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Community Action Partnership of Ramsey & Washington Counties
Erin McKee VanSlooten
Katie Costello
Bridget Kranz
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Through a strong partnership with mission-aligned organizations, the Community Action Partnership of Ramsey & Washington Counties (Community Action) Head Start Program worked with the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) to launch the first Farm to Head Start initiative in Minnesota in 2014, and has been working to strengthen and expand their Farm to Head Start work ever since. From celebrating cultural traditions through diverse lunch recipes and dynamic classroom activities, to popular family engagement events and joyous field trips to HAFA's farm at harvest time, Community Action's initiative builds on Saint Paul's diversity to bring nutrition to life.
Establishing value-driven partnerships
After developing a successful Farm to Early Care model with New Horizon Academy in 2012, IATP had several goals for the next iteration of this work, including expanding access to fresh, healthy foods for communities that are disproportionately affected by diet-related disease, building deeper relationships between farmers and the early care families in their communities and strengthening the resonance of Farm to Early Care activities by exploring the deep connections between food and cultural traditions. A first step in expanding access to fresh, healthy foods was focusing on partnerships with Head Start Programs, which specifically serve low-income families who face structural barriers to healthy food access and, consequently, have higher rates of diet-related disease.
Through contacts at the Minnesota Head Start Association, in 2014 IATP's Community Food Systems Director Erin McKee connected with Angela Prokop, Nutrition Coordinator for Community Action's Head Start Program in Saint Paul. One of Community Action's major goals was to improve the nutrition of their children, and Prokop saw Farm to Head Start as a great strategy for encouraging kids to try—and, hopefully, like—fresh, healthy foods while learning where they come from. Head Start center-based locations participating in the Farm to Head Start initiative care for children aged three to five years of age, just when they are beginning to develop their taste preferences. Kids at this age can eat up to 80 percent of their daily nutrients while in Early Care environments, creating a huge opportunity to encourage a good relationship with healthy foods from a young age and to set healthy eating habits for the rest of their lives. One of Prokop's main goals for Farm to Head Start was to support local growers, embodying Head Start's goal of empowering communities and increasing the service of fresh vegetables on the menu. Community Action was excited by the prospect of a strong, lasting relationship with HAFA.
At the same time, she was meeting with Prokop, McKee was in conversation with Pakou Hang, the Executive Director and co-founder of the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA). Since Hmong refugees came to Minnesota in the 1970s, many have relied on their deep agricultural traditions to make a living but continue to face systemic barriers to accessing land and financing their operations. With a goal of generating wealth for their community, HAFA manages a 155-acre farm outside Saint Paul, where farmer-members can lease land to grow on and sell crops through the HAFA Food Hub, while getting training and support from HAFA staff.
In 2014, most HAFA farmers' sales were direct-to-consumer at farmers markets, which required long hours with no guarantee of sales. HAFA was interested in institutional markets as a strategy to diversify their growers' incomes with more reliable, larger sales. When looking for partners, HAFA prioritized organizations that reflected their organizational values. Mirroring the greater community, Community Action enrolls a large number of Hmong children in their Head Start program; several HAFA farmers and staff had personal or familial connections to Community Action. For Hang, a self-described "Head Start kid," selling to Head Start meant providing children from her community with nutritious, local food and giving them an opportunity to engage with their heritage through traditional ingredients and dishes.
The ease and success with which Prokop, Hang, and McKee worked together was tied to the guiding principles that they shared. Each came from a social justice-oriented organization and valued the benefits of providing children with nutritious, locally grown food at a formative age. Establishing these shared values, and outlining commitments, from the first meeting onward helped them stay unified in the face of later hurdles.
Additionally for Hang, their strong relationship was a result of everyone having come to the project at the beginning, as equal partners: "Talking it through [together] that first time was very good, as opposed to if IATP and Head Start had worked together and then we had come in. I think the power dynamics would have been a little bit different."
Bringing on a caterer and food processor
After two months of planning discussions between Prokop, Hang, and McKee it was time to approach Community Actions caterer. CKC Good Food is the South Saint Paul-based, woman-owned catering company that sources and prepares all Community Action's meals and snacks. Prokop wondered whether Farm to Head Start would be feasible, given the fact that she couldn't control where CKC sourced their food. Luckily, CKC was eager to get on board. Again, this successful partnership was a result of CKC's alignment with Head Start's values.
For Hang, their strong relationship was a result of everyone having come to the project at the beginning, as equal partners
Together, they began planning the Farm to Head Start initiative in detail. Community Action, HAFA, and IATP worked to develop a schedule of highlighted foods for the coming school year, then met with CKC to review the calendar and discuss recipe guidelines. CKC developed recipes, finalized quantities and submitted the recipes for Community Action's approval. It was then up to CKC to communicate the necessary quantities to HAFA.
Since Community Action serves roughly 1,200 kids during the school year, it became apparent to CKC that processing and preparing raw, whole foods for this number of meals would be a near-impossible burden. HAFA brought on Russ Davis Wholesale, an employee-owned processing company HAFA had worked with in the past to wash, chop and slice their produce before delivering it to customers. Again, in Russ Davis, Community Action found a mission-aligned organization willing to purchase from small- to mid-sized farmers and partner on Farm to Head Start. Based on their recipes, CKC communicated necessary processing needs to Russ Davis.
The next step was to form a Farm to Head Start Leadership Team, made up of Prokop, Hang, McKee, and representatives from CKC and Russ Davis. Together, they worked to finalize planning for the initiative's launch. It was this initial planning phase, from February 2014 to the beginning of the summer that was the most time-intensive period for the project. Once a framework was established, the added workload for members of the Leadership Team decreased.
The Leadership Team decided that Community Action would pilot their initiative in the summer of 2014. At the time, Community Action operated 11 centers during the year, but only two during the summer. Financially, it was impossible for Russ Davis to process such a small amount of food for only two centers. As a solution, during the summer, CKC agreed to receive the food directly from HAFA; they would process and cook it in Community Action's main kitchen. CKC had concerns about verifying the safety of foods brought in directly from the farm, so HAFA shared details of its food safety training, completed by a licensed food safety contractor.
In the fall, all eleven Head Start centers started their regular session and the initiative began in earnest. Each center included the produce from HAFA in their meals, but only six enacted IATP's accompanying Farm to Early Care curriculum, allowing Community Action to ease into the new initiative. Russ Davis joined as processor, and the school-year supply chain was established. Since 2014, Community Action has continued this supply chain. In the summer, the food is processed directly by CKC. During the school year, Russ Davis handles the larger volume. After the food is processed, CKC prepares it to varying extents at Community Action's main kitchen at the Ruth Benner Head Start center. Community Action's other centers have differing food service capacities; some of them receive the food ready to serve from Ruth Benner, and some receive and cook it themselves.
Using and modifying IATP's Farm to Early Care model
Prokop took advantage of the Farm to Early Care educational curriculum developed by IATP, to significantly reduce workload for Community Action's teachers. At the beginning of the year, Community Action incorporated Farm to Head Start training into already-scheduled professional development days. Prokop showed teachers how to incorporate Farm to Head Start topics into existing lesson plans and activities, and provided teachers with IATP's Farm to Early Care curriculum. This curriculum includes complete lesson plans on a wide range of locally grown foods, as well as generalized food and farming-related lessons that classes can do if a highlighted food isn't ready on time.
Prokop also made sure to include teachers in the Farm to Head Start planning process. She worked with them and used their feedback to modify IATP's curriculum to reflect the needs of their community. In her experience, showing teachers they had a voice in Farm to Head Start greatly increased their buy-in and made them more enthusiastic Farm to Head Start role models.
At the same time, HAFA staff developed several new lessons for the Farm to Early Care curriculum, including lessons lifting up Hmong culture, lessons on farming practices and detailed farm field trip activity plans for groups of visiting children.
