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This fire-resistant work wear is made from a blend of 88% soft cotton material that feels non-irritating and nice against skin. The 12% high-tenacity nylon of this fire-resistant shirt adds durable abrasion-resistance. The protection extends all the way from the two-button adjustable cuffs up to the button-up collar.
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This shirt is generously sized and looks relatively good without touch-up assuming it is removed from the dryer in a timely fashion. Despite the fact it is a very dark color, the fabric is light enough and wicks well enough that I have never been uncomfortable in this shirt. If and when I need another FRC shirt, I will consider another shirt from this Carhartt line in a different, most likely lighter, color.
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Carhartt makes a dependable product. Our employees look professional and feel comfortable wearing these shirts. They are made to cover a bit of a mid-section and so are a little bulky around the waist. It would be nice to have a bit more of a tailored choice for those slimmer employees. Overall though we are very pleased with this product.
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Honda XL 250. Bike is in great condition for age, has had money spent. Would make for a good project or to ride just as is. Bike runs very well.
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[1.20] DHCP assigns an IP not even in the same class... WTF???
Re: [1.20] DHCP assigns an IP not even in the same class... WTF???
I can't force this issue to happen, it just does and I've only seen it 4 times now in the span of 8-9 months? I first experienced it on firmware v1.13.
After re-reading your post it seems we experienced something slightly different.
For reasons completely unknown to me my entire network changed. So I was assigned an IP in my DCHP range it was just a completely different network (172.16.x.x) which I only found out because I sync some devices with my PC over wifi & they suddenly couldn't connect (they use IP addresses to find one another).
I still have no idea what caused it & never experienced it before. After changing my network back to a 192.x.x.x network, the router rebooted & all appears to be running as it should now.
Not sure I see much relevance other than dnsmasq update, but it seems like just an update, any particular reason why? Is this expected to resolve some of the issues on this thread?
On a side note, I am on v1.21B04 and still experiencing the problem. I just had another issue last night. Router was issuing 169.x.x.x IPs to all new devices. Any devices that had a previous IP 192.x.x.x were fine, but all new device were screwed. Only difference this time is that the router itself wouldn't respond on its 192.x.x.x address. Had to reset it which resolved everything.
Absolutely will not buy D-link again... this is horrible... the router already reset itself weekly because it can't be trusted to be stable for more than a week, but I still have to deal with this??? come on!
You should try it. It won't bother the router if it's still seems to be having issues.
Honestly, you seem to be the only one having issues and believe this is something in your networking configuration or something connected to your network is probably causing this issue. Since you can't seem to tell us what your configurations are and whats all connected due to this supposed NDA, we can't help you beyond this. This isn't a D-Link issue. To go farther D-Link would need more details. And you'll need to contact them directly since we can't help you with your issue.
How long have you had the router?
Routers do not issue 169 IPs. Windows will assign itself those addresses if DHCP is not found.
Are we really going to go over this again?
Your router is issuing 169 address. This last time I couldn't access the router on the 192.x.x.x, likely because it was favoring IPv6 (another issue I've seen in the past), but when I could access the router in the past, I clearly saw my devices within your router firmware being listed as connected and with 169 IP addresses.
I am fully aware of APIPA, but if it was APIPA, please tell me how your router firmware showed my devices as connected with 169 addresses?
Can you post a screenshot of the router issuing 169 numbers? When this happens have you released/renewed on your computer and if you have did you still receive a 169 IP? Was there a wait for the IP to renew or did it happen quickly? If it took 30-40 seconds then the computer is not finding a dhcp server and self issuing a 169 IP. I am not sure why the router would display it. It must use the MAC address of the device therefore displaying the 169 address in the router GUI. I haven't seen that before. Then if you go to the network settings on the router is the LAN and dhcp range normal or did it change to 169 IP?
I am really not sure why you are still using this router. Obviously your router is defective. You need to CALL tech support. We do not have the magic answer for you since you will not disclose your network topology or details which makes it impossible for anyone to troubleshoot. We do not need to know specifics on your network, but simple things like if you have other routers or managed switches on your network, other DHCP servers, vlans, is a modem connected to your wan port or are you using it as a gateway, etc. Remember this router is a consumer HOME router. Since you have a NDA I am assuming your network is not a typical home network.
We would love to help you but we need to know more details. I strongly suggest you call tech support. Not sure what else anyone on forums can do for you. Your router is not acting normal. All DIR-895s do not do this so you need to call tech support for a possible RMA.
Have you tried any other routers?
The next time this issue occurs and when I can access the router, I will post a screenshot. The screenshot will be blurred due to my NDAs, but I will make a note to do this. The problem seems to occur once every 3-4 months... if that, not easy to reproduce.
Second, I am still using the router because for the most part it works! I work from home and spent $400 on this PoS and would love to change to DD-WRT firmware, but again we've had this disucssion, D-link is perfectly happy to have advertised FULL DD-WRT support, but you don't do squat to help their community. FurryNutz is only partially active on their forums now because I called you out on it.
I do have another router, non-5Ghz, and it works fine... no issues. Why don't I use it? As mentioned before to FurryNutz on this thread I think, I need 5Ghz for work requirements and adding hops is not acceptable, even just one.
And the issue with WRT was there issue. Upon taking with one user there, there were bugs in there WRT FW. User were able to get WRT loaded on there 895L by going back to older versions of FW, the migrating to WRT. I had to do the same thing with my 890L, same platform as the 895L, just less speed handling on the wifi. I also helped others with WRT getting it loaded on there routers as well. Again, this wasn't a D-Link issue. It was WRTs. They have since corrected THERE FW. D-Link is not responsible to help WRT. They only allow the generation of the GPL code to be use by 3rd party FW developers. Again, it's the 3rd party developers responsibility to develop, test and fix there FW, NOT D-Links.
Again, 169 IP address do not come from the router, they are generated by client device if and when they can't get an IP address from the router. There maybe something wrong with the router or something on your network that is causing the router to fail at some point. Being that you say this happens randomly and you are the only one having this issue. I believe something on your network is the cause over the router being bad.
You need to get an RMA and see if the RMA router does the same thing, this will let you know either way.
If you get an RMA or ask for one, ASK for a cross shipped RMA. D-Link usually does this. They ship you out a RMA unit, once it arrives you have to send the other unit back or they will charge you. They will ask for funding information when they set up the cross shipping RMA. So if you don't return any unit, you'll get charged. I've done this. Nice to have this option.
This thread is a end user mis-configuration!!!


WHENEVER a leftist is caught in bad behavior....whether it be Kathy Griffin holding Trump's severed head like an ISIS warrior, or a Sanders supporter shooting Congressmen and cops in the infield...or whatever, take your pick... the LEFT always cries, "you do it too!" What are we, a nation of 1st graders? And no, no we aren't anything like the LEFT in behavior, certainly not in the numbers that the left is violent, enraged and seemingly a pot ready to boil over. -W.E.
In response to a radicalized Leftist domestic terrorist shooting Republicans at a baseball practice, fake news media said both sides of the political aisle are guilty of inciting violence and should tone down their rhetoric.
Disturbingly, in an attempt to sound bipartisan, conservative voices are parroting fake news media's lie.
This both-sides-are-guilty-lie offends me folks. I have been a black Tea Party activist since 2009; spoken and performed my "American Tea Party Anthem" https://youtu.be/q1byTDgu7iA at over 500 rallies on 14 nationwide bus tours.
Never, I repeat never, have I witnessed language inciting violence coming from the stage or spoken in the crowds. The attendees were hard working salt-of-the-earth Americans. Many of them voted for Obama, but did not vote for him to drive us down the road to socialism.
As a matter of fact, rally organizers were extremely sensitive not to take our disagreement with the president too far. While performing on stage at a rally, I spotted a gentleman in the audience wearing an Obama vampire mask. I thought it was funny and pulled the guy on stage. Immediately, rally management escorted the guy off the stage and later reprimanded me.
While black attendance at Tea Party rallies grew over the years, in the beginning my black face was rare. Attendees repeatedly apologized to me explaining that they opposed Obama's agenda and not his skin color. Bottom line, Tea Party attendees were good people who loved their country. They simply were opposed to Obama's vow to fundamentally transform America away from her divinely inspired founding.
And yet, for 8 years, fake news media successfully branded the Tea Party the new KKK in the minds of low-info-voters.
Leftists are the bad guys who relentlessly spew hate 24/7, generating violence upon the America flag, whites, cops, Republicans, Conservatives, the rich, achievers and Trump supporters. Trust me folks, conservatives simply do not do that. For 8 years, the GOP was for the most part silent; submissive to fake news media's ruling that negative comments and opposing Obama was racist.
As a seasoned black Conservative activist, it has been my experience that our side desires equal rights for all Americans. We conduct orderly respectful protests, leaving rally sites cleaner than we found them. To divide Americans into angry voting blocs, Democrats tell women, homosexuals, minorities and underachievers that they are victims of America. At Leftist protest events, they f-bomb Trump from the stage http://bit.ly/2tbdjBz and routinely destroy private property. They typically leave mountains of trash after inciting their attendees to commit violence. Leftists outrageously marched on a NY street chanting, "What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want them? Now!" http://bit.ly/2bHu0gp Conservatives could never conceive of doing such an evil thing. That is not how our side rolls.
It is foolish for Conservatives to nod in agreement with Leftists that say both sides are guilty of inciting violence and must modify their tone. This lie is another case of Leftists exploiting a tragedy to demonize and silence conservative speech. Conservatives must continue fearlessly telling the truth in love to educate low-info-voters and help Trump make America great again.


