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Bluerock Residential Acquires 480-Unit Apartment Community in Atlanta for $68.25 Million
ATLANTA, GA - Bluerock Residential Growth REIT announced that it has acquired the 480-unit multifamily Nevadan Apartments in Atlanta, Georgia. The Company acquired the property through a joint venture for a total purchase price of approximately $68.25 million, or approximately $142,188 per residential unit.
The acquisition is projected to yield a stabilized pro forma cap rate of approximately 6.5% on execution of the Company's Value-Add upgrade strategy, which compares favorably to estimated market cap rates of 4.75% – 5.25% for comparable assets.
BRG invested 90% of the venture's equity requirement, or approximately $23 million, with an affiliate of the Carroll Organization investing the balance for a 10% stake in the venture. The transaction, which was sourced off market, was further capitalized with a senior loan in the amount of approximately $48 million.
The Nevadan, which was built in 1990, features one-, two- and three-bedroom units averaging nearly 1,100 square feet. It is located within Perimeter Center, one of Atlanta's fastest growing employment submarkets, and features a large clubhouse as well as a resort style swimming pool, poolside grill/lounge, 24-hour fitness center, tennis courts and underground parking.
The property benefits from close proximity to I-285 and GA-400, which provide easy access to employment nodes throughout the city. Three major hospitals, known collectively as ''Pill Hill,'' are five to seven minutes' driving distance from the property and provide approximately 15,000 jobs. An added 9,000 jobs are being created within 3 miles of the property as State Farm and Mercedes-Benz establish new headquarters in Perimeter Center.
"We see significant upside potential for this property and believe it to be a strong addition to the portfolio. The property has good, intrinsic value, while the Perimeter Center submarket and the larger Atlanta MSA show much promise for the coming years. Our ability to source this property at a favorable cost basis makes it possible for us to bring a strong product to market at competitive rents," said Ramin Kamfar, Chairman and CEO of BRG.
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Q: Вывести числа в виде LCD дисплея Задача заключается в том, чтобы вывести введенные числа в виде LCD - Дисплея.
Входные данные содержат несколько строк, по строке для каждого числа, которое нужно отобразить. Каждая строка содержит целые числа s и n, где n - это число, которое нужно отобразить (0 ≤ n ≤ 99 999 999) и s, это размер, в котором оно должно быть изображено (0 ≤ s ≤ 10). Входные данные заканчиваются строкой, состоящей из двух нулей, которую не нужно обрабатывать.
Выведите числа указанные во входных данных в стиле LCD-дисплея, используя s «-» символов для горизонтальных сегментов и s «|» символов для вертикальных. Каждая цифра занимает ровно s + 2 колонок и 2 s + 3 строк. Не забудьте заполнить все белое пространство, занимаемое цифрами, пробелами, включая последнюю цифру. Между двумя цифрами должна быть точно одна колонка пробелов. Выводите пустую строку после каждого числа.
Подскажите как можно реализовать данную программу? В голове крутятся идеи про двумерный массив.

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Examination methods: Final assessment will be conducted as a written exam with open questions.
Assessment criteria: The knowledge of the topics and the capacity of critical analysis will be evaluated.
R. Descartes and the foundation of modern rationality; D. Hume: the cognitive value of the idea of causality; I. Kant: the clarification of the nature of scientific knowledge; K. Popper: rationality and induction; TS Kuhn: the historical development of the sciences.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods: The course will be held in 42 hours of frontal lessons; the topics indicated in the program will be presented and discussed.
Additional notes about suggested reading: Further bibliographical references will be provided during the lessons.


To add beauty to your handiwork, you might want to paint the book shelf the same color of your room, a different color to compliment the already existing one or one that simply makes it stand out in the room.
And for people who just prefer to keep the rich mahogany look of the wood work, finishing off the shelf with wood vanish will give you the desired effect.
Book shelves are among some of the furnishings that are expensively sold with a good shelf ranging from Shs500,000 and above. However, if you need a simple book shelf that can accommodate a few books, but also leave your space with an equally elegant and unique look, here is how to make one.
Rogers Ssetumba, a carpenter and owner of Retained Furniture and Holdings, notes that wall book shelves are great to use when utilising space, but also, give spaces in your room a chance to be occupied. "Additionally, they are not expensive to make since they take only a few pieces of wood but also, very simple to make, and do not need a lot of expertise.
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Before assembling, identify the space on your wall where you need your bookshelf to be. One should also note that this will be stationary, so carefully consider the most comfortable space that won't be an inconvenience to you. Using a pencil and a ruler, carefully mark the different areas where you will fix the wood onto the wall, making sure that they straightly align with your design, to give your shelf a smart finish.
Measure distances and space from one partition to another, ensuring the measurements are the same, save in cases where you deliberately want different distances from one partition to another. This should also apply to people who prefer floating book shelves.
Following your demarcations already drawn on the wall, fix your woodwork onto the wall using nails and a hammer. While buying nails, ensure to buy the correct inch, long enough to go through the wood and stick into the wall, at the same time. "Furthermore, it is always better to have the book shelf high above the ground, but not too high to reach either. This makes the work of fixing it into the wall less tedious.
To add beauty to your handiwork, you might want to paint the book shelf the same color of your room, a different color to compliment the already existing one or one that simply makes it stand out in the room. And for people who just prefer to keep the rich mahogany look of the wood work, finishing off the shelf with wood vanish will give you the desired effect.


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Q: How to render a component on button click in Blazor? I'm new to SPA frameworks and Blazor so this will probably be an easy question to answer, although I couldn't find an answer anywhere else.
I want to show a component somewhere on the page as soon as the user clicks on a particular button. I have currently implemented it this way:
@page "/test"

<button type="button" @onclick="() => showSignUpComponent = true">
    Show Sign Up Window
</button>

@if (showSignUpComponent)
{
    <SignUp />
}

@code {
    bool showSignUpComponent;
}

I was wondering if there is a better and cleaner way (i.e. the right way) to do something like this in Blazor, or is this the common and the "standard" way?

A: What you've done is fine, and I dare say, the standard way to do it!
You can also do it in slightly different ways if you had different scenarios. For example, you could define a string variable instead of a boolean one and store some relevant information in it, etc.
No need to dwell on it, however. What you've done is perfectly fine, and it shows that you do understand that when a UI event, such as 'click', is triggered the component is re-rendered, and there is no need to call the StateHasChanged...


