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General Mills ahead on nutrition improvements
By Eric Schroeder
MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly 25% of General Mills Inc.'s U.S. Retail product sales during 2011 were made up of products with improved nutrition profiles, with most of the gains taking place from reducing trans fat and sodium, which each accounted for 26% of the fiscal 2011 improvement. The next largest gains came from adding vitamins and minerals (19%) and from increasing whole grain content (12%).
The improved health make-up of General Mills' products, along with updates on the community and environment efforts, was detailed in the company's "Global Responsibility 2012" report issued on April 3.
In 2005, only 16% of General Mills' U.S. Retail sales volume came from nutritionally improved products, but in its 2012 report the company noted 64% now comes from such products.
General Mills identified Lucky Charms as a cereal that was reformulated in 2011. The cereal now has 20% more fiber, 25% more whole grains and 10% less sodium than in fiscal 2010. Additionally, the cereal has 10 grams of sugar per serving — down from 12 grams in 2007.
On the whole grains front, General Mills said every Big G cereal has at least 9 grams of whole grain per serving, and whole grains are listed as the first ingredient on every Big G cereal, a fact the company said "is important to health-conscious consumers who look to the ingredient list to assess the nutritional value of the food they eat."
Since 2005, General Mills has reduced trans fat in more than 120 of its U.S. Retail products, and by the end of fiscal 2011 about 83% of the division's sales volume was comprised of products with zero grams labeled trans fat.
"Most flavors of Betty Crocker SuperMoist cake mixes, virtually all Pillsbury Toaster Strudel products and many Pillsbury Crescent varieties are among the products that have been reduced to zero grams of trans fat," the company said.
General Mills said it already has introduced several healthier new products in fiscal 2012, including Progress Reduced Sodium Tomato Parmesan soup, Gold Medal White Whole Wheat flour, Fiber One 80 Calories cereal, Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers Pasta and Vegetables with Alfredo Sauce, Yoplait Chocolate Banana Smoothie and Simply Fruit Rolls.
The company said it is nearing the halfway mark toward achieving three of its 2015 global sustainability goals: water, solid waste and packaging.
In water, the company is about 50% of the way to achieving a 20% reduction in its water usage rate and a 50% reduction in its solid waste generation rate. Meanwhile, the company said it has improved the packaging for 27% of its sales volume — more than halfway to its goal of 40%.
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If I add a runnable using View.postDelayed(), am I responsible to call View.removeCallbacks() to avoid memory leak? Or will the runnable be removed from the queue when the view is "destroyed"?

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Once you move out of the dorms and into a real apartment/home of your own it's time to buy some of those kitchen essentials you've been lusting after at all of your favorite stores (ahem I'm looking at you Anthropologie). Once you get all the necessities – glasses, silverware, plates, etc., it's time to invest in some of the kitchen gadgets that will make your kitchen fully functional. Here are four kitchen gadgets that we think every woman needs.
A KitchenAid is at the top of every girl's wedding registry and/or Christmas list. If you spend a lot of time baking or you're in the kitchen in general, a KitchenAid is well worth the investment. A high quality mixer will make life so much easier for you, especially with the variety of attachments! If you're looking for a more affordable option, a handheld mixer will do the trick just fine too.
Using a cutting board for cutting or simple food prep, like making a sandwich, makes clean up a breeze. Not only that, but you also save your precious countertops from getting scratched and bruised. Whether you opt for a classic wooden butcher block or a simpler cutting mat like this, having a large cutting board is something you won't regret. I use mine every single day!
This thing is small but mighty and saves so much time when cooking. As someone who eats a lot of veggies and cooks with vegetables often, the chopper makes dicing garlic, onions, bell peppers, carrots, and more a complete breeze. It's also perfect for crushing nuts.
Everyone has their favorite brand of blender – Ninja versus Blendtec. Forget the name brands, the most important thing is that you invest in a blender with a strong blade. You can use your blender all year round – smoothies in the summer and soup in the winter. Blenders are also great for protein shakes, daiquiris, and hummus making.


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"When we talk about big data it is the customer that wins," said Don Butler, Ford Executive of Connected Vehicles and Service. It is estimated that by 2020, there will be over 30 billion connected devices, including cars, watches, refrigerators and even toothbrushes. All of these pieces are leading to an explosion in big data information about what people desire and whom they want it from. Consumers have learned that data can improve life overall.
During the "What's The Big Deal with Data?" Panel hosted by Butler the discussion revolved around this hot topic. Cynthia Czabala, Vice-President of Data Services at Intercontinental Hotels Group, Douglas L. Davis, Vice-President of Internet of Things, Chuck Holland, Vice-President of Industrial Engineering at UPS, Sarah Quinlan, Senior Vice-President of Market Insight for Master Card Advisors and Dan Wagner, CEO and Founder of Civis Analytics all spoke to hundreds of attendants. Each shared personal career highlights that would not of happened without the understanding of data sharing and comprehension at their companies.
These key business points are being applied by Ford as they develop new lines such as the just revealed 2015 Ford Edge all the way to the classic and beloved F-150. Since 1948 sales from the F-Series have peaked to over 33 million. That number is expected to grow with the input of new data research by the engineering team.
In 2015 the Ford F-150 will be loaded with revolutionary innovation. The new truck proudly holds over 100 new patents and patent applications, which makes it the most patented truck in Ford history. It will define a new standard for road protection and will deliver the best fuel economy. The details that make it stand out include integrated LED spotlights, a 360-degree camera that features a front camera washer, 110-volt, 400-watt outlets, LED headlamps, information cluster/productivity screen and remote tailgate release with a tailgate step.
All of these are aspects that the experienced and talented Ford engineers developed after listening to the needs of consumers over the years. They were also brought about in some of the unique labs at the company that include animating automotive design by Ford's Product Development Center and by a team of about twenty animators in the Studio 2000X.
The factory in Dearborn puts all theories to the test. When experienced in real time during hyper robotic test drives and high-speed track tests it is no wonder that Ford is expected to outshine some tough competition in the market. Over 70% of adults worldwide believe that technological leaps are what make companies like Ford larger than they were five years ago. Whether it is by believing in big data or it is by creating a new trend, it is all leading up to a very hopeful future society.


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ONWARD's First Reviews Say Prepare to Cry
by Michael Walsh
Feb 21 2020 • 12:55 PM
Onward, set in a fantasy world of unicorns, magic, and suburbia, follows two brothers on a mythic quest to see their dead father one last time. It's an animated film where expectations would be high based on the cast alone. The movie stars Chris Pratt and Tom Holland. But since it's a Pixar movie it comes with a legacy to live up to. So does it? Based on the first reviews some critics think so. But not all. That doesn't mean you'll want to pass on it though. And they all agree on one thing—you should definitely get ready to cry when you do.
Kristy Puchko at IGN has high praise for the film, which she says features a fantastic cast and will "tug at your heartstrings" with its moving story.
"Filmmaker Dan Scanlon has crafted an adventure that gleefully flies high with its fantasy elements, yet never loses touch with its grounded family tale. In that regard, it feels like '80s Amblin, but without being a stodgy homage. It's got charm from its playful production design to its exuberant voice cast to some deeply silly visual gags. (My favorite is one involving a galloping steed in the form of a busted up van.) Plus, it has a sensational pace that keeps the adventure rollicking and keeps the audience on the edge of their seats through a parade of audacious action sequences that include high-speed chases, bonkers battles, and a dungeon crawl through an array of booby traps. All told, it's a terrifically entertaining tale filled with humor, heart, and allusions that are sure to delight fantasy fans."
At The Independent Clarisse Loughrey writes Pixar has done it again, calling it "another soul-crushing tearjerker" classic like Coco and Inside Out.
"It's impressive that a world as self-consciously silly as the one in Onward, with its rows of mushroom houses plagued by trash-scavenging unicorns, can still support meaningful, often painful conversations about loss. But the film hits all the right emotional notes, without cutting back on the goofy physical comedy or clever fantasy references – the notorious Dungeons & Dragons monster the Gelatinous Cube even gets a shout-out here. Everyone knew there'd be high expectations when it came to Onward. But it's comforting just to see Pixar do what Pixar does best."
