Recommended: Before attempting to use this Last Will form, please read Ten Steps to Completing Your Last Will and Testament, which provides essential information about properly preparing and signing a Will.
I, _______________________________________ [Name of Testator], a resident of ___________________, Arizona, being of sound and disposing mind and memory and over the age of eighteen (18) years or having been lawfully married or a member of the armed forces of the United States or a member of an auxiliary of the armed forces of the United States or a member of the maritime service of the United States, and not being actuated by any duress, menace, fraud, mistake, or undue influence, do make, publish, and declare this to be my last Will, hereby expressly revoking all Wills and Codicils previously made by me.
I. EXECUTOR: I appoint ____________________________________ as Executor of this my Last Will and Testament and provide if this Executor is unable or unwilling to serve then I appoint ____________________________________ as alternate Executor. My Executor shall be authorized to carry out all provisions of this Will and pay my just debts, obligations and funeral expenses.
III. SIMULTANEOUS DEATH OF BENEFICIARY: If any beneficiary of this Will, including any beneficiary of any trust established by this Will shall die within 60 days of my death or prior to the distribution of my estate, I hereby declare that I shall be deemed to have survived such person.
If a named beneficiary to this Will predeceases me, the bequest to such person shall lapse, and the property shall pass under the other provisions of this Will. If I do not possess or own any property listed above on the date of my death, the bequest of that property shall lapse.
_____ The rest, residue, and remainder of my estate shall pass to ____________________________________ [name of alternate beneficiary] as alternate beneficiary of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate.
_____ The rest, residue, and remainder of my estate shall be divided according to the order of intestate succession in the State of Arizona.
VI. ADDITIONAL POWERS OF THE EXECUTOR: My Executor shall have the following additional powers with respect to my estate, to be exercised from time to time at my Executor's discretion without further license or order of any court.
VII. WAIVER OF BOND, INVENTORY, ACCOUNTING, REPORTING AND APPROVAL: My Executor and alternate Executor shall serve without any bond, and I hereby waive the necessity of preparing or filing any inventory, accounting, appraisal, reporting, approvals or final appraisement of my estate. I direct that no expert appraisal be made of my estate unless required by law.
VIII. OPTIONAL PROVISIONS: I have placed my initials next to the provisions below that I adopt as part of this Will. Any unmarked provision is not adopted by me and is not a part of this Will.
________ If any beneficiary to this Will is indebted to me at the time of my death, and the beneficiary evidences this debt by a valid Promissory Note payable to me, then such person's portion of my estate shall be diminished by the amount of such debt.
________ Any and all debts of my estate shall first be paid from my residuary estate. Any debts on any real property bequeathed in this Will shall be assumed by the person to receive such real property and not paid by my Executor.
________ I direct that my remains be cremated and that the ashes be disposed of according to the wishes of my Executor.
________ I desire to be buried in the _____________________________ cemetery in __________________ County, Arizona.
IX. CONSTRUCTION: The term "testator" as used in this Will is deemed to include me as Testator or Testatrix. The pronouns used in this Will shall include, where appropriate, either gender or both, singular and plural.
X. SEVERABILITY AND SURVIVAL: If any part of this Will is declared invalid, illegal, or inoperative for any reason, it is my intent that the remaining parts shall be effective and fully operative, and that any Court so interpreting this Will and any provision in it construe in favor of survival.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, _______________________________________ [Name of Testator], hereby set my hand to this last Will, on each page of which I have placed my initials, on this ________ day of ____________________, 20______ at _____________________________________________________________, State of Arizona.
The foregoing instrument, consisting of ________ pages, including this page, was signed in our presence by _______________________________________ [name of Testator] and declared by _________________ [him or her] to be _________________ [his or her] last Will. We, at the request and in the presence of _________________ [him or her] and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names below as witnesses. We declare that we are of sound mind and of the proper age to witness a will, that to the best of our knowledge the testator is of the age of majority, or is otherwise legally competent to make a will, and appears of sound mind and under no undue influence or constraint. Under penalty of perjury, we declare these statements are true and correct on this ________ day of ____________________, 20______ at _____________________________________________________________, State of Arizona.
About this Self-Proving Affidavit Form: Although a Self-Proving Affidavit is not a requirement in the State of Arizona, it is an excellent idea to sign one when executing a Will. It can greatly reduce the difficulty associated with probating the Will when the time comes. The testator, along with three witnesses, must sign the Affidavit together in the presence of a notary public. The Affidavit is then attached to the Will. Its basic purpose is to affirm that the Will is that of the testator and that the will was signed and witnessed in accordance with all applicable state requirements.
To make a self-proving Will, a testator should follow this procedure: (1) The testator should sign the Will in the presence of the witnesses and have the witnesses sign as well; (2) A notary public should be present at the time the Will is signed by the testator, together with all the witnesses; (3) The testator should provide the blank Self-Proving Affidavit form below to the notary public, or the testator should consult with the notary public to determine if a different Self-Proving Affidavit form is recommended; (4) The testator and witnesses should complete the Self-Proving Affidavit form in the presence of the notary public. The notary public will require the testator and witnesses to swear to the Self-Proving Affidavit's truth and may require that photo identification is presented; (5) Once completed, the Self-Proving Affidavit should be stapled to the Will.
We, ___________________________________________________________________, ___________________________________________________________________, ___________________________________________________________________, and ___________________________________________________________________, the testator and the witnesses respectively, whose names are signed to the attached instrument in those capacities, personally appearing before the undersigned authority and first being duly sworn, do hereby declare to the undersigned authority under penalty of perjury that the testator declared, signed, and executed the instrument as his/her last will; he/she signed it willingly or willingly directed another to sign for him/her; he/she executed it as his/her free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed; and each of the witnesses, at the request of the testator, in his or her hearing and presence, and in the presence of each other, signed the will as witness and that to the best of his or her knowledge the testator was at that time eighteen (18) years of age or older, of sound mind and under no constraint or undue influence.
Subscribed, sworn, and acknowledged before me, ______________________________________________________, a notary public, by ______________________________________________________, the testator, and by ______________________________________________________, ______________________________________________________, and ______________________________________________________, the witnesses, this ______________ day of ___________________________, 20_____.


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Q: Given frame or code object, how do I get the associated module file loaded In a debugger I would like to verify that the source path matches the code that is running. One way to do this in Python 3 is to look at the module byte-compiled file (a .pyc or .pyo) which has a field for the source size modulo 2**32.
So now the question is given a frame object how to I find the associated byte-compiled module path. (Again a .pyc or .pyo file).
print(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe()))

will get me a source-file name that I can try to convert to the bytecode module name, but nicer would be if there were a more reliable way since clearly Python had to read the module in the first place.
What's the most reliable way?

A: Look at the globals (it's the f_globals attribute of a frame); it has a wealth of info:

*

*__name__ - the module name

*__file__ - the module filename

*__cached__ - the .pyc bytecode cache filename

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Adidas to provide 2016 U.S. Olympic golf uniforms
BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 6: Shanshan Feng kisses her trophy during the closing ceremony of the Reignwood LPGA Classic at Pine Valley Golf Club on October 6, 2013 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Etienne Oliveau/Getty Images) -
DORAL, Fla. – USA Golf announced on Tuesday that Adidas Golf has been named the official uniform provider of the U.S. Olympic team for the 2016 Games in Brazil.
Adidas will provide clothing for the U.S. team and introduce a line of USA Golf branded appeal. An official with USA Golf said the team uniforms would be developed in 2015 and unveiled in early 2016.
What still remains to be seen is how developed the golf course will be for the 2016 Games. Construction delays have pushed back a possible test event from early next year to possibly early '16.
"It's taken us a little longer than we would have liked to get to this point," said Ty Votaw, the vice president of the International Golf Foundation which oversees golf's inclusion in the Olympics.
When asked when he expected construction crews to start growing grass on the Olympic course, Votaw said, "soon."
It also remains unclear which event will be the course's test event, but the newly created Latin America Amateur Championship has been the tournament mentioned the most as a possible dry run for the Gil Hanse design.
Votaw also said the IGF is close to having the selection criteria approved for the Games. Both the men's and women's events, which will be played in consecutive weeks with the men playing first, will include 60 players chosen from the World Golf Ranking.
Early look at men's and women's Olympic fields
BY Nick Menta — July 24, 2019
Here's a look at the current International Golf Federation Olympic Rankings for both the men's and women's competitions.
Rose still beaming from Olympic gold
BY Rex Hoggard — November 01, 2017
He won't produce the gold medal like he once did, always smiling and eager to share his moment of Olympic glory with friends and fans, but Justin Rose is still quick to remember Rio.
Cut Line: Matters of international concern
BY Rex Hoggard — September 15, 2017
Jason Day made a change, Olympic golf made it to 2024, the LPGA made a 54-hole major, and North Korean missiles made for a delay in Japan.

