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Full transcript: Javier Palomarez interview with American-Statesman
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Javier Palomarez is the president and CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, America's largest Hispanic business association.
Javier Palomarez, the president and CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which represents 4.1 million Hispanic-owned businesses, visited Austin this week. In an interview with the American-Statesman, Palomarez spoke candidly about the chamber's campaign to make the U.S. Senate vote on a hearing to confirm Roberta Jacobson to the role of ambassador to Mexico, Marco Rubio's opposition to that nomination, Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and the importance of Austin to the future of Latino businesses in America.
Not everything in the wide-ranging interview made it into our newspaper Saturday, but here at Somos Austin, we decided to give you a full transcript of the conversation. For reference, Jacobson was nominated by President Barack Obama to fill the role of ambassador to Mexico last year. The career diplomat who speaks fluent Spanish and is an expert in Latin American politics has yet to be confirmed. The United States has not had an ambassador to Mexico, one of its most important allies, since August.
Here, in full, is our conversation with Palomarez:
American-Statesman: I heard that you've been speaking with Roberta Jacobson, let's start off with that because you wrote a pretty strong op-ed in our paper and I wanted to get more of your thoughts. Why is the USHCC pushing so hard? Why do you think this is so important?
Javier Palomarez: First of all, I want to thank the Austin American-Statesman for running the op-ed in the first place because we think it's important that we call light to this issue.
The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce represents 4.1 million Hispanic-owned firms in this country that collectively contribute over $661 billion to the American economy,and as a business association, we recognize clearly the importance of commercial and economic relations that exist between Mexico and the United States. I've spoken to the president personally on this issue. The reality of it is… in Mexico we have had a crucially important commercial partner, economic ally as well as a national security ally, I won't even touch on that. But the reality of it is that Mexico does more business and is a better and stronger commercial and economic partner to the United States, we do more business, we do more trade with Mexico than we do with Great Britain, than we do with Germany, than we do with France, India, Brazil, with Japan and the list goes on. We need the top diplomat in that country. We've been waiting for nine months now.
Sadly, there are three members of the Senate that have been blocking her vote, that have refused to vote. Have blocked the vote. And one of those is Marco Rubio. We're happy that very recently, maybe about two weeks ago, Sen. (Bob) Menendez (of New Jersey) after eight months finally conceded the point and has called for the vote. We're now looking at Marco Rubio and asking him to do the same thing. The reality of it is… Marco Rubio has missed 129 of the 243 votes that he was called upon since he decided to run for the presidency.
He is no longer running for president. He no longer has an excuse. It's time to put good policy in front of politics. He needs to get down there and cast his vote and allow this woman to have her day in court. Roberta Jacobson is a life-long diplomat, has a stellar record. She is more than prepared to do this job and the USHCC and all of our constituents (are) firmly behind her.
There have been some amazing members of the Senate on both sides. (Tom) Udall on the Democratic side, Martin Heinrich, Amy Klobuchar that have been very supportive of this effort that I'm trying to lead. On the Republican side you've got John Cornyn, you've got John McCain, specifically you've got Jeff Flake, who's been a real champion of this and I want to commend those senators for putting politics aside and doing the right thing. America needs to honor the relationship we have with Mexico. This should not be politicized. There is no reason why this woman has been put on hold for almost nine months now. This is an important commercial issue. This is not political, it is not racial, it's about commerce, it's about the economy, it's about the continued well-being of both our economies and we need to get on with the business of getting on with it.
Statesman: I want to ask you specifically about Marco Rubio and politicizing this issue on Jacobson because, as I understand it, he kept putting off meeting with you at USHCC for your presidential chats, and now that he's not running for it, do you think he's likely to change his mind on it?
Palomarez: Well, I sure hope so. I can understand that running for the presidency is very, it's a trying effort. It's not an endeavor that one takes on lightly and I understand the strains on his calendar, but that's behind us now. It's time to get to work, to do what you were hired to do. You're a senator. Go cast your vote. We're not asking him to vote for Roberta Jacobson, we're asking you to remove the hold and get on with the business of voting, and to politicize this, I think, is at best bad for our economy and, frankly, I think puts us at risk of offending a crucial commercial ally that is Mexico, that has been that kind of an ally for almost two centuries now. We should honor that relationship. We need to place the top diplomat on behalf of the United States in Mexico and Roberta Jacobson is that woman.
Statesman: Do you think that was a political move by Marco Rubio?
Palomarez:: Clearly. Marco Rubio I think has politicized this thing. I think this has more to do with what the president decided to do to normalize relationships with Cuba. He is, I think utilizing that as a (inaudible)… and regardless of what he said, listen if you don't think the woman's prepared, then vote and vote against her, it's just that simple. But vote. You've missed 129 of the 243 votes you were called upon, you have the worst track record of any senator in America. It's time to get to work, Marco. This is serious and we've been asking.
Statesman: If you have nothing else to add on that one….
Palomarez: We better stop (laughter)… Ya me enoje (I'm upset now) (laughter).
Statesman: I want to ask you about the presidential chats that you have had with candidates. As I understand it, you've met, I think with all of them, the ones that are in there, except Donald Trump, who very publicly pulled out of a conversation with you. Has there been any talk of bringing him back in for one of those chats.
Palomarez: Yeah, we continue a dialogue with Donald Trump's campaign. You're right. We met with Ted Cruz, with Bernie Sanders, with Martin O'Malley, with John Kasich, with Jeb Bush, with Hillary Clinton. Marco agreed when he and I spoke personally he thought it was a great idea, I did too, and unfortunately, calendars being what they are and schedules being what they are, and again, when you're running to be the president of the United States it's a trying endeavor and so we were never able to make that happen.
And of course, famously, Donald Trump 48 hours or so before the actual date of the Q&A backed out, but the door is open. We are not a partisan organization, we're not even a political organization, we just believe that anybody who's running for the presidency of the United States should avail themselves of the opportunity to sit in front of our constituency, again that represents 4.1 million-owned firms, $661 billion in economic contribution and represents this amazingly rapidly growing community called the Hispanic community. Every 30 seconds a Latino turns age 18 in this country and becomes an eligible voter. That's 60,000 brand new votes every single month and that'll be the case in the next 21 years in a row. So, if you're running for an elected office, whether that's dog catcher or president of the United States, you'd do well to avail yourself of an opportunity to come and state your case in the presence of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and talk to our constituency of Hispanic business owners.
Statesman: Do you think his comments that he has made, some of which are racial or anti-immigrant or anti-Mexican, do you think those statements hurt him with the 4.1 million firms that make up your constituency?
Palomarez: Clearly it has hurt him with the Hispanic community. Clearly it has hurt him with Americans. This is beyond being a Hispanic issue. This is an American issue… and in my opinion someone running for the American presidency should be an individual who tries to convene and coalesce and bring people together and heal the nation, not be divisive and speak from a position of bigotry and hatred and fear-mongering. I don't want to speak for Donald Trump, he needs to state his own case, but certainly, the reaction that I'm seeing and the language and the rhetoric that he's used, to me really has put him in a place where he's got a lot of making up to do, not only with the Hispanic community, with common good-hearted, loyal Americans. I think the entirety of the Hispanic community and a good portion of the rest of America is very disappointed and appalled at some of the language coming out of that campaign.
Statesman: Do you think he's scared of some of the questions you might ask? It's not an easy conversation. I saw the one where you were speaking with Bernie Sanders and he said something like "your people" and you sort of corrected him. Do you think he's scared of the questions you might ask?
Palomarez: I think he's a little bit worried about the kind of questions he's going to have to deal with. Certainly when they pulled out they wanted some concessions that we're not willing to make. I have to say that in his private conversations with me he has been a gentleman. And I can't speak for him. I can tell you that of all of the candidates, he's the one who didn't come.
Statesman: And famously, you said after he pulled out that there's no way he wins the White House.
Palomarez: No. No.
Statesman: I saw that in a Fox News Latino article.
Palomarez: Yeah, yeah. No, that's not going to happen.
Statesman: Do you still believe that even as far along as we are right now?
Palomarez: Oh, absolutely. I mean, it plays well in certain pockets. It plays well in certain arenas. The polls look good. But even then, he was making an argument in Nevada that quote-unquote "the Hispanics love me. I won the Hispanic vote in Nevada, I had 44 percent of the Hispanic vote." There again, once you dig below the surface, that poll was an entrance poll, it polled 1,573 people that were Republican. Of those 1,573, 8 percent of them were Hispanic, so that's (125), and 44 percent of those (125) voted for Donald Trump. So in essence, he got 55 votes.
(Editor's note: Palomarez was speaking of the top of his head, so we had to double check the numbers after the interview and changed it accordingly in this transcript. For a similar breakdown of those numbers, click on this Somos Austin post from February, Trump's numbers with Latinos in Nevada.)
From that, he extrapolated the "Hispanics love me, I got 44 percent of the Hispanic vote." That's absolutely inaccurate and that's classic Donald Trump. Once you dig even one layer below the verbiage and the rhetoric and you start to look at the facts, you know, it all falls apart. But it's going to be fun to see. I'm waiting for the general election for when the Hispanic community coalesces.
If anything, Donald Trump has done a great service to the Hispanic community in that I have never seen the Hispanic community so engaged, I've never seen it so coalesced around an issue. It's less about who they're voting for than who they're voting against, and they are 100 percent concrete and coalesced around this notion of voting against Donald Trump. Again, we don't pick sides. We are an organization that is about business, we are about commerce. We're not s political organization and we're not a partisan organization, but my read of the tea leaves and what I'm hearing from other Hispanics and other Hispanic leaders in the nation, that's kind of where that sentiment that I'm sharing with you now is coming from. The door remains open to Donald Trump to come to our organization and be treated as fairly as everyone else was, but with no preferential treatment either. We will not pull any punches, but we're not looking to debate him, we're simply giving him an opportunity to state his case in front of our community and the conversation continues, it's been very civil and we'll see where it goes from there.
Statesman: Let's talk about the importance of Austin to USHCC. You've got a strong chapter here, obviously.
Palomarez: We have an amazing leader here. Mark Madrid who runs the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has really hit the market strong. You see that crowd out there, that's indicative of the excitement around our organization and what we continue to do. You know, we advocate on behalf of 4.1 million business owners who happen to be of Hispanic descent, but we never forget that we're first and foremost American business owners. Every tax bill we pay, every job we create, every product we manufacture, every service we provide goes to benefit the American economy. And in that context, we believe that our business group of American business owners is important to the continued growth of any city in America, but certainly the continued growth of Austin.
I believe by the year 2020, Austin is projected to have something like 52,000 Hispanic-owned firms here, driving something like $12.8 billion of economic contributions. That's significant and I think that the entrepreneurial spirit, the DNA, the ethos of Austin is perfect not only for a Hispanic entrepreneur but for any entrepreneur and certainly to include Hispanic entrepreneurs. This is a city that welcomes diversity of thought, that embraces innovation and creativity, and those are some of the basic elements that you need when you're building your own enterprise, your own business and certainly we're looking to do everything we can to spur the growth of Hispanic-owned businesses in this city. I just met with the mayor. I think Mayor Adler is the right man for the job, he recognizes the potential in the Hispanic market and certainly the Hispanic entrepreneurial and business community, and so we're thrilled to be here to celebrate the continued growth of our organization, the continued growth of our Hispanic-owned businesses in this country, which by the way, are growing at a rate of 3-to-1 when compared to the general market. So this is an asset to the American people, to the American society that can be harnessed, and if there's a city that I think can illustrate how to do it best, it certainly is Austin, Texas.
Statesman: Final thing, going back to Jacobson, do you think the vote for her appointment is going to come soon?
Palomarez: We're very hopeful. I think if Marco Rubio will do as Sen. Menendez did, if he will put politics aside, if he'll put policy ahead of politics, and at least go do his job and vote, I think that they'll be calling for a vote soon and we remain hopeful. We want to work with anybody who sees this issue as we see it: as an important commercial and economic issue that is critically important to the well-being of the relationship between these two commercial allies. And so we're hopeful that we'll be seeing a vote here very soon.
Statesman: So it doesn't sound like you think the presidential election weighs in on this anymore.
Palomarez: I can't imagine that it would. It's time for Marco to get back to work. Right now, missing 53 percent of your votes, having the worst voting record in the Senate, missing 129 of the 243 votes that you were hired to vote upon. That's inconceivable, it's not acceptable and I think the excuse of saying I'm running for the presidency, I'm busy campaigning, that's gone and it's time to get back to work. We're hopeful he'll do the right thing.
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Joselyn - Meaning of Joselyn
What does Joselyn mean?
Joselyn
[ 3 syll. jo-se-lyn, jos-el-yn ] The baby girl name Joselyn is pronounced as JHaoS-Seh-LihN or JHAOS-LihN †. Joselyn is used predominantly in the English language and it is derived from Old French origins. Joselyn is a variant spelling of the name Jocelyn (English and German).
See also the related category french.
Joselyn is a classic favorite. Today it is still somewhat popular as a baby name for girls, though it was in more widespread use in the past. The name's popularity jumped from the 1990s up to the 2000s; before that, it was of infrequent use only. Its usage peaked modestly in 2007 with 0.075% of baby girls being given the name Joselyn. Its ranking then was #218. The baby name has since experienced a fall in popularity. In 2018, its usage was 0.015% and its ranking #953. Among the group of girl names directly linked to Joselyn, Jocelyn was the most popular. In 2018, its use outnumbered Joselyn's by 6 times.
Baby names that sound like Joselyn include Jocelynne (English), Joslyn (English), Joslyne (English), Joslynne (English), Josselyn (English), Josslyn (English), Jacalin, Jacaline (English), Jacalyn (English), Jackalene (English), Jackalin (English), Jackaline, Jackalinne, Jackalyn (English), Jackelyn (English), Jackolyn (English), Jackqueline (English), Jaclynn (English), Jacoline, and Jacolyn (English).
† Pronunciation for Joselyn: JH as in "joy (JH.OY)" ; AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; S as in "see (S.IY)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"
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The Old Foodie: Bacon Week: Part the Fifth.
World War II finally ended with the Armistice of 14 August 1945 (or with the formal surrender of Japan on 2nd September 1945), but rationing in Britain did not finally end until midnight on Saturday 26th September 1953. The total period of rationing in Britain was 13 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 6 days - only slightly less than the 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours, 32½ minutes of the "noble experiment" of Prohibition in the USA.
In many ways the post-war period was more dismal, food-wise, than it had been during the conflict, and it was indeed a lamentable situation when the 'already meagre' bacon ration was halved in mid-October 1947 – two years after the war's end. The lament was sung poignantly in an article in The Times of that week that is also a hymn to the English bacon-based breakfast.
Leicester beans and bacon, food of Kings!
Why the seventeenth century poet, Mr. William King attributed this divine dish to Leicester we do not know, but if that city originated a blessing which has since spread over the civilized world it would be ungrateful to grudge it the honour. With all its seductive charms bacon is so essentially innocent and virtuous that there is not sense of greed in loving it. Vegetarians have been known to make a tacit exception in its favour even as teetotallers do sometimes, by a curious process of mental gymnastics, in favour of port wine. Our allowance was paltry before and now it will be almost wholly illusory. It will be futile to try to spin it out. Far better to save our bacon for one breakfast of frenzied happiness in the fortnight, then smart in the fires of abstinence til the brief moment of repletion comes "slow, how slowly" round again.
For those unwilling to eat the whole, entire, complete bacon ration in one meal of 'frenzied happiness", the Ministry of Food gave some suggestions for eking it out in one of their post-war Food Facts leaflets.
- economical on your bacon ration, and a tasty way to use up cooked vegetables. Try the alternative flavourings too.
Ingredients (enough for 4): ½ lb cooked mashed potatoes, ½ lb, mixed cooked vegetables, chopped, 2 oz. chopped bacon, fried, salt and pepper.
Method: Mix all ingredients together, and fry the mixture in the fat from the cooked bacon on both sides till well-browned – about 15 minutes.
Note: if not cooked vegetables are available, 1 lb. mashed potatoes can be used.
Alternative flavourings to use instead of the bacon" (1) 2 oz. grated cheese (2) 2 oz. chopped cooked meat (3) 2 oz. flaked cooked fish.
Try these on Monday, when you may have a little fat to spare from the Sunday's meat.
4 oz. self-raising flour or 4 oz. plain flour and 2 level teaspoons baking powder, 1 level teaspoon salt, ¼ level teaspoon pepper, ¼ pint milk (approx.), 2 oz. chopped bacon, fat for frying.
Method: Mix flour, baking powder if used, salt and pepper, well together. Mix to a stiff batter with the milk. Beat well. Add the chopped bacon. Fry tablespoons of the mixture in hot fat until golden brown on both sides. Serve at once. This quantity makes about 8 fritters.


