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Archives for category: San Diego
San Diego: Online Charters Score Near Bottom
September 2, 2021 //
Online charters have a history of poor performance: high attrition rates, low graduation rates, low test scores.
Will Huntsberry of the Voice of San Diego reports here that online charters were once again among the lowest performing schools in that city.
Huntsberry writes:
Virtual charter schools – as well as other charters that don't use traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms – performed among the worst in San Diego County in a new analysis of test scores that took each school's poverty level into account.
The analysis compared 632 schools across San Diego County. Out of 14 non-classroom-based charter schools, as they are called in education jargon, five scored among the 20 lowest-performing schools. Nine out of 14 schools scored among the bottom 15 percent.
California's non-classroom-based schools have lived under a magnifying glass in recent years. State legislators placed a moratorium on new non-classroom schools, after executives from one online charter siphoned more than $80 million into their own private companies. Legislators also temporarily blocked the schools from receiving new funds.
The new analysis, performed by Voice of San Diego and the Center for Research and Evaluation at UC San Diego Extension, did not just look at a school's test scores. It compared a school's performance on standardized tests to other schools with similar poverty levels.
Brick-and-mortar charters performed in line with traditional public schools in the analysis. But non-classroom-based charters scored significantly worse.
These findings reenforce the statewide study of online charter schools in California, prepared by "In the Public Interest." They have a long track record of failure nationally.
Categories California, Education Industry, Failure, San Diego, Virtual Charter Schools
San Diego: Cindy Marten Is a Great Education Leader
April 2, 2021 //
San Diego Superintendent Cindy Marten was tapped by the Biden administration to be Deputy Secretary of Education, the #2 job in the Department of Education. The corporate reform lobby was not happy with this choice, and they began making insidious charges that she was uniquely unqualified and didn't care about equity. All of this was nonsense, of course.
When she was interviewed by the Senate committee, she showed herself to be the well-informed, knowledgeable, thoughtful educator that she is, and it appeared that even some Republican members of the committtee were impressed.
The flimsy claims against her needed to be answered, and it was not her role to do it. Fortunately a San Diego business leader stepped up and dashed all the extremists' attacks on her record.
Mel Katz wrote in the Voice of San Diego:
After President Joe Biden surprised San Diego with the exciting news that San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten had been chosen to help lead his administration's Department of Education, some voiced concerns that she had not had success closing San Diego's achievement gap between students of color and White students or that she had not paid sufficient attention to equity in schools.
I don't believe the facts back that up.
Marten has devoted her career to eliminating the legacy of systemic racism within public education. She has challenged her colleagues to create an anti-racist school district, and she has put in place concrete policies to improve the academic outcomes for students of color.
Her success has earned praise nationally from the president of the NAACP, at the state and local levels from leaders like Secretary of State Shirley Weber, state Board of Education Chair and Linda Darling-Hammond and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond. Marten has earned their support from her lifetime commitment to equity. From the time she started a literacy center for low-income families, as a young teacher, to her time as principal at Central Elementary in City Heights, which thrived with improved test scores, high staff morale and increased parental involvement.
The fundamental role of any school system is to educate children, and on that core level, Marten has succeeded where many others have failed. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, which is considered the gold standard of large-scale assessments, found that San Diego was the only district in 2019 whose tests scores significantly exceeded the average scores of 27 large districts in both math and English language arts on the fourth- and eighth-grade tests. Since 2003, San Diego student scores in fourth-grade math have risen every year except one.
In addition to outperforming the average for urban school districts, the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that Black and Hispanic student achievement is increasing faster in San Diego Unified than in just about any other urban district in the country.
A recent study by the Learning Policy Institute found students of color in San Diego Unified schools academically outperform their peers statewide. A companion study by UCLA's Center for the Transformation of Schools found this success is not accidental, rather it is the result of intentional efforts to provide added counselors and other supports to high-need school communities. San Diego Unified has an equity-based funding model that doubles and triples school-site funding above what the district receives in state allocations for disadvantaged students.
As San Diegans, we can be grateful for all that our students have achieved under Marten. As Americans, we can be optimistic about what she and Miguel Cardona, Biden's education secretary nominee, will be able to accomplish at the national level — for all children.
Mel Katz is executive officer of Manpower. He founded the Business Roundtable for Education at the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and e3 Civic High, the charter high school in the Central Library. He co-chaired San Diego Unified's construction bond campaign, Proposition M, and its Graduation Strategy Committee.
Categories Creativity, Education Reform, San Diego, U.S. Department of Education
Who Is Cindy Marten?
February 14, 2021 //
The Biden administration selected San Diego Superintendent of Schools Cindy Marten to become Deputy Secretary of Education, the #2 job in the Department of Education.
She has a long career as a teacher, as principal of a high-poverty school in San Diego, and as Superintendent of the state's second largest district since 2013.
Louis Freedberg of Edsource describes her career in this article.
Marten has been superintendent of San Diego Unified since 2013. But before that she had been a teacher for 17 years, as well as principal of San Diego's Central Elementary School, a school in the diverse City Heights neighborhood where 96% of students qualify for free and reduced-priced meals.
It was after several years at Central Elementary that she made the virtually unheard of jump from an elementary school principal to being superintendent of her district — not just any district, but the second-largest district in California and the 20th-largest in the nation.
Derrick Johnson, President of the national NAACP, tweeted his support for her candidacy.
Cindy Marten is a great pick by @POTUS. The @NAACP is looking forward to working with her on behalf of all students #Forward @BeKindDreamBig https://t.co/cJZS4MGC72 via @edsource
— Derrick Johnson (@DerrickNAACP) January 28, 2021
The San Diego chapter of the NAACP, strong supporters of charter schools, has criticized Cindy Marten for the high suspension rates of black students (black students are 4% of the SD enrollment but 12% of suspensions). The critics do not note that the San Diego school board passed a resolution to replace suspensions with programs of restorative justice, which will drive down suspension rates.
No such voices complained about John King, when he was nominated to be Secretary of Education by the Obama administration, after Arne Duncan stepped down. King's no-excuses charter school in Massachusetts had the highest suspension rate in the nation (nearly 60%), but no one mentioned it. He was "the king of suspensions," but no one cared.
Marten is committed to child-centered education, with a heaping dose of the arts and play. She is a worthy choice to serve as Deputy Secretary of Education.
Categories Administrators, superintendents, California, Education Reform, San Diego, Teaching, U.S. Department of Education
Meet Cindy Marten: The New Deputy Secretary of Education
January 19, 2021 //
The Biden-Harris administration announced the selection of Cindy Marten, superintendent of schools in San Diego for the past seven years, as its choice for Deputy Secretary of Education. I have known her for 15 years. I first met her when she was the new principal of Central Elementary School. This will be the first time in the history of the U.S. Department of Education that the top two jobs were held by people with experience as teachers and principals.
This 2018 article is a good portrayal of who she is.
Read her memo to the transition team here.
Categories Administrators, superintendents, Education Reform, San Diego, U.S. Department of Education
Irony! Gompers Charter School Fights Union!
There is a charter school in San Diego called the Gompers Preparatory Academy. Since 2018, its private management has been fighting teachers who want to form a union. When the COVID crisis struck and the state planned budget cuts, Gompers laid off more than a third of the staff. By coincidence (!), nearly all the teachers laid off were the very ones who wanted to form a union!
Does the charter management know who Samuel Gompers was? Hint: the first president of the American Federation of Labor and a pioneer of the union movement.
Gompers Preparatory Academy announced Monday it had rescinded a decision made two weeks ago to lay off more than a third of the school's teachers because of state budget cuts.
The layoffs would have increased class sizes from 19 students to 28 at the public charter school in southeastern San Diego. Ninety percent of Gompers students are socioeconomically disadvantaged, and some may be the first in their families to attend college, the school has said.
Some teachers had criticized the layoffs as an attempt to end their recently formed union…
Nearly all teachers who received layoff notices last month were union supporters, a San Diego Education Association spokesperson previously told inewsource. Gompers leaders had maintained the cuts were necessary and said decisions were based on seniority.
Categories Budget Cuts, California, Charter Schools, Education Industry, Privatization, San Diego, Teachers, Unions
Carl Cohn: Teachers Are the Foundation for Superintendents' Success Plus Some Memories of San Diego
April 25, 2020 //
Carl Cohn is a veteran educator who served as superintendent in Long Beach and in San Diego. He has received many awards for his service.
The selection of a new superintendent in Long Beach prompted him to write his thoughts about previous crises faced by the district and about the importance of teachers today. No superintendent can succeed without building relationships of mutual respect and collaboration with trusted teachers.
I first met Carl Cohn when he was selected to clean up the damage done by the first effort to disrupt a school district. That was San Diego. At the turn of the century, San Diego was one of the most successful urban districts in the nation—perhaps the most successful—but the school board decided it needed a massive overhaul. They hired lawyer Alan Bersin to disrupt the district. I described what happened there—including demoralization of teachers, and a philosophy of changing everything all at once because (as the saying then went) "you can't jump over a canyon in two leaps." The philosophy of the leadership was that change had to be abrupt, immediate, and "pedal to the metal." Billionaires sent money. Books were written about the "bold" reforms. The infighting and controversy became so inflamed that the public eventually threw out the "reform" school board. San Diego, however, was the model for Joel Klein's disruptions in New York City, which were the model for the same in D.C., and on and on.
I spent a week in the district interviewing teachers and principals and school board members. My last interview was with Carl Cohn. I saw him as a calming figure whose job was to restore morale, order, and professionalism. He succeeded.
After the collapse of the disruption era, the San Diego school board hired an experienced educator, Cindy Marten, who had been a teacher and principal in the district. Although she has had to impose devastating budget cuts, she has been a steady hand at the tiller. I met her in 2006, when she was a principal, running a progressive child-centered school. When I visited San Diego a few years ago, she took me for a drive, and I surprised myself for taking a paragliding ride at Torrey Pines. Needless to say, I am delighted that San Diego has such trustworthy, experienced leadership again.
I began my book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education with the San Diego story. It is a cautionary tale. If you read one chapter in that book, read that one. It ends with my interview of Carl Cohn.
Categories Accountability, Administrators, superintendents, California, Corporate Reform, Disruption, Education Reform, Personal, San Diego
California: Schools Tied to Massive Online Charter Scandal Are Closing
August 27, 2019 //
Will Huntsberry of the Voice of San Diego reports that all the online charters connected to the biggest charter fraud in U.S. history will close.
An online charter school empire whose leaders have been charged with enrolling fake students and misappropriating $80 million in public funds will be forced to close all of its schools across California.
In May, the San Diego district attorney's office charged 11 people in a corruption scandal of historic proportions. Prosecutors say Sean McManus and Jason Schrock, who operated A3 Education, were the ringleaders of the operation. Several who worked with McManus and Schrock have also been charged with crimes, including the superintendent of the Dehesa School District in San Diego County.
At its peak, A3 operated 19 online schools across the state, including three in San Diego, according to investigators. One closed before the charges were filed. And two more – one in San Diego and another in Los Angeles – were slated to close. But now a court-appointed receiver has decided to shutter all of the remaining schools.
Students' records at each of the closing schools will be transferred to their school district of residence by Sept. 30, according to a letter obtained by the Marin Independent Journal, which was sent out to districts associated with the A3 schools. Richard Kipperman, the court-appointed receiver, confirmed to Voice of San Diego that all the schools will close.
How the Scam Worked
Prosecutors painted an intricate picture of a complex organization that managed to turn student records into giant sums of cash. A3 Education enrolled many students who took actual classes, but it also enrolled many students who never did any schoolwork, prosecutors say.
Most of the fake students were participants in summer athletic programs, according to the indictment. Enrollment workers would approach a football program, for instance, and offer as little as $25 a head for each player's records. The enrollment worker would also get a commission on however many students he or she enrolled. The rest of the money – which totaled in the thousands of dollars for each student – went to companies controlled by McManus and Schrock.
