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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Graphene in Batteries and Supercapacitors" report to their offering.
With global energy demands ever increasing, allied to efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuel and eliminate air pollutions, it is now essential to provide efficient, cost-effective, and environmental friendly energy storage devices. The growing market for smart grit networks, electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) is also driving the market for improving the energy density of rechargeable batteries.
Rechargeable battery technologies (such as Li-ion, Li-S, Na-ion, Li-O2 batteries) and supercapacitors are among the most promising power storage and supply systems in terms of their wide spread applicability, and tremendous potential owing to their high energy and power densities. LIBs are currently the dominant mobile power sources for portable electronic devices used in cell phones and laptops.
Although great advances have been made, each type of battery still suffers from problems that seriously hinder the practical applications for example in commercial EVs and PHEVs. The performance of these devices is inherently tied to the properties of materials used to build them.
With renewable energy sources at peak interest in the scientific research community, technologies for storing high amounts of electric charge and energy are much sought after. Electric vehicles, and enabling lithium-battery (LIB) technology, will become a progressively larger market-with estimates of CAGR of over 20% through to 2025.
Due to intrinsic properties such as high surface area and high conductivity, graphene and 2D materials nanocomposite hybrids are regarded as excellent candidates to improve the performance of electrode materials in energy storage/conversion devices (e.g., Li ion batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, and solar cells).
Graphene has unique properties for application in batteries and supercapacitors, including high specific surface area (2630 m2/g), good chemical stability and excellent electrical conductivity. These properties make graphene to be an excellent candidate as a catalyst support for energy conversion and storage applications. It is the most widely studied advanced material for energy storage. Graphene nanoplatelets can increase the effectiveness of lithium-ion batteries when used to formulate electrodes, yielding vastly shorter recharge times.
Applications under commercial development include ultra-small capacitors, flexible and stretchable energy-storage devices, transparent batteries, and high- capacity and fast-charging devices.
A number of companies are developing energy storage applications for graphene, where it could potentially replace the graphite electrodes found in batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells. Most activity at present is utilizing graphene as a conductive additive for lithium-ion batteries (LIB) and supercapacitors.
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3-4 Degrees Celsius: Looking Grim
By postMigrator September 5, 2008 September 5, 2008 RT Newswire
Humans could escape in scenarios where only 10 to 20 percent of
species go extinct. We would likely be reduced in number but
plausibly still do OK at a 30 percent extinction rate.
But as the evidence points toward "up to 50 percent" extinction rate,
we should expect very serious trouble for ourselves.
There has been broad, strong consensus in the climate science
community that we'd better avoid a warming of 2C (2 Celsius) above
"We are certainly not on track for a two-degree temperature increase
at the moment. We are much more on track for a three to four-degree
temperature increase and we need to be thinking about what that
actually means."
"Certainly, if there's not a good result at Copenhagen, the
two-degree target will look impossible," he said. "There's 18 months
of optimism to hold on to. If by Copenhagen it hasn't been addressed
then it will look very bleak indeed."
The Scotsman (Scotland)
Published Date: 01 September 2008
By JENNY HAWORTH
ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT
IT IS "improbable" global warming will be kept below 4C – double the
rise considered safe to avoid climate catastrophe – according to an
influential new report.
Internationally, it has long been agreed governments should be aiming
to keep a global temperature rise below 2C, to avoid climate change
spiralling out of control.
However, a bleak new study by scientists at the Tyndall Centre, a
leading organiation for climate change research at the University of
Manchester, now suggests we should be adjusting our expectations
towards far higher rises.
It warns carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will almost certainly
stabilise at levels of at least 650 parts per million (ppm), which is
roughly equivalent to a four-degree temperature increase.
The authors write: "Given the reluctance, at virtually all levels, to
openly engage with the unprecedented scale of both current emissions
and their associated growth rates, even an optimistic interpretation
of the current framing of climate change implies that stabilisation
much below 650ppm is improbable."
The authors say even stabilising levels at 650ppm will require
industrialised nations to "begin to make draconian emission
reductions within a decade".
They argue "planned economic recession" would be needed to keep
climate change at this level, unless a way can be found for economic
growth to go hand in hand with unprecedented rates of reductions in
carbon emissions.
One of the report authors, Dr Alice Bows, agreed the study is
"incredibly worrying". She added: "We are certainly not on track for
a two-degree temperature increase at the moment. We are much more on
track for a three to four-degree temperature increase and we need to
be thinking about what that actually means."
According to the 2006 Stern review on the economics of climate
change, a four-degree temperature rise could lead to up to 300
million more people being affected by coastal flooding each year, a
30 to 50 per cent reduction in water availability in Southern Africa,
and up to 50 per cent of animal and plant species facing extinction.
Dr Richard Dixon, director of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Scotland,
said an increase of more than two degrees could mean a "tipping
point" is reached. "That's when you get to a runaway situation," he
said. "The big systems of the world start to go wrong when you get
beyond two degrees."
However, he thinks the report is at the "bleak" end of the spectrum
and believes there is still reason for optimism, as long as firm
targets are set at the United Nations climate change conference in
Copenhagen next year.
The report, Reframing the Climate Change Challenge in Light of
Post-2000 Emission Trends, comes as separate research, due to be
published in Nature Geoscience today, will warn that the expected
rise in sea levels due to melting Greenland ice has been seriously
underestimated.
Scientists argue it could be double or triple what is currently
forecast over the next century.
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Studies in mice by an international team of scientists suggest that inhibiting a single gene could combat obesity and related metabolic disorders by allowing people to eat as much as they want without putting on weight. When the Flinders University-led team deleted the gene, known as regulator of calcineurin 1 (RCAN1), in mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD), the animals didn't put on weight because their whole body metabolic rate increased.
Obesity is a major global health epidemic that is estimated to reduce life expectancy by as much as 6–20 years, and is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer," the authors wrote. The regulation of whole-body metabolism involves the integration of multiple organ systems, and disrupting this homeostatic balance "underlies the growing epidemic in obesity, metabolic disease, and associated comorbitidies," the researchers continued.
RCAN1 is an inhibitor of the calcium-activated protein phosphatase calcineurin, which both clinical and genetic data have implicated in mechanisms that regulate metabolism. The Flinders University-led team's studies have now shown that mice engineered to lack the RCAN1 gene (Rcan1-KO mice) don't become obese even after prolonged periods on a high-fat diet, and the animals also exhibit improved glucose tolerance. When the researchers looked at databases on different strains of lean and obese mice, they found a correlation between RCAN1 expression in liver and adipose tissue, with bodyweight, triglycerides, and insulin, which fit in with their results in the RCAN1 knockout animals. "Taken together, these data identify the Rcan1 gene as a gene highly correlated with metabolic syndrome, consistent with our studies of the Rcan1-KO mice," they wrote.
The body harbors two types of fat, brown fat and white fat. White fat is the most abundant type in adults, and acts to store energy, whereas the less abundant brown fat burns energy. The new findings in the knockout mice also indicated that RCAN1 acts by blocking two different mechanisms of NST, one in white fat, and the other in skeletal muscle. The results suggested that blocking the RCAN1 gene can help to convert white fat into brown fat.


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There's a BIG myth that states, "nonprofit organizations cannot profit, and the services and products of a nonprofit organization are supposed to be free or underpriced." Lets clarify the facts. There are several multi-million dollar nonprofit organizations that profit greatly, and can be beneficial to the organization accomplishment of its mission. Cash flow keeps an organization alive, whether it's a for-profit or nonprofit. The non profit organization must be sure to use its profits for the organizational expenses such as operation cost etc… However the organization cannot use the extra money to benefit the officers, directors or employees of the organization.