Learning by doing: Farm field trips and classroom highlights
Families and children alike look forward to the annual harvest field trip to HAFA's farm. Not only does Community Action use farm visits as experiential learning opportunities for their children, but they invite families along as well, hoping to increase their engagement in Farm to Head Start. The harvest field trip always has amazing turnout, as children and families get to work with their hands to pick produce. Since their initial partnership with IATP, Community Action has been able to secure funding for these field trips through their strong alliance with HAFA. They have been able to jointly apply for grants, using their Farm to Head Start experience in crafting their narrative. HAFA has also received individual grants to help Community Action visit the farm and to provide educational resources to Community Action classrooms.
Outside of the harvest field trip, family engagement could be a challenge. The majority of Community Action's children are bussed to Head Start, so teachers are unable to talk with families during pick-up and drop-off. Luckily, there's a framework for family involvement built into the Head Start model. Each one of Community Action's centers has a Parent Committee. These committees work with Community Action's family advocates to plan monthly family events. Each year, Prokop works with the committees to design food and farming-related activities for a few of these events. She presents on Farm to Head Start, updates families on what their kids are learning and provides relevant activities for attendees. Building face-to-face communication with families through pre-existing channels helped circumvent language barriers and ensured that important information was communicated.
Refining the initiative
Community Action's Farm to Head Start initiative is still going steady since its start in 2014. The strong, value-driven relationships formed between the core partner organizations remain in place today. Although there have been no major changes to the supply chain, or to the structure of the initiative, part of the initiative's lasting strength has come from its flexibility, and the willingness of the Leadership Team to constantly reassess and adapt.
During Community Action's pilot year, Prokop found that there was an undue burden on food service staff. The desire to have strong, culturally responsive content led to complex recipes, which created a lot of additional work. In the second year, Prokop worked with CKC to simplify recipes. A couple of delayed harvests during the first year meant that Community Action ended up with excess food at the end of their fall term. Prepping the food for storage over winter break and then bringing it out of storage after was an added burden on CKC staff. The following year, Prokop adjusted the schedule after late harvests or other hiccups to get all the highlighted foods served before break.
Prokop has made a strong effort to make Farm to Head Start financially feasible for both CKC and Russ Davis. Since Community Action was paying a flat rate per meal, CKC couldn't adjust pricing according to the cost of ingredients. Because of this, Prokop made sure to bring CKC into initial meal planning and pricing discussions. By helping decide quantities and price points, CKC could ensure highlighted foods were available at a comfortable price. Community Action also makes an effort to use every part of the vegetable, keeping the yield higher and the price per ounce lower. They assessed and replaced foods and recipes that had been poorly received by children, thereby cutting down on food waste.
Prokop reports that all parties feel Farm to Head Start is financially viable. In 2017, when it came time for Community Action to renew CKC's contract after a formal bid process, Community Action asked if CKC would like to increase the flat meal price in their contract; CKC declined, saying that their arrangement was economically responsible as is. Additionally, through working with a smaller grower, CKC and Russ Davis have learned skills that will enable them to partner with other smaller producers in the future.
Through constantly evaluating Community Action's initiative, and receiving feedback from partners in regular check-in meetings, the Leadership Team was able to solve problems in a responsive and timely manner. This ensured that no one partner felt an undue burden and helped contribute to the lasting success of Community Action's Farm to Head Start initiative.
Advice for others
A strong connection between partners will give initiatives the strength and resiliency to push through setbacks. Prokop encourages anyone considering starting a Farm to Head Start initiative to find partners who share similar goals and visions. "The end goal has to be the same," she advises.
She also recommends that anyone beginning a Farm to Head Start initiative be flexible and establish a strong communication framework with partners. Given Minnesota's climate, and the somewhat unpredictable nature of farming, last-minute changes are bound to happen at some point. Prokop's solution was to create a Google Sheet that she shared with all members of the Leadership Team. This spreadsheet contained information on highlighted foods, quantities, pricing and delivery dates. Every member could view and make changes to the shared spreadsheet in real time, by logging on to their Google Drive account.
Lastly, Prokop strongly encourages others to do their research. "Reach out to other programs that have gone through it," she said. "This will help with knowing potential challenges and barriers and help grow ideas you have for your own program."
Watch the video on Community Action, IATP and HAFA.
Learn more about Farm to Head Start and read the other case studies.
Many thanks to Angela Prokop, Pakou Hang, and all of the partners at the Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties Head Start Program, the Hmong American Farmers Association, CKC Good Food Catering, Russ Davis Wholesale and beyond who contributed to the success of this Farm to Head Start effort!
Funding for this project is provided in part by the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.
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The previously high-flying frontier markets and related exchange traded funds have been falling behind this year as regional risks finally catch up to the asset class.
The iShares MSCI Frontier 100 ETF (NYSEArca: FM) was among the best performers over 2014, but the fund has declined 13.2% year-to-date, underperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets Index by over 400 basis points.
"Many of the large frontier markets, such as Nigeria, Kenya, Kuwait, and Argentina, all saw their respective stock markets, and currencies, exhibit sharp declines in 2015," writes Patricia Oey, senior analyst at Morningstar. "There are a number of reasons for these declines, including weak global demand for these countries' exports, political instability, and terrorism. These issues have weighed on these countries' public finances, stock markets, and currencies."
FM includes a heavy tilt toward Kuwait 25.9%, along with Argentina 14.4%, Nigeria 13.4%, Pakistan 10.4%, Kenya 5.9%, Oman 5.8%, Morocco 5.3%, Romania 4.6%, Vietnam 3.6%, Bangladesh 3.2%, Sri Lanka 2.5% and Kazakhstan 2.3%.
If investors are still interested in the frontier markets, though, Oey suggests investing in a diversified fund, which may mitigate the idiosyncratic risks of diving into individual frontier countries.
"Given the volatility of individual frontier-markets countries and currencies, investors are usually better served holding frontier-markets funds that are more geographically diversified," Oey added.
These frontier markets include countries with underdeveloped institutions, basic financial systems, precarious political systems and fairly illiquid capital markets. Consequently, the region is considered among the riskiest in the global markets.
However, the frontier markets do hold some appeal. For instance, many of these frontier economies are at the early stages of development relative to emerging markets, with growth in the mid- to high-single-digit range. Many countries also have favorable demographics, are expected to increase infrastructure spending and have large natural resource reserves.
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Trends and Socioeconomic Health Outcomes of Cannabis Use Among Patients With Gastroparesis: A United States Nationwide Inpatient Sample Analysis : Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
April 2022 - Volume 56 - Issue 4
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Trends and Socioeconomic Health Outcomes of Cannabis Use Among Patients With Gastroparesis
A United States Nationwide Inpatient Sample Analysis
McCarty, Thomas R. MD*; Chouairi, Fouad BS†; Hathorn, Kelly E. MD*; Chan, Walter W. MD, MPH*; Thompson, Christopher C. MD, MSc*
*Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
†Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Supported, at least in part, by the NIH grant T32 DK007533-35.
W.W.C.: Ironwood—scientific advisory board. C.C.T.: Apollo Endosurgery—consultant/research support (consulting fees/institutional research grants), Aspire Bariatrics—research support (institutional research grant), BlueFlame Healthcare Venture Fund—General Partner, Boston Scientific—consultant (consulting fees), Covidien/Medtronic—consultant (consulting fees), EnVision Endoscopy (board member), Fractyl—consultant/advisory board member (consulting fees), GI Dynamics—consultant (consulting fees)/research support (institutional research grant), GI Windows—ownership interest, Olympus/Spiration—consultant (consulting fees)/research support (equipment loans), Spatz—research support (institutional research grant), USGI Medical—Consultant (consulting fees)/advisory board member (consulting fees)/research support (research grant). The remaining authors declare that they have nothing to disclose.
Address correspondence to: Christopher C. Thompson, MD, MSc, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: [email protected]).
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology 56(4):p 324-330, April 2022. | DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0000000000001526
Although cannabis may worsen nausea and vomiting for patients with gastroparesis, it may also be an effective treatment for gastroparesis-related abdominal pain. Given conflicting data and a lack of current epidemiological evidence, we aimed to investigate the association of cannabis use on relevant clinical outcomes among hospitalized patients with gastroparesis.
