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Will J.C. Penney's turnaround ever end?
More than half a century ago, the department store retailer anchored itself to the American mall. But customers have moved on, and so has the CEO.
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This year has been rough for J.C. Penney. Already in 2018, the department store retailer cut hundreds of jobs, disappointed investors in consecutive earnings reports and struggled to significantly improve apparel sales after taking dramatic steps to do so last year.
While some analysts still see the retailer as one of the stronger remaining players in the department store world, others are losing their patience with the company's turnaround efforts, which have yet to yield permanent positive profits or comparable sales growth. And that turnaround plan was just complicated by the sudden resignation of Penney's chief executive.
As 2018 unfolds, Penney, under CEO Marvin Ellison — who announced his resignation Tuesday — has been doing what a lot of its department store peers are doing: figuring out what customers still like about them and doubling down on those areas, while building out digital capabilities and trying to capture market share in any category Penney can find it.
Put another way, Penney has been operating within the parameters of the mall-based department store, while also operating with a sizable debt load on its books. The retailer may well stay the course set by Ellison, but now, on top of its other struggles, there is a leadership vacuum to fill.
In the long-term, Penney may have even bigger problems. Some question whether the retailer, which closed more than 140 stores last year, can ultimately survive the large-scale transformation of retail, as lower-tier malls continue their decline and as e-commerce and discount sellers expand.
"I just don't see a strategy that makes them relevant," Nick Egelanian, president of retail development consultants SiteWorks International, told Retail Dive. "If they had a chance of not making themselves obsolete, that chance came 30 years ago."
Anchored to malls
In the 1960s, J.C. Penney underwent a major transformation as an evolution unfolded across retail as much of the middle class settled in the suburbs.
A mainly softline retailer then, Penney was trying to become a department store chain. In the process, the company — originally founded by James Cash Penney, who built his first dry-goods store in Wyoming in 1902 — anchored itself to the fate of the suburban mall. Bill Moscarelli, a retired shopping center executive, started his career with Penney in those years, while the retailer was trading in its 30,000-square-foot stores for 200,000-square-foot department stores meant to compete with the likes of Macy's and Sears.
Moscarelli recalls one day from that era, when he flew in a plane to the sites of four malls under construction in Ohio, all perhaps within a 60-mile radius of each other, if not less. "Four sites — they were brand new shopping centers," Moscarelli told Retail Dive in an interview. "There was a Penney in every one. And a Sears, and a Montgomery Ward."
Penney was building at a furious pace at the time, working with developers to plant a flag in the great expansion of suburban retail. "It couldn't really exist forever," Moscarelli said.
It didn't. The suburban mall has been in decline for years, decades even, and the entire department store sector has been scrambling to adjust.
Customer rebellion
The arrival of Ellison, a former Home Depot executive, in late 2014 marked a change in the company's trajectory. The two years prior had been marked by heavy losses and the disastrous stint of Ron Johnson, the former Apple executive who tried to reboot Penney's business and brand.
Johnson, who spearheaded Apple's much-lauded retail business, was ousted in spring 2013. During his tenure as CEO, the retailer set about trying to transform itself nearly instantaneously with a new, simpler pricing scheme (no more sales!) and in-store brand shops. "We want to become famous for irresistible style at incredible value every day," Johnson said in a press release at the time, as he rolled out changes across the company's store fleet without testing them first.
As the New York Times recounted at the time of Johnson's departure, "Within weeks of his January 2012 presentation to investors about the future of Penney, the company had new advertising, new pricing and a new logo, and was announcing a new fleet of designers who would be creating collections for it."
But customers balked at some of the changes, including the new price schemes, which began even before the inventory hit stores. As the Times noted, "Customers rebelled, traffic declined, sales fell and Penney slowly returned to the [previous] era of pricing, with lots of promotions, lots of price-focused ads and marked-up prices that would be marked down."
The company posted net losses of $795 million in 2012, $1.3 billion in 2013 and $717 million in 2014. Comparable sales in 2012 fell a harrowing 25%. The next year, the company added more than $2.5 billion in debt to its books. Into the breach stepped Ellison, who had overseen Home Depot's stores and was known for a focus on operations and holding down costs. He took sole control of the CEO position in 2015, but much damage had already been done.
"When you lose customers, it's very difficult to get them back," Paul Vogel, a real estate consultant who helped oversee J.C. Penney's expansion in the 1960s, told Retail Dive. "[Johnson's] idea was to get rid of sales and have everyday low prices. His thinking was Penney needed to be more of a specialty-type retailer, rather than a mass merchant or discount-type player. He alienated much of the shopper base. They liked the sales, they liked private labels."
And now, the exec leading Penney's turnaround is leaving. On Tuesday, Penney announced Ellison was leaving for the top spot at Lowe's, where he'll return to his roots in the home improvement sector — one of the bright spots in retail right now. Ellison is set to depart on June 1.
Ronald Tysoe, the company's new chairman after Ellison stepped down as board chair Tuesday, has created in Ellison's place an "Office of the CEO," comprised of current high-level execs to run the retailer while it searches for a new chief. Cowen analyst Oliver Chen said in a Tuesday note he expected the search to take around six months or more.
Chen described Ellison's departure as "difficult news," as many of the CEO's initiatives are still ongoing and his "strengths in appliance execution and leadership skills will be difficult to replicate." Chen said that Penney, in searching for a replacement, should target someone with a "robust understanding/appreciation" of digital retail, a record of apparel execution, and pricing and marketing skills.
Betting on beauty, filling the Sears void
Under Ellison's leadership, Penney has been largely successful at stemming the flow of sales and money out of the company. It even made a profit in 2016 — which it followed up with a $116 million loss in 2017.
Investors and other observers have become jittery, wondering when the company's turnaround will show permanent bottom- and top-line improvements. In March, Penney said it had slashed 360 jobs at its home office and support teams, on top of another 670 jobs cut as it closed a distribution center the previous month. The moves followed a fourth quarter of top-line sales growth, comparable sales growth and positive profit — but sales figures missed analyst projections.
Penney's first quarter 2018 numbers were worse, with top-line sales declines, comps that barely budged upward and a loss of $78 million — all of which fell short of expectations. Executives attributed the slow-down to a cool start to the spring, but rival Macy's posted strong sales growth during the same period. The day of the Q1 release, the company's stock traded as low as $2.65 per share, less than half of its (still pretty low) 12-month high last July of $5.56 per share.
