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Excerpt: A Real Cowboy for Christmas
A deathbed promise should never involve snow, subzero temperatures, and family who don't know you even exist, and sure as hell don't know you're coming.
Especially a deathbed promise given in front of one's six-year-old daughter, who won't ever let you forget your oath. Like, ever. Not even for one headache-laden, frostbitten-toes moment.
"Mom!" The six-year-old in question tugged on Jaimi Hamilton's hand, apparently not remotely concerned about the wind that was knifing through their clothes. Because that was how six-year-olds operated. They never felt cold, unless it was eighty degrees and they wanted to leave the park the minute the attractive, single dad with decent moral standards and a car that actually worked showed up. "Do you see them? Are they here?"
Jaimi squatted down so she was level with her daughter, her heart tugging at the way Emily's blue eyes sparkled in the wintry snow. She gently pulled Emily's stocking cap lower over her forehead. "Baby cakes, remember. This is a secret mission. They can't ever know we're here for them, unless we decide to reveal our true identity, right?"
Emily's lower lip jutted out. "What if I don't want to be a spy?"
"We have to be spies. What if they're evil, and we have to stop their plan to steal toys from all the children in the world on Christmas morning? Then we don't want them to know who we are, right?"
Emily giggled and rolled her eyes. "They don't have a plan to steal toys from all the children in the world."
"Really? You're so sure about that?" Jaimi gave her daughter her most skeptical look. "How do we know until we spy on them for a while?"
Emily put her hands on her hips and eyed her mom. "Grandma would never tell us to come to Wyoming to find them, unless they were nice. Don't you trust Gram?"
Jaimi laughed. "Sweetie, no one ever trusts Gram if they know what's good for them." Wait. Not trusts. Trusted. Because Gram was gone now. God, she felt like she'd never get used to that fact.
Laughter bubbled out of Emily. "Gram was such trouble."
"That she was." A lump formed in Jaimi's throat, but she quickly swallowed it away. She'd promised her mom that there would be no tears. Life was too short for tears and regret. Every moment was a gift to be treasured. "And so are you."
Emily's grin widened. "Gram says you're trouble, too."
"That's been my lifelong goal, so I'm still working on it." Jaimi pulled off her glove and held up her hand. "Trouble-making girls rock the world, right?"
"Right!" Emily whipped off her pink fuzzy mitten and hooked her pinkie around Jaimi's. "I swear to cause trouble my whole life," she said with a solemn giggle as they squeezed pinkies. "Just like you and Gram."
"And I swear to continue to cause trouble my whole life, just like you and Gram." God, how many times had she made that oath with her mom over the years? A thousand times? And then, after Emily had been born, it had been the three of them…until two months ago. Now it was back down to two.
Two pinkies were not nearly as good as three when it came to pinkie swears.
Emily beamed at her. "They'll love us, Mom. We're amazing like that."
Jaimi couldn't help but smile at her daughter's self-confidence. Her number one goal as a mom had always been to raise a daughter who lived life on her own terms, who would never be held back by what anyone thought of her. It meant she had a little hellion on her hands at times, but she'd never trade a second of chaos for a daughter who shrank from who she was, who she wanted to be, and what anyone thought of her.
In terms of embracing her badass self, the pupil had far surpassed the teacher long ago, and was turning out to be a lot like her Gram, which was awesome. Jaimi, on the other hand, wasn't nearly the self-confident, f*ck the world, mover and shaker that her daughter thought she was. But hey, that was her little secret, right? As far as Emily was concerned, Jaimi was everything she told Emily to be. So, she smiled. "Of course they'll love us. Who wouldn't want two fabulous girls appearing on their doorstep the week before Christmas and announcing they're family that no one ever knew existed, right?" Oh, God. Just the idea of that made her stomach knot. What on earth had her mom been thinking, making Jaimi promise to make this trip? She hadn't specifically made Jaimi promise to actually introduce herself, however, so Jaimi was holding tight to that little loophole.
"Totally!" Emily clapped her hands. "Can we do it today? You have the address, right? To their huuuge ranch? What if we moved onto the ranch? Can I get a pony? I could become a barrel racer—"
"Slow down, cheetah-girl. We're not moving here. We're just here for Christmas vacation, and we both have to be back at school after New Year's."
Emily wrinkled her nose. "You don't like teaching. I heard you telling Gram. Why do you teach if you don't like it? You always tell me to follow my heart, and you're not." Emily set her hand on her hips and glared at Jaimi, apparently completely offended by her mom's failure to deliver.
Sigh. Maybe she should have focused more on raising a wimpy child who hid in her room all day after all… She tweaked her daughter's nose. "I do like teaching, and I keep teaching because it works perfectly because we're in school at the same time, so you don't need to go to late care, right?"
Emily shrugged. "Late care is fun. Three kids got bloody noses last fall. I missed every one of them. All the blood was cleaned up by the time we had recess the next morning. What fun is that?"
"Recess without blood is definitely a downer." Heaven help her. "But you'll get another chance when we go back there after New Year's. For now, we're here for Christmas, checking out the town, and learning how to enjoy our first Christmas without Gram."
The tenacious little pugilist was not swayed from her agenda. "And we're going to meet our family, right? We're going to go up to them, and you're going to say 'Hey, Chase Stockton, I'm your sister—"
A few heads turned toward them at Emily's raised voice, and Jaimi quickly interrupted. "Shh, sweetie, I—" She suddenly noticed the sheriff lounging nearby, watching them. His gaze was intense and hooded, and his casual stance failed to hide the raw strength of his body. His cowboy hat was tipped back, showcasing a strong, whiskered jaw, and dark sunglasses that hid his eyes. But it was clear he was staring right at them, and her stomach jumped again…though she wasn't sure whether it was fear of being caught before she was ready to declare herself, or because he was just so freaking male. His jeans were faded, and his long jacket was open, flapping about his calves, as if he didn't feel the cold at all. There was something untamed and unruly about him, as if he were the kind of man who lived life without walls, exactly how she wanted so badly to be.
He nodded at her, and she suddenly realized she was staring at him. Heat flared in her cheeks, and she dragged her gaze off him and back to Emily. "We need to be top secret, Em." The Stocktons were well-known in Rogue Valley, and she didn't need the sheriff, or anyone else, alerting them that two out-of-towners were talking about being their long-lost family before Jaimi had a chance to figure out how she wanted to handle it. "We might or might not introduce ourselves, remember? We're spies right now, until we decide whether we want them to know who we are. If they aren't worthy, they don't get to know us, right?"
Emily met her gaze. "They'll be worthy." There was absolute conviction in her voice, which alarmed Jaimi.
