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How Much Covid-19 Cost Those Businesses That Stayed Open
A food distributor has paid $20 million for testing and plexiglass.
T-Mobile US Inc.
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has spent $50 million on extra cleaning and safety gear.
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and three other big retail chains have put more than $3 billion into higher salaries, benefits and other Covid-19 measures.
Staying open during the pandemic wasn't cheap. Big companies say they spent anywhere from hundreds of thousands to almost a billion dollars in Covid-19-related costs. Some say they expect the costs to keep rising in coming quarters, even as they face uncertain demand from consumers.
How do you think the costs of reopening will be reflected in the economy? Join the conversation below.
The figures include increased pay for front-line workers, expanded cleaning and sanitization protocols, and the purchasing of coronavirus testing or personal protective equipment, according to a Wall Street Journal review of recent quarterly reports and earnings-call transcripts. These are extra expenses and don't reflect extra revenue or lost business. Some essential retailers that were open as well as makers of safety gear had a surge in revenue during the lockdown.
The disclosures provide an initial picture of the costs of doing business during a pandemic and resulting restrictions. Most companies haven't broken out the added expenses. In April, the Securities and Exchange Commission directed companies to "provide as much information as is practicable" about how they were responding to the pandemic.
"We do expect some Covid-related costs to continue beyond the first quarter as we continue to invest in associate and customer safety as well as support heightened digital demand," said
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Chief Financial Officer Gary Millerchip.
A group of U.S. labor unions and socially responsible investors sent a June 16 letter to the SEC calling for increased disclosures, including the impact on cash flows, policies for identifying sick employees and any material changes to executive compensation.
Kroger increased pay, enhanced benefits, provided personal protective equipment and offered Covid-19 testing to associates based on symptoms and medical needs.
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Here is a sampling of what companies have revealed. Many of these examples are companies with quarters that ended later than March 31 and included more of the lockdown. A clearer picture will come when more firms report their results for the current quarter, beginning next month.
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said last week it would keep its starting wage at $15 an hour, after temporarily raising it in March. The company said it expects to spend $1 billion more this year than last on worker-related expenses, including wages, paid leave and safety equipment such as masks.
Walmart spent around $900 million in its quarter ended April 30. The company said this included masks, gloves and bonuses for employees, additional cleaning and expanded sick-leave pay. Walmart has about 1.5 million employees in the U.S., and more than 270,000 have taken a coronavirus-related leave. In May, executives said they expected similar costs in the second quarter.
Kroger said in a June 18 securities filing it had spent more than $830 million in the quarter ended May 23. The company increased pay, enhanced benefits, provided personal protective equipment and offered Covid-19 testing to associates based on symptoms and medical needs.
Home Depot Inc.
spent $640 million in the quarter ended May 3 on added employee benefits, which included weekly bonuses and expanded paid time off. Chief Financial Officer Richard McPhail said in mid-May much of that was from paid-leave expenses that weren't expected to recur.
T-Mobile included a $117 million "Covid-19-related costs" line item in its financial statement for the quarter ended March 31. The carrier said the amount covered an increase in employee payroll, third-party commissions and cleaning enhancements. Chief Financial Officer Braxton Carter said the company spent $50 million just on cleaning and equipment for employees. For the second quarter, the company, which in April acquired Sprint, said it expected Covid-related costs to go up to $550 million.
United Natural Foods Inc.
included Covid-19 testing for employees as part of its new expenses. The company said it increased operating costs by $20 million and included the use of partitions for workers and decals in stores to maintain social distancing. The food distributor, which had 19,000 employees as of August 2019, also increased pay. Jill Sutton, the company's general counsel, said the company is committed to investing in the safety and risk-management initiatives that kept its employees safe during the pandemic.
One of the lowest numbers came from
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which included a $198,000 line item for "Covid-19 related charges" for the quarter ended April 19. The Colorado-based company said the number included purchasing personal protective equipment for employees at its 452 restaurants. After shutting in March, the company started reopening restaurants on April 28, and two-thirds were open by its June 10 filing. The company declined to comment beyond its filing.
Analysts and economists are paying close attention to monthly retail sales numbers as a way to gauge how the economy may be recovering from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Kathy Willens/Associated Press.
Write to Inti Pacheco at inti.pacheco@wsj.com
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Q: Optimizations for Raycasting I've been wanting to build a 3D engine starting from scratch as a coding challenge with the end objective of implementing it on a fantasy console.
The best (i.e. most simple?) way I found was raytracing/raycasting. I haven't found much by looking online for raycasting algorithms, only finding point-in-polygon problems (which only tell me whether a ray intersects a polygon or not, not quite my interest since I wouldn't have info about the first intersection nor I'd have the intersection points).
The only solution I could think of is brute forcing the ray by moving it at small intervals and every time check whether that point is occupied by something or not (which would require having filled shapes and wouldn't let me have 2D shapes since they would never be rendered, although none of those is a problem). Still, it looks way too complex performance-wisely.
As far as I know, most of those problems are solved using linear algebra, but I'm not quite as competent as to build up a solution on my own. Does this problem have a practical solution?
EDIT: I just found an algebric solution in 2D which could maybe be expanded in 3D. The idea is:

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*For each edge, check whether one of the two vertices are in the field of view (i.e. if O is the origin of every ray and P is the vertex, you have to check first that the point is inside the far point of sight, and then whether the angle with the forward vector is less than the angle of vision). If at least one of the two vertices is inside the field of view, add them to an array E.

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*If we have an array R of rays to shoot and an array of arrays I of info about hit points, we can loop for each ray in R and for each edge in E and then store f(ray, edge) in I, where f is a function that gives us info on whether the ray and the edge collided and where they did.

*f uses basic linear algebra: both the ray and the edge are, for all purposes, two segments. Two segments are just parts of two lines. Let's say that if the edge has vertices A and B (AB is the vector that goes from A to B) and if the far point is called P (OP is the vector that goes from O to P). We can create two lines, r and s, defined by A + ηAB and O + λOP. After we do a check to see whether r and s are parallel (check if the absolute value of the dot product of AB and OP is equal to the norm of AB times the norm of OP), it's trivial to get the values for η and λ.

