I'm often asked on social media which research tools I use for my trading, so I thought it was a good idea to list the ones I personally use the most. Perhaps you already know about the following websites for doing your own stock research, but just in case I'm going to list them all here in this article. Again, these stock trading websites I use myself on a regular basis to research which stocks to buy, sell or hold. Some resources also feature forex, etfs, commodity research as well. I'll explain why I like these websites to research my stocks. I left out the subscription based ones like Zacks Investment Research for example, although some websites mentioned in this article have 'premium' or 'elite' versions for a fee. If you feel a resource needs to be added to the list, by all means feel free to leave a comment. Enjoy.
By far one of my favorites, and one I visit almost every day! Short for Financial Visualizations, and that´s exactly what it is: a visual representation of the current financial markets.
For instance, I am mainly a trend-trader, but to go through countless charts just to find a trend would take me a very long time. Now I can immediately see which stocks are trending just by looking at the signal table (trend line support, trend line resistance etc). Finviz also supports forex and futures, and they have an elite plan with more detailed visualizations. If you haven't heard about them and you are trading stocks, then a visit to their site it definitely worth it.
StockTwits is a social media platform. See it as a Twitter for stock traders. Which stocks are talked about the most (trending), and which ones are favored or disliked. StockTwits, just like Finviz, also features a 'heat map' but now it's about the most 'tweeted' stocks, and whether the community is bullish or bearish.
The sentiment indicator is a good tool to use if you have a stock in mind that you want to add to your portfolio. Usually before I make my final decision when it comes to stocks I check this out. Here's an example of Microsoft's stock at this time of writing. I have an account with them too at http://stocktwits.com/VDMtrading, although I'm not on there very often posting ideas.
MSN Money has been around since the early days of the internet. A very good news site for stock traders and I'll tell you why. Aside from the fact that their interface is clean and very easy to navigate it's also possible to see analyst recommendations on the selected stock. Always handy when you're not certain about buying a particular stock in the long term. I've been using MSN Money for years and I am still amazed by their good coverage of what's currently going on in the financial markets. It does this by pulling the most important financial articles from multiple sources such as Bloomberg, CNBC, MarketWatch, Reuters etc, and displays them nicely an orderly on one page. This is on top of all the excellent charts and technical analysis tools. In essence, you get the best of all worlds. A must for every trader.
Just like MSN Money, I'd categorize SeekingAlpha as a 'news site' for stocks. What I like about it the most is that you can instantly see which articles on the site are trending in real time. Since the site is used by many traders around the world you can really see what's on traders minds. The downside is that there may be too much information at once, and which information matters more than other is not really specified. Too much information could generate too much noise, which is not good when trading anything. If you know what you're looking for, then this site is an excellent resource to mainly confirm your trading idea.
Jim Cramer's site. I've been a big fan of Jim Cramer since the beginning of his show 'Mad Money' on CNBC, and his site TheStreet.com has a lot of useful information for traders. Like SeekingAlpha, the information on TheStreet.com can sometimes be a little deterrent, especially for novice traders. Again here goes: know what you are looking for, but it's also a great site for some stock ideas if you have been trading for a while. For a fee you can look in Jim's portfolio and copy his trades if you wish. Overall, the technical information on this site is generally the same as any other financial news site.
Aside from great articles, MorningStar's strength mainly lies in its portfolio manager. The portfolio manager is a great way to keep track of all your stocks and to see how diversified you are in the markets. Signing up is free, however there is a premium option (14 day trial) which lets you go through analyst reports, screen stocks and x-ray your portfolio so you can see in which sectors you can improve. But even if you're not using this feature and stick with the free version it's still one of the best portfolio trackers on the internet. Below is an example (my portfolio) of one of the features.
The bottom line for me is their portfolio tracker and 'market baro-meter', which instantly lets your graphically see the index performance over a certain period of time.
This website has been around since I had internet access for the first time in the 90's, so it's been a while! With the Fool.com you can do your stock research and also educate yourself on the financial markets. They have excellent articles on macro economic views. The Motley Fool is a big help if you want professional advice without shelling out a ton of money. This is for traders who need a little assistance with their trading decisions, but it's also perfectly great for doing your own research, largely due to the fact it has a very lively community.
Perhaps you already knew about these valuable resources, if not I hope you gained a research tool or two for your next trade. If in your opinion there is a website missing that should've been added to this article feel free to contact me, or leave a comment and state why you prefer your stock research website.


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Superior Communications has always been a company involved in community and national projects, including charitable events, environmental activities and volunteerism. In the last year, we've stepped up our commitment to take a leading role in these activities in the communities in which we serve and reside. The launch of our new We Care program is a consolidated effort at Superior to give back. Its focus is on programs that benefit the environment, support benevolence activities, and encourage volunteerism.
Superior was an early adopter of the "Going Green Movement" and established an in-house Environmental Committee in support of that effort. The Committee developed a comprehensive recycling program that includes recycling bins in all break rooms, environmental education for employees that encourages a "greener" way of life in the office as well as in the home. Superior has expanded our environmental activities by providing extensive support to the following organizations:
Provides conservation and restoration to forests and oceanography.
Benevolence Activities
For the past several years, Superior has been a proud supporter of various non-profit organizations and charitable causes. As a company, we strongly believe in the act of giving and helping those in need whenever possible. Lending aid to a wide range of charities, both locally and nationally, has allowed us to assist a wide range of individuals and communities, including underprivileged youth, cancer patients, cancer survivors, victims of natural disasters and many others. In addition to our environmental support activities, we have an increasing focus on programs that support the youth and hunger related causes. Superior is especially proud to be a longtime supporter of Curing Kids' Cancer since its foundation in 2004 and we were honored to be recognized by the American Red Cross for our contributions to aid storm and tornado victims in the American South. Directed support to the Red Cross and Feeding America has been focused on supporting programs serving the youth and addressing hunger in our communities. In addition, Superior has been proud to utilize the services offered by the Lincoln Training Center in support of their effort to train and find employment for the physically and developmentally disabled.
While Superior has been involved in various volunteer activities in the past, we have formalized and organized these activities into a first class comprehensive volunteerism program. The program is designed to encourage, recruit, train and recognize Superior employees for their participation and support of local volunteer efforts in the communities in which we serve and reside throughout the country. Through our volunteerism program, Superior employees will develop a sense of belonging, self-satisfaction and value within the company and in their respective communities.

