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St. Louis archbishop, a longtime hunter, supports gun control
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St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson at an Interfaith Prayer Service for Peace and Solidarity at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis in September 2017 (CNS photo/Teak Phillips, St. Louis Review)
For years, the U.S. bishops have pushed for gun control, most recently in a statement in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. They have promoted a ban on assault weapons, limitations on the purchase of handguns, and safety measures, such as locks that prevent children and anyone other than the owner from using guns without permission.
At least one prominent Catholic hunter agrees with them.
St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson is among the few bishops who know what it's like to shoot a gun, with hunting experience dating back to the time he served as bishop for the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, diocese from 1995 to 2004.
"I agree with raising the age for purchasing firearms," he told NCR during a phone interview, describing one measure promoted by students in Parkland, who convinced the Florida legislature and governor to do that after the Feb. 14 killing of 17 students and teachers. Carlson also said there is no reason for anyone to own an assault weapon like the kind used in the recent Florida school shooting.
St. Louis has a serious violent crime problem, and last year recorded 205 murders in the city with a population of slightly more than 300,000. By contrast, New York, with a population of more than eight million, recorded fewer than 300 murders that year. Carlson has spoken out against the rash of street violence with other St. Louis religious leaders.
But hunting is a different issue entirely, he said, noting that those who hunt responsibly are not part of the spike in gun violence.
Ordained in his native St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, archdiocese in 1970, Carlson first began hunting soon after being named bishop of Sioux Falls. He came to St. Louis in 2009, after serving as bishop of Saginaw, Michigan.
While hunting, he uses a 20-gauge shotgun, which fires shells to kill pheasants, not regular bullets. Each year while bishop of Sioux Falls, he participated in a charity fundraising hunting trip with diocesan priests in South Dakota. Since coming to the more urban St. Louis area, he has hunted only twice in 10 years. The pheasant are not so plentiful in Missouri, he said.
Serious hunters have a credo that, Carlson said, he tries to follow: "You never hunt for anything you are not willing to eat." Carlson will give away his excess meat to convents. He said the best part of hunting is to watch the work of the trained dogs.
Besides gun control measures, the scourge of violence needs to be combatted by preventing violence in families, and, reiterating a favorite phrase of bishops, Carlson said that the dignity of each human person needs to be respected. In response, he has spoken in favor of extending citizenship rights to Dreamer students, the children of immigrants born in this country, and recently urged his priests to speak against racism on the first Sunday of Lent this year.
"All has to be part of the national debate," he told NCR. "We have to listen to one another and not just be thinking about what we are going to say next."
[Peter Feuerherd is a correspondent for NCR's Field Hospital series on parish life and is a professor of journalism at St. John's University, New York.]
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Heart of Matter- God is Doing New Things
by Info | Jan 3, 2023 | Q&A | 8 comments
"God is doing new things, and our response in fidelity and love can bring forth a new communion of planetary life."
Ilia Delio's, The Hours of the Universe
"Dios está haciendo cosas nuevas y nuestra respuesta de fidelidad y amor puede suscitar una nueva comunión de vida planetaria."
Ilia Delio, The Hours of the Universe
What is being moved? What is being asked?
What is God doing differently in your life?
Tamara Kittelson on January 3, 2023 at 1:30 pm
I am being stretched in new ways, to view the world and especially a new relationship non-dualistically. It is quite the adventure to set aside my judgements.
Barbara Miller on January 3, 2023 at 2:34 pm
Greetings. Blessings during Christmastide and as we begin a new year. 2022, I knew somehow at the outset would be a year of challenge and change. When I left the wisdom school in Tucson at the beginning of Lent, I said to (retreat leader) Cynthia Bourgeault "this was big" having very little idea of what that meant.
I was sensing that I needed to step up doing the practices and participate in the world around me in a wisdom way, not just sometimes. Heather Ruce showed me that I could benefit by some of the Gurdjieff movements by envisioning those I couldn't do physically, in my mind and sense them in my body.
I took all of this to heart the best I could at the time feeling very grateful for this new understanding and being with everyone again. I participated in an online course "The Mystery of Death". That added another layer to my understanding. I began to feel changes. An overwhelming sense of gratefulness filled me much more often. My days flowed with one synchronicity after another.
I had planned to travel in the summer; 5 weeks at Community of Peace in Louisa, VA founded by Stefan Waligur. The vision of CPL is to be a monastic presence similar to the monastery in Taize, France. Since Br. Stefan first began to live on the site in Louisa, he has prayed in song, sacred reading and silence consistently three times every day. That regularity of prayer had a live changing effect on me. I thought I was going for a visit. Little by little I began to sense that I belonged there, with regular prayer, work and community. The life challenged me but seemed to invigorate me as well. Being a monastic has come up in my life a number of times but the timing was never right. Now, it seemed a path had opened for me to be what I was meant to be. All of my work with Cynthia Bourgeault, my training as a Spiritual Director and a Benedictine Oblate, my years in the Nur al Jerrahi Sufi order and Bill Redfield's beautiful on-line retreats and more have prepared me for this next step where I will be able to share the wisdom life has given me so far. And, I'm grateful to all who have shared their wisdom over the years, even unawares. This is the first (I'm 76) I have truly felt "called" in this life. It's deep and it's consistent. A recent retreat has only made my feeling of resolve stronger.
So, as soon as I sell my loft/condo in CO, I will move to VA and officially begin the discernment process leading to taking final vows.
PLEASE: Pray with me that the process goes smoothly and that I have the patience to bear it.
For more about CPL- the website is Communityofpeace.org or check out Community of Peace or Stefan A. Waligur on FB and YouTube.
Info on January 4, 2023 at 4:39 pm
Blessings to you as you make this journey Barb.
Annmary on January 3, 2023 at 6:27 pm
A call 5obtrust even when I cannot feel the presence of God
Darryl Nelson on January 4, 2023 at 12:02 am
Our efforts need to focus on getting this magnificent message out to the masses. We still have a long way to go to change attitudes to planetary life. Pope Francis promotes integral ecology, but does every Catholic understand this concept or share his enthusiasm?
Colm Holmes on January 4, 2023 at 7:04 am
Equality for Laity
Equality for Gays
Equality for Couples
Equality like Jesus preached
Equality for all the World
Joe Masterleo on January 4, 2023 at 10:58 am
God "doing new things" always involves those updates and renewals that serve to hasten the day when the Kingdom of heaven is to be manifest on earth. And the heart of that involves making ample use of the spiritual disciplines for serially unmediated interludes, encounters, and experiences with the Bridegroom in the apex of the soul, and multiplicity — "going out to meet him there." Much like Zaccheus, who climbed the tree of faith which grows above downward, roots in the Godhead, the unapproachable light whose lower branches form material creation and humanity.
Joe Masterleo on January 7, 2023 at 7:39 am
The old horizons and boundaries of nations, ethnicities, and religions have broken down. It's one world now, to be seen as such or perish. And a new mythological "omelette" is to be made from the common contents and sheer number of their broken and shattered shells. The new world mythology has to be of no particular time and place, of no selected people. All social groups remain bounding groups, and their movements are in-group movements whose self-referencing spirit works contrary to the whole, to inclusivity and unity, one that orients itself to a common energy and center from which all created thing emerge and return. Pilgrims came to the new world seeking religious freedom, yet immediately suppressed the native religions. In-groups tend to do do that. Christianity is not a world religion, is not of the whole, not reflective of the whole, nor is Judaism or Islam. They're tribal, by history of one crowd against another. There you have intellectual walls, physical walls, and dogmatic walls with no shared, identifiable, incoherent element bringing them together.
Reading here today gives me sweet peace. These writings validate an internal fire that I have tried to quench so many times over many years. Yes, I have hope for the good that can come from our current distress. That we can come together and become more whole as a world.
Carol Roberts

