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Life: A July 1 story about Dobre Pierogi gave the wrong city for the story. It's located in Shelby Township. https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/dining/2019/07/01/pierogi-maker-opens-new-store-macomb-township/1587546001/
News: A June 30 story from the Associated Press about former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder being named a Harvard fellow erroneously reported the day of the announcement. It was Friday. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/06/30/former-governor-rick-snyder-harvard-university-fellow/1611867001/
Opinion: A June 23 column was corrected to make clear that the typical starting salary for teachers in Michigan is $41,000, compared with an average starting salary of $35,000 for teachers in Arizona, and Albion Public Schools were closed by a vote of the local school board. https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/2019/06/23/michigan-rural-urban-school-closings/1502107001/
News: A June 22 story on the arrest of Sheefy McFly was updated to clarify that McFly was also arrested on an existing traffic warrant. https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2019/06/22/sheefy-mcfly-arrested-detroit-police-street-art/1538157001/
Life: A June 20 story on Smoothie King had incorrect information on a Livonia location opening. The story was scheduled for a July 1 soft opening. https://www.freep.com/story/life/food/2019/06/20/quide-how-score-free-smoothie-national-smoothie-day/1512022001/
Sports: A June 14 story on a Detroit Tigers-Kansas City Royals game gave the wrong score. The Royals won, 7-3. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2019/06/14/detroit-tigers-matthew-boyd-mlb-trade-rumors/1453394001/
Sports: A June 13 story on a Detroit Tigers-Kansas City Royals game gave the wrong score. The Royals won, 7-3. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2019/06/13/detroit-tigers-kansas-city-royals-score/1452468001/
Business: A June 13 story about a security guard strike at Bedrock-owned buildings misidentified buildings in two photos captions. The buildings included were Chase Tower and the Federal Reserve Building. https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2019/06/12/detroit-security-guards-strike-bedrock/1433430001/
News: A June 10 story about a DIA design competition had an incorrect name for Darin McKeever, president and CEO of William Davidson Foundation, a key fundraiser for the project. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/06/10/dia-design-competition-midtown/1410601001/
Business: A June 5 story on Lord & Taylor store closures included information on previously closed stores as though the closures were pending. The story has since been removed from the website.
Business: A June 3 story on contract auto workers misstated the amount of dues paid by United Auto Workers union members. https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2019/06/03/gm-ford-layoffs-contract-workers/1206527001/
News: A June 3 story on phones and other electronic devices being seized as part of the Flint water investigation misstated the number of officials whose devices were seized. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2019/06/03/rick-snyders-phone-flint-water-investigation/1333067001/
News: A May 24 story about Detroit businessman Robert Carmack incorrectly stated Eric Sabree's involvement in a lawsuit Carmack filed. Sabree and his office were dismissed from the case. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/05/24/mayor-mike-duggan-foe-robert-carmack-stand-trial-land-deal/1220066001/
News: A May 23 story about a Holland mansion going to auction misspelled Kyle Schrader's name and was clarified to indicate that deposits for Dogwood Manor are refundable. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/05/23/holland-mansion-michigan/3766648002/
News: A May 22 story about a home used to grow illegal marijuana had the incorrect city for the operation. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2019/05/22/royal-oak-home-invasion-marijuana-pot/3767843002/
News: A May 20 story about the Fiat Chrysler Automotive deal for a Jeep plant had an incorrect amount for what Hantz Woodland paid for Detroit land. Hantz Woodlands paid 8.3 cents per square foot for the Detroit land. This story has been corrected.https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/05/20/speculators-moroun-detroit-land-swap-fca-jobs/3664661002/
Business: A May 9 story on scooters returning to downtown Detroit was corrected to show the correct geographic requirements for scooter deployment beyond downtown and Midtown. https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2019/05/09/its-scooter-season-again-detroit-but-some-prices-up/1140741001/
Life: A May 9 story on a cannoli giveaway by Facebook was edited to clarify the location of the giveway. https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/dining/2019/05/09/facebook-cannolis-cantoro-italian-market-plymouth-birthday-stories/1155602001/
News: A May 8 story on new uniforms for Detroit City FC was updated to clarify the brewing history of Stroh's. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/05/08/detroit-city-fc-uniforms-strohs-beer/1141312001/
Entertainment: A May 8 story on Motor City Comic Con was updated after promoters clarified details on appearances by Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Elizabeth Berkley. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/05/08/saved-bell-elizabeth-berkley-motor-city-comic-con/1145003001/
News: A May 8 story from the Associated Press about a car crash was updated when a police official corrected a previous statement on the condition of a passenger. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2019/05/08/west-bloomfield-traffic-stop-crash/1145298001/
Entertainment: An April 23 story about the pasta makers at Andiamo restaurants misspelled Anna Peptitti's last name and misstated how many Andiamo restaurants there are in Michigan. https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/dining/2019/04/23/andiamo-restaurants-pasta-makers/3510147002/
Entertainment: An April 16 story about an upcoming Grace Jones concert incorrectly stated the date of her last metro Detroit appearance. Appearances in the past 25 years included a February 1998 performance at Clutch Cargo's in Pontiac. https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2019/04/16/grace-jones-masonic-temple/3488735002/
News: An April 14 story on measles was updated to clarify when a person with measles is contagious and to make clear that CallingPost is a reference to a company name. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/04/14/michigan-measles-outbreak-orthodox-jewish-community-oakland-county/3411582002/
Opinion: In a March 22 guest column about picking a reputable college counselor, the title of the author was misstated. https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/2019/03/22/picking-a-college-counselor/3237560002/
News: A March 14 story on a police officer's accidental drug overdose resulting from a traffic stop misstated the relative strength of fentanyl and morphine. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2019/03/14/michigan-state-police-trooper-overdose/3160166002/
Business: A March 9 story on Chrysler's attempts to build a space shuttle gave the wrong location for a plant in Sterling Heights. https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2019/03/09/chrysler-tried-build-better-space-shuttle/3097167002/
Business: The March 9 Michigan House Envy had an incorrect name spelling and place of employment for one of the subjects. Kay Pentzien is a teacher at Claugue Middle School in Ann Arbor. https://www.freep.com/story/money/real-estate/michigan-house-envy/2019/03/09/ann-arbor-apartment-gallery-across-zingermans-sale-1-5-m/3033785002/
News: A March 1 story on a heroin bust was updated to correct the indicator on the PlayStation that led police to the drug bust. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/03/01/fentanyl-heroin-novi-playstation/3021811002/
News: A Feb. 21 story about a shooting incident at a wedding contained details from the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office which were inaccurate. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/02/21/detroit-cop-shooting-wedding-reception/2946324002/
News: A Feb. 15 story on pet coke storage by Marathon Petroleum was revised to clarify the location of Marathon Petroleum's pet coke storage, and add additional background on pet coke piles that were previously stored on the Detroit River's banks. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2019/02/15/marathon-pet-coke-petroleum-detroit-river-fugitive-dust/2881924002/
News: A Feb. 15 story on finding John Dingell's grave in Arlington National Cemetery had incorrect details about his burial ceremony, which were removed. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/02/15/john-dingell-grave-arlington-cemetery/2880542002/
Entertainment: A Feb. 8 story on Ima incorrectly identified the style of pork belly common in ramen. https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/dining/restaurant-of-the-year/2019/02/08/ima-detroit-free-press-restaurant-year-corktown-madison-heights/2649207002/
News: A Feb. 1 story on LGBTQ rights protections was corrected to indicate that Attorney General Dana Nessel is open to reevaluating the decision of her predecessor, Bill Schuette, in regard to the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/02/01/lgbtq-michigan-civil-rights-law/2743034002/
News: A Feb. 1 story on a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland County misstated the election results for the 2008 proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Michigan. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2019/02/01/oakland-county-first-licensed-marijuana-dispensary/2728146002/
News: A Jan. 29 story on allergies to the cold misspelled the word urticaria. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/01/29/cold-uticaria-allergy-symptoms/2708444002/
Opinion: A Jan. 26 letters to the editor column had the wrong city of residence for Rhonda Wendell. https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/readers/2019/01/26/letters-trump-should-apologize-government-shutdown/2675312002/
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WDIV reporter Kevin Dietz fired over comment
Arrest made, car impounded in Lodge reckless driving
Veteran Grosse Pointe councilman Waldmeir dies of cancer
Mich. church pays off 1,899 families' medical debt
This part of the Macomb jail is old and hot
Traverse City police: Hotel shooting apparent murder-suicide


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"As we actively sought, and still seek, opportunities to provide our shoppers with convenient locations and amenities, an expanded beer and wine section was an obvious way to provide yet another great service to enhance our shoppers' experience in the Hilton Head area," Turner said.
Kroger is at 40 Shelter Cove Lane. It is open 24 hours.


