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FC Dallas head coach Luchi Gonzalez answers questions during a press conference after an MLS soccer match against Minnesota United in Frisco, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. FC Dallas beat Minnesota United 5-3. (AP Photo/Roger Steinman)
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NHL playoffs to resume with 3 games each Saturday, Sunday
FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2015, file photo, NHL Player's Association executive director Donald Fehr, left, and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman attend a news conference at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Given the gravity of the pandemic and the abrupt decision to place the NHL season on pause in March, it did not take Bettman and Fehr long to realize they were going to have to work together if play was to resume any time soon. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
David Ross looking to manage Chicago Cubs back into playoffs
FILE - In this Friday, July 3, 2020, file photo, Chicago Cubs manager David Ross gestures during baseball practice at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Ross was already stepping into some big shoes when he agreed to replace Joe Maddon as manager of the Cubs. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Now Ross is a first-year skipper trying to guide his team through a brand new experience full of testing and protocols and an unforgiving 60-game season. How well he navigates the unprecedented situation is an important slice of the Cubs' hopes for returning to the playoffs. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski, File)
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Rugby players in Ireland earning more than 25,000 euros ($28,000) a year have agreed to reduce their salary by 10% and defer 10% more until 2021.
The Irish Rugby Football Union and Rugby Players Ireland agreed on the pay cut to run from July 1 to Dec. 31. They also agreed that 5% of the deferral will be subject to a retrospective salary reduction depending on the impact of the pandemic.
''The IRFU, the provinces and clubs remain in a highly precarious financial situation, making it critically important that an agreement was reached on this matter,'' IRFU chief executive Philip Browne said.
Southeastern Conference athletic directors met in person Monday at league headquarters in Alabama to discuss the prospects for a football season with COVID-19 cases spiking throughout much of the South.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement afterward that it's ''clear that current circumstances related to COVID-19 must improve.''
The Big Ten and Pac-12 have said they would only play conference schedules this fall in football and other sports. Sankey said SEC leaders ''believe that late July will provide the best clarity for making the important decisions ahead of us.''
The group met in the large Kramer-Moore Conference room to allow for social distancing. Other groups and individuals participated by videoconference.
Among topics discussed were possible scheduling options for holding athletic competition this fall, along with game management at events.
Kansas State had two student-athletes from unspecified sports still in quarantine as the football program resumed its summer access program Monday following a series of positive tests for the new coronavirus.
The Wildcats halted workouts on June 20 when 14 of 130 student-athletes tested positive. The football team's return includes eight hours of weight training, conditioning and film work per week.
The men's and women's basketball teams along with soccer and volleyball teams continue their voluntary summer workouts.
Some of the FC Dallas traveling party returned to Texas on Monday, a week after the team was withdrawn from the MLS is Back Tournament because 10 players tested positive for coronavirus.
The team didn't give any specific numbers but said the group that returned home included individuals who had tested positive for coronavirus after the team arrived in Florida last month. They have since tested negative in multiple follow-up tests.
Those who recently tested positive remain isolated in their hotel rooms at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort, where they will remain until cleared by medical officials to return to Texas.
FC Dallas previously revealed that all players and staff tested negative for the coronavirus before leaving Texas for the tournament on June 27. Two players tested positive upon arrival and subsequent tests found eight more infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.
The team plans to resume training at home later this week.
Nashville SC, which also withdrew from the tournament, said players who tested negative returned Monday. Team officials say those who tested positive remain in Orlando under supervision of medical and health authorities and will be returning later.
The National Junior College Athletic Association says it will not have a fall season and will instead attempt to play football and other sports in the spring.
Men's and women's soccer and volleyball will also be moved to the spring. Winter sports, such as basketball, will be slated to start in January, with a majority of championship events moved from March to April.
Major college football programs frequently recruit players from the top junior colleges, but without a fall season it will be more complicated for coaches at four-year colleges to evaluate those players.
North Carolina A&T says four student-athletes have tested positive for coronavirus since returning to campus on July 6. All four student-athletes are asymptomatic.
If student-athletes have university housing and have tested positive, they are being isolated in a designated area on campus.
N.C. A&T student-athletes who are living on campus live in groups of 8-10 people and also are conducting workouts in groups of that size.
Kentucky says three of 42 student-athletes initially screened from men's basketball, volleyball and women's soccer tested positive for past coronavirus infection through antibody testing.
The school did not specify in a release which programs the positives came from. Those that tested positive were required to quarantine.
Men's soccer players returned to campus last week and are undergoing initial screening before starting voluntary workouts.
The release added that Kentucky has implemented proactive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic testing in response to evolving circumstances. Changing workouts have made social distancing and personal protective equipment more difficult to implement, the release said, forcing the change to also align with the campus plan released last month.
Forty-one student athletes and 21 staffers from those three programs participated in PCR testing. One student-athlete provided documentation of self-testing.
All 108 football players currently working out and 58 staff members participated in PCR testing last week with zero positives.
One person has tested positive in the latest round of checks for COVID-19 on players and club staff in the English Premier League.
The league says a total of 2,071 people were tested last week.
The person has not been identified.
The Chicago Marathon has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The race was scheduled for Oct. 11. Organizers say registered participants are eligible for a refund or can defer their place and entry fee to the Chicago Marathon in 2021, 2022 or 2023.
''Hope drives us as runners and as humans,'' Carey Pinkowski, the executive race director of the Chicago Marathon, said in a release. ''My hope was to see everyone on the start line on Sunday, October 11, but our highest priority has always been the safety of our participants and our volunteers.''
Organizers say they are working on plans for a virtual experience ''to recognize the dedication and commitment of everyone who would have taken part in the 43rd running'' of the marathon.
The NHL says 43 players tested positive for the coronavirus from June 8 through the end of the league's optional workouts.
That number announced Monday includes 30 who tested positive at team facilities and 13 the league is aware of who tested positive outside the league's protocols for its Phase 2.
The NHL opened Phase 3 Monday with the start of training camps for the 24-team playoffs, scheduled to open in two hub Canadian cities - Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta - on Aug. 1. Players had until Monday evening to elect to opt out of competition without penalty.
All players who tested positive self-isolated. The NHL is not sharing names of the players who test positive or the teams involved.
Los Angeles Angels left-hander Patrick Sandoval is back with the team after contracting coronavirus last month.
Sandoval disclosed his positive test Monday from the Angels' summer camp, calling the virus ''unlike anything I'd ever felt before.'' He says he tested positive on June 22.
Sandoval thinks he caught it while golfing with a friend,because he had been careful about being out in public for several weeks beforehand. He said he endured three days of body aches, chills and fever before his symptoms lessened. He rejoined the Angels last week.
Sandoval went 5-3 with a 3.66 ERA last season as a rookie with the Angels, making three starts. He is among several candidates for a spot in the back end of the Halos' rotation.
Chicago Cubs manager David Ross is skipping the team's Monday morning workout because he is awaiting his completed result from his Saturday coronavirus test.
The team says five other Tier 1 individuals also missed the workout for the same reason. Tier 1, according to baseball's 2020 operations manual, includes players and other on-field personnel.
''Out of an abundance of caution, we think it makes sense for the six of us to wait for clarity,'' Ross said in a release. ''Situations like this have not been a worrisome indicator of a positive test result to date.''
The Cubs say there should be ''further clarity'' later in the day.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has postponed its virtual Football Kickoff media event.
The league says the event to preview each teams' prospects heading into fall training camp is delayed until further notice. The three-day event was originally scheduled to be held beginning July 21.
The ACC says future decisions and announcements will take place ''at the appropriate time.''
The Patriot League has joined the Ivy League in canceling fall sports, including football, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Division I conference says it has still not determined whether winter and spring sports competition will be held and that it will consider holding fall sports in the second semester. The Ivy League made a similar announcement last week. The Patriot League is the first conference in the Football Championship Subdivision that competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision's playoffs to suspend its season.
Army and Navy compete in the Patriot League in many sports, including basketball, but not in football. The Patriot League said Army and Navy are exempt from the fall sports cancellation, which also includes women's soccer and volleyball.
Athletes will be permitted to practice and train with coaches and in team facilities ''provided health and safety conditions support such activities,'' the conference said.
Swiss soccer club Zurich says it will field an under-21 team to try to save the season from being canceled because the first-team is isolating at home.
Zurich's game on Saturday was postponed because multiple players and staff tested positive for the coronavirus.
The club says it will play Tuesday against third-place Basel by selecting young players from its backup roster.
Zurich also has to play title contender Young Boys and St. Gallen and says it wanted to avoid the league being annulled.
The 10 teams are already playing in midweek and on weekends to finish the season on Aug. 2 and meet a UEFA deadline for European competition entries. It is unclear when Zurich can play a re-scheduled game against Sion.
Zurich is in sixth place but in contention to earn a Europa League entry by finishing fourth.
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Blue Mateo – One of our favourite strains is now combined with another well known fan favourite. The offspring of Blue Dream and Green Crack, Blue Mateo brings the best of both worlds!Starting off with an explosive head rush, this strain brings aobut lots of creative energy, you'll be skipping that morning coffee for sure! As the high sets in Blue Dream begins to take over and mellows out the body and mind to bring you to an even relaxed state that lends well to day or evening use, depending on your day! A higher THC strain, shes accompanied by the flavours we known and love from our beloved Blue Dream, blueberry undertones and a sweet smooth aroma.