*Now, if η < 0 OR η > 1 we have that the two segments are not colliding.

*After we've done this for every ray and every edge, we compare every element in each array i in I to see which one had the lowest λ. The lowest λ carries the first collision and hence the data to show on screen.

Everything here is linear algebra, though I fear that it might still be computationally heavy, since there's a lot going on, and it's still only 2D.

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BROOKINGS, SD – The Bismarck Bobcats will head south this weekend with advancement on their minds as they travel to Larson Ice Center for Game Three of the Central Division Semifinals against the Brookings Blizzard Friday night.
With the Bobcats leading the best-of-five-game playoff series 2-0, a win on Friday would clinch the first-round bout against the Blizzard.
"A game that end's another team's season is always the hardest to win," noted Bobcats head coach and general manager Layne Sedevie, who has presided over a 4-3 record in elimination games in five playoff series. "Our guys need to be focused from the opening puck drop Friday because Brookings is going to throw the kitchen sink at us to keep their season alive."
In four regular-season meetings in Brookings, the Cats went 2-2-0 at Larson Ice Center.
Though they are fresh off a pair of wins to open the playoffs that saw them outscore the Blizzard 14-6, a single-weekend high for offensive output, the Bobcats don't want to read too much into last week's success.
"Saturday we got too caught up in how well we did on Friday and started poorly," commented Bobcat forward Bob Kinne on falling behind Brookings twice before rallying for a 6-3 win in Game Two. "Coach always tells us that you need a short memory in the postseason, win or lose, and it's important that we learn our lesson from the first half of Saturday's game heading down to Brookings."
Kinne chipped in four assists to help fuel the Cats' opening-weekend scoring spree.
The forward line of Kinne, Matt Anders and Seth Blair—though listed as the fourth line on the depth chart—paced the offensive explosion with seven goals and eight assists, including a hat trick by Blair in Friday's 8-3 win.
"I may have had a bunch of the goals but all the credit goes to Matt and Bob," hailed Blair, a Century High product who Sedevie acquired as a free agent at February's roster deadline. "Matt is a great scoring threat and gets to the net to create great scoring chances and Bob works his tail off every shift, banging bodies and making plays."
Blair currently sits atop the NAHL playoff scoring list with seven points on five goals and two assists.
Game Three is scheduled for a 7:30 PM start at Larson Ice Center. Should the Bobcats not come away victorious, Game Four will follow Saturday, also at 7:30.
Friday's elimination contest will be broadcast locally on the radio home of Bobcat Hockey, Super Talk 1270, KLXX-AM, and worldwide on the official internet television partner of the NAHL, FASTHockey, at http://nahl.fasthockey.com. Pregame coverage gets under way at 7:00 PM.
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Palm Desert High School's boys' tennis team has been so successful in the CIF playoffs that coach Randy Blalock has a hard time remembering how successful the Aztecs have been.
He does know Palm Desert is going for its third CIF title in four years, having won in 2011 and repeating in 2012. Last year, the Aztecs lost in the finals to San Marino, which is again the No. 1 seed this year.
Palm Desert begins its quest at 3 p.m., Wedensday as it hosts the winner of Tuesday's Webb vs. Walnut match.
Joining Palm Desert in the playoffs are Palm Springs, which finished second in the Desert Valley League, third-place La Quinta and fourth-place Cathedral City.
Both La Quinta and Cathedral City open the playoffs Tuesday. La Quinta travels to play at Fullerton, the third-place team from the Freeway League. Cathedral City will travel to Anaheim to play Canyon, the third-place team from the Century League
Palm Springs will open Wednesday against Sunny Hills, the second-place team from the Freeway League.
In Division 5, Shadow Hills, which finished second in the De Anza League, will open Wednesday on the road against Magnolia, the champions from the Orange League. De Anza champion Yucca Valley will host Savanna, the No. 2 team from the Orange, on Wednesday. Twentynine Palms, the third-place team from the De Anza, will hit the road Tuesday to face Aquinas, the second-place team from the San Andreas League.
Blalock has led the Aztecs to back-to-back CIF titles in 2011-12 with Austin Rapp and Matt Leggat as freshman. In fact, the Aztecs have been in the CIF finals the past five years.
Rapp is fresh off winning the Desert Valley League singles title, and Leggat was runner-up. Rapp has been a big part of the Aztecs' recent success. As a sophomore, he won a CIF doubles title and last year, he reached the semifinals of the CIF singles tournament.
Also leading the Aztecs is a doubles squad that is deep from No. 1 to No. 3.
Cameron McDonald and Brad Cummins are the two-time DVL champions, who also reached the quarterfinals of CIF last year before losing to the eventual champions. But McDonald and Cummins were pushed by teammates Connor Rapp and Sebastian Gomez in the DVL finals last week. And Rapp and Gomez had a tough time against teammates Ian Murphy and Alex Kuperstein in the semifinals.
"I feel pretty darn good about all three," Blalock said.
CIF tennis pairings
All matches begin at 3 p.m.
La Quinta at Fullerton
Cathedral City at Canyon
Twentynine Palms at Aquinas
Sunny Hills at Palm Springs
Webb-Walnut winner at Palm Desert
Shadow Hills at Magnolia
Savanna at Yucca Valley


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If you are new to the world of freshwater aquariums, then you are bound to have queries about what works best. Many folks would simply go out there and buy the best looking fish in their budget. But before you hasten to do that here is the first thing that you need to decide on – are you getting a cold water tank or a heated one?
Gold Fish: These provide a huge amount of choice in terms of color an size. The temperature preferred by the gold fish is around 62 to 74 Fahrenheit. They tend to be messy while eating which means changing at least one tenth of the water in the tank weekly is a good idea.
Bloodfin Tetras: Blessed with striking red fins and a silver body they are really robust. They need temperature of 64 to 82 Fahrenheit. They can survive really long but love to live in groups.
White Cloud: These fish are quite small and can live in temperatures that are as low as 60 degrees. They too love being in a group and will reside in the middle and top parts of the tank. These can live up to 5 years with good care.
Getting an aquarium is great for people at many levels; it offers you the chance to nurture a living being as a pet but does not ask of you the kind of hands on commitment that a dog needs. If you are a beginner in this area, you are better of knowing more about aquarium fish species. In fact, you can start with aquarium fish names and then move on to knowing which freshwater aquarium fish are suited for a beginner to start with. This way you can be sure that you get the right aquarium fish species to get started with so that you can have success in this area.