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Sandra Benazzo: The Basic Variety: is it a stage limited/related to a specific learner population?
Adult migrants were investigated within the ESF project (Perdue 1993), a large European project in the eighties which applied a cross-linguistic and longitudinal design to study the way in which foreign immigrant workers in industrialized European countries went about learning the language of their new social environment.
Research done within this project led to the characterization of the initial stages in untutored SLA. In particular, it showed thatlearners with different pairings of source and target languages initially develop a very similar linguistic system, which has been called the 'Basic Variety' (BV; Klein and Perdue 1997) – a target language-like lexicon is organized on the basis of pragmatic and semantic principles which are largely independent of the source/target language specifics. In spite of its formal limitations (e.g. no marking of case, number, gender, tense, aspect or agreement by morphology, and absence of subordination), the BV represents a simple and efficient means of communication, characterized by a transparent interplay between function and form.
The BV is a stage of SLA first attested with a specific type of learners in immersion, "[…] monolingual[s] with little or no initial knowledge of the TL, with little formal education in the SL and with no TL courses under way…" (Perdue 1993 vol.I : 42). Even if the realparticipants partly diverged from this profile, it raises the question whether the development of such a stage is related to a specific learner population. In this talk I will therefore discuss the following questions: Does general education and literacy skills affect the notion of the BV? Is the BV a characteristic of adult L2 learners with a particular background?
This paper will present an overview of current research on the impact of heritage language instruction (henceforth HLI) on students' language and literacy development, primarily with examples from research carried out in Sweden. Sweden is one of few countries to provide HLI as an independent subject in the national curriculum (under the title mother tongue instruction), with its own subject syllabus, learning goals and subject requirements. This has been the case ever since the enactment of the so called Home Language Reformin the late 1970s (e.g., Hyltenstam & Milani 2012). Research has shown, however, that the practical implementation of HLI in Sweden has not been on par with its strong legal foundation, in particular due to restricted teaching time (40–60 minutes per week) and lacking opportunities for integration with other subjects. The presentation will focus on research that has studied to what extent HLI, in its current form, may facilitate students' language and literacy learning in the heritage language, in the majority language (Swedish), as well as if and how it may support their learning in other school subjects. The latter two points will be discussed critically, since the main aim of HLI, as expressed in legislation, is to support the maintenance and development of the heritage language in its own right. Nevertheless, HLI in Sweden, as well as in other countries, is increasingly discussed as valuable only insofar as the skills acquired through these lessons are also exchangeable into majority language skills and increased academic achievements (Salö et al. 2018; see also Daugaard 2015 for Denmark). Moreover, since HLI includes students with varying language learning biographies and proficiencies in the heritage language and in the majority language, it is likely to have different impact for different student groups.
Daugaard, L. M. (2015). Sproglig praksis i og omkring modersmålsundervisning. En lingvistisk etnografisk undersøgelse. Aarhus: Aarhus University.
Hyltenstam, K., and T. Milani (2012). Flerspråkighetens sociopolitiska och sociokulturella ramar. In: Hyltenstam, K., Axelsson, M. & Lindberg, I. (Eds.), Flerspråkighet: en forskningsöversikt[Multililngualism: A Research Overview], 17–152. Stockholm: Vetenskapsrådet [Swedish Research Council], 5:2012.
Salö, L., Ganuza, N., Hedman, C. & Karrebæk, M. S. (2019). Mother tongue education in Sweden and Denmark: Language policy, cross-field effects, and linguistic exchange rates. Language Policy17, 4, 591–610.
SLA studies have traditionally focused on the acquisition of languages of international prestige by a population that has been regarded as homogeneous. Nowadays, the revival of some minority languages and increased mobility of the population have shown that SLA has to be necessarily linked to multilingualism because many students are multilingual and they speak a rich variety of home languages. This new situation adds complexity to the study of SLA, which in the European context was usually understood as the acquisition of English by speakers of a national language.
Nowadays SLA also applies to learning national languages, learning additional languages or learning minority and heritage languages. In this context, SLA is taking place as part of the development of multilingual competence rather than learning a second language as isolated from the first language. It can be said that the boundaries between languages are softening and it is becoming necessary to take students' linguistic repertoires into consideration. The concept of translanguaging has become an umbrella term to refer to spontaneous and pedagogical practices that go across languages and consider language learning from a multilingual lens. Translanguaging is closer to the way people communicate in real life and is usually regarded as going against strict purist ideologies. In this presentation, some examples of pedagogical translanguaging and teachers' and students' reactions to translanguaging in the context of minority and heritage languages will be discussed. As it will be seen, translanguaging can empower some minoritized communities but this is not necessarily the case in all contexts. Translanguaging also poses some questions regarding the linguistic and communicative goals in SLA and language assessment.
It is not entirely clear whether complete lack of literacy affects route of L2 morphosyntax development; see Vainikka & Young-Scholten (2007). Our on-going investigation of L1 non-literates has thus far considered behavioural data from Arabic, Dari, Punjabi, Pahari, Somali, Urdu and Vietnamese learners of English. Complete L1 non-literates who cannot read and have not developed phonemic awareness in their L2 are a distinct population; those with even minimal schooling pattern similarly to those with more schooling in rate of development. Route does not seem to be affected by lack of literacy. Naturalistic learners, regardless of their level of literacy, are more likely than classroom learners to overgeneralise certain function words, treating them as 'dummy auxiliaries' (Julien et al. 2015) as well as to use as INFL-level placeholders certain multi-morphemic chunks (Vainikka et al. 2017). This seems to be related more to their stage of development than to literacy.
When it comes to phonology, converging evidence from nearly two decades of studies points to an important role played by input from (mostly Roman alphabet) orthographies on the L2 acquisition of phonology (Escudero et al. 2015). More recently, in his study of the influence of orthographic input on production of onsets and codas by Arabic adults beginning to learn English, Al Azmi (2019) found an error pattern similar to childen's by the non-literate group he included. There is also emerging evidence regarding the influence of literacy on the L2 acquisition of phonology from Maffia and De Meo (2015) whose investigation of low-literate Senegalese migrants in Italy reveals slower processing.
Al-Azmi, S. (2019) Aural and Orthographic Input: Implications for the Acquisition of English Consonant Clusters by Arabic Speakers. Newcastle PhD thesis.
Bigelow, M., R. delMas, K. Hansen and E. Tarone. (2006) Literacy and the processing of oral recasts in SLA. TESOL Quarterly40: 1-25.
Escudero, P., R. Hayes-Harb and B. Bassetti (eds) (2015). Special Issue. Applied Psycholinguistics 36.
Henrich, J., S. Heine and A. Norenzayan. (2010) The weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain Sciences.1-75.
Huettig, F. (2015) Literacy influences cognitive abilities beyond the mastery of written language. In I. van de Craats, J. Kuvers and R. van Hout (eds.) Adult Literacy, Second Language and Cognition. Nijmegen: CLS. Pp. 115-127.
Julien, M., R. van Hout, R. and I. van de Craats. (2015) Meaning and function of dummy auxiliaries in adult acquisition of Dutch as an additional language. Second Language Research32:49-73.
Maffia, M. and A. De Meo. (2015). Literacy and prosody: The case of low-literate Senegalese learners of L2 Italian. In I van de Craats et al.
Malik-Moraleda, S., K. Orihuela, M. Carreiras and J.A. Duñabeitia. (2018) The consequences of literacy and schooling for parsing strings. Language, CognitionandNeuroscience33: 293-99.
Vainikka, A. and M. Young-Scholten.2007. The role of literacy in the development of L2 morpho-syntax from an Organic Grammar perspective. In N. Faux (ed.)Low Educated Adult Second Language and Literacy Acquisition. 2ndSymposium. Richmond: Literacy Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University. Pp. 123-148.
Vainikka, A., M. Young-Scholten, C. Ijuin and S. Jarad. (2017) Literacy in the development of L2 morphosyntax. In Sosinski (ed.) Proceedings of the 12thLESLLA symposium, Granada.