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An employee engagement strategy is a powerful thing. It can help build pride in a brand, driving rational and emotional engagement with it. It can bring meaning and definition to any new brand elements—such as the positioning, the vision, the mission, or the values. And it can inspire employees to bring the brand to life in meaningful ways, whether they have a direct interaction with guests or they support those who do.
When the brand is used as an inspirational rallying cry to unite employees across an organization, the employee engagement strategy has been successful. After over 30 years of experience in creating employee engagement strategies, we have found seven guiding principles to follow for success.
One: Communicate in a way that's highly engaging.
The communication efforts that stem from the employee engagement strategy must be fun, fresh, and inspiring. They need to break through the clutter much in the same way an external campaign would—and all communications should match the personality of the brand.
Every message that is used should be meaningful. It should also add to the brand story being told to team members and do so using the brand voice.
It's important that messages are relevant to whatever specific audiences may be within your organization. This may mean you adapt your messages in different ways for different audiences to achieve greatest impact.
Four: Paint a vision for the future.
An employee engagement strategy is a practical tool, but it should also be an inspiring and aspirational one. Because learning to live a brand is a long process, it should be treated that way, with many communication events planned to inspire over a period of many months, all with the final objective of brand advocacy—in other words, with the goal of creating a group of employees who are true brand ambassadors.
Five: Ensure everyone understands his or her role in the journey.
A brand can't be successful without the most critical people of all—the employees. They must understand they are important and feel they have a voice in the definition of the brand. If they understand the case for change and the value of redefining it, they will be more willing to go on the journey. It must make sense to them and they must be given the skills, knowledge, and resources they need to support the brand and to live it.
A steering team comprised of executives usually determines a brand. Ideally, during the process, other employees are asked for their input. If so, their role in brand definition should be highlighted in employee engagement communication materials. But if not, it's not too late. It's important to drive engagement by allowing employees to define certain aspects of a brand, even after the brand is announced in a top-down way. For example: hold a contest to allow employees to create a design or phrase for a tote bag. Or hold a contest to allow employees to define the company's new values with photographs and hang the winning images around the office. In this way, employees will feel like they are contributing to the brand and will therefore be more inspired to live it.
Throughout the process, it's important to keep a finger on engagement so employees know they've been heard and you know you've been successful in reaching them. This doesn't have to be a complicated thing to do—in fact, using a quick five question survey can be very effective in determining if employees are learning, are engaged, and also what things still remain unclear to them about the brand.


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It's called turmeric -- a member of the ginger family – that, before it's washed, looks a bit like an ugly carrot. Turmeric is not a root, but a rhizome, which means its stem is where all the good stuff is found.
Scattered to the wind, it's a sacred part of Hindu ceremonies. It's also been used as a dye for fabrics -- it's even what gives mustard its bright, yellow hue. But the very thing that makes turmeric so colorful -- a compound called curcumin -- is what some researchers say also makes it a powerful weapon against disease.


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Save the Children contest finds 24-year-old to control its YouTube channel
October 01, 2014 by Anna Reynolds
Save the Children has made 24-year-old Chloe Dungate the editor of its YouTube channel for the next year after it held a competition that was open to the public.
Dungate won the #Vlog4Good competition, designed to put social media at the core of Save the Children's digital strategy, after a voting process through YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
She will now be handed editorial control of the charity's YouTube channel for the next year, producing original content every week.
Dungate, whose own videos attract thousands of online viewers, said: "It's an awesome opportunity to help bring Save the Children's work to the forefront of the YouTube community and hopefully make a huge difference along the way. Don't forget to Like and Subscribe."
Linda McBain, head of digital marketing at Save the Children, said: "We are thrilled to be welcoming Chloe into the Save the Children family and excited to see her reinvent our YouTube channel.
"Chloe is the perfect candidate to engage a new generation of supporters in Save the Children's work – and continue our legacy of producing bold digital content on social platforms. The judges – and the public – loved her original videos and we can't wait to see how Chloe brings her fantastic video, animation and storytelling skills to this new role."
The first rule of crisis comms is don't panic
Exclusive: Ex-Weber UK boss Rachel Friend joins W Communications as CEO
Pitch Update: Instagram, ScottishPower, Regent Seven Seas, CBRE, Buzzbike, Caribbean and more
ScottishPower names retained UK PR agency
Regent Seven Seas Cruises books PR agency for retained brief
Camron launches digital arm led by former Edelman digital director


Blagojevich Prosecutors Seek More Time Federal prosecutors need more time to interview witnesses who have come forward since the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to court documents filed Wednesday in Chicago.
Federal prosecutors need more time to interview witnesses who have come forward since the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to court documents filed Wednesday in Chicago.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald filed a motion asking for an additional three months to return an indictment against Blagojevich and former Blagojevich aide John Harris. In the motion, Fitzgerald said the five-year investigation also could implicate others.
"This investigation was initiated in approximately 2003 and involves multiple potential defendants," the motion states.
Fitzgerald said in the motion that prosecutors have thousands of conversations to review that were intercepted by government wiretaps between late October and early December.
He also said "multiple" witnesses have come forward in recent weeks to discuss their knowledge of alleged criminal activity involving Blagojevich, and prosecutors are using a number of confidential witnesses.
Fitzgerald said prosecutors' work has been slowed by the grand jury's two-week holiday surrounding Christmas and New Year's Day.
The motion also said there are other factors — but those were included in a separate, sealed attachment.
Blagojevich, 52, has been under pressure to resign since he was arrested on federal solicitation of bribery and conspiracy charges. The governor has vigorously denied the allegations and has refused to resign from office.
"I'm here to tell you right off the bat that I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing," Blagojevich said at a news conference earlier this month. "I will fight until I take my last breath."
On Tuesday, Blagojevich defied fellow Democrats by announcing the appointment of former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. Senate Democrats have said they won't seat anyone nominated by Blagojevich.
Fitzgerald has said Blagojevich of embarked on a "political corruption crime spree," participating in a number of schemes to trade political favors for financial and political gain. Fitzgerald said Blagojevich wanted cash, campaign contributions, a Cabinet post or an ambassadorship in exchange for an appointment to the Senate.
The Illinois Supreme Court has rejected a bid by the state attorney general's office to remove Blagojevich from office, but a committee in the Illinois House of Representatives is considering whether to recommend impeachment.
Blagojevich and Harris are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud; they are also charged with solicitation of bribery in connection with a deal involving the Illinois Finance Authority.
Blagojevich and Harris are accused of trying to pressure the Tribune Co. to fire several members of the Chicago Tribune editorial board in exchange for state assistance in the purchase of Wrigley Field. The Tribune Co. owns Wrigley Field and was attempting to negotiate the sale of the historic Chicago ballpark to the Illinois Finance Authority.
Harris has since resigned his position with Blagojevich.


