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Baffert and "That's Not Right".
A quote surfaced on the twitter yesterday, presumably told to Steve Byk by Arrogate's trainer Bob Baffert:
Ray Arsenault (congrats Ray) competed in the NHC this weeekend and took home the big prize.
Bob Baffert's horse (congrats Bob) won the Pegasus World Cup and took home the big prize.
Both prizes - Bob's $700k and Ray's $800k - were derived from exactly the same sources.
Ray took the lion's share of the purse provided by other horseplayers who contributed to the NHC purse pool.
Bob took the lion's share of the trainer money provided by horse owners who contributed to the Pegasus Cup purse pool.
It's certainly "right". It's rudimentary math.
If Bob wants to make more than Ray next year, he can. He just has to get 12 horse owners to put more money into the prize pool. Whoever wins next year's NHC can do the same thing.
California Chrome Had a Career
Remember back in '08 (seems like yesterday doesn't it?) when Big Brown threw the clunker in the Belmont Stakes? The immediate chatter was all about what the barn would do to maximize his value. He'd have to race again to do something; to show he was okay, to show he had some constitution.
This happens often with the so called superhorses early at three, who suddenly and without fanfare drop off the face of the earth. Stallion ads are fudged up with comments about how good the horse could've been, or what speed figure they ran, once. Everyone remembers the last clunker.
With California Chrome it's a completely different story. Ten years from now - hell, ten minutes after the Pegasus World Cup - no one remembers the clunker. It's completely meaningless.
With sports figures, human or animal, we always move the goalposts. They always have to hurdle the next task, and if they don't, in some quarters they are less than advertised. Only the very best in a given sport are not presented with a new goalpost, because they've split them so often. California Chrome is one of those athletes. Chrome had nothing to prove on Saturday because he long ago had proven to the racing public what and who he was. That's what having a remarkable career does.
I hope Chrome has a wonderful retirement and becomes a good sire. He deserves it. We may never see another horse go through a Triple Crown season like he did, and back it up with 20 more starts at that ridiculously high level. Well done old boy.
$40.2 million was bet on the Pegasus Cup card, and if Frank pulls this off again (it's probably a big "if") I could see that number growing. I found it felt like a Belmont or Breeders Cup card, not like a Florida Derby card. In January it fit like a glove.
How much money did Frank put into this event? Paying NBC, on-site entertainment, etc, it was clearly a lot of money. This man loves horse racing, and wants to create events people remember. With so many corporate and slots interests in the sport (who seem to do the bare minimum), it's more than refreshing, it feels reverential.
After hundreds and hundreds of posts you know I am not a race caller basher and I think Pete is all-world. But, I think a little was lost in the call this weekend. Half the bettors (Chrome was even money) and probably 90% of the fans were focused on Chrome in his last career start. When he began to canter it was a huge part of the story; maybe even the story. Durkin's Belmont call when Big Brown gave up captured the moment perfectly, in my view, and I think we should've seen a little of that on Saturday.
Horse racing what if's are incredibly fun. What if the real Chrome showed up? In my view, I have no idea the final result, but I think it would've been a barnburner. Chrome is better at 9f than 10f, Arrogate is better at 10f than 9f; both have run 140 type TFUS figures. If Chrome gets the jump with Arrogate along the wood having to navigate some traffic, I suspect the roof would've blown off the place. Ah, what if's.
Have a nice Monday everyone.
Fractured Freemium & Optimal PP Pricing
Of late and for some time, data chatter and racing is a hot topic for a lot of folks in the sport. On twitter, and elsewhere, most of the chatter seems to drill down on the want, and wish for some sort of freemium model for basic PP's.
@EJXD2 @o_crunk @railbird @Brisnet @TwinSpires pedigrees, PP's, race replays should all be free. Our business penny smart pound foolish.
— Craig Bernick (@Craig_Bernick) January 25, 2017
For those who aren't up on the lingo, a freemium web-business model (and past performances are a web-based model now) is offering out a stripped down version of a product free, then converting free users to paid. This has been, and is, the dominant strategy for software because today's software can all be copied and shared; just like a PP file.
It makes some sense to do this in racing, on the surface. Offer a basic free PP, get people to bet, get people interested in racing, then they buy premium products. But, there's a difference in racing, because it's so fractured. Companies in the web world who have offered a freemium product and model, are earning virtually 100% of the revenue when someone signs up for good. In racing, Equibase offering out free PP's is step one, but then as people get more engaged, they may buy PP's from the DRF or Bris instead of Equibase. They aren't betting with Equibase, they're betting with Xpressbet, where 10% or so of every dollar bet is Frank revenue.
Once again, racing's disparate (and at times bizarre) revenue models aren't conducive to simple fixes. This clearly isn't Mailchimp, Dropbox or LinkedIn.
Barring #drainingtheracingswamp and starting all over again from scratch with data - this is not going to happen - I believe the solution, like with takeout, is about optimal pricing.
What price does data have to be so it encourages people to create new, vibrant products and businesses? Too high - which I argue it is - your ecosystem is stuck in a bog. Too low, Equibase goes out of business. There's a right price where both can exist.
What's the right deal between ADW's/racetracks (who want to increase market share by offering out free PP's for their users and races) and Equibase/Trackmaster? If the price is is too high and too penal - which by the low number of these PP's being offered free it probably is - they won't do it. We need more doing it.
There's a right spot, a right model (a bastardized, racing-version of freemium) that can work fairly well, in my view (without blowing up Equibase, and the data industry). No, that does not solve some larger issues in the data argument, which are long term. But, like Craig and many like him, I think free basic PP's in the hands of as many people as possible is a decent short term business goal the industry should work towards.
Underthinking the Pegasus
The Pegasus draw occurred yesterday and Arrogate drew the rail. California Chrome drew the 12. There were oooohs and awws for more than just the video evidence.
Pegasus draw - Wow... pic.twitter.com/FV33BSKe6g
— Gene Kershner (@EquiSpace) January 23, 2017
Always looking on the bright side, perhaps kids who know and like angles will be attracted to learning to handicap.
Anyhoo, at GP over 9 furlongs, the outside posts are not very good at all. The last horse to win as a chalk at GP over 9 panels was Big Brown. He was pretty good. Post 12 at 9f is 2 for the last 41 at GP, via Crunk.
The Timeform US early pace projector looks like this:
1st look at the TimeformUS Pace Projector for the Pegasus. California Chrome alongside Noble Bird early, w/ Arrogate sitting just off them: pic.twitter.com/Xze8gJ7tcv
— TimeformUS (@TimeformUS) January 24, 2017
And it suggests a fast pace, with Noble Bird, Chrome and possibly a blinkered Neolithic going very hard.
But, I don't know if this is just a waste of time. We might just see Secretariat's rail run in the Belmont.
Arrogate could just be way better than all these horses, including Chrome, where pace, or trip doesn't matter. If so, and Arrogate pushes hard early and sprints the 9 furlongs, he probably wins, and might win by daylight.
Best horse, best post. The $1M slot in the starting gate is probably 3-5 to cash for $7 million. That's not a bad ROI.
Racing Concentrates on 0.61% Too Often, and It Holds The Sports' Growth Back
I see some folks chatting about Canterbury Park on the twitters lately, due to Bill's piece at the TDN. There's a good deal of talk that pricing changes "don't work", etc.
Most of the time, and this is no exception, much of this chatter, in my view, is worrisome. Worrisome because we miss the big picture, and don't recognize this is a symptom of a big racing problem.
Bill notes, "Canterbury officials reported that the takeout reduction cost them $318,909, a significant amount of money for a small track. ."
"$318,909" might sound like significant dollars, but it really isn't. Canterbury, through card rooms, beverage sales etc, did $52.3 million dollars in revenue last year.
The amount "lost" through the takeout reduction is a misnomer; a takeout rate change didn't cause fewer races, decimated field size, and the rain; nor does it ensure 2016 revenues would equal 2015 with no change. But even using that language the percentage "lost" is 0.61% of total 2015 revenues. Yep, 0.61%.
Now, the goal of this takeout reduction, explicitly stated, was to increase off track wagering and give the signal a boost. That happened. In 2015, $28.6 million was bet by simo bettors on the CBY races. In 2016, that number jumped to $31.1 million.
What we saw was 0.61% of revenue spent for a multi-million dollar handle gain. Isn't that the point? Isn't that what people have asked from slot tracks for a long time; use alternative revenue to help grow the bet?
I have no idea what long-term takeout reductions mean for horse racing. I don't know what it means for Canterbury, or any other tracks that try, especially in a small data sample.
I do know is that a slot or poker track using 0.61% of revenues to grow handle is something that should be cheered, not jeered.
And I think we need to remember, the alternative sucks. Small tracks who haven't spent revenue to grow the bet are not 0.61% sure to be shuttered, but 100% guaranteed to be when the subsidy runs out.
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Up the Elevator Dictatorships Ain't All Bad. When it Comes to Horse Racing, at Least
I've been watching this whole Trump-Train (for 47%; for the other 53%, Trump Trainwreck may be more apt) a little the past few months. One of its characteristics, I must say, is pretty entertaining.
You've probably seen various CEO's head up that elevator of doom to meet with The Donald in his office in New York. When they come back down to meet the press - after getting threatened with a cancelled contract, or can of 35%-tariff-whoop-ass - most of them look like a deer in the headlights. Soon after, we often hear they're lowering the contract price of some good they're selling the government, moving jobs back from some foreign country, or similar. Just last week when The Donald said something about prescription drug prices being too high for people, drug stocks immediately tanked, and we can mentally picture drug company CEO's scurrying for the nearest bottle of bourbon.
A lot of these dictator type actions don't sit well with a whole lot of people (for good reason, see Venezuela), but there's zero denying that fear, and fear of power, gets results.
Count me in the camp of folks this does not sit well with in a larger perspective, but for racing, holy crap, I think can we use a little of this.
Just today, Joe Gorajec in the Paulick Report examined the regulatory morass with out of competition testing, which has been asked for by most in the sport for a dozen years. It's pretty much gone nowhere.
Admit it, don't you want to send the folks who've blocked this at every turn "up the elevator"? I'd push the button for them.
"Try running your sport as I leaf through this Interstate Horse Racing Act," might be the response. I bet we'd see something done by next Tuesday.
Uniform rules have been spoken about in the sport of horse racing since Dwight Eisenhower signed the Highway Act. But there ain't no uniform rules, whether you are an owner, jockey, driver, trainer or bettor.
"Up the elevator", a holding call is the same in an NFL stadium in Minnesota as Dallas (OK, no Dallas officiating jokes), and the functioning of the sport of football depends on it.
Racing's response of uniform rules being "too complicated to fix" turns into "we should be able to make this work" pretty quick when the purse for next Thursday's MSW drops from $45,000 to zero.
It's taken years in California to pass "third party lasix". Something as minor, common sense, and used just about everywhere should take like a day, maybe two, three if it's a long weekend, to pass. "Up the elevator" you go, California people.
There are a number of other simple things in the sport of horse racing that most other businesses would long have fixed, (that probably could be fixed) in less than a month - if the sport had the elevator.
