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Jonas Brothers Hit With Lawsuit, Hooters Sued + More
Kayla Thomas Published: October 28, 2019
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Welcome to PopCrush's Daily Break! Here's a breakdown of today's hottest pop culture and lifestyle stories as heard on PopCrush Nights, airing across the country. Check out the scariest haunted house in America, a nostalgia-inducing Lizzie McGuire family reunion picture and more!
The Scariest Haunted House
Tennessee is the home of the scariest haunted house in America. The haunted house is so terrifying that you have to sign a 40-page waiver before entering! A background test and drug test have to be passed before entering, too. If you make it all the way through the house, you'll receive a $20,000 prize — though no one has ever won. Anything can be expected when entering the house — a few past attendees reported being put in a straitjacket, having teeth pulled, having fingers broken or even having their heads shaved. Is all of that worth the $20,000? (via NY Post)
Popeyes Is Giving Out Jobs
The back-by-popular-demand Popeyes chicken sandwich is reportedly causing the fast food chain to hire 400 new employees. The sandwich will return to the menu in early November, so if you need a job, go put in an application ASAP. And make sure to grab a sandwich before they are gone! The last time Popeyes had the sandwich, they ran out fast. (via The Shade Room)
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Family entrenchment and internal control: evidence from S&P 1500 firms
Xia Chen1,
Mei Feng ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8804-35282 &
Chan Li3
Review of Accounting Studies (2020)Cite this article
\We examine whether family owners exploit internal control weaknesses for entrenchment purposes and whether the public disclosure requirement under SOX 404 helps alleviate this entrenchment. We find supportive evidence for both questions. In the initial years of SOX 404 implementation (2004 and 2005), ineffective internal control in family CEO firms is more conducive to entrenchment – measured by the occurrence of misstatements, frauds, and related party transactions – than ineffective internal control in nonfamily firms is. With the public disclosure requirement of SOX 404 in place, family CEO firms are more likely to remediate internal control weaknesses, and the resulting improvement in internal control in family CEO firms has significantly reduced family entrenchment. Our findings provide new evidence on the dynamics of family entrenchment in the U.S. and shed light on a key benefit of public disclosure of internal control quality.
Entrenchment activities extract private benefits for family owners at the expense of firm value and minority shareholders (e.g., Anderson et al. 2009).
Please see Section 2.3 for more detailed discussions on how effective internal control can reduce family entrenchment.
For example, Chen et al. (2013) find that family owners' power and control help protect poorly performing family CEOs from being fired.
While nonfamily firms also have incentives to remediate internal control problems once the problems are revealed (e.g., Li et al. 2010), family owners likely have stronger incentives to correct internal control problems, since family owners directly bear the cost of price protection by minority shareholders.
Accelerated filers are first required to file Section 404 internal control reports for the fiscal year ending on or after November 15, 2004. Thus, the first internal control disclosure year is either 2004 or 2005, depending on companies' fiscal year end month.
These statistics are comparable to studies that also use S&P 1500 firms (e.g., Chen et al. 2008, 2013). The percentage of family firms is higher than in studies that examine only S&P 500 or Fortune 500 firms (e.g., Ali et al. 2007; Wang 2006) because the proportion of family firms is greater among S&P 400 firms and S&P 600 firms than among S&P 500 firms.
Compared to other shareholders with concentrated holdings (such as institutional investors), founding families are likely more influential within the firm because they are represented on boards of directors and usually hold top management positions (Anderson and Reeb 2003). Their influence is further enhanced because family owners are closely tied to the firm through their long-term investment and less diversified portfolios.
A material weakness exists if it is "reasonably possible that a material misstatement of the company's annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis" (PCAOB 2007, p. 434).
Employees who assist in entrenchment and violate internal control bear the costs related to any wrongdoings, potentially losing their jobs, harming their reputations, and even suffering legal consequences.
For example, for WorldCom, the whistleblower Cynthia Cooper, VP of internal audit, and her team brought the wrongdoings of the company's founder and CEO to light. The team decided to investigate the anomalies in the company's accounting. They met behind closed doors for many hours, gathered evidence, and worked their way up the chain of command. This example suggests that whistle-blowing is possible even in cases of powerful family CEOs.
Our discussions related to auditors are based on interviews with three audit partners from two Big 4 audit firms and one large national non-Big 4 audit firm.
Prior studies have shown that the PCAOB's inspection and potential sanctions provide audit firms with strong incentives to improve audit quality, including the quality of the internal control audit (Abbott et al. 2013; Nagy 2014; DeFond and Lennox 2017). Litigation and reputation concerns further ensure that auditors follow professional standards and maintain objectivity when assessing companies' internal control quality.
As discussed earlier, internal control procedures and mechanisms are the safeguards that limit improper transactions and reporting on an ongoing basis. In contrast, directors are not directly involved in day-to-day operations of the company and thus may not be able to monitor managers closely.
There are several well-known cases where family owners took advantage of poor internal control to entrench. John Rigas, the founder and CEO of Adelphia Corp., together with other family members, misappropriated company funds for purchases of personal properties; these inappropriate transactions were not approved, checked, or recorded. Hollinger Inc. made unjustified business payments to entities controlled by Conrad Black, its founder and CEO; these payments to related entities were not properly approved and recorded. Calisto Tanzi, the founder and CEO of the Italian food corporation Parmalat, was convicted of fraud for activities that included reporting nonexistent bank accounts. There were egregious failings of internal control in this case; for instance, cash reporting was not checked or reviewed by different employees. Other examples of family members engaging in aggressive earnings management when there was weak internal control include AIG (recorded sham transactions and hid control of subsidiaries to avoid consolidation), NCO Group (engaged in aggressive revenue recognition), and OM Group (used fraudulent entries to manage earnings and meet targets).
Family members' strong influence arises from a combination of factors, including concentrated holdings, top executive and director positions, long involvement with the firm, and superior voting rights (Anderson et al. 2009).
One can argue that family control power may be influenced by family entrenchment; more entrenched families may have more members involved as managers or directors. Under this argument, our prediction still holds. When interpreting the results, one should keep in mind that family control power can be a manifestation of family entrenchment, instead of a determinant of family entrenchment.
Before firms publicly disclose the internal control effectiveness, investors likely also price protect themselves. However, without public disclosure, it is difficult for investors to distinguish between family firms with and without effective internal control, and hence the price protection is shared by all family firms. Even if family firms with effective internal control want to communicate their internal control effectiveness to investors before the disclosure requirement, they may not be able to do so credibly, because doing so can be very costly, because there are no protocols to follow, and because auditors may be reluctant to provide a full internal control certification given the potential litigation risk. The disclosure requirement thus helps move a pooling equilibrium to a separating equilibrium.
Examining the change in internal control quality and the potential reduction of family entrenchment after the public disclosure of internal control quality also sheds light on the interplay between internal and external monitoring mechanisms. Rather than work independently, internal and external monitoring mechanisms can work jointly and complement each other to reduce family entrenchment. External parties such as minority shareholders cannot closely monitor the daily operation of family firms. However, once internal control quality is publicly disclosed, external monitors can pressure family owners to implement effective internal control for the purpose of curbing family entrenchment.
