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American Healthcare Investors Completed Nearly $262 Million
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- American Healthcare Investors, the co-sponsor of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, Inc. and Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, Inc., announced today that the company completed the acquisition of four medical office buildings, one integrated senior health campus and one land parcel for an aggregate contract purchase price of approximately $44 million, and completed developments for approximately $15 million during the fourth quarter of 2019 on behalf of the two real estate investment trusts, or the REITs. The firm completed nearly $262 million in aggregate acquisitions and developments based on contract purchase price on behalf of the REITs during the entirety of 2019.
"It was another active year of acquisitions on behalf of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, which acquired an excess of $201 million of aggregate acquisitions, based on contract purchase price, during the year and has established a mature portfolio valued at approximately $1.17 billion,"1 said Stefan Oh, executive vice president of acquisitions for American Healthcare Investors. "For Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, which owns an expansive international portfolio valued at more than $3.66 billion,2 we were able to identify attractive acquisition opportunities that complement the already impressive group of assets."
Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III purchased its first property in June 2014 and has since built a diversified international portfolio comprised of 220 healthcare properties and real estate-related investments acquired for $3.06 billion3 and which has an estimated value in excess of $3.66 billion.2 As of Dec. 31, 2019, the company's portfolio has a weighted average remaining lease term of 7.5 years4 and leased percentage of 91.9 percent.4
Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV purchased its first property in June 2016 and has since built a diversified portfolio comprised of 87 healthcare properties, including an interest in a joint venture which owns and operates a portfolio of integrated senior health campuses and ancillary businesses, acquired for $1.12 billion,5 and which has an estimated value in excess of $1.17 billion.1 As of Dec. 31, 2019, the company's portfolio has a weighted average remaining lease term of 8.6 years6 and leased percentage of 95.5 percent.6
Based on the gross real estate investments value estimated by an independent third-party valuation firm as of Dec. 31, 2018, including a joint venture interest acquired as of Dec. 31, 2018, and for properties acquired subsequent to Dec. 31, 2018, the aggregate contract purchase price as of Dec. 31, 2019.
Based on the gross real estate and real estate-related investments value estimated by an independent third-party valuation firm as of June 30, 2019 and for properties acquired and developed subsequent to June 30, 2019, the aggregate contract purchase price as of Dec. 31, 2019.
Based on aggregate contract purchase price of owned and/or operated real estate and real estate-related investments, including completed development projects and net of dispositions and principal repayments, as of Dec. 31, 2019.
Excludes the company's senior housing — RIDEA facilities and integrated senior health campuses. The company's senior housing — RIDEA facilities and integrated senior health campuses were 84.9 percent and 86.1 percent leased, respectively, for the year ended Dec. 31, 2019 and substantially all of the company's leases with residents at such properties are for a term of one year or less. The operation of healthcare-related facilities utilizing the structure permitted by the REIT Investment Diversification and Empowerment Act of 2007 is commonly referred to as a "RIDEA" structure.
Based on aggregate contract purchase price of real estate investments acquired as of Dec. 31, 2019, including an interest in a joint venture.
Excludes the company's senior housing — RIDEA facilities. The company's senior housing — RIDEA facilities were 83.2 percent leased for the year ended Dec. 31, 2019 and substantially all of the company's leases with residents at such properties are for a term of one year or less.
About American Healthcare Investors, LLC
American Healthcare Investors is an investment management firm that specializes in the acquisition and management of healthcare-related real estate. One of the world's largest managers of healthcare real estate, the company oversees an approximately 18 million-square-foot portfolio valued at approximately $4.1 billion, based on aggregate purchase price, on behalf of multiple investment programs that include thousands of individual and institutional investors. As of Dec. 31, 2019, this international portfolio includes approximately 307 buildings comprised of medical office buildings, hospitals, senior housing, skilled nursing facilities and integrated senior health campuses located throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. The company and its principals have completed approximately $27 billion in aggregate acquisition and disposition transactions, approximately $17 billion of which have been healthcare-related. American Healthcare Investors is committed to providing investors with access to the potential benefits that healthcare-related real estate ownership can provide. For more information regarding American Healthcare Investors, please visit www.AmericanHealthcareInvestors.com.
About Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, Inc.
Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III invests in a diversified portfolio of healthcare real estate assets, focusing primarily on medical office buildings, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, senior housing and other healthcare-related facilities. Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III qualified to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for federal income tax purposes beginning with its taxable year ended Dec. 31, 2014 and intends to continue to qualify to be taxed as a REIT. The REIT is co-sponsored by American Healthcare Investors, LLC and Griffin Capital Company. For more information regarding Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, please visit www.HealthcareREIT3.com.
About Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, Inc.
Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV intends to build a balanced and diversified portfolio of healthcare real estate assets, focusing primarily on medical office buildings, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, senior housing and other healthcare-related facilities. Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV also seeks to provide: portfolio diversification, preservation of capital, monthly distributions and capital appreciation by increasing the value of its properties for its stockholders. Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV qualified to be taxed as a REIT for federal income tax purposes beginning with its taxable year ended Dec. 31, 2016, and it intends to continue to qualify to be taxed as a REIT. The REIT is co-sponsored by American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Company. For more information regarding Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, please visit www.healthcarereitiv.com.
This release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, including statements with respect to the attractiveness of the new acquisitions to the REITs' existing portfolios. We intend for all forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act, as applicable by law. Because such statements include risks, uncertainties and contingencies, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and contingencies include, but are not limited to, the following: the strength and financial condition of the REITs' real estate investments and their tenants and operators; the uncertainties regarding changes in the healthcare industry; the uncertainties relating to changes in general economic and real estate conditions; the uncertainties relating to the implementation of the real estate investment strategies of the REITs; and other risk factors as detailed from time to time in the REITs' periodic reports, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements in this document speak only as of the date on which such statements were made, and we undertake no obligation to update any such statements that may become untrue because of subsequent events.
Damon Elder
Spotlight Marketing Communications
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For the Postal Service, can "digital" be more than a dirty word?
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For the U.S. Postal Service, the words "digital" and "opportunity" are two words that don't normally go together. After all, the mail carrier has lost billions of dollars in revenue to customers' growing fondness for Internet bill-paying, electronic greeting cards and so forth.
Last month, however, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced the launch of a "digital solutions group" intended to sniff out potential money-makers in the online sphere. More recently, the USPS inspector general has singled out one in particular: Putting the agency in the digital authentication business.
You can read the IG's full report here, but in a nutshell, the idea is to let the Postal Service verify that people and businesses are who they say they are online. Lest you start imagining Big Brother in a blue uniform, let's note that—at least in the IG's conception–the use of any such service would be voluntary, accompanied by "clear, comprehensive and concise" privacy guidelines.
But with the world of online commerce plagued by fraud and identity theft, the Postal Service is uniquely positioned to play a key part in the market for digital authentication services, according to the inspector general. Not only does it enjoy a high degree of public trust, but it is legally required to protect privacy, the report says, adding that some European posts already have such ventures under way.
exactly what kind of service they are going to get and the customer can like it or lump it! as current history shows, the customers are abandoning a company with such a vile attitude towards its customers!
Conservative rhetoric again. The Postal Sevice's parcel volume grew twice as fast as those competitors in the last year, It is rated number one in the world and it only has a financial problem because of a 2006 REPUBLICAN mandate to steal billions from the Service. Put that burden on UPS or Fed-Up and get back to us on how well they are doing. Conservatives preach about the Constitution but cannot accept the fact that the USPS, a Quasi Government agency is in the Constitution. Yeah, baby….its in there!
Harry Whitehouse, chief development office and co-founder of Endicia, believes the Postal service should be the go deliverer for every package under five pounds "And there's a ton of them". Think of the advantages the post office has with mailboxes, lock boxes, central box units to deliver these small packages. Think Donohue, delivery.
Only congress has the answer and they will not do anything short of Pivatization!
Many small-business owners still use the Post Office as a critical part of their marketing and communication strategy. Here are the top 10 reasons they want the USPS to survive.
1. It's economical. The top reason small-business owners love the USPS is that it saves them money shipping their products. Favorite features include the flat rate shipping boxes and no added charge to send items to rural areas. Brenda at Naughty and Nice Lingerie states that since her products are relatively lightweight, none of the other shipping companies can beat the USPS shipping costs.
5. Media mail. Although it takes longer than regular parcel shipments, the USPS gives special low rates to books and other types of media. Jamie at Sisters Grimm Bookstore says she would drastically have to increase her shipping prices if she was forced to use another method.
6. It offers business addresses. The P.O. box is critical for many people with home-based businesses. For example, it lets Paula Pant, owner of Cleopatra Properties, receive mail without disclosing her home address. Ironically, it also provides the required physical address needed by law on any e-mail mass-marketing communication.
7. It's relatively safe. The Web is still riddled with security risks. As one commercial for USPS states, letters have the added security of never getting a virus.
9. It's how they get paid. Most of the accounts receivable small businesses collect are still "checks in the mail." Even some electronic payments made by customers actually become mailed checks from the customer's bank.
As for the comments made by wakeupamerica, you have no idea of what cutting edge technology the Postal Serivice has or is capable of. And as far as comparing the Postal Service to FedEX and UPS. There overnight service should be good because that is the only service they have to concentrate on, PARCELS. I would be great also if that is ALL I had to deliver, duhhh. The Postal Service delivers mail, parcels, overnight deliver, advertisements, PO boxes to every address in the US….who else on this earth delivers mail. Once you tell me whom else delivers ALL of these service other than the Postal Service, then we can do the comparison.