No, a few people being sent up, then sent down with that deer in the headlights look, wouldn't be all bad.
2016 Blog Stats
I find posts about blog stats at year end a little self indulgent, but I'm bored at lunch right now, and was looking at something, so here we go.
For the dozen or so regular readers, perhaps you'll find them interesting.
In 2016, you visited from a lot of countries, but not surprisingly, the land of the free and home of the brave led the pack, with 71% of hits. Canada was second - as we often are to the US in everything except curling, and ice packed snow, where we kick your Yankee asses - at 18%. Australia - where harness racing is still pretty big - was 3rd at 4%.
I weeded out the well-publicized visits over Christmas from RUSSIA. There were a full 4,000 hits over the holidays from Moscow. Either a whole bunch of Russian people, drunk on vodka, huddled around wood stoves, wearing fur hats (that's all the stereotypes I can come up with), decided they loved horse racing and visited, or this was a coordinated attack by Vladimir Putin. I'm really not sure.
When it comes to browser usage, youse folks are a savvy lot. IE was 3rd with only 18% of hits. Chrome was first. Google is going to take over the world. As an aside, remember when everyone was buying Netscape stock?
As for posts......
The post on the Sword Dancer - the race where there was more rabbit usage than in Watership Down - was number one with a bullet. It was not only the highest trafficked post in 2016 on this blog, it was the highest trafficked post ever. At over 1,000 hits above the second place finisher it wasn't even close. I thought about this and I think it was because no one else was talking about it. It happened, then silence, except on social media. 90% of the hits came from SM, and it wasn't even linked anywhere.
Second in traffic was The Derby Bathing Index ®. Yes, this is true. I'm not lying. You people are crazy.
Third was a post about harness racing, which is odd because harness racing is not thoroughbred racing (there are "buggies" in harness racing, and people don't like buggies as much). Why Is Harness Racing So Entitled was not a feel good piece by any means, but people read it.
It was another big year for the "Greatest Trotter Who Ever Lived" post from 2009. This thing just won't die. It received 400 views in 2016 and it still gets commented on. Most of these hits are from overseas where trotters are huge. People are finding it organically.
The comments that come in for that piece each year always make me chuckle, like this recent international incident:
"Varenne is the best! I am from Malta. Americans believe they are always the best at everything. In fact, they know nothing of the world and other countries. I breed horses trotting, it is my world, I know the history of all the horses, because I like to study. VARENNE IS THE BEST!"
"Stupid Italian Varenne trolls. Varenne's pedigree is 97% American and 3% French. He is 0% Italian. He got destroyed by Viking Kronos at 3. He dodged Moni Maker in the Prix D' Amerique and Elitloppet. He was a good older trotter, nothing more. Muscle Hill would have destroyed him."
" Response to the last comment. You're a American Envious troll !
You said a bunch of crap"
OK, on a more serious note, thanks for reading the blog for like 9 years now. It seems it started like yesterday.
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Racing's (Lack of) End User Understanding
Out of the hundreds of buzzwords the 2000's have brought us, one of them is surely "big data". Looking at trends, the actions of many, smoothed out with fancy software programs and analyzed in new ways has certainly helped in the understanding of people and markets.
But, when we constantly look big, we lose the opinions of the components that are small.
In the book Small Data, the author says, "Big Data is all about finding correlations, but Small Data is all about finding the causation, the reason why."
One of the ways he used small data was as simple as one could imagine. He put executives in the same position a company's (in this case a South American bank) customers are in on a daily basis.
That's using a Dr. Watson, in an IBM Watson world.
Horse racing's most valuable customers -- those who play daily, want to play daily, and want to keep racing a part of their life -- go through a lot to stay customers. But I am not sure anyone in power in the sport knows just how difficult it is to stay engaged.
A worthwhile challenge would be for those in power in racing to open up an ADW account from their state, and play the races for six months, five days a week.
For a Churchill executive, sign up for a DRF account. You'll find out that you may like a horse at your track, but you can't lay a wager on the horse because you don't sell the DRF your track's signal. Then you'll go through the time-consuming exercise of opening up another account, and funding it, all so you can bet your popular track.
If you're a Woodbine executive you might find out that the $132 you cashed on an exacta at Keeneland is short-changed by your company, and it's lower than what everyone else received. Why? You might know, but you'll wonder if your customers do, because it's posted nowhere but in the fine print.
If you're a member of the TOC, you might find that Jane from Florida received 4% cash back, but you didn't because of where you live. You scour social media to find out what others do in this situation and you find out that they call their grandmother in South Dakota to open an account for them, so they can play on a level playing field with everyone else.
If you bet a horse and your jockey stopped riding for some reason, coming 5th, you'll wonder why, and the judges won't say anything, and the racing media covering the race won't even ask.
You'll - after watching horses circle at Gulfstream with a post drag, for seemingly an hour - get frustrated. That frustration will be heightened when you think you finally timed the post-drag right, but got shut out; and your horse crossed the wire first.
Maybe you'll be alive in a last leg of the pick 6, and the final leg will be cancelled with barely a moment's notice, because the track won't wait 20 minutes to see if the storm passes.
You'll probably find a hundred things that will annoy you.
I doubt you, as a lone racetrack executive, will do a whole lot about these problems. The "big data" says you shouldn't worry about them much anyway, and if the rest of the industry doesn't help, what good will it do?
But at least you'll understand, and that's never a bad thing.
Racing's Betting Revenue Resurgence (If it Happens) Will Probably Be Forced
The headlines have been blaring -- Sears Bleeds Cash, Macy's Cuts Employees - and in retail this is nothing really new. Those not positioned properly are having a very tough time of it in today's world. They don't want to close, they are being forced to close. Incrementally losing market share never ends up very good in perfectly competitive markets.
Meanwhile over in the world of music, much of the talk about its death might be exaggerated. We as consumers used to purchased CD's for $3 a song, and when that cratered (and after pulling some teeth) the industry changed to a download model. That, once again, has changed.
You will find more statistics at Statista
That's an 80% growth in streaming in one year.
But the margins are bad, right? Yes, you and I can stream ten songs for peanuts, not pay $18.99 in 1991 dollars, but at this lower price point, and with modern technology available today, more people are consuming more music.
It is estimated that over 130 million people will be in the digital music space in 2021 in the US, each spending $39.37 on consumption. Revenues are growing, and are slated to grow even more.
I am no expert on the space - I have a few books on it, ironically purchased at full price on my iPad I have not read - but the tenets are clear:
The music world did not want to change; they wanted high-margin-low-volume to be its forever. But, record stores were closed, "free" models took over, revenue fell, the industry changed, then revenue began to grow again.
At the present time, the sport of racing - like Sears for many years - has been able to plug holes, to nickel and dime, to scrape by. Slots have kept humming, government with legislation (like the UIEGA) has helped with almost monopoly protection. Gross purses are near unchanged, and it has been able to survive.
But it won't be that way forever.
Racing's move to a betting sport where top line growth matters most, where margins are sliced, where delivery avenues are encouraged not shut out, where new ways to play the game are explored, where the data ecosystem is changed and modernized, where resellers are embraced, will, in my view, have to happen. But it won't be chosen as a strategy, it will be forced as one. At that time - like Sears - it might be too late.
Racing's Elephant in the Room - In One Chart
Supply and demand curves are about as dependable as a rusty hammer. Whether it be consumer behavior, factors of production, or the shift in capital, the curves work just fine for just about every free business.
Except, perhaps, when it comes to the horse racing business.
In the 2016 Australia Fact Book released today, we see one chart that tells an interesting, if not sordid, tale. (sorry for going all Vox.com on you with the blog title, but it fit)
Ignoring the 2015/16 foal crop bar (this was pointed out to me to be wrong, it's about equal to 2014/15's number), we see no correlations, where there should be correlations.
Prize money has gone up almost precipitously. The demand for horseflesh, at the same time through foal crops, continues to fall. The number of races during this time period has remained relatively flat.
There's more gross money to race for - it's about doubled, or up 32% inflation adjusted since 2001 - and there's more average purses to race for. During the same period, the supply of horses (foal crops) is down by about a third.
This is occurring in an environment where stock markets around the world have increased by 1500% or more since 1985, while consumer prices have barely doubled. It's happening in a world where the wealth class has done very well, and collectibles, luxury items etc, have seen big growth.
Although there are a number of reasons and much conjecture why this is happening, the salient point is that it is happening, and it's against everything we're taught to believe.
The next time your track or alphabet tells you that "if we raise purses all will be well" like we hear ad nauseum in racing, it's pure folly. The problems run much deeper than Adam Smith ever imagined.
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Wildcat Innovation in Media
Sustaining and Transforming the Arizona Daily Wildcat
Young Alumni Awards
Innovation in Media
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UA Presidents Recall Past Experiences with the Wildcat
Bill Walsh ('84) was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006.
Bill Walsh is a man of words, so dedicated to them that when he's not editing copy for the Washington Post, he's writing books about copy editing or posting to his renowned copy editing website, theslot.com. So, in his own words, here is Bill's recollection of his start at the Wildcat:
I'm still in awe of the Wildcat (he writes). As great as Arizona's journalism school is, there's no substitute for learning by doing, and what a place to do! Showing up for work in my freshman year as a "copy reader" when I wasn't quite sure what that was, I'm not sure I could have found a better initiation rite than Gilbert Bailon's grease-pencil critiques on the bulletin board. Gilbert, Judy Dunwell, John D'Anna, Robert Cauthorn, Kathleen Schultz, Sam Stanton, Phil Matier, Mike Murphy, Drez Jennings and others–so young but so hard-bitten, so tough, so good, and they all scared the hell out of me. Andy Van De Voorde, Scot Skinner, Gene Armstrong–all had such a distinctive voice at such a young age. Frank Miele, Tom Nichols and Tim O'Mara taught me a lot about copy editing. Mike Chesnick and Jodie Snyder are great journalists as well as great friends. I don't really have any basis for comparison, but I'll wager that the 1980-84 Wildcat all-star team would kick a good deal of butt, in a historical sense.
Bill's non-Wildcat all-star career started at the old Phoenix Gazette, where he broke in covering the night police beat. He soon joined the copy desk and when he left the Gazette in 1989 he was assistant news editor for design. At the Washington Times he started as assistant copy chief and rose to copy chief, a position he held for five years before moving to the Washington Post in 1997. Bill has been copy chief of the national desk at the Post since 2003.
In 1995 Bill launched theslot.com, a website for copy editors (and a lot more). He is the author of two books, "Lapsing into a Comma" (2000) and "The Elephants of Style" (2004).
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\section{ Two-Particle Self-Consistent method for the Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice under uniaxial strain}