For example, in order to establish an internal control system, evaluate its effectiveness, and remediate the weakness in the system, firms would have needed to hire more internal auditors around 2003. However, Harrington (2004) observes that the limited labor supply made it challenging to secure new internal audit hires during that period, which could have significantly delayed the remediation process. Consistent with internal control problems taking time to be remediated, prior studies find that many ICMWs existed for several years prior to their initial disclosure (Doyle et al. 2007; Hogan and Wilkins 2008).
Following Chen et al. (2008), we also use "an alternative definition of family firms—firms where the members of the founding family have an equity ownership of 5% or higher (page 507)." We find results similar to theirs.
We only have related party transaction data in 2004. We thank Mark Kohlbeck and Brian Mayhew for sharing their related party transaction data with us.
As presented in Table 1, family CEO firms are more likely to have ICMWs than nonfamily firms in 2004 and 2005 (13.3% vs. 8.9%). In 2006, however, the incidence of ICMWs decreases significantly, and the difference between family CEO firms and nonfamily firms is no longer significant (5.8% vs. 4.2%).
We follow Johnstone et al. (2011) to categorize general vs. specific ICMWs. Johnstone et al. (2011) find that general ICMWs (those having pervasive effects on financial reporting) are more difficult to remediate than specific ICMWs (those at the account or transaction level).
In contrast to the results in Table 2 and Table 3, the coefficient on FamilyCEO × Specific ICMW in Table 4 is significantly positive, while the coefficient on FamilyCEO × General ICMW is not. This suggests that, for family CEO firms, specific material weaknesses rather than general material weaknesses are associated with more related party transactions. One possible explanation is that related party transactions are of many different types, including loans, borrowings, guarantees, consulting arrangements, legal or investment services, leases, business activities, overhead reimbursements, and stock transactions. (Kohlbeck and Mayhew 2010, 2017). Some of these transactions can be facilitated by material weaknesses of particular procedures and controls (i.e., specific material weaknesses), rather than by material weaknesses at the company level (i.e., general material weaknesses).
To ensure the robustness of the results, we also employ propensity score matching. Specifically, following Anderson and Reeb (2003), we use the natural log of total assets, the square of the natural log of total assets, and monthly stock return volatility to estimate the tendency for the firm to be a family firm. We then match a family firm with a nonfamily firm based on the closest propensity score (within a distance of 0.03, with replacement matching). We are able to match 997 (347) observations from family firms with nonfamily firms, leading to 1994 (694) observations in our matched sample for misstatement and fraud (related party transaction) analyses. The results (untabulated) are similar to our main results, though slightly weaker, possibly due to reduced power.
When family owners are influential, they may select their friends and business associates as board members. Because we do not have data on the connection between family owners and other board members, we measure family power using the number of family members on the board. We acknowledge that this measure of family power is subject to measurement errors. These errors, however, are unlikely to bias in favor of our finding that ICMWs in family CEO firms are more closely associated with negative consequences when family power is higher.
For both Table 5 and Table 6 (Panel A and B), the coefficient on FamilyCEO is significantly positive for LOW_FPOWER family firms but insignificant for HIGH_FPOWER family firms, suggesting that when family CEO firms with high family power have effective internal control, they are no more likely to engage in misstatements or related party transactions than nonfamily firms with effective internal control. Note that family CEO firms with high family power are those family CEO firms where a family member serves as CEO and at least two other family firms are on the board or among top executives. These characteristics are likely to make these firms the most powerful family firms. We conjecture that the powerful family firms with effective internal control are probably the ones that care the most about family reputation; hence, they do not have material control weaknesses and are less likely to commit misstatements or to engage in related party transactions. Because our research question is about how weak internal control facilitates family entrenchment, we leave exploring this unique group of family firms to future research.
Further analyses show that, relative to nonfamily firms, family CEO firms are not significantly associated with the incidence of ICMWs in 2007–2009.
We only examine the change in misstatements because our sample firms have very few frauds (only 3) in 2006, and we do not have related party transaction data for 2006.
We rely on the SEC's decisions, because while the SEC likely decides whom to sue based on wrongdoings, shareholders may pay more attention to recouping losses and thus are more likely to sue parties with deep pockets. To the extent that family CEOs are wealthier than other CEOs, using litigation data such as class action lawsuits will bias toward finding that family CEOs are more likely to be sued than other CEOs.
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Chen, X., Feng, M. & Li, C. Family entrenchment and internal control: evidence from S&P 1500 firms. Rev Account Stud (2020) doi:10.1007/s11142-019-09527-7
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publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Infants in Canadian Fiction
by Sandra Sabatini
canadian, children's studies, child
Although the infant has been a consistent figure in literature (and, for many people, a significant figure in personal life), there's been little attention focused on infants, or on their place in Canadian fiction, until now.
In this book, Sandra Sabatini examines Canadian fiction to trace the ideological charge behind the represented infant. Examining writers from L.M. Montgomery and Frederick Philip Grove to Thomas King and Terry Griggs, Sabatini compares women's writing about babies with the way infants appear in texts by men over the course of a century. She discovers a range of changing attitudes toward babies. After being seen as a source of financial burden, social shame, or sentimental fantasy, infants have increasingly become a source of value and meaning.
The book challenges the perception of babies as passive objects of care and argues for a reading of the infant as a subject in itself. It also reflects upon how the representations of infancy in Canadian literature offer an intriguing portrait of how we imagine ourselves.
Sandra Sabatini is both a fiction writer and a scholar. She is the author of the award-winning collection of stories, The One with the News, and teaches at the University of Guelph. She is currently working on a novel.
''This provocative and thoughtful volume is sure to spark further critical consideration of a hitherto overlooked literary figure.''
— Canadian Book Review Annual, 2006
''Although her camera is aimed at 'babies,' Sabatini brings into comprehensive focus an immense amount of cultural history about both men and women....Her prose is more than clear. Sabatini has been included in The Journey Prize Anthology (1999), and this current book is graced by a gifted creative writer's poetic use of language....This book is a significant contribution to research.''
— Mary Rubio
''[A] critical study that, in its choice of texts, approach, and fundamental argument, presents a fresh and provocative reading of Canadian fiction in the twentieth century.''
— E. Holly Pike
''Sabatini's textual readings are detailed and engaging.''
— Marie Carriere
''Making Babies: Infants in Canadian Fiction is written with academic precision yet literary grace, as befits its subject. Sabatini is astonished that 'babies in literature' have been so ignored, even as the infant in the last Canadian century moved from the periphery of our lives to the centre. Let's have some voice appropriation, I say, and speak up for these wordless creatures. Read this remarkable, acute, perceptive book.''
— Heather Mallick
''Making Babies is a compelling and complex analysis of how babies are treated in our national literature novels, and how this reflects our attitudes towards them and towards ourselves.''
— Murray Tong
''Making Babies: Infants in Canadian Fiction is an altogether exemplary work of literary criticism. Sabatini covers fertile new ground, makes a contribution to literary history, uses theory in a manner that illuminates the point at hand, avoids distortion of the literary texts on which her argument is based, provides fresh insights on those texts, and is splendidly lucid throughout. This is a very intelligent and engaging book, written with a clear passion for Canadian fiction and its long-forgotten babies. That Sandra Sabatini was the scholar finally to adopt these babies and allow them to be both seen and heard is our great luck.''
— Constance Rooke
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Q: Typescript - Open-closed principle I want to use OCP rule in my "small" project. Actually i have a problem with implementing this one. Let me show you what have i wrote.
abstract class AnimationType {
    public abstract createAnimation(timing: number): { in: string, out: string };
}