Puerto Vallarta – Christmas Is Coming!
One of our main reasons for moving to Puerto Vallarta developed around our growing distaste with spending holidays in the North. We found the lack of commercialism (comparatively) and the meaningfulness of the holiday in Puerto Vallarta completely captured our heart. Many years ago we were enchanted by our first posada, watching groups walk down the streets, carrying lit candles and singing songs, of which we didn't understand the words at the time, but the warmth and beauty was inescapable.
The following twelve days, after the peregrinations are complete, are devoted to symbolically finding a place for the Christ child to be born. The posadas are a time when businesses show gratitude and throw fiestas for employees; everyone gets a good dose of mutual admiration. Gift exchanges, splendid dinners and bonuses are the itinerary for the evening. Posadas also take place in neighborhoods, one home designated as a central destination. Offerings are gathered with celebrations often involving a local church or parish.
Christmas Eve in Puerto Vallarta is family night, with traditional dinner and a late night visit to the church. Christmas Day is reserved for relaxing and opening the home to visitors. We have discovered it's also a great day to go to the beach!
Christmas trees are available but we have found they perish quickly in the heat. If you decide to get one, remember they are shipped from a distant location, stored on a truck for several days, perhaps weeks, and need constant watering.
In Puerto Vallarta, as in all of Mexico, you will hear Nat King Cole roasting chestnuts until January 6th, when the Three Kings arrive with gifts for the newborn messiah. They will come in the form of little presents for the kiddies, hot chocolate and rosca, a large wreathed bread with a tiny plastic baby hidden inside. Whoever finds the baby in their serving is honored to serve tamales on February 2, a day mixed with Catholicism, pre-Hispanic celebrations and the midway point between the solstice and equinox. For us, it's a day we hopefully are lucky enough to finally pack away the holiday decorations.


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A Look at What California Has Done So Far About Reparations
When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in 2020 to create a statewide panel to study and recommend ways to implement reparations for Black Californians, many lauded it as an overdue step toward racial justice.
"California has historically led the country on civil rights, yet we have not come to terms with our state's ugly past that allowed slaveholding within our borders and returned escaped slaves to their masters," Shirley Weber, a Democrat from San Diego who sponsored the legislation in the Assembly, said in a statement at the time. Newsom's signature on the bill, she added, "once again demonstrates that our state is dedicated to leading the nation on confronting and addressing systemic injustice."
Recently, I took a step-back look at what California has done in the two years after the measure was signed.
For months, a nine-member task force has traveled between Los Angeles and San Francisco to learn about the generational effects of racist policies and actions — research that will help them devise proposals for concrete restitution to address the enduring economic effects of slavery and racism.
"We are looking at reparations on a scale that is the largest since Reconstruction," Jovan Scott Lewis, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who is a member of the task force, told me.
Next year, the panel will release a report to lawmakers in Sacramento outlining recommendations for state-level reparations.
While many details remain unclear, the task force has decided that the Californians eligible will be descendants of enslaved African Americans or of a "free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century."
Nearly 6.5 percent of California residents, roughly 2.5 million people, identify as Black or African American. But in recent decades, the percentage has decreased — it was 7.4 percent in 1990 — as immigrants from Latin America and Asia have become a larger share of the state's population and as some Black Californians have moved to cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix in search of a more affordable cost of living.
As I followed the work of the panel in recent months, I heard many stories of redlining and lost property, sometimes laid out in emotional testimony at community meetings.
A preliminary report by the task force this year outlined how a so-called blight law from 1945 paved the way for officials to use eminent domain to destroy Black communities, including shuttering more than 800 businesses and displacing 4,700 households in San Francisco's Western Addition beginning in the 1950s.
That report led me to the site of Russell City, for decades an unincorporated parcel of Alameda County near the San Francisco Bay shoreline, where many Black families fleeing racial terror in the Deep South built lives during the Great Migration. Russell City was annexed into Hayward in the 1960s, and the city and county bought up some properties and seized others through eminent domain.
Amid the uproar in 2020 over the murder of George Floyd, a Hayward resident named Artavia Berry knew she had to do something.
"We could not look away from what happened right here," said Berry, who learned the history of Russell City after moving to the region a decade ago.
Berry, who leads the Community Services Commission, a municipal advisory body, composed a formal apology from the City of Hayward to onetime residents of Russell City. Last year, the City Council approved a resolution including the apology, as well as several follow-up steps.
"Russell City is one of many stories of tragedy and loss experienced by Black families all across this state," she told me. "We cannot as a society turn away from it."
Read Kurtis's full article in The Times.
Kurtis Lee is an economics correspondent, based in Los Angeles.
If you read one story, make it this
Computer science students are facing a shrinking Big Tech job market.
The rest of the news
Big Oil: Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced a proposal in the State Legislature that could make California the first state to fine oil companies for exorbitant profits, The Associated Press reports.
Winter in the west: Severe drought areas of California are seeing more than double their regular snowpack after two back-to-back snow storms pelted the region, CNN reports.
Michael Avenatti: The lawyer known for representing the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against former President Donald J. Trump was sentenced to 14 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from his clients and avoiding taxes.
Teachers' union raise: The Los Angeles teachers' union is pressing its demand for a 20 percent raise over two years, The Los Angeles Times reports.
HBO Max: HBO Max is back on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., a little more than a year after its departure, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Case dropped: District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp of Fresno County called the case against the Fresno City Council president, Nelson Esparza, "a complete waste of everybody's time," The Fresno Bee reports.
Conservation efforts: The Pomo Indian tribes of Clear Lake urged Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to enact the federal Endangered Species Act on behalf of a sacred minnow on the verge of going extinct, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Campus security: Yogananda Pittam, the former acting head of the U.S. Capitol Police following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, will be the new chief of campus police at the University of California, Berkley, The Associated Press reports.
For $2.7 million: A Mediterranean-style house in Altadena, a three-bedroom retreat in Palm Springs and a Spanish-style home in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
What we're eating
Puppy chow.
Where we're traveling
Today's tip comes from Allen Brown, who lives in Mt. Shasta:
"Forty to 45 years ago when I was living in Los Angeles, Mono and Inyo Counties were my favorite destinations in California — whether trout fishing, hiking or viewing October colors. Then, in 1980, we left the city for Redding in Northern California. When the population of the greater metro area there went from 40,000 to 120,000, we moved 65 miles north to the city of Mount Shasta (population: 3,600).
While there are literally a hundred miles of hiking and biking trails and logging roads within 10 minutes, some have special attractions that are easily reached. Trailheads to dozens of waterfalls and lakes are less than 20 minutes away. There's Middle Falls of the McCloud River. Upper and Lower Falls are even more accessible, albeit not quite as impressive. In summer there are plenty of teens and 20-somethings jumping from lava walls."
Tell us about your favorite places to visit in California. Email your suggestions to [email protected]. We'll be sharing more in upcoming editions of the newsletter.
We're writing about how Californians celebrate the holidays. Do you relax by the beach, visit Disneyland or make tamales with your family? Maybe you always travel to a special spot within the Golden State.
Email us at [email protected] with your California holiday traditions and memories. Please include your name and the city where you live.
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And before you go, some good news
The results are in: Michelin added 18 restaurants to its California guide, including one new three-star restaurant in San Diego and 17 new one-star restaurants across the state. The star announcements came at a live event held Sunday at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
Among the 89 new and continuing picks on the list of Michelin-starred restaurants in California are Orsa & Winston in downtown Los Angeles, Nisei in San Francisco and Bell's in Los Alamos.
Thanks for reading. We'll be back tomorrow.
P.S. Here's today's Mini Crossword.
Soumya Karlamangla, Briana Scalia and Isabella Grullón Paz contributed to California Today. You can reach the team at [email protected].
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Gilberto Maringoni de Oliveira (São Paulo, 23 de agosto de 1958) é um jornalista, cartunista e professor universitário brasileiro. É professor de Relações Internacionais da Universidade Federal do ABC, tendo lecionado também na Faculdade Cásper Líbero e na Universidade Federal de São Paulo.

