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Entrepreneurship Weekly Roundup 3/10/17
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Weekly Roundup is a McNair Center series compiling and summarizing the week's most important Entrepreneurship and Innovation news.
Here is what you need to know about entrepreneurship this week:
A Tale of Untapped Potential: Cincinnati
Eliza Martin, Research Assistant, McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
McNair's Martin focuses on Cincinnati's entrepreneurial ecosystem this week. While this midwestern city might appear a surprising or unlikely choice, many of Cincinnati's entrepreneurs have thrived in recent years due to the city's ample resources. For starters, the city is home to ten Fortune 500 companies, including Macy's and Kroger. Its large corporations offer an invaluable network of resources and access to capital for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Furthermore, the University of Cincinnati, which boasts a marketing program that ranks among the top five in the nation, and Xavier University both offer university accelerator programs designed to support young entrepreneurs as they look to launch a business plan. In addition to university accelerator programs, entrepreneurs in Cincinnati also have the option of applying to three other accelerators within the region, The Brandery, UpTech and Ocean Accelerator.
Although Cincinnati is home to a variety of different VC funds and investment options, like CincyTech and Cintrifuse, the city closes significantly fewer deals on average per year than the likes of Austin or Denver. Martin explains this smaller number of deal closures as a function of lower levels of VC activity and fewer funding rounds. To compete with major entrepreneurial hubs, Cincinnati must increase its VC presence even further.
Wanted: More Women Entrepreneurs
Taylor Jacobe, Research Assistant, McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
In her latest post for the McNair Center, Jacobe analyzes how improving female representation in entrepreneurship could boost economic growth in the U.S. Currently, women-owned businesses account for only 16 percent of employing companies. While women entrepreneurs tend to perform as well as, if not better than, their male counterparts, many cite lack of access to capital and limited mentorship opportunities as major obstacles to success.
According to a study from the National Women's Business Council, women entrepreneurs start their businesses with 50 percent less capital than men. A survey conducted by the Kauffman Foundation revealed that 79 percent of women entrepreneurs drew from their personal funds when launching their business. Perhaps more telling, women are three times less likely than men to receive funding from angel and seed investors for their startups. By tackling gender bias in VC firms and other barriers to capital, public and private initiatives can better integrate women into America's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
As Snap Ascended, These Rival Apps Faltered
Joanna Glasner, Reporter, TechCrunch
According to TechCrunch's Glasner, VCs love messaging apps for a number of reasons: "massive scalability, low startup costs, loyal users and the potential to mint billions without having to turn a profit." Messaging apps present a huge potential for success for investors in the modern age, exemplified by Snap's recent IPO and WhatsApp's acquisition by Facebook for $17 billion in 2014. Despite this rosy picture, many VC-backed startups that were messaging apps have fallen through the cracks over the years. TechCrunch recently took a closer look at how much capital has been invested into messaging apps only to find that VCs have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into companies that haven't raised a funding round in two years. Glasner concedes that it is too early to dismiss these once promising startups as failed investments. Regardless the outcomes of these startups, prospects of success in the messaging app arena are daunting.
Y Combinator Opens Registration for Its Free Startup School Online Course
Ken Yeung, Contributor, VentureBeat
Y Combinator,one of the most successful seed accelerators in the U.S., has funded over 1,464 startups since its founding in 2005. Known for its excellent track record of spotting tech giants (Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb, to name a few), its companies have a total valuation of over $80 billion. The famous accelerator recently announced that it would be opening up its Startup School event to the masses through a massively open online course (MOOC). The 10-week online course will offer entrepreneurs, who are not enrolled in Y Combinator's core program, access to online courses taught by successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and industry greats. Lessons will focus on important topics in the startup business, such as "idea generation, product development, growth, culture building, fundraising and more." Y Combinator partner Jessica Livingston told VentureBeat back in 2015 that the accelerator's mission was "to help startups at whatever stage they're in become billion-dollar companies."
Lemnos Just Raised a $50 Million Third Fund to (Mostly) Focus on Hardware
Connie Loizos and Katie Roof, Contributors, TechCrunch
San Francisco-based VC firm Lemnos was founded in 2014 as a firm focused on seed-staged investment into hardware companies. Successful companies like Fitbit, Oculus, Square and GoPro have boosted investor confidence in hardware companies in recent years. Lemnos recently announced that it will discontinue its incubator program to focus solely on investing in promising software development and hardware startups. The announcement marks a new stage in the VC firm's short history, as Lemnos used to invest exclusively in hardware companies. When asked about possible investment opportunities moving forward, Lemnos executives told TechCrunch that they were very excited about the field of robotics.
This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Greg Satell, Contributor, Harvard Business Review
In 2011 the National Science Foundation (NSF), headed by Subra Suresh, founded I-Corps, a program designed to help transform scientists into entrepreneurs. The idea for the program originated when Suresh noticed that many of the scientific discoveries, made possible with NSF research grants, were not breaking out of their academic silos and into the marketplace. Harvard Business Review's Satell describes the program as an initiative by NSF to "foster better links between government and industry." Errol Arkilic, director of I-Corps, initially reached out to Steve Blank to help design the program, which is now an 8-week course for graduate students. The curriculum adopts the philosophies of Blank's lean startup movement. Blank stresses the importance of developing products that actually address consumer needs; early on, Arkilic realized that many aspiring scientist-entrepreneurs create solutions to problems that consumers don't want. Upon completion of the entrepreneurship training, participants partner with VentureWell, a nonprofit accelerator.
As of last May, I-Corps successfully trained over 700 teams. In aggregate, I-Corps teams have raised over $80 million from government grants and VC firms. Significantly, 90 percent of the program's participants say that I-Corps changed their approach to conducting research and writing grant proposals. In response to the program's success, the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense implemented programs that resemble the I-Corps model.
When Will All the Unicorns Exit? VC Liquidity Lagging behind Expectations
Mikey Tom, Senior Financial Writer, PitchBook
PitchBook's Tom explains that "for the VC model to work, huge rounds need to lead to huge exits." However, while 2015 was a year of unicorn funding rounds, 2016 did not bring large exits. In fact, VC-backed exits reached their lowest point in six years in Q4 of 2010. Part of the decline in exits could potentially be explained by an increased buildup of capital in private markets; abundance of VC in private markets might lead startups to wait longer to go public or get acquired. Another important statistic revealed by PitchBook's analysis of VC liquidity in 2016: the median size of corporate M&A deals increased – by a lot. The total exit value of corporate M&A deal reached its second highest level in the decade, indicating larger and fewer acquisitions. On the other hand, the amount of capital raised and the number of completed IPOs in 2016 reached lows not observed since 2010 for VC-backed firms.
These Are the 50 Most Promising Startups You've Never Heard Of
Ellen Huet, Reporter, Bloomberg
Bloomberg recently released a list of the 50 most promising U.S. startups. Market researcher Quid generated the list by looking at over 50,000 startups and considering factors, such pace of funding, industry and history of the company's founders.All 50 startups were founded within the last six years, and they represent a variety of industries. Startups involved in online security, fraud detection, AI, autonomous driving and AR drew the most capital. VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital each invested in six startups that made the cut.
The Weekly Roundup will return on March 24.
Tags Access to Capital, Acquistions, Cincinnati, CincyTech, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, I-Corps, IPO, McNair Center, National Science Foundation, Small Business, Snap, Startup, Startups, The Brandery, Unicorns, UpTech, VC, Women, Y Combinator
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The International Entrepreneur Rule: The US Startup Visa
Ramee Saleh, Research Assistant, McNair Center for Entrepreneurship
During the last days of the Obama Administration, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) passed the International Entrepreneur Rule. The legislation intends to attract international entrepreneurs to the U.S. by granting them "discretionary parole."
Under the rule, entrepreneurs can apply for temporary five year visas, as long as they partially own a startup that has received at least $250,000 in VC funding from "established U.S. investors" or $100,000 from "government entities." If a startup fails to meet these funding requirements, the applicant must prove that a "significant public benefit" would result from the his or her entry into the United States. Due to the strict standards, the Department of Homeland Security estimates the program to admit only 2,940 entrepreneurs annually.