Eduardo Munoz / REUTERS Making a phone call at a hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, July 2011.
KATHERINE NELSON, LUCIA DEL PILAR HARO GONZALES, MARIA GONZÁLES MILLÁN, and JORGE SALEM SUITO are M.P.A. in Development Practice candidates at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, through which research for this article was conducted.
Today, Carlos Adon is an experienced HIV/AIDS specialist in a well-equipped private clinic in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. Twenty years ago, he was like most of the country's other recent medical school graduates: he had been sent into the countryside for 12 months of mandatory service, known as a pasantía year, as a poor community's sole doctor. With access to only rudimentary equipment and medicines, Adon lugged around outdated textbooks and did his best to serve his patients. But his lack of up-to-date information created problems. At one point, a patient who appeared to have been poisoned by agricultural pesticides nearly died: Adon was unfamiliar with the chemicals used on the area's farms and had no way to determine the appropriate treatment.
These days, a search through an online medical resource can help doctors quickly identify poisons and antidotes. But in the rural Dominican Republic, Internet access remains scarce, and doctors still lack the information they need, much as Adon did during his pasantía year. Some 48 percent of the Dominican Republic's citizens lack access to the Internet, and because building broadband infrastructure in remote areas is expensive and data plans are unaffordable for many Dominicans, the country's connectivity problem is unlikely to end soon.
The good news is that there is an affordable way to bring up-to-date information to the unconnected. So-called offline Internet technologies—or information-sharing platforms that house data originally hosted on the Web but do not require Internet access—can bring data to the poorly serviced parts of the developing world that need it most.
At the clinic of Rafael Fernandez in the Dominican Republic's Monte Cristi province, March 2017.


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Epinephelus malabaricus is een straalvinnige vissensoort uit de familie van zaag- of zeebaarzen (Serranidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1801 door Bloch & Schneider.

De soort staat op de Rode Lijst van de IUCN als Gevoelig, beoordelingsjaar 2006. De omvang van de populatie is volgens de IUCN dalend.

Zaag- of zeebaarzen
IUCN-status niet bedreigd

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Birding Without Borders
Day 143: Border Birding
A rare bird is too tempting to pass up.
By Noah Strycker
Yellow-eyed Junco
Junco phaeonotus
songs #1
tip calls
Virginia's Warbler
Leiothlypis virginiae
alarm chips
Noah's view of the Tufted Flycatcher. Photo: Noah Strycker
May 23, 2015, Tucson, Arizona — Yesterday, a birder in southeast Arizona went for a hike in Ramsey Canyon, near the Mexican border, and discovered a Tufted Flycatcher—a bird that had been seen just seven previous times in the U.S. (with records from Arizona and Texas). The news went out over national rare bird alerts and email lists, and this morning a bunch of people went looking for it.
I've already seen many Tufted Flycatchers this year (in Mexico, mostly), but, as we were planning to be in that area today anyway… Well, why not? Scott, his wife Erin, John, another friend Jake, and I hatched a plan to walk into Ramsey Canyon via a side trailhead in Carr Canyon this morning, which would give us a six-mile roundtrip hike to the flycatcher spot. En route, I could look for Virginia's Warblers (a common breeding bird in that area), which would be new for my year.
This was an ironic "chase" as it illustrates perfectly the type of border-driven birding that I've been avoiding lately. In a global context, making a special trip to see a Tufted Flycatcher in Arizona seems a bit silly—there are thousands of them just a little ways south, in northern Mexico. Still, it was exciting to go for it today! The five of us hiked in through a beautiful canyon, with Grace's Warblers, Red-faced Warblers, Yellow-eyed Juncos, Buff-breasted Flycatchers, Greater Pewees, Arizona Woodpeckers, my wished-for Virginia's Warblers, and other southern Arizona specialties lining the route.
When we arrived at the spot, after three miles, I sat down to eat a Subway sandwich. Before I'd eaten two bites, John yelled "I've got it!"—and, sure enough, the Tufted Flycatcher was flitting around right over our heads. I wish all birds were that cooperative! In fact, there were probably two flycatchers; another birder showed us a picture he'd just taken of one of them sitting on a nest, which would represent the first record of a Tufted Flycatcher nesting anywhere in the U.S. We ran into a couple dozen others on the trail, and I ran into one guy I hadn't seen since we were on an Ivory-billed Woodpecker search crew together in Florida, about 10 years ago! All were satisfied with a successful search.
On the way back to Tucson, we stopped by the house of Bob Behrstock to try for a Lucifer Hummingbird that has been frequenting his backyard feeders, and, after an hour, the hummer flew in with its gorget glinting in the sunshine. A glittering end to another awesome day.
New birds today: 6
Year list: 2619


Eagle's construction products and building materials businesses performed exceptionally well during the quarter, with Eagle's Cement, Paper and Concrete and Aggregates businesses all reporting record third quarter operating earnings. Third quarter cash flow from operations improved 18% and was used to fund capital improvements, pay dividends and reduce debt.
As previously announced, on September 11, 2016, Eagle entered into a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V. ("Cemex") to purchase Cemex's Fairborn, Ohio cement plant and related assets. The purchase price is $400 million, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. Eagle expects that the acquisition will increase its U.S. annual cement capacity by approximately 20% to nearly 6 million tons. The transaction is expected to close in Eagle's fiscal fourth quarter. During the third quarter, Eagle incurred nearly $1 million of integration and related costs associated with the transaction. Eagle intends to finance the acquisition through a combination of cash on hand and borrowings under its existing bank credit facility.
Cement revenues for the third quarter, including joint venture and intersegment revenues, totaled $138.0 million, which was 2% higher than the same quarter last year. The average net sales price for this quarter was $100.88 per ton, 4% higher than the same quarter last year. Wholly-owned average net sales prices improved 6% from the third quarter last year. The average net cement sales price at our Joint Venture declined year-over-year reflecting the shift from oil well cement to construction-grade cement over the past year; however, operating earnings improved 7% at the Joint Venture. Total Cement sales volumes for the quarter were 1.2 million tons, 1% lower than the same quarter a year ago, reflecting early winter conditions in our northern markets.
Operating earnings from Cement for the third quarter were a record $45.3 million and 8% greater than the same quarter a year ago. The earnings improvement was driven primarily by improved average net cement sales prices and lower raw material and energy costs.
Concrete and Aggregates reported revenues for the third quarter of $40.6 million, an increase of 29%. Third quarter operating earnings were $4.6 million, a 202% improvement from the same quarter a year ago, reflecting record quarterly concrete sales volumes and record third quarter concrete and aggregates sales prices.
Gypsum Wallboard and Paperboard revenues for the third quarter totaled $146.9 million, which were 12% greater than the same quarter a year ago. The average Gypsum Wallboard net sales price this quarter was $153.34 per MSF, 3% less than the same quarter a year ago. Gypsum Wallboard sales volume for the quarter of 646 million square feet (MMSF) represents a 14% increase from the same quarter last year. Paperboard sales volumes for the quarter were 76,000 tons, 7% greater than the same quarter a year ago. The average Paperboard net sales price this quarter was $524.75 per ton, 3% greater than the same quarter a year ago.
Gypsum Wallboard and Paperboard reported third quarter operating earnings of $50.5 million, up 12% from the same quarter last year. The earnings improvement primarily reflects improved Gypsum Wallboard and Paperboard sales volumes.
Oil and Gas Proppants reported third quarter revenues of $7.1 million, a 16% decrease from the prior year's third quarter primarily reflecting lower average net sales prices partially offset by a 7% increase in frac sand sales volumes from the prior year. The third quarter's operating loss of $1.7 million includes depreciation, depletion and amortization of $5.0 million. During the third quarter, we also recognized a $4.1 million pre-tax gain on settlement associated with the termination of one of our long-term frac sand customer contracts.
We conduct one of our cement plant operations, Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP, through a 50/50 joint venture (the "Joint Venture"). We utilize the equity method of accounting for our 50% interest in the Joint Venture. For segment reporting purposes only, we proportionately consolidate our 50% share of the Joint Venture's revenues and operating earnings, which is consistent with the way management organizes the segments within the Company for making operating decisions and assessing performance.
In addition, for segment reporting purposes, we report intersegment revenues as a part of a segment's total revenues. Intersegment sales are eliminated on the income statement. Refer to Attachment 3 for a reconciliation of the amounts referred to above.
Eagle Materials Inc. manufactures and distributes Cement, Gypsum Wallboard, Recycled Paperboard, Concrete and Aggregates, and Oil and Gas Proppants from 40 facilities across the US. Eagle is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Eagle's senior management will conduct a conference call to discuss the financial results, forward-looking information and other matters at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (7:30 a.m. Central Time) on January 24, 2017. The conference call will be webcast simultaneously on the Eagle Web site http://www.eaglematerials.com. A replay of the webcast and the presentation will be archived on that site for one year. For more information, contact Eagle at (214) 432-2000.
Forward-Looking Statements. This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the context of the statement and generally arise when the Company is discussing its beliefs, estimates or expectations. These statements are not historical facts or guarantees of future performance but instead represent only the Company's belief at the time the statements were made regarding future events which are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the Company's control. Actual results and outcomes may differ materially from what is expressed or forecast in such forward-looking statements. The principal risks and uncertainties that may affect the Company's actual performance include the following: the cyclical and seasonal nature of the Company's business; public infrastructure expenditures; adverse weather conditions; the fact that our products are commodities and that prices for our products are subject to material fluctuation due to market conditions and other factors beyond our control; availability of raw materials; changes in energy costs including, without limitation, natural gas, coal and oil; changes in the cost and availability of transportation; unexpected operational difficulties, including unexpected maintenance costs, equipment downtime and interruption of production; material nonpayment or non-performance by any of our key customers; fluctuations in activity in the oil and gas industry, including the level of fracturing activities and the demand for frac sand; inability to timely execute announced capacity expansions; difficulties and delays in the development of new business lines; governmental regulation and changes in governmental and public policy (including, without limitation, climate change regulation); possible outcomes of pending or future litigation or arbitration proceedings; changes in economic conditions specific to any one or more of the Company's markets; competition; a cyber-attack or data security breach; announced increases in capacity in the gypsum wallboard, cement and frac sand industries; changes in the demand for residential housing construction or commercial construction; risks related to pursuit of acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactions; general economic conditions; and interest rates. For example, increases in interest rates, decreases in demand for construction materials or increases in the cost of energy (including, without limitation, natural gas, coal and oil) could affect the revenues and operating earnings of our operations. In addition, changes in national or regional economic conditions and levels of infrastructure and construction spending could also adversely affect the Company's result of operations. These and other factors are described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 and the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2016. These reports are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. With respect to our proposed acquisition of certain assets from Cemex as described in this press release, factors, risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events and developments to vary materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, factors that may create obstacles for or interfere with our ability to complete the acquisition within the expected timeframe or at all, failure to realize any expected synergies from or other benefits of the transaction, possible negative effects of announcement or consummation of the transaction, significant transaction or ownership transition costs, unknown liabilities or other adverse developments affecting the assets to be acquired and the target business, including the results of operations of the target business prior and after the closing, the effect on the target business of the same or similar factors discussed above to which our business is subject, including changes in market conditions in the construction industry and general economic and business conditions that may affect us following acquisition. All forward-looking statements made herein are made as of the date hereof, and the risk that actual results will differ materially from expectations expressed herein will increase with the passage of time. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement to reflect future events or changes in the Company's expectations.


