Lloyd recently stopped by ELLE to participate in a game of their "Song Association" series.
The aim of the challenge is to sing a record which includes the word that is given to them in under 10 seconds.
However, the New Orleans-born artist changed the rules a little bit when the word "Hot" came up as he proceeded to rap Lil Wayne's "Tha Block Is Hot" single.
You can check out Lloyd rap a bit of Wayne music in season 3 episode 4 of ELLE's "Song Association" series after the jump below. Enjoy!
During season 9 episode 14 of Shameless, which was the season finale, a Lil Wayne song was included on the TV show.
Throughout the last 3 minutes of the American comedy television series on SHOWTIME, Weezy's "Mess" could be heard playing in the background.
You can watch the ending part of Shameless' "Found" episode that plays Tunechi's Tha Carter V track after the jump below! Did anyone else spot this?
Kevin Hart recently recorded himself working out in his gym while listening to Lil Wayne's latest album, Tha Carter V.
You can watch the comedian and actor messing around in the gym as Weezy's "Open Safe" song can be heard playing in the background below!
Is Tunechi's "Open Safe" one of your favorite tracks off C5?
Outside of the 4th annual "Lil Weezyana Fest" in New Orleans, Louisiana last weekend (August 25th), there was official Lil Wayne merchandise designed by Ignored Prayers that sold out immediately.
After this news and Tunechi loving the merch himself, Ignored Prayers are now doing a limited online release of their "Lil Weezyana" hats and t-shirt, so that us fans who couldn't make it to this year's music festival can purchase them.
You can get a better look at the tee and the black and white snapbacks below, as well as see a short clip of Weezy wearing one of the hats during rehearsals. Click here to go to the official Ignored Prayers website to purchase the merch before they sell out again! Will you be copping one of the items?


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Judge orders Orange County contractor to reimburse defrauded homeowners
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ALBANY >> An Orange County home improvement contractor has been ordered to pay more than $40,000 in restitution to four homeowners he defrauded, the New York State Attorney General's Office said Thursday.
Under a ruling handed down by state Supreme Court Justice Peter Forman in Dutchess County, Daniel McInerney, who owns Monroe-based D Mac Design & Development LLC, must pay the homeowners a total of $41,412.16, the Attorney General's Office said. Forman also ordered McInerney to pay $15,000 in penalties and $2,000 to cover costs incurred by the Attorney General's Office.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said customers paid McInerney thousands of dollars in advance for services he didn't perform or began but didn't finish.
"When hardworking New Yorkers pay for home improvement services, those services should be performed fully, professionally and in a timely manner," Schneiderman said in a prepared statement. "My office is committed to holding unscrupulous business owners accountable for taking advantage of New York consumers."
Schneiderman said that in one of the four cases, a homeowner paid McInerney $9,000 in advance for the removal and replacement of a patio, but the work resulted in damage to the siding on the house and central air conditioning system. McInerney ultimately abandoned the job but kept the client's money, the attorney general said.
In another case, Schneiderman said, a homeowner paid McInerney $12,300 to renovate her bathroom but he abandoned the job after finishing only about a quarter of it. The woman then had to spend another $19,000 to have the work completed by a different contractor, the attorney general said.
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SEE IT: ESPN Radio host Don La Greca explodes over sabermetrics, rants about Pythagorean theorem
By BRETT BODNER
Sep 21, 2017 | 11:50 AM
ESPN Radio host Don La Greca thinks the Giants offensive line is one of the worst he's ever seen in his 40 years of watching football. (Thomas Nycz/NHLI via Getty Images)
Mike Francesa isn't the only radio host to have a livid rant this week.
ESPN Radio's Don La Greca is tired of people trying to use analytics to defend the Giants offensive line because at the end of the day, he believes they're just bad. The host chose to vent during "The Michael Kay Show" Tuesday.
"The offensive line sucks. Period. That's my stat," La Greca said. "You want a stat? You want sabermetrics? @DonLaGreca tweeted last night or said on 'The Michael Kay Show,' offensive line stinks, that's the stat."
As the rant goes on, La Greca gets more fired up, eventually going off on the Pythagorean theorem.
"We're gonna be like accountants now in baseball. Uh, what is it — the Pythagorean theorem. The Pythagorean theorem says the Giants offensive line, that their record should be 1-1. That's the Pythagorean theorem says that the Giants record should be 2-0," La Greca said as his face turned bright red and a vein started to pulse in his forehead.
The host said he's tired of people sitting at their desk crunching numbers when they should just be relying on what they're seeing on the field.
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— Alex Seixeiro (@alexfan590) September 21, 2017
"It's football! I've been watching it for 40 years, 40!" La Greca shouted. "That's one of the worst offensive lines I've ever seen and they have not gone this long without scoring 20 points since '77-'78 when Joe Pisarcik was their quarterback!"
The Giants are currently 0-2 and struggled to protect Eli Manning through the first two games. Most Giants fans are probably feeling the same anger La Greca feels based on what they've seen from Big Blue so far.
Like La Greca, Francesa also used the airwaves to let off some steam this week. The WFAN host lost it Monday over Penn State's decision to ice the kicker when they were up 56-0 over Georgia State.
At least when Francesa signs off the air in December, New York will still get the occasional angry tirade, courtesy La Greca.
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Implementing HOMEBUILDERS (Birth to Age 5)®
Model implementation summary last updated: 2011
The information in this implementation report reflects feedback, if provided, from this model's developer as of the above date. The description of the implementation of the model(s) here may differ from how the model(s) was implemented in the manuscripts reviewed to determine this model's evidence of effectiveness. Inclusion in the implementation report does not mean the practices described meet the HHS criteria for evidence of effectiveness. Please see the Effectiveness button on the left for more information about any research on the effectiveness of the model, including any version(s) of the model with effectiveness research. Versions of the model that are described in the Adaptations and enhancements section of this implementation report may include (1) versions that were identified by the model's developer and (2) versions that have been implemented by researchers and have manuscripts that HomVEE rated high or moderate, but that are not supported by the model's developer.
HOMEBUILDERS Intensive Family Preservation Services and Intensive Family Reunification Services (HOMEBUILDERS) provides intensive, in-home crisis intervention, counseling, and life-skills education for families who have children at risk for placement in state-funded care. The model is built upon several core values and beliefs:
It is best for children to be raised by their own family whenever possible.
Safety is our highest priority.
Reducing barriers to service improves family outcomes.
Family members are our colleagues and partners.
Providing information and teaching skills empowers families to become self-sufficient.
We cannot predict which situations are most amenable to change.
It is our job to motivate families and instill hope.
All people have the ability to change.
A crisis is an opportunity for change.
We respect families for their diverse culture, ethnicity, and religious beliefs.
Family members do not usually intend to harm one another.
People are doing the best they can.
Inappropriate intervention can do harm.
The Institute for Family Development provides education and training to programs implementing HOMEBUILDERS.
HOMEBUILDERS targets families with children birth to age 17 that meet the following criteria:
At least one child is at imminent risk of out-of-home placement or is in placement and cannot be reunified without intensive in-home services.
The child could remain in the home and not be at risk of imminent harm if intensive in-home services were provided.
At least one parent is willing to meet with the HOMEBUILDERS therapist.
The family is available to participate in an intensive, four- to six-week intervention.
Less intensive services would not sufficiently reduce the risk of placement or facilitate reunification, are unavailable, or have been exhausted.
If a child is referred for reunification, the child will be returned to the family within seven days of the start of services.
For the purposes of the HomVEE review, this profile is based on developer recommendations and studies of programs that target children from birth to age 5.
HOMEBUILDERS works to prevent the unnecessary out-of-home placement of children and teach families problem-solving skills to prevent future crises.
HOMEBUILDERS employs several program components:
Intervention at the crisis point: Client families are seen within 24 hours of referral.
Treatment in the natural setting: Almost all services take place in the family's home and community.
Accessibility and responsiveness: Therapists are on call to their families 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Research-based interventions: Therapists use research-based interventions, including crisis intervention, motivational interviewing, parent education, skill building, and cognitive/behavioral therapy.
Flexibility: Services are provided when and where the clients wish. Therapists provide a wide range of services, from helping clients meet the basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter to providing therapeutic techniques. Therapists teach families basic skills such as using public transportation systems, budgeting, and where necessary dealing with the social services system. They also educate families in areas more commonly associated with counseling, such as child development, parenting skills, anger management, other mood management skills, communication, and assertiveness.
Therapists usually provide 40 or more hours of face-to-face contact during a four-week intervention; in special cases, the intervention may be extended to six weeks. Some families receive significantly more than 40 hours and the number of hours varies according to each family's needs. Typically the therapist meets with family members three to five times a week, with telephone contact between meetings.
HOMEBUILDERS is implemented in Washington state. In May 2011, Indiana began a statewide replication of the model. A replication of the model is implemented in Netherlands and Belgium.
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The information contained on this page was last updated in April 2011. Recommended further reading lists the sources for this information. In addition, the information contained in this profile was reviewed for accuracy by the Institute for Family Development in April 2011. HomVEE reserves the right to edit the profile for clarity and consistency.