The New York Times continues its coverage of the Metropolitan Museum's leadership transition and struggle to shore up its position as New York's pre-eminent cultural institution—as it tries to attract donors among the world's wealthiest persons who have turned toward Modern and Contemporary art away from other collecting categories—by framing an interesting news story in the oddest way.
The news in the story is that the Met approached—and was turned down by—David Koch and Steven Schwarzmann to donate $300m to kickstart the languishing plans to rebuild the museum's Contemporary art wing.
Is Mr. Lauder's gift, valued at more than $1 billion four years ago, now at risk? If the Met takes too long to resurrect the project or ultimately scales it back, might Mr. Lauder take his collection elsewhere?
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The Times's long-standing skepticism about the art market isn't necessarily a bad thing. It does act as a tonic to the market fixation on these notional values. Why the Times abandons that market skepticism precisely when it is most appropriate—Lauder's gift is meant to be a measure of his art historical acumen and cultural beneficence, what's a $1bn to the cosmetics magnate, after all?—is one mystery of the story.
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Editorial: Why CP Army Network Is Detrimental for Our Community
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KLONDIKE, CP Army Headquarters – CP Army Network formed on May 31st, 2021, following the controversial March Madness tournament and disagreements within the CP Army Headquarters administration around a Top Ten. Ever since, the community has been split and has created huge problems for organising community wide events.
DISCLAIMER: Everything in this post is the opinion of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of CP Army Headquarters, the administration, or the wider community. Please note that, whilst this post will attempt to consider all sides of view, it is not required to be impartial or balanced.
March Madness & Judging Systems
Before we get to the present day, we need to go back and consider why CP Army Network formed in the first place. CPAN formed for two primary reasons. The main reason was that the Ice Warriors, Rebel Penguin Federation and Help Force were extremely mad with the handling of the March Madness tournament. The Ice Warriors would go on to actually win the tournament, but both Semi-Finals were reviewed and the result of the Rebel Penguin Federation vs the Army of CP was overturned in ACP's favour. In all honesty, the handling of the Semi-Finals was abysmal, and CP Army HQ took full responsibility for what had happened in this tournament. However, it is worth considering that some of the issues that took place (particularly surrounding the lag of judges) had not been seen before in any tournament, and could not have been foreseen. CPAHQ was still in its early stages, the judging system had just been set up and there was no time for a judging guide, and this was the first major tournament in the post-flash era.
CP Army Headquarters responded to the problems of March Madness by creating a judging guide, which including detailed guidance for judges on how to judge battles based on the five key criteria. It also had a very detailed description on how the review process works, to avoid a situation like March Madness happening again. Ever since this moment, CP Army HQ has had very few issues with judging, ran by an incredible, independent and impartial head judging team. Our judging system has been incredibly effective, but we are still judged by some based on judging that has taken place in the first two months of our existence. Ever since the battles were reviewed, Help Force, Ice Warriors and the Rebel Penguin Federation did not give us a second chance, and withdrew support to CPAHQ.
It is ironic that we are not given a second chance for our judging system, whilst CP Army Network's judging system completely failed to support and judge the latest world war on their map. They lacked judges throughout the war, whilst the administration failed to step in to facilitate judging these battles. This led to numerous battles being canceled purely as a result of CPAN, which Help Force cited as a reason for their war not finishing sooner. Armies were preparing for hours to battle, only to find that CPAN could not facilitate judging their battle.
This is not all CPAN's fault, there are a lack of judges around our community. When there is a large volume of battles at the same time it can be hard to make sure they are all covered. This is a problem that CPAHQ faces, but we have made sure that they have been covered by a judge to avoid battles being canceled. However, CPAHQ did propose that the judging system was united to an independent organisation. This was not to benefit us at all, in-fact we would lose a large element of our organisation. We proposed that the judging system was united into one independent organisation to ensure that we would have enough judges for each battle, and also that if an organisation collapses the judging system can still run. CP Army Network did not even respond to our messages to say they weren't interested, or respond to our open letter. As a result, we are now in a situation where we have two maps, two judging systems and zero unity. In my opinion, this proposal was ignored because the administration of CP Army Network would lose a large chunk of control over something.
Christmas Chaos & Major Tournaments
As you may be aware, CP Army Headquarters announced last weekend that it would be hosting the Christmas Chaos tournament for this year. However, when this was announced we were soon told by the leadership of Help Force that this would be run by the leadership board, similar to the Legends Cup. The Legends Cup was in essence run by CP Army Network by proxy, using the disguise of the 'leader board', but actually being run by F6 and Iceyfeet, of course two army leaders but also the whole CPAN administration. CP Army HQ were not being given information during the Legends Cup tournament, meaning that CP Army Network attempted to dominate the coverage and not inform us of anything that was happening. This doesnt seem very independent to me at all, rather a chance for these two army leaders to run the tournament themselves.
The Christmas Chaos tournament this year will be run by the same team, and again CP Army HQ has been given very limited access to the decisions that are being made. Simply put, we are being kept out of the loop so CPAN can dominate coverage again. CP Army HQ has been forced to let the army leader board run the tournament, as it has obviously garnered more support as it has three major armies backing it. We are happy to support the army leader board, but not if it is being used again for CPAN to dominate coverage and run the tournament by proxy – for example all the graphics in the Legends Cup had 'CP Army Network' plastered all over it. Another thing to add is how slow this board is being, the tournament should be starting this weekend in order to be completed by Christmas – yet we have heard nothing.
Luckily, no armies needed to be disqualified in the Legends Cup. However, imagine a situation where one army has broken the rules and this needs to be reviewed. Who is reviewing this process? It does not seem like a good or ideal situation that the people reviewing the process would not be impartial, it would be the leaders of the armies that are also in the same tournament that review whether that army should go through or not.
"Ghost Organisation"
On the whole, CP Army Network are a strange organisation. Their activity is incredibly low, with few posts now being put out apart from the Top Ten. They are doing just enough to keep the organisation ticking over and running, without actually doing anything to innovate, or anything to spark or interest the community. They have no interesting content, and in my opinion are only really open so F6 and Iceyfeet can continue to be administrators of their organisation.
The organisation were remarkably slow to respond to some key accusations against their own administration and judging system. Df44 and Amber were accused of multilogging whilst judging a CP Army Network battle, and CP Army Network took over a week to release a very short statement saying they were doing nothing about what had happened. This was not even CP Army HQ's issue, but due to the nature of Df and Amber's position in our organisation, we quickly put out a very detailed respond outlining what we are doing and our reasonings why. This has highlighted how slow CPAN have been to respond to important issues, again showing why they are not fit to run an organisation.
I would also like to highlight the second reason why CP Army Network formed. They formed when Iceyfeet was removed from the administration following his attempt to edit the Top Ten to move Ice Warriors to first. He felt that this was totally acceptable behaviour, and is now running an organisation himself. Whilst he may not have agreed with the counting, and could have raised this with the rest of the team, he took the action himself to move his own army up the Top Ten. While we have moved on from this, and were ready to forgive, it did highlight the need to remove the 'advisor' role, which essentially was an army board role to keep army leaders on board. It was not impartial, and created problems both in this organisation, and the previous organisation CP Army Hub.
CP Army Network have now gone down the route of having a 'board' which includes one leader from the majority of major armies. This can be a good idea, as it gives armies the chance to have a say. However, CPAN and CPAHQ do already have the army representative system, which already gives armies a say – is there a need for army leaders to have an advanced administrative say? Again, the board system to me seems like a way for CPAN to keep other armies outside of BIA on board and happy, meaning they keep support from who they need. This is rather than giving people the position of 'board' based on their league and news experience.
Before I come to an end of my post, I would like to make one thing very clear. I am not writing this because I fear competition from another organisation. When CP Army Outreach was launched, I was actually quite supportive of some aspects of their organisation. Whilst they were far from perfect, they attempted to innovate and interest the community, and also wanted to unite armies together and were not made in the vested interested of a couple of armies. Competition can be a good thing, and has definitely pushed us to try and do better and more. However, competition is not good when one side refuses to accept any form of unity, or coming together, resulting in a huge split down the middle of our community. The Ice Warriors and Rebel Penguin Federation, whilst they can do what they please, have refused to partake in almost anything this year on the premise that they only support CP Army Network, which is ironically run by their two leaders.
I do not expect anything to change as a result of this post, but I wanted people to be aware of the problems that CPAN are causing to our community, and how a lack of unity is causing frustration among many. We have attempted to address all of the issues that armies were concerned about, we have prioritised moving forward and innovating. However, everything and anything we have tried to do has been stopped by some major armies who still cite issues with a tournament that took place nearly a year ago.
This needs to change, but I'm afraid it never will.
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Die Schlacht von Reading fand am 4. oder 5. Januar 871 in der Nähe von Reading, Berkshire, England, statt. Es war eine in einer Serie von Schlachten nach dem dänischen Einfall in das Königreich Wessex. Das Große Heidnische Heer wurden von Bagsecg und Halfdan Ragnarsson geleitet.

