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Retail Food Industry
Domino's Pizza, Inc., branded as Domino's, is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960. The corporation is headquartered at the Domino's Farms Office Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and incorporated in Delaware. In February 2018, the chain had sold more products out of all pizza sellers worldwide.
Pfizer Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City. It is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its shares have been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 2004.
Hardware - Semiconductor Devices
Micron Technology, Inc. is an American producer of computer memory and computer data storage including dynamic random-access memory, flash memory, and USB flash drives. It is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
Agricultural, Construction, and Forestry Machinery
John Deere is the brand name of Deere & Company, an American corporation that manufactures agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains used in heavy equipment, and lawn care equipment.
Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing
Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods.
Swiss Mobiliar
Investment Banking, Financial Services
United Overseas Bank Limited is a Singaporean multinational banking organisation headquartered in Singapore, with branches mostly found in most Southeast Asian countries.
Food Retailer
Delhaize Le Lion / De Leeuw was a Belgian food retailer headquartered in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium, and operating in seven countries and on three continents. The principal activity of Delhaize Group is the operation of food supermarkets.
GM Financial
General Motors Financial Company, Inc. is the financial services arm of General Motors. The company is a global provider of auto finance, with operations in the United States, Latin America, Canada, Europe, and China. The company is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, where it is one of the city's largest employers.
Bristol Myers Squibb Company is an American pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. BMS manufactures prescription pharmaceuticals and biologics in several therapeutic areas, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hepatitis, rheumatoid arthritis and psychiatric disorders.
Manufacturing, Wholesale, Retail
Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Mohawk Industries is an American flooring manufacturer based in Calhoun, Georgia, United States. Mohawk produces floor covering products for residential and commercial applications in North America and residential applications in Europe. The company employs over 37,000 in operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States. In 2015, Mohawk was recognized as the most used, top-brand familiarity, and top-quality rating carpet product by the Builder magazine.
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, commonly called ANZ, is an Australian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It is the second largest bank by assets and third largest bank by market capitalisation in Australia.
Retail Food Industry, Manufacturing
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational corporation, and manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups.[2] The company produces Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia.The company owns its anchor bottler in North America, Coca-Cola Refreshments. The company's stock (KO) is listed on the NYSE and is part of DJIA and the S&P 500 and S&P 100 indexes.
U.S. Bancorp is an American bank holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and incorporated in Delaware. It is the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association, and is on the list of largest banks in the United States. The company provides banking, investment, mortgage, trust, and payment services products to individuals, businesses, governmental entities, and other financial institutions. It is ranked 117th on the Fortune 500.
Arvato Bertelsmann
Arvato is a global services company headquartered in Gütersloh, Germany. Its services include customer support, information technology, logistics, and finance. The history of Arvato goes back to the printing and industry services division of Bertelsmann; the current name was introduced in 1999. Today, Arvato is one of eight divisions of Bertelsmann, the media, services and education group.
Pacific Western Bank
Pacific Western Bank is a commercial bank with over $26 billion in assets. Pacific Western provides commercial banking services, including real estate, construction, and commercial loans, to small and medium-sized businesses
Medica is a non-profit health plan that serves communities in Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin — the heart of America. They empower communities by listening to their voices, learning about community needs, and devoting time and resources to help. Medica partners with the communities it serves in many ways, including the Medica Foundation, a nonprofit, charitable grant-making foundation.
PPD, Inc. (PPD) is a global contract research organization (CRO) providing comprehensive, integrated drug development, laboratory and lifecycle management services.
Altice is an American cable television provider with headquarters in New York City. It delivers pay television, Internet access, telephone services, and original television content to approximately 4.9 million residential and business customers in 21 states.
Financial, Banking
Securities America is a financial services company located in Nebraska, United States.
BMC Software, Inc. is an American enterprise software company. BMC offers SaaS-based and on-premise software and services in areas including cloud computing, IT service management, automation, IT operations, and mainframe. BMC is a Houston based multinational firm operating in North America, South America, Australia, Europe, and Asia and has multiple offices located around the world.
Physicians Mutual
Physicians Mutual is a mutual insurance company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. It consists of Physicians Mutual Insurance Company and Physicians Life Insurance Company. The company offers a variety of insurance products, annuities, Medicare, Medigap, Medicare Supplement, Term Life Insurance, Whole Life Insurance, and cancer and funeral pre-planning services.
AHS is the largest single health authority in Canada and is the largest employer in the province of Alberta as well as being the fifth largest single employer in Canada.
Alberta Health Services delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of Alberta's Ministry of Health through 400 facilities throughout the province, including hospitals, clinics, continuing care facilities, mental health facilities and community health sites, while providing a variety of programs and services.
Retail Food Industry, Retail
Constellations Brands
Constellation Brands, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is an international producer and marketer of beer, wine and spirits. Constellation is the largest beer import company in the US, measured by sales, and has the third-largest market share (7.4 percent) of all major beer suppliers. Based in Victor, New York, Constellation has about 40 facilities and approximately 9,000 employees.
EDF Trading
EDF Trading has its own Baa2 credit rating from Moody's and its own portfolio of upstream and midstream assets. Having assets and capabilities throughout the energy supply chain empowers it to be highly competitive in pricing, innovative in its transactions and more effective in managing the complexities of risk exposure. EDF Trading is a 100% owned subsidiary of EDF, the world's biggest electricity generator and a global leader in low carbon energies. EDF Trading's headquarters are based in London and it has approximately 800 employees with offices in the UK, Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada.
PPL Electric Utilities
The PPL Corporation is an energy company headquartered in Pennsylvania. It currently controls about 8,000 megawatts of regulated electric generating capacity in the United States and delivers electricity to 10.5 million customers in Pennsylvania & Kentucky. PPL is the parent to seven regulated utility companies in the U.S., and it also provides natural gas delivery service to 321,000 customers in Kentucky.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, a nonprofit organization, provides and administers health benefits to more than 4.3 million members residing in Michigan in addition to members of Michigan-headquartered groups who reside outside the state.