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Q: How to access files / folder from ONLY 2 levels down with regex For performance reasons i should access files from 2 folders down.
Currently for one level down I have this regular expression :

'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'

To access all subfolders I can use this :

'test/spec/**/*.js'

Do you know the best regular expression for accessing only 2 subfolders
Thanks

A: Try this:
ls -al test/spec/{,*/,*/*/}*.js
Also using find:
find -maxdepth 3 -type f -iname "*.js"

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This sport takes place in various ways, with a number of indoor and outdoor events around the world. Therefore, there are hundreds of major events available to bet on. But here are some that attract the most attention:
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Other than with the Grand Tours, cycling at the Olympics is how many people remember seeing the sport. Track cycling, road cycling, and mountain biking have all been televised at the summer Olympics. In fact, Sir Chris Hoy became a household name after his cycling exploits.
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Cycling betting is generally very simple. Usually, you can only bet on the race winner or outright tour winner in advance. But with so many cyclists taking part, prices of 50/1 and above are available easily for multiple riders.
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This is a simple sport at heart. So there isn't too much for you to have to get to know which will help you from a betting point of view. Races are often split up into stages. This means that a rider can win an individual stage and you can bet on this. Whereas betting on and winning the race overall is a different thing.
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As the oldest of the Wetmore monsters, Sapwood Mossbottom undeniably has wisdom to impart and as a master storyteller, he'll make it entertaining. If you do decide to bring this particular monster home, you'll want to stock up on Snodgrass Dumplings and you'll have to make space for the three forest creatures who live in his beard. Add Sapwood Mossbottom to your Pop! Monsters collection today!


5 Easy Pieces: Yes! You Can Work From Home and be Successful!
How many of us throughout our careers, whether working part-time or on the corporate fast track, wished for a simpler, easier way to make a living from the comfort of our own home?
The American dream is now owning your business, operating from a home office, saving money on wardrobe, travel, and lunches out. Time saved will allow more quality time with your family as well as allow you to keep up with your duties around the house….that's the vision, right?
Watch what you wish for because that dream could become your worst nightmare.
If worked right, it's a win/win situation that generally brings satisfaction, but the pitfalls are many.
If you have the space, dedicate a room or an area specifically for work. There are tons of wonderful do it yourself sites that present ideas on how to organize and create a workspace that is functional for every budget. I love to collect those ideas on Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/imaginepublicty/office-spaces/) for future reference, just beware, Pinterest can reel you in for hours!
Sometimes I need to get away from the home office, yet still need to complete tasks. Find the nearest book store, cafe, or, as in my case, the grocery store and yogurt shop, that have free wi-fi. Pack up the laptop, cellphone and a notepad and you're in business to do business. I find that a change of scenery and background noise help me be more creative when completing small assignments, or working those social networks.
Set your office hours just like the bank! One huge mistake I often made is rolling out of bed with a cup of coffee and hitting the office. Before long it's 4 in the afternoon and no shower! Take the time to work out the best schedule, whether you start your day a 5am or 5pm, designate working hours, then start and stop on time.
Ideally the home office has a door that can be closed for privacy during working hours when needed. It's not good business practice to have crying children or barking dogs in the background while you're on that important conference call. Make the space your own, and own it!
Before setting up a home business, communicate with your family. Work out the arrangements ahead of time about when you will be working, make your schedule workable for everyone, and stick to it to keep the peace.
In my world, keeping organized is my greatest distraction! I need all the help I can get. Working from home has its own unique distractions, such as walking the dog, answering questions from family members, and mundane things like doing laundry! Collaborating has been the key.
For instance, I think I know how to make money, and I know how to spend it, but what happens to it in between is a mystery to me. My best investment is letting other professionals do the jobs I have no experience with, or the ones I detest doing. Bookkeeping and accounting are best left to the numbers crunchers, just tell me what to pay and when to pay it.
When it comes to expanding business and having the services that clients need, it's not always easy when you're a one man band. You'll find that when your business is at the break even point it won't be as simple as hiring much-needed help. You know how it is, making enough money to sustain yourself, but not enough to pay someone else. This is where partnerships become golden. I've been fortunate to partner with some wonderful folks who know how to do things for clients for which we may not be the experts. Need speaker training? Speaker Services has many training opportunities. Photography, web design, and graphics needs? Smarty Pants and Cervantes Design will deliver. Accounting got you down? Jacoby Bookkeeping can work remotely for anyone in the country! We're working with others developing new services for the future, so stay tuned.
Would you go to the office or meet a client in your sweats? How do you put your best foot forward?
Ok, so you don't need a business suit to work from your home office, but you do need to feel good about yourself, and nothing drives success like honoring your self-esteem. You should be compelled to feel good about yourself before you start the workday, and clearly, dressing professionally will put you in the mood to act that way. Casual business attire at home is even better than wearing it for someone else.
By dressing for your own success each day, you'll find productivity on the rise. You're always ready to head out the door for a last-minute lunch meeting, or receive a client in your home.
You've worked for it, take it!
Any work at home person would be lying if they say they never spend a work day in their jammies, propped up with pillows and the laptop blazing.
Yes, sometimes you can be just as productive out of the office and in the comfort of your bed! Don't feel guilty, you're still getting work done, and if you roll over for a nap, you probably needed that, too!
Tell us what you do to stay productive and successful while working from home! We need tips, too! Leave them in the comment section below.
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I love this… It's so Delilah… and yet so applicable to the masses. Yes, We are different re work style… but I have incorporated many things taught to me by Madam Prez! I think this is a great review! However, it wouldn't be for me… too much isolation already. Balance-' Love the yogurt shop or personal hideaway…get away from family idea!
You forgot to say how undervalued home office work is by those thinking it's the easy way out…or for "the lazy.". It's definitely harder and takes great discipline. If you work for an agency, government or corporation that "allows you to work at home", "big brother" is very much in the picture monitoring….
Carry on good women from your abode…….And ….May success be yours always! Ladyjustice.
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All Your Silver: To My Grandmother
By Hannah Hubin
When I was in high school, I carved out a piece of my humanities education to study stained glass windows, old cathedrals of European kingdoms, and the men who made them fine—medieval artists smelling strong of a long day's labor, Middle Age wet mortar, and musty, dark communion wine. These men made beauty meant to age, with secret dyes that centuries of chemists in white lab coats have not yet learned to redesign that grow bolder and brighter year after year of sun and dust and time—years longer than any artist can survive. The moment those windows were made was the moment they were most decayed, and that is all the artist ever saw, and every generation watched the colors slowly come alive.
Joy Remains: An Interview with Randall Goodgame
By Drew Miller
"As long as we're singing, we might as well be smiling, too." As I interviewed Randall about the new Slugs & Bugs album last week, he spoke that sentence so matter-of-factly that I knew he believed it the way a person believes more with each morning that the sun will rise tomorrow, too. And I wrote it down immediately.
Introducing (Whatever You Do, Don't) Ask Doug!
Dear Ask Doug,
My grandparents are always gushing about some dude on the radio® named "Paul Harvey," as if I should know who that is. Well, I don't, and I never have. And when I tell them so they just make little huffing noises through their noses and turn to stare derisively into the middle-distance®.
Read It Now: The Door on Half-Bald Hill
Nearly four years ago, when Helena Sorensen and I had our first conversations about publishing The Door on Half-Bald Hill, we didn't have any idea how relevant it would prove to be here in the midst of the COVID-19 quarantine. It's a tale of an isolated people whose world is on the verge of collapse amid blight and plague, and it's the journey of a young man who refuses to believe the end is inevitable. Though the emotional and physical landscape of the book is bleak, its destination is bright as the dawn.
The Habit Podcast: Trillia Newbell Endures
By The Rabbit Room
The Habit Podcast is a series of conversations with writers about writing, hosted by Jonathan Rogers. This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with Trillia Newbell, author of Sacred Endurance: Finding Grace and Strength for a Lasting Faith.
This Is How the Work Gets Done, Part 2: Midwifing Creativity
By Bailey McGee
I don't think of myself as artistic. At best, I can say that I created eight beautiful children of varying hues and temperaments. My love of science and research led to my career as a labor and delivery nurse. That's not to say there isn't magic and creativity required in my work, but I felt much more at home in a birthing suite than an art studio.
Love in the Time of COVID-19
I was supposed to be on a plane to Ireland this morning.
Half-Bald Hill & New Endings
By Helena Sorensen
As a child, I heard a lot about the end of the world—the mark of the Beast, the demise of America, the million-man army that would spread destruction over the face of the earth. Things were going badly wrong, they said, and soon the sun would be darkened. And being an earnest child, I went about gathering fears and confirmations of doom and storing them away like cankerous fruit.
The Habit Podcast: Lee Camp's Controversial Orthodoxies
The Habit Podcast is a series of conversations with writers about writing, hosted by Jonathan Rogers. This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with Lee Camp, author of Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manifesto for Christians.
New Project: Earth Has No Sorrow
My latest project is, content-wise, somewhat of a departure for me. Or maybe it's not, depending on how you view my songwriting over the years?
A Rabbit Room Digital Care Package
The deluge of frightful information we wake up to daily—though helpful in navigating a disease-ridden world with wisdom and love—ceases to be helpful when it eclipses everything else in sight. So when the Rabbit Room staff gathered on Monday to ask what it means to do the work before us in such a time as this, the answer took the familiar form of providing content that would contribute to the health of our imaginations, the sustaining of hope, and the de-escalation of anxiety—from our homes to yours.
The Return of The Resistance
The other day my wife found the artifact.