Scheduled to go into effect July 17, the International Entrepreneur Rule is still subject to change by any reforms to the H-1B visa program by the Trump Administration.
With $6B in Deals in 2016, ID Management Is a Hot Sector You May Have Missed
Joanna Glasner, Contributor, TechCrunch
In 2016, startups involved in identity management collectively claimed over $6 billion in acquisitions from private equity buyers. Identity management startups also experienced successful funding rounds, raising over $200 million from VCs. These startups are responding to a growing need for improvements in health care IT and authentication. Last year,ECRI Institute, a global nonprofit focused on patient safety, listed "patient identification errors" as the second most important safety concern for health care organizations.
TechCrunch's Glasner highlights tech unicorn Otka, an identification management and authentication platform provider, that has raised over $200 million from VCs. Otka is considering going public this year.
Lawmakers Try to Stop State-Sponsored Retirement Plans
Anne Tergese, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Last week, Republican Congressmen introduced measures to prevent small businesses from automatically enrolling employees in state or locally sponsored retirement plans. The bill comes as several states have enacted retirement savings programs that automatically deduct earnings from employee's paychecks for deposit into individual retirement accounts.
These programs only affect residents who do not have access to a workplace retirement plan; AARP estimates that this number stands at 55 million people nationwide by. AARP executive vice president Nancy LeaMond has publicly stated that Congress should take steps to support, rather than end, these state savings programs.
Supporters of the bill believe that state-sponsored retirement plans "discourage small businesses from offering private-sector plans" by forcing employees "into government-run plans with fewer protections and less control over their hard-earned savings."
Banks Are Finally Sprouting Anew in America
Rachel Witkowski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
In the past few months, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation received the greatest volume of applications for "startup banks" since the financial crisis.The increase reflects an improving economy and expectations for future deregulation of the financial sector.
Startup, or "community," banks are traditionally viewed as banks that hold less than $1 billion in assets. According to Q3 FDIC data from last year, community banks are responsible for 43% of loans to small businesses. The Wall Street Journal's Witkowski reports that many community bankers believe that "the decline in the number of banks has led to fewer lending options for startups and small businesses." Supporters of deregulation believe that greater numbers of community banks spur economic growth and job creation.
Don't Panic Labs Pioneers "Dev-for-Equity" Model to Help Startups
Christine McGuigan, Reporter, Silicon Prairie News
Don't Panic Labs is an offshoot of the engineering arm of successful VC fund, Nebraska Global. Don't Panic Labs adopts a "dev-for-equity" model, assisting startups and entrepreneurs with software and product development in return for company equity. The firm also provides software development services for publicly traded companies that do not require capital investment.
Despite serving established companies, Bill Udell, Integrator for Don't Panic Labs, told Silicon Prairie News that the firm's "DNA is in creating startup companies." In 2016, the firm poured $396,000 of dev-for-equity investment into startups. Don't Panic Lab focuses on product development and training for its clients' in-house software engineers.
PitchBook Brings Company Financial Data to Its Mobile App
John Mannes, Writer, TechCrunch
MorningStar, Chicago-based investment research and management firm, acquired PitchBook in 2016. Pitchbook is an industry leader in providing investors with up-to-date coverage of VC, PE and M&A transactions. According TechCrunch's Mannes, PitchBook, although known for its comprehensive coverage of tech firms, is also increasingly expanding its database to include coverage on non-tech companies as well.
PitchBook recently announced plans to add financial data for 226,000 private companies to its mobile app. The update will provide the database's 7,000 active members with previously unavailable insight into the financials and revenue figures of private companies.
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Ford to Invest $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence Start-Up
Mike Isac, technology reporter based in The Times's San Francisco bureau, and Neal E. Boudette, Reporter, The New York Times
Many automakers are hoping to achieve some of the success that many Silicon Valley startups have found by investing in autonomous vehicle technology and ride-hailing services. Ford recently announced that it will invest $1B in Argo AI, startup focused on utilizing artificial intelligence to develop self-driving cars. Mark Fields, president and CEO of Ford, told reporters last week that the automaker hopes to become "part of the ecosystem of Silicon Valley."
With the rise in popularity of "mobility services," car ownership is growing increasingly unnecessary for consumers living in urban centers. Ford's move suggests an industry-wide shift in strategy, as traditional automakers must adapt to shifting consumer attitudes. For instance, last year General Motors invested $500 million in ride-hailing startup, Lyft, and acquired Cruise Automation, a startup geared toward developing roadway technologies that support autonomous vehicles.
Fields explains the motives behind Ford's investment: "If we can combine the best of a start-up and marry that with proper equity compensation, then that's the best of both worlds."
Tags Acquistions, Argo AI, Banking, Development, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Immigration, Innovation, International Entrepreneur Rule, McNair Center, PitchBook, Private Equity, Regulation, Small Business, Startup, Startup Visa, Startups, VC
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Nationalism is not putting a damper on this trillion-dollar sector
Elaine Pofeldt, Contributor, CNBC.com
CNBC Contributor Elain Pofeldt observes that the United States and Europe are witnessing a rise in nationalist and anti-globalization sentiment. She cites Mr. Trump's election and the Brexit referendum as evidence. The trend may reflect a global desire to redistribute market and government benefits domestically – and a disapproval of corporations that send wages abroad and profits to the already wealthy.
In this uncertain climate, one economic principle remains key: Entrepreneurship fosters economic growth.
The Kauffman Foundation's recently released Global Entrepreneurship Index emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurship to economic growth. This annual index rates countries on the health and quality of their entrepreneurial ecosystems. There is a strong correlation between a country's GDP and its technological advancements. Governments should support a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem if they are truly serious about encouraging the country's economic growth.
Currently the U.S. ranks number one on the index. The index suggests that the strength of the U.S. entrepreneurial environment lies in a strong perception for opportunity. One area of opportunity that U.S. entrepreneurs are increasingly tapping into are the regulated sectors, such as health care, energy and education.
Social entrepreneurs is also on the rise. Jonathan Ortmans, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, notes how this relates to national policy: "We're now seeing a much larger number of public-sector leaders — government at the national and local level — jumping in and asking, `How do we tackle this and build stronger entrepreneurial ecosystems?'"
The Role of Entrepreneurship in Job Creation and Economic Growth
Margarita Hakobyan, Contributor, Huffington Post
Huffington Post's Hakobyan emphasizes the role of entrepreneurship in job creation and economic growth. According to a report released by the Small Business Administration in 2012, small businesses created 60 percent of new jobs in the previous decade.
New businesses challenge existing markets and encourage competition by offering new or improved products. Successful entrants often steer customers away from existing companies. Disruptions in the market consequently force existing companies to innovate or watch their market share diminish.
Although the manufacturing sector suffered job losses from advancements in automation and other technologies, its productivity and scale have both risen considerably.
Manufacturing is an exception – many market disruptions create jobs. For example, Netflix, dismantled the video rental industry but created jobs by feeding a demand for large-scale processing of DVDs and maintenance of the grocery store kiosks that sell these DVDs.
Small businesses can also contribute to economic growth through their flexibility and diversity. Flexibility allows startups to react quickly to market conditions. Startups can meet consumer demands faster than established corporations because large companies often must follow long administrative processes before implementing reforms.
Venture Capital Firm Navigates Uncharted Course to Success
Michael J. de la Merced, Reporter, New York Times
The Times' Merced reports on venture capital firm, Spark Capital. The firm is known for early investment in promising startups like Twitter, Tumblr, Slack and Oculus.
Spark is also wading into uncertain industries. It recently invested in Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based startup that develops software for self-driving cars. At a time when Google and Uber declared self-driving vehicles "among their top research priorities," the success of less funded and less established startups competing to break into the same market seemed doubtful. Big industry players already dominated the research on self-automated cars, so most VC firms turned to alternative ventures within less-explored markets. Despite the industry's conventional wisdom, Cruise Automation was sold to General Motors for $1 billion within months.
