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Agenda and draft minutes
Resources and Performance Select Committee - Friday, 18 December 2020 10.00 am
Attendance details
Agenda frontsheet PDF 210 KB
Agenda reports pack
Supplementary budget slides PDF 407 KB
Printed draft minutes PDF 253 KB
Venue: Ashcombe Suite, County Hall, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2DN. View directions
Contact: Kunwar Khan, Scrutiny Officer
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MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETINGS: 8 OCTOBER 2020 PDF 250 KB
Purpose of the item: To agree the minutes of the Resources and Performance Select Committee held on 8 October 2020 as a true and accurate record of proceedings.
The minutes were agreed as a true record of the meeting.
Purpose of the item: All Members present are required to declare, at this point in the meeting or as soon as possible thereafter:
I. Any disclosable pecuniary interests and/or
II. Other interests arising under the Code of Conduct in respect of any item(s) of business being considered at this meeting.
· Members are reminded that they must not participate in any item where they have a disclosable pecuniary interest.
· As well as an interest of the Member, this includes any interest, of which the Member is aware, that relates to the Member's spouse or civil partner (or any person with whom the Member is living as a spouse or civil partner).
· Members with a significant personal interest may participate in the discussion and vote on that matter unless that interest could be reasonably regarded as prejudicial.
Rachael Lake declared a personal interest as a family member is an employee of Surrey County Council.
QUESTIONS AND PETITIONS
Purpose of the item: To receive any questions or petitions.
1. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic all questions and petitions received will be responded to in writing and will be contained within the minutes of the meeting.
2. The deadline for Members' questions is 12:00pm four working days before the meeting (14 December 2020).
3. The deadline for public questions is seven days before the meeting (11 December 2020).
4. The deadline for petitions was 14 days before the meeting, and no petitions have been received.
None received.
SCRUTINY OF 2021/22 DRAFT BUDGET AND MEDIUM-TERM FINANCIAL STRATEGY TO 2025/26 PDF 147 KB
Purpose of the item: To scrutinise the Draft Budget and Medium-Term Financial Strategy.
Annex 1 , item 5. PDF 534 KB
Supplementary budget slides , item 5. PDF 223 KB
Witnesses:
Anna D'Alessandro, Director of Corporate Finance
Mel Few, Cabinet Member for Resources
Zully Grant Duff, Cabinet Member for Corporate Support
Nicola O'Connor, Strategic Finance Business Partner (Resources and Transformation, Partnerships and Prosperity)
Leigh Whitehouse, Executive Director of Resources
Rachel Wigley, Director of Financial Insight
Key points raised during the discussion:
1. The Cabinet Member for Resources informed the Select Committee that the provisional settlement announced by central government had closed the budget gap, which had stood at £18.3m pre-settlement, without the need for the Council to make any further efficiencies. The Executive Director of Resources added that the settlement indicated around £20m Covid-19 funding at the beginning of 2021. These were the initial headlines; some news was still awaited at this stage.
2. The Director of Financial Insight explained that the Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) would be updated every year. The provisional settlement only covered one year (2021/22), so the Council could not plan definitively beyond that. The Director of Corporate Finance added that there would be an increase in the tax base over the course of the MTFS due to a 1.99% increase in core council tax, while it was assumed that grant funding and business rates would steadily decrease. Due to the economic impact of the pandemic, central government was trying to reduce the Council's reliance on income from business rates and grant funding, in favour of locally raised income (i.e. from council tax). The Finance service was in the process of reviewing the Council's collection fund deficit in light of the provisional settlement; it was expecting to hear more about the government underwriting of 75% of the business rates deficit soon. The Director of Corporate Finance expressed confidence about the Council's prudence in Covid-19 recovery assumptions over the medium term, and added that the Council was in a healthy position on contingencies and reserves.
3. A Member noted that there had been a recent tightening of Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) lending criteria, and asked what impact this would have on Surrey County Council. The Director of Corporate Finance responded that the new criteria (from 26 November 2020) meant that Surrey County Council was not allowed to use PWLB money for commercial yield. It could, however, use this money for investment in the county as a result of the greater economic benefit to the county. The new criteria would not have any impact on Surrey, as the Council had no plans to invest outside of county. Also, the new rules did not apply retrospectively.
4. A Member enquired about the preliminary results and emerging themes from the consultation on the budget, who had been consulted, and whether there were further engagement activities planned. The Cabinet Member for Resources stated that the consultation had been presented to approximately 2,000 residents and approximately 200 responses had been received so far. The main themes and priorities were education, Adult Social Care (ASC) and children's care. The results were still being looked at, but the response would be available in ... view the full minutes text for item 5.
PERFORMANCE REPORT PDF 224 KB
Purpose of the item: To enable the Resources and Performance Select Committee to monitor the Council's performance through a variety of indicators.
Performance report , item 6. PDF 646 KB
Sarah Bogunovic, Head of Customer Strategy and Futures
Jacqueline Foglietta, Director of Human Resources and Organisation Development
Susan Grizzelle, Head of Customer Services
Marie Snelling, Executive Director of Communities and Transformation
Adrian Stockbridge, Head of Portfolios
Gary Strudwick, Head of Business Intelligence
1. The Head of Business Intelligence mentioned that some changes had been made to the report formatting based on recommendations made at the previous meeting of the Select Committee, in October 2020.
2. A Member asked why the Council was so far off-target on Land and Property capital receipts (the end of year target was £20.5m, and the latest result was only £2.5m). The Cabinet Member for Resources explained that the Council expected to receive a significant part of this target figure when the Kingston County Hall was sold.
3. A Member asked what the forecast value of unpaid rent and service charges was for the Council's properties. The Cabinet Member for Resources stated that on average in 2020/21, the Council had been receiving a gross percentage of approximately 80% of rental income budgeted for. The Executive Director of Resources explained that this was what had been collected to date, not what was collectible – it was expected that the further 20% would be collected. In real terms, the figure stood at about £1.5m uncollected funds for properties held directly by Surrey County Council and just in excess of £1.5m for properties held by the Halsey Garton Investment subsidiary.
4. A Member noted that the Council was a long way off its target for spending the apprenticeship levy (the target was 100%; the latest result was 76.56%) and wondered whether that target was actually feasible. The Director of HR&OD explained that the Council was required by law to spend a certain amount on apprenticeships, and therefore it could not reduce the target spend. Moreover, it was likely that the number of apprentices employed by the Council would soon increase due to additional government funding, the Kickstart programme, which committed the Council to taking on 30 young people on placement programmes, offering a pathway into apprenticeships, and a new strategy to increase employment more broadly across Surrey.