Biografia
Gilberto Maringoni é doutor em História Social pela FFLCH-USP. É autor de doze livros, entre eles "A Venezuela que se inventa – poder, petróleo e intriga nos tempos de Chávez" (Editora Fundação Perseu Abramo, 2004), "Roberto Simonsen -Eugênio Gudin – Desenvolvimento, o debate pioneiro de 1944-1945' (IPEA, 2010) e "Angelo Agostini - a imprensa ilustrada da Corte à Capital Federal, 1864-1910" (Devir Livraria, 2011), baseado em uma tese de doutorado e que foi premiado com um Troféu HQ Mix em 2012. Foi editor da revista Desafios do Desenvolvimento, do Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, entre 2011 e 2012 e pesquisador do Instituto entre 2008 e 2011.

Foi chargista do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo de 1989 a 1996. Publicou histórias em quadrinhos no Brasil, França, Espanha, Portugal e Itália.

Ativismo político
É ativista político desde 1977. Atuou no movimento estudantil, no final dos anos 1970, tempos finais da ditadura. Foi dirigente do PT, no qual militou entre 1988 e 2005, desligando-se do partido por divergências com seus rumos. Desde então é filiado ao PSOL, chegando a ser membro de sua direção nacional.

Gilberto Maringoni foi candidato a governador do Estado de São Paulo nas eleições de 2014 pelo PSOL.

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Cartunistas do Brasil
Jornalistas do Brasil
Pesquisadores do Brasil
Membros do Partido Socialismo e Liberdade
Autores de banda desenhada do Brasil
Professores da Faculdade de Comunicação Social Cásper Líbero
Pesquisadores de histórias em quadrinhos
Alunos da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo
Professores da Universidade Federal do ABC

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The search committee also includes co-chair Kelly Firment, Doneene Damon, Marilyn Hayward, Bill Dugdale, Don Nicholson Jr., Laura Schutt and Cindy Szabo.
Kittleman President and CEO Richard M. King will serve as the lead consultant for the search.
King is slated to attend the board's next meeting on June 16 to discuss the search process. The nationwide search is expected to last 60 to 90 days, with the goal of having a new president and CEO in place by November.
The 29-year-old foundation manages about 1,200 charitable funds for individuals and organizations, totaling $285 million in assets. About $13 million in annual income from those funds is distributed locally and internationally in the form of grants and scholarship.
Sears has served as president and CEO of the foundation since late 2002. During his tenure, the organization has tripled the amount of long-term charitable funds it manages.
Prior to joining the foundation, Sears had a 38-year career in banking, most recently serving as president of Commerce Bank/Delaware. A longtime civic leader, he also has served on the boards of directors for more than 40 community nonprofit organizations.
Sears said he plans to remain active on several boards after his retirement.
Inquiries and applications should be directed to Kittleman at (312) 986-1166 or www.kittlemansearch.com.


Let me tell you as a Tech Alum that this is about traditional football. This is the only football in the area entrenched in traditional football ideals set in stone by Spike **** running an I formation and handing the ball to Bam Morris on 3 down and 8. This is about who gets credit for the rise of a program. Gerald Myers wants it and Leach should get it, so the man in power finds a way to cut him loose. I call it "Jerry Jones Syndrome".
"Brewed by brewers, not chemistered by chemists".
Stephen's (reasonable) complaint is that "if it weren't for chemists, there would be no commercial brewing". But I was more interested in the copywriter's attempt to create a verb for what chemists do to things, by a bizarre sort of chiasmic analogy: brewer:brew::chemist:chemister.
Singular y'all: a "devious Yankee rumor"?
I am writing you because I encountered the perplexing singular y'all while watching trailers for Disney's newest film, The Princess and the Frog. Now, not being a Southerner I can't attest to my own usage of "y'all," but my linguistic intuition is in accord with your Language Log posting "Out of the y'all zone" (9/18/2005), namely that y'all is generally not used to address singular individuals, but plural and occasionally implied plurals. […] In the cited trailer, Tiana uses singular y'all three times. Addressing the frog with evident dismay, she says "So what now? I reckon y'all want a kiss." at 0:32. And then again, at 2:14, when the frog is dismayed that she will not kiss him after her apparent offer, she retorts "I didn't expect y'all to answer!" In the intervening time, she does refer to him (using apparently less careless or emotionally influenced wording) as standard second person singular "you." Finally, "Y'all don't look that much different… but how'd you get way up there?" 3:13. This last example is perhaps the most perplexing of all, as it contains both forms.
Octopuses have been observed carrying coconut shells in what researchers [in Current Biology] claim is the first recorded example of tool use in invertebrates.
Ask LL: A paradox of words?
This year I have started to notice an ambiguous use of the terms Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. In the good old days, it seems to me that those terms commonly were used to mean the evening of the day before Christmas Day/New Year's Day. Now, in addition to those meanings, I have been hearing them used to mean the entire day before Christmas Day and New Year's Day, especially in weather forecasts and financial news. Are the terms Christmas Eve Day and New Year's Eve Day becoming less popular? I admit it does save a few bits here and there; maybe the occasional ambiguity is worth it.
"Mmm-MO-om, Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence!"
The pitch matches the stress, low-high-low. The first syllable is brief but clearly discernible. I suppose one could argue that it's not a true syllable, since it lacks a vowel, but the word is certainly three distinct beats.
A piece of fluff on the op-ed page of the NYT on December 28: Philip Niemeyer, "Picturing the Past 10 Years", with an item a year for 2000 through 2009 in twelve categories. The last two categories are words: Nouns and Verbs.
Following up on "The order of ancestors" (12/24/2009) and "Sexual orders" (12/27/2009), I need to note one other important recent paper: Sarah Benor and Roger Levy, "The Chicken or the Egg? A Probabilistic Analysis of English Binomials", Language 82(2): 233-278, 2006. And several readers have pointed me to an older tradition of corpus linguistics that comes to a different set of conclusions about binomial ordering: Mishnah Keritot 6:9, etc.
Snowclones, in Geoff Pullum's early formulation, were defined as "some-assembly-required adaptable cliché frames for lazy journalists." Of course, the field of snowclonology has moved beyond "lazy journalists" to a consideration of phrasal templates used by the broader populace, in varieties exhibiting a wide range of creativity. But journalists who have many column inches to fill remain a fertile source for the more clichéd strain of snowclones.
Sports journalism might be particularly prone to such hackneyed phrase-making. Case in point: in his most recent Monday Morning Quarterback column for Sports Illustrated, Peter King wrote that Carolina Panthers receiver Steve Smith "leads the NFL in guts." The sports blog Deadspin had already been tracking King's "funny little tic of expressing abundance by saying something like, '[Person or Team X] leads the league in [Intangible Category Y].'" Deadspin's Tommy Craggs then laid out the damning evidence of King's endless snowcloning.
In the comments on "The order of ancestors" (12/24/2009), there was some discussion about the possible role of gender bias in determining the preference for orders like "mothers and fathers" over "fathers and mothers". This discussion faced a basic empirical problem: there were more plausibly-relevant principles (a long list of apparent semantic and phonological preferences) than there were facts to explain.
In this post, I'll review in more depth the evidence about the preferred orders of English binomial expressions for gendered categories of humans. This review will leave us in the same logical impasse. Then I'll tell you about the clever solution found by Saundra Wright, Jennifer Hay and Tessa Bent in their paper "Ladies first? Phonology, frequency, and the naming conspiracy", Linguistics 43(3): 531–561, 2005.


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Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. As of the 2020 Census, the population of Minneapolis was 429,954.

Population and age

The population of Minneapolis has declined since its peak of 521,718 in 1950, with a small rebound between the periods of 1990 to 2000 and 2000 to 2010. The U.S. Census Bureau reported 382,578 in 2010, down from 382,618 in the 2000 Census. In contrast, the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area including the suburbs doubled in population since 1950 and now has approximately 3.5 million residents.