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Renew your Driver's License
The Government of Prince Edward Island is returning the federal carbon levy to Islanders beginning January 1, 2019. As a result, a PEI driver's licence is now free. For details on this change and others, visit saving you money while helping the environment.
To renew your driver's license, you must appear in person at Access PEI to have your photo taken and your new card processed.
You may renew your driver's licence up to 5 months before the expiry date.
All licence/photo ID cards are now issued with design and security features to help prevent identity theft and fraud. When you renew your licence, you will receive a temporary document which is valid for 60 days. Your new card will be printed in an offsite facility and may take up to 14 business days to arrive in the mail. See Changes to Driver's Licence and Photo ID Card.
What is the fee to renew a driver's licence?
For the current fee for a driver's licence refer to Drivers Licence Fees.
All licensing and registration fees are prescribed in the Highway Traffic Act Fees Regulations.
What if my driver's licence expires?
If your licence has been expired for more than one year, but fewer than three, you must complete a vision test. If your licence has been expired for more than three years you must pass vision, knowledge and road tests. Contact Access PEI to arrange for testing.
What if I am out of province when my driver's license expires?
If you expect to be out of province at the time your license expires, you can renew as much as five months in advance of the expiry date.
If you are out of the province when your license expires and will be returning within six months you may request a one-time license extension. The extension is valid for up to six months and allows you to drive while you are away or to exchange your license in another jurisdiction.
How do I request a driver's license extension?
You must complete both an application for driver's licence and a client information form.
Is there a fee to request an extension?
Yes, the fee is 20 dollars.
Why do I have to wait for my new card to arrive in the mail?
Registry of Motor Vehicles uses computerized facial recognition software to prevent suspended drivers or fraudsters from getting a driver's licence or photo ID card. It takes a few days to complete this process and print your card.
Why can't I wear eyeglasses or smile in my photo?
Registry of Motor Vehicles uses computerized facial recognition software to help confirm your identity. Eyeglasses and smiling can prevent the facial recognition software from working its best.
How does this new process benefit me?
Road safety is improved - suspended drivers cannot get a new licence by using another person's identity.
Is computerized facial recognition reliable?
Yes facial recognition software has been used for many years by governments and businesses all over the world. It is a powerful and proven technology. However, it is not the only tool the Registry of Motor Vehicles uses. Every photo flagged by the system is double-checked by a person who is trained in facial recognition.
Will you share facial recognition data with anyone else?
The Province of Prince Edward Island is committed to protecting your privacy. Facial recognition data will not be shared with outside parties, except when required by court order.
For assistance or to request a driver's license extension,
Email: swat@gov.pe.ca
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Typhoon-ridden Dinagat Islands make Garage the province's seat of power
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The Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Dinagat Province counts 27,780 destroyed and 3,085 damaged houses in 7 cities
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – The Dinagat Islands provincial government has made a garage the seat of power for the province, where local officials are now preparing plans for rebuilding it.
As the main Capitol buildings were badly damaged and destroyed during the attack of Typhoon Odette (Rai) on December 16, workers built makeshift offices in the Capitol garage in Barangay Caurinta, San Jose, capital of Dinagat.
Josel Gonzales, chief of staff to Dinagat governor Arlene "Kaka" Bag-ao, said around 300 provincial government workers were crammed into the makeshift offices to enable continued government functions.
The Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council of Dinagat Province has also set up a makeshift base in Barangay Santa Cruz, also in the city of San Jose, where all disaster relief measures in the province are planned and coordinated.
"This is to ensure the delivery of goods and services to Dinagatnons while we work on rebuilding after Typhoon Odette," said Gonzales.
He said some of the biggest challenges for Dinagat now are restoring power and restoring the province's telecommunications signals, which were disrupted the day Odette landed.
Dinagat has been in the dark for over a week and cell phone signals are still very weak and limited in some areas after Odette hit the islands and destroyed the province's power and telecommunications infrastructures.
Bag-ao has sent officials and workers from the Dinagat Capitol to the Caraga mainland to establish communications with civil protection groups through the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). This means that you will have to travel all the way to Butuan City, where the power supply and telecommunication signals are relatively stable.
The reconstruction of homes and health facilities is also a major concern.
Thousands of families lost their homes in the worst environmental disaster to hit the Dinagat Islands in recent years.
The day Odette unleashed his anger there, "houses were swept like paper houses," Gonzales said.
The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) counted 27,780 homes destroyed and 3,085 damaged homes in seven towns on the Dinagat Islands on December 23.
Gonzales said Governor Bag-ao and other officials in Dinagat's "makeshift capital" were working to restore vital public infrastructure while considering ways to boost the local economy, ensure adequate food supplies and create emergency jobs to ensure that income.
Gonzales said a Capitol team formed by Bag-ao is working on an early recovery.
The capital is also optimistic that Dinagat will receive help from the United Nations and international aid agencies "to help us build better".
Dinagat has so far received commitments of support from the UN resident coordinator for the Philippines Gustavo Gonzalez and the ambassadors Michèle Boccoz from France, Steven Robinson from Australia and Peter Kell from New Zealand.
"We are facing a very critical moment. We're trying to find the best way to recover from this, "said UN's Gonzalez when he announced plans for a UN mission to the Dinagat Islands.
Gonzalez and the other diplomats were scheduled to fly from Surigao City to the Dinagat Islands last week but were prevented from doing so due to logistical issues.
Bag-ao's chief of staff said the relief efforts so far have been "overwhelming" and have enabled the provincial government to set up "communal kitchens" in the typhoon-ravaged cities of Dinagat "to ensure the Dinagatnons don't go hungry as we do". work together on recovery. "
"Aid comes from everywhere – from international and national humanitarian organizations, corporate groups, civil society groups, churches and government agencies, families, individuals and barkadas (Friends), "said Gonzales.
He said Dinagatnons are inherently resilient as they live in an island province that "has not made isolation alien to us or our people" and has "created a culture of independence". –Rappler.com
The following are the donation channels announced by the Dinagat provincial government:
Gilbert Anguay, Senior Aquaculturist, Dinagat Provincial Government, 09303737160
Nolasco Ritz Lee B. Santos III, Balaod Mindanaw Executive Director, GCash-linked number: 09209380692
Loi Cabaluna from Balaod Mindanaw, GCash-linked number: 09561274786
Banco de Oro (BDO), Unibank, account number 001768028140, Balay Alternative Legal Advocates for Development in Mindanaw Incorporated, Corrales Street, Cagayan de Oro City, SWIFT code: BNORPHMM
Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) account number 2041-0351-05, Balaod Mindanaw Incorporated, Velez Street, Cagayan de Oro City, SWIFT code: BOPIPHMM
Balaod Mindanaw Office, 105 Faustino Neri Street, Block 13, RER Subdivision, Phase I, Barangay Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City 9000
Agusan del Norte Representative's District Office Lawrence Fortun, 4th Street, Guingona Subdivision, Butuan City
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4 people charged with attempted murder after reported attack on Cañon City man – The Denver Post
Four individuals are being charged with criminal attempt to commit second-degree murder after they allegedly entered a Cañon City man's home, where one man proceeded to choke him and threaten to kill him and two other individuals took his children.
According to an arrest affidavit, David Mark Hayes, 46, Marta Danielle Helsel, 24, Nicholas Griffith Machart-Kline, 23, and Trenton Michael Nordby, 29, were arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault, first-degree burglary, child abuse, criminal mischief, first-degree criminal trespass and false imprisonment.
Helsel, who is in the process of divorcing the victim, also is charged with domestic violence.
Colorado Department of Corrections confirmed Monday that Helsel briefly was employed as a correctional officer for DOC in 2019.
Authorities were dispatched to a mobile home at 1616 Chestnut at 6:18 p.m. June 19 after the victim – whose name will not be released because he is an alleged victim of domestic violence – had gone to his neighbor's home to get help because he had just been assaulted.
Upon arrival, deputies found the victim to be "very distraught, scared and shaking." He told authorities that he had been assaulted and his children had been taken.
Deputies noticed what appeared to be marks on his mouth, head, arms and hands and blood on his lips, hands and arms.
The victim said his parents had left to get pizza for the family for dinner when he heard someone at the door. He told his daughter to stay in the living room when Helsel and her new boyfriend, Machart-Kline, walked in but quickly were told to leave.
"Nicholas then got in his face and started flexing his arms," the affidavit states. "Marta picked up (the child) and Nicholas pushed him. Nicholas then started choking him with both hands around his neck."
Hayes and Nordby then entered the home and Helsel said, "kill him," as Hayes stepped between Machart-Kline and the victim, the affidavit states. Hayes told Machart-Kline to grab all the children, who did so and set them outside the home.
The victim said Hayes held him down by a desk in the living room while someone took his phone.
Helsel and Machart-Kline left with the children in a vehicle while Hayes punched the victim repeatedly while telling him he was going to kill him.
The victim said Nordby tried to talk Hayes into leaving, but he continued to tell him he was going to kill him while "choking him and hitting him multiple times all over his body."
"He was trying to escape out the window when (Hayes) pushed the kitchen table into him while stating 'You are going to go with us or you or going to die,'" the affidavit states. "He was then hit with a dustpan – which broke – and a broom on the head."
The victim was able to leap out of the kitchen window, landing on his side, and then ran to his neighbor's house for help.
He told authorities he believed that the four suspects would have killed him.
Hayes and Nordby soon were located in the area of 1611 Ash St., where they were taken into custody.
Authorities requested dispatch ping Machart-Kline and Helsel's phones, which led officers to their car at 2070 Seven Arrow Drive in Colorado Springs. Both suspects were taken into custody by the Colorado Springs Police Department just after 9:30 p.m. and were transported to the Fremont County Jail.
The affidavit states that Helsel and Machart-Kline had been at the FCSO lobby and had spoken with deputies on two different occasions. Machart-Kline reportedly had asked what would happen if he had someone distract the victim "by having some men beat him up and they grabbed the kids."
All four suspects are scheduled to appear in court at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday for filing of charges.
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An Englishman in Colombia: Oh Dear!!
This morning was Dental appointments for both of us, I went first and saw a Specialist I had never seen before, he seemed to know what he was doing, and he was another who was less than impressed with the work done in Cadiar. Don't ask me what he did, I have no idea , but I was in the 'chair' for over an hour, and I have another two appointments with two different Dentists tomorrow morning, the first at 7.45am!!
Whilst I was been treated in one room Marcela went in another for a clean, and then laser whitening, I wish she had just had the clean, because she has been suffering ever since, following the laser treatment, and she has to go back again next week.
From there we went to the Shopping Centre, and met up with Maria Elena, she has a dripping shower, due to the tap not sealing. We went for lunch, then whilst they went off shopping, I went to my favourite shop to buy a new tap insert.
Back home, I dropped Marcela off, picked up my tool box, and went round to Maria Elena's, unfortunately the tap handle screw had been disfigured, so I had to break the handle to get at the insert, there is a small Ferreteria ( Iron Mongers) round the corner, so a handle was obtained from there, job done!, I packed up and came home.