class FadingAnimation extends AnimationType {
  public createAnimation(timing: number): { in: string, out: string } {
    return { in: 'opacity: 0', out: 'opacity: 1' }
  }
}

class TransformAnimation extends AnimationType {
  public createAnimation(timing: number): { in: string, out: string } {
    return { in: 'transform: translateX(-100%)', out: 'transform: translateX(100%)' }
  }
}

class AnimationCreator {
  private timing: number;

  constructor(time: number) {
    this.timing = time;
  }

  getAnimation(animation: AnimationType): { in: string, out: string } {
    return animation.createAnimation(this.timing);
  }
}

Do I write it good? If I do, then what actually i have gained? I need to send object of FadingAnimation class if i want to add this animation. If i want transform animation i need to send object of TransformAnimation class - so somewhere i have to use switch(this.animationType).

A: Principles and patterns are absolutely transferable between languages. They may be less applicable when you cross the bounds of a paradigm. SOLID principles and OOP patterns apply to any object-orientation, not just Java.
Remember that TypeScript/JavaScript are not just object-oriented though.
Start with a Problem
The problem isn't that you are attempting to draw from principles that come from other languages. The problem here is that you are attempting to start with the principle.
Good code design, whatever paradigm you use, starts with a problem that you want to solve. Write more code before looking for patterns or applying principles, so the design can emerge from the real problems you find as your application grows.
By starting with a principle, you are deciding too early what the problem may eventually be; and your design may take you further away from the goal of clean code.
Patterns and principles are highly transferable, but wait for signals that you have a problem, rather than prematurely applying some solution.
Simple is Better
In your case, you can just solve the problem the simplest way. If you have a test to guide you, you can easily update the implementation details later.
Perhaps in your case, a simple dictionary/object would be sufficient.
const animationType = {
    fading: {
        in: 'opacity: 0',
        out: 'opacity: 1'
    },
    transforming: {
        in: 'transform: translateX(-100%)',
        out: 'transform: translateX(100%)'
    }
};

You could type this to allow any key, if you didn't want to enforce fading and transforming - but you don't need to add this flexibility yet:
interface AnimationTypes {
    [key: string]: { in: string, out: string };
}

A: I agree with Aluan Haddad. Do not think in plain JAVA-Patterns here. Although Typescript looks a lot like C# and therefor even a little like JAVA, it is still JavaScript in the end. The rules of inheritance, as you know them from JAVA, do not work here in depth. Do not try to build up complex inheritance patterns or related design principles. Using Typescript you have to adjust your way of coding.
A good approach to your problem would be using a plain service with 2 methods that return the needed object.
e.g.
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

@Injectable()
export class AnimationTypeService {

    constructor() {}

    getFadingAnimation(timing: number): { in: string, out: string } {
        return { in: 'opacity: 0', out: 'opacity: 1' };
    }

    getTransformAnimation(timing: number): { in: string, out: string } {
        return { in: 'transform: translateX(-100%)', out: 'transform: translateX(100%)' };
    }

}

A: The code above doesn't really need to be object oriented. AnimationType class doesn't have a state, cannot benefit from multiple instances and thus isn't needed. Unless class instances are distinguished with animation instanceof TransformAnimation (and this is not something that should be done with open-closed principle), there's no use of these classes.
AnimationType class can be replaced with functional approach:
interface IAnimation {
  type?: string;
  in: string;
  out: string;
}

type TAnimationFactory = (timing: number) => IAnimation;

const createFadeAnimation: TAnimationFactory = (timing: number) => {
   return { in: 'opacity: 0', out: 'opacity: 1' };
}

class AnimationCreator {
  private timing: number;

  constructor(time: number) {
    this.timing = time;
  }

  getAnimation(animationFactory: TAnimationFactory): IAnimation {
    return animationFactory(this.timing);
  }
}

Depending on what AnimationCreator does, it may be replaced with a function as well or be abolished in favour of using animation factory functions directly.
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Police officer discriminated against for traditional beliefs
PC Graham Cogman, has taken his police force to an Employment Tribunal on grounds of harassment because of his traditional Christian values. The officer, 49, from Sea Palling in North Norfolk, has been with the Norfolk Police for 15 years, having previously served in the RAF for 12 years.
PC Cogman is taking the unprecedented action as a serving policeman after a series of complaints and investigations suggesting he is 'homophobic' – something he strenuously denies. He says that the 'over the top' promotion of homosexual rights within Norfolk Police makes being a Christian policeman, or an officer with traditional family values, extremely difficult, unless a person is prepared to ignore his or her conscience.
In 2006, PC Cogman was working at the force's Great Yarmouth headquarters when gay liaison officers put 'politically correct' pressure on all colleagues to wear a pink ribbon supporting Gay History Month. PC Cogman claims police stations were flooded with homosexual literature and posters, including the promotion of a gay quiz night in pubs. As a member of the Police force, an organisation which he feels is charged with upholding traditional standards of freedom of speech and association, he emailed colleagues with an alternative view on the subject, stating his Christian views and reminding them that Christians, and other members of society, whom they serve as officers, believed homosexual acts were wrong in God's eyes.
PC Cogman was subsequently accused of failing to be tolerant and banned from using the force's internal email system. When the event re-occurred 12 months later, PC Cogman again protested, especially when the promoters wanted to use the Rainbow Symbol, which has special significance for many Christians. The officer was summoned to a full disciplinary hearing. On the advice of lawyers, and because he was told he would lose his job otherwise, he pleaded guilty to a breach of the police code of practice and was fined the maximum, £1,200. When PC Cogman then added a Christian text to his computer screen saver, he was questioned again and in April 2008, he was interviewed about his faith and beliefs. He now faces a further full disciplinary hearing and is in fear of losing his job.
Source: 3/9/08 christainlegalcentre.com
Brazilian law would prohibit Christian teaching on homosexuality
Rio de Janeiro, July 15, 2008 / 01:36 pm (CNA) – The Brazilian Senate is considering a bill approved unanimously and without debate by the country's House of Representatives that aims to promote homosexuality and prohibit Christian teaching on the issue, under the guise of combating discrimination.
According to the Association of the Defense of Life, the bill would make it a crime punishable by five years in prison to impede expressions of 'homosexual affection' in public places or private places open to the public. It would also punish those who deny employment to openly homosexual teachers in schools with up to three years imprisonment, making it impossible for Catholic or Christian schools to prevent homosexuals from joining their faculties.
The bill would also impose prison sentences on any kind of moral, ethical, philosophical or psychological expression that questions homosexual practices. In this way, 'a priest, a pastor, a teacher or even an average citizen who says in a sermon, a classroom or public conversation that homosexual acts are sinful, disordered or an illness could be denounced and detained', the association said.