AWeber is without a doubt, one of the best email marketing tool. AW Pro Tools adds extra automation to AWeber and makes your email marketing invincible. AW Pro Tools is not owned or sponsored by AWeber, but officially approved by them.
If you are an AWeber user looking to take a big bold step to market efficiently, it's well worth taking a look. You'll understand how you could miss a lot of opportunities by blindly sending out your broadcasts. With so many features and options, AW Pro Tools offer various ways to promote your business to the subscribers you already have.
It actually won't take 3 seconds to get your AW Pro Tools started. It will prompt you to connect it to your AWeber account and all you need is to enter your AWeber ID and password. It will be connected right away and you're ready to explore the automation tool.
If you want to disconnect it for any reason at a later date, you can do so from "Your Account" menu.
There are many automation/integration features in AW Pro Tools and each one has 2-step setup (Trigger - Action). Here's a quick run-through of each feature.
Smartlink: Create a link that redirects to your website (WordPress friendly) and segments your subscribers. Optionally it allows you to (1) create an expiring link to redirect to a different URL when the deadline's passed and (2) add 2 x alternative destination URL's - explained a little later.
Page Visit: Trigger this automation when your subscriber visits a specific URL.
Opt-In: Trigger this automation when a subscriber first opts-in to a list.
Message Open: Trigger when a subscriber opens a message.
Video View: Trigger when a subscriber reaches a specific second while watching a video.
JVZoo Purchase: Trigger when a purchase is made on JVZoo. You can use this as a vendor and as an affiliate.
Webinar Link: Register to a webinar (GoToWebinar or WebinarJam or your own webinar link including YouTube) and segment your subscribers with a single link.
Tag: Move or unsubscribe subscribers with one or more tags applied to them.
Manual: Use this to automate any of your manual tasks.
Chain Automation: Trigger when another automation runs.
Zapier: Trigger this automation from over 500+ services using Zapier.
ActiveCampaign Webhook: Update subscribers in AWeber when a webhook is called from ActiveCampaign.
Clickbank Purchase: Trigger when a purchase is made in Clickbank. You must have a vendor account in Clickbank to use this.
1ShoppingCart purchase: Trigger when a purchase is made in 1ShoppingCart.
There are many more options coming soon in the very near future, triggered by Shopify purhcase, ThriveCart purchase, PayPal payment, Stripe payment, when a new contact is created in ClickFunnels.
There are also a couple of optional link direction options, when triggering certain automations.
Create an expiring link: the link will redirect to a different URL when the deadline's passed. It can be date-specific, or evergreen (X weeks, X days and X hours).
Add 2 x alternative destination URLs: based on certain values in a Custom field in AWeber.
Change the next Legacy Followup message the subscriber will receive.
Move the subscriber to another list.
Segment your subscribers based on certain values in Custom fields and tags.
Stop all currently running campaigns for a subscriber.
Unsubscribe from an AWeber list.
Run different automations based on the subscriber's past engagement.
Add the subscriber to a Facebook Custom Audience.
Using Zapier, integrate with over 500 services.
Or tracking only - don't take any actions.
The action can be taken either immediately or delayed at a specific date & time, or relatively (after X days X hours and X minutes).
If the subscriber clicks a link the second time, but did not complete a purchase the first time, show them a special offer.
Subscribers who reside in USA (based on the IP address when first opted in) will see one video site but subscribers in the rest of the world will see a different video site. If the subscriber has watched until 2 minutes 20 seconds in, copy to another list just before your Christmas campaign starts at 9am, December 10th.
Format Email: No need to worry about how your swipe will look like in mobile devices, manually cut a sentence and start a new line. You just type in your swipe in the box, copy & paste it onto your AWeber HTML editor.
Clickable video thumbnail generator - just copy & paste a YouTube URL, and it generates a code that you can past it onto your AWeber HTML editor.
Autoresponder A/B split testing tool.
Mobile button - Call To Action button for smartphone with customisable colour and text.
Clickable countdown clocks - set the timer, pre-deadline URL, post-deadline URL and it will generate the code. Paste the code onto your AWeber HTML editor. When your subscriber clicks the countdown image, they'll be directed to either of the two websites accordingly.
You can have your email swipe graded and see how your sentences appeal to your audience. All you have to do is to copy & paste your swipe in the box and click "Grade It" button.
I have just tested my 10+ lines of swipe and received the following result.
This text has 6 sentences, with 81 words (13.5 per sentence) with 1.57 syllables per word.
Your email is targeted to readers with at least a 8 grade education (US). That's approximately equivalent of an age of at least 13. In general, you want to target a grade level between 4 and 7.
Your email is a bit erudite. (And using words like erudite is not what you want to do in your emails). I recommend that you reduce the number of words per sentence. Shorter sentences are easier to read.
Also, use shorter words that everyone understands. In general the fewer syllables the better - but of course this is just a guideline. You can easily overdo it so the key is to make sure your email sounds natural, like you're writing a one to one email to a friend or business peer. Anything between grades 4 and 7 is ideal.
4 : 0 You did not talk about yourself at all.
AW Pro Tools can also remotely manage your list of subscribers. "List Cleanup" tool automatically deletes unsubscribed subscribers in order to reduce your monthly bill.
In case you don't know - because AWeber counts the number of email addresses that your account holds, whether they're subscribed or unsubscribed. The monthly charge goes up from $19 to $29 when the total number of email addresses exceeds 500 on your billing due date. So un-subscribers in your list should be deleted periodically, whereas AW Pro Tools does it for you. Also it keeps an encrypted copy of the deleted subscribers which you can download as a CSV file.
Your lists of subscribers can be automatically backed up on a weekly basis, and the backup copy can also be downloadable as a CSV file.
You can move subscribers - single or bulk - from one list to another easily. This is useful particularly when you've created too many lists and want to merge several into one.
There are plenty of short videos to explain each feature, and the How-To's are all comprehensive. But there's no knowledge Base in text format, so if you prefer to learn by reading, you might find it a little hard to get a grip of it.
Having said that, each feature has a few sentences of description and they're all pretty self-explanatory. And if you have any problems, you can always contact the helpdesk using the webform from the menu.
There are some features that only available with "Professional" option or above, so do check if "Startup" option is good enough for you.
Personally I wish the pricing plan per number of subscribers was in line with AWeber's. Also I find "Smartlink" feature on its own is worth using, so I wish the Startup option price was a little lower and was more accessible by email marketers with smaller capacity. But that's just my opinion.
There are too many things that you can do - can be overwhelming at first?