She realized the little minx was planning to take control of the situation. No way. Some things in life were far more complicated than a six-year-old could grasp, and this was one of them. Curses to Gram for bringing Emily into this! Jaimi grasped her daughter's hands and squeezed gently. "Sweetie, I need you to make me a promise. Some people in this world aren't so nice. We don't know if the Stocktons are nice, and we don't know whether they would fit us. So, promise me you won't mention their names again unless we're alone, and you won't introduce us, until we both decide together that it's the right decision. We're a team, remember?"
Emily sighed, but nodded. "I promise, but Mom, it'll be okay. Gram said you'd be scared, and I had to keep telling you it would be okay so your inner wimp wouldn't win out. So, it will be okay, 'kay?"
Jaimi's brows shot up. "My inner wimp?"
"Yes, Gram says we all have one, but yours is really loud and obnoxious and it sometimes needs to be smacked around to make it shut up."
Jaimi burst out laughing at her mom's words coming out of a six-year-old's mouth. "God, I love you, kiddo."
Emily beamed at her. "I love you, too, Mom." She reached her hand into her parka pocket and pulled out a photograph. She held it up, and scanned the crowds passing by them. "I brought Chase's photo. Do you see him? Let's start spying—"
"You brought one of the photos Gram had?" Jaimi snatched it out of her daughter's hand. Good God. They were going to look like stalkers! "I'll take that." She looked around, needing to distract her daughter. They were on the edge of the grounds of the Rogue Valley Christmas Festival, and there were people everywhere, tromping through the snow, wearing Santa hit, and overflowing with happy laughter on this opening afternoon of the three-day celebration. "Oh…look! Reindeer!"
"Where?" Emily spun around, her eyes widening when she saw the pen of reindeer across the way. Christmas lights twinkled on the fence, and two of Santa's elves were giving out food pellets for the children to feed the animals. "Do you think Rudolph is there? Can we see?" She took off in a sprint, not even waiting for Jaimi.
Jaimi sighed, and sat back on her heels, watching her daughter dart across the dirt road, effortlessly dodging crowds until she reached the fence around the reindeer pen. Emily grabbed the middle bar and climbed right up, moving with alarming speed and determination. Dear God, was she going to climb into the pen? "Em! Get down!" Jaimi jumped and started running toward her. "Emily!"
Suddenly, she heard a horn blast, and she glanced to her right. A huge tractor was bearing down on her, only feet away. "Oh, shit—"
Something suddenly hit her hard from the side, thrusting her out of the path of the tractor. She landed hard on the frozen ground, gasping as two strong arms dragged her across the gravelly earth, jerking her trailing feet out of the way of the massive tires just as they crunched by.
She gasped, frozen, as she watched the massive tractor roll by, towing a trailer filled with hay bales and curious people, who were leaning over the side, gawking at her. Dear God. She'd almost been crushed. That would have made for an extremely sucky first-Christmas-without-Gram, positive attitude notwithstanding.
Her lungs heaved, trying to catch her breath, as she became gradually aware that she was lying on top of a warm body, not the hard ground, and that those arms were still locked around her waist.
She looked down at the hands clasped around her belly, and saw the worn black cuffs of a certain calf-length jacket she had just been gawking at a few minutes ago. Oh, crap. The hot sheriff had saved her? Heat rose in her cheeks as she twisted around to look behind her.
Sure enough, playing the role of her landing pad, was the same untamed, intensely male sheriff who had been watching her so carefully just a moment ago. It was his hard, hot body beneath her, and his booted foot between her calves. He grinned, flashing her a smile that made heat tingle all the way to her frozen toes. "Welcome to Rogue Valley. My name's Sheriff Wilson…" He paused. "But you can call me Dane."
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GBP/USD drops to key support before bounce
James Chen, CMT February 17, 2016 4:30 PM
GBP/USD continued its fall early on Wednesday to hit a major support area around the 1.4250 level, before bouncing. This drop modestly extended the currency pair's substantial retreat this week from its 50-day moving average and the 1.4500 level.
In the process, this retreat has erased much of the gains made during the upside pullback of late January and early February, and could be the precursor to a continuation of the longstanding bearish trend.
Though the minutes of January's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, which are scheduled to be released on Wednesday afternoon, may provide some additional clarity as to the Federal Reserve's monetary policy stance last month, financial and economic events since that meeting have weighed on the likelihood of a further rate hike in the near-term. Diminished expectations of such a rate hike have pressured the US dollar from the beginning of February, though the greenback has rebounded since late last week.
Perhaps even more vital to GBP/USD's outlook than the dollar's frequent gyrations due to Fed expectations, however, may be the persistently weakened state of the British pound. This weakness stems from an increasingly dovish Bank of England that was previously expected to begin its own monetary tightening cycle at some point following the initiation of the Fed's rate hike in December. These expectations have since diminished dramatically, and even reversed to accommodate the potential for a rate cut, given recent concerns over weak economic growth, financial market instability, and low inflation.
As long as the Bank of England maintains a monetary policy stance that is consistently seen as even more dovish than the Fed's, the underlying bearish trend for GBP/USD should continue. Despite the noted upside pullback in late January and early February, price action since then has leaned towards a potential resumption of the entrenched downtrend. With any sustained breakdown below 1.4250 support, the next major downside target remains at the 1.4000 psychological support objective, followed further to the downside by the 1.3600 support level, last touched in early 2009.
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The Wait To Become A U.S. Citizen Lengthens
By Richard Gonzales • Sep 1, 2018
Ericka Ames, center, of Nicaragua recites the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Miami. The backlog of citizenship applications has increased dramatically under the Trump administration.
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Originally published on September 1, 2018 2:05 pm
The line of immigrants applying to become U.S. citizens is becoming longer.
There has been a backlog of citizen applications for years. But the backlog has increased dramatically since President Trump took office. Immigrant advocates say this has become the Trump administration's "second wall."
On a recent workday evening, three immigrants sit in a small airless room in San Francisco for a free citizenship class. Their instructor, Samuel Bianco, dictates some key facts about American civics, slowly, so they can take notes.
"The president lives in the White House. Congress makes new laws," says Bianco, who works for the International Institute of the Bay Area, a group that provides legal immigration services.
Bianco's students are lawful permanent residents preparing for the U.S.citizenship test and interview. But for some applicants, the hardest part may not be the test. It may be in getting an appointment to take it, says Bianco.
"Before the 2016 election generally, applications would take four, five, six months to process. And now they're taking ten months to a year," he says.
The wait is longest in cities with large immigrant communities. In Washington D.C., it can take up to sixteen months; in New York City twenty-one months; Atlanta twenty-two months.
"This is, in the best situation, a form of ineffective bad government," says Diego Iniguez-Lopez, a spokesman for the National Partnership for New Americans, a coalition of immigrant advocacy groups. He's also authored a report on the backlog called "Tearing Down the Second Wall."
"In the worst case scenario, it's a form of voter suppression from an agency that's becoming more and more part of the Trump administration's agenda against immigrants," says Iniguez-Lopez.