Manitoba Blue Cross is a not-for-profit health benefits provider headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Move, Inc. is a real estate listing company based in Santa Clara, California. The company operates the Move Network of real estate websites, the largest of which is Realtor.com. Move has a longstanding partnership with the National Association of Realtors, the real estate industry's largest trade association, for operating Realtor.com.
Swedbank AB is a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in Stockholm, Sweden, offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services. In 2019 Swedbank had 900,000 private and 130,000 corporate clients and a 60% market share of Estonia's payments.
DentaQuest is a purpose-driven oral health care company dedicated to improving the oral health of all. They manage dental and vision benefits for 27+ million Americans and provide direct patient care through our network of more than 85 oral health centers in 5 states. DentaQuest provides outcomes-based, cost-effective dental solutions for Medicaid and CHIP, Medicare Advantage, small and large businesses, and individuals nationwide.
Insurance, Financial, Banking
Zions Bank
Zions First National Bank continues its legacy of strength and stability as one of the oldest financial institutions in the Intermountain West. To bring value to individuals, small-to middle-market businesses, nonprofits, corporations and institutions, Zions Bank provides a wide range of traditional banking and innovative technology services. Through its network of 122 full-service financial centers across Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, the bank offers consumers a range of mortgage and home equity loan options, AmaZing Rewards® credit cards, Private and Executive Banking services, and online and mobile banking.
TC Energy Corporation (formerly TransCanada Corporation) is a major North American energy company, based in Alberta, Canada, that develops and operates energy infrastructure in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The company operates three core businesses: Natural Gas Pipelines, Liquids Pipelines and Energy.
Voya Financial is an American financial, retirement, investment and insurance company based in New York City. Voya began as ING U.S., the United States operating subsidiary of ING Group, which was spun off in 2013 and established independent financial backing through an initial public offering.
Technology, Cyber Security
MASS is a data technology company with over 35 years heritage serving the defense and security markets in the UK and around the world. MASS provides electronic warfare operational support, cyber security, information management, digital forensics and training support to military operations, serving customers primarily in defence and security markets.
Fox Corporation is an American media company headquartered in New York City. Fox Corp. deals primarily in the television broadcast, news, and sports broadcasting industries by way of the remaining 21st Century Fox assets that were not acquired by Disney. They include the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Television Stations, Fox News, Fox Business, the national operations of Fox Sports, and others. Its sister company under Murdoch's control, the present-day News Corp, holds his print interests and other media assets.
Verizon Connect (previously Fleetmatics) is a branch of Verizon providing software-as-a-service fleet management. It offers both web-based and mobile application services that provide fleet operators with information on vehicle location, speed, mileage, fuel usage. Verizon has the largest GPS fleet management system globally with over 1.8 million vehicles managed through over 80,000 customers.
HCA Healthcare is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee and in 2019 it managed 185 hospitals and 119 freestanding surgery centers, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics in the United States and United Kingdom. The company was ranked No. 67 in the 2019 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an American ticket sales and distribution company based in California with operations in many countries around the world. Ticketmaster's clients include venues, artists and promoters. Clients control their events and set ticket prices, and Ticketmaster sells tickets that the clients make available to them.
PostFinance is the financial services unit of Swiss Post which was founded in 1906. It is the fifth largest retail financial institution in Switzerland. Its main area of activity is in the national and international payments and a smaller but growing part in the areas of savings, pensions and real estate.
The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited is a South African financial services group and is Africa's biggest lender by assets. The company's corporate headquarters is in Johannesburg.
Maxor National Pharmacy Services is proud to stand at the forefront of the industry, leading the charge to make prescriptions, pharmacy benefits and healthcare services more accessible and affordable.
Mr. Cooper
Mr. Cooper is based in Dallas, Texas and is a proud part of the Mr. Cooper Group (Nasdaq: COOP). Serving 3.8 million homeowners, Mr. Cooper is one of the largest home loan services in the country.
Manufacturing, Retail
AmeriPride
AmeriPride Services is a uniform rental and linen supply company in North America. Operating more than 115 production facilities and service centers throughout the United States and Canada, AmeriPride provides linen, uniforms, floor mats, restroom products and facilities services to nearly 150,000 customers every week.
NN Investment Partners
NN Investment Partners is a Netherlands-based asset manager, with headquarters in The Hague and offices in 15 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of NN Group, the biggest Dutch life insurer. It manages €287 billion in assets for clients, integrating Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria throughout the investment process for the majority of its strategies.
AGL is a leading integrated energy business that has been operating for more than 180 years and has a proud heritage of innovation. They operate Australia's largest private electricity generation portfolio, with a total capacity of 10,413 MW, which accounts for approximately 20% of the total generation capacity within Australia's National Electricity Market.
IOOF
IOOF Holdings Limited is an Australian financial services company which offers a range of products and services including financial advice, superannuation, investment management and trustee services.
Velocity Solutions
Velocity Solutions® is the leading provider of revenue enhancement solutions to regional and community banks and credit unions. Founded in 1995 and servicing the transaction accounts of over 25 million consumers and business owners, they have unparalleled expertise and insight into deposit account activity and transactional trends. Velocity's innovative technology ensures seamless implementation and the highest levels of data security
McKinsey & Company is an American management consulting firm. McKinsey has published the McKinsey Quarterly since 1964, funds the McKinsey Global Institute research organization, publishes reports on management topics, and has authored influential books on management.
Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, England. It operates a network of more than 1,200 branches and outlets (including subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures) across more than 70 countries.
Columbia Insurance Group
Columbia Insurance Group primarily focus on insuring businesses but, also, insure farms, homes and cars. The company is licensed in 30 states, with policyholders in 19 states. Columbia Insurance Group exclusively markets its insurance products through the independent insurance agency system.
Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts, headquartered in McLean, Virginia with operations primarily in the United States.
Chumash casino and resort is located in California.
PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC) is a global investment management firm focusing on active fixed income management. PIMCO manages investments and develops solutions across the full spectrum of asset classes, strategies and vehicles including fixed income, equities, commodities, asset allocation, ETFs, hedge funds, and private equity. PIMCO is one of the largest investment managers, actively managing more than $1.78 trillion in assets for central banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, corporations, foundations and endowments, and individual investors around the world.