Nevertheless, Ellison has projected optimism about the company's direction. He pointed out in a March conference call that for 2017 Penney posted positive comps, boosted adjusted earnings per share by 175% and reduced outstanding debt by $600 million.
In the company's stores, Ellison has called out the beauty segment, led by the retailer's partnership with Sephora, as the No. 1 highlight. Last year, Penney opened 70 new Sephora locations, bringing the total to 641 — or 75% of the retailer's stores — by the end of Q4. Penney's jewelry business also posted double-digit comps in Q4. Already beauty is becoming a key part of the retailer's strategy, and Ellison apparently views it as a major competitive advantage.
"J.C. Penney is the only retailer that could offer our customers [a] total beauty solution combining Sephora, salon and fine jewelry under the same roof," he said in March. "This unique beauty experience cannot be replicated online and magnif[ies] the importance and relevance of our physical stores."
Penney also posted double-digit comps in its home segment every quarter last year, thanks to a "strategic decision," in Ellison's words, to dig deeper into the category. The move includes an expanded assortment of appliances, mattresses, furniture, workwear and installations. The strategy is one, partly, of opportunity. As Ellison noted, "[W]e have a large competitor in this space, donating market share."
"Penney is pretending they're operating in a vacuum, and they're not."
Nick Egelanian
President, SiteWorks International
He didn't name the competitor in the March call, and he didn't need to. Penney has only one direct rival in the department store sector that relies on appliance sales and is "donating share" at a rapid clip. Long in Sears' shadow, Penney has a chance to cash in on the former retail behemoth's speedy decline. In 2017, Sears — which has roughly half the retail footprint it did six years ago — closed approximately 400 stores. Ellison said his company has identified 300 malls where it will "aggressively pursue this unprecedented sales opportunity in 2018." In a May conference call, Ellison said Q1 appliance comps grew 15%.
Not everyone sees wisdom in the move. "Their rationale is, 'Well, Sears is failing, and Sears is in malls and we're in malls, so we're going to get some of those sales,'" Egelanian said of the appliance strategy. "Guess what guys, Sears has lost a lot of that business already, and guess who got it: Home Depot and Lowe's. And if Sears is going to lose more of that business, it's going to go to those guys."
He added, "Penney is pretending they're operating in a vacuum, and they're not."
Other analysts have seen progress in Penney's turnaround efforts. Analysts with Morgan Stanley led by Kimberly Greenberger have noted several times, "Of all the department stores, we view [J.C. Penney's] top-line initiatives as the most promising." Deborah Weinswig, founder and CEO, Coresight Research told Retail Dive in an email in early May the Penney comparable sales growth fell short of Kohl's, but ahead of Macy's.
'Omnichannel excellence'
Beyond the growth in beauty and appliances, J.C. Penney upped its omnichannel game in recent years as well, which retail analysts typically see as a necessary investment in the industry's future.
"In my two years as CEO, we've been committed to transforming J.C. Penney from a company focused primarily on the brick-and-mortar business to a true omnichannel retailer," Ellison said in March, adding that in 2017, the retailer grew its online SKU count by 50% and plans to add another 600,000 SKUs online in 2018.
Ellison also said then that 80% of the company's inventory was eligible for free same-day pickup and that 40% of online orders were being fulfilled via Penney stores. In the same call, he also announced that the company was making cuts to its IT and omnichannel teams to "streamline the organization and accelerate decision-making."
"In my two years as CEO, we've been committed to transforming J.C. Penney from a company focused primarily on the brick-and-mortar business to a true omnichannel retailer."
CEO, J.C. Penney
The investments have won the company praise. Cowen analyst Oliver Chen said in a March note that Penney was "taking steps on a path to omnichannel excellence." Chen added, "We're especially encouraged by stores fulfilling 40% of digital orders given strong attachment rates when customers pick-up items," given that execs have said one-third of customers who do so purchase another item, averaging around $50.
But as much as digital improvements might help sales at Penney, as well as its peers who are trying to adapt to the explosive growth of e-commerce, they come with a different cost structure than store sales. In Q4, the company noted improvements in the costs of goods sold were partially offset by growth in online sales.
In a May report, Morgan Stanley analysts pointed out that even as retailers have shrunk their store fleets, their margins are eroding as the "lion's share of retailer growth" comes through e-commerce, which has lower margins than store sales. In the analysts' view, retailers have been caught in a "margin downdraft" since 2012, during which time margins have shrunk by 230 basis points. That outcome is due mainly to e-commerce competition, the rise of price transparency, shifts in retailers' own sales from stores to online and the high cost to retailers of free shipping.
'A huge amount of debt'
With its flat comps and a small decrease in top-line sales, Penney looks to be in much better shape than Sears, which hemorrhaged sales last year and reported a 13.5% decline in comps. That may be a low bar for Penney, but the retailer, along with its mall positioning and troubled sector, shares a fundamental challenge with Sears: a big debt load.
For 2017, the company's total debt stood at $4.2 billion and its net interest expense paid in the year was $325 million — nearly double Penney's operating income. Its cash-to-debt ratio was just under 11% — down about 7% from the previous year. Data from CreditRiskMonitor, a service that tracks bankruptcy risk based on several metrics and data streams, currently indicates that Penney has between a 4% and 9.99% chance of filing for bankruptcy within the next 12 months.
"They have a huge amount of debt, which they've refinanced. That pushed doomsday out for them," Vogel said. "They're in a very difficult operating position. The competition is moving very fast. The good players out there are getting very sophisticated."
Penney's debt load, of course, is not a death sentence, but it does reduce the retailer's margin for error, and it weighs on Penney's ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving world. For example, in late October, when Penney announced a likely Q3 loss — following a move to clear out women's apparel through steep discounts as it revamped assortment ahead of the holidays — analysts with S&P Global issued a negative outlook for the retailer.
S&P analysts said then, "While we believe the recent liquidation of apparel inventory is an isolated event aimed at improving prospects for the coming quarters, any meaningful underperformance of their recent guidance or our expectations could signal that [Penney] has significant issues with its business strategies and operating model." No downgrade has come yet, but the episode shows how little wriggle room Penney has.
As it pays hundreds of millions of dollars in interest every year and tries to build lasting profitability, the company has been cutting costs by shuttering locations and cutting staff, among other moves. The effects can be seen at the stores. According to a Wall Street Journal analysis, Penney has 112 employees for each store, down nearly 123% from a decade ago — a rate of store-level staff cutting that was twice that of the department store sector.
'A long, slow decline'