Figure skating: Japan left without a medal, at home, wow!
Medvedeva, the silver medalist in Pyeongchang, turned back the clock to the time before her injury in late 2017 and put on a fine show. She landed seven clean triples and received level fours for her spins and step sequence. The lone miscue came on her final double axel, which she under-rotated. She pumped her fist when she finished as if to indicate she was back at her best.
Kihira, who won the Grand Prix Final this season, competed to "A Beautiful Storm" and had a promising start, landing a huge triple axel/triple toe loop combo. However, she fell on her second triple axel, which definitely cost her a shot at the title.
The 16-year-old landed seven triple jumps and received level fours for her spins and step sequence.
Sakamoto skated to "The Piano" and looked in good position to have a shot at the title. She was in position for a medal until she singled her triple flip late in the program. Sakamoto landed six clean triples and posted level fours for her spins and step sequence, but the one miss was unfortunate.
"I received a lot of advice from Benoit, so the connection and the spin could get better," Sakamoto said.
MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated figure skating star Alina Zagitova on winning gold in ladies singles competition at the 2019 ISU World Championship in Japan's Saitama on Friday.
"You won a beautiful, highly-skilled and confident victory. You skated your program 'in one breath,' conquering millions of fans and spectators with your brilliant skill. Such triumphal achievements create sports glory of our country. Well done!" Putin said in a telegram published on the Kremlin website.
Putin noted that Zagitova, who is strong in spirit and character and has a 'make it happen' mindset, is able to deal with the toughest and most ambitious challenges and goals.
The figure skater's father Ilnaz Zagitov told TASS: "We are very proud, this has been a tough season."
Russia's Alina Zagitova won gold on Friday in ladies singles competition at the 2019 ISU World Championship, which is currently underway in Japan's Saitama. The 16-year-old Russian figure skater scored 237.50 points on the aggregate after the short program and free skating. Kazakhstan's Elizabet Tursynbaeva took the silver with the result of 224.76 points and the bronze went to Russia's Yevgeniya Medvedeva (223.80 points).
In addition to the gold of the 2019 ISU World Championship, Zagitova is the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics gold medalist in singles and the silver medalist in team event.
Zagitova is now the first Russian female figure skater to win all awards in ladies singles competitions as she is also the winner of the 2018 European Championships in Moscow and the gold medalist of the 2017-2018 Grand Prix Final in Nagoya. Besides, Zagitova currently holds world records for points earned in woman's free skating (158.50) and for her combined total score (238.43).
Brian Orser has done more to crush the dreams of Canadian skaters than anyone else alive or dead.
By training other country's athletes. Haha.
Our kids just can't afford him.
Well, Medvedeva suffered for that too, FWIW... It was a huge scandal for her, back in Russia, moving from Madam Tutberidze to a Western coach.
There were plenty in Russia who didn't want to see Medvedeva at World Championship in Japan there; she went in spite of all of them. And won Bronze, good for her.


Inner silence and peace of heart never extinguish the call to human solidarity, which comes straight from the Gospel.
My Child, let Me show you the great value of prayerful solitude. When you converse with men, you often come away with useless distractions, false ideas, and unwanted desires. When you communicate with Me, your under-standing of life is deepened and your outlook is broadened. Human conversation usually ties your thoughts to this earthly life, but talking with Me raises your thoughts above the narrow limits of your mortal existence. Human conversation often brings an exaggerated esteem for the passing glories of earth. Heavenly conversation brings a clearer vision of the eternal glory which awaits you.
Come aside and rest a while in My company. Do this as often as you can during the day. Learn to appreciate My friendship in solitude. This will make it easier for you to keep a holy intention in your activities, a clear conscience, and peace of mind. Love to pray and labor unseen by humans, and you will discover many little ways of pleasing Me more. My light falls on prayerful hearts like seed falling on rich soil.
It is easier to control your thoughts and desires by staying at home than by going out too often. Frequent visiting and going out bring too many distractions. You cannot safely appear in public until you have developed a love for solitude.
In prayerful solitude you will receive a deep appreciation of your heavenly goal in life. A man of prayer speaks when speech is useful to himself or his neighbor. He will not waste his energy and squander his thoughts in idle conversation.
What a marvelous interior knowledge and power will be mine when I have learned to enjoy holy reading and meditation on the things of God! I will share His thoughts and follow His all-wise Will. In prayerful solitude I can find the light and strength to live a holy and truly successful life on earth.
My ever-present God, I hope to turn to You at different times throughout the day to tell You whatever is in my thoughts. Grant that I may gradually become more and more conscious of Your nearness to me, and of Your loving interest in whatever concerns me. Let me turn to You as easily as I turn to my human friends. I need this grace in order to live a truly virtuous life. Help me, Lord, to develop a livelier prayer-life in my daily activities. Amen.
See you tomorrow with another thought!
Encyclical Letter "Laudato si'" of the Holy Father Francis on Care for Our Common Home, 2015/06/18!


This colorful veggie wrap is my favorite lunch box item. One bite of it and your kids will crave for more. It tastes the same whether it's served hot or cold. It does not contain any chilies. The tomato sauce used in this recipe may be replaced by pudina (mint) chutney. The cream cheese is optional. Alternatively, the cream cheese may be replaced with mayonnaise or hung curd. In order to obtain tri-color phulkas (Flat Indian Bread), doughs are used from the Carrot Paratha, Ajwain Paratha and Palak (Spinach) Paratha recipes. However, normal wheat dough too can be used.
Keep 4 phulkas ready without applying any fat over them.
Put 1 teaspoon olive oil in a nonstick pan and keep it on medium flame.
When oil is hot, add cut mushrooms and corn.
Season to taste with salt and pepper. Then saute till mushrooms are cooked.
Mixture should become completely dry, so cook till all water evaporates.
Switch off the flame and let it cool down.
Now to assemble the wrap, keep one phulka in a dish.
Apply the spread of your choice (cream cheese in this case).
Spread it evenly all over the phulka.
Now add 1 to 2 tablespoon of mushroom and corn mixture in the central part.
On that put cabbage and carrot. Sprinkle some salt and paper on it.
Now put ¾ tablespoon cheese and spread it vertically.
Add tomato sauce on the pile.
Fold from both sides and the wrap is ready to serve.
Keep this as it is if you want to take it in a lunch box.
If you want it hot then apply some ghee or butter on tava.
Assemble the wrap on the tava and keep it on slow flame for 2 minutes.
This will make the wrap hot and crispy.
The above ingredients are sufficient for 4 wraps.
Note: Calories are counted using plain wheat phulkas.
i like your cooking receipe, i also make it home, without garlic onion receipe i like it very much, thanks.
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Wireframes are important for multiple reasons. One of them would be that they, the wireframes, focus on functionality, behavior, and priority of content. Once you have those things established, designing the product becomes a lot easier.
Another benefit of wireframes is that they give the client an overview of what their website, app, etc. will eventually look like. This way when you present the design you probably won't hear questions like "Why is that button there?". So wireframes will save time and, possibly, headaches.
Below, I put together a list of wireframes made by some of the best UX designers, in the hope that they might inspire you, and, maybe that you could even learn a bit from them.
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Co‐operatives co‐operate to support new community counselling service
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A unique co‐operative in Tyne and Wear which will offer a variety of different counselling services, will be up and running throughout the region this autumn thanks to support from The Co‐operative Loan Fund and other co‐operative organisations.
Community Counselling Co‐operative will provide a variety of services that are tailored to the needs of people who have little or no access to therapeutic support. This will include working in schools in deprived areas, working with offenders, male victims of domestic violence and children separated from drug user parents.
The finance from The Co‐operative Loan Fund will go towards developing publicity materials for the co‐operative including leaflets, brochures and a new website. They hope that the site will act as an online 'hub' for their clients, providing a space for them to meet and interact online, access resources and find out about events.
Community Counselling Co‐operative is a group of five counsellors based in North East England, who came together as a co‐operative earlier this year after recognising a need for their services in the region. The members are delighted to be operating as a co‐operative, and believe it will have a positive effect on the way they do business.
Simon Campbell, one of Community Counselling Co‐operative's directors, said: "The help we have received from organisations like SES, The Hub and The Loan Fund has been invaluable. Working as a co‐operative allows us to practise what we preach in terms of empowerment and respect."
Community Counselling Co‐operative received business advice from The Co‐operative Enterprise Hub, making it one of a number of co‐operatives to have benefited from the services of both The Hub and The Loan Fund. The group also had assistance from local co‐operative organisation, SES (Sustainable Enterprise Strategies), which offers business and consultancy support to co‐operatives.
Ian Taylor of The Co‐operative Loan fund said: "It's great to see a co‐op working with a network of co‐operative organisations like SES and The Hub, The Loan Fund is very pleased to have added to that support. This is a good example of co‐operation between co‐operatives."