Tech Mahindra Limited is an Indian multinational subsidiary of the Mahindra Group, providing information technology (IT) services and business process outsourcing (BPO) to companies in various vertical and horizontal markets.
Sompo Holdings, Inc. is a Japanese insurance company. It is the second-largest property insurance company in Japan. The "Sompo" in the company's name means "general insurance" in Japanese, though Sompo Japan offers a range of financial services including life insurance, securities, asset management and venture capital businesses.
Douglas County is the seventh-most populous of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 285,465. The county seat is Castle Rock.
State of Washington DoT
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT or WashDOT) was established in 1905. The agency, led by a Secretary and overseen by the Governor, is a Washington governmental agency that constructs, maintains, and regulates the use of the state's transportation infrastructure.
Infocepts
InfoCepts is a Data & Analytics Services firm – recognized by Gartner amongst the Top 50 in the world – who enables its customers to optimize & accelerate the value of all its data assets. Unique amongst its peers, InfoCepts operates with the scale as a global consulting firm, yet the expertise of a niche partner.
rt health
rt health is a mutual not-for-profit fund – which means they're owned by their members – so there is no reason for existing other than to provide our members with the best possible health cover at the best possible price. With rt health, it's all about a better deal for members, not shareholders.
Argo Group
Argo Group is a Bermuda-based international underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products in the property and casualty market.
Central 1 is the central financial facility and trade association for the B.C. and Ontario credit union systems. Central 1 represents a consumer-oriented, full-service retail financial system that serves 3.3 million members and holds $116 billion in assets and is owned primarily by its member credit unions, 42 in B.C. and 70 in Ontario.
IT, Consulting
Sopra Steria Group SA is a European information technology (IT) consultancy.
The primary business areas of the company include consulting services, systems integration, integration of ERP, implementation of applications, as well as providing technical support to users and application maintenance and outsourcing services and operation of professional processes.
European Social Fund (ESF)
The European Social Fund (ESF) is the European Union's main financial instrument for supporting employment in the member states of the European Union as well as promoting economic and social cohesion. ESF spending amounts to around 10% of the EU's total budget.
CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. Operating in hundreds of locations across the globe, CGI delivers end-to-end services and solutions, including strategic IT and business consulting, systems integration, intellectual property, and managed IT and business process services.
The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. It is part of the University System of Georgia.
Acadian Ambulance Services
Acadian Ambulance is an employee-owner private ambulance service that covers most of the state of Louisiana, a large portion of Texas, and one county in Mississippi and Tennessee.
Convergence Consulting Group (CCG)
Convergence Consulting Group (CCG) is an award-winning consulting firm with a passion for helping clients solve their operational and strategic challenges through innovative Business Intelligence (BI) services. We believe business intelligence is more than a technical solution; it's an opportunity to create lasting cultural change across an organization. Our experts focus on quickly gaining a big-picture understanding of your business to develop optimized, tailored BI solutions that empower you to drive greater decision-making at the speed of your data. CCG specializes in deploying solutions that not only provide value to the business but are adopted by users ensuring accountability of the IT driven system.
Accenture solves our clients' toughest challenges by providing unmatched services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. We partner with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, driving innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. With expertise across more than 40 industries and all business functions, we deliver transformational outcomes for a demanding new digital world.
Adobe Inc. is an American multinational computer software company headquartered in California. It has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more recent foray towards digital marketing software. Adobe is best known for its Adobe Flash web software ecosystem, Photoshop image editing software, Adobe Illustrator vector graphics editor, Acrobat Reader, the Portable Document Format (PDF), and Adobe Creative Cloud.
Intuit Inc. is an American business and financial software company that develops and sells financial, accounting, and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants, and individuals. The company is headquartered in California. Intuit's products include the tax preparation application TurboTax and the small business accounting program QuickBooks.
Axel Springer SE is a European digital publishing house which is the largest in Europe, with numerous multimedia news brands.
Virginia Department of Transportation
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is the agency of the state government responsible for transportation in the state of Virginia.
JATO Dynamics
JATO Dynamics Ltd is a global supplier of automotive business intelligence with headquarters in Uxbridge, London.
One Technologies
One Technologies, LLC harnesses the power of technology, analytics and most importantly – real people – to create solutions that empower consumers to make more informed decisions about their financial lives. Through platforms like ScoreSense® – our industry-leading online provider of consumer credit information and identity monitoring – we provide our customers with personalized insights about their credit standing.
Superchoice
SuperChoice is part of the CPS group of companies and is proud to be one of the first-ever FinTech companies established in Australia
Insurance, Banking
Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. is one of the so-called Big Four commercial banks in Ireland. AIB offers a full range of personal and corporate banking services. AIB Capital Markets is the division of the company that offers international banking and treasury operations. The bank also offers a range of general insurance products such as home, travel, and health insurance.
Continuum, a ConnectWise company, is the proactive platform for what's next. With technologies and integrated services spanning security to backup to monitoring, the Continuum platform anticipates and tackles MSPs' next challenges — enabling them to grow with confidence.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG) is a US-based global insurance brokerage and risk management services firm headquartered in Illinois. The firm was established in 1927 and is one of the largest insurance brokers in the world.
Black & Veatch is the largest engineering firm in the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is a global engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and consulting company specializing in infrastructure development in power, oil and gas, water, telecommunications, government, mining, data centers, smart cities and banking and finance markets.
De Volksbank is a Dutch retail bank offering financial products to both companies and individuals. The bank and its parent were rescued by the Dutch government in 2013 and have been state owned since then.
USA Technologies
USA Technologies Inc. is an American company known for its work with ePort cashless acceptance technology running on their patented ePort Connect service, a PCI compliant, comprehensive suite of services designed specifically for the self serve, unattended market.
RGI Informatics
RGI Informatics has designed H.A.S., their software platform, to rapidly bundle complex data into clear, concise, in-depth analytics. RGI gives clinicians what they need: actionable insights that result in life-saving medical advances and improvements in patient care.
UNC Healthcare
UNC Health Care is a not-for-profit integrated health care system owned by the state of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. UNC Health Care currently comprises UNC Hospitals and its provider network, the clinical programs of the UNC School of Medicine, and eleven affiliate hospitals and hospital systems across the state.
