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Subject: Twitter Stock IPO: Five Reasons It Won't Be Like Facebook's
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Twitter Stock IPO: Five Reasons It Won't Be Like Facebook's
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler • October 3, 2013
With the Twitter stock IPO now official as of today (Thursday), the inevitable comparisons to Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) and its disastrous IPO no doubt will accelerate.
According to the SEC filing, Twitter will trade under the symbol TWTR, though no exchange, pricing, or share information was listed.
But the Twitter stock IPO - which is on track to start trading sometime late this month or in early November - does not figure to have a lot in common with the Facebook IPO other than that both are social media stocks.
In fact, many experts blame the rocky Facebook stock offering and its months of subpar performance for the delay in the Twitter stock IPO.
Facebook quickly fell below its offer price of $38, eventually sliding as low as $18 until starting to climb back up. In August of this year - 15 months after the IPO - Facebook finally surpassed its offer price.
And then there was the trouble on the day of the IPO, when technical glitches delayed trading of the shares for two hours.
But in recent months, Facebook's strong recovery - it's currently trading at about $50 and could go much higher if its mobile ad revenue continues to increase - seems to have cured the hangover that had put other social media stock IPOs on ice.
In fact, many social media stocks have had a very strong 2013, making the atmosphere for a Twitter stock IPO just about ideal.
In addition to Facebook (up 89% year to date), LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) is up 119% this year, Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) is up 278%, Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) is up 194%, and even oft-criticized Groupon Inc. (Nasdaq: GRPN) is up 142%.
But like Facebook, nearly every social media stock has proven to be volatile, with most spending long periods below their IPO price.
Clearly, mistakes have been made when it comes to social media IPOs.
"Certainly the crew at Twitter has had ample opportunity to study recent history and draw whatever lessons they can from it," Kevin Landis, whose Firsthand Technology Value Fund has a substantial stake in the San Francisco social media company, told the Los Angeles Times.
Here are five reasons the Twitter stock IPO will not suffer the same fate as Facebook's...
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David Zeiler, Associate Editor for Money Morning at Money Map Press, has been a journalist for more than 35 years, including 18 spent at The Baltimore Sun. He has worked as a writer, editor, and page designer at different times in his career. He's interviewed a number of well-known personalities - ranging from punk rock icon Joey Ramone to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Over the course of his journalistic career, Dave has covered many diverse subjects. Since arriving at Money Morning in 2011, he has focused primarily on technology. He's an expert on both Apple and cryptocurrencies. He started writing about Apple for The Sun in the mid-1990s, and had an Apple blog on The Sun's web site from 2007-2009. Dave's been writing about Bitcoin since 2011 - long before most people had even heard of it. He even mined it for a short time.
Dave has a BA in English and Mass Communications from Loyola University Maryland.


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Q: How does rounding affect subsequent calculations? When we are doing calculations in mathematics, we often express exact values, like $\sqrt 2$ or $\arctan (1)$, as decimals and round these to a finite number of decimal places/significant figures before using these approximations in subsequent calculations. We might also round off a very long but finite decimal and use it in subsequent calculations. My question is, what is the minimum number of decimal places/significant figures which all of my intermediate values must be rounded to if I want my final answer to be accurate to a particular number of decimal places/significant figures?
Example:
I'm doing a $\chi^2$ test. I want to find $\chi^2$ exact to $1$ decimal place. The exact $\chi^2$ contributions are: $(0.56,0.32,1.76,1.99,0.72,0.88)$. If I sum these, the exact value of $\chi^2$ is $6.23$, which becomes $6.2$ rounded to $1$ decimal place. Now if I round the contributions to $1$ decimal place, so they become $(0.6,0.3,1.8,2.0,0.7,0.9)$, before I sum them, I get the sum to be $6.3$, which is not accurate to $1$ decimal place, as we have shown it should be $6.2$.
How can I be sure that my intermediate values are rounded with enough remaining decimal places/significant figures that my final answer is accurate to a desired number of decimal places/significant figures? Not just for this particular example, but for a general calculation.