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Although Washington D.C. and 29 American states have embraced cannabis as legal medicine and recreation, cannabis stigma remains. Many well meaning state run medical cannabis programs place barriers between patients and relief due to misconceptions about cannabis flower and smoke.
In 17 "medical" states, you will only find CBD based medical oil with low levels of THC, the main psychoactive chemical found in cannabis. For example, Tennessee only allows the use of medical cannabis oil containing cannabidiol (CBD) with less than 0.9% THC. While this law benefits those who suffer from severe seizures, it excludes more potential patients than it helps.
Furthermore, some medical programs, like New York and Pennsylvania, prohibit smokable cannabis flower. These state's laws limit legal forms to pills, oils, vaporizers, and other derivatives, but not actual cannabis flower itself.
These restrictions limit the effectiveness of any legal cannabis initiative.
Not only do they drive up the cost of medical cannabis in these markets, and place a difficulty of access on poorer patients, but they sacrifice immense therapeutic value derived from whole plant cannabis in the name of socially ingrained negative feelings and misinformation about the plant, especially with regard to smoke and potential harm.
It seems logical that cannabis smoke would be somewhat harmful to your lungs. Inhaled smoke of any sort should hurt you, right? Wrong. This harmful misconception was born out of a lack of adequate federal research on cannabis.
Instead cannabis became a criminalized, schedule 1 substance, considered to have no medical value, on par with heroin. This designation set back cannabis research decades, and still affects the way we see cannabis today. This anti cannabis stigma has crept into our most well intended laws, aided by other dubious claims based on poor research methods.
Many early longitudinal studies that investigated cannabis smoke's potential harm are skewed because they didn't control for tobacco use as well.
As cannabis research makes up for lost time, more findings emerge that demonstrate cannabis flower's low relative association with cancer and lung damage.
In direct contrast, The investigators found that low to moderate cannabis use actually increased lung capacity. This is not surprising, as Pletcher states, "In some ways, [cannabis] smoking is really a lot like doing a pulmonary function test." He speculated that by smoking cannabis you practice, or exercise your lung function, leading to modest increases in capacity.
Pletcher et al also speculated that THC's anti inflammatory properties may prevent lung irritation from occurring. THC's anti tumor properties are conjectured to aid the non-association found between cannabis smoke and cancer.
Whole plant cannabis contains terpenes which help create its common medical effects. When you limit cannabis forms to derivatives because of anti cannabis stigma, you lose a great number of these terpenes, which lowers the therapeutic value of your cannabis remedies. But why are these terpenes so important, what do they do?
Terpenes are the oil's inside cannabis flower that produce scent, taste, as well as provide medical effects. When one smokes cannabis, they stimulate their brain's endocannabinoid system, or ECS.
The ECS works to regulate bodily processes, like mood, appetite, pain sensation, memory, and much more. The ECS has receptors that cannabinoids, like THC and CBD, bind too. Once binded, they produce effects associated with cannabis, like euphoria and pain relief, among others.
The oils from terpenes work to potentiate, or interact with the EC system. Terpenes actually bind to and block certain EC receptors, and these multiple combinations map out cannabis' psychoactive effects.
We call this interaction an entourage effect. Terpenes work like balancers and communicators. They amplify and moderate cannabis' effects. Many specific terpenes have specific effects. For example, limonene has been found to reduce destruction of the ras gene, a known cause of cancerous tumor growth. There are many terpenes found in cannabis that provide a multitude of medical effects.
In short, terpenes shape cannabis' medical effects due to the entourage effect. By limiting cannabis forms to derivatives, states like Pennsylvania and New York lower the therapeutic value their cannabis programs can offer, and cling to erroneous science and measurement with roots in cannabis stigma and phobia.
There are a lot of misconceptions that surround cannabis, and these can take root in the minds of cannabis advocates and DEA agents alike. It's important to critique state run cannabis programs for these stigmas, so we can do our best to remove them from the future of cannabis legalization.
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Urban Outfitters Inc (URBN) Q3 2021 Earnings Call Transcript
URBN earnings call for the period ending October 31, 2020.
Nov 23, 2020 at 10:30PM
Urban Outfitters Inc (NASDAQ:URBN)
Nov 23, 2020, 5:00 p.m. ET
Good day, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Urban Outfitters, Inc. Third Quarter Fiscal '21 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to introduce the call to Oona McDonald -- I'm sorry, McCullough, Director of Investor Relations, Ms. McCullough, you may begin.
Oona McCullough -- Director of Investor Relations
Good afternoon and welcome to the URBN third quarter fiscal 2021 conference call. Earlier this afternoon, the company issued a press release outlining the financial and operating results for the three and nine month periods ending October 31st, 2020. The following discussions may include forward-looking statements. It's important to note at this time, the global COVID-19 pandemic has had and continues to have a significant material impact on URBN's business. Given an extremely high level of uncertainty about the duration and extent of the virus' near and long-term impact to the global retail environment, content discussed on today's call could change materially at any time. Accordingly, future results could differ materially from historical practices and results or current descriptions, estimates and suggestions. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from projected results is contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
On today's call, you will hear from Frank Conforti, Co-President, URBN; Trish Donnelly, Global CEO, Urban Outfitters Group; and Richard Hayne, Chief Executive Officer, URBN. Following that, we will be pleased to address your questions. For more detailed commentary on our quarterly performance and the text of today's conference call, please refer to our Investor Relations website at www.urbn.com. I will now turn the call over to Frank.
Frank J. Conforti -- Co-President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer
Thank you, Oona and good afternoon everyone. It continues to be a year full of challenges and I believe we continue to meet them head on. All three brands delivered sales improvement from Q2 and recorded lower Q3 markdown rates versus last year. We produced a new record low markdown rate for the third quarter, which helped to drive nearly $100 million of operating profit and an op profit rate above 10%. Our balance sheet remains strong as we paid down the remaining $120 million on our outstanding line of credit and ended the quarter with $634 million in cash and marketable securities. Each brand controlled inventories well and ended the quarter with inventory below their sales performance. I have said it before and I don't mind saying it again, during an incredibly difficult environment, we could not be more proud of the teams and their exceptional execution.
Before I speak about our upcoming quarter, please note, there remains a high level of external uncertainty. The number of COVID cases are spiking at home and around the globe resulting in more government restrictions. So, as you can imagine, our current views could change at any time. Now, as we enter the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021, it may be helpful for you to consider the following. Quarter-to-date, our sales are reasonably in line with where we finished the third quarter. Store sales have slowed slightly while digital demand has accelerated slightly. As already noted, there is a ton of uncertainty in the consumer behavior for the holiday season. Therefore, we are not forecasting where we believe sales will land for the quarter. If sales performance for Q4 were to remain fairly consistent with the third quarter, we believe URBN's gross margin rate for the fourth quarter would deleverage.
Please note that I am referencing Q4 gross profit margin versus last year excluding the store impairment charges recorded in the fourth quarter in the prior year. The decrease in Q4 margin versus the prior year would primarily be due to increased delivery and logistics expense. This deleverage in delivery and logistics expense rate would be due in part to the increased penetration of the digital channel as well as increased costs to meet the strong digital consumer demand. This deleverage will not be fully offset by the digital penetration benefit in store occupancy due to negative store comps persisting and possibly getting worse than the third quarter result.
Many of you may question how our gross profit rate could decline in the fourth quarter given our strong margin performance in the third quarter. First and foremost, this is about delivery expense. We anticipate delivery expense will deleverage significantly more in the fourth quarter than it did in Q3. Three items would cause the deleverage. First, the increase in penetration of the digital channel. Second, an increase in carrier rates; and third, the need for an increased amount of expedited shipping to ensure packages arrive on time. As many of you are aware, the delivery demand is at or above network capacity in the United States. Knowing that our existing carriers will be unable to fully meet our demand, we have added additional regional carriers in an attempt to get shipments to our consumers on time.
Besides delivery, the other item that could contribute to a lower gross profit margin in Q4 is the markdown rate. In the third quarter, all three brands had favorable year-over-year markdown rates with Urban Outfitters and Free People delivering exceptionally low rates. This helped to drive a record low Q3 rate for URBN. With the uncertainty around the holiday season, especially in the store channel, we are anticipating markdowns in the fourth quarter to be less exceptional.
Now moving on to SG&A. Based on our current sales performance and our current plan, we believe SG&A could decline for the fourth quarter resulting in SG&A leverage versus last year. We continue to manage our expenses tightly while closely monitoring our top line performance. We are currently planning our effective tax rate for the fourth quarter to be fairly consistent with the third quarter. Capital expenditures for the fiscal year are planned at approximately $195 million. The spend is primarily related to expanded distribution facilities including the completion of our new omni-channel distribution facility in the U.K. and the start of construction on a new facility in the U.S. As a reminder, the foregoing does not constitute a forecast, but is simply a reflection of our current views. The company disclaims any obligation to update forward-looking statements. Now, I am pleased to turn the call over to Trish Donnelly, Global CEO of the Urban Outfitters brand.
Trish Donnelly -- Chief Executive Officer of Urban Outfitters Group