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Unkempt, unkept
Unkept and unkempt share the broad definition neglected or not properly maintained, but unkempt is usually reserved for describing a person's rough appearance. The word is derived from the older unkembed, meaning uncombed, and is most appropriate (etymologically considered) in reference to disordered hair.
Unkept, meanwhile, tends to describe neglected properties. Of course, it can also mean simply not kept (usually in reference to promises). Our Microsoft Word spell check catches unkept, but it's a perfectly good word.
This unkept–unkempt distinction is not a rule, however. Unkempt is often used to describe untrimmed lawns and hedges, for example. Unkept is only rarely used to describe people, but we did find a few instances in our searches.
And, in case anyone is wondering, kempt is indeed a word meaning tidily kept or neatly combed. We assumed the word was obsolete, but, in searching, we actually found a few examples of kempt used in current news publications. It's usually part of the phrasal adjectives ill-kempt and well-kempt.
Unkempt
His hair is dyed dark and combed in a slightly unkempt manner over one side of his head. [Financial Times]
One woman who is invariably there fits the popular stereotype of the mad, homeless woman with unkempt hair. [New York Times]
It is more or less compulsory for any TV soldier returning to the US from Afghanistan or Iraq to grow a slightly unkempt beard. [Sydney Morning Herald]
Unkept
The protesters ended their march at a home they said had been foreclosed on by a bank three years ago, and since left unoccupied and unkept. [Wall Street Journal]
The city assessor believes the number of unkept properties around Galesburg has increased so much that the city should be doubling the number of properties flagged for demolition. [Galesburg Register-Mail]
Voters began to grow disenchanted this year with a stagnating economy and unkept promises. [Washington Post]
William Schoenen says
Unkept is also found on the first page of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca", in a description of Manderley Castle, unoccupied for years: "The drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had always done, but as I advanced I was aware that a change had come upon it; it was narrow and unkept, not the drive that we had known."
titanoscar says
Years ago I was corrected when I used the word unkept to describe someone's appearance. I was told the proper word was unkempt. I think they do fit under a broad definition meaning the state of something, but I think kept or unkept is a verb and unkempt is an adjective. However unkept is used like it is an adjective. Kept is the act of keeping. We often say something like.."he kept himself up". So naturally people when wanting to express the opposite say he was "unkept" which means he didn't keep himself up. Because people have us used the word unkept so much, it has been accepted among people, but the computer is still correcting it. I hope that makes sense.
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Myanmar laying landmines on Bangladesh border: reports
Wednesday September 6, 2017
Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh for the past three days, according to reports citing two government sources in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.
The sources say the purpose may be to prevent the return of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence.
Bangladesh will on Wednesday formally lodge a protest against the laying of landmines so close to the border, the sources, who had direct knowledge of the situation but asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter, told Reuters news agency.
Since the latest round of violence began in Myanmar's Rakhine state, at least 400 people have been killed and nearly 125,000 Rohingya have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh, leading to a major humanitarian crisis.
"They are putting the landmines in their territory along the barbed-wire fence" between a series of border pillars, one of the sources told Reuters.
Both sources said Bangladesh learned about the landmines mainly through photographic evidence and informers.
"Our forces have also seen three to four groups working near the barbed wire fence, putting something into the ground," one of the sources said.
"We then confirmed with our informers that they were laying landmines."
The sources did not clarify if the groups were in uniform, but added that they were sure they were not Rohingya.
Reacting to the reports, Phone Tint, Rakhine's minister for border affairs, told Al Jazeera: "We did not do such a thing."
Blasts heard
Manzurul Hassan Khan, a Bangladeshi border guard officer, told Reuters earlier that two blasts were heard on Tuesday on the Myanmar side.
Two similar blasts on Monday had already prompted speculation that Myanmar forces had laid landmines.
One boy had his left leg blown off on Tuesday near a border crossing before being brought to Bangladesh for treatment, while another boy suffered minor injuries, Khan said, adding that the blast could have been a mine explosion.
A Rohingya refugee who went to the site of the blast on Monday - on a footpath near where civilians fleeing violence are huddled in what is being described as "no man's land" on the border - filmed what appeared to be a mine: a metal disc about 10cm in diameter partially buried in the mud.
He said he believed there were two more such devices buried in the ground.
Two refugees also told Reuters they saw members of the Myanmar army around the site in the immediate period preceding the Monday blasts, which occurred at around 2:25pm local time (09:15GMT).
Reuters was unable to independently verify that the planted devices were landmines and that there was any link to the Myanmar army.
Myanmar's army has not commented on the blasts near the border.
Zaw Htay, spokesperson for Myanmar's national leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was not immediately available for comment.
On Monday, Htay told Reuters that clarification was needed.
"Where did it explode, who can go there and who laid those landmines. Who can surely say those mines were not laid by the terrorists?" he said.
Mostafa Kamal Uddin, the Bangladesh interior ministry secretary, did not respond to calls from Reuters seeking comment.
The border pillars mentioned by the Dhaka-based sources demarcate the boundaries of the two countries, along which Myanmar has a portion of barbed wire fencing. Most of the two countries' 217km-long border is porous.
"They are not doing anything on Bangladeshi soil," one of the sources said. "But we have not seen such laying of landmines in the border before."
Myanmar, which was under military rule until recently, is one of the few countries that have not signed the 1997 UN Mine Ban Treaty. Mostafa Kamal Uddin, the Bangladesh interior ministry secretary, did not respond to calls from Reuters seeking comment.
Myanmar, which was under military rule until recently, is one of the few countries that have not signed the 1997 UN Mine Ban Treaty.
The more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar are seen as illegal immigrants in the mainly-Buddhist country.
They have been forced to live under apartheid-like restrictions on movement and citizenship.
The areas where Rohingya live, mainly in Rakhine, have been under constant military crackdown, with reports of extrajudicial killings, rape, arson and torture by security forces - allegations the government has denied.
Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general, called on the government of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday to end the violence against the Rohingya.
He warned of "regional destabilisation" if the violence continues.
Myanmar contends the security crackdowns are necessary to fight "terrorism".
In a statement issued by her office on Facebook, Suu Kyi said the government had "already started defending all the people in Rakhine in the best way possible" and warned against misinformation that could mar relations with other countries.
Al Jazeera's James Bays, reporting from the UN's headquarters in New York, said: "There is a real concern from the UN about the humanitarian situation because of this human exodus and the sheer number of people crossing the border into Bangladesh."
The UN Security Council met last week to discuss the crisis, but there was no formal statement following the closed-door meeting.
"Following this letter by Guterres, we are are likely to see another meeting of the council pretty soon," he said.
In Canada, an Immigration Minister Who Himself Is a Refugee - NYTimes
Who is really in control in Mogadishu? - HuffPost
Radicalized Kenyans desperate to quit Al Shabaab, fear execution - Citizen
International community concerned over attempts to form new federal member state in Hiiraan region - HOL
WATCH: Filming a social experiment about Somalia - UNICEF
Refugees from conflict zones opt for war-torn Syria - AFP
Somali government breaks silence on Abdikarim rendition - HOL
'Shabaab' attackers behead 4 in Lamu - Daily Nation
Facebook takes the next step to monetize WhatsApp: WSJ - Reuters
Jama finally petitions his election loss - Thestar
Somalia: Chief justice suspends 18 judges - Middle East Monitor
Ethiopia's Internally Displaced Overlooked Amid Refugee Crises - IPS News
The humanity of the NFL, women's hoops in Somalia and FSU's academics - ESPN
Uhuru and Raila locked in standoff over election date - Daily Nation
Vladimir Putin warns world faces 'global catastrophe' over North Korea - CNN


The online magazine, Axios, is reporting that Democrats are getting ready for their return to power in the House by loading a "Subpoena Cannon." They have, says the article, targeted at least 85 individual targets for subpoenas.
Whether or not the Democrats will be able to get any information on these topics is, of course, irrelevant. The mere fact that they can now serve the subpoenas means a new world is upon us. Come January, the Republican Party is not going to be nearly as comfortable a place to be.


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Chartbook: Reducing the Tax Gap
One of the most fair and efficient ways for policymakers to raise revenue would be to close some portion of the "tax gap." The tax gap is the...
Jul 1, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
Analysis of CBO's July 2021 Budget and Economic Outlook
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released initial details of its updated Budget and Economic Outlook, accounting for enactment of...
Jun 25, 2021 | Budget Process
What are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How will this year's appropriations process be different...
May 28, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
President Biden's Full FY 2022 Budget
The Biden Administration today released its first full budget, laying out its proposals for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 and the subsequent decade. The...
Interest Payments in the Federal Budget
At a projected cost of over $300 billion this fiscal year, interest payments are a significant part of the federal budget. Net interest is currently...
The Nation's Upcoming Fiscal Challenges
President Joe Biden and the nation face perhaps the most daunting fiscal situation on record. One hundred days into his presidency, President Biden...
Apr 19, 2021 | Other Spending
COVID Bills Had $650 Billion in Extraneous Policies
Congress has authorized around $6 trillion of fiscal support in response to the COVID pandemic, with a projected net cost of well over $5 trillion....
Alexander Holt's Senate Testimony on Student Debt's Burden on Borrowers and the Economy
On April 13, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget policy analyst Alexander Holt testified at the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy...
Apr 9, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
President Biden's FY 2022 Discretionary Budget
Today, the Biden Administration released an abridged version of the President's budget. This partial budget details proposed allocations and plans...
Mar 25, 2021 | Taxes
Maya MacGuineas's Senate Testimony on Taxation of Corporations and the Wealthy
On March 25, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the Senate Budget Committee on "Ending a Rigged...