Spark adopts a nontraditional process for investment decisions that focuses on products rather than markets. Instead of specializing in certain industries or markets, partners at Spark can bring any prospective venture to the table. Investors then debate the merits of pursuing the opportunity until a consensus among the partners is reached. Spark accredits its most successful decisions to an "appreciation for good product design."
In total, Spark manages $3 billion in investment funds. Its fifth venture fund will have a first-close target of $400 million.
Ever Wanted to Back a Start-Up? Indiegogo Opens the Door to Small Investors
Stacy Cowley, Reporter, The New York Times
Indiegogo is a popular crowdfunding site that enables small venture capitalists to invest personal money into promising and creative ventures. The major crowdfunding site is the first to take advantage of a new securities rule, which allows "ordinary investors to risk up to a few thousands dollars a year backing private companies."
Before the rule was passed, only accredited investors, or those with an annual income greater than $200,000 or net worth of $1 million, could invest personal funds in these riskier ventures. With the passage of the new rule, crowdfunding backers can own equity stakes in the companies they invest in.
The new rule addresses an issue raised during Oculus' acquisition by Facebook. Oculus raised millions of dollars on crowdfunding sites during its early investment stages. The startup used the investments raised by crowdfunding backers to prove to venture capitalists that there was a market demand for its products. Investors poured money into the company, and Facebook subsequently acquired Oculus. The firm's original crowdfunding backers reaped no gains; angel and venture capital investors took home the profits.
The Reason Silicon Valley Beat Out Boston for VC Dominance
Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang, Contributors, Harvard Business Review
The Boston-Cambridge and Bay Area have histories in technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC). However, since the 1990s, Silicon Valley has consistently snatched a larger share of all VC investments in the US than its Northeastern counterpart. New England's share in VC investments plateaued at roughly 10 percent. Meanwhile, the Bay Area's share of VC investments has grown from 22.6 percent to just over 50 percent.
HBR's Gupta and Wang identify cultural factors and state-level policies as possible explanations for the divergence between the two coastal VC hubs. For example, Massachusetts, unlike California, allows businesses to include noncompete covenants in their employment contracts. Noncompete covenants offer company loyalty, but they can also remove the need for fast-paced innovation that many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs face.
Additionally, New England and Silicon Valley differ in the type of investors and companies that they attract. The Northeast dominates in the life sciences; in the first three quarters of 2016, 60 percent of New England investments involved ventures focused on biotechnology and medical devices. Silicon Valley, on the other hand, is home to many of the startups that develop platform technologies integral to the digital age.
According to Gupta and Wang, California's stronghold on the digital and tech industry has resulted in a "growing agglomeration effect." Increasingly, entrepreneurs are migrating to or launching their businesses in the Bay Area to gain access to these synergies that come from being immersed in the world's greatest entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Womply bags $30M to Help Small Businesses Harness Data
Tomio Geron, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
San Francisco-based Womply raised $30 million in its most recent round of financing, bringing its funding total up to $50 million since 2011.
The startup's platform offers a "web-based suite of software tools" that allows small businesses to analyze performance data on sales, marketing, consumer behavior, revenue and online reputation.
Womply serves a diverse set of clients, ranging from salons to legal firms, but focuses on supporting service-oriented small business. The startup allows small businesses to gain valuable insights into their performance and consumer base. President Cory Capoccia says Womply is helping small businesses increase their efficacy "by "building technology to help grow, protect and simplify running small businesses."
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Spotlight on Rice Entrepreneurs: East-West Tea
Carlin Cherry, Research Assistant, McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
East-West Tea is a student-run business that sells boba tea to Rice University students. Initially developed as a project for an undergraduate marketing class, East-West launched operations last month. The McNair Center's Carlin Cherry interviews operations manager Andrew Maust.
Tags 2016 Election, Accredited Investor, Acquistions, Boston, Brexit, Cambridge MA, Crowdfunding, Economic Growth, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Entrepreneurs, Global Entrepreneurship Index, Indiegogo, Jobs, Kauffman Foundation, McNair Center, Rice, Rice University, San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Small Business, Small Business Administration, Spark Capital, VC, Venture Capital, Womply
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Big Problems for Small Practices
Catherine Kirby, Research Assistant, McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Kirby examines the effects of the Affordable Care Act on entrepreneurship within health care. U.S. health care regulations currently hinder entrepreneurship among healthcare professionals, particularly for doctors seeking to establish private practices.
Kirby recommends that the U.S. implement policy changes that would better foster entrepreneurship among physicians. Measures like restructuring reimbursement rates and improving quality of care requirements would reduce the burdens that many private practices face and enable physicians to start small medical practices.
U.S. early stage investment holds up, late stage plunges
Joanna Glasner and Gené Teare, Contributors, CrunchBase
Venture capital investment slowed in the third quarter. Glasner and Teare write that estimates relying on end-of-quarter data may overstate declines in early stage investment.
Crunchbase compares its own projected funding totals with reported round count totals for the third quarter. Quarterly projected funds show bullish early stage investment. When factoring in projections, Crunchbase's report for the third quarter finds that U.S. startups continue to enjoy high levels of strategic, seed and venture capital investment during seed and early stage rounds. However, there is a steep decline in late stage investment, with fewer companies raising late stage rounds and investors pouring less money into Series C and later rounds.
Startups get bought not sold
Ken Elefant, managing director at Intel Capital, PE Hub
Many entrepreneurs focus, sometimes shortsightedly, on the dream of reaching an IPO. As a result, start-ups often fail to develop important relationships with corporate investors. According to data from Dealogic, only five U.S.-based tech companies went public in the first eight months of 2016. To avoid going out of business or selling at a fire-sale price, Elefant recommends that entrepreneurs develop strong relationships with corporate investors early on so that a later search for an acquisition offer does not turn into a last-ditch attempt to save a sinking ship.
Corporate investors invest in companies for three reasons: to gain access to a technology, to break into other markets and to acquire. For start-ups, relationships with corporate investors offer viability and credibility. Additionally, these relationships provide development, support, feedback and access to corporate engagement and funds. For companies that might not be on track for an IPO, strong relationships with corporate investors can lay the groundwork for an acquisition.
'Shark Tank for Students' Re-Defines Entrepreneurship
Christopher Putvinski, SAPVoice, Forbes
Putvinski focuses on a new television series, The Social Innovation Series. This "Shark Tank or a Y Combinator for students" asks aspiring entrepreneurs to address problems in health or wellness in their own communities.
The show grants $1,000 to students with promising and innovative ideas and a grand prize of $10,000 and the title of "SAP Teen Innovator" to the student with the winning idea.
How Blind Hiring Can Make Your Company More Inclusive
Frida Polli, Mattermark
In an editorial for Mattermark, Polli writes on how diverse companies outperform their non-diverse counterparts. Increasing diversity among employees not only promotes a more fair and equitable workplace environment but also offers a high return on investment for companies. See the McKinsey & Company Report on how diversity improves company performance. Polli suggests that "blind auditioning" is a possible solution for the lack of diversity in companies' workforces. Using advanced analytics and assessment technologies, companies can ensure predictability and eliminate bias in their pre-hiring assessments of applicants. According to Polli, "improving diversity isn't just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do."
Google buys eye-tracking VR firm Eyelock
Grant Gross, Senior Editor for IDG News Service
Eyefluence is a California-based startup focused on eye-interaction technologies in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) headsets. Serial entrepreneurs Jim Marggraff and David Stiehr founded Eyefluence in 2013.
Google acquired the startup on Tuesday. The acquisition reflects Google's growing interest in VR and AR technology. The deal further shows the growing potential of VR and AR for entrepreneurs interested in building successful tech startups.
Wavefront gathers $52 mil Series B
Iris Dorbian, Author, PE Hub
Another California-based tech-based startup, Wavefront, recently reported raising $52 billion in Series B funding. Investors include big names such as Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and Tenaya Capital.
Wavefront develops metrics monitoring services for cloud and modern application environments. Wavefront offers invaluable services to leaders in the software industry that rely on Cloud technology, such as Workday, Box, Lyft, Microsoft, Intuit and Groupon.
Tags ACA, Acquistions, Affordable Care Act, Crunchbase, Diversity, Early Stage, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Eyelock, Google, Health Care, Hiring, IPO, McNair Center, Physicians, Private Practice, Series B, Startups, Students, Venture Capital, Wavefront


