription painkiller Opana in Knoxville over a seven-year period than in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago combined. In the lawsuit, Endo management is accused of making claims about Opana's safety that the drug couldn't back. Endo pulled Opana from the market two years ago at the FDA's request.
In addition to billions of dollars of Opana lawsuits, Endo is buried under a mountain of debt left behind by an acquisition-happy CEO. The company has $7.1 billion of net debt (debt minus cash) and negative shareholder equity and a debt-to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) ratio of roughly 12.
The company has delivered two consecutive quarters of revenue growth and cut net losses to just 6 cents per share in the March quarter, from $2.23 per share in the year earlier. Endo also has a promising cellulite treatment in its pipeline – collagenase clostridium histolyticum (CCH) – that is performing well in late-stage clinical trials.
Nonetheless, JPMorgan analyst Christopher Schott downgraded ENDP stock to Underweight (equivalent of Sell) in May. He sees controversies surrounding CCH ahead of its anticipated 2020 launch and negative opioid headlines continuing to dominate the news. With few positive catalysts for ENDP this year, Schott thinks investors can find better opportunities elsewhere.
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Shares of women's apparel retailer J. Jill (JILL, $2.22) fell 73% in May during a broad-based apparel selloff that saw major names such as Lands End' (LE) and Gap (GPS) lose more than 25% of their value. It has recovered a little bit since then but still has lost roughly two-thirds of its value over the past half-year.
J. Jill owns a chain of 283 women's apparel stores nationwide. Like other brick-and-mortar retailers, the company is losing business to online merchants, but Jill also is plagued by weak execution and merchandise design. J. Jill CEO Linda Heasley blamed poor March-quarter results on a lackluster spring merchandise selection that lacked color and said the company hadn't moved quickly enough to reset inventories. Management also acknowledged a too-rapid shift from catalog to digital offerings that hurt store traffic.
The company's March-quarter EPS came in below even the lowest analyst estimate, and Jill cut its guidance for full-year EPS in half.
Deutsche Bank analyst Paul Trussell downgraded the stock to Hold at the end of May, referring to the EPS guidance as "ugly." He also complained of merchandise assortment issues that required massive markdowns to reduce overstocked inventories.
To J. Jill's credit, revenues have actually trended upward and its cash situation has actually improved over the past couple of years. But analysts are expecting a massive 72% decline in profits this fiscal year (from 72 cents per share to 20 cents per share), and only a modest recovery to 39 cents per share in its next fiscal year.
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Marin Software
Marin Software (MRIN, $2.23), a digital marketing software provider, announced big news in December – a three-year revenue-sharing agreement with Alphabet's Google that triggered a 50% jump in its share price. Per the agreement, Google will pay Marin for revenues generated on Marin's tech platform from Google client spends on search ads.
Investors' enthusiasm for the Google deal quickly waned, however, after Marin's revenues fell 13% during the March quarter, despite a $2.9 million contribution from the Google agreement. The sales drop was caused by ongoing customer turnover only partially offset by new bookings. For the June quarter, Marin is guiding for lower revenues and net losses.
Marin has been hindered by a slow transition to its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, Marin One, which has resulted in falling revenues, mounting net losses and dwindling cash. The company consumed $2.7 million of cash during the March quarter and has less than $7.5 million in cash remaining.
Marin has posted revenue declines for four consecutive years and five straight years of net losses. During the March quarter earnings call, management characterized Marin's top-line performance as challenging and acknowledged efforts to return the company to growth are taking longer than expected.
Wall Street analysts have abandoned coverage, and investors should consider following their lead. The company's growth issues, mounting losses and little cash put MRIN among stocks to sell right or avoid right now.
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Mogu Inc.
Mogu Inc. (MOGU, $2.52) is a fashion and lifestyle online platform in China where people shop for apparel and cosmetics. Users visit the website to watch live videos and read product reviews and fashion tips posted by more than 56,000 fashion influencers. The majority of the site's users are young women interested in fashion and beauty trends, shopping online and being active on social networks. The site has approximately 67.2 million followers.
MOGU generates commissions from merchandise sales and also earns fees for marketing services related to display-based, search-based and native content-based advertising.
The company's December 2018 IPO was backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings (TCEHY), which has brought other Chinese Internet-based firms to U.S. markets. MOGU shares began trading at $12, well below the $14 IPO price, and dropped another 14% during its trading debut. Mogu had targeted a $4 billion IPO, but went public at only $1.2 billion when its offering coincided with a tech sector selloff. (The company was valued at $3 billion in 2016, when the company was formed through the merger of Chinese e-commerce players Meilishuo and Mogujie.)
Mogu wants to carve out a slice of China's $360 billion online fashion market, which is currently dominated by e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA), but faces an uphill battle. The company has penetrated only 8.1% of its targeted market, versus penetration rates exceeding 98% for Alibaba.
Company revenues grew 10.4% during this fiscal year ended March 2019, and net losses declined 13%. However, investors were more concerned with the steep drop in the number of merchants advertising products on Mogu's online platform, from 22,000 to 17,000 this year.
Only two analyst firms cover MOGU stock now. Chinese Renaissance analyst Nicky Ge initiated coverage in January with a Hold rating. To Mogu's credit, Ge thinks the company will turn profitable in fiscal 2020, but is cautious about increasing competition and the company's untested foray into live video streaming. She said she would turn more positive on consistently delivered growth rates. Morgan Stanley analyst Alex Poon is less optimistic about the company's prospects, downgrading MOGU to Underweight in June.
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Six-month performance: 80%
Nautilus (NLS, $2.06) is a well-known name in exercise equipment. The company sells home gyms, free weight equipment, treadmills, indoor cycling equipment, ellipticals and fitness accessories direct to consumers and through specialty dealers. Its product lines include Bowflex, Modern Movement, Octane, Schwinn, Universal and the namesake Nautilus.
NLS shares fell 26% in February as a result of 2018 sales and EPS declines in a year that then-CEO Bruce Cazenave described as "challenging." He also said 2019 would be "equally challenging." The company faces headwinds from stepped up competition, costs for retooling its marketing program and excessive retail inventories forcing writedowns.
Financial results for the March quarter were even worse than anticipated. Nautilus sales declined 26%. The company flipped from a $10.7 million operating profit in the year-ago quarter to a $10.2 million operating loss. The company blamed revenue declines on a big drop-off in Bowflex sales due to weak advertising that failed to communicate the product's improved digital capabilities. Nautilus won't be rolling out a new ad campaign until the September quarter.
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analyst Michael Swartz cut his NLS price target in May but maintained his Hold rating. Swartz suggested investors remain on the sidelines until there is better visibility into growth prospects for the Bowflex business.
Nautilus has fallen short of analyst revenue and EPS estimates four times during the past six quarters, which is disconcerting given the already weak estimates for the current fiscal year. Moreover, the company is seeking direction after losing both its CEO and CFO this year.