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What is Air Pollution?
Air Pollution is defined as the contamination of air due to the presence of entities like dust, gas, mist, smoke, smog, etc. in the atmosphere. The quantities, characteristics along with the duration for which these pollutants exist in the air hinder the lives of living organisms.
Air pollution can be personal, occupational, or community in nature. When an individual is exposed to pollutants like dust, smoke, fumes then it is said to be personal air pollution. While occupational air pollution is associated with the exposure of a specific person to hazardous concentrations of aerosols, or gases.
Lastly, community air pollution involves the pollution caused due to the presence of multiple sources and contaminants that leads to cause various health effects socially.
What is Pollution?
The word pollution is defined as the presence of contaminants or pollutants (which are nothing but harmful substances) in the environment that cause various adverse effects to living beings.
Pollution is considered a global problem and is a major cause of worry in today's time. It is mainly classified into the following categories:
Previously we have discussed water pollution and in today's content, we will focus on air pollution.
Introduction to Air Pollution
Air is known to be one of the important elements that make the existence of humans on earth possible. We know that Earth is the only planet that supports life and the atmosphere plays a crucial role in supporting life on earth. The presence of hazardous substances like dust, smoke, smog, fumes, or any chemical element disturbs the atmospheric conditions that are suitable for supporting life and leads to cause unbalancing of the ecological system.
Some of the gaseous substances that are considered as the important air pollutants are:
Hydrogen Sulphide
Halogenated solvents
Air pollution imbalances the quality of air that resultantly hampers the life of living organisms living on Earth. Human activities are the major reason for disturbance in the quality of air. The atmosphere is known to possess a high absorptive capacity and so the release of low amounts of pollutants does not cause serious air pollution. However, when the chemical concentration in the atmosphere increases with a considerable amount then it becomes difficult for the atmosphere to tolerate it, and resultantly, this makes the air unsuitable to breathe.
It is to be noted here that rapid industrialization along with rapid growth in population and vehicular traffic on roads has disturbed the balance of the atmosphere.
The air which is generally present in the regions which are far from industrialization and where not much human activities take place which involves the release of chemicals is considered to be clear.
Sources of Air Pollution
Air is considered to be clean by nature. Our atmosphere which is full of air gets polluted due to human actions. However, some gaseous pollutants are also emitted by nature that includes activities like volcanic eruptions and various anthropogenic activities. Let us now see what are the major sources that contribute to air pollution.
1. Natural Sources: The natural sources that contribute to air pollution include forest fires, volcanic eruptions, vegetative decay, cosmic dust, pollen grains of flowers, deflation of sand, etc. Basically, these are originated naturally and when get mixed with the air makes the air dangerous to breathe.
In the lower atmospheric regions, due to various natural chemical reactions like oxidation, reduction, combustion, etc. gases get converted into hazardous chemicals. While in the upper region of the atmosphere, the photochemical reactions generate even more complex molecules by absorption of UV radiations.
2. Manmade Sources: When we talk about manmade sources then deforestation is considered to be one of the major causes. However, other than that burning of fossil fuels, residual emissions from vehicles, rapid industrialization, along with various agricultural actions are known to be manmade sources of air pollution.
With the increase in the world's population, air pollution has shown a significant increase. The reason behind this is that with the increase in the number of humans the emission of pollutants by them due to various activities also show a considerable increase. Hence it is not wrong to say that population increase is worsening the environmental condition due to global warming and the emission of greenhouse gases.
We are aware of the fact that balancing between carbon diode and oxygen is mandatory to live peacefully on the Earth and as plants are the crucial element that helps in maintaining the required balance. We know that by the process of photosynthesis plants make their own food, they simply gain carbon dioxide and release oxygen. But the cutting of plants has shown a significant fall in the concentration of oxygen and a rise in the concentration of carbon dioxide.
Other than that, it is known to us that wood, coal, fossil fuels are the sources through which energy is produced. These are highly used in our day-to-day life as by burning them energy for homes and industries is generated. But excess of everything is bad and so burning of these fossil fuels releases dangerous gases in the atmosphere that imbalances the atmospheric conditions.
The release of harmful gases when vehicular fuel is burnt is also a major cause of air pollution. It contributes a major part to air pollution because it is known that approximately 75% of the total air pollution is due to automobile exhaust. Generally, the poisonous gases released by automobiles are carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, hydrocarbons, etc.
Rapid urbanization is also one of the chief contributors to air pollution. As urbanization requires deforestation, resultantly leading to increasing global warming, water scarcity thereby degrading the environmental condition. It is known that in 1900 around 160 million people in the whole world were living in urban areas however, this has considerably increased to approximately 8 billion at present.
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Book Review: The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes
The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes
Reviewer: Susan Lobhan (UK)
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Who knew that by letting another car into the line ahead of you it would start a catastrophic chain of events- certainly not Stella Sweeney! Flash forward a few years and Stella is a shell of the woman she was, what made her this way? Her life is like an open book, split into prologue and epilogue centred round the main storyline of the life changing car accident. All of her family are moving on but she is living in limbo wearing the wrong clothes and eating too many jaffa cakes.
Stella has gone from happily married beautician to invalid to celebrated author to nothing in a very short period of time. Could it be karma or just life?
Very unusually I have seen a lot of different synopsis for this book, so when I sat down to read it I really wasn't sure what it would be about. Now I have finished it to be honest I am still not sure what it was actually about. It starts with the protagonist questioning karma and whether the story to follow proves it's existence. However I really thought that the story centred round really bad luck. The sub plot of Stella's ex husband testing out karma by giving away all his possessions served no purpose other than over labouring the point.
The story begins with Stella causing a three way car crash by kindle letting someone else enter the car queue. Thereafter it was really hard to follow the story as it flits between before the accident, after the accident, present day and some time period in between. It was too much and really affected the flow of the story. Out of the blue Stella ends up in hospital in a very critical condition, which at first you think must be caused by the car accident, but no the doctors don't think so, so not karma then. When focusing on Stella's extended time in hospital I was drawn in and particularly loved when Stella's Dad read to her to help her recovery. It was very endearing that they had this bond even though Stella had no way of expressing her gratitude. Just as I was warming to the book the plot line drastically alters again and the focus is thrown once more. From then on the story dragged and the book felt over long and still the title made little sense. It is only after you have ploughed through most of the book that things become a bit clearer, but it really isn't much of a pay off.