Thank you, Frank and good afternoon everyone. I'm excited to report the Urban Outfitters brand delivered a positive 4% global retail segment comp for the third quarter. These comps were driven by exceptional growth in the digital channels in North America and Europe partially offset by more challenging comps in the store channel. Well controlled inventory management enabled historically low markdown rates and fast inventory turns. This coupled with disciplined expense management led to operating income double that of last year.
As I mentioned, the positive global retail comp was driven by our digital channel. All global KPIs sessions, conversion, and average order value saw impressive increases over last year. All geographical sectors Americas, Europe, APAC, Middle East, and Australia-New Zealand saw positive double-digit comps. In addition, every marketing channel, paid and unpaid, positive comped to last year. Most impressive was new customer growth in the digital channel. Globally, we gained 36% more customers over last year with both North America and Europe picking up hundreds of thousands of new customers during the quarter. In addition, we launched a new Urban Outfitters website in Mexico and the early results are very exciting.
Turning to the retail store channel, despite the obvious COVID-related challenges, the field teams drove impressive increases in both conversion and average transaction value, which helped offset some of the traffic decline. Our retail stores optimized their pick, pack, and ship capabilities and were able to fill close to 1 million direct-to-consumer units out of store inventories globally. In addition, we launched UO to GO, our curbside pickup capability, which continues to gain traction as we move into holiday. Other bright spots within the retail channel this quarter included the opening of our Urban Outfitters flagship store in Munich as well as an iets frans pop-up shop on Carnaby Street in London. On the North America side, we opened a new store in Sarasota, Florida and relocated our store in Omaha, Nebraska.
Strong top line sales were driven by positive customer response to our product assortment and allowed for historic full price selling rates across a number of categories. While the women's businesses were key to success of the quarter, the Home business experienced the highest growth rates. Our speed to customer chase model allowed the teams to react to reads from Q2, pivot quickly and distort into trending categories for Q3. At the beginning of Q2, we started to see notable shifts in customer behavior. On the apparel side, structured product gave way to comfort and the teams quickly chased and distorted buys for Q3 into casual and cosy top, bottom, and third pieces in both men and women.
We also saw our customers shift their attention to our home areas whether they needed furniture and storage to setup work-from-home spaces, new bedding or textiles with which to decorate their apartments or houses, bakeware and drinkware to support a newfound love of kitchen and DIY, games and puzzles, both tech and non-tech as entertainment or music, listening to or playing, our complex merchandising model catered to needs in all facets of our 18 to 26-year-old core customers' evolving interests. The efforts from the merchants, planners to designers on the product side were buoyed by relevant and compelling marketing campaigns.
The marketing teams immediately channeled our customers' mindsets and created meaningful marketing messages to support our product strategy. Our UO at Home campaign drove growth and excitement to the business by featuring over 200 global influencers and creators from Paris to Copenhagen and Los Angeles to Miami, these diverse individuals photographed themselves in Urban Outfitters products within their local environments capturing their lifestyles, their interests, and creative expression. This wide range of creative assets reinforcing UO's big ideas and key product categories felt authentic, familiar, and it resonated with our customers. We not only saw this in increased engagement and following on our social platforms, particularly Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok, but we also saw increases in sales within the categories and the items we highlighted.
Another new marketing method we quickly adopted was hosting virtual experiences for our customers. Virtual dance and workout classes, DIY workshops, live performance concerts, and beauty tutorials were some of our most successful with thousands of customer sign-ups. And lastly, to further our customer connection, we partnered with the I Am a Voter campaign to help our customers navigate the 2020 election and inspire all to get involved, stay aware, and to vote. We created exclusive Ballot Box Tee Kits and emerged as a brand leader in encouraging the youth vote.
In closing, the third quarter was an exciting one for the Urban Outfitters brand. We will continue our focus on the customer from a product standpoint and will continue our fiscal diligence around inventory control. The last eight months have forced our team to reevaluate how we operate and how we continue to please the customer. The operational competencies we've developed this past quarter in the retail channel around DTC order fulfillment will certainly prove beneficial this holiday season. The team's ability to quickly pivot and give our customers relevant product, best-in-class marketing, innovative digital experiences, and personalized service in stores were critical in driving these results. I would like to thank Meg, the Urban Outfitters leadership team, our home office, and our field teams. Thank you. I will now turn the call over to Dick.
Richard A. Hayne -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Trish, Wow, what a phenomenal quarter. Strong comps, lean inventories, low markdowns, and well controlled expenses all leading to 100% jump in operating profits. Truly a great, great effort. Thanks and congratulations to you, Meg, and the entire Urban team. Good afternoon, everyone. Today, I will discuss our overall results for the third quarter, talk about performance by channel, then by brand, and give my thoughts on the holiday season before turning the call over to your questions. I am pleased to report URBN produced healthy revenues and excellent operating profits for Q3 versus the same quarter last year. Total comp sales were flat, but operating profits soared 31%. In addition, all large brands were profitable and together they delivered the lowest Q3 markdown rate and best full price selling in URBN history. This is a tremendous accomplishment given the environment we faced.
Let me now recap performance by channel beginning with stores. Not surprisingly, the store channel at all brands struggled again in the third quarter. Compared to the previous quarter, comps did improve, but stores still faced punishing traffic declines, particularly our high volume stores in large cities like New York, London, and San Francisco. All stores were open for business, but most were either forced to obey crippling occupancy caps or observe restrictions in hours of operation and sometimes both. The impact of low traffic on sales was partially offset by strong conversion increases as the shoppers that did visit came with intent.
In August when we last spoke, store traffic had improved slightly from July and we saw that improvement continue at a frustratingly slow pace through the middle of October. Since the third week in October, we've seen a slight reversal with lighter traffic as viral caseloads spiked and restrictions were reinstalled. Fortunately, store channel weakness in Q3 was offset by outsized strength in digital demand. Our overall digital business posted robust mid double-digit comp sales in each month of the quarter and that strength has continued in the fourth quarter to date. Sessions, orders, and conversion all saw powerful increases across all three brands and total new digital customers in the quarter jumped by 45%. Since May of this year, our fulfillment centers have experienced non-stop holiday-level workloads and have done an exceptional job of maintaining customer service levels.
Turning to a review by brand, beginning with Anthropologie. Of our three main brands, Anthropologie has been most harshly impacted by the pandemic. Anthro is known for offering more structured apparel appropriate for social interactions outside the home. Obviously, the virus has curtailed those interactions and thus the need for apparel that supports them. The apparel team has seen some success in adjusting the assortments to have a higher penetration of casual at home clothing. While this led to better comps in the third quarter versus the second quarter when compared to Q3 last year, apparel remains negative for two primary reasons. First, the average price of casual item is significantly less than most structured items. And second, more markdowns were needed to clear less desirable products. We believe the Anthro apparel category will likely remain challenged through the remainder of FY '21.
Conversely, the AnthroLiving home category enjoyed one of its most productive quarters ever generating strong double-digit comp sales largely at regular price. As apparel sales suffer from a lack of social interaction, the home category benefits from stay-at-home regulations. Holiday gift giving typically boosts the penetration of home sales during Q4 and since home product is performing well, we believe Anthropologie could produce better retail segment comps despite continued softness in apparel sales. Even though total sales were disappointing, Anthropologie engineered a very respectable operating profit for the quarter driven by tight expense management and well controlled inventory levels. The brand entered Q4 with total inventory down 14% at cost. I thank Hillary, Meg, and the Anthropologie team for driving the improvement in third quarter results. The team has done a good job of mitigating the virus-induced impacts and keeping the brand profitable.
Now turning to Free People. What a quarter this brand delivered. Retail segment comps surged 17% driven by exceptional growth in digital demand. Since COVID, Free People has greatly benefited from having the highest digital penetration in our portfolio of brands. In the third quarter, that penetration topped 70%. For the quarter, all Free People product categories posted positive comps and strong regular price selling. This produced near record low Q3 markdown rate for the brand.
Within categories, none was more impressive than FP Movement, which delivered triple-digit comp increases. Sales of Movement product were even comp positive in the struggling store and wholesale channels. We are pleased to announce that in mid-October, we successfully opened our first stand-alone Movement store in Century City, California. We are encouraged by early results, which have tracked nicely ahead of plan. A second Movement store is slated to open later this month in Boulder, Colorado. We expect to open additional stores next year and believe Movement has the potential to become a $1 billion brand and plan to invest in its growth aggressively.
Free People sales in the wholesale channel dropped by 23% against Q3 last year. That represents a strong rebound from Q2's 52% decrease. Each wholesale segment, especially stores, department stores, and close-out outlets registered similar declines. Sales declined, but profit showed strong improvement and were nicely positive as the brand issued far fewer discounts and allowances. My thanks go to Sheila, Meg, and the Free People team. The powerful quarter you produced is a wonderful tribute to your leadership and the talent and tenacity of your team, well done.