In the long-run, J.C. Penney and its department store peers face steep existential challenges. Mass merchants have been cutting into their share for years. Amazon and other online players have been stealing apparel sales. And off-price sellers have been growing like gangbusters, as customers seek out steep discounts and "treasure hunt" thrills. That growth has and will likely continue to come at the cost of department store sales.
In May, Ellison said that Penney was facing "the most challenging and competitive retail market we've seen in 50 years."
Yet most of the retailer's challenges aren't new. "They've been on a long, slow decline," Vogel said of Penney. Vogel, a geographer by training, started at Penney at a time when there still weren't many suburban malls around. The company worked directly with developers — some of whom balked at the idea of Penney trying to transform itself into a full-line department store — to build malls with J.C. Penney as an anchor, according to Vogel. "They were opening 50, 60 stores a year. It was an amazing time," he said.
"They are in regional malls almost exclusively. They really should have started looking at getting out of malls sooner, exploring stand-alone locations or big box centers."
Paul Vogel
During the 1960s and 70s, the retailer had firmly planted its flag in the mall, where it largely stays — even as customers move on. For the past 30 or so years, the problem for Penney, in Vogel's view, has been location.
"They are in regional malls almost exclusively," he said. "They really should have started looking at getting out of malls sooner, exploring stand-alone locations or big box centers. There's no silver bullet in this business. Some of the stores in regional malls were doing just fine. If they're doing just fine, leave them alone. But there were many that weren't doing fine."
Egelanian, who joined the industry in the late 1980s, said when he started working in retail "you really weren't a serious player unless you were in the mall industry." But even then, he added, the mall retail sector was "starting to show cracks" as the more convenient power centers and often lower-priced category killers — i.e., big box retailers specializing in a category that might be found at a department store like Penney — started to redefine retail. By the early 90s, "big box was really starting to take off," he said.
And it kept on going, to the detriment of department stores.
'One of the winners'
Along with the geographical and competitive woes, Moscarelli said that Penney "never seemed to follow through on anything." He pointed out the company pulled out of business ventures in Chile, Brazil, Mexico and other international markets. In the U.S., it sold off a pharmacy business and a discount chain. "Everything was: 'Well, this is not our thing,'" Moscarelli said. (He was not at Penney during those business moves, but worked alongside them in adjacent businesses during some of the retailer's South American expansion.)
At the same time, Penney hasn't specialized in much besides apparel, where it relies on its private label brands. Vogel said customers historically have been loyal to those brands — such as St. John's Bay, Liz Claiborne, Arizona Jean Company and others — but "didn't try to appeal to new shoppers with new label lines."
In apparel, the company competes with Macy's and Kohl's — retailers with stronger balance sheets and, in the case of Kohl's, more favorable geography. Amazon is also a growing apparel threat and gunning for the No. 1 spot. At the same time, off-price sellers like TJX Cos. and Ross Stores are covering the country with new stores.
Ellison said in May that apparel was the "lynchpin" to the company's strategy and key to its performance over 2018. But Penney is also playing catch up in women's apparel, where casual and athleisure has changed the category. In May, executives told investors that women's activewear sales grew in double digits in Q1, after the company rebooted the category in Q3.
Managing Director of GlobalData Retail Neil Saunders noted in May that Penney is barely profitable at the operating level. (Its operating income in Q1 was $3 million.) "What it needs to do is develop more compelling own-brands in all categories and curate these in a way that is meaningful to its target customer," he said. "This would strengthen the whole business and would encourage shopping across departments."
More broadly, Saunders added, "As much as we recognize many of the positive changes J.C. Penney has made to date, and as much as we respect the highly engaged management team, we believe that now is the time to up the pace of change with bolder and more ambitious moves across all categories."
Ellison — who is getting ready to leave the sector's troubles behind him — has assured the world that Penney is taking the right steps and the turnaround is showing results, but more time is needed for them to fully change the company's trajectory. "[R]etail in the U.S. is a multi-trillion dollar industry. And we believe there can be multiple winners," he said in March, adding that the retailer planned "to be one of the winners."
About two months later, Ellison's headed off the court to go play for another team.
A previous version of this story misstated J.C. Penney's 2013 income due to a rounding error.
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Confirmed: 'Melo Recruits LeBron, CP3 & Durant To Battle Philly
by: uproxx September 13, 2011
UPDATE: Tyreke Evans has committed to play for Team Philly.
What started as a friendly debate between former Syracuse teammates Carmelo Anthony and Hakim Warrick, has turned into a full-blown, winner-take-all grudge match. And as with all basketball debates, this one can only be settled on the court. On Sept. 25 at 6 p.m., 'Melo will take his talents down I-95 to the City of Brotherly Love, along with a squad that features LeBron James, Chris Paul and Kevin Durant. They will compete against Warrick's team featuring Philly products Wayne Ellington, Markieff and Marcus Morris, John Salmons, and Flip Murrary.
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Palazzo Franchetti
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SCHOOL AND PROGRAM OVERVIEW
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pharmaceutical formulation, protein crystallization, or protein gelation (which is relevant, eg, in the food industry).
In this context, the study of common pathways leading to different biologically relevant structures (crystals, fibrils, amorphous aggregates) has a pivotal importance.
The control and design of a specific morphology require a detailed knowledge of the molecular interactions and the basic mechanisms involved in. aggregation.
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The selected subjects will draw Young Researchers' attention to frontier research issues of considerable scientific and educational impact.
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In 2011, the school is the subject of Protein Stability and Pathways of Self Assembly covering the Following topics:
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Ernesto Freire, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA)
Stefano Gianni, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome (Italy)
Richard Goldstein, National Institute for Medical Research, London (UK)
Abraham M. Lenhoff, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (USA)
Davi d A. Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge (UK)
Vincenzo Martorana, Institute of Biophysics, Palermo (Italy)
Annalisa Pastore, National Institute for Medical Research, London (UK)
Christian Rischel, Protein Structure and Biophysics, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Christopher J. Roberts, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (USA)
Pierandrea Temussi, University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy)
Guido Tiana, University of Milan (Italy)
Bente Vestegaard, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Roland Winter, Technische Universität Dortmund (Germany)
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Q: How to select QT version within NetBeans I am using:

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*Ubuntu 14.04

*NetBeans 8.1

*QT4, QT5

I want to build a QT application with #include <QtWidgets> inside NetBeans. I found that NetBeans cannot compile it because NetBeans is using QT4.

I do qmake -v, and get:
QMake version 3.0
Using Qt version 5.2.1 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

My question is how to make NetBeans uses QT5 libraries?

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This engine is a development of the age old Armstrong siddely Viper that has increased in thrust over 300% since its original conception. The newest engine develops over 4000lbs of thrust and there is even a reheated version, the 633.
Below can be seen my very nice and complete 601 that has now been sold to another keen collector.


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AES, conference, conservation, fisheries management, North Carolina, research, sharks, tagging
AES 2011 Day 4
Today marked the last official day of shark talks at JMIH/AES, though there will still be plenty of bony fish a reptile talks tomorrow. Most likely I'll be exploring Minneapolis, and then it's time for the long trip back and a little mini-vacation. Tonight is the big AES Banquet, where I find out if I won any awards or get to take home any swag from the raffle. In the meantime, let's see what people were talking about today.
Kevin Weng has been tracking great whites in Southern California in conjunction with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Eastern Pacific white sharks seem to be one population genetically, but separate off into two "ecological" populations; the sharks around Guadalupe in Mexican waters and those that group around the Farallones. By tagging juveniles found along southern California and Baja California, Kevin and his collegues have found that the two white shark populations in the eastern Pacific may share the same nursery area, which would help explain their continued genetic similarity.
There were a few talks that inhabited more math and modeling-heavy territory. Sebastian Pardo demonstrated how using a fixed size-at-birth can give an unrealistic bias when modeling shark growth using a Von-Bertalanffy curve. This type of curve gets heavy use in fisheries management when performing stock assessments, and biasing the curve can result in a species being managed either too tightly or not at all. This sort of issue is important to work out, since elasmobranch management is already hard enough with often incomplete data. Nick Dulvy showed how he and his collegues calculated the biomass of sharks that would exist worldwide in the absence of fishing. Without fishing, there should be 86 million tons of sharks, rays, and chimeras with an annual production of 6 million tons. However, this may be confounded by factors influencing primary production in marine ecosystems, though their estimate for maximum sustainable yield (1.3 million tons) is fairly close to the current estimate for global catch of elasmobranchs (1.7 million tons).
John Froeschke documented the abundance patterns of the three most common sharks in the coastal estuaries of Texas, finding that while blacktips and bonnetheads behaved exactly as expected by sticking near the inlets, bull sharks dramatically increased in the northernmost estuaries. This may be the result of a ban on gillnets in Louisiana in the 1990s, since the estuaries where bull numbers have really taken off are the closest to the state line.
Rulifson lab member Andrea Dell'Apa presented his Masters work analyzing the effects of the European fisheries law 41/82, basically the equivalent of the Magnusen-Stevens act we have here in the states. However, law 41/82 is concentrated more on economic development than conservation. Most shark landings in the Mediterranean are classified as "smoothhound" and environmental surveys are either unstandardized or woefully inadequate in that area, so any meaningful estimate of species-specific fishing impact is impossible. So Andrea tracked the overall landings of elasmobranchs and found something interesting; the fishery law encouraged fishermen to land an increased number of sharks and rays immediately following its implementation, which was followed by the by-now familiar boom-and-bust pattern seen in most shark fisheries. Fishermen switched to elasmobranchs immediately following law 41/82 to exploit more of the bycatch species and to maintain a dependable source of income as management of bony fishes became more complex. Essentially, the fisheries management law doomed the stocks of medium to small-sized sharks in the Mediterranean.
Simon Gulak brought it back to field work, recounting his experiences tagging dusky sharks along the southeastern coast of the U.S. He's had some tribulations, but found that although a portion of the Atlantic just off of North Carolina has been designated as essential fish habitat for dusky and sandbar sharks, the duskies may actually be using a patch of ocean called the Charleston Bump more than that area. This is with a depressingly low number of returns so far and some technical difficulties, but still worth a look. Finally, Mike McCallister talked about the juvenile sharks surveys he's been performing in northeastern Florida. Most of it was pretty standard, but he may have stumbled upon an important nursery area for scalloped hammerheads.
That's all for this year's talks, at leas the ones I was both present for and took detailed enough notes to summarize. It's been a great conference and I'm already looking forward to hitting up AES next year in Vancouver.
AES 2011: The Aftermath and Aquarium
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Since graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theatre, Carla has taught for many performing arts schools around Melbourne, including her former position as Associate Head of Music at The Children's Performing Company of Australia (CPCA).
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Fairytale var en svensk popgrupp som kom 2:a i Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2002 och i MGP Nordic (Danmark), med melodi "Tills natt blir dag".

Gruppen bestod av Mathilda Lundkvist (numera med artistnamnet Matilda Thompson) som släppte egna självbetitlade albumet "Matilda Thompson", Sofie Andrén (som senare var med i filmen "Säg att du älskar mig") och Elisabet Karlsson. En av medlemmarna som var inte med i MGP Nordic 2002, Emelie Rosen blev medlem av popgruppen Sheelah.

Svenska popgrupper

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Delphinium Million Dollar Blue really lives up to its name! It sets out sturdy spears covered in true blue semi-double blossoms beginning in early summer and ending in early fall. This Delphinium boasts dark green foliage which does well to compliment its flowers. Delphiniums have long been a garden favorite, but they suffer from relatively short lives and a tendency to "flop." New Hybrid varieties (like Million Dollar Blue) live longer and have a stronger upright habit, without needing staking. 'Million Dollar Blue' is part of the New Millenium™ series of Delphium, which greatly expands on the benefits of hybrids. Resistant to deer and rabbits, this variety is also quite mildew-resistant if given full sun and a little breathing room in the garden. Butterflies and hummingbirds flock to its blooms.


