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Childhood obesity isn't falling, but country's hit a plateau
Last month, a New York Times headline announced: "Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade." The stor...
Childhood obesity isn't falling, but country's hit a plateau Last month, a New York Times headline announced: "Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade." The stor... Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/1iWji5A
INI Published 1:58 p.m. ET March 17, 2014 | Updated 5:13 p.m. ET March 17, 2014
First lady Michelle Obama participates in a yoga session at a Miami parks and recreation center to promote her "Let's Move" campaign last month. (Photo: Joel Auerbach)
Last month, a
headline announced: "Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade." The story, pegged to a
by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heralded the drop among children 2 to 5 years old a sign of exciting progress in our national battle against obesity.
In the same newspaper,
food columnist
the toddler obesity plunge a "tribute to the improved Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), which encourages the consumption of fruits and vegetables; to improved nutrition guidelines; to a slight reduction in the marketing of junk to children; and probably to the encouragement of breast-feeding."
But in fact, this spectacular drop is likely an artifact of the data sample, for which 2- to 5-year-olds are a small portion. Indeed, rates of obesity among this group have
gone up and down
several times within the past decade. The real story is less spectacular but clearer: Rates of obesity for Americans of all ages — which increased during the 1980s and 1990s —
have plateaued since 2000.
The question is why, and the answer is that we have no idea.
There is no shortage of hypotheses. Some point to fluctuating levels of caloric intake, but this has been difficult to demonstrate. Indeed, one
found that that children and adolescents in 1988-1994 consumed the same amount of calories as their counterparts had in the 1970s. Another line of research posits that the weight gain of the 1980s and 1990s was largely an adaptive response to toxins in our water, air and clothing. Our bodies may have created fat deposits to store these toxins away from vital organs. In this scenario, weight gain may not be — in itself — a bad thing. Some research suggests that a small but significant part of the weight gain can be attributed to smoking cessation, clearly a development we do not wish to reverse.
More interesting theories underscore the importance of broad societal trends, like growing levels of inequality. Some researchers point to evidence that obesity rates rose highest in those nations with the greatest levels of inequality and with the stingiest welfare states, as well as among the poorest members of all societies. They reason that economic inequality and insecurity produce high levels of stress, raising levels of cortisol, which, in turn, leads to weight gain.
But the poor and socially disadvantaged also have unequal access to information, fruits and vegetables, and safe opportunities to exercise, as well as greater exposure to toxins. There is also evidence that weight-based discrimination leads to downward mobility — that being fat makes you poor, rather than the other way around.
What's frustrating about not being able to isolate precisely why our weight skyrocketed and then stabilized is that it becomes difficult to rely on the right public policy measures to further the trend. Many of the policy interventions we credit for creating our current obesity plateau were developed a decade or more after it started. And even public health
designed to help people lose weight have been
shown
to produce no weight loss, even when they were successful in changing diet and exercise behaviors.
This is not to say that policy efforts — such as improving access to fruits and vegetables in low-income neighborhoods or building more bike paths and parks — are not laudable. These changes, as well as larger efforts to alleviate economic insecurity, are likely to improve our overall quality of life and perhaps even health outcomes, even if they do not lead us to lose weight.
And maybe that is OK. There is growing evidence that people benefit from physical activity and improved diet even in the absence of weight loss. For instance, several studies have shown that physically fit "obese" individuals have a lower incidence of heart disease and mortality from all causes than do sedentary people of "normal" weight. Similarly, a
published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that adopting a Mediterranean diet reduced cardiovascular risk without inducing weight loss. And economic security has consistently been shown to positively affect health and longevity, which is — after all — what all this is about.
Or isn't it?
Saguy is associate professor and vice chair of the UCLA sociology department and the author of What's Wrong with Fat? (Oxford University Press, 2013). She wrote this for
Zocalo Public Square.
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The two producers who are known to be friends mashed up an incredible hour of tunes in The Cosmic Meadow. Get those Future Ghetto vibes in your ears.
His reputation has only gotten better and better throughout the years. Undoubtedly one of the biggest long running DJ's in the world, he absolutely smashed his set at The Kinetic Field, playing a bunch of big room classics as well as harking back to some of his early trance days. The highlight was most definitely John Legend making a surprise appearance at the halfway mark.
The LA based producer blasted funky future dub remixes of Jack Ü, The Chainsmokers, and even System of a Down before unleashing a brand new Zedd track on the unsuspecting crowd. The undoubted highlight is the DJ's humble interludes as he repeatedly thanks the crowd for attending his first EDC appearance before closing out with Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's ukelele "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" cover.
Highlights include Dumont's fan favorite "The Giver" and a freaky little acid house interlude around the 42:00 minute mark. The Blasé Boys Club label boss closed out his set with his breakout hit "I Got U" and a charming thank you to those who caught the set.


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Q: Wrong decoding with utf_7 I use the following python code to decode a "text" file:
import codecs, os, sys
fd = open("c:/a.txt", 'rb')
rb = fd.read()
s = codecs.decode(rb, 'utf_7')
print(s)

and get following errors on running:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf7' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: unexpected special character

But the "text" file can be decoded by the iconv utility, shown as follows:
$iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-7 a.txt
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So what is wrong?

A: The equivalent of the iconv that you gave is:
s = rb.decode('utf-8').encode('utf-7')

You were missing a step.