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Nio Inc.
Market value: $3.5 billion
Nio Inc. (NIO, $3.37) designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles in China, Hong Kong, the U.S. and parts of Europe. The company is based in Shanghai and began delivering its seven-seater electric SUV (the ES8) in June 2018. Shipments of a six-seater version commenced in March 2019, and deliveries of a new five-seater model (the ES6) began in June of this year.
Nio shipped 2,213 electric vehicles during April and May and surpassed its half-year goal of 2,800 to 3,200 electric vehicles shipped during the June quarter, with 3,553 deliveries. Cumulative deliveries of electric vehicles totaled 18,890 through the end of June.
Electric vehicles represent 7% of all new vehicle sales in China and have been growing at a 118% annual rate since 2011, according to Bloomberg. The Chinese government is encouraging car sales to stimulate its economy and has removed any restrictions on green energy vehicle purchases.
However, government subsidies that supported China's electric vehicle market are being phased out and will cease altogether in 2020. The end of subsidies will shift more product costs to manufacturers. Most analysts think larger manufacturers such as Ford (F) will be better able to withstand cost pressures than small players such as Nio.
And despite its deliveries success in 2019, Nio's sales fell 55% during the March quarter and net losses totaled $395.2 million. The company has $1.1 billion of cash, but management itself said cash burn, which was more than $600 billion in the first quarter, could be worse in Q2. If Q3 is at all similar, the company only has a couple of quarters' worth of capital left.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy downgraded NIO shares to Underperform in March. Murphy believes government subsidy cuts will weaken electric vehicle sales and forecasts Nio shipments of just 27,000 vehicles in 2019. He anticipates additional headwinds next year from increasing Tesla Motors (TSLA) competition and Nio's urgent need for more funding. The company also said back in May that it was indefinitely delaying the launch for a planned sedan.
Home goods retailer Pier 1 Imports (PIR, $3.84) has posted several consecutive quarters of declines in same-store sales (an important retailing metric measuring revenues at stores open at least 12 months). It extended that streak during the June quarter, reporting same-store sales dropped 13.5% year-over-year.
Even worse, the company retracted prior guidance that had Pier 1 recapturing $30 million to $40 million of net income and $45 million to $55 million of EBITDA this year from cost savings. Instead, the company now anticipates costs savings will be absorbed by gross margin declines.
A planned turnaround under a previous management team failed to materialize. Pier 1 said in March that it was hiring debt restructuring lawyers and exploring strategic alternatives to turn the company around, according to a Reuters report, but bankruptcy wasn't on the table.
However, the company has been steadily consuming cash in its operations and has quintupled its net debt over the past 12 months. In April, S&P Global Ratings expressed concerns that Pier 1 couldn't manage its existing debt load and speculated that the possibility of bankruptcy (as well as a debt restructuring) was indeed rising. Moody's poor credit grade for the company landed Pier 1 on our list of retailers at risk of defaulting.
In late June, Pier 1 announced plans to close 12 more stores than were indicated during its March earnings call, raising total store closings to 57 this year. Approximately 15% to 20% of the company's 967 stores come up for lease renewals every year, raising the prospect that many of these could close in the future, too.
KeyBanc analyst Brad Thomas sent a note in April warnings investors about the company's weakening sales trends and "negative earnings per share, EBITDA, and free cash flow." He sees bankruptcy risk if Pier 1's business trends don't improve.
Share-price declines have been so drastic that the company was forced to execute a 1-for-20 reverse split to maintain compliant with New York Stock Exchange minimum-share-price requirements. Given the company's potential to lose even more ground, however, PIR should be high on your list of stocks to sell.
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Solid Biosciences
Solid Biosciences (SLDB, $4.76) shares slumped 25% in mid-May when worrisome adverse effects (AEs) were reported for some muscular dystrophy patients being treated with the company's drug candidate, SGT-001, currently being evaluated in clinical trials.
This latest round of bad news follows data released by the company in March showing no therapeutic response in two of three patients being treated with SGT-001; the third showed minimal response, causing researchers to increase the dosage.
Solid Biosciences is one of several companies developing gene therapies for muscular dystrophy. Pfizer (PFE) recently presented promising data from its development-stage therapy at a muscular dystrophy conference, and Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) is working on a treatment, too. So Solid likely needs stronger results from clinical studies to secure additional financing.
And it needs financing. Solid Biosciences has no revenues and mounting losses. The company has $94.7 million of cash and investments, but has been burning through increasing amounts of it each quarter, including a nearly $28 million cash burn last quarter.
Solid Biosciences went public in January 2018 with a Buy recommendation from Nomura analysts, who thought the company's technology offered a potential gene therapy breakthrough and predicted an approved muscular dystrophy drug as early as 2021. Nomura reiterated its Buy call in June – the only such call in the past three months. The others? Two Holds and two Sells.
Tarena International
Tarena International (TEDU, $1.74) provides professional IT education to adults and generalized education services to children across China. The company currently operates 184 learning centers for adults and 148 learning centers targeting children.
Tarena's revenues climbed by 13.5% in 2018, but that came as a result of the pricey endeavor of opening 100 new learning centers for children. Revenue gains were more than offset by a nearly 60% in operating expenses. The company's full-year net loss roughly tripled.
Tarena has missed analyst earnings estimates six quarters in a row, posted its first quarterly year-over-year revenue decline during the December quarter and fell short of analysts' revenue estimates for the December quarter for the first time in three years.
The company went public in 2014. At the time, allegations of unlicensed centers, accounting investigations and major conflicts of interest for its CEO clouded the company's outlook. In May, Nasdaq notified Tarena that exchange listing requirements had been violated by its failure to file its annual report on time. Tarena said that a review currently underway by the company's audit committee may necessitate restating all of its 2018 quarterly financial results.
Credit Suisse analyst Alex Xie downgraded TEDU stock to Underperform, as did Jefferies analyst Johnny Wong. Wong expects the company to post losses for at least the next three years as a result of slowing adult enrollments, significantly increasing marketing costs and the company's push to reach breakeven results in its children's education business during fiscal 2020. Thus, despite a share price near penny-stock territory, it still has the potential to go much lower, putting it among stocks to sell right now.
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I know, I know. I'm like way late to this party. Sue me. Or don't, I'm broke.
Is it just me, or has the excitement for this died down a little? I just don't feel as "OH MY GOD" as I used to about these movies. It's probably because I don't think Mockinjay needed a part two. Plus, I wasn't thrilled with the Mockingjay Part 1 movie. I LOVED Catching Fire, but the third movie just didn't do it for me. It's probably because Katniss is having a mental breakdown like she did in the book and I just did not like that we were following her around and nothing was happening until the very end. Hopefully, though, this movie brings back some of my Hunger Games excitement.