Patients with a diagnosis of gastroparesis were reviewed from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database between 2008 and 2014. Gastroparesis was identified by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes with patients classified based on a diagnosis of cannabis use disorder. Demographics, comorbidities, socioeconomic status, and outcomes were compared between cohorts using χ2 and analysis of variance. Logistic regression was then performed and annual trends also evaluated.
A total of 1,473,363 patients with gastroparesis were analyzed [n=33,085 (2.25%) of patients with concomitant cannabis use disorder]. Patients with gastroparesis and cannabis use disorder were more likely to be younger and male gender compared with nonusers (36.7±18.8 vs. 51.9±16.8; P<0.001 and 52.9% vs. 33.5%; P<0.001, respectively). Race/ethnicity was different between groups (P<0.001). Cannabis users had a lower median household income and were more likely to have Medicaid payor status (all P<0.001). Controlling for confounders, length of stay, and mortality were significantly decreased for patients with gastroparesis and cannabis use (all P<0.001).
While patients with gastroparesis and cannabis use disorder were younger, with a lower socioeconomic status, and disproportionately affected by psychiatric diagnoses, these patients had better hospitalization outcomes, including decreased length of stay and improved in-hospital mortality.
Trends and Socioeconomic Health Outcomes of Cannabis Use Among Patients With Gastroparesis: A United States Nationwide Inpatient Sample Analysis
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology56(4):324-330, April 2022.
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For example, the first activity set is usually to have a 'family meal,' where all the family help to set and lay the table and sit around together and enjoy meal times as a social time. Teachers also aim to get involved with such activities as they admit that they are also guilty of rushing meal times or sometimes sitting in front of the television to eat.
For each 'family values' activity complete and evidenced in the children's homework book points will be received. Evidence can be photos, drawings, objects or written accounts. These points will be recorded on the family values class point chart. At the end of each term, prizes will be received for those with the most points.


In my thread on user interactions with documentation, I suggested that you want your measurement instrument, usually some form of survey question(s), to influence the experience you're trying to measure as little as possible. From a measurement standpoint, that's nothing new. You never want your measurements to influence that which you're measuring to prevent contaminating your measurement.
The past few days, I read a couple of articles on content metrics from the blogosphere: one had promise but ultimately indulged in some analytic slight-of-hand, while another actually made me smile and its focus on an solid methodology gave me hope.
Why is a solid methodology important? It's the basis of your reputation and credibility. It's the difference between knowing and guessing. These two articles reflect two examples of this.
First, the one that had a sound approach, but some flawed measurement methods.
…and why return on investment (ROI) is not the best metric to use for measuring content value.
I've been ruminating on the topic of content value (more than I usually do) since Tom Johnson published his essay on technical communication value last month. I've studied measurement, experimentation, and statistical process control in applications other than writing and I have also seen them repeatedly and painfully applied to writing. The results have been, almost without exception, anywhere from disappointing to destructive. Until this morning, I haven't been able to articulate why. Thankfully, a post in Medium by Alan Cooper provided the shift in perspective to help me bring everything into focus. I'm passionate about this because it's the new view of tech comm that is needed for the 21st century.
Alan Cooper's post, titled "ROI Does Not Apply," describes how "ROI is an industrial age term, applicable to companies that manufacture things in factories." Writing is not a manufacturing process. Granted, there are some manufacturing-like elements of the writing process as you get closer to publishing the content—and honestly, making that part of the process as commodity-like as possible has some benefits. But, writers add the most value to the content where the process is complicated and non-linear: towards the beginning, where concepts, notions, and ideas are brought together to become a serial string of words. That's were ROI and other productivity measures are inappropriate—they don't measure what's important to adding value.
I had the pleasure of joining the Boulder/Denver WriteTheDocumentarians at their meetup in Denver, last month. I presented a short talk on what I had learned about measuring the value of content that is typically produced by technical writing, which started an enlightening conversation with the group.
I've linked the slides and provided a brief narrative to go with them, here. Unfortunately, you had to be there to enjoy the conversation that followed–a good reason to not miss these events!
You can't measure value until you define what is valuable.
Value, however, can take many shapes, and different people in your organization will likely define value differently, especially when it comes to content.
Measuring your technical content – What about…?
If you've been following the preceding posts on measuring content, as the use-cases and customer journey paths start to become less funnel-shaped, this is about the point where whataboutism starts to occur.
In the post on measuring Tutorials, for example, I assert that "the customer's goal in reading a tutorial is to accomplish something outside of the web," making detecting and measuring their success difficult to do from within the topic. While the definition of a tutorial might make that seem like a pretty clear goal, that doesn't make it immune to whataboutism.
Whataboutism can enter the discussion at this point in the form of "What about the people who come to the tutorial topic looking for a code sample to copy and paste? They don't want to learn anything." Or, "What about the executive who looks at the tutorial to see if it addresses a particular issue they care about?" Or, what about… You get the idea. From what I've seen, it's easiest for whataboutism to enter the discussion when the goals are broad and vague and the data supporting the goals and their subsequent measurement are scarce.
So, what can you do about the "what about…" cases?
In my recent posts, Measuring your technical content – Part 1 and Measuring your technical content – Part 2, I described some content goals and how those might be defined and measured for Introduction and Getting Started topics. In Part 1, the interaction was funnel shaped, while in Part 2, the funnel metaphor applied only in one of the two customer journeys through the page.
In this topic, I talk about Tutorials and How-To topics and how the funnel metaphor becomes less appropriate as customers goals move beyond the web experience.
It's time to get creative (scientifically, of course).
In my previous post, Measuring your technical content – Part 1, I described some content goals and how those might be defined and measured for an introduction topic. I this post, I look at Getting Started topics.
If Introduction topics bring people in by telling them how your product can help them, Getting Started topics are where you show them how that works. Readers who come here from the Introduction topic will want to see some credible evidence that backs up the claims made in the Introduction topic and these topics are where you can demonstrate that.
Technical readers will also use this as the entry point into the technology, so there are at least two customer journey paths intersecting here.
Another path starts from the Getting Started page (already understanding the value proposition of the product) and moving deeper into the technology to apply it to their specific case.
Because at least one of the customer journeys through the Getting Started topics are less funnel-shaped than for the Introduction topics (some are almost inverted funnels), it's important to start with the goals and required instrumentation before writing so that you can design your page to provide the information that the customer needs for their goals as well as the data you'll need to evaluate the page (your goal).
So, in that case, what how might you measure such a topic's success?
This started out as a single post, but grew, and grew, and… Well, here's the first installment.
After the last few posts, it would be easy to get the impression that I don't like Google Analytics.
I just don't like when it's treated like it's the only tool that can collect data about a web site—especially a non-funnel (informational) web site.
In this collection of posts, I'll look at my favorite topic, API documentation, and how you might analyze it in the context of the customers' (readers') journeys. This analysis doesn't have to apply only to API documentation, because it's based on customers' goals, which are more universal and, if you look carefully, you might see a customer goal that matches some of your content.


Year-on-year, prices are expected to advance at a softer pace for food and non-alcoholic beverages (1.3 percent compared to 1.5 percent in December), of which unprocessed food (0.1 percent compared to 2.4 percent) while processed food including alcohol went up faster (2.3 percent compared to 0.8 percent). In addition, cost is likely to slow for transport (1.6 percent compared to 2.8 percent) and restaurants and hotels (1.0 percent compared to 1.1 percent). Also, cost of health is expected to fall (-0.3 percent compared to 0.1 percent). On the other hand, prices are likely to rise further for housing and utilities (2.5 percent compared to 1.9 percent), as a result of higher price pressure of regulated energy products (5.2 percent compared to 3.7 percent). Additionally, cost is expected to increase at a faster pace for miscellaneous goods and services (1.1 percent compared to 0.6 percent) and recreation and culture (1.3 percent compared to 0.5 percent).