At The John Bentley School we see mathematics as a creative and highly interconnected discipline. Mathematics has been developed over centuries, providing the solution to some of history's most intriguing problems. It is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment. A high-quality mathematics education therefore provides a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically and problem solve, an appreciation of the power of mathematics, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject. At JBS we strive for students to make connections across mathematical ideas, to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems. We also aim to develop well rounded learners who demonstrate resilience to apply their mathematical knowledge to science and other subjects outside of mathematics. We strive for all pupils to develop a love of learning mathematics and a confidence to gain the necessary competencies to access the next stage in their learning journey.
Our KS3 maths curriculum focuses on the idea of 'mastering' topics to ensure understanding is thorough and comprehensive. Students are set based on KS2 SATs as well as continued in class assessment. Sets are continually monitored and students may move up or down at any time depending on whether teachers feel their learning would be enhanced in a different set.
Each term we have key themes and as they progress through years 7, 8 and 9, students learn new topics based on these themes. For example term two is based on statistics; in year 7 pupils strengthen their knowledge of averages and types of charts and graphs. In year 8, pupils learn how to apply their averages knowledge to frequency tables and use it to compare sets of data and in year 9 we then include interquartile range linked to box plots and other graphs. Our aim is to increase awareness of connections between topics; both within mathematics as well as to the real world.
Each term we focus on key transferable skills such as resilience, problem solving, working in groups as well as independently, and ensuring all work is logical and ordered. Our assessment policy focuses on percentage progress so pupils are aware of how they have improved each term. Pupils sit an initial assessment at the beginning of the term to highlight topics they know as well as topics they need to learn. At the end of term, pupils then sit a final assessment which we use to identify the progress they have made.
The philosophy of our KS3 curriculum is to inspire curiosity, deepen understanding and encourage pupils to think strategically to solve a problem they are faced with.


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Texas Bed and Breakfast Convention, Here We Come! - InsideOut Solutions, Inc.
Texas Bed and Breakfast Convention, Here We Come!
Steven Dunston, myself (Katie Pate) and company President Pat McCauley will be leaving this weekend to fly over to Granbury Texas for the annual Texas Bed and Breakfast Convention. We are pleased to be presenting on multiple subjects throughout the event, including Facebook marketing, blogging and general marketing makeovers. In fact, SEO Manager Steven Dunston will be presenting the kick off talk, "Web Stats Boot Camp".
Steven will also be presenting some of the great results we have seen since launching the new Texas association site about one year ago (in September). Not only did we design the site for them, we are also helping them with their blog, and running AdWords for them.
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Cheri's making another felted bag and this one has giant bobbles. Look!
Cheri has just finished this incredible shawl, made mostly with Noro Kureyon. She plans to donate it to charity. What an amazing gift it will be!
We may have all pulled out our wool sweaters again due to the cold weather here in Boston, but Cheri was keeping the faith wearing her springy, fun vest made of Plymouth Siam yarn.
And here's her even funner big Booga bag!
Cheri's beautiful Misty scarf (from Scarf Style) in progress.
Cheri's making a gorgeous scarf out of Brooks Farm's wonderful mohair yarn.