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Z Capital completes acquisition of Carillon Hotel and Spa
Z Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of the Carillon Hotel and Spa, which was previously operated as Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa in Miami Beach. The property will be managed by a joint venture created by Z Capital with Adrian Zecha, founder of Amanresorts and GHM Hotels, and Jonathan Breene, creator of The Setai, South Beach.
Z Capital Partners, L.L.C., a leading private equity firm, today announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of the Carillon Hotel and Spa, which was previously operated and managed as Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa in Miami Beach (http://www.carillonhotel.com). The property will continue to provide all amenities and services previously offered, including extensive spa facilities, fitness classes and programs and restaurants. Z Capital also plans to significantly enhance these offerings in the ensuing months. Additionally, Z Capital has offered employment, subject to customary background verifications, to all current employees and instructors.
The property has been renamed "The Carillon Hotel & Spa" and will be managed by a new joint venture created by Z Capital, together with Adrian Zecha, founder of Amanresorts and GHM Hotels, Ltd, and Jonathan Breene, developer and creator of The Setai, South Beach. This new venture will be led by Z Capital's Thomas Wicky, a global expert in hotel operations, who previously managed The Breakers, Boca Resort, and Fisher Island, among others. A new five-star brand, to be fully launched later this year, will create a luxury flag with exclusive locations around the world, with The Carillon Hotel & Spa as its initial flagship property.
"We are thrilled to have successfully acquired this premier property in Miami Beach," said James Zenni, President and Chief Executive Officer of Z Capital. "This oceanfront resort is unlike any other in that it boasts unparalleled luxury amenities, including a renowned spa facility and a first-class fitness center, as well as a variety of diverse fitness activities. Under the management of our new joint venture, we will not only continue to offer these amenities but also expand them to incorporate new lifestyle elements, services and upgrades for guests and residents. We are confident that in elevating and expanding upon the property's unique offerings, The Carillon Hotel & Spa will become the leading luxury destination in Miami Beach."
Mr. Zenni continued, "I would also like to thank the property's homeowners associations for all of their support during the sale process. We look forward to continuing to work constructively with the associations and unit owners to enhance the elegance and standards of this unrivaled property and ensure all constituents are provided with a world-class experience. We are committed to a smooth ownership transition, a successful 2015 resort season and to having the new Carillon Hotel & Spa set the standard of our new five-star brand."
"This iconic property is the ideal first project for our new joint venture," commented Thomas Wicky, Managing Director and Operating Partner of Z Capital. "Our venture is comprised of proven industry-leaders and I am confident that we will capitalize on our team's depth and knowledge to elevate this unique oceanfront resort, and ultimately, showcase our luxury hotel flag. I look forward to establishing our brand as the premier flag with exquisite properties and offerings around the world."
"I am excited to partner with Z Capital and Thomas Wicky on this extraordinary opportunity," said Adrian Zecha. "Our premier team has the right tools and extensive industry experience to enhance the elegance and uniqueness of this oceanfront resort to benefit all the property's constituents. Our top priority is to ensure that the experience remains unforgettable for both homeowners and guests at this iconic and truly exceptional property. I look forward to getting started as we launch our new, five-star hotel flag and elevate our first property, The Carillon Hotel & Spa."
About Z Capital Partners
Z Capital Partners, L.L.C. is a leading private equity firm with approximately $1.9 billion of regulatory assets under management and with offices in Lake Forest, IL and New York, NY. Z Capital pursues a value-oriented approach in private equity that includes making control investments in companies that may require growth capital, balance sheet and or operational improvements.
Z Capital portfolio companies currently have aggregate worldwide annual revenues of approximately $1.5 billion, sell products in over 30 countries, and have in excess of 190,000 associates directly and through joint ventures.
Z Capital's investors include prominent global sovereign wealth funds, endowments, pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, family offices, wealth management firms and other financial institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. For more information, please visit http://www.zcap.net/.
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Does your neck feel stiff when you awaken in the morning? Do the muscles seize painfully with no warning? Does neck pain limit your physical activity and become your constant companion?
If you suffer from pain in your neck, you have plenty of company. Doctors estimate that seven out of 10 people will be troubled by such pain at some point in their lives. One in 10 adults is hurting right now. And between 50% to 85% of people with such pain will be bothered by it again within the next five years.
Clearly, neck pain is a common, and troubling problem. But solving the problem is no quick-fix. Managing and relieving neck pain can involve a combination of therapies including medication, physical therapy, self-help techniques, and, less commonly, surgery.
More than ever, patients now play an increasingly important role in their own recovery through participation in stretching and strengthening exercises and mind-body therapies.
Our special report Neck Pain: A troubleshooting guide to help you relieve your pain can help you manage your discomfort, increase your mobility and prevent future flare-ups. Don't let neck pain limit your lifestyle.
Neck pain isn't all the same. There is no shortage of ways to describe it, in part because people have different perceptions of how they experience pain. The type of pain will also vary based on what is causing it.
How would you describe your neck pain? Are your neck and shoulders stiff? Do they ache? Do you feel a sharp pain or hear a grinding noise when you turn your head? Pain can be mild or severe, achy or sharp, stationary or shooting. It may stand alone or be accompanied by other troublesome complaints. By clearly describing your specific neck symptom — or combination of symptoms, because they often overlap — you can help your doctor determine what's wrong and how to help.
The following descriptions will help you clearly explain your symptoms to your doctor.
Muscle pain. Aching or sore neck and shoulder muscles may occur in response to overexertion, prolonged physical stress (usually from poor neck positioning during everyday activities), or emotional tension. Muscles may also develop hard knots that are sore to the touch, sometimes called trigger points.
Muscle spasm. This is a sudden, powerful contraction of neck muscles. When you wake up with a painful stiff neck, that's likely a muscle spasm — what is sometimes called a "crick" in your neck. The muscle usually feels painful, tight, or knotted, and may be impossible to move. Muscle spasm can result from a muscle injury, but it may also occur if there is a deeper problem (say, in a disk or nerve) and the muscle tenses in order to stabilize the neck and prevent you from moving in a way to cause pain or further damage. Neck muscle spasms sometimes accompany emotional stress, but often there is no identifiable reason for muscle spasm.
Headache. Neck-related headache, called cervicogenic headache or cervical headache, is most often felt in the back of the head and upper neck, where muscles extending along the skull are contiguous with neck muscles that may become tense or go into spasm. Neck-related headache pain is typically dull or aching, rather than sharp. It is aggravated by neck movement and often accompanied by stiffness and tenderness of neck muscles.
Facet joint pain. Often described as deep, sharp, or aching, facet joint pain typically worsens if you lean your head toward the affected side, and may radiate to your shoulder or upper back. Arthritis in the facet joints, as in other locations, may feel worse in the morning or after a period of inactivity.
Referred pain. When you feel pain at a site removed from the area where the problem lies, it is said to be "referred." A variety of conditions may cause referred neck pain. For example, neck pain that worsens with exertion may indicate a heart problem, while pain when you eat may stem from a problem in the esophagus. You may feel pain in your neck from shoulder damage; conversely, what you feel as pain in your shoulder, head, arms, hands, or chest may actually be referred pain from your neck.
Bone pain. Pain and tenderness in the cervical vertebrae are far less common than neck pain from the soft tissues. Bone pain needs medical evaluation because it can stem from serious conditions such as cancer or infection.
Most neck pain doesn't stem from anything medically serious, making it safe to try self-care strategies before seeking medical help. However, if your neck pain is so severe you can't sit still, or if it is accompanied by any of the following symptoms, contact a medical professional right away.
Fever, headache, and neck stiffness. This triad of symptoms might indicate bacterial meningitis, an infection of the spinal cord and brain covering that requires prompt treatment with antibiotics.
Pain traveling down one arm, especially if the arm or hand is weak, numb, or tingling. Your symptoms might indicate that a herniated cervical disk is pressing on a nerve.
Loss of bowel or bladder control. This might indicate pressure on the spinal cord or spinal nerve roots, needing immediate attention.
Extreme instability. If you can suddenly flex or extend your neck much farther than usual, it might indicate a fracture or torn ligaments. This usually occurs only after significant impact or injury, and is more likely to be detected by your doctor or on an x-ray than by your own perception.
Persistent swollen glands in the neck. Infection or tumor can result in swollen glands and neck pain.
Chest pain or pressure. A heart attack or inflamed heart muscle can cause neck pain along with more classic heart symptoms.


Bass Pro Shops is coming to Greenville! The 120,000 square foot complex is opening on Highway 85 at Highway 101 near BMW. The store will feature an Uncle Buck's Fishbowl and Grill plus 12 bowling lanes. Bass Pro is hoping to open their new store in 2016. Along with the Bass Pro, there will be many new restaurants, hotels, and other businesses opening too.


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Sobeys adds Farm Boy
The Empire Co. Ltd is buying the Farm Boy food chain for $800 million to add to its Sobeys supermarket business.
The parent company of grocery chain Sobeys Inc. says it has reached a deal to acquire food retailer Farm Boy in a bid to expand its reach in Ontario. Farm Boy CEO Jeff York poses for a photo in an Ottawa store on Thursday, May 26, 2016. (ADRIAN WYLD / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
It says this time it will leave the owners and managers in place, unlike its ill-fated $5.8-billion takeover of Safeway Canada in 2013.
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Chief executive officer Michael Medline said it will keep the operations and management team of Ottawa-based Farm Boy intact, holding on to its popular private labels and focus on fresh and prepared foods, which are fast-growing and potentially high-margin categories compared to other parts of the grocery sector.
"I don't want any change to Farm Boy other than if we can assist them in growing faster," Mr. Medline said.
The Safeway purchase resulted in losses for the entire Sobeys-Safeway business and a write down of the Safeway assets.