Will I be treating my child like a dog if I use TAGteach?
This is a fair question. On the surface, Teaching with Acoustical Guidance (TAGteach), a method where you use an audible event marker signal (a click) and a reinforcer to teach a human a behavior, sounds very similar to the popular and effective clicker training method used with dogs, dolphins, killer whales and other animals. From a scientific and technical standpoint, the methods are similar.
Both methods are based on the scientific, research-validated fact that a behavior that is reinforced will occur more often. TAGteach has been used successfully in many teaching and training applications with humans, including elite level gymnastics, orthopedic surgeons, fishing boats in the Bering Sea, speech therapy, professional golf instruction, main stream classrooms and special education classrooms, among others. Turns out, TAGteach is also a wonderful way to teach kids with autism.
The TAGteach work with orthopedic surgeons was featured in the Scientific American blog and published in a major orthopedic surgery journal. In other published studies TAGteach was found to be effective for teaching adult golf, high school football players and children with autism.
TAGteach is recommended by many leading experts as an effective and science-based approach for teaching children with autism. TAGteach research results have been presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis conferences 48 times between 2004-2016.
Parents of typically developing children can teach their children with verbal instructions and modeling: "Put your socks on first, then your shoes," "This is how you slice a sandwich." These children watch, listen, copy and learn. They understand language, they speak, and they respond to verbal praise. It's wonderful and magical to see how much they can learn at an early age.
Now you're talking my language!
Hello! If you travel to another country, it helps to know a few words in the native language. It makes getting around so much easier and builds relationships with local residents. But, having a few words takes you only so far. To really communicate, you need to make a study of the local language.
Now let's look at kids with autism; they seem to live in a different world from ours. Their condition is often characterized by deficits and delays in language and communication. How do you communicate with a kid who cannot endure the sound of human speech? How do you find out what is bothering a child who is hitting or biting, if he can't explain? We could not communicate with our son and had very hard times during the early years.
Over time I learned that there is a language, or more specifically, a form of communication in which my son excelled: he was brilliant at comprehending positive reinforcement. Bingo! We achieved communication.
The method I stumbled upon is called TAGteach, or Teaching with Acoustical Guidance. TAGteach is a teaching and communication method based on the science of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), and involves the use of positive reinforcement to achieve behavior goals. The unique aspect of TAGteach is that it combines positive reinforcement with an audible event marker signal. The marker—the key communication tool used in the system—makes a distinctive "click" sound to mark a behavior at the time it occurs. The mark (or "click") means YES, YOU DID SOMETHING GOOD, and the absence of the mark means TRY AGAIN.
With my event marker (sometimes referred to as a "tagger" or "clicker), I was able to "tag" my child every time he did something good. "Good" things were behaviors like Quiet Mouth, Both Feet On The Floor, Hands Still, or Eye Contact. The procedure is: Observe child, "tag" (press clicker) when child performs Quiet Mouth, reinforce child (give a treat or token).
When I started doing this, I was amazed by all the good behaviors my son was able to deliver. Tantrumming? Tag Quiet Mouth and Both Feet On The Floor; the tantrum was over in 12 minutes with no exertion on my part. Bolting? Tag Walks Next To Parent. Toe walking? Tag Heel On Ground. My son's world changed. Previously, it had been incomprehensible to him. With the tag and positive reinforcement, he understood precisely what he was being rewarded for, and he responded by producing more of the desired behaviors.
Now we're talking the same language!
The more I communicated with him via tags and positive reinforcement, the happier and better behaved he became. Despite the lack of speech, despite the sensory issues, the tag rang loud and clear and told him he had done something good. He loved that and responded brilliantly. My favorite moments were when I would tag him for something, and a look of total comprehension flooded across his face, "Oh! So that's what I'm supposed to do!" We all like knowing what to do, and we all like the feeling of success. With TAGteach, I communicated with my son by giving him lots of success.
We found the right language and made a study of it. It is called positive reinforcement with an event marker signal. Tag!
Doug is the subject of the book Chaos to Calm: Discovering Solutions to the Everyday Problems of Living with Autism, by Martha Gabler. Martha explains step-by-step in the book how she methodically taught Doug many simple and then more and more complex behaviors necessary for life in a busy family. She used TAGteach, an approach based on the science of behavior, to teach new behaviors to replace screaming, running around, self injury and other chaotic behaviors with which many autism parents struggle on a continual basis. All Martha's teaching used positive reinforcement to strengthen desired behaviors. Now Doug is 17 and his self-stimulatory behaviors are almost non-existent. He chooses to exhibit behaviors that he has learned and that have become more reinforcing for him than the chaotic and sometimes violent behaviors in which he engaged during what Martha refers to as "the dreadful early years". Doug at 17 is happy, affectionate and cooperative. He loves his math and reading lessons and he loves outdoor activities.
This summer Doug went to Shadow Lake Camp for a week and his counselor was my daughter Anne Wormald who is a level 2 TAGteacher. Martha came prepared with a tagger and some treats that Doug likes and left him in Anne's capable hands. Anne had read Chaos to Calm, so she knew many of Doug's tag points. The other staff at camp looked after Doug while Anne was on break and they too learned to use TAGteach with Doug. He had the whole camp trained by the end of the week!
Doug's experience at camp is a testament to the power and effectiveness of TAGteach and the skill of Martha as a teacher. Martha was able to hand over her son, a tagger, some treats and some basic tag points and he was able to enjoy himself immensely at sleep away camp for a week with strangers.
A bold statement but true nonetheless. I recently attended a 2 day TAGteach Primary Certification seminar in Bristol UK and it has revolutionized my thinking and strategies for coaching my own learners. Why? Because it cuts out all the blurry stuff, all the fluff and fuzz that can easily lose the learner in the fog of information.
This means that learners can have a clear goal or tag point, which is marked with an audible distinct sound such as the word tag or a clicker. This can be applied to any learner, be it human or animal. The instructions are finely sliced, the tag point is delivered in 5 words or less and gives immediate feedback of success to the learner at every tag point stage. It's clear and simple learning with positive reinforcement, which can be tracked with a tagulator (beads on a string) that can be collected for a primary reinforcer or just the immediate success acts as a reinforcer for the learner. The science geeks among us know this as operant conditioning. OK so why the hooha about it changing my life?
I am on the Autism Spectrum. I'm both high and low functioning but have achieved a level of integration in 'normal' or neurotypical society because of my higher functioning attributes. It has been a difficult path to walk alone though.
If TAGteach had been around when I was a kid I may have a had an even more successful, less frustrating, anxiety ridden childhood and been a higher achiever than I currently am.
Plus I can still find it difficult to communicate clearly and effectively, even on relatively high functioning days. In class you can imagine the confusion which can arise from not delivering instructions efficiently to the learner. TAGteach will now be incorporated into my classes and has already been adapted into my coaching with measurable success. Having a tag point, clear determined goal which the learner can self select to personalise and even tag the teacher and each other is very empowering, makes the learning environment cooperative and progressive which can only be a good thing, right!
My gratitude to my TAGteach coach Theresa McKeon BA is infinte and I will always be indebted to the seminar organiser Sara Roberts KPA-CTP. Thank you ladies, my life will never be the same again! And being in the same room as some of the best animal and people trainers was inspiring too.
TAGteach stands for Teaching with Acoustical Guidance. TAGteach is a teaching and communication method based on the scientific principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
TAGteach enables extremely precise positive reinforcement of behavior by using an acoustical signal to "mark" the behavior – at the precise moment the child performs the behavior! The acoustical signal is a short, sharp sound made by a handheld device (the "tagger"). When the child performs the correct action, the parent/instructor immediately presses the button on the tagger and hands over a treat (candy, treat, token, praise, social recognition, or money) as a reinforcer.
With TAGteach, it is easy to reinforce behaviors precisely, quickly, and intensively. The immediate, accurate feedback and positive reinforcement result in the child performing the correct action more often, and for longer periods of time. With immediate feedback and learning tasks broken down into small steps, children (and adults) can learn many new skills with TAGteach — at their own pace.
For more information visit the TAGteach website.
Join the free TAGteach Yahoo Group.
TAGteach taggers are available here.
See Martha's book about TAGteach for Autism or feel free to ask me a question (with no obligation).
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Q: Read XML and append in view using Backbone js How to read XML and append in view with Backbone.
XML file has been read and successfully appended in view. But i don't know how to approach in Backbone structure (Using its Model).
XML file  (read asseturl , width, height)
<library>
    <assets>
        <asset asseturl="img_1.png" width="100" height="150"></asset>
        <asset asseturl="img_2.png" width="200" height="250"></asset>
        <asset asseturl="img_3.png" width="300" height="350"></asset>
    </assets>
</library>