In Q3, our subscription rental brand, Nuuly, passed its one-year mark. After suffering relatively high pauses in customer subscriptions in the early days of COVID, Nuuly has seen a gradual reengagement from subscribers who were on pause. Overall, Nuuly has seen a 75% increase in active paying subscribers since the lows recorded in mid-May and subscribers have been purchasing their rented products at almost twice the pre-COVID rate. In all, we remain optimistic about the future of rental post-COVID.
In any other year coming off such a strong third quarter with exceptional product execution and positive customer response to early holiday assortments would make us highly confident about holiday results. It goes without saying, 2020 is not like any other year and our confidence is tempered by external risks beyond our control. In recent weeks, governments in some regions such as the U.K. have returned to strict lockdowns and an increasing number of states and local municipalities have reimposed draconian store capacity restrictions and stay-at-home orders. These actions insert a significant amount of uncertainty into our business for the weeks leading up to and beyond Christmas. We're confident that our brands are executing well. We know our products and marketing messages are compelling. Most importantly in this environment, we're highly confident in our well-developed digital capabilities. These enable us to capture consumer demand even when stores are challenged by external restrictions.
Turning to our current business, total company sales to date in Q4 are essentially in line with our third quarter results. Stores have de-accelerated slightly due to the new restrictions and the digital channel has improved slightly. As with everything else in the year 2020, the situation is highly fluid. So accurately predicting holiday sales is a low confidence proposition that I'll avoid. We do anticipate a surge in digital demand in the coming weeks. To address that, we've taken extra measures to help scale with demand including increasing fulfillment center staffing levels versus last holiday, installing more automation equipment in those centers to help boost productivity, staffing stores to allow for more pack and ship processing, and launching curbside pickup in stores where it's practical. As Frank pointed out, we are also concerned about the capacity constraints of our delivery carriers. To mitigate that risk, we've added more regional firms to our network. Our goal remains to be able to please customers no matter how, when or where they shop with us.
Before turning the call over to your questions, I want to thank our Co-Presidents, all brand and shared service leaders, their teams, and all associates worldwide. It has been a long and difficult year, but I'm incredibly proud of our teams, how hard they worked and the amazing results they've produced. They've shown grit and determination to have excelled in what has been the most difficult environment I can remember. Our positive performance is a direct reflection of our teams will to make it happen. So, thank you. Thanks also to our many partners and their workers around the world who went above and beyond to produce our products, often under the most trying of circumstances. Finally, thanks to our shareholders, especially our longer-term investors for your continued support. That concludes my prepared remarks. Now for your questions.
Ladies and gentlemen. Before our question-and-answer session, I would like to turn the call over to Dick Hayne for a comment.
Thank you very much and thank you all for joining the call tonight. Before we answer your questions, I just want to reiterate what both Frank and I have said on our prepared remarks and that is the answers to today's questions that speak to the future outcomes will be based on current information only and our current view of the future. Right now, the external environment is volatile and highly uncertain. For instance, there is no way for us to know if COVID cases will continue to spike or retreat over the coming weeks. Likewise, it's impossible for us to factor in possible future government lockdowns or store restrictions. Both could have a big impact on our fourth quarter results. Therefore, please understand that our answers today reflect plans developed from what we currently know and actual results could be very different, if the environment changes.
With that, I'm happy to tell you where we stand today as we enter Thanksgiving week. Total retail segment comp sales for November to date are essentially flat with our Q3 comp level. Store traffic and comps have softened slightly over the last few weeks. We currently have 68 stores closed to the public due to COVID-related restrictions. 55 of those stores are in Europe, 11 in Canada, and two in the U.S. Of the stores that remain open, 158 or almost a third of our North American fleet are operating with capacity restrictions under 50% of legal occupancy. All stores are currently permitted to pack and ship digital orders. Digital demand on the other hand has improved and offset the dip in store sales. This is especially true in the U.K. where our current digital business is producing triple-digit comps. With that, we will now be glad to take your questions.
[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Kimberly Greenberger with Morgan Stanley.
Kimberly Greenberger -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Okay, great. Sorry, Dick, at the very end there, did you say triple-digit digital growth?
I did say that, Kimberly.
I swear I wrote it down wrong.
Now, but listen, the stores are closed and as an example of how unpredictable this environment is, we just got word this morning that the stores will be able to reopen on December 3rd, but in the meantime, we are experiencing triple-digit growth in our digital. Thank God we have opened a new fulfillment center in Peterborough, U.K. and because of that fulfillment center we have the capacity to fill triple-digit increases.
Your next question comes from the line of Lorraine Hutchinson with Bank of America.
Lorraine Hutchinson -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Well, thanks, good afternoon. Frank, I just wanted to ask about the balance sheet. You have more cash on hand than you did at this time last year and now you've paid down your debt. Can you talk about the potential to resume the buyback and then also how we should be thinking about capex next year and beyond?
Yes, Lorraine, so I think right now, given the uncertainty Dick and I have talked about in the fourth quarter, we feel it's prudent to remain flexible and conservative with our cash and our marketable securities. As you know, we always focus on the cash needs sort of in the same order supporting our business, investing in our growth-based initiatives, and then returning cash to shareholders. We do have a Board meeting coming up next week and as always, I'm sure capital allocation will be a topic of conversation at the Board meeting itself.
We did kick off a new distribution facility that we're going to be building here in North America. I think we actually broke ground on that today in Kansas. That will impact our capital number next year. We don't have a final number in and of itself. We just completed our facility in the U.K. and we will be building a new facility next year. We're excited about both of these facilities as Dick said. They both enable us to continue to support the strong digital demand and growth that we're seeing and we're excited to be able to continue to invest in the business.
Your next question comes from the line of Kimberly Greenberger with Morgan Stanley.
Hi, Kimberly, sorry we cut it off.
Yeah, no problem. I just wanted to clarify that. I wanted to ask just about digital delivery this holiday season and obviously, there has been some ongoing deleverage in digital delivery because digital is just rising as a percentage of sales and I wanted to ask, there are some one-time impacts coming to the fourth quarter. Can you lay out some of the strategies for us that you're using to make sure that you can get product to consumers and any strategies to offset those costs. As we look to next year, what do you think -- what sort of digital delivery cost increases would you expect to be sustained as opposed to which ones are more temporary. Thank you.
Okay Kimberly, I'll take a shot at that. You're right, we're seeing very strong digital as I said in my prepared remarks mid double-digit sales growth in the digital channel and when this started in May, we all sat around and said this could easily continue through holiday and gosh, what are we going to do to fulfill those orders? So we put together plan, which included increasing the staffing in all the fulfillment centers beyond what we've done in prior holidays, incentivizing the fulfillment staff by offering additional bonuses and rewards that are based on performance metrics and attendance. We installed some additional equipment that is to increase our efficiency and throughput and productivity.
We've taken some of the Nuuly distribution center space and converted that into an area to process some of the fast turning holiday items and we provided additional labor hours in stores to enable them to handle more pick, pack, and ship orders and also in the stores allowed for curbside pickup where it's practical. So we've done a lot of -- taken a lot of steps to be able to handle the surge in demand and I have to tell you the fulfillment center has been working basically holiday shifts since May and has done an excellent job of performing and whenever we have any COVID-related issues in those fulfillment centers, Dave, Zeo [Phonetic] and his staff have taken care of it, so we can get right back in and keep working and have done a great job.
What are we seeing for the future? Well, I guess you'd have to tell me when you see COVID dying down or going away. After it goes away, I think things will return a bit to more normal charges for delivery and so if you think that's going to happen the first quarter, second quarter or third quarter, that's when we would expect to see it. Until that happens and the stores are continued challenged, I would suggest that the direct business will remain very elevated, the carriers will all have a problem fulfilling that volume and will continue to charge more. That's how I see it. Frank, do you have anything to add to that?
Yeah, I just want to add, Kimberley, as it relates to just being able to meet the holiday volume. In addition to all of the measures Dick talked about from a fulfillment perspective, we did go ahead and add additional regional carriers as well to increase our capacity within the network. I also want to highlight, which was in my prepared commentary, the biggest delta between how we're looking at Q3 gross profit margin versus Q4 gross profit margin really is about what Dick's talking about is about the increased carrier rates in the fourth quarter in order -- and those surcharges related to the demand that the delivery network is expecting to experience in the fourth quarter as well as us as a company anticipating a higher rate of expedited shipments in order to ensure that she gets her package on time.
Your next question comes from the line of Matthew Boss with JP Morgan.
Matthew Boss -- JP Morgan -- Analyst
Great, thanks and congrats on the improvement. So maybe, Frank, could you help break down same-store sales trends by brand in November and then Dick, just following the sheltered consumer for months now, what's your sense on a fashion cycle potentially emerging on the other side of this crisis and how are you positioning the brand today to take advantage of that, if that is in fact the case?