In one instance, Luiz Rigney, an enrollment worker, carried several suitcases of student paperwork, worth roughly $5 million, to one of A3's offices. Rigney had been asked to backdate that paperwork so A3 could get maximum profit, prosecutors say.
In another instance, two workers texted each other back and forth about the large sums of cash flowing through the company: "I had the weirdest dream last night! One was about us growing all Sean's schools. I was running all the Facebook campaigns and you were running around my office drinking champagne throwing money everywhere yelling I love bonuses," the texts read, according to court documents.
Categories Accountability, California, Charter Schools, Education Industry, Education Reform, For-Profit, Fraud, Los Angeles, Privatization, San Diego, School Choice, Virtual Charter Schools
Study: Charters in California Enroll Fewer Students with Disabilities, Fewer with Severe Disabilities
It has been widely reported that charter schools enroll fewer students with disabilities and few of the students they enroll have severe disabilities.
The California Teachers Association and the United Teachers of Los Angeles reviewed public records to document the enrollments of students with disabilities in charter schools in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Oakland.
The study is titled "State of Denial: California Charter Schools and Special Education Students."
https://www.utla.net/news/new-study-reveals-privately-run-charter-schools-under-enroll-students-disabilities
The study found that charters enroll fewer students with disabilities than public schools. Charter enrollment is 11% compared to more that 14% in public schools. Furthermore, charters enroll fewer students with severe disabilities. They avoid the students who are most expensive to educate. Consequently these charter policies cost the three districts between $64 million to $97 million each year.
In some of the charter networks, fewer than 10% of students are entitled to special education services. One celebrated charter in Oakland, the American Indian Model Schools, known for its high test scores, has fewer than 3%. The 12 Rocketship charter schools enroll only 7.34% students with disabilities. The two charters created by former Governor Jerry Brown in Oakland enroll fewer than 10% of students with disabilities.
Advocates for students with disabilities have long held that charter schools do not enroll, and therefore do not serve, students with disabilities at the same levels as public school districts—either in overall enrollment or level of need—which leads to a greater fiscal impact for public school districts.
Our analysis affirms these concerns for the first time in the three California school districts we examined. Because of the structure for funding special education in California—which arguably disincentivizes enrolling students with disabilities in charter schools by funding based on total enrollment, and not need—we have no reason to believe that similar results would not be borne out in other districts throughout the state.
These findings are particularly important at this point in time in California, when a growing body of evidence shows that the rapid growth of charter schools has led to growing fiscal impact for public school districts. As policymakers at all levels of government weigh how to best meet the needs of California students equitably, we hope they will take these findings into account.
CONSIDERATIONS FOR POLICYMAKERS
The aim of our report was to provide an in-depth analysis of special education enrollment to quantify the anecdotal evidence so often cited by public education advocates. However, our analysis affirms the need for policy changes brought forth by advocates that would begin to address the inequities described in this report. The following represent just a few of those proposals:
1. Increase Federal Funding for Special Education: Perhaps the most obvious solution to these inequities would be for the federal government to meet its original 1975 obligation to fund 40 percent of public special education costs. This language is already in federal statute and requires only the political will to push Congress to budget the necessary resources. Federal lawmakers should make the original promise the absolute floor, rather than the ceiling, of funding for students with disabilities.
2. Federal Civil Rights Monitoring: The Office of Civil Rights within the US Department of Education must independently and proactively monitor student access to and service within charter schools across the nation. While some states are capable of effectively monitoring their education systems for civil rights abuses, the federal government's total abdication of this power to prioritize equity and access has not, and will not, lead to a safer and more responsive system for students and their families.
3. Accountability and Oversight by the CA Department of Education (CDE) and Authorizers:
The CDE should hold accountable both the charter schools that are underserving special education students, and the authorizers who are responsible for their oversight. This would not be the first time a state has moved to protect the rights of special education students, as the New York State Education Department's Office of Special Education recently investigated and concluded the practices at Success Academy Charter Schools were violating the civil rights of special education students under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Both Success Academy and the New York City Department of Education (Success Academy's authorizer) were held accountable and corrective action was required.8
4. Re-Examine California's Model for Funding Special Education to Account for Special Education Enrollment Disparities Between Districts and Charter Schools: California's system of allocating special education funding based on total student population counts, as opposed to targeted counts of students by special education eligibility categories, has led to harmful fiscal impacts for the school districts we studied due to charter schools significantly under-enrolling these students. We have no reason to believe the results would be different for other districts.
This funding model makes two critical assumptions: that need does not vary by network or location, and that all schools are open to serving all students. These assumptions require further serious investigation because the current system actively discourages charter schools from both identifying students with disabilities, and perversely incentivizes the creation of barriers to access through enrollment.
5. Require Charter Schools to Join the Same SELPA as the District in Which They Are Located:
California policymakers should return the responsibility of coordinating special education services for charter schools to local Special Education Local Plan Areas (SELPAs), and end the practice of allowing charter schools to opt-out of their local SELPA in favor of remote charter- only SELPAs that are sometimes hundreds of miles away.
As it stands, from a functional perspective, a student moving between schools within the same local area may have inconsistent accommodations and experiences due to schools belonging to different SELPAs. This undermines continuity of services, which is of utmost importance for special education students. This opt-out also undermines the fiscal stability of local school districts which, as our analysis found, are serving a disproportionately larger share of special education students without a larger share of funding.
6. Conduct Educational and Fiscal Impact Analyses When Considering New Charter School Petitions and Renewals: As fiduciaries of their local education agencies, and as elected officials entrusted to protect all students' best interests, charter school authorizers must make economic and education impact analyses an essential part of both the charter school authorization and reauthorization processes. Elected officials, the authorizing body, and the public must have independent information about the impact of opening a new charter school in an established education community. Information should cover the full learning needs of all students, including essential topics regarding enrollment, retention, discipline, and the financial impact on the community and the neighborhood's public schools. Districts must be allowed to use the findings of these impact reports as justification for denying new charter school petitions that will have an adverse fiscal impact on district programs and services.
7. Charter School Site-Based Special Education Committees: Coupled with both state and local governance oversight, charter operators themselves can take a proactive role to ensure they are open to and meeting the needs of all children in the community in which they operate. Each charter school campus should create a site-based special education committee. As those who spend the most time with special education students, both educators and parents are uniquely positioned to lead these committees.
Categories California, Charter Schools, Education Reform, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Special Education
San Diego: Judge Orders Two Charter Schools to Close
A judge in San Diego ordered two charter schools in the district to close in response to the school district's complaint that they were operating without local authorization and could not be supervised. About 40,000 students attend Learn4Life centers statewide.
The Learn4Life charters are appealing the decision.
Judge David Danielsen on Monday granted a motion by San Diego Unified School District to close the two Learn4Life locations operating in the district's boundaries: Diego Hills Central, a charter school authorized by Dehesa School District, and a resource center for San Diego Workforce Innovation High, a school authorized by Borrego Springs Unified School District. Neither of those schools have active locations in the districts that authorized them.
As Carol Burris reported in Charters and Consequences, the Learn4Life charters are storefronts where students meet a teacher once every 20 days. Their graduation rates are abysmal. Typically, they are authorized by small rural districts to operate in urban districts hundreds of miles away, where they operate without oversight. The authorizing district gets a commission for every student who enrolls.
Categories Accountability, Charter Schools, Education Industry, Education Reform, Privatization, San Diego, School Choice
San Diego: Eleven People Indicted in Connection to Online Charter Fraud
The California Legislature is considering four bills to reform the state's massive charter school industry (1,300 schools, mostly unregulated and unsupervised). One of the bills would prohibit school districts from authorizing charters in other districts. The following story is a classic example of rural school districts authorizing online charters in San Diego and Los Angeles, solely to get the commission attached to each student. In this case, the online charters were cash cows for their owners. [A personal aside: Last February, I was in Newport Beach, California, having breakfast at a hotel. The man at the next table was loudly discussing his schools with someone who was selling athletic services, $5 a student. When he got up to leave, I asked him if he was "in the charter school business." He said, "Yes," and said he owned 40 schools under six different corporate names. I asked him his name. He said, "Sean McManus." I should have asked him to join us. He is one of the key figures in the following article.]
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that eleven people connected to online charter schools have been indicted for "criminal charges of conspiracy, personal use of public money without legal authority, grand theft and financial conflict of interest."
The online charters operate in San Diego and Los Angeles, but were authorized by other districts that get a slice of the revenues. This is one of the corrupt practices that have been rampant in California, where lax state law allows sharp operators to get public money and cheat students with no consequences. The Legislature is currently debating a proposal to stop allowing District A to authorize a charter in District B, a practice that is mercenary and predatory. Until now, the powerful California Charter Schools Association—enriched by billionaires like Reed Hastings and Eli Broad—has fought all accountability for charter schools.
At the center of the allegations are leaders of the charter school management corporation A3 Education, a Newport Beach corporation whose leaders control 13 charter schools across California, according to an indictment filed May 17.
A3's chairman, Sean McManus, and president, Jason Schrock, essentially owned and operated the charter schools throughout California at the same time that A3 contracted with those schools, according to the indictment.
McManus and Schrock operated multiple businesses that charged their own charter schools millions of dollars for services. Then they channeled money from those businesses into their own charitable trust and personal bank accounts, according to the indictment.
A3 Education and the businesses affiliated with McManus and Schrock together have invoiced at least $83.3 million from the 13 charter schools, according to the indictment.
From the affiliated businesses, at least $8.18 million went into personal bank accounts, some in Australia, and into charitable trust accounts for McManus, Schrock and their wives, and $500,000 went to a family member of McManus, according to the indictment.
McManus and Schrock also used $1.6 million of A3 Education's funds to buy a private residence for McManus in San Juan Capistrano, the indictment states.
Also according to the indictment, six people, including McManus and Schrock, conspired to collect state money for students who were listed as being enrolled in Valiant Charter Schools but were not receiving services.
The two Valiant schools will close permanently on June 30. Several thousand students will need to find new schools. The San Diego online charter was authorized by the Dehesa School District, and the one in Los Angeles was authorized by the Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District.
The children were not assigned to teachers who have state-required professional certificates, the indictment said. The students were not in contact with the schools or provided with educational services during the summer months, as some of the co-conspirators claimed, according to the indictment…
Also indicted is Nancy Hauer, who is superintendent of Dehesa School District, which authorized several charter schools, including Valiant Academy of Southern California. The Dehesa district office did not immediately provide a comment Tuesday.
Also among the indicted is Steve Van Zant, a former Mountain Empire Unified superintendent who three years ago pleaded guilty to violating conflict-of-interest laws, after he brokered deals with charter schools to operate in other school districts, prosecutors said at the time.
Valiant Academy had 43 students two years ago, 726 last year, and 2,250 this year. It's academic performance was so poor that even the California Charter School Association recommended that it be closed.
Betsy DeVos says that parents always know what's best. Why were they enrolling their children in these failing "schools."?
Categories Accountability, California, Corruption, Education Industry, Ethics, For-Profit, Fraud, Los Angeles, Privatization, San Diego, Virtual Charter Schools