As mentioned in the main text, in order to study the Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice under uniaxial strain, the method we choose is the two-particle self-consistent approach (TPSC). This nonperturbative, semi-analytical technique is valid from weak to intermediate values of interaction. Initially developed as an approximation scheme to study the single-band Hubbard model on the square lattice \cite{Vilk1997,Tremblay2012}, TPSC was later extended to study the multi-band case of the Hubbard model \cite{Miyahara2013,Ogura2015,Arya2015}. In particular, the semi-metal to antiferromagnet transition of the half-filled Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice was studied using this method \cite{Arya2015}.

TPSC satisfies many important physical constraints like conservation laws, Pauli principle and  local sum rules for spin and charge susceptibilities. Most importantly, this approach obeys the Mermin-Wagner theorem, which prevents a finite temperature phase transition in two dimensions, while aptly capturing the physics of long wavelength antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the system. Once the antiferromagnetic correlation length becomes larger than the thermal de Broglie wavelength, there is a crossover to the renormalized classical regime. Since the quasiparticles get destroyed by these large antiferromagnetic fluctuations, a pseudogap opens up \cite{Vilk1997,Tremblay2012}.

\subsection{Method and Formalism}
In TPSC, we start with the noninteracting susceptibility and define Bethe-Salpeter equations for the interacting spin and charge susceptibilities. Although TPSC looks similar to RPA, the irreducible vertices for the spin and charge channels are different, and are different from the bare interaction\cite{Vilk1997,Tremblay2012}. In the case of the honeycomb lattice, for our purposes we have a non-interacting susceptibility which is a $2 \times 2$ matrix,
\begin{align}
 \mathbf{\bm{\chi}}_{0}(q) = \begin{bmatrix}
\chi_{0}^{aaaa}(q)  &\chi_{0}^{aabb}(q) \\
\chi_{0}^{bbaa}(q) &\chi_{0}^{bbbb}(q) \\
\end{bmatrix}
\end{align}
where $q \rightarrow (\bm{q},i\nu_{n})$, $\bm{q}$ is the momentum and $i\nu_{n}$ is the bosonic Matsubara frequency.
An element of the noninteracting susceptibility in the momentum-imaginary frequency representation is given by,
\begin{align}
 \chi^{\rho \rho \lambda \lambda}_{0}(q) = -\frac{T}{N^{2}} \sum_{k \sigma} \; G^{(0)\lambda \rho}_{\sigma}(k) \;  G^{(0) \rho \lambda}_{\sigma}(k + q) \label{eq_nonint_susc}
\end{align}
where $\rho, \lambda = a,b$ are the sublattice indices on the honeycomb lattice and the lattice / momentum grid is of size $N \times N$. Here $k \rightarrow (\bm{k},i\omega_{n})$, $\bm{k}$ is the momentum and $i\omega_{n}$ is the fermionic Matsubara frequency.

