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John Williams on Lies, Damned Lies and the 7.8% Unemployment Rate
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report (10/8/12)
Shadowstats.com Author John Williams wonders if politics are at play behind the latest jobs report, which shows 114,000 new U.S. jobs since September and a 0.3% drop in unemployment since August. Investors need to know how seasonal factors and month-to-month volatility affect the Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Williams explains why he doubts that we are in a recovery. The take-away? Look at the unadjusted figures before you sell your gold.
The Gold Report: John, as Mark Twain famously quipped, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just came out with new jobs numbers that show the country added 114,000 jobs since September and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8%, down from 8.1% in August. On Shadowstats.com, you argue that the numbers are wrong and pointed to politics as a possible reason for the incorrect figures. Are unemployment statistics being manipulated and if so how?
John Williams: I normally put out a commentary on the numbers, and, in this one, I raised the possibility of politics as a factor. The problem is very serious misreporting of the numbers and the result is what appears to be a bogus unemployment rate. The BLS reported a drop in the unemployment rate from 8.1% to 7.8%, three-tenths of a percentage point, which runs counter to what is being experienced in the marketplace.
What few people realize is that the headline unemployment rate is calculated each month using a unique set of seasonal adjustments. The August unemployment rate, which was 8.1%, was calculated using what BLS calls a "concurrent seasonal factor adjustment." Each month the agency recalculates the series to adjust for regular seasonal patterns tied to the school year or holiday shopping season or whatever is considered relevant. The next month, it does the same thing using another set of seasonal factors. Rather than publish a number that's consistent with the prior month's estimate, it recalculates everything, including the previous month, but it doesn't publish the revised number from the previous month.
The assumption is that the monthly recalculations don't make much difference over time, but they do. The depth and the protraction of the current severe economic downturn have thrown off the annual seasonal-factor adjustments. The result is very volatile seasonal factors month-to-month. That means the new calculations for the September number may have resulted in a very significant revision to the August number. Again, though, the BLS doesn't publish that, so the headline August-to-September 2012 change in the unemployment rate is not consistent and not comparable. Last December, when the BLS put the seasonal adjustments on a consistent basis for the year, as it does once per year, the November 2011 unemployment rate had just been reported as showing four-tenths of a percentage point drop—an unusually large monthly decline that never took place. When revised to a consistent basis, the drop in headline November unemployment revised to two-tenths of a percent. That is a big change. I think something like that happened here.
The BLS knows what the actual number is. It has an actual estimate for August, which is consistent with September, but it doesn't publish it because it says it "doesn't want to confuse data users." But it is putting out numbers that have no meaning month-to-month. One month before the election and a month after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced Quantitative Easing (QE) 3, is not a time to have inaccurate numbers. The BLS should publish the consistent numbers now.
TGR: You have said that BLS has been using this recalculation method for years. Do you feel that this month the numbers were more skewed than usual because of the political timing?
JW: Because there is no transparency in the calculation and reporting process, it leaves open the possibility of manipulation. What has happened here, though, is that in the wake of the economic collapse, the seasonal factors have been heavily distorted and are not stable on a month-to-month basis. Where the concept originally might not have made that much of a difference, it does make a big difference now. I suspect that is why we woke up to such a screwy unemployment rate this time around.
The 114,000 jobs growth in the payroll survey (which reflects the number of payroll jobs, counting multiple jobholders more than once) also is suspect and subject to concurrent-seasonal-factor adjustments. There, however, the BLS publishes revised estimates for the two prior months that are on a consistent basis with the headline number. Nonetheless, jobs in even earlier months are not re-reported, although they too are recalculated each month, with the effect that jobs reported in earlier periods can be moved into present reporting, boosting the current numbers, without the related earlier changes being revised in the published historical numbers. Nonetheless, the purported 114,000 jobs gain was not statistically significant.
From the household survey, which gives us the unemployment rate and counts the number of people who are employed (multiple-job holders are counted but once), the headline gain in employment was 873,000, the largest seasonally-adjusted monthly increase since Ronald Reagan's first-term. That number clearly is nonsense and again suggests there is a severe problem with the seasonal factors.
TGR: Do you think the unemployment rate was manipulated on purpose or did the bad economy just make the reporting more confusing?
JW: It could have been manipulated. I do not know and do not have direct evidence of current political massaging of the data. I know for certain that there have been direct political manipulations by different administrations, since the days of President Lyndon Johnson, involving various data sets that have included the gross domestic product (GDP), the trade numbers and the employment and unemployment numbers.
From what I've seen of the Obama administration, the reporting has been reasonably clean. Nonetheless, at best, the administration is using seriously flawed data, and the reporting and calculation process has the potential for manipulation. The timing of the announcement of such a big downside swing in unemployment certainly is a fortuitous circumstance for the administration's political needs.
Main Street U.S.A., however, has a much better sense on the economic reality than do the government's economic statisticians. If the headline unemployment rate is not as advertised, a goodly portion of the public will not buy it. Past experience has shown gimmicked reporting often backfiring on the manipulators.
TGR: What is the correct unemployment rate? What would be a reliable data set?
JW: I don't know of one. The unemployment rate comes out of government surveying and data manipulation, and the base number is wrong. What are good in theory are the un-adjusted numbers, although unemployment definitions still suffer. Those don't get revised for the seasonal factors. But there you have regular annual patterns of economic activity, so you'll see the unemployment rate go up and down as it follows the normal flow of annual business activity through the various seasons. Even so, it makes some sense to look at that unadjusted series over time. The average person doesn't think of himself or herself as employed on a seasonally adjusted basis, but a lot of people, according to the government, are so employed.
If you surveyed everyone in the country as to whether he or she were unemployed, you'd get an unemployment rate above 22%, instead of the headline 7.8%. The difference is in how the government defines whether someone is unemployed, versus the view from common experience.
TGR: What are the ultimate consequences of inaccurate statistics on the stock market, commodity prices and everyday people?
JW: Right now, the impact of the unemployment numbers is mostly political, although the Federal Reserve has made it part of its targeting in terms of QE3. But the primary political concerns are on the impact to the upcoming election, which is what makes the timing of this release so suspect.
There is a serious problem with the reporting. If it has been used to manipulate the public, that eventually will come out. If it hasn't, the simplest thing is for the BLS just to publish the actual numbers. They have them. They don't have to do any recalculations. They've already done that. They just need to publish them in a timely manner.
TGR: There seemed to be an impact on the stock market. The Dow ended Friday up. Was that simply a coincidence?
JW: Yes, the market jumped all over the place. But I see no rationale whatsoever behind the movements in the stock market. Any numbers will be used to spin a story that will explain what's happening with stocks at a given point in time.
TGR: What about commodity prices? What will this do to gold?
JW: You had some sell-off in gold Friday. Again, that could all be spin. Was it due to people thinking Bernanke was not going to have to ease monetary policy as much? I'm not into day-to-day calling of the markets. The stock market is absolutely irrational. You can make up all sorts of stories based on that. Markets respond to lots of really worthless information—the 114,000 gain in payrolls for example is not statistically meaningful. It could have been a contraction as well as a gain, when the 129,000-job margin of error is considered. Yet, the markets gyrate wildly over very small changes that have no relationship to what's actually happening in the economy. I think traders just love to trade. It's like going to the racetrack and betting on a horse because of how it wiggles its ears. It has little to do with the underlying fundamentals.
TGR: Is there an ultimate consequence of having faulty data? Do incorrect numbers build on themselves and become more inaccurate over time? Will we see a jump in the unemployment rate in December when they are recalculated after the election? Are there other consequences?
JW: When governments use bad numbers, and believe them, they don't respond appropriately to problems like unemployment and inflation. People don't properly target their investment returns or adjust their income projections. There are good reasons for having accurate information, but accurate numbers just are not coming out of the U.S. government at the moment.
TGR: You mentioned the correlation with the announcement of QE3. When we talked in May, you called QE "dangerous" and said it would eventually lead to a massive decline in the U.S. dollar, triggering new dollar selling and lead to dollar inflation, spikes in oil prices and eventually hyperinflation. Your special commentary on inflation and systemic conditions comes out next week on ShadowStats. Can we expect any good news?
JW: The outlook hasn't changed. I've been looking at this for a long time. Let me put it this way: The economy is not suddenly improving. Underlying fundamentals have not changed. You just are getting bad-quality numbers.
The average guy has a pretty good sense of what is going on. When Main Street suddenly starts getting jobs and businesses pick up, then we will know the economy is picking up. Shy of that, I'd be wary of anything I hear out of the government on business activity.
TGR: So the reports that we are in a recovery aren't accurate? What indicators should we be watching?
JW: Over time, you will find the better-quality statistics are confirming that we never had an economic recovery, and that we're not about to get one. When you have faulty numbers, you need to look at the underlying fundamentals to see what's happening. The problem is the consumer doesn't have the liquidity, either from the standpoint of income growth or credit availability, to sustain positive growth in the GDP.
TGR: Thank you for your time, John. We will check in with you periodically to see if you see any changes in those numbers.
Walter J. "John" Williams has been a private consulting economist and a specialist in government economic reporting for 30 years. His economic consultancy is called Shadow Government Statistics (ShadowStats.com). His early work in economic reporting led to front-page stories in The New York Times and Investor's Business Daily. He received a bachelor's degree in economics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1971, and was awarded a Master of Business Administration from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1972, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar.
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Mental Health: Prevention is the Best Cure
By British Safety Council
Published: October 17th, 2019
On the eve of World Mental Health Day, held on 10 October, the British Safety Council is calling on the government and businesses to invest in prevention to tackle mental ill-health at work.
Lawrence Waterman, Chairman of the British Safety Council, said: "There is growing awareness of the scale of the mental health crisis. The facts are stark: one in three of us will be diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point in our lives. Three out of five people have experienced mental health issues due to work (Business in the Community).
"For years this issue went unrecognised and undetected, and I welcome the fact that government is now taking action. And that more and more companies are developing mental health strategies to support the needs of their workforce."
Mr Waterman went on to say: "We must continue to make progress, not least in how people see mental health and their role in dealing with it. Given the average person now spends a third of their adult life at work, we all have a part to play in safeguarding physical and mental health at work.
"Just as with physical health and safety, prevention is the best cure and the wisest investment. Changes that reduce stress, encourage early intervention and remove the mental health stigma deliver significant long-term benefits."
"working in partnership with the mental health charity Mates in Mind, the British Safety Council delivers several mental health training courses"
The British Safety Council, which has been delivering mental health awareness training since 2017, has developed new courses to increase understanding of factors which play a key role in employee health and wellbeing, including sleep, nutrition and exercise. These modules, available from November 2019, include training options for those with limited time.
Demand for the courses has come from the British Safety Council's members and students who have already undertaken mental health training and want to foster a culture in their own organisations that positively promotes employee wellbeing and mental health.
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Accidental landlords could face a large tax bill
Earlier this year, the government announced plans to scrap two types of tax relief for landlords who sell a property that was once their home. Homeowners in these circumstances are often referred to as 'accidental landlords', as when they originally acquired the property it was not with the intention of letting it out. They may choose to do so because they are having trouble selling, are relocating or they may have inherited it.
The clock is ticking
The new rules will take effect from 6 April 2020 when the tax relief, known as principal private residence relief, will be reduced from the existing extension of 18 months to nine months. So, when a property that was once a main home is sold, the tax payable is on the amount it goes up in value while it is let out. Currently the owner is allowed to add 18 months to the amount of time they lived at that property; from April next year they will only be able to add nine.
Lettings relief is to be scaled back at the same time, meaning that landlords selling their former home after renting it out will no longer be allowed to shelter £40,000 of the gain from Capital Gains Tax (up to £80,000 for couples). From April next year, only landlords who continue to live in the property will qualify for this benefit.
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The new rules will take effect from 6 April 2020 when the tax relief, known as principal private residence relief, will be reduced from the existing extension of 18 months to nine months.
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Cork BHAA held a benefit race tonight for Tim Morrissey the Eagle secretary and runner who was so badly injured in a road accident last year. The race was held over the off road paths around Mahon, with race headquarters in the magnificent Cork Heritage Centre at Bessboro. With narrow paths the order of the day it was imperative for anyone wishing to be involved in the finish to get a good early break. By the one mile mark of this 5k race a four man group had formed at the head of the field, with Paul Carroll, just back after completing his first year at Villanova University, running on the shoulder of Cillian O'Tuama, with Timmy Murphy and Sean O'Flaherty in close attendance. The race brought the runners along the path of the old Cork- Passage railway line, and it was here that O'Flaherty made his break, quickly getting away from the others. He won in a time of 16:10, justifying his trip from Skibbereen. Second place went to O'Tuama (16:13), with Carroll third (16:37). They were followed by Murphy (16:38), Jason Nicholl (16:39), Paul O'Mahony (16:43), Brian McMahon (16:56), Alan Foolkes (17:10), Richard Sewell (17:13), and Billy O'Rourke (17:22). Joan Hough was a clear winner of the womens race (19:01) from Mary Murphy (19:42), Ann Murphy (21:15), and Monica Twohig (21:38). Vet wins were recorded by Daniel Byrne (o40), Seamus Casey (o45), Pat Dempsey (o50), Eddie Mullane (o55), John O'Mahony (o60), Marie Creedon (o35), Carmel Parnell (o40), and Frankie Devlin (o50).