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Q: Left to right expression evaluation In C# is it guaranteed that expressions are evaluated left to right?
For example:
myClass = GetClass();
if (myClass == null || myClass.Property > 0)
    continue;

Are there any languages that do not comply?

A: Short-circuiting is described in section 7.11 of the C# 3.0 spec:

The operation x || y corresponds to
  the operation x | y, except that y is
  evaluated only if x is not true.

So yes, you're fine.
As for other languages - I never like to speak for all languages. In VB.NET, you can use OrElse and AndAlso which are short-circuited, but plain Or and And aren't.

A: But be careful:
if you have something like
sprintf(buf, "%s %s", func1(&var), func2(&var));
with sideeffects on var, it is not defined (in C, i am not sure if the evaluation order is defined in other languages), in which order func1() and func2() are executed (it depends, in what order (left or right) the arguments are put on the stack and evaluated from there.

A: You actually refer to a language feature called "short-circuiting logical expressions":
What this means is this: When the outcome of a logical expression cannot change anymore, e.g. when it is clear that the expression will evaluate to "true" or "false" no matter what, remaining parts of the expression will not be evaluated.
For example, C#, Java or JavaScript do that, and you can rely on it in those languages (to answer your question).
In your case, if MyClass is not null:

*

*MyClass == null evaluates to false

*since it is an "or" expression, the second part still can change the result, so it is evaluated

*myClass.Property > 0 determines the end result

if MyClass is null:

*

*MyClass == null evaluates to true

*since it is an "or" expression, it does not matter what follows

*no more evaluation is done, the end result is true

There are languages that do not short-circuit logical expressions. Classical VB is an example, here "myClass.Property > 0" would be evaluated and produce an error if MyClass was null (called "Nothing" in VB).

A: The evaluation order depends on the operator, in this case the boolean or (||) is defined to be what is commonly called short-circuiting, to make constructs like this work.

A: I'm not sure, are you really interested in order or in short-circuit evaluation?
I'm not 100% sure, but as far as I know the order of evaluation will always be the same in C# (and I assume most if not all of .net languages). Short-circuit evaluation works as explained in the previous answers.
However, in C# you can choose not to short circuit using simple operators (& instead of &&). Normally you want to short-circuit, but it may be a case in which you want to execute all the evaluations.

A: The and/or operators in languages like Ada, Visual Basic, and Pascal do not short-circuit. They do provide extra operators to allow that functionality, such as "and then" and "or else" in Ada.

A: Python has short-circuit or and and operators.

A: In Java and Haskell && and || short-circuit as well.
Interesting aside: in Haskell this comes naturally with the language (you can define your own operators that do this), while in Java and C# it is specific for those two operators.

A: Actually short-circuiting is part, but you also need to know whether the language guarantees left-to-right evaluation of those.  For instance C (ANSI, ISO, C99) do NOT guarantee left-to-right evaluation.  In the sample code it would be possible to check the value of Property before checking for NULL or do both simultaneously... most compilers don't, but there's nothing preventing it from doing that and being fully compliant with the spec.  It even tells you NOT to write such code because of this.