In 1950, approximately 70.0% of the metropolitan area's population was concentrated in the two core cities of Minneapolis and its twin city, St. Paul, Minnesota. By 2010, the two cities held only 20.0% of the metropolitan area total population. Increased housing production such as the construction of condominiums has brought Downtown Minneapolis' population to a little over 30,000 inhabitants.

According to the 2010 Census, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the age distribution was as follows.
 Under 5 years: 7.3%
 5–9 years: 5.4%
 10–14 years: 4.9%
 15–19 years: 7.0%
 20–24 years: 9.7%
 25–34 years: 18.2%
 35–44 years: 15.9%
 45–54 years: 14.1%
 55–59 years: 5.4%
 60–64 years: 3.7%
 65–74 years: 3.9%
 75–84 years: 3.0%
 85 years and over: 1.6%
 Median age: 33.7 years

Race and ethnicity

As of the 2020 Census, the racial composition was 58.1% non-Hispanic White, 18.9% Black or African American, 10.4% Hispanic or Latino, 5.8% Asian or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, 1.2% American Indian, and 0.5% some other race. 5.24% were of two or more races.

From the 19th century until about 1950, Minneapolis hovered around 99.0% white. As of the 2000 Census, non-Hispanic whites represented 62.5% of Minneapolis's population. Since the 1950s, the city has been diversifying. Immigrants from countries such as Somalia, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia have brought Minneapolis a more ethnically diverse population. However, out of the nation's 100 largest cities, Minneapolis is one of seventeen cities in which the trend of white demographic decline has halted or even reversed. According to the recent 2021 estimates, non-Hispanic whites now represent 61.1% of Minneapolis's population, up from the 2020 census figure of 58.1%.

Blacks settled in the region as early as the late 19th century after the American Civil War when northern cities were seen as havens from the cultural politics of the South. However, blacks who did not gain mobility into the middle-class were concentrated in public housing ghettos. This resulted in a lawsuit in the 1990s and public housing was subsequently dispersed in the metropolitan area. After the 1960s when much of the white flight occurred, the black population largely settled on the north side of Minneapolis.

Asians historically did not have a significant presence, but there are roughly 17,700 Asians in Minneapolis today, and their influence is growing. Their history began with labor workers working on railroads in the late 19th century who resettled in Minneapolis. These were mostly southern Chinese and in time brought families and others seeking fortune. The 20th century saw movement from other parts of East Asia including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. U.S. events in that region resulted in a greater influx of these populations, though Minneapolis only saw a small portion of the immigration, as most of these immigrants settled in California. Chinese dominated the group until the Vietnam War and its aftermath generated a large refugee migration of Southeast Asians into South Minneapolis in the 1970s. The Hmong nomadic clans were offered settlement and though the largest center of Hmong people is in St. Paul, a significant share settled in Minneapolis. As a result, the 2000 Census reported 13,883 people who marked "Other Asian" in the tic box, half of the Asian American group, while Chinese numbered at 2,447 people. As of the 2006–08 American Community Survey, there are 8,315 who were of the "Other Asian" group and there were 2,925 Chinese Americans residing in Minneapolis.

A large number of the Somali immigrants settled in Minneapolis, which in 2002 harbored the largest population of Somalis in North America. According to 2010 American Community Survey data, there were approximately 85,700 people with Somali ancestry in the US. Of those, about 25,000 or one third were living in Minnesota.

There is a growing Mexican population in South and Northeast Minneapolis.

Languages

78.8% of the population speaks only English at home. Other languages spoken include Spanish (7.1%), Somali (3.7%), Hmong (2.2%), and Vietnamese (1.5%). Other languages spoken by smaller percentages of the population include Oromo, Russian, Amharic, Chinese, and French. 8.4% speak English less than "very well". These statistics are based on self-reported language use and may not capture all the languages spoken in Minneapolis.

Nativity

14.8% of Minneapolis residents were not born in the United States.

Households and families
According to the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, there were a total of 155,155 households, out of which 45.3% were family households and 54.7% were non-family households. Of the family households, 21.9% had children under the age of 18 living in them while 29.1% were married couples. In addition, 4.8% of family households were made up of a male householder with no wife present and 11.4% were made up of a female householder with no husband present. Non-family households were 54.7% of all households. Of the non-family households, 42.7% were made up of a householder living alone and 7.4% were made up of a householder living alone who was 65 years of age and over. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 3.11.

Income, employment and disparity
After the recent boom of the 1990s, Minneapolis still lags behind its suburban counterparts in terms of income and employment. Job growth was double in suburban areas and with it, the labor force is growing faster outside the city. Though city wages are exceeding regional jobs, most of the increases are in the downtown area and in corporate industries where employees may not necessarily live inside the city. When downtown is excluded from the statistics, Minneapolis' neighborhood wages are 92.0% of their suburban counterparts. Neighborhoods have gained 5,300 jobs since 1996 but the industry makeup has changed with stable manufacturing and trade jobs losing the most in favor of education, health and service jobs.

Though jobs are leaving the city, Minneapolis has a highly educated work force. The share of adults in the labor force was 70.0% and the recorded low unemployment rate was 4.7% in 2002. However, racial and ethnic minorities lag behind White counterparts with 15.0% of African Americans and 13.0% of Hispanics holding bachelor's degrees, compared to 42.0% of European Americans. About 15.8% of families and 21.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 33.1% of those under age 18 and 12.4% of those aged 65 or over.

Regionally, the population is continuing to decentralize away from Minneapolis, relocating families and middle to upper income brackets outside the city. Growth in the middle class has been slow with the 2000 median household income at $37,974 and the median family income at $48,602. However, the median household income now stands at $44,478 and the median family income now stands at $59,816.

Religion
According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 70% of the population of the Minneapolis metro area identified themselves as Christians, with 46% professing attendance at a variety of churches that could be considered Protestant, and 21% professing Roman Catholic beliefs. while 23% claim no religious affiliation. The same study says that other religions (including Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism) collectively make up about 5% of the population.

31% of residents attend religious service at least once a week, 33% attend at least a few times a year, and 36% do only seldom or never at all. 42% pray at least daily. 69% believe in Heaven, and 51% believe in Hell.

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20080517042659/http://www.theus50.com/minnesota/history.shtml

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Culture of Minneapolis
Economy of Minneapolis
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Much has been written about China's health care system and the strides it has made in public health, but less attention has been paid to the physical environments this progress has made within. There is a lack of coherent information regarding China's health policies and demographic trends as they relate to the design of health care environments. Health care design is inextricably linked to the achievement of government targets in public health and should be taken as seriously as improvements in education, funding and human resources.
This report aims to provide key areas of focus for the planning and design of health care facilities in China to ensure that facilities designed and built in the coming years can cope with existing and future challenges as well as actively contribute to the achievement of government health goals.
Data and information from publicly available government policy documents and national health statistics, reports and data from international non-government organisations, and journal articles regarding contemporary conditions in China's health care system were compiled and analysed.
Data and information were collated to form a clear story of China's current health care market and population health as well as aims for them in the coming years in relation to the design of health care facilities in the country. Although the government publishes annual statistics, it is not always clear how the figures have been reached and the years for comparison are not always consistent. Meanwhile, some publications provided more detail regarding how the statistics were calculated than others. This meant that the author used as many documents as possible to gather trend data on various health statistics.
Four key impact areas emerged from the study: the urban-rural divide and the HuKou; health insurance and current health policy; the One Child Policy and demographics; and the end of the One Child Policy relating to the care of women and children. From each of these key impact areas two design recommendations or opportunities were extracted: urbanization requiring growth and flexibility in health care; a focus on health care environments improving rural health; improving the patient-doctor interaction through waiting design; impacts of prioritising primary health on facility requirements; elderly population's needs from design; need for China specific elderly care typologies; impact of LDR design on cesarean section rate targets; and paediatric design considering shifting family structures.
The results are presented in the form of a written report supported by graphs, tables and other graphics to visually represent data and conclusions.
HKS is a global firm working all over the world, including in China's health care market. It will be beneficial to designers and planners to understand problems and opportunities that exist in the health care market in 2019, and those that might develop over the next decades, to ensure that the facilities we design today continue to serve users' needs and government objectives for years to come.
This knowledge, and further knowledge built from this report, will enable designers to directly contribute to the achievements of public health targets in China.