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The best offense in the Pacific Coast League took the field Saturday night and then looked on as the Sacramento River Cats (45-56) ran up the score early en route to a 12-0 win over the El Paso Chihuahuas (57-42). Sacramento struck for nine runs in the first two innings and coasted to the win behind an excellent combination effort from the bullpen.
Sharon, Jack, Kiki and I went to the Sacramento River Cats versus El Paso Chihuahuas Pacific Coast League baseball game. As a social event for her work, Sharon's company took more than 100 people to the game. We had dinner in the Smokehouse BBQ area before wandering to the seats.
I was excited to see Hunter Pence in right field. The two-time World Champ and two-time All-Star was working his way back from hamstring surgery. Pence went 1-for-4 with a double in six innings.
Kelby Tomlinson played third. He was 3-for-5 with two runs scored.
We stayed for the fireworks after the game. Unlike the experience in Lille, it was fairly easy to get out of the parking lot after the game!


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Q: How to compare a wstring with a _T("some String")? I have a functionwstring A2T(const string& str) to convert string to wstring. But I cannot get the correct value when I compare the return value with a const wstring. For example;
wstring strOn = A2T("on");
 if ( strOn == _T("on"))
 {
     SetItemSwitch(true);
 }
 else
 {
     SetItemSwitch(false);
 }

The if(strOn == _T("on")) statement is always false. What is wrong with my code?
This is the A2T:
std::wstring A2T(const string& str)
{
    if (str.empty()) return std::wstring();
    int sz = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, str.c_str(), -1, 0, 0);

    std::wstring res(sz, 0);
    MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, &str[0], -1, &res[0], sz);
    return res;
}

A: The issue is in the interpretation (or use of) of the return value from the first call to MultiByteToWideChar - it will return the size required for the buffer including the terminating NULL character. When creating the wide string, the count for NULL should be removed from the size, the string will add that internally.
In addition, on the second call, use the actual sizes of the strings; this is to avoid the MultiByteToWideChar from processing the buffer including any terminating NULL characters (their presence is already catered for in the string size calculations). Again, the strings will manage the NULL internally.
std::wstring A2T(const std::string& str)
{
    if (str.empty())
        return std::wstring();
    int sz = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, str.c_str(), -1, 0, 0);

    std::wstring res(sz - 1, 0);
    //                  ^^^ count to "remove" the NULL
    MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, &str[0], str.size(), &res[0], res.size());
    //                                       ^^^ use actual sizes
    return res;
}

Depending on the version of the compiler being used, you could also investigate the use of std::basic_string::data for res.data() over the use of &res[0].

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Q: Count occurrences of multiple strings in one character variable I have a dataset of tweets downloaded with rtweet. And i'd like to see how many times three different strings occur in the variable x$mentions_screen_name.
The key thing I'm trying to do is do a count of how many times 'A' occurs, then 'B', then 'C'.  So my attempt at reproducing this is as follows.
#These are the strings I would like to count
var<-c('A', 'B', 'C')
#The variable that contains the strings looks like this
library(stringi)
df<-data.frame(var1=stri_rand_strings(100, length=3, '[A-C]'))
#How do I count how many cases contain A, then B and then C.?
library(purrr)
df%>%
  map(var, grepl(., df$var1))

A: You can do this easily by summing the columns after running grepl() through sapply().
colSums(sapply(var, grepl, df$var1))
#  A  B  C
# 72 72 69

A: If you want to count ALL occurences (so also multiple within a single string), you can use str_count from the stringr package.
map_int(var, ~sum(stringr::str_count(df$var1, .)))
[1]  90 112  98

Otherwise, you can use str_detect.
map_int(var, ~sum(stringr::str_detect(df$var1, .)))
[1] 66 71 70

A: I think you may want something different than what others have posted.  I may be wrong but the phrase you used:
 'A' occurs, then 'B', then 'C'

Indicates to me you want to check if somethings happen in a particular order.
If this is the case may I suggest that you can make your question more explicit.  You provide a MWE example but it could be made more minimal without the need for stringi (which I love as a package) because I doubt your tweets look anything like "ACB" in reality.  Hand making 3-5 strings could accomplish this without loading another package.  Also showing your desired output makes the problem more explicit with less need for explanation.
df <- data_frame(var1=c(
    "I think A is good But then C.",
    "'A' occurs, then 'B', then 'C'",
    "and a then lower with b that c will fail",
    NA,
    "what about A, B, C and another ABC",
    "CBA?",
    "last null"
))

var <- c('A', 'B', 'C')

library(stringi); library(dplyr)

df%>%
    mutate(
        count_abc = stringi::stri_count_regex(
            var1,
            paste(var, collapse = '.*?')
        ),
        indicator = count_abc > 0
    )

##   var1                                     count_abc indicator
## 1 I think A is good But then C.                    1 TRUE
## 2 'A' occurs, then 'B', then 'C'                   1 TRUE
## 3 and a then lower with b that c will fail         0 FALSE
## 4 <NA>                                            NA NA
## 5 what about A, B, C and another ABC               2 TRUE
## 6 CBA?                                             0 FALSE
## 7 last null                                        0 FALSE

## or if you only care about the summary compute it directly
df%>%
    summarize(
        count_abc = sum(stringi::stri_detect_regex(
            var1,
            paste(var, collapse = '.*?')
        ), na.rm = TRUE)
    )

##   count_abc
## 1         3

If I'm wrong my apologies for my misunderstanding.

A: Another option using stringr and sapply could be:
library(stringr)
set.seed(1)
df<-data.frame(var1=stri_rand_strings(100, length=3, '[A-C]'))

var<-c('A', 'B', 'C')
colSums(sapply(var, function(x,y)str_count(y, x), df$var1 ))
#A   B   C
#101 109  90