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Puzzel builds on over 20 years` of heritage. It was one of the first pioneers to develop a cloud-based contact centre. Today, Puzzel combines omni-channel technology with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide complete customer interaction solutions in a digital age.
Puzzel`s omni-channel cloud contact solution has the flexibility and scalability to support smaller enterprises and global corporations. Voice calls, email, SMS, web-chat and social media channels are all managed in a single, easy-to-use application which integrates seamlessly with other enterprise solutions. As a result contact centre agents and other parts of the business can access corporate systems such as customer relationship management (CRM) information, invoice history, product or service details and user knowledgebases to answer customer queries efficiently and effectively.
Puzzel is committed to developing innovative technology to improve customer interactions and its new AI solutions are an efficient and cost-effective addition to any organisation`s self-service offering. Ready-made connectors allow contact centres that have invested in Chatbots to `Bring their own Bot` and integrate to Puzzel technology. Flexible Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) also allow a range of highly bespoke integration options with CRM and other enterprise applications supported by Puzzel`s expert solution architects and in-house development team.
Puzzel was named a Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, Western Europe, Report 2019 for the fifth consecutive year for its strong growth, functional capabilities, strengths in standards and compliance, customer service and support.
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Valio unveils UK product range
Valio will launch its brand in the UK at Food Matters Live this year. It will unveil its Fresh Finnish Thinking through a portfolio of unique, on trend product, which will appear on supermarket shelves in 2018.
Following extensive testing of a range of products that have experienced success in other markets, Valio is planning a comprehensive marketing campaign for the introduction of:
Valio Gefilus® Kefir yoghurts
Valio Finnish spreadable butters and cheddar with ValSa®
Valio Master Butter Makers butter
Ross Crittenden, Valio's Executive VP of New Markets said: "We are excited to bring Valio's Fresh Finnish Thinking to the UK. Our 110-year heritage of craftsmanship and tradition delivers the authenticity and provenance UK consumers demand. Valio's innovative, new products are inspired by nature and driven by "sisu", the uniquely Finnish passionate, spirited and determined characteristic that determines the Valio way of doing things."
Bringing insights and expertise to Food Matters Live
During the course of the exhibition Valio's Research Manager, Dr Minja Miettinen, will present the latest insights on Digestive Health while Valio Consumer Insight Manager, Dr Kevin Deegan leads two seminars focusing on the role of media in free–from and the novel use of social media in concept development. He will also present a Valio case study on communication of technology and join the panel discussion on neuro-marketing.
Nobel Prize-winning technology
Valio is the only dairy company with Nobel Prize-winning technology and puts innovation and R&D at the heart of the company. As the most innovative dairy in the world, Valio creates products based on trends of wellbeing and sustainability, always with great taste. Every year the company launches 100 new products and invests more than €30 million in research and quality control.
With exports to more than 60 markets, Valio has proven experience and ability to deliver a portfolio of ever-evolving, category-leading products.
All Valio products are made from fresh milk, only from Valio's own dairy farmers, renowned for its purity and quality.
Valio will be at Food Matters Live from 21 to 23 November 2017 on stand 605.
For further information visit: www.valio.com/uk
Food Matters Live Seminars
Digestive health: the latest insights
Tuesday 21st November, 14:00 - 15:30, Room 8
Market insight and trends for gut health ingredients
Dr Minja Miettinen, Research Manager, Valio R&D
What is new in social media and what does it mean for your brand?
Tuesday 21st November, 13:00 - 14:30, Room 10
Social media as a dynamic tool in concept development and testing
Dr Kevin Deegan, Consumer Insight Manager, Valio
Chris Adams, VP of Consumer Social, The Honey Partnership
The role of media in influencing demand for free-from
Wednesday 22nd November, 14:00 - 15:30, Room 5
Case study: removing the stigma surrounding lactose-free in the Nordics
Using neuro-marketing and behavioural science to influence consumer choice and perception
Thursday 23rd November, 14:30 - 16:00, Room 10
Case Study: Valio
Panel discussion – Neuro-marketing across a campaign using a multi platform approach
Dr Tim Holmes, Director of Research and Development, Acuity Intelligence
Dr Andy Myers, The Ginger Nut, Walnut Unlimited