Vorgeschichte

Die Dänen waren Ende des Jahres 870 aus East Anglia kommend in Wessex eingefallen, um das letzte große angelsächsische Königreich – Northumbrien, Mercien und East Anglia waren bereits von den Dänen erobert worden – einzunehmen. In Reading errichteten sie zwischen der Themse und dem Flüsschen Kennet einen Wall und befestigten ihr Lager. Am 31. Dezember 870 fand die Schlacht bei Englefield statt

Schlachtverlauf

Der König von Wessex, Ethelred von Wessex, und sein Bruder Alfred griffen das befestigte Lager der in Wessex eingefallenen Dänen an, verloren jedoch – obwohl viele Dänen getötet wurden – die Schlacht und mussten sich mit hohen Verlusten zurückziehen.
Die Angelsächsische Chronik vermerkt zu der Schlacht:
"About four nights after this, King Ethered and Alfred his brother led their main army to Reading, where they fought with the enemy; and there was much slaughter on either hand, Alderman Ethelwulf being among the slain; but the Danes kept possession of the field."
(Deutsch: "Vier Nächte später [gezählt von der Schlacht von Englefield ausgehend] führten König Ethered und sein Bruder Alfred ihre Hauptstreitmacht nach Reading, wo sie mit dem Feind kämpften; auf beiden Seiten wurden viele Männer getötet, unter denen auch Ealdorman Ethelwulf war; die Dänen jedoch konnten das Gebiet halten.")

Vier Nächte später (der Angelsächsischen Chronik zufolge) schlugen die Westsachsen die dänische Armee in der Schlacht von Ashdown, wo sie auch Bagsecg, einen der beiden dänischen Anführer, töteten.

Primärquellen
 Symeon von Durham, Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum
 Asser, Vita Ælfredi regis Angul Saxonum, Das Leben des Angelsachenkönigs Alfred
 anonym, Angelsächsische Chronik

Weblinks
 Die angelsächsische Chronik zu den Jahren 817-878 (englisch)
 Seite zur Burg von Reading mit Informationen zur Schlacht (englisch)
 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle im Project Gutenberg (englisch)
 Life of King Alfred (englisch) bei The Northvegr Foundation

Einzelnachweis

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Q: Can Mesos 'master' and 'slave' nodes be deployed on the same machines? Can Apache Mesos 'master' nodes be co-located on the same machine as Mesos 'slave' nodes? Similarly (for high-availability (HA) deploys), can the Apache Zookeeper nodes used in Mesos 'master' election be deployed on the same machines as Mesos 'slave' nodes?
Mesos recommends 3 'masters' be used for HA deploys, and Zookeeper recommends 5 nodes be used for its quorum election system. It would be nice to have these services running along side Mesos 'slave' processes instead of committing 8 machines to effectively 'non-productive' tasks.
If such a setup is feasible, what are the pros/cons of such a setup?
Thanks!

A: You can definitely run a master, slave, and zk process all on the same node. You can even run multiple master and slave processes on the same node, provided you give them each unique ports, but that's only useful for a test cluster.
Typically we recommend running ZK on the same nodes as your masters, but if you have extra ZKs, you can certainly run them on slaves, or mix-and-match as you see fit, as long as all master/slave/framework nodes can reach the ZK nodes, and all slaves can reach the masters.
For a smaller cluster (<10 nodes) it could make sense to run a slave process on each master, especially since the standby masters won't be doing much. Even an active master for a small cluster uses only a small amount of cpu, memory, and network resources. Just make sure you adjust the --resources on that slave to account for the master's resource usage.
Once your cluster grows larger (especially >100 nodes) the network traffic to/from the master as well as its cpu/memory utilization becomes significant enough that you wouldn't want to run a mesos slave on the same node as the master. It should be fine to co-locate ZK with your master even at large scale.
You didn't specifically ask, but I'll also discuss where to run your framework schedulers (e.g. Spark, Marathon, or Chronos). These could be co-located with any of the other components, but they only really need to be able to reach the master and zk nodes, since all communication to slaves goes through the master. Some customers run the schedulers on master nodes, some run them on edge nodes (so users don't have access to the slaves), and others use meta-frameworks like Marathon to run other schedulers on slaves as Mesos tasks.