5. A Member asked whether there was a measure of the number of vacant positions in the Council. The Director of HR&OD replied that at present, overall vacancies amounted to 1,715 posts, which equated to 19% of the workforce. However, it was important to note that this figure included bank workers and the Council did not plan to convert bank workers' contracts into permanent or fixed-term contracts.
6. Commending the performance of the Council's transformation programme, a Member requested that the Select Committee be provided with a written response on how the results recorded under the transformation ... view the full minutes text for item 6.
COUNTY HALL MOVE AND AGILE PROGRAMME UPDATE PDF 865 KB
Purpose of the item: To monitor the progress of the Agile programme, the decant of County Hall in Kingston and the move to the new Civic Heart.
Dominic Barlow, Assistant Director – Corporate Landlord
Brendon Kavanagh, Portfolio Lead – Corporate
1. The Executive Director of Resources summarised that the closing of County Hall in Kingston upon Thames was on track to be completed by the end of December 2020; Woodhatch Place, the new civic heart, was on track to be open by the start of 2021. All staff had been written to about their new administrative bases. Approximately 20% of staff had been told their new base would be located at Ashley Park House in Walton; however, it had not been possible to use this space, so the decision had been made (and approved by Cabinet) to obtain space in an extra building in Weybridge in which these staff would be located instead. The uncertainty this had created amongst some staff was unfortunate, but the outcome of moving the base to Weybridge was a better outcome, as the commute was easier and cheaper for many staff. Finally, the sale of the Kingston County Hall was progressing as planned and the 'for sale' sign outside the building would be updated today (18 December 2020) to read 'under offer'.
2. A Member asked what the reaction was amongst staff to the alternative office bases they had been allocated. The Executive Director stated that there might be a sense of frustration among staff whose administrative base had been changed from Ashley Park House to Weybridge – while the outcome had been good, there had been a trade-off with uncertainty. A travel study had been commissioned for all office bases, which would provide guidance. Another main issue was the decant from County Hall, and communications would be sent to staff today about how to collect their belongings. Staff were being reasonable and showing fortitude towards the move.
3. A Member asked if officers were incorporating disabilities into the travel plans. She noted that, while Surrey's bus services worked well for people with disabilities, there were many train stations that were not disability compliant. The Portfolio Lead – Corporate replied that disabilities were indeed being incorporated into travel planning, and added that he had met with the Inclusion and Diversity Group the previous day to discuss this topic.
4. A Member requested that a detailed analysis of the complete results of the travel survey – including the results of the survey conducted with Members – be presented to the County Hall Move and Agile Programme Task Group at its next meeting. The Portfolio Lead agreed to provide detailed analysis.
5. A Member asked whether any more detail on the sale of County Hall could be shared publicly, and whether the Council would be keeping an interest in the property after selling for long-term income or was selling the property as a capital item. The Executive Director replied that the site was under offer and the Council had a preferred bidder. The details would go to Cabinet in January 2021 ... view the full minutes text for item 7.
BROADBAND IN SURREY PDF 537 KB
Purpose of the item: To review, monitor and provide input to the access and improvements to broadband in Surrey.
Katie Brennan, Engagement Manager
Amanda Richards, Network and Asset Management Group Manager
1. The Network and Asset Management Group Manager introduced the report by mentioning the Superfast Surrey programme, delivered in partnership with BT. The programme had resulted in more than 90,000 homes and businesses having faster download speeds, meaning that Surrey was in a good position regarding superfast broadband at the moment. Over the last eight or nine months, many people had been working from home in Surrey, and yet despite this, there had not been a large number of complaints about broadband speeds. However, it was important that Surrey continued to make progress in this area as technology was developing and there would be a need for faster technology in Surrey.
2. The Group Manager continued to detail what Surrey County Council was focusing on at the moment, which included improving broadband speeds in rural areas by accessing government funding to upgrade a few schools and promoting government gigabit vouchers to communities in rural areas. Network operators such as Openreach had announced several areas in Surrey and were working on improving and expanding their gigabit-capable broadband, taking inspiration from other parts of the country. Surrey County Council was in the process of developing a Digital Infrastructure Strategy and this would be reported on in the coming months and brought to the Select Committee before being progressed.
3. A Member asked how big the broadband team was and where the two witnesses present fitted into the structure. The Group Manager explained that currently the superfast broadband team comprised the Engagement Manager only. The Group Manager worked in the highways department and the Engagement Manager reported to the Group Manager. Both witnesses worked together to look at how superfast broadband could tie in with and improve highways going forward, amongst other things.
4. A Member enquired how Surrey's gigabit broadband coverage compared with neighbouring authorities. The Engagement Manager responded that currently, Surrey had about 16% gigabit-capable coverage. Network operators such as Openreach or Virgin Media generally looked for areas that were commercially viable, which were usually more urban areas due to their denser population. Urban areas such as London had been more heavily covered by operators such as Virgin Media; also, Virgin Media had regularly upgraded broadband coverage in London, meaning London had a high rate of gigabit-capable coverage. Surrey, on the other hand, had a relatively high rate of Virgin Media coverage at 66%, but this technology was ultrafast and had not yet been upgraded to be gigabit-capable. Discrepancies between coverage related primarily to how urban or rural an area was, rather than varying county by county.
5. A Member asked whether the government's expectation that the private sector deliver gigabit-capable broadband to around 80% of premises in the UK was reasonable in the Surrey context. The Engagement Manager explained that this depended on operators upgrading their infrastructure, and Surrey was covered by few operators, including Virgin Media, Openreach and a few ... view the full minutes text for item 8.
TASK GROUP UPDATES PDF 222 KB
Purpose of the item: To provide updates to the Select Committee on the following Task Groups and Sub-Group.
a. County Hall Move and Agile Programme Task Group
b. Customer Experience Task Group
c. Budget Sub-Group
CHAP 6 November notes , item 9. PDF 139 KB
CETG Concluding report - Final , item 9. PDF 516 KB
Budget Sub-Group 20 November 2020 notes , item 9. PDF 134 KB
The materials of the County Hall Move and Agile Programme Task Group and the Budget Sub-Group were noted. Discussion of the Customer Experience Task Group report was deferred until the next meeting of the Select Committee, due to time constraints.
FORWARD WORK PROGRAMME AND RECOMMENDATION TRACKER PDF 95 KB
Purpose of the item: For the Select Committee to review the attached Forward Work Programme and Recommendation Tracker, making suggestions for additions or amendments as appropriate.
Annex A , item 10. PDF 135 KB
Annex B , item 10. PDF 214 KB
Webcast for 10.
The Select Committee noted the Forward Work Programme and Recommendation Tracker.
DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING
The next meeting of the Resources and Performance Select Committee will be held on 21 January 2021.
The next meeting of the Resources and Performance Select Committee would be held on 21 January 2021.


