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Akzo Nobel Receives Consensus Recommendation of "Hold" from Analysts
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Akzo Nobel has been given an average rating of "Hold" by the nine analysts that are currently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and three have assigned a buy recommendation to the company.
A number of research firms have weighed in on AKZOY. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a "hold" rating on shares of Akzo Nobel in a research note on Tuesday, October 5th. Barclays reiterated an "overweight" rating on shares of Akzo Nobel in a research note on Friday, October 15th. UBS Group reiterated a "neutral" rating on...
Euronav NV Receives $12.50 Consensus Price Target from Analysts
Shares of Euronav NV have been assigned a consensus rating of "Buy" from the six analysts that are currently covering the stock, Marketbeat Ratings reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 1 year price objective among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $12.50.
EURN has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. ING Group raised shares of Euronav from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a research report on Friday, October 22nd. Oddo Bhf raised shares...
Asset Management One Co. Ltd. Trims Stake in JBG SMITH Properties
Asset Management One Co. Ltd. lowered its holdings in JBG SMITH Properties by 5.6% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 174,582 shares of the company's stock after selling 10,368 shares during the period. Asset Management One Co. Ltd.'s holdings in JBG SMITH Properties were worth $5,169,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other large investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of JBG SMITH Properties by 0.5% in the 2nd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 17,438,987 shares of the...
DCP Midstream, LP Receives Average Rating of "Buy" from Analysts
Shares of DCP Midstream, LP have been given a consensus recommendation of "Buy" by the fourteen analysts that are currently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, nine have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating on the company. The average 1-year price target among brokerages that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $32.64.
A number of research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Stifel Nicolaus upgraded DCP Midstream from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating and raised...
Varta AG Receives Consensus Recommendation of "Hold" from Analysts
Varta AG has received an average recommendation of "Hold" from the seven brokerages that are covering the firm, MarketBeat.com reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation and one has assigned a hold recommendation to the company. The average twelve-month price objective among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is €104.33 .
VAR1 has been the topic of several analyst reports. Kepler Capital Markets set a €80.00 target price on Varta in a report on Wednesday, November 17th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. set a €140.00 price...
Liberty Global plc Receives Consensus Rating of "Hold" from Analysts
Shares of Liberty Global plc have received an average recommendation of "Hold" from the six analysts that are currently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has issued a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year price objective among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $34.20.
A number of research firms recently weighed in on LBTYA. Sanford C. Bernstein began coverage on Liberty Global in a research report on Tuesday, September 7th. They set an...
Zacks Investment Research Downgrades CNB Financial to Hold
Zacks Investment Research cut shares of CNB Financial from a buy rating to a hold rating in a research note published on Tuesday, Zacks.com reports.
According to Zacks, "CNB Financial Corporation is a bank holding company headquartered in Clearfield, PA. It conducts business principally through County National Bank whose market area includes twenty convenient office locations in Pennsylvania. "
Shares of CNB Financial stock opened at $26.91 on Tuesday. CNB Financial has a 52-week low of $20.20 and a 52-week high of $28.59. The company has a current ratio of 0.92, a quick ratio of 0.92 and...
A.k.a. Brands Stock Rating Lowered by Zacks Investment Research
Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of a.k.a. Brands from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report released on Tuesday, Zacks.com reports.
According to Zacks, "a.k.a. Brands provides platform for diversified, direct-to-consumer, digitally native fashion brands. The company's brand portfolio includes Princess Polly, Culture Kings, Petal & Pup and Rebdolls. a.k.a. Brands is based in SAN FRANCISCO. "
Other equities analysts have also issued research reports about the stock. Bank of America initiated coverage on shares of a.k.a. Brands in a research report on Monday, October 18th. They...
KLA Stock Rating Lowered by Zacks Investment Research
Zacks Investment Research cut shares of KLA from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report published on Tuesday, Zacks.com reports. The firm currently has $462.00 price target on the semiconductor company's stock.
According to Zacks, "KLA is benefiting from increased customer demand across each of the major product group. Further, growing investments by the customers across multiple nodes are driving the company's growth in the Foundry & Logic market. Additionally, strengthening installed base, higher utilization rates and expanding service opportunities in the trailing edge are aiding the...
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Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. Sells 10,290 Shares of The Children's...
Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. reduced its position in shares of The Children's Place, Inc. by 7.3% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent...
Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. Has $19.47 Million Holdings in...
Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. cut its holdings in shares of American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. by 2.4% in the third quarter, according to the company in its...
William Blair Investment Management LLC Purchases 944,551 Shares of Argo...
William Blair Investment Management LLC raised its position in Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. by 47,946.8% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing...
Parsec Financial Management Inc. Has $2.27 Million Stake in Vanguard...
Parsec Financial Management Inc. trimmed its stake in Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF by 40.0% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities...
Meritage Homes Coverage Initiated by Analysts at Wedbush
Wedbush assumed coverage on shares of Meritage Homes in a research report issued on Tuesday, The Fly reports. The brokerage set an "outperform" rating on the construction...
World Asset Management Inc Decreases Stock Holdings in Avnet, Inc
World Asset Management Inc trimmed its position in shares of Avnet, Inc. by 2.7% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The...
Finance Minister Rishi Sunak plans to bring crypto ads under the same rules that apply to financial promotions.
BERLIN - Germany's arms exports reached record levels in 2021, largely due to significant sales of maritime and air defense weapons to Egypt, officials said...
AGF Investments Inc. Purchases New Position in MGM Resorts International
AGF Investments Inc. bought a new position in shares of MGM Resorts International during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the...
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Public School Empls Retrmt SYS Raises Position...
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Public School Empls Retrmt SYS increased its holdings in Uniti Group Inc. by 9.6% during the third quarter, according to its most recent disclosure...


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A biblical epic in 2014 is a strange beast indeed, walking a fine line in the hopes of pleasing both the faithful...and those audiences more accustomed to secular myths.
150 min. 20th Century Fox. Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Ben Kingsley, Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn.
Ever since the 2004 megahit The Passion of the Christ, Hollywood has been open-minded to faith-based entertainment, and 2014 has seen both economic true-believer productions (Left Behind, God's Not Dead, and Heaven Is for Real) as well as would-be blockbusters "Noah" and, now, Ridley Scott's $140 million Moses epic Exodus: Gods and Kings. There's gold in them thar sand dunes, or so 20th Century Fox hopes.
And yet, a biblical epic in 2014 is a strange beast indeed, walking a fine line in the hopes of pleasing both the faithful (including extra-hard-to-please fundamentalists) and those audiences more accustomed to secular myths. Indeed, the religio-historical Exodus: Gods and Kings at times feels like a stone's throw from both super-powered superhero cinema (after all, erstwhile Batman Christian Bale plays Moses) and Scott's own Oscar winner Gladiator.
Exodus: Gods and Kings kicks off in 1300 BCE, with Moses ensconced, as a general, amongst Egyptian forces set to do unneighborly battle with the Hittites over ye olde "land of milk and honey." Screenwriters Adam Cooper & Bill Collage and Jeffrey Caine and Steven Zaillian set up an unfortunately anemic Angels with Dirty Faces "dynamic" between Moses and stepbrother Ramses (Joel Edgerton): raised alongside each other, they're nevertheless destined to wind up on opposite sides of the chariot tracks.
Clashing chariot wheels, swords and sandals, spears, and hails of arrows compete, for the soul of Scott's picture, with considerations of the relationships between manly men Moses and Ramses, between kings and slaves, and between men and gods. The picture most distinctly roars to life when Scott apparently relishes his chance to play Ben-Hur with those dangerous-looking, fast-as-lightning chariots careening across battlefields or on the edges of treacherous mountain passes—and not so much when making its way through at-times chewy dialogue (like Ramses' negotiation with Moses: "From an economic standpoint, what you are asking is problematic to say the least").
As for God, he appears in the form of a drily droll, perpetually unimpressed pubescent boy (Isaac Andrews). The filmmakers try to play it coy, feinting in a skeptical direction suggesting Moses could be concussed or schizophrenic, but ultimately the picture—which sets off from the epigram "God has not forgotten them"—falls on the side of depicting God and man in uneasy alliance: bet-hedging debates about the sources of the plagues can't explain the dutifully depicted spontaneous deaths of first-born children.
And so it goes, with Exodus checking off Moses' greatest hits (familiar from the Bible stories and Cecil B. DeMille's perennial The Ten Commandments"): the burning-bush encounter; the plagues; the climactic "parting of the Red Sea"; and a stone-tablet-chipping resolution. That these aren't spoiler alerts highlights one problem plaguing Scott's picture: a lack of dramatic tension given the widespread familiarity of the story.
Despite earnest acting from the leads (and some of the supporting players, like Ben Kingsley and Aaron Paul), the story has a muddy effect, hampered partly by the "economic standpoint" arguably necessitating casting lily-white stars as Middle Eastern characters and partly by the hollow-ringing impression that political and spiritual concerns matter far less here than grand 3D spectacle.

