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Free shuttles will run 12:00pm-5:30pm on race day from Hard Rock Hotel to Sam Boyd Stadium, and 10:00pm-12:00am from Sam Boyd Stadium back to Hard Rock Hotel.
The shuttle pick up/drop off location at Hard Rock Hotel is located in the parking lot outside of Paradise Tower Festival Hall Entrance (North side of hotel).
The shuttle pick up/drop off location at Sam Boyd Stadium is located in the West (tower side) VIP parking lot.


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Greater sustainability in meat production
The new AMINOFootprint® calculator by Evonik enables feed manufacturers to determine and further optimize the environmental impact of their products. This in turn lets them respond to the increased consumer awareness of sustainability in meat production with a tangible contribution. "When consumers inquire about the ecological footprint of a pork cutlet, feed manufacturers are affected as part of the supply chain," says Dr. Reiner Beste, President of the Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Evonik.
The recently completed SFIS project (Specialty Feed Ingredients Contributing to Sustainability) demonstrated the large influence of animal feed composition on this footprint. Based on worldwide data from the industry, the project involved the creation of a comparative eco-balance of compound for poultry and swine, both with and without added amino acids and enzymes (phytase). As the results showed, supplementing the feed mixes significantly reduces the environmental burden with regard to climate change, eutrophication, and acidification.
This positive effect is primarily based on reducing the raw protein content by adding amino acids, which decreases resource consumption and lowers the associated emissions in carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxides. Evonik proved this for the first time with an eco-balance in 2000. An eco-balance for all four feed amino acids produced by Evonik, namely MetAMINO® (DL-methionine), Biolys® (source of L-lysine), ThreAMINO® (L-threonine) and TrypAMINO® (L-tryptophan), has been available since 2010.
The SFIS project followed the same eco-balance methodology that is used for the sustainability assessment of the Evonik amino acids. Dr. Michael Binder, Sustainability Manager of the Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Evonik, has made a substantial contribution to the project when chairing the Technical Board. Once the ongoing review process has been completed in accordance with the international standard DIN EN ISO 14044:2006, the results will also be made available to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations for possible inclusion in the new FAO guideline for the sustainable evaluation of animal feed.
"The SFIS project represents the current industry average for the analyzed feed additives, but our amino acids have significantly better values based on the efficiency of our manufacturing processes," explains Binder. Evonik plans to publish an update of its own eco-balance this year as its production processes have been continuously optimized over the past years.
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The toolset was recently supplemented with AMINOFootprint®, a web-based application that calculates the ecological impacts of various feed components along with their transport and processing. It also helps with the determination of feed mixes for pig or poultry feed. The tool enables feed manufacturers to compare the use of local protein sources with imported soy to optimize the ecological impact of their logistics chain or to reach decisions about the location of new sites. All this is helpful to respond to the questions of critical customers and end consumers.
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From basketball to group homes: ASU's Charnea Johnson-Chapman is shifting her passion
Charnea Johnson-Chapman persevered through a rough childhood to start for the Arizona State women's basketball team and earn a college degree. (Photo by Sam Ficarro/Cronkite News)
By Sam Ficarro | Cronkite News
TEMPE – Although she eventually found stability at Arizona State, growing up in Moreno Valley, California, wasn't always easy for Charnea Johnson-Chapman.
She moved around often as her mother relocated to find work and she never spent more than a year at any school until high school.
It was an experience that shaped the ASU senior. Now, with her college career complete – the center helped lead the women's basketball team to the Sweet 16 – her goals have shifted: She wants to give back and help open group homes.
"Growing up and living around, you see a lot of things," she said. "And one consistent thing that was in all the towns I lived in were kids who came to school and couldn't afford lunch, or they come to school and they would be wearing the same clothes that they did (the day) before."
Her decision comes at a time when group home are under particular scrutiny. The Family First Prevention Services Act, approved by Congress in February 2018, prioritizes keeping families together with various counseling and treatment options, and puts limits on placing children in settings such as group homes.
A tough road
Although her situation was different, she, too, found herself having to adjust. Her mom, Tammy Johnson, didn't graduate from high school, but after getting a GED diploma, she did the best she could to take care of her five kids.
"She never went to college, so her profession was mostly like braiding hair," Johnson-Chapman said. "So that's how she would make money. That's not really stable because you don't get hair every day, and she's not licensed. So she can't work in a shop. … It's just basically her going to other people's houses or people coming to her house."
Johnson-Chapman said her mother would also take cleaning and homecare jobs and the family had to accommodate her moves.
"She has to go wherever she can find clients," she said,
Ranked in the top 20 at her position in high school by ESPN.com, Johnson-Chapman earned first-team All-CIF honors as a senior. (Photo by Sam Ficarro/Cronkite News)
During her time at Canyon Springs High School, Johnson-Champman moved in with an assistant coach and an aunt to provide some stability to her life.
It was a tough adjustment, balancing basketball and academics, and left her feeling as if she was behind the rest of the team.
"We've always been told to do good in school and that was just kind of like, really bad and really hard to focus," Johnson-Chapman said. "In the summer, I didn't really work with the basketball team for the first month, and then I had to start working out with them. So I felt a little late and behind everybody else, so that was kind of dampening."
Journey to ASU
Arizona State women's basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne, who is a friend of Canyon Springs coach Gail Hale, was at the school to scout Hale's guards when Johnson-Chapman caught her eye.
Charnea Johnson-Chapman practices free throws besides fellow senior Sophia Elenga at Arizona State University. (Photo by Sam Ficarro/Cronkite News)
"I wasn't sure if she would get there because she kind of came to the game late and wasn't super skilled, just big feet and kind of gawky as a kid," Turner Thorne said. "By the time she was a junior, I saw Nea (Johnson-Chapman) get a steal, do a Euro step in transition and lay it up, and I was like, 'That kid could be really, really good.' "
That's when Turner Thorne began recruiting her and both agreed she would be a great fit with the Sun Devils.
However, life on the ASU campus and joining Turner Thorne's program were challenging.
Johnson-Chapman struggled her freshman year balancing academics with the rigorous schedule that comes with being a student-athlete.
Turner Thorne said Johnson-Chapman was on the verge of quitting.
"She really didn't have anything else, giving up her scholarship and just going home and working a minimum wage job or something," Turner Thorne said. "It was hard. This is hard work, and you tell others to step away, step back."
Turner Thorne said a meeting with Johnson-Chapman allowed for a moment of reflection to put things in perspective.
"The conditioning and everything for a 6-3 kid is hard for her," Turner Thorne said. "We just kind of made a pact. 'Hey, we'll figure it out. But we need you, and you need us.' She agreed and the rest is history."
Because of all the moves and living with different family members and coaches, Turner Thorne believes that she became a consistent parental voice for Johnson-Chapman.
After averaging less than seven minutes a game her first two seasons, Johnson-Chapman took over as the team's starting center and flourished, helping ASU reach the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2015.
Hale is proud of Johnson-Chapman for what she's achieved on and off the court, where she has twice earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention honors. Hale said one would never know by Johnson-Chapman's demeanor all that she has been through.
"She's just happy every day," Hale said. "I think, seeing her achieve what she's achieved, Charli (Turner Thorne) was such a big part of that, supporting her. Seeing Nea Nea (Johnson-Chapman) go from not too much playing time, to a little bit more, and then starting her last two years – basically succeeding at the Division I level at a great school – it was a blessing for us to see that, and it's definitely been a joy for all of us."
Next endeavor
Johnson-Chapman's journey is the embodiment of a student-athlete success story as she persevered through numerous obstacles, waited her turn and emerged as a productive starter.
She is set to graduate in May with a degree in family and human development.
"She is like the epitome of what this experience is all about," Turner Thorne said. "You get here, you pay your dues, learn from the top players ahead of you and then you step in and it's time for you to shine. That's hard sometimes. It's hard to work that hard and not sometimes get the benefit of playing, so I just really appreciate Nea (Johnson-Chapman)."
After so many people paved a path for Johnson-Chapman, she felt a strong desire to give back.
She had a friend who stayed in a group home, and she believes the people running the home were in it for the wrong reasons.
"In group homes, they don't get treated (well) in any kind of way because people are there for the money and not really to help the kids," Johnson-Chapman said. "I just kind of took what I went through, of having to move around and not really having a straight head for something I clearly wanted until high school. And I just thought about the fact that if I open group homes, I can create stability in a kid's life, and they can probably do more than what I did."
Charnea Johnson-Chapman connected on 52.6% of her career field goal attempts in 89 career games. (Photo by Sam Ficarro/Cronkite News)
Johnson-Chapman said she wants to help people who come from poor homes or those who have had to move around a lot so that they can go to college, get a degree and do something with their lives, too.
She hopes to work with group homes that have the right priorities, providing stability in the lives of kids who don't have it.
"I just kind of liked how they were just helping the kids," Johnson-Chapman said. "It's not too many kids to the people there, so you can really get a one-on-one interaction with them."
Turner Thorne said Johnson-Chapman's passion for helping others shows her giving heart.
"She's somebody that didn't grow up with a lot, came from a challenging background," Turner Thorne said. "And I think, what I've seen over my years, people picking professions, they tend to pick things they can relate to, a passion. And her passion is helping people.
"If people didn't help her, she could be on the street right now. But she had family members, and her high school coach really stepped up and helped take care of her, feed her and have her live with her. I think that experience with Nea has really just compelled her to be like, 'OK, now I'm going to do that for other people.'"
It's been a long journey for Johnson-Chapman, from a challenging childhood to nearly quitting Arizona State to now earning a degree.
"I don't like to think about the beginning of my life just because it was so hard," she said. "But I kind of have to just remember why I'm doing what I do."
"It was a rough journey, but it also shaped me to be a better person. I'm still growing as a person. I still make mistakes, but I know I want to help people so they can have a better life."


