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Q: How to print "The key(element) is not present in your array" when I don't enter a key present in my array when asked for by the computer in my code Let's say I enter {1,3,3,5} as my array and I input 6 when asked to enter the key whose index I want to know. How do I edit my code to print that "the key entered is not in your array"?
My code is given below:
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void linearsearch(int arr[], int n, int key) {
  int i;

  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    if (arr[i] == key) {
      cout << " \nthe index is: " << i;
    }
  }
}

int main() {
  int n;

  cout << "enter the size of your array : ";

  cin >> n;

  int arr[n];

  cout << "\nenter the keys of your array: ";

  for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    cin >> arr[i];
  }

  int key;

  cout << "\n enter the key whose index you want to know: ";

  cin >> key;

  linearsearch(arr, n, key);
}

A: // You can use a boolean control variable in the void function and when you find the number you can set its value to true and insert an if statement at the end of the loop to check the value of the bool variable, if the, if statement in the loop wasn't executed, meant that the number was not found and the value of the variable was false so it would print the line you were asking about //
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void linearsearch(int arr[], int n, int key) {
  int i;
    bool found = false;
  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    if (arr[i] == key) {
      cout << " \nthe index is: " << i;
      found = true;
    }
  }
  if (found == false){
    cout << "The key entered is not in your array." << endl;
  }
}

int main() {
  int n;

  cout << "enter the size of your array : ";

  cin >> n;

  int arr[n];

  cout << "\nenter the keys of your array: ";

  for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    cin >> arr[i];
  }

  int key;

  cout << "\n enter the key whose index you want to know: ";

  cin >> key;

  linearsearch(arr, n, key);
}


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Michael Phillips (1940-) is an internationally recognized William Blake scholar and academic. He was born to Paul Curtis Phillips and Louise Phillips in New York City and grew up in Southern California.
Phillips obtained a BA in English from Loyola University, Los Angeles, in 1963, and, in 1968, earned a PhD from Exeter; his thesis was titled The Poetical Sketches of William Blake. He also has a BPhil in Modern English Studies from Oxford.
Phillips was influenced by his friendships with Shakespearian scholar G. Wilson Knight and prominent Blake scholar Sir Geoffrey Keynes and his work on William Blake became increasingly interdisciplinary over the course of his career. He trained in printmaking techniques at the Edinburgh College of Art and became a member of the professional Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, where he began successfully replicating Blake's "illuminated printing" technique in studio. This printmaking training informed Phillips' numerous publications, especially his book William Blake: The Creation of the Songs: From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing, 2000.
Phillips has taught at Oxford, University College London, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of York. He has also lectured and given Blake printmaking demonstrations internationally, including at Victoria University, University of Toronto, in 2012.
In addition, Phillips has been guest curator of William Blake exhibitions at Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Petit Palais in Paris, and, currently, for the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford.
His work has been recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Yale Centre for British Art, British Library Centre for the Book, a British Academy Research Readership in the Humanities, Waynflete Lectureship, Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Medal of the Collège de France.
Fonds consists of Michael Phillips' records relating to his academic writings, including his extensive correspondence with Blake scholars, publishers, and printers as well as records related to lectures, exhibits and research in printmaking, 1957-2015. The fonds is arranged typically by work or activity and includes the following subject headings: The Poetical Sketches of William Blake (Ph.D. Thesis, 1968); William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes (published 1973); Lectures and Research, 1974-1976; Interpreting Blake: A Volume of Studies (published 1978); Modern Language Association's Special Session on the Bicentenary of Poetical Sketches (Dec. 1983); An Island in the Moon (published 1987); "The Composition of Pope's Imitation of Horace, Satire, II.i" (published in Alexander Pope: Essays for the Tercentenary, 1988); Tate Britain William Blake Exhibition and Catalogue (2000); The Creation of the Songs (published 2000); The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (published 2011); Items Relating to Geoffrey Keynes; Books Annotated by G. Wilson Knight; "The Printing of Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job" (published 2005); "The Printing of Blake's America a Prophecy" (published March 2004); "Printing Blake's Songs, 1789-1794" (published September 1991); "William Blake and the Sophocles Manuscript Notebook" (published 1997); Research on printmaking and Blake's illuminated printing ; and "William Blake : Apprentice and Master" Exhibit at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", etc.
Photographs are of images of works by Blake, printmaking techniques and tools as well as images used in the catalogue for the Ashmolean Museum's Blake exhibition in 2014.
The fonds is stored in 16 boxes.
A Demonstration of William Blake's Printing Methods, 30 March 2012. Featuring Michael Phillips. Produced by Michael Andreae, Doug Fox and Alistair Boyd. 2014. Available online in Digital Collections.


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A fat tax is a tax or surcharge that is placed upon fattening food, beverages or on overweight individuals. It is considered an example of Pigovian taxation. A fat tax aims to discourage unhealthy diets and offset the economic costs of obesity.

A fat tax aims to decrease the consumption of foods that are linked to obesity. A related idea is to tax foods that are linked to increased risk of coronary heart disease. Numerous studies suggest that as the price of a food decreases, individuals get fatter. In fact, eating behavior may be more responsive to price increases than to nutritional education. Estimates suggest that a 1 cent per ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may reduce the consumption of those beverages by 25%. However, there is also evidence that obese individuals are less responsive to changes in the price of food than normal-weight individuals.

To implement a fat tax, it is necessary to specify which food and beverage products will be targeted. This must be done with care, because a carelessly chosen food tax can have surprising and perverse effects. For instance, consumption patterns suggest that taxing saturated fat would induce consumers to increase their salt intake, thereby putting themselves at greater risk for cardiovascular death. Current proposals frequently single out sugar-sweetened drinks as a target for taxation. Cross-sectional, prospective, and experimental studies have found an association between obesity and the consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks. However, experimental studies have not always found an association, and the size of the effect can be very modest.

Since the poor spend a greater proportion of their income on food, a fat tax might be regressive. Taxing foods that provide primarily calories, with little other nutritional value reduces this problem, since calories are readily available from many sources in diet of industrialized nations.  To make a fat tax less burdensome for the poor, proponents recommend earmarking the revenues to subsidize healthy foods and health education. Additionally, proponents have argued that the fat tax is less regressive to the extent that it lowers medical expenditures and expenditures on the targeted foods among the poor. Indeed, there is a higher incidence of diet-related illnesses among the poor than in the general population.

Unlike placing restrictions on foods or ingredients, a fat tax would not limit consumer choice, only change relative prices.

Benefits of a fat tax
Public health practitioners and scholars in a range of different countries have called for a fat tax on unhealthy foods. The reasoning behind implementing a fat tax is the hope that people will avoid risky dietary behaviours, improving health outcomes in society. Research indicates that the current obesity epidemic is increasing as a result of the fast food industry expanding. Junk food outlets are changing the dietary habits of society, pushing out traditional restaurants and leading to the detrimental health effects of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Taxes on tobacco have seen smoking rates decrease, and as a result there have been calls for fat taxes to be implemented in more countries in an attempt to reduce the consumption of unhealthy foods.