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THE ISSEI: EARLY JAPANESE IMMIGRATION
The first Japanese immigrants to the United States of America were known as Issei, or "first generation." A group of colonists arrived in California from Japan as early as 1869, and by the mid-1800s the first major influx of immigrants was recorded as Japanese laborers began working in Hawaii sugarcane fields and California farms.
According to the 1900 U.S. Census, 24,326 Japanese were living in America, primarily on the West Coast. The first Japanese to come to America were male. In fact, the 1900 census shows that only 410 of 24,326 Japanese immigrants were female. Of that total number, 393 were listed in Wyoming. By 1910, the total population of Japanese in America had grown to 72,157, with more than 1,596 of that number living in Wyoming.
New laws reflected growing anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S. Among these was the 1907 Gentlemen's Agreement aimed at curtailing immigration from Japan. Instead, the Japanese population of California increased. Women were still permitted to enter the U.S., and the steady arrival of "picture brides" from Japan resulted in an increase in the Japanese population in America, both through new immigration and through childbirth. Anti-Japanese groups, citing the picture brides, complained that the Gentlemen's Agreement was being violated.
Subsequently in 1913, the California Alien Land Law barred Issei from owning land.
A movement to totally exclude Japanese immigrants eventually succeeded with the Immigration Act of 1924. That legislation significantly reduced immigration from Japan until 1952 when an allotment of 100 immigrants per year was designated.
As Japanese communities, or nihonmachi, began to emerge, Issei built businesses, and Buddhist and Japanese Christian churches were established. Opportunities to work as laborers for the railroads, oil fields, canneries and farms drew Japanese away from the cities. Fishing industries also developed. Many Japanese moved to the San Joaquin Valley and were successful in growing potatoes, asparagus, onions, and other crops in areas that had been barren.
In the area of agriculture, the Japanese immigrants employed a system of organizing their produce and flower industries vertically in a system of Japanese-owned operations, from raising the plants to retail sales. Cooperatives were organized to improve the growing, packing and marketing of crops. They experimented with different strains of rice, which they farmed, distributed, and sold.
People from the same areas in Japan formed kenjinkai, or regional affinity clubs, designed to support and aid members and encourage mutual understanding. Financial aid, informal counseling and care for the sick or injured were functions of these groups. Later, the groups placed more emphasis on social events, such as family picnics. Kenjinkai clubs still convene today and many have existed for more than 100 years. There are 35 such clubs in Southern California alone.
Around 1930, the Nisei wanted to create their own organization and formed the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). The JACL's willingness to cooperate with the government's plans to remove all persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast would become a source of conflict between the immigrant Issei and the U.S.-born members of the JACL , but like the kenjinkai, the JACL has continued to survive as a national organization dedicated to civil rights and other issues of importance to Japanese Americans.
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Start making your plans for the evening of February 4 now! Shirley Ann Higuchi, author of Setsuko's Secret, and Bradford Pearson, author of The Eagles of Heart Mountain, will discuss the history of Heart Mountain, the Japanese American incarceration and lessons learned while writing.
Join us for this free event!
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Photographers who documented WWII incarceration often posed Japanese Americans to visually construct a photo. This power to construct the image was heightened because the photographers were largely white and hired by the government, visiting the camps by choice and free to leave when they wanted.
In 1943, Ansel Adams visited Manzanar—not as a hired photographer but as a friend of the camp's director—and captured this image of Joyce Okazaki with her mother and younger sister. "I told him, 'I want to face the camera,' and he said, 'No, you're going to face how I told you,'" she said years later. "So there I am with my back to the camera … that's how he posed us."
Adams wasn't alone in constructing images to portray incarcerees as "good Americans." But these photos don't depict the real experiences of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Listen to Campu episode 4 to hear the stories—and voices—behind the photos >> https://densho.org/campu-cameras/
[Image description: Two young girls and their mother posing in front of a barrack in Manzanar. The mother stands in the middle smiling down at her younger daughter, and the older girl is looking up at her mother with her face turned away from the camera.]
Check out these exciting programs on Sunday, January 17, brought to you by the Minidoka National Historic Site!
Due to COVID budget restrictions, 2020's last issue of Kokoro Kara magazine won't be coming to your mailbox. But the latest news and articles you love are all online in a special digital-only edition, at https://bit.ly/3osvnDA. We'll be back in print for our upcoming Winter 2021 issue!
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HELP NEEDED: We are searching for descendants of the camp's veterinarian, "Doc" Minol Ota. As a Wyoming native, Doc wasn't incarcerated during the war, but was hired by the government to look after Heart Mountain's livestock.
After the camp closed, Doc Ota settled in nearby Lovell, where he set up a practice and coached the local baseball team. Several years later, he moved to San Jose.
If you are related to Doc, or know someone who is, please send us a message via Facebook or by email to dakota@heartmountain.org.
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1921 was the high point for Nisei births in the United States. This excellent @DenshoProject article highlights some of those who would have turned 100 this year, including @HeartMountainWY incarceree S. Neil Fujita, a prominent artist.
https://t.co/dWDaPtVYcS
The Eagles of Heart Mountain gave hope to a community of people who were incarcerated because of where they or their parents had been born. The new book by @BradfordPearson is essential reading.
https://t.co/kYpx79kuoy
Start making your plans for the night of Feb. 4 now. @HiguchiJD, author of Setsuko's Secret, and @BradfordPearson, author of The Eagles of Heart Mountain, will discuss the history of Heart Mountain, the Japanese American incarceration and lessons learned while writing. https://t.co/dxdigxa2RL
The weather at @HeartMountainWY was often brutally cold and accompanied by high winds. #OTD in 1943, Dr. Charles Irwin, the camp's chief doctor, issued these recommendations for how to deal with frostbite. https://t.co/M3nvev5Drj
White supremacist mobs have always existed in this country. Fear of them turning on Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor was one of many excuses used to justify the incarceration of 120,000 people without trial.
https://t.co/pXtxZY6Eaq
So-called "patriotic education" is what kept discussion of the Japanese American incarceration and other abuses of the rights of non-white Americans under wraps for decades. @historyed @NCSSNetwork @EDSITEment @NEH_Education @NEHgov
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Q: Easier way to do callbacks for vectors (or maybe something else in the STL)? C++ I'm making a simple crime sim game.
Throughout it I keep doing the same thing over and over:
// vector<Drug*> drugSack;
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < this->drugSack.size(); i++)
            this->sell(drugSack[i]);

Just one example.  I hate having all these for loops all over the place omg QQ, anyway to do something like:
drugSack->DoForAll((void*)myCallBack);

I'm not well versed in the STL.

A: Time to start knowing the stl algorithms:
#include <algorithm>

...

std::for_each( drugSack.begin(), drugSack.end(),
  std::bind1st( std::mem_fun_ptr( &ThisClass::Sell ), this ) );

The idea is to create an object, called a "functor", that can do a certain action for each of the elements in the range drugSack.begin(), drugSack.end().
This functor can be created using stl constructs like mem_fun_ptr, resulting in a functor taking a ThisClass* and a Drug* argument, and a wrapper around it that will substitute/bind the Class* for this.

A: Honestly, C++ is currently pretty bad at this kind of stuff. It can definitely do it, as outlined in xtofl's answer, but it's often very clumsy.
Boost has a for-each macro that is quite convenient:
#include <boost/foreach.hpp>
#define foreach BOOST_FOREACH

// ...

foreach(Drug* d, drugSack)
{
    sell(d);
}

Or perhaps Boost.Bind, though this is slightly more complex, it reads very nice for your case:
#include <boost/bind.hpp>

// ...