Backbone js code
var Book = Backbone.Model.extend();

var Books = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    model: Book,
    url: "file.xml",

    parse: function (data)
    {
        var $xml = $(data);

        return $xml.find('assets').map(function()
        {
            var bookTitle = $(this).find('asset').each(function(){
            var this_url = $(this).attr('asseturl');
            var this_width = $(this).attr('width');
            var this_height = $(this).attr('height');

            $('.character-list').append('
'+
            ''+
            '
');
        });
        return {title: bookTitle};
        }).get();
    },
    fetch: function (options)
    {
        options = options || {};
        options.dataType = "xml";
        return Backbone.Collection.prototype.fetch.call(this, options);
    }
});

var bookListView = Backbone.View.extend({
    initialize: function ()
    {
        this.listenTo(this.collection, "sync", this.render);
    },
    render: function ()
    {
        console.log(this.collection.toJSON());
    }
});

var bks = new Books();
new bookListView({collection: bks});
bks.fetch();

HTML code to append

Even-though the above append functionality works for me, it's not good practice to approach this in Backbone parse function.

A: Don't put the rendering logic into the collection's parse function.
The collection's role is to manage models and syncing with an API. It's the view's responsibility to render.
First, let's simplify the collection parsing. From the Backbone documentation, parse should do the following only:

The function is passed the raw response object, and should return the
  array of model attributes to be added to the collection.

parse: function(response) {
    var $xml = $(response);

    // this will return an array of objects
    return $xml.find('assets').children('asset').map(function() {
        var $asset = $(this);

        // returns raw "model" attributes
        return {
            asseturl: $asset.attr('asseturl'),
            width: $asset.attr('width'),
            height: $asset.attr('height')
        };

    }).get();
},

Then, make a simple view for each asset:
var BookView = Backbone.View.extend({
    tagName: 'li',
    template: _.template('<img width="<%= width %>" height="<%= height %>" src="<%= asseturl %>">'),
    render: function() {
        this.$el.html(this.template(this.model.toJSON()));
        return this;
    }
});

And it's in the list view that the rendering of each assets is handled.
var BookListView = Backbone.View.extend({
    initialize: function() {
        this.childViews = [];
        this.listenTo(this.collection, "sync", this.render);
    },
    render: function() {
        this.$el.empty();
        this.collection.each(this.renderBook, this);
        return this;
    },
    renderBook: function(model) {
        var view = new BookView({ model: model });
        this.childViews.push(view);
        this.$el.append(view.render().el);
    },
});

To use it:
var bks = new Books(),
    view = new BookListView({ el: $('.character-list'), collection: bks });
view.render();
bks.fetch();

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Rising Stars Winner Announced
Capricorn congratulates Marama Thompson, from Auto Super Shoppe Eurotech in Hamilton New Zealand, for being named the 2022 Capricorn Rising Stars Apprentice of the Year.
Marama is a dedicated apprentice and is an inspirational example of why it is worth chasing your lifelong dream.
Capricorn Rising Stars is an opportunity for Members to recognise, reward and retain high-performing apprentices. A nomination indicates that the apprentice is someone who shows initiative in the workshop, has an eagerness to learn and is committed to the auto industry. Since starting her apprenticeship in 2020, Marama has consistently demonstrated these qualities across all aspects of her work.
Auto Super Shoppe Eurotech's Director Nik Fowlie believes Marama's technical aptitude is the best he has seen in 16 years of the trade. "She is a superstar. She has only been with me for two years and has now become my 2IC," he said. "It's a bit scary that I can go out and leave a two-year apprentice in charge to run the workshop if I need. She really deserves this award."
In addition to one day becoming an expert technician, he is confident she will also be able to run the front-of-house and successfully manage a business. Marama's ultimate dream is to open her own Auto Super Shoppe Garage and eventually have an academy set up to teach and train the next generation of auto apprentices.
Marama's versatile skill set is a significant asset to her current workshop and will continue to benefit her when working towards her future goals. She is passionate about encouraging other women in the industry to chase their dreams, especially if they're able to experience the same levels of support and encouragement that she has.
Marama hasn't always worked in the automotive industry, but has dreamed of becoming a technician, working on vehicles and owning a workshop since she was young. Having pursued a number of different career paths, it wasn't until COVID hit that she committed to following her dream of becoming a mechanic.
"I successfully completed the entry course with Auto Super Shoppe Academy and did a couple of days of work experience in my current workshop, before being offered an apprenticeship," she explained. "The joy of another car fixed and roadworthy, and another satisfied customer, makes me proud of what I do."
Marama's forward thinking, versatility of skills and problem-solving ability makes her the perfect fit for the Capricorn Rising Star Apprentice of the Year award. In the current skills shortage market, an apprentice with Marama's dedication and commitment is invaluable to a workshop and demonstrates the benefits of committing to training the next generation of technicians.
She understands that being an apprentice in a workshop is about more than just fixing cars. As she puts it herself: "I am all about customer service, if possible, I will try to find a solution for all our customers problems."
As the 2022 Capricorn Rising Star Apprentice of the Year, Marama will receive $5,000 from Castrol. The Auto Super Shoppe Eurotech team will also benefit from a 12-month Repco Autopedia subscription and enrolment in the Workshop Whisperer's Service Advisor Pro online program.
Capricorn congratulates Marama and all the Capricorn Rising Star nominees. Reading through all the nominations was a great insight into all of the talented apprentices out there and confirmed our confidence in the future success of the automotive industry. Deciding the 2022 Capricorn Rising Star Apprentice of the Year was no easy task. The competition was close, and the fact that we had so many dedicated and committed apprentices in the running made the final decision difficult for our judges to make.
Thanks goes to all Members who are helping train and prepare the next generation of industry leaders. Capricorn also thanks our program sponsors Castrol, Repco and The Workshop Whisperer for their continued support.
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Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, marshal of France, the most celebrated of military engineers, was born at Saint-Léger-Vauban (Yonne). At the age of ten he was left an orphan in very poor circumstances, and his boyhood and youth were spent among the peasantry of his native place. A fortunate event brought him under the care of the Carmelite prior of Sémur, who undertook his education, and the grounding in mathematics, science and geometry which he thus received was of the highest value in his subsequent career. At the age of seventeen Vauban joined the regiment of Condé in the war of the Fronde. His gallant conduct won him within a year the offer of a commission, which he declined on account of poverty. Condé then employed him to assist in the fortification of Clermont-en-Argonne. Soon afterwards he was taken prisoner by the royal troops; but though a rebel he was well treated, and the kindness of Mazarin converted the young engineer into a devoted servant of the king. He was employed in the siege of St. Ménéhould (which he had helped to storm as a Frondeur) and won a lieutenancy in the regiment of Burgundy, and at Stenay he was twice wounded. Soon afterwards he besieged and took his own first fortress, Clermont; and in May 1655 he received his commission as an ingénieur du roi, having served his apprenticeship under the Chevalier de Clerville, one of the foremost engineers of the time. Between that year and the peace of 1659 he had taken part in or directed ten sieges with distinction, had been several times wounded, and was rewarded by the king with the free gift of a company in the famous Picardy regiment. About this time he married a cousin, Jeanne d'Aulnay. After the peace Vauban was put in charge of the construction of several important defenses, among other places at Dunkirk, where his work continued until the year before his death. On the renewal of war in 1662 he conducted, under the eyes of the king, the sieges of Douai, Tournai and Lille. At Lille he so distinguished himself that he received a lieutenancy in the guard (ranking as a colonelcy).
The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle confirmed France in the possession of new fortresses, which Vauban now improved or rebuilt. Hitherto the characteristic features of his method of fortification had not been developed, and the systems of preceding engineers were faithfully followed. Colbert and Louvois were profoundly interested in the work, and it was at the request of the latter that the engineer drew up in 1669 his Mémoire pour servir à l'instruction dans la conduite des sièges (this, with a memorandum on the defense of fortresses by another hand, was published at Leiden in 1740). On the renewal of war Vauban again conducted the most important sieges (Rheinbergen and Nijmwegen 1672, Maastricht and Trier in 1673, Besançon in 1674). In the latter year he also supervised the only defense in which he ever took part, that of Oudenarde. This was followed by the reduction of Dinant, Huy and Limburg. At this time he wrote for the commandants of Verdun and Le Quesnoy, valuable Instructions pour la défense. In 1676 he was made maréchal de camp. He took Condé, Bouchain and other places in that year, Valenciennes and Cambrai in 1677, Ghent and Ypres in 1678.
It was at this time that Vauban synthesized the methods of attacking strong places, on which his claim to renown as an engineer rests far more than on his systems of fortification. The introduction of a systematic approach by parallels (said to have been suggested by the practice of the Turks at Candia in 1668) dates from the siege of Maastricht, and for over two centuries remained the standard method of attacking a fortress. The peace of Nijmwegen gave more territory to France, and more fortresses had to be adapted. Vauban was named commissaire-général des fortifications on the death of De Clerville, and wrote in 1679 a memorandum on the places of the new frontier, from which it appears that from Dunkirk to Dinant France possessed fifteen fortresses and forts, with thirteen more in second line. Most of these had been rebuilt by Vauban, and further acquisitions, notably Strassburg (1681), involved him in unceasing work. At Saarlouis for the first time appeared Vauban's "first system" of fortification, which remained the accepted standard for a very long time. He never hesitated to retain what was of advantage in the methods of his predecessors, which he had hitherto followed, and it was in practice rather than in theory, that he surpassed them. In 1682 his "second system", which introduced modifications of the first designed to prolong the resistance of the fortress, began to appear; and about the same time he wrote a practical manual entitled Le Directeur-Général des fortifications (Hague, 1683-85). Having now attained the rank of lieutenant-general, he took the field once more, and captured Courtrai in 1683, and Luxemburg in the following year. The unexpected strength of certain towers designed by the Spanish engineer Louvigni (fl. 1673) at Luxemburg suggested the tower-bastions which are the peculiar feature of Vauban's second system which was put into execution at Belfort in the same year. In 1687 he chose Landau as the chief place of arms of Lower Alsace, and lavished on the place all the resources of his art. But side by side with this development grew up the far more important scheme of attack. He instituted a company of miners, and the elaborate experiments carried out under his supervision resulted in the establishment of all the necessary formulae for military mining (Traité des mines, Paris, 1740 and 1799; Hague, 1744); while at the siege of Ath in 1697, having in the meanwhile taken part in more sieges, notably that of Namur in 1692 (defended by the great Dutch engineer Coehoorn), he employed ricochet fire for the first time as the principal means of breaking down the defense. He had indeed already used it with effect at Philipsburg in 1688 and at Namur, but the jealousy of the artillery at outside interference had hindered the full use of this remarkable invention, which with his other improvements rendered the success of the attack almost certain. After the peace of Ryswick Vauban rebuilt or improved other fortresses, and finally New Breisach, fortified on his "third system" which was in fact a modification of the second and was called by Vauban himself système de Landau perfectionné. His last siege was that of Old Breisach in 1703, when he reduced the place in a fortnight. On the 14th of January of that year Vauban had been made a marshal of France, a rank too exalted for the technical direction of sieges, and his active career came to an end with his promotion. Soon afterwards appeared his Traité de l'attaque des places, a revised and amplified edition of the older memoir of 1669, which contains the methods of the fully developed Vauban attack, the main features of which are the parallels, ricochet fire and the attack of the defending personnel by vertical fire.
But Louis XIV was now thrown on the defensive, and the war of the Spanish Succession saw the gradual wane of Vauban's influence, as his fortresses were taken and retaken. The various captures of Landau, his chef-d'oeuvre, caused him to be regarded with disfavor, for it was not realized that the greatness of his services was rather in the attack than in the defense. In the darkness of defeat he turned his attention to the defense; but his work De la défense des places is of far less worth than the Attaque, and his far-seeing ideas on entrenched camps (Traité des fortifications de campagne) were coldly received, though therein may be found the elements of the "detached forts" system later universal in Europe. The close of his life, saddened by the consciousness of waning influence and by failing health, he devoted largely to the arrangement of the voluminous manuscripts (Mes oisivetés) which contained his reflections on war, administration, finance, agriculture and the like. In 1689 he had had the courage to make a representation to the king in favor of the republication of the Edict of Nantes, and in 1698 he wrote his Projet d'une dixme royale, a remarkable work foreshadowing the principles of the French Revolution. Vauban was deeply impressed with the deplorable condition of the peasantry, whose labor he regarded as the main foundation of all wealth, and protested in particular against the unequal incidence of taxation and the exemptions and privileges of the upper classes. His dixme-royale, a tax to be impartially applied to all classes, was a tenth of all agricultural produce payable in kind, and a tenth of money chargeable on manufacturers and merchants. This work was published in 1707, and instantly suppressed by order of the king. The marshal died heart-broken at the failure of his efforts a few days after the publication of the order (March 30, 1707). At the Revolution his remains were scattered, but in 1808 his heart was found and deposited by order of Napoleon in the church of the Invalides.
Vauban's attention was closely engaged, not only in general military matters, but in political and financial reform and the inland navigation of France. He carried out the rearmament of the French infantry with flintlock muskets and the socket bayonet. The order of St. Louis was suggested by him, and lastly may be mentioned the fortress-models which he constructed, most of which are in the Invalides at Paris, and some in the Berlin Zeughaus. The actual total of his work as an engineer is worth recording. He conducted forty sieges and took part in more than three hundred combats, while his skill and experience were employed on the construction or rebuilding of more than 160 fortresses of all kinds. Mes oisivetés long remained unpublished, and of the twelve volumes of manuscript seven are lost. The remainder were published in Paris, 1841-45, in an abridged form, and of the five manuscript volumes three are in public hands, and two belong to the families of two famous engineers, Augoyat and Haxo. At the Hague (1737-42) appeared, dedicated to Frederick of Prussia, De Hondt's edition of De l'attaque et défense, etc., and of this work an improved edition appeared subsequently. But the first satisfactory editions are those of Augoyat and Valaz.