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Personen:

Die italienische Malerfamilie Bassano des 15. bis 16. Jahrhunderts, dazu zählten:
 Francesco Bassano der Ältere (um 1475–1539), italienischer Maler
 Francesco Bassano der Jüngere (1549–1592), italienischer Maler
 Gerolamo Bassano (1566–1621)
 Giambattista Bassano (1553–1613)
 Jacopo Bassano (1515–1592), italienischer Maler
 Leandro Bassano (1557–1622), italienischer Maler und einer der vier Söhne von Jacopo Bassano

Die italienische Musikerfamilie Bassano des 15. bis 16. Jahrhunderts, dazu zählten:

 Giovanni Bassano (um 1558–1617), italienischer Musiker und Komponist
 Jeronimo Bassano (15./16. Jahrhundert), italienischer Musiker und Instrumentenbauer
 für weitere Mitglieder siehe Bassano (Musikerfamilie)

andere Personen mit dem Namen oder Namensteil Bassano:

 Heinrich Schlik zu Bassano und Weißkirchen (1580–1650), österreichischer Feldmarschall und Hofkriegsratspräsident
 Louisa Bassano (1818–1908) britische Opernsängerin
 Napoléon Joseph Hugues Maret, duc de Bassano (1803–1898), französischer Politiker und Diplomat

Orte:

in Italien:
 Bassano Bresciano, Gemeinde in der Provinz Brescia
 Bassano del Grappa, Gemeinde in der Provinz Vicenza
 Bassano in Teverina, Gemeinde in der Provinz Viterbo
 Bassano Romano, Gemeinde in der Provinz Viterbo
in Kanada:
 Bassano (Alberta), Ort in Kanada