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Well, he didn't hold out last night. It was a spectacular show and did the city proud. My husband Jerry, who isn't always thrilled when I ask him to help me photograph fashion shows, loved every minute of the show. "Imagine all those people at Ala Moana Center who are just visiting Hawaii. If they were to see that show they would have a whole different idea of what fashion in Hawaii is all about," he said with obvious pride.
The palette: Black, white and gray.
The collection is beautifully crafted with a plethora of details that would be a nightmare for most seamstresses. But Richie, ever the perfectionist, has found fabulous people in Asia who can do anything he asks, even multiple zippers, complex deconstructions and other baffling details. Even with my deisgn background I cannot figure out how he has engineered some of these garments!
Although originally conceived as a men's line, Lovelessizm can often be worn by women.
The versatility of Lovelessizm was made evident throughout the show. Models morphed their garments right on stage. Many of the pieces have functional zippers that can change the entire character of the garment.
Model Forest Gorham morphs his jacket.
Richie has taken some iconic men's garments, such as motorcycle jackets, utility belts and jodphurs, and turned them on their heads.
Do these pants remind you a little of WWI?
Models were provided by Wilhelmina Models and styling was by Ryanjacobie, a Paul Mitchell Focus Salon.
Yes, it works for women.
The music, by L.A.-based vocal percussionist (beatboxer) Jake Moulton and violin player Jason Yang was fantastic.
Hats off to Malie Moran and Hawaii RED Magazine for a job well done in putting together the show. Mahalo to Jerry Mayfield for the photos.
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The Barcelo group of hotels and resorts has been in business for more than 80 years and operates more than 160 properties around the world. In the Caribbean, Barcelo has a pair of all-inclusive hotels in Cancun, five others along the Mexican Riviera Maya; five resorts in Punta Cana (Bavaro Beach), Dominican Republic, plus single resorts in Juan Dolio and Puerto Plata. The Barcelo Solymar Arenas Blancas Resort in Cuba's Varadero resort area also is all-inclusive. Most of these resorts are billed as premium or five-star properties.
Barcelo Tucancun Beach Resort, Cancun, Mexico
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The all-inclusive, family friendly resort of Barcelo Tucancun Beach, on the northeastern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula, is located in Cancun's fabled "Hotel Zone," on an island surrounded by a lake and the Caribbean, connected to the mainland by bridges on both ends. The four-star resort is for families (there is a club just for them), romantics, honeymooners and partiers who can avail themselves of the area's hottest clubs. The resort has 332 rooms, four restaurants, five bars, three pools, and is located 25 miles north of the Cancun airport.
Barcelo Costa Cancun, Mexico
The four-star all-inclusive Barcelo Costa Cancun is located in the tourist-popular Playa Linda area of Cancun, on a white-sand beach and boasting all the usual amenities of an all-inclusive Caribbean resort. It is located in the midst of the hotel complex, about five minutes from the center of Cancun and nearby are Mayan ruins at the ancient city of Chichen Itza, among other archaeological wonders of the country. The resort has a huge pool, many activities for children and several restaurants and bars.
Barcelo Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
White-washed buildings under red-tiled roofs exude a Spanish charm at the all-inclusive Barcelo Punta Cana, located on Playa Arena Gordon in the Dominican Republic. This resort has nearly 800 elegantly appointed rooms with stunning views of the Caribbean, verdant tropical gardens or the lagoon-style swimming pool meandering throughout the property.
Hotel Dominican Beach, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
A new casino at the (formerly Barcelo Dominican Beach Resort) is one of the lures at this 731-room property, which also boasts nine restaurants, a trio of pools, a pair of outdoor Jacuzzis and a new conference center. The 24-hour food-and-drink service means you'll never go hungry or thirsty, and the hotel is located on one of the Dominican's most beautiful beaches. It is about 12 miles from Punta Cana International Airport.
Barcelo Bavaro Palace Deluxe, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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1,366-room resort boast premium-level all-inclusive services and amenities on Bavaro Beach. Accommodations include family rooms, junior suites, and luxury suites. A Las Vegas style promenade includes restaurants, a shopping center, sports bar, spa, casino, and more. There's a P.B. Dye designed 18-hole golf course on site, a variety of ethnic eateries, tennis, soccer fields, a baseball diamond -- you name it, it's here.
Barcelo Bavaro Palace, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
All-inclusive Barcelo Bavaro Palace is on Bavaro Beach, voted one of the world's best, 12 miles from Punta Cana International Airport, a calm beach protected by a coral reef. It features nearly 600 rooms in several buildings. In the middle of a coconut grove by the beach is Playa Bavaro, the heart of action in the resort, a peaceful haven for honeymooners and other romantically inclined couples.
Barcelo Solymar Arenas Blancas Resort, Varadero, Cuba
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The Barcelo Solymar Arenas Blancas Resort is a beachfront property in Cuba's most popular resort destination, Varadero. Guests can choose from standard rooms, bungalows, and suites. All-inclusive amenities include nine restaurants, nine bars, three pools, entertainment, sports, and more.
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He published papers on the use of environmental control technologies for military purposes. As far back as 1958, the chief White House advisor on weather modification, Captain Howard. Put another way, what is used to disrupt another's communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this invention as a communication network at the same time." ". Slicing the Ionosphere Physicist Daniel Winter,. As if electromagnetic pulses in the sky and mental disruption were not enough,. The military failed to tell the public that they do not know what exactly will happen, but a Penn State science article brags about that uncertainty. David Yarrow of Albany, New York, is a researcher with a background in electronics. As with MacDonald's "key to geophysical warfare "nonlinear" effects (described in the literature about the ionospheric heater) mean small input and large output. This difference throws an unprecedented amount of energy into the ionosphere. He also said that these types of weapons would be developed and, when used, would be virtually undetectable by their victims. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything - living and dead. In 1966, MacDonald was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee and later a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
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The military says the haarp system could: Give the military a tool to replace the electromagnetic pulse effect of atmospheric thermonuclear devices (still considered a viable option by the military through at least 1986). This conducting plasma, along with Earth's magnetic field, traps the electrical plasma of space and holds it back from going directly to the earth's surface, says Charles Yost of Dynamic Systems, Leicester, North Carolina. Military documents put it more clearly - haarp aims to learn how to "exploit the ionosphere for Department of Defense purposes." Communicating with submarines is only one of those purposes. "What emerged was an awesome picture of far-ranging research and experimentation by the Department of Defense into ways environmental tampering could be used as a weapon said another author cited in Angles Don't Play This haarp. Feverish Earth "One might compare the abnormal energetic state of the Earth and its atmosphere to a car battery which has become overcharged with the normal flow of energy jammed up, resulting in hot spots, electrical arcing, physical cracks. The Eastlund device would allow a concentration of one watt per cubic centimeter, compared to others only able to deliver about one millionth of one watt. Today, a number of new tools for the "elite" are emerging, and the temptation to use them increases steadily.
Telemetry and data from the test are military technology research papers now being analyzed further. This article was prepared to provide a summary of the contents of a book written in 1995 which describes an entirely new class of weapons. These noisy impulses will vibrate geomagnetic flux lines, sending vibrations all through the geomagnetic web. The unnatural level of motion of highly-energetic particles in the atmosphere and in radiation belts surrounding Earth is the villain in the weather disruptions, according to this model, which describes an Earth discharging its buildup of heat, relieving stress and regaining. We are at the threshold of a new era in the applications of electromagnetic launch technology. When they do appear in the work of other independent scientists, the new ideas are often frustrated or ridiculed, while military research laboratories continue to build their new machines for the killing fields. President Carter) and.F. Defense department was studying "ways to manipulate the charges of the earth and sky and so affect the weather" by using an electronic beam to ionize or de-ionize the atmosphere over a given area. The ability to use electromagnetic energy to controllably propel objects to extremely high speeds has broad and important consequences for many elements of our society, including transportation, communications, energy, national defense, and space. However, those experimenters who want to make unnatural power connections between parts of this system might not be thinking of possible consequences.
Replace the huge Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) submarine communication system operating in Michigan and Wisconsin with a new and more compact technology. If you continue to use this site we will assume that military technology research papers you are happy with. The resulting charged particles are the stuff of haarp. Another advantage of electromagnetic systems is that they can provide coverage over large areas with a single system. During the Symposium, researchers share and exchange a wealth of knowledge through oral and poster presentations. In May 2012, the International Permanent Committee welcomed China as a permanent member of the International EML Technology Symposia.
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The champ program is a three-year endeavor between Boeing and.S. The cameras recording the operation were also disabled. Even if thought of, the intent (of haarp) is to learn to exploit any effects, not to play in tune to global symphonies. Eastlund bragged that the super-powerful ionospheric heater could control weather. Angels Don't Play This haarp: Advances in Tesla Technology is about the military's plan to manipulate that which belongs to the world - the ionosphere. No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages, to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades.". A first priority to prevent this disaster would be to shut down military technology research papers all nuclear power plants and end the testing of atomic weapons, electronic warfare and 'Star Wars'." Meanwhile, the military builds its biggest ionospheric heater yet, to deliberately.
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In addition, the ability of individuals to function could be degraded to such a point that they would be combat ineffective. Department of Defense sampled lightning and hurricane manipulation studies in Project Skyfire and Project Stormfury. Rauscher commented on haarp. The 18th Electromagnetic Launch Technology Symposium will be held October 24-28, 2016, military technology research papers at Wuhan University within the lecture hall of the lecture hall of Humanities Science Museum in Wuhan, China. The military's intention to do environmental engineering is well documented,.S. An insect lands, and the web's vibrations alert the spider to possible prey.
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Senate set aside 15 million dollars in 1996 to develop this ability alone - earth-penetrating-tomography. The above abilities seem like a good idea to all who believe in sound national defense, and military technology research papers to those concerned about cost-cutting. Some of these potential uses include dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare. He published papers on the use of environmental-control technologies for military purposes. The United States Navy and Air Force have joined with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, to build a prototype for a ground based "Star Wars" weapon system located in the remote bush country of Alaska. However, a 1990 government document indicates that the radio-frequency (RF) power zap will drive the ionosphere to unnatural activities. Besides actually changing the molecular composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules can be chosen for increased presence. Rauscher shared her mental picture of it - a soap-bubble-like sphere surrounding Earth's atmosphere, with movements swirling over the surface of the bubble. " "The image comes to mind of a spider on its web.
Large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction." "Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing. The author of the government report refers to an earlier Air Force document about the uses of radio frequency radiation in combat situations. He talks about imbalances already caused by the industrial and atomic age, especially by radiation of large numbers of tiny, high-velocity particles "like very small spinning tops" into our environment. This article will only give the highlights. D., a long and impressive career in high-energy physics, and has been published in prestigious science journals and books. It is an advanced model of an "ionospheric heater." (The ionosphere is the electrically-charged sphere surrounding Earth's upper atmosphere. When he wrote his chapter, "How To Wreck The Environment for the book Unless Peace Comes, he was not kidding around. The individuals who are demanding answers about haarp are scattered around the planet. In another document prepared by the government, the.S. Related research by Begich and Manning uncovered bizarre schemes. For example, ozone, nitrogen, etc., concentrations in the atmosphere could be artificially increased.". She has. Subscribe to the atarc FedBrief Newsletter We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website.
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In April, 1995, however, Begich found other patents, connected with a "key personnel" list for apti. The result of the team's effort was a book which describes the science and the political ramifications of this technology. The haarp project uses the largest energy levels yet played with by what Begich and Manning call "the big boys with their new toys." haarp is an experiment in the sky, and experiments are done to find out something not already known. Is haarp that weapon? GSA ITC Acquisition Summit, aug 7-9, 2019, join GSA and atarc for an educational event about federal IT acquisition. The patent said: "Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more. " World-recognized scientist MacDonald had a number of ideas for using the environment as a weapon system and he contributed to what was, at the time, the dream of a futurist. Be used to replace the over-the-horizon radar system that was once planned for the current location of haarp, with a more flexible and accurate system. Arco sold this subsidiary, the patents and the second phase construction contract to E-Systems in June 1994.
They could make enormous profits by beaming electrical power from a powerhouse in the gas fields to the consumer without wires. If the military, in cooperation with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, can show that this new ground-based "Star Wars" technology is sound, they both win. For example, rainmaking technology was taken for a few test rides in Vietnam. Earth is spinning relative to thin electric shells of the multilayer membrane of ion-o-speres that absorb and shield Earth's surface from intense solar radiation, including charged particle storms in solar winds erupting from the sun. At the highest HF powers available in the West, the instabilities commonly studied are approaching their maximum RF energy dissipative capability, beyond which the plasma processes will 'runaway' until the next limiting factor is reached.".
Air Force Research Laboratory that hopes to eventually produce five such EMP missiles. The geophysicists recognized that adding energy to the environmental soup could have large effects. These signals are used to look inside the planet to a depth of many kilometers in order to locate underground munitions, minerals and tunnels. Patent # 4,686,605, "Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere; and/or Magnetosphere was sealed for a year under a government Secrecy Order. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning. In May 1998, the.S. Air Force claims: "The potential applications of artificial electromagnetic fields are wide-ranging and can be used in many military or quasi-military situations. In all of these cases the EM (electromagnetic) systems would be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. When haarp is eventually built to its full power level, it could create weather effects over entire hemispheres. Put simply, the apparatus for haarp is a reversal of a radio telescope; antenna send out signals instead of receiving. Apti was the contractor that built the haarp facility. A paper in the respected journal Science deals with manmade ionization from radioactive material, but perhaps it could also be studied with haarp-type skybusters in mind: "For example, while changes in the earth's electric field resulting from a solar.
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Publicity documents insist that the haarp project is no different than other ionospheric heaters operating safely throughout the world in places such as Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Tromso, Norway, and the former Soviet Union. Because they are used in new weapons, discoveries are classified and suppressed. Their work suggests that technicians could control global weather by sending relatively small 'signals' into the Van Allen belts military technology research papers (radiation belts around Earth). Knowledge used in developing revolutionary weapons could be used for healing and helping mankind. According to the patent, the work of Nikola Tesla in the early 1900's formed the basis of the research. Smaller ionospheric heaters such as the one at Arecibo are underneath relatively placid regions of the ionosphere, compared to the dynamic movements nearer Earth's magnetic poles. Haarp publicity gives the impression that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program is mainly an academic project with the goal of changing the ionosphere to improve communications for our own good. In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemys electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.
Thus Tesla's resonance effects can control enormous energies by tiny triggering signals. "But most of the theories that we have been taught by scientists to believe in seem to be falling apart he says. It even gave the frequency ranges military technology research papers where these effects could occur - the same ranges which haarp is capable of broadcasting. They may find out that technologies developed out of the haarp experiments in Alaska could deliver on Gordon MacDonald's vision because leading-edge scientists are describing global weather as not only air pressure and thermal systems, but also as an electrical system. " Among other researchers"d is Paul Schaefer of Kansas City. Some of these new apti patents were indeed a wireless system for sending electrical power.
What new breakthroughs in life science could have been made with all the money spent on death? Provide a wide area earth-penetrating tomography which, if combined with the computing abilities military technology research papers of emass and Cray computers, would make it possible to verify many parts of nuclear nonproliferation and peace agreements. The Electromagnetic Launch Technology Symposium (EML) is a biennial event that serves as the principal forum for the discussion, interchange, and presentation of research on critical technologies for accelerating macroscopic objects or projectiles to hypervelocities using electromagnetic or electrothermochemical launchers. It ranges between 40 to 60 miles above the surface of the Earth.). Molecular modifications of the atmosphere can take place so that positive environmental effects can be achieved. All technical presentations at the Symposium will be published in the Proceedings by the Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies and, following peer review, selected papers will be published by the ieee as a special issue of the Transactions on Plasma Science. The Symposium's proceedings and a Special Issue of the Transactions in Plasma Science serve as the major archival source of papers published in this field. Further, this ability to spray large areas of Earth with electromagnetic waves of varying frequencies, and to control changes in those waves, makes it possible to knock out communications on land or sea as well as in the air. The military knows how it intends to use this technology, and has made it clear in their documents. For example, Air Force documents revealed that a system had been developed for manipulating and disturbing human mental processes through pulsed radio-frequency radiation (the stuff of haarp) over large geographical areas. Bubble of Electric Particles Angels Don't Play This haarp includes interviews with independent scientists such as Elizabeth Rauscher. "These precipitated particles can produce secondary ionization, emit X-rays, and cause significant perturbation in the lower ionosphere." Two Stanford University radio scientists offer evidence of what technology can do to affect the sky by making waves on earth; they.
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ISO standard 15378 requirements are outlined for primary pharmaceutical packaging producers. Because packaging comes into contact with pharmaceutical, packaging has to be manufactured carefully.
"Monitored processes and production in the clean room help us keep contamination risks to a minimum," Winifried Bernhard, head of quality management at Raumedic, said in a press release.
The certification was awarded by Bavaria Certification after a three-day recertification audit.