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1The tetrad
4Sources
Tetrad of media effects
A blank tetrad diagram
Marshall McLuhan's tetrad of media effects[1] uses a tetrad to examine the effects on society of any technology/medium (put another way: a means of explaining the social processes underlying the adoption of a technology/medium) by dividing its effects into four categories and displaying them simultaneously. The tetrad first appeared in print in McLuhan's posthumously-published works Laws of Media (1988) and The Global Village (1989).
The tetrad[edit]
The tetrad consists of four questions.
What does the medium enhance?
What does the medium make obsolete?
What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?
What does the medium reverse or flip into when pushed to extremes?
The laws of the tetrad exist simultaneously, not successively or chronologically, and allow the questioner to explore the "grammar and syntax" of the "language" of media. McLuhan departs from the media theory of Harold Innis in suggesting that a medium "overheats", or reverses into an opposing form, when taken to its extreme.[2]
Visually, a tetrad can be depicted as four diamonds forming an X, with the name of a medium in the center, where the left/right direction reflects the figure/ground association. The two diamonds on the left of a tetrad are the Enhancement and Retrieval qualities of the medium, both Figure qualities. The two diamonds on the right of a tetrad are the Obsolescence and Reversal qualities, both Ground qualities.[3]
Enhancement (figure): What the medium amplifies or intensifies. For example, radio amplifies news and music via sound.
Obsolescence (ground): What the medium drives out of prominence. Radio reduces the prominence of print and the visual.
Retrieval (figure): What the medium recovers which was previously lost. Radio returns the spoken word to the forefront.
Reversal (ground): What the medium does when pushed to its limits. Acoustic radio flips into audio-visual TV.
Figure and ground (media)
Hot and cool media
Media ecology
Time- and space-bias
^ "ARCHIVED - Tetrad - McLuhan - Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan - Library and Archives Canada". collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
^ "Tetrad" in Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan, a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada
^ McLuhan, Marshall (1998), Electric Language: Understanding the Present, p. 28.
McLuhan, Marshall, "Laws of the Media," Et cetera, June 1977, pp. 1973-179, with Preface by Paul Levinson.
"Laws of Media: The Pentad and Technical Syncretism". Zingrone, Frank. McLuhan Studies 1 (1991).
"Tetrad - McLuhan - Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan - Library and Archives Canada"
Augmented reality (AR) researcher Helen Papagiannis applies the tetrad to AR at ARE2011 in Silicon Valley.
The tetrad applied to radio, the press, and the Western on the Ginko Press website.
Applying the Laws of Media in the software testing field (with a good, clear introduction to the topic in general) - "McLuhan for Testers"
"The MediuM: a Marshall McLuhan Board Game" is a gaming experience of Laws of Media. The New Science (1988), tetrad of media effects.
The Mechanical Bride
The Gutenberg Galaxy
Understanding Media
The Medium Is the Massage
War and Peace in the Global Village
From Cliché to Archetype
Figure and ground
"The medium is the message"
Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan
McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
Related figures
Eric McLuhan (son)
Harley Parker
Quentin Fiore
Derrick de Kerckhove
Robert K. Logan
B. W. Powe
"Turn on, tune in, drop out"
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tetrad_of_media_effects&oldid=1085341361"
Books about the media
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Q: Efficient way to get location of match between vectors I am in need of efficiency for finding the indexes (not the logical vector) between two vectors.  I can do this with:
which(c("a", "q", "f", "c", "z") %in% letters[1:10])

In the same way it is better to find the position of the maximum number with which.max:
which(c(1:8, 10, 9) %in% max(c(1:8, 10, 9)))
which.max(c(1:8, 10, 9))

I am wondering if I have the most efficient way of finding the position of matching terms in the 2 vectors.
EDIT:
Per the questions/comments below.  I am operating on a list of vectors.  The problem involves operating on sentences that have been broken into a bag of words as seen below.  The list may contain 10000-20000 or more character vectors.  Then based on that index I will grab 4 words before and 4 words after the index and calculate a score.
x <- list(c('I', 'like', 'chocolate', 'cake'), c('chocolate', 'cake', 'is', 'good'))
y <- rep(x, 5000)

lapply(y, function(x) {
    which(x %in% c("chocolate", "good"))
})

A: Here's a relatively faster way using data.table:
require(data.table)
vv <- vapply(y, length, 0L)
DT <- data.table(y = unlist(y), id = rep(seq_along(y), vv), pos = sequence(vv))
setkey(DT, y)
# OLD CODE which will not take care of no-match entries (commented)
# DT[J(c("chocolate", "good")), list(list(pos)), by=id]$V1

setkey(DT[J(c("chocolate", "good"))], id)[J(seq_along(vv)), list(list(pos))]$V1

The idea:
First we unlist your list into a column of DT named y. In addition, we create two other columns named id and pos. id tells the index in the list and pos tells the position within that id. Then, by creating a key column on id, we can do fast subsetting. With this subsetting we'll get corresponding pos values for each id. Before we collect all pos for each id in a list and then just output the list column (V1), we take care of those entries where there was no match for our query by setting key to id after first subsetting and subsetting on all possible values of id (as this'll result in NA for non-existing entries.