According to the most recent government data, there are more than 750 thousand pending applications for citizenship. That's almost double the number in 2014. And up nearly 20 percent since Trump took office.
Administration officials reject the idea that there is anything sinister in the rate of processing citizenship applications. They say there's a simple explanation for the backlog: More people are applying to become citizens. And they point out that the total number of people who are naturalized each year has remained virtually unchanged.
But there are other factors that have slowed down the process. First, during the Obama administration, the citizenship application form doubled in size to 21 pages.
Then the Trump administration made the interview process even more rigorous and time-consuming, according to instructor Samuel Bianco.
"Students are coming back and they're talking about being asked about every single bit of information no matter how minute it may be in that application. And so yes, we feel the citizenship interview is tightening," he says.
One of Bianco's students, Dennis, spends hours preparing for his interview. He's a former diplomat and asked that we only use his first name because he fears reprisals against his family in Venezuela.
Dennis says he's already submitted his application with his fingerprints, and paid the $725 fee.
"Yeah! I am nervous," Dennis laughed. He says he is worried about passing but he tries to imagine how he'll feel the day he becomes a citizen.
"I am celebrate. I am very happy. I am feel very good," he says.
Dennis' interview and citizenship test is scheduled for next week. He's been waiting ten months.
The line of immigrants applying to become U.S. citizens has become longer. There's been a backlog of citizen applications for years, but it has increased dramatically since President Trump took office. As NPR's Richard Gonzales reports, immigrant advocates say this has become the Trump administration's second wall.
SAMUEL BIANCO: OK. And this is a question you need to remember...
RICHARD GONZALES, BYLINE: On a recent evening, three immigrants are sitting in a small airless room in San Francisco for a free citizenship class. Their instructor dictates some key facts about American civics, slowly, so they can take notes.
BIANCO: The president lives in the White House. Congress makes new laws.
GONZALES: The instructor, Samuel Bianco, works for the International Institute of the Bay Area, a group that provides legal immigration services. Bianco's students are lawful, permanent residents preparing for the U.S. citizenship test and interview. But for some applicants, the hardest part may not be the test. It may be in getting an appointment to take it, says Samuel Bianco.
BIANCO: Before the 2016 election, generally, applications would take four, five, six months to process. And now, they're taking 10 months to a year.
GONZALES: The wait is longest in cities with large immigrant communities. In Washington, D.C., it can take up to 16 months; New York City, 21 months; Atlanta, 22 months.
DIEGO INIGUEZ-LOPEZ: This is, in the best situation, a form of ineffective bad government.
GONZALES: Diego Iniguez-Lopez is with the National Partnership for New Americans, a coalition of immigrant advocacy groups.
INIGUEZ-LOPEZ: In the worst-case scenario, it's a form of voter suppression from an agency that's becoming more and more a part of the Trump administration's agenda against immigrants.
GONZALES: Iniguez-Lopez's organization has studied the backlog that it calls Trump's second wall. According to the most recent government data, there are more than 750,000 pending applications for citizenship. That's almost double the number in 2014 and up nearly 20 percent since Trump took office. Administration officials reject the idea that they are anti-immigrant. They say there's a simple explanation for the backlog - more people are applying to become citizens. And they point out that the total number of people who are naturalized each year has remained virtually unchanged.
But there are other factors that have slowed down the process. First, during the Obama administration, the citizenship application doubled in size to 21 pages. Then, the Trump administration made the interview process even more rigorous. Instructor Samuel Bianco says that can be time-consuming.
BIANCO: Students are coming back, and they're talking about being asked about every single bit of information, no matter how minute it may be, in that application. And so yes, we feel that the citizenship interview is tightening.
GONZALES: One of Bianco's students, Dennis, spends hours preparing for his interview.
DENNIS: And the Civil War and the World War II, World War I...
GONZALES: He's a former diplomat and asked that we only use his first name because he fears reprisals against his family in Venezuela. Dennis says he's already submitted his application with his fingerprints and paid the $725 fee.
DENNIS: Yeah. It's very - I am nervous (laughter).
GONZALES: Dennis says he's worried about passing but tries to imagine how he'll feel the day he becomes a citizen.
DENNIS: I am - celebrate. I am very happy. I feel very good for...
GONZALES: Dennis's interview and citizenship test is scheduled for next week. He's been waiting 10 months.
Richard Gonzales, NPR News, San Francisco. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
Courts Deliver Trump 5 Setbacks In Census Citizenship Lawsuits
By Hansi Lo Wang • Aug 22, 2018
A federal judge in Maryland is allowing a lawsuit over the hotly contested citizenship question on the 2020 census to proceed, bringing the total number of lawsuits judges have greenlighted despite the Trump administration's efforts to get them tossed out of court to five.
Army Reinstates Dozens Of Discharged Immigrant Recruits And Reservists
By Vanessa Romo • Aug 21, 2018
The U.S. Army has reinstated more than 30 recruits it had forcibly discharged from a program created to fill high-demand positions throughout the military in exchange for a fast track to citizenship, according to documents filed in federal court on Monday.
U.S. Army Stops Discharging Immigrant Recruits Seeking Citizenship
By Bill Chappell • Aug 9, 2018
The U.S. Army has halted the process of discharging immigrants who enlisted under a program designed to recruit people with critically needed skills.
Reports emerged in July that the Pentagon had canceled the enlistment contracts of dozens of these recruits.
"Effective immediately, you will suspend processing of all involuntary separation actions," says the memo from Marshall Williams, the acting assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs.
The program is known as Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest.
'I Will Call The AG': Trump Officials Pushed For Census Citizenship Question
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Months before the Justice Department submitted a formal request for a citizenship question, pressure to add one to the 2020 census was mounting from a powerful decision-maker behind the national head count: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.


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Keiretsu Forum Chennai to launch own fund
N Ramakrishnan Chennai | Updated on January 13, 2020 Published on January 13, 2020
Rajan Srikanth, Co-President, Keiretsu Forum Chennai - N. Ramakrishnan
To invest in start-ups that have raised angel rounds
The Chennai chapter of Keiretsu Forum, a Silicon Valley-headquartered international network of angel investors, plans to launch its own fund this year. "That is definitely on the cards. We are looking at a fund of ₹30-40 crore," says Rajan Srikanth, Co-President, Keiretsu Forum Chennai.
Launching the fund will be one of the major activities of Keiretsu Forum Chennai, which completes five years of operation in February. The Chennai chapter has about 40 members and has made nearly 75 investments in 58 companies in the last five years.
Explaining the rationale for the fund, Srikanth said most of the members had exhausted allocation of their personal wealth to angel investments, because of which they were not able to back more start-ups or write bigger cheques. It takes five to seven years for angel investors to get exits in their investments, as the companies they have backed raise larger rounds.