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(i) Each full-time student must register for a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 15 Units, while a part-time student must register for a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 10 units per Semester.
(ii) To qualify for the award of a diploma, each student must pass a minimum of 24 Units, including those earned from compulsory courses.
(i) A Masters' Degree student must register for a minimum of 36 units (including 6 units of Dissertation) and a maximum of 46 Units (including 6 units of Dissertation).
(ii) To qualify for the award of a Masters' degree, each student must:
Present a well-researched seminar paper;
Write, under supervision, a Dissertation not exceeding 45,000 words in a length on a research topic approved by the Postgraduate School on the recommendation of his/her Department and Faculty;
Pass a minimum of 30 units, including those earned from all compulsory courses and the Masters' Dissertation; and
Obtain an aggregate score of 50% of CWAS in 30 units, including those earned from the Masters' dissertation.
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) and Doctorate Degrees.
To qualify for the award of a Doctorate degree, each candidate must:
Undertake coursework in their core area of specialization, in accordance with the NUC Benchmark/Minimum Academic Standards for postgraduate programmes in Nigerian University;
Score at least 50% in the M.Phil or Ph.D. coursework in order to be awarded M.Phil or Ph.D. degree;
Within twelve months of first registration, produce and defend a Thesis proposal before an assessment panel made up of the Postgraduate teachers in his/her Department with the Head of Department as Chairman;
Present two well-researched and publishable seminar papers on topics of his/her own choice in his/her general area of specialization from the Ph.D research and;
Produce under supervision and successfully defend viva-voce a Thesis not exceeding 90,000 words in length and making original contributions to knowledge on a research topic approved by Senate on the recommendation of his/her Department and Faculty, and the Postgraduate School in that order.
PROCEDURES FOR EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT AND ORAL EXAMINATION OF THESIS/ DISSERTATIONS
The masters' and Doctorate degree programmes of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti shall normally consist of an approved combination of courses, laboratory practical and field practical work, with a research project, which shall be written up as a dissertation/thesis.
Applications for the Registration of Titles of dissertations/thesis and the appointment of Examiner shall be submitted by the Faculty postgraduate Committee to the Board of the Postgraduate School.
It should be noted that candidates must have passed all prescribed courses and make the minimum CWAS before the process of external examination begins.
A thesis/dissertation title once approved is sacrosanct and shall not normally be changed. In extenuating circumstances, however, the oral Examination panel may suggest minor changes or recast the title to ensure that it appropriately captures the work done, and reported by the candidate.
Copies of the draft dissertation/thesis shall be submitted for oral examination through the Faculty Dean to the Postgraduate School who shall process further, subject to the following:
The Dean, Postgraduate School shall verify that the candidate has passed all prescribed courses having duly registered and paid all outstanding fees.
Copies of approved abstract (dissertation/thesis title) and other relevant documents are available in the candidate's file.
The external examiner being proposed for the candidates is approved by the Postgraduate School Board. The Dean, on behalf of the board shall (for good reason) have power to request for a replacement/change in the nomination of an external examiner for any Postgraduate examination.
A written certification signed by all supervisors shall be submitted to the Postgraduate School.
The Dean, Postgraduate School shall appoint a Postgraduate School Representative to whom a copy of the thesis/dissertation shall be forwarded. This shall not be below the rank of senior Lecturer and shall be in the field of specialization that is related to the subject of the degree to be awarded.
Reports from 10.4 shall be received by the Dean, Postgraduate School within two weeks with a verdict among the following:
a) I consider the thesis of sufficient merit for external assessment and oral examination.
b) I consider the thesis inadequate for external assessment and oral examination.
In the event of a report affirming (b) above, the PG representative shall attend the candidate's seminar at the department and listen to issues raised before writing a report.
On the receipt of favorable reports (i.e 10.5a), the Dean, Postgraduate School shall forward a copy of the thesis/dissertation to the external examiner with the relevant documents.
The Dean of the Postgraduate School shall also send the draft copies of the dissertation/thesis to other internal examiners for review in preparation for the viva-voce on the dissertation/thesis.
The Dean, Postgraduate School shall arrange for oral examination on receipt of a favorable report from the external examiner.
Oral examination shall take place in venue approved by the Postgraduate School preferably within the Postgraduate school complex.
The oral examination shall be an open defense system whereby the candidate shall be required to make an oral presentation after which the external examiner shall lead other members of the panel to examine the candidate. The timeline for the oral examination panel shall be 15 minutes for Masters' and 25 minutes for Ph.D.
The oral examination panel shall consist of the following:
a) Head of Department (Deputy Dean if the Major Supervisor is the HOD) as Chairman
b) External Examiner
c) Major Supervisor
d) The Internal-External Supervisor of the candidate (i.e. co-supervisor from outside department)
e) Postgraduate school Representative.
One nominee from the secretariat of the postgraduate school shall be in attendance during the examination that shall be open to the University Community.
At the end of the examination, the candidate shall be scored by the External Examiner, the chairman of the panel and the postgraduate School Representative.
At the end of the examination, the examiners shall recommend any of the following as may be appropriate.
a) That the degree should be awarded without further amendments to the Dissertation/thesis.
b) The degree should be awarded after the minor corrections indicated in the thesis/dissertation have been effected to the satisfaction of the internal examiners.
c) The degree should be awarded after the major corrections/revisions to the satisfaction of both internal and external examiners
d) The Dissertation/Thesis should be re-examined after the major corrections/revisions indicated in the attached list.
e) The degree should not be awarded, for the reasons indicated in the attached list.
After the completion of the oral examination, a report on the examination written on the appropriate report form shall be submitted by HOD through the Faculty to the Dean of postgraduate school for processing.
If the candidate is successful in the Examination, he/she shall be required to make the necessary corrections/amendments as recommended by the Examination panel within three months, to the satisfaction of the internal examiners who shall certify that all corrections have been satisfactorily effected before the final copies are then printed and appropriately bound.
Failure to submit the corrections/amendments recommended by the Examination Panel within three months shall attract prescribed penalty.
Six copies of the bound dissertation/thesis shall be submitted to the dean of the Postgraduate School who shall distribute the copies as follows.
One copy to the University Library,
One copy to the Faculty Library,
One copy to the Postgraduate School,
One copy to the Department,
One copy to the Major Supervisor,
One copy to the Student.
If the dissertation/thesis is not considered to be of sufficient merit for the specified degree, the candidate shall have 6 to 12 months within which to bring the work to the quality expected.
If the candidate fails the oral examination, he shall not be re-presented for a repeat examination until after six months of the first attempt.
Immediately after the oral examination, the Representative of the Postgraduate School Board on the Panel must submit one original copy of the Oral Examination Report to the Secretary Postgraduate School for the records.
The Head of Department must submit the complete results of the candidate with the documents to the Postgraduate School not later than three (3) months after the Oral Examination. The connected documents should include Oral Examination Report, Certificate of correction, certificate of receipt of Corrected Dissertation or thesis, Computed result of course work-spreadsheet indicating scores and grades, course codes, course title, Total Load Units, and CWAS etc.
If a Dissertation or Thesis requires minor correction only, the Certificate of Correction shall be endorsed by the internal examiners only.
Whenever Dissertation or Thesis requires major corrections, the Certificate of Correction must be endorsed by both the Internal and External Examiners accordingly, indicating that the corrections have been effected.
The Postgraduate School Board would meet to consider and approve the submitted results with the oral Examination Report and other documents attached as indicated in 15 above.
The Postgraduate School would produce twenty-one copies of the approved result with the above connected documents and forward same to the business committee of Senate for consideration and recommendation to senate for approval.
The Business Committee of Senate would finally forward the recommended results to the Senate for final approval.
Upon senate approval of any Postgraduate graduating results, the Senate Secretariat would forward the decision of Senate on such approval to the Postgraduate School with the enabling documents.
Such a candidate for (Masters' or Ph.D.) degree can then process his/her clearance, apply for and collect his/her Notification of Result (NOR) from the Secretary, Postgraduate School. Such a candidate
may also request for his/her academic transcript to be forwarded to any other institution or organization but only by postage and under confidential seal.
ORIGINALITY OF THESIS/DISSERTATION
The dissertation/thesis of a candidate may not include materials already submitted for the award of a degree in any other University, and shall not be part of a previous dissertation/thesis of a higher degree of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti.
A candidate shall not be qualified for the award of a Masters' or Doctorate Degree until he has passed all the prescribed courses, submitted a satisfactory dissertation/thesis, passed his oral examination and spent not less than the minimum number and not more than the maximum number of semesters as stipulated for the programme.
EFFECTIVE DATE FOR AWARD OF DEGREE
The effective date for the award of the degree shall be the date the University Senate approved the result.
NOMENCLATURE OF RESEARCH REPORTS
In Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) the nomenclature for Postgraduate Diploma, Masters and Ph.D. research treatises shall be project, Dissertation and Thesis respectively.
Research Misconduct at different stages: proposal writing, conducting and reporting research, is unethical and unacceptable. All postgraduate students and staff are expected to be familiar and comply with the ethics policy of Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Engaging in any form of unethical practice shall be viewed as a disciplinary matter.
Intellectual Property, under this regulation, refers to all forms of intellectual property rights (in any jurisdiction) whether arising under legislation or general law, including, without limitation, all rights resulting from intellectual activity, resource, finding and innovations in the industrial, scientific, commercial, literacy or artistic fields and also includes the right to apply for registration of these rights. A postgraduate student and teachers are expected to be familiar and comply with the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti Intellectual Properly Policy as shall be formulated.
FORMAT FOR WRITING DISSERTATION AND THESIS FOR THE VARIOUS FACULTIES
The font style adopted for typing is Times New Roman. The font size is 12
Number of words for the Title is 17 words maximum
Number of words for the Abstract is 400 words maximum for Masters and 500 words maximum for Ph.D.
Style of Abstract is one block page paragraph typed in one space. This should be in agreement with the Senate approved style in three sections of Introduction, Methodology, Findings and Conclusion/Recommendation.
Volume or number of words for the Dissertation is 45,000 maximum, and 90,000 maximum for Dissertation and Thesis respectively, of 1.5 spacing.
Cover Page: The Cover Page shall not be detailed as the Title page. It shall indicate the title of the dissertation/Thesis, the name, matriculation number of the candidate and Month and Year of production.
Title Page shall indicate along with:
A Dissertation/Thesis submitted in the Department of … to the Postgraduate School. In fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Masters of…./doctor of Philosophy in …
The Approval Page shall be signed by the Head of Department and the Supervisor.
The Certification Page shall be signed by the Supervisor. It may be co-signed by the Co-Supervisor where available.
Dedication page shall follow the certification page.
Table of Contents: The Table of Contents shall indicate the following:
Approval Page
Certification Page
Dedication Acknowledgements
List of Tables (where applicable)
Glossary of foreign Words (where applicable)
The Dissertation/Thesis shall include the following:
Chapter 1 Introduction. This shall include:
Scope of Study
Objective of Study (Significance of Research)
Chapter 2 Literature Review
Chapter 3 Research Method (this may come under chapter 1 after Objectives)
Chapter 4 Body of Main Topic (Results of Research)
Chapter 5 Discussion
Chapter 6 Summary and Conclusion
6.3 Recommendations (suggestions for further Research/Study)
Each Faculty shall adopt a referencing style that is universally accepted to the discipline including Citation within the text, footnotes, References and Bibliography
APPENDIX (where applicable)
Colour of binding of the Dissertation/Thesis shall be as allotted to each Faculty by the University
Pattern of Assessing Dissertation/Thesis shall be in the following format:
M.A./THESIS EVALUATION
Name of Student:…………………………………………………………………….
Matriculation Number:…………………………………………………………….
Title of Dissertation/Thesis:…………………………………………………….
Depth of Research
Clarity of Expression
Content (Materials and Relevance)
Format (bibliography, Notes and e.t.c)
Finishing (Typing & Binding)
External Examiner's Comments
Name of External Examiner
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Paper Street Holdings, Inc is a Florida for profit corporation based in Miami. They registered with the Florida Department of State's Division of Corporations on Dec 29, 2009.
The following table lists the directors and officers for Paper Street Holdings, Inc. It shows their name and position within the company. It also shows possible addresses and related companies for the officer based on their name. These are addresses and companies associated with a person of that name. Their inclusion in the table does not indicate anything more than a potential relationship between Paper Street Holdings, Inc and the address or company.
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Earlier this week I was presented with a rather nice DJs gift voucher from SML to celebrate my 10 years of enslavement.
There was nothing for it but to pretty much immediately spend, spend, spend. And cliched spending at that. I calculated that I've been employed by SML for 21% of my life, which really called for something of substance to mark the occasion.
So I went out today and bought myself a very nice and not inexpensive new watch that I am ridiculously pleased with.
I'm also thrilled that I actually sucked it up and spent it on an indulgence for myself and not something practical, not something for ThePalace(OfLove), not something for someone else.
This is definitely a positive change! Plus … shiny!
I'm trying to build up the suspense!
What a horrible gift, what exactly were you supposed to do with it?
I have never worked anywhere for ten years. I did get given a framed historical photograph of a street in one of my projects to mark the completion of a huge piece of work. I had no problem getting rid of it immediately and took it to a charity shop within a matter of days.
This is by far my longest at any employer, by many orders of magnitude.
Thankfully we generally receive gift vouchers on celebratory occasions, which in the worst times occasionally made up for the utter dysfunction. Occasionally.


Still rain here this arv. definitely too wet to ride. Hope for clearing tomorrow.
Submitted by Empy on Tue, 02/04/2019 - 07:47.
We've had well over 30 mil of rain since yesterday and still coming. It's definitely too wet to ride.


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Just liked shaped mac 'n cheese, cookies are better when they're in cute little shapes! My dad never misses a holiday when it comes to cookies and his St. Patty's day cookies are always my one of my favorites. They're green, covered in chocolate, and photograph well. If you're not a fan of mint feel free to leave out the mint extract. Test out these shortbread cookies and don't forget to dip them in chocolate!
A classic shortbread cookie with a touch of dark chocolate and mint.
Mix together the ingredients until a smooth dough is formed.
Roll the dough out over a floured surface to a thickness of your choice.
Use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes (rolling the scraps at the end for additional cookies).
Place on baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees. You may need to leave in a longer - just be sure to watch so they don't burn.
Let cool and while cooking, melt the dark chocolate almond bark in the microwave.
Dip the cookies in the chocolate and drizzle more for garnishing.