"When the stock market has been nosediving, when real estate has been taking a hit and all these other assets seem to have fluctuated downward, the only thing left in times of trouble and uncertainty is gold and silver bullion," said mint spokesman Alex Reeves.
Indeed. The mint's Sussex Drive operation sold 896,701 ounces of gold in coins, wafers and kilo bars in 2008, a 222-per-cent increase from 278,616 ounces in 2007. Sales of silver coins soared, too, to 8.8 million ounces from 3.5 million the previous year.
"Once again, it's proven to be the asset of choice in times of uncertainty," said Reeves.
OTTAWA — Gold and silver sales have exploded past the $1-billion mark at the federal mint, with spooked global investors snapping up the precious metals as a hedge in uncertain times.
The astounding 266 per cent increase in bullion and refinery revenues, to $1.04 billion from $283.9 million in 2007, is revealed in the Royal Canadian Mint's 2008 annual report, only recently tabled in Parliament after a yearlong delay caused by an investigation into $15 million in missing gold.
"Carney calculated that unless the country improves its productivity or output per unit of work, Canadians can expect to lose a total of $30,000 in real income over the next decade. "
King World News interviews Eric Sprott on Gold and the economy.
Eric Sprott has over 35 years of experience in the investment industry and manages roughly $5 billion. Eric has been stunningly accurate in his writings for quite some time and is one of the highly respected industry professionals who foresaw the current crisis and chronicled the dangers of excessive leverage as well as the bubbles the Fed was creating while correctly forecasting the tragic collapse we are all enduring. In this interview Eric discusses the stock market, bond market, inflation, deflation, gold, silver, gold stocks, consolidation in the gold sector, the economy, the US Dollar, paper currencies globally, tax revenues going down, layoffs in US government jobs in states, oil and much more.
Ontario budget: minor HST sweeteners, $500 million for Pension Benefits Guarantee Fund.
1.5 Billion Chinese are buying Gold, should we care?
March 18 (Bloomberg) By Nicholas Larkin-- Central banks added the most gold to their reserves since 1964 last year amid the longest rally in bullion prices in at least nine decades, data compiled by the World Gold Council show.
Combined holdings rose 425.4 metric tons to 30,116.9 tons, an increase worth $13.3 billion at last year's average price, according to the data. India, Russia and China said last year they added to reserves. The expansion was the first since 1988, the data from the London-based council show.
Legendary "Mr. Gold, Jim Sinclair"
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Goldcorp founder Rob McEwen is standing by his forecast that the price of gold will reach $2 000/oz by the end of 2010, he said on Monday.
While it may still seem a stretch from current levels of around $1 135/oz, it should be noted that McEwen has been making the prediction since at least March 2006. At that time, prices for the yellow metal had not topped $600/oz since January 1980.
"I have been saying for over five years: by the end of this year, we will be at $2 000 and, when the game is over for gold, it will be over $5 000 an ounce," he said in an interview on the sidelines of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's annual convention.


Ilion Community Church set up two bounce houses in Central Plaza to collect cereal donations for the food pantry to help local kids in need.
Ilion Community Church set up two bounce houses in Central Plaza to collect cereal donations for the food pantry to help local kids in need. Organizers say there are so many kids in the area who can't afford to eat breakfast.
The bounce houses were free to use, but people were encouraged to bring a box of cereal to donate to Ilion's food pantry.
This is the church's second year holding the event.


The pond is Dave's preserve. He dug it, he filled it, and he maintains it. Every Septemeber he clears it out. But this summer the pond has been sick for several months. It has been leaking. Only now has Dave found the leak and fixed it. The leak was caused by two holes which (according to him) are the precise size and distance apart as two prongs of a garden fork.
I am the chief suspect, but I deny going near the pond with the fork.
My theory is that a local heron has swooped on a frog in the pond and missed, and then pecked again.
Here is the wheelbarrow containing the detritus from the pond. Dave was using the fork. As I said, he is the only one who goes near the pond with a fork. I rest my case.