Criticism
The overall goal of a fat tax is to incentivize consumers to change their preference of specific foods which are deemed unhealthy to prefer healthier foods. While its intentions are good, there are many issues which this tax rate could bring forth. Lower-income households in some countries tend to eat more unhealthy food due to their lower price. For example, in the United States, the fact that junk food is cheaper than healthier food can be linked to the obesity epidemic, especially poorer households. The institution of a fat tax could hurt those in lower-income households as many of them rely on the cheaper, less healthy foods that would be taxed under such a policy. Since households that are poor typically spend up to 30% of their total income on food, they would not only be unable to afford the healthier foods but they would also be forced to pay more for the foods that they could afford.

Such a tax could also inadvertently tax healthy foods. A fat tax would have to be written very specifically to ensure that healthy foods such as nuts, seeds, avocados and fatty fish, which are all high in fats, aren't taxed accidentally.

There is also no guarantee that consumers will change their eating habits. Other similar taxes on tobacco and alcohol have been found to be fairly successful, with many implementations lowering the amount of adults who smoke or drink. There is also the case where sugary drinks were taxed in Philadelphia, and instead of consumers swapping to more-healthy and untaxed drinks, many drove elsewhere to buy sugary drinks or continued to buy the more expensive taxed drinks.

History
The first such taxes were introduced in the USA in 1925. Dr Harvey Wiley criticised an increase in tax on oleomargarine (but commonly called the Butter Tax) as it punished artificial products whilst allowing adulterated butter to be untaxed. The purpose of this tax was health oriented but was focused on food purity rather than on its fattening properties.

In 1942, U.S. physiologist A. J. Carlson suggested levying a fee on each pound of overweight, both to counter an "injurious luxury" and to make more food available for the war effort. The concept was reintroduced by Milton Merryweather and P. Franklin Alexander in the late 1970s, but became well known in the early 1980s by Kelly D. Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. Brownell proposed that revenue from junk food taxes be used to subsidize more healthful foods and fund nutrition campaigns.

In a 1994 op-ed in The New York Times, Brownell noted that food costs were out of balance, with healthy foods costing more than unhealthy ones. The New York Times op-ed piece that proposed the "fat tax" elicited controversy and outrage nationwide. Author Kelly Brownell became the focal point of this controversy, especially from Rush Limbaugh, who spoke out adamantly against the tax and the general principle of governmental intrusion into food choices and a possible invasion of privacy. Brownell's proposal was listed as number seven on the list of U.S. News & World Report "16 Smart Ideas to Fix the World". Because of this and other work, Brownell was named by Time magazine as one of the "World's Most Influential People".  In 2000, a paper in the British Medical Journal outlined the potential impact on deaths from ischemic heart disease of a tax on the main sources of saturated fats.
In December 2003, The World Health Organization proposed that nations consider taxing junk foods to encourage people to make healthier food choices. According to the WHO report, "Several countries use fiscal measures to promote availability of and access to certain foods; others use taxes to increase or decrease consumption of food; and some use public funds and subsidies to promote access among poor communities to recreational and sporting facilities."

Bruce Silverglade, director of legal affairs for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said his nonprofit nutrition advocacy organization welcomed the recommendations and has spent years fighting for measures like a junk food tax. The proposal got more traction when New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz proposed taxes on junk food and entertainment contributing to sedentary lifestyles to fund nutrition and exercise programs. It should also be remembered  that taxing foodstuffs is not an argument for increasing taxation. Other taxes can be reduced commensurately if the overall objective is to keep the tax take neutral. The fat tax is an argument for raising taxes on activities that we prefer to discourage (consumption of certain foodstuffs) rather than raising taxes on socially desirable activities. Therefore, opponents of this type of taxation must identify which taxes are preferable to taxing these foodstuffs.

Other advocates of the tax, such as Jonathan Gruber point to the effect taxes have had on alcohol and tobacco use. Five studies published between 1981 and 1998 found that drinking declined as the price of alcohol increased. The same holds for tobacco. In California, in 1988, Proposition 99 increased the state tax by 25 cents per cigarette pack and allocated a minimum of 20% of revenue to fund anti-tobacco education. From 1988 to 1993, the state saw tobacco use decline by 27%, three times more than the U.S. average.

A CBS News poll from January 2010 reported that a tax on items such as soft drinks and foods considered to be junk food is opposed 60% to 38%. An even larger number, 72% of Americans, also believed that a tax would not actually help people lose weight.  However, the question of whether or not taxation influences diet is an empirical question and not simply a matter of public opinion. However, a February 2010 poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute found that New York City residents overwhelmingly favor a soft drink tax, with 76 percent wanting the tax, and 22 percent opposing it. The poll found both Republicans and Democrats favor the tax.

In October 2011, British prime minister David Cameron told reporters that his government might introduce a Fat Tax as part of the solution to the UK's high obesity rate.

Japan
Japan implemented the 'metabo' law which included the measurement of waist sizes in 2008 in attempt to overcome increasing obesity rates. The New York Times wrote: "To reach its goals of shrinking the overweight population by 10 percent over the next four years and 25 percent over the next seven years, the government will impose financial penalties on companies and local governments that fail to meet specific targets. The country's Ministry of Health argues that the campaign will keep the spread of diseases like diabetes and strokes in check." The 'metabo' law involved conducting an annual waist measurement check of people aged between 40 and 75, which was administered by employers and local government.

The role of employers and local government was to ensure there was a minimum of 65% participation, with a goal to decrease Japan's obesity rates by 25% by 2015 and failure to meet these goals results in a fine. However, this has erroneously been taken to mean that the 'metabo' law makes obesity illegal.

Denmark
In October 2011, Denmark introduced a fat tax on butter, milk, cheese, pizza, meat, oil and processed food if the item contains more than 2.3% saturated fat. However, in November 2012, the Danish Tax Ministry announced it would abolish the fat tax, stating that it failed to change Danes' eating habits, had encouraged cross border trading, put Danish jobs at risk and had been a bureaucratic nightmare for producers and outlets. The failure of Denmark's fat tax was also due to financial reasons, with politicians identifying the fat tax as a funding source for the government, rather than a health initiative that attempted to improve the health outcomes of society. The proposed sugar tax plans were also scrapped. While this tax was a failure in terms of changing consumer habits overall, it did achieve some of its goals in the short term. According to a research collaboration done by Oxford University and Copenhagen University, it was found that 4% less saturated fat was bought and more fruit and vegetables were bought in response to this tax. However, one downside was an increase of consumption for salt.

Mette Gjerskov, the Danish minister of food, agriculture and fisheries, stated that "the fat tax is one of the most criticized we had in a long time. Now we have to try to improve public health by other means." Although the tax resulted in an additional $216 million in revenue, it also led to numerous complaints from Danish retailers that their customers were taking their business to other countries, such as Sweden and Germany, to take advantage of their lower prices.