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Title: CONTRIBUTION OF POSTMORTEM PROTEOLYSIS AND SARCOMERE LENGTH TO VARIATION IN BEEF GLUTEUS MEDIUS AND TRICEPS BRACHII TENDERNESS
Koohmaraie, Mohammad
Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Citation: King, D.A., Wheeler, T.L., Shackelford, S.D., Koohmaraie, M. 2006. Contribution of postmortem proteolysis and sarcomere length to variation in beef gluteus medius and triceps brachii tenderness. Meeting Abstract. Proc. 59th Reciprocal Meat Conference, June 18-21, 2006, Champaign-Urbana, IL. Available: http://www.meatscience.org/pubs/rmcarchv/2006/presentations/RMC06_Abstracts.pdf
Technical Abstract: The objective of this experiment was to determine 1) the effects of quality grade and postmortem aging time on tenderness of gluteus medius and triceps brachii steaks, and 2) the contribution of postmortem proteolysis and sarcomere length to variation in tenderness of gluteus medius and triceps brachii steaks. Top sirloin butts (n = 100) and shoulder clods (n = 100) were obtained from US Choice and Select carcasses in a commercial processing facility and aged for either 14 or 42 d. Subprimals were assigned to treatments in a completely randomized 2 (quality grade) × 2 (aging time) arrangement. After aging, steaks (2.54 cm) were cut from each subprimal and cooked to an internal temperature of 70°C before slice shear force values were determined. The two halves of the sheared slices were frozen and later sampled for sarcomere length measurements and Western blotting of desmin, which were conducted on a sub-sample (n = 60) of each muscle. Select gluteus medius steaks had lower (P < 0.05) slice shear force values than Choice gluteus medius steaks (17.6 and 18.3 kg, respectively). Gluteus medius steaks aged for 42 d had lower (P < 0.05) slice shear force values than those aged for 14 d (16.59 and 19.29 kg, respectively). At 14 d postmortem, desmin degradation in gluteus medius steaks was similar (P > 0.05) between quality grades (37.9 and 43.5% for US Select and Choice, respectively), but increased (P < 0.05) with postmortem storage and was greater (P < 0.05) in US Select gluteus medius steaks (71.6%) than in US Choice (58.4%) steaks after 42 d. Sarcomere length of gluteus medius steaks was not affected (P > 0.05) by USDA quality grade or postmortem aging. The Pearson correlation coefficient between slice shear force and desmin degradation in gluteus medius steaks was -0.31 (P = 0.02). A stronger, negative correlation (r = 0.61; P = < 0.001) was observed between slice shear force and sarcomere length in the gluteus medius. Slice shear force was not affected (P > 0.05) by quality grade in the triceps brachii (13.3 and 13.4 kg for Choice and Select, respectively). Postmortem aging reduced (P < 0.05) slice shear force values in the triceps brachii (14.2 and 12.5 at 14 and 42 d, respectively). At 14 d postmortem, US Select triceps brachii steaks had less (P < 0.05) desmin degraded than did steaks from Choice carcasses (22.1 versus 39.4%). However, after 42 d of postmortem aging, desmin degradation had increased in cuts from both quality grades and was similar (P > 0.05) between US Choice and Select triceps brachii steaks (67.8 and 72.0%, respectively). Sarcomere length was not affected by quality grade or postmortem aging in triceps brachii steaks. Desmin degradation in triceps brachii steaks was moderately negatively correlated (r = -0.36; P = < 0.01) to slice shear force, while a lower, negative correlation (r = 0.22; P = 0.09) was detected between sarcomere length and slice shear force. These data indicate that proteolysis contributes to variation in tenderness of gluteus medius and triceps brachii steaks, while sarcomere length contributes to variation in tenderness of gluteus medius steaks.