Critical Acclaim: Kathleen Battle "...dazzled the Kennedy Center"
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"...the voice as a whole still had the purity and beauty that has always characterized it, and she performed with flair and class — and sometimes without any accompaniment at all."
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Update December 9, 2016: Not yet in on Warhammer? It's now quite cheap.
Well, would you look at that. As well as a bunch of free stuff and some new DLC, Total War: Warhammer's as cheap on Steam as it ever has been.
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Live for just over the next 24 hours, the deal discounts Creative Assembly's fantasy fun-time to £29.99/$44.99/€44.99. That's 25% off. Grab it on Steam.
DLC is sadly still full price, the new Wood Elves setting you back £13.99/$18.99/€17.49, as does the slightly older Beastmen campaign and race. Other lord-based tidbits will run you £5.99/$7.99/€7.49, while some grosser animations go for £1.99/$2.99/€2.49. It's all even available on OSX these days.
Original story December 8, 2016:Forget rushing to your calendar for a tiny, misshapen chocolate, today's advent treat is the release of the Realm of the Wood Elves DLC for Total War: Warhammer. You know, because nothing says Christmas like stamping Dwarves to death as a giant tree. To mark the occasion Creative Assembly have released a new gameplay trailer that sums up what you'll be doing as the Wood Elves, from their new currency to the race's Grand Campaign.
There are also some festive freebies coming to all players in the form of two new heroes, as well as a new Legendary Lord – Morghur the Shadowgave – and flying unit – Vicious Harpies – for owners of the Call of the Beastmen DLC.
The two new free heroes are the Jade Wizard and Grey Wizard, who utilise the Lores of Life and Shadow respectively. All of these additional units will unlock alongside the Realm of the Wood Elves DLC. So whether you've just got the base game, or dabbled in its DLC with Call of the Beastmen, there's good reason to jump back in today.


Join Castle Kennedy Garden Ranger for this month's adventure theme of Bird Life. Prepare to track down the resident birds and wildfowl who live in the Gardens and Lochs. Test your bird identification skills as you watch nature unfold from the Bird Hide and complete arts and crafts activities. Meet at Castle Kennedy ruins and bring outdoor clothing. Attend one or both sessions, suitable for all ages.


From the acclaimed author of Lemon comes a clever and heartbreaking new novel of love and revelation. Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed - media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown - up grown - ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, hole up in a cabin like Tom Thomson and paint trees; and so, to fund her escape, she runs errands for the seniors who inhabit the Shangrila, the decrepit apartment building that houses her fractured family. Determined, resourceful, and a little reckless, Harriet tries to navigate the clueless adults around her, dumpster dives for the flotsam and jetsam that fuels her art, and attempts to fathom her complicated feelings for Irwin, who suffers from hydrocephalus. On the other hand, Irwin's love for Harriet is not conflicted at all. She's his compass. But Irwin himself must untangle the web of the human heart. Masterful and piercingly funny, Strube is at the top of her considerable form in this deliciously subversive story of love and revelation.


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Q: Forcing 'portrait' orientation not working - any tips? Hey all - I have tried to only display my app in portrait view orientation to no avail.
I have the code:  android:screenOrientation="portrait"  in every button, ImageView, TextView, etc... in my xml files but when I tilt the phone to the side, it still goes into landscape view.
I do call the camera in my app, but I don't think that is the issue - any thoughts?

A: the layout is the wrong place. you have to place it in the activity like this:
<activity android:screenOrientation="portrait" ...>

Force an Android activity to always use landscape mode
is google that hard to understand? google "android force portrait" and the first four links shows the answer... (sorry.. just had to let it out :) )