The major refurbishment of Tantrum, London's leading child-only salon saw Muraldesign in the hot seat to create a cool new look in just four days. This was the second time Muraldesign had been brought on board to transform the salon and with its doors closed to customers Anna and her two assistants worked around the clock, and the builders, to create a witty and whimsical underwater scene. Despite the dust, deliveries and a tight deadline, Anna's team made the marine scene a success and the result really was a cut above the rest!


Workshop: Leak Buster Training - Understanding the new Step 5 (3-bet / 4 bet filters), and Step 6 Filter training.
About the workshop: We'll be doing a live interactive workshop about how to use the new step 5 (3-bet and 4 bet) step, as well as explaining some poker theory about the step 6 filters.
Workshop will start promptly at 3:00pm PST/ 6:00pm EST on April 4th.
I'm a sng semi-pro looking to get into cash games. Having 0 cash game data, at what point will the results become significant enough to start adjusting play based on them? I'm assuming they won't be too terrible since I've been semi-pro over 3 years and am waiting to get through Harrington on Cash games vol II before starting to really put in volume in the cash games.
But starting from zero hands, the stats will be all over the place for quite a while I imagine.
Yes, good question. We recommend at least 50k hands. You can start getting some decent idea after 20k hands where some of your leaks are going to be (even in 10k), but the more finite areas will take larger samples.
So you are going to start transitioning more into cash games now basically?
If you have any questions about leak buster, just let me know. Happy to help.
That's the idea anyway. It'll be a few weeks before I start cash though. I've been running terribly and need to stick with what I'm best at for a while to pay the bills. (I call myself semi-pro because 100% of my income now is from poker, but I'm lazy about putting in volume and live cheaply.) Even if I'm good at cash though, I'll have to play less tables, so I'll just have to experiment and see where the best $/hr is to be made. Either way, it'll be good for me, my leaks in tournaments are mostly in the deepstack portion of them.
Just checking lobbies, it looks like ~95 hands per hour is about average for 6max, is that what you would assume? Sorry for the newb question, the disparity between some tables is huge.
Yeah, I understand. If you're not running well, stick with what you're really good at, and also make sure you're giving yourself enough time away from the game too.
When you start to make that transition into cash games, Leak Buster is a great tool for someone like you who will want the instant feedback to make sure you're playing optimally. It has a lot of good tutorial videos, and modules that will help make that transition smoother.
Hands per hour really depends on the site, with turbo, non-turbo. I think average is somewhere around 45 - 90 hands and hour. Some sites with turbo tables can get slightly higher.
Good luck, and if you have any other questions, just let me know.
Note: This workshop was moved because of the holiday. Leak Buster customers will receive an e-mail with the updated information.
It will be released w/ the new version of HM by the 14th of this week.
Just want to say this program seems to be great, ill dl it when i get home today!
Did you record the work shop for anyone planning to purchase LB in the near future?
Yes, past workshops are in the members area of Leak Buster. Just go to step 1, click on the members area button and you'll see past workshops, and additional content videos (supplemental extra content).
Is this program available for limit, yet?
The official release is this Friday for limit (5/14).
About the workshop: We'll be doing a live interactive workshop about how to use Leak Buster's Stat ranges to exploit leaks in your opponents games. Lot's of useful information will be covered. We'll have two instructors in this workshop with a special guest high stakes player (to be announced later).
This workshop is for Leak Buster customers only. A special login link and details will be sent to your e-mail.
Workshop will start promptly at 2:30pm PST/ 5:30pm EST on June 20th.
Location: I perform my own stunts.
What happened to yesterdays release? Leakbuster Limit appeared as a tab onthe website and then Just vanished. Any update of when we can expect the release?
Honestly don't know. It was supposed to be yesterday as far as everyone on our team knew. Apparently there was an issue w/ Table Scanner they wanted to put in, so release was delayed.
It may be Saturday or Sunday, but we don't have any official word yet. We're waiting to hear from HM.
Didn't appear over the weekend . Hope it's sometime this week.
Will you let us know if any further info is known?
Got it up and running, looks fantastic thank you! Currently setting up my HUD but i don't have the pre installed leakbuster HUD's anywhere. I've followed the video's instructions but there not anywhere to be found. Do i need to download them from somewhere?
Problem now solved. Just restarted my computer and they've now appeared.
Make sure when you click import that you are in HM's config file folder. If not, then switch there. They are automatically created when you register, BUT you may need to exit and restart HM. Some system's cache needs to reset itself since HM doesn't always do this for some reason.
If that doesn't work just PM with your e-mail and I can send them to you.
Ha, we must have been posting at the same time.
Your aggression is too low from the big blind. It's very important to apply enough aggression so that you are getting the most value from your hands, bluffing in the right spots, and applying enough pressure to your opponents. Consider betting instead of checking a little more often.
Your aggression from the big blind is currently too high. You should consider bringing down your aggression by checking and calling, or checking and folding a little more often.
Can you be more specific about where you're seeing this. Is this for no-limit, in the simple view or advanced view of step 3?
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On July 18, 2017, Minister of Finance, Bill Morneau announced the release of a Consultation Paper which focused on three tax practices that the Government considers to provide an unfair tax advantage to private corporations and their owners.
A number of changes are being recommended for income sprinkling, passive investment income and capital gains.
If your corporation utilizes one of the above planning strategies, please read this Tax Update for Private Corporations for more details.