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SC Grants 4 Months Time To TN Poll Panel To Conduct Local Bodies Elections In State
A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli took note of the submissions that now six more municipal corporations and 28 new municipalities have been added and some more time would be needed to complete the poll-related formalities.
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The Supreme Court on Monday granted four more months to the Tamil Nadu State Election Commission''s (TNSEC) for concluding the poll process for the urban local bodies elections in the state.
The top court, on June 22, had granted an opportunity to the TNSEC to conduct by September 15 this year the local body polls in nine new districts carved out of four existing ones in Tamil Nadu and had warned it of contempt action in case of non-compliance.
"Even if the reasons are very silly, we want to give some more time," the bench said and asked senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the state poll panel, as to how much time he wanted for the TNSEC.
Please grant time till April end of next year, Rohatgi said.
"Four months time," the CJI said, which was accepted by the state poll panel.
During a brief hearing, the bench expressed surprise over the consent of the PIL petitioner S Shankar, who had earlier filed the plea for holding of the local body elections, in the grant of extra time to the poll panel.
"Mr (P) Wilson (senior advocate) you have filed this petition for election. Now you are agreeing for the time and the adjournment," the bench observed.
The senior lawyer said the poll panel has to conduct elections for more than 600 urban bodies and now, six municipal corporations, 28 municipalities have been constituted and it will lead to a decrease in the number of existing 528 town panchayats in the state.
Earlier, the bench had taken strong note of TNSEC plea seeking 6 to 7 months more for concluding processes related to local bodies elections, saying the government can go for all elections except the local bodies.
"The government can do anything it wants to do. But whenever the issue of local bodies elections comes up, they say, no, no," the bench had said.
"This court vide order dated June 22, 2021, while disposing of the miscellaneous application, granted an extension of time till 15th September 2021 to complete the entire process including publication/notification of election schedule and the result thereof before 15th September 2021 as the Constitutional mandate to conduct elections in a time-bound manner cannot be defeated in any manner," the bench had said in its order.
The order had taken note of the September 13 notification of the TNSEC which said that no order was required to be passed as elections for rural local bodies were underway.
"So far as prayer (ii) in the said application is concerned, Senior counsel appearing for Mr. S. Shankar is directed to file an affidavit within a period of two days from today. List the matter after two days," the court had said on September 20.
The state poll panel seeks time for carrying out the preparatory works to complete the election process for urban local bodies as ordered by the top court.
A vacation bench, on June 22, had granted one more opportunity to the TNSEC to conduct by September 15 the local body polls in nine new districts carved out of four existing ones and had warned it of contempt action.
"We grant an extension of time till 15th September 2021 to complete the entire process including publication/notification of election schedule and the result thereof before 15th September 2021 as the Constitutional mandate to conduct elections in a time-bound manner cannot be defeated in this manner," the bench had said.
The top court was then hearing an application filed by the TNSEC seeking an extension of six months to hold elections to the local bodies in the nine newly carved out districts of the state.
It had then noted the order of the top court passed on December 6, 2019, and had said that instead of four months given to hold the elections, the poll panel has taken 18 months.
It had also been noted that the tenure of the local bodies expired in 2018-19 and since then there were no new elected representatives.
The bench had said that if the order of the court is not complied with, then the poll body will be liable for contempt action.
On December 11, 2019, the top court had directed the Tamil Nadu government and the state poll panel to conduct upcoming local bodies'' elections by relying on the 2011 census instead of the 1991 census as alleged by the then opposition party DMK.
The court''s earlier order had come on the plea of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which had then sought quashing of the notification, issued by the state poll panel on December 7, 2019, for local body election alleging that it did not provide quota for women and SC and ST candidates as per the 2011 census and was using 1991 census for this purpose.
The top court, on December 6, 2019, had put on hold the elections for the local bodies in nine new districts, carved out of four existing ones, in the state for complying with legal formalities such as delimitation and reservation in four months.
The top court had modified its earlier order and asked the delimitation commission to conclude the delimitation exercise within three months instead of four months in nine districts.
It had been said however that TNSEC could proceed with the elections to all panchayats at the village, intermediate, and district levels in the remaining 31 revenue districts of the southern state.
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Americans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena staged a tremendous rally Saturday to advance to Sunday's men's semifinals of the SWATCH FIVB World Tour Finals in Hamburg, Germany.
They will be seeking a gold medal like the one Germans Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst took home Saturday as they finished their 2017 pro-beach season by winning the last two events of the summer.
Ludwig and Walkenhorst, who earlier in the month won the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship in Vienna, took gold again by defeating Brazil's Agatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda Duda Lisboa 21-17, 19-21, 15-10.
Both Ludwig and Walkenhorst struggled with shoulder issues that sidelined them for a chunk of the season. They played only three international tournaments together this year.
"It's been crazy," Walkenhorst said. "We knew that Laura's shoulder injury would take some time to heal but when she came back then I was injured so it was a bit frustrating.
The bronze went to Brazilians Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca, who beat Canadians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan 21-17, 21-19.
Dalhausser and Lucena play Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak of Poland in the first semifinal at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. Eastern) followed by Italians Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai challenging the reigning FIVB world champions, Brazilians Evandro Goncalves and Andre Loyola.
Saturday, top-seeded Dalhausser and Lucena won their quarterfinal match by ousting Canadians Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk 21-23, 25-23, 15-12 after trailing 19-15 in the second set and facing elimination.
With a four-point deficit, Lucena dug the Canadian attack and put away an ensuing cut shot, and followed that up with two service winners to close to 18-19. Schalk sided out to reach match point at 20-18, but a Lucena crosscourt spike sideout kept the Americans alive.
Dalhausser put together two critical blocks, the first at 20-all to even things up, and at 25-23 to cement the set-two comeback.
In the deciding third set, the Americans took a nearly immediate 2-0 lead on a Dalhausser crosscourt spike. The Americans would never trail in earning the 15-12 victory.
"I'm very disappointed. We gave it to them," Schalk said. "We had the complete control in the second set and just made some mental errors. It's super frustrating, this should have been our game. We had our opportunities to win the match and that's going to stink for a while.
The Canadians were seeded 12th.
The gold-medal match is set for 3 p.m. local. Click here for all the Saturday scores from BVBinfo.com.