Sasol Limited is an integrated energy and chemical company based in South Africa. The company was formed in 1950 in South Africa and built on processes that were first developed by German chemists and engineers in the early 1900s. Today, Sasol develops and commercialises technologies, including synthetic fuels technologies, and produces different liquid fuels, chemicals and electricity.
eScholar is the leader in driving the application of data to personalize education, and is focused exclusively on providing educators with the most comprehensive solutions available. Supporting pre‑K through postsecondary student achievement (PK-20), eScholar delivers a suite of data warehouse, student and staff-ID management, and personalized education planning solutions.
Technology, Government
MIMOS is Malaysia's national Applied Research and Development Centre. As a strategic agency under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), MIMOS contributes to transforming Malaysia's industry through patentable technology platforms, products and solutions.
Caesars Entertainment Corporation is an American gaming hotel and casino corporation founded in Reno, Nevada.
ConEdison
ConEd is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States, with approximately $12 billion in annual revenues as of 2017, and over $48 billion in assets.[2] The company provides a wide range of energy-related products and services to its customers through its subsidiaries.
Gap Inc. or Gap, (stylized as GAP) is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer.
Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances using short-wavelength UHF radio waves in the industrial, scientific and medical radio bands, from 2.402 GHz to 2.480 GHz, and building personal area networks (PANs).
BRZ Inc
BRZ, Inc. delivers high quality, agile, intuitive and cost competitive software, data analysis tools and personnel that provide the means to identify risks, improve processes, training, and education to eliminate or mitigate risks to the maximum extent possible.
CDS Global
CDS Global, Inc. is a multinational corporation based in Iowa, that provides business process outsourcing and customer data management to various industries worldwide.
Charter Communications, Inc., is an American telecommunications and mass media company that offers its services to consumers and businesses under the branding of Spectrum. Providing services to over 26 million customers in 41 states, it is the second-largest cable operator in the United States by subscribers, and third largest pay TV operator. It is the fifth largest telephone provider based upon residential subscriber line count.
Neon is a vibrant and creative insurer operating in the specialist Lloyd's market headquartered in London.
New York Life Insurance Company (NYLIC) is the third-largest life insurance company in the United States, the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States and is ranked #71 on the 2019 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Hospital Contribution Fund (HCF)
HCF (The Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia) was formed in 1932 to provide health insurance cover to Australians. Since then, it has grown to become one of the country's largest combined registered private health fund and life insurance organizations.
Gensler is a global design and architecture firm. Organized into 16 diverse practice areas covering a broad spectrum of industry sectors, Gensler delivers a range of project types for clients around the world. In 2017, Gensler generated $1.197 billion in revenue, the most of any architecture firm in the United States.
Mercury Insurance
Mercury General Corporation is a multiple-line insurance organization offering personal automobile, homeowners, renters and business insurance. Mercury has assets in excess of $4 billion and has more than 8,000 independent agents in 11 states. Mercury's primary focus is auto and homeowners insurance, however, the company also writes personal liability policies, business insurance, mechanical breakdown protection, renters, service line protection, home systems protection, identity management protection and ride-hailing insurance.
RLI Corp
RLI Corp. is an American property and casualty insurance company with more than 50 branches across the US. They were one of the first insurers of contact lenses, and eventually, the company emerged as one of the leading contact lens insurers in the United States. Building upon its success in the contact lens market, RLI further expanded its business into other niche insurance markets. Today, the company offers specialty property/casualty insurance coverage in both the specialty admitted and excess and surplus markets.
Fidelity & Guaranty Life
Fidelity and Guaranty Life Insurance Company provides annuities and life insurance for over 700,000 policyholders across the United States.
The Green Dot Corporation is an American financial technology and bank holding company headquartered in California. It is the world's largest prepaid debit card company by market capitalization. Green Dot is also a payments platform company and is the technology platform used by Apple Pay Cash, Uber, and Intuit.
Liberty Mutual Group is an American diversified global insurer and the third-largest property and casualty insurer in the United States. It ranks 75th on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the United States based on 2018 revenue.
Ministry of Education New Zealand
The Ministry of Education is the public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing the New Zealand education system.
Eisai Co., Ltd. is a Japanese pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
American AgCredit specializes in providing financial services to agricultural and rural customers throughout California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada, Kansas and Oklahoma, as well as to capital markets customers in all 50 states.
Desjardins Bank
The Desjardins Group is a Canadian financial services cooperative and the largest federation of credit unions in North America.
American Automobile Association (AAA)
The American Automobile Association is a federation of motor clubs throughout North America. AAA is a privately held not-for-profit national member association and service organization with over 60 million members in the United States and Canada. AAA provides services to its members, including roadside assistance and others. Its national headquarters are in Heathrow, Florida.
Air New Zealand Limited is the flag carrier airline of New Zealand. Based in Auckland, the airline operates scheduled passenger flights to 20 domestic and 32 international destinations in 20 countries, primarily around and within the Pacific Rim.
Neptune Technologies
Neptune Technology Group Inc. is a technology company serving more than 4,000 water utilities across North America. We make data actionable using effective software and hardware tools that are interconnected by a smart network, with expertise and experience specifically focused on the business of water.
Quaero is purpose-built for end users who live and breathe data on a daily basis. Marketers and Data-As-A-Product teams use our platform to source and activate information from across their enterprise, turning their unique customer knowledge into bottom line outcomes.
Maricopa Community College
The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in Arizona, also known as Maricopa Community Colleges, is a one of the largest community college district.
Munich Re
Munich Re Group or Munich Reinsurance Company is a reinsurance company based in Munich, Germany. It is one of the world's leading reinsurers.
Technology, IT
Innovapost
Innovapost offers a variety of Information System and Information Technology services to the Canada Post Group of Companies. We use that understanding to maximize the value of the Group's investments in technology and business transformation, improve its competitive advantage, and increase profitability.
Food Retailer, Retail
J Sainsbury plc trading as Sainsbury's is the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, with a 16.0% share of the supermarket sector.
QBE Insurance Group Limited is Australia's second largest global insurer after Insurance Australia Group. It provides insurance services in 27 countries worldwide.