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Misleading Statistics
Thomas Sowell · Sep. 6, 2016
Mark Twain famously said that there were three kinds of lies — "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Since this is an election year, we can expect to hear plenty of all three kinds.
Even if the statistics themselves are absolutely accurate, the words that describe what they are measuring can be grossly misleading.
Household income statistics are an obvious example. When we hear about how much more income the top 20 percent of households make, compared to the bottom 20 percent of households, one key fact is usually left out. There are millions more people in the top 20 percent of households than in the bottom 20 percent of households.
The number of households is the same but the number of people in those households is very different. In 2002, there were 40 million people in the bottom 20 percent of households and 69 million people in the top 20 percent.
A little over half of the households in the bottom 20 percent have nobody working. You don't usually get a lot of income for doing nothing. In 2010, there were more people working full-time in the top 5 percent of households than in the bottom 20 percent.
Household income statistics can be very misleading in other ways. The number of people per household is different among different racial or ethnic groups, as well as from one income level to another, and it is different from one time period to another.
The number of people per American household has declined over the years. When you compare household incomes from a year when there were 6 people per household with a later year when there were 4 people per household, you are comparing apples and oranges.
Even if income per person increased 25 percent between those two years, average household income statistics will nevertheless show a decline. When the income of 4 people rises 25 percent, this means that 4 people are now making the same income as 5 people made in an earlier time. But not as much as 6 people made before.
So household income statistics can show an economic decline, even when per capita income has risen.
Why do so many people in the media, in academia and in politics use household income statistics, when the number of people per household can vary so much, while individual income statistics always mean the average income of one person?
Although individual income statistics can give a truer picture, not everyone makes truth their highest priority. Alarming news that household incomes have failed to rise, or have actually fallen, is more exciting news for the media, or for alarmists in academia or in politics.
Such alarming news can attract a larger audience for the media, and can justify an expansion of government programs dear to the heart of academics on the left, or to politicians who just want more power to hand out goodies and collect more votes from the beneficiaries.
Even individual income statistics have pitfalls when they lump together very different kinds of income, as is usually the case. Incomes from salaries are very different from incomes from capital gains.
A salary is usually earned and paid in the same year. Capital gains received in a given year can be paid for value accrued over a number of years. If you paid $100,000 for a home or a business in the past, and then sold it 20 years later for $300,000, have you made $200,000 per year when you sold it or $10,000 a year for 20 years?
In the income statistics, your income will be recorded the same as that of someone on a salary of $200,000 a year.
What difference does that make? It makes a big difference when most low and moderate incomes are from salaries, while incomes in the highest brackets are more likely to be primarily capital gains — whether from the sale of homes or businesses, or receiving an inheritance, cashing in stock options, or some other forms of capital gains.
This means that statistics on income inequalities are often comparing high multi-year earnings with lower single-year earnings — that is, comparing apples and oranges.
Such statistical distortions are discussed more fully in my book "Wealth, Poverty and Politics." In an election year, it might be worth taking a look.
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Cleaning the environment, brick by brick
Yogesh Vajpeyi6 May 2016 8:24 PM GMT

In a welcome first step, the Bihar Pollution Control Board has issued an order asking all brick kilns in Patna and adjoining districts to upgrade to cleaner technologies by the end of this season. The order also prevents setting up of new kilns unless they use cleaner technologies.

Recent notifications for cleaner technologies in brick kilns in Bihar have set an example that neighbouring Uttar Pradesh and other states in the country should follow. India is the second largest producer of clay-red bricks in the world with an annual production of about 250 billion bricks (10 percent of the global production).

The Gangetic plains of North India comprising the states of Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh (UP), and West Bengal account for about 65 percent of the total brick production of India. In many of these states, the brick industry is not only the provider of one of the most basic building materials but also a major industry in itself in terms of providing entrepreneurship and employment opportunities to the local population.

With an annual consumption of 35 million tonnes, the brick kiln sector in India is the country's third largest of the black metal after thermal power and iron and steel plants. The kiln owners have met their coal requirement from the open market with no fixed source and are not averse to using high ash low-quality coal, which increases consumption as well as emissions.

This makes the brick kiln industry a common culprit for increasing short-lived pollutants in the region as well as responsible for overall increased CO2 emissions. The pollutants have an adverse effect on the health of workers and the local population. Several studies point out to the damage caused to human health by short-lived pollutants. Greater levels of pollution are starting to impact vegetation, exact impacts on locally grown cash crops, for example, mangoes, remains to be studied and offers room for some investigation.

The largely unorganised sector has never really come under the radar of regulatory agencies and as urbanisation and construction work in city accelerates, large brick kiln clusters have mushroomed around national and state capitals as well as other major cities. Recent studies show that more than 1,000 brick kilns are located in the National Capital Region and these are a significant contributor to air pollution and poor air quality in the Delhi and its neighbouring clusters.

Transition to cleaner brick production technologies, therefore, has immense potential for energy savings, reductions in SPM, BC and CO2 emissions, improvements in the incomes and working conditions of workers, and production of better quality building material. Transformation of the brick industry requires a national-level policy framework aiming at cleaner brick production in India.

China and Vietnam are excellent examples where the transformation of the brick industry is driven through comprehensive national-level policy on building materials including bricks.

Active involvement of state governments in the development of the brick industry is highly desirable. The Bihar notification is ray hope in this direction. A clean brick manufacturing process will ensure that these big leaps in infrastructure development together with tackling climate change.

Environmental Impact assessment (EIA) has been an effective and important tool and it must be used rigorously on the Brick kilns Industry. At the same time, bricks should be given priority in the rating system of green buildings. Research and training institutes at the regional level must work directly with entrepreneurs to improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions and utilisation of waste to replace clay. Financial Institutions must come up with tailored financial products for the ailing brick sector.

The rub is that due to the political clout of the brick-kiln owners, few state governments have dared to regulate it despite large-scale complaints by environmentalists for their role in contributing to air pollution and human right grounds' campaign against their use of bonded labour.

The representatives from the brick kiln industry refuse to acknowledge that they are part of a larger problem. But experts emphasise on the need to shift to cleaner technology in the next three years with an objective to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and black carbon.

While the road map selected by Bihar to modernise the brick kiln sector must be taken by other states, the Centre must also play a pro-active role. As per CSE, an estimated amount of 25–35 million tonnes of coal per year is consumed by the brick kiln Industry. This effectively means that since 2010, the brick kiln sector has contributed Rs 1,625–2,275 crore towards National Clean Energy Fund. Unfortunately, not even a fraction of this has been used to technologically upgrade the brick sector.

In his budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that environment cess (or the levy on coal, lignite, and peat) is being doubled from Rs 200 per tonne to Rs 400 per tonne. Coal being an important raw material which is used in the brick industry will lead to a collection of around Rs 700 crore under the ambit of the National Clean Energy Fund.

Environmentalists believe if this fund can be utilised to create awareness among brick entrepreneurs, upgrade skills of brick kiln workers and create technical cells at the state level for upgrading technology, then things can change for better.

(The author is a veteran journalist. The views

expressed are personal.)