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Ereignisse

Politik und Weltgeschehen

Reich der Abbasiden
 30. Juli; Kalif Al-Mansur gründet Madīnat as-Salām ("Stadt des Friedens"), das spätere Bagdad, als Hauptstadt des Kalifats der Abbasiden. Damaskus verliert seine Hauptstadtfunktion.
 Unter der Führung von Muhammad an-Nafs az-Zakīya aus dem Geschlecht der Hasaniden beginnt eine Rebellion von Schiiten in Hedschas gegen die Abbasiden-Herrschaft in Bagdad. Am 22. September nimmt Muhammad die Stadt Medina im Handstreich. Zahlreiche bedeutende Persönlichkeiten der Stadt, darunter der Rechtsgelehrte Mālik ibn Anas, schließen sich ihm an. Wenig später werden auch Mekka und Basra erobert. Am 6. Dezember wird der Aufstand jedoch von einer Armee der Abbasiden niedergeschlagen, Muhammad im Kampf getötet.

Weitere Ereignisse in Asien
 Tang Daizong wird nach dem Tod des Suzong Kaiser der chinesischen Tang-Dynastie.
 Shwemauk wird Herrscher von Bagan.

Europa
 Heerzug in das Herzogtum Aquitanien: Unterwerfung der Grafschaft Bourges durch den Frankenkönig Pippin.

Urkundliche Ersterwähnungen
 10. Juli: Urkundliche Ersterwähnung der Klosterzelle Kesseling im Bezirk von Sinzig als Casleoca.
 13. August: Pippin der Jüngere schenkt mit seiner Gemahlin Bertrada dem karolingischen Hauskloster Prüm umfangreichen Besitz, darunter Eigengut, mehrere Ortschaften und Zellen. Diese Urkunde ist die Ersterwähnung von u. a. Altrip, Birresborn, Mötsch, Niederprüm, Rheinbach und Wetteldorf.
 18. August: Nordstetten (Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis) wird erstmals als Nortstati in einer Schenkungsurkunde des Klosters St. Gallen erwähnt.
 Sinzig wird als fränkischer Königshof erwähnt.
 Erste urkundliche Erwähnung von Ampezzo, Braunau, Eimsheim, Eisenach (Eifel), Epolding, Freckleben, Mintraching (Grüneck) (762–764) und Oberstreu.

Religion

Kirchenhierarchie

 Berthelmus wird am 13. August in einer Urkunde als Bischof von Köln genannt, sein Nachfolger wird vermutlich noch im selben Jahr Ricolf.

 Sigerich wird zweiter Bischof von Regensburg. Sein Vorgänger Gaubald ist Ende des Vorjahres gestorben.
 Wiomad wird Erzbischof von Trier.

Sonstige religiöse Ereignisse

 Gebetsbund von Attigny
 Der Manichäismus wird Staatsreligion bei den Uiguren unter Bögü Khan.
 Gründung des Klosters Schäftlarn mit Hilfe von Herzog Tassilo III. von Baiern

Geboren
 um 762: Æthelred I., König von Northumbria († 796)
 um 762: Haito, Abt im Kloster Reichenau und Bischof von Basel († 836)

Gestorben

Todesdatum gesichert

 3. Mai: Tang Xuanzong, Kaiser von China (* 685)
 6. Dezember: Muhammad an-Nafs az-Zakīya, arabischer Rebellenführer

Genaues Todesdatum unbekannt

 Æthelberht II., König von Kent
 Li Bai, chinesischer Dichter (* 701)
 Milo von Trier, fränkischer Bischof
 Tang Suzong, Kaiser von China (* 711)