India

In the Indian state of Kerala which is ruled by CPI(M), as a part of June 2016 budgets, the government proposed a 14.5 per cent 'fat tax' on burgers, pizzas and other junk food served in branded restaurants which officials from the quick service industry termed as 'detrimental' to consumption. Industry estimates suggest there are 50-75 outlets of organised fast-food restaurant chains in Kerala, including global brands McDonald's, Chicking, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Domino's Pizza and Subway. Kerala is the first state in India to introduce a "fat tax" on burgers, pizzas, doughnuts and tacos served in branded restaurants.

See also
 Pigovian tax
 Sugary drink tax

References

External links

Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University

Excises
Public health

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On the Will to Cut Expenditures
January 21, 2014 January 21, 2014 / admin
Who said, "The plan is to reduce the cost of Federal government operations by 25 per cent"?
Or, "We should plan to have a definitely balanced budget for the third year of recovery and from that time on seek a continuing reduction of the national debt"?
How about, "The Treasury is all right and we are balancing the budget — you needn't worry"?
Or, finally, "It has taken courage for the Federal government to go into the 'red'…But it has been worth it"?
If you guessed "Calvin Coolidge," you would be wrong. It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, between 1932 and 1938. As Bruce Barton pointed out, however, there was no further talk of economy after 1938. "The talk was about the preparation for war and, later, about the fine new world the war was going to usher in."
Bruce Barton, whose 1953 article, "Unless It Hurts, It's No Good," is featured here.
Not only had 1931 seen the first budget deficit in twelve years, the debt stood at $21 billion by January 1933. When Roosevelt died in April 1945, the debt had ballooned to $233 billion. President Truman built upon that infamous legacy with another $32 billion of his own. Writing as a new President was taking office in 1953, Bruce Barton hastened to the point of his article: "Both of these presidents talked economy, but neither of them had any real heart for it. Neither of them was willing to do anything that would endanger the support of a pressure group in the next campaign." Both were pandering to people, telling voters what they wanted to hear but never delivering anything more than eloquent words and good intentions. When the occasion called for it, the cuts promised in the heat of campaigns were too politically painful to make, risked the alienation of some support group somewhere and endangered electoral success in the future. They cared too much for the appearances and not enough for the substantial harm inflicted on people by the curtailment of growth and opportunity because of Government's limitless spending habits. It is a lack of discipline, not bravery, that Government demonstrates when spending more than it has. Saying one thing and doing another, especially when one is the President of the United States, does not illustrate courage either, it exemplifies cowardice.
In contrast, Barton continues, "Calvin Coolidge cut the debt of his day by nearly 25 per cent. To disparage him is now the fashion. He is slurred over as a 'do-nothing' president, a national nonentity. Actually he was all guts."
Before you snicker and chortle, dear reader, consider carefully Barton's four examples substantiating that claim.
1. "As governor, he had the guts to break the Boston police strike. When Samuel Gompers, the country's most powerful labor leader, demanded that the striking policemen be reinstated, Coolidge wired: 'There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time.' " While it has often been incorrectly asserted that the danger had already passed and that Governor Coolidge took credit for something he did not do, this telegram might never have been sent and so cogently framed the heart of the issue had Coolidge not sent it. He was not the politician who runs from confrontation.
2. "He had the guts to veto the act passed by the members of both Houses of the Legislature raising their own salaries." The veto, just like the telegram, did not have to be sent. Governor Coolidge could have joined the General Court that spring of 1919 with a wink and a nod, signing their $500 increase and saying nothing. Like trimming down state agencies from 120 to 19 departments, however, Governor Coolidge refused to simply "punt" difficult tasks to his successor, even when the law allowed for delay.
3. "As president, he had the guts to veto the first big farm subsidy, the McNary-Haugen Bill, on the grounds that the bill was not only an abuse of the taxing power, but also a sure path to overproduction." The sharp language of both veto messages took everyone by surprise at the time, who considered Coolidge incapable of being riled about anything. He took on the issue firmly and ended attempts at government control of agriculture for the rest of his term. This is all the more incredible considering that two solid Republicans sponsored the bill, a large majority passed it twice and a very influential "Farm Bloc" wanted it to be law.
4. "He also killed the excessive soldiers' bonus, since the veterans had already received a discharge bonus of 256 million dollars. Coolidge's friends and foes agreed in predicting that such actions would kill him politically; yet the people gave him overwhelming re-election." This, too, is stunning when, as it seems today, there is no price too high for veteran's benefits.
Barton comes to the point, as America still stood at war-time levels of spending: it was time to reapply Coolidge's courage, not merely echo the same empty words and pleasing promises. "History should teach us that you can't slash without incurring the opposition of powerful pressure groups. That unless the slash hurts it isn't any good."
Coolidge put it this way, "Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody." Yet, ninety years ago, a reserved but courageous man from Vermont triumphed over that temptation, overcoming it not merely once or twice but repeatedly and consistently.
The Coolidges, among the crowd, at Salem, MA, train depot.
"I don't think in all my experience, which has been very large…with proposals for spending money, I have ever had any proposal from anyone as to what could be done to save any money. Sometimes linked with the proposal for an immediate large expenditure is the suggestion that it ultimately will result in a saving…[T]hat is about the extent of the outside assistance I have had in that direction" — December 14, 1928.
"The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. if we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, four hundred millions of Mississippi flood control, two or three hundred millions of river and harbor improvements, two or three hundred millions of public buildings, hundreds of millions of good roads and other hundreds of millions of pensions, the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go" — August 4, 1930.
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Labour signals that Britain should remain in customs union
May's government committed to leaving customs union and single market after Brexit
Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 19:38
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Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry: hinted Labour could back remaining in a European customs union after Brexit. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
One of Jeremy Corbyn's closest allies has hinted that Labour is set to call for Britain to remain in the customs union after it leaves the European Union.
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry suggested that the party, which currently backs customs union membership for a transition period after Brexit, is moving towards support for permanent membership of it.
"We've looked at it and we cannot see a way forward when it comes to Northern Ireland or to tariff-free trade across Europe without us being in some form of customs union, that probably looks very much like the customs union that there is at the moment," she told ITV's Peston on Sunday.
Theresa May's government is committed to leaving the customs union and the single market after Brexit, although it is seeking a transition agreement with the EU which would leave trading arrangements unchanged for almost two years. Ms Thornberry said Labour accepted the result of the 2016 referendum and she suggested that the party would not seek to remain in the single market after Brexit.
"As for the single market, you know and I know that it's very difficult for us to remain in the single market as it currently is because nobody can pretend that the referendum didn't include a debate on immigration and we want to have fair rules and managed migration when it comes to immigration so we need to negotiate something," she said.
Polls show strong support among Labour Party members for remaining in both the customs union and the single market but some senior figures in Mr Corbyn's circle believe that EU state aid and public procurement rules are incompatible with some of the party's manifesto commitments.
Ms May will chair an all-day meeting of senior ministers at her official country residence of Chequers next Thursday in an attempt to agree a common position ahead of the second phase of Brexit negotiations. Among the options under consideration is a proposal that Britain would remain aligned with EU regulations for some sectors but would be free to ignore them for others.
On Sunday, however, the European Parliament's chief negotiator Guy Verhofstadt said that no such bespoke deal would be available to Britain.
"There can not be a type of saying 'oh this is interesting, that we like, this is not interesting for us, we dislike and we don't want it'. What will be in that part of the association agreement we will see," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
Mr Verhofstadt said Britain should not expect its financial services to retain full access to Europe if it leaves the single market and he warned that there would be no trade deal agreed before the country leaves the EU.
"I think what is possible by the 29th of March of next year, if everybody agrees with it, the British parliament, European Parliament, will be the withdrawal agreement. Inside that withdrawal agreement also an agreement on the transition," he said.
"And the third thing that will be possible is an annex, a political declaration describing, more or less in detail I should say, the future – what the future relationship will be."
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With the surge of high-quality television shows gracing our screens in recent years, the notion of TV beating film makes a lot of sense. Here is a look at the reasons that television comes out on top these days.
Many actors began in television before making the leap to films. Working in film was once seen as the pinnacle of an actor's career, but many are now making the switch back to TV thanks to the quality of shows being made. With Hollywood stars such as Meryl Streep confirmed to appear in Big Little Lies, Cillian Murphy returning to the small screen in Peaky Blinders, and Idris Elba swapping Hollywood for series five of Luther, the caliber of TV acting is set to rise again.
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As evidenced by the slew of electrified cars debuting at the Shanghai show, the country is looking toward electrification as a solution to air quality and congestion issues.
With about 45 percent of passenger vehicle sales in China dominated by foreign brands such as Volkswagen, GM, Ford, Toyota and Honda, domestic brands are aiming to boost performance by capturing the SUV market.
Expect the new electric Volvo XC40 (or whatever it's called) to arrive in 2019 and cost from around £35,000. But at the same time, it is cutting subsidies on green cars by a fifth this year, a move that could deepen manufacturers' losses on such models and discourage consumers from buying them.
Geely launched a premium brand - Lykn & Co - and its 01 SUV will go on sale later this year.
Volvo also confirmed they are working on a bigger EV based on the SPA Platform which underpins the new 60 Series cars and the 90 Series range.
Also eying expansion overseas is GAC, which is planning a U.S. debut in 2019, according to General Manager Yu Jun.
China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group lifted the wraps on a new sedan concept for Lynk & CO ahead of the Shanghai auto show, saying the upstart tech-laden automotive brand will offer lifetime. Total vehicle sales in China topped 24.3 million past year.
However, the market is growing fast.
If this trend continues, we may see the projected global shift to electric cars happen a lot sooner than expected, which would be great news for the environment. On Tuesday, the night before the opening of the event, the Japanese automaker revealed that it will begin road testing its fuel cell vehicle, the Mirai, in China in October.
Volvo's first all-electric auto was earlier said to be built on the same platform, which underpins the Volvo S90. It also aims to launch another 10 electric vehicles between 2020 and 2025. The German automaker announced a self-driving, electric concept auto as well as a partnership with an AI company. It features a battery that can be charged to 80 percent of capacity in 30 minutes. It has chosen two unusual means to do that, via China exports and a major foray into the electric vehicle market.
Skoda is planning to unveil its first NEV, the Vision E, at the show. It has lithium ion batteries which allow a range of up to 500 kilometers.
"We will decide how to divide up the tasks on a case-by-case basis, but of course this will include capacities to develop electric cars here in China", Zetsche said.
When it comes to the global vehicle market, no single event quite reflects the change in auto manufacturers' global emphasis than Auto China, the motor show that alternates annually between Beijing and Shanghai and this year takes place in the country's financial capital.
"Communities", such as companies or residential developments, can jointly purchase vehicles to share, or owners can share their auto for a fee with other drivers who join Lynk & Co's network, said Alain Visser, the company's senior vice president.


