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Proposal: Community-Led Protection Against Climate Change-Induced Water Shortages
Community-Led Protection Against Climate Change-Induced Water Shortages by AJAASSPIB
AJAASSPIB is an association of community water boards that directly engages communities in activities related to climate change adaption.
AJAASSPIB, created in 2003, is an association of 28 community water management boards that currently protects 14 forested water sources in the vicinity of the city of Olanchito, Honduras. These boards originated as a way to protect communities from water shortages after damage from Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Our mission is to actively engage communities in the sustainable management of forest resources to ensure clean and reliable water provision. We accomplish this through the development of microwatershed management plans, establishment of water user fees, educational activities such as the creation of 3-D microwatershed models, reforestation of degraded areas around important water sources, and installation of fuel-efficient stoves in homes to reduce fuel wood consumption.
These communities have 1,713 subscribers (members) who pay monthly fees for the management of their water sources, benefiting an overall population of 11,771 people. We have earned prestige at the national and international stage, participating in 2006 the World Water Forum and being one of 25 recipients of the 2012 UN Equator Prize at the Rio +20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. In 2011, AJAASSPIB, together with its US partner, EcoLogic Development Fund, and the Municipality of Olanchito, signed an agreement to co-execute a strategy to protect the 16,000 acre Uchapa-Pimienta subwatershed, which supplies water to more than 80,000 people, and associated microwatersheds.
This prize would be used to carry out three main objectives: 1) construction of a new nursery used to reforest a degraded area around a microwatershed that supplies water to the member communities of San Dimas and San Gerónimo; 2) Construct 30 new fuel-efficient stoves for families; and 3) continue an environmental awareness campaign for water users in Olanchito to ensure that residents understand both the origins of their water and the importance of protecting these water sources.
Each of these objectives has the general goal of setting in place long-term strategies to conserve, protect, and reduce pressure on the forested water sources that communities rely on for their drinking water. Additionally, the purpose of actively engaging these communities in these strategies is to educate them on issues related to climate change, environmental conservation, and natural resource management. This engagement ensures that they understand the effects of certain human actions on the health and availability of the resources they rely upon for their livelihoods.
Objective 1 –This objective seeks to put in place a series of actions that guarantees long-term access to clean and consistently flowing drinking water for two member-communities who do not currently have a strategy in place. Maintaining healthy forest cover around these microwatersheds also helps to reduce the risk of prolonged droughts and water shortages in these communities. The other component of this strategy involves the local water boards establishing environmental funds in which small monthly water user fees are to be paid by residents that help cover the costs associated with continued management of these water sources. The detailed activities for this objective are the following:
Activity 1.1: Community members construct a new community forest nursery to grow 12,000 trees that will later be reforested around a key microwatershed used by the communities of San Dimas and San Gerónimo.
Activity 1.2: Community members from five communities actively participate in the reforestation of mature saplings, monitoring, and taking inventory of the tree populations around the microwatershed
Activity 1.3: Community members participate in community meetings, the design and creation of 3-D watershed models, and field visits to the watershed areas.
Activity 1.4: Establish an environmental fund for each of these two communities in which residents pay monthly fees to their local water boards to protect and manage their watersheds and guarantee consistent flow and clean drinking water. Training workshops will also be conducted on the use of environmental funds.
Objective 2 –Traditionally, rural families in this region use open-pit fires, which demand a large amount and frequent extraction of fuel wood from the forest. This causes significant deforestation and thereby places tremendous pressure on forested water sources. The installation of fuel-efficient stoves in homes within these communities will help mitigate this problem. Beneficiary families are generally selected based on their need, but also their consistency of monthly water user fee payments.
Main activities for this objective include:
Activity 2.1: Convening a community meeting and interview process to evaluate and determine stove recipient families.
Activity 2.2: Building and installing fuel-efficient stoves for 30 families in the communities of San Dimas and San Gerónimo.
Activity 2.3: Training the families on the proper use, maintenance and benefits of the stoves so they can become self-sufficient in the future.
Activity 2.4: Monitoring the use of the stoves and providing technical assistance as needed.
Objective 3 – For several years now, we have been carrying out an awareness campaign in the City of Olanchito to educate local residents about the importance of preserving the Uchapa-Pimienta subwatershed for their drinking water and other uses. This campaign includes strategies such as passing out stickers and pamphlets in highly-trafficked areas, providing training and workshops for communities, and implementing an educational program for youth that includes activities such as designing 3-D models of microwatersheds.
Activity 3.1: Designing and publishing educational materials such as informational pamphlets and stickers. Pass out at least 100 stickers and 2000 informational packets to residents in targeted areas of Olanchito so as to increase the overall percentage of residents in the municipality that have been provided information that helps them properly understand the issues surrounding the Uchapa and Pimienta watershed.
Activity 3.2: Forming a space for dialogue with representatives of the municipality Olanchito, and other local actors by convening at least four community meetings and assemblies. Ensuring that at least ten key local actors participate in a monthly roundtable discussion throughout the year.
We believe that this project has a strong correlation with climate change adaptation needs in the Central American region. Apart from long-term projections of higher temperatures and increased occurrences of extreme weather conditions, climate change threatens water security in many developing countries such as Honduras where water stress is already high. In rural Honduras, only a third of water delivery systems provide continual service and less than 14% deliver potable water. Deforestation and the degradation of rivers, caused primarily by unsustainable agricultural practices and the expansion of pastoral land use, have caused extensive water contamination and unreliable flow, thus compromising the health and food security of rural villagers.
In 1998, Hurricane Mitch caused massive damage to communities in this region. According to a report by the Inter-American Development Bank from 2004, widespread flooding occurred largely because degraded land from slash-and-burn agriculture meant the forests could not absorb any moisture. Weather events such as extreme hurricanes are expected to increase in frequency as a result of climate change. Therefore, it is imperative that rural region of developing countries that rely on smallholder agriculture and forested water sources for their livelihoods, and are already vulnerable to the effects of climate change, put in place comprehensive strategies that protect their food and water security.
According to the UN Water's policy brief, Climate Change Adaptation: The Pivotal Role of Water (http://www.unwater.org/downloads/unw_ccpol_web.pdf), long-term sustainable adaptation to climate change will require integration of infrastructure, policy, and economic instruments, as well as behavioral changes. Furthermore, it states that developing countries like Honduras often have limited access to effective funding mechanisms for coordinated national climate change adaptation strategies. We believe that effective climate change adaptation in developing countries like Honduras requires local leadership and bottom-up solutions. The work of AJAASSPIB and our member communities is a strong example of this in that it provides immediate advantages to local and regional residents, but also has the potential to inspire replication of the approach in other locations, as well as at the national level.
The work we are carrying out promotes behavioral changes among local residents, mainly through the environmental awareness campaign for water users in Olanchito. Additionally, the establishment of environmental funds for individual communities to manage water sources and community involvement in reforestation of degraded watershed areas supports generating behavior change among residents by allowing them to understand the livelihood implications of proper versus improper management of their resources. The agreement between the Municipality of Olanchito and AJAASSPIB to commit financial resources to managing the most vital watershed to the municipality represents an effective mechanism to properly fund water management within user communities, while also attaining commitment from all sides to 'buy in' to ensuring the health of their water sources.
Lastly, agriculture is quite prevalent in this region of Honduras and a major source of livelihood. However, it is also a major contributor to deforestation and degradation of water sources and also highly susceptible to the effects of climate change due to the low latitude and semi-arid climate of this region. By implementing watershed management strategies at the local level, which include reforestation of degraded areas and decreasing deforestation levels through installation of fuel-efficient cookstoves, we are working to ensure long-term health of water sources while simultaneously supporting the long-term viability of agriculture to provide food and serve as a source of income for many in the region.
