PHILADELPHIA (AP) They were two words on a sponsor's banner draped behind the Philadelphia Eagles' postgame podium: Imagine. Change.
For disgusted Eagles fans, that's all they can do, especially with coach Andy Reid still running the show. They won't have to imagine much longer.
After 14 seasons, one Super Bowl appearance, and, now a dreadful losing streak, the countdown to the end of Reid's tenure is hitting high gear in Philadelphia. Owner Jeffrey Lurie already has said that an 8-8 record would be ``unacceptable'' this year.
The Eagles would have to finish 5-0 just to get there after Cam Newton threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more to lead the Carolina Panthers to a 30-22 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night.
Newton, who hadn't played up to his sensational rookie season, showed no signs of a sophomore slump against Philadelphia's porous pass defense. He finished 18 of 28 for 306 yards and had a passer rating of 125 in a matchup of teams with the worst records in the NFC.
Newton was only the latest player to shine against an Eagles (3-8) team about all out of hope. The Eagles haven't won since beating the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants to go 3-1, a skid that has put Reid's job in real jeopardy. Unless Lurie has an implausible change of heart, Reid's run is about over, an inglorious end for the coach who led the Eagles to five conference championship games.
Lurie ducked out of a pregame press conference for the team's Hall of Fame before he could take questions from reporters. Reid said he hasn't discussed his job status with his boss.
While Lurie surely joins Reid in taking a share of the blame for this ugly season, the players have been awful.
Their latest problem was an inability to solve Newton.
Newton, the No, 1 overall pick in 2011, lived up to the hype by throwing for 4,051 yards with 21 TD passes and 14 TDs on the ground in his first year. He entered this game with only nine TD passes and four TDs rushing, a major disappointment for Panthers fans.
But Newton outshined rookie seventh-round pick Nick Foles in his Monday night debut.
Newton had a 24-yard TD toss over the middle to a wide-open Gary Barnidge for a 7-3 lead. He connected with Brandon LaFell on a 43-yard pass to make it 14-3 later in the first quarter. LaFell was wide open on the play, taking advantage of another breakdown in coverage in the secondary.
Newton led a 95-yard drive to open the third quarter, finishing it off with a 1-yard leap to give the Panthers a 21-15 lead. Newton hit Louis Murphy for a 55-yard gain on a second-and-11 from Carolina's 16.
Carolina (3-8) went ahead 24-22 early in the fourth quarter on Graham Gano's 23-yard field goal.
Bryce Brown set an Eagles' rookie record with 178 yards rushing, including TD runs of 65 and 5 yards. Brown, filling in for injured running back LeSean McCoy, surpassed Correll Buckhalter's rookie mark of 134 yards rushing in his first start since his senior year at Wichita East High School in 2008. Brown also lost two fumbles, including one in Panthers' territory.
Foles was so-so in his second straight start for Michael Vick, who sat out with a concussion. Foles was 16 of 21 for 119 yards.
After Gano's field goal put them up for good, the Panthers finally stopped Brown when it mattered most, stuffing him on a fourth-and-1 to take over on downs at their 40. Newton led them downfield, running in from the 2 to make it 30-22. Gano, signed last week, missed the extra point. But Brandon Boykin fumbled after a 44-yard kickoff return, the Panthers recovered and held the ball the final 4:29.
The Panthers have shown they're better than their record. They have lost six games by less than a touchdown, including a 2-point loss at Atlanta and a 1-point loss at Chicago.
For the Eagles, it was simply the latest loss in a season stuffed with them. The Linc was quiet and empty except for some boos when busted coverage led to another Carolina TD. They fled for the exits once the Panthers took over for the final time.
Dwindling fan support is one thing. Losing it from Lurie is quite another for Reid.
NOTES: Neither Vick nor McCoy has been cleared to return to practice. The injury-depleted Eagles lost wide receiver DeSean Jackson (sternum) and defensive tackle Fletcher Cox (tail bone) in the first half. ... The Eagles inducted five-time Pro Bowl cornerback Troy Vincent and longtime front office executive Leo Carlin into the team's Hall of Fame at halftime. ... Brown's 65-yard TD run was the longest for the Eagles since McCoy's 66-yard TD vs NYG on Nov. 1, 2009. ... Buckhalter had 134 yards rushing vs. Arizona on Oct. 7, 2001. ... Newton led the Panthers with 52 yards rushing.


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Executive Management teams are responsible for making decisions. They focus on strategic issues such as overseeing the development of an organization, managing its fiscal activity, assuring compliance, and identifying and addressing challenges and opportunities. The impact of these decisions reverberate through the entire enterprise. Academic research suggests a "CEO Effect" can impact the profitability of companies, with effects ranging from 10 to 20 percent. The CEO and executive management is clearly consequential, and may be the difference between a good company and a great one.
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The basic operational goal when conducting military intelligence operations is "To enter the thought process of an enemy commander and predict, with certainty, what course of action he intends to pursue, possibly even before he knows himself what he is going to do." You may think that this level of insight can only be obtained with confidential information or direct access to the target of interest. However, it is actually possible to construct a psychometric profile using scientifically tested analysis techniques that require only the public communications from the foreign head of government as input. The completed profile provides insights on how the target responds to major successful advances by opposition forces, how complex or simplistic their decision making is, and how quickly they return to their usual levels of openness to new information and cognitive flexibility after a significant deviation from their norm.
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Forty-five years ago this March, I was one of the 25,000 who marched with him into downtown Montgomery, Ala., on the final day of the Selma March.
On the national holiday that is his national remembrance, I continued to hope that somehow, someday, the sacrifice of his life in the cause of ending racial segregation will bring an end to that in the Congress of the United States.
But despite this high point of his expressed dream – which is surely embodied in the Constitution of the United States – the Congress of the United States continues to tolerate – and even subsidize – the racially segregated Congressional Black Caucus.
President Obama, while he was a U.S. senator, belonged to this racist organization.
This very same Congress that declared Dr. King's birthday a national holiday continues to tolerate and even subsidize this Black Caucus, which in 1973 refused to accept the membership application of veteran civil-rights activist Rep. Pete Stark of California; and, in 2007, of Tennessee Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen – because both of these applicants are white.
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Unemployment And Earnings Will Be The Focus In 2023, Not Inflation
Worry over inflation this year will shift to rising unemployment and slowing earnings growth in 2023.
Todd Campbell
Inflation trends show costs are moderating from their peak levels this summer.
Earnings growth is slowing and is expected to be negative in the fourth quarter and tepid early next year.
Layoff announcements are rising as companies try to stem decelerating earnings growth.
We've already seen multiple months of evidence that inflation peaked this summer. On September 8, I wrote about how gasoline prices, a major contributor to inflation, had already fallen 22% from their June high to $3.86 per gallon, a level that would be deflationary as soon as March. That timeline remains in play because gasoline prices were $3.77 nationwide last week.
However, it's not just gasoline prices that have declined. Many commodities have retreated from their summertime highs. For example, Invesco's DB Commodity Index ETF (DBC) , a proxy for most major commodities, peaked at $30.64 in June. It's trading below $25 today.
The housing market, another key inflation input, is showing signs of relief, too. Rapidly increasing mortgage rates have put the kibosh on home sales, causing home prices to moderate. As a result, it's not a stretch to assume that shelter's year-over-year impact on inflation will decline next year, especially since record highs this year make for tough comparisons.
October's Consumer Price Index report offered the latest conviction that inflation is falling. Headline CPI increased 7.7% year-over-year, solidly below the 9.1% increase in June.
If this trend continues, the hubbub will shift from inflation, making unemployment and earnings the most likely bugaboos next year.
Corporate earnings are falling fast, hitting jobs
The Federal Reserve's increasing interest rates are slowing economic activity, and although moderating, inflation is still pressuring corporate operating margins. As a result, profits are falling, prompting many companies to reduce headcount.
In "Don't Expect This Rally to Last, So Put in Stops Now to Protect Your Profits," Real Money Pro's Bob Byrne writes:
"It won't be surprising to see folks focus on earnings estimates being too high once late December and early January roll around…Sure, we might continue higher or chop around in a horizontal channel for another few weeks. Still, by late December or early January, I expect folks to begin focusing on earnings estimates being too high."
In Q3, FactSet reports that blended earnings growth for S&P 500 companies was an anemic 2.2%, the lowest since COVID caused earnings to plummet in Q3 2020. Importantly, more companies have warned earnings will deteriorate, not improve. Specifically, 55 S&P 500 companies issued negative guidance, versus 27 issuing positive guidance. As a result, Wall Street analysts have ratcheted back their earnings expectations.
In Q4, they expect the average S&P 500 company to see earnings per share decline by 2.1% from last year. In 2023, they're estimating tepid growth of 1.6% and 0.9% in Q1 and Q2. It's hard to believe that if earnings fall in Q4, those first and second-quarter earnings estimates will prove too rosy. Especially since revenue growth is also expected to drop, which will likely force employers' hands when it comes to layoffs.
Real Money's Stephen Guilfoyle writes:
"[The] consensus view for Q2 2023 is for S&P 500 earnings growth of 0.9% on S&P 500 revenue growth of 1.3%. For the whole calendar year 2023, FactSet shows earnings growth of 5.7% on revenue of 3.4%. While the growth is paltry, the suggestion is that profitability recovers more quickly than sales. The overt implication could be taken as increased margin due to reduced expense... also known as payroll."
S&P 500 revenue growth has exceeded 10% for seven consecutive quarters, so that outlook is discouraging. So far, companies have been able to raise prices, offsetting revenue headwinds caused by a retrenchment in consumer spending. It will be much harder to raise prices next year, so unit volume and demand will need to do the heavy lifting regarding the top line. Unemployment will climb if it doesn't, as companies seek to kickstart earnings growth.
Last week, Action Alerts PLUS Co-Portfolio Managers Bob Lang and Chris Versace noted headcount reductions at Illumina (ILMN) , a gene sequencing company, Tencent (TCEHY) , a gaming and social media company, and Credit Suisse, a global bank. Those companies joined a litany of others who have announced plans for pink slips. They write:
"As we discussed on this week's AAP Podcast, Amazon (AMZN) also joined the growing list of companies expected to announce headcount reductions. Morgan Stanley (MS) , Intel (INTC) , Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) , Disney (DIS) , and others are expected to join a growing list of companies that includes Meta Platforms (META) , Seagate Technology (STX) , Chesapeake Energy, Philips 66 (PSX) , Opendoor (OPEN) , Twitter (TWTR) , Stripe, Microsoft (MSFT) , Citigroup (C) , and Credit Suisse that have recently announced layoffs."
We're already seeing signs of stress in the jobs market in data. For example, an average of 289,000 jobs were created over the past three months, down from 347,000 and 431,000 over the past six months and 12 months, respectively.
Moreover, the pace of job cuts has been steadily rising. Job cuts grew 48% year-over-year in October, with total cuts exceeding any month since February 2021, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Technology was particularly hard hit, with cuts increasing 162% from one year ago.
With so many companies already looking to cut payroll costs and growing risk earnings keep falling, it's reasonable to expect unemployment and earnings will be a big focus next year.
The Smart Play
The stock market discounts six months to a year into the future. So, individual stocks tend to bottom before the stock market, and the stock market usually bottoms before the economy.
For this reason, a focus on unemployment – a lagging indicator that typically peaks after stocks have put in lows – and earnings growth, which also tends to lag the bottom in stock prices, should be kept in perspective next year.
However, a bell doesn't ring, signaling bear market lows. Instead, the low is only known for certain in hindsight. Stocks have risen nicely since the S&P 500 put in a new low in October. That's encouraging, but recall that many believed the June low would be the bottom, and it wasn't.
This suggests that investors ought to expect that bear market volatility will remain a key feature for a while. There are still investors eager to sell who are trapped at higher prices, so there's likely to be plenty of wrestling between bargain-hunters and sellers.
Sticking to the defensive playbook remains smart if you're a short-term or swing trader. You can sell strength and buy weakness, but you'll want to use stop losses to protect yourself against a return to new lows. Avoiding margin, which can result in forced sales, and being quick to book profits is also wise. Concentrating on less-volatile stocks, such as dividend-paying value stocks, could still be best, given fewer investors are likely trapped in those stocks that are eager to hit the sell button. It's also smart to ensure you have enough cash on the sidelines to remain flexible. Bear markets aren't the time to be fully invested.
If you're a long-haul investor, take comfort in knowing this is far from the first bear market. There have been 26 bear markets since 1929, and the major stock market indexes have always gone on to new highs afterward.
For this reason, dollar-cost averaging can be a long-term investors' superpower. By consistently buying an index fund in equal or greater installments during a bear market, investors increase the number of shares owned and decrease investors' average cost. Since this can significantly decrease the time it takes for account balances to return to new highs, consider increasing contribution rates to index funds held in tax-advantaged retirement accounts.
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Ramirez leapfrogs Larson for school board
Locations: News By Will Grandbois Published Nov. 5, 2019
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Even when Jasmin Ramirez was trailing incumbent Shane Larson in the race for Roaring Fork Schools' District D, she was simply pleased to be in the running.
"I'm just a mom who cares," she said. "I feel proud that enough people heard and related to my dreams for a better representative district for our kids and families. I'm grateful for the opportunity to connect with members of our district and value the conversations that took place during my campaign. It all meant so much; I'm incredibly humbled by it."
And although Larson held a four-vote lead in preliminary results Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, it was Ramirez who ended up ahead by 60 votes when unofficial final results were released: 2,467 to 2,407 with Amy Connerton trailing at 1,474. Although more than 100 ballots are still caught up in the verification process, it's unlikely that it will be enough to change the result or trigger a recount. Even if it did, it's clear that she has made her point.
"The work continues regardless. We should have more parents involved. We should have more conversations about equity," she said. "One of my biggest supporters was my fifth-grade teacher. This is why it's so important to me that my child has a great experience in school. Teachers can change your life. I hope that our Latino children and other kids that have been underserved have those relationships that can open doors. I hope the community knows that any parent can join the PTA or serve on a committee."
To read more about Ramirez's platform, check out her column on page 14.
Larson, for his part, told The Sun when he was apparently in the lead relished the competitiveness of the race as an opportunity to reflect on his first term and consider what might be next.
"It was fun to kind of have that challenge, because it made me stop and think about why was I running, what did I really think I brought to the table and could contribute," he said.
He also picked up some lessons from Ramirez's efforts to represent everyone.
"When you join the board, you kind of come in and see the district through the lens your kid and the experiences that they're having," he added. "Then you start to learn that you're representing a community, you're working for the entire district, so you try to expand and try to connect with people."
Meanwhile, Natalie Torres — running on the ballot against a write-in opponent — had no trouble tying up District B, which covers the west side of Carbondale and most of the area north toward Glenwood Springs. Although her focus is mostly in the latter direction, she expressed a represent all of her charges.
"Even though I don't live in Carbondale, it's really important that they feel represented," she said. "I've already tried to get a sense of what I can do to get that voice heard."
Torres said she hopes to tackle the need to recruit and retain quality teachers, and expressed excitement to be involved.
"It's a whole new experience I can't wait to take on. I feel like it's my opportunity to give back to the school," she said. "One of the best things in this valley is everybody's commitment to education. I feel really supported."
Maureen Stepp was similarly firmly ahead of her write-in opposition for District C, which mostly covers the west side of Missouri Heights.
"I'm honored and proud to have been elected to the Re-1 Schools Board of Education," she said in a statement. "I am looking forward to working with the other board members, the superintendent, the administration, the teachers, the parents, and community members to keep working hard to ensure every student's success."
The new school board members will be inducted and begin their tenures on Nov. 13.
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Let's code a webpage using only CSS.
As opposed to what might sometimes be believed, CSS turns out to be powerful. Today's challenge is to write a web page with only CSS (or, at least, the less HTML possible).
An HTML file is usually composed of a head (container for metadata) and a body (content of the page).
In the HTML5 standard, the html, head and body tags can be omitted. The browser adds these elements to the DOM when it loads the page.
If we go further, we could write a single line of code in our HTML template: the link to the CSS. It will be automatically added to head on load.
Now, we need to fill the page. CSS offers a property called content to write in an element. As the body node is added to the DOM implicitly, we can style it even if it doesn't appear in the source code.
To use the content property, we will need to use ::before or ::after. They create a pseudo-element which is the first child of the element matched. We can't write text in the element itself, but only in its pseudo-elements.
To insert a new line in the content, we need to use the \a escape sequence and to specify the white-space property.
We have our first content in the page, without any HTML. We can now add a second content with the ::after pseudo-element.
It's now up to you to design the page your own way!
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Live Review: Fickle Friends & Marsicans - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London 19/10/2018
Fickle Friends played their biggest headline show to date, when they had a party at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London earlier this month. And along with the help of support band Marsicans, they turned it into a night to remember.
Have you ever wanted a Palm tree party inside London's beautiful O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire? I imagine you never thought about it till now but after this past Friday, Palm tree enthusiasts Fickle Friends proved it something you have been missing out on.
To kick off the paradise party styled evening was the lovely boys from Marsicans. Admittedly I had not listened to much of the Leeds based band before the show but what I heard, I liked. But this supporting act from the boys has truly won me over. Marsicans had an infectious energy whilst all members of the band couldn't keep still with only drummer Cale staying in the same spot throughout the set. Marsicans unique brand of pop and indie music collide to act as template for bands to follow on how to get a crowd ready and pumped for the headline act and what a headline act it was.
Summer party anthem generators Fickle Friends came to London in the midst of their latest UK tour put on one hell of a show for crowd, which was marking out for their the arrival of the band on stage and especially for lead singer Nattie. The set kicked off by setting the tone as the band meant to go on, with four songs of their recently released and smash hit album 'You Are Someone Else.' Included in the plethora of music from the album was most recent release 'The Moment' and it certainly did not take long for the loyal Fickle Friends fans to learn the words as they were all in perfect unison to create rowdy atmosphere inside Shepherds Bush Empire.
We then moved seamlessly into the only song that dropped the pace, 'Paris.' The song acted as moment's rest for a crowd that were a real attribute to the entire night, the crowd can often be the difference between a good show and great show but the combined mixture of sublime indie party music and atmosphere similar to that of a school house party, where everyone knows each other and their to have the best night in recent memories. As the night started to draw to a close, Nattie thanked the crowd for making this a special night to great cheers and applause. We had three songs left, and Fickle Friends left the best till last with a combination of the last song from the latest album 'Useless' and the band's two most famous songs after numerous plays on stations such as BBC Radio 1, 'Swim' and 'Glue.' This where the night reached it's fantastic high point as classic Fickle Friends played, the confetti cannons hit to put the cherry on top of the cake.
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Yvette Meria Donahue
Yvette Meria Donahue, 63, of Port Arthur, Texas died Monday September 6, 2021.
She was born August 18, 1958 to Lester Bazile and Mary Roy.
Yvette was a Lincoln High School graduate, Class of 1976 in which she was a Honey Bee.
She was a mother, sister, nannie, aunt, grandmother, daughter, and friend.
She worked for the city of Port Arthur, Chevron and Jefferson County and was a devoted catholic and attended St. James Catholic Church.
Yvette was very conscientious in serving her co-workers and their families with respect, charity, and dignity.
She always served with a true servant's heart in all aspects of her life and career and leaves behind a legacy of compassion, generosity, and love.
Yvette will always be remembered for the love and devotion she showed to her family and friends.
Left to cherish her memory are her husband David Donahue of Port Arthur, Texas; Mother, Mary Roy of Port Arthur, Texas; Children, Rogers Harrison III and Megan Harrison of Port Arthur Texas; Step daughter, Angelic Donahue of Port Arthur, Texas; Siblings, Cheryl Anderson of Port Arthur, Texas; Nephews, Omen Roy, Larry Anderson, and LeShawn Anderson; Nieces, Lorie Anderson of Port Arthur, Texas; Grandchildren, Paris Harrison, Raelyn Harrison, Royal Harrison, Tai Myrie Malveaux, Aaron Parker Jr. and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends.
Best Friend, Patricia Nabors and Taylor Jones, Latorya Green.
Yvette is now resting in peace with grand parents, Cornelius and Mary Washington, Ernest and Lonely Bazile, Father, Lester Bazile, Uncle, Cornelius Washington Jr. Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, September 19, 2021 at St. James Catholic Church, 3617 Gulfway Drive Port Arthur, Texas.
Visitation will begin at 8am until service time.
Interment will follow at Live Oak Cemetery, 12563 West Port Arthur Rd, Beaumont, Texas.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be made to Surviving Husband, David Donahue.
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La denominazione 100 a.C. iniziò ad essere utilizzata a partire dall'Alto medioevo quando il sistema dell'Anno Domini entrò sistematicamente in uso in Europa.

Eventi
 A Roma sono consoli Gaio Mario, per la sesta volta, e Lucio Valerio Flacco.

Nati

Giulio Cesare, generale e politico romano (44 a C)

Morti

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Sneglu-Halle (Sneglu-Halli) eller Gröt-Halle (Grautar-Halli) var en isländsk skald och skämtare, som under några år på 1050-talet uppehöll sig som en slags diktande hovnarr i den norske kungen Harald hårdrådes hird.

Levnad
Halle är huvudpersonen i Sneglu-Halles saga (Sneglu-Halla þáttr), som finns i ett par versioner; den längsta i Flateyjarbók, en kortare i Morkinskinna och Hrokkinskinna. Sagan är anekdotisk, det vill säga den består av en uppräkning episoder som skalden sägs ha varit med om, i synnerhet under tiden vid Harald hårdrådes hov. Däremot nämns ytterst få biografiska uppgifter. Vi får veta att Halle kom från ett fattigt hem i trakten av Fljót vid Skagafjorden inte långt från Svarfaðardalur på norra Island, att han sedan barndomen var bekant med kung Haralds "huvudskald" Tjodulf Arnorsson, som kom från samma trakt, samt att Halles far hade blivit dräpt då Halle var barn, och att hans fränder då övertog målet och ingick förlikning å gossens vägnar. Tydligen ville man förhindra att Halle skulle växa upp med blodshämndsplikt.

Halle och hovskalden Tjodulf
Att Halles släkt inte omtalas kan betyda att han var lågättad. Det var kanske Tjodulf också – även om han i sagan får en mer aristokratisk framtoning, vilket kontrasterar mot "plebejen" Halle. Tjodulf var den elegante hovskalden som såg diktandet som ett högre kall och vägrade att befatta sig med "låga ämnen". Halle å sin sida diktade gärna om vad som helst, och några av hans verser "tillhör det mest skabrösa som finns bevarat från Nordens forntid".

Tjodulf föraktade Halle, som han såg som en pajas, och gjorde sitt bästa för att misskreditera honom inför kung Harald. Men Halle, som var snabbtänkt och slängd i käften, lyckades alltid vända sådana verbala angrepp till sin fördel. I slutändan var det ständigt han som fick skrattarna på sin sida.

Halles person
Halle "var en duktig skald och en stor ordfinnare", står det i sagan. Han kunde vara bitsk och hänsynslös i sina ordval, men hans elakheter var självförsvar och han angrep aldrig de svaga. Dvärgen Tuta – som levde på att bli utskrattad för sitt utseende – tyckte mycket om honom. Däremot retade han ibland upp kung Harald som hotade att dräpa honom. Men Halle bekymrade sig inte, och kungen besinnade sig. Kanske insåg han att hovet skulle ha blivit tråkigare utan sin pajas.

Halle som improvisatör
Att Halle på stående fot kunde dikta visor framgår av åtskilliga episoder. En dag då kungen var särskilt vred på honom bad han dvärgen Tuta bära fram ett fat med en stekt spädgris till Halles bord. (Halle hade tidigare klagat på kungens mathållning.) "Be honom dikta en visa om han vill behålla livet, men den ska vara klar innan du kommer fram till honom, och du får inte varna honom förrän du har kommit till mitten av golvet." Dvärgen protesterade, men det fick bli som kungen sagt. Halle reste sig genast, då dvärgen framfört sitt budskap, och kvad på klingande drottkvätt:
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Då fick Halle nåd, ty kungen tyckte att visan var väl kväden.

 Halle och överheten
Hur Halle överlistar och gör narr av överheten är ett bärande tema i mycket som har berättats om honom.

 Einar fluga
Einar fluga – Eyvind skaldaspillirs sonson – var en mäktig hövding, översittare och dråpsman, som var ökänd för att aldrig betala böter för dem han slog ihjäl. Men när Halle fick veta att Einar hade dräpt en islänning beslöt han att sätta honom på plats. Lögnaktigt påstod han att den dräpte var hans bror och krävde gottgörelse. Einar skrattade ut honom, men då Halle berättade hur han i en dröm hade lärt sig niddiktningens konst av Torleif jarlsskald föll den vidskeplige Einar till föga och betalade mansboten. Berättelsen visar också vilket rykte som Torleif jarlsskald vid denna tid hade hunnit få genom sitt berömda jarlsnid.

 Halle i England
Någon gång vid 1050-talets slut for Halle till kungen av England. Också vid detta hov hade isländska skalder hög status, men engelsmännen visste föga om skaldekonsten med dess uppbrutna ordföljd och invecklade kenningar. Den drapa som Halle förärade den engelske kungen var därför "rena rappakaljan" (endileysa ein) – som han själv senare berättade – ty varför anstränga sig när hyllningsföremålet ändå inte fattade ett skvatt? Halle hade tänkt sig att snabbt kvittera ut skaldelönen och sedan återvända till Norge. Att stanna kvar och lära ut drapan var inte att tänka på, för då skulle nog bluffen ha avslöjats.

Kanske anade kungen ugglor i mossen ty han svarade: "I så fall skall vi göra med kvädeslönen så som vi fick njuta av kvädet, för ingen lovprisning får vi av ett kväde som ingen minns och kan. Sätt dig nu ned på golvet, så skall jag låta hälla silver i huvudet på dig, och det som stannar kvar i håret skall du få."

Halle bad då att först få förrätta sitt tarv. Då han återkom hade han smort in håret med tjära och därav format en skål, så det var många mynt som blev kvar i håret.

Vilken kung det var, som blev så grundligt lurad, är oklart. Flateyjarbók säger Harald Godwinson (Haraldr Guðinarson) – men när han blev kung var Halle redan död. Morkinskinna nämner inget namn, men enligt Hrokkinskinna skulle det ha rört sig om kung Játvarðr – alltså Edvard Bekännaren. Kanske spelar det ingen roll, för historien är nog ett påhitt.

 Halle som sägengestalt
Även efter sagatidens slut på Island har det berättats sägner om Halle och överheten. För att belysa denna berättarkontinuitet infogade Guðni Jónsson en sådan sägen, nedtecknad av Guðmundur Þorsteinsson, som tillägg till Sneglu-Halla þáttr i åttonde bandet av Íslendingasögur (1947). Berättelsen liknar en Bellmanhistoria:

Halle skulle lära Harald hårdråde hur det gick till att klubba säl. Kung Harald fick spela säl och kröp ihop i gräset vid strandkanten, varpå Halle smög sig fram och lappade till honom med klubban. Kungen blev ursinnig, men lugnade sig och sa att det här måste vi göra om, så att jag är säker på att jag vet hur det går till. Men nu är det du som ska vara säl, sa kungen. Så blev det också. Men just som kungen höjde klubban för att drämma till, slingrade sig Halle med en smidig sälrörelse ned i vattnet och kom undan. —Varför ligger du inte still?, ropade kungen. —Det gör ingen säl som inte vill bli klubbad, svarade Halle.

 Tillnamnet
Tillnamnet Sneglu förklaras inte i källorna. Det kan ha med adjektivet sneglulegur att göra, som betyder att se bister eller ilsken ut. Men i sagan skildras Halle som glad och full av upptåg. Finnur Jónsson anknöt i stället till det gammalnorska ordet snegla som kunde betyda en tunn och mager person, vilket stämmer med sagans beskrivning av Halle som "högrest, med lång hals, smala axlar, långa armar och fula lemmar".

Tillnamnet Grautar-Halli (Gröt-Halle) är mer lättbegripligt: Halle var förtjust i gröt, vilket flera gånger nämns i sagan, och han dog när han satt och slevade i sig gröt. Året bör ha varit 1065. Harald hårdråde var då ännu i livet och sa, när han fick dödsbudet, att Halle hade dött som han levat.

 Verk
Även om sanningshalten i många Halle-historier nog kan betvivlas, så råder intet tvivel om att Halle var en historisk person; något som också bekräftas av Skáldatal, som är en oberoende källa. Av den drapa som Halle enligt flera källor skulle ha diktat till Harald hårdråde finns dock ingenting kvar, men en halvstrof på fornyrðislag ur en annan möjlig hyllningsdikt till Harald har bevarats. Därutöver återstår elva strofer som diktats i anslutning till de händelser som omtalas i Sneglu-Halla þáttr och som också finns i sagan.

 Noter
SnHþ (F) = Sneglu-Halla þáttr (Flateyjarbók).

 Källor och litteratur
 Sneglu-Halles saga (Sneglu-Halla þáttr eftir Flateyjarbók) i De isländska sagorna, fjärde bandet, Steinsviks bokförlag, Stockholm, 1964. Översättning Åke Ohlmarks.
 Örnólfur Thorsson, "The tale of Sarcastic Halli" i The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, 2001, sid 694-712. .
 Finnur Jónsson, Den oldnorske og oldislandske litteraturs historie, del 1, 2 utg., København, 1920, sid 620-622.
 Finnur Jónsson, Tilnavne i den islandske oldlitteratur'', 7, København, 1908.

Externa länkar
 Sneglu-Halli: Lausavísur 1 – 11.
 Kvæði um Harald harðráða (brot)
 Sneglu-Halla þáttur (eftir Flateyjarbók).
 Sneglu-Halla þáttur (eftir Morkinskinnu).

Norröna skalder
Personer i islänningasagorna
Män
Födda okänt år
Avlidna 1065
Personer på Island under 1000-talet
Personer i Norge under 1000-talet


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The romanat (, plural romanați ) or român (, plural romanâni ) was a proposed currency of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, a precursor of the Romanian nation state. It was subdivided into 10 decimi (, singular:  ) or bani (, singular:  ) and 100 sutimi (, singular:  ) or bănișori (, singular:  ).

Etymology
"Român", one of the proposed names of the currency, is the masculine singular form of the noun meaning "Romanian". "Romanat" is derived from the same noun. The names were inspired by the French franc. Ion Heliade Radulescu and Dionisie Pop Martian opposed the name "român" due to potential confusing constructions such as "o suta de români pe un bou" (one hundred Romanians for an ox).

History

In the first half of the 19th century, more than 70 types of foreign coins circulated in the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. These were mainly currencies from neighboring countries: Habsburg Austria, Hungary, the Russian Empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Ottoman Empire but also from the Netherlands, France, England and other European states. Even coins that were no longer legal tender in the issuing states were accepted in circulation in the Romanian principalities. The foreign currencies had a negative effect on the local economy, and the exchange rate constantly fluctuated.

The first attempt to regulate the monetary policy was drafted in Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional law adopted in 1830. The law introduced a new unit of account, named leu, after the Dutch lion thaler, which had circulated in the Danubian principalities for a long time. The gold ducat was equivalent to 31 lei and 20 parale, and the Austrian 20 kreutzer silver coin was equivalent to 2 lei and 10 parale. Several attempts to introduce physical currency failed before 1867.

One of these attempts, dating from 1859 to 1860, was initiated by Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the elected Ruling Prince of the United Principalities. The consul of the French Empire in Iași, Victor Place, a philo-Romanian, backed the project, and the prince managed to secure a loan of 60 million francs to finance the minting process. With his support, the decimal monetary system of France was adopted, and the coins were to be minted in Paris. The monetary unit, according to the model of the French franc, had to be called român or romanat.

In August 1860, the Central Commission of Focșani issued a legislative project for issuing silver romanat coins weighing five grams. Another project was proposed in 1861, prioritizing the minting of copper coins instead. The third and final legislative project dates from 1864, stipulating the denominations to be minted: 20 and 10 romanat gold coins; 5, 1, and 1⁄2 romanat silver coins; and 10, 5, and 1 sutime bronze coins.

However, Moldavia and Wallachia were still formally vassals of the Ottoman Empire. This situation only changed in 1877, after the Romanian War of Independence. In this context, the western European powers, and especially emperor Napoleon III could not fully endorse the introduction of the project currency, due to a potential conflict with the Ottoman Empire.

Patterns
A first series of patterns were drawn in 1860 by the French numismatist Adrien Prévost de Longpérier, curator at the numismatic cabinet of the Louvre Museum, a friend of Victor Place. In 1864, a second attempt resulted in a five-sutimi pattern being minted. A ten sutimi pattern from 1864 may also exist, but hasn't been confirmed.

The engraver and mint of this pattern are not known with certainty. "AG" appears on the obverse of the pattern and may stand for an "Atelier de Gravure" in Paris. Between 1855 and 1878, the chief engraver of the Paris mint was Albert Désiré Barre. But his privy mark, the anchor, is missing from this pattern. Another theory is that the initials are in fact "AC", for Armand Auguste Caqué (1793-1881). But he regularly signed "CAQUE F" and not "AC".

See also

 History of coins in Romania
 Romanian leu
 List of proposed currencies

Footnotes

External links
 5 Sutimi - Alexandru Ioan Cuza (Numista# 197210)
 5 hundreths (Romanian Coins)

Romanat
Romanat
Romanat


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        shooter = GameObject.FindObjectOfType<Player>();
        shooterPosition = shooter.transform.position;
        direction = (shooterPosition - transform.position).normalized;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        transform.position += direction * speed * Time.deltaTime;
    }

This works, but the problem is that it is way too accurate, like even when the player is jumping the bullet prefab tends to guess its position and is shot directly at the player.
I know this is because the player does not actually move and this makes the targeting of the player very easy.
Is there any way to improve this? Or in a way make it more natural?
Thanks

A: The problem is that in the code
shooter = GameObject.FindObjectOfType<Player>();
shooterPosition = shooter.transform.position;
direction = (shooterPosition - transform.position).normalized;

Since shooter.transform.position is the player's location and transform.position is the bullet's location, then shooterPosition - transform.position is giving you a vector that points directly from the bullet's location to the player's location.
It sounds like what you want to do is add some amount of inaccuracy to the bullet (correct me if I'm wrong).  You could use something like this to do that (I'm assuming this is 2D?)
shooter = GameObject.FindObjectOfType<Player>();
shooterPosition = shooter.transform.position;
direction = (shooterPosition - transform.position).normalized;

// Choose a random angle between 0 and maxJitter and rotate the vector that points
// from the bullet to the player around the z-axis by that amount.  That will add
// a random amount of inaccuracy to the bullet, within limits given by maxJitter
var rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, Random.Range(-maxJitter, maxJitter));
direction = (rotation * direction).normalized;


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Kendrick Lamar recently announced that he would be embarking on a world tour in support of his fifth full-length album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, which arrived on Friday. The trek, named "The Big Steppers World Tour," will kick off on July 19 with a show at Paycom Center in Oklahoma. After performing in…


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.. _install:

Installation
============

This covers the basic installation of the Smarkets API Client which is
obviously necessary to get started.

Requirements
------------

These packages are necessary at runtime.

* `protobuf` Python package, version 2.5.0 or higher (`smk-python-sdk` package installation process will automatically install it)

These are required to build from source and run unit tests, etc.

* `cURL`_
* `mock`_
* `piqi`_

.. _`Protocol buffers`: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/downloads/list
.. _`cURL`: http://curl.haxx.se/
.. _`mock`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock
.. _`piqi`: http://piqi.org/downloads/

Pip
---

Install the client with `pip`_::

    $ pip install smk-python-sdk

.. _`pip`: http://www.pip-installer.org

Updating the SDK
----------------

Minor updates (0.5.0 to 0.5.1) are backwards compatible. Major updates (for example 0.5.1 to 0.6.0) are not necessarily backwards compatible, please consult SDK :ref:`changelog`.

Github
------

Smarkets makes its open source development activities available on
`GitHub`_, and the Python API Client is `available there
<https://github.com/smarkets/smk_python_sdk>`_.

Clone the public master branch::

    $ git clone https://github.com/smarkets/smk_python_sdk.git

Or, download a `.tar.gz`_::

    $ curl -O https://github.com/smarkets/smk_python_sdk/tarball/master

Or, a `.zip`_::

    $ curl -O https://github.com/smarkets/smk_python_sdk/zipball/master

.. _`.tar.gz`: https://github.com/smarkets/smk_python_sdk/tarball/master
.. _`.zip`: https://github.com/smarkets/smk_python_sdk/zipball/master

Installing from source
----------------------

Once you have downloaded a copy of the source, you can install it into
site-packages::

    $ python setup.py build install

The build target will download the necessary files to generate the
protobuf modules. Make sure you have satisfied the `requirements`_
listed above.

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From the Hootoo archive. Originally published September 9th 2004:
One of cinema's master entertainers returns with The Terminal, Steven Spielberg's theoretically-based-on-a-true-story statement on American national security issues and the nature of modern life. Or so he claims. This is the story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a traveller from the obscure eastern European land of Krakhozia (if you're wondering, it shares borders with Latveria and Markovia) who arrives at New York's JFK airport on important personal business.
Unfortunately while he was on the way a coup has occurred in his homeland and the visa letting him into the USA has been withdrawn. On the other hand, the new government in Krakozhia has closed the borders and airports so he can't go back there either. This effectively means he is stranded in the airport departure lounge, a man without a country, until the situation resolves itself. The presence of this piece of human driftwood is inevitably anathema to the career-minded airport administrator Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci) who is quite prepared to let Viktor become someone else's problem if it means getting him out of the terminal.
But Viktor is a principled man who is not prepared to simply slope off out of the airport illegally the first chance he gets. Mainly through his own ingenuity he teaches himself English, gets a rather good job renovating the airport and establishes a circle of friends amongst the airport staff. He even has time to develop a bit of a thing for air stewardess Amelia (Catherine Zeta Jones, a Hollywood leading lady making history by playing a character older than herself). But what exactly has he come to America to do? And will they ever let him out of the terminal so he can actually get on with it?
Well, you could disapprove of The Terminal on principle for its ruthless hijacking and prettying up of the rather sad story of Merhan Nasseri, a mentally fragile Iranian refugee who's been living in a French airport for the last sixteen years, but you must have been living down a hole if you seriously expect a Spielberg movie to stick to reality rather than going for an artful sugar-rush of sentiment. To be fair, the film opens in surprisingly downbeat and naturalistic style – there's no big title sequence, no music in the early part of the movie, and it's shot in realistic colours. This opening segment is rather impressively low-key, even if the exact circumstances confining Hanks to the airport concourse seem a bit contrived. But as the film goes on it almost imperceptibly slopes off into the familiar feel-good la-la land, until John Williams is tootling and parping cheerfully away on the soundtrack, the cinematography is drenched in sunny warmth and the story's going all-out to make you laugh.
To be fair the movie does this rather well. Hanks gives a very impressively non-sentimental performance in a rather tricky part: he doesn't overdo the role in any of the ways lesser talents might, keeping the foreign accent and the innocent abroad aspects well under control. It's very accomplished turn, mixing pathos with broad comedy, and you actually believe that this is a man who would choose to sit in an airport for months on end simply because it's the correct way to behave. He's well supported by a ensemble cast of unfamiliar faces, and Tucci makes a villain both hissable and mildly empathetic. Zeta Jones' character is a bit one-dimensional though, and she seems a bit lost for things to do with it.
Spielberg himself seems a bit lost for things to do with this movie, other than go for gentle comedy. The appeal of making what's basically a high-concept formal exercise is obvious, and there's potential here for the film to say things about modern life and modern America, but (clearly realising he's potentially kicking a wasp's nest here) Spielberg invariably opts for the most general and vague approach. He neither endorses or condemns current American policy on immigration, or anything else. This is one of those films that raises issues but has nothing to say about them, with the result that it seems a bit shallow and tokenistic. Well, all right, it does subtly point out that the low-paid airport underclass that eventually adopts Hanks is almost entirely comprised of members of ethnic minorities, but Michael Moore this ain't.
But then again neither does it try (or, I suspect, want) to be. It's just a slick, witty, fairly warm piece of entertainment, powered along by Spielberg's unsurpassed technical mastery, Hanks' undoubted charisma, and a mostly-ingenious script that seems to have been written by someone hiding an impressive knowledge of cult TV. But in the end it seems just a bit too disposably superficial. Very enjoyable while it lasts, make no mistake about that, but nowhere near the best of Spielberg's work.


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Q: r - join only consecutive markers with lines in plotly I'm trying to overlay a barplot with a scatter plot in plotly. I've managed to plot both and everything looks nice using only markers, but I need to join the markers. Using lines+markers it joins every point with each other, like a closed path. I suppose the problem is that my x-axis variable is categorical and I don't know how to fix it. I can't write the original code but is something like:
to_plot2[, cat_var := as.factor(cat_var)]

pp2 = plot_ly(to_plot2) %>%
  add_trace(x = ~cat_var, y = ~var_1, type = 'bar', name = 'bar',
            marker = list(color = '#C9EFF9'),
            hoverinfo = "text") %>%
  add_trace(x = ~cat_var, y = ~var_2, type = 'scatter', mode = 'lines+markers', name = 'lines', yaxis = 'y2',
            hoverinfo = "text") %>%

  layout(title = 'foo',
         xaxis = list(title = "", type = "category",
                      categoryorder = "'array'"),
         yaxis = list(side = 'left', showgrid = FALSE, zeroline = FALSE),
         yaxis2 = list(side = 'right', overlaying = "y", showgrid = FALSE, zeroline = FALSE))

and the output is:

Any help?
Thanks in advance

A: I've just solved the problem. Setting cat_var as key it reorders the dataframe in the appropiate manner.
Thanks!


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At least they made the change a few weeks before my membership renews. 10C, you have until 1/20/14 to get your poop together.
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I hate this so much
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Signatures off helps.
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go back to the previous forum style will help more!!
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reminds me of a forum I might find if I was looking for advice on how to fix my lawn mower...
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The white is like migraine-inducing. Hate it.
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Kat posted a thread yesterday announcing it.
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Don't like it at all. The print is way too small and it's hard to differentiate the posts from signatures.
Turning off signatures helps. Click on the cogwheel by your name on the upper left menu.
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ta-Dah!
I turned sigs off, and it seems to help a lot with the appearance and flow. With sigs on, its hard to tell where a post starts and ends. I read two or three sigs earlier thinking "This person is taking some whacko shit"
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Believe it or not, this is supposed to be facepalm guy: #-o
Just save this URL and use it instead. http://ourdollcommunity.com/forum/chat/img/emoticons/facepalm.gif
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I thought the forum format they used in 2004 seemed to work better then anything else since then. Maybe the answer lies in the past, not the future.
profound.
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for me, when the board change it means we are all just doin' the evolution with PJ
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Losiento said:
it is a evolution
chadwick said:
it is a Devolution
fixed that for you Chad
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Indiana University to help fight Indiana's opioid crisis
Category: Indiana News
Indiana University has stepped forward to help the state of Indiana in it's fight against the opioid epidemic.
Original Source: indystar.com
Indiana University will tackle the state's opioid crisis head-on, devoting $50 million over the next five years and more than 70 researchers to the problem, university officials announced Tuesday.
The initiative comes as part of the school's Grand Challenges Program, announced in 2015. The university decided in the five years between the program's inception and the school's bicentennial in 2020, it would spend $300 million on targeted research areas to maximize results rather than allocating piecemeal dollars here and there across departments.
Major partners in the most recent effort will be Indiana University Health,Eskenazi Health and state government, among others.
At a press conference at the Statehouse on Tuesday, Gov. Eric Holcomb hailed the announcement from Indiana University saying it goes beyond a grand challenge.
"I also see it as a grand opportunity to do what we do best and confront the issues that face our state," he said.
"This new commitment, the Grand Challenge from Indiana University, is, simply put, going to save lives."
Since Holcomb took office, he said, he has made reversing the rising tide of the opioid epidemic one of his top priorities. In the past 10 months, he said, Indiana has expanded the number of treatment centers, given local governments authority to initiate needle exchange programs, and most recently launched a website Next Level Recovery Indiana that serves as a repository of information on the opioid crisis.
Holcomb repeatedly thanked Indiana University for taking up the challenge.
"It's not just rhetorical to say we're all in this together," he said in an interview after the press conference. "They put their money where their mouth is."
But Holcomb said he did not expect the state to allocate any additional funds to address the crisis in this year's short legislative session.
Like many other states, Indiana has been hard-hit by opioids. It is one of four states where the overdose death rate has more than quadrupled since 1999. The state ranks 15th in the country in overdose fatalities.
Nor is Indiana alone. Opioid overdoses kill more Americans each year now than died in the Vietnam War.
"People are dying and we must act," IU President Michael A. McRobbie said at Tuesday's press conference.
"Now is the time to bring together the resources of all the Indiana University campuses to address this public health crisis."
Last year IU announced it would earmark $120 million for the first of these projects in precision health. Earlier this year an initiative on environmental change was awarded $55 million.
The roots for this Grand Challenge, however, came from outside the university. Last winter when Holcomb delivered his state of the state address he identified the drug epidemic as one of five "transformational priorities" for his administration.
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Анна Редька (нар. 21 січня 1989 р.) — українська гандболістка, виступає за ГК «Гомель» та збірну України.

Навчалася у Київському національному економічному університеті спеціальність менеджер та у Національний педагогічний університет імені М. П. Драгоманова на спеціальність Інструктор по фитнесу, але навчання не закінчила.
Почала кар'єру у команді Спартак (гандбольний клуб, Київ) у 2006 році. У 2012 році перейшла в ГК Гомель.

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Pace reveals new university branding
Pace reveals a new logo to kick-off the 2021 Spring semester.
Katie Walsh, Managing Editor
President Marvin Krislov started at Pace in summer of 2017. Throughout the past few years, Krislov has added pieces to his administration to aid in refurbishing Pace through messaging and design to enhance the reputation of the university.
In January of 2020, Mary Baglivo joined the Pace administration as the Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President for University Relations. Baglivo worked alongside MindPower, a marketing and branding agency, to create a new marketing plan and update brand material for the university.
This new plan is focused upon creating consistent messaging that tells the story of Pace and its students. To execute the brand image desired, Pace is revamping all social media platforms and adding new messaging like #Pacegogetters to emphasize the goal-oriented people at Pace.
Pace is updating all social media platforms to reflect the new messaging.
Most notably, the university has adopted a new logo and has slightly altered the primary university colors. The university will be using a darker blue and brighter yellow. Furthermore, the font is larger and bolder. The new logo does not incorporate the swoosh that was previously utilized.
The color palette has been slightly altered to translate to university's effort to stand-out amongst other institutions
Pace has kept the university seal with, "opportunitas" and has developed this further into a brand promise and a new brand message.
Pace's brand promise is, "To be at the forefront of creating opportunity. Through the convergence of strong academics, experiential learning, and customized plans, we empower our students and positively impact our communities," according to the brand toolkit.
Futhermore, the university will be focusing on the concept of Go-Getters, like previously mentioned, as the new messaging for the institution. The brand toolkit defines Go-Getters as goal-oriented, eager for new experiences, not afraid to dream big, willing to work for what they want and optimistic and energized.
"If we do a good job of developing clear-cut messages to tell the stories we need to tell, that do so in a manner that all adds up, that is ideal for the perception we would like people to know us for." stated Baglivo in early 2020.
Professor and Pace alum, Heather Hayes, acknowledges the importance of having one cohesive messaging system.
"In PR, an organization's identity is conveyed through elements like brand, motto and logo. An organization can control its identity in an effort to improve its image," she continued. "I'm confident Pace University's rebranding will be a success because the new logo and motto accurately represents what the university stands for- providing unique opportunities and upward mobility to our incredible students, who are indeed "Go-Getters."
Editors Note: This is a breaking news story which will be updated as information is released.
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Alberta's New Home Market: Failure to Launch?
The housing market in Alberta is a bit of an enigma in 2011. Prices for existing homes are steady, suggesting an improving market. But new home builders are not feeling the love—at least not yet. Do April housing starts represent a "failure to launch"?
The number of new housing starts in April was 19,200, unchanged from March. This figure is adjusted for seasonality and reported at an annualized rate (that is, the number of homes that would be started over a 12-month period at the current pace). The figure also includes only housing starts in urban areas of more than 10,000 people. Nationally, housing starts in urban areas dipped to 160,100, down about 2% from March.
Alberta's 19,200 housing starts in April remain well below the average rate of nearly 30,000 over the past six years—a period which includes both a boom and a spectacular bust. The lackluster figure is puzzling on a few levels.
The provincial economy has been picking up over the past several months, and weekly earnings are rising. While employment did drop a bit in both March and April, overall job creation over the past twelve months has been steady. Also, mortgage rates remain favourable. This should point towards a rebound in the residential construction market.
However, as Statistics Canada reported last week, the value of residential building permits issued in April shot up by about 25% month-over-month. This suggests that housing starts could still pick up, so hope remains for 2011.


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