Leading plastics processing technology pioneer Arburg has inaugurated the Arburg Technology Centre (ATC) in Warsaw on April 19th 2016.
With the new 800 square metre modern building, the company will be able to offer customers a better service.
Michael Hehl, partner at Arburg, said: "Our success to date has shown that continuous investments in our international organisations pay.
"The construction of the ATC is an important milestone and reflects the importance for Arburg of the Polish market, in which we have been present for more than 20 years."
Dr Slawomir Sniady, Managing Director of Arburg, said: "The new ATC will allow us to provide an even better service with a usable floor space of 240 square metres. The new demonstration room will be used for preliminary acceptance of turnkey systems, tests with customer moulds and training courses.
As part of the inauguration event, guests had the opportunity to experience for themselves the performance capabilities of the new electric Allrounders from the Golden Electric entry-level series.


The BSS Audio BLU-HIF telephone headset interface facilitates connection of the headset jack of a VoIP/digital phone to an AEC input and analog output of a Soundweb London device, allowing the VoIP/digital phone to be used as the dialing interface and hybrid for a conference system. This simple interface eliminates the programming associated with third-party control systems while providing a familiar dialing interface.
The BLU-HIF features an RJ-22 jack for connection to the headset jack of a VoIP/digital phone, a balanced input for sending near-side audio and a balanced output for receiving far-side audio. An additional 2.5mm jack facilitates connection of two-way communication devices such as cellular phones to the Soundweb London device. This provides an alternate communication path to the outside world, which is particularly useful as a backup to the main phone system.


The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 11 governorship election in Plateau State, Mr. Gyang Pwajok, is dead.
Pwajok, popularly called GNS, was said to have passed on in an Indian hospital in the early hours of Thursday aged, 49.
His death came less than 72 hours after the governorship election petitions tribunal in Jos dismissed his petition against Governor Simon Lalong of the the All Progressives Congress (APC).
His appeal on the admissibility of the report of the forensic expert he engaged to analyse ballot papers is pending before Supreme Court.
A former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Chris Kwaja, confirmed the development on the telephone to our correspondent on Thursday.
Pwajok's death has sparked off anger in Berom land, which saw him as the rising star of the Berom nation.
His biography, taken from the website of his 2015 Governorship Campaign Organisation, said that he was born on the March 15, 1966, in Jos.
He attended the Jos Township Primary School, (1972 – 1977); Saint Murumba College, Jos (1977 – 1982); the School of Preliminary Studies, Keffi; (1982 – 1984); the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1984 – 1987); and the Post Graduate School of the University of Jos, where he earned a Master of Science Degree in Political Economy and Development Studies in 1991.


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Q: Regexp to match an XML constellation So I want to match the case where I have 2 times mysubtag within a mytag. So:
...<mytag>.....<mysubtag>...</mysubtag>..<mysubtag>...</mysubtag>....</mytag>...

where ... are random symbols including newlines.
I don't want to match 2 mytags with each 1 subtag
...<mytag>.....<mysubtag>...</mysubtag>....</mytag>...<mytag>.....<mysubtag>...</mysubtag>....</mytag>...

Is there a trick to it?
i do the matching in eclipse and what I got so far is:
<mytag[\s\S]*?<mysubtag[\s\S]*?</mysubtag>[\s\S]*?<mysubtag[\s\S]*?</mysubtag>[\s\S]*?</mytag>

but this matches the second example
EDIT
So bottom line: don't use regexp for these tasks
I started a new thread there
Xpath find files for windows? xml parser to find files in windows

A: Using something built to parse XML, this is much easier. This XPath expression should match the XML constellation you're after.
//mytag[count(mysubtag)=2]


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Everyone Knows About Alcohol–But What Do We Really Know?
Home > Presentation > Everyone Knows About Alcohol–But What Do We Really Know?
Paula L. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus
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Alcohol is an "addictive" drug, but its use is condoned by government, and it is used by many individuals who enjoy social drinking and never become dependent on it. However, about 7 percent of alcohol drinkers 18 years of age and older in the U.S. develop what is now called Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). In addition, many men and women drink alcohol at "hazardous" levels, which can lead to organ damage and is responsible for more than 3 million deaths per year worldwide. AUD is psychiatrically defined by the presence of 11 signs, and the number of signs during a 12-month period defines the severity of AUD. These signs include the narrowing of repertoire to focus on obtaining, using, or recovering from alcohol effects; unsuccessful efforts to reduce alcohol use; alcohol use resulting in failure to fulfill major role objectives; continued use despite adverse consequences and craving (a strong desire or urge to use alcohol) (DSM-V criteria). Many of these criteria also apply to other addictive drugs, and alcohol can produce many of the same neurobiological effects as the other addictive drugs. But, alcohol also has unique characteristics and mechanisms of action in the central nervous system.
The effects of alcohol in the brain derive from alcohol's ability to interfere with the activity of the two major neurotransmitters, GABA (the major inhibitory neurotransmitter) and glutamate (the major excitatory neurotransmitter), and the interaction of these transmitters with other modulating systems that contribute to the rewarding effects of alcohol. Maladaptations of these systems occur with chronic alcohol use and lead to the signs and symptoms of AUD. However, not everyone who uses alcohol, even at hazardous levels, develops AUD.
Numerous studies have estimated that the genetic constitution of an individual can contribute up to 50 percent of the likelihood of the development of AUD, and human genetic analyses have suggested particular subsets of genes that may underlie this vulnerability. A conceptual transition has occurred over the last 10 years, in that rather than looking for a gene responsible for complex phenotypes such as AUD, it has become common to consider that interacting genetic elements (i.e., networks of gene products) are responsible for the complex phenotype.
Our current work uses a systems genetic approach to understand the transcriptional and signaling networks in the brain that influence alcohol drinking, a prerequisite for development of AUD. The characterization of this genetically controlled "brain connectome" promises to provide the basis for developing rational pharmacological approaches to reducing alcohol consumption and the craving for alcohol in individuals suffering from AUD.
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You are here: Home > About us > News > Reforms 'have restored confidence in the educa...
Reforms 'have restored confidence in the education system'
New education secretary Nicky Morgan has emphasised the need for rising standards to boost prospects for young people and improve the education system.
Writing in The Telegraph, Ms Morgan criticised the Labour government that preceded the coalition, claiming standards were allowed to fall while ministers "trumpeted ever-higher grades and pass rates".
This state of affairs had the worst impact on pupils from the most disadvantaged backgrounds, she said, as they were encouraged to study subjects that had little or no value to employers but counted as the traditional five GCSEs.
"Education should open up doors for young people, allow them to develop their own unique talents and give them the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace," Ms Morgan stated.
She gave her backing to predecessor Michael Gove's education reforms, which have ensured the exam system "works for children, not politicians".
The education secretary said the government has removed low-quality qualifications from the league tables, reducing the incentive to study them.
In addition, it has clamped down on the practice of "drilling" for exams, letting those in teaching jobs focus on educating their pupils.
Early and repeated re-sits have been eliminated, ensuring youngsters only take exams when they are ready for them, while end-of-term exams have replaced "disjointed, bite-sized modules".
The introduction of the English Baccalaureate has also helped young people by giving them the chance to study a core of high-quality qualifications.
Ms Morgan paid tribute to teachers for enabling schools to adapt to the changes quickly - a process which, she conceded, "hasn't always been easy".
However, she warned that results could alter as the reforms take effect, with the number of students studying some subjects falling and others rising.
Nevertheless, youngsters would have reasons to be proud of their achievements because they would better reflect their efforts. "Each and every single pupil this year can be confident that the results they worked so hard to achieve represent real achievement," she said.


While sailors once charted the seas using the stars, today's modern navigational experts use an Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS). This system allows not only route recommendations and position tracking but also provides automatic alarms to warn of dangers such as grounding or prohibited areas.
The standards body for ECDIS, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has made ECDIS mandatory for most large international traveling ships. The new standard was adopted in June 2009 during the 86th session of Maritime Safety Committee at IMO headquarters in London. The expected entry into force date is January 1, 2011, according to an IMO spokeswoman.
Text of the adopted standard is not yet available, but in the proposal the requirement would be phased in starting with passenger ships of 500 gross tonnage constructed after July 1, 2012. A phase in schedule has also been proposed for existing vessels, but ships with only two years of life left would be exempt.
Raster chart display systems (RCDS) displays raster navigational charts (RNC), uses electronic copies of paper charts. Like paper charts, the elements depicted in an RNC cannot be invdividually viewed or manipulated. ECDIS uses electronic navigational charts (ENC) using vector data which allows mariners to remove some of the chart information to concentrate on the information most relevant to the situation at the time.
These two U.S. government graphics show an example of raster data on the left and vector data on the right.
One issue with ECDIS is vector data is not yet available for all areas while raster data is more plentiful. A solution has been to make an ECDIS system that can run in both modes.
ECDIS can free up manpower by plotting fixes, helping choose tracks in relation to known navigational dangers and recommend speeds that best enables a safe voyage.
As with any format being used and developed on an international stage, standards have been key to bringing this technology mainstream. OpenECDIS.org is a group dedicated to promoting this technology with participants throughout the world including the United States, Germany, Japan, Australia and Netherlands.
The IMO is mentioned above as the ECDIS standards body. The International Hydrographic Organization sets standards on the production of ENCs.
Contact us with news tips or information about ECDIS.