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BGP is one of the world's competitive geophysical companies, delivering a wide range of geophysical products and services. In 2002, BGP became a liability-limited company after merging with six other Chinese geophysical divisions, with its headquarters located in Zhuozhou city, Hebei province, sixty kilometers south of Beijing.
The main business of BGP includes Data acquisition,Data processing,Data interpretation & reservoir geophysics,Geophysical R & D,Geophysical software systems,Equipment manufacturing,Multi-client services,? IT services
BGP currently has 115 land seismic crews, 9 shallow water and transition zone crews, 8 VSP crews, and 21 non-seismic crews operating in 53 countries. The operations are conducted in a wide variety of terrain conditions, such as mountains, deserts, loess lands, gravel plains, swamps, jungles, and shallow water and transition zones. In 2006, BGP launched its offshore seismic program, and, at present, BGP has 6 vessels, a 2D streamer vessel, 2 2D/3D streamer vessels, a 6-streamer 3D vessel, a 12-streamer 3D vessel, and a 4C OBN vessel.
BGP has provided quality services for more than 200 energy companies at home and abroad since 1961, including major national and international energy companies.
BGP strictly follows the international guidelines for Health, Safety and Environmental Protection set forth by the International Association of Geophysical Contractors and the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers.
BGP also understands that it is geo-talent that makes it possible for BGP to maintain a sustainable development. Therefore, BGP has as always attached great importance to technology advances. Our recent R&D is focused on high-density seismic surveys, wide-azimuth acquisition, complex structure imaging, 3C/3D VSP, 3C/3D seismic, and stratigraphic reservoir studies. BGP released its "PAI" Technological Package in Rome during EAGE 2008, developed by BGP with 40-plus years of hands-on experience and in-depth expertise from worldwide operations. PAI provides advanced solutions for challenging issues in different surface conditions. We also have started to develop our own seismic recording systems to provide better services for our clients.
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Cricket is a far better sport for Seven than tennis said Seven's CEO Tim Worner this afternoon, while Foxtel boss Patrick Delany sees the the rights deal with Foxtel and Cricket Australia announced earlier on Friday as being a key part of the subscription TV service's growth strategy ahead of an IPO.
The deal, which Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland said will deliver $1.182bn to the sport over the next six years, will see all domestic test matches and Big Bash Leagues games simulcast on Seven and a dedicated Fox cricket channel.
"This deal is the foundation of our company for the next five years. It's going to guarantee audiences for the next five years," Worner said.
"I can't tell you what Married At First Sight or My Kitchen Rules is going to be rating in a few years, I do know roughly what Collingwood versus Adelaide will rate tonight and I can tell you it will be rating that well, if not better in five years.
The Seven CEO however would not be drawn on whether tennis or cricket will get priority during the 2018-19 season when the network has rights to both sports.
Foxtel CEO Delany flagged the deal is an important part of Foxtel's strategy to increase subscribers and streaming revenue ahead of a mooted IPO later this year.
"If you think about our sports offering, it's very strong from March through to October and then in October we say 'See you next March' when you can jump back on the train.
"Cricket has a very strong cohort into our AFL and NRL products as well as motorsport. Now this means our subscribers have a very strong sports service for the whole year round.
Under the deal 43 Big Bash League matches will also be simulcast on both Seven and Fox Cricket along with 23 Women's Big Bash League games and all women's international fixtures.
Foxtel will have exclusive rights to the One Day Internationals with both Sutherland and Foxtel CEO Delany were insistent the deal meets the requirements of the federal government's anti-siphoning legislation which mandates ODIs are available to free-to-air viewers.
Digital rights will be held by Foxtel and will form the basis of a partnership with CA's digital arm, the Cricket Network, which will see broadcast-quality streaming of matches not broadcast by the two networks available through cricket.com.au and the CA Live Pass.
Fans will also have access to the highlights packages through cricket.com.au and the Cricket Australia Live platform.
Speaking to Mumbrella after the press conference, Sutherland said the radio rights would be "the next cab off the rank" for Cricket Australia now the TV and digital deal has been settled.
In a prepared statement, Sutherland said: "Our thanks go to Channel Nine, who for more than 40 years has broadcast international cricket at a world-renowned standard – and in so doing has done more to promote our sport than any organisation in Australian cricket history.
"Our sincere thanks also to Network Ten for their role in taking the Big Bash League to a new level, and for so willingly providing a platform to launch and grow the Women's Big Bash League. As a startup league, the BBL is a phenomenal success story. Over the last five years, Ten has made an extraordinary contribution to the league and its growth in bringing new fans to cricket.
Delany added: "Fox Sports Australia will show every ball of every over bowled in Australia delivered with our trademark energy and creativity, on a dedicated new home, Fox Cricket.
"We know Australians love and respect cricket and so do we. We will give fans the most compelling, entertaining and innovative coverage of cricket with more choices, more games, more programs.
"It will be cricket like they have never experienced before.
"Get ready. Cricket fans will finally be able to enjoy cricket in the way they want and choose," concluded Delany.
Worner added: "This is a great deal – for Seven, for our viewers, our advertisers, our shareholders and for the game itself.
"Cricket fans will be able to see the best produced Cricket, live and free on Australia's number one FTA Network. Seven has always been the innovator in FTA sports coverage in Australia – from RaceCam in the 70s, to setting the standard in how AFL is covered, televising more Olympic Games than any other TV station, and introducing cutting-edge technologies and multi-channel coverage before anyone else.
"And for Cricket Australia, it means the unbridled support of Australia's number one Network and the best sports partners bar none. We will be unrelenting in our efforts to lift cricket to new levels," concluded Worner.
Interesting times ahead for Ten.
So is anybody going to point out that international cricket matches held in Australia are on the anti-siphoning list? What does the communications minister have to say?