Overcome hurdle in growth
Keiretsu Forum does not directly invest in the start-ups, but brings together its members and the start-ups looking to raise funds. The Chennai chapter has a monthly meeting where founders pitch to Keiretsu Forum members, who then write individual cheques in the companies they are interested in. In 2019, the number of investments fell to 12 from 22 the previous year.
The idea, according to Srikanth, is not to have an angel fund, but a venture capital fund that will invest in start-ups that have raised angel rounds from Keiretsu Forum or other investors and need to lengthen the runway till they go in for a bigger institutional round of funding. Most ventures get stuck at this stage and the proposed fund is to help them overcome a major hurdle in their path to growth.
Srikanth told BusinessLine that the proposed fund would be modelled on the lines of the Keiretsu Capital in the US. It would look to raise funds from some of its own members who are inclined to put in capital into a fund and target others, including wealth managers, that may want to diversify their asset class into investing in start-ups through a fund.
Syndicating deals
He said the last five years had been a good learning experience for Keiretsu Forum Chennai and its members. Nearly 60 per cent of the investments made were in deep-tech ventures. The Chennai chapter had invested in quite a few start-ups in the US. It had also invested in at least 10 deep-tech ventures incubated at the IIT Madras Research Park. The deep-tech investments had seen a four times improvement in value, he said.
Srikanth said Keiretsu had also started syndicating deals with other investors or angel groups, to help the founders get bigger cheques. Keiretsu Forum, he said, combined active mentorship with investments and it would concentrate more on the start-ups having the latest management information systems and proper reporting structures.
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Ratnadeep Suri (Ratan), Assistant Professor, SS, IIIT-Delhi, has completed his Post Doctoral research at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2016. Earlier he earned his PhD from The Indiana Media School, Indiana University in 2013, with a Major in Communication and a Minor in Information Science. He also has an MA from Western Michigan University, Michigan, and an MA from University of Hyderabad, India. His research examines the effects of technology use in knowledge work contexts, health contexts, information seeking, and the cognition of information. He is also interested in the consequences of disrupted access to communication technologies on individuals in disadvantaged communities. Currently he is a Collaborating Investigator for a 100, 000 $SG grant from Singapore Ministry of Education. He was the recipient of several awards including the the Indiana University, College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship (2010-2011), The Indiana University Future Faculty Fellowship, to teach at Howard University, 2009-2010, The Graduate School Fellowship, Summer 2004, 2005, Indiana University, and The Kellogg Foundation Service Learning Scholarship in Summer 2002. In his free time Ratan pursues his interests in woodworking, traveling and photography.
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Path to Becoming a CFO | Steve Sordello, SVP and CFO at LinkedIn Emeritus Path to Becoming a CFO
Steve Sordello has spent nearly three decades working for some of the most iconic technology companies in Silicon Valley. Steve brings a diverse background in strategy, operational and financial management, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate leadership. Steve has served as the CFO of LinkedIn Corporation (LNKD), the online business networking service.
During his tenure at LinkedIn, he oversaw LinkedIn's successful IPO, scaled the company from $10M to over $8B in revenue, raised critical capital and completed multiple private and public acquisitions, including LinkedIn's $26.2B merger with Microsoft where Steve has since continued to play a key leadership role in its success.
Prior to LinkedIn, Steve served as CFO of TiVo, Inc. (TIVO), a manufacturer of digital video recorders, where he helped drive the company to profitability. Prior to TiVo, he served as CFO at Ask Jeeves, Inc. (ASKJ), an internet search engine company where he drove the dot-com turnaround, building a high-growth, highly profitable business and was instrumental in its sale to IAC in 2005. Steve also held senior roles at Adobe Systems, Inc. (ADBE), the global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions. At Adobe, he drove the overall planning process and worked on a number of critical projects, including driving the financial analysis behind the acquisition of Photoshop, the launch of the Creative Bundle Suite, and the product launch of Acrobat. Prior to Adobe, Steve started his career on a rotation program at Syntex Corporation, a pharmaceutical company that was acquired by Roche Pharmaceuticals in 1994.
Steve also serves as an independent director and audit committee chair at publicly traded Atlassian (TEAM), a leading provider of collaboration, development, and issue-tracking software, as an independent director at publicly traded Compass (COMP), a real estate technology company, and as a non-profit board member, trustee, and audit committee chair at Santa Clara University. Steve also served as an independent director and audit committee chair at publicly traded Cloudera (CLDR) up to its merger with Hortonworks in 2019.
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Bengals: What William Jackson III's Arrival Means For CB's
Dec 31, 2015; Atlanta, GA, USA; Houston Cougars cornerback William Jackson III (3) breaks up a pass intended for Florida State Seminoles wide receiver Travis Rudolph (15) in the third quarter in the 2015 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at the Georgia Dome. The Cougars won 38-24. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports /
The Cincinnati Bengals selected William Jackson III in the first round of this years draft. It has had mixed reviews from media members around the NFL. There are some who believe he could be the replacement for Adam Jones, eventually, while others think it was a move to keep him away from the Steelers:
Bengals stick it to Steelers by drafting William Jackson just before their pick.
— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) April 29, 2016
The biggest question though comes in the form of the upcoming 2016 season. What are the Bengals going to do with a fourth corner?
First, the Bengals have a corner reportedly coming off of shoulder surgery in Dre Kirkpatrick, according to Coley Harvey of ESPN.com. Although he is expected to fully be ready for the season, even by organized team workouts, there could always be set backs or even reoccurring injuries.
Second, depth, who can forget the Bengals missing, Reggie Nelson, Dre Kirkpatrick and Darqueze Dennard injured for or during the Wild Card game against the Steelers. Another solid corner would have allowed Adam Jones some help on the outside with his top two guys already sidelined.
Finally, two players are fighting against time. Adam Jones isn't getting younger, 32, and Dre Kirkpatrick is entering the final year of his rookie deal. If one or both players break down or even end their relationship with the Bengals, they are not stranded, almost like it felt with Marvin Jones and Mohamed Sanu this off-season.
If you think back to the Bengals selections in the 2015 NFL Draft, picking Cedric Ogbuehi and Jake Fisher with their first two picks, people felt a little confused. Two tackles in the first two rounds, especially with Andre Smith and Andrew Whitworth, both still on the roster.
Fast forward to the 2016 Draft and the Bengals picked up a corner with their first round draft. They needed a wide receiver, which they got, defensive tackle, they got that, line backer, got that, interior offensive lineman, got that. They needed a corner for depth, they needed it for future security, and ultimately, to make their secondary younger now.
Remember, the Bengals had a number one receiver, they have two starting defensive tackles, they still have a young center and two capable offensive guards. Dre Kirkpatrick has looked better last season but still Darqueze Dennard's injury concerns are still very real.
William Jackson III should bring some solid zone passing defense skills and should be an upgrade to the back of this wide receiver depth in year one and could be more over the next few season.