Annual core inflation rate, which excludes energy and unprocessed food is expected to advance further 0.6 percent from a 0.4 percent rise in the prior month. Excluding only energy, the inflation is likely to remain steady at 0.6 percent.
On a monthly basis, consumer prices are expected to ease 0.2 percent, after a 0.4 percent increase in December and below consensus.
The harmonized index is likely to fall 1.6 percent on the month (from a 0.3 percent gain in December) and rise sligthly to 1.1 percent on the year from 1.0 percent in the previous month.


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Sometimes getting the match lit is the hardest part in the beginning of a creative journey.
We downplay the need to step out of our daily lives to gain some perspective…an experience that a creative retreat can provide like no other.
Our families may fall apart.
The investment needs to go elsewhere.
The fear of unknown territory gets the better of us.
I can tell you that my biggest breakthroughs came when I took a risk, left my familiar environment and headed out…retreats have been the matches that have lit the spark in my creativity for years now.
February 22nd-23rd could be the weekend that you enter into something you never though possible for yourself. Elida Field and I look forward to these special days in such a huge way. It's the time that we get to teach you what we know…I help you (once and for all) take amazing pictures and Elida teaches the beauty of collage….and there is SO MUCH MORE to this experience. This is my favorite testimonial about our Ignite retreat. 'Thrills me to know that someone could feel those feelings in such a short amount of time.
The fun begins in the afternoon on Friday and ends with an Ignite the Night party on Saturday night. The investment is $395 (so much less than any retreat out there). For folks who fly in, we hook you up with the adorable boutique Camas Hotel who will give you a special Ignite rate. This hotel is across the street from our event, so no car needed. We can provide a massive pick-up at the airport in Portland, OR (20 minutes over the border from our cute little town). We provide some meals, all of the materials for your collage-making experience, and a lot of laughter and deep conversation.
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Multiple displacement amplification (MDA) using Phi29 has proved to be an efficient, high-fidelity method for whole genome amplification in many organisms. This project was designed to evaluate this approach for use with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. In particular, we were concerned that the AT richness and presence of contaminating human DNA could limit efficiency of MDA in this system. We amplified 60 DNA samples using phi29 and scored 14 microsatellites, 9 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and gene copy number at GTP-cyclohydrolase I both before and after MDA. We observed 100% concordance in 829 microsatellite genotypes and in 499 SNP genotypes. Furthermore, copy number estimates for the GTP-cyclohydrolase I gene were correlated (r2 = 0.67) in pre- and postamplification samples. These data confirm that MDA permits scoring of a range of different types of polymorphisms in P. falciparum malaria and can be used to extend the life of valuable DNA stocks.


When a woman applies her makeup, the first step is the foundation. It is the building block for your entire look. Even the most beautiful application of eye makeup and lip color is worthless if the foundation is a disaster. Flawless application of foundation can make a woman look like she is years younger and like she has perfect, flawless skin.
Despite how important flawless application of foundation is to a woman's look, time and time again women make the same mistakes over and over with the application of their foundation. Some of the biggest makeup mistakes made by women stem from either picking the wrong foundation or applying it incorrectly. If you avoid these common mistakes when it comes to picking and applying foundation and instead follow the suggestions for how to correct the mistakes, you will have a flawless, beautiful skin and a perfect start to your makeup application.
A foundation must always match your natural skin tone to ensure a flawless application. Therefore, the key step to beautiful skin and a flawless makeup application is to ensure that your foundation is the correct shade for your skin color. Make sure that your foundation is neither too light or dark and that it has undertones that matches your skin color.
Most women choose foundations that are two to three shades darker than their skin tone thinking that it will act as a bronzer, but instead it results in a comically unnatural look. It is vital that you choose the correct shade to ensure a natural look.
If you pick a foundation that is too light, you will end up looking washed out or like you did not properly rub in face lotion.
People typically have either pink or yellow undertones in their skin tone. It is important that you pick a foundation with the same undertones as your skin. If you have pink undertones, be sure to pick a foundation with pink undertones. If you have yellow undertones pick a foundation with yellow undertones. If you don't focus on picking a foundation with the proper undertones, it will look unnatural and caked on.
In order to ensure you have the perfect foundation for your skin tone, test several different shades of foundation along your cheekbones and jaw line in natural light. Pick the foundation that disappears into your skin. If you need assistance in picking shades to test out, consult with a beautician.
Many women purchase cakey foundation thinking that it will help to cover skin imperfections, instead you end up looking like you are wearing a mask--not a good look! Instead of picking a cakey foundation, you should choose a light, liquid foundation for a flawless look. In order to cover blemishes and skin imperfections, focus on the concealer instead. To further avoid a cakey look, apply moisturizer prior to applying your foundation.
While it may be tempting to apply plenty of foundation to cover imperfections such as acne, scars, and dark circles under the eyes, it does not cover these imperfections but instead draws attention to them by causing a cakey, mask-like look. The better way to conceal skin imperfections is to use a concealer that is light and creamy and designed to cover blemishes. Depending upon the severity of the blemishes you are trying to cover, concealer can be applied before or after you apply your foundation. Use concealer prior to applying foundation in order to cover small pimples and blemishes. If you are looking to cover more in order to cover more prevalent imperfections such as dark circles under the eyes, apply concealer second.
Many women fall into the tell tale line along the jaw in which they either do not have the right shade of foundation (see above) or they have failed to properly blend their foundation. Because the neck is often a different shade from the face and chest, it is important to blend foundation into the neck with a makeup sponge to ensure uniform color.
It is vital that you blend your foundation properly. Blending is not only necessary to prevent the dreaded line along the jaw, but it is also important to prevent your face from looking like a mask. To blend foundation, start blending at the forehead and slowing blend all over your face while moving in circular motions. Take extra caution to blend along your jaw line and hair line until the foundation lines are invisible. To blend foundation you can use your fingers, a makeup sponge, or a foundation brush.


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My brain is encrypted, my phone should be as well.
While Google and Apple's networks have been completely infiltrated by the NSA and others, they appear to be fighting back, at least a little bit.
Thoughts, feelings and conversations stored in our brain are encrypted. No one can access them without our continued consent. Even if a law enforcement official has a warrant to question you, the key to decrypting the thoughts/information stored in your head has to come from you, either willingly, through wily interrogation, or through coercion. A police officer cannot attach a usb cable to your head and download all the data in an effort to sift for useful information. We hold many private thoughts in our head, whether they are secret crushes, naked pictures, amazing fantasies, mean thoughts about a friend, laws we have broken in secret, and so much more. No one's constantly surveilling our brains, filing our "bad" thoughts away for future use or constantly busting us for thought crimes. I am happy our brains are private.
Our handheld computers are an extension of our brains, they store information we have no room for, they help us hold "private" thoughts as notes or pictures, and help us broadcast them to the world if we deem them not private. Encryption that cannot be broken without continued consent (only yes means yes!) is critical to our ability to use smartphones and other artificial intelligences going forward without constant fear of surveillance.
I am happy our brains are private.


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Cardinals Acquire Juan Nicasio
By Steve Adams | September 6, 2017 at 1:34pm CDT
The Phillies announced that they have traded right-hander Juan Nicasio to the Cardinals in exchange for minor league infielder Eliezer Alvarez. Philadelphia had recently claimed Nicasio off outright waivers from the Pirates. Nicasio will give the Cardinals' bullpen a boost, though since he's been acquired after Aug. 31, he won't be eligible for the postseason roster if St. Louis qualifies. Nicasio is a free agent after the season.
Nicasio's time with the Phillies will last all of a week, bringing to a close one of the more puzzling sequences in recent August trade history. The Pirates were unable to pass Nicasio through revocable trade waivers last month, ultimately pulling him back off waivers and placing him on outright waivers and instead losing him to the Phillies, who had top waiver priority, for nothing other than salary relief that amounted to roughly $600K.