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Narek Aslanyan (born 4 June 1996) is an Armenian international footballer who plays for Sevan FC, as a midfielder.

Career
Born in Yerevan, he has played club football for Pyunik.

He made his international debut for Armenia in 2017.

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1996 births
Living people
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Douglas William Elmendorf (born April 16, 1962) is an American economist who is the dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He previously served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 2009 to 2015. He was a Brookings Institution senior fellow from 2007 to 2009, and briefly in 2015 following his time at the CBO, and was a director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings.
Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Elmendorf attended the Poughkeepsie Day School and graduated from Spackenkill High School. He spent his early career as an academic and educator. He went to Princeton University as an undergraduate, studying economics, and then headed to Harvard University to obtain his master's and Ph.D. in the same subject. After graduating in 1989, he stayed at Harvard for four academic years as an assistant professor, working closely with economics professor Martin Feldstein, the director of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, to teach introductory economics classes.
In 1993, Elmendorf moved to public life, working for the Congressional Budget Office for the first time. He spent a year as an associate analyst before joining full-time in 1994 as a principal analyst where Elmendorf focused on health-care issues and the economic effects of budget deficits. Working under Director Robert D. Reischauer, Elmendorf worked on a team that concluded President Bill Clinton's health reform package would cost much more than originally thought. This analysis helped cripple Clinton's attempt to reform health care.
Elmendorf only stayed a year at the CBO as a principal analyst before heading to the Federal Reserve Board as an economist while Alan Greenspan headed it. In 1998, his travels through the financial departments of the federal government continued, as Elmendorf moved to the Council of Economic Advisers, working as a senior economist under Director Janet Yellen. After staying at the CEA for a year, Elmendorf then joined the United States Treasury Department as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy, working under Clinton Treasury Secretary of the United States Lawrence Summers. When George W. Bush took office, Elmendorf moved back to the Fed as a senior economist and in 2002, he got a promotion to chief of the macroeconomics analysis team, leading a group of 30 economists and researchers as they forecasted inflation rates and labor markets.
In 2007, Elmendorf began working for the well-known economic think-tank the Brookings Institution, co-editing the twice-yearly publication "Brookings Papers on Economic Activity." In 2008, Jason Furman, the director of the Brookings' group known as the Hamilton Project left to join the Obama campaign. Elmendorf replaced him as director of the Project, a forum for economic policy discussion that was created by Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin — an advocate of free trade and a small deficit.
In June 2015, Harvard University President Drew Faust announced that Elmendorf would succeed David T. Ellwood as Dean at Harvard Kennedy School. "Doug Elmendorf is an outstanding public servant, an admired mentor and teacher, and a distinguished economist deeply immersed in the interplay of research and policy — an experienced leader in government who embodies the Harvard Kennedy School's commitment to joining scholarship, education, and practice to serve the public good," Faust said in a press release. Elmendorf assumed office in January 2016.
Elmendorf is married to Karen Dynan, Professor of the Practice of Economics at Harvard University, and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with their twin daughters.
^ "Douglas Elmendorf: An economist armed with a grenade". Washington Examiner. September 20, 2009. Retrieved February 18, 2014. Nothing that I had ever said before in my life attracted as much attention as that comment," Elmendorf, 47, said of his testimony on health care costs. "It's not a familiar place for me.
^ Drew, Jill (February 11, 2010). "Low Profile, High Impact: Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf". Fiscal Times. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
^ Poughkeepsie Day School, The Compass 2013 Archived February 23, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, p. 26.
^ a b "Elmendorf's Resume" (PDF).
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Detroit's old banks have vanished but new services may be better
Plans to build a new bank headquarters tower in downtown Detroit to house the Chemical Bank/TCF merger recalls how different the financial services landscape is in Detroit today than a generation or two ago.
Back in the 1980s, several major banks were headquartered in or near Detroit — NBD Bancorp, Comerica, Manufacturers and others — plus two major savings and loans, Standard Federal and First Federal. All those headquarters vanished as mergers and takeovers and moves out of town saw numerous banks gobbled up by bigger rivals.
For Detroit, losing those banking headquarters delivered a crushing blow to the region's self-image. Not only were jobs lost, probably thousands of them, but the clout and bragging rights that came with having major corporate headquarters in town evaporated.
Combined with all the other losses Detroit suffered since the 1980s — including the implosion of the domestic auto industry and the City of Detroit's bankruptcy in 2013 — the loss of major bank headquarters bruised the region's ego and deprived metro Detroit of needed financial support.
"With the consolidation and headquarters moving out of state, banks became minimally committed to communities such as Detroit," Dave Blaszkiewicz, president and CEO of the Invest Detroit development fund, said in an email. "After we lost our Detroit-headquartered banks, our deals often faced an approval process that was in another state (New York, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Ohio, etc.) … This, combined with low valuations made it very difficult to find banks willing to support projects in the city."
Jobs lost and found
That was then, this is now.
If losing bank headquarters meant losing thousands of jobs, it proved a temporary loss. New hiring by emerging financial firms like Quicken Loans and United Shore mortgage, as well as other financial services firms, has more than made up the loss. Quicken alone, when it first moved its headquarters to downtown Detroit in 2010, brought 1,500 workers to the city; today, its downtown workforce numbers around 17,000.
Data from the State of Michigan's Labor Market Information office shows that more people work in financial activities in Michigan today than in 1990 — 218,100 versus 192,800, a 13 percent increase.
And services evolved
Just as important, as bank headquarters went away, taking with them a close attention to local needs, an innovative network of financial offerings has evolved to plug the gap. In many ways, this network delivers services that weren't available even when the bank headquarters were here.
Among those:
Philanthropic foundations like the Kresge Foundation, Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan, Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation and many others have poured money into metro Detroit programs and projects. This money proved crucial to the Grand Bargain in Detroit's bankruptcy, and has bankrolled everything from the QLINE to the Detroit RiverWalk as well as job training efforts, art projects, and family services.
"Making capital available to a diverse group of stakeholders is a necessity if revitalization is to be widespread and inclusive," said Wendy Lewis Jackson, managing director of Kresge's Detroit Program. "We are all looking creatively at how we can work together with the tools we have available — grants, loans, loan grantees, and other supports — to provide capital where it is needed to benefit the community."
Several new community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, have emerged to underwrite Detroit revitalization deals. These CDFIs act in some ways like traditional lenders but offer loans at better terms than a traditional bank. CDFIs have been key to many Detroit redevelopment projects in recent years.
"From the perspective within the CDFI community, it seems like there is an army of people trying to tackle access to capital," Blaszkiewicz said. And while the public may still not know much about this new source of funds, "The reality is that there is more capital available."
A host of programs has evolved to support entrepreneurs and small businesses, including ProsperUS, Motor City Match, TechStars Detroit, Entrepreneurs of Color and many others. These programs provide loans and grants that traditional banks may not have touched even when they were headquartered here.
New mortgage programs and an improving economy mean a significant boost in traditional lending in the city. From just a few dozen traditional mortgage loans made a few years ago, Detroit now sees more than 1,000 mortgage loans annually.
Quicken Loans by itself saw its number of residential mortgages made in the city of Detroit roughly double to 439 in 2018 from 226 in 2014. And, partly because of rising home values, the dollar volume of those loans nearly tripled to $61.5 million from $22.5 million four years earlier.
There is a lot more venture capital available in Michigan now to support tech startups, especially in communities like Ann Arbor.
Detroit and regional development officials have created and grown skilled at using a host of new tax strategies to boost new development.
Finally, the improving economy of the past decade as Michigan emerged from its "lost decade" and the rising property values it engendered have drawn significant new investment here from around the world.
"The growth of mortgage banking and other financial sectors in the city since the 1990s appears to more than offset the loss" of the former bank headquarters, said John Mogk, a longtime professor of law at Wayne State University and an expert on Detroit development.
"Financial services do not appear to be any less available for profit and nonprofit corporations than 25 years ago and, with the many new programs promoting redevelopment in Detroit, may be much greater," he said.
Help for homeowners
This emerging network of financial services in many cases extends even into Detroit's hard-hit neighborhoods.
Today, local agencies like Southwest Solutions work with potential homeowners to get them ready to buy property for the first time. Hector Hernandez, who heads the Southwest Economic Solutions division of the nonprofit agency, said support includes homeowner counseling and down payment assistance, with the money to support these services coming from agencies like the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.
Of course, that money may ebb and flow depending on annual funding levels, impacting what services can be offered.
"We've had good traction when those down payment assistance dollars are available," Hernandez said.
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But is it sustainable?
All to the good. But skeptics doubt the sustainability of these new financial services that replaced the big bank headquarters.
What if, they say, some of the financial players that have emerged — the foundations, say, or government-backed programs by agencies like MSHDA — lose interest or see their revenue sources dry up?
Then, too, many of the programs that support entrepreneurs and small businesses in the city, programs like ProsperUS, Entrepreneurs of Color and Motor City Match, are making higher risk loans. While the default rate from these programs is reported to remain within safe bounds so far, it is likely to run higher than what a traditional bank lender would tolerate.
And what if priorities change at the foundations or at big players like JPMorgan Chase such that Detroit is no longer viewed as a priority?
Even if those doubts are unfounded, saying Detroit has "more" or "better" financial services today doesn't mean it has "enough."
"There's still a gap," Hernandez said. "There's still a need. We could do a lot more if there were more capital available."
To cite one example: In Detroit neighborhoods, the renovation of still livable older houses inevitably falls to mom-and-pop contractors who often lack the money available to major construction firms. More houses offered for sale by the Detroit Land Bank Authority could probably be rehabbed if these numerous small contractors could find the cash.
"Access to capital has become a significant challenge to those developers who are interested in acquiring these properties and putting them back on the markets," Hernandez said.
And Sue Mosey, director of the nonprofit Midtown Detroit Inc. organization that has led the revitalization of the Midtown district, said many parts of the city haven't caught up yet.
"It remains challenging to finance real estate in the low-market neighborhoods where the underwriting only supports pretty low rents and values but construction costs are still fairly high," she said.
Even so, there is no question that a network of new financial services has emerged in recent years. This could serve as a metaphor for the broader story of Detroit, where the city that we see in years to come will be successful but in a different way than the Detroit of a half-century ago.
A city and region that once defined itself by its giant corporations may define itself in the future by a more nimble, entrepreneurial set of organizations.
This much is clear: Within limitations, it doesn't appear that a lack of financial services is the most pressing problem facing Detroiters.
Instead, a high unemployment rate (at 8 percent, it's twice the statewide average), a low workforce participation rate (the lowest for any major city, an indication of poverty and low skills), and a dismal record of educational failure — all exacerbated by challenges of race and poverty — continue to pose Detroit's biggest difficulties.
At the time, the loss of banking headquarters delivered a bruising blow to Detroit's self-image. Through much creative work, that loss has largely been overcome.
Now we need to turn that same creative energy to the remaining problems facing Detroit.
Contact John Gallagher: 313-222-5173 or gallagher@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @jgallagherfreep.