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Q: While loop won't terminate Learning Python.  This task is to allow the user to enter numbers as long as the number isn't -99.  If the sentinel -99 is entered, the user will no longer be able to enter numbers, and the largest and smallest numbers that have already been entered will be displayed.  When I enter the number -99, however, the loop continues to ask for new numbers.
#main module
def main():

    #Instructions for user
    print ("This program will allow the user to enter several numbers,
    positive ")
    print ("or negative, and sort the largest and smallest numbers from
    them.")

    #First number entered by user
    inputNum = input ("Enter a number other than -99 to be sorted: ")

    #variables
    number = inputNum
    small=number
    large=number

    #while loop for getting/sorting numbers
    while number != -99:
        if number < small:
            small = number
        elif number > large:
            large = number
        inputNum = input("Enter a number other than -99 to be sorted: ")

    lgSm()

#Module for displaying large and small numbers
def lgSm():
    print ("The largest number you entered is: ", large)
    print ("The smallest number you entered is: ", small)

main()

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Solved.  I forgot to add the variables inside the ()...I'm not sure what these are called, but I do understood their function.  Are they called placeholder variables?
#main module
def main():

    #Instructions for user
    print ("This program will allow the user to enter several numbers, positive ")
    print ("or negative, and sort the largest and smallest numbers from them.")

    #First number entered by user
    inputNum = int (input ("Enter a number other than -99 to be sorted: "))

    #variables
    number=inputNum
    small=number
    large=number

    while number != -99:
        if number < small:
            small = number
        elif number > large:
            large = number
        inputNum = int (input("Enter a number other than -99 to be sorted: "))
        number = inputNum

    lgSm(large, small)

#Module for displaying large and small numbers
def lgSm(lg, sm):
    print ("The largest number you entered is: ", lg)
    print ("The smallest number you entered is: ", sm)

main()

A: Modify your while loop to update number variable; the value of number is not changing inside the loop
while number != -99:
    if number < small:
        small = number
    elif number > large:
        large = number
    inputNum = int(input("Enter a number other than -99 to be sorted: "))
    number = inputNum ## this line in particular


The expats social media platform Internations has recently conducted among their expat members and now published the results of the Expat Insider 2015 survey.Expatriates from 41 countries participated and replied to the survey questions, and they voted Austria as the most popular country to live when you are expatriate with family.
Austria is followed by Finland and Sweden as top international moving destination for couples with children. The two Nordic countries rank particularly high with the low cost and high availability of childcare & education. Israel and New Zealand are ranked on 4th and 5th position, these two countries stand out especially when it comes to general well-being of expatriate families.
Austria moved up to the first place from the fourth position from last year's 2014 survey. One of the factors for this top ranking was the great availability of childcare and education services. Expatriates with kids in Austria are also very happy with the relatively low costs of education (82 percent) and the education quality in general (92 percent). In addition the Austria scored high regarding available leisure activities for kids as well as regarding health & safety for children. An extremely high scoring was reached for the aspect of family life in general, which was rated positive by 95% of the expats in Austria.
Furthermore, this survey also reveals findings regarding countries that are not very attractive for family life: According to the results, Saudi Arabia is perceived to be the least attractive moving destination for expat families: 16 percent of survey participants were generally unhappy with the general well-being of their children in Saudi Arabia. And another two percent of expatriates with kids are even completely unsatisfied with general well-being. Additional countries with low ranking in the 2015 survey included Brazil, Turkey, Qatar and Oman.
The survey considered the results of participants from 41 countries. In order to be considered as country in this survey, over 30 survey respondents per country were necessary, who raise their children abroad.