A: You have to put the android:screenOrientation="portrait" in the AndroidManifest.xml.
In AndroidManifest.xml you have to do something like this:
    <activity android:name=".Your_Activity_Name"
        android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"
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Four Downs on Week 5: Back to The SEC Drawing Board
Posted by Kyle Kensing on October 3, 2015
Everything you presumed to know about the SEC, either in the preseason or over the course of the 2015 campaign's first month, can probably go in the trash.
Welcome to Four Downs, where I'll happily accept your refuse! Just be sure to separate the recyclables — the end of the Nick Saban dynasty — from the waste — Tennessee's performance with a two-touchdown lead.
FIRST DOWN: SEC Is A Spectacular Mess
I'm reminded of the MTV series True Life when evaluating SEC football: "You think you know, but you have no idea."
Honestly, the same can be said of much of college football through these first five weeks. However, the SEC landscape seemingly shifts each Saturday. It's the only Power Five conference in which a heavy preseason favorite, Auburn, has been an almost total washout (save maybe Georgia Tech in the ACC).
Its trendy picks to make noise, Arkansas and Tennessee, met Saturday in Knoxville, both in search of a tourniquet. Bret Bielema's stuck Pigs stopped the bleeding, and another blown, two-touchdown lead for the Volunteers guarantees some heat on Butch Jones.
The SEC is down to just three undefeated teams the first week of October. And, just as predicted, they are Florida, LSU and Texas A&M.
OK, so not everything is completely topsy-turvy. Alabama proved, as it has routinely in the last seven years under Nick Saban, that it's nothing to be trifled with when playing to its potential. Likewise, Georgia dropped a marquee matchup that could have been a stepping stone to the top-tier of college football, as it has routinely.
Not everything in the SEC deviates from the norm, but Florida's rout of Ole Miss certainly shakes the foundation from what many presumed it to be just a week ago. Things could change in the weeks to come, but in the meantime, Jim McElwain is doing a hell of a job with the Gators.
Florida's offensive turnaround in time for Ole Miss, a team plenty of reporters were crowning as the new No. 1 before kickoff, is nothing short of astounding.
Before their two decisive scores last week against Tennessee, the Gators managed just one scoring drive that started on their own side of the field. They managed just 14 points against Kentucky, and 31 in a win over East Carolina McElwain called "embarrassing."
All Florida did Saturday was score 38 points on one of the most impressive collections of defensive talent in the SEC. Oh, and the Gators held an Ole Miss offense that hung 43 on Alabama to 10. Shrug emoji.
The SEC's unpredictability could, and assuredly will, be attributed to its top-to-bottom strength. That's a little tough to swallow when Kentucky, 2-1 in SEC play, needs overtime to beat Eastern Kentucky; Auburn's lackluster play spills over into yet another sluggish win, this time against San Jose State; or the conference's two most highly ranked teams lose by a combined 56 points.
The why is irrelevant, however. The SEC is a spectacular mess, and should only get messier as autumn progresses.
SECOND DOWN: Ditto Pac-12
Everything above about the SEC? It also applies to the Pac-12.
UCLA was destined for an upset loss at the Rose Bowl if last season was any indication; I just didn't anticipate it coming so soon after the Bruins vaulted into the national spotlight.
Arizona State succeeded in both making Josh Rosen look like a freshman, and in exploiting an injury plagued UCLA defense. How ironic a Sun Devils offense that ranged from bad to outright putrid for the season's first four weeks would get it going against one of the more talented defenses in the conference, with or without Myles Jack, Eddie Vanderdoes and Fabian Moreau.
Now that UCLA is defeated, the Pac-12 South and North have just one beaten team each: Utah and Cal. Huh.
College Gameday is headed to Salt Lake City next week when the Bears and Utes meet, just as we all projected before the season.
ESPN's College GameDay is coming to Utah next week for Utah-Cal game http://t.co/OtGwf0IJsE pic.twitter.com/CPtBmk53jx
— Deseret News: Sports (@desnewssports) October 4, 2015
Cal's perfect record was preserved Saturday in part by a spectacularly awful defensive effort from Washington State on third-and-36. The Cougars surrendered first down on a draw play.
A draw play. Thirty-six yards.
WATCH: Cal converts 3rd and 36 vs. Washington State on a draw play http://t.co/lNaZMZzk2M pic.twitter.com/c1IkqV8INL
— CBS Sports CFB (@CBSSportsCFB) October 4, 2015
Pac-12 After Dark is alive and well, and unfolding in particularly ludicrous fashion with eight weeks still remaining in the regular season.
THIRD DOWN: Kirk Ferentz Can't Hear You, Haters
All you columnists and bloggers with Kirk Ferentz's buyout queued up whenever Iowa loses? Coach might like a word with you.
Naw, just kidding. I doubt he cares.
Ferentz passed Barry Alvarez Saturday for career wins among Big Ten coaches, fittingly enough, against Alvarez's Wisconsin Badgers.
So what if the Hawkeyes' win was ugly to a generation of college football fans with ADD and spread offenses? Iowa is 5-0 and will appear in the next Top 25.
The Hawkeyes' impressive start goes somewhat overlooked in a bevy of headlines from the Big Ten's early season. Unbeaten Northwestern beat Stanford, arguably the Pac-12's best team; Indiana is 4-1, with the sole loss coming Saturday in a terrific game against Ohio State. Meanwhile, prohibitive favorites Ohio State and Michigan State look vulnerable.
Dare I write the Big Ten is collectively playing some of the best football in the nation?
TIMEOUT: STAT OF THE WEEK
An interesting question posed via Twitter:
Hey @ESPNStatsInfo – last time a player led his team in passing, rushing and receiving ydsin a game? @1MjWilliams2 did that today.
— InsideCarolina(@InsideCarolina) October 4, 2015
Utilityman Marquise Williams passed for 134 yards, rushed for 148 and caught for 34, all team-highs, in North Carolina's come-from-behind, 38-31 win at Georgia Tech. Williams scored twice on the ground and on one reception.
Unfortunately for the above tweeter, Tennessee's Josh Dobbs passed, rushed and caught for team-highs 83, 136 and 58 just last week at Florida. However, Williams trumped Dobbs in one key metric: The Tar Heels got the win.
FOURTH DOWN: Two-Year Losing Skid Snapped
Savannah State football is perhaps most famous for coming out on the receiving end of some of the ugliest pay-for-beating games in college football.
While the Tigers are known for such lopsided losses as 77-7 against Miami or 84-0 against Oklahoma State, they also endured a 24-game losing streak, spanning September 2013 to today.
Savannah State ended its skid Saturday emphatically, beating MEAC counterpart Florida A&M, 37-27.
The Tigers led the Rattles by as much as 23 points in what wasn't just their first win in 24 games; Saturday also marked their first defeat of a Div. I program since North Carolina Central, 33-30, on Sept. 24, 2011.
Head coach Earnest Wilson III essentially called his shot earlier this week, per SSUAthletics.com, claiming the Tigers' marching band's superiority to Florida A&M's.
Wilson can do more talking after Friday's outcome.
Savannah State with the sack in the first half pic.twitter.com/ekfGATxEKo
— SSU Athletics (@SavStateTigers) October 4, 2015
Savannah State accomplished what Columbia failed to Friday. The Lions battled Ivy League foe Princeton to a 10-5 final, broadcast on NBC Sports Network; at least, I think it was on NBCSN. There appeared to be football through the fog and rain.
Columbia-Princeton on NBCSN, presented by Claude Monet pic.twitter.com/Jh1IsdDOU3
— Jesse Spector (@jessespector) October 2, 2015
Head coach Al Bagnoli, an Ivy League champion at Penn, is doing what he can with Columbia in his first year. Among Bagnoli's tactics to change the program's culture is generating interest among students, which includes practicing on the campus grounds, as chronicled by The New York Times.
Snapping the Lions' 24-game losing streak is the most significant step forward Bagnoli can take. The mantra holds as true for Columbia as every other program around college football: Maybe next Saturday.
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Pastor Steve
Lead Preaching and Teaching Pastor
Pastor Steve and his family moved to Corvallis in 2009 from Vancouver, Washington, where he was serving on the staff of Western Seminary after graduating in 2005. Steve and Tara have five children: Colton, Austin, Eliana, Isabella and Evan.
Tara's primary ministry is her family but she also serves in children's ministry, discipleship ministry, women's Bible study, and is actively involved serving in her children's schools. Pastor Steve's role is that of Preaching and Teaching and serves as one of the elders at FBC Corvallis, sharing the shepherding and leadership of the church. Steve loves Jesus, his wife, his children, God's Word, and God's people… and golfing, you can't forget about golfing.
Pastor Russ Richmond
Lead Pastor of Youth and Worship
Pastor Russ is married to Kristen and they have five children: Will (18), Grace (17), Josiah (13), Hope (11) and Abigail (8). For eight years Russ and his family have served at Salt Creek Baptist Church in Dallas Oregon before joining us at 2015 at FBC. Russ has a heart for youth, commitment to discipleship based ministry, desire to build leaders, spiritual maturity and a passion for God's glory.
Russ and his family enjoy church life, music, learning, camping , boating, snowboarding and surfing. Kristen home-schools their kids, they are avid learners, readers and want to follow God with their lives.
Pastor Bill Knopp
Pastor Emeritus, Director of Congregational Care
Pastor Bill Knopp and his wife Suzanne were born and raised in Oregon. They enjoy their three children and nine grandchildren. Bill and Suzanne met at Seattle Pacific College where Bill majored in Psychology and Suzanne in Christian Education. Bill graduated from Western Seminary in Portland, OR, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.
Pastor Bill pastored First Baptist Church in Bend, OR, First Baptist Church in Elmhurst, IL, and First Baptist Church in Corvallis, OR. Today, he serves as a part-time chaplain at Good Samaritan Hospital and Director of Congregational Care here at First Baptist Church of Corvallis
Kathy Ferrier
Children's Ministry Director
Kathy Ferrier is the Children's Ministry Director at First Baptist. Kathy began teaching Sunday School in the Fall of 1994 and continues to serve in both Sunday School and Kids church. She became Children's Ministry Director in November of 2009. She oversees and supports 54+ teachers, helpers and volunteers who serve children from Nursery through fifth grade.
Kathy has been a member of FBC since 1981. She and her husband Steve currently live in Corvallis, OR, and have raised their three children: Becky, Ian and Joel who now attend college and grad schools. Kathy has always loved working with children and thinks it's the best job in the world to share God's Word with the children here at First Baptist!
Mary Ellen Wernow
Leadership Development and International Connections
Mary Ellen Wernow grew up as a missionary kid, moving back and forth between cultures in Africa and the Northwest. In June 1977, she came to First Baptist Church as a summer youth intern and then as director of Christian Education while also studying for her Ed.M. at Oregon State University. While in Corvallis, she met and married Jerome and in 1980 they relocated to Portland to attend Western Seminary. They later served as missionaries in Belgium with Greater Europe Mission, established the Northwest Center for Bioethics in Portland, and served in two churches in southwest Washington. They returned to Corvallis in 2017, where Jerome has relocated the bioethics center and spends time in international ministry and theological mentoring. Mary Ellen again serves on staff at First Baptist, this time in the areas of leadership and connecting with internationals.
Jeff Harris
Jeff Harris graduated from Oregon State University in 1980 and from Denver Seminary in 1985. He was married to Teresa in 1982 and has three daughters: Laura born in 1985, Katie born in 1988, and Amy born in 1991.
Jeff has been involved with the Campus Ambassador ministry in Corvallis since his student days and now directs the OSU ministry and gives guidance and direction to other CA staff at OSU, LBCC, and the international student ministry through Campus Ambassadors. Campus Ambassadors is the ministry to college students at First Baptist Church.
Brooke Staples
Ministry Support Assistant
Brooke Staples wears two hats, as the Ministry Support Assistant and the Financial Clerk. She graduated with a B.S. in Business Management from OSU and has a Bookkeeping certificate from LBCC.
Brooke is married to her husband Isaac. They got married in July of 2017, and by September got their first dog. She and Isaac enjoy hiking, tandem bike riding, and taking Zoey to various dog parks.
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Q: Formulation of Linear Programming problem? I want to maximise the function:
$$l(\beta,\sigma,\alpha) = -n\log(\sigma) - \frac{1}{\sigma} A(\alpha)\vert{\bf y}-{\bf X}\beta\vert,$$
where $\vert \cdot \vert $ represents the entry-wise absolute value, $\sigma>0$, $\alpha\in {\mathbb R}$, $\beta \in{\mathbb R}^p$, ${\bf y}\in{\mathbb R}^n$, ${\bf X}$ is an $n\times p$ real matrix, and $A(\alpha)$ is a $1\times n$ vector with positive entries which depends on the parameter $\alpha$. This kind of looks like a Linear Programming problem to me but I can't figure out how to formulate it properly as such. I can optimise this function using basically any numerical software, but it would be nice to link it to Linear Programming. I would appreciate any hints in this direction.

A: It is not a linear program. Far from it, as you have logarithms, products and divisions involving decision variables.

A: A couple of thoughts:

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*The values of $\alpha$ and $\beta$ that maximize this should be independent of $\sigma$.  So if you find them, you can just plug them in and then find the maximizing value of $\sigma$.

*You have $\ell = -n\log\sigma+\dfrac B \sigma$.  So $$\dfrac{d\ell}{d\sigma} = \dfrac{-n}\sigma-\frac B {\sigma^2} = \dfrac{-n\sigma-B}{\sigma^2}.$$  This $=0$ if $\sigma=\dfrac{-B}n$ and $>0$ or $<0$ according as $\sigma<\text{ or }>\text{that}$.  So that is the value of $\sigma$ that maximizes $\ell$.  (Notice that we must have $B<0$.)