Both Taxotere (docetaxel) and Zytiga (abiraterone) are approved for newly diagnosed men with very aggressive prostate cancer and who have not yet had any exposure to hormone therapy (ADT).
The two approvals lead us to the question, which of these treatment options would be best for you? There isn't a hard and fast answer to that question. It's very individualized. This decision should be based on your disease state, your disease burden, your disease progression and what you and your doctor think you will tolerate as far as comorbidities and side effects.
The STAMPEDE trial suggests that there is very little difference between the two groups, Docetaxel and Zytiga. The survival advantage between the two groups is quite similar however there may be some slight differences in progression-free survival. However, this data is not significant because it was derived from a secondary analysis and the sample size was too small to allow us to draw any conclusions.
For most men, Docetaxel is more toxic than Zytiga. As a result, most men do choose to use Zytiga over Docetaxel. However, there might be subsets of men who would do better using Docetaxel. Without additional research into this matter, the decision should be an individual decision, which you should make in consultation with your doctor.


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Serial sex-offender acquitted of duct tape possession in B.C. provincial court
Ontario sex offender on long-term supervision order was found with one of many 'rape kit' items
Paul Henderson
A repeat sex offender on a long-term supervision order from Ontario who was living in a federal facility in Chilliwack was acquitted this week after trial on a breach charge when duct tape was found in his room.
After a series of sexual assault convictions and other offences involving women from 1988 to 2006, Bradley Priestap was living in London, Ontario, in 2012 near what is now Western University.
In 2013, the serial prowler and sexual voyeur was found guilty of 12 of 16 charges he faced, according to a London Free Press article at the time. In 2015, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for terrorizing several female Western students by peering in windows, climbing fire escapes, rattling handles of students' homes, and even entering women's rooms.
In convicting Priestap, the London Free Press reported that Superior Court Justice Thomas Carey called Priestap's testimony "ridiculous," "convoluted, rambling," and "borders on the laughable."
As part of that sentence, he was put on a 10-year long-term supervision order (LTSO).
Since March of 2020, Priestap had been living at the Chilliwack Community Correctional Centre, a 31-bed federal halfway house home to high-risk offenders reintegrating into the community.
READ MORE: Is the public protected from Chilliwack halfway house criminals?
As part of the restrictions on his most recent LTSO, Priestap was forbidden from possession of a number of items he has been found with in the past while offending against women. Among the items police consider part of a "rape kit" that he was banned from possessing are rope, handcuffs, binoculars, masks, zap straps and duct tape.
On Aug. 25, 2020, Priestap was found with duct tape in his room, he was arrested and charged with breaching his LTSO.
He was at Surrey Pretrial until his trial in April, but he was acquitted of the breach in Chilliwack provincial court on May 14. The Crown had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the duct tape was Priestap's and he intended to possess it, knowing it was an LTSO violation.
While he was acquitted and released on May 14, Crown counsel John Lester told The Progress that Priestap is no longer living in Chilliwack, but he could not say where he relocated to.
• A prowling precedent
One of Priestap's crimes now serves as a precedent in law with regard to the offence of "prowling" or trespassing at night.
Section 177 of the criminal code describes trespassing at night this way: "Every person who, without lawful excuse, loiters or prowls at night on the property of another person near a dwelling-house situated on that property is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction."
Priestap was convicted in 2002 after a woman taking laundry off a clothesline spotted him hiding near her deck. He was arrested and found with a balaclava, duct tape, binoculars, two flashlights, a tape recorder, a camera and a phone book in his car, according to the London Free Press.
"He claimed he was looking for illegal marijuana grow operations for the police."
In 2005, his conviction was overturned on appeal, but on April 19, 2006, the Ontario Court of Appeal reinstated the conviction, which helped set out the law on prowling.
In a summary of R v Priestap it was determined that the Crown does not have to prove the accused had an intention to commit a "specific evil act."
"Inherent in prowling was the implication that the accused was up to no good. The act of prowling itself was an unwarranted invasion of property which section 177 was intended to protect against."
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In a radio and television broadcast, she said that the curfew would begin from Saturday and would last until April 14. She appealed to Barbadians not to panic even as the island moved into Phase 3 of its preparation for the virus that has been blamed for more than 18,000 deaths worldwide.
She has sought to reassure citizens that the health system is in readiness for the situation, adding that there were more than enough testing kits on the island and pleaded for people to desist from spreading rumours.
Mottley has also warned residents that the Royal Barbados Police Force will deal accordingly with all persons found to be moving about who are not part of the essential services.
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The X-Files – Darkness Falls (Review)
Darkness Falls is the best script Chris Carter has written so far. It it is far superior to Fire or Space or Young at Heart or The Jersey Devil or even The Pilot. It's quite possibly the strongest normal "monster-of-the-week" episode that Carter ever wrote, discounting his work on "special" episodes (like Post-Modern Prometheus or Triangle) or even some mythology stories (I'm quite fond of Redux).
Darkness Falls is – at its most basic – just a very strong monster-of-the-week installment, hitting all the right buttons to provide an atmospheric horror thriller.
If a tree falls in the woods…
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Star Trek – Dagger of the Mind (Review)
To celebrate the release of Star Trek: Into Darkness this month, we'll be running through the first season of the classic Star Trek all this month. Check back daily to get ready to boldly go. It's only logical.
I knew we were due a nice Shakespearean title soon. And The Conscience of a King is just around the corner, to boot. Seriously though, I have to admit a massive fondness for these wonderfully lofty and high-minded episode titles. It's something that links the original Star Trek and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine quite firmly, and was sadly never enthusiastically taken up by any of the other spin-offs. It's a shame, because – regardless of the quality of the episodes in question – there's something undeniably endearing about forty-five minutes of television given a pretentious name like For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, The City on the Edge of Forever or Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night.
A scream…
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Stuck in the Moment: The Mood for a (Particular) Movie…
Posted on November 15, 2012 by Darren
I've been thinking a bit, lately, about how I form an opinion about a particular film. Of course, it should be somewhat objective. I should be able to take out any possibly subjective influences and divorce a movie from any of those countless outside factors, to judge it entirely on its own merits. (Or, as the case might be, its lack of merits.) However, I am honest enough to admit that this isn't always the case. There are any number of reasons I might feel a particular way about the movie. I find J. Edgar interesting to place in the context of Clint Eastwood's body of work. I approached Cabin of the Woods with an admitted fondness for cheesy horror. I'll admit that these facets colour my opinions somewhat – I am more likely to respond to a film that resonates with me on something I feel strongly about.
However, sometimes that influence factor isn't anything to do with the movie in question at all. Sometimes, I can't help but wonder, whether my opinion is down to something as arbitrary as the mood I was in when I watched the film.
I will not have my tastes subjected to this sort of double-guessing!
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Non-Review Review: Killing Them Softly