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San Francisco Seeks Humane Answer to Homeless Issue
By Reese Erlich Special to The Christian Science Monitor
HOMELESS bike messenger Tony Bentley hangs out in Civic Center park all day. Wearing torn jeans and restraining his unruly black hair with a headband, Mr. Bentley says that even when he does work, he earns only about $250 a week. He has tried to find permanent housing, but a dilapidated studio apartment in the city's poorest neighborhood costs $100 a week. ``How can I afford that?'' he asks.
Once he stood in a long line to get a room in a city-subsidized hotel for the homeless. ``But when I finally got the room,'' explains Mr. Bentley, ``I found roaches and ticks in the bed. It was so seedy, I'd rather sleep on the waterfront.''
Bentley is one of an estimated 6,000-to-10,000 homeless San Franciscans. For the past two months he and other homeless people living at the Civic Center have clashed with police, jammed meetings of the Board of Supervisors, and stormed the mayor's office demanding housing and city services.
Mayor Art Agnos, like other big-city mayors across the United States, is caught between homeless demands for justice and conservative calls to clear the homeless off city property. He appears to have defused the crisis for the moment by allowing the homeless to stay at Civic Center, but removing their tents, beds, couches, and other permanent shelters.
Homeless men and women began staying overnight in the Civic Center park in the early 1980s. Their presence, experts say, resulted from cuts in federal housing subsidies to the poor and in California welfare programs, as well as the economic recession of the early '80s.
Although it is technically illegal to sleep overnight in city parks, the presence of the homeless in Civic Center was tolerated until early June of this year. Bill Maher, a member of the Board of Supervisors, says the situation changed when people built tents and permanent structures.
Mr. Maher says he received numerous complaints from city employees who, on their way to work every morning, had to pass by the homeless. He called for police to roust any homeless person sleeping in the park after 10 p.m.
Terence Hallinan, the only member of the Board of Supervisors who has met with the homeless encamped at the Civic Center, supports Mayor Agnos's policies.
Rather than expel the homeless, Agnos issued an order forbidding beds, couches, tents, or other permanent structures in the park. That order caused a group of angry homeless to invade the mayor's office July 11. Food Not Bombs, a homeless advocacy group, began distributing free food in Civic Center in defiance of city policy. On July 21 police swept through the park to remove tents and couches, but they did not evict the homeless. There were no violent clashes.
In a Monitor interview, Mayor Agnos said his policy is a ``humane way to deal with a very legitimate urban problem.'' However, he says, the city must find a long-term solution. Agnos has set aside $1.5 million in the city budget and obtained five US Housing and Urban Development grants to build transition housing for the homeless. ``We need a homeless center where they can have a permanent address, employment training, and housing in the same facility,'' says the mayor.
Tony Bentley welcomes that idea. ``But the homeless have got to run it,'' he says, because it would never work with city bureaucrats in charge. ``We're people and we can be responsible.''
Agnos doesn't know when the homeless center funds will be available, or when the facility will be built. Until then, the homeless will continue to live in Civic Center and the potential for confrontation remains.
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Business support needed to bring iconic BookBenches to Stoke-on-Trent
Plans are underway to bring a striking trail of book-shaped benches to Stoke-on-Trent in 2019, as part of the Stoke Reads campaign.
Around 30 BookBenches will be decorated by local schools with designs inspired by books and stories. The colourful BookBenches will be displayed in venues across the six towns forming a trail for families to enjoy and raising awareness of the importance of literacy skills.
Stoke Reads is led by the National Literacy Trust and Stoke-on-Trent City Council, supported by The City Learning Trust. The BookBench project will be delivered in association with creative producers Wild in Art.
Schools and community groups will need to buy one or more BookBenches to take part in the project, which many will achieve through fundraising initiatives. Additional funding is required from local businesses to support schools and enable the BookBench project to go ahead.
For a donation of £1,000 or more, businesses can be involved in this high profile project and help inspire young people in Stoke to enjoy reading, which can have an important impact on their success in life. Organisations that support the project will have the opportunity to work with a local school to design their BookBench, and will be profiled across project materials.
Businesses including Steelite International, Synectics Solutions and Michelin have already committed to financially supporting the project.
Jenny Belt, Literacy Coordinator at the Discovery Academy said:
"The Discovery Academy is delighted to be taking part in the BookBench Project. We are currently running a vote for students and parents to find their most popular book. At the moment it is a tie between The Hunger Games series and the Harry Potter series. Whichever series wins, we will then vote on the individual books so that we can finally decide on the cover that we will base our BookBench on. We are having a sponsored read to raise the funds on World Book Day, and then it will be full steam ahead!"
Jason Vit, Head of National Literacy Trust Hubs said:
"Decorating BookBenches with scenes and characters from stories is a great way to inspire children to read more widely, but we need businesses to help us bring this project to life. By supporting the BookBench project your organisation can be part of an exciting public event, strengthen links with a local a school and help to make a difference to the lives of children and families in Stoke."
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KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Thirty-two people aboard a beautifully carved boat move in unison to the tempo set by a mallet striking a metal drum. Each time the drum sounds its command, two straight rows of people dig their oars into the water and pull backward with all their might. They are exhausted, they are wet and they are giving it all they've got.
They are the Kadena men and women's dragon boat teams.
Teams from Kadena Air Base have been participating in the annual Naha Dragon Boat Race for 25 years. The race takes place during "Hahrih," a festival that originated in China and is held to pray for luck in fishing endeavors and safety on the open sea.
Master Sgt. Timothy Middleton, 18th Operation Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment heavy operations section chief, coached the men's team while his wife, Comica Middleton, coached the women's team. The Middletons decided to give coaching a try after participating in dragon boat races as rowers during their last assignment to Kadena.
"We wanted to make sure it was a friendly environment everyone could enjoy while working hard," Timothy said.
The relaxed and friendly environment was enticing to many participants who wanted a fun way to get in shape and meet new people. The idea of being involved in a culturally immersive activity attracted a good number of participants as well.
"The tradition is hundreds of years old and it's exciting that they allow military personnel to be involved," said Katie Skinner, a rower for the Kadena women's team. "It has a lot of meaning to it, and that had a huge influence on why I wanted to do it."
The team got some pointers from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force dragon boat team, coached by JASDF Warrant Officer Kazuo Ogawa, 83rd Air Wing, Maintenance and Supply Group, Field Maintenance Squadron engine mechanic.
"I knew the coach, he remembered me from the times I rowed in 2006," Timothy said. "Getting involved with our allies was very fun and interesting. Not everyone gets to form that friendship that we have with the JASDF, that's a unique thing for the Air Force team."
Ogawa taught the teams to row in sync by having the coaches bang metal drums at a steady cadence even the weakest rowers could keep up with, and having the rowers dig their paddles into the water each time the drum was struck.
"When the team first starts, there's a worm effect," Comica said. "We call it that because when everyone is rowing, they aren't rowing in sync and it looks like a worm. Watching them go from the worm effect to being one solid unit hitting the water at the same time was amazing."
While getting help from the JASDF team definitely improved the team's confidence and technique, they also did plenty to help themselves. The team held four practices a week, alternating between rowing at Kadena's Fairchild Pool and performing exercises focused on shoulder, back, abdominal and arm muscles.
Although much of their effort was focused on getting the team in top physical condition, the coaches emphasized that dedication and participation are key to making a good team great.
"We always said 'row with your heart, not your arms,'" Comica said.
Race day finally came after months of practicing, and with it came a torrential downpour that grounded planes, halted traffic and forced officials to cancel the Naha Dragon Boat Race for the first time in 35 years.
"It broke my heart," Timothy said. "All that hard work we put into getting the team ready and practicing was just washed away overnight."
When they found out the race had been cancelled, many of the team members felt like they had practiced for months with nothing to show for their effort. However, after spending most of the day together at a barbeque held in lieu of the race, they realized that wasn't the case.
"A lot of the teammates have made lifelong friendships," Comica said. "It got some people out of their comfort zones. I had a lot of women who doubted themselves and were fearful of even trying out because of how intense it looked."
Comica added that she thinks many of the participants have a bigger family as a result of being on the dragon boat team because some of their spouses were deployed during the race and they were able to lean on each other.
Although they weren't able to compete in the race, the coaches and team members agree that being a part of the Kadena dragon boat team is an experience they wouldn't trade for anything.
"I made some great new friendships, which is a definite plus to being on the team," Skinner said. "It's fun and it's a cultural experience. I got to go down to Naha to practice and meet the JASDF team. It's just a once-in-a-lifetime experience that makes me even more excited to live here."
The team plans to compete in the Chatan Town Dragon Boat Race, scheduled for June.
"The race being cancelled didn't crush the spirit of the team, it just made us more eager to finish what we set out to do," Comica said.