The move was confusing enough that Pittsburgh GM Neal Huntington felt the need to explain the team's rationale to the media. Per Huntington, Nicasio was claimed by a "playoff-caliber" team on trade waivers — it's not clear if that Cardinals were that club, though it'd make sense — and the Bucs opted to place him on outright waivers in hopes of getting him to an AL contender rather than helping a "direct competitor." (Trade waivers are league-specific, whereas outright waiver priority ignores league and is solely determined in reverse order of MLB standings.)
Nicasio will ultimately end up with a direct competitor of the Pirates anyhow, though he won't be able to pitch in the postseason. Moreover, the Phillies will make out extremely well in this deal, as Alvarez entered the season ranked 10th on Baseball America's list of the Cardinals' top 30 prospects. He currently ranks 19th among St. Louis farmhands in the eyes of Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com. In essence, the Phillies were able to claim a Cardinals prospect off waivers, which ultimately cost them about $138K in terms of salary (the pro-rated portion of Nicasio's week-long tenure with the team).
For the Cardinals, Nicasio immediately becomes one of their best relievers. Through 61 1/3 innings, Nicasio has averaged 8.95 K/9, 2.64 BB/9 and a 46.9 percent ground-ball rate en route to an excellent 2.79 ERA. The 31-year-old has averaged a career-best 95.4 mph on his heater in 2017 and is sporting a 10.7 percent swinging-strike rate that would rank third among current St. Louis relievers (not including the injured Trevor Rosenthal, who led the team's bullpen in that regard).
Alvarez, 23 next month, has spent the season with St. Louis' Double-A affiliate, hitting .247/.321/.382 with four homers and eight steals (in 11 tries). Those numbers don't immediately stand out, though it's worth noting that Alvarez skipped Class-A Advanced entirely and was considerably younger than the league average in Double-A.
Callis and Mayo note in their free scouting report that Alvarez has a line-drive approach with a knack for making hard contact and could eventually grow into more power. He's an above-average runner and could profile as a regular at second base down the line if everything breaks right for him. Alvarez was added to the Cardinals' 40-man roster last winter to protect him from the Rule 5 Draft, so he'll go onto the Phillies' 40-man roster and fill the spot that was vacated by trading Nicasio.
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nmendoza44
Juan must've done something wrong to someone to be getting bean bagged off to two teams in one week
renegadescoach
Probably the team who was trying to get him from the Pirates in the first place.
Patick L
pd14athletics
I wonder if they were the original team to claim him
AndreTheGiantKiller
Steve, or any of the writers, I'd be interested in an article looking at a rundown of September trades. I can't imagine there have been too many in recent years.
Steve Adams
It would not be exciting, ha.
The biggest-name players I can recall off the top of my head are Gordon Beckham going to the Giants and Josh Collmenter going to the Braves last year. The Rockies picked up Octavio Dotel back in 2010 or 2011 (his third team that year as well — like Nicasio).
I will take a look and see if I'm missing anything that makes it worth a retrospective look back though!
Wainofan
Must have been 2010 because in 2011 Dotel was a world champ with the Redbirds
Props to the Phils for getting something for Nicasio unlike PIT.
Everyone seems to forget the pirates picked up George Kontos the same way
The Pirates are never actually given credit for adding salary (between Kontos and Rodriguez, they added a few million in August) only bashed for subtracting it ($600,000).
NuckBobFutting
They only added Kontos, and Rodriguez because they saved money from Kang not being on the team.
Monkey's Uncle
They can be given credit for that, but it is easily offset by the inexplicably stupid decision to give Nicasio away for nothing. If the Cards or some other divisional contender claimed him, fine… you pull him back and keep him for the last month. You don't go ce him away "hoping to get him to an AL contender" when you have zero control over whether or not that happens. I've been a supporter of Huntington and the Pirates in general, but the Nicasio saga is a colossal blunder all around, made even more so now that that Phils sent him to St. Louis. There is no excuse for this one.
gozurman1
But if the Bucs leave him on the roster for another month and lose him for nothing in FA how is that any different than losing him now for nothing?
Because they were trying to avoid letting the Cardinals get him, and they got him. Just because you aren't in the race doesn't mean you help out a rival, IMO. Besides, it just makes them look mildly clueless and adds fuel to the "Bucs are cheap" fire. If what Neal says they did with Juan is what they meant to do, they should have just said so at the outset.
Starrchild45
No one forgets. The Giants were stupid to let him walk away for nothing, just as the Pirates were stupid to do the same thing here.
Several comments from several Giants fans when the Giants were not upset. Were glad to see Kontos go. Some saying they were confused by the deal but not the same bashing that the Pirates FO is getting on this deal
This isn't the same thing to me. Nicasio is a free agent after the season. Kontos is not. The Giants could at least reasonably argue that they want to go younger and not keep the commitment to Kontos on the books (they could… I think it was a dumb move by them, but it's a reasonable attempt at an argument). Nicasio is a free agent who possibly could have been re-signed, but even if they don't want to bring him back, they only have to keep him for another month.
So it is different to have to pay a guy you have no intentions of binging back and losing him for nothing than losing the guy now for nothing but have he benefit of not having to pay him the rest of the year?
I don't ever recall the Bucs saying that they have no intention of bringing Nicasio back. And if they did say it, they are really being dumb. The guy has been outstanding and wouldn't be insanely expensive for them to try to keep.
wiggysf
The Phillies probably just got Nicasio because they knew another team was interested in trading for him.
benlively
For the love of gob, WHY.
jdgoat
I thought outright waivers were also league specific
They are not. I confirmed as much in the wake of last week's situation just to be 100 percent certain that we were accurately portraying everything.
EndinStealth
No they cover all if MLB
Joeycalexc
Phillies cornering the market on utility infielders.
I wonder if the Cards will use him as a closer?
DD martin
Smart use of waiver claim by Phils GM. Makes Pirates GM look even more foolish
This was certainly unexpected, however I absolutely love it. Matt Klentak has proven once again to be rather opportunistic. They pretty much got a "free" prospect.
Tmandolfan
You're kidding right? As though the Phillies have any need for another 2b prospect with Hernandez, Valentin and Kingery? Alvarez went from being the 19th ranked prospect in STL to the 26th ranked prospect in the Phils org. Klentak drafted Moniak instead of Nick Senzel, gave Odubel an extension after one good year, tendered & resigned Hellickson for $17mil then traded him for Kim (wtf?) and a reliever who STUNK up AA, traded for Buchholz and signed Michael Saunders for three times more than he'd ever made before. Klentak is an unmitigated disaster.
jleve618
You don't get it kiddo.
WubbaLubbaDubDub
+1 to jleve.
Please tell me what I don't get son? What am I missing?
dodgerfan711
Pirates dont care he went to the cards. They gave up when they traded him for nothing
They gave him up for nothing specifically to keep him away from the Cards.
Their plan sure worked then
Oh, I never said it worked. It was 600K of the worst PR any team could buy and will cost them far more than that in the long run. Bad business. They should have just parked him on the bench.
Glad I found you. This crap is EXACTLY why Bucs should have canned Huntington a long time ago. Anyone with a baseball IQ can clearly see that bad-brain Huntington has not a clue under the sun how to manage a MLB roster. God bless Hurdle but we will NEVER be more than a wannabe WC pretender under this braindead GM. It is gutwrenching to me that we signed him another 4 LONG hopeless years. You cannot for a second believe we will compete with ANY of the other clubs in the NL Central. Pathetic!
The Nicasio move is ABSOLUTELY 100% IRRELEVANT from a baseball perspective.
Meaningless.
It was a huge mistake from a PR perspective (and thus a business perspective) because it angers dimwitted yinzers. Ahem.
But it is meaningless as a baseball transaction.
Huntingdon took a team that had virtually no assets at the MLB level or in the system and made the playoffs in 5 years. He won 98 games working for an owner I'm sure you'll say is cheap and doesn't want to win, right?
Pretty impressive for a "braindead" guy.