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So they look through the window, and they see Allen Ludden, giving the first word to Jack Klugman and Brett Somers. The word is "caterpillar".
Brett chooses to pass, so the first turn goes to Jack and some housewife from Indiana. Jack says "moth," but Indiana can't figure it out, so they lose their turn, and it goes to Brett and some housewife from Kentucky. Brett tries "butterfly," but Kentucky's at a loss.
They punt back to Jack, who says "crawl", and the light dawns on Indiana. "Caterpillar!" she cries, and she gets eight points.
This is what will happen to them. It's called Password.
We live in unsettled times, here in mid-August 1970. The publicity tour for House of Dark Shadows is about to crank into gear, in advance of the late-August premiere in the southeast and the early-September nationwide release. We're going to lose some main actors next week, including Barnabas, as the Dark Shadows movie finds yet another way to do what it does best: destroy the Dark Shadows TV show. It's no wonder everybody's stressed out about the future; the current outlook is trending pretty bleak.
But you can't look to the night sky for an answer to everything; that's not what it's for. The stars and planets aren't there just for you. They've got their own orbits, their own desires and dramas. They have no time to worry about what patterns they make when viewed from Earth, which to them is just another random rock in the inky void. The stars that make Orion's belt have nothing to do with each other; they're hundreds of light years apart, and they're not even friends on Facebook.
All those sparks in the heavens aren't going to coordinate with each other just to let you know that you should avoid the color green, and move toward people with positive energy. Are you kidding me? They're stars. They couldn't care less.
But I know that's disappointing to hear, so I'm going to let you in on the only real way to divine the future: your Dark Shadows horoscope. A couple weeks ago, I invited commenters to post their birthdates in the comments, so that I can reveal the truth: your personality and future are determined by the Dark Shadows episodes that aired on your birthday. Here, I'll show you what I mean.
Soap opera is a hungry beast. It chews through stories, as fast as you can write them. It eats ideas and feelings and relationships — stripping them down to the bone, and beyond. Creators retire and actors die, fashions change, networks rise and fall. And the soap opera keeps going, driven by its remorseless hunger for more story. You can cancel it, but it will be replaced by another, just as ravenous. Soap opera can not be stopped.
In its day, Dark Shadows was the hungriest of all, chewing up stories and characters and whole generations, every few months. And that's why it stopped, in the end. The writing team stuffed the beast with tears and wit and English lit for all of 1969, but found their cellar depleted within a year.
Here on the blog, we've just reached the Leviathan story, an ambitious tale for a washboard weeper, and one of the first signs of trouble. The show will go on, for another sixteen months or so, but we're already starting to line up suspects for the Who Killed Dark Shadows murder mystery dinner theater. As we go along, we'll uncover a lot of different explanations for why the show eventually got itself cancelled, but the most important one is the simplest — they just ran out of stories to tell.
Dark Shadows flourished because they thought outside the box, busting out of the normal confines of a 1960s daytime soap, because it was fun and they didn't know any better. They built themselves a new box — a mystery box, stranger and more exciting than anyone else's — and they spent a few years exploring all its dark corners and secret passageways. But once they'd investigated the contours of that space, it turned into a familiar toy box, with a particular set of tropes and a limited set of characters. After a while, there just weren't any new stories left to tell.
So that puts Big Finish in something of an awkward situation, because they've spent the last ten years making more than 60 new Dark Shadows audio dramas, continuing and expanding on a franchise that ran out of juice four decades ago. If the original creators couldn't think of anything new to do with this story, then what hope does anybody else have?
So that's where we find ourselves, halfway through this special feature on the 1971 Dark Shadows comic strip — on the knife edge of a story untelling itself. Starting just a few weeks before the television show jumped into a gypsy caravan and drove off into the night, the daily comic strip stayed behind, performing a dark ritual of — well, what's the opposite of summoning? Cause that's what the comic strip is doing.
Distilled down to three characters and a house, the Dark Shadows comic strip was the remains of a party, after most of the guests have gone home. Gee, look at the time, they all said, glancing at the calendar. See you all next week, on Ryan's Hope. Then they were gone, chased off by the dreadful chimes of the church bell tolling April Third, April Third.
Now, only Barnabas is left, accompanied by the pale shadows of Elizabeth and Carolyn, performing his dark ritual of dispersing.
Now, I know that Quentin Collins is at a particularly thrilling crisis point right now — forced to wear jewelry that he doesn't particularly care for — but I'm afraid we're going to have to put his problems on hold for a minute, because I've got problems of my own. I'm leaving the country for a conference, and I won't have time to write regular episode posts for the next two weeks. But I can't just jump forward into the future and leave the rest of you behind, at the mercy of gypsies.
So I've come up with another crackpot idea for what to do over these two weeks, namely: write about the Dark Shadows comic strip, which ran for one year, starting in March 1971. These will probably take me longer to write than the regular posts would have, but I wanted a chance to cover the comic strip anyway, and you only live once, probably.


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package org.apache.geode.redis.internal.commands.executor.sortedset;

import static org.apache.geode.redis.internal.RedisConstants.ERROR_NOT_A_VALID_FLOAT;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.geode.cache.Region;
import org.apache.geode.redis.internal.commands.Command;
import org.apache.geode.redis.internal.commands.executor.CommandExecutor;
import org.apache.geode.redis.internal.commands.executor.RedisResponse;
import org.apache.geode.redis.internal.data.RedisData;
import org.apache.geode.redis.internal.data.RedisKey;
import org.apache.geode.redis.internal.netty.Coder;
import org.apache.geode.redis.internal.netty.ExecutionHandlerContext;

public class ZIncrByExecutor implements CommandExecutor {
  @Override
  public RedisResponse executeCommand(Command command, ExecutionHandlerContext context) {
    List<byte[]> commandElements = command.getProcessedCommand();
    Region<RedisKey, RedisData> region = context.getRegion();
    RedisKey key = command.getKey();

    double increment;
    try {
      increment = Coder.bytesToDouble(commandElements.get(2));
    } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
      return RedisResponse.error(ERROR_NOT_A_VALID_FLOAT);
    }
    byte[] member = commandElements.get(3);

    byte[] retVal = context.sortedSetLockedExecute(key, false,
        zset -> zset.zincrby(region, key, increment, member));