THE PEUGEOT 308 premium hatchback might not be your head-turner but a smooth operator.
By the way this is the revised hatchback for the SA market having launched in 2015.
It offers awesome performance and it actually feels a little bit quicker claiming from 0 to 100 kph time (9.8 seconds).
The 1.2-litre 3-cylinder turbopetrol engine under bonnet develops respectable outputs of 96 kW and 230 Nm of torque respectively. The engine is mated with a 6-speed automatic transmission and performs relatively smoothly and unobtrusively.
The handling capacity is quite good from this French made. Riding on 16-inch alloy wheels, the 308 feels solidly planted on the road and does a great job of absorbing bumps and imperfections, resulting in a supple and comfortable ride. It's one of the most pliantly riding products in its segment, which is quite an achievement.
The small, well-weighted steering wheel undoubtedly heightens the Peugeot's driving engagement and adds a measure of fun to the overall driving experience. Depending on your ideal seating and steering positions, the 'wheel can, however, partially block your view of the instrument cluster, which can be annoying.
It boasts all kinds of features in the cabin and seats are well bolstered.
Standout features include partial cloth/leather upholstery, front and rear park distance control, cruise control, rain-sensing wipers, auto aircon (climate control) and electric folding mirrors.
But the only snag is the legroom. My take is, if you wanna travel in large crew don't you dare 'cos the loading bay is very limited as well.
For back and forth in the City, its ideal since safety specification have been beefed up and now includes systems such as Attention Alert, ABS with EBD, emergency brake assist, Electronic Stability Program (ESP) and traction control, automatic drive-away locking and a total of 6 airbags.
The Peugeot 308 1.2T Allure automatic is sold with a 3-year/100 000 km warranty and a 5-year/100 000 km maintenance plan.
Meanwhile, it has been confirmed Peugeot SA will experience management changes this year.
Image (The new Peugeot 308 hatchback).