// ThisClass refers to whatever class this method is in
std::for_each(drugSack.begin(), drugSack.end(),
                boost::bind(&ThisClass::sell, this, _1));

Bind will make a functor that calls the member function of ThisClass, sell, on the instance of the class pointed to by this, and will replace _1 with the argument it gets from for_each.
The most general method is with lambda's. Boost has a lambda library. I won't include
samples here because for your specific case boost bind works, and the lambda's would be the same code. That said, lamba's can do much more! They basically create in-place functions (implemented as functors), but are much more complex to learn.
Both for-each and bind are far cleaner than the "standard" C++ methods, in my opinion. For now, I'd recommend, in order: for-each, bind, standard C++, lambda's.
In C++0x, the next C++ standard, all this will be nice again with built-in lambda support:
std::for_each(drugSack.begin(), drugSack.end(),
                [this](DrugSack* d){ sell(d); });

Or the new range-based for loops:
for(DrugSack* d : drugSack)
{
    sell(d);
}

But we must wait a couple years before this is an option. :( Also, I think the range-based for-loop is the easiest thing to read. This is why I recommend boost for-each, because it mimics this behavior and syntax (mostly).
Also, totally unrelated: the style where you include this-> before everything is, in my experience, generally considered bad practice. The compiler will do it for you, all you're doing is cluttering up your code and introducing the chance of mistakes. Things read much better without it.

A: You could use std::for_each from the STL which applies a function to a range.  See the following description: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/for_each/.
You will also need to use std::mem_fun or std::mem_fun_ptr to obtain the member function of your class.
For more advanced cases, have a look at Boost Bind which provides an advanced binder for creating function objects.

A: Well, first I'm confused: what's sell? Is it meant to be a member function of some class, you need to make drugSack that class, in which case you can do something like the following --
Something like for_each to iterate over drugSack, combined with mem_fun to get sell:
for_each(drugSack.begin(), drugSack.end(), mem_fun(&Drug::sell))

If sell is just an ordinary function, you can just put it in the third argument of for_each.

A: For the simple of case of looping through an entire container, I'd just write the loop. It's unfortunately long-winded, but not prone to mistakes if you always write it the same way. I always write such loops as follows:
Container c;
for (Container::iterator i = c.begin(), end = c.end(); i != end; ++i)
    ...

(or const_iterator where appropriate).
You could try BOOST_FOREACH as an alternative.


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Make the most of your truck on your next camping trip.
Summer is the best time of the year to take your truck out on a road trip and spend some time camping in the great outdoors. For many people, camping out of their truck is a cheaper, more convenient option than pitching a tent. While not as glamorous as an RV or a tent, truck bed camping allows hunters and adventurers to beat the competition to some of the best spots. Here are a few tips for transforming your truck into a mobile living space.
The most important thing to keep in mind when camping from a truck bed is that you need to keep the interior space clean. Being out in the country can be messy. You don't want to drag rain, mud, dirt, blood, feathers or other debris into your truck. Seal up the space as much as possible when you're on the road. Replace worn seals and tighten up the hardware holding the cap to the truck. You may want to crack a window for ventilation at night, but windows should be kept shut when you're cruising over dirt or gravel roads. It's a good idea to bring trash bags for storing muddy boots and other dirty equipment. A broom or a handheld vacuum can also be handy. A clean space will make camping from your truck easier and more comfortable.
Space is a limited commodity when it comes to camping from your truck bed. Consider building in some kind of sleeping or storage unit. A raised platform above your hunting or fishing equipment is a practical solution. Organize your camping gear, clothing, cooking equipment and anything else you'll be taking into waterproof containers. This will help you save space and give you more room for sleeping.
Running water may not always be available from where you're camping. Bring a large water can and aluminum baking pans for washing. It's also handy to have something that will glow in the dark so you can have some light without attracting a lot of bugs. Always make sure your truck is outfitted with a first aid kit.
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Q: Send Explict/Implict Intent to Internal View/Activity I'm experimenting here...
Ok, so I have a relativelayout with 3 views.
2 webviews: one on the bottom full width taking up 20% verically. One on the right side taking up 30% of the screen. And a videoview taking up the remaining space.
For my purposes, I would like to change the video in the videoview using adb shell commands instead of java. Usually when I interact with apps from the android shell its something like this...
    Adb shell am start android.intent.action.MAIN com.android.browser.BrowserActivity

But, this opens up a whole new window.
I don't want to open another window, I want to interact with the present activities on the screen, but through the android shell.
Let's say like playing different videos in the video view and the app remains open, the only thing that changes upon command is the video playing in the view.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or show me some possiblities of this.
Thank you in advance.

A: You activity should register a broadcast receiver which will modify the content of the view when called.
Once you have your activity displayed, you can launch the broadcast intent from the console. More information about adb shell am command:
Android adb shell am broadcast: Bad component name
http://www.anddev.org/using_the_am-tool_start_activities-intens_from_a_shell-t368.html


Author's note: The Access Copyright v. York University lawsuit was the subject of the very first post I ever made. In fact, it was the impetus for creating this blog. After four years, part one of the lawsuit has been decided. Here is my analysis.
On July 12, 2017, the Federal Court of Canada handed down its long-awaited decision in Access Copyright's lawsuit against York University (York), originally filed on April 13, 2013. The suit related to York's copyright policy and whether their fair dealing guidelines accurately reflected the test set out by the Supreme Court. A summary of Access Copyright's claims can be found here.
The result was a complete loss for York on all points, and an order to pay retroactive royalties as set by the Copyright Board in its Interim Tariff. However, as the decision is likely to be appealed, I'd like to discuss here what will we be (or should be) the main points of legal contention before the higher court. I will focus here on the fair dealing analysis (starting at para. 249) rather than the mandatory tariff, which is an issue discussed in detail by Howard Knopf and Ariel Katz.
Howard Knopf has reported that the Access Copyright v. York University suit has been bifurcated by the Federal Court — that is, split into two phases that will be heard separately. He has posted Aalto CMJ's bifurcation order here. The order was requested by York.
In the first phase, documentary and oral discovery (the gathering of evidence) will take place with respect to York's use (or authorization of use) of the copyrighted works enumerated in Schedule "B" of Access Copyright's Statement of Claim, as well as York's counterclaim seeking a declaration that the proposed tariff is voluntary and that uses of copyrighted works that fall within the scope of their Fair Dealing Guidelines are fair dealing.
In the second phase, if necessary, the Court will consider Access Copyright's claims related to other acts of reproduction that York may have engaged in or authorized, and which are not set out in Schedule "B" but may be discovered during the course of the proceedings.
Access Copyright argued against the bifurcation, on the grounds that it will cause prejudice to their attempts to show that York's Fair Dealing Guidelines do not reflect the legal scope of fair dealing, and that York has engaged in or authorized copying that falls outside of the ambit of the guidelines. They contend that the initial focusing on the 87 enumerated works will interfere with their ability to discover copying that has taken place beyond what has already been alleged.
Aalto CMJ's bifurcation order attempts a compromise between York's view that there are far too many instances of fair copying to be considered in one proceeding, and AC's view that its ability to discover further copying is compromised. To that end, York will be required to produce the volume and types of copying that it tracks, and provide samples of the copying.
York University has filed its Statement of Defence in response to Access Copyright's Statement of Claim that York owes royalties under the Interim Tariff. The document is in fact both a statement of defence and a counterclaim against Access Copyright.
I have recently made available the results of a project I have been working on since January. I analyzed the fair dealing policies of the top 40 Canadian universities by student enrollment (excluding Quebec) for content and to determine whether there is consistency among the universities, and any relationship between the content in the schools' copyright web sites and whether they have signed an Access Copyright licence.
This research is particularly timely because of the recent lawsuit brought by Access Copyright against York University, the basis of which is York's allegedly ineffective fair dealing policy.
The past three years have seen a number of changes in the area of copyright law, particularly in the area of education. As a result, Canadian universities have had to make policy decisions to account for these changes and the resulting expansion of fair dealing rights. The content and consistency of the resulting policies may have a significant effect on the future interpretation of fair dealing rights. In this paper I analyze the current state of fair dealing policies and supporting information found on university web sites. I conclude that an ideal fair dealing policy is open ended and flexible, and incorporates mention of the significant elements of copyright legislation, court decisions, and other areas of law, in a way that is accessible to its intended audience of faculty and instructors.
Access Copyright v. York University: The statement of claim.
Access Copyright v. York University: What's it all about?
On April 8, 2013, Access Copyright brought legal action in Federal Court against York University. Access Copyright claims that York is impermissibly operating outside the Access Copyright Interim Post-Secondary Educational Institutions Tariff, 2011-2013 (PDF, 137 KB).
Fair Dealing in Education by Lisa Di Valentino is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License.
Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at The University of Western Ontario working at the intersection of information & communications law and policy, new media and the information/communication professions.
Progressive Librarians Guild - London Ontario Chapter: cultivating spaces for critical dialogue and collaborative action on core issues affecting information workers.