Himmelskörper:
 (6460) Bassano, Asteroid des Hauptgürtels

siehe auch
 Bassiano, Gemeinde in der Provinz Latina


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Amazon update: New Bluffs facility has opened, Omaha's 72 & State … – Nebraska Examiner
The newly constructed Amazon facility near North 72nd and State Streets in Omaha was inactive on July 21, 2022— and remains so at start of 2023. (Cindy Gonzalez/Nebraska Examiner)
OMAHA — Another new area Amazon warehouse, this one in Council Bluffs, swung into action recently, albeit with a much smaller crew than originally envisioned.
The 270,000-square-foot sorting center at South 24th Street and Veterans Memorial Highway was completed at least a half year ago and opened just prior to this past holiday season as a "supplemental fulfillment center," said Amazon spokesman Andy DiOrio.
He said about 70 people work at the site, filling e-commerce orders destined for customer doorsteps. The online retail giant previously said it expected that Bluffs plant to create about 500 jobs once opened.
"Uses of facilities may change based on business and customer needs," DiOrio said in an email.
Yet another Amazon complex that was also completed last year — this one near North 72nd and State Streets in Omaha — remains inactive.
DiOrio offered no timetable on when operations might launch at that facility. Spanning more than 140,000 square feet, the project was one of Omaha's biggest commercial building permits in 2021.
DiOrio was asked to update the two Amazon developments in the wake of this week's opening of the company's first Nebraska fulfillment center, which is larger than 1 million square feet at Highways 50 and 370 in Sarpy County.
That mega center opened later than its originally projected 2022 date, but earlier than the 2024 date Papillion officials said was likely due to supply chain problems. Amazon envisions about 1,000 workers at the site eventually, but it opened with about 300 workers, DiOrio said.
Last July, when Papillion officials discussed the delayed timetable for the Sarpy center, other Amazon warehouses across the nation had been experiencing delays or cancellations. The company had reported a $3.8 billion net loss in the first quarter of 2022, compared to the $8.1 billion profit a year earlier.
More recently, in the third quarter of 2022, Amazon reported a profit of nearly $2.9 billion.
by Cindy Gonzalez, Nebraska Examiner
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Franklin Graham condemns attack on man near Portland BLM protest: 'No hope outside of God'
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By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Wednesday, August 19, 2020
A man lays unconscious on a street in Portland, Oregon after being kicked in the head by a protester on Aug. 16, 2020. | Screenshot: Twitter/@FromKalen
Notable conservative evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham on Wednesday morning denounced a brutal attack on a man that occurred near a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Portland, Oregon on Sunday evening.
Disturbing viral video footage of a protest in Portland showed a man being beaten and dragged from his crashed pickup truck. Video shows the man taking punches and even receiving a swift kick to the face that seemingly knocked him out cold.
Rev. Franklin Graham speaks during his "Decision America" California tour at the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds on May 29, 2018, in Turlock, California. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
In a post to his official Facebook page, Graham expressed outrage over the incident, asking his followers if they had "ever seen anything like it."
"Every morning on the news for weeks, we hear about more destruction and violence related to protests and riots," wrote Graham, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
"The video of a man trying to escape from a mob of protesters in Portland is still making the headlines, as it should. He was pulled from his vehicle and brutally beaten and kicked to unconsciousness. It is surprising that the man didn't lose his life, as some have."
Graham added that he believed the United States was "in trouble like we haven't seen before in our lifetime," as seen with the violence at numerous protests across the nation since the death of African American George Floyd on Memorial Day.
"We have no hope, outside of God," Graham declared. "We will not make it unless God's people call on His Name for help."
Videos posted online show multiple people attacking the driver after his truck crashed into a light pole.
Some in the crowd attempted to pull away the attackers. However, one man wearing a "security" vest kicked the driver in the head while he sat on the ground, knocking him unconscious. The victim was eventually hospitalized and later released with non-life-threatening injuries.
Although he has not been identified by police, a GoFundMe online fundraiser that has raised over $110,000 as of Wednesday afternoon identifies the injured motorist as Portland area resident Adam Haner.
"Hoping this money will help Adam get things together for his life after the attack he suffered," Brian Haner, the organizer of the campaign and Adam's brother, wrote. "I know he will need repairs, or to replace the truck that was wrecked. He is going to need time to recover from his injuries as well. Plus replace things that [were] stolen from his pick-up that night, on Aug 16th."
Marquise Love | Portland Police Bureau
Police have identified a suspect in the beating as 25-year-old Marquise Love. The Portland Police Bureau said in a statement that it has probable cause to arrest Love. Investigators have left several messages for Love to turn himself in.
"Our Detectives continue to investigate this assault as well as other acts of violence directed toward protestors, but we need more than just videos from social media," said Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell.
"In order to hold individuals responsible for criminal acts, we need the public to provide information and refrain from tampering with evidence."
For his part, U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams, the chief federal law enforcement official in Oregon, conveyed his disgust on Tuesday with the attack.
"Like many Oregonians, I was sickened by the video circulating online showing a man being pulled from his truck in Downtown Portland and beaten and kicked until he lies on the pavement unconscious," stated Williams.
"While the circumstances leading up to this brutal assault are still under state and federal review, I must condemn, in the strongest possible terms, this depraved violence."
Williams called for people "to work together to achieve peace in the streets of Portland" and expressed his concern that "one day soon we will wake up to news that a Portlander has been killed."
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The Not So Hidden Danger of Neutrality
By Derek Scarlino on August 16, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
'Both Sides' Arguments Reinforce Right Wing Violence
by Derek Scarlino / Love and Rage
The tactic of escalation in accordance with civil disobedience, even the nonviolent kind, is predicated on dehumanization. The goal of direct action such as sit-ins, strikes, occupations, and other tactics, is highlighting the disregard that an oppressor holds for those under its direct subjugation.
The limit that the aggressor can pursue attempts at domination and violence is set by the tolerances of a given society. The break between public consent and the legitimacy of the aggressor's action comes at the point wherein the aggressor's tactics become so widely condemned that they cease.
A key factor in exposing the willingness to commit violence rests in both sides being well-defined. In today's climate of equating opposing sides in place of recognizing the existing nuances that define them, creates a space where perception of reprehensible acts of violence committed by one side are mitigated by a dishonest horseshoe comparison.
When those who argue that "both sides are equal" or that there is a "cycle of hate", they are attempting to place themselves outside of the conflict by condemning both, even if there is an otherwise clear and present aggressor.
Although, when you have an identified aggressor, like US far-right/fascist groups, which seek violence against vulnerable populations and opposing ideologies, because that's what the theory of their ideas espouses, targeted populations are already on the defensive. It works the same with the state. If the state's apparatus of securing consent and legitimacy is predicated on violence, then the strategy would be to force it to escalate to a point that challenges the conscience of society and can no longer be tolerated.
It should not be seen as unreasonable that violence breaks out in defense of a group or community — the question goes back to the beginning: Why was the initial violence of the aggressor tolerated to begin with? In the case of the current state of the fascist movement in the US, the warning signs, most prominently seen during the 2016 election, were clearly not a deterrent to people. It did not trouble people enough that fascist and white supremacist groups found a massive opportunity to exploit in the language of their candidate of choice's campaign. It didn't come without warning, but that warning by no means assumes that Hillary Clinton was the answer, either. This debate between the left on one side, and liberals and Democrats on another, goes back well before the election.
On community defense that which can be identified as violence, the Civil Rights Era, for example, was not explicitly nonviolent. Martin Luther King, Jr., by the time of his passing, was largely ignored. And there were very well-noted defenders of violent resistance from SNCC, to Angela Davis, to the Black Panthers, because they understood that the innate nature of the state itself is violent. It's the same position taken throughout the history of anarchist and far-left theory. King, too, understood this. But outside of the debate between members fighting for the same thing via different means, there was condemnation from both of that middle ground which chose not to see the aggression, and in effect, to not see victims or potential victims. The Civil Rights Era is important in this case due to the fetishization and watering down of nonviolence by liberals since, as it is seen as the modus operandi of the left which leads to easy and widespread condemnation of direct action consistent with leftist theory.
Another factor of the fascist movement today in the States is that the state is, and has been, reluctant to escalate in some cases over others. This harkens back to the 1990s, with events like Ruby Ridge and Waco that resulted in a lot of blowback against the government, and as recently as occupations of government land in the American West, where right wingers were allowed to so much as point loaded firearms in the direction of law enforcement without reprisal. At events when antifa gets involved, they usually face the most police repression. The same can be said about protests in the wake of fatal police shootings of Black people. There is a disproportionate response which leads to the questioning of the ability of the state to provide security for people. So community self-defense is undertaken, but risks its legitimacy due to the uncompromising rhetoric of middle-grounders who focus on things like property destruction and equate them to murder or extrajudicial killings.
If the police aren't there to provide protection, if the state is failing in its primary role, then public attention and pressure becomes the goal. How far this goes, how dirty it has to get, is ultimately up to society. The more people who choose to ignore it, or equate the sides as equals, prolongs the sought after reaction needed to produce the change needed to prevent this sort of thing in the future.
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package org.cf.oracle.options;

import com.google.gson.*;
import org.cf.oracle.FileUtils;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

public class TargetParser {

    private static void parseTarget(Gson gson, String className, String methodName, String... args) {
        InvocationTarget target = new InvocationTarget("none", className, methodName, args);
        parseTargetExceptionally(gson, target);
    }

    private static void parseTargetExceptionally(Gson gson, InvocationTarget target) {
        try {
            parseTarget(gson, target);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException | NoSuchMethodException | ExceptionInInitializerError e) {
            target.setParseException(e);
        }
    }

    private static void parseTarget(Gson gson, InvocationTarget target) throws ClassNotFoundException, NoSuchMethodException {
        String[] args = target.getArgumentStrings();
        Class<?>[] parameterTypes = new Class[args.length];
        Object[] methodArguments = new Object[parameterTypes.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < parameterTypes.length; i++) {
            String[] parts = args[i].split(":", 2);
            parameterTypes[i] = smaliToJavaClass(parts[0]);
            if (parts.length == 1) {
                methodArguments[i] = null;
            } else {
                String jsonValue = parts[1];
                if (parameterTypes[i] == String.class) {
                    try {
                        // Normalizing strings to byte[] avoids escaping ruby, bash, adb shell, and java
                        byte[] stringBytes = gson.fromJson(jsonValue, byte[].class);
                        methodArguments[i] = new String(stringBytes);
                    } catch (JsonSyntaxException ex) {
                        // Possibly not using byte array format for string (good luck)
                        methodArguments[i] = jsonValue;
                    }
                } else {
                    // System.out.println("Parsing: " + itemJson + " as " + paramTypes[i]);
                    methodArguments[i] = gson.fromJson(jsonValue, parameterTypes[i]);
                }
            }
        }
        target.setArguments(methodArguments);