Insider trading activities (stock purchases, sales, and option exercises) reported by insiders of Encana Corp (ECA) since 2005 are illustrated in Table 1 and Table 2. Table 1 shows the monthly insider trading data of Encana Corp since year 2005. Table 2 shows the detailed insider transactions of Encana Corp since 2005. The reporting company's ticker symbol is ECA. The reporting company's CIK number is 1157806.
The total value of stock buying since 2005 is $3,454,726.
The total value of stock sales since 2005 is $118,400.
The total value of stock option exercises since 2005 is $47,125,680.
Table 1. Monthly summaries of insider stock purchases, sales, and option exercises for Encana Corp (ECA).
Insider trading activities including stock purchases, stock sales, and option exercises of ECA listed in the above tables cannot be completely guaranteed as to their accuracy. For more insider trading information of Encana Corp (symbol ECA, CIK number 1157806) see the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website.


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Q: Is the theory of linear operators studied as a group theory? A lot of the classical Lie groups are defined as the subset of the general linear group known as the automorphism groups. In sum: they're the set of linear transformations on a vector space that preserve some sort of inner product, or similar. The vector spaces of square integrable functions have inner products, and linear transformations that preserve them. For example, the Fourier transform preserves the product:
$$\langle f | g \rangle = \int f^\star(t)\, g(t) \operatorname{d}t.$$
Is there a developed theory of the set of linear transforms that preserve this sort of inner product?

A: This is the notion of a unitary operator on a Hilbert space.  They are extremely well studied.