Yogesh Vajpeyi


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Veep's Timothy Simons is aware he looks "like a 6-foot 5-inch dick"
Esther Zuckerman
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This post discusses plot points from the Veep episode "Library."
In the season-six premiere of Veep, Jonah Ryan, so often the one getting burned, has an amazing self-burn: "It's not nice, Dan, to make fun of other people who are supposed to be your friend," he yells during a CBS This Morning interview with Dan Egan, "just because I look like a penis." Jonah, you see, is bald. Initially, he lost his hair because of testicular cancer. Now, he's just keeping his head bare to win sympathy.
Though we do see a hint of stubble in the second episode, Timothy Simons, the actor who plays the obnoxious gofer turned freshman congressman, is aware that shaving his noggin opened up the door for even more insults thrown his way. In fact, the penis one hit particularly close to home when he went to the gym once. "Somebody took a picture of me and a friend and I was wearing this headband and I saw the picture and I was like, 'Oh Jesus, it's legit,'" he said. "I look like a 6-foot 5-inch dick."
Simons talked with us about his escapades this season and Donald Trump looms over his fictional TV show.
The A.V. Club: How did the news come to you that you would have to shave your head?
Timothy Simons: It was something that they kind of planted seeds of doing over the summer. I think I talked to Dave [Mandel, showrunner] and he made the joke, "How do you feel about shaving your head?" Then a couple months later they actually called me in and were like, "Hey, come into the office and sit down for a second." I was like, "Oh, I think I know exactly what this is about." But, still, it was one of those things where—kind of like everything—you're like, "This will be super funny." But I did the thing where I was like, "All right, cool, I'll take one night to think about it." Like you should do with every big decision. But it ended up being a pretty easy decision, just because I figured if I shaved my head and I have a really fucked-up looking head then it will be funny. But if I shave my head and I have a completely normal looking head then it will be funny. It's not that big of a body modification commitment for an acting job. But it was fun, it was really fun to do. I liked the commitment aspect of it.
AVC: You posted a video that even with the shaved head it took a really look time for makeup to do your eyebrows and everything else.
TS: Yeah, it did. I assumed this is going to be great. I'm going to be called with just enough time to put on some clothes and run in there. But no, for the first couple of episodes they had to cover my eyebrows. Because I think I'm basing this off of what a kid named Lenny in the fourth grade told me, [which] was if you shave off your eyebrows they never grow back, and I've never bothered to look that up to see if it's true. So I didn't want to shave my eyebrows. It ended up taking forever.
AVC: What was your reaction upon seeing your shaved head at first?
TS: My head was normal-shaped enough that it was like, okay, it's just normal, shaved-head funny. But there were times when I was like, this is the first time I've ever looked like a badass. There was one moment where I had a shaved head and a full beard and I was like, "This is the most badass I've ever looked in my life." If I just didn't talk ever, I might be able to pull this off. I don't know if this is a funny story, but I remember thinking—I guess anxiety has kicked up ever since I had kids—at one point, "What if this is one of those things where everyone is going to be like, 'Ha ha ha, this is going to be so funny, he's going to shave his head.' And then we just shave my head and it's clear I have a brain tumor?" Everyone was going to be like, "Oh man, this is going to be so great," and then the room was just going to go silent, you know. It ended up not happening. I feel like maybe that's depressing.
AVC: Your hair is starting to grow back incrementally on the show even in episode two. Was that a whole process too?
TS: I showed up a couple of weeks later and [producer Morgan Sackett] said, "Jesus, your hair grows like a werewolf." That was the only thing. The season tracks week to week except there is this one time jump that was like three weeks. Basically we shot one episode a week so it really worked out so wherever my hair was at the beginning of the week we just did, but there was always, "How much do we cut it back?" and all of that. Luckily, apparently I have some sort of gene that allows my hair to grow back super fast so it just continues growing throughout the rest of the year.
AVC: Jonah is really the only character, besides Ben and Kent, who is still in D.C. politics. What was your reaction to your storyline?
TS: Even not taking Donald Trump into account—because last year when the storyline was playing out and over the summer as they were breaking stories no one was really taking Donald Trump seriously—so even taking that aspect out of that it seems crazy that somebody like him would succeed in politics because he is so universally despised and because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential or whatever those things that Jonah goes after. But untalented people have been failing upward in Washington for a really long time.
I called a bunch of Congress people—some staffers, and congressmen and congresswomen—just to kind of talk with them about what it's like to be a freshman in Congress over the summer. I've always sort of viewed Jonah as more of a Ted Cruz kind of guy. Sort of universally despised, but falls ass backwards into this weird influence simply out of his own idiocy. One of the jokes that I heard on one of those calls was about Ted Cruz and I think it applies to Jonah. Which is, he's so unpopular that if you shot Ted Cruz on the Senate floor you wouldn't be able to find a witness, which I thought was a perfect encapsulation of Jonah. But you kind of unfortunately at least have to, for the moment, pay attention to Ted Cruz because he has this sort of weird groundswell of voters behind him. I guess the long and short of this is that it seems outlandish for someone like Jonah to be in this situation, but if you look at even pre-Trump there are plenty of examples of absolute idiots succeeding in this world.
AVC: Do you think Donald Trump in the White House softens the joke that Jonah has made it this far, because we have a president who has made it this far?
TS: Jesus Christ, I don't know. I mean, I do suppose it changes what any political satire, what any political joke can count as a gaffe or a possible career-ending move. It changes that. It changes what counts. I don't know, I do feel like day to day even though Trump is so terrible and ridiculous, day to day we still laugh at Jason Chaffetz and we still laugh at Ted Cruz and we still laugh at those guys, at just how bad they are at their jobs.
I do feel like there is this weird separation, like Trump almost gets graded on a curve that everybody else doesn't, if that makes sense. We've seen it in the last 24 hours—somehow Bill O'Reilly is going to get fired because [there's] the idea that Donald Trump can do these things and be the president and Bill O'Reilly can do these things and he should lose his job on Fox News. Somehow these two things do not equal each other. There's a better way of wording that and somebody else has done it.
AVC: David Mandel wrote in The Hollywood Reporter that there was a "golden shower" joke that got removed because it was too similar to real politics. And it as directed toward Jonah.
TS: There was also another joke. There was actually another "pussy" joke that had to get changed too because the fucking "grab 'em by the pussy" stuff. If you can imagine a group of writers on set reading the news and being like, "Are you fucking kidding me?" How many fucking lines are we going to have to change because this idiot keeps moving the fucking goalpost? But I don't think it was one of those things where we were shooting the scene and there was like a mad rush. We probably had alts for it already. Especially in our show—we don't really want to comment on anything too directly. Like anything that brings these two parallel universes too close together we go away from it immediately. So I think it happened a few times, but it is really fucking unbelievable that we had to cut a golden shower joke because it was too close to something the president has done.
AVC: And a pussy joke.
TS: And a pussy joke. We're just getting beaten to a pulp. Not the show, just the electorate. I'm sorry, I want to be very clear, the electorate.
AVC: The cancer story is so typically Veep in that Jonah is the one person who doesn't get your sympathy for going through cancer.
TS: Something that I brought up—I don't think it ever made it in—but I like the idea that people would respond to his cancer in this way. They would be unhappy that it didn't kill him, but they would at least have some solace in that it possibly shortened his life expectancy. It's cancer and he still doesn't get sympathy for it.
AVC: And it is ball cancer on top of that.
TS: Of course. Because he didn't follow his own advice on "check 'em, don't neglect 'em."
AVC: Do you think having gone through that has changed him at all?
AVC: No, absolutely not, in the same way that I don't think his molestation at the hands of Teddy [Patton Oswalt] changed him at all. He never saw the one-to-one connection of his own serial sexual harassment of other people. He never put that together. Related, it's funny, cancer gets the one character who in a sea of unsympathetic people is possibly the most. I like the idea that there are always going to be moments throughout the season—and I feel like it's happened in every season in the past—in which you see some human reaction from him and you do start to feel sympathy or empathy or you start to feel a little bit for him but he will immediately make you pay for that.
AVC: In the second episode, you see him be so hypocritical when he talks about his surgery but refuses to listen to a woman talk about her mastectomy. But you see him have a connection with a woman at the end and you think, maybe there is hope for us all. And then Dan comes and takes that away from him. That's exactly one of those moments.
TS: Yeah, there is an odd sweetness to that guy that will in that moment maybe make you forget. Like, oh, maybe he will find love. Oh, wait, 15 minutes ago he was asking a woman to not talk about her mastectomy because he thought it was gross.
AVC: Being in Congress and shaving your head opens up the door for so many insults thrown Jonah's way. Is there any one that sticks out as a favorite?
TS: Oh my god. I'm going to have to come back to you on that because the only ones I can remember are from last year. For me it's always the simple ones. Like from last year I think the worst one that's ever been said was the simplest one: "He's the wrong shape." That the one that really sticks with me. I know that there were some good ones. I'm going to email the writers and see if they have one that sticks out in their heads.
[Simons got back to us and noted that he gets called a "fire damaged department store mannequin" and "Jean-Luc Retard." He added: "Jesus I take a lot of shit on this show." —ed.]
AVC: Jonah has been on this improbable rise. Is that going to continue?
TS: Our show's funnier when everybody loses, but oddly it's a little funnier when Jonah wins. You would expect Jonah to lose that congressional run, but it's just a little bit funnier if a guy like that wins. I think you really do start to see Jonah get a little bit of that begrudging Ted Cruz-like base of support even though he might be hated by everybody in Washington, but for some reason the voters of New Hampshire have connected with his bull-headed, infantile behavior. I think it will be fun. You do get to see a little bit of swagger with Jonah getting a little bit of power in Congress.
AVC: You've said the show doesn't want to interact with real-life politics. But what was the experience of doing the show while seeing the election unfold?
TS: I think we were finishing up the third episode when actual election night happened. I think there are a couple of things. Number one, I've always been somebody that's been interested in politics. Being on the show has made me a lot more informed going into it. I know a lot more about government than I did. It's also given me just a lot of access to smart people who know a lot about it and who I can ask questions. I am sort of ill-informed about a lot of things. That has been a great thing for me personally, just being less ignorant myself. But also it's a funny thing. I think people meet us and they assume that we know a lot more about politics than we actually do. People will really get into it. I'm like, I don't really know a lot about tariff reform or export trade reform. That's really not something I know about.
When it came to the actual election of Donald Trump, comedians are comedians because, inherently, no matter how you choose to cover it there is a very deep well of empathy and that's just how we deal with it. I think the reason you saw artists and comedians respond to the election of Donald Trump the way they did is because it is horrifying for people that have that sort of empathy.
When it came to actual election night, that night I don't think anyone was actually thinking about the show. Nobody was really thinking, "Wow, how does this affect our show and what we do with political satire and what does that mean moving forward?" Eventually we all had to have that conversation. I think the night of it was really just like, this is going to affect a lot of people, a lot of marginalized people, a lot of people who might not have a lot of political power. It's going to affect their lives very heavily before it ever affects mine. That night I drank a lot of wine and smoked some cigarettes and tried to figure out what the fuck—I have a 5-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son. There was that part of me that was, "What the fuck do these guys do going forward with this?"