A non-governmental-organisation (NGO), Strength in Diversity Development Center (SDDC) and some religious leaders have urged politicians to ensure peace reigns during tomorrow's and March 2nd general elections.
They made the submission at inter-religious and inter-denominational prayers for peaceful election.
SDDC, in a communiqué signed by its Executive Director, Imam Shefiu Abdulkareem, said a national week of prayers and rally were held between February 8th and 10th.
The resolutions including reduction of hate speeches by educating the people to understand its consequences and urging religious leaders to desist from the act of hate speech.
SDDC also bemoaned the act of vote buying, which it said has denied Nigerians from enjoying the good governance.
"There must be penalty for such act (both the seller and buyer). The punishment must be enforced as well," the group said.
The Sarkin Fulani of Lagos, Alhaji Muhammed Bambado, at the conference, urged religious leaders to use their influence by calling on politicians within their domains to show commitment in preventing electoral violence.
"Beyond ensuring peace, it has also become imperative for leaders to enlighten their subject and followers and encourage them to ask questions and seek clarification before going out to vote," he said.
The Chief Missioner of Ansar-ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Ahmad, said fake news and hate speech are worrisome trend that has bedevilled Nigeria, noting that fighting it has become a matter of urgency.
He urged religious leaders to desist from circulating fake news and hate speech in their sermon.
He said: "We are the one suffering the threat of social media not the owner, It is better we act now by exploring common humanity and not emphasising on parochial interest".
Bishop Mathew Daniels said vote buying creates a big distortion and hindrance to the democratic idea of a free and fair election that ensures that the electorates elect the leaders they deem fit to rule them.


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Der Kinta () ist ein Fluss im Norden Malaysias. Er ist Namensgeber für das Kinta Valley (deutsch: Kinta-Tal), das die am Kinta liegende Stadt Ipoh umgibt.

Geografie
Der Fluss entspringt im Dreiländereck Kelantan, Pahang, Perak auf der malaiischen Halbinsel im Bundesstaat Perak. Er hat ein Einzugsgebiet von 2540 km² und eine Länge von etwa 100 km. In seinem Oberlauf durchfließt er vorwiegend Waldgebiete. Er fließt in südliche Richtung und mündet bei Teluk Intan in den Sungai Perak. Seine Hauptzuflüsse sind der Sungai Raia, Sungai Kampar, Sungai Chendering von links, und Sungai Pari; Sungai Tumboh von rechts.

Geschichte
An einem Ort namens Gua Tambun (malai. für "Tambun-Höhle") wurden Felsmalereien gefunden, die zu den ältesten Malaysias gehören und dem örtlichen Neolithikum (2.500 bis 500 v. Chr.) zugewiesen werden.

Im Kinta Valley wurden 1876 die größten Zinnvorkommen der Erde entdeckt.

Hydrologie
In den Wintermonaten, zur Regenzeit, kommt es häufig zu Überschwemmungen.

Einzelnachweise

1Kinta
Geographie (Perak)