Mikey: I hope you got a tetanus shot.
Pini: When did you develop a sense of humour?
Yuval: Leave my mother out of it.
Yuval: You don't have to worry about that anymore.
Shani: I missed you. And Pinocchio too. How's he doing these days?
Danny: He's okay. A little hungry, you know.
Shani: Yeah, so is Bella.


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Legend of Gilles De Rais (1404-1440) in the Writings of Huysmans, Bataille, Planchon, and Tournier
Author: Morgan, Val
This study examines the literary representations of Gilles de Rais, serial-killer, devout Christian and Maréchal de France. After briefly summarizing the historical outlines of Rais' life, it examines four literary encounters (Huysmans' Là-bas (1891), Bataille's Le Procès de Gilles de Rais (1965), Planchon's Gilles de Rais (1975), Tournier's Gilles et Jeanne (1985)) to reveal how certain issues of modern aesthetics and ethics are elucidated and problematized.
"As this insightful and wide-ranging study shows, the interpretive battle over Gilles de Rais did not end in 1900…it continued to rage unabated, at the very heart of literary modernism, throughout the twentieth century….Historians of the twentieth-century avant-garde owe Val Morgan an immense debt of gratitude for the meticulous manner in which she has prised apart the different strands of the various arguments that separate and bind together writers, theoreticians and playwrights as diverse as J.-K. Huysmans, Georges Bataille, Roger Planchon, and Michel Tournier." – Terry Hale, Research Fellow and Project Leader at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Hull
"Ms. Morgan has tackled her topic with great learning and with a high degree of sophisticated philosophical speculation on the issues which the late-medieval scandal of Rais insists on our considering." – Dr. Jonathan White, University of Essex
Foreword; Preface; Introduction
1.	Huysman's Gilles de Rais: A Model of Decadent Poetics
2.	Bataille's Gilles de Rais: An Allegory of Modernity
3.	Planchon's Gilles de Rais: A Modern Miracle Play
4.	Tournier's Gilles de Rais: A Postmodern Tale
5.	Concluding Remarks
Appendix I: Gilles de Retz by Sidney Keyes
Appendix II: Synopsis of Gilles De Rais by John Burgess
Bibliography; Index
Other France/French: All Subjects Books
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2012 - Figure of Dido in French Drama and French Music
2000 - Octave Mirbeau's Literary and Intellectual Evolution as a French Writer 1880-1914
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package com.abusalimov.mrcalc.ast;

import com.abusalimov.mrcalc.location.Location;

/**
 * An abstract implementation of the {@link Node} that provides basic {@link Location} support.
 *
 * @author Eldar Abusalimov
 */
public abstract class AbstractNode implements Node {
    private Location location;

    /**
     * Creates a new Node with no location attached. It can be set later using the {@link
     * #setLocation(Location)} method though.
     */
    public AbstractNode() {
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new Node and sets a given location.
     *
     * @param location {@link Location} to attach.
     */
    public AbstractNode(Location location) {
        this.location = location;
    }

    @Override
    public Location getLocation() {
        return location;
    }

    @Override
    public void setLocation(Location location) {
        this.location = location;
    }
}

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James Montgomery (1878-1966) – commediografo e scrittore statunitense
 James Montgomery, noto come Jim Montgomery – nuotatore statunitense
 James Montgomery – poeta scozzese
 James Montgomery – calciatore inglese

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9. Civic Works To Get More People Onto Blockchain Identity Platform
Civic coin was developed in 2017 and provides a personal identity verification protocol to their users that takes advantage of distributed ledger technology for better management of digital identities. Specifically, inputting someone's personal identification data to Civic would allow any business to cross-check the information without forcing the individual to enter the same data twice.
The company announced in September that it would be paying for identity checks for users and business partners until the end of 2018, according to CoinDesk. Every new user that's had his or her identity verified on Civic makes it a little more attractive for the next company looking for an identity platform, CoinDesk said.
Civic works with businesses such as Annheiser-Busch that need to be able to verify a user's identity, Civic said. For instance, Civic can help ensure that Budweiser beers from a vending machine are only being distributed to people of a legal drinking age.


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Women's World Cup: As champions for equality, USWNT to be admired in its fight for lasting change
CNN Monday 8 July 2019, 9:19 am
Lyon, France (CNN)It has been impossible to ignore the US Women's National Team in this World Cup, but so too impossible not to admire them.When many teams would have soaked up the adulation and reveled in winning the biggest prize in women's football, the USWNT regarded the aftermath of victory as the perfect platform to drive their fight for equality further forward.Almost immediately after beating the Netherlands 2-0 in the Women's World Cup final in Lyon, the players issued a statement which brought their battle for equal pay with the US Soccer Federation to the forefront of the conversation once again. "At this moment of tremendous pride for America, the sad equation remains all too clear, and Americans won't stand for it anymore. Thes ...


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'Regrettable & unacceptable': Japan's Olympic minister blasts South Korean posters showing torch bearer in protective suit
Japan's minister for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Seiko Hashimoto has slammed South Korean posters dedicated to the upcoming Summer Games featuring a torch bearer wearing an anti-radiation suit.
"The use of such a poster is unacceptable," Hashimoto said at a press conference on Friday adding that the creation of such pictures is "very regrettable."
READ MORE: 'I would love to combine figure skating & anime': Evgenia Medvedeva to portray Sailor Moon in Japanese ice show
A series of posters depicting an Olympic torch runner wearing a hazmat suit were produced by the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a private group in South Korea who said they wanted to raise awareness about ecological issues in Japan.
The runner's suit and green radioactive flame spewing from the torch apparently referred to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011 after a devastating 15-meter tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant causing high radioactive releases.
The prefecture was included in the route of the Olympic Torch Relay with Japanese officials stating there would be no radiation threat to the relay participants.
"We included messages of warning about the safety of radiation, the biggest concern during the Tokyo Olympics," the VANK said. "Host country Japan said agricultural products from Fukushima Prefecture are safe and announced that it will provide them for Olympic athletes."
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the government lodged complaints with South Korea regarding the posters which they found "unacceptable."
Earlier this week Japanese officials said the deadly coronavirus outbreak would not affect the schedule of the upcoming Summer Games.
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China Has Ground To A Halt: "On The Ground" Indicators Confirm Worst-Case Scenario
Trump Slashes Neocon Dreams by Cutting Bloated F-35 Budget to Pay for Border Wall


I've been using LeadBolt (an in-app advertising network) for a few months now, with mixed results. The rich media content unlockers offered by LeadBolt are very effective, especially if you're developing a game where the interstitial format makes sense (e.g. a blocking advert between levels). However, their banner advertising hasn't been as effective for me, offering a CTR and eCPM slightly less than AdMob.
This week LeadBolt announced a new advertising format, called an "App Wall". This is a full-page advertisement, which is actually embedded in a WebView (so no SDK integration required). The app wall offers the user a list of free apps to download. If they click and download one of the apps, Leadbolt will pay you a referral fee.
It's a pretty simple concept, but one that I think could work very well as a non-intrusive method of advertising. For example, you could include an entry on your main menu, that says "Top Apps". By linking this to the LeadBolt app wall, you've got an effective "pay per download" revenue source integrated right into your main menu. People can simply choose to ignore that menu item if they're not interested in the advertising. And because the list of items on the app wall changes frequently, users are likely to keep returning to the advertisement day after day.
Based on my testing so far, the App Wall format seems to be quite effective. I've been getting a CTR of about 6.4% (compared with 5.4% for Rich Media Unlockers, and 2.8% for Banner ads). I'm also getting an eCPM of about $1.50 at the moment. Has anyone else tried LeadBolt with the new App Wall? Want to share your results?