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Sweden: a history of neutrality ends after 200 years
Sweden's application to join NATO in May marks a major shift away from its long-standing position as a neutral state, dating back to 1812.
But after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the decision now seems to receive broad political support in the Swedish government, parliament and population. Swedish public support for NATO membership has gradually increased over the past decade, by 58% now in favor and only 19% were against. The major Swedish political parties all decided to support membership applicationalso.
Sweden's neutrality began after a catastrophic loss of territory to Russia during the Napoleonic Wars of 1812, and this security policy later enabled the country to distance itself from the changing military alliances in Europe during 19th century. During the 20th century, Sweden's neutrality developed into an active internationalist foreign policy that promotes international peace and security through diplomacy, cooperative security arrangements and international organizations.
Through Cold War, Sweden used its neutral position to dampen the confrontation between the East-West blocs; while clearly adapting to support for democracy, human rights and liberal market systems. After the end of the Cold War, Sweden energetically supported the work of developing a new cooperative European security regime centered on rules on conflict prevention and respect for national sovereignty and borders, which are embedded in the agreements Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Within this framework, Sweden sought not only to increase its own security but also security in the Nordic and Baltic regions. This included the newly independent states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to which Sweden has a strong cultural, social and political connection.
Russia's increasingly assertive foreign and security policy under President Vladimir Putin since 2004 posed increasing challenges to these goals. Although Sweden has not been a prominent focus of Russian government pressure and provocations, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have definitely done so. They became regular targets of cyber warfare and military incidents with Russian forces on their boundaries. Russia's military 2008 intervention in Georgia increased security fears in the Baltics so that their neighbor could also intervene in their territory, and Sweden and Finland inevitably followed these security debates closely.
From 2008 onwards, Sweden discovered secret Russian submarine operations within its territorial waters in the Baltic Sea. It was frustrated that these incidents continued despite diplomatic protests against Russia. In response, Sweden reversed the liquidation of its anti-submarine warfareand forced strong restrictions about Russian commercial activities on Gotland and other Swedish islands.
The Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the intervention in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine confirmed that Russia no longer accepted previously agreed national borders. It also strengthened the arguments within Sweden and Finland that Russian military activities in the Baltic Sea can signal preparation for an intervention in one or more of the Baltic States.
Read more: Turkey: why it wants to block Sweden and Finland from joining NATO – and what it stands to lose
Neutral states know they can not rely on allies for military aid. So they invest relatively much in defense. For example, Sweden and Finland, which applied for at the same time join NATO, maintains strong territorial defense forces and is well equipped with relatively advanced weapon systems. As EU members, both countries became relaxed with interpretations of their neutralityin the sense that they followed the development of the EU's common foreign and security policy, including parts of defense cooperation.
Defense has been added
Following Russia's interventions in Ukraine in 2014, Sweden realized that it would need military cooperation and assistance from other states to realistically prepare for a possible Russian move into the Baltic Sea region. Sweden started working closely together in military matters with Finland, at the same time as Nordic defense co-operation with (NATO members) Denmark and Norway is increasing.
As EU members, Sweden and Finland could also make use of defense co-operation, even though these were considered insufficient for serious defense and deterrence against Russia. So they also quiet but fast developed defense ties with the United States and the United Kingdom. In May 2018, for example, Sweden, Finland and the United States signed a letter of intent to develop close cooperation on military exercises and interoperability, and defense preparedness.
In another significant move, Sweden reintroduced military conscription in January 2018 and in October 2020 defense bill included significant increases in military spending. It is also reintroduced a garrison on Gotland due to its strategic location in the Baltic Sea.
None of these developments meant that Sweden (or Finland) had plans to join NATO in 2021 – on the contrary, public debates on this issue were completely unresolved. But they provided a context for them to quickly establish shared understandings of the implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
After Swedish opinion on NATO membership changed decisively, the government and interested parliamentarians could quickly realize that NATO membership was a logical next step. The governments of Sweden and Finland closely coordinated the timing of their applications to join NATO, in order to avoid risks of political isolation and to reflect their defense co-operation. Strong Russian objections were foreseen, however is considered manageableespecially if both countries acted together.
Sweden and Finland each provide significant military resources as well as political forces to NATO, and it is very likely that their membership applications will be accepted fairly smoothly, despite initial Turkish objections. Their membership will strengthen both NATO and its focus on security and deterrence in the Baltic region.
In the medium to long term, NATO debates on the roles and deployments of nuclear weapons can be expected to increase, as both countries have traditionally supported nuclear disarmament. But in the next few years, issues of Russia's war against Ukraine and the defense and security of the Baltic states are likely to dominate NATO and Swedish defense agendas.
Author: Owen Greene – Professor of International Security and Development, University of Bradford
Source: sn.dk
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Swedish, American troops exercise on the re-militarized Baltic Sea island
Ukraine's summary: Donbas prepares for a "knife fight"
The war in Ukraine threatens the geopolitical balance in the Arctic
Finland, Sweden Offer NATO an edge as rivalry heats up in the north
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How to Use Business Statistics to Your Advantage
By: Cathy Habas
Reviewed by: Jayne Thompson, LL.B., LL.M.
8 Data Collection Tips for Small Businesses
How often do you make decisions by trusting your gut? Perhaps this works in your personal life, but the business world offers so much information that you can and should leverage before making decisions. After all, with the financial risk associated with running a company, why not take the time to evaluate as many business statistics as possible to make informed decision making?
Sometimes, you'll still rely on your personal experience and that intuitive feeling in your gut, but collecting business statistics will keep you aware of trends among your customers and competitors. In turn, this helps you stay poised to make strategic moves when the window of opportunity presents itself.
While it will likely help you tremendously to invest some time and money in an introductory statistics or business statistics course, this outline of data analysis will give you an idea of what course materials may look like to get your mind flowing. Business decisions will come much more naturally and accurately with some statistics under your belt.
So, at what confidence intervals are you currently making your decisions?
Why Bother With Business Statistics?
Business statistics have a range of applications and help business owners and managers to make decisions at all levels. For example, statistics could be used to determine whether the business's selling proposition is viable, which concerns the entire company, or whether a particular newsletter design converts more leads, which mainly concerns the marketing department.
Stats prove useful in guiding product development, marketing campaigns, market research and even internal processes. For example, if you want to switch to a more productive project-management software, you first need to gather data about your team's current level of productivity and analyze weak areas.
Simply collecting data isn't enough to help business owners make decisions. The information also has to be interpreted, which is where various statistical analysis techniques come into play. Often, the data can be run through a computer program to deliver mathematical calculations in the blink of an eye, but only a human team can understand the significance of those calculations and make a strategic decision as a result.
Data-Collection Methods
Numerous types of data-collection methods exist, and the method you choose depends on your end goal. Don't assume that you should only collect quantifiable data, such as sales numbers, because statistical analyses can still be performed on complex qualitative data, such as survey results.