This was a Croat operation against the Yugoslav 32nd 'Zagorje' Division and units of the Western Group of Partisan Detachments of Marshal Josip Broz Tito's partisan forces in the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupied Yugoslavia (28/30 November 1944).
Some 2,285 Croat troops of the Ustaše 20th Assault Regiment of the 1st Assault Division, Ustaše Pukovnik Ante Moškov's 'Poglavnik' Bodyguard Brigade and two companies of Pukovnik Cihak's 1st Garrison Brigade advanced along the line from Vrbovec, Lukovo, Preska, Lipnica and Salnik with aim of reaching a predetermined blocking line between Preseka and Salnik, where they would join forces with a group from Krizevci and the Group 'Zelina' from Svzent Ivan Zelina by noon on 28 November. By 10.00 the operation was developing as planned despite partisan resistance in the villages of Poljancec, Lipnica and Hudovo.
The Croats claimed to have killed 154 partisans and captured 22, as well as seizing a number of light weapons, but the 32nd 'Zagorje' Division escaped the attempted encirclement and returned to Moslavina.


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NEW ORLEANS -- One of two men suspected in a New Orleans shootout that left one person dead and nine others wounded in the French Quarter tourist district has been arrested on a second-degree murder charge, authorities said Friday.
Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said Jordan Clay, 20, of Lafayette, was taken into custody late Thursday night and was being held in that area of south-central Louisiana. It wasn't immediately known if Clay had a lawyer.
The second suspect still hasn't been identified and is being sought.
The superintendent said Clay and the other suspect are both from the Lafayette area and investigators believe they had an ongoing dispute that led to gunfire.
Killed in the crossfire was Demontris Toliver, 25, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The surviving victims included seven men and two women, ranging in age from 20 to 37. Police said none of the wounded had life-threatening injuries.
Harrison didn't release further details about the arrested man, but said only that information gathered during the investigation led to Clay.
The French Quarter shooting erupted hours after Saturday's annual Bayou Classic football between Southern University and Grambling State University - and the tourist district was bustling with visitors last weekend after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Harrison said the shooting, which occurred about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, had nothing to do with the classic matchup. He also said that between 30 and 40 police officers and EMS crews were in the district then and responded quickly.
Demontris Toliver was a tattoo artist and a New Orleans native.


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Coweta-Fayette EMC had a longtime goal of offering programs for STEM educators and students in its Georgia service territory, but the timing wasn't right—until last year.
That's when the Palmetto-based co-op debuted its Alternative Energy Summer Adventure for Teachers in partnership with the Coweta County School System. The three-day professional development experience for K-12 STEM teachers included hands-on activities and field trips to see local examples of sustainable development and energy efficiency.
For its efforts, the co-op is the 2022 recipient of the Edgar F. Chesnutt Award for Best Total Communication Program, presented May 3 during the Connect Conference in Seattle. The award, the highest honor bestowed by the Spotlight on Excellence Awards program, is named for Edgar F. Chesnutt, manager of corporate communication for Arkansas Electric Cooperatives from 1961 until 1987.
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"This project wouldn't have been possible, or as successful, without the efforts of our whole team here at Coweta-Fayette EMC," said Chellie Phillips, the co-op's vice president of communications and public relations. "This recognition isn't just nice for us, but it's a win for educators and students in our area."
The co-op gained momentum for the project after winning a bid to serve a new middle school under the state's "Customer Choice" program. During discussions to build an energy innovation learning center at the school, educators asked the co-op to help develop a related curriculum for teachers, Phillips said.
Working under a six-week deadline and a $16,000 budget—organizers wanted to launch Summer Adventure before the start of the 2021 school year—co-op and school employees leveraged outside connections and expertise to get commitments from partners to train teachers or host tours.
"Once we agreed on the tour stops and learning objectives, the first action was to book the stops and schedule the best routes for the three-day tour," said Phillips. "With hundreds of emails and phone calls, the schedule was finalized like a 1,000-piece puzzle."
The co-op also wanted to extend the learning to members unaware of its alternative energy offerings. To accomplish that goal, two co-op communicators livestreamed presentations from each of the seven tour locations, interviewed teachers and provided daily recaps.
Those efforts resulted in some 127,500 views, and there's already a waiting list of teachers for this summer's program. "Everybody in our service territory had a chance to benefit from what the teachers were seeing and learning," Phillips said.
Coweta-Fayette's vision and creativity won the judges over. "Exactly what I was looking for in this category," wrote one judge. "This event was a new idea and was clearly well implemented. I hope this is something that will continue and other co-ops will choose to do as well."

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Anne Frank House Exhibition Coming to SVNH and Across Vancouver!
February 10, 2015 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- From The Anne Frank House to Vancouver's Neighbourhood Houses
PeerNetBC is pleased to announce a new community partnership with Anne Frank House to bring their exhibition to Vancouver's Neighbourhood Houses from February 16 to June 19, 2015.
Co-Executive Director of PeerNetBC, Romi Chandra Herbert says, "On the heels of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we are honoured to be collaborating with Anne Frank House to bring her story to Vancouver.
Anne Frank – "A History for Today" connects the horrific history of the Holocaust with the challenges our communities face today in regards to discrimination, acceptance of diversity and providing a window through dialogue to make change both here and abroad".
The exhibition features 34 large scale panels that speak about Anne Frank's story, World War II, and addresses themes of discrimination, acceptance, and human rights. The exhibition will be led by young people in the communities as well as partnering with seniors. They will provide space to consider challenges that they and their neighbourhoods face in embracing diversity and acceptance of difference.
In addition to hosting the exhibition, youth participants will have the opportunity to reflect on what they've seen in the exhibition and create short videos about their own experiences in a diverse city.
The exhibition will be featured at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House from Feb 16 to March 6th with opening ceremony on Feb 20th from 4 - 6pm, then moving to following neighbourhood houses: South Vancouver Neighbourhood House –Youth & Seniors lead tours March 7-31st; Frog Hollow Neighborhood House – May 2st-31st; Collingwood Neighborhood House– June 2st-19th.
To book a tour, get in touch with each neighbourhood house or drop by for self-led tours during operating hours in the neighbourhood house in your community.
"Anne Frank House is visited by millions who were touched by her story. Youth and seniors will be asked to identify areas in their own communities that speak to challenges and successes in regards to diversity and acceptance to serve as reminders of how far we've come, and how much further we have to travel," said Chandra Herbert.
The Project is supported by the Inspirit Foundation, the City of Vancouver, Youth Philanthropy Council at Vancouver Foundation, Coast Capital Savings, the Government of BC, and Hamber Foundation.
PeerNetBC envisions communities where people are connected. We provide training, resources and support to peer-led initiatives across British Columbia, fostering opportunities for people to learn from each other and make connections.
The Anne Frank House was established on 3 May 1957 as an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of Anne Frank's hiding place (open as a museum on May 3rd 1960) and her diaries. Anne Frank House develops educational programmes with the aim of raising young people's awareness of the dangers of anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination and the importance of freedom, equal rights and democracy.
You can follow the youth-led conversation online through @peernetbc and hashtag #AFMW2015 to see this fantastic project make its way throughout the city.
For more details, contact Romi Chandra Herbert at romi@peernetbc.com or 604-733-6186.
We Hope to see you at the opening at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House on February 20th, starting at 4pm.
Senior Participants Sought for UBC Research Study
Dear Sir/Madam of the Seniors Hub:
I, Jacob Kuan-Long Leong, am a Master of Applied Science's student in Electrical Engineering at The University of British Columbia and am supervised by Dr. Cyril Leung (ece.ubc.ca/faculty/cyril-leung).
I am writing to you because I am working on an academic research which aims to help support the independent living of the elderly and I would like to recruit people who are able to provide me with the relevant information.
My research aims to design an automated system to estimate the wellness of the monitored elderly, so that appropriate assistance could be triggered when the wellness of the elderly goes below a certain level.
What is required for my research is the energy consumption data of the participant's home over a period of time. The energy data can be downloaded directly from the BC Hydro website. However, no one but the utility account holder himself/herself can have access to his/her own energy consumption data. Hence, I am trying to recruit people who are able to and are willing to provide me with the data.
I am looking for elderly persons who satisfy the following conditions:
paying his/her own utility bill (so that he/she can have access to the energy data), and,
being willing to participate
Thank you for taking your time reading this post. If you are interested in my research or know people who can potentially provide me with the energy data, please contact me via email: kuanlongl@ece.ubc.ca. That will also be great if you can direct me to the people who I am trying to recruit. Your help is highly appreciated. Thank you!
Jacob Leong
Farewell From Joan - Happy Retirement!
Joan Wright Retires
As some of you may know or not, that Joan Wright officially retired as Seniors Hub Coordinator at the end December 2014 from South Vancouver Neighbourhood House and the Senior's Hub...
Joan, we wish you a wonderful congratulations and retirement. We thank you for the last 10 years of amazing service to us all at the Seniors Hub and SVNH - we're really going to miss you!
We celebrated Joan with a retirement party on January 22nd at SVNH, and a good time was had by all - hopefully we'll be able to post some pictures soon. Below, is Joan's official farewell that she wrote for the Seniors Hub Winter 2015 Newsletter.
Dear friends and colleagues of the Seniors Hub:
Farewell to you all and I am saddened to say this is my last issue of the Hub Newsletter.
Although putting out a newsletter even as infrequent as this one is, it is always a busy time.
I would like to thank all the willing contributors of articles, stories and pictures; the team of seniors and staff who distribute the 1500 copies to the 45 groups; and I would be remiss if I didn't appreciate the work of the Communications Committee for proofing, editing, and layout, and our community printer, Sylvie at The Printing House for the printing.
We could not have done it without you, our readers, whom I invite you to provide feedback on the Hub newsletter. We would like to know what you would like to see in the newsletter. Please send your feedback to Shelley at shelley@southvan.org or by phone at 604-324-6212.
It is also time for me to say good bye to the Neighbourhood House and the greater community. I want to appreciate and thank all my colleagues, our hub and community partners, staff and board members, for all the wonderful collaborations; the volunteers who steadfastly lead and facilitate the 25 seniors-led programs here at SVNH and in our community; and to our participants whom we do it all for, who come daily to socialize, meet new friends, share and learn new skills.
I salute all the members of the South Vancouver Seniors Hub Council who strive to meet the needs of the seniors in our community. They are the ones who perform countless hours generously sharing their knowledge and skills, ensuring that seniors who are socially isolated are connected to support services and caring neighbourhoods, that seniors have a voice in those areas that matter to them and that all seniors in South Vancouver are supported to be independent and actively participate in community life. I have learned so much from all of you.
Working here at South Vancouver Neighbourhood House has been such a fulfilling experience. I have been stimulated and challenged by the number of roles and opportunities I have been given.
Shelley Jorde was hired in March 2014 to work alongside me and the Seniors Hub Council to ensure a seamless transition for the Hub. It has been a joy for both the council and me to have her on board. She and the Seniors Hub Council will take the Hub to the next level. They lead from the heart, inspiring me with their creativity, wisdom, intelligence, commitment and humility.
With much love and light to you all, Joan
We welcome you to add your well-wishes to Joan in the comments below.
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For the fourth straight year, Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman was named to the Capitol Weekly's Top 100 Influencers list. Wunderman was quick to deflect any individual role in the honor and said it reflects the larger influence that the Bay Area Council has in working on a wide range of legislative and public policy issues in Sacramento. The Council's Sacramento office, which is led by Policy Manager Cornelious Burke, was opened under Wunderman's leadership and has become an important and effective platform for engaging with political, government and business leaders. The Council this year sponsored important legislation to address the state's housing crisis, was instrumental in passing legislation last year that led to Regional Measure 3—the $5.6 billion traffic relief ballot measure Bay Area voters approved in June—and has played a leading role on issues related to water, climate change and energy, early education funding and healthcare reform.