A homeowner has been arrested and is being questioned by police after shooting two suspected burglars at his countryside home in Leicestershire.
Andy Ferrie, 35, and his wife Tracey, 43, were arrested after a break-in at their home in the Welby area, near Melton Mowbray, in the early hours.
It is believed Ferrie shot two of the four intruders with his shotgun before calling the police. He was the legal owner of the weapon.
Neither of the two suspected burglars suffered life-threatening injuries in the shooting.
One man with shotgun injuries was treated near Ferrie's home and a second man was treated for injuries after presenting himself at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
The homeowners were not injured but were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.
Police said that four men aged 27, 23, 31 and 33 were arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.
Rutland and Melton MP Alan Duncan defended the Ferries and said they should not be prosecuted for defending their property.
He said: "If this is a straightforward case of someone using a shotgun to defend themselves against burglars in the dead of night, then I would hope that the police will prosecute the burglars and not my constituents.
"The householder is the victim here and justice should support them and prosecute the burglars."
Mr Ferris's mother, Susan Spilner, told the Sun that the house, which is in a remote spot, has been broken into before. "They have been robbed three or four times. One of them was quite nasty," she said.
The case echoes other incidents that have sparked debate into the amount of force a homeowner should use to protect himself and his property.
In 1999, farmer Tony Martin was given a life sentence for shooting 16-year-old burglar Fred Burras in the back at his remote Norfolk farm. His charge was later reduced to manslaughter and he served three years in prison.
In 2009, millionaire businessman Munir Hussain left an intruder with brain damage after he beat him with a cricket bat after the burglar held up his family at knifepoint. He was originally sentenced to 30 months in prison, later reduced to 12 months with two years suspended.
Prime Minister David Cameron has previously said that invaders "leave their human rights outside" when they break into property and homeowners should only face prosecution if they use "grossly disproportionate force".


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package com.samsung.coreapps;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import com.android.uiautomator.core.UiObject;
import com.android.uiautomator.core.UiObjectNotFoundException;
import com.android.uiautomator.core.UiSelector;

/**
 * @author Oleksandr Pylkevych

 * @author o.pylkevych@gmail.com

 *

 *         Steps:

 *         1. Launch Messaging app

 *         2. Compose new message

 *         3. Input recipeint number

 *         4. Input text

 *         5. Tap on back button

 *         6. Tap on back button

 *         7. Tap on menu

 *         8. Select draft messages

 *         9. Tap on menu

 *         10. Select Delete

 *         11. Check item

 *         12. Tap on Delete

 *         13. Tap on OK

 *

 *         For run test you can uses next command:
 adb shell
 *         uiautomator runtest /data/local/tmp/AndroidPerformance.jar -c
 *         com.coreapps.SendMessage

 *

 *         Test result in the following path:

 *         1. /data/local/tmp/draftfulltestval.dat

 *         2. /data/local/tmp/draftdelval.dat
 */
public class SendMessage extends TestParentUiAutomator {
    private static final int COUNT = 100;

    public void test() throws UiObjectNotFoundException, FileNotFoundException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
        // Default parameters
        String toNumber = "123";
        String text = "Tizen";
        PrintWriter testDurationWriter = new PrintWriter("/data/local/tmp/draftfulltestval.csv", "UTF-8");
        PrintWriter deleteDraftDurationWriter = new PrintWriter("/data/local/tmp/draftdelval.csv", "UTF-8");
        testDurationWriter.println("Test duration (millis);");
        deleteDraftDurationWriter.println("Delete draft duration (millis);");
        for (int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) {
            long startTest = findAndRunApp();
            createMessage(toNumber, text);
            exitToMainWindow();
            System.out.println("NUMBER OF ITERATION: " + (i + 1));
            deleteDraft(deleteDraftDurationWriter);
            getUiDevice().pressBack();
            getUiDevice().pressBack();
            long testDuration = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTest;
            testDurationWriter.println(testDuration + ";");
            System.out.println("TEST DURATION IS: " + testDuration + " millis");
        }
        testDurationWriter.close();
        deleteDraftDurationWriter.close();
    }

    private long findAndRunApp() throws UiObjectNotFoundException {
        getUiDevice().pressHome();
        clickOnText("Messaging");
        UiObject appValidation = new UiObject(new UiSelector().packageName("com.android.mms"));
        assertTrue("Unable to detect Messaging", appValidation.exists());
        return System.currentTimeMillis();
    }

    private void createMessage(String toNumber, String text) throws UiObjectNotFoundException {
        clickOnImage("Compose");
        UiObject toBox = new UiObject(new UiSelector().text("Enter recipient"));
        toBox.setText(toNumber);

        UiObject textBox = new UiObject(new UiSelector().text("Enter message"));
        textBox.setText(text);
    }

    private void deleteDraft(PrintWriter deleteDraftDurationWriter) throws UiObjectNotFoundException {
        getUiDevice().pressMenu();
        clickOnText("Draft messages");
        getUiDevice().pressMenu();
        clickOnText("Delete messages");
        clickOnCheckbox(1);
        clickOnText("Delete");
        clickOnText("OK");
        long timeBeforeMillis = System.currentTimeMillis();
        UiObject deleted = new UiObject(new UiSelector().className("android.widget.TextView").text("No messages"));
        while (!deleted.exists()) {
            sleep(1);
        }
        long deleteDuration = System.currentTimeMillis() - timeBeforeMillis;
        deleteDraftDurationWriter.println(deleteDuration + ";");
        System.out.println("DELETE TEXT DRAFT DURATION IS: " + deleteDuration + " millis");
    }

    private void exitToMainWindow() {
        // Find New message button
        UiObject newMessageButton = new UiObject(new UiSelector().className("android.widget.TextView").description("Compose"));

        // Press back button while new message button doesn't exist
        while (!newMessageButton.exists()) {
            getUiDevice().pressBack();
            sleep(500);
        }
    }
}


The Brazil forward missed the 3-1 second-leg defeat in the last 16 earlier this month through injury, but told match officials "to go f*k yourselves" on social media after watching on from the sidelines at the Parc des Princes.
"It's a disgrace. They get four guys who don't understand football to watch a slow-motion replay in front of the TV," Neymar wrote in Portuguese on Instagram after the game.


I live in the western subs of Chicago, Illinois.
I just got my license late last year 2008, it took me 55 years to do it. Haha and I just ride around the block on my HD low rider, by myself....I do not have anyone to ride with. I got into a car accident and had knee surgery......bummer, but I can't wait to ride again, this year. Looking for a partner to ride with and give me pointers...and to drag me out into the open. Just need some gust and some confidences to be out on my own.
I am looking for women who ride sport bikes and who live around or in Chicago. Is there anyone out there who is interested in (relatively) casual rides around town and suburbs? Anyone who is skilled enough to ride but is not an expert who only wants to go to the track? Am I the only one?