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Nine One One 2003
Outbidding $25m bounty with loyalty, Osama bin Laden dodges his hunters
Cape Times, Africa -9-11-03
... That mystery serves as a daily reminder to the US of its failure to capture Osama bin Laden after a two-year hunt, how even a $25 million reward has yet to net ...
Bush keeps a low profile - Telegraph.co.uk
Where is Osama bin Laden two years after Sept. 11? - Toronto Star
Bin Laden Still Hunted Along Afghan-Pakistani Border - Voice of America
Bin Laden's Location Sought in New Video
ABC News -9-11-03
The first video image of Osama bin Laden in nearly two years was broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV, the eve of Thursday's second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. ... Patriot Act Games?
Slate - 9-11-03
... And no terrorist networks will ever gain weapons of mass destruction from Saddam ... A NYT's front-page piece on the release of an Osama Bin Laden video ...
This national nightmare will begin to end with re-defeating Bush in 2004.
We won't ever forget Nine One One.
Osama bin Laden had the evil done.
But Bush instead stripped Saddam of his powers,
He forgot Osama brought down the Twin Towers.
Zelda Morgan
ALL HAT NO CATTLE MERCENARY JOURNALIST
DIRTY LAUNDRY DONE DIRT CHEAP
Click to email > zelda@allhatnocattle.net
We Will Not Be Undone By Nine One One
"Religion is for those who don't have the brains to avoid evil." - Flannery O'Connor.
While we are wining and dining Anita Beer through the contract negotiations between her legal staff and our two, law students; we are lifting from the classics.
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"Now Bush is making preemptive strikes on the Treasury. "
www.barrycrimmins.com
"President Bush, to help stabilize the situation in Iraq, is asking for $80 billion dollars. I'm wondering, why is he asking us? That's like one Republican fundraiser." —David Letterman
Even Republicans are disgusted with Bush. Click below to find out more.
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"The group, the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, was founded in 1997. Among its supporters were three Republican former officials who were sitting out the Democratic presidency of Bill Clinton: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz.
In open letters to Clinton and GOP congressional leaders the next year, the group called for "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power"
and a shift toward a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam.
And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor." *****
That event came on Sept. 11, 2001. By that time, Cheney was vice president, Rumsfeld was secretary of defense, and Wolfowitz his deputy at the Pentagon.
The next morning - before it was even clear who was behind the attacks - Rumsfeld insisted at a Cabinet meeting that Saddam's Iraq should be "a principal target of the first round of terrorism," according to Bob Woodward's book Bush At War."
Extract from an ABCNews article on March 10
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/pnac_030310.html
***** THERE IS AN EERIE SIMILARITY HERE TO THE SUGGESTIONS THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ALLOWED PEARL HARBOUR TO HAPPEN TO JUSTIFY THE US'S ENTRY INTO WWII AND THAT BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL ALLOWED THE BOMBING OF COVENTRY TO HAPPEN SO AS NOT TO REVEAL THAT THE BRITS HAD CRACKED THE GERMAN'S ENIGMA CODE MACHINE. EVEN IF THEY DID, THEIR ACTIONS, WHILE AWFUL TO CONTEMPLATE, WOULD STILL BE WHOLLY JUSTIFIED AS A MEANS TO RIDDING THE WORLD OF TWO REGIMES THAT CAUSED SO MUCH DEATH (APPROX. 55 MILLION PEOPLE) AND DESTRUCTION DURING THEIR BRIEF EXISTENCE AND SUBJECTED MUCH OF EUROPE TO POSTWAR STALINIST MISERY FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS.
PERHAPS THE INVESTIGATION OF 9/11 SHOULD FOCUS ON WHETHER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION MIGHT HAVE KNOWN WHAT WAS COMING COURTESY OF AL QUEDA AND, IF SO, WHEN THEY KNEW AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN TO GIVE CREDENCE TO THE UNRESERVED "ATTACK IRAQ" DESIRES OF THE PNAC GANG.
I am a Canadian who fully supported the Canadian government's decision to stay out of the illegal Bush/Blair actions in Iraq. I know some elements of the Bush administration (mainly the PNAC crew) have characterized us as a result as being disloyal to our friends (i.e. the US & the UK aka George Bush and Tony Blair). Nothing could be further from the truth. When the cause is right, Canada can be counted upon to stand by its friends. The Bushies that trash us conveniently forget that Canadians fought and died alongside Brits and Americans in WWI, WWII, Korea, the Gulf War (Episode 1) and are even now policing Afghanistan and Bosnia.
I like your site - keep up the good work. I also like what I see in Howard Dean - let's hope he wins in 2004 and restores sanity to the White House.
Thank you for writing. You put things into perspective in your eloquent Canadian way. Very well stated.
I really like Howard Dean also. I am just waiting for the GOPigs to get out on the airwaves and try to smear him as they did to Senator John McCain, Senator Max Cleland and the countless Americans who disagree with the Bushies.
The real war has yet to begin.
"We should feed the republicans a bunch of beans and let them play with matches. "
-Zelda Morgan
Thanks to Eric Zahler
September 11, 1973 -- Allende dies in coup
...Chile's armed forces stage a coup d'état against the government of President Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected Marxist leader in Latin America. Allende retreated with his supporters to La Moneda, the fortress-like presidential palace in Santiago, which was surrounded by tanks and infantry and bombed by air force jets. Allende survived the aerial attack but then apparently shot himself to death as troops stormed the burning palace, reportedly using an automatic rifle given to him as a gift by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The U.S. government and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had worked for three years to foment a coup against Allende, who was regarded by the Nixon administration as a threat to democracy in Chile and Latin America. Ironically, the democratically elected Allende was succeeded by the brutal dictator General Augusto Pinochet, who ruled over Chile with an iron fist for the next 17 years.
After the victory of Allende and his leftist coalition, U.S. President Richard Nixon summoned CIA Director Richard Helms to the White House and ordered him in no uncertain terms to prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him. Allende, after all, had threatened to nationalize U.S.-owned industries in Chile, and Nixon did not want another Fidel Castro coming to power in an American hemisphere during his watch. President Nixon authorized $10 million for the covert operation against Allende and instructed that it be carried out without the knowledge of the U.S. embassy in Chile.
With its mandate from Washington, the CIA attempted to bribe, coerce, and blackmail Chile's Congress and military into denying Allende the presidency, launched an international campaign of disinformation against Allende, and paid a right-wing general to assassinate General Rene Schneider, the chief of Chile's armed forces. Although a conservative, Schneider was staunchly opposed to a coup or any other military interference in Chile's democratic processes. He was murdered by a gang led by right-wing General Roberto Viaux. One month later, the group received a check for $35,000 from the CIA. Years later, the CIA would claim it only wanted Schneider kidnapped...
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The worst thing about Northwestern University's 22-21 loss to Air
Force late in the fourth quarter was that the Air Force player who kicked the
winning field goal was John Ashcroft's son. - Sent in by Dave, a fan
Zelda wonders if Bush and Cheney exchanged Happy Trifecta cards today.
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There are ten commandments that should be carved in stone at every courthouse in America. They are called the "Bill of Rights."
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Hurricane Isabel is seen in the Atlantic in this September 10, 2003 satellite image. The powerful hurricane remained a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale early September 11, packing winds near 145 miles per hour as it continued to move westward, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. A 5-day forecast track shows the eye of Isabel veering just to the east of the Bahamas through early Tuesday.