The United States government has made a deal with Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE that, once completed, will lift the ban preventing the company from working with American suppliers. The agreement eases tensions in the U.S.-China trade war because the seven-year denial order, which the Trump administration imposed in April after ZTE violated sanctions against North Korea and Iran, was a major point of contention between the two countries.
Many U.S. lawmakers are still concerned about the security repercussions of the deal, however, and a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation last week that could potentially restore some of the penalties imposed on ZTE.
The denial order was imposed because the Commerce Department claimed that ZTE violated U.S. laws against selling equipment containing American technology to Iran and North Korea, and not only failed to follow the terms of a 2017 agreement with the Department of Justice, but also lied to the U.S. The ban cut off access to several of ZTE's key suppliers, including Qualcomm, and was severe enough that it was described as a "death penalty" for the company, which reportedly expected to lose $3 billion as a result.
But ZTE quickly became a pawn in the U.S-China trade wars and the Trump administration said in May that the company could continue buying from U.S. suppliers if it paid a fine of at least $1.3 billion and replaced its senior management and board. ZTE's new management team was put into place last week, with new CEO Xu Ziyang promising stronger compliance procedures.


I owned both since 2012. The location is amazing right in front of Unitec.
Between Point Chev and the heart of Mt Albert.
They have never been empty for more than a week. I can show you all bank tenants deposits since 2012.
as soon as you put one for rent the phone wont stop ringing.
I do not want to sell them but my neighbors are selling and I have my eye on their properties next to my home.. so it'll be a wise idea to let the apartments go in Mt. Albert.
The two apartments are managed by Crookers. From what I know it's one of the cheapest body corp fees out there. Less than 3000$ a year.
There is a live in building manager who's a lovely elderly gentleman who deals with most issues without ringing you and causing you any headaches.
There is a car park for each studio. Plus visitor's parking.
My current tenants never miss a week of rent.
They are tenanting studios in the building between 280-360 pw.
I can tell you further details on the phone of you are interested .


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L'Azerbaïdjan participe aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2014 à Sotchi en Russie du 7 au . Il s'agit de sa cinquième participation à des Jeux d'hiver.

Patinage artistique

Ski alpin

Notes et références

Voir aussi
http://www.sochi2014.com/fr/equipe-azerbaidjan

Annexes

Liens externes

Azerbaïdjan
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Sport en Azerbaïdjan en 2014

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Directions: Mix one scoops (5g) with 200ml of chilled water and consume immediately.
Recommended dosage with a loading phase 5 g of Creapure 4 times a day for 6 days, followed by a maintenance phase of 2 - 5 g a day.
Recommended dosage without a loading phase 3 g of Creapure a day for 4 weeks, followed by a maintenance phase of 2 - 5 g a day.
Made in Germany by AlzChem Trostberg GmbH.


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Q: Google app engine sample app throwing 503 I have setup Google app engine's sample android from this tutorial
when I type something into the EditText and press Send Button, nothing happens for a while and throws the following error
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741): error:
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741): com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 503 Service Unavailable
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741): {
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):   "code": 503,
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):   "errors": [
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):     {
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):       "domain": "global",
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):       "message": "",
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):       "reason": "backendError"
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):     }
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):   ],
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):   "message": ""
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741): }
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:111)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:38)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest$1.interceptResponse(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:314)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequest.execute(HttpRequest.java:1060)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:412)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:345)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.execute(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:463)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.cloud.backend.android.CloudBackend.insert(CloudBackend.java:111)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.cloud.backend.android.CloudBackendAsync.access$0(CloudBackendAsync.java:1)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.cloud.backend.android.CloudBackendAsync$1.callBackend(CloudBackendAsync.java:87)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.cloud.backend.android.CloudBackendAsync$1.callBackend(CloudBackendAsync.java:1)
06-10 18:47:49.109: I/CloudBackend(28741):  at com.google.cloud.backend.android.CloudBackendAsync$BackendCaller.run(CloudBackendAsync.java:428)

It is very annoying that the message is "" !
P.S: I am new to Google app engine.