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Knud Erik Jørgensen — 2016-07-27 in Political Science
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Celebrating the existence of contending theories of European integration, the book begins with a critical exploration of the concepts and theories used to examine this unique policy, presenting theoretically informed, empirical studies of the origin of the key themes of European governance, territorial politics, domestic-European linkages and the EU's foreign policy affairs.
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A well-established community of American scholars has long dominated the discipline of international relations. Recently, however, certain strands of continental theorizing are being introduced into the mainstream. This is a critical examination of European approaches to international relations theory, suggesting practical ways of challenging manistream thought. Freidrichs presents a detailed sociological analysis of knowledge production in existing European IR communities, namely France, Italy and Scandinavia. He also discusses a selection of European schools and approaches.
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Broken foot lands Pedroia on DL
SAN FRANCISCO – The Boston Red Sox are going to have to find a way to win without Dustin Pedroia, their most reliable hitter of late. Perhaps for a while.
The All-Star second baseman was placed on the 15-day disabled list yesterday with a broken left foot and it's unclear how long he might be sidelined or whether he could need surgery. He said inserting a pin into the foot is an option to help him heal more quickly, but Pedroia will know more after he is examined by team doctors back home tomorrow.
"In the past I've healed pretty quick," Pedroia said. "I hope I do the same this time."
The 2008 AL MVP fouled a ball off his foot during Friday night's 5-4 loss to San Francisco and was removed from the game in the third inning after staying in to finish his plate appearance with a walk.
Red Sox manager Terry Francona said tests yesterday revealed a nondisplaced fracture in the middle of Pedroia's left foot – the navicular bone – despite an initial result of negative X-rays late Friday.
"There's nothing we can do. The level of my disappointment is not going to make him heal quicker," Francona said. "He came in here today and asked who was going to play second. I've never seen a kid care as much about a team. He's as legit a player and a person as they come."
The injury is a major blow to the Red Sox, who began the day three games behind the first-place New York Yankees in the AL East. Pedroia joins Josh Beckett, Jacoby Ellsbury, Mike Lowell and Jeremy Hermida on Boston's disabled list.
Pedroia was on crutches yesterday and wearing a walking boot. Francona knew the injury could be more serious because Pedroia was unable to put pressure on the foot Friday. Scans of his foot were sent to team doctors, and the two-time All-Star will be examined by orthopedist Dr. George Theodore tomorrow.
"I don't know that we have a parameter yet," Francona said, acknowledging surgery could be necessary. "When we know the severity of it, then we'll have some parameters. I think anybody that's been around Dustin would bet on him being quicker than anybody humanly possible healing."
Pedroia hit a career-high three home runs Thursday night, including a tiebreaking shot in the 10th inning, and went 5-for-5 with five RBIs in a 13-11 victory at Colorado.
He's not used to missing an extended period of time. This will be the first stint on the DL in the big leagues for the 26-year-old former AL Rookie of the Year, who was rewarded by the Red Sox with a $40.5 million, six-year deal before the 2009 season.
"I'm just going to try to be positive for all the guys," Pedroia said. "They know how I play the game. I'll be in the dugout trying to see things on the field to help us win. I don't know, I've never really done this before."
Pedroia had hit safely in 12 of his last 14 games since June 10, batting .491 (26-for-53) with four home runs during that stretch. He also was hitting .374 in June after a .213 May.
"That part's tough," Pedroia said. "Freak accidents happen. We'll wait for everybody to get back healthy and we'll take off. We've got a lot of really good players. Hopefully we'll be fine."
Bill Hall was in the starting lineup at second base last night against the Giants. Boston also called up infielder Angel Sanchez from Triple-A Pawtucket.
Francona said he will make out his lineup largely based on matchups and who might need rest at other positions.
"Some of this is going to depend on health and how our outfielders are doing," Francona said.
Also yesterday, Beckett threw a simulated game of about 70 total pitches, including warmup tosses. The right-hander is on the 15-day disabled list after straining his lower back on a slippery mound in Yankee Stadium on May 18. The next step could be facing hitters as soon as Thursday.
"He did really well," Francona said. "They were really pleased."