    return RedisResponse.bulkString(retVal);
  }
}

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Mathematician Luca Pacioli (circa 1445-1517) was one of the leading lights of Renaissance humanism, seamlessly moving between the realms of the secular and the spiritual. Today he is considered the father of modern accounting for his book Summa de Arithmetica, which, as our short film explains, contains the first printed description of double-entry bookkeeping and marks the birth of modern business.
Published in 1494, such a book is rarely seen at auction and on 12 June, Christie's in New York will be offering a first edition of the Summa with an estimated value of up to $1.5 million.
A Franciscan friar and a humanist with a passion for art, Pacioli is described by Margaret Ford, Christie's International Head of Books and Manuscripts, as 'the ultimate Renaissance man'. As well as recovering mathematical texts that had largely been forgotten, he was well versed in art, architecture, business and astronomy, which, says the specialist, 'made him an ideal friend for the painter Leonardo da Vinci, with whom he lived and worked for a time'. Leonardo's masterpiece, The Last Supper, was completed at the height of his friendship and collaboration with Pacioli.
Born in the town of Borgo San Sepolcro in Tuscany in about 1445, Pacioli was fortunate, as Giorgio Vasari confirms in Lives of the Artists, to meet two indomitable Renaissance men in his youth. The first was the inscrutable painter and mathematician Piero della Francesca (1416-1492), who included his protégé in several of his paintings. The second was the lively polymath Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72), with whom Pacioli lived in Rome.
From these men, Pacioli learned the values of Renaissance humanism. Alberti, in particular, believed in the importance of mathematics as a key to understanding the arts and science. For the young Pacioli, who had shown prodigious talent for the subject, it secured him a position as a tutor to the sons of a merchant family in Venice, the trading centre of the world.
'It was here that he met tradesmen from the Middle East and Africa and studied the different methods of commerce,' says Ford. Pacioli discovered there were three things necessary to good business: capital (cash and credit), accurate bookkeeping and good inventory control.
It was also in Venice that he rediscovered the writings of earlier scholars, in particular Fibonacci (1170-1250), who had been largely forgotten. Fibonacci was the Italian mathematician who had helped to introduce the Hindu-Arabic number system to Europe, and whose ideas continue to have an impact through the sequence that bears his name.
Essentially 'a how-to of accountancy', Summa explains double-entry bookkeeping, which is fundamental to any tradesman. Not only that, but it introduced the symbols for plus and minus as well as offering advice on the ethics of business. In one entry Pacioli exhorts his reader to 'learn from the wise and teach the ignorant yourself, that is, don't learn from ignoramuses who have more leaves than grapes'.
Leonardo was so impressed with the Summa that he persuaded his patron, Lodovico Sforza, to invite Pacioli to teach mathematics at the court of Milan. Leonardo and Pacioli studied perspective together, and later collaborated on a book called Divine Proportion.
In 1499 their work was jeopardised when the French invaded and ransacked Milan. Sforza escaped to Germany. Leonardo and Pacioli also fled, eventually reaching Florence in 1500.
A portrait of Pacioli painted by Jacopo de' Barbari (circa 1460-1516) at this time reveals little of this trauma. It depicts the mathematician as a man of science, his hand resting on the now famous Summa while he draws a geometric figure with the other, demonstrating a theorem by Euclid. The rhombicuboctahedron, half-filled with water and hanging from a string, is rumoured to have been inserted by Leonardo. The man standing behind him is possibly his patron, the Duke of Montefeltro.
The mathematician eventually returned to his native Santo Sepolcro, where he died in 1517.


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The Daughters of Foxcote Manor
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Narrated by: Katherine Press
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The international best seller
"A captivating mystery: beautifully written, with a rich sense of place, a cast of memorable characters, and lots of deep, dark secrets." (Kate Morton, New York Times best-selling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter)
"Extraordinary.... Absolutely her best yet." (Lisa Jewell, New York Times best-selling author of The Family Upstairs)
Three generations. Three daughters. One house of secrets.
The truth can shatter everything....
When the Harrington family discovers an abandoned baby deep in the woods, they decide to keep her a secret and raise her as their own.
But within days a body is found in the grounds of their house and their perfect new family implodes.
Years later, Sylvie, seeking answers to nagging questions about her life, is drawn into the wild beautiful woods where nothing is quite what it seems.
Will she unearth the truth?
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(Published in the UK as The Glass House)
"The Daughters of Foxcote Manor is not really about a murder, or a creepy house, but about families - the ones we're born into, the ones we make and especially the ones we flee." (The New York Times)
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"Exploring family dynamics by using alternating timelines, Chase captivates readers, especially fans of Kate Morton, with eloquent prose and sympathetic characters." (Booklist)
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What listeners say about The Daughters of Foxcote Manor
I found it really hard to follow - great narration but I think it could have benefitted from two narrators
I have listened to all of Eve Chase's books and love them, but I just found this so confusing. I was confused by the characters and I know the narrator announced "Now" for the present day, I think "1971" would have been good for that story line. Some parts made sense at some points of the book (a little bit like Chapter 38 - where a cupboard door is opened and everything comes tumbling out) and it fell into place at the end, but, honestly, most of it I just found myself drifting off and listening to the narrator. I don't know whether to listen to it again.
I'm disappointed mainly because the previous books were fantastic and the author was faultless. Maybe I will listen again, but I recommend people read the plot before listening so they can process the story a bit better. I am sorry for the negative review.
Marie Case
Boring story, monotone narration
I gave it 18 chapters and was not intrigued enough to hang in there. Perhaps the narration was to blame. It was monotone with very little inflection and difficult to distinguish between the characters speaking and the narration.
Sodergreen
loved this story
Mystery, love and renewal! keeps you guessing right to the end.
a story of undying mothetly love.
Coincidence and Connections
What a story! How does a writer come up with ideas like this long tale? I am impressed by the imagination.
The beginning took time to develop and I almost wanted to stop listening, but then . . .
I couldn't stop listening.
Excellent narration too.
Patricia Nieves
Interesting story with twists and turns
In the beginning, it was a little hard to follow with all the different characters involved.
But as time went on , I began to understand each of the characters and started to really enjoy this book. It dealt with many contemporary issues and how they were resolved.
I look forward to listening to more books by this author.
Sweetly predictable
Sweet story but very predictable. Nothing new here. The performance was fine but had several cringeworthy mispronunciations. Good book for anyone looking for a nice, simple story that's easy to follow.
Really enjoyed the story very well written
Loved the way the author brought it all together at the end
Sherri L. Smith
this is a wonderful story filled with twists, turns, intrigue and heart!!! I highly recommend it!!!
A bit difficult to follow
The narrator should have stated the title with each chapter (which named the girl and time), because if you didn't look, it was hard to tell who was talking. There were so many female characters, that sometimes I had to check the chapter name. If I had read it on paper, it would have been clearer. Still, I think it was a bit cumbersome and perhaps too many narrative voices. It was a good story, but just harder to follow than I'd like and I didn't love it as much as other books I've read or listened to recently.
A beautiful and skillfully woven story, full of both lovely and despicable characters. Very enjoyable listen