Virgin Money is a financial services brand used by three independent brand-licensees worldwide. Virgin Money branded services are currently available in Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Virgin Money branded services were formerly offered in the United States.
United BioSource LLC (UBC) is a leading provider of pharmaceutical support services, partnering with life science companies to make medicine and medical products safer and more accessible. UBC is well known for our expertise in generating authoritative, real-world evidence of product effectiveness, safety, and value to assist healthcare decisions and enhance patient care.
SBI Mutual Fund
SBI Mutual Fund is an asset management company sponsored by State Bank of India. It was founded in 1987 with its corporate headquarters located in Mumbai, India. SBI Funds Management Private Limited (SBIFMPL) has been appointed as the Asset Management Company of the SBI Mutual Fund.
The Volvo Group is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services.
Western & Southern Financial Group
Western & Southern, is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based diversified family of financial services companies. The company was established over 130 years ago and provides a wide range of insurance, investment and retirement solutions through an ever-growing distribution system.
BGIS Global Integrated Solutions
BGIS Global Integrated Solutions US LLC provides commercial services. The Company offers project delivery, professional, workplace solutions, and real management services. BGIS Global Integrated Solutions US serves clients worldwide.
Midland States Bank
Midland States Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, offers banking products and services such as savings accounts, certificate of deposits, online banking, debit and credit cards, financial planning, asset management, business and personal loans, and home equity line of credit. Midland States Bancorp operates in the State of Illinois.
Blue Health Intelligence
Blue Health Intelligence accesses the industry's comprehensive, conformed healthcare database of integrated medical and pharmacy claims.
Fortress Investment Group LLC is a leading, highly diversified global investment manager.
Founded in 1998, Fortress manages $41.7 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2020, on behalf of over 1,700 institutional clients and private investors worldwide across a range of credit and real estate, private equity and permanent capital investment strategies.
Eaton Corporation PLC manufactures engineered products for the industrial, vehicle, construction, commercial, and aerospace markets. The Company offers hydraulic products and fluid connectors, electrical power distribution and control equipment, truck drivetrain systems, engine components, and a wide variety of controls. Eaton conducts business worldwide.
Albert Heijn B.V. is the largest Dutch supermarket chain, founded in 1887 in Oostzaan, Netherlands.
HarbourVest
HarbourVest Partners is a private equity fund of funds and one of the largest private equity investment managers globally. The firm invests in all types of private equity funds, including venture capital and leveraged buyout funds, and also directly in operating companies.
Aircraft Maintenance and Regulatory Compliance Management
Camp Systems
CAMP is the leading independent provider of aviation management products and services with a proven track record of 50 years. CAMP is committed to providing the highest quality products and services to the business aviation community across the globe. CAMP is privately held by Hearst.
The University of South Florida is a public research university in Tampa, Florida. It is a member institution of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1956, USF is the fourth-largest public university in the state of Florida, with an enrollment of 50,927 as of the 2019 – 2020 academic year.
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President accuses Lee Teng-hui of 'betraying Taiwan'
Taipei, Aug. 20 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou accused former President Lee Teng-hui Thursday of "betraying Taiwan, humiliating its people and debasing himself" by denying Taiwanese efforts to free themselves from Japanese colonial rule.
Ma joined the ruling Kuomintang and pro-government scholars in denouncing the former president and KMT chairman for eulogizing Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan and refusing to recognize Taiwanese participation in the Republic of China's 1937-45 war of resistance against Japan.
In an "urgent letter to the editor" of Japan's Voice magazine, Lee claimed that the so-called Taiwanese participation in the war of resistance against Japan is not a fact and that Ma staged a series of events this year marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the Sino-Japanese War and World War II in order to "curry favor with China," according to a CNA report from Tokyo.
In the September issue of Voice, Lee also stressed that his own elder brother, Lee Teng-chin (李登欽), joined the Japanese navy during the war and died in battle in the Philippines.
"We two brothers, as Japanese, were fighting for our fatherland (Japan)," he was quoted as saying.
Wang Yen-chun (王燕軍), director of Lee's office, pointed out in Taipei that Lee was interviewed by Voice editors in early August and that what Lee said at that time, carried in the latest issue of the magazine, is "not a letter to the editor."
The theme of the interview was economic exchanges between Taiwan and Japan and the future prospects of Taiwan-Japan relations, Wang said.
Lee's interview was titled "A New Phase of Taiwan-Japan Cooperation Is Unveiled" in the special edition of the magazine, whose cover story is "Don't Defeat the Abe Regime."
In the article, Lee also talked about the controversial issue of comfort women, claiming that the matter has been settled in Taiwan and there is no need to raise it any more.
Lee also derided Ma, who had served as his English translator, as someone who had never shown any concern about comfort women.
In response, President Ma's spokesman Charles Chen (陳以信) said Ma's long-time and consistent support for Taiwanese comfort women is widely known and well reported -- something "not easily wiped out by Lee Teng-hui's random remarks."
Chen called Lee "not knowledgeable and cold-blooded" in regard to the sex slave issue. If Lee really thinks the issue has been solved, "I suggest that he go see the movie 'The Song of Reed,'" Chen said, referring to a documentary being screened in several cities across Taiwan about the traumatic experience of now elderly Taiwanese women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army.
Ma was particularly angry at Lee's lukewarm attitude toward the Taiwanese comfort women and denial of Taiwanese compatriots' efforts to gain independence from Japanese colonialists.
Before attending a musical concert marking the ROC's victory in its war against Japan and the retrocession of Taiwan, Ma said he was "shocked and pained" by such remarks from someone who had been president of this country for 12 years from 1988-2000 and is still enjoying preferential treatment as a retired head of state.
He demanded that Lee "take back his words" and sincerely apologize to Taiwan's people.
KMT spokesman Yang Wei-chung (楊偉中) said Japan was never a real "fatherland" for Taiwanese people and Lee's statement in that regard could never be accepted by the people of Taiwan.
By echoing the right-wingers in Japan, Lee was actually hurting the autonomy of Taiwanese people and regrettably diminishing the historical significance of the Taiwanese nationalist movement, Yang added.