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startup disk names
14th May 2014 18:13 #1
colmosiris
Just wondering why the restriction on spaces in startup disk names for ffmpegx? I've always had a hard disk with the default name of 'Macintosh HD', and have never had any reason to change it. Is there any way round this restriction?
I really can't rename the disk, too many other things rely on its name. I've used ffmpegx before on other machines (also with disks called 'Macintosh HD'), but on this one it just won't run.
The latest version of ffmpegX, v0.0.9y-L r2, seems to work fine on my Mac for almost three years now, with the startup disk named the default "Macintosh HD". I was under the impression that most (all?) dependancies on the name of the startup disk had been removed in the later releases of ffmpegX.
The name of the startup disk should be irrelevant to most command line tools that ffmpegX relies on, as the root of the drive is referenced as "/" in a path, instead of by name. The GUI relies heavily on AppleScript, so there might be some exceptions because of that, but I'm not aware of any.
You did install (move) ffmpegX in the all-users Applications folder on your boot disk, right? The user account does have admin privileges, right?
What errors, if any, are you experiencing?
jman98
Unix, which is the father of Linux and the BSD variants, is the grandfather of Mac's OS X, which is sort of BSD based. Sort of. Anyway, Unix traditionally has disliked spaces in file names. You can do it, but as Unix has always been command line heavy, doing so was not easy. The general workaround for "I don't like spaces in names" problems is this. You put a \ before the space. So instead of something like this:
ffmpegx Macintosh HD
you would do
ffmpegx Macintosh\ HD
PLEASE notice that the slash goes \ and DO NOT be an idiot and use the / slash instead and then come back here complaining that it doesn't work. They are NOT the same thing.
There actually are good reasons for not allowing spaces in file names, but debating that is FAR outside the scope of this thread. Let's just say it's a holdover from an older day where people interacted with computers on the command line a lot more than they do today.
Thanks very much Case and jman98. I trashed it and recopied it into /Applications, and it's fine now. Some sort of glitch, don't know what it was! But thanks very much for the info. I understand, now you explain that it's command line based, I wasn't aware of that. I work with databases, and I always avoid spaces in either field names or file names for the same reasons. It was just that I didn't really want to change something for one app, but now I don't have to, so that's great!
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VP for Human Resources at Southern Placed on Leave Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
January 9, 2018 | :
by Reginald Stuart
The Southern University System—the five-campus public university with campuses spread across the state of Louisiana—has placed its associate vice president for human resources on paid leave, pending an investigation into sexual assault allegations by a former employee, the university announced
The action taken by Southern late last week, was elevated by virtue of it coming months after the university system parted ways with its vice chancellor for student affairs after a private sex tape surfaced involving the school official and one of his graduate school students was provided to a web service known for broadcasting salacious visuals.
An institutional investigation has still not yielded the source of the explicit video. Relying on the state's "at will" employment law and its findings in the weeks after the tape went public, Southern dismissed the vice chancellor.
Cited as a coincidence in timing, officials at Southern stressed that the recent suspension of Lester Pourciau, associate vice president for human resources for the Southern University System, was not related to the students affairs vice chancellor case.
"Every employee and student has the right to a safe, positive working and learning environment," said Ray Belton, SU System president and Southern Baton Rouge chancellor, in a statement released by the university. "We will do everything in our power to ensure such."
The university declined to provide the name of the former employee or additional details of the allegations against 68 year-old Pourciau, a well-respected and widely known higher education human resources veteran in Louisiana. His biography indicates he has been associated with the university since 1999 when he started as an adjunct professor. He was hired in full time capacities at Southern in 2005 as human resources director at Southern University at Baton Rouge. Aside from a brief employment interruption in 2009, he has been a system wide vice president for human resources.
It was learned that the former employee, whose allegations are being investigated, had worked for the university from November 2001, until this past fall. She filed a complaint with the state late last year.
Some human resources personnel across the nation said that they were surprised by the allegations.
It's "highly unusual" for a "seasoned or novice" in human resources to not know what circumstances would lead to a sexual abuse allegation charge, said veteran human resources administrator Irene Chapman Hawkins, vice president of human resources at Delaware State University, echoing peers around the country. She said that in her more than 30 years in human resources, this was the first instance she has heard of sexual assault allegations against a human resources chief.
Hawkins said unwanted sexual encounters "are not impossible" noting human resources personnel "are human" too.