So, start by making a list of questions that you want answered followed by a list of the data that could provide answers. The final list should include potential ways to procure that information. Some common data-collection methods include customer surveys, focus groups and personal interviews as well as simply keeping detailed records on every purchase, lead, marketing channel and endeavor. Experiments, typically in the form of A/B testing, can also provide insightful data.
Also, you can collect meaningful data from outside your organization. Look up information about your competitors to understand their strengths, weaknesses and foothold in the market. The government, especially the Small Business Administration, also publishes free market reports about many industries. If your business budget allows for it, ready-made market reports can also be purchased from third parties.
Avoiding Common Statistical Biases
Finding an appropriate source for your data is just the first step. Next, you have to consider whether any statistical biases exist in the data you've collected or are about to collect. For example, you need to have as large of a sample size as possible for an accurate analysis. You also need to ensure you look at all appropriate variables ("omitted variable bias") and don't exclude important data points ("survivorship bias").
Biases are especially problematic for data-collection methods like surveys or interviews. If you want to send out a survey, choosing to only send it to your closest friends is an example of selection bias. To combat this bias, try to get random samples of survey respondents as much as possible. However, the people who choose to respond present a self-selection bias, which means you won't get the opinion of people who simply aren't interested enough to participate.
An observer bias tends to occur in focus groups or one-on-one interviews and happens when the interviewer asks questions in such a way that implies an expected answer. If respondents don't remember events very well, they have a recall bias. Although it may be difficult to avoid common statistical biases, being aware of their presence can help you interpret the data with a grain of salt.
Using Statistical-Analysis Software
You don't need a Ph.D. in math to learn how to do statistical analysis, especially since so many tools and programs exist with the sole purpose of making this as easy as possible.
For example, once you know what kind of an analysis you'd like to run on a data set, you can find and select that function in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. With the push of a button, you can have the results in front of you, ready for interpretation. If you want a little more functionality, enhanced visuals or perhaps some built-in interpretation guidance, numerous statistical-analysis software programs are available on the market.
Certain departments within your business can use tailor-made analysis software to build reports and easily look at trends. For example, marketing teams typically track website data such as page views, traffic sources and visitor behavior using a tool like Google Analytics.
Your accounting department could tap into the analytics on its financial program, like QuickBooks. Programs like Salesforce allow the sales team to tap into data about leads, and there's even software for the human resource department to track employee data.
Many other programs that your business already uses have an analytic component. For example, the larger social-media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have built-in analytics to help you track your brand's performance.
Project-management tools have stats about task completion, newsletter programs display stats about the open rate or unsubscribe rate and proposal websites offer stats about the deals you land or lose. Before you try to reinvent the wheel, explore the business statistics currently at your fingertips.
Common Statistical Techniques for Business Data
Now that you have data, it's time to analyze it. Your statistics software or built-in analytics programs might give you some clues as to how to evaluate and interpret your data. However, more often than not, you'll need to tell the programs what to do with the data.
So, what in the world can you do with all this data? It partially depends on the kind of data you gathered and the questions that you want answered. Looking for relationships between variables? Then you'll want to perform a measure of association, the most popular of which are a regression analysis and a chi-square test.
Do you want to distill large data sets down to just a few significant numbers for a presentation or report? Then you'll want to evaluate the measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and data distribution. Are you trying to make sense of survey results? A conjoint analysis could prove useful.
Linear-Regression Analysis and Chi Square
One common question that crops up in the business world is, "Does this variable affect sales/profit/revenue?" The variable under scrutiny could be sales price, store location, time of day, product location in the store or any other factor that piques your curiosity. To answer this question, you need to perform some calculations called "measures of association".
One such calculation is a linear-regression or regression analysis, which compares data sets to determine if the outcome of one variable depends on the value of another variable. After completing the regression formula, you'll end up with a number between 0 and 1 called r-squared (also known as the coefficient of determination).
An r-squared number closer to 1 indicates that the outcome of the dependent variable relies heavily on the independent variable. An r-squared number closer to 0 signifies that the two variables act independently of one another, and modifying one won't affect the other.
Another calculation that evaluates the association of two variables is called a chi-square test. This mathematical formula will yield a result between 0 and 1 called a p-value. If the two variables are statistically significant — in other words, they seem to have a dependent relationship — the p-value will be less than 0.05. A p-value greater than 0.05 suggests that the variables don't have a significant bearing on each other.
Understanding Data Distributions
Once you've gathered quantitative data points, you need to understand some trends in the data. For example, you'll want to know which data point occurs most often (the mode) and calculate the average (the mean) of all the data points so that you have one number with which to work instead of hundreds or thousands. Both the mode and the mean can be a little misleading without first understanding how the data is distributed.
Data distribution refers to the full range of the data from the lowest point to the highest point. Extreme outliers, such as one or two very high or very low data points, can end up skewing the average. That's why it's important to also consider a data point known as the median, which represent the exact middle point in the distribution, as well as a statistic known as the standard deviation. The standard deviation indicates how far away the outliers are from the average, so a high standard deviation tells analysts that it might be better to look at the median versus the mean.
Analyzing Survey Results
When conducting surveys in order to gather data, it's helpful to provide a limited set of answers for respondents to choose. This allows you to analyze the distribution of answers. However, this automatically limits what respondents can say, so it's also helpful to provide an option at some point in the survey for an open-ended response.
Regardless, there are several methods you can use to analyze survey results provided that the survey was set up with these analyses in mind. For example, you can use marketing research techniques like a cluster analysis or factor analysis to look for overlapping traits and values among your survey respondents.
Another useful way to analyze survey results is through a conjoint analysis. This technique helps pinpoint the characteristics that are most important to survey respondents, whether that's a low price, a high-quality product, ease of purchase, free shipping, friendly customer support, etc. What if you built your business with the assumption that free shipping mattered most to your customers when in fact it's the least of their concerns? This is certainly important information.
Interpreting and Applying Statistics in Business
Finally, it's time to put all the tools and software aside and use your brain. Better yet, assemble a team of people to interpret the results and develop a strategic plan.
Do the business statistics suggest that you're doing everything right? It's more likely that the stats highlight areas for improvement. Now it's time to shift from the analytical part of your brain to its creative side: What can you do to improve these stats? There's no right answer, but that's part of why owning a business is such an adventure.
JotForm: Data Collection Methods
Data36: Statistical Bias Types Explained (With Examples) – Part 1
Investopedia: R-Squared Definition
Investopedia: Normal Distribution
StatisticsSolutions: Using Chi-Square Statistics in Research
Encyclopaedia Brittanica: Measure of Association
Cathy Habas specializes in marketing, customer experiences, and behind-the-scenes management. Cathy has contributed to sites like Business and Finance, Business 2 Community, and Inside Small Business. She served as the managing editor for a small content marketing agency before continuing with her writing career.