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As a startup in venture capital, Forward Partners' success is determined by delivering on a powerful and compelling promise that attracts the UK's top founders. Our promise is to help them build startups better, faster and cheaper than alternative funding routes. This year, we celebrate 5 years of game-changing VC, which provides us with sufficient track record (and an appropriate occasion) to evidence it. Having taken the steps to do so, we share what we have learned so that founders can better evidence their own brand promise.
Know your customers' "Jobs to be Done": Carry out interviews and define a job map that highlights the functional, social and emotional benefits your product offers.
Identify the outcomes your customers most care about, and distinguish between 'table stakes' and the opportunity your startup is leveraging.
Articulate your brand promise: "Start with why" you do what you do, and then think about how you do it better than anyone else.
Collect evidence: Develop a set of quantitative metrics and qualitative insights that demonstrate tangible ways in which you deliver on the promise.
Communicate results through stories, and develop a precise connection between your product and your customers' happiness.
What is a brand promise? And why is it important?
A brand identity is a complex system of words, values, symbols and imagery that might be repositioned or emphasised differently depending on the audience. A brand promise is different. It should never be changed or compromised. It's not a tagline, or a marketing tactic, but represents a strong and lasting connection to a startup's purpose.
Our purpose, and why we exist as a fund, is rooted in a belief that there is a better way for founders seeking to build world-class startups. Our promise to them is that we provide a better, faster and cheaper alternative to existing funding options available in the market. In turn, this reflects our founders' own mission of building better products and services, as well as fulfilling the "job" that VC investors are ultimately hired to do.
Today's consumers, enterprise customers (and founders) are increasingly discerning, and in a noisy marketing arena, incumbents often have an increasingly tenuous relationship between their brand promise and the product or service they deliver.
For startups, this represents an opportunity, whether it's taking on an incumbent razor blade's claim of being "the best a man can get" or an online furniture brand making it harder for the most prestigious homeware retailer to stand by their promise of "never knowingly undersold".
The first part of the process is to define the job. In the case of Forward Partners, we are hired to help founders "building venture scale businesses". From there, we broke the job down into a"job map", which went a follows: a. Discover appropriate funding sources; b. Compare their value add, c. Meet with prospective investors, d. Evaluate offers/term-sheets, e. Validate the startup idea, f. Build/test the product with customers… and so on.
The next stage is to determine the desired outcomes, which could be functional or might have social or emotional benefits that explain why founders select one option over another, or why customers might use a new product or service over existing ones. We gathered insights by carrying out 10 interviews with founders at pre-seed and seed stage in order to understand what they look for as part of this "job". We have included some of the questions we asked, and the responses we received here.
The next step was to identify at least 5 outcomes (i.e. 'ingredients' for a product or service) that founders care most about and assess the extent to which we meet those needs. We mapped these outcomes on a two-way axis showing both the importance of the outcome and the degree to which it was being satisfied.
By running this in parallel with our competitor analysis, and placing responses on an "opportunity map", it was possible to identify which outcomes are "table stakes" (i.e. expected from customers as a matter of course) and which ones represent an opportunity to add value, as well as which ones to emphasise as part of the brand promise.
9t. Safety: "I want the psychological safety of knowing that I'll make fewer mistakes by having readily available advice and resources".
A good place to start when formulating your own brand promise (based on the research you have carried out in previous steps) is to read up on Simon Sinek' concept of the Golden Circle, and to start with "why" you do what you do. Specifically, relating back to what customer outcome you are hoping to effect.
As Sinek explains you must ask: "What is your purpose? What is your cause? Why does your organisation exist? Why do you get out of bed in the morning, and why should anyone care?" Once you've nailed that, then say how you are different and what you do that's better.
Collecting a rigorous set of statistics that you can stand by confidently as well as qualitative insights and human stories that demonstrate your brand promise is the most important part of the entire process.
When we set out to evidence our promise of being a better, faster and cheaper alternative to founders, we listed out a set of quantitative metrics (including comparator sources to substantiate our claims) as well as ideas for qualitative insights we could gather from founders we had backed and the FP team members themselves.
In collecting the evidence, it's important to be objective and open, as well as ensure an appropriate balance between cold, hard numbers and more personal stories from founders, speaking to the social and emotional benefits that they experienced during their journey with Forward Partners.
The final step is to communicate your brand promise in a compelling and consistent way. When we got to this point, the entire process actually led us to carry out an entire redesign of the Forward Partners website. By being precise and concrete about the connections between what you offer and how it benefits customers (in our case founders), it is possible to distinguish your value add from the vague promises of competing offerings.
While there are many mediums and outlets to communicate it, we found the most effective way to share evidence of how we deliver on our brand promise was through real-life case studies of helping founders, videos of them sharing their own stories and experiences, as well posting the headline numbers. Confident in your story, and any analysis you have carried out, it is important to share these consistently across all your channels.
Campaign Magazine, Does your brand live up to its underlying promise?


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Yes, I miss the low point drain and all the other ones are good except #2 the shut off is available now, IINM as an option.
A redesigned entry door that seals better and is wider to accommodate more fridge options.
Low Point Drain indeed. I got the toilet shutoff installed on our new unit. Will have to see about the other features when the rig arrives.
Option of a heated floor would be interesting for the winter spots when hooked up to shore power.
Nev-R-Adjust and Nev-R-Lube Dexter axles. Another vote for low point drain and toliet shut off valve.
Stuck at work for a few hours and I'm bored.
4)	Glassed in raised blocking on the roof where available, for solar panels.
Moose are better in the freezer than eating my mountain ash.
I was thinking that as well Scott.
Perhaps a bit more "nose" on the 21/19/17 to make aerodynamics better too.
And up goes the price yet again.
Another choice of cabinetry finish, maybe something a bit darker, or contemporary. The blonde oak is the least aesthetic aspect of the trailer.


Our new rumford is just the greatest thing in the world. We use it often and need more wood!
Jim, I have a few digital pictures of my chain damper control. Some are of the finished product and some are during construction. The finished shots are JPG files from a camera, the�construction shots were scanned at work and made into TIFF and ??? files. How would be the best way to get them to you and which type of file do you prefer? I was thinking of preparing a little drawing of the assembly and how I machined the "keyhole" that tpaps the chain so that your customers can recreate it. The control works great and looks OK too.
I guess you can see that we have entered the cyber world....went from a detuned 286 to a hand-me-down hot-rodded 133 pentium and my wife's new work Dell laptop, all in the same month . Add an internet account and�BINGO, we're on.
Jim, one thing that I'm blown away by is the fact that we have a system here that is seemingly unique. Here we are burning fires in a fireplace unlike anyone else has and on top of that, we're burning teepee style. People (every single one) come in and see the setup and say WOW! How can we have a something as basic to the Adirondacks (and everywhere) as a fireplace and then have it be so new to everyone, especially the teepee part which we love. It's just been great to amaze one person after the next...please quote me if you like, I'm happy to spread the word.
Thanks for your help and get back to me on the files. I would like to get the stuff to you ASAP.