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"Single" Hannah Brown Reveals She's Ready to "Test the Waters" of Dating
Bachelorette star Hannah Brown set the record straight on her relationship status during a candid Instagram Live, telling fans that she's ready to start dating again.
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Hannah Brown is single and ready to mingle.
On Tuesday, the former Bachelorette revealed that she wants to start dating again in an Instagram Live, sharing that she's ready to "test the waters."
"I am single, I am," she assured fans while answering questions about her love life. "I feel like right now in quarantine's not the best time to try to date, but I feel like I am in a place where I'm ready to do that—to test the waters a little bit." As for who she's ready to date, Brown joked that it won't be a member of the Bachelor Nation: "I can date other people that are not on The Bachelor. Y'all are driving me crazy!"
This comes months after Brown and her Bachelorette runner-up Tyler Cameron sparked romance rumors with their recent reunion in Florida. After being spotted enjoying the warm weather together on the beach, the former loves caused a stir among fans with their palpable chemistry on social media.
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At the time of their shocking reunion, a source close to the stars shared with E! News that both Brown and Cameron "have expressed they are not in a position to date right now but do care about each other." The insider added, "They have been social distancing together, hanging out and are having a lot of fun together. Hannah gets along with Tyler's family and friends and everyone loves her."
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Last month, Brown insisted that she and Cameron weren't an item and said that she didn't have a significant other. Shortly after, the Florida native also set the record straight on the status of their rumored romance via social media. "No, I'm not dating nobody," Cameron said during an Instagram Live.
During her Q&A, Brown also reflected on her season of The Bachelorette, telling fans that she's been thinking about how different her life was this time last year.
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"I made a joke on Twitter about today being—well, it's not a joke, it's just, like, how this time last year the day that I sent Luke [Parker] home? And I made a joke about taking a tequila shot or a moment of silence because, like, that was a…quite an interesting night for me," she recalled. "I wasn't trying to be mean, but I can laugh about my own life. Just saying. You know, thought we were making better decisions after that night. Well, I fooled y'all. I fooled y'all! I'm still making crap decisions, but it's okay."
As for how her season ended, Brown said she has no regrets and wouldn't change a thing. "I just really have to believe that there's really something so much greater from all this that I just—I'm still on the journey of figuring it out, you know?" she said. "It's called growing and learning."
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the bugs, also known as triatomine bugs, have now been reported in more than half of the states, most recently spreading to the south in Georgia and Arizona.
The kissing bug gets its name because it commonly bites people in the face and lips.
Experts say it feeds on human blood, but the bug itself isn't so deadly, but the parasite that causes Chagas disease -- which attacks tissue and muscles in the body -- is deadly.
The CDC estimates some 8 million people in Mexico, Central America, and South America have the disease -- and most are unaware.
NBC 5 reports that even dogs in Texas have also contracted the bug. About 10 percent of dogs in South Texas animal shelters tested positive for "chagas" disease.
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Education is one of the basic necessities for the younger generation today. And there's always been a debate on whether students learn better in small or big class groups. While this really isn't an issue in toddlers and younger kids, it changes once they reach the higher levels.
City Academy, a public charter school that offers middle and high school in Salt Lake City, believes that small class structures give the students more attention and helps them focus more on their education. There are many other reasons why small classes work better. Here's a look at the top 5.
When a student from a large class has trouble understanding one topic, the teacher may not be able to give them enough time to make sure they fully understand it. It's easier in smaller classes because there's less time pressure for both student and teacher.
Larger classes tend to form several separate groups because of the diversity of people. Smaller classes give each student a chance to interact with everyone else, creating a stronger bond within the class that can encourage support in learning.
Teachers in small classes have more time to check on each student. This helps build a better and healthier relationship because of the time they get to spend together on each lesson or issue that they want to resolve.
Since it's easier to help students in a small class understand their lessons, it makes moving through the lesson plan faster, covering more ground in a smaller period of time.
Smaller classes don't only work for the students but for the teachers as well. Having to think of more students adds to the stress of a teacher. Less students equals less worries equals less teacher's stress.
Students have the right to learn in an environment that's closer, more organized, and conducive to better focus. If your kids have been struggling with their large class, maybe it's time to switch to a smaller one.


As we bask in our April Fool's Day triumphs ("I'm dumping you, Ken." "Oh my God! Where's my hanging noose?!" "Kid-ding!" "Oh, okay. But where is my hanging noose?"), many of us forget the critical place humor has in our society. Many of us also forget where we left the clicker, but I digress.
We don't usually associate comedy with agonizing moral decisions (unless it's whether to see Burt Wonderstone or to hold out for Hangover 3). But satire has a long tradition of affecting the public discourse.
In 1852, two British noblemen challenged each other to a duel and decided to share a taxi to the field of battle. Word got around and the idea was so comical that a witty article in The London Times humiliated them both and made theirs one of the last duels in English history. The Pilgrims broke transgressors with stocks and pillories; now Jon Stewart pillories stock-brokers.
But shaming in the Oh-Tens is tricky; shamelessness is kind of the defining characteristic of our age: shame = notoriety = celebrity, which everyone wants. The recent controversy over a New York City ad campaign aimed at humiliating pregnant teenagers called into question the usefulness and morality of shaming itself.
Also, you probably haven't noticed but our society's divided in its judgments about what's moral and what isn't. (Although I've found that the people who disagree with me about morality are just wrong. Weird, huh?) That division works against the definitive moral judgments which give shaming its power. British author George Meredith: "The satirist is a moral agent working on a storage of bile." Nowadays there's lots of bile but not so much agreement on morality.
Satirists themselves disagree about its usefulness. British comedian Peter Cook talked about "those wonderful 1930's Berlin political cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Adolph Hitler." Terry Gilliam of Monty Python says "If people are laughing, they're not getting angry; it's a diversion not a solution." Satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer believes it's mainly good for the egos of people who agree with the satirist.
But that itself has some value; if, for example, I knew for sure that other people found the attention paid to anything with the suffix "dashian" to be in some way risible, I would feel better. And I believe that me feeling better is something our society should cherish.
Not just satire but comedy itself begins with mocking. Plato and Aristotle said all laughter was wrong because comedy is inherently cruel (something many people still believe, especially me when I think about Ken Magnuson in 8th grade gym class).
Of course value judgments are hardly universal. A comedy writer friend went through a coke phase in the 80s and while he's happy to make fun of the disabled and people whose political or religious beliefs are different from his, he can't abide cocaine jokes. The former president of The Onion, Sean Mills, says the angry letters he gets are always the same: "I love it when you make a joke about murder but if you talk about cancer, my brother has cancer and that's not funny." Which gets us to Mel Brooks' immortal "Tragedy is when I cut my finger; comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
So are Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert merely presiding over stroke-fests for the like-minded or does mocking actually change anything? Ask a dictator: there's never been an authoritarian state that allows satire.