I am a huge fan of Marian Keyes books and I have loved most of them, so I was really looking forward to this but I did not love it. She has the knack of finding humour in emotion fuelled situations, which she does to a certain degree in this book, but then I felt that all the flashing back and forward and too many side stories detracted from the overall feel. If you are new to Marian Keyes then you will enjoy this as you have nothing to compare it to, but please also hunt out her back catalogue for a true sense. Die hard fans will read this whatever I say but hopefully my review will prepare them for something different.
Susan's rating: 7/10
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The untold Egyptian narrative
Ahmed Reda
Wednesday 5 Oct 2022
How should the government best communicate its vision in an age of hardships and uncertainty.
The Anglo-Irish author George Bernard Shaw once said that "the single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
This phrase is the true embodiment of the situation we have been experiencing in Egypt for decades and painfully over the past 10 years. One can safely argue that the challenges facing the Egyptian government's endeavours to communicate with its citizens are far greater than the economic hardships felt because of the war in Ukraine, the worst global event the world has seen since World War II.
While ministers and high-ranking officials can be included in reshuffles designed to better face economic pressures, negative perceptions and misconceptions cannot be changed easily, and they are often even fortified with every single decision or activity regardless of its soundness.
Admittedly, the information war waged against the Egyptian state and people during the past decade has yielded significant impacts, epitomised by the widespread pessimism, scepticism, and obvious inability to connect with the conspicuously positive developments witnessed, in varying degrees, in almost all walks of Egyptian life.
This poses a serious question on the level of the adoption and implementation of strategic communications by the government and its appreciation of their fundamental value. The rhetoric of the government and of the president himself reflects this appreciation, but the enormous challenges facing its application are so intertwined that the status quo can seem to be the best option, albeit with some cosmetic changes.
In my view, the biggest challenge has been treating strategic communications as a support function to the government's national strategy rather than as a main component of it, meaning that there has been a danger that this strategy has not been communicated properly and has been misinterpreted by a large number of citizens. This has created room for those who want to exploit every move taken by the government to fabricate stories, spread rumours, and instil a growing mood of pessimism.
It has also resulted in fragmented efforts that have hindered the creation of a solid national narrative that is believed in, communicated by passionate communicators, and endorsed by a society that is facing economic challenges.
The debate around the role of the Ministry of Information is irrelevant to this challenge as strategic communications do not need a central structure to be effective. What is needed instead is a shared vision, a strategic communications mindset, and a culture infused with passionate and trained communicators in key establishments, especially ministries and government agencies, as the primary sources of information and the first defence against rumours.
This leads us to a second challenge, represented by a mixture of bureaucracy and a lack of passionate and trained personnel. The main reason behind the problem of widespread rumours and the inability to convey a general national narrative as well as sector-specific messages is the lack of a shared strategic communications mindset governing the ill-timed and reactive practices of many media offices within government ministries.
Bureaucracy can be an obstacle to remedying this situation, and creative tactics need to be employed to achieve results and deliver impacts. Suitable personnel can be hard to find if not appropriately remunerated. There should be a consensus on the need to attract the kind of communications professionals that will take up the responsibility of training other passionate and able communicators who can convey a vision for a country that is building mega-projects for the future.
Proactivity and content management pose another challenge to the effective dissemination of information to the public, especially across social media platforms. They are also closely connected to the issue of personnel and bureaucracy.
Professional communicators work according to a crisis communication manual during times of conflict and crisis. This manual is often built to cater to the need for proactivity and reactivity (depending on the nature of the crisis and other factors) and to provide essential content as quickly and accurately as possible to all trained spokespeople and the media such that the crisis can be navigated successfully.
The manual should be treated as a living document that is constantly updated with messages, facts and figures, and different case studies and proof points that can be used across all channels, especially social media, in accordance with the overall strategy and sector-specific strategies.
As social media remains the main battlefield where rumours and pessimism can occupy the higher ground, proactivity and effective content creation and dissemination are the primary weapons to educate people there and to increase their awareness. One of the easiest and most effective tactics to create effective and informative content is to encourage the beneficiaries of initiatives run by the government to share their experiences and feedback on social media.
This should be a dedicated programme within the overall strategic communications strategy that should function as a lever for the national strategy in order that it is able to influence perceptions and attitudes and create a healthy debate based on correct information and not on rumours.
An effective strategic communications strategy needs to understand the various challenges facing the national strategy in addition to the examples above. It needs to adopt a dynamic course of action when building action plans, responsive activities, and initiatives that will help to drive the national narrative, train spokespeople, attract and retain personnel, and instil a culture of optimism and appreciation.
It needs to understand the differences between various segments of the target audience, elevate and increase awareness, create champions and ambassadors from previous beneficiaries, create content with human stories, and nurture a culture of enlightened dialogue.
Strategic communications remain the biggest challenge facing this country as the risks of a disconnect between the people and the achievements of the government will only deepen if we cannot communicate properly in this age of communications and information technology.
* The writer is a strategic communications professional.
*A version of this article appears in print in the 6 October, 2022 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly.
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Scary! This bearish call points to 40% market drop
Published Wed, Oct 23 2013 3:44 PM EDT Updated Wed, Oct 23 2013 5:27 PM EDT
Drew Sandholm@drewsandholm
Spitznagel: Market is set up for huge crash
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The stock market is trading at unsustainable levels that could eventually lead to a major sell-off, with a possible 40 percent drop in stock prices, hedge fund executive Mark Spitznagel told CNBC Wednesday.
"The simple answer, the mom and pop answer, I think, is just to step aside," said Spitznagel, founder of Universa Investments and an associate of "Black Swan" pioneer Nassim Taleb.
Spitznagel, incidentally, has some Street cred when it comes to predicting downturns: He called it in 2000 and 2008 and made one of the biggest profits on Wall Street during the 2008 financial crisis, while many other investors were losing money.
Appearing on "Closing Bell, " Spitznagel suggested the Federal Reserve, which last month reaffirmed its policies on bond purchases and record-low interest rates, is basically propping up stocks and otherwise distorting the market.
"It's a market that is sort of set up, I think, for a major crash, a major sell-off," said Spitznagel. "I would argue all the major tops we've seen in the market over the last 100 years look very much like it does today."
(Read more: Weak jobs report signals longer Fed easing)
"The ultimate causes of crashes is the distorted environment we're in," he continued.
(Read more: Stocks are slumping—but not for reasons you think)
Spitznagel said it would be naïve to pinpoint when a selloff could occur, but guessed it could happen within the next year.
In turn, Spitznagel recommends retail investors step aside and wait for opportunities to come.
—By CNBC's Drew Sandholm. Follow him on Twitter