Benchmarking with the lapply code on your post:
x <- list(c('I', 'like', 'chocolate', 'cake'), c('chocolate', 'cake', 'is', 'good'))
y <- rep(x, 5000)

require(data.table)
arun <- function() {
    vv <- vapply(y, length, 0L)
    DT <- data.table(y = unlist(y), id = rep(seq_along(y), vv), pos = sequence(vv))
    setkey(DT, y)
    setkey(DT[J(c("chocolate", "good"))], id)[J(seq_along(vv)), list(list(pos))]$V1
}

tyler <- function() {
    lapply(y, function(x) {
        which(x %in% c("chocolate", "good"))
    })
}

require(microbenchmark)
microbenchmark(a1 <- arun(), a2 <- tyler(), times=50)

Unit: milliseconds
          expr       min        lq    median        uq       max neval
  a1 <- arun()  30.71514  31.92836  33.19569  39.31539  88.56282    50
 a2 <- tyler() 626.67841 669.71151 726.78236 785.86444 955.55803    50

> identical(a1, a2)
# [1] TRUE

A: The C++ answer was faster comparing single characters, but I think using a vector of strings introduced enough overhead that now it's slower:
char1 <- c("a", "q", "f", "c", "z")
char2 <- letters[1:10]

library(inline)
cpp_whichin_src <- '
Rcpp::CharacterVector xa(a);
Rcpp::CharacterVector xb(b);
int n_xa = xa.size();
int n_xb = xb.size();

NumericVector res(n_xa);

std::vector<std::string> sa = Rcpp::as< std::vector<std::string> >(xa);
std::vector<std::string> sb = Rcpp::as< std::vector<std::string> >(xb);

for(int i=0; i < n_xa; i++) {
  for(int j=0; j<n_xb; j++) {
    if( sa[i] == sb[j] ) res[i] = i+1;
  }
}
return res;
'
cpp_whichin <- cxxfunction(signature(a="character",b="character"), cpp_whichin_src, plugin="Rcpp")

which.in_cpp <- function(char1, char2) {
  idx <- cpp_whichin(char1,char2)
  idx[idx!=0]
}

which.in_naive <- function(char1, char2) {
  which(char1 %in% char2)
}

which.in_CW <- function(char1, char2) {
  unlist(sapply(char2,function(x) which(x==char1)))
}

which.in_cpp(char1,char2)
which.in_naive(char1,char2)
which.in_CW(char1,char2)

** Benchmarks **
library(microbenchmark)
microbenchmark(
  which.in_cpp(char1,char2),
  which.in_naive(char1,char2),
  which.in_CW(char1,char2)
)

set.seed(1)
cmb <- apply(combn(letters,2), 2, paste,collapse="")
char1 <- sample( cmb, 100 )
char2 <- sample( cmb, 100 )

Unit: microseconds
                          expr     min      lq   median       uq      max
1   which.in_cpp(char1, char2) 114.890 120.023 126.6930 135.5630  537.011
2    which.in_CW(char1, char2) 697.505 725.826 766.4385 813.8615 8032.168
3 which.in_naive(char1, char2)  17.391  20.289  22.4545  25.4230   76.826

# Same as above, but with 3 letter combos and 1000 sampled

Unit: microseconds
                          expr       min        lq     median        uq       max
1   which.in_cpp(char1, char2)  8505.830  8715.598  8863.3130  8997.478  9796.288
2    which.in_CW(char1, char2) 23430.493 27987.393 28871.2340 30032.450 31926.546
3 which.in_naive(char1, char2)   129.904   135.736   158.1905   180.260  3821.785


Scrapping employer National Insurance for those under 21 years of age!
Huge jobs boost for young people announced in the Autumn Statement. Liberal Democrats are scrapping employer National Insurance on 1.5 million workers under the age of 21. Q: Are you or someone you know under 21? How are you finding the job market in Peterborough? What other things would you like to see introduced to help YOU? Please leave comments below!
Q: Work in Peterborough? Did you check your pay slip last week?


SpaceX Falcon Heavy successfully launched the Tesla Roadster and Starman!
Any word on the other payload yet?
The hopes and best wishes of Humankind?
Or that cylindrical object that spun off while the view of the rocket bell was partially blanked?
Rosieuk — Musk is the epitome of the handsome and successful African-American.
Last edited by freebeard; 02-12-2018 at 11:24 AM..
Shame Musk wasn't in the drivers seat at the time. Would have made the world a little better.
The man who made electric cars cool, cooler and even cooler than that?
Who sent his own car to Mars and beyond?
Aims for a revolution in public transport?
Makes the Aussie grid reliable and green?
Perhaps it was misplaced ire that was intended for the President_45.
The Segway was supposed to revolutionize public transportation, too. Nobody cooler than Paul Blart rides them, though.
When the Boring Company stalls out in the face of community politics, I hope they bore a tunnel from the Pacific to Death Valley below sea level. It's about 200 miles.
I guess you didn't see the live feed.
The Segway is about as advanced and practical as an electric horse.
Or, probably more to the point, an electric horseless chariot.
It might have revolutionized public transport in the times of Ben Hur. But even then people would have complained that a horse can eat faster than a Segway can charge.
Funny thing, they added fuel economy calculation to the statistics.