But maybe we're asking the wrong question; maybe it isn't whether satire changes things but whether it, like all comedy, opens minds by giving a new perspective, making people think.
It's a rare painting or sonata or novel or movie or comedy sketch that effects social change -- what artists hope is to make you examine your assumptions, and that can lead to action. As Helen Keller said, "People don't like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions."


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Кристи́н Дэ́вис (; , Боулдер, Колорадо, США) — американская актриса. Наиболее известна ролью Шарлотты Йорк в телесериале HBO «Секс в большом городе», а также в фильмах-продолжениях сериала.

Биография
Дэвис родилась в городе Боулдер (штат Колорадо). Она была единственным ребёнком в семье. Когда Кристин была ребёнком, её родители развелись. Она с матерью и отчимом (который её удочерил) переехала в город Колумбия, штат Южная Каролина, где её отчим, Кит Дэвис, профессор психологии, преподавал в Университете Южной Каролины. Кристин росла вместе с тремя дочерьми отчима от первого брака.

Кристин решила стать актрисой ещё в детстве, после роли в школьной пьесе «Белоснежка и семь гномов». Она жила в Южной Каролине пока не окончила A.C. Flora High School в 1983 году. После окончания средней школы она переехала в Нью-Джерси, где поступила в Университет Рутгерса.

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После окончания университета, в 1987, переехала в Нью-Йорк, где начала сниматься в рекламных роликах, а также участвовала в классических и современных театральных постановках. В это время участвовала в открытии студии йоги вместе с другом. В 1995 дебютировала в роли Брук Армстронг Кэмпбелл на Мелроуз-Плейс. Она покинула шоу через один год, когда производители обнаружили, что зрителям не нравится её героиня. Дэвис также получала небольшие роли и в других телевизионных сериалах, включая «Друзья» и «Сайнфелд». В 1998 году Дэвис была приглашена на роль Шарлотты Йорк в сериале «Секс в большом городе» и оставалась в сериале на протяжении всех сезонов, пока он не закончился в 2004 году. Канал VH1 включил Кристин Дэвис в 200 Выдающихся Икон поп-культуры.

Фильмы
Кристин Дэвис получила роль в фильме "Приключения Шаркбоя и Лавы" с Джорджем Лопесом и Дэвидом Аркеттом, а также ремейке фильма кинокомпании «The Walt Disney Company» "The Shaggy Dog" с Тимом Алленом. В 2008 году Кристин также была приглашена в съёмки полнометражного фильма «Секс в большом городе»

Личная жизнь
У Дэвис двое детей. В 2011 году она удочерила девочку, которую назвала Джемма Роуз Дэвис. В 2018 году она усыновила мальчика Уилсона. Они проживают в Лос-Анджелесе, штат Калифорния.

Дэвис имела ряд проблем с алкоголем. Одно время состояла членом в клубе анонимных алкоголиков. Она ссылается на то, что южное воспитание потворствовало увлечению алкоголем: «Алкоголь освободил меня. Я была очень застенчивой, и не знала, как выйти из моей замкнутости. Я выпивала по той же причине, по какой я выбрала карьеру актрисы. Я хотела бы чувствовать и выражать себя свободно».

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Certified by the American Board of Radiology, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), The American Osteopathic College of Radiology, or other Board or Tribunal
Completed a one-year ACGME- or RCPSC-approved Neuroradiology fellowship program
Passed the ABR Neuroradiology Subspecialty Certification exam
Engaged in the active practice of Neuroradiology, devoting at least fifty percent (exclusive of administrative duties) to the professional practice of Neuroradiology are eligible to apply as Senior Members.
Senior Member candidates who have subspecialty certification in neuroradiology and/or have completed an ACGME or RCPSC-accredited (Canadian) neuroradiology fellowship do not require a Sponsor. Those who do not have a subspecialty certification in neuroradiology and/or have not completed an ACGME or RCPSC-accredited (Canadian) neuroradiology fellowship must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor.
Selected radiologists who do not meet one or more of the above criteria, may be proposed for election to Senior membership on the basis of outstanding neuroradiological experience or contribution as recommended by the Membership Committee and approved by the Board of Directors. Please upload your most recent CV (in English) during the application process.
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Senior Member - Military
Who work in military hospitals, are in active duty or reserves or employed by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs are eligible to apply as Senior Members, Military.
Senior Member -Military candidates who have subspecialty certification in neuroradiology and/or have completed an ACGME or RCPSC-accredited (Canadian) neuroradiology fellowship do not require a Sponsor. Those who do not have a subspecialty certification in neuroradiology and/or have not completed an ACGME or RCPSC-accredited (Canadian) neuroradiology fellowship must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor.
Shall be a Neuroradiologists, scientists (master's degree, or higher [PhD] radiologists and physicians including non-radiologists/clinicians with an interest in Neuroradiology, who do not meet the criteria for Senior membership, are eligible to apply for Member. Applicants must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor and upload your most recent CV (in English) during the application process.
ASNR - Member - Military
Shall be other neuroradiologists, scientists (master's degree, or higher [PhD] radiologists and physicians including non-radiologists/clinicians with an interest in Neuroradiology who do not meet the criteria for Senior membership and who work in military hospitals, are in active duty or reserves or employed by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs are eligible to apply for Member, Military. Applicants must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor and upload your most recent CV (in English) in the File Upload Section.
Shall be other neuroradiologists, scientists (master's degree, or higher [PhD] radiologists and physicians including non-radiologists/clinicians with an interest in Neuroradiology who do not meet the criteria for Senior membership and live/work outside North America are eligible to apply for Member, Outside North America. Applicants must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor and upload your most recent CV (in English) in the File Upload Section.
Physicists (PhD) or neuroscientists (MS, PhD) with an interest in and/or position relevant to Neuroradiology or Radiology, and who may not fulfill the requirements for Senior membership are eligible to apply for Research Scientist Member. Applicants must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior, Member or Research Scientist status. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor and upload your most recent CV (in English) during the application process.
Member-in-Training fellows the previous year and in their 1st year of practice are eligible to apply for Junior Member.
Radiologists/neuroradiologists in developing countries with an annual per-person GDP of $10,000 or less are eligible to apply for International Outreach Member. Your country must be listed on the WHO Hinari A or B country list, https://www.research4life.org/access/eligibility/. Applicants must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor and upload your most recent CV (in English) in the File Upload Section.
Member-in-Training - Fellow
Physicians in an ACGME- or RCPSC-accredited (Canadian) neuroradiology fellowship program are eligible to apply for Member-in-Training Fellow Member. Applicants must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor and upload your most recent CV (in English) during the application process.
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Member-in-Training - Resident
Physicians in an ACGME- or RCPSC-accredited (Canadian) radiology residency program are eligible to apply for Member-in-Training Resident Member. Applicants must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor and upload your most recent CV (in English) during the application process.
