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Detroit has a long and rich history associated with rock and roll. In 1954 Hank Ballard & the Midnighters crossed over from the R&B charts to the pop charts with "Work With Me, Annie." The song nearly broke into the elite top 20 despite being barred from airplay on many stations due to its suggestive lyrics. In 1955, Detroit-native Bill Haley ushered in the rock and roll era with the release of "Rock Around The Clock."[1]
In the late 1950s rockabilly guitarist Jack Scott had a string of top 40 hits. First, in 1957 with "Leroy", then in 1958 with the hits "My True Love" and "With Your Love" and then twice again in 1959 with the hits "Goodbye Baby" and "The Way I Walk." Scott was one of the first musicians to marry country music's melodic song craft to the dangerous, raw power of rock and roll.[2]
In 1959 Hank Ballard & the Midnighters had a minor hit with their b-side song "The Twist". A cover by Philadelphia native Chubby Checker followed in 1960. His single became a smash hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and started a national dance craze. Also in 1960, Jack Scott had his final top 10 hit with the song "What In The World's Come Over You."
The following year, legendary Michigan rocker Del Shannon had his own No. 1 hit in March 1961 with the song "Runaway". This was followed by the top 10 hits "Hats Off to Larry" in June 1961 and "Little Town Flirt" in 1962. In 1964, Detroit's one-hit wonders The Reflections had their own Top 10 hit single with "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet".[3]
By 1964, teen clubs around Metro Detroit such as the 5th Dimension in Ann Arbor and the Hideout off of 8 Mile Road and Harper Road, were a hotbed for young and promising garage rock bands such as The Underdogs, The Fugitives, Unrelated Segments, Terry Knight and the Pack (which featured Don Brewer), ASTIGAFA (which featured a young Marshall Crenshaw), The Lords (featuring a young Ted Nugent) The Pleasure Seekers (which featured a young Suzi Quatro), Four of Us and the Mushrooms (which both featured Glenn Frey), Sky (which featured a young Doug Fieger) and blue eyed soul rockers the Rationals.[4]
During the heyday of the Hideout in 1965, Doug Brown and the Omens, financed by Del Shannon, cut Bob Seger's first known official recording "TGIF"/"First Girl." Bob Seger would later form his band known as The Last Heard while Brown produced Seger's regional blockbuster albums "East Side Story," and "Heavy Music."[5]
1965 also Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels had a national top 10 hit with "Jenny Take A Ride!" and then again the following year in 1966 with "Devil With A Blue Dress On"/"Good Golly, Miss Molly." Also in 1966, Flint's Question Mark & the Mysterians (which featured Mel Schacher had a No. 1 hit with "96 Tears." Finally, in 1967, Detroit blues-rock outfit the Woolies had a regional smash hit with the Bo Diddley song "Who Do You Love".[6]
In the late 1960s, Metro Detroit was the epicenter for high-energy rock music with (MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges).[7][8] Then in 1968, the Metro Detroit rock scene witnessed an extraordinary transformation into something that was purely raw, rough, and messy. This sound was rock & roll but was also equal parts anger, determination and attitude spawning a unique high-energy rock scene in antithesis to Motown and the more mellow bands popular on the east and west coasts[9] This new found high-energy rock was no truer than with the MC5 (Motor City Five) and the protopunk Iggy & the Stooges. These two bands laid the groundwork for the future punk and hard rock movements in the late 1970s. Other notable bands from this time frame included The Amboy Dukes (featuring Ted Nugent), The Bob Seger Sound System, Alice Cooper, Frijid Pink, SRC, The Up, The Frost (featuring Dick Wagner), Popcorn Blizzard (featuring Meat Loaf), Cactus and the soulful sounds of Rare Earth and The Flaming Ember. Much of the music scene during this time was centered around the legendary Grande Ballroom and its owner Russ Gibb.[10]
As the pure sonic force of the Detroit rock scene drove on into the close of the decade, in 1969 a magazine based in and around Detroit known as CREEM: "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine," was started by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. CREEM is known as the first publication to coin the words "punk rock" and "heavy metal" and featured such famous editors such as Rob Tyner, Patti Smith, Cameron Crowe and Lester Bangs, who is often cited as "America's Greatest Rock Critic,".