Wow. Another year gone. An election cycle, Christmas and the New Year, already. Where is the time going? I'm tired a lot. I don't even think about stuff like this blog, much, anymore. Tomorrow night is the National Championship game. Bama v. ND. Historic matchup. Should be a good game to watch. I need sleep.


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We have moved our factory from Changsha Hunan Province to Quzhou Zhejiang Province. Our new production base at No. 46 Tongzhou Rd. Longyou Industrial Park Quzhou Zhejiang Province 324400 PRC, which occupies a land of 30,000 sqm including 20,000 sqm for workshop has been finished and will officially take effect since Aug. 31 2017. Thanks to the relocation and expansion, our capacity will be quadrupled to 2000 tons of ceramics sinters and 2500 tons of ceramic powders annually. In the near future, we will mainly manufacture SiC, B4C and SiC+B4C hybrid for such fields as ballistics and construction machinery.
The combination of excellent bullet-resisting performance, weight save and cost-friendliness has always been the ultimate in manufacturing ballistic protection solutions especially body protection. To meet the fierce challenge, we have developed a composite of silicon carbide and boron carbide—BCS50® which bears physical properties like hardness, toughness and density close to boron carbide but at much lower costs.
What's more importantly, we have solved a variety of technical obstacles and succeeded in manufacturing such difficult parts as 10x12"multicurve monolithic plates in this material.


Students in the entertainment management program are required to find an internship with an entertainment management related company. In return for a minimum of 90 hours of work over a minimum of two months, students can earn three credit hours toward their degree. As part of their internship experience, students are required to complete three assignments: a biweekly journal, a paper and a problem/solution project.
Students have found internships in many companies, both locally and nationally. During the first week of the first EM course (MGT 310) students enroll access will be given to a database of over 700 internship contacts (from sports, music, film, tv, events and venues) compiled over two decades. The required internship is to be completed AFTER completing MGT 310 (fall semester) or MGT 410 (spring semester). Here's a sample of where students have completed internships.
If you have any questions, read through the internship section of our frequently asked questions.
Download internship provider packet and deliver it to your internship supervisor if they would like to view it.
Complete the Career Services Work Report and Learning Plan Paperwork (aka Internship Submission Form). You should print and fill out a draft of the form before you submit the information electronically to ensure that you have all the information you need.
Drop off your printed paperwork in Dr. Rothschild's door bin for his approval in Glass Hall 412. Within 48 hours he will sign off on the paperwork.
After Dr. Rothschild has reviewed your paperwork, he will send you an email notifying you to enroll for MGT 494 online. Then, you may pick up a signed copy of your paperwork from Dr. Rothschild 48 hours after you receive the "enroll" email.
Are you looking for an intern?
We have lots of students who are interested in finding an internship with your company. Click on the "Internship Announcement" like below and we will email it to our students.


12mm thick reversible Roly Poly Playmats from Jolly Kidz.
Love the different double sided play mat option. Could be a tad bit thicker but still pretty good. Easy to clean up vomit or dribble. Easy to fold away when play time over.
Having come home from work I found my order lying in the concrete stairs next to the gate. The driver would've just thrown my order over the gate rather than call me to make suitable arrangements. If this is the sort of service provided for online delivery orders then i would be very hesitant to place my next order and certainly wouldn't make any recommendation.
I wish I had bought this for my first kid. It's very handy. Size is perfect, nice and comfy place for baby and older siblings to relax and play, even grown ups! Making tummy time an enjoyable one. A bit pricey but worthy.
Too busy breast feeding to use it yet!
I don't know my name yet!
Soft, durable mat for floor play.


So what should B2B event owners be thinking about and preparing for? How might technology and emerging service strategies allow events to develop over the next few years?
More and more customers will find the event they need through their own network and community ties. Referrals will increase in significance and by the time your sales and marketing teams connect, their information needs to close a sale will be minimal/different. How will your team adapt?
Don't get too attached to email – mass email is already troubled by spammers, new regulations and the general white noise of an inbox. By 2022, marketing will be about much more sophisticated analytics around incentivised affiliate marketing and WOM. Clients will act as the promoters (& detractors) of your event through increasingly complex networks – have a think about how your systems and community relationships will need to change and adapt to cope with this.
Remember the days in 2017 when a sponsor's metrics were about meetings, conversions to post-event contact and on to the expectation of a deal or two?
By the way, if you're not already – keep an eye on sports sponsorships and how they are evolving. They are way ahead of the curve in how they combine venue and onsite experience with digital community and fanbase insights. It's also worth considering the other ways in which sports franchises offer more than on-the-day and on-the-product branding.
Whatever generation we look at, it's clear that people are increasingly expecting to have a voice, responding-in-the-moment. Great content is needed to intrigue them to book – but innovative events will offer more opportunities for them to participate actively onsite.
Delegates will add to pre-set agenda content by creating what they want and need in the moment. Event technology will match them with connections to create on-the-spot content sessions, breakout groups, challenge hacks etc.
Moving forward, we need to work hard to ensure that we understand who the clients are, what they would like and need to buy and what experience is going to deliver memorable value to them. Help is available – more advanced survey companies such as qualtrics will assist with pulling out more detailed feedback to carve out a more superior product rather than just using net promoter scores to evaluate event experience?.
Client rated that speaker in the last session highly? They'll be guided to join her for a pop-up introduction opportunity.
Planning a technology acquisition or upgrade – you'll be messaged an invitation to a private meeting with someone who already knowns what stage you're at and what you're looking for?
Imagine… what would you provide for sponsors and delegates if you really knew rich detail on needs and behaviours? How would you improve onsite experience/enjoyment as well as monetisable opportunities?
Your ability to get the real 'right people' present & active onsite and online (aka the 'reality' of their engaged network) will be the key determining factor in repeat loyalty and growth. Not just about the promise of a community – but the delivery of that engagement.
You and your team are already working with exhibitors and clients to step out from behind their laptops and talk with people. The next phase is coaching them in presentation style, use of tech and then providing the bandwidth to enable the next phase of tech interaction.
Personalised conversations (via badge scans) that tell vendors what individual delegates want as they walk up.
It's not about replacing the whole live event experience, but rather about improving the UX of content, of product/service info, of networking experiences.
Attendee's interactions with vendors, the show floor and vendor solutions will see the most change (and benefit) from these technologies… improving that interaction is a boost to the event-owner too, so think about how the bandwidth and tech you provide will need to alter in order to enable it.
Yes – most of the event sector is trying to focus on big experience and scaled concepts… but there will always be groups within our sectors for whom small events are a more valuable, high ticket item. Already there are plenty of examples of hosted buyer events, just one boutique model, delivering exceptional customer experience and loyalty. These events, along with retreats and high profile smaller events, can still make 6-7 figure sums from sponsorship and delegate sales when done right.
Perhaps the event companies of 2022 will be less obsessed by a single model, and more focused on their ability to deliver what different audiences and sponsors need and demand. This could well be driven by future valuation models which focus on what event data shows about industry dynamics and behaviour instead of how many bodies they can get in a room on a regular basis.
The value of what can be learned about an audience, data on behaviour, investments, and the ability to micro target commercial opportunities on this basis is very likely to become the core valuation model in events. Imagine that – the valuation of your event business being based on your ability to develop data sets with intrinsic value vs. a valuation based on current profit and repeatable value.
While a lot of these points focus on technology, the reality is that the future of events (and our ability to continue to be relevant & build loyalty) lies in how we deliver experiences that have value.
I can feel the old guard of the events industry roll their eyes at this. And yes, sometimes it can feel like 'everything old is new again' – user experience, they might say, has always been important.
But that misses the point: What's new is the significant easing of barriers to entry into your markets. To launch an event in years past, you needed a lot more manpower that required upfront investment. You needed to build large quantities of data, you needed to spend on marketing and websites, you needed up front investment in venues and staff with the ability to build meaningful networks. You needed sales teams skilled in building commitment and interest from people who'd only just heard of the event.
Whilst some of that is still true, consider this: It has never been easier to build a following, to find influencers and to create a community than now. One or two people in a back room could do what previously took months and a lot more spend.
Imagine how much this will have been further disrupted by 2020. You don't even need a particularly flash-bang website – many of the newest disrupters launched with single page sites that took hours to put up and looked pretty good all the same.
Aside from the relative ease of brand building and spreading the word, its also never been easier for a competitor to copy and disrupt your event cycle – again – all they need (at least in theory) is a strong social media strategy and they can replicate and drown out the noise from your event within days or weeks.
So what really protects you is the authenticity, the relationships, the value of your onsite/community experience.
And so this little post comes full circle: It's already time to prepare for 2022 – time to work how how to select and deploy technology that will help us and our competition (both known and unknown) to be the disrupters, to build highly responsive, dynamic and 'sentient' events.