But do go on ranting about a middle reliever who was going to either fetch a nothing prospect or walk for nothing at the end of the season as if it's the end of the world.
CompanyAssassin
According to Ken Rosenthal, the Cardinals weren't the claiming team.
Ry.the.Stunner
According to the Cubs broadcast tonight, it was the Cubs.
bsb129
I guess that's one way to clear a 40 man roster spot for the offseason
The Pirates didn't want to trade Nicasio before the July 31st deadline because they were still in semi-contention and their "fans" would have said they were "cheap" and "don't want to win."
Even if they had made an AMAZING trade like Melancon for Rivero, they still would have been slammed for it as they were for that deal because…ignorance and narrative.
So, instead they kept Nicasio and then when the team fell out of contention, they dumped him and were called cheap and stupid for getting nothing for him.
Meanwhile, the exact same people would have screamed the loudest had the Pirates traded him to the Cards for a middling return. "The Pirates are so cheap and don't care enough about winning to not help the team in their own division they need to beat, etc etc.."
It was literally a no win situation for the team.
U need a dose of freaking baseball reality. The Melancon trade was EZ. The Nats wanted him. Multiple teams wanted him. FA to be closers are the absolute EZest commodity to trade at deadline to a contender. Get off the NH koolaid. Answer this? Were u the guy that liked Lastings Milledge? Fess up.
LOL. Lastings Milledge?
You are whining about them giving a former five tool prospect a look during a year when they were rebuilding and terrible ten years ago?
It's spelt easy, and easiest. How is EZ easier than easy? It's seriously just two extra letters, one if you count hitting the cap button for Z.
Except that they would never have traded him to the Cards. They might have traded him, but not to St. Louis. Also, why exactly is no one considering the possibility of re-signing Nicasio? The guy has been pretty good. Rivero and he got along fantastically. Unless Nicasio had already told them that he had zero interest in returning, and I doubt that, why not either trade him and get somebody for him, or keep him and try to get a hometown discount in bringing him back? This whole thing was handled stupidly, from both a PR and a roster perspective, IMO.
Lanidrac
By just keeping him for the last month, it wouldn't have been a "win," but at least they wouldn't have been risking a "loss." There's something to be said for just playing it safe sometimes.
Who is to say that the Cards offered something far less than Alvarez to the Bucs for Nicasio. In the end, who really cares? Losing Nicasio for nothing now is no different than losing him for nothing after the season because he is eligible for free agency. At least they did not help the Cards with a post season pitcher if they by chance get there. The Pirates already have Newman and Tucker blocking Alvarez if that was indeed the player offered. This is not that big of a deal unless you just want to nitpick and use it to bash the Pirates ownership and FO.
Hannibal8us
I feel like it would have cost more than Alvarez had the trade been done prior to the eligible for postseason cutoff which is what bothers me about the move. Did the Pirates really fear Nicasio was going to help the Cards so much that it was worth not getting anything for him? I don't think so.
According to Ken Rosenthal, the Cardinals weren't the claiming team, they just happen to be another rival who ended up with him.
Did Rosenthal give any clue who the claiming club was?
It was the Cubs, according to Len and JD in tonight's broadcast.
wkkortas
They offered the Bucs Bobby Hill's son..
bucketbrew35
Alvarez goes from 19th in the Cardinals' top 30 to 26th in the Phillies top 30. Nice.
Our plan to keep him out of STL didn't work
At least the Cards can not use him in the event they get to the playoffs. He is done in St Louis at the end of the regular season and he will hit the market. Not that huge of a deal for the Pirates. He was going to be gone for nothing at the end of the year anyway.
Dotnet22
The cardinals could extend him for next year and beyond. Not saying they will but if they were smart they should try. As it stands now they just gave up a prospect for a reliever that will pitch for 3 weeks and can't play in the postseason.
You have a very broad brush describing him as a prospect. At best he may make a utility IF. He has occasional pop but never excelled even in the minors. He's 22 and probably would have never made it to the bigs with the Cardinals.
KCelts
My hope is that he falls in love with STL and will ultimately want to re-sign this offseason. He may be huge down the stretch.
He was starting to give up home runs and leads towards the end of his time in Pittsburgh. Could have been just a rough stretch and he comes around or it could be a sign of things to come. We shall find out.
the end result of the trade isnt that bizzare as the phillies claimed nicasio to trade for a minor leaguer.
lol @ Neil huntington
marckahn
Phils get a decent prospect for basically nothing. They really did not need him in the bullpen and there was a chance he would test the free agent market this winter. There was no guarantee he would resign with the phils.
leefieux
I wouldn't call him decent. His BA write up says that he needs work just to become adequate at 2b. So, if he doesn't hit (he had an OPS of .703 this past year) what good is he? Also, from scanning some Cardinal blogs, he was a strong candidate to be taken off of the 40 man.
We got Kontos for nothing and gave away Nicasio for nothing. I think we won in the giveaway Dept.
chesteraarthur
decent?
Michael Chaney
I still don't understand why the Pirates gave him up for nothing just so that he wouldn't end up with a direct competitor (which he ended up going to anyway). If he has value, take advantage of it; he's a free agent in a few weeks and their playoff push is looking really iffy anyway, so why lose him for nothing just to prove a point?
Huntington's logic still doesn't make sense. If they truly didn't want him going to the Cardinals, they should've just kept him for the last month of the season. It's not like he was making a ton of money or that they'd get anything for him (other than maybe an extra win in the final standings) either way.
Ken Rosenthal on Twitter said the Cardinals didn't claim him originally, so you really shouldn't blame the GM for that, they're just coincidentally another rival who received him.
joew
gotta be a moral boost to nicasio, sure yeah two teams in a week but also to someone in the running (even if he cannot play in the playoffs) and traded for something not insignificant.
im hoping the bucs consider calling him once free angency starts, probably wont work out but still…
formerdraftpick
I can't wait to see the Pirates put McCutchen on waivers.
rc21pa
Huntington's masterpiece.
lazorko
Someone help me understand how Nicasio was eligible to be traded at all. He didn't clear revocable waivers with the Pirates. Presumably the Phillies did not place him on revocable waivers. (And even if they did, surely he didn't clear, right?)
So how is it he can be traded? Anyone know?
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We come now to a series of data sets for which I have no adequate explanation. I have traipsed around these displays over and over again, without coming to a reasonable answer to their purpose. Perhaps the Designer had a purpose that would have been familiar to his era, or perhaps he had an understanding of more sophisticated mathematical relationship which now escape us. Or he may have tried to communicate with us but we are not now able to perceive his thinking. Or these were more feeble attempts to arrive at conic section displays but, given his power and finesse, such view is highly doubtful. In any case I present the data sets for you to see the difficulty involved.
Figure Thirteen is a graphical display from Data Set Six beyond Set Nine. This is an exploded view of a section of Figure One. I show the course height delimiter line. Adequate room existed for the Designer to show us other genius, but it may that his genius exceeds our ability to comprehend. However, by the time he reached Data Set #9 he was running out of head room.
Figure Fourteen shows Data Set #6. I assumed that after the Designer had moved from logarithmic to linear plots he would not indiscriminately alter back and forth or give a mix from one plot to the next. I attempted difference scales. This appears to be a linear data plot with course thickness plotted against pyramid height. There seems to be nothing unique about this plot except that there is a "curvature" at the bottom. I tried parabolic and hyperbolic solutions but was unable to make sense of it. The number of data points are insufficient to justify any one solution.
Figure Fifteen shows Data Set #7. This set is more interesting but I again was unable to offer a solution I felt was legitimate. I show a quadrant of a circle with a precisely defined tangent line. He offered us construction lines, shown in Course #108 and #109, and also #116 and #117. They are all aligned parallel to the tangent line. The construction lines and the circle quadrant are rotated fifteen degrees from the vertical with the scale factors I chose.
Figure Sixteen shows Data Set #8. I was not able to transform this data set into either an ellipse or a circle. I found that the formula for a parabola well defined the curve I show. But the two data points at the bottom do not fit such solution. We can see that if the Designer intended to show a parabola he had plenty of room to form part of the right half.