There's been a lot of talk about how Killing Them Softly is a critique of the Obama administration. It's easy to see why. Obama might as well receive an "and" credit, given how frequently he appears and how deeply his influence seems to seep into the film. He's there at the beginning, between moments of static, and he's there at the end, interrupting exchanges between two primary characters. The film is set during the President's first campaign, and released just in time for his second. Still, Andrew Dominik's adaptation of Cogan's Trade feels like a more rounded criticism of the American political system, with Obama serving as a focal point if only because the promise he offers, one of change.
At one point during the film, our leading hit man confronts one of the people on his list. "Not many people get what you have," he assures the nervous and sweaty young man who seems way over his head. "You have a choice." Of course, it's not really a choice – everybody knows that. The young guy knows it, the assassin knows it, and we know. Sure, he can pick between two alternatives, but there are no happy endings here. Dominik's Killing Them Softly feels like an older, harsher, more bitter Tarantino film, one jaded and numbed by the promise of a false choice. Cynically, it seems to suggest that elections – now and then – are like that offer made in a dive bar.
Sure, there's technically a choice. But there's not an opportunity to substantially improve anybody's position.
Cogan's run…
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Non-Review Review: The Peacemaker
Posted on July 3, 2012 by Darren
It's interesting to look back at George Clooney's early road to movie stardom. Indeed, the actor's first leading roles seem like movies that really should have been star-making turns, but just weren't. There's obviously his portrayal of Bruce Wayne in Batman & Robin, a performance not quite as bad as the film around it, but there's also his roles in films like The Peacemaker. The Peacemaker also was the first film released under Spielberg's Dreamworks company, and it's hardly an auspicious début. It's not that The Peacemaker is a bad film. It's a very well made, and the production values are excellent.
However, the problem is the premise itself, the plotting, the pacing and the script. The Peacemaker feels like it really wants to be a Tom Clancy thriller, and it really wants us to accept George Clooney as a more dynamic Harrison Ford. Unfortunately, it feels like all the plot points, characters and motivations all came second-hand. There isn't one thing here that hasn't been done before, and done better, and those parts aren't even assembled in an especially original way.
The name's Clooney. George Clooney.
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Non-Review Review: Independence Day
Posted on April 16, 2012 by Darren
I think there's a serious argument to be made for Independence Dayas one of the truly exceptional summer blockbusters. It's not exceptionally clever or insightful, its characters aren't necessarily more than plot functions given life by a wonderful cast, but it has a high-octane energy and wonderful sense of tone that makes it a joy to watch. It's cheesy enough that it never takes itself too seriously, and yet it's efficient enough and effective enough that it never descends to the level of pure camp. It's a deft balance, and I suspect that it might be a fluke, but I think that Independence Day remains a gleefully enjoyable guilty pleasure to this day.
Don't run! We are your friends!
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Friends & Crocodiles (Review)
The wonderful folks at the BBC have given me access to their BBC Global iPlayer for a month to give the service a go and trawl through the archives. I'll have some thoughts on the service at the end of the month, but I thought I'd also take the opportunity to enjoy some of the fantastic content.
Stephen Poliakoff is regarded as one of the best British film, theatre and television writers working today. In 2006, the writer and director produced two television movies linked by character and by theme. While Gideon's Daughter is perhaps the more successful of the two, Friends & Crocodilesremains an interesting – if not consistently satisfying – viewing experience. While it doesn't have as strong a cast as its companion piece, I think it covers more interesting ground, and feels a tad more ambitious, even if it does succumb to the same awkwardness in places.
Dealing with his inner Damians...
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Ex Machina: The Deluxe Edition – Volume IV (Review)
In an effort to prove that comic books aren't just about men in spandex hitting each other really hard, this month I'm reviewing all of Brian K. Vaughan's superb Ex Machina. And in June, I'll be reviewing his Y: The Last Man.
What's weird about the fourth ane penultimate volume of Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris' superb superhero political science fiction mish-mash comic book is simple how much fun it is. I'm not suggesting for a moment that the first three volumes were anything less than superb, but there's a sense of playfulness in this volume which just makes it seem like the creators are have the time of their lives. I was worried after the last volume that the underlying "conspiracy" story would overwhelm the saga as it reached completion, but it's still just as fascinating and unpredictable as it was back when it began.
Justice for all?
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Ex Machina: The Deluxe Edition – Volume II (Review)
It's interesting how times change. Ex Machina was originally published in August 2004, written by a New Yorker as something of a response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. It's an exploration of a time when the country needed heroes and figureheads more than it needed politicians and diplomats. Is a superhero in Gracie Mansion any more insane than a cowboy in the White House? However, reading it now it's interesting to see the similarities between Vaughan's protagonist, the Honorable Mayor Mitchell Hundred, and Barack Obama. It's the sign of a good storyteller that the tale remains relevant years after initial publication. It's the sign of a great storyteller that the tale becomes even more relevant in the years that follow.
He's got the whole world, in his hands...
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Just got this e-mail update from the Washington Post. Glad to see we're getting rid of some of the supider contracts and overpaid players (Randle El!).
Its nice to see them make changes for once!
Can't really argue with any of those cuts.
When you only win 4 games it is easy make the cuts.
I liked Randle El a great deal when he first came in, but he's got slowly less and less productive as time has gone on. We have some very promising young players in the receivers corps, so its time to see if they can step up. I know he has various problems around him and hasn't always been great in Seattle, but I was a little disappointed that Detroit moved so fast for Nate Burleson, I thought we might have taken a look at him as a potential signing.
Can't really argue with any of the other cuts as people have already said. They've all been decent enough players in their time but its time to move on and rebuild under Shanahan. As has already been said, getting rid of a few of the more over-inflated contracts can't do us any harm either. Washington urgently need to ditch this tag of the franchise owned by the guy with more money than sense - its not doing us any good in the market.
Although Collins has been a solid backup I'm kind of glad he's on his way, gives a younger player to get a chance hopefully!
Casey Rabach has re-upped for 3 years, $12.3m and Lorenzo Alexander got a three year deal. Happy to have both back, Rabach should fit well in the ZBS and Alexander could be an interesting player in the new scheme. He's played all along the DL before now there is talk of him at OLB. I could see him being a guy who lines up all over the place, on the line, inside and outside linebacker. Be something to watch for.
The mood around town is more offseason flailing about that will be fruitless. How many times did I hear "by this time last year we had Haynesworth signed"
Well i'm more than happy to pass on the title of off season champs for once. This just shows me that Snyder really is letting Shanny run things which is great to see.
No gripes with any of these cuts, older players in general on the down slide. We look to be building for the future and not splashing out on big name FAs in positions we don't really need (Peppers and Dansby). Would like to see us make a couple more signings before draft day for depth but so far I'm satisfied with how we're approaching FA.
Maybe the last administration would have gone for Dansby. In my eyes he's a flash signing, Dolphins have thrown way too much money at him in my opinion.