Mobility as a Service a.k.a. MaaS is still seen as something in the future. Yet, you can already get some interesting subscription services for your mobility requirements in Copenhagen – even without the MaaS setup.
Three subscription service packages supporting your needs of sustainable daily commute to work or education. Source: Idea and Graphics SFMCON. The prices are found Sep. 27, 2017.
If you can substitute use of car daily to work with your bicycle or use public transport you can actually save money by selling your car and rely on the sharing economy for access to a car when needed. If you need a car to commute you can switch to a E-car (300km range) and enjoy a clean commute. On top of this note that the E-rental Is 1000+ kr. less than ownership of a small car.
Daily Copenhagen experiences a mix of 34% bike, 41% car and 25% public Transport trips starting or stopping in the city. (According to Copenhagen Municipality and Danish Technology University Transport habit survey 2015. Some public owned vehicles are powered by electricity and including especially the car sharing schemes there is some E-cars in circulation. Yet as the vast majority of cars, buses and trucks run on diesel or gasoline there is a huge potential in conversion to sustainable energy forms to propel the mobility, also in Copenhagen.
Bike commuters can maximize cost savings by dropping ownership to a car. The occasional need for access to a car for local mobility can be covered by a subscription to a city e-car share scheme. For longer trips to family, weekend getaways and vacation there is plenty of room in the mobility budget compared to car ownership to rent a car. A range of options from traditional ICE car rentals, car sharing and even rental of others private cars are available in Copenhagen.
If you use public transport for commuting the same applies as for bike commuting. In the example above the start and stop of commute is within zone 1&2 at a cost of 375 kr. Prices increases as more zones is needed to 1260 kr. covering 8 zones. For 8 zones and access to a city car the package is 2455. Still a long way to car ownership starting well over 4000 kr.
The majority of trips are still made in private cars. Now a new subscription model for a E-car rental is on the market for full time rental (Renault Zoe Life 41 kWh). At a price of 3349 kr. /month the offering actually can compete with the cost of ownership of a normal ICE car. According to FDM (the Danish Car Owner Federation) A micro car at a purchase price 100.000 kr.will cost you 4600+ kr./month all inclusive. At a pricetag of 200.000 kr. expect 6375 kr./month and if you go for a car in the 350.000 kr. your monthly cost of ownership and use can be 8664 kr. All prices are based on 20.000 km use per year and from the FDM motor magazine January 2017.
Do we need MaaS if you can build your own mobility subscription already?
Mobility as a Service can be seen as the users guide to the market of shared mobility services. As more options becomes available it gets easier to rely on shared mobility rather than playing safe by a more expensive private ownership of a car.
MaaS is your personal planner and navigator for door to door mobility using shared ressources. However if there are no shared mobility vehicles or services whether public or private in the neighborhood – the MaaS screen is empty.
Prerequisite for a MaaS ecosystem to evolve is that the three levels: Regulation, Mobility service and MaaS navigation and sale, all invest, innovate deliver and cooperate to improve the shared mobility grid, convenience and trust.
For the core providers of shared mobility services the question is: Are you willing to operate with open data, open API and realize the benefit of third party aggregation bundling and selling of your mobility services?
For regulators the question is: Do you need to own the shared mobility ECO System or are we all better of if regulators make the ground rules for a fair market place for mobility services whether public and privat fundet. The Finnish approach of enabling the MaaS value chain by simply using it to buy the mobility services needed by public organizations is quite remarkable.
Could public institutions by channeling needs for mobility through MaaS increase the total volume of business in the shared mobility ECO system? And would it result in reduction of public owned fleets of cars, save taxpayer money and even reduction of carbon footprint?
Disclaimer: All prices and indications as found on the net. There are other options available. Dependent on commute distance, tax deductions are at play and not included in above examples. Mobility needs and patterns are highly individual so make your own calculations and seek guidance if in doubt.


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In this thesis I compared Russian and Norwegian patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and verbal morphology in these two groups of informants. Norwegian is a language with a relatively simple verbal morphology, but a little more complex than English. Russian has a verbal morphology far more complex than both English and Norwegian.
We know that AD patients have word finding problems. I wanted to find out if it is possible that they also have problems with verbal morphology. Earlier studies shows that it does not seem as English and Norwegian AD patients have particular problems with verb inflection. Is it possible that this is due to the simple verbal morphological systems and not because this ability is well preserved? The answer to this question seems to be, yes, for AD patients the complexity of the verbal system in their first language influences their ability to inflect verbs.
High type frequency of verb classes as well as clear phonological cues or markers are important for AD patients when they inflect verbs. This finding is in accordance with a cognitivistic view on language.


The original version of 'The Thomas Crown Affair' (1968, Norman Jewison) probably has the BEST romantic chess scene of any Hollywood film ever made. Mega-stars Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway face each other over the board as adversaries. Everything is brilliantly done, the careful attention to details, the flirtatious hand movements, the quick glances, the seductiveness…AMAZING.
Beth Hart was born in the US in 1972. Her first album with Bonamassa, Don't Explain, went gold in The Bongo. In 2014 Hart was nominated for a Grammy Award for Seesaw and she was also nominated for a Blues Music Award in the category 'West Contemporary Blues Female Artist'.
Joe Bonamassa, was born in the US in 1977. Guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joe opened for B.B.King when only 12 years old! In the past 13 years he produced not less than 15 solo albums.
Here is the song that Errol considers the best effort by Hart and Bonamassa. ENJOY!


Nate Silver has developed a reputation of being able to predict events in the fields of baseball and politics better than most other people. He is obsessed with numbers and what they mean. Near as I can interpret what the title means is that in this age of computers there is so much information (noise) that we too often miss the important indicators (signal).
We have been told that the good thing about computers and the internet is all the information coupled with the fact that the bad thing about computers and the internet is all the information. Information is supposed to help you make better decisions. Some decisions are relatively trivial, but others are life changing and all of them accumulate. Silver advises on separating the noise from the signal.
The noise in all this information can be very distracting, even misleading. Scientific studies can involve pages and pages of small details. They can be very important, but what do they really mean. One phrase becoming more common is that "correlation is not causation." There is a lot of correlation in information, but it is more critical to determine the causation factors.
Thomas Bayes provided the underlying philosophy for Nate Silver. Thomas's birthdate is uncertain, but assumed to be about 1701. He was born in England, but because he was of a non conformist background went to the University of Edinburgh and eventually became a Presbyterian minister. He had an interest in mathematics, but only published one book before his death. His fame rests on a book that was published two years after his death. We all deal with imperfect information. Bayes recognizes all we can do is proceed to a better decision. No human will ever have all the facts. Each event allows us to recalculate. Probabilities are constantly refined as we get closer to the truth, with-out ever fully arriving.
Baseball statistics helped relieve some boredom Nate felt at one of his jobs. He became more and more obsessed.
Poker was another obsession. Poker depends upon understanding probabilities and masking your confidence. Nate got involved at a fairly high level, but has since greatly lowered his involvement.
Climate change is a topic of much predictions. Nate points out is that there is a definite cause that has been identified and accepted. Weather is actually an area of prediction that has improved with more knowledge. Most commercial forecasters predict more rain than actually occurs which Nate attributes to the idea that rain is more upsetting when not predicted. Climate has many variables that make prediction difficult. For example solar cycles, the El nino currents, volcanoes, pollution, etc.
In the most recent American presidential election Nate was accused of slanting his statistics to boost his ideological preferences. Looking back it seems conservatives were not only guilty of wishful thinking, but also of trying to create the impression that Nate's figures were not as accurate as theirs. Since the election there has been a lot of analysis of what it all means and to me it seems they are still guilty of wishful thinking. Misreading what the public really wants is not only harmful to politicians, but to everyone.