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Denver police investigate fatal crash
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By: Robert Garrison
Posted at 10:30 AM, Jan 22, 2023
DENVER — Police in Denver are investigating a fatal crash near the University of Denver campus early Sunday morning.
Two vehicles were involved in the crash at the intersection of University Boulevard and Buchtel Boulevard South, according to a DPD tweet sent at 2:54 a.m.
One of the drivers was pronounced deceased on scene. A second driver sustained serious injuries.
It's unclear what led up to the crash. An investigation is ongoing.
Editor's note: The brother of Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr. has been arrested in connection with this crash. You can read more on that here.
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Post-secondary students on Wednesday participated in a walkout protest against actions by the provincial government on at least 17 university and college campuses across Ontario, an action organized by the Canadian Federation of Students.
In January, the provincial government announced a 10 per cent tuition cut for domestic students in the province, along with cuts to OSAP grants and free tuition for low-income students. In addition, students will also have the ability to opt-out of certain ancillary fees, which are used to fund students' unions, on-campus groups and services.
"I am one of the people on OSAP, and I know that if I don't fight this, the next time I renew my OSAP contract this coming fall, I'm screwed. There's no way I can pay it off," said Rahi Chowdhuri, a fifth-year biomedical science student at Ryerson University.
Humber College and the University of Guelph-Humber did not officially participate in the walkout. At least one elementary school joined in, however.
Image of the rally at Ryerson University from the Eyeopener via the Canadian University Press.


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New poll of Arizona shows Joe leading Trump by five points, 49% to 44%
By Larry Bodine|2020-07-17T17:54:50-07:00July 17th, 2020|Arizona, Joe Biden, President|
Donald Trump continues to trail Joe Biden in the key battleground state of Arizona, according to a new Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) survey released by OH Predictive Insights. The former Vice President leads the President 49 -44.
This AZPOP – OHPI's monthly poll of likely voters in the state of Arizona – finds the state of the Presidential race virtually unchanged since May when Joe Biden led Donald Trump 50-43.
While the top-line numbers in this match-up remain relatively steady since the spring, there have been changes under the surface. In particular, while supporters of President Trump were once much more enthusiastic to vote in November than Vice President Biden's supporters, the gap has narrowed to a statistical tie in recent months.
"Donald Trump has long been able to count on the enthusiasm of his supporters to overwhelm his opponents," says OHPI Chief of Research, Mike Noble. "But now Trump and Biden's voters are expressing the same level of enthusiasm."
The divide has not narrowed because Biden is motivating his base (his supporters are no more enthusiastic than they were in April). However, Donald Trump voters are no longer as eager to vote as they once were. The share of voters who are extremely enthusiastic to vote for Trump fell 12 points in the second quarter of 2020 while the share who are as excited to vote for Biden rose 3.
While he is now on equal footing with the President in terms of voter enthusiasm, the news is not all positive for Joe Biden. Many of the key constituencies in Joe Biden's coalition are still significantly less motivated than their more Republican counterparts. For instance, younger voters and those who are college-educated are much less excited to vote than those who are older or non-college educated.
Additionally, reflective of the partisan nature of the current American political environment, Independents (among whom Biden leads by 21) are less likely to be eager to cast their ballot than members of either major political party. Below is a chart of some of the key demographic groups which will likely decide the Presidential contest here in Arizona and their current level of Enthusiasm regarding voting in the 2020 General Election.
Another interesting yet underreported phenomenon which this survey highlights, is the decline in Trump's support among rural voters. Much media attention has been paid to the shifting politics of Maricopa County — home to three-fifths of Arizona's electorate. However, in Arizona's rural counties, support for the president has dropped. The president carried the region by 17 points in 2016, but currently is only leading Biden by 11 – a 6-point shift away from the President.
"For Donald Trump to win in Arizona, he is going to need to solidify his hold on rural voters and re-energize his supporters," according to Jacob Joss, OHPI Data Analyst. "Both of those tasks are achievable, but he is running out of time to get them done."
Methodology: This poll was conducted as a blended phone survey 67.8% Live Caller/ 32.2% IVR. The survey was completed by OH Predictive Insights from July 6th to July 7th, 2020 from an Arizona 2020 Likely Voter sample. The sample demographics were weighted to accurately reflect gender, region, age, party affiliation, ethnicity, and education level. The sample size was 600 completed surveys, with a MoE of ± 4.0%. Numbers may not equal 100% due to rounding. Note: a change was made in the sample methodology of the AZPOP between June and July 2020 to better reflect the state of Arizona's voter composition.
Media Contacts: Mike Noble, OH Predictive Insights, m.noble@ohpredictive.com, (480) 313-1837
Haylye Plaster, OH Predictive Insights, h.plaster@ohpredictive.com, (602) 687-3034
About OH Predictive Insights:
Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights provides accurate polling, focus groups, data analytics, and advanced targeted marketing to political and non-political clients alike. With leading professionals in the advertising, communication, polling and political arenas, OH Predictive Insights will service political and non-political clients looking to improve their footing on key stakeholders and consumers. For more information, please call 602-362-5694 or submit a request online.
About the Author: Larry Bodine
Larry Bodine is the President of Democrats of Greater Tucson, and a PC in Legislative District 9.
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PANIC! AT THE DISCO ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM!
Produced by Jake Sinclair (Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy), DEATH OF A BACHELOR marks the first release from Panic! At The Disco in nearly two years, following 2013's acclaimed TOO WEIRD TO LIVE, TOO RARE TO DIE!. The album has already generated significant steam – current single "Victorious" rocketed to #1 on iTunes Top Songs chart, # 1 on Billboard + Twitter's Trending 140 chart, while also trending worldwide on Tumblr and Twitter. The track is currently soundtracking postseason baseball coverage on the MLB Network and will also be featured in the trailer for 2K Sports' hugely anticipated "WWE 2K16" video game, set to debut Sunday, Oct. 25 during WWE Network's Hell In A Cell event and then air across all WWE programming including USA Network's WWE Raw and Syfy's WWE Smackdown.
DEATH OF A BACHELOR is the follow up album to TOO WEIRD TO LIVE, TOO RARE TO DIE! which made a top 2 debut on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 upon its 2013 release. The album was fuelled by the RIAA gold certified single, "Miss Jackson (Feat. Lolo)," and quickly proved a top 10 favourite at Modern Rock radio outlets nationwide. In addition, the song's companion video – featuring actress Katrina Bowden (30 Rock) – scored major rotation at MTV2, mtvU, FUSE, and Logo's "NewNowNext," while earning close to 25 million views.
Released in 2005, Panic! At The Disco's double platinum-certified debut, A FEVER YOU CAN'T SWEAT OUT remains one of the biggest selling debuts in Fueled By Ramen history. Singles like the 2x-platinum smash, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies," earned the band international acclamation and a fervent fan following around the globe, also receiving a number of major honours including multiple Grammy® nominations and the prestigious MTV Video Music Awards "Video of the Year" prize for the "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" video.
In addition to the new album, Panic! released a stunning new video for "Emperor's New Clothes" directed by award-winning filmmaker/choreographer Daniel "Cloud" Campos, watch it below!
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Israeli forces put up a CCTV observation tower in the Ibrahimi mosque area, further increasing not only their all-encompassing surveillance of Palestinians, but also their slow but steady illegal annexation of more and more Palestinian land in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron).
At the end of last week, Israeli forces in a 'secret' over-night action put up the observation tower, surrounded by dozens of cement blocks and barbed-wire. Located in a corner between Palestinian houses, the observation post with a container and all the surrounding paraphernalia is just another step in the illegal annexation of yet more land. In recent weeks, Israeli forces have increased their illegal annexations of the tiny strip of Shuhada Street still accessible to Palestinian pedestrians and stepped up the game of creating a coercive environment directly leading to forced displacement of Palestinians in the Tel Rumeida area.
This observation tower is fitted with a camera that reaches high above the houses in the neighborhood, thus watching Palestinians constantly. This feeling of permanently being watched for Palestinians is combined with the ever present controls and humiliations at the more-and-more militarized checkpoints. Palestinians are watched, humiliated, numbered, deprived of their most basic human rights – occupied not only physically by the Israeli occupation forces, but also mentally. They can never tell whether they'll be allowed through a checkpoint (something that solely depends on the respective soldiers whim), whether their children will be tear-gassed on their way to school or arrested, or even whether they'll be gunned down by Israeli forces at a checkpoint and left to bleed to death. Any and all of these forms of collective punishment are enforced by the Israeli occupying forces on the entire population of civilians in complete disregard of any care for international law or humane treatment of the occupied indigenous Palestinian population.
The Tel Rumeida neighborhood, Shuhada Street, and the area around the Ibrahimi Mosque are already linked by a settler-only street that has been ethnically cleansed of Palestinians in the aftermath of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre. Restrictions in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood (declared a 'closed military zone' solely enforced on Palestinian residents for almost a year now) and around the Ibrahimi Mosque (where Palestinians are often prevented from passing checkpoints on a age-limit between 15-30) have escalated in a very short amount of time, making life for the Palstinians as hard – or rather impossible – as possible, leaving them with no choice than to leave. The only and clear aim is the forcible transfer of all Palestinians in this area, thus geographically linking the illegal settlements in an area ethnically cleansed of any Palestinian presence.