Member-in-Training - Medical Student
Medical students are eligible to apply for Member-in-Training Medical Student Member. Applicants must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. Please complete your membership application remembering to indicate need for a Sponsor and upload a letter from your Dept. Chair/Program Director that indicates you are presently enrolled in medical school, during the application process.
Member-in-Training - Graduate Student
Graduate (PhD) students, or post-doctoral fellows within five years of doctoral degree are eligible to apply for Member-in-Training Graduate Student Member. Applicants must be sponsored by one member of the Society holding Senior or Member status. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. ASNR has members available to act as a Sponsor. Please indicate your need for a Sponsor and upload your most recent CV (in English) during the application process.
ASNR Members who have fully retired from active practice are eligible to apply for Emeritus Member. Please contact the Membership department at membership@asnr.org. There are no dues for Emeritus membership.
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Join one or more of four Study Groups: Clinical Translation of Functional and Diffusion MRI, Imaging Genomics, Intracranial & Cervical Vessel Wall Imaging and Artificial Intelligence
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And that's no exaggeration. If a person would consider how much Light one single drop of unity brings him compared to all of the most horrible suffering of this world, then he would feel that it outweighs everything!
We do not understand what the Upper Light is that clothes into the soul. We think that it's simply something pleasant that makes us feel good. We don't feel the true meaning of the words "eternity, perfection, and harmony."
A person has to choose between truth and falsehood, but when it comes to "sweet versus bitter" he has no choice for it's obvious that he will always choose what is good and sweet over evil and bitter. I am unable to prefer a bad state to a good one. Yet, if I see "true versus false" against "sweet versus bitter," then I may possibly choose the bitter truth, a bad sensation, because the truth is more important to me.
These are two different dimensions: The animate level makes the analysis of "sweet versus bitter," whereas the human level makes the analysis of "truth versus falsehood" because a person works by "faith above reason." If you ascend to the single consideration of "truth" which includes all the other forces and possibilities, it means you attain unity with the Creator.
However, if you only consider "sweet or bitter," then you are making an animate analysis and choice. An animal will never make a mistake on its level. It always chooses what is good for it. However, it does not make progress on the "human level." Nature will not allow us to remain on the animate level and will compel us to develop.
On the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature, the animate analysis of behavior comes down only to the analysis of "sweet or bitter," where one prefers what is sweet. On the other hand, a human being makes a distinction between two levels: the animal in him which makes the analysis of "sweet or bitter" and the human being in him that makes the analysis of "true or false." Therefore, a person is always in turmoil going between the animal and human in him, looking for "what to choose." He searches for a compromise because he wants what is sweet, but he sees that the most useful thing is the truth.


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Featured: Borja Angoitia, goalkeeper for the Rio Grande Valley Football Club Toros professional soccer team, helps defend against the Liga MX side C.F. Monterrey Rayados on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at the club's new H-E-B Park for the venue's inaugural game.
H-E-B Park, a $16.8+ million sports and entertainment outdoor complex that features a 9,700 seat capacity soccer-specific stadium, has scored another major goal for its hometown with news that WalletHub, a national personal finance website, has named Edinburg as 2nd Best Small City for Soccer Fans for 2017, the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation has announced. In addition, WalletHub rated Edinburg 29th best among all U.S. cities for soccer fans, an accomplishment that places it in the top 10 percent in the nation, among the cities involved in the study, for community involvement in that sport. "Once more, a national, independent, and very credible source has concluded what we know very well here at home – Edinburg has a very high quality-of-life to offer its citizens from all walks of life," said Agustín García, Executive Director for the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation. "We have one of the best public school systems in the state, we feature one of the largest University of Texas campuses, with its own School of Medicine, our hospital systems are nationally-ranked, and by the time 2017 is completed, the construction of new homes and businesses in Edinburg for the year is anticipated to pass $200 million." The Edinburg EDC is the jobs-creation arm of Edinburg Mayor Richard García and the Edinburg City Council, which includes Mayor Pro Tem J.R. Betancourt, Councilmember Homer Jasso, Jr. Councilmember Richard Molina, and Councilmember David Torres. The Edinburg EDC Board of Directors is comprised of Mayor Richard García as President, Harvey Rodríguez, Jr. as Vice President, Elías Longoria, Jr. as Secretary/Treasurer, and Richard Ruppert and Dr. Peter Dabrowski as Members. Mayor Richard García and Edinburg EDC Executive Director Agustín García, Jr. are not related.
The state-of-the-art H-E-B Park in Edinburg has many amenities, including a full-service restaurant, executive lounges, a sports bar, and 33 suites. Suites include VIP amenities and a 16-seat capacity. Park grounds include practice fields for 7v7 and 5v5 soccer, various bench areas with picnic-sized tables, a playground, and an amphitheater with a capacity for more than 2,000 individuals. H-E-B Park hosts top-of-the-line professional soccer, musical concerts, high school sporting events, and other forms of entertainment. The stadium, which is modeled after the Houston Dynamo's BBVA Compass Stadium, is located at the intersection of East Freddy González Drive and South Raúl Longoria Road.
"We are about three months away from opening the $88+ million Bert Ogden Arena, which will be the largest indoor sports and entertainment complex south of San Antonio, and people from all over the Valley, Texas, and the U.S. have a direct, nonstop way to get to Edinburg because we are served by Interstate Highway 69 and the South Texas International Airport at Edinburg. Those assets are just the tip of the iceberg of what makes our community a 'Destination City'," said Agustín García, Executive Director of the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation. "But most important, the vision of our elected, business and community leadership, and the amazing people of our community are who make Edinburg the American Success story that it has become." Even the symbol of the hometown professional soccer team, the Rio Grande Valley Football Club Toros, proudly portrays Edinburg's and the Rio Grande Valley's regional strengths, according to the team's website, which explains, "The Toros' logo follows the mold of a traditional soccer shield, but offers a twist with the addition of horns to allude to the Toros nickname. The stripes at the bottom of the shield represent the agriculture industry of the Rio Grande Valley, which historically bright trade and commerce to the region. The vertical lines at the top of the graphic represent the sun and Valley heat, while also reflecting an element of the Toros' Major League Soccer single-affiliate Houston Dynamo's logo." H-E-B Park at all its amenities enables Edinburg to be a staple as an entertainment hub in the Rio Grande Valley, and considerably helps it in the city and Edinburg EDC leaderships' efforts to market the community as a "Destination City".
H-E-B Park, a $16.8+ million sports and entertainment outdoor complex that features a 9,700 seat capacity soccer-specific stadium, has scored another major goal for its hometown with news that WalletHub, a national personal finance website, has named Edinburg as 2nd Best Small City for Soccer Fans for 2017, the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation has announced.
In addition, WalletHub rated Edinburg 29th best among all U.S. cities for soccer fans, an accomplishment that places it in the top 10 percent in the nation, among the cities involved in the study, for community involvement in that sport.