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Munster: Services To Contribute 20% Of Apple's Revenue By 2022
Jim Swanson , Benzinga Staff Writer
March 29, 2017 9:31am 328 Comments
Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Services arm contributed 11.6 percent of total revenue in 2016 and almost 18 percent of profits. By 2022, the Services business could account for 20 percent of total revenue and 30 percent of profits, Loup Ventures' Gene Munster said in a report.
Apple Services And AR Through 2022
Apple has been reinventing itself through Services and augmented reality. While Apple Services is expected to grow at an annual rate of 15 percent through 2022, the company's hardware sales are expected to grow at around 5 percent, Munster stated.
Apple Services will likely grow from an estimated $30 billion in 2017 to $60 billion in 2022.
"This growth will in part be maintained by App Store revenue from Apple's advancement of augmented reality (AR) that will be the company's next major development platform," the analyst wrote.
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Munster expects AR to be "a key feature" in Apple's upcoming iPhone X release, which would gradually build "developer enthusiasm for AR apps."
Apple should be able to reach its target of the Services business becoming a Fortune 100 company sometime in 2017, Munster mentioned.
Beyond 2022, Services will likely grow at a steady pace of 10 percent and account for ~75 percent of Apple's overall growth.
"This will be driven primarily by the App Store, Apple Music + Content, with all three areas strongly benefitting from the addition of AR," the analyst added.
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Apple bans crypto-mining apps from App Store to protect your battery life
Apple doesn't want cryptocurrency mining apps in its app stores.
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Apple wants to protect your iPhone and Mac battery from shady cryptocurrency-mining malware.
The company added new rules to its developer guidelines, which now explicitly prohibit iOS and Mac apps from mining cryptocurrency in the background.
SEE ALSO: 8 things Apple didn't tell us about iOS 12
The goal, according to the company, is to protect users' battery life and avoid "unnecessary strain on device resources."
2.4.2 Design your app to use power efficiently. Apps should not rapidly drain battery, generate excessive heat, or put unnecessary strain on device resources. Apps, including any third party advertisements displayed within them, may not run unrelated background processes, such as cryptocurrency mining.
Previously, Apple's rules stated that it was "unacceptable" for apps to enable "monetizing built-in capabilities provided by the hardware or operating system" — but didn't explicitly mention cryptocurrency mining.
Crypto mining hasn't been a widespread issue for the App Store, though Apple did yank a calendar app for mining the cryptocurrency Monero in the background even if users disabled the feature.
Apple's not the only platform dealing with the issue of shady apps hijacking users' devices to mine bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies in the background. A popular Chrome extension was pulled last year after it was found to be stealthily mining Monero in the background. And coin mining malware has been sneaking into Android apps for years.
Increasingly, platforms are having to deal with sketchy behaviors that are about much more than just mining. As increasing numbers of services dabble in cryptocurrency, some apps have turned to the kind of spammy tactics Apple has disapproved in the past.
The company addresses this kind of behavior elsewhere in its latest developer guidelines, with other new rules relating to cryptocurrencies, including one that prohibits apps from offering "currency for completing tasks, such as downloading other apps, encouraging other users to download, posting to social networks, etc."
3.1.5 (b) Cryptocurrencies:
(i) Wallets: Apps may facilitate virtual currency storage, provided they are offered by developers enrolled as an organization.
(ii) Mining: Apps may not mine for cryptocurrencies unless the processing is performed off device (e.g. cloud-based mining).
(iii) Exchanges: Apps may facilitate transactions or transmissions of cryptocurrency on an approved exchange, provided they are offered by the exchange itself.
(iv) Initial Coin Offerings: Apps facilitating Initial Coin Offerings ("ICOs"), cryptocurrency futures trading, and other crypto-securities or quasi-securities trading must come from established banks, securities firms, futures commission merchants ("FCM"), or other approved financial institutions and must comply with all applicable law.
(v) Cryptocurrency apps may not offer currency for completing tasks, such as downloading other apps, encouraging other users to download, posting to social networks, etc.
h/t: AppleInsider
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Last week we discussed how Wellfield Botanic Gardens aerates the turf. Once little gaping holes are opened through the blades of grass, the next step is to fill them with carbon, that is, black gold: compost. Wait, what? Compost in the grass? Who does that, right? I mean, putting compost in my flower or vegetable beds is one thing, but in my lawn?
Spreading compost upon thine green sward has many benefits, serving many purposes. Compost in Wellfield's sandy, rocky soil retains a lot of moisture and I mean A LOT of moisture. Want to spend less money irrigating your lawn? Spread compost. You want to fertilize less because the fertilizer sticks around longer? Spread compost. Want to see maybe a few less weeds (providing it is properly turned compost)? Spread compost. You have clay or compacted soil and water is puddling? Spread compost. How much should I add, you ask? Just keep adding and I will tell you when to quit – or up to about an eighth of an inch thick.
There are several ways one can go about spreading compost, and all involve starting with mowing the grass shorter to ease the spreading process. There are a few commercial spreaders out there available for spreading compost. The simplest way is to load up your wheelbarrow or utility vehicle with compost and fling the black stuff around the yard. Believe me, it is great exercise! It is best to spread compost when the moisture content is low to prevent clogging the spread, or to make raking it out less of a bear.
Spreading compost after aeration allows the compost and fertilizer to quickly penetrate the root zone and become available to the grass for enrichment.
Next up, seeding those bare patches. See you next week!
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The reverse of the coin was designed by Canadian artist Denis Mayer Jr. and depicts two beautiful wolves on top of a cliff, surrounded by maple trees.
On the top of the reverse, the inscription: "CANADA" - the issuing country. On the bottom part, the inscription: "2019"- the year of issue. The obverse the coin depicts the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the inscriptions: "D-G-REGINA" - Dei Gratia Regina, "100 DOLLARS" - the face value and "ELIZABETH II" - the name of the Queen.


Golf in Las Vegas is developing very fast. Thirty years back, visitors and locals played for the first time at The Tropicana Golf Course, the place where MGM Grand Hotel and Casino are standing.
Monte Carlo and Bellagio Hotels are standing in place of The Dunes course. Some golf courses such as Municipal Golf Course, Craig Road, Sahara Country Club and Winter Wood are still giving golf pleasure to the people and visitors of Las Vegas.
At present, there are almost 60 golf courses in and around Las Vegas. But all of them are not in working condition, some of them are under construction and some are on the project table. Even then, the present golf clubs are enough for recreation of the one and half million population city and the visitors from all over the world.
Fuzzy Zoeller, Nicklaus, Palmer, Chi Chi Rodriques and Johnny Miller have all designed golf courses here and provided marvelous chances to enjoy golf in Las Vegas. Las Vegas golf courses are all constructed and developed by professionals and all of them played here during tournaments.
Aliante Golf Club Las Vegas: Aliante is a challenging and exciting golf course which covers more than 7,000 yards. This Golf course is slightly elevated, which provide unique playing lines and angles and interesting contours. Some of the highlights are generous landing areas, numerous water features and strategic use of trees.
Panks is once again in news due to its design philosophy and giving enjoyable experience to beginners and challenge to experts.
Angel Park Golf Club: This golf course was designed by Arnold Palmer. You will here get one of the world's most complete golf experiences. A lighted range with a green course and full-service clubhouse facilities are available at Angel Park Golf Club. Junior Lessons, Group and Deluxe Golf Schools are available on the official website of Resort Golf Academies.
Badlands Golf Club: Chi Chi Rodriguez and Hall-of-Famer Johnny Miller designed Badlands Golf Club. This golf course offers shot values that you cannot find anywhere else. Ball positioning and accuracy are vital if you want to play here. Practice, banquet and clubhouse facilities are available. American Golf's Nike Golf Learning Center and Ken Venturi Golf School are on site.