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La Plata's Mens Basketball Coach to be inducted in the MBCA Hall of Fame
Greg Buescher a member of the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Induction Class of 2020.
Missouri Basketball Coaches Association
It is time again for the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association (MBCA) to celebrate the
basketball season!
Due to our global situation right now, the Awards Celebration Banquet will not be held, and
award winners will have their awards delivered to them.
The MBCA Hall of Fame Induction will be postponed and will now be held at the Doubletree
Hotel in Springfield, Missouri on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 1:00 pm.
Once again, the MBCA is proud to present the Hall of Fame Induction Class of 2020, and our
annual awards showcasing the top players and coaches throughout Missouri.
MBCA Hall of Fame Inductees
The Missouri Basketball Coaches Association is proud to release their 2020 Hall of Fame class
to be inducted at a ceremony on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 1:00 pm. The induction
ceremony will take place at the Double Tree Hotel in Springfield, Missouri. Tickets for the
event may be purchased from the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association for $25 at the
door or through a board member. Tables may also be purchased at a discounted cost. The
Hall of Fame banquet will open at 12:00 pm and lunch will be served at 1:00 with the
ceremony to follow.
Inductees include (alphabetically):
Jeff Bowland
Coach Jeff Bowland left his mark on high school basketball in the state of Missouri. Capturing
well over 600 wins while coaching on both the girls and boys side, Coach Bowland knew how to
find a way to win. His tenure from 1981-2013 at Pattonsburg was filled with multiple honors,
including several tournament titles, six District Championships, one Final Four trip and coaching
multiple All-State players. He also coached football, track and softball. Pattonsburg High School
has also recognized Coach Bowland's contributions to their basketball programs and community
by naming the basketball court after him. Lee Warford states, "Coach Bowland was a fine coach
and athletic director, and an even better person I am honored to have known."
Greg Buescher
On December 10, 2019 Coach Greg Buescher hit a rare milestone in the career of coaching by
capturing his 500th victory. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Coach Buescher
knew he wanted to be an educator and coach. Starting out in 1990 as the Head Boys' Basketball
coach at Griggsville-Perry School district in Illinois, Coach Buescher was well on his way to a
stellar coaching career. After a three-year stint there, he then moved on for two years at Clark
County School District, two years at Moberly, then with stops at Glasgow, Southeastern, Trenton,
Sturgeon, Mexico and is currently the La Plata R-II Head Basketball Coach. In 2010, his team
from Sturgeon won the Class 2 Boys State Championship finishing 32-0, and he was named the
Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Coach of Year, along with being named the National
Federation's Missouri Coach of the Year. Coach Chris Miller states, "Besides his record, his
dedication to the sport of basketball, to his teams, his former assistants (such as me), and most
importantly to his current and former players make him an excellent candidate for this honor."
Steve Combs
Coach Steve Combs has coached for over 20 years and knows how to find a way to win. Combs
started his coaching career at Moberly for three years as an assistant. He then moved on as head
coach for two years at Louisiana and then 18 years in Harrisburg. During his time, Combs has
earned nine district titles, and delivered six Final Four appearances, two resulting in State
Championships, one 2nd place finish, two 3rd place finishes and one 4th place finish. He has
coached 11 All-State players and has also been named the Missouri Basketball Coaches
Association Class 2 Coach of the Year twice. "It is an honor to nominate this fine coach." Kyle
Fisher states.
Nancy Fahey
At the beginning of the 2019-2020 season, Coach Nancy Fahey had already amassed an
incredible record of 756 wins and only 175 losses, an astounding 81.2% winning percentage.
Coach Fahey is an honored member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, and she is currently
the coach at the University of Illinois and has been for three years. Before her time there, she
spent 31 years at Washington University in St. Louis. During that time, she accumulated an
incredible 23 conference titles, 29 NCAA Division II tournaments appearances, and five, yes that
is correct, FIVE National Championships. Her teams held an 81-game winning streak from 1997
through 2001. She reached 600 wins after coaching in 706 games. She is 6th on the all-time
NCAA active coaches winning percentage. She has coached 20 All-Americans and 10 Academic
All-Americans. She is in the Washington University Hall of Fame, the St. Louis area Hall of Fame,
and in 2014 was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. She has also worked with USA
Basketball and is on the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Board of Directors. She was a Missouri
Basketball Coaches Association clinic speaker in 2019. Coach Jeni Hopkins states, "Coach Fahey
has been a role model and mentor to several coaches in the Midwest and not only knows how to
win, but how to win championships. Her players love playing for her."
Duane Hiler
Coach Duane Hiler has been coaching for over 20 years and has recorded an impressive 77%
winning percentage. With three years at Mansfield, six at Hollister, and has just finishing his 12th
year at Mountain Grove, Coach Hiler has found a way to bring victories to his programs. Hiler has
won 13 district titles and taken five trips to the Final Four. He has brought home the 4th place
trophy, two 3rd place trophies, one runner-up trophy, and in 1999, won a State Championship at
Hollister while also being named the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year.
Coach Darren Taylor shares, "Coach Hiler is one of the best in the game and has excellent
strategy skills. He is a Hall of Famer."
Gary Koch
With more than 600 wins, Coach Gary Koch, has proven time and time again that he produces on
the basketball court. Coach Koch has had coaching stops at Jefferson College (as an assistant),
and as a head coach at the following Missouri high schools: Ste. Genevieve, Valle Catholic, St.
Pius X, Festus, and Pacific. He is the Head Women's Basketball Coach at Mineral Area College
and has been for 14 years. During this time his teams have won two Regional Championships
and three Conference Championships. He has also coached nine All-Americans and 22 Academic
All-Americans. His team has been ranked as high as 9th in the nation. Coach Shawn Erickson
expands, "Coach Koch has dedicated over 40 years of his life growing the game of basketball in
the state of Missouri. His passion for teaching the game the right way and caring about teaching
his players to become good citizens will leave lasting impressions on the players and coaches he
has worked with over his career."
Gerry Marlin
Coach Jerry Marlin started out as an assistant coach in Gainesville Florida, and then moved to
Louisiana as an assistant and eventually became a head coach. He moved to the Kansas City area
as the head coach of Ruskin High School and is now at North Kansas City. He just completed his
34th year as a head coach. His Missouri teams have won six conference titles, three district titles,
and a State Championship at Ruskin high school in 2007. In 2013 Coach Marlin won his 500th
game and was presented the key to the city by Kansas City mayor Sly James and the City Council.
As of this season, 2019-2020, Coach Marlin earned his 600th win. His current win total stands at
609. He has received multiple Coach of the Year awards including the Missouri Basketball
Coaches Association Richard Fairchild Award, the Paul Lambert Award, Kansas City Star Coach of
the Year, Metro Sports Coach of the Year, and several Suburban Conference Coach of the Year
Awards. He has mentored several coaches and has even molded several former players into
excellent coaches, including his assistants Matt Ramsey and Deron Hill. "Coach Marlin is a class
act that knows the game extremely well." Coach Bill Gunn states.
Pete McBride
Coach Pete McBride had a tremendous career coaching basketball grabbing 399 career wins and
two state championships in 2013 and 2018. He was named the Missouri Basketball Coach of the
Year for Class 1 in 2013 and 2018. He was the National Federation Midwest Coach of the Year in
2018. In his career at Eminence, he won ten district championships, eight conference titles, and
was named Coach of the Year in his conference eight times. He has coached six All-State athletes
and one Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Player of the Year, his son, Trent McBride.
Coach Darren Taylor speaks highly of Coach McBride, "He has had an excellent career at
Eminence and is a great coach."
Todd Shannon
Talk about dedication! 25 years out of 26 coaching, Todd Shannon poured his heart and soul into
the program at Wellington-Napoleon High School. Netting 466 wins with a 68% winning
percentage Coach Shannon shined on the sideline. His teams made the state play offs eleven
times, with two Final Four trips. In 2011 and 2016, Coach Shannon's teams finished 3rd in the
state. He also won nine conference championships and coached seven All-State players. He was
named the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association District Coach of the Year 11 times, KMSU
Dream Team Coach of the Year six times, and in 2011 the Missouri Basketball Coaches
Association Coach of the Year. He has also represented his region on the Missouri State High
School Activities Association advisory committee for basketball. Coach Andy Hampton
enthusiastically states, "Coach Shannon has devoted his life to Wellington-Napoleon High School
and to Tiger Basketball. He has an outstanding record and has accomplished so much."
Steve Shepherd
Coach Steve Shepherd has proven that he can be successful at any level in basketball. He has
won over 370 games. As the girls' basketball coach at Marionville High School he amassed a 141
and 31 record guiding the Comets to a state championship in 1991. They also won the coveted
Pink and White Championship an incredible three times. Shepherd served as the boys coach at
Aurora for three years winning two conference championships. He then went to Parkview High
School as the boys' basketball coach and served as an assistant at Evangel University (where in
2002 they won the NAIA National Championship), before becoming the Head Men's Basketball
Coach at College of the Ozarks in 2002. In 2006, the Bobcats won the NAIA National
Championship. Coach Shepherd was named NAIA National Coach of the Year. He has been to the
NAIA Final Four three times, won 14 conference titles, and coached 14 All- American players. He
has also coached 16 NAIA Scholar Athletes. In 2015, he was named the College of the Ozarks
Athletic Director, along with his coaching duties. He was named A.I.I. Athletic Director of the Year
for 2016-2017. He has had multiple Coach of the Year honors and continues to produce wins,
successful athletes, and successful people from his program. Coach Denny Hunt shares, "Coach
Shepherd is an athletic, personal, and spiritual role model for his players. He does things the
right way, all of the time."
Gary Filbert Lifetime Achievement Award
The highest honor given by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association; the Gary Filbert
Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented this year to Coach Cheryl Burnett. This award
will be presented during the Hall of Fame Inductions on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 1:00 pm at the Double Tree Hotel in Springfield, Missouri.
Coach Cheryl Burnett
Coach Cheryl Burnett is best known in the sports world for her wildly successful, 15-year
career at Missouri State University as the Head Women's Basketball Coach. During her
tenure as head coach, the Lady Bears reached the NCAA Tournament 11 times and in 1992 and
2001 made it to the NCAA Division I Final Four. Her teams also won seven regular season
conference titles, five league tournament titles, and played in the 2002 Women's National
Invitational Tournament. Coach Burnett has received multiple Coach of the Year Awards,