Justin Chang at the Los Angeles Times thinks the film doesn't reach the height of the best Pixar movies, but that doesn't matter.
"Although it does not join the likes of "The Incredibles" and "WALL-E" in the pantheon of company masterworks, Onward is a touching, lovingly crafted oddity—a movie that acknowledges its borrowed elements at the outset and then proceeds to reinvigorate them with tried-and-true Pixar virtues: sly wit, dazzling invention and a delicacy of feeling that approaches the sublime. The result may sound like an incongruous pileup of genres on paper—picture an ancient storybook quest, a rowdy '80s-flavored buddy comedy and an out-and-out male weepie in a noisy three-way collision — but there are glimmers of real enchantment and honest feeling amid the rubble."
At The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney says Onward comes up short compared to past Pixar films, but it will still appeal to younger audiences.
"This fantasy adventure quest, about two teenage elf brothers racing against the clock to spend a day with their late father before a reanimation spell wears off will be perfectly agreeable entertainment for many children. But it lacks infectious magic. Any promise of originality fueled early on by the amusing sight of unicorns sniffing through suburban trash quickly dissipates as the siblings' journey gets under way, their progress marked by slapstick gags, predictable close shaves, encounters with characters that often feel like plot padding and standard life lessons writ large."
Robert Daniels of 812 Film Reviews thinks the movie's focus on dealing with grief and loss actually makes Onward a film that will appeal to an older audience.
"Lighthearted and funny, one scene in particular witnesses Ian and Barley zooming through a cave's river on a giant Cheetos puff, Onward morphs from standard Pixar faire to a heartfelt cry-a-thon by the final act. Losing a parent is never something you get over; their remains within you; and the memories of them in your mind become more cherished with each passing day. Onward specifically taps into a well of grief, of the ever-present emotional wound that's slightly bound but never closed. And it does so until the tear drops run dry, only to dig for more. Which makes Onward far more a film for adults than Pixar's ever done. So go to your local convenience store and break the bank on those napkins; they're needed. "
Empire's Ben Travis says Onward might be the studio's funniest movie yet, but raves it's so much more than that even if it uses fantasy to tell a classic tale.
"Pixar's take on the tale-as-old-as-time fantasy genre is, in many ways, traditional — a magic-fuelled (deceased) father-and-son story that eventually becomes a tribute to brotherly love. While it doesn't break new ground for the studio, it's a joyous reminder of just how brilliant Pixar is when working at full capacity. Like the greatest heroes of legends past, Onward is pure of heart, stalwart, and true."
Rachel Leishman of The Mary Sue gives the film five out of five "unicorns" after it had her crying the entire time.
"Pixar movies have a way of taking your heart and jumping up and down on it until you feel like you can't breathe through your tears—or, at least, that's how I felt watching Onward. Whenever I thought to myself that I was okay and that I wouldn't cry anymore, the movie took a turn, and there I was, sitting in my tears, just hoping I didn't have mascara running down my face."
At The Verge Joshua Rivera writes the movie is a "perfectly watchable film" that had a chance to be great.
"Perhaps part of the problem is that Onward is both incredibly strange and rather sweet, but it only half-commits to either feeling. In Onward, Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley (Chris Pratt) Lightfoot are elf brothers in a world that's kind of like ours but inhabited by fantasy creatures like centaurs and unicorns. There used to be magic in this world, the prologue explains, but technology came along, and that was much easier. So people abandoned magic, and magic went away."
IndieWire's Eric Kohn only puts Onward in the middle of the Pixar pack, but that's not a bad place to be.
"Onward recycles familiar tropes (teen rebellion in a single-parent household, coming-of-age adventuring) and transforms them into charming, visually inspired fantasy. We've all seen this suburban milieu, but not from the perspective of angst-riddled elves and wizardry. Scanlon's savvy world building obscures the familiar turns, or gives them renewed juice. Save for a few by-the-book action sequences and corny gags, Onward maintains its clever balance of formula all the way through an emotional climax engineered to make you cry, and makes the journey worthwhile."
All that's left now is for us to go on our own quest to seek out what we think.
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DMACC Women's Golf Team Fnishes Seventh in Rockhurst Golf Tournament
The Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) women's golf team began the 2018 spring season with a seventh-place finish in the Rockhurst Golf Tournament March 26 and 27 at Wichita, Kan.
The Bears turned in 18-hole scores of 376 and 381 for a 36-hole total of 757. William Jewell College (WJC) took the team championship with a score of 657 and WJC's Alex Trask won individual medalist honors with rounds of 79 and 74 for a 36-hole score of 153.
DMACC was led by sophomore Jamie Bellingham of Auckland, New Zealand, who posted rounds of 86 and 81 for a 167 total, tying for 12th place.
Other DMACC results included a 190 by sophomore Kortney Orr of Columbus Junction, a 196 by freshman Alison Schweers of Carroll and a 204 by freshman Kylie Nichols of Ogden. Orr shot rounds of 90 and 100 to finish in 32nd place, Schweers turned in two rounds of 98 to finish in 36th place and Nichols finished 38th on identical rounds of 102.
"We're very excited about our outlook for the spring season," DMACC women's golf coach Chris Seaboch said. "We've got our first-ever returning All-American leading the team and that in itself is exciting to see what Jaime Bellingham can do going forward."
Seaboch said his team made great strides during the fall season and the goal is to keep improving during the spring season.
"Kortney Orr had some really good scores in the fall and our freshmen put a lot of good work in during the fall and we're gearing them up for the spring season," Seaboch said.
Seaboch pointed out that inclement weather has prevented his team from doing much practicing or playing outside and that the Rockhurst tournament was the women's first real experience outside this spring.
"We were able to get outside for a couple of days last week and a couple of days the week before, but we haven't been able to string three, four or five days together so it has made for a little bit of a challenge for us," Seaboch said. "At the same time, all the other teams are in the same boat as we are."
Seaboch said he saw some good things from his team in the Rockhurst tournament, but also saw some things that the players need to work on.
"You could tell we haven't been outside and gotten to play much so when we have been practicing it's really just been on the driving range or putting green and not really playing," Seaboch said. "We did see some good things and we just need to keep working as best we can."
The DMACC women's golf team will play in the DMACC Invitational April 4 at Otter Creek Golf Course in Ankeny.


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How Will We, Americans, Overcome This Chaos? - Part I
Our Greatest Individual Power: A Collective Purpose
This two-part long article is co-written by Jonathan Cook. Daniel Christian Wahl, Virginie Glaenzer and AcornOak Tribe,
Reality Is Unwelcome
Everywhere you look, you see mass shooting, US life expectancy on the decline, an uncivilized society, political rudeness, the teen vaping epidemic, victims of fast-fashion and sex scandals in the midst of fake news and climate change.
This reality can no longer be dismissed by calling it negative or seeing the glass half empty - despite the year-end feel good stories.
This is the real reality. It's overwhelming and distressing. We recall how a 20-year-old Gen-z summed it up when she said: "It's hard to tell what's important."
Our Human Nature Is Vulnerable
In a time of uncertainty, we look for heroes but we also look for bad guys, anyone we can blame for our shortcomings, misery and fears. We feel better when we believe the enemy is "them."
But fear doesn't have to destroy us. Fear can be exhilarating.
When we understand how vulnerable we are and embrace it, it makes a huge difference. When we turn inward to generate a response, as individuals, we tap into our personal agency.
Individuals fostering and voicing their personal convictions is what democracy is all about.
When America put the first man on the moon, it had an astonishing societal and cultural significance.
If you were old enough to witness this event, you undoubtedly recall your reaction: '"I remember feeling an almost physical thrill run through me."
This technological achievement was much bigger than just Armstrong walking on the moon. The moon landing capped a tumultuous American decade - the Vietnam war, Kennedy's death, civil rights - and helped assert the country's global dominance in a moment of greatness that defined the American century.
It was a moment that brought everyone together beyond their gender, social and ethnic differences: 'We stuck our heads out to stare at the moon – every household in the street was doing the same.'