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PLAYING FOR JACKPOT WITH LOTTERY PRIZES: WOODBRIDGE FINDS SOARING BUSINESS AS A LEADING FIRM IN GROWING NICHE
matthew goldstein
Richard Salvato is a firm believer that a lottery winner should always opt for a multiyear payout over one big lump-sum award.
But then again, Mr. Salvato, the chief executive of Woodbridge Sterling Capital, would be the first to admit he's a bit biased. That's because Woodbridge Sterling's main customers are lottery winners, looking to turn their annuitized long-term payouts into quick cash.
Woodbridge Sterling is one of two companies to emerge in the 1990s as the leading players in the small but growing market for lottery-prize dollars. It is a niche that has become increasingly more lucrative with the rising popularity of state lottery games.
"You are looking at a solid cash flow with no chance of prepayment," says Mr. Salvato, who notes the Manhattan-based firm has completed nearly 1,000 deals with lottery winners receiving annual state payments since 1993. "These will stay on the books for the entire duration."
Since opening for business, Woodbridge Sterling has purchased nearly $500 million in future lottery payments. This year alone, the company expects to buy $200 million in lottery checks that states will issue over the next several years.
Woodbridge Sterling has come a long way from its early days, when a handful of employees operated out of a Harlem tenement. Now, the firm employs 80 people and has offices at 230 Park Ave. and in Sacramento, Calif.
Woodbridge Sterling and its main competitor, Florida-based Singer Asset Finance Co., make their money by buying lottery payments at a discounted price. The advantage to lottery winners is that they get more money sooner, rather than waiting many years for an annuity to be paid out.
Proceeds are repackaged
The companies then repackage the proceeds as an investment instrument and sell them to a handful of insurance and finance companies, such as Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co. and John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
In New York, as in many other states, lottery winners must get court approval before selling their future winnings to a third party.
Mr. Salvato is reluctant to discuss the discount price at which his firm purchases lottery winnings. But court filings reveal it is not uncommon for Woodbridge Sterling to pay a lottery winner about 60% of the outstanding value of his or her prize.
Substantial ad spending
The company is estimated to have had revenues of $12 million last year. A good portion of the firm's revenues goes to underwrite Woodbridge Sterling's national advertising. Sixteen months ago, Woodbridge Sterling began spending roughly $75,000 a week, according to Mr. Salvato, for advertising on daytime and late-night television.
Still, Woodbridge Sterling exists in an uncertain environment. While 16 states and the District of Columbia permit residents to sell lottery winnings, nearly half of those states now allow a winner the option of accepting either an annuity or a lump-sum award. In New York and California, which accounted for roughly 28% of the $150 million in lottery payments purchased by Woodbridge Sterling in 1997, lottery winners can now choose a lump-sum payment.
The company also has come under scrutiny for some of its activities. Two years ago, Woodbridge Sterling agreed to pay the state of New Jersey $100,000 to settle a lawsuit, in which state officials alleged that the company failed to fully disclose the terms of its discounting practices to potential customers.
Meanwhile, the company is moving to broaden the pool of buyers for its repackaged lottery proceeds. By year's end, Woodbridge Sterling plans on selling $50 million in 10-year bonds that will likely carry a rate of return of 6%.
The company had planned on selling those asset-backed bonds this summer, but those plans were delayed because of the current market turmoil.
"We are in no rush," says Mr. Salvato. "But we would like to go out on the street with it."
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Retail Tomorrow Podcast: "Mr. Hawkins Takes An Airplane Ride"
This weekly series of Retail Tomorrow podcasts features Sterling Hawkins, co-CEO and co-founder of CART-The Center for Advancing Retail & Technology, and MNB "Content Guy" Kevin Coupe teaming up to speculate, prognosticate, and formulate visions of what tomorrow's retail landscape will look like post-coronavirus.
Sterling did something the other day that he hadn't done for several months: he took an airplane trip. On this week's podcast, he talks to KC about the experience - from his front door to the airport to the boarding area to the flight and to his arrival in Denver and then back again - and finds the little moments and big adjustments that characterized the trip and how businesses have adapted to a new reality. The bottom line: the airlines that are working overtime to build up good will among customers have to be careful not to squander it, just as retailers need to think about how they will remain "essential" in a post-pandemic environment.
You can listen to the podcast here, or on iTunes and Google Play.
Sansolo Speaks: Revolutionary Thinking
In the midst of the many colliding current challenges to the status quo, it's good to know that this weekend we'll all get a gigantic reminder of the power of those who think way outside the box. We'll get it twice, actually.
First, it will come via the annual celebration of July 4th, which is certain to be extremely different this year given the challenges of Covid-19 lockdowns and ongoing protests on the historical challenges faced in the United States. Luckily, on July 3rd we'll get an extra boost this year as "Hamilton," the Broadway smash musical that has been an impossible ticket at any price for five years, debuts on Disney Plus.
The streaming debut of "Hamilton" seems especially appropriate this year for reasons that even businesses need carefully examine in such tumultuous and challenging times. First off, as the show makes crystal clear, American independence was itself a radical, rule-breaking idea carried out by people we revere as the founding fathers, but who were called rabble rousers, trouble makers and worse at the time.
And to make it even more relevant, the mere airing of the hit show is itself a radical, rule-breaking idea.
In an interview with the Washington Post, the show's creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda laid out that latter point clearly. "The conventional wisdom is you don't put out a movie while your show is still in theaters. The conventional wisdom is wrong," he said.
(Of course, it needs to be pointed out that theaters are closed … and "Hamilton" won't be available to Broadway audiences until next year sometime. And that's if things go well.)
But put that aside for a moment. As Miranda explains, more people will likely see his show in its debut night on streaming television than have seen it on New York's Broadway and all its touring companies to date. He sees that as an opportunity to build Hamilton's audience and reach, not as a risk to getting theatergoers back into expensive seats whenever the virus-caused lockdowns end.
It's that risk taking approach that I think we all need consider, which is why Miranda's works and words matter so much. To begin with, the young composer took countless risks with his production, infusing a Broadways show with a mix of song genres from jazz to hip hop. Plus he cast the historically based show with mainly actors of color. But as he said in past interviews, the revolution wasn't brought about by the rich and powerful.
However, I find his willingness to challenge conventional wisdom the most relatable part of this story. In essence, Miranda is creating an omni-channel presence. He's obviously hoping that theaters will reopen and that patrons will continue to shell out hundreds of dollars to see the show live. But those live performances will now compete with a videotaped version of the show now available for streaming adjacent, as he says, to "The Goofy Movie" and other Disney fare.
I think what he's suggesting is that the video version will expose an extraordinarily massive audience to his masterpiece, but will also entice an entirely new population to see the live production so they actually can be in the room where it happens.
In essence that is omni-channel thinking in a nutshell. Miranda is trying to create a great experience in two very different media, in hopes that the combined effort will be bigger than anything before. Retailers needs adopt similar thinking as they consider all those shopping dollars moving to e-commerce. The online experience must be great on its own, while simultaneously challenging the live, in-store shopping experience to be even more compelling.
"Hamilton" provides endless entertainment and lessons, but maybe nothing is more important than Miranda's quote, "Conventional Wisdom is wrong."
Michael Sansolo can be reached via email at msansolo@morningnewsbeat.com.
His book, "THE BIG PICTURE: Essential Business Lessons From The Movies," co-authored with Kevin Coupe, is available here.
And, his book "Business Rules!" is available from Amazon here.
FaceTime with the Content Guy: Feeding Time
The pandemic has been hard on a lot of retail businesses. It actually has been pretty good for food retailers, who now have to beware the kind of complacency that can kick in when you're having some of the best quarters of your lives. KC has a thought.
Walmart Halts Sale Of 'All Lives Matter' Items On Its Site
USA Today reports that Walmart "will stop the sale of 'All Lives Matter' merchandise on its website, noting that it is putting its emphasis on Black people and other people of color whose lives are being 'impacted by ongoing racial injustice'."
The story says that Walmart "is removing the items which are sold by third-party sellers 'indefinitely,' after hearing from some employees and customers who were concerned about the meaning behind the merchandise."
In a statement, the company said, ""We fundamentally believe all lives do matter and every individual deserves respect. However, as we listened, we came to understand that the way some, but not all, people are using the phrase 'All Lives Matter' in the current environment intentionally minimized the focus on the painful reality of racial inequity."
It was just last week that Walmart said it would no longer fly the Mississippi state flag at its stores in the state because the design included the battle flag of the Confederate States of America. (Walmart banned the sale of the Confederate flag in its stores five years ago.) The Mississippi state legislature has now voted to remove the symbol of the Confederacy from the state flag.
I would suggest that the current pace of change is breathtaking, but there are folks who would justifiably point out that the Civil War ended, as did the Confederacy, 155 years ago … which doesn't exactly suggest warp speed. And, they would point out, the nation is still reckoning with crimes against humanity that took place 400 years ago.
And they'd be right.
Still, good for Walmart. Right move at the right time.
Uber Bidding To Buy Postmates
The Wall Street Journal reports that Uber Technologies is in talks to acquire delivery service Postmates for a cost of about $2.6 billion.
Such a deal, if it is reached, would allow Uber to supplement its Uber Eats business, while continuing the delivery segment's consolidation trend. Early this month, Uber tried to buy GrubHub but was outbid by Just Eat Takeaway, which spent $7 billion to make the acquisition.
The Journal notes that "Postmates, which has held discussions with other possible buyers since at least last year, has been simultaneously planning an initial public offering. Just Monday, people familiar with the matter said the closely held meal-delivery startup was preparing in the coming days to make its IPO filing public, which could presage a trading debut later this summer."
The story points out that "there has been a beehive of deal activity lately among food-delivery companies, which are seeking to better position themselves amid cutthroat competition and as the coronavirus pandemic boosts demand. By combining forces and cutting costs, the companies could jump-start their path to profitability, something investors are increasingly eager to see." Consolidation is seen as a way to bring profitability to a segment in which most players either are losing money or barely breaking even; the pandemic-related problems facing the restaurant industry has not helped.
If the economics of the segment are questionable, that would suggest to me that we're likely to see some pricing increases as consolidated companies look to make a buck. It also seems likely that we're likely to see some boundary busting, as delivery companies that previously served mostly fast feeders branch out to work with supermarkets, figuring that there is money to be found in the category. All of which could lead to even more consolidation.
Giant Integrates E-commerce Functionality Into Single Offering
Ahold Delhaize-owned Giant Food, which serves the Washington, DC, market, yesterday announced "a new integrated eCommerce shopping experience for customers available on the new Giantfood.com website and Giant Food mobile app. The integrated platform joins together the prior Peapod.com and Giantfood.com sites to create a single site on Giantfood.com."
The announcement goes on:
"Customers who had previously opted for pickup or home delivery through Peapod by Giant at Peapod.com will now access the same great eCommerce service through the integrated Giant website or free mobile app. For prior Peapod users, there will be no interruption of service as all Peapod account information, orders and history will transition for users seamlessly to the new Giantfood.com site.
"At a time when demand for online grocery is at an all-time high, Giant is making it easier than ever for customers to safely and efficiently browse aisles, fill virtual grocery carts, plan ahead for an in-store trip and schedule a contactless Giant Pickup or Giant Delivers order, so they can get back to the moments that matter most."
As much as I'm going to miss the Peapod brand - after all, it was a pioneer in this space - this probably makes a lot of sense. If you're going to make e-grocery a real and easy option, you have to make it as frictionless as possible.
Raley's Opens New O-N-E Market Format
West Sacramento, California-based Raley's has opened its first Raley's O-N-E Market in the Northern California town of Truckee, a 35,000 square foot store that it says "blends the grocer's 85-year commitment to exceptional service with a focus on transparency and education to create a unique shopping destination with a highly curated product selection."
According to the announcement, the store "is set apart from a conventional grocery store thanks to a highly curated assortment of products that are fresh, nutritious, organic when possible, minimally processed and sustainably sourced. In every department, the items on the shelves are carefully selected to exclude ingredients from the Raley's O-N-E Market banned ingredient list, such as high fructose corn syrup, artificial preservatives, artificial flavors, artificial sweeteners and hydrogenated fats and oils."
The company goes on: "The first-ever Raley's Something Extra Health program, currently offered exclusively at Raley's O-N-E Market, is a new feature of the company's loyalty program designed to help interested customers on their personal wellness journeys. In-store tours and classes, personalized nutrition counseling and supplement recommendations will be offered by a full-time Nutrition Advisor and Registered Dietitian."
Design notes from the announcement:
"Raley's opted to launch the first Raley's O-N-E Market in Truckee, California, because it is a community that supports an active and healthy lifestyle. The store was designed to resemble a ski lodge to fit the community and will serve as a meeting place for locals and visitors alike. It has two patios, one per floor, with plenty of outdoor seating and each with a fireplace. It also boasts several sustainable elements, including high-efficiency LED lighting, motion sensors in all refrigerated and frozen cases, a highly reflective 'cool roof,' a low water consumption adiabatic refrigeration condensing system, 210 photovoltaic solar panels and an anaerobic digester process that converts organic waste into bio-natural gas to power homes and fuel school buses. The Jeffrey pine trees cleared for the site were harvested and repurposed into the store's design as well, including décor elements and approximately 10,000 square feet of paneling on the A-frame ceiling."
I don't think I've ever been to Truckee … but this certainly makes me want to visit. Plus, I have an old friend who lives in Nevada City, California, which isn't that far away. So now I have two reasons to go there … if I ever, ever travel again.
Random and illustrative stories about the global pandemic and how businesses and various business sectors are trying to recover from it, with brief, occasional, italicized and sometimes gratuitous commentary…
• In the United States, we now have 2,681,954 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, with 128,785 deaths and 1,117,177 reported recoveries.
Globally, there are 10,429,791 confirmed coronavirus cases, 508,630 fatalities, and 5,684,091 reported recoveries.
• Axios reports that "World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday the coronavirus pandemic is 'far from over' and 'is actually speeding up,' as countries continue to reopen economies."
According to the story, " Tedros said although some countries have made progress, 'the worst is yet to come.' He added a 'lack of national unity and lack of global solidarity' was 'helping the virus to spread'."
9:45 am … BREAKING NEWS … The European Union this morning announced that non-essential visitors from just 14 countries will be allowed to visit the 27-nation bloc because their countries have made sufficient progress in lowering their Covid-19 coronavirus infection rates.
The United States, which has the most coronavirus cases of any country on the planet, is not on the list.
Neither are Brazil or Brazil, which are second and third in the global ranking of total coronavirus cases.
China has only been included provisionally, contingent on it signing a reciprocity agreement.
On the list: Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay.
Some context from NBC News:
The E.U. and U.S. experienced infection spikes in late March and early April. But while strict lockdown measures have seen those numbers decline across Europe, in the U.S. there have been recent flare-ups in states such as Florida and Texas while President Donald Trump has encouraged society to reopen … Back in March, when Europe was the world's coronavirus center, Trump announced sweeping travel restrictions - without telling any of his E.U. counterparts first.
"But the E.U. says its selective travel list was not about political grudges and instead is based on epidemiological criteria.
"A European briefing last week noted that the U.S. had seen 107 cases per 100,000 people in the previous 14 days, whereas the average across the E.U. was 16 cases per 100,000 people."
• Axios quotes former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb as saying that "even aggressive action in virus hotspots won't show effects for weeks, so Americans should expect case numbers to continue to climb. 'Look at New York. New York implemented the stay-at-home order on March 20, it was a Friday. It went into effect on Sunday. They peaked in terms of the number of daily cases that they were reporting on April 7,' Gottlieb said.
"'So almost three weeks after they implemented the stay-at-home order, the cases continued to build and then they started to slowly decline'."