H-E-B Park is home to the Rio Grande Valley Football Club Toros, which is a member of the United Soccer League (USL).
H-E-B Park and the RGV FC Toros are privately-owned.
The RGV FC Toros serves as the development affiliate of Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo. The USL is the strongest U.S. men's professional soccer league below Major League Soccer (MLS), it features 24 teams in 2015 across the United States and Canada with multiple teams in all four time zones.
The Edinburg EDC is the jobs-creation arm of Edinburg Mayor Richard García and the Edinburg City Council, which includes Mayor Pro Tem J.R. Betancourt, Councilmember Homer Jasso, Jr. Councilmember Richard Molina, and Councilmember David Torres.
The Edinburg EDC Board of Directors is comprised of Mayor Richard García as President, Harvey Rodríguez, Jr. as Vice President, Elías Longoria, Jr. as Secretary/Treasurer, and Richard Ruppert and Dr. Peter Dabrowski as Members.
WalletHub found that H-E-B Park, which is located at 1616 S. Raúl Longoria Road in east Edinburg, did well in other important rankings, including having the 4th largest stadium capacity in the United Soccer League (USL), and rating 6th best in USL fan engagement, 7th best in performance level of the team (Rio Grande Valley Football Club Toros), and 8th best in USL attendance.
Edinburg has a significant potential fan base from which to draw professional soccer fans to H-E-B Park.
Edinburg's position as one of the top two best communities for soccer fans is based on cities with populations of 100,000 and fewer. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Edinburg's population as of July 1, 2016 was estimated at 87,650. The two other population groupings featured large cities (more than 300,000 people) and midsize cities (100,000 to 300,000 people).
Edinburg, which has the third-most number of residents in the Rio Grande Valley, also serves as the county seat for Hidalgo County, which is the most populated county (849,843 as of July 1, 2016) in the four-county Rio Grande Valley, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Valley has an estimated population, as of July 1, 2016, of 1,356,910 (Hidalgo County, 849,843; Cameron County, 422,135; Starr County, 64,122; and Willacy County, 21,810).
In addition, two major Mexican cities, where soccer is a major national sport, are located just across the Texas-Mexico border from Hidalgo and Cameron counties, respectively: Reynosa, with an estimated population of almost 613,000, and Matamoros, with an estimated population of more than 520,000.
The state-of-the-art H-E-B Park has many other amenities, including a full-service restaurant, executive lounges, a sports bar, and 33 suites. Suites include VIP amenities and a 16-seat capacity. Park grounds include practice fields for 7v7 and 5v5 soccer, various bench areas with picnic-sized tables, a playground, and an amphitheater with a capacity for over 2,000 individuals. H-E-B Park hosts top-of-the-line professional soccer, musical concerts, high school sporting events, and other forms of entertainment.
H-E-B Park and all its amenities enables Edinburg to be a staple as an entertainment hub in the Rio Grande Valley.
H-E-B Park, which also hosts many different and major events, such as fairs and concerts, first made big news in the soccer world on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, when plans for the soccer stadium were unveiled with the announcement that the United Soccer League (USL) awarded its 25th franchise to Alonzo Cantú, owner of the NBA Development League Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
The RGV FC Toros professional soccer club serves as the hybrid affiliate of the Houston Dynamo.
The RGV FC Toros' majority owner, Cantú, is no stranger to the hybrid affiliation model.
Over 10 seasons, he has overseen the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, which is one of the National Basketball Association G-League's most successful franchises.
The RGV Vipers professional basketball team also will be the main tenant at the Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg.
In 2009, Cantú and the Houston Rockets pioneered the concept of hybrid affiliation in the NBA. The Rio Grande Valley Vipers boast two championships (2010 and 2013), one coach of the year award winner and two MVPs. They also rank near the top of the league in average attendance, and the front office has received multiple league awards.
According to Wikipedia, the NBA G League is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. The league was known as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL) from 2001 to 2005, and the NBA Development League (NBA D-League) from 2005 until 2017.
The league started with eight teams until NBA commissioner David Stern announced a plan to expand the NBA D-League to fifteen teams and develop it into a true minor league farm system, with each NBA D-League team affiliated with one or more NBA teams in March 2005. At the conclusion of the 2013–14 NBA season, 33% of NBA players had spent time in the NBA D-League, up from 23% in 2011. As of the 2017–18 season, the league consists of 26 teams, all of which are either single-affiliated or owned by an NBA team.
For the 2017–18 season, the league rebranded to become the NBA G League as part of a multi-year partnership with Gatorade.
Also adding to the popularity of soccer in Edinburg is the men's and women's soccer teams at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
All of the university's sports teams, which play their home games in Edinburg, are NCAA Division 1 caliber, which is the highest-level of competition.
UTRGV's sports teams are members of the Western Athletic Conference, which also includes: CSU Bakersfield of Bakersfield, California; Chicago State; Grand Canyon of Phoenix, Arizona; University of Missouri – Kansas City; New Mexico State of Las Cruces, New Mexico; Seattle University; and Utah Valley University of Orem, Utah.
• The initial soccer field is of exceptional quality. As such, care is being taken to protect the high quality of the playing surface from adverse effects of extreme weather and wear-and-tear.Despite these precautions, the complex hosts and will host numerous outside events, including professional matches, exhibitions, camps, clinics, and high school competitions.
• But a more recent development suggests the sport is headed in the right direction. After only five months since its inception, Atlanta United, one of two new soccer clubs that formed in early 2017, broke the average per-game home attendance record — for every major sport except the National Football League. Whether it's poised to become Major League Soccer's most valuable team, however, remains to be seen.
Today, the average MLS team is worth $223 million, up from $185 million in 2016.


25. He never attended soldiers' funerals. For years after the war started, Bush never attended a funeral even though as of June 2005, 144 soldiers (of the 1,700 killed thus far) were laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, about two miles from the White House.
February 09, 2014 "Information Clearing House – What is it about America's women diplomats? They seem so hard and cloned – bereft of any humanity or intelligence. Presumably, these women are supposed to represent social advance for the female gender. But, far from displaying female independence, they are just a pathetic copy of the worst traits in American male politicians – aggressive, arrogant and completely arrant in their views.
Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. He is a Master's graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in journalism.
The data reveals stark differences between the military services and underscores the strains that long, repeated deployments to the front lines have had on the Army's soldiers and their leaders.
It also reflects the Army's rapid growth in the middle part of the decade, and the decisions to relax standards a bit to bring in and retain tens of thousands of soldiers to fill the ranks as the Pentagon added troops in Iraq and continued the fight in Afghanistan.
Those scandals included the demotion of Army Gen. William "Kip" Ward for lavish, unauthorized spending; sexual misconduct charges against Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair; and episodes of gambling and drinking by other general officers.