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Q: JQuery selector issue on IE7 for input tag I have couple of forms with different ids but with same input names and ids. For example:
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    <input name="email" id="email" value="test@test.com"/>
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And  in my Jquery ready function I have below code. This works fine in FireFox, Chrome but not in IE7. That is alert function showing email value as "test@test.com" in FireFox, Chrome but IE7 showing as "undefined". Any suggestions?
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        alert($("#form1 #emailAddress").val());
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A: Duplicate IDs are invalid, and I wouldn't count on any selector filtering to work in the current, past, or future versions of jQuery. Those elements shouldn't have ids, and they should be selected by name.
e.g:
$('#form1 [name=email]')
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A: seeing that your input name and id both are simply "email".... and in your selector you have emailAddress... that IS going to give you an undefined.
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An enormous number of documents is being produced that have to be stored, searched and accessed. Document indexing represents an efficient way to tackle this problem. Contributing to the document indexing process, we developed the Computer-Aided Document Indexing System (CADIS) that applies controlled vocabulary keywords from the EUROVOC thesaurus. The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of the special CADIS internal data structure that copes with the morphological complexity of the Croatian language. CADIS internal data structure ensures efficient statistical analysis of input documents and quick visual feedback generation that helps indexing documents more quickly, accurately and uniformly than by manual indexing. Keywords: information retrieval, document indexing, text statistics, EUROVOC.
1. Introduction In the modern world overwhelmed by computers, huge storage spaces and widely accessible Internet, information is no longer a desired wealth. It is a cumbersome requirement that has to be dealt with efficiently. Official documents have to be collected and neatly stored, at the same time providing quick access and search by means of indexing, a process of assigning keywords to documents. A kind of indexing is keyword assignment, identification of appropriate keywords from the controlled vocabulary of a reference list (a thesaurus)  10 ]. Lacking good automated systems, one had to go through every single legal document and assign the keywords manually. Obviously, the need existed to relieve human indexers of this long, tedious and, above all, expensive work.
Challenged by this, we started designing and implementing a Computer-Aided Document Indexing System (CADIS), presented here. The main motive to develop the system was the fact that official documents have to be indexed according to multilingual EUROVOC thesaurus. It covers the fields in which the European Communities are active. Its form of a controlled and structured list provides a means of indexing the documents in the documentation systems of the European institutions and of their users  2 ]. It organizes over 6,000 descriptors (classes) from 21 different fields (e.g. politics, finance, science, social questions, organizations, foodstuff, etc.) hierarchically into a maximum of 8 levels. Due to the multilingual nature of EUROVOC, it is very suitable for applications such as crosslingual document similarity calculation, multilingual clustering and categorization, and crosslingual document retrieval and information access  10 ]. From the beginning, CADIS was designed with EUROVOC in mind, but not limited to it, making it possible to use the statistical output of the system for other purposes too. CADIS does not perform automatic document indexing, it helps humans to make the process of standard intellectual indexing easier, by providing results of built-in statistical and natural language processing techniques. CADIS speeds up indexing and ensures building a set of uniformly indexed documents. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 gives an insight into related work. The functionality of CADIS and some examples of use are given in Section 3. Section 4 describes
abstraction of the object model and problems tackled during implementation, while Section 5 describes multilingual aspects of the system. In Section 6 conclusion and future work are given. 2. Related Work Automatic document indexing (or classification) is an old problem, already described in 1961. Maron examined a technique for classifying documents automatically, according to their subject contents  7 ]. Automated document indexing using EUROVOC thesaurus is a problem that occupies many scientists. In 1997, Ferber  4 ] built an application which used a multilingual thesaurus for the retrieval of English documents using search terms in other non-English languages. A more recent example of such application was built by Steinberger and Pouliquen who introduced statistical methods for cross-lingual indexing  10, 13, 14 ]. An automatic indexing system that could work in a language- independent environment was developed. JRC workshop on EUROVOC  5 ] brought some ideas and progress on automated indexing. Montejo-Raez in his papers  8 ] describes the use of information retrieval for indexing techniques. Our own approach to the problem is multi-monolingual. The CADIS system can deal with several languages, but the results will always be displayed in the same language as the text. It does not support automated indexing, due to the lack of a substantial learning set of pre-indexed documents in Croatian. Its purpose is to help human indexers, using statistical processing on text, to index documents that will form a learning set for building an automated document indexer.
formats (HTML, PDF etc.) can be converted to XML in a more or less simple procedure. Furthermore, XML enables the coding of additional information to the text itself, such as title, source, paragraphs, formatting etc. needed for visual reconstruction of documents within the CADIS. From the document received as the input, an internal data structure, representing the XML document, is built and a sequence of statistical and lexical analyses is carried out. 3.2. Statistics and Visual Feedback An example of the CADIS user interface is shown in Fig. 1. After the initial processing, a visual representation of the XML document currently being indexed is shown on the left hand side of the user interface. The visual representation is generated by the PEI program in RTF format  11 ] using formatting and paragraph information provided in the XML document. Primarily intended for documents in Croatian, during the design of CADIS special attention had to be paid to the morphological complexity of the language. Certain Croatian words, such as nouns and adjectives, can have a number of different morphological forms, depending on the number, gender, degree etc. However, statistically, each of these forms is treated as one occurrence of the word in its basic form, also called the lemma  16 ].
3. Functionality 3.1. System Input XML  3 ], the selected format for information interchange has many favorable characteristics for this system. As it is an industry standard, there are good reasons to believe that some of the input will already comply with this format. On the other hand, existing documents in other
Fig. 1. Example of the CADIS user interface.
Lemmatization process was implemented for Croatian and English. Automatically acquired morphological lexica was used for Croatian  15 ], for lemmatization of English Porter's stemming algorithm was used  9 ]. The output of the statistical analysis of the text consists of two lists: the list with all morphological forms found in the document with their frequencies and the list that contains only lemmas of these words and their frequencies. Both of these lists enable sorting according to words or frequencies and locating the occurrences of any word or lemma within the document by a double-click. The same functionality is available throughout the menu. The statistical analysis of the text provides a solid ground for the visual feedback mentioned above. With each search a red background coloring visually emphasizes all the occurrences of the sought word or lemma, while the selection jumps from one occurrence to the other. The system also enables visual emphasizing of the most frequent lemmas in the document (an example shown in Fig. 2.), as well as hiding irrelevant information from the text, such as stop-words, words with minimal semantic meaning (e.g. conjunctions etc.)  12 ]. This makes it easier for the indexer to browse through the document, paying attention only to statistically relevant parts of the document.
3.3. N-grams Another relevant information for document indexation is the occurrences of N-grams. An Ngram is a sequence of N tokens. We define token as a word delimited by space or a single punctuation mark. Especially interesting N-grams are those sequences of words that tend to appear next to each other in a text more often than what we would consider random. Such occurrences of two or more words that we use as a conventional way to say things are called collocations  1 ]. Collocations carry much information that is usually different from information we would gain when looking at the words separately. We could say that collocations have added meaning to the combination of words. Idioms and phrases are the most extreme examples of such added meaning. For example, machine and learning have different meanings when looked separately from the collocation machine learning. CADIS provides statistical information on collocation. Lists with 2-grams, 3-grams or 4grams and their frequencies are presented to the user. All of these lists can be sorted according to collocations or their frequencies. Only N-grams appearing in the corpus and identified as collocations are shown. The input to our system consists only of collocations that were found using statistical methods over the corpus. Collocations can appear in different morphological forms, but all of them are mapped to one in the list. The most frequent morphological form of a collocation represents a group of collocations in the list with their frequencies summed up. 4. Implementation 4.1. CADIS Internal Data Structure
Fig. 2. Visual feedback example.
Displaying documents in CADIS requires XML document format. Forcing the user to convert different document formats to XML might seem an extra step in displaying the document. For example, if the original document was in HTML format, we could convert the document internally in the RTF format and display it in the original, HTML format.
This extra effort is needed to keep the visual feedback under control as much as possible. Some implemented functions would require modifying certain text attributes of the original document, so generating the entire RTF inside the system is faster and more accurate. Internal representation of the input document is very important for the efficiency of the system. Setting the speed of traversal and low memory consumptions as priorities, we designed the CADIS internal data structure of the document that serves as the base of the whole system. A simple XML document is shown in Fig. 3 and graphic abstraction of the internal data structure representing the document is shown in Fig. 4. The XML format itself is represented as a standard first child — next sibling tree, the root node representing the root tag of the document. The leaf nodes on the lowest level, representing the very text of the document, are of great interest. Instead of keeping the words, punc-
Fig. 3. An XML input example.
Fig. 4. Abstraction of CADIS internal data structure built from the XML example in Fig. 3.
tuation etc. in the nodes of the tree, a table is created of all the morphological forms found in the document. The leaf nodes point to records in this table, saving space due to frequently appearing words. During the creation of the tree, the number of occurrences of each form is being counted.
4.2. Benefits of the CADIS Data Structure Due to morphological complexity of the language, a quick, but efficient way of retrieving lemmas of every word encountered in the document had to be designed. This information is required for the basic statistical function — the lemma count. The straightforward way was to build a database of a substantial number of lemmas of Croatian words together with all the morphological forms. The goal was accomplished by executing a simple string search through this database. Lemmas are kept in a similar table. Each word found in the document points to its lemma in this table. As shown in the example, different morphological forms of the same word point to the same lemma. Thus, we know that the lemma "love" occurred twice in the document, although only once actually in the form "love". The remaining features to be explained are crucial for the speed of generating the visual feedback in the form of RTF format. Firstly, all leaves in the tree are connected in one linked list. This enables an easy traversal search of the nodes representing the very text of the document, ignoring for a moment the XML structure. Furthermore, for every element of the structure (tag, word, punctuation etc.) the information of its distance from the beginning of the document is kept. Due to specific characteristics of the programming environment, the word at a certain distance from the beginning of the document has to be found quickly. This redundant information in the structure makes time complexity of this search O(d n), where d is an average depth of XML tags, and n is an average number of tokens in one XML tag. These features are also depicted in Fig. 2.
4.3. Capturing N-grams N-grams do not necessarily consist of continuous tokens. N-grams at a distance are captured by the collocation window. Suppose that we have a collocation window of size M and we are capturing N-grams of size N. We combine every N tokens from this window to create N-grams. Because of the morphological complexity of the language, one collocation can be represented by two or more different N-grams. When captured, each token in the N-gram is replaced by a set of its lemmatized forms. Due to outer homography (the case when two different words have the same word-form) each word can be lemmatized to several lemmas. If each set of a lemmatized N-gram contains a word from the collocation retrieved from the corpus, it is considered as an occurrence of the collocation. Collocations found are stored in a container, and with each repetition, its frequency is increased.
and m represents the number of collocations in the corpus, assuming that two strings can be compared in constant time. 5. Multilingual Aspects of CADIS Document indexing using the EUROVOC thesaurus is a continuous task for all member countries of the European Union, as well as those aspiring for membership. Knowing that no similar system was designed previously and that each of these countries would benefit significantly from it, CADIS is designed to be fully functional multilingually, in three different aspects. Firstly, the EUROVOC itself is a multilingual thesaurus, published currently in 16 official languages of the European Union and a number of other European languages.
For capturing N-grams, modification of algorithm given by Mladenic et al.  6 ] was implemented. Modifications were necessary due to the homography described above. N-grams are captured by traversing nodes in a linked list. Time complexity of search for all collocations is O(l m), where l represents the length of text,
Secondly, input documents can be written in a number of different languages. The key problem here lies in the fact that words in the documents have to be lemmatized in order for the system to function properly. The process of lemmatization is completely language-specific, but CADIS could be easily modified to accept inputs from any language. The lemmatization module keeps the vocabulary of the language, as well as the list of stop words in an extern file. This file can be generated for any language, thus making it possible for the system to work with
Fig. 5. Graphic abstraction of capturing an occurrence of collocation "winter sport".
Fig. 6. Multilingual aspect of CADIS — Croatian user interface indexing a Croatian document.
documents in different languages without modifying the inner structure. To date, this concept has been implemented for Croatian and English  9, 15 ].
methods. Automatically found EUROVOC descriptors will be included as an extra option to CADIS.
Finally, the third aspect of interest is the user interface. In order to make CADIS easily adaptable to different languages, specific elements of the user interface system, such as captions, labels, user messages etc., are kept in an extern file.
6. Conclusion and Future Work Computer-Aided Document Indexing System (CADIS) that provides different statistical and visual information, supporting an efficient and uniform indexing process is described in the paper. Some problems tackled during the design and implementation of the CADIS include the morphological complexity of Croatian language, strongly connected with implemented statistical functions of word and lemma count and collocation finding. Space and speed efficiency demanded implementation of a proprietary data structure. Multilingual aspects of the system include a multilingual thesaurus, a simple user interface translation and an independent lemmatization algorithm. Several independent evaluations showed that the process of automatic descriptor assignment does not reach the quality of human indexation  13 ]. Even the existing automatic indexing systems  4, 10 ] serve mainly as a first step in the process of keyword assignment, offering descriptors' suggestions which will then be verified by a human indexer. Having this in mind, CADIS comes close to the functionality of an automatic system and is especially valuable in circumstances where no machine learning methods are applicable due to the lack of a learning set. Ultimately, CADIS will help to generate a substantial number of documents indexed by EUROVOC descriptors in a more uniform way, at the same time saving human and financial resources. The obtained set of indexed documents will then be used to train automatic descriptor assignment systems using machine learning
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M. TADIC´ , B. BEKAVAC, Preparation of POS tagging of Croatian using ClaRK System. In: Proceedings of RANLP2003 Conference, Borovtes, Bulgaria, 2003. Recived: June, 2005. Accepted: October, 2005. Contact address: Mladen Kolar Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University of Zagreb Unska 3 10000 Zagreb Croatia [email protected]
Igor Vukomirovi´c Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University of Zagreb Unska 3 10000 Zagreb Croatia [email protected]
Bojana Dalbelo Baˇsi´c Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University of Zagreb Unska 3 10000 Zagreb Croatia [email protected]
ˇ Jan Snajder Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University of Zagreb Unska 3 10000 Zagreb Croatia [email protected]
MLADEN KOLAR is a fifth year student of computing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He is currently writing a diploma thesis at the Department of Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and Intelligent Systems at the same faculty. His research interests lay in the field of machine learning and its application on text analysis.
IGOR VUKMIROVIC´ is a fifth year student of computing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. He is currently writing a diploma thesis at the Department of Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and Intelligent Systems at the same faculty. His research interests lay in the field of machine learning, especially in Hidden Markov Models and its application in bioinformatics.
BOJANA DALBELO BASˇ IC´ received her B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Zagreb, in 1982 and the M.Sc. and PhD degrees in computer science from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. She has published more than forty papers, mostly concerning applied multivariate statistics, fuzzy temporal reasoning and intelligent systems. Currently, she is associate professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. Her currrent research interests include machine learning and applications to data and text mining.
JAN Sˇ NAJDER received his B.Sc. degree in computing from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, in 2002. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and Intelligent Systems at the same faculty. His research interests lie in the field of aritificial intelligence, in particular multiagent systems, machine learning and natural language processing.
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On the mortgage crisis and buffoonish, unethical prosecution.
…of course, despite the title of this post, a spokesperson for the prosecutor's office called the jury's verdict exonerating Abacus bank "disappointing." But that's getting ahead of the story.
One of the most disheartening things you'll learn if you read Matt Taibbi's Griftopia is that, of all the gigantic banks that perpetrated fraud before, during, & after the mortgage crisis, only one small bank called Abacus was ever prosecuted. Taibbi described Abacus bank a la Douglas Adam's depiction of Earth in Hitchhiker's Guide: mostly harmless. And yet that small bank, which serviced modest loans to Chinese immigrants, was the target of the full wrath of the New York prosecutor's office.
No one else's actions were deemed worthy of indictment.
And that seemed crummy… even in Taibbi's book (which you should definitely read — it will give you a clear understanding of a major facet of the rot at the core of the contemporary United States, and nobody makes occult financial instruments both lucid and exciting the way Taibbi does), it was clear that the prosecutor's office was making a big show of nettling Abacus to distract attention from its utter reticence to hold anyone who mattered accountable.
My impression, from reading Taibbi's book, was something like a gigantic food fight perpetrated by burly football players in a high school cafeteria, after which the lunch room monitor stomps in and grabs a wimply little bystander by the arm and starts shouting "How could you!??" while the kid breaks into tears. Abacus, clearly, is the wimp. The prosecutor is the ineffectual monitor too frightened to investigate the real crime.
The ineffectual prosecutor is D.A. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. You can contact his office about financial fraud at (212) 335 – 8900. Good luck getting help, though — they might still be devoting a lot of resources to this Abacus situation.
I just had a chance to read Gretchen Morgenson's article in July 19th's business section of the New York Times ("A Tiny Bank's Surreal Legal Journey"), which makes it clear that the indictment of Abacus was even more of a charade than I'd realized from Taibbi's book. Because, yes, a small amount of "fraud" (filling out forms inaccurately to allow people who were known to be good bets to qualify for mortgages… which those people then paid in full, demonstrating that the real crime here is overly strict qualification requirements that were keeping loans away from people who needed & deserved them) was committed at Abacus.
But then the management at Abacus identified it. Reported it. Took full responsibility. Fired the employee responsible. Fixed everything. And after the management at Abacus had taken action to fix everything, the information that they had reported about their own bank was used to indict them.
To get back to the food fight analogy… it's as though the wimpy kid had stayed behind in the cafeteria to help clean up out of sympathy for the janitors, and then the monitor came and tried to pin everything on him. "You're here, after all! A clear sign of guilt!"
So I'd like to offer my apologies, Abacus bank. I read about your business while sitting in SFO and thought, "What they did doesn't sound so bad." But you deserved more than that. Abacus bank seems to be extremely ethical, well-managed, and helping an unfairly under-served population. Not just innocent, but actively good.
Which, because our country has some fundamental problems, means they were the only bank the D.A. went after.
If you have feedback about this post, you don't really need to use my "Contact Me" page for it. Why not send your remarks directly to the prosecutor? Here's the link again.
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Geschichte
Ein Lehrer am örtlichen Gymnasium und ein Zahnarzt, beide aus England, brachten den Rugbysport nach Agen. Zusammen mit einem Einheimischen gründeten sie im Jahr 1900 den Verein. Dieser umfasste auch andere Abteilungen, doch Rugby war schon früh dominierend. Die SU Agen erreichte das Meisterschaftsfinale erstmals im Jahr 1930 und gewann es auch (gegen US Quillan). In den darauf folgenden Jahren erzielte der Verein auch Erfolge in der Challenge Yves du Manoir mit einem Sieg 1932 und einer Finalteilnahme 1933.