        Class<?> methodClass = Class.forName(target.getClassName());
        Method method = methodClass.getDeclaredMethod(target.getMethodName(), parameterTypes);
        target.setMethod(method);
    }

    private static List<InvocationTarget> loadTargetsFromFile(Gson gson, String fileName) throws IOException {
        String targetJson = FileUtils.readFile(fileName);
        JsonArray targetItems = new JsonParser().parse(targetJson).getAsJsonArray();
        // JsonArray targetItems = json.getAsJsonArray();
        List<InvocationTarget> targets = new LinkedList<InvocationTarget>();
        for (JsonElement element : targetItems) {
            JsonObject targetItem = element.getAsJsonObject();
            String id = targetItem.get("id").getAsString();
            String className = targetItem.get("className").getAsString();
            String methodName = targetItem.get("methodName").getAsString();
            JsonArray argumentsJson = targetItem.get("arguments").getAsJsonArray();
            String[] arguments = new String[argumentsJson.size()];
            for (int i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
                arguments[i] = argumentsJson.get(i).getAsString();
            }

            InvocationTarget target = new InvocationTarget(id, className, methodName, arguments);
            parseTargetExceptionally(gson, target);
            targets.add(target);
        }

        return targets;
    }

    private static Class<?> smaliToJavaClass(String className) throws ClassNotFoundException {
        if (className.equals("I")) {
            return int.class;
        } else if (className.equals("V")) {
            return void.class;
        } else if (className.equals("Z")) {
            return boolean.class;
        } else if (className.equals("B")) {
            return byte.class;
        } else if (className.equals("S")) {
            return short.class;
        } else if (className.equals("J")) {
            return long.class;
        } else if (className.equals("C")) {
            return char.class;
        } else if (className.equals("F")) {
            return float.class;
        } else if (className.equals("D")) {
            return double.class;
        } else {
            return Class.forName(className);
        }
    }

    public static List<InvocationTarget> parse(String[] args, Gson gson) throws IOException {
        if (args[0].startsWith("@")) {
            String fileName = args[0].substring(1);

            return loadTargetsFromFile(gson, fileName);
        } else {
            String className = args[0];
            String methodName = args[1];
            String[] argumentStrings = Arrays.copyOfRange(args, 2, args.length);
            InvocationTarget target = new InvocationTarget("none", className, methodName, args);
            parseTargetExceptionally(gson, target);

            List<InvocationTarget> targets = new LinkedList<InvocationTarget>();
            targets.add(target);

            return targets;
        }
    }

}

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Among the highest altitude vineyards in Western Sicily, the family's 56 hectares of vineyards are cultivated following EU certified organic standards; no chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers are used.
Fiuminello is in the zone of Sambuca di Sicilia (AG). The vineyard are just below the forested mountains of Monte Genuardo and nestled inside the Nature Reserve, at altitudes ranging from 730-820 meters above sea level. The area is noted for extreme day to night temperature swings; stony ground, rich with organic substance.
San Giacomo is in the zone of Sambuca di Sicilia (AG). Vineyards surround the Di Giovanna winery and are also inside the Monte Genuardo Nature Reserve, at an average of 650 meters above sea level. The soil is calcareous clay and stoney.
Miccina is located in Contessa Entellina (PA); The vineyards surround the family's old stone barn. The average altitude is 350 meters above sea level with mixed soils consisting of clays, limestone, tuff.
Gerbino in Contessa Entellina (Province of Palermo) is the family's oldest vineyards, originally planted by great grandfather Ciaccio. The altitude ranges from 420-480 meters above sea level; Soft rolling hills and mixed clay with limestone soils.
Paradiso in Contessa Entellina (PA) are the family's largest vineyard, planted on soft rolling hills at altitudes around 400 meters above sea level, surrounded by olive groves.


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Се́льское поселе́ние Радови́цкое — упразднённое муниципальное образование (сельское поселение) в Шатурском муниципальном районе Московской области. Было образовано в 2005 году. Включает 7 населённых пунктов.

Административный центр — посёлок Радовицкий.

География
Общая площадь — 198,30 км².

Сельское поселение Радовицкое находится на юге Шатурского района.

По его территории протекает река Чальца. Самое крупное озеро — Сыльма.

Границы муниципального образования определяются законом Московской области «О статусе и границах Шатурского муниципального района и вновь образованных в его составе муниципальных образований». Сельское поселение Радовицкое граничит с:
 сельским поселением Дмитровским Шатурского муниципального района (на севере),
 Клепиковским муниципальным районом Рязанской области (на востоке и юге),
 городским поселением Рязановским Егорьевского муниципального района (на западе).

Население

История
В ходе муниципальной реформы, проведённой после принятия федерального закона 2003 года «Об общих принципах организации местного самоуправления в Российской Федерации», в Московской области были сформированы городские и сельские поселения.

Сельское поселение Радовицкое было образовано согласно закону Московской области от 21 января 2005 г. № 18/2005-ОЗ «О статусе и границах Шатурского муниципального района и вновь образованных в его составе муниципальных образований».

В состав сельского поселения вошли населённые пункты Харлампеевского сельского округа. Старое деление на сельские округа было отменено позже, в 2006 году.

Состав
В состав сельского поселения Радовицкое входят 7 населённых пунктов (1 посёлок и 6 деревень):

Органы местного самоуправления
Структуру органов местного самоуправления сельского поселения Радовицкое составляют:
 Совет депутатов сельского поселения Радовицкое (представительный орган);
 глава сельского поселения Радовицкое;
 администрация сельского поселения Радовицкое (исполнительно-распорядительный орган).

Совет депутатов сельского поселения Радовицкое состоит из 10 депутатов, избираемых на муниципальных выборах сроком на 5 лет.

Глава сельского поселения Радовицкое избирается населением сельского поселения Радовицкое на основе всеобщего равного и прямого избирательного права при тайном голосовании сроком на 5 лет. Порядок проведения выборов главы сельского поселения Радовицкое определяется законом Московской области. Глава сельского поселения возглавляет администрацию сельского поселения.