Berlin: CREDAI, the apex body of real estate sector released two joint reports with leading IPCs, JLL and Cushman & Wakefield at the CREDAI NATCON 2018, its 18th annual international convention held from 02nd – 04th August, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The two reports unveiled at CREDAI NATCON 2018 were a testimony to the unprecedented growth displayed by the real estate industry in India. The CREDAI-JLL report pointed at significant increase in sales velocity, recording a rise of 25% y-o-y with sales at over 64,000 units while another report unveiled at NATCON by CREDAI – Cushman & Wakefield displayed heightened PE investment of INR 10,080 crores in Q2, 2018.


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Tragic death of woman who drowned in hot tub and wasn't found for three days
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Inside the minds of the teenage jihadi brides who fled to join Isis
Man kills five in warehouse shooting spree shortly after being fired, Illinois police say
Reports of active shooter in Illinois / CBS
By: Kristine Phillips, Michael Brice-Saddler, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and Reis Thebault
An employee opened fire inside an Illinois warehouse - killing five people and wounding five police officers - after finding out that he had been fired, authorities said.
Gary Martin, 45, shot several employees Friday (Saturday NZ time), the same day he learned he had been terminated from his job, and immediately began shooting at police officers after they arrived at the warehouse in the Chicago suburb of Aurora, Police Chief Kristen Ziman told reporters. Martin, who was armed with a Smith & Wesson handgun, was killed about an hour later.
"I hate that we have to use the term classic workplace shooting, that pains me to do so. At this time I don't know," Ziman told reporters. "Again, we can only surmise that with a gentleman who's being terminated that this was something he intended to do."
This undated booking photo provided by the Aurora Illinois Police Department shows Gary Montez Martin, who police say killed multiple people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing warehouse. Photo / AP
Investigators have said little else that would explain the rampage, including why Martin was fired, whether the victims were his co-workers or supervisors, or if he was already carrying the gun at the time of his termination. Police also have not said where and how Martin obtained the gun.
The Aurora Police Department is scheduled to have another news conference today.
The five wounded officers were taken to local hospitals, two of whom were transferred at trauma centers, authorities said. One warehouse employee suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
Several 911 calls came just before 1:30pm Friday (local time). Martin fired at the first officers to arrive at the 29,000-square-foot warehouse of Henry Pratt Co., which manufactures water valves. The gunfire continued as more officers arrived. Police later confronted Martin inside the building. He fired at the officers, who then killed him, according to the police department.
Authorities search an apartment complex in Aurora where the gunman who fatally shot several people is believed to have lived. Photo / AP
Gabriel Gonzales, an Iraq War Marine veteran who can see the Henry Pratt warehouse from his front yard, said the number of police vehicles, flashing lights and armoured cars Friday afternoon were giving him flashbacks.
"When you are a combat zone you expect it," said Gonzales. "I've never seen this many police officers anywhere."
He was watching his grandchildren, who were mesmerised by the activity unfolding through the window, and worrying about their brother Anthony, whose school was put under lock down.
Six people killed following US shooting at workplace
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"My grandson had a school lockdown at 8 years old. I mean, can you believe that?" Gonzalez said. "Back when I was a kid, it was just tornadoes."
Employees are escorted from the scene of the shooting. Photo / AP
At the news conference, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said the shooting marked "a sad day in the city."
"For so many years, we've seen similar situations throughout our nation," he said. "To experience it firsthand is even more painful."
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker lauded the efforts of law enforcement officers and first responders before lamenting the "epidemic of gun violence that continues to ravage so many communities."
The victims' families, he said, "join a group that should not exist, yet continues to grow."
Tiffany Probst, 38, a legal assistant said her best friend saw a post on Facebook about the shooting and she started texting "that your dad might be inside!"
A law enforcement officer works at the scene of the shooting. Photo / AP
Her father, John, has worked as a machinist in the building for over 40 years. He has three grown children and has five grandchildren. Probst raced down to the factory, but it was blocked by police.
"I knew there was no way to call him because he's old school and never has a cellphone," then she heard from friends father was giving TV interviews and talking with the police.
"He's safe and talking to the news," she said. "He's not much of a talker, but when it comes to this, I can tell by his voice he's real shaken up. We are looking forward to giving him a hug."
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., tweeted Friday that she was following the situation. "This is a scary, sad day for all Illinoisans and Americans," Duckworth wrote. "Thank you to the brave first responders who risked their lives this afternoon and apprehended the shooter."
First responders and emergency vehicles are gathered near the scene of the shooting. Photo / AP
"My heart breaks for Aurora," Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., tweeted. "I'm tracking updates on the situation with my staff. Thank you to the members of law enforcement who are responding to the emergency."
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She and two others put the shop on lockdown when they saw heavily armed officers heading toward the adjacent Henry Pratt warehouse.
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News reports of an active shooter there confirmed their fears shortly after.
"We are kind of nervous," Caal said. "It looks like something big is going on out there."
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The Standard Works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church, the largest in the Latter Day Saint movement) are the four books that currently constitute its open scriptural canon. The four books of the standard works are:
 The Authorized King James Version as the official scriptural text of the Bible (other versions of the Bible are used in non-English-speaking countries)
 The Book of Mormon, subtitled since 1981 "Another Testament of Jesus Christ"
 The Doctrine and Covenants (D&C)
 The Pearl of Great Price (containing the Book of Moses, the Book of Abraham, Joseph Smith–Matthew, Joseph Smith–History, and the Articles of Faith)

The Standard Works are printed and distributed by the LDS Church both in a single binding called a quadruple combination and as a set of two books, with the Bible in one binding, and the other three books in a second binding called a triple combination. Current editions of the Standard Works include a number of non-canonical study aids, including a Bible dictionary, photographs, maps and gazetteer, topical guide, index, footnotes, cross references, and excerpts from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.

The scriptural canon is "open" due to the Latter-day Saint belief in continuous revelation. Additions can be made to the scriptural canon with the "common consent" of the church's membership. Other branches of the Latter Day Saint movement reject some of the Standard Works or add other scriptures, such as the Book of the Law of the Lord and The Word of the Lord Brought to Mankind by an Angel.

Differences in canonicity across sects

Canons of various Latter Day Saint denominations reject some of the Standard Works canonized by the LDS Church or have included additional works. For instance, the Bickertonite sect does not consider the Pearl of Great Price or Doctrine and Covenants to be scriptural. Rather, they believe that the New Testament scriptures contain a true description of the church as established by Jesus Christ, and that both the King James Version of the Bible and the Book of Mormon are the inspired word of God. Some Latter Day Saint denominations accept earlier versions of the Standard Works or work to develop corrected translations. Others have purportedly received additional revelations.

The Community of Christ points to Jesus Christ as the living Word of God, and it affirms the Bible, along with the Book of Mormon, as well as its own regularly appended version of Doctrines and Covenants as scripture for the church. While it publishes a version of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible—which includes material from the Book of Moses—the Community of Christ also accepts the use of other English translations of the Bible, such as the standard King James Version and the New Revised Standard Version.

Like the aforementioned Bickertonites, the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) rejects the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price, as well as the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, preferring to use only the King James Bible and the Book of Mormon as doctrinal standards. The Book of Commandments is accepted as being superior to the Doctrine and Covenants as a compendium of Joseph Smith's early revelations, but is not accorded the same status as the Bible or the Book of Mormon.

The Word of the Lord and The Word of the Lord Brought to Mankind by an Angel are two related books considered to be scriptural by Fettingite factions that separated from the Temple Lot church. Both books contain revelations allegedly given to former Church of Christ (Temple Lot) Apostle Otto Fetting by an angelic being who claimed to be John the Baptist. The latter title (120 messages) contains the entirety of the former's material (30 msgs.) with additional revelations (90 msgs.) purportedly given to William A. Draves by this same being, after Fetting's death. Neither are accepted by the larger Temple Lot body of believers.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) considers the Bible (when correctly translated), the Book of Mormon, and editions of the Doctrine and Covenants published prior to Joseph Smith's death (which contained the Lectures on Faith) to be inspired scripture. They also hold the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible to be inspired, but do not believe modern publications of the text are accurate. Other portions of The Pearl of Great Price, however, are not considered to be scriptural—though are not necessarily fully rejected either. The Book of Jasher was consistently used by both Joseph Smith and James Strang, but as with other Latter Day Saint denominations and sects, there is no official stance on its authenticity, and it is not considered canonical.
This sect likewise holds as scriptural several prophecies, visions, revelations, and translations printed by James Strang, and published in the Revelations of James J. Strang.

An additional work called The Book of the Law of the Lord is also accepted as inspired scripture by the Strangites. They likewise hold as scriptural several prophecies, visions, revelations, and translations printed by James Strang, and published in the Revelations of James J. Strang. Among other things, this text contains his purported "Letter of Appointment" from Joseph Smith and his translation of the Voree plates.

The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) accepts the following as scripture: the Inspired Version of the Bible (including the Book of Moses and Joseph Smith–Matthew), the Book of Mormon, and the 1844 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants (including the Lectures on Faith). However, the revelation on tithing (section 107 in the 1844 edition; 119 in modern LDS editions) is emphatically rejected by members of this church, as it is not believed to be given by Joseph Smith. The Book of Abraham is rejected as scripture, as are the other portions of the Pearl of Great Price that do not appear in the Inspired Version of the Bible.

Many Latter Day Saint denominations have also either adopted the Articles of Faith or at least view them as a statement of basic theology. (They are considered scriptural by the larger LDS church and are included in The Pearl of Great Price.) At times, the Articles have been adapted to fit the respective belief systems of various faith communities.

Continuing revelation
Under the LDS Church's doctrine of continuing revelation, Latter-day Saints believe in the principle of revelation from God to his children. Individual members are entitled to divine revelation for confirmation of truths, gaining knowledge or wisdom, meeting personal challenges, and so forth. Parents are entitled to revelation for raising their families.

Church members believe that divine revelation for the direction of the entire church comes from God to the President of the Church, who they consider to be a prophet in the same sense as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other biblical leaders. When other members of the First Presidency or Quorum of the Twelve speak as "moved upon by the Holy Ghost", it "shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation." Members are encouraged to ponder these revelations and pray to determine for themselves the truthfulness of doctrine.