A: It could probably a data conversion error. The server is expecting values in one format and client is sending in some other format (parsing layer issue in google cloud endpoint).
I would highly suggest you to make use of google's api explorer tool to verify first that your server side interface is working without any problem.
Then you should move on find out any problems with client side.

A: I found answer for this.
It seems like there is a bug in app engine that every time when your app generates a new version of itself by you redeploying it or so, it forgets to make the latest deployment as default under app engine console.
Follow the steps to make it default:

*

*go to appengine console

*Open your project

*On the left hand side, open up Main -> Versions

*Make the most latest version as default by clicking the radio button beside it.

That's it I hope

A: I found out that if you manually created the "datastore-indexes.xml" file (assuming it's in bad form) under WEB-INF, you will receive this error.
I deleted mine and the problem was fixed....

A: Here is the perfect fix.
Log on to the app engine. Click on Instances on the left hand side.
At the right bottom , you will see an option as "Shutdown"
Click on Shutdown. (Shutdown is not just shutdown. Its a restart).
The instance gets started in 10-12 seconds. Note : During these 10-12 seconds , the app engine is not accessible. So, if your app is live , your cloud will not work for these 10-12 seconds.
Refresh the page after 10 seconds and make sure you see the Shutdown option . This means your instance is restarted.
Now , retry and it will work. Send me email to jscript12@gmail.com if you still have questions