• The Los Angeles Times reports that "Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipation of the Fourth of July holiday, a move health officials say is necessary in light of an alarming spike in coronavirus cases … All public beaches, piers, public beach parking lots, beach bike paths 'that traverse that sanded portion of the beach' and beach access points will be closed from 12:01 a.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday."
"I know how much we look forward to this time of year," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. "But not this year. This year we have to think about saving lives to protect what we have in this country ... and to make sure our economy doesn't take more steps backward."
The Times reports that "Garcetti said that at the current rate of spread, Los Angeles will revert to numbers reached at the height of the pandemic in about a week. Over the next week, the county's infection rate will increase, from one of every 140 people being infectious to one out of every 70 people. At the same time, hospital capacity is decreasing."
"Garcetti also said there is a 'hard pause' on reopening any additional businesses, including concert halls, theme parks, movie theaters and bars."
• The Los Angeles Times reports that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has "ordered a limited closure of bars in seven counties that have fallen short of the state's guidelines for more than two weeks," saying that there has been "a 45% increase in coronavirus cases in the last seven days and said the rate of positive tests is now at 5.5%. As of Monday, the state is monitoring and working with 19 counties that have failed to meet guidelines for hospitalizations, transmission of the virus or sufficient testing for at least three days."
According to the story, "The new state requirement shutters only bars that do not serve food in Los Angeles, Fresno, Kern, San Joaquin, Tulare, Kings and Imperial counties. Bars are allowed to remain open in those counties and serve alcohol if they sell dine-in meals in the same transaction and meet state safety guidelines for restaurants. Establishments that do not traditionally serve food are also allowed to contract with an outside food vendor to remain open.
The state recommended that bars in eight other counties also close their doors under the same criteria."
• Fox News reports that "New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Monday that indoor dining in the state will not resume this week as concerns mount of the surging number of coronavirus cases nationwide … Murphy said he chose to make the decision not to allow indoor dining to resume after seeing reports of overcrowding, a disregard for social distancing, and few people wearing masks at restaurants across the state."
"We had planned to loosen restrictions this week. However, after #COVID19 spikes in other states driven by, in part, the return of indoor dining, we have decided to postpone indoor dining indefinitely," Murphy tweeted.
The story notes that "troubling surges in confirmed cases have worsened in several states that set single-day records for new cases last week, including Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, Texas and Oklahoma. Some of those states also broke hospitalization records, as did North Carolina and South Carolina."
• Axios reports that Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey "is ordering bars, clubs, movie theaters, waterparks and gyms to close for 30 days in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus … Ducey also said that an executive order going into effect at midnight would ban organized events of more than 50 people and push back the first day of school for in-person learning until Aug. 17."
The story points out that "Arizona, which has reported more than 3,000 new cases in five of the last seven days, is one of several states that has been forced to put its reopening plans on pause as the outbreak has accelerated across the Sun Belt."
• From the Seattle Times:
"Amazon employees and contractors who worked in the company's operations business throughout June will receive a one-time bonus — $500 for full-time hourly employees — as thanks for their work during the pandemic, the company announced Monday.
"The bonus for each individual ranges from $150 for contract delivery drivers who worked at least 10 hours in June to $3,000 for owners of small delivery companies set up to drive for Amazon. Full-time employees working in the company's warehouses and Whole Foods Market stores will get a $500 bonus. Divided across a 40-hour-per-week schedule for the month of June, the $500 bonus is slightly less than $3 an hour.
"In recognition of their role helping the company respond to a surge in demand as the coronavirus upended normal life, Amazon paid its hourly employees $2 an hour extra during part of March, April and May, and increased overtime pay. It canceled the pay boost June 1, despite the continued spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus."
• Forbes reports that "starting July 1, American Airlines will no longer leave the middle seat empty and allow flights to be booked at full capacity.
"The airline said it will notify customers and allow them 'to move to more open flights when available, all without incurring any cost.' After boarding, passengers will also be allowed to move to a different seat in their ticketed cabin if there's space - taking into consideration any aircraft weight or balance restrictions, the airline said … United Airlines is also booking full flights, but Southwest, Delta and JetBlue are continuing to enforce social distancing by limiting seating capacity."
The story points out that "the number of people traveling is increasing after plummeting in March, though it is still nowhere near pre-pandemic levels: According to the Transportation Security Administration, the agency screened 623,624 passengers on June 25, which is up 83% from the same day the previous month."
Gee. What a terrific position to take at a time when coronavirus infections around the country are surging. Wait for some flight to be identified as a "death plane" because of all the infections that are transmitted there, and then all the lawsuits that emerge from that and other incidents.
Sometimes I think the airlines are their own worst enemy.
• The Wall Street Journal reports that "Las Vegas Strip hospitality workers filed a lawsuit against casino operators on Monday, accusing the companies of failing to protect employees from Covid-19, one of the first efforts to hold employers legally responsible for infections as cases in the U.S. surge.
"The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas against the owners of Harrah's, MGM Grand and Bellagio casinos, says the companies didn't immediately shut down food-and-beverage outlets and other areas after learning of positive cases, didn't immediately inform employees when co-workers tested positive and didn't adequately contact-trace before allowing colleagues of infected employees to return to the job."
At the moment, at least as I understand it, companies are not shielded from such lawsuits by employees. And so this is a battle that I suspect we're going to see play out in a number of other places.
• Variety reports that "AMC Theatres, the world's largest exhibition chain, is pushing back its reopening by two weeks.
"The move comes as coronavirus rates continue to rise in the United States, where AMC has the bulk of its operations, and after Hollywood blockbusters such as Tenet and Mulan delayed their release by several weeks. AMC said it now expects to open 450 of its more than 600 theaters on July 30. It hopes to be essentially fully operational by early August."
The story goes on: "AMC had initially planned on reopening on July 15. It's possible those plans could be foiled yet again. Major markets such as New York City and Los Angeles have yet to allow cinemas to reopen and studios are hesitant about distributing movies in theaters without those cities, both of which account for a major percentage of box office revenues. Complicating matters is the fact that states such as Florida and Texas that have taken an accelerated approach to reopening their businesses have also suffered from surging rates of coronavirus infections."
I wouldn't bet on it.
• Variety reports that the Broadway league announced yesterday that New York City's theater district will remain dark until early 2021.
The story says that "this marks the fourth extension for Broadway, prolonging the shutdowns that began in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. It's the longest period of time that theaters have been closed.
"The Broadway League announced Monday that theater owners will refund or exchange all tickets purchased for musicals and plays through Jan. 3. But there's a chance that some shows might not return until even later … The Broadway League said it continues to work with city and state officials to find the safest way to reopen, including screening and testing for audience members and employees, enhanced cleaning and sanitizing measures, and revamping backstage protocols. Broadway, as an industry, is particularly at risk because theaters are often small and tightly packed with patrons."
Variety notes that "when Broadway shut down on March 12, 31 musicals and plays were running, while eight new shows were in preview and another eight were preparing to debut in the spring. Already, three shows — Disney's musical "Frozen," Martin McDonagh's play "Hangmen" and Edward Albee's revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" with Laurie Metcalf — have announced they won't return when Broadway reopens.
"Other shows, such as Neil Simon's revival of "Plaza Suite" starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, have delayed their openings until 2021."
Worth Reading: "The Absence of a Capable Guardian"
The New Yorker has a long piece that indicts the dollar store retail segment for, in essence, being more concerned about the prices of the products it sells than the cost of the lives that have been lost because of a lackadaisical approach to safety.
"The Gun Violence Archive, a Web site that uses local news reports and law-enforcement sources to tally crimes involving firearms, lists more than two hundred violent incidents involving guns at Family Dollar or Dollar General stores since the start of 2017, nearly fifty of which resulted in deaths. The incidents include carjackings in the parking lot, drug deals gone bad, and altercations inside stores. But a large number involve armed robberies in which workers or customers have been shot. Since the beginning of 2017, employees have been wounded in shootings or pistol-whippings in at least thirty-one robberies; in at least seven other incidents, employees have been killed. The violence has not let up in recent months, when requirements for customers to wear masks have made it harder for clerks to detect shoppers who are bent on robbery. In early May, a worker at a Family Dollar in Flint, Michigan, was fatally shot after refusing entry to a customer without a mask.
"The number of incidents can be explained in part by the stores' ubiquity: there are now more than sixteen thousand Dollar Generals and nearly eight thousand Family Dollars in the United States, a fifty-per-cent increase in the past decade. (By comparison, Walmart has about forty-seven hundred stores in the U.S.) The stores are often in high-crime neighborhoods, where there simply aren't many other businesses for criminals to target. Routine gun violence has fallen sharply in prosperous cities around the country, but it has remained stubbornly high in many of the cities and towns where these stores predominate. The glowing signs of the discount chains have become indicators of neglect, markers of a geography of the places that the country has written off.
"But these factors are not sufficient to explain the trend. The chains' owners have done little to maintain order in the stores, which tend to be thinly staffed and exist in a state of physical disarray. In the nineteen-seventies, criminologists such as Lawrence Cohen and Marcus Felson argued that rising crime could be partly explained by changes in the social environment which lowered the risk of getting caught. That theory gained increasing acceptance in the decades that followed. 'The likelihood of a crime occurring depends on three elements: a motivated offender, a vulnerable victim, and the absence of a capable guardian,' the sociologist Patrick Sharkey wrote, in 'Uneasy Peace,' from 2018."
You read the entire piece here.
The sentence that haunts me from the story is this one:
The chains' executives are candid about what is driving their growth: widening income inequality and the decline of many city neighborhoods and entire swaths of the country.
It seems likely, as recession happens, caused by and then exacerbated by the pandemic, that inequality and decline will grow, and the situation only will get worse. Attention must be paid.
• CNN reports that more companies are joining the advertiser boycott of Facebook, which is centered on what is seen as the social media site's failure to stop hate speech on the platform.
New companies that have said they will pull their ads for a period of time and reconsider their approach to social media advertising are Clorox, Adidas, Beam Suntory, Blue Bottle Coffee, Denny's, Hersey, HP, and Ford.
They join companies that include The North Face, REI, Patagonia, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry's, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Eddie Bauer, and Unilever.
• From Bloomberg:
"Amazon.com Inc., Overstock.com Inc., and Fisher Scientific Inc. have won highly lucrative U.S. government e-commerce contracts, giving them the power to control how vendors sell billions of dollars in goods to federal agencies.
"The General Services Administration announced on Friday that it had chosen the companies to develop portals to sell products such as office supplies to federal agencies, opening up a new multi million-dollar revenue stream for the firms.
"The GSA has said the project, known as the Commercial Platforms Initiative, is intended to streamline the government's Byzantine acquisition process by making it, faster, cheaper and more transparent."
• The Consumer Brands Association (CBA) has announced that it has "brought together 23 consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and retailers to launch a new task force that will study the impact of a contactless pick-up and delivery protocol to create greater efficiencies and reduce employee risk during deliveries. The Contactless Delivery Task Force brings together manufacturers, supply chain partners and retailers to develop scalable, uniform standards for safely transporting and exchanging freight, with an initial focus on electronic bills of lading (eBOL)."
• MLIve reports that "cash temporarily won't be accepted at Meijer self-checkout lanes due to a national shortage of coins. Customers who want to pay with bills will have to visit Meijer's staffed checkout lanes for the time being, according to a company statement. The change is in effect at most of Grand Rapids-based retail giant's 250 supercenters."
The story says that "the national coin shortage is a side effect of the economic slowdown related to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, according to the U.S. Department of Treasury. Reduced business activity means smaller amounts of cash, including coins, are circulating through the economy."
• Los Angeles-based Gelson's yesterday announced a new rewards program that it says will allow customers to "earn points for every dollar they spend. The more you spend, the more you get! With four different tiers (Foodie, Gourmet, Connoisseur, Epicure) come different perks; free items, Gelson's brand BOGO events, % off whole store events and first to market samplers."
The retailer says that "Instacart is also integrated into the program making it easy for customers to order online, pick up and still earn points."
So now Instacart will know not only who orders what, but who Gelson's best customers are. Only making it easier for Instacart to go after those customers if it decides such a move in its own best interests.
• The Associated Press reports that Elsie the Cow has a new barn to call home, as Borden has been sold for $340 million to Capitol Peak Partners and KKR, the latter serving as a minority investor.
According to the story, "Borden's 12 U.S. plants - which produce 500 million gallons of milk per year - will remain open and its 3,300 workers will keep their jobs, the company said. Borden CEO Tony Sarsam will step down when the sale is completed."
I wouldn't count on the status quo staying that way for very long. The story also points out that "Borden, founded in 1857, has been hammered by changing American tastes. Milk consumption is down as U.S. refrigerators are increasingly stocked with juice, soda and milk substitutes made from soy or almonds. Liquid milk consumption in the U.S. has tumbled more than 40% since 1975." Which doesn't sound like the kind of situation likely to remain in place for very long … especially since Capitol Peak's founder is Gregg Engles, the former chairman-CEO of both Dean Foods and WhiteWave Foods, which makes Horizon organic milk and Silk plant-based milk. In other words, not someone likely to take a hands-off approach.
Your Views: Tightrope Walking, No Net
Responding to yesterday's story about Whole Foods saying store employees cannot wear Black Lives Matter masks at work, one MNB reader wrote:
Whole Foods is entitled to maintain there policy! It's not racist or prejudice against anyone. Furthermore, I'm sick and tired of these groups! They are now reverse discrminating, and forcing their views and philosophy down everyone's throats!! "Comply or pay the price" That's not freedom!!! It's terroism, intimidating, and violent elimination of people's rights!
It's time EVERYONES rights is protected!!!
These companies along with the authorities are complete cowards!!
Sick of it all!
No argument that Whole Foods is entitled to maintain its policy. That's not the question. The issue is whether it should, and whether that will be viewed as disingenuous considering the company's previous statements and actions on these issues. And I think it is entirely fair to say that Whole Food's position is not inherently racist or prejudiced - it is walking a tightrope and trying not to fall off it. But that may not be possible in the current climate. The net ain't what it used to be. Which probably is a good thing.
I would, however, argue with the notion that everybody's rights need to be protected. A business does not have the right to discriminate against people because of their color or ethnicity or gender or religion. If you are a business owner, you may have the right to hold certain opinions, but you do not have the right to implement those opinions in terms of policies that discriminate. You don't have the right to act on those opinions in other ways … hence, the notion of hate crimes.
I'd also gently suggest that if you were faced with a world in which you were suspect or discriminated against because of the color of your skin, you might be a little resentful, too. If you then protested or marched or coordinated boycotts as a way of drawing attention to inequality and societal inequities, I suspect that you might resist being characterized as a terrorist. You might, in fact, be "sick" of it all.
Businesses are being forced - like it or not - to make choices that have little to do with value and have everything to do with moral and ethical values.
I think we all would do well to consider the words written by playwright Robert Bolt in "A Man For All Seasons," and put into the mouth of Sir Thomas More:
"If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we must stand fast a little - even at the risk of being heroes."