Wang, of Lee's office, countered that Taiwanese resistance against Japan was aimed only at Japan's governor of Taiwan, and was not a part of China's resistance against Japanese aggression.
Wang called on the general public to study history from different perspectives and tolerate all sorts of standpoints, instead of allowing the "perspective gaps" to exacerbate social conflicts.
However, Wang Hsiao-po (王曉波), convener of the Ministry of Education's controversial revision committee on school curriculum guidelines, cited several historical facts to prove that Taiwan was indeed a colony of Japan and Taiwan's residents at the time were not legal citizens of Japan.
For instance, Wang Hsiao-po said, Japan and Germany were occupied by Allied forces at the end of World War II but Taiwan and Korea were not -- proof that the international community considered Taiwan and Korea as former colonies of Japan and the people of Taiwan and Korea were not legal citizens of Japan.
Tsai Wei (蔡瑋), a Chinese Culture University professor, said Lee's wayward remarks as printed by the Japanese magazine show him to be a man of poor logic and aberration, a man who cannot tell facts from illusions and who has gone berserk.
The word "traitor" would be an apt word to describe a man who has been enjoying all benefits provided by Taiwan's tax payers but has devoted all his loyalty to their former colonizer, Tsai said.
(By Claudia Liu, Chen Chih-chung, Lu Hsin-hui, Hsieh Chia-chen and S.C. Chang)
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Q: Решил задачу по PHP но не совсем верно. Помогите разобраться что не так Решил задачу по PHP но решение не совсем удовлетворяет условию, пока слабо понимаю язык, подскажите в какую сторону копать.
условие:
Реализовать функцию squareTrapeze($a). $a – массив результата выполнения функции createTrapeze(). Результат ее выполнение: в исходный массив для каждой тройки чисел добавляется дополнительный ключ s, содержащий результат расчета площади трапеции со сторонами a и b, и высотой c.
вот моя функция
function squareTrapeze($a)
{
    $result = array_map(function($item) {
      $item['s'] = ($item['a'] + $item['b']) * $item['c'] / 2; // считаем и записываем
      return $item;
    }, $a);

    return $result;
}

$arr3 = squareTrapeze($arr2);
print_r($arr3);

вот такой ответ на решение я получил:

Функция squareTrapeze($a) - по условию в исходный массив для каждой тройки чисел добавляется дополнительный ключ s, т.е. использование ссылки на переменную

A: Здесь не нужно использовать array_map, потому что нужно изменить исходный массив, а не создавать новый из исходного. Намного проще сделать то что хочет автор задачи примерно так
function squareTrapeze($a){
    foreach( $a as &$item ) {
        $item['s'] = ($item['a'] + $item['b']) * $item['c'] / 2;
    }

    return $a;
}

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Regional and municipal elections in Peru this coming Sunday are expected to result in the first female mayor of Lima since the military dictatorship of the 1960s, as two women compete for the office in the final days of the campaign.
The Peruvian capital city is home to nearly a third of Peru's population, with about 8 million residents.
Though conservative candidate Lourdes Flores had a strong hold on the race a few months ago, she has lost her once-large lead in the polls to centre-left candidate Susana Villarán. With less than a week until the election, Villarán is predicted to receive 32% of the vote, while Flores is expected to get 26%.
Villarán, 61, describes herself as an admirer of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who left office with the unprecedented approval rating of 84% in March.
Villarán has drawn repeated comparisons between herself and Bachelet throughout her campaign, particularly in response to attempts to tie her leftist political leanings to radical groups like the Shining Path, a Peruvian Maoist insurgent group that was most active during the 80s and early 90s.
Before a failed run for the Peruvian presidency in 2006, Villarán served as minister for women's promotion and social development, as a commissioner and vice president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and as police ombudsman.
Female leaders of late have assumed the highest levels of political office in Latin American countries, including the presidencies of Chile, Argentina and, most recently, Costa Rica.
that was Lourdes Flores who ran for president in 2006... not Susana Villaran.


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By Liz Castle | January 31, 2010
We all know how much emotion can be conveyed by a simple touch, whether we're stroking our partner's hand or receiving a soothing backrub from a friend. But research has largely ignored the role of touch in communication, instead focusing on communication through facial expression and tone of voice.
A recent study published in the journal Emotion offers the first investigation of the emotional expressiveness of touch in a natural setting, and its results are striking. In the study, researchers asked participants to communicate a series of emotions to a randomly assigned blindfolded partner by using any kind of touch the participants chose (so long as they kept their touch to appropriate parts of the body). These emotions included anger, fear, happiness, sadness, and disgust, as well as love, gratitude, and sympathy–three "prosocial" emotions, meaning emotions involved in positive feelings between people. The blindfolded partner was instructed to identify each emotion based solely on the other's touch.
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Participants were able to convey these discreet emotions successfully most of the time. But what was especially interesting was that the blindfolded partners could not only identify love, gratitude, and sympathy but could differentiate between them, something they had not been able to do as well in studies of facial and vocal communication. By varying the intensity, speed, location, and duration of their touches, it seems, the participants were able to convey the subtle differences between these positive emotions.
These findings suggest that touch is not only important to emotional communication but also that it is intimately involved in the expression of positive emotions between people. This is consistent with what researchers have found elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Among many other primate species, for example, grooming is key to social bonding, suggesting an evolutionary explanation for why humans are so skilled at communicating positive feelings through touch.
"It is plausible that humans' tactile communication system may have evolved from the intricate system of tactile contact evident in nonhuman primates," write the researchers, among them Greater Good Executive Editor Dacher Keltner. Still, they note that more research is necessary to pinpoint the evolutionary significance of touch, and to determine whether these findings hold across cultures.
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Apple's Ahrendts in Chicago ahead of Michigan Avenue flagship opening
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 08:35 pm PT (11:35 pm ET)
Apple SVP of Retail Angela Ahrendts was in Chicago this week as her team makes final preparations for the grand opening of the company's latest flagship store, a huge riverside "town square" that will anchor one end of the city's North Michigan Avenue shopping district.
Ahrendts posted a photo of her retail team to Twitter on Wednesday, thanking them for their work on the new Chicago store ahead of its opening on Oct. 20. The location will replace Apple's existing outlet at 679 N. Michigan Ave.