If Warren Buffett's annual Berkshire Hathaway conference is the investment industry's Woodstock, Ron Baron's annual gathering might just be its Bonnaroo.
Each year investors in the Baron Funds spend a day listening to corporate executives and portfolio managers, interrupted only by blockbuster musical and comedy acts. The 2015 edition lived up to its predecessors Friday with the likes of Steve Martin and Martin Short, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, Michael Buble and Alicia Keys, but for investors the real headliner was Tesla Motors' Elon Musk.
Baron, who runs $27 billion (assets) firm his corner office high atop Manhattan's GM building, teased attendees in advance, promising that a surprise speaking slot would be filled by an "electrifying" CEO.
Friday morning started with appearances from the CEOs of other Baron Funds portfolio companies -- financial services software firm SS&C Technologies , life science-focused REIT Alexandria Real Estate Equities and DNA sequencing company Illumina -- but the attendees at the New York's Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center started buzzing when Musk took the stage for a one-on-one chat with Baron.
The conversation, which ranged from Musk's childhood through the highs and lows of his numerous companies, did nothing to dissuade investors, like Baron fund managers, counting on big things from Tesla.
The electric carmaker's long-term goal is to build several million cars a year, Musk said, certainly not an immodest target for a company expecting to produce between 50,000 and 52,000 vehicles in 2015.
Musk was far more modest on how Tesla even got to this point though.
"At the beginning I didn't think we'd be successful. I thought we would almost certainly fail," he said. In some ways, the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession, which had devastating effects on the U.S. auto industry, provided the slim opening Tesla needed -- it was able to buy a crucial factory from Toyota and GM at a bargain price -- but even then there were growing pains.
"The 2007-2009 period was really bad," said Musk. "Almost every major decision we made was wrong."
Some bad decisions must have been accompanied by some good ones though, and Tesla has made shareholders like Baron a lot of money since its public offering in 2010. The infamously volatile stock has been a painful position for many short-term traders long and short, but for investors like Baron that have held on for the ride it's been rewarding to date.
Ron Baron is expecting more of the same, predicting later in the day that the firm will make another four to five times its money on Tesla over the next five years.
To close the conference, in a slot headlined by the likes of Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion and Bon Jovi over the last half-decade, Baron tapped the musical talents of Keys. In addition to hits like 'This Girl Is On Fire' and ' Empire State Of Mind,' Keys also performed one song with a rather interesting message given the nature of the event.
Keys' 'Not Even The King' opens with the lyric "Money...Some people so poor; all that they've got is money." For the Baron investors in the audience Friday, money may not be all they've got, but they hope stocks like Tesla keep it growing.


Since August I have been taking an American history class at the local community college. I never finished college and it's been on my "to do" list for years but life just got in the way. Specifically, raising my daughter and needing to work full time kept me from moving forward with school. Now that Alex is a grown up (insert sad face) and has moved out and Nate is already taking classes, I figured this was a good time to re-visit the "finish college" part of my life. Unfortunately I could not have imagined how much reading and writing would be involved in a history class. Almost everything has fallen to the wayside so that I can concentrate on this class. I haven't read for pleasure, except the book I had to struggle through for book club, in months now. I haven't worked on my Project Life book in 2 months at this point. Just going out of town with my sister for a few days really put me behind schedule and it's been a struggle to catch up. I really don't know how some people do this…work full time + go to school + raise their kids and still do the mundane tasks that make up each day (like cooking, laundry, cleaning the house, sleeping, etc.). I am only taking one class and it's so much work. I can't imagine taking on more than one class a semester.
Someday though, I predict that I will have a chance to read again, just for the fun of it and so I've been accumulating a large stack of books on my nightstand. Here is a list of my most recent purchases just waiting until December 14th when school is officially over with…for this semester.


New solar-powered holiday wreaths decorate Lisbon Avenue.
Washington Park celebrates season with new holiday decorations. Photo courtesy of United Methodist Children's Services/NNS.
Residents attending the annual gathering of the Washington Park Neighborhood Improvement District and Washington Park Partners were pleased to see dozens of solar-powered holiday wreaths decorating Lisbon Avenue on their way to the recent event at United Methodist Children's Services, 3910 W. Lisbon Ave.
Several years ago, the NID approached the city to see if Washington Park could get holiday lights similar to those strung across downtown and other surrounding neighborhoods. The project never came to fruition.
Washington Park residents attend the neighborhood's annual gathering. Photo by Ana Martinez-Ortiz/NNS.
Earlier this year, Serena Lor, the community health worker and community organizer at UMCS, found the wreaths in the basement. Lor approached Phoua Vang, NID manager, about resurrecting the project. In November, they began planning how to use the decorations and get residents involved.
According to Lor, Vang approached the city about permits, which poles they could use and how to connect the lights to electricity. During the course of several days, Lor and Vang counted 27 poles on Lisbon between 32nd and 45th streets where they could hang wreaths.
Lor researched how to attach the wreaths to the poles. Although they ended up purchasing the attachment pieces from somewhere on the East Coast, Lor said everything else was done locally. For example, residents decorated the wreaths and Sunny Home Improvement, 3605 W. National Ave., was hired to install and maintain them.
The project cost $5,600, including lights, solar panels, city fees, contractors and decorating materials. To lower electricity costs, Vang and Lor attached solar panels to the wreaths to help power the lights.
McQuay said residents are noticing the new lights, and some are bringing their children out to see the decorations. "It's a way to boost the holiday spirit in the community," he said.
The decorations are just one of the positive changes happening in Washington Park, said McQuay, who noted that the neighborhood took a dip, but is coming back. There's an increase in home ownership and people want to make a difference, he added.
DaVaughn Patterson says Washington Park has been going through some positive changes. Photo by Ana Martinez-Ortiz/NNS.
DaVaughn Patterson grew up in Washington Park, and like McQuay, he's witnessed the neighborhood change.
"I've seen it change from bad to a whole lot better now," Patterson said.
Patterson works in construction and enjoys seeing the home improvements and additions around the neighborhood.
"I see more people taking pride in their homes [and] buying homes," Patterson said.
For the past several years, Patterson has made an effort to attend neighborhood gatherings. The meetings offer an opportunity for community members to get together and share their concerns, he said. People can speak with police officers, learn about programs and share their ideas for neighborhood improvement, he added.
Residents also have celebrated together at block parties, including a huge one at Washington Park.
"It was nice to get the kids to come out and not only have them be a part of it but show them that there's a community that's backing them," Patterson said.
"Washington Park is a case study in how neighborhood-based initiatives can improve quality of life for residents," said State Rep. Evan Goyke, who attended the annual gathering and has represented Washington Park since 2012. The annual Washington Park gatherings are evidence of how far the neighborhood has come, he added. Goyke noted that changes include a decrease in crime and an increase in homeownership.
Lecrystal Griffin, who has been living in the Washington Park neighborhood for 21 years, started coming to community gatherings several years ago. She then joined the health committee and the Washington Park Partners steering committee.


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A sustainable intensification of agriculture will require reductions in the use of water, fertilizer and other resources by smallholder farmers. While technologies exist that can preserve yields while reducing these inputs, their adoption in developing countries remains low. What are the barriers to adoption? How can they be overcome? I will review a series of field experiments and studies attempting to answer these questions in India, where overuse of groundwater and nitrogen fertilizers are pervasive and threaten the sustainability of food production.
Ram Fishman is an assistant professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University (currently visiting at Tel Aviv university). Prior to coming to GWU, Ram was a Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ram's research is focused on sustainable agriculture, water scarcity and climate change, with an emphasis on developing countries. Ram holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University, a M.Sc. in Physics from the Weitzman Institute and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.