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BAA Annual Conference 2017 Review
First published in the July 2017 issue of Quarry Management
QM reports on the British Aggregates Association's 2017 seminar proceedings
Businesses should wear their successes on their sleeves for everyone to see. That was the message from business champion Lord Digby Jones when he spoke to members of the British Aggregates Association (BAA) at their annual conference.
The mood music, as he described it, needs to change so that society understands the role of business in wealth creation.
Society's demonization of business even extends to soap operas, where the bad guy is always a businessman, said the cross-bench peer, a former director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and one-time Minister for Trade & Investment.
Lord Jones spoke for more than an hour, in equal measure amusing and inspirational, leaving the BAA delegates at the Forest of Arden Hotel in Warwickshire on 19 June upbeat and enthusiastic.
And he spoke with some knowledge of the industry, because, as a lawyer, he was involved when Bardon merged with Camas to create Aggregate Industries and later when it eventually merged into Holcim.
'It is in one way, such a misunderstood sector. And in another way, so vital to the enhanced productivity of our country. So I applaud you,' he said.
Productivity was a recurring theme of his presentation. It is, after all, the key to increasing wealth. He said France had the world's highest productivity per hour worked because it was so difficult to dismiss people there. As companies could not get rid of employees, they worked hard to motivate and educate those it had. On the other hand, companies were reluctant to expand their workforces because of the difficulty of shrinking it again, so unemployment was high.
In the UK it was the other way round. Lord Jones blamed a lack of training and motivation for low productivity in the UK, although he said the flexible labour regime led to higher employment.
Smaller companies were particularly bad at training people and presenting career paths for employees to grow through. Lord Jones had heard owners say they did not want to train people just to have them leave and go and work for someone else. His response to that: 'It's so much better to train someone and they leave than you don't train them and they stay.'
He said if the UK was going to make the most of Brexit and pay for the pet projects of politicians, productivity had to improve. He proposed a 'flexible median' between the French way and the British approach. He cited Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls Royce and Toyota as examples of companies that train and motivate their employees, which Lord Jones attributed to them achieving world-leading productivity levels in their UK factories.
'You have just heard from Julie,' he said, referring to the presentation by Julie Stone of the University of Derby that preceded his talk. She and her colleague Mark Osbaldeston had told the conference about the specialist training opportunities offered by the university for minerals producers, from short, online courses to a Level 7 MBA available through the university's minerals department and specifically geared to the industry. 'I learnt from that,' said Lord Jones. 'Everything you said I thought was marvellous.'
He thought the education system was letting down industry and contributing to the lack of productivity. Half the children taking their GCSEs as the minerals companies were meeting in Warwickshire would not achieve grade 'C' or better in English and maths. Lord Jones said they were not fit for the world of work, which was 'an absolute obscenity'.
The typical illiterate adult in the UK is white, male and 26-years-old, he said. A third of all adults could not add up three numbers in their head. 'And we want to beat China, do we?'
With the conference so soon after the general election, Lord Jones took the opportunity to criticize politicians of all parties. He said he is staunchly non-partisan about politics. When Gordon Brown made him Minister for Trade & Investment in 2007 he had refused to join the Labour Party, becoming the first serving Minister not to be a member of the ruling party. It would have been the same if the Conservatives had asked him to work with them, he said. 'I'm pasionately independent of the tribalism of politics.'
He complained that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn was anti-wealth and anti the motive of profit, and that the Conservatives under Theresa May, instead of producing the work of fiction that he said was their general election manifesto, should have committed to a wide-ranging, cross-party debate involving interests outside politics to find a solution to the problem of an aging population.
'There are a lot of worried people around and we have to work with them. We have to help all of society as we go about making money,' he said. He paraphrased Andrew Carnegie: There's nothing wrong with making money; it's what you do with it that matters.
Businesses create wealth and once they have earnt money there are only three things they can do with it: distribute it to shareholders; invest it; pay people for their labour. In each case it will be taxed. 'If it wasn't for the profit you make there wouldn't be a single job in Britain.' He added: 'I don't think the country gets it, by and large.'
Lord Jones recognized the conflicts between business interests and the rest of society. He lives in the countryside and doesn't want it spoiled. But he felt there had to be compromises that could leave all interests satisfied.
He complained about UK planning regulations, which he called 'one of the most unproductive, obstructive and disgraceful' regimes in Europe, while accepting that controls were needed or the whole country would be covered in concrete or, in the case of quarrying, dug up.
Other speakers at the conference would have concurred. They included representatives of the Environment Agency, the Woodlands Trust, the Wildlife Trust and Nature After Minerals, although they were all at pains to praise the minerals industry for its contributions, especially through restoration projects.
Lord Jones complained about some business practices, especially poor payment practices such as the unilateral extension of payment periods and the withholding of payment, so common in the construction industry, with smaller firms held over a barrel by larger firms. 'What they're asking you to do is to become their bankers.' His solution: make it illegal and make individuals personally liable. 'It would stop overnight.'
He felt what the world needs and is lacking is leadership. 'Leaders inspire, taking people to places they never even thought they could go. It's about them going home at night thinking: yes, I get it. It's about getting them wanting to go to work in the morning because they feel ready for the challenge. They feel yes, they can because you will be there for them. Pull it off and I don't think this nation has a thing to worry about. We're in the right place, doing the right thing in Asia's century; a globalized economy. Fail and our grandchildren will never forgive us.'
If you want to read more about Lord Digby Jones' views on what businesses should be doing, you can do so in his second book, 'Fixing Business', which delegates were given at the BAA conference. Lord Jones is giving the royalties from sales to charity, as he did with his first book, 'Fixing Britain'.
The rest of the event followed the familiar format with 15-minute cameo presentations in the morning by eight speakers and four longer presentations after lunch, further details of which will appear in next month's edition of QM.
The morning presentations were by Kevin Mahoney of Green Biofuels; Jim Davies from the Environment Agency; Victoria Banks Price from the Woodlands Trust; Mark Oldridge from Mineral Surveying Services; John Wilkinson from the Mineral Products Qualifications Council; Cath Pickett from the Health &and Safety Executive; and Mike Phillips from the Institute of Quarrying, which is celebrating its centenary.
In the afternoon, Rupert Craven from plant and machinery auctioneers Ritchie Bros discussed market trends in quarry equipment; Peter Dorans from the Wildlife Trust explored how quarries and their restoration is helping wildlife; Helen Barnard from Nature After Minerals spoke about the work of NAM, which is now celebrating its tenth anniversary; and Mark Osbaldeston and Julie Stone from the University of Derby outlined the courses the university offers that are of particular interest to smaller quarry operators, including its high-quality online courses.
After the conference came the BAA's annual general meeting, followed by the annual dinner. And on 20 June, the day after the conference and AGM, there was the annual golf tournament to round it all off.
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GFM's Music Review: Andy Allo's Superconductor Drum Majors a Symphonic Masterpiece!
|In Funk, R&B, Reviews, Soul
|By Hope West
After donning the stage with his Royal Badness on the "Welcome to America" tour, there has been a stirring curiosity surrounding the Cameroonian-born guitarist and vocalist, Andy Allo. While some may be familiar with her face from television series like The Game and her 2009 debut album, Unfresh, Allo's sophomore project, Superconductor not only grabs your attention but creates a remarkable declaration of her talent and individuality as a musician and songwriter. Without question, Superconductor is brilliantly styled in the garments of funk, soul and R&B with a fusion of vulnerability, sensuality and thoughtful inspiration.
When you first turn the ignition on the album, the title cut, Superconductor is drum majored by a whimsical energy driven by the synthesized funk of the Minneapolis Sound. What makes the song so attractive is its playful eccentricity and if you listen beneath the melody line you might catch the flirtatious footprint of Christopher Tracy's Parade mischievously sticking its tongue at you. For my funk fans, People Pleasers will be your go to track without question. It's as if Allo spent some time on the P-Funk Mothership with a Bootsy inspired bass along with horn arrangements that can be laid back or have a James Brown disciple in execution courtesy of Maceo Parker, Trombone Shorty and Prince.
When you dig a bit deeper into the Superconductor diary, you see a skillful tenderness warmed by an intriguing honesty. The cut, The Calm is more than a song; it's a melody of philosophical reflection. Inquisitive in spirit, the lyrics highlight the contradictions we often make in the name of love. Equally satisfying is the acoustic composition, Story of You & I. This song has celestial notes that will make you close your eyes and cradle you close to the heartbeat of a lover. This song is sung with such intimate conviction and the lyrics have a metaphoric description that paints beautifully:
Every night you enter me as the sun enters the sea
(when we just close our eyes and hold each other tight)
Ever ending moon beam, tides rise and recede
(Angels from the starry sky, sing to us every night)
Convergence of the highest order, deeper into me
(Different song every night)
Now I would be remissed if I did not mention the "get happy" joint, If I Was a King. In first hearing the groove of the song, it may tickle your thoughts to that of Stevie Wonder especially when Allo's vocals become more aggressive in certain parts of the song. Again, the horns in this track will make you enthusiastic with an infectious spirit of music and make you secretly wish you were part of the Bourbon Street inspired jam session celebrating the love of the king and his lovely queen.
In all honesty, this album is a joy to listen to from beginning to end – something that is rare to find in today's desolate industry of synthetics. The ingredients that bring flavor to Superconductor are the undeniable talent and artistry. When you hear Allo play, it breathes life; it has heart and stirs inspiration. The songwriting shapes your perspective and creates vivid imagery. Her voice can carry a whispery texture that will draw you close and at the same time can be blissfully haunting. If I could create a term for her tone, it would be "seductive innocence". It's that synthesis that pulls you in with reckless abandon. After hearing this project, I can truly say I'm glad I had the opportunity "to be loved by Superconductor – every song a perfect symphony".
To hear this album for yourself, pick up your copy on Amazon, iTunes or visit her website at www.alloevolution.com
-Review by Hope West aka WestStyle Chronicles
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Hope West is a music enthusiast and music photographer who has captured artists like B.B. King, Janet Jackson, Teddy Riley and many others. A life long lover of music, Hope is a graduate of Full Sail University where she studied music engineering. She's also a proud "Florida Girl" born and raised in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. and currently resides in Atlanta, GA as a "Georgia Peach". Hope is known for her creativity, sense of humor and quirky perfectionism. Artist(s) that make her freak out as a music fan: Sheila E., Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Quincy Jones.
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Botticelli Portrait Studio is our commitment to create beautiful images of the people you love and will be proud to display throughout generations. Our studio honors a lifelong study and appreciation of the arts; the master painters and portrait artists that came before us. From Rembrandt to Degas, Michelangelo to Botticelli (of course), we pay homage to our time honored craft of portraiture through mastering classical composition, lighting, expression, and producing the finest heirloom portraits on archival canvas. We are a small family business who loves the opportunity to work with other parents and families on Long Island. Brian, Louise, and Nicole work as a team to capture the perfect images with patience and keen attention to detail. Our love of children combined with personal and professional experience translates into a relaxed photography session and we personally guarantee that you will love the images we create just for you.
We work closely with you to achieve the desired look and feel of your images. Your preferences are valued and we plan each session differently to accommodate the unique needs of each client. It is strongly encouraged to submit an image of a place in your home where your portraits will be placed. This will allow us to incorporate your tastes and home decor into the session, resulting in a portrait that will feel right at home on your walls. In fact, with our state of the art interior decorating software, you will be able to see a rendering of your own session's images in a frame on your very own wall before you place your order.
Botticelli Portraits can be seen in several permanent galleries throughout Long Island, international loan collections, institutions of higher learning, professional publications, and most importantly in the homes of our valued clients. The best way to see our work in person is to visit our studio or one of our portrait displays in Smithaven Mall in Lake Grove, Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington, or The Source Mall in Westbury.