First, I need to talk about the communication skills, or lack of which is what made me write this post in the first place. Communication is key! Some brands emailed me offering to work together and after I reply accepting the offer, I don't receive a reply. Luxemme, you may have seen them as they work with A LOT of bloggers. They offered to send me an item of clothing to style and in return they would give me exposure and possibilities of working with them again. Now, I love doing outfit photos so with the dress I chose, I already had accessories planned and a photographer in mind. However, after ordering it, there was no delivery. I waited a month, they work with a lot of people and probably processing my 1 item order, and then I emailed their customer service. No reply. I then sent them a message on twitter. No reply. I them emailed the woman who was the last person from Luxemme, I had been emailing and guess what? That's right. No reply. So I messaged the CEO because he was the very first person to contact me (probably on an automated thing) and tumbleweed. The funny thing is, is that they have since followed me on twitter and instagram. Odd.
Now, this isn't about the dress, it's about good work ethics. I don't need another dress and I wasn't in love with it but the fact that the company was just ignoring me? That's not right. And they are not the first company and brand to have done this. I am ready to draw the line and be more selective.
For someone who isn't well established in the blogging world, I find it flattering when a brand wants to work with me and as long as I agree with the product and their ethics, I usually say yes. However, brands are noticing that smaller blogs are really aiming for more followers and hits and so they email you luring you in with, "We'll give you great exposure on our website and social media" and "You will be part of a buzzing blogging community". Truth of the matter is, that some brands will share your post once. Along with the other 80 bloggers they have been working with. And as for that "buzzing community" can sometimes just involve in a measly hashtag for the brand to follow you. I strongly suggest you find other communities that aren't based on a brand. Here we have the Edinburgh Bloggers, Scottish Bloggers and excitingly, The Girl Gang. All based on our love for blogging, not because we have all been asked to review a lipstick or style a top.
Don't get me wrong, when companies keep interacting with you after you've blogged for them, it works. Coconut Lane keeps their bloggers in the loop with frequent emails and support over social media. They ask for our input and wants to work in unison with us. So I have a growing respect for them.
However, this leads me to the loss of respect for brands who are now exploiting bloggers. Keeping in mind, only a selected lucky few can blog for a living. The rest of us have jobs, school, uni and a life. Since I started this blog 2 years ago (2 fricking years!) I am noticing this trend more as more brands are contacting me. To begin with, all I wanted to was to get my little blog out there. I wanted people to read my little thoughts on the events or the fashion. More exposure on a twitter feed with 2k followers? How could I refuse? And that's what brands see. How can we refuse? So they give you a time limit to post your blog and expect to get traffic because you've posted a link. They might give you something for free...but then they might only give you £20% off and they expect you to pay £40 for a necklace just to blog and be one out of 200+ "Brand Ambassadors". I politely refused this offer and the bombardment of emails after was actually overwhelming. I was getting 2 emails a week from the company until I eventually just blocked the email address.
Well let's get one thing straight-we don't need brands to keep blogging. For the majority of us, we started the blog as a hobby. If blogs are going to become the new magazines, and high street shops are on their way out, brands are going to rely on us a lot more. It's time for them to treat us with respect.
Respect. R. E. S. P. E. C.T. Something so many brands are forgetting to do. They forget that there are people behind the blogs. We certainly don't live to serve their company.
We are expected to write for free. That is something I am getting a lot of. Probably because I have publicised my interest in journalism and writing in general. It comes back to the exposure thing. But I recently read a status on facebook that we shouldn't be exploited like this. It is our time and effort that we are putting in. Should we be charging a fee? Is this the way forward for brands to know our value? Can we put a price on our blogs? This is something I'm thinking more and more of. As you can see, I don't have ads on my blog-my blog was never made to be monetised but if I'm going to be spending time writing for someone instead of my own thoughts or work...then maybe we are worth a price. I'd be really interested to know your thoughts on this.
And breathe... I just wanted to let people know the truth behind some of the blogs and brands in a classic Katie ranty way. Thanks for sticking around!