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Students in Atlantic Canada Recognized for Empowering Youth through Experiential Learning Projects
HALIFAX, March 20, 2017 /CNW/ - Last year, students from Nova Scotia Community College – Pictou Campus constructed a raised garden bed at a youth homeless shelter, empowering residents to care for the crops. This year, they'll convert it into a greenhouse and lead workshops to teach youth at Roots House the foundations of gardening, while also connecting them to local farmers markets where they can turn their additional yields into profits.
Meanwhile, students from Saint Mary's University are empowering youth to follow their entrepreneurial passions through a 20-week program that encourages them to join the workforce, return to school or launch their own business.
Enactus NSCC Pictou and Enactus Saint Mary's University have been named 2017 Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge Regional Champions. The winning teams were selected by Canada's largest experiential learning platform, Enactus Canada, and program supporter Scotiabank.
To-date, the Enactus NSCC Pictou's Raising the Roots Garden project has enabled the preparation of 30 healthy meals for 11 youth, saving the shelter approximately $300. This year, they anticipate they'll increase number of meals to 90 for 30-40 youth, saving the shelter at least $900 in grocery costs and providing an additional income of $200 through farmer market sales.
Enactus Saint Mary's' OPtions Youth program has seen many successes. One participant launched a clothing line, Family Over Fame, while another launched a food bundle program in his home community of Uniacke Square called Square Roots. Thanks to the program, 18 youth have been directly impacted, and have been lifted out of poverty.
"Being a young Canadian today isn't easy, the youth unemployment rate is almost twice the national average and debt levels are soaring," said Nicole Almond, President of Enactus Canada. "This challenge empowers students to affect the long-term sustainability of their communities by focusing on youth."
The Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge encourages post-secondary students to develop and deliver projects that address the needs and opportunities facing youth. Focused on education, learning skills and supporting the life-long success of youth aged 25 and under, this challenge has engaged 3,175 students since 2016, who have impacted more than 15,922 youth through 149 community empowerment projects.
"Scotiabank believes in supporting projects that help young people reach their infinite potential," said Craig Thompson, Senior Vice President, Atlantic Region at Scotiabank. "Congratulations to the winners of the Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge, a special competition where young people inspire each other to improve their communities and the world around them. Thanks for showing us just how talented this generation of future leaders is."
On March 17, student teams demonstrated their youth empowerment projects to panels of business executives as part of the Enactus Canada Regional Exposition – Atlantic Canada, held in Halifax.
Enactus NSCC Pictou and Enactus Saint Mary's will now move on to the national level of competition taking place May 9-11 at the 2017 Enactus Canada National Exposition, taking place in Vancouver.
ABOUT ENACTUS CANADA: Enactus Canada, the country's largest post-secondary experiential learning platform, is shaping entrepreneurial leaders who are passionate about advancing the economic, social and environmental health of Canada. Guided by academic advisors and business experts, more than 2,734 entrepreneurial post-secondary students led 280 community empowerment projects and business ventures last year in communities coast to coast. As a global network of 36 countries, Enactus uses the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better, more sustainable world. For more information, visit enactus.ca.
ABOUT SCOTIABANK: At Scotiabank, we aim to support organizations that are committed to helping young people reach their full potential. Young people are our future leaders and Scotiabank's goal is to help ensure that they have the necessary skills and resources they need to support their success. Together with our employees, the Bank supports causes at a grassroots level. Recognized as a leader for our charitable donations and philanthropic activities, in 2016, Scotiabank contributed more than $70 million to help our communities around the world.
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American Politics: How it is Systematically Stripping Women of their Rights
Theophanes Avery
Theophanes is a New-England-based blogger, traveler, writer, photographer, sculptor, and lover of cats.
Watching the news from the end of 2011 until now I realize that there has been one massive push in American Politics to lock women back into their rightful place, barefoot and pregnant in our kitchens. Issues that people thought were solved in the 1960s like birth control and who should have access to it are now popping up like we're back in the dark ages. New laws and legislation are being made that are becoming absolutely alarming. There is currently a law that passed in Arizona that opponents are calling the Let Women Die Act and they have real legitimate reasons to call it this. We as women need to sit up and pay attention because we're all going to be put at risk for something if we don't stop this roller coaster now. Below I hope to illustrate a disturbing timeline of events as well as educate and inform.
February 2012 - Hormonal Contraceptive Coverage
Until February 16th of 2012 no one was really paying that much attention to women's issues even though they were already being put under scrutiny. It is then that in my home state of New Hampshire the House Oversight Committee thought it'd be appropriate to discuss and rule on the issue of that day - which employers should be forced to pay for health insurance for their employees. It wasn't as broad as that though, the real question came down to this, if a particular employer was say, a Catholic Church, should they be forced to pay for health insurance of their employees that included things like hormonal contraceptives, something the church has always been morally opposed to, while at the same time having no issues whatsoever with things like Viagra. The group of five men decided it was OK to rule on this without bringing any women in to testify on their own needs and neither were any doctors allowed to testify.
The world watched horrified as these five men ruled that it was ageist the church's right to force them to pay for hormonal contraceptives for their women employees. They had a moral and now legal right to reject not only hormonal contraceptives but also any other medication, procedure, or surgery they felt was morally unjustifiable. This brought up the concern that now these women's bosses had the right to review their medical record and without talking to any doctors decide for them what their insurance should pay for.
House Democrats felt something needed to be done about the issue so they decided to hold their own gathering in which they would allow Sandra Fluke, a college student, to testify on behalf of hormonal contraceptives. There a well-dressed and respected young women approached the bench and told a story about her friend who lost her ovaries due to cycsts that could have been prevented if she were only able to afford hormonal contraceptives. Indeed she was right. Hormonal contraceptives are used to treat all sorts of women's health issues and they aren't just taken by the lascivious. I personally can testify as to that because I have been on them since I was fourteen to treat my own case of menorrhagia. I remained chaste but still taking the pills into my mid twenties.
In any event this new gathering was more or less to appease the public as the ruling had already been made several days previous.
The People who Scream the Loudest are Often the Ones who Know the Least
After Sandra Fluke testified Rush Limbaugh brought the controversy to the full attention of our media when he started to blather really stupid things like Sandra Fluke was a slut that just wanted her government to pay for "so much sex." Now I admit I never liked Rush but wow this really showed his phenomenal lack of knowledge on the matter. And even if he had a valid point I wouldn't take relationship advice from a man who finds marriage so sacred that he's had four different wives in his lifetime - none of which he's had children with. Could this mean his wives were using the infamous birth control? I mean with a brain like that its obvious he wasn't using anything worthwhile. Maybe his wives found him too repulsive to touch. Who am I to say? It doesn't really matter. Rush did a great thing - he pissed off a lot of women and they started to pay attention! So much so in fact that he lost his job as a radio show host. Boohoo. He'll be missed.
If We Can't Make Abortions Illegal Lets Just Punish the Women Who Get Them!
Virginia governor Bob McDowell (R) was the first to propose a bill in Virginia that would force women getting an abortion to get a transvaginal ultrasound. This is an unneeded medical procedure in which a 6-10 inch wand is forcibly shoved up a woman where it then takes photos. Why? No real medical reason and it largely depended on voters if the woman should then be forced to look at said photos. There was a small uproar about this until McDowell made a sudden change of heart saying it would not be forced upon women who had reported their pregnancies to the cops as being the result of incest or rape. People calmed down but they shouldn't have. The majority of women who are raped or the victims of incest do not report their crimes and even when they do they are sometimes met with doubt. Whose call will it be to believe them? All this boils down to one thing. If you don't like abortion don't get one. Don't try to punish people whose values may be different than your own! I mean abortions are between the woman, her doctor, and her God, not between a woman and her politician. Its as simple as that. I think most women know this. I know GOP lawmaker Dave Albo has a wife who knows this. He was caught telling the media he could not support the bill - not because it was unethical or horrendously anti-woman but because his wife threatened to deny him sex permanently if he did vote for it. Good for her! I'm not one who usually is in favor of sex starvation as a political strategy but maybe I should be. Maybe we should all deny these lawmakers, lobbyists, and politicians sex of any kind unless its for procreation, just like they say is morally correct. Perhaps then they'll realize what moronic misogynistic bastards they're being.
This bill was passed in Virginia and then took a tour around the country so that other states could decide if it was for them. Oklahoma also OKed and Alabama not only said it was just the right thing for them they also decreed that the women should be forced to look at the photos taken by the transvaginal probing.
The Personhood Bill - One Bad Idea Leads to Many Ruined Lives
The Personhood Bill is a bill stating that any fertilized egg a woman may be carrying should have full legal rights under the law, basically giving zygotes full citizenship. This would not only make abortion a form of prosecutable murder it would also make women who take Plan B potentially at risk for the same charges. Of course if you're going to prosecute these women what is stopping people from prosecuting women who have had natural miscarriages? Nothing anymore.
The PersonHood Bill passed in Virginia where women responded yelling, "SHAME!" in the hallways of the senate. When the bill came up in Oklahoma senator Constance Johnston (D) decided she'd do something about it. She decided if she couldn't outright kill the bill with simple voting she'd amend it to make it impossible to vote for. She took issue with the fact the bill focused solely on women and their role in reproduction, giving no mention at all as to what men should be found guilty of. She amended the bill stating if all eggs were to be considered full persons than so should every sperm. She declared that every sperm not deposited in a woman's vagina should be prosecuted as a crime ageist an unborn child. Suddenly the playing field was leveled. Any man and boy who had ever masturbated, had a wet dream, or participated in a nonvaginal sex act could now be accountable for being a serial killer and an intensely prolific one at that! The bill was voted down in Oklahoma and Mississippi.
Song - Every Sperm is Sacred
Rennie Gibbs
Criminal Misconduct and Miscarriages
15 year old Rennie Gibbs lost her baby due to natural miscarriage when she was 36 weeks into the pregnancy. When the state of Mississippi learned that she may or may not have had a cocaine habit they decided to try her for the murder of her unborn child. She is now facing life in prison, the mandatory sentence for the "depraved-heart murder" she is now being accused of. If ruining the life of a fifteen year old isn't enough then you should realize she's by far not the only one. These cases are increasing in number as lawmakers work to criminalize the actions of pregnant women.
Bei Bei Shuai was a women with a serious mental health issue. When she told her boyfriend of her pregnancy he dumped her and in a cloud of deep depression she decided to eat rat poison to end her own life. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors saved her life. A week later she gave birth but at four days old the infant died, due to the damage it had suffered from the botched suicide attempt. Shuai is now another sad name on the list of women being charged with murder. She's currently incarcerated in Indiana. Apparently the state feels this is a more appropriate response than psychological counseling for the mother who feels complete and utter regret for her actions already. Is that not punishment enough? Must we rub salt in the wounds as well?
Meanwhile Alabama is keeping busy prosecuting women under the Chemical Endangerment Act, a law that was originally intended to persecute meth cooks for subjecting their children to the fumes. Now it is being used on pregnant women who may have been involved with drugs which may or may not have then led to their miscarriages. More than 40 of these cases have been filed in the state and it's a problem that's likely only going to get worse.