Bill joined Solace in 2010 as a Senior Systems Engineer. After spending several years helping customers implement Solace technology in finance, retail, energy, and other industries Bill now runs Solace's training organization. Prior to joining Solace, Bill spent over 15 years in the financial services and messaging middleware spaces on both the customer and vendor sides of the table. As an avid hockey fan from Chicago, Bill is currently living the dream of his team's golden years -- go Blackhawks!


My first novel, co-authored with my longtime friend and unbiological sister, Stephanie Erbesfield. You can find her here.
Elena Kozlova, a sixteen-year-old student at the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, has been raised by her uncle, Vladimir Zorin, and brother, Alexei Kozlov, both of whom are members of the vory v zakone, or the thieves-in-law, Russia's most dangerous criminal entity.
She has just moved into a new apartment that was gifted to her by her brother, who lives in Pittsburgh, and her Uncle Vova, who frequently travels. She heads to class at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, where she watches a man commit suicide on the subway after New Year's. The experience jars her fragile and protected mind, and she gets into a fight with another student after a verbal altercation. Elena goes to spend time with her friend Pasha after school, and later that evening, decides to walk home. Several blocks from her apartment, she is stopped by destitute vagabond Kirill Fyodorov, who threatens her with a knife. The pair chat as Elena hands over all her valuables and then, they share a kiss, which leads to so much more.
Daughter of Thieves combines elements of a traditional Russian text, like Anna Karenina, and a contemporary organized crime novel, such as The Godfather. It will also appeal to fans of Donna Tratt's The Goldfinch. The brutality of life in Russia and suffering of its people are keys to classic Russian literature. The fall of the Soviet Union may bring welcome changes, but the tragic human condition that affects the characters in stories like Anna Karenina is present in this modern tale. Like Anna, Elena is pulled from her happy, albeit boring and complacent life, into a catastrophic relationship that leads to her fall from grace. Heavy drug use and organized crime adds to the tragedy of the protagonist and her shiftless lover, who is more than happy to continue a life of petty crime.


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Mark Johnson has been a partner in Dentons US LLP since 1994, when he helped found Dentons' Kansas City office. Prior to that he had been at Spencer Fane Britt & Browne since 1980, first as an associate and then as a partner. His practice is concentrated in the areas of telecommunications, First Amendment, employment relations, and election law/campaign finance. He has been listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1995 and has been selected by that publication in three areas: First Amendment, Public Utility, and Energy. In addition to teaching courses on Election Law and The First Amendment in the Law School, Mark teaches undergraduate courses on the First Amendment, ethics, and privacy in KU's Journalism School and a freshman seminar on election campaigns in KU's Honors Program.
Elections and Campaign Finance
Media and the First Amendment
J.D. Harvard, 1980; B.A. Yale, 1977.
Elections and Campaign Finance, First Amendment
Board member, ACLU of Kansas; Board chair, University Daily Kansan; Kansas City Representative, Association of Yale Alumni.
Kansas, Missouri, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court.


Duane is the father of six children, all of whom attend Missouri public schools or universities. As a first generation college graduate, Duane understands the profound impact public educators have had on his life. Duane founded EdCounsel to support and defend public schools and school leaders in the hope that he could positively impact the lives of as many children as possible, including his own.
Drew joined the firm in April of 2014 with a passion to serve public educators. His practice focuses on guiding and counseling school leaders through both litigation and general counsel matters. When he's not in a Board meeting or courtroom, you can find Drew spending time with his wife and two daughters.
Tom joined EdCounsel in the summer of 2014. While he practices all areas of school law, his main focus has been on bidding, contracts, and Board governance. When he's not in the office, he can usually be found at the rugby field, at home watching a Cardinals' game, or spending time with friends and family.
Brian joined the firm in 2014. He focuses on defending school districts in court against claims made by employees, contracts and other litigants. In his free time, he enjoys having fun with his two young daughters, playing games and reading books.
Chris joined the firm in June of 2016 and splits the focus of his practice between general counsel and litigation assistance on behalf of our clients. Chris enjoys spending time with his daughters, going fishing and working out.
Ryan recently joined the firm and focuses his practice in both general counsel and litigation matters. Ryan spends his free time with his wife and three children.
Prior to joining the EdCounsel team, Rachel worked as legal counsel for the Office of Special Education within the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, now she uses this experience to provide counsel to school leaders on the variety of complex legal matters districts face every day.


Wales Rugby League held their annual community cap presentation evening last Saturday at the University of South Wales in Trefforest.
Hurley receiving the trophy and his East Wales cap.
There to receive their caps were members of the East and West Wales squads from under 13, 15 and senior levels, as well as the Wales Dragonhearts side who toured Serbia.
The trophy for the 2018 Senior Welsh Origin series was also officially presented to the East Wales captain Mike Hurley.
Doing the presentations was WRL board member Gareth Kear, who is the father of Wales national side captain Elliot Kear.
He said: "It's always marvelous to be part of an evening like this. The junior and community game is where it all starts for us here in Wales. To see a packed house in Trefforest where parents and relatives could celebrate their family members' achievements is very satisfying.


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package javax.net.ssl;

import java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException;
import java.security.KeyStore;
import java.security.KeyStoreException;

/**
 * The <i>Service Provider Interface</i> (SPI) for the
 * {@code TrustManagerFactory} class.
 */
public abstract class TrustManagerFactorySpi {

    /**
     * Creates a new {@code TrustManagerFactorySpi} instance.
     */
    public TrustManagerFactorySpi() {
    }

    /**
     * Initializes this factory instance with the specified keystore as source
     * of certificate authorities and trust material.
     *
     * @param ks
     *            the keystore or {@code null}.
     * @throws KeyStoreException
     *             if the initialization fails.
     */
    protected abstract void engineInit(KeyStore ks) throws KeyStoreException;

    /**
     * Initializes this factory instance with the specified provider-specific
     * parameters for a source of trust material.
     *
     * @param spec
     *            the provider-specific parameters.
     * @throws InvalidAlgorithmParameterException
     *             if the initialization fails.
     */
    protected abstract void engineInit(ManagerFactoryParameters spec)
            throws InvalidAlgorithmParameterException;

    /**
     * Returns the list of {@code TrustManager}s with one entry for each type
     * of trust material.
     *
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     */
    protected abstract TrustManager[] engineGetTrustManagers();
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As you develop your PowerShell modules, you may run into the issue where many of your module cmdlets require a common parameter in order to function. This may be a FQDN for an API endpoint or a folder path your module uses. You could of course, supply this parameter each time you invoke the cmdlet, but this is tedious when working with the module interactively. Below you will see an option for storing PowerShell module default values in your user profile.
I like to create a module configuration repository under the user profile directory using a .modulename naming convention. Below is an example of my PasswordState module repository under my user profile. In this folder is an options.json file that holds just a couple of common parameters that my PasswordState cmdlets will need.
The cmdlet below is part of my PasswordState module that accesses the REST API and retrieves/updates passwords from a secure password vault. This cmdlet will create the module repository if it does not exist and create an options.json with the values provided.
and options.json file to store default values used by other PasswordState cmdlets.
Write-Debug -Message "Creating PasswordState configuration repository: $repoPath"
Write-Debug -Message "PasswordState configuration repository appears to already be created at [$repoPath]"
Below is a cmdlet internal to the PasswordState module (this cmdlet is not exported to the outside world) that will look inside the options.json file for a given option and return the result.
I prefer to name cmdlets / functions that are internal to the module with a _Verb-Noun naming scheme. This makes it clear that the cmdlet / function is not meant to be exported.
Write-Error -Message "Unable to find [$options]"
Write-Error -Message "Undable to find PasswordState configuration repository at [$repo]"
Now that we have a place to store our default options and a way to reference those values, other cmdlets in the module can be written to look inside this module repository for default values to parameters. Below is a cmdlet from PasswordState that will list all available API keys that have been securely exported to disk.
List available PasswordState API keys in the repository.
This default value will only be executed if no value is given for $Repository. Below you can see how this is used in practice. Notice that the two ways of invoking the cmdlet produce identical results. One is specifying the credential repository explicitly, and the other is relying on the value returned from which will look inside the options.json in the module repository and return the default value for 'credential_repository'.


This presentation provides an overview of canine leptospirosis and advances in leptospirosis diagnostic testing.
Discuss epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical presentation associated with canine leptospirosis.
Review current diagnostic test options, results interpretation, and treatment for improved patient care.
Apply the principles of diagnostics through a case study.