Canyon Gate Club: Ted Robinson designed Canyon Gate Country golf club located in Canyon Gate community of homes. This golf club is full of natural vegetation. Canyon Gate golf course is also home to several water hazards and Robinson trademarked rolling hills. The club offers challenging and interesting golf in Las Vegas.
Plan your next vacation for Las Vegas, we are sure you will enjoy golf in Las Vegas.


If you choose small scale projects, you need to have strong sales process to sell a lot of those.
If you choose to pursue large scale projects and clients, you need to take risks that sometimes jeopardize your team.
What are the secrets of "high-performing" development teams, what are the roadblocks to implementing them, and how can you take your development process from good to brilliant?


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(Houston, Texas)
For Immediate Release September 26, 1997
LIVE RADIO INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT
BY TOM JOYNER'S MORNING RADIO PROGRAM
8:45 A.M. CDT
Q Mr. President, good morning.
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. You're having a lot of fun there for this early in the morning. (Laughter.)
Q And you're having a lot of fun, too, aren't you? Now that Chelsea is gone you all are having some fun. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: That's what Hillary says. (Applause.)
Q Mr. President, when this happened 40 years ago, how old were you?
THE PRESIDENT: Eleven.
Q And what was going through your mind when you saw all this, what happened here in Little Rock?
THE PRESIDENT: I thought it was a bad thing. I didn't understand why people were so upset. But as I said yesterday, most of the white kids didn't think about it one way or the other until it actually happened, until the Little Rock Nine were turned away. I think most people didn't think about it one way or the other. Children are basically self-absorbed in their own lives. It's part of the privilege of childhood.
But then, all of a sudden, kids that had never thought about it before, it's all they talked about for weeks. And everybody then had to decide really how they felt about it. And it seemed obvious to me that sooner or later this was going
to have to be done; it might as well be done soon.
But I also -- I was always amazed at how there was an element in the South and probably in the rest of the country,
too, of people that were -- they always just needed somebody to hate, needed somebody to look down on. But it's no way to run a country and no way to run a life. Sooner or later, to me it was obvious it had to change.
Q Mr. President, there seems to be so much symbolism to the fact that you were opening the door yesterday for the members of the Little Rock Nine coming through, as well as this year that you have stepped before the nation, before the world, and telling them that you are taking this step into the 21st century and making a difference in terms of race relations. This is a year in which you are just really making us aware and bringing these things out to us. And I commend you for that.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you. I think part of the symbolism yesterday was that -- thank you very much. I think yesterday, part of the importance of the symbolism was that political leaders closed the doors and stood in the doors in the '50s and '60s and kept people out of the doors. And apparently, that idea to open the door came from the students at Central High themselves. It was a great, wonderful idea, and I was glad to be a part of it.
Q Mr. President -- first of all, to the affiliates of 93 stations around the country on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, as you can tell, we are running long. We're going to go right through the break. We want you to hang with us.
Mr. President, you said that what happened 40 years ago really developed your idea of what race relations in this country should be about. At 11 years old, you were thinking race relations?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, it was discussed in my home because my grandparents were interested in it. That's what I said yesterday. So I had a chance to think about it earlier just because my grandfather expressed himself very strongly about it. He had once been a grocer and had a lot of black customers and he knew a lot about black people as human beings and about the troubles they were facing and the problems in their lives and the potential they had. He thought it was wrong.
My grandmother was a nurse and she had a lot more contact with black people in the '50s than most white people did, and she thought it was wrong. And they just had a big impact on me. And they talked about it a lot. And even though my grandfather died in 1957, and everybody was talking about this happening in the two years coming up to that, I still remember as a little boy, 9, 10 years old, sitting around the table, having him walk through this with me and telling me that this was something that had to be done.
Q Mr. President, Cybil asked you a moment ago about the symbolism of yesterday -- I want to ask you about the
substance, if I can. As you know, the two issues that are facing this country, certainly facing black America, with regard to education as we talk about this incident 40 years ago are the issue of school vouchers and this whole issue of resegregation of schools. You know, the NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration. What are your thoughts specifically on how the issue of school vouchers and the issue of school integration are impacting the African American community? Where do you come down on that debate on those issues?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, let me say, first of all, school vouchers -- that is, giving people money that used to go to the school district that they can then use and spend in the school district or they can use it to defray the cost of tuition to private schools -- school vouchers are the most extreme version of more school choice for parents and students. I have supported for years and years giving students and parents more choice for the public schools their kids attend, and also the national charter school movement which allows groups of teachers and parents to organize schools on their own and be more loosely affiliated with public school districts, and to meet the special needs of the community, and then they can have a lot of freedom from the rules and regulations of the school districts and the state as long as they meet high standards.
I support the school uniform movement which a lot of private school have and which have made a big difference in a lot of school districts. The reason I have opposed school vouchers is that I think if you look at the facts, it's a relatively small financial contribution if you give somebody, for example, what the federal government gives to a school district, but if you take it away, you can have a big adverse impact on the school districts without helping any individual children very much.
Now, I will say this -- I believe that sooner or later there will be a lot of people who will try, going beyond Milwaukee and, I think, Cleveland unless we can prove that the public schools can work for children again. But I think, from my point of view, particularly with the federal dollars, I simply don't believe that we should be diverting resources when our schools have been relatively under-funded on the whole. Instead, we ought to be concentrating on making them excellent.
On the other hand, there ought to be some competition there. The parents ought to have some say, which is why I think they ought to have more choice over the schools their kids attend and they ought to have the right to participate in new schools that are outside a lot of the bureaucratic rules that burden school districts.
On the resegregation, I think that my own view is that we ought to continue to try to have integrated schools. We ought to recognize that segregated neighborhoods and different patterns in who has children of school age in various places have led to a resegregation of a lot of our schools. We still ought
to try to integrate these neighborhoods and mix them not only racially, but economically. We still ought to have, where reasonable, transportation plans that work and aren't too burdensome for the kids. But we shouldn't use the fact that a school is not especially integrated at this moment as an excuse not to give those kids an excellent education and do the very best we can. (Applause.)
Q Ten years ago, Mr. President, there was a 30-year celebration for the Little Rock Nine that you helped organize when you were Governor here in the state of Arkansas. It was a lot smaller celebration than the one we had this week, huh?
THE PRESIDENT: It was a lot smaller. I think they enjoyed it, but some of them -- I'm not sure, you'd have to ask them -- but I think there were a couple that hadn't been back to Arkansas very much before then. But everybody gathered. I wanted them to be able to come to the Governor's Mansion because it was the symbol of opposition to their efforts and it was the place where a lot of the plotting was done to keep them out of school. I thought it would be a good thing if they came into the house that had once shut them out. (Applause.)
Q If you were one of them back then, do you think you could have had the courage to do what they did, in all that adversity?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know. Boy, I'd like to think I would have. I think we all would like to think we would have. But I think, to be honest, none of us can know. You don't know until you're in a situation like that. I wish I could say yes because I certainly would like to have been a part of it, and I can tell you this -- I'm glad they did. I'm certainly glad they did. (Applause.)
Q I'll tell you the President -- smooth, ain't he? Pretty smooth.
Q And, you know, Mr. President, I think your grandfather would be very proud of you for what you have done in terms of stepping forward not only yesterday, but as I said before, with taking people and making us take stock of ourselves and our relationships with others, people that don't look like us. And you've done that certainly in your Cabinet and on your staff of people who look like a lot of us that listen to the Tom Joyner Morning Show as African Americans. (Applause.)
Q Thank you, sir. And we're all FOBs.
Q Yes, we are.
Q We're FOBs.
THE PRESIDENT: Thanks. (Laughter.)
Q So how is Chelsea doing in school? Has she called for money?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, not for money yet. We've talked to her a couple of times and she's having a good time.
Q Well, tell her if she needs some campus fashion, Ms. Dupree (phonetic) has got some cousins who can hook her up. (Laughter.)
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for being a guest on the show and thank you for being a part of all the celebration here for the 40th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine. Thank you, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Good-bye, everybody. Thank you. (Applause.)