The United States of America (U.S.) represents the largest financial markets in the world. At the end of 2015, the size of the Banking sector alone in the U.S. was 15.9 trillion dollars generating a net income of 161.6 billion dollars (analysed by the SelectUSA).
The financial sector in addition, employs more than 6 million people in the U.S. with several more millions employed in the ancillary industries e.g. education and research, technology, regulation and security, transportation and logistics, tourism. It is therefore of paramount importance that the future of Financial Sector in the U.S. is ensured and protected.
The truth of the matter is that after the downturn in 2008, the financial sector in the U.S. have been increasingly difficult if not impossible to manoeuvre. For instance, there have only been a handful of new federal banking licenses issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in the U.S. (across all States) between 2008 and 2017. That figure in the United Kingdom will be 14 and an unbelievable 21 and 38 in India and China respectively. Message is simple, the Financial Sector in the U.S. which has been the backbone of its economic and political leadership in the modern world, have been somehow stagnant since 2008. The new banking, the digital banking era is surprisingly still embryonic in the U.S. whereas countries like, China, the UK, India, Singapore are setting the stone with Australia, Canada and Germany fast developing a mature digital banking state.
Dr. Subas Roy is the Chairman of the International RegTech Association. He has served as the global RegTech practice leader in a large professional services organization previously and has led several global digital risk and compliance transformation programmes over the last 20+ years.
He was the Chair of a number of Government led initiatives in the United Kingdom and wider Europe related to innovation in digital trust and compliance.
Innovation-In Trust and RegTech-by Design are the two practical theories developed by him and he continues to research on these further.
He is passionate about RegTech, global RegTech eco-system and helping to create a collaborative, leading-edge, innovative work environment. He is a trained computational mathematician with professional qualification on Accounting and Business Administration.
When not traveling, he is based in London. A father and a husband, he likes to spending time with his family, reading books and running for leisure!


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Q: Dynamic var and Thread/sleep From what I read somewhere, if you bind a new value to a dynamic var in Clojure, that new value is only available in that thread.
So, in order to test that, I created this code:
(def *dynamic-var* "dynamic var")

(defn run-it []
  (future (binding [*dynamic-var* "new-value"] (Thread/sleep 3000) (println *dynamic-var*)))
  (future (Thread/sleep 1000) (println *dynamic-var*)))

My question is: why does the first thread (which must print "new-value") never run? It never prints "new-value" to the console.

A: The issue is that you need to mark your var as dynamic with metadata:
(def ^:dynamic *dynamic-var* "dynamic var")

(defn run-it []
  (future (binding [*dynamic-var* "new-value"] (Thread/sleep 3000) (println *dynamic-var*)))
  (future (Thread/sleep 1000) (println *dynamic-var*)))

With ^:dynamic added, when you run (run-it) it will print out:
dynamic var
new-value

Without it you probably saw a warning printed:

Warning: dynamic-var not declared dynamic and thus is not dynamically rebindable, but its name suggests otherwise. Please either indicate ^:dynamic dynamic-var or change the name.


"I started singing, actually, when I was five years old, at my mother's concert. She was a teacher of classical Japanese singing, and her students were all men. I used to watch them and listen to them, and it is a type of singing that a gentlemen will sing all the parts in an opera: the male, the female and the child, or whatever the story. I started singing it and copying them, and I guess my mother thought 'Wow! She knows this stuff,' so she put me on stage when I was five, and made me the costume the men would wear and I sang. The stage was in Los Angeles and the audience was so intrigued they cried and they threw money on to the stage. In those days it was acceptable to get money thrown at you, now it is an insult!
That's how I started and all of my siblings would always sing. We would put the radio on and sing all the hits of those days. I always loved to sing and my mother was always sure we had music in the house. I still remember her cranking up the old victrola and playing Japanese music, or classical music, I remember her playing Dvorak's 'New World Symphony' for us. When my mother was alive she always installed the love of music into all of us.
By the time I was in grammar school I would go into these talent shows, at school, and participate. I guess I was always a ham. I actually was very shy girl. I was always in the back and never said much, but when it came to music I have always stepped up, and always wanted to sing.
My father died when I was four, and then four years later my mother died. Frank (Mary's older brother) kept us together. He went to work at a nursery. He went to the library and studied books on horticulture, and he still does gardening, but that is how he supported us. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't be around, we would have been in an orphanage. He is the one who quit school at 17 to support us, he was our guardian. Can you imagine he was in high school when our mother died. In those days the 1930s. Wow! That was hard.
By the time I was 12 years old my brother decided he was going to spend some money, that he could not afford, to send me to music school to learn how to sing properly. I learned proper breath control from Ralph Snyder, who became a family friend. He used to come over to the house and eat with us, or go fishing with us. He was actually a musician for Paul Whiteman, and was his pianist. One of Paul Whiteman's singers was Bing Crosby, and they were called the Rhythm Boys, and he showed us pictures of the Rhythm Boys and there he was, young Bing Crosby! Ralph taught me until I was 16 years old, and that is when the Japanese were evacuated into camp, and that was the last of my singing lessons."
In 1942, President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 giving the war department authority to define military areas in the Western states, and to exclude anyone who might threaten the war effort. 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese descent living on the West Coast of the U.S.A. were incarcerated. Mary Kageyama Nomura was interned at the Manzanar relocation camp in Eastern California. Two-thirds of the internees were, like Mary, native-born American citizens under the age of 21.
Music provided relief during the years of the Japanese American internment during WWII. Mary performed in Manzanar all three years she was incarcerated, and she became known as the "Songbird of Manzanar." In this film, Mary shares old field recordings of her self-singing in Manzanar, and these are believed to be the only surviving field recordings of music from Japanese American incarceration camps. In the conclusion of the film, Mary honors her nickname and sings one of her favorite jazz standards by George Gershwin.


Traffic and Transport Theory and Practice (TTTP) Journal is registered with the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Srpska by serial registration code 07.06/053-19/2016-1, date 07. 03. 2016. Traffic and Transport Theory and Practice (TTTP) Journal (ISSN 2490-3477-Print, 2490-3485 (Online) is an international journal published two time a year.