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Ghost Town, Boom Town … Our Town
Jul 1, 2006 | Features | 0
Celebrating 100 years of city memories from blossoming oranges to crashing planes.
illustration by Adam Omernik
By Nicole Knight
Photography by Jenna Campbell
When Isaac W. Lord purchased raw land in 1887 and persuaded the Santa Fe Railroad to extend its tracks through his new buy, he put in motion a land boom that continues to this day. Promoting the land, Lord invited spectators to "Lordsburg" via a free train ride; more than 2,500 people accepted the invite and bought lots totaling $200,000—the largest Southern California land sale to that date. Building began immediately and has not stopped since, with Lordsburg officially incorporated as a city Aug. 20, 1906. Now 100 years later, La Verne Magazine looks back at the moments that made the town.
The Guestless Hotel
A stately three-story structure with pristine grounds, the finest accommodations, an accumulated capital of $100,000 and zero paying guests—the Lordsburg Hotel. With speculators spilling into Lordsburg by train, Lord, founder and president of the hotel, believed his establishment would burst with business. When construction first began in 1887, Lord saw a promising boomtown. However, when construction finished in 1888, his excitement died down, as the hotel lay dormant in a "boom town" turned "bust town."Attempting to save his investment, Lord teamed with the Santa Fe Railroad to bring professional colonizer George L. McDonaugh to revitalize the community. McDonaugh contacted Mathew Mays Eshelman, a Church of the Brethren minister, to view the town. Immediately, Eshelman saw the ideal spot for a Brethren colony but was later convinced by retailers that the vacant Lordsburg Hotel would make the ideal college site. Brethren men purchased the hotel on March 30, 1891, for $75,000. The deal included a clause promising $1,250 grant for educational purposes from Lord's land companies if the college opened within two years. In March 1891, the deal was sealed for the first Church of the Brethren college on the West Coast. Lordsburg Academy opened its doors September 1891, with 76 students and eight faculty members. "There were about 35 towns along the railroad that had the same kind of beginning, and you never heard of them again, but I think it was the college that made La Verne survive," says Marlin Heckman, University of La Verne librarian emeritus.
The Brethren's history in La Verne dates back to the community's settlement in 1887. With hopes of colonizing sleepy Lordsburg, McDonaugh and Eshelman brought Brethren groups from eastern states. The agrarian Brethren settlers came from states such as Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Illinois hoping to find cheap land to support growing families. "The church was quite conservative; a lot of news stories that came out in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers were trying to describe the Brethren to other people. They were solid, conservative farmers; they worked hard and did not smoke or drink and had very strong social order," says La Verne Historian Galen Beery.
Promotions continued to draw in Brethren, including "The Southern Californian," a weekly newspaper printed by Eshelman. Lordsburg appealed to other Brethren communities by showing off the wonders of California. With the help and interest of the railroad, Lordsburg shipped produce to Brethren conferences back east and Eshelman and other leaders constantly traveled eastward to bring new members to Lordsburg. And by 1902, the orange boom's surplus money allowed the Brethren to build their first church. "The Church of the Brethren at its height had more than 1,200 members," Beery says. The Brethren community continued to grow, and Lordsburg eventually became the largest Brethren colony on the Pacific Slope.
"The ones that came out to California were the more progressive sort, and they said, 'It makes sense to help the town grow,'" Beery says. "The Church of the Brethren has been a very, very great influence in the development of the city."
"Over the years, the members of the church have been highly involved in politics, neighborhoods and the quality of life in the city," says Martin Lomeli, La Verne city manger. "Currently out of our five council members, three are from the Church of the Brethren, and I think that is reflective of the city's past."
"Many people like to try to say the Brethren ran the town, but I don't think that's true," Heckman says. "There were Brethren on the City Council for many years, but this wasn't a town founded and run by the Brethren; they were the majority of the town at a time, but I don't think that's a fair characterization."
Nevertheless, Brethren beliefs have shaped the community's conservative, family-oriented nature. "La Verne has been strongly influenced by churches—I think we have about 24 churches, which is a large number for a relatively small community—and I believe the church has had a major influence on the positive nature of our city," says La Verne Mayor Jon Blickenstaff.
A Marriage Ceremony Like No Other
Carrying a bouquet of orange blossoms, Miss Lordsburg walked down the aisle to exchange vows —and names—with Mr. La Verne, in a mock wedding ceremony in the hotel auditorium Sept. 27, 1917, to commemorate Lordsburg's name change. Oscar W. Raley played Miss Lordsburg, and W.S. Romick played Mr. La Verne with Hervey Nichols presiding over the ceremony. The name change brought the community out of its founder's shadow.
The ceremony marked an end to a bitter confrontation between I. W. Lord and his townsfolk. Embarrassed and frustrated with the name "Lordsburg," citizens had petitioned for a change. Even the college students joined the fracas. However, Lord did not take the change lightly and took the College to court. Heckman, researching the name change, found 1912 court documents quoting Lord. "Who do these students think they are? They're only tangents; they're only going to be here a few years; what does it matter what the college is named?" Lord won the case, and the Lordsburg residents endured the name until he died in 1917. "He wasn't beloved as you would think a founder of a town might be," says Heckman. Known as "fair, fat and 40," Lord did not even live in his town, but instead in Alta Loma, commuting to Lordsburg by train. The townspeople acted fast, officially instating the name "La Verne" Aug. 16, 1917, with a vote of 239 to 81. The name "La Verne," a French term meaning "spring-like" or "growing green," reflected the city's surrounding area and came from Mrs. Pixley, who won the town naming contest.
The Rise and Fall of an Empire
In the beginning, La Verne's citrus empire struggled against the desert-like climate. But as wells and windmills spouted, farmers were encouraged to plant the groves. With M.L. Sparks, W.S. Romick and L.H. Bixby planting more than 20 acres, the citrus industry officially took over La Verne, stretching 100 years, from 1876 to 1976.
The entire Pomona Valley became the world leader in the citrus industry. The city raised the finest oranges, known throughout the nation as "La Verne Beauties." The oranges were shipped across the nation, as examples of the "good life" and California's wealth. "Look at the value of oranges—this was an exotic tropical fruit. People from the East wanted more and more oranges, and they grew very well here," says Beery.
Despite Southern California's sunny weather, La Verne's citrus groves endured a chilling threat, known as the Jan. 7, 1913, "Freeze." La Verne's industry took a tremendous blow that night. To prevent future frosts from robbing La Verne of its crop, the "smudge pot" was developed. Many college students worked around the clock smudging to keep the groves alive.
The La Verne Growers Association, incorporated July 31, 1909, establishing a producer cooperative for member's packing and marketing needs. The association's packing house increased from 275 to 626 carloads of oranges annually within five years. By 1919, the association was managing approximately 1,000 carloads of oranges annually. In that same year, the La Verne Lemon Association and the La Verne Orange Association separated, creating a district organization called the La Verne Fruit Exchange, a member of Sunkist.
La Verne enjoyed the citrus industry's height from approximately 1925 to 1945. By 1934, the city took pride in hosting the second largest navel packing-house in the world. It is estimated that La Verne packinghouses handled 75 percent of the orange trade. "The citrus industry had its growth in the '20s, and La Verne was known as the heart of the orange empire because there were more oranges grown in La Verne than any other city on earth," historian Beery says.
The industry collapsed slowly over time. "The loss of the citrus industry has been the biggest change in the last 50 years," Heckman says. One of the major reasons was "quick decline," a virus that attacked sour root orange stock, causing the trees to die rapidly.
Soot pollution plagued the groves, reducing their health and quality. "All the smudging got so bad in the 1920s, that the women of La Verne tried to figure out how they could get smudging stopped," Beery says. "And we're talking about in your house in the morning—you could look out your window and see little bits of soot sparkling in the sunbeam and you could walk across your lawn, and it would crunch because there was that much soot on the ground."
And then there was developer demand for land. In the end, many growers gave in, selling their land because property value outweighed the unprofitable groves. "I've lived here my whole life, so I've seen the change from almost total orange groves to the point where they are non-existent," says La Verne Mayor Jon Blickenstaff. "Within my lifetime, we've gone from a very sleepy little town in a relatively suburban region to a megalopolis." Along with the groves' absence came the community's fading connection to a common tie. The houses moved in, and people began taking jobs outside the city. "La Verne's a bedroom town now; people live here and work elsewhere," Beery says.
The citrus industry's benefits were more than just financial. La Verne's people became a close-knit community because of the city's dedication to the groves. The packing houses employed men and women. College students found work smudging the groves. Children were given an endless playground for their imaginations, and La Verne possessed a charm only rural towns can radiate. Whether growing, smudging or picking, the community members were engaged in the groves. Much of La Verne's identity is derived from the groves. Many of the city's crests and logos host the once dominant oranges, and the University of La Verne's colors, orange and green, were inspired by the founders peering into the groves and picking the eye-catching colors. One tribute grove to the orange empire survives in Heritage Park, located in north La Verne.
Crashing into History
After 49 days of transcontinental flight, weather and engine trouble, and several crashes, Calbraith Perry Rodgers, out of gas, crashed landed on a flat wheat strip known today as Brackett Airport. Residents rushed to catch a glimpse of the daring pilot making history. Star-struck crowds swarmed around Rodgers and his plane. After taking off from Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York, Rodgers fell into La Verne on Nov. 5, 1911, making him the first person to fly across the continental United States—pretty good for a pilot with only an hour and a half of flight instruction.
Rodgers managed to fly a fragile Wright Brothers Model EX biplane across the states. He survived 15 serious crashes during this journey. The plane was hardly the same craft as when it first took off; it has been said that every engine part and piece of fabric was replaced during the course of the flight. Sponsored by Armour Food Company, the plane was nicknamed the "Vin Fiz" after the company's new grape drink. To meet the needs of his sponsor, Rodgers was required to promote the product with a fabric banner, flying low over large cities and handing out samples at each stop. "Rodgers' flight at the time made a couple of firsts in history," says Peter Jakab, chairman of the aeronautics division of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. "He was the first to fly across the continental United States, and he was the first example of advertising on an airplane—he received a lot of press coverage making him quite a celebrity."
The thrill, adventure and fame of flying across the United States were not the only factors driving Rodgers to his historical feat. Publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst offered $50,000 to the first aviator to fly coast-to-coast in 30 days. Rodgers missed the deadline by 19 days, and the prize went unclaimed. "Rodgers was a larger than life personality—he was very social, known to constantly have a big cigar in his mouth, and always emerged as this indestructible guy," Jakab says.
Acquired from the Carnegie Institute in 1934, the Wright EX "Vin Fiz" now hangs at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
La Verne's Families
Since the days of Lordsburg, La Verne has been a haven for generational families making a difference. Influential families can be found throughout the city on street names, parks and buildings. "Family is everything. Part of the risk, I feel, for society, is minimizing this family influence," Mayor Blickenstaff says. La Verne lineages can be found everywhere. "People tend to stay in La Verne. For a community in Southern California, we have a lot of generations that stay in the community," Lomeli says. "People raise their families here and thrive."
La Verne's history provides an almost endless list of families who have influenced the community since its beginnings. This impact can be seen throughout the city, from the orange empire to the Church of the Brethren to city government. Just naming a few: Dayton Newcomer was a city councilman and Farmers and Merchants Bank cashier; he and his wife Lela had a son Leland, who would become the University of La Verne's president from 1968 to 1975. Jacob and Martha Landis, along with children Rose, Ernest, Florence, Herman and Estella, were all graduates of La Verne College and taught school. In the 1930s, H.M. Hanawalt, a local contractor and dedicated Brethren, furnished without cost equipment and construction materials to build a church for the Brethren. Coming from across the United States, La Verne's founding families included names such as Bixby, Williams, Metzger-Blickenstaff, Dubel, Keiser, Doughty, Nicholsons, Steves, Gillette, Martin, Neher, Hunter, McClellan, Mills, Haines, Price, Pobst and many more. Many of these families created lasting bonds with each other through marriages.
Blickenstaff has been a long-standing name in La Verne since 1890. "The family has been in this community for a long, long time and has always been actively involved in the community, church, the University and the city government." says Blickenstaff. Mayor for 24 years, he follows in his grandfather's, uncle's and brother-in-law Frank Johnson's footsteps as the head of La Verne. Although Blickenstaff's grandfather and uncle died before giving him any advice on being mayor, he says their influence has helped. Johnson's example influenced Blickenstaff greatly. "Frank has an outstanding ability to work with people—to listen and be responsive and truly care about people and understand responsibility to those people." Blickenstaff's father served as the fire chief for 36 years. "I feel a lot of pride in knowing our family has been involved for so long. I believe not just the number of years, but the quality of years of involvement—the city of La Verne has never had a significant bad time, there's never been a downfall in our city—and I think part of that is the quality of service and the longevity of service; and to be apart of that is very rewarding. It's common for people to express appreciation for the quality of life in La Verne, and to feel like you're a part of that quality of life is very satisfying." Steve Johnson, Frank's son and current Council member, grew up watching his mayor father. "It brought home the family aspect of community," Johnson says. "I didn't know any different time growing up because dad was always a part of the city."
Installation of 210 Freeway
Fifty years in the making, the 210 Freeway's installation caused major headaches for La Verne since its 1952 addition to the State Master Plan for Freeways. Before finally opening in 2002, the freeway ended at Foothill Boulevard, dumping traffic into the heart of La Verne. Over time, land space for the freeway became harder to acquire. The state owned many pieces of property, but not the entire freeway's length. Attaining unpurchased land proved daunting in the face of relocating homes and businesses.
The abrupt freeway ending had its costs and benefits. Traffic congestion on Foothill Boulevard aggravated La Verne residents and filled the streets with cars and pollution. This "misfortune" was also a blessing, bringing commuters' money to La Verne businesses. "With the construction of the 210 freeway, it took a lot of the traffic off our local streets and put it on the freeway," says Lomeli. "And originally that traffic helped La Verne develop because there were a lot more people in the city for businesses to develop; but it also was a negative because local people were concerned about driving on surface streets because traffic was so bad, and people did not want to stop, especially around some of our residential areas." In the end, the price of installing the freeway hurt and helped La Verne in the name of progress. "People were afraid that when the freeway was built it would have a real negative impact, and that people would not shop in La Verne, but the opposite was true; it allowed more local people to shop in the city, and as a result all of our commercial corridors are doing quite well," says Lomeli.
Impact of the Latino Community
"Coming from the other side of the tracks," once had potent meaning in La Verne. The railroad tracks served as a prominent border segregating Whites and Latinos. "La Verne was a basic Southern California community, the railroad ran east to west, and the Latino community lived south, and everyone else lived to the north. They were two separate communities," says Beery.
The Latino population dates back to Lordsburg's beginning and has spawned generations of families who helped build the community. "The Latinos have been a small percentage in La Verne, but the ones who are here have been since the Lordsburg days, and they are very proud of it," says Lupe Gaeta-Estrella, La Verne deputy city clerk and native. "The people who are here have always been here." Many early families came during the Mexican Revolution, including the Mendoza and Lopez families. Eliseo and Concha Rodriguez had children who became active in community life: Robert, a La Verne city councilman for 24 years; Jay, a former vice president with NBC; Alice Morales, wife of former mayor Mike Morales and leader in bilingual education; Betty Constantine, teacher; Richard, former Pomona elementary principal and current school board member; and Denie, former secretary to Mt. San Antonio College's president. Among many other notable names are the Romo, Castro, Cardenas, Martinez and Guerrero families.
Many members of the Latino community were employed originally as citrus industry pickers and packers. "They were primarily the work force that helped settle La Verne and provided the labor that aided the growth of the community—and they helped settle the community without a doubt," Lomeli says. These Latino workers played a major role in the booming citrus industry's success. "The Hispanics were the driving force of the orange empire," Robert Rodriguez says.
Latino families resided in a neighborhood known as the "Barrio," located on the south side of the railroad tracks at Walnut Avenue and Arrow Highway, also referred to as the "Walnut District" by the city of La Verne. Most of the families residing there today are relatives of the original founding families—a community Gaeta-Estrella calls, "one of the most stable neighborhoods in La Verne."
Around the 1920s to the 1940s, two segregated schools educated children, with Whites attending Lincoln School, and Latinos attending Palomares School. The students at Palomares experienced savage inequalities with lower objectives, poor facilities and discrimination from the other side of the tracks. Rodriguez, reared in La Verne, experienced his school days much differently from his Latino peers—his family lived on the north side of the tracks. "My mother was a very determined lady, and she went to the superintendent of schools and said, 'If the dividing line to go to Lincoln School was the railroad tracks, then her children were going to Lincoln School, so I was kind of an outcast from all the other Mexican kids in the area because they would always think I thought I was better because I went to the Anglo school."
Rodriguez recalls the derogatory comments and actions against himself and his Hispanic peers. "I didn't know I was Mexican till the fifth grade when kids would run around saying, 'We're going to play with the Mexicans today,' and here I was saying it, and I'm Mexican."