During the 1970s, many of the Metro Detroit acts grew into international rock icons such as Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, Glenn Frey of The Eagles.[11] Along with one hit wonders Brownsville Station and Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Detroit became well known for its rock & roll prowess. The city was also immortalized during this time by such songs as Detroit Rock City by Kiss, Detroit Breakdown by The J. Geils Band and Panic in Detroit by David Bowie.
After the breakup of the MC5 and The Stooges in the early 1970s, the Detroit area's musical braintrust transformed into several acts that created much notoriety. These acts included rock acts such as Sonic's Rendezvous Band (featuring Fred "Sonic" Smith of the MC5, Scott Morgan of The Rationals, Scott Ashton of The Stooges), the band simply called Detroit, which featured Mitch Ryder on vocals and Johnny "Bee" Badanjek on drums. Later, Mitch Ryder bowed out of the band Detroit and was replaced by Rusty Day, the Rockets Jim McCarty on guitar and Johnny "Bee" Badanjek on drums, and punk bands Coldcock, The Ramrods and The Sillies, Destroy All Monsters (featuring artists Niagara and Stooges guitarists Ron Asheton).
Of the late 1960s, Detroit rock bands that went on to break new ground in the emerging punk scene with their seminal punk songs Slash Your Face and Fed Up, were The Dogs, (who also penned the song John Rock and Roll Sinclair in 1970 as a protest to free former MC5 manager John Sinclair from Jackson prison), and featuring Loren Molinare on guitar, Mary Kay one of the earliest female rock bassists, noting Suzi Quatro as another, and Ron Wood on drums. Also during this time, Detroit area native Deniz Tek was creating the punk band Radio Birdman in Australia in the mold of classic Detroit rock bands of the MC5 and The Stooges.[12]
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In the summer of 1982, Berkley High School graduate Marshall Crenshaw had a Top 40 hit with the song "Someday, Someway", and later in the decade went on to portray legendary Buddy Holly in the 1987 film La Bamba. Crenshaw continues to tour nationally and has played The Magic Bag in Ferndale several times. In 1988, Detroit pop rockers Was (Not Was)'s breakthrough album What Up, Dog? spawned two Top 20 hits with the songs "Spy in the House of Love" and "Walk the Dinosaur."
Also in the early 1980s, The Romantics scored with "What I Like About You". In 1983-84, The Romantics had a huge hit with the single "Talking In Your Sleep", which reached the Number #3 position on the Billboard Hot 100. Although it never received a Gold certification from the RIAA, it sold 45 million copies in the US.
Another local group, 33 & the Thirds became Rhythm Method and developed a big local following. After renaming the band Rhythm Corps, they went on to record the minor hit "Common Ground".
During the 1980s, Detroit was home to several New Wave, glam, punk and garage rock bands including The Colors, The Look, Bitter Sweet Alley, Toby Redd (which featured future Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith), the Trash Brats, Flirt, Bootsey X & The Lovemasters, The Torpedoes the Mutants, R.U.R., The Lips are Back, Funhouse, The Latin Dogs, Nicki Corvette & The Convertibles, Reruns, Elvis Hitler, The Gories, Goober & The Peas, Cuppa Joe and the Vertical Pillows, whose Paula Messner went on to form a stay-at-home mom band called The Candy Band who have been known to play Lollapalooza. Cinecyde, still active over thirty years later, began in the latter 1970s, but achieved much of their following during the 1980s, including their founding of the Tremor Records label.
The Detroit rock scene was home to several notable metal bands during the 1980s. These bands included Corrupt, Halloween, Seduce, Mariner and Madam X, Vendetta, Madam X which was formed by future Vixen drummer Roxy Petrucci and for a brief period featured future Skid Row vocalist and former Canadian resident Sebastian Bach.
During the 1990s, metro Detroit rock bands that had minor to major attentioon and/or critical acclaim include The White Stripes, The Dirtbombs, The Von Bondies, The Paybacks, Sponge, Charm Farm, Speedball, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, Howling Diablos, His Name Is Alive, Brendan Benson, The Upholsterers, Kid Rock, Rocket 455, and ska-punk band The Suicide Machines.
Because of the alternative rock music craze, two of Metro Detroit's college towns Ann Arbor and East Lansing had vibrant music scenes. Bands centered around Ann Arbor's scene include the Laughing Hyenas, Big Chief, Nadsat Nation, The Shellys, The Hentchmen, Andrew W.K. and Taproot. The East Lansing scene included bands such as Groove Spoon, The Verve Pipe, 19 Wheels and Fat Amy, which featured Bob Guiney of the ABC show The Bachelor.
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Photoshop Elements provides a multitude of panels that contain settings and options used to refine the tools you select on the Tools panel and tasks you perform to edit images.
Assume for a moment that you want to let your creative juices loose and create a Picasso-esque painting — something that you can do easily in Photoshop Elements. First, click the Brush tool and then click a color on the Color Swatches panel. On a new canvas, begin to paint. When you want to change color, click again on the Color Swatches panel on a different color. This interactivity between the Tools panel and another panel is something you frequently use in Elements.
You can access panels from either the Panel Bin or the Window menu. Many options on panels are intuitive. To become familiar with various panel options, just poke around a little.
You can drag panels away from the Panel Bin and scatter them all over the Elements workspace. If you remove panels and want to return to all panels docked in the Panel Bin, click Reset Panels at the top of the Editor window.
By default, you find the panel buttons for Edit, Create, and Share with the panels expanded, as shown in the following figure.
The default view shows panels expanded.
Edit: Gain quick access to editing tasks. You can toggle between the Full, Quick, and Guided settings. You can change editing modes by choosing the desired setting below the Edit tab.
Create: Click this button to access options to create photo books, photo collages, and slide shows and also to order prints and greeting cards. Click More Options on the Create panel to access additional creation options.
Share: Click this button to access options that offer many different ways to share your photos with others. On the Share panel, you find options for creating an online album, sending photos via e-mail attachments, using photo and writing CDs and DVDs of photo collections and slide shows. Clicking More Options on the Share panel offers additional options for sharing photos.
There are differences between the Create and Share options available on Windows versus the Macintosh. Windows users have more options than Macintosh users.
Choose Window→Panel Bin to remove the Panel Bin check mark, and the Panel Bin temporarily hides providing more editing space.
When you click a panel name, the panel collapses.
When the Panel Bin is hidden, choose Window→Panel Bin again to display the panels.


Nowadays, it's more common to lose a loved one to a lingering terminal illness than to a sudden death. Family and close friends, along with the person with the life-limiting illness, now have much longer to face up to the prospect of death and say their goodbyes. This in turn has changed the grieving process to one with unique stages that are increasingly borne by families, rather than just individuals.
Today, having a loved one live with a terminal diagnosis for an extended period of time is fast replacing sudden and unexpected death as the norm. Consider, for example, that two thirds of those who are diagnosed with cancer currently have a five-year survival rate.
The result of all of this is that death has become less and less a sudden and unexpected event. In its place has come a process that begins with a life-threatening diagnosis, proceeds through a period of treatment (or treatments), and ends eventually in death. This process means that both the terminally ill individual and the family are increasingly confronted with the need to "live with death" for a prolonged period of time.
Because the nature of death and dying has changed so dramatically, the way we grieve has also changed. The new grief differs from traditional grief in significant ways, not the least of which is that it includes the terminally ill person. In addition, what has increasingly become a protracted process as opposed to an event not only leaves individuals to mourn but typically draws in the entire family of the dying person for months or even for years. This process has the potential to alter lifestyles and force families to confront issues that once were dealt with only after the death of the loved one. It can easily evoke issues from the past that were never fully addressed or resolved.
Grief today is a family matter as much as it is an individual one. What is needed is a new template—one that is relevant to families and their experience. That is what we present here. This model is intended to be a road map that you and your family can turn to as you navigate your way through the current realities of death and dying. And by the way, when we use the word family, we include not only blood relations but all those who have a significant connection to the person who carries the diagnosis.
The challenges that families must face when confronted with a terminal diagnosis of a loved one are complex. They include evolving new structures and dynamics as the person they love slowly slips away. It means learning how to cope with setbacks and deterioration as well as periods of seeming remission. It means dealing with the complexities of extended grief, which can wear individuals down and lead at times to ambivalence or the unpleasant feeling we get when we find ourselves wishing that the process would end. It means talking with a dying loved one about mortality and other issues that do not arise when death strikes suddenly and unexpectedly. It means learning to make space for extended grief in lifestyles that are typically busier than those of earlier generations.
Perhaps most important, the new grief involves confronting family issues that may have been dormant but unresolved for many years. These issues typically reemerge as families move past their initial reactions to a terminal diagnosis and are forced to interact and work together through a process of extended grief. Finally, it means moving forward together as a stronger family after a loved one passes.
Without understanding and without guidance in each of these areas, family members who are forced by circumstances to cope with prolonged grief are vulnerable to serious psychological consequences, including depression, guilt, and debilitating anxiety. These circumstances can even lead to physical illness. Whole families are vulnerable to rupture as a result of a resurgence of unresolved issues that are unearthed as a result of a prolonged terminal illness in a loved one. Even loving couples may find their relationships in jeopardy as a consequence of unwanted lifestyle changes. What families need now—and will need in the future—is guidance for how to anticipate and deal with such issues.
We are proposing here a five-stage model for family grief. However, we want to caution readers not to expect that there will be hard-and-fast boundaries separating these stages. While virtually every family will experience each stage, you should not expect one stage to simply end and another to begin. On the contrary, anticipate finding yourself dealing with issues associated with more than one stage at any given time. In addition, the stages vary in length and intensity, depending, for example, on the length of the terminal illness and whether there are any significant periods of remission.
Whether the loved one is a spouse, a parent or a child.
What your and the patient's past (and current) roles in the family are.
Anxiety is the most common initial reaction to the news that a family member is terminally ill. However, if your relationship with the terminal family member has been strained or alienated, you may also find yourself feeling guilty, resentful, or angry. If the terminally ill person is a child or young adult, anger at the seeming injustice of early death may be the dominant emotion shared by family members at this initial stage.
At this first stage of the new grief, all adult family members benefit from guidance issues such as what to expect in terms of their own emotional reactions, whom to seek support from, whom to share memories and emotions, with, and what to expect when they meet with the dying loved one and other family members.
The reality of impending death has the effect of pressing family members to put even longstanding complaints or grudges on hold as they pull together to move into this second stage of grieving. This may be no problem for family members who have no conflicted feelings or unresolved issues of their own with the loved one, such as favored children. On the other hand, if you feel that you were always a less favored child (or the family scapegoat), you should not be surprised if you experience a complex combination of emotions even as you strive to be a good team member.
In Stage 2, the needs of the dying become paramount. A major issue for all family members in Stage 2 is how they will define their roles with respect to one another and the terminally ill member. If they do not give some thought to this—a situation that is quite common—they may quickly find themselves having regressed into roles they played years earlier, as children and adolescents, but that they would not consciously choose now.
How the family organizes itself so as to complete these tasks can have powerful psychological and effects on each member, depending on how comfortable each feels with the role he or she is playing.
The family will eventually enter this third stage of grieving if the process of dying goes on for some time, which it typically does today. At this point, the unity that characterizes Stage 2 begins to wear thin as the lifestyles of all involved, whether they recognize it or not, gradually undergo some significant changes. Whereas thoughts and feelings about these changes may have heretofore been put on the back burner, they can no longer be suppressed and begin to leak out. One such feeling is ambivalence, meaning mixed feelings that many people experience when the process of dying evolves into a protracted one in which the loved one's overall quality of life slowly deteriorates.
Emotions such as guilt, anger, and resentment are likely to emerge in Stage 3. At this stage the most important issue becomes being able to communicate honestly with other family members and with trusted loved ones. Suppressing thoughts and feelings about such upheavals can lead to strained relationships and eventually can cause the entire family to fall apart.
As a family moves into the fourth stage of grief, the terminally ill loved one's health is typically marked by gradual deterioration, punctuated perhaps by periods of stabilization or temporary improvement, and the effects of the prolonged grief process can and should no longer be ignored.
As they enter Stage 4, family members often find themselves having more memories—both good and bad—of past experiences which usually reflect relationships with the patient, these important memories are different, typically telling the story of how family members have viewed their place and role in the family. Often they point to unresolved issues. Some of these memories may evoke feelings of joy or nostalgia; others, however, may evoke anger, jealousy, or envy. Others still cause feelings of pride or, alternatively, of shame and embarrassment.
Stage 4 represents an unprecedented opportunity, if families only choose to seize it. It is an opportunity to resolve longstanding issues, heal wounds, and redefine one's role in the family—indeed, to alter a family member's very identity. Every family, as they say, has its share of skeletons in the closet. It is in this fourth stage of the grief process that the skeletons can be brought out of the closet, exposed to the light of the day, and cast forever into oblivion.
These two issues stand in the way of families being able to bond together as strongly as they could and love one another unconditionally. Some family members, however, may react to this opportunity with anxiety instead of with enthusiasm. Rather than seizing the opportunity, they may try to avoid facing these issues. However, facing up to them offers the best opportunity for the family as a whole to move on together to a happier future. In this way the process of family grief can set the stage for growth and renewal for all involved.
The final stage of grief actually begins with the funeral and the celebration of the life of the now-lost family member. This is a time of mixed emotions, to be sure, including both sadness and relief. If the family has successfully negotiated the previous four stages, however, this final stage also opens yet another door: to collective as well as personal renewal. It can be a celebration of life as much as it is a marking of a loss. It can be a time of creativity and planning, as the family decides, for example, how it will commemorate anniversaries and birthdays.
As much as Stage 5 is a time for remembrances, it is also a time for looking forward, to revitalized relationships and to new family traditions.
Adapted with permission from Saying Goodbye by Barbara Okun, Ph.D. and Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. by arrangement with Berkley Publishing Group, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.


This afternoon, 18 Marine 1 was alerted to assist Holloway Terrace with 5 people in the water in the Delaware River just South of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. MRU 18 and 18 Marine 1 made a quick response to the 3rd Street boat ramp where 18 Marine 1 was launched. After a short response, 18 Marine 1 arrived in the area and found one victim still in the water and the others on the Pennsville Jetty making with way to shore. During this time, shore based crews were assisting 20 Marine 1 with launching from the 3rd Street boat ramp as well. The victim was removed from the water and checked for injuries before being moved to shore for further evaluation. 18 Marine 1 then returned to the area to retrieve the kayaks that overturned, placing the victims in the water. Once the kayaks were secured on the shore, 18 Marine 1 and 20 Marine 1 returned to the boat ramp.


We know the candidates were not suppose to bring anything into the debates with them. Little Green Footballs has pretty compelling evidence that Kerry brought some sort of paper in with him. Was it a cheat sheet?
Warning: Gratuitous cheap shot below.
Since he's the type of guy who admits to shooting a fleeing kid in the back, isn't cheating plausible?
This is a sad sign of desperation. Just admit your horse came in last this time and focus on fighting another day. A month and 2.5 debates is plenty of time to change minds, and to perform better than a drunk-driving former governor did in DUI court in 1976.


Almost two billion people – that's around one in three people – study English as a second language. Where are the English teachers coming from and how can China attract them?
The English Proficiency Index by English First released statistics on where English is learned around the world and spoken the best. Note that sadly, China is not in the top 15 even though more people in China study English as their second (or third) language than any other country. However, China is trying. In the past, South Korea was the biggest employers of foreign English teachers but nowadays that honor goes to China.
Looking at the English Proficiency Index, four Nordic countries and the Netherlands are at top of the rankings, with over 65% of their population fluent in English. Other European countries fill up many slots on the list. Surprisingly, the only non-European countries in the top 15 are Singapore, Malaysia, and guess what, Argentina!
Hopefully, China's State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs (SAFEA) will take note of these countries. Every year, thousands of foreign English teacher jobs in China go unfilled or filled by Chinese teacher with inadequate oral English skills. I know from personal experience that most of those Chinese teachers can tell you the technical aspects of English grammar such as when to use the past subjunctive but their pronunciation is often horrendous. In my opinion, a fluent English teacher from Sweeden could teach conversational English skills better than most Chinese English teachers.
However, I think one of the most underutilized English teacher resources for China is their own Chinese students who graduated from universities in the United States or other English-speaking countries. If these gems of English knowledge were paid the same salaries as foreign English teachers in China, they could do great as English teachers and would probably be earning salaries exceeding what they'd earn from a job in China in their field of study. Sadly, my Chinese friends who have graduated from Texas A&M University with PhDs can earn more staying in the U.S. as a post doctoral researcher (which can be a pretty menial job) compared to what they'd earn in an industry or government job in China.
Other sources that China could consider for foreign English teachers are countries who's official language is English. Currently, SAFEA will only approve teachers who are citizens of or who have college degrees from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. However, if they'd open up their doors to teachers from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, and Kenya, they'd have plenty of teachers to choose from. Yes, the accents of some citizens of these alternative countries differ from China's preferred English accents but with proper screening by US, UK, and Australian "accent raters," China could fill all it's conversational English teacher jobs with great teachers and even require teachers have Bachelor's degrees in Education.
However, the issue is racism. Though most Chinese will vehemently deny being racist, the vast majority of Chinese ages 30 and older demand that their children's schools only have teachers who "look Western" and in their eyes that means no Asian-looking English teachers and no black or Indian teachers.