All my blog stuff is still broken. I just twisting in the wind here. Can't post pictures.
I had a great dive last weekend and can't post pictures.
I had a fantastic hot dog yesterday and can't post pictures.
Imagine cool dive pictures and hot dogs if you will.
I spoke too soon on things getting the blog fixed so I'll blog the way my ancestors did....with a computer.
Friday I head to the NC coast for some diving on Saturday. This will be the first big boy NC diving that I done in over two years.
They don't call the NC coast The Graveyard of the Atlantic for nothing. The currents are big, storms come out of nowhere, and sands and conditions shift unpredictably.
We will go out 20 miles and dive two wrecks in about 90 of water. The first is The Hyde. It was a WWII era dredge equipped with guns that was sunk in 1988 for a ref project.
The second was The Gill, torpedoed by the Germans in WWII.
I have been to The Hyde once before but never saw it. The visibility was zero so I just felt up the Hyde.
Okay, so here is the deal. I have been perfectly willing and able to post my blog here, but my iPad software of choice crapped out on me back in March. No worries I thought, they'll fix it.
They did fix it and broke it worse.
Then I turned to my Mac and the entire computer was corrupt.
Today I got my computer back and it is operational. So, I'm blogging old school for now on a computer.
For those who hung around, thanks.
Well, I gave up waiting for a bug fix on my trusted until two weeks ago Blogpress app. So I'm updating the blog the old fashioned way.....with a computer. The picture below is just a test to see if it renders properly.
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Robert Wolfall was an Anglican priest who served as chaplain to Martin Frobisher's third expedition to the Arctic. He celebrated the first Anglican (i.e. post-Reformation) Eucharist in what is now Canadian territory in 1578 in Frobisher Bay.

Wolfall was the vicar of  the Church of St Mary in the Somerset village of West Harptree. He sailed from Harwich on 31 May 1578 in the fleet of 15 sailing ships of the Frobisher expedition.

In describing the company, chronicler Richard Hakluyt called Wolfall "one Maister Wolfall, a learned man, appointed by her Majestie's Councell to be their Minister and Preacher," who, "being well seated and settled at home in his owne countrey, with a good and large liuing, hauing a good, honest woman to wife, and very towardly children, being of good reputation amongst the best, refused not to take in hand this paineful voyage, for the onely care he had to saue soules and to reforme these infidels, if it were possible, to Christianitie."

Wolfall conducted religious services on the voyage across the Atlantic. The journal of the captain of the ship Judith describes a communion service on that ship on 22 July 1578. The captain of the ship Anne Francis wrote that "Master Wolfall made sermons and celebrated the Communion at sundry ... times in several and sundry ships, because the whole company could never meet together at any one place."