been inducted into multiple Halls of Fame, and in 2015 was named a Sports Legend by the
Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.
Coach Burnett graduated, where she played, from the University of Kansas in 1980 and had
an opportunity to play overseas, but the coaching profession was calling. After a stint on the
University of Illinois staff, Coach Burnett started at Missouri State University (then Southwest
Missouri State University) as an assistant coach for Valerie Goodwin-Colbert and was hooked
from day one. After taking over the program in 1987, Coach Burnett worked diligently to
increase the production of her team, and the commitment from the community. Her first
season averaged around 900 in the stands and during the 1992 season, the Lady Bears led
the nation in attendance averaging close to 8,500 energetic fans.
Coach Burnett has been known to mentor multiple coaches throughout the country. After
her time at Missouri State, she spent four seasons at the University of Michigan before
retiring and settling in the Springfield, Missouri area.
MBCA Academic All-State
The Missouri Basketball Coaches Association (MBCA) is very proud to select and present the
Academic All-State basketball teams each school year. The MBCA honors these top scholar
athletes typically at our annual celebration banquet. This year, awards will be delivered.
Here is complete list of award winners and criteria:
https://www.mobca.org/page/show/714322-academic-all-state
Ryan Shaw, National High School Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year
(Missouri)
Boys: Chris Nimmo (Warrensburg)
Girls: Keri Nichols (Springfield Parkview)
Richard Fairchild Coach of the Year Awards
CLASS 1 Rick Luna (Dora)
CLASS 2 Brett Reed (Hartville)
CLASS 3 Ryan Johnson (Cardinal Ritter) and Danny Farmer (Charleston)
CLASS 4 Joe Rothweiler (Helias), Joe Unterreiner (Cape Girardeau Notre
Dame), Tony Irons (Vashon), and Aaron Ihms (Raytown South)
CLASS 5 Justin Tatum (CBC), Chris Neff (Staley), Frank Bennett
(Chaminade), and Mitch McHenry (Kickapoo)
CLASS 1 Rory Henry (Walnut Grove)
CLASS 2 Cori Elms (East Buchanan)
CLASS 3 Dustin Larsen (Strafford)
CLASS 4 Brad Shorter (Carl Junction), Kirk Boeller (Cape Girardeau
Notre Dame), Dan Rolfes (Incarnate Word Academy), and
Jeff Atkins (Lincoln Prep Academy)
CLASS 5 Chantell Polk (Hazelwood Central), Monica Tritz (Kirkwood),
Mark Spigarelli (Blue Springs), and Jill Nagel (Rock Bridge)
MBCA Missouri Player of the Year Awards
CLASS 1 Isaac Haney (Dora)
CLASS 2 Aminu Mohammed (Greenwood Laboratory School)
CLASS 3 Stevie Strong (University Academy Charter)
CLASS 4 Cam'Ron Fletcher (Vashon)
CLASS 5 Caleb Love (CBC)
CLASS 1 Brooke Littrell (Green City) and Faith Gilkey (Walnut Grove)
CLASS 2 Abby Backes (Tipton)
CLASS 3 Serena Sundell (Maryville)
CLASS 4 Katie Scott (Carl Junction)
CLASS 5 Priscilla Williams (Branson)
Kevin "Cub" Martin Assistant Coach Award
Mike Shanfeld (Parkway South)
Curtis Kerr Memorial Student Assistant of the Year
Laiken Cash (Farmington)
Gary Filbert Scholarship Award Winner
Quincy Erickson (Hermann)
Mr. & Miss Show-Me Basketball
Mr. & Miss Show-Me Basketball is our highest player honor. These selections include a
criterion of the following: A senior player that exhibits exceptional talent and skill in the
game of basketball, along with strong character.
After review of nominations and finalists:
Miss Show-Me Basketball:
Katie Scott (Carl Junction)
Mr. Show-Me Basketball:
Caleb Love (CBC)
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CATL gets major new investors to fuel its EV battery business in China
Now a key investor in CATL: Hillhouse Capital's boss Zhang Lei
An important new relationship is crystallising in the electric vehicle (EV) sector, although few feel confident enough to hazard a guess about where it might end up. During Tesla's second quarter earnings call last week, the company's founder and CEO, Elon Musk, confirmed that it is starting volume production with a new battery supplier in China, Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL).
The Chinese company is supplying its lithium ferro phosphate (LFP) batteries for the Model 3 cars Tesla makes in Shanghai. Musk said that this will allow existing suppliers LG Chem and Panasonic, to ramp up production of their rival lithium ion phosphate (L-ion) batteries for pipeline products such as Tesla's new truck (the Semi), which require batteries with higher energy density.
Does this new relationship mean that CATL (see WiC499) will become to Tesla what TSMC (an R&D-led manufacturer) has been to Huawei? Certainly, a battery is as integral to an EV as a computer chip is to a smartphone.
Tesla is likely to score a lot of political points with the Chinese government by endorsing a domestic company as a key technology supplier. However, Musk has also predicted that Tesla's own energy storage and battery business will be as large and as important as its auto one in the not too distant future. The latter's huge potential is one reason why Tesla's share price has shot up 5.2 times over the past year.
One of Tesla's biggest advantages over other auto manufacturers is its vertical integration, which has positioned it at the technological cutting edge across the entire value chain, batteries included.
It intends to stay there. To this end, it purchased San Diego-based battery company Maxwell Technologies last year so it could get its hands on the latter's dry electrode capabilities.
So would a better analogy of the relationship between Tesla and CATL be the one between TSMC and Intel? The US chip company is also vertically integrated, but it is now turning to TSMC for some of its advanced production needs after falling behind the Taiwanese firm in rolling out the latest manufacturing technology.
Tesla situation here differs too – but by diversifying its battery suppliers after formerly relying on Panasonic (then adding LG Chem) and now CATL, it is also demonstrating that it won't be beholden to a single manufacturer.
It's possible to stretch the chip analogy even further. Battery and chip production share many similarities, not least the fact that both industries are engaged in a process of constant and costly technological evolution.
The power and range of EVs, for example, depends on improving battery energy density (getting more energy per unit of space) in the same way that a chip's power is determined by how many more transistors can be crammed onto it. What differentiates the two and complicates battery production is the unstable nature of the various chemical elements that make batteries work. A compromised battery is a fire risk, not a good look for a car.
Japan's Toyota has spent the past decade trying to achieve breakthroughs in this area through solid-state technology – replacing flammable liquid electrolytes with solid non-flammable alternatives. Earlier this year, it partnered with Panasonic and has since developed a working prototype with potentially eight times more energy density then current batteries.
However, solid-state batteries are still viewed as a 'potential' rather than an actual technology. They have a tendency to warp after repeat charging and therefore have a short shelf life.
Battery producers face similar problems with nickel. Higher concentrates produce higher energy density but can lead to thermal runaway (overheating).
This has been exacerbated by the desire to reduce the amount of cobalt in L-ion batteries. Cobalt is more stable than nickel but it has sourcing issues (much of it is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo; see WiC329) and cost concerns (it is a rarer mineral).
This is why the latest L-ion technological iteration, known as NCM811 or NCA811, have ratios of 80% nickel, 10% cobalt and then either 10% manganese (LG Chem) or 10% aluminium (Panasonic). The previous generation, known as NCM622/NCA622, had 60% nickel, then 20% cobalt and 20% manganese or aluminium.
Raw material costs are particularly important as they account for around half of a battery's price tag. Half of that ratio again comes from the cathode (where the nickel, manganese and cobalt are deployed). Power is generated when lithium ions travel through a conductor (electrolytes) from an anode (the negative pole normally made from carbon) to a cathode (the positive pole) and back again.
LFP batteries have less energy density, but on the plus side, their production costs have dropped substantially over the past five years. The costs are now almost comparable to L-ion batteries (Rmb0.55 to Rmb0.6 per kilowatt hour vs Rmb0.5 to Rmb0.55). During the earnings call, Musk said their efficiency has also improved enough to install them in the Model 3.
CATL says it can now make a battery with an average life span of 16 years. This is double the current industry standard.
What is not clear is whether the two companies have developed the super-long-life battery together, as Reuters reported in mid-May, or separately, as Tesla also has a long-standing relationship with Canada's Dalhousie University. All is likely to become clear during Tesla's battery day in mid-September (postponed from the spring because of Covid-19).
In the meantime, CATL is forging ahead with an ambitious plan to launch more production capacity (52GWh) than it actually sold in output terms in 2019 (40.25GWh). The Shenzhen-listed company has just completed an Rmb19.7 billion ($2.81 billion) capital raising led by Hillhouse and Honda Motor.
Honda's decision to buy 1% of CATL's outstanding equity is part of a wider partnership between the two companies to co-develop battery technology. This fits with CATL's strategy of working with many different auto companies, unlike local rival BYD, which until recently kept its battery business largely to itself.
This diversification is what has helped the Ningde-based company develop from a very low base just five years ago to become the country's leading producer. Domestic partnerships with Chinese companies including BAIC (since 2016), SAIC (from 2017), Dongfeng (beginning 2018) have been followed more recently by tie-ups with foreign automakers including BMW and Volkswagen.
So far most of CATL's output has found a domestic home, with overseas sales accounting for less than 5% of the total in 2019. The construction of its first overseas factory in Germany should change that proportion.
Reportedly CATL has also invested in a battery-as-a-service (BaaS) company being established by Tencent-backed EV start-up, NIO, – enabling batteries to be swapped out once they reach their shelf life. The idea is to separate the business of selling, installing and managing electric car batteries: just as fuel retailers are distinct from the manufacturers of combustion engine-based cars.
Last week CATL also set up an investment unit that will target downstream companies so it can expand its presence across the wider energy storage sector. As Sina Finance concluded, "the route to becoming a hegemon is by splashing the cash".
At the moment CATL is a B2B company. But the way the energy storage business is evolving, it could well end up being just as much of a B2C one too.
Over the short-term, it is likely to get a boost too from a new government initiative to promote EV ownership in rural markets, with an announcement last week that local governments would offer subsidies to promote the sales of 10 domestic EV companies.
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>I'm not sure where "here" really is… but here we are, at the last post of my fejes.ca blog. My 391st blog post! That's actually not so bad for 3 and a half years, now that I think of it.
Anyhow, with Google cutting off ftp publishing, it was time for a move to greener pastures, which in this case is Nature Blogs. I intend to continue discussing the same topics and to continue posting stuff relevant to next-gen sequencing…. or 2nd or 3rd generation, which ever one we're now in. I hope people who've been reading my blog come along and continue commenting at the new site.
For the moment, the new site is a bit plain – Nature is still setting things up, and I'm sure it'll take some time for things to become comfortable over there. I'm going to miss my visitor map, my tag cloud and my many anonymous comments – but these are things I can push for at Nature. They've been fairly responsive to my requests, and hopefully Nature blogs will continue to evolve. Despite the plain looks, I'm expecting great things.
Before I start waxing sentimental about leaving fejes.ca, I'll just invite you to come join me over at my new blog: http://blogs.nature.com/fejes.