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Home Audio Albums Album Stream: Sareem Poems & Ess Be – Mind Over Matter
Album Stream: Sareem Poems & Ess Be – Mind Over Matter
Mind Over Matter is the latest drop from Lansing, MI based duo Sareem Poems & Ess Be. It released June 15th via Illect Recordings.
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After three years of writing, developing, and preparing new music, Sareem Poems and Ess Be are back with Mind Over Matter. Released via Illect Recordings, Mind is the second full length project from the Lansing, Michigan-based MC and producer duo. Their first album on Illect, 2015's Beautiful Noise, was a highly motivational record based around positivity and perseverance. Mind Over Matter is definitely in the same vein as Noise, but it's clear that as they worked on the new project, Poems and Ess Be weren't afraid to dive deeper into who they've become as artists.
From start to finish, Mind Over Matter takes on some of the most pressing issues of our time. Employing his signature measured flow, Poems discusses political divisiveness, the dangers of succumbing to greed, loving yourself, and economic inequality in the United States. "So you in your heart of hearts really believe that the playing field is level?" he asks on the ninth track, "What's Wrong." Over the course of his twenty-year career, Sareem Poems has meticulously crafted a style of music informed by his deep respect, and love, for humanity. On Mind, Poems continues to build on that.
Over the last three years Ess Be has officially made the transition from being a part-time producer with a day job to pursuing music full time. Throughout Mind, Ess Be's skill as a producer is on full display. Ess Be could easily fall back on familiar boom bap tropes or trendy drum patterns. Instead, he incorporates a little bit of everything. Heavy bass lines and trance-like EDM moments on tracks such as "Dance For The Dead" and "Eyedentity" keep the record moving as Sareem Poems adapts to each new musical moment.
As artists, Sareem Poems and Ess Be have never shied away from using their platform to bring people together—even as those in power would pull them apart. Mind Over Matter, their second full-length album on Illect Recordings, celebrates the beauty of humanity while also questioning the systems of inequity that have kept certain people in power for centuries. It's always been important to practice self-care in the face of struggle and Mind Over Matter is a manifestation of that.
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High court tosses child-porn evidence
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Agreeing with a district judge, the Nevada Supreme Court has barred the child-pornography evidence in a Lincoln County sex case.
The seven-member court agreed unanimously that the warrant to search Michael Kincade's home and computer was improper because it didn't include a statement of probable cause.
State statute requires that such a statement must either be in a warrant or attached to it.
The computer search was conducted as part of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office investigation of allegations Kincade was sexually abusing minors, according to the opinion.
After the search allegedly revealed images of children on Kincade's computer, he was charged with seven counts of possession of child pornography.
He was charged separately with three counts of sexual assault involving a person under age 16.
County prosecutors argued a recent U.S. Supreme Court case requires only that a warrant say what place can be searched and does not require a finding of probable cause. The high court, however, ruled that nothing prohibits states from providing broader protections and rights than are provided by the U.S. Constitution. In this case, they ruled, Nevada law does just that.
Kincade is serving three life sentences for the sexual assault convictions as well various sentences for child-pornography convictions.
The Dec. 26 opinion only suppresses the evidence in the child-pornography case and doesn't reverse the sexual assault convictions.
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Q: Should I use past or present because the birthday doesn't change?
It was last Sunday.