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School Uniform Policy, Mobile Phones and Electronic Devices, Good Standing Policy and Behaviour Management currently under review.
All school uniform items are obtainable from the school's onsite Uniform Shop run by Midford School Uniforms.
All students are required to wear school uniform. The uniform is serviceable, economical and assists in the development of pride in one's self and one's school. Australind Senior High School has established a reputation for students being neatly and properly dressed. Parents will be notified in writing if any additions to the uniforms are approved by the School Board. From time to time students will be allowed to dress for theme dress days.
It is acknowledged that from 2019 there will be an adjustment to the new uniform for students across Year 7 – 9. As a result, a transition period will be applied to ensure that families do not experience any hardship due to this change. Students in the lower years may wear out their existing uniform before the transition period closes. This transition period will cease at the end of 2019. All students will abide by these uniform expectations from the start of 2020.
From the start of 2019 Year 10 – 12 students should wear School crested white polo shirt with maroon underarm panels.
School crested dark grey airflow shorts with maroon trim.
School crested maroon rugby jumper.
School crested micro fibre maroon tracksuit jacket.
Previous uniform tracksuit jackets from the 2007 and 2010 concepts not to be worn beyond the end of 2019.
School crested micro fibre dark grey tracksuit pants.
Previous light grey track pants from the 2010 concept not to be work beyond the end of 2019.
No stripes, checks or other patterns.
Clothing should be worn in a reasonable order. For example: under shirt, polo shirt over this shirt, rugby jumper or jacket as the over garment. Any other order is not acceptable.
School crested dark grey PE shorts with white trim.
Optional – School crested micro fibre dark grey tracksuit pants.
Shoes should be closed. Black leather and gym shoes with a suitable means of fastening are acceptable.
Boots – Low ankle height is acceptable (no ugg boots). Closed shoes are required wear for most practical classes.
Any variation to the requirement for suitable footwear will be communicated to parents where there are specific health and safety requirements.
Item such as thongs, scuffs, slip-on's, Ugg boots, shoes with built up heels or other unsafe features are not acceptable for school because they are unsafe in this environment.
Hats – For health reasons hats are encouraged rather than caps (preferably in school colour). Any hat or cap with an inappropriate logo or message cannot be work on school grounds.
Stockings – Where students wear stockings especially for formal occasions with the formal school uniform, they will need to be grey or skin tone.
Socks – neutral in colour and design.
Note: All denim is banned at this school. No other colours or items should show under uniform items, e.g. coloured t-shirts, long sleeves under short sleeves, long tops under shirts etc.
The Behaviour Management System provides the mechanisms for establishing a safe, secure and orderly environment in which effective teaching and learning can take place. It is a whole school approach that works to reinforce the rights and responsibilities of all members of the school community (students, parents and teachers) thereby ensuring positive interaction between all members of that community.
The system has drawn upon community practices and expectations in order to establish a code of conduct that addresses the roles of all members of Australind Senior High School's community. It outlines a number of levels of support, management procedures and the provision of personnel resources as a means of facilitating the creation and maintenance of welcoming, safe and supportive learning environments. This system is one strategy to promote a positive learning environment. Other strategies that complement the system include the quality of the classroom climate, pastoral care, a relevant curriculum, anti harassment policies and acceptable conflict resolution.
Australind Senior High School has implemented a "Good Standing Policy" to encourage our students to prepare for the transition from School and ensure success in further education, training or employment.
The "Good Standing Policy" provides a system that assists in ensuring that students maintain a satisfactory level of attendance, course participation and behaviour. The "Good Standing Policy" does not replace the Behaviour Management Policy, but provides a specific framework or standard of behaviour expected from our students in order to maintain their "Good Standing" status.
How do students lose it?
How do they get it back: Bring in a note that explains the absences. If there is not an acceptable reason, they must complete 5 days in a row of attendance.
How do they get it back? Bring a note that explains the absences. If there is not an acceptable reason, they must complete 10 days in a row of attendance.
How do they get it back? Bring a note that explains the absences. If there is not an acceptable reason, they will be ineligible to regain "Good Standing" for the remainder of that term.
How do they get it back? Arrive at school/ class for 5 days without being late.
How do they get it back? Arrive at school/ class for 10 days without being late.
How do they get it back? If there is not an acceptable reason, they will be ineligible to regain Good Standing for the remainder of that term.
If students have 3 negative behaviours entered onto SIS or have been suspended on 1 occasion.
How do they get it back? Students must complete a conduct card displaying acceptable behaviour for 5 days.
If students have 6 negative behaviours entered onto SIS or have been suspended on 2 occasions.
How do they get it back? Students must complete a conduct card displaying acceptable behaviour for 10 days.
If students have 9 or more negative behaviours entered onto SIS or have been suspended on 3 or more occasions.
How do they get it back? Students will be ineligible to regain "Good Standing" for the remainder of that term.
Teachers can nominate students that have work outstanding to lose their "Good Standing" This can be done after alerting parents that the work is overdue and student's still not responding and completing the set work within a reasonable time frame.
Note Students who lose their "Good Standing" due to behaviour after the naming of the country week team can be excluded from the team at the discretion of the Principal.


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Q: Create a Map from List of Objects using Java 8 stream where the the key of map needs to be conditional I would like to create a Map<String, Employee> from List<Employee> where the key of the map will be empId if it's not null but if empId is null the key of the map will be empName.
So the key of the map will be a non null value of either of the two.
Employee {
private String empId;
private String empName;
}

A: You could have a custom key mapper that checks whether the empId is null or not:
Map<String, Employee> employeeMap = employeeList.stream().collect(Collectors.toMap(
    e -> e.empId != null ? e.empId : e.empName,
    Function.identity()
));

A: Why tricky? Select one or the other:
final Map<String, Employee> map = employees.stream()
  .collect(Collectors.toMap(
      e -> Objects.toString(e.getEmpId(), e.getEmpName()),
      Function.identity()));

Objects#toString(Object, String) takes two arguments: if the first one is null, the second will be used as fallback/default value.
With Java 9 (11?) there's also Objects#requireNonNullOrElse (and Objects#requireNonNullOrElseGet) which will throw an exception if the second argument is null.
If your input contains duplicated employee ids or names, you can provide a third argument to the toMap collector to define the merge strategy:
Collectors.toMap(..., ..., (a, b) -> a); // keep first
Collectors.toMap(..., ..., (a, b) -> b); // last wins
// or any other strategy you can think of

The default strategy is to throw an exception.