Beyond the local focus of our work, we also envision several medium to long-term strategies that will involve engaging other community development organizations and local and municipal governments to implement more concerted and coordinated climate change adaptation efforts across common landscapes. For example, our US-based partner, EcoLogic Development Fund, also works with a community development organization on the northern end of Pico Bonito National Park, in Yoro and Atlántida Departments, called the Alliance of Municipalities of Atlántida (MAMUCA). This group implements similar climate change adaptation strategies, such as community watershed management plans and fuel-efficient cookstove installation, but also trains and supports farmers in conversation to agroforestry techniques to mitigate the extensive deforestation and pressure on water sources caused by traditional migratory agriculture.
We have in recent years conducted learning exchanges with MAMUCA. However, we also see an opportunity to develop, along with our respective municipal governments, a broader region-wide strategy to conserve and manage the major water sources in the region, many of which are located within the Pico Bonito National Park area. This would recognize that many of the causes of water shortages and contamination, as well as the effects of climate change, are shared by communities across this region. These strategies would potentially include the following:
· Conservation and protection of approximately 235,000 acres of diverse tropical forests of Pico Bonito National Park.
· Engaging other community groups in the region to help expand the environmental awareness campaign for water uses beyond Olanchito and the Uchapa-Pimienta subwatershed. This would involve identifying major water sources in other municipalities and providing community groups in those areas with the training and materials needed to engage in similar campaigns.
· Learning exchanges and demonstrations led by representatives of AJAASSPIB for other peer groups in the region about how to implement Environmental Funds for their respective communities.
· Learning exchanges and assemblies led by representatives of AJAASSPIB and the Municipality of Olanchito for other municipalities in the region on the topic of creating partnerships to manage priority water sources.
· The formation of an alliance for the Pico Bonito Region Landscape with MAMUCA, Olanchito, and AJAASSPIB playing lead roles that would include a commitment to oversee the sustainable coordination of up to 1.2 million acres, including both standing forests and areas under sustainable productive use such as agroforestry and sustainable grazing.
In the event that the medium-to-long-term strategies outlined above were chosen to be implemented as an extension of AJAASSPIB's climate change adaptation strategy, the budget would be adjusted accordingly. Mainly, the focus of our budget and fundraising efforts would shift from implementation toward allocating more money specifically towards efforts to strengthen and broaden the environmental awareness campaign beyond Olanchito, train communities on the implementation of Environmental Funds, nursery management, and watershed management, and transportation costs for materials and for personnel from AJAASSPIB and the Municipality of Olanchito to carry out trainings and exchanges.
The direct execution of these activities will be led by the water boards associated with San Dima and San Gerónimo, with active participation at all stages by community members. Oversight and administration of all necessary technical and financial resources for all of these activities will be supported by the AJAASSPIB Board of Directors. The community participants will include men, women, and children. The nursery and improved stoves will be built in the beneficiary communities in partnership with the families receiving the stoves. A major requirement for a family receiving a stove is that each of these families agrees to reforest at least 50 trees as part of the microwatershed reforestation efforts. This ensures that not only are they reducing their overall consumption of fuel wood by using a fuel-efficient stove, but also directly helping to preserve the health of their principal drinking water source.
It is also important to note that EcoLogic Development Fund, an NGO based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has worked with us since 2007 on many of our community-led water management and forest conservation initiatives. EcoLogic offers both financial and technical support for these activities.
The beneficiary communities of this project are located in the Aguan River Valley just south of Pico Bonito National Park, the second largest park in Honduras. They live in a particularly dry region with minimal economic opportunity – average annual family incomes here are 25% less than the national average. Even though a number of successful examples of watershed conservation have emerged in Honduras over the past decade, political instability has largely resulted in a lack of a coherent national strategy and policy framework to support these localized efforts and address the sustainability of water resources.
The Aguán Valley, surrounding the town of Olanchito, Yoro, Honduras, is a plateau that depends on a main tributary of the river for agricultural and livestock activities. However, the majority of drinking water originates from within Pico Bonito National Park, which has 264,000 acres of rich biodiversity, but also happens to be the largest reservoir of water sources in Caribbean Honduras.
The communities of San Dimas and San Gerónimo are located in the eastern sector of the municipality of Olanchito, Yoro, Honduras in an area of dry tropical forest. The forest nursery and fuel-efficient stoves will be constructed in a central area of these two communities.
Microwatershed conservation is valuable for much more than just the provision of water. It ensures that participating communities gain the technical capacity, motivation, and sense of empowerment and ownership vital to conserving and restoring the forest area which is impacted by their daily activities. Additionally, strengthening local water boards and implementing water user fees has the benefit of directly engaging local residents in guaranteeing access to clean, safe drinking water, educating them on the source of their water and the importance of healthy forests, and forcing them to place a greater value on the availability of that water rather than taking it for granted. Lastly, our agreement with the Municipality of Olanchito to manage the Uchapa-Pimienta subwatershed offers a significant model for sustainable conservation and development at the regional level. It demonstrates that authorities are realizing more than ever before the economic value of their forests.
The costs associated with this proposal are the following:
1 - Construction of nurseries, planting of seedlings, materials for awareness campaign, and monitoring and evaluation.
2 - Construction of fuel-efficient stoves
3 - Transport of materials for fuel-efficient stoves
4 - Travel costs for AJASSPIB Project technician
5 - Administrative costs
Assuming that these activities will be conducted from January through December 2014, the schedule for specific project activities is the following:
Objective 1: The new community tree nursery will be constructed in January and tree saplings will be grown from February through April. During these months, community members will also be trained on nursery management, transplanting trees, and monitoring and evaluation. Saplings will be reforested in degraded microwatershed areas during May and June. Monitoring of these reforested areas will be conducted on a monthly basis from June through December. Creation of 3-D watershed models will be done in June for the purpose of youth being able to take an accurate picture of the microwatersheds to incorporate in their models. The establishment of Environmental Funds and negotiation over water user fees will occur during the summer months after reforestation of degraded areas around the microwatershed has taken place.
Objective 2: January will be used to identify stove beneficiary families based on their consistency of monthly water fee payments and their willingness to participate in reforestation activities. Trainings on stove benefits and proper stove use and maintenance will occur in February after recipients are selected and immediately following construction and installation of the stoves, which generally occurs in August and September, as this time of year generally works well in terms of weather and availability of contractors.
Objective 3: January will be used to plan out the specific activities related to that year's environmental awareness campaign for the city of Olanchito. From February through May we will carry out a series of environmental awareness workshops and roundtable discussions for various community groups. Outreach efforts, including handing out fliers and sticker campaigns will occur throughout the course of the year in highly trafficked areas.
EcoLogic Development Fund, our long-time US partner, has also submitted a proposal for the Agriculture and Forestry contest to support their work in Honduras and Guatemala with implementation of an agroforestry technique with smallholder farmers known as 'alley-cropping with Inga edulis trees.'
Specific to this contest, the proposal, Steps to an Ecology of Mind-Climate Change Impact/Adaptation Strategy in Africa, (https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/19/planId/1300024), has a similar theme to our proposal. Rural communities in Africa and in Central America often are some of the most minor contributors to climate change, yet have been repeatedly adapting to its effects for many decades. The authors of this proposal, like us, see the importance of educating local communities and civil society actors on how to respond to and protect themselves from the effects of climate change at the community level in the decades to come.
http://www.resourceaward.org/node/120
http://www.hn.undp.org/content/honduras/es/home/presscenter/articles/2013/04/22/en-el-d-a-de-la-tierra-reconocen-labor-de-juntas-de-agua-de-pico-bonito-por-proteger-el-colibr-esmeralda.html
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDABX032.pdf
http://www.rff.org/Publications/Resources/Pages/180-Rural-Water.aspx
http://www.unwater.org/downloads/unw_ccpol_web.pdf
Community-Led Protection Against Climate Change-Induced Water Shortages
By: AJAASSPIB