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07 - ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, AN INSIDER'S VIEW…
It's fair to say that Audi again totally dominated the Le Mans 24hr race with a 1-2-3 in this 80th instalment of this Gallic classic.
The impressive R18 e-tron quattro diesel hybrid took a historic first Le Mans victory for a hybrid vehicle, with its stablemate in second, whilst R18 ultras, the non-hyrbid derivative took third and fifth.
It was champagne all round for suspension partner Öhlins after another intense development programme with the German manufacturer.
Performance spoke to Claes Hesling - Öhlins Automotive Racing Project Manager about what goes on behind the scenes and the feeling back in Stockholm...
So a fantastic result for Audi and Öhlins, with a complete podium sweep! A great feeling for you and your team?
Absolutely, it is always a great feeling to be involved with such a successful team and manufacturer as Audi. I have been working with them now since 2005 both in Le Mans and DTM and they are a great customer with a lot of good people involved. Although aerodynamics is important on a car like this, suspension is definitely an area that has a big impact on the car also.
How much involvement did you have with the car engineers in the build up to the event?
During pre-season testing there are always a few different development parts that we test before the final solution is fixed. We are also discussing different damping set up options but at the end it is the Audi engineers that fine tune the set up on the track and with 7-poster testing.
Tell us a little bit about the equipment that was supplied?
When you design dampers for a Le Mans car of this calibre weight and packaging are key features, so therefore the dampers are fairly small. Also we use a lot of exotic materials such as titanium, high strength magnesium and aluminium alloys. Also composites like PEEK are used. Another feature that is very important is ease of use and adjustability- as testing is extremely expensive so therefore you need to have a very precise fully adjustable damper.
Could a racer buy that level of equipment?
An everyday racer could definitely not buy this kit. I think it would probably be more expensive than their car! Plus we don't release such specially designed products to the open market. They are not suitable for the production line; it requires skilled mechanics to put them together and fine tune them. We build them all in our development lab.
What's the drip down result of this sort of development? Does it relate to any equipment for Audi road sportscars- or may it in the future?
Race dampers for a car like this are quite specialised but valve technologies and such could possibly find its way onto road cars in the future.
Do the high-end TTR dampers used in the super competitive Formula Nippon and Super GT series' in Japan have some relation to your equipment?
Actually it is a direct development from the dampers used at Le Mans and DTM which in turn came from many years of development together with different Indy Car teams. It is a larger version of the race dampers where we can use the same main structure as the TTX-damper to keep cost down.
Was there a long development and testing period?
Normally we start the design work together with the Audi engineer's one year before the car will run at Le Mans. It is an on-going process where you iterate to a final solution together. After that there are a number of durability tests and more that is performed both here at Öhlins and at Audi before the dampers actually get on the car and onto the track. And of course there is an extensive testing program that Audi performs with the car before it is ready for Le Mans 24hrs. Audi has a non-disputable reputation of world class quality and durability. The amount of resources that they put into a project like this I think is the key to their unrivalled success.
What is it like to work with a full factory team such as Audi?
It is very exciting for sure. You feel that you are on the pinnacle of racing and that the resources and commitment is almost infinite from a team like this. It is definitely comparable to a Formula One team in some respects. Through the years I have also built a relation with the people there so the cooperation with them I feel is very efficient.
Any specific challenges you had to overcome for this particular race and car?
There were some new damper concepts that we had to develop for this car and there is always a challenge to make sure that everything can withstand the full 24hr race stint without any mechanical or other failures. But everything gets thoroughly tested before the race so come race day you feel quite secure.
Did you witness the entire race?
To be honest, no I didn't, but I always try to follow the race on the television and keep updated on what is going on from time to time and of course watch the end of the race to the finish line.
Tiring stuff for all involved we can only imagine?
The drivers, engineers and race mechanics are totally exhausted after the race but I guess they all run on a high dose of adrenalin.
Presumably some pressure there then…
Every time your dampers are on a car like this where there is so much at stake and so many people have been involved for such a long time, not to mention all the money that have been spent in total, there is of course an enormous pressure that nothing can go wrong so I am always a little bit anxious when the race is on. The night of Le Mans 24hrs is not when you have the best of sleep.
What was your best memory?
It must be the fight against Peugeot last year. I think many people thought it was one of the best Le Mans races for many years. It was so close, the difference was less than 15 seconds at the end and this on a race that had been going on for 24hrs. It was amazing. Of course I had my hopes for Audi and they pulled it off once again.
And any 'scary' moments?!
In the same race two Audis were involved in huge crashes and for a moment you thought that the drivers could not have survived but once again Audi proved their excellent engineering skills and both drivers walked away basically without harm.
There was an incredible 240,000 fans at Le Mans and an amazing atmosphere, can you explain the continued attraction to this type of racing?
At Le Mans 24hrs you can see some of the fastest race cars in the world compete, plus there is so much history and tradition surrounding Le Mans. Also the level of technology presented there is very exciting with the big car manufacturers showing off the best that they can produce. It is a big marketing event for them where they can show future technology ending up in their road cars. The diesel route was basically a marketing strategy showing that diesel is not only for trucks, diesel can be sporty. Who would have thought Porsche for example would build a diesel car 10 years ago. The next thing now is to show and develop hybrid technology which for sure will end up in many road cars in the future.
You can see more Audi racing and information at www.quattroworld.com


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Q: SQL: How to set job to get executed annually I have created a job in sql.
My requirement is that the job should get executed annually in 31st of march. While creating the steps, i was not able to find Yearly frequency occurance.
Can anybody tell me how to achieve this.
Thanks in advance.

A: There's no such option - you'll have to schedule it to run on the 31st of every month. Then, as the first step, detect if its not the 31st of march and cause the job to complete early.
I normally write such steps as an obvious error, and use that to control the flow of the job - something like:
IF DATEPART(month,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) != 3
BEGIN
    EXEC('select * from nonexistenttable')
END

A: For anyone else stumbling across this you can set up a job that runs on a specific day on a rolling basis, in this case every 12 months on March 31st.
Under Frequency - set the day to the 31st of every 12 month(s).
Under Duration - set the start date to March 31st with no end date.
sp_add_jobschedule [ @job_id = ] job_id, | [ @job_name = ] 'job_name'
 , @freq_type = 16
 , @freq_interval = 1
 , @freq_recurrence_factor = 12
 , @active_start_date = 20180331

or
Job Schedule Setup to run annually

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FeedTier can auto-generate an RSS feed for any web page.
Just enter the URL of the site and click "Preview". If you like what you see, you can add the feed to your RSS reader.
FeedTier is clearly still in beta. Trying it out for a couple of sites, I found it to be buggy and often unresponsive, but it has promise if more intelligent parsing of web pages can be incorporated.


I love The Lord Of The Rings and decided it was time I drew them. This was a texture test for some new bushes I've been playing around with. I think the project looks good. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.