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https://warriorswire.usatoday.com/2021/08/13/summer-league-moses-moody-jonathan-kuminga-continue-to-impress-on-the-way-to-win-vs-thunder-94-84/
(Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
August 13, 2021 11:51 pm PT
After a win over the Toronto Raptors in the Las Vegas edition of the summer league, the Golden State Warriors met the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Thomas and Mack Center in the desert.
With the chance to build a three-game winning streak, Moses Moody and Jonathan Kuminga helped push the Warriors to a comeback victory over the Thunder. After trailing late into the fourth quarter, Golden State cracked off a late run to seal a 94-84 victory over Oklahoma City.
Six different Warriors notched double-figure scoring efforts, including both of Golden State's first-round picks from the 2021 draft. Moody tallied a team-high 22 points on 8-of-16 shooting from the field with three rebounds and two steals in 23 minutes. The Arkansas product showed off his shooting range, hitting three triples on eight attempts from long distance.
Kuminga continued his impressive summer league run with 18 points on 6-of-14 shooting from the floor with seven boards and two assists in 26 minutes. Kuminga provided another highlight-reel moment with a vicious one-handed dunk after an explosive crossover.
Via @TheHoopCentral on Twitter:
JONATHAN KUMINGA…MY GOODNESS. 😳
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— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) August 13, 2021
JaQuori McLaughlin, Kyle Guy, Gary Payton II and Cameron Oliver all added 10 or more points for the Warriors during their comeback push against Theo Maledon and the Thunder.
Watch more highlights from Friday's contest via YouTube:
After back-to-back wins, the Warriors will be back on the floor in the Summer League on Sunday against the New Orleans Pelicans.
Rookie Moses Moody welcomes the pressure of playing with the Warriors
Olympics: Top photos from Draymond Green, Team USA during exhibition run
NBA Summer League: Breaking down the Warriors schedule for a 4-game run in Las Vegas


SINGAPORE: The revised S$12,000 income ceiling for executive condominiums (EC) will also apply to five projects launched before August 15 this year.
The Ministry of National Development said it made this change following public feedback to apply the new ceiling to projects launched before August 15, the date the new ceiling was announced for EC projects.
MND said it found the feedback sound as it will enable home buyers to enjoy a wider selection of EC units across projects and locations.
The five EC projects launched before August 15 this year still hold about 600 unsold units.
The five projects are: Esparina Residences and Austville Residences in Sengkang, The Canopy in Yishun, RiverParc Residence in Punggol and Blossom Residences in Bukit Panjang.


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Q: Aliasing columns based on cross-reference table I have a table with over 400 columns, and these are named with our vendor's archaic naming system. I need to move this data into a new table which uses our company's naming conventions, so I have to change the names of these 400 columns.
Fortunately, I also have a table that cross-references the current column names with what they should become, like so:
Acronym  | Name
----------------
A        | ColumnNameA
B        | ColumnNameB
C        | ColumnNameC

etc...
So my question is this:
If it were only a few rows, I could easily do
SELECT
   A AS ColumnNameA,
   B AS ColumnNameB
FROM
   Table

But there are just too many columns to do this by hand. What's the best way to dynamically change column names in a SELECT statement based off of a cross-ref table?
My effort so far:
I was thinking something along the lines of
SET @sqlCommand = 'SELECT ' + @columns + ' FROM Table'
EXEC (@sqlCommand)

but I have no idea how to set @columns to be a dynamically generated list of all the acronyms as the final column names. Is this even a viable approach?

A: DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(MAX) = N'';

SELECT @sql += ',' + QUOTENAME(Acronym) + ' AS ' + QUOTENAME(Name)
FROM dbo.AcronymTable;

SET @sql = 'SELECT ' + STUFF(@sql, 1, 1, N'') + ' FROM dbo.Table;';

PRINT @sql;
--EXEC sp_executesql @sql;

A: The easiest way is to add an int field that determines the order of columns so it matches from source to target.  Then you can:
DECLARE @sql varchar(max)

SET @SQL = 'INSERT INTO dbo.Target SELECT '

SELECT @SQL = @SQL + Acronym + ','
FROM ConversionTable
ORDER BY OrderColumn

SET @SQL = LEFT(@SQL, (LEN(@SQL) - 1))

SET @SQL = @SQL + ' FROM SourceTable'

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You can stay up to date on all the activities happening onboard the Emerald Princess through the ship's newsletter, the Princess Patter, which is placed in your room along with the towel animal of the day. The newsletter lets you plan your next day's activities. The Emerald Princess Patter also has a segment called "What's Happening Today" which is a quick reference guide to the times and places of the various activities. Put it in your pocket for quick access. There is a "Cruise Channel" that gives the highlights of the ship and will replay certain activities that you may have missed.
Finally, the Cruise Director, the emcee for the cruise who will be a public presence throughout the cruise, will usually make the day's announcements in the morning. They are broadcast in the public areas of the ship and on a video channel in your room. Make sure you are tuned to the appropriate channel. The Fun Zone, the home of kids' activities, has their own newsletter detailing specific times and places of the kids' events. It's available just outside the pick-up/drop-off areas for the kids.
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I loved seeing this in use. Great video!!!!
This is great information to make trips easier.
I never thought I would find such an everyday topic so enilralhtng!
What happens if a magic band is lost? How is it replaced?
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So glad someone mentioned charging stations for smart phones ! I have a touring plan with GPS for our trip plus taking pictures so that was one of my concerns. Thank you !
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It's terrible, isn't it, when your guilt condenses into that burning singularity, a black hole emptier than any pain you've ever felt and all you can do is let yourself be drawn into it, knowing that each time it becomes harder and harder to claw your way back out again. What do you do then, John?
The Devil and an exorcist walk into a bar. Neither of them expect the resulting punchline.
John Constantine wants something, Lucifer intends to find out what that is - and to have a little fun along the way.
The Rising Darkness is...well, rising, and Constantine is after the recently-escaped Lucifer to put a stop to it, along with Chas, Zed, and the Winchesters.
Eugene Root is still stuck in Hell, and the Unholy Trinity are chasing down a possible lead to find God: a man calling himself Lucifer, living in LA.
The groups find each other, and decide to team up for everyone's benefit.
У них есть история на двоих, потому что… Почему бы и нет? Но это не значит, что Джону это нравится — или что ему нравится элегантный дьявол. На самом деле да. Бесспорно, всё дело в выпивке.
This is a pick your own ending style Legends of Super Flarrowverse story written for the 2016 Legends of Supper Flarrowverse Halloween Horrorfest. It's Halloween and everyone has plans, so when Felicity and Constantine show up and ask Barry if he wants to go out and hang out with the few the only other people they knew with out plans, he jumps at the chance. Little did he know the twists and turns his night would take leading him to unexpected terrors, unknown thrills, and maybe just the slightest of hair raising twists, all found around the next corner.
Sequel to "Where the Winged Ones Are." Lucifer may look like an angel, but don't mistake him for one. He has places to go, people to see, a mystery to solve and a war to stop. It's just another atypical day for Lucifer.