March 18 (Reuters) - The World Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and marine conservation group Ghost Fishing Foundation have teamed up to collect discarded fishing nets from the oceans and recycle them into volleyball nets for local communities, the sport's governing body said.
"It was really hard to learn that, in the oceans, there are so many nets that are doing so much harm out of sight," Giba, a three-times Olympic medallist with Brazil's volleyball team, said in a statement.
"As volleyball players, nets are at the centre of our game and of our joy."
Ghost Fishing, based in the Netherlands, has teams of divers working with the United Nations' Clean Seas campaign to combat marine plastic pollution.


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Traktat moskiewski (, ) – traktat pomiędzy Wielkim Zgromadzeniem Narodowym Turcji a Rosyjską Federacyjną Socjalistyczną Republiką Radziecką zawarty 16 marca 1921 roku w Moskwie.

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Traktat zakładał uznanie dotychczasowych traktatów zawartych pomiędzy Rosją a Turcją za nieważne. Regulował on również kwestie kaukaskiej granicy Turcji. W wyniku traktatu m.in. Nachiczewan stał się autonomicznym terytorium pod protektoratem Azerbejdżanu oraz Turcja przekazała Batumi Gruzińskiej Socjalistycznej Republice Radzieckiej. 13 października 1921 roku doszło do podpisania traktatu w Karsie, w którego zawarciu oprócz RFSRR i Wielkiego Zgromadzenia Narodowego Turcji brały również udział Gruzińska, Armeńska oraz Azerbejdżańska Socjalistyczna Republika Radziecka. Traktat w Karsie potwierdził założenia traktatu moskiewskiego.

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Historia prawa międzynarodowego
Historia Turcji
Traktaty pokojowe
Traktaty rosyjsko-tureckie
1921 w Rosji


Draft: 2012, New York Mets, 2nd rd.
Matthew William Reynolds...Graduated from Bishop Kelley (OK) High School and attended the University of Arkansas...Helped the University of Arkansas to the 2012 College World Series.
Enjoyed four stints with the Mets...Played in a career-high 68 games...Also set career-bests in hits and runs scored...Appeared in 23 games at third base, 10 at shortstop, eight at second base, seven in leftfield, three at first base and one game in right field...Hit .320 with nine doubles, four homers, 14 RBI and 27 runs scored in 33 games for the 51s...In 13 games for Triple-A Las Vegas in August, he hit .346 (18-for-52) with five doubles, four RBI, 10 runs scored and a .433 on-base percentage.
Underwent a right wrist debridement on December 12 at the Hospital for Special Surgery...Began the season with Las Vegas (AAA) of the Pacific Coast League and had four stints with the Mets (May 17-29, June 3-July 5, August 1-13 and September 5-end of season)...All three of his career home runs in the major leagues have given the Mets the lead...His first career homer gave the Mets the lead on June 22 vs. Kansas City... His second was a go-ahead home run on August 1 vs. the Yankees and his third came on September 5 at Cincinnati...Made his major league debut on May 17 vs. Washington starting at third base...Grabbed his first major league hit on May 25 at Washington (off Tanner Roark)...Connected on his first major league home run on June 22 vs. Kansas City...Was a solo shot in the sixth inning that put the Mets ahead, 4-3...Gave the Mets the lead on June 4 at Miami with a pinch-hit RBI single in the eighth inning off David Phelps...Was his first career RBI...Had the go-ahead RBI fielder's choice in the 11th inning on June 10 at Milwaukee...Recorded his first career multi-hit and multi-RBI game on June 15 vs. Pittsburgh...The three hits and two RBI were both career highs...Played 18 games in June and batted .296 (8-27) with four doubles, one home run and six RBI...Matched a season/career high with his three hits on September 5 at Cincinnati...One of the three hits was his third career homer, a solo shot in the second inning off Robert Stephenson.
Appeared in 115 games for Las Vegas (AAA) of the Pacific Coast League...Led the team in triples (five) and runs scored (70)...Was tied for the team lead in doubles (32)...Named to the PCL All-Star team.
Began the year with Binghamton (AA) of the Eastern League…Promoted to Las Vegas (AAA) of the Pacific Coast League on June 19...Hit a combined .343 (164-478) in 126 games for the two teams.
In his first full season, played in 117 games for Single-A Port St. Lucie...Recorded 32 extra base hits (21 2B, 6 3B, 5 HR).
Hit .259 with eight doubles, three homers, 13 RBI, 12 walks, five stolen bases and 18 runs scored in 42 games for Savannah.
February 12, 2019 Washington Nationals invited non-roster SS Matt Reynolds to spring training.
January 17, 2019 Washington Nationals sent SS Matt Reynolds outright to Fresno Grizzlies.
January 13, 2019 Washington Nationals designated SS Matt Reynolds for assignment.
October 1, 2018 Washington Nationals recalled SS Matt Reynolds from Fresno Grizzlies.
July 31, 2018 Washington Nationals optioned Matt Reynolds to Syracuse Chiefs.
July 26, 2018 Washington Nationals recalled Matt Reynolds from Syracuse Chiefs.
June 17, 2018 Syracuse Chiefs activated SS Matt Reynolds from the 7-day disabled list.
June 15, 2018 Syracuse Chiefs sent SS Matt Reynolds on a rehab assignment to Auburn Doubledays.
May 28, 2018 Syracuse Chiefs placed SS Matt Reynolds on the 7-day disabled list.
April 24, 2018 Washington Nationals optioned SS Matt Reynolds to Syracuse Chiefs.
April 7, 2018 Washington Nationals recalled Matt Reynolds from Syracuse Chiefs.
March 26, 2018 Washington Nationals optioned 3B Matt Reynolds to Syracuse Chiefs.
February 12, 2018 New York Mets traded 3B Matt Reynolds to Washington Nationals for cash.
February 9, 2018 New York Mets designated 3B Matt Reynolds for assignment.
August 17, 2017 New York Mets recalled 3B Matt Reynolds from Las Vegas 51s.
August 1, 2017 New York Mets optioned SS Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas 51s.
June 28, 2017 New York Mets recalled Matt Reynolds from Las Vegas 51s.
June 21, 2017 New York Mets optioned SS Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas 51s.
June 16, 2017 New York Mets recalled Matt Reynolds from Las Vegas 51s.
June 11, 2017 New York Mets optioned SS Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas 51s.
April 26, 2017 New York Mets recalled Matt Reynolds from Las Vegas 51s.
March 22, 2017 New York Mets optioned SS Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas 51s.
October 6, 2016 Matt Reynolds roster status changed by New York Mets.
October 5, 2016 New York Mets reassigned 3B Matt Reynolds to the minor leagues.
September 5, 2016 New York Mets recalled 3B Matt Reynolds from Las Vegas 51s.
August 13, 2016 New York Mets optioned 3B Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas 51s.
August 1, 2016 New York Mets recalled Matt Reynolds from Las Vegas 51s.
July 5, 2016 New York Mets optioned SS Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas 51s.
June 3, 2016 New York Mets recalled Matt Reynolds from Las Vegas 51s.
May 29, 2016 New York Mets optioned SS Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas 51s.
May 17, 2016 New York Mets recalled Matt Reynolds from Las Vegas 51s.
April 1, 2016 New York Mets optioned SS Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas 51s.
November 2, 2015 Matt Reynolds roster status changed by New York Mets.
October 27, 2015 New York Mets reassigned SS Matt Reynolds to the minor leagues.
October 12, 2015 New York Mets selected the contract of SS Matt Reynolds from Las Vegas 51s.
July 30, 2015 Las Vegas 51s activated SS Matt Reynolds from the 7-day disabled list.
July 23, 2015 Las Vegas 51s sent SS Matt Reynolds on a rehab assignment to GCL Mets.
July 8, 2015 Las Vegas 51s placed SS Matt Reynolds on the 7-day disabled list.
February 3, 2015 New York Mets invited non-roster SS Matt Reynolds to spring training.
June 19, 2014 SS Matt Reynolds assigned to Las Vegas 51s from Binghamton Mets.
April 3, 2014 SS Matt Reynolds assigned to Binghamton Mets from St. Lucie Mets.
March 5, 2014 SS Matt Reynolds assigned to New York Mets.
September 4, 2013 SS Matt Reynolds assigned to St. Lucie Mets from Binghamton Mets.
September 2, 2013 Matt Reynolds assigned to Binghamton Mets from St. Lucie Mets.
April 4, 2013 Matt Reynolds assigned to St. Lucie Mets from Savannah Sand Gnats.
February 24, 2013 IF Matt Reynolds assigned to New York Mets.
September 28, 2012 Matt Reynolds roster status changed by Savannah Sand Gnats.
August 24, 2012 Savannah Sand Gnats placed 3B Matt Reynolds on the 7-day disabled list.
June 30, 2012 3B Matt Reynolds assigned to Savannah Sand Gnats.
June 29, 2012 New York Mets signed 3B Matt Reynolds.