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Case study - Business Management
CEED sourced three MBA students for industry placements in the 2009/2010 financial year. These
highly qualified students, who are in limited supply and great demand, have proven particularly effective at leading or supporting strategic projects for companies large and small including Data#3, Cedar Creek Company and the Department of Justice and Attorney-General.
Clients have been able to realise a return on their CEED investment by placing students on projects
concerned with reducing costs and increasing revenue. In fact, two students have proven themselves so valuable that clients have retained them on a full or part time basis after the completion of their CEED projects.
Many clients have reported great success in utilising students as a dedicated resource to undertake systematic research, gather information and produce reports, leaving existing employees free to concentrate on their day-to-day duties. As MBA students, the CEED interns have access to a wealth of research data, and bring new ideas and a lack of preconceptions to projects.
CEED MBA students have access to a wealth of research data
CEED case study – Data#3
The client and project background:
Data#3 is an Australian, ASX-listed ICT solutions company, which was established in Brisbane in 1984 following a merger between a software reseller and an office equipment supplier. Today it employs more than 450 people across its eight offices and reported revenues of almost $600m in the
last financial year.
In 2009, the company identified that its rapid growth had resulted in the evolution of a number of departments, which ran almost as separate businesses, and systems, which did not communicate with each other. They ran the risk of not acting on information, which could help with business
analysis and future planning.
The client's own research identified the need to implement Enterprise Architecture (EA); similar to a master town plan for a council, EA is only relevant to medium to large organisations with disparate units, which need to work cooperatively. It serves to break the company's structure down into subsystems, and provide a comprehensive description of how those systems function and interact with each other and the external environment.
The ASX listed company approached CEED to find a student for an
Enterprise Architecture project
The resulting blueprint will help Data#3 improve communication and strategic planning, highlight inefficiencies and aid decision making regarding new technology investments with a three to five year view.
Data#3 had previously used CEED students and approached the student placement specialist to find an outstanding MBA student to assist in developing an EA strategy for Data#3.
Above: Katie Ingram (CEED student) on right, with one of her
Data#3 mentors, Cathy Ford.
The brief:
Data#3 asked CEED to find a student who would be able to tackle this ambitious project, with excellent technical and people skills, including knowledge of EA and its methodologies, the ability to interview people and communicate findings.
The successful candidate would have to help with every stage of the EA process from developing a project framework and establishing a set of standards to creating a roadmap and putting maintenance procedures in place.
This would include using business scenarios to define needs and concerns, identifying stakeholders and building consensus with partners, drafting a description of the current system, evaluating possible solutions and planning the migration.
The student:
Katie Ingram had a Bachelor of Business majoring in IT and Accounting; she spent three years as an Accountant in a Chartered firm and two years as a Projects Administrator for a local government. She had completed two and a half years of an MBA when the CEED project commenced including subjects such as business analysis and enterprise architecture. During the project Katie was also doing a 'PRojects IN Controlled Environments' (PRINCE2) accreditation.
The approach:
Katie started the Data#3 project in July 2009 in a support role, reporting to Cathy Ford, General Manager – Organisational Excellence, who instigated the EA project.
The first steps for Katie involved researching EA methodologies, working out how to store and present the information gained during the project. She decided to approach the project using Microsoft's collaboration and web publishing platform Sharepoint, which was already employed within Data#3.
This education stage led Data#3 to two decisions: that the best methodology was the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in combination with an EA framework created by the Queensland Government; and to recruit Enterprise Architect Mike McCluskey to oversee the project.
At this point Katie's 14 week-long project was completed but she was asked to stay on part-time to assist in the implementation and support Mike.
The CEED student stayed on to help with implementation once the project was complete
In order to help Data#3 realise its three to five year objectives, the EA team had to first collate all the relevant information to gain a clear cross-organisational view. Mike worked with Katie to identify the pertinent people and the questions to ask.
Katie then organised and helped conduct the interviews. A master business blueprint was developed to identify hotspots around the organisation where systems were not effectively supporting the business or there was an opportunity to improve business processes.
The next step was to agree on where duplication would be consolidated into a single process, and what systems would be used to support this process. A roadmap was then started to plan how and when all business units would be moved towards the new processes and systems.
Mike and Katie drafted a set of blueprints to inform their decisions, covering:
o Business architecture (how that work is done, for example logistics)
o Information architecture (the data used in performing work)
o Technology architecture (systems used)
o Application architecture (how they are wired together)
They also created a guiding set of principles to be used when filtering and discarding options. For example, when a decision needs to be made about new software, the team will always re-use existing systems before buying and buy before build to keep costs down.
All the groundwork needed has now been laid and the team has identified seven projects as part of the roadmap. Two are currently underway.
The first project involved Business Process Management consolidation. Katie identified that multiple lines of business have consistent business processes, such as data collection and invoicing, but use different systems to support them from simple solutions like Excel spreadsheets to sophisticated
software purchased from vendors like SAP. A scoping project for one purchasing system has now started.
The full roadmap was signed off at the end of August 2010 and project briefs were drafted to address issues - such as customer data being scattered - and opportunities – such as automating manual work.
Two new CEED students have taken over from Katie, who left at the end of July 2010 after completing her MBA, to become a Consultant at another company. The new students are continuing work on the project, initially focusing on helping identify business process improvements related to some of
Data#3's sales processes.
Business and management are one of CEED's newest areas of expertise but since introducing the
discipline in 2008, more than 20 projects have been completed for clients.
CEED students can help with all marketing disciplines from research to above and below the
line execution, strategic management, enterprise planning, human resources, and finance.
Clients have included Data#3, numerous Queensland Government departments, Corporatelink, VR Solutions, Queensland Rail and Trueline Technology
Further project examples available at www.corptech.com.au
The CEED program for students:
Katie said the CEED program gives students the essential "step-up" by providing them with the means to gain experience in "real world projects" in their chosen industry while still completing their studies.
"When you are at university, what you are studying is stagnant and without life, so when you are in a project, the knowledge you have acquired takes on a whole new perspective." Katie said.
She added that having CEED as a liaison between the University and company helped students succeed in both the academic and industry settings.
Having CEED as a liaison helps students succeed in both
the academic and industry settings
"For students with no project management experience, it is difficult to determine what is achievable within a set timeframe and how to approach it. Being able to draw on my supervisors' experience gave me confidence and helped me get more from it than I would have on my own." Katie said
"The experience of working for a larger firm such as Data#3 has also been rewarding. It has provided me with the opportunity to talk with people across the lines of business, from many different walks of life about what they do, how they do it and the issues they are facing. It has helped me to understand how business works and improve my people skills."
Katie's project was supposed to run over the course of a semester but was extended for a month due to unforeseen delays. She was then employed for a year on a part time contract basis to help with the implementation.
Mike McCluskey said Data#3's project should pay for itself many times over through operational cost savings, such as simple things like sending documents electronically, and maximise investments.
"This will benefit Data#3's staff, customers and shareholders, and provide an opportunity for Data#3 to pursue more business by making customer interaction far easier," Mike said.
CEED students have played an important role in making a major project happen
without taking resources away from Data#3
"CEED students have played an important role in making this major project happen without taking any resources away from Data#3."
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Q: .NET 6. Parallel processing, refill queue when less than MaxDegreesOfParallelism threads are running I'd like to process some data in parallel using a BackgroundService.
There may be more than MaxDegreesOfParallelism items to process in the database, but as the processing can take several minutes per row, I'd like to only load as many items into the local processing queue as can actually be processed, so I avoid having potentially outdated data.
For example, if there are 20 items to be processed in the database and MaxDegreesOfParallelism (the number of concurrent processing jobs allowed) is 10, I only want to load 10 items. After a few minutes, the first 3 items may be done processing. At this point, I want to load the next 3 items from the database. Of course I could load all 20 items when the program starts, but when "processing slots" become available after a few minutes, those 20 items may no longer reflect the current state of the database.
I guess I could use a ConcurrentQueue<T> for this - but how would I know when "processing slots" become available? It wouldn't have to be immediate, it would be OK if the "data loading" service/thread could check every minute or so how many "processing slots" are available and load the corresponding number of items to be added to the processing queue.
Or maybe I should just use Task.WhenAny, so that I could load additional items as soon as the first item has been processed? But then I'd still need to know how many "slots" are available. (But I could use the database to track that, hmmm...)

A: I assume you're using TPL dataflow. You can use ActionBlock with BoundedCapacity to limit the number of items that get queued.
ActionBlock will then await on SendAsync call. SendAsync will be blocked when the buffer fills up (preventing additional records from being fetched, until a record completes processing, allowing SendAsync to push the next record.)
Action<int> fn = record => {
Thread.Sleep(1000); // record processing task goes here.
Console.WriteLine(record);
};

var opts = new ExecutionDataflowBlockOptions { BoundedCapacity = 5, MaxDegreeOfParallelism = 2 };
// Sets the block's buffer size to one message

var actionBlock = new ActionBlock<int>(fn, opts);

while (true /* add your exit condition here */) {
    var record = GetFromDB(index++);
    await actionBlock.SendAsync(record);
    // After first 5 records, the bounded capacity will prevent additional records from being fetched until one of the existing records gets processed.
}


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Dorothy Polman
Published January 19, 2023 04:05 PM
Jan. 2, 1931 - Jan. 18, 2023
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - Dorothy Polman, 92, Alexandria, formerly Wadena, Minn., died Wednesday, Jan. 18, in Grand Arbor Assisted Living.
Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m., with a rosary at 5:45 p.m. and parish prayers at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 24, at Karvonen Funeral Home in Wadena. Visitation will continue from 10-11 a.m., followed by a funeral Mass at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25, at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Wadena. Interment will be in St. Frederick's Catholic Cemetery in Verndale, Minn.
Arrangements by Karvonen Funeral Home.
Community calendar: Jan. 26 edition
2023 Veterans Honor Flight of ND/MN to take off again in April
By Forum staff