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I noticed the other day that it'd been more than a week since my last post … and it just so happened that a hiking club called Walk East Bay had squeezed my favorite local hill — Mission Peak — onto its calendar. So I climbed the peak for the third time this summer. I wanted to test my theory that climbing this thing never gets easy, just progressively less brutal. The experiment was a success.
It was in the low 80s when we started out — fortunately it didn't get too much warmer than that, but it was hot enough. I filled my 100-ounce hydration pack to the brim and had sucked it dry by the time I got back to the car.
Three of the four who walked with me this morning. At left is Vanessah, who planned the hike. Next to her is Stan, her hubby, and next to him is Ed, who lives just down the road a ways in Fremont.
Helen was the fifth in our group. She had the pack, the shoes and the pace of a veteran hiker, which is to say she got to the top long before the rest of us. This is near the beginning of the trail — the blue sky and brown grass tell the tale.
Helen and Vanessah made me promise I'd post only the flattering pictures of them. To me the most flattering pic is the one which shows the hiker has enough sense to adapt to current circumstances, which could entail putting a towel on one's head to keep the sun from melting it.
Just a nice shot of the peak and the surrounding vegetation, what's left of it.
A particularly steep patch near the top of the hill. This would be one of the last times I'd be leading our foursome.
Stan and Vanessah get their second wind and start picking their way through the rocks near the summit. I found that I was just about out of energy at this point, so I reduced my pace to little baby steps that kept me moving at tortoise speed till my pulse got back to somewhere near normal.
Helen at the top, with Silicon Valley in the background. It was nice having somebody to welcome us to the summit.
Getting ready to head back down. It's amazing how people are so good at following orders when somebody with a camera yells "everybody smile now!"
Resting in a shady spot on the way back down. There are perhaps four such spots on the entire six-mile roundtrip.
All done — with the peak looming far, far behind us.
Helen and I were the only ones in our group who had hiked this trail before. Ed told me at the beginning he'd hike maybe an hour or so and head back. He didn't — he went all the way up. I heard Vanessah telling Stan, after about the first half-mile, that she didn't think she could make it to the top. But she did.
It's cool to see people in a group do things they didn't imagine they could do — and probably wouldn't if they had to do it solo. I had to walk a lot of miles on other trails before I began to imagine I could make it to the top of this one. But really, it's only three miles to the top. Almost anybody in reasonably good shape (with healthy feet, knees and heart) can make it up there, provided they have enough sense to walk slowly and take lots of breaks.
I suppose this sounds trite, but it occurs to me that the real hill we have to climb is the one inside us, in that part of the brain that tells you the satisfaction of getting to the top will justify the suffering along the way.
It's a lot easier to find that place if you've got people to share the pain.
Well-told story and excellent photos that well capture some moments… Thanks, Tom!