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William H. Beaver
Faculty & Research › Faculty › William H. Beaver
Professor Emeritus, Accounting
WilliamH.Beaver
The Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Emeritus
William H. Beaver is widely recognized for his innovative research on how accounting information in corporate financial statements affects security prices. He was among the first to investigate financial ratios as predictors of business failure. His recent work has centered on public policy issues connected with government regulation of corporate financial disclosure.
MBA and PhD, University of Chicago, 1965
BBA, University of Notre Dame, 1962
CPA, 1969 (Illinois)
At Stanford University since 1969
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 1965-69
Teaching Excellence Award, Stanford Graduate School of Business, PhD Student Program, 2004
Teaching Excellence Award, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Sloan Student Program, 1999
AAA Outstanding Educator Award, American Accounting Association, 1990
Wildman Award for Outstanding Research, American Accounting Association, 1985
Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA Students, 1985
Group Affiliation and Default Prediction
William H. Beaver, Stefano Cascino, Maria Correia, Maureen McNichols. Management Science. May 8, 2019, Vol. 65, Issue 8, Pages 3559-3584.
The Information Content of Earnings Announcements: New Insights from Intertemporal and Cross-Sectional Behavior
William H. Beaver, Maureen McNichols, Zach Z. Wang. Review of Accounting Studies. March 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 1, Pages 95-135.
The Effects of Credit Default Swap Trading on Information Asymmetry in Syndicated Loans
Dan Amiram, William H. Beaver, Wayne R. Landsman, Jianxin Zhao. Journal of Financial Economics. November 2017, Vol. 126, Issue 2, Pages 364-382.
The Costs and Benefits of Long-Short Investing: A Perspective on the Market Efficiency Literature
William H. Beaver, Maureen McNichols, Richard Price. Journal of Accounting Literature. December 2016, Vol. 37, Pages 1-18.
Financial Statement Analysis and the Prediction of Financial Distress
William H. Beaver, Maria Correia, Maureen McNichols. Foundations and Trends in Accounting . January 2011, Vol. 5, Issue 2, Pages 99-173.
An Alternative Interpretation for the Discontinuity in Earnings Distributions
William H. Beaver, Maureen McNichols, Karen K. Nelson. Review of Accounting Studies. 2007, Vol. 12, Issue 4, Pages 525-556.
Delisting Returns and their Effect on Accounting-Based Market Anomalies
William H. Beaver, Maureen McNichols, Richard Price. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 2007, Vol. 43, Issue 2–3, Pages 341-368.
Accruals, Accounting-Based Valuation Models and the Prediction of Equity Values
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, John R.M. Hand, Wayne R. Landsman. Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. October 2005, Vol. 20, Issue 4, Pages 311-345.
Have Financial Statements Become Less Informative: Evidence From the Ability of Financial Ratios to Predict Bankruptcy
William H. Beaver, Maureen McNichols, Jung-Wu Rhie. Review of Accounting Studies. March 2005, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Pages 93-122.
Management of the Loss Reserve Accrual and the Distribution of Earnings in the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry
William H. Beaver, Maureen McNichols, Karen K. Nelson. Journal of Accounting and Economics. August 2003, Vol. 35, Issue 3, Pages 347–376.
Do Stock Prices of Property Casualty Insurers Fully Reflect Information about Earnings, Accruals, Cash Flows, and Development?
William H. Beaver, Maureen McNichols. Review of Accounting Studies. June 2001, Vol. 6, Issue 2-3, Pages 197-220.
The Relevance of the Value Relevance Literature for Financial Accounting Standard Setting: Another View
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, Wayne R. Landsman. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 2001, Vol. 31, Issue 1–3, Pages 77–104.
Biases and Lags in Book Value and Their Effects on the Ability of the Book-to-Market Ratio to Predict Book Return on Equity
William H. Beaver, Stephen G. Ryan. Journal of Accounting Research. 2000, Vol. 38, Issue 1, Pages 127-148.
Accruals, Cash Flows, and Equity Values
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, John R.M. Hand, Wayne R. Landsman. Review of Accounting Studies. December 1999, Vol. 4, Issue 3-4, Pages 205-229.
The Characteristics and Valuation of Loss Reserves of Property Casualty Insurers
William H. Beaver, Maureen McNichols. Review of Accounting Studies. March 1998, Vol. 3, Issue 1-2, Pages 73-95.
Relative Valuation Roles of Equity Book Value and Net Income as a Function of Financial Health
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, Wayne R. Landsman. Journal of Accounting and Economics. February 26, 1998, Vol. 25, Issue 1, Pages 1-34.
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, Wayne R. Landsman. Journal of Accounting and Economics. February 1998, Vol. 25, Issue 1, Pages 1–34.
Value-Relevance of Banks' Fair Value Disclosures under SFAS 107
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, Wayne R. Landsman. The Accounting Review. October 1996, Vol. 71, Issue 4, Pages 513-537.
Structural Analysis of Pension Disclosures Under SFAS 87 and Their Relation to Share Prices
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, Wayne R. Landsman. Financial Analysts Journal. January 1993, Vol. 49, Issue 1, Pages 18-26.
The Market Value Implications of Net Periodic Pension Cost Components
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, Wayne R. Landsman. Journal of Accounting and Economics. March 1992, Vol. 15, Issue 1, Pages 27–62.
Components of Bank Earnings and the Structure of Bank Share Prices
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, Mark A. Wolfson. Financial Analysts Journal. 1990, Vol. 46, Issue 3, Pages 53-60.
Financial Reporting, Supplemental Disclosures, and Bank Share Prices
William H. Beaver, Carol Eger, Stephen Ryan, Mark A. Wolfson. Journal of Accounting Research. 1989, Vol. 27, Issue 2, Pages 157-178.
The Nature of Income Measurement
William H. Beaver, Joel S. Demski. Accounting Review. 1979, Vol. 54, Issue 1, Pages 38-46.
Financial Ratios as Predictors of Failure
William H. Beaver. Journal of Accounting Research. 1966, Vol. 4, Issue Empirical Research in Accounting: Selected Studies, Pages 71-111.
Increased Information Content of Earnings Announcements in the 21st Century: An Empirical Investigation | PDF
Maureen McNichols, William H. Beaver, Zach Zhiguang Wang, November 92017
A Re-examination of the Informational Role of Earnings Announcements
Maureen McNichols, William H. Beaver, Zach Wang, April 2017
Bankruptcy in Groups | PDF
William H. Beaver, Stefano Cascino, Maria Correia, Maureen McNichols, December 2016
The Information Content of Earnings Announcements: New Insights from Intertemporal and Cross-Sectional Behavior | PDF
William H. Beaver, Maureen McNichols, Zach Z. Wang, March 142015
Differential Properties in the Ratings of Certified vs. Non-Certified Bond Rating Agencies
William H. Beaver, Catherine Shakespeare, Mark T. Soliman, June 2006
Do Firms Issuing Equity Manage their Earnings? Evidence from the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry | PDF
Maureen McNichols, Karen Nelson, William H. Beaver2000
William H. Beaver, Karen Nelson, Maureen McNichols2000
Differential Pricing of the Discretionary and Nondiscretionary Components of Loan Fair Values | PDF
William H. Beaver, Mohan Venkatachalam1998
Mary E. Barth, William H. Beaver, Wayne Landsman1998
Maureen McNichols, William H. Beaver1998
Value-Relevance of Banks' Fair Value Disclosures under SFAS 107
The Association Between Unsystematic Security Returns and the Magnitude of Earnings Forecast Errors
William H. Beaver, William Wright, Roger Clarke1978
Journal of Accounting Research
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Review of Accounting Studies, 1969-present
President, American Accounting Association, 1979-1981
Member, American Accounting Association, 1969-present
Member, American Institute of CPAs, 1969-present
Member, SEC Advisory Committee on Corporate Disclosure Policy, 1969-present
writtenAre Earnings Reports Obsolete?
It's easier than ever to find up-to-the-minute data on companies. So why are investors in love with old-fashioned financial statements?
writtenBeware: Corporate Financial Statements Decline in Predictive Value
New research explores the value of financial and market data to ascertaining the likelihood of bankruptcy.
writtenWhy You Shouldn't Discount Financial Statements
New research shows that financial ratios are still quite effective at predicting bankruptcy.
writtenResearch: The Bond-Rating System Isn't Broken
Certified agencies may "miss" based on short-term news, but they still serve their purpose for large institutional investors.
writtenProfessors Beaver, Soliman, DeMarzo Honored by Students
Faculty were honored, respectively, by the PhD Student Association, MBA students, and students in the Sloan Masters Program.