It was a moment that defined how we, Americans, felt about our purpose and our impact on the world: 'Somehow we thought landing on the moon would make the world a better place.'
It's That Time Again
As expressed by The Guardian, "America faces an epic choice in the coming year, and the results will define the country for a generation...These are perilous times...Anger and cruelty disfigure public discourse and lying is commonplace. Truth is being chased away."
We've never been here before.
We've never faced the existential threat of climate change.
We've never had the level of communication and knowledge that's available.
And, we've never had young people taking leadership like Greta Thunberg.
Therefore, it's time to regroup and fight back. Not against other people, because we are in the same boat, but fight our own fears.
The notion of activism has evolved from groups of hard-core fighters to powerful individuals consciously taking responsibility, standing up for what is right, and living it through their daily choices.
We humans are so in need of purpose and meaning that we don't require certainty of outcome. But we do require a sense of possibility.
At AcornOak, we are not optimists. We are a possible-ists. So we ask a question.
What Possibility Will You Choose?
There is one thing that will bring us together and give us our ultimate individual power.
One thing that will unite our differences, our opposite views and stop the polarity madness.
A collective purpose is the answer.
America has always been at its best when innovating and leading change. Think Henry Ford and the assembly line, the Industrial Age, sea and aircraft for World War I and II, modernizing farming, Silicon Valley, etc.
It's once again time to be progressive and lead. Think new, not old.
When we embrace a cause, something interesting happens to us. We start by losing our sense of self, we become free from our self-criticizing voice, and, as a result, our fears and limitations disappear.
The cause becomes a powerful surrender mechanism that unleashes our hidden abilities and capacities for the greater good. Whatever possibilities we decide to gather around will have an impact inside and outside of our country.
Our domestic purpose becomes a foreign purpose.
To put our minds as one, we invite you to consider two major and exciting movements where we are witnessing individuals thriving in a collective purpose and making waves.
- PART II -
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In Theaters: 10/27/2017
On Video: 01/23/2018
By: Bill Gibron
Who likes scary puzzles!?
Buy It On DVD
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Sometimes, the best cinematic advice is to leave well enough alone. Sure, some can make a go of revamping previous classics, but for the most part, when you want to revive a flagging franchise, you better be careful less you anger the original fanbase and underwhelm the current crop of potential devotees. Take James Wan and Leigh Whannel's horror breakthrough, Saw. From the moment it broke onto festival screens, it announced a new master of terror while upping the violence that so many PG-13 frights of the era were missing.
Seven sequels later and few were figuring that the long dead John Kramer, aka Jigsaw, aka Tobin Bell, would be revived for more torture porn pleasures. Having died at the end of installment number three, every film since then strained credibility by tying more and more ancillary characters to the maniac as mentor. As Wan turned over the directing chores to filmmakers both bravura (Darren Lynn Bousman) and boring (David Hackl, Kevin Greutert), Saw was seen as a successful concept drained of all its potential to become product.
So one would think that the latest update–a reboot/follow-up known as Jigsaw–would trade in the terrifying traps that made this franchise fun. Like the slice and dice dynamic that lead Friday the 13th and Halloween to multiple slasher installments, the various games that our killer wants to indulge in have come to define the entire concept's raison d'etra. Sadly, the new film offers one of the weakest puzzle collections in the Saw legacy. We should have gotten something to celebrate. After all, the combo of Peter and Michael Spierig are responsible for a couple of clever horror romps (Undead, Daybreakers) but even they underwhelm.
The story starts with a criminal named Edgar Munsen (Josiah Black) being pursued by police. He is eventually shot by Detective Halloran (Callum Keith Rennie). Along with his partner, Detective Hunt (Cle Bennett), they begin to investigate a series of murders that follow the pattern established by the infamous Jigsaw. Elsewhere, a group of five people are being held hostage and tested by an unseen individual who seems to be vying to take the notorious killer's place. Suspicion surrounds two police pathologists (Matt Passmore and Hannah Emily Anderson), one of whom is a major fan of John Kramer and his legacy. Then there's a big twist. And a reveal. And lots of narrative cheats.
Jigsaw is the Final Destination 5 of the Saw franchise, and let's just leave it at that. The Spierigs may be known for reinvesting tired fear concepts with new life, but they do nothing here to enliven the otherwise lackluster proceedings. Even the typically abundant gore the series is known for is muted here, the arterial spray more like a trickle. Instead of moving the franchise forward, this is backwards glancing without the fan service we've come to expect from such approaches. There's nothing really new or inventive here, and that's the film's biggest problem.
While many blame James Wan for starting all this splatterfest mumbo jumbo, the truth is that the original Saw had more in common with Hitchcock than it did Hostel (which is the real benchmark for the whole torture porn subgenre). It was a stylish, surprise filled form of audience anticipation and release. But ever since Bouseman transformed the series into a series of more and more terrifying (and often illogical traps), the Saw films have wallowed in such excesses. Jigsaw tries to match up, menace wise, but just can't. Even the mandatory "ah ha" is a groan inducer, especially for those who could see the this particular gotcha a mile or two away.
For fans of the series, Jigsaw is the law of diminishing returns elevated to lamentable levels.
Movie Credits
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Writer: Josh Stolberg, Peter Goldfinger
Cast: Matt Passmore, Callum Keith Rennie, Clé Bennett, Hannah Emily Anderson
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Isaiah Pead ran for 149 yards and a touchdown, and Ralph David Abernathy IV's 90-yard kickoff return early in the fourth quarter put Cincinnati ahead to stay as the Bearcats edged Vanderbilt 31-24 on Saturday in the Liberty Bowl.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Cincinnati coach Butch Jones rang the bell on the Liberty Bowl trophy, eager to get the Bearcats' party started.
And he knew just the place to celebrate in Memphis.
"We officially get to ring in the new year on Beale Street," Jones yelled.
The Bearcats (10-3) capped the season with their third straight victory by snapping a two-game skid in bowl games. It was their first bowl win since downing Southern Miss in the 2007 PapaJohns.com Bowl. They also notched their fourth 10-win season in the last five years, bouncing back from 4-8 in 2010 during Jones' first season.
"A 10-win season is very hard to do in college football," Jones said.
But the co-Big East Conference champs had to work to put away Vanderbilt (6-7), a team that tied for fourth in the Southeastern Conference's East Division, despite forcing three turnovers and coming up with two sacks. The Commodores led 21-17 when Abernathy became the first Cincinnati player to return a kickoff for a TD in the program's 13 bowl appearances.
Abernathy is the grandson of the civil rights leader who was in Memphis with Martin Luther King when he was assassinated in 1968 at the Lorraine Motel, a few miles away from the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.
Vanderbilt cornerback Casey Hayward called the return a dagger, and Jones called it very fitting for the Abernathy family.
"He really provided a spark for us on that kickoff return. We challenged our kickoff return," Jones said. "We've been close all year, and we told them that today was the day we were going to get one. And obviously, they responded."
Vandy's Archibald Barnes blocked Tony Miliano's 39-yard field goal with 3:58 left, giving the Commodores the ball with plenty of time to go ahead. Nick Temple picked off Larry Smith's pass with 3:15 remaining, and Pead sealed the victory with a 12-yard TD run with 1:52 left.
Pead was the game's MVP, and the senior finally got to celebrate a bowl win.
"It was just a huge burden off of our backs," Pead said.
Vanderbilt kicked a 35-yard field goal with 35 seconds left, but the Bearcats recovered the onside kick to kneel down for the victory.
"It got exciting in the second half," Vanderbilt coach James Franklin said. "It was fairly ugly in the in the first half from our perspective. But we did come out and make it a more exciting game."
George Winn also scored on a 69-yard TD run when he replaced Pead, while the Big East Offensive Player of the Year got his helmet fix. Jones credited the equipment manager as an unsung hero with Winn scoring on the longest run of his career.
Zach Collaros, playing for the first time since breaking his right ankle Nov. 12, threw a touchdown pass but was intercepted twice. He was just 12 of 29 for 80 yards passing, though he moved around well. Pead was just happy to have Collaros back.