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Many people are using biohacking supplements to boost their health to new levels. But are the benefits of taking these supplements worth it?
There are many products being introduced into the market that offer enhanced brain function and more energy and vitality. But biohacking the body can be achieved externally with supplements and internally by regulating body functions.
For example, employees in Silicon Valley have taken to fasting to boost their productivity.
Some people experiencing poor health have seen improvement in their levels of vitality and performance using supplements that enhance function and performance.
Check out the information below to learn if biohacking supplements are a good choice for you.
Before we talk about supplementation, it's important to start with the foundation for good health.
Maintaining good health requires making choices about lifestyle and diet to optimize how your body functions. It all begins with good nutrition.
Essential nutrients include good fats, carbs, proteins, and micronutrients like vitamins and minerals. Supplements can support your core nutrition, but without real food, you won't be able to meet your goals for improving your health.
And don't forget the essentials of water and oxygen. Good hydration and oxygenation are the most fundamental nutrients for sustaining life. Once you have a core foundation of good nutrition, you can more readily derive benefit from supplements.
The depletion of our soil has caused a nutritional deficiency in our food today.
Our bodies need to do a lot of work to get nutrients. That's why biohacking superfoods are so popular. Most nutritional companies have their version of a superfood powder. These nutritional supplements can deliver most of the nutrients the body needs daily and may be more absorbable than multivitamin capsules.
While multivitamins have been used for this purpose, that market is saturated with many low-quality products. Some have fillers and binders. Others may be synthetic.
Because the vitamins in these products are often isolated, the body may not recognize them. So, the cofactors necessary to absorb them may not be available. In contrast, nutrient-dense foods are bioavailable for absorption by the body.
Antioxidants help to eliminate the free radicals that attack our bodies every day. Free radicals are caused by toxins in our environment.
Supplements can biohack cell performance to repair this damage by neutralizing free radicals and stabilizing the body. Ridding our bodies of free radicals can prevent disease.
Although nootropics biohack the brain to give it mental clarity and focus using synthetic chemicals, little research is available.
Imbalance of mitochondria in the cells can accelerate aging. This also results in inflammation, lack of sleep, and poor performance.
Biohacking supplements that balance your cellular mitochondria can also boost your brain function and increase your energy. And there is an added anti-aging benefit.
But there are other ways of achieving longevity.
Perhaps simplifying our lives may be another way to biohack our health.
Staying healthy is a life-long commitment to keep your body functioning optimally. A good diet, healthy lifestyle, and regular exercise are key to maintaining good health.
Deciding to supplement your nutritional deficiencies is essential to your health. And using biohacking supplements can help you achieve optimum performance results.
But most importantly, educating yourself about health products introduced into the market is essential to your wellness journey.
Visit our blog to learn more or check out my Executive Health Plan here. You can also contact us here.


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Thomas Eaton of Kernersville dies on Sunday
Thomas Frederick Eaton, 69, of Kernersville died Sunday, Jan. 10, 2020, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
'Bucky' Beshears of Winston-Salem dies on Jan. 15
Edgar Lester "Bucky" Beshears Jr., 73, of Winston-Salem, formerly of Wilkes County, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020.
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Barbara Pharr STATESVILLE Barbara Byrd Pharr, 85, of Statesville, went home to be with the Lord and reunited with husband, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, at Gordon Hospice House. She was born in Iredell County Jan. 8, 1935, to the late…
Smith, Larry Wayne
MOORESVILLE Larry Wayne Smith, 67, of Mooresville, passed away Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 22, at Triplett United Methodist Church in Mooresville. The family will receive friends from 2 to 3…
Brown, Ernest Clark
MARCH 28, 1945 – JANUARY 16, 2020 Ernest Clark Brown Jr., 74, passed away Thursday, January 16th, 2020 at Hospice Home of the Piedmont in High Point, NC. He requested that there be no service for him. While memorials are…
Barker, Ben D.
DECEMBER 19, 1931 – JANUARY 2, 2020 Ben D. Barker died at home on January 2, 2020 from metastatic cancer. He was born December 19, 1931 in Burlington, NC, the son of Guy Edward Barker and Louise King Barker. He…
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JULY 1, 1932 – JANUARY 17, 2020 Sally Lee Schindel Cone died at WellSpRING RETIREment Community in Greensboro, NC. Sally is survived by her daughters, Saralee Smithwick, and Nance Smithwick (Roger Beebe), step children, Bunny Bulluck (David), Steve Cone (Caroline),…
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STATESVILLE Mr. Shirley Lee Little, 97, of Statesville, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today (Saturday, Jan. 18), at Mt. Hermon Lutheran Church. The family will visit with friends in the church…
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Paragon Energy can also arrange for one of our independent energy engineers to visit your site and carry our an Energy Efficiency Audit. Paragon Energy only uses independent engineers as only they can give unbiased advise to our customers.
Most companies are now advised to carry out energy efficient surveys on their sites as a means of cutting their energy use and saving their company money on their gas and electricity invoices.
Most businesses and public sector organisations could quickly cut their heating, lighting and power bills by 10% for little or no capital investment. With some investment, savings of 20% are realistic and some organisations have even cut their energy costs in half, becoming more efficient and competitive as a result.