A$AP Rocky's newest album "Testing" was his chance to solidify himself as one of the leading MC's of his generation.
The next song, "A$AP Forever" takes on an atmospheric vibe that is much more mellow than its predecessor but keeps the listener captivated with the classic Rocky flow and booming drums. We also get a Kid Cudi feature which is more nostalgic than groundbreaking as it revives thoughts of Cudi from "Man on the Moon" but pulls away from the epic vibe Rocky creates on the song.
The other songs are slow and melodic that Rocky has rarely excelled on in the past. Unfortunately this remains true for this album as well. The production is still masterfully done and Rocky has chosen great beats and producers to work with but it does not mesh with his style well.
You have to give props to Rocky for always trying to push his limits and encompass new styles in his music. However, this style change comes only in sound and not in substance. With an extensive list of features including Frank Ocean, T.I., Kid Cudi, Skepta, Kodak Black, Juicy J, French Montana, and Moby there were many opportunities for the listener to be pulled away from the lack of depth but many of the features are lackluster.
Overall the album has several impressive songs that will be a staple to many hip-hop playlists but the album could have been improved by removing some of the slower melodic songs that Rocky has not mastered stylistically.


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Fullerton Heritage On Parade
REGARDLESS of the progress science and technology have provided, humans still have a fondness to reflect on the past.
From kids and their dinosaurs to people and their victories, even symbols of unease are given monuments and days of remembrance.
Not surprising then that in celebrating the Fullerton building's 90th anniversary, the festivities will include historical reflections, a special cocktail, art and a showcase of old cars.
Dr Ivor Thevathasan, the Concours d'Elegance chief judge, pokes around under this old Mercedes' bonnet.
Bring On The Old Ladies
The Fullerton Concours d'Elegance assembles 90 vintage, classic and supercars in a show competition that will take those attending back to a less complicated time when design was more about aesthetics than performance, coefficient of drag numbers or concerns about the welfare of the planet. Not that the current concerns are not important, but they didn't factor so strongly back then.
In reliving this golden era, a short exhibition of cars and a short run will be organised by The Fullerton. A taste of what to expect was laid on, from a spread of local food and a short ride in vintage and classic cars. Some cars were much older than those in attendance.
There's nothing like an afternoon dose of aromatherapy to make you appreciate the advent of technology.
Eric and Judy Tiong with their Austin Moke.
As the 1972 Austin Moke poked its way through the wrong end of buses and navigated the current of traffic along Shenton Way, I could only try and lean forward to avoid my shirt from sticking to my back in the humidity.
"At least without any doors and windows, there is all-round ventilation," quips Eric Tiong as he firmly shifts the gears and on his. 1.1-litre buggy.
His wife Judy has evidently been bitten by the bug as she enthusiastically talks about the attention the red car gets.
Many parts of the car have been replaced by newer components, though it's hard to tell since everything looks well worn.
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One of a pair of The Fullerton's Rolls-Royce cars.
Price Of Indulgence
Eric paid $20,000 for the Moke and added another $10,000 to get it into reasonable condition. He reckons he can still sell it for $40,000.
"There are only about a dozen around. I know someone selling one for $69,000," Eric adds.
The main concern for anyone contemplating owning an old car is the availability of parts. "Between England and Japan there are close to a million Minis and there are still companies manufacturing parts," he says as he guns the engine and zips past newer cars whose occupants stay cool in air-conditioned comfort while rubbernecking at the old world autos going by.
Dr Ivor Thevathasan, President of the Malaysia and Singapore Vintage Car Register and the chief judge at the Concours d'Elegance, describes the event as a "beauty contest for old cars". Judges will be checking out the condition of the engine, the body and even the underside of the car, to determine the winners in a variety of categories.
While this initial event is largely a local affair, there will be some cars from the famed stable of the Sultan of Johor.
The Fullerton Heritage General Manager, Cav. Giovanni Viterale says the Concours d'Elegance will be an annual affair. With backing from the Singapore Tourism Board, it doesn't hurt to keep attention on cars in Singapore.
While the Formula 1 races will continue for another spell, drawing attention to the fastest and latest in technology, the Concours d'Elegance looks at the history that resulted in today's cars.
The Concours d'Elegance will take place from 29 June to 1 July 2018.
The programme of events includes gala dinners, live music performances, art and cultural exhibitions, family fun activities and charity car convoys.
For more information, visit www.fullertonconcours.com
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- This was one to repeat a string given a char and number of times it is to be repeated

## Negative or Not (Some may be already)

- This is one to make a number negative if it isn't or otherwise leave it

## Remove first and Last

- This was one to remove the head and last element of a list. In Python, you'd do this by slicing.
- In Haskell, I did this by using drop and take. Drop the 1st element lazily after the string is taken except the last element.

## Alternative Solution

- Check out this solution, though. Drop the first. Reverse, drop the first (which is the last) and then reverse again. Woah! Sick!

## Otherwise

- On page 134 of Haskellbook. I'm quite enjoying it.
- I also formatted my Statement of Purpose a bit.
- I spoke to my mentor, who is psyched about my Fortran assignment :D He wanted to know if I could us Fortran 2008 instead of 77 :D

## Doing Haskell
- Doing Haskell daily makes you ten times more excited to go to BayHac and those kinds of events. I mean, I'm *always* happy to
  hang out with Haskellinos, but now I'm kind of *ecstatic*. I'm excited to see how my mind has changed since last year, and to
  learn more.
- Oh, I'm voluteering tomorrow at SCALE
- Doing my Fortran assignment over the next few days
- Going to Google's Int'l Women's Day event on Saturday
- I also volunteered to help on a committee (tech related). I'm always excited to give back.

## Update on my Skype Interview

- Really, really thorough. It was about at least four hours. I got great insight into PL Research and what I would need
  to strengthen my application. Specifically, I've been advised to just apply to a PhD Program.
- It helped a *lot* in strengthening my application and I have four pages of notes of insights I got that were really,
  really valuable. I can't thank this particular computer scientist enough. It really meant a lot.

## That's about it!

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This week's Sous Chef recipe comes from one of the many, many, (many) copies of Everyday Food I've been collecting for a long time. I love zucchini, and I was really tired of pasta with red sauce, so this pricked my interest.
Prep: This comes together really easily. It takes only a few minutes longer than pasta does to boil, so it's quick to get on the table - maybe 20 minutes start to finish. In the recipe from the magazine, it makes use of zucchini that was grilled earlier in the week, so if you're able to do that, it's a one-pot meal, too! I never had that ready to go, so I just sauteed the zucchini while the pasta cooked, and it worked fine.
Taste: I think this is a really tasty dish, and fairly healthy - I use full fat ricotta but you could sub low-fat with no problem. I subbed dried herbs for fresh ones, simply because that's what I had on hand, but I bet with fresh this would be amazing.
Reception: Baby M thought this was awesome (toddler friendly!) but Peanut thought it was just okay. He's not crazy about corn, but I think he felt, as I kind of did, that while this is good, it needs something else to make it a meal. It's not quite protein-y enough for a main dish, but awfully filling for a side dish. It'll stay in my repertoire but I'll have to figure out a filling second dish to serve it with. Suggestions?
Anecdata: Makes enough for two adults with one meal of leftovers. Reheats okay; cheese gets a little gritty as opposed to the smoothness when it's fresh out of the pot.


iRealHousewives | The 411 On American + International Real Housewives: PHOTOS: Lala Kent Spotted Hanging Out With Katie Maloney-Schwartz And Stassi Schroeder!
PHOTOS: Lala Kent Spotted Hanging Out With Katie Maloney-Schwartz And Stassi Schroeder!
Earlier this summer it was reported that Jax Taylor and James Kennedy ended their longtime feud and started building a friendship. Now it looks like another Vanderpump Rules feud has ended. Recently, Lala Kent was spotted out and about with longtime foes, Katie Maloney-Schwartz and Stassi Schroeder.
"This is a first... but hey, chemistry is chemistry. Also sprang tans are chemistry. Also, hello. Edit: 'sprang tans' are a real," Katie shared about the hangout sesh, with Lala simply adding: "Tekilla bubba."
As for Stassi's take on the whole thing? Well, she had this to say: "Tequila is an upper. Just FYI."
Tequila is an upper. Just FYI.