Should I say, "When was your birthday?" or "When is your birthday?" to make a question for this sentence?

A: We usually ask When is your birthday? because the answer is a "constant" (same as What is your name?, it doesn't change from year to year).
But if you know perfectly well that the person you're asking had a birthday recently, it would be far more natural to ask when that was.
If you know (or suspect) that the person's birthday is "close" to "today", but you don't actually know whether it's in the recent past or the near future, this creates a bit of a problem, since whichever tense you choose has a fairly high probability of being "inappropriate". Many people would simply cover all bases by asking...

When is - or was - your birthday?

A: Usually one asks

When is your birthday?

Since one might be thinking of getting a present for the next birthday.

When was your birthday?

is used if you already know you missed their birthday and are seeking clarification.

A: If you're asking about the day/month of someone's birthday, then that doesn't change, so it's present tense. But in the example you gave, you are talking about a particular day that was their birthday (day/month/year). "Last Sunday" refers to 10 Feb 2019. That is a particular day that occurred in the past, so it takes past tense. If someone says "My birthday is 10 Feb", what they generally mean is "The tenth of February of every year is my birthday", and so that takes the present tense. "Birthday" can refer to the generic "day each year that has the same day/month as the day I was born", and that takes the present. But it can also refer to a specific day in a specific year that had the same day/month, and that takes the past (if it's already happened).

A: If you say

When was your birthday?

Then you are implicitly asking

When was your last birthday?

If you say

When is your birthday?

You are implicitly asking

When is your next birthday?

So ask either question, as you prefer.  The response might be different.  E.g.

My last birthday was December 25th.

Or

My birthday is the same day as Christmas.

If you would prefer one type of response, then ask in the way that encourages that response.  Otherwise, both are correct unless they conflict with something.  For example, if someone says

I just had my birthday.

It would make more sense to ask when it was, because you're discussing the most recent one.  But even then, you can make is work.  E.g.

Oh, so I'm safe from buying presents for a year?  When is your next birthday?


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Q: Weird side effect using Primefaces poll and a custom DateConverter In my JSF view scoped form, I am using the poll tag to print minutes elapsed since the form was started, like this:
<h:outputText id="txt_count" value="You started #{mybean.timeElapsed} minutes ago" />

This is what I have in my backing bean. pollNumber is just an int. It works fine and prints minutes elapsed.
public String getTimeElapsed()
    {
        long diffInMinutes = java.time.Duration.between(startTime, LocalDateTime.now())
                .toMinutes();

        return String.valueOf(diffInMinutes);
    }

    public void increment(){
        pollNumber++;
    }

The problem is that I am using a custom date converter for a date in format MM/yyyy (a java.time.YearMonth). Every 5 seconds (the poll interval) the yearmonth date converter gets called, whether or not the date field is completely filled out. So one minute I am happily filling out my date field, the next I am redirected to a yucky stack trace:

Sorry, an error occurred Exception: Text '05/____' could not be parsed
  at index 3 Full stack trace: java.time.format.DateTimeParseException:
  Text '05/____' could not be parsed at index 3 at
  java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parseResolved0(DateTimeFormatter.java:1949)
  at
  java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parse(DateTimeFormatter.java:1851)

The problem goes away if I remove the p:poll tag. This is not a critical error. It's just weird. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!


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Q: Using Java script to sort HTML table by appropriate column on column header click I am trying to set up a HTML table that when you click on the column header it will sort the table by that column. My current solution works perfectly for the first column, its something I found on W3schools.
Edit: (Issue was the script comparing all the contained HTML in each TD, not just the displayed text)
But when I tried to generalise it with "n" instead of leaving a number in the java script for which column to sort, I can't seem to get it to take the correct value for n.
My plan was to use the code from W3schools (below) for sorting the first column, but insert a variable n to allow the same piece of code to sort multiple columns. I am trying to get the Java script to read n from the HTML section itself but i am not sure why it's not working.
This is my version of the W3schools code where I have tried to use n, this currently sorts the first column no matter which column header I click on.

function sortTable(n) {
 var table, rows, switching, i, x, y, shouldSwitch, dir, switchcount = 0;
 table = document.getElementById("mytable");
 switching = true;
 dir = "asc";
 while (switching) {
  switching = false;
  rows = table.rows;
  for (i = 1; i < (rows.length - 1); i++) {
   shouldSwitch = false;
   x = rows[i].getElementsByTagName("TD")[n];
   y = rows[i + 1].getElementsByTagName("TD")[n];
   if (dir == "asc") {
    if (x.innerHTML.toUpperCase() > y.innerHTML.toUpperCase()) {
     shouldSwitch = true;
     break;
    }
   } else if (dir == "desc") {
    if (x.innerHTML.toUpperCase() < y.innerHTML.toUpperCase()) {
     shouldSwitch = true;
     break;
    }
   }
  }
  if (shouldSwitch) {
   rows[i].parentNode.insertBefore(rows[i + 1], rows[i]);
   switching = true;
   switchcount ++;
  } else {
   if (switchcount == 0 && dir == "asc") {
    dir = "desc";
    switching = true;
   }
  }
 }
}

a

b

c

    04718J00065
    2100305513
    10

    29417J01131
    2100305513
    30

    07416J01979
    2100029648
    0

I think what the issue is, is that the Java script isn't getting a value for n and it's defaulting to 0 which is why it sorts the first column no matter which header was clicked on. How can I get it to read n=0 from onclick="sortTable(0)", n=1 from onclick="sortTable(1)" etc?

A: I have found out what was causing the issue.
Using
(x.innerHTML.toUpperCase() > y.innerHTML.toUpperCase())

and
x = rows[i].getElementsByTagName("TD")[n];
y = rows[i + 1].getElementsByTagName("TD")[n];

compares everything inside that TD, not just the text that gets displayed. I had removed a  section from each TD when posting the code for this question trying to avoid posting code in too much detail and the link was pointing to files that shared a name with the string that was in the first column.

a

b

c

                04718J00065
                2100305513
                10

                29417J01131
                2100305513
                30

                07416J01979
                2100029648
                0

My solution to this was just to swap "TD" in the script to "A" so it would compare inside the  tag and not the link location itself. My changes to include "n" had worked as intended.


A significant number of activities to engage youth have been undertaken by the anti-corruption movement, especially in the last decade. These initiative range from Integrity/Democracy Camps and Summer Schools to work within schools and universities, training teachers, developing curricula and setting up Integrity Clubs. Many civil society organisations (CSOs) have also developed awareness-raising campaigns and activities targeted at young people.