You have learned quite a bit about macros but haven't yet learned how to execute them. This process varies depending on what you're trying to do. You can run a macro from the Macro Design window or by double-clicking the macro in the Macros Group of the Navigation Pane, triggered from a Form or Report event, triggered from a Data Macro, or invoked by selecting a custom Ribbon button.
A macro can be executed easily from the Macro Design window. Running a macro without groups is simple: Just click Run in the Tools group of the Macro Tools Design tab. Each line of the macro is executed unless conditions have been placed on specific macro actions. After you click the Run button of mcrOpenCustomerList (shown in Figure 10.12), the Customer List form is opened.
Figure 1. Running a macro from the Macro Design window.
From Macro Design view, you can run only the first submacro in a macro. To run a macro with submacro, click Run from the Tools group on the Macro Tools Design page to execute the first group in the macro. As soon as the second submacro is encountered, the macro execution terminates.
Scroll down to the Macros group in the Navigation Pane. If the Macros group does not appear in the Navigation Pane, you will need to select All Access Objects from the Navigation Pane drop-down and then expand the Macros group.
Double-click the name of the macro you want to execute, or right-click the macro and select Run.
If the macro you execute contains submacros, only the macro actions within the first group are executed.
Sometimes you are going to execute a macro in response to an event on a form or report. Examples are a form opening, someone clicking a command button, or a form closing. Here, you learn how to associate a macro with a command button.
Select the object you want to associate the event with. In the example, the cmdCheckGender command button is selected.
Open the Property Sheet and click the Event tab.
Click the event you want the macro to execute in response to. In the example, the Click event of the command button is selected.
Use the drop-down list to select the name of the macro you want to execute. If the macro has submacros, make sure you select the correct submacro subroutine. In the example, the macro mcrPersonalInfo and the macro name GetGender have been selected. Notice the period between the name of the macro and the name of the macro name submacro. The period is used to differentiate the submacro (mcrPersonalInfo, in this case) from the macro name (GetGender, in this example).
Figure 2. Associating a macro with a Form or Report event.


Do you want to use Trakt with Kodi? In this article, we'll be showing you how to use Trakt on Kodi using the Trakt.tv Kodi addon.
The Kodi software package is free, open-source, and can be installed on most popular devices including Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Firestick, and Roku. Additional functionality can be added to your Kodi installation using plugins named addons. Trakt is one such addon, but there are thousands available.
Trakt is a web-based service that makes it easier to keep track of your media consumption. This guide will show you how to install and configure Kodi's Trakt addon so any content you access will be noted on your Trakt.tv account.
Many people use a virtual private network (VPN) to hide their unlicensed streaming habits from their internet service provider (ISP). That said, there are many ways someone who uses official sources could benefit from using a VPN.
An attacker can use a Man-in-the-Middle attack to compromise your system and access private data or files. A VPN prevents this by encrypting your network traffic. This encryption also stops your ISP from selling your browsing habits or throttling your connection based on your activities.
Every VPN will slow your network speeds to some degree, but some are better than others. As streaming requires a strong and consistent connection, choosing the right VPN is crucial to a good Kodi experience. It's not just about streaming, though; some VPN providers keep logs of your activities which reduces your privacy significantly.
We recommend IPVanish. It's a VPN that doesn't keep any traffic logs and offers fast, stable connections to more than 50 countries. It's highly portable, with dedicated versions for each major operating system and is the easiest VPN to install on the Amazon Firestick.
What is the Trakt Kodi addon?
Trakt is a service that integrates with your media center to better keep track of the TV shows and movies that you've watched. Whenever you play a file the Trakt addon adds its details (title, date watched, etc.) to your online account. This process is called "scrobbling".
The Trakt Kodi addon extends this functionality to your Kodi installation. Certain addons allow you to integrate your Trakt account and scrobble streamed content, but the majority of these don't use licensed sources and as a rule, we do not recommend them.
Installing the Trakt Kodi addon is very simple. Because it's located in the official Kodi repository we don't have to add any sources and can just install it directly. To do this, click on the Add-ons tab on the Kodi home screen.
Next, click the box icon in the top left. This will take you to the Add-on Browser screen. Click the Install from repository option and scroll through the list of installed repos until you find the Kodi Add-on repository. From here, find the Trakt addon and click it before selecting Install. If all goes well you'll see a notification in the top right telling you Trakt was installed properly.
First of all, you'll need a Trakt.tv account. Register for one here.
Before the Trakt addon can be used it has to be configured. Begin by right-clicking on the Trakt addon's icon and choosing Settings. Next, click the how do I authorize the trakt addon to access my trakt.tv account? option. You'll be presented with a code to enter into the box on the activation page. Once you've done this, confirm that Trakt is allowed to access Kodi.
Now you can continue adding personal information to your profile if you'd like, but this step is completely optional.
Back in the Trakt addon's settings menu, there are several options that allow you to customize what content is scrobbled. Under the Scrobbling tab, you can select whether you want to only upload movies or TV shows. The Offset scrobble start by X minutes option is particularly useful as it allows you to add content that you've watched for a set period of time, instead of adding shows you dropped in the opening minutes. A good time period for this would be ten minutes but you can set it to whatever you like.
The Trakt Kodi addon is mostly used for locally stored content so if you don't have any, you'll have to add some. It's important to note that you may have to refresh your library before titles are scrobbled with Trakt. You can do this by restarting Kodi or by right-clicking the source folder and changing the content to "None", then back to whatever it was before.
We tested the Trakt addon with two public domain titles, one locally stored (the 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead) and one legally streamed from a third-party addon (Algiers, 1938). There were no noticeable differences between the way Trakt handled the titles so as long as you use properly licensed sources you're free to use whichever you prefer.
Once in your library, your movie or TV show should show up under the relevant tab on the Kodi home screen. If Trakt is working properly the content should also become visible in your online Trakt collection.
Once you've finished watching a TV show or movie for the first time, a popup will appear asking you to rate it out of ten. This rating will appear on the title's artwork in Kodi. Similarly, if you go to your Trakt ratings page, you'll see that the title you watched and its rating are both shown. The content you watched will also show up in your Trakt watch history. Entries can be deleted by clicking the purple tick icon underneath the entry's artwork.
Trakt uses your likes and dislikes to recommend similar content, so it's definitely worth getting into the habit of rating media. You can see your total watch time, recently watched movies, and favorite genre from your Trakt profile page.
While the Trakt Kodi addon does not provide all of the same functionality that the web-based version does (playback progress, list management), it certainly offers enough flexibility to make managing an extensive media library very simple.
We'd have liked to have seen more support for official streaming addons. For instance, streamed content from the iPlayer WWW addon is not scrobbled, whereas titles from several third-party addons like Exodus, are. That said, this requires cooperation from official addon creators, and isn't due to any fault on Trakt's part.
That said, as Kodi's own "Mark as watched" functionality is rudimentary at best and doesn't account for files that were deleted and re-added, the Trakt addon represents one of the best ways to organize and manage media across multiple platforms.
Looking for more Kodi addons that might work with Trakt? Check out our guide to the 105 Best Kodi Addons of 2017.