It took me a while as a pastor, in the early days of iPads and smartphones, to get used to people staring at their screens during the sermon. "How rude," I thought. "Do they seriously think I can't see them? These are adults, acting like teenagers!" Not being the regular preacher at the time, I was appalled at the ever-increasing number of faces that I would see lit by glowing screens each time I filled the pulpit.
It took me a while to realize that these folks weren't rude. They were just reading their Bibles!
So be encouraged, pastor. Your people aren't ignoring you. They're just multi-tasking. Because really, who can resist the urge to check e-mails, text messages, and sports scores, while simultaneously checking the preacher's factual accuracy? (And yes, preacher, have no doubt: you are being fact-checked in real-time!) Notwithstanding the evidence showing that there is no such thing as truly efficient multi-tasking, glow-faced congregations offer at least a kernel of encouragement for weary pastors.
I enjoy watching cooking shows on TV, but rarely (never) do I watch them in the kitchen, follow the directions, or in any way work to imitate Rachael Ray or Emeril Lagasse in preparing a tasty meal. No, usually I admire the food and hope that someone in my family will cook something similar for me. This is the epitome of consumeristic passive entertainment, which - perhaps surprisingly - is not what church is about at all.
There are so many parts of our culture that work against our active engagement in life, including the screens that we tote into the sanctuary. Most of the rooms in which we hear sermons are set up like auditoriums: an audience, sitting in forward-facing seats, watching or listening to a "performer" on a stage. How is this different from a concert, a lecture, a comedy show, or a movie? In the setting, not much. And unfortunately, our culture regularly conditions us to enter into these settings as consumers, rather than as active participants.
An antidote to this consumerist identity would be to regularly bring your Bible to church and actually use it during the sermon. Actively engaging with the Book in your hand - and yes, I'm talking about a bound, paper-paged, non-digital Bible - is the first step to being an active participant in the preaching of the Word. Because of the Holy Spirit's work of illumination, when you actively engage the Word of God, you are willingly opening yourself up to the work of the Holy Spirit. And this is not just a work in the mind, but in the heart and character as well.
As a member of your church, push yourself to get out of the consumeristic habit of passive attention. Don't treat the sermon like a cooking show. It's not eye (or ear) candy, it's a meal. And while you're eating it, your pastor is trying to teach you to feed yourself. So be an active, rather than a passive, listener. Engage with the Word intentionally, and you will find the Word engaging you in both a mysterious and a powerful way.
How many times have you walked out of a church service and within 30 minutes couldn't recall what the sermon was about? There are probably a myriad of reasons for these memory lapses (including poor preaching), but have you ever asked yourself what you have added - or failed to add - to this lack of retention?
There were many reasons that God the Son became incarnate, one of which was our own physicality and dependence upon our senses. In order to learn and retain what God was trying to show us in Christ, we needed a flesh-and-blood, living, breathing human that we could see, touch, smell, and hear. "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life…" (1 John 1:1) In these words, the Apostle calls our attention not only to the physicality of Christ, but to our own dependence upon the physical and sensible as pathways for knowing about God.
As we have discovered more and more about human cognition and learning styles, it becomes increasingly evident that most people have a preferred learning style by which they are able to best learn and retain information (mine is visual-verbal - I learn best when I see words). Add to this the fact that a person's retention level increases when sensory pathways are multiplied, and it makes sense that God gave us Jesus in four dimensions so that we could really get it.
The incarnation, therefore, is a pointer to our need to bring our Bibles to church. Hearing the Word preached is powerful. Reading the written Word is essential. Touching and handling a Bible anchors us physically to God's gracious gift of the Bible itself. All three of these together are - I believe - intended by God to help us know Him better. When you bring your Bible with you to church, you are purposely making available your God-given pathways of learning, and increasing your own ability to better retain the preached Word.
One of the tasks of a good preacher is to help his hearers learn to read and understand the Bible for themselves. When you follow along in the text that is being preached, you will - over time - begin to see for yourself the truths that he (the preacher) has discovered in the text. He will help you to uncover the thread of an argument through a text, make connections between biblical thoughts and ideas, and learn to trace biblical doctrines throughout the Scriptures. Like any good teacher, a gifted preacher doesn't just give you a fish; he teaches you how to fish. And you can't fish if you don't bring your rod & reel with you.
I always encourage people to write in their Bibles, just like they would write in any other book (except a library book, of course). Don't worry, this isn't sacrilege. The book itself - ink and paper - is not holy, though the title on the cover urges otherwise. To write in your Bible means that you will need to have a paper Bible and a pen in your hand. I can't count the number of times I have been able to find a familiar passage because I knew exactly where it was on a page. This can't be done with a digital copy.
And as much as I love Bible software and all of the helps that accompany these programs, the negative impact of these digital helps occurs when we allow them take over the disciplined tasks of memory (like knowing the order of the Bible's 66 books, or remembering the chapter-verse address of a certain phrase or passage). The digital world tends to undercut this brain-forming memory work and replace it with rapid-access automation, thereby excusing us from the hard work of actually knowing the Word.
In the end, these four things can't take place for you if you fail to bring your Bible to church. God's Word is a gift. Prize it. Study it. Learn it. But start with just bringing it.
^ See, for instance, Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (New York, NY: Dutton, 2014).


LANSING – Republicans in the state Senate voted Wednesday to gut two initiatives that would raise the minimum wage to $12 per hour and require employers to provide paid sick time to employees.
Under the changes, instead of raising the minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2022, wages would not reach that level until 2030. And tipped workers such as bartenders and wait staff, who also were supposed to see a $12-hour wage more gradually, will see their pay rise to only $4 per hour by 2030.
Speaker of the House Tom Leonard, R-Dewitt, has said he supports changes to the two bills in order to protect businesses, but his spokesman Gideon D'Assandro said the Republican caucus still wants to review the changes made by the Senate.
"There's an interest in improving these and there are things that need to be cleaned up," he said. "But we need to have time to go through the rest of the changes they made."
Ari Adler, spokesman for Gov. Rick Snyder said, "The governor will review whatever bills come to him and then make a decision on whether to sign or not based on potential benefits and impact for everyone."
Progressive groups successfully had gathered enough signatures to get the two issues on the Nov. 6 general election ballot. But the Legislature swooped in and approved the two citizen-led initiatives in September, in an effort that was more about keeping the issues off the Nov. 6 ballot and giving the Legislature the power to amend the two laws with a simple majority. If the proposals had gone to the ballot and been passed by voters, it would take a three-quarters majority to amend the laws.
The business community rallied to change the two bills as a way to keep its costs down, said Charles Owen of the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
Under the minimum wage bill, the $9.25 current minimum wage would increase by 23 cents per year until 2030 when it hits $12 per hour. Tipped workers were removed from that equation and their $3.52 current hourly wage would increase by 4 cents per year and hit $4 per hour in 2030. If the tips don't bring an employee up to the minimum wage, the employer would have to pay the shortfall.


Favorite food: Anything - puppy, dog, cat food.
Special talents: My hidden talents are yet to be discovered.
Most embarrassing moment: None yet - I will update as I get a little older.
Most trouble I ever got into: Besides doing potty everywhere - none so far???
My favorite friends: Sassy, our 9 year old Westie. Shaka Khan, our 4 month old kitty.
Biggest adventure: Flying from South Dakota to Sacramento to my new family.