Fairmont is a New Jersey band that blends punk, emo, and indie rock perfectly. This CD contains 16 songs and is made up of songs coming from two recording sessions. One session was electric and one was acoustic. The electric stuff is similar to Jawbreaker, Pavement, and Pixies while the acoustic stuff can be compared to Weakerthans, Dashboard Confessional, and Pedro The Lion. The music on this is very diverse so if you want to hear a variety of tracks, visit www.reinforcementrecords.com and click on the Fairmont CD cover for 5 MP3s.
these guys are alright...don't buy it unless you like poppy high school emo/punk bands that sing about love.


JB Aviation Management, Inc was founded in 2011 by Justin Cleland and Brian Spiro. At the time of founding, the business employed three people and owned/operated one airplane. Today JB Aviation employs twenty-six people and owns/operates ten airplanes, all based at Galt Airport (10C) in Greenwood, Illinois.
Under their management, Galt Airport was named Illinois Department of Transportations "Airport of the Year" in 2014 and has been featured nationally in EAA's Sport Aviation magazine, AOPA's Flight Training magazine, and many others. Their management company promotes airport community, culture, and is successful at delivering thriving business in all facets of aviation.
JB Aviation Management provides all services associated with managing the day-to-day operations of an airport. In short, we do it all when it comes to running an airport. JB Aviation Management has been in the airport management business since 2011.
Justin Cleland is co-owner of JB Aviation and manager of Galt Airport.He has worked at Galt since 2005, starting as an apprentice mechanic in the Aircraft Maintenance Shop. In 2008, he earned his CFII; immediately teaming-up with a single Cessna 172 to begin the process of revitalizing a stagnant flight school at Galt Airport. At the same time, he also began managing Galt Airport's day-to-day operations.
Justin has his hands in a little bit of everything at Galt, from flight instructing to snow plowing to managing airport finances, you'll see him involved in every aspect of airport life.
Brian Spiro is an A&P/IA that started working at Galt Airport in 2006 and took over managing the aircraft maintenance shop in 2007. In 2011 he co-founded JB Aviation with Justin Cleland and has been running the maintenance shop and helping maintain the airport ever since. He attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach Florida and has a private pilot license and an instrument rating. Brian spent a summer as a crew chief for a professional airshow team.
Mike is a pilot's pilot to the core. Deciding he wanted to be a pilot at the age of 8, Mike joined Civil Air Patrol as soon as he was of age, and then began flying as soon as he could. Mike has obtained his Commercial Single and Multi-Engine Pilot Certificates with Instrument Rating, as well as Certified Flight Instructor Instrument Airplane Certificate.
Fast forward to September of 2014, Mike walked in the door of JB Aviation Flight School looking for a part time flight instructor position. Two months after he started at JB Aviation, part time turned into full time. Mike took over running the flight school mid-2016 and is also the Sales Manager for JB Aviation's sister company Cornerstone Aircraft Sales. Mike is married, and has 4 children and when not flying or talking about flying he is probably at one of his kids sporting events!
Rebekah attended Minnesota State University and earned her bachelor's degree in Aviation Management and minored in Business, and Recreation Leisure Services. While there, she also earned her private pilot's license and multi engine rating.
She first wandered into the FBO at Galt Airport while on summer break in 2009. During the summers of 2009 and 2010 she worked as a line service technician and assisted in the office.
She worked at Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport in Dickinson North Dakota and at Appleton International Airport in Appleton Wisconsin before returning to Galt to begin working for JB Aviation Management in 2013. She is the General Manager of JB Aviation and handles the day to day operations and airport administration.
Rebekah is a native to Minnesota and travels back often to visit family. While not working, she enjoys beekeeping, walking with her dog, Gretta, and hanging out with her nephews.
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Bob Marley Movie in the Works at Paramount with Son Ziggy Marley Involved
Paramount Pictures and Ziggy Marley have teamed up to develop a biopic on Ziggy's late father Bob Marley, the music icon who introduced reggae to mainstream audiences. Marley died of cancer in May 1981 at the young age of 36, just three years after doctors found a malignant melanoma under the nail of one of his toes. His impact on music during his short lifetime is undeniable, releasing hit songs like No Woman No Cry, Get Up Stand Up, Could You Be Loved, Buffalo Soldier, One Love, Redemption Song and Jammin.
The Bob Marley movie will undoubtedly address his rise as a Jamaican singer-songwriter, but it will likely also touch on the racial discrimination he faced in the country of his birth for having a caucasian father. The fame Marley achieved never went to his head. He remained humble until his death. There is no word yet on who might be cast in the Bob Marley true story movie.
Son Ziggy Marley has himself achieved notoriety as a musician and producer. He won a Grammy last year for Best Reggae album and was the executive producer on three Bob Marley documentaries. In addition, he created the graphic novel Marijuanaman.
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Shannon's Law by Emma Calin
Emma Calin
A sassy female police officer who locks up criminals and always gets her man.
Moved out from the city after one-too-many maverick missions, Shannon discovers there's more going on in the sleepy country village than meets the eye. The son of a local aristocrat arouses suspicion of drug crime activity… but his widower father arouses more animal instincts!
Could she really mix with the British royal family? Can she risk her heart and career on yet another high risk unauthorised investigation? Can she get justice for an innocent boy? Dare a kid from the gutter dream of being a countess?
Wild child inner city cop Shannon Aguerri walks a dangerous line between her methods and justice. When the bosses lose their nerve, she is transferred to green pastures to play out the role of a routine village cop. In Fleetworth-Green she encounters signs of people and drug trafficking and homes in on serious millionaire criminals.
As a loner she has attracted men but nothing has stuck. When she meets Spencer, the hunky and widowed Earl of Bloxington, there is an immediate rapport between them. Their social differences mean nothing to their passion and need. Already in the mix is an upper class
female rival who has long plotted her way into the Earl's bed. The jealousy is an evil shade of green and the anger is a violent scarlet.
Often inhibited by a sense of duty and honour, Spencer is slow to reveal his feelings. When Shannon confronts him with the need to choose between her word and that of her rival, he does not immediately support her.
All the same, when they are forced together to carry out a desperate rescue mission, their love is stronger than everything ranged against them.
About Emma Calin:
Emma Calin was born in London in 1962. She currently lives in France and the UK.
She has been writing since childhood and has won numerous local, national and international prizes for poetry and short stories.
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"Shannon's Law will draw you in from page one and hold you fast, immersed in the love and suspense until the end." Anneli Purchase, Canada.
"A fast-paced and intense story where two different social worlds collide in a vortex full of love, hatred, intrigues and passion. Emma Calin has done it again. A book hard to put down before its end." Petra Rovere, Slovenia.
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The Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) has unveiled new plans to improve trade and investment between both countries.
Some of the issues, according to him include, improving relationship with the Commonwealth, other Chambers and similar organizations such as the Institute of Directors (IoD), increasing relevance to all levels of membership, bringing in the next generation of business people and young entrepreneurs; and improving committee effectiveness.
We also took advantage of the CBF to participate in a UK-Nigeria Trade & Investment Summit organized by NIPC at the London Stock Exchange" he said.
As part of the strategic approaches, Olawore said the chamber has signed some strategic partnerships, some of which include, affiliation with the British Chamber of Commerce, an MoU with the Scottish Chambers of Commerce for partnership in the Agricultural, Oil & Gas and other sectors, strategic partnership with the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), among others.