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A Pedagogy for Cross-cultural Digital Learning Environments
Published on October 2, 2013 / Written by Bernardo Trejos / 0
Education can benefit from the global network of connections we call the Internet, since the issue of access is less of a concern in the digital space than in brick and mortar institutions. We should ask, however, if the possibilities for a global-level pedagogy are being seized. By pedagogy we mean a philosophy of teaching that is based on its praxis. As Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel explain, "Teaching is a practice. Good teaching is an engaged, reflective, and generous practice. Pedagogy is not just talking and thinking about teaching. Pedagogy is the place where philosophy and practice meet (aka 'praxis')." We are using the Internet to send and receive educational information, but are we able to work collaboratively at a global scale? Are we using the collaborative nature of the Internet to its potential for bridging distant parts of society? There is a call for an international pedagogy for online education.
The document, "A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age", states that everyone should have the right to learn, regardless of where they live ("anywhere and everywhere in the world"). It also mentions that,
Online learning should originate from everywhere on the globe, not just from the U.S. and other technologically advantaged countries. The best courses will be global in design and contribution, offering multiple and multinational perspectives. They should maximize opportunities for students from different countries to collaborate with one another, to contribute local knowledge and histories and to learn one another's methods, assumptions, values, knowledge and points of view.
As a professor in Taiwan, part of my job is taking my students by the hand, reaching over to Western academic culture, and trying to get them to understand each other. The gap between these two groups becomes apparent when Taiwanese students encounter a lecturer from the West, even a really good one. The students' vocabulary is insufficient, the lecturer speaks too fast, and the examples in the lecture are out of context (from the perspective of the students). The gap also becomes apparent when a fellow professor comes to Taiwan and teaches the first class, designs a first set of midterm exams, or grades them. So many things are misunderstood, from both sides, that the result is pedagogical chaos.
The difficulties of cross-cultural education were noted about twenty years ago, when tertiary education was rapidly expanding in Hong Kong and saw the arrival of western professors. Flowerdew and Miller's (1995) pioneering study talks about four cultural dimensions that affect ESL (English as a second language) students:
Ethnic culture: the cultural features that affect the behavior of students and lecturers (e.g., respect towards teachers).
Local culture: the local setting that is familiar to a student but may not be so for the person teaching the course, or vice versa (e.g., using a local TV show or movie to explain an academic concept).
Academic culture: The values, assumptions and roles in the classroom (e.g., what is expected of a student in terms of classroom participation).
Disciplinary culture: the specialized vocabulary of a particular discipline (e.g., jargon specific to linguists or engineers, for which there is sometimes no term in Chinese and therefore an English term is used).
Similarly, the recent rise of online education presents challenges in terms of cross-cultural understanding. Certainly this new wave will still be affected by the four cultural dimensions mentioned above, since ethnicity, locality, academic cultural practices and discipline-specific terminology are still present in contemporary digital learning environments. There is, however, an additional complication in dealing with multilateral instead of a bilateral cultural differences. Technology without cultural awareness is a double-edged sword, so being aware of these dimensions is necessary to develop learning environments that harness the potential of contemporary digital tools.
These issues, however, are even more complicated in a global-scale environment, since students enrolled in an online course, be it open or closed, can be located in different countries and belong to widely different cultures. If we want to prevent or minimize language and/or cultural barriers, first we need to understand where these problems come from.
Languages are diverse; while some are quite similar, others are drastically different. I am on the side of the debate that holds no language is superior to another, but even if this did not hold true, languages carry a wealth of knowledge from the people that speak them. Online pedagogy can either harness this knowledge or contribute to its destruction.
There are difficulties in communication between people that speak drastically different mother languages, and at times we are unaware of these differences. I have found that a non-native user of the English language may, consciously or not, transgress the rules of the language as a matter of preference. I originally thought my students did not understand English-language grammar rules, but over time, I have come to understand there is more behind this practice. Let me illustrate this with an example from a brochure for Cishan Railway Station published in Mandarin Chinese by the Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Kaohsiung City Government:
基於自身產糖量不足、對台灣砂糖的偏好及地理位置之便,日本對台灣砂糖的需求就相當依賴,明治28年(1895)統指台灣後,其對台灣糖業更擁有掌控權。在台灣蕃薯寮街逐漸規劃成現代都市街道發展的同時,明治34年(1901)台灣第一座現代化製糖會社於橋仔頭落成並開始生產,帶動台灣製糖業蓬勃發展。明治42年(1909),日人受到內地資本家投資台灣製糖業風潮的影響,選擇蕃薯寮本街對岸的旗尾庄興建台灣製糖株式會社旗尾製糖所,為蕃薯寮引進現代化的工業。
Here's a translation to western linear-style English:
Japanese had great demand for Taiwanese sugar for three reasons. First, their production was insufficient; second, they preferred Taiwanese sugar; and third, Taiwan is very close to Japan. When the Japanese seized Taiwan in 1895, they took control of the Taiwanese sugar industry. As part of the modernization of "Sweet Potato Shack" Street (present day Chishan), the first modern sugar factory in Taiwan started producing sugar there in 1901. This spurred the development of the Taiwanese sugar industry. In 1909, the Japanese constructed the Qi-Wei Sugar Factory. They chose Qi-Wei Village, which was across the river from "Sweet Potato Shack" Street. This is how this street was introduced to modern industry.
Notice that the Chinese version uses 12 punctuation marks (2 full stops and 10 pauses), while my English translation uses 17 (8 full stops, 2 semicolons, and 7 commas). In contrast, below is a translation that follows the original punctuation:
Because their own sugar yield was insufficient, preference for Taiwan sugar and its location, Japanese demand for Taiwanese sugar was heavily dependent, Chinese year 28 (1895) took over Taiwan, it also had control over Taiwan sugar industry. In Taiwan sweet potato shack street gradually planning into the development of a modern city street, Chinese year 34 (1901) Taiwan's first modern sugar factory was completed and began production, drive Taiwan's sugar industry to flourish, Chinese year 42 (1909), Japanese capitalists invested in Taiwan's sugar industry, chose sweet potato shack street on the other side of Qi Wei Zhuang Village constructed Taiwan sugar company Qi Wei sugar manufacturing company, for the introduction of modern industrial sweet potato street.
Finally, here is an even more literal translation, with no past tense (as there is no past tense in Chinese, at least as Westerners understand it):
Because their own sugar yield is insufficient, preference for Taiwan sugar and its location, Japanese demand for Taiwanese sugar is heavily dependent, Chinese year 28 (1895) take over Taiwan, it also has control over Taiwan sugar industry. In Taiwan sweet potato shack street gradually planning into the development of a modern city street, Chinese year 34 (1901) Taiwan's first modern sugar factory completion and start production, drive Taiwan's sugar industry to flourish, Chinese year 42 (1909), Japanese capitalists invest in Taiwan's sugar industry, choose sweet potato shack street on the other side of Qi Wei Zhuang Village to construct Taiwan sugar company Qi Wei sugar manufacturing, for the introduction of modern industrial sweet potato street.
Notice how ideas are expressed in non-linear form (as opposed to the linear form common in Western languages). Take into consideration that this is published, adult-level writing.
This is the kind of language that college students seem to be emulating when they write in English. Below are two paragraphs written by my students. In these two examples, the typical sentence structure of Chinese language can be observed, as well as the non-linear paragraph structure and the lack of past tense:
Kiyomizu-dera is not the official name and I forget how to pronounce the original name of this independent Buddhist temple in Kyoto. This temple is World Heritage of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) since the year of 1994 until now and it was build in 778, rebuild in 1664. Its name has a adage and that meaning is according the way to build this temple but I do not know how to use right way to explain in English, the adage is "you can jump from the stage of Kiyomizu-dera" in Chinese meaning is like you go to do something and cut off the means of retreat to push yourself don't stop until you finish or get the goal because this temple is build on the mountain if you jump down from the stage of temple you cannot comeback, how strong and beautiful is it?