The spin and charge susceptibilities in the position-imaginary time representation are,
\begin{align}
\chi^{\rho \rho \lambda \lambda}_{sp}(1,2) &= \langle T_{\tau} S^{z}_{\rho}(1) S^{z}_{\lambda}(2) \rangle \label {eq_chi_sp} \\
\chi^{\rho \rho \lambda \lambda}_{ch}(1,2) &= \langle T_{\tau} n_{\rho}(1) n_{\lambda}(2) \rangle - \langle n_{\rho}\rangle \langle n_{\lambda}\rangle \label {eq_chi_ch}
\end{align}
Here $1$ is a shorthand for $(\bm{r}_{1},\tau_{1})$ the position and the imaginary time.
From Eq.s \eqref{eq_chi_sp} and \eqref{eq_chi_ch}, the local spin and charge sum rules are obtained when we set $1 \rightarrow 2, \lambda = \rho$,
\begin{align}
\frac{T}{N^{2}}\sum_{q} \, \chi_{sp}^{\rho \rho \rho \rho}(q) &= \langle n_{\rho \uparrow} \rangle + \langle n_{\rho \downarrow} \rangle  - 2 \langle n_{\rho \uparrow} n_{\rho \downarrow} \rangle  \label{eq_sumrule_sp_graphene} \\
\frac{T}{N^{2}}\sum_{q} \, \chi_{ch}^{\rho \rho \rho \rho}(q) &= \langle n_{\rho \uparrow} \rangle + \langle n_{\rho \downarrow} \rangle  + 2 \langle n_{\rho \uparrow} n_{\rho \downarrow} \rangle - n_{\rho}^{2}  \label{eq_sumrule_ch_graphene}
\end{align}

The interacting spin and charge susceptibilities are given by
\begin{align}
\bm{\chi}_{sp}(q) = \left[ \bm{1} - \frac{1}{2} \bm{\chi}_{0}(q)\mathbf{U}_{sp} \right]^{-1} \bm{\chi}_{0}(q)   \label{eq_spin_susc_graphene} \\
\bm{\chi}_{ch}(q) = \left[ \bm{1} + \frac{1}{2} \bm{\chi}_{0}(q)\mathbf{U}_{ch} \right]^{-1} \bm{\chi}_{0}(q)   \label{eq_charge_susc_graphene}
\end{align}
 in terms of the noninteracting susceptibility. This is the matrix version of the scalar equation appearing in the single-band case \cite{Vilk1997,Tremblay2012,Arya2015}. The elements of the matrix spin ($\mathbf{U}_{sp}$) and charge ($\mathbf{U}_{ch}$) vertices appearing in the above expression can be obtained as functional derivatives of the elements of the self-energy matrix with respect to the elements of the Green function matrix.

Using the TPSC ansatz, we can write a first approximation to the self-energy which is momentum and frequency independent \cite{Vilk1997,Tremblay2012,Arya2015} and from this form of the self-energy we get a local spin vertex where the diagonal $aaaa$ and $bbbb$ elements are non-zero. This local spin vertex is given by
\begin{align}
 U_{sp} = U \frac{ \langle n_{\uparrow} n_{\downarrow} \rangle}{\langle n_{\uparrow} \rangle \langle n_{\downarrow} \rangle} \label{eq_tpsc_ansatz}
\end{align}
Because of sublattice symmetry $ \langle n_{a \uparrow} n_{a \downarrow} \rangle =  \langle n_{b \uparrow} n_{b \downarrow} \rangle$ and $\langle n_{a \sigma} \rangle = \langle n_{b \sigma} \rangle$. Although the charge vertex is not local, and involves higher order correlation functions which are hard to compute, we assume that the charge vertex is also local ($U_{ch}$).

We define ferromagnetic and the antiferromagnetic spin susceptibilities for both noninteracting and interacting cases as,
\begin{align}
\chi^{fm}_{0,sp} &= \chi^{aaaa}_{0,\,sp} - \sqrt{ \chi^{aabb}_{0,\,sp} \; \chi^{aabb}_{0,\,sp}} \label{eq_chi_fm}\\
\chi^{afm}_{0,sp} &= \chi^{aaaa}_{0,\,sp} + \sqrt{ \chi^{aabb}_{0,\,sp} \; \chi^{aabb}_{0,\,sp}} \label{eq_chi_afm}
\end{align}

The interacting susceptibilities are related to the noninteracting ones by the relation
\begin{align}
\chi_{afm,fm}^{s} &= \frac{ \chi^{afm,fm}_{0} } {1 - \frac{U_{sp}}{2} \chi^{afm,fm}_{0}}
\end{align}
that resembles the scalar Bethe-Salpeter equations in the single-band case.

Focusing only on antiferromagnetic correlations, the correlation length $\xi_{afm}$ can be quantified in terms of the ratio of the maximum of the interacting antiferromagnetic susceptibility to the maximum of the noninteracting antiferromagnetic susceptibility at $(\bm{q} = 0, i\nu_{n} = 0)$.
\begin{align}
\xi_{afm} &= \frac{\chi^{s}_{afm}(\bm{q} = \bm{0}, i\nu_{n} = 0)}{\chi^{0}_{afm}(\bm{q} = \bm{0}, i\nu_{n} = 0)} \label{eq_corr_len_afm} \\
\end{align}

The second approximation to self-energy including the effects of spin and charge fluctuations can be made as
\begin{align}
\Sigma _{\sigma}(k) &= U n_{\rho, -\sigma} +  \frac{U}{4} \frac{T}{N^{2}} \sum  G^{aa }_{\sigma}(k + q) \left[ U_{sp} \chi^{aaaa}_{sp}(q) + U_{ch} \chi^{aaaa}_{ch}(q) \right] \label{eq_se_graphene}
\end{align}

We work at half-filling, and start by finding the noninteracting susceptibility $\bm{\chi}_{0}(q)$ using a combination of FFT and cubic splines for a momentum grid $N \times N$ for $N_{\nu}$ number of Matsubara frequencies. For a particular value of interaction $U$, a guess value of double occupancy $\langle n_{\uparrow} n_{\downarrow}\rangle$ is chosen. Using the TPSC ansatz \eqref{eq_tpsc_ansatz} and the spin sum rule \eqref{eq_sumrule_sp_graphene}, the double occupancy, and thereby the spin vertex ($U_{sp}$) can be determined self-consistently. Once the double occupancy is obtained, using the charge sum rule \eqref{eq_sumrule_ch_graphene}, we can solve for the charge vertex ($U_{ch}$). Again by using a combination of FFTs and cubic splines we can compute the self-energy using \eqref{eq_se_graphene}.

\subsection{Graphene under strain}
The application of strain to the honeycomb lattice changes bond lengths. This results in a change in the reciprocal lattice vectors as well as a change in the hopping parameters. In our calculations, we assume the reciprocal lattice remains the same as the one corresponding to the undistorted lattice. We take into account only the change in the hopping parameters. In the case of unstrained graphene, the hopping parameters along all the three bonds are equal. Upon the application of strain, the hopping parameters are no longer isotropic. When a strain is applied along the zigzag direction, then $t_{x,x} = t_{y,y} <  t_{z,z}$. This in turn changes the dispersion relation. When we evaluate the noninteracting Green functions and the noninteracting susceptibilities, this information is taken into account. The rest of the procedure remains intact as mentioned in the previous section.

\subsection{Results}
The results for double occupancy $\langle n_{\uparrow} n_{\downarrow}\rangle$, irreducible spin and charge vertices $U_{sp}$ and $U_{ch}$ and antiferromagnetic correlation length ($\xi_{afm}$) for $T = 0.01$ are shown in Fig. \ref{fig_prelim_results}. These quantities have been plotted as functions of strain $\epsilon$ for various values of $U$. As we can see, the antiferromagnetic fluctuations grow in magnitude with increasing interaction, at low values of temperature.

\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{docc_vs_epsil_beta_100.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Usp_vs_epsil_beta_100.pdf}}\\
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Uch_vs_epsil_beta_100.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{xi_afm_vs_epsil_beta_100.pdf}}
\caption{Plots of double occupancy ($\langle n_{\uparrow} n_{\downarrow} \rangle$) , irreducible vertices ($U_{sp}$, $U_{ch}$) and antiferromagnetic correlation length $\xi_{afm}$ as functions of strain $\epsilon$ at $\beta = 100$. Interaction values ($U$) are indicated in the legend.}
\label{fig_prelim_results}
\end{figure}
The imaginary part of self-energy as a function of the fermionic Matsubara frequency $\omega_{n}$ has been plotted for various values of strain less than the critical strain. As mentioned in the main text, for no strain or very low strain ($\epsilon = 0.05$), the Dirac Landau Fermi liquid remains stable till $U = 3.5$, whereas for $0.1 \leq \epsilon \leq 0.23$, for $U > U_{c}(\epsilon)$, the imaginary part of self-energy shows anomalous behavior. All these details can be seen from the plots in Fig. \ref{fig_se_till_eps_crit}.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Im_sigma_aa_eps_000_30_60_3.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Im_sigma_aa_eps_050_58_31_3.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Im_sigma_aa_eps_100_50_29_3.pdf}}\\
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Im_sigma_aa_eps_150_45_29_3.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Im_sigma_aa_eps_200_48_36_3.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Im_sigma_aa_eps_220_46_38_3.pdf}}
\caption{Imaginary part of the self energy $\Sigma$ plotted as a function of Matsubara frequency $\omega_{n}$, for various values of strain $0.0 \leq \epsilon < 0.23$ for $\beta = 100$. The legend indicates the values of interaction $U$.}
\label{fig_se_till_eps_crit}
\end{figure}