"We have all the faith in the world in Munchie (Legaux)," Pead said. "But to have not only your captain and the heart of the team, he was the heartbeat. He was our brother."
Vanderbilt missed notching only its second winning record since 1982 with the loss.
This was only the fifth bowl for the SEC's only private university yet the second in four seasons. But the Commodores had trouble getting their offense going to match a defense that came up with three sacks and two interceptions — both by Casey Hayward.
Smith replaced Jordan Rodgers at quarterback in the third quarter, and he threw for a season-high 142 yards, including a short pass to Chris Boyd that the receiver took 68 yards up the right sideline before pulling up lame and diving into the end zone for a 21-17 lead with 14:03 left that lasted only as long as Abernathy could sprint down field after the kickoff.
The Bearcats led 14-7 at halftime and couldn't take advantage of two Vanderbilt turnovers in the third quarter.
The Commodores first muffed the opening kickoff before Rodgers was intercepted by Camerron Cheatham. Rodgers, the younger brother of NFL Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, didn't play after that. Franklin turned to Smith, who started the Commodores' Music City Bowl win in 2008.
Rodgers was 4 of 14 for 26 yards passing and ran for 33 yards. The Commodores had 106 yards total offense in the first half but finished with 295.
"Did you watch the first half?" Franklin said when asked about the change. "It wasn't a whole lot of fun. We weren't doing the things we were supposed to do. I don't mean just Jordan, it was everybody."
Smith nearly pulled it off. He drove the Commodores 52 yards with a couple of key passes to set up Jerron Seymour's 5-yard TD run with 3:53 left in the quarter to tie it up at 14-all.
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Berkeley Township School District to go Hybrid to begin the academic year
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School districts across Ocean County and the state of New Jersey continue to piece together a plan for how to begin the 2020-21 academic year with time running out to make such decisions.
This week the Toms River Regional School District made the decision to go all virtual to begin the school year and in Berkeley Township District Superintendent James Roselli sent a letter to parents announcing that they will be going with a hybrid model.
Roselli said Preschool through 6th grade students will be set up in cohorts (Group 1 and Group 2) in an effort to provide safe spaces for social distancing to be followed.
Group 1 students who has the last names A-L will attend in-person instruction Monday and Tuesday.
Group 2 students who have the last names M-Z will attend in-person instruction Thursday and Friday.
All students will have a full virtual day on Wednesday as school officials also use that day for a deep cleaning of the building.
Roselli said that the schedule for the days students will be at home doing hybrid learning will be released soon.
Here are the times students will be attending school in person:
BTES: 7:25 - 11:25.
CBW: 8:05 - 12:05.
BAY: 8:40 - 12:40.
HMP: 9:15 - 1:15.
Breakfast and Lunch will be available for students as "Grab and Go" meals.
The Parent Portal will be open on August 28 which is when you will see your child's homeroom and transportation information.
All new students or newly transferred students will be receiving a letter by mail with your portal login information.
"Thank you for your continued support and flexibility while we plan to reopen our schools in the safest way possible. Please understand we may need to pivot to an all remote program at any time to ensure the health and safety of students and staff," Roselli said in the letter.
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Goldman Sachs survived the recession, paid back its TARP funds, and roared back to profitability, but has failed at every attempt to improve its public image. Its plan to pay out $16 billion in bonuses this year didn't help, annoying shareholders as well as populists. Getting private shipments of swine flu vaccine -- along with other Wall Street players like Citigroup --made matters worse. Then, of course, Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein let slip his opinion that banks are doing "God's work." Given all this, it's hardly surprising the firm has is still the go-to Wall Street whipping boy. To repent, Goldman has offered a $500 million dollar apology intended to help small businesses weather the recession.
So, here's a thought: A multibillion-dollar gift to the federal Bureau of the Public Debt, which accepts tax-deductible donations to reduce the national debt. The donation can come from the bonuses; that way, it would not harm shareholders, because they only get their cut after the bonuses are paid. Goldman's tax savings from the donation could help finance the small-business initiative.
Help Americans Stay In Their Homes The Daily Finance's Peter Cohan suggests that the firm donate money to help stop foreclosures across the country. "If Goldman really wants to erase public anger, maybe it should cancel bonuses for the next five years and put them in a fund to help people who lost their homes due to foreclosure," Cohan writes. "But I don't see that happening."
Ask Americans What It Would Take To Be Forgiven New York Magazine's Jessica Pressler asks readers what Goldman could do to fix its public relations. "We'd like to open up a forum down below that Lloyd et al can check out with utter deniability," Pressler writes. "What do we want to see next? Do we need them to physically open up their books and reveal the hedge positions that prove they did not need the AIG bailout to survive? Do we just want them to admit that, while they may be talented traders, that they are not actual soothsayers who would have been actually able to predict what would have happened if AIG had collapsed, which Van Praag indicates they are in his letter?"
Change the Company Name Joseph Palermo of The Huffington Post says Goldman Sachs should make like Blackwater and find a new name. "Goldman Sachs should probably follow Blackwater's lead and "re-brand" itself by changing its name," he writes. "Even the miracle workers at Brunswick won't be able to sell stealing from local governments as 'God's work' to the public." After all, Palermo says, "there's really no better example of Goldman Sachs' utter contempt for the American people than its swindle in the form of stealing public funds through manipulating the municipal bond market."


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The Afropunk Brooklyn festival can trace its roots back to a 2003 documentary about African-Americans in the indie rock, punk and hardcore scenes. Over the years, the "Afro-Punk" movie and the lifestyle it celebrated has led to an Afropunk online magazine and a festival that now takes place in London and Paris as well as Fort Greene. This year's Brooklyn event is headlined by Ice Cube, TV on the Radio, Janelle Monae and Tyler the Creator. But there are plenty of other acts worth seeing, encompassing hip-hop, rock, soul, pop and electronica. Here are a few worth keeping an eye out for.
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The British soul singer's music seems to be from another time, seamlessly merging R&B and gospel with classical, jazz and pop. She has been compared to both Nina Simone and Joanna Newsom, but like those visionary, challenging artists, there's really no one else quite like her. While her music can often take unexpected turns, it's always worth going along for the ride.
This duo, led by Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler of Digable Planets, makes futuristic hip-hop, with Butler's raps layered over space-age sound effects. The band is currently working on its third album, which Butler has said will be about people's relationships with electronic devices.
A poet, rapper, writer and actor, in 2014, Williams played the lead role in "Holler If Ya Hear Me," a Broadway show featuring Tupac Shakur's music. His own music clearly shows his roots as a slam poet and political activist, while incorporating rap, pop and alt-rock. Over the years, he has performed with Nas, the Fugees, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha.
DJ Lindsey
This DJ is best-known for her long running Negroclash night at APT, which she described as "a celebration of the African-American contribution to electronic music," as well as her former role at The Standard Hotel's Boom Boom Room. Expect her set to include house music, classic soul, '80s new wave and '90s hip-hop.
Along with FKA Twigs, Kelela is one of the leading voices of alternative R&B, putting deeply emotional vocals over electronic productions. She has become a favorite of name-brand producers like Arca, Boots and Clams Casino, as well as fans who are eagerly awaiting her debut full-length album.
This offshoot of the Odd Future hip-hop collective is led by singer-songwriter Syd tha Kyd and producer Matt Martians. While its sound is far closer to the hip-hop-influenced neo-soul of Miguel and Bilal, the group maintains some of Odd Future's defiant spirit.
Gallant is sometimes compared to Frank Ocean for his ability to meld classic R&B with more current pop styles in a way that seems both new and familiar. Like Ocean, Gallant's voice and personality are strong enough to hold your attention, no matter what style he uses to express himself.
The Suffers
This 10-piece band from Houston describes their music as "Gulf Coast soul." While their horn section and the vocals of Kam Franklin speak to their roots in classic soul music, they also love rock, reggae, Latin music and Southern hip-hop, each of which make their way into the band's sound.