Экономика и инфраструктура
В 2008 году торфопредприятие «Радовицкий Мох» — филиал ОАО «Шатурторф» прекратило добычу торфа из-за тяжёлых экономических условий. Практически все выработанные площади торфопредприятий были переданы: под земли сельхозназначения, лесное хозяйство, садоводство, земли земзапаса.

Примечания

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Before releasing Android OS there were some internal releases and according to Wikipedia those releases were names as Android alpha. Android beta was released in November 2007. These were not commercial versions. First commercial version (Android 1.0) was released in September 2008. On 9 February 2009, Android 1.1 was released as an update with some new features and bug fixes. Android 1.0 and 1.1 had no official codename.
After starting versions, Android 1.5 (based on Linux kernel) was first one with official codename "Cupcake". Codenames were started from alphabet C maybe because of alpha and beta versions.
After Android "Cupcake," Android 1.6 was codenamed as "Donut" and after it Android "Eclair" came out. In the same way all other versions are codenamed alphabetically and at this time latest one is "Nougat."


According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 960,000 people were hospitalized during the 2017-2018 season. While flu activity in the United States is now low, it is expected to pick up in the upcoming weeks.
Note: Not everyone with flu may have a fever. Also, some people may experience diarrhea and vomiting but this is more common in children than adults.
Most people experience a mild illness when they get the flu. However, in some cases, it can be serious – and even deadly. Serious flu-related complications are more likely to occur in babies and young children, older adults, pregnant women, and people with certain chronic conditions.
To lower your chances of getting the flu, getting vaccinated each year is highly important. Remember, getting the flu vaccine doesn't just protect you – it protects the people around you too. So, when you and your family get a flu vaccine, you are keeping yourselves and your community healthy.
Everyone, even healthy people, can get sick with the flu. Serious flu-related complications can affect people of all ages; however, some people are at a higher risk of developing serious complications. This includes seniors (aged 65 years and older), pregnant women, children below 5 years old, and people of any age with certain chronic health conditions.
Are there any side effects from the flu vaccine? What are they?
Note: This is NOT the flu – the flu vaccine can't cause the flu.
While serious side effects from the flu vaccine are rare, there's a small chance that serious reactions can occur. In such cases, make sure to talk to your doctor immediately.
Keep these facts in mind and stay safe during the flu season. Remember, getting the flu shot doesn't just protect you – it protects your loved ones and community too. If you haven't had your flu shot yet for this year, make sure to get it soon!


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AMD says its next PC chip trumps Intel with 12 'compute cores' and smoother gaming
S. Sakr|01.14.14
S. Sakr
In this article: amd, apu, gaming, hsa, kaveri, mantle, pc, processor
A decade ago, AMD brought us the first dual-core x86 processor. Then, starting in 2008, the company came out with tri-core and quad-core designs in quick succession, leading up to octa-core chips in 2011's FX range as well as in the latest AMD-powered game consoles. Today, we're looking at a fresh leap forward, albeit one that will take a bit of explaining: a desktop and laptop chip called Kaveri, which brings together up to four CPU cores and eight GPU cores and gives them unheard-of levels of computing independence, such that AMD feels justified in describing them collectively as a dozen "compute cores."
Marketing nonsense? Not necessarily. AMD is at least being transparent in its thinking, and besides, if you've been following our coverage of the company's HSA project, and of GPU compute in general, then you'll know that there's some genuine technology underpinning the idea of GPU cores being used for more than just 3D rendering. Nevertheless, even if you don't go for the whole 12-core thing, AMD still makes some down-to-earth promises about Kaveri's price and performance -- for example, that it matches up to Intel chips that cost a lot more (the top Kaveri desktop variant costs just $173, compared to $242 for a Haswell Core i5), and that it can play the latest games at 30fps without the need for a discrete graphics card. These are claims that can -- and will -- be put to the test.
Gallery: AMD Kaveri official slide deck | 18 Photos
"Compute cores"
Let's start with the theoretical stuff, even though it's largely academic until more software comes along that can make use of it. The reason AMD calls the GPU cores inside Kaveri "compute cores" is that they're said to be fundamentally different to the GPU cores in other PC processors. This difference lies in the fact that they're able to function as equal citizens: Instead of relying on the CPU to orchestrate their workload, they can access system memory directly and take on tasks independently -- almost like a CPU core does. The only difference is that they can't take on the same types of tasks as a CPU, as they're better suited to simple parallel chores rather than complicated serial processing.
As things stand, software developers are already able to exploit the GPU for general computing using tools like OpenCL, which can be used to accelerate anything from Photoshop to big spreadsheets. But OpenCL requires reams of code and a lot of inefficient to-ing and fro-ing between the GPU and CPU -- all of which, AMD says, will be drastically reduced if developers latch onto HSA. That's a big "if," of course, but now that AMD has recruited a bunch of partners into its HSA Foundation, and now that it has managed push its silicon into millions of households via next-gen games consoles, developer interest looks more likely, and Kaveri's compute cores at least bring it some future-proofing as a result.
Bearing in mind that we're mostly reliant on AMD's in-house test results for now, until independent reviewers put their graphs online, let's look at that basic claim about Kaveri undercutting Intel as a gaming processor. The chart above shows a top-end Kaveri A10-7850K pitted against Intel's Core i5-4670K for games being played at 1080p with max settings (or at least close to max settings -- there's a bit of ambiguity there, but it doesn't affect the comparison). In each case, the processor is paired with a discrete graphics card, AMD's mid-range Radeon R9 270X, presumably because most enthusiasts would still avoid relying solely on integrated graphics. As you can see, Intel is slightly ahead in a number of games, but never by a significant margin, suggesting that spending $70 more on Intel's chip doesn't add much to the experience.
Power efficiency and onboard graphics
In addition to Kaveri's suitability for gaming when paired with a separate graphics card, the slide above suggests the chip also has an advantage over a Haswell Core i5 on certain synthetic benchmarks, likely due the fact that it has a bigger GPU than you'd find on an Intel processor. Kaveri's built-in GPU accounts for 47 percent of all transistors in the chip (more than a billion in total), and is potentially meaty enough for it to run games without the need for a discrete graphics card, thereby saving energy and money while also allowing for much smaller PCs. In practice, we played through a level of BioShock Infinite at 1080p with low settings, with Kaveri running beneath a little third-party cooler, and we experienced a steady frame rate of 30fps. This is something AMD claims is also possible in other big titles like Battlefield 4, which it's bundling free with high-end boxed Kaveri chips, but again, you have to be prepared to accept low detail settings.
For the sake of balance, it's important to point out that an Intel's chip is likely to be more power-efficient in its own right. Haswell has fewer transistors (1.4 billion instead of Kaveri's 2.3 billion) and its transistors are also significantly smaller (22nm instead of 28nm), which should equate to reduced power draw -- something that's especially significant when you think about notebook or hybrid/tablet versions of these chips, particularly ones that don't need to focus on 3D graphics (or, equally, which delegate all such tasks to a separate GPU).
Mantle and TrueAudio
Speaking of Battlefield 4, we arrive neatly at Kaveri's other big claim to fame -- and it's a claim that requires a much smaller leap of faith than HSA does. You see, Battlefield 4 is one of a growing number of games that will take advantage of an AMD-tailored programming tool called Mantle, which promises big boosts in performance even on lower-power (e.g., HTPC and laptop) versions of the chip. Mantle runs on any AMD graphics card that contains the newer Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, and since Kaveri's graphics processor is based on GCN, it can run Mantle-optimized games and applications too, resulting in claimed performance increases of up to 45 percent in BF4 (once it gets its Mantle update later this month) and as much as 300 percent in real-time strategy games running on the new Star Swarm game engine. (For more on Mantle, read this.)
Finally, in addition to Mantle, Kaveri also brings another feature across from AMD's latest graphics cards: TrueAudio. This is a dedicated, programmable audio processor that sits on the chip and helps to improve the audio in games by decoding data about location (giving sounds a feeling of directionality and distance) and also increasing the total number of voices and effects that can be heard at one time.
Kaveri apparently took four years to develop, due to all the extra gubbins AMD has squeezed onto it, including HSA, Mantle and TrueAudio. This also explains why Kaveri chips are priced significantly higher than their predecessor, Richland: The lower-specced A8-7600 will start at $119, rising to $152 for the A10-7700K and, as we've mentioned, $173 for the flagship A10. Will they be worth the money? We'll wait to round-up independent reviews from specialist sites before we make any final judgment, but it certainly looks like AMD has brought some clever additions to this generation that could boost its value. It looks good as a traditional gaming processor right now, especially if you intend to pair it with a Radeon graphics card in order to enable Dual Graphics (with the GCN cores in Kaveri's GPU and in the discrete GPU effectively being added together), but we'll need to see more Mantle- and HSA-enabled software before we're ready to believe it can tackle Intel on general computing.