The spin fluctuation contribution to the magneto-volume was discussed in the main text. From the self-consistent value of double occupancy obtained, we can calculate $\langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle = 1 - 2 \langle n_{\uparrow} n_{\downarrow} \rangle$. The plots of this quantity as a function of temperature for various values of strain are given in \ref{fig_Z_till_eps_crit}. As temperature decreases, the antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the system become large and $\langle S_{z}^{2}\rangle$ also increases as a consequence.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Z_vs_T_eps_050.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Z_vs_T_eps_100.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Z_vs_T_eps_150.pdf}}\\
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Z_vs_T_eps_200.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Z_vs_T_eps_210.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Z_vs_T_eps_220.pdf}}
\caption{Plots of $\langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle = 1 - 2 \langle n_{\uparrow} n_{\downarrow} \rangle$ as a function of temperature $T$, for various values of strain $\epsilon$ below the critical strain. The legends indicate the values of interaction $U$.}
\label{fig_Z_till_eps_crit}
\end{figure}

Similarly, the derivative of $\langle S_{z}^{2}\rangle$ with respect to temperature $T$ ($\frac {d \langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle}{dT}$)is plotted in Fig. \ref{fig_der_Z_till_eps_crit} for various values of strain. For $T \rightarrow 0$, for $0.1 < \epsilon \leq 0.23$, the derivative tends to diverge beyond $U > U_{c} (\epsilon)$. This, as previously stated in the main text refer to quantum criticality associated with large antiferromagnetic fluctuations.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{der_Z_vs_T_eps_050.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{der_Z_vs_T_eps_100.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{der_Z_vs_T_eps_150.pdf}}\\
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{der_Z_vs_T_eps_200.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{der_Z_vs_T_eps_210.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{der_Z_vs_T_eps_220.pdf}}
\caption{Plots of $\frac {d \langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle}{dT}$ as a function of temperature $T$, for various values of strain $\epsilon$ below the critical strain. The legend indicates the values of interaction $U$.}
\label{fig_der_Z_till_eps_crit}
\end{figure}

This can be further substantiated by plotting the derivative of $\langle S_{z}^{2}\rangle$ with respect to strain $\epsilon$ ($\frac {d \langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle}{d\epsilon}$) , as a function of strain for various values of temperature as shown in Fig. \ref{fig_der_Z_vs_eps}. For low values of temperature, beyond $U > U_{c}(\epsilon)$, the singularity in the derivative points to the existence of a phase transition driven by the growing antiferromagnetic fluctuations.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.45]{first_der_Z_beta_100.pdf}}
\caption{Plots of $\frac {d \langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle}{d\epsilon}$ as a function of strain $\epsilon$, for $\beta = 100$. The values of interaction $U$ are given in the legend.}
\label{fig_der_Z_vs_eps}
\end{figure}
\section {Scenario beyond critical strain}
For values of strain beyond the critical strain $\epsilon \geq 0.24$, the system becomes a band insulator. The main result is that even at low temperatures, the antiferromagnetic fluctuations do not become huge as seen from the plots in Fig. \ref{fig_prelim_results_beyond_eps_crit}. These corroborate the statement in the main text that the features of quantum criticality are influenced by the growing antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the system.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.45]{xi_vs_U_beyond_eps_crit.pdf}}
\caption{Plot of antiferromagnetic correlation length ($\xi_{afm}$) for $\epsilon = 0.3$, at $\beta = 100$. It can be clearly seen that the antiferromagnetic fluctuations do not grow large.}
\label{fig_prelim_results_beyond_eps_crit}
\end{figure}
Since the antiferromagnetic fluctuations do not become huge, we do not expect the self energy to show any anomalous feature as $\omega_{n} \rightarrow 0$. This can be seen clearly from Fig. \ref{fig_se_beyond_eps_crit} where we have plotted imaginary part of the self-energy as a function of the fermionic Matsubara frequency, for values of strain beyond the critical strain.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Im_sigma_eps_240.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Im_sigma_eps_300.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Im_sigma_eps_400.pdf}}
\caption{Imaginary part of the self energy $\Sigma$ plotted as a function of Matsubara frequency $\omega_{n}$, for various values of strain $\epsilon$ greater than critical strain for $\beta = 100$. The values of interaction $U$ are shown in the legend.}
\label{fig_se_beyond_eps_crit}
\end{figure}
The plots of $\langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle$ in Fig. \ref{fig_Z_beyond_eps_crit} and the derivative of $\frac {d \langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle}{dT}$ in Fig. \ref{fig_der_Z_beyond_eps_crit} also give us the same information. From the plots of Fig. \ref{fig_Z_beyond_eps_crit}, we can see that $\langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle$  is almost temperature independent, for the same values of interaction at which we see large antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the system below critical strain. And, $\frac {d \langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle}{dT}$ does not diverge as $T \rightarrow 0$, and is almost independent of the value of interaction.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Z_vs_T_eps_240.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Z_vs_T_eps_300.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{Z_vs_T_eps_400.pdf}}
\caption{Plots of $\langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle = 1 - 2 \langle n_{\uparrow} n_{\downarrow} \rangle$ as a function of temperature $T$, for various values of strain $\epsilon$ greater than the critical strain. The legend indicates the values of interaction $U$.}
\label{fig_Z_beyond_eps_crit}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{der_Z_vs_T_eps_240.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{der_Z_vs_T_eps_300.pdf}}
\subfloat{\includegraphics[scale = 0.3]{der_Z_vs_T_eps_400.pdf}}
\caption{Plots of $\frac {d \langle S_{z}^{2} \rangle}{dT}$ as a function of temperature $T$, for various values of strain $\epsilon$ greater than the critical strain. The legend indicates the values of interaction $U$.}
\label{fig_der_Z_beyond_eps_crit}
\end{figure}