So, Matt, I'll take the first one and we don't give out the same-store sales numbers by brand, but as Dick did highlight in his prepared commentary, over the last week or so of October as well as the early weeks in November, we did see a decline in traffic and a slight decline a corresponding decline in our store comps that has impacted all brands fairly consistently and offsetting that has been a slight improvement in the digital demand enabling us to be flat as Dick mentioned earlier on the call.
Okay, sheltered consumer, I like that term. I guess the first thing I'd say is we think that the Free People and Urban brands right now are already taking advantage of fashion demand and I would encourage both of those brands to just keep doing what they did in the third quarter. Having said that, Anthropologie, as I suggested in my prepared comments, is known for structured apparel that's appropriate for occasions outside the home like work, dining out, events like graduations, weddings, and parties.
We believe post-COVID, whenever that comes, these events will return in full and I think with vengeance. If you just look at something like weddings, there have been a significant drop-off in a number of weddings and the size of those weddings and we believe there is a big demand building up for either weddings or the people who did get married during COVID to have follow-up parties where they can invite lots of people. So we think there is going to be a lot of events once it's safe and we think that Anthropologie as well positioned to take advantage of those events and that social interaction outside the home. So once it's over, we think Anthropologie's signature looks will be back in high demand. Now, when that happens is I guess as I used to say the million dollar question and it's something that we can't answer, but we obviously are being conscious about pivoting back too early, which would just cause a lot of markdowns.
Your next question comes from the line of Adrienne Yih with Barclays.
Adrienne Yih -- Barclays -- Analyst
Good afternoon and let me add my congratulations. Very well done and so tough out there.
Thank you, Adrienne.
You're welcome. Trish, I was wondering if we can focus on the success of UO as one of the big core brands, how has the U.S. -- the UO business permanently changed regarding inventory management, stocking levels, and size and breadth of the store offering. And then, Frank as we think about next year and this notion of a mean reversion of sales back into stores, where should we be thinking of the brick-and-mortar e-commerce split and the breakeven leverage point for stores. Thank you so much.
Hey, Adrienne, it's Trish, in terms of permanent changes to how we manage inventory, there's really nothing we've done differently. I think what the teams have done really well is taking that inventory that we do have and distorting into things that are working and we had some really strong business in women's and as I mentioned in my commentary, our highest growth rates were in home and our ability to pivot into those categories that were working during COVID is obviously was really good for the business, but in terms of any permanent changes to inventory, we still manage on the same tight four [Phonetic] weeks of supply that we always have and I'll pass it over to Frank for the rest of that question.
Hey, Adrienne, unfortunately, I just don't have a lot of visibility on exactly what our model is going to look like going forward. I can tell you that we have modeled many different channel penetration scenarios, but which one comes true right now is really going to depend on the consumer. With that said, yes, we certainly believe the ongoing digital adoption we've seen over the last decade has definitely accelerated during the COVID outbreak, but to what extent, we just don't know.
What we do know is we have strong brands and we have a strong connect and those brands have a strong connection to the customer. We've got excellent operational capabilities and a strong balance sheet. So honestly, however the consumer wants to settle in from a shopping channel perspective, we will adjust accordingly and I think we've done a very good job at quickly adapting this year and you can expect the same from us in the future.
Your next question comes from the line of Janet Kloppenburg with JJK Research.
Janet Kloppenburg -- JJK Research -- Analyst
Congratulations. Nice job. Frank, I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about the positive influence of the rent concessions and the government assistance on gross margin and if that will be a positive influence in the fourth quarter, to what degree sequentially and also we have lower clearance levels given your inventory levels may also positively influence the fourth quarter gross margin. And Dick, I know this is a tough question, but as you think about the pandemic and the recent news on vaccines, how do you think about planning sales and inventories for next year and when do you expect a nice rebound to emerge? Thanks.
Yeah, this is Frank, so you're 100% correct. There were rent abatements recorded in the third quarter as well as government benefits really in Europe as it relates to real estate taxes. We do have some of those deals yet to complete that will favorably benefit the fourth quarter as well. With that being said, none of those were anywhere near the materiality of what drove our gross profit margin improvement in the quarter. It really was led by record low merch markdown rates with all three brands recording lower markdown rate on a year-over-year basis as well as our wholesale segment recording favorable merch margins on a year-over-year basis. That's really what led the way for us in driving improvement in the Q3 margin.
Okay, Janet, planning sales and inventory for FY '22. Yeah, you did give me a tough one there young lady. When we think about it, we clearly don't know when this vaccine is going to become available. We don't know when it does become available at what rate it will be available and we also don't know how quickly the uptake will be from the consumers in this country. So it's a very, very difficult question to answer about when we might see a return to I guess what we would put in quotes normalcy.
How are we planning? We're really planning our spring-summer business on an omni-channel level because we don't know with what the store channel will bring and we don't know what the digital channel would bring, but we're -- have some degree of confidence around what the total will bring and I say some degree of confidence. So we plan on an omni-channel and we order inventory to that omni-channel level and then as it gets closer to the point in time we can split the inventory up to go to whichever channel the consumers are favoring. So I don't know of any other way to do it without the potential of making really gross mistakes.
Your next question comes from the line of Marni Shapiro with The Retail Tracker.
Marni Shapiro -- The Retail Tracker -- Analyst
Hey, guys, congratulations. And in case I forget, stores look really fantastic particularly Urban has been just a lot of fun. Can you talk a little bit, you've had a pretty dramatic shift to DTC and Free People was already there. Can you talk about the differences you've seen in the Urban customer and the Anthro customer shifting online. Did they both move very quickly and have they both stayed there or did you see differences there as to how that sort of transpired over the last couple of months?
I don't think that there has been many differences at all. The Urban and Anthropologie customers have shifted just about the same -- at the same rate that the Free People customer has, it's just that the stores are larger and they are more impactful and there's more of them. So the penetration of stores for Urban and Anthropologie is greater, but overall, we see them -- all three brands, we see them definitely migrating to digital.
And I do have to tell you that while our inventories have been extremely well controlled, in some cases, they are almost too well controlled, we could have benefited pretty greatly by having a little more home product. Right now, I think we're sitting at around $26 million in back orders, which is primarily in home and a lot of that home product is Anthropologie home, but we don't see much difference in the usage of digital.
Your last question comes from the line of Mark Altschwager with Baird.
Mark Altschwager -- Baird -- Analyst
Good evening. Thanks for taking my question and congrats on the quarter. First, a quick follow-up on the rent concession topic. I'm wondering if there's any update you can share on maybe any bigger picture changes that are happening to rent structures and how that might change the margin algorithm from here in terms of leverage points on store comps and then I wanted to ask more broadly about just growth investments. Balance sheet remains in great shape, appears to be light at the end of the tunnel with a vaccine on the way. I'm just wondering how you're thinking about ratcheting back up growth investments, China, Europe, Free People Movement, wholesale for the various brands, Nuuly, it would seem that there is a lot of levers there. Maybe if you could you just rank order how you're thinking about those over the next couple of years? Thanks.
So, is that all, Mark? Let me start with rent. So I really look at rent in two buckets, one related to the pandemic itself. I think we focus really heavily on being able to achieve rent abatement for the periods that we were closed or significantly restricted from an occupancy perspective and I think we did a great job and we had good partners on the other side as well getting to help the abatements. Those were recorded in second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter and should largely be complete this year.
As you talk about sort of a step change function, I think our opportunity is, is we've got roughly about 10% of our fleet coming up for renewal over each of the next three years consecutively and actually between 10% and 12%. So think about little bit more than 35% or so of our fleet comes up for renewal and I think it's up for us to remain incredibly disciplined as we look at those renewals and push as hard as we can for variable rent. I think percentage rent is something that's really key for us as it's going to be or has been and continue going to be very hard to predict where consumer traffic trends go. So for us as a percentage rent to sales is something that we would really like to push as hard as we can on in order to change that occupancy line item to become more of a variable base than a fixed base.
As it relates to SG&A, I think a lot of our SG&A depends on how holiday finishes and our view of the consumer and the channel penetration at that point in time. I think we have honestly consistently shown that we can be nimble and disciplined as necessary. At the same time, you are right, we do believe in the future growth of our brands and our initiatives and we believe it's important to continue to invest in the future in order to grow our business. We always have seen that as the best way to reward our shareholders as well as our employees. So we will have more commentary on SG&A when we speak on the next quarter call. We have obviously not finished our plans. Like I said, a lot of it will depend on what our current views are on channel penetration at that point in time.
Okay, that's all from our side. We thank you very much for joining us on the call today and we wish you all a very, very Happy Thanksgiving.
[Operator Closing Remarks]
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from os.path import abspath, dirname, join
import json

from tornado.testing import AsyncHTTPTestCase
from tornado.options import options

from thumbor.app import ThumborServiceApp

get_conf_path = lambda filename: abspath(join(dirname(__file__), 'fixtures', filename))

class MetaHandlerTestCase(AsyncHTTPTestCase):

    def get_app(self):
        app = ThumborServiceApp(get_conf_path('default.py'))
        return app

    def test_meta_returns_200(self):
        options.META_CALLBACK_NAME = None
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg'), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        self.assertEqual(200, response.code)

    def test_meta_returns_appjson_code(self):
        options.META_CALLBACK_NAME = None
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg'), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        assert response.code == 200
        content_type = response.headers['Content-Type']
        self.assertEqual("application/json", content_type)

    def test_meta_returns_proper_json_for_no_ops(self):
        options.META_CALLBACK_NAME = None
        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body
        operations = json.loads(text)

        assert operations
        assert operations['thumbor']
        assert operations['thumbor']['source']['url'] == image_url
        assert operations['thumbor']['source']['width'] == 620
        assert operations['thumbor']['source']['height'] == 349
        assert "operations" in operations['thumbor']
        assert not operations['thumbor']['operations']

    def test_meta_returns_proper_json_for_resize_and_crop(self):
        options.META_CALLBACK_NAME = None
        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/300x200/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body
        thumbor_json = json.loads(text)

        operations = thumbor_json['thumbor']['operations']

        assert len(operations) == 2

        assert operations[0]['type'] == 'crop'
        assert operations[0]['top'] == 0
        assert operations[0]['right'] == 572
        assert operations[0]['bottom'] == 349
        assert operations[0]['left'] == 48

        assert operations[1]['type'] == 'resize'
        assert operations[1]['width'] == 300
        assert operations[1]['height'] == 200

    def test_meta_returns_proper_json_for_resize_and_manual_crop(self):
        options.META_CALLBACK_NAME = None
        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/0x0:100x100/50x0/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body
        thumbor_json = json.loads(text)

        target = thumbor_json['thumbor']['target']

        assert target['width'] == 50
        assert target['height'] == 50, target['height']

    def test_meta_returns_proper_target_for_resize_and_crop(self):
        options.META_CALLBACK_NAME = None
        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/300x200/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body
        thumbor_json = json.loads(text)

        target = thumbor_json['thumbor']['target']

        assert target['width'] == 300
        assert target['height'] == 200

    def test_meta_returns_proper_target_for_crop(self):
        options.META_CALLBACK_NAME = None
        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/0x0:100x100/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body
        thumbor_json = json.loads(text)

        target = thumbor_json['thumbor']['target']

        assert target['width'] == 100
        assert target['height'] == 100

    def test_meta_returns_proper_target_for_crop_and_resize(self):
        options.META_CALLBACK_NAME = None
        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/0x0:200x250/200x0/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body
        thumbor_json = json.loads(text)

        target = thumbor_json['thumbor']['target']

        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/50x40:250x290/200x0/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body
        thumbor_json = json.loads(text)

        target_2 = thumbor_json['thumbor']['target']

        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/250x80:450x330/200x0/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body
        thumbor_json = json.loads(text)

        target_3 = thumbor_json['thumbor']['target']

        assert target['width'] == target_2['width']
        assert target['height'] == target_2['height']

        assert target['width'] == target_3['width']
        assert target['height'] == target_3['height']

    def test_meta_returns_proper_json_for_flip(self):
        options.META_CALLBACK_NAME = None
        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/-300x-200/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body
        thumbor_json = json.loads(text)

        operations = thumbor_json['thumbor']['operations']

        assert len(operations) == 4

        assert operations[2]['type'] == 'flip_horizontally'
        assert operations[3]['type'] == 'flip_vertically'

class MetaHandlerJSONPTestCase(AsyncHTTPTestCase):

    def get_app(self):
        return ThumborServiceApp(get_conf_path('jsonp.py'))

    def test_meta_returns_proper_json_for_no_ops_with_callback(self):
        image_url = "s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2011/03/22/boavista_x_botafogo.jpg"
        self.http_client.fetch(self.get_url('/unsafe/meta/%s' % image_url), self.stop)
        response = self.wait()

        text = response.body

        assert text.strip().startswith('callback({')
        assert text.strip().endswith('});')


We understand that every resident is different, and therefore has different care needs. We meet together with residents and their families prior to moving in for an assessment of their unique preferences and requirements for a happy and comfortable living environment. Traces of Tiger tailors our wellness plans to each resident, and provide the security of round-the-clock care for a variety of needs.
Our caring and attentive staff is here to accommodate our residents around the clock. Providing exceptional care and comfort is something that we pride ourselves on greatly. Not only do we provide a comfortable atmosphere, but our staff is also CPR and First-Aid Certified.
When it comes to the care of our residents, we are not a one-size-fits-all facility. Our staff takes the time to get to know the members of our community and provide customized service to each individual.
We are pleased to offer the peace of mind to our residents and their loved ones that their medical requirements will be attended to carefully. The continuing maintenance of health is our number one priority.
We know how important it is for our residents to maintain the lifestyle that they are accustomed to. Our expert staff is happy to assist in the aspects of daily preparation that contribute to the continued pride and dignity of our residents.
Personal hygiene and freshness care is a delicate issue and something that our professional staff takes seriously and handles discreetly.
We go above and beyond to keep our residents comfortable. Our expert attendants provide assistance with those routine necessities such as keeping clothes and living spaces clean.
Our active community is one thing that our residents love to partake in. We offer a wide variety of exercise courses to keep our residents in optimal health. We also provide frequent entertainment and recreation opportunities for our residents to interact with their community and to keep enjoying the social aspects of their lives.
Traces of Tiger gives residents access to a variety of choices of Home Health and Hospice Services. Please contact our manager for more information.


Ibrahim Zallum, MS student of Dr. David Liddell, will present "Stratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian Lincoln Peak Formation and Evolution of the House Range Embayment, Eastern Nevada" as part of his project defense.
USU will be closed in observance of Memorial Day on Monday, 29 May 2017. Regular business hours will resume on Tuesday, 30 May 2017.
Have a good and safe Memorial Day.


Extractions: zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test12" zGL=5 zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Education Art History Art History ... Help From Shelley Esaak Gallery Index Image of © Glasgow City Council (Museums) View Full-Size Eugène Boudin (French, 1824-1898). The Beach at Trouville - The Empress Eugenie, 1863. Oil on wood. 34.2 x 57.8 cm (13 7/16 x 22 3/4 in.). Eugène Boudin was unique - among the Impressionists and as an artist represented in this exhibition - because he was native to the Normandy coast, born to a sailor father and raised in the (then) fishing hamlet of Honfleur. The contrast of richly-clad, aristocratic travelers to his more humbly-clad, working neighbors could not have been more marked to any other artist's eye. This fascinated him, and one notes that his beach scenes are typically populated with elaborately dressed women (whose fashionable skirts, when pitted against ocean breezes, are clearly aerodynamic hindrances). Here we see a group that includes Empress Eugénie (1826-1920), wife and consort to Napoleon III (1808-1873), who had long since gone from being President of the French Republic to Emperor of the French by the time this was painted in 1863. Can you tell which woman in this picture is the Empress? Me neither, and that seems wholly appropriate. It holds true to my own vacation experiences, wherein tourist destinations tend to blur class distinctions and offer equal opportunity fun.
Born into a seafaring family, Eugène boudin is mostly known for his paintings of sea and sky. Although often described as the painter of beaches . . .


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Festiwal Arirang (kor. 아리랑 축제) – coroczny festiwal kulturowy odbywający się na Stadionie im. 1 Maja w Pjongjangu, stolicy Korei Północnej. Festiwal Arirang organizowano w latach 2002-2013 (oprócz lat 2003, 2004 i 2006, kiedy odwołano festiwal z powodu klęsk żywiołowych). W 2014 roku odwołano festiwal bez podawania przyczyny (spowodowane prawdopodobnie przedłużającym się terminem oddania wyremontowanego stadionu). W 2015 roku odwołano festiwal prawdopodobnie w związku z epidemią eboli.

Pierwsza edycja odbyła się w 2002 roku. Wtedy festiwal miał uczcić 90. rocznicę urodzin Kim Ir Sena.

Na festiwalu prezentowane są występy gimnastyczne i choreograficzne. Spektakle trwają zazwyczaj 90 minut. Festiwal trwa zazwyczaj tydzień, a każdego dnia odbywa się pięć wielkich przedstawień. Widownia bierze udział w występach, układając za pomocą plansz ogromne mozaiki.

W 2012 roku w festiwalu uczestniczyło ok. 1000 zachodnich turystów.

Przypisy

Kultura Korei Północnej

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Those influenced by Cancer are at their best when they feel safe, be it emotionally, spiritually, romantically or financially. This inspired us to create a fragrance that could act as a talisman of sorts, to keep its wearer feeling assured and secure.
The result blends Ylang Ylang, Black Davana, Ugandan Vanilla Bean and Burl Wood.
Compassionate, sensitive and loyal, Cancerians care deeply about close friends, family and matters of the home, but they can find it hard to open up to the rest of the world. This calming, soothing fragrance was designed to envelop the wearer with warm, smooth comforting tones, and serves to remind us that, so long as we have love in our lives, there is little we can't achieve.
Particularly compatible signs in love are Taurus, Virgo, Scorpio and Pisces; try layering your Cancer Zodiac fragrance with these scents to create a perfectly harmonious, signature blend.


Who: Brian and Donna Bogardus, Don and Kay Boltz, David and Ellie Brock, Mike and Shirley Dyer, Larry and Rita Garner, Jeff Kelly and David Ly, Dennis and Karol Mason, Bobby Mathews, Hal and Trudy Scott, Stacey Timmerman, Tom Varallo, and new members Sonny and Cathy Black.
Thanks to David and Ellie for making reservations for tonight's meeting! – I enjoyed the view from the loft. The food was good and filling! A little noisy from the kitchen sounds but enjoyable none the less. Members enjoyed chatting, socializing and eating before the meeting started.
Treasurer's Report: The balance started at $939.95, no transactions this month, so the ending balance is the same.
• Welcome to our new members Sonny and Cathy Black, who have a 2010 Silver Miata.
Everyone please say hello when you get a chance!
Everyone else please send in your vote to Tom or prepare to cast it at the Christmas Party (one vote per membership). Thank you for your participation!
at 144 Ashbyrne Dr., Martinez, GA 30907. $10 per person paid no later than 7 December. Thank you!
away – the party is not to be missed and you'll regret it if you miss it! ? We need to collect the money in advance so we can have a check ready for our caterer.
some fall colors too! Make your reservations now at the Quality Inn and Suites in Robbinsville!
(410 North Louisville Street) then a short drive to 'Feathered Friends Forever' a Bird Sanctuary (612 Byrd Rd) for their 19th Annual Open House. They have 1400 birds of many types and ages. We will arrive at the bird sanctuary at 11am (when they open) if you want to meet us at the Bird Sanctuary. But please RSVP (on the website) for breakfast, so Larry can give a count to Red Oak Manor.
Patty!), Brookstone Clubhouse (1250 Brookstone Way, Augusta). We will be having the same caterer and same meal (Ham, Turkey, mashed potatoes w/gravy, green beans, garden salad, rolls, pound cake, banana pudding, tea & water) but this year there will be a $10 charge per person. This will keep the club funds in good shape, and it's a pretty good price for an evening of fun and fellowship. And don't forget your White Elephant gift for the fun gift exchange/steal. Each person that wants to participate, please bring a wrapped gift valued at $20 or less. Also, BYOB if you wish to drink.
see Mike Dyer at the Christmas party or the January meeting. Thank you for your support!
$10 per person in advance Everyone!


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Home World Africa Oscar Pistorius had the appeal rejected at the Constitutional court
Oscar Pistorius had the appeal rejected at the Constitutional court
"The court dismissed the application for leave to appeal because there are are no prospects of success," NPA spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku told to the media.Pistorius spent one year of a five-year sentence in jail for the lesser offense. He is currently under house arrest. urrently under house arrest, staying at his uncle's mansion in Pretoria.The minimum sentence for murder in South Africa is 15 years but a judge can reduce that sentence for what the law describes as exceptional circumstances. If this will be the case of Pistorius can't be anticipated. In fact, prosecutors said he killed her after an argument and Pistorius said he killed her by mistake, thinking there was an intruder in the house.
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Photo courtesy of zimbio.com. Drew Stubbs (pictured above) continues to drive most Reds fans nuts with his high number of strikeouts, but he has played a crucial role in the teams recent surge.
It is no secret that there are two very hot teams in baseball at the moment. One resides in the American League (Oakland), while the other plays in the National League (Cincinnati). Today, we focus on the Reds, and more specifically, their highly scrutinized center fielder Drew Stubbs. Heading into play last evening, Cincinnati were winners of ten straight games, their longest winning streak in well over a decade. During the amazing stretch, the Reds had outscored their opponents 54 to 27. Now I am by no means naive. Cincinnati is of course doing this without their star and arguably the best player in all of baseball Joey Votto, but they have not exactly played against top-tier competition. During the stretch in which the Reds have won 17 of 19, four of their six opponents sport under .500 records. I guess that is the beauty of being a member of the National League Central.
I have made it known that I am by no means a fan of Drew Stubbs these days. I cannot remember a player failing to play to their strengths and wasting their talent more than this guy. If one were to look up the word "potential" in the dictionary, the face of Drew Stubbs would appear there. He runs like a gazelle, yet strikes out 1.3 times a game and doesn't know how to bunt? How can a guy with that kind of speed not know how to bunt? During the Reds ten game winning streak, I have been eating my words (which I am happy about). Stubbs has raised his batting average from .223 to .230, hit three home runs, and drove in ten runs. He also has struck out 12 times. But the key is Drew has come up big in the clutch. As our good friend Paul Daugherty likes to say, Stubbs has been one of many Reds since the All-Star break to demonstrate the "it" factor. In Votto's absence, Stubbs was batting .333 with 14 RBIs heading into last evening.
I still admit that Stubbs shortcomings and inability to utilize his strengths does and will continue to drive me nuts. Drew Stubbs is going to do what Drew Stubbs is going to do though. That has been made clear over the past 3.5 seasons. Stubbs is not on the field to please me or you. He is out there to help his team win. Continue reading →
Tagged American League, Billy Hamilton, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Denard Span, Drew Stubbs, Joey Votto, Juan Pierre, Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin, MLB, National League, New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Ryan Lochte, Shane Victorino, trade deadline, Yannick Agnel
Photo courtesy of zimbio.com. Many are wondering if Silas Redd (pictured above #25) will return to Penn State next season or take his talents out West to USC.
Danny Boyle's opening ceremony was at least unique, which was one of the things he was going for. Even the Queen almost cracked a smile. All eyes in the sporting world are focused on London, as they should be. But let's not forget about the rest of the sporting world. Last week was fun, but this week is sure to be great in its own right.
5. The "Dwight Howard Soap Opera" continues. At least now, most NBA fans can focus their attention on Team USA' s quest for gold in London. The Howard reality television series has definitely dragged on far too long, but it is still a big story. Wherever Howard lands, that team is very likely going to be an instant contender.
4. The world continues to keep an eye on "Happy" Valley in the wake of the harsh NCAA sanctions. How will the program actually respond outside of saying the right things at press conferences? How will the new administration ensure nothing like this ever happens in the future at Penn State? What players will stay? What players will go? Keep a special eye on star running back Silas Redd. It appears Lane Kiffin is working hard to add a final piece to a USC team poised to make a run at the National Championship. Continue reading →
Tagged Andre Johnson, Andrew Luck, Cincinnati Reds, Danny Boyle, Darrelle Revis, Denver Broncos, Dwayne Bow, Dwight Howard, Happy Valley, Lane Kiffin, London 2012, Los Angeles Angels, Maurice Jones-Drew, MLB, NBA, New Orlean's Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, New York Yankees, NFL, Oakland A's, Penn State Nittany Lions, Peyton Manning, Ryan Lochte, Silas Redd, Texas Rangers, Zach Greinke
Phelps empty handed after Day 1, showdown with Lochte
Photo courtesy of zimbio.com. Michael Phelps (pictured above) did not have a great Day 1 at the London Olympics.
Day 1 of the London 2012 Olympics has concluded and it seems Michael Phelps' road to becoming the most decorated Olympian of all time will be a winding, typical English countryside road, rather than a straight, smooth expressway to glory.
Phelps finished fourth in the men's 400-meter individual medley final and the 16-time medalist was more than four seconds slower than fellow countrymen and rival Ryan Lochte. Both swimmers were expected to give the crowd at the Olympic Aquatic Centre a memorable head-to-head showdown, but Phelps was a shell of his normal dominant self, whereas Lochte was ready to capitalize on what may be a changing of the guard in the pool.
In fact, Phelps has seemed askew since a mediocre U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, nearly four years after his record-setting eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics.
Perhaps a tad early to push the panic button with Phelps set to swim in six more events (and therefore have a chance for six more medals), Phelps, who appeared noticeably frazzled and at a loss for words after failing to medal in an event for the first time since he was a 15-years-old, may be in danger of slipping from the summit of swimming we have all watched him so effortlessly climb. Continue reading →
Tagged Beijing 2008, London 2012, Michael Phelps, Nick Craddock, Rio 2016, Ryan Lochte
Savvy Sanchez
Photo courtesy of zimbio.com. Mark Sanchez (pictured above) has the look of a savvy veteran as training camp begins.
Training camp is always a fun time. It is when the men are separated from the boys. Team leaders rise to the forefront, and the less talented are tossed aside. It is the time when fan bases really begin to salivate in anticipation of early September (39 days until opening night). This year, ESPN has made it clear that the two places to be are Englewood, Colorado and Cortland, New York. Pretty obvious choices considering what happened during the NFL's version of March Madness.
The Broncos picked up a four-time MVP and the Jets acquired the Kardashian of professional sports. Both of these teams shocked the NFL last season. One exceeded expectations, while the other failed miserably. A main reason for the Jets becoming a monumental disappointment this past season was the poor performance of quarterback Mark Sanchez down the stretch. Some of the criticism was warranted, while some was not. Well Sanchez doesn't appear to be letting any of it get him down. If anything, the criticism has brought him up. Continue reading →
Tagged AFC, Denver Broncos, Mark Sanchez, New York Jets, NFL, Rex Ryan, Tim Tebow
Osi the chatterbox
Photo courtesy of zimbio.com. After an injury-riddled 2011, Osi Umenyiora (pictured above) already is stirring the pot in the NFC East with his mouth.
Osi Umenyiora may be only 30-years-old, but he has already left a lasting impact on New York City and the NFL. Umenyiora during his eight-year stay in New York has already made two Pro Bowls, been named an All-Pro on two different occasions, and won two Super Bowls. Not to mention he holds the NFL record for forced fumbles in a season (10 in 2010).
He also has had his fair share of issues with Giants upper management, namely Jerry Reese. After nixing his agent, Umenyiora finally got the contract extension he desired for so long. Many figured this would enable Osi to be a happy camper for a while. He may be happy at this time, but his happiness has not stopped him from being a chatterbox. Continue reading →
Tagged Baylor Bears, Jerry Reese, LeSean McCoy, New York Giants, New York Jets, NFL, Osi Umenyiora, Philadelphia Eagles, Robert Griffin III, Super Bowl, Tim Tebow, Washington Redskins
Asik deal makes me sick
Photo courtesy of zimbio.com. Omer Asik (pictured above) is now making the big bucks in Houston.
"Linsanity's" humongous payday appeared to be insanity. In reality, that deal was child's play on the craziness scale compared to what happened yesterday. The Houston Rockets once again offered up another three-year 25.1 million deal. This time, to little-known Omer Asik. Let me repeat that. Omer Asik, a player who averaged 3.1 points and 5.3 rebounds per game last year will be making over eight million dollars a year for the next three seasons.
Answer me this: What is Daryl Morey (Houston GM) thinking?
Believe me, this by no means is the NBA's version of "Moneyball." It is quite the opposite actually. The three highest paid players on Houston's roster at the moment are Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lin, and Omer Asik. Can you say NBDL? I am not even sure this team could win the D-League championship to be honest. In its current state, it is that bad. Continue reading →
Tagged Chandler Parsons, Courtney Lee, Daryl Morey, Houston Rockets, Jeremy Lamb, Jeremy Lin, John Calipari, Kevin Martin, Kyle Lowry, Luis Scola, Marcus Camby, Omer Asik, Royce White
Photo courtesy of zimbio.com. Penn State will have to turn their back on the tarnished legacy of Joe Paterno (pictured above) moving forward.
Think back to November 22, 1997. On that particular day in history, Penn State defeated Wisconsin 35 to 10 at Beaver Stadium. Mike McQueary was the starting quarterback and Jerry Sandusky was the defensive coordinator for Penn State. Talk about the irony. After Mark Emmert and the NCAA officially came down with the wrath of fury on the Penn State football program yesterday morning, this somewhat insignificant day of nearly 15 years ago will go down as the final victory of Joe Paterno's career.
I know this will be hard for many of you to believe, but I am floored by the NCAA's extremely harsh punishment on Penn State. This punishment makes the infamous death penalty of 25 years ago at SMU look like child's play. I realize what went on at Penn State was arguably the most egregious act ever to occur in collegiate athletics. I am well-aware of the magnitude. These were despicable acts, but "criminal" acts at their core. I feel the NCAA has completely overstepped their bounds and now are making current players and coaches, who had nothing to do with these horrific acts, pay the price. And yes, I feel for the victims and their families who are still feeling the pain of the monster that is Jerry Sandusky. Their pain is far deeper than that of the current players and coaches. Continue reading →
Tagged Adam Scott, Bernie Fine, Bill O'Brien, Carson Palmer, Chad Ochocinco, Cincinnati Bengals, Dream Team, Duke Blue Devils, Ernie Els, Freeh Report, Greg Norman, Jerry Sandusky, Jim Boeheim, Joe Paterno, Mark Emmert, Mike McQueary, Moneyball, NCAA, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Penn State Nittany Lions, Team USA, Tiger Woods
Photo courtesy of zimbio.com. Andy Roddick (pictured above) won his 32nd career ATP title on Sunday in Atlanta.
An "unprecedented" punishment is on the way that does not involve the death penalty in "Happy" Valley. Barry Larkin is officially a member of one of the most exclusive fraternities in sports. The "Tiger Tease" was a mere subplot at "The Open." And the NFL crime spree continues. Can training camp please start now? Last week was great, but this week is sure to be full of excitement in its own right. Here are the events to keep an eye on.
5. Andy Roddick captured his 32nd ATP title yesterday. The ATP heads to Los Angeles today though for the Farmer's Classic. Unfortunately for this tournament which has been around since 1927 will suffer the ill-effects of an overly jam-packed summer. The London Olympics are a great event which everyone is excited about. Except those that run the Farmer's Classic. Any chance of nabbing the big names fell to the wayside with the Olympics going on. Continue reading →
Tagged Andy Roddick, AT&T Park, Barry Larkin, Cincinnati Reds, Farmers Classic, Happy Valley, London Olympics, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, NFL, NL West, Oakland A's, Penn State Nittany Lions, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, The Open, Tiger Woods
By Josh Kramer The fairy tale story that is the baseball career of Barry Larkin will conclude in the most grandiose of style this afternoon. Only this is not a fictional story. This is Barry Larkin's reality. We have known it … Continue reading →
Posted on July 22, 2012 by kramerj7