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A Trip Down Memory Lane – Steve Jobs' Biological Father Abdulfattah Jandali Regretted Giving His Son Up For Adoption
By Ramish Zafar
Mar 1, 2017 05:04 EST
As the tech media, we're in a constant frenzy to get the latest news out. A couple of hours is all it takes for a piece to loose its 'worthiness'. However, it doesn't mean that older pieces don't merit coverage. Today, we've got just the bit for for you. It's six years old, so if you're one for only the latest news, skip over to the hundreds of other posts on this site. If not, then take a look below for more.
Steve Jobs' Biological Father Abdulfattah John Jandali Regretted Giving His Son Up For Adoption & Not Meeting Him
Jobs turned out to be a lot like his dad. At 80 years old, Abdulfattah Jandali was also an executive, the vice president of Reno casino. He also found out too late that his son had gone on to create one of the biggest companies in the world, which has had a massive influence on corporate culture and business. Steve, as we all know, was put up for adoption by his biological mother soon after birth. Even though the former Apple CEO didn't like to talk about his personal life, his celebrity like status ensure that a lot of details became available for the public.
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Jandali's girlfriend, Joanne Simpson got pregnant with Jobs in 1955. Her father did not allow here to marry a Syrian immigrant. Simpson moved to San Francisco without informing Jandali and her dad died a few months after Jobs was put up for adoption. She then proceeded to marry Jandali with the couple moving to Syria. Simpson soon shifted back to the US, after Mona, her second child turned four. Jandali continued to write emails to Jobs but didn't call for the fear of sounding greedy.
"If we had just held off for a few months, then we would have been able to raise Steve as our own, but sadly, that was not the case," Jandali said. "We often spoke of our son and how we both wished he was with us, especially when Joanne gave birth to Steve's sister, Mona. But nothing to do with Joanne and I was ever meant to be." according to the New York Post.
What can we say. It's a slow news day and the perfect time to take a trip down memory lane. Jandali and Jobs didn't meet during Jobs' life and the father has outlived the son. Apple, on the other hand continues to do well. The iPhone 8 is a regular feature of the rumor mill and will make a lot of big upgrades on the lineup. These include a virtual fingerprint reader, an edge to edge OLED screen, new build materials and the 10nm Apple A11. Thoughts? Let us know what you think in the comments section below and stay tune for the latest. We'll keep you updated.
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Forget using separate approaches for SEO and PR. For a successful campaign that delivers maximum coverage with added SEO benefits, you need an integrated approach from the start.
PR coverage is essential for building brand awareness, but it can also support the type of quality link building that is essential to SEO, while bringing additional traffic to your site.
Google likes websites that publish new content regularly, but recent research from Backlinko* discovered that 93% of B2B content receives zero external links, while only 3% receives links from multiple websites. Overall, only 6% of the content in its research sample of 912 million blog posts sample had at least one external link.
An integrated SEO and PR strategy can increase the number of links to your content, giving you maximum return from your marketing budget.
Links are useful for driving traffic to your website, but quality links are also one of the most important Google ranking factors.
Websites with a large number of high-quality links are viewed by Google as more relevant, more authoritative and more important, and as a result have a higher domain authority – the search engine ranking score that predicts how well a website will rank on search engine result pages.
Media outlets generally have well-established websites with a good domain authority, regularly updated content, steady traffic and a high number of quality backlinks, making them a prime target for B2B link building.
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When dealing with B2B campaigns, the art of link building becomes much more difficult, unless you create a need for the coverage to link back to your website.
Here are our key pointers for creating a link-worthy content and PR campaign.
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What's the Matter With our Water?
Last March 22, the global community celebrated World Water Day 2019. It is ironic that on the day the United Nations (UN) designated to emphasize the global aim to ensure availability and sustainable management of water, many Filipinos in Metro Manila and Rizal were on the second week of misery from a water mess that had disrupted their lives. Even as we go to press, many Metro Manila villages are experiencing water interruption.
Modern PHL Airports to Lift Growth Higher
The tourism industry is one driver of economic growth that we should aggressively promote. Tourism directly creates jobs and significantly boosts the economy of a particular province or region.
Businessmen See Vibrant Economy
You don't have to go to the details of the nation's gross domestic product to find out how the economy will fare in 2019. The business plans of the tycoons and the businessmen say it all. They will tell you either in private or announce their plans in the business sections of major newspapers.
No Private Jets or Fancy Cars for Manny Villar – 5 Ways the Philippines' Richest Man and Former Presidential Candidate Lives Modestly
Once an impoverished child who sold seafood, now the Filipino tycoon behind the Villar Group is worth US$5.6 billion through his interests in real estate, malls, hospitality and education – but he stills flies cabin, drives a Toyota and works remotely from a coffee shop.
Villar Group Turns Over PhilSports Arena to Medical Corps
MANILA, Philippines — Medical personnel from the Philippine National Police (PNP) will oversee and lead operations at Philippine Sports (PhilSports) Arena or ULTRA (University of Life Training and Recreational Arena) "We Heal As One" Center.
Villar Completes PICC Conversion Into COVID-19 Treatment Facility
The PICC quarantine facility – which has 294 patient cubicles, six nurse stations, and six houses outside the Forum building for the health workers – was turned over to the Philippine National Police (PNP) Medical Corps on April 15.