Despite a strong 2016, Altria stock isn't invulnerable. Find out what could send shares lower.
Shareholders in Altria Group (NYSE:MO) have been happy with the stock's long-term performance. 2016 was another banner year for the cigarette giant, as its stock posted a total return of 20%. Yet even though Altria has been good at fending off a host of potential threats, investors still have to be aware of the risks involved in owning the stock. Below, we'll look at three reasons why its stock might face downward pressure in 2017.
1. The Federal Reserve's interest rate increases could make Altria stock less attractive to income investors.
Altria has a dividend yield that's well above average, currently at 3.6%. Those dividends have traditionally been a big part of Altria's total return, and after last year's 8% boost to its dividend, Altria lengthened its impressive streak of dividend increases to 50 over the past 47 years. Investors almost take it for granted that Altria will be able to keep its quarterly payouts rising indefinitely into the future.
However, in recent years, some income investors have moved to stocks like Altria because of the low rates on more traditional fixed-income alternatives, such as bonds. Treasury yields are below 3% even for 30-year bonds, and those who want to lock up their money for shorter periods of time have to accept lower rates or take on greater risk in the corporate or municipal bond markets.
The Federal Reserve's December interest rate increase was just a quarter percentage point, but the central bank also foresees making several more hikes throughout 2017. If that sends longer-term bond yields up as well, then some investors who had turned to Altria simply for its yield could reverse course and go back to bonds. That could exacerbate downward movement in a stock that's already at least somewhat sensitive to rate moves because of its slow-growth business. That shouldn't affect the argument that long-term shareholders will make that Altria's dividend growth makes it favorable to bonds, but it does pose at least a short-term threat to the stock.
2. Expectations for accelerating income growth could prove overly optimistic.
Altria's primary business faces the constant challenge of having to overcome a steady decline in cigarette smoking. Over the decades, a huge drop in the percentage of Americans who smoke has forced Altria to adjust to falling demand by using pricing power to earn more profit from loyal customers.
Investors expect that strategy to work in 2017 as well. They acknowledge that revenue growth is likely to slow, falling from nearly 3% in 2016 to around 2% for 2017. Yet they believe that net income growth will accelerate, rising from around 8% for the full 2016 year to more than 10% this year.
It's true that Altria has worked on reaping greater internal efficiencies that can boost profit even in an environment of slow revenue growth. Yet with potential headwinds like rising gasoline prices and higher cigarette taxes in some states, its earnings might not be able to reach the high target that some shareholders have set for the company. If Altria misses expectations, then the stock will probably fall in response.
3. The new Anheuser-Busch InBev investment might not go as well as planned.
Finally, investors also have high expectations that the recent merger of SABMiller with Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD) will produce superior exposure to the global beer market. Indeed, one of the selling points for the merger was the fact that the combined A-B InBev and SABMiller would command a greater portion of the global beer market, even after taking into account the required divestitures that the companies had to make in order to satisfy antitrust concerns among regulators.
However, Anheuser-Busch will have to do its part to satisfy skeptics and produce the growth that they want to see. In its final earnings report prior to the merger, A-B InBev saw sales fall 2.3%, with a nearly 20% drop in profit. Although organic revenue growth came in at nearly 3%, total volume declined nearly 1% during the year, with weakness in Brazil weighing particularly hard on Anheuser-Busch. Yet performance in the U.S. market was also subpar, and it's apparent that stronger competition will put pressure on A-B InBev for the foreseeable future. If the pass-through earnings that Altria gets from its 10% stake in A-B InBev aren't high enough, it could lead to investors dissatisfaction with the tobacco giant as well.
Altria stock climbed impressively in 2016, but even Altria has dealt with downturns in the past. If the issues above don't go well for Altria, then it's entirely possible that 2017 won't be as kind to shareholders as last year was.


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