The Let Women Die Act
Opponants call this next bill the Let Women Die Act because it allows doctors to have severe misconduct and still be free of criminal prosecution. Basically the law states that a doctor does not have to inform a woman of any medical issues of either her or her baby that may cause her to get an abortion. Now this could be something like the baby not developing properly or it may be something like an ectopic pregnancy, a pregnancy that occurs once out of every 50 pregnancies, in which the fetus starts to develop somewhere else besides the womb. The only way for a women to survive this type of pregnancy without eventually hemorrhaging blood and bleeding to death is to have an abortion. None of these babies are ever capable of being brought to term anyway. And yet if a woman is unfortunate enough to have a staunchly anti-abortion doctor he or she does not have to tell her that her life is at dire risk. The doctor has also been informed that he should tell women that abortions cause cancer even though there is no evidence of this. And if the baby has an issue, lets say it doesn't have any limbs or has its brain outside of its head or something else that does show up in these medical tests these poor women's doctors now have the legal right to lie to them about it to prevent a possible abortion! I'd be very nervous if I were a pregnant woman in Arizona. I think I'd drive to a surrounding state to get my prenatal exams. I just pity the poor souls who can't afford this option.
The Violence Ageinst Women Act - It Works and We Can't Have That so Let's Vote it Down!
The Violence Against Women Act was passed in 1994 to aid women who were in situations of domestic abuse. The law was twofold. It provided medical and mental care for abused, battered, and raped women while at the same time prosecuting the violent offenders and forcing them to take an STD panel. Before this if a husband were to abuse or rape his wife there wasn't much the law could do to interfere with the marriage. This law provided very beneficial aid to many women across the country and was working very well. It not only had bipartisan support but was one of the few laws that passed with almost 100% of the vote. It also passed a renewal several times before this year. This year something had changed. In the Senate the bill passed with the addition that it should also cover lesbians, transgendered, Native Americans, and illegal immigrants - basically extending its coverage to all women, particularly in rural communities, who may need it. The bill was then stopped in its path when it came across the desks of the Republicans dominating the House of Representatives. They refused to pass it with this addition and some refused to pass it altogether saying it was somehow a threat to marriage and "an excuse to hate men." The House's new proposal took out specific wording to cover lesbian and transgendered women as well as disallowing Native American women from bringing non-Native American citizens to tribal trials (as they have their own legal system.) They also cut out the part that allowed illegal immigrants from gaining citizenship by helping the police catch the people holding them in domestic violence which is detrimental to many women stuck in the "white slave" trade, women who usually are from European countries! The men operating these rings are very often involved in other organized crime and the brave women who can get to a police station should have full protection under the law as well as a reward for their bravery. Currently the bill remains in limbo until the House and Senate can agree on one version of the bill or the other.
Student Loans - Let's Pay for Them by Throwing Women Under the Bus!
Both Democratic and Republican parties agree that student loans in this country are a big problem that is dragging the economy down. They both agreed they should do something to lower the rates. Democrats proposed that in order to find the $6 billion dollars to so they should raise taxes on high-earning stockholders and some private companies. Republicans balked at this and decided a better idea would be to cut out all preventative healthcare for women in the current Healthcare Bill. Yes, that's better, lets leave thousands of women without mammograms, pap smears, and contraceptives. That is way better than taxing some rich people a little more. If no one does anything about this student loan rates will double on July 1, 2012.
Attacks on Planned Parenthood
Antiabortion activists convinced many private companies to stop funding planned parenthood because up to 3% of their activities could be used for abortion. Many states also pulled a lot of their funding of the trusted institution, Texas being one of the worst amongst them. Meanwhile the people who suffered from this weren't women getting abortions they were poor women who could no longer afford mammograms and the other preventative care that Planned Parenthood has provided women since its founding. In response to the repeated attacks women have stood up for this one. It is still going strong getting many private donations from concerned citizens, albeit it isn't as far reaching as it once was.
Rape and the Military
As many as one in three women serving in our armed forces is raped while she's on tour, most often by her fellow soldiers, as compared to the statistics for American civilian women who have a 1 in 6 chance of enduring a sexual crime throughout their entire lives. In fact women fighting in Iraq today are statistically more likely to suffer a rape from her own peers than she is to die in combat. This problem has been a particularly prevalent one as it used to be the case that women had to report the rapes to the next highest in rank, in other words her boss. It was up to him whether or not to believe her and its hard to believe someone serving our country is also capable of such horrendous acts. Now they have to report it to even higher ranking officials but the problem remains the same, just because she's reporting to her boss' boss or his boss doesn't make the problem any better. In fact many of these people refuse to believe the women and instead of investigating or doling out punishment to the rapists they instead dole out punishments to the victims for "lying", making them do push ups and hard labor in most cases while simultaneously calling them lying sluts and other derogatory names. There are even reports of male soldiers raping women before they tell them to keep their mouths shut unless they want to be booted out of the army under the accusation of being gay. Gays, whether they be male or female, are still forbidden to serve in our armed forces so this is no small threat. In one case a women was charged with adultery when her rapist got her pregnant because her rapist was married! She wasn't. The higher ranking officials in these stories may not want to deal with rape as a real issue because that would mean the loss of one of their men in a military that's already struggling to find new members. The military currently refuses to pay for abortions that are asked for because of on-duty rapes. Eighteen men and women who have served in our armed forces commit suicide every day. In women this could likely be the reason why.
Documentary on Rape in the US Military
The Persecution of Nuns
During all this controversy the Catholic Church has been bankrolling conservative politicians, supporting many anti-woman bills, and to top it off they decided to persecute their own nuns, saying that they were practicing the ideals of radical feminism and disobeying the Bishops who were the real interpreters of God's law. What were the nuns doing that was so radical? They were supporting birth control and STD prevention and helping the poor by evaluating their individual circumstance rather than giving them a blanket solution to everything. Sister Margaret Farley even went so far as to write a book which stated a women should not stay in a marriage if the man was abusive and that masturbation is good way for a woman to know herself and improve her and her husband's life. All together she wrote a book that was very life affirming for women she felt were being oppressed. The joke's on the Catholic Church, after throwing a huge hissy fit about the book and banning it, it almost immediately skyrocketed to the best sellers list. Unfortunately for the rest of the nuns their threat to take away all their funding is devastating. The average age of a nun is a woman in her 70's. These women are not only past retirement age they have no other living to make. They live in housing paid for by the Catholic Church. Am I to believe that the vast majority of Catholic nuns are going to be cast out on the streets penniless because they were treating poor people in the most humane way they could? All the meanwhile blameless pedophile priests keep popping in the news after being passed from parish to parish while the church pays millions of dollars in hush money. Catholic Church you better wise up. Nuns are not people you can kick around and toss aside, they are your most devout followers. How dare you show them such disrespect?
State Representative Lisa Brown made the mistake to utter the word vagina while giving a speech to the House of Representatives on June 14, 2012. She was using the term accurately and medically in a debate she was holding against Michigan's new abortion laws. Apparently the word was so stunning that Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas decided to ban her indefinitely for speaking on the floor. State Representative Barb Byrum stood up for her colleague and uttered the horrifically offensive V word before she was also banned from speaking. This is an alarming new trend of working out anyone who might go ageist their rulings. Planned Parenthood was barred from testifying at the debate, as was any pro-choice women. the only two left to stand up for the cause were officially shut up permanently because they uttered the big bad V word. This is probably unconstitutional as now these representatives are effectively unable to represent anyone for anything anymore and its not just them. If women can't talk on behalf of their own bodies by using medically accurate terminology then what do we have left?? Crying in the corner and hoping someone will take pity??
A World Without Birth Control
In conclusion to this article I'd like to go over what will happen if ultra conservative politics wins in making birth control hard to obtain. First of all people are only human and as humans the vast majority of us are going to have sexual relationships, regardless of if we're morally allowed to do so. Even within marriage most of us do not want twelve children. That is just too many. It becomes a huge burden. In the meanwhile you cannot expect people to practice abstinence and chastity since we have proven over the past 2,000 years that we as a species are pretty damn incapable of that.
Romania is the perfect example of what will happen if birth control and a woman's right to have control over her own reproduction is made illegal. In the 1980s it was illegal to obtain birth control in Romania. This didn't improve the moral activities of the country, if anything it made it catastrophically worse. People didn't stop having sex they just stopped caring for their unwanted children, leaving them at orphanages that were way beyond the limit. Here one nurse would attempt to take care of twenty or more screaming infants, none of which were ever adopted. In this environment of severe neglect these children's brains stopped growing as did their bodies. These children all became severely mentally retarded from lack of mental stimulation. They are now a burden on the state being cared for for their entire lives in adult facilities. In 1989 when their dictator was killed the whole world got to see what was going on. Many people adopted some of the younger babies and much knowledge was gained for the medical fields in child psychology and the development of the brain. If you'd like to learn more about that please read Can Neglect of a Child Really be Worse than Abuse?
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Joseph G Caldwell
8 years ago from Lexington, KY
Great hub! I am mystified on the rightwingnuts attacks on women's health and reproductive rights. It's like they want to go back to 1800.
8 years ago from New England
Thank you, I spent a whole day slogging through all the facts to create it!
Ginger Ruffles
Excellent hub Theopanes!
Hub Pages occasionally does odd things with titles. That was not like that when I proofread it but I did fix it.
You are entitled to your own opinion. Are you for the one in three women in the armed services getting raped by their male servicemen before being called lying whores? Because as a woman I think this is beyond morally unjustifiable. As for the abortion thing... I personally belief if a baby is going to suffer more alive than dead its the only humane thing to do, like putting a terminally ill dog down. Maybe I'm a bastard for that. I am not for abortion, its a horrible last resort. I am much more fond of things like prevention but hey we don't live in a perfect world and I think criminalizing miscarriage (or stillbirth!) is going WAY too far. So is legally not telling a woman she has an ectopic pregnancy that could KILL THE WOMAN. Women are NOT baby machines! We are valuable members of society with our own brains, skills, talents, uses and holy crap not all of us are Christian. That's all I am saying. have fun in your world of no contraception whatsoever. If the US gets that bad I'm sorry I don't think I'll be staying here because I value myself as a human too much for that bull shit.
Rachel Woodruff
8 years ago from Southwest Missouri
OMG where do I even begin, I'll be honest I just barely read through this, I got caught on the headline The People WhoThe People who... and thought okay well simple mistakes can be made, lord knows I've made enough simple mistakes in my own writing but the "Let women die act" get real, and it's not a miscarriage at 36 weeks at 36 weeks it is a still-birth. I wish I could say that I read the whole article but I didn't even read parts of it because lets face it there is no way I am going to find anything at all of use in this. I feel awful that you have fallen for the rhetoric that the Right is out to get you because you are a woman, did you ever once stop to think about all the women that the left has killed since 1973 when abortion was made legal?