You will need to prepare a price range for your kitchen remodeling plan earlier than you begin implementing it. With no complete and detailed finances ready earlier than the kitchen renovation begins, it's possible you'll get swept into a spending spiral of unbudgeted extras. In any home kitchen transforming mission price is a huge factor. A involved designer will all the time keep your ideas in mind by incorporating your suggestion within the renovation of the kitchen. Planese is at all times in search of methods to assist homeowners lower your expenses after they transform while not compromising on what they need, as additionally it is essential that you simply get exactly what you are on the lookout for once you start a rework.
You may additionally install a kitchen island that provides a seating space By this, you add an additional space in the house for eating. The price of home equipment, counter tops, cabinets, flooring, and so on, will add as much as one-half to 2-thirds of the total value of reworking.
According to an MSNBC article, irrespective of how effectively you have got planned the renovation undertaking, a kitchen remodel will doubtlessly take longer and value more. 6. Resolve the price of cabinets, appliances, flooring, and fixtures you could afford.
A flush panel (or absolutely integrated) design permits for a cupboard panel to take a seat according to adjoining cabinets. It's usually a one hundred% return remodeling mission, helping enhance the interested home purchaser pool and normally compete better in a tight housing market.
A realtor could be a superb useful resource when serious about how intensive a kitchen space remodeling challenge to try. A superior remodeling agency will help a house owner achieve the design they want within the confines of their price range. Transforming your kitchen space is not any small task and you'll find many essential components, however the finish final result is properly definitely worth the commitment significantly in the event you make clever selections on the way.


The purpose of good government has never been stated more clearly and succinctly than in the Declaration of Independence. Government exists to secure the "Safety and Happiness" of the people.
America Is Still the Home of Innovation Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
Preventing "The Tyranny of the Majority" Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.