What is sustainable development? I think that is save the resources, then can be use by next generation, if we want to have more resources to use or some of special place that we can go sightseeing, we should take care of our place. Therefore sustainable that is the biggest issue for people, if we don't know how to protect and maintain, it will cause many problems for our place, so that we should find some solution to solve this issue.
While these students have passed a multiple-choice English language proficiency exam, they seem to prefer an alternative paragraph style. I am not alone in this belief that Taiwanese students transgress language rules due to preference. According to Luis Roncero, Taiwanese students purposefully use complex expressions for aesthetic reasons, even though they don't fit the meaning of the sentence or paragraph. For example, one of his students used the expressions "giant orbit" and "vehement ball" when describing the game of soccer, because they sounded "beautiful". The form is more important to them than the content or following a clear line of thought. It is therefore the responsibility of the reader to decipher the meaning of what is written.
So how do we deal with the difficulties stemming from widely different languages? The literature on digital pedagogy is calling for an international approach, but there are many issues that are difficult to understand, and even more difficult to overcome. One may ask, can people from one culture adapt to reading texts from drastically different writing systems? I believe that it shouldn't be that complicated if we keep an open mind. In fact, I argue that native English language speakers with some knowledge of the literary arts are already familiar with alternative styles of organizing paragraphs. Let's look at two examples that show non-linear writing styles, one from the Catcher in the Rye:
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
The second example is from Leaves of Grass, which shows punctuation and sentence structure somewhat similar to Chinese:
One's-Self I sing, a simple, separate person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word en-Masse.
Of physiology from top to toe, I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse,
I say the Form complete is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.
Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form'd, under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.
These two texts are at the heart of native-speaking English, yet they don't follow the form of the academic writing style enforced throughout the world. The writers of these texts, as well as the students who wrote the examples above, chose to write this way for aesthetic reasons. Perhaps we can become less reliant on the dry tone in academic writing and be more open to other aesthetic options. What should be done to encourage participation of students from non-western countries, many of whom are not native speakers of English? A start is to understand that an international pedagogy must find a balance between wide cross-cultural participation and clarity.
One way of dealing with cultural differences among online education participants is for multilingual participants to act as cultural "bridges" or translators. Bilingual members in local or host societies as well as exchange or foreign students can fulfill this role. Translating between languages, pidgins, creoles, dialects, and indigenized varieties is important for information to flow between participants in distant parts of the world. Some of this translation may be computer-mediated (e.g., Google translator), or even crowdsourced. Specialized translators who know the jargons of specific fields would also be necessary, since some terms are associated with unshared cultural concepts. For example, Chinese architecture has many terms for which there is no clear and unequivocal translation to English. This would all fit into what Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel call mass collaboration.
Paul Prinsloo gives one example of how this can be done:
Recent MOOCs encouraged participants to self-organize into any collaborative environment that would suit their preferences, e.g. language groups. Though the 'official' language of the MOOC and its resources were in English, participants were invited to self-organize if they had the need to communicate in another language.
The mentioned language groups, however useful for some, may lead to a kind of online "ghettoization". Why should I, not part of one of these culture groups, be denied their insights? Why must they be denied mine? Moreover, we should think of the vast amount of knowledge that we are not tapping into when we are only getting our information in one language, and how valuable insight may get lost or destroyed if no cultural awareness measures are taken. In sum, we are aiming not only for globalized access but also to globalized thinking.
The difficulties created by language and cultural differences have led to a situation in which most efforts towards a global online education are produced by westerners and in the English language, instead of being international in design and participation. This in turn has affected the active participation of non-westerners in worldwide-level online education. Solutions to this lack of participation involve increasing awareness of language differences, being more open to alternative styles of writing, and encouraging the role of language/cultural translators. If information can flow back and forth between culturally diverse areas of the world, online education can fulfill its promise of promoting cultural understanding.
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Bernardo Trejos
Bernardo Trejos (@bernardotrejos works for the Department of International Tourism and Hospitality at I-Shou University, Taiwan
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Hurricane Harvey Relief From 'Zees and 'Zors, Part II
By Alex Van Abbema
Last week we posted about 10 franchises, with help from both franchisees and franchisors, that have donated time, resources and efforts to Hurricane Harvey relief. Countless other organizations are providing what they can to assist in the recovery efforts, and it's nearly impossible to list all of them. Here are 10 other American franchise brands and franchisees harnessing their coast-to-coast presence in support of those affected by the devastation.
Boston's Restaurant & Sports Bar: Two Dallas-Fort Worth locations hosted fundraising event Sunday, September 10 during the first Dallas Cowboys game of the season. Each location will donate a portion of proceeds to the J.J. Watt Foundation.
Additionally, throughout September, all 27 Boston's locations will participate in a "Round-Up" event where events can round-up their food and drink bills to support the J.J. Watt Foundation's efforts.
Club Pilates: Participating Club Pilates studios hosted relief classes Saturday, September 9, and Sunday, September 10, in a partnership with TPG Growth. Classes were held with a suggested $10 donation per class. Club Pilates Corporate is matching the total funds raised by local studios and franchise owners across the network, and will donate the collective proceeds to the American Red Cross.
CycleBar: CycleBar studios across the country are hosting charity rides to raise funds for hurricane relief efforts. In addition, the company will be selling "We Ride with Texas" baseball hats and shirts, and a portion of each sale will be added to the studio's donation funds. CycleBar has a goal of raising $100,000 between the rides and merchandise sales.
Dogtopia: Fundraising is taking place in all Dogtopia locations, and its corporate office will be matching each store's contribution dollar-for-dollar up to $15,000. The proceeds raised will be split between the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund and S.A.V.E. Rescue Coalition, a nonprofit consisting of 100 percent volunteer efforts that reunites dogs lost in the hurricane to their families.
Jack in the Box: Jack in the Box offered free combo meals to uniformed first responders and county officials at Jack in the Box restaurants in the Houston area. The Jack in the Box foundation contributed $50,000 to the American Red Cross, and the Jack in the Box National Franchise Association made a $100,000 donation to support employees of franchised restaurants affected by the hurricane.
McDonald's: McDonald's announced it would donate $1 million to the American Red Cross, and announced a $250,000 employee matching program. Local restaurants donated thousands of water bottles to the local Red Cross, and open restaurants in the Houston area provided free meals to first responders.
Pet Supplies Plus: Pet Supplies Plus donated more than $30,000 worth of pet supplies and foods to local Pet Supplies Plus locations around the Houston area, which then distributed the donations to local Houston shelters and humane societies.
Salata: With its headquarters and 33 restaurants located in the Houston area, Salata experienced the effects of Hurricane Harvey firsthand. Twenty-four of its Houston-area locations reopened quickly and began feeding first responders in uniform. Salata is also collecting donations for the J.J. Watt Foundation through September 30.
Urban Bricks Pizza: On August 28, founder and CEO Sammy Aldeeb, along with his corporate staff and other franchisees, traveled to the Urban Bricks Pizza in Corpus Christi. They handed out more than 700 free pizzas to the community.
Whataburger: Whataburger pledged $1 million to the Whataburger Family Foundation, which will provide financial assistance to company employees impacted by the flood. The chain is also donating $150,000 to the Red Cross, and $500,000 to local food banks to be deployed in the areas of greatest need.


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