A Kidderminster retail park owned by a company chaired by former Dragons' Den star James Caan is on the market for £46 million.
Crossley Retail Park, a 206,355 square foot site with 12 retail units, was acquired by real estate house 90 North for £41.5 million in December 2013.
According to the Kidderminster Shuttle, 90 North regard the retail park as a success story but now feel it's the right time to sell.
Crossley is home to household names including Halfords, Costa, Pets at Home and Currys PC World. There is a large carpark at the site and it also neighbours a Sainsbury's supermarket and petrol station.
A spokesman for Staunton Whiteman, which is managing the sale, told the Kidderminster Shuttle: "90 North are asset managers. They purchase sites, make improvements to them and then sell them on. This is just normal business practice for them.
"The present tenants are happy and many have already indicated that they are very happy to stay on and extend their leases.
"It is a popular retail park and would represent a 6.6 per cent yield on the purchase price which represents a very good purchase.
Mark Garnier, MP for Wyre Forest, told the newspaper a quick sale of the park would be a sign of growing confidence in Kidderminster.
"This is interesting," he said. "Some people might be surprised at the timing as in central London, property value has come down and people are reluctant to buy due to the uncertainty of Brexit.
"But I don't think that's significant here and opportunities in places such as Kidderminster are probably seen as a more stable investment.
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A data centre is a room or an entire building housing computers, network connection equipment and telecommunications links. Many data centres are built for the exclusive use of just one company, such as Google, but others host – and interconnect – systems belonging to many different users. One of the world's largest multi-user data centres was once a high-volume printworks. R.R. Donnelley & Sons' Calumet Plant, on East Cermak Road on the southern edge of the Chicago Loop, printed Time, Life, the Sears Roebuck catalogue and telephone directories. The building is now a data centre used by – among others – telecoms companies, financial exchanges and automated trading firms.
A data centre is no more detached from the brute physical world than a printworks was. Cermak (as it is universally known in the business) is full of stuff. No individual computer server is particularly heavy, but at Cermak there are tens of thousands of them, along with hundreds of miles of cabling, giant generators and transformers, 30,000-gallon tanks of diesel and big power distribution units. So it's just as well that the building's floors were originally reinforced to carry heavy printing presses. Cermak is also no less noisy than it would have been in its time as a printworks, although the clanking of machines has been replaced by the steady roar of multitudes of fans and hard disks.
The signals that encode digital information are, ultimately, electromagnetic impulses. The man who showed me around Cermak works for a firm called Steadfast, which rents out space there. He pointed to a cable no thicker than a kettle flex, and told me it was a ten-gigabit fibre-optic connection: it could carry ten billion binary digits every second. The cables are connected up so that the separate, private networks owned by carriers such as Comcast, Verizon and BT can join together to form the seemingly unitary, public internet.
As we walked Cermak's endless, windowless corridors, with their white walls and anonymous blue doors, we paused (not for too long: Cermak is under continuous video surveillance; lingering looks suspicious) outside Cermak's 'Meet-Me Room', where the crucial cables connect. 'The backbone of the internet' goes through Cermak, I was told. The building's original design helps in this respect. The Calumet Plant had 21 big vertical shafts, through which giant rolls of paper were raised and lowered. Cables now run through these shafts, shortening the paths that signals have to follow between the building's eight floors.
Everything that goes on in Cermak requires electrical power. Cermak is the second biggest electricity consumer in Illinois, after Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Its supply must never fail. The building is connected to three different electrical grids, and the tanks of diesel are there to fuel the big generators – of the type, my guide told me, that power cruise liners – that would kick in if all three grids went down.
Nearly all the electricity that flows into Cermak is transformed eventually into heat. Fierce air-conditioning is needed, and data centres used often to be uncomfortably cold. Gradually, their operators have learned better ways of working, for example arranging the computer servers and fans in alternately-facing rows, so that the fans pump heat into a 'hot aisle' between the rows, in which the backs of the servers are easily accessible. It's in those aisles that Cermak's few maintenance staff mostly need to work. As you walk around, though, you get constant reminders of what it takes to keep Cermak cool: huge pipes carrying chilled water; the occasional blast of very cold air.
The most dramatic episode in the short history of automated trading was the 'flash crash' of 6 May 2010, a sudden huge fall – and then almost as rapid a recovery – in prices, which led to a widespread disruption of trading. Cermak was where the crash began. It seems to have been triggered by a set of electromagnetic signals – originally generated by an investment-management firm in Kansas City – encoding a big sell order. At Cermak, the order entered a complex electronic ecosystem of trading algorithms, which would usually have been able to absorb it. For reasons that remain unclear, it didn't do so on 6 May, so the shock then travelled from Cermak down the fibre-optic cables connecting it to the data centres in New Jersey in which shares are traded, spreading chaos as they arrived.
Human eyes and ears are of limited use in understanding what goes on in a data centre. Even my guide couldn't enter most of Cermak's rooms, which are protected by doors with biometric locks. Once you're inside a room, you get only the most tiny clues as to what's going on. At least in the rooms housing trading firms' servers, the computers are generally in locked cages, and those cages are usually tightly packed: renting space in Cermak is pricy, so you want to make the most of it. In one room, though, there was a big cage with only three cabinets of servers, surrounded by expensive, empty floor space. What program could be running on those servers?


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Simmons: 'Great Collaboration' Key to Elanco HQ Move
Friday, December 4, 2020 11:42 AM EDT Updated: Friday, December 4, 2020 01:06 PM EDT
By Alex Brown, Assistant Managing Editor
The chief executive officer of Greenfield-based Elanco Animal Health Inc. (NYSE: ELAN) says the decision to relocate the company's global headquarters to downtown Indianapolis was the result of a major collaboration with state and local partners. Elanco announced today it will build a 45-acre campus at the site of the former GM Stamping Plant as part of an overall $300 million investment in its Indiana operations that is expected to retain or create a total of more than 2,100 jobs over the next 10 years.
Jeff Simmons says the company looked at sites around the world to find the best location for its new headquarters.
In an interview with Inside INdiana Business, Simmons said several factors played into the decision to stay in central Indiana.
"We see the capabilities; we see a location that can attract talent, can build on the agbioscience background that we see with Purdue and AgriNovus and many other talents and our long history here that we've had," said Simmons. "It also is extremely attractive to us economically. As we have our 1,600 employees, we'll add a little over 500 employees over the decade to this facility as we consolidate."
Elanco says it hopes to break ground on the new campus in the first half of 2021 and the project is expected to take 2-3 years to complete. As part of the deal, Elanco has a restricted land option to expand the site by an additional 20 acres.
Simmons says the new facility is bringing more employees together in a different environment.
"We're going to reduce our office space as we go to a post-COVID world, a smarter, smaller office but then add the additional capabilities into it," said Simmons. "It creates cash flow. It's extremely good for our investors, for our employees, for future talents as well as the capabilities and most importantly, for the state of Indiana."
In addition to bringing 1,600 existing jobs and 570 new jobs to the area, Simmons says the company aims to bring more value to the community.
"We're excited to…partner with the community locally and what we can do there, we believe, is with our employees and with our Elanco Foundation and a purpose-driven company to become neighbors and partnering neighbors to have an impact."
Elanco's headquarters are currently located in Greenfield and Simmons says the company's focus will remain in the Hancock County city while construction in Indy gets underway.
"There's a collaboration that we will be working on with the state to continue. There's a lot happening on the eastern side of the city as we know and we see opportunities as we did even as we moved from the last facility in Greenfield. We see opportunity with continued growth in the east side and the state is collaborating with us to ensure that that viability continues as we transition a few years down the road."
Simmons says the idea for the campus was born out of a need for collaboration and innovation as the company looks to a world after the pandemic.
"We're a company that needs a campus to tie capabilities together. So as we look at this, we see this as an opportunity to create a lot of efficiency, to centralize a footprint, to create a global capability, and also to tap into a state that has a history of agriculture, biosciences, technology, pharmaceuticals that will be critical as we go forward."