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Pilottone (or Pilotone) and the related neo-pilottone are special synchronization signals recorded by analog audio recorders designed for use in motion picture production, to keep sound and vision recorded on separate media in step. Before the adoption of timecode by the motion picture industry in the late 1980s, pilottone-sync was the basis of all professional magnetic motion picture sound recording systems, whereas most amateur film formats used pre-striped magnetic coating on the film itself for live-sound recording.

History

According to Carsten Diercks, camera operator and filmmaker at West-German Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) during the 1950s, pilottone was invented at the NWDR studio in Hamburg-Lokstedt, West Germany by NWDR technical engineer Adalbert Lohmann and his assistant Udo Stepputat in the early 1950s for single-camera 16mm TV news gathering and documentaries. The first program featuring the use of pilottone was the documentary Musuri - Es geht aufwärts am Kongo ("Musuri: Upstream/progress at the Congo"), shot in early 1954 in Africa and first broadcast on ARD on March 31, 1954. The new technology required new editing suites, and Musuri camera operator Diercks turned to a small nearby 6-man workshop named Steenbeck. The subsequent success of priorly shunned 16mm for TV program gathering facilitated by the pilotone system turned Steenbeck into a multinational corporation.

Neo-pilottone was invented in 1957 by Stefan Kudelski with the Nagra III tape recorder.

The new technology of pilottone was brought to international attention by its use by Richard Leacock, former cameraman of filmmaker Robert Flaherty, in his documentary feature Primary (1960), documenting the competing Democratic presidential nominee candidates Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy. Diercks himself helped the spread of pilottone in the USA when he was the only Western reporter allowed to shoot in Havana during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961. CBS secured the licensing rights to Diercks's material via Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR had split in 1956 into NDR and WDR), and brought it on air on May 14, 1961, ten days prior to the German broadcast of the same material. At a time when North-American TV program gathering was dominated by either Movietone (see also Movietone News) or magnetic pre-striping for live-sound recording, and the use of pilottone was still unheard of, according to Diercks the US TV networks were impressed with the system demonstrated by the 60-minute documentary feature.

Technology

The synchronization is obtained when a pulse cable is connected from Motion picture camera to an audio recorder such as those made by Nagra. A camera with a Sync motor sends a 60/50 Hz signal to the recorder, which is recorded as a sine wave pilot tone.

The recorder has a double recording head, similar to a two-track recorder. Each of the two cores of the recording head records both the audio signal, and the pilot tone. The audio signal to be recorded is applied identically to both cores of the recording head, and the pilot tone sine wave is applied in a push-pull arrangement (180 degrees out-of-phase).

Unlike the recording head, the playback head has a single core.  The playback head gap covers both of the tracks created by the record head. The magnetic field changes across the width of the gap are effectively added in the playback head, so the playback head reproduces the audio signal, which is the same in both tracks. But the pilot tone cancels itself in the playback head: at a point on the tape where it has a certain intensity on the upper track, it has the opposite intensity on the lower track, and so always sums to zero.

On playback, the record head is used as a push-pull playback head in order to reproduce the pilot tone. All speed variations of the camera and tape can be detected as deviations from 60/50 Hz, and compared at the time of playback with in built quartz reference oscillator. For cinematic audio, speed variations are rectified (resolved) at the time of transfer to the perforated 35mm/16mm audio tape. At that time the mains power supply frequency is also taken as reference. (The selection of the 60/50 Hz equipment depends on the power supply in the country where filming is being conducted. North America has a supply of 60 Hz whereas Europe and some Asian countries have 50 Hz.)

Normal audio tape recorders have good regulation of tape speed, but not sufficiently precise to guarantee that a playback machine will exactly match the speed of the recorder over long periods of time. Such a system would need to record exactly how much tape passes the head in such an amount of time, and would have to be accurate to a quarter inch after 800 feet or more. Pilottone provides such a system.

When the tape is played back on a pilottone-reading tape player, it needs to only resolve the pilottone signal on the tape. The player has a quartz oscillator of its own, and when the operator hits play, the player tries to match the sine wave of the recorded pilottone with the pilottone being generated by its own quartz crystal.  When they match up, the player knows that the tape is moving across its play head exactly as fast as it was across the record head when it was originally recorded.

Obsolescence
The pilottone system became obsolete in the 1980s when the virtually universal use of crystal controlled motors on cameras, and crystal controlled digital frequency sampling on audio recorders assured accurate synchronization of picture and sound.

With the speed of both camera and recorder free of significant variation there is no longer a need for a synchronization cable to connect them. This has made the work of a sound technician much simpler. It also allows more freedom of camera movement during filming.

Also, the use of SMPTE time code on source recordings simplifies finding match points in post production between picture and audio in both the film and television worlds.

See also
Cinéma vérité
Direct Cinema
Pilot signal

References

External links
Interview with pilottone pioneer Carsten Diercks (3:17 min, RealMedia; in German), with excerpts from Musuri - Es geht aufwärts am Kongo (1954), world's first use of pilottone
Small illustrated biography of Carsten Diercks at Filmmuseum Hamburg (in German)

Film and video technology
Synchronization

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A: check out array_unique. You may call it before the loop, to get array with the unique items. If you can't use it, than you have to build a hash inside the loop, to check if the item was already processed or not:
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A: As an alternative, you could create a container which will hold the ids, then check inside the loop if its not yet in there, push it inside.
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If this resultant array came from a SELECT statement, consider using a DISTINCT clause instead.