On May 31, music fans will have their first taste of re-issues from rock icon OZZY OSBOURNE's catalog of work with the releases of two albums which form the cornerstone of Ozzy Osbourne's career as a solo artist: Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman (Epic Records/Legacy Recordings). Long revered by rock fans around the world, these two albums created a template for hard rock in the 1980's and beyond as they were marked by the ground-breaking and historic union of Ozzy and the late guitar hero Randy Rhoads. These definitive versions of 1980's Blizzard of Ozz (with previously unreleased bonus tracks) and 1981's Diary of a Madman are available individually on vinyl or CD, or together in a deluxe collector's box. All versions were restored and remastered from the original analog sources by George Marino.
This new "Thirty Years After The Blizzard" DVD chronicles Ozzy's years with Randy Rhoads features previously unseen footage ofOzzy and Randy filmed in 1981 & 1982; it incorporates rare archival photos and films; along with new and revelatory interviews with Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Lemmy (Motörhead), Steve Vai, Nikki Sixx, Rob Halford, Zakk Wylde, Bill Ward and more. The DVD also contains over 70 minutes of additional rare live performances and interviews; included is the premiere of more than 30 minutes of newly-discovered never-bootlegged footage of Ozzy and Randy from the Blizzard of Ozz tour shot from the front of the stage at New York's fabled Palladium on May 2, 1981. This new feature is a must-see for aficionados of Ozzy's epic release, Blizzard of Ozz and its pivotal effect on rock & roll history.
DVD–contains "Thirty Years After The Blizzard" documentary–and additional rare and unreleased performances and interviews.