Will Non-Farm Payrolls Propel Dollar to New Highs?
Investors took profits on their long dollar positions ahead of Friday's non-farm payrolls report. The sell-off was motivated by a weak manufacturing ISM number but the stakes are high for tomorrow's release and some traders decided it was smarter to reduce exposure. Federal Reserve officials made it very clear that the decision on a rate rise in September would hinge in large part on tomorrow's jobs report. If non-farm payrolls exceed 200K and the unemployment rate holds steady or better yet improves, then expectations for a rate hike this month will spike, sparking a broad based dollar rally that will take USD/JPY to fresh 1 month highs. If the numbers are strong enough, we could even see 105 USD/JPY. However, if NFP disappoints we could see a nasty correction in the dollar particularly after the strong gains that it has seen this month. The steepest decline should be against the British pound and New Zealand dollars – two currencies that have performed particularly well pre-NFP.
Taking a look at the leading indicators for non-farm payrolls, there's no reason to believe that the number will be overwhelming strong. We know that Federal Reserve officials are hopeful because they have been talking about the healthy pace of job growth but the smaller amount of layoffs, rise in jobless claims and mixed confidence readings raises red flags. The increase in ADP employment change was extremely modest and the manufacturing sector continued to shed jobs. Our most reliable leading indicator for non-farm payrolls is the ISM non-manufacturing report and that will not be released until next week. Even though U.S. policymakers have been adamant about the need for a further rate rise, investors have been very skeptical. They certainly don't believe that the economy is healthy enough for rates to rise twice this year nor are they convinced that data is strong enough to warrant a hike in 4 weeks. An unambiguously positive report would be needed to convince them otherwise especially after today's weak manufacturing ISM that showed activity contracting for the first time since January.
Meanwhile EUR/USD took out 1.12 despite weaker economic data. The Eurozone manufacturing PMI index was revised down to 51.7 from 51.8. No changes were made to the German report, which means slower growth in France is to blame. The European Central Bank meets next week and this report along with yesterday's softer Eurozone CPI raises concerns for the economic forecasts, which will be released alongside the rate decision. With inflation undershooting their targets it is realistic for the central bank to reduce their own projections and that could be extremely negative for the currency. However right now the focus is on U.S. non-farm payrolls and even though EUR/USD enjoyed a strong rally today, as long as it holds below the 100-day SMA and August 2nd high of 1.1234, the downtrend remains intact.
For the second day in a row USD/CAD was unchanged despite a sharp fall in oil prices. The commodity's recent decline accelerated after the $45 mark was broken. While there's been talk of a production freeze by OPEC, high inventories have been keeping prices under pressure. Canada's trade balance report is also scheduled for release on Friday and while we believe trade activity improved, it may be difficult for CAD to shrug off the decline in oil particularly with U.S.-Canadian yield spreads moving lower.
The Australian and New Zealand dollars performed extremely well. The Australian Dollar's strength comes even in the light of softer economic data. AiG PMI was reported at 46.9 vs. 56.4 the prior month. Retail sales also missed expectations, coming in flat vs. an expected 0.3% increase. The strength in the Aussie can be attributed to a stronger manufacturing PMI numbers for China, Australia' biggest trading partner. Chinese manufacturing PMI came in as 50.4 vs. 49.9 expected. Chinese non-manufacturing PMI was reported at 53.5 vs. 53.9 expected. Caixin PMI manufacturing reported a reading of 50.0 vs. 50.1 expected. No economic reports were released from New Zealand but that did not stop NZD/USD from breaking out to the upside.