Afropunk Brooklyn is Aug. 27-28 from noon-10 p.m. | Commodore Barry Park, Fort Greene | afropunkfest.com | tickets starting at $45
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Straight from a five and a half hour, sweltering hike through the Marcos y Cordero springs, we stand in the entrance to the Aldea Rum Distillery in San Andrés y Sauces. Our feet and legs are coated in a thick layer of red dirt and mud; our T shirts and shorts are dirty and sweat stained and just to add insult to injury, a peach has got squashed at the bottom of my rucksack, seeped and left an unsightly and sticky brown stain at the base of my back. In short, we're the dirtiest, sweatiest people in the known universe.
Before us stands José Manuel Quevedo, grandson of Don Manuel Quevedo Alemán, the man who, 76 years ago set up the business whose amber bottles now grace the shelves of quality liquor stores across the globe. It's not exactly how I would have chosen to meet Don José.
A rum family
Learning his trade in the sugar mills of Cuba at the end of the 19th century, Manuel Quevedo Alemán returned to his native Gran Canaria to work in the family sugar mill but World War 1 brought sales, exports and ultimately production to a standstill. Fleeing poverty, the young Manuel moved his family to Funchal in Madeira and spent the next 15 years learning how to distil brandy. Returning once more to Gran Canaria in 1934, Manuel decided to put his expertise to work for himself and in 1936 he opened the Aldea Rum Factory in the village of San Nicolás de Tolentino.
Integrally linked with the sugar cane trade, the manufacture of rum in the Canary Islands has suffered the same fate as many of the mono-cultures introduced over the course of their 500 plus year history since their conquest by Spain – one of boom and bust. When, at the end of the 1940s and early 1950s the tomato export industry faltered, farmers turned to sugar cane to boost their income and the Aldea factory boomed. But when tomatoes once more began to dominate world trading, sugar cane production on the islands fell and soon became too expensive to source. In 1960 the Aldea factory on Gran Canaria closed its doors.
Following the closure of the family business, Manuel's son Carmelo moved to La Palma, taking the Aldea rum brand with him and in 1960 his son, José Manuel, established the family business once again, overlooking the tiny harbour of Espindóla in San Andrés y Sauces where it still stands today.
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Waving aside my profuse apologies for the state of our general appearance, José Manuel leads us over to a tasting bar in the corner of the warehouse where a neat row of Aldea Rum bottles form a golden arc along the bar top, and asks us which we would like to try. Not being much of a rum drinker, I have no idea. Don Manuel removes the cap from a bottle of Reserva 10 Años (10 Years Reserve) and pours two shots. I'm expecting to judder but the rum slips smoothly down my throat, warming and comforting.
It's the use of pure sugar cane juice, or Guarapo, to distil the rum that sets Aldea apart from most other rum manufacturers. For many commercial producers, rum is a by-product of sugar production, using the molasses which remains uncrystallized from which to distil rum. But at Aldea, it's the sugar cane that's used, freshly picked and squeezed, to produce the rum which retains its flavour and aroma of pure sugar cane.
José Quevedo Rodríguez, fourth generation of this rum family, was born and has spent his whole life here in Espindóla. Leading us from the warehouse and across the road to the factory, José explains how the sugar cane is cut and then fed into the press in order to produce the Guarapo. The press is 8 or 9 years old and came from Brazil second hand. Taking up the whole of the factory floor, it's the space needed to house the cane and the press that prevents most commercial manufacturers from using fresh Guarapo. Across the road again and José shows us the fermentation tanks, the wood burning, continuous distillation stil in which the rum is produced and the stack upon stack of logs in the yard outside waiting to feed its endless hunger.
Nothing in the factory is shiny and new, it's all old and well used and if I wasn't being shown around by José I'd swear the place had fallen into dis-use. In reality, what we're seeing is authentic and traditional methods of producing an elite rum that can hold its head up on the world market. There's nothing glamorous about the surroundings that produce it but the finished product has all the class and elegance of a vintage wine.
Whether it's the island's famous 'Ron Miel' honey rum; a 15 year old, oak matured 'Familiar' or a celebratory '75 Aniversario' specially blended to celebrate the brand's milestone birthday last year, a bottle of Aldea rum is an authentic taste of tradition. And even if you show up looking like something the cat would decline to drag in, the Quevedo family will still welcome you with a smile and their best shot or two.
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hell9o, while on holiday in Germany last xmas I was fortunate to have a drink of ron miel honey rum. the bottle with the honeycomb pattern and horses on the label. I have spent the last 6 months trying to get some in Australia without success.can you please tell me if I can order some from you and how to go about it. awaiting your reply. thankyou.
Sorry, Erika, we don't stock or supply rum, we just drink it on occasion 🙂 Your best bet would be to Google online sales or stockists (venta de ron miel) and see if you can find someone in Australia. Failing that, book your next holiday on La Palma and stock up for your return!
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Engine manufacturer plans to open a new GE9X components manufacturing facility in Singapore and will draw on ideas and concepts from its existing parts repair center in the city-state.
GE Aviation will grow its engine components footprint in Singapore after announcing plans to establish a new center to manufacture parts for the GE9X engine powering the Boeing 777X.
Announced at the Singapore Air Show on Feb. 5, the new 50,000 square foot facility located at the city-state's Seletar Aerospace Park will specialize in high pressure compressor vanes for the widebody engine, which to date has amassed nearly 700 orders. In the Asia-Pacific region, Aviation Week's 2018 Fleet & MRO Forecast has an order backlog of 82 units for the GE9X, a figure not taking into account this year's Singapore Air Show.
Despite last week announcing the enforced delay of the GE9X's maiden flight after discovering a minor design issue with its GE9X engine, the OEM doesn't anticipate any problems with the program's overall engine certification program and said the 777X aircraft will remain on track for a February 2019 debut flight.
With funding to the tune of S$42million ($31.7 million), GE has earmarked a late 2018 opening date for the facility. Initially, 20 staff will man the site but this figure could grow fivefold in just two years with 100 skilled technicians and engineers a possibility by 2020 according to the U.S. engine giant.
GE already has more than 1,600 aviation employees in Singapore, mostly located at its engine component repair facility at Loyang Industrial Park, which focuses on repair and overhaul of high pressure compressor and turbine blades, vanes, nozzles and combustors.
With plans to implement digital and lean manufacturing concepts at the new facility, the engine maker said it will draw on ideas and concepts from its existing Singapore repair center. The repair facility, which GE has operated since 1981, is currently undergoing heavy investment following a GE commitment of $110 million over a 10-year period made at the last Singapore Air Show in 2016.
Investments at the component service center include research into new repair processes, a lean lab for advanced manufacturing and utilizing the latest robotic technologies to drive greater efficiencies. These commitments were made in anticipation of growing regional demand from engine types such as the CFM LEAP, GEnx and the GE9X.


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We see the term "contact tracing" pop up in the coronavirus conversation quite a bit, but what the heck is it anyway? How does it work, and how can it help? Dr. Keren Landman is a physician, epidemiologist, and journalist, who recently wrote the piece published on Medium titled, "Hey America, What Happened to Contact Tracing?" (link below). In today's episode, she gives us an understanding of not just what it is, but how it has been used in the past why it's such a bigger challenge with coronavirus. Mark and Dr. Landman also get into the other side of the coin: are we comfortable giving detailed personal information to the government? And where does tech fit into this conversation--are phone apps up for the task? Dr. Landman answers all these important questions and more.
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The Construction Workers' Union of the Republic of Argentina (UOCRA) is organizing an International Film Festival about work dedicated to promote and give visibility to socio-labor issues. This activity will take place from May 11th to 17th, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The festival, in its IV edition, was summoned by UOCRA Foundation through its TV channel 'Construir TV', and has the support of the Ministry of Culture and by the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA for its name in Spanish).
Among the programmed activities, UOCRA organized an Opening Gala at the emblematic cultural center and theater Usina del Arte. Due to the agreement with the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires City, not only the screening of the films in competition will be displayed at Usina del Arte, but also the premiere in Argentina of the award-winning documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto, in collaboration with the British Council. The same emblematic place will host the Closing Ceremony and the Festival Awards.