Eine sehr erfolgreiche Zeit für den Verein waren die 1940er Jahre. Im Jahr 1943 schlug die SU Agen im Finale des Coupe de France die Mannschaft von Stade Bordelais, verlor aber das Meisterschaftsfinale gegen Aviron Bayonnais. 1945 gewann die SU Agen ihren zweiten Meistertitel, mit einem Finalsieg gegen den FC Lourdes. Im selben Jahr siegte die Mannschaft auch im Pokalfinale gegen AS Montferrandaise. Noch einmal das Meisterschaftsfinale erreichte Agen im Jahr 1947, verlor aber gegen Stade Toulousain.

Danach riss die Siegesserie und während des nächsten Jahrzehnts wurde es um die SU Agen eher ruhig. In den 1960er Jahren hatte die Mannschaft aber erneut eine Siegesserie. Sie gewann drei Mal den Meistertitel, 1962 gegen AS Béziers, 1965 gegen CA Brive und 1966 gegen US Dax. Dazu kam 1963 der Gewinn der Challenge Yves du Manoir. 1970 und 1977 gab es zwei Finalniederlagen in der Challenge, doch 1976 gewann Agen zum sechsten Mal den Meistertitel; im Finale wurde AS Béziers bezwungen.

1982 errang Agen den siebten Meistertitel, nach dem Finalsieg gegen Aviron Bayonnais. 1983 folgte zum dritten Mal der Sieg in der Challenge. 1984 und 1985 erreichte die Mannschaft jeweils das Meisterschaftsfinale, verlor aber beide Male (gegen AS Béziers bzw. Stade Toulousain). Den vorerst letzten Meistertitel gewann Agen im Jahr 1988 nach dem Finalsieg gegen Stadoceste Tarbais.

Seit dem Gewinn der Challenge im Jahr 1992 konnte die Mannschaft keine bedeutenden Erfolge mehr feiern. 1998 verlor sie im Finale des European Challenge Cup gegen US Colomiers, vier Jahre später im Meisterschaftsfinale gegen Biarritz Olympique. Ende der Saison 2006/07 stieg Agen aus der höchsten Liga Top 14 ab. Der Wiederaufstieg gelang Ende der Saison 2009/10. Nach Ende der Saison 2012/13 musste die Mannschaft zwar erneut absteigen, konnte jedoch 2014/15 den Wiederaufstieg in die Top 14 feiern.