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Environmental conservation and protection
Projects and environmental assessments
Review of Environmental and Regulatory Processes
Environmental and Regulatory Reviews: Proposed Approach
Read the discussion paper
The Government of Canada has outlined a proposed new approach to environmental assessments and regulatory reviews with a potential path for good projects to proceed in partnership with Indigenous peoples and effective, science-based, enforceable conditions, with clear timelines. You can review this new approach outlined in a discussion paper.
Early engagement and planning: Collaborative approach will support better project design.
Partnering with Indigenous peoples: A deepened relationship, which will include a single organization for Crown consultations and an emphasis on building economic opportunities.
Science and knowledge: Integrated national science and open data platform and new energy information agency will increase transparency, demonstrate how science and evidence (including Indigenous traditional knowledge) is used.
Cumulative Effects management: taking a deliberate approach to assessment and management of cumulative effects through national environmental frameworks, regional assessments and management initiatives.
Openness, accessibility and transparency: Easy online access to opportunities for public participation and two-way dialogue.
A broader assessment lens: Environmental assessments would transform to Impacts Assessments and include environmental, social, economic and health impacts.
A single agency approach for impact assessments: Joint assessments for major projects with federal life-cycle regulators would combine processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
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The following diagram outlines proposed changes to Canada's environmental assessment and regulatory process, building on positive features of the current system. For more details, read the discussion paper on the web or download the PDF version.
Government Decision Making on Projects
Strategic & Regional Assessments as applicable in order to assess Cumulative Effects
Early Engagement & Planning
Designated projects would be subject to an Impact Assessment process and project decision prior to regulatory decision(s).
Non-designated projects requiring federal actions or permits would not be subject to an Impact Assessment but would be subject to a regulatory review by regulatory departments or lifecycle regulator (National Energy Board, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Offshore Petroleum Board) prior to associated regulatory decision(s).
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Science, Evidence and Indigenous Knowledge
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Canadians were invited to read the discussion paper and share their views during a public comment period that was held from June 29 to August 28, 2017.
In terms of next steps, the feedback gathered on the discussion paper from Canadians, as well as input from Indigenous Peoples and stakeholders will help inform potential legislative, regulatory or policy changes.
Background to the discussion paper
The Government of Canada has committed to reviewing and modernizing environmental assessment and regulatory processes. Our goal is to protect the environment and introduce modern safeguards, support reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and ensure that good projects go ahead and resources get to market sustainably.
Over the past year, the Government of Canada has undertaken a review of environmental and regulatory processes. The review included in-person and online engagement through:
An expert panel review, on federal environmental assessment processes;
An expert panel, on modernizing the National Energy Board; and
Standing Committee reviews on restoring lost protections and introducing modern safeguards to the Fisheries Act and the Navigation Protection Act.
Canadians from across the country participated in this process, and let us know what's important to them as we work to rebuild public trust in our processes.
We heard common themes from these reviews including:
Be inclusive: Invite Canadians to participate from the earliest planning stages through to the end of a project.
Be transparent: Ensure decisions are based on the best available expertise, science and evidence.
Keep project reviews focused: Don't address complex policy issues as part of the review of projects.
Recognize Indigenous rights: Include Indigenous peoples as partners in the economic development of their territories.
The Government of Canada is contemplating a series of changes, with the views of Canadians in mind.
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FYROM's U-21 football team on the verge of qualification for the Euro 2017
By Naser Pajaziti/ Published on: 07/09/2016
Skopje, 7 September 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency
By Naser Pajaziti
Last night, FYROM U-21 football team has grabbed a win against Northern Ireland as part of the 2017 European Championship qualifiers. With this 2:0 victory, the team is ranked first in the group. The first goal was an own goal scored by Doerti, while the second goal was scored by Markoski.
The U-17 team will play its next fixture against Scotland on 8 October. The team's coach, Blagoja Milevski said that the team must continue to yield positive results and that there is no room for euphoria.
"Qualifiers have not ended yet, we have one match still to go", said Milevski. /balkaneu.com/
OP/ED: Twelve miles: Facts and planning
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New tests helping women measure their fertility
By Vanessa Vasconcelos
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- From ancestry to food sensitivity, at-home DNA testing companies are bringing some of the most sought-after answers directly to their consumers, with the swab of a cheek or blood spot.
The latest test proving to be a game-changer when it comes to fertility is ovarian reserve testing.
Depending on the company, labs measure a woman's Anti Mullerian Hormone or Follicle Stimulating Hormone levels to measure potential egg reserves in her ovaries.
Valerie Landis knows the benefits aren't limited to the convenience. She shares her 'eggs-perience' online.
"Finding a fertility clinic not knowing what you're going to get charged, not knowing what is going to be told in the doctor visit, can all be extremely anxiety-filled."
At 37, she's gone through the egg freezing process three times.
Though a relatively new product, Landis uses myLab Box ovarian reserve test while seeing a fertility specialist, arming her with information to advocate for herself and the ability to check her AMH levels when she wants.
"This has bought me more time and knowing where and how my body is performing is really informative and empowering because I can make different decisions about my life moving forward because I know," she says.
Lora Ivanova of myLab Box says the ovarian reserve kit is comparable to the process of going to your physician and getting referred to a lab for testing.
"You can now screen as much as you need to without having to take additional time out of your day to drive to a lab or clinic," Ivanova says.
The company pairs results with an online or over-the-phone consult.
"If you have any concerns if your test seems high or low or if you're worried about what this means for your overall fertility plan, you have a physician 24 hours a day that can help answer those questions," says Ivanova.
Like myLab Box, Everlywell does a blood spot test. However, they measure the FSH hormone instead of AMH.
Registered nurse Angie McLaughlin does consultations for Everlywell test takers, helping them better understand their results.
"There are some things at home fertility cannot assess for, if there are any physical issues with conceiving," says McLaughlin.
However it saves the consumer money on an already costly family planning process.
"The hormones are many of the same hormones your doctor will most likeley be ordering to do an initial fertility assessment on you as well," says McLaughlin.
Valley Reproductive specialist Dr. Carolina Sueldo says it's important to speak with your provider to understand what's being evaluated and assessed.
"Ovarian reserve is part of the standard fertility evaluation. It is something we do regularly; however it's important to distinguish it does not predict (likelihood of)pregnancy," says Sueldo. "Those results can be normal and everyone is reassured or they can be abnormal and potentially scare the patient if context isn't provided."
She says overall it's a great start, but because the tests are so new, there's no long term data to look at.
"For the most part it's helpful to begin the conversation; there may be additional testing warranted," says Sueldo.
At home, ovarian reserve tests cost anywhere from $70 - $150.
Most are covered by HSA and FSA plans.
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Hello world! Two shows got booked for the Bakery the same night so what are we going to do about it? Cancel one? Relocate one like adults?
This is going to be a LETHAL double header, and we are excited to see you all!


Brands have existed for many years now and has been used widely.As time goes by, the use and role of brands is more refined.Branding is not only confined to traders but to nonprofit establishments such as religious organizations.Many firms use logos or slogans to brand items.Because firms want their products to be unique, they use branding as a corporate identity.The scope of branding has expanded as many companies use it as a strategic publicity tool.Businesses that use branding want to put the word out that they exist and they mean business.An important reason for branding is that companies want to make an impact on the consumer and want the impression to last due to the branding.
When companies brand their products, they relay an underlying message to their consumers.Branding of products show that the firm believes in their products and stand by it.That they are willing to go the extra mile to ensure product quality and consistent supply.When a firm brands its products, they are saying they are loyal to it.It a firm is confident in their product, the consumer will also gain confidence in it.
Brands promote a sense of belonging in the users of the product.Branding can cause a customer to keep going for one product and ignoring any other similar products on the market.Branded products relay to the customer that the company has a set of values associated with them.An ethical firm meets its obligation in the area of integrity, corporate social responsibility, timely supply of products, quality and reliable supply of product.Branding of products also indicates to customers that the firm in question intends to be in business for a long time.
As establishments become more informed on the importance of branding, they are embracing it more as a tool of advertisement.Numerous firms brand in order to advertise, promotion and market products.To increase consumer base, the firms use promotional gifts.This is a good advertisement strategy because many people appreciate free gifts.When the free gift is branded, it serves as a reminder to the receiptient.May users become loyal customers because they received a free gift.
Many salespersons use branded promotional gifts to give to potential customers.This serves to convince them to buy the firm's products.It is also a sample that can be used to test the quality of a given product.Additionally, with branding a firm can also pass off its contact information.For instance, a salesperson can issue a potential customer with a branded notebook or pen which has the organization's contact information.This creates a more lasting impression that the use of a business card.


Skanska USA, one of the world's leading construction and development companies, today announced the promotion of Sai Yerrapathruni as vice president of business development for its regional Philadelphia office. He succeeds Dave Strange, who is retiring after six years as head of business development activities in the region.
In his new role, Yerrapathruni will lead business development activities on behalf of Skanska in Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware.
Yerrapathruni brings more than 13 years of diverse experience in construction, management and business development to the role. Prior to joining Skanska, Yerrapathruni worked for Turner Construction and served in various positons including project engineer, estimator, preconstruction manager, business development and interiors. Yerrapathruni holds a master's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor's degree from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India – both in architectural engineering.
Skanska has extensive experience in both Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley working on such projects as SugarHouse Casino and the Philadelphia International Airport Terminal A expansions, as well as the new Indian River Bridge, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children Expansion, and the University of Delaware Harrington Residence Hall in Delaware.


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Press Release: Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls to be Come a Motion Picture
A motion picture adaptation of Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls is to be made, directed by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona.
River Road Entertainment, Participant Media, Lionsgate International and Focus Features are to finance the distribution of the film, which is scheduled for release in 2016.
A Monster Calls tells the story of a young boy who deals with his mother's illness and bullying by his classmates by escaping into a fantasy world of monsters and fairytales.
Ness and illustrator Jim Kay won the Carnegie Medal and Greenaway Medal for the novel in 2012.
Director Juan Antonio Bayona's previous work includes The Orphanage and The Impossible; he will be reunited with producer Belen Atienza for his work on A Monster Calls.
"It is an incredible privilege to bring Patrick Ness' exceptional book to the screen and I couldn't have imagined better partners joining me in this endeavour," Mr Bayona commented.
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Q: Is the a way to reuse an existing Android ViewModel for iOS with KMM I'm trying to convert an existing Android project to Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM).
A bunch of the app logic is contained in the viewmodel and I would really love to share said logic with the iOS side.
Is there a way to do that without Cocoapods integration as my iOS side was not set up with Cocoapods?

A: Viewmodel in Android is own of framework, if you want to share presentation logic, you could use a presenter with CoroutineScope.