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Q&A With Ali Wolf, Chief Economist at Zonda
We sat down with Ali Wolf, chief economist at Zonda, to discuss housing supply, economic uncertainty, inflation, recessions and how builders can gain market share during changing times.
Paul Hanson, president of Epcon Franchising: Ali, I've heard a lot of different opinions on the level of housing supply across the country. What's your take on that? Are we undersupplied, oversupplied or perfectly supplied as an industry?
Ali Wolf, chief economist at Zonda: When we look at the undersupplied environment, there are two ways to answer this question. Way one is acknowledging that as the market goes through peaks and troughs, we are a cyclical industry. We always have been. There will be periods that were undersupplied and periods that were over supplied.
If the market slows notably this year, you could have a very temporary point of time where the market does become oversupplied. Now, that's only cyclical. That does not account for structural and more long‑term trends.
If you remove the cyclicality of the market, and you look at how the market has performed, in terms of how many new starts? How many new permits? What have we seen with vacancy? What have we seen with obsolescence? What have we seen with population?
If you roll a lot of those factors together, we are of the belief that the undersupply is between one and two million, two million being higher than our actual number. There are many reputable firms that also estimate one to two million. There are a handful of companies that are on the higher end saying three to four million. I think the latter estimates are high, but it all depends on the methodology.
Paul: With what we've seen, especially with specs being overbuilt in a lot of cases, in a lot of markets, then what you're saying makes a lot of sense. That, yes, for six months or so, we might be a little oversaturated, but long‑term, fundamentally, we're still at this number that indicates a healthy runway ahead for housing.
Ali: Exactly. There's this number that comes up nationally, whether it's zero to six million, that people say we're undersupplied. Then there are a lot of organizations on the for-sale side, on the for-rent side, on the build-to-rent side, that are saying, "Oh, we're six million undersupplied, we need to build whatever, wherever to match the demand."
It felt like throwing caution to the wind over the past couple of years given that backdrop. The next important question from my opinion is– at what price points are we undersupplied? In what locations are we undersupplied? What kind of product is undersupplied?
There's a next layer that becomes more complicated, more local, and more granular, almost to the street level. It's a very important question.
I agree with you, though, that the fundamental undersupply supports some runway for homebuilding.
Paul: You mentioned build-to-rent. Where do you see that heading in the next year or two? I hear about massive amounts of money pouring into that. Is that getting overheated or is it already overheated? What's your take?
Ali: It will depend on the market that you're in. Let's step back. Phoenix was the breeding ground for build-to-rent. There were a lot of companies that were going there. There were intersections, where on two sides of the intersection, there were build-to-rent communities competing with each other.
In the instances where capital was deployed at all costs, we will find that the rent growth softens, and maybe occupancy levels are not as high as originally projected.
In other markets, build-to-rent is still a very, very small share of the overall market, and does provide an opportunity to have a single-family home with a backyard, typically in a good school district, without having consumers bring money towards the down payment.
There may be a reckoning day for some. We ultimately believe that this is an asset class that serves a purpose and is here to stay, as long as we don't see too much of an oversaturation in a given market.
Paul: If you're seeing it everywhere in your market, then it's probably oversaturated. If you're not seeing a lot of it and you feel people are talking about needing it, then it's not.
Ali: Yes. That's a nice, simple way to say it.
Paul: There's a lot of economic uncertainty out there. What advice would you give to builders that want to gain market share during uncertain times?
Ali: It all goes back to the fundamentals of location, location, location. What we have found is even as the market has shifted, A locations and B locations are holding up way better than some of the riskier land deals/locations.
Builders need to stay focused on consumer research and thinking through what the long-standing desires of consumers are.
You should ask yourself: When there are two or more competing products, why would a consumer choose you over your competitor? A great sales team can help. Proper training, proper education, acknowledging how the market is shifting, and thinking through what matters to the consumer become imperative for your customer-facing team.
Paul: You mentioned sales teams. It's been tough to know who your good sales performers are and who isn't because anything moved in the last couple of years.
Ali: A lot of people in the industry are saying, from a consultant side, from a supplier side, from a builder supply side, all of us were just taking orders.
We were just so busy and that clients were coming from everywhere. What we're finding now is it's going back to sales. It's going back to one‑on‑one. How do you communicate with the client? How can you offer them what they want? How can you identify their pain points and address them? Back to the fundamentals.
Paul: A lot of people anytime, there's an economic change, they start to tie it to the last time that there was an economic change. A lot of people are wondering if we're on the precipice of something like what we experienced 15 years ago. Could you give me your thoughts on the differences in fundamentals for housing now versus what they were in 2007, 2008?
Ali: The most notable would be the policy changes that came in response from the Dodd‑Frank rules. The regulation was put in place to say, "We know how catastrophic a housing bust is, and we do not want to see another one of those."
What that's done is resulted in really solid buyers. During the last cycle, 26 percent of all loans originated had a credit score under 660. Today, it's 6 percent. Last cycle, 24 percent of all borrowers had a credit score of 760‑plus. Today, it's 70 percent.
You can see it from overall credit score fundamentals. You can see it from debt‑to‑income ratios. We can see it in down payment funds. All of those factors are different, plus supply. For example, we talked about how there may be some cyclical overbuilding, but nowhere near the prolonged year after year of overbuilding that we saw last cycle.
If there is any kind of home price correction (we forecast there will be), the expectation is it becomes more concentrated and less of a catastrophic spiral, like we saw last cycle. Last cycle, we had more years of home price appreciation that caused a cascade effect when home prices started to come down. We saw more people get locked in, more foreclosures, more job losses.
The main thing I will say linked back to last cycle is we did see exuberance come into the market over the past two years.
Paul: A lot of apples and oranges, and those credit score numbers are just incredible. The differences in how that has flipped over the last decade or so is very encouraging. I read an interview with you recently, where you talked about how housing tends to slow faster than the rest of the economy, but then also rebounds quicker than the rest of the economy. Could you expand upon that a little bit, why do you think that happens?
Ali: What I think is the core piece to understand is as we go through an economic expansion, we start to get into an environment where the market feels overheated. That matches up with today's economy. We have inflation that's running hot at the same time that we have unemployment back at 3.5 percent.
When that happens, the Federal Reserve's tool to control that is to start raising short‑term interest rates. Now, as we know, short‑term interest rates are not mortgage rates. Generally speaking, when the Fed starts raising those short‑term interest rates, you would expect to see mortgage rates rise as well.
Now you have the most interest‑rate‑sensitive industry that is starting to run into higher interest rates. That's one of the tools that our policymakers can do to control the economy, is to raise borrowing costs to slow growth. Because we're so interest‑rate‑sensitive, we slow a lot quicker than other parts of the economy.
On the other side, though, you then go through this period where the housing market slows, and then the broader economy slows. Think about the housing industry. For every home we build, we create three jobs.
For every home that is purchased, people spend money at so many other places in the economy. They work with a realtor. They work with an escrow company at the point of sale. They work with a mortgage broker. Then after they move in, maybe they go to Home Depot or Wayfair or Target more.
If you have housing contracting, you're not contributing to the job growth anymore, and you're not contributing to consumer spending, which is 70 percent of the economy. You can see the broader economy come down as a result of slowing housing.
Once we get to a point where it feels that the market has slowed enough, the Federal Reserve starts to cut rates. As the Federal Reserve cuts rates, we're one of the industries that's obviously going to feel it the most.
It's been interesting to watch, at least this cycle, as the rest of the economy seems like it's humming along. At the same time, housing has cooled. If you ask me, that's really following a textbook example of how a market progresses.
Paul: Great explanation. Inflation is obviously a big question on everyone's mind right now in the summer of 2022. Do you feel that we've peaked, or do we still have work to do on that front?
Ali: I think the two numbers that you can pretty easily get wrong in this market is forecasting mortgage rates or inflation. I will give you my take, but I want to set that as the backdrop.
When we look at inflation, one month does not make a trend. Though the most recent data that came out does support that, maybe there's a little bit of a rollover in terms of overall inflation. There's a lot of ways that you can cut it. Shipping container costs have come down. Gas price costs have come down. Major retailers have found a little bit more inventory available. They're offering sales maybe at a time when they normally wouldn't. In the for-sale housing market, some sellers are dropping their list price.