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Emclaire Financial Corp Reports Fourth Quarter and Annual Earnings for 2018; Announces Annual Meeting Date
GlobeNewswire• February 5, 2019
EMLENTON, Pa., Feb. 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emclaire Financial Corp (EMCF), the parent holding company of The Farmers National Bank of Emlenton, reported consolidated net income available to common stockholders of $4.1 million, or $1.72 per diluted common share, for the year ended December 31, 2018, a decrease of $157,000, or 3.7%, from $4.3 million, or $1.93 per diluted common share, reported for 2017. The decrease in net income was the direct result of $3.6 million in costs recognized in connection with the acquisition of Community First Bancorp, Inc. (Community First) which was completed on October 1, 2018. The decrease in earnings per common share was due to the decrease in net income available to common shareholders and additional common shares issued in connection with the acquisition.
William C. Marsh, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and the Bank, noted, "The Board of Directors, management and I are pleased with the core operating results, considerable balance sheet growth and successful acquisition of Community First in 2018. The acquisition of Community First created a combined bank with approximately $900 million in total assets offering services through 20 locations, strengthened our market position in Clarion and Jefferson counties and built a stronger franchise in the Western Pennsylvania region. Although the acquisition resulted in substantial non-recurring costs and a decrease in net income for 2018, we view these costs as an investment and believe this combination has positioned us for significant future earnings growth. We remain focused on sustaining a sound capital base while providing an attractive return to our shareholders."
2018 OPERATING RESULTS OVERVIEW
Net income available to common stockholders decreased $157,000, or 3.7%, to $4.1 million, or $1.72 per diluted common share, for the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to net income of $4.3 million, or $1.93 per diluted common share, for 2017. The decrease resulted from a $814,000 decrease in noninterest income and increases in the provision for loan losses, noninterest expense and preferred stock dividends of $377,000, $4.0 million and $91,000, respectively, partially offset by a $3.7 million increase in net interest income and a $1.5 million decrease in the provision for income taxes.
Net interest income increased $3.7 million, or 16.8%, to $25.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2018 from $21.9 million for 2017. The increase in net interest income resulted from an increase in interest income of $4.6 million, or 17.3%, as the Corporation experienced a $66.6 million increase in the average balance of loans outstanding. Partially offsetting the increase in interest income, interest expense increased $893,000, or 19.9%, as the Corporation's average balance of interest-bearing deposits increased $66.7 million, partially offset by a $16.3 million decrease in the average balance of borrowed funds. The increases in the Corporation's loans and interest-bearing deposit balances resulted from strong production across the Bank's franchise, the third quarter 2017 acquisition of Northern Hancock Bank and Trust Co. (NHBT) and the fourth quarter 2018 acquisition of Community First.
The provision for loan losses increased $377,000, or 41.8%, to $1.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2018 from $903,000 in 2017 due to general increases in the Corporation's loan portfolio.
Noninterest income decreased $814,000, or 16.2%, to $4.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2018 from $5.0 million in 2017. During 2017, the Corporation recorded a $1.3 million bargain purchase gain related to the acquisition of NHBT. During the same period, the Corporation recorded a $508,000 other-than-temporary impairment charge on a subordinated debt investment issued by First NBC Bank Holding Company. Partially offsetting the impairment charge, the Corporation realized securities gains of $346,000 during 2017, compared to $433,000 during 2018. Fee and service charges increased $282,000 as overdraft charges for the year ended December 31, 2018 outpaced the prior year.
Noninterest expense increased $4.0 million, or 20.5%, to $23.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2018 from $19.6 million in 2017. The increase primarily related to increases in acquisition costs, compensation and benefits expense, occupancy and equipment expense and professional fees of $2.5 million, $1.1 million, $190,000 and $128,000, respectively. Acquisition costs incurred during 2018 related to the acquisition of Community First and totaled $3.6 million, compared to acquisition costs of $1.1 million incurred during 2017 related to the acquisition of NHBT. The increase in compensation and benefits expense related to costs associated with the operation of the new full-service banking offices which were acquired from NHBT and Community First, increased health insurance costs and normal salary and benefit increases.
The provision for income taxes decreased $1.5 million, or 70.1%, to $633,000 for the year ended December 31, 2018 from $2.1 million in 2017 as a result of the decrease in net income before provision for income taxes and the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) which decreased the 2018 corporate tax rate to a flat 21% from a maximum of 35%. During 2017, the Corporation reduced the value of its deferred tax assets by $827,000 and recorded an additional income tax expense as a result of the TCJA.
FOURTH QUARTER OPERATING RESULTS OVERVIEW
Net income available to common stockholders decreased $389,000, or 67.7%, to $185,000, or $0.07 per common share, for the three months ended December 31, 2018, compared to $574,000, or $0.25 per common share, for the same period in 2017. The decrease resulted from increases in the provision for loan losses, noninterest expense and preferred stock dividends of $30,000, $3.2 million and $91,000, respectively, partially offset by increases in net interest income and noninterest income of $1.5 million and $176,000, respectively, and a $1.2 million decrease in the provision for income taxes. Included in noninterest expense for the three months ended December 31, 2018 were costs of $2.6 million related to the acquisition of Community First. Further increasing noninterest expense were costs associated with operating the three new full-service banking offices.
The increase in net interest income in the fourth quarter of 2018 resulted from a $2.0 million increase in interest income due to higher average balances of loans outstanding, partially offset by a $407,000 increase in interest expense due to higher average balances of interest-bearing deposits. The increase in noninterest income resulted primarily from an increase in securities gains. The decrease in the provision for income taxes resulted from lower net income before provision for income taxes and the impact of the TCJA.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET & ASSET QUALITY OVERVIEW
Total assets increased $148.7 million, or 19.8%, to $898.8 million at December 31, 2018 from $750.1 million at December 31, 2017. Asset growth was driven by an increase in net loans receivable of $130.9 million. Liabilities increased $127.9 million, or 18.5%, to $818.9 million at December 31, 2018 from $691.0 million at December 31, 2017 due to increases in customer deposits and borrowed funds of $106.9 million and $19.4 million, respectively. The Corporation added approximately $111.6 million in loans and $106.5 million in deposits through the acquisition of Community First.
Total nonperforming assets decreased $443,000 to $3.7 million, or 0.42% of total assets at December 31, 2018, compared to $4.2 million, or 0.56% of total assets at December 31, 2017.
Stockholders' equity increased $20.8 million, or 35.2%, to $79.9 million at December 31, 2018 from $59.1 million at December 31, 2017 primarily due to $15.6 million of common stock and $4.1 million of preferred stock issued in connection with the acquisition of Community First. Additionally, retained earnings increased $1.6 million primarily as a result of $4.2 million of net income, partially offset by $2.7 million of common dividends paid and $91,000 of preferred dividends paid. Partially offsetting these increases, accumulated other comprehensive income decreased $839,000. The Corporation remains well capitalized and is positioned for continued growth with total stockholders' equity at 8.9% of total assets. Book value per common share was $28.09 at December 31, 2018, compared to $26.02 at December 31, 2017.
In addition to reporting earnings, the Corporation announced that the annual meeting of shareholders will be held Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. at the main office of The Farmers National Bank of Emlenton, in Emlenton, Pennsylvania. The voting record date for the purpose of determining shareholders eligible to vote on proposals presented at the annual meeting will be March 1, 2019.
Emclaire Financial Corp is the parent company of The Farmers National Bank of Emlenton, an independent, nationally chartered, FDIC-insured community bank headquartered in Emlenton, Pennsylvania, operating 20 full service banking offices in Venango, Allegheny, Butler, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Jefferson and Mercer counties, Pennsylvania and Hancock County, West Virginia. The Corporation's common stock is quoted on and traded through the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "EMCF". For more information, visit the Corporation's website at "www.emclairefinancial.com".
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Consolidated Financial Highlights
(Unaudited - Dollar amounts in thousands, except share data)
CONSOLIDATED OPERATING RESULTS DATA: Three month period Year ended
ended December 31, December 31,
Interest income $ 9,067 $ 7,111 $ 30,962 $ 26,400
Interest expense 1,669 1,262 5,386 4,493
Net interest income 7,398 5,849 25,576 21,907
Provision for loan losses 300 270 1,280 903
Noninterest income 1,200 1,024 4,208 5,022
Noninterest expense 8,124 4,894 23,660 19,635
Income before provision for income taxes 174 1,709 4,844 6,391
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes (102 ) 1,135 633 2,114
Net income 276 574 4,211 4,277
Preferred stock dividends 91 - 91 -
Net income available to common stockholders $ 185 $ 574 $ 4,120 $ 4,277
Basic earnings per common share $ 0.07 $ 0.25 $ 1.73 $ 1.95
Diluted earnings per common share $ 0.07 $ 0.25 $ 1.72 $ 1.93
Dividends per common share $ 0.28 $ 0.27 $ 1.12 $ 1.08
Return on average assets (1) 0.12 % 0.30 % 0.53 % 0.59 %
Return on average equity (1) 1.39 % 3.80 % 6.56 % 7.52 %
Return on average common equity (1) 0.99 % 3.80 % 6.52 % 7.52 %
Yield on average interest-earning assets 4.36 % 4.02 % 4.19 % 3.95 %
Cost of average interest-bearing liabilities 1.01 % 0.88 % 0.92 % 0.84 %
Cost of funds 0.82 % 0.72 % 0.75 % 0.68 %
Net interest margin 3.56 % 3.32 % 3.47 % 3.29 %
Efficiency ratio 98.54 % 68.83 % 79.15 % 71.49 %
(1) Returns are annualized for the three month periods ended December 31, 2018 and 2017.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET DATA: As of As of
Total assets $ 898,780 $ 750,084
Cash and equivalents 17,693 14,374
Securities 97,725 101,167
Loans, net 708,664 577,738
Deposits 761,546 654,643
Borrowed funds 45,350 26,000
Common stockholders' equity 75,802 59,091
Stockholders' equity 79,913 59,091
Book value per common share $ 28.09 $ 26.02
Net loans to deposits 93.06 % 88.25 %
Allowance for loan losses to total loans 0.91 % 1.05 %
Nonperforming assets to total assets 0.42 % 0.56 %
Stockholders' equity to total assets 8.89 % 7.88 %
Shares of common stock outstanding 2,698,712 2,271,139
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Charlie Weis Says 'I'm Going To Be Here For Five Years' As Kansas Jayhawks Head Coach
By Matt Conner Dec 18, 2011, 1:09pm CST
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Charlie Weis was a surprising hire for the Kansas Jayhawks as Turner Gill's replacement for several reasons, but perhaps the most cited has to do with his penchant for leaving. He was the offensive coordinator for Will Muschamp's Florida Gators this year. He held the same position with the Kansas City Chiefs before that. He was the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish before that.
That's quite a record for a guy now making his fourth stop in four years. Yet Weis insisted in a recent interview with Bob Fescoe that he's here to stay a while. "It's going to be a quick stop. It's going to be five years. That's the quick stop. I'm going to be here for five years, because my wife and I had planned for me to be working at Florida for the next five years and then try to be put in a situation where we can walk away. … What we're going to do here is we're going to go try to turn this program into a perennial winning program and then try to have it where one of the guys on this coaching staff takes over."
KU fans can only hope Weis lasts that long — not only for the sake of longevity but it also means things are going well in Lawrence.
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Evacuees from Lucerne, from left, Ken Bennett with Ember Reynolds, 8, and Lisa Reynolds watch the sunset as smoke from the Ranch Fire rises into the sky at Austin Park Beach in California's Clearlake with Mount Konocti in the background. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP)
Battling 18 blazes, California may face worst fire season
August 08, 2018 - 12:42 pm
LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) — The largest wildfire ever recorded in California needed just 11 days to blacken an area nearly the size of Los Angeles — and it's only one of many enormous blazes that could make this the worst fire season in state history.
Some 14,000 firefighters from as far away as Florida and even New Zealand are struggling to curb 18 fires in the midst of a sweltering summer that has seen wind-whipped flames carve their way through national forest land and rural areas, threaten urban areas and incinerate neighborhoods.
"For whatever reason, fires are burning much more intensely, much more quickly than they were before," said Mark A. Hartwig, president of the California Fire Chiefs Association.
California is seeing earlier, longer and more destructive wildfire seasons because of drought, warmer weather attributed to climate change and home construction deeper into the forests.
Some of the largest fires have erupted just within the past few weeks as the state has seen record-setting temperatures — and the historically worst months of wildfire season are still to come.
In Southern California, a smoky forest fire raged Wednesday in mostly unoccupied land — but firefighting crews were concerned the flames could race down hillsides toward foothill communities.
The blaze churning through the Cleveland National Forest south of Los Angeles is just 5 percent contained.
Flames that erupted Monday have blackened nearly 6-and-a-half square miles (17 square kilometers) of dry brush and timber. Several cabins have burned and two rural canyons and some campgrounds have been evacuated.
In Northern California, the record-setting Mendocino Complex — twin fires being fought as a single conflagration — gained ground Wednesday but more slowly because its own smoke covered the area and lowered the temperature, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The flames, which had burned 470 square miles (1,217 square kilometers), were raging in mostly remote areas but 116 homes were destroyed. Two firefighters have been injured.
Fire crews expect to gain control of the massive blaze in September, the state forestry and fire protection agency said.
The blaze that broke out July 27 initially spread quickly because of what officials said was a perfect combination of weather, rugged topography and abundant brush and timber turned to tinder by years of drought.
Resources also were thin at first because thousands of firefighters already were battling a fire hundreds of miles north. That fire, which spread into the city of Redding, killed six people and destroyed more than 1,000 homes. The so-called Carr Fire was less than half contained.
In becoming the biggest fire in California history, the Mendocino Complex fire broke a record set just eight months ago. A blaze in Southern California in December killed two people, burned 440 square miles (1,140 square kilometers) and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings.
California's firefighting costs have more than tripled from $242 million in the 2013 fiscal year to $773 million in the 2018 fiscal year that ended June 30, according to Cal Fire.
"We're in uncharted territory," Gov. Jerry Brown warned last week. "Since civilization emerged 10,000 years ago, we haven't had this kind of heat condition, and it's going to continue getting worse. That's the way it is."
Associated Press writers Don Thompson in Sacramento, California, and Lorin Eleni Gill and Olga Rodriguez in San Francisco also contributed to this report.
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Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino ist ein deutscher Kriegsfilm des Regisseurs Harald Reinl aus dem Jahr 1958.