Dr. Yvette Murphy-Erby , Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion, spoke with faculty about how important it is to encourage a culture and climate of inclusion and diversity on the University of Arkansas campus. This conversation started with a reminder of why this work is so important and an overview with definitions, so we were all on the same page.
This affects the business's bottom line.
Every student has a better experience when they learn in a diverse environment.
Accreditation – This is a standard of diversity that your department or the university must meet, or they may be shut down.
There are legal requirements that we need to meet.
There is a huge Demographic Shift coming and it's coming even faster than predicted. The population shift will happen in 2025. These students will be entering the workforce and we want to attract diverse students and prepare them for a diverse workforce.
This is also a part of our identity as a land grant university – we have a responsibility to give back.
We are the only Research One university in the state of Arkansas – again, we have a responsibility to give back!
This is one of our campus priorities – we have a responsibility to LEAD.
We also need to understand the difference between key terms – these definitions help us think about how diverse students may have different needs and how we can contribute to that support.
Diversity: Diversity refers to all the ways in which people differ. Put simply, diversity refers to all the characteristics that make individuals different from each other, and in its most basic form refers to heterogeneity.
Inclusion: Inclusion exists when traditionally marginalized individuals and groups feel a sense of belonging and are empowered to participate in majority culture as full and valued members.
Equity: Historically equity refers to the process of creating equivalent outcomes (not the same as treating everyone the same) for members of historically underrepresented and oppressed individuals and groups. Equity is about ending systemic discrimination against people based on their identity or background.
Access: The ability to attain the necessary resources to succeed.
When you are creating activities and assessments it's important to keep these definitions and concepts in mind – this will help all of your students to be successful! When you start on this work you need to remember that this is a journey and not a destination. You will work on this every day and continue to focus on better outcomes.
We all need to be a part of this process. Our senior leadership has recognized how important this is and is encouraging us to all learn and participate – and they are engaged and ready to lead too!
So, what can we do? We can confront our frustrations and step outside our comfort zones. We can think from a different perspective. We can be Agents of Change. Let the diversity team know if you have concerns or if you want to join the U of A Inclusion and Diversity Champion Team. It takes all of us to move our students, university, and state forward!
This content was developed from a presentation by Yvette Murphy-Erby which was sponsored by the The Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center (TFSC) at the University of Arkansas.


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By Melanie Lusnak • October 19, 2020 at 8:44 AM • Xero and Other Cloud Apps, SaaS & Technology Solutions, Outsourced Accounting
Running your business from anywhere has become a critical factor for success in today's ever-changing world. This accessibility is necessary in a world where easy access to a central office location isn't always available. Utilizing accounting software that is capable of providing real time data about your company is key to making informed decisions.
At Aprio Cloud, our advisors understand that there isn't a one-size fits-all solution. That's why our team assesses each client's needs to help them determine what software will grow with each company. Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting the different accounting software solutions we recommend and what makes them stand out among the competition. This week, the spotlight is on Xero.
By Tina Duncan • February 19, 2020 at 9:03 AM • Xero and Other Cloud Apps, Payroll / HR
Aprio Cloud and Gusto - Solving the financial, payroll and HR needs of today's growing businesses.
Long-time partners Aprio Cloud and Gusto are committed to helping small businesses grow with more accessibility to financial data, automation of processes, and continued innovation to the accounting a nd HR tools that every business needs.
By Matt Nyman • March 13, 2018 at 11:32 AM • Xero and Other Cloud Apps
The journey of signing a new client is already an extensive process that costs both time and money for your business. When it comes to closing deals, the administrative side of sending and signing documents should not yield frustration for both you and your new client. Aprio Cloud uses PandaDoc for its document automation so that it can quickly support clients with its tax advisory and back office services.
Here are six key features that PandaDoc provides to close deals faster.
By Matt Nyman • March 8, 2018 at 11:40 AM • Xero and Other Cloud Apps
For brick-and-mortar businesses or teams spread out in different locations, there are challenges when it comes to employee scheduling, tracking actual time, communicating through emails, and supervising tasks. Finding a single tool to manage all of these business functions can be difficult and costly to business owners. Fortunately, Deputy is a valuable tool used by over 40,000 businesses to increase productivity and transparency. Here is an overview of the four main features Deputy provides to its users.
By Matt Nyman • February 23, 2017 at 12:00 PM • Xero and Other Cloud Apps, SaaS & Technology Solutions, Outsourced Accounting, Professional Services Solutions, E-Commerce and Retail Solutions
There is a huge difference between a Xero Accountant Advisor and a Xero Bookkeeping Advisor company. Most of the business owners I speak with don't realize there is a difference, or understand what a Xero Advisor can do for them as a whole. So let's break this down.
By Matt Nyman • May 3, 2016 at 10:35 AM • Xero and Other Cloud Apps, Outsourced Accounting
Like many cloud accounting advisors, we at HPC love using Expensify to streamline client accounting. Expensify has multiple features and subscription plans, as well as a seamless sync with Xero. However, like most accounting add-ons, in order to work correctly and best for your particular needs, it is important that you get it setup appropriately so that you can manage a new automated process, so that it's not just another tool or set of to-do's.