"Thank you to this wonderful team and the many more who are bringing #AppleMichiganAve to life for our customers this week!" Ahrendts said.
Ahrendts and her team posed for pictures on an exterior staircase leading down to the Apple Michigan Avenue location's riverwalk foyer. The south face of Chicago's iconic Tribune Tower, a heavily ornamented neo-Gothic structure that houses the Chicago Tribune and tronc, can be seen in the background.
Like other recent Apple flagships, Michigan Avenue features improvements to the surrounding area. As seen in Ahrendts' photo, Apple has included benches and trees in the staircase's design, which was created to serve the two-story retail outlet that takes the place of an abandoned food court.
Exterior work on the 20,000-square-foot glass, steel and wood building was recently completed, as was construction of major interior features including two grand staircases flanking a large sales floor. Large glass windows serve as walls, offering customers views of the Chicago River, and enticing passersby to come in and test out the latest Apple hardware.
Similar to recent international Apple store architecture, the Chicago location boasts a unique design element in an expansive silver roof. With only a few pillars holding the canopy in place, the mostly-glass structure provides a wide-open, tent-like feel.
The interior is expected to feature all the trappings common to next-generation Apple outlets, including custom-built wooden product display furniture, an accessories avenue, Genius Grove and space for Today at Apple sessions.
Initial build cost for the new Chicago flagship was placed at $62 million, roughly triple the cost of Apple's Union Square store in San Francisco. More recent filings show actual cost to be around $26.9 million.
Apple Michigan Avenue is set to open its doors on Oct. 20. In celebration of the event, Apple collaborated with two local artists to create "Where Ideas Sing." The project involves a song written and performed by hip-hop artist Saba, whose lyrics were translated into visual art by Matthew Hoffman. Hoffman will present one of the first Today at Apple sessions at the new Michigan Avenue store on Oct. 21 at 11 a.m.
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When I read this Designer Spotlight on type designer Frederic Goudy it made me remember again just how much I like him. It's not because he made great type — he did, with well over 100 typefaces to his name including Goudy Old Style. And it's not because this made him more prolific than most of his contemporaries and the third most prolific type designer in American history.
Those things are more than enough to make me like the guy, but what made me a Goudy superfan is that he did all this and more after he was 40 years old. Before that he busied himself keeping books for a realtor in Chicago.
During the next 36 years, starting almost from scratch at an age when most men are permanently set in their chosen vocations, he cut 113 fonts of type, thereby creating more usable faces than did the seven greatest inventors of type and books, from Gutenberg to Garamond.
Whenever I hear people talking about it being too late to learn a new skill, or when I feel like something might be out of reach for me, I think of what Goudy accomplished "when most men are permanently set in their chosen vocations." I admire the hell out of that and am constantly inspired by it whenever I'm reminded of him.
There's a great silent short film from the 1930s called The Creation of a Printing Type from the Design to The Print that shows Goudy doing what it says on the tin. I can't find it online anymore, but it is included on the DVD of the also excellent Making Faces documentary on Jim Rimmer.
For more on Goudy, Luc Devroye's biography page or this short piece on process and criticism by Steven Heller are good places to start, or pick up most any book on type history.


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DURHAM- Philip Layton "Papa" Browning, Sr. age 88, died peacefully on Tuesday, September 6, 2016 in his Durham home surrounded by his loving family. A Durham native, he was born to the late Dempsey Browning and Rosa Belle Browning.
Philip proudly served his country during WWII and the Korean War stationed in Japan with the US Navy.
Philip was employed with National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences (NIEHS) where he retired after many years of service. He was a longtime and active member of Bethany United Methodist Church. He was also involved with the Harvey Black Sunday School Class; the Bethany prayer chain; and the Just for Fun Singers. He previously taught Sunday school at Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian Church.
He was most proud of his accomplishments as an Eagle Scout and later when he served as Scout Master. Philip was the only basketball coach with the Durham YMCA who went undefeated. Philip was a devoted Carolina fan…Go Tarheels !
Philip visited the sick and shut-ins and was a was a member of the Click N Cloggers and the Golden Dippers Square Dancers. Philip loved fishing and was most passionate about sharing that with his grandchildren.
Philip was preceded in death by his daughter, Kathy B. Dowdee.
Philip is survived by his wife of 66 years, Virginia Morgan Browning, his daughter, Lisa B. Kearns (Gary) of Durham; his son, Philip Browning, Jr. (Lori) of Rougemont; his grandchildren, Julie, Jeff, Ashley, Lauren, Kyle, Myles and his great grandchildren, Bailey, Kennedy, Taylor, Maxwell and Payton. Philip is also survived by his brother, Pete Browning (Betty) and sister-in-law, Bea Elliott all of Durham.
Funeral Services will be held 12:00pm on Friday, September 9, 2016 at Bethany United Methodist Church with Rev. Julia Webb-Bowden and Rev. Kevin Byers officiating. Burial will follow in Maplewood Cemetery.
Friends may visit from 11:00-12:00PM Friday, September 9, 2016 in the church sanctuary prior to the service and other times at the home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Bethany United Methodist Church, Building Fund, 2809 Guess Road, Durham, NC 27705.
The family wishes to express their heartfelt appreciation to Ted, David, Orion, Kelly of the Durham VA Center Homebound Care Team and the Duke Hospice and Homecare. Special thanks to Philip's heath care aid Audrey Jarvis, who is truly loved as a family member.
The Browning family is under the care of Hall-Wynne Funeral Service. Online condolences: www.hallwynne.com, select obituaries.
Offer Condolence for the family of Philip Layton Browning, Sr.
Our deepest sympathy goes out to all of Philip's family and we pray you will find peace knowing he is in heaven and in the lifetime of memories you shared together.
Virginia and Family I am so sorry for your loss. He was such a fine family man . My thoughts and prayers are with you at this time.
My prayers are with you Virgina. He is at rest now. I am so glad that Jeff is able to fly back to bid his papa goodby. He loves you both.
Phil and family, I am sorry for your loss. Praying for you all.