Adding to the canon of scripture
The D&C teaches that "all things must be done in order, and by common consent in the church". This applies to adding new scripture. LDS Church president Harold B. Lee taught "The only one authorized to bring forth any new doctrine is the President of the Church, who, when he does, will declare it as revelation from God, and it will be so accepted by the Council of the Twelve and sustained by the body of the Church." There are several instances of this happening in the LDS Church:
June 9, 1830: First conference of the church, The Articles and Covenants of the Church of Christ, now known as D&C 20. If the Bible and Book of Mormon were not sustained on April 6 then they were by default when the Articles and Covenants were sustained. (see D&C 20:8-11)
August 17, 1835: Select revelations from Joseph Smith were unanimously accepted as scripture.  These were later printed in the D&C.
October 10, 1880: The Pearl of Great Price was unanimously accepted as scripture.  Also at that time, other revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants – which had not been accepted as scripture in 1835 because they were received after that date – were unanimously accepted as scripture.
October 6, 1890: Official Declaration 1 was accepted unanimously as scripture. It later began to be published in the Doctrine and Covenants.
April 3, 1976: Two visions (one received by Joseph Smith and the other by Joseph F. Smith) were accepted as scripture and added to the Pearl of Great Price. (The two visions were later moved to the D&C as sections 137 and 138.)
September 30, 1978: Official Declaration 2 was accepted unanimously as scripture. It immediately was added to the Doctrine and Covenants.

When a doctrine undergoes this procedure, the LDS Church treats it as the word of God, and it is used as a standard to compare other doctrines. Lee taught:
It is not to be thought that every word spoken by the General Authorities is inspired, or that they are moved upon by the Holy Ghost in everything they speak and write. Now you keep that in mind. I don't care what his position is, if he writes something or speaks something that goes beyond anything that you can find in the standard works, unless that one be the prophet, seer, and revelator—please note that one exception—you may immediately say, "Well, that is his own idea!" And if he says something that contradicts what is found in the standard works (I think that is why we call them "standard"—it is the standard measure of all that men teach), you may know by that same token that it is false; regardless of the position of the man who says it.

The Bible

English-speaking Latter-day Saints typically study a custom edition of the King James Version of the Bible (KJV), which includes custom chapter headings, footnotes referencing books in the Standard Works, and select passages from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.

Though the KJV was always commonly used, it was officially adopted in the 1950s when J. Reuben Clark, of the church's First Presidency, argued extensively that newer translations, such as Revised Standard Version of 1952, were of lower quality and less compatible with LDS tradition.  After publishing its own KJV edition in 1979, the First Presidency announced in 1992 that the KJV was the church's official English Bible, stating "[w]hile other Bible versions may be easier to read than the King James Version, in doctrinal matters latter-day revelation supports the King James Version in preference to other English translations."  In 2010 this was written into the church's Handbook, which directs official church policy and programs.

A Spanish version, with a similar format and using a slightly revised version of the 1909 Reina-Valera translation, was published in 2009. Latter-day Saints in other non-English speaking areas may use other versions of the Bible.

Though the Bible is part of the LDS canon and members believe it to be the word of God, they believe that omissions and mistranslations are present in even the earliest known manuscripts. They claim that the errors in the Bible have led to incorrect interpretations of certain passages. Thus, as church founder Joseph Smith explained, the church believes the Bible to be the word of God "as far as it is translated correctly". The church teaches that "[t]he most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations".

The manuscripts of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible state that "the Songs of Solomon are not inspired scripture," and therefore it is not included in LDS canon and rarely studied by members of the LDS Church. However, it is still printed in every version of the King James Bible published by the church.

The Apocrypha
Although the Apocrypha was part of the 1611 edition of the KJV, the LDS Church does not currently use the Apocrypha as part of its canon. Joseph Smith taught that while the contemporary edition of the Apocrypha was not to be relied on for doctrine, it was potentially useful when read with a spirit of discernment.

Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible

Joseph Smith translated selected verses of the Bible, working by subject. His complete work is known as the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, or the Inspired Version. Although this selected translation is not generally quoted by church members, the English Bible issued by the church and commonly used by Latter-day Saints contains cross-references to the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), as well as an appendix containing longer excerpts from it. Excerpts that were too long to include in the Bible appendix are included in the Pearl of Great Price as the Book of Moses (for Genesis 1:1-6:13) and Joseph Smith-Matthew (for Matthew 23:39-24:51 and Mark 13).

The Book of Mormon

Latter-day Saints consider the Book of Mormon a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It contains a record of God's dealings with the prophets and ancient inhabitants of the Americas. The introduction to the book asserts that it "contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting gospel. The book was written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation. Their words, written on gold plates, were quoted and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon."

Segments of the Book of Mormon provide an account of the culture, religious teachings, and civilizations of some of the groups who immigrated to the New World. One came from Jerusalem in 600 B.C., and afterward separated into two nations, identified in the book as the Nephites and the Lamanites. Some years after their arrival, the Nephites met with a similar group, the Mulekites who left the Middle East during the same period. An older group arrived in America much earlier, when the Lord confounded the tongues at the Tower of Babel. This group is known as the Jaredites and their story is condensed in the Book of Ether. The crowning event recorded in the Book of Mormon is the personal ministry of Jesus Christ among Nephites soon after his resurrection. This account presents the doctrines of the gospel, outlines the plan of salvation, and offers men peace in this life and eternal salvation in the life to come.  The latter segments of the Book of Mormon detail the destruction of these civilizations, as all were destroyed except the Lamanites. The book asserts that the Lamanites are among the ancestors of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

According to his record, Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon by gift and power of God through a set of interpreters later referred to as the Urim and Thummim. Eleven witnesses signed testimonies of its authenticity, which are now included in the preface to the Book of Mormon. The Three Witnesses testified to have seen an angel present the gold plates and to have heard God bear witness to its truth. Eight others stated that Joseph Smith showed them the plates and that they handled and examined them.

The Doctrine and Covenants

The church's D&C is a collection of revelations, policies, letters, and statements given to the modern church by past church presidents. This record contains points of church doctrine and direction on church government. The book has existed in numerous forms, with varying content, throughout the history of the church and has also been published in differing formats by the various Latter Day Saint denominations. When the church chooses to canonize new material, it is typically added to the Doctrine and Covenants; the most recent changes were made in 1981.

The Pearl of Great Price

The Pearl of Great Price is a selection of material produced by Joseph Smith and deals with many significant aspects of the faith and doctrine of the church.  Many of these materials were initially published in church periodicals in the early days of the church.

The Pearl of Great Price contains five sections:
 Selections from the Book of Moses:  portions of the Book of Genesis from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.
 The Book of Abraham: a translation from papyri acquired by Smith in 1835, dealing with Abraham's journeys in Egypt.  The work contains many distinctive Mormon doctrines such as exaltation.
 Joseph Smith–Matthew: portions of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.
 Joseph Smith–History: a first-person narrative of Smith's life before the founding of the church. The material is taken from Documentary History of the Church and is based on a history written by Smith in 1838.
 The Articles of Faith: concise listing of thirteen fundamental doctrines of Mormonism composed by Smith in 1842.

Church instruction
Historically, in the church's Sunday School and Church Educational System (CES) classes, the standard works have been studied and taught in a four-year rotation:

Year One: Old Testament (also includes some coverage of related topics in the Book of Moses and Book of Abraham from the Pearl of Great Price)
Year Two: New Testament
Year Three: Book of Mormon
Year Four: Doctrine and Covenants and Church History

However, church leaders have emphasized that members should not restrict their study of the standard works to the particular book being currently studied in Sunday School or other religious courses. Specifically, church president Ezra Taft Benson taught:

At present, the Book of Mormon is studied in our Sunday School and seminary classes every fourth year. This four-year pattern, however, must not be followed by Church members in their personal and family study. We need to read daily from the pages of [that] book ....

In November 2014, the church announced changes in the curriculum to be used within CES, including the church's four institutions of higher education, such as Brigham Young University.  The church's seminary program will retain the current four-year rotation of study.  Beginning in the fall of 2015, incoming institute of religion and CES higher education students will be required to take four new cornerstone courses:

Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel
Foundations of the Restoration
The Teachings and Doctrine of the Book of Mormon
The Eternal Family

The church's intent is to further integrate the teachings found in the Standard Works with that of church leaders and other current sources.

See also
 Book of Joseph, untranslated scripture from Joseph Smith Papyri
 Kinderhook plates, incomplete non-canonized translation made by Joseph Smith
 Lectures on Faith, decanonized in 1921
 List of non-canonical revelations in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

References

External links
Quadruple Combination: Official Edition of the Standard Works (King James Bible, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price) in PDF format, including footnotes, chapter headings and supplemental material.
Official Edition of the LDS standard works with cross references and study helps

Latter Day Saint terms