In 1947, the schools finally integrated, fulfilling the vision of J. Marion Roynon, Brethren and La Verne Schools' superintendent from 1945 to 1958. "The Brethren were very receptive and didn't look at persons for their color but based people, to quote Martin Luther King, 'off of their character' and their ability to perform," Lomeli says. "They basically helped educate and end the racial barriers that were predominant in Southern California." Today, neither of the schools exist. Palomares was replaced with a plastic manufacturing factory, and J. Marion Roynon Elementary School now occupies Lincoln School.
Not Your Average College Town
Through the years, the University of La Verne experienced just as many changes as the city itself. Following the name change of the town in 1917, Lordsburg College became La Verne College, and after years of growth and advancement, La Verne College realized university status in 1977. Today's University of La Verne looks drastically different from Lordsburg College. The Lordsburg Hotel was torn down in 1927, and the Wilson Library is in its place today. The University has maintained many historical buildings such as Founders Hall, Miller Hall, and its converted packing houses stand in monument to the lost citrus empire.
Since Lordsburg College's beginning in September 1891, the institution's philosophies and values have reflected those of the city. "There's a match between the University of La Verne and the community of La Verne," Blickenstaff says. "I think the University has a personality very different from others, and it blends in so nicely with the community."
A large part of that match is found in the Brethren influence. "Both the city and the University were heavily influenced by the members of the Church of the Brethren and their values," says University President Stephen Morgan. "Those values are still reflected today in both the city and ULV. The values of human dignity, fairness, honesty and ethical behavior are important to both. Also, both have a strong emphasis on building a sense of community and maintaining a personalized environment."
Significant, too, is the commitment to partnership. "We thrive and rely on working with others, including the University of La Verne. We believe we can best serve the community when we partner in that service," Blickenstaff says. Sharing the same space and leadership for more than 100 years, the University and the city value each other's presence and contributions. "We have many mutual interests that influence the well-being of both the city and ULV," Morgan says. "We celebrate a similar life span and a shared history as very close partners, and it has been a long positive partnership." ULV serves as the biggest employer in the city of La Verne.
"And when we talk about the quality of life—I think the people who value learning and education add to the quality life just with their presence, whether they're a student, a staff member or professor, that's a high quality addition to the community when a university comes in," Blickenstaff says. The University's younger population has played a major role in La Verne's character. "The University makes La Verne an interesting and exciting place—having young people in town as well as the professors in town creates an environment that's unique," Lomeli says.
Not only has the University shaped La Verne's character, but also the city's economy has thrived from the institution's impact. "The University and the city have really grown up together since both were founded within a few years of each other," Morgan says. "The University helps make the downtown area vibrant, bringing several thousand people each day to the community. The University also brings distinction and prestige to the city—it has been a positive symbiotic relationship."
What Does 100 Years Mean?
Once incorporated on Aug. 20, 1906, Lordsburg became a municipality, fully responsible for its governance and services. Attaining incorporation brought identity. "It's like a business having a name, having a building, having a purpose to exist—the area is recognized as a city by the state of California as an entity with its own government and own way of raising funding and forming a budget," Blickenstaff says.
Out of Los Angeles County's 88 incorporated cities, La Verne stands among the earliest, ranking in the top 20. "Part of a 100-year anniversary is ceremonial," Blickenstaff says. "When you reach that age, no matter what you're doing—whether it's your own personal life or the incorporation of a city—you have a lot of healthy signs. And I think La Verne is a healthy and positive community, where people celebrate that this has been a good place to be for these 100 plus years. To me, the heart of our whole community is the people; it's families who are working well together, neighborhoods that enjoy each other's company, volunteers who help kids—a safe and clean city."
Picking La Verne's historic treasure, Mayor Jon Blickenstaff remembers as a young man smudging the groves of La Verne. / photo by Jenna Campbell
The First Inhabitants of La Verne
Long before Lordsburg became a Southern California boom town, an artesian-nurtured village of Shoshonean Indians thrived on the valley's rich land, inhabiting an area called Mud Springs—a natural water source near Arrow Highway and San Dimas Canyon Road. "Like many of the California Indians, they depended on the natural environment for their food—they did not have agriculture and virtually ate everything," says Al Clark, University of La Verne associate vice president for academic affairs and area historian.
In the 1980s, some 12,000 to 14,000 artifacts were recovered by amateur archaeologists Paul Baum and Robert Hoover and other members of the Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California.
Archaeologists believe that the Shoshonean Indians arrived in the Los Angeles Basin about 500 B.C. These villages of Indians occupying the San Gabriel Valley called themselves the Tongva, but were more widely known as the Gabrielinos, named by today's historians.
They were expert basket weavers; artifacts are on display in the ULV Jaeger Museum. Other Gabrielino characteristics include the practice of religious and social services, a type of commerce, the use of fire and the lack of horses or other large animals.
Like the downfall of many California Indians, the diseases and dietary deficiencies in mission life ended their cultural identity by 1909. Today, even though the Gabrielinos are one of the least known California natives, they are considered to be "one of the most interesting" by many archaeologists.
"The Gabrielinos did not leave an impact we can see directly today, but they left the tradition of respecting the land," Clark says.
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Ángel González
Seattle Times business reporters
Amazon's extraordinary growth has turned Seattle into the biggest company town in America.
Amazon now occupies a mind-boggling 19 percent of all prime office space in the city, the most for any employer in a major U.S. city, according to a new analysis conducted for The Seattle Times.
Amazon's footprint in Seattle is more than twice as large as any other company in any other big U.S. city, and the e-commerce giant's expansion here is just getting started.
The swarms of 20-somethings crowding into South Lake Union every morning represent an urban campus that is unparalleled in the United States — and they have helped transform Seattle, for better or worse. Amazon's rapid rise has fueled an economy that has driven up wages and lowered unemployment, but also produced gridlock on the roads and sky-high housing prices.
And while Seattle's booming economy is often attributed to a wide variety of factors, increasingly, it's all about one company.
Amazon now occupies more office space than the next 40 biggest employers in the city combined.
And that's only the beginning: Amazon's Seattle footprint of 8.1 million square feet is expected to soar to more than 12 million square feet within five years.
Amazon's supremacy in e-commerce and cloud computing has translated, locally, into an avalanche of glass, steel, people and money. It's given Seattle more prominence as a magnet for talent from all over the world, and reshaped formerly forlorn parts of the city, into vibrant live-work-and-play neighborhoods.
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The company's unparalleled impact in determining Seattle's fortunes may give some pause to those who experienced the downturn of the 1970s, when the shine of "Jet City" was tarnished as Boeing cut about two-thirds of its huge local workforce.
"Seattle's been through this before," said Tracey Seslen, a professor at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. "If Amazon were to leave, that would create a giant hole in their wake."
However, unlike Boeing, whose local operations focus on the single business of building airplanes, Amazon runs a vast web of mutually reinforcing but diverse businesses, from selling computing power, to retailing nearly everything, to publishing books and producing films.
John Schoettler, Amazon's director of real estate, says that all he's experienced in his nearly two decades at Amazon is "steady, continued growth," the result of the company's zealous focus on satisfying customers.
The legacy of what so far amounts to $4 billion spent by the company on real estate here will be long-lasting, he said: "These buildings will stand for hundreds of years."
This is the new building leased by Amazon across from the Ruby and Dawson Amazon buildings in the South Lake Union area of Seattle. They're all part of the growing footprint of the city's biggest employer. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times)
For this story, the real-estate data firm CoStar provided a list of all office tenants in the nation's 20 biggest cities by population, looking at only Class A offices, the modern buildings used by the vast majority of major employers.
While other company campuses may be larger and more dominant in some suburbs — think Microsoft in Redmond, or Apple, Google and Facebook in Silicon Valley — in big cities, corporate tenancy is generally fragmented.
For example, financial giant Citi has 3.7 million square feet in New York — making it the second-largest major-city office tenant in absolute terms after Amazon. But it represents less than 3 percent of Class A office space in the Big Apple.
That's typical: In most big cities, the top employer has less than 5 percent of local office space.
Among the country's largest 20 cities, only Columbus, Ohio — where insurer Nationwide occupies 16 percent of office space — has a situation comparable in its dominance to Amazon. But it's still less than half of Amazon's total square footage.
In Seattle itself, Amazon is in a league of its own. Its footprint is nearly 20 times greater than that of the next-biggest employer.
Next in size after Amazon, Safeco Insurance and the University of Washington each occupy about 400,000 square feet of office space in Seattle, followed by several companies with about 300,000 square feet each: Tableau, Zillow, Zulily, Nordstrom, F5 Networks, Facebook and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Before its collapse last decade, Washington Mutual occupied about 1.6 million square feet downtown, more than any other company. It took years for the downtown office market to recover after WaMu was absorbed by JPMorgan Chase and its headquarters employees were dispersed. The market only fully bounced back once the recession was fully in the rearview mirror and Amazon began expanding earlier this decade.
'A sea of parking lots'
Amazon got its start in a Bellevue garage in 1994, and it first grew without much of a plan — its employees were scattered in various downtown Seattle buildings and in the former Pacific Medical Center building on Beacon Hill. When Schoettler, the Amazon real-estate executive, joined the company in 2001, it had 630,000 square feet in Seattle.
In 2005, Schoettler said, he told CEO Jeff Bezos that the company needed a plan, and Bezos agreed. His only condition was that Amazon would stay in downtown Seattle, Schoettler said.
That coincided with the reversal of a decades-long outflow from U.S. cities to their suburbs: By staying in the urban core, Amazon would attract members of the hip creative class.
"It was a very conscious decision we made," Schoettler said.
The easiest place for Amazon to grow into was South Lake Union. "It was essentially a sea of parking lots," Ada Healy, vice president of real estate at Vulcan, billionaire Paul Allen's real-estate firm — which built much of Amazon's campus — said at a recent real-estate conference.
Allen had paid for 11.5 acres he intended to donate to an urban park project called the Seattle Commons. But when voters turned it down — twice, most recently in 1996 — the land went to Allen. His Vulcan development company then gobbled up more land in the neighborhood over the following decade, giving it about 60 acres.
Amazon's first request was for about 2 million square feet, to be delivered in 2010. That initial expansion, Schoettler said at the real-estate conference, "was supposed to last us through 2016."
As it turned out, by then the company would have three times as much.
That's because its Seattle payroll was growing even faster than expected. The company now employs about 40,000 employees in Seattle, up from 5,000 in 2010.
Now it is by far the largest employer in the city. Under Amazon's current plans, there will be room in Seattle for more than 55,000 Amazonians at the beginning of next decade.
Amazon later acquired another 2 million square feet from Vulcan, and some 3.3 million square feet from Clise Properties in the Denny Regrade, formerly a realm of cheap motels and car dealerships. There, Amazon is building the epicenter of its campus around three 40-story towers and three giant spheres.
Altogether, Amazon occupies or plans to be in about three dozen office buildings in Seattle.
This breakneck rate of expansion, in contiguous land, "would be difficult to do in a lot of other metropolitan areas," Schoettler said.
Amazon's expansion has led, in the short time since the end of the recession, to a "record level of private investment," as well as significant levels of public infrastructure investment, according to John Scholes, CEO of the Downtown Seattle Association.
Over the last decade, South Lake Union has seen $668 million in infrastructure improvements, from a new electrical substation under construction to the revamped Mercer Street to a new streetcar line to upgraded parks. About one-sixth of the cost has come from private investment, the rest from ratepayers and public funds.
Housing, traffic impacts
Amazon has become the go-to scapegoat for people complaining about Seattle's problems associated with growth, like housing prices and clogged streets. And while it's certainly not the only reason Seattle is bursting at the seams, Amazon makes up a disproportionate share of the city's rapid growth.
Apartment rents this year are 63 percent higher than in 2010, as Seattle has become the fastest-growing city in the country.
Home costs are rising faster here than anywhere in the nation, and have doubled in the past five years, pushing the middle class to surrounding, less expensive towns.
Seattle now also has the nation's third-highest concentration of mega-commuters — people traveling at least 90 minutes each way to work. Their numbers have grown 72 percent in five years.
Buses are more packed than ever, and lines that run along the Amazon campus are often standing-room-only during rush hour; Metro drivers at times have to leave commuters waiting outside an Amazon office because their buses are full. Local officials even added buses to accommodate the crush of Amazon interns that arrived this summer.
"It's hard to keep pace in terms of development of infrastructure," said Simon Stevenson, the director of the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of Washington. But overall, "the positives, economically, outweigh the potential of the downside."
Wages here are rising faster than anywhere else in the country, driven by Amazon's hiring binge of employees making six figures. Unemployment is near record lows.
Local celebrity chef Tom Douglas, who operates 16 restaurants in the area, including several in the South Lake Union epicenter of Amazon's boom, has seen the transformation since he arrived in Seattle in 1984.
He says that despite the traffic and high cost of living, he'd rather have the growth happening here than in another city.
"There's this romantic notion about Seattle. I've been here long enough to see both sides of this," he said. Douglas recalled how the opening of Dahlia Lounge on Fourth Avenue, in 1989, "was a tough go."
"There were crackheads in the 7-Eleven next door to us. We barely made it," he said. "We should be thankful for the prosperity we have right now. I think we should embrace it."
Amazon has also begun turning around the reputation that it's done little to alleviate the problems stemming from Seattle's growth. The company recently said it would house a homeless shelter in one of its new offices and is offering nonprofits space for restaurants in some of its other buildings. It donated $10 million to the University of Washington last fall, created plazas for public use and has helped underwrite the South Lake Union streetcar.
A real-estate revolution
Amazon's growth has been so substantial that it can single-handedly skew the city's core office market, said Matthew Gardner, the chief economist of Windermere Real Estate.
In the last quarter of 2016, for instance, all non-Amazon employers in Seattle's greater downtown region shrank by a combined 150,000 square feet of office space. But Amazon gained 408,000 square feet by itself, making it a positive quarter for the market overall.
"They're kind of almost juicing the market in some respects," Gardner said.
Amazon's supercharged growth has made it harder for other companies to find available offices in the entire downtown core, said Eric Blohm, a senior managing director for Savills Studley, which represents companies looking for office space.
The company's expansive effect is being felt well beyond the South Lake Union and Denny Regrade neighborhoods. Amazon recently leased 400,000 square feet in Bellevue, and various real-estate sources said the company is interested in taking over the entire office portion of a forthcoming 58-story downtown Seattle skyscraper at Rainier Square, scheduled to open in 2019. Amazon declined to comment on the potential expansion.
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If that move happens, it would have a cascading effect on availability for other businesses in the core of downtown, outside of South Lake Union, Blohm said.
Previously, he said, "A landlord in that (downtown) market couldn't really say, 'Oh we're holding out for Amazon' … Now they would have some ammunition to say that."
Amazon's growing mass has also created a gravitational pull for other big tech companies on the prowl for employees. Google and Facebook have set up big offices in Seattle's urban core, and by the end of the decade they are both poised to be among the top 10 tenants in the city.
Apple, Airbnb, Uber, the makers of Snapchat and others have also set up shop downtown following Amazon's success in recruiting engineering talent.
That, said Seslen, the University of Washington professor, helps strengthen the local tech community.
Because Amazon does not have an isolated suburban campus like Microsoft, "there's more opportunity for employees at Amazon to network with their peers at other companies," she said.
But that influx of deep-pocketed tech giants also makes it more difficult and expensive for smaller businesses to find space.
"Some landlords aren't even talking to us about (leasing) full floors," Blohm said. "They're holding out for the full building user. Or they'll say, 'Get in line, you're third in line, we're talking with other people.'?"
Revitalizing retail
Although Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce company, has been long criticized for destroying Main Street retail jobs, in Seattle's case the influx of Amazon jobs has been accompanied by a boom in local retail.
Between 2010 and 2015, retail sales in downtown Seattle have grown more than 19 percent annually — much faster than in nearby cities, according to the Downtown Seattle Association. Just in 2015, sales spiked 27.5 percent to some $1.4 billion. By comparison, Bellevue sales grew by 13.3 percent and Redmond's by 5.7 percent that year.
Scholes, the Downtown Seattle Association president, says there's been a shift toward beverage and food services, a corollary of the expanding downtown residential population, many of them well-paid.
Even department stores — a category that's been eviscerated by Amazon's success elsewhere — have been buoyed here by downtown Seattle's increasing hubbub. Their 2015 sales rose 224 percent from the recession's tail end in 2010, while across the lake in Bellevue, sales grew 64 percent.
Stevenson, the UW real-estate expert, said that localized retail surge is the result of Amazon breaking with the suburban campus tradition of software companies.
"Actually the benefit to downtown is enormous," he said. "The development and revitalization would not have happened this quick without Amazon moving there and expanding that much."
Ángel González: 206-464-2250 or agonzalez@seattletimes.com. On Twitter @gonzalezseattle. Mike Rosenberg: mrosenberg@seattletimes.com or 206-464-2266; on Twitter @ByRosenberg.