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Broward Education Foundation Hosts Publix Super Markets Charities 2020 "Hall of Fame" Awards
Evening Drive-In Ceremony Honored Distinguished Alumni of Broward County Public Schools
BEF Board Chair Tim Curtin and NFL Hall-of-Fame legend Isaac Bruce
A 2021 NFL Hall of Fame legend, 2021 Grammy-nominated recording artists and a commander and captain in the United States Coast Guard were among the distinguished Broward County high school alumni who were honored by Broward Education Foundation during the Publix Super Markets Charities 2020 "Hall of Fame Awards" presented by Memorial Healthcare System. The first-ever drive-in award ceremony was held the evening of Saturday, December 5 at William T. McFatter Technical College and High School in Davie.
Broward Education Foundation reimagined the annual event, taking extra precautions and factoring in safety protocols and social distancing measures, to fittingly salute this year's honorees. Guests enjoyed the evening's program from their cars in the high school's expansive parking lot watching the awards onstage and on four large LED screens. Award presentations were interspersed with performances by the McArthur High Marching Band, Nova High Titan Cheer Team, Walker Elementary TurnAround Arts Dancers and Coral Springs High Senior and extraordinary vocalist Carynna Joseph. Guests dined on boxed lite bites and beverages and applauded each Hall of Fame recipient and performance with celebratory honks and cheers.
The 2020 Broward Education Foundation Hall of Fame honorees include:
Receiving the JM Family Enterprises, Inc. Bravo Award for their positive impact on the lives of thousands of children were two talented Dillard High School graduates, Grammy-nominated, national recording artists and co-founders of the group Black Violin, Wil Baptiste, class of 2000 and Kevin Marcus Sylvester, class of 1999.
Recipients of the Bank of America Community Achievement Award for their contributions to the community were:
Isaac Bruce, former professional football player and member of the NFL Hall of Fame, owner of Bruce Zone and Dillard High School graduate, class of 1990
Jo-Ann F. Burdian, Sector Commander and Captain of the Port, United States Coast Guard, Sector Miami and Piper High School graduate, class of 1993
Marty Kiar, Broward County Property Appraiser and Western High School graduate, class of 1995
The three honorees who received the Office Depot Education Achievement Award for their dedication to a career in public education were:
Amy DeCelle, medical magnet coordinator at Blanche Ely High School and graduate of Piper High School, class of 1993
Mark Howard, principal of Hallandale Magnet High School and graduate of Nova High School, class of 1990
Carletha B. Shaw-Rolle, Ph.D., educator and cadre director for Broward County Public Schools and graduate of South Plantation High School, class of 1985
"This year has been anything but ordinary but that did not take away from the extraordinary Broward County public school alumni who were honored at this year's Hall of Fame Awards. We are inspired by their leadership, passion and commitment to education and community," said Tim Curtin, Broward Education Foundation Board Chair.
"Our first-ever drive-in ceremony was a unanimous success," said Shea Ciriago, executive director of Broward Education Foundation. "Our team went above and beyond, and executed a safe, flawless and festive event. We want to give a heartfelt thanks to our generous sponsors for their unwavering support. Our warmest congratulations to these eight truly deserving Broward Public Schools alumni as we welcome them into our Hall of Fame."
Reminiscent of California's Hollywood Walk of Fame, Broward's distinguished alumni are honored with large engraved granite stars on the BrightStar Credit Union "Walk of Fame" permanently located at the Broward County Public Schools District Office, 600 S.E. Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Honorees also receive a hand-crafted desktop replica of their star.
In addition to Publix Super Markets Charities, Memorial Healthcare System, BrightStar Credit Union and Pirtle Construction, sponsors included JM Family Enterprises, Inc., Office Depot, Broward Teachers Union, Broward Health, Humana, Jersey College, PNC and Wells Fargo.
To learn more about Broward Education Foundation, please visit browardedfoundation.org, call 754-321-2030 or e-mail [email protected].
L to R: Mark Howard, Amy DeCelle, Marty Kiar, Isaac Bruce, Dr. Carletha Shaw-Rolle, James Griffin, Shea Ciraigo, Wil Baptiste, Capt. Jo-Ann F. Burdian and Kevin Marcus Sylvester
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1.Rolls Royce Expands Composites Research Centre
2.BMW Limits Carbon Fibre Use to Increase Profits
3.GE to Acquire LM Wind Power
4.MIT and Google Create Transformable Office Pods
5.Researchers Develop Lightweight Composite Wind Turbine Blades
By John Shury @compositestoday	 Sep 28, 2016
Mitsubishi Rayon and Fiberline Composites will found a joint venture company to manufacture and distribute carbon fibre composite laminates for wind turbine blades.
Mitsubishi Rayon will supply the large tow carbon fibre produced at its Otake Production Centre to the joint venture based in Denmark. The moulding and processing technologies of Fiberline, will be used to enable light-weight, price competitive composite laminates supply to the wind turbine blade market.
In recent years, the size of wind turbine blades have become longer as the widespread installation of off-shore wind power systems and the increasing importance of low wind site development demand more efficient power generation. Such large-sized wind turbine blades require carbon fibres replacing conventional glass fibres due to their rigidity and light-weight properties.
Carbon fibre composite laminates for wind turbine blades made using a pultrusion processes are superior in composite performance and process speed compared to other carbon fibre composite materials, this being reflected in the full-scale adoption of these by the world's leading turbine manufacturer. Consequently pultruded laminates have become the industry standard. MRC will seek to expand its share in the carbon fibres wind turbine market through this joint venture.
Former Tour de France Champion Signs Carbon Fibre Agreement
By John Shury @compositestoday	 Aug 31, 2016
Three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond is partnering with carbon fibre manufacturing pioneer Connie Jackson and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
LeMond Composites, a new company offering solutions for high-volume, low-cost carbon fibre, has secured a licensing agreement with US Department of Energy's ORNL. The agreement will make the Oak Ridge-based LeMond Composites the first company to offer this new industry-disrupting carbon fibre to the transportation, renewable energy, and infrastructure markets.
A new process invented by Jackson and a research team at ORNL's Carbon Fibre Technology Facility (CFTF) will reduce production costs by more than 50% relative to the lowest cost Industrial grade carbon fibre. Until now, manufacturing carbon fibre was an extremely energy-intensive process. This new method is claimed to reduce energy consumed during production by up to 60%.
The biggest obstacle to its widespread use has been the high cost of carbon fibre. This new process will allow high-volume, cost-sensitive industries around the world to reap the benefits of carbon fibre composites at a fraction of the cost while incorporating chemistry geared toward recyclability.
ORNL's Carbon Fibre Technology Facility began operations in 2012, supported by the Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing and Vehicle Technologies offices, to demonstrate the possibility of low-cost carbon fibre at a semi-production scale.
Growing demand from the automotive industry is due in large part to the global push to increase the fuel economy of nearly every vehicle produced. In the USA, the demand is being driven by the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. These standards demand a fleet-wide average fuel economy of 54.5 mpg by 2025. The single best way to improve fuel economy is to reduce the weight of the cars and their component parts.
LeMond Composites plans to expand its campus by building its first carbon fibre production line in a recently purchased facility at 103 Palladium Way in Oak Ridge. The facility is strategically located immediately adjacent to ORNL's Carbon Fibre Technology Facility. The first commercially available product will be ready in Q1 of 2018.
UK Composites Centre Signs MOU with Luxembourg Group
By Steve Sherborne @compositestoday	 Jul 29, 2016
The National Composites Centre in Bristol has signed a collaborative innovation agreement with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).
The agreement sets out to advance the innovation capability and capacity across the two organisations. Luxembourg's aspirations to strengthen its (already strong) innovation capacity are supported by €1 billion for programmes and infrastructure, including the opening later this year of a €60m composites centre. The new centre will complement LIST's capabilities, which include bio-based materials, nano additives and life cycle analysis, all of which are of interest to the NCC.
The National Composites Centre opened in 2011 and now employs over 200 staff. The NCC has the means to research, design, develop, prototype and test across a full range of relevant sectors. It has partnerships with Research and Technology Organisation's and Universities in the UK and globally, to ensure delivery of the optimum solutions for industry.
The Memorandum of Understanding between the NCC and LIST offers an important opportunity to grow knowledge through partnership. This is a model that the NCC has utilised already with other leading intuitions such as the Japanese National Composites Centre and the Stichting Thermoplastic Composites Centre in the Netherlands, alongside University research groups across the world including the University of Bristol. The link between LIST and NCC will further advance exploitation of the opportunities of composites for the UK.
Dow and Aston Martin Form Technical Partnership
By John Shury @compositestoday	 Jul 14, 2016
The new relationship will mean that Aston Martin can utilise a broader portfolio of Dow products and services for Aston Martin production models and race cars. The partnership will also accelerate development and demonstrate capabilities of new products and technologies in on-road and racing environments.
For over 25 years Dow Automotive has supplied Aston Martin with its range of structural adhesives, customising them to meet a wide range of open time and cure time requirements and bond many different materials, including electro-coated steel, anodised aluminium, carbon fibre and glass fibre reinforced composites.
Most recently, on the DB11, a structural adhesive was developed to adhere to anodised aluminium, providing long-term durability and improved crash performance. The adhesive also absorbs less moisture and enabled Aston Martin to delete the anodising oven drying process, resulting in annual energy savings.
The company's glass bonding systems are also used to bond front, rear and side glazing as well as bonding the Vanquish carbon fibre composite roof. Polyurethane body sealant is also used for primer-less adhesion to a variety of substrates.
Boeing to Build 777X With Composite Materials from U.A.E
Boeing has announced that it will source carbon fibre prepreg composite material for the Boeing 777X from a new joint venture formed by Mubadala Development Company and Solvay.
First introduced in the 1970s, prepreg composites are a combination of high-strength carbon fibre and toughened epoxy resin. The 777X was the first commercial airplane to contain structurally significant composite parts. Composites account for 50% of structural weight of the 787 Dreamliner, and the 777X will have the world's largest composite wing. Production of the 777X will begin in 2017, with its first delivery in 2020.
Boeing is the first customer for the Mubadala-Solvay joint venture, which will produce primary structure composite material for use in manufacturing the 777X empennage and floor beams. Mubadala and Solvay are planning for the joint venture to be operational by 2021 in a new facility built in Al Ain, U.A.E.
Since 2009, Boeing and Mubadala have signed several agreements to advance their collaboration in mutually beneficial ways, including in aerospace composites manufacturing. In 2013, Boeing and Mubadala announced a new Framework Strategic Agreement to increase the long-term role of Mubadala as a direct supplier to Boeing, including support as Mubadala developed prepreg manufacturing in the U.A.E.
Reichhold and Polynt Announce Merger
By John Shury @compositestoday	 May 17, 2016
Polynt and Reichhold has announced a definitive agreement to effect the combination of the two businesses.
Polynt Group is one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of specialties, intermediates and composites for the industrial, transportation, building and construction, marine, medical, consumer, and food additive markets. Reichhold is one of the world's largest manufacturers of unsaturated polyester resins and a leading supplier of coating resins for the industrial, transportation, building and construction, marine, consumer and graphic arts markets.
The business combination is expected to create a leading global manufacturer of resins for composites and coatings and of other specialised chemicals, including intermediates, plasticisers, additives and compounds.
Currently, Polynt is wholly owned by funds managed by Investindustrial, and Reichhold is owned by a group of investors, including funds managed by Black Diamond Capital Management. The two companies intend to become equal investors and, collectively, majority stakeholders in the combined business. The transaction is subject to requisite regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2016.