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Educated Guesses
commentary • criticism • crib notes • accumulated wisdom by Christopher Dornan
NEWS VALUES:
Ideas for an Information Age
By Jack Fuller
University of Chicago Press, 266 pp.
CENSORED:
The News That Didn't Make the News – and Why
By Carl Jensen and Project Censored
Seven Stories Press, 352 pp.
Let's be under no illusions. Journalists believe that what they do is important – and they're right. Journalism itself, however, is widely viewed with contempt – and with good reason.
It has always been thus. "Where there is a free press," said Thomas Babington Macaulay, "the governors must live in constant awe of the opinions of the governed." Take that, Sheila Copps. By the same token, as Garrison Keillor has written, journalists are "a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex."
Why this animosity toward the fourth estate, whose work is so clearly crucial to the project of liberal democracy?
The complaint, in a nutshell, is that the media have ceased to be bulwarks of democracy and are now active agents in its frustration. With their prying hostility, they scare most sane people away from seeking public office. In their hyperventilated pursuit of the tawdry and the trivial, they divert attention from the real issues to which any mature collectivity should attend. They have cheapened public debate and reneged on their social obligations. At best, "journalism" has become a pejorative shorthand term for simplistic and superficial accounts of complex events. At worst, the fourth estate is now part of a vast, oppressive commercial apparatus geared toward keeping us all dumb and compliant.
Animated by these familiar and persistent charges about the news media, these two books amount to prescriptions for reform. Together, they boast some heavy-duty credentials. News Values is the work of Jack Fuller, president and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, a graduate of Yale law school who began his journalism career on the police beat in Chicago, worked for the U.S. Attorney-General, went on to win a Pulitzer prize for editorial writing, and at latest count is the author of five novels.
Censored is a collaborative effort that carries the imprimatur of a blue-ribbon panel of media critics, including Ben Bagdikian of the University of California, Berkeley, George Gerbner of the University of Pennsylvania, Herbert Schiller of the University of California, San Diego, and Susan Faludi, author of The Beauty Myth and Backlash. Walter Cronkite lends his support by writing the introduction.
Let me explain why they're all wrong. Or, at least, only half right.
Both books focus on the priorities news outlets bring to bear in their coverage, since the picture of the world that unfolds in the morning newspaper or on the nightly newscast is a product of this system of news values. Fuller's is the more fully realized effort, if only because it's the product of sustained reflection on the part of a thoughtful and educated mind. Censored is less a book than a compendium – one idea hammered home via myriad examples.
Given his background, Fuller concentrates on newspapers rather than on the news media as a whole. He is right to do so, and not simply because he knows newspapers best. Despite the flash of television and the futuristic sheen of cyberspace, the daily paper remains the spine of news coverage. In any North American city, the size of the newspaper's editorial staff vastly outstrips the numbers of broadcast journalists. The public may turn first to TV for its news, but the morning paper is still the TV newsroom's daily briefing book. If there is something awry in the central nervous system of news coverage, Fuller suggests, then fix it at the spine. He sees the problem in terms of an increasing public disenchantment with the traditional source of news and opinion.
The solution, he argues, is to reassert the credibility of newspapers, and therefore rekindle a sense of trust in them – not simply on the part of readers, but also on the part of the people whom newspapers cover.
How is this to be accomplished? By insisting that journalists adhere to what Fuller calls "the truth discipline" – by which he means something pretty close to the traditional ideals of sweating the details, recognizing and bracketing one's own prejudices, and on no account presuming to come to conclusions on behalf of the reader.
That's all well and good. Few city editors would advocate the opposite. ("Well, you misspelled the mayor's name, kid, and you called him a horse's ass, but what the hey.") But what Fuller advocates is a rigid journalistic epistemology that seems terribly naive. I don't mean by this that he fails to take into account relativist attacks on positivist dicta – the book is dotted with references to people like philosopher Karl Popper and literary theorist Stanley Fish – but simply that journalism is too messy a business to be contained by a one-size-fits-all code of conduct.
As well, Fuller's prescriptions would make for a dutiful, but drab newspaper. He objects to the journalism of Tom Wolfe, for example, on the grounds that Wolfe writes from the point of view of his subjects, going so far as to recreate interior monologues.
The "truth discipline" would forbid that sort of thing. It would also expunge the sort of argumentative writing practiced by some columnists in this paper in which the point of the article is to make a case. I may disagree with them, but I'm happy to defend their technique. Mentally composing counter-arguments to a skillfully rendered position is a pleasure in reading a newspaper, not a burden.
In the end, there's not much new in News Values. It culminates in a call for journalism schools to require their students to have a solid grounding in a traditional discipline, to drill them in the classical elements of good writing, and to "link the issues in journalism with the main currents of general moral thought" – which only makes one wonder what Fuller thinks university education in journalism has been doing for the past 25 years.
Censored takes a more forthright approach, attempting to confront the news media with hard evidence of their dereliction of duty.
This is the 20th-anniversary edition of an annual audit conducted by a group in the U.S. named Project Censored (a Canadian equivalent, Project Censored Canada, began in 1994 and is now run by researchers at Simon Fraser University and the University of Windsor). The idea is to assemble a list of patently newsworthy stories that were somehow overlooked or underplayed by the major media, thus revealing their blindspots and blinkers.
I was skeptical and critical of Project Censored Canada when it made its debut, and expressed my views on the op-ed page of this newspaper. In essence, I argued that the Project's list of so-called "censored" stories was really just an expression of a certain political point of view. These were stories that the left would have played to the hilt; the right could no doubt construct its own list to show the "leftist bias" of the media. And in any case, it wasn't that these stories were suppressed. The complaint seemed to be that they weren't rammed down the public's throat.
Given what passes for journalism in the U.S. – 20/20, Day One, Barbara Walters specials – I'm more inclined to believe that truly consequential news stories could well have been overlooked by the flagships of the American media. And yet, even here the indictment lacks sting.
The supposed top "censored news stories" of 1995 (nominated by readers, culled by students at Sonoma State University, and selected by the distinguished panel of media critics) include: the corporate takeover of cyberspace; how the attempts to balance the U.S. budget punish the poor; how Russia is altogether cavalier about its disposal of nuclear waste; massive medical fraud in the U.S.; Newt Gingrich's dislike of federal regulatory agencies; and how NAFTA isn't working the way big business promised.
This is news? In order for Project Censored to have the impact it's clearly striving for, the reader would have to come away from the list thinking "Wow. Why wasn't I told this?" But none of these stories comes as a surprise.
What's wrong with Project Censored – and, indeed, with most of the generic complaints about how the media are evil, stupid dupes of a corporate agenda – is that they treat the media as though they are a monolithic entity, when clearly they're not. The media extend from the Economist to the supermarket tabloids, from Scientific American to Hustler, from PBS's Frontline to Rush Limbaugh.
There's more than enough information coursing through the mediascape for every taste, every interest, every prejudice. You don't think you're sufficiently informed? The truth is out there. Stop blaming the media. Get up off your duff and go find it.
Globe and Mail May 25, 1996
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Chase Your Dreams With This Week's Kajabi Hero
This is for all of you out there who had a childhood full of crazy dreams and ambitions.
This is for all the people who've been told: "Get your head out of the clouds and grow up."
Because the ones with big dreams and their heads in the clouds are the only ones who are going to rise above.
Our newest Kajabi Hero, Leo Melendez, knows what it's like to have his head in the clouds, figuratively and literally. Ever since he was young, he wanted to be a fighter pilot despite the odds against him. So he pursued that vision and became a real, American Hero.
Not only that, he followed his dreams all the way to Kajabi Hero status, as well. Through a series of what seemed like completely unrelated ventures; working non-profit to help other businesses, publishing books for people, helping his own wife become a Kajabi Hero, and so much more, all of these random pieces came together for Leo in his own business.
Leo's Journey is amazing! By the end of this post, you'll be inspired to follow your dreams, pursue your vision, and take flight even if you aren't exactly sure where it's going to go.
I hope that Leo's story proves that having your head in the clouds can build a successful business.
How Leo Became an American Hero and a Kajabi Hero by Never Letting Go of His Dreams
Leo was born in Puerto Rico; he had big dreams of becoming a fighter pilot and always had an entrepreneurial spirit about him.
Even as a kid, he was hustling and trying to find ways to help his family out financially. He did it all; lawn care, helping people with their homework, he even dreamt of his own newspaper route empire.
I know if you're like me, you are no stranger to these types of crazy, wild dreams at a young age. But if you're like a lot of people, you think these dreams are something you need to grow out of or set aside so you can "grow up."
But Leo never let go of his dreams, no matter how unlikely they were.
He wanted to become a Marine Corps fighter pilot, but there were quite a few obstacles in his way. He couldn't speak English, and he didn't have the money to go to college. But he didn't let that stop him. He reached out for help from organizations and good Samaritans until finally, he was able to join the Marines as a mechanic.
It took eight years for him to work his way up to pilot status. Even when he did start training to fly an airplane, he had to work his way up step by step to become a fighter pilot. Through patient persistence, he finally achieved his dream of becoming a Marine, fighter pilot.
From Achieving One Dream To Chasing The Next
End of story right? I know what you're thinking:
He did it! He achieved his dream! So how does Kajabi fit into all of this?