Human Evolution: The History of the Evolution and Natural Selection Processes that Gave Rise to Modern Humans (English Edition) de Charles River Editors está disponible para descargar en formato PDF y EPUB. Aquí puedes acceder a millones de libros. Todos los libros disponibles para leer en línea y descargar sin necesidad de pagar más.
Ever since the human mind developed the capacity for thought, people have pondered not just the meaning of life, but the genesis of the world, the universe, and all the natural marvels and precious forms of life within it. To this day, all of these intricate subjects continue to be matters of great contention, and they are often best encapsulated in the debate between creationism and evolution.
On the one hand are those who are adamant that it was God, or some other supreme being, that designed and crafted every detail of the universe, as evidenced by the plethora of creation myths from various creeds and traditions. Among one of the most well-known etiological tales is the classic story of the Christian God who constructed the world in 6 days, and man and woman out of clay and man's rib, respectively. This is a concept that many still cling to today; approximately 38% of Americans believed in creationism in 2017, as reported by a Gallup Poll. Then, there are the more obscure narratives, such as the Japanese creation myth, which recounts how the god and goddess, Izanagi and Izanami, birthed from "elements mixed together with one germ of life," shaped the Japanese islands with some mud and the aid of a sacred staff. The Mayans preached about Tepeu, the maker of all things, and Gucumatz, the "feathered spirit," who produced the world with nothing but their thoughts, and placed on Earth the first quartet of humans fashioned out of white and yellow corn.
Most scientists believe the evolution of humans has a history as long as life itself. Anatomically modern humans and all other life that has existed on the planet first came about from the single-celled microorganisms that emerged approximately 4 billion years ago. Through the processes of mutation and natural selection, all forms of life developed, and this continuous lineage of life makes it difficult to say precisely when one species completely separates from another. In other words, scientists still debate when a human became a human rather than the ancestor species that came before.
In order to understand the history of human evolution, an understanding of the mechanisms that essentially "created" modern humans needs to be understood. These processes are natural selection and evolution.
Human Evolution: The History of the Evolution and Natural Selection Processes that Gave Rise to Modern Humans examines how humans evolved from microorganisms, and the evolutionary theories that came about in the 19th century to explain it all.


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Today's Gospel features the words of an unnamed centurion: "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed." We may not know this centurion's name, but his faith and his words live on every time the Mass is celebrated. We pray his prayer shortly before we receive Communion. The only difference is that we pray for our own healing. We know we are not worthy for Christ to enter our bodies (our roof) via the Eucharist, but He can heal us. He can wipe away our sins and all our faults.
This Gospel also shows Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law. (I always find it humorous that the first thing she did is get up and serve them. I think all mothers can relate!) Jesus then goes on to heal many who were sick both mentally and physically.
Jesus can heal us spiritually, mentally, and physically. Do we believe that? Granted, there are times we pray for healing and that specific healing does not come, but Jesus always provides the healing that we need. Sometimes it is a spiritual healing and the gift of grace to deal with a physical or mental ailment.
But there are other times when we don't ask. For whatever reason, we are attached to our sin or to our illness. It can take courage to ask for healing. The next time you pray the centurion's words, truly pray for healing – whatever healing you need. You may be surprised at the outcome.
Are you attached to some sin or physical ailment that you suffer from? What would it mean to be healed from that ailment?
Dear God, please heal me in all the places in my soul, mind, and body that I need to be healed.


The ASLA-NY Student Chapter at the City College of New York is organizing a multi-disciplinary conference to imagine the potential for urban forestry to address social and environmental justice issues within our cities. This conference is a groundbreaking forum for the next generation of urbanist thinkers to organize around long-term green infrastructure strategies rather than disciplinary hierarchies. An expansive approach to the urban forest could drive urban design by engaging and building form intersecting interests throughout our urban environment. Lunch, coffee and snacks provided, and a rooftop social hour to follow!
Sponsored by: City College of New York, ASLA-NY, Permaloc, Anova, Deeproot, Victor Stanley, Landscape Details, B Thayer Associates.
6 LA CES will be offered for registered professionals.
1.5 ISA CEUs per session for certified arborists.


Beaufort County Council members moved proposed tow-truck regulations toward a full council vote Monday after making a few tweaks at the request of towing companies.
About a half-dozen towing personnel gave the council's Governmental Committee input on the draft ordinance and proposed fee caps.
"To me, the prices seem pretty reasonable," said Andy Brown, president of Carolina Auto Trim Inc.
The $75 no-tow fee, to be charged when the automobile owner returns before his vehicle has been loaded on the tow truck, was raised to $100 to account for varied mileage costs -- as some tows cover long distances.
Maj. Marvin Morrison, Sheriff's Office enforcement division commander, said adopting an ordinance for the island similar to the county's would provide enforcement consistency.
Town attorney Brian E. Hulbert suggested the committee wait for the county to approve an ordinance before acting.
"It's too early to know yet what to do," he said.
Staff writer Cassie Foss contributed to this report.