New York, April 05, 2011 -- Moody's Investors Service rated Penn Virginia Corporation's (PVA) new notes B2 (LGD 4, 66%). Simultaneously, Moody's affirmed PVA's B1 Corporate Family Rating (CFR), its B1 Probability of Default Rating (PDR), and the B2 rating on the existing senior unsecured notes (although the LGD point estimate is changing to 66% from 58%). It also upgraded the Speculative Grade Liquidity Rating to SGL-2 from SGL-3. The outlook is changed to negative from stable.
Proceeds from the offering will be used to fund the company's tender of the existing $230 million senior secured convertible notes due November 2012 plus general corporate purposes.
"The move to a negative outlook reflects PVA's weakened capital productivity both on a standalone basis and relative to its peers," said Ken Austin, Moody's Vice President. "Although the company is transitioning to more of a liquids focus to offset the weaker margins for its natural gas production, this transition will take time and we expect lower profit margin trends to continue through 2011 with the company outspending cashflow in the near-term in order to fund this transition."
In terms of capital productivity, average daily production has remained essentially flat in the last three years, increasing from an average of 21.4 MBoe/Day in 2008 to 21.6 MBOE/Day in 2010, and reserves have slightly increased from 153 MMBoe in 2008 to 157 MMBoe in 2010 all while PVA has invested close to $1.3 billion in capital expenditure, of which $448 million was spent in 2010 alone.
The company's expansion in recent years to strengthen its core asset base while diversifying into new basins in East Texas, Midcontinent, Haynesville Shale, and Eagle Ford Shale has come at a cost. The company's 1-year F&D cost has increased from $13.53/Boe in 2008 to current high level of $36.05/Boe all while margins have been under pressure due to weakened natural gas pricing in North America. As a result, PVA's full cycle leverage ratio currently stands at 0.77x, indicating that current realized margins are below reserve replacement cost. The company is now concentrating on developing its liquid rich assets in order to strengthen its margins. We expect PVA to be outspending cashflow for the next 12-18 months while completing its transition to higher liquids production. PVA's divestiture in 2010 of its ownership interest in Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. (PVR), a publicly traded MLP, has resulted in loss of significant dividend cashflow which could have financially aided PVA's portfolio transition.
In looking at scale, PVA's reserves and production remain on the lower end of the B1 peer group, and currently approximately 79% of the company's production is natural gas based, which faces near-term margin pressures. While its scale has not suffered, its lack of progress compared to the peer group ranks PVA less favorably than it had been previously.
Despite lower margins PVA has maintained a conservative financial profile and PVA's leverage remains in line with its peers. The rating is also supported by experienced management and conservative financial policies.
A move back to stable outlook would be considered if PVA manages to successfully navigate its portfolio transition towards higher liquid production. This would be evidenced by improving production and reserves trends coupled with a much lower finding and development (F&D) cost that translates into a leveraged full-cycle ratio of 1.00x (based on leading edge F&D) or higher, while maintaining leverage profile in the $8.00 boe of PD reserve range and debt/average daily production around the $25,000/boe level.
Conversely, the ratings could be pressured if PVA's production and reserve profile do not improve and PVA continues to lag behind its peers, or if its leverage profile deteriorates.
The upgrade of the SGL rating to SGL-2 reflects PVA's improved liquidity position underpinned by an undrawn $300 million revolving credit facility, significant cash balances to help fund the expected outspending of cash flow in 2011, and the covenant cushion that will ensure accessibility to the revolver over the next four quarters. The SGL-2 is also supported by the excess borrowing base value of the assets versus the current $300 million revolver commitments.
The last rating action for Penn Virginia was on June 4, 2009 when a first time B1 CFR, B1 PDR, B2 senior unsecured notes rating and SGL-3 Speculative Grade Liquidity Rating was assigned. The outlook was stable.
Penn Virginia Corporation, headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, is an independent oil and gas company primarily engaged in the development, exploration, and production of natural gas and oil in the East Texas, the Mid-Continent, Appalachian and Mississippi regions.