The collection consists of one item, a seventeen page, handwritten manuscript titled "Alma, on the Republican, Its Origin and Early Settlements in the Valley," written by Ralph W. Brugh. It covers the years 1869-1880. Included are names of those who came to explore/settle Harlan County, as well as an account of the fight over naming Alma the county seat.
This manuscript was transferred from the NSHS Library in December 1985. A typescript version of this manuscript is available in the NSHS Library [978.252 B758a].


This article is for investors who would like to improve their understanding of price to earnings ratios (P/E ratios). To keep it practical, we'll show how Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.'s (NYSE:RS) P/E ratio could help you assess the value on offer. Reliance Steel & Aluminum has a P/E ratio of 5.93, based on the last twelve months. That means that at current prices, buyers pay $5.93 for every $1 in trailing yearly profits.
Earnings growth rates have a big influence on P/E ratios. When earnings grow, the 'E' increases, over time. That means unless the share price increases, the P/E will reduce in a few years. Then, a lower P/E should attract more buyers, pushing the share price up.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum increased earnings per share by a whopping 128% last year. And its annual EPS growth rate over 5 years is 19%. So we'd generally expect it to have a relatively high P/E ratio.
How Does Reliance Steel & Aluminum's P/E Ratio Compare To Its Peers?
The P/E ratio indicates whether the market has higher or lower expectations of a company. The image below shows that Reliance Steel & Aluminum has a lower P/E than the average (8.1) P/E for companies in the metals and mining industry.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum's P/E tells us that market participants think it will not fare as well as its peers in the same industry. Many investors like to buy stocks when the market is pessimistic about their prospects. You should delve deeper. I like to check if company insiders have been buying or selling.
It's important to note that the P/E ratio considers the market capitalization, not the enterprise value. That means it doesn't take debt or cash into account. Theoretically, a business can improve its earnings (and produce a lower P/E in the future), by taking on debt (or spending its remaining cash).
Is Debt Impacting Reliance Steel & Aluminum's P/E?
Net debt totals 39% of Reliance Steel & Aluminum's market cap. This is a reasonably significant level of debt — all else being equal you'd expect a much lower P/E than if it had net cash.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum trades on a P/E ratio of 5.9, which is below the US market average of 15.6. The company hasn't stretched its balance sheet, and earnings growth was good last year. The low P/E ratio suggests current market expectations are muted, implying these levels of growth will not continue.
When the market is wrong about a stock, it gives savvy investors an opportunity. As value investor Benjamin Graham famously said, 'In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.' So this free visual report on analyst forecasts could hold they key to an excellent investment decision.
You might be able to find a better buy than Reliance Steel & Aluminum. If you want a selection of possible winners, check out this free list of interesting companies that trade on a P/E below 20 (but have proven they can grow earnings).


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My kid could paint that
December 20, 2011News Articles
I saw a documentary last week called "My kid could paint that". It's about Maria Olmstead, a 4 year old girl (at the time) who sold abstract paintings for thousands of dollars, thereby vindicating the millions of people out there who think a child could do abstract art. As the documentary progresses doubts are raised whether her parents were the ones behind the paintings, and that aspect of the story takes over the documentary. I would have preferred a discussion on abstract art and why so many people hate it, but that was interesting too.
While I understand people not liking abstract art, I don't think it's something a child could do. Apparently most people can tell the difference between an abstract picture done by a child and one done by an adult, so there must be something to it. Not all abstract work is crap. Sure, I may not like Picasso's paintings, doesn't mean it doesn't take skill to do what he did. I think there are two reasons for the disconnect between the art world and the masses.
The first reason is that a lot of art is only accessible to people who have studied it. Most people don't have an art education, and are not open to the idea of seeing something that doesn't look like anything. For instance, cubism attempts to show everyday objects in multiple angles at the same time. Most people aren't aware of that, and so they can only say "The picture says it's a vase, but it doesn't look like a vase, therefore it sucks". The way I see it, a lot of abstract art is experimentation, and some of the things it attempts to do can then be applied to commercial art. In graphic design, thumbnail sketches of layouts resemble constructivist drawings.
The other reason why people don't like abstract art (and this is my particular beef with it), is that some of it doesn't look like it requires any skill to do…like abstract expressionism. Moreover, the exorbitant price of some paintings only makes people angrier at the whole charade.
Here is an article that does a better job discussing people's reaction to abstract art.