Patti Revello graduated from the University of South Florida with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management. In 1992, along with her father Raul Revello, M.D., they opened their first medical clinic in Tampa.
Ms. Revello is also an owner of PrimeCare, LLC, Kinship Healthcare, LLC and CEO/ Co-Founder of Revello Medical Centers.
She has since been very active in the Healthcare community, belonging to the Hispanic Medical Advisory Board, USF Hunger Alliance Program, Vocec de la Gente and other pilot programs to better the health and well being of the community.


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Forum Algarve is strategically located on the main road (EN125) into Faro from Faro airport. It is one of the largest shopping centres in the region. Forum Algarve´s architectural concept was inspired by the regional lifestyle, in an open-air space that makes the best of the Algarve´s sunny days. Its shops and restaurants are laid out along covered galleries around an open central square with cafes and outdoor seating. Forum Algarve offers 125 shops, including brands like MANGO, Guess, C&A and Fnac, 25 restaurants, a five-screen multiplex cinema, and ample car-parking. Forum Algarve is a landmark project that has rapidly become a required destination for its eight million local and tourist visitors per year.


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The Steinbrenners spent nearly half a billion dollars this past offseason to secure three big-name free agents for the first era of the new Yankee Stadium. I feel like I say this every year, but there's no doubt in my mind that this is the best team the Yankees have opened up with in at least five years. For the first time since the late '90s, pitching, not hitting, is the best asset of the team. Here's my outlook on the Yankees' 2009 season.
Starting rotation:
The Yankees have geared up their starting staff for 2009 and are looking to do some damage. Featuring two huge offseason additions in CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, the Yankees' rotation is unmatched amongst the rest of the majors. Retaining Andy Pettitte worked out beautifully, and he will be a steady No. 4 starter. Chien-Ming Wang's bizarre injury last season was just a blip on a blossoming career.
I expect nothing short of 18 wins and groundballs galore from him. Plus, people don't talk about how his strikeout numbers were increasing before he got hurt. His breaking pitch has developed into a strikeout pitch, and is a very nice addition to his tumbling sinker.
Last but not least, the emergence of Joba Chamberlain over the past two seasons is something the Yankees have been searching for for a very long time. There is nothing better than a homegrown starting pitcher. I mean that.
Bullpen:
The Yankees' bullpen was a major concern a few years ago. Now, the team has an overflow of arms and young talent. Mariano Rivera still has a couple seasons left in the tank, and will continue to be the leader of the pen for as long as he wants. Although the Yanks don't have a pure setup man, I believe having a lefty and a righty pitcher splitting the job is actually better than just one guy.
Not only does it allow for better matchups, but it also gives the pen more depth. Brian Bruney's put up better numbers in pinstripes than Damaso Marte has, but Marte's stuff is plain nasty. The rest of the pen is made up of hard-throwing strikeout pitchers: Jonathan Albaladejo, Jose Veras, Edwar Ramirez and Phil Coke. This spring, the four combined for 43 2/3 innings. They only gave up six runs and struck out 45 batters.
Hitting for average:
In the last four seasons, the Yankees' team batting average has been ranked in the top four of the American League each year. Last season, Johnny Damon lead the team in batting with a respectable .303 average. More importantly, the Yankees had four other everyday players batting above .294. With Jorge Posada healthy and Robinson Cano in shape, I expect four to six Yankees to bat at least .290 in 2009.
Weaknesses:
Run producing:
Going into last season, experts were projecting the Yankees to total 1,000 runs. They ended up with 789. The sad thing is, the Yankees could have reached the 1,000 plateau if they had came through in the clutch a little more. The Yanks batted just .261 with runners in scoring position last year.
If you listened to John Sterling's radio broadcasts last year for the games, you already know how many times the Yankees failed to score a runner from third with less than two outs. The Yankees need to play small ball in tight games, and play unselfish baseball. The addition of Mark Teixeira should help the team in this category, but unfortunately he is known for his slow starts.
Besides Brett Gardner, the Yankees have hardly any speed in their lineup. Players that were once speedsters are now getting older and older. I can't count on Damon and Derek Jeter for 20 steals any more. Hideki Matsui, Cano, Posada, Xavier Nady and Cody Ransom combined for three stolen bases last season. Gardner has a chance at 50 steals this season, but he needs to get on base in order to utilize his weapon.
Overall, the Yankees' defense is not bad, it is just sub-par. Jeter has a tough time ranging for balls up the middle, and Damon's arm is one of the worst in all of baseball. And don't count on Posada to hold runners on very well this season coming off shoulder surgery. The only bright spots are Gardner's coverage in center, and the newly added glove of Teixeira's at first base. Tex can also turn the 3-6-1 double play, unlike Giambi.
Red Sox:
The Red Sox added a plethora of veteran free agents this offseason, including: Rocco Baldelli, Brad Wilkerson, Brad Penny, John Smoltz and Takashi Saito. However, Baldelli and Wilkerson are both backups, and Penny and Smoltz are at the back end of the rotation - if at all.
The Red Sox still have a good team because they have brought back all of their key players. The Yankees barely have the edge in the rotation and bullpen, but the Red Sox probably have the better lineup (at least until A-Rod gets back). It will be a tight battle all the way through. But in the end, the Yankees' pitching depth will win them the race.
Rays:
The defending AL champs are not as strong as they were last season. Firstly, they will not be taken for granted by any team. Last season, those players came together and looked like they were going to win it all. But when they got to the World Series, their bats were silenced by good pitching.
The Rays' rotation is not as good as it was last season, and their lineup is essentially the same. The only major move they made was replacing Cliff Floyd with Pat Burrell. Bottom line, the Yankees and Red Sox carry too much pitching to be slowed down by the Rays. My only worry is Evan Longoria. He is the real deal, and is an MVP candidate already in my books.
Final prediction:
The Yankees will have a good start for once, as the players will thrive in the new stadium. Sabathia will lead them past both AL East rivals, and back into the World Series. If they can avoid the Dodgers in the World Series, they should be in good shape.
Labels: 2009, Season Outlook
Gee I'm ready to buy my World Series tickets! Here's how I see the two major uncertainties (1) The New Guard - will Sabathia, Burnett, Texeira play up to their potential or will they wilt under the NY spotlight, and (2) The Old Guard - How much do Rivera, Posada, Pettitte, Jeter have left in the tank? And I might as well throw in another one - A-Rod. All in all, I can't wait till Monday!
Lenny Neslin said...
I can't wait until tonight! Lou Pinella and the Cubs. YES Network 7 p.m.