Handlung
Die 1. Fallschirmjäger-Division wird über Avignon abgesetzt. Einige Soldaten verletzen sich beim Absprung, darunter auch der Oberjäger Karl Christiansen. Er ist früher Fähnrich gewesen und wurde degradiert, als er sich weigerte, einen feindlichen Soldaten zu exekutieren. Im Lazarett verarztet ihn Schwester Inge, und beide verlieben sich ineinander. Auch Oberleutnant Reiter hat ein Auge auf Inge geworfen. Inge und die Soldaten trennen sich, als die Division überraschend nach Cassino verlegt wird. Hier soll sie helfen, den alliierten Angriff abzuwehren. Zudem soll die Stellung so lange wie möglich gehalten werden. Das Kloster Montecassino soll jedoch von jeglichen Kampfhandlungen verschont werden. Die italienischen Einwohner der Stadt suchen im Kloster Schutz, und Inge, die inzwischen auch nach Cassino versetzt wurde, versorgt die Menschen medizinisch. Dabei wird sie von der Italienerin Gina als Deutsche beschimpft. Pater Emmanuel beruhigt die Gemüter und zeigt Inge wenig später die Kunstschätze, die zur Sicherheit aus Museen ins Kloster gebracht wurden. Inge berichtet Oberstleutnant Schlegel von den Kunstwerken, und der ist entsetzt, weil er die Kunstwerke im Kloster für nicht sicher hält. Eigentlich dürfte Schlegel aus gesundheitlichen Gründen nach Hause fahren, doch er entscheidet sich, an der Front zu bleiben. Er will die Kunstschätze in den Vatikan bringen lassen und so retten.

Es gelingt ihm, den Erzabt von der Notwendigkeit des Abtransports der Kunstwerke zu überzeugen. Heimlich zweigt er LKWs zum Transport der Schätze ab, die eigentlich im Kriegsgeschehen gebraucht werden. Auch Soldaten zieht er von der Verteidigung der Stellung ab, damit sie beim Kunsttransport behilflich sein können. Bald erfahren die Alliierten vom Treiben und geben im Radio durch, dass die Deutschen das Kloster Montecassino plündern. Die Partisanen gehen nun in Stellung, und Schlegels Vorgesetzter General Heidenreich lässt Schlegel zu sich kommen. Auf dessen Handeln steht eigentlich die Todesstrafe, doch kann Schlegel Heidenreich von der Notwendigkeit seines Tuns überzeugen. Mehr Männer und LKWs werden zur Rettung der Kunstwerke abgestellt. Reiter hat im Lazarett Inge wiedergesehen, jedoch erkannt, dass sie nur Karl liebt. Er teilt Karl daher als einen von fünf Männern ein, die den gefährlichen Transport der Kunstschätze begleiten sollen. Auch Inge nimmt am Transport teil, da sie im Vatikan Medikamentennachschub für das Lazarett beschaffen soll. Im LKW treffen sich Inge und Karl wieder.

In der Nacht hat Reiter in seinem Schlafzimmer die junge Gina überrascht. Das von den Deutschen beschlagnahmte Haus gehörte früher ihr. Im Auftrag der Partisanen soll sie aus ihrem Schlafzimmer ein Gewehr holen. Als Reiter sie beim Einsteigen ins Zimmer überrascht, greift sie nach einer Kaffeemühle, doch bleibt Reiter misstrauisch. Gina verführt ihn. Am Morgen jedoch durchsucht Reiter den Schrank, aus dem Gina die Kaffeemühle genommen hatte, und findet darin das Gewehr. Sofort alarmiert er seine Männer, und sie kommen gerade rechtzeitig, um den Angriff der Partisanen auf den Kunsttransport zu vereiteln. Dennoch sterben zwei von Reiters Männern. Der Italiener Fausto, ein Freund Ginas, wird gefangen genommen, und Karl soll ihn erschießen. Er täuscht die Erschießung jedoch nur vor und lässt ihn stattdessen laufen. Nur dadurch erreicht der Zug mit den letzten Kunstschätzen schließlich unbeschadet den Vatikan.

Wenig später, am 15. Februar 1944, wird das Kloster Montecassino bei Bombenangriffen zerstört. Inge und Karl kommen kurze Zeit später mit Reiter und seinen Männern zum Kloster, um die Verwundeten zu versorgen und die Stellung zu halten. Als Reiter zum Kommandeur eines entfernt liegenden Bataillons ernannt wird und zu diesem gelangen will, wird er von amerikanischen Soldaten erschossen. Der Kampf um das Kloster geht weiter. Ein Gräberfeld zeigt am Ende die Verluste auf beiden Seiten. Inge und Karl haben den Krieg überlebt und gehen durch die Grabreihen. Das Kloster Monte Cassino jedoch wurde wiedererrichtet.

Produktion

Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino sollte zunächst unter der Regie von Fernando Cerchio in deutsch-italienischer Koproduktion entstehen. Die italienische Filmproduktionsfirma Transmonde zog sich jedoch unter anderem aus Gründen des Filminhalts vom Projekt zurück. Das Projekt wurde zunächst dem Regisseur Veit Harlan angeboten, der mit dem Thema jedoch unvertraut war und ablehnte. Als neuer Regisseur wurde schließlich Harald Reinl ausgewählt, der 1955 mit Solange du lebst seinen ersten Kriegsfilm gedreht hatte. Statt Felix Lützkendorf verfasste nun Michael Graf Soltikow unter Mitarbeit von J. Joachim Bartsch das Drehbuch, das auf eine Idee von Kinobetreiber Albert Armin Lerche zurückging.