Erfolge
 Meister: 1930, 1945, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1976, 1982, 1988
 Meisterschaftsfinalist: 1943, 1947, 1984, 1986, 1990, 2002
 Sieger Challenge Yves du Manoir: 1932, 1963, 1983, 1992
 Finalist Challenge Yves du Manoir: 1933, 1970, 1975, 1987
 Sieger Coupe de France: 1943, 1945
 Finalist European Challenge Cup: 1998

Finalspiele von SU Agen

Meisterschaft

1 Béziers gewann mit 3:1 Torschüssen.

European Challenge Cup

Spieler

Aktueller Kader
Der Kader für die Saison 2019/2020:

Bekannte ehemalige Spieler

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website (Rugby)

 Schwimm-Abteilung
 Pelota-Abteilung
 Tennis-Abteilung

Einzelnachweise

Agen
Sport (Agen)
Agen #SU Lotetgaronne
Gegründet 1908
Organisation (Département Lot-et-Garonne)

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Q: Java libjava.so file error It's been a day since I am trying to get "java" command run on a server, that has java5 jre installed. Problem is I always get

Error: could not find libjava.so Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment.

even if I run it from the installation directory, /usr/lib/java1.5/jre/bin. I can see libjava.so is in ../jre/lib/amd64 directory but not sure why wouldn't it get picked up. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
-Thanks

A: Very weird error. I noticed you're using a 64-bit OS. Found this link that talks of a problem between older versions of java and 64-bit OSes. Java 1.5 was released 2004 and 64-bit processors were only introduced to mainstream computer market in 2003. Meaning this could be a likely culprit.

For posterity (in case the page gets deleted):
This problem refer to the installation of old JDKs  on 64bit Linux systems.
When java command is executed at shell, generally, you will receive this error message:

Error: can't find libjava.so.

To solve this problem just edit 3 files located at JDK installation dir and be happy

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*$JAVA_HOME/bin/.java_wrapper

*$JAVA_HOME/jre/bin/.java_wrapper

*$JAVA_HOME/jre/bin/realpath

All these 3 files have similar code snippet as bellow:
case "`uname -m`" in
    i[3-6]86 | ia32 | ia64 | i?86)
        proc=i386
        ;;
    sparc*)
        proc=sparc
        ;;
    *)
        proc=unknown
        ;;
esac

Edit each file and  include the architecture x86_64 in the first case-statement and the problem will be fixed:
    i[3-6]86 | ia32 | ia64 | i?86 | x86_64)


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Government and community step in to save key national Indonesian studies program
Perth – Thursday, 20 August 2020. The Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) secured a much-needed financial lifeline earlier this month with the Australian Government's decision to adapt its New Colombo Plan initiative to global COVID-19 conditions and ongoing international travel restrictions.
Launched in 2014 by former Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, and administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs, the New Colombo Plan aims to encourage Australian undergraduate students to study and intern abroad in the Indo-Pacific by providing students with 'mobility grants' of between $3,000 and $7,000. The change to the scheme's guidelines will temporarily allow students to receive (slightly smaller) New Colombo Plan mobility grants for undertaking virtual or online Indo-Pacific-focused study programs – including the Indonesia-focused programs run by ACICIS.
"I commend the Government's decision," said ACICIS Director, Liam Prince. "Allowing projects to proceed via virtual modes of delivery will ensure that the important work of public and cultural diplomacy made possible by the New Colombo Plan continues apace – even while international travel remains off limits to Australian students."
ACICIS staff in Australia and Indonesia have been buoyed by the news of the Government's decision and now look forward to knuckling down to the challenge of redesigning the consortium's programs for virtual delivery, and to recruiting Australian undergraduate students to these NCP-supported, Indonesia-focused virtual experiences over the coming weeks and months.
Prior to the decision, ACICIS had been facing the prospect of closure later this year due to its income – and capacity to pay staff – remaining contingent on the ability of Australian students to physically travel to Indonesia. The organisation went as far as launching a public fundraising campaign in June – raising almost $50,000 in donations from ACICIS' network of 3,500 alumni. However, having failed to secure meaningful emergency financial assistance from either government or the universities, in late July ACICIS proceeded with laying off 60% of its staff in both Australia and Indonesia in an effort to conserve the organisation's dwindling cash reserves.
Mr Prince acknowledged it had been a rough four months for the organisation but also extremely heart-warming to witness ACICIS alumni and the organisation's broader community of supporters in government and higher education rally around the organisation in its hour of need. "I am so grateful to everyone who has donated or actively campaigned for ACICIS over the past few months," said Mr Prince. "These efforts have helped to keep the lights on at ACICIS during the biggest threat to the organisation's existence since the Bali Bombing in 2002."
While admitting that the level of student demand for virtual ACICIS programs is not yet known, Mr Prince expressed his confidence that the Government's decision means ACICIS now has a way of generating revenue while international borders remain closed, and a fighting chance of surviving the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit as a somewhat smaller organisation.
"It's a big relief," said Mr Prince. "While not wanting to understate the amount of work ahead of us, I am confident in ACICIS' ability to transform our in-country programs into engaging online educational experiences for Australian students." "This is completely new terrain for us but I'm looking forward to ACICIS exploring the opportunities afforded by virtual program delivery," added Mr Prince.
ACICIS intends to run a vigorous student recruitment campaign between August and October to attract Australian students to a suite of virtual language, internship and other Indonesia-focused programs planned for the upcoming Australian university summer vacation period (November – February).
Directing his message to alumni and supporters of the organisation interested in ensuring ACICIS' survival, Mr Prince said "the most impactful thing you can do now is to encourage a friend, family member or colleague to enrol in a virtual ACICIS program over the upcoming summer." "For Australian undergraduate students wanting to engage with Indonesia while knocking off a subject or two of their degree – with government funding support – an ACICIS virtual program could be the perfect way to spend this summer," suggested Mr Prince.
Under the terms of the amended New Colombo Plan guidelines, Australian students who have previously received an NCP mobility grant to support offshore study in the Indo-Pacific remain eligible to receive an additional grant to support their participation in a virtual NCP experience.
Click here for a pdf of the full media release.
For further media comment, please contact:
Liam Prince
ACICIS Consortium Director
l.prince@acicis.edu.au
The post Government and community step in to save key national Indonesian studies program appeared first on ACICIS.
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Crimson Skies è un media franchise creato da Jordan Weisman e Dave McCoy, ambientato in un'ucronia nell'America degli anni 1930 in cui è presente la pirateria caraibica effettuata con aeromobili quali aeroplani e dirigibili.

Oltre al gioco da tavolo omonimo prodotto da FASA, il franchise è composto da due videogiochi realizzati da Microsoft Game Studios per Microsoft Windows e Xbox, oltre ad alcuni libri e un wargame con miniature collezionabili della WizKids.

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Hello and welcome to another Corona SDK tutorial by That's So Panda! In today's tutorial, we'll learn how to move a character around the screen. For simplicity, I used rectangles and squares for this tutorial.
Moving a character around the screen is useful for all sorts of game genres – space shooters, avoid the obstacles, mazes, and more. This tutorial will walk you through the basics of how to use Corona SDK to get an object, or player character, around the screen using touch events. Let's get started!
First, we'll need to declare our objects. We'll declare two variables – one will be for the player object and another will be for the background.
Once we have our background function, we'll need our background! I created a simple black rectangle that fills up the entire screen and centered it.
Finally, we have our player object. For simplicity purposes, I created a circle object and placed it in the top left.
By using a transition instead of snapping the player to the location, you'll give off a more polished look in your game. Plus, it's more fun!
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What do Michigan Information Security Professionals Do?
There are state information regulations as well as federal and international laws that need to be adhered to. Soon these will all come together, forcing businesses to seek help to make sure they comply with all security laws and policies. Specializing in protection from identity theft could take a Michigan-based specialist all over the world.
October was Security Awareness Month for Michigan in 2009. The Michigan Information Sharing and Analysis Center, along with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, provide assistance to citizens and business organizations. Topics of interest are: Internet Use for Parents and Students, �Cyber bullies�, and a firewall guide. The Michigan Government publishes reports on Cyber Security that discuss Identity protection, password strength and proper disposal of digital records.
Michigan CSI (Cyber Safety Initiative) is a program aimed at kindergarten thru eighth grade student. Many agencies are directly involved with this program which also seeks to inform adults and educators about Internet predators.