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Gardaí launch search for four-year-old boy missing from Kilkenny since Sunday
Muaaz vanished from the Kilkenny area on Sunday (Image: Gardaí)
BY: Rachael O'Connor
GARDAÍ HAVE launched a public appeal following the disappearance of a four-year-old boy from Kilkenny.
Muaaz Usama vanished from the Kilkenny City area yesterday, Sunday 19 September and has not been seen since.
Little Muaaz is described in a missing person report as being approximately 2 foot 4 inches in height, with a slim build and with black hair and dark brown eyes.
When last seen, Muaaz was wearing a dark green and black hoody with a grey hood, blue jeans, black shoes and black socks.
The missing person's report also suggests that Muaaz may be wearing a yellow hoody or a blue puffy jacket.
A photograph of the missing child, released by Muaaz's family via Gardaí, can be seen below.
Muaaz vanished from the Kilkenny area yesterday and has not been seen since- he may be with an adult relative (Image: Gardaí)
An Garda Síochána have appealed for the public for help in locating Muaaz, who may be travelling with an adult relative.
They were last believed to be in the Dublin area but may have moved on since then.
An Garda Síochána have urged the public to keep an eye out for the missing child, and anyone who may have seen him-- or has any information which can assist in locating Muaaz, no matter how insignificant the information may seem-- to come forward.
Anyone with information should contact Kilkenny Garda station on 056 777 5000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.
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High School teacher Erin Towns from Edward Little High School in Auburn, Maine has been selected as one of this year's Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellows in recognition of her commitment to geographic education. The 2018 Fellows, a group of 40 highly respected educators from the United States and Canada, will embark on global expeditions on board the Lindblad Expedition ships for a hands-on experience for professional development.
Starting later this year, the 2018 Fellows will begin their 10 to 17 day expeditions to locations including the Canadian High Arctic, Antarctica, Southeast Alaska, Arctic Svalbard, Norway, Iceland, Greenland and the Galápagos Islands. Accompanied by Lindblad-National Geographic expedition experts, ranging from undersea specialists to National Geographic photographers, the Fellows will experience landscapes, cultures and wildlife unique to their regions of exploration.
For more information about Ms. Towns and the other fellows, check out the Grosvenor Teacher Fellows website.
As part of a notification provided in September 2015, the Maine Department of Education provided guidance regarding the removal of supports provided for some assessments administered by the College Board. This included the ACCUPLACER, PSAT/NMSQT and the former Readistep.
The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015, removed previously designated funding to support subsidies for Advanced Placement assessments.
In collaboration with the Title I Committee of Practitioners, the Department has determined that setting aside an additional 3% of Title I funds (beyond the mandated 7% for School Improvement and 1% for State Administration) was not in the best interest of all Maine students. This approach would have removed funding from each Title I school district, making it more challenging to support students in need. Maine receives the minimum Title IV allocation from the federal government, therefore State level activity funds available under Section 4104 are also not sufficient to support all students currently enrolled in Advanced Placement courses (Section 1003A and Section 4104).
Under ESSA, locally received ESEA Title I federal funds can be utilized to support Advanced Placement courses and assessments in Title I schools for the appropriately identified population as outlined in a comprehensive needs assessment, SAU consolidated plans or schoolwide plans.
Similarly, local education agencies receiving an allocation of funding under Title IV, Part A of ESSA may also utilize funds to support the costs associated with access to accelerated learning opportunities. Section 1112(b)(12) & 1112 (b) (13) Section 1114(b) (7)(A) (iii)(II) Section 4107(a)(3)(D).
Should you have further questions, please contact Janette Kirk, Deputy Director, Office of Learning Systems at 624-6707 or Janette.Kirk@maine.gov.


Snake Face, book three in the Mae Martin Psychic Mystery series, has been awarded a B.R.A.G. medallion. When I receive an award, I like to thank the people who helped me produce a book that earned one: my editor, Nancy Adams, my critique partners Jordaina Robinson and Janet Simpson, and this book's third beta reader, Bette Kaminski, who helped me to make sure I had done justice to the touring musician's life on the road.
Amber, Congratulations! Gasp, I even have a beautiful copy of this book~~~!!!!!! I am so thrilled for you.
By any chance, do you like Jim Morrison???
Jim Morrison? Hm. I've never bought any of his music, but I don't dislike it especially. No strong opinion on him. What made you ask?
He was my favorite, I have all his music and actually got to see him before his untimely death in France. One of the songs in his album The Soft Parade is entitled Shaman's Blues.
You are the first person ever to tell me about that song. Thanks.
Congratulations, Amber!! I know it's difficult to win this, and you richly deserve it!
Congratulations, Amber. You deserve the award. I'm reading the series. I'm only on the second one, so I don't know anything about Snake Face. But I'm looking forward to it. The first two are great. Mae is a great character.
Thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying the series.


Serbia always have a good team. The problem is, before every competition (I mean Euro or WC), public and domain press declare us as favorites from the shadow and put semi-final as a target. Which is usually unrealistic, of course. Huge disappointing was following.
This time was the same. But we lost against probably the worst team in SA, New Zealand and played, for our standards, poor game vs. Poland. Pressure is decreasing and it looks like "Raddy" Antic's mind game, more than real crisis. And even players support that. Ivanovic criticizes team's effort (which is unusual from him to criticizes anything but himself), Vidic talks about international retirement (bad timing at least)… No, I can't believe in all that showing. Last friendly is Cameroon at home. Another bad result could (seriously) damage a self confidence. Impressive win would irritate journalist to write rubbish again. So, my pick here is Serbia to win with a goal difference (@ 3.60 bet365).
We have very good team once again. Who have better defense line than us? Kolarov-Vidic-Subotic-Ivanovic. One of the best, anyway. Midfield with Stankovic in the center and Krasic/Jovanovic on the wings looks very dangerous. Different variations in attack with 202cm Zigic (new Birmingham acquisition) in every of them. Yes, I'm sure we can make a trouble to any side in SA. The weakest link is goalie. If Stojkovic performs just decent, we could be the biggest surprise down there. Otherwise, he could bury us easily. Differently from other occasions, we finally look like a team. No spoiled stars, they really play for each other.
Group. Ballack was a heart and the soul of German team (same with Essien and Ghana). New skipper is Lahm?! He could be a captain, but he's not a leader. Schweinsteiger? C'mon. Also, I don't think Klose feels fine for being overlooked. Managers. Antic, although I don't like him too much, is a big name. He was coach of Real Madrid, made a great success in city's rival Atletico, was in charge in Barca and I think it's fair to say he's one of the better managers at WC (top 10 I'd say). His German opposition is… To be honest, I don't rate even Klinsmann to high and his pupil? Ghana's manager is, let me remind you, Serbian Rajevac. Australia won't hurt anybody. My gamble here is Serbia to be first in the group - 3.75 at Ladbrokes (was 4.50 somewhere grrr…).
And who knows. If we finish 1st, we'd face USA and El Pibe's Argentina. Semi-final won't be impossible then. Serbia to reach semi-final is 9.00 at Ladbrokes.
For the end. We're well known with our big failures. If you don't like us, consider to take Serbia to finish 4th in the group @ 4.3 Sportingbet.


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