From housing's perspective, we don't directly contribute to or pull back from the overall inflation level because of how inflation is calculated. It's calculated by what is known as owner's equivalent rent.
If we start to see that homeowners believe they can't rent their home a lot more than what they were renting it for last month, and what they were renting it for last year, and that number starts to come down, you could see inflation come down a bit in response to that as well.
There are signs that inflation has already started to roll over, and could continue to, with the biggest risk being what we're seeing out of the Port of Los Angeles. They have a lot of demand still at the ports but they don't have enough workers. They're concerned that we're going to start to run into some of the supply chain problems again.
If that happens to be true, then I think we may see a little bit of a break in inflation with it turning back around. I would say our best case is that we believe we've hit peak inflation.
Paul: When it comes to indicators that you're looking for as you analyze inflation and where it's headed, are you more concerned or equally concerned with what the Fed does with rates, what you expect the Fed to do with rates or with the monetary supply?
Ali: The answer is both. What still feels like a risk to the market is quantitative tightening and the Fed trying to offload some of their balance sheets. Especially how they played into the mortgage‑backed security market.
I am not an expert on how that plays out. My understanding is that could have an impact on where rates go and how that plays into consumer demand. I think when we look at Fed policy, they're continuing to raise rates to slow inflation. They're starting to see that it's working.
I think they're going to need to continue to be aggressive. Moving from 9 percent inflation to 8.5 is going in the right direction. 8.5 is still way above 2. I'm anxious about both of those factors. A problem is that the Federal Reserve is making decisions off of data, which of course makes sense.
As we all know though, data lags, is sometimes confusing and sometimes gives you mixed messages. Fed officials run the risk of having a policy mistake, just because there are so many unprecedented moments this cycle, a lot of unknowns and a lot of contradictory data in the overall economy right now.
Paul: Last question. You're one of the first economists that I've ever heard preach that a recession is not technically two negative quarters of a contraction or two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. Based on that, that there's a number of things to look at, and it's sometimes even decided in hindsight, do you feel that we're in a recession right now or not?
Ali: This is a really interesting and important question. The first thing you need to know is that we were doing presentations on this back in 2017. We were saying, "I know everyone thinks a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, but there's a group called the National Bureau of Economic Research that has an actual definition, which is a general decline in economic activity, spread across multiple sectors, lasting more than a few months."
There are a few reasons why that's important. The first thing is, like you said, Paul, we will find out about a recession in hindsight. You will be in one and you won't technically know that you're in one, because the group hasn't called it. They usually wait 6 to 12 months to officially call it.
With that being said, typically, what the group does is wait until the economy has hit peak, and then starts to contract. Oftentimes, the way they measure peak is the last month that employment growth is positive is the official start of the recession, and then you go negative.
It's a complicated way that they define it. I think we've seen certain sectors in the US economy that are past peak. Housing is a clear example. We're past peak where we were. In the broader economy, we continue to add jobs.
Based on what I know today, I don't believe we're in a recession, though I don't think we're far off from one.
The last thing I'll say is whether or not we're in a recession, the talk, and talk, and talk of a recession plays into consumer confidence and spending. We could talk ourselves into a recession. You can't open the news without hearing about a recession. Consumers will react accordingly in some cases.
If they pull back spending, we know how much consumers contribute to the economy, so they can slow the market. Our belief is it's more of a run‑of‑the‑mill recession. We don't think it's a mid‑2000s recession. We think it looks shallower and that we'll get back to growth in a quicker timeline.
Paul: Thanks so much, Ali. Really enjoyed talking to you.
Ali: Thank you, Paul.
To hear more from Ali Wolf, check out Epcon Experts Podcast With Ali Wolf on the State of the Economy.


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Advising on Repossession Processes for a National Credit Union
Kegler Brown advised United Federal Credit Union on revising its notices of repossession to be compliant with Ohio laws. This included guidance on the differences between the credit union's Retail Installment Sales Contracts and regular financing it had on its books. It also included variations based on whether or not the borrower was currently in bankruptcy or had been through a previous bankruptcy and whether or not the repossession was done voluntarily. Our team worked with the credit union to create forms for use by its associates that could be easily (and lawfully) completed during the proper handling of a vehicle repossession in Ohio. In addition, the credit union now uses our firm for subsequent questions on specific repossession matters.
$105,000 Foreclosure on Properties in 3 Ohio Counties
In 2016, Kegler Brown represented a loan servicer for a debt secured by four parcels of real property located in three separate counties in Ohio. The work of our lawyers enabled our client to file a single action, rather than three lawsuits in three separate counties, by filing a single foreclosure action in Franklin County, which also attached jurisdiction to the properties located outside the county.
Another defendant to the foreclosure disputed the client's lien priority based on the borrower's fraudulent loan application. Kegler Brown also bifurcated the lien priority dispute from the sale of the properties, allowing a faster sale to prevent the accrual of property taxes pending resolution of the lien priority dispute.
$1.5M+ Loan Collection Through Property Liquidation
Our client loaned approximately $2 million to the operators of a chain of tobacco stores, with the stores and other real property located in three counties serving as collateral. Kegler Brown filed a foreclosure suit in one county, but extended jurisdiction over the real properties in the other two. One of the borrowers filed bankruptcy, but our lawyers obtained a relief from stay and were able to proceed with the suit. An auctioneer was appointed to liquidate the properties after the foreclosure judgment was granted in mid-2016.
Cross-Border Asset Sale in the Robotics Industry
In May 2014, the lawyers at Kegler Brown represented RobotWorx in the sale of substantially all of its assets to Scott Technology Limited. RobotWorx is a leading integrator of new and used robotic systems and an authorized integrator of FANUC, Motoman, Kuka and ABB robotic systems. Scott Technology Limited, a publicly traded company in New Zealand, is an automated production systems maker that specializes in the design and manufacture of automated production systems for mining, meat and superconductor industries.
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Exchange of Real Property Between U.S. Army and Private Industrial Park
Kegler Brown acted as counsel to a privately owned industrial park to acquire adjoining land from the U.S. Army through a federal exchange program in which the private party obligates itself to construct a facility at another government-owned facility and then exchanges the new facility for the property it actually desired to acquire, namely the adjoining U.S. Army-owned land. Our firm was integral to the negotiations, including navigating through the maze of government requirements for the exchange that included approval of Congress.
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Creation of Dual-Rail Industrial Park
The lawyers at Kegler Brown acted as counsel to a community-based private non-profit economic development organization to acquire land through a state grant for the purpose of creating an industrial park that could be served by two competing railroads. Since the land located in the "dual-rail park" could be served by either railroad, it gave industries locating there a competitive edge when negotiating for rail transportation. In addition, because the land was acquired by a state grant, the land was offered at attractive prices (or even free) to prospective companies as an incentive to locate in the community. As a result, the community was able to attract several new companies that served the just-in-time needs of the automotive industry and created hundreds of jobs in the process.
Creation of Unique Rail and Truck Intermodal Facility
Our firm acted as counsel to the owner of a large industrial park in a series of unique transactions that created one of the first-ever non-railroad-owned intermodal facilities in the country, bringing together a mainline railroad, a national trucking carrier and the owner of the intermodal park. In a further attempt to increase rail traffic to the intermodal facility, our client entered into an agreement with the railroad to help finance the construction of a railroad turn-out 60 miles from the facility, which would allow unit trains that normally move north-south to move east-west to the client's facility. Both projects involved the negotiation of novel agreements between the parties, as well as the attainment of state grants and low-interest loans to fund the projects. Kegler Brown was integral to the creation of the business strategy, as well as the many transactional documents required to complete the project.