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FIU in DC: 31st Hispanic Heritage Awards
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20566
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS TO WELCOME BACK THE 31st HISPANIC HERITAGE AWARDS ON SEPTEMBER 12
PBS TO BROADCAST HISTORIC PROGRAM NATIONALLY FOR THE 5TH YEAR
WASHINGTON, DC - The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) announced today that the 31st Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards will return to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, September 12, 2018. The historic program, which was created by the White House in 1987 to commemorate establishment of Hispanic Heritage Month in America, will also be broadcast nationally on PBS stations. The Awards are among the highest honors by Latinos for Latinos, and are supported by 40 national Hispanic-serving institutions.
"The Hispanic Heritage Foundation is thrilled to be back at the Kennedy Center and on PBS to collectively celebrate and share the great promise, accomplishments, and cultural pride of the Latino community through the 2018 Awardees and the powerful performances on the venerable stage," said Jose Antonio Tijerino, President and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. "More than ever, it's important to shine the spotlight on the tremendous value Latinos provide this great country we all share."
The 2018 #HHAwards Honorees will be announced over the coming months followed by the performers, hosts and presenters. Visit this page for updates and check out our YouTube Sizzle Reel.
"We are delighted to welcome the return of the Hispanic Heritage Awards to the Kennedy Center," commented Deborah F. Rutter, Kennedy Center President. "Central to the Center's mission is our belief that the artists and programming we bring to our stages must reflect the rich cultural diversity of both America and the world. We wish the Hispanic Heritage Foundation much success with this year's awards program."
The broadcast date for the Hispanic Heritage Awards will be announced at a later date by PBS, the Kennedy Center and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation.
"We are pleased to join the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in honoring the significant contributions of Latino Americans to our country,"added Paula Kerger, President & CEO, PBS."We look forward to celebrating the 2018 Hispanic Heritage Awardees during the 5th broadcast on PBS this fall."
Past Honorees of the Hispanic Heritage Awards have included Sonia Sotomayor, Rita Moreno, Plácido Domingo, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Gloria Estefan, Oscar Hijuelos, Martin Sheen, Ricky Martin, Rubén Blades, Fania All-Stars, Junot Diaz, José Feliciano, Carlos Vives, Alejandro Sanz, Juanes, Antonio Banderas, Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Quinn, J Balvin, Zoe Saldana, Juan Marichal, Los Tigres Del Norte, Oscar de la Hoya, America Ferrera, Pedro Martinez, Luis Fonsi, Andy García, Gael Garcia Bernal, Latin Grammys, Diego Luna and others.
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Dokaka has recorded his first album of original material 'HUMAN INTERFACE' which is now available for the first time outside of Japan courtesy of cultural maverick imprint dualpLOVER. The album includes 17 hours of vocal insanity multi-tracked into 88 muttered micro tracks.
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Montana Administrative Register Notice 12-480 No. 1 01/12/2018
BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF FISH, WILDLIFE AND PARKS
OF THE STATE OF MONTANA
In the matter of the adoption of New Rule I pertaining to a Pilot Program for Aquatic Invasive Species in the Flathead Basin
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ON PROPOSED ADOPTION
TO: All Concerned Persons
1. On February 6, 2018, at 2:00 p.m., the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (department) will hold a public hearing at the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 1 Office, 490 North Meridian Road, Kalispell, Montana, to consider the proposed adoption of the above-stated rule.
On February 6, 2018, at 2:00 p.m., the department will hold a public hearing at the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 2 Office, 3201 Spurgin Rd, Missoula, Montana, to consider the proposed adoption of the above-stated rule.
2. The department will make reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities who wish to participate in this rulemaking process or need an alternative accessible format of this notice. If you require an accommodation, contact the department no later than January 26, 2018, to advise us of the nature of the accommodation that you need. Please contact Kaedy Gangstad, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, P.O. Box 200701, Helena, Montana, 59620-0701; telephone (406) 444-4594; or e-mail kgangstad@mt.gov.
3. The rule as proposed to be adopted provides as follows:
NEW RULE I PILOT PROGRAM FOR FLATHEAD BASIN (1) Vessels and equipment traveling into the Flathead Basin that have been used on waters outside of the Flathead Basin must be inspected at a department inspection station prior to launching within the Flathead Basin.
(2) Emergency response vehicles and equipment engaging in emergency response activities are exempt.
(3) Violation of this rule is subject to penalty under 80-7-1014, MCA.
(4) This rule expires June 30, 2019, pursuant to 80-7-1027, MCA.
AUTH: 80-7-1007; 80-7-1010, 80-7-1027, MCA
IMP: 80-7-1027, MCA
REASON: 80-7-1027, MCA, creates a pilot program for addressing aquatic invasive species (AIS) issues in the Flathead Basin. FWP has been working with concerned citizens and groups in attempting to implement rules for this pilot program. In addition, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) have requested that FWP create rules to add inspection requirements for watercraft entering the Flathead Basin. The intent of the new rule is to add an additional layer of protection in the Flathead Basin to help prevent the transport and introduction of AIS.
4. Concerned persons may submit their data, views, or arguments either orally or in writing at the hearing. Written data, views, or arguments may also be submitted to: Tom Woolf, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, P.O. Box 200701, Helena, Montana, 59620-0701; or e-mail Thomas.Woolf@mt.gov, and must be received no later than February 9, 2018.
5. Kaedy Gangstad or another person appointed by the department has been designated to preside over and conduct these hearings.
6. The department maintains a list of interested persons who wish to receive notice of rulemaking actions proposed by the department or commission. Persons who wish to have their name added to the list shall make written request that includes the name and mailing address of the person to receive the notice and specifies the subject or subjects about which the person wishes to receive notice. Such written request may be mailed or delivered to Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Legal Unit, P.O. Box 200701, 1420 East Sixth Avenue, Helena, MT 59620-0701, or may be made by completing the request form at any rules hearing held by the department.
7. The bill sponsor contact requirements of 2-4-302, MCA, apply and have been fulfilled. The bill sponsor was notified via e-mail and telephone on December 13, 2017.
8. With regard to the requirements of 2-4-111, MCA, the department has determined that the adoption of the above-referenced rule will not significantly and directly impact small businesses.
/s/ Aimee Hawkaluk /s/ Martha Williams
Aimee Hawkaluk Martha Williams
Rule Reviewer Director
Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Certified to the Secretary of State January 2, 2018.


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from clearstack import utils
from clearstack import validators
from clearstack.controller import Controller
from clearstack.argument import Argument
from clearstack.common import util

def init_config():
    conf = {
        "NOVA": [
            Argument("nova-db-pw",
                     "Password for nova to access DB",
                     "CONFIG_NOVA_DB_PW",
                     utils.generate_random_pw(),
                     validators=[validators.not_empty]),
            Argument("nova-ks-pw",
                     "Password to use for the Nova to"
                     " authenticate with Keystone",
                     "CONFIG_NOVA_KS_PW",
                     utils.generate_random_pw(),
                     validators=[validators.not_empty])
        ]
    }

    for group in conf:
        Controller.get().add_group(group, conf[group])

def init_sequences():
    controller = Controller.get()
    conf = controller.CONF
    if util.str2bool(conf['CONFIG_NOVA_INSTALL']):
        controller.add_sequence("Setting up nova controller",
                                setup_controller)
        controller.add_sequence("Setting up nova computes",
                                setup_computes)

def setup_controller():
    conf = Controller.get().CONF
    recipe = utils.get_template('nova')
    return utils.run_recipe("nova.py", recipe,
                            [conf["CONFIG_CONTROLLER_HOST"]])

def setup_computes():
    conf = Controller.get().CONF
    recipe = utils.get_template('nova_compute')
    return utils.run_recipe("nova_compute.py", recipe,
                            conf["CONFIG_COMPUTE_HOSTS"].split(','))

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The new ambassador of neapolitan techno style.
Born in Naples on 18th November 1987, "with the headphones on".
Even though starting later than most, Mark shoots ahead and at the age of 17 starts his career by being playing the leading parthenopean clubs.
He began his first productions after being heavily influenced by Thomas Pardo, a leading DJ. Later becoming good friends Thomas has supported Mark ever since.
This relationship has developed Marks music, which in the beginning was influenced heavily by tribal music.He has moved away from his earlier more commercial music, now preferring electronic and minimal sounds stretching to techno also.
He varies his live sets, switching between tech-house to progressive-house, also touching on hard techno and german minimal, showing appreciation for electro music. He remains a big supporter of producers like Riccardo Villalobos, Anthony Collins, his fellow-citizens Marco Carola, Cerrone, Vigorito and sacred monsters like Richie Hawtin.
He started to produce in 2006, and is still engaged in his own frenetic and unremitting style of producing, on the brink of his first release.
He is now working full time for his label, Ketra Records. He played on BLIND SPOT RADIO N 51, and He has two reviews on HEART BEAT MAGAZINE by FRANK KVITTA.
He will be guest at MAXIMAL Festival in Milan on 12th June 2010.Full power the 2010 for Mark, he spent a lot of time in his studio last year and now is time to take his prize.


"I work in the housekeeping department here. My name is Anubha."
Nisha was talking to a young lady whom she just met.
"So, how is it here?" asked Nisha.
"Its good. Winter is setting in. We need to provide some more bedding to our guests now."
"Well Anubha, would you mind helping me out?"
The girls accompanied Anubha to the housekeeping lobby. Several bedsheet and blankets lay there, neatly folded and arranged in piles. There were huge baskets containing cushions and pillows too.
"Thank you so much," said Nisha.
"Why did you need to come here?" asked Anubha.
"We need to click a few pictures here," said Diya.
"In the lobby?" asked Anubha, "why so?"
"We are not getting ourselves clicked," said Nisha and made her way to a pile of bedsheet and blankets.
The blankets were of different colours. They were present in lighter as well as darker shades. The cushions were uncovered and so were the pillows.
"Diya," said Nisha, "how shall we set this?"
"What are you up to?" asked Anubha.
"Well," said Diya, "we are currently working on a project for which we need to get pictures of such household stuff."
Anubha had a confused look but agreed to help them.
"Do you love these blankets?" asked Nisha.
Diya and Anubha looked at each other not knowing what to say.
"Afterall," said Nisha, "these are just blankets. But they speak volumes of love. When you embrace them and snuggle in their warmth and softness, you feel that comfort and joy. We feel that it doesn't matter. We pick up any random stuff from the market without even pausing to think if its soft enough, comfortable enough, do we like the colour, is the design heart melting and....And so we never truly feel the essence of love."
"Does it really matter if the colour is not what we like?" asked Anubha.
"Do you wear clothes of a colour you don't like? Or do you paint the walls of your house in any random colour? Or do you put on any random colour lipstick? Its not only about the colour. Its about paying a little attention to these little comforts of life which makes a huge difference.
You shall see it for yourself. If your room is full of stuff you love, your bedding is soft, cozy and comfortable and you have beautiful incense burning on your altar, you will feel an instant connection to love and peace."
"I can relate to this," said Diya, "those quilts we get in trains while travelling are so rough and harsh. They aren't even warm enough. And I feel more comfortable when I sleep on lighter shades of plain bedsheet. I really don't like designs on them."
"So you see," said Nisha, "this is an essential part of sacred self care."
"I thought self care was about visiting the spa. I was never able to save up for that."
"Thats only a part of self care," said Nisha, "self care means taking care of yourself and that is a very vast subject. But it doesn't need a lot of money or expensive massages. All you need to do is relax and then you will know what calms you down."
"Thats really sweet of you," said Anubha.
"Well Anubha," said Nisha, "would you like giving an interview about your work experience as a member of the housekeeping staff?"
"Thats so good! Why would I mind?"
"Well Nisha," said Diya angrily, "you never asked me."
"Oh, I just had this idea right now and she works here, I mean with all this stuff and...."
"Get this straight Nisha," said Diya giving her a scary look, "I want my interview in your project. And I would really like it if you make it an entire page and not just a mini column. I too am into this stuff to some extent."
"Okay, calm down," said Nisha, "I shall do that. Now come here, help me in setting this up for a picture."