I've been trying so hard to look for THE canned dog food that Mika will love. Tried so many brands for my sweetie but she seems to get sick if it after 2 days and the rest of the can has to be given added treats like cheese, fresh meat, dehydrated chicken etc for her to want to eat it!
If you have a picky eater, maybe you should try Addiction?


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We need to change our climate for the better
Anthropogenic climate change is the greatest challenge of our time. We need to tackle it together.
Anthropogenic: of, relating to, or resulting from the influence of human beings on nature.
Shopify's Sustainability Fund
Shopify builds for the long term, so we need to play an active role in creating a low-carbon future.
That means kickstarting the carbon removal market. Shopify's Sustainability Fund spends at least $5 million annually on the most promising, impactful technologies and solutions to fight climate change globally.
We're sharing what we discover and how we invest so you can follow along with us.
There's too much carbon in the air
For the past couple of centuries, innovation and progress powered by fossil fuels have catapulted the human race forward — but not without consequences. It's time to come up with new solutions, and scale them quickly.
In 1958, a young scientist from Scranton, Pennsylvania, named Charles Keeling discovered something striking. The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere was rising by 1.3 parts per million (ppm) every year. The increase almost equalled the amount of CO2 being emitted by the combustion of fossil fuels globally. This wasn't a coincidence.
Keeling later created the Keeling Curve, showing the concentration of CO2 growing steadily.
We're setting the wrong kind of records
Before the Industrial Revolution, our air contained 280 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide on average. Now, that number sits above 400 ppm for the first time in recorded history.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, representing the work of thousands of scientists around the world, has said, "Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history." 1
Short animation showing the redistribution of carbon in the carbon cycle over time, from pre-industrial to now. Carbon is redistributed between the atmosphere, the ocean, and the biosphere in a balanced cycle during pre-industrial times. With the introduction of fossil fuels, the captured carbon from fossil fuels is introduced to the atmosphere, the ocean and the biosphere, overwhelming the system.
The buildup of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases like methane and nitrous oxide is already impacting climate systems across the planet. Continued buildup will trap even more heat, and cause problems like:
Rising sea levels that will likely displace billions of people2
Increased drought and flooding that threatens food security3
Ocean acidification that puts thousands of aquatic species at risk4
Humans are creating this problem. And that means we have to solve it.
Carbon negative commitment
Removing carbon from the atmosphere is an essential way to slow the accumulation of greenhouse gases and mitigate our impact on a warming climate. Shopify is committed to investing at least $1 million USD each year into carbon sequestration. To read more about our plans, read Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke's letter.
Carbon-neutral platform
Data centers have historically been a big source of greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. In 2018, we decommissioned all of our data servers and shifted entirely to Google Cloud to power our platform. With this change, our platform is now carbon neutral, as Google matches 100% of the energy consumed by Google Cloud with renewable energy.
Carbon-neutral operations
In 2019, Shopify began sourcing renewable power for heating, cooling, and powering our buildings. We've procured enough green energy to account for our natural gas and electricity-related carbon footprint in Canada. For travel-related emissions, which are 5x our operational footprint, we purchase verified carbon offsets.
LEED-certified offices
We look for LEED-certified office space, because it means our buildings have prioritized energy efficiency, sustainable site development, and water savings, among other environmental measures. Most of our square footage is LEED Gold or Platinum.
1 https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf p. 2
2 https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf p. 7 & 16
4 https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf p. 13
There is strength in numbers
No single person or organization can solve climate change alone. We admire other companies that have taken on this massive challenge with energy and leadership, especially our partners Stripe and Google.
In the coming months, we will launch more initiatives to mitigate climate change, and we will work with our merchants around the globe who want to help.
We are on a sustainability journey. We urge you to join us.
Read more about how we are building for the long term, for Shopify, our communities, and our planet.
Download 2018 report Download 2019 report
Keep up to date with Shopify's commitment to climate action


We did a webinar with Hugh Hitchcock a couple of days ago for his latest product Tapvidz, which is a video marketing suite that once set up will start working for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year – building your traffic and rankings.
Tapvidz is a web application that automates video syndication.
Video Marketing is a great way to drive massive traffic and if done right you can rank the same video for multiple keywords, minimizing the work needing done and reaping the benefits long term generating sales, leads and optins on auto pilot.
Just on YouTube alone there are 60 hours of video uploaded every minute. That's one full hour of video uploaded to YouTube every second!
The problem is that the work involved is either not easily done unless automated… Or even worse, its often taught in a way that's over complicated, expensive and risky while sending you down the wrong path expecting results that are often short lived, or just part of a loophole that may work for a while before your rankings drop off or your websites get penalized.
As always we need to start with quality content, because no matter how good any ranking system is, you will drop rankings if people start bouncing off your content fast. In this case that means that you need a quality video that has high retention naturally by being compelling enough to have the viewer watch most if not all of the video.
So what do we do when we have a quality video?
This is where Tapvidz can take care of the heavy lifting for you by following a simple to set up system for automation.
Simultaneously run multiple campaigns in multiple niches – on auto-pilot.
It'll render a new re-mixed version of your video periodically, based on a loose schedule that you set up… and then will post and syndicate that remixed video to your pre-defined distribution channels and syndication links after rendering it.
Each ReLOADz campaign can be easily set up with a keyword strategy — so you can literally dominate your niche in video search and even web search if done correctly.
So for example you can set a ReLOADz to grab your video and post 8 re-mixed videos of it per day all with different titles and text and different intro and outro clips and even a custom thumbnail.
Or create and post 4 new videos, each with a different keyword, then stop.
You can easily set up any kind of schedule with just a few clicks.
And with the optional Blogworkz module, your video posts will be automatically posted and embedded into your blogs as well.
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In a shocking move, ZIFA has with immediate effect fired Warriors team coach Callisto Pasuwa and his entire technical team weeks before the start of CHAN 2016.
Though the reasons for the sacking was not revealed Pasuwa who had already taken charge of Warriors training camp ahead of the CHAN 2016 tournament will now pave way for recently crowned 2015 league champion and Chicken Inn coach Joey Antipas.
ZIFA vice president Omega Sibanda confirmed the latest development in the official ZIFA Website.
Sibanda said an extra-ordinary meeting of the ZIFA national executive committee held this Thursday in Harare resolved that the entire Warriors technical team head by Pasuwa be relieved of its duties.
Dynamos coach Tonderai Ndiraya and Mandla Mpofu takes over as assistant coaches in the total overhaul of the technical team whilst Highlanders' interim Technical advisor takes over as Fitness Manager.
The latest developments means the Warriors team assembled by Pasuwa will be dissolved and the new technical team will announce a new squad and the training program will be announced in due course.
The following have been appointed to take charge of the 2016 Chan Tournament, and 2017 African Cup of Nations Campaign.


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