This is the first in a four-part series (part II, part III, part IV) of CEB blog posts by guest-blogger and attorney Tim Hallahan.
Earlier this year I sat as a juror on a five-week murder trial. It was a dream-come-true opportunity for a trial-skills teacher like myself to see the process from the jury's eyes. A month after the trial, we jurors met for dinner to discuss the experience. Here are a few lessons I learned from debriefing my fellow jurors and from my own experience as Juror #101.
Respect and facilitate the jury's role in the process. The court system has made significant strides in "the care and feeding of jurors." Everyone from jury assembly room staff to judge and courtroom staff was patient, pleasant, and respectful from day one.
Let jurors know what to expect. Key to the process was letting us know in advance exactly what to expect: how the trial would proceed, what we were to do, how long it would take, what days off to expect, and so on. A little advance knowledge does much to alleviate anxiety. The DA, understanding our role as ally in the decision-making process, saw his job as that of teacher more than advocate. He communicated this to us by presenting and explaining the evidence clearly and thoroughly. On the other hand, the defense attorney seemed to have no purpose other than wanting to be our friend. We all liked him, but by the end the consensus was that much of what he did was pointless.
Use a jury questionnaire. After a brief introduction, Judge Dorado gave us questionnaires to fill out, then asked us to come back two days later for voir dire. The questionnaires were an effective way to discover relevant biases and decision-making ability. The judge and one of the lawyers efficiently used the questionnaire answers during voir dire to probe crucial areas. It would have been tedious and time-consuming to have 80 or so jurors describe their work, family, opinions, and experiences—and embarrassing for potential jurors to have to reveal sensitive information in open court.
Let Judge Probe Sensitive Areas. If you have a good judge like Judge Dorado, let him do the heavy lifting of probing sensitive personal experiences and dispelling common myths—e.g., that the lawyers will be hiding important information through technicalities, that the defendant must be guilty if he doesn't testify.
Use voir dire to get information. Spend your limited time with your jurors by asking open-ended questions to uncover biases and determine what kind of decision makers they will be. In my case, the DA did just that. The defense attorney, however, asked random questions designed either to educate us or befriend us. For example, his only question to me was: "If I allow you to sit on this jury, will I be able to get my MCLE credits?" We jurors are not stupid. If one lawyer uses voir dire to do what the judge tells us it's for—to gain information—and the other doesn't, you can guess who will win that credibility battle.
For more on conducting effective voir dire, see California Trial Practice: Civil Procedure During Trial §8.46 (3d ed Cal CEB 1995). Also, check out our blog post on picking a jury.
Stay tuned for the rest of this series on the CEB blog!