Lerche hatte als Fallschirmjäger an der Schlacht von Monte Cassino teilgenommen. Die dem Film zugrundeliegende Geschichte, in der die Kunstschätze des Klosters Montecassino durch einen Soldaten der Wehrmacht gerettet werden, beruht auf einer wahren Begebenheit: Auf Julius Schlegels Initiative hin wurden im Zweiten Weltkrieg die Kunstschätze des Klosters per Armeelastwagen in die Engelsburg nach Rom evakuiert und so gerettet. Schlegel wird im Film von Ewald Balser dargestellt, das Geschehen selbst wird nur teilweise historisch korrekt wiedergegeben.

Die Dreharbeiten für den Film begannen am 25. November 1957 in Avignon und setzten sich an weiteren Originalschauplätzen fort. Julius Schlegel begleitete zum Teil die Dreharbeiten vor Ort. Da Dreharbeiten auf dem Montecassino nicht möglich waren, wurden die Innenszenen in den Regensburger Klöstern St. Jakob und St. Emmeram gedreht. Weitere Außenaufnahmen entstanden in der Fröttmaninger Heide. Anfang Februar 1958 waren die Dreharbeiten beendet. Neben zeitgenössischen Aufnahmen enthält der Film auch zahlreiche Originalaufnahmen aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, darunter Bilder der Bombardierung des Klosters. Der Film erlebte am 23. April 1958 im Stuttgarter Universum seine Premiere.

Kritik
Die zeitgenössische Kritik stellte fest, dass der Film von der Idee her zwar anerkennenswert sei, wie viele Kriegsfilme der Zeit jedoch "unter einem sehr zweifelhaften Stern" stehe, so lasse das Drehbuch die Geschichte zu einer "geschickt konstruierten Liebes- und Kriegskolportage" werden – "ein sehr oberflächliches Unterfangen, das jede echte Auseinandersetzung vermeidet".

Die Figur des Leutnant Schlegel verkomme "zu einer sterilen Figur" und diene als "Lichtgestalt" des Films vor allem der Rehabilitation deutscher Soldaten. Auch Cinema kritisierte diese Herangehensweise: "Heldenepos mit peinlicher Oberflächlichkeit und historischen Ungenauigkeiten".

Für den film-dienst war Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino "ein Kriegsfilm, der sich um einen gewissen Ernst bemüht, jedoch durch seine peinliche Oberflächlichkeit und historische Ungenauigkeiten verharmlosend wirkt; eine vornehmlich auf Publikumswirkung bedachte bedenkliche Mischung aus Abenteuer und Heldenepos."

Trivia
 Ein Standfoto oder eine Abbildung aus einer Film-Illustrierten der Produktion mit Fuchsberger und Wahl wurde als Titelbild für den Sonderband Nr. 16 der Soldatengeschichten aus aller Welt verwendet: Ferdinand Ludwig (d. i. Claus Katschinski): Monte Cassino. Die Hölle der "Grünen Teufel" (1959).

Literatur
 Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino. In: Kristina Pöschl, Miriam Trescher, Reinhard Weber: Harald Reinl. Der Regisseur, der Winnetou, Edgar Wallace und die Nibelungen ins Kino brachte. Eine Bio- und Filmografie. Reinhard Weber Fachverlag für Filmliteratur, Landshut 2011, ISBN 978-3-9809390-9-6, S. 68–71.

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Through the advertising lens
Ambi M G Parameswaran	November 26, 2016
"While American cultural historian Jackson Lears dismisses advertising as 'the folklore of industrial society', I believe Indian advertising, considering the last few decades, provides not just folklore but also some interesting insights into a society in transition." It is this perception that unfolds in Ambi M G Parameswaran's latest book Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles. In an exclusive interview with The Smart Manager, he talks about how Indian advertising has evolved over the years into a vibrant medium, shaping society and being shaped by it.
Could you give us a broad overview with regard to the context of Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles?
The book Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles looks at the changes in Indian society, over the last fifty years through the advertising lens. We have seen dramatic changes in the way we consume products and services, and this has been wonderfully captured in the advertising we have been subjected to, over the last fifty years. So the book is not a history of Indian advertising, but a view of Indian society and consumer culture through the advertising lens.
Does advertising assume a different colour in the Indian context? Does not the typical Indian consumer's quest for 'value for money' pose a tough challenge?
In one sense, consumers are the same in all parts of the world and you will see some examples of this in the book. But each country and each culture puts its own filters on how we consume products and even advertising. We used to be a country of value-conscious penny pinchers, but that was due to the era of shortages and even famine. But if we are going to see continuous economic growth over the next decade or so, we will see many of these things changing. Having said that, we have seen Indian advertising moving from simple, rational selling (safety of your wife Jo Biwi Se Kare Pyar) to emotional selling to now social selling.
The ad world offers an interesting study of the Indian male—how he has been "transformed into a marketer's dream". Could you elaborate on this?
Indian males have been the focus of a lot of our advertising; from soaps to suitings, from two-wheelers to mobile phones, they have been a key part of the Indian advertising narrative. But there have been several dramatic changes that have happened in the last ten odd years. From depicting men as macho achievers, we are now seeing several products and services pitching to a different side of men. Indian men are now being cajoled into using skin creams and face washes. They are being pushed into using deos and new forms of gents apparel.
'Converting Indian consumers from a commodity mindset to brand mindset.' How difficult has this task been?
The biggest job of advertising is to build brands and brand promise. Indian consumers have been used to buying a lot of products from a commodity mindset. For example, a number of food products are purchased in 'loose' form even today. However, in some categories such as biscuits, we have seen a significant uptake of brands. The secret lies, I believe, in providing an acceptable quality product, at an affordable price, at a nearby locale, and back it with pretty focused advertising. Parle G and Maggi Noodles are great examples of this.
As you have pointed out, ready-to-eat brands have not found acceptance in the Indian market. How best can advertisers break the palpable mental barrier?
Ready-to-eat products face a challenge even in developed markets since consumers feel they are losing their 'creative cooking' chops if they just microwave a pack and put it in front of their family. The way to handle this is by making ready–to-eat into a ready-to-cook category. So instead of asking the consumer to just pop the pack in a microwave, brands should offer the consumer the flexibility to add his or her own special touch. Brands such as Quaker Masala Oats are doing just that. They are tailoring a rather boring international product and making it palatable and culturally relevant to Indians. And they are going great guns, I am told.
You say, too much focus on children could bring about problems for brands. Could you explain with an example?
Regulatory authorities around the world have trained their guns on brands that are aimed at children and show children in their ads. A number of soft drinks and confectionery brands have been pulled up. There is now a global code on when it is okay to show a child in an ad. These rules will come to India soon. So brands that depend on showing children need to take cognizance of that. The basis behind these rules is that young minds are a lot more absorbent of advertising messages. They have not developed the inane 'filtering' capability of an adult. Hence the caution.
Could you sum up the marketing-religiosity connect in the Indian context?
Indians are intensely religious. We celebrate all festivals with gusto and even the young are not shy of going to temples and other places of worship every week. Marketers have started understanding this and are using it to target messages. I suppose in no other country are cars and television sets, apartments and holidays sold under the label of religion. We are seeing that in India. It could be that by attaching a religious pastiche to the message we are helping the consumer rationalise the expense.
How have ads changed the perception of old age in India? Can you elucidate this point with an example?
Around three decades ago, all ads featuring old people were for medicinal brands. Even other category advertising (Bajaj Bulbs: Goli Khake Jeeta Hoon) were presenting old age as an age of 'pills and potions'. Compared to that, today we are seeing a lot of brands targeting old people. For example, a number of financial services ads have presented old age as the time to enjoy. I am not sure how correct they are in
their depiction of old age as an age of fun and frolic. But it is interesting to see this narrative being played out in Indian ads.
How much has technology impacted the approach to advertising?
Technology has impacted all our lives; so no wonder it has impacted advertising as well, from the way it is produced to how it is consumed. I suspect this will continue to change as we see more and more media consumption shifting to the smartphone. I also suspect technological developments such as AR and VR will find great application
in advertising.
Could you list three future trends in Indian advertising?
In the last chapter, I have spoken of several future trends. If I were to pull out just three, these may be the top ones:
01 The consumption culture will take root as Indians become more easy with spending their money. The young will be ready to live it up and not worry about saving for a rainy day. This will open up new segments and we should see a rapid upgrade of consumer tastes.
02 The media landscape will change with handheld devices and smartphones becoming the primary mode of consuming ads. We should be ready to think mobile first and then all else, just as ten years ago we became television first.
03 We should see one India emerging with a rapid adoption of one uniform socio-economic classification across urban and rural India. The passage of the GST Bill will help in the unification of the market.
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FDA Sides With Industry on BPA, Ignores Other Government Experts
Haven't we heard this story before? The FDA is charged with regulating BPA (bisphenol A), a chemical found in plastic bottles, baby bottles, food cans, dental fillings, sealants, and cements. It knew that the government's National Toxicology Program (another division of Health and Human Services) was about to issue a report and that Yale researchers had a study about to be published. So what did the FDA do? It rushed out a preliminary finding that BPA is safe and relied on two industry studies to reach this conclusion.
The Toxicology Program did weigh in and concluded that BPA might not be safe at all. The Yale researchers reported last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that small amounts of BPA in monkeys (similar to the amounts people are exposed to) cause brain, mood, and memory disorders.
Other important studies published earlier in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Ford, JAMA 2002, 287: 356-59) and in Diabetes Care (2004, 24: 2444-49) found that BPA "suppresses a key hormone in humans, adiponectin, which protects people from heart attacks and Type II diabetes." In particular, BPA contributes to Metabolic Syndrome, which is the source of much of the chronic disease in the US. These studies were in addition to those which found potential harm to fetuses, infants, and children through BPA's ability to mimic human estrogen and cause disruption of the endocrine system.
PBA is found in the urine of 93% of Americans. US companies make 7 billion pounds a year and it is just about everywhere. The FDA report considered the amount of BPA that humans might absorb from plastic bottles and cans but completely ignored the huge load that may be entering our bodies from dental fillings, sealants, and cements. Dentists routinely seal childrens' teeth these days, often from infancy, and the sealant contains BPA.
The FDA is not popular in Congress these days and some Congressmen reacted sharply to these developments. Representative John Dingall (D-MI), the powerful chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, stated that: "Unfortunately the regulatory agency charged with protecting the public health continues to rely on industry-based research to arrive at its conclusions, rather than examine the totality of scientific evidence." Edward Markey (D-MA) added that:" …We should ban BPA in food and beverage containers." To which we would add: and in dental products as well.
The FDA promises to hold hearings on Sept 16 and could yet reverse itself. Perhaps the Agency will ban BPA in baby bottles, like the Canadians, but then ignore what happens to the babies in the dentist's chair.
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Great news! Mo'ne Davis is getting her own Disney Channel movie called Throw Like Mo. The star athlete shared her excitement about the film with media earlier this week.
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"There are so many great things happening to me right now and it's a very exciting time in my life," said Mo'ne. "A year ago, I never would have thought that Disney Channel would make a movie about me. I can't wait to get started and I hope it will encourage other viewers to believe that dreams really do come true."
It was just a few days ago that Make a Difference Everyday (M4D3) announced its partnership with Davis to bring about the teen's custom-made sneakers. Proceeds from shoe sales will serve to benefit the 'Because I Am A Girl' initiative.
"I never thought at the age of 13 I'd be a role model, but having young girls look up to me is pretty cool," said Mo'ne at the time of her sneakers' launching. "Designing shoes with M4D3 is exciting and I wanted them to support Because I am a Girl to help girls and give them a chance at a better future."
Mo'ne's film is currently in the developmental stages. You can expect to see the teen's movie make its debut on the Disney Channel in coming months.
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Q: Using input type="range" to scale an image What the title says. Is it possible? I want an image to scale up and down from it's center using a slider such as the input type="range".
Thanks in advance!