Stereo Tremolo Never Sounded This Good!
Expand the sound of your guitar rig with the Fulltone Supa-Trem2 Stereo Tremolo pedal. This isn't some half-hearted stereo pedal; it's two identical circuits that run in true stereo. The Supa-Trem2 uses a custom-made photo-cell, like vintage tube amps, but this one is noise-free and gives you an amazing level of control. Cool controls such as Tap Tempo and Phase Correlation let you create a massive, stereo trem sound for your guitar or keyboard setup.
To keep your tone sounding and feeling good, Fulltone loaded the Supa-Trem2 Stereo Tremolo with a pair of NOS Fairchild 2N5484 JFET amps. The volume control delivers up to 15dB of clean boost. Fulltone gave the Supa-Trem2 a mix control, so you can dial in the exact amount of tremolo that you want in your signal. If you crank it all the way to the left, it becomes a great-sounding clean boost.
Fulltone's Supa-Trem2 Stereo Tremolo gives you the ability to create your own signature sound. A Waveform switch lets you choose between sine, square, and the Fulltone-exclusive Warble waveforms. Warble is a setting inspired by classic Leslie and Univibe units. Quickly dial in your speed with a large Tap Tempo button. The Phase Correlation control lets you dial in the phase between the stereo outputs. Conjure everything from vintage trem to completely original sounds with the Fulltone Supa-Trem2 Stereo Tremolo.
The list of Fulltone fans reads like a who's who of guitar heroes. Both Ron Wood and Keith Richards have Fulltone gear in their touring rigs as do Nigel Tufnel from the legendary British metal band Spinal Tap and Boston badboys Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton. Punk/Rockabilly mainstay Reverend Horton Heat is a Fulltone convert. Other notable Fulltone users include Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard, Jack Bruce of Cream, perennial alt rocker Lou Reed, and Tom Petty along with Heartbreaker Mike Campbell.


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Live Life Music Fest
Virtual Holiday Auction
Fall Benefit Concert
Album Reciepts Interview
Seth's Allyship Blog
Alex McDaniel
AAPI Heritage Month
The Untold Hardships of Music
A Female Perspective
The Evolution of Modern Music
An Indigenous Perspective
Live Life Music started as an Edmond-based, student-led group dedicated to serving and nurturing the fine arts of Oklahoma through music-related initiatives. Founded by Joshua Zhu in 2018, with dedication and perseverance, the young group started programs for music performances at senior homes and held a benefit concert for an underfunded Oklahoma high school orchestra arts program in 2019.
In 2020, Jaclyn Fan, current president and CEO, took on a new role to lead Live Life Music during the trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic. She brought the organization into new American states and expanded it internationally to Germany, the Philippines, India, and other nations through an online volunteer network. Preserving the integrity of a fully student-operated 501(c)3 nonprofit group, the board took on a new mission to raise awareness about social issues within arts through music-related initiatives in underserved communities throughout Oklahoma and the United States.
The board continues to serve faithfully through a blend of hands-on work, including partnerships with other arts and social organizations and community events, and online impact, such as the dissection of important musical histories or injustices, to spread Live Life Music's mission to the whole world.
"To raise awareness about social issues within the arts through music-related initiatives in underserved communities throughout Oklahoma and the United States."
Jaclyn Fan
School: Edmond Santa Fe High School
Likes: Soft Pillows, Peach Tea, La La Land Soundtrack
Dislikes: Small Holes, Extremely Loud Sounds, Littering
Instrument(s): Viola, Piano
Favorite song: Valentine - COIN
Why I joined LLM - To give back to the communities that have given me so much & make arts accessible for everyone!
Grace Davis
Likes: Dunkin' Donuts, Nature, Reading, Teen Wolf
Dislikes: Extremely Hot Weather, Tomatoes
Instrument(s): Cello, Piano
Favorite song: Brooklyn Baby - Lana Del Rey
Why I joined LLM- to serve music communities and make them feel like home for young musicians.
Angelina Lang
Likes: Volleyball, Activism, Meeting New People
Dislikes: Raw Onions, Slow Wifi
Favorite song: Use Somebody- Kings of Leon
Why I joined LLM - To connect with people and organizations that I haven't had much exposure with before; the music community!
Kate Ripley
CHief Financial officer
Likes: Books, Running, Strawberry Ice Cream, Chapstick
Dislikes: Vegetables, Feeling Unmotivated
Instrument(s): Violin
Favorite song: Lover - Taylor Swift
Why I joined LLM - To spread the passion for music that has always supported me in order to better the community I live in!
Paul Nguyen
Communications & outreach director
Likes: Anime, Skateboarding, Classical Music
Dislikes: Bugs
Favorite song: Merry-Go-Round of Life - Joe Hisaishi
Why I joined LLM - To nurture the arts and serve my community in Oklahoma.
Seth McINtyre
Likes: Theatre, Procrastinating, Barbra Streisand
Dislikes: Wendy's, People Who Say 'Crown' Instead of 'Crayon'
Instrument(s): Piano, Vocal Chords
Favorite song: My Man - Barbra Streisand
Why I joined LLM - To be a part of an organization that gives back to the community, musically!
Brady-Hummingbird
School: Classen School of Advanced Studies
Likes: Biology, Chamber Music, Soccer, Literature
Dislikes: Geometry, Mushrooms, Wastefulness
Favorite Song: Moonage Daydream - David Bowie
Why I joined LLM - To help empower younger people with music as well as revive classical music to the younger generation. Music is a wonderful art form and skill that can help one master a wide range of abilities. No one should be limited on their access to it.
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Email: livelifemusicok@gmail.com
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Q: At / in those moments - would be + verb form
The only thing I'd love to do at / in those moments (stressful ones) would be to hang out / hang out / hanging out with my friends.

I have two questions about this sentence:

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*Which is the correct preposition at / in those moments? Why?

*What verb form should follow "would be" in my sentence: infinitive / base form / gerund?

A: The sentence should be:
The only thing I'd love to do in those moments (stressful ones) would be to hang out with my friends.