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Home Education Human Rights Summit Empowers Youth to Change the World
Human Rights Summit Empowers Youth to Change the World
16th annual Human Rights Summit of Youth for Human Rights International brings together young delegates representing 45 nations with UN ambassadors and leaders of civil society to support their work and enable them to accomplish their goals for a just, fair and sustainable future.
Press Release – updated: Jul 5, 2019 13:53 PDT
NEW YORK, July 5, 2019 – Hope and accomplishment—these were common themes that played out in the opening session of the 16th annual Human Rights Summit, broadcast live from United Nations Headquarters in New York. The program, organized by Youth for Human Rights International, was sponsored by the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations, with co-sponsorship by the Permanent Missions to the UN of Ghana, Moldova, The Gambia and Sierra Leone.
In his videoed message to the Youth Delegates, Nobel Peace Laureate José Manuel Ramos-Horta, former President of East Timor, urged them to continue their mission to make human rights a reality.
The Summit featured the Youth for Human Rights International Human Rights Hero Awards, acknowledging those whose courage and determination has raised the bar on human rights in their respective nations and communities.
The 16th annual International Human Rights Summit emphasized the importance of raising awareness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It presented a view of the historic impact of the UDHR. And it provided the educational resources needed to ensure its implementation across the globe.
Youth delegates and ambassadors who attend are selected based on their stellar accomplishments in resolving conflicts, fostering gender equality and addressing human trafficking and other urgent violations of human rights in their countries.
The Summit provided youth with the opportunity to network with other young human rights activists and to benefit from the experience of officials and NGOs from around the world who share their commitment to accomplishing equality and justice through human rights education.
Workshops help youth delegates and ambassadors increase their communication and administrative skills to enable them to accomplish their goals.
Over the past 16 years, the Summit has evolved into a platform to establish international partnerships and friendships with delegates from more than 70 countries.
Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is the youth component of United for Human Rights (UHR). It is a global nonprofit organization founded in 2001 with the purpose to teach youth about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights to inspire them to become advocates for tolerance and peace.
UHR has now grown into a global movement with over 150 chapters and its educational materials, translated into 27 languages, bring the message of human rights to 195 nations. The Youth for Human Rights public service announcements and The Story of Human Rights educational film air on several hundred television stations in dozens of countries each year.
The Church of Scientology and Scientologists support United for Human Rights and make their educational materials available free of charge. For more information visit the Scientology website or Scientology.tv.
Source: Youth for Human Rights International
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Live baccarat is one of several live casino games and is one of the most favorite games of the gamblers. The game has only three options 'Player', 'Banker' and 'Tie'. There are mainly three kinds of live baccarat games: "Baccarat chemin de fer", "Baccarat Banque" and "Punto banco".
In this game, 2-9 numbered cards are valued at their face value, whereas 10, Jack, Queen and King have 0 value. An Ace is considered valued at one point. If the total card value is more than 10, then score will be Total Card value – 10. So, for a card total of 21, your score would be 1.
At the start of the game, two cards are first passed face-down to the players and then to the banker each. The cards are then turned over and the dealer counts the total points obtained by each player. If any player or the banker gets 8 or 9, no more cards are dealt and the highest scorer will win the game. Otherwise, the game continues. Each player draws one card if he has 0-5 or stands if he has 6 or 7. The banker draws a card depending upon his hand or if the player draws.
It is a variation of baccarat and is played with 6 pack full of cards shuffled together at the center of the table. The shuffling of the card is first done by the dealer and then by the players starting from their left.
The basic difference between Baccarat Chemin de Fer and Baccarat Banque is related to the banker. There are usually 3 packs of cards used in the game and the banker stays until his finances are maintained or the cards are not yet dealt with.
"Punto" means "Player", while "Banco" means "Bank", in reference to the two principal bets of the game. The object of the game is to bet on the hand, either "Punto" or "Banco" that you think will have a total of, or closest to, 9. Or to bet that both "Punto" and "Banco" hands will have the same total.
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Acest articol prezintă echipele care vor lua parte la Campionatul Mondial Universitar din 2016, desfășurat la Antequera, Málaga, în Spania, între 27 iunie și 3 iulie 2016, a 23-a ediție a acestei competiții.