As a teacher-trainer and recruiter for hundreds of Chinese schools, I often see white Americans without an education degree or teaching experience chosen over African-American, American-born-Chinese (ABC), Mexican-American, and Indian-American teachers with education degrees and teaching experience.
This is in part due to ignorance on the parents' part. Some of them truly think that other countries are as homogeneous as China, so if you're black, you must be from Africa, not America. Other parents are negatively biased against black teachers based on American movies that unfortunately often portray black actors as thugs. Interestingly, youth sports programs in China will hire African-American men as coaches and for physical education teacher positions, especially where teaching basketball is concerned.
As the white mother of 3 black children (adopted from Ethiopia) and 3 white children, I pray that teacher race becomes less of an issue in the China of the future and that teachers will someday be judged based on their English and teaching skills. Until then, I'm always seeking out open minded schools in China that are willing to put their Chinese student's English needs as the number one priority.
The author, Annette Thompson, is Director of EnglishTeacherChina.com and eTeachAbroad.com.


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Assessing Maternal Health In Nigeria
18 Aug 2018 Guardian Life
Several research studies have shown that black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related issue than white women. While there is access to quality healthcare in some developed countries, the same cannot be said of Nigeria. With 87 million of her citizens living in abject poverty, the country accounts for 14%…
CSO begins project to track maternal health funds in Kano
12 Aug 2018 Nigeria
The Resource Centre for Human Rights & Civic Education (CHRICED) has started an innovative data gathering project to track the use of funds earmarked for maternal healthcare in Kano State. Addressing newsmen on the project, CHRICED helmsman, Comrade Dr. Ibrahim Zikirullahi said the focus of the project on funds provided for maternal health, was borne…
Foundation partners Delta State NYSC on maternal health
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Public Relations officer of the Foundation, Mr. Shadrack Ashionyedue, made the call at the stakeholders meeting tagged "Delta State community outreach", in partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Medical team.
'Improving family planning services will reduce maternal deaths'
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With reference to the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey 2013, the country's maternal mortality ratio is 576 per 100,000 meaning that out of every 100,000 live birth in the country, 576 women would die.
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Gender inequality, poverty and disparities in women's ability to access basic provisions of life, have been identified as key factors negatively impacting on maternal health in Nigeria.
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Google tie-up with JD.com offers online shopping opportunities
Author Amanda Jean Dalugdug
Theme Retail & Consumer ProductsTechnology, Media & Telecom
Google Inc. and Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc. on June 18 announced a strategic partnership, opening the door for the search-engine behemoth to deepen its involvement in online shopping.
The two companies said they plan to collaborate on a range of strategic initiatives, including joint development of retail solutions in Southeast Asia, the U.S. and Europe.
As part of the deal, Alphabet Inc.-owned Google will invest $550 million in cash in JD.com.
JD.com will use its supply chain and logistics expertise, and Google will use its capabilities in technology, to create next-generation retail infrastructure that will offer personalized and seamless shopping experiences, the companies said.
In addition, JD.com plans to make a selection of its products available through Google Shopping.
JD.com Chief Strategy Officer Jianwen Liao was quoted as saying that the agreement represented "a new chapter in our history."
"This partnership with Google opens up a broad range of possibilities to offer a superior retail experience to consumers throughout the world," Liao said. "This marks an important step in the process of modernizing global retail."
Under the terms of the deal, Google will receive 27,106,948 newly issued class A ordinary shares from JD.com at an issue price of $20.29, equivalent to $40.58 per American depositary share, based on the volume-weighted average trading price over the previous 10 trading days.
The shares represent less than 0.5% of JD.com's more than 1.4 billion shares outstanding, according to data from S&P Capital IQ. The Beijing-based, Nasdaq-listed company has a market capitalization of more than $62 billion.
"We're thrilled to partner with JD.com to explore new opportunities to make online shopping even easier for consumers around the world," Karim Temsamani, president of Google's Asia-Pacific operations, was quoted as saying in a blog on the company's website.
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Or  Select the story from the drop-down<>
2.Display the report

A: Your best bet here is to leverage AppSDK2 and Lookback API (LBAPI). Use AppSDK2 to grab the Story or Stories of interest into a WsapiDataStore. Then reach into LBAPI for those stories to grab the Defect history for each story in a SnapshotStore - which you can then use to categorize and chart. I'll see if I can work/scare up an example - this is an ideal use case for the new Rally APIs.