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The European Union made a commitment to give new impetus to the Lisbon Strategy, which defines a series of measures to promote growth and employment. It now aims to devote 3% of GDP to European spending on research and development by the year 2010.
This is a statewide project for the Spanish Government, which, in view of the wide gap that currently separates Spain from its European neighbours in this area, sees the initiative as a key policy objective.
With this in mind and with a view to maintaining current endeavours in the R&D&I field, the Government has devised INGENIO 2010. This programme seeks to involve the State, the private sector, universities and other public research organisations in a concerted bid to attain a level in keeping with Spain's economic and political position in Europe.
Given the challenges the future holds, R&D&I spending is a key factor in maintaining and boosting growth, productivity and social well-being.
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Objectives: The aims of this initiative are to increase the average size of research groups, raise the levels of funding available to the best lines of research, eliminate excessive fragmentation in research and promote the participation of public research centres in the European Framework Programme.
Budget: It has a budget of €150 mill. over four years, €35 mill. of which are for 2006 and €80.5 mill. for 2007.
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ROCKPORT, Maine (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced Friday that she won't run for governor because she believes she can do more good by remaining in Washington, where she serves as an important swing vote.
Her announcement was welcomed by supporters who view her as an important check on President Donald Trump, with whom she's crossed on the GOP's health care proposal.
"My voice and vote really matter in Washington right now. The Senate is closely divided and I am able to make a difference," Collins, 64, told The Associated Press after a local chamber breakfast.
Speculation about Collins' political future has been swirling for more than a year in her home state, where the moderate remains popular even as the Maine GOP has become more conservative. Collins acknowledged it was a difficult decision, one that she'd struggled over.
The only Republican senator from New England has found herself among a dwindling number of GOP centrists like Arizona's John McCain who are willing to work across the aisle. But she's not afraid to buck her own party: She introduced a bill to let transgender people serve in the military and opposed efforts to kill the Affordable Care Act without a replacement.
Collins was one of three Republican senators who sunk the Republican Senate health care bill. She also serves key roles on the Appropriations Committee and on the Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
She's embraced her role as a centrist who bridges the gap and will keep that role in a Senate that's likely to remain bitterly divided as ever in the years ahead.
Her decision will likely free more gubernatorial candidates who have been waiting on the sidelines to enter the race. Republican Gov. Paul LePage cannot run again because of term limits.
The gubernatorial race is already a crowded field, with more than a dozen members of the Republican and Democratic parties having announced primary runs.
If she'd chosen to run for governor, Collins said, she was confident she could have won the GOP primary and the general election, despite LePage's criticisms that she's not conservative enough. She dismissed LePage's complaints, saying he didn't have an impact on her decision.
Collins said most Americans are moderates like herself - and need to speak up and become "fanatical moderates" to ensure Congress represents their interests.
In Washington, she said, she's going to maintain a positive outlook despite partisan fights and a series of disagreements with Trump. She didn't vote for him in November, despite his being on the Republican ticket.
Associated Press writers Patrick Whittle in Portland and Erica Werner in Washington contributed to this report.


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South Korea reports 334 new coronavirus cases, postpones military drill with U.S. troops
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South Korea reported 334 additional cases of the new coronavirus on Thursday, the largest daily increase yet, as the U.S. State Department issued a new travel warning for South Korea and a joint military drill was postponed.
The new cases bring the total tally to 1,595, the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention said.
The daily figure is the largest reported spike in the country since its first case was confirmed on Jan. 20. South Korea also reported its 13th death linked to the virus.
Of the new cases, 307 were in the southeastern city of Daegu, where a church that was at the centre of the outbreak is located, the KCDC said in its statement.
The U.S. State Department raised its travel advisory level for South Korea and urged citizens to "reconsider travel" to the country.
The virus that can lead to pneumonia is believed to have originated in a market selling wildlife in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. It has infected about 80,000 people and killed more than 2,700, the vast majority in China.
The U.S. military reported its first case of the coronavirus on Wednesday, in a 23-year-old soldier based in Camp Carroll, about 20 km (12 miles) from Daegu.
There are some 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, which remains technically at war with North Korea.
The South Korean military has also reported at least 21 infections, and has confined most troops to their bases.
An upcoming "command post training" usually conducted by members of the two militaries' Combined Forces Command will be postponed "until further notice", according to a statement from the combined command.
The U.S. commander in the country agreed to postpone the training after a request by South Korea's chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
On Thursday, local media reported that a Korean Air flight attendant who has tested positive for coronavirus had worked on flights between Seoul and Los Angeles.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States may in the future have to restrict travel to Italy, South Korea and other countries due to outbreaks of the coronavirus but now was not the right time.
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The Signal • May 11, 2021 • https://fohssignal.net/gates-pushes-through-injury/
Gates pushes through injury
Story by Trent Hogland, Reporter
Josie Gates is a Senior soccer player on the girls Fort Osage team. She has been a part of the program for four years, and has been playing the sport for 11 years. After being out for a week and a half due to her concussion, she is back in action ready to finish her last season with the Indians. Pre-season is always vital to an athletes success during the year, especially if it's the last ride.
"We didn't have much of a pre season due to not only Covid but the weather," Gates said via email. "But the days we were conditioning made me want to push myself harder, knowing it was my last year."
Not being able to have a regular pre-season is definitely a challenge, but Gates has been able to push through it. As a midfielder for her team, she has two assists so far on the season.
"A few of these girls I have played with for many years before high school, and I'm very fortunate to grow up and to be able to experience all these past years playing with them," Gates said via email. "This team has made me a better player on and off the field, and I'm truly grateful, and not ready to let go quite yet."
Coach Michael Brown is the girls head soccer coach, and he has been able to work with Gates and watch her game develop over the years.
"She's a very good midfielder who creates lots of opportunities for her teammates, especially on the wing," Coach Brown said. "She's a hard worker on the field and helps create in the offensive third of the field."
He appreciates her determination and grit that earns her teammates respect.
"We'll miss her warrior mentality and her commitment to her game," Coach Brown said. "She's been a staple for a very successful senior class of girls which will be hard to replace."
Zoe Pearson is a sophomore for the girls soccer team. With Pearson being an underclassmen and Josie being an upperclassman, there is a sense of a leadership role that Gates plays on those girls.
"I look up to Josie as a leader because she is showing up early even when she's injured so she can't even play but is still putting in the effort," Pearson said in an email. "She was also really welcoming and friendly to a lot of the new players."
At the time of the interview, Josie was still under concussion protocol, but after grinding it out and pushing through, she has hit the field again. The girls are glad to have her back, but will miss her in the future.
"As a player her positive attitude will be missed next year," Pearson said in an email.
This love for the game is something that some girls carry on through high school, and beyond. But Josie is planning on leaving the sport after this year.
"I do not plan to continue my soccer career after this year," Gates said via email." I plan to go straight into school."


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Game Review: Eternal Fighter Zero
Eternal Fighter Zero was a fairly popular all-female doujin fighter featuring characters from One, Kanon, AIR, and every other Japanese visual novel you've never heard of.
In fact, I'd never have heard of this game if it wasn't for my obsession with the first Kanon anime which turned my attention to visual novels in general and somehow led me to this game. You can find more info on it from the wikipedia article.
Now on to the review. For the average gamer, Eternal Fighter Zero is seriously the best 2D fighting game you've never heard of. It has an easy learning curve which conceals an incredible depth that you can only experience by actually playing the game.
Anyone familiar with 2D fighters can easily pick up and play it right away. The specials and supers are simple and easy to pull off with only some variations for each unique character. The combo system is extremely flexible, but it takes a lot of skill to pull off more than 8 hits without using a super move. The beginner can get away with using two light poking attacks plus one medium, plus one heavy and adding in a special at the end, but don't think this will work with advanced players. This is where the game truly shines, thanks to the recoil guard system. If you time your block just right, you'll be able to counter with your own attack, however, unlike most other fighters, the enemy can actually recoil guard you back and initiate his own counter.
The AI is also fairly competent on the hardest difficulty level (though nowhere near the level of an advanced human player) and doesn't usually use cheap uber-reflex counters that most fighting game AI have. (think getting kicked out of terra firma by Guile every time you jump in SVC:
Chaos) Thanks to the somewhat unpredictable but fair AI, this game is
infinitely replayable even without any human competition and doesn't get tiring even after hours of play.
The graphics, while slightly pixelly are nothing to complain about with 3D effects and the level of animation you'd expect to see from commercial arcade fighters. The 2D sprites are also really cute especially if you're somewhat familiar with the characters.
Another bonus is the image gallery that comes with the game, which is used for the "now loading" screens featuring professional to amateur quality fanart of the characters and the games that they came from. Speaking of characters, EFZ also features a good selection of characters with 23 unique playable characters in the latest version. Ayu is a bit of an all-arounder, Shiori is more adept at hurling projectiles, Misuzu is for technical players, Kanna is a super-cheap character (nuff said), Mayu is basically balrog/vega in one character, etc.
While lacking a story-mode like Melty Blood, I prefer EFZ because of the simple controls and less combo-friendly system that allows for a variety of different playing styles, such as counter-punching, poking, or even missile spamming thus, allowing even players like myself who don't like stringing long-combos together to mix-it-up with the repeated-pattern-attack combo spammers.
One thing though: Don't even think of playing this game on hard without a gamepad. (although, I've tried it myself. It's possible but difficult)
Playing this game on a Windows 7 PC (and possibly VISTA) sometimes causes screen corruption. Try using a program such as DXWND or D3Dwindower to run it in a window. This fixes the problem on my part.
Official Website: http://www.tasofro.net/efz/index.html
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Q: Translate SQL max() group by to Django I have a table with two columns: listing and bid. Each listing can get multiple bids. I want to run a Django query that returns the highest bid for each listing.
In SQL I would do this:
SELECT listing, max(amount) FROM Bid GROUP BY listing

In django I tried this. It only returns the single highest bid in the whole table
Bid.objects.values('listing','amount').aggregate(Max('amount'))

A: You can .annotate(…) [Django-doc] these with:
from django.db.models import Max

Bid.objects.values('listing').annotate(
    max_amount=Max('amount')
).order_by('listing')
If listing is a ForeignKey, it is however better to annotate that model, so something like:
from django.db.models import Max

Listing.objects.annotate(
    max_bid=Max('bid__amount')
)
since then these are Listing models, and thus the model layer does not "erode".