A: <input id="ranger" type="range" min="1" max="100" value="100" />

var ranger = document.getElementById('ranger'),
    image =  document.getElementById('image'),
    width = image.width,
    height = image.height;

ranger.onchange = function(){
    image.width = width * (ranger.value / 100);
    image.height = height * (ranger.value / 100);
}

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/DnE83/1/
Study it, work out how it works.


The Coast Guard recently announced final regulations designed to ensure the safe design, installation and operation of marine vapor systems on tank vessels and at marine facilities.
During loading or ballasting of tank ships or tank barges, the liquid entering the tank displaces vapors within the tank. In many operations today, without vapor control, the vapors are released into the atmo- sphere. Vapors from certain cargoes contain volatile organic compounds that lead to the formation of ozone, a major air pollutant.
In a typical vapor control system, vapors emitted from a tank vessel being loaded or ballasted are collected and piped ashore. There they are destroyed through a process such as incineration, recovered through a process such as refrigeration/ condensation, returned to the shore tank being emptied, or piped to a remote location and dispersed into the atmosphere if not prohibited by a state air quality implementation plan.
Unsafe vapor control system design or operation has resulted in fires, explosions, tank ruptures and oil spills.
Vapor control systems will become more common in the future as states attempt to meet the national ambient air quality standard for ozone set by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act. Vapor emission control is also being considered as a means of reducing occupational exposure to toxic chemicals such as benzene. The regulations do not require the installation or use of vapor control systems, but will ensure that state vapor control requirements follow uniform safety standards.


Based upon the laws of nature, Five Element Acupuncture maintains health by balancing the flow of vital energy, or chi, through the elemental body (fire, earth, metal, water, wood). A block or imbalance in energy flow causes disharmony in the body, mind and spirit.
By addressing the underlying disharmony, acupuncture treatments can resolve the root cause of the imbalance. This is why five element acupuncture can work for almost any disease or illness.


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from __future__ import division, print_function, unicode_literals
from six.moves.urllib.request import urlretrieve
import numpy as np
import zipfile
import h5py
import os

def convert_to_batches(serial_data, length, bs):
    assert serial_data.size % length == 0
    num_sequences = serial_data.size // length
    assert num_sequences % bs == 0
    num_batches = num_sequences // bs
    serial_data = serial_data.reshape((bs, num_batches * length))
    serial_data = np.vstack(np.hsplit(serial_data, num_batches)).T[:, :, None]
    return serial_data

batch_size = 100
# Batch size which will be used for training.
# Needed to maintain continuity of data across batches.
seq_len = 50
# Number of characters in each sub-sequence.
# Limits the number of time-steps that the gradient is back-propagated.
num_test_chars = 5000000
# Number of characters which will be used for testing.
# An equal number of characters will be used for validation.

bs_data_dir = os.environ.get('BRAINSTORM_DATA_DIR', '.')
url = 'http://mattmahoney.net/dc/enwik8.zip'
hutter_file = os.path.join(bs_data_dir, 'enwik8.zip')
hdf_file = os.path.join(bs_data_dir, 'HutterPrize_Torch.hdf5')

print("Using data directory:", bs_data_dir)
if not os.path.exists(hutter_file):
    print("Downloading Hutter Prize data ...")
    urlretrieve(url, hutter_file)
    print("Done.")

print("Extracting Hutter Prize data ...")
raw_data = zipfile.ZipFile(hutter_file).read('enwik8')
print("Done.")

print("Preparing data for Brainstorm ...")
raw_data = np.fromstring(raw_data, dtype=np.uint8)
unique, data = np.unique(raw_data, return_inverse=True)

print("Vocabulary size:", unique.shape)
train_data = data[: -2 * num_test_chars]
valid_data = data[-2 * num_test_chars: -num_test_chars]
test_data = data[-num_test_chars:]

print("Done.")

print("Creating Hutter Prize character-level HDF5 dataset ...")
f = h5py.File(hdf_file, 'w')
description = """
The Hutter Prize Wikipedia dataset, prepared for character-level language
modeling.

The data was obtained from the link:
http://mattmahoney.net/dc/enwik8.zip

Attributes
==========

description: This description.

unique: A 1-D array of unique characters (0-255 ASCII values) in the dataset.
The index of each character was used as the class ID for preparing the data.