He presided over the first communion service in what is now Canadian territory on 3 or 4 September 1578, at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island. Hakluyt's description of the occasion states:

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Caripodia is een geslacht van vlinders van de familie spinneruilen (Erebidae), uit de onderfamilie Arctiinae.

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C. albescens (Hampson, 1907)
C. aurantiacella Kiriakoff, 1954
C. consimilis Hampson, 1918
C. chrysargyria Hampson, 1900
C. fusca Berio, 1939
C. fuscicincta Hampson, 1914
C. metaleuca Hampson, 1900
C. persimilis Hampson, 1914
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 20 Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings Samuel Johnson, O. M. Brack, Robert DeMaria
The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson
672 pages: 222 x 143 x 43mm
1 color illus.
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The next volume in the distinguished Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson comprises prefaces, proposals, dedications, appeals, and other works that Johnson wrote for friends and acquaintances.
The English critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson was among the most influential figures of the eighteenth century. This twentieth and final volume of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson presents the author's occasional writings, including prefaces, proposals, dedications, introductions, book reviews, public letters, appeals, and school exercises. Notably, it includes the letters and addresses that Johnson wrote for the convicted clergyman William Dodd. Edited by O M Brack, Jr., and Robert DeMaria, Jr., this volume brings a treasure trove of Johnson's lesser‑known writings to a contemporary audience.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was a poet, essayist, biographer, and editor. O. M. Brack, Jr. (1938–2012), was professor emeritus in the department of English at Arizona State University. Robert DeMaria, Jr., is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College.
Seán Ó Ríordáin
C. S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid
A. T. Reyes
The Other Middle East
Franck Salameh
Yale French Studies, Number 131/132
Laurence Grove
What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing
Jeffrey Sweet
Patricia Mainardi
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
The Light in Troy
Thomas M. Greene
The Voynich Manuscript
Raymond Clemens
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 19
The World According to Itzik
Itzik Manger
Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950
Robert Knopf
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 41
Proust in Love
William C. Carter
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumes 21-23
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 18
Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 16
A Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 15
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 9
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 3-5
The Selected Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler


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https://www.wsj.com/articles/hotels-and-restaurants-rebound-summer-held-back-by-shortages-of-everything-11624640378
Hotels' and Restaurants' Rebound Summer Held Back by Shortages of Everything
Just when demand is surging, hospitality businesses are squeezed from all sides, including lack of workers and rising costs of supplies
Staff at 1833 Kitchen & Bar at the Inns of Aurora in upstate New York. Mike Bradley for The Wall Street Journal
By Te-Ping Chen
, Heather Haddon
and Lauren Weber
Updated June 25, 2021 1:49 pm ET
Shut for long stretches because of the pandemic, Mississippi River Distilling Co. in LeClaire, Iowa, has been counting on a summer rebound.
Crowds have come rushing back. But the distillery and events space can't find enough workers to serve its customers. And prices for spirits-making commodities, such as corn and glass, have spiraled. So have costs for lumber and construction, making a long-delayed plan to build a new party and wedding venue about 25% more expensive.


When I give my https wsdl url to soapUI, the required headers are not generated. I have my ssl service deployed in Glassfish V2UR1.
I don't know what headers are expected and how I should add it to the request. I looked in to the project Editor->WS-Security Configurations. For the outgoing configurations, I found SAML,Username, Encryption,Signature and Timestamp. But I don't use these things in my service. I just have Transport Layer SSL enabled for my service.
- http://jax-ws.dev.java.net. RI's version is JAX-WS RI 2.1.2_01-hudson-189-.
soapUI currently does not automatically generate SOAP Headers/Content specified by policies in the WSDL, you will have to add these "manually" via the WS-Security support and/or the request editor..
sorry for the inconvenience, this will be supported in a future version.


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North Dakota State University President Kicks Off New School Year By Lying To Students
August 25, 2015 | by Rob Port
Yesterday North Dakota State University President Dean Bresciani welcomed a new class of freshman students to his institution with a bald-faced lie.
"You are part of a family that is proud of this university, that is proud of you, and is going to welcome you and provide you with an experience over the next four years that will be the envy of your friends who went elsewhere," Bresciani told the freshmen.
This is demonstrably untrue. A lot of these students aren't going to make it four years, or they'll end up putting in significantly more time and expense into getting their degrees.
[mks_pullquote align="right" width="300″ size="24″ bg_color="#ffffff" txt_color="#000000″]Four years from now just roughly one in four of these freshmen students will have graduated. The rest will have either dropped out, transferred, or failed to complete their degree.[/mks_pullquote]
Four years from now just roughly one in four of these freshmen students will have graduated. The rest will have either dropped out, transferred, or failed to complete their degree. In six years, just slightly more than one in two of these freshmen will have completed their degrees at NDSU.
But those facts don't make for a very pleasing welcome message, I suppose. Better to keep up the illusion that our four-year institutions of higher education are actually doing a good job of getting kids a degree in four years. Of course, that's one of the problems in North Dakota's university system.
They don't live in the real world.
To be fair, NDSU does have the best four-year graduation rate among the four-year institutions in the university system, though that's not saying much. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, NDSU's four-year completion rate of 25.6 percent is slightly above UND's 24.1 percent rate, and significantly above Valley City State (22.8 percent), Mayville State (20.9 percent), Dickinson State (15.3 percent), and Minot State (14.4 percent).
The average, on-time completion rate for four-year degrees in North Dakota's four-year institutions just over 23 percent. The six year graduation rate (150 percent of degree time) is just over 50 percent.
Which is truly abysmal. In fact, compared to other states, North Dakota ranks near the bottom in terms of graduation rates at four-year institutions:
The two-year schools do slightly better. At the North Dakota State College of Science (Wahpeton) the on-time graduation rate is 38.4 percent, while at Williston State, Lake Region (Devils Lake), and Dakota College (Bottineau) the rates are 32.5 percent, 29.5 percent, and 24.1 percent respectively.
Overall about one in three students, or 33 percent, graduate on time at the state's two-year colleges and about 41 percent graduate in three years.