Bulldog Media Group, Inc. will be attending the 2011 Ad Tech San Francisco conference and exhibition taking place April 12 - 13, 2011 at the Moscone Center.
Kristin Sanford, Strategic Sales Associate, will be attending Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas on January 9th and 10th, 2011.
Bulldog Media Group, Inc. will host the 8th annual Holiday Social on December 2, 2010 at the corporate office in Madison, SD. The Holiday Social allows for business partners and community members to learn about the field of online marketing and the services that Bulldog Media Group, Inc. provides as well as to get acquainted with the current staff.
Infusion Strategies names Kristin Sanford as their new Strategic Sales Associate. Sanford combines a passion for seeing businesses grow through the successful implementation of a client specific strategy with 4 years of sales and marketing experience to Bulldog Media Group, Inc.
CommissionSoup will be attending the Affiliate Summit East conference and exhibition taking place August 15-17, 2010, in New York City.
This year we awarded our eighth annual scholarship to Kelsey Warns of Madison, SD. Kelsey is planning to attend Dakota State University to pursue a degree in Elementary Education with a minor is Reading and/or Math.
CommissionSoup and Bulldog Media Group, Inc. recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of Web Production Manager, Joel Molascon. Joel joined CreditSoup, Inc the year it was founded in 2000, while he was attending Dakota State University.
Bulldog Media Group's online marketing expansion is a big reason why the Madison-based company received the 2010 Growth and Achievement Award presented by the Lake Area Improvement Corporation.
Bulldog Media Group, Inc. is celebrating 10 years in business! Operations began for CreditSoup, Inc in a small home office. Fast forward ten years to a company who has undergone a name change, occupies 6,000 square feet of office space, employs a staff of 25, and continues to lead the field of online marketing.
Our mission at CreditSoup, Inc. is to achieve and maintain a position of unparalleled excellence within the online marketing industry. In order to more accurately reflect our company's broad initiatives in online marketing, we are changing our corporate name to Bulldog Media Group, Inc.
In an effort to make sure we continue to provide the highest quality traffic, CommissionSoup has moved to an invitation-only network.
CommissionSoup once again is seeing continued growth. "New staff members Donald Parker, Megan Johnson, Tyler Hansen and Jenny Grabinger are now on board to assist in our expansion efforts." stated Darin Namken, President of CommissionSoup.
CommissionSoup, a top performance-based marketing solutions and affiliate marketing group, will be exhibiting at Ad:Tech San Francisco 2009 from April 21st – 22nd.
Transparency may be the big buzz word in online marketing now a days, but it's nothing new to CommissionSoup, a top performance-based marketing solutions and affiliate marketing group that has been transparent since the company was founded in 2001.
While many companies may be seeing a drop in customers during the current economy, consumers are still shopping and comparing online, says CommissionSoup, a top performance-based marketing solutions and affiliate marketing group.
MADISON, S.D. – CommissionSoup announced the expansion of a new division. "The Rewards Runner Network, is in production and will be ready to launch in the second quarter of 2009," stated Darin Namken, President of CommissionSoup.
Commissionsoup is proud to announce that Mike Fagan of Verifi has won the $250.00 gift certificate given away during our recent trip to Las Vegas to attend the DMA 08 conference.
CommissionSoup a top performance-based marketing solutions and affiliate marketing group announced that it will exhibit at Ad:Tech New York 2008.
Affiliate marketing group CommissionSoup will be attending the Direct Marketing Association conference and exhibition, DMA08.
CommissionSoup Announces Sixth Annual Scholarship Winner! Mollie Merriam of Huron, South Dakota will receive a $1000 scholarship from CommissionSoup for the 2008-2009 school year.
CommissionSoup a top performance-based marketing solutions and affiliate marketing group announced that it will exhibit at Ad:Tech San Francisco 2008. Ad:Tech is an interactive advertising and technology conference dedicated to connecting all sides of today's brand marketing landscape.
CommissionSoup was recently honored by the South Dakota Advertising Federation at the 42nd Annual ADDY Awards. CommissionSoup was awarded a silver ADDY in the Consumer Web Sites category for their site, www.MadisonSD.com.
Affiliate marketing group CommissionSoup will be attending the Affiliate Summit conference and exhibition in Las Vegas February 24th and 25th. Affiliate Summit provides educational sessions on the latest industry issues and fosters a productive networking environment for affiliates, merchants and networks alike.
CommissionSoup, a leading online affiliate marketing network, has specialized in limiting the merchant's risks while maximizing their program's marketing potential since 2001, working with many leading merchants to define their program's needs and goals, then connecting their programs to the best online marketers to achieve them.
Affiliate marketing group CommissionSoup will be attending the AdTech conference and exhibition in New York November 5th and 6th. AdTech blends relevant speakers, topic driven panels and interactive workshops, providing attendees with the tools and techniques needed to compete in today's digital world.
Affiliate marketing group CommissionSoup will be attending the Direct Marketing Association conference and exhibition (DMA07) in October where more than 550 first-class marketing solution providers will gather to offer new technologies, services and expertise to help make work-life easier and online marketing businesses more profitable.
CommissionSoup, the online affiliate marketing group, is continuing their commitment to personal attention to their clients with some major re-positioning within the company as part of an overall effort to re-brand themselves with a new online marketing message.
Representatives from CommissionSoup recently attended AdTech, an interactive advertising and technology conference in San Francisco. CommissionSoup unveiled their new exhibit booth reflecting the changes that have taken place at the growing company and emphasizing the services offered by their affiliate marketing network.
Due to their continued growth online in the past year, affiliate marketing group CommissionSoup is gearing up for the AdTech San Francisco convention in April with a bigger and better exhibit booth and a new customer service and sales manager. CommissionSoup is exhibiting at Booth 5759 at the Moscone Center April 25th and 26th.
CommissionSoup was honored with two awards from the South Dakota Advertising Federation at the 41st Annual ADDY Awards. They took home two silver awards, one for designing the Heartland Consumers Power District tradeshow display and the other for the design of [www.jessicafjerstad.com](http://www.jessicafjerstad.com "www.JessicaFjerstad.com" 'popup').
CommissionSoup recently hired two new employees, Megan Bushfield and Dustin Leuning, as graphic designers. CommissionSoup expanded considerably in 2006 to meet the demands of an increasing client pool and the 2007 forecast looks as bright. Bushfield and Leuning will design advertisements for clients as well as CommissionSoup's array of in-house programs.
A new Web site has been introduced to the Madison community. CommissionSoup redeveloped www.MadisonSD.com to strengthen awareness of the Madison area and provide up-to-date information to local citizens. Darin Namken, President of CommissionSoup, unveiled the first phase of the new site Thursday.
CommissionSoup is hosting their 4th Annual Holiday Social on December 7. This is a chance for the Madison community to visit with employees and learn about the company. CommissionSoup also recently hired two additional staff members — Amy Brown and Kyle Cronin.
CommissionSoup is heading to New York to exhibit at AdTech November 6 and 7. CommissionSoup is exhibiting at Booth 1300 in the Hilton New York as part of this premier event for interactive marketing.
CommissionSoup will be exhibiting at the DMA 06 Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco. Representatives from CommissionSoup will be in the Interactive Marketing Hall of the Moscone Center October 15 - 17.
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First it struck us that about 560 mln shares changed hands in just that one day; We know what your thinking; Good thing the US market isn't comprised of a skittish bunch - precisely our thoughts. A few years back, one of the curious arguments used by the social media community and their VC backers was the idea of the "wisdom of crowds"; let's just say we have some fundamental doubts about the whole idea of what the market had already been calling "efficient market theory". We think a few minor tweaks to the name would better reflect reality, maybe something like "Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds". We've known of a lot of wise individuals, but can't seem to recall too many wise ideas put forward by crowds. Can 10% of the float of a major US concern changing hands in around 6-8 hours be considered a sudden flurry of rational thought, or as they say in AA "a moment of clarity"?
Next we looked at the 52 wk. high of 27.74 reached on April 30th, 2010 – or only about 10 months ago. Apparently, many of the same participants who are engaged in this corporate asset pricing scheme, thought a smaller CSCO (i.e. lower Gross Revenue, and less about 1 bln in equity) was worth about $9.04 a share more back in April 2010; for the record that's well, just 50 bln. in mis-pricing by the "wisdom" of the crowd uncovered last Thursday. Since the 50 bln. figure is based on today's outstanding shares, it is actually understated. More shares were outstanding last April, so the delta in appraisal value is actually higher.
So Ooops... more than one market participant was off by about 50 bln. on their appraisal, or were they? It's a decline in market cap of 33% from last April, but because of the way mathematical laws have a funny way of being immutable, a future return to that price would constitute a return of some 48% for the investor today.
Although we've tried, the "act first, think later" approach to investing doesn't work as well as you might think.
We think the chances of it going back to that price are better than average. By way of example, If it took five years to return to the April 2010 high, the investor today would still be making a decent return on the capital invested in this issue for each of those five years. During the time, it is more than likely the company would continue to close the gap, (in their usual consistent way) between their market cap, and the assets backing the security, also known as equity. At the same time, as the price rose back to the 52 wk. high of April 2010, you would have a conveniently declining price to book value, that's how it works in companies that manage owners equity efficiently. Of course, we don't think it will take anywhere near five years for the price to recover to around $27, and the first year is almost behind us.
CSCO enlarged their owners' equity in aggregate by roughly 17% between 2006 and 2010. In five years if the company a) continued to enlarge owners' equity at 17% and b) returned to the 52 wk. high the investor today would make on average just over 8% a year on their capital, while the company approached a price to book ratio of about 1. We have a funny feeling that even with much more modest growth than the company is projecting it is going to be trading at a lot higher price than 27.74 in five years, simply because they will have increased their book value substantially by that time. Throw in a little calculus for the stock buy back plan if you're not sure, and top it off with a little inflation – two percent will do for our purposes.
In a nutshell, the average owners equity in CSCO over the last 5 fiscal years was 34.5 bln. or just over 11 bln. less than it is today. During that time frame, the avg. share price at FYE was $22.91 or $4.21 higher than it is as of today. To put it in other terms, today's equity is roughly 32%, or a full one third more than the average of the last five years. Yet, at the same time the average equity in the company was 32% less, the selling price (including Great Depression 2.0 aka 2008-09) was a whole 22.5% higher on average than it is today. We have no comforting words for past buyers of the issue at prices much higher than $19, when the shares did not represent a particularly good value.
Have things changed that much inside this company? Are the prospects that much worse? Are the prospects for our country or the global economy that different? After all, aren't companies in a way a reflection of our economic output as a county, or as a global economy, and aren't the larger enterprises, by necessity a more accurate reflection of macro-economic events? Isn't just about everyone, except Mr. Chambers talking about an "economic recovery" (call us pessimistic, but we'll side with Chambers on resistance to this idea).
Or is the this sell off and the resultant low price an emotional response to just run of the mill bad news? The news wasn't great, but is it really that out of kilter for a company that likely has a very long life span ahead of it?
Of course CSCO did loose a point or two on gross margin, but from our personal experience that comes with the territory of a) growing and b) running a larger enterprise. There is no such thing as a company being exempt from the economies of scale that necessitate both a slow down on the calculus of growth and also a compression in margins, particularly as new products are rolled out, but not yet brought to maturity. Nor does a reduction in margins mean it will stay that way in the future. Precisely nothing prevents the company from correcting it in the future through new R&D, improved sales efforts, or tighter cost controls.
- Can you ever do better than a 1:1 ratio of buyer and seller? The media is blanketed with all the "selling", but what about all the "buying". What if the headlines last Thursday read "huge buying activity in shares of CSCO"? Would that not be precisely as accurate and true as the antithesis which was hyper-broadcast on the same day?
- When owners sell on mildly bad news, "Lehman-like" price declines, and super high volume, is it possible that emotions may have played an unusually large role in the justification unfurling in the sellers mind?
- For those who buy on mildly bad news, gigantic price plunges, and the ridiculous volume that goes with it; can we hypothesize that their buy decision is based on a somewhat more rational framework than their "seller" counterpart?
Maybe 15-20% plunges in a day (in an otherwise rising market), is just the "new black". We're not sure. After all didn't Nokia and Expedia take a page from the Cisco playbook the following day? Maybe they had headline envy? Or maybe their P/L and Balance sheet were materially weaker than CSCO. EXPE trades for a significant premium to book over CSCO, even though they are technically insolvent (based on tangible assets). NOK on the other hand has a minor problem – a little company who's logo is a fruit, and who's products people tend to like a little bit more than NOK's, or any other company in the known universe for that matter. Those are material issues, yet NOK trades for about the same premium over book as CSCO, even though it has done an efficient job at destroying owner equity in recent years, and has some competition, even if of only minor notability.
Look at technology and the information revolution over the last 25 years. If you told someone what the new iPad can do back in 1985 (when much of the world had yet to lay their eyes on a pocket calculator), they would have never believed it. Now project 25 years into the future, it goes by quick.
87.65 bln is equivalent to $15.84 per share for the entire enterprise – or a price to book of 1.92. It's hard to find market leaders in any industry for that price.
At the depth of the abyss on Mar 2nd, 2009 when so many were finding religion, the company sold for $14.18 on shareholder equity of less than 38 bln. or about 7 bln (give or take a few hundred million) less than what backs the issue today. That is too say the security for the issue has improved by just under 20%, while the share price based on the above model is only some 10.05% greater than March 2nd, 2009. The good news is, a buyer today, in addition to having significantly enlarged equity to buttress his purchase, also has the benefit of a sky which is not falling (we looked out the window and checked, it's true).
Further, It's good to buy companies that buy their own stock – it's sort of like getting money for nothing – win lose or draw on meeting earnings expectations, and well, you still win, so long as the company is still buying their own stock. That is to say, on that most holy of days on Wall Street in recent memory, (March 2nd, 2009) CSCO had an additional 300+ mln shares out.
Sure there is going to be all sorts of details to dig into, about executives leaving after barely a year (sometimes people just don't want to work after making 600 mln), juicy tidbits about corporate jet reimbursements and stories about how the CEO dumped his stock last year (of course if it were anyone else in the world, those actions would just be seen as a wise diversification policy, after all, the chances of Mr. Chambers living another 100 years is substantially less than the prospects for the company he runs, his chances of still running the company in even one tenth that time frame are even less – maybe some estate planning can be forgiven?). Either way, none if it jumps out as unusual to us for a large enterprise going through the normal machinations of business. Chances are nobody will remember those details in a year, let alone 10 years from now; as it was once said "if you wouldn't own it for ten years, you shouldn't own it for ten minutes".
A wise man once commented "time reveals truth and justice". On Wall Street, time certainly favors balance sheets (the most true of the financial statements) over emotions, and their media handlers, who almost always prefer quarterly income statements, and their related ratios. Look at the business cycle; could CSCO be another IBM? Why not? Technology companies usually have strangely short life spans, but when we find exceptions, as with IBM, they are big time exceptions, because large scale technology enterprises that invest in research and development really do add to our lives in important ways. In that sense, if we try to project into the future one year, we are well served. If we try to project 10 years into the future, we're being a bit speculative, but our vision will be somewhat more grounded in reality nonetheless than if we were reacting emotionally to the latest news piped in on our iPhone telling us of all "the selling" action in shares of this firm or that firm. If we dare to dream, we would even look 100 years into the future, to see what roles companies like CSCO might have, and what the price of their shares might be?


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A Novel Idea: Stephen Chbosky's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
"A Novel Idea" is a recurring feature at Gordon and the Whale that combines two things that I may have some expertise in – books and movies. "A Novel Idea" is essentially book reviews with a cinematic bent, examining literary works already slated for the big screen treatment – aiming to give us an idea of what to look for when those books finally hit the silver screen, for better or worse.
The importance of a slice of entertainment hitting its consumer at the precisely correct moment in their life cannot be overstated. Sometimes, it cannot even be sufficiently explained to others who have not had a similar experience. It's entertainment, plus emotion, swirled with experience. Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower hit shelves in February of 1999, back when this writer was the tender age of fifteen (is there anyone as young as a fifteen year old?) and a sophomore in high school. Though Chbosky's book revolves around high schoolers who feel that they exist especially on the outside of "normal" teenage society, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is not alienating in its depiction of, well, alienation. You did not need to be teenage outcast for the novel to touch you. But it certainly didn't hurt.
I was not an outcast in high school. But anyone who believes that their high school years were the best years of their life is not someone that I am able to connect with on an emotional or an intellectual level. I've been out of high school for over a decade, but this notion has held true over those years. Anyone who says they never felt a moment of alienation during the ages of approximately thirteen to eighteen is a liar (or they're just deluding themselves). But what The Perks of Being a Wallflower was best at was not allowing teens to feel okay with their misery, but the opposite –it reminded its readers that, even in the miserable cesspool of high school, it was possible to feel real emotions and have honest experiences. It was possible to find a transcendent moment in between gym class and the Sadie Hawkins dance. As a book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a wonderful piece of Young Adult fiction that's wise beyond its years – as a film, we're just going to have to wait and see.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower revolves around high school freshman "Charlie" (in the book, an assumed name for reasons of anonymity). Charlie is, simply put, not having an easy time of it. Before high school even started, his best friend killed himself, and the after-effects of that death are mingled in with every single one of Charlie's interactions at home or at school. Friendless in school, Charlie is also the odd man out with his family – his older brother is a college football star, his older sister is pretty and popular, and his parents seem to have long forgotten what it means to be happy. An invisibility shrouds Charlie everywhere he goes – until he meets Sam and Patrick, and finds himself accepted into a motley crew of older kids who take him in without question. But even as Charlie finds a place with his new friends, the pain of his past and the immaturity of his present threaten what will become of his future.
As straightforward as the plot of the novel sounds, it's miles more complicated than the average YA novel (well, the average YA novel that doesn't include elements of the supernatural). The novel works in an epistolary format – the story is told by way of letters Charlie writes to someone he's never met. We come to understand that the recipient of his letters is a student in another school, an older girl that Charlie heard other people talking about in such a way that he believed she would "understand." The conceit of Perks is a dated one – if the book took place in the year 2011, the idea that Charlie could write to someone who would never discover his identity would be laughable, it would only require a few strokes on a keyboard to suss him out via Facebook, but the film version of Perks is sticking to its mid-'80s roots, so the concept of anonymity is still at its core. It is this anonymity that allows Charlie freedom in expressing his experience – but how will that translate to the screen? What's most interesting about Charlie's letter-writing in the novel is how easily it's forgotten in favor of flowing into a typical first-person narrative with a slight twist. There's no need to show Charlie sitting down and writing letters, we just need to know that the film is firmly told through his perspective, which guarantees that it comes with a very specific set of misunderstandings and misdirections.
The novel is being brought to the screen by its own author, Stephen Chbosky, who has both written the script and is directing the film. Chbosky's pedigree as the novel's writer puts him in a unique position – he'll be able to bring his beloved book to the screen the way he wants, but he's a somewhat unknown force behind the camera. Chbosky did, however, graduate from USC's Filmic Writing Program and he's even helmed a film that appeared at Sundance in the 1990s, but his film work is still frighteningly slim. Chbosky's mixed resume also includes penning the screenplay for the RENT adaptation and creating the television show Jericho. Like I said - mixed.
A less invested screenwriter or director may have felt inclined to axe a subplot of Perks that is guarded within the majority of the text, yet central to understanding Charlie and his copious issues that shape the novel. Despite a relatively unproven resume, it seems that the one thing that fans of the novel can count on is a faithful adaptation of the novel by its own writer. Chbosky may not have logged enough time behind the camera to helm just any project, but he's at least involved enough with his own source material to "do it right."
And Chbosky has already done at least one solid thing that is encouraging for the film – he's assembled a nearly-perfect cast for his adaptation. The cast is relatively young – here are kids playing kids, a welcome change from the now-standard practice of casting twentysomethings as teenagers, effectively making even actual teenagers look too young for age appropriate roles.
As Charlie, Logan Lerman needs to capture the strange dichotomy of his character – he's a wide-eyed innocent that has seen more trouble in his sixteen years than some people do in an entire lifetime. He needs to carry the entire film with a disarming mix of painful honesty and hidden secrets. I'm a big fan of Lerman, and think that such a role is a bold choice to add to his body of work, a nice change from standard franchise fare. This is the rare kind of part that allows a teenager to have many facets, no need to spice it up with werewolf fur or vampire sparkles.
Emma Watson is a solid pick for Sam – the punk chick is "cool" in a different way than what most people define as "cool" while in high school. Watson has done little work besides her turn as Hermione Granger in the HARRY POTTER film, but these girls are from the same mold. Sam is the type of girl who travels through high school as someone categorically off-beat who will later emerge as the most interesting person to matriculate alongside you. Sound a bit like Hermione?
Chbosky has rounded out his cast with a number of other interesting young actors – Nina Dobrev as Charlie's sister with her own secret, Ezra Miller as a heartbroken Patrick, Johnny Simmons as quarterback Brad, Mae Whitman as Charlie's first girlfriend Mary Elizabeth, and Reece Thompson as cool-guy Craig.
The casting of Paul Rudd is the only false note in the whole bunch – he is the biggest name in the cast, but his role as Charlie's English teacher Bill is essentially peripheral. We hear much more about Bill before we ever fully meet him, and so much of what we "know" about him is through the eyes of his student – an unreliable narrator for a character never quite fully formed. The Bill of the book is also much younger than Rudd – as a newish teacher, Bill's immediate taking-to of Charlie is much easier to understand when one considers that they are both "new kids," veritable outcasts in what they perceive as established institutions. Viewers of the film may not notice anything amiss with an older Bill, but the casting of Rudd loses something in translation.
Though told in a linear format, Perks is still a funny little book in terms of its structural choices – it steadily builds on its sadness, piling on Charlie's troubles in a believable way that doesn't reach a climax until much later in the book. There's no drawn-out dénouement here, and the cut-short nature of its ending is both satisfying and open-ended. Perks could easily have seen a sequel, but the slightly unfinished feeling of its ending stays true to the honesty that has infused and guided the entire novel. It's not a "cheap" book, and it can certainly be made into a film that is equally as rich.
Returning to The Perks of Being a Wallflower many years after my first few reads was, in short, a strange experience. Whereas Charlie's triumphs and disasters, the emotional roller-coaster of his life, seemed endlessly relatable in my teen years, viewing it with the added perspective of intervening years somehow makes it more touching. Charlie is not just a sad teenager, he's a sad person who has endured considerable tragedy in a short time. Perks is not "feel-good," but it's also not depressing – it's just real.
With Chbosky at the helm of the film, I can only hope that it doesn't back down from its tough roots in favor of creating a fluffier (and more accessible) film about a general "teenage experience." There's nothing general or typical about those tough years, and the writer has already crafted a novel that speaks to that. If he can translate that story to film with even half to the emotional impact of his novel, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER could become part of the great high school experience cinematic canon.
I'm leaving the choice of book for the next installment of "A Novel Idea" to you fine readers. What would you like to see me tackle next? Let me know in the comments!
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Heavy rainfall in Warangal Rural; hailstorm at isolated places
Hyderabad: Heavy rainfall occurred in isolated places in Mahabubabad, Warangal Rural, and Yadadri Bhuvanagiri districts in Telangana in the last 24 hours.
Atmakur in Warangal Rural recorded the state's highest rainfall of 8 cm.
Besides, Chennaraopet in Warangal Rural (7 cm), Gudurwrgl in Mahabubabad (7 cm), Bhuvanagiri in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri (7cm), Kothaguda in Mahabubabad (6 cm), Khanapur in Warangal Rural (6 cm), Jammikunta in Karimnagar (6 cm), Nallabelly in Warangal Rural (6 cm), and Karimnagar in Karimnagar district (6 cm) also recorded moderate to heavy rainfall.
Warangal Rural (52.4 mm), J. Bhupalpally (39.6 mm), Karimnagar (39.1 mm), Komaram Bheem (28.2 mm), and Warangal Urban (26.5 mm) districts received the maximum rainfall in the state in the last 24 hours.
A weather enthusiast, Balaji T, popularly known as Telangana Weatherman said that Nallabelly in Warangal reported a whopping 138 mm (very heavy rainfall) in the last 24 hours which is a record breaking rainfall in the last 18 years. "Many places in Sircilla, Karimnagar, Jangaon, Peddapalli, Warangal, Mancherial, Bhupalpally got heavy rains," he tweeted.
RECORDS TUMBLE 💥💥#Nallabelly in #Warangal recorded whooping 138mm (very heavy rain) in last 24hrs which is record breaking rainfall atleast in last 18years 💥💥
Many places in #Sircilla, #Karimnagar, Jangoan, Warangal, Peddapalli, #Mancherial, Bhupalapally got heavy rains pic.twitter.com/qfTg1DAniy
— Telangana Weatherman (@balaji25_t) January 12, 2022
As per independent weather observers in the state, hail storms also occurred at isolated places in Hanamkonda, Jangaon, Komaram Bheem, and Warangal.
Meanwhile, Medak recorded the lowest minimum temperature of 18 degrees Celsius and Nalgonda, the highest maximum temperature of 34 degrees Celsius in the last 24 hours.
The IMD has also issued warnings for light to moderate rainfall accompanied with lightning and gust winds of 30-40 kmph speed between 1 pm to 4 pm on January 12 at isolated places in Siddipet, Jangaon, Yadadri, Khammam, Sangareddy, Nalgonda, Medak, and Suryapet districts.