Grupa A

Japonia
Lotul Japoniei a fost următorul:

Antrenor principal: Shigeo Kusumoto
Antrenor secund: Shoichi Kashizuka

România
Lotul României a fost anunțat pe 18 iunie 2016:

Antrenor principal: Nicoleta Alexandrescu
Antrenor secund: Costică Buceschi

Spania
Lotul Spaniei a fost anunțat pe 13 iunie 2016. Ulterior s-a anunțat că Sara Gil o va înlocui pe Jennifer Gutiérrez.

Antrenor principal: Ángel Sandoval
Antrenor secund: José Ignacio Prades

1) A înlocuit-o pe Jennifer Gutiérrez;

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Home Networking & Communications VeriSign Increases Telecom Focus with New Tech
VeriSign Increases Telecom Focus with New Tech
By Thor Olavsrud | June 03, 2002
VeriSign Inc. Monday moved to stitch together two acquisitions as part of a push to gain ground in the telecom space with new signaling and billing technology intended to make it a core utility for carriers.
VeriSign unveiled its plans for Illuminet, acquired last September, and H.O. Systems, acquired in January, at the Supercomm show in Atlanta.
Under the firm's new strategy, it will weld together Illuminet and H.O. Systems as the VeriSign Telecommunications Services Group.
Through the acquisition of Illuminet, VeriSign picked up an SS7 network , which provides carriers access to the system of signaling networks for nearly the entire U.S. public-switched telecommunications infrastructure. At the time of the acquisition, VeriSign said it expected to use its own portfolio of technology to offer new services to Illuminet's customers, including secure short messaging, local number portability, and Voice Over IP (VoIP) bridging.
H.O. Systems, on the other hand, brought VeriSign billing and customer care solutions for wireless carriers. It picked up the company with the intention of expanding the Illuminet portfolio of services with end-to-end billing and CRM applications for wireless carriers.
The new Telecommunications Services Group is geared toward making those intentions a reality, aided by a new IP platform for telecom database services dubbed the Advanced Transaction Look-up and Signaling system (ATLAS).
VeriSign said ATLAS can seamlessly interact with multiple protocols -- including DNS , SIP , and SS7 -- giving it the potential to serve as a database platform for Local Number Portability, Calling Name, LIDB, and other database look-ups. The company said that by bridging these protocols, users will eventually be able to communicate and transact business across different kinds of networks using all kinds of devices, from wireline phones to mobile phones, PDAs and PCs.
"ATLAS positions VeriSign to deliver the promise of convergence by providing a scalable, reliable, and flexible platform that bridges Internet and telephony services," said Ari Balogh, vice president, engineering, VeriSign. "The ability to talk IP on one end and SS7 on the other creates fast data look-ups across both worlds."
Additionally, VeriSign said ATLAS is capable of handling more than 100 billion Internet connections per day within a fraction of a second. It also promised that the platform can provide faster domain name resolution and updates.
On the services front, VeriSign also unveiled NetDiscovery Services, an offering aimed at carriers facing the Federal Communications Commission's June 30, 2002, deadline for compliance with the 1994 CALEA -- Communications Assistance Law Enforcement Act -- mandate. CALEA, which recently gained momentum with the passage of the USA Patriot Act, mandates that telecom service providers support law enforcement agencies in conducting lawfully authorized electronic surveillance of call content and call data.
After the deadline passes, carriers will face a $10,000 per day fine for each law enforcement agency intercept request that is not fulfilled.
"In addition to sunk costs, administration is perhaps the biggest headache for carriers," said Terry Kremian, executive vice president of Telecommunications Services for VeriSign. "CALEA requires that carriers provision network elements for the intercept event, intercept the call content and data, deliver it directly to one or more law enforcement monitoring facilities in a standard format, and provide secure records storage. Depending on the city, type and number of switches involved, carrier costs for compliance are estimated to be as much as half a million dollars per switch to upgrade, and at a minimum $150,000 annually to implement while maintaining the credentialed staff and secure processes and facilities required to properly intercept requests under CALEA.
Instead, NetDiscovery Services is a service bureau solution that allows carriers to fulfill their obligations under the law while outsourcing fulfillment to VeriSign's maximum security facilities and personnel.