Our family has shared many stories, jokes, and memories through the years. Joe has spoken highly of Phil with us and we knew they were friends. That friendship goes back many years as they spent time together at the YMCA. They have also worshiped together at Bethany. Joe will miss sharing political discussions with Phil.
Please know we are with you today in spirit and send our condolences to you all.
I just learned of Phi's passing. He was a friend of years ago and happily remembered. My condolences to you all.


Absolute Walking Tour is offered as part of the Discover Budapest/Yellow Zebra group (tel. 1/269-3843; www.absolutetours.com). The tours are conducted by energetic, friendly, and knowledgeable guides who meet you at the pickup point outside the Evangelical Church on Deák tér (all metro lines) at 9:30am and 1:30pm from May 1 to September 30. From October through April, tours start daily at 10:30am only, from the same departure point above. No tours on December 24, 25, or January 1. Tickets are 4,000 Ft for adults, 3,500 Ft for students with ID, children 13-17 years 2,000 Ft, and 12 and below are free. Buy your ticket from the tour guide at the start of the tour. Tours last 3 1/2 hours taking you throughout both central Pest and central Buda. Wear your best walking shoes and leave the heavy knapsack at your hotel. This company also offers other popular tours such as the Pub Crawl and Hammer and Sickle, call ahead for information and a reservation. Both offices offer an Internet cafe with Wi-Fi and terminals.


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Gresham Outlook Shines a Light on Partnership's Attendance Work
Posted on May 15, 2015 in Media Coverage
DHS caseworkers keep school desks filled (The Gresham Outlook, May 15, 2015)
By Teresa Carson
Read the story below and here.
A Gresham mom and her daughter recently fled domestic violence, leaving everything behind at their home and finding safety in a shelter. They spent their days at the library or other public buildings. The daughter stopped attending her elementary school, because she no longer had transportation and was embarrassed that she didn't have a change of clothes, backpack or school supplies.
A Department of Human Services case worker, working out of Highland Elementary, tracked the pair down and sprang into action.
"We were able to get a bus pass for the daughter. We got them Ross and Safeway gift cards. Now the mom is able to get her daughter to school every day," said Iva Castle, the DHS caseworker. "I wouldn't have been able to reach them in the same way if I had been working in the (DHS) office."
For the first time ever, the Oregon Department of Human Services has put self sufficiency division caseworkers in six public schools, all in Multnomah County, to help families keep their children in school.
The program has only been in place since September, so there isn't good data available on improved attendance rates yet, but participants see results family-by-family.
Principals praise the program
"It has worked really well for us," said Shawnda Sewell, principal of Highland in Gresham. "Some students' lives are very complicated."
Students face issues of homelessness, domestic violence, lack of transportation, family health challenges, bullying and other serious problems. Getting some students to school every day and on time can be difficult for some families.
This isn't a harmless case of playing hooky now and then. Chronic absenteeism — generally missing more than 10 percent of a school year — torpedoes a student's chances for success in school, multiple studies have shown. Chronic absenteeism correlates closely with dropping out of school altogether.
The six demonstration schools housing the caseworkers are Highland, Lynch Wood Elementary in the Centennial district, Glenfair Elementary in the Reynolds School District, David Douglas High School, Shaver Elementary School in the Parkrose district and George Middle School in Portland.
A focus on parents
The DHS workers don't deal with students, but with parents and caregivers.
Placing DHS caseworkers into the schools is a cooperative program of DHS, the school districts and All Hands Raised, which is connected with the Portland Public Schools Foundation.
The case workers say being in the school brings them important new insights into family challenges.
"The children tell the (family) story" when the DHS worker is in the school, Dwight Palmer, the DHS case manager at Glenfair Elementary School told a recent Reynolds School District Board meeting. "When you are in a DHS office, the parents often say what they think you want to hear. But, when you see the children taking cereal home in their backpacks," you know something is up, he said. "You would never see these incidents in the office."
Palmer recalled one episode when a mother was attacking her son at school. He found out that it was the first anniversary of her husband's death.
"I wouldn't have seen this in a DHS office," he said. "I had total empathy for her."
Moses Rain, the DHS caseworker at Lynch Wood, said parents and guardians are sometimes more open in informal contacts at a place where they feel safe and comfortable.
"They'll talk to me in the gym or the parking lot," Rain said.
The DHS workers have the time and training to make home visits to help the families keep their kids in schools. Most schools have attendance teams, and having the DHS worker super-charges those efforts, the principals said.
The conversations with parents can be tricky.
"We have to learn how to talk about this without criticizing their parenting skills," said Frances Sallah, human services manager at DHS in Southeast Portland. "We ask 'what is it that we as an agency can do to support you so that you can get your child to school and on time."
Putting the DHS caseworkers in schools came about by kismet.
"It was serendipitous," said Dan Ryan, All Hands chief executive officer. "I was in a meeting with Erinn Kelley-Siel (director of DHS) … and the dots started to be connected. I'll never forget that Erinn said 'in the future my staff people won't work behind desks, they will work in your buildings.' She set the vision."
Other key players rallied to the idea and the six DHS caseworkers, who volunteered for the assignment, were sent to the schools in September.
"If kindergartners and first-graders are missing school, it is not about them, it is about the parents getting their kids to school," DHS's Sallah said.
For example, she said some parents don't take kindergarten seriously.
"They think it isn't that important. They think all you do is color and have a snack. But, when kids miss too much school, they just can't catch up," Sallah said.
All Hands Raised takes a cautious and very focused approach to new initiatives, such as this one centering on attendance.
"Our ethos is continuous movement and failing forward," said Nate Waas Schull, AHR vice president of partnerships. "We do intend to expand this eventually. But, we'll be measuring, tracking, reporting and improving over the coming year."
Nonetheless, everyone involved is excited about this groundbreaking cooperation between different government entities to benefit families and the community.
Said Schull: "This is just super-cool boundary bending."


Orthodoxy, sacred as it may be to subscribing theologians, is the fast friend of mediocrity, since it removes incentive to think. An army is a model of orthodoxy; it is made up mostly of bodies which act on command; whatever thinking is necessary to its functions is done for it. The same applies to communicants of all fanatical religious and social orders.