The Williamsfield Public Library district will have a book sale from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
The Williamsfield Public Library district will have a book sale from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. All items will be 25 cents. For more information, call the library at 639-2630.


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Finland Ratifies the IMO Ballast Water Standard
The International Martin Organization (IMO) announced this week that Finland has ratified the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention, bringing key international measures for environmental protection into force.
The decision is expected to result in a flurry of installations of UV ballast water systems as the convention will now enter into force on Sept. 8, 2017.
The decision represents a huge leap forward in the global movement to stop the spread of potentially invasive aquatic species. However, shipowners are concerned that the U.S.Coast Guard has not approved the ballast water treaty–leaving room for a separate U.S. standard to emerge that would put ships that meet IMO requirements, out of compliance in U.S. waters. Shipowners have five years to retrofit seagoing vessels to meet the convention's standards.
"This is a truly significant milestone for the health of our planet," said IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim.
Lim added, "The entry into force of the Ballast Water Management Convention will not only minimize the risk of invasions by alien species via ballast water, it will also provide a global level playing field for international shipping, providing clear and robust standards for the management of ballast water on ships."
Mark Kustermans, market manager at London, Ont.-based Trojan Marinex said, "This outcome was possible from the contribution of countless stakeholders around the globe who recognize the environmental and economic impact of this threat and continue to work toward global regulations that better serve the marine industry."
Global Water Intelligence reported that ultraviolet (UV) systems and electrolysis-based solutions to dominate that market. Trojan's UV ballast water treatment is well positioned to capture a share of this market. To read about London, Ont.-based Trojan Technologies' UV Ballast Water system, click here.
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