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NM voters had their say. Now the education amendment is up to Congress - Albuquerque Journal
NM voters had their say. Now the education amendment is up to Congress
By Dan McKay / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Thursday, November 17th, 2022 at 5:51PM
Updated: Thursday, November 17th, 2022 at 9:32PM
Candelaria Pacheco and her nephew, Mauricio Carmona, listen to U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich speak about the New Mexico Education Enhancement Act at the headquarters of OLÉ in Albuquerque on Monday. In English, the poster they hold says that early education teachers demand better salaries. Pacheco runs a day care in Albuquerque. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
SANTA FE – The debate over pulling more money out of New Mexico's largest permanent fund is moving from one capitol to another.
It's now up to Congress to authorize the constitutional amendment that won overwhelming voter approval in New Mexico last week.
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and Rep. Melanie Stansbury called on their colleagues Thursday to consent quickly to the amendment and allow New Mexico to boost its annual withdrawals out of the permanent school fund.
The proceeds are expected to generate another $236 million next fiscal year for early childhood education and public schools.
In a short speech inside the chambers of the U.S. House, Stansbury, a Democrat and former state legislator, highlighted the amendment's support from voters across New Mexico.
It won backing from a majority even in some conservative communities, such as Eddy and Otero counties, and about 70% of voters statewide cast ballots in favor.
"I urge every single member of this body to hear our voices – to hear the voices of New Mexicans and our children," Stansbury said Thursday as she addressed the House. "New Mexicans want our kids to be able to access the resources they need."
In a written statement, Heinrich, a Democrat, said he remains "committed to seeing this fight to the end at the federal level."
Legislation he and Stansbury introduced in December has already cleared the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee – with unanimous, bipartisan support – and is awaiting action by the full Senate.
The legislation, however, doesn't necessarily have to advance as a standalone bill. It could be added to a broader legislative package – such as a budget bill – expected to win support from both chambers.
Supporters say they're optimistic the language will pass one way or another by the end of December.
Also co-sponsoring New Mexico's education measure are the other two Democrats in the state's delegation – Sen. Ben Ray Luján and Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández.
Heinrich said voter approval of the amendment "is truly an inflection point for the entire state of New Mexico, especially our children."
The amendment reached Congress after legislators at the Roundhouse spent more than a decade debating and reshaping the proposal. It cleared both chambers of the Legislature in 2021 and went before voters in last week's general election.
Lawmakers disagreed over whether congressional approval should be required.
But the final version of the amendment included language requiring congressional approval before the full distribution takes effect.
Under the amendment, New Mexico is set to boost the distribution out of the permanent school fund – an endowment of sorts – from 5% to 6.25% for two purposes, based on the five-year average value of the fund:
⋄ 60% of the additional money – expected to reach $142 million in the fiscal year that starts July 1 – would go toward early childhood education, or programs for kids too young for kindergarten.
That part of the amendment is contingent on congressional approval.
⋄ 40% of the money – projected to be $94 million – would go to K-12 public schools for enhanced instruction for students at risk of failure, extending the school year and teacher pay.
The amendment doesn't specifically require congressional approval for the K-12 distribution, presumably because public schools are already a beneficiary of the permanent fund.
But the federal legislation, in any case, would authorize the entire amendment that went before New Mexico voters.
Stansbury, in a short floor speech Thursday, urged her colleagues to pass the language "without delay."
Congressional approval, she said, was required "because of antiquated laws that were put on the books over a century ago."
Federal legislation tied to New Mexico's entry into statehood in 1912 established the permanent fund with certain conditions attached. The laws required land grants be held in trust for New Mexico schools and other institutions.
State Sen. Antonio "Moe" Maestas – an Albuquerque Democrat who co-sponsored the constitutional amendment as it worked its way through the Roundhouse – said the conditions imposed at statehood reflected New Mexico's "paternalistic relationship" with the federal government and perhaps concern at the time about the state's demographics.
He said he disagrees congressional approval is required but that federal legislation will make it clear regardless.
"When we go into session Jan. 17," Maestas said, "there will be absolutely no question that we have the legal authority to do this."
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In Piedmont Youth Soccer League action this weekend, several local teams came away with wins.
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Ahead of the Academy Awards on Wednesday, People magazine released its list of Hollywood's most stylish stars.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A roundup of news Friday from the Television Critics Association winter meeting, where TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs.
Meryl Streep's self-professed addiction to "Big Little Lies" had the bonus of turning the Oscar-winning actress into a star of the HBO drama's second season.
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Looks in neutrals, reds and purples brought the drama Sunday on the Oscars carpet, along with a healthy dose of shiny gold, but Nicole Kidman stood out in stunning cobalt blue at Hollywood's biggest fashion show.
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City Room | Morning Buzz | Protesting Hearings on Muslim Extremism
Morning Buzz | Protesting Hearings on Muslim Extremism
By Jason Tomassini
March 7, 2011 7:59 am March 7, 2011 7:59 am
Monday will be better than Sunday was, unless you prefer sideways rain and devastating gusts over sun, highs of 43 and only mild winds, which is what you'll get.
In advance of Thursday's Congressional hearings on homegrown terrorism, hundreds protested in Times Square on Sunday, as a Long Island congressman dealt with a political firestorm over his specific focus on Muslims for the hearings.
Many protesters held signs reading "Today I am a Muslim too" at a rainy protest to voice concerns that Representative Peter T. King, a Republican, is unfairly singling out Muslims in his hearings, as well as in interviews in Washington over the weekend.
"The threat is coming from the Muslim community," he said in response. "The radicalization attempts are directed at the Muslim community. Why should I investigate other communities?"
On Sunday, Mr. King was criticized by Representative Keith Ellison, of Minnesota, who is Muslim, when both men appeared on CNN together. And Denis McDonough, President Obama's national security adviser, gave a speech at a mosque in Virginia to ease anxiety over the hearings.
Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a founder of a project to develop an Islamic community center near ground zero, spoke at the protests. [NYT] (Also see The Daily News and The Wall Street Journal, paid subscription required.)
People & Neighborhoods
As demographics change in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church has become a haven for artists. The church grounds, including an empty school building, are now home to photographers, videographers and painters, who also hold galleries and exhibitions there. The outreach, which has produced a 93-artist waiting list for space and earned new revenue through shoots for television shows like "30 Rock," may serve as a model to other emptying church buildings, especially in artist-laden Brooklyn. [NYT]
In the East Village, artists, musicians and poets are hoping A Gathering of the Tribes, an art gallery and salon run by Steve Cannon, a former humanities professor who is blind, will survive a potential sale of the space. Confusion between Mr. Cannon, who used to own the building, and its current owner put the neighborhood gathering place in jeopardy. [NYT]
A Queens high school basketball coach finished his 42nd season last week after a loss in the Public School Athletic League playoffs, but he is entering the pantheon of area coaches. The coach, Charles Granby, 76, is set to reach 700 victories next season, a milestone that along with his .779 winning percentage should put him in the same conversation as the longtime high school coaches Jack Curran of Archbishop Molloy in Queens (937-418, .691) and Bob Hurley Sr. of St. Anthony in Jersey City (1,012-110, .901). Mr. Granby is also credited with seeing his Cambria Heights school, now called Campus Magnet High, through racial tension and problems with drugs and violence in the 1970s and '80s. [NYT]
A gay advocacy group was excluded from the Staten Island St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday after it refused to discard a banner that organizers said would violate Catholic doctrine. City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn boycotted the parade in response. [Daily News]
Raj Rajaratnam, founder of multibillion-dollar hedge fund management firm Galleon Group, is expected to testify in his coming trial for charges of insider trading, which is to begin Tuesday. [Wall Street Journal] (Also see The Daily News.)
A cabdriver refused to take four men from Manhattan to the Bronx early Sunday morning and then ran two of them over with his taxi, the police said. One victim is in critical condition, the other is in stable condition. The cabdriver, Mohammed Azam, 27, was arrested. [NYT]
A man charged with beating a woman over a parking spot last month in the East Village says the woman provoked him by hitting him repeatedly. The woman remains in a coma; the man, Oscar Fuller, is out on $100,000 bail. [New York Post]
Despite a seemingly strong work ethic and sufficient test scores from her students, a young teacher at Lab Middle School for Collaborative Studies could fall victim to complicated performance evaluation metrics used by the Department of Education and, thus, the department's seniority-based layoff system. [NYT]
The public advocate, Bill di Blasio, is calling for Schools Chancellor Cathleen P. Black to cancel plans to increase spending on technology contracts to save what he estimates would be 300 teachers from layoffs. [Daily News]
Larry Eisenberg March 7, 2011 · 8:13 am
No hypocrite is Peter King,
Investigate Muslims? His thing!!
He's making no error
In jumping on Terror,
To bigotry Teabaggers cling.
Don March 7, 2011 · 10:23 am
I don't understand why the anti-hearings protesters are so upset. If there is radicalization going on within the Islamic community in the United States, surely they would want to have these issues addressed as much as anyone else. The facts are clear that there have been many instances of radicalization within the U.S. in the past several years. From Jose' Padilla to Faisal Shazad to Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, "homegrown" terror in the U.S. has become a major security issue for our entire nation. These groups claim they are being targeted because of their race or religion, but the investigations are really about people's actions and behavior; things like inflammatory internet postings, calls for violence by religious or community members, and on-campus hate preaching by Muslim groups. This type of behavior should not be tolerated no matter what group is involved, and there have been hearings in the U.S. regarding the extremist activities of other groups as well. There are so-called "celebrities" now joining with the protesters, like Russell Simmons, but what do these individuals even know about the things that are being investigated? Would Simmons condone the behavior of someone like Faisal Shazad, who left a truck bomb right in the same place, Times Square, where the protests were held? I agree that people should not judge the entire Muslim American population based on the actions of a few individuals, but that is not what is going on here. The anti-hearings protesters should not be so quick to say that any inquiry, even when there is overwhelming evidence proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Islamic extremist radicalization is a growing problem in the United States today, is an impermissible assault on all Muslims.
Ari March 7, 2011 · 10:38 am
One thing is for sure: Liberal democracies like the US have no shortage of 'useful idiots', as Lenin famously termed them, who are more than happy to assist any and all fascist ideologies grow and take root in the US. And that, unfortunately, with few exceptions, also applies to mainstream media.
jane March 7, 2011 · 5:42 pm
While it has been mentioned many times over that Russell Simmons has been outspoken about "demonize" Muslims including at the protest yesterday no new organizations have made mention that he is a strong and un-apologetic supporter of the Black Muslims hate group Nation of Islam. Shame on the media for failing to call him out on this.
Vaishwords March 8, 2011 · 9:41 pm
While our politicians argue about what to call terrorists and how to classify them, the new breed of terrorist no longer fits into any of our pre-defined categories or profiles that have been established and used by law enforcement for more than two decades for the hard core Jihadist. //www.vaishwords.com/2010/05/fighting-terrorism-is-like-being.html
Max March 9, 2011 · 11:24 pm
I hope the hearings will also bring to light the terrible anti-Israel and anti-semetic activities of Muslim activists and students on American college campuses. For the most part they have gone unreported. Intimidation, profane and anti-democratic behavior practiced by Muslims and their knee-jerk leftist campus supporters is openly displayed and tolerated on our "all-inclusive-except-the-Jews" campuses.
Hearings on Muslim Extremism Prompt Times Square Protest
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In this blog post we are going to share another 20 Dunster images from Twitter, most of these are recent from the beginning of this year.
Finding these Tweets was easy and there were a few more that just missed out but I wanted a variation of images to show the beauty of Dunster Village. I found these either looking for Tweets with the #Dunster hashtag or that were tagged with the word Dunster, then just filtered the Tweets to search for images.
The local businesses of Dunster tweet some lovely images but it is always good to see a visitors point of view of the village and read about their experience during their visit, as these always change for every different person.
I hope you have enjoyed this blog post, please comment below if you have found some more images via Twitter that you would like to share.
Thanks for sharing our image of Dunster Beach Mark. Dunster is such a magical place, we love it!