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1930s & Earlier / Johnny Mostil Suicide Attempt 1927
The 1927 Chicago White Sox were baseball's version of a soap opera. During spring training in Shreveport, LA, popular center fielder Johnny Mostil attempted suicide with a razor. He was discovered in a booster's hotel room lying in a pool of his own blood. Several teammates administered first aid, got him medical treatment and saved his life. (Two Shreveport doctors later sued Mostil and the White Sox for non-payment of $6,000 in medical bills.) What prompted Mostil's out-of-the-blue suicide attempt? The official team statement said Mostil was feeling the negative effects of a painful bout of neuritis. However, the whispers were much more interesting. Mostil was rumored to be having an affair with Irene Faber, the wife of White Sox pitcher Red Faber. Shortly after the suicide attempt, Mostil's girlfriend, Margaret Caroll, began dating Bill Barrett, another White Sox player. The two eventually married. Mostil did not play until September. By 1929 his career was over. He died in 1970.
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Understanding someone's motive determines how close we allow them into our lives. That's why we need to understand God's motive toward us. In this message, Brad Cooper reveals the importance of seeing ourselves and others as loved by God, so our lives can be transformed by that love -- and the world also.
Discover more about john, salvation, love, christmas.


CBOT futures are trading mixed on a lack of significant market news. Harvest pressure looks to cap any nearby rally for corn and soybeans. The soybean futures market is in an "Inverse" position indicating buyers want the beans sooner than later; and a large South American crop in the spring would give the market more comfort.
Live Cattle futures are higher, supported by this week's strong cash cattle and boxed beef markets. The October LC surged to $134.90 on low volume late Thursday afternoon, but cooler heads brought the price back this morning. Feeder Cattle futures are little changed as price seems to be working within a triangle formation on the charts – this should break out next week.
Lean Hog futures are higher with the December LH contract moving to new highs. Despite weak cash values, there's apparent worry that the PEDV effect on pig supplies could be bigger than expected and hog supplies shorter. Traders will watch weekly slaughter totals, but the next quarterly hog inventory report is 2 months away.


By promoting and engaging in activity, wellness, and inclusivity, more Americans than ever before can "Get into the Act." Older Americans Month offers an opportunity to emphasize how older adults can access the home- and community-based services they need to live independently in their communities. It is also an occasion to highlight how older adults are engaging with and making a difference in those communities. All Americans should work together to promote healthy aging, to increase community involvement for older adults, and to tackle important issues concerning seniors in American.


A collection of videos from the 2018 Vail International Complex Knee Symposium with a focus on anatomic-based reconstructions on complex knee procedures including: multi-ligament reconstructions, complex meniscal issues and osteotomies, posterolateral knee injuries, patellofemoral issues, and revision ACL.
Dr Moises Cohen (BR) & Dr Elizabeth Arendt (US).
Dr Moises Cohen and Dr Elizabeth Arendt carry out Dr Cohen's preferred MPFL reconstruction technique. Outlining key anatomical considerations for incision and preparation, they carry out the minimally invasive procedure whilst highlighting isometry and graft fixation.
Dr Charlie Brown presents the rationale and causes for 1-stage and 2-stage ACL revision repair, including the common causes of failure. Providing on-screen patients examples and highlighting aspects such as sagittal plane misalignment and enlarged bone tunnels, Dr Brown runs through detailed pre-operative evaluation considerations, before providing a demonstration of harvesting bone plugs. He concludes with a case presentation, involving BTB ACL reconstruction and bone grafts.
Surgical Demonstration: Stump the Audience: Where Do I Place My ACL?
Dr Charlie Brown (UAE) & Mr James Robinson (UK).
This surgical demonstration, presented by Dr Charlie Brown (US) and Mr James Robinson (UK) highlights key anatomical detail for Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) repair using fluorescent imaging and arthroscopic footage, including the proximal cartilage border. Two candidates are then challenged, using a cadaveric specimen, to determine the femoral tunnel and optimal ACL placement.
Dr Lars Engebretsen presents key surgical considerations for Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) repair with posterolateral corner injuries. Offering guidance on pre-operative examination and the use of grafts, Dr Engebretsen delivers a step-by-step surgical approach with on-screen footage. In conclusion, he discusses evidence comparing approaches for multi-ligament knee injury.
Dr Lars Engebretsen (NO) & Dr Darren Johnson (US).
Dr Lars Engebretsen (NO) & Dr March Strauss (NO).
Dr Lars Engebretsen and Dr Marc Strauss provide a detailed surgical demonstration of a double bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) reconstruction. Through arthroscopic imaging they highlight key anatomical considerations for bone resection and soft tissue preservation, including guide angles for tunnels. They proceed to demonstrate the technique and approach for graft fixation.
Dr Scott Faucett (US) & Dr Patrick Kane (US).
Video Description on the subject of lateral extra-articular reconstruction, Dr Andrew Geeslin (US) presents evidence and performance data on the relevant anatomical considerations and biomechanical factors that influence internal rotation. Highlighting the role of the ACL, ALL, Kaplan fibres and the IT band, Dr Geeslin shows comparison reconstruction techniques and performance data. In conclusion, Dr Geeslin presents key outcome studies and evidence.
Dr Al Getgood (US) & Dr Eivind Inderhaug (NO).
In this surgical demonstration, Dr Alan Getgood and Dr Elvind Inderhaug discuss lateral extra-articular tenodesis and the role of the Anterolateral Ligament (ALL). Providing detailed anatomical and biomechanical guidance, Dr Getgood demonstrates relevant structures to anterolateral translation. Dr Inderhaug then conducts a Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL) graft insertion.
Dr Al Getgood (US) & Dr Sebastian Kopf (US).
Dr Sebastian Kopf and Dr Alan Getgood offer a detailed presentation on the spatial relationship of different anatomical structures in the knee. The footage, using a cadaveric specimen, outlines different biomechanical considerations and key anatomical details for meniscal root repair and cruciate injury or reconstruction.
Dr Darren Johnson presents a lecture on the anatomy, biomechanics and techniques for superficial Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) tears. Using on-screen guidance, Dr Johnson outlines femoral and proximal tibial attachment sites, with considerations for restoring full range of motion. In conclusion, he presents a case study and the importance of examining the zone of injury.
On the subject of advanced bracing principles, Dr Patrick Kane discusses its role in multi-ligament knee injury and following Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) reconstruction. Presenting various biomechanical studies and considerations, including Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) bracing, Dr Kane outlines the impact on laxity and flexion. In conclusion, he discusses relevant guidance for bracing selection.
Dr Robert LaPrade's lecture discusses the need to perform double bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) reconstruction. After outlining the history and success of the procedure, he presents studies of clinically relevant biomechanics. Covering aspects such as the posterior tibial load and tensioning angles, he concludes with guidance of the double PCL bundle reconstruction technique.
Dr Robert LaPrade (US) & Dr Elizabeth Arendt (US).
Dr Robert LaPrade and Dr Elizabeth Arendt, through a surgical demonstration, offer detailed anatomical guidance of the patellofemoral joint, including key considerations for tendon and ligament reconstruction.
Dr Robert LaPrade (US) & Dr Lars Engebretsen (NO).
In this surgical demonstration, Dr Robert LaPrade and Dr Lars Engebretsen discuss the anatomical detail and surgical considerations for posterolateral knee reconstruction. After outlining differences between acute and chronic reconstruction, they conduct the procedure on a cadaveric specimen whilst discussing the use and fixation of grafts. In conclusion, the audience is invited to ask questions.
Dr Robert LaPrade (US) & Mr James Robinson (UK).
Dr Robert LaPrade and Dr James Robinson conduct a surgical demonstration of a meniscal root repair using a cadaveric specimen. Through arthroscopic footage, they outline key anatomical considerations and optimal placement near the original radial tear. Discussing the merits of using one or two tunnels, Drs LaPrade and Robinson conduct the procedure by offering their own preferred techniques.
Dr Robert LaPrade (US) & Dr Richard Von Bormann (ZA).
This surgical demonstration, conducted by Dr Robert LaPrade and Dr Richard Von Bormann, discusses the importance of Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL) reconstruction. Dr Von Bormann begins by outlining key anatomy and preparation for required tunnels and grafts. Both surgeons then offer their expertise and technique guidance for completing the procedure.
In this short lecture, Dr Christopher Larson aims to discuss key considerations for multi-ligament knee injuries. He outlines injury identification, physical examination approaches, imaging and surgical planning for the ACL, PCL, FCL, MCL and MPFL. In conclusion, Dr Larson summarises key challenges and the invaluable role of intra-operative fluoroscopy.
Dr Bruce Levy offers his expertise on the subject of anatomic posterolateral corner reconstruction. Initially outlining the three key structures, he continues to discuss evidence comparing repair and reconstruction, focusing on factors such as failure rates and key techniques using on-screen patient examples. In conclusion, Dr Levy shows a brief procedure and summarises the principle surgical considerations.
Dr Martin Lind (NO) & Dr Eivind Inderhaug (NO).
This surgical demonstration shows the LaPrade technique for anatomic complete MCL reconstruction. Dr Martin Lind and Dr Elvind Inderhaug outline key anatomical detail as they conduct the two-strand technique of an isolated superficial medial collateral ligament (MCL) and isolated posterior oblique ligament (POL) reconstruction.