Previous research suggests that people's representations of alcoholic beverages play an important role in drinking behavior. However, relatively little is known about the contents of these representations. Here, we introduce the property generation task as a tool to explore these representations in detail. In a laboratory study (N = 110), and a bar field-study (N = 56), participants listed typical properties of alcoholic beverages, sugary beverages, and water. Each of these properties was then categorized using a previously developed, hierarchical coding scheme. For example, the property "sweet" was categorized as referring to "taste", which falls under "sensory experience", which falls under "consumption situation". Afterwards, participants completed measures of drinking behavior and alcohol craving. Results showed that alcoholic beverages were strongly represented in terms of consumption situations, with 57% and 69% of properties relating to consumption in the laboratory and the bar study, respectively. Specifically, alcoholic beverages were more strongly represented in terms of the social context of consumption (e.g., "with friends") than the other beverages. In addition, alcoholic beverages were strongly represented in terms of sensory experiences (e.g. "sweet") and positive outcomes (e.g. "creates fun"), as were the sugary beverages and water. In Study 1, the extent to which alcoholic beverages were represented in terms of social context was positively associated with craving and regularly consuming alcohol. The property generation task provides a useful tool to access people's idiosyncratic representations of alcoholic beverages. This may further our understanding of drinking behavior, and help to tailor research and interventions to reduce drinking of alcoholic and other high-calorie beverages.
Keesman, M., Aarts, H., Ostafin, B.D., Verwei, S., Häfner, M., and Papies, E.K.