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Maurice Saatchi exits M&C Saatchi and more departures at Publicis: Wednesday Wake-Up Call
Plus, Rick and Morty promote Pringles at the Super Bowl
By Alexandra Jardine. Published on December 11, 2019.
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Boardroom shake-up at M&C Saatchi
In a dramatic boardroom upheaval, Maurice Saatchi, one of the world's most famous 80s admen, has walked out of M&C Saatchi, the U.K. agency he founded in 1995 after famously leaving Saatchi & Saatchi.
As the Financial Times reports, Saatchi, who owns about a 4.5 percent stake in M&C, exited his role as executive director alongside three other non-executive directors: media investment banker Lorna Tilbian, "House of Cards" author Michael Dobbs and former Royal private secretary Michael Peat.
The departures come after the company last week revealed that accounting regularities first uncovered in August were more serious than first thought and potentially date back to 2014. The agency's share price tumbled after it issued a second profit warning.
According to the FT, the shake-up was triggered by disagreements over how to address its problems, and "one significant point of contention was the future of David Kershaw, the long-serving chief executive, whom some independent directors wanted to replace."
In a statement, Chairman Jeremy Sinclair said a process was underway to rebuild the board and M&C Saatchi is "determined to restore the operational performance and profitability of the business."
More departures at Publicis
Publicis Groupe has already been hit by stream of departures this month, and they just seem to keep on coming. The latest senior executive to exit is Chief Integration Officer Lisa Donohue, who will leave the holding company at the end of year, reports Ad Age's Lindsay Rittenhouse.
The news emerged in an internal memo obtained by Ad Age. Donohue, a former Ad Age Woman to Watch in 2006, confirmed it on Twitter, writing:
Life is about setting goals. I am proud of my 30+ year career at Publicis but it is time to write a bold new chapter! Life is too short. Will focus on my board work on empowerment, education and innovation while I find my next challenge #roadlesstraveled #staytruetoyourself.
Her exit follows that of Publicis Groupe Chief Diversity Officer Sandra Sims-Williams on Monday and Leo Burnett Chicago President and Chief Strategy Officer Emma Montgomery last week. And, Rittenhouse writes, news of Donohoe's departure came just hours before Ad Age reported that Publicis Sapient's Fura Johannesdottir, who has been serving as chief design officer of Europe, the Middle East and Africa since only January, is leaving to join Interpublic agency Huge.
Pringles teams with Rick and Morty on Super Bowl
Pringles is returning to the Super Bowl—and this year is teaming up with Adult Swim on a "Rick and Morty"-themed spot. As Ad Age's Jessica Wohl reports, as well featuring the cult adult cartoon in its ad for the Big Game, it also plans to sell a "Pickle Rick" flavor of Pringles in a move designed to generate buzz among "Rick and Morty" fans.
(In case you're not familiar with why that would be the case, Wohl explains: "Viewers of the Adult Swim show likely recall the season 3 episode in which Rick turns himself into a pickle and avoids a trip to family therapy.")
Pringles isn't the first food brand to tap into the popularity of the characters. In October 2017, McDonald's brought back its Szechuan Sauce after it was mentioned on the show and scored a big hit with fans.
In other Super Bowl news, Ad Age's E.J. Schultz writes that Audi will use the big game to debut a new global campaign from 72andSunny Amsterdam. It's the fourth auto brand to publicly confirm a Super Bowl ad buy, following Hyundai, Kia and Porsche.
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More bananas: After Burger King trolled the Art Basel banana yesterday, more brands have joined in, including Popeye's, Perrier, the Mets and Carrefour. Ad Age's Ilyse Liffreing has a roundup of their efforts here.
Olympics billion: NBC Sports has secured $1 billion in national ad sales for its coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics so far, reports Ad Age's Anthony Crupi. That puts it on target to outstrip its record $1.2 billion during the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Bloomberg acquisition: Bloomberg Media is buying CityLab, a website focused on urban planning and the future of city living, from the Atlantic, in its first editorial acquisition in more than a decade, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Final chance for the A-List: The final deadline is approaching to enter the Ad Age A-List awards: Entries must be in by Dec. 19. Find out how to enter here. Another diary date to note is Jan. 7, the cutoff to enter the Ad Age Creativity Awards.
Ad Age Next: Brands including Equinox, CVS and Method will discuss their strategies in the $4.2 trillion health and wellness market at the Ad Age Next: Health and Wellness event in New York on Feb. 6. Find out more here.
Campaign of the Day: A child's yearbook should be something to cherish, but a heart-rending new project created one to highlight the tragedy of school gun violence in America. Ad Age's Ann-Christine Diaz writes: "Bound inside the book's all-black cover are pages of empty boxes where photos should be—they represent 37 children from grades ranging from kindergarten through 12th grade whose lives were lost to gun violence on a campus or on a school vehicle in 2018." Freelance creative Andrew Goldin is behind the project, along with his cousin Julia Cordover, who was Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student body president during the Parkland tragedy and CPB co-founder Alex Bogusky. Copies will be mailed to President Trump, the 100 members of the Senate, all state governors and major presidential candidates.
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Alexandra Jardine is the associate creativity editor, U.K. at Ad Age.
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