Even though Leo accomplished his childhood dream, after a period of time, he felt like it was time to move on. He felt something inside of him that I wanted that next level of fulfillment even though he had no clue what that thing was. So using the curiosity that stuck with him since childhood, he got out there and started exploring the possibilities.
He got into a Toastmasters club and attended events for entrepreneurs. Something about getting on stage and speaking captivated him. So he started diving in and exploring that.
During his last deployment, Leo was reading through a copy of Success magazine, and it just so happened that a leaflet from Brendon Burchard fell in his lap.
(Is it just me, or does it seem like this guy has some kind of magic about randomly changing people's lives? This sounds kind of like another Kajabi Hero who found a Brendon Burchard book at a thrift store for $.25 that changed his life too.)
That random pamphlet started an exciting new journey for Leo.
He checked out Brendon's website, watched his videos that were all built on Kajabi and absorbed all the information he could.
He started going through each layer of his dreams to discover the core and purpose of his business. He asked himself questions like:
How do I generate value?
How do I build a business on that?
And how do I help people with my knowledge?
Leo started out working for free.
He didn't have a website or any kind of online presence, but he didn't let that stop him. He went door-to-door at client based businesses; bookkeepers, insurance companies, and even fitness centers, to see if they needed help with the online aspect of their businesses.
From there, he branched out to consumer based businesses like pet stores and retail establishments. He even started speaking.
He loved what he did, but there was still something missing.
To have a viable business, he actually needed to make money right? So he started charging people for his services.
A lot of people will tell you to pick one thing or niche and go with that. Leo took a different approach. He really was a jack of all trades.
Helped people publish books, create podcasts, he still did speaking engagements, coaching, and even helped people create their own online courses. All of his projects seemed disconnected and unrelated, but the truth is, they were just layers of a whole business.
At the core, he was passionate about helping people set up automated systems to grow their businesses.
Where Kajabi Comes In
When he discovered Kajabi he still poured himself into others. He tested out Kajabi with his wife's business (who is also a Kajabi Hero! How cool is that? Keep an eye on the blog for her story soon.)
After that, Leo decided it was finally time to do his own thing, and see how far he could push Kajabi to grow his business. But the interesting thing is...
He didn't start out building courses.
His first step was to book another speaking engagement and offer his course at the end of his time. This gave him accountability and a deadline to finish his course.
So he created his own website and prepared for his speaking engagement.
He tried Wordpress at first, but he found it too hard to customize. With Kajabi, he was able to make a beautiful site that did what he wanted to do and look the way he wanted it to look with ease.
When he booked the speaking engagement he didn't even know what his course would be about, so he asked some questions:
What does my audience/want need? What is my audience's pain point?
He settled on teaching Facebook ads. So he built his course, spoke on his topic at this event, and sold his course at the end.
He didn't have a fancy opt-in or landing page to direct people to either. His wife passed out a simple printed form that they could fill out if they were interested in buying his course.
Out of a room of 30 to 50 people, 15 people bought his course. That may not sound like a lot to you, but for a crowd of that size that is an excellent conversion!
After the speaking engagement, he put everyone's forms into QuickBooks and got them on Kajabi to take the course. The rest is history.
Leo is still pursuing his vision of expanding his business even more. He actually has his own event scheduled for November in Miami and wants to help people create a virtual salesforce.
Build Your Business With Patient Persistence
As much as I want to say you'll be a huge success overnight, the truth is; success doesn't happen that way.
Building a business takes time. Even Leo's story spanned from his childhood. He had a vision for where he wanted his life to go. So he patiently put the building blocks in place to make that happen, even when he wasn't sure exactly what the outcome was.
And his vision was constantly changing.
Yes, he had the core of what he wanted to accomplish, but the means to do that was as different as night and day. From childhood dreams of a newspaper empire, to becoming a Marine fighter pilot, eventually speaking at events and helping people learn Facebook ads; you can see how unrelated and random these things appear. But each element was one brick in the life he was building for himself.
He pursued his vision and his passion no matter how random or unrelated it may have been. And all of these pieces from his past and present fit together to create the business he has now.
His journey isn't over, either.
If you're sitting there with dreams of what you want your life to be like; are you going to do something with those dreams?
Even if you don't know exactly how you're going to make things happen, are you open to following your vision no matter where it takes you?
Everything in your past, everything your present, and everything that's ahead of you is all working together for your benefit. Even hard times in your past have a lesson that can provide something beneficial to your vision.
Whenever Leo went into the Marines, he didn't know that eventually he would be speaking about Facebook ads and selling a course he built himself. But everything in his past played a role in where he is now.
If you have a dream or vision, are you willing to be persistent and patient enough to follow it? Even if you don't know exactly where it's going to lead?
It feels nice to have everything figured out before you get started with something. But when it comes to starting your own business, even the most detailed and thorough plan doesn't mean that you have it all figured out. You don't really know what's going to happen.
If you pursue your dreams and your persistent despite setbacks or obstacles in your way, you can make your vision a reality.
What Happened to Your Vision?
Chances are, when you were a kid, you had some pretty huge dreams for how you wanted life to turn out for you.
Sometimes as we grow up, we realize the things that we wanted to become weren't really what we wanted. But other times, we let our dreams go because we think they're too hard or too impossible for us to achieve.
Have you let go of your childhood dreams? Have you erased that insatiable curiosity to imagine the possibilities?
What happened to your dreams? What happened to your vision?
It's not too late to pursue your passions. I love how Leo put it in the interview:
"Where your heart is, is where you'll find your treasure. And you will find your treasure if you keep digging."
Chances are, you have something to contribute that can be a source of income for you. A lot of it comes down to your mindset and how you position yourself to the market. Even if you have to learn more along the way, you have something valuable inside of you right now that could be a winning business idea.
Past experience or knowledge. Everything in your past has the power to contribute to your present and your future. Personal and professional experiences and knowledge can become a winning business idea.
Current hobbies or passions. Now more than ever, the things that you love to do in your spare time can be monetized into a profitable business. At Kajabi, we have seen it all. From flying drones to knitting, it's all in how you leverage your hobbies and passions. If you have an interest in something, most likely there are people out there who have an interest in that too.
Things you already do at your current job. You're already getting paid to do what you do working for someone else, why not leverage that into a business that you can run on your own terms? If you're a supervisor, you can teach other people how to manage a team. If you're a bookkeeper, you can teach people how to do their own accounting. Even if you're just a cashier at a retail store, maybe you've found a way to talk to customers that brighten their day and builds a connection. You can teach people how to be excellent conversationalists.
Even if the things that you can leverage into a business right now aren't what you want to be doing long-term, you can still pursue that as a stepping stone to where he want to end up. Remember Kajabi Hero, James Wedmore? He started out with a physical bartending course, and now he has his own online empire.
Leo's journey to Kajabi Hero may seem random and unrelated, but each element of his story was just a stepping stone to the next thing. He wouldn't be where he is now if he didn't take that first step.
Let Your Vision for Your Business Take Flight
You don't have to get your head out of the clouds.
When Leo was a fighter pilot, the hardest part of getting the airplane off the ground was the initial resistance when trying to take off. You start the plane, move forward, and fight gravity itself to get this massive piece of machinery into the air.
Starting your own business is a lot like that.
You look up at your dreams and know where you want to go, but you're still on the ground wondering:
How in the world am I going to make it up there?
Maybe you've tried to chase your vision before, but the resistance and everything pulling you down were too much.
I want to invite you to take off again.
Run toward your dreams with everything in you.
There will be resistance, there will be fear, and there may be other people who are trying to keep you on the ground. But if you can break through that initial resistance...
You will take off and be that much closer to your dreams.
Your passion and purpose are the fuel. Maybe all you need is the right equipment.
Just like Leo couldn't get off the ground without his plane, the right "aircraft" may be the one thing you need to get your business up off the ground. Even if you have your own website, maybe it's time for you to make an upgrade.
You have the passion and the drive and the ability to make all this happen for you. Maybe all you're missing is the right tools for your business to take flight.
With Kajabi you'll be equipped with everything that you need to build a profitable business from your passions and your dreams.
Try out all of these tools for yourself, free for 14-days.
You may find that with Kajabi, overcoming the initial resistance of starting your own business is a lot easier with the right tools and equipment, (without a huge learning curve to actually use them.)
Who knows, maybe I'll be writing your story next.
And if you want to learn more about Leo and his event coming up in November check out his website: LeoMelendez.com
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Q: Zend db cascade delete multiple levels How does one make Zend Db cascade delete multiple levels of the hierarchy? For example:
dealers -> products -> attributes
deleting one dealer should go all the way down to attributes, and now it doesn't :(
Any thoughts?

A: On row of the Zend_Table_Abstract within the function _cascadeDelete a row is constructed like this:
$rowsAffected += $this->delete($where);

It should instead be constructed as something like this:
$toDelete = $this->fetchAll($where);
foreach($toDelete as $row) {
    $rowsAffected += $row->delete();
}

More info here.
It's worked for me in one cause but need to test more.