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Demographic Implosion in the San Francisco Bay Area?
As the San Francisco Bay Area (combined statistical area, or CSA, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget) has sprawled into the San Joaquin Valley, all population growth has been in the three Valley metros for two years (Map above). This article describes population trends over the last 10 years in the CSA, which includes the six tidewater (adjacent to the ocean or the Bay) metropolitan areas, traditionally thought of as the Bay Area, including core San Francisco and San Jose as well as Santa Rosa, Napa, Vallejo and Santa Cruz. The CSA also includes San Joaquin (Central) Valley metros of Stockton, Modesto, and Merced, added to the area within the last decade or so in response to the large number of additional commuters from these areas.
Yet in each of the last two years (2019 and 2020), the United States Census Bureau's population estimates program has shown population losses in the six tidewater metropolitan areas in the Bay Area CSA (the San Francisco, Napa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and Vallejo metros). Overall, population losses became so substantial here, that the entire CSA posted losses in 2019 and 2020. Remarkably this has happened even as the Silicon Valley, principally located in the core San Jose and San Francisco metros, experienced enormous economic booms.
Population and Population Growth
Population growth and domestic migration is described for the nine metropolitan areas that make up the San Francisco Bay CSA.
The San Francisco Metropolitan Area
The San Francisco metropolitan area is extensive, stretching from downtown San Franciso nearly 60 miles to northern Marin County, a similar to distance to eastern Alameda and Contra Costa counties to more than 30 miles to southern San Mateo County, which is the northern border of the San Jose metro. The San Francisco metro comprises nearly 50% of the Bay Area population (Figure 1). In the first year of the decade (2011), the metropolitan area gained slightly more than its population share, at 53% (Figure 2). By 2020, however, the San Francisco metro was losing population by 2020, that percentage had slipped to 49%.
The decline in the city of San Francisco growth rate has been substantial. In the first half of the decade, the city gained 58,000 residents, at a 1.4% annual rate. Between 2015 and 2020, the city population expanded by only 3,000 new residents, for a negligible annual rate of 0.007%. First half growth in the decade was 18 times that of the second half. The city accounted for 7.2% of the CSA growth from 2010 to 2015, dropping to 0.4% between 2015 and 2020.
Within metro San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa have added the most population since 2010, but their growth plummeted in the second half of the decade. Alameda and Contra Costa added 28,000 each in the final five years, compared to 121,000 and 72,000 respectively from 2010-2015.
The other two counties in the San Francisco metropolitan area lost population in the last five years. San Mateo County, the northern extension of Silicon Valley, gained 46,000 in the first five years, and lost 7,000 in the last five.
Marin County gained 8,000 in the earlier half of the decade, but fell to minus 4,000 in the second half.
The San Jose Metropolitan Area
Santa Clara County, which includes San Jose, gained the most between 2010 and 2015, gaining some 130,000 residents but lost 9,000 from 2015-2020. Exurban San Benito County, also in the San Jose metropolitan area gained 3,000 in the first five years, and doubled its gain to 6,000 in the last five years.
Exurban Tidewater Metropolitan Areas
Three of the four exurban tidewater counties (which are also metro areas) — like San Francisco and San Jose, burdened with especially high housing prices and congestion — lost population in the second half of the decade. Santa Cruz (metro), Napa (metro) and Sonoma (Santa Rosa metro) all posted gains in the first half of the decade but losses in the second. Further out Solano County (Vallejo metro), part of which is in the Sacramento (Central) Valley, had a second half gain of 14,000, down from 19,000 in the first half of the decade. Solano's decade gain in the second half of the decade was more than four times that of San Francisco, which has nearly double the population.
Exurban San Joaquin Valley Metropolitan Areas
Nearly two-thirds of the Bay Area growth in 2020 was not in the tidewater metros in the three recently added San Joaquin Valley metros which extend up to roughly 150 miles away from downtown San Francisco. These had been added to the CSA in the last decade or so, as increased commuting occurred between from these metros to the tidewater metros, likely because of less unaffordable housing.
The bulk of the population growth has moved to the periphery, no doubt troubling to the Bay Area's density-obsessed planners. The San Joaquin (Central) Valley metropolitan areas accounted for 65% of the growth in the San Francisco Bay Area CSA over the last five years of the decade, up from 11% in the first half. The increase in growth, rising from 62,000 to 76,000, was the flip side of the implosion of growth in the tidewater metros.
San Joaquin County (Stockton metro) improved its growth from 34,000 in 2010-5 to 46,000 in 2015-2020, about 15 times that of larger San Francisco County. Stanislaus County (Modesto metro) gained 18,000 in the first half of the decade, then dropped to 17,000 in the second half. Merced County had a strong increase from 9,000 to 13,000. Merced County (Merced metro) is the southernmost extent of the San Francisco Bay CSA in the San Joaquin Valley, borders Fresno County, and is 150 miles away. The city of Fresno is near the mid-point (186 miles of the 405 miles, or 45% of the way) between the downtowns of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Net Domestic Migration
Shifting losses in net domestic migration drove the declines in the tidewater metropolitan areas (Figure 3). Overall, the Bay Area CSA lost 223,000 net domestic migrants, with a minus 293,000 in the 10 county tidewater metro areas. The three San Joaquin Valley metros gained 20,000 met domestic migrants.
Again, the last half of the decade exhibited larger net domestic migration in the tidewater metros. San Francisco gained 58,000 from 2010-2015, but lost 142,000 from 2015-2020. San Francisco started with the largest net domestic migration gains in 2010 and continued to lead through 2015. By 2018, San Francisco was losing the most net domestic migrants and continued with the CSA's largest losses through 2020.
The San Jose metro has consistently lost net domestic migrants, but in increasing numbers, from under 3,000 annually in the first three years of the decade to 30,000 in 2020. The first five year loss was 25,000, but expanded to a 128,000 loss in the last five years.
The exurban metros gained 17,000 net domestic migrants from 2010 to 2015, and lost 23,000 in the last five years.
The San Joaquin Valley metros lost 3,000 net domestic migrants in the first five years, and added 23,000 from 2015 to 2020.
A Big Reversal
The downward trend in metropolitan area growth and net domestic migration has been substantial — even in the global center of the burgeoning tech sector. If this were a mainstream media article on Japan or China, the term "demographic implosion" would likely have been used for the San Francisco and San Jose metros, including the Silicon Valley. Most likely, with the Bay Area's high cost of living and severely unaffordable housing, the implosion might well continue in the next decade as well.
Wendell Cox is principal of Demographia, an international public policy firm located in the St. Louis metropolitan area. He is a founding senior fellow at the Urban Reform Institute, Houston, a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Demographics and Policy at Chapman University in Orange, California. He has served as a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris. His principal interests are economics, poverty alleviation, demographics, urban policy and transport. He is co-author of the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey and author of Demographia World Urban Areas.
Mayor Tom Bradley appointed him to three terms on the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (1977-1985) and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich appointed him to the Amtrak Reform Council, to complete the unexpired term of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman (1999-2002). He is author of War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life and Toward More Prosperous Cities: A Framing Essay on Urban Areas, Transport, Planning and the Dimensions of Sustainability.
Top illustration: Screen shot of the San Francisco Bay Area combined statistical area (officially the San Jose-San Francisco combined statistical area). From: Census.gov.
Are there parallels?
Submitted by Tim W. Ferguson on Wed, 05/19/2021 - 08:21.
Other cases of CSAs showing population loss amid a period of economic growth?
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1.have 4 digital display show the voltage and current value,it shows value very very precision .
2.it can adjustable the current protection ,audio-visual,it operation convenience .
over the machine current,it means can not over 5A,please note.
4.the machine arts and crafts is SMT ,all use the latest technique .
5.you can turn off the output ,set the protection current and voltage,this way can protection you test device.
1.it store up 60 groups current and voltage value,you can set you want to use value,very very convenience.
2.the device can use software through the computer control the machine,you can use computer set all current and voltage value.
3.it through computer long-distance control the device,but also have Programming function ,if you need use it.
4.YIHUA305DB the current can though the knob adjustable current protection ,more audio-visual,it operation more convenience .
Protection types circuit protection,overload and over high temperature protection.