Defended Architect in First-Of-Its-Kind Claim By School District
Kegler Brown successfully defended an architectural firm against claims that it negligently "assessed" the buildings and facilities of a public school district. The case arose because the State of Ohio was providing substantial funds for school districts to completely refurbish their campuses based on an "assessing" architect's determination of need; the assessing architect was assigned under contract with the Ohio School Facilities Commission. The school district alleged that it lost hundreds of thousands of state dollars because the assessing architect failed to adequately determine its needs. In an attempt to hold the assessing architect liable and create a cottage industry for plaintiffs' counsel, the district threatened to file suit. Our lawyers determined the threat to be real and, in order to avoid venue in the school district's small rural county, we recommended filing a declaratory judgment action in Franklin County based on the State's involvement in the project. The school district filed a counterclaim and sought to change venue. However, the court ruled that venue was proper in Franklin County. Ultimately, the case was tried to a jury with a favorable verdict for the architect, which discouraged further lawsuits against assessing architects across the state of Ohio.
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Representation of Community Bank Using Personal Property as Collateral
Not every borrower has real estate to put up as collateral for a loan, but many have personal property that will provide adequate security to a lender. Personal property comprises just about everything other than real property, including goods, inventory, equipment, accounts, documents and instruments. Stock is also personal property, as are interests in partnerships and limited liability companies. Our firm provides ongoing assistance to a local community banking client in documenting secured transactions, including both the promissory note and the relevant security documents, and in perfecting the security interests to establish the bank's priority vis-à-vis other creditors of the borrower. And we help levy on the collateral if the loan goes bad.
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With exponential growth in global wealth and connectivity, Starwood anticipates the next phase of hotel innovation will revolve around personalization.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts CEO Frits van Paasschen is regarded as one of the brightest minds in the hospitality industry, which was on full display this summer at the hotel group's annual Rendezvous sales pow wow in New Orleans. Starwood operates nine hotel brands: W Hotels, Westin, Sheraton, St. Regis, Starwood Luxury Collection, Le Meridien, Four Points by Sheraton, Element and Aloft.
Previously the CEO of Coors and GM of Nike Europe before moving into hospitality in 2007, van Paasschen has injected his lifestyle brand expertise into the Starwood brand building machinery. No hotel company has created and delineated hotel brand stories as well as Starwood.
During his 22-minute presentation at Rendezvous, van Paasschen defined today's shifting global travel economy, tomorrow's hotel trends and how his company is adapting to those trends ahead of the curve.
That is how we shape our business and our brand, from what I like to call 'our court side seats at the global economy.' And that change we talked about a year ago, if anything, today it has accelerated.
We see so much change in the world that we've coined the phrase 'The Age of Great Change' to describe what's happening. Because around the world as we speak to customers and companies and industries in every sector, we also spend time talking to pools of capital and investors in over 100 different countries…. They are the people who build hotels with us. And maybe most importantly, every day we see the faces of over a quarter million travelers, and what's going on in 1,150 hotels around the world. And here's basically what we're seeing.
We're seeing change at a rate that's unprecedented in the history of humanity. Behind that change are two pretty much unstoppable forces: Rising wealth and greater global connectivity through technology.
Staggering numbers of people are entering the global economy every year. So if you go back 20 years, there were roughly a billion people in the global middle class. Move forward to today, 20 years later, and we've added another billion. We've doubled the number of people in the global middle class….
In the next 20 years, we're going to go from two billion people in the middle class to five billion…. It's hard to overstate the impact on the travel business. In fact, my view is the stakes couldn't be higher….
So that means more roads, airports, buildings and hotels will be built in the next four years than have been built in all of history before that.
The other force behind the Age of Great Change is hyper-connectivity through technology. And this is reshaping the global business environment at least as much as that rising wealth.
There were 500 million internet users in 2000. Now there is roughly two billion. In the next decade, that two billion goes to five billion. And sometime over the next year or two, there will be more mobile phones than there are people on the planet.
With technology changing this quickly and this profoundly, we have no idea what's going to happen. The best we can do is get a glimpse by seeing what's happened over the last few years up until today.
If you think about it, anybody today with an iPhone has more computing power in their pants than a Department of Defense computer did in the Clinton administration. And that fast pace of change is creating gaps not just across generations but even within generations….
I was thinking about all of the things that have disappeared into my iPad over the years. Our offices are essentially wherever our devices are today. I don't even use a laptop anymore. I think it's safe to say technology has changed the way we work and the way we live.
But it might also be changing the way we think…. For example, today's luxury is turning into tomorrow's necessity by technology. And this is something that's been happening for a long time.
So people start to take for granted what's widely available. So today for example in the travel business, a hotel brand can't stand apart just by having a comfortable, reliable, clean room. In fact, hotel brands can't define themselves simply by promising a delivery on guest experiences. Because I think that's increasingly becoming table stakes in our business. If you want to have the world's best brands, which we do, then we know we're not successful unless our guests are happy and having their expectations met and exceeded.
And that expectation today, driven by technology, is personalization.
Anybody today who owns an iPad, anybody who buys something off Amazon, anybody who spends time on Facebook intuitively knows what we mean by personalization.
So how long will it be before all of us expect a hotel brand where we spend x number of nights a year to know things like what temperature we want our rooms set at, what our comfort foods are, where we might like to go on vacation?
At Starwood, we've come to realize that our next innovation may not be a physical thing, like a bed or a shower. Think about those things that disappeared into my iPad. But instead it could be about service and personalization. Because I think looking ahead, hotel brands—in fact, I think all consumer brands that live in the Age of Great Change—they'll have to know what you want and they'll have to know that you want it right now. And to be able to deliver that consistently and globally.
This is a big change. And for us, meeting those expectations is a daunting challenge. We have something like a half billion touch points a year with our guests. We have 40 million guest stays, we have over 200,000 associates working in our properties, 1,150 hotels, 100 countries.
If you go back to the 80s and 90s, we were going global before it was cool to go global. In the 90s, we were the first company to create a signature design to position a brand like Westin. In the last decade, we built a global brand around W based on new insight about what people said they wanted from hotels.
Delivering meaningful, personalized branded experiences for our guests is what we're about. Knowing what people want, meeting those expectations and creating memorable experiences consistently around the globe is what we're working to do.
So let's tie these two ideas together. Thanks to the Age of Great Change, there are more people in more places with a demand for more luxury. But today's wealthy aren't the faces of past generations, right? They're more diverse, they're more sophisticated, they tend to be younger, and a lot more of them are women. And no surprise, they're a lot more global.
For them, whether they're old money or new money, luxury and luxury brands are a personal statement. Because it used to be that luxury was very prescribed. Right? Society dictated what luxury was. You drank scotch because you were supposed to like it. You went skiing in Maine because it was supposed to be fun. Right? Society dictated to us it was all about china, crystal and caviar.
But today, your definition of luxury isn't my definition of luxury. Today, our guests are the true arbiters of what luxury is, which is really important. A couple are still the same. Luxury is still about exclusivity, and exclusivity is still about scarcity. But now with things as diverse as they are, exclusivity and scarcity mean very different things to different people.
And that plays into our luxury brands. So, we realized that we were in great position with three luxury brands to play in these spaces in different ways, with a great platform between W, Luxury Collection and St. Regis.
So take W, for example. It takes that old definition of luxury, that prescribed notion, and puts it on its head. And so exclusivity with W is about insider access to what's going on here and now with the W Insider experience.
Compare that to Luxury Collection. This is a portfolio of iconic properties, some of them five and six centuries old, there to create real indigenous experiences, which in this Age of Great Change, is becoming increasingly difficult to find. And some of these hotels are just impossible to replicate, right? You've got the Gritti Palace, Alfonso XIII or the Imperial in Vienna as examples.
And then there's St. Regis. So the whole idea of St. Regis is taking that heritage of the St. Regis at 55th and 5th in Manhattan and redefining traditional luxury for a new age. And take that century-old tradition of a gathering place for masters of the universe, social swans and robber barons, and creating a new gathering place that's relevant to today's global elite.
So today we have these three distinct luxury brand propositions between W, Luxury Collection and St. Regis. In fact, put simply, growing brands are what we're all about. It's leveraging our global platform, SPG, our mobile apps, our relationships and tapping into what we call our "global smart teams" around the world….
We are united by a simple, single belief. And that is: People want a better way to experience the world, and it's our job to give them that better way.