The luxury 2 bedroom apartment is for you if you want something really special, unique and exclusive for your stay in the Barcelona city centre. The stained glass windows, the daily cleanings, and the wonderfully decorated apartment will have you feeling like your staying in any of the best 5 star accommodations in Barcelona.
The B233 is a two-bedroom apartment with two bathrooms, an office space, and a sitting room. The apartment was designed by a well-known interior designer and has a wonderful mix of antique furniture, along with modern appliances and touches. The decorations contain some pieces dating back to the 18th century, but the most beautiful part of the apartment is the Gaudi style stained glass windows in the sitting room. It is a perfect little corner to relax after a hard days shopping spree, or just to sit and have a chat over tea with someone. The apartment has the original mosaic tiled floors and intricate ceilings that are so famously attributed to the Eixample apartments (some of the most beautiful apartments in the city are located in the Eixample).
"Great Room, bathroom, living room area is large and exceeded expectations. The decoration and layout are very beautiful, the room facilities are complete, the life is convenient, there is a supermarket downstairs. The transportation is also very convenient, and most of Barcelona's classic sights are within walking distance."
Absolutely the most spectacular place to stay in Barcelona. Beautifully decorated, elegant and perfectly located to everything. Every detail has been provided to ensure that your stay is perfect. Having traveled all over the world, this was truly our most fun, memorable and relaxing trip ever. We cannot thank you enough for providing us with such a beautiful place to call our home during our stay in Barcelona.
BARCELONA CULTURAL SIGHTS AROUND B233 – The Most Luxury Apartment. Barcelona has so many places to see. Our staff has personally selected the following interesting sights for you to visit just next to your apartment.
The apartment is located in a residential area of the Eixample just two streets away from the Passeig de Gracia! The Eixample area is known to be a very convenient and lovely place to live because of the many coffee shops, restaurants and trendy stores in the wide streets. In the same street as this apartment, you have a lovely and historical flower shop called Flores Navarro. With the cheerful bouquets of delicious smelling flowers lining the sidewalk, you'll feel like you are in the most charming part of the city! This street also houses one of my favourite bakeries in the city offering fresh bread made daily and other tempting treats.
If you are ready to enjoy Barcelona as a local in a stylish and elegant apartment in one of the best locations in the city, then B233 is a great option for you.
*Please note: This luxury 2 bedroom apartment in Barcelona can be reserved with its sister one bedroom apartment on the same floor to make one large 3 bedroom apartment: B336.