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Trump goes on the offensive
President hits back at 'leaker' Comey's claims
The attorneys general of Maryland and Washington D.C. reportedly plan to file a lawsuit Monday against President Trump alleging that foreign payments to his businesses violate the Constitution.
A similar lawsuit was filed in January, but the case from two Democratic attorneys general may stand a better chance in court because it is the first brought by government entities, according to Reuters. The attorneys allege Trump violated the Constitution's emoluments clause.
According to The Washington Post, which first reported the lawsuit, the lawsuit focuses on Trump's decision to retain ownership of his company when he became president. Trump insisted in January that he was moving business assets into a trust to be managed by his sons and eliminate possible conflicts.
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said Trump has failed to keep his promises involving his businesses, including having his son Eric Trump update his father about the company's finances.
"This case is, at its core, about the right of Marylanders, residents of the District of Columbia and all Americans to have honest government," Frosh told The Post. "The emoluments clauses command that the president put the country first and not his own personal interest first."
The attorneys said that if the lawsuit is able to proceed it could force Trump to hand over his personal tax returns in an effort to get a grasp around his foreign business dealings.
The lawsuit, which will be filed in the U.S. District Court of Maryland, will be the second of its kind related to emoluments. An ethics non-profit, restaurant group and hotel events booker alleged Trump violated the emoluments clause.
The Justice Department on Friday argued that the plaintiffs in that lawsuit lack the legal standing to sue because they cannot allege enough harm caused by Trump's businesses. Justice Department lawyers also contended that Trump hotel revenue is not an improper payment under the Constitution.
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PlayStation Names Doom Eternal As One Of The Best Games Of 2020
Credit: Bethesda Softworks UK via YouTube
In a recent article, PlayStation named Doom Eternal as one of the best games to be released so far in 2020. Written by Sid Shuman, Senior Director of SIE Content Communications, the article praises the title in virtually every possible way.
"Id Software has created a shooter that will shake you to your bones," Shuman writes in their article. "This sequel to 2016's Doom reboot is an ode to the blistering, balls-to-the-wall gaming sensibilities of the 90s. Here, the story takes a backseat to relentless white-knuckle action, capably propelled by Mick Gordon's muscular metal score."
Doom Eternal is a rollercoaster of demon-dismantling mayhem, and we think it's one of 2020's best games yet: https://t.co/FUsuxkZVEq pic.twitter.com/bUj8b8LIrH
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) April 4, 2020
Regardless of your opinion on the title, it's fair to say that criticizing Gordon's score seems practically impossible. Gordon brought an incredibly symphonic, demonic, nearly ritualistic approach to metal, even going far enough as to organize a choir of metal musicians to chant Gregorian-style chants.
Shuman also applauds Doom Eternal's fast-paced action and gameplay, which also lends to a bit of a difficulty. The difficulty of Eternal has been a welcome change from 2016's Doom title, which could be obnoxiously easy at time.
Part of the difficulty also comes from the fact that the game heavily encourages players to fight aggressively, with a headfirst dive, as Shuman says, often being the best way to prol9ong your life.
"Once this ruthless rubric clicks, Doom Eternal becomes one of the most enjoyable action games released this generation."
It's fair to say that Shuman's words are very, very far from controversial. Id Software's new Doom title has been one of the most hyped games in recent gaming. Much of the crowd immediately hopped onto the hype train immediately. There was even an adorable trend before the title was released where gamers were placing the iconic Doomguy and Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Isabelle together, as the two extremely-different titles shared a release date.
Of course, just because it isn't controversial doesn't take away from it. Shuman's write-up is an accurate and well-stated review of the brutal nitrous-and-blood fueled demonic slaughterfest. They especially praise the wonderful arsenal of weapons and the customizability that the weapon mastery systems allow, turning his Plasma Rifle into a "blistering death machine" that could also launch a superheated shotgun-style blast of gas at nearby enemies.
Whether your enjoyment for a title like Doom Eternal comes from the blisteringly fast-paced methodical decimation of demon after demon or the soul-shaking metal music score resounding through your skull throughout every level, Doom Eternal has more than earned the popularity it has been enjoying the past two weeks.
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Parra's HR ends Roark's streak, Nationals beat Reds 5-2
(AP Photo/John Minchillo)
By JOE KAY
CINCINNATI (AP) Tanner Roark's first career homer wasn't enough to get the win against his former Nationals teammates. Instead, it went to the other half of the first Tanner-for-Tanner trade in major league history.
"A weird day," Nationals starter Eric Fedde said.
Except for the outcome. Nothing surprising about the Nationals winning in Cincinnati.
Gerardo Parra hit a three-run homer that ended Roark's streak of keeping the ball in the park and Matt Adams added a solo shot Saturday, leading the Nationals to a 5-2 victory - their ninth in 10 games at Great American Ball Park.
The Nationals faced Roark (4-4) for the first time since trading him to the Reds in the offseason for Tanner Rainey. Both pitchers came away with a career moment.
Roark drove in a run with a squeeze bunt and connected for his first career homer off Fedde, his first in 336 career plate appearances.
"I felt like my emotions were under control," said Roark, who went six innings. "It's definitely a tough loss. The bunt and the home run felt good. I would've rather have won the game."
Two homers made the difference.
Parra's homer in the second inning ended Roark's string of 36 2/3 innings without allowing a homer, the second longest of his career. Adams also connected in the fourth inning, leaving him 6 for 12 career against Roark with three homers. Brian Dozier homered in the ninth.
Roark led the NL with 15 losses last season but has been part of the Reds' successful overhaul of their rotation. He gave up six hits and fanned six in six innings.
Roark won 64 games for the Nationals from 2013-18 and was traded to Cincinnati in December for Rainey (1-1), who got into the game in the fifth. He acknowledged that he had extra motivation facing his former team, and he fanned three of the five batters he faced for his first major league win.
"For me getting the first win in here, it is special," Rainey said.
Rainey fanned Yasiel Puig with a runner on third to end the fifth inning, and then struck out two more batters in the sixth.
"He's going to be a good one, he really is," manager Dave Martinez said. "He has that look when he comes out of the bullpen that I really like,"
Sean Doolittle retired the side in order in the ninth for this 11th save in 13 chances.
Washington's Juan Soto went 0 for 4, ending his career-best hitting streak at 14 games. It was the longest hitting streak by a player under age 21 since Manny Machado also hit in 14 straight games in 2013.
The Nationals are 17-5 against the Reds since 2016.
The Reds hit into double plays in the first, third and fifth innings, helping Fedde escape trouble.
"That's the best I could have hoped for," said Fedde, who gave up six hits and three walks in four-plus innings. "That's when the ground ball really comes into play. That saved me today."
Washington's Anthony Rendon has reached base in 18 consecutive games, going 22 for 64 with six doubles, two triples, four homers and 16 walks. Cincinnati's Nick Senzel doubled, extending his streak to nine games, the longest by a Red this season.
Nationals: Reliever Trevor Rosenthal threw 29 pitches in the bullpen Saturday without problem and is expected to start a rehab assignment on Tuesday. He's been sidelined by a viral infection since April 26.
Reds: Joey Votto was in the starting lineup for the second straight game after missing three with hamstring tightness. Votto returned Friday, had three hits during a 9-3 win, and left after five innings as a precaution.
Nationals: Max Scherzer (2-5) has no-decisions in his last two starts despite allowing one run and 11 hits in 12 innings.
Reds: Sonny Gray (2-4) has won his last two starts, allowing one run and 10 hits in 12 innings.
Updated June 1, 2019


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