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We adopted (long term commitment) a local Title 1 School Peck Elementary right here in Greensboro. Peck is the 5th lowest income school in the Guilford County School system. The students and teachers face many challenges. The goal of our program is to increase classroom performance. If the students succeed in the classroom they can improve their chances to succeed in life. These students are our future and we believe in giving back.


NEW ORLEANS (AP) Bears rookie quarterback Mitchell Trubisky and Saints rookie cornerback Marshon Lattimore have been on a midseason collision course for months now.
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Both Trubisky and Lattimore now occupy prominent starting roles on opposite sides of the ball for teams that have played well lately, and who'll meet Sunday in the Superdome.
Chicago (3-4) has won two straight and has just one three-point loss to NFC North Division-leading Minnesota since Trubisky took over for veteran Mike Glennon as starter in Week 5. The Saints (4-2) have ridden a four-game winning streak to the top of the NFC South.
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Lattimore isn't lacking in confidence, saying his goal is to become a "Darrelle Revis-type" cornerback whose presence dissuades opponents from throwing anywhere near him.
Trubisky hasn't exactly aired it out. He threw only seven times in last week's victory over Carolina, in which the Bears scored both of their touchdowns on defensive plays. Still, he has minimized mistakes and demonstrated potential while completing half of his 48 passing attempts.
"I don't care if I throw zero passes if we win," Trubisky said. "I'm confident in my abilities and what we have with this offense and where we're headed.
FAMILIAR FACE: The game marks Bears defensive tackle Akiem Hicks' return to New Orleans, where he began his NFL career as a third-rounder in 2012 and remained until being traded to New England in 2015. He joined Chicago a season later and this season has six sacks, seven tackles for loss Authentic Marquez Valdes-Scantling Jersey , eight QB hits and a forced fumble.
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GROUND OFFENSIVE: The Bears have run the ball on nearly 65 percent of offensive plays during the past three games, going 2-1. During the first four games when Glennon was at QB, Chicago passed on 59 percent of offensive plays and lost three of four.
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Hugelkultur raised bed gardening may not be something you have tried, but read why you should give it a try.
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Depending on the size of your growing space, watering by hand can take a lot of time and must be factored in to your daily routine.
The new hexagonal raised beds. More on the design in another post.
Hugelkultur is a bit like modified raised beds, and uses buried wood as a water sponge. Learn how to do this important permaculture technique.
Hugelkultur mounds should be planted with a cover crop such as ryegrass or clover prior to garden establishment to prevent erosion.
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Fashion retailer All Saints has been put up for sale by its Icelandic shareholders and could be valued at £140m.
The administrators of collapsed Icelandic banks Kaupthing and Glitnir, which hold significant minority stakes in All Saints, have put their shares on the market.
The retailer has appointed Ernst & Young to advise on the sale process according to The Sunday Telegraph. The retailer has 63 stores and 47 concessions worldwide.
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Entrepreneur Kevin Stanford holds a majority stake in the All Saints. It is understood he will roll over all or part of his stake as part of the deal.
All Saints almost doubled EBITDA to £23.6m in its last financial year ending January 31 2010, when like-for-likes climbed 22%.
The retailer is eyeing further overseas expansion and opened its first store in New York last summer. It intends to continue its expansion plans under any new ownership.