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US Wants Sudan to Open Humanitarian Access to Area
By Scott Stearns
Displaced women gather to collect water from a water hole near Jamam refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, March 10, 2012.
Civilians in Sudan's Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states are in need of food aid and are fleeing fighting between local militia and government troops. U.S. officials are working with Sudan's government to open humanitarian access to the region.
The U.S. special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Princeton Lyman, said there are ways to get food aid into Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile without Khartoum's consent, but they are inadequate to the need.
So the international community and African Union are pressing Khartoum to approve a plan for humanitarian corridors as more than 140,000 new refugees have left for South Sudan, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, Catherine Wiesner, just returned from South Sudan.
?The area where the refugees are arriving is remote. It is scarcely populated and much of it rests in a flood zone that becomes inaccessible by road for much of the six-month rainy season," said Wiesner. "The rains are set to begin in a month or so, and so in this difficult context the agencies are really in a race against time to get all the supplies in place.?
Fighting complicates aid access
Humanitarian access is complicated by fighting in the regions near the border with the newly-independent South Sudan. Many people in those areas joined southern rebels in their fight for independence from Khartoum, but those provinces are north of the dividing line and remain part of the Republic of Sudan.
Ambassador Lyman said that is part of ongoing talks at the African Union.
?There are accusations from Khartoum that South Sudan is supporting the rebels in Southern Kordofan. There are also charges from Juba that the government in Khartoum supports militias destabilizing South Sudan. It is important that the two sides sit down and discuss the issues candidly between them because neither side should be trying to destabilize the other,? said Lyman.
Lyman said it is a mistake to think that troubles in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile are only because of possible support from the south. He said there are internal political and security issues left over from Sudan's 2005 comprehensive peace agreement, which ended the country's civil war. He said Khartoum must address those issues with the people of those regions to end the conflict there.
Oil dispute threatens regional peace
Fueling mistrust between north and south is a standoff over the distribution of considerable oil wealth. South Sudan shut down production after refusing to pay what it said were excessive transit fees through northern pipelines.
Lyman said talks are continuing over who pays how much compensation to Khartoum for its loss of southern oil fields, but that dispute is linked with cross-border violence.
?It is hard to see the full implementation of an oil agreement if the two sides are fighting at the border, or if there is continued unrest in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile that spills over between the two countries,? said Lyman.
Lyman says he believes Sudan and South Sudan understand the importance of avoiding any attacks on oil facilities, which he said could lead to a broader conflict.
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By Andrew Green
Sudan-South Sudan Clash Prompts Urgent Mediation Effort
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SPLA soldiers withdraw from the contested area following clashes with Sudanese armed forces
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The debut album from this Bulgarian doom metal band. A band who were a part of the very active Brutallica mag/Counter Active Records scene in Bulgaria. I think they are still very active. The Brutallica magazine is still being released.
Nightsky Bequest played ambient doom metal with some prog and goth influences too. They had female vocals and no death metal vocals.
Unfortunate, the material here is too ambient with acoustic guitars and keyboards. The few proper melodies here is not particular good. The female vocals are a bit weak too. The sound is not bad though. The end product is a snore fest of an album. I must have liked this album fifteen years ago. But anno 2012, this album does not sound good at all. Sorry.


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