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Q: Dealing with element Id conflicts when displying multiple grids So, I'm working on a page that requires the display of 2 Kendo grids. The grids are based on the same model, have the same schema, etc. The only difference being the value of one of the model properties (and the associated grid name and CRUD calls). For example:

@(Html.Kendo().Grid<Person>()
            .Name("Sales")
            .Columns(columns =>
            {
                columns.Bound(c => c.FullName);
                columns.Bound(c => c.Department);
                columns.Command(command =>
                {
                    command.Edit();
                    command.Destroy();
                });
            })
            .ToolBar(toolbar => toolbar.Create())
            .Editable(editable => editable.Mode(GridEditMode.InLine))
            .Sortable()
            .DataSource(datasource => datasource
                .Ajax()
                .ServerOperation(false)
                .Model(model => model.Id(u => u.PersonID))
                .Create(update => update.Action("Person_Create", "Admin", new { positionTypeId = 1 }))
                .Read(read => read.Action("Person_Read", "Admin"))
                .Update(update => update.Action("Person_Update", "Admin"))
                .Destroy(update => update.Action("Person_Destroy", "Admin"))
            ))

            @(Html.Kendo().Grid<Person>()
            .Name("IT")
            .Columns(columns =>
            {
                columns.Bound(c => c.FullName);
                columns.Bound(c => c.Department);
                columns.Command(command =>
                {
                    command.Edit();
                    command.Destroy();
                });
            })
            .ToolBar(toolbar => toolbar.Create())
            .Editable(editable => editable.Mode(GridEditMode.InLine))
            .Sortable()
            .DataSource(datasource => datasource
                .Ajax()
                .ServerOperation(false)
                .Model(model => model.Id(u => u.PersonID))
                .Create(update => update.Action("Person_Create", "Admin", new { positionTypeId = 2 }))
                .Read(read => read.Action("Person_Read", "Admin"))
                .Update(update => update.Action("Person_Update", "Admin"))
                .Destroy(update => update.Action("Person_Destroy", "Admin"))
            ))

Where the model would be
public class Person
{
    public int PersonID { get; set; }
    public string Department{ get; set; }
    public int PositionTypeId { get; set; }
    public string FullName { get; set; }
}

So, each of the grids has a unique Id, but many of the elements inside the grids will have identical Ids. Obviously, this is not ideal. If, for example (what I'm dealing with now) I want to attach a dropdownlist editor for Department,
@(Html.Kendo().DropDownList()
    .Name("Department")
    .BindTo((System.Collections.IEnumerable)ViewData["Department"])
)

kendo will look at the .Name() in the DropDownList, and attach the template to the first element it comes to with the proper id. So, the first grid gets its editor created (twice), while the second remains a standard textbox input.
So I'm wondering if there is a way to avoid this issue (preferably without re-coding the grids in js).

A: If you want to have a column display as a drop down list inside a grid you would typically use the ForeignKey column definition instead of Bound
@(Html.Kendo().Grid<Person>()
            .Name("Sales")
            .Columns(columns =>
            {
                columns.Bound(c => c.FullName);
                columns.ForeignKey(c => c.Department, (System.Collections.IEnumerable)ViewData["Department"], "NameOfValueColumn", "NameOfDisplayTextColumn");
                columns.Command(command =>
                {
                    command.Edit();
                    command.Destroy();
                });
            })

You must ensure that you have the EditorTemplates, specifically GridForeignKey in your project too.

See a demo of this on the Telerik site.


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Q: unset export-ignore for selected files in git I am trying to use .gitattributes to selectively create an an archive file with only the files I want in it..
I want git archive to ignore everything except for the things i want..
so I've trued to use the -export-ignore attribute
ie .gitattributes
* export-ignore
/somedir/orfile -export-ignore

to produce an archive with only /somedir/orfile in it.
I just haven't been able to get it to work for me.
I feel like it should work in the same was as .gitattributes supports text/-text
I'm using git version 1.9.4

A: As I understand, export-ignore excludes files from exporting. So if you only want to ignore everything except /somedir/orfile, you have to mention all other directories.
Say, you have directories a, b and c. To only export a:
b/ -export-ignore
c/ -export-ignore


On Nanga Parbat, the new search for Alberto Zerain from Spain and Mariano Galvan from Argentina has finally been abandoned. The rockfall and avalanche risk below the Mazeno Ridge was too high to reach the point from where the last GPS signal of the two climbers had been received, writes Mirza Ali, head of the search action, on Facebook. Finally, Mirza had flown in a rescue helicopter another five laps over the accident site. His summary: "1. The climbers were swept off the ridge into the crevasse below and buried in heavy avalanche. 2. The avalanche triggered above the climbers at around 6,200 meters. 3. After the avalanche there is no further foot track on the ridge." R.I.P., Alberto and Mariano!
Update 18 July: Along with the two French Maynadier and Rumebe, the American Colin Haley also reached the summit of Gasherbrum II. The three climbers have meanwhile returned to the base camp. "We are happy that we were alone on the mountain and that we were able to succeed the first ascent this season," the trio said.
The spring season on Nepal's highest mountains has segued almost seamlessly into the summer season on Pakistan's eight-thousanders. The first expedition teams have reached the base camps. The South African adventurer Mike Horn arrived on the Diamir side of Nanga Parbat a week ago.
It is not far from triumph to tragedy on eight-thousanders. That was demonstrated on Manaslu these days. On Friday, the Japanese Yoshimasa Sasaki fell about 25 meters after slipping on blue ice at 7,300 meters.