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Rough Draft of History
August 27, 2007 Topic: Society Region: Persian GulfMiddle East Tags: Troop Surge
Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor's war correspondent, weighs in on the situation in Iraq and on common misperceptions about the press.
by Marisa Morrison
"I want a positive story out of this", a base commander in Kirkuk told Howard LaFranchi during the journalist's May visit to Iraq. LaFranchi, a war correspondent for TheChristian Science Monitor, later learned that an earlier reporter had painted a particularly grim picture of the situation in the northern Iraqi city.
At The National Interest on Friday, LaFranchi talked about the journalist's proper role in a democracy and his most recent trip to Iraq. LaFranchi addressed many of the public misconceptions about journalists-some of which he has personally encountered.
While in Iraq, a U.S. soldier asked LaFranchi, "Why is it that most of you [journalists] hate our country?" The soldier's doubts about the patriotism of the press are misplaced, the correspondent noted. Journalists allow democracy to function, providing voters with the information necessary to become informed citizens. This role provides journalists with a "sense of service" to the public-not to a particular administration or partisan agenda. Journalists' skepticism comes not from some unreasonable distrust of authority, but from a desire to present more than one side of a story.
The importance of LaFranchi's yearly trips to Iraq has also been called into question on a few occasions, he said. "We all know what a disaster Iraq is", a guest at a dinner party once told him, "why risk your life when what you report won't change anything?"
LaFranchi believes that his visits to Iraq allow him to better inform Christian Science Monitor readers. Journalists provide the initial assessments of an unfolding event-well before the historians have the chance to analyze the situation. In that sense, journalism is a "rough draft of history." The more firsthand experience a journalist has with his or her subject, the more accurate the "rough draft" will be. Having been to Iraq, LaFranchi is in a better position to write about U.S. policy in the beleaguered country. For example, when General David Petraeus' report on Iraq strategy is released in September, the journalist will use the "filter of [his] recent trip to gauge what's being told", he said.
LaFranchi has been making annual trips to Iraq since 2003. He first left for Baghdad when President Bush was insisting that major U.S. newspapers were not accurately portraying the situation in Iraq. LaFranchi's 2003 trip convinced him that his peers were filing accurate reports; his counterparts stationed in Iraq realized that something in the country was amiss before the officials in Washington did.
LaFranchi's most recent trip to Iraq gave him little reason for optimism. The Iraqis LaFranchi spoke to "felt much more despair" during this visit than on previous occasions. The journalist's Iraqi friends refused to visit him, afraid of being seen entering a foreign compound. He noticed that "whole sections of Baghdad were virtual ghost towns", thanks to "quite advanced" ethnic cleansing. Displaced Sunnis and Shi'a, "with no other place to go", had set up camps. Frequent bombing attacks made people "fearful of large markets", and "mom-and-pop stores had blossomed away from big streets and markets."
In addition to visiting Baghdad, LaFranchi traveled with U.S. troops, speaking with both soldiers and commanders. While embedded, LaFranchi saw the effects of the recent change in U.S. Army strategy. The army is now "putting soldiers out and keeping them out" among the Iraqi people. Before the surge, soldiers would conduct periodic patrols, always returning to military bases. Now, soldiers are stationed round-the-clock at makeshift outposts in the neighborhoods they are assigned to protect.
The high-ranking officers LaFranchi interviewed expressed strong support for the surge. There was a "sense among commanders that things were finally on the right track", the correspondent said. However, rank-and-file soldiers presented him with a much more "mixed" picture. Although some thought that they were "on the cutting edge of the new strategy", others felt that "we shouldn't be here."
LaFranchi keeps a piece of an improvised explosive device (IED) on his desk as a "reminder of what our soldiers over there are facing." He retrieved the IED fragment after a particularly nerve-racking day on patrol with a group of soldiers. When an IED exploded near LaFranchi's Humvee, the understandably spooked patrol commander targeted a group of nearby fieldworkers for questioning. After being roughed-up, the young Iraqi men could not reveal anything about those who had planted the device. A small boy accompanying the interrogated men began to cry; his older brother had recently been gunned down by insurgents. The frustrated patrol leader told LaFranchi that combating the insurgents was like "fighting ghosts." LaFranchi, distressed by what he witnessed, decided to write about the incident only after careful consideration.
The reporter noted that, to him, the explosive device's twisted remains symbolize the need "to express and convey all sides that you can."
Marisa Morrison is an apprentice editor at The National Interest.


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Updates tomorrow – it's party and concert time tonight.
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Really Forsythe? A big meeting the Friday before Christmas in NYC? Did you also make a sacrifice to the bad weather gods at the same time?
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