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Q: How to call the values entered in the loop to the Process, this is a JAVA SRT program Good day, I need your help, I am creating a Short Remaining Time First, all of the codes are intact except for getting the values that is needed for the process. Here is my draft:
package cpu_scheduling;

import java.util.Scanner;

class Process
{
    int pid; // Process ID
    int bt; // Burst Time
    int art; // Arrival Time

    public Process(int pid, int bt, int art)
    {
        this.pid = pid;
        this.bt = bt;
        this.art = art;
    }
}

public class SRTF
{
    // Method to find the waiting time for all
    // processes
    static void findWaitingTime(Process proc[], int n,
                                     int wt[])
    {
        int rt[] = new int[n];

        // Copy the burst time into rt[]
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            rt[i] = proc[i].bt;

        int complete = 0, t = 0, minm = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        int shortest = 0, finish_time;
        boolean check = false;

        // Process until all processes gets
        // completed
        while (complete != n) {

            // Find process with minimum
            // remaining time among the
            // processes that arrives till the
            // current time`
            for (int j = 0; j < n; j++)
            {
                if ((proc[j].art <= t) &&
                  (rt[j] < minm) && rt[j] > 0) {
                    minm = rt[j];
                    shortest = j;
                    check = true;
                }
            }

            if (check == false) {
                t++;
                continue;
            }

            // Reduce remaining time by one
            rt[shortest]--;

            // Update minimum
            minm = rt[shortest];
            if (minm == 0)
                minm = Integer.MAX_VALUE;

            // If a process gets completely
            // executed
            if (rt[shortest] == 0) {

                // Increment complete
                complete++;
                check = false;

                // Find finish time of current
                // process
                finish_time = t + 1;

                // Calculate waiting time
                wt[shortest] = finish_time -
                             proc[shortest].bt -
                             proc[shortest].art;

                if (wt[shortest] < 0)
                    wt[shortest] = 0;
            }
            // Increment time
            t++;
        }
    }

    // Method to calculate turn around time
    static void findTurnAroundTime(Process proc[], int n,
                            int wt[], int tat[])
    {
        // calculating turnaround time by adding
        // bt[i] + wt[i]
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            tat[i] = proc[i].bt + wt[i];
    }

    // Method to calculate average time
    static void findavgTime(Process proc[], int n)
    {
        int wt[] = new int[n], tat[] = new int[n];
        int  total_wt = 0, total_tat = 0;

        // Function to find waiting time of all
        // processes
        findWaitingTime(proc, n, wt);

        // Function to find turn around time for
        // all processes
        findTurnAroundTime(proc, n, wt, tat);

        // Display processes along with all
        // details
        System.out.println("Processes " +
                           " Burst time " +
                           " Waiting time " +
                           " Turn around time");

        // Calculate total waiting time and
        // total turnaround time
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            total_wt = total_wt + wt[i];
            total_tat = total_tat + tat[i];
            System.out.println(" " + proc[i].pid + "\t\t"
                             + proc[i].bt + "\t\t " + wt[i]
                             + "\t\t" + tat[i]);
        }

        System.out.println("Average waiting time = " +
                          (float)total_wt / (float)n);
        System.out.println("Average turn around time = " +
                           (float)total_tat / (float)n);
    }

    // Driver Method
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println ("enter no of process:");
        int n = sc.nextInt();
        int pid[] = new int[n];
        int at[] = new int[n]; // at means arrival time
        int bt[] = new int[n]; // bt means burst time
        int f[] = new int[n];  // f means it is flag it checks process is completed or not

        for(int i=0;i<n;i++) {
            System.out.println ("enter process " + (i+1) + " arrival time:");
            at[i] = sc.nextInt();
            System.out.println ("enter process " + (i+1) + " brust time:");
            bt[i] = sc.nextInt();
            pid[i] = i+1;
            f[i] = 0;
        }

        Process proc[] = { new Process(1, 6, 1),
                            new Process(2, 8, 1),
                            new Process(3, 7, 2),
                            new Process(4, 3, 3)};

        findavgTime(proc, proc.length);
    }
}

The given values in the draft are
Process 1, Burst Time 6, Arrival Time 1
Process 2, Burst Time 8, Arrival Time 1
Process 3, Burst Time 7, Arrival Time 2
Process 4, Burst Time 3, Arrival Time 3
This is static values yet, I want to modify the codes to make it interactive, I want my users to input their values.
Here is my Scanner input as seen on the draft too
        for(int i=0;i<n;i++) {
            System.out.println ("enter process " + (i+1) + " arrival time:");
            at[i] = sc.nextInt();
            System.out.println ("enter process " + (i+1) + " brust time:");
            bt[i] = sc.nextInt();
            pid[i] = i+1;
            f[i] = 0;
        }

I want to change this and this needs your help, only inputting variables of the said pid, at, and bt is not allowed.
        Process proc[] = { new Process(1, 6, 1),
                            new Process(2, 8, 1),
                            new Process(3, 7, 2),
                            new Process(4, 3, 3)};

That's my only problem, I want it to make it as looping process so I can input how many process and values I want. I want 'Process proc[]' to change from static given values to user input.

A: As far as i can understand the problem, you can move your constructor calls into the for loop.
This is the modified driver function -
// Driver Method
public static void main(String[] args)
{
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println ("enter no of process:");
    int n = sc.nextInt();
    int pid[] = new int[n];
    int at[] = new int[n]; // at means arrival time
    int bt[] = new int[n]; // bt means burst time
    int f[] = new int[n];  // f means it is flag it checks process is completed or not

    Process proc[] = new Process[n]
    for(int i=0;i<n;i++) {
        System.out.println ("enter process " + (i+1) + " arrival time:");
        at[i] = sc.nextInt();
        System.out.println ("enter process " + (i+1) + " brust time:");
        bt[i] = sc.nextInt();
        pid[i] = i+1;
        f[i] = 0;
        // Additonal line
        proc[i] = new Process(pid[i], bt[i], at[i]);
    }

    findavgTime(proc, proc.length);
}

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A native Calgarian, Dr. Liz's academic career began with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Calgary. Combining her love of travel and her determination to be a veterinarian, Dr. Liz studied at the University of Veterinary Medicine, in Kosice, Slovakia. She graduated, with great distinction, in 2005 as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
After returning home to Calgary, Dr. Liz spent three years practicing at one of Calgary's few cat-only clinics. Her desire to face new challenges, while continuing her love for feline medicine, has led Dr. Liz to take the helm of Wild Rose Cat Clinic.
In December 2012 Dr. Liz succeeded in her pursuit of board certification in feline medicine.
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Clara is a 2018 graduate of University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Clara first joined Wild Rose Cat Clinic in 2015, as a part-time assistant during her veterinary studies. Before that, Clara attended the University of Alberta for her undergraduate degree. Clara is excited to share her love of cats and cat medicine with Dr. Liz and the rest of the team. Clara has two feisty kitty companions, Arya and Jaqen, who love nothing more than to play with sparkle fluffy toys!
Janet came to Wild Rose Cat Clinic in 2005, from the Hamilton Ontario area. She had worked in Ontario for many years at The Cat Clinic, under Dr. Liz O'Brien. Although Janet does not have any medical training, she does have many years of customer service and office administration experience. Working with pets and their owners is one of her favorite areas!
Janet is very proud to be the mother of two great sons, one living close by and one living in southern Ontario. She is happily "owned" by her cat Grace and her yellow lab Molly, who are both wonderful company. Animals never allow Janet to get bored, to say the least! Except for her cats, Janet, her sons, and the dog all enjoy being out in the fresh air and exercising.
Kat is from Saint John, New Brunswick and moved to Calgary in Spring 2011. In 2005 she received her diploma in Administration/Veterinary Assisant and has been working in the veterinary industry ever since. Kat joined the Wild Rose Cat Clinic team in September 2011.
When not working, Kat enjoys spending time with friends, reading, gaming and exploring her new city and surrouding area.
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Smart cities tech pilot focuses on public safety
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has announced that it is launching a smart cities technology integration pilot in St. Louis, Missouri.
Launched in collaboration with both the city and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the pilot is taking place at T-REX, the downtown St. Louis technology innovation center. There, the partners will research, design and test the Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA) as an interoperable framework that integrates commercial proprietary Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for public safety applications at the community level.
The intended outcome of this smart city effort, says the agency, is to enhance public safety and efficient and effective operations across all city departments.
"With this pilot, we will be able to engage stakeholders in St. Louis to test how their technology can meet real city needs," says William Bryan, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology. "The City of St. Louis joined the federal Smart Cities Initiative in an effort to improve public safety, among other objectives."
The goal of the SCIRA pilot is to integrate and test existing real-world technologies that can augment, and even improve, all day-to-day city operations and emergency response capabilities. The pilot will test the technologies' performances and ability to enhance public safety via a series of major flooding, flash flooding, vulnerable population outreach, and building fire scenarios.
Through the SCIRA project's findings, says the agency, cities could have open, interoperable methods for incorporating smart city technologies across city services using shared technology standards.
St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson adds, "Community level application of existing technologies is essential for a 21st-century city to adequately deliver services to its residents and provide for their public safety, as well as enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of all city services. The way our residents live, work and play is continuously evolving and their government must evolve with them. I am excited to be partnering with DHS S&T and OGC on this very important smart city effort."
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Sometimes I wonder how I can connect and find the people I want to help- the people that are struggling like I have- when it can be difficult to explain how my life was in the past.
It's not because it wasn't painful. It's because I worked so hard to block out the memories that even when I do remember, it's like I'm remembering someone else's past- someone else's family and someone else's story. Even when I can picture the moments, when I have flashes of memory, it's almost like there's no emotion attached.
In many many ways this is a great thing. It shows that I've healed. It shows that I've moved on and moved forward.
But it can make it difficult for me to connect with the people I want to help because I think they see me so happy and so full of peace that think I can't possibly relate to how they feel now in this moment. And they may even think that there's no way they'll ever get to the place that I'm at now.
I've realized there are two things that really throw me back into a moment with a full blast of emotions. One is reading or listening to someone else's story. When they tell it, describing the pain and frustration and disappointment they feel it strikes me deep inside. It takes me right back to the moment that I last felt the way they do and how hard it was.
The other way is music. If I'm feeling like a really want to go back in time, I put on an old song that I connected to at the time and boom I am right there back in my room or car, depending on the age, and singing my heart out usually through tears.
I connected with songs on such a deep level when I was experiencing so much pain and hardship in my life that those emotions are unbelievably linked to the song.
Tonight I had a flash of memory of me singing the song "Grandpa" by The Judds. (I was a serious country singer when I was little). I rushed home so I could put the song on. It was like my mind and body were physically pulling me back to the past. The moment I belted the first lyric, I felt tears immediately rolling down my face. I felt the pain and deep sadness I felt when I used to sing this song. I felt the hope for a happier day and a less painful life.
It blew my mind how emotional I felt signing this song again. Mainly because I had such a great day today, so I knew these sad feelings were directly linked to my past and this song.
You may be wondering if I knew this song was going to make me sad than why the heck I put it on.
I think it's important for me to remember where I came from, where my family came from and the progress we've made.
Our lives are so different now as we continue to grow. Remembering my struggle and my hopelessness fuels my passion to help others see that there is another way to live. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it is so possible to change.
Oh and just in case you connect with this song like I do or have never heard it, here's a link to listen.


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May March
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As morning came, we put on our white shirts to represent our unity with undocumented workers. This annual event has become known as the May March. We marched for the immigrants and to unite with all those that were against the new law, Arizona Senate Bill 1070 [SB1070], proposed and signed by Republican Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, which makes those immigrants who do not have an alien registration document guilty of a state crime.
It will also require police officers to question people whose immigration status they deem suspicious, in other words they will profile Latinos. They will arrest those who hire illegal immigrants or day laborers. The effects of this law, which is expected to go into effect in the summer of 2010, were seen immediately throughout Arizona, with many day laborers not showing up at the Home Depots or other places where they would be able to find work, leaving them without a chance of a day's work and money to buy necessities.
Many of the protesters had participated in the May march of previous years. Assembling at the North Hollywood Metro station, where the Metro Red Line starts and goes down to Union Station at around ten in the morning, it was easy to spot the ones who, just like us, were headed to Downtown Los Angeles, to rally and join the protest. For all of us, it was important to show to California, Arizona, and the rest of the country that this law that allows the arrest of people based on physical is unfair to everyone.
The "Arizona Law"
Gov. Brewer has had a long history of supporting laws that criminalize illegal immigrants. She refused to offer public services and benefits to those who are in Arizona illegally and also ruled it a misdemeanor for those state and local government employees who failed to report immigration law violations while public benefits or services were being administered. Many of us who had been paying attention to the recent news behind this bill knew that we had to take a stand against something that Jan Brewer had mentioned in a statement, that Arizona Senate Bill 1070 was a "way to solve a crisis of illegal immigration that Arizona had not caused or created and that the federal government had refused to fix."
As a crowd of marchers walked from parked cars, many more joined in that had just gotten down from the Metro Orange Line bus that ends its route at the North Hollywood station. The long escalators that lead to the ticket platform were covered with people that were wearing white tops to protest SB1070. People began to grow impatient, but the majority waited in line to purchase the ticket that would take them to march for immigrants' rights.
There was fear in the eyes of some of the Metro users when they passed the Sheriff's Department officers in the ticket and boarding areas, because many who joined with the crowd to protest the bill are undocumented immigrants who live in constant fear that they need to watch their every move. One minute they could be working to support their family, and the next they could be arrested and deported, leaving a family behind to survive on their own.
Elsa Martinez, who wore a white T-shirt with the face of deceased Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, said "Pues mira, yo lo estoy hacienda por mis niños principalmente, porque imaginate que pasen esta ley en California, a mi me llevan, y quien por ellos?," which translates into "Well look, I am doing this for my kids, because, imagine, they pass this law in California and they take me, who will look out for them and take care of them?"
The sense of community could be felt throughout the ride to downtown Los Angeles, and many were talking about the Arizona law. Conversations got louder and more people got on at every stop. The protestors were easily recognizable because most wore white shirts and carried a hat or baseball cap to cover themselves from the warm sun that was shining on Los Angeles that May 1st. Many of the people also had signs and flags, the flags of the countries that they had left behind in search of a better life and the "American Dream" and also the flag of the United States, a place of opportunity, although an opportunity that was fading away for many of immigrants, including people who were on the train with us.
Most of the commuters could be heard talking in Spanish to people who had just boarded, and no matter how packed the train was, everyone found a way to be able to fit in and make room for more. From the moment people got on, they added even more to the unity that already existed behind the same cause, whether they were there to support family members, friends, or themselves; they were on their way to protest a law that racially profiles Latinos. They protested the inherent unfairness of taking people into custody because of how they look to determine if their "crime" against their host country was the economic necessity of being here illegally to support a family back in their native country.
At various stops, people of all races, cultural backgrounds, and appearances boarded the train, and many of the supporters of the march seemed a bit worried that a SB1070 supporter would get on and start an argument or a fight. Eventually, the first one came along for the ride on the Hollywood/Highland stop. Wearing a blue jacket and having a seemingly calm look on his face, he chose to stand in the middle of the walkway and grab onto the metal bar on top. In a booming voice he said "Why does there have to be so many of them; we should just get rid of them." Nobody said anything to this and just kept observing him.
Although he seemed to have mental health issues, we recognized that this is the type of racial profiling, discrimination, and rejection that many immigrants receive while they are in the United States.
The 7th Street/Metro Center stop was were the people got off, many by themselves, others, carrying their kids or pushing strollers. It was for those little ones that many were fighting for, so that they could stay in this country with their parents, who may be in danger of deportation, and for those children to have an equal education opportunity so that they can grow and build a future.
As the crowd walked to 7th Street, many cars passed honking and waving, showing their support as well. The crowd grew enthusiastic, and as they received small banners on sticks with the words Si Se Puede and "Yes We Can" from a man that had made hundreds of them at home, they were eager to reach the intersection of 7th Street and Broadway. Once the crowd got closer to the meeting intersection, it was visible how many had come out to support a cause. It was a cause and march that was heard around the country and the world, with rallies in Arizona, New York, Texas, as well as some in Athens and a few in Spanish-speaking countries.
The March
Once the crowd got together and started making its way to Los Angeles City Hall, members of a folkloric group performed Aztec dances, with their leader Doña Maria, chanting to the gods for protection of the people, for justice to be served, and most especially for the people who come to work.
Their colorful outfits included feathers and seashells representing their culture, and many said the "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us; this was our land."
Jose Chavez, a newspaper vendor, brought his son, Miguelito, and said that he is the future of this country. Si me sacan a mi, mi esposa no va a poder mantenerlos ella sola. Se van a talvez tener que venir conmigo which means "If they kick me out, my wife won't be able to support them on her own. They would eventually have to come back with me." Miguelito sat atop the newspaper kiosk where his father works, waving a huge American flag from a stick, observing the crowd covered in white passing by, knowing that he was just like the rest of us, united. Although he is only 7-years-old, he already has an understanding of what the law means, and that his family might be separated because of it.
Gaby Orellana, a John Burroughs High School student, walked with me along the march on that warm, yet breezy Saturday. "It is unfair and unjust how they are treating illegal immigrants in the country. I thought racial profiling ended a long time ago, and here it is back with us, separating families, and throwing hard working people into jail and back into countries where they have no ways of being able to support a family," she said. As the crowd marched against SB1070, a crowd of about 12 men and women had formed in a corner. They had locked arm in arm, and attracted the crowd's attention because they wore green T-shirts that said IMMIGRANTE, which means "immigrant" in Spanish, and their faces carried a sense of worry that if the law expands, they could no longer be in this country. Our hearts went out to them, and amongst a sea of white shirts, they stood up for what they were and gave us a bigger reason to keep on marching.
Catherine Carrasco, a Peruvian immigrant also attending John Burroughs High School, mentioned, "This is the country of opportunity, and I am here because I want an education. What can we do? Just raise our voice and try to be heard so that our dreams, like many others', aren't crushed, especially for those that have nothing." She is obtaining her residency status but represented well those students that yearn for a higher education but unfortunately cannot receive it. She kept on walking, and she wore a cap and gown and carried a diploma, representing all the AB 540 students.
As we got closer to reaching City Hall, I mentioned to Gaby Orellana that Gov. Brewer was also behind legislation to "make sure that no public services are being offered to anyone who is in this state [Arizona] illegally," and she replied with "That is crazy! People should be able to have human rights and services that will help them if they are in danger healthwise or even dying, and this woman is rejecting them as if only citizens could have these rights. What if an illegal immigrant was badly injured and dying, but a doctor could not help him out? That person will either die because that service was rejected, and some don't go to the doctor for simple emergencies because of the fear that they will be turned in to the government authorities and deported. People would rather bear the pain than be deported. That is sad."
For many, an immigration reform is the way to go. To have hard-working people deported seems unjust to them and would rather have a controlled way of keeping them in the country.
We had finally reached the ending point of the march. It was around 11:30 in the morning, and from the speakers, music could be heard, ranging from cumbia to merengue to rancheras. The first song that played was by a local group and the chorus could be heard chanting Obama escucha, el pueblo esta en la lucha, "Obama listen, our people are in the fight."
Many speakers went up to the podium and gave advice to the people on what could be done, such as boycotting anything related to Arizona, including travel to Arizona, products from Arizona, Arizona sports teams, and pretty much anything with Arizona in it. To many that support the boycott, this means that Arizona's economy will suffer and the downfall will be seen with the lack of immigrants, such as the loss of sales and less workers being available for jobs, causing companies to produce less and suffer.
In the midst of all this, a man carrying a sign sat on the top step facing the podium. He had chosen the spot carefully, as to be close to the Los Angeles police officers who were observing and supervising the crowd, because he probably felt like he needed extra protection. His sign read, "IF YOU ARE HERE ILLEGALLY…GET OUT NOW!!!!"
Tension was felt when people saw this, but fortunately no fights or arguments broke out. Not one of the 60,000 or more attendees did anything but ignore the man. Away from the crowd, some emotions ran high when opposing groups carried signs and exchanged a few words, mainly with students, but were soon separated by patrolling officers.
Finally, it was the turn for Cardinal Roger Mahony and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to take the platform. Ultimately, both publicly "found the law unfair and degrading, and that Arizona should be boycotted by all means."
With the chant of Si Se Puede the crowd began to leave after a few hours of rallying together. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles [CHIRLA] members who we walked back with kept questioning why should every single immigrant go down if the Arizona law is being aimed to counteract the Mexican drug cartels? Many agreed that it was only set up that way but the major plan is to take out every single illegal immigrant.
Eduardo Menchaca, a college student at Los Angeles Mission College, added "Porque no comienzan con controlar el crimen que hacen los ciudadanos estadounidenses o los que han nacidod aqui? Nos culpan de todo, hasta de quitarles los trabajos. Ellos no harian los trabajos que nuestra gente hace. Y aunque fueran trabajos decentes, mejor los immigrantes los agarran, talvez porque los otros son huevones." "Why don't they start by controlling the crimes and misdemeanors committed by the American citizens and the ones that were born here instead? They blame immigrants for everything, but yet they wouldn't be caught doing the jobs that our people do every day. And even if the jobs are 'decent' jobs, the immigrants get them, maybe because the other ones are too lazy to get them."
Tired faces could be seen as the line was made to buy the tickets to go back. We got on the train, people got off on their stops, and eventually only a few were left that were heading back to the last stop. Once we got off, a few goodbyes were said from people that had just met that had the same purpose on that day, and everyone went their own way. Even if it were only for a few hours that we came together physically, everyone that had attended the May march left with a sense that a duty had been fulfilled, and that while we may not see each other again, whether we are in Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York City, or any other part of the world, our hearts and voices will be behind an important cause until the goal is reached.
Sidebar: Becoming a Citizen
Becoming a U.S. citizen is an impossible dream for many who have immigrated illegally. The process is time-consuming and expensive and beyond the reach of many who were driven from Latin America by economic misfortunes to work in the U.S. as migrant workers or unskilled day laborers. Becoming a citizen also means renouncing one's former country, a step not all people who work in America want to take. Many just want to make some money to support their families and then move back home.
"If you are in the U.S. in illegal immigration status, you will find it very difficult to obtain U.S. citizenship," explains David Carnes. "In fact, in some cases it will prove impossible. Even if you are eligible, you may have to wait 15 years or more, most of this time in your home country. In some cases, however, this process can be expedited and it will not be necessary to leave the U.S. The most likely pathway is through marriage to a U.S. citizen." Another option is to be the parent of a U.S. citizen, meaning a child who was born here. Here are some tips from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
 If you entered the U.S. legally but overstayed your visa by more than 180 days, do not leave the U.S. until your permanent residence application is approved and you receive your permanent residence card. If you overstayed your U.S. visa by more than 180 days, you will be subject to a three-year bar to re-entry. If your overstay period was at least one year, you will be subject to a 10-year re-entry bar.
 That's right. If you entered the U.S. illegally, or overstayed your visa, there is a 10-year wait to apply for legal status.
 One way to bypass the wait is to join the military, and that option is becoming increasingly popular. Special naturalization procedures apply to those who served on active duty on behalf of the U.S. armed forces during certain military hostilities defined by law. Surviving spouse of U.S. citizens who died during periods of honorable service on active duty are also eligible. Military applicants must also have continuously resided in the United States for at least five years and have been physically present in the United States for at least 30 months out of the five years immediately preceding the date of filing the application.
 Other tips for illegal residents who wish to become U.S. citizens: 1. Move back to Mexico. If you voluntarily self-deport, the three and 10 year time bars do not apply. 2. Apply for a for a legal immigration visa at the US Embassy. There are many categories under which you can apply. It helps if you are educated and/or have a valuable skill. Another method is to apply as a legal guest worker, then later adjust to legal resident status. 3. Wait your turn in line for the visa. Some Filipinos wait 22 years for an F4 family immigration visa. 4. Once you have the visa, move to the U.S.
 As a Permanent Resident (green card holder), you must continuously stay in the United States for five years to qualify for American citizenship. It costs $985 to apply for a green card, apart from lawyer's fees, and $370 for an annual renewal.
 After five years of living in the US, if you have not committed any crimes or used welfare, you can apply for U.S. Citizenship. It costs $675 to file your application and you must pass a test and go through an interview process. You must be able to read and write in English and answer questions about U.S. history and civics. You must demonstrate "good character." You will lose your citizenship from your home country.
 You may not be able to become a citizen if any of the following circumstances apply:
1. You have been convicted of a crime.
2. You have ever lied to an immigration officer, consular official, or government official.
3. You married solely to obtain residency status.
4. Since becoming a lawful permanent resident, you have been absent from the United States for long periods of time, especially periods over one year.
5. You have ever been arrested.
6. You failed to file an income tax return for any year since becoming a lawful permanent resident.
7. You owe child support
for more information: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis
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Published: Dec. 18, 2017 at 7:32 a.m. ET
Shares of Amplify Snack Brands Inc. BETR, , the parent of Skinny Pop popcorn, rocketed 71% in premarket trade Monday, after the company agreed to be acquired by Hershey Co. HSY, -0.24% in a deal that gives Amplify a market value of $921 million. Under terms of the deal, Hershey will pay $12.00 in cash for each Amplify share outstanding, which is 71.4% above Friday's closing price of $7.00. Including debt, the deal is valued at $1.6 billion. Hershey said it would fund the deal with cash on hand and new debt, and is not expected to affect Hershey's current credit ratings. Hershey expects the deal to add to adjusted earnings per share in the first year after closing, which is expected to occur in the first quarter of 2018. "Hershey is a great cultural partner for Amplify and I'm excited for our team who will have access to Hershey's marketing and go-to-market resources to take our brands to the next level," said Amplify Chief Executive Tom Ennis. Amplify's stock had tumbled 20.5% year to date through Friday, while Hershey shares had gained 10.4% and the S&P 500 SPX, -1.10% had climbed 19.5%.
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Similar to blood sugar levels, maintaining your blood pressure and cholesterol optimizes your eye health. High blood pressure and cholesterol levels put you at greater risk of developing eye diseases and vision loss. When your levels are in check your eye health will improve immensely.
Eating healthy, exercising regularly, and quitting smoking have the added benefit of reducing the risk of eye disease. Eating healthy and exercising regularly are both good habits that preserve good vision and eye health. However, smoking puts you at greater risk of developing diabetic retinopathy and other diabetes-related diseases. When you quit smoking and practice other healthy habits you greatly reduce the risk of developing diabetic eye diseases.


Smickler leads off first base. Full count on the batter. Wheatley gets the sign, checks the runner. Smickler's got a big lead. He digs in his cleat. Wheatley throws over to Himmel at first! Smickler beats him back to the bag! And we'll do it again.
Smickler leads the league with 75 stolen bases despite having only the one leg, which fans remember he lost in the offseason in that flash mob accident. But he's been baseball's comeback story of the year, and no one knows it better than the Tennessee Smokies. He's stolen 11 bases off them alone, and they're determined not to let him nab number 12 here tonight.
Smokies clinging to a two-one lead. Wheatley, from the stretch, checks the sign. The windup. And there goes Smickler! Wheatley throws over to Himmel and they've got him in a rundown.
Himmel to Leroy at second back to Jared the catcher at first, back to the shortstop Glanville – now all the Smokies have joined the rundown. Doesn't look like Smickler's getting out of this one. Back to Delroy at first, who ran all the way in from left field, back to the third baseman Manning, back to Wheatley – they just can't seem to close the gap on Smickler, folks. Boy, he has deceiving speed.
Tennessee Skipper Bud Radford is out of the dugout, sending in signs to his defense. It looks like – oh my, Radford has signaled for the Old Speed Bump! Outfielders Wimby and Bradley are down on all fours, and now Smickler has to hop over them to avoid the tag.
Folks, it might seem unsportsmanlike to trip a one-legged man. But when you're trying to put the brakes on a runner with Smickler's speed, this is just good old-fashioned tactical baseball.
Delroy to Jared to Leroy to Wheatley, back to Manning to Himmel to Glanville – and they still can't tag out Smickler. Look at him go! He hops Wimby, ducks Manning, hops Bradley – holy smokes! He lost his cleat! Smickler lost his cleat! He's done for now, especially with the Old Speed Bump on.
Radford sends in another sign. What are the Smokies doing now? Oh my, they've got the cleat! The Smokies have Smickler's cleat and they're tossing it back and forth, the old Cleat Keep Away! The Smokies know he can't avoid them for long without the cleat, not with the Od Speed Bump on, and it's monkey in the middle as Smickler grasps for his shoe. How about that!
Himmel to Wheatley to Glanville to Jared who flubs the cleat. He'll have to hurry the throw, folks – a cleat in the dirt to Leroy to – oh my, what a snag by Smickler! And the scorekeeper indicates that'll be an error on Jared.
Smickler laces up as Radford sends in another sign. It looks like – yes, it is! The Smokies have gone deep into the playbook with the Old Rolling Thunder! Now all the Smokies are on the ground, rolling back and forth, trying to trip up Smickler – and look at him hop!
Over Himmel then Bradley then Delroy and now Manning. He lands on Wheatley's face and he's stumbling, stumbling … wait a minute. No one's covering second! That's a rookie mistake by Glanville – the shortstop always covers second during Old Rolling Thunder. Smickler hops over Wimby, now Jared, and dives for the bag. Safe! Number 76 on the year. He's some kind of baserunner, folks.
Wheatley from the stretch. Smickler leads off second.
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