Anyone have club numbers for Cumberland and Salem County area?
How long do you keep your deer meat?
Thought the Robins were gone?
Awards for successful deer hunters?
Hunting with confidence ; does it work?
Who's Headin out in Zone 29 for Shotgun tomorrow?
Well the old man does it again!


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NCSH Sexual Health in the News: Jul 1 - Jul 7
Sex May Spread Zika Virus More Often Than Researchers Suspected - New York Times
While there's much discussion about Zika transmission through mosquito bites, some researchers are beginning to worry more about sexual transmission. Experts now say that intimate contact may account for more Zika infections than previously suspected.
The Importance of Contraception to the Zika Fight - The Atlantic
"We don't know how to prevent Zika, but we do know how to prevent pregnancy," says Christopher Zahn, the vice president of practice at The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "The best way to avoid a potentially [affected] fetus is by avoiding pregnancy."
Drugs That Saved HIV Patients Now Threaten Them in Old Age - Bloomberg
Antiretroviral therapy has turned what was once a death sentence into a chronic disease, which means more HIV patients are living into their 60s and even 70s. A new challenge for drugmakers is making medications that subdue the illness without wreaking havoc on aging bodies, and minimizing the risk of harmful drug interactions.
Birth Control Options for Women Over 40 - Other than the Pill
- Chicago Tribune
The second highest rate of unintended pregnancy is for women 40-50 who are sexually active. Many can continue to safely take the pill, but some should think about other options, which are presented in this article.
ChristianMingle Will Make Big, Pro-Gay Change After Lawsuit - Huffington Post
The "largest and fastest growing online community" for Christian singles will now allow gay and lesbian users to search for same-sex matches following a legal battle.
Free at Rio Olympics: 9 Million Forest-Friendly Condoms - Reuters
Brazil's government will hand out 9 million condoms for free during the Olympics in August, a push meant to encourage safe sex and also defend the Amazon rainforest. All the condoms to be distributed are produced by Natex, a factory deep in the rainforest near Brazil's border with Bolivia.
Testosterone Boost May Actually Help Some Older Men Regain Passion in the Bedroom - Medical Daily
According to new research published Wednesday in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, a timely dose of testosterone may indeed be able to help rejuvenate certain older men's waning sex lives .


So what exactly is plagiarism? You probably know that it's the act of taking someone else's words without giving him or her credit. But it also extends to others' ideas. A lot of college students mistake the act of plagiarizing solely as taking someone else's words. But stealing someone's original idea, whether you use different wording or not, is just as severe of an offense. You can even plagiarize yourself. In short, plagiarism is one of the worst offenses a person can make in his or her career—and it's also easy to do, sometimes just by mistake. Many students, unfamiliar with what constitutes plagiarism, can be guilty of plagiarizing without realizing it. But mistake or not, when caught, the repercussions are the same.
As a student (and throughout your professional life), it is imperative that you understand what constitutes as plagiarism and refrain from committing it. Not only can plagiarism affect your grades; it can cast a shadow on your reputation for the rest of your life. If charges are pressed, a plagiarizer can end up in court if even a fraction of a work is stolen. Many people, even students, have paid money out of their pockets to compensate for such an offense. Plagiarism is treated as a crime in the eyes of the professional world.
Colleges take plagiarism extremely seriously as well, so never shrug off your professors' warnings of checking your work for stolen passages. And they really are looking, using special computer programs to help them check students' work quickly and accurately.
Plagiarism even occurs at some of the top colleges in the United States. For example, Harvard University dismissed about 70 of its students in 2013, forcing them to leave the college. After suspicions of plagiarism arose, they proved that many students had copied each other's work on an exam that was to be completed alone at home. Plagiarism does not have to be the stolen work of a published author; using other students' work, or even your own work from past assignments for a new assignment, is also a violation. In the case of reusing your own work for another assignment, even if you add new material to it, you would still be committing self-plagiarism. In 2012, an Amherst College professor resigned from her position because she had plagiarized some of her past professional work. Although she was the one to admit the act, she still lost her career and hurt her reputation, earning a story on the Amherst website—and picked up across the Web—that exposed her name.
Every college makes it clear that plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Take a look at your own college's website and you may see an entire page dedicated to it. Williams College provides an entire webpage explaining what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. Johnson & Wales University not only explains plagiarism on its website but discusses its punishments, which can potentially include a permanent notation on the student's record.
The first step is to cite your sources well and widely. When paraphrasing the work of someone else, make sure to avoid repeating any of the author's words or phrases that are not commonly used elsewhere. If there is a word or phrase that is hard to say in your own words, quote and cite the work. Also, pay attention to sentence structure, and try to avoid mimicking the same.
There are two common formats used for citation known all around the world. When writing about English, literature, and foreign languages, most teachers prefer a format called MLA (Modern Language Association). Another common format is APA (American Psychological Association), often used for citing the social sciences, like psychology, economics, and sociology research. Such formats and their rules can be found online at http://owl.english.purdue.edu.
When using either of these formats, your professors will require you to use in-text citations, which can occur throughout your essay and may include quotations, as well as a works cited page (MLA format) or references list (APA format). Both the works cited and the references list should appear as their own separate page at the end of your essay and provide detailed information about the sources you used.
Of course, your papers can't be a long series of quoted passages. You need to come to your own conclusions and back them up, and there are plenty of ways to get into the habit of forming your own ideas for your assignments. When considering a source and condensing what you've learned from it, you can best avoid plagiarism by reading the work, putting the book or article away for a moment, and then writing down what you remember off the top of your head. Then, go back to the author's work and compare your facts, making sure the information you wrote down is accurate and complete. Remember you can also visit your school's tutoring or writing center, or meet with a professor, for guidance in crafting your essays and hashing out your ideas.
At the end of day, all you really need to do is commit yourself to producing high-quality, original work, and you should have no problem avoiding plagiarism. And if, as you're putting together an essay, you feel uneasy about the way you're using any information you found, trust your instincts, revisit your research, reevaluate your writing—and cite the bejesus out of it.


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Retail revolution – Classen Curve, Nichols Hills Plaza aim to become go-to spots
OKLAHOMA CITY - Glimcher Realty Trust has owned Classen Curve, Nichols Hills Plaza and The Triangle at Classen Curve since March, and the company already has a plan to continue the centers' success.
The Journal Record
By Molly M. Fleming
Vice President of Leasing Joshua Lindimore spoke at an International Council of Shopping Centers Idea Exchange at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel on Tuesday about the company's plans for the retail areas. He said open-air lifestyle centers are the company's forte.
"There are some things we truly believe in, and it's things to do and things to buy," he said. "The customer has to have a reason to come to your center. We believe the days of driving up, going in clothes shopping and leaving are over. You've got to have food. You have to have experience retail (such as paint-your-own pottery)."
Glimcher bought the three properties in March for $51.8 million. Combined, the areas have about 290,000 square feet. Also in the purchase price was about 12 acres of additional land in the upscale northern Oklahoma City and Nichols Hills neighborhoods. The centers were previously owned by Chesapeake Energy Corp.
Categories: Oklahoma City News