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Premium PC business boosts Lenovo's quarterly profit
International / 8 November 2018, 4:30pm / Reuters
Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group reported a 21 percent rise in second-quarter net profit, beating expectations. Photo: File
INTERNATIONAL - Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group reported a 21 percent rise in second-quarter net profit, beating expectations, thanks to more premium computers it sold during the period.
Net profit for the quarter ended September came in at $168 million, versus $139 million a year earlier and an average estimate of $118 million from 9 analysts, according to Refinitiv data.
Revenue rose 14 percent to $13.38 billion, the highest quarterly revenue in almost four years, helped by an improvement in product mix toward more commercial PCs - a more lucrative category than consumer PCs.
"The Group remains confident in its core PC business, and aims to grow at a premium to the market in revenue without compromising profitability," Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing said in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
"Lenovo will leverage industry consolidation opportunities, and drive growth in high-growth segments such as gaming PCs, Thin & Light, Visuals, and workstations," Yang said.
Lenovo, which lost the world's largest PC maker crown to HP Inc in 2017, said it had returned to the top spot with a 23.7 percent market share, according to industry tracker IDC.
Global PC shipments edged up 0.1 percent in the third quarter of the year to 67.2 million units according to data from Gartner, with Lenovo cornering the biggest share due to commercial PC growth and its joint venture with Fujitsu.
Lenovo said pretax profit at its personal computer and smart devices group rose 42 percent year-on-year to $940 million in its fiscal first half of April through September on a 5 percent pretax profit margin.
The strong core performance comes even as Lenovo continues to struggle in its smartphone business amid fierce competition. The company missed a March deadline to turn around the business.
Reported loss before taxation at its mobile unit in the six-month period narrowed to $146 million from a $337 million a year earlier. Lenovo said its Motorola brand achieved operational breakeven globally in the second quarter.
Loss at its data center business group narrowed to $123 million, while revenue jumped 63 percent to $3.2 billion.
Lenovo shares were up 4.8 percent at HK$5.85 by 0544 GMT.
WATCH: Lenovo introduces a new slider phone the Z5 Pro
Lenovo launched new budget Android tablets
Lenovo shares tumble over impact of chip hack report
Lenovo is the most popular brand for PC's and Laptops – Gartner
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Známým se stal v roce 2005, kdy prohlásil hurikán Katrina za boží trest za hříchy amorálního města New Orleans. Hurikán podle něj zničil bordely a všechny interrupční kliniky. To vzbudilo protesty katolíků ze zasažených oblastí.

Romány o Harry Potterovi odsoudil jako bránu k okultismu a satanismu.

31. ledna 2009 jej papež Benedikt XVI. jmenoval pomocným biskupem Linecké diecéze, což vzbudilo široké protesty a odchody věřících z této diecéze. Pod tlakem protestů Gerhard Wagner po 14 dnech na svou funkci rezignoval.

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A nonprofit organization benefiting KIA and DOW kin plans events and programs pending its final determination this year as tax deductible and tax exempt.
The USA KIA/DOW Family Foundation (USAKIA), a nonprofit to benefit families of killed in action (KIA) and died of wounds (DOW) begins its final determination year. Events planned for 2007 include a second-annual Memorial Day Weekend and third-annual Labor Day Weekend event. USAKIA also plans to improve its board of directors, continue a very popular and meaningful "Free-Flag Program," manage a court case, and has new proposals including one to have an active-duty U.S. Marine help children write thank-you letters to families of the fallen.
The public-benefit corporation received official determination of an advanced determination of its tax-exempt and tax-deductible status in 2004. The official designation from the IRS applies from October 20, 2003, through December 31, 2007. USAKIA must prove itself worthy of the IRS granting permanent status by the end of the year. So far, the small organization "appears on course to receive its final determination," according to its secretary-treasurer, Louis Bartning. Donations have been coming in this year so far. However, the nonprofit also says contributions have special importance through the end of the year to show required public support.
Events planned for 2007 include a second-annual Memorial Day Weekend event at J&S Surplus & Outdoor Store in Moss Landing and a third year in a row happening there over Labor Day Weekend. September's event and "KIA Thunder Run" last year had about 350 people attend the ceremony, many important speakers, a military-vehicle show, and a swap meet, as well as food and drink sold by a Fort Ord-based school for children of military families. Congressman Sam Farr's office presented USAKIA with a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, and the nonprofit in turn presented his office with a Certificate of Appreciation, as well as one to other participants such as the California National Guard, Rolling Thunder, and the Military Vehicle Collectors of California (MVCC).
USAKIA's board of directors improved last year, and the not-for-profit corporation foresees more improvement this year. In 2006, new directors included family of active-duty personnel and KIA or DOW from the conflict in Iraq, as well as a combat and Vietnam-era veteran. Even more qualifications include a new director's close relationship to another casualty from Korea. 2007 so far has provided others interested in serving as volunteer board members for USAKIA, including a candidate who has a brother who was KIA in Vietnam.
The group's "Free Flag Program" continues to receive requests from military families with KIA or DOW. USAKIA's president, Vincent Bartning, describes these "powerful and profound requests as something difficult to explain. Strong families request to honor their children and spouses, some who died fighting recently and some long ago." The nonprofit sends kin who request things at no cost, the mainstay item being a large, red KIA flag. The American Legion Riders California made the most recent contribution to the meaningful program.
The public-benefit corporation does have an "ongoing lawsuit" stemming from an incident which occurred on October 7, 2005. Santa Clara County Superior Court's Commissioner Gregory Saldivar has issued a decision in the small-claims case. Requested damages involve an illegal entry. The case has the title USA KIA/DOW Family Foundation (USAKIA) v. City of Sunnyvale and City of San Jose, 4-06-SC-019254.
The USA KIA/DOW Family Foundation (USAKIA), based in San Jose, California, is an IRS-approved, tax-deductible and tax-exempt nonprofit. KIA families incorporated the 501(c)(3) organization in the fall of 2003 to benefit families of those killed in action and died of wounds while in the U.S. armed forces. Current services include memorial events, membership, and a free-flag program for KIA and DOW families.
The public-benefit corporation has had groups approach it for a California Medal of Honor Project (CAMOHP) and free tutoring program for K-12. Discussions continue about those proposed projects, as well as others. New proposals for programs include: 1) an active-duty U.S. Marine helping kids write thank-you letters to families of KIA, and 2) providing free tickets to children of combat dead to San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area attractions such as Paramount's Great America.
USAKIA also has products honoring U.S. KIA. America Remembers KIA allows USAKIA the use of its trademarked KIA flag and symbol. See the organization's Web site at http://usakia.org for further information or to make a tax-deductible donation.
USAKIA opened two blogs in March, Your Shield on Blogger at http://usakia.blogspot.com and USAKIA's Blog on Yahoo at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/usakiadowff. The not-for-profit corporation also began an eBay blog in late November, Fallen Heroes' Remembrance, at http://blogs.ebay.com/usakia .