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Texas Is The Reason That The President's Dead
So sweet that those Texas fans got to see A-Rod strike out to end the ALCS. The Yanks tried to cheat their way to one more victory, but they couldn't do it. I love that Jeter was a no-show for this game too. It's almost as if he was saying, "Am I the only one who realizes we're done here? Let's just end this already, I'm swingin' at the first pitch and I'm outta here." He knew. You can't teach perception like that.
This is weird because in terms of watching the Yanks in the ALCS against a team besides our own--well, they only lost in that situation once before, and it was 1980. Yes, '80, '04, and '10 are their only ALCS losses. So of course we've seen them die prematurely a LOT in the last decade, it just hardly ever comes at this stage.
You know what's awesome? Next April, the Red Sox open the season in Texas. Thousands of Sox fans will be there to watch the raising of the AL Champs (or World Series) banner! What a scene that will be. Rangers fans, I know you'll be cheering loud that day, but we'll be alongside you cheering just as loud. And I do mean we. Because I'll be there! Okay, I might be there. I may be in the area then. Yes, the "Texas" area. More details on that later.
We can now say, for the the first time since 1926, that the Red Sox have won more World Series than the Yankees have in the last ten years.
Nice job, Texas Rangers! Baseball season now officially over. Bring on the snow. I'll have my New York Yankees Not World Champs 2010 shovel ready.
Fouled Away
So Halladay bunted a ball that looked fair but was called foul tonight. The runners moved up and the Phils ended up getting the lead, and as I type, they're up by 2 in the 9th. McCarver just referred to the earlier play like this: "Never has a foul ball been so important in Philadelphia baseball history." Something like that. I'm wondering how he could forget one of the most famous foul balls in baseball history, which just so happened to occur in the ninth inning of the final game of the Phillies' first world championship with the tying runs on base:
(I actually posted this picture originally in this gallery of the 1980 WS program.)
It's Waiting There For You:
Here's that thing I taped Saturday--Steve Almond talkin' about Toto's "Africa." I missed the beginning and the sound's not that great. But if you do a search there's an older version of this reading/singalong. Despite that one's fancy-pants "sound" and "beginning," I think Steve gave a much better performance in my video.
Deer, Antelope Soon To Be Playing
Well you couldn't expect them to win the CC game, I guess. It's a shame, though, that they had so many hits off the guy but still were never in the game.
Game 6, Friday, Texas.
Suck It, Fuckers
Thank you whichever Molina you are. Such a key dong to give Texas the lead and finish off AJ. Some nervous moments in the 8th, but again the Rangers pile on and make a close game a blowout.
I love that Teixeira got hurt--my one regret is that it wasn't more painful. Hopefully that shit is out for the rest of the series.
I love that so many Yankee fans douches again left early, flocking to the exits like 2004 was chasing after them.
I love that some asswipe behind the plate was holding up a pathetic, hand-written sign that said "I believe in ghosts." Because of course we're playing on this hallllooooowwwed ground, built two years aggggooooo. And these mysterious ghosts who were born and then died with the last 18 months of course have the power to make the Yankees win baseball games.... I wonder where that fucker was when the score went to 10-3. It's NOT a coincidence that so many assholes and half-wits are Yankee fans. These people have very low self-esteem, and/or were dropped on their heads as children, and look for something to cling to--slap an NY on your head and suddenly you're a "winner."
And it's not just the fans who seem to think the Yanks are still playing in the same place they did in 1923. Announcers nationwide are under the impression that just because the new place it's called "Yankee Stadium," it's the same place! Dennis Eckersley before the game was saying how the Texas pitcher will never forget this moment and bla bla bla. Remy did the same thing earlier this year. Smoltz and co. alluded to it tonight. That place was torn down. I can show you pictures.
Oh, and I love that now when the subject of selling a hit by pitch comes up, the talk turns laughingly to Jeter, now known (despite it being about 15 years late) as a cheater. Too bad they can't take that next step and say, "and to think we used to think of this guy as the one we'd want to use to teach our kids how to play the game the right way."
Anyway, it's 3-1 Texas. One more and they're done.
Ex-Fucking-Cuse Me???
Yankee fans pull another fucking playoff Jeffrey Maier and the umps aren't even reviewing it?? They came up with this replay rule specifically for home runs and on what's undeniably at least debatable, they don't even take a fucking peek at it?
And on the next batter, the same fucking pig of an ump-in-a-Yankee-hat calls a home run on what's clearly a foul ball? Fortunately they've DECIDED to review this one! (Love how TBS actually MISSES the ump making the foul call when he comes back out.)
I really shouldn't be torturing myself by watching this game considering we know which team the umpires have told us without a doubt they're rooting for.
Update: Next inning, Sager has a live report about replay on home runs, I'm thinking he's gonna say something about how fucking inexcusable that a fucking piece of trash Yankee fan reached out over the fence and touched an outfielder's glove and they--whoops--forgot to review it! Instead he says how happy Bud Selig is that they got the OTHER home run replay call right! I feel like I'm insane right now. TBS just watched this and let it go. And those fuckwads in the crowd are probably gonna get praised by stupid sports reporters instead of what they deserve, which is to be executed, on charges of being fucking dicks but also of living in Westchester but attempting to act and dress like a stereotypical "New Yorker."
Update again: Darling says since the ump called the ball over the fence, it's not reviewable. Uh...then how come we've seen this type of play reviewed over and over?
Year X
Here they are, your 2011 Fenway Improvements.
That doesn't seem to mention this rumored plan about the bullpens being widened, the fences moved in, and extra rows of seats around the right field corner....
More on all this later....
Yanks v. Rangers, 8. AJ looking to put the Yanks in a 3-1 hole.
Unlike Junior Seau, Yanks Didn't Drive Off Cliff
Lee, that is. Texas Lee.
I knew he'd have a great game, I just worried the Yanks might have a late rally off the 'pen. Instead, it was the Rangers who tacked on with late runs for an 8-0 whitewash. (Worst postseason shutout loss in Yankee history!)
Pleeeeeease stick with AJ tomorrow, Joe. Look, whatever you do, it'll be wrong, you'll get criticized, and you'll ride off to Chicago and the Rangers, Phillies, or Giants will be World Champs and that will be a beautiful thing.
As beautiful as a strikeout shown from the blimp.
Lean Screen
Look, we're gonna get a widescreen TV eventually, but we're still rockin' the square as of now, and I'm pretty sure there are a lot of us left. And some grandmas probably aren't even thinking about making the switch at all. So it would be nice if Fox would make it so We who live in the recent past can actually see the score of their baseball games:
At least we get count and outs--football we get one team's score but no clock, quarter, down, etc.:
Vikings 0, ...
Another reason to hate Fox, even though I'm sure they'd argue it's MY fault. Maybe they could buy us a new TV.
How Could He Not Say Ow After This?
Well this is a little effed up.
Sex And Candy
Once again, had to leave that Yanks game to go to a concert. Felt a little more confident this time, and Texas didn't shit the bed like the night before. So it's 1-1 going into the Cliff Lee game.
As for the concerts, Friday, it was Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie at Mohegan Sun. Was cool to see the legendary Alice, and White Zombie in 1994 in Omaha was probably the most energetic arena show I've ever seen, so it good to see Rob again. Saturday, we went to a reading/music thing in Boston, mainly for Kristin Hersh and Steve Almond. Almond wrote Candy Freak, which I read a few years ago, and he did a great job as emcee, also doing a bit that ripped Toto's "Africa" to shreds, complete with audience sing-along. And Kristin was great as usual, playing a couple of tunes and reading from her new memoir, Rat Girl. I think it's safe to say that Kim and I were the only two people in the world who were at both of these shows.
Alice Cooper:
Kristin Hersh:
Kim (purple coat) waits for Steve Almond's autograph, while I wait for Kristin Hersh's: