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Fubo TV nets 1 million paying subscribers to streaming service
May 5, 2022 by Matthew Keys
Sports-centric streaming television service Fubo TV said on Thursday it reached more than one million subscribers in North America, an increase of 80 percent compared to the previous year.
The figure was revealed as part of the company's quarterly earnings released on Thursday.
"In our first quarter, against a challenging macro environment, Fubo TV achieved strong growth in subscribers and revenue, with our North American subscriber growth of 81 percent year-over-year," David Gandler, the company's chief executive, said in a statement.
Advertising revenue was up more than 80 percent to $22.8 million, helping the company achieve more than $236 million in revenue for the quarter — a record for Fubo TV, company officials said.
The company currently has more than $456 million in cash on hand, and it said it will continue to maintain "increased financial flexibility…through 2023."
Fubo TV offers a lineup of more than 100 general entertainment, family-oriented, news and sports cable networks for $70 a month. The price increases as customers add more channels or opt for additional perks like access to more simultaneous streams.
The service is available on all leading smart TV platforms, including Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV (Google TV) and Apple TV, as well as on smartphones, tablets and via web browsers.
In addition to the linear television service, Fubo TV offers sports wagering through its interactive sportsbook product, which officially launched last November.
"Wagering remains an important pillar in our path to profitability and strategy to integrate interactivity into our live TV streaming experience. While striving to be the most compelling destination for cord cutters, fuboTV has started to enact a series of approaches to increase monetization, accelerate our ad sales business and further strengthen our unit economics," Edgar Bronfman, Jr., the executive chairman of Fubo TV, said in a statement.
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Sports Medicine | Total Joint Replacement | Upper Extremity | General Orthopaedics
Dr. Brown received his undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University prior to attending Tulane University for medical school and subsequent orthopaedic residency. He received additional sports medicine training at the Hughston Sports Medicine Hospital and Clinic in Columbus, Georgia. Upon the completion of his residency, Dr. Brown obtained fellowships in both sports medicine and shoulder/elbow reconstruction at Harvard University/Boston Children's Hospital and Columbia University, respectively.
During his time as a fellow and later as a Tulane Sports Medicine Faculty member he was the head team physician for Loyola University Athletics (New Orleans), and Zephyrs baseball (Houston Astro's AAA affiliate). He also served as the assistant team physician for Tulane University Athletics.  He provided sports medicine coverage for a wide variety of athletes and sporting events including; the Boston Marathon, Boston Ballet, New York Yankees, the College Baseball World Series, and several WWE "Smackdown" events and Nokia Sugar Bowls.  More recently he has been the team physician for the Southern Illinois University Football, Softball and Baseball Teams since 2005 and head team physician for Rend Lake College since 2009.
Dr. Brown has continued to be a frequent presenter at orthopaedic conferences around the country, teaching the latest techniques for shoulder replacement surgery. He has been a consultant for a variety of sports medicine companies over the years, offering his input on the design and implementation of a variety of surgical devices and techniques. In addition, he is involved in biomedical development and his work has resulted in the issuance of several patents for surgical devices and implants used in a variety of sports medicines procedures. The Q-Fix suture anchor is presently being used worldwide for the treatment of labral, rotator cuff, and a variety of additional ligament and tendon injuries.
Dr. Brown is board certified in orthopaedic surgery and a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Arthroscopy Association of North America, and the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. In addition, he has retained his affiliation with Tulane University as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and has authored numerous book chapters and articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He is a past reviewer for the American Journal of Sports Medicine and the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.
Dr. Brown has a particular interest in arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, meniscal repair, and cartilage transplantation techniques of the knee. He treats most conditions of the shoulder arthroscopically including; arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, labrum repairs, bicep repairs and complex instability reconstructions. He performs partial, total and reverse shoulder replacements. He also offers arthroscopic treatment options for both athletic and arthritic processes of the elbow. Ortho-biologics is an evolving field and Dr Brown will offer ultrasound guided injections of platelet rich plasma (PRP) when indicated. In addition, he performs percutaneous subchodroplasty and uses the "TENEX" percutaneous treatment procedure for tennis elbow, patella tendonitis and Achilles tendonitis.
Hughston Sports Medicine Society
Arthroscopy Association of North America
American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
Caldwell Society – Tulane Department of Orthopaedics
Clinical Orthopaedic Society
The New York Orthopaedic Hospital Alumni Association
Tulane Medical School Alumni Association
National Board of Directors, Southern Illinois University Alumni Association
Fellowship Christian Athletes, Regional Board of Directors, 2016 – Present
Past consultant; Arthrocare Sports Medicine
Past consultant; DePuy-Synthes Shoulder Arthroplasty
Past consultant; Smith and Nephew Sports Medicine
Research Publications and Chapters and Review Articles
1989: "The Effects of Postoperative Indomethacin Therapies Upon Biologic Ingrowth Fixation"
KA Thomas, SD Cook, PhD, TD Brown, MD, TL Halvorson, MD. 1995 J. Arthroplasty.
1995, 10(3):351-8
1995: "The Orthopaedic Impact of Gunshot Wounds in an Urban Trauma Center" TD Brown,
MD, PA Michas, MD, RL Barrack, MD, TS Whitecloud, MD. J Orthop Trauma. 1997,
11(3):149-53
1998: "Rotator Cuff Tears and Associated Nerve Injuries" TD Brown, PM Newton, SP
Steinmann, W Levine, LU Bigliani, Orthopaedic Review, 2000 Apr;23(4):329-32
1998: "The Biomechanics of Dance" TD Brown, MD, LJ Micheli, MD
Biomechanics 1998, 6:12-25
2000: "Malleolar Bursitis in Figure Skaters" Indications for operative and nonoperative
treatment. TD Brown, T Varney, LJ Micheli. AM J Sports Med. 2000 Jan-Feb;28(1):109-11.
2000: "Complications with Humeral Head Replacement" TD Brown, LU Bigliani,
Orthopaedic Clinics of North America 2000 Jan;31(1):77-90
2000: "The Young Dancer" Solomon, R, Brown, TD, Gerbino II, PG, Micheli, LJ.
In: Micheli, LJ (ed.) Clinics in Sports Medicine, Vol. 19(4):717-739.
2001: "Spinal Injuries in Children's Sports" Brown, TD, Micheli, LJ. In: Sports Medicine for
Specific Ages and Abilities, 2001, 4:31-44.
2003: "Thigh Injuries-Adult" TD Brown, JM Brunet, In: DeLee, Drez and Miller
(ed.) DeLee & Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, 2nd edition, 2003.
2003: "Thigh Injuries-Children and Adolescents" TD Brown, JM Brunet, In: DeLee, Drez and
Miller (ed.) DeLee & Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, 2nd edition, 2003.
2018: "Innovation in Orthopaedic Surgery – From the Napkin to the OR" N. Cohen, T. Brown, S. Goldberg, Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. In press.
Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Tulane University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New Orleans, LA
Orthopaedic Surgery Residency 7/93-6/97
Tulane University Department of General Surgery, New Orleans, LA
General Surgery Internship 7/92-6/93
Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, LA
M.D. awarded 6/92
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
BA awarded in Biology, 6/88
Sports Medicine Affiliations
Boston Ballet (assistant physician); 1997 to 1998
Tulane University Athletic Program (team physician); 1998-2004
Loyola University Athletic Program (head team physician); 1999-2004
Zephyr's Baseball Team Physician (Houston Astros AAA league); 2001-2004
Brass Hockey Assistant Team Physician; 1999-2001
Southern Illinois University Athletic Program (team physician); 2005-present
Rend Lake College Athletic Program (head team physician); 2008-present
Fellowship Training
Columbia University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York, NY
Shoulder Reconstruction Fellowship 8/98-2/99
Harvard University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston, MA
Sports Medicine Fellowship 8/97-7/98
1997 – Ray J. Haddad Research Award Recipient
1996 – Tulane, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chief Resident 1996-97
1993 – Owl Club Resident Teaching Award
1992 – Harry Morris Research Award Tulane Dept Orthopaedic Surgery
1992 – Ivy Day Award Recipient
1988 – Graduated Cum Laude, Southern Illinois University
1988 – Liberal Arts and Sciences Honor Society, Southern Illinois University
1987 – Gamma Beta Phi, Southern Illinois University
1986 – Phi Eta Sigma, Southern Illinois University
Past Reviewer for The American Journal for Sports Medicine
Past Reviewer for The Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Where Dr. Brown practices
Heartland Regional Medical Center
SIH – Herrin Hospital
SIH – Memorial Hospital of Carbondale

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5 Keys to Success: 2010-11 Vanderbilt Basketball
It has been one hell of a 2010 and I think that my last substantive analysis posts dated back shortly after the basketball season last year. But now that we're back to the wonderful month of November and for the first time in three years I won't be worrying about exams, I'm ready to get back to the blogosphere and bring you a season preview for what I think may be an even better season than last.
Let's start with the criticisms. Vanderbilt returns 3 starters, but loses leading scorers Jermaine Beal and A.J. Ogilvy. Losing a senior point guard and your primary post presence, who have anchored those positions for the past 3 years, understandably raises some question marks about how far the Commodores can go. As a result, the majority of media outlets have Vanderbilt picked to finish 5th in the SEC East, behind a Florida team with all five starters returning, a Kentucky team that has almost reloaded, a Tennessee team that made the Elite Eight last year and still has embattled Coach Bruce Pearl, and a posh pick Georgia squad that adds transfer Gerald Robinson Jr. to dynamic wing Travis Leslie and dominant big man Trey Thompkins. In fairness, pretty much every media outlet acknowledges that any of these 5 teams could finish first, and that all of them would dominate the SEC West, with perhaps the exception of Mississippi State.
But once again, I think that this team is way better than projected. The reason is simple: it is packed chock full of veteran talent. Vandy's players have been underrated for several seasons and the media has made the mistake of seeing Ogilvy and Beal as cogs too integral to overcome. Still, talk is talk, and the junior class, who is arguably the most talented crew to ever come through Memorial Gym, can take the program to a new level if they reach their fullest potential.
If the Commodores accomplish these five keys this season, we will not be 5th in the SEC East, we will be competing for first.
1. Jeffery Taylor Must Make This His Team
The criticism of the 2010 Commodores boils down to a lack of a dominant playmaker. This has been a criticism ever since Shan Foster graduated. Vandy has lacked that guy who can truly put everything on his back, night in and night out, when the game is on the line. While John Jenkins has displayed that ability from the perimeter, his potential in getting to the rim is somewhat limited. Taylor has the potential to take games over. He is incredibly difficult to guard 1-on-1, and his added bulk should help him to finish at the rim even stronger than in the past. The question is whether he can round his game out to the point where he is an unstoppable force and a legitimate first-round NBA pick. This is the linchpin in the entire season for the Commodores. If it is yes, look out. If it is no, we can still be a tournament team, but we will be inconsistent.
2. Brad Tinsley Must Be Solid At The Point
Tinsley slumped last year after having an excellent freshman season. Now, Tinsley is tasked with filling Jermaine Beal's shoes in running the offense. In order for the Commodores to soar, Tinsley has to return to freshman form, and preferably a little more. Vandy fans have a legitimate reason to wonder who the real Tinsley is. Is it the one who averaged 11 ppg and shot 41% from the arc? Or is it the one who dropped to 7 ppg and only shot 29% from three? The more its like the former, the better this team will be.
There is one thing that should be immediately disspelled, and that's the notion that Tinsley was meant to be a shooting guard. Tinsley is an adept passer and has gotten much better taking care of the ball, with his assist to turnover ratio jumping from 1.34 to 1.57 last year. He sees the floor well and his decision-making improved over the course of the season (2.04 A/T ratio in SEC play compared to 1.24 in non-conference play). Tinsley is also a good ball-handler and a talented passer. While he will be a defensive liability against quicker guards, Taylor's ability to swing and guard anyone helps to alleviate some of those problems. If Tinsley can recreate his freshman offensive form and cause teams to respect him again, it will make our perimeter game one of the most dangerous in the SEC.
3. Festus Ezeli and Steve Tchiengang Must Stay in the Game and Shoot Respectably From the Line
Because of the shift in our offense from interior presence, our enforcers down low don't need to carry a massive amount of offensive weight. What they need to do is grab boards and make life miserable for opposing big men. Festus and Steve have long been tough down low and can bang with anyone in the SEC, but their difficulty in staying on the floor due to foul trouble has limited their effectiveness to a certain extent. Fortunately for the Commodores, veteran seasoning and off-season work lead to more disciplined play, and if the work ethic of these two is any indication, you'll see them frustrating offenses to a much greater extent than last season. The beauty of this tandem is that they also have the potential to provide a greater offensive presence. Neither has to be Ogilvy, but together as a pair they can replace his production, with Festus being very difficult to stop when he's close enough to the basket and Steve able to step out and his the jumper. Perhaps most importantly, they must shoot free throws better. While they don't have to be Ogilvy in this regard, they can't allow opposing defenses to choose the hack-a-shaq method. If they can make teams pay enough for fouling and they can stay on the floor, our post presence will nicely compliment our perimeter play.
4. The Bench Must Not Only Fill In Nicely, It Must Provide A Change of Gear
There is a ton of talent on the bench this season, both veteran and freshman alike. But the greatest key to our bench depth this season is going to be how Lance Goulbourne and Rod Odom can step in when Taylor and Walker need breathers. Lance has long been the object of frustration for the Vandy coaching staff, but his potential is there, as his 18 point performance against LSU will attest. Lance is a tremendous athlete, much like Taylor, who can also shoot respectably. The problem is that Lance has lost a lot of focus at times and has been prone to bonehead mistakes. However, with some veteran seasoning, if Lance can provide a solid sixth man presence the Commodores will soar. Rod Odom is an underrated talent who can really surprise as well. Many teams would do worse than to have either coming off their bench.
The X-factor of this squad may very well be Kyle Fuller. Fuller is a speedy, tough-nosed point guard who can really kick our transition game into high gear. If he can keep opposing defenses off balance when he comes in to give Tinsley a breather, then we can really befuddle a lot of squads in the SEC.
5. The Commodores Need Consistent Play Out of the 4-Spot
Whether it comes from Andre Walker, Lance Goulbourne, or Rod Odom, Vandy has to have a consistent performance out of its 4 spot night in and night out. Last season, Andre seemed like the perfect 4 for our offense, with his ability to handle the ball, pass well, score when needed, and rebound effectively. But after his shoulder injury it seemed like Andre was a somewhat different player. That, coupled with reports that Andre thought about leaving the program after last season, raise questions about his focus as a starter and his ability to hang in there. When Andre is at the top of his game, the offense is at it's peak performance. In order to really soar, we need him to play well night in and night out.
If Andre struggles, someone must step up and give us successful production in this spot. Whether it's Walker, Goulbourne, Tchiengang, or Odom is yet to be determined. But if Vandy can find the perfect man for the job, the Commodores will be difficult to beat.
It's a pretty simple argument: Vanderbilt gets all five of these keys, they won't be talking about the Gators at the top of the SEC this season. The less keys the get, the more likely they'll be more towards the bottom. I'm betting that we're a lot better than most project, and that we'll steadily get better over the course of the year. Regardless, we should be a tournament team and the SEC East should be a lot of fun to watch.
Posted by Stanimal at 10:48 AM
Anything but Gatorade said...
JEFFREY TAYLOR PUT THE TEAM ON HIS BACK, DAWG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P0yfq2wDvU
November 4, 2010 at 11:59:00 AM CDT
Stanimal said...
That is an absolutely hilarious youtube video.
November 4, 2010 at 12:20:00 PM CDT
AWW SHIT, DARREN SHAWPAH!
It's November...time to play this infectious beat? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk0aQg0p6Bw
Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment, and for taking the trouble to post it.replica watches|
November 6, 2010 at 1:34:00 AM CDT


Miami, FL (February 1, 2019) – The fourth day of the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami continued the notorious theme of precarious winds, but for the ten Olympic events competing on Biscayne Bay, it presents just another challenger for these sailors seeking Olympic glory.
With 18 months until the Tokyo 2020 Sailing Competition, now is the time for medal hopefuls to do an honest self-assessment and figure out what weaknesses they need to shore up before the big show.
For Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin (AUS), the silver medallists from Rio 2016, one of the areas in need of improvement is light air speed. They came here looking for the light, shifty conditions that most recreational sailors would rather avoid, and that is exactly what this week has delivered.
The Brazilian team was leading the regatta until a 14th in today's first race. But they rebounded with a pair of wins.
A key component of Laser sailor Hermann Tomasgaard's (NOR) preparation for the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami involved a week at the Laser Training Center in Cabarete, Dominican Republic. Aside from the obvious-tropical mid-winter weather-Tomasgaard went there for the consistently strong winds.
This regatta, however, has been anything but windy, with just one race that tested the sailors' abdominal muscles. Nonetheless, Tomasgaard clearly found something in the azure Caribbean waters because he has been phenomenally fast and unbelievably consistent in some of the most mentally demanding conditions in a fleet where top-half finishes in the gold fleet are often considered keepers.
With two full-fleet races remaining and then Sunday's Medal Race, Tomasgaard has established a 44-point lead over second place. His worst finish is a sixth. One decent race tomorrow and he will have clinched the gold with two races to spare, a virtually unheard-of feat in the modern Medal-Race format.
Should his final few races follow this pattern, Tomasgaard will have put together one of the more remarkable scorelines in recent memory. With 18 months until the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is he peaking too early? Tomasgaard doesn't see it that way.
With a second in the final full-fleet race of the regatta, Alex Maloney and Molly Meech (NZL) put themselves in a strong position going into tomorrow's Medal Race in the 49erFX. They have a 12-point lead over Rio 2016 gold medalists Martine Soffiatti Grael and Kahene Kunze (BRA) and Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey (GBR). With fourth place 20 points further behind, the medalists are all but locked in. The final order will be decided tomorrow.
Overnight leader Radoslaw Furmanski (POL) struggled in today's three races in the Men's RS:X class, but he's still at the top of the leaderboard thanks to his strong start to the regatta and a tiebreaker, which positions him provisionally ahead of Pierre le Coq (FRA). Mateo Sanz Lanz (SUI) is third, just four points back. With just 20 points separating first from 10th, there is the potential for the results to shift around quite a bit in tomorrow's double-points Medal Race.
It's equally as tight at the top of the Women's RS:X class, where two points separate Yunxiu Lu (CHN) in first from Charline Picon (FRA) in third. Katy Spychakov (ISR) is second. The scoring mechanics of the Medal Race, which is worth double points and also counts as the tiebreaker means those three sailors are effectively tied for the lead. The back half of the top 10 is a little more spread out. Only Zofia Noceti-Klepacka (POL) has a realistic chance of breaking into the medals.
Jonathan Lobert (FRA) and Rio 2016 bronze medalist Caleb Paine (USA) picked up the day's race wins. Lobert is poised to strike in fourth but Paine only has an outside chance to qualify for Sunday's Medal Race. He is 17th overall, 13 points off tenth. Tapio Nirrko (FIN) and Max Salminen (SWE) swapped places at the head of the fleet. But with potentially three races tomorrow there's a lot of opportunity remaining.
Paige Railey showed again that experience counts, both in terms of time in the Laser Radial and time on tricky Biscayne Bay. She won two races today, finished fifth in a third, and will carry a nine-point lead into the final day tomorrow of full-fleet racing. Dongshuang Zhang (CHN) won the third race and is currently second. Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN) is third, 27 points off the lead. Railey is currently throwing out a black flag disqualification, which does make her margin for error in tomorrow's final two races a little narrower than some of the other top sailors.
With an eighth and a third, the Swedish team of Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergström has built a 4-point lead in the Men's 470. Naoki Ichino and Takashi Hasegawa (JPN) won the day's second race and moved into second while Jordi Xammar Hernandez and Nicolás Rodríguez García-Paz had the best overall day with a first and a fifth and are now in third.
Fabienne Oster and Anatasiya Winkel (GER) have been a model of consistency in the Women's 470 fleet. They have yet to win a race, but have finished no worse than sixth. With six races down, and possibly three more tomorrow before Sunday's Medal Race, the German team has a four-point lead over Fernanda Oliveira and Ana Luiza Barbachan (BRA) and a six-point advantage over Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre (GBR).
49er, 49erFX, Nacra 17 and the RS:X windsurfer Medal Races will be live online (see below) tomorrow from 12:00 local time. Fleet racing for the remaining fleets starts at 10:30 local time.
Laser Radial (8 races): USA's Paige Railey (2nd) and Canada's Sarah Douglas (7th).
49erFX (9 races): USA's Stephanie Roble/ Margaret Shea (10th).
Finn (7 races): USA's Luke Muller (6th) and Canada's Tom Ramwhaw (7th).
470 Men (6 races): USA's Stu McNay/ Dave Hughes (8th) and Lucas Calabrese/ Jack Parkin (10th).
470 Women (6 races): USA's Atlantic and Nora Brugman (7th).
Nacra 17 (12 races): USA's Bora Gulari/ Louisa Chafee (7th) and Sarah Newberry/ David Liebenberg (10th).
Top North American in RS:X Men and Women is USA's Pedro Pascual (37th) and Farrah Hall (27th), respectively, and in the 49er is USA's Ian Barrows/ Mitchell Kiss (14th).


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Investors Beating the Bullish Tune
Investor's first read--Brooksie's edge before the openFriday, Feb, 3, 2012, 9:24 a.m.DJIA: 12,705,41 S&P 500: 1325,54I started off this week with an alert to a positive impact from
George Brooks
Investor's first read–Brooksie's edge before the open
Friday, Feb, 3, 2012, 9:24 a.m.
DJIA: 12,705,41 S&P 500: 1325,54
I started off this week with an alert to a positive impact from 16 economic indicators that were to be reported, but warned that a drop of 100 Dow points would have to happen first. We didn't have to wait for the 100-point decline, it came in early trading. We didn't have to wait long for a rally, either.
Without a major jolt from abroad, I see 13,000 written all over the DJIA by Tuesday. I don't like annual forecasts, I don't think anyone is prescient enough to call shots over a period when any number of global crises can change the game.
We have the potential here for a real hummer, as sideline sitters come in to play and all that money parked in safe places comes out of hiding. (Check headlines below)
Personal Income and Outlays (8:30 a.m.): Grew at a slower rate in Nov. vs. Sept.
ICSC Goldman Store Sales (7:46 a.m): Accounts for 10% total retail sales.
Employment Cost Index (8:30 a.m.): Broadest measure of labor costs.
S&P Case-Shiller Home Prices (9 a.m.): Tracks monthly changes in 20 met districts. May provide small clue to housing recovery.
Chicago PMI (9:45 a.m.): Regional business conditions (mfg and non-mfg) Slight firming from October to November.
Consumer Confidence (10 a.m.): Survey of consumer attitudes go big bump in December.
Motor Vehicle Sales (early): Big ticket items in industry with widespread impact.
MBA Purchase Applications (7 a.m.): Measures actions and confidence to take those actions.
ADP Employment (8:15 a.m.): Includes private hires, not government. Has been upbeat.
ISM Manufacturing Index (10 a.m.): Broadly based survey of 300 manufacturers
Construction Spending (10 a.m.): Jumped 1.2% in Nov. after a 0.2% drop in October includes both single family houses and multi-family, the latter may be slowing.
Chain Store Sales (early): Monthly volumes of a big cross section.
Jobless Claims (8:30 a.m.): Overall trend down with drop of 21,000 for week ending Jan.21.
Productivity and Costs (8:30 a.m.): Stabilizing after early surge in 2011.
Employment Situation (8:30 a.m.): A jump of 200,000 in December came on top of a jump of 100,000 in November.
Factory Orders (10 a.m.): Basically flat over the past six months. Though October, the indicator was down 0.4%.
ISM Non–Mfg Index (10 a.m.): Survey of 375 n
Recent blog headlines:
Jan. 17 DJIA: 12,422 "Market Defying S&P Downgrade – But Rally Must Hold"
Jan. 18 DJIA: 12,482 "World Bank Forecast to Test Bull's Resolve"
Jan 19 DJIA: 12,578 "What Happens If All That Money Parked in a "Safe" Haven Pours Into Stocks?"
Jan 20 DJIA: 12,623 "Two European Meetings Next Week to Set Tone of the Market"
Jan 23 DJIA: 12,720 "Europeans Seeking Long-Term Economic Cure"
Jan 25 DJIA: 12,675 "Consolidation, Correction Likely though US Stocks Hold Strong Against EU Turmoil"
Jan. 26 DJIA: 12,756 "Fed Would Raise Interest Rates If Inflation Picks Up"
Jan. 27 DJIA: 12,734 "Warning! Tradable Market Action Lies in Waiting"
Jan. 30 DJIA: 12,660 ""HUGE" Week for Economic Indicators"
Jan. 31 DJIA: 12,653 "All That Is Needed Is a Spark"
Feb. 1 DJIA: 12,632 "Week's Economic Reports Could Be The Springboard"
*Bloomberg.Com
**National Journal
The writer of Investor's first read, George Brooks, is not registered as an investment advisor. Ideas expressed herein are the opinions of the writer, are for informational purposes, and are not to serve as the sole basis for any investment decision. Readers are expected to assume full responsibility for conducting their own research pursuant to investment decisions in keeping with their tolerance for risk.


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El cicle de la croada és un cicle de cançons de gesta franceses que tenen per tema la Primera Croada i fets posteriors.

El conjunt de cançons que formen el cicle ha estat dividit pels estudiosos en dues parts:

Primer cicle de la croada (cançons del segle XII-XIII)
 Chanson d'Antioche
 Les chétifs (cat. Els captius)
 Chanson de Jerusalem o Conquête de Jerusalem.
A aquest nucli del cicle encara s'hi van afegir altres cançons al voltant de la figura de Godofreu de Bouillon.

 Segon cicle de la croada (cançons del  i XV)
 Le Chevalier au cygne et Godefroid de Bouillon
 Baudouin de Sebourc
 Le bastard de Bouillon

Bibliografia
 Duparc-Quioc, Suzanne, Le Cycle de la Croisade, Paris, Champion (Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études. Sciences historiques et philologiques, 305), 1955, xxi + 410 p
 Isabelle Weill, "Croisade (cycle de la)" a Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: le Moyen Âge, éd. Geneviève Hasenohr i Michel Zink, Paris, Fayard (La Pochothèque), 1994 p. 356-358.
 Martí de Riquer, Los cantares de gesta franceses, Barcelona, Ariel, 2009 [traducció a partir de la versió ampliada francesa], , p. 313-316
 Real, Elena, Épica medieval francesa. Madrid: Síntesis, 2002  p. 136-138

Enllaços externs
 Base de dades ARLIMA

Matèria de França
Primera Croada
Cançons de gesta franceses

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        # Load any waiting raw serial data into a list.
        rawList = []
        while G.serialPort.inWaiting() > 0:
            nwait = G.serialPort.inWaiting()
            raw = G.serialPort.read(nwait)
            rawList.append(raw)

        print "Raw hex data string from serial port:"
        print rawList

        # Take the raw serial data and turns in into a list of bytes.
        dList = []
        for i in range(0,len(rawList[0])):
            dList.append(ord(rawList[0][i]))

        print "Processed data list from serial port:"
        print dList

#--------------------------
# run the above main() code
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


In Philadelphia many of the homes were built over 100 years ago. As electricians we often see older knob and tube also known as KT wiring in homes throughout the city of brotherly love. When the temperatures rise, the need for air conditioning becomes important to stay cool. Many people not aware of their older wiring wind up plugging units into a receptacle that cannot handle such a load. This can create overheating and a potential of power outage or even fire. We at Lauterborn Electric strongly recommend making sure the receptacle you will be using to plug in your air conditioner has the proper sized wiring. Contact your licensed electrical contractor Lauterborn Electric for all of your electrical needs.


How we cut a heavy admin dashboard response time in half with advanced SQL and some Django hackery. I recently had the pleasure of optimizing an old dashboard. The solution we came up with required some advanced SQL that Django does not support out of the box. In this article I present the solution, how we got to it, and a word of caution.
Modeling polymorphism in relational databases is a challenging task. In this article, we present several modeling techniques to represent polymorphic objects in a relational database using the Django object-relational mapping (ORM).
The days of desktop systems serving single users are long gone. Web applications nowadays are serving millions of users at the same time. With many users comes a wide range of new problems: concurrency problems. In this article we describe two approaches for managing concurrency in Django models.
A rundown of all the ways you can use Prefetch to speed up queries in Django.
We recently added a bank account like functionality into one of our products. During the development we encountered some textbook problems and I thought it can be a good opportunity to go over some of the patterns we use in our Django models.


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    version=open('cloudstack/version').read().strip(),
    author='Stefan Kjartansson',
    author_email='esteban.supreme@gmail.com',
    url='http://www.greenqloud.com',
    description='Cloud.com Cloudstack API client',
    packages=find_packages(),
    install_requires=[
    ],
    include_package_data=True,
    classifiers=[
    'Intended Audience :: Developers',
    'Intended Audience :: System Administrators',
    'Operating System :: OS Independent',
    'Topic :: Software Development',
    'Topic :: Cloud Computing'
],)


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Shaun _King
Despite Liberalizing Marijuana Laws, the War on Drugs Still Targets People of Color
January 25 2018, 9:13 p.m.
Leia em português
New York City police officers stop a man for suspected K2 possession, July 14, 2016 on the border of the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick neighborhoods in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The huge failure we know as the "war on drugs" is back in full force under the Trump administration, thanks in no small part to Attorney General Jeff Sessions's retrograde tough-on-crime approach to drugs. It's not hard to understand why someone like Sessions, with a history of racism, would love the war on drugs: In reality, it was always a war on a very particular set of people — and you can probably guess who those people are. And yet despite Sessions's best efforts, there's been a lot of progress on legalizing marijuana; opinions are changing and, in a lot of places, so are laws.
At the intersection of these pushes to legalize weed and the so-called war on drugs, there are a bevy of major scandals unfolding, all of which are ravaging communities of color. And here's the thing about these scandals: They can't simply be blamed on President Donald Trump and his team. Instead, they're deeply rooted in a bipartisan type of anti-blackness.
First, the lay of the land: Eight states and Washington, D.C., have now legalized recreational marijuana. Another 14 states have decriminalized recreational marijuana use, meaning you still can't legally buy weed, but if you are caught with very small portions of it, you are supposed to either get a pass or a citation. Twenty-nine states have now legalized varying forms of medical marijuana.
All of this talk of legalization and decriminalization gave me the wrong impression: I had thought that we were working toward ending the war on drugs. But arrests and imprisonment for marijuana possession are still in full effect — even in places where it has been legalized or decriminalized. How did this happen?
In 2016, more people were arrested for simple marijuana possession in the United States than all violent crimes combined.
In 2016, more people were arrested for simple marijuana possession in the United States than all violent crimes combined. More than one person is arrested every minute for marijuana possession in this country. An astounding 574,641 people were arrested for simple marijuana possession in the U.S. in 2016 — that's 89 percent of all marijuana-related arrests. These aren't dealers, distributors, or kingpins. They are just everyday people with a little bit of weed.
The continuing arrests are part of a long pattern. From 2000 to 2010, an astounding 7,216,000 arrests were made in the U.S. for simple marijuana possession. How many lives were ruined as a result? How many people lost their jobs? Their right to vote? How many of those people lost their college financial aid? How many were jailed or sent to prison? How many of those people were moms or dads that were ripped away from their families?
What we do know is that they were black. In spite of countless studies showing that African-Americans and white people use marijuana at almost the exact same rate, African-Americans are 375 percent more likely to be arrested for it. In fact, if as few people of color were incarcerated as white people, America's prison population would plummet by 40 percent.
Can anyone really believe this disparity is accidental? It's not — that's why it happens from coast to coast. America's criminal justice policies — and their selective racial enforcement — are deeply rooted in racism and systemic white supremacy. This conclusion, thanks to Michelle Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow" and Ava DuVernay's documentary "13th," is more widely accepted than it's ever been, but the scandal continues. And isn't a partisan one.
Police are viewed in an area which has witnessed an explosion in the use of K2 or "spice," a synthetic marijuana drug, in East Harlem on Sept. 16, 2015 in New York.
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Take New York City, where I live. The city's leaders have openly bragged about the decriminalization of marijuana, but arrests for simple possession actually went up by 9 percent from 2015 to 2016, with 18,136 people arrested. In a 2016 interview, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said, "We stopped the arrest for low-level marijuana possession." But that's simply not true: 96 percent of those arrested in New York were busted for low-level possession. Over 50 people a day are still being arrested for it in New York City alone.
Most of those arrests, predictably, are happening in communities of color. The new numbers for New York City's 2017 marijuana arrests just came out and they hardly budged — arrests declined by about 1 percent, disappointing many advocates and attorneys who took the mayor's word on this issue.
Democrats dominate in New York. In addition to its liberal mayor, 47 of 51 city council members are Democrats. New York can't blame arresting 50 people a day for low-level marijuana possession on Sessions or Trump.
New York can't blame arresting 50 people a day for low-level marijuana possession on Jeff Sessions or Donald Trump.
Neither can most of America's largest cities — where a huge percentage of these arrests go down — and where Democrats have ruled for decades.
This disparity extends to places that have legalized weed — and not just medical marijuana. As far as arrests go, the legalization wave has mainly helped white people. In Colorado, which legalized recreational marijuana, arrests of white people have plummeted, but arrests of African-Americans and Latinos have actually skyrocketed as much as 50 percent. One has to ask: For whom did Colorado make marijuana legal?
Then there is the economic justice side of things. Millions of African-Americans have gone to jail for marijuana possession and distribution; hundreds of thousands remain in jail at this very moment. And while African-Americans continue to pay an enormous price for marijuana prohibition, a legal weed economy is exploding. In California, the weed economy is worth about $7 billion, and it's going to grow exponentially.
Who do you think owns these businesses? That's right: The weed industry is dominated by white ownership. I recently picked up a magazine that was all about the marijuana industry. Not a single black or Latino face was in the entire magazine.
That people of color are largely shut out of the legal cannabis industry, after paying the heaviest price for it, is the definition of white privilege.
We've seen this sort of exploitation many times. We celebrate, as we should, Jackie Robinson entering Major League Baseball. But when MLB "integrated," it only integrated the teams, not the front offices or ownership groups. The integration of baseball then meant the destruction of the Negro League and every black-owned franchise that came with it. Generations later, not a single team in baseball is black-owned. The same is true for basketball. Even the Harlem Globetrotters is owned by white people.
What we have right now is a type of marijuana apartheid, a de facto policy of segregation on this issue, in which one lived reality exists for white America on weed and a completely different, more punitive and costly reality exists for African-Americans. Of course it's unfair, but it damn sure is as American as apple pie. Even if we've already passed the bygone golden years of bipartisan cooperation on criminal justice reform, it's time for Democrats to lead on this issue. But judging by the fact that Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., has just one single co-sponsor for his progressive legislation on the matter, it doesn't look like Democrats have a real plan here. Do they ever?
Correction: Jan. 26, 2018
Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story said that closing the racial disparity of marijuana arrests would cause the prison population to drop by 40 percent. The story was corrected to say that closing the racial disparity of people incarcerated for all crimes would cause that drop in the prison population.
Shaun King[email protected]gmail.com@ShaunKing


At The Art Of Entrepreneurship conference and was lucky enough to hear Debbie Travis share her journey to success. She was funny and real, and she didn't shy away from speaking her mind. Midway through her presentation she surveyed the audience of 300+ entrepreneurs and asked if they thought of themselves as a brand.
In this day of Facebook and social media, everyone in this room is a brand and it's important to know what your brand stands for.
Sit down and make a list of everything you believe yourself to be.
Your list is your brand.
No matter how self-aware you are, it's difficult to bridge the gap between who we are and who we think we are with in the person we'd like to be.
Billion dollar industries are built on the gap between who we are and who we think we are, and all the self-honesty in the world is not going to overcome it completely.
A lot of people don't like to think of themselves in terms of branding. Myself included. In fact, whenever anyone mentions personal branding, I tend to react with a mixture of annoyance, repulsion and general uneasiness. This is a sentiment shared by Shelly Lazarus, former CEO of Ogilvy and Mather, in a Harvard Business Review article on personal branding, where she says she also hates it when people talk about personal branding.
The concept of branding is understood in how it's used in advertising, often meant to persuade and covertly manipulate you into buying something you don't really want or need. Apply that same principle to personal branding and it carries with it a connotation of superficiality. You are now a commodity, trying to trick people into believing you're someone you're not to get them to buy what you're selling. If you look at branding from the point of view of defining what it is that you stand for and believe, the idea becomes more logical and palatable. What we stand for and believe is shaped by our experiences and expressed in our decisions. Our actions are an expression self-based on our values that provide the framework from which we make decisions.
To authentically discover your brand, instead of listing the values you think you have or the ones you want, work backwards from your lived experiences. Start with a list of your major events and moment in your life and work out what the demonstrated value of your actions. Not only is it authentic to you, you also build credibility because you can give an example by pointing to the source experience. I propose the following adaptation to Debbie's exercise.
Group similar values together. Take the Top 3 to form the basis of your values based brand.
By discovering your brand this way, it will be more authentic because it's born out of your own experiences and life just might feel easier, because you're not trying to fit and change yourself into something you're not, you're just you.


Captain America Is Dead!! Oh No!
The funeral is attended by the large crowd of mourners. Rain is falling and making it miserable for everyone attending. Thousands of patriots have come to pay their last respects for a fallen hero. The casket is draped with the American flag and the pallbearers are recognized by everyone....The Black Panther, Ms. Marvel, Ironman and Ben Grimm. In the eulogy given by the Falcon, he calls for all superheros to stand and honor their fallen friend.
Captain America is dead. He is being laid to rest by Marvel comics in the issue called "Fallen Son" due out sometime after the 4th of July. The hero has fought Adolf Hitler and the Red Skull, leader of the Avengers, who died by sniper fire at the steps of the federal court house.
Now the question remains. How does America do without Captain America?
What Do Ya Use Pancake Batter And Toothpaste For?
This came up in a news story recently. So, what do you use pancake batter and toothpaste for? Well, I wouldn't use them together for anything. Yuk! But a few enterprising inmates at a city jail used that combo for what looked like mortar. Didn't really think that mess would look like mortar together though.
Who woulda thought? It did fake out the local law enforcement for a while but nothing stays hidden for long. They found it over the weekend. But because of that little trick, new steel plates are being put into the inner walls of the jail cells in Scott City, Mo. now. So, what DID they use toothpaste and pancake batter for, hmm? Apparently, inmates removed a block of the wall in the jail and made a nice hole so that a female inmate could visit a male inmate in the next cell over. It wasn't for the purpose of gaining freedom. Well, that would be because they can't get out due to the steel plates in the outside walls.
Guess that means the next round of inmates will have it a bit tougher. No pancake batter for you guys tonight!!
The woman who headed up the EPA during the Sept.11th disaster and the aftermath was hit by boos and accusations about her assurances that the workers onsite were able to breathe safely. She was confronted by critics who say that the area was not at all safe for workers who were trying to save as many survivors as possible. Then they were working to clean up and to unearth bodies in the aftermath of the most horrendous disaster since Pearl Harbor's attack by the Japanese.
For three hours, the former EPA head, Christie Whitman, faced charges by the chairman of the meeting, Rep. Jerrold Nadler and her critics who stated that the statements that the area around the World Trade Center was safe to work in were giving people a false sense of security when, in fact, it was quite dangerous to be there breathing without safety equipment. The confrontation became quite heated at times.
Whitman did maintain that the workers were warned to use respirators while in the rest of Manhattan it was safe to live and breath the air.
However, since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center government reviews of the EPA actions are critical and state that they failed in many ways. For instance, a study of the ground zero rescue workers shows that fully 70 percent of them have some sort of respiratory illness. In a separate study they found that rescue workers and firefighters came down with sarcoidosis, a lung-scarring disease, at five times as high as in previous years.
Whitman continues to say that what she has stated about the days after the attacks was that ground zero needed the respirators but that away from the site, it was possible to get back into normal living.
Two guys who were fed up with the fees that eBay was making sellers pay, started their own auction online in 2003. It's called MightyBids.com. It was not charging the fees for listing and other misc. items that eBay did. They only charged when an item actually sold. Unfortunately, that cost them plenty and now are unable to keep the site going. So, what do you do with an auction site that needs to be sold? Why, you put it up for auction.....where else? On eBay.
MightyBids.com went up on Thursday night. As of today, it stands at 44 bids with a current price tag of a pretty paltry $25,100 with the undisclosed reserve not met as yet. But the sellers are confident that it will go for a much higher rate. They claim that MightyBids has 100,000 members, rates a Google PR of 5, #1 on Google.ca where they live in Canada. There are 9 domains included as well. Not a bad deal for the right person or people. With a little advertising, it's likely to get popular, especially among those who are tired of eBay and their constant need for cash. Fees raise quite often on eBay.
One of the owners had gotten completely fed up with eBays fees because he was selling art work and even though he only sold a few pieces, the fees were costing about $1,200 a month for 50-100 items being listed at a time.
Bob Barker, after leaving his signature role as game show host on "The Price Is Right", spoke to reporters at the Daytime Emmys that he thought Rosie O'Donnell would make a good replacement for him. However, it seems that somebody took that as an endorsement. Now, he is backpedalling as fast as possible saying that he does not have any input on who is going to be chosen as his replacement.
Barker told the Associated Press on Wednesday that he wasn't endorsing anyone and no one should take it that way. He said that he hadn't been asked for his opinion and wasn't going to give it. Several people are up for the job as game show host for "The Price Is Right" so it is still up in the air. No one will be announced for a while. The Price Is Right" is on hiatus until the new season starts in the fall.
Way up north, not in Alaska, but in the oil fields in the Arctic, they have a resource that some Russian minister wants to tap into. He might actually have something there. The oil fields produce the usual and a byproduct called "associated gas" which needs to be burned off called "flaring".
But if there could be another use for it, then it could help make other products. The Russian minister wants to use the associated gas piped down south to greenhouses for using to grow cucumbers. Sounds like a great idea....except they really do not have a pipeline for this stuff. Ah, but you could then build the greenhouses on the spot and grow cucumbers right there.
Guess it sounds like a good idea until you realize that while cucumbers are a major staple of the Russian diet, it is also true that they are plentiful in the south. Ah...well it worked for a couple of seconds anyway.
What do you do on weekends? I know I have time to read, work on the computer and rest a bit. What do other people do? Well, one guy decided to run naked through a school. I can't actually say that happened on a weekend. It was really Thursday morning. We know that no students were in the building at the time.
Apparently, some guy who appears to be a former student, was seen by the Central Tech custodian in Erie, Pa. It was actually in the wee hours of the morning at 6am. He just happened to have clothing in his hands as he ran away. The police have him on surveilance cameras as he broke into the school through a window and wandered around for about 15 minutes.
The man accused of creating and sending out millions of spam emails to millions of people who was arrested May 30th appeared in a Seattle court yesterday and asked for bail. Are you kidding me? What? So he could get out and email more spam? HA! The judge saw through that ploy and denied him bail. He is to stay in jail until his court date Aug 6th. The reason for denial was because he had few ties in Washington state and many in Sweden where he is from originally.
The judge in the case, US. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue stated "These are allegations of cyber crimes that have no geographical borders. It's just as easy to continue these actions in Sweden as it is in the United States." Way to go, Judge!
Robert Soloway, nicknamed the "Spam King", has been charged with 35 counts including mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft. He could actually get up to 20 years in prison for all of this. Thing is, this is more or less a test case since no one has ever gotten caught doing this much cyber-theft and cyber-spamming.
This guy is bad news all right. In court yesterday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Warma said that Soloway told his customers who tried to get refunds that he would take them to a collection agency and ruin their credit. Nice guy. Ah but that's not all. He made it so that people were unable to opt-out of his spam list, costing them a lot of time and money. Nice guys like that need to have some time in prison. One more thing. Apparently the Judge could see though this guy's plans since he said that Soloway seemed to have no interest in abiding by the court's rulings. Oh, I get it. Soloway doesn't play well with others. Got it.
At Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro, Ark., today a 13 year old girl, walking with her parents and other family members came across a rather unusual find, even for that park....a tea-colored, 2.93-carat diamond. She picked it up on a path through the park. The girl calls the spectacular find "Pathfinder Diamond" because when she found it, she picked up what she called a broken pyramid.
According to the teen, not only did the parents and family get excited but so did two of the park rangers. So far this year, visitors have found 332 diamonds, three on Tuesday. Previously, a 4 carat diamond had been found and was appraised at between $15,000 to $60,000. One of the rangers did say that there were imperfections and chips in the girl's diamond.
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only diamond-producing site which is open to the public. Visitors who find diamonds are allowed to keep them. On average, two diamonds are found each day.
Want to know how big the largest diamond found there was? A 16.37-carat Amarillo Starlight white diamond in 1975 by a visitor from Texas.
The guy who had TB and traveled on an airplane is now in treatment in Denver where they specialize in this type or resistant TB. The man, who ironically is a personal injury lawyer, knew that he had TB when he boarded a plane for Europe from Atlanta in mid May. The tragedy is that he was headed there for his wedding and honeymoon and could have infected many people in the process. He says that he did NOT know that the particular extremely dangerous strain was drug resistant until he got to Rome.
Unfortunately, this is a person who does not listen to advice well since he was told not to board another long flight by federal health officials but he did that anyway on his way home for the treatment of the TB. Federal officials then quarantined in the first action of it's kind since 1963.
Also ironic is the fact that his new father-in-law is a CDC microbiologist specializing in the spread of TB. He says that he gave the young man of 31 some "fatherly" advice. Apparently since then, the man sought treatment.
Officials at the Denver hospital believe that he is in the early stages of the disease and appears to be healthy. They are optimistic that he can be cured. They have quarantined him in a room he will not be able to leave for several weeks.
In the meanwhile, health officials in Europe and North America are trying to track down some 80 or so passengers who traveled on the same flights with him as well as the short flights he took while in Europe.
Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Together And Nice! WOW!
Huge rivals, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates who have been at war with each other for years, have come together in one place to talk nicey nice about each other. Have I landed in the twilight zone? No, they showed up to have a 90 minute chat with Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg and technology reporter Kara Swisher at the newspaper's "D: All Things Digital" conference.
Both guys were going back over the things they have accomplished over the last years. One of the people, Swisher, asked about the misunderstanding that has been in the way for years, the reply was "We've kept our marriage secret for over a decade now." joked Steve Jobs.
"Neither of us have anything to complain about, in general. It's been fun to work together." said Bill Gates.
Microsoft and Apple worked together for some time in the 1970's but they are still big rivals.
While this may sound a tad funny, it is anything but funny. In San Jose, Costa Rica, the frogs are becoming extinct. They are only one of several populations including reptile and monkey that are disappearing from the area. The culprit appears to be global warming or so say the usual range of experts who, I have decided, generally know about as much as we do about it, which is likely to be little and none at all.
17 amphibian species are gone without a trace, 5 of which are indigenous to Costa Rica only. Scientists are now saying that this is only a taste of what is to come. It is likely to be devastating to the world. Yes, that would be true. With these creatures disappearing, a time will come when other, certainly more familiar species will be extinct as well. Why? Because of man's intrusion so say the scientists. Global warming is the big culprit. The lush jungles of Costa Rica are only a few of several areas in the world that have the same problems.
In La Selva, a biological station run by Duke University, scientists discovered that a 75 percent decline in amphibian population has happened over the last 35 years or so. Scientists do suspect a higher temperature which is inhibiting plant growth. Reptiles and insect populations are on the decline as well around the biological station. They are not the only ones affected. The monkey population diminishing too.
Is it a scare tactic for these statistics to come out? No. It is now time to see that the last days are upon us and that we need to make up our minds to deal with it by seeking the Lord Jesus. The time is so short.
For more information on this and other subjects like it, please visit Lura's Bookcase.
Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?"
Customer: "Hi, I'd like to place an order."
Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas."
Customer: "Damn. What do you recommend, then?"
Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it."
Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something ! like that?"
Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones,then."
Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your your kids, sir. Your total is $49.99."
Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid up.
Customer: "Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke".
A few years ago, I read this and thought it was sort of funny. Today I believe that we are all too close to this and now it horrifies me. The Real ID Act is about to come upon us in May of 2008. When it happens, you will be recycled into an ID card that carries all of the necessary info for your driver's license, credit card, atm card, debit card and all other reasons for an ID.
Not many seem to be hollering about it. So, I will holler about it until people wake up. AMERICA!! WAKE UP!!! This is a liberty buster. This is going to result in something far more terrible than it looks. Where is your interest in privacy? In Fairness? In the liberty we once actually knew in this country? Frankly, I am certain that the reason this is happening is because you do not know what real liberty is if you were born less than 40 years ago, possibly longer. WAKE UP!!! YOUR LIBERTY, YOUR PEACE, YOUR RIGHTS ARE GOING DOWN THE TUBES AND YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IT!!!! WAKE UP!!!
Hey guys, let's invade our neighbor. Well, we can't actually do that but we can sorta do it. EEEEK! Mistake! We didn't mean to. We're sorry. Next time I'm bringing a compass!
170 Swiss soldiers (Didn't know Switzerland had soldiers) were on some type of training mission and trekked into their neighbor's yard....well, the road into Liechtenstein. Guess they didn't know they were in foreign territory for a while. When they figured it out, somebody must have yelled the Swiss version of "OOPS!" Anyway, I should tell you that the guys were in the rain. It was really hard to see and they were inside the borders before they knew it. Of course, Liechtenstein is about the size of Washington, DC, so it was just as likely that, if they had kept going, they would have invaded another country, while they were at it.
But, the neighbors are okay with this. Nobody thinks that the Swiss army is a danger to them in that region anyway. Now, that is a great day. By the way, there was an official apology given. All is well.
March 3, 2007 — Talk about a surprise invasion.
Switzerland's army marched into neighboring Liechtenstein this week. But easy-going Liechtenstein seemed to take it in stride. "It has happened before," Liechtenstein government spokeswoman Gerlinde Manz-Christ told ABC News. "Nobody really realized it."
Early Thursday, 170 Swiss soldiers on a training mission got lost in the rain and wandered over the unmarked border. They were a mile into Liechtenstein before they realized their mistake.


I always get this soothing effect after I have carried out my periodic HR Audit. It's my routine check-up to assess the health of the HR department and uncover any conditions that need to be addressed.
One is in position to ascertain which tools are absent and yet vital in the human resource management day to day operations.
An HR Audit informs areas where HR functions are working well, functions that need improvement and areas where HR is not complying to internal or external set standards, regulations and laws.
The process instills a sense of confidence in management and the human resources function that it is well managed and prepared to meet potential challenges.
A "due diligence" review for shareholders or potential investors/owners.
Is there open communication to and from the HR department?
The Organogram in place supports the business model.
Are employee rules and regulations in place? Are they communicated? Are they enforced?
HR work processes clearly defined from start to end. Are the same processes used for all jobs, all locations? Are processes followed consistently?
What human resource planning processes are used?
Are there periodic analysis of the demand and supply of labour? Talent management plans?
How are candidates sourced? Are job openings first offered to current employees? How are candidates selected?
What are the on-boarding practices? Are applicant references checked? Do employee orientations take place?
Are there up-to-date job descriptions? Are employees correctly designated?
Human Resource Information System with Self-service in place. How up-to-date is the technology? Is the data clean?
HR Analytical reporting: ratios, metrics, statistics and trends Are turnover rates monitored?
Up to date and accurate employee manual files and record keeping in place.
Are workweeks identified and defined? Are full-time and part-time hours defined? Are shifts defined? How is overtime Compensated?
Compensation and benefits philosophy and practice. Pay equality. How is base pay policy set?
What grading/job evaluation systems are used? How are pay increments decided?
What variable pay practices are in place? What is the overall benefits plan?
Promotion and advancement practices and trends. Are there any critical skills shortages? What succession planning processes are used? Are there any critical succession issues?
Support of employees career goals. Are there any staff development programs?
How is the training program managed? How much training is given?
Employee complaints management (discrimination, harassment, safety, other).
Equal opportunities and positive action. What unions exist and what jobs are covered? What collective agreements are in place, when do they expire?
Workforce diversity; Is there anything unusual in the distribution of worker age, gender, ethnicity etc.?
Employee perceptions of the company and top management How many grievances are there per year? Are there any outstanding grievances?
How are disciplinary issues handled to ensure fair decisions.
Are processes in place to manage compliance issues for all relevant jurisdictions? Is there any outstanding litigation?
Do exit interviews take place? Are final paychecks provided on time? Are terminal benefits accurately computed?
This entry was posted on 20/11/2013 by gztibs.


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What does Decalage mean in psychology?
Home New What does Decalage mean in psychology?
What is the meaning of Decalage?
What is psychological conservation?
Who described a phenomenon called horizontal Decalage?
What does the word decolletage mean in English?
What is an example of horizontal Decalage?
What is vertical decalage in psychology?
What is Piaget's decalage theory?
How long is the horizontal décalage of a child?
Horizontal décalage is a concept in Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development and refers to the observation that once a child has the capability to perform a certain task or function they don't know how to immediately apply the concept to other functions or tasks that share the same conceptual ideation.
Definition of decalage : the difference between the angles of incidence of the two wings of a biplane that is positive if the incidence of the upper wing is greater than that of the lower.
What is Decalage Piaget?
in Piagetian theory, the invariant order in which accomplishments occur within a particular stage of development. For example, an understanding of conservation of quantity is always achieved before understanding conservation of weight, which is achieved before understanding conservation of volume.
Conservation psychology is the scientific study of the reciprocal relationships between humans and the rest of nature, with the goal of encouraging conservation of the natural world.
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Horizontal and vertical décalage are terms coined by developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, which he used to describe the four stages in Piaget's theory of cognitive development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations.
How the term horizontal Decalage is best defined?
6. How is the term 'horizontal décalage' best defined? The socially transformed products of the child's initial endowment. A way of describing the unevenness in children's mastery of the different forms of a concept such as conservation.
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Horizontal decalage the ability for a chilld to know that a piece of play dough has the same mass when it is in a ball shape and when it is in a sausage shape. It is not until two years later that children appreciate that the weight will remain the same as well.
What is vertical Decalage example?
A commonly cited example of vertical décalage "can be observed between the constitution of practical or sensorimotor space and that of representative space " For example, at the age of 2, a child can navigate around a familiar environment, such as their home.
There is vertical décalage between a problem that a child can physically master and their ability to solve it in an abstract manner. Some psychologists take a neural network model approach to the idea of horizontal and vertical décalage.
DECALAGE. Nugent, Pam M.S. Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development about the invariant order that cognitive developments occur in. See horizontal or vertical decalage. DECALAGE: "Decalage is a French word meaning an interval or shift.".
Who coined the term décalage?
The term 'décalage' was first used in psychology by Édouard Claparède, a Swiss neurologist and child psychologist, in 1917 in reference to consciousness. Long before Piaget coined the term, his studies in 1921 brought to light the idea that some tasks are more demanding for children than others based on their complexity.
A series of studies by Piaget and Szeminska in 1941 and Piaget and Inhelder in 1967 revealed a horizontal décalage of approximately three years on tasks of length and weight seriation. The scientists tested 37 five- to ten-year-old boys and girls.
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NiSource Inc NI delivered net operating earnings of 11 cents per share in third-quarter 2021, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 10 cents by a penny. The same improved 22.2% from the year-ago quarter's figure.
On a GAAP basis, the company reported earnings of 12 cents per share against the loss figure of 49 cents in the year-ago quarter.
Total operating revenues of $959.4 million generated in the third quarter lagged the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $990 million by 3.1%. However, the top line improved 6.3% from $902.5 million reported in the year-ago quarter.
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Total operating expenses in the quarter under review rose 0.3% year over year to $812.3 million.
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In the reported quarter, the company reached a settlement for the Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania 2021 base rate case while it filed another such case for the Northern Indiana Public Service Company.
NiSource's cash and cash equivalents as of Sep 30, 2021 were $38.5 million, down from $116.5 million as of Dec 31, 2020.
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NiSource reaffirmed its prior 2021 non-GAAP net operating earnings guidance in the range of $1.32-$1.36 and initiated the same for 2022 in the range of $1.42-$1.48 per share. It expects earnings to see a CAGR of 7-9% from 2021 through 2024 including a near-term annual growth rate of 5-7% through 2023.
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An asynchronous regional regression model for statistical downscaling of daily climate variables
Anne M.K. Stoner, Katharine Hayhoe, Xiaohui Yang, Donald J. Wuebbles
The asynchronous regional regression model (ARRM) is a flexible and computationally efficient statistical model that can downscale station-based or gridded daily values of any variable that can be transformed into an approximately symmetric distribution and for which a large-scale predictor exists. This technique was developed to bridge the gap between large-scale outputs from atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) and the fine-scale output required for local and regional climate impact assessments. ARRM uses piecewise regression to quantify the relationship between observed and modelled quantiles and then downscale future projections. Here, we evaluate the performance of three successive versions of the model in downscaling daily minimum and maximum temperature and precipitation for 20 stations in North America from diverse climate zones. Using cross-validation to maximize the independent comparison period, historical downscaled simulations are evaluated relative to observations in terms of three different quantities: the probability distributions, giving a visual image of the skill of each model; root-mean-square errors; and bias in nine quantiles that represent both means and extremes. Successive versions of the model show improved accuracy in simulating extremes, where AOGCMs are often most biased and which are frequently the focus of impact studies. Overall, the quantile regression-based technique is shown to be efficient, robust, and highly generalizable across multiple variables, regions, and climate model inputs.
International Journal of Climatology
https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.3603
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Stoner, A. M. K., Hayhoe, K., Yang, X., & Wuebbles, D. J. (2013). An asynchronous regional regression model for statistical downscaling of daily climate variables. International Journal of Climatology, 33(11), 2473-2494. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.3603
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Dr George Grey (sometimes spelled Gray), medical practitioner and naturalist at Cradock in the 1870's, should not be confused with George R. Grey* who was active in geology and exploration in the Transvaal and further north in the late 1890's.
Dr George Grey qualified as a licentiate of the Apothecaries' Society of London (LSA) in 1841. Later he studied medicine at Edinburgh and qualified as Doctor of Medicine (MD) and member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS) in 1854. By 1862 he had settled in Cradock, Cape Colony, where he was attached to the British Army. He remained there for many years. In 1875 he applied for an appointment as district surgeon, but he was licensed to practice medicine in the Cape only in September 1879.
In January 1870 a letter from Grey was read at a meeting of the Albany Natural History Society in Grahamstown. It was accompanied by a collection of fossil fish remains from the coalfields of Newcastle, England, which he had received from two Englishmen, Dr Phillipson and T.P. Barkas, FGS. Grey also sent the society a piece of slate from Cradock which contained minute bivalve shells. (He should not be confused with the British zoologist, Dr [J.O.] Gray, FRS, who's opinions were often cited at meetings of the Albany Natural History Society in 1869). At a subsequent meeting of the society in October 1872 mention was made of a small sample of highly bituminous coal from the Stormberg near Cradock which Grey had sent to J. Hellier*.
Dr Grey published an account of "A climb up the Thebus Berg" (now Teebus, a mountain some 80 km north of Cradock) in the Cape Monthly Magazine (Series 2, 1871, Vol. 3, pp. 114-118). By this time he was a Fellow of the Geological Society of Edinburgh. Two geological communications by him, dating from 1870 and 1871, were sent to T.R. Jones* and added to the latter's collection of geological manuscripts pertaining to South Africa. The first of these dealt with fossils from Cradock and elsewhere. The second comprised specimens and notes and was communicated by Jones, under Grey's name, as "Remarks on some specimens from South Africa" to the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1871, Vol. 27(1), pp. 49-52).
In 1874 Grey published a paper, "Herb poisoning at the Cape of Good Hope" in the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions (London), in which he alluded to an outbreak of tulip poisoning (Family Iridaceae) in the Middelburg district of the Cape. The poisonous nature of these plants was already well known at the time.
By the time that the British palaeontologist H.G. Seeley* visited South Africa in 1889 Dr Grey had died or left the colony, though he was still listed in the Medical and pharmacy register of the Cape in 1893. He was remembered for having found many fossils in the Tarka, a region north-east of Cradock. His donations to the Albany Museum included fossil vertebrae of Dicynodon from Cradock, other reptilian remains, and some plant fossils from Stormberg (near Molteno).
Grey was married to Mary Frances Cook (1839-1886), with whom he had a daughter and three sons. His youngest son was born at Cradock in 1872.
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Q: Java rotated buffered image gets cut off Firstly, I am trying to make a simple game in Java. I have a viewport that shows a tile map and I have a tank in the middle that moves by controlling the JScrollBars of the scrollpane in which the viewport resides in. So far everything has been going well, until I needed to rotate an image. Here is a picture of the game: Note: the tank body and tilemap are on seperate panels and do not share the same graphics.
Picture of non rotated tank body:

Essentially, I want to rotate a buffered image around its center (rotating in place) using arrow keys. I already have the code for the keys, and I also have a method to try and rotate the buffered image given a buffered image and angle in degrees (the angle is changed to radians in the method). This method will return a buffered image that is rotated correctly. Here is the code:
public static BufferedImage rotateImage(BufferedImage image, double angle) {
        if(angle == 0)
            return image;
        else {

            angle = Math.toRadians(angle);
            double x = Math.abs(Math.cos(angle));
            double y = Math.abs(Math.sin(angle));
            int newWidth = (int) Math.floor(image.getWidth()*x + image.getHeight()*y);
            int newHeight = (int) Math.floor(image.getHeight()*x + image.getWidth()*y);

            BufferedImage rotated = new BufferedImage(newWidth, newHeight, image.getType());
            Graphics2D tool = rotated.createGraphics();

            AffineTransform transformer = new AffineTransform();
            transformer.rotate(angle, image.getWidth()/2, image.getHeight()/2);
            tool.drawImage(image, transformer, null);
            tool.dispose();

            return rotated;
        }
    }

However, as the title suggests, the image gets cut off at the top and left sides of the image when rotated as shown:
Picture of rotated tank body:

So I have looked at many different forums but I could not solve my problem. I could add whitespace around the image, but that interferes a lot with collision detection which I plan to do later on. I know that it has to do something with the original display being smaller than the display of the rotated image, and I have tried to translate accordingly in many ways. If I translate with this line of code specifically,
transformer.translate((newWidth - image.getWidth())/2, (newHeight - image.getHeight())/2);

Then the image (tank body) rotates without cutting, but bounces out of place as shown (I drew a rectangle to show where it was):
Picture of rotated tank with translation:

I also have tried negating the translations too but it only avails to funky movements.
So, I really have no clue how to solve this, and I have been spending too much time on this problem. I would really appreciate a helpful answer that directly edits my method if possible.

A: Answer
So here is the opening idea that I needed to realize to answer this problem.
The method to translate and rotate is meant so that the image is not cut off. However, it won't be around the center as intended as seen in the 3rd picture. But again, the method is not intended to recenter it. The painting code itself needs to account for this shift. I simply added variables to account for this:
xOffset = (newWidth - image.getWidth())/2;
yOffset = (newHeight - image.getHeight())/2
And simply subtracted these from where I was painting the tank's body.
Thanks to @camickr for the solution

A: When rotating a square sprite around the center point, the target image should be larger than the original image by a factor of the square root of 2 (approx. 1.41). For example, a sprite will not be clipped at a rotation angle of 45 °.
I hope this information helps you to solve your problem.

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