Variants
========

split: Split into 'training', 'validation' and 'test' tests of size 90, 5 and
5 million characters respectively. Each sequence is {} characters long. The
dataset has been prepared expecting minibatches of {} sequences.
""".format(seq_len, batch_size)
f.attrs['description'] = description
f.attrs['unique'] = unique

variant = f.create_group('split')
group = variant.create_group('training')
group.create_dataset(name='default', data=train_data, compression='gzip')

group = variant.create_group('validation')
group.create_dataset(name='default', data=valid_data, compression='gzip')

group = variant.create_group('test')
group.create_dataset(name='default', data=test_data, compression='gzip')

f.close()
print("Done.")

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Everyone can benefit from muscle development. Even if you don't realize it, you can build muscle and even use the same techniques that bodybuilders have used for years to do so. All you have to do is to know the right methods to get the results you desire. This article contains simple strategies for building healthy muscle mass.
It is essential that you consume enough vegetables. Diets that are designed to promote muscle growth typically emphasize protein and complex carbs while placing much less importance on vegetables. Vegetables contain valuable nutrients that are not present in foods that are generally high in protein or carbohydrates. Additionally, they are great sources of fiber. The more fiber you eat, the more benefit you will get from the protein in your diet.
When attempting to build muscle, it is a good idea to eat enough food overall. Ideally, you should build a pound of muscle per week. Look into ways you can take in more calories. If you don't see any changes in your weight within two weeks, try consuming an even higher amount of calories.
Always include the "big three" exercises in your training schedule. These particular exercises are dead lifts, bench presses and squats. These exercise add muscle mass, improve balance, and make your body stronger and more agile. Vary these exercises regularly.
Find an appropriate limit for yourself, but never quit until you reach the limit you set. For each set you do, you should really push yourself until you are physically unable to do one more push up or lift your weights one more time. Using this strategy might mean you need to do fewer reps as you become fatigued.
Plyometric exercises are something you want to do. These types of exercises will let your body develop some fast-twitch muscle fibers, and that will help stimulate any muscle growth. Plyometrics are like ballistic moves in that they require some acceleration. The plyometric push-up, for instance, involves launching yourself up as high as possible, removing your hands from the floor.
You can always cheat a bit as you lift weights. When you push out a couple of extra repetitions by using part of your body, you magnify the results of your workout. Don't do this too much though. Work hard so that your rep speed is controlled. Don't let your reps get sloppy.
One problem that could plague an individual trying to maximize muscle development are the muscles that grow slower than others. Bodybuilders often use fill sets to correct this problem. These brief sets of 25-30 rep exercises can target those problem groups if it's done at least a couple days following your last rough workout.
Do not workout more than three or four times each week. This allows your body to repair and regenerate itself between workouts. Working out too much can cause you to injure your body, and can ultimately be counterproductive for your end results.
You have to watch your calories, if you're going to build muscle. Keep in mind that some calories will benefit you more than others, and nutrition is very important if you want to develop a body that is strong and lean. Eating a poor diet will not help you put on muscle; it will only make you fat.
Your diet should be tailored to fit your muscle development goals. Bodybuilding needs a high protein, low fat diet. Do not assume that you should do this by simply eating more. Instead, you should make it a point to consume a balanced diet. You can build your muscles more quickly by taking vitamins and a protein supplement.
Reconsider your squat technique. Place your bar closer to the middle of your traps. This makes your glutes, hips and hamstrings work hard, allowing you to squat more weight than you would have been able to.
Set realistic short-term goals. You may desire to do things, like squat a few hundred pounds within the first month of training, but this might not be possible for you, and you want to avoid injuring yourself. After finding your baseline strength, attempt to modestly improve every routine. In some cases, you may do better than you expected. This can act as encouragement, helping you to remain positive about your future rate of success.
Creatine may be a good supplement for you. These assist you in training harder and for a longer period of time, when used in conjunction with a diet full of carbs and proteins. Always speak to your doctor before starting any kind of supplement regimen, including creatine.
Chapul , the company that sells Hartwig's favorite bars, was founded by a former whitewater-rafting guide, Pat Crowley, in 2012 and was featured on "Shark Tank" in 2014. Chapul also makes cricket protein powders in three flavors, which Hartwig will mix with water and bring with her when she's on the go or hiking in the mountains near her home in Salt Lake City. Technically, because of grain-based additives, the chocolate and vanilla-flavored powders and protein bars aren't Whole30-compliant. Hartwig explains that she bends the diet's rules a bit—it's only designed to last a month, after all—but if you're being strict, the plain powder, which consists solely of Chapul cricket flour, is totally above board. Hartwig has gotten to know Crowley, Chapul's founder, who speaks passionately about the environmental reasons to get behind insect protein. As he explains in one of his TEDx talks , a protein bar was the easiest way to ease skeptical Western consumers into the idea of eating insects. "It's very recognizable to our culture [as] food," he says of the bar format. "So it's designed to not only be a gentle introduction, but be a wrecking ball to that cultural bias." And, no, cricket protein doesn't taste like bugs. "They made it very accessible," Hartwig said. She likes to offer friends a protein shake, only revealing afterwards that it was made with cricket powder.
This is a constantly morphing assault using subtle changes in the positioning of bodies and equipment. But what if you took that and cranked it up to 11? What if no two sequential sets were ever alike, and your overriding mission was to hit fibers from as many angles as possible? Welcome to small-angle training. With small-angle training, each set of an exercise is performed differently in a sequence of typically four to six sets. You might change the grip, the stance, the angle of a bench, or the positioning of equipment, like the height of a cable pulley. Ideally, this is a progression from harder to easier, such as dumbbell chest presses that go from a high incline to a low incline to flat to a low decline to a high decline. In that way, you can use the same weight as you progress, and with adequate rest between sets, you can get the same or more reps each time. Let's go over a small-angle progression for pulldowns. Start with a wide grip. The next set use a shoulder-width grip.


Lunges develop strength in a similar way to squats but take a lot of the load off the lower back. They help to even out imbalances between glutes and their effects. Doing them one leg at a time works that way; two at a time not so much - e g squats. Fewer injuries and better performance is more likely. Lunges are a truly functional exercise. They helpfully exaggerate and accentuate walking and striding movement. In doing so, they activate core muscles as well. The accentuated movement loosens hip flexors, which otherwise become tight and less effective.They stretch you..


With the Arduino Wave Shield you can play audio files, controlled by the Arduino.
The class is idiot proof, it is allowed to use any erroneous combination of these functions, such as stop() before using play(). You can use the MediaPlayerTest project to learn about all the opportunities of the MediaPlayer class.
A library is just a folder with the C++ code (.cpp) and a header (.h) file. The object file (.o) will automatically be generated if it is missing. Note that I have tested the MediaPlayer class with the AF_Wave library version from 18-02-09. For troubleshooting see HERE.
You can test the MediaPlayer class with the Arduino testproject MediaPlayerTest.
Put some WAV files (music) to the SD card.
Start Arduino and open MediaPlayerTest.pde.
Change the WAV filenames in MediaPlayerTest to the song file names.
Compile, ignore error messages and compile it again. The error messages should disappear now.
Run the MediaPlayerTest software on the Arduino and use the serial monitor to view what happens and listen to the music.
It is preferable to use the Atmega 328p, which has more memory. Else the Wave Shield may be unstable. But the Atmega 168 can still be used here. Do you have any questions, see the Arduino forum.


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322 obese folks randomized to one of 3 diets for 2 years: Low-fat, Mediterranean or Low-Carb.
An amazing 84.6% adherence rate at 2 years!
Not spectacular in terms of actual amount of weight loss but significant in terms of who lost what.
3.3kg in 2 years for study completers in the low-fat group.
5.5kg in 2 years for study completers in the low-carb group.
Metabolic parameters were also better in the Mediterranean and low-carb groups versus low fat for cholesterol numbers, fasting insulin and glycemic control.
Blindly low-fat diets do not appear to be as effective for weight loss OR for health as other dietary approaches.
National eating guidelines and guidelines from medical organizations need to start changing their recommendations and letting go of an outdated and now unsupported approach for the blanket reduction in dietary fat as either a means to improve health or weight loss.
It's my opinion that blindly low-fat diets, whether for weight-loss or for health, are dead horses as far as the evidence is concerned.
How much ya wanna bet people keep beating them?
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