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ESI Presents at the Paris Air Show 2017 its Software Solutions Supporting Industry 4.0
Contact Ms Céline Gallerne +33 1 41 73 58 46
From Virtual Prototyping to the Hybrid Twin™, discover the latest technologies supporting tomorrow's product development and operational performance
Virtual Reality session using ESI IC.IDO at a Safran Nacelles site in France
(PresseBox) (Paris, France, 06/20/2017 )
ESI Group, leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries, announces its presence at the International Paris Air Show from June 19 to 25, 2017 in Le Bourget, France. Powering the fully virtual development of future products, ESI's technology is at the heart of the Industry 4.0 megatrend. ESI offers disruptive Virtual Prototyping solutions to assure the delivery and manufacture of innovative products in less time and at less cost, and to predict the performance of existing products thanks to the use of data they generate in operations. During the Air Show, ESI will hold booth A166 in Hall 4, where visitors will discover ESI's solutions portfolio and experience ESI's Virtual Reality solution IC.IDO using Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs). Customer Safran will also offer live demonstrations of ESI IC.IDO using a large scale powerwall system on booth 228-252 in Hall 2A. On June 21, 2017, Dr Alain de Rouvray, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of ESI Group, will deliver a keynote on ESI's strategic vision.
ESI's Virtual Manufacturing solutions enable the creation of digital models that represent precisely the various physics involved in most common manufacturing processes for thermoset, ceramic and thermoplastic composite materials, as well as for most high performance aerospace metallic materials.
Using ESI solutions, industrial manufacturers can avoid manufacturing defects and improve part quality, without the need for building and testing physical prototypes. This year at Le Bourget, ESI will showcase its solutions for Additive Manufacturing, an innovative process that brings great potential for producing highly complex aeronautical parts with total freedom of shape but challenging in the context of the need for certification and compliance with the stringent regulations of the aeronautic industry. As technological leader in the field of Additive Manufacturing, ESI has joined the project Aerospace Factory for Additive Manufacturing led by Airbus and German industrials, and takes part in many key research projects such as AMANDE, PALOMA and SOFIA, the last being initiated by the Fives Michelin Additive Solutions joint-venture.
ESI's Virtual Prototyping solutions support industrial manufacturers in their product development, from product inception all the way to pre-certification. During the International Paris Air Show, ESI will present Virtual Seat Solution, its software solution dedicated to seat design, manufacturing and performance that takes into account the physical behavior of materials. The software has helped the talented French start-up Expliseat gain certification for their revolutionary Titanium aircraft seat; the lightest seat ever certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
Also at Le Bourget, ESI will showcase its industrial grade Virtual Reality (VR) solution: several live demonstrations of ESI IC.IDO are scheduled on ESI's booth (Hall 4/ A166), where visitors will experience IC.IDO using Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs). Other demonstrations will be held on the booth of customer Safran (Hall 2A/ booth 228-252), where a process review of Safran Nacelles for the A320neo LEAP-1A nacelle and the assembly line of the A330neo Trent 7000 nacelle will be in view, using a larger scale powerwall system. IC.IDO revolutionizes engineering processes by offering an immersive, interactive and collaborative solution that enables users to experience products in real-time and real-scale before any prototype even exists. Philippe JAMES, Vice President Continuous Improvement and Risks at Safran Nacelles, comments: "IC.IDO is profoundly changing the way Safran Nacelles employees work. Without waiting for physical prototypes, Virtual Reality allows to validate, early in development, design, tooling as well as ergonomic aspects but also to efficiently train operators. It is a powerful solution to promote live team discussion to reach design and tooling right first time."
ESI will also present its latest solutions addressing the operational performance of products in real-life, powered by the spectacular progress of Artificial Intelligence, in combination with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cloud technologies, and the Internet of Things. Dr Alain de Rouvray, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of ESI Group, will deliver a presentation on June 21, 2017, highlighting the fundamental 'disruptive' transformations that move ESI's offering from Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) to Immersive Virtual Engineering (IVE). He will expose how IVE empowers organizations to collaboratively innovate around a visually augmented digital representation of the product reflecting its real-life operating performance, in its expected operational environment, leading to a shift from traditional Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to "Product Performance Lifecycle"™ (PPL), using ESI's Hybrid Twin™ approach.
To plan your visit on ESI's booth, including one-on-one meetings and live demonstrations, or to attend Dr Alain de Rouvray's Keynote on June 21, 2017, please contact Gaëlle Lecomte, Marketing Manager, ESI France.
For more information about ESI Solutions, please visit www.esi-group.com/...
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ESI_LeBourget2017_EN.pdf
ESI Group is a leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services. Specialist in material physics, ESI has developed a unique proficiency in helping industrial manufacturers replace physical prototypes by virtual prototypes, allowing them to virtually manufacture, assemble, test and pre-certify their future products. Coupled with the latest technologies, Virtual Prototyping is now anchored in the wider concept of the Product Performance Lifecycle, which addresses the operational performance of a product during its entire lifecycle, from launch to disposal. The creation of Hybrid Twins, leveraging simulation, physics and data analytics, enables manufacturers to deliver smarter and connected products, to predict product performance and to anticipate maintenance needs.
ESI is a French company listed in compartment B of NYSE Euronext Paris. Present in more than 40 countries, and addressing every major industrial sector, ESI Group employs about 1200 high-level specialists around the world and reported annual sales of €141 million in 2016. For more information, please visit www.esi-group.com.
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Die Wahrnehmung der IT als latentes Konfliktfeld des 21. Jahrhunderts bezog sich bislang vor allem auf ihre Rolle als neues Werkzeug im Repertoire der Militärs. Quasi als Erweiterung und Ergänzung traditioneller Kampfformen zur hybriden Kriegsführung.
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THOR: THE DARK WORLD Mid-Credit Scene EXPLAINED
WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. In case you haven't seen Thor: The Dark World (review can be read here) this would be a good time to back out of this article before I spoil anything for you or if you're brave enough then read on. Probably by now you have seen Thor: The Dark World and as […]
MOVIE FEATURETTE: Marvel's Thor: The Dark World #6
Explore the villainy of Malekith and the Dark Elves with stars Chris Hemsworth and Christopher Eccleston in a new featurette from Marvel's "Thor: The Dark World," only in theaters November 8! Well, actually, this Marvel flick is already out in theaters here this week. But, yeah, more hype...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Thor: The Dark World
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EVENT: "THOR: THE DARK WORLD" at SM Megamall
Families, fanboys and movie buffs are invited to join Marvel's "Thor: The Dark World" Event happening on Oct. 24 to 27 at the Activity Center of SM Megamall. Admission is free! The place to check out for all things Thor, the event celebrates the Mighty Avenger who battles to save Earth and all the Ni...
THOR: THE DARK WORLD REVEALED TO HAVE POST CREDIT SCENES!
Highly Anticipated
Fans who are eagerly anticipating the next Marvel blockbuster movie, Thor: The Dark World would be glad to know that there would be post-credit scenes. People who were able to view Thor: The Dark World at an earlier press screening of the movie had passed along hints indicating that it would not only be on...
New Poster for THOR: The Dark World Is Superb!
One of the best Marvel posters have been released, and now behold the new Thor: The Dark World poster! Entertainment Weekly revealed this new poster which showcases the various casts of the film and has an atmosphere like how the old school Star Wars posters were made. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom...
THOR #700 will bring 'epic' to a new level!
THOR #700 raised the Mighty Asgardian to a new level of storytelling in an epic tale from writer Jason Aaron and a host of incredible artists such as Russell Dauterman, Walter Simonson, James Harren, Becky Cloonan, Das Pastoras, Chris Burnham, Andrew MacLean, Jill Thompson, Mike del Mundo, Olivier Coipel, ...
DARK HORSE goes Berserk!
No Guts, no glory! Dark Horse Manga is excited to announce the indispensable owner's manual for Berserk readers with the Berserk Official Guidebook! Still going strong after over twenty-five years in Japan, Berserk is one of the most popular and longest-running seinen series ever published in North America...
"The Dark Tower" Posters Pit Good VS Evil
Two new character posters for The Dark Tower has just been released by Columbia Pictures, featuring its two main protagonists The Gunslinger (Idris Elba) and the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey). Check out the character one-sheets below and watch The Dark Tower in Philippine cinemas on August 20, 2017. T...