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Q: tastypie :raw queries returning result with extra brackets I'm trying to use tastypie to get raw sql result. I have followed the answer in this post. The idea is to put the raw sql in dehydrate function and return the queryset. But the result I got is like this:
{"meta": {"limit": 20, "next": null, "offset": 0, "previous": null, "total_count": 1}, "objects": [[["123", "name1"], ["124", "name2"]]]}

So I wonder how I can remove the extra square bracket in 'objects' and simply the result to look like this:
{"meta": {"limit": 20, "next": null, "offset": 0, "previous": null, "total_count": 1}, "objects": [["123", "name1"], ["124", "name2"]]}

Many thanks!

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Q: Faster Upload large scale excel(xlx and xlsx) file into mysql using php and spout Hope everyone is fine. I am facing a problem while upload a large excel file. The file contain 150+k  rows. When i run the php script, after a while it stops execution and cann't upload the data . i used the below code for uploading.
require_once('vendor/excel_reader2.php');
require_once('vendor/SpreadsheetReader.php');

if (isset($_POST["import"]))
{
    ini_set('max_execution_time',0);
    $allowedFileType = ['application/vnd.ms-excel','text/xls','text/xlsx','application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet'];
    if(in_array($_FILES["file"]["type"],$allowedFileType)){

        $targetPath = 'uploads/'.$_FILES['file']['name'];
        move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $targetPath);

        $Reader = new SpreadsheetReader($targetPath);

        $sheetCount = count($Reader->sheets());
        for($i=0;$i<$sheetCount;$i++)
        {

            $Reader->ChangeSheet($i);

            foreach ($Reader as $Row)
            {
                $data[]=$Row;
                //insert from here
            }

         }

         //echo implode(',',$data);
         echo $data[1][0];
         echo "<pre>"; print_r($data); echo "</pre>";

  }
  else
  {
        $type = "error";
        $message = "Invalid File Type. Upload Excel File.";
  }

}

A: Inserting one row at a time is slow.  Save them in an array and after your loops, go through the array taking say a 100 at a time and insert those with a single insert statement.


Most of Symbian^3 users should celebrate right now as Nokia did announced that Symbian Anna will be made available for update on July. August and will be shipping on July for preinstalled first gen Symbian^3 devices. So this is really a big big blow out that Nokia could offer to its customers who've bought Nokia E7, N8, C7 and C6-01.


Have you ever had friends you thought would always be there for you? Maybe family? Coworkers? Comrades of some sort? When you needed them most, they did not have time for you or blatantly excommunicated you from their inner circle?
This was the story of Jesus – "He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him" (John 1:11 NKJV). We love the fact that we will live with Him, but Scripture says that we are "crucified with Christ" (Galatians 2:20). We should be extremely grateful when we have those we can depend on and would die for us. However, we should not think we are exempt from betrayal and all that may go with it.
I have experienced betrayal in my life. Because of that, I cherish every good friendship I have. I also realize that people are people and can easily turn on me. Don't be surprised by those who call themselves friends who are only using you, but don't forget about the faithful people in your life! Most importantly, don't forget about your faithful Father in Heaven who promised that He will never leave nor forsake you! If everyone else does forsake you, you will find that God is all you need.
← Is a small world always a good thing?
So true. He is all we need and what's great for us is when we seek Him first all else is given unto us because of His grace and He is a God of restoration. Great post.
Actually, this post makes me think of how I've turned my back on a friend and on family members. Ouch, what was I thinking? Apparently nothing. Only about myself. My husband used to get so frustrated at other drivers (he's perfect ya know). He's started saying it's the Selfie generation. That's us, all about ourselves!


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Masterpiece is Fiona's second full length studio album. The title track explores Ephesians 2:10, and echoes the timeless C.S. Lewis quote "We are, not metaphorically, but in very truth, a divine work of art". Fiona continues to develop her craft as a songwriter for the contemporary church with many of the songs from the album being birthed in the live spontaneous worship at her home church, Edinburgh Elim. Fiona continues to write alongside her Elim Sound family with Suzanne Hanna and Sam Blake credited as co-writers on this release. In tracks such as "Father Heart", "Citizen of Heaven" and "Masterpiece" Fiona finds herself neatly in that space between modern worship vocalist and singer-songwriter. "Father Heart" was a souvenir from a recent holiday in Nashville where Fiona paired up with fellow singer-songwriter Shelly Moore to pen a moving exploration of the prodigal son story.
For the first time ever Fiona has included a cover version in a release. Samuel Lane's "All my love" was recorded as a live video shoot alongside two other tracks. "I wanted this album to feel natural. I wanted it to reflect how I make music week in week out in a live band setting. We recorded 'in the round' for the live tracks but we also tracked as a band for the studio songs. It was so much more creative that way".
Citizen of Heaven 4:32
Whole Life Praise -Live video Version 4:57
All My Love - Live Video Version 6:23
Be Moved- Live Video Version 4:49
Father Heart (Feat. Daniel Robinson) 4:48
Masterpiece 5:39
Sidelines 4:37
This King 3:54
At Your Feet (One Thing) 5:36
Be Still 4:35
Made to Love
"'Made to Love' is a dream come true. A dream that has been on my heart for over 10 years. These songs are testimonies of my journey with the Lord. They are like photographs. When I sing them, I get taken back to the moment when he revealed something of his character to me and I felt compelled to capture that moment in song. So 'Made to Love' is my sonic photograph album that I want to share with you. My prayer is that these songs inspire you to make your own history with Him."
All I'll Ever Want 3:19
I Will Look To You 4:25
Your Presence 5:27
Bring Me To Life 4:08
Made to Love 5:30
Speak 4:00
Close to You 4:01
I Long To Live For You 4:21
To Know You 5:46
The Sound of Joy 4:18


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