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Support Tesco Bags for Good in North Devon
Many of us are fairly good at reusing our carrier bags or using more durable ones, but there are moments when we've left those bags in the boot of the car, or have just nipped out for one or two essentials and come away with more than planned...
Back in 2017, Tesco replaced single use carrier bags, and instead offered customers Bags for life, which are made from recycled plastic, themselves recyclable, very durable and can be replaced for free when at the end of their life.
The money raised from the sale of the reusable Bag for Life is used to fund a variety of local projects across Britain. Each time a customer shops they are offered a blue token at the checkout, which they can use to vote for the project they want the money to go to.
Every two months Tesco hands out grants of up to £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 in 575 regions across Britain, which provides up to £4 million funding for communities.
What would DAA use the grant for?
In 2018 it cost £7.5 million to keep Devon's Air Ambulances flying, and communicating about the service is an essential part of being able to deliver that critical care when every second counts.
Communicating our messages to as many people as possible is essential so we can help would-be supporters find out about our work, and existing supporters to keep up to date with our activities and to thank them.
But not everyone is on social media, receives Helipad magazine, or can attend our various fundraising events. We are a local charity that serves local people and communities and, as such, our shops play an important role in being a source of information and in getting our message to the people that make our work possible.
We are looking to purchase an LCD television screen for each of our 19 shops across Devon, that can share important and tailored information with customers and supporters at the heart of local communities. In-store screens would help customers and donors to our shops to:
Find out about fundraising events, appeals and activities that are running in support of Devon's Air Ambulance service
Find out about opportunities for volunteers and current job vacancies
Gift Aid donations to help secure further funds for the Charity
Learn about the stock we are short of
Discover opportunities and events of interest specific to that community and area
Find out how our supporters' donations help our patients
We would also be able to reach new audiences and thank those amazing people, business and groups who are already so generous with their support.
Vote for DAA if you shop in North Devon
Fundraising and Communications Director, Caroline Creer, said:
We're really pleased to have the opportunity to receive a grant that's supported by the local communities that we serve, and we feel fortunate to be one of the shortlisted charities to be in with a chance of receiving one of the sums. Thank you to Tesco for making it possible for local charities to benefit in this way.
We'd love to scoop one of the grants available as a result of voting in the Bideford and Westward Ho! Tesco stores for your shopping, so if you're popping by, please do keep us in mind!
Find out more about ways to support Devon Air Ambulance
Published: 21st March, 2019
Updated: 22nd March, 2019
Attractions Announced for 2019 Commando Challenge Event Village
From live music, bungee trampolines and dog shows, to football zorbs, inflatable darts and minigolf, roll up to the Royal Marines Commando Challenge Event Village this October.
Proud as Punch
Independent pub company, Punch, sponsors the Royal Marines Commando Challenge this October.
Contacting us in times of cyber awareness
What happens when cyber safeguarding gets in the way of our communication?
Musical line up is out for the 2019 Motorcycle Ride Out
The line up of performers playing at The Den in Teignmouth in support of this year's Motorcycle Ride Out in aid of Devon Air Ambulance is revealed.
Devon Air Ambulance's longest serving pilot elected to prestigious flight safety post
Rob Mackie, Safety Manager at Devon Air Ambulance, earns prestigious role on UK Flight Safety Committee.
Devon Air Ambulance to make an impact at Schools Big Bang event
Airbus will join Devon Air Ambulance at The Big Bang Fair in June. The Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths celebration welcomes school age children to find out more about a future in these fields, with support from Devon Air Ambulance.
Corporate supporters add a shot of support with coffee machine initiative
Businesses across Devon are hosting Devon Air Ambulance branded coffee machines to boost funds for the charity.
Entries soar for commando Challenge
Do you think you could take on the Royal Marines' own endurance training course? Join hundreds of recruits taking on one of the most challenging mud run courses in support of charity.
Customers queue for reopening of Topsham Vintage shop
The popular refurbished Devon Air Ambulance specialist charity shop opens to crowds after a four-month closure.


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Q: How can I narrow a type such that a field is no longer optional I have a type that has an optional field but I want to be able to return a similar type where that field isn't optional. eg
type Foo = {
  x?: string
}
type Bar = {x: string}

const fn = (foo: Foo): Bar => {
  if (foo.x) {
    return foo
  }

  throw new Error
}

however, this doesn't type check because foo isn't narrowed to Bar. Can this be solved without a cast?
typescript play

A: Because the argument could be mutated somewhere else later it's a bad idea to narrow it in this case. Instead it's better to return a copy.
type Foo = {
  x?: string
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type Bar = {x: string}

const fn = (foo: Foo): Bar => {
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    return {x: foo.x}
  }

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}


Coram: Mills-Owens, Huggins & McMullin JJ.
1. The appellant appeals against a sentence of 8 years' imprisonment imposed on him upon his conviction for robbery with aggravation.He was jointly indicted with five others for an armed robbery at the Yien Yieh Commercial Bank in the course of which a sum of $144,025in cash was stolen. In the event no evidence was offered against the other five men upon this count. However, one man not named inthe present indictment was separately indicted upon a charge arising out of the same robbery and upon his plea of guilty he was sentencedto 10 years' imprisonment.
2. The facts were that on 22nd August 1969 four men entered the bank and threatened the persons inside. One of them jumped over thecounter and proceeded to remove money from drawers. He was resisted by a member of the staff who received a cut wound from a knife.One of the other robbers fired two shots from a pistol, but no one was hit by them. Having seized the sum of money named in the indictmentall four men left the bank and drove off in a motor car. The man sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment was one of the men who enteredthe bank and actually committed the robbery. The appellant did not enter the bank but it is admitted that he was outs and openedthe door of the car for the robbers as they escaped. There no evidence that he was armed but he made a statement in which he admithelping to plan the robbery and it is clear that he was present at the scene and available to give assistance if required. For hispart in the robbery he received or expected to receive $20,000.
3. Two other men have been sentenced for their parts in the affair. One took part in the planning of the robbery but was prevented fromtaking part in the robbery itself because he was arrested, before it was perpetrated, and charged with an offence under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Upon his plea of guilty as an accessary before the fact to robbery he was sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment. The second man wasconvicted of receiving stolen property and upon his plea of guilty was sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment.
4. Counsel has urged that the appellant played a comparatively minor role in the robbery and, indeed, that since the only thing he wasproved to have done in the course of the robbery was to open the car door he played a smaller role than the man who was sentencedto only 6 years' imprisonment and who was only prevented from taking an active part (and possibly a major part) because of his priorarrest. Moreover, counsel emphasizes that of all those convicted the appellant was the only one who did not have a long criminalrecord: he had never been in trouble before.
5. We do not think much assistance is to be obtained from a comparison of the sentence imposed upon the appellant with that imposedupon the man who was convicted as an accessary before the fact. We express no opinion as to the propriety of the sentence passedon the accessary but we cannot agree that the appellant played a smaller part than he, in view of the evidence that both were involvedin the planning of the robbery.
6. The important thing is that the appellant was present, aiding and abetting the robbers and whether or not he was himself armed hemust have been aware that the robbers were. The size of his share suggests that he was expected to be something more than a mereopener of car doors. If, therefore, he had had a record comparable to those of the other men involved we think that the sentenceof 8 years' imprisonment might have been justified, though we might ourselves have thought a sentence of 7 or even 6 years more appropriate.However, the appellant did not have any previous convictions and after much anxious considerations we think that that fact is notsufficiently reflected in the sentence passed upon him. Accordingly we reduce the sentence to one of 6 years' imprisonment.
7. In the course of the argument we were referred to the recent judgment of this Court in LI Wan v. Reg. Criminal Appeal No.321 of 1970 and it was suggested that the case was authority for saying that an increase in the prevalence ofa crime after sentence for a particular offence was a material consideration upon an appeal against that sentence. We doubt whetherin its context what was there said can fairly be so construed but, be that as it may, we take the opportunity to say that such anunfair conclusion was not necessary for the decision of that case and it was certainly not intended.
M. Wong c.c. for Respondent.


The list below shows step by step how Spam Reader is checking a message for spam. On every step different criteria are applied to check if the message is spam or not. The goal of the first steps is to check if the message has particular non-spam characteristics. This guarantees that important e-mails aren't filtered out. Then Spam Reader checks the message for spam characteristics. Finally, Bayesian filtering algorithm is applied to analyze the message body. As soon as on some step the recognition is successful the checking process is terminated.


We have just arrived back from our whole school Carol Service; it was wonderful!
Teachers and children read some readings, while each class performed a carol. Some children danced, some performed and some children did solos. We certainly have 'tapped into talent' this year. Well done to all involved, especially our extremely talented music teacher, Mrs Walton.
40 years a priest – congratulations Fr. Chris!!!
Today we paid tribute to our wonderful parish priest Fr. Chris McCoy, as he celebrates 40 years ordination. We are so proud that he is part of our school community; he fills our school full of love, faith, fun and happiness.
We wrote our own version of the Twelve Days of Christmas to deliver him some gifts from us; 1 big hug, 2 pairs of socks, 3 books to read, 4 whisky shots, 5 chocolate bars, 6 mince pies and 7 Christmas cards!
We think he was really embarrassed but really pleased.
It was such a pleasure to see the Year 5 and Year 6 children go off to the cathedral, with their arms loaded with toys, for the children of Nugent Care.
The donations were purchased from the money that both classes had raised through their enterprise work this term.
We hope that we have been able to spread the Good News of Christmas around Liverpool this year.
We will be collecting toys and new pyjamas for the rest of the term for Action for Children.
During our whole school collective worship we focused on the words from St Francis of Assisi. We talked about ways that we could give this Christmas.
Obviously we spoke about the giving of money, and our children and families certainly did not disappoint! Today I have signed two cheques from our school. The first was £61.00 for ' Show Racism the Red Card', the second was a staggering £330 for Children in Need.
Don't forget we are also collecting Christmas gifts for Nugent Care.
In the spirit of giving the children have also pledged to: give hugs, make friends, share and help out at home with the Christmas preparation.
I really do hope that they keep their promises.